1940-04-25 — Page 5

HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS

Another Busy

Day At Kai

Tak Airport

MR. D. J. SLOSS

RETURNS

Yesterday was a busy day at Kal Tak airport with the arrival and departure of Imperial. Airways planës, and the arrival of the Paa American Airways Clipper from Manila, (bringing, among others, the victorious Eastern football team and the arrival of the Air' France plano from Bangkok and

fianol.

GENERAL

BEAN HAWKER FIVE GERMANS TO LEAVE

ACQUITTED

Remarks To Press

By Judge

Cheung-hing, 25-year-old

WAS

Lam bean sprouts hawker of Hunghom, who was charged at the Criminal Sessions, with the murder of Lam Hing on January 29. acquitted when the jury, after re- tiring for half an hour, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

The

originally accused Vi arraigned at the March Criminal Sessions before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, when the proceedings were declared vold. A new trial was ordered because of certain statements, made In evidence by the police officer who a few minutes after 4.30 p.m., | arrested, accused, that were con- bringing, the following passengers sidered prejudicial to the case for

The Philippine Clipper, piloted by Capt, S. Bancroft, assisted by Chief Officer J. E. Anderson, arrived

in addition to 18 Eastern football the defence players and officials:-

Reference to this by

Lt. J. Lederer, of the U. S. Navy, newspapers (not

certain

the Hongkong.

CONCESSION IN SHANGHAI

INFRINGEMENT UPON NEUTRALITY

Five German residents of the French Concession have been Con- ordered" to leave the cession on or before April 30. according to an official of the French Consulate General questioned by the "North- „ China Daily News” on April 17.

CONDITIONS MADE

The official recalled that at the outbreak of the war in September of last year, German residents in the Concession were given to un- derstand that they could continue

would do nothing to disturb peace to reside there provided that they

and order, and that they would behave in a manner becoming to

who is on a dying honeymoon Daily Press) whilst the fresh trial the neutrality of the French Con-

visit to Hongkong with his young and very presty bride of three days. They were married in Manila on Sunday, and are staying at the

Gloucester Hotel

was still proceeding" was com- mented upon by, the Puisne Judge. Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, before he commenced his summing-up.

NEW CONTEMPT

{'cession,

Failing To Register

BULB FACTORY SUMMONED

Sal

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Charged with unlawfully using the premises of Ño. 85-81, Yee Street, Kround floor, factory, having failed to register such premises as required under the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, the Manager of the To Kenng Electric Bulb Company was fined $175 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Court yes.

terday.

Charged also with permitting

the health of those employed, the the factory to be overcrowded as to be dangerous and injurious to

manager was fined an additional stated in Court by Mr. D. W. Phillips, Assistant $75. It was. This, the five Germans who have Inspector of Factories and Work- been ordered to vacate their French shops, who prosecuted, that there Concession premises before the end

were 97 persons employed on the of the month, have not done. premises where there was accom Rumours current recently indicat-modation only for 40.

The Manager of the Tin Sing "Mr. Juan Carrero, Jnr. is the

The Pulsne Judge said thated that other Germans would be son of a prominent mining mag-

both the prosecution and the de- gradually expelled from the Con-Electric Bulb Company, of No. 86, nate in the Phillipines. He is re-

fence had been scrupulously care-cession, but this was emphatically Argyle Street, was fined $100 on a summons for overcrowding un turning to his studies in Hongkongful not to mention the fact that denied at the Consulate-General,

Mr. Choc Ching-hsien, a director the case was a re-trial,

The fea- the "North-China Daily News" of many Philippine frmis is on a turing of this aspect of the case being informed that only those visit to Hongkong with his charm- by certain local newspapers, sald Germans who, through their ing wife King Shin Tsang. his Lordship, came perilously near behaviour should infringe upon the

to contempt of court.

conditions under which they are allowed to reside in the Concession, would be ordered to leave.

Mr. Ng Khiam. another Chinese businessman is also on a visit to the Colony

AIR FRANCE The Air France ner ville de Damas which arrived half-an-hour earlier from Bangkok, Salgon and Hanol, with malls from France and Europe, brought eight passengers, four Europeans and four Chinese.

Among them Mr. Mazot from Hanol, Mr. Hilaire H. Henares, who 1s here on his way to the Philip pine Islands from Calcutta where he has been on a holiday. Mr. Komatsu from, Bangkok' and Mr. Henry B. Jones, from Balgon, Mr. Jones is an American tourist ca his way home from India.

(MR, SLOSS BACK) The Imperial Airways plane Delia brought Miss O. Jones and Mr. D. J. Sloss. C. B. E.. Vice-Chan- cellor of the Hongkong University. who is returning from leave.

The plane also brought 270 kilos. of mail for Hongkong.

