1939-03-20 — Page 36

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

20-Year-Old

March 20, 1939.

Razor Alleged Clue QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

To Missing $100 Banknote

A NOVEL IDENTIFICATION parádé took place at Shoungshui polico station last month when Eu Yuk-sim, a 48-year-old widow, claimed to be able to recognise a $100 banknote which had been stolen from hor by armed robbers a fow days before.

Japan

Leopards Escape In Tokyo

The story was related at the| Criminal Sossions this morning

when Man Ying and Cheung 23 Warships

Kuen stood their trial for thei robbery before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, and Jury.

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Mr. J. B. Prentis, who conducted the Crown case, said that Eu's but at Sheungshui Wal was raided by Avel men in the early hours of January 29| und n quantity of money, jewellery and household goods stolen,

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TWENTY-ONE warships from the China Station, jelned by Vic. Tokyo, Mar. 19, The following morning Eu set out H.M.S. Manchester, the flagship, Alarm and excitement gripped the along the Un Long highway with and other vessels of the East centre of the Metropolis yesterday Chinese detective and pointed when reports spread that fierce Man, whom she had not known be- Indies Station, have animals were let loose in a circus fire fore, ne one of the men involved. concluded participation neur Koda, Tokyo's traffle centre. On him was found a $100 Hongkong manoeuvres off Singapore.

Pollee and fire-brigade squads as discovered.

banknote and at his home a razor was

From Hongkong, the first arrivals well as riembers of Young Men's)

were the destroyers Decoy, Duncun, Associations were called out to pre-teased but Evo minutes later

After questioning Man was re- Delight, Duchess and Diamond and vent disturbances, and when the fire,

the the submarines Regent, Rover, Pan- was extinguished the animals were woman reported that the razor was dors, Rorqual, Parthian, Proteus and oll captured,

one of a pair which she owned and Orpheus. The submarines were did not know then was missing.

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the Shibada Circus was giving a per- and ice party thereupon set out/companied by their mother ship

brought Man

back.

With abou! 700 people attending. formance in the central ward of the

The warships put out to sea on A few days later, continued Mr.Thursday, Joining the China Station Metropolis on Saturday afternoon, Prentis, Eu picked out when fre suddenly broke out near at

Man flagship, H.M.S. Kent, and H.M.S. An Identification parade the animals cages.

Suffolk, Falmouth, Daring, Odeon, Sheungshul police station and a test Otus, Westcott and the aircraft car the $100 note as the one stolen from. was made whether she could identify rier Eagle,

her.

Two leopards, u camel, eight mon keys, and ten dogs were understood to have escaped as the flames spread.

The note was put with seven other Intercepting traffic in the affected similar $100 notes and handed to Eu, arca, police and fire-fighting forces who, after a few minutes, selected dung a cordon around the compound the one which she claimed had been and succeeded in driving the wild animals into their enges.-Domel,

LOCAL JUDGES Qualifications to Be

Made Uniform

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The draft of a short Bill to amend the Supreme Court and Full Court Ordinances is gazetted.

were

Manoeuvres, in which Eagle's brood of warplanes participated, were car- ried out until yesterday, when the warships returned to Singapore, fences of Singapore fortress

During the exercises the fixed de-

stolen from her. This was the ane tested from the sea and air. found on Man.

The two Commanders-in-Chief, IDENTIFIED BANKNOTE Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble and Corroborating Mr. Prentis's out- Vice-Admiral J. F. Somerville, par- line, Eu told the court that she iden- ticipated in the manoeuvres aboard, tifled her note as a smali "ỰH had their respective flagships, H.M.S. been worn in the note where it had Kent and HLM.S. Manchester. been folded in the middle. She also recognised the Chinese character tiu of the nute and the character chiun written in running hand on the top

written in orthodox style in thin middle.

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It is explained that the establish-found in Man's home was hers.

