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|LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned

instructions

to sell by

A DEFENCE OF THE KING OF BELGIUM

BY JOHN CUDAHY

Below is the 3rd instalment of an extract from Life of | Nov 25, 1940, written by MR. JOHN CUDAHY, former Uni- have received: ted States Ambassador to Belgium, in which he clears King Leopold of the Belgians, of the charge of "treason.” (We are Indebted to the Belgian Ambassador to China for the article),

PUBLIC AUCTION

Thursday, "the 20th March,

commencing at 2.30 pm.

....

GENERAL

ROUND THE

POLICE COURTS

AT CENTRAL

HEARING FIXED

Lt Kwong, 34, coolie, and Fung

Chiu, 28, messenger, were charged before" Mr. G. T. Lowry yesterday on counts of demanding the sum

What had happened was that the with the commanding officer of the of $500 with, menaces from Lau French Ninth Army had collapsed | British Army. on a front of nearly afty miles 1941from Mosleres nearly to Dinant

at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con-

ANOTHER CONFERENCE

Chuen, assistant manager, and Chen Feng between March 14 and 17, and conspiring to steal the money.

At 9 o'clock that night, General and through this great breach German mechanised divisions were Gort came to the Belgian head-

The bearing was fixed for next Andre near Tuesday at 10 am.. rushing across. south-eastern quarters at Saint

"Both defendants, who were Belgium to the sea. Another Ger- Bruges, and there was another con-

naught Road, Central (2nd Floor)man force had struck the French/ference. between Gort; the King allowed $500 ball each, will be re-

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE 'BOUSRIPOLD FURNITURE

First Army, which had manned the and General Billotte. The meetos presented by Mr. F. X. D'Almada. Iron Wall from Wavre to Wamur lasted until a late hour, and again Det. Sub-Insp. J. O'Donovan is and bad rolled this army back in the King described the military prosecuting precipitous confusion,

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impossibility of his position, : êm- phasising the hopelessness of any

UNLICENCED HAWKER The movement of the Allied

·So Kan, 33, unlicenced, hawker, Comprising

mqvement in the presence of an armies in Belgium had become a estimated half million howling re- was aned $5-or seven days' hard Teakwood Wardrobes, Dressing precipitous retreat. And now arose fugees, the constantly narrowing labour by Mr. Lowry yesterday Tables, Chests of Drawers, Dining that inevitable conflict, which will battlefront, and above all, the for selling ice cream in Connaught Table, Chairs, Couches and Arm- always arise in allled command smashing aerial attacks against Road West on March 17, which is chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Hatstand, when the luck is out. Perhaps which there was no challenge from contrary to the cholera regula- Bedstead, Iron Cot, Pictures, there was still time to save the Allied planes. He told about hia

tions. Clocks, Cabinets. Rattan Furni-million-odd British, Belgian and meeting with the French Com-

Det.-Sgt. HB. Dewar prosecuted. ture, Bronze, Brass. Porcelain and French, soldiers 1 immediate demander-in-Chief, and how Wey-

*TSE FA" GAMBLERS Olass Ware, Curios, Ortaments, cision had been taken to join the gand had agreed that the only hops

The following were" charged be Ceiling and Table Lamps, Gramo- main French Army on the Somme, as a determined counter-attack fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon yesterday phone. Records, Record Albums. but no one proposed such a plan, to break up the armoured German with keeping common gaming Radio Sets, etc, etc.

and it is self-evident that no one column that had gained the coast, houses for the purpose of "tse fa". but the French would have agreed separated the Allied forces and at various addresses in Wanchal

was menacing encirclement: Ition March 17;

also

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE and

1. "Zenith" Radio-gram

1 "Victor"" Radio-gram

1 Steel

Mirror

Chest of Drawer with

1 "Fada" Radio

1.Steel Dressing Table with Mirror

1. Carved Blackwood Curio Stand

chairs

1 Steel and Glass Aquarium

1 Wardrobe. Trunk

1 Pair Bronze Flower Stands

to it.

