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Shai Bankers Urged To Speak Grievances

FROM PAGE ONE

September 4, 1941.

BULGARIA

APES REICH QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHE SOFIA, Sept. 3 (UP),—A special cession of the Scbronjë aponed to-

selves in a position to re-sell on the day with the announcement of an open market.

: Confusion In Rates Finance and Cominerce" continu- cd: "Some confusion though seems to have arisen regarding the

The story of a retired merchant tricked into placing $400 / in the-. hands of a fortune-teller to find a treasure of $1,000,000 hidden under 다 well by one of his, the merchant's ancestors, was told at Central Magis tracy before Mr H. G. Sheldon, M.C.; this morning.

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priety of an authorized bank quoting official aid unofficial bank rates al the same time. The Hongkong Bank

expansion in the laws for the defence the nation into the most severe form yet which will be on to- morrow's agenda.

One of the proposed clauses rends, "Any Bulgar who in time of war either In Bulgaria or abroad, brond- casts against the Bulgarian Govern- ment or who expresses himself: in favour of a foreign Power, and

banks vacillated and changed the sprends facts damaging to the unity

a

Fung Pak-cheung allar Fung Tak- kept to the official rates while other shun, 04, fortune-teller, and Wong

polley. allas Wang Chuen-fook, 24, "Naturally unemployed were charged with inr-Board randed omical rates for

the Stabilisation ceny by trick of $400 from Wal Kwan-to, 53, retired merchant, of wide range of goods with the pri- No. 47 Robinson Road, second floor, mary object of maintaining trade in those goods and prohibiting the im- Upper Levels, and with fortune telle part of everything not on the offelal

Det-Sergeant John Bentley stated list, the position would be

enough. However, It can he stated that

on July 28 Complainant' saw a

very definitely that members of the fortune teller named Ng Man-pa in Stabilisation Board have not Peel Street, to whom he paid $2.50. studied the situation sufficiently to be Ng advised Complainant to go to able to draw a dividing line between Arst Defendant for a fuller reading the wanted and unwanted imports. of his future. Complainant met

ing.

Fung on August 3

30 and by arrange-

Exchange Scarcity

clear

ye!

and peace of the Bulgarian people or spreads reporta derogatory to the good name of the Bulgarian national Government, will be condemned to death."

ment had a consultation with e It was pointed out last week that

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the following day, for which he paid importers of newsprint, tobacco, etc., The Senate to-day approved the on the tax bill $13.50, F Fung told Complainant that could not obtain exchange at the surtax proposals he had been a magistrate and had official rates and that if there had ranging from six per cent, on the ordered the killing of two innocent been no open market they would not first dollar of taxable income to 17 TO-MORROW! BETTE DAVIS in

Manuel per cent. on incomes above five people in his previous existence and have been able to obtain exchange

millions fee of $105 would be needed to and trade would have reased; fur-

Corporation surtaxes represent a clear him that stain. Complainant thermore it the publle utilty com- paid the fee.

panies get no oficial rates for coal new kind of levy.

Senator Robert Lufollette asked for From Wealthy Family

nd steam charters "how" electricity can be provided withoutnud obtained a postponement of con- Continuing, the Sergeant gold that coal and without exchange to pay for sideration of the proposed reduction

Complainant that Fun foll

ecoat dues not appear to have been personal income tax exemption for (Complainant) had been extremely taken into conskleration by those single persons to $750 and married wealthy in a previous ueneration nod

couples. to $1,500. The Schale that a treasure of $1,000,000 left by who adopt the attitude that the open

market is de coured."

the objects of the accepted an ainendment permitting an ancestor was hidden under a well, Stabil

Stabilisation

taxpayers small

whose Income the location of which could be ascer

"Finance and Commerce" urges exceeds $3,000 per year to ilc tained for a t

for a fee of $50. He also want that "an open market operation side speelt returns to be computed from ed Complainant to burn 100,000 loss by side with the official market is im- a ready made Treasury chart," sticks, and to buy a "guld drop" toperative and there is no ostensible appease the soldiers guarding the reason why exchange should not well. This Complainant did. Later engage in both" Defendant wanted him to ralse, $3,000

