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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 22, 1938

CAPITAL

SHIPS

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SINGAPORE BIG ROBBERY KEPT HIM AWAKE:

"Not In Public Interest To Disclose Plans"

SEQUEL

HE USED AN AXE

"That she kept him awake all

Two stonebreakers, Ip Choi and night and that he did it in a mo- Lau Sang, both 20 years of age, were ment of annoyance," was the ex- remanded by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest

this morning, when charged with cuse given at the Kowloon Magis- robbery at No. 91, Connaught Road tracy this morning by Tse Siu-tong, West, on October 25.

20, when charged before Mr. Q...A. It is alleged that defendants stole H.K.$3,000 and $130 în Chin-A. Macfadyen with wounding his currency from Yung Yuet-sister-in-law, Leung Fung, 22.

of H.K.$1,970 and On December 7, said the pro-

London, To-day. ese The stationing of capital ships at Singapore was ching, a sum

brought up in the House of Commons yester-$2,445 in Chinese dollars, from Yung Wai-fun, and a fountain pen

secuting officer, accused suddenly got out of bed, picked up a chop- Detective Sergeant J. Allen is inper, and struck her three or four

day by Lt.-Comm. R. T. H. Fletcher, Labour from Yuen Fuk-fui. member for Nuneaton.

Lt.-Comm. Fletcher asked by what date it was in-charge of the case.

tended to station at Singapore a fleet adequate

to obviate the necessity for Australia to ac- quire capital ships..

ALLEGED SOVIET ESPIONAGE

Los Angeles, To-day. Mikhail Gorin, manager of

the Intourist A. Fissalich,

Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, parliamentary secre- tary to the Admiralty, replied that it would be appreciated that it was not in the public inter-local office of the Soviet est to disclose possible future dispositions of His Majesty's ships.

strength composition Royal Navy was a matter for decision by the

of the treat Australian

Agency, and H. naturalised American, were indicted

by a Federal Grand Jury yesterday the on chargés cf transmitting to Soviet Naval Intelligence reports concerning Reuter.

POLICEMEN TO BE Conting the American defences.

C nmonwealth Government, and TRIED FOR MURDER

their present intentions herein were announced by the Minister of Defence in the House of Re- presentatives at Canberra Dec. 6.

on

Cairo, To-day.

Four policemen in Palestine are to be tried for murder. They are IMPERIAL DEFENCE accused of having killed a Trans- Mr. Shakespeare added that Jordanian subject, Mohammed el the United Kingdom Government Haddad, while transporting him to would welcome any steps taken jail. Their names are T. Crossley, to increase the strength of the Wood, Mansel and J. Crossley. Royal Australian Navy and Aus-Trans-Ocean. tralian participation in the com- plained that the Japanese embargo mon task of Imperial Defence.

-Lt.-Comm. Fletcher asked if the Naval Staff was satisfied that in the event of capital ships! becoming necessary for the de- fence of Australia in the near future. they would be able to provide them.

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17 * ACCURATE Mr. Shakespeare said that the Australian Minister of Defence, in his speech, said that Australia looked to the United Kingdom in at emergency to station Singapore a fleet strong enough to safeguard the Empire's inter- ests in the Eastern Hemisphere. That was an accurate state- ment of the position, added Mr. Shakespeare. Reuter.

PROTECTION OF SHIPPING Complete plans for protection of merchant ships; said Mr. Shakes- peare to another question, had been. drawn up, and the collaboration of shipping interests had been ensur- ed by the formation two years ago of the Shipping Defence Advisory Committee.

Details of the course were secret but the general outline has been communicated to the Mercantile Marine. British Wireless.

SOVIET-JAPAN CLASH RUMOURS

Shanghai, To-day.

Reports that Soviet troops opened fire on Tuesday on Japanese forces cannot be confirmed, but rumours are rife that skirmishes are occur- ring between the two forces that several Soviet and Japanese troops have been killed.Our Own Correspondent.

and

SPECIAL SITTING AT KAUNAS

times on head, She was detained in hospital for several days.

Accused was in the Mental Hos- pital early this year but was charged as recovered.

dis-

Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed.

JAPANESE GOODS IN HANKOW

Hankow, To-day.

In spite of repeated statements by competent Japanese authorities that no commercial traffic is per- mitted on the Yangtse and that transport is allowed only of goods needed for military use, there 'is steadily growing influx of Japan- is made goods

the Hankow a market.

into

Kaunas, To-day.

it The Lithuanian Diet has

for announced been convened

ini Particularly evident is the high special sitting on December 23 order to take cognisance of a de- percentage of Japanese cigarettes, claration by the Cabinet. Trans-matches and sugar, offered by

Hankow shops. Trans-Ocean.

Ocean.

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