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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, · 1937,
WITNESS TELLS FALSE
COURT ARM .. WAS TWISTED
(Continued from Pare 9) |
Did he appear to look pale?.........I did not notice that.
After the whole party had beaten you up you left for the Shumshuipe Police Station?—Yes,
Witness went on to say that he walked in front or
the com.- pany of Ave on the way to the station. Though he turned round ́occasionally he did not notice any- body holding or supporting deceased (Chan Sun). At the station wit- ness and Chan Sun were put in the dock.
Mr. Whyatt: Who removed you from the dock and took you to the big room? The man in the black pongee silk,
1
Were you in charge of a Chinese policeman when you were being taken along that passage to the big room? Yes.
Can you recognise him when you see him again?—No.
Then you told us that after you
were in the room for a while a European police officer came in Yes. I cannot recognise him. Don't ask me this anymore.
You didn't SAY 2. European policeman struck you-No.
ARM TWISTED
Witness said that when he got into the room & Chinese policeman twisted his arm and assaulted him.
Witness repeated that he was struck three times in the small He was then placed in the dock after which he was asked to leave the station. While gelog out Into the street he noticed that Chan Sun was being supported, by two.constables.
room.
Mr. Whyatt:-And you never saw Chan Sun alive again-Never.
By the Jury-Were you ques- tloned when you were being as¬ saulted: Yes.
WIDOW HEARS CRIES
The widow of Chan Sun sald. that her late husband was in good bealth on the day on which the assault was alleged to have taken place. She gave evidence regard Ing the visit to her house of the man dressed in black pongee and added that while her husband was
being confined in the rear cubicle of her house, she was forced to leave the room. She heard her husband cry out for her but she was prevented from going in. The last she saw of her husband was
in the passage way prior to going to the police station with four others, including Wong Lap.
PRETENCES
ALLEGED
Letter Mentioned
Yip Keng-chun, allas, Lee, You Sing, aged 48, appeared before Mr. R Edwards at the Central Magis tracy yesterday to answer a charge of attempting to obtain money by false pretences from Utan Cheng- yiu, residing at No. 4 York Road. concubine of Wong Kwat-lun, who is at present in Honplulu where he is engaged in bustness. Mr. H.
Kwan represented defendant. Chier Detective-Inspector J. Murphy. prosecuting, sald Yip wrote a letter to the complainant purporting to have been written by complainant's husband in which, after family matters had been touched upon, complainant was instructed to pay $1,000 to Lee Yau-sing, who would be located at the Lung Hing Company, of No. 63 Wing Lok Street.
NEUTRAL ZONE ESTABLISHED
Temporary Measure In Shanghai
Shanghal. Nov. 3. Negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of a temporary neutral zone, continuous from the southern and western borders of the French Concession from where all armed Chinese forces would evacuate and the policing taken over by the French troops.
The object of the plan is to minimize the danger of projectiles falling on the French Concession
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the Japanese press forward round the western boundary of Shanghat, to prevent the warfare destroying Jesult and other foreign property in Chinese territory and protect hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees and regular in- habitants who are now teeming the areas concerned.
Taking the leading part in the negotiations between the Sino- Complainant suspected the let-Japanese authorities are the ter was a forgery and wrote to her Italian Ambassador, Signor Cora. husband by air mall, receiving a the French Ambassador, M. Naggiar telegram in reply which told her and the Jesuit priest, Fr. Jacquinot. he had indeed written no such a-Reuter. missive. Together with two other women" she went to the address in
Wing Lok Street where defendant Legal Aspect Of
informed them he was Lee Yau-
sing. Later a warrant was issued and defendant arrested.
Aerial Warfare
(Continued from Page 1)
sary was prohibited. In this con- nection the speaker said that there was a certain amount of dif- ficulty in determining whether
Evidence WDS given by com-. plainant and the two women with whom she went to the address in Wing Lok Street and by the wo- man who had sub-let a cubicle to a man named Lee.
"The hearing was adjourned till suffering caused to civilians, living close to military objectives, was necessary or otherwise. What can we say then, to the bombing of non-combatants with the inten- tion of breaking their morale so as to bring about the end of war?..
to-day.
THE BRITISH LEGION
The speaker said that though there was no answer to this, the There is now a population ap-whole of the civilised world was the British against it and when we start ap- preaching 1,000 in Legion Village near Maidstone in plying rules to aerial warfare, we go back to the stage.of the Disarma- Kent, England. The Village com-
a Sanatorium. a villagement Conference when it was sug- prises settlement for ex-patienta and gested to abandon all aerial war- their familles, and a training cen- fare-that seems to be in the dim. tre where the settlers are taught and distant past yet it was only as recently as 1932 that, this aug- and follow various trades, eventual- ly becoming self-supporting. The gestion was made. And if we go back to that stage, why not go one turnover of Preston Hall Industries for 1938 was in excess of £80.000. step further and make the waging
of war itself illegal?
