1948-04-09 — Page 5

Prison For Two Europeans

THEFT BY NAVAL:

YARD WORKERS

Two chargemen employed by the Royal Naval Dockyard, Frederick Henry Bullock, 47, and Charles Henry Eneas, 48, were sentenced to nine months' hard labour each by Mr d'Alma- da at Central this morning for being involved in a larceny.

Bullock was charged with larceny by servant and Encas with aiding and abetting him. On Thursday, while being employed by the navol authorities, Bullock, with the aid of Eneas, stole 75 pounds of tin and 1,378 pounds of copper,

Det Sub-Inspector MacPherson said first defendant was a charge- man at the foundry of the Dockyard, and as such, was in charge of the metal mentioned in the charge. Second defendant

WAD

with the motor transport department. At 12.13

defendants p.m. yesterday, loaded the metals into a lorry driven by second defendant. They were not losited in the proper manner, bu! were placed in a box in the front of the torry. The lorry was driven

to 3 Mallory from the Dockyard

Street, Wanchai. There, they were arrested.

FRANK ADMISSION

First defendunt was quite frank and admitted the theft Secand defendant had no permission to use

defendants The lorry. Both been employed at the Naval Dock- yard for about ten years, and they

tad familles In England.

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Tenants Withdraw Appeal Against Eviction Order

to

The dispute between Henry G. Leong Estates, Ltd., and the tenants of its property at Nos. 657, 659 and 661 Nathan Road came an anti-climax at the Full Court this morning when the tenants decided to abandon their appeal after having brought the issue before three courts.

move.

The tenants were the Po Fong entitled them to treat the tenants Studio, Luk Shun Wo and Kam Manos trespassers, they could have Yee. Ordered to vacate the premises put their goods in the streets, but by Mr Justice Gould wihin 14 days | instead of doing that they gave them from Murch 1. they brought an notice to five weeks in which to

before had application

Mr Justice Williams and Mr Justice Reynolds on March 11 for a stay of execution until the hearing of their appeal. The application was refused, and the tenants thereupon brought a motion

only fair to the respondents to make "It is my submission that, it is it clear to the public that

their attitude throughout has been as far desirous of assisting the appellants As they fairly could, and do- Foiter. velop this property," concluded Mr

Arst defendant ns. "honest" and the before a Full Court comprising Mrnelstent with their rights to

Mr Webb, the Welfare Omeer of the Naval Dock Yard, testifying to defendants' characters, discribed second as "reliable." He asked the Court to be as lenient a possible. In passing sentence, Mr d'Almada snid he regretted that two men, In the positions they held, should do such things as larceny and aiding

He and abetting.

could take no

less a serious view than to xentence them to nine months each.

4 Months For Stealing Water

to

A 44-year-old rubber shoe factory manager was sent prison with hard labour for four months this morning con- victed on a charge of stealing water.

and Mr Justice Reynolds on March Justice Williams, Mr Justice Gould 25 for leave to appeal to the Privy Council' against this decision. Falling in this also, the tenants then gave notice of appeal against Mr Justice Gould's decision in granting eviction order.

the

It was this appeal which was to have been heard by Mr Justice Williams and Mr Justice Reynolds this morning.

GROUNDS FOR APPEAL Appearing for the tenants on the Instructions of Mr M.A. da Silva, Mr C.E. Leseby said the grounds for the appeal were (1) that the judge hnd no jurisdiction to make the or der; (2) that the exemption order granted by the Governor-in-Council an September 2. 1047 upon which the judge relied was bad upon the face at .it; and

Mr Loseby: All this would have been dealt with if the appeal had not been abandoned. My friend has got his costa and I hope he is satisfied.

The Court made the usual order of diamissing the appeal with costs.

