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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937.

COURT CASES IN BRIEF

CHARCOAL

MURDER CASE

Evidence Called In Kowloon Court

To Kwai, aged 26, female, who was employed at the Cheung On Metal Works, was charged with the larceny of 53 pounds of bras plates valued at $32 from the shop. She was fined $10 or two weeks' The hearing of the Charcoal imprisonment by Mr. E H. Wil-Murder case was continued before lams at the Central Magistracy Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, in which yesterday.

Chul Yuk Fai 24, draughtsman. and surveyor employed at the Public

13. Works

Department, charged with the murder of a wo- man named Cheung Sam Koo. aged 27, on the third floor of No. 323 Reclamation Street. Eight more further witnesses were heard in evidence.

Appearing on remand before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday Wong Sze, female, was fined $2,500 or six months' impri sonment for the possession of 8,500 heroin pills.

Mr. M. A. da Siva appeared for the defence. He pleaded guilty to the charges and asked his Worship to take a lenient view in this case, saying that the principals involved

Two

rickshaw pullers gave evidence to the effect that they pulled the accused and the deceas

in these tranactions took advaned to the above address after they had hired the rickshaws in Lal- tage of these, unemployeds.

chikok Road....

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Chan Wun, master of the Woon

his

"Chan Kan, aged 17, was bound over in the sum of $25 for sixat leather suitcase shop, said. months when he appeared before that the deceased had been Mr. K. Keen at the Central Ma-concubine, Kving at 400 Portland. gistracy yesterday charged with Street floor, and he had allowed having assaulted L. X. Costa; ticket her $45 a month. The last the inspector of the Star Ferry Co. he saw her was on February 28 at "with a pair of pliers.

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The Po-Kwal, aged 24' appeared

the above address."

WOMAN'S STORY Wong Lal Chan, married wo-

before Mr. K. Keen at the Cen-man, residing at 83 Lalchikok

tral Magistracy yesterday оп а charge of larceny of a purse be longing to Chi Yee-hot whom he knew for marly years.

RIFLE

HONG KONG

ASSOCIATION

Third Day's Results

The results of the Hong Kong

Rifle Association shooting com petitions which took place yester- day on the Kowloon Ranges are as follows:

Rapid Firing Class "A" 11 Cup-Cpl. Spranklin (R. A. o. C.) 23.

2 Cup Sgt. Armstrong (R, W. F. 22

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The undermentioned, who sach scored 21. will fire off for Places" 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 on" "A" Range at 10 am to-day:-Sgt Lodder. (R. W. F.). Fus. Burton (R. W. FJ). C.S.M. Fleming (Seaforthis), L/C Baile

(R. U. R). Cp Highame (R. U. R.), L/C, O'Hare (R. U. R.), Rapid Firing Class "B" · 1. Cup--Fus. Jones (20) "(R. W. F.) 24

19.

2. Cup-Rin. Baker (R. U. RA

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3. Cup Rin J. J. Stewart (R U. R.) 17...

Snapshooting Class "A"

1. Cap.S.M. Fleming (8ea- farths) 25.

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Sgt. Mannell (R: Marines).

Snapshooting Class "B"

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1. Cup Rin. J. J. Stewart (R. J. R. 23.

The undermentioned, who each scored 22, will fire off for places 2 and 3 on "A" Range at 10a.m. to-day: Pte. (41) McDonald (Sea- forths), Rip, Finlay (R. U. R.),

Deliberate 500 Yards Class “A”-

1. Cup-L/8. Gardener," R.N. (Capetown) 24.

The undermentioned, who each Road. gave evidence that on February 28 she was staying at 323

scored 24, will fire of for places 2, 3, and 4 on "A" Range at 10 Reclamation Street, second floor

am, to-day:8gt: Lodder (R. W and to her knowledge the "third). Cpl. Butterfeld (R. A. O. C.), Defendant had been paying fre- floor was vacant at that time. quent visits to Chi, and on" Mon-

Witness continued: "My hus- day last defendant visited com-band and mother-in-law" went out plainant again. On leaving he some time before 2 p.m. and I was took away the purse, containing left with my sister-in-law at $72.20 and a pawn llċket for a jade home. I was in my cubicle when and gold ring.

