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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1961.
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Ten year sentence passed in Supreme Court THAI DRUG CARRIER JAILED
Sequel to Kai Tak
search
A Thai national who brought a large quan- tity of morphine to Hongkong from Bang- kok concealed in his clothing was sentenced to ten years' jail this morning by Mr Jus- tice W. A. Blair-Kerr, at the Supreme Court. The morphine, sald Poller Supeintendent J. Bowelt, was suficient to make 200,500 of the recognised dose used
guldiets.
The man,
alta Leng
by
thai Promjanya, Yiu. allos Kett
Reustoakul, of 288, Prasamare-
road, Bangkok,
aged 37 was
changed with importing 7 lbs, 12 of murphine into the Colony on January
novel 6, this year secunday charged with puss¢5- Stoti. Fie pleaded gully to both chargi
A BULGE
My M. Merley-John. Crown Counch raid that the accused ww.arched at Kai Tak Re- venue Office, after an officer an duly noticed that he had a Luige inder his clothing. 415 was passing through
the Custin, January 15, hov- ng just arrived from Bangkok. The morphine was found in several packels in n-special under-waistcont worn under Jus shirt, niso strapped
parate Legs to the his back and to each thigh. with bandages. These and the waistcont
exhibited i reurt as having been made sparcially ter the purpose,
wer
small of
When charged with importing the drugs into the Colony the aceusest had said he was not the owner, said Mr Morley-John, but that he had been asked to carry the drugs and told that a
contact hiru person would urTival.
V/12
He had been arrested before such contact had been made. He had a etcar record as far as the Colony was concerned.
Questioned by the Judge, the accid said he had come to do sightseeing as a tourist to Hong- kong; he did not know where he was to stay.
ANOTHER COG
How the China Mail got this photo
CHINA
Your child must have these opportunities
School children must have the opportunity to develop their character, to understand right from wrong, to realise that whatever tolent they have should be used in the service of their fellow men, said Mr 3. W. Cockburn, Assistant Director of Education, at the opening of the Salvation Army Schools joint exhibi- tion this morning.
Mr Justin Blair-Kerr said: "It is obvious that you come here for the special purpose of He pointed out that he ob develop their physical abilities bringing the morphine. 11 Jeet of education is to give a lo line with their mental deve- well-known that morphine is a child an opportunity of develop-lopment, and we shall be seeing basic substaner from whteling an all-round personality." something of their progress in heroin is manufactured. The
this direction this morning," he trade in Hongkong today le in- "Your children must be given | gald. creasing and we have had casex every opportunity of developing The exhibition was put on by of manufacturers making quan- their mental faculties to the the Salvation Army, the Kwong limit of their capabilities, and Yu. Kwong Ming, Kwong Chak "The accused is just another this may to a certain extent be and Kwong Yuch Schools. co in this vast heroin trame judged by the results a school The exhibition is being held and I cannot se how these achieves in pubile examinations, in the Salvation Army Central Courts can tail to take a serious But they must also be able to Hall, Nathan-road. view of these offences of im-
fities of heroin.
porting large quantities of this
dangerous drug.
The trame has got to be stopped. To stop it deterren sentences have to be passed. 1 can see nothing to be sold in Justification for Importing this drug into Hongkong and you will go to prison for ten years." An order for confiscation of the 7 lbs 12 ozs of morphlise wag made,
DISMISSED
PRISON TERM CUT
BY 18 MONTHS
A prison sentence of three and a half years was cut to two years by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Hogan in the Appeal Court today.
Wong Fuk had been sen-one #ccasion he had been found The Chel Justice, Sir Michael | tenett to 3 years jul for guilty of larceny.
