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Two Chinese lads, 14 and 12 years of age respectively, were cautioned at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning for stealing a quantity of iron, from a contrac- tor's enclosed compound on Nathan Rond.
Two Chinese were fined $5 each at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day for assaulting a compatriot at the Mongkok Ferry Wharf. The de- fendants tried to board the ferry launch on arrival prior to the pas- sengers who had to get off,
Having just completed a month'a hard labour in jail on January 11, a Chinese boy, 19 years of age, was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day sentenced to four months' hard labour, for the theft of a scale pan from a shop in Woosung Street.
Returning before his banishment term of 10 years from 1927 had expired, a Chinese, who appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day was sentenced to ten months' hard labour and 20 strokes of the birch.
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The Aberdeen Police yesterday removed to the Public Murtonry the skeleton of a "young person," sex unknown, believed to be a Chi- nese. It was found on an isolated spot on the foreshore of Aplichau Island by the master of the Lair Shun Kee shop of Aplichau..
For the theft of three iron bara from a contractor in Ho Mun Tin, an unemployed Chineso was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day given one month's hard labour. It was indicated that 20 bars were stolen and when the defendant was arrest-
ed he had $30.30, but only the three bars figuring in the case were re- covered.
A
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1990,
KIDNAPPING AS A
SCIENCE
BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS
PLUMP Chinese gentlaman, tried to break down the front door. Again they were beaten off with the enough for them. loss of one man, and that was
rising. Afty, with anxious eyes behind horn-rimmed spectacles
Д
and an expression of panic sitting ludlerously on a face like a full moon, emerged hurriedly from bank in the financial quarter of European Shanghai, nearly knock ing me down in the process, and bolted across the pavement ko a frightened rabbit into
a closed motor-car.
AL his heels came two un- mistakable Russians in blue tunics, cach with an automatic pistol in his hand.
One followed into the rear seat; the other joined the chauffeur. and the car dashed away into the traffic of Kiuklang Road.
I would have been justified in assuming that the plump gentleman in the loud lounge suit was trying to bolt with the bank's ready cash, but he was merely a highly respect able Chinese of independent means desirous of evading professional kidnappers. He was literally a fat prize a solid 14-stone negotiable jewel-in the eyes of Shanghai's predatory highwaymen of the New School, Once netted and stowed away safely in a lonely junk down river, or in the hold of an empty barge up Soochow Creek, he would yield dividends well worth the risk
and the "overhead" involved in ravishing him from the basom of his family.
Other attacks on the houses have been hardly less determined. A British member of the Shanghal police force killed five bandits single-handed during one rald which was as sensational as any unconn ter with desperadoes in the palmy days of the "Wild West."
The police know that at least 260,000 was paid last year in ran soms to bands of kidnappers operating in Shanghal, but this Aum is only a fraction of the whale, for the majority of the transactions never comes to their knowledge. Every possible precaution is taken within the limits of the Inter- national Settlement to cope with the criminals. But the authorities in the Chinese city are less zealous, and the banditry. are planned outside the major operations in
Settlement.
The result of this established trade in ransoms is the organiantion of groups of personal bodyguards. Out-of-work Russians, preferably ex-Service men, whose credentials .. have been approved by the Inter- national police, are available for the protection of wealthy Chinese. Nearly 400 are so employed at the present time. A single Chinese may have as many as six in his employ for personal protection and the constant patrolling of his house and garden. 'They are paid from £8 to £10 a month, with rations, and given a uniform which varies from old khaki to the really smart military dress approved by some
prepared to regard the whole Em- Mr. E. M. Gull, formerly Secre- the Associated British pire as an economic unit, and to tary of
in China make Great Britain part of the Chambers of Commerce Home market for overseas pri- Secretary in London of the China now Joint and Hong Kong, and
mary products.
discriminating clients. Association and China Committees, The Empire can produce any-is shortly revisiting China. Mr.
ed Hon. Adviser on China affal-s
Kidnapping has reached its high- est atate of scientific development in Shanghai. Some of the gangs operate with almost incredible dar- ing. They have been known to whisk a víetim out of a crowd like
Shanghal's underworld teems with vicious criminals, and Chiengo
Overland China Bail. I † thing that Great Britain needs in Gull, who has recently been appoint that in Regent-street on a fine after is nowhere in comparison, as Mr.
