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with FREDRIC
MARCH
LESLIE
HOWARD
SMILIN' THROUGH
NEXT CHANGE "FOUR MEN and A PRAYER"
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1988.
STRUCK OIL IN HIS CABBAGES
AN enthusiastic and successful
Narcotics Cases Occupy Court's Time
BY BATCH OF PEDDLERS CAUGHT IN RAIDS
Fined For Breach Of Radio Laws
Miss Olga Lyon, of Nathan Road, was fined $10 by Mr. Q. A. A. Mhe- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day on a summons which slated that she had changed her 'address twice since the issue of her radio leence without notifying the thorities.
gardener is Mr. James Hor nall, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Several oplum cuses were dealt But at the end of April this with by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- year Mr. Hornall had a dis-Ing. appointment. He found that Mok Cheuk was sentenced to six some vegetables which ho was months' hard Inbour and further preparing for exhibition pur-aard Inbour for unlawful possession on her licence..
Ancd $730 or another slx months' poses were not coming along of 750 herain pills. He was nerest- well.
ed when a house in Temple Street was raided on August 30.
He pulled some of them up-and found that they were saturated with oil.
ou-
Misa Lyon said, that she did not read the directions that were given
Yu Kwong-kitul of Apliu Street was fined $30 for having been in possession of 0 wireless act on August 13 without a licence. Yu stated that the set had been left in her charge by a friend and denied that she had ever used it.
Chan Sze was fined a total of $300 or six months' hard labour for And that is how disappointment possession of five tuels of prepared turned to pleasure, for Mr. Hornall opium and for keeping an oplam had discovered an oll well in his divin in Nom Chang Street. garden.
Chlu Fook was fined 563 or three
Henry Chang, a witacas for the labour on charges of mall recently, "and came across Possession of part of the ground where oil seemed and keeping an opium divan, In Apliu Street and that sometime to coze through,
Pui Fook was fined $100 or four last month the defendant had given "I have had over 60 gallons of months' hard labour on counts of a dancing party and had a radio in oll from that hole in the past few possession of 1.1 tnels of oplum and use. It was not a gramophone thint weeks alone."
being
the keeper of divan In had been playing because announce-
Street. county analyst and the United Col months hard labour for possession
ments were relayed through the Meries Company, who
the Ave own
Mr. A. E. E. Jeffries, Inspector of mineral rights of the ground.
of mace of opium and for keep-Wireless. prosecuted. Experts say it is pure oil of ineing
divan. Fourteen pre- quality; and Gardener Hornall's dis-sumed heroin pills were found on the covery may prove to be an important raided premises, 128 Tai Nam Street.
secuted in the cases.
"I started to dig," said Mr. Hor-months' res mace of oplum prosecution, stnied that he also lived
Samples have been sent to the Shanghaing was fined $100 or five appliance.
onc.
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Bette DAVIS
Gene RAYMOND
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BEWITCHING AS YOUNG LOVE- AND AS HARD TO EXPLAINI
Develop Near Colony
Revenue Officer E. T. Warden pra- EAGLE ARRIVES
of 100
CENTRAL COURT CASES Arrested in possession heroin pills at Eastern Street laat weck, Cheung Cho, 28, unemployed, was fined $100 or, in default, two months imprisonment by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning, Acting Sub-Inspector C. Baysting prosecuted.
Arrested as the result of raids by the police on three opium divans at Hollywood Road, three unemployed Chinese were charged with keeping opium divans ond prepared oplum before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this
s morning. Hung Ying, 32, was fined $300 or With less than halt an inch of 16 weeks' imprisonment. Li Chl, 32, rainfall in three days, the aggregate and Lam Shu, 32, were fined $150 for the Colony since the beginning or, in default, three months' im- of the year is now 25 inches below prisonment; and $170 or two months' average, namely 44.87 inches, as com- and six weeks' imprisonment pared with an average of 89.04|pectively, inches.
There was a slight drop in the
res-
FROM NORTH
The aircraft-carrier, H.M.S. Eagle, together with H.M.S. Dainty, arrived in pert this morning. They will remain in Hongkong until September 12 when they Kni for Singapore. H.M.S. Kent, which will become the flagship of Admiral Sir Percy Noble when she reaches Weihalwel, will leave Hongkong for the north to morrow.
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Mrs. J, S. Gordon of Nu, 527 The Peak reports that while shopping at the Colonial Dispensary yesterday, her handbag contolning money and valuables to the extent of $270 was
maximum temperature yesterday, the AIR RAID ALARM stolen from the counter,
highest registration being 30, with
minimum Inst night of 80. This
the
and humidity was 8 per cent.
orning the thermometer read
01
The Royal Observatory weather
report issued this morning stated that
J
IN HANKOW
Hankow, Sept. 8. The air raid alarm signal was weak
anti-cyclone remains over given at 8.20 a.m., after which China and an area of relatively low long intervals a few bombs
were pressure is situated over the Pacifle heard exploding about 20 miles east to the cast of North Luzon. Alof Hunkow, presumably aimed at the typhoon may develop in this area highway legling to the Juichang and move north-westward,
front.
The "alf clear" was sounded Local forecast Is:-East and south-
at 9.40 a.m.-United Press. probable.
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PETE, FIFI and CARMENCITA
WEEK'S TOLL IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS
an
PEAK DOG ATTACKS DELIVERY COOLIE
A delivery coolie named Loung Kue, employed by The Pharmacy, was bitten by fox terrier at No. 514 The Peak yesterday. Leung was sent to the Queen Mary hospital for treatment, and the dog to Kennedy Town for observation.
YAUMATI SCHOOL
BURGLARY
CANE FOR SNATCHER Admitting a charge of larceny of
carring from
a 35-year-old woman In Shanghai Street yesterday, 22-year-old man named Wong hard labour ordered to receive eight Leung was sentenced to six months' week-ending strokes of the cane by Mr. Q. A. A. Saturday, September 3, according to Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- Yaumati Government School yester- the weekly returns of the Trame tracy to-day, Department.
One person was killed and 33 in- Jured as a result of 70 trome a cidents during the
A Chinese died from injuries when a lorry on which he was rid-1 lag, ran off the road and fell over the bank along Frontier Road in the New Territories.
Of the persons injured, 10 were pedestrians, who were either walking or running across the road and were struck by vehicles.
One bicycle rider and one ricksha passenger were injured as the result of collision between vehicles.
Four tram passengers and six bus passengers were injured while alight- ing from moving tramcars and moving buses respectively,
One bus passenger
was injured
while attempting to board a moving mutor bus.
One private car passenger was injured as the result of collision with a pole.
Of the 70 accidents, 31 were colli- sions between vehicles; 20 ware colli- sions between vehicles and pedes- trians; 10 accidents were due to other causes.
CENTRAL
vase, and a number of silver shields Three silver cups, a silver flower valued at $380 were stolen from the day.
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