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THE MILWAUKEE ROAD

"PLANT" SUSPECTED IN REFUSED TO BE

HEROIN CASE

Possession Charge Against Travelling Salesman Fails

After retiring for half an hour, a Jury comprising Messrs. B. Pasco (foreman), Tsu Ho-tseung, Harry Way, D. A. Alonco, Chan Ping-cheung, G. Borst and Mok Kam-chan returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty against Leung Wing, 39, described as a travell- ing salesman, who was charged before the acting Puisne Judge, Air. Justice EH. Williams, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday with possas- slon of eight ounces of heroin powder at 154 Temple Street on June 3.

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SEARCHED

Unemployed Fights With Constable

man,

With one eye half blinded, Lai Sing-kan, an unemployed who appeared to be quite a harm- less individual, refused to be searched by a constable who saw him carrying a sack on his back in Wanchai on Sunday.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938...

SIAM EXPLAINS KRA

CANAL MYTH-

American Journalists'

Investigations

In spite of repeated denials on the part of the Siamese Gov- ernment, the Kra Canal bogey cropped up during "the past year l many foreign newspapers.

"Ever since its birth," says the Siamese Foreign Office... Journal, "this canard has been hard to kill, and it has of recent years proved good copy for the inventive pens of story writers and sensation mongora.

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"In consequence of the last scare story which emanated from America. Bangkok was visited by two American Journalists. Mr. James A. Mills and Mrs. Mona G. Tait. representatives of the Asso- clated Press and the North American Newspaper Allance respective- ly, who were determined to obtain visual evidence of the existence of the "canal" or of its projected construction.

When the police officer was a little persistent in carrying out his | duty, Lai struggled with him.

Lal, snatched the constable's Accused, who pleaded not guilty. [he examined, the contents of the baton and braised the constable's was defended by Mr. Leo d'Alinada, { two jackets, and found one to con- eye with it. He tore the officer's Jar. Instructed by Mr. G. S. Ford|tain two ounces of heroin, sum-uniform and even attempted to of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist. clent for approximately 200,000 | take the revolver during the Mr. E. W. Davies, Crown Solleitor, pills. '

struggle." prosecuted.

Lo Shun-chuen, police inter- Mr. Bonnar, of Messrs. Lane, Mr. Davies stated that about preter, said that when charged, ac- Crawford's, who came on the scene,kok for Kraburi, whence they pre- tions through the range of high These two journalists left Bang-excavations and blasting opera- on June 3. Revenue cused made a statement, which witnessed the fight and gave the ceeded, after a thorough survey rocky hills covering almost the en- Officer Stephens, accompanied by read: "This thing was left behind | constable a helping, hand, TO- of the Kra district. to Pen-tre Kra Isthmus. The activities.

10.15

a.m.

other officers, carried out a maid by my friend. Ican't find him."gether they managed to put Lai on No. 154 Temple Street, first) Wong Yuk principal. tenant of under control. floor. On knoqking at the door, it the floor, said that defendant had was opened by a woman, and ne-been her tenant since December cused was found sitting on a trestle last year, at a rental of $10 per bed outside the front cubicle. in month. About 15 minutes or half which was a woman asleep. De-an hour before the raid a man had fendant was questioned, and said called on accused, but she did not he was the occupant of the front notice whether the man carried a cubicle. The woman who was box with him or not. The visitor asleep was his wife, he claimed: had been let into the house by Ah

The raiding party then entered Sam, an amah +--

Ang. The reports they sent to which involved the employment of their newspapers should "assist a 400 native workmen, may have CHARGED IN COURT

great deal towards suppressing been misconstrued by eareless ob- Lal yesterday appeared before once and for all further legends servers as evidence that "Japan was Mr. Butters at the Central Court of a Kra Canal construction. actually buliding such a strategic charged with refusing to submit to search, assaulting a police officer follows:-

One of Mr. Mills reports is as canal for the Siamese Government. and damaging his uniform.

