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THREE SUMMONSES ROUND THE UNDER TRADING WITH " ENEMY ORDINANCE
Donald Shing, manager of Chester Hoover and Co., No. 18 David House, appeared before Mr. H. G. Sheldon at Central Magistracy yesterday summoned under the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance. He was alleged to have, directly or indirectly, offered or proposed to trade with three enemy firms, Albert Bergmann of Gehlbers, Thurlagen, Germany. Albert-Hanff, Schmiedefeld, and the Deutche Kaberwerkebel, all in Germany, on or about January 1.
POLICE COURTS
AT CENTRAL
THEFT OF IRON GIRDERS A "bold plan to steal 21 tron girders from the R.A.SC. Camber falled when Chan Sun, 31. Ecolle,
GENERAL
CHEUNG CHAU FREE - FOR - ALL: "THREE INJURED
Weapons of various descriptions were used in a free-for-all in Tai Shan Street, Cheung Chan Island, on Tuesday, and but for the early intervention of the police might have developed into a more serious affair,
The reason for the brawl is not was arrested and charged before known. Three participants are in Mr. T. J. Gould, Crown Counsel, sten by defendant himself but closer Mr. H. G. Sheldon yesterday at | hospital. prosecuted.
Lam Foa 32 hawker, and examination would disclose the the Central Magistracy-for-the fact that these letters were a theft of the girders. Defendant Yee, 42, shop assistant, were ad- mitted to the Queen Mary Hos- notification that la future business pleaded guilty. should be transacted through their Shanghai office.
Mr. C. D'Almada for the de fenes, pleaded not guilty.
Bub.-Insp. M. J. Flattery testi- Red that he went to defendant's firm, with a warrant on July 5.
A second charge of receiving pital with head injuries. The stolen property, namely 21 iron lutter, in addition, is also su Tering girders. on July 23, was withdrawn from a chopper wound on the left by Det. -Sgt. V. Morrison who ab-arm.
Leung Shing. 18 was admitted peared for the prosecution..
Det. Sgt. Morrison said that de- to the Haw Par Hospital on the feridant, with seven others not in Island also suffering from bead custody, on July 23 removed the injuries. girders from the Camber to a The Act, in his opinion, limited lorry. At that time the military
their
he went again to the same pre any attempts by a person to trades authorities were dismantling phone operator, was charged with
acen
Mr. D'Almada added that several He saw defendant there who said arms in the Colony were ordering he was the manager of the Hong-goods from Germany for Tong branch and + partner of Shanghal branch which, naturally, the firm. In the file he found a benefits the Hongkong share. letter, which was initialled D. S holders. addressed to a firm in Germany..
On July 13. said Insp. Flattery, ' mises. He found two other letters with the enemy within the Colony aerial slipway. They were addressed to people in Germany. Mr. Gould, said that it was very by a watchman who recognised A were in identical terms. plain that an offence under sub- them as not being workers there. Cross-examined by Mr. D'Almada, section 6 had been committed. Mr. He informed the authorities but by Insp. Flattery denied that the D'Almada, said Mr. Gould, had then the thieves had gone away in "letter was a circular letter but suggested that people in Hongkong the lorry.
admitted having been told by de- may continue correspondence aur fendant that he (defendant) could reptitiously with Germany in order not find any buyer of German to further their gains. goods in Hongkong and that he was transferring his business Shanghai,
- A› NOTIFICATION
Mr. D'Almada said that it was admitted that the letters were writ
He said that the Crown did not
It is believed that defendant was only a tool and that a man by the name of Lee was behind
15.
The girders, valued at $500, were regard this charge as very later recovered at Stanley Street serious one. The defendant had and defendant was arrested in an given the police every assistance.
opium divan, Hearing was adjourned to 10.30 this morning.
CONVICTED ON NINE CHARGES YAP GETS
IMPRISONMENT
ANTHONY BÁRTHOLOMEW FAP ailas YAP SING-FATT, advertising agent of Seramban, Malaya, was sentenced to six months' hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Court yesterday on conviction for receiving money by false pretences, receiving wines or spirits by false pretences, and receiving credit by false pretences. Yap was additionally given the option of returning 450 to Charlle Dang. in default. one month's imprisonment.
Fi
Giving evidence on his own be- hal, Yap pleaded guilty to all the charges against him He" said that at the time he managed to obtained the case of brandy and whisky from L. Rondon and Co.. he was hoping yet to organise the 2nd All-Hongkong. Cycle meeting. and expected to be able to pay off the debt from the proceeds of the meeting.
When he learned that the cycle meeting could not be held, he de- cided that as he was in trouble
SOLD "BEER
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Transaction For Sale Of Bren Guns
PORTUGUESE IN COURT
Hearing was continued before
tion.
Defendant was remanded for 73
hours in Follice custody.
FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL. Charged with the larceny of $27 In Chinese currency from the per- son of Ho Pak, 56, at Des Voeux Road Central, near Hillier Street, an unemployed, Lam Fo, 40, was sentenced by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday
assaulting with intent to Cheung Lai-Ching on July 22.
EXTRADITION
SOUGHT
rob
On the application or Chief Det. Insp. M. Murphy a formal remand of one week was granted when ex- tradition proceedings against a Chinese were began yesterday be- fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon at the Cen- tral Magistracy.
Yee Suey-gat, alias Jew Siew, 43, The man, Lew Kim-yuen, alias
of Tai Shap district, was, charged with the unlawful sale and distri-
|bution of opium, imlawful importa
tion and sale of morphine and un- lawful receipt and sale of opium drosa (Yoonshee) within the juris- diction of the State of Oregon in the United States of America.
Defendant said he had no objec-
to four months' imprisonment tion to Insp. Murphy's application with hard labour.
and was then accordingly remand-
Defendant was also recommended.
ed to be, expelled from the Colony.
. HE LIKED HIS BRANDY
in
the
AT KOWLOON
THEFT FROM "SALTASH” Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent
Pleading guilty to the theft of three bottles of Beehive Brandy from Gilman and Co.. Wine De- partment,
Gloucester Arcade, Tsoi Kam-po, unemploy of the Civil Airport, Kai Tak, ap- ed, was convicted by Mr. R. Ed-peared as complainant at Kowloon wards at the Central Magistracy Court yesterday in a case in which yesterday.
a man named Wong Yuen, 30, was
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He was also found guilty of a charged with larceny of a small breach of Deportation Order, pine tree from "Saltash," Mr.
Full naval honours was accorded namely returning to the Colony Moss's residence at King's Park.. before his term of five years' ex- Defendant is described as a lade the late A, B. Bradbury, Australian pulsion was up. Defendant has rticle maker of No. 16. Battery naval reservist, whose funeral took one previous conviction,
Street. Ist floor. Explaining to place at Happy Valley yesterday Defendant walked into the shop the Magistrate the circumstances following his demise earlier in the and took out three bottles of of the case, Mr. Moss said that day after an operation. brandy. He was seen by a water-about 2.30 p.m. on Thursday after-
Bradbury was very popular with man who arrested him in the noon he saw defendant in the his ship's company and the num- already, it would be as well to be Mr. J. Houston at the Central Arcade. Sentence of four months' grounds of his residence carrying ber of magnificent wreaths fully
Court yesterday afternoon of the imprisonment was imposed...." the pine tree. In a lot of trouble as at all. He..
testified the esteem in which ho case in which Guilherme A. Det.-Sgt. Cochrane appeared for
He gave chase and followed de-was held, therefore, obtained the beer from
fendent over a hilt and into W. R. Loxley and Co. and later D'Aralys Guimaraes, alias William the Police
Nathan Road, where the latter from Jardine, Matheson and Co. Guimaraes, is charged with al-
struggled and resisted arrest. He on credit, having no intention to legedly obtaining $13,200 by false
Hung Kwong-haen, 32, unem-asked the Magistrate to take a pretences in a transaction for the pay for these
sale of Bren guns and ammunt-played, was bound over in the serious view of the case as there
sum of $200 for a year when he were frequent thefts of pine trees Mrs, W. N. Fleming, of No. 81 Guimaraes is alleged to have was convicted. by Mr. H. G. from his grounds.
Kimberley Road, Kowloon, report- obtained $13,000 from Tong Yuk-Sheldon yesterday on a charge of In passing sentence of one ed to the police that between cho, Secretary of the Weihalwel possession of a pig sticking knife. months hard labour on defendant, Wednesday evening and Thursday Administrative Omes, by falsely The case was adjourned to yes- Mr. Macfadyen warned him that a morning someone entered her re- pretending that he was in a post-terday from Thursday for defen-repetition of the offence would sidence and stole money and tion to sell and deliver six dant to call a witness.
result in an expulsion, order being jewellery to the value of $101.20;- In passing sentence. Mr. Mac- Bren machine-gun and 6,000
Hung Kong-piu, brother of de-made against him. fadyen said he would take into rounds of ammunition. It is also fendant, said yesterday that his
· consideration '- the circumstances alleged that he conspired, with brother only came to the Colony
The police bave received a re- of the case and the fact that Yap two men not in custody, Leung few months ago." Defendant
port from Prof. R. Robertson, of had helped the court considerably Tim and Yeung Kwong, to cheat lived with him from the first
the Hongkong University, to the by a frank account of the whole Tong by fraud and false pre-moon to the third when defendant
An order for confiscation by the effect that between midnight and went away and lived with friends. police of two rifies, one Winchester 6 am. on Thursday someone en- Yup received sentence of two Mr. Percy Chen appeared for He said that his brother had not rifle, 60 rounds of rifle ammuni- tered the animal house of the months' hard labour on each of the prosecution, while, Mr. M. Abeen in trouble before.
tion and 68 rounds of Winchester University and stole a rabbit and three charges to run consecutivé- da Silva represented defendant.
