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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH IS January 20, 1941.
Shortage Of Meat And Vegetables
FROM PAGE ONE
scorco owing to transportation difficulties and bandit activity,
To-day's Prices
Victim Of
been stolen,
Gang
THAILANDERS OCCUPY TOWNS
FROM PAGE. ONE
French counter-offensive launched on January 15.
Thieves Work Boats Arriving in Hongkong from the country on Saturday with $250, woman, Wong Kit-fan, is now almost a destituto, all her money having
Sanguinary Aghiting took place on The current, average_pricka, per Charged with theft of the $250 and highway in Cambodia as Thal troops and January 10 along the Polpet-Sisophon calty of various kinds of meat are as with unlawfully boarding a vessel, follows:-Boef, 70 cents; pork, $1.05; Cheung Chou 37, unemployed, ap-sought to advance eastward, while mutton, 05 cents; chicken, $1.00, peared before Me E. Himsworth at aerodrome on January 17. An are Thai aircraft bombed the Vientiane ducks, 70 cents. These prices are Kowloon Magistracy. to-day. Ho approximately 20 percent higher denied the theft but admitted the Ullery duel took place in the Savan-
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Wong said that when she was on
than the prices obtaining last week, second charge. although lower than high the gang plank of the steamer th
middle of 1940 when prices soared levels.
•O DOW The normal daily consumption in Hongkong is about 250 cattle and 400 pigs. The new Territories cannot supply any beef or mutton, and can supply only about half the number of pigs required dally.
It is feared that there will be no supplies from Kwangchowwan before Chinese New Year, and only little from Chungshan, so that a real shortage is likely to occur.
Fresh British Successes
FROM PAGE ONE
the right flank of the Italian force holding Kassalo.
the country she lost $250. Tho had brought her to Hongkong from fendant cut her jacket pocket while two of the men who were with him held her arms. The money stolen was handed to another man who ran Defendant malatained that ho did not know that tho
theft had occurred. He had gone aboard the steamer to remove some cargo.
Many Such Casce
nakhet area.
French Communique HANOI, Jan. 20 · (Reuter)="de dis- Thailand advanced unit was persed cast of Polpet by our motoris- ed units" declares Admiral Decoux in a communique adding that on die Mekong River "we have entirely cleared the island of Donesanot, 45 miles south-east of Savannkhet.”
"During Friday night our planes bombed Thasnkon, Kemmarat and Namkhan."
A communique states that on
later January 17, units of the French naval After defendant had been con-
forces on a cruise in the Gulf of Slam victed on the theft charge, Det encountered Thai ships, two of which Sergeant Bethell tolt Mr Himsworth were claimed to have been sunk and there were a lot of these
third casca.a
seriously damaged, without had Wong received the $250 from loss
French. the her brother in Singapore and she was French planes bombed an air field going there. Rosulling from the at Prachinburi, also hangare and thefl, she was now left a destitute. In barracks at Wadhama and Aranya, the Colony.
where large fires were observed.
Despite intense Thal anti-aircraft
all French planes returned. RAIDS ON BRITAIN
Mr Himsworth ordered that slo be given to Wong from the Poor Boxfire
and she was also informed that the Police would try to do something for
R.A.F. Operations CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuter)her. Tobruk, against which the R.A.F. Defendant was sentenced to a total resumed the air offensive on Thurk of lx months' hard labour. He day night, was again raided on Fri-admitted two previous convictions day night.
for unlawful boarding,
A huge fire, states on R.A.F. com- munique, was caused near the petrol Other damage could not be
served owing to the weather con-
ditions but all bombs fell well in the target area.
One Italian bomber was shot down by on Australian squadron.
R.A.F. operations in Italian Enst Africa on, the same night Inéluded the bombing of a large transport yard in Assab, military buildings at Hargeisn in British Somaliland, an enemy camp Ave miics cost of Umm Haggar, where fires were started. and of Asmara.
One British fighter falled to return from patrol in Libya.
LATE NEWS
Lamotte Piquet Sunk, Claims Bangkok
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BANGKOK, Jan. 19 (UP)-The Thai High Command announced to- day that the Thal navy is at present carrying out operations to "destroy
JAPANESE SAID the Indo-China fidel."
TO BE AIDING
Continued From
communique
Glving details of last Friday's naval battle, the communique stated that one French plane was brought down and three French warships sunk.
