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ACCUSES MACAO OFFICIALS

Grave Charges Of Narcotic Dealings Made In Geneva

SEAMEN TELL OF THREATS OF MURDER

(Continued from Page 1)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TILTMAN CONDEMNS CANTON BOMBINGS, SALUTES BRAVE

(Continued from Page 1.) only time. He was on the sume terms with Dickinson as with Dwyer, ordered, permitted and persisted in

The incident in the mess, deck

this murder compaign. For them it when Humphreys and he saw Dic-Is Impossible to feel anything but kinson interfering with Dwyer, who

Even 'profound contempl.

to-day was asleep, took place round about when, thanks to the neutral, im midnight on a Sunday and when the partial evidence of consular oficials, ship was alongside a jetty in Sing- doctors and newspaper COITESPUN➡ pore.

He was wearing singlet dents, the whole world knows the and and shorts and Dwyer was attired truth, Japanese Admirals

about hitting Spokesmen still talk in tropical rig.

"military objectives" when actually their bombs have demolished Eng- fish-owned schools and small homes, By so doing they have crimsoned the Sun-ng with stain which it will taire generations to crase.

Geneva, June 22. Allegations that Government It was about if an hour after officials in Macao were implicate has been awakened by someone the eaming ashore that he noticed ed in the sale and distribution incident. He watched for a while of oplum in North China were before shouting, whereupon Dickin- made by the U.S. Government son ran away, representative on the League of Nations Opium Advisory Board, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, at yester- day's meeting.

Several tons of Persian oplum had been distributed by way of Macau, Mr. Fuller alleged.

Mr. Faller's Information Wan up- parently oblained by US Secret Service agents operating in the Far Fast.—United Press.

UGAKI CONSIDERS WAR DECLARATION

(Continued from Page 1.)

Member for Coventry, who opened the debate for Vie Opposition.

The Prime Minister said he thought there would be general agreement with the remarks which bad fallen from Mr. Noel-Baker upon the hor rors of modern warfare, and regard- ing the practice of bombing from the air.

Mr. Chamberlain also accepted. M: Noel-Baker's reŋarka that 11

was wrong to lay down that new weapong made new international lawn, but he thonaght he must quantify that agree- ment with the

previa that HOW weapons might hitroduce new con-

ditions which would require, if not a re-castinut, at least an elaboration of existing laws.

No Code Accepted

"The fact is, there is at present no code of internationd law resport- ing aerial warfare Bint is generally accepted," the Premier declared

"There are certain rules of Inter- national Law established for sea and lant warfare, and these rules, or the principles underlying them, are ap plienbie to nertal warfare,

"Unfortunately, these rules du noi meet the cuse which has to be met to-day."

JS

The Premier reminded the House that the British Government was engaged upon

careful survey of the whole position, with a view to formulating a practical scheme which could be put before other countries for acceptance or modification, with a view to reaching some international understanding on the rules of perial warfare.

There were at any rate three rules, or three principles, or International

Of the people using that particu-

Holleed A. B. Pidmer, Dwyer and pickicamota.

ir tas on the night to question, he

strse

Mr. D'Almada : You must how had

whjeel In Interfering. What did y shout?--I cannot re- member. I think I only

made Dickinson noise, whereupon

After Hearing Dickinson WILY told Dwyer of the incident and did not seem surprised at all.

חוניו

Had Dwyer any bett elathes on? -- No, he was sleeping on erriðin bed- clothes.

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HAND UNDER BEDDING Then why should Dickinang 1 hand underneath his bedclothe --be just put his hand under, Further questioned, witness he struck two or three maches, enuse Dickinson crawled under t Aable to get away.

Counsel

You made no

sali

meation

Yes, be

of this at the Magistracy. No

Did you wake up Palmer" told me to shut up.

Yes.

What made you go to the dad with 13 yer" Just an impulse.

Hove

been there before! you es, my locker is there

when Were

Fully dresse you Dickinson entered the dat?--Yes, but Dwyer wax two Dwyer was naked.

