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MINE EXPLOSION SEQUEL: $100,000 FOR PLAINTIFFS IN SUPREME COURT CASE

Judgment for $100,000, the value of two lighters that were destroyed by a mine,on October 30, 1939, was given for plaintiffs with costs when the action claiming damages was concluded before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Supreme Court yes- terday.

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The parties in the case were the Mr. Chen then applied for leave Mi Yuen Navigation Company, to amend the statement of claim. Ltd.. pfirm registered in Macao Fermission was granted and the and the owners of the two lighters, statement of claim was amended and Ching Cheong, of No. 27, Wing|to that of negligence, Lok Street.

Mr. Percy Chen appeared for thợ plaintiffs while the defendant was not legally represented and was not present in Court..

BREACH

OF CHARTER

The claim. originally alleged breach of the charter party on the ground of deviation, because the defendant had despatched the two vessels to Canton, a port other

ALLEGATIONS NOT DENIED

At yesterday's hearing, Mr. Chen submitted that in his pleading he made allegations of negligence against the de- fendant and in reply the de- fendant had failed to deny the allegations.

GENERAL

Unemployed | H.K. ENEMY

Gaoled

ALIENS IN CEYLON

sind

HAD NO GOODS It is understood that enemy

FOR SALE

allens interned in the Colony have been sent. and have reached, Appearing before-Mr. H.-G. Shel-Diyatalawa a big military camp don, at the Central Magistracy In Ceyion, which housed German yesterday, on a charge of obtain-internees in the last war

ng $18 from Crau Lin, partner of Boer prisoners in the South Afr- the Kwong Cheung Hing Import can war. and Export firm, of No. 105, Main Street West, Shaukiwan, by false pretences on Sept. 1, Ho Fuk, 30. unemployed, ́ was. convicted and fined $100, in default, two months" Imprisonment.

.Defendant pleaded not guilty and said he only got 53 which was a lean.

Chàu, in evidence, såid defen- His pleading also contained the dant and a man, Cheung Sang. stement that the lighters were came to his shop and asked wit- under the control of the defen-ness to sell for him (defendant) a dant and that the defendant or quantity of rosin and wolfram.

The internees, who were form-

erly housed in La Salle College, were taken from the Internment Camp to a ship recently.

It is learned that there is now only one internee in La Salle Col- lege-Mr. Yamaguchi, a Japanese merchant.

RETIRED U.S.

"ADMIRAL HEADS

than Hongkong and Macao which his agent was the master ct, the Chau offered to purchase the rust AMERICAN C.I.C.

were spected in the agreement.

His Lordship pointed that he failed to see how any "damages could follow from breach of the

launch which towed the lighters. at $23 per picul and the Wolfram These allegations were not con-at $270 per pical. " tradicted by the defendant, "

Giving judgment for the plain- tiffs, his Lordship remarked that

ADVANCE ON GOODS

On that day defendant obtained is from witness as an advance

COMMITTEE

he came to that conclusion on them the goods and later, during Rear-Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. At

charter party, as it seemed, the damages were caused in the waters of the Colony at a place common issue or negligence only, and not bath to Journeys to Canton and on any matter connected with the Macao.

charter.

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS

AT CENTRAL

POSSESSION OF DYNAMITE For possession of 45 sticks of dynamite and 39 detonators on board trading Junk No. T4366H, which was lying at Shaukiwan Harbour on Sept. 1, Leung Shing. 37, steerman, was fined $5 by Mr. H. G. Sheldon yesterday.

Insp. W.-A Russell said that the dynamite and detonators were found on board the junk, during, a routine search. They were locked up and there were no one on board at the time.

Defendant told him that they were left by a former steerman.

Mr. B. A. de Botelho, for defen- danty said he was instructed to plead guilty to the technical charge of possession of dynamite. His cilent had pleaded ignorarice of the law.

Mr. Botelho added that a caution and a nominal fine would meet the

situation.

An application by Insp. Russell for confiscation of dynamite was granted

Chau's absence, got $3 from wit

ness' accountant.

Next morning Ho called at the¦ shop and asked- witness to get coolies and a lorry to go to Talpo to fetch the goods. They went to Nathan Read where defendant asked witness to walt while he obtained the lorry.

