HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
TRANSACTION FOR BREN GUNS: GUIMARAES SENT TO SESSIONS FOR TRIAL
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Bearing was concluded yesterday before air. T. J. Houston at
GUILHERME which the Central Magistracy in the case p D'ARAIY'S GUIMARAES, alisa Williams Guimaraes, of No. 114 Argyle Street, was charged with obtaining $13,200 by false pretences in
■ transaction for Bren guna. Accused was committed for trini. “Quimaraes is alleged to have obtained $13.200 from Tong Yu-cho, Secretary of the Welhalwe Administrative Office, by falsely pre tending be អន
position to sell and deliver six Bren In *
He la further machine guns and. 6,000 rounds of ammunition. charged with having conspired with Leung Tim and Leung Kwong, not in custody, to cheat, by fraud and false pretences.
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ROUND THE POLICE COURTS
AT CENTRAL
SEAMAN DISCHARGED John Hicks, 16, seamah of one
GENERAL
CLAIM BROUGHT
AGAINST TRAMWAY COY,
Collision During Heavy Rain
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A collalon which occurred on of H. M. Ships in harbour, ap June 13 between a pubile molurcar peared before Mr. H, G. Sheldon and a tramcar, at Ganal Road, had yesterday on the two counts of ja sequel before Mr. Justice E'H. maliciously damaging window Williams at the Summary Court glasses at Nos. 357 and 341, Hen- yesterday when an action was nessy Road, ground floors, res brought against the Hongkong pectively,
Tramway Company. Ltd., claiming In the absence of Mr. Percy sion agent of Wang Hing build
He was found not rullty and damages amounting to $231, The Chen Det. Sub, Insp. C, E, Good- ing, said the defendant first came
was accordingly discharged, Fei Hang Motorcar Company were Win conducted the prosecution, to him to inquire about the sale
Yeung Yat-cheng, salesman the plaintif while defendant was defended by of arms. Defendant told him that
complainant in the first charge, M. F. H. Loseby appeared for the Mr. M. A. da shva
be Had a client who had the
said he heard the noise of breaking plaintif firm, while the defendant Yeung Chik-sang testified that necessary permit. '.
glass and went out to see what frm was represented by Mr. P. he saw the money being paid to On Jan. 10 defendant came defendant who, after counting the with another man, Leung and it was. He saw a sailor running Wynter-Blyth.
The plaintiffs' case was that the notes put them in als pocket and asked him for a catalogue.
He gave chase and blew his accident occurred about 7.15 p.m. than wrote a chit and gave it to Jan 15 he came again about 10 police whistle but as there was when the motorcar was turning Tong Yu-cho. When he asked a.m. and sald be expected his Yeung Kwong to give the people client to come at any time, but polleeman there he then tele into Carial Road East from Elen- Henessy Road. The tramcar was tra- their commission the latter told the ellent did not show up until phoned. the Police Station.
identined the defendant as the yelling "the opposite direction. It him he would be paid the next about 4 pm.
man rùnning away.
was raining heavily at the time WRITE LETTER morning at Mr. Ramjahm's office.
Leung Wah, of 341 Hennessy and the accident was attributed by Later, Chau Yee. Lam Yok-kuen 8. C. Cheong said he was "asked and another man came back and by Tong to write a letter to Wil-Road, sald on the night of August the tramcar falling to keeping a said that they did not receive any liam Guimaraes with the object 5 at 11 p.m. he was awakened by: proper lookout while turning into
of saying that he (Tong) wanted the noise of breaking glass. Be Hennessy Road, back the money which he had also identified defendant.
POCKETED MONEY
On
away.
In reply to Mr. Silva witness paid for the purchase of machine- sald the European pocketed all guns.
The collision caused little dani- age, however, but when the motor- man tried to separate the two vehicles, more extensive damage! was caused
POSSESSION OF WARD For failing to report the pos the money and that he did not The address, No. 114, Argyle session of a ward, Kwok Li-ho, see Yeung Kwong write a docu-Street, was given to him by Wong allas Cheng Wal-fong, 16, at No.
The defence alleged that the 40 Yee Wo Street, a widow, driver of the motorcar falled to stop ment with A fountain pen. who brought Tong. to him, Answering a further question wit-
gave Yee, 67, was fined $5, "Goodwin Tess said he only heard Young evidence of arrest of the defen - Kwong say that the goods could dant, not be delivered to an hotel.
Det.-Sub-Insp.
before coming out to the road Insp. H. W. • Fraser, of the and was travelling fast. 8. C. A. prosecuting, paid that
Following evidence the hearing
Defendant reserved his defence an anonymous letter was received was adjourned to Aug. 23, at 11.30
Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, commisi yesterday.
MANSLAUGHTER Indian P.C.
