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RUSSIAN WITHOUT
VALID PASSPORT
Benevolent
Society Approached
KNOWN TO THE POLICE
Victor Boutakoff, aged 34, and Bishen Singh, 40, were charged before Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Police Court yesterday 'with entering the Colony without valid passports.
Boutakoff was sentenced to six weeks, hard labour. An expulsion order was made.
Sergeant Loughlin, stated that the defendant was a known bad character. He had recently come from America and had gone to the
80- Hong Kong Benevolent ciety for assistance, was un- fortunate for him that a Busslan Police officer happened to be there and arrested him.
At the Police Station defendant gave his name as George White and said that he was an American. but the Police knew" otherwise. This name was the same, as had been given to the Benevolent. So- ciety.
INDIAN'S CASE
In 1929
Regarding the Indian, Detective Sergeant. P. H. Loughlin stated that he arrived on the s.s. Kat Tan without a passport. he was dismissed from the Police Force and was sent to India. He had gone to Singapore and Amoy, both places needing no passporta
OPIUM FOUND ON SHIP
Accused' Gives Evidence
Yeung Chan Po took the stand in his own defence yesterday when on remand before he appeared Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Police Court on a charge of doing act preparatory to exporting board the s.5. Hozan opium on Maru on July 29. He was also charged with the possession of 5,800 taels of raw opium.
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It will be recalled that when R. O. Ward and party acting on in- formation conducted a search on the s.8. Hozan Haru they found ave wooden cases in one of the holds. Inside each of these cases were six tins, each containing 40
CROCKERY
COLLISION NARROWLY AVERTED
1
STOLEN FROM
GODOWN
IMPRISONMENT FOR FOUR MEN
been
have What appears to larceny on an organised scale was thé aubject os a charge which was brought against four men at the Central Police Court yesterday be- fore Mr. S. F. Balfour. The de fendants were Man Fook. 30, L Shui, 37, Tam Sing, 34, and Pun Po. 26. all unemployed, who wers charked with store breaking at No. 18, Tsui On Lane, ground floor, on September 9, and stealing a quan- tity of crockery ware valued at $20, the property of Le Wing Cheung. mander of the Lo Kam Fai firm.
Wong Yeung Kau, 37. a licensed hawker was charged with receiving The first four defendants pleaded guilty, but the fifth stated that he had bought the crockery but did not know it was stolen,
Detective Sergeant C. Dowman stated that on information received he went o No. 2, Man Ming Lane,
which was
divan and an oplum there found the four defendants
in possession of four baskets of crockery. The Afth defendant was met coming up the staira and said that he was visiting a friend.
The charge against the fifth de- fendant was withdrawn.
Sergeant Dowman sisted that the premises adjoining the com- plainant's godown had not been oc- cupled for a long time. Five days ago it was rented." The defendan's must have entered the godown by
and from thence had come to Hone pounds of opium, a total of 5.800means of the rear door. Kong. A Sergeant of the Guards knew defendant and reported him
to the Police.
Sergt. Loughlin added that de- fendant would have to be repat-
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ed for a prison sentence. There were quite a number of these In-
dians in the Colony and it had
Been agreed with the India Gov-
ernment that only Indians who had guarantee of work in Hons Kong were granted passports. The cost of repatriation was about $90. The defendant was sentenced to two weeks and an expulsion order was made against him.
CHARACTER OF
A. E. HOUSMAN
taels. The consignor of the cases was the Nam Lung firm of which the defendant was the manager. The defendant had stated that the cases were the property of Met Kee.
Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prose- cution, whilst Mr. Hin Shing Lo was for the defence.
Sentence of three months' hard labour each was pissed.
POSSESSION OF
| REVOLVER` AND
At the outset of the hearing yes- AMMUNITION terday Mr. Abbout objected to Sub- Inspector Sabey testifying to a statement made by another de- fendant. who had jumped bål.
Mr. Lo argued that since both were charged with the same of- fence at the same time, it was only fair that the Inspector be called.
Mr.
Balfour ruled that as the prosecution had closed its case, Inspector Sabey was allowed to be called.
The Police officer, however, could
Famous Poet Did Not not remember the statements,
Court Publicity
Unemployed To Stand Trial
LORRY DRIVER
F
FINED
As a result of a narrowly averted head-on collision on the Pokfulam Road, Tsang Chi Chuen. driver of a lorry was charged before M. W. Schofield at the Central. Police Court yesterday with driving with- out due care September 2.
Mr. G. H. Wilson, the complain- ant, said that he was travelling in a car along Pokfulam Road towards Aberdeen when he saw a bus ap
and caution
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proaching with a lorry behind. The lorry drew out as though to
pass the bus but in doing so swerved right, out on to the wrong side of the road. Both vehicles applied brakes and stopped with but four feet separating their bon-
nets.
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Defendant was fined $25.
