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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1960.

MAGISTRATE ADVISES POLICE IN TRAFFIC CASES

Caution before

Charge against police officer dismissed

Mr I. T. Morris at Central Court this morn- ing dismissed a case against a police inspector, charged with careless driv ing, on the ground that the Prosecution had failed to make out a prima facie case against the defendant.

Sub-Inspector Ho Kar-chu, Police Headquarters. Hong kong, was charged with care- lessly driving a private car in King's Road. near Shu Kuk Street, on April 25.

He was further accused of failing to stop his car after it had knocked down a traffic bol- lard,

In h's judgment, Mr Morris said that there was very little evidence of carelessness on the part of the defendant, and he was satisfied that the defendant had not been properly identi- fed.

Distinctly weak

The evidence of the Prosecu

"in cross-examination this officer (Sub-Inspector B. Web- ster) stated that he did not at any time caution the defendant, He asked him certain questions and the defendant made certai replies.

"Inspector Webster said that during the conversation he had not thought of charging the de- fendant with any offence and that was why he did not caution him."

Outside court

MA Morris said that Sub- Inspector Webster did not pro- duce in Court the statement made to him by the defendant earlier on April 24, "but stated

questions

The picture with its own moral

if only there had been a driver to see it

PMG leaves

tlar as to identification was that this document was not at di tinctly weak and the case that moment in his possession against hird was merely one ofbut was outside the Court with Mr A. G. Crooke, Postmaster for the United Sub-Inspector Crosby together General, left suspicion, Mr Morris said.

Mr Morris said that he must with other papers relating to Kingdom by Boac this morning," Mr Crooke, who is on leave, impress upon those who were this prosecution.

Sub-Inspector Ho had pleaded will retum early in February making inquiries that when- ever a police officer had made not guilty to both charges next year. up his mind to charge a per- through his defence counsel. Mr son with a crime he should Gordon Hampton, of Hastings first caution such

a person and Co. before asking him any further Sub-Inspector M. R. Atkinson

appeared for the Prosecution.

questions.

He will join his family in England and spend most of his

time in Middlesex.

He was seen off by a number of friends and colleagues.

Is Mr Gaitskell asleep?

One does not have to be a

politician to know that

there is a

wear. Some call it "The Cold War", others think of it in terms of "Peaceful Co- existence", or regard it as a competition between. two idcological concepts, Capitalism and Com munism:

dear sir

MEANINGLESS MOUTHERS

Recent world developments

seem to indicate, however, you that the Communists have not abandoned any of their basic plans which include the extermination of capitalism.

To me it seems logical to assume that Great Britain is wholly opposed to this idea of communist world conquest. Even Mr Gait- skell is committed to the Weat.

Is it not plain irony if Mr Gaitskell, in opposing the appointment of Lord Home, refers, to the new Foreign Secretary's con- nection with the Munich Agreement and continues in the very same sentence that Great Britain still hoping to negotiate an agreement, with the Soviet Union. (See your issue of Friday, July 29,- 1980.)

was

Is it so difficult for Mr Gaitskell to realise that Great Britain now faces another opponent. ~ Com- muniem! Would it be so wise to make another Munich agreement? Would it not be reasonable to assume that Mr Gait- skell's readiness to come to an agreement with Soviets could someday be called "appeasement" an infinitely worse kind than Munich?

JUSTUS.

the

of

were

apparently in a merry mood when you made monkeys of our fabedient servants' with your tren- chant 'Comment' on Satur- day, July 30 on 'aying what we mean'. It was one of the most amusing 'Comments' seen for a long time, and although intended to be a light-hearted banter, rang true in every note.

As mual, you have hit the nail on the head the first ilme, and driven home with unerring force the truth of your statement.

However, taking your remarks in a more serious vein, your readers will agree with this scribe when he says that in our so-called 'civil' service where every government employee, from the highest to the lowest, subscribes himself in writing as 'YOUT obedient servant', the 'ser- vice' is neither 'civil', nor the official with whom ons has dealings remotely re- sembles anything like a “ser- vant', let alone being 'obedient'.

On the contrary, it would seem that the more minor the minion, the more offen- sively officious, the official; this is doubitems due to psychology, a keen aware-

vice alone, as even in a bank,

or

any large commercial concern. for that matter, one always find a junior clerk or an office boy lounging behind

assuming F counter, supercilious air when

ap- proached by a stranger for information.

It is only those who are as- sured of their own' high position who could afford to be humble and show an agreeable sense of civility, co-operative and helpful.

Enter, say, a post office, ap- proach the counter-any counter-and Ask the self- Imagined 'vip' on the oiber side of the barrier for some information, And see for yourself the truth of the al- legation that every employer of government is a demi-god..

