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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY; · MARCH 3, 1949.

THE PWD LARCENY TRIAL

RESUMED

Estimate Of Cost Of Installations

in

Kwok Hop, Public Works Department efec.

Justice Wil trician, gave evidence before. Mr liams at the Criminal Scasionr this morning on resumption of the PWD larceny trial which Kwok Kwong, 47, foreman, and Arthur Frederick May, 41, electrical inspector, grade 1, face three charges of theft by public servant and three af falsification of accounts with intent to defraud the Government.

Before the hearing began, his Lordship directed that May return to his place in the dock.

His Lordship said that he had given permission for May to sit at counsel's table only during the evidence and i of J. (.. gross-examination Brown, chief electrical and mechanical engineer of the PWD.

May is defended by Mr A. J Clifford, structed by Mr J, C. Stewart, wille Kwok

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challenge that statement, Mr Clifford,

Mr Clifford: As yoûr Lord- ship pleases, I won't pursue. thuż point.

Mr Cuford to withem): How dig were you detained by the Polter

There was

was required to be put Apart from thes Job at Hans kow Hun dirf you also work de UPA with KwoİK is nut; Kwing? Au Pal told me to The prose go to work there. legally represented. cution is conducted by Mr A.

Replying to Me Hooton, wit- Houlton, Crown Counsel, assisted, nese said that be told the Police by Mr J. Johnston, ASP.

wok Hop testified you heat the lamps two or fore

days after his release.

won employed at the Buisglom workshop and was

Clansman

KWOK'S INSTRUCTION

of Kwok Kwint. 1 July last | Lad Kwan, PWD electrkelion, year he was asked to take a bill, Jestified that in July, 1918, Kwik

oflier in Prince's „Kwong instructed to a vertin Bubeling and which he

electricians

collect $70, Lee Chn, 140 Chett, Nu Shu banding the ad Loung May to assemble two, to Kwek Kwong, W-thiorescent lamps at the Hurut-

with Mr hom workshup. ness salt he wint Johnston. of the Police,

The lamps were taken siver to pointed put I wo funserm first tour of Prince's Build- lamp shades which he had put, tee House Street, and there! up there with Lal Kwan. When were installert in an office in they went

floor they the cock loft by to the waited until mid-day- and when Kwok Hop after witness asked Kwok whom they had left the place. were synting for he replied,

La said he did no other job *May”.

That day, but he was paid by the Government for that day.

Kwok Kwong: Are there much fluorescent lamp sets for sale in the shops?

Witness: Yes. flow much per sel? About twenty dollars,

Mr Clliford: Have you been engaged with Kwok Kwong on several private jobs?

Witness: Yes. I have done one private job for him at 24, flan- kow Ruud, when some old wir 'ing was replaced with new wire it and 12 of wiring was

taken back to the stores,

You did that in Government time and got Governinuent pay. Is that correct". You.

And you did it for Kwong? Yes.

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witness net Kwok Kong

H. L. W. Aitken, foremon of the electrical departront of the Naval Dockyard, gave an estl- mante

of the cost of labour and, material used in electrical Ins stallations in the houses of De Thomas at Pokfulam, the mar- kal at Tokwawan and the Ent- chikek Hospital.

A Visitor

To London

WELCOME-Sheila Bevan, station clerk at London Airport, greets a four-month-old panther cub, on its arrival by British Overseas Airways Corporation from Bombay.

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Sampan Robbery Recalled

At Sessions

A robbery in British waters off Tai Mui, to the cast of Colony, when a sailing sampan returning from Chinese territory with a cargo was stopped by another sampan containing armed men and plundered, was recalled before Mr Justice Reynolds at the Criminal Sessions this morning.

Sheh Yau,, alias, Lo Sceling, alleged to be the master of the robbers' boat, appeared on trial on a charge of robbery, by two or more.

