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·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,
MORE FOOCHOW.
MYTHS
CAPTURE NOW REPORTED
-RIDICULED BY
INFORMED
1934.
A PAWN TICKET THE HARBIN!
CONUNDRUM
CAN THEFT BE SUSPECTED?
CASE FAILS
PIRACY
FRESH VERSION OF OUTRAGE
MINIMISES ITS SERIOUSNESS
An intereating point arose in the Central Police Court this morning, when Taul Chung. a
A different version of the coolle, and Cheng Ko. a Ash-
piracy outrage, Despite
were charged before Mr. Harbin authentic in- Muefadyen with the unlawful pos- cabled by Reuter, throws no formation from Foochow sension of a pawn ticket relating fresh light on the affair, to certain property pawned in the revealing that the alleged Tal Fung Pawnshop, the ticket while minimising its serious- attack on the city by a Com- being, reasonably suspected ofness.
A United Press message states munist army was a figment having been stolen or otherwise
that eight persons were killed, in- of a fertile imagination, wild unlawfully obtained...
Prosecuting, Detective-Sergeant cluding five Japanese and rumours continue to be w. Gowans stated that on July 1. American, adding that women.
spread.
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the Tai Fung Pawnshop issued aboard the ill-fated steamer, A cable from the United Press ticket to La Mul, accountant of small river-boat, were violated,
Reuter's story is that thirty in Manila this morning reveals that the Sun Mai shop. No. 289 Queen's the Fookien Timca, presumably a Road Central. On August 12, the pirates masquerading na passen- Chinese daily printed, in Manila, ticket was stolen, and on August rers captured the steamer near publishca this morning a "Special" 18, the first defendant attempted Harbin and then moored the ships from a correspondent in Hongkong, to redeem the property, a gold some thirty miles to the north of reporting that the Communists have bracelet and a gold finger ring. the clty, where they were rein- two hundred con- enplured Foochow!
When the complainant missed the forced by The local naval authorities, who tleket, he reported the matter to federaten. are In constant communication the pawnbroker who detained the with Foochow, through a worship first defendant when he handed on the spot, describeil the report in the ticket. as "Pimo!"
Foochow remains quiet. Rumours of a menace to Amoy are also considered in well-informed quarters to be nothing more than rumours.
"RED" RAID INTO HUNAN
YUCHENG REPORTED
CAPTURED
Canton, Aug. 16. report from Shiukwan:
A' northern tremninus. of the Yu-Han
Railway, alleges that Kinng "Reds" made a surprise attack on Yuchung, in southern Ilunan, and occupied It early yesterday morn- ing.
LEGAL ASPECT.. His Worship: In law, I don't ticket is passn think that necessarily a thing that can be suspected of being stolen.
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Sergt. Gowana: The circum- stances of the case are that the second defendunt stated that he got the ticket from Li Sing and the name on the ticket in Lai Mul. They intended to sell the property to a goldsmith at a profit.
His Worship: Unless you can prove there was a false pretence. Sergt. Gowans: They did not pretend.
His Worship: I admit it is very, very suspicious.
The defendants charged,
were
dis-
The ship was then pillaged from stera lo stern.
In the capture of the vessels, Reuter anys, two persons were kill ed, both of them Manchurians, and that ten were wounded, eight of. them being Manchurians and two Japanese.
Thirty Manchurian passengers, men and women, were kidapped..
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