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TRADE WITHIN THE
EMPIRETM
the matter of foodstuffs and raw to the Federation of British In- materials. Yet, in 1927, Britain dustries, is expected to reach purchased £49,500,000 worth of Hong Kong, where he will spend dairy produce from Denmark, but some little time, early February, Denmark purchased from Home
MINISTER ILL
with
only £10,500,000 worth of goods. From Australia in that year Bri-
His friends will regret to hear tain bought nearly £40,000,000
that the Rev. F. C. Young, Minis- worth of goods, and exported to ter of the Union Church, Kennedy Australia no less than £63,742,- Road, is
411 seriously 000. Sixpence a pound for his pneumonia. He was admitted to butter is wealth for the Siberian, the Matilda Hospital on Wednes day, and on Saturday night it was the Latvian and the Pole, whereas found necessary to administer nowhere in the British Empire can the producer make a pound
Yesterday the Rev. F. Short of of butter under one shilling, and the LM.S., took the services at
in some cases 1s. 2d.
oxygen.
the Union Church.
Special prayers
were
ofered
for Mr. Young's recovery in both the Union Churches and St. John's Cathedral.
It is obvious that a remedy is needed, and that Great Britain must contrive to make not only
On enquiry at the Matilda Hos the United Kingdom but the pital the China Mail learned that whole Empire its "Home" market the Rev. F. C. Young had passed in which its producers would re-a better night and was this morning ceive
"better than might be expected." Free Trade or, least, preferential treatment, as do foreign producers in their
at
noon and drive him away in his own car substituting their own chauffeur for the dazed and help less family driver and the next heard of him is a lettter from some snug retreat imploring a remittance sufficiently prompt to save the loss of an ear or two.
Kidnapping ganga have actually stormed a victim's house and car- ried him off before the eyes of his
Stirling. Fessenden, Director-Gen- eral of the Municipal Council, re- "Chicago?" sald cently admitted. Mr. Fessenden, "why Shanghai on a normal day has more murderą, kidnappings, daylight robberies and miscellaneous cases of assault and battery than Chicago in a week."
Ten Years Ago
relativos. One of the most impu- dent attacks recently was that on a mansion inhabited by a wealthy
[From the "China Mail" Chinese in the Avenue Joffre in the
January 13, 1920.J French Concession. The kidnap-
To-day's dollar is worth 58, 11⁄4d. pers chose midnight as "zero" hour, but they were ill advised, for at that moment the day
The annual meeting of the Hong and night Kong Tennis League was held last detachments of paid Russian guards evening. at the Hong Kong Cricket were being exchanged, and they met Club pavilion. Dr. Lindsay Woods pre- with strong resistance. Two Rus sided, and in the course of his speech, sians and two Chinese were killed he announced his resignation. He also and one Russian wounded.
regretted that the League did not live last season. The bandits fled; the French up to their reputation police came up, and the
This seemed to have been due in a victim rashly concluded
intended that the large measure to the constitution of battle was over. Not so.
the League being limited to one divi- sion. There was a paucity of entries bealeging "army" returned at 4 and several clubs withdrew after the a.m, and, after scaling a high wall, fixtures had been arranged
Tho
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Russian Counsellor to London: Revolutionary at the House: Unoperatic Judge: Windjammer Owner: An Epicore's Lunch
The question of Empire econo-down Home markets. Herein lies mic co-operation, dealing with the whole problem of future preferences on sugar, dried fruits, Empire development and pros- wines, tobacco, motor cars from perity. Approximately 80 per Canada, and other items is one cent. of the fruit imported by that is keenly engaging the at- Britain comes from foreign coun- tention of the present Govern- tries, and yet the Empire pes- ment. It is claimed, that the sesses the finest fruit-growing] large exports of these commodi- areas in the world of practical A. Significant Soviet Appointment ties from the Dominions
and unlimited capacity. While Great DIPLOMATIC circles are keenly Colonies to Britain is due almost Britain continues to pour hun- interested in the appointment entirely to these prefer- dreds of millions annually into of M. Bogomoloff, until recently ences, 85 it is said, the foreign countries for the pur-Soviet Minister to Warqaw, as export trade from Britain chase of its foodstuffs, it is cer- Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in machinery and supplies with tainly and surely retarding the in London. On the surface overseas industries benefited by development of the Empire. The this transfer hardly looks like such preferences. If these duties Home problem of unemployment promotion. But it really shows were swept away the industries is incapable of solution unless the the importance which Moscow in- concerned, we are told, would be Empire markets are developed clines to attach to the resumption faced with ruin, unless some other for Home goods, "Things cannot of diplomatic relations with Great form of preferential treatment go on for ever in this manner. Britain. were accorded them or, batter still, a policy of Free Trade with Great Britain should enter into resiprocal Free Trade agreements in the Empire inaugurated."
