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"BLITZ" BY RED ARMY THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE ALL NOT WELL IN THE UKRAINE ?
Five Years On Menaces Charge
Berlin, July 22.
The general opinion omong Soviet military circles here is that, in case of a general conflict, Russian armies would not be able to push to a successful conclusion a "blitz" offensive against Western Europe.
Found guilty by a jury at It is claimed that the dismantling of the railway
the Criminal Sessions yester- day on a charge of demand- ing $5,000 with menaces, Chan Tam-kam, fisherman, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Gould (Acting Chief Justice), to five years hard labour."
or five years.
east of the Elbe and the bad state of repair and the extreme shortage of bridges over German rivers would hamper the progress of mechanised armies. Furthermore, the distance separating a Soviet army en- gaged in offffensive operations from its Russian bases would be colossal and would prohibit effective means of maintaining lines of communication.
War.
ing soldiers wore said to have mentioned numerous banda of In passing sentence, Mr. Justice
well-armed partisans, who were Gould sold that he greatly re-
roaming through this gretted the fact that the maxi-
stricken rem.. mum, sentence he could pass was
A strong force of Russian Gen- durmerle had been sent to this jury were unable to reach
Dres to restore
and pence
order. UCSGT on two other charges
Columns marching towards the
All these difficulties of a tech- with which Chan
to the was charged, west would be exposed namely,
Siu Tuk danger of attocks on their right cal order would compel Russia kidnapping hung, son of a lime klin owner
flank the Ballic and North Sea to resort to her centuries-old war tactics of using the vast spaces and utteirng a letter demanding coasts.
the Vistula to wage a defensive $5,000 with menaces. Mr. Justice German personnel accompany-war. Gould directed that ho be re-
ing repair trains from Germany war. To this would be added the manded in custody pending a de- to the Soviet Union, via Poland, or morale, not only of Soviet
that servicemen in Germany. these were reported to have stated that the entire Russian population at elaton as to re-trial charges.
special security measures have Chan was tried at the June Ses-been taken in castern Poland,home. It was added that the Rus-
Brest slan High Command was increas elons on a charge of murder, but between Stediico and was acquitted by the jury. On Litovsk because of armed attacksingly worried about desertions in
Germany. that occasion, die was defended by by gangs concealed in the forests Mr. V. d'Alton.
or marshes. Mr. A. Hooton, assisted by Det, Inspector D. H. Taylor, conducted the case for the prosecution. The decused wns not legally repre- sented
on
Before accured testified yester- day.
certain statements alleged to have been made by him but which he denied having made, were read to the jury, Mr. Justice Gould having held that they were ad- missible.
German engine drivers were reported to have been instructed to increase speed between Niala Podalskn and brest Litovsk.
Ukraine Disorder
In the former Pollsh Ukraine, ralfway lines have been sabot- aged in several places. Escort.
Personalia
Efleen Allen is arriving
After the statements had been read, accused was asked if he wish to be cross-examined. When told that he would be subjected to cross-examination if he teausted, in Hong Kong on August 4 in he consented.
Miss
the s.s. Canton, to join her sister, Mre. Dorothy Ann Silva.
but of
The contact of Russian soldiers with western civilisation is stated to have had a demoralising effect on these troops, Ascetism and the rigid discipline of the Communist state were not easy to bear once the taste of comfort and freedom had worked its way into | frame of the Soviet soldier.
the
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948.
HK TRADE FIGURES
Hong Kong's imports during June this year were HK$40,- 100,000 more than đun nhiên corresponding month Tast
year.
An official statemont yos«" terday, sald that Imports of merchandise during Just month totalled #dečtaréd value of HK$173,787,329 ** compared with HK$130,474,- 333 In June last your,
Bxporte amounted to ■ de- clared value of HK$108,118,- 223 last month as compared with HK$100,472,154 in June, 1047.
Total Imports
Into the
Colony during the first six months of the your amounted to HK$980,972,054 as COM- pared with HK$859,103,090 during the first half of 1947.
