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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1961.
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Mother-of-four breaks down, pleads for mercy
case
RECORD JAIL Big drug
sequel in appeal court
The Full Court today upheld record sentences passed on five Chinese found guilty of manu- facturing, storing and possessing heroin fast month. The sentences were the heaviest in the history of the
Colony, two of the men being jailed for 12 years.
They were Jim Vi:-1, 29. and Chan King 30, who were desembel at their trial as the prime movers in a broju "fac try" at 10 Skouson 18all-road,
Chau Kweg, 36, and Chan Ping-ku, 41, were sentenced to Mix and ming yesus resavtively, and a woman, Lam Moi, 41, was jailed for two years.
kam broke down and wept us The opended 10
the Chief Justice Sir Michael Hogan, and Mr Justice A. D. Schole, to res erate hear sentence.
OLD MOTHER
Lam, who is the wife of un- ather gerusen, Said she had an odd muller and four Culdcen to link after.
She pl nded tart she did not know that was going on in the house, and that she had been
told herbal medicines were beng manufactured there,
Crown
The other accured also picad ed that they had chilaren or aped relatives to look after
Mr Demo Ren. Counsel, said that it appeared the main resital of appeal by all the applicants was that they had relatives to look after.
LIVES RUINED
"You Lordships will not be ahmediul of the relatives of people who,e lives have been ruined by the vicous petivities of such as the Lecuser,"
wid,
Mr I said
1
he had been told by the Government Chem- ist that the factory had made
120 pounds of heroin since
started operation.
The charges against the ac
it
Me Rea said the Covernment Chemist estimated that, asetan- ing a continuing supply of mor- phine, there were enough other Chernicals in the house in make i further one-tenth of a ton of i herom.
SLOW DEATH
He asked the judges to com- pare the crime of unpremeditat- ed murder by a chopper attack with
the slow death of oddits brought about by the premedi- inter actions of the accused.
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The Chiet dusder, dismissing the applications, told the cused they should have eonri- dered the position of their re- latives before they embarked un their "nefarious activity."
He said they had put their farilies in propardy by embark- ing a criminal course of can- doel.
Each
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the cccused had played their pari in the evil Shotezon Hill-read. work that was being done at 10
NOT EXCESSIVE
"In our opinion the sentences were not excesive, but were a fer the evil fitting punichnicat when you have done," Michael raid.
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After the appleations damned, ayoung woman with # baby en ber back stood up at bepan snouting but Wils Luxied from the court,
Princess on holiday
Princess Gabriel Pacelli, of
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Ting Shau recciner ha Testimonial from Wing Com- mander Rotherham-China Mail photo.
RAF driver awarded testimonial
Two rivilian employees of the Royal Air Force station, Kai Tak. Commander-in- received the
Chief's testinoutal for goed sar- vier from the station cominan- -der, W/Cdr R. C. Rotherham, at
parnite held at Kai Tak this moming.
The two were Mr Ting Shau and Mrs Lilian Shua Wal.
Ting, a driver has served the RAF station for :imest 15 years. Mrs Shun Wah has been on the administrative staff since
1947.
The AOCF commendation for good service was also awarded of the parade to F/Sgt A. G. F. Glover and Cpl T. G. Jones
CHURCH POST FOR ODD-JOB MAN
From the Filos
TERMS UPHELD 25
DOCKYARD ROAD READY NEXT MONTH
Percival-st
building
plan before tribunal
years -AGO-
February 1936
R Eric Linklater, well-
MT known Scottish jour-
nalist and author, arrived in Hongkong yesterday from Inila aboard the B. 1. steamer Tilawa.
The road through the former Royal Naval Dockyard will Almost $300,000 in com-for Shanghai. Only 37 years
be open for traffic towards the end of March,
A Government spokesman; the last link from in front confirmed this today.
of the eastern gaie of the new Royal Naval Base to the junction of street and Gloucester-road.
Arsemi-
The last stretch of 600 fect of the roadwork was completed recently. forming
Praise for Kai Tak immigration_men
The Burmese Deputy Director of Civil Aviation, U Tin Thein, today complimented Hongkong's immigration and revenue officers at Kai Tak airport on their efficiency and speed of handling. the flow of air passengers.
ENGINEERING
STUDENTS
DO WELL
U Tin Thela arrived from Tokyo by Air-India for a two- before returning to Rungoon, vin Dangkok.
He raid."
was amazed by 1 the elency and the speci your immigration and customs oleers clear the passengers at the airpor"
He indicated that he would puss On what he had ex- perienced al Kai Tak to the immigration and customs Teh of McGill University's meers in the airport at leading students in engineering Rangoon.
ilust term came from Hongkong.
This number constitutes ap- proximately 20 per cent of thei students from Hongkong in en- gineering.