Almost Inseparable from the Fanar incident is the name of

that is in command-of-the- American Asiatic Fleet, he has since returned to the United States and retired. In the past

fow months he has been active for the Chinese cause of Industrial recon- struction and is now chairman of the Executive Board of the American National Committee for ALLEGED NUISANCE

Defendant was seen to run away.

the Chinese Industrial Co-opera- Alleged to have thrown stones He was chased and was

taken; tives. at Mt. Austin Barracks on Sept. back to Shaukiwan. On arrival, 1, a 17-year-old coolte Cheung witness was told by his accountan: Franklin D Roosevelt, Henry L Kua-pel, was charged before Mr. that Cheung Sang had called at Stimson and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt sheldon yesterday for being a the shop and said that he had are among the sponsors, guides seen the lorry in the New Terri- local Committees for the CIC. in Gnr. Chand Singh testified that tories loading goods.,.

New York, Washington. Baston, Baltimore and Philadelphia

RECENT. SPEECH

nuisance.

he Jaw defendant throw two Chau became suspicious and stones and Jater, when he was questioned defendant who

ad-

about to arrest him, threw an- mitted that he had no goods for other stone which hit witness on sale, the leg.

Corroborative evidence was given by other Indian soldiers on the scene and the case was adjourned for 24 hours for the defendant to call a witness.

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Defendant pleaded not guilty.

AT KOWLOON

SNATCHER IMPRISONED

of No. 1. Yan Hing Street,

This Committee, of which Mrs,

In a recent public speech Ad- miral Yarnell "sald: "Economic self-sufficiency will be China's an- swer to the blockade put up by Japan. The Far Eastern situation

RENTAL CLAIM will depend much upon the rela

CONCLUDES

Written Judgment Will Be Given

tive economic tenacity of bath countries. If the economic posi tion of China is strengthened, ther the United States can afford to réduce the enormous expenditure of its Pacific fleet and can less ite anxiety regarding that corner of

The hearing of a claim for $320, Į the world."

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Sentence of three months' im- being rent for the month of July prisonment with hard labour was in respect of No. 8, MacDonnel for the CIC from the American In a letter appealing for support imposed by Mr. Q.AA. Macfadyen Road, was concluded before Mr. people, Admiral Yarnell has point- yesterday on Wong Ping, 24, un-Justice E. H. Williams at the Sumed out that the American direct employed. for snatching a hand mary Court yesterday.

Interest is in obtaining support bag from Chu Yuen yu, spinster. EVADED TO PAY FARE

The plaintiff was Miss Julla for the Chinese Industrial Co- Chan 'Man, 20. fishmonger, Sgt. Alexander prosecuted. and Woo, of No. 15, Kennedy Road operatives. But beyond that, "he

who charged with evading payment of told the Court that on

was represented by Mr. D. says, "we are, ás patriotic Ameri- Septem- bus fare on Sept. 1, was fined $5 or, ber 2 at 2.50 p.m..the complain-r, K. V. McLane, who was re- to us of the immediate future in McCallum, and the defendant was cans. eager that the importance In default, 7 days' imprisonment, ant was walking with a friend by Mr. Sheldon yesterday.

along Cox's Road near Tak Shing presented by Mr. F. H. Loseby. Defendant boarded bus No. 538 Street when the defendant came At the previous hearing. Mr. Mc- from behind and snatched her Callum said that the premises in hand bag.

question were originally let to the

at the Vehicular Ferry Whart and when he was asked for his tickes said he had a monthly, ticket. When the bus was in King's Road, near Ting Ting Street, defendant was asked to produce his monthly ticket and could not do so; Bgt. Poekson prosecuted.

FALSE PRETENCES

Four months hard labour was imposed by Mr. G. T." Lowry yesterday on Sze To-chin, 24, baker, who was charged with oo taining, with others, not in cus- tody, $520 trom Cheung. Wing, manager of the Wah Hg Imper: and Export hrm, on Feb. 19. by falsely pretending that he was in a position to let the ground floor

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China should not be overlooked be- cause of the more dramatic events in Europe at the moment."

AN EXPERIMENT

Defendant escaped along Tak former Canadian Trade Commis- Mrs. Frank.in D. Roosevelt, volc- Shing Street, with the, complain-stoner on a yearly lease in Apriling the same opinion, wrote in the ant and the witness pursuing.

1933. The rent was $250 a month. New York World Telegram as fol- Portuguese pedestrian who hap

NEW LEASE

lows:-"The Chinese people are pened to be at the scene.gave The lease expired and a new making an interesting experiment chase. The defendant was finally lease was taken out on May 23, in co-operatives, which we might "Trrested at Bowring Street by C. 1939. The rent was fixed at $300 well assiet.

Their success and per month. During this period, their economic setup mean tree- defendant the then Trade Commissioner was dem of intercourse in the Far covered the hand bag with a transferred from Hongkong and East with people living under a plece of newspaper in order to permission was given by the land- democratic form of government... conceal it. The bag and the con- lady for the successor to continue It may sound tents, $20, were recovered."