OPIUM

OFFENDERS

Offenders dealing in raw and pre- pared opium came before Mr H. W. Latimer at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

that (3)

the The magistrale passed 10 months judge was wrong in law in holding hard labour on Kwong Chung-po. that at the date of the said order when he pleaded guilty to possession

the Governor-In-Counc!! had

heroin pipes and of opium and

authority or Jurisdiction to make heroin pillo, and ained him $100, or the exemption order relied upon. two weeks' for operating an oplum

After giving a history of the dis-divan in Temple Street. putc, Mr Leseby said that on April

He was Wong Yuen, head of the Lee Wah rubber shoe factory in1 Mr Silva wrote to Mr F. I. Zim- For possession of 23 tacts of raw Kwellin Street, and Mr Blair-Kerr

mern, solicitor for the landlords opium at Parkes Street, Kowloon on at the Kowloon Magistracy was told

him if asking by the prosecuting officer, execution

he would Mr H.

withhold Thursday, u woman, Lau Kwai of the

eviction order was given six months' without the Rose of the Waterworks Depart-

Chi ment, that after the water supply to pending the hearing of the appeal option, while another woman,

To this a reply was received on the factory had been cut off on

on Ah-ying, found in possession of 21 January 28 because of Wong's April 0. stating that unless all mesne they fou Kowloon-Caulan Buil- failure to pay an account amount-profits due

a similar and payable by the Ing to $116, he had run a rubber tenants were paid at 3 p.m. on the way station was handed

sentence.

pipe factory.

from

In so doing he by-passed the meter, having first removed a stop-

cock.

a water main to the following day, execution would be

issued without further notice.

Two other worhen also appeared There was a clear implication In before Mr Latimer charged with the reply that all mesne profits possessing 3.5 and three taels of raw were paid execution would be with- oplum respectively at the KCR. They held,

sald Mr Losoby. who then were oned $350 and $300, went on to say that on April 7 Mr Silva sent to Mr Zimmern a cheque for $3,845

Wong was sentenced to hard Inbour without the option.

TAXI DRIVER Zimmern

ASSAULTED

Filipino Steward In Court

Covering the mesne pro

On

the same day, Mr Fined $150 For

wrote back and, while

acknowledging receipt of the cheque,

sald that as the tenants were still Excessive Charge

The Euroslan Medicine

Co., Des

In possession ho had been instructed by his clients to execute the eviction order without further delay by 2 Voeux Road Central, was this morn- pm. on the following day,

ing fined $150 by Mr Thomas Tam LETTER EXPLAINED

at Central for charging $1.60 on The full effect of the letter was February 21 for a tin of Allen and explained to the tenants and they Hanbury Pastilles gazetted at $1.25 decided in the

a tin. circumstances to abandon the appeal.

Mr Pitman of the Price Olimpio. Dulay, a Filipino steward

Mr Losoby concluded by

M. A. aboard the my Turkshead,

prosecuted. Mr was apologising on behalf of Mr Silva who represented the Arm, staled Ained $40 this morning by Mr Blair for not having Informed the Court that it was a member of the Medi- Kerr at the Kowloon Magistracy for of this earlier.

cine Dealers Association which dis- evading payment of taxi fare and assaulting a taxi driver.

Control

ROAD SENSE.

Just thoughtlessness or selfish- Hess or Incompetence-a parked car occupying the space reserved for two.

Unlawfully Board The Sirdhana

CHINESE IN COURT

Six Chinese 'were charged at the Marine Court this morning before Mr Cairns with unlaw fully boarding the new B. I. motor ship Sirdhana.

COMING!

Cairo Nurses

Go Crazy

Usa Boiling Water And Crockery As Ammo

Cairo,

Apr. 8The 1,500 male nurses, who struck in Cairo's two Inrgest hospitals yesterday, threa- tened to set the hospitals on fire and hurled blazing mattresses, torn from sickbeds, at the police who were

them, besleging

Iskander Pasha, the Egyptian Minister Public Health, sald today,

of

The strikers, who were demanding more pay, also used boiling water, kitchen crackery and slabs of con- crete from the walls of the two hospitals, the Fund El Awal and in Kasr El Ainy, as ammunition their battle with the police, which ended with the arrest of 517 strikers.

The casually list, after the police bad opened are, totalled 125 strikere injured.

