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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PIRATICAL ATTACK

ATTACK ON JUNK JUNK IN BRITISH WATERS TWO PW.D..

Dozen Men Arraigned Before Puisne Judge

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A number of tins of kerosene and mcks of rice, as well as other assorted articles alleged to form part of the loot, were the Criminal produced before Mr. Justice E H. Williams at

were charged with piracy

Sessions yesterday

in British waters.

men when 12

The accused were TS01 YA U. LAM" LOT, LAM YAN, TSOI' HO. LAM ON, CHAN KUN-TSEHO PING, TSANG HOP, WONG SUI-KAM. LEUNG KUM, WONG 'CHEUNG-KI and LAM CHUN.

Appearing for the prosecution In his first case since, ha ap- pointment as Crown Counsel, was Mr. J. Reynolds, who was assisted by Sub-Insp. R. Cunningham:

following The

Zormed the jury:-Messrs, C. E, Terry (Fore- man). Doo Fook-sang. H. W. Ran- dall, Ching Sik-wing, J. Tum Hung. Loh Changor and Chan Ge-Kang.

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was there recovered, and the 12 defendants were arrested.

EVIDENCE CALLED Evidence Was given by Lam Lin-sul, master of the trading junk, who identified seven of the 12 accused as among those that boarded his craft.

FOREMEN GAOLED

BRIBERY. TRIAL· VERDICT

· Found guilty by a jury on a charge of obtaining a bribe of $20 from a contractor, two Chinese foremen, temporarily employed by the Public Works Department, were "each sen- ienced to nine months' hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl "MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. The accused were Li Sing-san. alias Charlle LI. 28, and Li Yan- wah, 30.

They pleaded Not Quilty and the following jury was empaneil-. ed:-Messrs.

E. L Hoste (fore

GENERAL.

Serious Cut On Wrist

WOUNDING CASE

AT "SESSIONS

An unemployed youth, Chin Tong, was arraigned before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday charged with wounding. with intent to do grievous bodily harm and malicious wounding of Li Wah on April 1.

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Mr. J. P. Murphy, Assistant Crown Solicitor, was' for the "pro-

The secution.

Jury comprised Messrs. H. Henrys (foreman), S. Chuc, J. C. Fonseca, C. Carneiro, Tuan Tse-song, Leung Pal-yim and Leung Chak-man

Mr. Murphy sald that 'the com- plainant was a hawker selling cakes to workmen on Starecut- ters' land,

Some months ago a man, So Yee, while working knocked man) Lai Tu-kou, Kwong Hok-yw. against E Wah and, they had a Ip Kwal-chung, Pun Shek-chun, quarrel. So Yee threatened to F. G. M da Costa and G. R. Hor-assault LA ridge.

At the end of March, Li Wah Mr. J. P.

Murphy" Assistant was returning to Kowloon from at Jordan Crown Solleitor, said that the ac- Stonecutters, and, cased were foremen of the PWD Road whart, a man came up with

Chu Sul, steersman, said the robbers followed them for three hours before they opened fire. "Mr. Reynolds sald the Jank Witness said he was ordered to robbed was No T3354H, registered steer the junk till next morning In the Colony. The boat left when he was told to get into the

and for several months had been Shaukiwan on March 14 with one hold.

About 2 p.m. on the day. he, engaged in supervising work at passenger.

three travelling traders and eight crew. Arriving saw that the robbers had left. He Pokfulam where a new-reservoir at Fuk Kun Tau that night, 20 to then steered the boat to Hong-1 was being constructed. Chu Lam, | sub-contractor, W3: engaged to 30 shots were fired at the junk kong. from two boats in the vicinity.

lay concrete on the site.

." TOOK

REFUGE

Those on board the rading junk went into "the hold for re-

Mr. Murphy pointed out that j when concrete was to be, lald, a Government foreman had to be present to supervise the work.

DEMAND AND THREAT On March 11. when Chu' Lam

was paying his workmen, the ac- cised came to him and 'demand-

Witness Identiñed a rattan bas- ket produced in court as the one stolen from him. After stating that it contained a suit of clothes, two roles of white cloth and one fuge and later the funk was roll of black cloth ne produced boarded. The occupants were two keys, which had not been searched and their personal be- taken from him by the pirates, longings removed.

and opened the basket to show

ed $20, each monthly, threatening The cargo, consisting of Zero- the contents. sene, rice, wire, rope and other Yeung Wing-tak, another junk that if the money was not paid

they would obstruct things. was crdered to be, trans-foki, said the robbers stole from over. ferred next morning into the two him a cardigan, besides an over-work by coming late and leaving other boats belonging to the rob- coat and $16. He saw sixth de- early. bers

fendant wearing the cardigan at The trading Junk then set sall the police station. The robbers, for Hongkong and, on the way. stated witness, were armed with met a police launch, when a re- three revolvers and one rifle. port of the robbery was made. Evidence was also given by 8. 1. The police later went to Conle Is-Cunningham. Sgt. F. Roberts and land and found the two robbers' others, after which the hearing boats. Part of the stolen property was adjourned until this morning

COMPELLED TO REPAIR HIGHWAY.