I heard cries of "save life" twice about half an hour after my hus- Chung Hung, 27 years old. un-band had left. The cries camé employed appeared before Mr. E. from a woman in the passage of Himsworth at the Kowicon Magis- the third floor." I went on to the tracy yesterday on a charge of verandah and looked around and stealing a gold plated pencil from saw no-one and so went back to Mr. M Ramzan a time-keeper at my cubicle. Some time later I the Alhambra Theatre. Defen- heard the noise of something be- dant, who denied the charge, was ing dragged along the floor of the sentenced to str weeks' hard flat above, 20 or 25 minutes after labour.

I heard the shouts. Later I heard steps of someone coming up the Chun Cheong appeared before stairway, and I went to see what Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kow- was, happening. I saw a loon Magistracy yesterday for the carrying a load of charcoal and larceny of a bicycle on March 27 accompanied by another man who from Chung Kiran. The defenséemed to be directing him. Very dane was arrested at Reclamation soon afterwards I saw smoke com- Street The bleycle had been ing through the lattice work from so'd to a man for 84 and its value the third floor which was followed was $5. His Worship fined the

by a smell of teak wood being defendant 250 or three weeks burnt. I looked up and saw a hard labour.

man dressed in European clothes, and identified him as the son of the owner of the building."

She then identified the accusedlined by its own Committee on as the man she saw.

Physical Education, published in At this stage the hearing was April, 1938, has oriously been of adjourned till noon, to-day,

Ng Kong. 30 years old, appeared before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for the larceny of 'a gold ear-ring from Li Chiu of 39 Argyle Btreet on April 6. The defendant was arrested by two fireman near the Mongkok Fire Brigade on hearing the shouts of the woman. The complainant said that while she was walking along Argyle Street towards Homuntin the defendant came up from behind and pulled the ear-ring off her ear. She

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THEFT FROM BARRACKS

Southby, R. N.

THREAT TO HISTORIC

GREEN

Home Of Cricket För 250 Years

A scheme to widen London-

valve the sacrifice of a strip of road, Mitcham, which would in-

the historic Mitcham Green, has roused B storm of pro-

2. Cup-P. O, (Cumberland) 24.

The undermentioned will shoot off for places 3, 4 and 5 in Match 3-Deliberate (Class "A") at 10 a.tn. to-day: L/C Aberdein (Bentest Yorths) 23, L/C. McNaughton (Seaforths) 23. Pte. Cranston (Seaforths) 23.

Deliberate 500 Yards Class "B"

1. Cup-Rin. Kinnon (R. UR) 23.

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2. Cup Rin. Stewart (R. U. R.) 23.

throughout the borough and surrounding districts,

Headed by the ancient.Mitcham Cricket Club and the local Cham- ber of Commerce, about 30" local organisations are banding together to fight the proposal, which now awaits Ministry of Transport

pondent..

3. Cup-Pte. Jones Seaforths) sanction, writes a Home corres-

Widening at this point is part The Inter-Unit Cup (Agr. 680)

of a scheme, estimated to cost 1. 2nd R. W. Fusiliers...462 2. 1st R. V. Rifes

about $150,000, which would in-

.460

3. 1st Seaforth Highlanders 449 Crease the width of London-road 395 from Tooting-junction to Mitcham

station.

4. Royal Marines

5. HM.6. Cumberland and

Capetown......

6. R. A. S c.

demolishing new road

"About £80,000 is to be spent in .326 239 compensation" for

buildings along the boundary

Decimal Target (300 yds.) (A.M.) Sgt. Cheshire, R. A. O. C. (39)...

Cpl. McCausland. R. U. R.' (37)...$3 The strip proposed to be taken

Egg Pool (500 yds.) Cap. Kenyon, R. W. F. C.QMS. Price, R. W. F. L/C. Ganly, R. U. Rides

Revolver Pool

H.M.S.

Lieut. Wilson R. U. R. (37)...3 is between 14ft and 16ft. wide. Lieut. Wilson, R. U. R. (36)...1 along the whole length of the Lieut. Ratcliffe, R. U. R. (38)...81 green. It is also proposed to cut

down about 20 Egg Pool (300 yds.)

trees, some of

A. 8. Stevens,

which are fine old elma. V. L Cumberland, $18.