Ine und of the scends abend of trial two or three ininutes, as I had sold in the Police Court

In other words, you had no hesita- on in following Dwyer?-No.

How long after you had entered the

that did Dielenson come?-About two

three minutes after

Mr. Titman added that no-praise could be ton great for the calm courage with which the people of Canton, from General Wu Teh-chen, Governor of Kwangtung, To 17 purest coolie, were facing the hours of supreme trial.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22. 1988.

JAPANESE ADMIT GRAVE SITUATION IN SHANSI

(Continued from Page, 1). tacks on the Japanese units cast of Chengehow.

The Chinese are reported to be besleging five or six hundred Japan- ese troops who are trapped inside the city walls of Chungmow, where the flood waters are three miles wide ang four feet deep.

The only method by which the trappel Japanese can receive supplies Is by air-Reutor.

Forced To Retire

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Hankow, June 22. Following a clash north-west of

(a) Sweel as a Song; (b) Down- Yushth, important city in the flood area south of Kaifeng, the town Strutter's Ball; (c) Half Moon

on the Hudson; (d) In Old Chicago. Japanese forces

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Chinese Ready For Enemy

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6.21 (a) Romance in the Dark ;(b) How'd you

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"Directly the frat burb falls in raid the ambulances and rescue- sounds are

the scene,

Hankow, June 22, bfifferent Superbly

to the bombs

The breathing spell afforded to the crashing around them.

Chinese armies by the Yellow River "In the course of

the covering

foods is being feverishly used by news in forty countries and across the Chinese to reorganise and take four Continents I have seen human up new pritions for the defence of courage at its best and nest, but Hankow from the south, in addition never have I seen grander and to

the defence positions already more moving display of comruleship taken ogalast an attack along the and personal bravery than in Con-Yangtse River. tou during the recent The Cantorent are not only propared To live for China they have proved

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LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST

The temperature in Hongkong Bus monzing was up by three deeg ter 86, white homidity

The new Chiese position is suld

0.44 (a) I'll never lot you ery; (b) Vient Vieni; (e) Rosalie; (d) Biz Chief Swing It

7.00 Hongs by F'aul Robeson

Old Folks At Home (Swanee River -Traditional, arr, Bruce); Poor Old Joe (Traditional); Roll Up Sailor m (From 'Big Fella").

to be former more or less in a straight line running diagonally neross Honun Province from Kingisten, 35 miles west of Chengchow on the Langbal Railway, through Hsuchany, on the Chengchow-Bankow Railway,

And south-easterly ta Kushih where

7.10 Plano Selections, south Honen joins Ashwel province. Behind this front line a second line

Rondo In E Flat Mojor (Chopin- has been formed, runsing diagonally Solo); Feux D'Artifice (Extrait Des Op. 10), Anatole Kitain (Plano Throughs toman through Singyang on "Prelude 2e Livre-Debussy)

Chrugehow. Hunkaw Railway. Marcel Ciampl (Plane Solo). Hiun- Troops are already in position alonggarian Rhupsudly No. 11 (Liszt). Bus second ine, prepared to act as Marcel Clumni (Piano Solo)

ameleus grond which the armies

the

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| retreating from the first line can take positions should 11 Arerasion

73 aris registered Maxhiuta Seruperature yesterday was 155 and minimum last FOR BI

Only 5 inch of rain fell during The pst 24 hours, bringing the year's total to 24 24 inches main-1 on At the Magistracy you said two or

average of 34 10 ches is correct?-1 three seconds, which

Lead formenst

Swath Ward tul ennt say which is curi vet, think it seemed like

troderate, fair generally with heal two or three

showris severals

you

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ALLEGED DISCREPANCY And at the Board of Enquiry the interval you pinced between your

and Dickinson's arrival

Was Ave Witness added that minutes” --Yes. Dickinson was behind the locker flat when he went in.

