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BURGLARY CHARGES DARING HOLD-UP OF "ON THE BORDER.”
TWO UNEMPLOYED CHINESE
TO BE TRIED. -
After a remand of one week, two unemployed Chinese, Chan Ming (21), and Chan Sik-tlu (14), again appeared before Mr. Butters in the Kowloon Magistracy to-day on a charge of breaking Into No. 208, Laichikok Road, and stealing two
on
CANTON TRAIN.
Passengers Kidnapped by Bandits.
OVER $3,000 STOLEN.
rattan baskets containing $24 in which left money, four finger rings, a pair cember
ALLEGED SEDITION CASE FALLS TO GROUND.
Considering it to be a border line case, Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning, discharged Yau Kwai (26), a foki employed at the Taikoo Sugar Re- finery, who appeared on a remand. charge from yesterday of the un- Inwful possession of seditious documents, which were likely to cause a breach of the peaco, at Quarry Bay.
Canton, Yesterday. The passenger and freight train:
the Canton-Shanchow line, Wangsha OP De- 20 at 3.20 p.m. for of ear-rings and 35 pieces of Yuantan, was held up by a num- female clothing, the property of her of bandits at 5.15 p.m. while Wan Tai, an amah. An additional reaching Hung Pang Klang, about charge of receiving a basket con-115 11 'from the Kuntien station. All talning 24 pieces of clothing valu- the passengers were driven to cil at $21, was preferred against corner and were searched one by hands. There were no further
&
Detective-Sergeant Kennedy, who prosecuted, said that he had con- sulted the C.D.I. and the A.D.C.I., and had been Instructed to leave. the ease entirely in his Worship's
facta.
the second accused. The first one for their valuables and moneys accused was also charged with re-which were estimated at a loss of sidered it to be a border line case, His Worship said that he con- ceiving a rattan basket containing a little over $3,000. Among the
were not $24, a pair of ear-rings, four gold passengers, 13 who were regarded sufficiently damaging to
and that the documents
warrant finger-rings, and 11 pieces of cloth-to be wealthy persons, ing, and with the theft of a gramosequently kidnapped by the bandits the defendant accordingly.
any conviction. He discharged phone valued $22, from No. 61,for ransom.
Nam Cheung Street, the property}
of Chan Hol-aing, a photographer,
jand recolving the same.
Train Boarded..
were sub-
According to A report, three
A plea of not guilty was entered bandits first jumped up to and the ease was ixed for hear
coal car a
while passing
ing on January 16, bail of $1,000 the Kun Tien station, with- each being allowed.
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out the knowledge of the engineer, who was forced with pistols to obey the orders of the bandits. The en- gineer was instructed to stop the train when reaching Hung Pang 20 bandits Klang where over boarded the train and took com- plete control of it.
Future Precaution.
THEFT OF CLOTH.
POLICE OFFICIAL FROM SWATOW SENTENCED.
Stated to be a Police official, from Swatow, Tal Kant fel was fined $50, or two months' imprisonment, at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, for unlawful possession of a roll, of cloth in Temple Street.
When accosted he said he had In order to guard against the purchased it from the Hung Hing We are informed by the Hong activities of bandits on the Canton- shop, but on enquiries the foki of, Kong Branch of the Eastern Ex-Shaochow line, Director Chan Yio-the shop donled selling the cloth to
Morcove, no cloth of that;} tension Telegraph Co., Ltd, that mul has submitted a report to Gen-him.
eral Chan_Chal-tong asking for ad- description was stocked by-them. the estimated traffic receipts of equate protection on that line. It Accused told a complicated story the Imperial and International is understood that a squad of gen-when questioned by Mr Butters Communications, Ltd., for Novem-darmeries will escort the train run- this morning, involving fights, ber, 1930, were £402,886, and ning on this line daily.-Canton friends, gambling, and trumped-up the receipts for November, 1929, News Agency. £512,163. The aggregate receipts from January to November were £4,929,154 in 1980 and £5,628,629 in 1929.
The Vancouver Creosoting Com- pany is extending its plant con- siderably to include the building of a new wharf of creosoting piling and timber, which will increase the
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SIR GEOFFREY SALMOND.
Reaches Delhi After Bad Weather Delay.
New Delhi, Nov. 21. Two R.A.F. machines, with Air' pier's accommodation by 27,000 The Postmaster-General an-Chief Marshal Sir Geoffrey square feet; a new treating cylin-nounces that from January 1 calls Salmond, left Calcutta on Novem der unit and two creosote oil stor will be accepted in the trans-ber 19, but owing to bad weather age tanks with a storage capacity Atlantic telephone service for all the Wapiti machine with Sir, of 2,000,000 gallons and a large parts of Canada and Mexico in- Geoffrey landed at Asansol, while specially designed, incising machine stead of principal Towns only, and the Hanaidi machine returned to capable of Incising timber up to 24 will thus be available to the Calcutta. square inches. The improvements whole of the North American con- under Way will
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