1948-09-30 — Page 5

Servant Alleges She Was Raped By Her Master

The story of an alleged rape in the early hours of the morning on a 15-year-old servant girl by her master was told by the Crown Prosecutor when Chan Chung-yun, 48, shopkeeper, appeared on trial before the Chief Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.

Britain Wins Wordy Battle

•

Colonial Clauso In New Treaty

Counsel. Insp. G.

Mr A. Heenan, Crown is prosecuting with Det. E. Willerton. Accused is repre- sented by Mr A. J. Clifford, in- alructed by Mr C. A. S. Runs,

An all-men Jury was empanelled.

Mr Heenan raid that complainant was engaged as a servant by the accused on July 31 last. She took up residence in the household the following evening at No. 5 Shepherd Street where accused carried 011 business as a haberdashery or general store. Accused was married and had two concubinen.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948.

At the time of complainant join- Paris, Sept. 29. Britaining the household there were living and the Soviet Union fought a on the premises accused

his wife, two concubines and an wordy battle yesterday over armah. Complainant was allotted the relative merits of colonial-sleeping space in the front of the im and communism.

shop where also accused and one of his concubines slept. The amah The issue overshadowed approvel slept in the passage way and the by the United Nations Social Com-wite and the other concubine oc- mittee of an International trenty to cupled the rear portion. control illegal narcotica trafic. The basis of the argument called "colonial clause."

Hussin rought to eliminate the clause by amendment, The Soviet amendment was defeated 25 to 17, with 11 abstentions.

Was A

BQ-

SHOPPING EXPEDITION

in

HK Gifts For

Children

A model Chinese junk

and

two specially-dressed Chinese dolls, gifts from the Hongkong BOAC staff, were presented to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, yesterday by Miss Thelma Franco, Hongkong Airways stewar- dess.

The matron accepted the gifts, saying how grateful she was for the kind gesture The dolls by the staff. went to the ward for girls and the junk to the boys' ward.

The gifts were flown to England recently by the plane which took a party of children who had been holidaying in Hongkong.

Suiyuan Capital Surrounded By Communists

FRONTIER ENDANGERED

Peiping, Sept. 30.-The Communists have_com- pletely surrounded Kweisui, capital of the Inner Mongolian province of Suiyuan, and heavy gunfire can be clearly heard within the city, according to reliable sources who are maintaining close contact with the beleaguered city,

The occupation of Kweisui by the Communists would throw wide open China's border adjoining the Soviet-dominated Republic of Outer Mongolia. Kwei- sui is only 200 miles at the nearest point from the

MILITARY Outer Mongolian border.

AID PLAN

U.S. And Western

Europe Alliance Washington, Sept. 29. American officials disclosed today that they hope to have ready for Congress when meets again carly next year a plan for military aid- to western-European military

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According to present expectations the scheme should be completed in detall by the middle of December President's traditional "State of the and presented to Congress in the Lalon" message thortly after.

On August 2 nceused took com-alliance.

shopping expedition. plainant on a

They stressed the word "hope" Mr Heenan sald. During the course of the shopping tour accused made since the plan is not yet completed certain suggestions to her which she and several obstacles still llo in the The Philippines and many Latin did not understand. On the some wey, American delegations supported heigh Russians. The British delegate, Nir night complainant asked accused it Christopher Mayhew warned that she could sleep with the amah

was nat unless the clause were included pre-which she was provided for a bed. Britain would not sign the treaty the passage way as she

happy sleeping on bed boards with viding for Independent approval of The accused declined, saying that it the trenly by colonial peoples.

Soviet delegate M. Alexel Pavlov was too bot for two people to sleep accused Britain of trying to force together in a bed. her will on her colonial peuples. Pavlov Raid England wanted to bar her colonials from treaty provisions controlling production and use oplum and new synthetic drugs,

SYSTEM DEFENDED

Mr Mayhew defended commonwealth system determination.

of

Britain's

ΟΙ "self

He said "those who are so keen to impose good things on people

Russia

was

supported

In

During the night whilst she was astorn complainant suddenly found herself awakened. Counsel went on. Some one was removing one of hur hanks which she had placed over her chest. It was dark and shu dia not see who it wens. This person was seen going toward the rear por- ton of the premises.

the

PROBLEM OF FRANCE

The Chinese Reds could, without much difficulty, blast open a cor- rldar from North Shans along the Tatung-Puchow Railway to link up the Tatung-Kweisul section of the Peiping-Protow Railway, and thence the camel caravan routes acrOES northern Sluyunn to Outer Mongolia. That port of the

in- province is habited sparsely by politically back- ward Mongolian tribes.

