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UNLESS YOUR HEAD IS E A BILLIARD BALL.
If
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your
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CANTON ARMS
TRANSACTION
CHARGES BY AVIATION CORPS OFFICIAL
COURT HEARING
Before Mr. Schofield at the Cen- tral Police yeaterday afternoon Tong Hoi-chon who was alleged Lo have been representing syndiente, appeared on two charges of having obtained $20,412, the monies of the Canton Government, from one Kwong Tat on a forged document which purported to be n section of a firearms, contract and obtaining the money by pur- porting that a consignment of firearms had been delivered on board a gunboat in Chek Wan whereas, in fact, the firearms had not been delivered on bourd the gunboat. •
Mr. T. Murphy (Assistant Director of Criminal Investiga- tions) appeared for the prosecution and Mr. D. L. Strellett represented the defendant, pleas of not guilty being entered on both counts.
Detailing the case, Mr. Murphy auid that about the end of August, 1931, a Chinese instructor in the Aviation Corps in Canton was de- tv legated to come to Hongkong purchase fra arms for the use in the force. Each machine was to be supplied with two weapons for the pilots. The officer, Kwong Tat. would tell the Court that he ap- proached the licensed dealers in Hongkong but arrived at no settle- nient with regard to the number of revolvers which he desired to pur- chase.
The man made repeated visits to Hongkong from Canton during the later part of August last for the purpose of purchasing a consign- ment of fire arms. At the end of August he got in touch with a friend in the Colony and this man in turn approached another man who described himself as a broker but he was not available now to give evidence. He was alleged to have said that he could supply firearms.
Defendant introduced.
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1 This is a ense where the singer
Is greater than the song. Desirable beliefs to have in one's passbook.
When ciphers came first they don't.
Looks at carefully (if you don't believe nie look it up in the dictionary).
11 Coren),
1 The horse-breeder is scarcely
likely to mislay his.
14 Marked and brought at up at the
rads and in the middle.
14 The
The garb of servitude. exercise is indicated.
17 Something one gets back.
18
Why
More
is the Zoo like paper? Be.
cause you see this in both. 20 Sums up as about the learned
elerie. 21 An entertainment at which the rustic visitor considers that he may fare well.
24 An action that the facts sustain. 28 Not in the least untidy in
stable.
30 In any such division a sect muat ́
face the alternative,
31 Idolized in one way and another. 32 Mostly clay.
Hydrous silicate of magnesia.
are-up
Vessel used in gold refining, Don't stir, Rupert Ainsworth, if you value your life (bidden).
Down
37 Mistress of a menage.
1 These backs may be found in the
Cnni- 2 but this is, distinctly, Oxford. 3 Miscellaneous.
It was alleged that on Septem-inuney as others had some as well.34 Early in September 1931 the the defendant and the buyer. The defendant, it was alleged, was In-defendant in his agreement under ber 18 about 3 p.m. the document Ile was stated to have produced, 15 A saxophone is, and the dancers troduced to the complainant, took to supply arma to the buyer in the possession of the buyer was three $50 notes from his purse and Kwong Tat, and he was alleged to and in turn the buyer agreed to produced by Lo Wai as having these he handed to the buyer. It have described himself as being in accept the arms at a certain place, been surrendered by the buyer. was further alleged that the defen- as a position to supply the arms out- and on acertain date. It was The buyer's brother accordingly dont requested the buyer to go to a side the jurisdiction of the Colony, alleged that this latter agreement surrendered his slip and the money, certain club in Wellington Street discuss the withdrawn where they would that was, the arms were to have was chopped by the buyer before he fit was alleged, WEA
On the way to the Club been bought and delivered outalde gave it to the defendant but the from the Kwok Fung Bank, $20,-matter. British Waters.
contract itself was not chopped. 412 being paid to the defendant, the buyer met an Indian constable were given in the street and handed the de- Two days later the defendant was The buyer's agents alleged to have met the buyer again $600 euch in the case of three of fendant to the officer.
Two identification parades were at the Empresa Hotel and produced them and $400 In the case of an-
oth. A further $68 was used in held. The buyer's brother and the contract. The buyer took
the Wong Ping-sang cach identified the particular note of the document general expenses, making up and the defendant, in his presence, total sum which had been deposited defendant.