Experts totailed HK$696.- 098,408 in the first alx months of this year as compared with HK$559,391,402.
US Policy In PI Denounced
New York, July 21. The liberal weekly, "The Nation", has published an article denouncing United Stater irasis- tance on passage of the Bell Act and also the Philippine Govern- ment's handling of the collabora tion issue.
The
|Catalina Tragedy
First Officer's Body Recovered
The body of Mr. K. S. MacDuff, fint officer of the Catalina flying-boat which crashed near Macao last Friday, has been recovered in salvage operations during which the plane's wings were torn off.
The wrecked plane was ex-st C.L, at Cloverdale, British pected to be towed to Macao Columbia.
yesterday where the inquiry Mr: Stewart's body was
is to be conducted.
The "Ching Mall" was authori" tatively informed yesterday that the three children of Mr. and Mrs. 11.G. Stewart, Whs were ninong the victims,
will leave for the United States of Aug 7. Mrs Stewart's body has not yet been
recovered
Mr. Stewart came from a family well known in North China for several generations. His father was born in Tientsin and rerved as an official in the Chinese Mari- time Customs I Tientsin and Taku. Mr.
Stewart was born fri Taku, November 10, 1905, and was brought up in
Tientsik
As a young man, he served with General Frank Sutton in Man chirim After his marriage to Mrs. Stewart (Hedwige De Fryde) he joined the Vacuum Oil Company an their representative in Tsing- two area
In 1031, he entered the employ of the Texas Company and after period with that Company in kankow, was transferred to their Hong Kong Ofice.
2
Mr. Stewart was a member
Defence Corps
and after the
Due For Promotion
covered on July 17, and taken to were held on July 18. Macno where furteral
services
The service attended
by pla 80clates, Mr. D.H. Rowsome, Mr. W. Taylor, Mr. H.E. Phillips and B.H. Genders, as well as by Ms. Stewart's many friends there, the British Consul in Macao and
awaits the decision of the family. Final disposition of the remains
Modern
Airport Safety
Various
aspects
of the
resentment...Because Pat, Iar and Ronnie will, szil un plane can take of the most im
ground organisation of a modern airport were dealt with in a falk to Kowloon Rotary yesterday by Mr. O. F. Hamilton, manager of the of the Hong Kong Volunteer Kai Tak Airport.
Tho speakor sald an effelent fall of Hong Kong became a ground personnel was an impor prisoner of war in Japan untiltant to modern dying as trained the Liberation.
pilots and in fact the safety of Blying depends very largely an the proper check up of Literafts article Independence- He later returned to Hong before their taking off and pro- Morale Law
With Strings", written by Willum Kong as Assistant District Mana-viding their pilots with informa Winter, formerly of the Office of er. here for the Texas Compasy tion and data for their route of Several collective suicides of War Information said that as a and had been due to become Dis-flight. Russian officerà and their entire familles have been reported in it of the Bell Act, "American trici Mangger upon
Mr. D.H. capital has joyfully begun
The ground engineer is r the Rowsome's departure on
pon- several Govlet zon
bora garrisons, westward march to Manila, but leave in September.
sible for checking up on a.. air- when it was announced that
the
craft engines which must be paso- they would be re-posted back Filipinos are loudly express-
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart's children, ed by him as airworthy before a their ing to Russia.
of economic dependence, the the President Cleveland from German prisoners coming back from the
Republic young
scrupulously Hong Kong to San Francisco on portant department of a modern
Flying control is Soviet Union unani-
niavolds any foreign policy which August 7 accompanied by Mire, airport, as it controls the move. Chan then told the Court about
mously declared that the in-might be at his movements between March 11
varianco with D.H. habitants of the European regions Washington."
