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IMPERSONATOR. GAOLED

Chief

Inspector Murphy, a means of this false pretence, tained an overcoat from

during their absence, He ad Imitted that the knife was his.

Second defendant conarmed that the knife belonged to Art Stating that he WES working defendant, but said that he had together with

Detective never seen him. use it for any KAN, by viclent or harmful purpose.

Lia Chung, No. 1 in the elec- obu diatrical department of the Taikoo Dock, called by the defence, said revealed yesterday that he hid known first defend

unant for over a year while second employed, was charged before Mr. defendant had worked under him G.T. Lowry with impersonating for four years. He added that he 3 Police officer. at Lockhart Road was satisfied with the work and

character of the latter. on Saturday, with the purpose, of searching Wan Ngau. Chan was additionally charged with obtain- ing an Overcoat by pretending that he was postman No. 82, on Dec. 4.

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trict watchman.

This when Chan Kam-wan, 23,

Mr. Ruse submitted that accused should be given the benefit of the doubt,

COURTS

breach of Post Office regulations, appeared again before Major A. N. Macfadyen yesterday on a charge of possession of two letters with out permission or excuse,

Det. -5gt, N. B, Fraser said that in a raid carried out by himself and a Chinese detective at No. 57, Bai Yeung Choi Street on Nov. 27, two letters were found in a paper box on top of a wardrobe. The letters were addressed to No. 4, Essex Crescent and No. 149, Sat Yee Street and stamped Nov. 22

After evidence given by Mr. D. C. W. Pitches, of the G, P. O. and Kong King. the defendant was committed to the Criminal

Sessions,

In his defence, the accused gaid that on the morning in question

MURDER CHARGE Hearing was 3xed for Dec. 18 by Mr K. M. A. Barnett gesterday of he was busy and mixed up the the case in which an unemployed two letters with other letters.

Wa Lemg. 24. was Chfaesc.

Det-Sgt. J. Bentley said that at about 12 p.m. on Saturday de- fondant stopped complainant in the street and said he was a "po- charged with the murder of Lo Kių, married woman, at No. 5 liceman and wanted to search20. complainant.

Sheung Fong Lane, on Nov. 23.

Det. Sub Insp. R. Cunningham

On further inquiries being made It was found out that at about! prosecuted.. 0.50 p.m. defendant went up to district watchman No. 85 and told him that he was working with ODI, Murphy and, as the weather was cold, asked him to lend him his overcoat,

that

17TH CONVICTION"

Capt. R. 8. Bonney, of No. 148. Argyle Street, appeared as com- plainant before Mr. Himsworth yesterday when Wong Kam-yau, 39, was charged with larceny of a canvas car cover from his garage. on Sunday.

Sgt. Gordon said that the de- fendant was arrested by the cook

TREE CUTTERS GAOLED Two women, Tang Tai, 39, and Chang Tal, 29, were charged before; Mr. Barnett yesterday with un- lawful possession of three trees, "boy. valued at $35, at Shaukivan on The defendant, who had 16 pre- vious convictions of larceny and de- Sunday.

is now under Police supervision, was sentenced to six months' hard

Sgt. Bentley added

First defendant was sentenced fendant was formerly a constable

also to six weeks and second defend in Chinese territory and used to be a watchman st Prince's ant. who had one previous con- labour.

Building but lost his job owing, to negligence,

viction, was sentenced to turo months.

TRANSPORTING RICE

a similar offence. Fu To-wah, 60, owner of "Junk Appearing on im- Sentence of one, month's priment on each count, the Leung Yam, odd coolie, was sen- No. T1003, was, charged before

yesterday

with sentences to run concurrently, was tenced to a total of four months Mr. Himsworth

imprisonment. Defendant was moving 120 bags of rice in the imposed.

charged with the possession of barbur without a licence from the Admitting two live trees, valued at $10, at Controller of Trade. Shaukiwar.

ALLEGED THIEF REMANDED

tha he intended to transport the Ha Lan, 25; married woman, was charged before Mr. Lowry It was stated in Court that derice to Tsun Wan, the defendant yesterday with stealing a jewellery fendant was bound over recently was fined $50. box containing $411

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six weeks' hard labour were Im- posed by Major Macfadyen yester- day on Lee Yau; 22, for damaging waterworks at King's Park by cut- ting lead pipes leading to the re servoir, and for breach of an ex- plusion order

bangle, valued at $109.80 from, present charge Leung was given Sentence of three months' and No. 119 Lockhart" Road, second three months' and, for breach of his bond, defendant was given an floor, on Thursday.

