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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1955.
Envoy
Presents
JUVENILE CRIME ALARMS Credentials
AUSTRALIA
Staid Adelaide
Gets A
Shock
Melbourne, June 16.
Australian Immorality and vice among adolescents is on the increase, according to police and press reports.
In Sydney, the New South Wales. Police Commissioner, Mr Delaney, tabled in the State Parliament a report which described the increase in juvenile crime as "alarming."
metropolis, Adelaide,
OUT OF HAND
In Melbourne, the press re-alleged that 16-year-old Janet ported a wave D assaults by had admitted going to sex and drinking parties until the early youths on girls.
But the most starting stories hours at the morning and that have come from Australia's most she had been having relations
with men for two years. staid
quiet, tree-lined street city of and tall-spired churches. In one week, the same magistrate chradi with three casts of juvenile mis- conduct by 16-year-vid
girls. One girl
was charged with -- if not prepaid a booking fee being a neglected child.
Police of 60 cents la charged.
gave evidence that she kept com-
with convicted
pers panty reputed thieves and young men who boaster of the "jobs" they
WANTED KNOWN
DR. SCHOLL's Foot Comfort Ser-had done. vice, Telephone House
(Mezzanine)
Hongkong provides the experi atten- tton your feel deserve by London. cuahiled Chiropodist,
SOMETHING
A
STAMPS
of
Hongkong
Road, Kowloon.
ALBUMS
ITAMP
Bulider'
avaliable,
and
and
Sällaburri
FOUND IN CAR
Police
The police now admit that the problem is getting out of hand.
the The editor of Journal. Mr L. B. Fenwick, said recently that the cure for the "bodgie-widgie" problem was a cane in
the hands of police officers.
He criticised the publicity given to the youth gangs...
running
A second had been arrested when she was found in a car with man in the city carly one maxning.
"I would suggest a sure cure. Go "back to the old days and instead nt
these youngsters before the courts and making heroes out of them, give the police officer the cane back. The "third belonged to a and get him use it on the spot.
GI
cult
"The called
སྤུ
joke.**
discomfort
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17
Formos 6 p.m.
Pakistan, Middle Burma, India.
Great Britain p.m. Japan. 6 p.m. US.A., Canada. 6 p.m.
By Surface Macro, p.m.
*
A foriner Police Commissioner, Eigh Afies Mr W. F. Johns, who represent-Europe, ed Australia at the international at The Criminal Commissim Hague in 1950, believes that youth clubs are the solution to juvenile delinquency,
EXCLUSIVE, Collec-
A little physical assorted stamps | teen-ture; Lory packets From 20 cents per packet upwards Saints. Police said that The and the youth on the receiving entirely new acties. Soul Saints indulged in drinking end does not become a hero, but China Morning Post Lid Wyndha
Salisbury and sex orgies nearly every night rather -Street,
the week. In each case the magistrate "Collection
the parents or the criticised stock Bertet. New
From South China girls
for pot exercising, proper Morning Pot Lid Wyndham control over them. He said that Street Hongkong
cult case was in the then-age Road. Kowloon.
the same category as the oath
He is president of the Boy's, some picture of delinquency revealed
in New Zealand last Girls and Mixed Clubs Associa and warned the parents tion. in South Australia, and said. year. who let their children jom these that after 44 years he had few wults that they would find thern-illusions about people and their But he had never behaviour. heard a complaint about any of club members, who his 5,000 were between the ages of 14 and 21.-China Mail Special.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG" JOCKEY CLUB ; Mr. A. E. Arnold, has been appointed Secretary of this Club as from 15th June, 1955, in place of Major H. Misa M.C. who has retired..
D. BENSON,
Chairman. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Hongkong. 9th June, 1955.
NOTICE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF “HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
selves in trouble,
"The Saints" is only one of a dozen similar gangs of young girls who, the police boys and
sophisticated beyond their
years" and wear distinctive clothes.
are
In appearance, they are no dif- ferent from a similar type of round youngster who hangs street corners and milk bars in Melbourne, Sydney and Bris- bane
sane.
