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ARCADIA RUN BY ONE MAN.
INVITATION TO THE WORLD,
MISSISSIPPI EDEN:
Has anyone Delbridge 7
ever heard of Mr.
Or of Delbridge Loention. St. Louis, Mo
Then perhaps you have never read Bulletin No. E, published by the DeBridge Crime Commission ting forth why heaven has just branch establishment
started
POST-WAR CRIME IN
ENGLAND.
INCREASE IN BURGLARY AND MOTOR OFFENCES.
FAR FEWER CRIMES OF VIOLENCE.
Tu
THE HONG KONG
to the
his introduction Criminal Statistics of England and Wales for 1925, Mr. Arthur Locke, of the Home Office, presents an in teresting analysis of the figures] ver a series of years, and shows: that, in relation to population, ther twenty miles from nowhere, Wy volume of crime has substantially down where the Mississippi fows,
| declined. In recent times, he re- Chuurtes J. Delbridge is the marks, the normal anal number w has founded elbridge Leration, indiebale offences hats hee and he is fonding the world with:
tongh literatue fo for a pathway around 90.000. In 1967 the number from all parts of the globe, of indictable offences known to the Mr. Delbridge gives open invitation! police was 01.671; in 1989 it was to prople of every nation, kindred, 70.25 in 1A, 105,279; and in
↑ 1925, 113,980. sul fongue to pay a holiday visit this. Arendis. Don't being your says Delbridge.for Del Kt. bridge folk don't like the slaying of birds and helpless erentures,
Glorios,"
LIONE
gretion:
The netual numbers, however, are not safe guides, Since 1857 the
WAS
per
DAILY PRESS,
RASH BROKE OUT ON CHILD'S FACE Formed Terrible Erup- tions. Skin Inflamed.
Cuticura Healed.
"My little girl's face broke out with a rash which inter formed ter. rible, wel, oore eruptions. She could not sleep day of night on ac- count of the irritation. Water came from the eruptions causing the trouble to spread, and her skin was very much inflamed.
L.Bent for a free sample of Call- cura Soap and Ointment and pur- chased more, and after using one box of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticure Soap who was completely healed." (Signed) Mis, J. Richardson, 17, Domney St., Östeshead, Eng.
Uee Cuticura Scap and Ointment regularly to maintain permanent skin and hair health,
Soap and Olatment sold throughout the world. For sampla ech free adrese: F. Bas- bery & Sons, 2, 11, Bander Eh, Londen, 2. 0 Alen for col
Try the Cuticura Sharing Stick.
REGISTER.J
ubers and Reiency of the police have increased, and the proportion of the offences committed that be comes known to the police is pro- It is difficult to tell briefly of the bably much greater. Moreover, the HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL lier of bridge. The loca estimated population in 1857
has presum only 10,adig, whereas in 1925 it ably been founded on an iden. Thus, was 3,900 The proportion of
offeners indictable idea is the elimination of crime, known
says Mr. Delbridger, is yes of the estimated population Crime,
313 throughout the whole wwased by individand ownership; was
one-man period; for tâm more modern period Delbridge Location is
i alte 182 it was maly 278, and for show.
You pay rent to Mr. Delbridge, individual years the figures were: l be pa maits you to live in his 476, iu 1967. 239 in 1890,208 in 100S, Arendin. You are not entitled to and 9 in 1995. On this basis de ttle alere fur good, however. If crime rate has fallen greatly since atr. Beridge discovers you are a 17, and as regards the period thiel. liar, rook," or murderes, since 19 the worst year is not
1925, but 1908. Your jerve to quit.
No prople, no couits of justine, "Few will doubt that the main Influences exusing Buctuations in n town council, na mal smoke, no
Mr. Dels latter period were the Bors malaria, 16 mosquitors,
War and the Great War. In this
THURSDAY, MAY
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSA- GERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
STEAMY "LIEUTENANT ST. LOUBERT BIE",
BRINGING CARGO FROM DUNKERQUE, ANTWERP, MIDD LESBROUGH, LONDON, &c.,
ALEO CARGO FROM HAVRE, COGNAC, &c., Ex 8.5. "COMMANDANT MAGES."
26th, 1927.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, BTRAITS AND PHILIPPINES. The Steamship "BENLOMOND." YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all floods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LTD., whence, and/or from the wharves Delivery may be obtained.
ONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Gouds with the exception of Opium, Tressure and Valuables aro No Claims will be admitted after the being landed and stored into the Go-Goods are left the Godowns, and all downe of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Goods remaining undelivered after the Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, 27th instant, will be abject to Rent whence Delivery may be obtained in- methately alter landing,
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All Claima must be sent in to me en 3rd June, _ before Friday, the 1027, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examined by the Company's Surveyors: Mears, Goddard & Douglas in the presenon of the Consignees st 19.00 .. on Tues- day, the 31st May, 1927.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
J. IJMAGE, Agcat. Hong Kong, 25th May, 1987.
Hong Kong Observatory, May 25th,
Previous On Date On Date at
nt Day
[4961
at 2 p.m. a..
2 p.m.
"OLEN LINE LIMITED."
Barometer... Temperature
29.71
29.75
29.73
70
12
Humidity... Windo
83
76 74
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
ENE
Fast
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA PORTS.
4
OR
Q
0,00
0.25
T
HE Motor
HIGH WATER
Hong
Kong
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE. From May 16th to June 1st, 1927,
LOW WATER
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
h. m.
Days Dick
Date of
Height.
Height
#t
Veauci "GLENSHIEL"
Direction E Force... 3
OP Weather Rain... .. 0.00
Consignees of Cargo by her sro hereby Bighost open-air Temperature, 24th: 81aving arrived from the above Ports, informed that all Goods are being Lowest opan-sar Temperatore, 250b :.71
B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; Danded at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowne of the bridge deals with all these things connection it may be pointed out Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning: Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and personally,
first that in 1925, six years after M-Mist; 0-Overcast; P-Passing Godown
the wharven, Delivery Come, enys Mr. Delbridge,
may be obtained, and wander by the everlasting the Great War, the proportion of showers; Q-Squalls; R-Rain; To and/or Com any amited, whence, Goods not cleared by the 30th instant Wooded," rine Cad parsovered sucious crime to population--293- Thunder.
at Noon, will be subject to Bent. bills and rest by the bubbling was not so high as it was six years
Brer after the
War-208; and,
All broken, chafed and dusonged springs that lie like a dimple upon
secondly, that дік years after
Packagon are to be left in the Godown Nature's immaculate bosom, and
The Bier War the tide turn-
where they will be examined in the ліг and in each ancontaminated
Мевяга, Consignees by presence of Goddard and Dougins, on 27th instant, think the sparkling water distilled ed and the figures of indictable Nature's health-giving tabora offenes kunwu to the police be-
the igan to fall. As regards crimes of
10 am. Claims against tury,"
Steamer including those for Cargo There are 9,000 acres of Del-violence many people will be sur-
short delivered most he presented on the big location, and you cannot buy prised to learn that whereas in
Special Form provided, and must also a font of it: hut there is a saw. 17, with an estimated population
be submitted within 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized, mill, a garage, a planing mill, and of 19,258,516, the known banicides a large cream, chicken, and egg-abroad 242, in 1925, with an These things are fed population of 35,800.000. buying station, ru by Delbridge and by the old the known homicides numbered folks who have lived at Delbridge, only 315. Other crimes of violence Fri.
(excluding against the person Mr. Delbridge, for sexual offeners) usually numbered Sat. arending to
round about 1,600 annually from generations."
1857 to 1913, with a tendency to All round Delbridge centenarians, diminish. The total for 1925 was are plentiful as the berries and the only 1,177,"
When you go,
In 15 the number of murders bubbling springs. these are the people who put you known to the police was 160, com- up and board you on Delbridge's pared with an annual average for
the period 1899-1903 of 148. best at £2 to £3 a week.
net Lotals of all homicides were, however, 318 and 324 respectively, and this fall occurred although the TOSU froni estimated population 31.881,000 in 1809 to 38,800,000 in
Centenarians.
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011 383 4 5 7
5m 0 24 15
050 2 6
146 18
1
Standard
Tim
h.
m.
