1948-06-09 — Page 5

Ingenious Theft

Of Water

FARMER TAPS CATCHMENT

An ingenious method of stealing water during the drought season-diverting it from the catchwater along Shingmoon Reservoir to a site several hundred yards away-was adopted by a farmer to irrigate his paddy fields in Sang Tsin Village near Tsunwap.

The man, dug a hole on the bed of the catchwater and utilised part of a concrete pipe underneath it to lead the water into a small trench which eventually drained the water into the paddy field. The thief also adopted A clever camouflage

to

prevent detection, of the trench. In digging the hole however, the offen- der caused damage to the catchwater to the value of about $240.

The foreman of the waterworks, Chan Hee, first noticed the hole in the dry weather channel along the on May 31, lie SUA- catchwaler pected nothing and thought it was the an ordinary defect. He plugged Jiole with an improvised stopper. When he returned to carry out his routine Inspection two days later he found the stopper removed and he then reported his suspicion to Mir G. D. Wodgar, an inspector of the

Waterworks.

Claim For

Damages Fails

Judgment with costs for de- fendants was given by the acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Williams in the Summary Court this morning in a claim brought | by Ng Ki-yuk, partner of the Chan Kwong Kee Firm, of 210, Queen's Road Central, against the Chan Kwong Kee Firm for $1,000 damages sustained as a Mr Wodgar carried out an inspec-result of defendants' wrongful tion and found that the hele had removal of been dug some distance from the address. reservoir. The cntchwater, he add Pinintiff was represented by Mr ed, was about six miles long. A

C. A. S. Russ nud Mr P. C. Woo close examination revealed that o

appeared for defendants. nine-inch concrete pipe lald under neath the catchwater to relieve the pressure of the water during rainy

WHAT INSPECTOR FOUND

A

He then

days, had also been daninged. hole had also been dug, dreining the water from the dry

weather channel down the pipe. traced the flow of the water and found that at the end of the pipe

was an earthern there

channel, partly

camouflaged, which

had been newly constructed on the hill- olde to lead the water about n quarter of a mile to some paddy fleld, He then reported his dis- covery to the Police,

Inspector F. Roberts visited the scene on June and traced the

11 shelf at that

of

Following arguments by Mr Rusa and Mr Won on the question whether plaintiff, who held tho chop of the defendant Firm, could sue or take netion against the Firm, Mr Justice Williams ruled

that plaintiff could not do so under hals

own name.

10 the

The Chief Justice also disallow- ed an application by Mr Russ

error in amend a technical writ of summons, as he held that in the present case both parties being legally represented, it could not be said that the writ was not properly drawn up.

Referring to the wrongful

of the shelf, Mr Justice

re-

channel to the paddy belonging to afraid he could not see any-

shelt

farmer named Sun Sang, who was thing wrong in putting the arrested and charged before Mr away. Defendants were not re- Latimer at Kowloon Court today quired under the tenancy ngree- with two counts of altering the ment to keep the showcase on the waterworks and taking water other premises. than through a main and meter.

DEFENDANT'S DENIAL

Denying the allegation, Chan tola the Court, that though the paddy felds belonged to him, he had rented them out to a farmer on the condillon that he was to share the yield. He said he had no knowledge of any illegal alteration of The course of the catchwater.

a

two

Holding that Chan was guilty, in that he was sharing the pront of the field and so sharing the benefit of the water, Mr Latimer imposed ine of $250 on each of the

He counts.

remarked that the penalty, which was bared on the pre-war scale, was insufficient to meet cases of this nature and recom. mended that the maximum be raised by legislature..

POSSESSION

CLAIM

Court Reserves Its Decision

A claim for possession of the Arst floor premises of No. 59. Kilung Street, and musne profits from De- to

1048. 1047,

March. cember,

being rent at amounting to $260 $05 per month, was heard by the Mr Justice acting Chief Justice. Williams in the Summary Court this morning,

The action was brought by Hung Kal. landlord, represented by Mr C. A. S. Russ, against the occuplers of the premises.

REMARKABLE

ESCAPE

Lorry Drops 30 Ft:

Driver Unhurt

withoul-a-singlo--scratch.-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1948.

Phone Booth Too Small

Guy N. "Tiny" Cherry, 610-pound cowboy disc jockey, who got stuck in a phone booth in Hollywood, was. released by a policeman who had to remove the door. (AP).

JETOSTARINGSERAIT SAUNAISKIBANTAY5FREIRENZ

Kennedy Road Closed

thunder

Last night's storm dislodged a boulder from the hillside weighing several tons and it finished

in

of up

the middle Kennedy Road, about 300 yards from the junction of Kennedy Road and Queen's Road East.

As a result Kennedy Road has become closed to traffic and it was officially an- nounced this morning that the road would not be re- opened before tomorrow.

Scrapstone

GOLD BARS

CONFISCATED

Cold bars and coins to the value

of $23,850 were ordered to be con- fiscated by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning when О Chinese doctor, Lul Ah-siu, 54, was charged with importing gold by the sa Tilbadak without a permit yesterday. Defendant was also fined $10.

