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GETTING THE "EVIDENCE”

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 23, 1939.

London, To-day.

A rather grim story was told by the crew of a British ship who arrived in port to-day..

As they were rowing away from their sinking ship in mid-Atlantic, they said, the U-boat came up alongside and a camera was trained on them,

Then, under the menace of a revolver, they were forced to cheer while photo- graphs of them were being taken.

VISIT

OF

Reuter.

TO

FRONT 1914-18

London, To-day.

IN HIS TALK LAST NIGHT, the BBC. Observer spoke of a 200-mile motor car tour he had made through certain areas in France which were part of the British sector in the last war but which are now being occupied by the French. Some of the people, to whom the war correspon-

AMERICAN MISSION VICTIMISED

Peiping, To-day. The American Mission at Chenlu, a

British movement.

dents were the first Englishmen they had seen few miles to the south-west of Kai- since the Great War, mistook them in their uni-feng, has been suffering from the anti- forms for British Army officers. Told that they were actually war correspondents, they smiled of Chinese staging an anti-British de- and said: "Oh well, you are English, all the same!"

. Many of the inhabitants had hus- bands, sons, cousins and other rela- tives at the Front, but there was no sorrow, There was manifest, on the other hand, the determination of the French people that the Nazis must be overthrown.

One woman, in a "We went further. them!" she said.

The car

driver, an Englishman from Paris, turned round and said:— "Our front line was just here. You must have beeri one of those blighters who nearly bombed us instead the Germans!"

of

told The Royal Air Force officer

flight baker's shop, the correspondents, that in a must destroy over the area that day he could still the see marks of the trenches of the children last Great War.-Reuter. promptly recognised the British uni- form, although they had never seen a British soldier in their lives.

At this same town,

ALL THE COMMOTION

They followed the correspondents to the baker's shop and pressed their noses to the large window, the crowd of children growing every minute.

When the officer in charge of the party arrived, he wanted to know what all the commotion was about.

"Oh," he was told, "their mothers and fathers have told them how the last war all the British soldiers

TRADE MARK CASE

At the instance of the Green-Island Cement Company, Messrs. Jolop and Company, of Marina House, were this before Mr. E. morning summoned Himsworth for having in their posses- sion for purpose of trade certain goods, bags, containing cement, to which was in falsely applied a trade mark so close- ly resembling the registered trade

News just arrived states that a mob monstration, entered the Methodist

Mission because it had one Briton on

its staff.

They smashed some windows be- fore withdrawing.

Some days later, they returned and all Chinese connected insisted that

Mission should withdraw, This demand was which they did. with the made also because of the Briton on the staff of this Mission.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI JUDGE BORED TO TEARS

In H. M. Supreme Court in Shang- hal, Mrs. Catherine Estival brought suit against Mrs. W. F. Davis, Judg- ment debtor following an action ott May 22, when the plaintiff was awarded judgment of $80 with costs assistant amounting to $12.75 by Judge P. Grant Jones. The case was yesterday, again heard before him 'with both women appearing without

counsel.

met her with the Davis

Asked why she had not obligations in accordance judgment of the court, Mrs. replied that she was without furids. This the plaintiff denied and said that the defendant's husband had deposited money in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for her at the end of each month. "Have you proof of this?" asked the judge.

"Yes, I can prove by her husband," replied the plaintiff..

"Have you got him here in court?" said Judge Jones:

"Yes, I can bring chit, he put the money-"

"No, you must have him in court, do you want to call him as a witness?" chit or something, "I'll bring a

he "

an-

Here the judge's patience became exhausted. "Answer yes or no, the loquacity of women bores me to tears."

Upon receiving an affirmative swer, Judge Grant Jones ordered the case adjourned for one week in order to allow the plaintiff to have the hus- band of the defendant subpoenaed as a witness. As he was announcing this fact the plaintiff interjected with "May I have a word?"

The "No," was the brusque reply. case was adjourned until October 19.

YOUNG WOMAN

TAKES LYSOL

а

Suffering from lysol poisoning, Money and articles to the value of 20-year-old married woman, Cheung $110 were stolen during the week-Yuk-king, residing at No. 35, Woo- to the end from the residence of T.Y. Liang sung Street, was admitted at No. 16, Condult Road.

Kowloon Hospital last night.

GILT-EDGED MARKET

THAWING OUT

LONDON

IN

London, To-day.

bought them sweets from this shop. mark, of the complainant company as THE STOCK MARKET continue the revival which

They are hoping you will same!"

.do the to be calculated to deceive.

After that, of course, there only one thing to do.

At the request of Mr. P. Wynter- was Blyth, of Deacons, the summons was

adjourned sine die.

cor.

On the return journey, the respondents had with them an Alr Force officer who had bombed dur ing the Great War many of the dis- tricts through which they were now passing.

used

"80 IT WAS YOU” Once he exclaimed:-"There to be an ammunition dump here!".

started a week ago when Government stocks

rose above the fixed minimum prices.

Mr. E. G. Nigel, for the defence, The "Sunday Times” Financial Editor states: “The

pleaded not guilty.

A.R.P. Class, A series of lectures In A.R.P. will be given at the Dio

3. cesan Girls Junior School, No. Duke Street, Kowloon, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, commenc ing on Wednesday the 25th instant

thawing out of the gilt-edged market is liberat-

can be explained by the increases in retail costs-and-rising prices.

ing money all along the line:" The "Financial News," in its Satur- day leading article, stated; "With the war only six weeks old the markets have largely recovered from the paralysis of the initial shock, Over the past fortnight the improvement- in prices, tone and volume of business -has been highly encouraging."

The newspaper points out that the responsible factors, as reviving con- fidence are easy money, for_although the bank rate is still "at an logical halfway level between dear money and cheap money there is evidence of an active policy of credit expan- sions.

It is therefore no sign of in- flation but an adjustment to the new conditions and a "return. normal trading."

Financial quarters thus regard the past week as an encouraging British Wireless."

UNDERLYING CONFIDENCE

that The

newspaper - comments the rise might have been higher but h for the sinking of Royal Oak: On the hand, but for the agreement urkey, the normal week-end might have been more pro- fact erall

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