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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1939.

SENTENCES ON HEROIN PILL MAKERS

Found guilty of unlawful posses- sion of 3,694 heroin pills and 342 1/5 ounces of pink mass con- taining heroin, a Chinese youth, You Wei-sin, and an elderly Chin- ese woman, Ho Hei, were, respec- tively, sentenced to two and a half years' and two years' hard Jabour by the Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, at the Crimiñal Sessions this morning.

The Jury empanelled were Messrs. J. Harrop (Foreman), Lo Ying-yuen, W. 0. Nodes, Ho Chung-chow, Lui In-tso, Luk Ting-cheung, and R. Woodcraft.

Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, stated that on February 6, Revenue Officers J. L. Stephens and H. Millington, accompanied by Mr. H, A. Taylor, Government Monopoly Analyst, and a raiding party visited the third floor of No. 8 Clarence Terrace, West Point. The door was opened by Ho Pei. The only other person on the floor was a child.

The pills and pink mass were found in the front cubicle, and the number of articles and instruments used for the

NAZI PRESS AND THE ULTIMATUM

Berlin, Today.

An allegation that the diploma- tic adviser to the British Foreign Office, Bir Robert Vansittart, and the Rumanian Minister in London, Dr. Tiles, wero. responsible for the report of the German econo- mic ultimatum to Rumania, ` is made by “Voelkischer, Beobach- ter."

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The paper asserts that Sir Ro bert "invented” the ultimatum as appropriate means of gaining the support of the British public and Cabinet for the policy of Mr. Eden and other · Chamberlain

орроп- ents!-Trans-Otean.

INDIAN POLICE

SERGEANT ON

BRIBE CHARGES

manufacture of the pills were found in On eight, counts of accepting the rear cubicle.

Mr. Taylor went to the roof, and, bribes and misconduct as a Police looking over the side he saw a man, in Officer, LS.B.380, Amerik Singh, a singlet and shorts, leaving the ad-

joining house. The weather was cold. 89-year-old Indian Police Sergeant The man crossed the road and walked towards Queen's Rond West.

was remanded on bail of $300, Later he was arrested by Revenue when he appeared before Mr. E. Officer Millington.

His hands were examined and pink

Himsworth

this morning at the

deposit was found round the bases of Kowloon Magistracy.

his finger-nails. Taken back to the

floor, accused. complained of feeling The prosecuting officer alleged cold and opened a drawer to get some that the accused on March 17, at clothing. When charged he denied he

was an occupant of the floor and said the Mong Kok Market, accepted a he took the clothing on the advice of bribe of 60 cents from Wong Wai. Mr. Taylor. He stated that he was a re- fugee and had been sleeping in the streets.

Again on the same day, he re- ceived a bribe of $1.20 from Yip Yung, another $1.20 from Yip San, and 60 cents, from Liu Tam..

Testifying on behalf of first accus- ed, the woman said he was not an oc- cupant of the floor. At the time of the raid, she said, there were two men making pills. They escaped to the For each charge of receiving a roof of the building. She denied that bribe an additional charge of mis- first accused was one of the two men conduct as a police officer Was who escaped.

Following the Puisne Judge's sum-lodged. ming-up, the jury, unanimously found first accused guilty.

OVERTURNED

LORRY

DRIZZLE LIKELY

reports

The Royal Observatory that the anticyclone is moving

A-23-year-old garage foki Ng castward and is, now centred over Seas. Lau-man, was charged at the Cen- the Yellow and. Eastern tral Magistracy before Mr. R. Ed-Forecast:— E. winds, fresh, moder- wards this morning, with driving alate; cloudy, misty, occasional motor lorry without a licence. drizzle or light rain.

Inspector Russell said that a mo- tor lorry was reported overturned in King's Road near the Tsang Fook

Piano Company. The Police found ODD PROFESSION

He was

defendant was the driver. with a licenced driver at the time. but no person was injured.

A fine of $20 was imposed.

POPE PIUS XII SEES COUNT CIANO

Vatican City,. To-day.

Pope Plus XII received the Itn- lian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, for half an hour's conversation. The Minister was accompanied by members of the Italian delegation to the Pope's Coronation.

Later Count Ciano visited. the Cardinal Secretary of State, Menai- get Maglione. Trans-Ocean.

R.A.F. CRASH

London, To-day. The crew of four was killed

4 MEN AND A PRAYER" when an aeroplane of the Royal

Air Force crashed near Glasgow. on Saturday. Trans-Ocean.

"It seems to me that the larceny of bed boards-is your profession,” said Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning to a Chinese youth about 25 years of age, who had several previous convictions for this similar offence. Sentence of two months' hard labour was passed.

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