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Wireless Offences
Offence Revealed
OBJECTIVE
Spoils At Waichow And
Poklo Sought SHIUKWAN, May 10 Sum Hing-chung, 32, reporter of
(Inter- the Kwok Ming Tong, was charged
national)-A high staff officer re- A 67-year-old widow, Lam Yun, turning from the East River front before Mr G. T. Lowry at Central was charged before the Pulsne Judge, revealed that about 25,000 Japanese Magistracy this morning with род
of wireless transmitters and Criminal Sessions this morning with are dep Walchow and Poklo, which Mr Justice P. E. F. Cressall, at the troops of the South China command
in the present opera receiving apparatus
without the the possession of a die and block tions In
permit
the or intended for
production of a and mark resembling that used by the are now enveloped by Chinese forces preparatory to a counter-offensive. Superintendent of Imports Ex- The informant discounted the ports
Government for opium so as to
prepared sibility of an enemy push to Shiu- to constitute a colourful kwan, imitation thereof, at
believing that the nt Kowloon
present April 16. She denied the charge,
thrusts are intended largely to seize the heavy accumulation of goods at The following Jury was empanell- Walchow and Poklo awaiting export ed: Mesere P. A. Waller (foreman), to the United States and Soviet B. Poonawalla, J. Tanzy, W. Russia. Tillery Γ. Λ.
A. Gill, Chan Sun-ying and Lau Chi-cheung.
necessary Icence, sale letter of exc
of exemption, m working the wireless and possession private codes. Luk Kam-wah, 23, master of the Tal Chung Stationery Shop, was charged with maintaining and working the wireless transmitters, and together witi Luk Kam-fu, 18, student, was charged with possession of secret
codes.
and
ON
Dog-
Mr J. Reynolds, Crown Counsel, Surrender Of Duke
Of Aosta
prosecuted. He said that about 9.30. p.m. on April 10, Revenue Officer W. V. Ahern and Chinese Revenue Officer Wong Chuen-fuk carried out
FROM PAGE ONE
Mr D. W. Waterton, Senter In- spector of Wireless, prosecuted, and Mr P. H. Sin, appeared for Defen- danis.
Mr Waterton and that at 10.30 am, on April 28, the Police acting on Information raided No. 98 Robina rald on the second floor of 240 son Road, second floor and discover- Temple Street. They were admitted ed one big wireless transmitter coin-
com to the Roor by a women (not plete with receiving apparatus in the dant) and going to the rear front cublele, two portable small | saw n
bed. The man was operating ehicle
and another big wireless board
machine, while there was card- transmitter in the rear cubicle. The board box in front of the woman. two portable wireless transmitters It contained small lead tubes which were found to be unserviceable. Also were stamped at the end with the found were spare parts of the wire- letters "HK". She was seen to be less transmitters and several secret holding one of these tubes, and aps codes. On the person of third De-peared to be examining the end of it. fendant was found one secret cod. There WOR 2 basket containing book.
similar tubes by the side of the man, but they were not stumped,
wireless transmillers in the middle had man and Defendant Awe Amma and Lake district to es-
Mr Waterton asked His Worship to take a serious view of the matter as this kind of offence had been og- curring very frequently lately.
Plea of Guilty
Mr Sin pleaded guilty on behalf of Defendants but said that the muxi- mum penalty should not be imposed on Defendants since they had not done anything withi the wireless
man
Results of Search
on cape has thereby been cut off unless
they take to the bush.
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However, the Italians now have a particulin aversion to the bush owing to terror of the patriot forces, who are now lurking there.
Nevertheless, this district is nonrly the size of England and it may take some time to crush the enemy's re- sistance unless they follow the Viceroy's example and throw up the
sponge.