The
declared: "If the French warships do not come to attacks us again we shall seek them minence to stories from 38 Filipino out wherever they are hiding. survivors of three British vessels It was claimed that the Thai nir sunk by German raiders In the force dropped 250 kilogramme bombs Pacific in December.
thai on the cruiser Lamotto Piquet and
Aunk. The communique present investigating to learn the That losses. The Government is well picased with the Navy's and the Air Force's action."
stating
there are 12 Germini raiders in the that the ship was "We are at
Pacific and that 12 more are being fitted out in Japanese ports.
These survivors, landed last night, described the three raiders which they saw. They said that two are armed with heavy
callbre
guns and that any of the three could hold its own against a light cruiser.
The Narvik, a vessel of about 10,- 000 tons, was enlied a black ship without
any identification marks, carrying 12 four und eight-inch guns with two torpedo tubes, two dive bombers and three Heinkels. The sblp is capable of 22 knots.
The survivors told vivid stories of their ordeal and said that they were well-treated.
Disguised Ships
The other two raiders were bath disguised as Japanese and named Tokio Maru and Manyo Maru, ofi
10,000 and 5,000 tons respectively.
The Manyo Maru is also heavily
armed while, the Tokio Moru serves as a supply ship. -
FROM PAGE ONE.
#rounded both the RAF. and the Luftwaffe during the night.
Quiet Week-End LONDON, Jan. 10 (Bleuler) - Large numbers of raiders to-day approached a south coast town.
Incendiarles were showered on it but fire watchers and others were prepared and many fires were soon extinguished.
Coastal Immunity
LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuter) There was little German air activity "round our consts" during to-day, states the Air Ministry. bombs on an east coast town in the A single enemy bomber dropped
morning but the damage was little and casualties were few.
LONE In
Channel
Jan. 10 (Reuter) After a day, marked only by the shooting down by British fighters of an enemy bember in the Channel, an alert was sounded in London some time after dark
A burst of gunfire was heard soon afterwards but a quiet spell followed. Enemy aircraft were reported near a west England town, à Midlands town and an East Anglian town to night.
No Permit To Move Rice
For Export From Colony
It was further claimed that Thai forces "almost wiped cut the French fifth division yesterday when the French advanced to close quarters
Charged with moving rice by sca where the Thai guns cut them down. without a permit, Leung Chin, 38, a It was stated that the That guns junk taki, was fined $20 by Mr E. took heavy toll until the French re-Himsworth at Kowloon Magistracy treated out of range.
to-day.
Mr C. A. S. Russ appeared for Leung
French planes raided Prachinburl, Chandaburi and "several other pla
places" this morning, declared the commu-
Sergeant G. David said that on Fri- nique, while the Thai air force car-
day he boarded a junk In Causeway rled out reprisals raiding the aero-Bay and saw aboard-18-bags of rice, drome at Siemreap and the military valued at $1,672. Defendant had no warehouses and burracks at Ream.
from permit
the Controller of Prachinburl is 500 miles cast of Food to carry the rice. He admitted Bangkok."
that he was taking the rice to
Shau- kiwan to transfer it to a trading junk for export outside the Colony,
Mr Ruse said that foki had been sent to obtain a licence and in his absence the rice was loaded on the
Food Controller On Pig Shortage
licence would be available to-day.
Mr G. S. Kennedy-Skipton, the junk to be taken to Shaukiwan. The Soldiers Charged With Food Controller, commenting upon fold who had gone to the Imports and
Fraud & Damage the report of a shortage of pigs and
cattie in Hongkong, and reported fur-Exports Onlee had been told that the Two soldiers, Richard Head, 23, ther restrictions imposed on exports Mr Himsworth pointed out that and Ralph. Aldridge, of Nanking from Kwangchowwan, stated this defendant was not charged with ex- Barracks were charged before Mr Eafternoon that the position with reporting the rice but with moving it Himsworth at Kowloon Magistracy gard to the quantities of pigs in the without a permit. this morning with obtaining credit by believed new cargoes of pigs were
Colony was a bit uncertain, but be Mr Russ said that he was pleading aud and three charges of malicious expected before the Chinese New Builty to a technical offence. damage.
Year.
On the first count, defendants So far as cattle was concerned, he SPLENDID PRIZES
were alleged to have obtained credit understood that the high prices de- of $0.50 at the Kowloon Hotel on manded by the Kwangchowwan Saturday by taking drinks, and dealers were chiefly responsible for wiches and cigarettes without in- any shortage there might be in Hong- tending to pay for them. They kong. However, some shiploads of were. further alleged lo have cattle were expected from Bangkok. damaged n wash stand basin to the amount of $25, a door ($10), and a padlock (20 cents).
Defendants dented all the charges and were remanded until Thursday when the case will be heard at 11.30
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