1948-10-26 — Page 5

Raid On Church Hall In New Territories

STORY RELATED TO COURT

The story of a raid by a small band of masked ́armed men on a'Church hall at Cheung Muk Tau Village in the New Territories, followed by the plun- dering of the home of a Chinese recently returned from Jamaica, on the night of July 15, was related before the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr Justice Gould, at the Criminal Sessions this morning, when three men were arraigned on charges of robbery and possession of arms.

The accused are Chen Shul-ping.) Trang Shing and Wan Kau. They are all charged with taking part in another a robbery, together with

July 15 man not in custody, on and stealing $4,500, a wrist-watch And a finger ring belonging to Llu

Reds And Anti-KMT To Meet?

Hongkong Dissidents Reported Involved

is

additionally Shek-yam. Tsang charged with possession of two re- yolvers and 14 rounds of ammual-

on.

Mr B. A. Bernacchi, instructed by Mr M. A. da Silva, is appearing for the third accused and pleaded not Builty. The other two men, who

the

agalust also denied

charges them, are not legally represented.

Mr A. Hooton, Crown Counsel, asalsted by Dot. Sub-Inspector P. J. Waldron, is prosecuting,

A jury comprising three men and four women has been empanelled.

USELESS REVOLVER

Mr Hooton said that though the revolvers mentioned were of very little use one being entirely useless and the other probably unserviceable they could be used for the pur- pose of frightening people in order to carry out the robbery.

The complainant in the case, Liu, lived at Cheung Muk Tau Village, New Territories, and had recently from Jamaica with a sum returned

On

of money. This was known to certain people and it was alleged Shanghai, October 26-A that a deliberate plot was hotched meeting "somewhere in North to reb him of it.

the evening of July 15, Liu Chinn" between the Chinese Reds and representatives of was with a number of other villagers in the Church hall, where a meeting anti-Kuomintang leftwing or-was being hold. While this was in

threa

armed and masked ganisations operating in Hong-progress

Two remained out-- kong in the first open rapproche-nen arrived. ment on a coalition government side the hall, and

the other anun man

LIVS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1948.

Amid a nightmarish sytem of pulleys, ropes and exercise gadgets, Rep. William E. Hess (R.-Ohio) con- ducts his daily business from his hospital bed in Washing- ton. In spite of his broken leg-suffered while playing

diclates ball with small friends-the Congressman qwers to his mail and conducts his re-election campaign,

an-

German Pilots Offer

To Aid Airlift

Washington, Oct. 25-A four-man - German Trade Union delegation today revealed at a press conference that they offered to recruit former Ger- man war pilots to help man the Berlin airlift under the United States command and control in a meeting. today with the Under-Secretary of War, William Draper.

Asked how many pilots they could muster, the Ger- man delegation said, "More than the Americans can use.” Asked if they would be former German Air Force pilots, one Trade Union member, Ernest Schwarnorski, chief manager of the independent trade union organisation in Berlin, said, "There are no others."

Mr

in China was believed to be went in. He ordered the lights to be

The German representatives said put out and asked for

their meeting with underway or scheduled to begin elder, Won Chuen. However, he got that. In

hold of Wan's younger brother, Wan Draper, they expressed thanks for

mistake, Cisuen-pal, by

took Germon free trade unions and for the man outside, but wher Wan American aid to Germany and Berlin, Chuen-pat protested that he was not and also presented two requests,

elder, he was released

goon.

nad

villed to re-enter the hall.

The first information that actual out steps are being taken to carry the suggestion made on May Day-

by Hongkong the May 1st-this year leftwing organisations that they and and

It appeared that the purpose of the setting hold of the village cider was "the Communists go into a huddle to

discuss R coalition, leaving Kuomintang out in the cold, came to gain possession of the rifles be- in the Far East Bulletin announce- longing to the village guards, re- ment

that Hongkong delegates from morked the Prosecutor.

to North there were on their way

China.

However, about as significant as the started they the fact that journey was the fact that none of the

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the

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These were: 1. That the occupation authorities in the Allied zones make more vigorous steps to restore to the unions property such as building and office equipment.

