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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1940.
Revolt Spreading Through Abyssina
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Sudan)
THE SOUND OF Britishi bombs exploding LONG in Italian encampments and the noise of Bri- CHASE tish guns, has brought new hope to the Abys- sinians.
Italy's grip on Abyssinian territory is weakening and revolt is spreading.
3 CARS GIVEN TO WOMAN
"You are a very young
SUCCEEDS
the
Immediately after а German News of the British victory in fleld in the Wet of England, two bomber had bombed a landing the Western Desert has penetrat- ed to the mountain fastnesses of Spitfire pilots took off from Gojjam, to the wilderness of Dan-nearly 100 miles
feld, determined on revenge. For they followed akil and to the wide expanses of the bomber, losing it from time to bush, with their sparse and scat-time in cloud and then picking it tered population,
up again.
The news travelled by the mysterious "native telegraph"· Eventually they got on its tail by which Information files from
near Southampton. One of the village to village in the heart of fighters made u beam attack at Africa. man who has made a fool
The R.A.F.'s constant systema-until smoke poured from
200 yards range, firing short bursts the of himself," said Mr. Justic destruction of Italian bases is bomber. tice
a clear sign to the restive tribes Black in Dublin that Britain's southern Army Bankruptcy Court to An- the Nile is close at hand. thony Drew, 22, son of an English cotton
printer
and a native of Westmor- land, who, in earlier pro- ceedings, had stated that he spent an inheritance of £10,000 in 12 months.
Drew has admitted having sent
£4,000 in a month to 3
Mrs. Winterbottom, who, it was stated, had lived with him in Irish hotels and was now living at the Carl- ton Hotel, London. He admitted owing £800 in Ireland, principal-- ly to hotels.
On his mother's death, it has been stated, Drew will receive a two-fifths share of his father's
£69,000 estate.
Sudan, Buzzing
of
"As I pulled away I saw that the enemy aircraft was
losing height rapidly," this pilot said. "Then Number Two took up the attack from astern and expended all his ammunition."
The Sudan is buzzing with stor-
"The enemy bomber flew jow ies of risings across the border.
In Khartum itself great satisfac-direction for a few minutes. Then over the sea in a south-easterly
tion is expressed at the recent it turned and flew parallel with the Under-Secretary for Foreign wards I saw the bomber dive into coast. Immediately after-
House of Commons statement by the
Affairs that the revolt in Abys-the sea and disappear." sinia appeared to be making pro-
gress-Reuter.
DANCING CONTEST
OVER 150 COUPLES PACKED
Asked about a letter he wrote THE RITZ YESTERDAY AFTER-
DEATH FOR CHENGTU HOARDER
SCOTS WHISKY interest from. Mrs. Winterbottom. THE HONG KONG CHINESE boarding wheat flour for
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to a London firm negotiating for NOON TO WATCH THE AN- Yang Chuan-yu, former Mayor a loan of £12,000, Drew said that NUAL AMATEUR DANCING of Chengtu, has been sentenced to he hoped to get £700 to pay as COMPETITION SPONSORED BY death by a military tribunal
profit DANCERS' ASSOCIATION.
against the wartime regulations. She had a trust fund from which she would get money.
Nine couples took part in Tan-He will be executed by a firing Counsel: I put it to you that 50 Fast and Slow Fox Trot, and squad to-day.
Waltz events, while Mr. T, C. Kan
Ou Yuan-shu and Li Tso-cheng, you receive money from a source and Miss Tang gave a demonstra-accomplices, were
sentenced to you will not disclose to keep you
life imprisonment, in this country?—I receive no
In collaboration with Ou and Ll, money except what I get from First prize was awarded to Mr. Yang hoarded several hundred Wong Man and Miss Chan; se-shih of wheat flour in the name of He denied that he was keep-cond to Mr. Tse Kim-hung and the Chen Min Flour Mill while he ing her at the Carlton Hotel. Miss Tang, and third to Mr. Choi was Mayor of Chengtu-Central He said he had given her three Tung and Miss Wong.
News,
her.
expensive motor-cars. On Thurs-
day she told him she had receiv-
ed
£150 from the sale of one
of them, but he had not given
her authority to sell it.
he
Mr. Arthur Cox, for Drew, re- ferred to a suggestion that was in Ireland to avoid military service, and said that London doctor had informed him that
Drew was in a very poor state of bealth.
Mr. Justice Black said that the statement of some unknown doc-
tion of the Tango.
FORTUNE-TELLER LOOKS INTO FUTURE
-FOR 4 MONTHS
"I LOOK INTO THE future. I see that the tor in London about Drew's health Goddess has favoured you. You are going to have at some unspecified date might great luck. Buy 50 sweepstake tickets on the com- be of consequence or not, but he ing Derby and you will get the winning numbers.”
had enough to do with the fin-
ancial side of the case without These words, however, proved night with the Goddess, who said considering Drew's duty to the unlucky
for the author, a 40-that 22 devils had to be appeased British Government.
year-old professional, fortune-before Chan could have a winning The hearing was adjourned for teller, Ho, Shing, who stood in the ticket and that those devils want- a fortnight.
dock of the Kowloon Magistracy ed $10 each. Chan ultimately this morning, charged with ob-agreed and handed accused $220 taining various amounts, totalling för 22 devils,
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Pleading guilty, accused was
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sentenced to four months' ́hard The fifth day when he called, labour and ordered to be expelled he was told that the Goddess, was from the Colony.
very angry because he had givēn According to Sergeant Haynes, her "bad" money, and that the Chan San-ng, a rubber expert money ($220), which was put in a employed by Fung Keung Rub-tin by accused had turned into tis ber Factory, went to the fortune sue paper.
teller's house at No. 236, Chatham' At this stage, complainant-ap- Road, ground floor, two Sundays
ago to have his fortune told.parently realised that he had been Accused told Chan that he had the matter to the police, who ar
taken for a ride", and reported luck and might win money if he rested accused. purchased $50. Derby tickets Accused said that he had spent through him. He gave accused all the money, chiefly in gambling, $50 for the purpose.
making new clothes and paying some of his debts,
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The following day, Chan res turned to get the tickets but was told that the money had been spent appeasing the Goddess and another, sum of $50 Could be required for the purchase of the tickets. Chap. paid: another $30.)
• Chan called on accused the third Charged with stealing a gold day but was told the time that outing from a goldsmith's shop in
CHASE
of the second $50, $92.50 had been Shanghai Street yesterday, Chan spent for the purchase of a suit Ping, 23, was sentenced to one case which the Goddess required] month's hard labour by Mr, KOWLOON to be kept in the temple for good. A. A. Macfadyen this morn-
luck. Chan paid accused the ing. $32:50, 132
Accused went to the shop and On his fourth visit to the tem- | asked to see some rings he took ple, Chan was told that accused me and ran but was chased had been talking the previous arrested by a Chinese coru