"I was informed by the Siamese "One of the greatest myths in Government that it will extend The prosecuting officer said that modern history is the persistently the newly completed motor high- there was nothing incriminating in repeated story that Japan is build-way across the Kra Isthmus an- the sack which defendant was ing a great new strategic maritime father forty miles westerly to the carrying, and there was no reason canal across this narrow isthmus town of Renong, which abounds in the cubicle, and a search was made. Defendant, then gave evidence, why he should refuse to submit to of Siam as a challenge to England's tin mines. This road construction In the top shelf of the cupboard and said that about 15 minutes be- search. It was suggested that great naval station" at Singapore.s a part of a regular plan of the of a wash-hand stand, Revenue fore the raid, a man named Ip had there might be a Omcer Stephens found a cardboard called on him, and had brought a mental hospital

case for the Actually the story of such a canal new revolutionary government in,

is nearly a hundred years old. al-Bangkok to open up the Kra box containing two packets of bow-box" Ip asked defendant to keep! Lawas sentenced to six weeks' though the project is spoken of to Jungle and make its products ac- der: Accused was asked whom the the box for him, and when de- imprisonment, during which time day as though it were an entirely cessible to the railway and to box belonged to, and said it was fendant asked what was in it, he he is to be under the observation new enterprise.

coastal atëamers... his, adding that someone had repiled: "Nothing: just ordinary of the prison doctor. If anything "Within the last 10 years this

things." Ip further said he would is found wrong with him the case bogey

"This road building work, how.... of a Japanese-built Kra|ever, will undoubtedly give rise to Evidence in corroboration was call back for the box in a short may be reopened.

Canal-has come up for discussion fresh reports that the Siamese given by R. O. Stephens.

while. Defendant had known p Mr. Bonnar was thanked by Mr.In most parliaments of the world. Government has already begun the

brought it to him.

WILLS

DECIDES ON ARREST Cross-examined by Mr. Almada witness said that only one question såld he had told R. O. Stephens asked... accused outside the where Ip Uved, as he did not know. cubled the rest inside. When On May 29, Ip had called on him. accused admitted the powder was and stayed' a few minutes. his, witness decided to arrest him. NEVER SEEN HEROIN Accused told witness that a man

Defendant declared he did not named Ip had brought the box to look into the box to see what was him, and that Ip lived in Cheung-in it, and denied having told R. O. shawan Road.

Stephens that the box belonged to Mr. D'Almada; Did he say Ip him. He had never seen heroin

for six or seven years.

Butters for his ready assistance. It was incorrect that defendant |

DEATH OF BEGGAR

Verdict At Inquest

and lias caused deep apprehension construction of the erstwhile Kra to the armies and navies of the Canal. big Powers. On each occasion the report has drawn vigorous denials from the Siamese Government.

THE REAL FACTS

DATES ¿TO CIVIL WAR "The history of the Hra Canal project dates back to the Ameri- can Civil War. In 1853 two Bri- To establish the real facts intain J. G. Forlong and Captain A. tish government engineers. Cap-

the case, I made an exhaust v.

Fraser, who were then attached survey of the entire Kra District to the Royal Engineers, aurveyed which extends roughly from the the entire Kra area and reported 11ttle town of Chumpehn. situated

gave him the parcel that morning? before, and did not know the box death of a 70-year-old mendicant on an estuary of the Gulf of Stainthat the canal was impracticable.

Witness: He said Ip gave him the contained heroin. parcel, but did not say when.

Cross-examined by Mr. Davies,

Circumstances surrounding the

Nam On, were probed at an inquest miles, to the jungle town of Kra- on the east for a distance of 140

But they recommended a railway in, its place.

"Fighteen years later the famous

I put it to you that the only defendant said he did suggest that held at the Central Court yester- buri, on an estuary of the Bay of Count de Lesseps, builder of the reason why such a large number the box had been left with him day. Mr. Lockhart-Smith sat 25 Hengal, on the western shore of Suez Canal, examined the same of questions were asked him was as a deliberate plant to get him Coroner assisted by a jury com- Slam

prising, Messrs. J. J. Forster (Fore- because you did not get an ad-into trouble.

V. F mission that the powder, belonged

de-man J. Iuan Shu and

d'Azevedo.

