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Appeal For Less Severe Sentence Fails

Soldier On Charge Of

Receiving

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

Soldiers Fined| SHANGHAI For Assault On TENSION Taxi Driver

CONTINUES

City

Heavy fines were inflicted on three Guerillas Active Around soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Scots, when they plended Kulliy before Mr. II. R. Butters at the Central Magistracy this morning, An appeal against sentence of to charges of common usnult en a two months' hard labour im-taxi driver at King's Road on May posed by Mr. H. R. Butters for 28, Interfering with a driver of

public vehicle, failing to pay the fare receiving a bottle of whisky, of $4, and malicious damage to a knowing it to have been stolen showense window at 42 Lockhart from the Neptune Bar, was Itond.

George brought by Pte. Davki Fleming, Cure water, 12, Brisk rifle and machine-gun fire from

The men charged and Andrew Allen, 21.

Hankow, May 30. Tension in the western districts of Shanghai still prevails, according to In report from foreign soyrees.

Village At Hwatmochen, Rubicon

in western and Yuchttun, villages

Chinese guerillan have been Shang during the past few days. that area was distinctly nurilble In the International Settlement during the night.

nctive

MONDAY, MAY 80,

Macao Marks Anniversary Of Revolution

Macao, May 20. The 12th anniversary of the national revolution in Portugal was celebrated in Macao yesterday,

Activity commenced, at daybreak when the "Alvorada," the traditional dawn call. was sounded by buglers In front of Government House, and soon after all ships in port were dressed and the national flag flew from every public building and mill-

tary and naval establishments.

At 10 am, the local defence forces paraded through the main streets, and thousands watched.

of the Royal Scots, before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell in the

They were alleged to have hired Supreme Court this morning.n public car No. 210 at the Dreamland

On May 28, the Japanese declared The respondent was Sub-Inspec- Dancing fall on May 28, and when

martial law in that area and armoured! near Talkoo Doulis, nesnulting the tor W. N. Darkin.

driver und attempting to take hla cars patrolled the streets throughout car when the driver switched off the the day. Early in the morning, over ignition and gut out,

10 Japanese planes cruised over the successively one of the defendants tried to drive away by

districts.

Soochow Creek was closed to consting down the hill.

traffic. As a result, over 1,000 boats carrying food supplies and other articles to Shanghai were "marooned" at Rubicon Vilage.

Appellant stated he was very sorry for what happened, but pleaded that the sentence was too severe for Arst offence,

M.

Mr. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solfeltor, pointed out that no men- Lon was made at the magisteri

Kood

A report was made to the Shauki- wan police station, and at about 3 am the driver, while driving past gs of appellant's milltary Murray Barracks, snw

the three which he understoo was defenfants, and reported the matter To the No 2 police station at Wan- chal

the arrested, charged

multelously with further damaging the showcase window of the Miniature Cafe Its Lockhart Hond. Damage to the window amounted tu $100. This amount will be settled by the Regiment

case, MA

The

of circumstances

the continues! Mr. Abbolt, were about Lip.. on May 8 some soldiers went to the Neptune Bar. One of them progreded upstairs to the spirits raum, broke open the door, and took some liquor Dway

Half an hour inter, the

the same soldiler returned and again took away some of the spirits.

At 11.46 p.m., he returned a

When

mrr were

Ar officer of the Royal Scota, 2nd Gibson, said that the third Lieut.

first twe erfendnuts, who were

old time with a a party, Including appel- Innt Me again went into the spiritsoldiers, had indifferent characters, room and handed down some liquor whde the character of the third de- fendant, who was just out from home. to the others, who were waiting

the back yard. When appellant annet been fairly good.

subsequently seen by the accountant of the Dar, he remarked interfere with me or you will get hurt" and then left.

On

Convictions were registered against the defendants 02 tho first 10 ge; while fines of $25

ench un three weeks' imprisonment on each of the second and third charges were imposed on all the defendants.

frst and second the last count, serused were fined $50 or six weeks' Imprisonment each, the third defen- dant wing oned $25 or three weeks' unprisonment.

About 2 a.m., the accountant bound what sounded to be an attempt to break open the hack dum of the spirits

room He looked through thej window and on seeing two soldiers whom he

adentify, could not

bas boy to the mediately s Police Station, winch was nil_t

wetl away. Sergeant Danbrowsky

serne and saw appellant com- ing from the back e. Appellant was arrested.

to the

In reply to 11 Lordship, Mr. Abbott said he did not think appel- lant was given a chance to skure evidence as to his character, nor did the Magistrate make any inquiry in respect of it.

Lieut. F. I W. Glossop, of the Royal Scots, testified that appellant harl good character. He had been in the Army since 1933, and during that time all the charges against him had been purely milltary.

WDS

Stowaway To Be Deported

The troops were headed by the squad of trumpeters of the Mozam- bique Regiment, who were followed the Volunteers, by Mozambique Infantry, Marine Police, Police Cycle Section, Municipal Con- Infantry

mechanised stabulary, troops, artillery and fire brigade. Section after section marched past the magnificeni dats where .E. the Governor of Macao, Dr. A. Tamagnini Great Barbean, troit the salute. remote.-

the

of reopening Possibility areas in lungjao and

Road Western

aren Central Newa.

or the

Among the many officials assem- bled on the official stand were H.E. the Bishop of Macao, Rev. J. da Costa Nunes, Dr. C. Sampaio, Colonial Mr.

