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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1960.

Trial of

of solicitor continues at District Court

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LAM TELLS OF LOW'S REQUEST 25

Asked whether borrower had any goods to pledge Lam Chun-kit, a former solicitors' clerk now serving a prison

sentence, alleged at the Victoria District Court this morn- ing that Robert Eli Low asked him to see if a borrower had any goods to pladge against a loan.

Lam said this when he continued his evidence against Low who is on trial before Judge P. R. Springall on charges of fraudulent conversion; corruption and conspiracy.

Dick about it.

Witness said he went to see wi was not of any use ax that he would have to ask Yung Low after Yung. Dick had in- could not be used for an accru- troduced another

transactionable charge.

to him. He said Low read a will

belonging to Yung Yu Mei-wah which he showed to Low in the office,

Lom aleged that Low, after him that the reading it, told

Have to ask

He then alleged that Low nsked him whether the borrower had any goods which could be pledged against the loan to be advanced. He sold he told Low

Continuing, Lam said he told Low that Yung Blek had some iron bars stored in the Kwong Sang Lee Godown and asked Low whether it was possible for these iron bars to he transferred to Yung Yim Mef-wah to pledge for the mortgags. Lam said Low told him it could

proceed with it.

To attend NEW MAN YEE be done and also told him Id

BUILDING

conference POST OFFICE

in Japan

rollred

en

the

and a MPS Two owjor-general arrived In the Corfu this morning Ins

to attend Toute to Japan 49th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference which begins on September 20 in Tokyo.

They were Mr H. Hynd (Labour), Mr G. J. Longdon (Conservative) and Maj-Gen W. A. Dinoline, secretary of the British group in the Of- gunisation.

They are among a 21-member British delegation to attend

the me-day conference during

be

The new

in the post office orcade of Man Yeo Building was opened for business at 10 am today.

The new office has a total of 25 counters, 11 of which are at The rest prosent in service. will be used according le demand.

Hours of service are from 10 um to 6 pm daily, except on Sundays and public holidays,

All classes of postal business wil be transacted.

Oil executive

on tour

which three main subjects will Mr S. Lee Briggerstaff, an en-

discussed; the secretary

gineer

the Arabian- with genetal's report, disarmament, American Oil Co of Bhabaran, und The position of parlia-Arabia, arrived here by Swissair mentary dumogrney' in Ašiu. from the Middle East last night of a round-the-

A veteran soldier of the last Iwo World Wars, Maj-Gen Dinoline and made an inspec- ilun tour In East Africa of the King's African Rides. He is the Colonel Commandant. joined the ship in Aden.

He

in the course

world holiday.

"I also told Low, Yung Dick had promised that following Unis transaction, he was willing to pay either $0,000 or $8,000," La continued.

C belog shown an exhibit, by was drafted Lam sniti je

and signed by Mr Ma Low Shlu-poon, Yung Yim Mel-wah Low and another solicitor.

Low busy

He added that Yung Yim Mei-wah signed the document before Low, and Mr Ma signed I before the other solleitor, the reason being that when Mr Ma came to sign, Low was busy and asked Me Ma to sign be- fore another solicitor,

Witness was then shown a number of correspondenes between the solicitors' firms and the Kwong Sang Lee Go- down about the fron bars. One of the letters purported to be from the godown allegedly confirming 1h0 storage of the iron bars there, Lam sald he was given this letter by Low when the lelker arrived at the office. The letter allegedly said the matter could be handled.

Lam added he did not know the letter was a forgery.

Carbon copy

Mr Biggerstaff, an American, Will remain here for two weeks before going on to Tokyo, Hono- lulu and Ameries before return-transaction which Yung Dlekc ing to Arabla,

Mr

and Mr Recital on Radio HK the contents. Lam added that

Mr Hynd and the General will leave by the British ship Sirdhana

Lomorrow,

will Longdon

his i journey to Japan by air after & few days say here.

resume

Russian The well-known p'unist, Nikitu Mugaloff, is to broadens from the concert hall of Radio Hongkong this evening at 9.30. He will play music by

and Liszt.

In connection with another

had introduced, Lam said Ma signed a carbon copy of a promissory note. He said ho did not interpret the nature of

Low told him to ask Mr Ma to sign the copy of the note...

He said cheques were issued note. after the signing of the He added, "Low returned the cheques to me and then I in-

Mak returned with the cash.

Old resident returns Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Ravel tracted Mak Kau to cash them.

Col H.B.L. Dowbiggin return-

ed this morning in rms Corfu after a visit to Canda and the United Kingdom.

for the

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Mr Mogaloff, was to have broadeust last night, but the re- cital had to be postponed be- cause his plane was. delayed.

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"I then took out $4,000 and handed it to Low, telling him that this was the commission which I had previously pro- mised to pay him,"

Accepted

Lam said Low did not my Brything after accepting the

money.

Hearing continues this after-

noon..

