Sunday May 26, 1946 A Bird's Eye View by Argus A goose upsets the tranquillity of the Central Magistracy. Contempt of the caught.
* * * This refuse dumping appears to be an incholerable nuisance.
* * * The discovery of a pile of snail shells at Government House gives rise to the belief that the Japanese looked upon these molluscs as a delicacy. What about giving Japanese prisoners the job of clearing the areas now stricken with these pests? * * * I'm not sure whether it should be called the Hongkong share black market or the Hongkong black share market. In any case it appears to be lying low.
* * * A man who can speak six languages recently married a woman who can speak three. Not bad handicapping.
* * * 'SLAP HAPPY' SAYS HE WAS SCORNED BY JAPS Despised Because He Was Canadian-Born Inouye Kanao, a Canadian-born Japanese gendarmerie interpreter, told the War Crimes Tribunal yesterday he had been despised by the Japanese because he was a Nisei (second-generation Japanese born abroad).
Lt-Col Tokunaga, in charge of prisoners of war in Hongkong, did not like him, Inouye said, because he knew Tokunaga used to pilfer Red Cross parcels.