Every
Australian city has its "bodges"-young men recogu sable by the cut of their hair as well as their clothes, whose activities range from the vandalistic to the vicious-and their "widgie" girl-friends..
GREATER PROBLEM But the "bodgies" and In the Goods of KENNETH!"widgies" of Adelaide have be- CHIAN alus KENNETH Come a far greater problem than TYSON alias CHAN YUI BUIjin any other city. Commenting (a), late of No. 29 con- upon their existence nine months Cutit Road Victoria
the ago, Police Commissioner Ivor
"These cults can Coigny of Hong Kong. Mer. Green said:
thoughts that, they chant, deceased.
to continue their
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dismiss any will
be able
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that behaviour. We have got control
the Court has, by virtue of Section
jover these unfortunate teenagers
3311) of the Probate and Administra in quick time.” tion Ordinanes (Chapter 10, made un Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claim against the above estate to the 30th day of June, 1953.
In the past few weeks, how- ver, the newspapers have been filled with stories from 1hr juvenile courts of youthful de-
All creditors and others are Relinquency among gangs •! cordingly hereby required to send "bodgies" and "widgies." their claims to the undersigned on; Janet, the pretty young girl,
or before that date,
Dated the 3rd day at June, 1955,
LO AND LO.
Solicitors for the Administrators Queen's Building,
whose membership of
The
Saints" ended in court, was 4 typical Adelaide "widgie." She was dressed in the "widgie uni- form"tight, black skirt, black sweater and flatheeled shoes- and wore her hair cropped short
When asked how she had come 10 join the "bodgie- *widgie" gang, she said: "Be- cause I like being with the other
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES like a boy's.
1. "TAIPING".
arrd. 11th June, 1935
Larnaged cargo ex this vessel will members. There is more fun in be sued by Messrs. Goddard &a crowd. Ordinary youth clubs Douzian at Hong Kong & Kowloon are no good. They would not Wharf Codown at 10 am. on Mon- day, 20th June and Tuesday, 1st pprove of us and they would June, 1955 and condignees repre-not let us live." zentatives are requested 10 be pre- sent during survey.
Agents,
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SWIE
BUTTERFIELD
Australian-Oriental Line Ltd. The China Navigation Co., Ltd.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
“TELEMACHUS”
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will be Aurveyed by Messrs Goddard & Degion at Holf's Wharf from 10 am. on June 21, 1953, and consignees are requested to have their representa lives prement during the survey,
BUTTERFIELD .&. SWIRE, Agents, Hong Kong. June 17, 1964,
According to the police, "The Saints" was not the harmless band of innocent youngsters that Janet made it out to be. They
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"PELEUS"
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will be surveyed by Mears. Falsen & Bayes-Davy at Holt's Wharf from 10 am. on June 20 and 21, 1955, and consignees are requested to baye their representatives present during the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & SWILE, Dagoela.
Hong Kong, June 17, 1955.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13 By Air
A cordial welcome for HE. Zalaibn Aberil Azir, the new Saudi Arabian Ambassador to France, when greeted by Pre- sident Coty of France, after presenting kis letters of credence in Paris----Express Photo.
H.
13th CHILD ·
Hove, June 15. A 42-year-old grandmother. Mrs Rachel Dumbrel, has given birth to her 13th child here.
GAMBLING GOVERNMENT
West Berlin Loses
£33,000 A Week
Berlin, June 16.
The biggest gambling operator in West Berlin, the City Government, has recently lost about 400,000 marks (some £33,000 sterling) worth of "business" a week in a straight fight with the Governments of the West German States.
