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五拜禮 號三月三英港香

1939. FRIDAY, MARCH 3,

日三十月正

POLICE ACTION IN COURT CASES:Admiral, General

MAGISTRATE'S SENSATIONAL PROTEST Hold Conference

CR

WOMEN RELEASED BY COURT RE-ARRESTED

AND BANISHED

“RITICISM of the methods adopted by the Police in re-arresting women and having them banished after they had been cautioned by him in Court were made by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Senior Magistrate, at the Con- tral Magistracy this morning, when a woman, Leung Suct-ying, appeared before him on a charge of soliciting in Des Voeux Road Central yesterday for an immoral purpose.

Mr. Forrest asked the prosecuting officer, Sub-Inspector R. Cunningham: "I understand that some of these girls arrested for soliciting and cautioned by me were subsequently re- arrested and scheduled for banishment. know if that is correct?"

Seven Re-arrested

Do you

Sub-Inspector Cunningham left the Court to make inquiries, and on the return said that seven of the girls had been re-arrested and scheduled for banishment.

"I think that procedure is most improper, the Magistrate said.

"Whatever one may think about banishment in normal times-when it is perhaps possible to hold that it is a punishment-there can be no question but that, in the present circumstances, it operates as a very heavy punishment indeed, one which causes far more hardship to the persons bunished than the heavy penalty which I have power to inflict for this offence. FURTHER PENALTY

severe

"It is therefore improper, when the Court hus, after mature consideration, imposed what it considers an adequate penalty, that a further penalty should be inflicted in this way. "As I understand that these girls are banished on the before grounds that they have been convicted of this offence me, there will be no further convictions until I am assured that this practice has been abandoned, and I have no alternative but to dismiss the case as trivial."

Defendant was then discharged.

COMPARATIVE COSTS OF JAPAN'S TWO WARS

TOKYO, Mar. 3. IN COMPARISON with the military and naval expenses incurred by Japan in connection with the Russo-Japanese War. which amounted to 1,700,000,000 yen. the expenses of the China Incident will be at least seven times larger.

Soviet Ice Breaker Due

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The Sino-Japanese War of ¦1894 required a total of 250,- || |000,000 yen. Wars of that scale could be staged 48 times with the sum needed to cover the cost of operations in China.

Since the outbreak of the Chinat Incident. 7,300,000,000 yen has al- ready been appropriated for military

breaker THE SOVIET ice Kaganovitch will pass through Hongkong shortly on its way to expenditure. the Arctic Circle.

With the additional sum of over This

1939-40 modern ship which can 4,600,000,000 yen for the crush its way through ice 12 feet Ascal year required for military ex- [ thick at a speed of eight knots, has penses, the total cost of the current Just left Singapore on its way hostilities will rench the north.

She carries five stewardesses and one woman doctor, in addition to a

crew of nearly 150,

yen-Domet,

11.990,000.000

The captain in a newspaper inter- Dublin's Move To

view recently said: "The presence

on

lon

of women aboard the ship aels as a restraining

Influence voyage.

Suppress Sedition

Dublin, Mar. 2.

Devastation

In Poklo

Altogether 930 elyllians were killed and 142 others wounded In Pokto, west of Walchow on the East River. Kwaagtang, as a result of the Japanese bonıb- ing and shelling last year, ac-

Inves cording to an extensive Heation conducted by the Hong- kong Pakla Residents Refugces Hellef Association.

In addition, upwards 30,000 people have been rendered home- less and destitute and 3,456 others have suffered from various dis- cases,

A total of 11,201 shops and - residences were reduced to ruins either by bumbs or fire, amount- lng to more than $5,000,000 pro- perly losses.

11 is stated it at least 2,000 corpses of soldiers and elvlitans were left unburied in the villages and atong the highways in the town, Decomposing

bodies

of Hive stork were also foundİ............... Central News.

ANOTHER PROTEST

Britain Objects To

FLYING HOTEL LANDS AT HONGKONG AIRPORT

DELAYED BY WEATHER an hour be tween Manila and Hongkong, the Boeing Clipper, world's largest aeroplane, flew over the Colony at 1 p.m. to-day and alighted at Kai-Tak ten minutes later.

The plane made a perfect landing from the south-west, skimming the houses near the rocks

arca.

"We had a wonderful trip," said Captain Bill Cuthe. "We averaged about 165 miles an hour and I am very satisfied with the plane."

Full Story on Page Two

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A PARTY OF thirty-nine for eigners from Kuling arrived in Shanghai on February 27, aboard the Japanese Army transport Omi Maru. Remaining at Kuling were 47 others, including an 84- year-old frittish woman. Special arrangements for their transpor lation to Shanghai in Japanese military transports are being made. -Press Union.

