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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
A DEFENCE OF THE KING OF BELGIUM
BY JOHN CUDAHY
Below is the 4th instalment of an extract from Life of Nov. 25, 1940, written by MR. JOHN CUDAHY, former Uni- Undersigned have received ted States Ambassador to Belgium, in which he clears King Leopold of the Belgians, of the charge of "treason." We are indebted to the Belgian Ambassador to China for the article).
Instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
000
Thursday, the 20th March, 1941
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central (2nd Floor)
A QUANTTTY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Teakwood Wardrobes, Dreasing
In this crisis, nationaf self-in-well be lost if he fell into the terest and the instinct of "self-hands of the enemy. preservation were decisive. That
A
BITTER HUMOUR
GENERAL
Round The Police Courts
AT CENTRAL
FORGED BANKNOTES Hearing of the esse in which 48-year-old unemployed, Lu! To, and 14-year-old gire are charged with conspiracy in connexion with forged banknotes was fixed for March 28 at 2.30 pm.. by Mr. H. O. Sheldon yesterday.
UNREGISTERED DOCTOR
Wong Yuet-wan, 35, described as a Chinese female doctor, of Room No. 11, Ho Tung Building, second floor, appeared on remand before
The girl is also charged with the British were able to extricate He heard them unmoved. He themselves from Dunkirk is one of was the Chief of State, he affirmed, Possession 01 two forged $10 Char- the most vallant and glorious ex- but beyond that he was the Chief tered Bank of India, Australia and When China, 10 Hongkong Government ploits of all wars. I visited the of all the armed forces.
$1 and one ten ruan Bank of beach at Dunkirk and La. Panne a they countered that his duty as few days after the heroid embarka-King transcended that of Come Communications notes.
Acting Sub-Insp. Moran is in tion and witnessed scene of mander-in-Chief of the Army, he
charge of the case. havec and desolation beyond the reminded them with bitter humour that if the Army went down, the power of language,
on the sands only Belgium that would remain There scattered were launches, skiffs, duckboats, would be a political theory.
After more heated, futile words, sallbeats. barges-almost every conceivable craft which would the solemn assemblage broke up Tables, Chests of Drawers, Dining float-abandoned amidst the wil- And as day broke, the ministers Mr. Sheldori Yesterday on charges Table, Chairs, Couches and Arm- derness of equipment, rifles, anti-gravely bowed themselves out of of not being a registered medical chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Hatstand, aircraft weapons, tanks, trucks and the royal presence and went away practitioner; unlawfully practiced Scarcely an for gain or professed to practice- Cot Pictures, motor vehicles. The same appalling in heavy defection. Clocks, Cabinets, Rattan Furai wake of destruction was on the two hour later they were all embarked medisine or surgery and unlaw ture, Bronze, Brass, Porcelain and Parallel roads from Dunkirk and on a small craft on their way to fully had in possession eight am- Glass Ware, Curios, Ornaments. La Panne, almost all the way to England, Shortly thereafter Ger-poules of Hypophyoin and a bottla Celling and Table Lamps, Gramo Ypres. and presented a scene so man airplanes dropped a rain of of liquid extract of Ergot, which phone, Records, Record Albins, Crushingly depressive that I can pamphlets over the Belgian-British are poisons.
still feel the influence as I write. Radio Sets, etc., etc.
Looking out upon the scene of abandonment, one marvelled that A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD any living thing could survive, and It is a triumph of courage and determination that over 300,000 men, as announced by the British Prime Minister. made safe the crossing to the home shores. Among the prisoners taken were 85,000
Bedstead,
Iron.
also
FURNITURE and
1 "Zenith" Radio-gram
1. "Victor" Radio-gram
1 "Fada" Radio
-1 Steel
Mirror
-་
Chest of Drawer with French.
