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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1938
THREE YEARS
ISOCIALISTS IN
FOR TRAFFICKER FRANCE IN RIFT IN FORGED NOTES OVER POLICY
STATING THAT ACCUSED
Paris, To-day.
HAD BEEN FOUND GUILTY In a vote on three resolutions ON THE CLEAREST OF on foreign policy, submitted to EVIDENCE, SIR ATHOLL the plenary session of the Extra- MACGREGOR, AT THE CRI- ordinary National Party Con- MINAL SESSIONS THISgress of the French Socialist MORNING, SENTENCED A Party by Leon Blum, Paul Faure RICE DEALER, HUI CHI- and the “Integral Pacifist” group, SHAN, 48, TO THREE YEARS' respectively, M. Blum's resolu- HARD LABOUR FOR UTTER- tion obtained 4,322 votes, that of ING TWO FORGED $50 BANK M. Paul Faure 2,837 votes, with NOTES AND FOR POSSESSION 1,014 abstentions, and that of the OF SIX FORGED $50 BANK-integral Pacifists only 60 votes. i NOTES.
The vote was taken shortly after
The jury were Messrs. E. L. Hosie three o'clock on Tuesday morning (Foreman), Tai Fook-lam, E. C. F. after a lengthy debate during Curtis, Fung Iu-cheung, Ho Shun-hing, which representatives of the vari- Li Chiu-lung and Seah Cheow-hong.
their view- ous groups presented
Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, sub- mitted that the issues which had to be point. proved would establish beyond. all The representative of the In- doubt the guilt of prisoner because the tegral Pacifist group declared him- Police set a trap into which he walked.
In November, the Police received in- self opposed to rearmament efforts formation concerning the traffic in of any kind, and demanded a dis- forged bank-notes. A meeting was armament gesture instead. held in the Yaumati Police Station, at-
tended by Lam Siu, Woo Shik-po.
Several delegates made a last at-
Chinese detective C450 and Acting Sub-tempt to find a compromise formula Inspector C. Mottram and certain between M. Blum and M. Faure's plans were discussed. The numbers of | resolutions.
ten genuine $10 bank-notes were taken Immediately before the vote, the and the notes given to Woo.
Lam crossed the harbour to Secretary-General of the Socialist Hong Kong in search of Chan Sau- Party, Paul Faure, mounted the kau. Lam went to a cafe in Con- rostrum. naught Road Central, where he met accused..
M. Faure declared that he would
They went to the On Lok Yuen Cafe continue to defend his ideas within in Yaumati, and met Woo, who posed the party even in the event of de- as a prospective purchaser. Accused feat of his resolution. promised to return with the notes later in the evening.
He emphasised that friendship be- tween himself and M. Blum was
He and Lam then returned to the Hong Kong side. They went to the not affected by the fact that they Praya cafe and accused asked Lam to didn't see eye to eye in matters of wait. He later asked Lam to go with foreign policy.
him to Wing Sing Street, and there he told Lam to wait at the corner while
Paul Faure then pointed out that
he went to get the forged bank-notes. the Munich Agreement had not Fifteen minutes later, they went to-been sufficiently exploited for pur- gether to the On Lok Yuen Cafe, in Yaumati.
TWO NOTES
poses of peace. He warned against an armament race in which Woo joined them and accused pro- the totalitarian states were bound duced six forged bank-notes. He said to emerge, as winners since Ger- he had been selling them for years. many's "war potential" was far Woo said he would purchase two and
asked what they would cost. Accused greater than France's.
Woo replied $12 for each $50 note.
He therefore recommended con- produced $24, including two $10 notes, tinuation of the endeavours for the numbers of which had already been appeasement and a peace gesture recorded by Acting Sub-Inspector by the French Government.
Mottram.
Accused put the money in his poc- ket and handed over in exchange two of the forged bank-notes.
The Police walked in and arrested accused.
ACCUSED'S CHALLENGE
Trans-Ocean.
EMPLOYEE FINED
A fine of $10 was imposed on
At the conclusion of Lam's evidence, accused remarked "He is telling lies car cleaner, Ng Sang-fuk, 24, by from beginning to end."
Mr. E. Himsworth this morning for Accused: "You previously asked me stealing a piece of imitation lea- where one could get forged bank-notes ther from Mr. J. G. Power, of the and heroin?"-"I asked about bank- notes but not about heroin."
"You got the forged ontes from a woman, Chat Koo, in the street your self?" "I did not."
"Did you not take the hotes across the harbour yourself " -"No."
Woo Chik-po was also cross-examin- ed by accused.
י.
Hong Kong Motor Accessories Co., No. 55, Nathan Road.
Det.-Sgt. Cochrane, prosecuting, said that defendant, who was em- was seen ployed by Mr. Power, leaving the company's entrance on December 25, with a parcel. The leather was wrapped
Accused: "Was it not a fact that piece . of
Lam forced the ten-dollar notes into my pocket and immediately afterwards. the police arrived?" — "No, you put
the notes into your pocket yourself."
"SERIOUS OATH
Accused: "Since the witness denies everything, I am prepared to take a serious oath."
inside.
SNATCH ATTEMPT
Mrs. N. A. Linjap, of No. 14, Cameron Road, appeared at the Mo- After Sergeant W. C. Morrison had Kowloon Magistracy to testify in a dern Ballroom Tango. testified concerning the arrest and
case in which Wong Foo-tong, a Tap. Expert Tuition. search of accused in the
Lok On TONY'S DANCE STUDIO | Yuen Cafe, accused declared: "I have Shanghai Chinese, was charged
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never seen this man before."
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Accused, said Mrs. Linjap, tried "Is not a fact that the forged notes to snatch her bag in Cameron Road were not found in my pcoket. They at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. He were falling out?"-"No."
LIUCHOW BOMBED
Kweilin, To-day......
Eighteen Japanese planca, passing over Wuchow and Siujen, bombed Lluchow, yesterday, They HERBERT WILCOX rained about 50 bombs.-Central
News,
Accused cross-examined the Chinese Detective, Ho Ping:
"Sub-Inspector Mottram was sent?"-"No."
failed and ran, but a Mr. Gonzolen pre-arrested him.
not
Sentence of two months' hard "I put it to you that it was Sergeant Morrison, but Sub-Inspector labour was passed. Mottrami?"! "It was Sergeant Mor- rison."
In the witness-box, Sub-Inspector present at On Lok Yuen, I'll have to Mottram denied that he went to On go to jail, that's all.” Lok Yuen.
Ho Wing-siu, shroff of the Charter- six $50 He drove accused in a car to Honged Bank testified that the Kong but not from the On Lok Yuen bank-notes were forgeries. Cafe to the Yaumati, Police Station, The Jury retired for. five minutes
Accused: “If you deny that you were and found' accused gulity.