SHANKS & CO., LTD.
SANITARY EQUIPMENT,
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO. LTD. 209 Chartered Bank Building. Tel. 27789
Stole 21 records
CHINA MAIL
because he liked
them very much
A 19-year-old student. Kwok Pui-lun, of room 733, Java Building, sixth floor, who admitted stealing 21 records from a shop in Des Voeux Road, was sentenced to three weeks' jail today.
Magistrate hits at drug smugglers
Mr I. T. Morris, Central Magistrate, hit out at "higher-ups" in the dope-smuggling racket this morning.
drugs and there were sevan
runvicllnas previous
autist
ihn for similar offences in auditi-
Desig 111 application for Tevens of a nine-month sentence, on Von Kri. 50, who was con-
for possession of herein then to convictions for demand- ing money with meunces and as-
V
on Aunt 9. Me Mr. said: "The copiamaging higher-ups insaulting a woman.
tier County, and their no.works af agenta reap rich harvests Ben and
women like the pri- The rewards of thi trade can be supendous,
"They are ready to take great rks to pass their commodities as rostraland Beross frontiers muž vastliness and to corrupt inen Bed women into becoming autets That the tally of a drug-ring's comers any con- stantly
with who will pay any price or A HELY lengiler to solisty n desperate and pathette craving" be added.
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Dismissed
1. fore dismissing the appilea- tion, Me Morris sakl the prevas lenses in this Colony of this lape of effence was in itself sonte justification for long sentences and am not prepared to res lure the original semence past et him."
The applicant asked to reduce his sentence on the ground that it was too severe and that he
had an aged mother and children to support.
four
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The stuifent told Mr K. A. S. Phillips ni Central Court this morning that he liked thu records very much and that his father would not give him the money to buy them.
Mr Philips told Kwok that he huself ked many things, but could not afford to buy them.
Sub-Inspeetur Yip Tui-yau, said Kwok went into the record shop at 69-A Des Voeux Rond Central, pretending to hoy some records on April 18.
Looking
Kwoh
Inspector Yip said stayed at the shop looking at the records for about half an hour but did not buy any, and then left the shop.
A salesman noticed that some records on the tray were miss- Ing.
He chased Kwok, and at Vic- toria Street Dear Connaught Road Central saw Kwok, search- eð bim and found 21 records conevaled under his cont.
Kwok had one previous con- virtina of n skuilar nuture b 1958.
PEER GYNT
The Garrison Players" per- formance of Peer Gynt for school children at the Lake Yew Hall will take place at 7.30 p.m. Impector Jack Demprey pro- today, and not 5,30 p.m. as stated to secuted.
in a morning paper.
Mr Morris sail the applicant was intoabtedly
addleted
The Vienna Chorus-none better
By D. E. GRAY
Hongkong we are for- a little of the spirit of their ¦ tuuste, from time to native laul.
te, in bearing musicians
from many different parts of · No group has succeeded better Viena the world. is playing and in this regard. than the
Academy Chorus, which present- singing for us I am
sure ed its second and Anal contert They all try to leave with us fast night at Queen's College.
Separates
1
Galore!
Tee Shirts
Shorts
Capri Pants
Shirts
The programine for this con- cert was based on the saine structural pattern as the frat concert. Opening with two items of Sacred Music by Bruckner, } Hirough Mozart Chorus 141 Austrian Folk songs and dances for the flest half, the group de- voted The seennd half in music of Schubert. Schumann and Johann Strauss.
Saveral items of the previous concert were included again, but they lost none of their beauty and galety by repetition.
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Retablished 1845
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960.
INTELLIGENCE REPORT4
W
tracks down a face with disturbingly familiar
features ....
STALIN'S HALF-BROTHER
'The maid who caught my father's
eye became the mother
of the Soviet leader'
From WILLIAM HAMSHER: Paris
а
rolling Russian
FTER 50 years his French still has AF
accent. And everybody in the narrow Paris street where he lives calls him Sosso, which is good, friendly Russian for
Josef,
about all this. "In the end I "You see, had to make my Rent Mr Khrushchev a jetter os Retaway from Russia-let'e ses, he was leaving Paris."
it must have been more than 50 years Ago now....tha Czarist police were after me."
