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Alleged method of passing money described to court

of building land for the agricul tural land already surrendered

A broker facing corruption charges in the Victoria District Court this morning, was alleged to have described to a District Officer of the New Territories how he proposed to pass the money to the officer. The Prosecution claimed that any salary, but would get a the broker Abdul Aziz Runjahn, 56, had told Me H. D. Miller, District Officer, Tsun Wan, that he would drive past Mr Miller's house and throw out of his car an envelope with money inside.

A reward

Rumjhan is alleged to have corruptly offered $50,000 to Mr Miller on August 7 last year.

The money was the proceeds of the sale of 10,000 square feet of land at $5 per square foot, which was offered on account of Mr Miller showing favour In

commission as a broker,and that worked out at Ave. per cent of all industrial land to be granted Mayer Mihs at $10 per cquare foot,

The final amount of in- dustrial land to be granted was *mething over 200,000 square feet, and the commission came to about $100,000.

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Mr Sneath said that in fact October Rumjetn was further paid $30,000, and a $35,000 on October 12, Rumjahn already received some had $5,000 towards expenses.

Rumjahn was first introduced the matter of conversion of certo Mr. Miller as a representa- ogricultural land owned tive of Mayur Mills in June, tain by Mayar Suk Mills (HK) Ltd., 1958. On that date there was in Tsun Wan.

outstanding negotiation goinst on between the Mills and Mr Miller.

He was also alleged to have corruptly offered $80,000 to Mr Miller on September 30 and November 23, last year.

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Separate

To this suggestion Mr Miller agreed and he fixed premium at $3.10.

Final offer

cast

Mr Sneath went on to say that in July, Mr Miller obtained Government approval to start negotiations on an entirely new basis, in other words, to overboard the 1958 offer and to put forward a proposal on the basis of a straight conversion or re-grant at a 5-2 ratio.

The final offer in September was to re-grant something over 200.000 square feet of bullding land.

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On August 7. Rumjahn

Miller he (Rainjahn)

MONDAY, JUNE

The Commander Far East Air Forces, "the Earl of Bandon left) paid a farewell call on the Commander- British Forces Hongkong, Lieut General Sir Roderick McLeod at Flagstaff House this morning.

-Staff Photographer.

Air Chief Marshal ends visit

Mr Vee that by Mayer Ms Air Chief Marshal the Earl of Bandon today made

the 10,000 square feet of land and that he had a prospective willing to pay

was to

A fourth charge alleged that he had corruptly offered to Mr

At the commencement of the buyer who was Miller 50 cents per square foot trial, Judge Pickering directed $5 per square foot. Mr Sneath in respect of about 250,000 that

separate Indictment alleged that Ruimjahn told Mr square feet of lind to be re-

against Rumjahn and a second Miller that Mr Miller granted to T. O. Wong and Co, accused, Ho Hit-po, 35, another have this money-$50,000,

Some Ltd., as a reward for or on broker, on conspiracy charge, be

time later Rumjahn secunt of Mr Miller showing adjourned to next month for made a further roquest to Mr favour in the matter c con-hearing,

Miller to the effect that the version of the land

land (10,000 square feet) to be be in an area rented should up Cemetery Road. Rumfahn feld Mr. Miller that he had a buver for this at $8 and Mr

for Mr said this money was Miller's bank.

In this indictment, Rumjaha He pleaded not guilty to all and Ho were alleged to have four charges,

conspired to obtam unlawfully by corrupt means and forgery, a letter issuing or purporting to

Tsun Wan, to the effect that certain farm lands in Tsun Wan, could be converted to building

Active part

a round of visits in Hongkong to

It was the last of his trips here from Singapore B Commander-in-Chiez, : Far East Air Force. He is leaving the post after three years to re- turn home for re-assignment

He said he was sorry, lo leave. The new Commander- in-Chief will be Air Vice- Marshal & D. Selway, acting with the rank of Air Marshal

LEAVE TODAY

Air Marshal Bandon, accom panted by the Countess of Russell, return to Singapore this afternoon,

G. R. Sneath, Crown issue from the District Officer, Miller would say that Rumjaha Bandon and, his niece, Mrs M.

Mr Counsel, fold Judge W. F. Pickering that the first three charges dealt with Mayar Mills

lands

and arose out of protracted Negotiations proceeded from negotiations concerning the conversion of agricultural land that date until the conclusion in the Tsun Wan area into build by a firm offer by Mr Miller ing land.

A witness from Mayar Mills would say that the accused first

on behalf of Government po September 23.

On May 30 Rumjahn proposed started to take an active part in ❘ that instead of a cash allowance the negotiations on behalf of the of $6,000 for the 10,000 square Mills in June 1959.

feet of land, that Government The terens on which Rumjahn should grant additional building

Informed

At 9 am, tre dilled on Lieutenant-General Sir Rode- rick McLeod, Commander;

farewell to the Clemmodore A. K. Butler.

gay good-bye.

