MURDERER STILL AT LARGE.
SHOOTING AFFRAY IN HEART OF CITY-
VIGOROUS SEARCH BY POLICE.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1931.
MOTOR NOTES.
THE PERFECT SMALL CAR.
EVOLVED IN T
THEORY IF NOT IN FACT;
[HY A* CORRESPONDENT.]
THEFT PROOF.
NOVEL NUMBER PLATE.:
Reference was made some time ago to na invention by Mr, A, J. Williamsong of a special registra tion number-plate designed to faci litate the identification, of a stolen car, and at the move timo act as a
The daring murder of the Chinese detective in broad daylight, which occurred outside the new Govern- ment building, on the Praya on Monday, is still engaging the ntten- tion of the authorities, and despito the fact that no less than 16. dif- those millionaire'a leviathan care, ferent raiding parties have been driven by its designer. It had a busy combing well-known Comme nearly as long as Piccadilly, oars, mix the numbers, with the munists hunts since the outrage, an exhaust like the nigh of a butter-ide of causing confusion. Mr.
I went out the other day in one
deterrent to those, who, after steal
POLICE INTERPORT.
SHANGHAI VISITORS DUE
HERE TO-DAY.
HEAVY PROGRAMME AHEAD.
The Shanghai police team, which will be matched against representa- tives of the Hong Kong Police Force in a series of sports, is due here to-day, and a heavy pre- gramme of events has been drawn up for the visitors, both from the social and recreational point of view. The visitors will remain in the Colony for a week.
The team was to have arrived yesterday," but owing to fog the
hip had been delayed and they are not expected to come into port until today. The smoking concert
it is feared that there is no imfly, and a velocity approaching that Williamson clainis that his mum Police Club yesterday,' was, there-
medisto hope of tracking down the murderer, though a number of sua pects have already been detained by the police for interrogation.
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of light.
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So he was very shocked when, in the midst of much fulsome mraise. I remarked that I wouldn't accept a free diassis if he offered me ont. On his demanding my reasons, I stated them frankly. Most, though not all, of them were financial.
A Valued Officer, Yan Tak You, the victim of the affray, was only 24 years of age and was attached to the Bureau of Public Safety, Cautan. He was a very much-valued member of the knowledge he possessed of the or.) ganisation of the Kwangtang Com- tively-
tur-plate is the only one in the world which cannot be transferred without risk of instant detection." "The new plate embodies a cypher indicating the make of ir, year of
manufacture, and date on which the registration expires, as well 05 the regular registration number.
CONFERENCE..
Saturday, but on Sunday the visit-↑ PACIFIC AREA BUSINESS 'mig, players will meet the South Caina! Athletic Association "iná tootball match at Carolino Hillat
pau.
SAN FRANCISCO'S INVITATION,
LOCAL RUGGER
CLUB TEAM FOR" TO-DAY.
The following will represent
The rifle and revolver shootin?! contests will be fired on Monday on the Taikoo Rifle Range, and at 8 pm, the interport dinner will be held at the Police Recreation Club at Happy Valley The Shanghai police officers will attend the St. Patrick's Ball at the Peninsula uusince excutives in the Pacifle Hotel on Tuesday next at 6 pm. Area to be held in San Franciser and on Wednesday, March 18, they in May 1982. This Conference has are due to depart,
Forma) invitations live heon sent the Club ground at b.3ð pun out by the San Francisco Chamber | day :---- of Commerce for a conference of
Back: S. J. H. Fox; Throp" quarters W. D. Johnson, J. J. Ferguson, R. H, D. Wade, C. JD, Law, Halves: J. A. Lee, A. IL. Cox Forwarde: G. C. Boutrie, Mitford;
The above progranime is subiecten called after extensive corre to alteration after the arrival of the spondence and personal contact W. R. Andrews, Cochrane, W Shanghai, team,
with chantiers of commeren in Kurr, A. D. Coppin, T. D Me Japan, China, Philippine Islands,lian, II. D. Chapingdale..
