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ALLAN CRISP
1938.
ISAVAGE ATTACK
ON INDIAN CONSTABLE
With reference to the report
#An Indian constable who was issued by the police yesterday morning stating that Mr. A. Mal- the victim of a savage attack colm's car had fallen over a 98- shortly after midnight, is now ly- feet embankment and was badly ing in the Queen Mary Hospital damaged, Mr. Malcolm telephoning in a condition which was describ- the "China Mail" last night denied ed early this morning as being that the car had fallen over the serious.
embankment - and added that the The constable, No. B 20., is an damage to the car, which had run interpreter attached to the Secre- into a gutter in a mist, was not tariat of Chinese Affairs who was sufficient to prevent him from on 24 hours' leave.
driving the car on Sunday.
·
was
• Quartered at Yaumati Police, Sta- Enquiries this morning reveal the tion, he left there at about 9 o'clock substantial accuracy of Mr. Mal-in the evening to go for a walk and colm's version of the mishap, and at the time of the incident, an apology is due, and, as far as leaning against the railing of the the "China Mail" is concerned, is Children's Playground at the junc- hereby tendered, for any miscon- tion of Arran Street and Tung Mei ception which may have been creat-Road. ed by the original report.
Gough
Hill Police Station's written report states:-
gas
ACCOSTED
Here was apparently accosted by At 7.20 a.m. on July 81 a
a Chinese who asked him whether lighter reported that a lamppost on he wanted a girl. He pushed the Plantation Road had been hit
by
man off and turned with the inten- a car which had run over the bank. tion of walking away, when he was The officer in charge later visited stabbed in the left side above the the scene and found that lamp 248 hip. The Chinese made off. had been hit, apparently by a car
Recovering from the shock after which was lying at an angle of 45
a while, the constable made his way degrees on the bank on the left of to Shanghai Street where he sum- the road 98 feet below the lamppost moned a ricksha which took him to The offside front hub cap was dent- Mongkok Police Station where the ed and bore marks of green paint matter was reported. He was sub- which indicated that this car had sequently removed to Queen Mary hit the lamppost. At 10 a.m., the Hospital.
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of car was removed by a H. K. Hotel It is notified that a reward Garage breakdown gang.
$100 will be given by the Commis- The phrase '98 feet below the sioner of Police for any informa- lamppost" appears to have given altion which will lead to the arrest mistaken impression of what hap- of the assailant.
pened. The car actually continued downhill for 98 feet after striking
the post, mounting the bank at some point in between.
COLONEL BECK IN NORWAY
Oslo, To-day.
USED CAR FOR PUBLIC HIRE
38-YEAR-OLD INDIAN DRIVER OF A PRIVATE CAR, SOH BAT KHAN, WAS THIS The Polish Foreign Minister, Co- MORNING FINED $100 BY MR. lonel Beck, arrived here last even-R EDWARDS AT THE CENTRAL ing for an official visit. He will be MAGISTRACY, WHEN HE received to-day by King Haakon PLEADED GUILTY TO ALLOW- VII.
ING THE VEHICLE TO BE USED. Although the Norwegian visit FOR THE PURPOSE OF HIRE. was of no particular political signi- A Chinese constable said that at ficance and is merely for the pur-about 2.10 p.m. on Friday, outside 088 of the friendly exchange of the Hotel Cecil, he saw private car opinions between Colonel Beck and No. 1349 stopped and heard a lady's the Norwegian Foreign Minister, voice saying, “Why do you want. 80 Dr. Koht, it is stated in informed cents, when you promised to take Polish circles that Colonel Beck us for 60 cents.
will make a trip to the centre of The woman was still in the car the Norwegian armaments industry and took out a dollar note, but de- in Horten on Wednesday, on board fendant seeing him approaching, re- a Norwegian torpedoboat.
fused to accept the dollar. He al- The visit of the Polish Statesman leged that when he insisted on tak- to Oslo is believed to bear a directing the parties to the police station, relationship to the new Polish po-defendant offered him tea to over- licy of emphasizing Poland's posi look the matter. tion as a strong Baltic power, while maintaining strict neutrality. Trans-Ocean. 2.
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Asking the Court to take a seri- ous view of the case, Inspector Saunders said that apart from the loss of revenue, (the licence for public, curs is higher), the Police were responsible to the public for the safe condition of public cars and all such vehicles undergo a strict xamination from time to time. Defendant's car, was an old
one.
Caught by a Chinese constable after he had snatched a handbag, containing $7.90, from a woman at the intersection of Shanghai and Public Square Streets at 1 p.m. yesterday, Lam Ki, aged 22 was
is morning sentenced to three.
hard labour - by Mr.
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