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A Jubilee of equal interest to the Imperialist and the fruit-eater has just been celebrated.
Fifty years ago this summer the first consignment of Australian |apples reached ↑ England., It "con-
sisted of 400 cases.
England now imports 4,000,000 cases a year.
ENGLAND TOO HOT FOR GUNMEN
MANY FACTORS DETER
DESPERADO
CITIZENS
WHO AID POLICE
(By Ex-Chief Inspector James Berrett.)
HIS country has not lagged be-1 firearms, but the police at the Lon-
Thing in making itself a bot don docks and the English seaports There is no record of apple spot for the gunman; and one of annually make hauls of these wea trees having been taken out by
the chief reasons for this is that pons. The smugglers seldom foria the earliest settlers.
fevery law-abiding citizen helps the themselves. into gangs, because' ex- perlence has taught them that the
Philip's ploneera.
Australian apples are serious rivals to the home duct.
They arrive in Britain
Some
The foundations of the trade,| now worth £1,250,000, were laid by police in moments of crisis.
When Leonard Rowland Hill. re game does not pay. Most of the the pips planted by Captain cently ended his career on the Sus-amuggling is done by foreigners re-
sex Downs he was one, of a long selling firearms bought abroad. notine of gunmen who have finally Of course, criminals sometimes pro-failed to get themselves ont of a obtain possession of firearms by
tight corner. No hunted English stealing them from registered.
I have dealt with many is gunman has ever escaped from the owners.
police net-death or capture is the such cases, and when the thieves fate of every known fugitive once have been arrested while committing the chase is in full swing.
another offence the weapons have Speed is now the great asset of been found in their posaction, In most in- "Revenge is a kind of wild jus-the police, and to realise this fact usually unloaded." tice," said Bacon.
one has only to look back to the fate stances, the thieves presented them of of Percy Topila, a gunman who was at persons to incite fear when mak-
months before the British crop ready for marketing.
ON THE SPOT
The Nazis': assassination
on the Bavaria.
for powers.
man,
Gustav von Kahr is probably the wanted for the murder of a motoring their escape. wildest, bit of justice known. car driver near Andover, Hants, in Even in the short period that has It was officially announced that 1920. Pedal bicycles and the tele elapsed since I retired, the path of von Kahr was "found murdered" phone were used in the chase and a the gunman has been further ham- moor near Dachau in motor car that could attain a speed pered. In London and the pro-
of only forty miles an hour. All
vinces police transport is ever on True, the Nazis had a special the same the police got their man. the look-out. There are grievance against the old
After firing several times as
now 52 hia areas in London alone covered by who in 1923 was State Commissar captora closed in. Toplis himself was wireless, backed by the telephone,
Bavaria with dictatorial shot dead by the police.
In 1927 P. C. Dainty, a Newark all controlled by policemen whose the motor-cycle, the push-bicycle- The China Mail tion of doing her part to ensure On the eve of the November officer, was shot and left lying on every action is speeded up by the
the safety of the Empire in which Putsch of that year Hitler, Luden-the road by a Londoa motorist. march of science. her own safety is bound up. And dorff and the other conspirators The policeman possessed the real in-
With this in mind it is hard to Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 13. 1934. they are fortunate in having a went to bed, believing that Kahr stincts of his profession because, be-
Government in power which re- was on their alde.
fora he became unconscious, he believe that it is only thirteen years cognises that obligation and is During the night Kahr tele-scrawled on a piece of paper the since raotor-cycles and sidecare courageous enough with the phoned a full account of the plot gunman's car number. The gun were placed at the disposal of the Empire Defence.
country's finances as they still to General von Lossow (now also man was arrested in his London senior detective of each London are to stand up to it. The money reported shot) who was in com- lodgings and was sent to penal ser- division. Before that, every detec- proposed to be spent on defence mand of the Reichswehr troops in vitude for life.
tive had to utilise the best means The defence of the Empire, will be a not unproductive invest- Bayarla. The next day the Reich- Occasionally the real gunman of transport ha personally could tain's sole responsibility, has confidence in Australia's future, ended in foscó.
