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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1940.

FORGED BANKNOTES CHARGE

Before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., in the Central Magistracy this morning, two Chinese were charged with being in possession of forged banknotes, of implements for forging banknotes, and of forged documents in Victoria on May 5.

Mr. D. McCallum represented the defendants, Lau Chik, 38, accountant, and Lau Che, 40, manager of the Wo Hing Hong, No. 23, Connaught Road Central,

against the accused

The charges

were:-

(A) Against the first accused, being in possession of 12 $1 notes purport- ing to be of the Hong Kong Govern- ment, at No. 203, Hennessy Road, and second accused, being in possession of 10 $10 notes of the Straits Settlements, one $10 note of the Bank of China and a $5 note of the same bank.

(B) At No. 46, Tang Lung Street, possession of 79 $10 notes of the Straits Settlements, 20 $5 notes of the Central Bank of China, and one five plastre note of the Banque Del Indo Chine.

(C) possession of 988 Indo China one dollar and forty-four cents bills of lading.

(D) possession of one copper plate and eight blocks of type for making forged banknotes.

(E) Possession of five copper plates for making forged Hong Kong Inland Revenue Stamps.

(F) Possession of 11 copper plates for making Japanese Military fifty yen banknotes.

CHEERFUL LABOUR FIGURES

London, To-day.

It is officially announced that the number of unemployed at April 16 was 972,695 compared. with 1,121,213 on March 11 and 1,844,394 on April 17 last year.

This is the lowest figure since the end of 1920 when the extend- ed unemployment insurance scheme began to operate.-—Reu- › ter.

CRIME

AGAINST ALL DECENCY

(Continued from Page 10) exceptional education. In the higher schools children really learn to speak English, Ger- man and French.

Although the religious life is extremely active-almost all the right-wing political parties bear religious names-there is no compulsory religious teaching in the schools, her devotion to scholarship is reflected in This little country has nine universities, and

the fact that eight Nobel prize winners have been Dutchmen.

her administrative services is

of

and

for west

The absolute integrity of her ~

granted..Holland has one crime records of all nations and I. death penalty for 70 years. Her emigrants

d no

--such as they are, for their number is few -are welcomed by every developing coun- try.

INEVITABLY PRO-ALLY

Holland, indeed, approximates the Aristo- tellan dream of a good society. Her rich Detective Sub-Inspector W. N. Dar-men are public spirited and never ostenta- kins asked for a formal remand of one

tious. She has very little poverty. Her and week, which was granted; the police

learning is much more respected in Holland opposed bail.

than riches. The virtues of her people are somewhat puritan, liberated by her great tradition of tree thought.

SNATCHER GAOLED

political leaders are educated men,

Although in the last war, the sympathies of the Dutch people were strongly divided between Germany and England, their sym- pathies to-day are with the Allies. That is by inevitable for two reasons.

Mr. E. B. Teesdale, of "Starlight Villa," Pokfulam, was fined $5 Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., in the Cen-dictatorship, on top of an organised mob; First, everything that the Nazis stand for tral Magistracy this morning, for persecution" of minorities; suppression of speeding in a.controlled area on April 22.

Defendant pleaded guilty by letter. Traffic-Sergeant Sargent said that defendant was driving at a speed of from 22 to 26 m.p.h. In Bonham Road near Caine Road, at about 5.10 p.m.

· The road was fairly clear at the time.

SPEEDING CHARGE

Sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed by Mr. R. Edwards in the Central Magistracy this morning, on a coolle, Kwong Ping, for snatching a Chinese woman in handbag from a Caine Road yesterday.

Defendant was also recommended for banishment.

free thought and open or underground war- fare against religion-is wholly Incompatible tradition, and there is very little in Holland with the Dutch temperament or the Dutch on which revolutionary movements can feed.

The Nazis tried to honeycomb Holland with their agents, but the agents were un- successful. A Nazi movement exists, but makes no headway. Holland cannot be un- dermined from within.

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Secondly, the Dutch people are pro-Ally because a. Nazi victory may mean the sub- jection of their independence. They have no such fears from England and France. If Holland is attacked. Belgium and France will defend her.

lovely

CANNOT BE BLACKMAILED

But the Hollanders do not want their country to be made into a attleground. They do not want to flood the land they have drained, or spill the blood of their youth, or have their beautiful towns, their

beaches, public

their housing complexes for

handsome workers, their un- paralleled museums destroyed-along with their women and children-from the air.

The Hollanders are a mature nation. They believe that war and conquest are supreme-

Detective Sergeant Cashman pro-ly Idiotic. They believe that an intelligent,

secuted.

ME MAKES GAUCHOS LOSE THEIR GROUCHOS ..

as senoritas swing and away in the gay South 'Amèrican way!

FBREEN ESCAPE to

PARADISE

TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

well educated; productive and united cople can find their destiny by quite other means than war.

But if they are not allowed to do so they will fight. They will not sell one scrap of their independence out of fear. They can- not be blackmailed:

ROBBERY IN KING'S PARK

A highway robbery in King's Park yesterday afternoon had its sequel this morning, before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon when Kam Chun, 25, describing himself as an assistant hawker, was charged with robbery with violence of one gold finger-ring and $8 20 from Lai Kwan.

He was remanded for 24 hours as the police, it is understood, have ar- rested his three accomplices, who will be brought up to Court with him to-morrow.

Det.-Sgt. N. B. Fraser is in charge of the case..

DOG BITES BOY

A seven-year-old boy, R. Ritchie, of No. 174, Prince Edward Road, was treated at the Kowloon Hospital yes- terday, after he had been bitten by a dog in Duke Street. The dog was not traced.

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