Sheaffer's PEM
Ten For Men
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
HK moneylender
testifies
in fraud trial
Mr Ma Shiu-poon, a ginger factory proprietor and moneylender, of 4 Queen's Road Central, second floor, gave evidence in the Victoria Court this morning in the trial of a company director accused of fraud.
The prosecution alleges tha the director. Chan Wan, hud caused Mr Ma to. pay 500,000 to Messrs Wilkinson and Grist nolicitors, falsely pretending he was capable of mortgaging a building site in Taun Wan
is also alleged he had obtained a cheque for $50,0 drawn in his name, by falsely pretending that there was quantity of iron bors which he icdged as scurity for a loan of $80,000,
It
Mr Ma testified this morning
.
Australian
visits
Macao
Macao, Apr. 10.
Mr G.R.B. Patterson,
Aus-
that he had first met the x-tralian Government Trade Com- in 1958, in connection missioner in Hongkong, arrived with a loan for the construction here last night.
Cust
of a building...
Mr Patterson, who was
companied by his wife, was met
Tsun Wan property at the wharf by Capt. Anjos de
Carvalho, ADC to the DAG.
Some time in May 1959, a Mr Lam Chun-kit, an inter- At noon today Mr Patterson preter for Messrs Wilkinson and paid a courtesy call to the As officer administering the Gov- Grist, told him something
result he went to the solici- ernment, Mr Carlos Cordeiro, tors firm two or three days later and met the accused, Lar
mentioned to him something about mortgaging certain pro- perty at Tsun Wan,
Chan had then sald he was Which is what they also used
the joint owner with a Mr Fung to call his half-brother baek in
Kung-har of a piece of land at Georgia, the half brother who
Tsun Won. Wilness added that grow up to become Stalin,
he had never met this Mr Fung. The Paris Sesso--in full, Josef He has lots of stories about
"Chan said he wanted to Devrichowy, member
two of the the
SOESCA raiding 2
mortgage the land because he French Legion of Honcur, general's apple orchard and
Apparently the Czar's generals wanted to use the money to
witness ex-bomber generally provoking the good thought that Davrichowy might erect houses on it," pioneer parachutisi
Perhaps the pilot, secret service.
eltizens of Gori, agent and
be able to help their inquiries continued. He wanted $200,000. revolutionary still looks re- Sassos had rather more lloguce into activities far more serious Some time in June 1950, he, markably like the ether Sesso, than other young Georgions than raiding a general's apple Chan, Lam and several others especially when he staris one of beezus the father of them both orchard. Aelivities like plont-
went to Tsun Wan to see the theve quizzical smiles with which was police chief in this small ing bombs on the Simplon- fond. As a result, it was agreed be parries Indiscreet questions. Town,
Orient Express and robbing that he, Ma, should advance the cash tills to provide But the Paris Scano, though "My father," said M. Davrl tionaries with funds.
revolu- $200,000 by instalments through
Messrs Wilkinson and Grist. pensioned off now, still takes a chewy. "had eyes for a pretty great interest in affairs, and he girl. There was one who used thinks that it is about time the
to come to our house to do odd present rulers of Russia eased lobs and wash the clothes. My able to help the police in their up on the memory of Stalin - father found her most attac-
for the site of the future of five.
timme the In
pretty Jussia and race in Europe; laundress had a baby. The baby because we are all in the same became Stalin." boat."
M. Davrichewy told me that There
Utle 0 he had been wondering for o between the two tong Ime what he could do both grew up.
was
"And would you have been
inquiries into these activills?"
Faced with questions like this the Paris Sesso puls on the famous quizzical Sosso, smile, link In fact, M. Davrichewy hopes to Sossos when save it all and tell the world
in a book.
Reluctant Holidaymakers
is Peron to be next?
Madrid,
GENERAL JUAN PERON, former strong-man of the Argen- tine, is likely to be thrown out of another country soon. He has been holidaying in exile in Spain since last January.