DANGER TO SPECTATORS

tcham Green has been home of cricket for more than 250 ......$12

12 years, and many County and some Teaf players received their early training there," Mr. R. 8. Culmer, Capt. Gwyder-Jones (RWF) $1.00 Hon. Becretary of the Cricket Sgt. Solis (RWF)

$1.00 Club, said..

50 · "The proposed scheme" "will.

shorten still further our bour- daries, which are already easy for. class batsmen, and will endanger the thousands of spectators who line the Green on Saturday after-

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Sgt. Meeks (Seaforths) Result of Tie Shoot off for 2nd Place in Team Revolver

Competition.

R. W. Fusiliers Seaforth Hrs. (A)

233 pts, 108 pts

DANGERS OF THE "KEEP

FIT" CAMPAIGN

Physical Training Can Never Be A

Substitute For Adequate Nutrition

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"Destruction of the trees along one border of the field will spoll the beauty of one of the few re- maining true 'village greens' near London."

Among objections to the scheme made by Mitcham residents are: That it will speed up traffic to the danger of the public; that it will beneût only "through" traffic.

of mostly consisting

pleasure seekers on their way to the coats; that congestion occurs only

The medical profession is deeply ly can be claimed that physical during the week-ends in the interested in the Government's fitness, in the words of the White summer; and that the Green has scheme for physical training, and, | Paper, "has a vital part to play been preserved at its own expense indeed, the British Medical Asso in promoting, a healthy mind and by the Cricket Club. ciation claims that the policy out- human happiness."

great service to the experts respon- sible for many of the details out- lined the recent White Paper (Crid. 5384), writes a Home, medi- cal correspondent.

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Factors which have led the Borough Council to design : the scheme in Its present form were explained to me by Councillor W. Dalton, Chairman of the Highways Committee,

But there are undoubtedly dan gers, and the medical profession has insisted on more than one oc casion that physical training can never be a substitute for adequate

"fully sympathise with the nutrition Opinions may differ on

objections," he said. "There can the degree "of under-nutrition in

band member of the Council who the country. as a whole and, in-wishes to cut into the Green, but Clearly the improvement of the deed, so long as standards are so we must consider the cost of the nation's health is a normal part of difficult to agree upon, it is un-

alternative. I Sa 'afraid extra the present-day policy of preven-likely that all sides will be satis- chased him and gave the alarm Then Articles Pawned that too much must not be expect agreed that there are some sec

tive medicine, but it is equally clear fed. On the other hand, it is compensation would cost far more And he was finally arrested by the firemen who came to her "as- sistance: Inspector Rodgers asked for a remand of 24 hours which was granted by His Worship.

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Lul Po. 85 years old, appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge of stealing: 75 feet of fre hose from the Public Works Department store at Waterloo Road, on April 4. Inspector J. Forrest prosecuted. The defen- dant was fined 850 or two months

hard labour.

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Lol Hol, aged 41, of 20, Hollywood Road, who was charged with car- nal knowledge of a giri Li Ko, aged 10, was discharged when he appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday

on remand.

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Ho Man and Chan Kam were both committed for trial at the next Bessions for the possession of 39,330 heroin pills and 165 ounces

Five charges of larceny of clothing from the Victoria, Bar- racks, and the pawning of same, were preferred against Wong Ták- fal, a 18-year-old unemployed. who

among

than £8,000. Some people put it ́as high as £20,000 to £30,000,

ed of physical training; and there | tions of the population who are are possible dangers it excessive not getting enough of the right and Mitcham cannot afford such

expenditure. exercise is encouraged

sort of food. Physical training for

It 13 extremely doubtful certain groups of the population. such people before their dietetic

What. In fact, can exercise do needs are satisfied will be likely to whether the Ministry and Surrey for health? The scientific infor- result in strained heart muscle County Council will give us grants

was sentenced, to total imprimation available to answer this and possibly alarming faints and large enough to face such com-

ment of eight weeks by Mr. E. H. williams at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

Det-Set. Allan said that invest!- gations were made at pawnshops and word was left to one of them where the clothing had been pawn ed, telling the shop assistants to detain any persons who came to redeem them.

question is not as extensive as collapses. The anaemic middle-pensation." might be wished. Of special Inter-aged woman needs "treatment" A mass meeting of, protest will est to the medical profession is before exercise and at the opposite probably be held shortly in the the statement that the proposer end of the scale, so to speak the borough.. National College of Physical Tram-over-weight business ZOOM must

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.- But-ell disease is not due to bac-

terial attack, and it is particularly

ing will include among its activit¡ take great care not to plunge too fitness, but rather to the latest tes the investigation of problems enthusiastically into exertion to serum treatment for the disease. connected with the physiology of which his whole bodily machinery physical training.

