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THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 28-1940

POLICE FIRE ON GANG IN CALCUTTA

Calcutta, To-day.

For the first time for 10 years the police opened fire in Calcutta yesterday when a police picket was attacked by a gang of municipal scavengers who had been on strike the previous day.

After the police fired four rounds, 18 strikers were arrested. ·

are on

About 15,000 scavengers strike, demanding a 25 per cent. in- crease in wages.

Efforts to extend the strike to other municipal services were, checked by the arrest of seven leaders.-Reuter.

ROAD WRECKING AND

PROTECTION OF

WRECKAGE TOOLS

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squadrons were flying over the village at a great height. The anti-air ar- tillery had been installed on the surrounding routes to cover the

exodus of the diplomatic corps. AI- most everyone left, and I remained alone on the verandah of a hotel.

Ilona Massey and Nelson Eddy In "Balalaika,’ the latest M.G.M. musical, which starts at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow and the Alhambra on Saturday.

BROKER ON TRIAL IN

PAPER CASE

Kwok Shin-chan, broker,

The Polish mechanised detachments formerly employed at the passed at great speed, followed by China Import and Export

lorries crowded with soldiers.

I heard the dull shock of shells which fell · without exploding. that moment, a young man came up to me and offered me a lift in his car if I could get him some petrol. He was an engineer, son of a Warsaw pro- fessor. This was an opportunity which had to be seized. I telephoned to the Prefect of Pulavy, asking him for an authorisation to receive some petrol. The reply was as follows; the Pretect, together with his staff, haa had to evacuate the offices and had taken refuge in a cottage where he was continuing his work. He could provide me with petrol if I succeed in passing through a road of which the greater part was in ruins.

How and why? "Last night, a con- siderable section of the road was wrecked by unknown hands.”

per-

Company, was this morning charged before Sir Atholl MacGregor on four counts of receiving 158 reels of news- print knowing, same to have been stolen.

The Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada Jr.. instructed by Mr. P. Sin, appeared for the prosecution, while accused was represented by Mr. H. C. Macna- mara, instructed by Mr. M. A. Silva.

The jury was composed of Messrs. P. K. Pavri (foreman), B. J. Tavares, V. T. Low, Leung Tan-kwong, Yee Ting-sheung Chan Chau-ke and M. A. Xavier.

Mr.. d'Almada said that the Та Kung-pao, owners of the paper, pur- chased large quantities of paper which was stored in the godowns at Holt's Wharf. Delivery orders were made out when paper was required. The firm employed a man, Shui, who attended to English correspondence and to the issue of delivery orders, and who had now absconded, and defendant came to know other in the course of business. and on July 27, Shui gave accused an order for 50 tons of paper. The cargo arrived in October and was duly stored at Holt's Wharf.

Shui each

This was the work of the German wreckers, who had received orders to break up the roads and thus to ham- per the march of the Polish troops. And this was practically everywhere the case.. The same unknown sons had also tried to destroy the little bridges connecting the im- portant arteries. As they had not succeeded, the German planes had heavily bombed the surroundings of the bridges. The prefect continued: "If you like to try your luck, come

On January 14, Shui disappeared. over here and I will deliver the His absence roused suspicions and on necessary authorisation." My pro-

a check at Holt's Wharf, it was found vidential rescuer, Mr. A was a brave that delivery had been taken man, he accepted the risk and we lawfully of 158 reels of paper. left. We succeeded in reaching the The reels were traced to. the cottage where the prefect was install-godowns of the Wing On Co. Part ed; he explained the innumerable had been sold by defendant in small difficulties which he had to solve to lots, below the market price. hunt down the wreckers of telegraph lines and roads and those who, under the cover of night, had even cut down trees and thrust them across the roads. Moreover, the petrol pump where we filled up was under con- tinuous fire, luckily without damage. The German fliers had located it or rather, they had been Informed of its existence.

un-

The case is proceeding.

signposts had been removed

or de- faced. A special case consisted in the use of a large truck, filled with nails and stones, which had dis- charged its contents in such a way as to bar the road.

This is why the German wreckers. were always provided with stones, nails and large clippers to cut the telegraph wires, also with explosives. This is why the workshops of these persons were always spared by the German bombers, not only for their contents, but abe all for the Ger-

In the night of September 11th or 12th. I took the road from Lwow to Krzemieniec. My travelling com- panion. Mr. A... who had been so kind as to drive me was exhausted by -the difficulty of driving over a wreck

ed road. At dich instant, it was nec-mans there employed. cessary to get out in order to find The following explanation is given means of avoiding the ditches made by a reliable eye-witness, in a Polish by the wreckers. Also, we were fre- quently stopped by patrols who were hunting down the wreckers. I pre- sented my military safe-conduct and realised that the wreckers must be driving through the country in a car. Quite recently, in Paris, a specialist the counter-espionage.. services

(to be continued) described to me various methods of World copyright 1940 by Co-opera wrecking; the use of nails, wire, tree- tion Reproduction in whole or part trunks, rails, etc. In some cases, the strictly forbidden

province Inhabited by Germans, all the chimneys had been painted black with white spots in order to signal the existence of Germans the enemy planes. For the directed against the Poles and not against the Germans,

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