Before the nurses surrendered, it was learned, the ringleaders hind instituted a "reign of terror" inside the hospital compound with "aum- mary courts" which ordered the molestation of female, nurses and patients who did not side with the strikers.

Many patients have been trans- ferred to other hospitals because of the damage to the buildings, and the Government has decided to replace the

Beuter.

male nurses by women,-

Claim For

Sub-Inspector McCarthy reported that when the vessel arrived on Thursday, Chinese detectives were All the ac" sent aboard on duty. cused had been found on board and permission from the none had Master or Chief Officer. The Chict Officer, who was also in court, con- Armed this.

The first accused,

licensed hawker, pleaded that he did not know he had to have a pass in nuidi tion to his licence. He was cau- tioned.

The second defendant, a shopference here today, toki, was also cautioned when he pleaded that the manager of the Singapore office was arriving by the vessel and he went on board to meet him. His master had a pass to go on board, and defendant waited for some time but failed to contact him before bearding the Sirdhana, The master of the shop produced the piss in Court.

Br. Honduras

Bogota, Apr. 8. The crisis facing Britain provided 4 "propitious climate" In which to press his country's claim against British Honduras, the.. Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Senor Muenez Meany, sold at the Pan-American Con-

Speaking at a plenary session of the the Conference, he criticised presence of British troops In Belize, British Honduras, as an "affront to the Americas.

insisted He fed that the "anachronism" Western of all colonies in the

al- Hemisphere should be ended, though he referred to Britain as a "friendly" power and implied that Guatemala was THREE ACCUSED FINED

prepared to continue The third accused, who had gone bilateral discussions for a settlement "on" "board to sell ̄ ̄mineral"

the British Honduras dispute, waters; fourth accused, who had a previous "The map of Guatemala contains

for conviction

bloody demanding money the,

stain of territorial with menaces, and fifth accused, mutilation- fifth part of its ter- who said he was a member of the ritory snatched away by one of the -crew of a moter boat and was

powerful empires of the most helping with passengers' baggage, world."

were each fined $150 or six weeks. The trail Guatemalan Foreign

The

sixth accused pleaded that Minister, who rose from his sick- he had gone to meet a relative and bed to make the speech, told the did not know the regulations. Sub-other 20 delegations that Guatemala Inspector McCarthy reported that he intended to act "with perfect judicial had a previous conviction, which de- fendant denied. He was remanded for 24 hours for finger-prints to be laken.

correctness."

He dented that Güntemala's ambl- tions went beyond British Honduras. --Router.

da Silva Alleged Bribery of Fishery Inspectors

Mr Eldon Potter, KC, who ap-tributed regular circulars of the He was peared

for tho landiords on official prices of medicines. On that also ordered to pay $100 compensa- the Instructions of Mr Zim- occasion no circular was received tion to the driver who suffered a

mern, said that while naturally by the firm of the changes in prices. broken arm in consequened of the

he would not oppose the dismissal assault.

of the appeal he would like to comment on the implication made

Evidence was produced to show that Dulay and a friend had picked up the taxi outside the Majestic Theatre at 10 p.m. on April and had ordered it to Kowloon Docks.

Accused's friend alighted at the docks, but Dulay returned to town, Upon arrival in Wuhu Street accused told the driver not to lower the metre. The driver, however, slap ped the meter down and then re- quested payment.

Dulay refused and adopted a threatening attitude, whereupon the taxi driver grabbed hold of a car Jack and got out of the taxi.

The accused pursued him and assaulted him, the driver sustaining a broken arm.

YIELDED TO THE TEMPTATION

him again some harsh or improper by Mr Loseby which suggested to Pm Finished!” dealing on the part of his clients,

Says Shoplifter

The history of the ense, said Mr Potter, showed throughout that his clients were willing, as far as they could fairly do so, to

"Suda marti!" exclaimed 32-year- assist the old Li Tsang of Singapore, in exas- tenants In every way. As far back peration at Central yesterday when as January, 1047, the landlords had he heard Mr d'Aimada pass sentenes made as offer as fair as any could of six months hard labour on him have made to the tenants, and that was that they would get premises in for larceny.

