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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1938.
EUROPEAN HIT AND RUN DRIVER WANTED
A European who drove a "borrowed" car, No, 40, collided with a rickshaw, completely smash- ing the vehicle and injuring the puller, at about 11.15 p.m. on Tuesday in Arsenal Street near the
-ANOTHER- LOYALIST SUCCESS
Barcelona, To-day.
The Republicans” claim a second crossing of the Segre River (the first having been claimed yester- day), halfway between Lerida and Balaguer and to have cut the main Lerida-Balaguer road.--Reu- ter.
Naval Canteen, is being searched GROSS CRUELTY
for by the Police.
It appears
run driver "stole" the car and TO CHILD ON
hit-and- from
the car park in Pedder Street, but returned it after the accident oc- curred.
SAMPAN
The police are also soliciting LAM YAN, A 40-YEAR-OLD the assistance of the public in lo- WIDOW, WAS THIS MORNING cating a cyclist who disappeared SENTENCED TO THREE after knocking down an elderly MONTHS HARD LABOUR BY Chinese woman resulting in her MR. H. R. BUTTERS AT THE leg being broken in Square Street CENTRAL MAGISTRACY WHEN in the same evening.
CHARGED WITH ILL-TREATING
This morning another hit-and-] FUNG YUET-HO, AGED 13.
Inspector Fraser said the girl run incident occurred in Queen's Road East, when a lorry, proceed-was presented to defendant some ing eastwards, struck an elderly time ago as a prospective daughter- Chinese who was seriously injur-in-law. Both defendant and the
girl's mother were boat people. ed. The driver did not stop.
On Monday, the girl's mother The authorities are requesting was in a sampan in Shaukiwan the assistance of those who hap- when she heard her daughter cry- pened to have witnessed these ac-ing. She boarded defendant's boat cidents, in their attempt to locate and there saw her daughter bound these three hit-and-run drivers. hand and foot and badly bruised was in a Information may be communicat-about the body. She ed to the Traffic Department, fainting condition and had been Central Police Headquarters. without food for two days.
SALVATION ARMY STRENGTH
London, To-day.
The British Salvation Army, con- sisted of 186,528 officers and men on August 1, states thè report is- sued....on Wednesday,
Enquiries revealed that the girl had rowed some passengers to a pier in Shaukiwan some days ago, had failed to collect the fare, and had been punished in this manner.
PETROL STATION EXCITEMENT
The Socony Filling Station at the 4,098 new recruit's joined the junction of Nathan and Waterloo Army July and that is a greater Roads was the scene of some excite- number for July than in the last 13 ment on Tuesday when a coolie lit years of recruiting, July being al- a cigarette while a lorry was be ways exceptionally weak.
ing filled with gasolene.
In the London Division, the total strength of 8,959 is 89.7 of the stan-
A spark caused the delivery hose to catch alight.
car
was. con-
dard strength, while in the two Fortunately the hose was with- other divisions, the corresponding drawn from the inlet of the figures are 88 and 81,3-Trang-tank, and the damage
fined to the loss of a quantity of Ocean.
gasolene.
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ACCUSED
EGYPTIAN POLITICAL TOURS:
Au Kit, aged 42, shroff at the General Post Office, was 'this morn- ing charged before Mr. R. Edwards
Cario, To-day. at the Central Magistracy, for frau- Following the return of the Egyp- dulent disposal of a sum $369,39,tian Premier, Mohamed Mahaoud, public money, while he was a Pub-from his Europe an tour, Foreign lic Servant.
Minister Fattan Jesia will also Mr. E I. Wynne-Jones, the Post visit England in September. Master General, is prosecuting. The He will confer with various Euro- hearing was fixed for August 23,pean statesmen and in October will defendant being allowed $500 bail. return the wisit of the Turkish Foreign Minister Rushdu Aras, who was in Cairo last Spring.
TOLD WRONG Trang-Ocean,
German traveller, Hans Wil-
helm Eckbart, was fined $5 by Mr.
Mrs. Lunson residing at the
R. Edwards at the Central Magis-Dairy Farm Quarters, Pokf
tracy this morning, forentering the has reported the loss of
alid passp
bag, containing money articles to the value of her car while. iving