In 1950 he was found guilty Hogan dimissed today an up-receiving stolen properly. peal against ventence by a mati Cutting
sentence, the of shop breaking and sentenced
to nlno months, Hts and woman who were arrested Chief Justice, who rat with Me by a young police inspecter after Justice A. D. Scholes, said that offence
been
the
fast
of inteeny was
in
received
n
an inclte at a Kowloon bus- in the lower court Wong had January 1957, more than four Glop
charged with houpe years ago, when he Bafore the Chlef Justice in breaking and larceny and re-only three months jail. the appeal court, wan Lee Ying,ceiving stolen properly.
"It appears to us that in aged 37, who was sentenced to
NOT GOOD
caso like this where stolen pro- two years Ja12 for receiving He had been acquitted of the perty consisting of one jacket stolen property and Chan Yau- } house-breaking charge and con- and $2.70 in involved the #p- chunt, ngod 34, who received vleted on the tolen property |tence of 31⁄21⁄2`yeurs is excessivo
two years for nttempling 10 charge, the items involved being "Taking account of that and free a person in legal custody $2.76′ in cash and a jackši. taking account of his previous and two years for freeing, a Wong had a record and it was' record we are satisfied that two person in legal custody, the not a good record, went on the years is a proper sentence," said sentences running concurrently. Chief Justico. On more than 'The Coler Justice.
Photo
News
For Chida Mall photographer, Benson Lo, the above pic- ture he took fato yesterday afternoon
A personal triumph.
WAS
Delivery boys in court after mahjong spree
A 26-year-old delivery boy who embezzled $528 from his employer and lost it all in mahjong games was bound over in the sum of $500 for two years by Mr Derek Cons at Central Court this morning.
PLANE CRASH
(Continued from Page 1)
From the Files:
finally brought together, after directions from Police with only
25
years AGO
April 1936
Commented the Morning Post on radio programmes: "The complaints against the alleged monotony and other imperfections of Hongkong's radio broadcasting
DITE prammes need not perhaps b hour, the two sections were token very seriously since a few of the 5,200 listeners who hold licences to voice have felt impelled discontent.
"Moreover it is impossible 14-year-old Tom Bing-kwau, to satisfy all the public all the who first spolled part of the time, an entertainers know to still-burning- alrerats and the their Barrose. Tostes differ loce survivor. The boy guided | widely and appetites are soon the mola rescue party to where safed. The difficulty of he had Arst seen the wreek.
loud-hallern.
All rescue attempts taluat have been considerably delayed, had it not been for the help of
A party of five polles cfflera catering every day and night, without thoRG cise holidays was Brst to reach the disaster
rent a jaded public's scene. They found the survivor which and five bodies among and near powers of appreciation, must the wreckage. Two other bodies be recognised.
were discovered Jafur when "Nevertheless, this being a other rescue parties reached
units on the scene from
the area. Among the first Army Patic service paid for by the public. whatlier as listeners were men the Hongkong Chinese or as taxpayers, it is neces- Training Unit, stationed atrary to make every effort to Lyenu
give correction. The correct Senior Fire Officer J. Milner view, as the trader knows, in was in charge of rescue operes that the customer is always tlone, assisted by Regular and Auxiliary Bremen, police,
All night
the right. RAF Mountain Rescue Tram, "There is much to be said British Army units, and other for the attitude that radio volunteers.
should be educativo and elevating; but that attitude in only tenable when the service ia free or the served are free to refuse it. In panied the parties on the existing conditions, the public, olimb, but were unable to get paying the piper, is entitled
to have what it wants. back before dawn as they
he obvious their
requirement could not find
Why down the precipitous slopes 28 another referendum; in without a gulde.
fact, it is suggested that the Five Cainn Mail reporters and listeners should be consulted
Several dozen reporters And photographera
accom-
a photographer were among more frequently.” those who stayed on the moun- 50 YEARS AGO
tain Dll night. They Inally
managed to make their way
Extract from SCM Post
down in the company of As- 25 years ago column:
sistant Police Commissioner C: 667YNDHAM Hotel, Dawson. However, with the
friendly streets of Shaukiwan
WWyndham (Flower)
almost in sight, the Commissioner Street, opposite GPO Loca- finally collapsed on the moun- tion tainside with exhaustion. The Scenery
good for Hillside
and only two reporters-in B similar state themselves summoned two minutes walk from business policemen, who helped the centre. Residents and officer down the rest of the way. Tourists made thoroughly Several people in the Shat-comfortable. Run on first kiwan aren reported hearing the class lines. Cleanliness, plane crash, but were unable to Cookery, Service. Under the plapoint its position owing to
the heavy cloud which hung Personal Supervision of the round the mountain at the time. Proprietress, M. S. Hoy,
Moderate terms.
