1940-12-24 — Page 22

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Raids by armed men were made on bank branches and sub- post offices in Belfast recently, A policeman and a woman wure wounded.

Old-age pensioners were in Fallsroad Sub-Post Office draw- ing their pensions when four) men armed with revolvera enter- ed. Others were stationed out- side. Mr Charles Lough, the sub- postmaster, said that one of the men stated: "We are the J.R.A. Don't scream. We want the money." They took about £800 from the till.

Less than 200 yards away £800 WAS stolen from the Falls-road

branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank, Threo men entered the banki and ordered the staff to kneel while they raided the ills. The Falls-road branch of the National Bank was also entered and about £200 taken,

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Two men were seen to hurry out of the bank carrying a sub-machine- gun. The others were armed with revolvers. Two policemen appented

and a good deal of shooting followed. During a raid on Edenderry Sub- Post Office, in the Crumlin-road dis- trict, Miss Davidson, the subposumis- tress, was shot in the arm.

December 24, 1940.

AMERICAN OBSERVERS New York City Fire Chief Daniel A. Deasy, Fireman George T. J. Scott and Chief Frod Wodomayor inspect firo apparatus at London headquarters. Thoy were sant to study fire-prevention methods in warfare.".

STABBED DETECTIVE AFTER STEALING BICYCLE

A sentence of 12 months' rigorous imprisonment was im- posed by the Singapore district judge, Mr J. McFall yesterday on a Malay, Jaffar bln Chik, whom he convicted on "the very serious offence" of stabbing a detective with a knife.

On a second charge, of stealing a bicycle belonging to Loh Soo Teng from the Municipal Services Club in Farrer Park Nov. 3, the same day, Jaffar was also convicted, and sentenced

Turkey Would to nine months' rigorous imprisonment.

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At Marlborough Street. Polica Court recently Clive, Edward Grunspan, 22, a gunner In a searchlight unit of the Royal Artillery, was charged before Mr J. B.. Sandbach, K.C., with being in the unlawful posses- sion of a War Department puss, and with being an unauthorised person wearing the Order of the British Empire and the Military Medal ribbons, the Distinguished Service Order, the Military Cross, and the Croix de Guerre.

It was stated by the police that on October 5 Grumpan entered a shop In High Street, Marylebone, wearing the uniform of an Army. major, with the decorations, dis- played on his breast, and a staff officer's cap.

He represented to the shopkeepes that he was collecting money for the purchase of mittens for soldiers and was in command of the anti-aircraft section in that division. The shop- keeper collected 4a. 6d. and gave It to him, but after he became suis- picious and spoke to a flight licuten- ant in the R.A.F., who challenged Grunspan as to his right to wear the Service clothes and ribbons:

Had Taken Pass

Grunspon produced a pass Issued to Major C. E. Grusspan, of the

War Office, "for the purpose of in- vestigation." Later, however, he confessed that he had taken the pass: from the regimental sergeant-major's office at his camp. The flight lieuten- ent was not satisfied and called the pollee, with the result that Grunspun was arrested.

the police he

A year's police supervision is managed to get past them, and run to follow the terms of imprison-away. Chasing him, they cornered ment, whith are consecutive. him in Buyong Road, but in the re-

sulting

In a statement to struggle he drew out a knife The story told in court was that and stabbed one of the detectives, said that at the time of his arrest Syrian leaders are assured of Loh Soo Teng, a clerk employed by Low Foong, inflicting a wound in his he was dressed in the blue patrols the Municipality, left his bicycle in- back half-an-inch long and two of a major of the Royal Regiment the full support of Iraq and Tur-side the club at 3.45 pm. on Nov. inches deep, which kept him in hos-of Artillery, with decorations. key in resisting Axis efforts to 3. When he came out of the club pital for 12 days. occupy Syria and the Lebanon, threequarters of an hour later the In his defence Jaffar denied steal-been detained for the offence of according to reports from usually

bicycle had disappeared.

ing the bicycle and stabbing the de-obtaining clothes of a rank other reliable Damascus sources.

This in

the result of Turkish-Arab rapprochement efforts, in the face of their common danger, cables the "News Chronicle" speciul corres- pondent in Cairo.

It is also, apparently, the outcome of the Iraq Foreign Minister's visit to M. Sarajoghu, Turkish Foreign

Minister.

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