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Last year's RESCUED

road toll

The traffic 1011 in Hong-

kony 7,001

18 1060 reached

of whleh.184 were

fajal; 1,708 serious Juriri and 5,202, * Injuries,

This means one resident died on the road every other day throughout the your.

A breakdown alows Cliat the majority of the case 3.541 killed and in- jured, occurred in How- loon white 2,507 accidents, fatal and otherwise,

occurred in Hongkong anú of $56 cases in the Terri- torien.

CHILD

KILLED

ON

"ZEBRA'

From noon yesterday to 9.45 this morning, two people died and one woman was seriously injured on the the roads in Kowloon, At 12.50 pm yesterday, a Stone vehicle know-kert down at killed

eight-year-old pedestrian

tehop

lo erwing la Waterloo-road in frant the Pui Ching Middle Sendol newer the junction Vistork-uvenue,

Two other ears had stopped! short of the pedestrian crossing waiting for the stream of podes- trians to pass when the goods vehiele knocked down the girl.

The dirt, Chun Sung-ho, was i

Pui primary student at the

Ching Middle School.

Al 9.45, this morning, a Chinese

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a fatally injured by

in Talp-road #military vehicle neur North Kowloon Magi-lincy, Farlier at 8.29 this morning, a Chinese woman was seriously

private injured when a

car

· Knocked hep down in Laielikuk-

und acar Prince Edward-road,

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1961.

30

AT HEIGHT

OF

TYPHOON

A man who plunged into the sea at the height of Typhoon "Mary" last June to save 30 men, women and children was today presented with an award for "conspicuous valour".

PORTRAIT

OF A HERO

kum aut his family.—Chisa Mall photo.

MY

RULING

WAS WRONG, SAYS JUDGE

of the western arm of the Star On Wednesday a young woman won an appeal Pony Pier

the Centrul

Reclamation has been designat-

"ત as the tongkong poiling sination for the Urban Council Elections which will be held un March 3.

arouncing

A nollßeation. the change of polling station from the Cly. Hall Car Park is the new gite, is published in the Govertiment Gazette today. As in former years, the You- mati Palle School in Public Square Street will be the poll- A station in Kowloon,

Only

to 20

few

against her conviction and one-month sentence for malicious damage because she did it at night.

Today, the judge admitted that the appeal decision

was wrong.

Mr.Justice A. D. Scholes rated i This was because the alleged '

Wednesday That the offence was comin tied at 3.30

the morting.

magistrale had no juridletion in

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Mr Lam Wong-choi, a sanitary ecolle at the time of the bl typhoon was awarded the #lille Stor and $100 by Mr K. S. Kinghorn, Director of the Urb. Services Department,

la a citation, Mr Kinghorn related how Mr Lam risked his own Be to save Trom drowning.

the people

Three times

ESCAPED

PRISONERS

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AUTHOR (POW IN

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Two young prisoners at Chi-

mawan,

Lantas,

escoped from

*

who prison

working party on Monday were sent back to jail for another six months, by Mr Dorok Cons at Control Court this morning, in addition to the unserved part of their current son- tences.

The prisoners, Cheung Yuk- tong, 22, of no fixed address. and Hung Tim, 21, of 450 K Block, Wong Tai Sin rettle- ment area, fourth stoor, pleaded uilty.

UP IN FLAMES

by Sylvia da Costa-Roque

Thero must be nothing mora

satisfying in the world thon for an author to são a book, over which he was worked for yours, become a best seller. And nothing could be more heartbreak- ing than to see the manu- script of a possible bost Dotective Inspector R. L

roller go up in flames. Rusell told the court that

But that is exactly what "Lam

was a member of * Chverig and Hung were serving happened to author and broad- resque party which was formed rentences of 12 and 13 months caster Lewis Bush when he was on Cheung Cheu Island during | respzelively in Chimawon Pri-released from prison camp at Typhoon Mary. No less than son three times, when the typhoja was t its height, he plunged into the sea to rescue fisherfolk from sampans that were Is

culties," said Mr Kinghorn. "Oл the first occasion, ut 7 o'clock in the morning, he swom from the chore to a slipway to reste a number of persons who could not swim.

