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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 12, 1939.

LATE NEWS Boy Drowned Baby Lost

Tragic End To Paddle

In Storm Water

THOUSANDS of water on a hill in Hunghom yes-

WATCH FUNERAL

City Traffic

Is Stopped

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Unprecedented scenes wero wil nessed in the city this afternoon when the funeral procession mourning the death of Detective Wan Mag, hero of last week's Lee Yuen Street gun fight between Chinese police officers and armed robbers, wended its way from West Point to the scene of the crime Detective Wan Man was fatal- wounded.

65 Years

NEW YORK. CURLY-HAMED Charlie Ross was

At least one of six small Chinese boys who went swimming in a prolj terday was drowned. The boy is ba-kidnapped In German-town, Pennsy lleved to have been Ching Ngau, vanla, when he was four years old. oged 12.

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That wa sixty-five years ago.

Recently Gustav Blair. About 50 feet in diameter and very deep in some pinces, the pool, haired, seventy-year-old carpenter, on a side above the Bunghom was colly recognised as the same Police Station, is fed by water flow-Carlie Ross by Maricopa County

Superior Court. Ing from higher levels, and the re- cent heavy rain had deepened it con-his abductors demanded £4,000 ran- When Charlie Ross was kidnapped siderably.

som, but the child was never re- About noon six young Inds, includ- turned. ing Ching, climbed the hill to swim During the long years since hun- in the pool.

After playing in the dreds of people claimed they were water for a while, Ching is bellev-the kidnapped child. ed to have wandered out of his depth, got into dimculties, and

drowned.

Whether any attempts to rescue him were made is at present un- known, for his companions ran away and had not been traced last night. Another of the boys was reported missing, but only one body was re- covered from the pool.

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Thousands of Chinese silently Uned Des Voeux Road and jammed the street from the Western Market to Lee Yuen Street

All traffle

was suspended us the long procession, which was headed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. C. G. Perdue, slowly proceeded from the dead detective's house in Centre The constable on discovering what Street to the heart of the city.

had happened reported to the Hung- Following tlie Commissioner of home Pollce Station and the body of

Assistant Superinten-Ching was inken l'olice were

from the water. dents of Police W. La B. Sparrow, Enquiries were immediately made as

as to the youth's identity.

G. 5. Wilson and L. A. Searle, Director well as the Assistant

of Criminal Investigation, Mr. F. W. Shafiain.

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PET ROCHESTER, N. H.

A cold snap gave Mr. and Mrs. The Pollec are "ow attempting to Oliver Kidder a new pet. A baby trace the remainder of the boys who muskrat which had evidently wan- Two hundred Chinese constables, were with Ching when the accident dered from the Cocheco river was together with 10 European officers.

found huddled against a cellar win- and 20 Indian colleagues also follow-

dow trying to get warm. ed the corlege.

After Uie procession had reached. Lee Yuen Street, where Detective Wan Man was fatally wounded, it turned back and proceeded to Pok- fulam, where the interment took place.

Franco-British Unified Command

London, June 12.

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A unified command of British and French forces on land and sea in the event of war is believed to assured 15 J result of General Gamelin's talks with the British! General staff,

Although no official announcement has been made regarding the talks well informed circles express the belief is now certain that the French and British armies would come under the supreme command of a French General and the French and British navies under the supreme command of a British Admiral. Franco-British consultations

arc

now being held in the Firth or Forth where a great meeting between the British and French naval foreca is now under way.-United Press.

Ancestral Tomb Hit By Bombs

Shanghai, June 12. The ancestral tomb of Mr. Fu Slao- en. Mayor of the Japanese fostered. special municipality was hit by bombs during a raid by seven Japan- ese planes over Chinghai, east Che- klang on June 10, according to Chin- ene reports.

Over ten bombs were said to have) been dropped, resulting in the des! Iruction of over 50 houses.-Reuter.

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GUNPLAY IN KOWLOON Three Men Charged With

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Ya Sang is also charged with possession of 10 rounds of ammuni

on and breach of the deportation

ordinance. Lal You is additionally charged with unlawful. possession of 45 rounds of ammunition and an au-] tomatic pistol.

Several Offences. Alleged to have been concerned in the robbery and shooting, affray. In

In the robbery charge the men are Shanghal Street two weeks ago, Tsang San, 32, La! Yuan, 31, and alleged to have stolen 10 gold finger rings, 75 gold banglos, 12 gold neck- You Sang, 12, appeared before Mr chains, seven pairs of gold 'car-rings Q. A.. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon and 21 gold ornaments. Magistracy on Saturday charged with armed robbery.

-Thong Son and You Sang were committed for trial on the breach of Tsang is also charged with shoot the Deportation Ordinance chargen. ing with intent to murder L/Sergeant They are life-banistices,........ On-the Cillford Popo; shooting with intent other charges they were remanded to malm, disfigure or disable Ser- for a week, on the application of geant Pope, or in order to resist law Sergeant Pope, 1 fut arrest; unlawful possession of arms and ammunition; and breach of

the Deportation Ordinance.

Sergeant, H. W.) Jackson, Swai) in charge of the banishen proceedings

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