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British Cruiser For Hainan Urged

London, To-day.

SIR J. S. Wardlaw-Milne (Conservative) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yes- terday whether he would give an order for the immediate despatch of a British cruiser for pro- tection of British interests on the island of Hai- nan so long as the Japanese remain in occupa- tion there.

Mr. R A. Butler, Under Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the question had been fully

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considered but no decision, was

GAOL FOR

FOR MAKING FALSE REPORTS

Two persons were separately charg- ed before Mr. QA, A. Macfadyen this morning at the Kowloon Magis tracy with making false reports to the police,

They were Li Lau, 80, a mechanic employed by the Kan San Knitting Factory, of Fuk Wah Street, and Chan Siu-po, 87, a ront collector.

Sub-Inspector, C. T. Byron who said first accused made his report at 11 p.m. on Sunday, stating that, he was $800 wounded with a chopper: and. taken when two robbers forced their way into the factory at about 10.50

p.m.

He was searched in the station and the money found in his jacket pocket. and Pleading guilty to larceny making a false report, he was sen- tenced to one month's hard labour on the first count and on the other, fiped $75 or a further six weeks.

Second accused, having collected $59 from tenants, made a report at p.m. on Monday stating that he

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taken to despatch a British war- ship to Hainan in present circum- stances.

- Captain Alan Graham (Conserva- tive) asked whether the Prime Minister would instruct our Am- bassador in Tokyo to press the Japanese Government for a fur- ther detailed amplification of their excuse for the military necessity for the occupation of Hainan, or at least an explanation of the conal- tions which in their view would terminate this necessity.

Mr. Butler replied that matters but were receiving consideration he could not at the moment add

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had been held up by robbers, in side lane at Tai Nam Street.

After inquiries by the police, he admitted the report was false.

Sentence of six weeks' imprisonment was imposed.

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As a result of the recent fire at the Talkoketui Shantytown, near the Ko Shing Theatre, where some sixty huts were burned out, the area has been entirely cleared on official instructions and the occu- pants ordered to the Refugee Camp at Matauchung.

Shouldering- acanty belong- ings, some hundreds of beg- gars, destitutes and homeless coo- Iles (male and female) hiked through Kowloon's streets yester day to Matauchung, Kowloon City, where they were given shelter in the Government Refugee Camp.

The three-mile march followed Government orders to vacate the shantytowns on the open spaces behind the Cosmopolitan Dock- yard and at Taikoktṣui which were covered with scores of squat ters' huts, housing some of the Colony's poorest Chinese popula- tion. ::

The Government, however, per- mitted the "evicted" to proceed to. the Matauchung Refugee Camp where they are at present.

Orders were given for the home- ess to vacate by to-morrow at the latest, but a visit to the spots this afternoon by the "China Mail" re- presentative, revealed that the squatters had not waited for "exe- cution," but had already left for their new "homo."

Kwangchowwan, To-day:

Test landings have been carried out on the south and west coast of the Luichow Peninsula by the Ja- panese navy, but up to now no ma- jor landing has yet been attempted either on the Peninsula or the coast at Pakhoi where the atmos- phore is reported tense.NE

An attempt to land marines at Hai-An, directly opposite Hoihow, was made yesterday, but the Chinese defence showed itsolf alert.

Most of the villages near the. coast are being evacuated and hundreds of villagers are trekking the inland on the instructions of Chinese authorities. Our Own Correspondent.

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Four moro smallpox cases, in the New Territories, were notiz fied yesterday, as well as four meningitis, 12 measles, seven chickenpox; three typhoid, two diphtheria, and 30 TB. Of the T.B. cases, 17 were notified fn Victoria and 12 in Kowloon.

"The "China Mail" learned re- liably this afternoon that talks bo- tween the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, representing Colonial Secretary

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