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Around the Courts
FORGED BANK NOTE
PROSECUTION
Before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central Magistracy yester- day afternoon, Li Ngai Yau was charged with possession of forty forged $60 bank notes.
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Inspector M. Murphy prosecuted- called his first witness, Ho Chim Nam, shroff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank who on examining the notes stated that Witness they were all forgeries,
detecting expert at forgeries, having worked in the Bank for seven years and having had experience with the handling There were of $50 bank notes. many distinguishable, points to show that the notes were not genuine, including the shading and thickness of the paper used, but witness said that they were good forgeries arid sufficient to deceive anyone.
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Lung Yu To. another witness, stated that Li Ngal Yau, the de- fendant had come to him at his shop at number 43 Queen's Road Central, and put to him the scheme of buying forged bank notes, which the witness was will- ing to carry out, bat, on belag caught with these forged notes, the defendant led the police to another man Ng Yan from whom he sald he had received the notes,
After hearing further evidence concerning several meetings be- Witness, Ng Yan and the defen- dant at different restaurants where arrangements were made for the sale of the forged notes, which witpess undertook to buy, the case was adjoudned until this afternoon at 2.30 p.m.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
Police Court proceedings in the murder charge against Chan Chung by stabbing of a woman named Chau Wai Hing on the night of April 30 outside 38 Upper Lascar Row, concluded before Mr. QA. A. Macfadyen yesterday afternoon, when Mr. J. A. Fraser called his last two witness for the prosecution.
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Inspector A. H. Eiston" stated that after receiving the report of the stabbing, he arrived on the scene of the crime at 2.15 am and saw Chan Chung the defen- dant and Chau Wai Hing being On removed to an ambulance. examining the scene ot the tragedy, witness found two pools of blood outside No. 32 Upper Las- car Row and also splashes of blood on the footpath and road- way, but on continuing his search could find no other weapon except for a knife that had been handed to him on his arrival.
Inspector Diston also gave evidence of finding seven letters in the accused's jacket pockets. The letters were then produced, three of which were addressed to the Press, one to his brother and another to his father and mother In which he seemed to show great concern for them and thanked them for their kindness to him.
Time To Die
At the close of evidence, defen- dant, on being asked if he wished to give evidence, said:" "I had made up my mind to kill her be- fore committing suicide and what I want now is sentence to an early death, since now that I have guc- ceeded in killing her, it is time for me, to die and that is all I want." Defendant was committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions.
UNEMPLOYED MAN REMANDED
Charged with having wounded ard caused grievous bodily harm to Lau Kee, -a P.W.D. coolle, at Pokfulum Road on Tuesday. Chan Chiu. 25 unemployed atter, was brought before Mr. W. Schofield yesterday at the Central Magig- tracy.
Inspector Elston asked, for a re- mand, saying that the complain- ant was in hospital wounded in the left thigh, and was likely to remain there for about a week.
The defendant was remanded for one week, bati-in $100 being grant-
ed.
Mr. W. Schofield; at the Central
CLAIM LOST
1h
WAR GAMES
In The Pacific
A Reet problem which is taking into Western Pacific waters than it has ever been before was open- ed up for solution when the two enemies" left, their Pacific coast
bases under cover of darkness to wage the most gigantic mimic war ever staged in American naval his- tory.
The war game involves à strug-
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Because he failed to appear be- foré Hls Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor at the Sum- mary Court yesterday morning Yeung Yick-yat lost his claim for $1,500 agairist ̧ Yeung
Sal- king alias Henry Walter Sing. as well as judgment given against him in a counter-claim for $2,183.- 41. Both claims were for moneygle for mastery of the Eastern lent,
Pacide with an imaginary Invader In evidence
from Yeung Sai-king
the Orient. From Puget said he lent U.S. $500, which was Sound a scouting force under Ad- then equivalent to $2,183.41. to miral Hepburn, is steaming north- Yeung Yick-yat on November 11. west to a secret destination, pre-
1932 at Brookland. New York. sumably Dutch Harbour, th When In America witness had togbound Aleutian Islands. written to defendant on several enemy is Admiraj Labing's battle occasions in an effort to regain force, which salled for Hawaii. his loan but did not receive any
When they are all over it will be reply. Since his return to. Hong Japan's turn. The Japanese Navy Kong witness.had not seen defea-will play at war throughout Juty. And in repelling a mythical inva- der of the Kuriles coming from the tional affairs. To him.the tension direction of the Aleutlans, they in the world at large arising out of will return the American compll- the lack of a disarmament conven- ment, penetrating farther Intotton calls for défence preparedness Eastern Pacific waters than they have ever been before."
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MOTORIST FINED
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Pleading guilty to a summons for failing to exercise due care and caution when rounding a right hand bend on the Taipo Road near the.3 milestone on the afternoon of May 26, W. J. Furness, a sea-
man of H.M. submarine Parthian, who was driving private car No. 1015, was fined $25 by Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning. For the pro- secution Traffic-Sergeant Mennis stated the defendant falled to keep close to his own side of the road when rounding the bend and collided with private car No. 2230. Both cars were badly damaged..
