1940-03-27 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1940

CABINET RE-SHUFFLE

Mentioned For "Inner Cabinet"

Five Names

ANOTHER NORWEGIAN

COMPLAINT

Oslo, To-day.

The allegation that a Bri-

NEW POST FOR

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the subject of all comment.

London, To-day.

ACQUITTED ON ONE CHARGE

The case in which Ho So, a police reservist, was charged before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, with murder with intent to extort money and with demanding money with -concluded this morning menaces,

the Jury unanimously found him "Not Guilty" on. the first charge, and "Guilty" on the second.

Sentence was postponed. till to-morrow.

had Inspector Hopkins to-day said he

He had

tish destroyer, in attempting. THE POSSIBLE RESHUFFLING of the Cabinet is still threatening to accuse. Chan Sik-tin of to stop a German vessel, fired a warning shot which fell on Norwegian soil, is made in an official statement issued yesterday.

According to the statement the in- cident occurred near Obrestad on March 22 and when the German ves- sel did not stop, the destroyer, which is alleged to have been. within ter- ritorial waters, abstained from further force.

The statement continues: "The shell foll, without exploding, on the shore not far from the road and near a railway station."

The Norwegian Legation in London has been instructed to protest ener- getically against this "violation of the neutrality regulations." Reuter.

BATTERY PATH· SNATCHING INCIDENT

Mrs, D. Campbell of No. 24, Macdonnell Road, to-day appeared in a snatching case, when Chan Pang, 28, was charged before Mr. R. Ed- wards, with stealing a handbag.

Mrs. Campbell was in Battery Path yesterday afternoon, when the defen- dant snatched her handbag and jumped over the railing above Queen's Road Central. He fell and was ar- rested by a passer-by.

Sentence of three months' hard labour was passed.

NORWEGIAN SHIP DODGES THE NAZIS

Oslo, To-day.

It

is understood the Labour Party are unlikely to ac-when

cept participation.

at present a crown sergeant.

He was en-

General belief is that Mr. Chamberlain plans the creation of

a War Cabinet of five members, who possibly would be known defendant for some time. Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary), Mr. Winston Chur-been a police reservist since 1925 and was chill (First Lord of the Admiralty), Sir John Simon (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Samuel Hoare (Lord motor business but did not know whether Privy Seal) and himself.

“Daily Mail” Forecast

Havas.

London, To-day. TRUTH

Official deprecation of Cabinet re-shuf- newspaper fles notwithstanding, the

ABOUT RAID

"Daily Mail" carries a report ON SYLT

by its Diplomatic Correspon- dent stating that a "Cabinet Within The Cabinet" may be formed.

The correspondent suggests that the members will consist of Mr. Chamber- lain, Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare and Mr. Winston Churchill,

There are suggestions also that

become Lord Chatfield will

First Lord of the Admiralty, and that Mr. Churchill, as Minister without port- follo, will take over representation in the Inner Cabinet of the three fighting services and the war Indus-

try.

He will be the real Minister for Co- ordination of Defence.

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London, To-dy.

titled to the special badge which had to be

carned. He knew that accused was in the

he was the owner of the O'Brien Road shop. The shop seemed to do a fair business and witness was always under the impression that accused was a man of gome substance. Mr. d'Almada, for the defence, said the case was not one of absorbing interest put In cases of his responsibility was great. this kind the onus of proof was always on the prosecution.

Mr. d'Almada drew attention to the dis- crepancies and contradictions in the evi-

the: dence of witnesses and said, that all evidence of threat was adduced from com plainant and his concubine.

No threats on the way to the Hotel were alleged.

There was no attempt to prevent the com. The party perfectly normal There was no evidence that complainant was in fear. He smoked opium and the that

manner.

German broadcasts con-plainant from running away. tinue to try and belittle the went to the hotel in a effect of the air raid on Sylt and magnify the losses en- tailed to the British bomber force taking part.

On the other hand, reliable re- ports have now been received in air circles in London from neutral ob- servers which show that the damage done to the seaplane base was more extensive and severe than was originally assessed on the reports of

the British airmen.

even

It is evident that heavy damage was caused to the base and fuel stores, buildings were wrecked, hangars set on fire and seaplanes destroyed. Bri-

Sir Kingsley Wood may be replaced When the Norwegian ship Fanefjell and given a special post for directing arrived in a Norwegian port on Mon-acceleration of national production tish Wireless, day, her crew described how, during the past month, their ship was tacked four times by German bombers and once by a U-boat.

at-

They escaped each time. The crew also saw the attack last week by several Nazi bombers on an- other Norwegian ship, the Svinta, which was sunk.-Reuter.

EAT AT

Reuter.

Ng Kim-chuen, 37, was sentenced to three months' hard labour. by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, for fraudulent-conver-_ slon of $195.60.

Det. Sergeant Bentley said defendant was assistant treasurer of the Barbers Union, and had spent money collected from bar- ber shops between August and February 28.

Jimmy's Kitchen

INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

STALIN

INIQUITOUS

"Finland: The Criminal Conspiracy of Stalin and Hitler," a pamphlet pub- lished by the Labour Party, gives a concise history of the events leading up to the Russo-Finnish war.

The Ribbentrop-Stalin link-up is. discussed and the various moves which preceded and follow it to culminate in the final conflagration.

A passage dealing with the "criminal conspiracy" says: "The real depth of the iniquity, of M. Joseph Stalin is still unknown. His thirty pieces of silver are already stained with the blood of his own nameless and countless Russian dead."

In short, the pamphlet presents in interesting and vital form the why and wherefore of Finland's tragedy.

atmosphere that prevailed was such complainant was satisfied to make himself

comfortable on the bed while the threat was over his head.

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Accused was a man of some substance and owned a garage, No. 4 to 8 O'Brien Road. Now, the crown wished the jury to believe that such a man would risk every- thing, his future, his liberty; for $500. of

was

which his share would be about $160, The whole story of the prosecution improbable in the light of circumstances at the Hotel. The room was visited at least

three times by room boys and Chan could have made an attempt to get free or say something, but he did not. He could have told the boys that he wanted to see an In- spector, but he laid on the bed perfectly satisfied.

When taken to the Police station, he told a false story to Sergeant Cullinan and now explained that it was fear that made him do so.. It was absurd that he should show tear then when he was as safe as houses. He was before a Police officer.

Sir Atholl said, that a lot of evidence was agreed but from first to last they had not had the advantage of defendant's account of what happened that morning.

KILLED BY A FALL

The manager of the Talpo Theatre, Lau Chiu-yim, was admitted to Kow- loon Hospital yesterday after a fall from the roof of the theatre. He died soon after admission.

Mrs. R. C. Burch, of No, 227, Prince Ed...

of a ward Road, has reported the theft gold finger ring valued at $60 from her bed- room some time last night.

The China Light and Power Company have informed the Police that 15 yards of electric cable valued at $388 have stolen from Lalchikok Sub-Station.

been

By George McManus

Bringing Up Father

ARE

WELL- ARE WE READY TO GO

SEE THE GRAND PARADE

DOWNTOWN F

BY JOVE-I LIKE IT HERE IN SAINT

PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS -

WHER

FATHER

ISN'T HE

GOING

I LET THE MAYOR KNOW WE WERE IN TOWN AND WITH MY INFLUENCE HE IS TO BE IN THE . PARADE -NO DOUBT HE WILL BE IN THE

AUTO WITH. THE MAYOR-

JIGGS!

COME HERE

BY JOVE IF HE IS ONE OF THE JUDGES - ! ADMIRE HIS JUDGMENT="

(1940, King Pastures

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