THE CHINA MAT
Indonesian Capital May
Fall This Week-End Britain
US Mediation Offer
喜
Dutch
Accepted
Batayla, Aug. 1.
troops, racing another, 30 miles, are within 70 miles of the Indonesian capl- tal of Jogjakarta,
Island on the
of Java, the official Dutch communique announ- ced today. They may be in the city before the week-end.
By-passing Tjilitjap, but taking Banjoemas, the Dutch forces sped forward yesterday and oc- cupied Pokwaredja, 70 miles north-west of Jogjarkarta, the communique said. Othelad Royal Dutch
Another War Trial
Tamotsti.
SATURDAY, AUGUST, 2, 1947.
Stops Arms Delivery
To Dutch
SEQUEL TO GUN DUEL IN SHAMSHUIPO
The gun duel between a Police party, under S/I D. E. Salter, and a lone gunman through the streets of Shamshulpo on the night of June 25, In the course of which a pedestrian was killed. and two others wounded, was recalled before Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday by DSI C. Dowman.
Gunshot Wound
To Ming-fal allas To Lau. ] rented a part of the hut spoelf- the alleged gunman, was cally, for To Lau. charged before His Worship an two counts of possession of arma, one of shooting at va group of people including 8/1 Salter at Pelho Streat, and two counts of armed robbery in Hong Kong.
Koo-leung
armert
When admitted to Kowloon
Hospital at 6:25 p.m. on July To Lau was suffering from a 4. testified Dr. Georgs Yeung.
wound In
The trial of eight members of the Imperial Japanese Army will take place at No. 5 Military Southampton, July 31. Court on Tuesday Aug. 6 at 10 a.m. They are Lt. Obata Chi-
Britain has now stop- Euro, Warrant Officer Takayama ped the delivery of sup- Masho, W/O Yabuki Rikle, plies and military equip- With To Lau appeared To perforating gunshot W/O Oda Tanpel Sgt. Major ment to the Dutch cargo Sik on two charges of harbour- the upper part of his left arm. Saruwatari Norlshige, Sgt.
Ing To Lau after the
The entry wound was situated Kebo Yashil, St Basaki vessel, .. "Saparden," in robbery, and after the shot in the interior fold of the left Yoshizo, S/Pto. Watanabe Southampton Dock, ing. and Wang Lai allas Tai (which was slightly larger than axin, and the exit wound on the charge, of Armyaniake, showing that the big oll)
The above JapanCHO are which is due to sail soon possession of a pistol and 10 posterior part of the left del- the entry one) was in tho reports sald that behind them storage tanks there have been charged with committing a war for Indonesia.
rounda of ammunition at 57traid region. His left elbow Dutch tropa nou'd me tongues | Lavched of.
crime in that they at the Now
Wing Lok Street, second floor. was fractured, concluded Dr. of flame shooting from
Territories, itong Kang, be- Thia, was a sequel to yester on July 4. 1945, na Aug. 15, 1945, tween the end of February, day's statement, in the House of Another
Young. accused, Loung accused Lieut. Obata Chikuro, more war material was to be woman, charged with harbour- at Peiho Street, bearing was the Commons by Mr. Bevin that no Fong-nh. 18-year-o'd married by members of the Police party | After corroborative evidence as Communding Officer and the supplied to the Dutch Governing To Lau at Li Uk Village adjourned until this morning. other accused as members of ment during military operations was in hospital and unable to peitai were allegedly concerned the Sheung Shul District Kem- in Indonesia.
attend Corut. In the treatment of Chinese residents in the New Territories causing the death of some and physical suffering to others.
This port was also the scene up and rolling clands of black of a recent Dutch staval action, indienting that as Dutch troops move forward naval ships are also pushing along the coast to
and at when headed.
HCL Index Boosted
Shanghai, Aug. 1. A toont in the cost of living Index For both salaried em- ployees and workers in Shang. hal was shown in the figures
here,
The Dutch communique anid Chinese caught between the war. Ping forces are fearful for their lives and are pouring to towns from the countryside seeking protection.-United Press.
Mediation
|
At a previous hearing, DSI There is still a quantity of Presenting the facts of the withdraw the charge of receiv Dowman applied for have to war equipment to be loaded on cane, DSI Dowman said that on ing against Mak Sul-king, 30, the "Supurden which was the night of June 25,-8/1 Sal- married woman, and To Man, handed over to the Dutch mill-ter and a party of Emergency 83, flower hawker. tary authorities before Mr. Unit personnel were on search accuting officer also applied for The pro- Bovin's announcement, This duty at the Shamshulpo Ferry the confiscation of $1,000 buil does not fall within the ban im Wharf, Peihu Street, When thej put up by Chut Hang, 24, moa- posed by the Government, nor first accused does the war material a'ready
was stopped he ter af motor junk "Fu Kwok WAR seen by Constable 3301 to Yat," who was also loaded on board the Dutch ves put his hand Inaldo his girdle.
charged sel.
