THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1935
P. O.-British India HONG KONG POLICE
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8.8.
From
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About
1935.
1*BHUTAN
CATHAY
*"BEHAR
15.200
6,100 30th Mar.
6th Apr. 4.10 17th Apr
*MIRZAPORE
CORFU
**SOUDAN
'RANCHI
NALDERA
Destination.
Margilles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Roterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Magwellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hamby, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.. 7,000 18th Apr. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
15,000 20th Apr. | Marseilles & London.
ADMINISTRATION
AN APPRECIATION, BY A CANADIAN
THE FORCE, ITS TRAINING
AND ITS WORK
(By THOS. W. S. PARSONS)
Assistant Commissioner, British Columbia Police.
THE Colony of Hong Kong......fair dealing as between man and A. fascinating spot with a man, and never,, never in any cir charm which holds from the moment cumstances, must the incidence of your ship passes the alarmingly colour, race, or ereed be allowed, to, | jagged entrance rocks, until it's enter or permitted to interfero. Itime to go again, and reluctantly you So much for the comparatively
leave Hong Kong for good. And few Europeans. For the rest, alrice what a panorama of life the place Hong Kong Is of Asia, Asia sup- offeral Its bund with the interminplies the personnel, which, apart able and aimless floods of ever-from quick-witted local. Chinese, changing humanity: the Peak, the is drawn from Wei-bal-wel to the residential section, par excellence of North and the Punjab, and Scindia
the prosperous taipan; barracks of in far-off India. Splendid and, be many vintages, mostly uncomfort cause of incessant supervision, im- able; a poisonously dusty aerodrome mensely competent,... at Kowloon; the New Territory with
The Central Station
나
A witness for the Hauptmanя. defence wa
Dr. E. M. Hudson, New York scientist, whose silver nitrate methods brought out the fingerprints on the Lindbergh, kid-. napping ladder after the nouat methods had failed,Nene" were mads by the convicted Haupt- mann, the authorities admitted.
Actually, when you come to think fit all over, you are really back in
the middle ages, with smart young] Europeans officiating as highly com- a dozen-oddly fortifled British police Naturally enough, Hong Kong's petent Wardens of the Marches. stations all strategically opposed to entire police life largely revolves To complete the illusion, their well- some ricketty old Chinese watch round the Central Station. How-found castles, perched on some com- tower; paddy fields; water buffalo; ever, as the habitat of such gods a manding hill-tou, exist for the same innumerable, children-and they all well conducted police forces wor-purpose as did those of our fore- alone seem to possess the secret of ship-C.I.D., handling the diffident bos caffer; special section; atores-this is an itfagers, hinds
branch; fathers-to protect the adjacent vil- factories, fishermen, docka; a huge should be.
on whose behalf ossuary, pénultimate resting place of
patrola, armed cap-a-pied, go forth An intriguing place, too. Eager nightly.. transient Chinese bones-you
And a "nice" job too. voung white men, or yellow or brown These hill-sides, round, which half- arrangements of their late owners ter through those great iron gates out the night, contain a great deal churches, temples, pagodas, and to emerge later as duly trained, more than the ancient symbolic and other places less spiritual, of course, habilimented and highly confident lotus like sepulchres that stud the but decidedly more entertaining policemen, Peace-keepers, sworn to countryside, very much more. Per-
are
uniformed
7,000 27th Apr. Marsellles, Havre London, Hamburg/aware, of course, of the ante mortem ones for that matter, fearfully en-u-dozen Punjabis will wind through-|
Antwerp & Hall.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
17,000 4th May
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
16,000 18th May
DO-
**BURDWAN
RANPURA
RAJPUTANA
*ISOMALI
MANTUA
CARTHAGE
* Cargo only.
DO
17,000 1st June
17,000 15th June
7,000 22nd June Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 41,000 20th June Bombay, Marseilles & London.
8,000 26th May Marseilles, Havre, London, Rotterdam, Then, (and 1 have to thank Mesars serve the Colony until, time-expired fect lurking places for poverty Grant, Butcher and Madgwick and and succeeded by others, they too stricken banditti, men to whom their Number 4. steam launch for pack up and depart for ever. death is merely the way out there this), such coastwise villages 'as Safe for the moment, defeated by Is a chance of fights to a finish at Loung Shung Wang, Sai Kung, and war lords, refugees from the main any minute and fights galore, there: piratical Mira Bay.
and also call. An old rule this. are. A hard game all round. From Wonderful A cross-section of All of them must report before tak- Chinese humourists-officially styled Asin which only de Joinville could ing up residence with such women detectives-who dally risk their describe The thing's a dream: and and treasure as they may have saved lives to obtain information, to the a sort of scenic pot-pourri all done from the wreck. And what a sepoys and their unthanked Cauca-
14,500 13th July { Bombay, Marseilles & London.
tantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and 'other Levant Ports by steamers Khedivial Mail Steamship Co..
