1948-06-07 — Page 4

Moving Interment Ceremony

Shanghai, June 7-British and Dominions representatives were among a large congrega-, tion present when the ashes of 57 Britons who died during their Japanese internment were solemnly placed in the crypt of the Holy Trinity Cathedral yesterday.

Each of the 57 boxes containing tho ashes of the dead was draped in Union Jack and bore a cross of jiller.

The moving ceremony began with Dean Trivets leading in a cortege In a mo- from the main entranco, from morial sermon after the committal service, the Dean paid tribute to the

thousands who shared dangers, difficulties and discomforts of the internment with us but did not live to share with us the joy of release and freedom.

During these never to be forgotten years, he said, "they lived

worked with us in the closest possible associations.

and

of

We watched

weaken under the rigours of

of confinement. emen. In spite

the of all that

camy hospitals could do for them, they suffered and died, Others, merci- taken fully few in number, were

and after away strong and woll suffering cruel and inhuman treat-

some of them gradually

inent, brought back to us crippled and broken to die.

"Still others went away to hos- the pital and there died without comfort of ministration

of their

loved ones or their friends. And when death claimed them at last, the sad offices were most often per- formed for them by the hands of strangers and without

weep beside their bier.

friends to

now

"These last sad offices we Feck to do for them. Reverently, sadly, we now pay our last tribute to these men and women-our friends."Reuter.

United States

them

Tho

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

First Marshall Plan Ship Greeted

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1948.

U PLAN MARSHAL

U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery (on rostrum, left) addresses a throng which gathered at pierside at Bordeaux, France to greet the steamer John H. Quick, first ship carrying Marshall Ald Plan supplies to reach France. Behind Caffery,

with backs to the side of the ship, is a detail of French sailors. (AP),

WOMEN FACE ABORTION CHARGES AT SESSIONS

A woman, Li Pui-wan, appeared before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Williams, at the Criminal Sessions this morning, charged with aiding, abetting and assisting to procure an abortion upon herself,

woman

+

and

At the foot of the stairs the police found a signboard stating that Li Pu-ying had her residence on the second door, and another signboard found on the verandah of the second

Seek Réductions

In War Debts

stated that LI Pul-ying specialised in women's diseases. A Moscow, Jung -All the Soviet third signboard on the verandah on papers today published prominently the Arst floor bore the words "Lady requests by the Hungarian and Ru- Doctor, Chan Kwaa-lung." Certain mantan Governments for a reduction exclusively in their reparation debts to the drugs and instrumenta used in connection with childbirthviet Union. were found on the premises, In jaddition to a dressing-table,

BLASTING ACCIDENT

CONTRACTOR IN

COURT

Dangerous blasting at a spot near tho 9 milestone along Castle Peak Road on Saturday, when a passerby was struck on the head by a stone the size of a fist and weighing about a pound and was saved from possibly more serious injuries by his sun helmet, led to the appearance of the contractor in charge of the work at Kowloon Court today.

As a result of the accident the passer by, Yan Chung, had to be sent to hospital for treatment.

Garden Janson Zeo, of 71 Lee

floor, was charged

Street. Бессла

before Mr Latimer today with dan- gerous blasting.

Zee,

explained

Inspector F. Roberts, was a contractor holding a special permit for blasting at a spot near the milestone along Castle Peak Road.

The permit stipulated that blasting operations at the be conducted with focality must special precaution because of pre- ximity to the main road..

On Saturday afternoon the last blasting operation on the site was carried out in the absence of Zec. who should have been there to supervise the work to ensure safety. The charge sent the pound-welsht rock 220 feet away and hit the passer-by on the head, causing in- Jurles which necessitated several days treatment. The blasting was being done at the site of the South Sen Textile Company

Asking for leniency, Zee said he would compensate the injured man. He was fined $250,

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Farewell

Final Appearance At

KCC Dances

To the singing of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" by a crowd of 300 révellers, Ken Cochrane, leader of the Ken Cochrane dance band, made his farewell appear- ance at the ECO last Saturday night..

orchestra and The popular

On trial with Li was another | Some of the drugs found were used LAPHAM DUE IN

woman named Chan Yuk-nim, in connection with pregnancy

childbirth. SHANGHAI TODAY who was charged with unlaw- fully using an instrument or Shanghal, June 7-Mr Roger P. other unknown means to pro-

Economic Head of the Lapham,

cure a miscarriage for Li at 19 Co-operation Administration Mig- sion to China, is expected to arrive Cheungshawan Road on March - here today with his party from the 25.

Both pleaded not guilty. Inaugurate formal-

A third

accused, Mak ly the American Aid to China pro-

Chec-ching (alla Li Pul-ying), gramme.

