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YOU'LL JUST MAKE THE OTHER CHILDREN UNHAPPY BECAUSE
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I WON'T
SAY A WORD - ABOUT IT!
December 20, 19403
By Ernie Bushmiller
ARMS CASE CONTINUES
After further evidence had been heard by Mr G. T. Lowry at Central Magistrany yesterday, the caso in which Henry Choa, 37, broker. Is charged with obtaining $12,500 and $2,000 by false pretences from Wong Bor of the Hongkong Sporting Arms Company, was adjourned until De- cember 23.
Mr W. A. Mackinlay appeared for the prosecution while Mr F. La Zim- mern appeared for Chon.
The prosecution alleges that Choo, in a transaction with complainant's firm and the Central Trust of Chinn involving 100 alrernft machine-guns valued at G$100,005, hnd received sums of money amounting to $12,300 and $2,000 which should have been handed over to the Central Trust of Ching but in fact had not.
evidence
It was also alleged by
by the prosecu- tion that, following enquiries, it was disclosed that the Central Trust had neither demanded nor received the money paid to Choa, who at first
admitted
retaining the money but later denied it, saying the
had money been paid over.
yesterday, Mr L Chung-bo sald he WAS present at most of the negotiations, and ques- tioned by Mr Zimmern, said he did not at any time see complainant hand money over to defendant. Ilo add- ed that complainant had told him (Li) that he had given defendant $2,000 to be paid to the Central Trut as part of their commission. Li sald he had been informed' by complain- ant that the contract related to the buying of machine-guns. Apart from that he did not know anything about
the tranin, sub-manager of tho
Mr Henry
purchasing department of the Central Trust of China, said he had asked complainant to quote his terms for 100 aircraft machine-guns as ho was under the
the impression that complain- ant's firm were the South China
of
SOVIET DAM-A hugh electro-chemical plant is being built by Russia to fortilize the cotton plantations of Contral Asia. It's on Chirchik river, not far from Tashkent, in the Uzbek Republic. Above is a view of settling canal. A modern town has been built near the site
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Sinclair Says Goering Is
agents for Colt Arms Company United States. On July 15, the con- tract was elmed with a condition that the contract was subject to con- firmation by the Chungking Govern- ment. The following day Instrue- tions were received from Chungking
SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, Secretary for Air, said recently that if the to suspend the contract owing to the closure of the Burma Road. Some R.A.F. were to divert its forces from military objectives to reply in kind to the Ger-
man air attacks upon civilians London would be betrayed.
Disgracing His Uniform
time in November the contract was destroyed.
Witness added that throughout the negotiations he was under the im- pression that defendant was a part- ner in complanant's firm.
Sir Archibald, who was speaking at a luncheon in London of the National Defence Public Interest Committee, announced that in air fighting generally since August 8 we had lost 621 machines and the Germans 1,867. Our losses in air crews were fewer than 600; the German lossce amounted to about 4,000.
"Goering," he said, "is bringing disgrace upon his uniform | ctuel and harassing and more diffleult and upon the service which he commands by launching that to deal with. Is it an insoluble *** service in savage and indiscriminate attacks upon the civilian problem? Not at all--we are mak-
population of this country and upon our King and Queen.
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"Unable to destroy our Air Force 20,000 or 25,000 feet, unloading "The German almen will find or to sink our Navy, he tries to their bombs aimlessly and Indis- that their reception here is increas- runchy behind the backs of our fight criminately; they came down much ingly, warm, as indeed they have ing forces to break the spirit of our lower and directed their bombs with already found over London, and workers and to terrorise London. deadly alm at the centres of German am able to look forward to a time
"He ought to know, and he will naval, military and air power.
when the pleasure of night bombing soon learn, that against the assaults Some people say that we ought over Britain and of blowing to of tyranny the people of London to repay the Germans in kind for pieces. a number of humble London' ever stand steadfast and unshaken. their attacks upon our civilians," homes will cease to be attractive to
"Wretched Man"
Sir Archibald said.
|Field-Marshal Goering and his aerial
minions."
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"That wretched man is only seal-
"The truth is that it would be a
GRAND DUCHESS OF LUXEMBURG
ing his own doom, for he is binding betrayal of the suffering people of the whole nation together in a com- London to divert any of our re- mon loyalty to their King and tourees from military objectives. Queen, who share the sufferings and
we split our bombs in- the dangers of their people, and fately on the houses of the
derce determination, not only to German civilians how would that The Grand Duchess of Luxemburg defend our shores, but to reach out protect our own? That slogging arrived in London from Lisbon re- and destroy the nests of criminals match might go on for months, cently and was met by M. Classen, In Berlin and Rome who keep merely spreading misery In both the Duchy's consul in London, who Europe in misery and chaos,"
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When German troops invaded the Our own bombers, Sir Archibald
Duchy on May 10 she escaped with said, were striking deep Into Ger. Sir Archibald said that recent air her husband, Prince Felix, and their many and Kaly, or masking up the battles by day have shown that, we six children into France, When chips and barges collected in the are well-utmost miraculously-pro-France collapsed they went to Spain ports of France and the Low Coun-i lected against 'attack.
and later to Portugal. It was report- tries for the invasion of Britain. "Bombing by night is less danger- ed in July that Prince Felix and the
They did not cruise about ataus because less nccurate, but it in children had left for America,
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