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AVIATION IN CANADA.
THE MOTOR BANDIT. REMARKABLE FOREST FIRE
LONDON'S POLICE
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(YLOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.;
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LONDON, August 27th. The police authorities in London are trying to and a satisfactory selation of the problem how to deal with motor "bandits. They com prise a new class of criminal on definite lines. Three or four men together. Caunity they take a car which is left standing in the street while the owner is paying a call, and the stolen car is driven into the Home Counties, or wherever a robbery has been planned: Having achieved their purpose the thieves return to Lon doa and vanish, the stolen car in some quiet being abandoned street
But this is not the whole story It often happens that the thieves are disturbed on the scene of the proposed robbery, and they instant ly take to fight Police are warn ed by telephone along all the routes
the motor bandits are bound to
CONTROL
SURVEYING THE WASTES.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day. Birthday of Confuscius (Sh'eng tan-chica).
Legislative Council Meeting, 3.31
p.m..
3rd Annual Swimming Gala of South China Command Forges, R.AS.C. Camber, 3.30 p.m.
Tea Dances: B.K. Hotel and Hotel Envoy, 1.30 p.m.
Football: H.K.F.C. 2. Police Happy Valley.
Kowloon Football Club annual meeting, 6.p.o
The spectacular transatlantic air Sights, with their proce.of radi. leal developper:s ia commercial
dying, have brought home to Cana |dians realisation of the fact that they have been lagging in post-war aviation. There is in Canada not single important air mail or air The aeroplane passenger service.
Ping Pong League: W.Y.O.B, 17. has been used only to cover dis. C.R.C. (C.C.Y.M.8.). tances that the railways cannot Steel and Coulson's Billiard cover. For survesa, for forest fire League: Northants 11. RA patrol, for reaching remote mining 5.0.S.B. . Queen's; R.E. and R. camps it has been extensively used. Siga. . D.R.C., Revenue v. St. Indeed, one of the first air-cooled Patrick's Club; Garrison Sgts. engines, such as thote with which Mess. Police. Lindbergh and "Chamberlin quired the Atlantic, was fown from New York to Red Lake and put into commission between that mining camp and the railway.
coa-
Quebec bas surveyed a large part of its hinterland by aeroplane. Ontario has put forest fire air patrol in service with a remarkable result. In 1923 forest acreage destroyed by fire was. 2.12014S acres. In 1928 it was only 62,611, Almost as many fires started, but. the air patrele spotted them and had them extinguished. vice is now comprehensively or- ganised, with four headquarter four years operations over dificult hases and 14 operating bases. In
one fatal accident. country the service had not had
The ser-
take. In spite of this the fugitives nearly always get away. The pro- blem for the police is how to stop the desperadoes-that is to say, how to arrest the occupants of a
Vast Distances, ene driven at a terrife speed, Though Canada's vast distances which continues ita fight in com offer rewards for speedy mail and plete disregard of risks to life-passenger service, there has been a ahether of the occupants, of the curious reluctance to invade these pursuers, or of the general public. fields. The Government is only No doubt some effective method new beginning to work on plans will be found to baffle thieves for the first comprehensive air mail escaping in such circumstances, route to meet transatlantic ships without at the same time denying and hurry the mail inland. There the freedom of the road to honest may also be accommodation for folk.
Various Suggestiotis,
All sorts of suggestions have been put forward, but most of them are declared by the authoritics to be impracticable without holding up all traffic and making the innocent motorist suffer for the guilty. Night patrols and the use of wire less have been successful in some instances in trapping the bandits, but Scotland Yard" is far from satisfied with the results achieved, and are endeavouring to find a scheme or schemes which will put a stop to the increasing depreda tions of thieves. One cannot blame a policeman for stepping out of the way when a car driving at fiity or sixty miles an hour threatens to run him down.
passengers
Naval and Military Y.M.Q.A.a :— Cheer 0" Informal Dancs, 7 p.m.
Confucius Birthday Concert at St. Stephen's Girls' College, & p.m. After dinner dance at Leo Gar- dens.
Forbes Russell Comedy Company present" In the Next Room, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
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Oriental Strolling Players and 1st Northamptonshire Regimental Band, Lee Theatre, s.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Masked Bride."
Her. Sister
World Theatre: Irom Paris."
etc.,
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Star Theatre: "Sea Horses." Principal Mails:-Outward: Australia, New Zealand, (Tango Maru), 9.30 Canada, America, etc., and Europe vid Victoria, B.C. (Achilles), 10.30 a.m.; Europe via Siberia (Nyanza), 2.30 p.m.
Friday. Bettlement Day, H.K. Stock” Ex- change.
Tea Dances: HK Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hote, 5 pm
teer Headquarters, 5.30 p.m.
Ping Pong League: WY. Col- lege v. St. Peter's Club (Y.M.C.A.) Naval and Military Y.M.C.AL:- "Cheer O" Concert, 7 p.m.;¦ "Better 'Ole"; Concert, 7 p.m.
Garrison School Aquatic Sportar Service Relay Team Face, R.A.S.C.Camber, 5.15 p.m. Next year Canada expects to see
Club and Service Hockey Officials the first commercial dirigible armeeting to arrange fixtures, Volun rive from England, and shortly thereafter the establishment of a regular dirigible transatlantic ser vice. A point that needs early de cision is the Canadian terminus of the transatlantic dirigible service. Major Scott, of the British Air Ministry, has recently made a tour of Eastern Canada seeking avail- alle sites. The Canadian Govern- ment has undertaken to erect a
Forbes Russell Comedy Company mooring mast and equipment at present Peg O My Heart,' whatever point the British Air Theatre Royal 9.15 12,m. Ministry selects for the terminus.