The soprano roluist, Elizabeth Witzmann completely captivated the audience, as on the previnus night, with her "Voices of Spring," her faultiers Intonation, President. of the Argentine,
But Peron's successor 49
breath control, pure clear voice Arturo Froudizi, is coming Even
and charming manner.
4to Spain in June. It would
There were several individual be more than embarrassing performances which bear com- for General France to be
police
iment the excxilem acompani sheltering ex-dictator Peron up in the
ment at the piano given
the while playing host to Fron- Straus walls, and the comedy dizi. supplied by the bus-bori'one
section during The gayer ports
of the programme.
Peron has left his holiday retreat at the El Finar
This group of 24 musicians Hotel at Torremolinos, on (for musicians they truly are
in every sense of the word) is
Mediterranean the
coast,
quite remarkable in the scope, and is now touring Spain.
of its repertoire. I just cannot Imagine a British
chorus sing- ing Palestrina and Bach in the sume programme as Folk songs combined with English country dances!!
1 sceret
DM
treetops for Chou!
Agreement
at Government Hause.
Luter, Me and Mrs Patterson were entertained to a lunchten at Vila Verde residence of Mr P. J. Lobo, Chairman of the
Urban CounciL-AFP,
From the Filos
25
years -AGO
April, 1935
Mr Ma said he had agreed to
with, advance $60,000 to start followed by a further $20,000 on completion of the piling for the houses. Thereafter he was 10 advance $30,000 as each of the Doors of the houses was com- at Blake Pier yesterday to Many friends were present picted,
Chan, who pleads not guilty, bid farewell to the Very Rev. was earlier said to have declared. Swann, Dean of St John's who is leaving. to the police in a statement that Cathedral, the solicitor's clerk, Lam Chun- Hongkong on retirement and kit, had taken the money leaned sailed for England with his by Mr Mu, and that he had not wife and two children at noon received a single cent from Lam by the Blue Funnel es Sar-
He further asserted that when pedon.
he executed certain documents
in the solicitors' firm, Lam, who Amongst those present were was the interpreter. had not Sir Henry Pollock, Mr E. translated the contents to him. J. R. Mitchell, Mr P. S. Cas- The hearing continues before sidy, Bishop R. O. Hall, Rev. Judge B. J. Jennings
Mr J. Bodilly, Crown Counsel, Chamberlain, Mr and Mrs
E. G.
Powell, Rov. Mr with Mr H. F. B. Hobson, is prosecuting. Mr Gerald de L. E. Lanumert, Mr and Mrs Basto instructed by Mr Sydney J. P. Lambert, the Rev, II. W. Ng Quinn, of Messrs Brutton Baines, Mr B. E. Mangham, completely sealed off from the and Co, represents the Dr Juatice Jacka, Dr G. A. C. outside world except for a tele-cused.
Herklotts, and the Rey and phone connection with Peking.
Mr A. Zimmern is holding a fra J. R. Higgs, and Mr F. Sentries are constantly watching brief on behalf of Mr guurding from the roofs and
Mason, Ma Shlu-poon, on the instruc- even the treetops in the ex-
Bions of Mr P. Sin. tensive grounds.
Chou is expected to leave his "prison" only twice, when visiting the Chinese Embassy and Nohru's house close by. Then roules will be closed to the public.
Omicials Dre worried how to occupy Chou in off-conference
hours. Only four amusements are open to Chou, none Inviting for him. He can choose one of 40 thoroughbred horses from the New Delhi. told that when the marching orders come NIGMATIC Chinese Premier President's bodyguard: swim in Chou En-let, with Everest hi marble swimming pool: play from Franco towards the end of
In his pocket, will try to enact squash, or just walk in acres of May, Peron will probably go to
anulher plece of summitry in gardens. Switzerland and might return New Delhi where he will be to Spain after Frondizi leaves.