"Although the waves were extremely high, he nevertheless these brought uccessfully people ashore."

Iwe heurs later, he swan 15

the end of the war. An over- On Monday morning, the de-zealous American soldier. fendants wer found missing axious to relleve him of ail from a working perty.

reminders of the camp threw An alarm was Immediately all his old clothes, which were raised and the Drew was in abng together with the cordoned of.

manuscript, into an incinerator.

DEVASTATED

After 跬 riparous schreit through the bushy and rocky

side, u warder found The "1 was completely devastat- defendunts hidden among bushes ed." said Bush, "but when I near a stream about 2 pm the think buck, it probably was just same day.

as well. 1 think it would have The Warder called on thebeen a terrible novel.” defendants to give themselves up but was assaulted by Hupp, while Cheung stood by with

u sumpan and by means of a rope t'ed to his waist and attach-stones in his band,

ed to the shore, nided the rescue

of five people aboard.

Risked life

"Finally, he risked his

te on

a third occasion in very heavy seas in order น

the XIVC occupants of a number of sam- pans which had capsized'n dis- tance from the shore."

Under the Malicious Damage Ordinace, such an offence com-, mitted between 9 pm and 6 am,

is punishable by five years, but

Mr Kinghorn sald the Bellios star was created and a fund was 1884 by Emanuel set up in Raphael Bellios of Hongkong or the purpose of rewarding conspicuus acts and deeds of valour, devotion and self-denial, whether afloat or ashore.

The presentation of stars and

The author of six novels, which Include "Japanalla". which has sold more than 30.000 copies is now in its eighth However, with the assistance edition, "Land of the Drogunity" of other warders, the defendants "Bath House Nigh's

and were subsequently re-arrested; "Clutch of Circumstaneet, Lewis and taken back to Chlawan. Bush is at present in Hongkong They were charged yesterday by on his way to England, and a Jasp Russell.

two-month lecture tour on Japan.

News from

the Gazette

A Londoner. Mr Bush bas lived in Japan on and off for 25 years. But he knows Hongkong well. At the outbreak of war jhe left Janan and came here as

a naval officer.

war,

After about a year in camps

Lewis Bu

„From the Files

25

years

AGO February 1936 SAID the Morning Post, in

an editorial on February 10, 1936: "The lack of n City Hall for entertain- ment, for assembly, and as a centre of culture, is cer- tainly unsatisfactory. (The provious City Hall demolished and the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank went up in its place),

"Very

was

frequently, the con venors of meetings and the urganisers of

receptions and entertainments are at loss To And an auditorium.

"The ideal Clly Hall ter Hongkong would be archites- turally acceptable and would have adequate approach drives, i would provide a theatre and meeting rooms. It would house Į a public Ubrary, a museum and in picture gallery (thò Cater

collection),

"IL would also offer studio accommodation *to* artists, teachers of muste, dancing, etc. "Such a City Hall is not too much to expect, and we urge the Government to

proceed with this part of the plan, modifying the rest as required

bul desired,

retaining enough of the original plan te finance the work."

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be published in London later this year. I will be on autobio- graphy and will include in it, "The Clutch of Circumstance" a

Lord Lugard, who is famed story of his experiences while a as an Empire builder and ad- prisoner of war here, but which ministrator in tropical Africa, was only published in Japan,

was 78 last month, PIRATE STORY

While in the Dark Con- The author in Mr Bush comes tinent, he had many hair- when he was an apprentice breadth escapes. Apart from pa a Glen Line steamer bund his numerous clashes with about 1920. He then had a story. slave traders, he has been about pirates on the China sea, struck by a poisoned a170W published in the Wide World and once Magazine.

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crept in the dark

almost into a tiger's jaw.

گرفت

In the process of being written is a story about Japanese folk-

His more recent posts in- He was Liaison Officer for the

lore. "Only a prestige book, 1 dude those of Governor o! surrender of the naval base to

Hongkong (1907-1912), Gov. doubt if it will sell much.”

