THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1940
SENTENCE ON
TEN YEAR WOMAN IN OLD BAILEY TRIAL
CHINESE REGISTER FOR EVACUATION
The Chinese Merchants' Club in China Building was thronged with Chinese regis- tering for evacuation, yester- day.
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Registration forms were available to all who arrived and these were allow- ed to be taken away to be filled in. The forms were, however, to be turned at the latest by 4 p.m. to-day.
There was no distinction of any kind made yesterday between British or Chinese subjects of Chinese race.
Mr. S. M. Churn, who has been placed in charge of the registration, told the "China Mail" this morning that all the registration forms will be submitted to Government who will
decide which of those who have re- gistered are eligible for evacuation by Government.
The registration forms mention three places where those eligible for evacua- to. tion by Government may be sent They are Macao, Manila and Haiphong. Portuguese This Evening
The Portuguese community in Hong Kong will register for evacua- tion between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to day at the Club de Recreio in King's Park and at the Club Lusitano in Ice House Street.
The
Portuguese
Consul-General that it has not
stated this morning yet been decided by Government to which place the Portuguese people may be evacuated.
101 Americans Leave "I don't think the situation has changed in any way for the worse,' stated Mr. Addison Southard, Ameri- can Consul-General in Hong Kong. this morning.
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Mr. Southard disclosed that 101 American citizens left by the 9.5. President Coolidge on Monday night. There were 75. Americans and 26 Filipinos.
FOUR MORE ITALIAN SUBS. SUNK
London, To-day.
Four more Italian sub- marines have been sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing Italy's submarine losses since she entered the war to 13.
Two bases in Africa and oll-tanka in Sicily have been bombed, while British troops have made successful raids in Italian Africa.
submarines.
Of the nine Italian submarines
LONDON, TO-DAY.
CHAMBERLAIN MUST GO: CRY RAISED AGAIN
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THE CURTAIN WAS RUNG DOWN AT OLD BAILEY YESTERDAY ON ONE OF THE MOST SENSA-
London, To-day.
·TIONAL ESPIONAGE TRIALS OF THE WAR The National Union WHEN MARIE LOUISA AUGUSTA INGRAM, 42- | Railwaymen's Conference at YEAR-OLD WIFE OF R.A.F. SERGEANT AND Morecambe yesterday unani- SISTER-IN-LAW OF A STAFF OFFICER SERV-mously carried a resolution ING WITH THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, requesting that Cabinet Min- WAS SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS' PENAL SER-isters and other persons in high office associated with VITUDE. Ingram was found guilty of conspiring to contra-the previous Government's policy of appeasement should vere the Defence Regulations and of doing an
be immediately removed act with the aim of assisting the enemy; a ver- from office. dict of not guilty was returned on the charge of conspiring to obtain
Two men were accused with In-.
gram-William Swift (57) and Archi- bald Watts (40). Watts was found not guilty on all counts, but Swift, described as an assistant storeman in the Naval Dockyards at Southsea, was sentenced to 14 years' penal ser- vitude.
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BUILDING SOCIETY CONTROL
societies
London, To-day.
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The resolution pledged continuous resistance to attempts to crush Demo- cracy until a just and lasting peace is achieved.
Mover of the resolution, Mr. A. N. Paton (Edinburgh) said all Hitler's triumphs had been due to political. weakness leading to amazing and Incredible acte of treason and treachery.
What he most, feared to-day was not the might of the German air force or its mechanised army but our Fifth Column of men who were still in positions of power and ought to have been removed at the time the Govern-
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At present there is considerablement was reconstituted. diversity in the rules on this point among societies, and the object the regulation is to secure uniformity in the societies' powers.-Reuter.
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The Treasury announce a defence Swift was found guilty of con-regulation has been made, authorising
with In- spiracy; communicating
building
require withdrawals gram; inciting a man named Rashmonths notice for
the Local Defence leigh to join
shares and deposits. Volunteers in order to obtain arms in- for the protection of enemy vaders, and with endeavouring cause disaffection in the King's Ser. vices.
fact Feature of the case was the that if Ingram and Swift had been could they arrested a week later, have been charged with High Treason, penalty for which is death, under new regulations.
