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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940

SYSTEMATIC CIRCULATION OF FORGERIES ALLEGED

PREYING ON SCHOOLS and principal tenants of houses, two Chinese women and a man were al leged to have carried out the systematic circulation of forged bank-notes in Kowloon by Mr. G. P. Mur phy, Assistant Crown Solicitor, at the Criminal Ses sions this morning.

Accused, Kwok Fong and Leung | address as No. 33 (second floor),

Kun- Tainam Street. Ying (women), and Mak

Mt. sing, were represented by

not who pleaded Percy Chen, guilty.

Clerk Suspicious

First accused then tendered a $100 note of the Chartered Bank.

The jury empanelled was com- posed of Messrs. W. H. Whiteley (foreman), R. A. Gardiner, Man The clerk suspected the note to Wai-lee, F. Elliot, Chan Ping, Lat be a forgery and had it sent for verification to a money-changer's Sheung-shi and S. H. Langston.

According to the prosecution, shop. the two women and a man, (not Shortly afterwrds, third accused) who gave his name cused appeared. Formerly

third

ac-

em-

stated that Chan Chun-tong was told later that the $100

his

as Chan Chun-tong, visited theployed in the Institute, he claim- Milton Institute in Jordan Ronded that second accused was

25. First accused wife and said he was sorry when on October

bank- her nephew who wished to enter note was a forgery. He asked for a the note to be returned but was TEL. 20616' the Institute to learn to drive

She was told that the fee told that it had been sent to the

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$100,

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in

A form was filled Chan's age as 29 years and

Institute The principal of the accompanied first accused to the

After giving Police Station.

his cautioned she stated

FAILURE OF ITALIAN MORALE

she wis that she received the nale trom a rice de- aler in Taipo. She also made

all other statements

which were found to be untrue.

In one of her last statements, the note she said she received

of

from second accused and that she acted under instructions third accused.

of

She alleged that third accused said he was well acquainted with the principal and that he would be able to get her out of any trouble.

ac-

RAF. “PRESENTS!! FOR BERLINERS

British airmen who periodically visit Ber- lim to bomb the city's military objectives, sometimes also: drop little private things just to remind Berlin- ers they one overhead.

For example, tail gunners usually take over some special "present" they want to drop.

Sqdn.-Ldr. R. Col- tard revealed this in- teresting fact. "The tail gunner's pre- sent, he said, often consists of a brick or some private little in- cendiary bomb of their own and they send it down with their best with Q regards, or message such as recent from Harry."

a

"Love one,

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FACSIMILE

OF MAGNA

CARTA

At the Magistracy she changed

Lord Willingdon, who The difference between her statements while third what the Italians are call-cused denied knowing the women. heads the British mission

Incidents

14, On September

Arst

ed to fight for now and Previous Alleged what they fought for in the last war was emphas- ised by Mr. Hugh Dalton, third accused, accompanied Minister of Economic child, visited the Warfare, in a speech yes terday.

the

The Italian people know in their hearts they are fighting on wrong side in this war, he said, and that is why they are surren- dering by the thousands.

Even the crack Alpini regi- ments -

"my comrades in arms in the last war" are surrender- ing to the Greeks in Albania.

In the last war, the Alpin

They died never surrendered. like heroes, defending their own country against the barbarian German Invader.

This is not Italy's war.

faces defeat.

Fung

School in Fuk Wah Street

now visiting Uruguay, last night presented to the Uruguay Congress Library a facsimile copy Wing of Magna Carta.

and by a

and

they to

told the headmistress that wished to register the child study in the school.

They agreed to the fees charged and were asked to deposit $10, the balance to be paid end of the month.

at the

He recalled a similar ceremony in Washington when the original was delivered to the safe keeping of the United States for the dur- and suggested ation of the war there was a symbolic significance in this deposit of the Charter of British freedom in the safekeeping *

the $50 First accused produced. a note of the Mercantile Bank and of the great Democracy of peril for the world's liberty was given $40 change. The child New World during a time of great was to have entered the school three days later but did not.

The headmistress later found that the note was a forgery. She visited the address given by first by accused but found no one It is that

name living there.

The presentation to the Con- gross-in- Montevideo was but a token of the remarkable act of mutual confidence at Washing- ton a year ago. Earlier in the day Mr. Robert Brand, a member of the mission, Mussolini's war, and he knows he On October 21 at about 1 p.m. addressing the Uruguayan Na- Arst and second accused, accom- tional Chamber of Commerce, em- visited the phasised that although at present While Allied strength waxed,panied by a child, Mussolini's waned, because he is third floor of No. 182, Nathan war trade must have absolute -

to priority during the first year of in the grip of the blockade en Road, and said they wanted forced by the Navy and driven hire a cubicle. They agreed to war Britain, which was her best home by hammer-blows by aerial pay $48 rent per month. Second customer, bought more than be- bombardment.

accused produced a $50 banknote fore from Uruguay, which did not Mr. Dalton said he had recom-of the Mercantile Bank and asked need reminding that Britain's al- mended to the R.A.F. some of the the principal tenant to take $20 leged inability to deliver was

complete myth. targets to be bombed to cripple as she needed $30 to do

-There was, however, a link be- Germany's economic machine. shopping. She was given "$30” in

"We have not enough bombers, exchange for the banknote, but tween the countries more impor- but we will soon have more and failed to turn up on October 23 tant than trade. we will then succeed to an even

to occupy the cubicle. Later the greater extent than now," he con-

banknote was found to be a for cluded; Redter.

gery.

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The case is continuing."

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And, most important of all, we are united in the conviction that life without freedom would not be life at all-British Wireless,

NAZIS SPEED UP EVACUATION

THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES

ARE SPEEDING UP THE EVA CUATION OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM BERLIN AS

THE DES THE RESULT OF

·TRUCTIVE R.A.F. RAIDS,

About 10,000 evacuated chil dren will be sent to the former Polish provitiée of Poseri..

ern Desert restricted air activity on Tuesday, stat- ed an R.A.F. communique small hoy, Li Wan-sin, 27, married woman, and Ng Po-ying, 36. issued in Cairo yesterday widow, were each fined $20 by but the RAF. attack on Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this

morning. Bardia continued both -Inspector Moreten, of the SC.A... during the day and pre- said the accused and the

boy were detained at Yau vious night.

mati Railway Station', 'yes- Three large fires were started | terday morning by the police. Av- in the encampment while outslaccused said they were taking the the town a large quantity of mo- boy to the country to first accus

ed's mother, who bought the Boy tor transport was damaged,

Reconnaissance flights showed some time ago in Hong Kong and the enemy is retreating towards who had since left for the couts and his father was in the Army The boy was said to have been Derna, which was raided during try.

a travelling had no brought -down by the night, all bombs falling on the The prosecution

Who apparently picked evidence to show that the informa-truder, aerodrome; **

tion was correct, but it appearect him up somewhere in the coun that the bry's mother was dead try,

Damage was not observed owing, Ito the bad weather-Reuter,

The officiol --Germani: news Agency asserts that hardly a hospital is left in Berlin that has not been hit by the British night, gangsters,”