Japan Starts Campaign To "Clean Up" Canton

CANTON, Mar. 3.

A VIGOROUS campaign against the "lawless element" in Canton has been launched by the Japanese authorities, who have strengthened military street patrols, intensified the search- ing of pedestrians, and are conducting surprise raids in various parts of the city.

Over 100 arrests have been report-

el during the past few days, and nearly half of these people have been executed.

After a parade of military trucks through, the main thoroughfares, 41! of those arrested were subsequently i Found guilty. either of armed robbery, or looting, and were shot a few days ago in the Arst mass execut= | tion since the occupation,

"POLICE TAX" IMPOSED Meanwhile. the

Britain's Bid In The Air

LONDON, Mar. 2.

Sir Kingsley Wood, in a memorandum to-day, states that orders have been placed for land in three large long-range nuthorities nounce the imposition of a "police planes. tox" for the maintenance of the city's Two will have speeds of 240 m.ph.. growing police force. Each store will and one will be specially designed have to pay according to the nature and volume of its business. The larger the turnover, the heavier the

According to Agures' Issued. pay

to

for high altitude flight at 270 m.p.b.

The machines are intended transport passenters and mails acrosa the North Atlantic, and to accelerate the Empire services by the introduc

Special.

THE “TELEGRAPII” is informed that a conference was held on board ILMS. Kent at 19.30 a.m. to-day to discuss matters relating to Hongkong's position vis-a-vis South China. There were present: Major General K. Tanaka, Lieut.Col. Ohiru, Mr. T. Oda, Acting Japanese Consul General in Hongkong, and Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble: Major General A. E. Grusett and Col. A. G. Neville.

General Tanaka was the guest of Admiral Noble on board ILMS. Kent to tiffin to-day. He will prolong his stay in Hong- kong until Sunday or Monday before returning to Canton.

£250,000 MINING DEAL IN H.K.

ENQUIRIES BY the "Telegraph" confirm the report, cabled" by "Reuter" this morning, that a Pekin Syndicate has bought up practically the entire supply of wolfram ore in Hongkong.

Since the outbreak of hostilities, Hongkong has been the principal distributing centre for China's wolfram ore. China is the world's greatest supplier of this metal.

The "Telegraph" enquiries in- dicate that the deal is in the neighbourhood of $1,000,000,

to this deal, the In addition National Resources Committee of the Chinese Government has granted its wotiram agency right to the Pekin Syndicate.

This Syndicate is an old British concern, the head of which is Mr. H. G. Dell, now in London.

The Syndicate is interested In several railways now in Japanese- occupied territory und is also under- stood to be interested in the Kallan Mining

Administration, another

British concern.

TOPIC OF CONVERSATION

BIG LOAN FOR CHINA

IS SEEN Negotiations Said Well Advanced

LONDON, Mar. 2. NEGOTIATIONS ARE

According to "Iteuter," rumours of far advanced for a substan~ the negotiations are the chief topic tial enlargement of the conversation among London £500,000 credit which The arrangement strikes them as Britain granted to China in the fact that Japan openly avowed January.

deaters.

being of particular interest in view of

last August her intention of pressing Under a special Parliamentary on to China's antimony mines. Bill, the Government's export -It is under-text that the Gemma credits guarantee department is Government was a contender against

the British interests for the purchase authorised to dispose of an addi-- of the wolfram slocks in Honthong, tional £10,000,000, and it is au- Honkong elly eircles do not be thoritatively learned that most lieve that the British trees wi

Incan that wolfram has been of this may be made available "cornered", although the Pekin for Chinese purchases. Syndicate an undoubtedly demand a Letter price thr that previously offered by German or other compell- tore.

STILL REACHES COLONY Despite conditions prevailing in Kwangtung, the cre is still able to

WAR SUPPLIES

The Bill allows credits to be used for arms and munitions, in addition iv peaceful commodities.

thut However, it is understood China's desire for British planes and

Teach Hongkong by various and anti-aircraft Kuns has inct

devious routes, and it is stated that ore to the amount of 25 to 30 tons can be obtained here at any time for immediately delivery.

Independent merchants have, it is understood, access to about 300 tons per month outside the total controlled by the Chinese National Resources Committee.

Owing to the Pekin

coup,

Syndicate's

demand for the tre at current prices is not strong.

"Reuter" states that the opinion in London is

That reports that the Chinese are producing ore in ureas which have passed under Japanese control are believed to be erroneous. The belief is also expressed that transport to Hongkong will probably prove difficult.

