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By BUD FISHER

AIN'T CHA

GONNA KISS

YOUR BROTHER GOOD-BYE?

AGED 16, STEALS $1,700

em- Col-

Neatly dressed, a 16- year-old mess boy, ployed in La Salle lege, stood in the dock before Mr. D. J. N. Ander- at Kowloon this

son

morning charged with stealing $1,700 from the College between March 7 and 29.

The lad, pleading guilty. 1 zemanded for 48 hours

The Diretor of the College re-

the ported the theft of

money

to the police yesterday following which Del-Sgt. C. Downnan went to the school •

tigate

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ONE-ARMED M.C. TO

In the investigation, Dowman noticed accused wearing an expensive watch Questioned,

Captam Adean Hopkins, toumerį accused then admitted that htt

took Mayor of Bath, who won the M. End stolen the money and the police to No. 420, Prince Ed- and lost an arm in the last war, Lis to rejoin his old regiment, the ward where $1,050 Was re-

R.A. covered.

Del-sel REJOIN REGIMENT

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He is to take a gunnery course, The captain is chairman of Bath A.R.P, as well as one of the best

JA collectors two known stamp

country.

The rest of the money had been

the purchase spent

of $400. valued at watches add two fountain pens.

camera,

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nap

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measure

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household gods

18 Energy

20 Southwest-

ern state

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24. Ardour

20 Tax

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horse

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a low volco

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time 48 Rotating

ploce

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country

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fortress

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VERTICAL

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pronoun

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pronoun

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pronoun

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A VERY

STRANGE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

CASE

Sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at Kowloon this morning on Lai Wo, 30, for posses- sion of a revolver and tight rounds of ammuni- tion without a licence.

The revolver and ammunition were ordered to be eonfiscated.

Det-Sgt. N. B. Fraser, prosecut- lg, sikidl it was ' very strange cast. Accused went to a cigarette stall master at the side-dvor of Nt!. 1. Temple Street at 12.30 am, pairiting the revolver at him? and asking for money.

Another Chinese, who was not Janeted. came up and shouted

'Don't move."

The master, who was about to Į pack up his stall, told them that that was not the way to ask for help and be assured them that he would treat them a meal if they would wait for few minutes until he had thushed packing up stall.

The other Chinese waited. Jaceused went away for ten min- utes, returning with no revolver which,

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it was later established. was buried near an Air Raid Shel- ter in Cliffe Road by accused.

The master kept his promise and treated them to a meal in the leafe, but declined

to pay them

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Former ruler

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11 Rants

13 item of

property

16 Means of egress

19 New Zealand tribesman

21 On top of

22 Fragment

25 Slip-knot

27 Mistake

30 Essay

32 Sea-duck

34 Roman

emperor 36 Rotating disk 37 Haven 38 Ceremony 40 Made ready 41 Brinka

41 Ancient

European colony

47 French priest 49 Narrow

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57 Symbol for

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58 Printer's

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The following morning, the po- lice received information and Principal Chinese Detective Shek Tui, went to the stall and was to'd that someone had come up

for money.

Meanwhile, accused appeared in the vicinity, and was pointed out by the master and arrested.

The revolver

and ammunition were discovered by a Sanitary Department coolie, who handed them to the police.

"BRAIN

SPLIT IN TWO"

Five times wounded, holder of

the Military Cross and an acting captain in the last war. Guy Cochrane Veale Greetham, forty- four, a soldier, was at Bourne- mouth Quarter Sessions described by an officer as a man whose "brain seemed to have been split in two."

Greetham pleaded guilty to ob- taining credit for £3 2s. 6d. by means of fraud and obtaining £1 by falsely pretending he was a captain in the Army and in pos- session of an Army draft for £28. He also admitted three out- standing charges, one of falsely wearing a captain's uniform and two of false pretences.

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twelve

He was sentenced months' imprisonment,

Detective Jones sald Greetham was placed on the retired list with the rank of captain in 1921, but five years later, on being convict- ed, was removed from the Army List and deprived of his rank.

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