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25
years -AGO.
May 1936
NE of the last remainhig landmarks
In the Colony, the building at the junction of Queen's Rand central and Ice House Street will soon disappear and new modern block will be erected in its place.
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APPEAL JUDGE'S RULING
Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Appeals Court this morning quashed o magli- trata's order binding over a mon found guilty of loitering.
The man, Chung Kam-hung, a 47-year-old unemployed, was sentenced to three month and bound over in $580 for one year by Mr J. I. Oilver m South Kowloon Court on March 10.
His appral against the three- month sentence was dismissed by Mr Justice Scholes on April 18.
In a judgment handed down inly morning, Mr Justice Scholes said that in indictable mlademeanours, the High Court in England had, under Common Law, the power to bind over an accused in addition to Imposing re-imprisonment
The old building, with the origin of which few sidents are familiar as it is reputed to have been built when Des Voeux Road was
Is now in i the waterfront, course of demolition and its owners, the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co Ltd intend, subject to the final approval of the Publle Works Department, to erect on the site a building on the lines similar to that of Marina House.
The new structure will be cight storeys.
the
The ground floor will be used for banking and first six floors as offices.
An interesting feature of the new building is the rc- sidential quarters on seventh floor.
the
On this floor, flats, modern and compact will be erected. The building now being demolished is one of the oldest in the Colony and was occupied for many years by the International Banking Corporation, now known as the National City Bank, of New York.
sentence for
the same offence; but there was not a single authority to show
that
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that this power had been or may be exercised by mugistrates.
"i am not satisfied magistrate in Hongkong, in the express statutory absence provision, can bind D person over in addition to a term of imprisonment for an offence," Mr Justice Scholes said.
Boy commits
offence
on sister
A 15-year-old boy was seni to the Stanley Training Centro for "
alne period between months and three years by Mr T. C. Chap at the North Kowloon Juvenile Court this morning for Indecently saulting tiin four-year-old Blater.
Police had said at a previous
hearing that the boy committed the offence while their mother was away at work on April 21,
The mother had told him - to
look after the girl,
Injured girl with clog
A woman who injured a girl on the head with a wooden clog was sent to fall for two months by a magistrate in Kowloon this morning.
Other firms which cupied premises there are Messrs Wilkinson and Grist Messrs Ellis and Edgar and the American Consulate.
Until the completion of Prosecution cald the incident the Hongkong Stock Ex-occurred at a public water tup change building, to which it In the Shek Kip Mei resettic
when William ment area yesterday removed, Messrs
Lee So- woman, 40-year-old, Powell Ltd were also the oc-
beung, accused the 12-year-old cupants. Messrs Palmer girl of spliling some dirty water
nre the into her bucket of clothing.
and Turner architects.
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firm of well-known shoemakera were advertising 20 per cent discount on ladies shoes for summer with prices ranging from $2.30 to $3.00 a pair.
Jewels stolen
Two hundred dollars in cash and Jewellery valued at $1,070 were reported stolen from 378, Lalchikok-road, Kowloon, be- tween 7.30 pm and Iyesterday.
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It is one of the songs they will sing in a musical pageant cali- ed "May Revels" which is
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sir
A GREAT ARCHBISHOP
Your report of yesterday of the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Geoffrey Fisher's appeal to the British people to help "the world's hungry and homeless millions" daring Christian Aid Work has con- firmed Dr Fisher's greatness Christian and na the of Can- greatest Archbishop terbury Britain has ever had since the first recorded holder of that important office Ralph d'Escures in 1114 A.D.
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As the 63rd Archbishop of Can- terbury. Dr Geoffrey Fisher is
to heal the bury to attempt schism rent asunder by those
On the following day, they will repeat the performance at the YWCA May Fair in ald of re-. settlement children in YWCA' nurseries.
The fair opens at 10.30 am and the "May Revels" will take place at 8 pm.-China Mall photo,
Stole bale of cotton
jailed worth $880
wallet, jailed for two years
A 39-year-old man who stole one bale of cotton yarn worth $880 from a cargo Junk was jailed for nine months by Mr Derek Cons Central Magistracy this morning.
at
Wong Muk, of 188 Reclama-
A woman was jailed for two years by Mr Derek Cons at Central Court this morning for steal- ing from a Vietnamese woman tourist ation-street, second floor, Kow- wallet containing 3,500 Dong (Vietnamese currency), US$40 and HK$529.
loon, was additionally fined $500 for breaking a bond he signed last month.
Delective Inspector Kong
The 96-year-old unemployed The first charge of dealing Fung-chuk told the court that
women,
was of 824 ngalast him Chan Mul, Canten-road, Brat floor, pleaded dimlased. guilty. She had nine previous convictions which included lar- cony, attempted larceny, re- ceiving stalen property and other offences.
of
A second defendant, 49-year- old Chan Hok-chau, unemploy- cd, who reversed his carlier plea of not guilty to one guilty in order not "lo waste the Court's time" was tailed for 15 months for receiving the stolen wallet from the woman. Chan Hok-chou had eight pre- įvious convictions.
subsequently
Charged
with road
deaths
summons
on Sunday afternoon a cargo junk collected 180 bales of cotton yarn from a ship in Youmal Bay and anchored the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter the same night.
in
Next morning the jubk master discovered one of the -bales missing and reported the
matter to the police.
Detectives arrested Wong in Mongkok in the afternoon.
