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CHINESE APTITUDE FOR DETECTION
GLIMPSE OF WORLD'S POLICE FORCES
SHANGHAI'S CONGLOMERATION
(By Sir Percival Phillips)
London. Itaken into custody for disobeying of animal life was profound, and TF the co-operative scheme for a traffic signal. he-was-fréquently consulted by fighting crime known as the. The policeman clutched his Pavloff, the great Russian scien- International World Police ex-tattered jacket in the official way tist.
tends its scope' beyond Europe and a complete deadlock ensued. His political jokes with his dogs and the United States many un-The coolie wept and said he got him into trouble with the usual and interesting types of would not be arrested His cap- Taarist police and have now earn-police will be united in one tor explained reasonably that he ed him the posthumous honour of brotherhood. ̈ ̈
was arrested and would remain ļa atatue.
The guardians of the peace in so. They were mostly about "it Europeen capitals do not differ The usual crowd collected and ting" which is the Russian eup-greatly from each other in men-expressed sympathy for both dis- hemiam for "being in prison." tality or in their methods of putants. The policeman and the In the ring he would say to his combating public enemies. prisoner did a few dance steps, dog: "Sit." The dog would re- You must cross the gulf shouting all the while, and the fuse. Then he would continuer dividing East from West to find constable was seen waving a bit "Come now, Fedia, all the decent entirely dissimilar specimens of of cloth, a poor trophy, since the people are sitting."
the thief-taker, the traffic sen-coolie's arm was no longer inside. Thereupon the dog sat down, try, and the sleuth whose activi- Traffic was held up. Omnibus and an audience of Liberals ties are wholly underground. drivers. beggars, and hawkers cheered.
The Chinese, in particular, joined in the debate. The coolie have an aptitude for the profes-addressed the world with tears sion immortalised by Sherlock pouring down his face. The Holmes and they like it. They constable answered him rt Until it has been given the hall would be useless in a foreign length. The coolle bolted, slip- mark of scientific approval the environment, but when pitted ped, and fell with the policeman news of the discovery of artificial against other Asiatics their on top of him. The crowd pulled radium by the daughter and son devious minds work with uncanny them upright and decided that as In-law of the late Mime. Curie precision and solve problems that the policeman had lost "face" the must be received with caution.. to a European colleague appear coolie must continue to bé arrest-
If, as is claimed, the artificial baffling in the extreme.
ed. Off they went to the police radium can be put on the market Shanghai possesses the most station, the coolie now grinning. at a price available to all, the be-complicated police force in the for his own "face" had been It was a pity that the staff of
nefts to mankind will be great. experts did not include a psycho-
world. In the International saved. logist, who could, have warned. They will also be very welcome Settlement-run by three Great Japan's Efficient Force
to the Curie family. Mme. Curie, Powers and several minor ones— Hong Kong, Friday, November 2, 1934. the delegation that under such
The police in Japan are no circumstances, and in the absence who died this year, left very little a polyglot corps of Europeans debating society for the discus- of many enquiries and calcula-money..
and Chinese, directed by sion of an arrest. A flick of an Cruisers And Cash tions that were necessary who with her husband is respon-crime in all its aspects.
Her elder daughter, Mme. Jollot, British commissioner, deals with authoritative finger suffices to estimate the effect of such pro-sible for the present discovery,
beckon an offender to his cell. The ardent enthusiasts for posals there could be no concord
Sikhs carefully selected in A word of protest will instantly of minds whatever. The result
has inherited the scientific mind India form the traffic control produce a length of official rope. biggest circulations are not go
was worse than nothing. It was of her mother, and is more or less unit. Russians, trained in the and he disappears with hands unanimous as they were a day or the creation of a bitterness secure
Scotland Yard way, concentrate knotted together. two ago in ascribing to the amounting to defiance that has musical, is unmarried, and has and "pink" elements of the Rus-secret service in existence.
The younger daughter, who is on the restless "white," "red," Japan has the hardest-working Japanese negotiators demands taken several years to evaporate. that the other Powers would find During the Geneva Conference To help her, an American friend itself. **A**
been left very badly, off.
sian colony, almost a city in The police, in and out of. it impossible to accept.
the action of the Japanese dele-..
know, all about you from There are several aimme that gation was most coralliatory, and' has been, trying to negotiate a life The Irish In Shanghas, the monent your step ashore at Japanese policy has to consider was felt to have had the effect of Me Curie with an American A mild-mannered son of Erin, Yokohama; they are famillar besides the pleasant sensation of of preventing an even worse publisher.
with a soft brogue and fathom- with the contents of your lug-
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It is just as well to recapitulate solid benefits and a feeling of, some of them in order to be able friendly co-operation which pre-
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to discount speculative descrip-vented recent disagreements Auntie was leaving for home, so she kidnappers, pirates, and opium the efficiency and smartness of tions of clashes that in reality from being taken up in any spirit said to her nephew, as she bade him smugglers than any other man the sturdy little men in blue are more likely to be quite friend-of hasty irritation. After all, good-bye. "Now, Bertie, give me a alive.
cotton uniforms who control the kiss and you shall have a ly and realistic discussions of the lower ratio of capital ships
piece.
