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Repulse Bay Rescue

To his Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph,

Sir:--With reference to your repórt

in the "Telegraph," may I bo per- mitted to make a correction,

June 22, 1939.

PROSTITUTION CLOAK:

Description By Judge Of Guide Bureaux

A landlord and tenant case, during which remarks concerning

My friend and I were swimming the Hongkong Girl Guide Bureaux were made, was heard by Mr. somewhere near the raft, when our Justice R. E. Lindsell at the Summary Court yesterday. attention was drawn to the plight of a Chinese Indy and 0 struggling In the water. I went to gentleman the Basistance of the gentleman and my friend to the lady. At the time there was rather high sen running and my friend managed to help the lad to the shore, and 1, not. being a very strong swimmer, gave the ball to the Chinese gentleman.

D. BicCallum, was Kwok King-chan, day are the guides most frequently The plaintiff, represented by Mr. Mr. McCallum; What hour of the who claimed from Tom Kwal, a called for? woman, the first floor of 2, Stanley Street.

notice to quit on May 3 and although The defendant sald she received a she was to leave on June 1, she stil peupled the premises. The plain-

also claimed mesne profits, at $45 a month, from June 2 until the day possession was delivered.

Judgment was given in favour of

landford,

What happened then was that the Chinese got panicky, he held on to the ball with one arm and with the other he held my neck. Not being a the very strong swimmer 1 was soon luthe difficulty and then this Mr. Fung came along and tried to tow us in but without success, as the Chinese was holding on to me and the ball for

dear life.

By then I was beginning to lose conaciousness and the lifeboat came

along and picked up the Chinese gentleman, and whereas for myself, my eries

tenant for about five years. When Tam said she had been principal she first occupied the house the rent was $40. Tis was raised to $45 about August last year. reading After ship addressed to notice, His Lord- the defendant and sald.On the ground that you were a women's guide concern making a lot of noise on the

premises at night."

for help brought out i European gentleman who helped me to cling on to the boat until we reached shallower ground when I was flaked out of the water. Thanks to the

ald of this Europcar Rennels

and also to the foreign who gave me artificial respira- I might not have lived. After the stom all's well

Tam: About nine or 10 o'clock in the evenings mostly.

Yes.

That is the time business starts.~~

And it remains open until three four, five and six in the morning, Two o'clock in the morning.

Telephone in Use

And the

frequent u telephone there is in very

Some of the customers call on the premises for the girla? No, never.

Tam agreed that the girls were sometimes called to hotels, restaur ants, and other places.

How many

any girls are in this burenu Including altogether?-About five. myself but not my sister.

They are all young and vivacious girls, aren't they?-All of them are about 20

years of age,

gentlemen friend thanked the received. One of her cubicles had Chinese as a good class of business

concerned for their time ly ald and now I sign myself as be Ing grateful to them.

This letter is written to dispel any ingratitude on my part but to bring the true facts before you.

Ŏ. M. OMAR.

RELIEF FOR ORPHANS New Officials Elected By Hongkong Organisation

At the first business meeting of the new members of War Orphans' Association ot the Chinese Club yesterday Miss Irene Ho Tung was elected Director, with Mrs. Chen Hon-seng, Assistant Director.

Invitations were again Issued to the following Honorary Advisers: Sir Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, the Hon. Sir Shou- son Chow, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo und Mr. Au Boon-haw, wille newly invited to serve

as Honorary Advisers were Mme. Sun Yat-sen, Mrs. M, 15 Lo, Mme. T. V. Soong, Lady Ho Tung, Mme. H. H. Kung, Mine. C. C. Wu and Mrs. Li Shu-fan.

And they are at your premises to Tom said that after receiving the amuse themselves, somehow. I aug- notice she instructed

her sister

to gest that they play mahjong, have look for another place. Since she had lived at the house there had been no dances, they sing and they chat? complaint of noises, but when her

This class of business that you are sister moved in the complaints were carrying on, is it looked upon by the been sub-let to her sister, who con-er is it rather despised? I think it ducted the gulde bureau. Her sister is high class of business. moved on June 10:

I put

it do you that ull Chinese look upon it as a disreputable class of business.-If it is not a decent line of business there would not be so many of this sort of bureau in this Colony,

Given Up Business Tam explained that her sister had nut left the premises but had given up her business. The women who acted as guides were no more living on the premises,

His Lordship: That makes non-

-aense.

Tam: We came out very straight

His Lordship: Did you yourself assumed there was no need for me papers freely.

Tam: It is not a good line of look for new premises? No. Ibusiness people won't advertise in the to move as long as the noise was; His Lordship: This type of busi- abated.

Cross-examined by Mr. McCallum, tion.

ness is mainly a cloak for prostitu- Tom said plaintif occupied the floor above her. He lived there with a forward. family of about eight or nine per- Tam ogreed with His Lordship sans, including two grown-up daugh- that other similar businesses were Lers. Hok-hon, who was paying $20 astitution, but in her case

She had a sub-tenant, Lam more often than not disguised pro- month. She was terms with him,

not on very good genuine business.

Tam: Although we are married we Mr. McCallum: Has he complained do this kind of business. If it is about the noise which comes on, al-not straight forward, there would be most throughout the night, in the objections from our husbands. part of the premlacs occupied by Tan Sin-kwan said she was the you?--He did not make complaints sister of defendant. The Kwan Sin

me personally.

girl guide business March this year, at the defendant's premises,

Tam said the girl gulde business had been going on in the premises for about a month and half to two months.

It was

was started in

Other officials elected were: Secretaries, Mrs. Li Ta-chiu and

His Lordship: How did you manage Mrs. C. H. Kan: Child Welfare sub- Committee, Mrs. Man Wong and Mrs.

to find a place there? I approached Mr. McCallum then produced sev- the defendant and she suggested that T. Y. LI; Finance. Mrs. S. J. Chen eral Chinese newspapers in which I open the guide bureau. nnd Mrs. Ho Leung

Planning, Mrs. were advertisements S. F. Tan and Mrs. Wong Lan-ching

of girl guide Do you think it is a respectable Fublicity, Mra. S. P. Li and Mrs. Sablishments and on which photo-business for young married women?

graphis of the girls were printed,

-No. the newspaper produced. Kwan Sin bureau?-- No.

Tam said her photograph Was on You conduct the business in this She (defendant), managed it herself.

W. Ho; Transportation,

Mrs. Hu

Muk-lan and Mrs. Lu Al-yuen: Gen cral Affairs, Mrs. Alice Kwok Mrs, S. W. Ho.

and

LATE NEWS

LIMIT ON WITHDRAWALS

SHANGHAI, June 22.-Chinese banks, centrary to expectations, open- ed for limited trading nt 10 c'clock.

Withdrawals have been limited so that no depositor is now able to with- draw more than $500 per week- United Press.

THANET NOT TO LEAVE

The "Telegraph" understands that the British naval authorities have de» cided not to withdraw H.M.S. Thanet from Swatow for the time being.

HMS. Scout has arrived off the entrance to the Han River.

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the name of the bureau, but she denied that that was also the name His Lordship: She called you to under which she wished to be known say that you managed it. That is It was not her bureau. She advertised | not true?—Yes.

in the Chinese magazine produced in Judgment was then given for the Court and also extensively in Chi-landlord. Possesalon of the premises nese newspapers.

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