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POLICE OFFICER

CONVICTED

Indian Fined On Serious Charges

DEFENCE PLEA FOR

LENIENCY

Misconduct as a police officer was alleged against Sohan Singh, Lance-sergeant B. 266, when he made his appearance before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy on Saturday morning on the following charges: (a) being on his beat, (b) entering Rcensed premises without authority and (c) receiving a sum of $30.

Sub-Inspector LR. Whant ap- peared for prosecution while Mr. D. McCallum was present on be- hair on the defendant.

Mr. McCallum stated that the defendant was prepared to plead guilty to a technical offence.

It was about three weeks ago that the defendant on several oc-" casions visited the Tal" Lau Bin Hotel. Des Voeux Road, but was on his correct beat. He (defen- dant) went there-to inform the manager about watering the flow- com- ers an the verandah,, as a plaint had been lodged that the water was sprayed over people in the road

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Some avenings later defendant went to the same place again and the manager told the defendant that he had no drinks to offer him, but it was alleged that the defendant received money.

On Chinese New Year's day de fendant was in the residence again but this time he was present to wish the manager "a happy New Year." The next day a trap was laid by the police and defendant was arrested.

CROWDS CHEER

QUEEN

Queen Mary made her first public appearance since the death of King George V., when "Dream- ing Lips," the new Elisa- both Bergner..film, was shown at the Londen Pavilion in ald of slum clearance in North London, writes a Home correspon- dent.

After the performance Miss Bergner and her husband, Dr. presented to Paul Cainner, were Queen Mary,

Miss Bergner sald afterwards that Queen Mary told her she liked the Alm." and, congratulated her.

A large crowd, controlled with dificulty by foot and mounted police, gathered in Piccadilly-cir- It cus to see Queen Mary arrive. was not easy to keep a lane clear for the circulation of traffic. and WILS A between 8.30 and 9 there traffic jam extending a consider- able distance.

The arrival of her Majesty's car' was the signal for a general surge forward.

As Queen Mary stepped from her car there were cries of "God bless your Majesty!" and cheers.

She was received by the Mar- quess and Marchioness of Balls-

HOTEL NATHAN

ROBBERY

Two Men Charged

Ho Kwan-fung. 30, unemployed accountant, and Wong Yat-pina, 28, unemployed teacher, alleged to be responsible for the robbery which occurred in the Nathan Hotel, Kowloon, on Friday. were Det-Sergeant Bentley and a charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- Chinese detective were in the fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy manager's room when the defen-on Baturday. dant was seen to receive money. His Worship granted 72 hours' The defendant did not see the remand

on the application of party in the premises but when he Detective Sub-Inspector Cunning- left the residence he was searchedham's request. by the Chinese detective and a sum of $30 was found in his pockets.

Mr. McCallum said that the de- fendant had been a police oficer for a period of 15 years and added that his record was good with the exception of minor offences. The defendant's salary was $35 per

month.

asked his Wor-

Mr. McCallum ship to take a lenient view of the case.

SERIODS CHARGE

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TEA PARTY

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bury, and Mr. Louis A. Neel, a di- rector of Trafalgar Films, the pro- ducers of the picture.",

In Queen Mary's part were the Duchess of Gloucester, Lord Car- negle, Lady Maud Carnegie, the Ikwager Lady Ampthill, Capt.

Paget and Arthur

the Hon. Gerald Chichester.

A fashionable audience also in-

cluded celebrities of the social, diplomatic, stage and nim worlds. Two unexpected arrivals were' Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, and Lord Hugh Ceell, the new Provost of Econ, the latter a very infrequent visitor to the cinema.

MISS OFRGNER ARRIVES It was the first première of one of her own productions that Miss Bergner has attended, and once again she evidently found the or deal of watching herself on" the screen ter

She nerve wracking. sat through a Silly Symphony, but immediately "Dreaming Lips" be- gan she slipped out of her seat and spent the rest of the time waiting in an office of the theatre.

The Hon. David Bowes-Lyon an- nounced that £5,000 had been raised for the fund.

LIFE BANISHEE

Pleading that he was only pass- ing through Hong Kong on his way to Swatow, a returned bani- 'shee, Li Sang, 43, unemployed, was sentenced to six months imprison- ment when he appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday to answer a charge of breach of a deporta- tion order.

Det-Set Hutchinson said that defendant was banished for life from Singapore, and he had re- turned to this Colony twice last year..

