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Child Gagged, Killed Dramatic Escape Of MOULDED In Mongkok Cockloft George Of Hellenes

FROM PAGE ONE

deceased girl in the street and gave her $1 with some instructions. Some days later, the relative met Chlu Sin- ki and told him what she had done with the money. When Chiu got home, ho asked Accused what he had done with the dollar and Accused replied that he had spent it.

A Scuffle

Something of a scuffle occurred bo-

tween them, and Accused left the cockloft. As he was about to leave the house, Chiu called him back. Accused returned, Bratched Chiu's spectacles, grabbed him by the throat and

pushed him against a wall. They were separated and Accused left the house. From that day until April 9, Chiu Sha-kt said that Accused never spoke to him สา he assumed that Accused was

angry.

FROM PAGE ONE

Its children with exemplary valour against the threat of slavery.

RUBBER QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA BUCKETS

"We are convinced that it is in the interests of the whole Grock

Another "now use" for rub- nation that our lawful Hoverrument ber, and a fresh avenue of em should continue to function in clos- ployment for local labour-that est collaboration with the British is the official verdict on rubber Government and share with the gal- buckets for conservancy pur lant British

people both the dangers which they are facing wit

with valour poses, after full test by and the efforts they are making, with Federated Malay States Sani- the support of the great Amerfenntary Boards. People, for the triumph of the cause, The first experiments were of freedom and democracy.

Proud of Peop

carried out by Mr Hodges, of

"I am proud of the people the Kinta Rubber Works, in and especially the people of this 1926, though it was not until Island, who hayo' once mure been 1932 that given the opportunity of displaying Kinta. Sanitary Board require bucket satisfying with such remarkable tenacity and ments was produced." self-sacrifice their traditional virtues of endurance, bravery and patriotiem. On April 9, Chiu left the house "I am grateful to all Greek officers about 1 p.m., leaving on the door, and soldiers of all arms who came the girls, the ambil boy and Accused. to Crete and at this eritient moment, At 2.30 p.m. Accused was Been railed round the national fing in sitting at the bottom of the stairs co-operation with the renowned, in- lending to the cockloft talking to habitants of this island in a unlied small girl who also lived on the pre-effort to help me organise a supreme mises. Accused was heard by a struggle for the defence of our epun- fellow-tenant, Chan Tung-wal, to try and for final victory, day that the girl was very obedient, and that very shortly An Tellan policeman would come to arrest him but not her,

1

Symbol of Unity

Dur

"Crete has once more become the symbol of spiritual and moral unity! of the whole Greck nation in the Concealed By Quilt

struggle for the liberation of At 4 p... Chiu Sin-ki returned brothers and for the maintenance of home and went up to the cockloft | national honour. which was apparently empty.

"I address myself to all fighting notized a quilt cover on his bed, and men in the island and ask them to

Ma stand in comradeship and thus)

firm

tional unity which, together younger

valour and the spirit of self-sacrifice, are indispensible to success in this great struggle.

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dead lind-folded, bleeding

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He called for his daughter but received no reply. "He left the cockleft and at the street doorway saw Accused who spoke to him, saying.

Ilave faith in anal victory, which "This has been forced Hipon me by you,

will, be out

ours. The honour which Chan Tung-wai also saw Accused awaits you is great for you are the at the doorway, and said he heard last glorious rampart of the Greek hin say, have killed two persons."nation-a rampart which, with the In the meantime, Accused had gone help of God, will be invincible. to the home of Letak, and both went to Mongkok are watching you

Chiu "All Greeks throughout the world relative. a

Police

where they Station,

saw and admiration." fet.-Sergi W. G. Morrison and Det.- Sergt Lau Ming. The whole party returned to Tung Chei Street, where. WILLKIE

on arrival, they saw Accused at the dinar. Without any preliminaries, Accused said, "I

"I have killed them." The Chinese sergeant immediately cautioned Accused and arrested him. Accused sald, "I have killed her be- cause my elder sister-in-law will have nothing more to do with me." Bloodstained Knife

Sergt Morrison went up to the cockfoft where he found the

dead

I

with confidence

In May of that year 200 buckets were put into large-scale experi mental se by that Board, and three. months later Mr Hodges patented his process for "reinforced compounded rubber moulded buckets."