Leper Group
meeting
the
PECIAL medals to com- memorate the 25th An- niversary of His Majesty's reign, will be on sale to the public as from today, The Marianne Heich! Aid to April 15. Lepers Group held their 95th general meeting this morning. The medals, which have been under the Chairmanship of Mra struck by the Royal Mint, bear J. Pegg.
on the obverse crowned effigies The members discussed proof Their Majesties, on the re-
for parations
Christmas verse a view of Windsor Castle. Medals in fine silver with a Fair to be held early in Decem- ber at Happy Valley,
diameter of 14 inches, enclosed It was deelded that the new in a cardboard case will be on workshop at Hay Ling Chau sale at the price of $1.25 each in The Republio of Pauma, built out of funds raised by the the following places: Meeste which boasts openly that
Messrs Crawford Lid, Marianne telchl Group would Lane, Chou's visit, starting yes, hopes to evlet ike Americans be officially opened by
their Falconer & Co (Hongkong). LAD, sending undesirable residents on terday will
most from the Panama Canal soon.President, Mrs A. Sommerfelt, Messrs Sennet Freres and The "holiday" to Corsica during heavily guarded, toughest is quietly_trying to buy war-on May 23.
seems to be security visit ever to the Indian ships. A Panamanian Foreign pression as speech in fact It Khrushchev's visit
calching on.
Гот capital. is a type of speech - and how
than the office official has established an eloquent!!
British precautions when ruling office in New Zealand and has India.
fold the Government he will make an offer for any warships It would like to seli "of any size and any age."
-London Express Service).
Whereas we teux! to keep our musie in compartments (serious music and the lighter
forms) the Vicanese let music enter into everything they do
natural a mode
Ø
11
of Cx-
During the past few years
AT
We have had musicians from other parlo
NOW
Paquerette's
163 Des Voeux Road, C.
Tel. 21-157
General de Gaulle's idea of
tantamount 10 being under polite house arrest.
be the
поте
Soaled off
Now that France has Nearly 20,000 palice, security atomic sleuths, and plain-clothes men world, joined the world of the bringing with them the muste club she is also trying to are ch duly. Every step ho of their native countries but muscle Into 巍 peaceful makes trong lượn tuccooded so well in
passing on to us here the true
nplatt of an underlying culture,
Is carefully planned, atom fleld, so far exclusive every bile of food in the elabor- ntely planned menu frat sampled Britain and America. by a food taster.
of A propoped menu has beeri
10
as the Vleima Academy Chorus. Paul Boulinier, chief
Fell from motor bike
it
Triad fighter sentenced
Sincere Co Ltd,
From the SCM Post's 25 Years Ago flo: "80 preat has been the nuisance created Young Ching, a 36-year-old in Kowloon of late by the casual worker. of 203 Queen's barking of stray dogs that the Road East, frot floor, who police have taken the
matter admitted being a "fighter" of in hand with a view to ridding the Yuen Tung triad society, the Peninsula, as far as poa- was sentenced to three months sibio of the pests."
fall and was also bound over "The public are tlierefore
In the sum of $1,000 for two
years by Mr K. A. S. Phillips carned to take control of at Central Court this morning. their dogs after 10 pm, other Detective Sub-Inspector R. G.wise they are liable to be shot. We are informed that a In Wanchai Districi constable has been detailed
for this duty."
arrested
A 36-ycer-old man, Lai Chun Kai, of No. 38, Kin Wa Street, Laurel, said the defendant was Delhi put the fun louches.
ground floor, sustained injuries will be carefully when he fell from his motor- Monday.
cycle in Causoway Road, outsiło
This in the Brst time I have the French Atomic Energy flown to Beking for tourova). had the privilege of hearing Commission's Patent Only then will Chinese and this soup which forms, I un bureau, has spent 15 days Dedinale here in New toid, a small part of the Virma in Japan touring atomic The chefs Academy Choir of 150 voices.
installations and talking selected, atomic business Government leaders Industrialists.
It would be « rare treat to hear them agała, huld they doolde to make another lour to the Far East,
with
The guest rooms will be in the Queen's College, shortly before i Aving of Ilamurapatio'clock this morning. He was and south
Dhawan, the President's 340- admitted to Queen Mary Hon room residence, which will be pital for treatment.
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