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17th Tuesday, tho
and 18th February, (Race Meeting).
Hongkong, 11th February, 1941.
THE SPORTS CLUB
-SELLING LOTTERIES
REMINDER
are
Members
that reminded Selling Lotteries will be conducted -Chinese Claims at the Club TO-DAY, commencing un tho following CHUNGKING, Feb. 12 (Central at 5.30 p.m News) Chinese mines hit and sankracen:- a1 Japanese war vessels In the
The Hong Kong Derby, Yangtse River last year, announced
Admiral Chen Shao-kwan, Chlef of
The Rooty Hill Dorby and Sports
Naval Headquarters, in the review of Club Cup. Chinese naval operations for 1940,
10 inrge
The Austral Derby.
Among the mix medium-sized
ships destroyed Members' friends, including transports, aine medium-sized war-tailles, are cordially invited.
were were
Inunches, six large
43 steam
two merchants, and one steamer. Japanese ships dainnged or whose
destruction has not been confirmed are not included. Admiral Chen said that there is really no way
ascertaining the of quantity and value of military sup piles and ordinary carge which went. to the bottom. The figures, when known, must be staggering. Be-
tween
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DETENCE REGULATIONS 1940
The following rates will be charged for malling single coples the following newspapers
2,000 and 3,000 Japanese soldiers were drowned, though the of total number of lives lost must be abroad:-- higher.
Despite Japanese vigilance, Chinese naval guerilica slipped through enemy lines and laid eluse to 1,000 mines in the Yangte River throughout the.
year.
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lining the aims of
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Service Movement outlying territories, Arina, Director-General National Service Association told a conference of colonial officials, "It is the object of the National Service Association to bring home to the people Government plans and to cat understand make the Governing the people's desires and, thereby enable the entire nation to bend their efforts for the realisation of the national polley in soild unlly and co- operation,'
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MISREPRESENTATION
What solicitor for the plaintiff described as a novel case was brought before Mr^Justice E. H. Williams at the Summary. Court this morning, when a young woman sued a middle-aged man for damages for alleged misrepresentation.
in
Mr M. A. da Silva represented plaintiff, and defendant appeared in
person.
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Plaintiff was Lai Kwai-chan, [pared to allow the amendment at under the Protection of Women and of 202 Lockhart Road, and she this stage because it was of vital Girls Ordinance of 1938,"
to defendant to know Importance claimed $1,000 from Li Man-chu, what he was being sued for before- proceedings been taken?
Ha Lordship: Have no criminal of Man. Kwok Garage, 439 Hen-hand, especially in view of the fact Mr Silva: No.
His Lordship: But that in the nessy Road, alleging that he had that he was not legally represented. induced her to marry him by hmpression at first was that the usual custom? false pretences.
clalm was for breach of contract of
Point of Law marriage but on looking through the writ he found that plaintiff was mora felony then criminal proceedings Mr Silva. Where the crime in
ried.
must, be taken frut but Anomaly of Local Law'
this case the offence is a misde- Bangkok Statement of Claim,
Mr Silva pointed out that the calm mennour. Trespass of a person in ¦ Batavia According to the statement of was not founded upon contract but the case of assault, it made the sub-embay accomp.; Dawn (Matt); Sunset (Matt)
Calcutta The London Palladium Orchestra clan, defendant offered to many upon tort. The facts of the case, heject matter of criminal proceedings. Agencies: cond. by Richard Crean; Love, I Give plaintiff in February, 1940, represent said, were of a man who entered into is deburred from the clyli courts. 1:1 Clive Street You My All (Luana-Besly)....ing himself as an unmarried man and marriage with a girl by false pre- other words, If you sued a person Fairlin Place Kuching
Canton the Police Court, Cawnpore Derek Oldham (Tenor) with Orches- a bachelor. In reilance of that pre-tences. A child, was born and the for assault in tra; Katja the Dancer-Wallz (Gil sentation, plaintiff entered into
deserted @man subacquently
the whether you obtain conviction or bert)....The London Palladium Or- marriage contract with defendant on woman.
not, the person prosecuted cannot bo Colombo March 2. chestra cond. by William Pether
A child was subsequently "It is one of the anomalies," went sued again in civil proceedings.. The 1 Local Time Signal and Weather born, and it was discovered later tunt on Mr Silva, "of the laws of this type of offence in question is Report.
defendant was in fact a married man Colony that if the marriage had been nitely a fort in the sense that it is 1.03 Arthur Askey in Variety. at all material times. Because of the fù proper one, insofar on the girl was in trespass on the person, 1.30
Kit-fat wife, she would Reuter and Rugby Press, "marriage," plaintiff had expended married as
HIA Lordship: Even if she is a Announce- Weather Forecast and ments.