Det-Sgt. V. M. Morrison said additional month that the defendant was employed by the "complainant, Chan Kang cases,

to ALLEGED ROBBER IN HOSPITAL kwan. 31. married Woman

Three of the four men charged sweep the floor of the above ad-. dress. On that day, during com- with the alleged robbery of a It was stated that the defend- plainant's absence, defendant stole woman were discharged when they ant was seen cutting the lead the box from the bed and disap appeared before Mr. Barnett" on pipes by a foreman of the water- peared.

remand yesterday.

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were Enemiries were

The three accused discharged found on the ground when the fendant Was found living in were Cheung Wal-ko, 33, um-defendant was arrested.

The prosecutor asked his Wor- West Point The bangle had been employed, Chut Ching-hin. sold by defendant and only 310 unemployed, and Lai Chan-mel, 31, ship to take a serious view for the

unemployed.

accused might have, cut through was recovered.

the pipes and disrupted the water service,

Ho was remanded for 24 hours for her husband to be called,

JUVENILE CANED "Charged before Mr. Lowry yes- terday in the Juvenile Court with stealing from No. 96 Bhaukiwan

Together with Chan Kwan, 23. coolie, they were charged with robbing LI Bau-cun of a handbag containing $51, a compact and one notebook at Queen's Road West on Nov. 28.

Insp. F. D. B. Tuckett said Chan Road, ground floor, on Dec. 5, was in hospital and asked for a money and articles to the total remand of seven days. The ap- value of $116, a 16-year-old boy plication was granted.

was given 12 strokes of the cane and also bound over for six months to be of good behaviour.

LARCENY FROM SINCERE'S Pleading guilty before Mr. Lowry yesterday to a charge of stealing

The accused will be expelled,

D. O. SOUTH

ROBBED BENEFACTOR Lau Wal, 33, and his elder brother snowed their gratitude to UNLAWFUL SOCIETY

Ng Ngan, Chinese female, who Charged on counts of threaten- put them up free of charge, by ing and being a member of an robbing her of one. wooden box unlawful society. Au Tim, allas Wan containing $58 in Hongkong cur- Tam-tin, 23, unemployed, was con- rency, on Dec., 4. at Ha Yeung visted on both counts by Mr. Bar-Village, Sai Kung. nett yesterday.

According to Sgt. Roberts, offi..

one tin of three tennis balls! Au was charged with threaten-cer-to-charge of Sai Kung Police

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valued at 13.45, from the Sincere ing to assault Chan Chun-man to station, who charged Lau Wal be- Devastations In Yamchow,

Company on Sunday,,Kwok Kwan.j Induce him to become a member fore Mr S. F. Balfour pesterday 23. unemployed cook boy, was of an unlawful society, the Sup with the larceny of the wooden bound over in the sum of 10 to Pat Yau Society, and with being box and its contents,

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.... The widespread devastations in Yamchow, Fongshing and their his elder brother. The reason for neighbouring drifts on the west Hwangtung coast as a result of Defendant was sentenced to 12 his binding his brother was to boat one year's Japanese military occupation were described in. x months' imprisonmet.

an inside report from Baikal in the local Takungpao. Det.-Sgt. R. MacVey prosecuted.

job. When it came to a division Following their occupation of Yamehow in November last year. of the spoils, accused received the report said, the Japanese immediately embarked upon their work only $1, which made him want to of systematic destruction of the city. “beat up" his elder brother...

ARMS IN SHAUKIWAN .. Charged with unlawful posses- slon of azma, Yip Yun, 25, appren- tice Etter, and Liu Kwong, 25, un- employed electrician, appeared before Mr. Lowry yesterday when. they were discharged,

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guilty, he was sentenced to one and more than 100 residences in the Japanese to pave the highways their possession & revolver, five A plot of the Eurasia Airways month's hard labour, ordered to the cast area were completely around Yamchow destroyed by the rounds of ammunition and a knife Company, Chan Wong-ka. 28. was pay $60 as compensation to the dismantled, while over 1,000 Chinese. About 50 Chinese 1 of at an unnumbered house above charged before Mr. Himsworth complainant or, in default, two houses in other parts of the city the Yamchow-Fongshing highway Cheung Lok Theatre, Shaukiwanyesterday to possession

months' hard labour to run coneither had their rooftops torn were thus paved, pro on Nov. 18 without a licence. Camera in a protected ares, Water-secutively to the first sentence. down or their windows and doors prosecuted. Mr. C. A. Sutherton The wife of the defendant who He was also ordered to sign a bond taken away. Only one or two per In the sum of $100 to be of good cent of the buildings there remain Russ, appearing for both defend-appeared on behalf of defendant

behaviour for two years.

