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DEPORTEE PROBLEM
A:
IN COLONY
QUESTIONS ASKED
IN COUNCIL
HUGE EXPENSE TO GOVT.
WILS
The expense incurred by the Colony in housing returned bani- shees
remarked on by the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga at a meet- ing of the Finance Committee yes- terday. following the Legislative Council meeting,
The Hon. Mr. Braga's remarks. were made when the Committee was discussing a supplementary vote for $4.000 for Police Force rewards as the amount provided in the estimates had proved suficient following an increase in the number of rewards paid for the arrest of returned deportecs..
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The Hon, Mr. R A. D. Forrest. Acting Colonial Secretary, presid-i ed.
The Hon. Mr. Braga said: Has that it occurred to Government this question of the cost of arrest- ing and imprisoning returned de- portees is growing so large as to be out of all proportion to the class of delinquents that this Colony has to keep? Every now and then these we are called upon to vote sums of money and when all is said and done I think it is about time! that Government should look into the matter as one of policy whe ther we should go on paying out; good money for these people, de- linquents in a sense but not in a criminal sense, who are deported by one boat and return by another. Looking at it from the point of view of the easy ingress to and. the equally easy egress-from the Colony, it would seem that we have thousands of undesirables who real come in and out and are a and practical burden on the finan ces of the Colony.
The
Policy Revised The Colonial Secretary: Government is carefully consider" ing this matter and is dealing with it in the only practical way by re- ducing as far as possible the num-
At the ber of banishees. time with regard to hose already]
law being carried out and
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936
For the first time His Majesty King Edward VIII is photographed during the ceremony of The lady being presented curtsies deeply at receiving the ladies in a presentation at Court. the right A. Lew minutes after this picture was taken, in the garden of Buckingham Palace, heavy rain ended the ceremony.
OBITUARY
CHINESE MINING
ENGINEER
MR. J. P. L. KIM PASSES
The
S.C.A. Annual Report
נו
As
LOST SO MUCH FAT
'Friends Did Not Recognise Fun
They knew him as a big man, weighing 17 stone 10lbs. When they saw him again-a man of 12 stone 12 lbs-they did not recognise him. 68 Ibs. makes a lot of difference. Read how he rid himself of that excess poundage:
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"In one year I have succeeded reducing myself from 17 stone 10 lbs. to. 12 stone 12 lbs.. largely by the re- gular used of Kruschen Salts. Friends who have not seen me in the inter-i vening period fall to recognise me.]
I have dropped weight without any. revolution of diet. I felt no weak- ness while losing weight: on the con- trary, I became rapidly able to sup- port, physical strain such as would have been quite beyond me "before taking "Kruschen."- G. M. G..
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The Federal Bureau of Investi- gation estimated recently that "re- coveries effected and savings toj the Government" in
its agents investigated totalled $34, 708,815 during the year ended
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June 20.
With the expenses of the Bureau placed at about $5,000,000 for the year. J. Edgar Hoover, director, said that "for every dol- lar which was spent for the operat- costs of the Bureau during the seven dollars year, approximately" was secured for the Government or individual citizens in property re- covered or savings effected."
Many Convictions
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There were no strikes during, In December the Resident En- 1935 in the Colony, and only two gineer, Shing Mun, requested the disputes of more than minor im-assistance of the departnert portance though it was inevitable mediator in a complicated dispute that individual cases of hardship in which over a hundred and thirty death occurred at the due to business failure should be coolies from various districts of deported we must insist on French Hospital last evening of more numerous than in 1934, states China were involved. After some
Mr. Hoover said 3905 In January Ijusted and the coolies were paid were convicted in cases must be deported after their terms Mr. J. P. L. Kim, formerly chief the Secretary for Chinese Affairs trouble the matter as finally ad-
gated by his agents, and convic the failure of a knitting factory off. of imprisonment. have expired engineer of the Hop Sang Coal in his annual report.
in Kowloon City resulted in some There was again a slight all tions were obtained in 94.35 per Despite the lack of prison accom-Mining Company in Kwangsi
.cost of cent of the cases which went to being round reduction in the 150 Shanghai workmen expense. the Mr. Kim was born on June 29) modation and the
The director added that whole matter is not to be set on 1.882 at Haddon and was educated thrown out of work and rendered living, the prices of all the main trial the debit side. for though it is true in Ballarat near Melbourne, Aus completely destitute. Fortunately Chinese food stuffs and commodi"the Bureau has solved every kid- napping case in which it has per- recover ties being lower than in 1934. that a number of these deportees are tralia. He came to Hong Kong init was found possible to
Rents of Chinese flats have re-formed investigative work," with not criminal, the majority are and 1913 and was for some time work the accumulated savings of these if they were allowed. to be at large ing for the late Sir Paul Chater as men and subsequently, with the mained at about the same level as 31 life sentences, four sentences to we should eventually have the ex-mining engineer in the New Ter
assistance of certain in the previous year but the gener-capital punishment and other sen- the tences totalling 2113 years being, has effected Hill Wolfram Chinese gentlemen, to arrange for al depression pense of maintaining them in gaoli ritories Needle
later for anyway. The Government has Mine, and
the late their repatriation to Shanghai standard of living so that many given the offenders.
and and Mr.
