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April 30, 1940.
SENTENCED NORWAY BLITZKRIEG SOLDIERS
TO DEATH Man Who Murdered
Fellow Prisoner
FAILS: BRILLIANT ALLIED RETREAT
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on the railway north of Dombáos and Kvikne.
Checked by the British troops on Sentence of death was passed their direct line of advance up the Gudbrands Valley, the Germans have by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl sent two motorised detachments along MacGregor, at the Criminal the only two possible roads from the Sessions this morning on L Oeser Valley. Their aim is to cut the Shek-man, 32, who is already railway behind the British positions. The Arst of these roads runs over undergoing a term of ten years the Foll Valley to Hjerkin, which is hard labour, when he was found held by the Allied troops who have guilty of the murder of a fellow-been reinforced to meet the German prisoner, Lau Chuen, at Stanley move, Prison on February 4.
At the same time the Norweglans are resisting the Germans at Kvikne, As a result of a stab wound inflict-which is on the second road and is ed by Li, Lau dled in the Queen Mary north of the Foll Valley road. Hospital on March 9. During the trial, It was disclosed that Lau was the principal witness for the Crown when Li was charged with the murder of the master of a money-changer'a Inhop at Hunghom in March, 1939,
Li was found gulity and condemned 10 death, but the sentence was later commuted. Lau was involved in the affair, but turned King's evidence.
Mr. G. P. Murphy, Aislant Crown Solleitor, prosecuted, and Li was de tended by Mr. G. She, Instructed by Mr. M. A. da Silva,
The following was the Jury: Messrs. R. 17. Phillips (toreman). M. Zak, J.
:
Big Scale Encounter Details of fighting at both points ure lacking but a big scale encounter is expected.
In the Gudbrands Valley itself the German attacks around Kvam have been supported by planes and artil- fery. They met with energetle British defence.
The British are reported to he holding excellent defensive poul- Ilons centring on a bolileneck in the valley.
Mony German planes have been seen flying north over the Roeros dis- C. Gardiner, Tang King-non, U Shlu-triet indicating that a continuous ki, Chen King-shing and Lau Chuu-stream of troops are being sent to kwok.
Trondheim by alr Five-Minute Retirement
reinforcements south of The Allied Trondheim are still being bombed by Germun Aircraft but anti-aircraft guns are now forcing the raiders to an altitude of 9,000 so that they are
attack
they no longer free to would like.
The Jury returned their verdlet after a retirement of five minutes.
Asked if he had anything to say why sentence of deall should not be passed, Li declared he had no in- tention of murdering Li and man tabred 14 struck him first,
where-
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LONDON, Apr. 20 (Reuier).-A said, was not his.
his address to the Jury, Mr. War Offlec communique issued to-day Murphy, referring to Li's story of an states that the position in the Gud- attack by the deceased, said there brands Valley remains unchanged.
air attacks have evidence
Heavy German by any of the! warders of such an Attack
Dehlingbeen carried out on Andalsnes and with a stalement made by deceased Molde, two towns on the west const
Bergen. before he died, in which he accused the Bus been patrol activity in Li of having stabbed him, Mr. Murphy || There has asked the Jury to believe it for, he the Namsos sector. declared, men who were about to die!
did not commit perjury.
No one, he continued, could have], much liking for an accompilee turned informer, and therefore the Jury might have some sympathy with the prisoner, but he asked them not to let their sympathy defer them from their, duty to the dead and to society..
Defence Submissions
Mr. She dealt at length with the Crown's case, and reminded the Jury that they had to be convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that the accused intended to murder Lau before they could return a verdict of guilty, Suspicion was not enough. Further, they had to be satisfied death resulted from a wound illegally Infleted.
Counsel submitted that death resulted from pneumonia of the right lung and not from the wound. Had there not been pneumonia, which was independently caused, deceased might not have died.
The Jury retired after his Lordship kad summed up the case at length,
Prison For Embezzling
Parson's Plea For Jardino's Clerk
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There is nothing further to report from Narvik,
This
communique confirms sages from Stockholm suggesting that Germans have made no progrezs the G during the past 24 hours.
These reports indicate that in the Gudbrands Valley the German forces are facing strong Allied positions near Otta, which is some miles south of Dombans.
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of the vehicle.
Plo. Nesbit reports that when the
lorry was bending a curve near Stan- ley Beach, Cpl. French lost control of the lorry and the eight men jump- ed out of It
Cal. French was thrown out And received head and body injuries, white Pie, Collins who was late hi leaving the forry received slight in- juries.
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favourable, it was apparent that the atmosphere of deepening determina- tion, which is always felt in England when difficulties are ahead, was most elently seen to be formidable."
The "Dally Telegraph" also stresses the diMculties confronting the Allies in Norway, and after observing that the power of the Aliled
led navies to German communications Interrup
remain one of the major features of the campaign, says:
we are
far from the end yet. The utmost effort the Allies can develop by sea, lund and air will be needed to punish the German outrage on Norway with the crushing defeat it deserves."
ADAM STARTS A WAR AT HOME
LONDON, (UP)-There is WRI between sculptor Jacob Epstein and Charles Stafford, who bought the sensational three-ton Epstein masterpiece "Adam" and is making a for- tune showing it in side shows.