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IN ROAD ACCIDENTS

Five people, including a boy

of 12, were injured in traffic accidenti „yuster” "day. They ware-ndmitted- to hospital for treatment. The boy, The Chuen, of 38 Bedford Road, 2nd floor, was knocked down by a lorry in Chatham Road, near Wuhu Street;

A 12-year-old woman, Hui Ngau-chala, living at 624 -He- clamation Street, ist floor, was knocked down by a private car while she was walking in Nathan Road,

near Prince Edward Road, Ta

A man, 20-year-old Law. Wal, of 424 “J” Block, 8th floor, Tal

WITH CLOGS

$32-year-old; mother, who beat her daughter, age 11, with wooden clogs

years

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June, 1935,

will have been noticed

and a feather duster be from an advertise cause the latter returned ment, appearing in this home a few hours late, paper that Lane Crawford's was charged before Mr restaurant is moving to the P. F. X. Leonard of Kow. basement of their building Toon Court this morning and will be open for busi- ness as from Monday July 1 The Prosecuting Officer, Sub- under the old name of Cate Insp. I. Elias, told the Court

Wiseman. that the daughter returned home later than usual a few..hours after school was out on June 18.

INJURIES

This

change revives, some fairly old history of Hongkong and many residents besides re- membering when the former. me was in time, will recall the previous locations of the cafe, rit was not until August 1928 that the occupation of Exchangé Building by Lane Crawford's took place and the former Cuts: admitted beating the girl, but had been acquired by the dietjie

The mother, using clogs and Hang Tung Resettlement Area, a feather duster, beat her as sustained injuries when the punishment. The beating caused motor scooter he was riding was injuries to the arms and other involved in a collision with

[parts of the_girl's body. private bus outside the mala

gate of Kai Tak Airport.d The accused, Woo Wal-tak, Wiseman, an interest in which

A 63-year-old man, Cheung added that her daughter had thereupon became Lane, Cricke Ping, residing at 145 Bulkeley often played truant and was ford Exchanke Restaurant, i Street, ground floor, was hit by mixing with "bad company." The history of the ordi Wise- a private car in Tai Wan Road,

man's is of some interest, as it She also said that she was takes one back to the time when Hung Hom.

upset b

by a recent illness,

Another man, So Bor, aged 42, of 34, Ma Shan Village, Shau- kiwan, was knocked down by

bus near his home.

U.S. uneasy over future course of

ties with

Japan

Washington, June 19,

Mr Sneath said that Rumjahn British Forces. At 9.45 he said The United States today expressed satisfaction

produced a letter of acceptance

from Mayar Mills and on the basis of that Government ap- proval was sought and obtained,

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At 1030, the Air Marshal called on His: Excellency, the Governor, Sir Robert Black, at Government House,

MSES

over Japan's ratification of the new Japanese- American security treaty but showed signs of uneasiness over the future course of relations between the two countries.

Hearing was adjourned by the Magistrate until June 22 for an

enquiry to be made into the case by a probationary officer.

European confectioners were just becoming established bere" "with the latest creations in cal

School concert the beginning of the present

Boys

On Friday July 8, 1960, the Diocesan.. School's Annual Candlelight Service and Closing Concert will be held in the School's Great Hall, commencing at 6 pinx: followed by refreshinents. To that function all boys of the School are invited with their parents and friends along with Old Boys of the School. Concert will: bea "popular" one in which the school's orchestra will take a leading part.

Thu

Female prisoner still missing

A female prisoner, Wong

was acting for Mayar Müllsland-or in other words to ve sum of commission promised oficers' mess at Little Sai Wan, diplomatic circles here was that to impose bases on an unwilling Kwai-tim, 30, who escaped from

was that he would not receive an additional 10,000 square feet

a limited selection

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SHOP LATE MONDAYS

On November 23 accused wha informed and Rumjahr told Mr

He then visited the sergeants' Miller that he had taken steps

The dominating thought In the untenable position of trying to get from Mayar Mills the

and lunched at the Taken by launch to Newman's Prime Minister Kishi's success ally. Router. him. Rúmjahn showed Mr Miller an agreement of sale of Steps at Kai Tak, he tospected in, thwarting anti-American

did not

necessarily a guard of honour before board-rioters buyer being ing his plane the land, the Rumjahn's wife and the. pay-

Japanese-United States defence ment was $27,000 which he ob- tained as part of his cominis- sion

Mr Sneath said that Mr Miller had reported these offers to the District Commissioner.

Subsequent to the conversa tion on November 23, Mr Miller got in touch with the Anti- Corruption Branch..

Referring to the fourth charge, Mr Sneath said that on December 2. Rumjahn asked Mr Miller, whether there would be a re-grant to T.O, Wong and Co. of 250,000 square feet of build-The ing land. He said they were in urgent need of it and were pre- pared to pay 50 cents per square foot.

KIDNEY

GRAFT

BID

FAILS

Boston, June 19. subject of the first at- tempted kidney, graft be. tween two persons other than twins died here to day, ten days after the operation,

ensure smooth sailing for Blaze kills five:

ties.