Lest it be said that it's an in- cult to pick out the post office personnel as the chief offenders in this respect, let it be understood, thai the choice is made at random, ka it is an everyday occurrence in almost every government department, this divinity "of the demi-god garbed in the respectability of officiakdom.

How true it is that the lower the straia in society the worse the behaviour reveal- ed. Many a truth is uttered

ness of one's sense of in--in. Jest, and so your. 'Com-

feriorly and so it is neces- sary to hide this complex

under an exaggerated sense

of self-importance.

This inferiority complex does

not exist in government sor-

ment · of Saturday, though intended as a "leg-pull', un- wittingly barst the bubble of bumbledom,

MIDGET MINION.

dear sir VERY STRANGE

tasems very strange, following all the fuss and, hullabaloo : which has occurred safely concerning the use, and misuse of; the Eng- lish language, that the best most of our Journalists can manage is the kind of stereotyped, cliche-laden English no favoured

by the Beaverbrook prem weller Speaking Dhow "osWYLOR PAR

"though. Churchill's crisp style, la adlanirable,' Is la sometimes chesponéd by: hle imilators. presccupation with epigránit,

÷NT: OHOW.

EFULLY

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This photograph seems to provide its own moral. The picture was taken from id car bu Island Road yesterday morning and shows the crashed No. 8 bus, firmly embedded in a contractor's hut on the hillside after plunging more than half a mile down Island Road. But on this occasion the

Police sign "Drive Care

fully" meant nothing to those in the runaway bus. Because the driver was not

in the cabin.

He had stepped out of it

moments before the bus

Repatriation ship

case: judgment is deferred

The Marine Court Magistrate, Mr C. Cairns, this morning deferred judgment in a case against a captain and agent of a Panamanian-registered ship summonsed for carrying excess passengers,

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Sheaffers

Pen For

THE BOLD NEW-PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN

Explosion From the Files

in bed, 25

woman

tells court

3. 130.

T

years AGO

A woman who admitted August, 1935

being a prostitute" told a│THE Army Signal Corps court how an explosion has received news that occurred in her bed while Wiley Post the famous avia- she was lying on it with tor and Will Rogers, the actor and humorous writer, crashed-fifteen miles to the The woman, Chan Lai-ho, 32, south of Point Barrow to said she was blown off the bed which place they were en and was knocked unconscious. route from Fairbanks. Both She said she was Laken to were killed and the bodies hospital and detained there have been recovered. eight days.

Chan was testifying in com-

mittal proceedings against Yip Hon, a 47-year-old

bollerman

ROM the SCM Poet's 26 Ago column

Years

occused of causing her injury by | (August 1985): "The novel- explosives.

ty of bullock-drawn water

the

Outlining the facts, Inspector carts and street brushes.at- WRJ Boxall told the court that tracted a large crowd on the

accused ' was a frequent visitor to the brothel in Aber roadway from the Duke of deen where the alleged explo- Connaught's

statue sion took place.

Pottinger Street.

Yip kaew Chan and tried to persuade her to live with him, but she refused.

The explosion occurred, ada Insp. Boxall on May 20 when the accused and Chan were in the hut.

SINCE 20

to

"Some time ago, în order to get over the expense and difficulties entailed by the employment of a large force. of coolles, it was decided to make a trial of bullocks for scavenging purposes i Kowloon.

"About 40 bullocks were Chan told the court she had obtained in the New Terri- been a prostitute since, she was

of brothels,

20 and had worked in a number tories, the numerous hand cars were altered to suit them and the experiment has now gone on for several

She came to know Yip in March this year. He

was &

frequent customer and visited months with · eminent her practically every day at a success. house in Old Street, New Village, Aberdeen.

"Whereas formerly the coolies were liable to strike Yip allegedly offered her work to plead excuses, or $200 to leave, but Chan sald

that while she promised to take sickness or 'b'long too

a rest in Hongkong "I had no muchee lain no can go out', idea of living with him at all." the bullocks have been She later found that Yip hod daily at their task in ali no money to give her,

weathers. That night, Chan said, Yip

went to her and she told him to go I will go."

leave and said: "If you do not.

That in two months time Chan said that Yip replied: "If the office accomodation in the you are going to be like this, I Hongkong business centre will will die here."

far exceed the demand with Chan said later when they the recent completion of the

Mr Cairns adjourned the case' If a master of a ship could not suddenly left the tem sine die after hearing submals-accept that, then we would have were in bed she handed over Bank of East Asia Building porary terminus at the top counsel for the defence.

sions by both the Crown and confusion throughout as everyone clagrettes and matches to Yip and the imminent opening of would be querying the authenti-Later she saw a flash on the bed of Island Road overlooking Shaukiwan

,

DISMISSED

GOOD FAITH

Mr How said Captain Hoare accepted the document in per- fectly good faith from the In- donesias Government and got the blessing by endorsement from the Panamanian. Constilate. He asked the Court to exer-

and there was an explosion,

She was blown off the bed. Hearing Is continuing.