ANOTHER CASE Suspected to be a returned bani- shee, Leung Wah, 89, unemployed was arrested by a constable, on duty in Salisbury Road on Thursday last When charged before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy ΟΣΙ Saturday, prosecuted by Det.-Bgt.

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| Hutchinson. defendant pleaded Mr. Du Cooper, speaking at whether the man is guilty or in-

DRUG TRAFFIC OFFENCES

"Every day we are presented with events so fearful and so in- credible that we seem to be living In a world that seems to have

gone mad. There is a great trial going on at the present moment in the capital of one of the great- est Powers in the world. The peo..... ple who are standing that trial are men who have held dominat- ing positions in one of the greatest revolutions that has ever taken place in history, men' who have transformed an ancient Empire in- to a new-fashioned type of Con- men who have held

For having possession of 35 po pui tickets valued at $34.50 and keep that he had a sore leg and came ing a common gaming house, a to the Colony for treatment. He ced an encrinous increase in re-

Westminster last month, announ- nocent; married woman. Wong Sze. 50, stated that be had just been dis- was charged before Mr. Q. A. A. charged from the Kwong Wah Cruitment for the Territorial Army, and hinted that concessions Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- | Rospital where he had been stay-

similar to those granted to the tracy

Defendant ing for a few months. Defendant Territorial Army would shortly be on Saturday.

was

dismissed on the second was sentenced to six months' im-

extended to the Regular Army. charge; she pleaded guilty to the prisonment. His Worship imposed a fine of first charge and was fined $30 or

"80 far

as my Department is $100.

one month in gaol.

concerned, the result of one year's effort has been extremely satis- factory," he said. "With regard to the Territorial Army certain Chat Shup, ST. unemployed, concessions-nothing remarkable, charged with the possession of a nothing spectacular-wire made quantity of prepared opium was last year. The result of what was fined $150 with the alternative of uttle more, if any more, than the three months' imprisonment when restoration of privileges and rights | stitution. he was brought before Mr. Keen which they had before, has been positions of the very highest re- at the Central Magistracy an enormous increase in recruit-sponsibility. Saturday morning.

ment for the Territorial Army. In "Every day in open Court in the the last nine months recruitment eyes of the world, these men. has gone up steadily. In the first month, April, there was an im- provement of 80 per cent. In the last month, December, there was an improvement of 120 per cent I hope shortly to be able to un 'nounce similar changes in condi-

A week's remand was granted

The members of the Hong Kong on Det.-Sub-Inspector's Cunning-

Police (Indian Company) are hold- ham's application by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magie-ing a tea party at the Gloucester tracy on Saturday in the case in Hotel on Thursday, February 25, which, Yu Yee-ying, 33, seaman of at 5.15 pm. to congratulate Mr. the Water Police is charged with Feros All, Officer Commanding the demanding

of $250 with Indian Company, on his appoint- menaces from Wong Sam onment to the post of 'Assistant February 15...

Superintendent of Mulls.

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Sensational Disclosures- At Inquest

Sensational disclosures were made

He found himself hanging up cockpit, and at the inquest at Hawkinge Aero-side down in the drome. Kent, On Aircraftman called out to Young, asking if he

were hurt. There was no reply. Thomas Gurdon Boung, aged 23. killed when the aero-

Strut Pulled Out who was

He then realised that. Young plane in which he was the gunner

was under the machine, having made a forced landing, states the

He had "Morning Post." It was stated fallen out of his seat.

been fastened in, but the strut to that:

the cable of the safety which harness was attached had pulled out.

Three pleces of rag were found in the main. petrol tank, and

rag

The strut to which the cable of

Warrant Omeer Engineer' W. the dead man's safety harness Stewart said that in the petrol WIX attached had pulled out, causing him to fall from his seat. tank were three pieces of

about two luches wide and six of The Coroner was informed that seven inches long, as large as a the RAF would hold a strict in- smal handkerchief. The rags quiry to ascertain. If possible, how would have caused these things happened.

block in the flow of the petrol to

Evidence was given by Aircraft- man G. Collins that before the

flight be inspected the aircraft and found everything in order.

The pilot, Flying officer An- thony Gordou Wimbush, attached

on

Lam Tuk, 32, unemployed was fined $25 or one month's imprison- ment for the possession of dutiable

tobacco on the Canton Wharf.