For, so far as Belgium was con-was evident that there could be no Fong Young-sam, 25, unemploy cerned, the war was in defence of possibility of organised defence ed, No. 85; Hennessy Road, Arst the country and to have retreated until this was accomplished for the floor, was fined $75. to France leaving the homeland at Germans with such power and the mercy of the invader would such incredible swiftness -- that have been perfidy.

their assault was like a storm,

I

Leung Sam, 18, unemployed, No. 49, Tat Yuen Street, first floor, failing to appear, had his bad of A counter-offensive was the only $100 estreated, The British were, likewise, in the solution, but in the confusion and fight primarily for England, wild disorder it was almost impos-Henessy Road, first floor, failing have abandoned the Channel ports sible to formulate a plan. Above to appear, had his bail of $100

WAS UNTHINKABLE

4 15-year-old Juvenile, No. 89,

estreated.

Table money aggregaling $5,15 picked up was ordered to be donated to the Poor Box.

1 Fair Carved Blackwood Arm- and left England vulnerable from all it was impossible to reduce dis- the continent was unthinkable. So positions and troop movements to 1 Carved and Guit Wood Temple while it might have been tactically writing, deneral Bilotte, as supe

House

advisable in the first week of the rior authority, was entrusted to do

Det-Sgt V. M. Morrison prose battle in Belgium to have with-what he could and to use his

cuted in each case. Was the under- drawri in a massed defence in discretion. Such

THEFT OF ARMY AMMUNITION France, from a morale viewpoint standing as Billotte went out into this was out of the question.

the night and started back to

Three Cainese were charged be- On May 22 the German advance darkness,

Ypres. A few minutes later, in the luxe Mr. Lowry yesterday with

a French Army truck stealing a large quantity of ma had gained Boulogne, and Calais smashed into his motor and he chine-gun smmunition from the fell the day following. Retirement as fatally injured, dying a few Military Barracks at Tsuen Wan. to the south was now impossible. days later. so badly hurt that he The German thrust had wedged a was unable to execute any order. barrier -between France and Belgium. This was the dark out-

PALATA

On View from. Wednesday, the 19th March, 1941.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

EAMMERT BROS.. THE STRAUCTIONEERS,

افر

FAILED UTTERLY

It was alleged that defendants,. Cheung Sai-10, 41, Tau ‘Hing, 41, both unemployed odd job coolles, and Kwok Cheong, 64, unemploy-

look when General Weygand was "The French and British counter-ed bostian, stole 12 cases contain- summoned from Syria to take com-attack was attempted the next day, ing 14,976 rounds of the ammuni mand of the defeat. He had flown but failed utterly. From all I could tion on two different occasions. from Paris through a lively bom-learn, the British were unable to All defendanta were remanded PUBLIC AUCTION.bardment, was forced tp the strike at all and the French of- until Friday for further enquiries, ground at Calais, narrowly escap-fensive wilted and falled after the fon the application of Det.-5g. ing being shot down: Weygand's first attempts at attack,

MacPherson first words on reaching the King's

instructions

to sell by

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on

given me a disaster."

THE Undersigned have received headquarters were: "They have But now that no rescuing offen- EUROPEAN IN COURT-

sive was possible, there was no lon- Mr. J. Thompson, Wireless Super- To the Commander-in-Chier these a question of a defeat. The intendent of Williamson and Com-

question was to save anything at pany, was charged before Mr- King told in detall the hopeless-all, to avoid a complete debacle. Lowry yesterday with assaulting ness of his position, how his Already the British, realising their Mar Hon, night watchman of troops ranged on a 50-mile front, only salvation lay in reaching Newspaper Enterprise Limited, at were overwhelmed by the smashing Dunkirk, had started on the road Windsor House on March 17. German air attack, how..great to that port. destroying what Det-Sgt. W. Summers, who is in hordes of panic-driven " refugees equipment and munitions they charge of the case, said that com- had swarmed across the country, could, as they went. And with them plainant was still in hospital, al- Seeing before the terrifying blows were the French, following on the though his condition was not very rained from the skies on the towns pres-Dunkirk road and another serious, and that he would prob and villages, had so cluttered the parallel road from Ypres to Lably be out by today. Flanders roads that military, move- Pänne. Where could the Belgians ments became almost "impossible, go?

Friday, the 1st March, 1941.

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD. FURNITURE

comprising:

Defendant was remanded until |Thursday......

