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AT THE CENTRAL MAGIS TRACY, YESTERDAY, SUI HEI, charred with wounding with intent to cause bodily harm, and common assault on Chung Lau and Chung Kat, on June 23, at Connaught Road West, was committed to the Criminal Sessions by Mr. T. J. Houston...

Mr. G.A. Sutherton Russ, for the prosecution, said that the two complainants and a unm. ber of coolles were carrying tice to a Jik, when a number of women tried to board the craft. There were only two planks, one of which was used for boarding and the other for disembarking.

When the women 'tried to use the planks. the coolles refused: Defendant came up and an aru- He returned ment was started. about 10

minutes later with a gang of 20 men, several of them are armed with choppers, and at tacked the complainants, who sustained serious injuries.

Dr. B. 8. Begble, Government Bacterlogist, testified that a chop per which he received from Detec- tive-Sergeant Mcvey bore blood stains but there was insufficient to make out whether It was human blood or not.

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The hearing was resumed be-. fore the Chief Justice, Str Atholl MacGregor, at the Supreme Court yesterday. of the case in which of Endin. the Chartered Bank Australia and China, sued the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., and the Ocean Steamship Co., Ltd. (Holt's Whart) for damages for alleged wrongful

conversion or, alter- natively, for breach of contract.

The Hon, Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr., instructed by Mr. R. A. Wade- son, appeared for the plaintiffs, while defendants being represent-

structed by Mr. M. M. Watson.

Dr. D. E. Smith, Medical Officered by Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C., in- of Queen Mary Hospital, said that Chung Kat had a scalp wound on

Mr. Potter said that the de- the left side of the head. Chung fendants admitted having received Lam had an injury about four in- the goods in question, for storage, ches long in the right frontal of but pointed out that the value of the head. He also examined Sul the package had not been declar- Hel, the defendant, who had ajed.. bruise on the right side of his up- per arm and two minor bruises, on the shin."

Mr. Potter said that Torbor and Company were authorized by the plaintiffs to act as their agents Chung Kat said that he was em- for the purpose of obtaining the ployed as a coolle to carry rice from release, transfer or delivery of the junks to the China Provident Go- packages. The delivery order" pro- down. The women wished to use duced for the delivery of the the plank to go to the adjoining packages had been duly and com- junk, when they were refused.pletely sign by Torbor and Com- was alleged it After 16 minutes later about 20 pany, though it men arrived with knives and iron had been altered."

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this morning. unconscious.

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er. It was not true that the wo- men wanted to go down by the plank. The complainants refused to let the women down by the ladder. He was assaulted try Chung Kat and others, and fell to the ground.

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Three men appeared on a charge of murder before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-, fadyen at the Kowloon Court yes- terday. They, are accused of hav- ins clubbed to death Fong Sang. a 25-year-old construction fore- man in Apliu Street on the night of June 8. #

The three accused are LI So, alias She Wong-so, 25, unemploy- ed. Leung Yung, 26 a bricklayer," and Pun Fo, 38, a bricklayer, A formal remand of one week" was granted.

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Chinese reports claim that the latest Japanese attempt to wipe out guerillas on the "Pootung peninsula is another faffure, as- serting that the situation there has relaxed to the relief of many Poctung refugees living in the foreign settlements here.

Japanese military authorities are stated to have recently gathered together about 2,000 men in Poo- tung and the southern section of the Whangpoo in order to make another attempt to defeat the trouble-making irregulars.

Before the Japanese could do anything, however, leaders of the various bands of guerillas met and decided to carry out a: " defence scheme jointly to forming a 60- kilometre defence line ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄in both Fenghsien and Nanwel (all in Poo-

In addition to these precau- tionary measures "puppet" sold- lers and police were persuaded to stage mutinies, it is stated

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HMS. Bideford, new Escurt There has been fierce ighting, vessel for the China Station, which but the Japanese are stated to arrived in Hongkong on Saturday, have been defeated in two impor- hert for Welhalwei yesterday, A tant battles at Pankwantang and Chingweichiao.

HMS Delight has relieved HMS. Tenedos at Amoy, whilat HMB.Thracian is at Swatow, HMS. Delight a at Amoy and

HMS. Dorsetshire, is proceeding to Wethalwel, while the Tenedos is Sentences totalling one year's returning to the Colony, hard labour was passed on Fong Sai-ying, described as a student,

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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek

1 'who was found guilty on charges, has instructed the National Relie! of larceny of a pair of shoes, an Commission to despatch an omcer admission ticket. and other to South Shanet to provide emer articles at the Chinese Bathing stacy relief for the refugees ren- Club, on July 7; larceny of a purse dered homeless and destitute by containing $4.50 and a monthly the recent Japanese drive towards tram ticket on July 2: retaining the Chungtiao Mountain range. stolen property, and broach of there. Fractically all villages in, deportation order. -

the path of the Japanese drive Defendant said that the ticket were razed to the ground by are. was given to him by a friend. He The refugees, who returned to was a student of the Lingnam them following their recapture by Middle School, in Macao.

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