THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1937
Coolidge Crew Catch A Shark
in
When the President Coolidge, now lying alongside the wharf Kowloon, was in Manila on Thurs- day, a prize catch was made by the Chinese crew.
be
NO HOPE OF PEACE
SLEEPING WITH LOADED GUNS
WAR BUILDER OF STRONG RACES
Sir Arthur Keith, the eminent
is authority on anthropology,
BELGIUM AND
PUSSYFOOTS
Page
German
Regulations Likely To Armament
Be Relaxed
Brussels, To-day.
Reaches Climax
Belgium has proved to be yet an- other country which has tried Pro- hibition and found it wanting.
hat Although strict Prohibition
"MUNICH, TO-DAY. of never been the rule, .spirits are en- HAS GERMANY COMPLET- The fish, ten feet long and weigh opinion that the world "will have tirely forbidden in restaurants and ED HER TREMENDOUS RE-
to sleep for ever with its loaded aperatifs in cafes.
ARMAMENT EFFORT OF THE ing about 600 pounds, had to
Now this is to be changed since LAST FOUR YEARS? hoisted up with the help of an elec-gun by its side."
This is the conclusion he reaches the measure has not had the de- This question arises from 2 tric winch on the aft part of the
sired success, and a Bill is to be speech delivered at: Munich from his study of man's nature as ship. It was a shark, no less.
Transported to the delights of the he looks upon its evolutionary de-introduced in Parliament to relax yesterday by the President
the severity of the present regula-the Reichsbank, Dr. Hjalmar seventh heaven, the Chinese crew velopment down the ages.
tions.
Schacht. He expresses his views in the lolled about the aft part of the
"Limited freedom" in alcoholic Dr. Schacht revealed that the ship and dreamily looked over the foreword to a book by Mr. Alfred
"Darwin's Theory Appli- consumption is the formula arrived withdrawal of many raw materials railings on the port side. For it Machin was over that side that the sharked to Mankind," (Longmans, 7s 6d at between the "Wets" and "Dries" for armament purposes from gen- who have been waging a bitter bat-eral consumption, which had been tle against each other. Trans- going on for several years, was Ocean.
was hoisted.
If the crew had showed no signs of being great fishermen, at least they showed patience and persever ance characteristic of their race. They had seen sharks following their ship in Manila Bay as far as the breakwater. They reasoned that there was no reason under the sun why such sharks should not come right inside the breakwater and -follow the ship to the pier.
net).
The battle-cry of the Great War, to end Sir Arthur says, “a war
"found a warm reception în war, his heart, but not in his head. Since the war he would have liked to see new experiment the world try a that "would keep the dogs of war kennelled up for five centuries." But, he proceeds:
"Our human world has never had peace not even for a year. What So every time that the Coolidge would our world have looked like at has been to Manila, the Chinese the end of five centuries of peace? crew has fished for sharks using a "Much, I suspect, as an orchard big hunk of meat attached to a that has not known the pruning- huge hook, dangling from the end hook for many an autumn and has of a stout
rope. The rope used, rioted in.
over-growth was big enough to hold the Coolidge for years. firmly to her mooring at the pier. The Chinese
were taking no chances.
Their patience was rewarded on Thursday morning when a marine commotion revealed a ten-foot shark struggling to get loose from line.-
the
so they attached their line to the winch and hoisted it up. There are those among the crew
fins
who
unchecked
Fakir Of Ipi Deserts Hide-Out
Simla, To-day.
now over.
"The period of enforced limita- tion of supplies has now passed its peak,” he declared, and added that in the very near future cer- tain relaxation would be made.
As for the provisioning of Ger- many with foodstuffs, experience had shown that Germany would not be able to make herself absolutely independent of foreign countries for a considerable time to come.
"That,” he concluded, “is why so much emphasis is laid by us on the colonial question.”—Trans-Ocean.
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS
The Fakir of Ipi, fanatical of the revolt on the leader North-West Frontier, is stated
· Health Of Humanity
to be preparing to leave his hid- ing place between the Khaisora "Neither Mr. Machin nor I are and Shaktu valleys and to es-
Police Reserve orders by the Hon. champions of war, and yet we can tablish his headquarters near Mr. T. H. King, Inspector General of conceive no substitute which would Razmak, where a large concen- Police, state:
real tration of hostile tribesmen is be equally adequate for the health of humanity and the build-reported... ing of stronger races."
CHINESE COMPANY Training Course--Part II The un- 1. Further activity on the part of dermentioned members of the Chinese Wealth, Sir Arthur avers, is not hostile tribesmen was reported over Company will attend Chinese Company The crew. tried at first to land
the be-all or end-all even în .our mo-the week-end.
Headquarters on Tuesday, April 20th the fish unaided by mechanical de-dern world.
