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March 15, 1940...

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H.K. V.D. C. TRAINING

The following special ILK.V.D.C. Notice relating to HK.V.D.C. Train ing in April was issued this after-

AIDON.

Certain members of Units of H.KV.D.C, are required to take part; in Training Exercises on dates and at times as shown below:

1st Battery: 5 pm. Thurs, 11th Apr to 3.39 a.m. Fri. 12th.

2nd Battery: 5 p.m. Wed, 10th Apr. to 0.30 .m. Thurs, 11th Apr.

3rd Battery: 4.30 p.m. Wed, 10 Apr. to 8.30 a.m. Thurs. 11th.

4 Battery: 5 pan. Tues. 9th Apr, to 8.30 an. Wed. 10th

Apr. 5th A. A. Battery: 5 p.m. Wed. 100; Apr. to 8.30 a.m. Thurs. 11th Apr.

Certain Field Coy Engineers: periods between 8th and 12th April. As detalled on Corps Signals: Tues. Uth or Wed, 10th or Thurs. 11th April from 2

12 pm. to 7

to 7.30 p.m. Company: 2 p.m. Wed, 10th Apr. to

to 2.30 p.m. Wed, 10th Apr. No. 2 Company: 2 Thurs. 11th

p.m. Apr. to 7.30 p.m. Thurs. 11th Apr.

No. 3 Company: 3 p.m. Wed, 10th Apr to 7.30 p.m. Wed. 10th Apr. No. Company: p.nl.

No.

Apr.

AGAINST OFFICIAL

THE HAGUE, Mar. 14 (Reuter).-M. Van Hoeven, a high official of the Ministry of Social Affairs, was placed |on trial here to-day on a charge of supplying shipping secrets to Germany. The case is being heard in camera.

His wife and another official, M. Buve of the Ministry of Economics, are accused of com-1 plicity.

It is alleged that Buve procured the documents which form a basis for the case,

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for-

The Minister of Justice ins hidden any publication of the pro- ceedings in Holland,

It is known, however, that the Public Prosecutor demandement for tence of two years imprisonment for Buve and one year for Mes Van Hoeven,

S'hai Dock Strike

900 Chinese Workers Down Tools

SHANGHAI, Mar. 13 (Reuter). Labour trouble. Inred it the slug

to 9.30 p.m. Tuen. Fus, 9th Apr. No. 5 Company: 2 p.m. Thurs, 11th Apr. to 7.30 p.m. Thurs. 11th Apr.

Company: 2 No.

p.. Wed, 10th Wed, 10th Apr, 7.30 No. 7 Company: the 9th Apr. to 7.30 p.m. Tucs. 9th Apr, ¡Apr.

2. Ofeers, and cerned will be individually instruct-hands ed to attend and it is requested that Heads Departments and Em-

of ployers give them every possible facility to do so for

this short period.

Gambling Den Raided

19 People Arrested In Village Rd. House

Police raided what they described as a professional gambling school at No. 41 Village Read, ground floor, Happy Valley, about 5 o'clock yester day afternoon, and arrested 10 peo- ple, who were charged before Mr. Sheldon at the Central Magletracy this morning.

Lo Po-chun, 48, charged with keeping

widow, was the premises

as a common gaming house, but she failed to appear and her ball of $250 was estreated.

Had To Break Down Door The other eighteen, people, the majority of whom were women and young girls, were charged with gam- bling.

Only three answered the charge and were fined $10 each. The remainder each forfeited ball of $20.

Volunteers con- when a large crew of Chinese dock / Vet.-Sgt. V. Morrison said $0 was

Public Trial Of Young Continues

TOKYO, March 15 (Domel)-The public trial of Mr. James R. Young. For Eastern Manager of the Inter- ational News Service and the King's Feature Syndicate, on charges of violation of

of the Army Criminal Code, ጊዜ

resumed at the Tokyo District Court at 10.30 o'clock this morning.

Special attendants included

Mr. Yamazaki, Secretary of the Foreign Office, Inspector Takahashi of the Metropolitan Pollec. Mr. Turner, Secretary of the American Embassy, Mrs. Young, and a friend of the de- fendant.

Mr. iwasaki, former president of the Tokyo Gas Company, continued ls testimony regarding the personal career of the necused. The pro- ceedings were closed to the public.

Yen (Officially) Reaches Record TOKYO, Mar. .15 (Doinel) Japanese

morning currency this scared to a new high in its quotation against Pound Sterling as a result of continuous decline In

the

Anglo-American cross-rate,

the

The quotation this morning stood at is: 31 d., the highest since Decem- ber, 1932 when the Yen exchange rate in terms of Pound Sterling mounted..10.193f2d....

Silver Issue Near Settlement

TOKYO, Mor.

10 (Domel); Domei learns from authoritative sources that a final understanding regarding the longstanding Tientsin silver issue has been reached as the) result of the conversations this morning between Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, and Mr. Masayuki Tani, the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs.

hal Dockyards Limited yesterday

up from the gaming tables, prevented the Norwegian The amount was small, he said, be steamer, Fernmoor, from sailing by cause the Police had to spend some time breaking down the door before rioting.

The flat was a Three Russian employees of the they could enter. Company were badly beaten up, and professional dice school continually on the move, and had been difcult were removed to hospital.

The quick appearance of nearly to trace: 100 Police saved the situation from

The gambling gear was confiscated

seriousness and restored complete by order of the Court, order,

Last night all was quiet with 900 dock hands on strike.

Soldier Charged With Theft

Told Police False Story

the

Rescued after he had tried to com mit suckle by jumping into kiwal Adams, 22, soldier of the harbour from Holt's Wharf, Chan 2nd Ball. Royal Scots was remanded Fuk-chang, 23, told the police that until to-morrow in military custody, he was pushed into the sea níter when he appeared before Mr. Hims- being rubbed of $51, worth at the Kowloon Magistracy As a result of this story, Chan this morning, charged with the lar-appeared before Mr. Himsworth at

ceny of $170 from a seaman, Leif the Kowloon Magistracy this morn Hage, residing at the European int and was charged with giving Y.M.C.A.

false Information to the police,

Adams pleaded not guilty, Hear- Defendant was bound over for $20 ing was fixed for 11 a.m. to-morrow. to be of good behaviour for one year.

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