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political opposition in refusing to abandon the manutuvres is indict- tive of his feeling about interns
DEFENCE FLOTILLAS
A BONUS TO CRIME
(Special Air Mall Service)
'Londers. May 18. Virtue brings its own reward: but so likewise does a little ex- as well as a genuine neutrality po-
perimental wrongdoing, if a recent lley. Towards Japan the aim is to
page in the life of an elderly na-' maintain the naval differential tive of Natal is any guide. Ap- either by agreement or by naval parently, a trifling transgression of The potential drama which syn. building. In his view this policy the law led to a Ane of ten shill- chronises with an animated drive is purely defensive. He prefers an Ungs. After the appropriate pro- to bar Japanese tex:lle products agreement, and while he is repre- tests the old woman tendered a from American markets was sented as still extremely hopeful gold sovereign, and was courteous- brought to the surface by the of a Naval Conference, he thinks Ty given 22s. 6d change. Accori-
ing to the latest reports she At zera hour 300 leaders that agreement at this time can Pacifists. of religious life took the extra- best be promoted by decisive bulld- ordinary
ing. course of sending a "hands across the seas" letter to the people of Japan, in which the manoeuvres were called "highly
It is true that a numerous feet unimaginative and mistaken" The of such small craft would neces- manoeuvres were announced on the sitate a considerable increase in very day of Japan's renunciation the personnel of the Navy. but of the Washington Naval agree- auch an increase would, in any cir- ments. Since then, they have been cumstances, have been a necessity. the target for pacifist attack. To as it is not possible at present to the skeleton feet wc ally the disquiet, Mr. Roosevelt af fully man fered several olive branches, He possess. promised that no naval vessel One other point needs emphasis would approach nearer than 2,000 miles of Japanese territory. This is why the Hepburn force, instead of going to the end of the bleak Aleutian string) which would bring the Navy within 700 miles of the Japanese Kuriles, will stop at a point about "half-way along the islands before striking south to
Surely it is time that the nation Midway. The President also or- faced the fact that, in the late dered a vessel to proceed to Japan war, the fuel supply of the rela Charged with riding his bicycle on a goodwill mission while the tively amali ol-fired portion of the in a manner dangerous to the pab-mimic war is progress.
British fleet fell to a couple of lic in Queen's Road Central near The Churches are as well knit weeks, and that these particular the Central Theatre at 9.30 p.m. for political, action as any "Lobby" vessels had to be nursed in `har- last night, Chau Shing, 28, butcher in the United States. Hitherto the bour while the despised coal-bur- was fined $5 at the Central Magis- social security programme" of the ners, without it or hindrance, kept tracy yesterday morning.
Administration has assured Mr. the seas. They position to-day is Roosevelt personally of their sup- incomparably more serious, for not That he has risked their only are we at present without the
Appearing before Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Ho Chi, aged 22, unem ployed of Canton was charged with the theft of a bathing sult, valued at $8, from the Drapery Emporium, 64 Nathan Road, and theft of palm beach cloth from Lam Shiu-sek, tailor. 334 Nathan Road. The cloth, it was stated he pawned for $3, its value being $4.50.
The defendant pleaded gulity, and was sentenced to 12 weeks hard labour.
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Though the Police were not ask-port. ing for a committal in this case, Chung Suet-fel, 28, was sent to prison for one year by Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Police Court. yesterday morning. Inspector Ellis stated the man was arrested on information on the Castle Peak Road. This was defendants third breach of the Deportation Order.
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Tsang Po-hel, 38, Lee Yee, 35, and Chan Lin-ching, Kowloon Go- down coolies "appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy yesterday charged with the unlawful possession of an Acme Trang Pa- voltage transformer. hel was discharged but Lee Yee'! and Chan Lin-ching were sen- tenced to six weeks, hard labour each.
Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Police Court yesterday morning sentenced Ip Kwok-hung (27) to nine months' hand labour, for re- turning to the Colony, before the expiration of his term of banish- ment. Defendant was banished in August, 1934 for 10 years. Another man, Cheung Sze, aged 57, was also charged with returning from banishment, and was sent to pri- son for six months. He was bankhed for 10 years in March this year.
GERMAN LINER SOLD
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press (Copyright)) ...
Hamburg, June 5, The German 21,000 ton liner, Cap Polonio, once the price of Southern Atlantic has been so'd
Hamburg America by the to a Bremen shig breaking firm to be scrapped.
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The liner was built in 1914 and saw service during the war as an
South China Daily. "ews (Fam wager Magistracy yesterday, fined Walauxiliary cruiser. She was hand-
Yung, tailor $50 or in default sixed over to England after the war
Yat Po) weeks hard labour, and also or- but was bought back by the Ger-
49-51, HOLLYWOOD BOAD, HONG KONG.
Cables “SweNONIS
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dered to pay $1.50 amends or serve man line in 1921. another five days' hard labour, for She was withdrawn from service, the larceny of two sults of clothing valued at $1.50, from Tsol Wah, tailor, of 94 Fir Street.
during the depression in 1931 and
had been lying idle ever since. Transocean Kuỡ Min
15 still in a state of suspicious alarm, knowing, no more than most of us about the meaning of going of gold; but obviously there arë more than purely individual issues "in- volved. The financial aspect fades beside the moral It is not record- ed whether the magistrate said, as Isabella said to Claudio: "Thy sin's not accidental, but a "trade;" it not, then it falls to another's duty. But first there is A cheering side which should not be overlooked. The bonus paid le in clear accordance with the most ad- with regard to our future trade vanced principles of penal science defence flotillas. As they will pro- namely, that what in
the old- vide our chief insurance against fashioned way used to be called starvation it seems clear that their punishment should really leave the ability to carry out his vital func- patient richer, better equipped in tion must never be able to be every way to return to the nor- upset by the destruction of oil tan- | mal everyday world outside, Cer- kers by hostile submarines.
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tainly the old woman of Natal is more richly equipped; and it is hardly necessary, perhaps....to.com... mend her future career to the at-
tention of penal reformers. Unter- tunately this fellx culpa' hasa equally clear possibilities for others
means of escorting our canvoys, but now every ship in the Navy is oil-fired.
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