Thur. 26 m 6 25
5 39
27 m
53
28 12
Bun. 29
Mon. 30 m
Tues. 31
The Wed
51 52
23
m2 11
9 52 49
Offences of dishonesty were much more
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,
"Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
0m 1818 JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
5m 1982 1
2 35 1 1 24
3 22 a 42
957 73 m 2 10 52 4 6 4 Ba 1 m 9 32 75m 3 11
11 51 a 49 4. 53 |
stituted nearly one quarter of the proceedings for these offences con-
non-indictable offences." total number of proceedings for
In 1925 the number of persons ned in all courts was 103.325. Of
What Mr. Delbridge, the low maker and preserver, really desires is for you to mail him right away, vertifying you are not a murderer, and ask him for a reservation on one of the new houses he is putting t up, and he will rent you one nt 28- per cent. of what you are paying elsewhere.
You will then behave yourself, 106,130, or 93 per cent. of all the prison (against 93,950 in 1899). The many of the others having avoided If not you will be put on the truck indictable offeners known.
against property imprisonment by taking advantage line, twenty miles away, and carted known erimes off with the eggs and cream, by with violence, ie, burglary, shop of the modera system of allowing
breaking, rabbery, etc., increased time for payment of fires. order of Mr. Delbridge.
system,
numerous
than offences
Agents.
Bong Kong, 23rd May, 1927. [4851
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEÈS. AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE. FROM NEW YORK.
WE Steamship.
"POLERIC" her are informed that all Goods are being having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-basanious Godowns of the and Kowloon Wharf and Godown be obtained.
All Claime against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th Jane, 1827, or they will not be
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
INCLUDING
HUGO STINNES LINIEN
COMBINED FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE, UABIN CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR 50 PASSENGERS. FARE FROM HONG KONG TO GENOA~£73. 0«. Od.
OUTWARD.
Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Japau :---
dne here on or about the fut, June M.B. RAMSES" (HAL)
due bere on or about the 11th Juno M.8. "ERMLAND" (ISUL.)...
....... due here on or about the 1st July M.S. "VOGTLAND" (H.A.J) M.S."MUENSTERLAND" (H.St.L)... due here on or about the 14th July dne here on or about the 29th July 88. "OLDENBURG" (H.A.L) ....
HOMEWARD. chafed and damaged Goods All broken sed are to be left in the Godowns, where the 27th they will be axamined on instant, st 10 AM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD
Agents. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1927. [4942
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
BREMEN.
BE SteamOT
THE
"BERENGAR"
having arrived from BREMEN, HAM. BURG and Forts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Cargo is downs of the ting Kong & Kowloon being landed at their risk into the Go- Wharf and Godtown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whore Delivery can be obtained.
All Goods remaining nudelivered after the 20th of May, 1927, will be subject
Rent.
to
No Fire Insurance will be effected by as in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be loft in the Godown for examination by the COD- signees and the Company's Surveyors, Mesure. Anderson & Asbe at 10 am. on the 27th of May, 1927
No Claim will be admitted after tho cods have left the Godown and all Claims must be presented within Two Weeks of the Ship's arrival here, after which date they will not be recognised.
Consignces are requested to surrender their Bille of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature.
MELCHERS & CO.,
Agents. NORDDEUTSORER LLOYD, BAZHEN, Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1927. [4967
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
8.8. "ANGERS."
BRINGING CARGO FROM MARSEILLES, &c.
ONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception
against the person, the total being this huge total only 14,542 went to Hong Kong Lul., whence Delivery may of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are
The population of this one-ruler from 7.354 in 1899 to 18,072 in 1925; Areadin to date in just twenty and crimes against, property with out violence rose in the same period from 61,447 to 89,058.
Who will be the next candidate for Delbridge's heaven on earth?
THE CHINA COAST.
CHANGES IN OFFICER PERSONNEL.
The following are the latest changes in officer personnel on the China Coast:-
Captain J. W. Finson, of the Ninghai, has gone master. Suyuing, Captain E. M. Gellie, of the Sun
wing:
has gone master, Minghui. Mr. R. E. Smith, second officer, Chungo, has gune second officer, Foushing.
Mr. H. O. Lewis, second officer, Foothing, has gone second officer, Changin
Mr. A. M. Jewell, second officer, Hangrang, has gone second officer, Suiwa.
Mr. J. Shiel, second officer, Sui- , has gone suply second officer, Hangang.
Mr.
