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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.
The Chief Scout Jalby
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN,
(BY Lr. Ges. LORD BADEN-POWELL.) :
[Special to Hong Kong Dally Prose." All Rights Reserved.]
Scouts and Guides rely upon their ability to notice small things
and to put two and two together.
My solution of it was this. A
man had gone southward-on a long journey along the path two days before, carrying a load, and had If you are in the country you rested at the rock while he ate should satice landmarks-objects | walnuts.
which help you to And your way He was a man carrying a load. or prevent you from getting lost-because when carriers want to rest zuch as distant hills, church towers, they do not sit down but jest their preuliar buildings,, trees, gates. load against a sloping rock and rocks, and so on.
And remember, in noticing such Inndmarks, that you may want to use your knowledge of them some day for telling someone else how to find his way, so that you should notice them pretty closely and thus be able to describe them in their
proper order. You should notice and remember every by-road and
footpath.
Of course you should notice all passers by very carefully-how they are dressed and what their faces are like. Notice all tracks too: that is the marks of men, animals, birds and wheels-for, from these, you may read most important in
formation. The most successful de-
Scoute and Guides rely on their ability to notice all things.
lean back.
Had he had no load he would probably have sat down on the stamp; but he preferred to go thirty yards further to where the
rock was..
Women do not carry loads there, so it was a man. „But he first broke the shells of his walnuts on the tree stump with the stone, having brought them from the tree. 150 yards north. He was therefore travelling south, and he was on a long journey because he was wear- ing shoes and not going barefooted, as he would have been if only strolling near his home.
rain:
Three days before there was the cake of mud had been picked up while the ground was still wet, but it had not since been rained. пров and was DOW dry. The walnut rind was also dry, so that days had elapsed.
"Sherlock-ing."* "That is only an example of an every-day practice which any Scout might carry out-or any boy or girl for the matter of that.
CHINESE REVENUE OFFICER CHARGED.
ALLEGED ASSAULT.
CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE EMPLOYEE'S COMPLAINT.
An employee of the China Travel Service summoned
Chinese FL Revenue Officer before Mr. T. S.
Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday for assault.
Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the complainant, and Mr. J. M. Remedios for the defendant. Mr. E. C. K. Hawkins, of the Revenue Department watched the proceed- ings on behalf of the Department.
Outlining his case, Mr. Lo said that the China Travel Service was A firm run on the same lines as
Messrs. Thes. Cook and Sons, Ltd. I was stated that the firm was started ten years ago and did most of its werk in North China. Last May a branch office was opened Hong Kong.
On Wednesday, September 11, the Hong Kong offfee received informa tion that a lady was bringing some printed matter for the firm from Shanghai. The complainant and his fokis went aboard the steamer and the lady handed him three packages of books of advertising the China Travel Service. The books were brought ashore by the fuki and placed on the wharf in the usual manner for examination, The party were followed by the de- fendant, and he asked the com- plainant for tea money.
The complainant refused and said that he was only an employee. Ee invited the officet, however, to
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THE SWATOW AFFAIR.
REPLY TO SHANGHAI PAPER'S "VINDICATION."
On September 23 the writer of the letter which appeared in our columns some weeks ago, dealing with an incident at Swatow, sent to the N.C. Daily News a reply to statements subsequently appearing in that journal. We have watched the columns of our northern con-
ter had been published; if it has, temporary to see whether this let the fact has escaped our notice, and as the subject is of consider able public interest, we reproduce below the letter which was address to the Shanghai paper.
TO THE EDITOR, NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS," BRANGHAL]
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY IN..
CENTRAL DISTRICT.
MESSENGER OVERPOWERED AND ROBBED,
A daring robbery with violence. was carried out in the Central dis trict yesterday at 4 p.m.
A shop coolie at the Kwong Tai compradore shop, 8, Hing Lung: Street, reported to the Police that he was given $10.00 by his mas ter's son to pay Messrs. Conne Brothers, the sum of $450.07 and the balance 813.91 to Mossr
Road C. Himly & Company, 33, Connaught...
He frat went to Connel Brothers at David House going to the 5th door by lift. He had just left the lift when two men approached tim..
Was: money
"GIRLS' SUICIDE. PACT.
