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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927.
RAN AWAY.
A 12-YEAR OLD BOY IN TROUBLE.
COURT ADVISES THRASHING.
befriended him.
EUROPEAN ROBBED.
CHINESE GETS 3 YEARS' HARD LABOUR.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
NEW ARMY LORRY.
DEMONSTRATION FOR THE GOVERNOR.'
MORRIS SIX-WHEELER.
A coollé was charged before 'Mr. I. E. Lindsell this morning with Chung Chung pleaded guilty in From Lieut.-Colonel G. E. harbouring a 12-year-old boy. He the Supreme Court this morning Badcock, C.B.E., D.S.O., O.C., pleaded that the boy came to him before His Honour the acting R.A.S.C., 15th Infantry Brigade, of his own free will, and he merely Puisne Judge, Mr. P. Jacks, to it is learned that a demonstration The boy, in the witness box, said stealing $113, the property of Mr. for His Excellency the Governor. that his parents lived in the coun-William Saunders and was sen- of the capabilities of the new try. He was placed in the care tenced to three years' imprison- Army lorry, the Morris six- of his uncle. One day he had ment with hard labour. quarrel with his cousin, and his Mr. H. K. Holmes, the Crown uncle gave him a thrashing. He Solicitor, prosecuted. resented this, especially as he con-
Stole P.O. Packages. sidered he was in the right, so he
In the same court of the Crim- ran away from home. He slept one night on Wing Lok wharf where inal Sessions Mah Oi received five the accused found him the follow-years' imprisonment with hard ing morning cold and hungry. Ac- labour for stealing seven postal cused gave him a meal and then packages from the General Post took him to a house in West Point Office. He pleaded guilty. where he had lived with the cased until the latter's arrest. During all the time he lived with the accused he had perfect liberty to go and come from the house as he liked. He did not want to re- turn to his uncle as he was better; off with the accused.
ac-
ALL DO IT.
COOKS AND BOYS SMUGGLE OPIUM.
this
The Magistrate told Inspector
The Chinese cook of the 3.8. Grant that it was quite clear the "Chung On" was
morning boy had run away from home of charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell his own accord. He had not been with the unlawful possession of 20 enticed to run away by anyone. taels of prepared non-Government
It was not an offence to harbour opium. such a boy. Is the case of a girl
it was different and a case could!
Accused was
arrested on the wharf yesterday with the drug con- be made out. Acensed did not en- cealed at the back of his girdle. He tice the boy away but merely pick said he was delivering the opium ed him up in the street. The boy to a man at the Chung Wah Res- went with him of his own free will, taurant.
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wheeler, will be held on Wednes- day. The rendezvous will be near the Diocesan Boys' School, Kow- loon, at 9.15 a.m., and the first part of the trip will be made to Chung Taw Ho (Shatin), where the initial part of the demonstra- tion will be made. The journey will be continued to Klun Tung, where a three-fold demonstration will take place. The party will next proceed to Fanling for tiffin. returning to the Diocesan Boys' School at 2.15 p.m.
The object of the demonstration is to train drivers in handling the six-wheeler Morris motor lorry on the road and across country.
WOMEN ATHLETES.
A REMARKABLE THAMES RACE.
the
and did not want to leave him al- Mr. Lindsell remarked that prob-
Rugby, June 19. Crows of eight women rowed a though he had plenty of opportur-ably the accused was snuggling the ity to do so had he wished. There- drug on his own. All cooks and markable race on the Thames yes- fore Sections 44 and 45 of the Or- boys on river steamers, he com- terday. dinance did not apply in this case.
mented, are always doing this.
Accused was fined $20,000, Calling the boy's uncle, the
or, Magistrate told him that it was in default, 10 months' hard labour. quite clear his nephew had run The opium was confiscated. away from home, and the accused had picked him up in the street. "If he chose to run away from you that is your look out, and you did not even think it worth the trou- ble to inform the police."
FALL FROM BUS.
ABERDEEN COMPANY OFFICIAL INJURED.
His Worship added that the boy could not tell the truth, and would probably run away if he had the 306 reported that as the bus was. The driver of Aberdeen bus No.! chance. Therefore he advised the proceeding to Hong Kong yester
uncle to send him back to his
day, a foki of the
company at-"
The winning crew covered
from Putney to Mortlake course over which Oxford and Cambridge universities row their annual race in 26 minutes 57 seconds.
The other crew was five lengths behind.
The times made by the crews of the universities have varled from 18% minutes to 24 minutes 6 seconds.-British Wireless Service.
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A Chinese was severely injured parents in the country. Take him tempted to board it while it was when he fell from the roof of the good thrashing before you send the left rear wheel of the bus pass- died in hospital soon after admis- home first, though, and give him a moving. He slipped and fell and Green Island Cement works. him away."
Inspector Grant told his Worship was removed to the hospital in a
ed over his body. The injured man, sion. that the police decided to charge the accused because last month he very serious condition. was, in similar trouble with regard, to another boy. He told the same A DOG WITH RABIES. story then about picking the boy in the street, and the police allow-
Mr. C. Lam, of No. 8, Kennedy ed him to go.
Road yesterday suspected his dog In discharging the accused the of being infected with rabies and Suffering from an injured Magistrate told him to let this ex- had it destroyed by the police. The shoulder and minor lacerations re- perience be a warning to him that remains were sent to the bacterio-ceived in the course of a fight in he could not go about picking up logist for examination. stray boys in the streets.
SELLING PAPERS.
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Two women were this morning charged before Major C. Willson with selling newspapers yester- day away from the pitches as- signed to them in their licences.
The first woman was selling at the corner of Chater Road and Pedder Street, which Sergeant Dickson said was another per- son's pitch.
Magistrate: You poached on somebody else's preserve.
Defendant: It was Sunday and only one foreign paper is issued. On other days I keep to my own pitch.
Remarking that he did not think Sunday made any differ- ence at all, the Magistrate im- posed a fine of $3.
The
second woman was charged with selling in Caine: Road, her usual pitch being Con-|| naught Road.
She said that some of her cus- tomers attended the service at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and had requested her to take their papers up to them.
Magistrate: If you like that 4.30 p.m. place you should apply to have 4.30 p.m. your pitch changed, Gp.m.
Defendant: I only go there on Sundays.
A fine of $1 was imposed.
As the result of a bowl of boiling soup breaking in his hand, a Chin- 8.30 a.in. so was yesterday badly scalded. He is now in the Government Civil Hospital.
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e closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 1/11 15/16
Falling on some broken glass in First Street, West Point, a Chinese yesterday received injuries to his chest. He now in hospital.
A North Point contractor reports that he entrusted a foreman with $67.53 to pay some workmen, but the man alisconded with the money.
A sack of sugar fell on the leg of a coolie while he was working In the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. The leg was fractured and the man was removed to the hospital.
Chamber of Commerce meeting in
In our report of the Chinese!
our issue of Saturday the speech of Mr. Ho Iu, relating to some of the local trade and other regula tions that had not proved helpful to trade in the Colony, was inadver- tently attributed to Mr. Li Yau- chuen.
Having fallen down a steep banki o Chinese employed at the Dairy in- Farm at Pokfulum suffered jurles to his head which had to be. treated at the hospital.
George's Lane a Chinese was yes- terday taken to the hospital.
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