S. Duncan, sup'y second offeer, Hanging, has gone second officer, same ship.
Mr. H. Perritt, from reserve, has Kone third officer, Haiyang.
M: W. Lee, chief officer, Apory, has gone thief officer, Halvard.
Mr. T. H. Ball, chief officer, Hal vard, has gone chief officer, Azing Fing
Mr. FE. A. Martin, chief officer, Leung Kenny, is deceased.
Captain J. Wilson, of the Leung wong, is on reserve.
Mr. P. Going, thief officer, Hydrangea, is on reserve.
Captain 8. Bell-Smith, chief off ver, Lungahan, has gone master, Kinshas
Mr. G. H. Madden, chief officer, Laingshan, has gone acting maater, satno ship.
Mr. J. Hales, merond officer, Tai- shen, has gone chief officer, Lung akan.
This "has
says the report, abundantly justified itself. It i creases respect for the law by seen the real object of imposing fine, namely, payment; it avoide More Motoring Offences.
inflicting upon many petty offea In the year under review the ders the unwarranted hardship and number of persons charged before degradation of imprisonment; and courts with indictable offences of it not only saves society the cost all kinds was 30,003, of whom 40,176 of their maintenance in prison, but were arrested and 13,517 summon brings in a small contribution to ed. Thus the number of persons wards the expense of coping with charged was much smaller than the minor offences." number of offences known to the At first police, namely, 113,046. sight this gives the impression that one offender ont of two avoids arrest, but that impression is false. In the first plner, one person may be charged with several offences- one person recently pleaded guilty to no fewer than oight separate offences. Secondly, the modern practice commended to the police by the Home Office, with the ap- proval of the courts, is to bring to the notice of the court not only all the
offences formally charged against the accused person, but also other outstanding charges any which he admits, so that not only a offences proved against big, but all offences admitted by him, may be taken into consideration by the court in passing sentence, and upon release he may have a chance of starting afresh and turning over a new lenf."
Of the 60,983. persons charged with indictable offences, 49,404 were vast dealt with summarily, the majority of them (46,420) being charged with offences against-pro- perty without violence,
Non-indictable offences declined steadily from an average of 729.865 for the years 1899-1903 to 584,453 in 1974; in 1925 there was an increase to 930,501. The general decrease over the whole period is, it is stat ed, largely due to the marked de- crease in preceedings for offences connected with drunkenness, which in 1903 numbered: 230,150, ut by 1925 had fallen to 80,412, a decline The decrease would of 149,768.
have been very much greater if it
No claims will be admitted after the Goods remaining undelivered after 30th May, 1927, will be subject to Bent. Goods have left the Godowns, and all
All Claims against the Steamer must bo presstited to the Undersigned, on or before 6th June, 1927, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 30th May, 1887, at 10 a..
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1997. [4955
being landed and stored into the Godown of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Delivery may be obtained immediately after landing and Godown Oo., Ltd, Kowloon, whence
All Claims mast be sent in to me on Or before Thursday, the 2nd June, 1927,
will not be recognized.
or
10 am.
on
Damaged Packages will be examined by
Company'e
ve Surveyors, Mesere. the Goddard & Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at Monday, the 30th May, 1927.
No Fire Taurace will be affected by in any case whatever.
J. LIMAGE,
Agent. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1927. [4959
The HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK
COMPANY,
LIMITED.*
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Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers. Boiler Makers;
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Steel Twin-Screw Ocean-going Tug and Salvage Steamer Henry Keswick
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Mr. R. G. Glitspie, from reserve, had not been for the enormous in- | Built, engined and equipped complete by The Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Hongkong, for their OWN crease in proceedings for offences rvios, 1923. Length 165 P.F., Freadth 84' (m). Derib 17′ (m), 1,8.P. 2,000. Fitted with electrically drive has gone second officer, Lungshus.
with motor vehicles, submersible and centrifugal pumps, air comprègner, wireless, searchlight and all modern appliances for SelungólW:sås Captain W. Brewer, from reserve, conpeeled
which in 1918 numbered only 25,701,
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager, has gone master, Hydrangea.
Mr. A. Donaldson, chief engineer, but by 1925 had increased to 150,723, Leung Kwang, is deceased-Ship ahed 125,032. In 1925; indeed,
(Continued on next column). ping and Engineering.
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