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CRIMINAL SESSIONS:

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN

ARMS POSSESSION TRIAL

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

to sell by

་་

PUBLIC AUCTION

OR

Tuesday, the 21st January, 1941

commencing at 10.30 a.m.

at the premises of The China Light & Power Co., Ltd.. Sub- Station. Yaumati, 1st Floor.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE-

After a short retirement, the jury returned a unanimous `ver- dict of Not Guilty" in the case in which Hut Hung alias Hul Pui- hung ivas arraigned before Mr. Justice E. H. Williams yesterday on the charge of unlawful' possession of arms and ammunition.

Mr. Reynolds, Crown Counsel, claimed that they were planted assisted by Sgt. E. Morris, Officer- on his junk.

in-Charge uf Ping Shan Police After evidence had been given Station. prosecuted: The Jury by Sgt. Morris, Sgt. Perkins comprised Messrs. G. J. Pissareu-| (Police Armourer, who testifed Shy. Kuo Chiu-chuen, Ma Kam- that, the rifle was in good working, sping, Lau Hin-cheung. Lam Shut-order but had not been fired for! wan, Lee Yue-wal, and Kwan some time, and that the revolver Shing-cho.

was very old and unserviceable),

The case for the Crown was Tang Yue, the Chinese detective- that at about 1 a.m. on Dec. 23, sergeant. and Hu! Sau-yau, the 1940, a Police party headed by Police Interpreter, accused gave Sgt. Morris and an Informer went evidence on his own behalf, to Lau Pau Shan, arriving there at about 2:15 a.m. There were about 12 boats moored of the

foreshore, among which was de

fendant's boat which was about

Ix feet from the water's edge.

LOADED RIFLE

The Police then proceeded to search the hold and found a rifié On View from Monday, the 20th icaded with one round of am-

January, 1941.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS.

munition. Search of another hold revealed nothing.. but by the side of the hold was found a revolver, loaded with three rounds, hidden under some straw.

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS

AT CENTRAL -

CABLE DAMAGED

Charged with stealing two.pleces

FALSE PRETENCES

AT KOWLOON

ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS Appearing before Major AN

man

re the

ARMS PLANTED

He stated that he was an oyster breeder and had been carrying on business for a long time at Lau Páu Shan, and known to the fishermen in the vicinity. Не claimed that the arms had been planted on his junk.

Evidence

was given by defen- dant's 10-year-old son, and his wife. both of whom denied all knowledge of the arms and am- munition.

EDUCATION REPORT

GENERAL

The Canadian interviewer, Rooney Pelletier, talking to two chil- dren sheltering in the children's section of the crypt of the

"Church of the Empire,"

Historic Edifices To Be Demolished Preparatory Rebuilding London

To

LONDON, Jan. 1-Dynamite 's to be used to make the "City" of London safe. 'Hundreds of Royal Engineers and Pioneers arrived within the historic square-mils ares today to speed up the work of demolition necessitated by the Nazis' witch's sabbath' of fire and destruction, writes S. Martin Chisholm In the Manila Bulletin The ruins

centuries.

LIST OF DEVASTATIONS

||

it

In a

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941.

GOOD RANGE

OF

SPORTS SHIRTS

IN

VARIETY OF COLOURS

AEXTEX IN CHECKS

AND PLAIN MATERIAL

ALSO

TERRY TOWELLING

IN

NAVY & WHITE.

LADIES' SALON

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

THE CITY "TAKES IT"

"

In his summing up, his Lordship reminded the jury that the defen- When charged, accused made a dant had maintained throughout statement deriving ownership of the whole time he was arrested the arms and ammunition and to the time he gave evidence in the box, that he knew nothing of the arms and

of many structures the street is a street of skeleton ammunition and that they must have been planted and the engineers have ordered of all

stand in s dangerous condition, jbulidings. The road itself, empty on his junk.

traftc and

swept and He directed the jury that if they

the use of dynamite where neces strångely clean underfoot believed his story they must re-

sary. This fate awaits many a stretches between walls standing It is not only Londoners them- Churches too have "taken it, historie church OF turn a verdict of not guilty. The

hall whose sometimes fantastically alone and selves who are participating in the perhaps worst of all, but here top same verdict must be returned if walls have withstood the winds of unsupported. Here and there, a work of demolition. the first step "estry on" is the order of the day. they have any reasonable doubt

whole building seems to be miss- towards building anew. Those Syndbolle of this determination (is as to his guilt.

ing, giving strange and unexpected. who live in distant colonies have the service which for three cen- As the list of devastation

glimpses of buildings in streets played their helping part. In turica the company of cordwainers compiled, there comes to light the beyond

Hongkong. Mauritius, Aden, the have held on New Year's Day at of cable at Kennedy Road, near Macladyen yesterday on a charge

destruction of yet another bulld-

In this atmosphere of waste! Bahamas, in fact in every colony, the Church of St. Anne and St. Macdoneli Road, on Jan. 14, and¦ of abducting a 15-year-old girl.

ing famous wherever. men go rain, the voices of the demolition people have, since the outbreak Agnes in Gresham Street. It was previously on Jan 11, stealing Yuen Pung-king. four defend-

down to the sea in ships, Trinity workers seemed almost instinctive of the war, subscribed for mobile also held today, but in the vestry sever yards of cable, property of ants, including two women, were the military.