Stafford who was reputed to have hought the statue for £7,000 plans to take Adam to the United States- Insuring for £20,000 against sub- marines and to make £1,000,000 out of its exhibition there.
He has already made as much as
in one £1,000 the Oster Valley the Germans
one day showing it at In the
when it has been on have occupied Roeres but are being Blackpool, since held up several miles beyond it by view in London roads, the destruction of a bridge by the Epstein who
who says
ays that Stafford Norweglans.
only
pold £750 for the statue is furious over the suggestion. Says he resented it being shown at Blackpool and still more resents it being shown In New York where he was born. He considers it a vulgar display.
Some reports state that the Ger- mans have attempted to get motor- cycle units across with the use of rubber bands which the soldiers con drag across the bridge.
Further progress north of Rocros would bring the Germans to the town of Storen, which is south of Trond- heim, and marks the junction of the railways from the Gudbrands and ¡Oster Valleys.
Both Storen and Dombana are in Allied hands.
It is said that the Allies have also taken over positions along the line between the two towna..
Their ability to hold this line will be of great importance if reports of the latest German moves are to be confirmed.
These reports say that the Germans have sent out parties from two points the Oster Valley to cross the moun- tains and cut the line.
There is one quite good motor road which would bring them out not far Koo Ka-ming, clerk of Jardine,south of Storen, although it is pro- Matheson and Co. Lid, who pleaded bably under heavy snow drifts at guilty to six charges of embezzling present. 52,187.94 from his employers, was given nine months' hard labour by Mr. Edwards at the Central Magis-
morning.
troy thaitr
The charges against Koo were that
he embezzled $585.59 on January 25,
this year: $257.15 on September 27, 1938: $391,50 on January 23, 1839; $627 on October 4, 1930; on March 16 and $320.65 on Junuary 20 this year.
Tears In His Eyes
With tears in his eyes, and speaking in English, Koo said he was
very
Battle Near Hjerkin
The statue on show has to be heavily guarded, as one vessel with a chiset could destroy 50 percent of the sensationalisnt in ten seconds.
NORWAY DETERMINED Government Declaration Thanks Allies
Harmar, Apr. 29. The war shall last until the usurpers have been hurled out of the country and Norway is again free, says a declaration by the Govern- nient. It-thanks the British, French and Polish Governments for their ald and says that together these Governments are fighting against tyranny which violates international law and seeks to subdue small na tions. The Norwegian Government trusts that law and liberty will be victorious in the end.
The declaration says that the Ger- Other reports speak of Nazi delach-man onslaught must have been pre-
advance pared long in ments cutting across the country Germans invaded Norway simul-
south of Dombaas. The town of
Hjerkin, a little north of Dombaas, is mentioned in the reports.
there is a talk of an engagement with Reports are still very vague but
Allied troops near Hjerkin and Dom bars.
Nazi main advance up the two main The salient feature is that the
valleys is being held up for the pre- sorry for what he had done, szad sent while he was in his cell he had North of Trondheim both the prayed to the Almighty to forgive Germans and Allies are reinforcing him. He said he was forced to comtheir defence positions just north of mit the offence because his salarySteinkjer.
was not sufficient to meet his family's The vital question for both sides is expenses. Ile begged Mr. Edwards to parden him, saying he would never that of the arrival of reinforcements. commit an offence again.
A communique Issued by the War Office on The Rev. J. R. Higgs said that it Allies had landed more and more Sunday stated that the was a blow to him to learn that Koo tropps at Andalsnes despite air attack. had committed the offences and his Reports from Stockholm state that conduct was disgraceful. He said these reinforcements arc that Koo had come from a respect even more quickly.
arriving
able family and had been educated The Germans "have also" Innded in the best schools of the Colony. more. reinforcements at Oslo, accord- He had known him for six years Ing to a message from Stockholm. and during that time he found him
to be a very nice boy to deal with. Each month he gave his family $50, though his salary was small.
Father A Church Servant
Mr. Higgs said Koo's father had been his church servant for the past
These reinforcements have evad- ed the Allied mines and submarines in the Kattegat but not withou! JOEL
An Admiralty communique issued yesterday reported that three more German supply ships had beon torpedoed and sunk while on their
35 years and had not a blot in way to Norway. character. He said that Koo stole Unofficial Swedish reports tell of the money to help his family, as the the loss of a 3,000 ton ship which is family had always wanted to sendbelleved to have hit a mine between their boys and girls to the
best the Danlılı island of Zealand and the schools in Hongkong. He stole the Swedish coast, money not for his own benefit, said Mr. HIKES but for his family.
He asked Mr. Edwards to take u very lenient view of the case.
Mr. Edwards said that a sister of the defendant went to his residence
last night, and wanted to know what sentence he was going to impose on
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Mr. Edwards sold it was the secondly, were Inaugurated to-day, time that someone paid him a private The 24,500 ton motorship Vulcanin visit regarding a caso, and he wanted left Trieste this morning for South to moke it clear that if anyone America and the 31,000-ton liner, wanted to any anything about
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