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SHADY PIECE OF BUSINESS

LONDON, YESTERDAY.

THREE REPULSE BAY BUNGALOWS ROBBED

THREE REPULSE BAY BUNGA- LOWS, BELONGING TO WELL-

KNOWN EUROPEAN RESIDENTS

IN THE COLONY WERE BURGLED

EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING,

THE THIEVES ESCAPING WITH $678 IN MONEY AND JEWELLERY, Mr. W. Sprague, Government Marine Surveyor, residing in No. 1, Bungalow a gold wrist watch worth $100.

THE "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN", COMMENTING ON THE TIENTSIN SUSPECTS DECISION, SAYS THAT NOT EVEN THE AUTHORITY OF LAW-OFFICERS THEMSELVES, BE- HIND WHOM THE GOVERNMENT IS UNEASILY SHELTERING, CAN

Mr. K. Larsen, residing in No. 2, MAKE THE DECISION TO HAND

Bungalow lost $358; and Mrs. R. G. OVER THE CHINESE SUSPECTS AT Edwards, of No. 3, Bungalow, was TIENTSIN TO THE JAPANESE AP-robbed of $220, the latter two thefts PEAR. ANYTHING BUT A SHADY being of money and jewellery. PIECE OF BUSINESS.

The plain truth is that Britain has

again given way to the Japanese said they and not onice, but twice, for while they would blockade the British Concession at Tientsin until the four men

were handed over, we are now hand- ing over the men without obtaining an end to the blockade.-Reuter.

SNATCHER CAUGHT

MOTORBUS DRIVER DENIES ALLEGATION

was

'Giving evidence on his own behalf, a driver of the Kowloon Motor-Bus;

who Company, Pun Iu-shing, employed for three days only, and was summoned by Mrs. B. Madsen, of Hillwood Road, for driving bus No. 857 (No. 8 route) without due care and caution in Nathan Road,

Caught by a Chinese constable after that he had twice started the bus snatching a handbag from a

woman

in Prince Edward Road last night, Wong Kin-cho, 22, was this morning sentenced to four months' hard labour and 10 strokes by Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon.

without any signal by the conductor. He denied also that any incident had occurred either at the Po Hing Theatre at the Hillwood Road stop.

Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen, before whom the case was heard, adjourned the case to to-morrow when another witness for defence will give evidence.

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.

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