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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1940
SOUTH BOMBED BY
TRAIN ON COAST
GERMANS
A TRAIN TRAVELLING between two South
The
KING HAAKON
ON THE HOPE
Coast towns was bombed by a Nazi 'plane. OF NORWAY
driver was injured, but the passengers escaped.
This followed news that six German raiders one of them in were shot down by R.A.F. fighters two seconds and four more were damaged in the biggest daylight air raids on England and Scotland. One 'plane fell in the Channel, and a German was rescued by a British vessel.
The only passengers in the bombed train were two women and two
Mrs. P. Steward, of Brighton PLOT TO
Road, Newhaven, said she heard two explosions, and then saw the 'plane swoop down,
They crouched on the carriage floor. The toe of her right shoe was blown off. The windows were smashed and the carriage was filled with flying glass.
ROB AUNT
FRUSTRATED
.
King Haakon of Nor- way, broadcasting in the B.B.C. Norwegian news last night, denied he had gone to America.
He said: speaking to from London that rumours lieved.
"The fact that I am Norwegian listeners is excellent proof should not be be-
"I heard to-day, for instance, that I had left London and gone to America owing to differences of opinion with the British Gov- ernment.
"From the place where we are now we can still represent a free Norway,
the only possibility of recreating
A plan to carry out an! "Our action was also determin- Chased By 'Plane
armed robbery at Fa Yuen ed by the fact that it was clear The train stopped for a while. Street, was frustrated by to me and the Government that The other passenger said the driver was carried away on a the timely arrival of a po-a free Norway lay in the victory stretcher and the guard was in-lice party, under Det.-of the side which stands for the right of small nations to lead their The 'plane dropped bombs near Sgt. W. G. Morrison, ear-own lives." Reuter, the railway line.
jured in the back.
Six people (including a baby ly yesterday morning. and grandmother) were killed, This was related to Mr. E. Hounded By Bombers and more than thirty injured in Himsworth at the Kowloon Mag-
Reviewing events which led istracy. this morning when six him to come to Britain with the the other raids.
Civilians living in a south-east persons were each sentenced to Norwegian Government he re- hard labour for called: "During the whole first of England coast district said the nine months' crew of an enemy machine who conspiracy to rob, and, for pos- period of the war we were liter- caused two casualties there by session of offensive weapons." machine-gun fire were deliberate-
Children Sang
Accused were Yeung Kam, 42, ally hounded from place to place and during Government meetings, 20, air raid warnings were constantly ly aiming at the civil population. Li Chak, 27, Leung Chong,
described as A postman who was deliver-Yeung Tong, 23.
sounded and we had to carry on ing letters said he was chased painters, Wong Sap, 42, hawker,
discussion even when aeroplanes and attacked, but was not hit. and Yiu Kum, 31 unemployed.
It was alleged that accused were above our heads."
Replying to the criticism in cer- planned the robbery at the sug-tain circles that, his departure gestion of first and fourth accus-
from Norway had caused diffil- At another point on the same ed; who were the nephews of the culties for the country and those coast workmen on the beach were intended victim. machine-gunned by
The robbery, was to have taken who remained behind, His Ma- а German
jesty said: "I think we did right. place at 1.15 a.m. yesterday. They if we had stayed in Norway, the war-'plane. No one was hurt.
On one south-east town alplanned to sleep on the pavement
present rulers of the country raider jettisoned twelve heavy outside the house, pretending to would have been able to force us
fell two be street sleepers, and
to accept what they wished, yards from an Anderson shelter, into the flat when the door was was in order to avoid this that we which remained standing like a opened for the night soil coolie. left the country and as we had
The police party under Det.-
the vote of the Storting to build Sgt. Morrison arrived at 1.10 a.m.
bombs, one
of
which
fort on the edge of a crater. The interior was undamaged.
to rush
were
Council Of Administration
It
A baby boy and his grand. and arrested them all whilst they on, we did so. mother were killed when one were still pretending to sleep on the of six bombs, dropped on alpavement. Three accused town. in south-east England, de-sleeping on a mat under which mollshed a cottage. The baby were a chopper, one dagger and. was blown thirty yards across seven gags, while a knife and a the street, His grandmother, bundle of gags were seized from by the fact that it was clear to Mrs. Darkes was killed in the another mat which the other me and to the Government that
house.
In one town there was a school holiday. Air raid workers collect- ed the children from the streets, and led them, singing lustily, to public shelters.
was
When four bombs, one of which bomb a delayed action dropped near a group of work- men in a village in the south-east of England, one man was killed and three injured.
CONFUCIUS DAY
three accused were sharing.
Accused were recommended for banishment..
VICTIM DOES NOT
PRESS CASE
Our action was also determined
the only possibility of recreating a free Norway lay in the vicinity of that side which stands for the right of small nations to lead their own lives.
I should like to take this op- portunity, to express my conviction that the Council of Administra- tion in Norway had carried out their task splendidly and that Tang Ching-po, 35, was, bound they deserve well of the Father- over in the sum of $500 to be of land for having assumed the task, good behaviour for one year, by heavy as it must be to every Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this true Norwegian, of acting as in- morning, for fraudulent conver-termediary between the present sion of $2,499.99, which he re-rulers and the people of Norway."
British Wireless, ceived on behalf of the owner of→ the Chung Nam Paper Shop.
Det.-Sergeant V. Morrison said the complainant did not wish to;
prison.
Chinese stores, fac- have defendant sent to
Defendant had a relative who was tories, firms and almost willing to help him to repay the
all the schools closed- to-whole amount. day to commemorate the
birthday of the Chinese SNATCHER GIVEN
sage, Confucius, in con- junction with Teacher's
TWELVE
Day..
MONTH'S
DIET FOR FINICKÝ CHILDREN
It isn't always naughtiness that makes children go off their food. It is more often ""Nerviness," tired. digestion and the need for the stimulus of a new, palatable easily Twelve months' hard labour digested food. The Confucius. Association and and 12 strokes of the cane, were the 20 odd schools and other imposed by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Finicky children respond very organisations under its control K.C., this morning, on Au Yee readily to Horlicks. They love its did not take part in the celebra-kau, 22, for snatching a gold ear-
tions, They will observe the ring from a Chinese lady in flavour, it keeps them regular and
birthday on the 27th day of the Wanchal yesterday. ́ ́
provides abundant nourishment in
eighth moon of the Lunar Calen- Defendant was chased and a form. that the most queasy dar-which they insist is the only caught by Sergeant S. H. Dowman stomach can take. correct date of Confucius's birth-who was on duty near the scene. day.
The date for the celebration of the Sage's birthday was changed from the 27th day of the Eighth Moon to August 27, on instruc- tions from the Chungking Gov-
ernment.
Soon you notice a, wonderful
·SOUTH AFRICA'S change. The little body begins to
the
WAR COSTS All out, colour returns to
cheeks, peevishness goes and Supplementary estimates pre-che sented in the South African Par- appetite becomes keen. Horlicks of llament yesterday provide a 'fur-]gives a child all the energy needed orther £32,000,000 for war expen for rapid growth and strenuous ganisations and schools assem- [diture which will bring war ex- bled in, the King's Theatre this penditure in the current year to play. morning.
£40 millions--Reuter
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