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WEDNESDAY,

ARMED MAN CHASED) witness, gave corroborative evid

THROUGH WANCHAI

ATTEMPT ROBBERY OF A MONEY-CHANGER'S SHOP

The pursuit through Wanchai dis- robber who trict of an armed attempted to rob a money-changer's shop in broad daylight, was des- Detective Sub-Inspector cribed by W. N. Durkin at the Central Magis-

tracy yesterday, when before Mr. W. Schofield, Ho Sang, 23, unemployed, wan charged with assault with intent to rub, attempted murder, and pos

and ammunition session of without a licence.

arms

ence.

AUGUST 11,

1937.

£10,000 OPIUM CASE CHEKIANG LOSS RECOVERED MAILS ARRIVE

OWNERS AND BANK BEAR LOSS

quickly for fear of its becoming bog- ged it allowed to rest quielly in any. one spot for any me.

at n

Ling Song, ex-police constable and

Without mishap the plane taxied now a taller at No. 168 Johnston

straight into the hangar to disem- Rond, said about 4.30 p.m. on the

bark" its two passengers in shelter. day in question Chang rushed into

very his shop and told him a robber with

No further word hus been receiv~ The landing had been mado a gun was in his shop, He thought

Mr. Justice C. G. Alabaster yester ed from Chilang Point regarding the successfully and with great skill in the worst weather yet experienced members of the he was joking, but went out to have day gave his reserved judgment in fate of the three

look. He saw defendant pointing the £10.000 oplum confiscation claim,

at third

piane. witness.

holding that the Bank of Taiwan, crew of the C.N.A.C. plane Chekiang by an incoming Imperial Altways the revolver at

witness und H, S. M. R. Kazereoni & Sons of which made a forced landing on Sun- The man turned it on

Immediately the plane wan when he saw him, and he retreated Persin, could not recover the value day morning. The plane is a total standstill the record mail was dis- into his own shop.

of the oplum from their shippers,oss, and no attempt will be made to charged. It umounted to 330.074 Chang then blew his whistle from Rickmers Rhederal A.G.,

salvage it. The mail, part of which kilos as compared with the previous witness, ond defendant,

The Rickmers lino were the defen- was recovered by the Maritime Cus-Inward of 322.508 kilos made last behind realising the gun was started.dunts in this netion, which had its toms cruiser to Sing rived in Christinus. There was also one kilo

and the chase started.

last night aboard the of freight aboard. Tai-ha, private car driver, of

the Chinese Government seized 100 C.M.C. cruiser and will be re-for- 1 Tai Wo Street, ground floor, sald

a.s.warded to Shanghal.

The passengers included Mr. A. J. Claus flekmers, which was transport-

Varamow, the first Bulgarian to ar- he was in his master's car outside the cases of opium on board the

A formidable task confronts postal rive here by air, a business man on ing the opium 'from Hongkong door of the address when he heard a whistle blown and saw a chase. Ho Dairen.

sorters for the salt water-sodden a pleasure trip to the Far East who bundles of letters will require de-will continue to Shanghai by C.N.A.C. Joined in and was present when the

lente handling. Was

plane. He flew all the way from arrested by tho defendant

London by Imperini Airways. Also The Postmaster General (Mr. of the case, and discarded the allega

aboard was Mr. Teh Koon-poh, a tions that defendants had shown Wynne Jones) estimated last night contributory negligence in non-com-that about 60 per cent. of the mail Chinese who flew from Penang, and

of

Yu

Indian Sergeant,

beginnings in November, 1930, when Hongkon

to

His Lordship held that there was "Restraint of Rulers" on the facts

which he menaced the man behind No. 2 Police Station, said he was oni pliance with certain rules of the port had been regained, but he said it was/is on his way to Indo-China.

Police Chaso Chan Shl, P. C. C209, attached to duty on July 23 when he heard whistle blown in Wanchal Road near Johnston Road and shouts of "armed

A

for individual speculation, he

" He saw defendant rua- cluded.

е

along the pavement from west

to east towards him. When he saw

con-

for

The cuse was for committal, and after evidence had been heard defen- dant was ordered to stand his trial ot the next Criminal Sessions.

