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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1938.
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7.15 9.30 PM.
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ORIENTAL
THEATRE
FLEMING ROAD WAN CHẢI TEL 28473]
SHIPPING RACKET
DESCRIBED AS “WATER RATS” AND “SCALLY-WAGS” 20 CHINESE COOLIES AND HAWKERS, ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN ORGANISED RACKETEERING, OCCUPY- |ING STEERAGE SPACE ON COASTAL VESSELS AND SUB- RENDERING IT TO PROSPECTIVE PASSENGERS FOR SUMS RANGING FROM $2 TO $10, WERE CHARGED BEFORE THE MARINE MAGISTRATE, COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, AT THE MARINE COURT THIS MORNING, FOR BOARDING THE S.S. KWANGTUNG AND THE S.S. KING YUEN FOR UNLAWFUL PURPOSES.
Inspector A,
I
Whant, prosecut- ing, stated that as a result of a
complaint from Messrs. Butterfield QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY
and Swire, who were informed that third-class passengers leaving the
The following telegram has been Colony by the s.8. Anking last month paid about $1,000 for space sent by the Governor to the Secre- on board, the ship, detectives, dis-tary of State for the Colonies:- guised as passengers, boarded the Grateful if you will convey to Her 8.8. Kwangtung last Tuesday. They Majesty the Queen the loyal and were accosted by first five defen-hearty congratulations and good dants, but the surrendering of space wishes of all communities in Hong was done in such a manner that Kong on the occasion of her birth- no sufficient evidence could be day. presented to show that they obtain-
ed money by false pretences.
DEFINITELY A RACKET Questioned by the
Magistrate,
Inspector Whant stated that it was definitely a a racket,
Five defendants were each fined
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY $50 or two months' hard labour.
A REAL FAST-ACTION STORY FILLED WITH THRILLS ! A dangerous racketeer who had every politician in town on his pay
roll, he
~he owned the town..
CLEVER CHINESE GIRL BUSTED UP HIS RACKET
DANGEROUS TO KNOW".
MEET PUBLIC MENACE No. 1!
ANNA MAY WONG GAIL PATRICK AKIM TAMIROFF
2 BAY TO-MORROW & SATURDAY •
ONLY
THIS SMART DAME KNEW AGE THE ANSW
HOPKINS RAY MILLAND Wise
WALTER ABEL AS HENKY STEPHENSON
MATINEES: 20c.-30c @ EVENINGS: 20c.-30c,-50c.-70c.
WOOD CUTTERS
Wong Sze
res
EXTRADITION SOUGHT
3250 or
Tuan
aged, 40, ap- H. R. Butters at
to-day on He is ac
and the
The other 15 accused were each fined $10 or 10 days imprisonment for unlawfully boarding the s. s. King Yuen yesterday.
Inspector Whant said that there was no evidence to show that these men were particularly en
engaged in the same racket, as seven were hawking wares.
DIVANS RAIDED
Seventy-two years old, Lai Wai was this morning charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy, with possession of 4:5 taels of non-Government opium and with keeping a divan at No. 47 Bonham Strand East, second floor." A fine of $200 or one month was passed on the first charge 'and a fine of $75 on
the second,
Li Cheung, 54, was fined $350 or It is learned that a special Pre- ventive Officer, Mr. J.W. Walker, four months' hard labour, for has been appointed by Messrs. possession of four taels of pre- Butterfield and Swire, to co-operate pared opium and with keeping a with the police in preventing pas- sengers from being victimised.
GAMBLING DEN RAIDED
Resulting from a police raid on No. 137, Temple Street last night, twenty persons, including a 52- year-old widow, were this morning] charged at the Kowloon Police Court before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfad- yen.
Wong Cheong $75 each. T
fined $2 while
bail of $3 each
The table
shop
had
divan...
For alleged possession of heroin pills at Lockhart Road, Ma Yuet, a young Chinese, was remanded for one week. He was allowed bail of-$10,000:-
BANISHED "FOR NO REASON AT ALL"
Li Kwan-wo, aged 24, unlicensed hawker, was this morning sen- Itenced to six months hard, labour at the Central Magistracy, for
deportati order said he was börn and in the Colony, was
$40.04, were banished for, no reason at all. He ordered to be placed in the Poor was only charged with disturbing Box.
DAILY
AT
520
720
920
the peace when banished,
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