WIDOW FINED

For stealing a pair of gold ear-

how, wild with panic and crazed At the outset of the battle in by lack of food and water, they Flanders, they had been assigned had spread demoralisation among by the High Command the port of the Belgian troops; how the con-Dunkirk as a sea base, but now in rings, set with diamonds and stant retreat had weakened morale, the hasty plan of embarkation of almond-shaped "jades, valued at Teakwood Bedsteads, Wardrobes, how the pulverizing advance had the British and French at Dunkirk, $700. Chan, Foon, 38, widow, was Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, cut off any effective Haison with there was no room on the crowded fined $75 or two months hard Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Din-the British, bow exhausted the beach for half a million Belgians. labour by Major A. N. Macfadyen ing Tables, Chairs, Hat Stands, King's men were after ten days

yesterday. Teapoys, Chesterfield Suites Ward-without sleep, always fighting in robe!& Cabin

Trunks, Desks, retreat, and with no hope. of re- Armchairs, Folding Screens, etc., versing the discouraging outlook. etc.,

WHERE WERE FRENCH?

A FE

(TO BE CONTINUED)

Defendant was represented by Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, who plead ed guilty.

In mitigation, Mr. Botelho plead-

89 CHOLERA ea clemency saying that defendant

FATALITIES

HEALTH BULLETIN FOR WEEK

was banished in 1923 for ten years and returned to the Colony in 1933 Since thence, she had kept a good [record," and "khe was only Induced [by'someone to do'it. ⠀⠀

Det. Bet. F. Nolan prosecuted.

AT KOWLOON

Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Pictures, Where were the French? The Clocks, Gramophonés, Records, King had no information and Ged- Electric Lamps & Heaters, Brasa, eral Weygand could gif him none. Aluminium, E. P. Glass and The 60th and the Beth Divisioris Porcelain Ware, "Cut Class Ware, remnants of the French. 7th Army, Filters, Carlos, Ornaments, Cooking had been placed under Leopold's Uterials, etc.,

command when the Dutch capi- tulated on May 15, and were now also moh between Zeebrugge and Knocke

OF BLACKWOOD near the frontier of Holland. These The following is the Return of FURNITURE

the King proposed to release but notifiable diseases notified as hav-

··· BUS DRIVERS CAUTIONED. Weygand refused the responsibility occurred in the Colony during

Following the advice to the for it was impossible in the face the week ended at midnight on public that they should stand on of the lightning German attack to March 15:- Cholera, 151 cases (30 the pavement while waiting för propose any objective: for the deaths); Diphtheria, 11 cases buses, 17 bus drivers of the Row- French force other than that of four death); Enteric Fever, 18 loon Motor Bus Company were saving their skiria, Disheartened, cases, (three cases); Measles, 20 sundoned before Mr. H. C. Mac. scattered segments of the defeated cases (seven deaths and three im-namara 'yesterday for falling to First and Ninth Armles were now ported, cases); Chicken-Pox, twoktop as near as posible to the somewhere south of the British in cases: Cerebro-Epinal Fever, seven left of the road when taking or the region from talle to Grave cases (one death); Dysentery, 47 setting down passengers lines on the Channel, and the cases (10 deaths and one imported || "Trame Inspector Brittain sala British Ines, as far as could be case); Tuberculosis, 190 cases (130 that bus drivers had been warned ascertained at this juncture, reach- deaths and one imported case). to stop all neer as possible to the

and

Teakwood Dining Room Suite:

1 Blackwood, Chest

1 Radio-gram

I Dinner Servicesent

1 Hand Sewing Machine

1 Cine Projector

1 Pair Hockey Goal Nets

Pair Binoculars

1 Bath Room Scale

1 Bicycle

On View from Thursday: the

March, 1911.

"Terms: "Gash on Delivery:

LAMMEET BROS

ed 'from Audenarde to Menin,

General Gort, had been notined

of Weygand's expected coming and

had agreed to be present at this

¡ important conference on the

ing of May, 21, but

and he did not appear,

late afternoon,

mander-in-Chief was forced to.

HEALTH BULLETIN

left of the road through the Com- | Li pany. Defendants at:l1 = stopped | war"

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the following is the Return of their buses 12 or 14 feet from the mara yesterday for leaving notifiable diseases notified

bay-pavement,en

ing occtirred id the Colony, dir-la Since the sunkionses there has the Biar ing the 24 hours ended!

been a deanite improvement and a

on Mar, 17 Cholera); 41: cases? small, as would meet the case, this

turn to Paris without a meeting Aubere

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All defendants:

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was fined $5/

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CONVICTION REGISTERED

Hung, 28, and Eru Lam-Chai, were separately charged before Macnamara yesterday with sell

Entertainment tickets at a other than the ticker orice. Was stated MENJE, Mug=

Revenue De

Defendants were fined $50 or month's hard labour ead

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