HEROIN PILL FACTORIES IN FOREIGN HOMES
One year's hard labour and in addition a fine of $2,500 or an- other six months' imprisonment was the
sentence this morning, on Lau Chau, aged 42, a cook, who pleaded guilty to possession of 4,000 heroin pills at No. 390,
Island Road.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
"You are
fortunate that you are
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1988,
RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS
Meiji, To-day.
not standing here on a charge of Moscow does not desire to murder," remarked Sir Atholl Mac-
Gregeor, Chief Justice, to Li Ting who oust Japanese fishing rights in the Far pleaded guilty to a charge of robbing from Soviet waters Li Hoi-yau of $30 at Au Tau on East, Mr. Masayuki Saito, an December 10 last, at the Criminal official of the Ministry of Agricul- Sessions this morning.
ture and Forestry, said on his ar- It was alleged that accused used violence in the course of the robbery.rival here
where from Russia, Dr. G. H. Henry testified that the for the past two years he has victim suffering from a fractured skull been assisting in the conduct of which might in future cause the vic- the Japanese-Soviet fisheries
negotiations.
tim to suffer from fits.
An order was made that the $17.10, Senior Revenue Officer Grimmitt found in possession of accused, be re- said defendant was employed in anturned to the victim's master to whom isolated house in Island Road, oC-
the money belonged. cupied by Mr. O. E. C. Marton, the
local solicitor, Mr. C. B. Burgess, BREACH OF TRUST
the Police magistrate, and N. D. Lloyd.
Defendant was given money for
·
AFTER 4 YEARS
of 13
the catering and some of the money Yen Kwok-chui, 27, a clerk em- was missing but this did not con-ployed by M. Beraha, was this cern the present charge. Defendant morning charged before Mr. R. Ed- had used the electric cookers for the wards with the embezzlement manufacture of the pills and Mr. $1,074.56 between November Grimmitt asked that a very serious and February 9 this year. view be taken of this case. The Detective-Sergeant MacVey said use of European residences as pill defendant had been in complainant's factories in the absence of the em-employ for over four years as chief ployers by servants, made detection clerk. very difficult. The defendant was in a position of trust and was doing well at his job.
The Islington Corinthians, British amateur soccer tourists who have play- ed in India, Burma, Malaya and Indo- China, arrived in the Colony this afternoon by the Messagėries Mari- times liner Aramis, and were given a rousing reception by the Committee and members of the South China Ath- letic Association, their hosts in the Colony, and members of the Council of the Hong Kong Football Associa- tion.
A sum of $511 had been refunded: by defendant's family and, given time, defendant's relations might be able to raise the balance.
Asked what he had to say, defen- dant said he took the money owing to expenses incurred by his brother's death and that he was willing to repay by deductions from his salary. Mr. Beraha said that he would not re-employ defendant.
The case hours.
was adjourned for
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"It will probably be difficult to conclude a new fisheries convention," Mr. Saito added, “unless relations between the nations are readjusted.”
The Soviet has made remarkable progress in development of heavy industry, he remarked.Reuter.
HITLER GIVES ANNUAL DINNER TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS
Berlin, To-day.
Herr Hitler returned to Berlin from Berchtesgaden yesterday morning, and yesterday evening gave the traditional annual dinner to the Diplomatic Corps in the Pa- lace of the Reich President.
Before the dinner, the newly ap- pointed Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, for the first time in this capacity received the Diplomatic Corps in the Hotel Kaiserhof.-Trans-Ocean.
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POLAR RESCUERS BATTLING STORM
Moscow, To-day.
STOP PRESS
The storm is still hindering the efforts of the ice breaker Taimyr to rescue the North Pole expedition. The vessel is now only 20 sea miles from the drifting ice floe on which the scientists are existing pre- cariously. Trans-Ocean.
THICK ICE
Moscow, To-day. The progress of the ice-breakers Taimyr and Murman towards the camp of the marooned North Pole scientists has been arrested by thick ice.Reuter.
LI TSUNG-JEN
SWORN IN
Shanghai, To-day. General Li Tsung-jen, newly appoint- ed chairman of the Anhwei provin- cial government, was formally sworn in office on Monday at Ljuan..
The oath was administered by Huang 'Chi-lu, member of the Central Execu- tive Committee..
Various others in the reorganised provincial government were sworn in at the same time.
Pending the arrival of Chu T60- ting, the new chief secretary, the pro- vincial duties will be performed tem- porarily by Chang Tai-chi, member of the provincial government.
General Li Tsung-jen is also com- mander-in-chief in the fifth war zone in Shantung, Kiangsu and Anhwei Reuter,
RAIN LATER
The Royal Observatory reports that the anti-cyclone is moving into the
e Pacific to the east of Japan, and another is probably de- veloping over N. China.
An area of relatively low pres- sure lies over Tongking, South China and the neighbouring seas
Local forecast: Light southerly or variable winds, freshening later from N.E.; cloudy generally with fog or mist, probably some rain later.
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