1940-10-21 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

HE DIDN'T

SOCK ME!

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POLICE TRAP FOR ARMED GANG

HEAVY BAIL RISE IN

IN RADIO CASE

BAIL TOTALLING $5,500 WAS ALLOWED BY MR. E.. HIMS÷

MASQUERADING AS SAM- WORTH AT KOWLOON ON PAN PEOPLE, A PARTY OF PO-SATURDAY TO THE FIVE DE- LICE UNDER SERGEANT MAY AND SERGEANT CAMPBELL. ARRESTED FOUR WOULD-EF ROBBERS NEAR PILLAR POINT IN CHEUNGSHAWAN ON

SATURDAY.

Police Launch No. 3, in the charge of Sergeant May and Ser geant Campbell, was patrolling off Cheungshawan during the morn ng when a junk master reported ht 7 a.m., five or six men on shore shouted out and ordered him to come on shore.

He ignored the order and steer ed away whereupon the men fired three shots at his junk. The men boarded a sampan but were out distanced.

WIRELESS TRANSMITTING STATION CASE.

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FATAL ACCIDENTS

FENDANTS INVOLVED IN THE Increased speeding and recklessness by private Accused Tam Kam-lu, 51, wire-motorists is alleged to be less operator, charged with posses- and Wong Wal, 32, unemployed, ably increased number of sion of the transmitting apparatus, the cause of the consider- charged with aiding and abetting were allowed while Tam Kam-wo, 26, clerk, and Colony during the last $2,000 bail each, fatal accidents in the Chau Wing-pan, 20, salesman, charged with aiding and abetting, nine months. were allowed $500 bail each.

The authorities, it is learned, An unemployed wireless opera are paying special attention to tor, Kwok, Yu, 28, who was ar this situation since private motor- rested on Friday, was also allow-ists, who have been involved in ed $500 bail. He is also charged the majority

of fatal accidents, with aiding and abetting.

are only a few hours a day on the Det.-Sgt. J. Johnston will ap- roads, as compared with lorries Laying a trap, a party of Chin-pear for the police and Mr. M. A. and other transportation vehicles, ese seamen and the European ser- da Silva for Tam Kam-iu. Tam which traverse the roads more geants rowed in a sampun to the Kam-wo and Chau Wing-pan. than 12 hours a day.

pot indicated.

Fatal accidents during the last nine months numbered 138 com- pared with 94 in the same period last year, an increase of fifty per cent.

Two men on the beach at Pillar Point, shouted orders to row in- hore. They obeyed and landed, the two meri fleeing on seeing the ¦ European sergeants.

The police fired several rounds Band wounded one in the leg. He vas later admitted to the Kow- oon Hospital. The other man es- taped in the hills,

CATHOLICS IN GREATER REICH

(SPECIAL TO "SUNDAY HERALD")

The Catholic Press Bureau in Rome pointed out yesterday that following Germany's recent terri- torial annexations Greater Ger- The wounded man had an auto-many now has more Catholics than matic pistol and a hand grenade, Protestants-the figures being 48 Later, the police found their and 45 millions respectively, sampan and 'arrested thite men whereas the 1933 figures were 21 who were unarmed,

and 40 millions.-Havas,

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Official statistics show: 1939 Total accidents 3,548 Kowloon and N.T. 1,072 Hong Kong

..... 2,476 Total fatal accidents 94 Hong Kong Kowloon and N.T.

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The Ministry of Labour an- nounces a rise of two points the cost of living figure as com pared with that ruling on Aug. 31. The Oct. 1. index figure was 89 points above the July, 1914, level, as against 87 points on August 31, the rise being equivalent to about one per cent;

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For food alorie the rise over the August level was higher by about two per cent. The rise in the food index, the Ministry states, was due mainly to increases in the price of eggs with some increase in fish prices and a regional rise in-milk,

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THE ARGENTINE GOVERN- MENT, IT WAS STATED BUENOS AIRES YESTERDAY, IS TO INSTITUTE A FIVE-YEAR REARMAMENT. PLAN, WHICH WILL COST ABOUT £82,500,000,

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