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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. ⠀⠀

SATURDAY,

OCTOBER

1985.

ONE BIG SMASH AFTER ANOTHER

...You'll See

MUNI

Let Loose a Blast of

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The stroon's

torrible aven-

gor turns his wrath on tho

keepers of o

man-made hall

TE

BLACK FURY

HER KISSES-

made him-demned kiny-redeemed him!

KAREN MORLEY

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LANTAU MURDER CASE

FIRST DEFENDANT ELECTS TO GIVE EVIDENCE Pun Kam-chol, who together with four others, Ho Wah, Ho Yau, Pun Tak and Lau Cheung, is charged be fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy,

with the alleged murder

of a Chinese doctor, Hau Wan-fal at Chuk Ko Wan village, Lantau Island, on September 2 last year, Kave evidence yesterday afternoon 'when the committal proceedings were con- tinued

The second, third and th fendants reserved their defence, after Mr. Schofield found they had a caso to answer, and the fourth defendant elected to give evidence from the witness box. The case was, however, udjourned until 2.30 p.in, on October 8 after the first defendant's evidence.

Falsely Accused

and

In the witness box, Pun Kam-chol ald he took no part in the murder of Han Wan-fai. He was falsely accused of the crime. He first came to Lantau Island about twelve years age with his wife and cultivated potatoes and und reared pigs. He get a

of some land from the deceased's son. After the murder, he got frightened and can away alone on the afternoon of the following day. He returned to Chuk Ko Wan on February 18, when' ho was taken ill and went to the Kwong Wah Hospital where he was arrested.

Defendant stated that on the night. of the murder he was at home, In bed as he was ill. He ran away because he did not know actually happened about the murder, and because before the murder son had been to the deceased's with a rice sifter, and he (defendant)

place was afraid he would be implicated through his son's visit. His son tohl him of the murder on, his return about 8 or 9 p.m., and said he saw the corpse and that no one else was there. He appeared frightened.

Witness Retracts Statements

ying

what

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Witness then retracted his state. ment, and said that the deceased was Hot nurdered when his son visites! the place. He made a mistake when he stated his son saw the Ilis non was, however, there

corpse. when the murder was committed #ind the man killed. When his

SAV Bon in- formed him of the murder, he left the house that night, and he did not stay at home as he had stated previously. According to his Tung Kwal committed the murder,

other men Hoveral

(witness) did

did not quarrel with the present were deceased before his death, Bur had he' any grudge against the deceased, He was advised to leave home by some Iloklos, He could not explain why the widow of the murdered man had stated she had seen him at the

and

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A spokesman of the Nanking BLADES

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Foreign Office told newspaper representatives yesterday that the Foreign Office had received full report concerning the Sino- Japanese controversy at Swatow over the tax on imported rice, from Mr. Kan Chin-hou, the Foreign Ofllee's special dclégate in Canton. The dispute wa entirely local incident, which Mr. Kan Chin-hou had been instructed to settle with the Japanese officials in Canton,

'It

While expressing willingness to settle the controversy, the Chinese officials are maintaining a firm stand that the special rice tax, which was first inaugurated

in Canton, despite strong protest of Chinese rice firms, must be collected in Swatow, which is part of Kwangtung:

A Swatow report says that the newly appointed native Customs Superintendent of Swatow and Chiuchow districts, Mr. Chang Kang-fat, hopes to find a satis factory solution of the dispute.

Sulyunn Kuomintang

work

THAT

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