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LLELE STAMP TATION ALLEGED
ctice to be 'n fråüd 'upon the revenue of Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, pro- shop-keepers before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Cen- this morning fer failing to gut 10-cent duty for sums, as over $20, which they had re-
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op-yu, bf the Tung Hop gm,, serious matter indeed. There ig-Lok Street, Whs summoned for many cases, hundreds of them, which falsifying a book of account by alter-we do not detect. If it is to be dis- Edg. an entry relating to a purcitose, couraged, I venture to submit that humely by writing over the Citiese your Worship impose such a penalty ester- characters indicating an amount for as to deter others, from doing the
324.03 certain other Chinese charac same thing." -neuvy h
tera Indicating the amount, to be
be He added that he did not know aren and the $14.83; for the purpose of evading, how many receipts were issued by "Japanese conve" peun, pouring, re-stamp duty, and doing the same thing the them in the course of a day, but serves into Fihsien.
in respect to a sum of $25.00, which it was a fairly substantial business. was made to appear $16.65. He was If only a small dne was inficted... The numerous Japanese troops in utlier summoned for failing to was merely a matter of arithmetic ille city were sent be In trigen-stump receipts for $21.93 and $25.05 to find out how roon in proportion to the receipts issued the amount of disorder. When the Chinese pinnespectively.
Mr. F., Leseby, of Russ and the fine could be saved. Cume over
dropped a "huge num-Company, said he was representing Continuing, he said: "These of- "Ang raiders ber" or bombs und set fire 10 Chung Ting-kong, the manager of fences are a fraud upon the Colony. "dumps" or Jupant se' war supplies. the firm, as Li was in Canton, Hel Nobody In the Colony, whether he
All the
MICKEY MOUSE rader returned surely pleaded gulity to, the charges of fail- be employed here, or is head of a to their base y of operationding to stamp receipts, but not guilty, firm here, can possibly hope to pros- United Press.
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Chinese Bomb Japanese
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Troops
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Hankow Mar, 31. Chinese avlation headquarters Issurd communique yesterday evening that Chanere planes, when
at 10 o'clock, lying over Vihisien
Japanese yesterday morning, Troops in the city in great disorder. and they heavily bombed Japanese fires Iroop concentrations, where were seen to be blazing.-Reuter,
Civilians Killed
to the other tive for falsifying an per if the revenue of the Colony is account book,
Mr. Abbott accepted this
10 be defrauded in a wholesale
withdrew the first two chia, and manner. The prosperity of the Co-
no
one
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Tony as a whole is bound to sutter. therefore ask that in Imposing a your Worship take into con- penalty
Colony.
Mr. Loseby remarked that there method by which the manager of a fem can assure that receipts orderation these factors and impose such a penalty as to make other per- aums received were stamped.
Mr. Abbott said that the penalty on realise that it la not worth their for such an offence was a maximum white to commit these frautis on the ine, of $10,000 and Imprisonment for
agreed with Mr. Losoby said he i period not exceeding
year.
nearly everything Mr. Abbott had The summonses had arisen out
said, but he repeated that unless a investigations by officers of
the business man signed all his own re- Treasury appointed to do such work ceipts, there was no means at all by
ONLY DROP IN BUCKET
which he could assure that stamps "I think my friend will agree, and were affixed to all of them. He your Worship will understand, that asiced for a lenient penalty, remark- By The Score
this is but a drop in the bucket. ing that a severe penalty would in- There must be thousands of cases of evitably cause the proprietor of the Shanghai, Mar, 31.
fallure to stamp receipts. In this Arm
to pass on to his employees. Chinese reports state that
A fine of $75 was imposed on cach 17ense, what was done was as set out in attempt.ng 10 Japanese planes, in
the original summonses,
cipt of the two sum
summonses for failing to was at of on Talerchwang, relieve pressure
for a sum of over 520
stamp receipts. dropped 200 bombs on nearby vill-
fur a sum below $20 in order that Weng Wing-hong, of the Tai Kak ages, killing "Scores of civilians," starp need not be affixed. I am not firm, Wing Lok Street, was fined a after Chinese troops had encircled suggesting that defendant himself did total of $200 on four summonses for and threatened to wipe out a Japan- 't. but venture to say that this falling to stamp receipts for amounts ese column
reinforcements wholesale evasion of paying to the of over $20, and for spitting the could poss.bly arrive.
Colony its proper revenue is a very amounts into sums below $20.
before
Japanese reports adinit very heavy fighting at Talcrchwang, ang it is estimated that 50,000 of General Tang En-po's Chinese troops ate "offering
It is very stiff resistance. cla.med that two battalions of over 500 Chinese troops were killed in a
attack night
ut Sanochuong, Talet dhiwang.
near
Chinese reports state that Chinese planes were taking part in the drive. However, detalls of their activities are very sketchy.
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that Japanese reports of routine Japanese raids in South China and Central China stated that they had not encountered any Chinese planes, and this possibly substantiates reports that the major- ity of Chinese planes are concentrat- log in North China. United Press.
HONGKONG RESIDENTS ROBBED
The theft of money and jewellery worth $2,173.20 from her residence, in Village Road, some time between 10 p.m. on Tuesday and 6.30 a.m. vesterday, is reported to the police by Mrs. Mo Slu-kwan.
Mrs. Well, residing at "Alberose," Pokfulum Road, also reported that somebody entered her house yester- day and took clothing and jewellery valued at $570,
Mrs. C. Winterbottom, residing at the Kingsclere Hotel, Chatham Road, lost clothing worth $270 from the verandah of the Hotel.
ABSENT DEFENDANTS REBUKED
"People who get summoned must turn up," declared Mr. K. M. A. Barnolt at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when Mr. A. J. Hall, of Austin Road, failed to answer summons for allowing his dog abroad without
muzzle
lead on March 3. After Sub-Insp. Fisherty had testified to serving the summons and L/Sergt. Terret, had said he saw the dog in Austin Road, Mr. Barnett im- posed a fine of $17, and issued distress warrant, saying that he was compelled to do so by the Ordinances. Defendant will be given Ave days to pay the fine.
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On a similar count, Mr. K. M. V, G. da Silva, of Granville Road, was Aned $13, the Magistrate anying that though the dog had not bitten any. one while it was loose, he was im- posing the usual fine because I had not been Inoculated against rabies.
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AMERICAN ATTACKED BY JAPANESE PLANE-
Waiycung, Mar. 31.
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An American missionary riding in
motor chr was attacked Woltinnkino in Walyoung by Japanese plane on March 29. The car was hit by five machine-gun bullets, but he is understood to have excaped unscathed.
Five Japanese plants raided Wal- young around 11 o'clock that ar
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AMERICAN ESCAPES AIR RAIDERS
Canton, Mar. 31. Ait American named Jalin Peter Anderson, of Kiron, Iowa, who is connected with the Seventh Day Adventist Mission at Walchow, was driving his car from Canton to Waichow on Tuesday morning, when five Japanese planes circled over- head.
Mr. Anderson, together with a Chinese nurse and amish took refuse In the fields, and i moment later the planes machine-gunned the car, six bullets striking it.
The party, unhurt, re-entered the car, which was not flying a flag, and continued to Walchow-Router.
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