Rawsome. The childrenments of all aircrafts from the and March 13. He had been to
will live with their uncle, and of Russia,were still deeply, de-
Mr.time of its take-off until they Hong Kong to collect a debt, of
pressed by the affects of war. The
Douglas Stewart, was Bangkok in Wednesday by CPA pilfering and terror of the Ger-article said that Philippine
formerly of arrive at an ultimate destination. $15 on two occasions, but
Tegarding collaboration, the
This department is divided in. unsuccessful. On March 14, the were Messrs. M. I. Wheatley, R.B.PH friend who
to four branches, namely. bad
flight borrowed
Yang-chak, Laing an armies and the Gestapo had tellectuala the Laudis, Lee
"are outraged...but tert wounds which refused to there is a dearth of experienced
Information, which includes me- On Ying-wah, Oey Tiang-tjaij and money returned it to him,
heal.
leadership in the country and the
tereological reporta and the following day, this friend Ocy Slok-liang-
forecasts; aerodrome control which issues was unlikely that persuasion or during the war."
Instructions by visual radio
and telephone signals to all aircraÉLE Among the
who even compulsion would be able passengers he knew nothing about the hap-boarded the Manila bound CPA thusiasm which enabled the So- and forgive. They are so much to awaken the magnificent,en- The people are ready to forger
In the air; area control by radio penings at Lau Fau Shan,
plane
A
telephony with aircrafts outside against Mrs. Chan alleged that the evidence Messrs. Go Tian-bin, Ong Ka-
We viet Union to fight back to victory so, in fact, that Jose P. Laurel is E. M. da Roza for evading the range of control. from the con- against him had been fabriented say, Kang Hong. Chla. Cheng-
Hilferlic expected to be the next President payment of bus fare was distrol tower; and air sen rescue work by the police and that they hadkang, Lim Seng. Ang Kuat, Ang offensive in the early stage af the of the Philippines-the man whom missed by Mr. Hini-shing Lo rescuó to crafts fi distraso
winch. arranges for despäten of Russian invasion-Agence France- the Japanesa appointed President."
at Central yesterday. Presse.
-United Press
dence, that stie zot meant to defraud the Bus Company.
Ng Sum, the bus conductor, said of each and every pilot before he that Mrs. Roza bad cause him takes off, so he may be in pos- session of all available Inform- inconvenience two days beford Hon for his fight before he is
she tendered $5 note: given his clearance, When change was given, she then The administrative work of an gave him 30 cents for the fare. On July 18 he asked for the fare airport is heavy and without gla- mour, said Mr. Hamilton, who toit concluded his talk with an invi * give it to him. She said that he had trotation to all Rotarians to visit the
brought the police to arrest him. Chan raid that when he was ques- tioned by the police, he told them
Arrivals frorn Singapore
OR
•
Wednesday
brought a false charge against Haan and Co Yu hồn. He admitted that he was
in need of minney durlag the
•
period March 11 to March" 15. Departures from the Peninsula
BA
Ngan Lal-sau, who was called
witness
n
Hotel
on Wednesday Included for the defence, Messrs. Norman Jemal, HA agreed that he had borrowed $15 Barros, W.D. Davis, N.S. Walker, from accused. He also
agreed A. Dahrouge, W.L. Allison, R.N. that he tun: the polica to and Ansteth, GIHJ. Desanore, W. J. atused, but did not know they Moore, C.C. Chow, J.H. Perin, and wanted to arrest him.
Mr. and Mrs. MH. Law.
On conclusion of the summing tp by Mr. Justice Gould, the Jurj rotired for 25 minutes.
