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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

MAY » 17, 1988.

10 YEAR'S SENTENCE ON TROOPER

"No Clemency For Gangsters

Frederick George Clark,

SPACE IS

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British television engineers-Britain is the only country to have a regular service-have conquered the science's greatest problern, space.

The Television Committee in 1935 said reception would be confined to 25 miles of the transmiter.

Tests in the last few weeks Have made even the experis gasp. Perfect reception has been corded 110 miles AWDY from Alexandra Palace.

re-

DRAMATIC SEQUEL TO SHOOTING AT POLICE OFFICERS

hours."

on record their

"IT cannot be too clearly un-guilty few boys of his nge could derstood in this country have pucked more violence into 24 that the methods of the gangster The foreman of the jury said that and the gunman are not going they wished to put to be tolerated," sald Mr. Justice appreciation of the courage of the Asquith, passing the following police, and Mr. Justice Asquith stated that he would emphatically endorse sentences at the Old Bailey on

that. Be thought that the four the two troopers of the 12th officers had acted with conspicuous Lancers charged with shooting gallantry. at police officers-

Andrew Vanderberg, aged 37 -ten years' penal servitude.

Reginald Eddie Kaye, aged 16 -three years in a Borstal in stitution.

A 21-years-old van boy, Frederick George Clark, charged with demands ing money with menaces, was found not guilty and discharged.

VANDERBERG'S RECORD Divisional Det. Inspector Harris sald that Vanderberg, a single man, was born In Spitalfields, where his relatives, including his bind father, stili lived. He received a suspended sentence in Ontario, Canada, In June 1919 for theft. In August 1020 Van- derberg received a further suspended the sentence at Saskatchewan for theft of bullets.

In September 1921 he received a life sentence at Saskatoon, Canada, for shooting with intent to murder. in that cose he was robbing a bank and shot at and wounded two police- moko men

endeavouring to while his escape.

Sentencing Kaye, Mr. Justice As- quith said: "You could be awarded I shall take a chance, n flogging although I could give you mprison- ment.

Consider yourself extremely

He was released from prison In icky."

For Vanderberg. it was pleaded Canada in February 1937, after serv- that he was an addict of a Mexleaning nearly 10 yours of his sentence. drug marihunnu producing wild He was then deported to England, Jens and desires, He was influenced arriving here on March 2, 1937, 80 by this drug when he held up the that he had been here for a year cars and shot al police officers, and before his arrest had also taken it in 1921, when he shot two policemen in Canadu.

He went to Canada when he was 14, and at the age of 16 enlisted In the Expeditionary Force. He served in France from June 1917, and was transferred to the base hospital suf- fering from trench fever,

Andrew Vanderberg (top) and Reginald Eddle Kaye.

EMPIRE NEWS

AUSTRALIA NEEDS

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Sydney.

Immediate steps are being taken to begin recruiting the 3,000 extra mon needed for all the defence services during the next three years under the £43,000,000 programme.

Britain's purchase of the aircraft carrier Albatross to offset the two cruisers to be bought from the British cost of the Navy will reduce the cruisers to £3,000,000, Federal cir- eles to-day suggest the possibility of London loan to cover this raising a expenditure.

is

It is pointed out that the whole current financial year's surplus estimated at £2,000,000, which earmarked for the inauguration national Insurance and some other items.

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When the Air Force teaches the full strength of 17 squadrons under the the new scheme it will be strongest oversens air force in the Empire. Canberra will become one of the strongest airports.

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Darwin will be prepared to commodate a naval squadron ns sub- sidiary to Singapore, but it is proposed at present to station Aus- tralian warships there. The southern ports are regarded as the Common- wealth's most vulnerable area.

Mr. Lyons, the Federal Prime Minister, stated to-dny that no big tax increases were likely. India

n

MUNITIONS FACTORY

SCHEME

Calcutta.

It is now officially confirmed that big munitions factory In to br erected at Jubbulpore. Central Pro- vinces, to make India independent of Imported shells and small arms.

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KAYE'S VIOLENCE Suming-up, Mr. Justice Asquith

A site in the centre of India has had pleaded said that Vanderberg

In May 1918 he rejoined his bat-

been chosen on the ground of tow quilly to counts se numerous and

vulnerability and convenience of dis- grave us to Justify the prosecutiontalion in France, In the following

tribution. Aza Abandoning the other charges June he was admitted to hospital,

having been buried by a shell.

Recent investigations into India's Ekco, gnist him,

IN AN Sold an official of Messrs.

lack ASYLUM

of adequate coust defences in Dealing with Kaye's plea that he

result shortly in war time will television manufacturers: "We have!

The Canadian police records show- dominated and frightened by

comprehensive scheme of urmaments had perfect results at Birmingham, waS

in Westminster at strategle points and a consider- Leamington and Evesham. Last week Vanderberg, he said: "I don't knowed that he was for a period In an

Do you sylum in 1918. Inquiries show that Kless merchant's how Kaye impressed you. we succeeded at Bournemouth."