1 Steel Dressing Table with Mirror 1. Carved Blackwood Curio Stand
1 Pair Carved Blackwood Arm-
chairs
1 Carved and Gilt Wood Temple
House
1 Steel and Glass Aquarium
1 Wardrobe Trunk
1 Pair Bronze Flower Stands
1 Portable Typewriter "Corona
Zephur"
On View from Wednesday, the 19th March, 1941.
KNOCK-OUT BLOW
1
second
lines, showing the Allied forces Sub-Insp. C. H. Goodwin,, who huddled in the north-west corner was in charge of the case, told of Flanders, surrounded by the the Court that he had no evidence German Army, with the coast of to offer as regards the France from Calais to the Somme charge as the analysis was not so | complete. The charge was subse- all in enemy hands.
A translation of what the pam-quently withdrawn
Defendant pleaded guilty and phlet said la: "Comrade, this is the
Your, leaders have de- said that she did not know the re- situation. serted and fled by airplane. The gulations down here as she came war for you is finished. Lay down from Canton. your arms."
WAS TRUE
A fine of $503 or two months simple. Imprisonment was imposed, BURGLAR GAOLED
of
THURSDAY MARCH 20, 1941.
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and BANISH PAIN and NERVINESS
Three days after the Saint Andre This might be considered pro- conference on May 24, the Cer-paganda, except that propaganda
That he had a cheque, for $300. mans came on with a knock-out is generally understood as the dis- blow. They focussed the fury of semination of falsehood and the Which was negotiable at a local their assault on the cornered distortion of truth, but everything bank, but only for his ignorance Belgians, and here as always, avia the German pamphlet said was that it was not cashed was re- tion played the decisive role. true-except that Leopold had de vealed to Chau Chi, 26 unemploy Belgian officers who took part inserted his soldiers, When this deed, who appeared before Mr. Lowry that raging four-day battle have ception became known to him, the yesterday on charges of attempted told me that large groups of Ger-King issued the following message
burglary, possession house- man bombers, 50 at a time, would to all ranks:--
The defendants, who will all be breaking implement and posses-: appear overhead, followed by diy- "Soldiers,
sion of property stolen outside of represented by Mr. C. D'Almada, the Colony. The great battle which we ex- pected has commenced. It will be
Det.-Sgt. J. R.. Sykes, prosecut- Messrs. Hung Ön-to, of No. 73, hard. We will enter the contesting, said that when he was arrest Jervois Street; LI Yam-nam, of No. with one supreme effort.
ed and brought to the Police Sta-74, Jervols Street; Kwok Chok- Soldiers,
tion and searched; he had in his wah, of No. 45, Bonham. Strand possession, besides the bit of a East, Lam Kee-tak, of No. 15, Bon- drill, a cheque for $300, which he ham Strand West: Lal Ming-tong. admitted having stolen from a of: No. 6. Hilter Street; Tung house in Pak Kong Village, Nam Chung-wal, of No. 11. Bonham Hoi District, near Canton, during the Japanese invasion on Feb. 18. Defendant had two previous.com victions. He was sentenced to four
ing Stukas, and when the discour- aged Belgian soldiers looked up for scie retallation, from the Allied side, they searched the Terms: Cash on Delivery. skles in vain. This was the most discouraging feature of all in the
It will be on the same ground LAMMERT BROS.. Belgian campaign, for against this where in 1914 we so gloriously held
fattening aerial attack no ground the invader. defence could be effective,
Belgium expects that you will do The Belgian Government, which honour to her flag.
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION. had left Brussels for Ostend, the
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
om
Friday, the 21st March, 1941.
commencing at 8:30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, *: Hankow Road, Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
QUIT COUNTRY
Officers. soldiers, Whatever happens, my fate will be yours.
I demand of your strength, dis-months' hard labour, cipline, confidence.
Our cause is right and just," Providence will aid us.
Vive la Belgique (Long live Belgium).