BOAC PLANE DELAYED
Arrivals at the Peninsula Hotel on Wednesday were Mrs. Nail Walker, Mrs. Evelyn M. Wright, Miss Margaret Soong, Miss Bar-
in-
DISPUTE
These prisoners claimed that it most capable men served Japan IN A BUS
after the victorious
LUST OVERCAME HIS AVARICE
A story of how a man's lust for his victim, a 22-
year-old woman, changed his intention-of- robbing her was related at the Supreme Court yesterday.
bara A. Yeager, Miss Margaret E. The man, Chung Yim-hung, charged with rape and Mueller, Mias Jeanne Mont-
Heder,
It is notified that the provisional gomery, Miss Vicha Mae changes in arrival and departures Miss Margaret Feed Mr. and Mrs. of B.O.A.C. Planes are as fol- AS. Hill, Messrs. E.M. Hunt, E. lows:-
Parker, W.R. Rivors, KM. Hamp- (1) The Inward B.O.A.C. Plane shire, from the United Kingdom, due David G. Fisher, and Capt. Milton J.A. Barthrop, Lieutenant here on Thursday, July 22, is now Lermen.
pected to arrive on Friday, July
summons
He
held, after hearing the evi- Briefing Of Pilots
when
and Mrs. Roza ́reftmed to
Not the least important fune tion of an airport is the briefing
on her shoes. She said that she and get a first-hand know-}
of its operation;
President F. C. Cleme,
The speaker was thanked by
would not pay until an inspector came. He asked her for the fore times and as no inspector came he took her to the Police
Guests welcomed by the Club station.
Mrs. Roxs said that the conduc-Moore and Messrs. A. J. Norman, yesterday included Captain. W, Z. for was very quarrelsome. The L Sykes, E. Jaffe, W. J. Roger, bus conductor.nover approached R. Woodward and L. Gaddi her for the fare. She fendered the fare but he would not collect it, She did say that she would wait until an inspector came
assault with intent to rob, was unanimously found guilty by a jury of four men and two women. He was sentenced, by Mr. Justice Reynolds (Acting Puisne Judge), to 10 years hard labour and 12 strokes of the cane. Chung had, at the opening When she replied in the affirms-She wanted to report the con (2) The Outward Air Mail for ton by BOAC "Speedbird" dying to a charge of possession of
Latest arrivals from Southamp-of the 'Sessions, pleaded guilty tive, he asked ner whether she ductor. She did not refuse to pay Japan (Ordinary letters only) by boat are Messrs JF. Weston, arms and ammunition. B.O.A.C. Plane, advertised
10 DA.. Davies, G.J. Agate, W.L..
23.
would have sexual relations with the fare.
him. She remained altent. Accused sexual intercourse with him and continued to as: her to have promised not to take any pro perty from her if she consented.
MOTORISTS IN COURT
at 10.00 a.m. on Suriday, July Messra O.S. Wilson, Chen Skou- woman, Poon Ng-mul. She called Sused's instructions, Poon une tained at a dinner party given ini Kong Electric Co.
Saturday, July 24, will now close
21.. (Registered at 5 p.m. Baturday, July 24).
on
Alfredo Augusto Crestelo was fined $30 by Mr. F.X. d'Almada at Central yesterday when he close at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July Howard, W.J. Moore, DHL Clarke, The prosecution was conduct
pleaded guilty to a summons of 22. will now close at 8 pm on TG.P. Crick, A.D. Kay and Missed by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr, Friday, July 23.
SHAH DINĖS AT driving without due care and at- EF Stack:
tention. Assistant Crown Solicitor, as (3) The Outward Air Mall for
PALACE Aboard the same aircraft were sisted by Det. Inspector H. T.
It was sold that defendant cut the United Kingdom by B.O.A.C.
She then agreed. All the time,
Into
the path of an oncoming Plane, due to close at 5 p.in. on Mr. Tawe Kan-shae and Mr. B.A. Matches.
Isacson
accused had the revolver in hị (from Calcutta); Mr. Mr. Blair-Kerr
police bus which had London, July 21.
to slop said that the hand pointed at her. On ace DJB. Sazsoon (from Bahrein); victim
The Shah of Iran was enter suddenly to avoid an accident. Was A young Chineso
Augustus Hiberio, of the Hong dressed and intercourse yi and Kwok Ping-chor (from herself a kept woman of an In-place.
took his honour by the King Kennedy Town, was cautioned for Sub station, Bangkok).
dlan in Ma Tau Chung Camp,
Queen at Buckingham Palace After a minute or so, they were tonight, Kowloon City. She had also ad-disturbed by a third person, who
suddenly turning right without Queen Mary, Frincess Elizabeth, a warning mitted, in evidence in the Lower shouted to them Court, that she had been a pros-Accused got up and producing his Margaret, the Duke and Duches
"don't move." the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince titute.
