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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929.
CHINESE CHARGED WITH FORGERY
CLEVER IMITATIONS THAT WOULD DECEIVE PEOPLE
FIVE MONTHS JAIL
HOW THEY SPENT
XMAS AT HOME :
SUN, SLEET, RAIN & HURRICANES SWEEP ACROSS BRITAIN
SUNNY BOXING DAY
London, Yesterday,
Christmas holiday weather WA
and rain bad turns, accompanied by variable yesterday, and sun, sleet,
The case in which Ng Pok (20), un- jemployed, was charged with the un- lawful possession of three forged $100
Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor-high winds, which reached a velocity poration notes, was concluded at the of 10 milles an hour hbrricane. Kowloon Magistracy to-day before Mr.
Several shipping mishaps occurred round the British T. S. White-Smith.
and French coasts, fishing vessels being cast on the Chan Shu, a detective, stated that rocks and their crewa narrowly escap- on December 24 he went to 18 Port-ing death.
land Street and saw accused coming Heavy weather in the North Sea eut of the doorway, acting in a sus caused a bad leak and other damage to the lightship."Thalun," a new 200 pleious manner, He then approach-ton vessel from Newcastle to Rangoon, ed him and searched him. In the left-She was towed in dock at Dover. hand singlet sleeve ho found the threo notes. He took him to the Yaumati Police Station.
It was stated that the accused had a Purse on him, which contained a 5 cent piece and three copper cents.
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Testifled As Forgerles Detective Sergeant Fowlie said that he went to the Hong Kong & Shang- hai Banking Corporation and saw the manager, who testified that- the notes were forgeries and stamped them sc. cordingly.
Asked by the Magistrate how ho came to be in possession of the notes, the accused sald that a relative of his, Leung Lam, had given the money to him not to sell-but to repay debts to people.
Sergeant Fowlie pointed out that the three notes were foo greasy to be genuine ones.
Clear I rauds
To prove that they were forgeries,
Boxing Day was favoured with warm. sunshine and very agreeable outdoor weather, af which holiday makers took' full advantage.
Radio Programme Broadcast Christmas greetings were exchanged between Britain and the United States?-iản afternoon pro- gramme of dance music and songs was
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Mr. H. W. Cheng, Shroff of the Kow-relayed by the B.B.C. from Schnectady,
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QUEEN'S AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, & 9.20.
icon Magistracy, entered the witness rear New York, while in the evening, ting down questions for nearly bax. He said that the three notes the National Broadcasting Company of every Minister to-day. were clear fargeries, in that their America relayed part of the pro- backgrounds differed, and the lettering go black as in the genuine
was not ones. All the same, they were very
well forged, and could deceive many permna as eight per cent of them looked like genuine notes.
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The Magistrate inquired of the ac cased if he had a witness for his de- fence, but he replied that his mother knew all about the money affair, and that she was at present in the country, He added that the other day he had one dollar note picked from hin pocket while he was on a ferry, so he put these $100 notes up his sleeve as a safeguard. cused
His Worship held that had the se- not been arrested quickly people would have been defrauded to
the amount of $800.
Accused Was sentenced to months' hard labour.
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Bramme from 2LO. Both relays were very successful. The American pro- gramme WAS relayed to Holland, and announced with Christmas wishes both in English and Dutch-Renter.
Active Hostility
London, Dec. 24.
It is not with a vary Christmassy feeling with which the members of the House of Commons will ad- journ for the Recess.
Long-Awaited Debate
expected to be the debate between The plum of the proceedings is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, and Mr. Winston Churchill, as the latter will reply to Mr. Snowden's recent slashing attack on his finance when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The statement by Mr. William Graham list evening on the Gov- ernment's intentions as regards the They meet to-day (which is the Coal Mining Bill are going a long first Christmas Eve parliamentary way to meet the Liberal demands in sitting for forty years) in an at that connection, especially his mosphere of active hostility and not declaration that the Government goodwill. They are indignant that will see that the public are protect- they have not been given an op-ed against a rise in the price of portunity before the Recess for coal.
general debate on momentous ques-
tions like finance, Egypt and the healed the Liberal-Labour breach, This, however, has not entirely Singapore Base.
as expected, but on the contrary The Opposition had declared authoritative Liberals have con- A tender of £1,058,378 by the their willingness to sit on Christ-demned the statement as vague, Sir John Norton Griffith Companymas Eve to obtain their rights and which shows that the Liberals do for the heightening of the Assouan the Government took them at their not intend to abandon their stiff Dam has been accepted by the word, and now the Opposition, attitudo against the Bill. Hence, Egyptian Cabinet. It was the really not wishing to sit in Christ when Parliament reassembles lowest tender by half a million. mas Week, have hit back by put-Continued at foot of next Column)
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