1948-04-23 — Page 5

WIFE PLEADS ON BEHALF OF HUSBAND

Attempted Murder Trial

A plea that her husband bo discharged and allowed to re- turn to her was made by the wife of the accused before Mr Justico Gould at the Criminal Scasions this morning, when the trial of Wong Hung, 20, a Sani- tary Department coolie, con- tinued.

Wong in charged with the at- tempted murder of his wife, Chung Taul-yeo, and causing her grievous bodily harm at No. 7 Cemetery, Customs Pass Road, on the evening of January 22.

Following evidence by the ac- cused; the wife was recalled by the Court. She declared that her hus- band was a good man, that he often gave up his own food to her, and that she did not think her husbzind would have attacked her.' She ask- ed the Court to discharge him and to let him return to her as she was not an able woman, and her mother- In-law, with whom she lived, was also old.

ACCUSED'S STATEMENT

When the trial resumed thin morning, his Lordship held that cer- talu slatements made by Wong to the Police, and which he alleged ind been obtained from him by com- pulsion, hnd been made valintarily. These

were read to the jury. In the statesments, Wong said he hnd struck

the bead pick-axe and

with

Ju

an iron

that he had sold three gold-finger ayer $200 for

rings and obtained

them.

In reply to the charge of causing

the оп

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

By DENNIS WHEATLEY

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Mackintosh's Claim For Premises

MR FIELD CONTINUES EVIDENCE

Mr B. C. Field, Secretary of Hongkong Land Invest- ment, who originally protested against being called as a witness, gave further evidence before Mr D. L. Strellett, sitting as a one-man Tenancy Tribunal, this morning when hearing of the application for an eviction order by Messrs Mackintosh's Ltd against L. Mercado (Mayo's Shoppe) and Mrs Kovach was continued.

Seven Raids

On Opium Divans

on

his wife grievous bodily harm. The Police waged Wong said he struck her suur of the moment, and in answer opium addicts to the charge of attempted murder he declared he had not intended to murder her. He was drunk that day and-he-did-not-know-what- he was doing.

war on

Five divan keepers, 30

oplum smokers and two owners of pipes and opium were dealt with by Mr d'Anda at Central this morning.

Thursday night, raiding seven divans in Wanchai, Shaukiwan and the Western district.

A total of 17 opium pipes and 58 small pots Tesillying on oath, Wong main-of opium was seized, tained he was drunk on the night of January 22 and he had no know- ledge of what had happened. Ito the saw his wife following day when she was being carried out of the Cemetery by some people,

Wong alleged that when he was the Police being questioned nt station a Chinese detective-sergeant, Tam Chung, threatened to "break He further alleged that confess." Tam wrote out a prepared confes- slon and he was asked to sign it, and when he refused he was severely Tam, beaten-up with an iron bar.

The premises in question are Shop 7C Alexandra Building, oceupled by applicants before the war but-taken over

by opponents during the Japanese occupation. The landlords are the Hongkong Land Investment. Mr D. A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr J. T. Pelor, is appearing for the applicants, and Mr Brook A. Ber- nacchi, Instructed by Mr Y. K. Kan is for the opponents.

nents

THESE

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1948.

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Arabs Occupy Safad

It was stated for the applicants at the previous hearing that

(Continued from Page 1) oppo- were

Kiven A monthly tenancy for the premises of the victory astonished the Jews temporary A Haganah spokesman said the case on condition

that they were vacate when Mackintosh's resumed entire

to as much as anyone and almost the elly was stunned by the their business, denial that the tenancy

The case for the opporients was a

rapidity_of_developments.

The Haganah sold it had anticipat- was ler-ed at least several days of extremely minable by one month's notice,

Questioned by Mr Bernacchi, Mr casualties.

heavy fighting, with heavy Field said that on August 6, 1046 he wrote to

It stated that last night's affack suggesting that they

started with limited objectives, but the tenancy as a lack of resistance brought a sweep temporary sub-tenancy,

By tem-

adoptosh's

Could

During

of

Two of the keepers

had Dorary tenancy he meant a tenancy through the Arab positions, who

be terminated star previous convictions, Lo Fuk whic and Ng Sum were sentenced to three

one month's notice. and two months respectively and divan

ry bone in my body if I did not recommended for banishment. Le's the property

he alleged, told him to make his statement to the Inspector as he had been instructed or he would suffer a further heating. Wong alleged he benten-up three times in all. He was unable to bear the pain, so he had so alternative but to con- fess.

