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ACTRESS IN

COURT

Assault Alleged

Japan's Investments In China

Total Of £1,000,000

JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFFS

Breach Of Contract

Japan's Investments made In Inspector Fraser of the B. C. A. China during 1938 are estimated

to have totalled about £1.000.000, given by the Chief Justice, Sir. Judgment for the plaintiffs was appeared to conduct, the prosecu».

tion yesterday when Law Mo-lam.according to a report received by Atholl Macüregor, at the Supreme

the commerce and industry minis- try...

30. actress, residing at No. 28, Tam

Court yesterday in an action in which Kung Road, first floor, was charged

Messrs. Petersen and Co. with assaulting a young girl, Suning industry, estimated to tofalwong, trading as Tai Shing, No. Investments in the cotton-spin- claimed $3,309.39 from Ho Yun-

Mul, alias Pak Siu-lam, aged 14.

It was alleged that defendant, on June 1, asked the girl to wash a pair of stockings for her. She, in turn, took the stockings to the amah who instructed complainant to leave them on the bed as she had no time to wash them yet. Later defendant saw her pair of stockings lying on the bed. It was then that the alleged assault took place.

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TO LEARN THE TRADE Few days after the incident. complainant met her mother in the street, and together they ap- proached Law Mo-lam to ask for the return of a certain document on which it was stated that the girl was put in the charge of de- fendant to learn the art of acting in chems. They were refused and so the matter was reported to the police who referred the case to the S. O. A

Inspector Fraser sald that the child's hands and legs were covered with bruises inflicted by possibly a leather belt or whip.

The case. was then remanded till 12noon on Thursday. Bail was axed at $100.

THEFT OF CLOTH"

about £400,000. accounted for nearly half. In the metal indus- try Investments are said to have totalled £73,500. Eight Japanese companies invested £30,000 in the

dyestur manufacturing industry la China last year.

25, Leighton Hill Road, for a breach of contract to supply 10 and 15 tons of gall nuts.

. Mr. E C. Macnamara instructed

Mr. D. B. Evans, appeared for plaintif

Mr. Macnamara said plaintiffs' case was that the business was done. through the defendant and he signed the contracts unreservedly and had made himself responsible for them. It was also contended that defendant was in fact the Tal Shing firm.

In other industrial enterprises investments were generally small; they amounted to £40,000. In ad- dition to these industrial invest ments, the Mitsubishi Bank Invest- ed £50,000 in real estate, the Whangpoo Wharf Company £15, 000 in the same, and several others also invested in land and buildings.

Mi. H. Artas, senior partner of Japan also invested £100,000 in Petersen and Co., testified that he China for cultural promotion. knew Ho as a broker and had done. Other Investments combined are some business with him. Ho over- said to have amounted to about heard him discussing gall nut £300,000-"The Financial Times." | business with a client and offered

POSSESSION OF.

ARMS

Seven Chinese appeared before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis tracy yesterday, charged with the possession of arms and ammuni- tion and conspiracy on or before Junë 3. The defendants were Wong Chi Ming 28. Chan Ping 37, Wong Ping Cheong, Cheung On. Cheung Keung, Lee Pat, and Shek Sang.

were charged with robbing the Shen Sang Hop Yee at No. 121 Wellington Street, of $125 on Jane 1, and alternatively, with larcentes by menace or threats.

Leung Yau, 22, earth coolle, and All defendants, with the excep. Chan Hong, 20, unemployed, were tion of the last two. were unem- charged before Mr. K. M. Aployed. The first five defendanta Barnett at the Kowloon, Magistracy yesterday with burglary. on June 4. at a storehouse at No. 25, Nga Tsia Lung Road, where they stole 12 rölls of cloth, property of the Li Wah knitting factory. Lau Ho, 18. female, was charged with re- ceiving. She pleaded not guilty.

Det.-Sergt MacPherson said that on the morning following the burglary, complainant, Cheung Yik discovered that the door to the storehouse had been forced open and that a quantity of cloth was missing. He reported the theft to the police.

his services. Witness agreed, and gall nuts were bought from defen- dant, he receiving one per cent. commission at the satisfactory conclusion of the contract.

TWO MORE CONTRACTS Witness continued that two more contracts were entered into with defendant to supply 15 and 10 tons of gall nuts. Defendant later ask- ed for an extension of time, which was allowed, but then did not ap- pear at the office again. Witness had to cable his Hamburg buyers that he was unable to deliver, and pild 190 to cancel the contract This was the best course he could take, as the price of gall nuts had risen so that he would have lost more by buying elsewhere. Ir. addition to this amount, his claim included $200 for loss of profit and telegraphic expenses.

