By BUD FISHER
WHY NOT BOIL POP
·AND GET RID OF
ALL, THE GERMS
AT ONCE?
SON, MAYBE YOU GOT SOMETHING THERE!
CLAIMED TO BE PATRIOT
"I only meant to take the
HOMESICK CHILDREN WRITE SCARE LETTERS
SCARE LETTERS telling fantastic stories of wolfram ore and dump it into their adventures in air raids have been sent home the sea, or else it would be sold to the Japanese and more by children evacuated to Cornwall. One boy, aged thirteen, wrote to his mother following the first air raid warning in his village:
bombs would be dropped in China," explained Kwok Yuk- shing. 28, when charged before
Mr. G. T. Lowry this morning, with stealing a bag of wolfram ore from Chol Po-tong, mer- chant, in Connaught Road Cen- tral yesterday.
Inspector T. K. Whelan; who prosecuted, said that Choi was riding in a ricksha with the ore in it. Three Chinese stopped his ricksha and defendant snatched the ore.
MR. OKAZAKI TO LEAVE TO-MORROW.
PASSAGE FRAUD
مجید
"Dear Mother,we had an air raid yesterday and the vil age. Is wiped out. 1. am the only evacuee still living. Will you let me come home?".
The parents got in touch with a billeting officer, who assured them the boy's letter was a com- plete fairy tale.
To Be "Censored"
Residents in the area evacuees were called together, and housing it was decided that letters home should be censored by the foster- parents.
Billeting officers reported ur- gent Inquiries from other par- ento who had received similar gruesome tales of adventure from their children,
Lui. Yum-chung 40, was charged before Mr. K.
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C. A. Sentence of three months' hard Barnett this morning with labour was imposed..
Laudulent conversion of $800, entrusted to him for purchasing a passage for Lo Choi and Chan Ho, to Manila,
Detective-Sergeant R. Mcvey told the Court that complain- ants' passports were not valid for Manila. So they entrusted the money defendant on November 27 to obtain passages "Although the majority of the to Manila. Defendant disappear-children have settled down ed and was, not seen again until their new kind of life with com- yesterday in Des Voeux Road, plete happiness, a few miss the where he was arrested.
regular nights at the pictures and Defendant was sentenced to fish shops, and hope to be taken six months imprisonment with back to London," a billeting officer hard labour.
Mr. K. Okazaki, outgoing Ja- panese Consul-General in Hong Kong, and Mrs. Okazaki and family are leaving, to-morrow for
Japan.
Mr. Okazaki, after consulting the Foreign Office in Tokyo, will sail for Calcutta to take charge of the Consulate there.
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"Some also seem to think they are missing a lot of fun in not being in London during the raids."
JAPANESE AIR RAID IN YUNNAN
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Eight Japanese planes raided
Mengtsze in Yunnan yesterday, dumping a number of bombs. which caused little damage.
One of the raiders struck a mountain peak on its return flight. and crashed.
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Japanese scouting 'planes con- ducted a reconnaissance- over Kunming, Kienshui, Shihping and other areas in south Yunnan be- fore and after the bombing.
The air-raid alarm was sounded here at 7.40 a.m. and the "all clear" was given at 1 p.m. Central News.
KWANGSI CLEAR OF JAPANESE TROOPS
on
Chennankwan, strategle town the Kwangsi-French Indo- China border, was recaptured by the Chinese on Saturday morn- ing.
With its recapture, south Kwangsi is completely cleared of Japanese troops-Central News.
RESIDENCE ROBBED
Mr. L. Strange, of No. 125, Wongnelchong. Road, has report- ed the theft of money, a watch and private papers from his residence, between 3.30 a.m. and 7 a.m. yes- terday.
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