WOS

ONLY A PUSH

Wong declared he had not struck

wife with the fron his head, nor had he taken the three Hold finger-rings to be melted. As far as he could recollect, he had only given her a push.

Also recalled by the Court, Wong's nged mother testified that her son had always been a good man, and had not been in any trouble before. She admitted; however, Uhat he was fond of drinking, and when he be came drunk he got excited and beat himself.

Mr J. Reynolds, Crown Counsel. is prosecuting, assisted by Det. Sub- Insp. I. T. Matches. The jury com prises four men and three women,

The trial is proceeding.

Divorce Hearing Adjourned

A petition for divorce from her husband on the ground of adultery was brought by Violet Edith Vio, of Carrabert, 210 Orrong Road, Toorak, Melbourne, Australla, husband, Dr Erie Vio, of Exchange against her Building, third floor, Hongkong, be- fore Mr Justice Williams in the Divorce Court this morning.

contested.

was at a Ng's

Lane and

Street.

the

and

on like

New Symphony Wins Praise

London, Apr. 22-Music critica today halled a new symphony by 76- year old Ralph Vaughn Williams as one of the most brilliant triumphs of his career.

Performed for the first time on Wednesday night by the BEC orchestra under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult, the work-Symphony No. 6 in E Minor-wis received first in impressive silence, then with a torrent of applause. Again and again the composer was summoned to the pintform.

The whole thing," said Scott God- dard of the News Chronicle, "was a

very moving experience. Music of this quality is rare and It startles oile with

with the profundity of feeling it expresses."

Vaughn Williams' musle has al- ways deled facile labelling and his new symphony is bound to stir up new fuss over his meanings.

the

The London Times' crille sald- symphony.can be related to "thu experience of war, its challenges, its ninister import for ultimate values, its physical bombardment even."

Generally deemed to be Britain's grealest living composer, Vaughn Williams is an essentially shy man. Ho declined to discuss his fresh SuccessAssociated Press.

Police Round Up Pirates

by The spokesman sold the Arabs the made

the opening move for peace (Continued from Pare 1) his this morning when they contacted was taken over by the

by the Major Stockwell and requested These two raiding parties then Government, hut in Tak Sing Liberation he found persons

terms. Adling as mediator, Major combined forces and swooped on an Stockwell was at Sal Wu Mr Mercado had moved in but how

asked the Hoganah for unnumbered hut in Lal Chi Yuen, in terms, which demanded complete Kowloon City rural district, where he did not know. IIe also was not

disarmament of Arabs and search of three more men were arrested. The Another Accused, Wong

that Mr Mercado had been

the city which would be turned over Hongkong squad, under Inspector Wing, aware charged with possession of a pipe ordered to move out

to the Jews, while Arabs would be | Saul, meanwhile, paid an unexpect- and opium, at a hut in Hol Pont Arcade, Gloucester Building, which remain in the peaceful city.

of South permitted to return to their jobs and ed visit on the second floor of 370 Street East, was given live mouths Premises he had been

Queen's Road, West, where the sixth occupying After for banishment. before the war, by the Japanese.

negotiations all and recommended

morning suspect was brought back for ques- twice

with the separate parties, Major tloning. He had bren

TEMPORARY SUB-TENANTS convicted for divan-keeping.

Stockwell brought both sides to- Because of the large number of In answer

to Mr Wright, Mr gether this afternoon, with the victims in the piracy, it was found Lee Ki was fined $650 or four Field said that he had never insisted Arabs being represented by months for his divan at a hut in that Mackintosh's should give some chairman of the Arab National Com-should

the necessary that identification parade be held on Bullock Lane and Lau Kwan

more

than $500 sort of tenancy, whether monthly or and six of his aides. The Jews were Captain,

mittee, Sheikh Abdurakhan Murat, or three months for keeping a divan otherwise, but

the one occasion. This morning the at a hut in South Lane. A woman, was that those persons already on understanding

officers and other represented by Mayor Shabatal Levi meinbers of the crew of To Ilo, was fined $300 or two the premises

and members of the Jewish National | the were to become tem- Council and officials of the Haganah, parade and it is learned that another Von Hcutsz attended the months for being the kepper of a porary sub-tenants of Mackintosh's divan at a hut in Tak Sing Lane instead of the landlords. When he

The British representative acted will be held sometime this after- while Chan Nam who had a pipe gave Mackintosh's

as chairman United Press. and oplum in a hut In Shaukiwan, tenan

superior tenancy he certainly dild

BOUND FOR PALESTINE was fined $200

not

The four suspects, who had been Apr. possession of the possession.

