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GENERAL
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS Round The Police Courts FAMED KHYBER PASS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
AT CENTRAL
BOARDED CAR Alleged to have been found in THE Undersigned have received side Mr. G. Merriman's car No.
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
Friday, the 6th June, 1941. commencing at 2.80 p.m.
at their Sales Roar, No. 36, Hankow Road, Kowkon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
also
FURNITURE,
and..
1 Grand Piano
1 Bed Room Suite
1 "Phico" Radio
1 "Philips Radio (all wave)
On View from Thursday.
the 5th June, 1941.
tent to steal.
to
It was alleged that he converted
INTIMIDATION CASE
Island, and with conspiracy, with others unknown, to defraud Hul of $19,000 Chinese currency, the latter charge was withdrawn by the prosecution with the permis- sion of the Court.
STOLE -21 PENS
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Fully Guarded
for movement
in
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FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1941.
COLOUR
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BIG SELECTION OF FABRIC
A SO IN
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IN PLAIN COLOURS
GREEN
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• RED
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WITH WHITE SPOTS.
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LANE,
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TEL: 28151.
K. M. A.
CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCT
[ 2884 at. Upper Albert Road, Ng Blu- The case is being heard before: kei, 23 unemployed, of no fixed Mr. Lowry. Mr. C. A. Sutherton
Athwart the rugged Himalayas, the world's greatest moun- abode, was charged with attempted Russ appeared for the prosecution. tain range, lies historie Khyber pass, north-west gateway to In- Jareesy of motorcar fittings before assisted by Det.-Sgt. T Cashman. dia. Many of the ancient conquerors led their columns through the
First defendant was represented by
long, narrow defile that forms, the Khyber, to storm 'down an Ma. Lowry yesterday.
Det-Sgt. J. R. Bytes said that Mr. J. Almada Remedios and the plains of Peshawar and the famous cities of Lahore and on Tuesday at 2pm, defendant second by Mr. F. C. Wood
Delhi. In modern times the strategle Khyber has been care- was seen by a houseboy of the St. Further hearing was fixed for
fully guarded by British troops and fierce Afridi tribesmen, sub- Ruul's College Hostel, outside which this afternoon at 230 pm.
sidized by the British and the only toe at all capable of and strategically placed for forcing passage through the mountains the car was parked, inside the vehicle. He was taken to Central
is Russia, beyond the Hindu Kush range to the north. Sentence of six months' hard Police Station, where he admitted
The Khyber has been the great outpost In Indi It's guns having boarded the car with in-labour was imposed by Mr. Lowry
the gorge, 1,000 feet yesterday on Chan Leung, 28, un-military and trade gateway to In- dominate
dia since the days of Alexander deep, leading to the south-east, Sentence of one month's hard employed, for stealing from No the Grat. The pass proper be- and it could be held by few men
16, Pottinger Street, ground floor, labour was imposed.
21 fountain pens, two numbering ins near Jamrud, India, 10 against a strong body of troops, ACCOUNTANT CHARGED
miles west of Peshawar, and winds since, it would be dificult either machines and ane knife, the prothrough hills for about 35 miles into attack the fort or to prevent An accountant. of the Central perty of Ma King-siu. on May 5.
north-westerly direction to the it from receiving supplies, Teakwood. Bed Room, Dining Meat and Dairy Supply Company. Det.-Sgt. F. Nelan, who pro plains of Jelabad, in Afghanistan.
The garrison at Land: Khana Room. Drawing Room, Once and Fernando Antenle Ozoria, 33, of No. secuted, said that defendant was
A railway and two motor roads probably endures the worst living Rattan Furniture, Porcelain, Class, 112. Austin Road, second floor, ap-arrested on information on June 3 now traverse the pass, which for cortions in the world. In the Brass and E. P. Ware. Rugs, peared before Mr. G. T. Lowry yes-while the theft was committed on centuries knew only camels and summer it is unbearably hot, with
a charge accused of May 5. Carpets, Gramophones & Records, terday on
pack mules, and a heavy commer-the temperature 118 degrees fraudulently converted Electric Lamps, Plotures, Orna- having
UNREGISTERED · FACTORY claj traffic goes through daily. the shade. In the winter it is ex- ments, Cutlery, Gas & Cooking $660.97 or the firm's money.