ALLEGED
SEQUEL TO DEATH
OF REFUGEE
Accused Of Murder
by the S. C. A. accusing" defen-am dant of ill-treating the girl-A lady assistant visited the defen- dant's house,
PEAK TRAM SCHEDULE
The girl, sald Insp. Fraser, had been with defendant since she was nine years old having been presented to defendant by the girl's aunt for $89 as funeral ex Special schdule has been arrang- penses for her mother, She was ed for the Peak Tram during the [adopted by defendant as her last few days and the time-table
daughter.
has been extended from shortly On a charge of manslaughter, of]
The death of Police Constable She was apparently been well after midnight to about 2 am. Chan Tal, refugee from Tung Kun. Nazar Singh (B669), who was clothed and well fed and had The time-table was arranged for in a grocery shop in Cheungsha-fatally wounded in his quarters at expressed a desire to stay with the Peak residents owing to land- wan Road on July 21 two men. Yaumati Police Station on Tues-defendant
slide in Magazine Gap Road recent- Wong Eik, 25, shop fok!, and Chan day afternoon, had a sequel at Insp. Fraser said Li had been 13. Ping-yun, 21, shop coolle, were Kowloon Court yesterday when in the Colony for 30 years and committed from Kowloon Court by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen yesterday to the Criminal Sessions.
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MAN SINGH. 26. Police Constable ought to know about the regula- charged and car will move when A fare of 30 cents a head is B611. appeared before Mr. Q., A. A. tions.
there is a minimum fare of $2.
Macfadyen on a charge of murder.
Defendant pleaded that she was Defendant is a native of Amrit-an old woman and did not know sar. India. He was attached to about it. Taipo Police Station and had been sent to Yaumat! Police Station to escort a prisoner.
im.
H.K. Evacuees
In Manila" Leave For Australia
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940. -PAGE 5
AFTER SALE BARGAINS
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A LARGE ASSORTMENT: OF BELTS
EACH
FROM 50 CENTS
CENTS TO $2.0 00 HANDKERCHIEF POWDER PUFFS FROM $2.00 EACH
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The House of Quality & Service
AIRPORT NEWS DORADO LEAVES WITH H.K, MAILS
IMPERIAL "AIRWAYS OUT-
WARD PLANE.. DORADO
Garside
F/0 and (Capt. Samuel) left Kal Tak yester- day morning, taking 130 kilos of mail from Hongkong for Indo-China. Java, Malaya and Australia and the following passengers:
Both defendants admitted. as being correct, statements read over to them as having been given by themselves at Shumshulpo Police
JUNK MASTER FINEL
Station in answer to the charge.
Fines. totalling $135 were "First defendant's statement was
posed in Chol. Tak, 59, master of Defendant, who will be repre-junk No. T4014 by Mr. K. M. A. to the effect, that Chan saw de-
sented by Mr. "M. A, da Silva, was Barnett yesterday when he was ceased take money from a money formally remanded for one week. basket. He slapped
(1) .deceased
found guilty of charges of Det-Insp. A. twice, and turned away from him
E. Carey is having 500 tin's of kerosene on to deal, with a customer. Deceased charge of the case.
his junk at a place other than struck him from behind and he
FOUR SHOTS
a dangerous anchorage; (2) pos- retallated with six or seven blows.
The 13,482-ton: liner Awatea, of. It appears that on Tuesday, session of 60 pounds of gun Second defendant stated he went about 455 p.m., Chief Inspector M powder without a permit: and the Union Steamship Company of to assist Wong Pik and struck de-. Hourthan and Divisional Insp. (3) falling to have a "red light New Zealand, Ltd,, arrived in
Mr. P. D. Gain and Mr. J. Kuril, office, heard four shows, Wright, sitting in the former's showing from the masthead of Manila on Aug. 3 to embark about
the junk.
700 women and childen evacuees for Bangkok; and Mr. E. Kaplan, Nazar Singh was found in the Det. Sub Insp. Russell told the from Hongkong, who had been Treasurer of the Jewish, Agency in Palestine, who arrived in Hong- Manila temporarily in Indian Constables' quarters, lying Court the junk was searched staying on the floor, with Man Singh, during a routine patrol of the and provinces. This ship was to Kong by the American Clipper on
and sall some time of Aug 3 for Aus- Tuesday afternoon, for India.
The
service is. is alleged, standing over him with Harbour, and the kerosene
next outward a revolver in. his hand.
powder was found on board. ́ ́ tralia,
scheduled to leave Kal Tak on The defendant had an official Another ship, the Rotterdam Sunday morning, taking
mails An Indian interpreter, the first!
the scene after the permit to carry four cannons, Lloyd liner Blamat, of 11,838 gross from Hongkong up to Durban and person on shooting, dragged Man Singh out two rifles, 200 rounds of ammuni- tons, was also scheduled to arrive thence by steamer to the United of the quarters and, it is alleged tion and 40 pounds of gun pow-on Aug. 3 to take on about 400 Kingdom. disarmed him with the assistance der, but the defendant had 60 more bound for Australia. of other constables.
ceased two blows.
Both men reserved their defence
S.S. FATSHAN The 3.5. Fatshan, which has been detained in Canton by the Japanese authorities, is expected to arrive in Hongkong within the next few days and to resume service between the
.Colony and Canton.
Negotiations for the release of the steamship are reported to be going on smoothly and a satisfac. tory result is expected to be reach. ed "before the week-end.