50.00
Freviously acknowledged ... $ 2,000 Cul. G. K. Hall-Brutton ... Canadian Trade Commis-
sioner
When her husband failed to re- turn home that night she made T. C. Monaghan enquiries as to his whereabouts DJ. Gilmore and she was informed that he was
A. Murdoch
in police custody. The following | LL.-Col, and Mrs. Matthews day she went to the police station Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Baskett and she was told that her huå- Prot. W. I. Gerrard band “had been killed.”
The hearing at this stage was adjourned to November 9 at 2.15 p.m.
LARGE AUDIENCE. HEARS RECITAL.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Whitlock (a) Folk Tune (b) Scher-
20.
11 Toccata Minor. Bach,
and Fugue in D
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25:00
TWO ROBBERIES
Two robberies were reported to 25:00 the police yesterday.
25.00
So Tam was robbed by two-men 10.00 of 829 in the Saftung district 10.00 The alleged robbers were arrested. Shortly after 10 pm. last night 10.00
two men, armed with knives, en- $2,265 tered the second floor of 257, Re- clamation Street, and decamped with a quantity of clothing.
Further contributions will be gratefully received by Mr. F. G. Maunder, .Secretary to Earl Haig's Fund. Hong Kong & Shanghal Bank Building, Hong Kong.
Chèques should be made payable to Thomson & Co., and crossed "Poppy Day Fund."
MEDICAL RELIEF The International Medical Relief Committee acknowledges, with That the programme was appre-thanks, the following donations:- ciated was evidenced by the en-Previously acknowledged $10,954.28 thusiastic applause which greeted Mr. W. A. Butterfield the final bars of each selection, and Mr. E. Laidlaw at least two encores were request- ed, the audience keeping up Я thunderous applause until the Items were repeated.
Ably assisting Mr. Lafford in his recital were Eva Turner, soprano, and Prue Lewis, violinist. Parti cularly well done were Miss Turn- er's rendering of Mozart's Allelujah and Bach's Air on the G String by Misa Lewis.
FORAFRIC
REFLOATED
The Willamson and Company steamer Forafric' which grounded off the Paracel Islands of Satur- day was refloated about 6 pm, on Tuesday according to a report re ceived from the salvage tug Henry Henry Keswick, which had been sent out from Hong Kong to her assistance.
The Foratric, 3.475 tons, com- manded by Captain W. Crossth walte, went aground on the island group, which is about 500 miles north-west of Manila, while her way from Hongay to the Philippines port, with a cargo of coal
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She was only slightly damaged, being reflonted without much dif- ficulty after 200 tons of her 4,500 tons of cargo had been jettisoned
Mr. 6. Jarvis
The Australian Sandal-
wood, Co., Ltd, cong Messrs. L Dunbar & Co.
WEATHER REPORT
ROYAL OBSERVATORY HONG KONG
10 p.m., Nov. 3, Barometer (at sea level), 30.07
ins.
Temperature, 78, F. Humidity, 73 per cent. Wind Direction; East. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4.. Temperature:maximum vester
Temperature:* minimum night, 74 F.
10.00
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Sir Victor Bassoon, Ra. 500 in kind.
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ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
ASSOCIATION." Fourteen packages of medical supplies have been forwarded to the Canton Chinese Red Cross through the courtesy and gener- ousity of Mr. Aw Boon Haw. The supplies consist of:-ton Cotton Wool, 1 Cwt, Lint, 1 Cwt Gauze, I Case of Tiger Balin
last
Rainfall for 24 hours, ending 10tb to-day, nil
Total rainfall since January 1 80.88 ins.
Against an average of 82.51 ins Sunset to-night, 5.46 p.m. Sunrise to-morrow, 6,20 am.
4 p.m., Nov. 3. Barometer (at sea level), 29.99. Temperature, 78.
Humidity. 75. Wind Direction, East. Wind Force (Beaufort). 3. Maximum tempera- ture, 82. Minimum temperature, 74. Rainfall, nil,
*HONG KONG TIEE TABLE
From November 4 to 10. 1937, "
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2:18 7 8 71308 14.8
us. 9
She is now continuing on her in-supplies are being forwarded to Wed, 10
terrupted voyage to Manila.
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