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DISEASE DIAGNOSED
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The mystery epidemic responsible for the death of more than 100,000 chickens in the New Territories has been officially diagnosed as laryngotracheitis.
A poultry breeder told the China Mail this morning that Mr D. M. Corbett, Senior Veterinary Officer disclosed the finding at a meeting with the members of the N.T, Poultry Breeders Association at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Big haul of heroin from HK
U.S.
San Francisco,
May 4,
customs agents
said an arrested sea- man led them today
where to
ho had
concealed heroin, with a retail value of $45,000 aboard
the docked Pacific
Far East Line's Golden Bear. The high quality heroin, believed to havo boon obtained in Hongkong. was in
hollowed
5
out
section at the bot- tom of a door in the ship's rope locker. The San Francisco Custom Office, said the seaman, Harand Ray Kuhn, 32, was convicted in 1952 narcotics
on
a
charge. He is scho- duled to appear on May 11 before the Federal Grand Jury. -AP,
Government officers perived at
the diagnosis after extensive | faborilogy tests in Hongkong as well the FAO headquarters į in Bangkok where the curcuss of an infected Hongkong chicken | was examineel.
Mr Corbett was said to have j adviced the poultry breeders to j vaccinate thefe chicken necord- ingly.
The
Thousands
epildetnic struck the chickens In Karn T, Yuen Long and Ping Shan areas and the fowls dropped dead by the thousand cially for the Just three months.
The
symptoms are watery Cyrs which close up later, a cough and loss of appetite.
Mortality rate is about 30 per rent among the infected chic- kens, and is particularly high among the niall and medium- sized ones.
The disease usually occurs in winter bulgeldora in spring.
However, this year the long- drawn-out dry spill over winter and spring has aggravated the epicitense which is still ruging today.
Vaccine
Me Corbett told the breeders
to vaccinate their chickens.
Recitals
by famous
violinist
Ruggiero Ricel, world famous violinist, who gave three con- curts in Hongkong three years ago, is turning for two recllals on May 21 and May 22 at the Loke Yew Hall.
His partner in these recitals will be Annarosa Taddel, well- known Italian concert planist who has made her home in Hongkong. Ruggiero Ricci has ulso invited Miss Taddel to in Taiwan, prior to his Hong- Decompany him in his recitals i kong appearances,
dear
Caryl Chessman
Contemporary art show
This morning Dr S. N. Chou opened the Chinese Contemporary Artists Guild exhibition ut. St John's Cathedral Hall, in the above picturo ho la seon inspecting the hibin with Ar Lub Chan, Chairman of the Guild.
China Moil photo.
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Jail terms for
crew members who brought heroin to HK
Two crew members of a freighter from Bangkok found carrying morphine were sentenced to jail today.
tis chief objects are (a) "to campaigh for, promote, support and further the legalisation of The article which appeared in football pools in the Colony of the late final edition of last Hongkong or elsewhere; (b) in that the effective prevention is night's paper entitled "Chess-
man's Last Minutes Of Life is the event of football pools being legalised in the said Colony, to one of the most disgusting and carry on the business at back- 45, who was given four years for They were Cheung Tak-wah, sickening pieces of journalism makers of foolball events, pro possession and importation of morphine and Lau Chik-him, 35, who wun given three Our company is a private jail for possession of morphine
The two men were crew mem- lion and I think the majority limited company. It is not true
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as have seen fer mony years.
moters of football
Your paper readily admits football accounts." that most of the world W05 shocked by news of the execu-
pools and
of Hongkong's population shored Shares were taken up by friends
To say that We sold shares. bers of the ship, Produce,
Substantial
ears
In the Victoria Diarket Court this morning, Judge W. F. Pickering sold. i
this view, this shock was not
of the directors and not sold. lessened in any way by the
We have nol collected, Os reading of a detaliud report on
sums of money
Officers of the Preventive the last minutes of agony under- alleged, large
As a matter Service seized about 11 lbs of gune by Chessman Bet out in from sub-agents.
of fact, such vulgar fashion,
applications for the morphine on board. appointment of sub-agents have Such lines as "Chessman's been received but these applica face suddenly contorted; his tions are still under considera- head jerked back and his eyes tion of the company. stared dully at the rivets in the celling", "One reporter turned away from the scene and leaned sickly against a wall" and 'The long, lean body twitched and became rigid are reminiscent of the cheaper paper backed detective novels, and one gets
E. GOTTSCHALK Secretary-Director Aslan Football Povis, Ltd.
Amazed
Possing sentence, Judga Piclazing remarked, "You are taking part in drug trafficking on 'n scale which is try no means
reubstantial."
