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Hongkong can, count itself fortunate that European homes are comparatively safe from burglary. Shanghai's troubles in this respect have become a serious problem"
too common.
These bolts
EVENTS.
Hongkong smiled its most win- ning smile to-day for three wed. dings, two at the Peak and the other in Kowloon,
Apparently the influx of un-position should be such that a desirables as a result of the hand inserted from the outside Chekiang-Kiangsu war has be- to undo the ordinary window! PARREN GRANT come" a serious résult in fastenings, cannot reach the bolt": Shanghai, thefts from European head to unscrew it.
The Peak Church was tastefully households having become by far are easily fitted in the first decorated this morning on the instance and their daily fixing occasion of the marriage of Miss "With the exception of two and removal take a few seconds Dorothy Aima Grant, daughter of perjods Hongkong in this respect only. The Police have personal Mr. and Mrs. L. M. F. Grant, of has been practically immune in experience of the value of this Fccchow, to Mr. J. L. Parren, only recent years. It was either just device in defeating the efforts of son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. H. before the war or shortly after. burglars to open shutters and Parren of Ipswich, the ceremony that the notorious Peak burglar windows so protected.
being conducted by the Rev. H. was at large. But he was soon In the case of windows having Copley-Moyle. A large number brought to book. Early this long sliding bolts operated by a were present. year the number of burglaries handle in the middle, an alterna- The bride who entered the was somewhat alarming, but the tive (but less secure) method is church on the arm of Mr. Gran- efforts of the police have been to fit additional push bolts at the ville Murray, looked charming in rewarded and the number of top and bottom.
a dress of white satin embroidered offences has been reduced "to Although attempts by burglars with silver beads. She carried a to enter foreign dwellings in shower bouquet and wore a tulle Shanghai except by way of veil and orange blossoms. ground floor. or verandah win- She was attended by Miss Bar- tows are rare, the remarks made bara King as bridesmaid, who was above as to the security and suf- daintily attired in pale mauve
normal.
The Shanghai police have found it necessary to refer, in no uncertain terms, to the lack of community spirit among the Chinese.
It has been said of Hongkong at any rate, that the, average Chinese resident will see a neigh- bour robbed and not take the least notice for fear of the conse- quefees. This characteristic has been put down to lack of courage but it is a case where the classical saying-equivalent to "mind your own business-and relating to cleaning one's doorstep of the snow in preference to looking after the frost on a neighbour's roof, should be contradicted.
THINGS TO NOTE-
Major Hilton Johnson, Acting Commissioner of Police at Shanghai, helds that the burgling of foreign houses in Shanghai continues to be an easy and profitable undertaking, largely owing to the failure or re- sidents to take certain obvious precautions which -have peatedly been brought to their notice.
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Several
FATAL CONFLICT.
Europeans Reported. Killed.
Sensational occurrences have taken place at Macao resulting in the deaths, it is feared, of several Europeans, injuries to many others and the probable deaths of several convicto.
1.
The
In the quiet of yesterday morn- On the alarm being sounded, ing, while the Marao residents the main guard turned out and were probably at mass, a mutiny this party, in turn, was fired on broke out in the convitt enclosure by the frenzied convicts. on Cologan Island, which is a result of this second engagement dependency of the Colony of is not known but it is stated that Macac and is under the adminis- some of the guards were also tration of cur sister Colony.
wounded and that four convicts Altogether there were three were shot down, and probably are encounters between the prisoners dead. and the authorities, the former
In the meanwhile, a man had not submitting until the arrival of been despatched to Macao for a gunboat from Macao with a assistance. He is said to have large and adequately armed been a passer-by, a civilian, but force.
--at any
rate his summons for help, by motor boat, was very timely as through it the outbreak was quelled.
As far as can be gathered, there were fifteen convicts who were together and they suddenly turned on the "guards. Surprise ensuring success they took the arms from the guards and in a resulting fight killed a sergeant and a ranker. Another sergeant, and other rankers are believed to have been wounded in the affray
TERRIBLE HOMELAND RAILWAY DISASTER.
