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LAWN BOWLS.
KOWLOON DOCK BEAT
·CIVIL SERVICE.
SPEY ROYAL CUP MATCH,
C.C. Police tie
THE THIEVES OF
SINGAPORE.
PICKPOCKETS AND GANGS,
"
THE WAYS OF THE MINOR CRIMINALS.
progressed. Teams and scores in tere to buy mooncakes as the Fati detail are appended.'
vity of Autumn Solstice, otherwise) Kowloon Dock, Civil Service.known as the Fenst of Lanterns,
J. C. Brown E. Alderman
-HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931.
HOUSEBREAKING FOR SIR ROBERT GOWER | COL, LINDBERGH'S
EXCITEMENT.
BUSINESS MEN'S BONS BOUND OVER.
Herbert Hirst, 19, rison Webb, 17, housebreaking:
and Cecil Har
guilty to pleaded t
stealing £75 Hirst's family doctor said that when four the boy lived at Hull and
W. Hedley Jas. T. Dobbie was but two nights ahead. The worth of silver,
R. Capsley A. E. Oswick F. C. Cullen J. Gregory
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kholl did a roaring business, like- wise did the pickpockets, there whe
SUMMONED.
SEQUEL TO R.S.P.CA. MEETING.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT BY
stuna-
ADVENTURES.
ANXIETY CAUSED BY WEAK RADIO.
CHINA COAST. OFFICERS.
RECENT CHANGES IN PERSONNEL,
Mr. A. D, Blue, up y second engineer officer, from hospital," has gono noting second engineer officer, Bisting
MA C. Lemercier, second en- ginger, officer, Shengking, bus, goné second engineer officer, Wanibbion.
Mr. B. J. Anthony, from reserve, baa gone third officer, Suisang.
Mr. A. F. Cooke, third officer, Suisang, has gone second officer,
Capt. L. H
from re-
Bang.
D
Capt. C. I. A. Hendry, acting mastor, Kwongtung, has gone chief
officer, Kwongsong, has gone scoond, Mr. A. Houghton, acting chief ollicer, of the same ship.
Mr J. Roos, accond offeer, Kwongsang, has gone third officer, of the same ship. 99.
A suggestion that they committed the offences because they had, boun
LANDS
Mr. H. Pilling has been appoint Playing in the Kowloon GC,
motorcycling with other youths and
ed third officer, Anking, ground yesterday, Kowloon Dock
MR. MACGREGOR.
Mr T.E. Rees, from reserve, has, Waishing loading a high life, and the or-
Churchill, Canaca, August 2gone, home. Could t beat the Civil Service by 16 shots in Southern Hotel, was ablaze with dinary pastimes that they should
safety of
Mr. D McG. Holms, noting chief, their Spey Royal Cup lawn bowls electric lights. The clatter of the have followed were too dull for
Sir Robert Gowar, M.P., chair-Deep anxiety for the
Colohol and Mrs. Charles A. Lind.offeer, Shantung, has gone noting, has gone master, Hingang. match. They entered the semi-final clockwork set of toys attracted them, was made by Detective-ins man of the R.S.P.O.A., was.
Capt. A. B. Osmond, master, Mr. T. Gofton, from reserve, has Hinsang, has gone master, Kwong- to await the winner of the Kowloon thousands of captivated gazers whe pector Hill at Birminghain Qua moned at Bow-street Police Court borgh passed to day with the disc. Fatahan,
packed themselves right in front of tor Semions, when two ox-second by Mr Alastair Alpin MacGregor, covery that while for nearly 24 gone chief officer, Shantung.
Mr. J. N. Daniel, noting chief officer, Fatshan, in on reserve. load and increased it as the game fed through the throng to the coub"mingham business mon; Normannssault at the recent, annual moet missing they were flying in schedule. D. Brotchie, from short leave, officer, of the samo hip
Kowloon Dock always hold that. Men, women, and children push-ary schoolboys, and the sons of Birthe Scottish author, for alleged hours the world had them listed as
on the Canadian phase of their in transit to Ichang, of the Societ
Mr. P Maloy, suply, master, Mr. St. John Hutchison, and Mr. summer vacation flight from Now
Shongking, has gone home. Garsia appeared for Mr. MacGreYork to Japan and China,
Capt. J. Robinson, sup'y master, In their pontoon-equipped Lock Wanhsien; has gone command, gor; Mr. Stuart, Beván, K. C., M.P., and Sir George Jores, M.P., for Sirheed-Sirius monoplane Colonel and Ichang.