Faculty amelais in Montreal described the students from Hongkong as bring outstanding- ly capable and extremely hard- working.
Nomes of the Hongkong students are: T. C.
Chau, F. Kruzich, C. K. C. Kwok.
TOURISM
best
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U Tin Thein revealed that Burma is doing its pramole tourism.
He said a seven-slorey hotel was being built by Russians In Rangoon.
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Fle sald: "negotiations are going, ca at the present for anj American business
porly operate the hotel."
Tin Thein claimed that Rangoon has one of the most
Tam. He said the present 8,100 fext
to 10,000 feel,
cused related to only 6 lus 15 Hals, her daughter Ursula, and A man who worked in odd A. Lau, Yim Leung, modern airports in Asia.
oz of morphine nud 10 lbs 9 oz of heroin.
Mes J. R. D. Tata, wife of the . Chairman of Air-India Interna-
But this quantity alone was tia; arived from Tokyo by suficient for three-quarters of, Air-India's Joeing 707 today
a million dores, Mr Hen said, for a brief holiday visit.
REDUCTIONS
in all departments:
Dresses from $25.00
Skirts from $25.00
Blouses from $5.00
Cotton Knits from $10.00
Slacks from $15.00
Coats from $125.00
and
FOUNDATIONS
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160 Des Voeux Road, C.
Tel: 21-157:
jobs for years—as a' soli- P. W. T. Lul, C. K. W. citor's clerk, o factory- Chok Yu, Chung Yu, hand, a farmer, a
news- W. K. Y. Zan, paper seller, a swimming bath attendant, waiter, night watchman and an Earl's Court Exhibition at- tondant-arrived in Hong- kong today to take up a new job.
He Is the Rev Frank Roe, the new Assistant Chaplain for
John's Cathedral,
St
He was met at Kol Tax this i morning by the Very Rev. Barry Till, Dean, and the Rev. S. K. Loong, Bishop's Chaplain. and Mr H. Maynard of the Colonial Secretariat.
Mr Roe was formerly curate at Hayling Island church, Hamp- shire.
After serving two years in the Royal Navy as an able seaman, he took on a variety of jobs be fore going to Westcolt House to begins theologlent training.
and runway is now being extended
Workers are constructing trafe islands at the eastern
He will continue this morning on the same liner pensation was awarded okl, Mr Linklater has had a this morning by the very varied career. He en- Tenancy Tribunal to 133 listed in the Black Watch at opposing tenants of on the outbreak of the Great application for exemption War but was sent home for 13-19 Lee Garden when it was discovered that strect and 62-68 Percival-he was only 16 years old. streat, Hongkong.
The Tribunal recommended He re-enlisted when he end of the new rond which exemption for the promises was 18 after spending some connect.. Connaught-rand make way for a tenement dattime studying medicine at
building
nine-storeys Central with Gloucester- Pergival-street and six storeys
Aberdeen University. on the Lee Garden-road side.
After the War he return- to the The cost of the building will be led to his medical studies but Luen finally gave them up for two who were years.
He then went back
rond.
When opened public, the new thorough-about $2 million. fare will, it is hoped, great-Shung Estates Ltd,
The applicants, the
ly
CARC traffic congestion represented at the Tribunal by to the same University as
in the Queen's-rond bottle- Mr B. Moore, of Deacons, intend neck.
ARTILLERY DIRECTOR VISITS NT
Major
General E. D. Howard-Vyse, Director of Royal Artillery, this morn ing toured the New Territories as past of his four-day official visits to Gunner units in Colony.
the
to apply for exemption for ad- Assistant Joining houses, and when all the Literature
Professor of
but left s0011
old three-storey houses in the after to make a long tour of
blocks between Russell-street, America.
Lee Garden-road and Percival-
'street have demolished, built-
ings to the total cost of $9,500,- 000 will eventually be erected on the site, Members
were
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Said a Morning Post leader on the subject of gardening in
"The (Pre-Hongkong:
publicity
the Tunul Mr J. R. Oliver sident), Mr T. Spíkins and Me being given to the annual show Wong Ching You,
of the Horticultural Society Mr C. Ching, instructed by P. is symptomatic of a Hongkong C. Wod and Co. P. Remedios
at
and Co, Seu and Liang and F. grief the lack of gardens. Zimmern and Co, represented
"In recent years, with the some of the opposing terunts,extension of settlement others being represented by Mr Kowloon, there has been a
T. Y. Shurlock, instructed by Thomas Wong and Co and Mr welcome revival of the interest P. G. Grindey, of Hastings and in horticulture which had been Co
jstifled by the property boom and the replacements of villas by blocks of flats in the years after the war.
