1948-10-21 — Page 5

Evidence More

In The PWD Larceny Case

Evidence that electrical materials were drawn from the PWD store at Hunghom by the first defen- dant, Kwok Kwong, for the installation on non- Government premises was given by another PWD electrician, Lo Hang, this morning, the 20th witness called to substantiate the prosecution's case against three PWD employees.

The civil servants in the case are Kwok Kwong, PWD foreman, Austin Spary, electrical inspector and Arthur Frederick May, also an electrical in- spector of the PWD.

The three are charged with con- spiracy to defraud the Government, fraudulent disposal by public ser- vant and falsification of documents with intent to defraud.

testified that following a period of five weeks when he was detailed to work at the Kal Tak Administrative essigned, with Building, he was

wiring

ONCE FWD workmen, to

The Crown's case is in the hands work at the premises.of the Cathay

Airways Company.

of Mr A. Hooton. Crown Counsel, Pad he said, Josted

Chlof by

Inspector

J.

Thin about 10

assisted

of the Special Branch. days for which he was peld by the Johnston, of the Kwok is represented by Mr J. M. Government when it was time for The wires d'Almada Remedios and Spary is him to draw his wages, being defended by Mr V. D'Alton, and other materials were drawn by Instructed by Mr P. J. Griffiths. Mr Kwok Kwong, handed to Auz Pul, a J. C.

C. Stewart is

is appearing for May, chargehand, and transported to the entered CPA premises at Kal Tak on a PWD The

committal proceedings

ot the workshop the fifth day this morning

Workshop Lorry. was Kowloon Court when the case resumed before Mr. Wicks.

Corroborating the

evidence

After this period, he was detailed to work on an adjoining building

to the СРА, ad-also belonging

And duced from many of the previous materials for this Installation were witnesses, Lo lang, an electrician, also drawn by Kwok Kwong from

SEIZURE OF

UNSTAMPED

LETTERS

Several hundreds

of

un-

stamped letters from Hong-

tho

assignment alore, lie pleted when ho finished another portion of the

com-

wiring building.

the canteen, on July 23, this year. WIRED BEAUTY SALON

Lo Hong added that he was one assigned to work

of the workmen

on wiring at the Cecilia Beauty Salon at. No. 1, lankow Road, in

| June this year.

Concluding, Lo Hong said he had Castle not been working at the Peak Pier during the four days end- ing July 29, nor did he work at the Rural Training School In Fanling.

Market ond Government

kong were found on board the the Temporary Government Vege- 88 Shing Hing ready for des-table patch out of the Colony. Mr Onces and quarters earlier on in D. C. W. Fitches, Controller of June. Posta, disclosed this morning

when

eleven he prosecuted

charged before Mr

Central with

Chinese)

'd'Almada at

sending letters

out

the Post Office.

of

the

Colony otherwise than through

Of the original 17 men charged, Ave absentees had their bail of $50

Wal-man estrented and Hon'

was

discharged when it was found that he and his fokl, Hon Fo-kwong. went together to the Post Office to collect one letter.

had a

the letter

The first accused, Ip Sun said he stamp on his letter, but he found it more convenient to send It by someone than by the GPO.

Mr Fitches produced which had an un-chopped ten cents stamp and instructions for the ack dressee to pay on delivery.

not then explained that he was conversant with the postal regula-

tions.

The case is continuing.

but

Way

FISHERMEN

ROBBED

Prosecutor's Story At Sessions

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948.

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Guildhall

UN Committee Shelves

Palestine Discussion

was

Paris, Oct. 20.—The United Nations Political Com- mittee today shelved discussion of the Bernadotte Re- in The debate

postponed port on Palestine. favour of a Mexican resolution appealing to the great to compose their dif powers to renew their efforts ferences and establish a lasting peace.

The Committee debated for three hours before deciding to take up the Mexican resolution rather than to continue with Palestino.

