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'ATTEMPT TO DROWN | come and the defendant was in-

TWO CHILDREN

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS BY

S.C.A. INSPECTOR

SORDID STORY OF A

WIFE-SELLING

When Fung Po Man was charged before Mr. Wynue Jones yesterday with tempting to drown two

troduced, as the uncle of the girl, It appears that ke monopolished the conversation with be mom and af ter the restaurant proprietor had. gono he informext "the girl," that the man liked her very much and want. ed to live with her. The girl said that she strongly objected and the consequence of that objection) was that she was assaulted by the de- fendant..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.

SECRET RADIO! MR. PEPYS IN HONG STATION RAIDED . .

CODE COMMUNICATIONS WITH NANKING DISCLOSED

HEAVY PENALTY IMPOSED

A police raid carried out on the apper floor of No. 59. Pokfulam Road, on Wednesday, had its sequel at the Central Police Court yester- day when a Chinese, Yeung Chi

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ing. This day, after nuncheon, to Kowloon in the courts there, and. later at nets, forgetting that I had another engagement, whereby I am greatly at a stoude to know what

should do to right the matter. Altor writing in my chamber very busily and early, to bed,

19th-Up very hetimes this day and to the office, where I finish my Christmass mail, and then fall to ordering my papers, which done I take a motor wherry from beside 22nd.----Much ado about the die- the new. Reclamation, where the cussion of the Lytton report in the Véhicular Ferry shall be, But League of Nations. And herein is Lord! the smell from the nullah the fundamental weakness of the that falleth out beneath the Pier League shown, for if it be but a there did nigh make me ill, so foul case of States so small they may it was! And I trust it shall be with impunity he bullied, then all

children, a boy aged 3 and a girl an appointment with the restaurant ising appeared before Mr. Wynne jamended before the Ferry runs, or is very well. But when it be a case

aged 6, Inspector F. Shaftain of the 5.A. told the Court the de fondant had been supported by his wife for the past six years.

the case

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Transmitting Set Discovered.

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to torpect that it will humbly obey.

Yet if the League seeks to constrain

Husband'a Arrangement,

The next day the defendant kopt

proprietor, mesting him at the Princes Cafe. When he returned Jones and pleaded guilty to athe Causeway Bay grouse shall of a great nation with a vital cause home he told the girl that he lul charge of having in his possession have its nose put clean out of joint. at stako, it is not in human reason Arranged matters with the

an unregistered transmitting and To the P. & Q. shippie wherein The evebis that culminated in about her. It appears

receiving wireless net.

sails Mr. Shoppe, with whom 1 that the the attempted drowning are best man had paid $150 to defendant

According to `Mr. W. M. Themp, drink a flaggon of ale. There also any member I know not bụt that told in the words of Inspector for the purpose of renting a house, A.S.P., who was prosrenting saile Mr. White the thyrurgeon, it may sot the would in a blaze, Shaftain who prsecuted.

and purchasing furniture.

jon behalf of the police, the rail | and his family, and Mr. Fergie the Coming to the Clubbe I meet Mr. Outlining the facts of the ease, girl again objected, and it is allog Wednesday, when the defendant London where next year I trust to him my mind in this, and he re was carried out at 11.40 a.m. on." Hanker, who now is transforred to | Ashby upon the verandah and tell he suit In making this case of that the defendant threatened and another in were discovered drink a glass or two of strong bukes me for mistaking the true use- clear to the Court, I am afraid it kill her if she did not comply in the front rooin of the house, waters with him, if fortune befulness of the League which is, ho will he necessary to explain certain A house was accordingly rented in where an ordinary receiving was goode. Thence back to my office anys, to employ unemployables and unsavoury details, connected with Morrison Hill Rond and the girl

and later playing at Krickett, but to form committies where crochetty | I will have to go back and the defendant went to this to the defendant's domestie history house and the restaurant proprie.

ith ill-fortune, and so later to the old gentlemen may blow off steam during the past eight years. It aptor co-habited with the girl. In a small cubicle at the top of match at Rugby football, where with a minimum of misance to the pears that eight years ago the de This woot on for about three the stairs was found a complete see the second half only. But world at large. Then changing the fendant was employed in the weeks and then it appears that the short-wave transmitting and receiv. Lord! to see the hamhandedness subject to asks me what I under. of the Club, outsides, and the slow. stand by a black hunting dogge, as electrical department of the Public master was informed by the girl oring set, with several batteries on Works Department. He married a by some other person that the do- the floor already conureted up. A

ness in getting the ball away to the ho was of opinion that there be girl tied-Chan Lai Ching ne his fidant was not he girl's uncle but lead from the merial on the roof wings, I make no marvel they were special breeds for speical forms of beak And I would counsel them the chase as one should use 4 second wife. Presumably he was her husband. A few days later came into the room, and there were separated from "his first wife at this arrangement A: Morrison two plugs, one of which gave diretto settle to passing practice if they pointer for partridge or quail, a the time. He worked in the P.W.U. 11 Road came to an end and the connection with the cabinet set in hope to amend.