The first man said that he was going to search-him and before he ould protest, the man started to do NO. Suddenly pepper SIR-In your issue of the 19th thrown in his eyes and he examine the goods if be wished. The defendant made a search and instant under the heading "For-knocked down and the
eigners' Rights in Swatow" you taken. He called for help but the finding only books proceeded to
revert to the case originally report- men ran away. Up to a late hour look at them. Having finished beed in a letter to the Hong Kong last night no arrest had been made. deliberately tore two of the books. Daily Press signed "Disgusted." The complainant remonstrated with You state that after waiting pati- ently for further particulars of him, and the defendant replied: the incident such particulars have "I have assaulted everyone but come to your hand through a Bri.
tish resident in Swatow. you, and now I will give you d
strength of this new information taste." He then struck the com- you discount the original story, plainant on the left eye and knock vindicate the Consul, and apologise (ed him down. The complainant re-
to him. Your vindication and apology are no affair of mine. turned to his office and reported What I am most concerned with are the matter. He was sent to # the so-called " new facts which have doctor who examined his injuries, come to light," which give the
matter a different aspect.' and later he came to see Mr. Lo.
Mr. Lo, said that he wrote to the Revenue Department asking for the name of the Revenue Officer No. 73,
On the JUMP INTO HARBOUR FROM
As I am the original disgust cd one rejoinder seems to be indicated.
When I was the age of a Welf Cub I used to notice the number on the collar of every policeman I met, and then remember where I
is apparent in every line of his Your informant, whose identity had seen him. Then I used to get but received a reply from Mr. Jinformation, suggests that the a friend to come for a walk to one D. Lloyd that he would like to know monotony of our lives has so de- of the points where a policeman if the assault had taken place ranged our winds that the most trifling disagreements are magni was on duty. A policenian on whilst the defendant was on duty fied until they become actual feuds, point duty is one who remains or while he was "in private life.", that such feuds date back for a always about the same spot for He also pointed out that frequent long time, and that at prescat "the little group of British resi- tectives owe their success to notic-regulating the trafic and so on-mistakes were made in reading dents is sharply divided into two ing small signs. Scouts are natural not like the policeman on bent numbers, and he suggested that an camps" (I suppose the inference is detectives and never lat details | who moves about over
that I belong to the bleak-minded, be certain identification parade should
monotonous camp and your inforin-. escape them.
beld. A parade was held and the ant to the Brighter Swatow" complainant had no hestitation in movement). pointing out the defendant.
A Scouting Exercise. Here is a little exercise which I once carried out in observing a sige and reading the meaning of it.
district of his own.
When we were in sight of the
would shade my eyes and atare policeman but a good way off I
hard in his direction, and gradual- ly spell out his number and the letter of his division. would walk past bim and my com union would think that my ma vellous eye-sight had read them correctly!
Then we
Seriousness of the Case,
But the most serious of your in. formant's allegations is that I in my little camp, have built up a fabric of camouflage and misrepre santation against a background of
Mr. Lo said that he would like During a walk on a stony moun
to point out at this stage of the tain path in Kashmir I noticed a
proved he must ask for a serious curing that if the assault was tree-stump about three feet high
view to be taken of the case. by the path. A stone about the size
and Revenue officers were guar
Police of a cocoanut lay near it, to which were sticking some bits of bruised Then I used to keep a little sole to allow such assaults to occur private feud in order to fire off at
dians of the public safety, and walnut rind; also lying on the book and draw in it pictures of all starap. Farther along the path, the different weather-cocks I saw. by the public. The public should shall I say, your rendering of his would mean distrust of these officers the Consul my darts of party animus. If his information or, thirty yards to the south of the Very few people look up and notice Stump, were lying bits of walnut these,
these information, mens anything at shell of four walnuts. . Close by was
all, it is that i have taken a chance opportunity of attacking an enemy
path.
MURRAY PIER
According to a Police report, two Chinese girls of sixteen who had recently arrived from Canton, jumped into the Harbour together early yesterday morning from Mur- ray Pier,
The act was witnessed by a number of people in the vicinity and a prompt rescue was affected Great Eastern Telegraph Company hy ne office hay employed by the and by a sampan foli.
The two girls, who were suffering from the effects of the immersion were later removed to the Govern-" mont Civil Hospital. The cause of their action is being investigated. by the S.C.A.
a groes
5. When the facts of the "Dog" case came to light all the British. resident (except perhaps your in- Formant, whose opinjon I did not He further alleges that I am one ask), including many of the Con- of the party or camp which insul's personal friends, were appall cludes the British resident who was ed at the settlement, involving, as Inaltreated. This is a delicate it did, the sacrifice of the extra- thrust which can only be appre territorial principle and cisted to the full by Swntow folk, injustice to a British subject. and it is very amusing in spite of
4. The letter signed "Disgusted" its inaccuracy.
was written after much discussion: and thought amongst many who are still the Consul's personal friends, and when your informant suggests that private malice WAS the actuating motive he places himself once again in a minority of one. When I wrote the Disgusted letter I was merely concerned to air grave injustice, and to discover whether the sacrifice of the extra- territorial principle was to be im puted to the Consul, the Legation.. with whom I have had A
or the Foreign Office. long-
It must surely be obvious, ever standing feud.
