1939-04-27 — Page 14

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 27, 1939.

BOY FOILS BANDITS' RAID ON BULLION

FIVE BANDITS WERE FOILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO

STEAL £1,000 IN SILVER BULLION RECENTLY BY RONNIE SMITH, 16-YEARS-OLD RAILWAY EMPLOYEE, OF CHESILTON-ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON,

Until the boy boblied up from street, saw the raiders and raised the¦ behind some boxes in the interior alarm.

of a G.W.R. van parked in Phipp The van driver, E. Lambert, rush- street. Shoreditch, The three-ed out of the railway office and flung minutes raid had worked with an iron ruler at the bandits. dramatic precision.

A small black box van drew along side the railway vellele in the de- serted street after the driver had gone into the G.WR office. The back doors burst open, four men tumbled out. Two carried jemmies, One swung a rubber "cosh" in his handl.

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One of them bolted, the other three jumped back into their stoten von. which was later found abandoned in Garden-walk, 200 yards away.

It was the second attempt to steal silver bullion at the same spot within the past six months.

George Cole, 17-years-old messen- ger, of Cremer-street, London, E., was the only eye-witness. He sold: I thought the men were detectives making an arrest.

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BOMBAY DOUBTS ON PROHIBITION

Bombay,

Though there is no offlelal an- nouncement, it is strongly rumoured that the Government of Bombay finds the task of starting. Proibition on Aug. Impracticable. Postponement 'until April, 1940, is hely.

There have recently been many loud protests at the probable un- employment among the staffs of im- porting firms and hotels ani restaurants

The tank of examining the remendous and unending flow of lorries, cars and bullock carts Into Bombay Island would be no less difficult than watching the thousands of varied amall country craft in the treeks nlong" a ̈ ̃hundred miles vit coastline.

It was recently stated that the Customs, being under the control of the Government of India and not the provincial governments, would not co- operate in enforcing local excise, FLOATING HOTELS

Already tentative schemes have been mooted for floating hotels out- PLOATING aerodromes, visualisedside the three-mile limit off Bombay. I feared that several leading by the pioneers of the Atlantic air

A short services, were planned on paper in hotela, which enjoy, only

tourist senson, would be forced to close in the absence of licences. with substantiul balances would curry While some old-established clubs on, though possibly with fewer daily visitors, others, such as Cricket Club of India, might be forcel

Mr. F. C. Creed, Inventor of the Creed telegraphic system, told me bers of the. Shipbuilders and En- Kineering Institution ut Glasgow recently that 20 years ago he planned the scadromes which are now being considered as part of the Atlantic service.

NAVY WANTS

BIGGER ICES

ICE-CREAM lovers in the Navy had a chilling piece

wore mackintoshes ke of news recently. "Three plain clothes men. Then I saw the weapons they were carrying."

He stood guard at the tallboard of the railway

van. His three com- parlons jumped inside and found Ronnie.

Cornets or whatever their equivalent is on the high seas—- One jumped on him and kept him Ronnie Smith, who was unhurt, will not be made bigger unless the price is also put up, qulet, while the others manhandled said: "The men seemed to come from the 3cwt. box of silver bullion to the nowhere. One sat on me and covered

Sallors had hoped for a bigger. However Fleet orders contain one tallboard, where it slipped and fell to my mouth so that I could not shout. serving at the same price, but Fleet piece of good ice-cream news. the cobbles, one side splitting open. The other two helped to get the orders remark frigidly that this is lable in all large ships of the Home An Ice-cream service will be aval- Another employee from the G.W.R.box to the back of the van. I was office, whicht backs on to Phipp-all over in a few moments."

"not possible."

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NEW ZEALAND ;

LABOUR WANTED FOR HOUSING SCHEME

Auckland

The Minister of Labour, Mr. H. T. Armstrong, stated that over 200 build- Ing operatives left Sydney recently to work under the New Zealand State housing scheme.

Wellington's need for houses y The Importation of skilled labour will more urgent than that of Auckland,

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Shortage of buliding materials, principally timber, is affecting pro- gress, The Government is discuss- ing an increase of output and also the possibilities of kin drying with millowners.

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