Registration Of Births

the

The following day both accused arrived at 9 a.m. instead of' and left at 3.30 pm instead of 5.30. They threatened Chu that the money was paid over they would proper time. On work at the March 14 Chu paid each accused and the balance paid on March 27.

$10

On April 10 both accused again demanded money and carried out their threat.

Chu sought legal advice and was told to report to the police.

Insp. O'Donovan gave Chur four During 1939 a total of 46,675 marked $10 notes and sent two births and 48,317 deaths were re-detectives with Chu to the con- gistered throughout the Colony. tractor's matshed. When the ac- These figures compare with 35,894 cused came in to collect their and 38.818 respectively for 1938. money they were arrested.

CHINESE RETURN;

During the first quarter of the TO COLONY

curent year 10,659 Twenty Chinese, part of about 10.900 deaths were registered, The 20,000 who were pressed by the corresponding ngures for last year Japanese in the occupied", areas being 12,321 and 11,987.

births and "PIRATED" BOOKS

FORM CHARGE in South Kwangtung for 'labour It may not be generally known

Following complaints registered service in Kwangsi during the re-that under the Birth and Death

with the Shumstapo relice "Sta- cent operations in that province. Registration Ordinance all birthstion by the management of the returned to Hongkong on Satur- and deaths should be registered, Chung Wah Book Co., Ltd. and the day from Kwangchowian. the former within fourteen days world Book Co. Ltd, of Queen's and the latter within twenty-four Road Central, a police raid led by hours. Failure TO comply with

Det.-Sgt Shaw was carried out on In December, they were this instruction renders those res-the premises of No. 164, Lal Chi

The men are from Canton. Nam

Hoi. Shuntak and Sunwui dia- tricts. taken by the Japanese in trans- ports to Holhow. Hainan Island,

ponsible liable to prosecution.

Anyone knowing of a birth or death which has not been regis-

Kok Road. 1st floor, on May 15,

The police seized more than

B hammer and attempted to

He and strike him.

& Friend managed to ward off the blow and the assailant was arrested and was released after some words. A CHALLENGE On April 1. when the com- plainant met So Yee he chal- lenged Li to having sent men to attack him. The two quarrelled and parted.

When coming back to Kowloon in the evening. someone shoated to him. He stopped and as the person approached him, drew out a chopper and delivered a blow on Li Wah, in an attempt to ward off the second blow, TE- 'célved a serious cut to his left wrist.

L's friend. Leung Kau, came to his assistance and struggled with the man, who was later identified as the accused.

Hearing was adjourned until 10 am, today,

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He Was Going To Be A Policeman!

A ̈fine of $600 was imposed by Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole on. Capt. R. Allison, of the China Naviga- tion Company, at the Marine

guilty to entering Harbour with paliceman, stated Ng Bhek, 40, 248 passengers in excess of the unemployed, appearing on 2 number allowed by his ship's cer-

charge of larceny before Mr. E Himsworth at Kowloon Court yesterday.

He had come from Macau, and was on his way to Shumchun to

Court yesterday when he pleaded accept employment there as

tificate.

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Capt. Allison was originally charged with carrying an excess of 562 but this charge was amend ed to conform with the increased allowance of a later certificate. and the number In excess was calculated as 348.

It was alleged that defendant had cut out the pocket of a woman passenger on board the ferry boat "Man Lal," - bound from Hongkong to Mongkoktsui on Saturday, with a razor blade Mr. M. M. Watson, for the de

purse containing and stole fendant, said that an unusually $5.60 in Hongkong currency and

and then to the mainland where. tefed is requested to report the 8:000 books, printed from blocks large number of passengers for $1ù in Chinese currency,

together with others founded up by the Japanese, they were forced

to march to Yamchow, Kwangs)..

There they were compelled to repair the railway and Tamchow highway between

and Nanning which had been destroyed by the Chinese troops.

About 50 of those conscripts es- caped in March and arrived in

forged from Chung Wah Bock Co.

nearest registry or to the General and World Book Co. originals,

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fact as soon as possible to the Birth and Death Registry, Fost The "pirated" books included the Living English Readers Series for Office Building, 1st floor. No charge, made for registration Junior middle schools. within the periods mentioned above, and no charge is made far a post-registration of a death. Defaulters are invariably prose- cuted, the most recent case occur- ring only two weeks ago when the

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A warrant for the arrest of al premises raided, was issued by Mr. Kwong, principal tenant of the

Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon

Court yesterday at the request of Mr. Hin Shing Lo, appearing for the Chung Wah World Book Com- also made with regard to the books seized...

Swatow had been booked by the Company's agents at Shanghai. The Japanese authorities had a ready Issued passes for the pas- cantly took them as there was no sengers and the Captain reluc-

other ship for a fortnight:

In imposing the fine, Comman- der Hole said, "I know the dim- culties but I think the Company has been very careless in this matter and they will have to pay

the ine."