Saw plane
"Open Air Skating Rink A farmer from Kau Manat Bello View Hotel. (Tele- Village. above
Shaukiwan, phone No. 907). A Masquer said he saw the plane
dla ado
Carnival will be held appear in the mist, and a few at the above rink on Tues- seconds later heard a sickta- day, the 4th April, at 8 p.m. Ing crazi
A Pair of Skates will be The first body was brought presented to the best Ladies' down the mountainside at 9.45 Fancy Costume, one to the British Military Hospital. most Comic Costume, and
Am today, and taken to
the
The search for further pos- one sible survivors continues,
The survivor was carried down
Fusiliers.
to the most Comic Gents. Masks must be kept
by a stretcher party of the 9th on till after judging at 10.30 p.m. Admission 50 cents in- The survivor suffering exten-cluding Skates. String Band he had sive burns and
a broken arm will play every Sunday at Cheung also stated
and leg is being operated on the above Hotel commenc- lost the money In mahjong this morning at BMH Bowen-ing at 4 p.m. W. Gallagher,
Manager."
He left the office yesterday
The defendant, Wong Yiu, of store but was located by the morning soon after 0 am with | 13 Cheung Ling-street, first floor, police yesterday. orders to take a junk from who pleaded guilty, was ordered Shek and photograph the to make restitution, stricken 10,000 dw-ton China Fir which had run aground earlier in the morning off an island IR the Tal Hon Channel.
Lo rushed out to Shek Q in the China Mail van and then lo Cape D'Aguilar,
Delective Inspector J. A. Ne- cholas told the court Wong was games. a delivery boy in a transporte- tlon company delivering goods and collecting payments
from customers.
On April 10 Wong was Instructed by his employer, Mr Tse Ho-ching, to collect money from clients. He later disappear-
He found a Junk willing to take him -- but not for the price he was prepared to pay. The ed junk master insisted on money first.
Mr The reported to the police and Wong was located in Hung-
Lo phoned back to the office. Thehom on Tuesday.
extra money was rushed out, And Lo began his two-hour that trip to the China Fir.
.
He took his pictures in misty, Overcast conditions and then ordered his junk back lo Hongkong. My photograplis
Wong admitted to the police he had lost all the cm- bezzled money In tahjong
games.
Two tins of coffee
Another young delivery boy the China Mall's last edition monded for four days by Mr
who embezzled $39 was
arrived back two hours after
had gone to press.
Cons for him to make restitu- But, bis exclusive photographs tion.
were printed in the South Chios Morning Foot Chin
The 23-year-old shop foll, morning and the China Mail Cheung Mong-lun, of no fixed presents above what it con- address, pleaded guilty. alders the best of his selection.
Insp Nerbojas said
that
A
A is more than a year ago, Cheung was employed In
Benson Lo was an editorial store through an advertisement room sistant Is the China In the netrpaper just two days Mail. lis hobby was photo-before the offence. Kraphy and he wanted to
beltor
himself. Ho got his Count was anked by bla em- promotion when a vacancy oe, ployer, Mr Yuen Chi-wan, to ourred, i
deliver two tim of coffed to a Ile ovusklers Jesterday'a ne-' cooked food stall on Monday.
signment the best in his short After collecting the mones', career,
Chesing failed to return to the
POP boy Coc
road.
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DESIGNED FOR THE SHORTER
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