PROSECUTION UNDER NEW ORDINANCE
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SECRET RADIO TRANSMITTER DISCOVERED
.First prosecution under the Adoption Ordinance since registra- tion was enforced, was heard Kowloon this morning before Mr. E. Himsworth when a woman was charged with failing to re- address port the change of while her 16-year-old adopted daughter was registered as a "Ward," and with ill-treating her.'
Inspector H. W. Fraser, of S.CA. disclosed that altogether 15 against the conductor of the trans- girls, registered as adopted. have been removed with their guardians to unknown addresses and the S.C.A. has been unable to trace them.
Antwerp, To-day. The whereabouts of a secret anti- German wireless transmitter has just been discovered by the Ant- werp police in the suburb of Ber- chem.
been reaching Complaints had the Antwerp police for long past- about this transmitter, The equip. ment has been confiscated by the and proceedings begun the police
This case, he said, was the result of a complaint made by the girl to the S.C.A. yesterday.
She was fined $20 or two weeks' hard labour on the first charge and $50 or one month on the second.
SEVERE FIGHTING IN CENTRAL HUPEH (Continued from Page 1) DECISIVE STAGE NOT REACHED
The decisive stage, it is stress- ed, has not yet been reached, and is not expected within the next three days.
Meanwhile the Chinese are pre- pared to either counter-attack or withdraw on Hsingyang.
missions. Trans-Ocean.
FRENCH PACT WITH FRANCO
PARIS, TO-DAY.
THE FOREIGN MINISTER, M. GEORGES BONNET, YESTERDAY RECEIVED THE SPANISH AM- BASSADOR, M. FELIX DE LA- GUERICA, WHO IS LEAVING FOR SPAIN SHORTLY.
The discussion is reported to have centred on the best means of carrying out the Berard-Jordana agreement for the return of war material brought into France by the Republicans.
A conference on the subject will be held shortly at Bayonne between the Spanish Government and the French military.—Trans-Ocean. So far the Chinese have proved anese encirclement plans nor their scheme have been themselves better adapted to the annihilation Hupeh hills, and neither the Jap-I realised.-Trans-Ocean.
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Death was due to drowning. The man was fully dressed and his age is estimated to be about 35 years. Nothing on the body was found to assist the police in identifying it, but the name of the maker of the man's shirt was found to be Phillip Jones.
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Because he was too willing please and also because he wanted to get money for tea that an old woman promised him, Ho Sze, 21, was charged this morning at the posses- Central Magistracy with sion of 5,000 heroin pills,
Defendant told the Court that he had been sent out on an errand by his mother, but outside the Sincere Company, he had met the old woman, who had told him if he would carry a package she held in her hand to a house in Wanchai, she would give him some tea money. Defendant had been willing to do so, not knowing, as he said, that the package contained heroin pills. Defendant had not known about the contents until he had been searched and the package opened by
Revenue Officers, on his way to Wanchai.
The case is continuing, with Re- venue Officer W. Colledge in charge of the prosecution.
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