ed intact. ants, pleaded not guilty,-

stated that accused was away Insp. Darkin said that on No. from the Colony on an official 19 at 11 pm a police party led by night but would return on Satur Divisional Inspector W. A. Ruday... sell, raided the house in question. Bgt. Whitley asked for a remand When they entered they saw the or 24 hours for the aim to be two defendants lying on a Underneath the bed was a pillow, developed, which was granted.

bed.

in which a loaded revolver was

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REVOLVER: .CONFISCATED

DIVAN KEEPER.FINED

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1940.

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(MID-BUMMER) LOCAL DIRECTORY,

fields at Pakuk, in the Yamchow a Japanese transportation centre, and the power plant were all re suburbs, were converted into an between Yamchow" and Nanning. duced to a shambles. airfield, which according to natives There, a light railway and several The town had suffered a serious | there. "accommodated as many as wharves were built. The rails were flood earlier last month with many

50 planes at one time.

turn away by the Japanese during houses and crops in the suburbs. Fleading guilty to both the of No, 80, Tal San Street, as

MADE BARREN

their recent withdrawal, but the swept away, The Japanesə bơmb-'~ charges of possession of non-Gov brothel on Dec. 8.

Unltivation was strictly forbid tracks still remain

ings have added to the town fur- ernment oplum and of keeping.. an

den several it around the airfield The Japanese did not occupy ther misery and desolation, oplom. divan at an un numbered premises were raided at a p.m. on and 400 mow of farmland has been there last year but were stationed about 300. how also lles in ruins, "According to the prosecution, the with the result that between 300 Fongshing following their landing Mouling, with a population of house at Tai Ban Eack Street, first Dec. 8. when five Chinese females, made barren.

Great Mouling, near Fongshing, in The Japanese set fire to all houses floor, Cheung Chau, on Dec. B, who admitted being prostitutes, Few people who had evacuated view of its strategic position there prior to their withdrawal An application by Det, Sgt. Mor-Tang Tai, 30, was fined 150, or

・Japanese found on the premises. The ac- The

designated one rison for the confiscation of three three weeks hard labour on the and nine Chinese males were returned to Yamchow after its fall.

Prior to their withdrawal from damaged revolvers and 15 rounds first count, and $16, or one week cused admitted being the princi- street for residence and marked off Tamehow last months, the Japanese JAPANESE ENVOY TO Insp. Durkin added that the re of ammunition, found in the hard labour, on the second, by pal tenant,

an area about five ll from the city | subjected Fongshing to ruthless air NANKING REGIME volver" had not been used for a grounds of the Diocesan Boys Mr. B. Balfour yesterday.

as market place, where oplum dens ralds for three consecutive dayan number of years and was not ser- Bchool on Saturday morning, was

SHANGHAI, Dec 9 (Bauter) Sgt. Whitcroft prosecuted.

and gambling houses were estab- on November 13, 18 and 17. There viceable.

litbed to demoralise the Chinese. granted by Mr, Himsworth yester

were only a little more than 600 Mr. Kumataro Honda, the Bath defedants, who gave evi-

The residence of prominent houses in the town, but the Japan Japanese Ambassador to Germany, day. dence, denied any knowledge of,

Yamchow-eftimen, Lâu- «Tung-fu, ese dumped a total of 500 bombic was appointed Ambazzador to the revolver. First defendant said.

POSTMAN COMMITTED

was converted into military. Only two hospitals and seven Nanking regime its succession” to “ hospital and a crematory | houses mesespęd wir minor General Nobuyuki Abe who

Kamkaitong, about 30 miles from damages. The rest including the resigned according Tamchow near the const, served na district; government headquarters Ching wel's Central Presa Service

trand. Continuing the search, a

knife was found in a drawer near

the wall

BAIL ESTREATED

CAUTIONED Yip Cheung, 87, unemployed, was cautioned when he pleaded guilty, Tam Fong, 42, widow, had her before Mr. 6. F. Balfour yesterday, bail of $30 estreated when she to the charge of - unlawfully that he had lived with second de Lam Chung, 25. postman No, falled to appear before Mr. F breaking off branchescats tres fendant at the house for two 161 attached to the G. P., Kow- Balfour, yesterday, to answer the on Dec. 8. at the Ching Chau years. The house was not locked Inon, who had been fined $10 for charge of keeping the first door Reservation.

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