Mr the Japanese, and was rub.

Bush ves with his ernor

Northern and sequently made a prisoner cf Japanese wife In Kamakura, Southern Nigeria (1912-1913)

which is near Tokyo and hle and Governor General job as adviser with the Japan Nigeria (1914-1019).

of Corporation. He ribbins in connection with the Mr G. O. W. Stewart ceased to here, he was sent off to Japan on Broadcasting

a prison ship with 500 Canadians, also has his own

He has been a member of called "Current FLAG FLYING-

Topics" which the Permanent Mandates Coni- atmission of the League of Now Bush Is conducting ahe presents every evening

3 pm.

Nations since 1922. "keep the flag flying mission" In Japan. He has organised an exchange of children's paintings between Japanese and English cities.

award began at the end of the century and since the last war only about 12 have been award- ed, he added.

M: Lam, who is 35, is a married man with two children. He joined the Urban Services Department several months ago and has become Lile Gusid in the department after his re-

cue work in the typhoon.

HK FILM FESTIVAL JUROR

Father T. F. Sheridan S. J.

at buy other hour by only two will serve as a Juror, with Mr years,

Mr Justice Scholes, before hearing another appeal today in which the question of juris- diction may have arisen, suid

John Luff, Gi the 8th Asian Film Festival to be held in Manila from March 7-11

Father Sheridan and Mr Luft

he would like to mention will leave for Mamily on Febru- Wednesday's decision.

nry 23. The screening of Alms Je told an array of three entered for the Festival will be- Crown Counsel Mr Dermottin on February 24. The jury's Iten, Mr W. S. Davidson and Me verdict will be announced en Dennis Remedios that he had March, 11.

held that the magistrate had no jurisdiction beatise the charge was lald under the second part of the Mallelous Damage Or- dinance.

Both ecunset--Mr Remedios and Mr D. A. L. Wright for the uppellant-had agreed.

But that decision was wrong because the magistrate had Jurkdurtion by virtue of Sec- tion 89 of the Magistrate's ordinance.

RECTIFIED

"Therefore I thought that the legal position should be recüfied

Mc

at the first opportunily," Justico Scholes maid,

Mr Dermot Ren agreed, Section

the Magistrates Ordinance provides that "when- ever any preson is secured be- fore a permament magistrate of any indictable offence except (certain offences) the magi- frate, instead of commiting the necused for trial before the court, may deal with the case and convict the accused mum- marity, and on convletion may. sentence the accused to im- prisonment for two years,

"Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any greater punishment specifically provide by any other 'Ordinance."

*Mr Justice Scholes pointed out that this section was not quoted during the hearing of Wednes day's "oppeal.

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be a member of the Exchange

Advisory Fund

Committee consequent upon the return of Mr M. W, Turner,

The Rev A. E. Rolleston has been appointed to be a merober of the Mercantile Matine Assistance Fund Port Welfare

Committee and the

Committee.

Mist Elaine Yuen-wal Poon lu been reappointed to he a member of the Nursing Board.

Mr N. J. V. Walt has been ap pointed to be a membar of t Panel of Centory,

The following have been appointed to be assigning authorities in Hong- kong for the purposes of the Lood Line Rules:

The Minister of Transport, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. the British Committee of the Bureau Veritas and the Britias Technical Com mittee of the American Bureau of Shipping.

20- Mr Mafe Menguy has been, earded formal recognita as Vice- Consul for France at longkong.

The names et Mr Simmy Edith Woo anil Mr Young Set-ngal lave been added to the fist of authorised architects

has been added to the list of en- The name of Mr Fung Yuen-ain

gineers.

The first was in November; 1959, when paintings done by children between the cs of

five and 18 were exchanged be- tween Southend and Kamakura.

The next will be between Bristol and Matsuo on the 17th of this month, and another has been organised between Southampton and Yokohama,

Mr Bush's next book is "The Road to Inamura," which is to

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