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Man With Religious Mania

Starts Proaching

In Court

"My work is to preach the Gospel. In view of the pre- valence of crimes in Hongkong, I was just trying to exhort the people to refrain from commit-- ting them," declared Leung Kwong-hon, 24, unemployed, of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1948.

By DENNIS WHEATLEY

PAULA

SORRY TO TROUBLE YOU, ME BARKER, BUT IN CHECKING UP ON WHAT

TUESDAY!

LÕHI MISSED LUNCH THAT DAY-HAD A VERY COMPLICATED BIT OF DUBBING TO DO.

DUBBING? WHAT'S

THAT?

|

Up to the cutting rooma Meadowa discovers mots tricks of the film-making trade.

I HADID CHANGE

SO I STUCK,

COULD YOU DO

AJOB LIKE THIT FOR ME?

A UHDIHA FILM-

CENSOR OBJECTED, AND WE COULDN'T RE-RECOFID.

INA BIT OF SOUND TRACK FROM A PREVIOUS

FILM.

EVERYONE IN THE STUDIO WAS

DOING BETWEEN ONE AND TWO

ON TUESDAY.

LATER IN THE

CUTTING ROOM.

no fixed abode, when charged THE WOOD MURDER TRIAL

before Mr d'Almada at Central this morning, for contempt of Court by putting up posters

therein on May 20.

Loung, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined $20 or 10 days and ordered to be expelled for five years.

He was discharged on a count of ubstructing the Police by giving false information in the Central Charge Room on the same day.

prosecuting. Inspector 11. Moran, said he sent defendant to Queen Mary Hospital for medlent observa- tion and the doctors had certified that although defendant appeared to De over-religious, there was nothing mentally wrong with him.

RELIGIOUS BALLYHOO David Wong, in evidence, said he was in Court on May 20 when he noticed defendant walk from the publle gallery to a side well where ho

put up a poster.

He drew to the attention fact of

Inspector Moran who re- moved the poster and handed it up to U Magistrate,

this

The notice, written on white paper in both English and Chinese, was to the effect that the king was God; Jeaus was good and was bad. Widows and widowers were worse. The rest of the notice was filed with religious ballyhoo.

woman

In his statement from the dock, defendant further said: "I want to advise you all to bellive in Christ. Do you belleve in my God?"

"Do your preach Mr d'Almada: ing elsewhere: not in this Court. Court that he went to an address Inspector Moran further told the in Caleway Bay Road, given by defendant, where he located defen- dant's brother and a relative. They did not wish to have anything to do with defendant and were afraid of him because of his mental con- Defendunt was a destitute

dition.

and had only 10 cents on him when arrested. Insp. Moran added that he did not wish to press the second charge.

Police Cross-Examined On

Alleged Assaults

Cross-examination of Police officers in connection with allegations by the accused that they had been assaulted and forced to make statements occupied this morning's hearing before Mr Justice Williams at the Criminal Sessions of the trial of three Chinese charged with the murder of Lytton Bevis Wood on a -path leading from Lion Rock to Shatin on the afternoon on February 11. Wood was found dead by bla com- | kong and what he had been doing' panion, George Ronald Ross, after for his living and so on. they had both been attacked by a gang of four men while out for a hike in the Kowloon hills that day. Tie accused are Lau Hot (alias Lau Yun-hol) 20, unemployed, Ho Cheuk-kul, 20, unemployed, and Li Chung-mun (alias Ll Chik-sang) 32,

gardener, employed at 377, The Feak.

A Special Jury, comprising leading businessmen, both British and Chin- ese, was empanelled.

Mr D. A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr P. J.

pleaded not for the defence, is appearing guilty to the indictment."

The prosecution was conducted by Mr A.

A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, ns- Bisted by Det. Sub-Inspector H. T. Matches.

At the conclusion of Monday's pro- ceedings, the Jury was asked to re- turn to the Court this afternoon argued over the admissibility of the while the Prosecution and Defence

accused's statements.