Among

officials awailing charged on the same count as Chan,

former ls Dr Pel Tsuyee,

pleaded guilty through her Counsel, Governor of the Central Bank, who Mr A. J. Clifford, who was instrue

These requests followed postponed his departure for the ted by Mr C.A.S. Russ.

mediately on the heels of a Soviet planist was given a big ovation, with United States in order to confer Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, with Mr Lapham.

prosecuting sald

As Li's condition In the Kwong answer to a similar Finnish request Ken Cochrane rounding off his asso- the case was as

Wah Hospital did not improve, Mr reducing Finland's reparations debt clation with the club by giving a solo the result of information

Lonsdale concluded, it was neces-to Russia by 50 percent with the contribution the medical officer of the Kwong

Bary to carry out an operation on resulting savings to Finland of Wah Hospital where Li was her. As a result of the operation, $70,000,000. а pallent. L

poilco doctor was led to the conclusion *

that on abortion had been carried extremely probable that following Moscow observers consider it is information, officer certain

out on the patient.

the Soviet concession to Finland, Evidence relating to the use of the both Rumania and Hungary will get drugs and instruments found was substantial

concessions.—Associated given by Dr Chan Fuk, medical officer of the Kwong Wah Hospital

The trial is proceeding.

are

Mr. Lapham and his party expected to establish their head quarters here.-Reuter.

gave

from

find

Used Friend's Pass police party, headed by Det-Insp.

For Free Ride Chau On, aged 28, was sentenced to one month and recommended for banishment by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Court today for evading bus fare.

On June 0, the accused boarded bus No. 4108 in Tunglowan Road, He was asked by the conductor for his fare, but said he was a foki,

He produced a paas owned by friend. When questioned as to why the photo was different. defendant said that he had lost a lot of weight Intely.

Bread Rationing Forecast

New York, June 6.-Brend

C. Dowman and accompanied by a doctor, carried out a search at 19 Cheungshawan Itond. Оп the premises the police officers found a quantity of drugs and Instruments.

BLIND FORTUNE-TELLER

IS WITNESS AT TRIAL

A blind fortune-teller appeared to give evidence in the witness box at the Criminal Sessions this morning. The case concerned two men who were charged with assaulting the wife of the fortune-teller and with intent to rob.

The cuso opened before Mr Justice Gould. Mr J. Reynolds, Crown Counsel, is for the pro-

with ra-secution,

Inspector T.

wood Road. She said they wished to consult her husband about their for- tunes. A little latter two other men,

one

with a red handkerchief cover- ing his mouth, also entered. They ordered Pun to close the door, but in spite of a threat that she would be stabbed to death, she refused and ran down the stairs to raise the

tloning may be ended in Britain, Cashman for the police. Belgium, France, Holland, Italy and some Scandinavian countries it an The accused, Ho Hol and Chung American harvest forecast proves Kwong, are also charged with as- securate, the New York Times said | saulting PC Mak Ning with Intent | alarm. today.

to resist arrest.

The paper quoted an estimate by two experts which predicted an ex- portable American groin surplus this year if the weather holds,—Reuter.

|

Evidence who that on January 31 at 1.30 p.m., Pun Ngor the fortune- teller's wife admitted two men to her fat on the second floor of 43 Holly-

Koreans Vote Early

A young Korean mother, her baby' strapped_fo","her back, casts her vole at Scoul, Korea, taking advantage of her newly-granted franchise in the elections ordered by the United Nations. In this particular district of Seoul 80 percent of the registered voters cast their bal-

· lots within two hours after the polls opened. (AP).

She was followed by the men who pushed her down the stairs, but she was not injured. The men ran over and passed her out into the street, two of them going into Shing Wong Street.

CONSTABLE THREATENED

PC Mak, on duty near by, hoard the alarm and joined in the chase after first accused, who ran down Gage Street Into Hülyer Street, On reaching a tin-smith's shop, first accused picked up a red-hot solder- Ing fro

fron and threatened to attack the

was aver constable with it, but powered. On the route of the chase, another detective found an aban- doned knife.

Presa.

im-

Parked Lorry At

Blind Corner

A driver who parked his lorry at a blind corner and caused obstruc- tion to traffic along the Castle Peak Road yesterday was fined $40 by Mr Latime: at Kowloon today,

Inspector F. Roberts sald he was travelling towards. Tsunwan when he came across the stationary vehicle near the 10 milestone. He had to pull out to pass it but had to swerve sharply back to his left to avoid a possible collision with on- coming vehicles.

This

is a very reprehensible

bend, Practice, especially in that remarked Mr Latimer.