This constable, continued DSI then
with receiving and who Dowman, immediately grappled AS.P. Comber as Chiu could represented by Mr. with the man but was thrown aside by him. Another con- stable, seeing To Lau with a gun in his hand, warned his com rades that the man was armed,
The Court wil be under the presidency of Lt. Col. R.C. Lake Success, July 91. Laming with Major R.S. But for July few! by authorities feret to mediate in the
The United States today of terfeld and Capt. J. Benyon as In- memburu. Maior Ormsby will The index for sa'aried em-donesian conflict, The Nether act as prosecutor and a Japan- plu een was CNC$2.790 com-landa, accepting the offer. An- CRC lawyer detailed and advised nared with
nounced it also wou'd invite by Lt. D.C.J. Banfield will de-
no longer be found. CNUS19.700 Jine.
"number of other governments" | fend the accused. The index for workers was to make an on-the-spot investi CNC$28,700 cumparod withgation of the war between the
Dutch and Indonesian forces. CNC$26,300 for June,
Mest employers In Shanghai The Dutch and United States pay valaries and wages accord- offers were disclosed to the ing to the cost of living index. I Security Counell late tonight at Tims for every dollar of the end of one of its most im worker's basic pay--his pay be- portant sessions. fore the Shio Japanese wor-he
In an annarent effort to avert wild receive in July CNC328,- serious fight over United N 700,
tion right to act in the In- But that does not make him | doneslan warfare. Dr in rich. Before the war, a Chinese | Kleßens advised the Council was worth roughly 33 that the Netherlands was rendy dollar American cents. Today at the to get other countries in In.
Alark market rate one Ameri- spect the situation in all Dutch can dollar is equal to over East Indies as well in the CNC$30.000.—-Ausoriated Presa. Trdnacalan trouble spots.
Opium Dens 'Raided
A specially constructed hut at Tung Tau Village, Kowloon City,
which had been laid before the United Nations ng a breach of world peace."-United Press.
Accepted
SLAP HAPPY APPEALS
Before a full Court consisting of Sir Henry Bluekall, C.J. the
Pulsne Judge Mr. E.H. Williams. and Mr. Justice Gould, Inouye Kanno (otherwise known as "Glap Happy" appeared yesterday for tenve to appeal Cunell.
to the Privy
Inouye was sentenced to death
against conviction and sentences
The partially Loaded "Sarpar dea" will, it is understood, be the last cargo vesse! to leave British controlled port with war material for the Dutch Government while the fighting In Indonesia lasts.-Reuter.
Statement
·London, Aug. 1.
at
being
Gun Duel
Firat defendant, went an DSI
at the
Chang Fah-Kwei In Formosa
General
Wus
Taipeh, Aug. 1. Chang Foh-kwei, Director of the President's Can-
ton Headquarters, arrived here by air from Shanghai vester-
day, accompanied by his chief of staff General Li Han-chung.
a
A Foreign Office spokesman Dowman, ran out of the wharf already handed over to an agent same time, at the conatable led of the Dutch in Britain before by S/I Salter. A gun duel on- said today that war materials to Peiho Street Aring.
Britain decided to ban delivery sued. of war supplica destined
At Haitan Street the Indonesia would
for fugitive again turned round and not be with shot at 8/1. Salter but again General Chang has been in drawn. for treason at the Criminal Ses- told the House of Commons that
missed. Ho disappeared down a Nanking for some time die- tons ond his subsequent appeal Britain had prohibited the supply Dowman, he led a party of do- development of Hainan Island
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin side lane,
cussing with the Central au- On July 4, continued DSI thorities the administration and The acting American delegate, was not allowed by a full Court of war materials from Herschel Johnson, then
either tectives to a but in Li Lik Village which has been raised to the dia- of Appeal.