Oriental Strolling Players and Toronto correspondent of Malat Northamptonshire Regimental
Band Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m. chester Guardian, »
Queen's Theatre:
The Masked Bride'
The alternative to a human cor- don or barrier would seem to be He wrote with vigour, but with mechanical contrivance of some moderation, and thousands of sort which could be brought into people read his political articles use at once at strategic points. The in the Spectator for years with restoration of toll gates has been unflagging interest. suggested, but apart from the in- convenience of other road users the number required, if they were to be elective for the purpose, rules it out as a practical proposal.
Britain and Japan.
the
Few men could equal Struckey in the telling of a story at a dinner table or elsewhere. A little master- piece of narrative which I recall was his tate of how he offered in the early days of the war to house a A Paris message published in the him turned out to be a huge negro Belgian refugee. The refugee sent Daily Telegraph states that
from the Belgian Congo, with the appointment of Mr. Saburi 05 Counsellor of the Japanese Em-sharpened teeth of a cannibal; and Strachey's adventures with this ex- bassy in London for a limited traordinary guest were told with a period is worthy of notice.' Mr. Saburi, who holds the rank of perfect realisation of the contrasts
involved. Minister-Plenipotentiary, acted in 1021 during the Washington Con- ference as the Japanese Charge a'Affaires in Washington. At the beginning of the current year he was entrusted with an important mission in China, and lately he was sent to the Geneva Naval Con ference us diplomatic adviser to Admiral Saits.
A Famous Editor.
Bishop's Advice, -
The Bishop of St. Albans has made the suggestion that the world would be a better place if people would only smile at strangers on entering a railway carriage or other public vehicle. It would cer tainly be interesting to see people greeting with broad miles a port ly man squeezing himself into a
It could be said that in truth
Whitey Smith Orchestra at H.K. Hotel Roof Garden.
St. Peter's Y.M.C. Whist Drive, Cathedral Hall, A20 p.m
World Theatre:
EH
"Her. Sister
from Paris."
Star Theatre: "Seo Horses."" Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Siberia (Katori Maru), Saturday,
Autumnal Equinox (Chiu-fen). Entries close for H.K. Jockey Club, 6th Extra Race Meeting,
noon.
Reception in honour of Governor, of Macao, at Club Lusitano, 4.30 P-m..
Cricket: E.C.C. «. Military Sub- scribers; IRC.. D.B.S., Indian B.C. ground, 2 p.m.
Police and Prison Depts. Aquatic Sports, V.R.C., 3 p.
Chinese Recreation Club annual “At Home! (Champions of Ten- nis: Leage : The Best; distribution of prizes by Lady Clementi), 3 p.m. Football: E.K.F.C. v. Queen's Royal Regiment, Happy Valley.
St: Peter's Y.M.C. Launch Picnic.
Launch leaves Queen's
Pier, 3.45 p.
Tea Dances: ILK. 'Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.
Ping Pong Loague H.E. Univer- sity v. T.MO.A. (S.C.A.A.).
The "Danae."
e Orchestra play
A notable figure in the public life tube train already full to cape during dinner at Lade, Crawford's
of the country for more than a generation has passed
John St. Loe. Strachey in Mr4ge of miracles has not passed. Restaurant.
the editor
But the good Bishop, has neglected Dinner Dansant at King Edward. and proprietor of the Spectator. to observe that there are other con- Hotel.
siderations.
Whitey Smith Orchestra at HK. from which he retired a couple of
In the first place it is not the Hotel Roof Garden. years ago. He was in his sixty English
to WAY
greet total: Forbes Russell Comedy Company eighth year. After leaving Oxford, strangers with smiles, as though present "Fallen Angels," Theatre where he was at Balliol under
they were long lost friends. It is Royal 0.15 p.m. Jowott, he read for the Bar,
but
Oriental Strolling Players and journalism claimed him, and he be against railway etiquette, anyway. came a leader writer or the old 4 mile from a man to a charming 1st Northamptonshire Regimental
be misconstrued Band, Lee Theatre, 9.30 p.m. might Then Brainpleasant results might
Standard
defunct. 130W
Queen's Theatre:"The Masked
he joined the staff of the Spectator, follow from a greeting from a plea Bride." and eventually became the owner. sant looking fellow to "a haiden World Theatre: "Her Sister Under his control the paper pro lady of uncertain age. This being from Paris." greased in every respect as a result the silly season, however,
of the energy be pat into it.
the Star Theatre: Sea Horses."
Mr. Strachey had a remarkably The Herning Post matter up-Principal Mails:-Outward: tells a story Europe vid Marseilles (Katori wide grasp of literature. It is
said that it was impossible to quote a reply to the Bishop, I feel Maru), 9.30 am
anid the
"Quite
from any poet but be could tell 20 braced this morning whence the lines came. In politics young man at the seaside.
a lot of pretty girls smiled at me he was a strong Imperialist, and as I came along the Parade." "No it was for this quality that so wonder "replied his friend
16th Sunday after Trinity, Cricket: I.B.C. #.Volunteers, I.1.0. ground, 2 pm
Naval and Military MOA.&-
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(Continued on next Column.) ear.-H.B.
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