Foreigner and Chinese Up In District Court The S. M. Police made a successful application in the First Special Di trict Court yesterday for the temporary detention of a foreigner and six Chinese on the ground that there were reasons to believe that they had been concerned in the theft and the receiving of rice stolen from the Bank of China godown and the property of the Nantao Refugee Zone Supervisory Committee. The suspects were Alfred Joseph Daw, aged 26, described by the police as an unrecognized Briton, and Liang Tsoh, shop master. Others were all Cantonese, j (Mr, Paul Y, Ru, Assistant Municipal Advocate, stated that Daw was employed in a refugee camp in Nantao and in charge of 50 piculs of rice. He, however. was alleged to have sold the-rice to the other suspects. Twenty-nine piculs of the rice had been recovered. and were ordered to be held tib The suspects were not questioned
January 18.
Witness then found out the name of the owner of the car registered under the number 10002, who turned out to be the accused in the case. He interviewed ithe accused, and ascertained that he was driving his car in the vicinity of Avenue Foch and Avenue Haig at the time when the accident occurred.
Ac-! cused said that he had not had any trouble with his car from the time he left his home to the time he strived in Szechuen Road. An examination df the car showed that the right front mudguard was dented, and the right front headlight was smashed. Accused stated that the headlight was broken some time ago, but the dent in the mudguard had not been noticed before.
Witness then explained that he was making enquiries into an accident, giving details of the circumstances surrounding the occurrence it, Avenue Foch. Accused replied, "Everything seems to tally, but I don't seem to remember. It is not as if I was drunk."
Mr. Lowe will sum up at the next hearing of the case.
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