THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1940
NAZI RAIDERS GIVE PAUSE Pace Of Attack Slackens After Severe Maulings "PROTECTION"
"EX-MANAGER ON Several Killed
DEMANDS IN CITY AREA
CONVERSION CHARGE
Yue Kar-chi, 29, was charged before Mr. G. T. Lawry this morning th fraudulent conver- sion of $7,350.97, between May 10, 1039, and February 18 this year.
In Train At Southampton
LETTERS DEMANDING SUMS Defendant was formerly em- AFTER THE SEVERE mauling which they BETWEEN $30,000 AND $50,000 ployed as the manager of the HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY Wing Yue Firm, No. 131, Wing had received in the three previous days, dur-
SOME EIGHT CHINESE MONEY-Lok Street.
CHANGER FIRMS IN QUEEN'S The case was adjourned for one] ROAD CENTRAL, THE "CHINA week. Defendant was allowed MAIL" LEARNED THIS AFTER bail of $5,000. NOON.
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The letters were apparently from a Triad Society and indicat-
-ed that the addresses must reply
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to the demand within a week,
INDIAN SERGEANT
DIES ON PATROL
ing which over 200 of their planes were shot down, the German Air Force took a holiday from blitzkrieg tactics yesterday, though there was plenty of air activity.
An attack was made during the morning
Indian Police Sergeant Hazara
on patrol duty in on the barrage balloons at Dover and a light-
A spot in Caine Road was men- Singh, while tioned as the place where the the New Territories yesterday. money must be handed over.
suddenly collapsed and died.
"Those firms who cannot
pay the sums demanded will be allow- ed up to June next year to fulfil their obligations,"
letters added.
the
It is undersood that the money- changers held a meeting and de- cided to ignore the demand.
FUNERAL OF LATE MR. OLSEN
The funeral of the late Mr.
Iship was bombed.
KONOYE CHANGES MIND ABOUT
ABOUT ONE PARTY SYSTEM
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
was
attack An unsuccessful also made on an aerodrome in Kent, where two enemy dive- bombers were shot down by anti- aircraft guns.
Air Force fighters also engag- ed the enemy at several points and inflicted casualties, but as the official communique states, less enemy pressure was much pronounced.
During the afternoon, scatter- ed attacks were made on se-1 veral districts in the South-East
IN HIS ATTEMPT to build a new politi-and cal structure for Japan, Prince Konoye, Frithjof Olsen, 49, chief engineer Japanese Premier, has abandoned the idea of take forming a single political party, states the "Asahi Shimbun” basing its report on inform-
will
of the s.s. Dukat.' place at the Colonial Cemetery at 5p.m. to-day.
The late Mr. Olsen was found dead inside his
cabin en board ation from "well-informed sources."
the ship about 6.30 am. yester- day. The ship was in Taikco Docks.
An 11-year-old boy. G. Soares, treated at the Kowloon Hospital dog, owned by Mr. Guterres, of
of No. 20, Hillwood Road, was!
yesterday, after being bitten by a
No. 218, Nathan Road, ground floor.
South-West.
Train Bombed
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CX-
con-
At Southampton, high
caused plosive bombs
slight damage to સ stationary train and a number of people were injured, several fatally. Air Force fighters were stantly on patrol and swift into
According to reports received
aircraft had been destroyed by
the day and four of our fighters are miss- ing.-Reuter.
Instead, Government will indicate those action. political parties which it is willing to recog-up to last evening, fifteen enemy nise. Even political organisations outside R.A.F. Aghters during the new structure may be granted recogni- tion, the fundamental principle being that all subjects must be allowed to assist the Emper- Each raider dropped two bombs,
or in the conduct of State affairs.
ALL THE LATEST
patterns in neckwear
are now on display in
our windows, show
cases and counters.
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'Attack On Lightship
one of which struck the lightship astern, killing two of the crew The newspaper has also been and wounding the others, who es- informed that the new national
sank.
structure will rebuild Japan with-caped in a boat before the ship out resorting to the reform of
A flight of Hurricanes streaked. the Japanese Constitution pre- sented to the country by the Em-across the sky. One overtook and pounced on the tail of a bomber, peror Meiji.
which was sent spinning into the riddled with machine-gun)
sea,
The change will be carried out within the framework of bullets. existing constitutional [awa which will make it impossible for a candidate to stand for rescued. Reuter. election to a seat in the Houses
of Representatives unless he Is sponsored by one of the recognised organisations.
The others escaped over France, The lightship's survivors were
Latest Figures
It is now officially stated in
Candidates will have their London that twenty German air-
campaign expenses paid by
the
State and will draw an annua! salary of Yen 6,000 instead of the pat-present Yen 3,000.
bold
There are neat terns as well as
stripe, check and spot designs.
leave
The fabrics
nothing to be desired Cashmere, Foulards, Palm Beach and other washing fabrics.
Call and let us show them to you. We know
they will be of interest.
craft were destroyed round Britain's coasts.
yesterday
The Air Ministry communique] states that of the twenty, seven-
Prince Konoye, the Premier, teen were shot down by R.A.F. has also decided to appoint a full fighters and three by anti-air- tíme Minister for Overseas craft fire from the ground. Affairs, according to the Japan-
ese Army newspaper
Shimbun."
"One of our pilots previously re-
"Yomiuri ported missing is safe. The num-
ber of pilots lost as the result of yesterday's action is, therefore,
Mr. Matsuoka Too-Busy now three."-Reuter.
The Premier decided on the appointment when the Foreign
Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, STORY OF
who is at present entrusted with the Overscas Ministry, informed him that his duties in the For-
For TSUNGMING
eign Ministry did not allow me
for dealing with other overseas
affairs.
General Yoshitsugu
It is, believed that Lieutenant-|
Tetekawa, well-known for his nationallstic views, may be entrusted with the new post.
ATROCITIES
"Further details of Ja- panese atrocities in Another candidate, Mr. Koyoshi Tsungming Island at the
Akita, formerly Welfare Minister,
:
in the Abe Cabinet, is reported mouth of the Yangtze to be favoured by the Foreign River are revealed in des- Ministry.-Havas.
SIX KILLED IN
patches received Chungking.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Japanese have massacred
in',
STOP PRESS
The Syrian frontier has been completely re-opened and the French authorities are now granting transit visas to all British subjects, says a Reuter message from Ankara.
in'
were
It was officially stated London this morning that in all 26 German planes destroyed yesterday, including ́fourteen bombers, three flight-";"
er-bombers and nine fighters. all Four British pilots in were lost.
There were a few casual- ties, some of them fatal, in a German air attack on an R.A.F. aerodrome.-Reuter.
In refalution for Chinese guerilla activities on August 2, the|
large The prefix "Special to telegrams t numbers.in various villages. used by the Sunday 'Herald" 'and' Chulio, Tachuan, Lapa, Hsiang-China Mail" to indicate nows which Six persons were killed and 23 tung, Machino, Hsichchin, Jihsin is striotly, copyright under the provi alonsofthe. Telecommunications Or injured in -92 traffic accidents and other villages have been re-dinance, 1938, and may not be reprint- during the week ended Saturday, duced to ruins, rendering tholled under any circumstances, alther- August 10.
sands homeless.
|wholly or in part, without prior ar Among those killed were a The victims are arriving in rangement Chinese passenger. In a ricksha Shanghal. daily by hundreds. and a Chinese, 25 years of age, The puppet Self-Defence Corps
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