Departures For H.K. to attract the hidden fortune. Com- plainant said he had only $400

Referring to the departure from nbie aut gave the moncy to Defen-Shanghai to Hongkong of Mr Taylor, American representative on the dant, The money was placed in a Stabilisation Board, Mr J. A. Mackay handkerchief, and by a trick some bogus notes were substituted for the of the National City Bank, and Mr was to have received his wings this

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of the real ones. Complainant was told to fin

Chartered week. "Finance and Commerce" The father attended the son's fun- Innic keep the handkerchief unopened but

e opened it found that presentatives will engage in later when he

the Shanghal hupes that the

banking re- cral and pinned the Croix de Guerre

some on the tunle of the dead airman. he had been tricked,

Complaint in evidence stated in speaking" in Hongkong. that he had been greatly overcome should suffer in silence or why the

There is no reason why Shunghal Spaniards Released by the death recently of his only Stabilisation Board having bungled son and that was why he consulted the job, should not be informed of the fortune teller to find what was the fact." in store for him,

Both Defendants denied the allega- tions of larceny by trick. First De- fendant admitted the fortune telling but second Defendant denied this,

Finding Arst Defendant guilty on both charges Mr Sheldon fined him $250 or two months on the first, and $50 or two weeks on the second, the sentences, in default, to run con- secutively. Second Defendant was fined $100 or six weeks on the lar ceny count and discharged on the fortune telling count.

Violent Battles In Progress

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the Germans had command of the coastline with bombers being based in few minutes flight away.

Authoritative quarters to-day did not know the position of the Eston- and Oosel which

Cripps Encourages People Of Russia

FROM PAGE ONE

was so blinded by his own lust for power that he could not recognise the gallant strength of the

Red Army, Navy und Air Force; now with the flower of his army stricken on Soviet Innd and thousands of his tanks and aeroplanes reduced lo scrap, he must look with ever- growing fear at the amounting torees of the enemy whom he once de spised.

R.A.F. Attacks

"In the west, too, night after night, and day after day an ever increasing force of British planes, rains down destruction on the Industries of

Belgian Killed

LONDON, Sept. 3 (British Wire- An RAF pilot Jean Max Gutt, son of M. C. Gutt, the Belgian Minister of Defence, has been killed in action during a night flight. He

MADRID, Sept. 3 (Reuter).-The Cabinet at its first meeting since the summer vacation agreed to give pro-i visional liberty to 5,157 prisoners.

Fines totalling 1,000,000 pesetas have been imposed on three busi- nessmen for infractions of the low; regulating prices and the sale of primary foodstuffs.

BATAVIA, Sept. 3 (Reuter).-The French Consulate-General here will be closed very shortly, it is fearned. The Acting Consul-General, M. Gassouin, will leave for another post

the Pacific area. The Vice Consul, M. Detric, is leaving.

In

LATE NEWS

European Revenue Officer Charged

Germany in occupied territories, and Allegations that Revenue Ofcer he has encountered more and more C. J. E. Scott, together with two dimeulties as the peoples of those Chinese revenue officers, Fok Man- -are-alsa -most--

-chung-and-Fok---Yung-chun,--had the Gulf of Finland, or Valtiski, the ous resistance to his domination,

to obtain money from cer- Baltic base, which

constizens of Ilongkong by means the Germans "Arrayed against him now stand tain claimed to have captured some time side by side two of the greatest na- of extortion and also to bave ago and whose Joss the Russians tions of the world-Great Britain demanded money by menaces were have never admitted. All of these and the Soviet Union, backed by made this afternoon in the Kowloon affect the Red fleet's position. the gallant forces of their allies, by Magistracy, when the three

Finnish Claims

the hopes of tens of millions of I were

lon Islands , valuable-for-control-of lands put-up-stubborn and courage-20

eleven Soviet planes and captured Effects Of Economic

were prosecuted.

men

HELSINKI, Sept. 3 (UP)—To- | Europeans, and by the almost in- Inspector R. Cunningham is for the day's communique says there were exhaustible resources of the Ameri- prosecution while Mr M. A. da Silva air battles on the eastern front yes can continent."

the three Defendants. terday in which Finnish fighters and

Or Cunningham in outlining the care said there were three oc- anti-aircraft guns brought down

casions when divans were raided, assaults were reade on some of the while endeavours were made inmates, by the Defendants to obtain money from the owners of the divans upon promises of taking no further netlon against them.

two on the ground on the Karelian Isthmus. There were по Finnish

losses.