Assaulted Police Sergeant

Charged with assaulting Polies Sergeant 800 and using abusive and insulting language, The Fat, 32, coolle, was sentenced to six months Arid recommended for banishment by Mr d'Almada at the, Centrol this morning.

The case was previously adjourn- ed for defendant to call his wit- nessen, but this morning defendant said they had returned to the coun-

try:

Rentencing defendant, Mr d'Almada said: Interfering with something which has nothing to do with you shows only one thing. You are an ogitator.

OBSTRUCTIONIST

"People like you create no end of trouble in this Colony," said Mr d'Almada at Central this morning when he sentenced Yeung Kam-llu, 24, to four

and months

recom- mended him for banishment for obs structing the Police in the execution of duty

PC 850 said he arrested a hawker for selling water chestnuts at Connaught Road Central near Sin- Cure Company yesterday morning, A crowd gathered and while he was holding the hawker, defendant came from behind and grabbed hold of

him (witness). As n result, the hawker escaped. ile struggled with defendant and then arrested him.

Defendant said he did not grab hall of the constable. He had a pot of rice on the ground and when he went to pick it up, he was arrest-

cd.

Anti-Semitic WOMAN SPY

Clashes In North Africa

EXECUTED

Paris, June 8-Geneviève Danelle, Gestapo spy, was executed today. She was the first woman to face n Oring squad in liberated France. An

Roger Calame, executed with her.

The woman was convicted of be-

8-Forty-four accomplice, - Paris, June Jews have been killed and 55 wounded in anti-Semitic clashes in French North Africa during the past 24 hours, according to reports reaching here tonight.

elstance forces under

Was

traying hundreds of members of re

the German occupation. The prosecution said that she helped to torture her victims.

in the Arst clash, at Oudida, on the border of Algeria and Morocco

She fainted for half an hour when yesterday, live were killed and 30 notified she would be shot today. wounded, the Paris newspaper Calame ind feigned Insanity France Soir reported from Rabat, since his arrest. He grew a beard, Morocco

| wore a bath robe and claimed to When news of this

Incident have invented a revolutionary new reached Dejerada, a mining centro turbine engine.

that

In

| Somo 40 miles from Oudjda, a He announced before the firing second clash occurred, causing the squad, "I pretented to be crazy to denth of 30 with 25 injured.

save myself. It is over now. The Earlier, the French Presscomedy is of no further use."-Asso- Agency had quoted these figures clated Press... for casualties in Oudjda. The agency reported

troops tanks assisted the polico In quelling the Oudjua disturbance, which began when an Arab was wounded in a knive attack, frst thought to have been made by a Jewish shoemaker.

|

Wage Increases Refused

The Arabs later said his assailant was a fellow Moslem. Shops owned by both Jews and Arabs were looted ing and set on fire.

London, June 0-British engineer- employers today rejected demands for wage Increases made

increase

for

men-

A molor lorry driver Kwok Siu- yce, 35, had a remarkable escape from death yesterday when he was Revenue Officer Humphreys said Only half the town's workers were by 37 trąde unions representing

and Involved in an accident in which that at 10.45 a.m. yesterday a party back at their jobs this morning. 2,700,000 factory

shipyard the lorry fell over an embankment of Revenue Officers were on duty on, In Dejerada, calm was restored workers.

a squadron of in a private road above Wongnci- board the Tjibadak. During a rou- this afternoon after

The cinim, the largest since the Gap, dropping down some line search, a boarding house runner fighter planes had demonstrated Mr Clement Attlee, 30 feet off the road; yet he escaped was seen making through the unng over the town. Feeling had been announcedisler, Men C stabilisation brick case. The man running high lately, the reports said. policy to curb inflation, asked for a way with a

Chinese

Thu Revenue

Arabs had However, Kwok was charged be- was stopped by a

alleged the ore Mr Tiln-sting, Lo ut central Officer and nine gold bars und reven clandestine departure of young Jews guaranteeing a skilled man a weekly £5 15. and this morning for driving

wage pay packet of without gold coins, total weighing 71.4 facis, for Palestine. Reuter. due care and attention.

The brief case

was

an unskilled man £5. were found.

Many

of the trade unions Sub-Insp. Si Wai-ming soid at brought back to the captain's cabin,

concerned refused, at the recent about 1 p.m. yesterday defendant and defendant came in and claimed was driving lorry 5560 on a private to

to be the

of the gold, but owner road above Wongneichung Gap Road. failed to disclose the exact amount The road was 13 feet wide and as of bare ond coins. defendant reversed the vehicle, and RO Humphreys added that the drove down the road, the front wheelman evidently was not the actual went off the road and the whole owner of the gold. vehicle overturned and rolled down

the embankment and into Wongnel-

chung Gap Road. The lorry was SOAK THE RICH

badly smashed up, but defendant escoped without jöjuries.

When coming down the road, de- fendant put the lorry in third gear instead of first gear.

Defendant was fined $100.

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a two junk near Bocca Tigris, at the mouth of the Pearl River, ac- cording to a Chinese report here:

The report said that the pirates Customs Shanghal, June 9-Unless there disguised themselves as is a last-minute rush of donations, officers and boarded the junk.