Referee R L. F. Ewin. Indo-China, Siom, Straits Sottle- mienta, Dutch East Indies, Australiaï und New Zealand, which are,
DAIRY FARM COMPANY.
strongly of the conviction that the This R.M.S. Empras of Russia which was to have been held at the'
time has come when there must be will leave here for Victoria, and A SUCCESSFUL YEAR."
organized plans for expansion of Vinoouver; B.C., vid Shanghai, fore, cancelled. On arrival, t
future trade in the Pacific Thera Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama at team will be met by local police
are many problemas in connection noon on March 18, connecting with officers and after being given an The annual report of the Dairy with this matter which nood clear. { the Duchess of üledford, due Liver- opportunity to put some practice, Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co, ance and understanding. In order" pool on April 17. Shils will borth nt they will burthe quests at a dance, Ltd, states that the profit for the to consider these problems and take Pier No. b. Kowloon Wharf, on to be given at Lane, Crawford's Re-period under review after writing advantage of the opportunities, Monday, March 16, at d ́a.m.
I off $145,018.01 for depreciation, there is a feling that much closer staurant at 8:30 to-night
placing 818,000 to reserve against, personal contact between the mea To-morrow's Hatch,
bad and doubtful debts and provid-netually doing business in the To-morrow, the main fixture of ing for directora and auditors fees, Paeitie should be made.
amounts to 8351,418.94, which, in The San Francisco Chamber, ́al football match, will be played on the Houg Kong Football Club Forward from last year's accounts.ia calling this Conference and has ground at Happy Valley, the game is proposed to deal with the suade extensive preparations for the being timed to communes at 4.15 above balance of $351,416.04 as entertainment and confort of the delegates. The Chamber will ask m
the co-operation of other ports on To pay a dividend of ... 81.50 per share, on ^-.
the Pacific and will invito interests 200,000 shares. $300,000.00 in ather parts of the United States 20,000.00 I doing business in the Pacific, Ares Add to general reserve To carry forward 31,418.04 ||||(Continited on next Column.):
Invita
Bureau by reason, of the inside pan which be remarked medita. The design is simple, but does not the visit, the Inter-Police Force cludes the sum of $24,084.41 brought Commerce has taken the initiative and the South and Central Ameri
munist Party and its branches,
Lately he has been on the track. I hate the look of it!"
"I love the feel of a big car, of some of the "Red" ringleaders and, this took him down to the Knowing the man ns. I do, his Colony, where he took up residence meaning why obvious enough. The in Yaumati. He crossed the harsheer sensuous impression which a bour every day and it was his cus toni to walk along Jubilee Street big car makes upon the beholder is about the same hour each day on his way to Police headquarters Evidently his movements were well known to local Communists, who no doubt chose the spot for the outrage beforeland.
Description of Murderer,
nny
delightful enough. It possess rore intrinsie beauty than other meanical object, in the world, for an acroplano still looks clumsy at rest. But to a modest owner a big car conveys a guilty
detract from the general appair ance of the car. Mr. Williamson claims that all this information may be checked rapidly and that adoption of the number plate officially would reduce to a mini- mum the chance of motor thieves proof of ownership or Authority to getting away with a car. Further,.
drive the car would be afforded by the use of small metal badges bear- ing the same number as that of the registration plate, which could
It is now believed that three men feeling of ostentation. It makes by carried by the owner on a key After Yau had left the ferry wharf, him feel rather as if he had
- were connected, with the affray.
ring, or watchchain. He has work-
he proceeded in the direction of diamonds the size of walnuts in his out his iden olaborately and Jubilee Street and three men were shirtstuds, or found himself wear- seen to close in on hini. Two re- parts were heard and the mening the V.G., whesi nobody else in xattered and it is understood that carrying his decorations. So. 1
the man who fired the shots was opened my favourite gun on him. scarcely more' than a youth.
"You have expital, You have
was wearing a dark-suit and a hair
net and was seen to disappear in plant. You have reputation. Why 4 erovú neur the Central Markét.
After being hit. Yầu fell to the don't you take your courage in both ground; at the same time he blew hands and build the ideal ear? I iwo blasts on n police whistle. „The Grst to be on the 'seane WAR AIS, fiding soldier in multi butery In the course of discussion it auon üifter Inspector Andrée, who
asked.
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As to Dimoncions;
is in charge of the water front force,anspired that he and I are agreed about the perfect car, which must, course, be small. It must be
arrived and took charge of the
affair.