Why didn't

mention this before? I suggest that you meztioned Your square it now in order cyklence"...No.

Did you say it the Faquiry that when Dickinson arrived you thought Dwyer had a tropical singlet on?- Yes.

That statement was made answer to a series of questions and

think over you had time to

the clid not think of the Incident?---] shooting at all until two or three days loter because I was then in the cells f deserting the ship at Sydney

Now you say he was naked?--Hr was naked when I went there.

Law which, he thought they might Was he naked when Dickinson at- say, were applicable to aerial warrived-He must have lacu,

fare as fully as they were to wie on land or res.

But you sud at the Enquiry he hut a singlet --He had a singlet on when I left

The Arst rule was that 11 was You cannot reconcile these two .against international Law to bomb | statements7- On receiving no amawer, cfvillans as such, and to make de Counsel commented that the reason liberate attacks on civilian populo- the checked up these discrepancies atlons. That undoubtedly WIS 21 was that he was going to suggest to

violation of International Low

witness that his story of the incident was entirely untrue, Witness, Coun- Gel added, had given evidence at three separate hearings and had con- tradicted himself on Numerous DC- rusions, besides stating things in Court which he had never mentioned

Must Be Military Objectives

Secondly, targets must be legitimunte milltary objectives and be cable of identification. Thinly. reasonable before,

care must be taken in attacking these objectives.

they

Those three general rules could all accept, and the Guvernment did accepi, but obviously when they came to practice there Were con- siderable difficultles.

SHOWED HIM AMMUNITION

Was

Dwyer also said: " will get betting to Dickinson'

that

M D'Almada; E think your also heard Dwyer say he would get on- other, Depar? You

Parents like that are very entramon in the lower dente Yus

You heard that every day”..... Yes

INTENDED TO SHOOT HIM

Stokes D. Ben said that while bar was an the New York Hotel in Sydney. Dwyer, who spoke as if he were suber, spoke to him of people whom he disliked, mentioning

shoot him.

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Powerful Positions

Belund Bus secund line Is another line of defence, running in a semi-circle from Wusheng, through Naelung and across the southern bank of the Yungise, where a major stond will be attempted. This third line will be slucked with fresh troups, supported by the newly organised

tillery ati mechanised units. Guarding the flanks of these threements. main lines

are two forces, one running northward along the Lung- hai Railway between Kunghden and Tungkwan,

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Danube Waltz.

8.00 Time, Weather and Announc

8.03 Reginald Foort (Organ) and Sam Browne (Baritone),

Sicep, My Little One (Lullaby- from utzik-Riesenfeld); In The Chapel in The Moonlight (Hill)....Reginald Tungitwan along the Taishan Moun-Poort at the B. B. C. Theatre Organ fains, and the other to the south, running southward from Jushih to and Nicholls); Tallding Through My Have You Forgotten So Soon (Gilbert Kaukiang, where the biggest boom is Heart (From 'Big Broadcast of 1937)

placed across the Yungise River

60 Divisions In Line

It is stated that the total number of troops employed in the defence of Hankow exceeda 60 divisions. It is impossible to obtain

and

that

...Sam Browne; Reminiscences Frimi; intro:-Indinn Love Call; The Mounties; Chanson; The Door Of My Dreams: Rose Marie: March Of The Vagabonds: Only

L'amour Rosc; toujours l'amour; Serenade... Re Dickinson and a few others. Autofficial figures of the newly organised ginald Foort at the Organ of The Dickinson, Dwyer sald be did not Chinese artillery

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Sam Browne and Girl (Friend), has been completed. Army is also reported to have re- Melody of 1838-Selection; Intro:

The Chinese Friend with Two Pianos: "Broadway cently obtained 1.200 new tanks. Your Brondway and my Broadway;

The new artillery units will be Yours and mine; Everybody sing... equipped with 380 held pleves from Reginald Foort at the B.B.C. Theatre Soviet Russia and another 300 pieces Organi. from other countries. The Soviet

8.30 guns are 72 millimetre field guns. in Garetle." additi there are some six Inch

Cross-examined, witness sard spent three hours in the hotel with

Dwyer, during which time they hat

drinks.