House on Tower Hill, home of they to be hushed. Such was New canteens for use in air raid emer- looking out on to the blackened authorities. Chan remanded for another week.

Trinity brethren who for centuries gate Street this evening.

gencies. Each canteen is inscrib- and gutted nave strewn with Ming, 20, unemployed, appeared Accused were Chan Hing, 36,

BUSINESS AS 'USUAL ed with the name of the colony shattered pews. Even the cert- before Mr. Lowry yesterday when travelling trader. Lam Mui-siu,

The further influx of both Chi- cared for the buoys, beacons and lighthouses which gave safe and

which gave 1.

mony of distributing 12 half- he was sentenced to four months' 17, spinster. Lam LOL. 50, caterer. In 1939 due to the continued unsure guidance to ships approach entrance, the city was carrying on. nese and foreigners Into Hongkong

Yet within a few yards from its

crowns took place as usual. "The hard labour,, to be followed by ex- and Wong Liu, 43. married wo..

settled conditions in China wasing or passing the coasts of Bri-its business as usual. Shops with pulsion.

In London's greatest emergency, Luftwaffe could not break that responsible for a record maximum itain. Det.-Sgt. T. Cashman said that! Det-Sgt. J. Johnson sard that

stone's throw of heaps of many of these canteens have been link with 300 years of history. enrolment in

Tonight. Colony schools of

2 hours after the charred ruins

were selling their doitig untiring service providing Glancing back as I returned damage done to the cable and the a man: had been sent to the coun-

118,193, an

Nazis' wanton and indiscriminate wares. increase of 14,059

typewriters clattered in hot food and drinks for the tire-down Ludgate Hill, I saw the niggazine was $320.

try to bring the girl back, De-

over the 1938 enrolment, which

onslaught, the work of clearing up offices without faltering, and leas fire workers. The city has massed fairy lights of the Christ- fendants were arrested as a

WELS Itself A record, accord was still proceeding steadily and steady stream of passers-by made "taken it," and is carrying on mas tree on the steps of St. Paul's ing to the annual report of the methodically. Every, fire was long its way through the scarred without a hitch or an interruption Cathedral, sending out steadfastly Education Department tabled in since under control, yet here and thoroughfares hardly glancing to in the tens of thousands of uninto the falling dusk their message Legislative Council yesterday.

there in the square mile of the the right or left.

damaged offices. elty, I found pumps" which have During the year under review the Board of Education approved in principle the inclusion of women in the school inspectorate.

tew embers Special mention is made in the smouldered Report of the schools in the re- fugee camps provided by the Goy-

I have seen jernment for those Chinese who en-

many pictures of wrought by bombers, tered the Colony when the Sino-the havoc

the Madrid of Japanese hostilities

reached the pictures

Spanish civil war, pictures from borders of the New Territories.

China and,

more recently, trou Poland. In Newgate Street, not 10 Vocational schools maintained minutes' walk from my office, I during the year were the evening lsaw tonight scenes of destructiori Institute, a collective name for the that it is hard to believe could For stealing 30 empty bottles Various evening classes organiseo ever happen here. On either sine. woman, were charged with keep from the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., the Education Department, the land practically from end to end, ing common gaming houses for yen Wang. 45, coolie, was fined Junior Technical School "and the tse fa lottery at No. 24. Tai Wong $20 or a month in prison by Mr. Government Trade School, where Street East, first floor, and No. 9. Himsworth yesterday.

instruction was given in engineer- Canal Road East, ground floor, It was stated that defendant ing. vireless telegraphy, draughts respectively. and were fined $50

was employed' by the Company manship and other classes. each,

and he was arrested about 1 pm.

Besides those maintained by the Charged with a similar offence at No. 145. Lockhart Road, first on Wednesday by a constable who Government, there were five day floor, Ma Ching had $75 bail saw him selling the bottles to ajand four night

Cheung Ming, 23. unemployed

appeared before Mr. Lowry on a charge of obtaining $27 from Chan Kwal-hang, student, by meant of false pretences at No. 36, Russell

ed till tomorrow.

From

sult of a letter received by from the country.

Police

the abducted girl

STOLE A SAMPAN

Convicted of stealing a sampai Street on Nov. 4 and was remand-on board trading junk No. T1799

at Hunghom Ferry wharf, Cheung

in de -Det.-Sgt. J. R. Bentley prosecut- Sze, 25, was fined $30 or

fault, six weeks' hard labour by Mr. B. Himsworth yesterday.

Sgt. A.E. Haynes said that shortly after midnight on Wed-

ed.