JURY RECALLED

Did he not make a long and detalled statement to you?-He did. It was

and detailed, long

but whether

It contained everything was true I don't know.

At any rate, I put it to you that you put him through a long and gruelling interrogation that night?

Mr Justice Williams: Why say gruelling? What might appear to the accused as gruelling might be perfectly nonnal to the witness.

Mr Wright: Did the questioning go on without stopping from 8 p.m. to 1a.m.?

Tam: There might have been pauses for a cup of tea. I cannot remember.

Mr Justice Williams; Can you re- member if the accused had a cup of ten?

Tam: of fea.

I think he had some cups Both h and myself. Re-examined by Mr Lonsdale, Tam said that the questioning of the third nccused

done on was

the instructions of the Inspector. At the time third accused was not under arrest. He was also provided with a meal at the police station. Third accused never asked him

to desist from the questioning, nor did he say he wished to go away.

p.m.

Bn1

ho

In reply to Mr Lonsdale, Dr Kung said that there would have been blood on the wounds had the skin been broken deep enough. He knew of no case In his medical experience where,

after three months, a scor of the nature Rull visible on the accused's hand would be left without the skin hav- Ing been broken sufficiently for blood to flow, unless there was in- fection.

POTENTIAL GANGSTERS

ARRESTED

Maximum Sentences

For Three Mon

Admitting charges of posses- sion of arms, ammunition and a hand grenade, three unemployed men were each given the maxi- mum penalty of three years' hard labour by Mr Latimer at Kowloon Court today.

The defendants were Leung, Wal, Leung Sal-ylu and Kwok Siu-man, who, according to Inspector Morri- HOB, were ready to prey on a "favourable victim at a favourable corner on the night of their arrest on May 11.

A constable on duty

first naw FRICTION NECESSARY

Leung Wal in Wusung Street act- Pressure of the angers alone ing in a suspicious manner. He would not have broken the skin. followed him and before he сп There must have been friction, heterod, into n tea house shortly after sald. Friction would have caused 6.30 p.m. he stopped him. In his additional pain,

hand was holding a fully preelable deg

degree.

cd revolver,

according to Asked by the Jury why he des- Inspector

was not cribed the injuries as scabs, it was clear whether he intended to

use it. alleged that the injury had been against the constable or to discard cused on the morning of February it. He was taken into custody.. until that night. Dr Kung said that 23 and the man was not examined

the formation of a scab depended on the drying of the skin. at the time of his examination were dry.

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but not to any up-

It Morriso

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tion a party of police waited for Following the receipt of informa- four hours at Nanking Street and The scabs eventually at 11 p.m. took the re-

two men into custody

They they were returning home. The Jury asked that tho Arst took the police to an alleyway accused be taken from the dock in where another fully loaded revolver order to examine his right hand. was found on top of a low wall This was done, and a demonstration They then took the police to a house was carried out by the Jury with a in Canton Road where a Japanese pencil placed between the man's type hand-grenade was found hidden, two affected 'Angers.

in the kitchen.

The triol is proceeding,

MacArthur's Presidential

Rating

S. Africa Gives

Recognition

The Jury was recalled this mor- ning, when Mr Wright Informed his Lordship thint his defence would Loi inevitably disclose details of another offence in which the first and second

· DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE accused were alleged to be impll- ented. He said that the question as to the admissibility of the accused's Dr Frank Kung, "médical omeer, HEAD VERY CLEAR"

hould be

tried in the Kowloon Hospital, said that about Leung

statements King-lion, defendant's

Jury, and the 0.40

15

February 23 older brother who was in Court presence of the

examined the Arst accused, who was Special one, was asked by Mr d'Almada if he Jury empanelled was a would be willing to be responsible he was convinced that any matter brought to the hospital by Inspector for defendant. Leung sald that which touched on the other offence Matches. First accused complained that he had been assaulted, and wit- trom defendant's behaviour in would not prejudice their minds on

ness examined him on that basis. Court, he appeared to be deranged. the issue in the present case.