The Soviet and other Eastern delegates alleged that the United States and Britain were manoeuvring to delay the Palestine debate and challenged them to explain their motives.

The Ukrainian Foreign

Minister,

1. Express its confidence that the Mr Dmitri Manuilsky, suggestext great powers will model their policy that "an election taking place some-en their wartime declarations and

globe" the Atlantic Charter; where on the surface of the

2. Recommend the great powers at

of the WOS

Uho bottom

The United States to "redouble their efforts in a spirit "manoeuvres."

solidarity on of

under- and mutus! Fresidential elections take place

standing, to achieve in the shortest November 21

2). Mr Manuilsky, as well as other possible time the final settlement of conclusion of all Eastern

caid that they the war and the speakers, cidered the Mexican appeal of the peace treaties--Reuter, great importance, but they saw no good reason to postpone Palestine debate.

to

bate.

After

When

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To Clear Manchuria Hinted

The

Shanghai, Oct. 21. Chinese Red radio this morn ing hinted that the capture of Chinchow and Changchun- southern and northern koy points of the government-held Liaoning corridor would be a springboard for a massed campaign to clear all Man churia of the Nationalists,

The Chinese Red aims, however, are contingent on their ability to consolidate their newly won post- tions in the two cities, They still have to contend with strong Muk- den forces which are lashing out west and south in an effort to link up with government troops march- who are ing up from the south, apparently stopped at present about seven miles south of Chinchow. radio

broadcast heard The Red

here this morning said, "The direct result of the

the

inking of strategie Liaoning cor- Chinchow in ridor and the liberation of Chang- chun by the People's Liberation Army will be the acceleration of the liberation of all Manchuria."

GRAVE LOSS OF TROOPS Pro-Government dispatches, in the meantime, contended that nighting was still going on inside Changchun, but admitted the seriousness of the ontire Manchurian picture.

The major blow to the Na- tionalists was not so much the loss of Changchun itself as it has been to isolated for many months, but the loss of use of 40,000

crack troops. Changchun forces, parti- cularly the New Seventh Army. were made up of veterans of the Burma Campaign plus

olfiers American-trained during World War II. The Government aim at

to Mukden southward

has been blasted by the Red power at Chang- chun.

moving Changchun defenders

Pro-Government sources claimed that the Nationalists yesterday widened their control around Muk- den. The sources cald that Nationalist columns Aghting west- word were making steady progress 70 miles west of Mukden. A cavalry unit spearheading the Nationalist drive in that Rector reportedly reached Wullangten, 18 miles north of Helshan where they expect to troops which re- be joined by captured Isinlitun. Another column moving up from Changwu, 45 miles north of Hsinlitun was said to have reached Fuzhin, 120 miles northwest of Mukden.

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regain the port of Yingkow on the COMMENCING TO-MORROW: "TWO YANKS IN TRINIDAD” west coast of Liaotung Peninsula in several days, pro-Government

ports said that the Nationalists oc- cupied Talan, northwest of the steel centre, Ans

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London, Oct. 20-Mihail Macavel, Stockholm, Oct. 20.-Sweden is to

Minister in London, train her air defence, workers In Rumanian methods of dealing with possible called at the Foreign Office today attacks by radio-active "death to protest against references to

Madame

Rumanian Ana Pauker, claude” caused by atom bombs,

Minister, made by D

Two robberies which took place in British waters off the north-western border of the New Territories were recounted before the Chief Justice, Sir

INDIGNANT DENIAL Leslie Gibson, at the Criminal

The British delegate, Sir Hartley Sessions this morning, when Ng-Chi-leung was arraigned on Shawcross, indignantly denied that the British were socking to postpona two charges of armed robbery the Palestine debate. and one of demanding money

from Kalgan said the Despite vigorous Eastern protests

lists in East Chahar killed with menaces. He denied all the Committee decided by 35 votes ACCUSED'S_COMPLAINT