MAINTENANCE ORDER

A provisional maintenance order was made against G. H Blok an anesday the master of the funk summons for maintenance brought

Saw de. by Mrs. Blok, allas Chan Yuet- went on the deck and

fendant untying the sampan. He heng, by Mr. Sheldon yesterday, Defendant is in Singapore.

gave chase In a borrowed sampan and caught defendant off the Marsman Company.

TSE FA LOTTERY Before Mr. Sheldon yesterday. Kwok Kwal, 32, and Max Fuk, 40,

DAIRY FARM VICTIMISED

shop.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

hardly ceased to run since Sunday night, belching water on to the heaps of debris

1

under which still tenaciously

PICTURES OF HAVUC

Trom

STARLING INLET ROBBERY

TWO MEN SENT TO GAOL

unaided English

estreated.

Įvocational schools during the year.

Of medical inspection, the Re- Chan Kwai, 30, widow, charged COMMON GAMING HOUSE with keeping a common gaming

out by the port states that 5,887 examinations In a rald carried

re-examination

and house at No. 202, Hollywood Road, Police in a hut at Sai Tak Village including

Wan Lam-yeung was sentenced visual tests, were made" during the third

floor, had. bail of $50 about 3 pm, on Wednesday 19 estreated.

men were arrested and charged year, Dental disease formed the to 18 months hard labour when a unanimous verdict of Guilty was Chau Sang-chuen. 25. and Lutwith keeping a common gaming largest group of defects.

returned against him by the fury Po, 44, were similarly charged in house and gambling respectively. sight was next.in frequency. connexion with po tse at No. 11. Tse Kat, 38, gardener, who was Wing Sing Street, first floor. charged with keeping, had

Short-

In case of pupils attending Gov- when he was arraigned before Mr.

his ernment schools, spectacles were Lul was fined $30. Chau and bail of $75 estreated when he provided when necessary."

the six others had their ball of failed to appear. The others had

$50 and $3 each. respectively; es- their $2 ball each estreated. .. treated.

$8.90 picked up was placed in the A total of $17.15 picked up in Poor Box. the-raids was placed in the Poor Box,

SHELTER AS LAVATORY'

EIGHT KILLED IN

TRAFFIC MISHAPS

Justice Williams yesterday charged with robbing, with other persons. (between 20 and 30 passengers of a Junk in. Starling Inlet, of various Isums of money, property, and live-

stock, on Dec. 15, 1940.

Mr. J. Reynolds, Ctown Counsel,

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For obeying a call of nature, în In the Colony of Hongkong in- prosecuted, and the jury comprised SIX MONTHS' GAOL

an ARP. shelter at Lalchikok cluding the Island, Kowloon and Messrs. A. C. Johnstone (Foreman). Pleading guilty to stealing two Road. Tong Sam, 30, was ordered New Territories during the week Tsul Wal-sun, LA. Ozorio, Wing tricycles, valued at $80 and $80, by Mr. Himsworth to sign a per-ending at 8 am, on Saturday, Jan. 6ik-kwal, Loong Tsun-ying. Wonk from Huan Kam-chuen, shop foki, son bond of $5 and to be ex 11, there were altogether 94 traffic Man-kit and Lau Wen. and unlawful possession of offen-pelled from the Colony.

accidents as the result of which Yau Kau a'so charged with ne alve weapons on Jan. 1, before Mr. Defendant said that he was a eight persons were killed and 18 cused, pleaded guilty to charges ni Sheldon yesterday. Ng Chun-wah. new visitor to the Colony and he persons were injured.

robbery and urifawful possession of 25, unemployed, was sentenced to took the shelter as a public lava- Of the persons killed, six persons farms and ammunition and was sen-

tory.

were knocked down and killed by tenced toʻtwo years." Bgt. Cameron asked his Worship tramcars, and motor vehicles while

of this crossing the carriageway.

six months' hard labour. --

IMPORTING NOTES

Lo Taik-shan, 31, and Ho Yeung.

to take a serious view

offence as practically all the shel-

Of 04 accidents, 48 were collisions,

24. shop fokis, were charged beers had been turned into lava- between vehicles: 31 were collisions

tore Mr. Lowry yesterday for im- porting on Board 35. Shirogane. Maru, on Jan. 15, $250,000 Chinese banknotes without lawful ati- thority.

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/ Mr. F. I. Zimmern said the de- fendants were employees of, a cer- tain bank in the Colony.

tories by ignorant people.

HEROIN DIVAN

between vehicles and pedestrians 17 accidents were due to other catises.

THE WEATHER

was 70 and the minimum 62.

Maximum temperature yesterday

Total rainfall since January 1 is 0.45, inches against an average of 0.39.

*

The Royal Observatory report Sir Gubert Wiles, chairman of (statés :—'

A fine of $650 or a year's hard. labour was imposed by Mr. Hims- worth yesterday on Yu Kwal, 44, for keeping No. 444, Shanghai Street as a heroin divan, posses the Bombay Port Trust, will suc- An intense anticyclone remains Revente Officer W. V. Ahern sion of 498 heroin pills and saver ceed Sir Alan Parsons as adviser rentred, to the north-west of Shan- prosecuted.

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