Defendant (in English): "My

Det.-Sgt Tam Chung was recalled He found two serum

(Continued From Page 1) Бель marks, for cross-examination. He sold he head is very clear."

one on the ring Anger and the other copy of the Arst ac-

Usually well-informed quarters Leung asked his Worship to send knew that

on the middle finger, of the right

believe Britain The marks were adjacent to

was not definitely cused's statement had been served hand. his brother for a further examina-

Informed in advance of South tion. Bir d'Almada reminded Leung on the second necused on February each other, but he could not say how

Washington, May 24-According Africa's step. Officials of the Com- that the doctors had already certl-27, but denied that he had, on five long they had been there. The to a poll of members of Congress monwealth Relations Office and the ned that although defendant op- or six occasions prior to March

marks showed no signs of infection. on Republican candidates, conduct- Foreign Omice were clearly embar (when second accused made a state- There were no other marks on the ed by the independent weekly news rassed by the news and refused to peared to be over-religious, he was hot mentally deranged.

man's body.

magazine "United States News and comment beyond saying that the World Report”, 40 percent of Con- question of Palestine has been un- gress members

believe

Douglas der constant review between Britain MacArthur would make a "poor" and the Dominiona. President. Thirty-six percent-be- There was no sign here today that. lieved he would make a "fair" the other Dominions intended to President and 24 percent believed follow South Africa's example, he would make a "very good" one. In New York, meanwhile, Mrs Fifty-five Senators and 274 Re-Chaim Weizmann, wife of the first presentatives gave opinions,,

President of the Jewish state, said Senator Robert Taft was first that the Jews are ready to forget choice, with 30 percent belleving the past

the If Britain recognises he would be "very good"; the new Jewish state and stops help- Senate President, Senator Arthur Its enemies. Vandenberg, was second, with

50 ing

Mrs Weizmann was addressing third with 43 percent, Rep Joseph triet Grand percent: Governor Thomas Dewey the annual convention of the Dis- Lodge No. 1 of the Martin (House Speaker) fourth with Baal Brith, the Jewish

percent General MacArthur Afth, Mr Harold. Stassen sixth and Governor Earl Warren seventh- United Press.

Leung declined to hold himself responsible for defendant, giving the reason that he was afraid of his mental condition....

At this point, defendant turned round in the dock to the spectators In the public gallery and tald: "Friends, believe In Jesus,'

His Worship: "Behave yourself In Court. I am being very patient with you. You are not a mental ease and you are taking advantage

ment), read over the fret accused's statement to the second accused and had told him to memorise it.

Mr Wright: Did you ever threaten the second accused that you would beat him up if he did not go in to Inspector Matches and tell blm the same story as the first accused had told?

Tam: I never did that.

You and Inspector Matches were the only two officers who inter- rogat:d the second and third ac- know I myself did speak to them. but whether any Defendant: do God's work. I other Police officers had spoken to

servant of Jesus."

them also cannot say.

of it. You are work. Are you | cused?--I

not? You have no

ah)

As defendant was being led down to the cells below after sentence was passed, he shouted: "I have no moncy, why do I have to go to pri *son, what have I done?"

Rice Merchants

Warned

Do you know if any other Pulles ofBeers had questioned them?-No. DETECTIVE'S DENIALS

I put it to you that it is incorrect that you suhi that the secant ne- cused said to you "I want to tell the truth of the matter to the In- spector?"He did tell me that.

With regard to the third accu

accused and his statement: there, too, be- fore the third accused mude his statement.

clic!

you say this to him, "You can defend yourself and Nanking, May 26-The arrest of rice merchants will be effected to you tell the Inspector the first ac-

cused had the gun and the second. day If they continue. to sell the

searched the Europeans. cereal at more than CN$6,000,000 pecused per plcul, Mayor K. C. Wu was you will get off free?"I did not

do that. quoted today In Chinese press re- ports as having threatened.

Wholesale rice prices yesterday in

Is this true or not, that on March 3. the day before the third, accused's was taken, you showed some parts of the city reached $7,- statement

01 000,000,

piece of paper with a story while retall quotations were reported as high as $7,500,000. wrillen out on it and told him in memorise it? There was no such given that the thing as that.