Witness said that sometime after The Arst and third defendants he had granted an extension of were charged with robbing the

time, a letter purporting to be Kam Wah Cafe, in Canton Street,

from Wuchow, but unstamped, and of $70 on May 14. Third, Brth delivered by hand, was received at sixth and seventh defendants were the otice. The letter was typed charged with robbery of $1.30 and on a plain sheet of paper and ask- clothing from an unumbered huted for a further extension of time in Aberdeen. The seventh defen- for defendant. Witness could not dant was charged with the posses- decipher the signature, and threw sion of a revolver and ammuni- the letter away. He concluded the After making inquiries the police Wan. Third defendant was charg

tion at Kwong Bi Village, Tsun letter was a fake. were able to trace third defendanted with having in his possession a

at whose house some rolls of the three-cornered dagger at 102 cloth were found. She was then Prince Edward Road. detained and taken back to the station where she gave the neces- sary information which led to the arrest of the first and second de- fendants.

HELP APPRECIATED- Owing to this valuable help, Sergt. MacPherson said the pro- secution was not pressing the case against her. She was bound over In the sum of $30 for one year.

Tht others pleaded guilty to the charge and were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The sums of $212 and $4.09 which were found on the two defendants respectively, were ordered to be pald to complainant as amends.

BREAKING INTO ARMY OFFICE

On the application" of Sub-In- spector Whant, a remand of three days was granted by His Worship.

THEFT FROM

UNIVERSITY

Chan Cheuk Wing, aged 17, was

fined $200 or in default 12 weeks' hard labour, when he appeared be- fore Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday, on charges of stealing books from the library of the Hong Kong University.

Inspector Kirby stated there had been a number of larcentes from the library and as a result two students were put on the lookout for the culprit. On June 4, at about 8 p.m., the defendant was seen by the studetna, and he had in his possession three books which Thirteen metal watches, to the he had put into a basket. Defen- value of £17 55, and a sum of $8.50-dant admitted having stolen them were stolen from a military office and also stated that he had taken at "A" and "B" blocks, Queen's six other books, which were re Road East, on Saturday.

covered from a shop in Lower Lascar Road.

Twelve of the watches were re- covered by the police, and four men were arrested in connection with the theft. They appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday and Yu Kwok-ying was charged with breaking into the office and com- mitting the theft while Wong Wa- chik, Wong Wah and Mak Cheung were charged with receiving stolen goods.

The value of the books were $59.

plaintiff rm, said that in all his Se To Cheuk-yu, broker, of

dealings with defendant he did not hint that he was an employee.

Ho Kat-yuen, clerk of Petersen and Co., also gave evidence.

Defendant submitted that he was merely a salesman for Tai Shing at the time of the contracts, and had signed the contracts 'be- cause he was asked to do so."

THIEVES WHO

SPOKE ENGLISH

A Chinese woman was bound and sagged by a gang of armed robbers who spoke English in Pokfulam the day before yesterday, and the rob-

tim named Tsang Sun, aged 33 hers took all her money. The vic

the P.WD., reported to the police ard. employed by Mr. W. Bayers of

that while she was walking along the road and returning to" her master's house in the Eliot Filter Bed quarters, she was accosted by two men. One of them addressed her by saying "Hello Amah" in English. After this some grass was put over her mouth and she was made captive. Then one of the robbers again addressed her in English and asked her where she kept her money, and added, “where is another arab, we are going to watch for her?

The robbers then ran away tax- ing with them money and trinkets to the value of $7.50.

THE LONG ARM OF

THE LAW

IRON WORKERS GO ON STRIKE

Police Of All Areas Stand By For Trouble. First defendant, who pleaded

Negotiations for settlement of guilty, was sentenced to six the labour trouble at the Chung months hard labour, and a sum Shan Iron Works, a Japanese firm of $4, found hidden on defendant, with premises at 2501 Brenan Though he was successful in was ordered to be returned to the Road are under way, states the making his get away after snatch- complainants,

"North China Daily News":

Ing a handbag from a woman in well as the Japanese Special Lal, 41, was arrested on informa Chinese and settlement police as Lai Chi Kok Road on June 1. Edu Naval Landing Party sad the ion four days later. Or the con- Consular police, however, continued tents in the handbag, which in- to be on the alert, although the cluded two fountain pens, a ring crowds of disgruntled workers in and $5.50 in money only a pen was the vicinity of the plant had thin found on Liu. The handbag was ned out,

recovered later, but the remaining Four days of unrest, precipitated articles could not be traced. when Chinese and Japanese work- j Appearing before Mr. E. Eli ers at the plant: engaged in an } worth at the Kowloon Magistr argument which came to a head yesterday, Liu was sentenced to

The other three were remanded

in police custody when they plead ed that they did not know the pro- perty was stolen.

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