He said the accused, as im- porters, were suppliers of drugs
I was amazed to read in your to the drug racketeers, in
the opinion that it was from Late Final Extra yesterday, that
of
Hongkong.
Policemen
on corruption charge
From the Files
accident 25
victim matched
years AGO:
May, 1935
Mc-
[NSPECTOR John
Lellan, a popular officer
in the Hongkong Police
Fragments of windscreen Force, is going to England
glass found at the on retirement on Saturday after almost 22 years ser- scene of an accident vice.
✩ ✩ ✩
in Queen's Road Cen- tral, and in the coat of Inspector Si Wal-ming Extract from the SCM were the same us Post's 25 Years Ago column: windscreen glass given "From Lyemun Barracks there to him by the police, spy which took place late yes- comes the story of a Japanesa the Government Chem-erday afternoon. ist testified in the The details Criminal Sessions this meagre, owing to the reticence morning.
observed by the authorities,
to hand arc
been
Mr Edward Collins sald they but as far as we have had the same thickness to with- able to ascertain the man ar In 1/10,000th of an inch, the rested on the hillside in the same density, and were all of vicinity of Lyeman forts by the same chemical composition. Maater Gunner Brown.
Witness was giving evidence
in the fourth day of the trial of
The stranger's movements 39-year-old business executive created Marcel Noel Andre Fleming, of 23 Shouson Hill Road, Hong- kong.
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suspicions, which justified by develop- ments. When the man Baw
had
been
Fleming is charged with the that the game was up, he at- manslaughter of Inspector Si in tempted to tear up certain Queen's Road Central near documents which, on inspec Daddell Street in the early hours tion, were found to be sket- of February 4 lost,
ches of the fortifications. They COMPARED Mr Collins said he had also damaged ere the process of
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slightly examined glass fragments of further destruction was check- headlight and mirror Kinas
ed by Master Gunner Brown. and having compared them with mampies given
When pieced to him
together the sketches showed views of the forlifications from both the land and sea sides.
by the police, had also come to the conclusion Hat they were the same,
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In cross-examination, Mr Collins agreed with Mr Brook
"It is not clear that the Bernacch
defending positions,
the Fleming, that the windscreen were shown, but each of the glass had all come from the skelehea bore private marke, town area, while the mirror and unintelligible to anyone except headlamp gloss had come from the artist. Pulam Road,
Public
Mr Leslie Walter Winter, a "The man and his sketches mechanical inspector with the are now in the hands of the
Works Department at authorities." Caroline Hill, gald he had examined a Morris Minor car, XX 4240, a taxi and a bus.
From dents on the three vehicles, it was bils opinion the Morris Minor had come into contact with both the bus and the taxi.
Mr
VR Lindsay Lafford, the
Mnewly appointed Or
ganist of
St John's
The Solicitor General, Cathedral, is due to arrive Arthur Hooton, QC, and Mr in the Colony tomorrow W. S. W. Davidson, Crown aboard the P and liner Counsel, are prosecuting, assist. Ranpura.
ed by Inspector C. Pape.
Mr Bernacchi and Mr D. A. Не is the successor to Mir L. Wright, Instructed by Mr Frederick Mascu who left for Harold Caine, of Mesges John- Australia recently alles seven Two polico constables wore son, Stokes and Master, are ap-years' service at the Cathedral
alleged to have received pearing for Fleming.
Bar Leftoni was formerly $20 from a police super-ed by Messia P. H. Sin and Co. Cathedral and comes with very Mr Gerald de Basto, instruct-seristant organist of Hereford visce as a reward showing is holding a watching brief for high favour in the matter of the estate of the deceased and Cathedral and musical authorl- recording a change of ad- fcr Mrs Sl.
dress at Central Court
this morning.