GUESTS OF AFL 2. That the occupation authorities

the tnice steps to solve

problem ELDER SEIZED

which is presented by uncontrolled and frozen wage levels. When Wan Chuen-pai reported prices and

The delegation was here as guests what had happened to his brother,

Federation the village elder was in turn seized of the American

·

The

Prison For

Mink Breeder

of

OUTLAW

AT. BOMB SAYS WALLACE

Urges Diversion For

Peaceful Means

Jersey City, New Jersey, Oct. 25.Mr Henry A. Wallace, In his major' campaign speech on atomic energy, demanded today "that the atomic bomb be out- lawed and the secrecy veiling peaceful atomic development be lifted.

In a broadcast, Mr Wallace urged that atomic energy be developed for pesce because limiting atomic pow- or the atom bombs like limit- ing the of electric power to the eleirle chair"",

"We know this elemental energy enn bathe greatest blessing in the history of mankind and We by America, Russla and all other na- tions must renounce, through the United Nations, the use of the atom bomb and all weapons of mnen destruction."

He urged that atomic energy be developed on a non-profit basis as public trust and not be turned over to private business to be "exploited for corporation profits."

DEMANDS GOOD FAITH "We demand good faith in public ownership of atomie energy for the full development of its peacetime We demand that use of this new power for dangerous war pro- We demand vocation be stopped.

use.

that secrecy in atomic development be abandoned except In technical

knowhow in making weapons and that, in the Interests of free ped- ple. science be freed from military and big business control." +

Mr Wallace charged that the men who ran the United States feared Russin because they feared that peacetime competition with Russia would force them to give up their system of "monopoly of enter- prise and glant profits"

"They fear their swollen war profits will not continue, so they try to force wartime economy on They fear the peacetime America. effect on their investments of atomle energy developed for peace, so they try to control it and divert it to milltary use."

Mr Wallace attacked his political opponents for their stands on atomic energy and their "diplomacy of doom and strategy of disaster."- United Prças,

Youth Ran Away

From Home

at

London, Oct 25.-A Canadian mink

His dissatisfaction with harsh breeder, Mrs

Barbara Elizabeth treatment at home and his escopo Parreats, 334year-old former racing from his parents were the cause of motorists, was today pentenced to his subsequent association with pick- 12 months imprisonment for in-pockets and crime sold Chun curring credit by fraud at a London Kam-kwong, 18, residing at 28, Gra- hotel and getting £45. 0. by means ham Street, second floor, to Mr

worthless cheque from a waiter Thom

Thomas Tam when

be was charged with larceny at Central this morning. in a night club..

Pleading for leniency at a London

Defendant

by the was arrested police court, the defending counsel Police when he was seen picking top anti-Kuomintang leaders was in by the armed band. He was taken Labour, the largest organised labour said that Mrs Parents was British- $14 from a man named Lam Chuen

There in the and went to Canada. born and the delegation, Former Marshal Li to his house where the men de-group in the United States.

Southern Playground Chi-sen, the most vocal of all anti-manded that he hand over the rifles membership of its affiliated unions her busband descried her and sub-9.10 p.m. on October 25. Generalissimo forces in Hongkong to them, and he was forced to obey. Is about 7,000,000.

Induced her to leave When asked whether he had any sequently conceded

According to an AFL, spokesman without any allowance.

said that his and generally

He was then returned to the Church

parents, defendant Colony's leftist leader, was not among all and locked inside with

father was working in the capacity the the delegation's visit is to enable

For two years ahe had carried on This tended to con- others.

the representatives, reviving trade the delegates.

an extremely successful mink farm of a clerk at the Dockyard, and that Arm that Marshal L has the same

In the meantime, one other man union movement in the Allled zones opinion about chances for success of had been taken out of the hall. He in Germany, to observe how United and recently came to England to the ran away from home since he and had lived with his the coalition as Chinese officials was the only man present at the Stoles unionism works, how it deals visit her parents. She "got mixed was beaten by his mother in March

labour Communist meeting who was dressed in Euro- with

management up with a very extravagant circle this year It would be purely a

She Mr Tam sentenced him to nine show.

pean clothes, and proved to be Liu. problems, how the national economy and became friendly with a person sister. fis hands were tied behind his book is organised; and how democracy of some rank in the Navy."

was willing to pay all the money months hard labour and at- the and

the works, and help establish closer re-

Bame time told his clerk to inform he was ordered to take Dr Hollington K. Tong, Govern-robbers to his house. Keeping his lations between the trade unions of if given time.