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Lane, the Gulf of Georgia, Taos be spotted in a moment, N.M., Radcliffe Highway, and the day and night, nonchalantly smoking real explanation why men volun Always, it's the life. At thut, there is no low veld north of Lydenberg. on the front door steps you will see tarily go in for this sort of thing. Some Historical High Spots a projecting retainer who, some Certainly, since there is none, It British territorial interests in times, "does not wait in vain. A can't be for profit. South China, to wit, the Colony of strange place, in which everyone, Hong Kong, date from early in the the lost and the near lost, each in last century. The same era, you his own time, sooper or later fetches policemen this time, on extremely
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And that's the amazing thing Quite proper vessels, too, costing Shanghai and, wherover found, a about the British. `Quite against xeneral Occidental: descent upon all the popular vote, so to speak they which you have the right to expect almost H.K. $200,000-a price at B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for other unclaimed lands. An age, not will take placa: kill the best of 1st and 2nd class passengers.
that indigenous populations always their people in order to make it safe first rate article. In any event, it is a decided improvement over quite saw it that way, of progress and healthy to live th; and provide 1841; Kowloon, just opposite in looks like paying, they depart. river police are not officially favour the carriers), it is bubonic plague. T860, and the balance, now known as Madness; and yet, time and again ed to the extent which they should
Now do you see? A dead mrat, k the New Territories, in 1898. The this same routine can
and ought to be,
whenever and wherever found, 1 whole, four hundred miles square duplicated in those wonderful stories. But then this is Hong Kong with immediately popped into the nearest Sydney and teeming with life and Industry, of Henri Fabre. I wonder, it is the King's peace and dignity to cylinder for collection and examina- is of tremendous political signific Instinct, or do the ants really know maintain, and therefore, different tion by the Sanitary Department.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, Hong Kong itself was taken over in self government; then, Just as it Shanghai, where their unarmed thoroughly scared, (and rate are IT WAS WIDOWS'
1985.
NANKIN.. NELLORE TANDA
7,000 2nd Apr. Manila, Robaul, Brisbane, 7,000. 3rd May
Melbourne & Hobart, 7,000 1st June
Regular__monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydnay -- 19 days.
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ance; to which end, besides military; what they are about? naval, and air garrisons, there is a most excellent civil police.
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She snatched and examined them especially as Blas. Bay, home of 'all
feverishly. To my relief, their All of which explains why, locally the pirates. is not so very far
soiled appearance and somewhat away! You see, in South China, pestilential, bubos are nearly
amateurish postmarks? completely. to the Central where every peaceful fisherman' is a thing of the past, Standard And Cleanness Station itself, every strategic point potential Harry Morgan, something
deceived her. As you may imagine, Police Training Now the policing of her Eastern in the City (another Victoria, by has to be and is done about It,
It is not easy to make letters look To go back to the Central Station twenty years old...... possessions has always been an ex- the way) has its own particular and which means that, an occasional for a moment, the police school "They are from a woman she AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap, Holiday,colonial administration. Its quality, The same at Kowloon, and the same
tremely important factor in Britain's recurrently supervised sub-station foray excepted, compelling peace there is decidedly worth study. announced a Climates to quit all. Your English and Hong Kong is no exception to again over the leased territories. Prevails; and they do it by kind- Quite apart from a very military "Love letters to a man usually
ness-fortified with forward three-training they go in for much are," I pointed out. Sun Deck Swimming Pool the rule, is something she will in- Moreover, the rule is that wherever
pounders:
technical instruction. varibly: stand by"......... And" to ⠀ Asia, there is a police station there, per-
"B-but by the dates they were Also, as they really want their written after we were married!" other than in the abstract, there is haps several times a day, & superlor
Opium And Rats
people to be "good" there is a mat- {always something strange, rare and officer must drop in, inspect. and To some people the mere men-ter of vernacular languages, for A timely ring cams at the door exotic in "aqueeze-free" police atan-examine the hooks. An eternal tion of China immediately conjurs which the proficient may acquire a Answering it. In person, I found dards. So much so that if you virilence without which, for ressons up the Idea of opfum. Well, in Apply this simple quality with any to be presently explained, there Hong Kong, handling the Colony's less of the cadet class, young Euro-me anxiously. With a reassuring commensurate reward, gain, un Humphrey Hardcastle #goggling at and thing like liberality it will cause a would be nothing but a bloody re-oplum requirements and closely pean destined to be sergeants must smile I bade him enter-and, recall- most favourable reaction to your plica of what transpires in China connected with the police, there is do their probationery period at ing an urgent appointment, left him otherwise completely misunderstood proper.