He was alleged to have, in | Hongkong. He had with him enmpany with Lai Fuk, allas a crew of three men,

Ko Lọ Fuk, and others not in About 7,30 am on Novim eustody, robbed “Lu! Chuen of ber 14, when off Tal Moi, his 15 tim of peanut oil, 24 chic-, sampai was intercepted by an- kens, one pg, 30 cattles of ries other sampan containing at least andh-basket of charcoal Novy jmber 14.

on; four men, three of whom were

arined

the with pistols and other with

a rifle. orgabe charged with the

Lui Chuen was ordered to Ezme office, Ng Kan-mui, wife heave-to. When he obeyed the of the permed, was this morn-order, the armed men boarded han discharged by his Lordship | his crail, and Lut and its crew when Me M. Heenan, - Crown were placed under a batch and Vamoh who conducted

the covered with matting. While funmention, agistech, by 12et | Imprisoneli there, they heard the Sub-Inspector Askew, told the sound of cargo being moved, Court that the Crown proposed

¦ to offer no evidenta sezinst her,

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The Jury empanelfed pred tis mep and wompact,

Bemut

Decarard

KEPT IN CAVE

The next thing but fell, was hi simpan belnit run agronach, thyte and his crew were taken off the sampan and up the hills to a cave, where they were conture:l for a day guarded by two armed men. At the end of that time Lud nnd his crew · folind they

tr

to dural waters fiat Mun, where the temple was ja well-known landmark. Ou

the evening of November Chuen had taken on a

in Chinese territory the oldest of bringing

NO MORE,

BEVIN TELLS HOUSE

London, Mar. 2.-Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons today that he could do no more than he had done concerning the arrest of the 15 Bulgarian Protestant pastors, now on trial in. Sofia,

I am continually protesting against this type of conduct," he said, answering a question from Mr Christopher Hollis, Conservative. Asked whether the latest reports did not suggest that the pastors had been subjected to physical ill-treatment, Mr Bevin said he did not know "how the operation worked.”

Mr Edward Keeling, Conservative, stating that Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, recently son- tenced to life imprisonment, had been "a long time in prison," asked if this was to go on inde- finitely.

He said he weperl with the Police and workmen to the page. perty at Pokfulum By August. 1948. The installations were not completed. The lighting: rable new single cord of about was a 1,225 yards mi all, and there

The same position applies The citief defendant in the were 19.ught

There were

points

'to Archbishop Stepinatz of trial, Pastor Zapkov, ind points power

Yugoslavia, sentenced to 16 asked him to supply him with years forced labour in 1946, political and economic informa- he said.

Kwok were 280

With regard to this waiting of yours, you could not

wern

tw cable was weed for

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Ten the of earth wire pet on used, fesides ground cable.

The tetel roki of labour and.

tised Amate material $1.280.16.

with the job until you bad the kings, could you?---Yes,

And you had to wait unti! they were assembled. You

in

you

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uggest chouli chekare war

on 10 May.

said in evidence that Mr Burt Andrews

tion and that he agreed.

w Mr Burt Andrews, now at a thai "Mr Bovini sensular post in South America, that he knew The electrical installations at asked. "I am not going to do guid in a letter

* Ziapkav And, in fact when your reli- the Tokwawn

Zupkov's market

իւրումյի were that

llleigting al. itt number tion left to collect these lamps, also pletly complete in August,

Meanwhile, a Foreign Ofice, of Anglo-Bulgurian weddings. he did not come back until he 1948, witness went got them.-Yes,

The wiring was there, but not spokesman said today that Mat which he was present as the Stanley George Burt Andrews, i British Vice-Consul. 11e esti- Was that not the erason why the times and the fuse gear

There were 12 light points and former Vice Consul at Sola, mated he had spent a total of you waited?~~~Yes,

has strongly denied chargés in about one hour in Mr. Ziapkov's the length of cable used was

the trial of the Bulgarian pastors company. Wore you arrested ̈ ̈ ̈bý ̈ ̄thejabat 100 yards, costing $40.40-that he mad ""contacts" of "án

