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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 28, 1989.
Ubrary, Brommen
GERMAN SEAMEN CHARGED DIRECT HITS
AS RESULT OF
BLACKOUT-OUT INCIDENT
Two German sailors from the s.s. Regensburg ap- peared before Mr. E. Himsworth in the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning to answer charges of assaulting, resisting and obstruct- ing the police during the course of last night's blackout. They pleaded not guilty. They are Reichard Block, aged been attacked first. 125, and Aem! Tauhart, aged 29.
Sub-Inspector Johnson, who pro- secuted, said that at about 9.20 o'clock last night a European lance- sergeant on duty in Canton Road stopped a ricksha in which both defendants were riding. The ser- geant explained that all vehicles had to stop during the black-out and that two-in-a-ricksha was not permitted. He was assaulted and defendants ran away.
W. Hewitt, Lance-Sergeant 54, said he was on patrol duty in con- nection with the blackout when he saw a ricksha in Canton Road, near Haiphong Road, with its light burning.
ASKED THEM TO WALK He stopped the vehicle and found two Europeans in it --one on the small platform, the other standing up at the back. He ex- plained that two could not ride in a ricksha and that all traffic wasi stopped during the blackout. They said they were going back to their ship at the Kowloon Wharf and he asked them to walk there.
Tauhart asked if British subjects .could ride in rickshas. Sergeant Hewitt replied that during the blackout everyone had to walk. Block, Sergeant Hewitt continued, then caught hold of his coat and said some "dirty words."
He also said:-"You are British. We are Germans and better than any bastard British!"
Tauhart got hold of the sergeant's, throat and there was a struggle. The police officer said they would have to accompany him to the station. There was another strug- gle, Tauhart kicked him, and all three fell to the ground, Block un- ..der the sergeant, Tauhart on top, ..of him.
As they got to their feet, Tau- hart said: I will kill you.'
ESCAPE IN DARKNESS Chinese Sub Inspector Ng Chung Sing' came up and held Tauhart and they, too, struggled. First de fendant ran away. Five or BİNL ..other Germans here came on the scene but made no attempt to in- terfere or to help the police.
After another short struggle, Tauhart also ran away, both men, : escaping in the darkness. They were subsequently arrested, howe ever, by two European sergeants.,
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ROUGH BANDAGE: After the Chinese - Sub-Inspecton, had corroborated Hewitt's evidence, Sergeant F. Russell did that he was on duty in the police station and at 9,80 p.m. was sent to Haf
· phong Road with another foreign sergeant.
the
7'He saw a large crowd and three - or four Europeans watching Etwo défendents, whs were sitting on the edge of the pavement, Block's haad was roughly bandaged with handkerchief."As a result of quiries, he took them into cus
efendants:
préferred
A large num-
ber of police surrounded them, so that they had to resist, being afraid that they were going to be killed.
Tauhart said
much the game
thing, adding that neither of them spoke English; the police alleged they spoke English both on the scene of the assault and later at the police station.
Mr. Himsworth said he was con- vinced that the police officers were telling the truth and he would con- vict both men.
ON STOUT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Wuchow, To-day.
Eighteen Japanese planes bombed the American Baptist Mission at Wuchow yester- day, and scored_three direct -hits on the Stout Memorial
Hospital.
are
All foreign citizens killed and wounded on the safe, but many Chinese were river front. Our Own Cor-
respondent.
a serious offence,
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BLACKOUT WAS 'MAGNIFICENT'
"I said last night that it was magnificent, and I still stick to that view. It was a very good effort," said Wing Commander A. S. Steele-Perkins, the A.R.P. officer, to the "China Mail” this morning apropos of last night's black-out.
Everyone co-operated in Hong Kong's first "real blackout" even the Clerk of the Weather, who kept the moon "extinguished" from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. and from then on obeyed the subdued lighting restrictions.
About the only place that any grumbling wda to be found was around the Naval Dockyard. In time
of war or emergency, the Dockyard will, of course, have to work all-night, under a special form of subdued lighting.
It was hoped to test this lighting from the air last night, but the low-lying clouds and bad weather generally made this impossible. He fined Block $80 and Tauhart Taking these circumstances into $50, remanding them in police cus- consideration, however, it was un- Assaulting a police officer in tody for 24 hours while the money derstood that the test was satis- Hong Kong, he warned them, was is raised.
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