Secretary Of Hop Yick Tong Gives Evidence

Another witness who testified that the Hop Yick Tong, composed of members of the fish laans was formed for the purpose of bribing Fishery Inspectors, was heard at Cen- tral this morning when the case against four Fishery. In- spectors resumed before Mr Clifford.

The accused are Fishery Inspec-, was to look after books and docu- tora Chun Kun-kau, 32, Kwok Muk-ments and to collect money from hol. 39, Lee Kal-wan, 24 and Tso black-market fish loans

to bribe Wai-hin, 25 дго charged with Fishery Inspectors во that the

conspiring together, and with others, laans could carry on their business.

as the

Mr E. de Fraine Stephenson, Salps between January 3 and 21, to per- In the account books he kept he the new buliding when completed if they would move out at once To Manager of Whiteaway Laldlaw, cald mit the unlawful sale of marine fish used many disguised names this the tenants replied that they his attention was drawn to defen- at Central Market; conspiring to books concerned payments of bribes would get out at once if a tenancy dant by the Indian watchman yester-gether, and with others, to obtain and were of a sceret nature. When made to the first agreement at the same rate of rent day. He found defendant behind the money 80 83 to permit the sale of payments were

fresh marine. Osh between Septem-accused, officials of the Association ber 1, 1047, and January 22, 1040; Instructed him not to record the as prewar ($130) were entered into, counter and eight pairs of socks were The landlords were not prepared to taken from inside defendant's shirt and conspiring together, and with do this because they did not know

Through a Malay interpreter, de- others, to obtain money, to permit use either "Kow

complete name of the accused Hut to Kee" or Kow what rent could be fixed in respect | fendant said he had just came back the landing of fresh marine fish at Lee." of the new building, but they were from Singapore and he was now

Stone Pler.. willing to let the tenants have the waiting for a ship to leave. He did Premises If they chose to vacate at not steal the socks. once.

Mr d'Almada sald shoplifting cases were getting to become almost daily occurrances, and sentenced defen- dont to six months.

"SCRUPULOUS FAIRNESS"

Thero was no case which had come before the Court in which the

with Silk landlord had acted

scrupulous fairness, sald Mr. Potter.

moro

An Employee of Dayarem's Store, Kowloon, appeared before Mr Latimer at the Kowloon Magistracy His clients could have issued execu

of

this morning charged with larceny

$70 from the store. Inspector Orem said accused was seen taking the money from the cash desk at 11.45 p.m. ori Thursday,*

Pleading guilty, the man, Leung Wing, said, he stole the money in a moment of temptation.

He was sent to gool for six weeks,

tion any time after March 25 when the motion for leave to appeal to the Privy Council was dismissed. Instead, the tenants were given another week and this showed that

Ammunition Seized On A Junk Pingahan police officers early, this

the landlords were willing and try-morning boarded a junk at Sun Hal,

ing to help them in whatever way Castle Peck, and discovered aboard they

could. When the landlords 3,000 rounds of .303 ammunition. obtained the exemption order from Three men were taken into cus- the Governor-in-Council which tody to be questioned.

Several times the first accused First defendant is also charged rang him up to advise him to warn with accepting a bribe of $50 on or the fish loans of forthcoming raids, about January 10 from Lo Ta! at said Chan, adding that though no Kowloon,

name was given, he recognised the Mr. Brook A. Bernacchi (invoice on the telephons to be that

These structed by Mr J, M. d'Almada Re-of first accured.

messages medios) is for the first defendant were to the dffect that on the next serious raids and Mr J. C. Stewart for the other day there, would be three.

and he should warn the fish dealors to

tbe seizure raids. This information was passed on to all the fanns, and on the following day there would be sometimes carried out by Chan Chung-hop, secretary of the raids Fresh-fish Dealers Association, told shery Inspectors accompanied by the Court that formerly he was also the Police, secretary of the Hop Yick Tong. His duties in the latter Association

Mr F. W. Shaftain, Senior Police Superintendent of the Anti-Corrup- tion Branch prosecuted. (

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The case is proceeding.

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