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Japanese Charged At Criminal Sessions

SEQUEL TO SEIZURE OF

LARGE

QUANTITY OF HEROIN

Accused Denies Knowledge

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A Japanese, named Kepaklu Itabashi, aged 41 years, appeared in the dock of the Criminal Sessions yesterday before the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl MacGregor, when Jury, comprising three Europeans, two Portuguese and two Chinese, were told of charges of" possession and importing of 124 ounces of diacetyl morphine, com- monly known as heroin, alleged by the Crown against the accused who was defended by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., and Mr. til Shing Lo, instructed by Mr. J. M. Hall,

member of the Chinese population in Hong Kong.

each for the Crown was The case conducted by Mr. M. J. Abbolt. Assistant Crown Solicitor.

The jury empanelled way 13 follows:-Messrs. . C. T. Bowker (Foreman), Jow Kwan Bok J. G. O'BOW Buis, W. C. Ogley, P. A. Huve G. H. V. Ribeiro and Mok "Hing Cheong

The accused pleaded not guilty He spoke in the to both bounts. Mandarin dialect" "--

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FEN AREA RESIDENTS WARNED Influence Of The Press

OF FLOOD DANGER

CONTINUOUS

RAIN THREATENS FURTHER

LANDSLIDES

London, March 17. "The BBC, tast night broadcast a warning to residents in the fen areks to be ready to evacuate their homes at a moment's notice. Many people were awake all night listening to the broadcast every fifteen minutes.

Early this morning there was a slight improvement in some areas, enabling the watchers, wearied with their three days of continuous work; to take a slight ret, but a renewed downpour of rain threatens a further rise. Hundreds of Cambridge undergraduates are helping to strengthen the cracking banks. The work is hampered by barres bringing bags of clay being unable to pass the bridges.

The rallway service from Folkestone to Dover which was closed owing to a landslide on the track has now been resumed, though continuous rains threatens further landslides. Weather fore casts offer little hope of cessation of the rain which is general all over the country-Reuter's Bulletin Service. "

Mr. Abbott said that at 7.30 an the morning of January 4. Re-

London, Mar. 17. venue Oficer W. Ward went' on

Although the Butterfield and Swire

the danger has not board s.s. Hupeh

Hong Kong, completely passed, the flood situa- in England this morning Canton

Macao Steamboat ton and Wharf. to search the passengers shows distinct Improvement. and their baggage. Mr. Ward went to the port side of the ship and saw the defendant opposite to the compradore's cabin with when Defendant, 'his luggage,

asked, replied in English that the luggage was his.

M:. Abbott, in the course of his opening address to the jury, sald. that the heroin seized was sum cient to make the almost tronomical Agure

18.100.000 of

pills; or to supply

as-

20 pills for

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Photograph taken after the wedding at the Union Church, Hong Kong, yesterday afternoon, between Mr. A. McKellar and Miss C. M. Ferguson-{Photo by King's Studio),

PHILANTHROPIC

TERMS OF WILL

Siam To Benefit Considerably

London, Mar, 17.

Blam is to benefit substantially under the philanthropic terms of the will of Mrs. Reta Leonowens, widow o the former Bangkok! testatrix, who left 108,000..

A sum of £5.000 will be devoted

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PIRATES

The following warning was issued by Police Headquarters yesterday:

"Information has been received that a gang of eight pirates have left the Bias Bay area for an unknown destination during the last nine days; presumably with the Intention of committing piracy."

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Yesterday being St. Patrick's Day to the poor Siamese orphans: Mr. E. H. Williams the President of £10,000 to the Slamele Red Cross the Hong Kong St. Patrick's Society to endow a ward in Chulalongkorn | Jald a wreath at the cenotaph on Hospital Bangkok; £1,000 each to behalf of the members of the the Laos Mission át Chiengwal and ] Society." Bangkok Nursing Home.

There was last night, as the re-. suit of combination of high tides and further heavy rain, a period of acute anxiety.