The

material

used was a toughened rubber compound reinforced with enzomat Bbre, with a rim of a series of stainless steel bands set in a rub- ber expound.

$5,000 Saved

Periodic surveys were made, und four and a half years later it was found that 90 per cent of the buckets were still serviceable und hygienic. Only eight out of the 200 were no longer serviceable, while the runs of 35 hud to

to be renewed, Various Sanitary Boards ordered buckets of this type after an efli- etal statement by the Medical De- bartment recommending their adoption throughout the F.M.S. The advantages observed in rubber buckets, as compared with the metul type, in acklition to their being a new use" for rubber and providing employment, are that they are light- ter, noiseless to handle and easy to clean, there lorry floors or washing places, there are no jagged edges liable injury to labourers, the original colour retained without need for

Is no wear and tear on

to cause

SPEAKS ting they retain shape, and

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afire. This is the time for all Ame- ricans to unite for democracy. When

am helping to put out a are, 1

am not going to stand around quar-

child with her neck covered in blood relling with the Fire Chief. The rim

and bound hand and feet. Inspector Carey carried out a more detailed examination of the floor later, and underneath the quilt, found a blood- stained knife.

Was

of

A post-mertem examination carried out by Dr II. H. Tai on the decensed child, and the cause death was found to be 2 deep in- cised wound on the neck, and haemorrhage. There was a

wound three and a half inches long, and the instrument which had caused it had severed the wind-pipe besides caus- ing other injuries.

was The knife bacteriologically examined and hu- man blood was found on it,

Statement By Accused

of freedom is shrinking. Americans, you to stand united. plead with We must stand firm. If we stand firm and strong with other nations which arc Dghting democracy's

Tents, and they are hygienle, being affected by sewage and adourless after use.

Finally, owing to their wearing qualities, they result in substantial economy. The Kinta Sanitary Board has saved $5,000 yearly by using these rubber buckets.

FEROCIOUS NAZI RAID ON CRETE

FROM PAGE ONE

cause, we must and will prevail." one large aircraft and starting a

Governor Lehman, Mayor Laguar-number of big fires. dia and the Chinese Consul General

During a daylight raid от the some aerodrome, British bombers also spoke over the radio,

destroyed at least one German air- craft and damaged others.

case and ask themselves whether this was just an ordinary case of homicide or whether they did not feel that there was something wrong something extraordinary about the moral and mental balance of the Accused which led him to this charge,

RAF, fighters also attacked Cer- man transport aircraft landing troops In the Malemi urea. One British fighter was lost in an engagement- with the escorting Messerchmitts.

No Seaborne Landings CAIRO, May 25 (UP)-Well In-

to-day there have been no seaborie

Charged with the murder of the The Jury must have grave doubts, / formed circles stale that up to 7 p.m.

girl, Accused said, "Yesterday it was I avho killed her. I killed her with a small knife,"

A further plece of evidence which he would offer, said Mr Abbott, was fun. Incident which occurred about

4 pan.

b. on April 9. The mother of the deceased girl received D lelephone call from Accused, who asked her, to

asked go to Kowloon. She

what for, and Accused replied that she would know when she got

and this was a case that called for inndings on Crete. their sympathetic consideration.

Youth of Accused

"We all know that the Accused is a mere boy and perhaps by Western reckoning he may well be under 18 years of age in which ense,_l_we were in England, he would not have been liable to capital punishment," declared Mr Lec.