Back to the retriever for duck, and a Man. } for two yours after his second mar- went with the defendant to the front rota The tapper was

Clabbe to batho myself and thenchurian cel hound when pansuing ringe and since his resignation the make a complaint and the facts also in the cubicle.

at dinner with Mr. Cane, when we that palatable delicacy. To which girl had had to support, bim, sabout her having co-habited with

Discovered in the table-drawere eat a monstrous great dish of much, that it was found neces the restaurant proprietor came to which the defendant admitted he and after at billiards, but took were a number of messages in code lettuce, radish, and spring onions, sary for her to pawn, her clothing ght. and javellery. This went on for

over an hour to make an hundred, And so very inte to bed. some time until she secured a posí- Lion ns

school teacher in St.there should be a complete separa-say that the defendant was not the tion betwees the girl and the de-only person to have used the act, fondant and the question of the

only the operator for a group of people. children was muder consideration,. Brain the meantime she should Communication with Wank

Paul's College. She was there for eight months and lofs when her second child was expected."

The S.C.A. again decided that

Tragedy Avorted,

After that she went to Canton have custody of the children. nd returned to Hong Kong after some eight months and obtained work as a cinema actress and also as a private school teacher.

had both sont and received. A code book and code indicator were also found. Mr. Thompson went on to

20th. This day I lay late feeling. somewhat indisposed, but whether it should be attributed to the radishes or the spring onions I am in some doubt, Yet I perceive with match pleasure that they be less deadly than an opinionastro shrimp cocktail. Read the nowes

Mr. D. W. Waterton, Inspector uf Wireless and Telegraphs, ex- plained that the confiscated set was On November 2. during the ab England, and, according to a state- capable of transmitting message to Brace of the girt from her house-ment inade to him by the defendant, sheete but idly, regretting that my constant code communication with star had set before I had complet Nanking had been maintained. ed my subscriptioun. But I doubt In asking the Magistrate to in-not the matter shall, be amended pose the heaviest penalty within his inter. The Interport eleven, I see, power, Mr. Thompson said that. telegraph stations of this nature be beaten by the Chinese, which. I for one hold of happy omen as it were extremely hard to detect.

Defendant was fined 81,000, or in often comes about that the side default ten months' hard labour.

In April this year she went to she was living with her mother and the S.CA. and made a complaint her two children --the defendant to the effect that she had supported is alleged to have gone to the houan her husband and that he took away and asked to be allowed to take all her carstings.. On that occasion the children out for a walk. The the S.C... lecited that she should grundinather,, white allowing him have custody of the children. In to take the children, followed him April she again were to the S.C.A.¦nt some distanco. The defendant and complained that her husband is alleged to have gone to the New had been to her house and had Reclamation and on to a wharf anken away all her belongings and there. The grandmother and two in August she again complained other witnesses would tell the court. to the S.C.A. that her husband that after his arrival at the wharf, hand threatened her.

he picked up the youngest child and threw him into, the water and be then get hold of the other by the hand and jumped into the ses with the child. The child rescued and i was the defendant who eventually went away. grandmother made No

Restaurant Keeper's Interest. About two months ago she heard that the position of a cashier was vacant at a certain restaurant and ahe went there and obtained, the position. She had been there a few days when the master of the res taurant took an interest her and asked her when she lived and if he might visit her and she said

Yes."

That day she told her husband that the master was going to visit her and suggested that she did not wish him to be present and the defendant said "That is all right, you tell your master I am your uncle." The master did, in fact,

The

report of

this matter to the Police, but the next morning the mother of the children went to the B.C.A and nade a complaint to the effect that the defendan, had tried to drown her children. It was in consequence of that report that he was arrested and charged,

After evidence in support of the Inspector's opening had been given, the case was adjourned.

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beaten at home wins in its match. But I am in some doubt of the half-backs. After I eat my nun cheon I make my way to King's Park where I find some friends, and watch the match where Medway and the submarines do out-notch Devonshire at Krickett. And very good-sport is shown especially when Mr Newport holds two ne catches in the deep. Thence to the Hostelry where we drink a glass or two of wine, and I then cross by ferry to Victoria and take my Hollands waters with Mr. A. Step- hen and his Lady whom I have not neon these many days. Howe and very early to bed.

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of wonk. And so we fall in talk of the good shooting in the old days, now ruined by the type of sportsman who returneth at night laden with two, paddy birds, & snake and a large fisho, as I my

self did once see with mine own kyes.

23rd.-Up betimes and do on my white garments it being the day of the match at Kriekett between Oxford and Cambridge, whose teams do take their nuncheon in by the courtesy of the Committee. the Pavilion together, as I learn After Cambridge notch many runs apnce of which Mr. R. Shaw doth strike beyond compare, and Inter after three of the clock, they do so ginger up the game that some three or four notches come every minute, Later Oxford have much ill fortune with the bat and are put out for under a hundred notches. But of all things is Mr. Shaw's record the. most outstanding as in his two innings in this match, this year and last, he scores three hundred and eleven notches and never out. But next year I fear he will not be with ua. This night to Kowloon at half past eight of the clock and so miss my dinner,

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24th-This day dawas very dull am told. And at Anderson's I find swalloweth them, "notil "A long let- and misty and after I come to my the booking going mighty well and ter from a Scotsman upon Home office, rain falls quite a piece. I am much cheared to learn that Rule for Scotland, and if it did The concert was very cheery, and

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