A verdict of death due to rupture'

Called as a witness for the

to him? That was not the reason.fence, Chan Bam, an amah em-

"My" five' days" journey by ele-project, but owing to political rea- son, technical difficulties and the |phant," "ox-cart, motor car and Fafoot took me through jungle dis

enormous expense involved, the

I also put it to you that the first'ployed by the tenant of the rear of the spleen, with no evidence totricts infested by wild elephants Government did not seriously con-

thing he said was that it was cubicle of the flat, said she had

tigers, monkeys, crocodiles" and

brought to him that morning?—No, admitted Ip into the fat on June show cause of the rupture, was cobras.

where Ip lived? He told me Ip's

returned.

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sider the plan.

'In 1883 another British ad.

revenue officers arrived. The man the Court that he was assigned to disturbed, a single stone unturned.

"Nowhere in the so-called 'canai thority. Commander A. J. Loftus. Constable Thang Kau. C481. told area' did I see a blade of grass Government, made a survey some then in the service of the Blamese

I suggest accused did not tell you 3 about 10 or 15 minutes before the

was carrying a cardboard box, and

surname and address.

CUBICLE WAS SMALL Witness added that when the box was discovered, accused appeared to be a little excited.

is for sale."

She had seen the man before.

week before his arrest.

DIFFERENT STORIES

110:

the Kra

was looking for accused. He caly arrest beggars on May 16. He went of a solitary shovel of earth re distance to the south, with a

оп duty about stayed a short while.

11a.m. About moved, to indicate that any such French Government expedition. "of fifteen minutes later he saw R male beggar near the Queen's!

project as a canal was being un-another route across

Isthmus. Commander Loftus re- dertaken. Nor W25 there the when he called on accused about Theatre and approached him. The slightest evidence of Japanese en-ported that the proposed canal beggar (deceased) refused to go to gineers supervising the construc- was quite impossible because it the station with the witness mom-tion of the canal as had been re

would involve the blasting and re- moval of 22.642,190 tons of solid some time.

rock, which constituted the great- er part of the proposed canal area. "There is as much chance of the

Witness, however, lifted the de-

NO MILITARY ZONE

Wat Pak-ylu, interpreter attach- ed to the Import" and Export De- partment, said he accompanied Mr. D'Almada submitted that the R. O. Stephens on the raid. Wit-Jury had to fully satisfy them-bling that he had had no food for ported abroad recently. ness said he heard accused reply selves that the stories of R. O. to Stephens, when questioned. Stephens and the interpreteri

ceased by the armpits and bad to "There were no Blamese sentries about the box. "It is mine, and coincided and were correct. So release him as he refused to move, on guaid and no trace of a singleKra Canal ever being built as there far each had told a different story witness, who was in mufti, called workman excavating. Neither is is of reaching the moon in a few Cross-examined by Mr. D'Alma-with regard to what accused saldan Indian constable to assist him there the, slightest indication that days. It would require the wealth da, witness agreed that the cubicle when R. O. Stephens asked him and on arrival of the latter, de-the Kra district, had been pro- of a nation, and a century to ac was very small, and that he was who was the owner of the box.

ceased got up from the ground and claimed a military zone, forbid-complish, was Commander: Loftus? In a position to hear what was ask- "Then," continued counsel, walked to the police station.

den to natives and foreigners opinion regarding the enterprise. ed and what accused said in reply "there was the evidence of the

Witness added that when he re-alike. On the contrary. trafic of He added, however. that during amah who was an impartial wit-leased the deceased he merely sat all kinds moved with the fullest part of the time the party was ness, and who more or less cor down and did not throw himself freedom. No passports were asked DIVORCE LEAKAGE in the cubicle, he was engaged in roborated the story told by defen-down.

from foreigners, nor was there the examining some papers and docu- dant in the witness box, that some-

The leakage of Information ments, and did not pay much at- one had come in to see accused turned to duty and when he came graphing.

Witness continued that he re-slightest restriction against photo-about a divorce action which leð just before the raid, and that that back he was taken to the station

to the barring of a woman from "The natives looked astonished Mr. D'Almada: I put it to you person, had brought with him the cell compound where he saw de- when the subject of a canal wared into a legal issue of first im-

the Ascot enclosure, has develop that defendant never did say the box in question. When he left, the ceased tying dead outside the cell. broached. We have never heard powder belonged to him; that he man did not have the box with said it was left by a friend.