It was usual to talk of one's likes and dislikes on board ship and to hear threats being ultered?--Yes.

In fact the only reason why you remember this particular incident in connection with Dwyer was because some days afterwards Dickinson in fael was shot?--Yes.

And Dwyer did say he disliked other people too?--Yes, but I don't remember film making any threats against these.

Re-examined, witness said he had heard a quod many threats before but had never heard one about shooting

AN IDLE THREAT

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juns.

London Relay "Topical

A fortnightly review of things at Home. Presented by Pascoe Thorn-

The tanks are mainly light and; ton. medium weight vehicles of four, five, seven and nine tons.

While there is no doubl but that these new guna and tanks will be used in the defence of Hankow, it is reliably learned that only part of the newly arrived armaments will be flung into battle, many of them being His Lordship: Do you regard the battle in wester Human-Renter.

held in reserve for a possible later threat as a boast7-1 regard idle threat,

Chinese Check Attackers Corroborative evidence was given

Hankow, June 22. Heavy

movements of Japanese troops

Along supplies

the railway from Tientsin-Pukow Hauchow to Nanking are apparently being

made by the Japanese for the forthcoming operations in the

the influence of drink at the time.

Dwyer also mentioned the name of another person whom he disliked, seatpan called Pepper. The pro- prietor of the hotel was present and on hearing what Dwyer had said, he told him: "You are a young man, don't be foolish. Forget all about it."

In answer to further questions, | by Leading Stoker J. Morris, who wliness said that after he had en- | added that Dwyer was slightly under

disease he quired about the suffering from, Dwyer Invited him in his locker, where he showed him nome ammunition. He could not say Mr. Chamberlalu. declosed

how many cartridges there were, as cm- phuttenlly that he could

Dwyer had his hand over the um not ton

munition and showed him only the strongly condemn the iden that should be part the

of

deliberate I base, policy of a nation to fry to win a wor by demoralising the civilian populn- tion through the process of bambing from the air.

Mr. D'Almoda..I put it to you that Dwyer had never slept on the table in Singapore?—He had.

I put it to you that that table was used by other members and not by him?--I disagree, though he did not

I put it to you that the whole of

Crom-examined, witness admitted having stated at the Board of Enquiry that Dwyer, On

to being told forget it, appeared to forget It.

Yangtse area.

9.00 Studio-Rambles Of An Aim- less Ambler-(with Albert).

The Second of A Weekly Series. 9.10

Selections from Puccial Operas.

"La Boheme" (Act 1) Che Gelido Monina....Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) Orchestra conducted by Nils Grevil- lius; "La Boheme Lovely Maid in The Moonlight

Pam-

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und Dino Borgioli with Or- Goodbye To Sweet Awaken- ing (Quarlette Act 3)

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9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.55 London Relay-"The Norihum- berland Plate.

A commentary on the race from Gosforth Park, Newcastle-upon- nd-Tyne,

Fulls

Meanwhile, Japanese forces int western Anhwel are launching their main attack on Tulhu, south-west of The Chinese forces Chienshan. have evacuated Chicushan and are now holding position in the between that elty and Tolhu. That Dickinson used to give Dwyer vanding along the highway appeared

One Japanese detachment some hard jobs round about last Christmas was testifled to by Ordin nt a point 30 miles from Tailu but ry Seaman J. R. Howstan, who said was repulsed, according to a Chinese that acquzed and decensed did not military communique which shys like each other.

that Chinese reinforcements have already arrived in the Tallu sector. The Chinese are now launching counter-atinck on the Japanese a Chleashan-Reuter.