Japanese

Steel

For China

Reliable sources

the here Gald Ited cut the railway between Kwels and Paolow but Govern- ment reinforcements are pushing from Paolow eastward to Kwelsui.

BELGIANS TRAPPED

́ECA PROGRAMME The sources

suid that about 20 Belgian nuns and 10 Belgian fattern are still in Kweisu!. They said that

Washington, Sept. 29. Kwelrul's Swedish Protestant The ECA China programme missionaries are safe in Photow and consultant, Mr Charles L.. will soon or flown out. They said Stillman, said today that he there are no American missionaries believes that Japan would be in Kweisul.

Other sources cold Chinese Com- able to supply much of the concentrating a large steel needed in the ECA China munists are force south of Protow

in Ordos programme. the Yellow is just across which River. They said the Reds possibly are walling for the Yellow River to freeze and then march across the ice

to Paolow,

He added that such a plan "hod

affald that we are

Mr Stillman told the press. "I am dimeuity in getting steel. The iron going to have

The exact eost of such a pro-

ore should be removed from Ching gramme is not yet fixed. Reports The situation of another battle-to Japan and made into steel. It would be of mutual benefit to both give agures varying from $1,500,000-front north of the Great Wall in

South Manchuria Is improving, countries." 000 to $3,000,000,000,

One di culty still in the path according to pro-Government re- of the completion

of the scheme Ports. The reports said the Govern- is that the Western Union nations ment troops are at present engaged the complete support of the Chinese he cm- their in a heavy counter-attack in the ↑ Government" although have not fully worked out

northern outskirts of Chinchow in phasised that the Chinese Govern matual defence plans and their needs

an effort to relieve pressure for American equipment.

interested onment and ECA were Yilisten, which is one of the most primarily in obtaining necessary sup- vital

defence posts on the plies and would purchase them from Guter northem approach.

sources in practically any part of There is also the problem posed) Pro-Government reports admitted the world.

broken into by the uncertain political situation that the Reds have in France. It is known that can- Stiehung, 10 miles south of Hulutao

will

considerable which is an important government gressmen objections 10 transferring fare supply port linked to Chinchow by quantities of

to ATmS

Other points along the France- railway.

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said to be still in to railway were get the largest amount of ground Government hands-United Press. equipment-if there is a danger of that country "voting Communist" or becoming engulfed in a civil war.

Among

the detalls which "the European nations themselves have nct yel decided

are the

to decide

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voice

Unusual happened Nothing next night. On the following morn- 'n complainant would Fay that can be equally keen to impose evil whilst she was preparing on in the Chines-especially in this modern kitchen, accused entered and made world."

Come surkestions to her at the same the time plueing his hands on her. She committee vote by the Philippines. | struggled and got out of his grasp. Argentino, Cuba, Ecqundor, Egypt. Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and the Soviet blow.

Britain was supported by China,

United States France, the majority of the smaller countries.

The Ukrainian delegate, M. Ste- phen P. Demtchenko charged that the "colanlal system is an imposition Complainant went to bad about precise use of each other's various of will on

on the colonial peoples." Hem dacht that night, Counge, pre-bases. They have suid social evils abound in Indo-ceeded. She would say that accused what onch

selfgoverning territories.

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That night complainant mode a complaint to her mother who, think. ing her daughter had imagined the incident, advised her to return to work, which she did.

TRIED TO SHOUT

also

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Generous Gesture

By Singer

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Mr Silliman pointed out that the is in- Andersen Meyer Company

the in obtaining from terested Siemens plant in Berlin the parts preded for the reconstruction of the Yangtze

power system. Ho M- pressed the hope that work on ECA projects can be started by Novem- ber 1.

HEADING FOR SHANGHAI

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Mr Stillman, Mr Harlan Cleveland, Director of the ECA China London, Sept. 20.-Show business gramme, and the Chinese Govern- nesia, Indochina and other non-was at the time sitting or his bed other the British supply of fighters credited singer Ella Fitzgerald with ment member of the Council, C. K.

Yen are scheduled to leave for with one of his concubings to Belgium is given as an example an unusual gesture today... Mr Mayhew sald "it is a constitu- pleinunt was dressed in a incitet and of this though American military In a business where star billing China tomorrow. They are expected tional fact that the United Kingdom a pair of clean shorts which she had observers "observing" the work of is sometimes regarded

evento arrive in Shanghai by Monday. the salary, has no power to impose treaties on wasted only that morning and which the London military

committeo more important than

artiste its territories" He said special acts she put on after her bath before report good progress in this connce- the famous

agreed to let

tho of Parliament would be required to reting Early

Miss Gracie Fleids top

next In the morning of tion. do po.