It will go to strengthen swehr took control, and the Putsch from the United States tries to raise command. And even then the gun-
This head in England. It is not so man was kept in control.. now become an Empire rand such confidence is a tangi
If the police forces could not sponsibility of which
Kahr, who before his political long ago since the members of each ble asset. Its effect will be to appointment was a judge and Pre-gang tried the game in Devonshire, move very fast neither could the dominion must- take
its assist in drawing capital to the sident of the Supreme Administra. Their short run was not even a law-breakers. But, as I said be It it is only by helping Commonwealth, and developing tive Court, would have been 72 this merry one, because they were cap-fore we always had the public be the Empire in the work of de the industries by which the autumn..
hind us, and when a fence that the dominions can people have to live. Should the He had taken no part in
gunman broke loose he had to contend help themselves. Australia's de defences never be called into use, for years.
Tireless Police fence system still goes on the as so much the better. The tragedy
Every good policeman shows ex-against every type of obstacle-all
tending to his downfall. sumption that they shall always would be if the call did come for
ceptional staying power in the hunt
Before the police forces really be able to get munitions from them and they were not there.
for a criminal who uses the gun, took up the impudent challenge of My men sought no rest in the course the criminals, who roamed the coun- overseas, by reason of which no provision has been made for a
A school teacher asked her pupils of the sharp chase for the murderer local supply sufficient for sua-
recently if they knew who the Quakers of Jacob Dickey, a taxleab-driver, try and flashed or fired revolver, tained resistance to a powerful
"People who live near an active vehicle in a Brixton side-road, and that they could dash from place to who was shot dead alongside his the motor-bandit menace Jooked like invader..
Britain's foreign trade con volcano, miss, called out a little boy when I was searching for the mur place, because they were aware that At least, until the
becoming alarming, Criminals knew Singapore base is completed, tinues to make satisfactory pre promptly. whenever that may be, this is an gress. The figures are now avail
derer of P.C. Gutteridge my men, the police had vehicles incapable of
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unsafe position for the Common-able for half the year. In both The 400.090th copy of "Anthony again were fatigue defying. Every great speed.
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Youthful Gunmen
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But it now seems to me that the It is not an easy job to buy fire more brazen criminals-the few arma in England. There are places tough. ruffians who were prepared time abroad where all types of firearms to knock over pedestrians in their
wealth to be in. Before another exports and imports they show a Adverse" has just rolled from the one knew that the public were be Federal election, after that now: big advance upon the totals of press. Reforestation
hind us in stamping out the gunman approaching, is likely to be held the first half of 1933. Compared menced none, too soon, the, Washington: Naval Agree with May the June figures, would ment, ratified in 1922, will have suggest a slight retrogression, expired, and how the position in but there has, in fact, been im "It is a funny thing, but every the pacific or elsewhere will then provement June, with one day I dance with you, the dancer seem can be bought. But here in the wild raids or threaten with firearms shape no one can foretell, less in the month, had five Sun-They are, My fiance is leader of country arms cannot, be bought have been overcome. present "navel talks" between Max & against the four of the orchestra."
across the counter. You must give Incidentally, many of the gun.. There were two fewer
good reasons and be of sound men who are serving penal ser being arranged, and though it working days,, and the actual fall Example and character. In addition, persona vituda: are comparative youngsters. may be considered that sufficient in pff, is less than the trade of Motto "card hanging In a London possessing firearms, in this country
the for the term of the agreement is half a day. Jung shows no check building: "Remember
At
representatives of the Powers are
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police, are for ever on the alert to SHE WAS THOUGHT
TO BE A LEPER
the evil thereof, it can hardly be to that improvement, in, overseas kettle though up to its neck steam are compelled to, register, them with
the police of their district. The vine pontia doldw bavlny, supposed that the crisis which business that has been scen inter, it still continues to sing."