Bulletins on the situation were broadcast at short intervals dur- ing the night and people living in

several villages were ordered to were engaged in strengthing de- higher grounds and over a wide area the inhabitants were told to stand

in preparation by evacuation.

Welney Wash for 20 miles of its under water which length was stood seven feet deep across the road from Ely to. Wisbech.

fences and everywhere else every point of importance was main- rain ceased and fortained. Wind

about midnight and the tide be- gan to fall. -

No further rain has fallen to- day and there is hope now that the major within a few hours

the danger which threatened There was danger that the od-richest agricultural lands of Eng- den banks would give away in and will have definitely subsided.

British Wireless.

other

areas Hundreds of men

FIFTY EIGHT

Mimic

Warfare

In Progress Coal

Stonecutters

Island Bombed

The War is progressing steadily and shortly after noon yesterday, according to an Official Communi- que issued by the General Staff, a formation of Blue aircraft dropped bombs on Stonecutters Island with- aut, however, causing much serious damage.

DEAD

Disaster

In Japan

Tokyo, Mar. 17.

The death roll as the result of a are which broke out in the lower levels of Chugai coal mine in Shizuoka Prefecture yesterday has reached 58.

The bodies of 42 of the victims were discovered by military chemi- cal experts to be wearing, gas

penetrated The following was the communi-masks. They had

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Eight bodies have so far been brought to the surface.

Over a hundred employees were fighting the fire yesterday when nifty to sixty were cut off by flames

que issued to the Press yesterday: mile and a half into the mine Redland is at war with Blueland. through deadly carbon monoxide At 12.30 hours to-day a formation fumes. of Blue aircraft dropped bombe on Stonecutters Island without, how ever, causing more serious damage than wrecking the Officers' Mess and ruining the recreation rooms. Red anti-aircarft

replied. guns Previous to that a small party of Blue seamen were reported to have landed in Hebe Haven from a junk: they were observed to re-embark. Dawn air reconnaissance morning reported the party of troops marching along the nor- thern shores of Mirs Bay to have

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MURDER PLOT ALLEGATION

Liu Lu Yin Before

Hupeh Court.

Hankow, Mar. 17.

Mr. Lu Lu-yin, member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, who is held here on. charges of murder of Mr. Yang Yung-tai, chalritian of the Hupeh

Apart from bequests amounting shares to four Blamese philanthro Provincial Government, and Mr.

to a minor sum, the residue of the ple bodies.--

-estate Has been left in quarter | Beuter.

President To Tour

Kwangtung

Nanking, March 17.

After that he will make a

President Lin Sen will proceed leisurely tour of Kwangtung and

'to Hankow by gunboat on MarchKAN

20 en route to Cantor: where he will attend the memorial service

inspect reconstruction projects,

Teng Yu-Jen, former foreign Vice- minister, was three time brought up for bearing at the Hupeh Dis- trict Court, vernacular papers stated to-day.

The imprisoned Kuomintang member does not receive visitors, although he is allowed to provide for his own food: Hé a given a well furnished room, where he spends his time in

reading and meditating.

Mr. Liu's brother, Mr. Liu Yu hsin, is working hard among goy- ernment leaders in Nanking for his release.

and fumes. It is feared that they have been suffocated.

·Reuter.

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LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP

Marmaduke Jinks Wins By Head

Ambulance Brigade

Overseas

Jubilee Celebrations

The following functions have been arranged in connection with the Jubilee celebrations of the St. John Ambulance Brigade:--

Friday, May 14-Reception at St.

John's Gate. Friday, May 21-Jubilee First Aid Competitions at the Great Central Hotel Prizes will be distributed by H.RH Princess Alice, a

Saturday, May 22-Review in Hyde Park by HM. the Queen. Sunday, May 23.-Service at Bt.

Paul's Cathedral. Tuesday, May 25.--Investiture at Buckingham Palace by HM. the King....

Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 30.Intensive Air Raid Precautions Course at Great Central Hotel.

