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CHINA
No. 37658
Established 1845
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1960.
LATE FINAL
Price 20 Cents
PAN AM is the way to go to
ROME
Statement by accused in manslaughter trial
and all Europe
Of The FLEMING TELLS OF ACCIDENT
Day
An assurance on pools
HE campaign being waged
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against Football Pools aug. Worm that a majority of local Ucopic are opposed to them. But as most people know, excopi on vitally personal
'Did not realise
it could cause serious injuries'
"
Marcel Noel Andre Fleming facing trial for
manslaughter of Inspector Si Wai-ming told the Jury this morning he knew he had hit two people in Queen's Road Central shortly after midnight February 3.
see ilke rents, wages, food cost and the Bke, public epleton In Hongkong does not DAI, or if it does, no only i Assessable trend of thinking le possible. A fow queruious people rush into print in the correspondence columna Dui they cannot always be re- garded as representative. But in the camo of football peof
it is quite obvious from the acatements and letters of pro- test that while the original op ponents were moved by sincere conviction, many of the recent critics seem to bo thinking
brought about by i "This was respecta. more of their own
poaltion bility and the
they an absolute panic and even 1! ought to adopt. They art cannot dexribe the sensation of Intiuential people in the com- what happened." munity. undoubtedly, but it would be wrong to aug- gestom.xs
the Unofficial MLCs
are now saying-that they ra. present "a farge body public opinion".
to
THE average Chinese resident in Hongkong - and this Includes to some extent the
Inclined churchgoer — is gamble. His interests may be mahjong, carde, Chinese dominoea, the 1916, swoop- tickets, Fantan, soccer scores or practically anything which an unpredictable con-
on
In a statement from the Dock, Fleming said, "I did not realise that the accident was such that it could have caused serious injuries to either of them. I very much regret to say I did lose my head so much so I continued to drive home.
Fleming also admitted an- other accident with a bus later that night but denied the al- leged accident with + taxi driver in Garden Hond
Had drinks
He said he had some alcoholic "but i cer- drinks that night. Winly was not drunk."
He also denied he had driven cardlessly.
Earlier at the close of the Prosecution
case, Mr Breuk
clusion is Involved. Judging | Bernacchi QC, addressed the from this characteristic alone, therefore, it would be reason- ablo to say that more are in favour of the pools than against them.
Court, In the absence of the jury, on whether or not the trial judge should allow case to go any urther.
the
When the Jury returned, Mr The encond question in whether Bernacchi sald Fleming would there to a legitimate objection moke statement from the to the introduction of poole in Dock and Cat the Defence Hongkong? It is suggested would not call any evidence.
IF
that people unable to afford this pastima would gamble their money away. But they can already do that by any of a dozen different ways. fact in the illegal forms of gambling there is far
L
In his statement from Dock, Fleming sold:
the
"My Lord, Members of the Jury,
"On the evening of the third of February, 1 returned from
home
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chance of them being induced to embezzle large sums to try their juck and to Incur
themselves financial ruin for and their families.
up
the Government were setting casino, ar legalising mahjong schools, valid objec tions could be raised in spite of the public support these might receive. For although there is undoubtedly a large anaugh and wealthy enough clientele to
such support amveernents, they would not be in the general public inter. est. For that would amount to
0 p.m.
I bathed, played some musie one or perhaps two and had boldles & bliter lemon.
"I do not deny that late that evering after 1 went out I did have some alcoholic drinks but I certainly was not drunk.
Sometime after midnight, I left Lorkhart Road with the in- testion of returning to my home I returned In Shouson Hill. heme is Aberdeen.
sight. It all happened so quickly that I cannot give any detalls of the accident but I do know I hit them,
"I did not realise that the ac- such that it could cident was have caused serious injuries to either of them for 1 hau avoided running over both or either of them.
" very much regret to say [ did lose my head so much su I continued to drive home,
"This was brought about by an absolute pante and even I can- not describe the sensation of what happened.
"I was not driving carelessly.
THEIR FIRST
"I do admit the accident with LOOK AROUND
the bus on a corner of Pokfulum Road. That bus was over the white line and I don't think that was. We saw each other far too late to avoid the impact
"I was frightened and I drove on home. But next morning, 1 realised these accidents would have to be
the reported to pollee.
"I was on my way to do so when I was stopped by a police patrol car.
Not accurate
"PC4773's evidence tu bur conversation accurate,
beeri Stan
Two litio Chinese giris, abandoned. by their parents lu Hongkong, have legally adopted by Sergeant Jim Kerr, 26, and his wito Shirley, 25, who have just retumed to Enx- land after three years in the Far East.
stat- The sergeant. now loned at Arborfield, Berk- shire, sald: "The orphan- In Hongkong were nges full to overflowing→mainly with girls. There are many squatter familles who have crossed the border from near- China and are on Ques-
starvallen diet.
relative
not
"After sking A few tions, he broke away. went to the patro! VILL and spoke in Chinose over a radio telephone. Then he come back to ne und told me a Furopean Inspector would be coming out.
"He then said words to the effect: had I been drinkinu. did not reply to that question.