1,000 Reds and captured 10,000 in with ten abstentions, to nine, counts.-

battle north

Shacheng on _of Another accused, Leung Keung,

Pelping-Suiyuan Rollway. Assistant close the three-hour procedural de- Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, complained that he was interrogated

Solicitor, assisted by Det. for two hours at the Post Office and Crown

culting about

Fighting for Taiyuan, provincial a further "Voluntary Donations"

capital of Shansi, was described in Wall, sap speech by the Soviet delegate, Dr not even shown the letter he Sub-Inspector W. J. Was

semi-official dispatches as at "white When pearing for the prosecution. A Jury Jakob Malik, the President of the For Relief Fund was supposed to have sent.

heat his letter was produced in Court, comprising four

plich. Despatches said that men and three Committee, M. Paul Henri Spaak, he admitted he had sent it,

women was empanelled.

put to the vote the Cuban proposal

Shanghai, Oct. 21-Forty fighting was going on over Mr Fitches said all the accused The Prosecutor said that the com- to discuss the Mexican appeal

British and 25 American firms zigzag front south and cast

the city. They said the Communists were shown their lotters. Several plainants in the case wero fishermen once.

position hundreds of letters in a rattan bas-who were sometimes engaged in

this was accepted by 34 here during the past three stormed the government

with ten abstentions, weeks have received demands wave after wave, but so for falled In the crew's transporting rice from Chinese terri-voles to 11, ket were discovered quarters by a water-front searcher tory to Un Long. On April 6, one

one the Yugoslav and Polish delegates from Mayor K. C. Wu for to gain ground in face of the heavy artlilery fire. The a government No one of them, Hul Muk-kee, was ap-claimed that the vote constituted no voluntary donations" to on October, 10, he said.

same reports claimed that the Red claimed the letters and the basket pronched by the accused who decision since they said, a two-third

Chineas relief fund.

assaults from the northeast were which were

sent to the GPO the demanded $10 from him as protec-majority was required.

of collapse. following day. The letters were, tien tee against being molested M. Spaak over-ruled them and at

Letters, from the "special rellef showing signs contribution

locally committee," opened and 17 senders were traced, while conveying rice. Hui pakd the once opened the debate the remaining letters bearing no money and was given a picco of Mexican motion.

known as the Soak the Rich Comment is shaping up in Sulyuan Pro- mittee, sald the firms "must pay vince. Three Government armles addresses of the senders. When the paper in return.

MEXICAN RESOLUTION 17 accused were sent for, they ad- On April 9. Hul was on his Presenting the Mexican resolution,wo percent of the foreign exchange were said to be concentrating on the

having sent, the letters mitted

of the Executive to Un Long from Tal Mul, Senor Luis Nervo said that the granted them in the past"on orders Shansi-Sulyuan border for a

Yuan.

on Liangchen, 45 miles south of the of the refused to divulge the name

Chinese territory, with A

American and British officials in Sulyuan capital of Kwelsul. cardelegates of 28 nations had spoken Carrier,

of rico and in its favour.

touch with developments privately Communists were described in the Saying there was no excuse fort of 300 calties

Ho sald:

'disagreement

described he demands as Hlicga semi-oficial reports as massing wost' Ignorance for the care was not the 20 plculs of unhusked rice belong

powers is the and not based on any of China's of Teingling, east of Liangchen first of its kind, Mr d'Almada fined ing to a passenger. He had sailed between the great

British within

waters

old. None laws, new or

of the United Press. about a mile

cause of the greatest anxiety. Leung $50 and the remaining ten DC

limited to when another bout, carming six or trouble is not accused $40 each. The letters were

but every day two or three ordered to be confiscated to the seven men, all of whom were armed partcular zone, but is a threat to all ms have replied to the demands,

with either rifles or pistols, halled of us.

receive them.

This decision follows a report by Foreign

humorous columnist, Nathaniel GPO.

Severul him and drew alongside.