The prosecution alleges that Low, while being a servant in the employ of Wilkinson and Grist, had frati- dulently ponverted to fils own ver and benefit cheques totalling $900,000 between December 1960 and August 1960. He is also alleged to have re- ceived muna of money from Lmati Chun-kit for witnessing execution

A

Escape SOLDIER VIOLATED TRUST, SENTENCED

by giant

water

pipes denied

A leading Chinese news. paper in Mongkong today reported at 100 people recently escaped from China to Hongkong by orawling through the new water pipes connecting the Bhumchun reservoir with Hongkong.

Asked by the China Mali for confirmation, a Govern- ment spokesman said thus morning: "vo cau truoc tậ angident to which this story relets." And then he added: "There is no found- ation to that report at all." The report appeared in one of Hongkong's most

Chinese псих- reputable papers,

It said the main escape took place one night when the laying of the 48-inoa pipe across the Shumchu River was nearing comple- tion.

TO SIX MONTHS JAIL

Signalman J. S. Russell was regarded by his officer as "more of a nuisance than what he is worth, and a soldier incapable of living amongst his comrades without violating their trust.”

Russell's

This opinion od chaincter

exyvesped by! Captain C. G. S..Ridley, Second- In-Command of 253 Field Squadron, Royal · Signals, when he prosecuted Russell at a Dis

Martial trict Court

held at Shamshulpo Barracks this morning.

"The unit is not willing to keep him. He has been given every possible chance in past," added Copt, Ridley...

Pleaded guilty

the

Lo

Russell pleaded guilty three charges of larceny and one of absent, without official kave. His conduct shect re- vealed that he had many 'con- victions including disobeying a command, disobeying standing orders, falling to attend mill- tary dutles, wilful damage to public property, larceny end common assault,

the

The President of the court, Major IL R. A. Leslie, tenced Russell to six months

to imprisonment and be dis- charged from the army with ignominy. Both the Anding and bir

punishment subject to confrmation.

The Court was told that

was Russell

absent without leave between August 20 and 28 and during this period he en- tered a room in Whitfield Bar- racks on the night of August 25/28 and had stolen money, clothing and other property from three NCO's of the Army Dental Corps worth about $878.

The report said the inst batch of ten people at- tempting to escape via the pipes were caught by the Chinese militia, Slooe then the entrance to the pipes had been sealed.

of the pipes The laying

both sides

the of

Bear -Shumchun River is

pempletion.

When the two sections are conscoled, the pipe will feed water into Hong- kong's Tai Lam Chunk reservoir,

on

The Chinese newspaper roport claimed to be based on the Information from people ilving near the con- struction alte who refused to disclose their identity,

4.717 FIRE

VICTIMS

REGISTERED

total of 4.717 Are violins have been registered with thờ; Social Welfare Department since the outbreak of the fire which raged through Tai Hang Tung Village and killed four people early on Saturday morning.

Recovered

Payroll thieves get long terms

years -AGO

September 1935

[URRIEDLY opening her

HURRIEDLY hed

Miss Nippon by the Yuben- kui Kodan-sha, Michiko Kinoshita, an Ösaka girl, fell in a dead faint when a snake popped out,

After her election, special picture was taken of Michiko, and it udorned the cover of the Fujin Club, a popular woman's magazine. She was promised the origi- nal, and a frame for it.

When the parcel came, she thought it looked a bit small, but was too eager to open it to suspect anything. A defeated rival is blamed, but the police confess they have little hope of finding who posted the snake.

*

Three men, Lee Kim-hung, 27, Chan Tak-kwong, 28 and Chan Ah-tak, 30, who used a car to rob a man of a factory's monthly payroll were bably like to exaggerate when sentenced to 41⁄2 year's jail each.

Blasted

out of bed

Many local residents pro-

writing home about auch things as typhoons, but the Judge A. A. Huggins sen-resident who sent the follow- tenced the men at Kowloon ing vivid account of a typ. District Court this morning. hoon which was supposed to They all pleaded guilty to have occurred in the Colony robbery with aggravaṭion,

the

A fourth man, Wong Chow. last June, perhaps did not ming, 31 was also sentenced to expect it to appear in 414 years for receiving part of paper circulation in his home the stolen cash,

He also pleaded gulity,

$20,000

"We had a typhoon last weck," he writes, "It lasted about six hours and was wheeler, assisted by Detective thunder storm,

Chief Inspector T. W. accompanied by * severe There was Inspector T. E, Mornington said actually continuous lightning

that on August 16 the complain-

A factory worker blasted himself and e prostitute out of bed with a bomb after she told him she was leaving OR Aberdeen brothel, the Crown charged in Supreme Court foon, today.

Mr D. E. Remedion said that Yip Hon told the woman! "'IL you are going to leave like that, I shall die."

Then

came the blast. It hurled the woman, Chan Lel Jo, 32, from the bed and badly

All the property had been re-injured both she and Yip, covered except $40 in cash and a transistur radio which Russell said he had left in one of the bars while under the influence of drinks.

