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SUSPECT ARMY RADICALS CAUSING
TROUBLE JAPAN
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in Tsingtuo is demanded by Mr. Notice is hereby given that Shojiro Otakn. Consul-General at
known
evacuated Mary Luizouutzine
as Tsingtao, who
the port can warship was moving at the time Japanese residents and of the attack. Mary Dombreau of 42, Lockhart with 100 Road, Hongkong, "Cafe Miniature" officials on August 30, Is applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any per son who knows any reason why
should not naturalization
bo granted should send a written and signed statement of the fact to
DECEMBER 21, 1937.
JAPANESE DENY MACHINE-GUNNING PANAY
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a Japanese unt, and secondly why the unit had not reported that an American warship had been sunk by the Japanese, Major-General Harada replied: "I takes time."
The Panay ofcers reported that The Conzul declared: "The news the gunboat was anchored two hours is that such a situation has been before the bombing. All points are brought about by Chinese, and there strenuously queried by the corres- la no alternative for Japan but to pondents aboard the Panay, who point resort to decisive measures. Accord-out that the survivors contend there ing to latest reports received by me, were first three, and then six ma- constables who had been engaged to chines concerned in the bombing, protect the Japanese the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong. replaced by all revenue areas, were that the alleged fring of the Panay's anese spokesman replied: "Its main
guards who guns was utterly incorrect, and that prepared explosions after looting the the Japanese army units hotly fired milis of valuable spindles which were un the gunboat, transported to the interior on the Tsingtao-Tsinan airway."-Reuter.
JAPAN ANGERED BY
USED BOY AS DRUG CARRIER
A scaman who used a small boy. to carry 500 heroin pills was fined} $100 or three months hard labour by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy this morning, Insp. W. Mair prosecuted.
MILL FIRES
Tokyo, Dec. 21. Concerned over the destruction of Japanese cotton mills in Tsingtao and the resultant unrest there, the
Government Japanese
15 keeping clase watch on the situation according to press reports, which add that if the fire were caused by Chinese neting on the instructions of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, this wantan action apparently reflects the realisation of pulley of co-operation between the Comintern and the Chinese Govern-
It was stated that on December 13, the seaman, An Tai, 31, had been Been walking with a small boy in Tung Lol Street by a detective. The boy appeared to be acting in a sus pletous manner, 50 the detective stopped and searched him, finding the pills in his girdle. He pointed atment.--Reuter. defendant and said they belonged to Defendant run but was arrest-
him. ed.
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on
In an atmosphere, unparalleled for tension since the historical days of 1931, the 73rd session of the Diet is being convoked December 24. Two days later there will be the opening ceremony of the House of Peers in the presence of the Emperor, the immediately afterwards session will be adjourned until Janu ary. 21.--Reuter,
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QUIET BUT TENSE
Tsingtao, Dec. 21.
The city is quiet to-day, although tense on account of the bombings; last night. Despite a very strict cur- few at 10 p.m. there was considerable looting of Japanese shops last night.
Another point in dispute is the Japanese assertion that the Innoy was moving at the time of the attack: Major-General Harada emphasised that the Jopo did not consider he commander of the troops involved Wils
fault."
Major-General Harada is announcing the findings of the incident concerning H.M.S. Ladybird to-day--Reuter.
nt
Scores of offenders were arrested, teled and shot this morning.
When the press correspondents pointed out that the unit was only 27 miles from Pukow which must have been reached by darkness when radio would be available, the Jap body was not then in Pukow, and the Commander would report only to the superior officer of the unit." Thereafter, continued General Ilara- da, the report must proceed by the usuni chansels." He refused to elaborate this reply.
Survivors' Story Denied
were
Asked about a Tokyo report which attribited the Foreign Office with admitting that surface craft fired on the Panay, Major-General Horada Bild: "The General was not inform- ed that shots
fred at the Panny, and in view of the fact that the Commanding Officer knew the Panay was an American vessel and had treated the wounded while others any shots were fired at the proceeded to investigate, he does not Panay." The Commanding Omeer had said the ships were moving The American Consul has been in-when they first spotted them, alm structed by the State Department to though the survivors' testimony was urge Americans to evacuate ns that the vessel was unchored two and promptly as possible.
a half hours before the bombing. He added that the Japanese army unit only saw two bombers.
The civil authorities are continuing to control the city. The marines are well disciplined, but the police are
more lax.
United States lives and property are not yet endangered. Some of the Americans are going to Shanghai. wili remain at but the majority Tsingtao.
The wharves are blocked, but one British merchant vessel calls daily to take passengers and cargo to the
outer harbour.
At this point Major-General Hara- da suddenly broke off the conference and sald he would report on. the
incident Ladybird
tomorrow. United Press.
SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
The wholesale evacuation of natives to the interior is continuing, and the population at present is 00,- 000 compared with 250,000 at the
The following ships are expected to with beginning of July. Ten thousand be in wireless communication people are at present on relief.