It is in the vital inferesis of us

One official shrugged them off as

the Military of the newcomers

He said boarded Hui's all to co-operate. Approval of the "childish and absurd."

stating that five kilograms (about 11 Gubbins, in the Sunday Express on craft, and Hul recognised the ac- Mexican resolution would

transactions on which the Executive

The The

An Minister Jeft Yuan now wants to levy this extra French Coalfields wounds) of radio-active substances October 10 and 17. cused

of them.

could wipe out Stockholm's 800,000 Shortly historie importance." as one of

Memoire legal tax" have long been

(Continued from Page 1)

on the subject at the afterwards, a larger boat hoved into

people,

· FIRED OFF GUN

view, and the cargo on Hul's boat

Shelters would save a community Foreign Office, a Rumanian Legation Soveral people were injured to from the worst effects of radio- official said tonight A watchman, Koon Lee, who for- was transferred to that vessel.

In a letter to the Editor, `printed KEPT UNDER HATCHES The Bolivian delegate, Dr Adolfo on the deals, consequently they are day when security guards expelled from got the number of rounds he had in

the report said, and the his shot-gun and accidentally dis- Hui was kept under hatches for du Reis, calling It "romantic," said in no poaltion to reopen their books striking miners who had occupied

part of the electric sub-station at best defence would be shelters within the October 17 Issue of the they had not lost faith in the to pay out the two percent now, charged a shot, was fined $25 by Mr some hours, and when

Decazeville, in the Aveyron De stone walls at least a metro (about Sunday Express, Mr Paul Cognen, of the Humanjan Legation, ex- Eltle more than EMBASSIES INFORMED

a, yard), thick and d'Almada at, Central this morning allowed on deck again he noticed United Nations and were attempting

pressed surprise at Anding Me had The to achieve morally what they for committing a nuisance in public. Ut the larger vessel had left.

Omeials said the matter has been partment of southern France.

"despicable insolence" Gubbing This sub-station supplies the specially ventilated. According to Inspector Moran, the smaller craft containing the robbers failed to do materially,

and factories in The report, dealing with methods about Madame Pauker to the news“ accused was employed as a watch was

alongside,

Faris Boy El Khoury (Syria) referred to the British and Ameri- but not

paper.

have often read la certalo man at 302, Queen's Road Central, afterwards

towards asked the big powers to say to what can Embassies in Nanking and the power to all sniled of When he went off duty at 6 pm. Chinese

Hul was extent they would comply with the Arms intend to leave the initiative

Afth British papers that the press in substances, sald waters, and

to the Chinese authorities.

restored were partly

Lens retive nt

ro-Rumania la mot free,” he wrote. on Tuesday, ho, unloaded three allowed to proceed to Un Long. He appeal.

Pas columnists could, contaminator Meanwhile, Teng Chung none of the big powers

Ho, and nearby Leven, in the When

however, servoks and food stocks SAN "It is certainly not free,to Insult rounds from his gun, forgetting that did not then report the robbery to showed any desire to speak, Dr Chinese cotton magnate and owner de Calals. At Lens,

thn British he had another in the breech. He the Police.

To guard against the smuggling of in a similar manner measures would released the trigger and

his Homero Viter! (Ecuador) took the of the locally well-knowned Palace was thought that The boat the accused and was fired.

pasociates used on that occasion had floor to give his "enthusiastic sup- Hotel faced a new charge at the have to be taken to maintain safely radio-active substances, officers Foreign Secretary.Reuler.

coke ovens, where might have to be, equipped with a spectal criminal tribunal, the third services in the been borrowed from another fisher port" to the Mexican sppeal.

simple apparatus which detect the Dr. Hector Castro (El Salvador) since he refused to contribute to the furnaces were dying down. men, who was forced to accompany

The town itself, which is below: Gamm rays given off by them, them on their expedition,

suggested adjourning the debate to Soak the Rich fund, and he

An unnamed Informer said Teng water level, was threatened with attacking arroy could be checked by NO RICE FOR "Another of those professional would be called as a Crown witness, enable the "Big Five" to prepare carriers," remarked Mr d'Almada at said the Prosecutor.