The madairate suid that Mra the Probation Officer of the case. ment Information Office Director,

Purrents was deported from New told the United Press, when asked wits about him, and not wishing to both countries United Press,

lose his money, Liu look the men

York last January, She was con- who for his opinion about leftwing mem-

to the house of a clansman,

victed of fraud in 1942 and 1048, bers and Chinese Reds getting to-

lived next to him, knowing the

and had contracted two bigamous gether, said,

"As to the leftwing robbers would find idle there,

marriages. Had the case come to organisations in Hongkong desiring

DANCE The robbers ransacked the house,

trial and had he been the judge. to negotiate with the Chinese Com- but did not find anything of value.

ho would have given her penal share munists in North China for a

servitude, he sald-Reuter. in power in Communist-dominated They demanded the keys to certain areas, I am afraid that they are boxes, but Llu said his

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Presence Of Mind dreaming an Inspossible dream. The in the Church hall, taken back to his toon Cricket Club le organising on Communists would

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London, Oct. 25-When a bottle

Inspector Moram sald on October open his boxes, other and when the use is mere tools

discovered: Saturday next, to be held in the of cleaning fuld burst into flames 25, at Graham Street, complainant but still nothing was over, they will be discarded in no

and set fire to Alan Havenhand, Lu Man-ching was buying clubhouse. This aroused the robbers' suspicion, time

The Embassy Sextet has

Mex-vegetables when defendant snatch- again aged two, of Swinton near the house This fallies with information from and they then entered Hongkong to the effect that Marshal next door, which was Liu's. They been engaged to provide the dance borough, his sister Sylvia, aged 10, ed the money from her hand.

raised and defendant his photograph hanging music and it is hoped to be able to sat him in the sink to quench the alarm was LI Chi-aen and his cohorts would there saw be mere gureheads and the Reds on the wall, realised they had been present two or three talented artists. Games-Reuter.

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and refreshments will Democratic Party, General Teal of kerosene over her. The robbers Ting-kal- head of the Society for the finally managed to get hold of the Promotion of Democracy, and Tan key

keys and ransacked the boxes, Ping-shan of the Association of

OWAV with $4,500, San Min Chu Yi Comrades-Youth making

wrist-watch and a gold anger ring

Corps. All were relatively unim-after staying in the house for about portant in the overall political two hours. picture in China.

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REDS PIPE DOWN

Red The Chinese barly space

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ASSAULTS WOMAN

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Troops, Police

Vyshinsky Says No: Applies Take Coalfields

Veto To Berlin Resolution

(Continued from Page 1)

AC

It has been 27 days since

At 5.30 ped

the building, but had not appeared

on the stage where the Council sits.

DOOR STILL OPEN Authoritative Western

(Continued from Pare 1)

and police arrived this morning to occupy the pithead, but later surrendered the mine to the police and emerged singing the internatiommunist-led_

Allled Mr Vyshinsky finally arrived at sources aid this meant Mr Jessup 8.40 p.m. with a delegation of seven was offering Russia the possibility General

of another attempt to solve the crisis members.

French

Labour's

The communique formally denied a declaration

several signed by journalists and news photographers When the answer, "no" was de-theatre which seats about 2,000 that the police warn the first to fire. elded, the delegates, began gathering spectators.

A warrant was issued today for at the crowded Palais do Chaillot

Before Mr Vyshinsky invoked the arrest of M. Reno Ribiere, ond theatre for the crucial Council meet- | the veto, tho American delegate, of the national leaders of the Com- "After all, you are a man aren't ing and a showdown vote.

Mr Philip Jessup, sald: "The three munist: Mhers Union, on a charge Before leaving, they told Llu not you? You ought to be ashamed of

the Western governments have indicated of assaulting a polferman during a said Mr d'Almada

of the principles strika incident. to report the affair to the Pailes on yourself,"

at Berlin case was tossed into the their acceptance

If the house burnt

contained in the resolution. radio, which pair of having his

this morning when he Security Counell. Central down, but Llu made a report. Early imposed the maximum fine of $100

.m. all the Council mem-government of the Soviet Union In August devoted much

Strikers at the Scaevalle pit at two

the of

for the meeting would give reciprocal assurances, Somain, on the southern edge of the the next morning, the Central Committee

on Wong Tak, travelling trader, bers had rifles which had been for

a woman. assaulting

except Mr Vyshinksy,

the programme suggested in that troop-filled area, refused to quit chairman Mao Tre-lung's decision Village

Mr Manulleky arrived at 0.35 p.m. resolution would be carried out. It when moldiers. Inspector Moran said that yes. agreeing to the suggestion of Hong-seized were found abandoned in

the morning,

complainant, but there was still no sign of Mr can be done." kong leftist leaders for a conllifon nearby field.