Gondar Area
of the Sudan Defence Force have CAIRO, May 19 (Reuter) —Units occupied an important sector in the Gondar area and in South Abyssinin have captured on important junction.
officers.
road
The room was searched and the Revenue Officers found alx moulds, four blacks and other tools on the table on which stood the machine the a was operating. A die and block with the letters "HK" engraved
Eight hundred prisoners were on them was also found. Beneath taken, Including colonels and stair the bed was a rolling-machine which could be used for stamping the
Position In Libya lubes. The
officers further dis- covered
In Libya, there is no change at a press and a
dish contain-Tobruks while the situation in Basru ing lend and lead tubes,
The machine was later found to be and Habbaniyah remalas unchanged. In the south of Sollum, two enemy able to produce a goed imitation of columns, supported by tanks, crossed tubes used by the Hongkong Gay- crnment for selling prepared oplum.
transmitters that might endanger the
Hongkong, the Government C safety of or the Republic of China. Defen-u uants probably belonged to some or- ganisation but the fact that they were very frank about the affair showed that they did not know the
seriousness of the offence,
The two separate charges of pos- session and malalaining were of the same nature and should be consider- ed ns single count.
Accidental Act
The charge against third Defendant was really a technical one since he was not at all connected with the business of first two Defendants. He was the brother of second Defendant, and it happened that on that day he vislied his brother and accidentally put a private code book in his pocket.
Mr
Made In Singapore
the frontier, but were driven buck. Duke of Aosta LONDON, May 10 (Reuter).—The H. A. Taylor, Government Duke of Aosta hinsel will surrender Monopoly Analyst, sald that the at noon to-morrow with his coff oplum and tubes sold by the Gov- officers, crnment were made and packed in Singapore, and were of two sizes. Those found in Temple Street were the smaller size.
Questioned by his Lordship, Mr. Taylor said that there was a great demand for oplum and the tubes found by the Revenue Officers could be sold clicap.
Duce Consulted
Duke of Aosta
LONDON, May I (Reuter).—The and Mussolini ex- changed messages before the surren de of Amba Alagi.
The Duke,
after showing that surrender was no longer avoidable, said, according to the Rome radio: "I am comforted in this tragic and sad moment with the certainty of having done all that, is humanly
זיי
His Worship agreed with Mr Sin Defendant declared, she knew that
the two separate charges of nothing about the matter. She was possession and maintaining were of the same nature, and allowed with-street-sleeper and was offered a possible. But the war is not finished.
Job as a drawal of the charge of maintaining position, and was only on the floor once
cook. She accepted the Soon we
we shall return to these lands, more drenched with Ile considered this kind of offence as
three days.
blood for the
of our count very serious and Defendants we
The Jury returned a verdict of Il Duce replied: "You and your fortunate not to be sent to prison.
Aulliy after On the charge of
a retirement of ten soldiers have fought heroically. The Hallan people have followed your confiscation of the wirelesson tite minutes."
transmit- ters was ordered. First and second Kwan Wan 18,
Two men, Lara Yun-choi, 22, and stand with admiration and share Defendants were each fined $1,000
unemployed, your certainly for the future." who had pleaded guilty to the same
or three months' hard labour on the
charge of working the wireless trans- mitters and $1,000 or three months on the count of possession of private codes, the sentences to run consecu- tively. A fine of $1,000 or three months hard labour was imposed on the third man.
LATE NEWS
Graceful Gesture
To Churchill
SHANGHAI, May 20 (Reuter).- With 52,000 signatures attached, a telegram from Chinese residents in Shanghai to Mr Winston Churchill, expressing respect, sympathy and a strong determination to fight for the
bath
indictment earlier, were then brought Britain Must & Will
up for sentence.
Sentences
Is Lordship told the men that it was clear the flat was a factory for making tubes to the detriment of the Government. He sentenced them) to a year's hard labour.
The woman was sentenced to four months hard Jabour. His Lordship remarked that he did not think she had so much to do with the affair as the men, and hoped that sentence would be a lesson to her.
the
U. S. Flying Accident
Four Airmen Dead
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SAVANNAH, Ga. May 10 (UP). Local Army officials to-day an- nounced that Second Lieutenants
Receive The Goods
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goods' needed in the defence of the Allies, saying: "We must produce free-way of life. We inust see that these goods reach the armies of the democracies, I am confident we will. We will unite in the support of any and all measures to achieve these purposes."
Mr. Rockefeller denounced politica? control in foreign trade and asserted that after the war, "a compromise would be unthinkable."
