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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960.

NURSE STABBED IN SUBWAY

WHO HAD DAILY INJECTIONS FOR ᎢᏴ

Police seize MAN

arms and

ammunition JAILED FOR 18 MONTHS

The police seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition on a hillside of Sih Ah Chau Island, New Territories, on the morning of July 9 during a search.

Before Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning, Sub-Inspector Yip Tal-yau ap- plied for the confiscation of the and ammunition. This 'was granted.

arms

Inspector Yip said the arms and Ammunition were wrapped in a water-proof cloth and in- quiries were subsequently made to trace the owner but he was not located,

arms

and ammunition

The confiscated were one Smith and Wesson 38 revolver, one Astra 7.03 mm Litomatic pistol gun, Bun, Sten 9 mm sub-machine

one M.1. Carbine, 28 rounds of .30 carbine Bmmunition, 47 rounds of 9 min ammunition, 25 rounds of 7.63 mm ammunition, 20 rounds of 38 revolver am- munition,

Sten che

gun magazine, and magazines.

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LWO carbine

Another revolver

Another similar application for the forfeiture of one useless .38 Smith and Wesson revolver was also granted by the Magis- trate,

The revolver was found ол the seabed 12 feet below the surface by a Chinese boy oft Cheung Chau Island on July 9.

The revolver was examined by the police ballistics officer and was found to have been in the

sea for many years. It was completely useless.

dear sir

Two-year wait

On August 30, 1945, at approxi-

mately mid-day, the British Facific Fleet sailed into Hong- kong and the Colony W38 liberated.

Approximately 15 years after

the liberation of Hongkong, IĮ

A man who stabbed a nurse in the Star Ferry subway because she ordered him to stop seeing her, was sentenced to 18

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months' jail by Mr E. Corbally at Central Court this morning. HONGKONG MLCS LEAVE

Lady Black presents the licence and keys of the ambulance to Mr Turner this morning.

-China Mall photo.

LADY

BLACK HANDS

OVER AMBULANCE

FOR CHILDREN'S HOME

requested the Telephone Com Lady Black today formally handed over an ambulance van for the Sandy

pany to install a telephone la

my house,

. I was informed by the Tele- phone Company that if I did not reside either in the Peak Dr Repulse Bay area, I would to wait approximately have

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two years before an installa- tion could be made,

was just thinking how awkward it would have been had the Gas or the Hongkong Electricity Companies adopted the same attitude. But perhaps they have been more realistie in their planning,

TEL.

Accused of

misleading the police

Accused

.of

the

misleading Police as to the true identity of the driver of a .car in- volved in a traffic accident in Aberdeen, four Chinese, men were remanded to September 19 for hearing before Judge at Victoria P. R. Springall District Court this morning. Chau Wing-por, Chan Chi- wah; Chan Heng-chau and Chu Ming-fook are accused of mis- leading police officers by con- duet and by falte statements as to the true identity of the driver of motor vehicle No. 2039 when the vehicle was involved in an accident at 5 pm. on April 23

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on Island Road, Aberdeen.

Chau Wing-per is also accused of misleading Cal 1853 Ho Ying

by making a false statement,

Chan Chi-wah, Chan Hemg-

chau and Chu Ming-fook are

·

Bay Children's Convalescent Home to the Chairman of the Society, for the Relief of Disabled Children, Mr Michael W. Turner.

Lady Black is the President | expressed, thanks to the British of the Hongkong branch of the Red Cross Society.

The new von replaces one British Red Cross.

The ambulance is a gift from given by the British Red Cross the British Red Cross Society Society when the Sandy Bay Children's Convalescent Home Strom funds allocated to Hong-

kong in connection with World was first set up in 1953. Refugee Year.

Very neat

Mail reader's

donation for

UK family

A

The China Mail has re- ceived a cheque for $100 from a Chinese reader fol- lowing publication of story in the China Mall this week of the plight of a family of deaf and dumb children in Derby, England.

The children's father had planned to take the child. ren to the seaside for the first time in their lives when he was killed in a quarry accident.

By working overtime, the father, 88-year-old Frank Neal, had managed to aug- ment his weekly earning of £8-15-0 ($140), and had scraped enough for a day's bus outing to Skegness. * He had told his wife his. plan. The children did nol understand everything, but guemed a' special treat was in store for them soon,

But before they could go, Frank Neal was killed in an accident in a quarry in Leicestershire. ...

The China MatI will forward the cheque to the Neal family.

