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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Capital Charge

Dynamite From A.R.P. Tunnels

May 15, 1941.

CHEKIANG FIGHTING REPORTS

CHUNGKING, May 14 (Cen- tral News)-Fighting south of. Thirty-seven sticks of dynamite There was a sequel to the stab- hing affray which occurred in Lock were brought into the Central Magia Chuki on the Choklang-Kiangal hart Road, Wanchal, on Tuesday tracy this morning by Dot. Sergeant Railway increased in violence afternoon when Ho San-chun, alias W. Morrison when he charged two yesterday...

on ARP. tunnel About 3,000 Japanese troops, Tat-wan, 20, unemployed cook- men employed boy, was charged by Dot-Inspector work, Chan Slu, 24, with the theft making a thrust toward Hongshan- Whant before Mr H. G. Sheldon, K.C., of 19 silcks and Chan Chl, 23, with shih, to the east of the railway were at Central Magistracy

this morning the theft of 18 at the No. 10 tunnel held in check by the Chiness to the

site in murder of Làm Chung

Ping Street, Wanchai, northwest of the town. Another 3,000 with the Wanchai, on Tuesday.

chuen outside No. 420 Lockhart Road, Theant wna Mr C. Tubo-

It will be recalled that in the sight of hundreds of pedestrians a woman was stabbed in the back and stomach and the man who was alleged to have stabbed her is said to have been at- tacked by another man. The injured man died on the way to hospital and the woman is still in a serious condition at the Queen Mary Hospital.

Japanese And Oil Déal

Promoters' Gleam

Some place in the world there

Plway Hoops driving down

the

from Paitowchen werc

gaden, a foreman of Messrs Marsman heavily engaged at Hunan, a station

Cameron to the south, nnd residing at No. 15

After being halted for two days, Road, Kowloon.

Sergeant Morrison said that both the Japanese driving southward from Defendants were employed by Mesara Tsaotal to the west of the railway Marsman and were arrested by the called in reinforcements yesterday foreman who saw them leaving the and advanced to Wangshassu. Th

Chinese retired to Fuchat, south tunnel after work.

Wangshasau where they are holding. out..

On Han River.

Defendants were fined $100 or two months each.

of

Mr Nelson Johnson's on the east banit of the Han River

Tribute To ChinaTM

FROM PAGE ONE

in Hupch the Chinese and Japanese Gre

still Aghting. On the morning c May 12 a Japanese unit sallying forth Fengloho, about 30 miles of Chung- aining, was repulsed. The Chines wrested back Changshoutien, south- cast of Fengloho,

Chinese troops were sent in pur- the suit of the Japanese pushing south-

are some pretty well embar-made in the matter of transportation.

Having recently travelled on rassed Japanese who apparent C.N.A.C. plants between here and ward from the Slangyang-Huayuar. ly were duped by three Ameri- Chungking, I cannot go away with-highway and on May 11 and 12 they cans into making a deal for de-out giving some expression of my evicted the Japanese who had enter

is ed Tangchlatten, Topeition livery of $25,000,000 worth of admiration of how the service

The Japanese retreated carried on. It is being operat-Tsingtam. being oil to Japan, reports the New ed in a very efficient way," the Am-to Huantamchen, northwest of Sul-

bassador sold. York Paper, "P.M."

hsien, where the Chinese are closing

If the US. Government charges ure correct, the three men made the

biot tremendous deal through a existent company, got the Japanese to cost $130,000 in advance, got them to send a tanker to Houston at cost of $20,000 and there lead them Into finding that no one in Texas had ever heard of the men, the com-

ever ne pany or the oil.

Not

with burning up the content Japanese, the American promoters alse had nebulous plans for selling similar Actitious oll to England aud France. They nurtured and closed the denis

trans- with expensive oceanic telephone calls made frem the chambers of a New York judge now dead. New York City is said to have paid about $6000 in tells and local charges.

Only one of the men hus been ar- raigned and he was held in $6000 ball.

Shot Before Wedding

Captain Péter Watkinson, of

Walton-on-the-Naze doctor, was

The Loyal Regiment, son of a

recently injured in a shooting

accident only an hour before his marriage and died in the Kent and Sussex Hospital at Tun- bridge Wells.

He was explaining to his host and hostess the mechanism of a revolver when shot rang out and he collapsed with a wound in the chest.

kn

hera. al-

Regarding his stay in Chinn, Mrin. Johnson said: "China has been a second home to me. I was married here, my sons were born here, and I

friends leaving many Under such circumstances, one ways feels one is breaking ties that are very close.

"As to the future, I am looking for- ward to

in! Joining my family

Australia Washington, and later to where I have been before."

cd

Visited Australia

Big Cargoes Of Petrol Apprehended

Lo Kun-yau. 46, steersman of a Bghter was charerd before Mr D. J.