Connecting the accused with the King, 48, widow, was waiting Vyshinsky. Dr Bramugila was in conference, has little to say on the

weeks. But that robbery, although nobody in the for a ferry at the Vehleular Wharf. subject for many is typical of Chinese Red propaganda Church hall could identify them, Mr Defendant approached and struck the Hooton sald that a fisherman, So her a blow in the chest. He then political matters. Usually Reds wait until they have what they Fat, would be called to say that on picked up a bamboo pole and as

saulted her. Complainant called out can call a falt accompli in the records July 14 he was asked to walt at

Dr Bramugila took his seat im-by direct negotiation outside the UN, Executive Committee appealed to- sailors and certain place the following day for help and PC 2003 arrived on before giving out the results.

to take a party across the waters.

Mr Gorge Marshall (US), Mr night to all miners, and arrested defendant, mediately. the scene As for

dockers, particularly those in Britain leftwing

Ernest Bevin (UK) and M. Robert and the United States, to show their leaders

On July 15, a party of men arrived

medical examination showed

REPORTER'S QUESTION Shanghai are concerned, they pro

an (France) will as ranged, and he recognised the

meet at Mr Vyshinsky was asked by reporter "Are you going to use the 8.30 GMT on Tuesday to decide on solidarity with the French miners.

on Reuter. their next step. This may be either votof"

Mr Vyshinsky said: "Why do you to follow up Mr Jessup's offer or take the Berlin question to the that Assembly and nake persons at the village Dr Bramualla opened

Dunlop Refuse To well undercover.

identified as the second accused, over 1,000 The case of Sung Pao-kang is an ho joined, the party.

and complainant publicly defiled and immediatey called upon M. body to condemn Russia before the

Resume Factory :: world as a violator of peace. Britain Parodi, French delegate, to speak, example,

who beaded

Four days after the actual robbery, his name. the Reform

M. Parodi began by thanking the and France are known not to favour of the Social the Police searched third accused's

Tokyo, Oct. 25-The Dunlop neutral

After the Security Council meeting Rubber Company of Japan has re-

told adjourned, Mr Jessup. statement in Shanghai that have $100 noles. He was taken

the fused to take over its Kobo factory would join the coalition conterence, the Police Statlon. The same day

terma London, Oct 25-Captain Robert compromise formula ther devised.

grounds that the Me Vyshinsky was writing busily acting Chairman, Dr Juan Bramuglia on the Shortly after Sung was, Jisted the Polled interviewed the first ac Ormiston Paterson, aged 35, of the Among refugees in Hongkong lie cused

also took him to the Royal Marines, was found shot dead at his desk as M. Parodi announced of Argentina-leader of the solution offered are not satisfactory.

The company is asking for cus- was nat further heard from. The Station. When they visited. second in his cabin aboard the Battleship that France has accepted' the neutral "We are not through yet."

Dr Bramugila said he would todianship only. The factory was Democrat Party which is participat, accused's house, they found. $500,

For the first time at this United conveno meeting of the six badly damaged during the war, al- ing in the Nanking Government under his bed, and also a gold ring King George V in Portsmouth Har-formula and will vote for it.

A revolver was by his side-Nations meeting, there were scores of neutrals tomorrow morning-United though it has been largely restored

the huge Pross

since then.-Router. Talanding persona - over Rouler

As

not many and relatively unimpor- neat and third accused as being that one of the woman's teeth was Lant. The Government clamp-dowi among them He rowed the party broken.

Defendant said he only gave her on subversive activities is keeping to their destination and later took any possible candidates for an im- them back to the point of embarkan push. He came from the same

Schuman

portant role in coalition efforts pretty] tion, when another man, whom he village as complainant. There were ask such a question the meeting General

members of the Council for this. some time ago, issued a house and found a wallet containing RM Capt Found Shother mediation efforts and for the

and

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