The Imperial Airways plaze Denebola left for Bangkok and London yesterday morning with & large quantity of mall and the following passengers:--

Mr. F. B. Winters, of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank who is travelling to London and Mr. and Mrs. Arakle, for Calcutta.

PASSENGERS

DEPARTURES FROM

HONGKONG

The following passengers left the Colony yesterday for the North:-

and

He reminded the jury of their oath, which was to judge the case onthe evidence presented. only during the present trial, and not be influenced or prejudiced by anything which they might have seen or heard elsewhere. ・・・

In testimony yesterday, accused said he asked Lam Hing for the return of the jars or payment for

which them,

Subsequently,

deceased refused. deceased struck him on the jaw and he warded the blow and "struck back. PICKED UP KNIFE

After..

intervened. others had continued defendant. deceased picked up a knife and struck him, cutting his chest. He ran away. and doing so snatched a knife that was lying about, with the deceased following close behind. During the chase, he waved his

hand backwards with the kalfe in his hand. was a knife until

He did not realise It afterwards. deceased cut him once on During the chase, sccused said

thigh.

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POSSESSION OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION

Option Of Fine

For Two Men

the premises of the factory. Mr. Phillips sala that there were 30 workers on the premises where the accommodation was for only

Open gas let flames were in use and the case was relatively a Worse orie... The management bad been fined $75 for a similar offence only a week ago.

Summoned for alowing St women to be employed at an in- dustrial undertaking at No. 23. Bedford Street, at 11.30 pm. on April 6, as against the Labour Protection Ordinance, the mana- ger of the World Light Factory was fined $75. It was stated he had been fined $150 in February this year for a similar offence

MAGISTRATE'S KINDLY ACT

Unlawful possession of DITS and ammunition was the charge preferred against four men, Remarking that cigarette butts Heung Kam. Kwok Pak-yren, picked up from the street contain- Tam Lin-wal, and Pun Kan, sted germs of various discription and the Criminal Sessions yesterday that it was highly dangerous to before the Chief Justice, Sir At-re-manufacture" them for human holl MacGregor..

[consumption, Ms. T. J. Houston at

Mr. E. H. Williams. Crown the Central Court yesterday im- Counsel. prosecuted." Fourth ac- posed a fine of $10 or 14 days im- cused, who pleaded guilty, was prisonment on Kwok Pang, 29, represented by Mr. H. C. Mac unemployed, who pleaded guilty the namara.

who made a plea for to the charge of manufacturing leniency. The following served

cigarettes without a Ecence. Mr. J. P. Murphy, Assistant

on the jury:-Messrs. H F. WI- Crown Solicitor, prosecuted. as-liams foreman). R. Tong, Fung formerly in the Chinese army and Kwok Pang said that he was sisted by Det.-Insp. L. R. Whant. Wat-sun. G. V. Fernandez. G. took part in the struggle against

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Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Instruct-Nisbet. Man "Hon-kwong and W. the Japanese invasion of Shanghal edby Mr. Alfred Y. Hon, appears. T. Louer."

cd for the defence

The following was the jury:-- Messrs. T. B. Williams (foreman), Chung Kam-tong. L A Da- belstein, E. R. Butcher, H. Mok. A. Demee and Wong Shun-him

DUTCH LADY CAUTIONED

After retiring ten minutes. the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against all "accused, but recommended clemency in the case of the second, Kwok Pak-yuen. The

in the early stages of the hostil- ties. He was wounded and was disabled He could not get any employment because he was lame. Mr. Houston made an order for defendant to receive two dollars from the Poor Box at the expira- Chief Justice sentenced ton of his prison term. Arst and third accused. who are already serving terms of impri-" sonment for conspiracy to com-

Mrs. Susana Ivanova Koolhaas-mit a crime, to nine months' and

12 months' hard labour, respec-

tively. Second and fourth accus- ed were sentenced to months each, but given

STOLE FROM RELATIVE

Sentence of two months' hard three labour was imposed on a married the woman, Yeung La-kuen, 20, when she pleaded guilty before. Mr. T. 3. Houston at the Central Cour, yes- terday to a charge of theft of clo-. thing, money and jewellery to a total value of $105.