Shooting occurred at the Khai- Course
at 17.30 hours for Part II of Training vices, but the shark was too strong, "Yet I do recognise that in war sora post and Mirali on Friday, and
Constables R2 Chan Tak Chiu, “R4 fare as practised to-day-when the a lashkar of Mahsuds surrounded a Tam Hiu Fung, R5 Woo How Ching, R6 Chang Shik Chun, R9 Wong Yue fate of a. nation or of a race is at Scouts' post at Tiarza, 17 miles
Shun, R25 Lee Chee Leung R34 stake-wealth is important. And from Wana.
Napoleon. Leung Pan, and RS7 Leung swear that the ship listed to port yet, more nations have been undone The Mahsuds began sniping at Wing Cheung.. as the shark was being raised.
Inspection Parade. All ranks of the After the Chinese had cut off the by wealth than by poverty. Relative nightfall but Government patrols on
and other parts required for poverty strengthens a people per- Saturday reported that the tribes-Chinese Company will parade at Cen- tral Police Station on Thursday, April the soup, they gave the fish to Fihaps more than it does an indivi-¡men had withdrawn two miles from 29th at 17.30 hours for a general in- spection of equipment etc., by the Company. Commander. 3 Dress-White Uniform, Cay with White Cover, Belt with Brace, Truncheon, "Pocket Police- gued by Darwin, has been a process langer, love of vengeance and a power man" and note-book to be carried. The for improving breeds of men, the to hate and be cruel, are qualities Equipment Officer will make a point of
being presenting SERIES RE means of progress and, of changing which have "survival values" in
INDIAN COMPANY the nature of man.
the struggle of the fittest.
Training Course Part III. "One of the chief selective agen- "We know that those evil quali-undermentioned members of the Indian cies at work, in any community of ties of mind appeared in animals at Company will attend. Indian Company Headquarters on Wednesday, April people is the standard of morality a very early period in the earth's 21st at 17.30 hours for Part III of
When man came and of behaviour which is enforced history.
shared in
pino labourers on the Pier, ·
Canadian Motor Strike
Sympathy Move In United States
Toronto, To-day. A sympathy strike of 100,000 American employees of General Mo- tors is threatened by the Labour leaders for Tuesday, unless the Cor- poration by then has settled the
dual."
Sir Arthur declares his convic- tion that natural selection, as ar-
the post-Reuter.
in-Training Course
The
and adopted by that people. Law-to being he
this Constables R201 S. 1. Bux, R211 S. Aras, R240 Ghulam Hussain, R242 abiders are favoured; law-breakers heritage of wrath. And as he pro- Abdul Aziz, R256 S. A. Khan, R262 are punished, and if possible exter-spered and his
increased Omar Hossan, R280 M. Sherrif, and minated.”
this old inheritance also prospered R282 Latif Khan.
Sir Arthur adds, however, that and evolved.”
powers
Canadian dispute, with recognition BRITAIN NOW HAS A CABINET!
of the local branch of United Auto- mobile Workers.
Preparations for this sympathetic walk-out in the United States were begun when leaders of the Oshawa motor works strike indicated they would endeavour to settle the dis- pute without the assistance of out-
FIRST IN 200 YEARS
when changes are recorded in the "London-Gazettę."
FLYING SQUAD -
Company Meeting. A Company Meeting for members of the Flying Squad will be held at No. 2 Police Sta- tion on Thursday, April 22nd at 18.00 [Hours: All⠀⠀ members must attend.
Dress Muftica
Instructional Patrol. The next in- structional-patrol-för members of the Then there is the case of the Flying Squad will take place on Fri office of Prime Minister. In only parade at Central Police Station at day, April 90th, 1997. Members will one act of Parliament up to the 17.15 hours sharp. Dress White Uni Constitutional history is made by present time the Chequers Estate form, and Cap with White Cover the Ministers of the Crown Bill. Act has this post been mentioned
C. CHAMPKIN,
D. S. P. (E). As has already been indicated by name, siders, as the Provincial Governor, provision is made for an increase In the present bill the head of the Mr. Mitchell Hepburn, had recom- in the Prime Minister's salary from Government is described as "Prime
An old shell exploded when two boys. The total cost Minister and First Lord of the pelted it with stones at Lydd, Sussex, mended, unless
under the bill will Treasury." It is as the titular head and the boys were injured, given by American members of the of the Union.Beuter.
be £87,000 a year.
part of the Treasury that he draws his. It is the first time the Cabinet, salary. though it has existed in more Jor A further point is that the Lea Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek less its present form for 200 years, der of the Opposition
given a arrived at Hangchow from Feng- is mentioned in a piece of st tory|constitutional status, His Majes-
ty's Opposition," as it has been Eight hundred youths from various hua by air at 12:40 p.m. yesterday, legislation.⠀⠀⠀⠀
countries assembled at Birmingham for with Madame Chiang. Our Own
sometimes termed, has never pre-
betin meeting of the Oxford Group Move Correspondent,
viously been referred to in a stat ment.
some support was £5,000,000 2,000.
Canton, To-day.
Under the bill, Ministers who are members of it will be so designated
Barnaley Socialist Corporation has raised the rents of its tenants by anging from 18 6d to 48′′1d" week.