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Born In Germany Ingram was born in Germany German parents and it was stated at the trial that she had been heard to express hatred of Britain.
She had told one man that when the this country was Invaded by
Family and Germans, the Royal
He wanted to see those men in a position where they could not pos sibly betray this country in the way Petaln betrayed France-Router.
SCHEME FOR SENDING CHILDREN TO THE DOMINIONS
London, To-day.
members of the Cabinet would be INITIATING THE DISCUSSION in the House of
Oswald
publicly axecuted and Sir Mosley made ruler of England. Ingram acquired British nationality by marriage and had been employed in a domestic post by a senior naval officer engaged in important work for the Admiralty.-Reuter.
FIGHT OVER A BOY
Two Chinese married women, both claiming to be the mother of a 17- year-old-boy, had a fight yesterday. The police arrested both women.
Before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kow- loon this morning they were charged with disorderly conduct by fighting and were bound over,
It was stated that Leung Chiu, 40, gave her son up to her relative, Chan Luk-mul, 30, many years ago owing to poverty.
Yesterday Leung demanded the re- turn of her son from Chan, who re- fused. Chan sustained head injuries in the fight.
GIRL ACCUSED
A naval communique states that between last Thursday and Sunday, British, naval forces sank four sub- marines in addition to the Italian des- troyer Espero. There were 44 sur- vivors from the Espero and it is be-
A 22-year-old spinster, Chan Lai- lieved there were some from the chun, was remanded by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C.. at the Central Magis- known to have been sunk before tracy this morning, when charged on this communique was issued, five five counts of obtaining money by were sunk by the East Indies Ata-false pretences between June 20 and tion in the Red Sea and off Italian 27. Defendant, pleaded, not guilty. Somaliland.
Detective Sergeant Morrison said Italy came into the war with about defendant obtained a dollar. from five 120, and is now probably wondering different complainants, pretending she how she can get reinforcements to could obtain employment for them those still in action at the far end in the British Tobacco Company Fac-
tory. of the Suez Canal.-Reuter,'
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Commons yesterday on the work of the newly in- augurated Children's Overseas Reception Board, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare said it was a difficult problem which children would not be sent to the Dominions.
They had asked for a cross section of normal, fit chil- dren and would send them according to that plan.
Seventy-five per cent of children in England and Wales will come from grant-aided schools and the remaind- er from other sources. In Scotland, 49 of each 50 will come from local education authority schools and one from other schools.
These quotas follow roughly the proportions of children existing in the respective kinds of schools.
FIGHTING
FOR ICHANG
Chungking, To-day, Fighting is continuing in the out- skirts of Ichang and two Japanese aeroplanes were shot down there by
anti-airoraft batteries on June 29, the Chinese authorities claim.
In Klangsi, the Chinese claim pres- There was no ground for the con-
sure is continuing on Nanchang, -ca- stant reiteration by German propapital of the province. Chinese troops ganda that the benefits of the scheme would go exclusively to the rich,"
They had received hitherto applica- tions in England and Wales in respect. to over 50,000 children.
"I am in touch with the American
are said to be approaching. Liuhong, terminus of the Nanchang-Kiukiang railway, opposite Nanchang across the
Kan River.-Reuter.
WOUNDING CHARGE Charged with wounding with intent Ambassador on the application of the to do grievous bodily harm to Wong scheme to America but I am not yet Slu-wah in Kowloon on April 16, in a position to make un announce-Yuen Kit-hang, 38, unemployed, was
ment.
Dominions Offers
"We have received from the Do- minions offers in respect of 20,000 children and we shall proceed to be lect and send that number overseas as quickly as possible.
"Even including the American
remanded for three days by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon this morn- Ing: Det.-Segt. McPherson is in charge of the case. scheme, the total offers of homes for children in the Dominions, or United States must apply only to a very small proportion of our children.”—-Reuter,
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