Witness: Two days. Polleo and were you then ques-

espionage character." tioned about this affair and did in 12 overhead lights, you tell them that you had to switches, a fuse gear and a main wait? Yes,

TOLD POLICE

At that time did you realise that your waiting was really for thore lights- did not occur to the when I was making that statement to the Police that I was waiting for the assembling of the lainps,

four

switch. To Install these filings would require not more than 12 mun-days. For the work already done it would take about the same period. The total cost of material and labour was about $205.70.

Aitken sald that at the Lat

I suggest you mrzle up that chitole Hospital in August, 1948 sialement

May.

were

waiting for there about

125 light point which had been re-wired and The points acessed six power points. has not challenged that. He has had been done with 1,640 yards

His Lordship: First

let it go.

Mid-East

Alliance

Reports

The Foreign Office, spokesman said he had already announced that the charges against Mr D. A. Greenhill, First. Secretary at the British Legation in Sofia. any other members of the

| British Foreign Service now in Sofia, and already been investi- gated officially and found to be false:

In Sofia today, the last pro- secution witness the "treason"

told rjalid he was

by a former American Legation secretary, Mr Cyril Black, that the "United States may provoke a war to balt Communist ag-

Denied of twin catale costing $662.58 and

Mr Clifford: First accused not the power with 200. yards of does single cable costing $1500. The being legally represented

cos! for materials The Lordship: 1 don't see how annanted to $401.53.

be in

The ease is proceeding. at position you en

not know what he enin challenge. ;over-ull

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US Women Are Being “Ruined”

it the Crown's case that The needged was the master of the sampan which carried the rollers who perpetrated this rabbers," Mr Heenan declared. "His story is that he was forced to do this by the actual robbers, but the Crown submission that he was, if not the principal instigator, a willing accomplice In this affair."

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On -November 20, acting on Information, the Police foural a sampan lying In the Yaumati typhoon shelter. The craft was identified by Li as the one which corried the men Win robbed his vessel,

The accused and another min were discovered on board the sampan, and taken into custody,

"In connection with his plea that he was forced to sail his of sampan under the direction the other men, it is interesting to note that he made no attempt to report this to the Police after fitet And the robbery, evidence will be called to show he inoved his sampan, into Yau- shelter only when he feant that the Dr

Sydney, Mar. 2-Ameri- cant women" "don't know they're alive," said Muriel Mellrath on her re- (urn from a tour of Europe the United States. and!

Dr Mcfieath, a gynaecolo- gist sald American women being "rulard" by Shm labour-saving devices. cited' dish-washing ma- chines, rubblek disposal sinks and other gadgets.

Americans

shm

WITC

me

have sald. "Some of their devices make

with Kreen envy-but they don't know they're alive. They haven't enough to do."---United Presa.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Closing Times by air Kunming. Liuchow, Amoy, Shang- hi, Nanking. London, Mar. 2.-Floods hungking, Swalow and Tainn, 3.30 Tatta. Kwelt.

estimated to have enused p.m.

Itangoon, Calcutta, Karachi. Bah- £500,000 damage in Norfolk rein, Alexandria Nairobil, Johan- are receding, but they have nesburg and Marseilles via Alexan

dria) Home and London, (CIO) 4.30 been followed by snow.

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Japan, p.m. Saigon and Paris. 5 p.m.

Closing Times By Ses Amoy, 3 p.m.

Southern France was swept. by B "mistral", which reached 05 Allometres un hour.

Rome

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FRIDAY, MARCH 4. Closing Tinies Ity Air Swdtow and Amay, B.30a.m. tregi hin, jord).

Shanghat, Nanking, Tsingtao, Swa- tow, Amoy and Talpeh, 3.30 p.m.