Mr Lee told the Jury that it was always open to them to make a re- ad-commendation to mercy, whatever verdict they may arrive at. He urged that, on account of his extreme youth and on account of what was something clearly abnormal in mentality, but which did not amount to sanity, the Accused deserved their sympathy.

was rised, continued Counger by his brother to ninister

moderate punishment to the girls when they were naughty, and when the family was in Macao, the mother had seen Accused tie up one

girls of the

IS punishment, and neither of the parents raised any objection

Summing Up

summing

In the course of his

up

B

The Crown suggested that. what happened on the day of the murder was that Accused first led the girl up, blindfolded her and then brutal-His Lordship said that the Court had evidence from witness after witness not only

ly murdered her, Counsel concluded. clear and uncontradicted

No Defence Evidence

At the end of the prosecution's of the fact that Accused was left in evidence which corresponded to Mr charge of the Hitle

children while Abbott's opening, Mr Lee said that their parents were away but that the defence was not calling any after the tragedy, the Accused had

repeatedly, in different ways,

fold

evidence.

Mr Abbott submitted to the Jury different people just what he hnd that all the facts which had been put done. That Chiu Mo-isang had been to them at the outset of the case had murdered and that the Accused harl been abundantly proved in every taken her life there could be no dis material point by the witnessespute whatsoever.

in

called. Mr Abbott pointed out that Mr Lee had said that Q11 Jezul the Accused admitted several times principles he could not allege that that he had killed the girl. Ile sub-

Falls client was Insane. Insanity. mitted that the Jury had no alter-law was insanity within a

a narrow native but to find the Arcused guilty, compass and Mr Lee and his instruct-

Mr Lee said that the case had been ng solleitor app a short and simple one. The Ac-be quite impossible for them, so long appreciated that it would cused had come down to Hongkong as the evidence stood unchallenged ns a refugee. Both the girl's father and unchanged, to set up such a de- and mother had given express fence and so, Mr Lee had put to the authority to chastise the girl when Jury a clever and impassioned ap- the occasion arose and both parents peal for their sympathy and against had said that the children were that plen he had nothing whatsoever fend of the Accused and the Accused to say. fond of them. Accused was kind to

Two fundamental facts were; that, both children.

It was not seriously challenged that Continuing, Mr Lec sald

there ant the murderer of the girl that everything seemed happy until sud- Chiu; and that there also snt a young denly family was confronted with man who was not lagune in law und a man, therefore, who must in law and accountable for them. be held responsible for his actions Recommended to Mercy After a short retirement the Jury found the Accused gullty, with a recommendation of mercy.

Asked by His Lordship if he had anything to

sily why sentence death should not be passed upon him according to the law, the Accused. replied: I have nothing to

to say but 1 Accused say that I was very fond of niece.

of my passing sentence of death,

this ghastly occurrence. The scene must have struck the Jury as truly inexplicable. The Accused himself was unable to explain it.

Peculiar Smile

•

Mr Lee naked the Jury, to note enrefully that two witnesses hnd particularly said that the Accused had smiled in a peculiar way, what-

ever that meant, when he admitted killing the girl.

The Crown had advanced as motive the fact that the

u

of

Dordship said to the Accused:

HIF

had some' words with his brother over a matter of $1; Mr Leo sub- mitted that this seemed unbelievable. The law provides only one punish- blement for this crime which you have If it was believable then the dispro-

been found, guilty of and it is my portion. of the act must make it more extraordinary.

duty now to pass on you the only

sentence which the law recognises

Counsel said that for legal reasons

Defence had not pleaded insanity for that crime... but he was entitled to ack that the

the

His Lordship told the Jury that Jury ineliberating their verdict the recommendation made would be carefully weigh and conalder every forwarded to the proper quarters at peculiar circumstance of the whole once..

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TEAPOT WHISKY

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(B) Heavy gun firing between the hours of a.m. and 4 p.m. Firing It was a teapot smelling of area "E" will be affected. Alterna whisky that gave the game tive date May 28, 1941; (b) Light away.

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When an assistant saw him she carried out on May 28 between the whisked away several cupя and hours of 6 p.m. and 12 midnight, saucers from the fable. The officer Firing areas "D" and "E" will be picked up the ten-pot and found it affected.

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