the
the The manager of
Central Generally the morning hours are tremely cold. Besides this, Stoves. Kitchen Utensile, etc., etc.
into region is visited by heavy rains to his own use the sum entrusted Meat and Dairy Supply Company, reserved
him by Mr. A. G. Dalziel, AG. Dalziel, was fined $25 by Mr. Afghanistan and the afternoon, for which have set a record of 41 All trafic ches of rainfall in a single day Sheldon yesterday for opening and passage into India. "A QUANTITY OF BLACHWOOD manager of the company, on Jan..
2 to pay to the Kau Kee Meat using the ground floor of No. 67, must be out of the pass by night and 75 feet of rain in a year. a factory on fall, under British military regula. Much of the year not even camels Store at Central Market to settle Hennessy Road as
tions.
can endure the rigours of the past Apr. 18, such premises not having, an account.
The Many fierce battles have been and pack mules are used. The case was remanded for de-been registered under the Factorie
fought for the possession of the motor caravahs and ratroad are fendant to engage a solicitor. ball and Workshops Ordinance.
Khyber, and the natives say that presumably open in all save the Mr. D.-W. Phillips, Inspector of being allowed at $1,000.
every stone and foot of earth in rainy seasons, but exact detalls Det. Sub-Insp. O'Donovan is Factories, said, that the place had the area has been dranched with concerning such operations in the
been registered for last year. The human blood. At the in charge of the case,
southern pass are & military secret. certificate having nominally explied mouth, on the dusty plains, is the The best possibility for the re- at the end of the year, two letters old mud fort of Jamrud, defended duction of the forts, a slim one, Further evidence was recorded were sent to defendant informing by Hari Singh in 1937 in a san- would be afforded by air. The at "the resumed hearing before Major him to renew it, but no reply was guinary Night with invading Russians are said to have an air Macfadyen yesterday of the in-forthcoming to either one of the Afghana under. Dost Mohammed base at Tashkent. in Turkestan, a timidation charge against 12 per letters until a summons had been The British took the fort in the two-hour flight from the pass. sons, including six revenue officers taken out against him...
conquest of India, and it is Such planes would be forced to and two women...
Pleading gulity, defendant sald (now the headquarters of the cross the Hindu Kush mountains Defendants were Mo Kang, Senior that the factory had been closed Khyber rifles.
to reach the Khyber and then Revenue Officer; Leung Ching down in December last and only a At Landi Khana. near the manoeuvre among treacherous C. R. O. 77: Pau Chi-ying, C. R. Owatchman was left there to watch Afghanistan border, is 51; Ip Yuk, C. R. O. 160; Mo Yiu- the premises, and no letters ad-built fort, the most distar: kong. junior draughtsman; Mo dressed to him would reach him Kwan-pak, draughtsman; Yu Yuk- unless sent direct to the head 1in, married woman; Lui Wai, shop office. master: Lai Yeung, shop master; and L1 Lo-ae, woman.
They were alleged to have A 35-year-old seaman, Chan Chol, 29, was charged before Mr. Sheldon threatened Cha Pak-yuen, merchant, of No. 109. Des Voeux with larceny by servant of a tin Road Central, third floor, with in-jol petrol, containing 'one galion jury with intent to alarm' him...-- and valued at $1.80, from a Hls Mr. Alfred 8. K. Lan assisted by Majesty's ship, lying alongside the Det Sgt. W. Summers, conducted wall of the RA.9.0. Camber. the prosecution, while defendants, Det.-Sgt. V.M. Morrison said that with the exception of the eleventh, defendant, who had been working No. 18, Third Street, was remand- who was defended by Mr. S. Ng on board the ship for the last fourled Quinn, were represented by Mr years at $22.50 a month, was arreted the ed, were held here between. Mr.