The attempted method of entry is usually through a ground floor or verandah window, which in most cases is quite inadequately protected by outside venetian shutters. The slats of these! shutters can often be opened wide enough to enable the arm (or the hand with a piece of wire) to be inserted, and the top and bottom bolts to be unfastened. This done, a pane of glass is removed or broken and the window opened ficiency of fastenings naturally by turning the handle, or pulling apply to all doors and windows in the bolts, from the inside,
the house.
Thirteen people were killed and many were injured when the Liverpool-Blackpool express was wrecked near Lytham. Bearing awful witness to the force with which it crashed into a signal box, the engine of the doomed express, after it had left the rails, turned completely round to face the direction from-which it had come.
georgette trimmed with silver ribbon and carried a bouquet of sweet peas.
The bride's mother was dressed
In cases where entry has been Front doors commonly suffer effected in this manner it is from the defect of having only in black satin with grey furs and almost always found by one fastening, usually a anap small black hat and carried a the Police that at least one bolt of the Yale pattern.
This bouquet of chrysanthemums.
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SAVAGE DOGS.
THREE PERSÖNG BITTEN DURING WEEK-END.
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Colouan is some distance from Macao, possibly further from the Colony proper than Cheung Chau is, from Hongkong. The dis- tance between Hongkong and Cheung Chau takes slightly over an hour to traverse by launch.
Whether or not the convicts! were counting on 'outside assist-i ance is not known but the only adjacent Chinese territory is the district of Heungshan, which is also a good distance away, Colouan being further from the mainland than Macao.
It seems that the main guard party managed to keep the con- victs at bay until the arrival öf reinforcements, by the gunboat. On the arrival of the latter, an armed force was landed and the convicts capitulated, order being restored forthwith.
Owing-to-the-short-time-be- tween receipt of the news and our going to press it has not been possible to ascertain the nation-. ality of the convicts.
Local "unofficial" information goes that Portuguese penal pri- soners are invariably sent to the Portuguese Colony of Timor and that Chinese ordinary pri- soners are accommodated in the Macao Jail. ५
From the foregoing it is pre- sumed that the convict settlement at Colouan is for Chinese pri- soners found guilty of violent | crimes.
Colouan is very sparsely populated. Macao residents oc- casionally go there for picnics and for shooting parties bat) birds there are practically extinct now...
LATEST NEWS.
From the compradore of one of the leading British firms in. Hongkong, who returned from Macao this morning by the 8.8. "Sui Tai," it was gathered that two senior Europeans were killed in the affray. He describes them as a "one-striper" and a "four of the bolts on the shutter defect is often aggravated by the Mr. J. H. Crutch was "best! or the window has been left fact of the upper part of the door man."
Three cases of people being bitten striper." Here it should be ex- by doge occurred over the week-end. plained that the vernacular de- unfastened when the house was being glazed to let light into the
After the ceremony a reception The victims were admitted to the signations for both police and shut up for the night, due the hall-which of course makes was held at the residence of Mr Government Civil Hospital for military ranks the police being carelessness of a servant in not access to the door fastening from and Mrs. Granville Murray, and treatment, and the animals removed a semi-military organisation in having pushed the bolt into its the outside an easy matter when later the happy couple left for to Kennedy Town to be kept under Macao-are the same and that a socket or of the householder in a pane of glass has been broken Repulse Bay where the honeymoon observation.
"one-striper" would mean a ser not having had the fasteningsor removed. The remedy is to fit is being spent: The bride's going The first case was a house boy geant and a "four-striper" an kept in proper repair.
bolts top and bottom, or a chain away dress was of biege lace over at No. 3, May. Road, who was bit inspector or captain. It is practically impossible to fastening out of reach of an arm nut brown georgette with hat enten by s dog said by the Police to The speaker also said that only render the ordinary verandah inserted through a broken pane;;
auite.
belong to a Mr. Carvalho.
Chinese convicts are kept in window proof against a deter- or to cover the glazed part of the
The wedding cake was supplied Another was a Chinesewoman who, | Colouan, those serving longi mined burglar, but the following door with an inside panel at by the Café Wiseman. ·
according to the police report, was sentences for serious crime, measures, if adopted, will make night.
bitten by a dog belonging to a Mr. being sent over, in "chains, to his entry so difficult and noisy. Entry by means of an upstairs
Costello, of No. 3, Mosque Street. perform heavy manual labour in that he will probably abandon window is also very uncommon.