Japanese-owned ships, plying be- tween the two ports, will also re- sume service following the release of the Faishan.
UNCLAIMED·
TELEGRAMS
The Great Northern Telegraph Co. (Ltd.) advises that the follow
ing unclaimed telegrams are lying
at their office from various places to Hongkong:
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From Shanghai: Stan -Branson Brown RCS "Vita": Yau, 323 Great Eastern Hotel: Ngai Yuen Ching' c/o Lau, 4 Prince's Terrace, 2nd floor, Caine Road; Miss Yu Olee
AN APPEAL.
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CLIPPER SCHEDULE
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Imperial Airways Inward ser- pounds of gun powder in excess Originally scheduled to arrive vice is due to arrive at Kai Tak of his permit.
on July 81 was the Nederland | this aftern1004. It was stated in Court that Mail liner Johan de Witt, which It is understood that Li Hung- ful, alias Joseph Li, who was found the consignee of the kerosene was was expected to arrive last Bun-
Pan American Airways PHILIP- guilty on July 22 at the Criminal the Asiatic Petroleum Company. day for transportation of other PINE CLIPPER is expected to ar- Sessions of the murder of Mr. J. Choi,pleaded guilty to all three evacuees to Australia.
rive in Hongkong from Marilia The second group of Hongkong with UB. Malls for the Colony on Dubois, of Messrs. Bennet Freres; charges and said that it was the
leave Manila on May 2 is appealing against con- first time that he bad done this evacuees to
for Tiesday next, Aug 13 and will viction on legal, ground.
kind of business and did not know Australia, conposed of about 400 leave on her return flight the next the regulations. He anchored there women and children sailed at morning. because he wanted to sall early noon on Aug. 1 on the Rotterdam The Philippine Clipper will be the next morning.
Lloyd liner Indrapoera. The first followed on Aug. 20 by the HONO- BROTHERS COMMITTED group, composed of abut 385 LULU CLIPPER, "which will leave Two brothers, Cheung Fuk, 22, evacuees, left on July 28 on the the following morning on actor and ex-policeman in Can-Nederland, Mail liner Christiaan home fight. ton, and Cheung. Fol, 23, unem-Huygens.
THE WEATHER
Showery, with bright intervals,
is the forecast for today...
terday was 84 and the minimum to the next Criminal Sessions by The maximum temperature yeaployed, were yesterday committed
Mr. R. Edwarda. The Royal Observatory weather
77.
report states:~~
They were charged with having' kidnapped a 12-year-old giri, Chan Pressure is highest over Man-king-ho, from churia, and a ridge of moderately Road, on April 17. high pressure extends from the
WEEKLY HEALTH
BULLETIN
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
her
The "following arrived from the South" on a CFL liner: No. 22 Wanchal For the week ended at mid-
Mr. E. B. McBain, Miss Chando night on August 3 the following (Hilario, Mrs. J. A. Pistendrigh, Det. Insp. W. N. Darkin pro-cases of notinable diseases have Mrs. H. McLellan, Mrs. Wm. May 'been reported to the Health and three children, Mrs. K. Rossé- Authorities:---
let and two children.
DEPARTURES Diphteria, one cast (one death); Enteric Fever, 12 cases (five
c/o Lux Kwok Hotel: Chan hing Loochoos "to the Pacific south-secuted. 314 Great Eastern Hotel; Kwan, eastward of Japan.
74 Bonham Road Basement.
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The northern depression is mov From Yokohama:-Chenowaifu, 6 Pleca Road, 2nd floor, Hunghum,g into the Pacific to the NE, of Kowloon
3,000 JAPANESE
ON BORDER
Rumours that Japanese forces along the border have been incress-
Hokkaldo and a shallow depression is stationary over" northern Indo- 'China.
RHODESIAN AIRMEN IN BRITAIN
NINE BODIES
· RECOVERED
Only two persons departed from deaths); Measles, six cases Hongkong on the JCJL, liner for The bodies of pine persons who Chicken-pox, one case: Cerebro the north perished in the landslide near N Spinal Fever, four cases; Dysen
tery. 51 cases (13 deaths); Tuber-
5 Railway Tunnel, Taipokazi, on culosis, 150 cases (107 deaths), Monday morning, have been re- covered and removed to the public mortuary.
DAILY RETURN
Mr. G. D, Litchfield, Mr. J. L Robinson
The collapse of earth has left The following us the Return for a large gaping hole in the road- ed substantially during the last few LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reater) The Over 1,000 tons of earth fell. Rall the 24 hours ended at midnight, way of Cherry Hill Jeading to days, are patrue, according to au Dominion, and Colonial Offices way authorities stated that the August 6 Diphtheria, one case; Homutin, Kowloon The PWD thoritative sources. The strength announce that a contingent of damage would take four or five Scarlet Fever one case; Enteric, also reported that saven man- the ares are misio of the Japanese forces on the bor-South Rhodesian airmen have ar days to repair with reasonably good Fever rvs cases: Dysentery, three hole covers der is estimated to be about 3,000, rived in Great Britain:
- cases, Tuberculosis, 59 cases, r
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