Sub-Inspector Darkin said that about 4.30 pun, on July 23 defendant walked into the Shing Lee Money- Changers shop at No. 170 Johnston Road, He produced a revolver with

of Shanghai. The reason for the Impossible to gauge how much of it

Hongkong Cilpper natier would be decipherable until it had confiscation must remain the grill, and demanded all the

The typhoon now nearing Luzon is shop- shop. The

been dried. Before leaving Hong- moncy in the

kong, he said, the letters had been right in the track of the Pan-Ameri- master, who wou standing by, came

tied in bundles and put in sealed can Airways clipper headed up, and the man turned the revolver

Mr. Eldon Potter, .., and Mr. H. canvas bags, but the force of the Manila, and the plane tins cun- on him. Later he again switched it

the witness he ran off the pavement onto C. Macnamara were Instructed or mishap had burst several of the bags.sequently been delayed at Guam for back to the other man, and

letters Were found fairly 48 hours. The castbound plane la the road and ran back westwards. Mr. R. A. Wadeson, of Deacons, for

the pinlatiffs, while Mr. H. G. Shel-scattered, he added, some being re-safely on its way to America on master ran out of the shop into the next, where he raised the alarm and Witness then gave his version of the

Len covered by fishermen soon after the schedule. asked his neighbour to give him chase, which tatiled with the evid-don, t.c., and the Hon.

D'Almada, were instructed by Mr. crash floating in the water. ence of an armed assistance to deal with

of the previous witnesses.

D. II. Blake, of Wilkinson & Grist, Basawa Singh, P. C. B455, station-

A. Recks, robber.

ed at No. 2 Police Station, said that for defendants. Mr. H.

barrister-at-law, Shanghal, was also about 4.45 pm. on July 23 he was

in court for defendants. off

duty and was returning to the station from shopping. In Wanchai Road near Cross Street he heard whistles and turned back. The car money-driver shouted out to him that de- fendant was a robber and had a gun. He joined in the chase, and at the junction of Hennessy Road and Flemming Road caught up with the man and secured him. Defendant

the

two

Mr.

THE ROWANBANK

BUIT IN HONGKONG DULRING WAR SHORTAGE

A Hongkong-built ship with an tried to draw his revolver, but wit-interesting record has just arrived in

ness held it in his hand.

Australia.

The

Should the typhoon continue in its No Plane Yesterday

present path it may again delay the Weather conditions along the coast clipper when it is due to hop off from prevented the C.N.A.C. plane due Manils for Hongkong. Unfortunate- here from Shanghal yesterday after-y the typhoon is following almost noon from taking off from the nor the exact path of the flying boats, thern port. The plane is now due and keeping a little ahead of them! to-day.

The R. M. A. Dorado

Due to

had

the

Under these conditions the arrival of the Hongkong Clipper has been delayed, and it is not yet certain when she will reach Hongkong.

Children's Colic.

Colic is a common trouble with infants and Ittle children. Gas

Defendant ran out of No. 170 in the direction of Wanchai Road. At the mouth of the latter road he saw once a Chinese constable and at turned and went back the way he had come. He turned into Tai Wo Street, followed by the changer, his neighbour and the con- stable

There he turned round and threatened the constable with

The Imperial Airways plane Dorado officer Bred revolver. The

Jurrived here at 11.15 am. yesterday rounds, missing with both.

and made two records. She The chase continued to where Tal

made a perfect Innding after flying Wo Sirect Joined Wanchal Roud.

the lust few miles in the worst.wea- There after traversing a small back

Sub-Inspector Darkin. went into She is the Rowanbank, one of the ther ever encountered by an Im-

machine the box and said that about 5 pm. chips built to a standard pattern in perlat Airwaya street the defendant ran back into

about Wanchal Road, and across Johnston

the consequent pain causes the child the

on July 23 he was in the charge rooin Hengkong shipyards during the war land or landing here, and she brought forms in the stomach and bowels and Road into Fleming Road. At

of No. 2 Police Station when the last years, when the submarine menace 330.074 kilos of mail, nearly nine to cry out, he draws his legs up close Road of Fleming Junction

and

witness came in with the defendant threatened the mercantile inarine, kilos more than the previous record to the body and refuses to be quieted. Hennessy Road he was captured by

in custody. The Sergeant had a

mall. an Indian polico Sergeant "who was

revolver which he handed to wit- She was launched In Hongkong, as

land at 10.55

Baby's Own Tablets are his urgent off duty at the time.