August 5 complainant would say "that'

regarded

bill at the Palladium. Committee approved

she was awakened by pain and Washington as a complement to Ella was contracted to star and found accused lying on top of her the Marshall Finn. involving mill- could have insisted, but she said and interfering with her. Complain-

just

the that she knew Miss Atary rehabilitation ant would further say that she tried European Recovery to shout and that accused placed his calls for economic

Programme visiting her homeland only for.a recovery, hut limited period. handa over her mouth,

Si oficiais stress that the description "I don't care who stars just tried to struggle free

"renewed lend-lorg as I can sing 100," said was helpless. She would say that of the scheme as

Fitzgerald.- United Press.

the

treaty unanimously, subject to the on the Soviet bloe's reservations colonial clause.-Associated Press.

Persistent

Divan Keeper

"After the Police raided his divan

but

The

scheme

she took no further action finding lease" a misleading-Reuter.

herself so helpless-helpless through

force of the accused and through บนบก fear Ins illed in her by what

wns taking place and by the

accused. Complainant would say that accused lay on top of her for

on the second floor, he simply moved in

about

minules. She would further'

up to the roof and started another that during the course of the one, remarked. Sub-Insp.

Evans cident accused fold her before Mr Wicks at Kowloon this p morning when Ip Pak, 49, faced quiet and that he would

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to keep glve

some money in the morning. The charges of keeping a heroin and opium divan, possession of opium and accused eventually left her, Counsel heroin pipes and possession of pre-wen, on, and pared opium.

complainant

went back to sleep only to be awakened ugain about 6 a.m. by accused who told her he had no money to give

her.

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Fields

Hard Blows Struck

At Bands Of Burmese Insurgents

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as

Miss

Rangoon, Sept. 29.--Government forces were today hitting hard at insurgent guerilla bands from the hills of Mandalay in Central Burma to the swampy plains of the Irrawaddy Delta in the south.

Insurgent attacks were

Mr Stillman, chief of the ECA Technical Survey Mission to China, "new reported to the ECA that a

in the approach" has been made

out ΟΙ the $70,000,000 allele b $70,000,000 allotted by the ECA for Industrial reconstruction and rc- placement in China,

Mr Sillman anid that in cach of the four projects initially selected and amounting to $4,400,000, pro- ject applicants selected engineering firms to estimate replacement needs,

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stallation.

The four projects are: 3. The Yangize Power Company with $1,200,000 and the project engineer Is Andersen Meyer Company.

2. The Kailan Mining Ad- ministration with $1,000,000. Pro-

ject engineer is Jarding Engineering Company.

3. National Resources Com- misalon's Tientsin Power System with $1,200,000. Project engineer is William Hunt Company,

4. The Taiwan Sugar Company with $1,000,000. Project engineer

is General American Transportation Company.

DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN

火燈家萬

***** ***

Asked to what extent the ECA reconstruction and replacement would affect the military situation in China and what effect the havo on military situation would the ECA allocation of funds. Mr Stillman said, "It is difficult to say. Some projects are within shooting Banishee With distance of the Communists. In a general why as to how close wo get to. war I would

projects should bo in the areas which are considered to be

SI Evans said that on the roof of 551, Shanghai Street, was found a The raid was newly created hut. carried out by Mr Luscombe, Su-

Complainant continued her dones- perintendent of Yaumati district, ie duties that day but decided she

on Tuesday. must leave her employment. a Police party and The second floor had been raided on told accused so. Accused tried

A Government communique said heavy casual- September

to persuade her to remain but with- 18. There were three smokers and out success. She eventually left and

ties had been inflicted on the insurgents at a village the Police seized 13 pots of opium, went to a friend who had intro-

near the rice-exporting port of Bassein. Mopping four heroin plis (insufficient for duced her to the Job and Informed analysis), cight lamps, three oplum friend then took her to her mother what had happened. This

up operations continued, the communique added. pipes and seven heroin pipes.

The defendant, who had four pre-who, after examining the girl, took.

reported semi-autonomous within the Burma on a rollway-station and police Union.) vious convictions including two for her to the Police.

station in a townlet in the Monywa A Government, spokesman today similar oplum offences, was sent to

.Accused

Mandalay, was subsequently ar district, near

where officially denied a report (not car- prison for 18 months. He stated he

rested.

telegraph wires were, cut and 17 ried by Reuter) which he said had had been in Hongkong for 33 years.