Damascus, op batteries

23. Four identified as having taken part in ponents premises nor of the

millimetre guns the piracy, will probably be brought Eleven of the smokers who were mises then occupied by A.B.C. Cafe rolled out of a big Syrian

pre-

this. Army before a Court in Kowloon absent-hat-their-ball of $45 cs- next door. He left there people on camp at Haiboun on Thursday and afternoon when they will face treated while the remaining 10 were the hands of Mackintosh's by agree- Syrian Army source said that they charge of piracy in the high seas fined $25. All the apparatus was ment, and it

sicel helmeted ordered to be destroyed and the huts to get them out if they wanted to.

was up to

crews and will be remanded for further to Mackintosh' and their

were bound for Palestine. to be demolished.

enquiries, On September 20, 1945, Mr Field Damascus told the Associated Press

A Syrinn Cabinet mi continued, he

minister in wrote

Mackintosh's that Haganah's offensive in Pales that in accordance with an agree tine has already begun and sald ment he had reached with one of the situation is too critical" their directors, Mr J. G. Meyer, lie

for the was arranging lemporary lettings Arabs to wait

evacuation. to A.B.C. and Mayo's on the un- derstanding that they were to quit "and with Arabs being slaughtered This is an Arab fight," he added, when Mackintosh's returned. There

The first case of its kind to be like eattle in Palestine, we was no clear Indication of the send armies to protect them."

must brought before the Court was that period of the temporary

tenancy,

of Tramway Inspector Cheung Song, He claimed that the Jewish offen- 42, who was charged before Mr Mr Meyer was, not certain when sive is being directed by he would return, leaving the con

Russian d'Almada at Central this morning Meanwhile, templated termination to be decided officers.

unconfirmed with conspiring with others to de- reports here said that one detach fraud the Hongkong Tramways of

Or a month Jor

Inspector N. H. Moran prosecuted,

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the Holy Land

Marine Court

ed probably in To mark the observance

about six time, the temporary tenants Society, George's Day in Hongkong, the local move

out and of St George

Mackintosh's would held atuke over. The landlords made no wreath-laying ceremony at Cenotaph this morning. The wreath tenants but at the time they had the the stipulation with the temporary was laid by Mr C. C. Roberts, Pre-desire to restore Mackintosh's back Mr Charles E. Loseby, instructed sident of the Society, and Lt-Col. to their former premises. by Mr E. S. C. Brooks, appeared for E. J. R. Mitchell,

The mistress of a Class I sampon the

OBE, ED, the petitioner, and the suit was an Vice-President.

ALTERED SITUATION was fined $75 or three weeks by Buglers from HMS

It was actually London

due to Mackin-Mr Cairns at the Marine Court this Following evidence by an amah, sounded the "Last Post" and

tosh's desire "Re-

to have somebody morning, for conveying women for the premises during their the purposes of prostitution. occupy

Sub- the co-respondient, sahi to be a

absence that temporary tenance when the boat was stopped near the Inspector McCarthy reported that European woman, but it was not H. B. L. Dowbiggin, ORE and Mr available.

were given to the opponents, sald His Lordship then ad- P. S. Cassidy

Presidents), Mr Field. But when Mackintosh's APC Whart at North Point, there journed the hearing for a month for Messrs J. G. Meyer, H. God were ready to resume in July, 1940 were seven women on board who enquiries to be made and for the head, CBE, V. C. Labrum. F. C. tion that the landlords desired to be

legislation had so altered the situm admitted they were prostitutes. co-respondent's name to be revealed. Clemo, E. P. Streatfield, L. R. Whant, freed from any further concern over had hired her boat to take them Defendant pleaded that the women Prof. K. H. Digby, OBE and the Rev. the legal aspects of getting vacant from a ship to the shore. She was F. W. Weaver (members of the Committee) and Messrs G. Copley-of dispossessing the opponents, ap

possession; furthermore, the effect not aware that they were prostitutes.

his Lordship enquired the name of Mong those present were Lt-Col.

