1938-07-18 — Page 24

WIFE ACCUSER IN CHARGE AGAINST DETECTIVE

BRUTAL ATTACK

Admitting that he wounded his sister and two others, Leung Nam was sentenced to three years' hard labour at the Criminal Sessions this morning by the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr. E. H. Williams.

Mr. Lockhart Smith, Crown Coun- sel, told the Court that accused. was, serving a sentence of 12, months hard labour for a breach

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of the Deportation Ordinance, and FRANCO-GERMAN

asked for the sentence to com- mence after the expiration of this

A case in which a police officer was alleged to have taken advan- tage of his position and forced a farmer to part with money "for protection” was opened at the term. Criminal Sessions this morning before the Acting Puisne Judge, red to the attack of accused as The Acting Puisne Judge refer- Mr. E. H. Williams.

Chinese detective Leung Chiu- unprovoked and brutal. kam, of Shatin Police Station, was charged with robbing a Chinese farmer, Chan Hei of $60 on June

12.

It was alleged that accused to- gether with others, not in custody, approached Chan Hei at about 5 p.m. in Man Hang village and told him that he had been accused of a crime in Chinese territory. Ac- cused, it was alleged, asked Chan for $500 in lieu of being taken to Canton and probably shot by the Chinese authorities.

A

PERPETUAL PEACE SPEECH

Berlin, To-day.

“If a plebiscite was held in to Kowloon to try and raise the France and Germany to decide balance, While he was away his whether the two peoples were wife decided to go to the Shatin prepared to conclude à perma- to maintain peace Police Station and report the inci- nent alliance dent. There she was accosted by and whether the two peoples accused who scolded her and re-were prepared to exchange guar- minded her that he had told them antees that this peace should the day before not to come and see never again be broken the result him at the Station but at his would be an unanimous “yes” de- residence.

clared the regional leader, Josef The woman departed after hav- Buerkel, in a speech at Ludwig- ing a cup of tea, but later in the shafen in which he emphasised Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, Crown afternoon returned to the Station, strongly Germany's desire to live Counsel, said that Crown witnesses while accused was absent, and in peace with France.

Buerkel himself déscribed the would state that accused took out made a report to the Indian con-

Party demonstration in this Pala- his handcuffs, handcuffed Chan stable on duty.

tinate town as great. avowal in favour of peace with Germany's neighbour but also as an avowal of determination to proceed against every attempt to disturb peace,

A war

is ended when neither

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and menaced him with his Service] The matter was referred to revolver.

A. S. P. Thompson, who after mak- ing inquiries, placed accused under arrest. Accused denied the charge. Accused is being defended by Mr. Hin-shing. Lo.

this

There was a compromise and the sum reduced to $160. Chan ob- tained a loan and paid accused $60 on account.

WIFE VISITS STATION The following day, Chan went

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side can any longer win, that is when from the very outset it is self-evident that both will lose.

Since, however, instead of an angel of peace with a palm leaf, soldiers with guns are drawn up ás guardians of the goddess of peace, we of the frontier zone under her protection desire to re- main for ever good neighbours.

The "Yes" exclamation, we, want to promise honestly has to be the conscience of our nation in order that never again may a conflict break out between our two peoples, because a conflict between us would mean the annihilation of our lovely homelands..

AGGRESSIVE WAR CRIES Herr Josef Buerkel protested against the "aggressive war cries" of certain foreign newspapers.

In particular, he attacked the former French Air Minister, M. Pierre Cot, who, declared Buerkel, had openly urged "a preventive war" against Germany.

What does des erre Cot

really want?

from France neither an inch of land nor a single Frenchman. Nor do we want to inflict any suffering on France.

The Fuehrer himself has declar- ed most solemnly that with the reincorporation of the Saar into the Reich, all territorial questions between us and France have been settled once for all.

All that M. Pierre Cot can be aiming at, is doing Soviet Russis a service. That is to

to say to help. Bolshevism in Its aim of getting the world afre. "We cannot believe that the French people wants to take part in a world revolution.- Trans-Ocean.

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