Mr. E. M. Foster, second officer, Robert Gower, while Mr. Elliott Mrs. Landbergh landed at Churchill Suiyang, is on reserve.
Mr. B. Jordan, third officer, at 0.50 o'clock c Sunday night, Gorst represented the R.S.P.C.A.
Mr. C. J. M. Benett, suply, second | Kvongsang, has gone third offoer,
bardments. He thought that was Mr. MacGregor, said that his client where Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
is 750 miles west of Bloose Factory,olicor, Suiyang a sonka
Mr. E. WA Richards, from reserve, à possible cause in developing a Amidst thejabbering crowd
did not alloge that Sir. Robert per lauded at two o'cicok Saturdays gone sup'y." chief officer, Wan state of mental instability...
"What he afternoon after a flight from Ot. hsien. struggled forward the portly figure
sonally assaulted him
tawa, Canada, which boganat Capt. A Settle, sun's, master, of the hotel's market-goer, his right thunder stage, and," added the does allege," continued Mr. Garcia, 10,50 o'clock Baturday morning. Shengking, has gone supy chief
It was ten o'clock on Saturday oflcer, Wanhsion. forearm weighed down by an over doctor, "he has been roading the" is that Sir Robert, as Chairman
morning when, after having spont Deadwood Dick stories, which I of a meeting of the R.S.P.C.Anthe night at Moose Factory Co. fuil basket. Seeing him thus on-
threw away when I was 10." That,' cumbered, three pickpockets silently he thought, was an indication of London, on June 25, give contin loner and Mrs. Lindbergh fuck off and swiftly closed round him, one thirst for adventure sought with orders to uniformed attendants for Churchill. Both Mouse Facery. of whom was just going to operate
the ability of a man.
under his control, and, acting upon and Churchill are isolated prints Webb was stated to bare been ra
on the shores of Hudson Bay, transit.
Relief that Colonel, and Mrs. when a slight touch on his shoulder ther unstable since suffering in those orders, those attendanta as- and a whisper "It's our employee "flammation of the brain.
saulted Mr. MacGregor by remov- Lindbergh had been fored down
him from the hall with far more
on Saturday in the delate ro. dispersed the operator and his ac-.
gion between Lake Expand and Force than was necessary. complices away. It was another
Moose Factory arose from ton fact employee, a tacitly acknowledged
Further, it is alleged, that Sir that the radio equipment on their Lough, who "intervened and resuci
Robert, standing. by, being what plane functioned so wearly as to make it impossible for them to
Shots Total Ehote Total pocketed a golden harvent writes was subjected to the Zeppelin bom-Mr. Garsia, opening the case for castorn" standard time Churchill officer, Kiating, has gone second Cheongaling
Hends,
1 1
2,
by 7 sets to 1).
The scores were:-
K. Leon in the Malayan Police Magazine,
"
Mentally he is in the blood-and-
The Recorder bound both youthsing over for twelve months...
Relevantly, I was the eye-witness
certain
a
oficor, Wanhsion, has gone chief Mr A. G. Parker, sup'y. chief oflcer, Kiating.
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&
Mr. F. L. Pears, sup'y. third
Mr. J. H. Hodgkins, mastor, Non- ning, is on reserve, Sok. Ple
Kr. J. S. Anderson, from reserve, has gone master, Nanning,
Mt. T. B. Anderson, master, Rosalie Moller, has gone master, Isabel Moller.
Moller, has gone master, Rosalie Mr. J. Koshemakiö, master, Daisy
Moller.
Mr. F. Sommelmon, chief officer, Daisy Moller, has gone, master, same ship.
Mr. A. Houghton, second officer, Kwongsang,, has gone second officer,
engineer officer, Szechuen, is in Mr. A. T. McLellan, sup'y. second. engineer officer, Antung, has gone. second engineer officer, Kiangsu Luenho..