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Evaded
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Student Caught On Ferry
FINE IMPOSED
The upset price for the two lots
Fung Wah-hon, 18. a student, was $870 and this was advanced by tried to have a ride on the Man bids of $5. until the sum of $1,015 Yeung, on Thursday without pay- was reached, when Mr. Wong Kiting his fare. Wan became the purchaser..
Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins, District Officer South, conducted the sale.
DEAF MATE UNABLE
TO PLEAD
Discharged After Remands
Lam Ching. Chiu, a deaf mute,
Charged with the possession of a revolver and five rounds of am- munition. Chan Kau, allas Chan Fu Lal Luk, 35, unemployed, of Village, Kwong Ning district, was committed for trial at the next Sessions by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-stole an anklet from a young baby who was being carried on her me ther's back
Considerable difficulty was en
when до countered yesterday ore in the Kowloon Magistracy culd understand him when the mute appeared on remand.
day.
The accused was arrested on in- formation in Pakhai Street and the arms were found concealed in his girdle,
A further charge of returning from banishment brought against the accused was adjourned to Mon- day.
Cunningham
The defendant, in evidence ex- plained that the other defendant was a travelling trader in his arm. He had had dealings with him be- Light on the character of the
buying newspapers |fore,
and late A. E. Housman is thrown by
sweets. On this occasion the pa- biographical details which the
pers "News Chronicle" published by per-
were bought through the other defendant on the instruc- mission of Mr. Laurence Housman, tions of a foki of the firm, as to his brother and literary executor.
Det-Sub-Insp. the sweets, they had been pur- With the publication of two small
chased by the other
conducted the prosecution. defendant. volumes poetry. "A Shropshire Lad"
Both had been recorded. and "Last Poems," Housman achieved a world-wide reputation. He did not give interviews nor court pub city, and ou a few intimate friends knew the man be hind the work."
The entries had been made in the books because the expected commission from the other defen- dant. Witness denied knowing the cases seized, contained, oplum.
At this stage the hearing was adjourned.
many who had hoped for another
"My brother on one "occasion ex- plained that very little in 'A Shrop- shire Lad' was autobiographical," sald Mr. Laurence Housman "More Poems to be published by book. Jonathan Cape this autumn, will Be the last work to appear under his name, and represents a collec- tlon I have made from his mann- scripts.
"There are few poems in this book that are directly personal Some about Youth, he wrote when he was getting on in fears.
fact
"But I think a great deal of the bitterness and anger in his poetry 18 explained by the that he was grieved that the laws of God and man' are, not kinder. He had a deep and lively sympathy 'for all -treated fellows, and especially for the young.
"Had my brother made this final selection I know well enough that he would have judges his work very severely" said Mr. Housman, "bu I feel bound to interpret bia in- structions as sympathetically as possible. He wrote, Not good' across only one completed poem, so that I believe he meant me to use my judgment freely about the rest
"Some of the poems to be pub- lished this autumn date from the Shrusphire Lad' period.
Those who fear that much of value may be lost through the des- truction of some manuscripts will be glad to know that he left no unfinished poems or fragment which are of outstanding quality. It is true that a Yew single verses and beautiful phrases must be sa- crificed.
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"But I have felt it right to keep a few which seem to have com- pleteness in spite of brevity."
MANUSCRIPTS DESTROYED "Before my brother died he dir- ected that I should destroy all his prose manuscripts in whatever language, and permitted me. while not instructing me. to pub- Kah any poems ·which 1p- peared to me complete and not inferior to the average of
Mr. Housman will be able to give. the published poems. All other in the new volume one example of poems and fragments of verse were how his brother worked, and how to be destroyed.
he altered poems until he was "This is a great responsibility. for satisfied. There will be two ver- while I am anxious te. Include | sions of "one poem. A. E. left no nothing that would hurt my bro- indication of which he preferred. ther's reputation, I feel it would be Inscribed in stone above the hard for lovers of his work to be poet's ashes now interred under deprived of any, however,, minor in the north wall of Ludlow Church. character which are not interior are lines taken from "More to other published poems, also | Roema:" minor in character."
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Mr. Housman explained that his bi ther did not wish to publish any
more than “A Shropshire Lad" and
"Good-night. Ensured release, Imperishable peace,
Have there for yours."
The new volume will also include
"Last Poems, but during his last the verses written by the poet in years he accepted the wishes of 1925 for his funeral.
R.
After repealed reimands, he was discharged by Mr. E. Himsworth and he is to be sent to the China Mute Society. 94. Hah Po Street,
On being questioned by Traffic- Inspector L. A. Hurlow, of the Vehi- cular Ferry Company, the lad told him that he had a ticket, but that- it was left at home.
Inspector Hurlow took him to the Office, and found that the records did not bear defendant's name,
He then asked Inspector Hurlow to let him go,
In evidence, Fung Wah-hon told, the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday that someone else had signed his name on the ticket, and he did not kuow what the name was.
Mr. MacFadyen, (Magistrate): Who got your ticket?-I got it my- self, but I didn't know what name I signed.
Defendant added that he did not know the practice of obtaining tickets.
The defendant was fined $12.
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