848.

During the chase

BREACH OF CHOLERA REGULATIONS appearing before Mr. Macfad

the lease.

very semish, but from the point of view of our own The rent was again increased to interest wouldn't it be wise to en- $320, commencing on April 1, 1940. courage the growth of economic.

Mr. Loseby then submitted that security in China?"

of No. 71, Benham Strant East to yen yesterday, Man Yun-kee, 02, his client was entitled to the pro- complainant,

In the Philippines, Mra. Francis and Chan Lai, 19, married wotection under the War Property | B. Sayre, the wife of the United man, were charged with a breach Tax. Det. Sgt. P. J. Cullinan, pro-

States High Commissioner, heads of the Cholera Regulations by secuting, said complainant Was

Mr. Justice Williams yesterday the Manila Committee for the 'introduced to the defendant who selling unhygienic foodstuffs. said that he did not agree with C.1.C., and the Right, Rer. R. O.

timated, that he (defendant; The first defendant was seen Mr. Loseby's submission and added Hall, Bishop of Hongkong, heads [ could let the ground floor of the hawking home-made Jelly, known that he could give a written judg- the International Committee for said premises to him..

as "Tai Choi Ko" at Public Square ment at the request of Mr. Loseby, the CIC. in Hongkong The rent was to be $110 a Street, near Reclamation Street, month. He gave defendant two The second defendant was arrest

months rents in advance and $300 ed for selling "Rock Candy" at was withdrawn owing to the fact Marine Court yesterday as second *^as "shoe money.” In March com-Battery Street.

plainant wanted to move in but Fach of the two defendants was told by the master of the flat was fined $5 or 5 days in prison. that no notice was given him by the landlord.

TRAFFIO CASES

A tine of $5 was imposed on

TRAFFIC SUMMONSES, Several summonses for traffic offences were heard before Mr. Macfadyen yesterday.

TH, D. Eldwell, of Gibb, Livingstone Ma Yuk, driver of taxi No.

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that the defendant was away, defendant when charged with trom Hongkong at the time when Kwok Fo Kau, 88, with lying m the licence should be changed. ahore less than 100 yards from Low Water Mark near Yuen Op Wharf on Ang, 31.

MARINE COURT

1.

MISTRESSES FINED

She was treated as a juvenile and fined $7 or in default seven days with hard labour. The man

and Company, by Mr. Sheldon yea- 107, charged with driving at a In the Marine Court, yesterday was fined $10 or ten days with' terday when he was summoned for speed in excess 20 mph. In Na-five women, mistresses of Class 11 hard labour. Both pleaded guilty, leaving his car outside the Cathay than Road at 10.30 am. on Aug. cargo boats, were fined $7 each or Fung Yuk, 31, was sentenced to Theatre over the time limit of two was cautioned.

in default seven days imprisona ane of $7 or in default seven hours on Aug. 17.

Hanley Chan, of 175 Austin ment with hard labour for mor days R.1 for lying inshore less Leung Cheuk-ching, of No. 21 Road, charged with driving with ing their boats in a prohibited than 100 from Low Water Mark ou Morrison Hill Road, summoned out an apprópriate driver's area in Causeway Bay without Aug. 31 of Sai Kong Wharf, for driving his car

without licence and an unlicensed car was obtaining the permission of the having renewed his licence, was fined $12 and Chan Fou-man, of Harbour Master. "fired $15.

No. 188, Fa Yuen Street, was fined They are Leung Ho, 59, Li Tai Summoned for not having a $15 on similar charges.

23, Pang Kwai, 39, Ng Tal-Yau, 30. Licence disc on he windscreen of Miss Fung Fo-king, of No. Ty and Yeung Yau-Chiol, 30. They his Car on Aug. 17. For Lum-hot Chuo Yeung Street, was charged pleaded severally guilty and were

of the Yellow Dragon, Alexander with allowing her private car, Bulding, was red $10.

license No, 2011, which was not

sentenced as stated.

JUVENILE IN COURT -

FISHED IN PROHIBITED AREA

Nine men, masters of Class 11 Junks, were charged in the Marine Court yesterday with fishing in a prohibited area. All of them pleaded guilty and were sentenced to a fine of $30 each or in defauit

Trame-Insp. T. 3. Clarke pro- duly licensed, to be used in Na A 16-year-old girl, mistress of a 30 days imprisonment with harde

than Road on August 8. The case cargo boat appeared before the labour. The fines were paid

#écated,

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