They killed two-employees of the the "voluntary" scheme Introduced

London, June 8.-There is no rea- by the City authorities for the col- shipping company which owns the

Their bodies were thrown son why pubs should not have de- Jection

bands could special reliet levy Junk.

The guards aboard the cent gardens where overboard. (otherwise known

as the "soak

where the play and

tectotaller Junk were disarmed. the rich" tax) will prove a com- After boarding the junk, the could come in and have his cup of plato failure.

vessel was towed away by the tea, Mr Will Nally, Parliamentary Up to late last night, not a single pirates motor boal. All goods and Private Secretary to the Ministry of wealthy Chinese has followed passengers luggage aboard were Town ahd Country Planning, said the example of Mayor K. C. Wu in taken away by the men. making

contribution substantial

of a

Another Chinese report said that

Correspondent Corrects

to the fund of CN$500,000,000. 16 men ralded the Shapo railway Himself

The voluntary scheme ends to-station, 20 miles east of Canton, and Mr Russ said the premises were

morrow, and

there Ip no got away with CN$100,000,000, let in October, 1945, to Wong Shing,

Пood of donations, Sir, shall be obliged if you cleventh-hour

A member of the railway staff, who lived with his wife, their child

mistakes the authorities are expected to who attempted to raise the alarm and a baby amah. Sometime later will kindly rectify two Wong died and the widow sub-let which appeared in my letter to you adopt compulsory measures-Reu-is said to have been stabbed with the floor.

Debtor-Creditor ter.

a dagger-Reuter. Two months afterwards under the caption she left the premises, and Mr Russ Dill in your issue of today. (1) In- said that as the servant had not lead of intricate pre-war problem I should have written post-war. (2) she re been receiving any wages, compensed herself by letting out instead of "Why the debtors should

be made the premises to the present occu-

to pay for the time the plers, If that were true, he sub- Government took to find out a solu- mitted that under the Ordinance tion viz, two months and a halfl neither the widow nor the servant should have been two years and a had any title to the premises. He hall! understood one of the occupiers pald the servant $1,000 for the tenancy.

PREMISES SUB-LET

FAIRPLAY.

A. Now Pen-Name

Debtor-Creditor Bill: Chinese Chamber Of Commerce Statement

The following statement was issued this morning by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce concerning the Debtor- Creditor Bill.

today.

Mr Nally said that unfortunately the planner is either regarded as a young gentleman with a beard,

in gray corduroys and scarlet shirt. or as an old gentleman in a stiff collar cutting his ears off and spats."

He said the Ministry was anxious to encourage experiments which would give people "a sense treshness and brightness"-United Press.

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death toll is feared in the North Turkey floods. Sir, I noticed yesterday you pub-

Tho latest fatality roll from lished a letter from a correspondent A Petition was forwarded to The Petition was not granted. Yip Sum, one of the five tenants dealing with

that 82 persons the question of the Government suggesting the forma-

Amasya showed The present constitutional position have died, and the list is expected on the premises, said he rented the Debtor and Creditor Ordinance. It tion of a Judicial Commission to is that the reading of the BUI will to rise. cockleft from Wong Shing himself in was signed "Fairplay."

examine the legal bases of the Pro- proceed. It will then be for the October, 1943, at $20 per month.

I had Since

already written posed Deblor

Creditor und

various unofficial members of

The pected to be even higher-United He and Chau Chị (a woman tenant) severni letters to the local press on Ordinanco with duo

regard Legislative Council to take up the Press. become Wong's tenants at the same the same subject and had adopted to

the

principles of Municipal

cudgels against the Bill if they see time. Wong died in October, 1946, the pen-name "Fairplay" I wish to and International Law, and that the fit, or are so inclined. If there is and his widow rented the rest of the make it clear to you, Sir, and your same or another Commission be apno notice taken by the unofficial premises to the other three tenants readers that I am not the "Fairplay" pointed to examine and investigate members of the strong opposition PROTEST REJECTED | To Amne Machin

Mr Williams ruled that Yip Sum of yesterday's letter in your columns. ways and means for satisfying any to the Bill, then the Chinese Cham-

Chau Chi, who obtained their I suggest to your new correspon- losses incurred

Creditor ber of Commerce will have to scok lease from Wong, were protected dent that we both cease using that Banks as an Incident of war, In the some remedy with the Home Gov- tenants, and were therefore entitled pen-name so that there will be no event that it is subsequently impos-ernment. Effective resistance to to continue to live on the premises confusion created In the minds of sible, under the Peace Treatles to be unpopular Bills have been achieved As regards the other three tenants, your readers through the inadvertent concluded by His Majesty's Govern- In other Colonies, even where the who obtained their tenancy from the use by two persons of the same pen-ment and the Japanese Government, Legislature is made up of officiul widow, his Lordship said their case name. I will sign all future corres- for the Creditor Banks to recover members and nominated unofficial There is no reason why was a little different and he reserved pondence on this subject with the their losses incurred by them during members. Judgment so that he could look into

the Occupation Period as an incident the inhabitants of Hongkong should their legal position.

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