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another Saturday's function was

mittee and items, all well received, organised by the club's Ladies' Com- was another

Miles and Tax Winters and his were given by Eric MacNider, Frank Tumble Weeds. An elimination dance, spot waltz and other novelties formed part of the programme which was Mc'd by Mrs Dalsy Goodwin. An attractively decorated hall add- ed to the evening's galety which continued until nearly 3 a.

Mr Macdonald Due

This Afternoon

The Rt. Hon. Malcom Macdonald, Governor-General of Southeast Asia, is expected to arrive in Hongkong about 4.30 this afternoon.

He will leave for Canton tomorrow back in the morning and arrive Colony later in the day..

Mr Macdonald is making his first official visit to China since his ap- pointment as Governor-General of Southeast Asia.

Chuter Ede May Face

Censure Vote

London, June 6.-Mounting pressure from the Conservative Opposition and elsewhere may force the Government to suggest a modification of the abolition of capital punishment, recently decided against its official advice by a narrow majority in a free vote of the House of Commons.

The Home Secretary, Mr Chuter) and Mr Aneurin Bevan, the Health

the Minister. Ede, who is responsible for

on

The second accused was arrested Criminal Amendment Bill, to which The question of the constitutional on information near 163 Hollywood the abolition clause-tor

ex-propriety of the abolition has been Britain's Lord Chiel Road on February 6.

raised by perimental period of five year

the The fortune-teller told the Court

the Opposition is gravely concerned that the two men who visited him was added by the House of Com-Justice, Lord Goddard, and

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first said they wished him to tell them House of Lords, may be the object about what many of its Members DEATH OF FILM about prospects of making money of a Conservative vote of censure tegard as an administrative inter- doca ferenca with the processes of the When he asked them whether they if the Opposition this week

the law. wanted to know about the proper way of making money or by luck, not receive mislection from they stated their preference for the Government.

The Cabinet meets tomorrow but Intter. When the two other men entered the premises, the first thing the subject which it discussed last they did was to ask whether Ah Thursday Yun" had come. The two who were agenda. having their fortunes told answered that he had,

The case is proceeding.

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It is expected, however, to pro duce a sharp clash at the meeting of the 400-strongt Parliamentary Labour Party on Wednesday,

COMPROMISE' POSSIBLE

They Answered

the

The dilemma before the Govern- Paris, June 0--M. Louis Lumiere, | Call ment is that the Bill next session a ploneer in the French cinema in- must be returned to the House of dustry, died today In Bandol, in the: Lords and the question arises as to Ver Department, southern France, whether it should again be left to the House of Commons on a free after having been 11 for several vote to decide whether the abolition | years.. clause shall be reinserted.

Some quarters predict that, as the was so nurrow,

M. Lumicro, who was 85, heard

a Paris audience shriek and run

It is suggested that the Govern-abolition majority ment may consider a compromise a second free vote-in the Ught of for the exit 50 years ago when he permit hangings in public, reaction since the first decl- showed them his first Alm of a train that would

WAN teken-would show a steaming into a country station. (Continued From Pago 1)

examples of brutal or premeditated slon

different result murder.

If the decision were reaffirmed. Ho was born on October 20, 1862, Tass concluded:-"A scandal was

The Cabinet is known to be sharp- brewing and to avoid it the British ly divided on the issue. Omcially however, presumably the Guvern the son of a sign painter, who was authorities, an

realising that the abolition was resisted, not so much ment, against its official will, would struggling to make a living out of then art of photography, He provocation they had conceived had principle but from the view-again have to sponsor the abolition the

on a falled, saw themselves compelled to point that the present time, with clause when the Bill returned a se-lived to see his newest Invention- three dimensional aims-shown on turn him over to the Soviet author its' persistence of postwar lawless-cond time to the House ‘of Lorus public screens to audiences wearing

Meanwhile, there is a continuing an 'cx-

in the position of mur- specially coloured glasses, but died ness, is inappropriate for

complication

tire two-dimensional onca periment of the kind.

derers sentenced to death since the before Some Ministers

were replaced. who abstained

106 | vote of the House of Commons.

These murderers have been from voting with the Government

Working always with his brother, In retain capital punishment on the prleved and a life sentence suball-Auguste, he was one of the first ex- other hand are understood to be tuted. Yet at this stage, no one can ponents of films instead of plates say whether in the final event capl- for cameras and in 1888 invented a convinced abolitionists.

They include Sir Stafford Cripps, tal punishment may not be restored, camera to take a circular panorama. the. Chancellor, of the. Exchequer, {-Reuler.

-Reuter.

bring Tossoyev back to Germany and ties here."

Ofelal British statements early last month said that Colonel Tos- cover had asked for British asylum after being ordered, to return to Russin.

At that time he was in charge of the Russian-repatriation mission' at Bremen-Reuter.

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