Cross the busy Rue Edouard streets and keep order in the what is likely to happen in the was not in practice any hardship No, Auntie, that's not enough," said VII., which divides the Settle-bazaars. next few years.
at all, for it allowed to Japan as Bertie, "that's what I get for taking ment from the French Conces. They are hard worked, highly It appears to be overlooked many as, after making allowance castor oil
sion, and you are policed by disciplined, thoroughly loyal. that the interviews now going for replacement, she was likely to
Annamese in funny soup-plate and under-paid. Congress agita- on are quite informal, and are be able to build within the period According to a New York newspaper, hats, with commissaires and the ors have failed to seduce them
Thailstones as big as apples fell at Mid- intended to make an agreement of subsistence of the Treaty, land, Texas, the next year more easy and not What has happened since is that papers please exaggerate..
other day, Other Code Napoleon in the back-from their loyalty to the British
ground, Cross another street Raj more difficult...
with national aspirations, raised
and the law is in the hands of Singapore's Mixture The reason for preparatory to fever hent by a successful
slavenly native constables wear East Africa has also produced discussions is the wish to avoid campaign, and by resentment of "During the war my husband Jewing the grey tunic of the Chinese a capable" type of native any repetition of the fiasco of the criticism, the military party is er-er-one of those French planes." first Naval Conference which impatient of the appearance of
"Come, come! Don't be afraid to call Leave the International Settle-former generation considered stable from raw material which a municipality. ja Spad à Spad!" was held at Geneva ten years inferiority suggested by the
ment by the opposite side, and hopelessly unfit for any kind of jago. The financial authorities ratio of three to five. There is
Auntle and her young nephew were grim little Japanese policemen responsibility [insisted that some attempt no reason at all why that appear watching school cricket match. with a short sword at their belt Singapore, with its mixture of should be made to cut down ex-ance should not be removed by a The boy was explaining the game to are very much in evidence. Chiffese and Indian police under penditure, and it was recognised little ingenious drafting of a new the best of his ability.
"Look, auntie," he said. "That's The Settlement's CID would European inspectors, is another that the disappearance of the agreement.
Jones bowling now. In the last match surprise the inspectors of the example of efficiency achieved by menace of the German fleet, However that may be, one leshe took three wickets for 8." parent organisation on the British effort. Our Transport which was quite obviously built son was learned at that The sant, locked sad.
Thames Embankment. It con- Minister might find a valuable for aggression, made it rather first Conference; : that
"Did he really 2" she replied, with absurd for those who had recent-official and public discussion genuine sympathy. "Why a pity his teins men who can change their contribution to the solution of
aight is so bad!” --
identity in the true Sherlock the traffic problem in the Sikh ly been Allies, and who profess-by delegates with vague or in-
Holmes, way. ed no wish to attack anybody, complete instructions, was not BIRCH FOR CHINESE haken by oplum, who slips by ing streams of vehicles in the The blear-eyed, pointaman with his portable trembling coolie, obviously signal, who controls" the 'conflict- should continue to keep up as the proper method of dealing with many ships as ever, and actually intricate subjects very closely
an obscure side door into police business quarter of Singapore. to spend more money on them touching national sensibilities.
headquarters will emerge later as He wears a six-feet length of than they had done before the After a year or two a second trial war. The British First Lord of was made after a clear under
Chinese in a well-cut lounge suit zontally to his waist. When he a smiling, prosperous-looking light, wicker-work strapped hori the Admiralty, with the First standing had been established
and gold-rimmed spectacles. Iturns so that this portable, bar- Sen Lord, and a staff of experts, that political questions should be
[rier is at right angles to a street, met a similar deputation of the barred, and that in outline all The Chinese lad who was alleg- Shanghai's C.I.D.
that street is closed and the American Naval Department proposals should have been pre-ed to have, assaulted Miss Muriel Wild-eyed Bolshevik agitators intersecting one, is open to cara which was at that time rather viously submitted for scrutiny. Smith, of No. 2 Kennedy Road, at become "white" Russians of pro and pedestrians.. hot on the scent of the Big Navy A public Conference in fact Battery Path a fortnight ago, was fessional aspect in their inter- What could be simpler? policy. The demands were pre-should only be held when some this morning convicted by Mr. F.yals of leisure Even the judiced at the outset by the agreement in principle has W. Hamilton at the Central Ma-ricksha "boy" plying for hire on introduction of the Freedom of already been reached, and its gistracy, and sentenced to 12 the crowded Bund, may resume the Seas question, which was not purpose should be to dispose of strokes of the birch an entirely different life, in which a point that the Admiralty alone details and observe the formall The boy who was remanded to football plays a part, after a had any authority to negotiate ties of signature and ratification the Juvenile Home pending the secret conversation beyond, the on. The Firat Lord accordingly Japan has only to return to decision of his age, has since been alley door. declined to discuss it; and the re-the methods of her former diplo- proved to be under 16.-
fusal, which was necessitated by macy to remove much misunder-
the absence of that item in the standing. For over and beyond
YOUTH
Assaults European Woman
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The archives of the Shanghai C.LD... abound in sensational material, for the novelist whose
terms of reference, was worked the problem of defence is the costs in Manchukua have con- speciality is crime. But he will for all it was worth by the sec-problem of having something to sumed them, and that country has never see them. tion of politicians and the Press defend, in other words the pros- not yet reached the remunerative If a London policeman saw an that was most opposed to any perity of the country is quite as stage. With a deficit, however arrest in a Settlement street he agreement. It was then intimat-important as its defence. The concealed under the heading of might be as astonished as his ed that there would be no commercial advantages of the loans. of eight hundred and plain-clothes, colleague of Scot- accommodation about the War depreciated yen are fairly well seventy million yen the Minister land Yard Frequently there is Debt, and that there would be an exhausted now, people who have who has to provide the cash a conflict of opinion between immediate commencement of a to buy as well as to sell cannot begins to make his voice heard principals when a minor offender building programme up to parity, allow their money standard, to Not even a first class Power can falls, foul of the law Some details were then discuss- drop indefinitely. Japan has safely build more ships than are I once witnessed a painful ed of the size of ships and guns. made large profits, but her army worth while.
scene when a ricksha coolie was
“Why are you crying, Bonny 2! "We have been playing "North Pale, and I had to live on "col- liver all"