THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1989.
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Announcement Of Tientsin Negotiations Expected Soon
ANTI-BRITISH
MOVES IN NORTH CHINA FLOP
London, To-day.
Last night's meeting of the Cabinet's foreign affairs committee gave further consideration to the situation in the Far East.
It is expected that there will be an early announce-
NAZI
POLICEMAN SENTENCED
Prague, To-day. The German criminal court yea terday passed sentence of 15 years: imprisonment on the German po licemen who was charged with the manslaughter of a Czech police. man on June 11-Renter.
HAN RIVER
FLOOD FEARS
YUNGYUN, KWANGTUNG,
TODAY. FEAR IS GROWING THAT THE TERRIFIC INDISCRIMINATE BOMBARDMENT STAGED BY JAPANESE PLANES DAILY OVER THE AREAS SOUTH-WEST OF CHAOAN MAY BLAST THE DYKES ALONG THE HAN RIVER AND CAUSE A FLOOD.
ment regarding opening of negotiations with BIG IDEA-A BOAT Many high explosives dropped Tokyo, says Reuter's lobby correspondent.
SOLDIERS ON IMPERSONATION CHARGE
OF GLASS
perilously near the dykes. Meanwhile, the Japanese-organ-
Fighting in the Swatow area has ised anti-British movement is mak One of Britain's most enthus-been particularly severe at Ampow ing no progress among the Chin-iastic yachtsmen, Mr. J. O. B. and Meiki in the past two days. ese populace in North China, ac- Kennedy, of Harbour-road, Ham- Both the Chinese and Japanese cording to a Peiping despatch. worthy, Poole, Dorset, has hit on suffered heavy casualties in the A mass meeting to which thou-an idea which will save him from seesaw battle. Both places have sands of students, teachers, mer having to scrape and paint the been reduced to utter ruing chants and officials had been in-hull of his craft each winter. He by heavy Japanese aerial and vited proved a complete fiasco. is to build a boat that will not artillery bombardment.
require painting. A boat made of plactic glass. He was worked out most of the details of design and is now considering the prac- tical problem of construction. The Japanese-controlled press strength of glass, the new type With a texture like mica and the lice Station, before Mr. E. Himsworth prints columns of anti-British pro- of material which he intends to at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-paganda but is making few con-use differs entirely from ordin- ing when the soldiers appeared on re-verts. Reuter. mand.
FEW CONVERTS
The story of how four soldiers of the Middlesex Regiment were alleged to have posed as police officers, taking
Only 500 attended and the sub- $55.40 from four mah-jong players at sequent parade failed to No. 14, Shumchun Street on the night Finterest.
arouse of June 17, was told by Inspector T. K. Whelan, in charge of Mongkok Po-.
Accused are:-
Stephen Vincent Ward, 27, "C" Com- pany, Middlesex Regiment;
Arthur David Smith, 21, of, "A" Com- pany, Middlesex Regiment;
have
ary glass.
It is sufficiently rigid in normal temperatures, and in water its rigidity would be assured.
EFFIGIES OF PREMIER
Shanghai, To-day.
Anti-British Alfred Jenkins, 21, of Headquarters
processions
To Mr. Kennedy's craft of Company, Middlesex Regiment; and
been organised by the Japanese in
plastic glass none of the crusta- Louis Remer, 22, of Headquarters Tsingtao for the past four days.
cea and sea vegetation which are Company, Middlesex Regiment,
Effigies of Mr. Neville Chamber-
the bane of sailors would adhere.. They are charged with 'taking thelain with his famous umbrella were
It is doubtful whether it would ""designation or character of police
officers to enter the premises,"
ever require any cleaning. carried through the town:-Trans- with the larceny of $55.40 from Kwok Ocean.
Moreover, Mr. Kennedy con Chan, 24, shop foki; Cheng Kam, 36,
tends, it would be at least equal, licenced hawker; Tsui Fat, 42, P.W.D.
and probably superior, to wood coolie; and Wan Sing, 45, shipping
in resisting sharp blows from .company coolie.
rocks or other objects, and, if the boat is holed, the damage would be less extensive and more easily repaired.
and
Ward is also charged with common assault on Tsui Fat..