Minority but entrenched left wing groups, who succeeded in keeping President. Eisenhower out of Japan, were expected to continue their attempte fat undermining the treaty by ex- ploiting fears that the presence of American troops in Japan might drag the country into war against its will

'TURN: FOR WORSE

pastry and other delicacies. So far as records show, the forinder of the enterprise was a German ship's baker named Weismann, who arrived in the Colony, at century Cand realising: the Mac of a European bakery and the need for one opened an estab Ishment in the Bowrington Canal section of Happy Valley. Here he prospered and in due course came to townho

· For some years, the-Welsmann business was conducted at 34 Queen's Road Central in the old Yee Sang Fat building noge replaced by the King's theatre. Here the concern was menaced by Carl Fiedler underta name of Welsmann. Lig K Fleder had an adjunct fée for the restaurant In Welsmann moved to 14 Des Voeux Road Central which wins later pulled down to make way for the erection of Exchange Buliding. In 1914, when VIN berdice out. Welsmann's was taken over by a local company. and the name was anglicised to Wiseman's,

In 1931, the PWD..condemned Central Police Station during the building and Wiseman' the meal break yesterday was moved to the ground floor of S still at large late this morning. George's Building, Ice House SL

Lane Crawford's obtained a con She had been remanded on trolling interest in the concern Saturday on a dangerous drug and on the firm moving from

their old premises to the new Exchange Building In 1928-

no electricity, re

no fire alarm

Philadelphia, June 19. Five negroes were killed, elchi were injured, 20 were left Homeland and fire alarm fall ed.

Electricity in their building had been cut off for 203- payment of the bills, "it: was dia- closed here today,

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Mr Thomas Gates, the Secre- tary of Defence; attending secret

Five completely ravaged an tales at Quantico, Virginia, with apartment house in a alum American defence leaders from quarter of the city late on Fri all over the world told a press day night. It was only today conference yesterday the crisis that the final toll was establish in Japan was one of the factors ed.--AFP. which had given the cold war's turn for the worse,

The Washington, Surrerbrt face Quantico intérpreted Mr Gates' remarks as meaning that

The last meeting took place two days afterwards and Rum- jahn spoke to Mr Miller about He was 15-year old Robert the method of payment.

Reck, and the donor was his Rumjahn said he knew. Mr father, Police Sergeant Virgil Miller lived in the New Terri Reck, of Dayton, Oso, who has the United States might have to: tories and on the following Sun- suffered no ill-effects from the pull its Far East defence back day Bumjahn would drive out loss of one edgykeretes the the Communists have further past his house and throw anThe boy would in any case successes and imperil American envelope containing money out have died shortly had the graft bases as they have in Japan.” of the car...

not been carried out, frem a The United States Senate; is Rusjan is represented by armortel kidney disease. After expected to ratify the new Patrick Yes Instructed by Mr D, his death, his father said thatreaty, tomorrow or Tuesday. Cheung, of Mears F. Zimmern and be had no regrets that the at-

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He is represented by Mr Gerald Lempt had been made,-AFF

de Basto and Mr Henry Zitton, both

instructed by Mesus P. L. Lam and

Ca,

Mr S. V. Gittins is holding watching brief on behalf of Mayar Silk Mills (HK) 216,, on the m structions of Memes Yall, Cban end-

Ko

Mr Terence Shurlock, is holding watching briet on behalf of ether land ownery in Tam Wan, He i instructed by Mr T. G. Nigel, of Mesers Johnson, Stokes and "Master.

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FRENCH DENTIST REMANDED AGAIN →

the

Pierre Louis Vergnole, French dentist who is charged with possession and the impor tion of drugs into Hongki was this morning remanded "seven days by Judge zar

Huggins at Kowlood District Court

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Vergnole was arrested at Tak on May 18 on arrival from Bierepore by kiri

Teenager's inspiration from film

Full ratification of the pact will be completed with an ex- change of documents in Tokyo by the two governments.

Since this procedure will take several days, American officials hope that Prime Minis ter Kishi's pró-American gov= supernment, will, stand- fast against further, mob-violence and stay in power until the treaty comes Info operationVZIO EXA Bayreuth, June 19.;

Most observers here expect German pallen today Mk. My Kishi's resignation“, and new

16-year-bil (labourer elections in Japan

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CAR THEFT

ente exchange Restaurant Now after hine years the old name is revived and old memories are recalled of a time when ice cream A man was arrested shortly parlours and restaurants were before 2 am. today shortly after fewer and Wiseman's was one of the theft of a motor car which the best known and most widely had been parked in Shantung patronised. Street, Yaumati

Jewels stolen

Cash and jewellery to a total value of $2,417 were stolen from the Sth door flat of 53B; Bute Street, late last night,

By Gog

Dr D. Hope Gill of 80 Nathan Road was involved in a minor accident in Nathan Road yesterday when swerving lorry collided, which his Morris Minor,

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