VERY NAUGHTY

GIRL

Movie, A. Plerey, S. Hampden Ross, peared to be much more serious Thu acung mistressco of two N. V. A. Croucher, 11. G. Gardner than originally. Accordingly, the cargo boats and the acting master of |J. H. R. Hance, Mr and Mrs F. E

Landlords made arrangements with a similar vessel were each fined $18 Skinner and Mrs Weaver.

Mackintosh's to take over In celebration of St George's Day, tenancy, leaving

the or three days for not having anchor the latter to get lights. the Sun Shines

International desired on themselves if they so In reply to Mr Strellett, Mr Field said that from the legal point of view, at the moment of Liberation,

gold rings from her on Sunday there will be a special

H.E. Bids Mr Wylio Farewell

he looked upon apponents as tres- passers whom he could turn out as they had no permission from his company to be there.

Hearing is proceeding,

COMEDY AT THE EUROPEAN “Y"?.

1 and March 31.

On the application of Sub-Inspec-

for a week.

tar Morrison, Cheung was remanded They

SOCIAL EVENING AT KCC

Another popular, Informal dance and social evening will be held at evening, starting at 2 p.m. the Kowloon Cricket Club tomorrow

All members and their friends are cordially invited to attend.

Cardinal Spellman Coming Horo

According to a United Press re- port from New York, Francis Spellman, who is golog to Cardinal Australia to attend the Catholic Centennial celebrations bourne, will visit Hongkong.

Cardinal Spellman left La Guardia

in Mol-

airport, yesterday for San Fran- cisco, and his overseas tour will in- eludo New Zealand, Singapore, Chinese costal cities, the Philippines and Japan.

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"You've been a very naughty girl," said Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central the film "While this-morning when he bound a 17- kindly Ioaned by year-old girl, O Ping, over in $200 Flims Ltd, free of charge, will be for 12 months for larceny of 3070 screened at the Lee Theatre, while and three mother at 140 Connaught Road service at St John's Cathedral at West, second floor, on April 15. 11 a.m.

The "Younger Set" of the Euro-, Inspector Lau sald defendant stole

pean YMCA the money and rings and absconded

are presenting – J. to Canton. The mother reported the

Hartley-Manners' comedy "Peg O' theft to the Police and the fact that

My Heart" on Thursday, May 8,

London; Apr. 22-A' British High and the following two nights, her daughter had absconded, The

court held today that a man who Police advised the complainant to!

SENTRY'S "MISTAKE"

The cast is mostly, composed of Bornard Croft of 4 Homuntin kept lost golf balls which he picked send someone to Canton to locate

the younger members of the Vienna, Apr. 22.The Russian au- Dramatic Club, and almost every-Lo at Central this morning for not was guilty of larceny."

"Hill, was fined $10 by Mr Hin-shing up while trespassing on a golf course defendant. Defendent was located | His Excellency the Governor, Sirthorities told the British adrainistra-ond is making a stage debut. two days ago and brought back to Alexander Grantham, this morning tion in Vienna tonight that a Russian Molly Terry will be seen in the his car at Hennessy Road on March Harold Hibbert, who was fined £1 having any front or rear lights to The court upheld the convletion of Hongkong. Defendant säfil she had called on Mr Benjamin Wylie, sentry "made spent all the money with the exeep-former Managing Director of the morning by turning back a British lead is taken by Molly Portalilon.

this difficult role of Peg, and the senior 17. tion of $30.

South China Morning Post, Ltd., to jeep at a checkpoint about five Completing the cast aro Nelson Frederick John Herman Fisher, of larceny of eight golf balls which had initial hearing held that golf balls

A caution was administered to by Stockport, magistrates for the

The Stockport "magistrates at the The mother, Chol On, asked the bid him farewell on bla retirement miles outside Vienna. Court to be lenient with the girl from the Colony...

Setater, Margaret Sim, Ian Cox-Wheelock Mardin Co, Ltd., King's been abandoned by golfers on the on being abandoned by players is No further traffic between Vienna Walker, Geoffrey Baker, Geoffrey Building, for Mr and Mrs Wylle leave for Dur-

causing obstruction Reddish Vale. golf links, Hibbert lost became the British

Zooo was held up Hall, Thomas Macfarlane and And with his car at Pedder Street on

the property of the ban or Monday next,

said he found them on today Router.

the golf owners of the golf club-Associated Astuzzi,

March: 10.

Press.

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