M. Sokolnikoff, the Soviet Am- Throughout the Empire the with the Dominions and Colonies, basaader, fa comparatively new to and it would be of advantage London, whereas M. Bogomolof Home Government is striving for were an Empire conference to be served previously in the Soviet a higher standard of living for called upon the subject. its people, and it is unreasonable
to expect that Britons in the Dominions, with their high standard of Hying, providing as they do the greatest purchasing power for British
News in Brief
Legation under M. Rosengolz, and was the one member of the staff who sought to cultivate the social graces,
and trade problems, will pay more attention to British banking and
industrial circles.
M. Sokolnikoff will perhaps rely on his Jewish origin (his original name was Brilliant) to gain for fluential City quarters. him an easier entree in some in-
Kerensky Looks On
M. Kerensky, once the head of Bus- only to be overthrown in 1917 by sia's Revolutionary Government,
visitors to the House of Commons re- others more extreme, (was among the cently.
Another Garthpaol?
CIE William Garthwaite, the owner
of the ill-fated Garthpool, last of the square-rigged "windjammers," is... among a few of his friends with the now endeavouring to rouse interest object of building another of these fine old four-masted barques for use partly ha a training vessel and part- ly for trading purposes.
The idea is one which will surely find its sympathisers, for one cannot but regret the passing from the high sous of these splendid, old ships which have played so brave a part in shaping the history of the British Empire.
When he had listened for a time The Societe des Gastronomes · to Questions, he left the Gallery in order to visit the House of Lords,
AT the suggestion of M. Dequis, there to hear Lord Birkenhead de Paris, the members of the Soclete manager of the Hotel Crillon in nouncing recent Soviet zevolutionary
des. Gastronomes lunched recently at propaganda.
the Hind's Head Hotel, at Bray, near dictment would surely be worth hear-
Kerensky's views on that bitter in- Maidenhead, because its proprietor ing, for he himself was uncompro British meal during their visit to had promised to give them one real
polley advocated and carried out by misingly opposed to much of the the country. those who followed him.
....
An Unmusical Judge
MR. Justice Eve has had a case
after his own heart in an ac created by a music bureau and the tion concerning the allégod -nafiance
Being admittedly and thoroughly
casus in a proper
This society, originally a union of chefs, but now somewhat wider in scope, is tired of being treated dur
•ing*its visit to Britain exclusively to dinkes, such as "fillet de zole, bonna femme," with which it is already fammh!"
Its members became
...... A real Russian, unlike both his Four robbers armed with knives former and his, present chief, he lah manufactured shed in: "Shek Koo Long, vilage, has a worldly tion-chalance, and soon admistedly, and thor kiastle over such essentially British goods, can produce as cheaply as Kowloon City, during the week-end, good things of life that formed anmusical, his looper spirit of Jadi-
an apparent appreciation of the
dishes as roast sucking pig and other the coloured people of the Levant, holding up two women, and making happy fall to the grimi fanatleiem cial Ignorance, and he has had many Windsor, Lieut. Colonel Stephen courses popular in every British home. South America and other places, sway with about $800 in banknotes and affected susterity of some of such. Not long ago he blandly,
With them was the Mayor of where workers toll often under and some potty jewellery, the his colleagues. No doubt bis quad whether sharmothing Guards, who played an important stringWright, late of the Coldstream. degrading conditions to which total haul being about $488.
ed instrument or latest appointment is designed to blow into, and when some few part in organising the Army's in facilitate smoother political and years past, Sir Thomas Beecham's chers' during the war; Colonel Wright we should be ashamed to see our The theft of vases, and clothing social Anglo-Soviet relations. workers submitted. No industry valued altogether, at $172; has been
financial affairs came before him, he was able to explain to them the hemarked, apropos of Sir Thomas' subsisties, if any, of British Cooking can thrive without having a de-reported to the police by Mra. J. M.
operatie schemes, that it was a pity! Also attending this unchmon Wong living at Lugaan Villa, It is probable, indeed, that M. Lat he could not have spent his ware members of the in Thirteen pendable Home market and, bow, Prince Edward Road. The lock of Bogomoloff will devote most of money on something unefel
Club, of which the host on this oc therefore, is a large measure of a door was found to have been his activities to diplomacy proper are farming, and partieslariga ember, though to lay there are The learned fudge's own, hobbies casion was originally the thirteenth development to be ex- forced, fudkating the mens byly so-called, while M Sokolnikom breeding, on which he tent au-only twelve of these intrepid, donters cted unless the Government is which the thief effected an entry, who is a specialist on financial, kority.
of "every superstition.