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President Corfu, Japanese planes continue to fly Maru,
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saw gerused In Apllu Street, but ac- cused was not living with him then.
ASSAILANT
ASKED POLICE
PROTECTION
Annoyed by a creditor coming on Formal evidence of the conveying board his junk to ask for repayment of several sealed jars from the Kow- of loaned money at Shaukiwan on loon Mortuary and the Kwong Wah Monday, Li Kan, 51-year-old fisher- Hospital to the Government Analyst man, picked up a bamboo-smoking was given by three messengers.
GAVE HIM INJECTION
pipe and struck him on the upper
lip, splitting it to the gum. He then Dr. Fung, a medical practitioner, rushed off to the police station and said he was called to No.
103
Tung asked for protection from the credi- Chol Street, first floor, about 11 am, tor
on October 6. He saw there an old Charged with nssnult before Mr. man named Ll Leung-kwan, who R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Ma complained of pains in the stomachgistracy this morning, he was fried and much vomiting. Witness had the $10 and ordered to pay $5 compensa- impression the man was suffering tion to the injured man. from food poisoning. The old man's heart was very weak, and wilness gave him an injection. About a year ago, witness had attended I..! for kidney trouble, and after the treat- ment Ll was much improved.
Dr. T. Z. Bau, medient superinten-
EX-BEGGAR
TRIES THEFT
dent of the Kwong Wah Hospital, Chan Fult-yin, 20, unemployed, ap- said that Tong Kam and Chon Kwai peared before Mr. R. Edwards ni the were admitted to the hospital about Central Magistracy thin morning. 11.05 .m. OR October 5, Tang charged with stealing about $1.70 in complained of abdominal pains and money from No. 5 Jubilee Street. vomiting and her pulse was weak, The complainant said that the box Witness suspected food poisoning and was placed in the shop under the gave the appropriate treatment for staircase, and at 11.20 yesterday he It. The severity of the symptoms led | saw the defendant take the money witness to suspect arsenic poisoning from the box and put it in his pocket. She became almost moribund
His Worship Imposed six weeks' Im-
died at 11.30 pain, on October
and
6. prisonment after defendant had ad- Chun Kwai and Li Lung-kwan also mitted two previous convictions for had the same symptoms and they larceny and one for begging. died at 6.15 p.m. mid 1.40 p.m. on
October 5 respectively. The cause of
denth in
cases was gastrol enteritis and heart failure, which were consistent with arsenle poison- ing.
TEMPERATURE
FALLS A POINT
ut the
war 62,
TELLS OF ANALYSIS Cross-examined by Mr. Mac- Temperature At 10 am. namara, witness and that the oxide Royal Observatory to-day of arsenic was while in colour andļu fult of one degree from the corres- gritty in substance. It was soluble bending reading yesterday. in, water, particularly boiling water. The anti-yclone remains
centred
Mr. V. C. Branson, Government over Chinn with an extension cost- Analyst, told of the analysis be had ward to the Pacifle to the south east made of the stomach wash-out of Japan; it has increased moderately intestines and other internal organs in intensity. of Tang Kam, and said that
"the
Local forecast:--North-east winds, total amount of arsenic found was fresit; fair. .34 cal.
In similar examinations.
nade on the organs of Lt Lung-liquid form. kwan, 4.8 grains of arsenic
were
Dr. G. H. Henry, of the Kowloon found, and in Chan Kwal, there was Murtuary, sald he performed in post 1.7 graina.
mortem on the body of Tang Kam,
He is analysed a pot of cooked and found the Intestines Inflamed, rice, and found 52 graing of arsenic the spleen enlarged and the liver colour. The only it. There was 11.7 grains in a yellowish in bowl of cooked rice, one-tenth grain abnormal sign was gastrol enteritis
acute in some beef, and 1/130th grain in All this was consistent with
the cause of some bean sprouts, There was anrsenle polzoning, and total of 20% grains of arsenic found death, in his opinion, was heart fai- in the contents of three spittoons. lure following acute arsenic poison- An aluminium cooking pot contained in. He also examined the bodies of two or three while crystals of arsenic Chan Kwal and Li Lung-kwan, and
found amounting to one-third of a rule dose of arsenic was from two to three
conditions. similar
A fatol while scrapings from accused's finger nails contained a very slight amount rains, and deceased must have taken of arsenic as did a scrubbing brush more than a fatal dose.
IN LIQUID FORM
Poon Wal, drug dealer, said his experimented with a plece cine dealers of Bonham Strand. They
Arm bought arsente from the medi
Witness of white arsenic,
nie, dissolving it in bolling water. In one fluid ounce of white rock, and were sold at 40 cents were bought in two forms, red and the solution, just over nine grains of a catty. 1te only sold to doctors.
The Crown caso closed with the
arsenic were found. The polution was colourless and odourless. In cold water, arsenic might take days at the Kowloon Magistracy during reading of accused's statement, mado to dissolve Xted armenie: was not the preliminary hearing of the case,
soluble in water. In his opinion, the to the Jury.
victims had taken the poison In The case is proceeding.
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