"That is absolutely contrary to International Law, and in my opinion it is in reality i mistaken policy" sleep there every night. sold Mr. Chamberlain. "1, do not belleve that deliberate aftncks. on your evidence in regard to this In- civilian population will ever win o cident is entirely untrue?—It is true. war for those who make them."

And there was no such incident as When they were at Sydney, Dwyer you had stated that Dwyer showed, told him that he hated Dickinson ns you some ammunition?-There was he had given him a lot of hard jobs In reply to Hila Lordship, witness and that he would shoot him from † the booms. At that time, witness thought Dwyer would not do such n thing.

After referring to tho difficulties which prose in the practical applien- tion of the general rules he had enunclated, Mr. Chamberlula re- snld that to the beat of his belief, peated the wish of the British Gov- Dickinson was very popular. ernment to produce practical

pro.

other

posis before approaching Governments on the question.

"I am bound to say that, in the opinion of the British Government, far too many Incidents had occurred, both in China and Spain, where these general rules had been plainly dis- regarded," the Premier concluded.

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MEANT TO GET EVEN

Able. SeumBh C. J. M. 'Smith testfed that on one occasion, while the ship was in Singapore, Dwyer, who appeared upset, told him that Plekinson had given him a very hard time and that he meant to get even with him. Asked how he was going lo, get even, Dwyer said as he was a member of the rifle team, he could vasily get a round of ammunition, and that he WHS going to shoot Dickinson.

Cross-examined, witness said Dwyer wao,not normal when he spalte to him.

SAID, "PUSH HIM OVERBOARD" Able Seaman F. A. McKay testified that towards the end of April Dwyer asked him if it was possible, to com- mit murder on H.M. Ship and get away with it. "I did not," said witness, pay any attention to it but passed a remark that if he wanted to get rid of anybody, he was to push him overboard as I did not want the trouble of sewing up bodies again." Witness explained that there had been one or two natural deaths on the Dorsetshire and it was his job Assist the sailmaker in sewing up the bodies.

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10.15 A Variety, Programme with Sandy Powell, The Alls Brothers, Greta Keller and Bing Grosby'.

Pennies From Heaven (From the Film); Let's Call A Heart A Heart (From Pennies From Heaven).... Bing Crosby with Georgle Stoll and His Orchestra: Sandy's First Baby Humorous Sketch Sandy Powell and Company; London Rhythm; Solitude...The Mills Brothers (Four Boys und a Gultar); Take My Heart (Allort, Young); Would You? (From Several Japanese warships succeed-

San Francisco')....Greta Keller ed yesterday in making their way up the Yangtse to within a short dla Girl; Just One Word Of Consolation with Orchestra Accomp.; Dear Old tance of the boom thrown across the

Bing Crosby and the Three river at Matang.

Cheers (Piano Accomp, by Ivan Several hundred Japanese troops Ditmars): Swing Is The Thing (From were Innded on both banks of the The Blackbirds' of 1038"); Long river with the object of attacking the About Midnight....The Mills Bro- Chinese defending the boom.

thers (Four. Boyn and Guitar); be in progress north

Fierea fighting is also reported to Song Of The Islands (Arr. King); of Matang-Aloba Oe (Lilluokalani, Kennedy)... Trana-Ocean,

Bing Crosby with Dick McIntire und his Harmony Howallan

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For that reason, 1 suppose you didn't take the threats seriously at all?--I took them to be idle threats. Able Seaman, E. J. Fisher said Dickinson was a very cool fellow and a good sportsman. He was also a very level isended fellow and took overy day of his life in lus viride, and was not argumentutive. Ewyeri whom he had known for six months, had spoken to him about Dickinson, saying he was bearing duwn on him. The case la proceeding.

Dwyer also asked him if it was possible to get a gun in Sydney, und he replied that the authorities could trace The registration number. Dwyer appenrod be serious tind was perfectly sober.

Cross-examined, witness said dif ferent people slept on the mess table TT. U.S.A. in question on different night, but TT. Manila T.T. Datavia mastly Degans and Roberts.

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