their statements on the Mexican is involved in blackmarket foreign flooding because the withdrawal of radio-active bombardment, the re

safety teams by the Minera Union port said, while a potential raider MAJOR CHIANG currency deals, Contral this morning when he sea-

a similar robbery appeal On June 14,

He appealed to them to speak

The first

Chaiga

ogainst Teng was had stopped the powerful pumps in embarking troops in ships could be >tenced Cheung Man-Chuk, 24, to six occurred on a boat owned by Ngo

area which normally divert paralysed. months and banishment for posses- Shlu-shun. He had a cargo tomorrow morning. The Committee nied two months-ago-soon after he the

Bold

One of the biggest problems was refused Mayor. K. C. Wu's request water into a canal. glon of 43 taels of raw oplum.

of rice at Un Long and was on his thereupon adjourned till tomorrow.

TERMS OF RESOLUTION

Five other towns in the area ware that radiations from these forms of contribution to the for nvoluntary RO Redinan adid'the oplam was

water, light and attacks could not be made to die

away quickly-Router.a found on the body of the accused way back to Chinese territory when

The Mexican resolution said that Soak the Rich fund. That time he reported without he was stopped by a boat containing

Charge during who was arrested yesterday se he three or four men and lacluding the the United Nations could not fully was charged with collaboration with heat-Router.

the occupation disembarked from the ss Tainan accused. Ngo was robbed of a bolt attain its ends "so long as the recent the Japanese, diu which nerived from Swalow. LES DOCE

containing $238, the proceeds of his war remains in process of Uquida- more than three yours ago.

He said the charge was trumped sale, while a passenger had a suit tlon, and so, long as all the

ecause he refused to pay off not bee Have tecaties

up becatisó conclude St Johns Newfoundland, Oct. 20. of clothing taken from

an informer;,,The informer, in that The United States muiltary authori¬ Accused was arrested on Informa-nnd put into foron

In tho open and between the case cathe tica prepared today to start an "airtion

21, and three identi- August Hit" to take food and other nipplies Acation parades were conducted by great powers","s" at present the promptly filed charges of bel. 10 American' outposts, Isolated by Chief Inspector AW. Mollardy, ho couse of the deepest anxiety among Three charges now are pending, but theNewfoundland rally striiccused identified by his victims at the peoples of the world," it adds, Teng still will not contribute to

Der Land' calls on the General Assembly: 'fund.--Associated Press. LEA Eucaboy bangs van nikon The trial is proceeding

ACCIDENTALLY

still

ho

bo

of

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Dr Eloy Blanco, supported the ap- peal "with optimism and hope."

Was

that

tho

shot

CARRIED OPIUM

he

on

#

closed.

He said in some cases the importers made as little us 115 percent profit

.

More Fighting In

other than

Research Instituto

atom bemba that on

neighoud and electricity ntlacker might use to spread radilo.

The water

Envoy's Long Talk

Moscow, Oct. 20-The Russian Foreign Minister, V. M. Molotov, to day received Bir Maurice Peterson.

talk-United Press. British Ambassador, for a 15-minuto

w

Received At Palace

An

London, Oct. 20-Mr Malcolm the Commissioner MacDonald, General for South-east Asia, was ham Palace today—Router) received by the King at Bucking

Alde

Shanghal Oct 31-Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, #97 of China's Fresident and Economnite house of Shanghai, couldn't buy rice today so he had to buy noodles, his secrotury OnGounced. Ile sald the noodles. were not of the best quality.

The bulk of Shanghai's 6,000,000 Chinore · residents' who · hadn't. anti-.. broken Chiang's “retroactiva haarding lawa-have been eating.

Into Bhanghal Associated Press. noodles ever since his rico freezing regulations stopped the flow of rice.

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