Eu also claimed that the razor The weekly meeting of the Hong- ment of a Colonial Legal Service, the

kong Group of the Peace Pledge members of which are liable to transfer from one Colony to another, makes it important that the pro- visions of the law relating to the qualifications of Judges should be uniform throughout the

Colonial prises F. C. Mow Fung (foreman), Bookshop at 5.30 p.m., and is open Empire,

Ng Chau-wal, J. A. Pereira, Omor

to the public. el Areuili, L. Gaddi, Fung Tsun and Chan Wel-yeuk.

virs," she said. "Part of the edge Wednesday by the Rev. WGB TWO MORE DAYS! TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

le bent and there is only one smalt Ream, his subject being "Pacifism part of the blade that is serviceable," and the Church". The meeting will

The jury hearing the case

be held as usual in the Challenge

To promote such uniformity the Secretary of State, by a circular despatch dated July 29, 1938, hasi requested that an early opportunity be taken to arrange for a provision in the local statute low requiring that no person shall be appointed to be a. Judge of the Supreme Court unless: (i) he is qualified to practise as an advocate in a Court in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or some other part of His Majesty's dominions having unlimited jurisdiction either

The hearing is proceeding.

com-

He Wed The Queen's Niece

"Love in a cottage" does not make the ideal marriage, according to Mr. Kenneth Harrington.

in civil or criminal matters, and

(i) he has been qualified for not: less than five years to practise as an At the age of 20, he was a junior advocate or solicitor in such a Court.sistant in the Diplomatic Service, The B is intended to make the had been engaged for four years to

the Queen's necessary changes.

пісе. Miss Cecilia Bowes-Lyon.

STANLEY GAOL HEAD Lieut.-Cmdr. Harrison Takes up New Post

The appointment of Lieut.-Comdr. Wilfrid Hugh Lane Harrison, R.N. (Ret.) as Superintendent of Hong- kong Prison, Stanley, was notified in the Government Gazette on Satur- day. Lieut.-Cmdr, Harrison arrived In the Colony and assumed duty on March 15.

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SL, John's Cathedral Women's Fellowship are holding a Bridge and Mahjong Drive on Thursday, March 23, commencing at 3 p.m. Admis- slon Is $1. Including tea. Tables need not be made up beforehand.

Miss Phyllis W. Brown has been appointed Principal of Belillos Public School.

Mr. G. W. Sewell, of Messrs. Robertson, Wilson & Co., Ltd. has been transferred from the French Hospital, Causeway Bay, to the War Memorial Hospital at the Peak,

Two weddings took place before Mr. They broke off the engagement be- Marriages, at the Registry on Satur

J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of cause they could not afford to marry day. Mr-Wong Yum-sai-fitter at They waited for nearly two years. Kowloon Docks, married Miss Shi He works in the City with the King-hing, teacher, of 15 Matauwer British Metal Corporation. "I llel not think it fair to her to

Road, Kowloon, the witnesses being: when I was in a junior position Messrs. Shi Ka-hock and Hui Kwok Now I'm glad we waited," he said.

sum: and Dr. Choong Ka-khey, | To their friends the re-engagement Siu Yim-ling, of 23 Bonham Road, medical practitioner, married Miss and marriage was no surprise.

marry

WAS IN STOCKHOLM The bride is 27. She is the oldest doughter of Lord Glamis, a brother of the Queen and heir to the Eart of Strathinore, and lives at East Grinstead, Sussex.

Hongkong,

NEW COUNCIL MEMBER

Reuring from the Royal Navy. in

His Excellency the Governor has i 1032, Lieut. Cmdr. Hurrison

been pleased to appoint Mr. W. N. spent The bridegroom is the youngest Thomas Tam to be temporarily an two and a half years in the Prisons son of the late Judge Edward Har-Unofelel Member of the Legistative Department in England, and during rington, a county court Judge. From Council, in the place of the Hon. Dr. the past four years had been attached 1030 to 1932 he was hon. attache to Li Shu-fan. who is temporarily absent to the Prisons Department in Kenya the British Legation in Stockholm. Colony.

from the Colony. At the age of 11, she was brides- The Superintendent of Stanley maid at the wedding of the King and Prison is a new post recently created. Queen at Westminster Abbey.

ber of the Traffic Board in place of

Mr. Tam is also appointed a mem-:

the Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam, resigned.

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