was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment by the First Special District Court yesterday on charges of Jarceny.
The accused together with others attended a fire at a paper shop in Honan Road late on Tuesday night. Following their return to Central Station, a complaint was received by the senior officer to the effect that a wallet had been missing from a table in the damaged house and that the table had been hacked by an axe.
Sub-Officer V. D. Wong gathered together the firemen who had attended the outbreak. They were searched and in the pocket of the accused was found a total of $40.90. He pleaded guilty. ancestral graves.
He reiterated Japan's policy of refusing to deal with the Gen. Chiang Kai-shek regime, as announced on January 16; declared that economic ce-operation among Japan, Munchoukuo and China is an important objective of the military operations; and emphasized the vital necessity of reconstructing Japan's economic fabric on the basis of controlled economy by giving preponderance to heavy industries.
"A contest in national resources is now going on between Japan and the Chiang Kai-shek regime but a new epoch will dawn with the establishment of an economic bloc between Japan, China and Manchoukuo following the termination of the present conflict.
"Japan is prepared to fight on against the Chiang Kai-shek administration after its removal into the interior of China, no matter where appreciation of the many services rendered by Mr. Singloh Hsu as member ofthe Shanghai Municipal Council and as Chairman of the Sino-British Trade Council and also of his invaluable services in cementing Sino-British relations, Further resolved that the deep sympathy of this Committee and o the members of the organizations i represents be conveyed to Mrs. Singloh Hsu.
The fall of Hankow now "is only a matter of time," he said; it was difficult to predict, he added, what move the Gen. Chiang Kai-shek administration would make following the capture of Hankow.
"Japan's policy, however, has been fixed since January 16 when the government issued its statement declaring it would cease to deal with the Gen. Chiang Kai-shek administration," Lieut.-Gen. Itagaki declared.
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