The low draws no distineovolver, told the Intruder not to of Gloucester, Lord, and La
move. The other man, undemed, Mountbatten, Mr. Lewis Douglas whatever. between any stepped forward. A disenssion American Ambarsador), chaters of the community, parti- about "lucky money" fallowed clement Attlee (Prime fatter) cularly in regard to charge of and it was agreed that Poon Mr. Ernest Bevin (Foreign Secr raper prostitutes are entitled to should give the second man t'a tary) and Mr. and Mrs. Winstin protection of the law In just se "LRI full a manner as the most mora!
After
the money had been Churchill, were Kimong those t
pald
{the dinner."""Reußér *** persona among : x2 kaid Mr-two constables arrivéd, Sõeluit Blair:Kerr.
them, accused urik away, his re- Bat. Blaiz Kerr said that about volver and fled. He was purstied 9 p.m. on May 10, Foon was wait and caught after a short chase.
+ GRAVE CHARGE
ing to
The wedding of Mies S. H. Wan, Charged before Mr. J. Wicks at of the Belillos Old Girls' Associa Kowloon yesterday with attempt- tion, and Me. K. K. Kam will make commit on unnatural place on; Monday at the Hong offence against Li Kwok-taun on Kong Hotel at 4 pm July 31, Indian PC 3055 Hazura Bingh, aged 35, was, on the op- plication of Detective-Inspector has been appointed Public Ne
Mr., W. Gordon Harmon, who Dowman, remanded for a week lations Officer in Hong Kong, or in custody.
Irived from Shanghai yesterday
A
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WAR MONGERING, SAYS WALLACE
Philadelphia, July 21;
Henry Wallace today charged that the Indicf- ment of Communist loadera in New York was
a Red-baiting attempt to prometo new fears of Ruuio,
in a statement issued through Saturday night
い
tion
ing for: Harimalan boy friend In The party was then taken to the CHILDSFIELD
Sung Wong Toi Road. She was Police Station.
carrying a gramophonë to be reminde
burned to the Indian. She wilted Intended To Rob
for about two and a hate hours,
but her boy friend did not ar
Hive. Becoming restive, Poon Mr. Blair-Kerr, said that the walked down Sung: Wong Tol Crown's case was that accused Road to the Camp to look for went to the spot where the offered took place alone and--with the
When about 50 yards from the intention of robbing Her bat Camp, a man, whom she identi-ully loaded revolver in the pos died as the accused, came up from fession with which he threatened
Foon
and maked Top har valuables.
Mr. Wallace made the charge scheduled for the mase rally on behind and caught hold of her to starched her parade and found * Produced Revolver - only a wrist watch. He balanced
in his mind, the value of this |
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his new Party headquarters, Mr. Wattice predicted: my can where his followers ace setting expect Anther fed scares and a Ha produced a revolver and watch with the bleasures of her fold her to keep quiet. He body and at the point of a gun, Dintr-Kerr explained the
this stage, for the founding contacks on other minority groups, vention, which will nominate with charass that their views are threatened to shout her to death, chand Die latter.
He then asked her for her w
him for the Presidency this hostile to the Government
He faded that the rent ruspere ablos. She said she did not save postere, uk lawad and maliA ELEKT Hvily-centred | bealnd, the indictments
any: He marched her and found there was no rape if a woman two keys,
whilet sho' tukt him wase the kiợu of hit house. He boy
the platform of create a diversion for
to be who are compialtring!
pewa ing Inflation, the #sup
all that sho
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