"I told PC4773 that we must wait for the European inspector and that I wanted to see a Roud lawyer.
only That was the
A1 no time that night was 3 in Garden Road, nor did
legalising obviously potentially bump into a taxi.
harmful forms of gembling
well an exposing a large num. ber of people to inexcusable temptations.
The pools, on the other hand, Will Involve minimum out. lays of 50 cents or a dollar- umatlar, than any other form of legal gambling in exlstonce in Hongkong. Moreover the pools require time and thought which are in themselves an Insurance against recklessness or extravaganco.
Government refuses to allow
If
may somehow eaueeze BAST the gambling concessionaires of Macao and take up Fo aldance thera. In that avent any financial benefits would be lost to the local Treasury.
But the greater concern would
be the virtual impossibility of
policing a ban on the postage
of pool coupons which Gov-
"I drove via Hennessy
into Queen's Road East and reference made to drinking dur-
ing the whole conversation. Blong Queen's Road Central,
What 1 have told you is the
I noticed there was nobody
on the Zebra crossing at Ice- truth." house Street and I drove on, eraming it. My epeed was about statement. 25 inlles per hour.
At the close of Fleming's Mr Arthur Hooton, QC, Solicitor General, who 14 "Suddenly two
for persons conducting the CRYL
the walked in front from my Prosecution addressed the Jury.
"Parents in China stili put little value on daughters, be They are the first abandoned,"
The two girls, Too Yung and Yak Mool (Mandy) I
(Karen) are now part of a bly happy family and play boisterously with the Kerr' own children, Jimmy five, and Debble three,
Picture Bhows:-Sergeant Jim Kerr and his wife take their adopted Chinese daughter, Mandy (left) and Karen (right) for a walk
ni Arborfield, Berkalitre. In the middle are the Kerrs' own children, Jimmy and Dobble.Express photo.
to be
be built
New road to
through Dockyard
ernment would have to im- Construction of the first section of the new 3,000-foot long
1 pose if the existence of the
poole organization in Hong- kong is to remain illegal.
It is difficult to understand why
the crilice of football pools
on
or
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road through the released Dockyard area will start in about a month's time.
The entire length of the new road will run from Connaught Road central
at its junction with Murray Road through the old Dockyard aren to Gloucester Road.
Turkish HOW BALANCE OF
WEDDING GIFT WILL BE SPENT
Premier
slaps students
Ankara, May 5.
Menderes Premior Adnan
personally grappled with students demonstrating against his tonight.
government
re-
the
u
Aides hustled him away from
on Anitara's a demonstration main street after he saized one youth by the collar and portedly slapped others.
The Premier, nervous and white-faced, demanded of crowd, "why don't you me?"
unprecedented
demonstrations erupled when thousands of shouting students gathered on Ataturk Boulevard,
It was Socie
The
де
ап
PASSWORD
Since Wednesday, the student password here has been "53K" -standing for a rendezvous at 5 p.m. May 5 at Kizliny Square at one end of the boulevard.
An estimated 500 students met there shortly after 5 p.m. an- other group of about the same size met half a mile away.
Then they began marching to- ward each other, singing what has become the official demon- stratura song, tuning of an old Turkish march named "Osman Pasha."
The new words go: "Could it be done? Could it be
brother? Down with dictators, Your world will not last fore-
Premior Menderes arrivedi en the peene with Interior Minister Hamik Godik and Education Minister Xat! #elderlioglu.
done? Could a brother kill a
ever"
the
The Government today announced how balance of the money voted for Princess Margaret's wedding present will be spent.
In a special communique issued this morning, a Government spokesman said:
Princess Margaret has expressed the wish that the balance from the $50,000 voted by the Legisk- tive Councli for a wedding gift to her, together with any personal subscriptions that may be received, be allocated in the following manner:
• $10,000 to endow one bed at the Sandy Bay Children's Orthopaedic Hospital in per- petuity;
$14,000 to endow two beds for two years in the Ruttonjce T. B. Sanatorium; and
The balance amounting to something more than $16,000 is to be paid to the World Refugee Year Committee Fund of the Hongkong Counell of Social Service.
The Colony's personal gift to Princess Margaret and Me Antony Armstrong-Jones-a pair of lavender jade horses has already been presented and is now in Buckingham Palace with the rest of the wedding glits received.
Macleod turns
plea
down for inquiry
London, May 5.
Chinese
Mr Iain Macleod, the Colonial Secretary, today refused to recommend a public inquiry into the circumstances of the death of a woman, Ng Sam-min, on January 23 after she had been knocked down by a tramear in Hong- kong.
died
RAINS
CAUSE
N.T.
FLOODS
A heavy downpour this morning caused wide- spread flooding and a few rockslides in the New Territories.
of
An unknown number people were reported missing in iho Yuen Long Market area.
Other areas immdated were Tai Po Kau, Tai Ki Lam, Yik Yang Village
Shu Pinz Village, Sa Ping Wai, Ling Kwa Tau In Fanlog and Sheung Shul, all in the Now Ferritories,
The Fire Brigado was taxed to capacity when every avail- able fireman was mobilised to
WATER HOURS
INCREASED
Because of heavy rains which have added hundreds of millions of gallons of
tho water to Colony's reservoir system, Hong-
kong will go back to a four-hour water supply.
