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OF A MONEY LENDER WHILE NOT REGISTERED
Prosecution Seeking Advice Of Crown Counsel: Submission By Defence
His evidence in support of a charge against Lina Choa, that she had between March 1, "1938, and August 31, 1939, carried an the business of a money lender while not being registered as auch, being ruled as unacceptable by the Court, Henrique Emilio Vietra. principal witness in the case, stepped out of the witness- box at Kowloon Court yesterday, his statement not completed. The case
TEAMS FOR ARMY POLO TOURNEY
The Inter-Regimental Polo Com pettaton which was scheduled to is open yesterday was postponed for. unforseen reasons to tomorrow at 3.30 p.m. when the Royal Scots will meet the Middlesex Regiment and the HKSRA "B" team will meet the Staff and Department.
Following are the teams:- ROYAL SCOTS—Major
Godley.
Capt. R.
sen. Capt. S. Bum
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MIDDLESEX REGIMENT LA P.
D. J. McDougali.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939.
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Japan and Shanghai,
A Fishbourne. Lt. F. 8. C. Han- was adjourned to
The Arst witness called was a cock, Capt. Chattey and Lt. T. W. Saturday morning to permit of the clerk of the Registry Department. Chattey. prosecution seeking advice of Supreme Court, who said that he H.K.S.RA. Crown Counsel. The adjournment had not the name of Miss
"B" Capt: A. followed a submission by Mr. C. A. Choa in his list of registered W. B. Wilson and
Lina Atkinson, Lt. D. I. Marshall, Capt. Canada, U. S. A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- Sutherton Russ that the witness's money-lenders.
Major W, T. hal (Vancouver B. C. date, 4th November. Temple. evidence was unacceptable "as it Henrique Emillo Vieira, the next
Straits and Manila dealt with actions committed be-witness called, said that he was a Lt. Col. H. Genet, Lt. C, Rochfort- . 84. Honolulu and Japan (San Francisco
STAFF AND DEPT-L#, Moody, Į Shanghai, Amoy and Swatow fore May 8, 1938, more than six clerk of the Hongkong Electric Co. Boyd and Major T: S. Whitehead. months prior to Information being He had borrowed money from Miss
date, 28th October)......................... received by the police which led Lina Choa on four occasions.
Canton Ee to the charge being brought had known Miss Chog some five or
Shanghai.
against the defendant.
six years. He first approached her $50, which was granted on his Japan. Mr. Russ submitted that as this for a loan in April last year when signing a promissory note for $100. particular offence was punishable he asked for $30.
agreeing to pay back 75. In Ave by summary conviction, no evi-j This the defendant had agreed monthly 'mstalments. He had te- dence of actions constituting the to let him have on his signing a ceived $45. and had repaid the afence could be given If compromissory note for $80. He was debt in full. “ mitted more tham Six months to pay back only $45 in three On the third occasion, in De- prior to the information received monthly instalments of $15. He cember last year. he approached on November 8, 1938. All the received actually only $27, the de- the defendant for a loan of $100. alleged offences to which witness fendant taking 10 per cent, com-and had signed a promissory note had testined. Mr. Russ said, were mission.
for $200, outside the six-month limit.
At this stage of the witness's Sergt. J. Allen, prosecuting, ask-
was evidence, Mr. Russ interposed with ed for an adjournment that would fully repaid." He next approached his submission, and Mr. Q. A. A. permit of his seeking advice of the defendant for a loan in July Macfadyen, the Magistrate, granted Crown Counsel, which was granted, last year when he had asked for an adjournment.
LOAN REPAID
This loan, witness stated,
NAZIS REPORT ARREST OF MAN FOR ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF HITLER IN
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"NANNING BOMBED
8 TIMES
CHUNGKING, Nov. 22 (Đen ter)-More than thirty Jap- anese warplanes Jesterday subjected Nanning to inten- sive bombing, according to Chinese
Kwangsi.
dispatches from
Japanese aircraft, the mes- sages report, bombed Nan- ning eight times and also distributed pamphlets
the town.
over
Other towns in Kwangsi said to have been bombed in- clude Wuming, Kweihsien and Pinchang.
KUOMINTANG SESSION
MUNICH
Alleged Full Confession
BERLIN, Nov. 22 (Reuter)-A man named George Elser, aged thirty-ax, made a full confession of his guilt In the Munich bomb explosion, declares the Official German News agency.
Elser was arrested on the night] of the explosion while attempting! to cross the frontier into Switzer-! land,
The agency adds that the crime was planned over a year ago and alleges that Eser confessed arter persisting in an obstinate denial in a manner unique in criminal his- tory.
In the course of a small Jon spread over several weeks. Eiser is sald to have pulit in one of the columns in the beer cellar a time- bomb clock set for six days,
Those who commissioned and pald Elser for this under- taking, continues the agency,
COMMENT BY LOCAL were British Intelligence agents
CHINESE PAPERS
Strong anity of the country was further manifested in the Sixth Plenary Session of the Fifth Kuomintang Central Ex- ecutive Committee, declares the Ta Kung Pao in аи editorial yesterday.
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PINGHU AND KASHAN BRITISH COMMENT
KINHWA, Nov. LONDON. NOV. 22 (Reuter)-A Following their recapture of, Cha-
22. (Central) Foreign Office announcement repoo, coastal town near the Che- garding the arrest of a German in giang-Kangsa border, the Chl- operting in North.
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“MOPPING UP". HINGTEL, SHENSI Nov. 22 snowstorm and a cutting wintry Manila, Australia and New Zealand via Thursday Reg. (Central) Despite a binding
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The appointment of General- the German Government as quite ghu and Kashan, north-west issimo Chiang Kai-shek as. Pre- incomprehensible.
of Chapoo. Neither the sident of the Executive Yuan wil British Government nor any agent increase the administrative eff- of the British Government had any ciency of the Government, the knowledge of the arrested German paper. opines.
The Journal, however, regrets
wind Chinese forces in West Bhan- that the session failed to bring own conclusions from his long up" operations against the Jap "The public will able to draw itse are continuing their "mopping forward a motion condemning the examination by the German po- anese recently defeated on the traitors in Shanghai." -
CENTRAL POLICY
The Sing Tao Jih Pao sees a centralization of political adminig- tration in the appointment of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Executive Yuan..
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Chinese forces launched offensive on the Japanese at Liu- lin west of Lisbih a few days ago. offensive" launched by Wang MOSCOW, Nov. 22 (Reuter) The Japanese suffered heavy. Ching-wel and his Japanese mas--The Soviet Fleet is now
In Bouth Shansi, a Chinese ters and clarified China's national manoeuvring in the Baltic.
MONDAY force smashed into Tungchen near Swatow & Formosa polley in this world crisis.
The Commander of the Klanghsien last week and
show- Haiphong Soviet Baltic Fleet declares ered hand grenades on the Jap Fort Bayard and Holbow.
Many Japanese A temple will be built in Chung-command of that sea.
that Boviet Russia is now in anese barracks.
$ were killed and one aficer- and
TUESDAY late in commemoration late China's centenarian Mr. Ma that all one hears from that
one private taken prisoner, The Shanghai and Japan, Jeering at Finland, he says japanese ammunition dumps were Hang-po, who passed away st
set on fire. Langshan, Kwangst, on November country is the "rattling of
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peace over the Finnish Gulf." thrown back.
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