Mr. Murphy remarked that the cut the contract into three
por- the bank. One After the money had been question whether the defendant tions with a pair of scissora. slip was given
to the buyer's handed over to the defendant the should be tried summarily or con- second to the buyer himself brother, Kwong Chung-kwong, a receipts or purtions of the contract mitted for trial at the criminal the third retained by the defendant. tained.
and were duty collected by him and re-casions would be left in the hands
of his Worship. The buyer would say that he did not scrutinize his slip and detected
A contract appears to have been entered into between the defendant and Kwong Tat by which the de- fendant undertook to supply a total of 210 weapons at the total cost of $22,680 Hongkong currency. This figure was not the amount in the charge but he (Mr. Murphy) would explain that later.
Instructions of Delivery.
no
It appears that the complainant and some friends met in the Em press Hotel on several occasions in connexion with the negotiations.
The Alleged Fraud, It was finally decided that the sum
Continuing Mr. Murphy said that of money agreed upon by the par-nothing unusual at the time. ties should be transferred to a
it appeared that the buyer waited Ilongkong Bank from Canton.
on board the gunboat until he got | The next step was that it was tired. This was daly done in the form of
When, at 9 p.m., nothing a draft made out in the name of agreed that the firearms were to occurred, he returned to longkong
I be delivered on board a one of the buyer's friends.
Chinese and got in touch with his brother man's name was Wong Ping-kit, September 18, 1931. Certain in been paid and the documenta all gunboat at Chek Wan Bay on who told him that the money had allas Wong Ping-sang. The money was later transferred to Debit Ac-structions were given as to what surrendered. count whereby it could be with signals would be hoisted either by drawn at a moment's notice, this day or night to enable the buyer to identify the craft by which the being a mutual arrangement agreed
arms were to be delivered to the upon by the defendant and the buyer.
gunbout.
This
"You
surrendered portion of the your
docu- meat and we paid the money"
brother
but
some
that remarked Kwong Tat replied that he still had his portion of the contract. The arrangements made by the A search was then made for the A Contract of Sale,
parties were that the man in defendant but the buyer was unable The arrangements having been whose name the money was banked to get in touch with him at the agreed upon it was stated that the should wait at the bank; the time. The buyer returned to Can- defendant appeared at the Em-buyer's brother, who had one of ton and was detained for press Hotel on September 13 and the slips of the contract, should three or four months by the Gov- produced a draft contract of sale wait in the boarding house and the ernment there. Wong Ping-sang and the buyer was requested or in- | buyer was to be the man who was also detained for a short time. structed to copy that draft con- would personally receive the The buyer's brother had in the tract in his own hand writing on rearing on the gunboat. On re-meantime made a report to another piece of paper in the pre-ceipt of the arms he was to sur- Hongkong Police. Nothing hap- sence of the defendant and two render his portion of the contrast pened until March 29 this year witnesses for the prosecution. to the seller or his agent and then when the buyer was in the Welling. After this was done the defen- the reller or agent would return ton Cafe in Wellington Street. dant took possession of the docu-to Hongkong to get the other por- ment on the pretext that he wished tion from the buyer's brother. to show it to a member of the Then, when the contract was corn- syndicate, a man named Lo Wal. plete Wong Ping-sang was to with- At the same time there was draw the money at the bank and exchange of agreements between pay the seller.
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TODAY
IS THE BIG DAY
EVERY KID IS TO BRING
HIS PART
TO THE
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CLUB HOUSE
IS TO BE ERECTED...
GOT HOLD OF IT? I'M GOING
TO LET MY END
DOWN!!
the
There he saw the defendant for the first time since it was alleged that the swindle had been perpetrated { and he challenged the accused. The defendant was alleged to have said that he did not tale all the
In evidence the buyer, Kwong Tat, said that he was formerly an ollicer of the Canton Avlation Corps under General Chang Wai- cheung, the then Commander-in- Chief.
The hearing was adjourned.
Reliable milliners trim their late but not their customers.
One of the things for which one takes a wife.
6 Come along, there he is, and in
strange company (hidden).
7 Though a good fleal of a bad egg
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that should not prevent this man from being a good workman. 8 Long for.
10 Weather vant.
12 A little sleep helps to make live-
liness.
14 Athough thoroughly controlled
its heart is free.
15 Schemed for power in deed.
18 He sat on the throne of Judah, 10 Tako from the left to be right.
22 European language.
23 The little boat at the end of the
littlo street โป quito strong.
25 A blow on the wrist,
20 Go quietly,
27 See Ben about the Instrument of
torture. Out of the
common, perhaps.
20 A secluded spot in which Parlia-
mentary business is suspended.
30 You must are about the dog to
make all safe.
33 We had an excellent time-Cairo, Venice, Naples, the Pyrenees, &c. (hidden).
34 Hampshire river that is
standard for comparison.
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WHY, OF COURSE... THAT
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