Manila, Honolulu, USA & Canada,

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Swatów od Amoy, 11 a.m. Shanghai, Noon.

London, Mar. 2.—Cairogression." I reports that the United

States had proposed a three-i, The witness, Christo Straley, former secretary of the out- power alliance with Britain wed Agrarian Union jes Bul- and Egypt were denied today guria, told the court that he hy a Foreign Office spokes himself was now under arrest. After his evidence, the pro- secutor annomeed that. the "We have no knowledge of statements by the 28 witnesses and have had four inches of -any such proposal," he said. alread heard and the 15 ne-show, but the Thames food In diplomatic quarters here. cused--all but one of whom Peril hns cased and the river has the reports were considered confessed to espionage activi-returned to its normal level.

Europe is recovering from the highly improbable, since the „tres-closed his case.

effects of the storms of the past "United States Constitution pro

Western The trial was adjourned unth few days, but from hibits her from taking part in foreign alliances. This pro Friday, when the prosecution Germany 24 deaths and 90 in- vision

waived, will open Rs final statement and Juries have been reported can only diplomatic sources said, as in the the defence counsel and the Hai ar snow fell in Paris case of the proposed Atlantic accused will be heard.-Reuter. today after a sunny morning. Paci, aller the most delicate manoeuvres of Internal politics..

Observers here said that it undercurrent of truth behind these alllance rumours from Calro might be that unofficial fecters had been put out to

6. Programme Summary; revive negotiations for the re- Children's Halt Hour. "The Pirates vision of the 1930 Anglo-Creek" by Jean Marsh (DOCTS); said.

4.30, La Deml-Heure Francalle Egyptian Alliance

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that Analysis (London Relay): 7.15, sandstorm today stopped. all though Britain and the United Serenate to the Stect" will Sid flying at Farouk and El Moza States might have discussed ney Torch, Len Stevens, Lou Wenirports on the fringe of the de- son atte Leslie Douglas (ONBS); jointly whether

clrcumstances 731. Down Beat Disco presented sert outside Cairo, upsetting air- were propitious for reopening by Paul Stuart (Studio), 8. From the line schedules. Six people were negotiations to revise the Anglo-Editorials" (London Relay): 1.10. A reported dead in gate accidents Egyptian Alliance, they

Short Orchestras Concert and Oscar con- Natzke (Dan): 8.25 Concerto in Belgium-Reuter. sidered it "out of the question" vielin Concerto in D Milor. Op 35. that the United States should be Tchaikowsky, Jascha 3leifetz and the A party to such negotiations on Philarmonic Orchard

To-Eddie Kong Dancer Reuter,

Guzman and Itis Orchestra, from

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Another workman wax plane at more than 1,000 miles today. 55, is to succeed Major General ¦ Musle; 10.45, "Country Dance Party" F. St D.B. "Lejeune

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Plane's Lucky Escape

Policeman Kills Soviet Soldier

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New York, Mar. 2-A Bom- Brunswick, Mar. 2.—A· Ger- bay-bound DC-4 Skymaster, f-man policeman last Monday shot with 33 people aboard, hit, and killed n Russian soldier, ground wire installations, but who had crossed the Anglo-

Zone frontier landed safely at Gander, New-Russian foundland, last night, the Trans- Eckertet, in. the Harz Moun- Continental and Western Air-tains, it was learned here today. Hines said today...

The soldier was pursuing a

who

illegally woman The plane, with 24 passengers crossed the border, He seized and a crew of nine, was making her a 100 metres on the Brill an instrument landing approach side and tried to take her to the field when it struck the suitense niso. She shouted and wires, the Company sald. It had a German policeman appeared.,

The Russian red. The Ger left. LaGuardia Field here yen- terday afternoon.

man Ared back and killed him.. -Reuter.

Oficials of the company said

wore being. that arrangements made for the passengers to con- tinue their trip.

hud

It was belloved that none of the passengers were Indians,- Reuter,

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