Captain H. Marsh was present on behalf of the military authorities.
Inspector Whelan said that the ac- cused were alleged to have said in Chinese "Gambling" and "Inspector" to the four players while they entered the place and searched the table and' their pockets, decamping with $55.40. The complainants were playing mah- jong and, afraid that the accused were police inspectors, they submitted them- selves to search.
The players, after accused had left,
became suspicious and chosed them
CAROL RECEIVES
EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
Bucharest, To-day.
Abd El Fattah Zehia Pasha, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, was re-
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And if you think you are going to be able to see through it all you are wrong. The new medium can be made opaque.
PAID TO LIVE IN THIS TOWN
out of the house, blowing police whis-ceived in audience yesterday after-to be the only place in Britain in
tles. The soldiers separated into
two groups, running along Canton Road towards Mongkok Road and into a lane in Shumchun Street.
The first group were chased by one .of the players and finally they (first and second defendats) fell into an open nullah in Mongkok Road and were res- cued by two police officers, who brought them to the station.
With the assistance of the military authorities, the other two accused,
third and fourth, were later handed
over to the police authorities......
The case continues.
OIL STRIKE ON ENGLISH FARM
Ir T. J. Good, abkingham
∙London, June 9. Oil has been struck on Farm, tehanted: 1 win; at Bakring, at a depth of 1,9141 Exploration Compan nounced last night b
noon by King Carol of Rumania. King Carol invited the distinguish- ed Egyptian guest to lunch in the Palace subsequently.
NEW DEFENCE LINE
the Chinese have established a new To check the Japanese advance defence line north of Ampow. The positions at Hwamei, north Japanese assaulted the Chinese Ampow, yesterday but were driven back with heavy losses.
of
The Japanese invading Tathow, south of Swatow, are making no headway. They are cornered by the Chinese along the coast.
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Four hundred, Japanese troops from Kongmoon and Sunwui com- positions at Pingtiling last Satur menced an attack on the Chinese
before the Japanese were finally day. Fighting lasted for two days.. repulsed. Some 200 Japanese were killed while Chinese casualties were also heavy.
the highway between Tsungfa and A Chinese unit heavily damaged. Fukwohu, last Saturday morning. Besides the roadbed, eight bridges were wrecked. - Central Newa,
SKELETON CLUE TO 1850 MURDER RIDDLE
believed to have been solved by Nantwich, in Cheshire, claims A murder mystery of 1850 which the residents are paid to the discovery of a skeleton in live.
garden at the village of Ring- who were born in the town and once formed part of a field own- Every year in October, those stead, Northants. The garden those who have served sevened by a butcher named Weekly years' apprenticeship as a rate-Ball. payer, receive a sum varying be- Eighty-nine years ago the Gov- tween 10s. and 25s.
ernment offered a £200 reward Minister will give a lunch in honour about 100 acres of land known daughter of a labourer in the vil-
To-day, the Rumanian Prime
The money is the revenue from for information of Lydia Atley, of the Egyptian guest, who will as the Beam Heath. leave the Rumanian capital this afternoon. Trans-Ocean.
In the evening, a banquet was followed by a reception......... given in the Egyptain Legation,
Iranian Oil Company the par company
lage.
When in 1808, the
{}); Woman's Last Threat plot of waste land, heath,
under It was suspected that she had- the Enclosure Act, the towns-been murdered, and suspicion fell people, who before had been al- on Ball, a married man known to lowed to let their cattle stray at have been her lover. K *** will, started a fund to regain the
The well is now being prepared land: for production tests: The result
For twenty years they collec may help to confirm a belief that in ed the money by every Nottinghamshire exista - a subterable means, but it was not until nean river of öll — enough to feed 1828 that an *ot ofs Parliament the Navy and perhaps the R. A. F. was passed declaring
*ENVIDA EX PHeath Should Belong to the Goodwin said yesterday: ple of Nantwich allowed them to sink on Now the commit
shall get compensation sees to the lettin
land distributio
ande."
Ball had kept his association with Lydia Atley a secret
18 wife and when Lydia found "The had been, compromised,
heard to threaten him.
never seen again. maris was seri hed, but
thirteen
later dug up a woman's akele.
ested, as nequitted.