By BUD FISHER
YES, GENTLEMEN?
HE WANTS TO
BUY A FUR
COAT FOR A
LADY!
TIME PAYMENTS ARRANGED
TRIBUNAL HEARS FURTHER
TWO APPEALS
THE COMPULSORY Service Appeals Tribun- al, comprising the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, (chairman), Brigadier A. Peffer and the Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell this morning considered two appeals.
In the first case Mr. J. J. King, of Falconer and Co., asked to be re-assigned from the combatant group to the essential Services Group as he could not spare the time for Volunteer training.
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rests were made by the police yesterday in con- nection with the theft of 215 blankets from the R.A.O.C. Depot, was dis- closed before Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowloon this morning when Corporal
A King stated that he was Combatant Group on the ground Leonard Munsey, 29, of the sole Furopean In charge of that, because of his work, the commpat, who were agents could not find time for training.
11*1 the sale of Admiralty charts. He
was in sole
the R.A.O.C., and four charge of the Chinese, including a wo- man, appeared On re- mand.
It was necessary that the sale! fartery at Gloucester Road and of these chat, shoukt be linked, had to be on the spot at all aften by responsible persons and¦ times. The factory contained sold to proper buyers. He would) very valuable machinery and in like to my the Volunteers the care of an emergency he had but he could not find the time to be at the works. 1tm tibining.
The chairman sad he realised that Mr. Evans had 21 grave
The two men arrested yester- day were Li Po, 30. and Tsim Tak, 34, and, with the other de- Tendants, they were remanded for
week.
ik
The chairman said his ense did not come strictly within the pro-
Mr. M. A, da Silva, appearing i vince of the Tribunal but in view | responsibility. to lug employers for one of the Chinese defendants,, of Mr King's position he would but if there were an emergency Lo Yau, submitted that the police recommend it transfer 麦け the all this would go by the board. should consider bail for his client Esseblatt Services Group.
because the case might take SIX or seven weeks' for hearing.
Sole Charge
Mr. A. J. W. Evans, of the British Cigarette Co., appealed against being assigned to the
The Tribunal could not find anything in his case to induce it to depart from what had been regarded as a sound
rule, that every man should do his part in the defence of the Colony.
The appeal was dismissed.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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salling vargai.
4 Venezuelan
snake
6 Egyptian delty's
crowir
12 Norse - goddess
13 Pertaining
to grand- parents
14 Proportion
15 Ancient
tribal tax
16 Skilful
maneuverer 18 Two-masted
vessel
20 Meat dish
21 Exclamation
22 Music: three
23 Gaelic
27 Ta.reim-
burse
29 Sodium
chloride
30 Fisherman's
basket
31 Land
measure
32 To Irritate
33-Plaything
34 Three-tood
sloth
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muitary
school
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VERTICAL
1 Part of body
41 Preposition
42 Stary
44 Fat
47 Principal
city of Palestine
5 Greek lotter
52 Armadillo
53 Nothing
more than
64 Tibetan
güzelle
55 Ceremony
56 Iales off
Ireland
57 Distant
connecting tehend
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trunk
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ing with the bow
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language
10 Greek letter
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3 Foamy
17 Exists
4 Slot
6 Eggs
Ú French
tragedienne
7 Communion
table
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22 Impost
24 Concerning 25 To bura 20 Ancient
European country 27 Stride 28 Street urchin
29 To place 30 Centre 33 Undertaking
33 Digit 36 To act 37 Insect's antenna 38 Power 40 Beast of
burden
41 Siberian
river 43 While 144 Sign
45 Go away!
40 Dawn-liko 47 To shaka -40-Blender-
. finial
40 Rodent
50 Period of
time
It was ridiculous, Mr. Silva contended, for the police to op- pose bail as it would be a grosS injustice if his client should be found not guilty after six or se- ven weeks' detention by the po- lice.
Det.-Sgt. C. Dowman, who opposed bail, stated that about $1.900 worth of blankets had been stolen from the Depot.
bail
The Magistrate stated that he was not prepared to grant at the present stage.
MACHINE-GUN
MAGAZINE RAIDED
Three Chinese were charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry this morn- ing, with stealing a large quantity of machine-gun animunition from the Military Barracks at Tsuen Wan.
Accused, Cheung Sai-lo, 41, Lau Hing, 41, and Kwok Cheung, 25. were alleged to have stolen 12 cases containing 14,976 rounds of machine-gun ammunition from a magazine on two different occa- slons.
Detective-Sergeant MacPherson, in charge of the case, asked the Court to adjourn the case for further enquiries.
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