Tire constables were Young Fung, 34, of "E Block, L
Cheng Uk Resettlement area
such a publication that the the O.A.G. had been informed Whilst 1 am sorry for your and 10 Ho, 31, of 130 Tam Kung reporter obtained his inspiration, by the Unofficial Members
both the Legislative and Excel family, you should have thought Road, first floor, picaded read tive Councils that there was of that before
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J'ou committed
If the public wish to material of this available in large quantiles on football pools.
quanties "large body of opinion against the offences," said Judge Picket guilty to a charge of corru
our bookstalis but please let us
not be subjected to Anding starlag af us from the front
page of our daily papers.
HUMANITARIAN.
Slush
I'm disappointed in you.
He
was
I
Ing.
I suggest that the Unofficials
had better be well armed with
fuels and figures when they
who has consulted them?
·
Scotch tape
not
before Mr A. J. San guinotti.
Tang Kau, a polico super- visco testifled that he lived at 125 Laichikok Roads ground 13 employed in a
On March 7 he went to the Shamshulpo Police Station tu change his address. .
present their case, for I sincere- Chief Inspector C. L., Smith
believe that such opposition told the court that the Producefloor, and is negligible.
arrived from Bangkok on April glass shop.
He told that he was a police Who, any,
has persuaded 15. On the following morning the Unofficials to adopt this as Lau was leaving the ship he supervisee..
no?
was stopped by officers of the did not think that you Would
Who have they consulted or Preventive Services. A search echo all this sentimental slush
revented that several blocks of plastered oni
Witness snid the Station, he over the fate of Cary! Chess- If the Unofficials go into the morphine were
reported to Yeung and was told man. It was his own fault he Council Chamber in four weeks Lau's body with Scotch tape.. was sentenced to death and his time and clalta that they speak
Chief Inspector Smith said to wait for a van to take him own fault that ho kept pursuing on behalf of the people, then that as a result of what Lau to the Yaumati Police Stallon these endless appeals over alt comunit me to the asylum. had told the officers, Cheung's and to his shop. these years.
Tsang sald he was afraid that smart If any should claim to speak cabin WKS aloo searched, enough, if you like, to take ad- on behalf of the Protestant Blocks of morphine were found if policemen went to the shop, vantage of every procedural | churches (the Roman Catholic va Cheung a bunk and in a he might lose his job, and told loophole to prolong his life for Church is not opposed to the basket which he used for shop Yeung that he had change his mind Yeung then told" Tsang scored and nothing more incerity. Let him prove what ho Cheung- told the officers that that he was wasting his time due to him.
is talking about and above all he had been told by someone in and told Teang to bring some You have for him the unrep- please, don't let us have sorti Bangkok to bring the drug to
money to his office on March soning sympathy that too many monious platitudes.
14, the Colony. people have for the trapped I am also wondering if there Lou's family, a mother, a wife ployer who advised him to ace Tax said he told his em- criminal, but I'm surprised that is more to this than meets the and four chlidren buret Into you let it cloud your usually eye. I can think of a couple of tears after Judge Pickering had Rev. Au to help the police a Mr Yeung, employed by a sound judgment.
good reasons," "bu I had better passed the sentence, The thought of a man being keep them to myself.
supervisees. On deliberately done to death
Inspector Smith told the court saw Mr Young Ha The Attorney-General must he horrible, but
would refer them to BO many crimes have had his tongue in his check Social Welfare Deportiment,..
be were informed. which, people commit arc far when he said it was supected
12 years. To that extent he has poolis), bet him do so with gas- | ping,
more horrible,
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and the police On the morning of March 14, Inspector Ma and Set Hut of The Anti-Corruption wont to Tseng's shop and handed him two green $10 notes on which were Set Hul's signature,
song then went to the Sham- Permit us to use the media of people who do the pool The Royal Canadiani "Návy to:-/shulpo Police Stallion where he your esteemed making our reply to the letter do theirs at homo,
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Unofficials, cut out the rub-birthday-end, its growth from "Dear Sir" column yesterday.
Hearing in continuing. bish talk when you meet the a humble two-cruiser forco, lo a Mr Gordon Hamption, of Hartlogs
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