British has long been unaccustomed. Medical Association's carimittee had also strongly urged the im On April 6, defendant came withportance of research. the pawn tickets to redeem the clothing and was detained and handed over to the police,

a sum of $4.50, which was found on hig person, was ordered to be repaid to the complainants.

Central Magistracy yesterday of pink mass at No 58, Queen's morning for possession of polson Road West, when they appeared on under Section 8 of the Pharmacies remand before Mr. K. Keen at the and Folson Ordinance of 1916. Central Magistracy yesterday.

.Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant - Mr MJ. Abbott, Assistant | Crown Solicitor, said the poison Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, assist was a preparation of ephedrine ed by B. R. O. Grimmitt..

known by the trade name of Rhin Itar The matter was regarded seriously as it was apparently the growing habit of drug-stores in the Colony to handle these poisons without troubling about the ques- tion of a licence.,'.

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Company,

Ajzyk Sypliki, broker, a native of Poland, was charged before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday with failing to report his change of address to the po- Hice within one week. He admitted A. R. Buffad, representing the the offence, and said he did not defendant

pleaded know it was necessary that he guilty should report personally to the po- The case was adjourned for one lice. Acting Sub-Inspector Ed-week wards prosecuted. A the of $15 ] Three similar, summons against was imposed.

Loxley and Company and eight against the Yuen On Drug Com- Banker and Company were sum- | pany," were also såjourned for a moned Before Mr. R. Keen the week.

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A further point is that just as in preventing or postponing the physical training cannot be a sub- other great group of mortal enem- stitute for adequate food, so itles the degenerative diseases The effect of exercise is to pro-must not allow those who prac- that physical Atness can be ex- duce the most efficient type of tise it to forget ordinary rules of pected to help "Man is as old as body chemistry: Essentially, the common-sense hygiene. Microbes his arteries, said the celebrated final burning up of food takes are extraordinarily iftle impressed Professor William Osler, and the place in the presence of oxygen, by the physical fitness of those stress and strain of modern life and in the microscopical cells of they attack and too much must not have tended to increase the rate which every organ in the body is be expected of the "keep-at" cam- at which man's circulatory ap- composed "an adequate supply of Ipaign as regards the diminution of paratus wears out. It is essentially oxygen from the blood is the surest those diseases due to bacterial in a modified state of cell-chemia- preventive against poisonous pro agenta. For example, it is notori try that degeneration of arterles cesses and the accumulation of ously common for those returning and other structures arises and, as poisonous products. The results from winter sports, presumably in already mentioned, physical fitness of slow starvation of oxygen are a much atter state than at other in the general sense also means a just that combination of headache, times of the year, to succumb to "Atter" state of even the smallest muddy. complexion, easy fatigue, the germ of sore throat and the cell of the body:

Angina pectoris, heart disease in poor digestion, and general e-common "cold" during or shortly

later life, "strokes," apoplexy, pressed outlook on life which is after the journey home.

Not only is Ditness, in the purely softening of the brain, certain characteristic of the physically unfit.

physical sense, no definite guartypes of paralysis, and even pos-. Muscular exercise, correct use of antee against infection, but the sibly that great scourge, the chest muscles to secure results in diseases of bacterial ori- can all be fairly classed as disorders efficient respiration, a proper gin are not always parellel with of degefferation. It is not unrea- stance and a regular accustoming the state of physical fitness of the sonable to hope that the keep-ft. of the heart and circulation to patient. The poor outlook for the campaign will lessen their in deal with emergency calls, are all athletic type of policeman with cidence upon the population. Re- ways in which physical education pneumonia used to be the classical searches into the physiological can be relied upon to secure example cited in medical text-effects of exercise; moreover, may "tness" of the smallest cells of the books, and although to day this demotistrate more exact ways in body. The value of training the has somewhat changed for the bet which special varieties or physical co-ordination of muscles and brain ter, the improvement is not due to education may prevent special dis needs no emphasis, and it certain an increased degree of physical orders.

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