by a watchman carrying a tin of Huang Yen-pe!. fourder. and Ho Lai-chan, the wife of .com.petrol. When he was questioned, Chairman of the association, when plainant, in evidence yesterday, he admitted having stolen it from
about visited Hongkong
said that eighth" and ninth de- the boat on which he worked, month ago, and. Mr. Chien, Chair- fendants owed her $50, This When asked why he had stolen
It is not often that the wife of man of the Board of Directors of money was given to her husband, the petrol, defendant replied that the Association, and other persons
Private Thomas Peter Durdan of troops, composed of British sub formatory school at Denver, Colo-the President of the United States
nado, were chained naked in an
of America recommends a picture who in turn handed it to eighth he was going to use it to kill white concerned. A preparatory commit-
the RASC charged with the ects residing in India, on micy dungeon and lashed defendant.
ants in his house in the country. manslaughter of Ho Sza in Balmediate call. For further reserves padded leather strap and cat-o'-introducing "Pastor Hall" to the
but Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in ted was formed with Messrs. Huang Po-chiao, Wang Chin-hsin.
Witness alleged that ninth de Remarking that that was not a kung Hoad on Mar. 18, was re- they might call on at Indian ter
American public, said, "The story Pa Nang yao, Huang Ting-hui, fendant once told her: "If you good excuse when defendant had manded another 24 hours by Mr. ritorial force of 27,000 and the
of Pastor Hall, of his ' undying independent armles Wu Han-chen and several others want your money back, Mo Kang been working for four years and D. J. N. Anderson yesterday.
case will be princes, trained by British offices and chain, and others were kept in faith, his unconquerable courage (first defendant) will give it to getting a reasonable salary, Mr. Hearing 51 the
| solitary confinement in leg -trons. is the story of all men who love
These horrors were revealed at freedom and justice When established, the branch you dare to collect the money from the of $50 or one month's hard 11.30 am. this morning.
Mo is a chier detective, Ifeldon imposed on defendant a taken by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at taling 45,000. The size of the
British Royal Air Force "detach an inquiry recently, when the that they are prepared to live Во deeply will set up vocational and primary
ment now in India, and the Royal authorities recommended the dis schools in Hongkong and Kowloon. organise an Overseas Service De-
Indian Air Force, is not presently missal of thirty-five school offi- eternally, for their convictions. In partment to give advice and gul-Fat dance to overseas Chinese return - ing to China and to assist them
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
To popularise vocational educa- tion. among the Chinese In Hong- kong, the National Association of Vocational Education is planning to establish a branch here shortly Talks in this regard, it is learn-
he
as memberN.
making capital investments.
M. A. a Silva.
you.
me"
MAN
LARCENY BY SERVANT
labour.
The case was adjourned to today It was also stated that defen-
2.30 p.m.
dont was going to lose his job.
viction, was fined $300 manth's hard labour.
a newly peaks to attack their objective. At Britian the same time, should an air
Leung Sum. 26, unemployed. No. 69, Third Street, first floor, was aned $76 or six weeks.
offensive he attempted, the British could send fighter planes from Lahore, only an hour and 20 or one minutes by air from the pass.
INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
Independent Aghanistan is an
having close relations country, with Persia, which in turn a Pan Hol-wan. 20, unemployed, friendly to the British. Probably the Soviet did attempt а No. 135, Second Street, ground if floor, was fined $75 or six weeks.
manoeuvre against India, British Chan Tso-pak. 18, unemployed, and native troops would pour:
through the Khyber into Afghanis tan and more northward to take the Khawak pass in the Hindu Kush.
until today to be sentenced in
Juvenile Court. Det.-8gt C. Pope prosecuted.
AT KOWLOON
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Prior to the outbreak of the current war the British could put 53,000 white and 181,000 native troops into the Beld in India, and in addition have 34,000 auxiliary
known.
ed.
of
native
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CHAINED BOYS
LASHED IN
ICY DUNGEON
DENVER-Children, in % re-
nine-talls,
with a
Some were made to wear a ball
cials.
