THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1940:
JAPANESE OFFICER
OFFICER SHOT: Attempt To Suppress Story Of Peiping Incident
POLICE EXPEDITION TO BEACH
FOLLOWING THE DISCLOS- URE IN THE "SUNDAY. HER- ALD" OF THE DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS, OF HUMAN BE-
INGS ON A SMALL BEACH IN
LUNG HA WAN, IN PORT SHELTER, A POLICE PARTY,
UNDER SERGEANT FRO OF THE SAIKUNG POLICE STA-
BERTS, OFFICER-IN-CHARGE
TION. VISITED THE SPOT
Marking Signature Of Treaty
THE JAPANESE military spokesman în Peiping admitted yesterday that a Japanese officer had been shot in the city but refused details, and the Japanese Telegraph Adminis- tration refused to transmit outward messages
YESTERDAY MORNING AND on the incident.
REMOVED THE GRUESOME
PUBLIC MORTUARY,
In the course of the morning. the beach was visited by a nunt- ber of sight-seers who proceeded there partly by car and partly on
RELICS TO THE KOWLOON From a number of different sources it appears that about noon on Friday a Japanese lieutenant- colonel on horseback, accompanied by two mounted escorts, was riding, in the main street of the north city not far from military headquarters when a single Chinese jumped off a bicycle, drew a revolver and fired four shots.
foot.
It has been suggested that the skeletons may have belonged to victims of the typhoon some threej years ago when the Police, un- The officer was killed and one, apparently confirmed by the fact able to cope with the numerous of his escorts wounded.
that the usual daily plane from bodies washed ashore, were au-
Shanghai stopped at Tientsin. thorised to bury them on the The victim is stated to be an No reason was given for the spot. Some clue may be provided ordinary regimental officer withplane not continuing on to Pei- when the age of the skeletons is no special duties. He had not ping that day. Reuter. determined as near as it can be been long in Pelping." determined.
CAR TOOLS STOLEN
Mr. Bottomley, of No. 9, Leigh- ton Hill Road, reported the theft! of motor car tools, valued at $60, from his 'car (No. 6297), which was parked in Jackson Road, be twéen 10.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. yes- terday.
Tension in Pelping continues and ail gates are still closed. Chinese are not allowed out without a special permit and no Chinese are, aliowed on trains.
It is a notable fact that this is the first case of assassination of a Japanese in Peiping since the oc- cupation, though many puppet Chinese have been assassinated.
WEATHER REPORT ·“Rumours Of Mutiny The Royal Observatory reports
Strong rumours In Chinese that the anticyclone over China circles of a mutiny by Chinese is again increasing in intensity militia training at Hsiyuan bar- and the Manchurian depression racks, north of the city near the has moved into the Sea of Japan. civil aerodrome, on Thursday, are
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HUNDRED ARRESTS IN INDIA
One hundred members of the Congress Party have been arrested under the Defence of India Re- gulations during the first fortnight of the extended civil disobedience under Mr. Gandhi's guidance.
The arrested include four éx- Prime Ministers, 11 ex-Ministers, five: Speakers or Presidents of provincial legislatures and seven members of the All-India Con- gress Committee.
Sentences of imprisonment. have been imposed ranging up to 18 months "for men and up to three months for women. Reu- ter.
GERMANY'S ILL-OMEN WARSHIPS
According to the Ger man wireless a new des- troyer flotilla has been put into service.
It is said to be named: the "Narvik flotilla."
It may appear to superstitious German seamen to be an Ill omened choice. It is easy to un- derstand why, Herr Hitler's mind is preoccupied with the name of Narvik when it is remembered, that ning of the most powerfäl German destroyers......“A ́nton Schmidt, Wilhelm Heidkamp, Diether von Roder, Hans Lude- mann, Wolfgang Zenker, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Giese, Erich Loellner and Hermann Kunng met their end, at that place last April British Wireless.
STOWAWAYS FROM
SHANGHAI
A batch of six Chinese stow aways who arrived on n÷British: steamer from Shanghai yesterday," were charged before. Mr. E Himsworth at Kowloon this morn- ing.
They were fined $20 each, and ordered to be expelled from the Colony
One of the defendants, Sze Hing-ching, 20, a banishee,' was additionally sentenced to six weeks hard labour for a breach of the Deportation: Ordinance,
STOP PRESS
The United States' $100,- 000,000 credit, to China over shadowed news of the treaty signed between the Nanking regime and Japan in local Chinese newspapers this morning. They share the view that the granting of the huge credit, a move, timed to the signing of the treaty, re- presents a serious blow to Ja- pan.
The "National Times" ovser-- ves that the United States' an- nouncement indicates.not only that she accepts any challenge from Japan but that when- ever Japan takes provocative ection, she is ready to re- taliate.
The "Ta Kung. Pào" ob- served that the United States has fully realised Japan's ..sinister ambitions in the Far East and the importance. of China's continued resistance. The U.S. $100,000,000 credit is a most effective reply to Ja- pan's aggressive ambitions.- Central News..
After the hearing of evid- ence in the case reported in Page Six, the Chief Justice said the Court was satisfied that the three machines in question were unsafe at the time.
He imposed a fine of $100 cach regarding the drilling- and shaping niachines and a fine of $50 for the other ma- chine, defendant-respondent to pay costs.
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