Mr. W. C. Somerville, from short leave, has gone third engineer Anting.
Mr. J. Donnell, acting third en- gineer officer, Chinhua, has been dis
| Mr. G.
Mr. G. EF. Beck, second, officer, Luenho, has gone second officer, Kwongsang,
the corpulent one, a leat of which, of a rather humorous incident was happening and the amount of communicate their location to charge Rowell, sup'y, second [offeer, Fausang, has gone sup'y.
to intervene or stop it."
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engineer officer, Ichang, has gone acting third engineer officer, Chin:
Kewa by Aeroplane. While canoe and aeroplane' par. {hua. and Mrs. Lindbergh on Sunday an ties were scarching for: Colonel
aeroplane arrived at Coral Rapids from Moose Factory. Coral
the latter remained blissfully ignor Southern Hotel for ton. They had
Two mon," A nnd" B. dropped into force being itsed, made no attempt waiting and anxiona world. LEAGUE TENNIS.unt. Absolutely raw to the wilds not been seated long when a party and violence of Singapore's under of six men came, and, being friends,
100 Per Cent. Section." A hailed them to join them at the world, for I was installed as re-same table. Thus from two the
There are in the Society two WIN FOR CRAIGENGOWER.sident manager less than four number dow swelled to cight, and sections, one of which I might call months before, I was a close watcher the bill increased proportionately the left wing or extreme section, A inquiied of B how much he had
Rapids is 45 miles from Messe Playing in the "B" Division yes-of the above drama from beginning Twenty cents," answered B sul-and the other the right wing, Factory. The pilot of the plane terday, Craigengower beat M.B.K.to end. Greenhoralike I suggestedkily. "to and borrow some then,"moderate section, I'say extreme in announced that Cot met and Mis. to call police, but my tough in retorted A peremptorily. With the sense that that section call Lindbergh are in good health and out a word B left the table. thomsaives. 100 per cent, animal, spirits and with their plane in first ployes who knew much better it took the descending liftand and they object to performing class condition, and landed at **Sir, you do not know these ren walked out of the hotel. Fifteen animals and that kind of thing. Sanday afternoon. There is neither Moose Factory at two o'ɛlock on | minutes passed and Broturned, als yet they do not operate singly handing over ten dollars to The The other section do not object so but in gangs." This assertionhill was paid and the whole party themselves to beasts of bardeis 0080. Factory and the arrival of telegraph station t much to that but rather confine radio nor have afterwards had ample oppor
dispersed:
the Lindberghshiroutdume be re. I was struck by the ease with being cruelly used. ... which B obtained his loan but soon
ported since the signals from the arrit, that he indeed borrowed the
wireless equipment on their oney and the purse alse, but from
plane were too wank and, without the knowledge of me of the beauty gazers at that promptitude! junction studio. What remarkable
Howard and Hachiuma (C.C.C.):-
boat Fukushimi and Matsuo... 04 beat Nakamura and Tochi... 6-4 tied with Morioka and Edo..00 Leonard and Lia (C.C.C.) :--
Kreta Ayer Gange.
beat Fukushimi and Matsuo...tunities to verify us true. beat 'Nakamura ando Tochi... 6-1 best Morické and Edo ... 6 Zimmern and Zimmern (C.C.C.)- tied with. Fukushimi and
Matsuo 0-6 beat Nakamura, and Tochi...... 0-2 tiod with Morioka and Edo.... 66
WHY GIRLS BEAT THE CHANNEL.
MORE ENDURANCE THAN MEN,
NIPPY OF 18 TRAINING IN FRANCE.
И
TOOM.'
OWN.