$404.30 on furniture and clothing, and have the remedy of suing in the consenting party? ihla amount constituted part of her Police Court for a separation on the Mr Stivn: If she is willing then
Fone 1.45 Les Allen (Baritone) and
claim.
ground of desertion and obtain main-there could he no question of injury, Primo Scala's Accordeon Band,
On but if her willingness had been ob- 2.15 Clase Down.
that he was not clear what the claim the other hand, as
your 5.45 Indian Programme,
was for as in her affidavit plaintiff (well aware, there is no remedy in ber_willingness, had stated that she was a spinster this Colony for an unmarried
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At the outset, His Lordship said tenance for herself and Cdship Istained by fraud that fraud negatives Local Currency and Sterling with interest
The
0.30 Closing Local Stock Quota-
mo- Mr Silva quoted an authority in tlons.
0.32 Compositions of Mendelssohn,
while in the statement of claim the ther to obtain maintenance for her support of this submission but witen
illegitimate child. Another
asked by His Lordship if he could finomaly Overture Fingal's Cave, Op. 20 word "marriage" was mentioned.
Mr Silva replied that the mistake of the laws of this Colony is that, produce a civil ente based on it he The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra cond, by Sir Adrian
was an unfortunate one and suggest-as far as the Chinese are concerned, admitted he could not find any. Duetto
ed that the writ be amended by the bigamy is not a felonious crime, but submission, he added, was a novel Songs without Words"); Venc- | (from inn
substitution of "contract" or "result, as in the present case, there has one, and so was the case.
that the Is Lordship then adjourned the without Words'....Lionel Teriis tant ceremony" for the word "mar- been a misrepresentation
riage."
girl is being married as a kit-fat wife, cose sine die for the amendment to Orchestra (Viola) Variations Scrieuses, Op. $4....AL-
His Lordship said he was not pre- it would constitule n misdemeanour be made. fred Cortot (Piano).
the
with-
accomp.:
7 London Kelay-The News. 7.15 London Relay Questions of
Hour
7.38 Carroll Gibbons (Piano) nud His Boy Friends.
8 Loen Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Schumann-Overture 'Man-
fred, Op. 115.
The U.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
8.15 Studio Local Newsletter.
8.30 Variety.
General Pai's Statement On
Bias Bay And South
Fighting
CHUNGKING, Feb. 13 (Central News).---Only fighting on a small scale is tak-
9 London Relay-The News and ing place in the Bias Bay area, according to General Pai Chung-hsi, Vice-Chief of
News Commentary.
9.30 "Nights At The Ballet." Symphony Walter Gochr.
10.05 Elgar Sonata in E Milnor for' Violin and Piano, Op. 82.
Orchestra conducted by
1st Mov. Allegro; 2nd Mov. Ro- monct-Andante: 3rd Muv. Allegro non troppo....Albert Sammons (Vio- In) and William Murdoch (Piano).
10.30 Songs by Dennis Noble
(Baritone).
The Organ Blower (McGill-Bar- ker); -U.All (Teschemacher-Sonder- sou....with Piano accomp.; Just Me ant Mary (Parr-Murray)... with Or chestra accomp.
10.40 Marck Weber and His Or- chestra,
Danish M.T.B.S For. Nazis
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General Staff. General Pai said that the Japanese landed at Tuntowwan and Aotow and pushed to Tamshui and Pingwu for the purpose of cutting Chinese communication between Waichow and Hongkong.
POSTMAN'S FAULT Caught Taking Letters
war
Referring to the military while thousands of rifles and other operations in south Ionan, military supplies tell into Chinese General Pai said that the hands. Japanese advancing perilously
Forced March fell into the Chinese encircle- ment.
According to a Japanese They aimed at dealing a blow upon march for a full week with little rest. captive, the Japanese made a forced the Chinese muln force but after pushing as far as Wuyang, they failed Owing to the shortage of provisiona, to locate it and found their supply many of them did not get anything route cut and their flanks of Sinyang, to cat for three days, while all Kloshan, Chengyang and Miyang shivered in the cold because of their subjected to severe attacks, · ·
clothing. He admitted that their fighting strength was low.
In an effort to extricate themselves. the Japanese, General Pai revealed,
thin
rencies at rates which will be quoted on.