Another point in the Television Rethink he was a boy easily scared? the asylum was now pulled down, Bridge-road at a wage of £2 1s. 6d. uble expansion of the Royal Indian

a timid, and no records could be found as

In November last year he Navy discussion on the Bren un n week. was in port was that hills would interfere Was his bearing that of

helpless erea to why and how long he

joined the Army, giving his age us with results, but at Evesham-where shrinking, sensitive,

Your view of this will not be the asylum.

posted to the 12th in direct ture? 090ft, high Fish Hill was in

After returning to England he ob- 27. He was line four miles away-no distortion uninfluenced by the fact that taking

the charges to which he has pleaded toned work as a warehouseman at Lancers and was described by his try or interference was found.

commanding officer as a good soldier who rapidly adjusted himself to Army ways,

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Kaye was born at Shrewsbury and In 1935 was bound over there for six cases of shop and store breaking. In 1936 he was bound over for twe years for shop breaking.

The

the House of Commons has the greatest interest In military circles all over India. After exhaustive tests, the Indian authorl- iies last year rejected the Bren in favour of the Vickers Berthier gun. Canada

LONG RANGE ARMS POLICY

Ottawa.

Mr. 1. Mackenzle, Dominion Minis- 1er for Defence, opening the debate the Defence Estimates in

When employed at a works, Kaye took a dummy revolver there and tried to get its barrel bored with a view to it becoming an effective on weapon. At the same time, he was carrying a dagger and a knife.

the

of Commons, said that, a House "long-range" armament policy had been perfected to preserve Canadian lines, ports and trade routes

the

His conduct had been described as const unsatisfactory. It was said that hef from aggressors,

stated that was not trustworthy; he was full of

Mr. Mackenzie promises and nearly always dis-

view of the largest group of Cana- appointed. All methods had been tried to make him honest and truth-dians was that Canada should refuse ful, and it was found that corporal to accept in advance the view that when Great Britain was at war Cana- pualsliment touched him most.

da was also at war, or that Canada was bound to take like action when- ever the League of Nations ordered the imposition of sanctions.

KAYE'S BOASTING Kaye's commanding ofeer had said that in his first six months Kaye's character and work were very satis- fuctory, and he had every possibility of making a good soldier.

Recently he had had a minor

military punishment for riding a War Department cycle without authority, and that was followed by eight days' detention for sleeping at his post while on sentry duty. The com manding officer was of the opinion But that punishment might have caused him to be disgruntled.

The estimules total £6,000,000, compared with 27,200,000 last year.

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GAOL FOR JOURNALIST,

Edmonton.

Alberta is aghast at the "Moscow trial" staged by the Legislature which sentenced Mr. Don Brown, of the Edmonton Journal, to prison for the rest of the session for an alleged unfair

of the Social report members speeches in Parliament, "His expression of regret for this Mr. Unwin, the Social Credit Whip. action was only temporary. police court had to check him for

At the

who was recently released from boasting to another juvenile prisoner prison for libel, sat on the Committee of the injuries he had caused to of Privileges which found Mr. Brown Sergeant Rackham. His expressions guilty.

were rather disgusting. In view of

his previous conduct one cannot very respectfully subscribe to any sugges-to him.

He rolled them in tobacco,

tion that he was entirely dominated and smoked them in cigarettes. by Vanderberg,"

Mr. Llewellyn (for Vanderberg)

*LIKE A FOOL"

"On the night of these crimes,

then sold that he had some questions Vanderberg had come off duty in the to usk Kaye, who said that he was evening, washed and changed, and, frightened of Vanderberg, because of having this drug with him, he smoked his unusual manner. If he had not it. It was only after he had got into known that he could not have been a state of exhilaration that the ques- drinking he might have come to the lion of deserting had over arisen, conclusion that Vanderberg had had

"It did arise, and after arising, it

a cortan amount of drink, or that was in this excited state that this he was very, very tired.

series of crimes took place. He had "The explanation of this astound a supply with him and, like a fool, ing serles

of crime,"

Mr.he continued to moke 1" said Llewellyn, "is that Vanderberg had

Vanderberg stood rigidly to atten- been drugging himself with a drug tion as sentence was passed. known as Marihuana, It is a drug which in this country is almost un "After listening to what has been known, but in Mexico and the said by your counsel, I have been southern States of the United States trying hard to find any ground of It is well known. It in one of the extenuation and Mr. Justice Asquith. or excuse for what you have done,"

The

only extenuation put forward The drug, which was somewhat

that you did it under the influence akin to India hemp, when it was at a drug, which affords no excuse at Inken acted chiefly on the central all. The effect on society is exactly nervous system and gave exhilara- the same, whether you committed tion, excitement, and "hallucinations, these crimes under the influence of

"It la solzed by the Customs of the drug or not, Dalted Sinter, and when it is found it shooting to murder and given life “You were convicted in Canada of is destroyed. Vanderberg tells mo

curses of that country."

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that he unfortunately first took it imprisonment. You have now plead when he was in Canada and in the ed guilty to a succession of appalling United States. From time to time crimes, for more than one of which he had friends of his still out you could be sent to ponol servitude the States, who, when they wrote for life. This kind of crime will enclosed leaves of it in their letters receive no clemency at kil

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