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Po Yee, 35, married woman, also made her appearance before Mr

speaking on their oath. the shadow of death hanging im- mediately over them, are confes sing to crimes that would astonish and shock and horrify, not the inhabitants of our convict prisons, but the inhabitants of our crimin- al" luhatic asylums. Á very distinguished member of the Com-

K. Keen on Saturday for the postions in the Regular Army which, session of 500 heroin pills on-Feb- have little doubt, will produce ruary 12. A fine of $500 was im-milar and equally satisfactory, munist Party in Russia, one who posed on the defendant with the result." alternative of five months hard isbour.

A fine of $1.300 or six months'

Imprisonment was imposed on Yee Wong. 51, widow, for the posses sion of 1,305 heroin piils.

LOCAL ESTATES. ››

Grants Of Letters Of Administration

for years was a director of the

Mr. Dun Cooper described as South Ural Railway, has confessed satisfactory the replies received-gally, blithely, self-confidently. from other Powers to the British confessed that he arranged 3,500 Government's communication on train wrecks while he was director the subject of nori-intervention in of that railway. Can we belleve the Spanish civil war. The Goy these things? Can we imagine ernment's policy of non-interven- such a criminal existing in the tion, he said. had won for it a world?" leading position in Europe. danger clouds of war had lighten-.

The

ed a little because a firm leader-

ship had been given, and support THESE "CROWN, bad been accorded to that leader-. ship by the countries from whom support had been asked.

SABOTAGE IN DOCKYARDS

JEWELS" TO BE

LUCKY CHARMS

Miniatures of the King and will be worn 25 lucky charms by society women. during the Coronation season.

Speaking of Bir Samuel Hoare's | Queen Elizabeth a temporary

the carburettor.

The Coroner (Mr. G. W. Haines) asked Stewart if he could say how

long the rag had been there........

Stewart-No.

How do you think it got there?

to No. 2 (Army Co-operation) --I have no idea." Squadron, stated that, he was Stewart said every part of the about two-thirds of the way engine was found to be in perfect across the aerodrome at a height order. of about 30 feet when the englis

Squadron Leader N. L. Desver Ahead there was a hedge said that the discovery. had been and a sunken road, and beyond, made only that day, A strict in- in the valley, some high-tension quiry would be held for the pur- electric cables...".

pose of finding out how the pieces of rag had got. Into the tank.

"cut."

The late Capt. Douglas Lorne Campbell of the Customs cruiser, Choong. Hang, who was shot dead, allegedly by his cabin boy, on Jan- uary 11, while the boat was on its way to Hong Kong, left local estate amounting to 123,400. Letters of administration to the estate have been granted to the widow. Mrs. Elleen Rose Campbell.

revelation of sabotage in naval dockyards, Mr. Daft Cooper said: "Skilled men who knew what they were about deliberately interfered

with the machinery of vessels, in- Local estate sworn at $23,200 was cluding submarines. In a way that left by the late Mr. Hendrik Jan might have proved fatal to them Van Dertak, formerly of 16 Hoof-If they went to sea. I do not know,

where they had learned their les dwes. Amsterdam, who died on June 16, 1930. Mr. R. A. Wadeson, son, but it is remarkable that to. solicitor, the lawful attorney, has day one of the great Communists ot Russia should have confessed to been granted letters of administra

wrecking 3,500 trains, -70) tion to the estate.

FRAU GOEBBELS

"The danger to our Fleet 1 there are trusted men working in our Dockyards who are prepared

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The Coronation Chair in West- minster Abbey, the Orb and the Mace are modelled in gold and enamel and strung on a bracelet to bring the wearer, good luck, The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company have them,

The heads of their Majesties In gold and gems-mounted on brooches as souvendis of the Coro- nation-the King's Crown mount.. ed in a square beret brooch, lape! buttons and safety-pins are being

Because of the cables and the

Berlin, Feb. 19. to carry out these criminal acts is shown in the jewellery section of steep slope, he said, he turned left, The mag was floating about' in- Frau Magda Goebbels, wife of so fearful that nobody could pos- the British Industries Fair and was attempting to land on wide like pieces of seaweed." he the German Propaganda Minister, ribly maintain that, where sus the edge of the aerodrome, when added. There is no reflection on gave birth to a daughter to-day,

of the wheels struck the | AircraftmanTM Collins

This is their fourth child since ground, and the machine turned a The Jury returned a verdict of their marriage in 1931-

Transocean :News Bervine,/?) romerasult

accidental death

one

A diamante dress-clip has a picior falls in such a case, it is Coronation decoration in the cen necessary or right or possible or tre, which can be removed so that allowable to pursue all the stages clip and souvenir can be used of English Justice to make sure separately