KOWLOON
regimental TENEMENT
"Today the peninsula boasts many homes with gardens, to the health and pleasure of their omers, and the general
Brigadier A scheme for a ten-storey improvement of the suburban
He went frst to the 14 Field Regiment. 5ck Kong where he and watched men inspected the Quarter Guard 13 of the (Martinique) Field Battery training
the square.
Accompanied by W. P. L. Lawson in his capacity es Commander HA in Hongkong, the Director will inspect Quarter Guard of a Field Re- giment at Fanling later today and pay calls to "Q" (Sanna's Post) Field Battery also "P" The Dragon Troop Field Baltery.
How Lee looked after his
injured friend's pass book
Lying injured in hospital after an accident, 47-year-old coolie Leung Kam-chauen, in January this year handed over his pass book to his comrade Lee Choi, also a coolic.
in Leung's bank account was back the money to him because i
his life savings of $885,70,
the payments
to Lee were a "misjudgment on the part of
Andi the Magistrale, Mr T the cashier."
It was at Westcott thai the Creedon, heard Inspector.A. Lew He said that a handwriting present Dean and the former In Soulli Kowloon Court tell Dean, the Rev. F. S. Temple also how Lec. 27, of. 24. Kal Tak expert had identifled the sign- did their theological training. Mr rood, first door, withdrew all batture en the vouchern as a com- Roe served three years at Hayi- $5.79 on three separate occasions plete forgery.
Ing Island.
$1,000 cheque
A cheque for $1,000, half the proceeds fron 110 Garrison:
Players' production Q1 "Peter
by forging Loung's name on the | paying voucher,
When Leung came out of hos pital 20 days after the accident, Lee Chol gave him back his past i bonit.
ILLITERATE
An application by the Police 1o take $31.70 of the defendant's properly was granted
by the magistrale.
Wrong number
Pan" in December, will be pre- did not bother to check the ac- But Leung was literate and sented tu Mr M. Sutton, count until January 31 when he article about
In the "Spring In Hongkong" Secretary of the
the flower show SPC at the wanted the money. Southern Playground tomorrow
organised by the Women's He went to the bank and the Auxiliary of the SPC which ap at 9.15 am.
cashier told him what remained peared yesterday, It is regretted in his account.
that the feledhone number
The money is being given for the series of Chinese New Year parties that in at present being held by the Society.
The
for
Stunned, Leung, went to his Mrs E. L Elias, Convenor of the close friend of 10 years sland- show at Government House 03 Ing. Lee, and asked him what March 10 appeared wrongly. presentation will be hud happened. made by the Secretary of the
The correct number is 23941. Lee denied that he had with- Garrison Players, and the pro- drawn the money from Leung's; ducer of Peter Pan", Mias account. Eilca Watson,
But this
morning Mr T. Creedon found him guilty and sent him to all for 30 months. A represmiative of the Hong- Commercial :nk, where Leung kept his
Indian MP leaves kong and Swntow
Mr Bahadur Singh a member savings account, had good newse
Former UK Trade Commissioner here
of the Indian Parliament, lett for the man who had lost every-fermer United Kingdom Trade
by Air-India for New Delhi to thing.
POP by God
Mr Bernard Harrison, former 1303
¡Commissioner In Hongkong the court that the has arrived in the Colony during willing to pay the course of world tour.
day after a brief holiday visit | tiere,
He told bank would be
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tenement flot building scenery.
the
was faid beforo
"On the island, however, the Tenancy Tribunal this same recovery from the morning.
destructive invasion of the Strand East, applied for exemp-parent. Despite
Mr Dal Wah, of 31, Bonham property speculator is not ap- Tome viliz Lion for Nos 11-17 Soy-street, building in outlying districts, Kowloon to make way for the private gardena are fewer and new block, to cost $450,000.
phli- concrete has further Mr A. S. C. Comber, of Hast-iterated natural beauty spots. ings and Co, representing the The trade gardens are
alko applicant, sold the four exist-
ing houses were 50 years old and disappearing.
of only four storeys each.
"In the circumstances t The new building includes neema that the Horticultural provision for a lift.
Society will be compelled to The 33 opposing tenants are fook to the peninsula for the represented by Mr A. Zimmern, bulk of its support; and per- inclructed by Peter C. Wong hapa the show itself will be and Co, Mr B. Liu, instructed by Sou and Llang,
transferred to the mainland or Mr P. C. Mann, of Wilkinson
duplicated there. and Grist and Mr Peter Wong of Weng
"The deterioration of a one- and Co.
time flowery Colony into Members of the Tribunal are masses of tenements "in de- Mr B. V. Rhodes (President), plorable. Residence in long- Mr J. L. Marden and Mr Chan kong unquestionably involves Slu-ming.
sacrifice."
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