Beginning today, water hours will be am, to 10 a for
morting districts and 4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. for evening datelota.
resetre people marooned in the floods.
Army lifeboats are also being used to rescue people.
A few rockslides" occurred in the New Territories but none of them constituted serious ob- siruction to the traffic,
A total of 1.39 inchies fell be- tween midnight to 10 a..
A number of cars were stalled in Kennedy Road and Macdon- nell Road. "But it was not a serious holdup," according to Mr A. Morrison, Superintendent of Traffic.
Hongkong gained a total of 798 million gallons of water from the rains during the last 24 hours.
TOTAL STORAGE
At & am today, the total storage stood at 8,080 million gallons compared with 4,920 at
is time last year.
Consumption has been con- kinuing at the rate of 423 mál- lion gallons a day.
According to the Royal Ob- servatory, the heaviest down! - pour occutrod between 7 30. and 8 am, when .91 of an inch fell,
Since Jamary I up to 10 am. Today, a total of 6.08 inches u | rain has fallen which 14 about kalf the average of 12.23 Inches up to this time of year.
The weather will be cooler today. mald the Osematory spokesman.
"And it is expected that the imscftied condition will con- tinue for the next 24 hours be- fore Improving,"
Ships collide:: one sinking
and
Montreal, May 6,
should be a resolutely oposed to this form of gambling and not to others which aid exist in a logal form. Is it no
Mr John Hanlein, a Labour woman, who was supposed to Two ships collided in Mon- that
Government wrong
Only Work on this scelion of the
a simple road inter-
The Premier began walking MP, had in the House of Com-have been competently examin- The now thoroughfare has been
treal harbour last night should
wantlen any moro
the boulevard toward the designed to cope with the major road is expected to be completed section at Murry Road will be up
afterwards
one was reported the Colony
und gambling in
would urge upon the Hong-hours allow a private firm to make part of the vehicular traffle from by the end of the year, when constructed in the initial stage of demonstrators Some applauded, asked the minister if he ed returned to the hospital six
The Central Cy area to Wanchal construction of the remaining the work as many bulking lahim, but large pups chanted rod Government the need for within 40 hours?
sinking, harbour police profits from it? Or in opponi.
the Dockyard area will cordinate "Resign, resign."
"particularly pubile inquiry
reported. "It was then found she was tion
and district further eastwards, 1ơngth, from the Boat Pool to really based
Ho stormed angrily into the 4 to be occupied for some time.
One of the vessels wan Idon- hypothetical fear of what thus relieving the present con- Arsenal Street, will be under-
Accordingly the rod inter-crowd, calling "fetch them to sing the jury at the Coroner's suffering from fracture of the
the action gestion in the Queen's load East taken.
inquest criticised
the Nor- might happen?
polled as he went. nection which will become the Union 70-foot wide
and general injuries,"
freighter Thorshope Perhaps one assurance is possi."bottle neck" near
very important truffle junction, Soon the Premier was in the taken in the casualty deparis, laceration of the brain, tified by poller
it while the other wos said to be The new rond will initially be will be but in the simplest middle of the demonstrators, mont of Queen Mary Hospital."
Mr Macleod replied that ble. The biit authorising the Jack Club,
precisely pools could be given two-
surrounded except for a hanik 70 feet wile with dual ensringe-.
the matters a vessel, owned by the Federal Mr Macleod replied: "No, nie, was
and Tenders for the construction
width rin.
Navigation wayn, each 33 feet fo your burrancy, renewable only if the Governor and a com- of the first sections of the new separated by a four-foot wido
Menswhile, the handing over him.
The latter vessel was ... IOW mittee appointed by him, In-waterfront road are chiled for in dividing trip with verses on the
of the released Dockyazı land Tie tried to me the students ton already made into the cir-partmental investigation.
clanstancon of the case, There result of that inquiry was made Government Gazette. northern and southern edgen. It
there Wad no ported to be slúding. Two tun aluding those now opposed to today's
Go La being carried out. Recording as they continued air chant, this measure, aro satisfied that This section, cumprising two will be constructed within
medical evidence
were spoeding to the Some old build. But gaurds restrained him and come to be no neod for further public
to support boats to schedule. length of the 120-foot wide reserve that runn
Flankin suggestion."-sceno of tho collision Dear none of the farm so far:voiced Uirds the total
Mr Rank: "Do you think Mr will run materialized
Lormier Pler-UPI. to any era,
from Murray parallel with the new bundary Ing. heve been demolished and he was rundel to a car belong | Inquiry,"
the land handed over to ing to a lowrpaper, reporter- damaging or undestrable
Hond to the present Naval Boat wall at prevent under construc-
la rather remarkable that the Reuter. UPL Government. tent.
Pool,
tion.
has
8x-
wegian
ful of aides and guards around In view of the official investiga who were atuited in the de- Commerco
The Company,
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