Trix' expires

At 9 a.m. lccal time tropical

Lady Black said 11 gave her great pleasure to present the vari.

Sorry state

"I have been told," she said, "that the bus which this gift replaces was in a most sorry state, which means that this gift must indeed be most wel come to those respondble for the care of these children.

for this gift "Arrangements were discussed earlier this year when Miss Joan Whittington, Director of the Overseas Branches, visited Hongkong."

Mr Turner, in eccepting the van on behalf of the Society for the Rellet of Disabled Children,

It was specially designed by Mr G. D. Binstead, of China

International Motors Ltd, 80 that two stretchers could be cadly set up inside or a bed placed in it

L Sun-hoi allas Li Sun, of 47 Tung Chol Street, first floor, pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding the nurse, Lee Wal-chun, on the night of July 27.

Detective Sub-Inspector J. A. Necholas told the court Lee was

a nurse of Central Hospital.

For aunt

She first met defendant about" four months ago at his home when she went there to give injections to his aunt,

Li was then suffering from tuberculosis and the nurse ad- vised him to consult a doctor. Later she gave him injections daily at his house.

Some time later, Ll went to vitit nurse Les st the hospital. He began paying her dally visits. She told him to stop because she was busy and had no time to see him.

On July 27, Li again went to the hospital and told the murse that she need not come to his house to give him injections any

more.

He then left a bag and asked the nurse to bring it home for him,

Not a servant

She became

angry and said his servant,

She she was not also told him not to bother her any more by coming to the hos- pital.

About 9 p.m. the same day, Li waited for nurse Lee outside the hospital and followed her.

In the Star Ferry subway, he suddenly approached her and stabbed her twice

Lee was bleeding badly and fell to the ground. She shouted for help.

Li threw away the knife and ran towards Chater Road but was caught by a detective and two traffic policemen.

Detained

Lee was rushed to hospital where she was detained 11 days. Inspector Nicholas added that Inquiries revealed that Li had bought the knife earlier the same day.

He admitted under caution that he had no intention to kill Lee but just wanted to wound her,

FULL COURT RESERVES DECISION

on

Mr Kwok Chan MLC, and Mr Fung Ping-fan MLC, (above) members of the Hongkong branch of the Com- monwealth Parliamentary Association, left for Kuching by CPA this morning.

They are attending the Seventh Regional Con- branches of the ference of the Malaya and Borneo. Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

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The two representatives, who will attend as ob- servers, will stay in Kuching for a week.

Army driver found not guilty

Fusilier John Hawshaw, of the 1st Bn Northumber- land Fusiliers Stanley Fort, was acquitted this morning by Mr I. T. Morris at Central Court, of a charge of careless driving, because the prosecution had failed to prove the case against him.

Hawshow, cross-examined by was accused Hawshaw driving his Bedford Army truck his counsel, said that when his carelessly along Queen's Road truck neared the Barracks, he, East. Dear Victoria Army Bar- told his co-driver to make lert racks, on June 2 this year, and turn signal. causing a collision with a pri-

"He did so. I also made a vate car, HK 7972, driven by Mr signal for left turn on my side. J. Horton.

of

*

Mr Horton told the Court this Then I slowed down the truck morning that he was driving his to about three miles an hour car that day along Queen's Road and began the furn, seeing that East at a speed of about 20 the inner lane was clear. m.ph.

SAME SPEED

He said he was driving in the inner lane of the road and could see "from the corner of my eye" that an army truck was driving in the centre lane at about the same speed es his

car.

From the Files

25

years

AGO

August, 1935: FOLLOWING today's con-

versations with General Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the President of the Executive Yuan and Minister for Foreign Affairs, definitely agreed to with- draw his resignation.

From the SCM Post's 25 Years Ago column (August,

J 1910): The "crawling" street vehicle is a nuisance in every city under the sun, but it is becoming a positive torture as well as a public danger $7 Hongkong.

'Not only do chair and rickshaw coolies pester pedes- triane abominably for farea · · but often succeed in causing minor accidents. In less than five minutes yesterday at one crowded street corner two people very narrowly escaped being run down owing to their way being blocked by coolies clamouring for their custom.

'Chair coolies frequently rush on to the sidewalks, and we think it is high time this Bart of thing was stopped.

'The principal duty of 4 policeman on point duty is to regulate trafic, but we fail to see where the regulation comes in Hongkong.”

SYDNEY Ng Quinn

MR. G. & Hall, Brutton and Co was ad mitted to practice as a solici tor in the Courts of Hong- kong by Mr Justice Lindsell, Puisne Judge, at Supreme Court yesterday.