Nazis Admit They

War On Reich

►FROM PAGE ONE

AL 12.30 a.m. on August 10, the

Are Up Against It pre-occupations. Oil, rubber, tex- Defendants took a taxi to an address

FROM PAGE ONE

had prevented the Luftwaffe from giving full support to the nitac' against Leningrad.

Unimaginable Hardships The Nazi Propaganda. Company declared that the German

troop were suffering unimaginable" hard. ships. The weather is dreadful, the lack of food is very hard to be while the Russians are

attackini without pause.

The report added, "But our boy' can stand it, because they must ston it. They have only one hope tha help will come soon.”.........

MR CHURCHILL TO BROADCAST

les, some ferro-alloys and non-in Shanghai Street which was on ferrous metals and vegetable oloplum divan and asked for the master nre European, not only German, de pointed out another man, Ho Sum as of the place. A man, Leung Wing ficiencies. No amount of prepare the master, and it is alleged that the tion or ingenuity, say the experts, con get round that fact though in Sum was then taken to

Defendants assaulted Leung, Ho

the

taxi, some cases the Germans con in- eroase European production or syn notes and also broke some articles in while defendants took away two $10 thelle capacity, thereby making their the divan. Defendants took Ho Sum problems. ones of labour and nd- ministration as much as of

to Younati and First Defendant then supply. In this connection too, the Russian

sald he would be arrested, but that mpaign.. is of great importance. If the European Omeer to excuse Ho

If he would pay $100 he would ask is reducing. German stacks

liat time. He pleaded he did not. Tubber and other raw materiale, i

have the money and First Defendant cphasises the diffeulty of rans-

hen asked him for $20 which Ho art which is among Germany's most

ald over and Ho was then released. ous problem in the

economic

At 2.45 am. the three Defendants exploitation of blockaded Europé and above all, it is draining German look a taxi

to another address in manpower the full strength of which divan and there saw the master, Lo Shanghai Street which was an opium Chi.

serious

oli,

is required not only to maintain the armies of occupation in Europe but took him to Scott who was sitting inf First and Second Defendants so to grow food which Europe cannot import and mino conlte the taxi and

and they drove tr Laichikok, where Second Defendant asked: Lo make synthetic oil and rubber.

Manpower And Transport for $50, threatening that if he did

Summing up, the, experts say that

Hon, but these are only the outcomes

in

edit

'SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH" NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (UP),—The

not pay it he would go to gaol, Lo said he

he had no money but would "United Press" listening port to-day heard London radio report, that it the effects of the blockade are at borrow it and he was taken, to a

Canton Street

ho Where will broadcast speeches by Mr present seen most clearly in the house Winston Churchfil, and Mr Mackenzie Garman dijculties with regard to obtained the $50 and handed It over on Friday at 7.30 a.m. E.S.T. (9.30 of Germany's supply difficulties Defendants in an opium divan In King, the Canadian Prime Minister manpower, transport and administra- to the Second Defendant.

At 1.50 a.m. a vial. was paid by the p.m. Friday, Hongkong time).

which will rapidly increase If their Hong Luk Street, where the present rate of material expenditure-

cildants staged a raid,

taking four ȘI maintained.

otes and some heroin pills.

Cled Datendant túld" the master, Lum Kal that if he would give $150 he would get the European officer to excuse him. Lum sald, he had no

Twenty Convictions Of One-Armed Chinese

The most striking evidence of ine Storkade's effectiveness comes from a German source, the economist a one-arm Chinese, Ngal Fat, 30, Josef Winschuh, who wrote in the

Convicted for the twentieth time,

was sentenced to six months', hard ""Deutsche Allgemeine Zeltung" on

De-

assaulted him and smashed Even lamps.

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