STOLE $60,000 IN SHARES TO BURN!
NOT CLEVER ENOUGH
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Li Yat-fung, 30, was charged fore Mr. T. J. Houston this morning, with stealing $300 in Canton rency, and conducting business money changer without a licence.
cur-
as
Det. Sergt. R. McVey, who prose-
cuted, said a woman went to accused's
shop with $1,900 in Canton currency
A 17-year-old Chinese, Yu Chau-sing, was before Mr. and asked for it to be changed into R. Edwards this morning, Chinese National currency. Defendant counted the money, and gave it back, charged with stealing jewel-saying that he had not sufficient money lery and 600 shares of the for the change. Wing On Company, from his employer, Mrs. Chan San-
wu.
by
The woman
then
went to a shop near by where, when the money was counted, she discover-
went cd it to be $360 short. She straight back to defendant's shop, but A customer in a he denied the theft. Mrs. Chan was awakened
found defendant's shop saw him pick money noise on Sunday night, and
u from the ground after complainant with backyard accused in the wooden box besides him. The police had left the counter. were informed and defendant
Defendant was sentenced to ad-
(our the months' hard labour for the larceny, mitted the theft, producing jewellery which was hidden in vari-and a fine of $100 or two months on ous parts of the house. He then took the second charge. the police to the roof where he had burned the 600 shares, and the ashes were found.
Defendant, who had been employ- ed for four years, was a distant re- Intive of Mrs. Chan.
accused had
It was stated that previously stolen articles from house, but no action was taken.
Sentence of two labour was passed.
months'
the
hard
FRENCH BOOST IN COAL PRODUCTION (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day. Despite the outbreak of war, the mobilisation of workers and the clos- ing down of important mines located near the front lines, French coal pro- duction for 1939 topped 1938's figure by nearly 4,000,000 tons and amount- ed, in actual figures, to 52,000,000
tons.
The extent of the intensification of work in mines situated away from
BRITAIN'S NEW MINISTER TO FINLAND: zones
Helsinki, To-day. Mr. Gordon Vereker, Britain's new Minister to Finland, has arrived in Finland.
He told the press that Britain hopes to be able to act efficaciously to save the herole Finnish people.--Reuter.
THE MAN
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of eventual war operation is Indicated by the fact that the total output was not affected by such a practical closing heavy blow as the
the mines in the Moselle down of region which in the last quarter of 1939 produced 42,000 tons an against 2,000,000 tons for the same period in 1938.
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Moscow, To-day.
claims A Soviet communique that Soviet troops in the Karelian to Isthmus yesterday continued destroy enemy fortifications.
The Finns attempted to coun- ter-attack, says the communique,
with but were repulsed
heavy.
losses.
On other sectors there was no- Nineteen thing of importance. Finnish 'planes were brought down.Reuter.
Forty-four smallpox cases were notified to the Medical Depart- ment last week, 33 of them from Kowloon, five from the harbour, Alve from Victoria and one from the New Territories. Deaths totalled 27.
There were also seven diphth- eria cases (four deaths) six scar- let fever, nine typhoid, Afteen meningitis, and 169 tuberculosis (89 deaths).
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Rio de Janeiro, To-day. The proposed rules drawn up by the Pan-American Neutrality Committee for the treatment auxiliary naval vessels in Ameri- can waters lay down that neu- tral states must prevent by every means the use of their ports and territorial waters as a base for war operations and supplies, even through neutral intermediaries,
Any assistance lent by a mer- chant vessel, except humanitarian ald, will result in her being con- verted into a belligerent auxili- nry warship.
be
Such
will merchantmen treated as belligerent warships and be interned with their crews. Assistance given by a merchant flog will ship flying a neutral render her liable to the applica- tion of sanctions against the cap- tain,
or
Merchantmen will be forbidden to load in neutral ports war ma- terials, provisions personnel with the intention of trans-ship- ping them on the high seas belligerent warships.-Reuter.
to
Contrary to a police report of his death this morning, the mili- that Private tary authorics state Cruickshanks, of the Royal Scots Regiment, is alive but ill in hos- pital.
Bucharest, To-day. Rumania and Hungary have signed an agreement to facilitate two railway traffic between the countries.--Reuter.
Kirkenes (on the Norwegian- Finnish frontier), To-day-Fierce fighting is reported near Hoyen- jaervi, 50 miles south of Petsamo. --Reuter.
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Shanghai, To-day.
were
involved
Japanese
British troops
with in an incident gendarmerie this morning when they politely but firmly refused to yield to attempts by the Ja- panese to interfere with their ac- tivities.
An official statement on the incident says: At 9.20 am, to- day a British patrol surprised two Chinese in an alleyway dressed in blue clothes and armed with Mauser pistols. They were dis- armed and arrested. With the ob- ject of carrying out further search, the patrol made the pri- soners lead them to their house, which they found protected by a breastwork.. It was found to be the lair of armed Chinese in civi- Han clothes. Twelve men were found, arrested and their arms confiscated. Members of the Japanese gendarmerie then ap- the peared and demanded that arms and ammunition be handed ground that the over on the
men
were supporters of
After some Ching-wei.
Wang
discus-
sion, they gave way to the Bri- the tish view and at 11.30 am. prisoners and their arms were re- moved in British custody."-Reu- ter.
Subject to audit the Directors of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. will recommend to Shareholders at the forthcoming Annual Meeting the following ap- propriation
at of the amount credit of Profit and Loss Account at 31st December, 1939 Viz:-Pay a Dividend of 0% per Annum and a Bonus of 4% per Annum, Re- $355,110; Place to General serve, $500,000; Place to Special Reserve for Extensions, $350,000: Pay Bonus to Staff, $60,000; and carried forward to new account about $200,000. The Board have decided to make an offer to mem- bers of the Company as shown on the Register of MembersTM on the of one 26th day of March, 1940 unissued share in the capital of the Company of the nominal value of $10 at a premium of $2 in the proportion of one unissued share for every complete three issued shares of the Company then held by such members. respec- shall tively. Shares so allotted rank for dividend as from the 1st day
of of July, 1940. Forms offer will be sent out in due .
course.
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