the earlier months. may follow this event is left out
One unwelcome feature of the
Bloggi Sounde. Rassonable mans enforce this Act. of sight. To a definite question,
"Better get on board, dear," said old. Some of the bad men of the com- Mr. Stanley Baldwin replied that returns is that the increase in Mrs. Green, seeing her piece of Both munity carry firearms, but com- no demand from Japan for importe tends to outrun the im tunnels are smoking how and ther naval parity has been received. provement in exports and to wouldn't want both funnels fust to get paratively few have ammunition. "But Hong Kong Is No
Leper Colony."
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The more desperate will fire a shot again de tash pads to avoid capture in a tight corner! Alfonso announces that he will the old offender is more careful.
Pretty Good..
that extent, leaves, a larger mar- As far as it goes that may be re assuring, but the bugbear of gin to be covered by invisible ex- naval parity is not disposed of ports, which have probably im-never reasoned the Spanish throne,Where he makes a show of forceThis is not a leper colony", said by it. There is time fet for the proved. On the other hand, thus courteously declining an in- It is mostly, make-believe, and, even Mr. Wynne Jones to Li Sze, a 37- expectation that such a demand there are large gains in the ex-vitation which must have got lost this gesture is becoming obsolete: year-old married woman, who was will come true.
port of coal, an increase of in the mails Meanwhile the participants in £760,000 in iron and steel manu
Our judges will no longer tolerate charged at the Kowloon Magistracy byplay with what are apparently for returning from banishment, and the naval talk are not without factures, an improvement in the subjects enough to go on with woollen frades, and better sales "My husband wired me from Paris gun used to incite fear may be of of the country because people lethal weapons, and the fact that a who pleaded that she was pushed out Not long ago, while the disarma- of vehicles, and ships. A featura on my birthday, asking, whether he the toy variety is no longer an ex-thought her to be a leper ment negotiations were in full of the comparison in imports should buy me a Rembrandt or blast, it was announced that with, June of last year is the rise well, as far as that goes, most of fentent sentence. Any weapon used hours for a medical exa
Titian. Now, which would you have tajcuse advanced in asking for, a France was about to incur a large
of nearly three millions, sterling those French cars are very good." to excite fear is considered wicked. Jexpenditure in erecting⋅ fort]- raw materials. There could be FRAM HEMOF course, in the criminal com Beations for the protection of Al be no sounder indication of the Facts You Did Not Know munity there are always, types Hike glers. Now comes the news that greater activity, la, home manu- Italy, to the chagrin of France, facture. Wood and Umber Im has decided to strengthen her porta have gone up by nearly two ton truck powered with a four claimed that the only reason he did fleet by the addition of a 35,000-200,000, as a result, it may be cylinder 55 horsepower Diesel engine not shoot anyone before he killed ton battleship. Whether these resumed of the intensive house to avoid the high fuel cost of gasoline
building that is now going for trucks,
Frederick Guy Browne one of the German, builders have developed murderers of P.C. Gutteridge Ho
Gutteridge was because hin, „chaj-
two incidents are related or not ward May and June ordinarily of lenge of "hands up" was obeyed. it is remarkable that during bring some Reasonal decline in disarmament conference should
For use in servicing and repairing Browne was a man capable of any
be the time for France foreign trade. The fact that this storage batteries a lamp has been in-villainy, and although there are and Italy to get nervous about is not shown in the returns this clamping It to the poles of even fortunately most of them are in prl- vented that can be illuminated by many approximating to his type, the Mediterranean and proceed
year is additional evidence that weak battery to strengthen there. And,
eir positions the improvement in external ANA BOULLIT
commerce is no flash in the pan. A French scientist has developed Browne WES
method for testing steel's hardness by engineer, secording the shape of sparkaði throws off when held against a grind- ing wheel.
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