Defendant was stopped by a dis-ammunition was granted at Kow-three guinea pigs. trict watchman in Queen's Roadfoon Court yesterday by Mr. E. East on Wednesday and the knife Himsworth. was found wrapped in a bundle of
He sold the beer to Mak 'Shu,
of the Morrison Store, continued, and had shown Mak the delivery notes from the agents which stat- -ed the price he (Yap) was expect-
ed to pay.
story.
tences.
ly, and he was sentenced to' one,
-4
or two, months concurrent on five
CONFISCATION.
OF RIFLES -
The rifles and ammunition were While his car was parked outside newspapers. At the station de-seized from Junk No. T46872 in a the Hongkong Cricket Club on fendant said that he borrowed the unitine police search carried He came knife to cut a bamboo for a stick among craft anchored in Shauki-taining tennis, it was
out Thursday a rattan basket, con- stolen for a walk to Aberdeen..
wan Harbour on July 22. It was according to a report by Mr. H, A. stated that two of the rifles were Taylor, of the Imports and Ex- serviceable, but neither had been ports Department. fired in 10 years.
GAVE $23,000 Leung Pic-shiu, the first witness of the remaining six charges
On the first charge, that of re- called yesterday, said that he was *-celving money by false pretences a representative of the Welhalwel
from Charlie Dang, having re- Administrative Office. ceived the money from Dang as
to Hongkong, and gave to Tong security on the promise of a cer- $23,000" In Chinese currency. He tain job, he was given the option went with several other men to of repaying to Dang $50, or the Monument, at Happy Valley, serving another month consecu- to receive the arms but did not
obtain delivery of the goods. tive."
MASTER REMANDED
Mr. Alfred Y. Hon, appearing for
Lal Yu-sai, 40, master of the junk, The theft of a radiator cap from pleaded guilty for defendant, who his car, No, 3057, which was park
as charged with possession of ed outside No. 232 Nathan Road, Defendant on Thursday, was reported to the
Det.-Sgt. J. Bentley prosecuted
MISSED HIS CHANCE Falling to make restitution of the money he stole, Mok Shiu- Chan Yee said he was present chung, 24, unemployed, was sen- at Mr. Rumjahn's, office. Defen-tenced to three months with hard Mak Shu, master of the Morri dant wanted a 60 per cent, de labour by Mr. H. G. Sheldon at son Store, compradores of Tin posit but complainant did not the Central Magistracy yesterday, arms without Hcence. Lok Lane, was remanded on sall agree. The value of each gun was It wir be recalled that defen- as cautioned against a repetition police by Mr. E. V. da Souza, to appear for Judgment next | $2,200.
dant, on July 22, stole $55 in of the offence. Tuesday at 2.30 pm. He is Lam Yuk-kuen said he was a Hongkong currency and $1,011 in charged with receiving certain of the Mel Chow Hotel. He did not Chinese currency from the home hear the conversation between de-of Wong Hing-fan, accountant fendant and complainant but he and a friend of his,
the, whisky from Yap, and is de fended by Mr. F. Zimmern.
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$2 AS REWARD Mr. D. B. Nelson, of Messrs. Wan To, 24, a hawker, who was Jardine, Matheson and Co., has stated to have been instrumental reported that while walking along Road Central on Thursday, his chase of one gun was $2,200 and in order to give him a chance to breakers in recent months, was that six were to be bought, The Pay back the money.
awarded a sum of $2 by Mr. Efountain pen was picked from his terms were that the money was
Money amounting to $241 (H.K.) Himsworth at Kowloon Court yes pocket, to be paid on delivery.
and $240 in Chinese 'currency was terday when he appeared us a wit recovered.
ness in a case against Sze To-Hög. Det-Bgt. J. Bentley prosecuted. 17, charged with larceny of an
ONE WEEK'S REMAND
heard that the price for the pur- He was remanded from July 24in the arrest of several law- Pedder Street, near Des Voeux
NEAR COURSE
the first Instance. com- plainant wanted the guns to be delivered to the Shan Kong Hotel but defendant asked them to wait near the Race Course.
Bearing was adjourned unin August 8.
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On the application of Sub. Insp. Kdad
Thirty-five cases of tuberculosis,
A Parkin, one week's remand Wan had given the thier chase nine or dysentery and one or was granted by Mr, EL C. Sheldon ¡and, arrested him, Defendant was diphtheria were reported to the yesterday in the case in which Yiu bound over on, sid, and will be re- Health Authorities for the 24 hours Mel-ming, 31, unemployed tele- commended for expulsion
ended at midnight on July 25
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