Britain or her territories in the where Lau was found. closed that the United States
First statue of a province with Gen- Yesterday's case was adjourned Far East for use in Indonesia, had
accused frankly admitted that oral Chang himself as the first offered only todav to to Monday, August 11 for the j mediate in the dispute in an hearing of legal argument,
The spokesman, referring to
he was the man who was chased Governor, effort to halt the
Mr. press reports that ships
by the Police at Pelho Streat The General will make hostilities, Charles Loseby appeared
Inouye and Mr. A. Lonsdale for loaded with arms and stores for any shots. He also admitted, projects of Talwan and gather
for Southampton Bt were
but stated that be did not. Are general survey of the industrial the Crown,
the Dutch government sald:
alleged DSI Dowman, being | material regarding Hainan "The ships were already part. responsible for the armed rob- Istand left here by the Japanese, ly loaded before the government bery at the Lee On Watch Shop In preparation to assuming his announced its polley to stop sup- June 8 and at the Kut Pik new post-Central News. plica. Further supplies already Road Central, on May 30.
Restaurant, 126A Des Voeux Tokyo, Aug. 1. had been handed over to the said on Thursday that his gay- Gen. Douglas
MacArthur agent for the Dutch government stated that first
Continuing DSI Dowman ernment would accept any im-made no comment today when and are being loaded on ships. brought him and the detectives defendant Cheung Kwong, was fined $500 partial arbitration of the issues handed a copy of an Associated Supplies which has not yet te 57 Wing Lok Street, accond ~(or alx" months* ́ ̈hurd ̄ ̄labour) causing hostilities
with the Press dispatch in which Repre. been handed over to the agent floor, occupied by Wong Lai,
Sydney, Aug. 1. when he pleaded guilty to the Dutch in the Netherlands East sentative Van Zandt expressed are being
Field Marshal Lord Mont- withheld."— United She was not in at the time and gomery, Chief of the Imperial charges of keeping n divan and ¦ Indies.
bellef that the Supreme Com- Prees. possession of prepared oplum. He said the Republic would wander would return to the
the Police had to break in General Staff, arrived here Of the 10 smokers arrested, nine abide by the declafons of the United States before the Re-
Inside a box, a pistol and 19 from New Zealand and planned were fined $20 (or three weeks' | United Nations Security Coun-¦ publican, convention and would
rounds of ammunition were to leave for England on Friday imprisonment) esel, while the gil with regard to obligations, be injected into the presidontia! Work on the rehabilitation or found. Wong was arrested for Important conferences other had his ball of $25 es duties and responsibilities im- contest.
Children's Playgrounds is uniter, when she returned to the flat Britain's manpower programme, trented by Mr. Blair-Kerr at nosed by the United. Nations The dispatch was placed on way and for the past two days later in the evening.
ord Montgomery cut short. Kowloon yesterday.
charter. The Premier said he MacArthur's deak but after workmen have been busily When arrested, To Sik stated his No End visit, and can- had been authorised to make reading It the commander re- engaged in making preparation that he asked To Lau to leave celled ap to Japan because of the statement, Associated ❘ mained silent. → Associated to fence in the Southorn Play- the hut on several occasions but the urgency of the impending
the Police evidence was that he task.Associated Press. Paeza.
ground at Wanchal.
was raided by a Polico party headed by DSI Davies (Special Branch) on July 31 and found to contain four large beds on each of which were on opium pipe and imp
The keeper, 50-year-old
»
Another divan keeper, Tuen Kwan, 51, was fined $300, or three months' hard labour, by Mr. Blair-Kerr for using 380 Shanghai Street, second (loor, as a dive and for possession of one tael of prepared opłum. His five customers were fined $15 each.
Two pipes and two lamps were geized during the raid conducted by S/1 Dow, and Pollce party, on July 31
"My Friend"
The ever-popular and much- maligned "my friend" was, after a noticeable absence, again in troduced to Maglairate Blair- Kerr at Kowloon yesterday -by Cheung Hon, 40, as the man who told him. In Canton, to bring 24 tools. of raw oplum down to Hong Kong to sell.
As his "friend" was unavall- able as a witness, Cheung, had fg bear the responsiblilly for the drug, found, according to R/O Carroll, hidden in the folks. covor of the leather gultcase he wdi carrying when searched by CRO 26 at the K.C.R. Station at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday.
His Worship gave defendant tho alternative of paying a fine. (of $2,400; or doing a stretch of mix months with hard fabour."
............⠀⠀ Tang Pin, 45, widow, charged. before. Mry FX. d'Almada at Cen. rtial yesterday with Imreeny, from the person, was sentenced to two months with hard labour
Tor, offering a bribe of $60 to
incorrison with
him to angaso
Delhi, Aug. 1. Former Premier Sutan, Sjah- hir of the Indonesian Republic
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