It accepted the loss for fear of far greater damage to its prestige--and to its biggest single gambling enterprise, the Lotto, which even now produces a gross income of nearly 1,000,000 marks (about £83,000 sterling) a week,
Lotho is a simple game of Berlin, and he gave ceders for guessing Ave numbers out of his West German Lotto agencies figures up to 90. Each Sunday, to be closed,
an orphan picks the five lucky
numbers out of a drum.
Austrian State £41,000 sterling)
Treaty Lies Before UK Parliament
The rare winner who chooses the same numbers in the same
to win up order stands 500,000 marks
than (more
for his 30- plemming (10d sterling) ticket
Minor prizes are paid for three or four correct figures.
Lotto is the favourite Berlin game, both East and West. INCLUDES BABES
REFUSED TO ACCEPT
Not
unexpectedly. ** about 200,000, habitual West German Lotto" gamblers refused to ac- cept Dr Suhr's decision to clear They the West German, field. malled their Lotto bets direct to the City Government. They also sert letters of protest by the basket-full, saying that they had a constitutional right to waste their hard earned peruning however they, wherever and liked in the West German cur- rency area. In West Berlin alone 1,700,000 Their pfennings thus still give Londes, June 18.
substantial help to the siling
Berlin
Last The Austrian State Treaty tickets are sold weekly.
economy. including babes in West restoring the country's inde popukstion,
year, Lotto benedited the City pendence after
17 years at arms, is 2,200,000.
Treasury and selected private foreign occupation is now before Until recently,
further. welfare organisations by about the British Parliament,
12,000,000 million tickets were sold each
marke (£1,000,000 ch. The players got week in West Germany through sterling) each.
(поте and cities. 25,000,000 marks in towns agencies
£2,000,000 sterling) They brought 500,000 marks of
to money. "extra West German aid"
Lotto is still the biggest, brut West Berlin each week
the city's only, by no means
Under the constitution, a treaty must lie in Parliament for 28 was married days during which time members Mrs Dumbrell
drmard when she was 17 and her eldest can
B debate
on daughter, Mrs Ida Hagarty, has should they wish to challenge a year-old sent.China Mailit. In the present case no debate
is expected. Special..
EXPIRES JULY 8 After the 28-day period, which will expire on July 8, the consti. tution requires the final signa- tire of either the Sovereign or a Minister before the ratification process is complete.
Hollywood, June 16.
Actress Ann Blyth arrounced yesterday that she is expecting her second child early next
year.
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into
The
The
Next
in
than
prize
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though
Thailand Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand & Ceylon, 9 a..
Philippines. 2 p.m. Indo-Chin, France, 1 p.m. Philippines. N. Borneo. 6 p.m. Japan, Hawaii, U.S.A.. Canada, The brown-haired star and of a pim.
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New her husband, Dr James McNulty, deposited by the five signatory and establish agencies
the United Berlin. married Governments -- Zealand Thailand, India Pakistan, an obstretician were Middle East, Africa, Great Britain in June
MailStates; Russia, Britain, France Europe, 8 D.D.
land Austria, Reuter
The Austrian Treaty will enter at a Premiers' conference. into force when the instruments Premiers threatened to open 30-pfenning tickets a week.
ratification have been their own far bigger, Lotros
in West West Berlin
Formed, Okinawa, Korea, o pak
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HARDA DISAPPEARED. LEAVING THIS NOTE.
I CONTE UNDER- STAND.
WHO IS
NARUA?
FERDINAND
NANCY
NANCY--- I WANT YOU TO RAKE THE LAWN
Mandraki...
Have gone to Bald Mountain Harda
BUT I WANT TO RIDE MY BIKE --- MY LEGS
NEED EXERCISE
JOHNNY HAZARD
WE HAVE BEEN FLYING FOR? SOME TIME NOW!'I'LL CHECK, WITH THE PILOT TO SEE EXACTLY
WHERE WE ARE /
COME, ALESNA, WHEN FIRST ASKED YOU WHERE SHE WAS.