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POST OFFICE
He further revealed that following A postman named To Yuk, tried to return to Sinyang by a de- the defeat in south Honan, a part of employed at the General Pust Offlez,
Lour passing through Faucheng, Japanese troops were sent to Canton sentenced to six months impri-
The money order Omer Publie was sets G. T. Lowry at Nanyang, and Tenghe, but they were by way of Hankow. This movement counter will be open from 10.00 am. of troops together with documents to noon only on 17th, 18th and 10th Central Magistracy this morning, intercepted, and heavily attacked on
seized in the wreckage of the Japan- February, 1941. when he plended
to two the way. guilty of letters und
ese plane brought down in Chung- charges of larceny
General Pal claimed that the shan in the opinion of General Pal postal packets at the G.P.O.
Japanese suffered staggering losses. substantiated reports and February 11,
of Japanese February 8 and
on
A particularly daring robbery was effected early this morning when a
"The Quaker Girl"-Waltz (Monck- (Domel)-The thief either climbed a drain pipeton); At The Tchaikowsky Fountain- than 60 feet high, or clambered Fantasia (Urbach); Tales from the this afternoon by 1,000 representatives on to a root and then made a 10-foot Vienna Woods Waltz (Strauss). of the society in a rally at the Uyeno, leap, afterwards forcing his way
11 Close down. Purks.
through a window of the top Hoor of Sponsors of the new organisation No. 27e Nathan Road, and stole $114 Include Mr Chuji Machida, former in cash from wallets belonging to
Pine and President of the defunct Minseite, Messrs P.
Okenfuli Hongkong largest political Party; Mr Chikuhel the
Naval Dockyard. "When the gletins of the intruder Nakajima, former president of the defunci Seiyukai; Ms Kenzo Adachi, awoke this morning they found that former president of the defunct their wallets Kokumin-Demelj-al-Mr-Kiyoshi their coats and the money c Akita, Overseas Minister and former
The dar
daring of the thief Speaker of the House of Representa-by the fact that his only entry into tives; 50 members of the House of the room was through a window to
Mr Fitches said that defendant was Pecra including Mr Hachisaburo reach which he
Climb had either to
Danish fleet, stated that Germanya mall sorter and was seen by drain pipe nearly 70 feet from the Hirao, former Minister of Education, a
had recently requested Denmark of letters to the censor's office on the Indian supervisor to take a basket Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, Baron ground, or alternatively to clamber Twakusu Ida, Doctor Mannosuke on to an adjoining roof and then temperarily to place a number of second floor. He returned. with the | Yamaoka, Mr Choichiro Tokulomi, make a 10-foot leap across of 70-foot
Danish torpedo boats at Germany's empty basket and went to the lava- disposal, and to that Denmark had tory where the supervisor saw him tlac drop. Generals on the veteran Journalist; 60 Gene
agreed, Police declare that robberies in this
with four Ictiers. Defendant was in retired list including General Takashi Hishikari, General Jinzaburo Mazaki, area of Kowloon have become pre- It was stated that the guns had the act of opening one and
Shigemoto
Oi, Lieut-Gen. vaient lately and residents are taking been removed from the torpedo beats apprehended threw the others on the
which are now being used by the floor. Ishizaki, Lieut-Gen. Ich more and more precautions, erecting Zenz
German navy, mainly for training! Inouye, Lieut-General Makoto Satoh, barbed wired obalacies in an effort Lieut-Gen. Junich! Sanzo, and to deter the miscreants.
purposes in the Baltic Sea, Major-General Chiyomatsu Oka; 20 Adinirals on the Retired List, includ-
Admirni Elguke Vice-Admiral Count Chosei Ogasa-
BERLIN-Feb-12-(UP):-Authoriz}Mr_D_C_W_Eltches of the G.P.O.. Upon their withdrawal from Nanyang preparations for an imminent south- pararily suspended:-Yunnan, Sze-
ed German quarters, when question-assisted by Det-Sergeant W. Suin-they-destroyed-more-than-300-lorries--ward push. ed regarding the London reports that mers, prosecuted, Germany had
requisitioned
ing
Yamamoto,
wars, titid
ZOO RECEIPTS FALL
Londen Zoo receipts last year to Rear-Admiral Taneli the end of October were £20,242, a Sosa, and other lending publleist fu- | drop of £38,829 on the average re- cluding Taketor Ogata, director of the {welpis for this period during the five Asahi Shimbun chala of newspapers. | pre-war years.