RADIO SET TO BE CONFISCATED

Mr. Vassanmal Assanmal, Miss Revers, a Dutch subject. residing Katherine Baefg. Mr. and Mrs. "E, at the Peninsula Hotel, was sum- W. Baker, Mstr. Richard Baker, moned. before Mr. H. G. Sheldon Miss Daphne Baker. Miss Shela at the Central Court yesterday for option of a fine of $100. Baker, Mr. S. S. Chellaram, Dr. and failing to report her departure Mrs. D. J. Collins, Mr. J. H. from the Colony in July last year. Ghandy, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hoo-

Detective-Sergt. J. Headridge, ver, Mstr. M. L. Hoover, Mstr. T. K who prosecuted, said that the de- Hoover, Dr. Paul Monroe, Mrs. fendant came to the Regis ration

The thef was committed in Sep- Hap-mo, residing & No. 27tember last year. The complainant, Elizabeth T. May. Miss Gaywood | Office to register her arrival at the May. Lt. and Mrs. L. R. Neville, Mr. Colony two days ago and it was then Des Voeux Road Central, was sumi- C. B. Robertson, Miss Katherine discovered that she had failed to moned before Mr. HL G. Sheldon at Leung So, aster-in-law of the de- Rueck, Mr. Shigenori Sakata, Mr. report her departure last year. the Central Court yesterday for fendant made a report to the police about her loss and on Tuesday Martin G. Scott, Mr. E. C. "Seawell, It was stated that the defendant possession of a radio set without she saw the defendant wearing s Mr. R. P. Shaw, Miss A. Viola had to leave at very short notice | licence. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Steele, and the necessary step had slipped

Dr. J. L. Stewart, Mr. Kisaburo her mind.

Tani. Capt. J. W. Tinson. Mrs. J. A caution was "recorded,

Van den Berg, Mstr. R. Van den

Berg, Mrs. Marion Chan Water-

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Mr. Alfred Y. Hon, who appeared sul; of clothes similar to the one for the defence, pleaded not guilty, she had lost. She took defendant and said tha: the set was not the to the Police Station where Yeung.

admitted the theft. property of his client

Mr. J. Key, Wireless Inspector.

man, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. White, Miss WOULD - BE THIEF applied for permission for the UNCLAIMED

Elsa Youngdahl."

CAUGHT

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Appearing before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Court yesterday,

charged with the attempted theft of a handbag from woman, Cheung Wing, 19, unemployed, was sentenced to six months' hard labour and recommended *for banishment.

confiscation of the set and also per- mission to withdraw the charge

against defendant. This was grant-

ed,

COURT. SEQUEL TO FIGHT

TELEGRAMS

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the Office of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. (Ltd.):

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

IN COLONY · In the Colony of Hongkong in-

Golovatsky YMCA Shanghai, cluding the. Island, Kowloon and

Choy Hon Wal 23, Queen's Road New Territories during the week

Shanghai, Sun Tse Him 42 Shang- ending at 8 am, on Saturday, Apr.

There was a sequel in the Central hai Street Shanghal, Sun Chak 20, 1940, there were altogether 76 The complainant, Yeung Lai-Court yesterday to the aght which Ming 21 Homuntin Street Shang- traffic accidents as the result of hing, was walking in Queen's, Road took place in the Hongkong Club hal, Li Kam c/o Kwong Tal Loy which 5 persons were killed and Central on Tuesday evening when on Monday evening between a cloak Shanghai, Chan 6 Bonham Road 23 persons were injured.

she felt someone strike her wrist, room boy and the billard marker, Shanghai, Fong 605 Luk Kwok Of persons killed, two Chinese breaking her watch. Defendant when the former appeared before Hotel Shanghai, Chang Pin co females and two Chinese males. then started to run but was arrest-Mr, R., Edwards on a charge of as-Kowloon Hotel Shanghai.

sault. aged 40, 31, 6 and I respectively, ed by a police officer..

Wo Hing Co., 3 Wyndham Street Fung kwok-keang pleaded not Tokyo. gulity and the case was adjourned to Friday noon,

were knocked down and killed by

abus, a tramcar, a private car BAIL ESTREATED

and a. motor lorry respectively

while crossing the carriageway.

Falling to appear before Mr..

Of persons injured, 18 were Hous on at the Central Court yes- pedestrians who were struck by terday to answer to the charge of vehicles while crossing the car- Keeping a common gambling house, Tiageway.

Au Tang, 28, unemployed, had, his ball of $100 estreated.

Of 78 accidents. 29 were colli- alons between vehicles, 33 were collia ons between vehicles and pedestrians; 14 accidents were due to other causes.

Seven persong who were charge with gambling: were each fined $3 while 13 absentees had their ball of $3 estreated.

Hongkong estate of $6,700 was left by the late Isabel Wallce

No. 29 Prince Btreet, Peterhead, HEALTH RETURNS Cumming, or Brown, formerly of Twenty-three cases of tuber-Aberdeen, who died at Twicken- culosis, six of dysentery, three of ham, Middlesex, England, on Aug. chicken-pox, three of enteric fever, 5 last year. An application by Mr. one of diphtheria and three of G. G. N. Tinson, lawful attorney, small-pox, were reported to the for sealing certified copy of the Health Authorities for the 24 hours Confirmation (Nominate) of the ended at midnight on April 23. executor has been approved."

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