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WOMAN FOUND WITH 20,000
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HEROIN PILLS
Appearing on remand before Mr.
HEAVY FINE AFTER TELLING
ft:
FACTS TO POLICE
Chin King cheung, aged 32, a R. Edwards at the Central Magis-contractor's clerk, was this morn- tracy this morning, a Chinese wo-
man, Hon Ting, was sentenced to ing fined $100 by Mr. H. R. But- one year's imprisonment and a fine ters at the Central Magistracy for of $2500 or a further six months, aiding and abetting another person
for possession of
•
was
20,000 heroin
not in custody, in driving a motor pills at No. 126 Jervois Street.
Au King-fun was fined $50 or one car without the owner's permission. defenant Sergeant Youe said month for possession of 2,100 duti-
to the the Yaumati took a number of friends able cigarettes, at
Yaumati Ferry where one of them Ferry wharf.
A fine of $600 or six months' im- drove the car. The party, went for 60 was an accident, in which the car [prisonment was passed on a woman, a joy ride and at King's Road there
Poon Hun, for possession of
everyone same overturned, and taels of raw opium at the place. Defendant said she was ask-thrown out. Defendant was ren- ed to carry the opium from a sam- dered semi-unconsiou's, while the pan, and was paid 30 cents, for each rest of the party absconded.
When defendant regainded con- to package,
Another Chinese woman, Wong sciousness, he engaged a taxi Ho, was fined $2,500 or six months' take him to Hospital but on the hard labour, when for possession of way reported the accident to the 82 taels of prepared opium at No.Police. 258, Des Voeux Road West, first floor.
The car was badly damaged but defendant had arranged with the
Revenue Officer J. L, Stephens owner to pay compensation. prosecuted.
ACCOUNTING OF AN ESTATE
RACE HAS NOT DAUNTED HER
· Miss Prudence Fawcett, twenty- five years old, Orpington, Kent, at her flopped into an armchair
said "I hotel recently, 'land think I will enter the race again next year."
She had just finished her first car race, competing against the crack European drivers on the gruelling twenty-four hours Le Mans Circuit.
An application that an account be taken by the Registrar of the late Li Shing-yiu's' estate, retained and converted by Li Shing-kiu, and for the return of 500 Ewo Cotton Mills shares, certificate- No. 19556, or their value, was granted by the Acting Chief Justice R. E. Lindsell, at the Supreme Court this morning. The application was made by Mr.
Packed tightly in the cockpit of J. L. Anderson, instructed by Mr. Peter H. Sin, on behalf of Mrs. Li the car, Miss Fawcett had lined up Lam-shi, executrix of the estate of with them all in a specially tuned the late Li Shing-yiu.
Morgan, a tiny machine compared In the witness-box, plaintiff stat-with the giant German and Italian ed that the estate was left in the racers. charge of defendant
when
she But after a day and night of re- went to the village to attend the lentless driving, her car was still funeral of one of her relative's. racing this afternoon when many On her return defendant handed others had dropped out. over the estate, but after looking through the books, plaintiff found that 500 Ewo Cotton Mills Shares has been retained by defendant.
DIPLOMACY IN BURGOS
Burgos, To-day.
RAIDERS ACTIVE Extraordinary diplomatic activ-
on
* Reports from Barcelona state that on account of the A. A. guns, the planes had to fly very high.
She finished thirteenth, after lead- ing in her class this morning.
"It was just a whim that made “I me enter the race," she said. have never been in one before, but as I have now qualified for the Rudge-Whitworth Cup next year, I fancy I will be having the same ideas next June.
“I wasn't scared. It was tough, but I loved it."
BOMBAY SCOUTS BREAK AWAY
ity prevails at present in Burgos,
Bombay, July 18. Paris, To-day. the "capital" of General Franco.
The Provincial Scout Council Barcelona was bombarded
In the course of the present week of the Bombay Presidency decid- Sunday by 10 Insurgent planes, an important Council of Ministers ed at the annual meeting recently which came in two groups, each of is to be held at which numerous to disaffiliate itself from the Boy five, from a northerly direction. negotiations with other States now Scouts Association of India and going on are to be discussed.. function as an independent auto- For instance, besides the conver-nomous body in the Bombay Pre- sations with British delegates_residency with effect from July 27, garding the bombardment of Bri-under the name Hindustan-Scout tish ships, there are also to be econo- Association of Bombay. mic deliberations with the repre- The meeting tentatively adopt- On Saturday night; the town of sentatives of Rumania, At the ed the draft constitution - of the Tarragona, on the Mediterranean same time there will be negotia- Hindustan Scout Association and Coast, southwest of Barcelona, was tions with Bulgaria expected to lead a sub-Committee was appointed attacked four times by Insurgent to a despatch of a Bulgarian econe to go into the details of the con- airmen.
|mic delegation to Spain.
stitution.
No reports on the damage done have been received..
Reports number
+
reeldňa say that Unconfirmed reports, state that
were com- besides this, "non-committal" "nego- Mr. Roubillard, of No. 134.
tiations" with an emissary of the tin Road, has reported loss French
bombu.
will foreign Minister M. Bonnet Jewellery, valued at $14, from
Kdertaken. – Trany-doean, residence last night.
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