ness, saying he had taken it from the War Miner, just as hostilities Dorado reported that up to Gap Rock need and mothers should have these Weapon Effective

ended, and was sold to the Greeks, The first

called witness

Witness examined the weapon and trading for several years under the the weather had been reasonably handy for Just such an emergency. Acting Police Sergeant F. Penfold,

found it had an emply chamber.names Cephalonia and Stathis. She good but she was running into vio- Keep the bowels and lower limba who said that about 11.40 a.m. on

under the hummer, and three live was purchased again about ten years lent rain. At Kal Tak the opposite warm and administer Baby's Own July 24, Sub-Inspector Darkin hand-

rounds to the left of the barrel. The ago by the King Line, and has since side of the landing ground was ob- Tablets according to the directions

to vanish. ed to him one .38 five-chambered

revolved clockwise.

On gone to Melbourne, Australlo, as the scured by torrential rain. At 11.10 and usually the colic will quickly

She was sold to the a.m. the Dorado sent a message to revolver, maker's name unknown, of cylinder

July Also

24 he handed the revolver to King Howel.

The Baby's Own Tablets are equally crude manufacture.

Sergeant Penfold for ex- Andrew Weir Line twelve months say she had sighted the aerodrome Wesson

was coming in to land. ago, and renamed Rowanbank. rounds of 38 Smith and

rain had lessened somewhat but was helpful for the correction of many visibility other childish aliments such as con- revolver ammunition, two rounds of

Defendant's statem

statements, made

still falling heavily and

the stipation, vomlung, diarrhoea, colds which were marked REM UMC .38

was not good. At S. & W. and one round of which had

plane made a perfect landing after and croup, simple tever, and worms. And, during the troublesome teeth- the inscription 30 S. & W. SPL. He tested the revolver on July 28 in the

Lycemoon. at Pellce Head- Browning room

of quarters and found it was capable discharging a bullet. He made this test by firing the weapon into a cock of cotton waste. He produced the bullet, which had a deep groove enused by irregularity in the barrel.

was

the defendant.

Three & Ad and testing.

re- 1wo

Chang Yin-ming, manager of the shop, in the course of evidence bear- ing out the prosecution's opening, sald that when he rushed out of the shop the defendant turned the volver on him and he heard clicks. Witness then described the chase. He said that when they met the Chinese constable he shouted out to the latter to open fire on the de- fendant as he was an armed robber, He identified the revolver in 1 court i as the weapon with which, he had been threatened.

Lee Yu-kwun, the man behind the counter in the shop, said he was a distant relative of the manager, last witness, and acted in the capacity of asalstant cashier. When the defen- dant came into the shop and threa- tened him he (defendant) said: "Give me all your money quickly; I have a Fun He also identified the revolver.

Liu Fung, mother of the second

WHAT THIS COUNTRY

NEEDS IS A DARNED GOOD LAUGH!

at

and

Enid anything." And to the third suddenly

n.m.

11.15

4.m,

"I charge: "I brought this gun from mist toward ring from out of thing period, they quickly case the pain

Her

ch-

the station in answer to the charges, were read out by Fu Yuk-ching, Interpreter stationed at No. 2.

To the first charge he said: have nothing to say.

up a by settling the stomach and relley- I did intend to the country, I did not know that it gines roaring and throwing

cloud of spray showered right over Ing Inflammation in the gums.. Ob- rob because I had no money to required a licence."

Dorado the spend." To the second:

taxied tainable at all chemists, "I only

Defendant neither elected to give the machine, raised the gun. It was not my in- evidence nor to make a statement, quickly across the aerodrome, tention to kill him at all. I never and was committed for trial. plot keeping the machine moving Baby's Own Tablets.

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