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Mr Quinn was born in Sydney, N.S.W. and was educated at St Stephen's College, Hongkong.

He was a graduate of the Columbia University, New York and in 1924 was ar ticled to Hall, Brutton and Co.

"But as I was making the

Six months ago he went turn, I saw a car on my left. I immediately applied the brakes to London for the purpose of taking his examination and heard a thud," he said.

"Did you hear any horn on which he passed. the left?" counsel asked,

"No."

Sub-Inspector A. F. Blair prosecuted.

DEPARTURE POSTPONED

The China Travel Service said that Mrs Downey might be able to leave by the 4 p.m. train if the track is repaired in time,

"When I came near the Vic- tor Army Barracks, the Army truck began slowing down. And

way was

clear thinking the abead, I proceeded.

"Just as I passed the truck, I felt a jolt and realised that my car had

-collision corne into

Mrs Mary Downey, who was with it," Mr Horton said,

due to leave for China this "Did the truck driver give any signal?" defence counsel, Morning to see her jailed son, has had to postpone her depar- Gordon Hampion, raked.

"I could not see him from myture as part of the railway line between Shumchun and Canton car. The Army truck was re- The Full Court today re-

latively high," Mr Horton re-has been flooded. served decision

piled. Crown request to break

"But he might have mado new legal ground by one which you did not see?"

"Yes," quashing a not guilty verdict handed down by Judge B. J. Jennings in Lady Black inspected the Victoria District Court. vehicle with its improved fea- Mr G. R. Sneath, the Crown tures, "A very neat job, I think," Counsel, asked for a certiorari she commented.

order which would send a fur- Mr Binstead drove the am-

gery case back to the judge. out of Government The Full Court accepted Mr bulance

grounds to give a Sneath's argument that acquittai House

ease of of Shing Kwat, 56, was based on demonstration of the

an error in law, starting and smoothness

The Chief Justice, Sir Michael operation to the various officers and members of both societies Hogan, however expressed anx- eity about the danger of offen- who attended the ceremony,

ding, against the legal maxim that a man once freed of a serious

The roof is specially insulated and there is plenty of window ventilation.

of

Correspondent leaves to criminal change should not be

cover spy-pilot's trial

Mr Henry N, Taylor, diplomatic correspondent for the American Scripps-Howard group of newspapers, left Hongkong by Air-India this morning for Bangkok.

.

He is going to Moscow to cover the trial of Francis Powers, the pilot of the American U-2 plane shot down over Russia.

Mr Taylor has been in the Far East for the last few months during which he has covered President Eisenhower's, tour and

He added that instances of violence had been

.very few and the unusual aspect of this election was that the violence:

not perpetrated against was opponents of the regime as had been the case previously.

He felt that although the

tried again.

Mr Sneath disputed the theory that Shing did not intend to de- fraud because he believed he had real title to land for which he Kc. said this

forged documents. would open "dangerous possibili-

ties."

TV FASHION SHOW TONIGHT

A televisión fashion show is being presented by Rediffusion

the recent South Korean elec Republic of Korea still had at 8.80 p.m. tonight,

tions,

Three leading fashion houses their house in order, the in Hongkong bave combined view with the new Japanese election was a step in the right to sell beach wear and aller-. Prime Minister, Mr likeda,

He also recently had an inter-long way to go before putting

He said that the recent elec-direction towards stability and noon dresses. also accused of misleading Sub depression Trix has degunerated tions, in South Korea were security.

The compere will be Jeanne Inspector B. Webster by making into an area of low pressure genuinely democratic, they had While in Honitong he has Kent, well-known fashion com A faite statement,

All accused pleaded not guilty about 170 miles north-west of to be as the students were keen been gathering material for an mentator and TV personality,

Hongkong

ing a very careful eye on them," article on the refugee problem. who is on a visit from London. to their respective charges.

POP

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THIS TRAVELLING

TO THE OFFICE. NEVER

BOTHERS ME. IT'S ' GETTING THERE THAT

I HATE !

By Gog

ROUND TABLES

HELP HOUSING

The Hongkong Bound Table and United Kingdom Round Tables have raised more than $100,000 for refugee housing in Hong- kong

The Founder Chairman of

Hongkong Round Table No. 2, Mr T. D. Petty said this when receiving the charter from Mr

Fook Hing, Chairman of Hongkong: Round Table No 1, on Tuesday night,

In addition to refugee housing, the Round Table was assisting those made homeless by Typhoon Mary on Cheung Chau island.

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