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ALLEGED KIDNAPPING Cheung Chan, 34, married wo- man, No. 136 Fa Yuen Street, third
Military strategists still agree
"As POSSESSION OF DAGGERS
GAMBLING RAIDS
floor und Lo Zee. 47, widow of with Kipling that the
romantic camp," was Inirty-six persons were alleged-Shek Ku Lung Village, were, re- Khyber is the key to India. They among Denver residents on Yearn- Two Filipino seamen were bound in finding employment and in over by Major a N. Macfadyen ly gambling "Pul kan" on the roof manded for one week by Mr. An doubt that it will be soon attacking the facts, Angry men threa
yesterday in the sum of $5 each of No: 528, Queen's Road West, derson yesterday.
party headed by to be of good behaviour for six when a Police A Hongkong edition of the "State months on a charge of unlawful Det.-Sgt. W. Summers conducted stealing a child, Chan Shui-pul, 11 First defendant is charged with Newa à periodical published by the Association,
will also be possession of daggers.
arald on Wednesday night.
years of age from the father of the Defendants were Carbo "Tran- Before Mr. Sneldon yesterday, child, Chan Lam, while second de.. quiline: 30, and Pricilo Suhlan, 25. two, of, the men, Kwan Yip, 29, fendant is charged with harbour- Sub-Insp. W. L. Clark said that shroff, and Tang Choi, 24, stalling the child at Shek Ku Lung on Wednesday at 8.20 p.m., defend- al, were charged with keeping a Village, on Feb, 28. The Association was first estab-ed bus No. 413 outside the Talkoo to appear and their bails of $50 of the case;
ants and two other Filipinos board-cominou geuing house. Both talled Deg--Sgt. R. Macvey is in charge lished in Shanghat in 1017 with Docks. They produced for pay- each were estreated.
THEFT OF SEWING MACHINES tric purpose of spreading vocation- ment of their carfare a $10 note,
Of the 34 öthers charged with Lel Po-hing, 24, Leung Ka,
published.
An initial fund of HK.$30,000 | has been tentatively fixed for the branch
tered to beat up the school **aff The dungeon torture cha...ber way in almost compléte darkness GIRLS PLOUGH
when the doors were closed.
Investigator Car Morse said AMID BOMBS
boys were black and blue from LONDON. —- Miss E Margaret neck to thighs from beatings. I Smyth is the first member of the Saw as many as twelve stripes two Land Army to gain an award inches wide down their backs," She is the organising secretary of he said.
Colonel Raymond Combs, stocky, the land girls of East Kent, and
Pastor Hall
EXPOSE OF LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY
such men is the hope of common humanity, the greatest hope for ourselves and our chlidren.”
The Hongkong cinema public will have an opportunity to judge for themselves on Sunday whether it le true or not that "Pastor Hall," the United Artist production, is all that has been said of it, for the management of the Oriental Thea- tre have secured the rights to pre- for the first sent this picture time in Hongkong at DoDular prices.
The writer was privileged to at- tend a preview of this picture and
al education and improving agra which was accepted and the change gambling, unly 11 were present in and Chal King-lun, 28, 41 un-she has just been made an MB.Ered-haired principal, stuttered ex. he came away with the impres-
the
been
people have been benefitted by the short and started an argumen ordered to be donated to the Pagr
king.
with
....
IN WESTERN MARKET
|
+4
sald,
he
MISSIONARY HELPS CHINESE BLIND
SOLDIERS
sion that in "Pastor Hall we have
one of the most powerful produc-
tions ever to have come out of the film studios.
:
rian life. In 1925, the Association given back to them
It is due to her splendid work, cuses as investigators fired ques. established a library in Shanghai
Court Four pleaded not guilty employed, appeared before Mr. After the money had and in 1932, it started the publica-pocketed by one of the men and
and were subsequently discharged. Anderson yesterday charged with says an official report, that landtions at him "Boya were strap- Seven were ined $1 each, breaking into No, & Argyle Street, girls working in East Kent have ped. for disregarding orders." tion of the "State News" which the bus had gone for a considerable walle those absentees had their ground floor on. June I and steal. I maintained a steady discipline, contained articles
Two years ago, the school was Dealing with life in Nazi Ger- un China, distance, they suddenly accused character. buliding, self-study and
ing five sewing machines valued even while under fire..
many, the picture tells of the These girls, carrying on their accused of immoral conditions." conductor of paying them balls of $3 each estreated.