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Mr Johnson revealed that he visit. N. Anderson at Kowloon Magistracy

Australla in 1025 when

he this morning.with attempting to ex- an port 2,000 tins of petrol at Sulphur SATURDAY "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante" spent three months there on inspection tour of the consulates. He Channel on May 14.

Sergeant Innes sald that De- had been in China for 12 years.

was stopped nt Asked about the Chinese Govern fendant's lighter ment decision to send a Minister to Sutohur Channel and the petrol was found on board. Defendant admitted

for sale Australia, Mr Johnson said he was

forward with a great deal of that the petrol

Cheungchau, casure

having

Chinese 1

Another Case collengue with him in Australia at his new post.

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For attempting to export 4,000 tins Cheungchau. Cheung The retiring Ambassador conclud-of petrol to

ed by saying that he had the greatest Kau, 39, steersman of a lighter was admiration for the distinguished fined $750 by Mr Anderson. tendership of China during the war Cheung's lighter was stopped at years, and he was fully confident of Enst Lam Chapel by the future of China,

patrol launch on Tuesday.

Hess Had Written To Duke Of Hamilton

>>FROM PAGE ONE

21 Police

Mr H. L. Kwan pleaded guilty.on behalf of Defendants in both cases.

Hawkers And

Cholera

Eight food-stall keepers were fined hands of the British security authori- $10 each by Mr H. C. Macnamara at ties and no reply was made to Hess. Kowloon Magistracy this morning for The Duke had met Hess on one failing to have boiling water to wash or two occasions before the war in utensils, before and after use: At the time 100 guests had ussem-connection with sporting matters in! It was said that

cholers many bled at Ticchurst Church, where he which both were Interested.

enses could be traced back to how- Hess is alleged to

to have said that kers who foiled to was to have been married to Miss

wash their Esine McKenzie Ticehurst.

when the Duke was the Marquess of utensils. Douglas and Clydesdale he knew him well and that he had flown to Scot- land and made his estate his objec- tive as he had valuable information to give to the Duke..

London Doctors

Lack Work

Many medical men are discovering that there is not sufficient work for them to do in London.

Dr Halliday Sutherland, assistunt medical officer to the L.C.C., inakes this comment,

writing to the British Medical Journal' about the decision to admit overseas doctors temporarily to the medical register:

"In the London ares and three of my medical friends with whom I have compared notes complain of lack of work. The authorities will bdd to our discontent if any allen

in

· Useful Information This Information, Hess said, would be of great use to the British overthrowing the tyranny that now prevails in the Reich.

Juvenile Worked

With Thief

Leung Ming. 25, unemployed, and 13-year-old juvenile, were charged before Mr H. C. Macnamara at Kow- loon Magistracy this morning with larceny of $3.60 from Leung Sze, 33, for married

Reclamation

woman,

Hess averred that he had made the most painstaking preparations his flight from Germany. This state-Street near Pitt Street on Tuesday,

Sergeant Whitcroft said that about ment was borne oul by the maps he

on Tuesday, Complainant was had used for navigation, on all of 3 pm on Tues

a hawker from a which the Duke's estates were ringed purchasing vegetables

and when she took out her purse for circle.

came up and payment, the juvenile hit her hand, knocking the purse to the ground, First Defendant then

It was a tribute to Hess' capabilities as & pilot that he should arrive in Scotland and land at a point in such

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by a British doctor in need of em- ployment."

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Launch Converted Without Approval

come up and grabbed the purse, An alarm was Kalsed and Defendants were arrested by passers-by.

First Defendant was sentenced to three months' hard labour and the

juvenile was remanded for 24 hours

For permitting their steam launch, to the Juvenile Court. the Che Sang, to be plying for hire in the harbour on May 9, when the launch was in an unseaworthy and unsafe condition, Cheng Sing and La Fook, the joint owners, were fined $50 each by Cmdr J. Jolly at

Chicken Business

the

Booms In Russia

Soviet authorities decreed recently

Marine Court this monilng a new system for obligatory supply- They were cautioned on a second ing of eggs from forms to the State. charge of having caused structural The object is to stimulate poultry alterations to be made to the launch breeding.

The decree provides that farms without the sanction of the Principal

must deliver at state prices three to Surveyor of Ships.

The launch was deemed unsea-15 eggs yearly for each hectare worthy and unsafe because the ap (2.471 peres) of land, depending upon paratus for converting the launch for the fertility of the region. Such burning oil fuel had been fitted in a deliveries previously have been based manner not approved by the Princi- upon the number of chickens owned pal Surveyor of Ships.

Instead of upon the size of the farm. Defendants said the launch was A similar rule already has been converted into an oil burner owing applied to meat in order to stimulate to the high cost of coal.

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