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ARMED ROBBERY
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Only 2 per cent. of foreigners will be permitted as' drivers. Havas.
INDO-CHINA CAUTION
There appears to be no CONTRIBUTIONS TO .THE Plan for an armed robbery at change in the situation in WEALTH OF humanity, SAID Ha Ka Village on Sunday night, MR. DUFF-COOPER, MINISTER by five robbers was frustrated by French Indo-China, ac- OF INFORMATION, IN A LON-2 Chinese constable, who arrested cording to latest reports DON SPEECH YESTERDAY. one man and scared the rest, said
Neither would have been possi-Det.-Sgt. C. Dowman at Kowloon from Hanoi. ble without the other.
this morning when three Chinese The French authorities are still "I think we can rejoice that in were charged with conspiracy to carrying out defence measures, a country even now in the throes rob.
All communications between of this stern struggle we have im-
Yit-ho, 19, Hanoi and the Indo-China-Yun- pused no compulsory censorship sentenced to one "year's hard la-nan border have been severed. on the press or publishers," ht bour, Lam Wah, 41, sentenced to The railway service to the border went on.
six months, and Tsoi Ng, 40, sen-has been suspended. tenced to four months.
Expression of opinion was a free to-day as it was at the be- ginning of the war.
Accused were Ko
Meanwhile, reporters still al-
At 11.30 pm on Sunday night, lege that the Japanese are con- a Chinese constable on patrol centrating a large armed force
"I will never consent to any duty in Kowloon City, saw live near the Indo-China-Kwangsi embargo on. It," he said.
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men turning into Kai Yan Road. border. Our Own Correspondent. *D*_ Q*#*#*■•#•N• ̄**=*=*=*=*=*#*#*NO Britain believes her cause is He noticed that on seeing him, that of the whole world. Hundreds they retraced their steps and in may perish, but they will not have different directions. He draw perished in vain if
CONDITION
China's Stand
Asked what other measures the
China's have his revolver to halt the youngest| they
stand vis-a-vis the spoken bravely "for the things in accused, who submitted himself Indo-China situation remains un- which we believe and which we for search, resulting in discovery changed and the blowing up of love."-Reuter..
(of a dagger in his girdle. The the railway bridge at the border
rest escaped.
does not mean China' is adopting Inquiries · led to arrest of the a policy of passive resistance, it is other two accused, but two men stated in Chungking. were still-at-large.-All--three admitted they were going to rob Government will take, an army Ha Ka Village that spokesman replied: "Our troops will enter Indo-Chinn the mo- ment Japanese forces land in the colony, as our Foreign Minister declared the other day."-Cen- tral News.
OF A TYRE
a house in night..
MR. T. H. G. BRAYFIELD. OF CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE, QUEEN'S BUILDING, WAS SUMMONED BEFORE MR. Q. A. A. MACFADYEN AT KOWLOON MAGISTRACY THIS MORNING FOR NOT MAIN- TAINING HIS CAR, NO. 116, IN A GOOD CONDITION. IT WAS ALLEGED THE CAR HAD AN THE WEDDING TOOK PLACE||| UNSERVICEABLE TYRE TO-DAY AT ST. ANDREW'S WHILST BEING DRIVEN IN CHURCH, KOWLOON, OF MISS
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· NATHAN ROAD ON AUGUST V ALENTINA VORONKIN, A GERMAN-ITALIAN ECONO- YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF MR: MIC- COMMISSION, ACCOM- His driver, Ng Cheong, was AND MRS. D. V. VORONKIN, OF PANIED BY MEMBERS OF THE summoned for driving the car. VLADIVOSTOCK, AND MR. FRENCH ARMISTICE COMMIS- Pleading not guilty, Mr. Bray- JOSEPH H. HOROWITZ, ANSION, WILL SHORTLÝ ARRIVE field submitted that the tyre was ENGINEER OF THE FAR EAST IN INDO-CHINA BY AIR VIA serviceable, though it was smooth. FLYING TRAINING SCHOOE, RUSSIA AND CHUNGKING, AC- He submitted a case in which WHO IS THE YOUNGER SON CORDING TO A CHINESE the Lord High Admiral of the OF THE LATE MR. H. HORO-PRESS REPORT IN CHUNG- United Kingdom lost an action WITZ AND MRS. HOROWITZ, KING YESTERDAY. against the Hong Kong and OF SHANGHAI.
Authoritative sources state that Shanghai Hotels in the Supreme The Rev. J. R. Higgs officiated, they have no knowledge of any Court on June 8 upon the result with Mr. R. Baldwin at the or-such commission but add that of an accident in which Commis-gan.
German subjects were at present sioned Engineer W. A. Jones was The bride's dress was af white being granted visas to proceed to seriously injured; owing, as the crepe satin and lace bolero Indo-China when necessary,, for prosecution alleged, to the car's (princess style), with a long white the removal of German goods, unserviceable tyre. ".
veil with white gardenias. She this being stipulated under the Hayes & Moon-Ancient History Mr. Brayfield quoted evidence carried a bouquet of white tuber terms of the Franco-German in that action and said his roses and similar bouquets were armistice.-Reuter. case was similar to that.one. The carried by the bridesmaids. tyres in both cases were smooth The bride was given away by but serviceable.
her father, while Mr. C, N, Goldin
After evidence by the prosecu-was best man. A reception is be- tion, the Magistrate dismissed the ing, held at 2; Minden Avenue, summonses. ·
CHINESE GIRL KILLED
Kowloon.
ICE-CREAM SELLERS FINED
BULGARIAN PACT WITH RUMANIA
The text of the Rumano-Bul- garian agreement on "Southern Dobrudja, according to a Sofla ¡despátch to the German News
Agency, shows that the new fron- tier between Bulgaria and Rum- Jania runs trom the Danube imme-
* An 18-year-old Chinese girl was killed yesterday, when a tricycle
diately north of Silistria to a point collided with a motor. van in Na- For breach of Anti-Cholera on the Black Sea about five miles than Road. 19.
Regulations by selling ice cream south of. Magalia. The van, proceeding along Nain the street, Che Yau-kee, 50, The Bulgarian Commission will than Road, was turning into Pub-land Che Chung-yee," 21, were begin to take over at the end of lic Square Street at about:5.40 each fined $20 or five weeks' hard this week. pn., when the tricyle No. 113, labour by Mr. E. Himsworth at The Bulgarian authorities es- ridden by Lau Tao and the girl. Kowloon this morning.
timate that 45,000 Bulgarians, will Mak Tim, collided with the rear For selling cut or damaged be transferred from Northern Do- of the van. The girl was thrown fresh bananas: In Halphong Road brudja to the south, while about heavily and, rushed to Kowloon yesterday, Chung "Hing-hee, 60, 80,000 Rumanians from Southern Hospital, died shortly after ad-was fined $16, or one month's Dobrudja will go to Rumania.---.
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