Russell, who is aged 20, sald during an interview with the Military Police, that he was "a

bit drunk when he stole the money and belongings of three soldiers,

For J

GUNNER

NOT

WANTED

Mr Remedios opened a charge or causing injury by explosives. against Yip, whe pleaded not guilty before Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr and a jury.

The

aften

+

ant, Yu Sun took $20,000 out which lit up the, whole place. of the bank to pay workers in The wind ums travelling at a a factory at Ngautaukok, Kow- |speed of 200 mph and lifted all the sampans out of While driving back be Shaukiwan. They landed on noticed that he was belog the main road. followed by another car.

Tulo coolics"

On reaching Clearwater Boy-were killed by rocks falling road, the car overlook him and down the hills on to their

jhrite, forced him to stop.

off.

the

The defendants," who were in

CONCERN

the car, then pushed him into.a ditch, took the money and drove were above the storm, eight "Being on top of a hill, we'

inches of rain falling in an kour, The typhoon drains are still full of water and

Ilice Ngau roported the matter to roaring

waterfalls. polico who, acting on Information, ATTES Lexi deilend "You've seen a tropical storm on the pictures? Well, I In sentencing defendants thought they were exaggerat- Judge Huggins said that this ed. They're not. The whole kind of offence was causing place shook. We wondered. songer all over the world.

what was going to come down "Hongkong is no exception. "Members of the public can make it dimeult for this type of offence to be committed,

GOOD CLIENT ·

accused

was "a good ants. client of the victim....and very

services," cald Mr Remedios. In fact ho

engaged her

bad taken a liking to her.

Yip promised to pay the prostitute

by May 16, $200 "with no strings attached," Mr

Remedios sald. He didn't pay.

From then until May 19, ho slept every night at the brothel,

EXAMPLE

"The cookhouse roof weighing 14 tons, and solid concrete, was blown bodily off, and being on the hill, we "When one man regularly car- felt the wind a bit. I shopidn't and kept promising the money.ries a large sum of money over have liked to be in it, ds the On May 20, Mr Remedios said, one route, It is asking for trou landslides were falling every-

at

05 Old-road, New Village,

she told Yip she was going to go ble although it does not, excuse

to Hongkong, for a rest, and didn't want his money. Aller Yip's remarks about dying, ihero 15 days in August, Gor was "a Bash."

The hearing continues. W. Gilroy went absent without The homeless have been given

and when caught and placed hot meals, used clothing and

da the blankets, sald a Government guardhouse he sealed a 10- foot wall and clawed his way through barbed-wire to tree- dom.

of deeds of mortgage and promila- spokesman this morning. zory notes.

He pleads not guilty to all charges,

Mr. Bodilly and Mr H. P. D. Some were given shelter at Hobson, Crown Counsel, appour for Tal Hang Tung Government, the prosecution, Mr H. I. B. How School and some at the Salva- and Me 1. 2. Grieve are defend- Ing Low, on the matructions of Krtlun Army Welfare Centre.

G. E. S. Stevenson,

Mr A. Zimmern is holding a Waldung brief for afr Ma Bluu-poon. witness, on the instructions of Mr P. 1. D.

Mr E. W.

take up in Colony

The cause of the fire is all under investigation, the spokes- man added.

Wilmott

to

new post

next year

He was not found till the fol- lowing day.

were related at a District Court Gur Gilroy's military misdeeds Martial at Shamshuipo Barracks this morning and Captain 9, E. Roberts, Adjutant · of the 32 Medium Regiment, RA, to which the defendant belongs, sold: The unit does not wish to keep him."

Captain Roberta guve as rea- tons that restrictions and a dis- Felplinary Me• appeared to be "too much for Gilroy who hag shown no effort to make good.” The Directors of China Underwriters Ltd are giving a Gnr. Gillroy, who is 19; nd- farawell dinner party at the Poking Restaurant to mitted two charges, of being AWOL and one escaping: from morrow night In honour of their Manager and custody, and was sentenced to Secretary, Mr. E. W, Wilmott, who is leaving the six months, by Major H, H. A, company of the end of this month,

Leelle who prosided at the Court MM Martial.

Mr Wilmott first joined China Me : Wilmott will be flying | ** Underwriter in 1047. Before back to London, his home town, Both the Andlag and the sen he came to Hongkong, he, was with his wife and his your tence were subject to condema- with a London Insurance firm. daughter at the end of the

He served in the British armymorth.

in France, and Italy during the

last war.,

GLONA

He will be coming back to Mr Wilmott took over as Hongkong next your to joi Manager and Secretary of the inwarance" trim in aecretarial China Underwriteza, in. 1908, | capacity.

them

Gilroy had several convictiona including being absent without abeent"" during working, hoja, dalling to stand parade, larceny, Indocobe NIKEE "and"driving without a legtice,

those who make trouble.

whors.

We're expecting an-

barred and bolted

rations have been

"An example must be made other in three days. Every. of the four secused in this where is case which was a well-plan and iron ned robbery."

Kiesued."

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