Tientsin Barricadesments wiil range from 20 sen ation of long-range dying. Reulered

THE

to several yen. Chinese women are receiving no LONDON, Mar. 2. more consideration than their men- 'GOVERN- folk in the present Japanese drive, BRITISH

they are

being as thoroughly

PRINCE FRANZ JOSEPH SEES HITLER

Berlin, Mar. 2. Prince Pranz Joseph of Llechten-

MENT has instructed its Consul-searched by Japanese sentries as the Remembering that the crew hay Moving the second rending in the General in Tientsin to lodge a mules. Some of them can often be to spend about four months of each Dail of the Offences Against the protest with the Japanese seen forced to emply their pockets stein arrived today and was received year aboard the ice-breaker in the State Bill, designed to deal with the authorities against the erection for Rspection.

at the Chancellery by Herr Hitler, Arctic circle, the Soviet shipbuilders

ers Irish Republican Army,

pald

modation.

Mr.

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between the Prince's Prime Minister and Germion officiuls--Reuter,

in

In order to cope with the increas- It is understood they discussed at Nikolaev, on the Black Sea, have Rutledge, Minister of Justice, said of barbed wire fences, charged

particular attention to the that it was well-known that the with electricity, around the ing demand, transportation facilities purely private inatters, leaving talics provision of comfortable ecom-IILA, possessed arms, and were international Concession.

In the elty are to be considerably in- pf an economile nuture to take place

creased in the near future. It is stated that similar pro- Some of the Hving rooms aboard trained to use urins, and got meney

RICKSHAW MONOPOLY the versel are specially heated, from outside the country.

tests have been made by the

The only bus Spacious dining saloons and rending The country was quiet now, bat United

company now States

French and rooma ensure comfort that is seldom in view of past history, and certain

operation, a Sino-Japanese concern, vehicles on the streets for the con-

already

Several venience of the public. engaged soon in non-passenger earrying evidence they had, it might not governments,

At present there are only about merchant ships.

remain quiet, and whilst the Govern- The British Consul has also been foreigners to help increase its neet of Typifying the Russian

Information running buses. The main task of the 1.300 rickshaws serving the entire oment did not fear that force, they instructed to ank music there is a grand piano in one wanted to deal with it should the concerning th... reason for a foreigners is to supervise repair work city.

Hitherto, only one garage has on the numerous damaged machines saloon and an upright piano in the necessity arise.

opened for laziness, but owing to the craw's reading room.

Iteporis froni Tientsin have evented in the city. The muster" of

At the same time, four hongs en-high tariff of $5 per hour, very few the ice-breaker. They would permit nobody to use a certain amount of nervousness in Captain Nikolaev, who has been on force to secure political or social political circles, which believe i joying a monopoly of the rickshaw people use its curs. Several many Polar expeditions, new the aims, and the Bill was aimed at pre-possible that the alleged flight of business, are taking steps to comply taxi companies, however, are said to Into Sr Ernest Shackleton, nt venting the country from drifting certain anti-Japanese elements into with the order of the Peace Preserva-be preparing for early operation Archangu.

into civil war.--Reuter.

(Continued on Page 4)

tion Commitice to place

more Reuter,

love

measure.

for

re-

other

No More Czech Arms For Russia

Prague, Mar. 2. Arms and munitions are not allow- to leave Czecho-Slovakin for Soviet Russin after April 1, accord- ing to reliable information.

Czecho-Slovakia is at present send- ing supplies to the Soviet under con- tracts concluded before September Inst.

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with

difficulties owing to Britain's own re- armament.

Nevertheless, conversations between Armaments factories are working at great pressure day and night, and the Chinese Covertiment's purchasing even on Sundays, in order to All the commisson and the export credits contracts as completely as possible deponent and manufacturera en- Reuter.

visage the sale of machinery and tools which China can

to produce war materials.

Mrs. Harrison Passes Away

use

CONTRACT THIS WEEK The first contract under the original £500,000 is likely to be sigmed this The many friends in Hongkong of week. The purchases include lorries.. Mrs. W. G. Harrison will learn with Chinese circles antelpate ut least regret of her death: which occurred at | an expansion of the present credit, 1.30 p.m. to-day at the Queen Mary the bulk of which would be used to Hospital.

purchase rails for the Yunnan-kirana Mrs. Harrison was well-known and rallway.

It is reliably stated that Chinu will popular in the Colony. Her husband

the Jan member of the Senior. Clerlent benent fram

enlarged export and Accounting-Staff of the Civil credit department funds before the Service. He la store supervisor in Balkan and Scandinavian countries.

-United Prest. the Police Department,

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