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HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH
Pleading guilty to a summons for
Wharf Trouble Settled Delivery Coolies Back At Work
cutting and removing stones from The labour trouble which arose Tytani Tuk without a permit, the at the Kowloon Wharves as 11 manager of Sun Taf and Company, result of their proclamation as contractors, was fined a nominal sum
Magistracy this morning.
A usual
May 8, 1940: H.K. To See Battle Of Narvik
Graphic News-Reel At The King's
ONE OF THE MOST graphic news-reels Hongkong will be shown at the
ever, screened
in
of sit by Mr. Sheldon at Central as protected area has been peace
fully settled and this afternoon Mr. W. E. Hollands, Public Works the delivery coolles are working King's Theatre as from to Department, said the defendant firm
morrow in conjunction with the was seen blasting stones near the waterworks reservoir, They had no!
It is learnt that the brief disturb. Columbia feature film "U-Boat permit to take any stones away, and jance was due to a misunderstanding 29." there was no saying what' amount on the port of the coolles, who
The news-reel, from British Pura- [would have been inken if they had wharf and Godown Company and not) mount, has been rushed by sir malli
thought that it was not been stopped.
Circumstances Explained
the Government which had imposed to Hongkong as part of the King's Theatre's plan of screening up-to- Mr. M. W. Le pleaded guilty on be-the restrictions.
news-rcels for its half of defendant, and said he wished their number would be thrown out patrons.
Believing that over a thousand of date British to explain the circumstances. There of work, the coolies demonstrated. was no question of damaging any and delivery work ceased as from the news-rects is the Battle of Narvik. An outstanding event recorded in Crown Land at all, and it was through
Monday.
n mistake that failed to apply for a permit,
the Coremin had
the Kowloon
After negotiations, however, the The camera-man filmed the British destroyers forcing their way into shown
The facts, continued Mr. Lo, was/ Labour Officer, Mr. B. C. Hawkins Narvik Fjord, and they are the film had a contract with the War that the misunderstanding had been poundlag and
was able to announcé, this morninsi
as such, is unique and awe-inspiring, the Battle of Narvik in progress and,
torpedoing enemy Department to build 70 concrete shet-
Ix ters all around the Island, and they removed and work would be resum- destroyers and supply ships. It
Neyled.
actually the official British picture of were told to make use of the stones around the altes. Among them were of goods can be made either through The position now is that delivery iwo shelters at Tytam Tul.
could find no stones within to lighters, subject only la the Issue foreman
the godowns or direct from the ships the
site,
and it was his duty to report the matter to his maunger. in this permits by the Godown Company.
cuse, he found the stones in a nullah neur the site, and without telling the manager, helped himself to a small quantity. It was not a great amount, and could not have been worth more than $20.
NEW ADMIRAL OF
THE FLEET
LONDON, May 7 (Reuter).-Lord! Chattleld contpletes his five years service as Adiniral of the Fleet to- day.
FINNS ARE ACCUSED Deliberate Sabotage Alleged By Soviets
in
The Norwegian Campaign
Other shots of the situation in Nor- way will be screened in Hongkong for the first time in this news-reel. Shots of the devastating effect of
bombing German
operations southern Norway are included. the vivid shots are some of tian towns afire, and soldiers secking shelter from bombers in the now-clad ground among a few trees. The news-reel is not confined to happenings in Norway. There are vivid pictures of the front line in France, some being taken as the out- posts in No Man's Land. Outside the ; wire entanglements are to be the
corpses of two German soldiers- qutet on the Western Front. arim reminders that all is not entirely.
SPECIAL TO the "TeleGRAPH" MOSCOW, May 7 (UP).—In a three
column editorial, the Admiral Sir Charles Forbes has Pravda" accuses the Finnish been promoted to be Admiral of the High Command of wanton viola- | Fleet in succession to Lord Chalfield. ition of the terms of the peace shots of Budget Day in London,
Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North
has been promoted to be an Admirni, pact, and also with deliberate destruction of industrial pro-
Axis Partners In perty and territories ceded to
Conference
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
the Soviet Union.
Photographs Recompanying the [editorial" Hlustrate the shumbles left Keysholm where machines have ROME, May 8 (UP). The German been destroyed and cellulose and Minister for Communications, Julius Paper plants dismantled. Dorpmuller, arrived in Rome last nlight.
revenled.
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VOROSHILOV'S NEW JOB
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MOSCOW, May 8 (UP)-It Is oficially annouriced that Marshal Voroshitov, Defence Commissar of Subtle Promeditation
the U.S.S.R., has been relieved of The scope of his visit has not been Alleging that material evidence (his post.
He proves that the explosions in the
suceceded by Marshal Simultaneously the Italian Minister plants were caused internally, the Timoshenko, previously Commander for Culture arrives in Berlin to-day, editorial charges that a barbarian lof the Kiev Specini Area,
Marshal Voroshilov has been named He will remain for several days at herde operated in some places, while. The Invitation of Dr. Goebbels.
elsewhere the wreckers worked with Asalsiant Chairman of the Counell of subtle premeditation.
Peoples' Commissars and Chairman of the Council's Committee for Defence. The Presidium has conferred the miiltary title of Marshni on Grigory Kulk and Boris Shaposhnikov.
LATE NEWS
NEW YORK, May 8 (Keuter).-- The total number of Allied troops evacuated from Andalsnes was 4,764, according to a Washington report in the New York "Herald-Tribune."
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Further charges that the Finns removed all vital accessories from the plant before they placed more than a thousand pounds of explosives.
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Holland Calls Up Reserves
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" THE HAGUE, May 7 (UP)—
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morrow,
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