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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who will shortly
Bahamas, take up residence at Government House, the where the Duke has been appointed Governor of the Co- lony. It is the first time in history that a member of the Royal Family has bean Governor of a Crown Colony.
CRITICISM OF INTERNMENT POLICY
GROUND DEFENDERS
FOR AIRPORTS
The Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair said yesterday that measures were being taken for ground de- fence of aerodromes against air attack as well as against attack on the ground by the landing of troops from the air.
of A Director Ground Defence had been appointed to co- ordinate defence ac- tion.-Reuter.
WHOLESALE COAL THEFT
The case in which Chan Chiu- chung, 30, private watchman, was charged wi-h larceny of 20 tons of coal from Yew Hop Coal Yard, Hunghom, was concluded before Mt. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning when sentence of four months' hard labour was passed.
Sub-Inspector Madgwick, prose- cuting, stated that the watchman Saturday night to transfer the coal from the Yard
SOME CRITICISM of the Government's policy re-hired a junk and 13 coolies on
garding the internment of refugees was raised in the Commons yesterday on the adjournment of the House.
The police raided the Yard and
arrested all the coolies and the accused
Over $10,000 worth of coal, had been recently stolen from the
Captain O. Peake, Under-Secretary of State for
Home Affairs, replying for the Government, Yard. said that on the outbreak of the war we intern- ed every man and woman, on the Security List
age.
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Our policy then was to submit and whether, if the Government every enemy. alien to an indivi- considered it, undesirable to in- dual examination.
tern them in Britain, they would, The Home Office realises the as soon as possible, be shipped = ་ risk we are running in leaving to where they would constitute
A prisoner, Li Chan-lam, alias refugees and enemy aliens at the least danger to the State. Li So, alias Tse Chu-lam, was large. If a serious act. of espion- Sir Henry Page-Croft, Parlis-charged before Mr. H. G. Sheldon
was. or sabotage
proved mentary Under-Secretary of State K.C. this morning, with wounding against any of them, we should for the War Office, in reply, said with intent to murder Prison Of- be blown sky-high.
that in view of the greatly in-
and with In a tribute to the behaviour of creased danger of invasion, the ficer E. S. Franks, the refugees, Captain Peake said Government on grounds of mili-wounding with intent that apart from one or two petty tary necessity-accepted, the prin-revious bodily harm.....
It was alleged defendant stab- instances there have been no ser- ciple of the internment of large bed. Mr. E. S. Franks in the Hong Joe Loss's Orch;ious acts hostile to the State. categories of enemy allens.
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Throughout the winter, the Every effort is being made to Kong Prison, Stanley, on
manded one week.
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Joe Loss's Orch, the public clamour, to intern the civilians internees as they were
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only suspición and distrust; the practical method of dealing. withi the problem was to
intern the males.
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State Of Alarm
A further reason for the change in policy was the fact that many refugees were in such a state of alarm on account of the suspi-| [cions shown towards them that they themselves asked for intern- ment, for their own safety.
The last and most urgent con- sideration was that the policy
was strongly advocated by the military authorities.
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Detective Sub-Inspector Dare kin is in charge of the case.
DISCHARGED: TO PAY COMPENSATION
George Percy. Clarke, of the Royal Naval Dockyard, was dis- charged by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, in connection with a charge of obtaining a sum of $25 from a woman Lam Wai- on February
It was announced in "Government Gazette Extra- ordinary" issued this morning that His Majesty the King has conferred an. O,B.E. onching in Wanchai
Petrie, James Commander
D.S.C., "of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force.
this year.
Defendant was ordered to pay comTM $25 compensation to the plainant.
SWEARS TO AVENGE
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OUT of here and get into the
Regarding the question of send- ing the refugees to the Domin-air again. The Jerries killed my best pal, and I ions, Captain Peake said that he swore I would avenge his death."
realised the natural anxiety, "par- ticularly in view of the Arandora
and what Air-Gunner James McNeill,, about their wounds Star disaster.
twenty, of the R.A.F., said that they have done at the front. The Minister of Shipping had as he sat up in bed at a military "ITCHING TO GET BACK Bald yesterday that Germans hospital in the Midlands.
All regret getting a "Blighty" of abroad were Nazi sympathisers, When flying in a bomber he one because, in the words
Alt-Gunner Frank Greaney, of was shot in the arm..
not refugees.
Captain Peake announced that I was the only one to come Smethwick, "We are itching to Canada had agreed to take 6,700 out of our machine alive," he get back to our guns.
We prisoners
"My pal was killed. of war and internees said. and that all these had arrives had served together in the same ed in Canada.--Reuter.
squadron, and it was like losing a brother.
Lords' Question
Privato Thompson, forty-sixỳ who has come back from Fran- ce, suffering from wounds he received In the last war, gald: "I don't want the war to pack Mit:la jüat my luck that the old up till I have had a chance of wounds broke out again when we were getting stuck into In the House of Lords, Lord having another pot at Jerry."
Jerry. Marchwood asked whether the Youths still in their teens andj
last Government would follow the ac-veterans who served in the last "I went all through the
my third time tion of the Government of the war fte side by side in the wards war. This was Straits Settlements, who have They prefer to joke and laughlover there, but I still hope to be
than to tulk able to get out there again.” İdecided to intern all enemy aliens, with their nutses
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