Nothing Done Secretary, Dr. A Miranda, Chief

To Control Refugee Influx

Questioned this morning as to whether it was proposed to close the border road to Canton or la control exercise some almitor upen the Influx of refugee Chinese, the Hon. Mr. N. L Smith, Colonial Secretary, stated that nothing had yet been done in this direction.

He added that the necessity for adoping some measures might arise.

Judge. Lieut. M. Pinto, A.D.C.. F. J. Gellion, British Vice-Consul for Macao, Mr. H. Nolasco, Consul for Holland, L.-Comm. D. L. C. Craig, Commander of HM.S. Scomew, and Comm. J. Owen Pinto, Commander of R. P. N. Goncalo Velho.

At noon H.E. the Governor held o reception at Government House.

The poor of the Colony were given numerous gifts at the quarters of the Santa Casa de Misericordia later in the afternoon.

Macno presented a brilliant spec- tacle by night when the ships in port were outlined in lights and public buildings and main thoroughfares | were splendidly Blumlanted,

The Grand Ball given al Govern- ment House was extremely well- attended and was a most successful furetion.

Cork Harbour urin

Explaining tut

hud been A in Shanghai where stranded phasport had been stolen and that he had intended to go on to Manila lo see the Consul there. Arvids Ozols, 26-year-old Latvian scamun, picuded guilty to stowing away on the motor hip Thalatta and entering the Co- tony without a valid passport when he appeared before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett ut Kowloon Magistracy to- day.

Mr. Abbott said that during the four raids ubout $40 worth of liquor

taken, and

of the the value whisky mentioned in the charge was Home $5, Appellunt was sober at the time.

Dismissing the appeal, His Lordship said the appellant had 101 shown suflicient reason why Che should interfere with the Magistrate's Shanghai. decision.

Court

Özals said he had been paid off from the Swedish oil tanker Pegasus and that his passport had been stolen. As there was not a Latvian Consulate in Shanghai, he stowed away, hop- ing to get to Manila, He had en

Kiven

Identification

In Барет

Detective Sergeant W. Sykes sald

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"The offence." continued His Lord- Ozols, who had no money on him, ship.

"was a serious one, but on the had been found on board soon after other

hand I think thint where a the ship left Shanghai. The fare Magistrate huposes in Apparently

was £5.

The Finnish Consulate in Latvian Junked severe sentence it would he well for Shanghai

him to note in the record the reaso115

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for the severity of the sentence."" A fine of $50 or one month's hard

Mr. Abbott pointed out that appel-bour was imposed, and unt had been in custody for 21 days, pulsion urder made by which Ozols and His Lordship direeted that ser

will be sent back to Shanghai at the tence be dated! from the day of end of his prison term. conviction.

"Sailors'

Special"

Leaves Canton

Arriving in Canton shortly after the second Japanese air raid yesterday, the "Sailors' Special" departed for Hankow at

5.30 p.m.

GOVERNOR TO INSPECT RESERVES

Defences Handed Over

London, May 29. Following meetings of representa- tives of the Eire and United Kingdom Governments, held on Saturday, ar- for rangements have been reached the formal transfer of defences in Cork Harbour to Eire on July 11.

The date for the transfer of the harbour defences at Bercraven und Loughswilly will be fixed later.as! Reuter.

MEMORIAL DAY MARKED

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This is American Memorial Day

it is und

being celebrated fashion by AmericanM, customary chiefly indies, in Hongkong-

AL 10.30 this

many morning

al the American ladies gathered

where, Cemetery at Happy Valley

E under the direction of Mrs. A. Southard, wife of the Consul General for the U.S.A. in Hongkong, and other ladies of the Consulate, they prn- ceeded to decorate the graves ui American citizens.

The U.S.S. Ashville, the only American ship in harbour, is firing

salute at noon.

JAPANESE FORCE

Orders issued by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King. Commissioner of Police, to- day mention the Governor's Inspec- tion of Police Reserve. His cellency will inspect the Reserve on Friday, June 3 al 6.35 p.m. at Police directions, Headquarters.

ANNIHILATED

(Continued from Page 1.)

turn with the has taken a critical Ex-arrival of large Japanese forces.

Converging on the city from three about 4.000 Japanese troops are launching a heavy assault on the city. The Chinese forces have succeeded in holding out thus far.

2,000 In the vicinity of Koyang,

pitched against the Japanese are Chinese forces, where heavy fighting continues.

1,000

A practice parade will be held at Police Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1. All members of the Police Reserve will attend. The special train, which is carry-

Dress: Superintendents-White uni- ing 200 British sailors as reliefs for form, sun helmets, Sam Browne belts, the Yangtse Squadron. had

no and swords. Other Hanks-White dimeulty in negotiating the loop-line uniform, sun helmets, belt with connecting the Kowloon Canton Rail-brnec, no arms. way with the Canton Hankow Rail-

way.