May I state at once, quite aim to your informant, that if we are formant means that he is prevari asential for us to know whether and resistance which might justify eating. There is no other word for the Consul has received instructions these officers of arresting a tough it, as every British resident in place expediency before prin-
Swatow will attest.
ciple in matters affecting our If you require a general back: personal rights and liberty. In The complainant then gave ground for the episode the follow matters of property rights it is all
too evident that principle
died evidence corroborating his solici- ing may help you:-
I. The Switow British com long ago. tor's statement...
munity (you state "foreign com- His Worship enquired if his job munity) is small, but it is com- the authorship of the Disgusted was similar to a boarding house
have every
confidence
in
oicers and know, above all, that they did not use violence to people
.
On the top of the Royal Exchange a high sloping rock, alongside the in Landon there is a huge golden
The only walnut tree in sight was sands of people pass it every day, were certain degree of provocationly and directly, that if your in. to live and trade in this port it is
150 yards north of the stump. At the foot of the stump was a cake of hardened mud which showed the impression of a grass shot.
SIND FLOOD RELIEF FUND.
The Secretary of the "Sind Flood Relief Committee announces the following subscriptions and offer sincere thanks to the generous donors:-
Mr. O. G. Chhatlani.... Shops' Charity Boxes
Mr. Bishinda
861.00
73.13 5.00
Messra. Ler Yuen Chung...
20.00
Messrs. I. M. Alves ......
10.00
Mr. R. Soondarman
10.00
Mr. S. Soondarman Sirdar Mohindar Singh... Khan Sahib Navab Khan....10.00
10.00 5.00
$ 104,13 Previously acknowledged 2,609.20.
H.K.$2,803.33
Total
grasshopper as weathercock. Thou-
yet very few. ever notice it.
They don't keep their eyes about them as does a godd Scout or Guide.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week-ending Septem ber 28 is as follows:-
Plague. Tamatave: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Alexandria: 3 cance, i death. Rangoon 2 deaths.
From Penh case, 1 death.
Cholera,'
Calcatta: 12 deaths. Bangkok: cases, 2 deaths. Pnom Penh 5 cases, 3 deatha, Chinwangtao: 2 cases, 1 death. Shanghai: deaths. Swatow: 10 deaths," (Vontinued at foot of next column).
they had to search.
His Worship remarked that there
customer.
runner.
Mr. Lo: "No, No, your Worship, purely a-Thos, Cook and Son, show]"
The bearing was adjourned until October 16, at 2.15 p.m.
"Small-pox.
Berbera: 1 case, 1 death. Bombay: 7 cases, 2 deaths, Calcutta: 1 care, 1 death. Cochin 2 cases. Karachi 3 cases.
Madras: go cases, 2 deaths."- Moulmein: casen. Nepagatam: I case. Pondicherry: 3 cases, 3 deaths. Macaaner: 3 cases.
pact and harmonious.
+3
As I have informed the Consul of
letter, and as I hope soon to meet,
2. In this particular British your informant at the Club, there community" the sameness of things is no reason why my anonymity and the constant association with should not be preserved amongst a mere handful of one's own pes the general public, and I therefore ple" has not produced the feuds subscribe myself.-Yours faithfully, which
STILL DISGUSTED." your informant-suggests, 3. The suggestion of a sharp The above letter sets out the facts division of the British community very plainly, and certainly calle into two camps is a purely im for notice by the Shanghai paper. aginativo fight, and I can only I will be remembered that, in think that your informant had his commenting upon the so-called Longue in his check when he made "vindication," we pointed out that the alleged new facts brought to the suggestrom, ko
4. At the time of the incident Eght did not affect the real issu there' was complete harmony at all. The writer of the above amongst the members of the British letter stresses the same point. community, as indeed there still is. From whatever angle the incident Your informant in suggesting is regarded; it is decidedly un- otherwise places himself in a satisfactory from the British minority of one.
resident's point of view, and more (Continued on next Column), “A is likely to be heard of it yet.