As was reported yesterday, Ya was carrying a pair of handcuffs at the time, and it has since been re- vealed that he had also a revolver but was not able to use it.
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INSTITUTION:
completely, and submitted it to tiaffe authorities, motoring or Kanisations, and others interested throughout Australia:
As a further anfeguard; Mr. Williamson suggests that petrol vendors should be licenced, and it
made the duty of every person purchasing the spirit while driving a car to produce his badge for in- spyction. Should the badge number not agree with that of the car, the
seker of the petrol and his o
small, in the first place, because ployee who serves it, should be
all cars do not embarrassa dellable
crnt
te a Bevere penalty, owner with that horrible. while H reward Yould.be usation of conscious opulence. It
mist be small, in the second place, offered for giving information because small ears are emndier than which may lead to the recovery of largs ears in areas where inotoring
is more delicious than anywhere
stolen car and the punishment
else. Motoring, at its zenith; doen of the thief.
not consist of gobbling space over As a further precaution against route, natiounter, or averaging manipulation of the new number- fifty on an arterial, but of follow-ntes, Mr. Williamson proposes that they should be sealed to the oar when originally installed by the authorities.
ANNUAL MEETING OF LOCALng the const where sheep and gales
BRANCH.
The annual meeting of the Hong Kong and China Branch of the Surveyors Institution was held on. Thursday, March 5, when the fol- Jewing officers were elected:-
Chairman. Mr. A, G, W. Tickle,
F.R.I.G.B.A., F.S.I.
nell, P.A.S.I..
krap the turf crisp and short, or trickling down mysterious lunes with visibility limited, by tho twists, to a few yards, or of haul ing the wheel round a giddy s cession of Alpine fucets. In the third place, the perfect mur ust be small, because two is company and three is not.
back he had regarded fifty as a good eruising speed, and you could al- ways get a smooth fifty out of a chassis which had a maximum, of, Ly seventy, But on some of these So we fell to discussing whother modern arterials, especially in mid- Vice-Chairman.Mr. M. A. Corit was technically possible to con-week, one could hold a good car at struct a smallish ear with that big more than that and endanger
feel and performance. He nobody. dented the possibility. I instantly I thought the ideal anal cr cited Ettore Bugatti's charming night well-cost £1,000, or even- little 1,000 e.e. model,
21,500; and at that price one could easily have a maximum of eighty or so, even if one had to super- charge to get it
⚫Hon. Socretary,Mr. J. E.
Richardson, P.A.S.I. Members of the Comanittee.-Mr..
N. L. Sparke, O.B. E., F.S.I. (Shanghai member), Mr. E. J. Ling. F.S.I., fr. E. B. Reed, P.A.S.I.
The address of the Hon. Secretary is Valuation and Resumption Office, Public Works Department. Hong Kong, to whom all communications should be addressed.,
HOME FOOTBALL.......
ST. MIRREN LOSE TO DUNDEE.
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LONDON, March 9. In the First Division of the Scot tish League, Dundee received St. Mirren to day and won by two goals to pil,
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car
"But what a noise 1" objected my designer. Silence is the most ex- qensivo commodity in the motoring the engine only in terms of spord world. One should be consions of
and acceleration."
"
it would have to cost some such sum He though that was teno. And
He confessed that our present
have to pay for the perfect car.
I admitted that people would monster was evolved by the cost Fest tosta. Each engine started He attacked me again: "You life with seven hours on the booth, could never get rent suspension Then it was stripped right down, with a small oar, could you ?" and highlypaid experta broathed I was not so sure. That little on every bit of it; it went together Bugatti was just about as woll again, and probably came down all. sprung as the £2,500 monster, which over again if it was not dead right was even then wafting us westwards on a oond bench run, Finally, it At eighty; and the Bugatti was did-at-least six-hundred-miles-on- cheap-even cheaper at Molsheim the road with a teat body; and then than in Bond Street; and in its day a few more miles with its own body; nobody had thought of adjusting and so on. By this time our dream the spring dampers from the dash, ear was assuming dream specifien as we shall all do by 1933.
tion-twelve bree-power, £1,500, and so forth,
raised another snag. A few years He conceded the suspension, but
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He agreed that this was all true.. In fact, I rather hope tit be will nctually get busy on the idea. Thờ réal tragedy is that I shan't be able to afford one.
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