Although the Japanose bombers concentrated their attention on the railway system in Canton, they did not disturb through connection ben tween Hongkong and Hankow.

Fires were raging fiercely in the Wongshin area

Canton in

as the "Sailors' Special" arrived, and the train passed slowly within two miles of the devastated area.

Pope Prays For Peace

Castel Gandolfos, May 20. Reference to the disturbed inter- national situation was made by lis Holiness the Pope In an address in Latin to the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest.

over

In the meantime, Japanese have arrived at Liulinis!, a point between Pohslen and Kwel- tch-Central News.

100,000 Chinese Massed For Counter Stroke

Comounded by Lleut-Com]]}&{$) + den D. L. C Craig, H, M. S. Seamew andver from Wurhow the day be fure yesterday in order to participate! in the celebrations.

The officers of the Seamew were present at the parade and the omelal reception yesterday morning and were guests at the Grand Ball held at Government House in the evening. The Seamew's officers held an "At Home" aboard at noon to-day, the guests consisting of Capt. C. Barbosa of the loop Goncalo Velho and other Portuguese officers as weti many British and American residents.

The British warship will sait for Canton to-morrow morning.

Cholera Now Widespread In Far East

Stringent precautions orc being taken by

health the Bongkong authorities in an effort to prevent an increase in cholera during the forth-

bruken out The disease has curing summer months. practically every part of East. Two cases were reported in Hongkong last week.

the Far

According to the Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports, 125 cases occurred in Calcutta during the week ending May 21. In addition, there were 50 cases in anol, teu cases in Delhi, four cases in Cawnpore, two cases ini Shanghal, two cases in Basseln and one case each in Rangoon and Alla- habad.

Since the Bulletin was compiled reports have been received from un- offeint sources in Shangha of a serious outbreak among refugers there. An outbreak In Swalow also reported.

Sixty-four cases of typhus have also been reported from Shanghai,

Is

REFUGEES POUR IN DURING WEEK-END

(Continued from Puge 1.)

thorities were cognisant of the post-i tion,

At the moment, however, Govern-1 661 ment was not contemplating adopting measures either to cope with the in- flux or to restrict it.

;

Cholera Fears

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON POLICEMAN

Tokyo, May 30. Following an alleged assault un a The Chinese military command is police constable named Lal Fun in now concentrating more than 100,000 Stanley Street on May 27, two men of its picked troops on the Kaifeng- Yu Ngan, 20, and Chan Kam, 18, Chengehow trant under General Hu

In some quarters fears are felt that were charged with inflicting grievous Teung-nan, it was reliably reported

the unrestricted Influx of refugees bodily harm on Lal before Mr. R. here to-day.

from China may result in an epidemic Edwards at the Central Magistracy Persistent efforts are being made,

of cholera, ospecially the hot this morning.

stated, to the

The #11- report

weather has now set in. strategical points now in the hands of thorities are taking certain precau- Japanese forces.

tiona to guard against this, but it is Co-operating with this

Acting Detective Inspector L. R Whant, asked for a 72 hours remand and it was granted,

recover

Chinese

да

Other men are said to have been army, another force under General realised that with the wholesale Can-| connected with the defendants in the Shang Chen, at Knocheng, north of alleged incident.

Lanfeng, la also seeking to recover fost ground-Domel,

BIG HAUL OF OPIUM MADE

The address was made by radio Acting on information, officers of through the powerful short-wave the Revenue Department raided a Vatican radio station, which reaches house in Reclamation Street and all parts of the world.

seized 900 tacle of raw oplum lust

mercy,

Japanese Claims

ton evacuations, the possibility of an outbreak of disease Is considerably enlarged.

Two casca of cholern were reported by the Health Authorities during last! weck.

Tokyo, May 30.

Three Ships En Route Japanese forces have completed the occupation of Kweitch, 100 miles west

Three steamers, the Fat Shan, Tung On and Kwong Tung, left of suchow, according to a com munique Issued here to-day by the Canton at about 8.30 am. to-day for Army press section of Imperial Head-Hongkong with refugees. quarters.

In their general attack on Kweltch and vicinity the Japanese ground forces were assisted by army aircraft, the communique stated.

Altogether the three ships have a passenger capacity of 3,700, but it is "May our Redeemer, In His divine night,

not known whether they feft fully calm the anxiety which A womna, Ho Wah-ching, was perturbs the hearts of men, and with charged with its possession before

fonded.

The Arat steamer should reachi rays of supernulurni Rght dispel the Mr. K. M. A. Bornett at Kowloon

Subsequent reports from Pelping Hongkong at three o'clock this after- lowering clouds which seem to thren- Magistracy to-day.

It is understood that the ships She

to was sentenced

twelve ten new tempests," His Holiness unid.

state that following the occupation of noon. Kweltch the Japanese forces are now will be inspected at the quarantine At the conclusion of his brondcast, nonthe hord labour, and a fine of Pope Plus imported the

all passengers im- pushing their drive westward and anchorage and Apostolic $5,000 or another six months' Benediction-keuter.

prisonment..

oculated against cholera.

north-westorward.-Domei.

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