LEOPOLD
"
WIDOW VICTIMISED
were:
Strand; Woo Wal-pai, of No. 33, Jervois Street: Wong Wing-kam, of No. 19, Jervois Street: Leung Cho, of No. 223, Wing Lok Street; Hu Keng-yan, of No. 225, Wing Lok Street: Hon shum-kwong, of No. 68, Bonham Strand West; Pun Sentence of three months' hard Kwai-ping, of No. 249. Des Voeux labour was imposed on Yeung Road Central; and Ip Pul, of No. Keun-lat, is, unemployed, by Mr. 6, New Market Street. Lowry yesterday for stealing $1,300 Mr. D. C. W. Fitches, Superin- Chinese currency and $900 Hong-tendent of Mails, is in charge of kong currency from a 11-year-old the case,
widow, Leung Ho, at No. 10, Kwai FALSIFICATION, ALLEGED Wa Lane, second floor, on Feb. 21. Det.-Egt. Willison prosecuted,
EUROPEAN FINED
York
я
day before, the Germans entered the capital, moved on to France, but four Cabinet Ministers remain- THE
HE Undersigned have received ed in the battle zone with their
instructions
sovereign. These were: Plexlot, Prime Minister; Spaak, Minister for Foreign Affairs; General Den- nis. Minister for Defence; and Van der Poorten, Mtrilster of the In- terior. They were all men of sincere In the field 25 May 1940 motive and did what they did in He knew only too well what his the beller that they were acting fate would be. Like a last testa for the best interests of their na- ment was the letter he placed that
Hearing of the case in which Chang Pal-kam; 37, unemployed, is tion, and it is a sad thing that the same afternoon in the hands of Belgian people, when I left the General Sir John Dill, now Chlef
charged on six counts of falsifica- country, had passed judgment on of the Imperial Staff of the British
Pleading guilty through a repre- tion of accounts of sums involved these patriotic statesmien without Army, in which he described the sentative, F. G. Herridge, of Messrs; totalling $8,400, was begun before giving their case a hearing.
hopeless outlook and wrote that w, R. Loxley and Company Mr. G. T Lowry at the Central while he had no other course ex- (China), Ltd.,.
Building, Magistracy yesterday. cept surrender, he would hot de-Chater Road, summoned for Mr. W. M. Brown appeared for These four Cabinet Ministers sert his soldiers and his people. breach of the black-out regula- the prosecution, while Acting Sub were at Bruges when the fast bat-This letter was delivered the next tiors, was aned $25 by Mr. Sheldon Inst. F. Nolan was present for the comprising:
tle of Flanders commenced on May day by Bir John: Dill to the British yesterday. Teakwood Bedsteads, Wardrobes, 24. For days they had realised that King at Buckingham Palate. Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, the German advance could not be stayed and had tried to convince Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Din- ing Tables, Chairs, Hat Stands, King Leopold that his duty was to Teapoys, Chesterfield Suites, Ward quit the country, That night, after discussing the matter among robe & Cabin Trunks, Desks,
themselves until a late hour, they Armchairs, Folding Screens; etc.. set forth and: requested
The following is a list of unsheldon untit March 27 at 220/entries in the rough cash book, ufj an claimed telegramis lying at the etc..
the firm, purporting to show that audience at Wynendaci where their office of the Great Northern Tele- P., in the cane in which Pun on or about Nov 14, 1939, $1.3 Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Pictures, monarch bad established head-
Man-cheuk, 27, and Cheng Shu, 44, had been paid into the firm's ac Clocks, Gramophones, Récords, quarters in the chateau of a friend. graph Company (Limited):-
Dr. Tchéng, 32 Village Road, were charged with threatening count with the Bank of East Asia, Electric Lamps & Heaters, Brass,It is a dramatic pleture: the from Stockholm: Wong Ye Kwan, Wong Kwai, 57, master of the Ying Ltd., on Dec. 1. 1939, $2,650 had Alutataturity Glasd and King summoned from the bed c/o Wang Kook Bang, Phoebus Fat Loong, No. 25, Connaught Road been paid, and on Dec. 21 of the Porcelain Ware, Cut CA Ware, where he had sought a few hours Neon-Light Go, Kowloon. from West, with intent to cause him to same year, $920 had been paid. Filters, Curios, Ornaments, Cooking of relief with closed eyes until shanghai, Tong Tse Wing, Tien pay $3,000, yesterday, when the The other three counts alleged Utensils, etc. etc.