In the third case, a Japanese the development of the place. the attempt:
When effected, it is almost was the scene of a pretty wedding Street, report that their five-year St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, couple living at No. 5. Arsenal 1. Window and shutter always done with the help of a this forenoon, the contracting old daughter was bitten in the arm quantly at "Craig Ryrie," No. 13, fastenings should be kept in good ladder that has been carelessly order. Bolts should be kept left lying about outside the Lawrence. Becker and Miss Eliza
being parties
Mr.
Charles by one of their own dogs. oiled and sockets well screwed house.
| beth Evelyn Lindblom.
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The Rev. Mr. J. Kirk Maconachie will perform the ceremony. Mrs: C. Gordon Mackie will be present
in. Warped woodwork which No local burglar will face! prevents the bolts from being noise: a good watch dog is by the Rev. G. R. Lindsay.
The ceremony was performed pushed home should be attended accordingly to be strongly recom-
Frith, Miss T. Bolt, Mrs. Kiley, as Matron of Honour and Miss to. Shutter slats should be mended.
The bride, who was given away Miss E. K. Walters, Mrs. R. P. Galloway will attend the hooked up or wedged so as to apply to good burglar alarms, a dress of white satin trimmed Broadbridge, Misses Emily Lan
The same remarks by Mr. H. A. Allen, was attired in Macmider, Mrs. Rosgelett, Mra, bride as bridesmaid.
Mr. C. Gordon Mackie will give render them difficult to open from though these devices appear to with silver beads and pretty rose dolt and Lily Carr, Rev. G. B. the bride away; Mr, A. M. Howat the outside.
have no vogue in Shanghal 2.. Servants should be im- Another obvious precaution is red and white roses.
sprays, She carried a bouquet of Lindsay, Messrs. J. Landolt, Hwill be "best man" and Mr. A. pressed with the importance of to keep boundary fences in good. The bridesmaids
Landolt, W. J. White, J. Landolt, Ritchie groomsman." properly securing all fastenings repair and to shut and lock the Misses Emily Landolt and Lily others.
were the F. N. W. Doodha, and many The bride will be attired In a dress of white georgette em- at night by pushing the bolts garden gate at night; though this Carr, who carried bouquets of pink
broidered-in "pearls with white home into their sockets and turn- latter measure, which experience roses.
SELLARS-HAMILTON. · georgette lay-out and Miss Gallo- ing over the bolt handle, An shows to be a useful safeguard, Mr. W. J. White discharged the
way in a dress of white frilled Occasional Inspection should be naturally prevents any Inspection duties of best man."
The wedding is due to take organdie The bride's bouquet made by the householder to see of the premises by the policeman Following the ceremony, a place at the Penk Church at will be of white Honolulu creepers, that this is being done.
reception was held at the residence 4 p.m. to-day of Mr. George W. chrysanthemums and pink rosca B. A screwed bolt-fastening Finally may be mentioned the of the bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Sellars, C.A., of Messrs. Mackin- and the bridesmaid 'will carry, a fitted to each window is an difficulty the Police often have in O. Becker, at No. 11, Orient Build- non, Mackenzie & Co., son of the basket of pink roses. Mrs. Gordon excellent protective device. This being unable to obtain from the ings, Kowloon.
late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Mackie will wear a dress of cham- makes it impossible to open either owners sufficiently accurate The honeymoon will be spent at Sellars, and Miss Isobel White pagne lace and georgette with a window or shutter until the bolt description of articles stolen. In Fanling, whbhak the happy couple Hamilton. daughter of Mr and black hat and will carry a bouquet 18. Unscrewed-from-the-inside such cases reference to a pre- leave later by the evening Mrs Archibald Hamilton of Glas of brown chrysanthemums. The latter passes through a hole viously compiled inventory of The attendance included Mrs. gow, who arrived in Hongkong by The bride's travelling dress will In the window frame and screws valuables la of great assistance O. Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Lindblom, the "Macedónía."
be a tan costume with hat to into a socket in the shutter. Its towards recovery."
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