A total of $18,58 picked up was at $75 from the above address.
horrors other subjects. More than 5,000
of work while air battles rage over-
the .concentration First and third defendants were head, certainly deserve praise.
camps, of the wickedness of the the
additionally charged with break- latter, during which association during its 24 years of
Box.
One group of girls hard at work
Gestapo and the Storm Troopers, aervices.
ing into. No. 631 A Nathan Road on first defendant was alleged to
ploughing with a motor-tractor June 6 and stealing tobacco, and did not hear the sound of German
Above all, however, it conarmas have branished dagger and
the oft-asserted story that even Following the fall of Shanghal passed It to second defendant. Eight men. charged with gam-cigarettes to the value of $250.
In spite of all his viciousness; Adolf. planes overhead. towards the end of 1937; the As-
The group was taken to the bling "pai kau" inside the Western
All defendants pleaded gulity to
Mr sociation was removed to Chung- Police Station, where a
The first indication they had
Hermann Becker of the Hitler does not reign supreme in second Market on Wednesday at 8 pm, the first charge. First accused
Was when
Famine 'Orphanages and Evang-the Third Reich in that there are the
shrapnel dagger was found on second de- failed to turn up, their bails of $3 pleaded guilty to.
second
dropped arqun them.
alistic Bands in Chihklang, Hunan, still men who dare have their own fendant's person,
each being estreated.
charge and was discharged.
But that is a falry common ex-
who has been a missionary in opinions and ideas of life. It also carried Asked why they had
The three accused were remand..
perience for these girls. They
China for over 30 yeara, is helping shows that such men are never al- knives around, defendants replied
ed, to today.
Det.-8t, J. Johnston prosecuted. fall near by.
never run for shelter until bombs about 300 Chinese soldiers who owed a long lease of freedom, that that it was the custom in thel
have lost their eyesight to read sooner or later the Gestapo, cat- country.
None of these girls has asked for and write. He has secured the
ches up with them, with the in-: On the application of Det:-Sgt. ja transfer to more sheltered dis-services of two teachers to teach evitable ending. Cashman, Lau Sun was remanded tricts. So long as they have tin them the Mandarin Braille Union for 48 hours when he appeared hats they are prepared to go or System Loting, has been summoned to cribed as brokers, Wan Chi-wong, Ko Eze, 31, widow, No. 25, Po before Mr. S. F. Balfour yesterday working in the field,
Mr. Becker, care of the China Shlakwan by General Ll Han-yun, 31, and L Ping, 37, are charged Tak Street; first floor, failing to charged with the possesion of two "Dozens of bombs have fallen in. Inland Mission, Chihklang, Hunan, have seen in many a long day, and - Chairman of the Kwangtung Pro- with attempted theft of 187 appear had her ball of $76 es-rolls barbed wire "reasonably sua the field where I work," said one will be glad to receive any books the supporting cast helps him to vincial Government, who after in-piculs of wolfram ore, valued at treated.
pected of having been stolen or girl," "and we've seen plenty of which have been printed in Man-make "Pastor Hall' a picture that terrogation, ordered that he be $3,000 by means of a trick from Yu Shum. 17. umemployed, No, unlawfully obtained" at Castle Germans crash. But bombs, bul- darin Braille Union System for use gives a true insight into the con- detained and court-martialed. But Shing, accountant of Tung. Western Street, ground floor, Peak Road, near Lafchikok Hos- lets or shrapnel, It Just isn't done of the blind soldiers-(Centraditions in Germany, under the pow=" (Central Newn).
shing Loong Firm, Cheung Chau who admitted one previous con-pital, on June 3,
to leave the job unfinished."; News).
er-hungry maniac, Adolf Hitler.
MAGISTRATE DETAINED
Table money aggregating $4.38 was ordered to go to the Foot Box, The following were charged with keeping different common gaming Lin Miao, magistrate. of Puning,...
houses for the purpose of "se auspected of corruption during his
At the continued hearing of the tam" lottery, at various addresses term of office as magistrate of case in which two persons des-n the Colony on Wednesday.
TRICK ALLEGED
D. O, SOUTH
Playing the part Pastor Hall, Wiltrid Lawson gives one of the most powerful piece of acting we