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It is hoped that in addition to the above functions there will be a Garden Party at Clarence House given by HR.H. the Grand Prior in the afternoon of Tuesday, May 18 or Wednesday, May 19.

HEALTH RETURNS Two cases each of diphtheria and cerebro-spinal fever were notified to the local Health authorities on Tuesday.

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THE DOLLAR

TT, ON LONDON: 1s 2-27/228. TT. ON NEW YORK: 30-1/4.

London Silver Market.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, March 17. Lofidon silver prices to-day were up.1/16 as follow:--

Mar. 18. 20-7/8 --20-7/8

London, March 17,

The Lincolnshire Handicap, run to-day over a mile, resulted follows:-- Marmaduke Jinks (D. Smith) ... 1 Laureat II (Gordon Richards) ... 2 Spot. Coldron (Dyson)

3 Forward.. Thirty two ran in the race

which ended in victory for Mar- maduke Jinks by a head, while two lengths separated second and third.

NEWS INDEX

The betting was 38 to 1 Marma- | Amusements duke Jinks, 100 to 7 Laureat II, Cables 66 to 1 Coldron.

Court Cases ...... Starters and jockeys were as Finance published before, with the excepLocal: Diary The vernacular papers did not

tion that British Quota and Tor-Mail Notices.: state whether any evidence was lanie, which were included as ad-Radio, Programmes introduced against the former ditional probables yesterday, did Shipping

Sport

This will be his first visit to

Minister of Propagarida —

Union New

to the seventy two revolutionary Canton in over six years- martyrs on March 29.

Reuter,

not run. Mizuter

Weddings

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Mar. 17.

20-15/16 20-15/16

On Public Opinion

ADDRESS BY MR. A. E. PRATT

Historical And Ethical Survey

Ji,

Calculated to promote discussion on a very vital subject, the address delivered last night at the headquarters of the European Y.M.O.A. in Kowloon, by Mr. Alee. Einar Pratt, Editor of "The Hong Kong Daily Press," on The Press and Public Opinion, was listened to with the keenest appreciation by a very representa- tive audience.

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Professor R. Robertson, of the Hong Kong University presid- ed and Introduced the speaker.

Approaching his subject from official Invitations were issued. But to keep to the letter of fact, the historical angle, Mr. Pratt said,

that the earliest "Although it may seem at arst it appears

glimpses of the power of the Press sight somewhat superduous

are to be obtained by taking a stroll- mention it, yet it is nevertheless

in the Roman Forum where an a fact that the power of the Press dates back a very long way further official, who combined the rare at- down the corridors of time than

tributes of "reading as well as oratorical ability, "told the world” the advent of Delaney of "The Times." Northcline of "Tit-Bits," of his day of all the matters of Rothermere of "Answers"

(or major importance within

Roman Empire. whatever their original ventures. were called). Bottomley of "John Bull" or Beaverbrook of "The Dally Express." There is nothing on re- cord. I understand, which con- clusively proves that the power of the Press went back to the Garden of Eden, but there must have been at least one pretty good free-lance Journalist on the job even in those halcyon days, judging by the voluminous reports which have been handed down to an in- creasingly bewildered public about|tions, and they would pause, learn the Important ""happenings”, at and carry the news far and wide. that delightful party for which no

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COMMENTS ON NEWS

In those days the person selected for this high office was an official who was persona grata with the political party in power, and, of

course" he could be relled upon to give a proper interpretation to the "news" giving the right emphasis in the right place. The good people passing to and fro would hear him reading from the parch- ment, and, making his amplifics-

The above photograph was taken at the wedding of Mr. Wil- flam Sullivan, of the Hong Kong Police, and Miss Margaret Olwin George, at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday afternoon- (Photo by King's Studio).

PRESS TELEGRAM RATES REDUCED

Shanghai, Mar. 17. Fates for press telegrama be- tween China and Europe will be reduced” by twenty-five per cent. beginning from April 1 as a result of successful negotiations between. the Ministry of Communications " and the foreign cable companies.

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