Residents
Fined
For
Gambling Offences
the
X-rayed 11 times for STOMACH TROUBLE
Picced Together
CO
when
In the search that followed, the pieces of a large envelope were | tound in the lavatory. They were pieced together and the addressee,
sald That interviewed, when woman's straw handbag containing silk underwear had been mailed in it. A handbag and woman's R
Do you suffer with your stomach? lingerie answering the description Do you know the nagony
of wind, were found In defendant's howe. Indigestion and stomach sickness? If These were exhibited in court with an, read the letter below, and follow the letters. the good advice it contains,
to six In sentencing defendant "I have been a very bad sufferer months imprisonment on cach. with my stomach for nearly six years," large, the sentences to run concur- writes Mr. J. H: "I have tried hundreds rently, Mr Lowry said. "The publicj of remedies but have never had any must be protected from people like thing to do me as much good as your you." powder. I attended hospital a long me; they put me under X-ray 11 times and gave me lots of medicine, but never told me what my trouble was. I have not been able to eat o, decent meal
China's Finances
to
Three gambling raids carried out simultaneously by detec- tives from the Water Police Station under the charge of Bet-
for nearly six years—but I am glad to CHUNGKING, Feb, 13 (Reuter),~~ Sergeant Estall resulted in 39 people being charged last night.ely that after taking only three China's total domestic indebtedne
Thirty-six of them appeared absent, hnd their bail of $10 each bottles of Maclean Brand Stomach since the commencement of the pre- before Mr E. Himsworth at Kow-estreated whilst those in Court were Powder 1 can now eat a good meal sent war amounts to $1,778,000,000 or igures loon Magistracy to-day one of each fined $3 or serve 10 days in without getting any pain. I shall ai- less than $20 per capita of the
ways recommend anybody suffering population, according prison. them, Chan Yuk, 38,
a fruit
Mir 11imsworth ordered that the powder."
froin stomach trouble to take your published in a financial review
leased here. hawker, was charged with keep- $23 that had been picked up by the
Maclean Brand 'Stomach Powder (or
This review states that the amount ing a common gaming house on Pallee during the raid be given to tablets) will do the same for you. In of Chinn's domestle loans outstanding
the Poor Box. the ground floor of 32 Haiphong
hundreds of cases it has succeeded
on the
the eve of the war was $1,300,- The game of po tse had been play-when all other means have falled. Road.
ed on the premises, it was said,
000,000. Other Offenders 2 *filose Amongst
with charged gambling were Mra J. Ellis, Mrs In Mr. K. M. A. Barnett's Court at Almeda, Mrs Ning M, Toblas, Feli-Kowloon Magistracy Ma Kwong, 31, elsing Gadchallan, a musicton, Jan was fined $50 or serve two months' Mohained, 50, a railway guardsman, hurd labour on a charge of keeping bottles. The tablets are available in
a goming house for the purpose of bottles or fat tins, and Abraham, a railway watchman,
Be sure to nak for MACLEAN BRAND, Stomach Powder, which is only genialne if the almature ALEX C. MACLEAN" appears on carton and der is never sold loose, but only in bottle. Maclean Brand Stomach Pow
Mrs Tobias, Mohamed and Abra- tag a lotteries on the first floor of If you have any difficulty in obtaining ham pleaded not guilty, but were No. 1d, Austin Road, convicted after ovidenco heard,
had been
Pleading guilty, Ma sald that he had been employed to write out the lottery tickets and earned a salary of F0 n mentli.
Dot.-Sergeant Estall said that the
Fun Pul, 34, and Pun Nom, 60, gambling house had been In exis tence for some considerable time and were charged with a similar offence several altempls had been made to after they had been arrested on the cluse. It up. Yesterday evening three first floor of No. 39, Austin Road. houses in Halphong Road were rald-They were each fined $40, and or- ed simultaneously. Complaints huddered to prison for two months in beon made about this gambling place, default of payment.
He had been instructed to ask for a Pun Pul said, that formerly he was heavy penalty to be imposed. Chan a clerk of the Chinese-Laundry was fined $200, being on bail of Association and the second man $280. Three gamblers who were stated that he had been a house boy.
it from your local chemist or store write to:-Danker & Co, P.O. Box 755, Hong Kong
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Petain At The Riviera
VICITY, Feb. 12 (Reuter)—Mar- shal Petain arrived at Cagnes-Mer on the French Riviera to-day in the special train in which he left here' the previous night..
After leaving the station, he went to his estate at Villeneuve-Loubet on the const rond about nine miles from Nice. At mid-day, Marshal Petsin. left his estate for the Cognes station whero, in a private coneli, he receiv ed officials and friends.
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