**THREW AWAY BLADE - Eighty cents in small money dropped out from the purse on to the deck, and this was noticed appeared in Court yesterday as by So Cheung, 37, a hawker, who

principal witress against defen- dant.

defendant threw overboard the On being caught in the act,

purse and razor blade. However, a carton for razor blades was found on his person, and he was arrested and subsequently charged.

hard labour for larceny and was

turning from banishment..

French territory last month, person held responsible for panies. A confiscation order was where they were cared for by reporting the death was fined $40 lief organisations before being with an alternative" of two months' repatriated to their native dis- hard labour. tricts.

If approval is given for a birth to be registered after fourteen plainants had expended a lot of days and within twelve months of money towards the struggle for pro- birth a fee of one dollar is charg-tection of their copyrights locally. ed. After the expiration of twelve and nothing short of an arrest months a fee of ten dollars is seemed sufficient to act as a de-

terrent to the many book pirates employed, appeared before Mr. R. Edwards charge with stealing 50 The co-operation of the general active in the Colony.

Mr. Hin Shing Lo said that com- ALLEGED THEFT He was sentenced to four months

ENEMY ALIEN DETAINED

charged.

It is understood that only one public is earnestly requented in

additionally sentenced for OF MONEY

At the Central Magistracy yeɛ-

terday Tool Hon-sang, 24

cents from Wang Chou-hong, of enemy allen, who was granted the strict compliance of the law SNATCHER CAUGHT No. 110 Queen's Road Central, ob- conditional release sometime ago. relating to the registration of

Bentence of six months hard taining is from another person, $5 He births and deaths. Certificates of labour and 10 strokes of the cane Tam Chung-yit has since been detained.

each from Lam Chan-heung and has, however, not been sent to birth in the Colony of Hongkong was passed at Kowloon Court the La Salle camp, but is detain confer certain very obvious ad- yesterday on Yeung Bau, 18, ed at Central Police Station.

vantages. **

It is learned that he has been given a room formerly occupied by a European police officer and is guarded day and night.

Work on transforming part or La Salle College again into an Ib ternment camp is proceeding space.

charged with snatching a" hand- KOWLOON OFFICE

bag trom a woman named During 1939 the Kowloon Death Cheung Mel, 28, in Prince Ed Register Office dealt with 20,500 ward Road on Baturday. De- death registrations as compared 1endant was chased and arrested with 9,855 during the previous by Sgt. McDermott of the year, and 5,813 in 1935.

ce who had witnessed the in-

group

of

Two is alleged to 1 'e obtain ed payments from i friends as registration fees for prospective jobs. -

Hearing of the case journed until tomorrow.

ESTREATED

FO BAIL

was ad-

Due to this expansion and con-dent and alighted from a bus A Portuguere" woman, Maria

Central

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sequent increase in staff, the re- to give chase.

Hibeira, 31. had her ball of $20 Used for a similar purpose at gistry at the Kowloon Mortuary

estrested when she failed to a the outbreak of the war for the office, which has been shared opened Tim Sha Tsui Health pear before Mr. QAA Mac- Interment of Germans, the area with the Medical Officer in charge

Cold Centré

British fadyen at Kowloon Court yester was resumed by the Government the mortuary and the Health School) and the transfer wil day to answer a charge of keep last week.

Officer, New Territories, has take effect as from Baturday, ing a brothel at No. 43. Pilkem Detention or internment or re- become too cramped. In ad-

Street, ground floor, in Yauma". lease is made by the Colonial dition it has always been realis- It is hoped at a later date to

district, authorities. It was gathered yes-ed that being in the mortuary introduce birth registration faci- terday. The military authorities compound the registry was badly litles at this registry. In addition would provide the necessary guard positioned.

to death registration, thus giving if requested to do so, stated a A new registry has therefore Kowloon an up-to-date Birth and apokesman.:

Death Registry,

been atted out in the recently

June, 1. "

Sub-Inspector Kellett, who pro- secuted, said that the raid was carried out at 11.40 o'clock on Saturday night when two couples were found on the premises.

HIGH BIDDING AT SALE OF CROWN LAND

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There was high bidding at the Crown and sale at the P. W. D. yesterday.

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4278, situated at a Heung Road, TO- kwawan, containing an "ares or about 3,720 square feet, was sold' to Mr. Lam Shek-tang, of No. 89, Oak Street, for $4,180, The upset price was $2,790.

Kowlock? "Inland Lot. No. 3277. with an area of about 12,000 square feet, located at Argyle Street, was sold to Messrs. Yuk On Tong Land Investment Co. Ltd., for $14,000, the upset price being $9,600.

New Kowloon Inland, Lot No. 2792, at Castle Peak Road, Cheungshawan, was purchased by

the World Pencil Co., Ltd.. for $15,000. The lot contains an area of about 14,780 square feet and the upset price was $11.093.

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