Wong toole the police to the waterfront in Pitt-street where 28 bundles of cotton yarn were recovered,
Wong had 12 previous convic- tons, four of them for larceny. The cotton yarn was returned to two to the owner.
Tsang Ngan, of 232 Wanchai- rond, ground floor, appeared Inspector G. D. Carter said before Mr 1. T. Morris at Cause- that on Monday about 3 pm, a way Bay court this morning on of dangerous detective party had kept Chan | a Mul under observallen sings driving causing death she was acting suspiciously in persons. the Central district She was
looking into Eeen
women's handbags and later entered the Tych and Co Ltd, Man Yee Building, where
the remained for about 10 minutes.
pm
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Exhibition
It lo alleged that on January 21 this year at 4.10
West
opposite Queen's-road
An exhibition of Chinese art house 410-N Trang drave goods vehicle dangerously and opened today at the assembly thereby caused the death of hall of the Hongkong General and Tang Chamber of Commerce, Con- naught-road. It will remain open to the public unil Friday. The display includes scrolls, 19 | paintings and examples of colll-
graphy.
The detectives later followed Fung Kwok-hung her into the Luon
Kit-chun, Hing
Axe attack Emporium, Qucer's-road Cen-
Tsare pleaded not guilty. she was caught
adjourned Hearing was stealing 1
wallet from the June 12, 13 and 14. man was in-handbag A 27-year-old
of the Vietnamese jured in an axe-attack by an- woman tourist, Thaw Thi Bruch. ether man in the Yu On Cam-
defendant When the recond phorwood factory, Wo Ho Shek, at 9 am yesterday. He was ad- reversed his pica he suggested mitled to Kowloon Hospital. to the Magistrate that he could
Police
have detained a man not be charged with both steal-}, for enquirica,
ing and receiving.
that had gone before him in THE EICHMANN TRIAL ages past, and although it will be many more years before the two separated Churches can be kn]t In one, the pro- spect is hopefully fruitful, and all that is necessary today is for Christians throughout the tvorld, of all established churches, of the various and maay denominations and sects, to pray for unity that Christ's many flocks may be gathered back into one fold.
Deaths of 4,000
Jewish children
Jerusalem, May 9.
the first in the history of the During the Christian Ald Wock A Russian-born French scientist today told the
to
Church of England to make an approach to 1h0 Roman Catholic Church of Rome attempt a spanning of the breach that has for centuries separated the two Christian Churches. both recognising
the and worshipping
Fame God.
By his magnanimity, by his broadmindedness and large- ness of heart, Dr Fisher has exemplified the trae Christian spirit when he paid his official John XXIII visit to Pope pm
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Church of Rome the result of
which will
Barely help to
ง
strengthen the bond already in accident
established by our Archbishop
of Canterbury,
It
takes great courage and determination to overcome
A
$2-year-old
man, Tsul Kwal, diet after falling from a prejudice for one in such a lorry of Castle Peak-road near Texaco-road, high and responsible position the junction of
as the Archbishop of Canter, Tsun Wan, yesterday morning.
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court trying Adolf Eichmann that 4,000 Jewish children were rounded up in Paris in 1942 and deported in batches to Auschwitz ex- termination camp in Poland.
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COMPLAINED
ment, had proposed including 10 in the de- children under portations.
Another report presented by Mr Bach sald Eichmann bao complained of the cancelling of from a transport
Jews ot Bordeaux
Auschwitz and sal
"In 1944, when you reached Auschwitz, did you see my one of these children alive?" the Assistant Prosecutor, Mr Gabri: Bach, asked.
"No, I did asut," Professor
Wellers
Parts Georges University answered.
Mr Bach quoted a report of a
be would have to consider telephone conversation in which dropping France from the list of Eichmann told his transport countries from which transports officer that no soon na deporta- could be sent. Elchmann's re- Faris, Heinz tiona occupied Poland were presentative in
not to ex- possible, "children's transports. Roethke, asked him can get under way."
elude France, Mr Bach said,
Mr Wellers suld he saw the children to Drancy camp be- fore
were they
scat to Auschwitz. Ile volce nearly broko as he told how he and the brother of Rene Blam, former French Prime Mini- ter Leon Blum, tried to con- sole a lille boy of savon eight, telling him he would soon see his mother again. "We always told the children brought to they had been Dranty to find their parents again," be said. "We knew that was not true. We were aware that they would never see their parents again.""
Mr Bach ruport from presentative
also submilteci n
Eichmann's
In Parls saying
that Plerre Laval, Prime Minister of the Vichy Govern
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Mr Woliers Bald Reus Blum was sent to Auschwitz in Sep- tember, 1942. When he himself arrived at Auschwitz in 1944 a French prisoner told him that' Reme Blum was tortured and
after killed immediately arrived.
he
Mr Wellers said that of 1,000 people sent to Auschwitz with him, "I think four or five suit- vived."
He sald Jews were deported from Drancy Camp at the rate of 2,000 a week white' ho, was there.
6.S. Lieutenant Theodor Dan- necker, who preceded· Roethke as Eichmann's' representative in Paris, was often present when they left, he said.
PROPAGANDA-
Me, Wellerswald Dennocker ordered four prominent Pariston [Jawa--Colonel Roger Nusse, bis brother Pierre, lowyer, mend two other lawyers-do”, join, # deportation transport. Noyer. Maver inter died in Auschwitz, „Beuter):
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