YOU KNEW HER NAME. YOU SAID SHE
ISN'T HERS
RRIN
YOUR ARMS
NEED SOME EXERCISE,
TOO
}AS RUDY CRAWLS TOWARD THE
PILOT'S COMPARTMENT, HE PASSES OVER THE BOMB-BAY HATCHAM
Special
1953.-China
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I'D FORGOTTEN THERE WAS ONE MAN IN THE WORLD SMÅRTER THAN
ALEENA. BUT
1 HAVE MOT
LIED TO YOU,
MANDRAKE--
RING
I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT
RING
LAND SNAP PICKS THAT MOMENT:
TO LIGHT" HIS PIPE!
--YOU MAY
SEARCH ALL OF BALD MOUNTAIN. SKE'S NEVER BEEN HERE.
mik.
THEN- WHERE IS SKEY
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
of income from That is why the West Ger-source
protested ganised gambling. mm State Premiers
Berlin
in importance, sharply against gembling agencies in their own far more discreet with the issue capitals and the steady flow of of figures, is the football pool, Berlin called Toto here. This is run tambling money
City
and other Jointly by the coffers.
State
Between Governments, The struggle came to a head them, in Berlin and West Ger- sell about 6,000,000 they sell many
Toto is also profitable for the City Treasury, but it is less beneficial to charitable organisations because
handed to the ta profit is football clubs for the recon- struction of grounds, purchase of equipment and the encour- agement of junior teams. Other flelds of sport beneft very little. OTHER FORMS
That persuaded Dr Otto Suar, the Governing Mayor of West
TALK.
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
TASMANILI
IXT
*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS"
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
.....this situation calls for a
San Miguel
of
Apart from Loto and Toto, which the City
Government there are
controls
directly,
other forms
of gambling in
City
Berlin from which the Treasury benifits, Their proffs are heavily taxed.
Foremost are the "penny-in- the slot trait machines, which are officially licensed and sub- ject to police scrutiny. In fair- ness to the public, the city has decided that the winning chances must be at least three
to one, and police inspections
ensare that this rule is obeyed." There are no public records showing
the specific Agures of derived from machines, but they are believed
taxes
to
be high and stil rising, Gambling
homes of
rent
опсе the
and
Ecarte, are on the decline and so 19 the city income from this source. for Police have fought them years with a law which forbids games of pure chance, but the CASINOS suffer rather from lack of well-to-do clientele and high taxes than from the action of the law:
They circumvent the letter of the law; the casinos discarded
Roulette and Ecarte for "Roulo" and "Kasimo", minor variations tending to introduce a factor
of skili.
INGENIOUS
bave The casino proprietors always been ingenious 4 in- venting
variations the moment police ban an existing game. Twice in recent years, police have raided and cloned. between 30 and 40 casinos. Each time, they had to withdraw the the casino doorg scals from after unsuccessful court actions.
Once,
bold police witnesses
the court that they had watch-
individual games ed
27,000
to
be sure that they were pure chance. The court then sat down to
toial
decided otherwise.
game-and
In the other cASE, the court president, Herr, Erich Scholz,, took his court to the Piccadilly Club on Kurfurstendamm, the street of gilitering lights, to try. the gume, Police
lice took the bank and won. But Herr Scholz said that he still had a reasonable doubt
on the question of skill, hence the charge must be dismissed.
heless.
business is not ₤100
The clubs are b
balt- empty most nights, and the average chit is only for one two or five marks (13 Bd, 3s 4d
and fa 4d sterling)
Hin
Ber-
In Communist-run East Ba
ideology condemns capitalistic but the city admin
PE as
Hea
the
administration be doctrine When it wer what large suma at
Lotto brought to the West Berlin exchequer The-East-Berlin-Council #copied
it about a year ago. It claims to have 2,000,000 players aweek art. 50 pfennings apiece.
Football poolsaro, a national pastime in the whole is of: Fast Germatry China-Mail Specials;