Charles Richardson
who formerly rented flats given ezreful consideration
cubicles have relinquished them for thought to this matter over a numhief mining engineer at the Kai ber of months and the banishment Ping Lead Mine in Swatow. He
The natural result has been more
investigating bank robberies, he overcrowding in the poorer dis-said, "insurance companies recent Verdict Of Death Byrics and an increase in the num-ly reduced bank insurance rates 20
Misadventure
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generous
policy has been severely revised. was the promoter of the Ma On CORONER'S ENQUIRYbed spaces in a common apartment
the
A verdict of death by misadven-
ture was returned at the conclu-
ber of vacant tenements.
WOMAN BENT ON SUICIDE
"
"I'll Do It Again I will do it again if I can," said Windfred Gladys Taylor, aged 26,
domestic servant of no
the "Due to the activities of Federal Bureau of Investigation în
per cent in 35 states." He said 73 persons were convicted for bank robbery during the year.
Motor Cars Recovered
Hon. Mr. Braga: I am glad to Shan Iron Mine in the New Ter- hear that I am the last to ad-ritories, and was an Associate vocate freedom for criminals in Member of the Australasian In- Hong Kong but I cannot help bestitute of Mining and Metallogy. ing struck by the kind of people About 3 years ago Mr. Kim we see returning, here, in groups from time to time. I cannot help joined the Hop Sang Coal Mining
In addition, the Bureau's agents: Co. in Kwangsi as chief mining sion of the Coroner's inquiry con- thinking that the advice of
located 1089 federal fugitives from legal officers of the Crown might engineer and only resigned from cucted by Mr. W. Schofield, at the a "month ago Central Magistracy yesterday
justice and 5731 fugitives were be sought to find a more successful that position about
them account of illness.
afternoon, into the death of Leung
located through the work of the! method of dealing with
He leaves 3 widow in Hong So, aged 39, a chauffeur, following
|fingerprint division of the Bureau. especially in cases of a trivial na Kong and a sister (Mrs. Joyce an accident when a car in which
More than 1,000,000 new finger- fixed prints were filed with the Bureau Forster) in Australia.
he was a passenger overturned in King's Road on the afternoon of home, when she was charged at during the year, bringing the total
Bromley (Kent) with attempting to 6,694,916 on July 1 June 23.
The jury, comprising Blessrs. Kto commit suicide in the cells at The 2496 stolen cara recovered G Blair
through the federal agents' work (foremaa), G. E. F-Bromley police station.
She was further charged with were valued at $1,025,206. Thomson and Leung Shiu-wan, added in their verdict that they failing to. observe conditions of considered the driver of the car her recognisances when she was Hon. Mr. Paterson: The trouble obviously lost his head, and that forced on probation for two years! banishees who have returned two or three times, they should be logged? is, as my Hon. friend will see from be must have been travelling at a at Bombley last January.
the world press, we have all got very much faster speed than 35 That might deter" them."
ture.
not
Not All Trivial Hon. Mr. Paterson: I do think the majority of offences are trivial Smuggling is one of them flogged. and if you don't put that down
the Colony Joses revenue.
Hon. Mr. Lo: Would the Govern-
Hon. Mr. Lo: I think the ernment should consider it
Gov-
The Colonial Secretary: It
is
ment consider that in the case of worth looking into
POLICEMAN RESCUES YACHTSWOMAN
rescue a
No evidence was given in re
A policeman swam 200 yards The Colonial Secretary: I cannot too highly civilised since the Great miles an hour. They also thought gard to the attempted suicide
the lorry mentioned in evidence charge, and Taylor was remanded through heavy seas to quite remember but I believe there War!
Votes totalling $25,698. already undoubtedly contributed to the ac-As she left the court she shouted, woman from a stranded yacht at veg a law-whether it exists now
the cident. Acting Inspector S. C. don't care what becomes of Camber, Lear Rye. Sussex last)
Saunders appeared for the Police.line."
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I do not know that any person republished, were approved by turning from banishment should be Committee.
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11-Baby's hat 12-Gained 14-Part of a ship 25-Gold
coin of ancientj Greece
16-Grows old
17-Comfort
19-Girl's name 20-Thin gauzy Chinese
Bilk 21-An insect
22-Bits receivable
(abbr.) 23-Foreigner
26-Associazion (abbr.)
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39-Guided 40-Presx. Across 41-Sk!Ne! 42-Inventor of the telephone
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45-Pope's headdress
(pl.)
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first Athenian code of laws
49-Proclamations of a Consumed
Sovereign 150-Muslex), dramas
51-Piece of thin rock 52-Reeds
VERTICAL
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8-Epoch "S-Penetrates
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through a hole (Naut.)
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fiterature |32-Baronet (abbr)
24-imitated 125-Abode of rebels
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30-A dish
31-Swift despent in a
river {32-Impose |34-The whole
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(Norse Myth.)
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for combat
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(Fr.) 144-Forbode
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