The third necused will say that his

him fo

The reason for the jump by rice merchants was price at producing centres had stutement, though in his own words, reached the mark of $0,800,000.

to tell to the Inspectar, Is that The City Government authorities contains all the facts that you told will from today dump 3,000 plculs true or false? There is to truth in of rice dally on to the market for that. the next six daya in an effort to

Before the third accused was stabilise the situation.-Reuter

taken in to Inspector Matches by you, is it true you hit him on the back and on the stomach? No.

And slapped him across the ears?

NO CRIMINAL INTENTION

-No.

I put it to you that

tho

Witness declared he could not say from his examination whether the accused had been beaten or not.

There was no evidence of it. The man could have been punched and no mark would have been

left. but that depended on the strength of the blow. Even if a truncheon had been used, it would niso de- pend on the amount of force used for any mark to have been left.

a

Cross-camined, Dr Kung sald the marks on the fingers could have been caused by the placing of pencil between them and the finger squeezed.

The

doctor

invited to. 41 Was examine the first accused's hand, and after doing so, he said that slight scars were still visible,

New Quarters For Hongkong

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The Hongkong Social Welfare Council is to move from

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This will take the Council closer would refrain from glving these

fraternity

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She added that "It is with sorrow in my heart that we must accept for the time being the attitude of that great power, but I am sure that the moment is not far off when with Britain

hands will join Western civilisation and will aban- don the people who are fighting against us.

АБ

Birs Weizmann described the war In Palestine

a struggle "of foudalism against democracy, obscurity against civilisation. treedom against imperial ambitions."

Reuter.

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A dase worker for the Council who has just returned from a study way. of conditions In England, Mrs Ycol

Another branch of welfare work Guan-eng. declared that young that will be given further altten USA Central and South America via

Closing Times By Bea & Train people will be one of the main tion will bo TB cntes.

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and all TB patients are directed to Amoy (Bea) 3 pm. finding enough schools or teachers, places where they can be X-rayed Macao. Taiston and Shekki (6ea) 4,pm.' for them a gra

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Kongmoon (Sea) 5 p.m. SCHOOLS FULL UP

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Squatters aches for the Council,

result of this, and full to accept inspected, they can be a very real dm telling you my movements

on any new pupils. the second day of the first moon,"

Trained teachers in technical fields source of danger to public health. A rowing dingy which belonged to and you said "Walt a moment?"He are hard to find and often the Coun- have had the opportunity of secing "I am happy," Mrs Yeoh said "to Cantain Tibble, HEMI, and which did.

ell is obliged to use the services of how people work in a country where had been reported missing from the. You yourself did question the skilled warlanen who are not al- the sense of civic responsibility is Wellington camber since March, was third, accused on his arrest from

ways fitted for this type of job. found 41,

so high," be in the possession of o'clock at night until 1 the next The Council is working with the

"There will always be found Chung Ho. mistress of a

of a sam-morning. Is that correct? It was Youth Clubs to give the younger someone in England, however busy pan in Causeway Bay, on Monday. true his statement was taken from children, elementary schooling, and a man, to take a sympathetic in

Chung was

and charged 8 pm, to I am. on the night of his classes will also be held at the Cen-terest actively or financially in the arrested before Mr Latimer at Kowloon today arrest, but I was Detective C758-

tre for the same purpose.

"welfare of the class of people less with larceny by tinding. She admit- who took it down.

Mrs Yeoh was asked whether the fortunate than himself." ted the count and told the Court that

LONG STATEMENT

question of young beggar children "Hongkong in a city of

great she found the boat submerged and Was it not you who questloned was ever taken up by the Council. wenith and great poverty" she tock it. She said she was keeping It him--The questions that I had put She mid that the number of children added. "You cannot find In Eng- till someone came to claim it. were for his name, age and abode. on the street was small and that they land today the type of man

Remarking that there was criminal intention, Mr Latimer dis- charged defendant with a caution.

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