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GOVERNMENT PLANSA quarrel between two ex- students of a Canton school-led ANNOUNCED
to the appearance of Cheung Hon-- wah, aged 20, bofore Mr. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, charged with as- saulting Tsang Kim-wah, 19, of 3 Nam Kok Toad, Kowloon City. The complainant alleged that he Was struck by defendant, and Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-othera while he (complainant) Becretary for Air, in winding up was in company with a boy and the Defence Debate in the House girl friend on the Kal Tack Bund of Commons, to-night, said the at midnight last night. Government did not consider it in the public interest to give precise detalls of the additional aircraft and engines to be ordered for the Royal Air Force.·
London, May 22.
Foreign nations did not give out this Information. There were
It was stated by Sergeant Clarke that the defendant was alleged to have accused the com plainant of playing dirty in a football game a few days pre viously. Words led to blows and Sergeant Clarke, six Indian police men and Ilo Luk, a Police Re
RED PLOT NIPPED IN PORTUGAL
HUNDREDS OF NAVY MEN ARRESTED
COUNTRY NOW QUIET
Madrid, May 22. A widespread plot to overthrow the Portuguese Government is be- hind the arrests at Lisbon and elsewhere, according to a report. received in Madrid, despite the strict censorship beyond
frontier.
the
It is learned that the majority of those arrested wore officers and men of the Navy.
serious disadvantages in making servist, turned out to quell the Communist propaganda.
It public
"But our demands upon the Industry will be heavy," ho reveal od. "We have every reason to be- lleve, however, that the manufac- turers will rise to the occasion."
Dealing with the training of the personnel of the Royal Air Force, Sir Philip said they had decided to create five new Air Force train- ing centres and to proceed still further with the scheme by which the civil aviation industry would be used for training pilots.
HUGE COST
disturbance. The Reservist was also assaulted.
They were accused of spreading It is belloved in well-informed Government quarters that the A few hours before the trouble Portuguess authorities by this commenced, Mr. Anderson, of 23 action, nipped in the bud a serious Kai Tack Bund, telephoned to the revolutionary movement,
The country is now reported police Informing them that students were ereating a disturb-quiet, but military precautions are ance and using obscene language being maintained.
All troops and naval men are to their Complainant; in evidence, stated being kept confined that defendant accused him of barracks or their ships.--Reuter, telling yares about him at foot- ball. Defendant's friends lost the game.
outside his residence.
Defendant alleged that when The Under-Secretary stated thút | passing the complainant and his the Government proposed to create friends last night, he (defendant) -in 1985-86 seventy-one new remarked, "Ahi Tsang, you have squadrons Instead of twenty-two, a woman in your company now," scheduled in the existing scheme whereupon the complainant be- of expansion.
came angry and struck him. He said the cost would be formidable and a substantial sup- plementary estimato would be necessary.
He added that the Government now had in production a type of heavy bomber which they con- siderod superior to any bomber owned by any foreign nation. The situation with regard to other types was 'very satisfactory, ho went on.
"We expect in the next few weeks the delivery of the newer types of fighters which show re markable advances in performance and when compared to any other fighter used elsewhere."
The House confirmed the Government's policy by rejecting the Labour motion on the subject 340 to 52.
AIR MINISTER'S SPEECH
The Magistrate decided to bind both parties over in bonds of $50 each to keep the peace for one
year.
UNLICENSED HAWKER
RESISTS ARREST BY
CONSTABLE
Yuen Yui, aged 23, an unlicensed hawker, was brought before Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Magis tracy this morning, charged with. "Don't be so. foolish in future: | hawking without a licence, and you both behave like children of rosisting arrest. ten," said his Worship.
MAKING HEROIN
PILLS
HEAVY FINE ON WOMAN
days
Inspector A. Smith, prosecuting, said the defendant and three other persons were hawking melons in Jubilee Street, when a Chinese constable approached them. The other three men ran away, but defendant was obstructed by ณ stall,
Уда and
caught. The constable held on to him by putting his arms round his waist from A large haul of heroin pills and behind. The defendant struggled Sir Philip concluded that he pilla was made by Revenue Officer was tucked in his girdle, and paraphernalia for manufacturing and tried to draw a chopper, which was convinced that the Govern-Grimmitt during a raid on No. 5strike the constable. They both ment's policy was the only one Sharpe Street on May 16, when a fell to the ground, and an Indian which would bring a limitation of woman inmate of the house was sergeant then came on the scene armaments so much desired;
taken into custody, and, charged and assisted the constable in arrest- the following day, being remanded ing the defendant: for one week.
Defendant alleged that the con- The woman, Lam Mei, widow, stable had a grudge against him.
several appeared again before Mr. Scho- having struck him field, at the Central Magistracy | ago for hawking. He denied try- In the House of Lords, Lord this morning, charged with posing to strike the constable.
The Magistrate convicted defen- Londonderry, Air Minister, said session of 13,000 heroin pilla, 20 there were 2,700 fully-trained pilots grains of heroin and some paste dant, and on the charge of hawking on the active list, further 400 in containing heroin. On admitting without a licence, he was fined $2 training, and reserves numbering the charge, she was fined $2,500, or, or four days' imprisonment, and for 1,200. It took twelve months to in default, aix months hard resisting arrest, $10 or two weeks. give military pilots efficient pre-labour, and also-six months hard Hminary training, and a further labour without the alternative of eighteen months before they could a fine. The manufacturing utensils be called fully competent military were ordered to be destroyed, pilots. They had a great ad- Revenue Office Grimmitt said vantage in this respect
over the defendant lived at the address Germany.
given, which she had rented about With regard to aircraft, Britain ten days previously, He raided had a newer type, already in the the place on the night of May 16, advance stage, which she would but could get no admittance into be producing during the expansion the floor, although he could see of the Air Force. By March 31, someone inside. The door was 1937, the atrength of the Home Air oventually broken open, and he Force would be 1,500 dirst line saw the woman throw something machines, compared with 580 at through a window into the street. present. Some 2,500 more pilots He sent a detective down, but would be required and 22,500 addi. nothing was found. The defend-hore to-day wore marred by the ant was actually making pills at death of the noted conductor, Dr. tional personnel.-Reuter.
Lizzoli, who fell before the eyes the time, and paraphernalia for making the pills was all in readlo Princess Ingrid and her fiancee ness. The pille were found in and other royal notables,
Dr. Lizzell was leading the chest of drawers, where they had "A moderate anticyclone is cen-been kept to dry, and a paste, Choral Societies' Concert during tred over the Sea of Japan. It is which was found in a tin, would the evening and the Princess and strengthening and extending west have also yielded about ten thou- her party had just arrived when. and southwestward. Pressure is sand pills. The Superintendent while he was leading the musicians relatively low over Indo-China and of the Imports and Exports De- through he suddenly staggered and the western part of the China partment took a very serious view fell. Sea. Loenl forecast:-East and 8. of the case, as the heroin pill
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He died before the arrival of E. winds, moderate; cloudy, business was getting much bigger the Court physician.--Reuter
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