a Civil Service branch known as the Central Station; and it includes to apply love's healing balm. foreign government. In other "Unfortunately, amongst other Oplum Monopoly. As a matter of for the good of their souls a great Here the cocktall-shaker was call- words, as time means nothing, while evils in these parts, they have fact this rather remarkable in deal of exercise and violent outdoor ed away to restore another. She the Occidental himself is regarded piratically inclined banditry, stitution not only importe its raw sport.
returned to find her audience, still
(Suring, Fishing, Bhooting, and money is worth 25" par conty, more),
No Additional Charge for Desk Cabina. Orchestra carried Laundry-Gurgaon-Stewardess.
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The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Esaland, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mali Staamera to London.and
The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via Bues.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton
London vis Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
1985.
3rd Apr.
as a transient oddity, his justice thoroughly noxious gentlemen whose supplies from India, but actually You see that (unlike other sec nodding approval. 7,000
Shaf., Mofl, Kobe & Yokohama.
will engender far more than's mere one absorbing passion in life is to manufactures and sells the result, tions of the Colonial service) as the Sound," said Tufnell-Parkes. « "A 17,000
4th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
acquiescence in his presence; indeed burst in, rape, loot, kill and then all because, whether you approve of entire career of a Hong Kong trifle ruthless perhaps, but sound, by the thoughtful and historically get away. Authority therefore can not, there is a recognised local de policeman is spent in the Colony he One of those cases, Jackie, of saving 8,000 4th Apr.
minded his departure would be view take no chances whatever. It must mand which must be satisfied. must be built up to suit local re a good woman from herself. She's ed with alarm. As long as Rome not only feel and believe, but it 0,000 17th Apr.-
But, you will say, if everyone is quirements. Elsewhere, ita dif- perfectly happy with Humphrey, of remained honest she ruled and must be perfectly sure that every against this sort of thing, why ferent. For instance, promoted, a course? 7,000 18th Apr.
Britain, whose memory is perfect, thing is allright. And authority does a respectable British Colony 80 man in British Gulans, may gudden- Jacide made a face.. remembers this
certainly does its level beat, es into such an execrable businessly come up for air in Fijl, but not shouldn't be a distressed gen 16,000 18th Apr.
The Hong Kong Force pecially in the New Territories, There are two reasons. The first here. For obvious reasons (one tlewoman if she were," she did bit- 17,000 2nd May,
In the nature of things and based where to all intents and purposes is an agreement with the League being the dificulty in learning the terly. The old fool sent him, awAY, upon several generations of ex the police are in a permanent state of Nations gradually to eliminate ropes) service in China, as every Sherald she could never bring her 10,000:- 2nd May
Amoy S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.perience, Hong Kong's police ad The New Territories
of war.
the and its regrettable neces Hong Kong policeman will tell you, self to trust a man again." 7,000 5th May S'hal, Maji, Kobe Osaka & Yorkbama ministration conforms to the at
{nity
by no other means is peculiar to itself,Canadian
THE ENDS: defeat the drug Police Gazette,
NELLORE
RANCHI
SIRDHANA
*BURDWAN
TAKADA
NALDERA
RANFURA
TILAWA
TANDA
Cargo only.
Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka,
·S'hai,, - Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amby, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama
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arther information, Fasmiga, 2Freight, Hanibooks, ote apply
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cepted Colonial type. Of the Occf- Here in the New Territorioa al- is) dental there is a Head; styled, until most every village is walled and they changed the title, Captain-flanked by towers, cok-outs from Superintendent; his immediate as- which selected villagers -watch......un-Oplum notionsistants, then Superintendents. Ins-
itter of
Agent
in its own way, the
poly is doing just as
the Banitary ized Udded you find
there
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