SILVER PLAQUE PRESENTED TO RIVER PATROL
Shameen, To-day.
BIG ROBBERY IN SHEUNGSHUI: TWO ACCUSED
Alleged to have participated in As an expression of their grati-a robbery in the new Territories on tude for the strenuous and success- January 29, Man Ying and Cheung ful efforts of the British Navy to Kuen were arraigned before the
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1989.
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save Shameen from being reduced Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, STOP PRESS
to ashes by the fire which spread at the Criminal Sessions this morn- through Canton in the critical daysing.
of the West River Flotilla by mem- bers of the British Association in Canton.
robbing Yu
of
of last October, a silver plaque has They were accused of been presented to the Commander a 48-year-old married woman,
Yuk-sin, of $105, local currency, $300.40, Canton currency, two razors, six dried ducks, one bottle of brandy and several pieces The presentation took place on jewellery, and, of robbing the wo- board H.M.S. Tarantula on the man's daughter, Chau Pui-ying, of eve of the gunboats departure $160 local currency, $2,002 Canton for Hong Kong for recommis- currency, and a number of pieces sioning and was made by Mr. of jewellery. A. E. Smith, local manager · of
According to Mr. J. B. Prentia, Jardine's and President of the Assistant Crown Solicitor, the rob- Canton Branch of the Association. bery was carried out by five men on January 29. It was recalled that at the end at about 3 a.m. of October when Canton City re- The victims' house was ransacked. sembled one vast raging inferno, On February 1, first accused was British bluejackets and Shameen recognised by the elderly residents kept watch day and and arrested. Later, second accus- night in order to prevented was taken into custody. buildings on the island from catching fire.
Reuter.
JOINS RED ARMY
woman
When charged, both denied they of were in the neighbourhood Sheungshuiwei Village when the robbery took place.
The case is proceeding.
Warsaw, To-day. Arrested by a passer-by after The Czech Military Attache in snatching a pair of earrings in Moscow, Colonel Farsky, has join- Parkes Street on Saturday, Chan ed the Russian Army, according to Hung, 18, was this morning sen- a Moscow report to the Polish tenced to six months' hard labour paper "Express Poranny."-Trans- and eight strokes by Mr. Q. A. A. Ocean.
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