"exaggerated houses were set ablaze.

and distorted" the In the Pegu district 40 miles to Karen tribesmen's revolt. the north of tangoon, insurgents at- The report had asserted that the struction Mr Heenan said that there was tacked river craft and looted

a Kareni лош controlled all no direct evidence other then thin! cargo of paddy. The communique territory cast of the Sitiang River, reasonably safe."-United Press.

and Moulmein. of the complainant which implicated added that a new police post had between Kalaw accused as the one who committed been set up in Insein, a suburb of This the spokesman said, was "to-

were tally untrue," the alleged offence. However, he Rangoon, where insurgents

was some "terrorising the populace."

Commenting on a report that the submitted that there The 4,000 ton Norwelgan ship Mul circumstantial evidence which did

lat Karen members of Burma's mill-Kachins had thrown in, thoir Loo was driven aground off Hainan tend to implicate accused. Ho drow

the spokesman in the recent typhoon which by the attention of the Jary to the of the Karenni Siate, which bor-

tary police occupied Liokaw, capital with the Karens,

Bald! Kochins, Uko all other passed Hongkong and struck Indo- fact that by reason of its very nature ders Slam,

frontier bn September 23,

arb people,

most loyally China, according to advices received it was rare to and direct, indepen-Government communique said today. /rendering all possible help in the by the agents in Hongkong today.

Government's campaign, against dent evidenco implicating a cortin

The reason for their action wan Chun

Shing Hong, 20 Bonham person as the one who did in fact

Insurrection not

British women 'and, known W., who have the vessel un-commit auch an offence. strand

children were evacuated from Bri- dar charter, said there are about

the 300 passengers aboard, but the ship

SHIP AGROUND OFF HAINAN

The

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

who

Bay that recon- Stolen Clothing

FAILURE OF BERLIN TALKS

Protest By Shai

Jewellers

Previously banished from Singo- Shanghai, Sept. 30-Whitlo the pore and confidentially banished local authorities were still awaiting from Hongkong for life last year, the Nanking order banning the sale tomorrow, So Hung, 30 years, came before Mr of luxury articles from Wicks at Kowloon this morning for local Jewellers have, sent a. Jolat larceny of clothing and breach of protest to the Shanghai City Coun deportation order.

cil against the move, which, the Sub-Insp. Evans said that a con- pointed out, would destroy their (Continued from Page 1)

stable arrested the defendant in business. "We have observed no sign in Lung Fong Road, So could not give bundle of Marshal Sokolovsky of any intention a satisfactory account of

Soon Anxiety and fear provalled among, clothing he

was carrying. to yield on these three points and

after ho was

police local traders holding stocks of luxtiry was taken to the wo 500 no chance of real progress station, Chan Yuen-sing of 48 South articles Some foreign' businessmen he had said the ban could be imposed only governmental level to resolve Wall Toad reported that lie those on the import of such goods, In-

the

In Burma.

Dr A. H. R. Coombes, of Qurch fish owned ́tin' and wolfram mines that was reported earlier this month

Korens-the

Jarvest

|

Inst week.

here until netion has been taken on

them.

'some clothing and

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ak is believed to be not seriously dam-Mary Hospital cald he received a

at Mawcht, In the Karenni Stato, Burmero minority group-had taken over administrativa, control in two pair of cotton shorts from Insp.

districts in southern Burns and

found in the possession of So. It cluding whisky, brandy, cosmetics, Hong-Willerton on August 5 for examina-

REVOLT EXAGGERATED were demanding the establishment "Given" a satisfactory solution to was believed that So gained on sigarettes, towels and ornaments, of a separate State. Karen bat each of these points we believe that trance to the premises by climbing and that it would deal a death blow

to a large business section if the. (Of Burma's" four million. Karens, tallons have been among Govern-discussions can usefully be resumed over the back wall, who have for some time demanded ment troops fighting against the in Berlin since a number of detailed

So Hung was sentenced to 18 ban covers all items of "luxury" soperato State, only 70.000 live Communist and White Band" In matters will sill require settlement." months hard labour and is to be ro- goods now on sale at local stores.

Router. Router.

banished. in the

Karenni State, which is laurrections,--Reuter.

aged, was despatched.

A tug kong but was unable to refloat the tion. There were a number of vessel. However, the sister ship stains on them. Tests carried out Bet Puzle wedh in the vicinity, and re- on the stains, showed them to be moved the passengers: and cargo, human bloodstains. Y The Mul Leois Bull aground.

The trial is proceeding.

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