Witness stated that he did not of such a thing, they all declared portance, says the Evening Stand-

I found that the Government ard. 200,000 PILLS

After the jury had returned their use force during the arrest,

The law is rightly jealous of its Bergt. H. Dewar, who was on duty was just completing the construe- Mr. D. E Davis, acting Govern-verdict. His Lordship discharged for the day in question, said that tion of a new 40-me," metalled reputation for discretion and im- ment Monopoly Analyst.. sald that the accused...

deceased appeared to be quite ex- highway from Chumphon to Kra partiality. hausted and witness gathered that buri.. This necessitated extensive

tention to what was said.

THE COST OF

T.

ETON

him."

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE FOR

Among the eleven boys who have AFRICAN COAST

just obtained scholarships at Eton

is Mr. Nicholas Paget, son of Lady

·Victor Paget. Among those whom

this was due to age and deceased

having walked the distance up the hill to the Central Police Station Deceased died about 1.20 p.m.

Dr. D. Wilkinson, medical officer- -charge of the Public Mortuary, Great importance is attached to who performed the post mortem the visit of 'General Terums! to examination, said that deceased's

he defeated in what is a very stiff Italian East Africa, the Rome cor- spleen was in such a bad state examination was the young son of respondent of the Daily Telegraph that a heavy cough would cause Sir Archibald Sinclair, says the says.

the rupture: Evening Standard

It is understood that, in addition The standard fees at Eton today to speeding up plans for the exe

Albert Medal For Queen Mary

When a petition for divorce. has been fled it is placed under lock and key, and no one may have ac- cess to it, save the solicitors con-.... cerned dr an individual who can show that he has a legitimate interest in the case.

Each me an application for such an inspection of the records is made a document is attached. to the relevant petition giving particulars of the circumstances in The Counell of the Royal Society which permission was granted or

Arts have awarded the Albert refused. Medal for 1938 to Queen Mary:

amount to... $245 a year. With traction of Abyssinia's mineral HALF WELSH CITY recognition of her Majesty's

KING'S SCHOLARS

=

PERMISSION

It is believed that, In the present clothes, extra food; pocket money and other resources, General and sundry other expenses it now Teruzzi will examine the possibi-

SOLD

imremitting interest in arts and case, permission-was, given to an costs little short of £100 a year lity of building a naval base in

manufactures to the great benefit unauthorised person to examine a to send a boy to Eton.

Italian Somaliland to protect

The Marquess of Bufe has sold of British Industry and commerce." particular petition; and that no Italian interests in the Indian practically the whole of his Among those who have previous-record of this transaction was filed. In the case of King's Scholars | Ocean.

Mountjoy estate of: 100,444 acres in ly bean awarded the medal are with the petition G the fees of £245 are in all cases)

It is asked who gave permissjon King George V the Duke of The naval correspondent of the South Wales. staled down to £150 and this Daily Telegraph" (Mr. Hector It includes half the city of Windsor (as Prince of Wales), the and by whose authority was such maximum gure can be reduced Bywater) points out that the Cardiff. Although the capital Duke of Connaught, Marchese permission given?

Thus the whole historic issue of where the parents income war- estaiishment of a naval base in value of the property, including Marconi, Lord Nuffield, Lord Derby, rants such a reduction.

this region would be a potential docks and buildings, is estimated Sir Robert Hadfield, Sir Willam the rights of the individualas The fees are sometimes abolish-danger to Britain's trade routes. at £20,000,000, the rice is stated Llewllyn, Sir Frank Brangwyn and against the Crown is involved in the matter and the legal profes- eq altogether, and a parent

Sir Ambrose Fleming. of It might also nullify the stra- to be 25,000,000 small means could count on senit-tegic advantage to be gained by The name of the purchaser is It is awarded for distinguished ston is naturally concerned to dis- Ing a boy to Eton for about £130 sending shipping, by way of the not disclosed. It is believed that a merit in promoting arts, manu-cover how such an archaic abuse or £140 a year provided he obtain Cape of Good Hope. In the event company will be formed to develop factures or commerce (Evening could have crept into the modern

Standard),

dministration of the law. ed a scholarship.

of trouble in the Mediterranean. the property.

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