dawn- should bring another day of yat Co., 72A Queen's Road Cist hearing, was concluded: horror, and the ministers, pou-F, from Shanghai.
that on April 16, 1940, he omitted Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for derous and nervetrayed by the
complainant, while the defendants or concurred, in omitting from or | in the zongir Bash Book of the fin weight of their heavy office in this
See the ease were represented by the Hon. Mr. a material particular of the with- tragic hour of Belgian history. He
Leo d'Almada Jur, instructed by drawer or the same day of $300 met them with grave courtesy,
Mr. F... d'Almada, Det.-Bgt. J.from the Bwork of List Anda, on erect as always, his hair tousled
Bentley was present for the Police April 17, the withdrawal of $500, 'and' disordered «like a' boy's, while
DEFENCE REGULATIONS and on April 27 the withdrawal of outside the battle raged and the
Kwan Ng, of. No. 36. Hiller $400. night was made hurid by distant flaming towns.
also
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD
FURNITURE..
and
1 Teakwood Dining Room Suite
1 Blackwood Chest"
1 Radio-gram
I Dinner Service
1 Hand Bewing Machine
1 Cine Projectare, ple
A Fair Hockey Goal Nets
1 Pair. Binoculars
1 Bath Room Scale
1 Bicyele
On View from Thursday the 20th MATCH, 1947.
Termy: Gash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS AUCTIONERE
(TO BE CONTINUED)
UNCLAIMED
TELEGRAMS
Gembloux, Tirlèmont, Nivelles, Tournal, Alost, Dixmude, Furnes, Saint-Trond, Tongres, Thourout, Thelt, Ostend, Nieuwpoort, | Malines, Louvain, in hardly a fort- night all had bean; smashed, bat- tered and act on fire as if hell itself had descended upon them These seasoned counselors pointed out the inextricable position of the Bélgish Army, How in a matter of a few hours escape might be im- possible, and again they urged upon the King his duty, to leave Me to Tuen-kont and his bride, the country, He was, they pro formerly Ma Chi B4-yl, photo- tested, the leader of all the Bel- graphed after thell recent-mar- glans, and the Belgian cause might rlage (King's Studio).
Police, Defendant way represent- Det-Sgt. H. Be Dewar said thated by Mr. H. A. de Barros Botelho, at. 6.45 p.m. on Feb. 27, a light was who pleaded not guilty. seen shining, out of the Company's Defendant is charged with, that godown in Daddell Street.
JUDGMENT RESERVED Judgment was reserved by Mr.
being a clerk to the Yue Cheung Farm, with intent to defraud, he made or concurred in making false
Street summoned for a breach of Mr. Brown stated that the prac- the Defence Regulations by trying tice regarding the issue of cheques to send one letter out of the of the firm was that one of the Colony other than by post, was two chops used was kept by frat ined $500 by Mr. Sheldon yeater-complainant and the other kept day,
by defendant. Bome time ago, it Mr. D. C. W. Pitches, Superin-was necessary for defendant to tendent of Malis, prosecuted. take from first complainant bls
chop, which was never returned.
Hearing was adjourned to 2.30
~*~*~*~*~*~ HEARING KIXED
Thirteen masters and managers
of Chinese firms were summoned p.m. today), before Mr. Sheldon yesterday for Cont'd Page 11 Col. 1 attempting to send letters out of the Colony other thaff by post. DIBRUGARH, Mar 19 (Reuter) which offence is a breach of the The Deputy Commissioner of Defence Regulations oued here at Lakhumpur District has warned the The hearing was fixed for. Mar:people of Digboi and Tinsukis, to | 25 at 11 h..
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