DISC JOCKEY

BEFORE COURT

ON DRIVING

CHARGE

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building, is the opinira of Chinese business, men....

It is reported that actually there has been a decrease in

the number of new firma opened because of the unsatių factory state of trade.

Numerous empty roome are

to be found in some of the

older office buildings.

Apart from the erection of a new building (oumed by the Hongkong Land Investment. Col next to the Hongkong

Nick Kendall Kapocheca, of Hotel, which should provide

The case was against Captain city of any certificates or per- Harry Layland Dudley Hoare,mits issued by the authority. The miracle was that the skipper of the Hongkong Fir Captain Hoare accepted the bus did no more damage for the vessel, on a summons for were valid in the country, they and the Fir Line Co., Ltd, agents documents believing that they

than demolishing one carrying on board the vessel were issued in, and if they were lamp standard and smash- 1,197 passengers, or 1,185 in ex- thus valid, they should be ac- ing the hut.

cess, while not in possession of a cepted by the Colony. The miracle was that no one valid passenger certificate.

Captain Hoare was in addi- was in the hut at the time, tion summonsed on two other The miracle was that only counts alleging failure to carry Had the bus two radio officers on board and two died.

failure to comply with the rules missed the contractor's for lifesaving appliances, hut, it could have gone] through the wire fencing At the conclusion of hearing on either side and fallen last week, one of the sumcise its discretion under Section Flat F. 18th floor, Comfort many office rooms when it is into a deep excavation, monota against Captain Hoare, 35 of the Magistrate's Ordinance House was charged before MrE. completed, the fairly big Had Island Road near the that of falling to have two radio regular No. 8 bus terminal officers on board the vessel, was not been under repair, a dismissed for lack of evidence.

Mr Simon La submitted that accident might Captain Hoare's evidence could not have occurred at all. be summarised to mean that his The regular terminus is off vessel was not a passenger ship the main road on the other but was one by virtue of an side. The bus would have him by the Indonesian govern- exemption certificate granted to drive up a slight 1-ment. cline to get on to the main The Crown, he said, contended that the exemption certificate road. This morning the casually ficate which, he submitted war was not a proper passenger verti- toll was two dead, six defective and invalid as it was seriously

still issued by a non-participating i being treated in hospital, nation of the international sea! and 10 slightly, injured

serious

injured

convention.

Mr Simon Li further sub- who were treated but die-mitted that the exemption certi-. charged.

Baate self was contradictory In Meanwhile Police inquiries the facts and conditions set out,

into the accident are con tinuing. FOOTNOTE: The damage

as it allowed the vessel to carry 1,200 passengers but only allow

ed one radio officer to be carried. The certificate mentioned that

caused by the bus was there were 55 life rafts while in fact "there was none on board. quickly repaired.

He said it was criminal nall- By. 7 p.m. last night, a new gence for the authority to issue green lamp standard had such a certificate which was not been erected beside the worth, the paper. It was printed shattered remains of the

old one,

Crown Counsel then quoted. ovidence and stated that the And the contractors state of repairs of the lifeboats had put up a new section on board the ship carrying 1,200 of wire fencing and adient

passengers was 90 per

cent de boarded up the gaping| Crown Counsel contended that hole in the front of the Captaža Howe's attitude was hut with a new plece of that since he had the exemption certificate," he was adéquately fibreboard.

covered. But as masier of a And apart from shattered fragments of glass on the "roadway--and--tyre showing, the ban's away ride down the hill; there was nothing of the accident-to-be seen?”

ship, he should know his respon ability for the safety of the ship and crew and passengers,

Vanente anul Captain Hoare, *the venel had hem, sur- and an exemption | certi- fuued ›by a responadále

Mr Simon L4 Crown Counsel,

to discharge the defendants Corbally at Central Court this building, No 11 Queen's Road without a conviction.

morning for tailing to stop.be Central, at the corner of Ice... appeared for the prosecution assist fore a zebra line at Hennessy Honse Street is also under er- ed by Mr Kenneth Milburn, scting Road near Wanchaf Market on tensive renovations. Senior Surveyor of Salps.

June 13,

This latter building is own- He pleaded not guilty, Hearing was axed for Augusted by Mr Wei Shi-pak of the Yee Tin Tong Dispensary.

Mr H. H. B. How. Instructed by

Mr J. H. H. Golby of Johnson Stokes and Master, represented both Capt Hoare and the ship's agenta.

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