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TWO REVENUE OFFICERS ACCUSED
How two Chinese Revenue Off- cers, employed by the Hong Kong Government, took part in a raid on 2 fishing junk off Cheung Chan Island on June 26 last, and, it was alleged, robbed the junk master, Mak Fuk-wah, of a sum of $1,000. was described before the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions this morning, when five Chinese, Yuen Fuk (Re- Officer), Ho Fuk-sin. (Re- venue Officer), Leung Tsat, Leung Mui and Chan Yan-ching, were charged with the robbery..
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BER 20, 1937.
ROTUNDA FIRE AN ACCIDENT
Berlin, To-day.
There is no evidence to show that the fire which destroyed the Rotunda, «Vienna's Crystal Palace, was the result of an act of incer-
diarism, says a statement by the Austrian Legation in Berlin
It is surmised that the fire was caused by a short circuit or dur- ing the removal of some of the exh
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Even The Dustbins Will Shine
Dustbins that shine like silver
Farnud. A. A. Botelho, W. S. Himay soon brighten drab alleyways. lier, Fung Shiu-stoi, G. E.M Bodiker and A. F. Ferreira.
Mr. J.. Whyatt, Assistant Attorney-General is prosecuting and accused are represented by the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada..
A perfect process for coating tin, zinc plated steel and galvanised iron has been found. It is being
launched on a commercial basis.
It is not only in the realm of. dustbins that the new metal coating will be in demand, for it combines corrosion resistance of aluminium the strength of steel with the high
The crime of robbery, said Mr. Whyatt, was a particularly serious one in a case where two of the prisoners were Revenue Officers. It was a matter of grave concern not only to the victim but to every trial machinery. member of the community if these men abused their trust.
Already it has been tried out suc- cessfully on aeroplanes, motor-cars, railways, and in all kinds of indus-
It has even been used in the
First and second accused had manufacture of house and
furnishings. been stationed in Cheung Chan since March, but prior to that no Revenue Officer had actually been stationed there:
STRANGE VOICES
Universal adoption is certain be cause of its stainless-steel-like qualities combined with cheapness of production.
Other features are resistance to
The victim was a junk master-heat as compared with other forms who lived with his family on board. of coated steel.
He called frequently at Cheung The process by which the new Chau but spent most of his life material is made produces a steel aboard. On the morning of June which has a comparatively low 26 he anchored his junk off Cheung weight coating of aluminium with Chau with about $400 worth of fish consistent thinness.” This enables which he caught off Lintin Island. the size of cross-section metal parts In the afternoon, he was resting of aeroplanes or cars to be reduced in the hold, when he heard strange considerably, so reducing wind re- voices. He got up, and-saw five sistance without in any way reduc-- strangers on board. First accuse" (ing strength.
approached him, introduced himself It is also claimed that the mater- as a Revenue Officer, and said helial has greater resistance to vibra- wanted to search the junk. Heftion and shock than any previous stood at the entrance to the hold plated steel, so enabling it to be and asked second and third prison-used on high-speed machines ad- ers to go down and search. They vantageously..
opened a cupboard, inside which Another field in which the ma- were a number of notes, amounting terial will fill a long-recognised need to over $1,000.
is that of bridge-building. Much steel wire is used in making The first prisoner, who had been bridge, but this must be well standing at the entrance, went protected if its efficiency is to be down the hold and on seeing the constant.
HANDCUFFED
money said to the master: "$2,000 Aluminium coating will protect He produced a pair of handcuffs the wire from the ravages of rust and repeated the demand. The and corrosion without adding great- master said he had not broken the ly to weight. law, whereupon first prisoner hand- cuffed him by the right wrist. Eventually, $1,000 was handed to
a Police interpreter, through whom the men, who then left.
the matter was brought to the at- After they had gone ashore, the tention of the Police. On informa- master and his son did not raise ation received, all accused were ar- hue and cry, but this was quite rested within an hour. understandable when one consider
When formally charged, the first ed that they were compelled to pay accused admitted having searched the money to representatives of the the junk with four others, but law..
denied having taken the money. About 7 p.m., first accused went Second accused said he was not alone to the Chan Kwok Kee shop, armed while the third stated he where he asked the master to keep new nothing of the $1,000. Four a parcel for him, which later turn-said nothing, and the fifth, while ed out to contain the bank notes admitting he went on board the ARRESTED IN AN HOUR junk, denied that he took part in Next morning, the son to the the search. victim and a cousin went ashore to Mr. Whyatt concluded that find out if any of the accused had other significant point was that the departed for Hong Kong by the marks on the right wrist of the Cheung Chatt ferry. They did not victim were still distinct two days see any of them, and then went to afterwards when he was examined a shop keeper to whom they told at the Kowloon Hospital by Dr. what had happened The son of Lak, who would testify that they the shop-keeper later took them to were caused by handcuffs.
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