GAOL FARE FOR FONG LEE TILL HIS SHIP COMES IN

FONG LEE, the 70-year-old Chinaman who broke a cafe window on Sunday to get a bottle of pickled onions, will spend a month in gaol waiting for the next ship'to China.

Through an interpreter at the City Court yesterday, Fong Lee pleaded guilty to a charge of having insufficient means of support. Police said they had found Fong outside the cafe early on Sunday morning, eating the pickled onions. He told them he was hungry.

Mr Hill, SM. was told that Fong Lee had recently been discharged from the Royal Park; Receiving Home.

He had been staying with other Chinese until he wandered away on Thursday. He should have embarked on a ship which left for China on Friday.

He was sent to gaol mainly for his own welfare. He had no friends in Australia. Tuesday 26 July 1949 The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.