He
Who would have trade with Hitler would be compelled to do so on Hitler's terms. He would be compelled deliberately to close his eyes to the coupling of commerce with political penetration. We want, and need, foreign trade, but
not that kind of trade which is used by the totalitarian Powers as levers for political domination."
common cause of the two nations, is Frank B. Halston of Pittsburgh and China Seeks More
two
Rain,
Arms By Barter
expected to be handed over to the Alien J. Moore of Reno, Nevada, local British authorities shortly for Sergeant David L. Boyd of Frost, dispatch to London.
Texas, and Corporal Herbert C. The telegram and the signatures Prucit of Collinsville, Missouri, were have already been elaborately mount- killed in collision between
CHUNGKING, May 16 (Inter- ed by the sponsors of the movement, Army namely the Chinese-American daily South
light bombers ncar
national)-It was revealed here that on the night of May 16, -Dr H. H. Carolina. and one of the leading pro-Chung-flying in a formation of six en route
The planes were Kunk, the Finance Minister, called King dailles here, and there may be a public exhibition of the artistically prepared document before its dis- patch.
The document is reported to mea- sure three feet in width and 30 feet In length, and Is, covered with the signatures, and red seals of famous- people in all walks of life. It also contains many complimentary phrases written by the signatories in appre- ciation of the British leader and
people. The telegram Itself.
is
written by a well-known callgraph- ist.
Axis Powers To Suffer
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, May 19 (UP)
Congress, by enacting the Reynolds-
on Mr Alexander S. Panouchkine, the
to Langley Field, Virginia, from Soviet Ambassador, with a view to Savannah when one plane crash
seeking further Soviet war materials and burned. Lieutenant Moore was by extending the present barter
illed in trying to parachute.
Soviet Forms
Home Guard ·
MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuter).-The Soviet Union, which originated the teclinique of parachute soldiers, bas taken a leaf out of Britain's defence book
in co-opting civilian defence against this new form of
warfare. The Soviet radio stated to-day that 13,000 miners were among a large
agreements.
An agreement was reached in prin. ciple between the two parties, al- though the Soviet Ambassador has to refer the matter to Moscow. With the arrival of a large shipment of Soviet war materials and warplanes Inst month, more such assistance is sought.
Sino-Soviet relations are very cordial, being unaffected by the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
SHOT AT FROM
TRAWLER
Kan Kwan, 32, junk fpki, was” nu- mitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from a gunshot wound in the left hip. In a state- ment to the Police Kan said that he was shot at by Japanese from a irawler near Hau lol, Chinese Territory, two days ago,
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derer of citizens who took part in exercises in the important May resolution applying the export industrial centre of Stalino (formerly control bill to territories and posses Hughesobka), sions of the United States, made Parachutists unsuccessfully tried to possible the application of new
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LONDON, May 19 (Router) -The into gylcerine, gunpowder, plastica
Because the Police offered no Financial Secretary of the Treasury other and many
essentials.
evidence against Tan King-yuk, 24, stated to-day that the total increase Chan Piu, alias Lam Pul, 20, unmarried woman, of 87 Austin Road, in taxation since the autumn of last Hemp is a Philippine monopoly and as a raw material cannot be sub-employed, was at Criminal' Sessions second door, Tsimshatsui district, she year. Involved, £760,000,000. stituted for rope which is a vital item lo-day sentenced to two years hard was discharged by Mr Q. T. Lowry in ship operations and many Indus-tering a forged $10: banknote of the on summons for throwing corrosive Chamber of Commerce.
labour on each of two counts of utat, Central Magistracy this morning He was addressing the London Chartered Bank at Kowloon on acid at Wel Kwok-lim, Manager of April 2 and with posscasion of two the Hsin Yah¦ News Agency, at such notes on April 4, the sentences Wyndham Street, in front of Mom-. -to-run; concurrently
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Coming To China
CHUNGKING, May 10 (Reuter);~~- Brigadier-General Claggett, Com- under-in-Chief of the United States Air Force in the Philippines, who is at present in Chungking,, has, dented any knowledge that American yolunteers are coming to China `to Join the air force.
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