The boat and canoo partios sent
"It so happens that in proprietor of a Manchester circus against whom the extreme section has been
Previously telephone calla from" The centre of pickpocket activities
agitating was going to be given a Coral Rapids to Torents had re- in Singapore's Chinatown lies in
sent on the Council of the Society, ported that an acropland had down Kreta Ayer aren, e."that rectangle
and the extreme section were going to raise points about it at the over that isolated point on Sun- meeting. The other section did not identified but later it was estab
day. The plane then had not been" bordered on the north by Cross
How Accomplices Intervene.
want that done. That was, in a linked that it was the Lockheed- St., on the south by Sago St, ou Last year a well-known Chinese way, the cause of the disturbance. Sirius en roufe to Churchill from: the oust by South Bridge Road, and theatrical promoter and reputed During a pause in the proceed-Mooss Factory.
boxer had his shin smashed, in this inga," said Mr. Garain, Mr. Mac- on the west by New Bridge Road; wise. He was in the habit of pick Gregor advanced a little nearer to from Coral Rapids to Mooso The.. together with Eu Tong Son Street ing up bargains from Bond-hand the platform, and said to the chair-tory to foarn whether the Lind- und People's Park Market. This dealers in Upper Cross Street and man: May I speak now, sir? Sir berghs had arrived from Ottawa
Lim Eng Bee Lane. During the Robert raid: No and without did not return to Coral Rapids be El Dorado" is split up into two process of price haggling his pocket waiting for further explanation,cause the searches were too inter- mandated territories, one of which was about to be picked when he added: I order you to leave the fested in watching the preparations is allotted to the Fagoda Street suddenly, grabbed the culprit who
promptly bolted. From the name Mr. MacGregor picked up his fight. The searchers, having locat- of Colonel Lindbergh to resume his Kang, with 1- common meeting stall a bystander seized an iron papers and intended to leave, but od the Lindberghs, safe and well, ground, for both gangs is at the bar with which he smashed the shin he wished to protest against Sir remained at Moose Factory to visit food stalls opposite Eu Tong Sen of the boxer and then fled, leaving Robert's action. He turned round America's most famous aviator.
his victini wriggling on the ground to speak when Sir Robert shouted. During the period that Colone! Theatre. All the members of the with pain. two gangs are master paychologists A burly man, whose expensiveum him out. As he did-no, Sir and Mrs. Lindbergh were listed as Cape Gris Nez-Why do so many divulged by the precise method ens velour hat attracted attention, lost Robert was seen to raise his hand missing all radle stations through more girls than men attempt to
both hat and consciouscas under assignal and five or six of the out Canada. sought to obtain newe swim the Channel? The season ployed for each particular act of guiloful circumstances. As was his tendants immediately begin to of them without success. The Cana torches efforts will soon be uponvictitas.
wont, to take his tiflim at Southern converge apon Mr. MacGregor.dian Department of National De- ue once more says a Home paper
"They seized him and rushed him fence First there are the women. Be. Hotel and at the entrance the
was organising aeroplane and the sands here are beginning ginning from numbers 161 to 147aekguards accosted him. Stop-out of the room. His head was woarching parties when the word Lockheed-Sirius to be populated again, with poton-South Bridge Rond and running ping out of his ricksha, he was rushed backwards and he was came that the
in a continuous row are half about to enter the hotel when his dragged out in a very rough way."
monoplane was en route to Chur- in many previous seasons, they are dozen haberdashery shops which are hat was suddenly snatched away Mr. MacGregor's Evidence,
chill from Monsa Factory... all girls.
11- delight to Chinese women and a from behind, the anateher
Mr. MacGregor, giving evidence, Mr. Jabex Wolffo, who made such Dogger Bank" for pickpockets, mediately taking to his heels. The stated that six or eight inspectors gallant picneering attempts and These gentry await the arrival la victim made as though to chase him of the Society attacked him from has spent most of his time since luxurious cars of plutocratic wames but, before he could move two paces, behind. One of them had me imparting the secrets of success to who do not condescend to alight discred and well plamd job on
around the throat," he said, " two others, has very definite opinions Lut order their maide to desend his chest, delivered with the elbow were pulling at my trunk; a fourth and make the requisite purchases.yu "spectator," sent him toppling was standing on my legs, and there Channel swimming is far more Confined in their cars with dang-backwards, and he lost conscious were certainly another two who a question of pluck than of luckling and sparkling earrings them ness through his head striking the were doing their best to get at me. be said to me. "It is well-known women personify wealth publicly concrete pavement..
Mr. Garsin They carried you that women endure suffering better displayed. There comes a quick Another man was led into a wild- than men do, and a Channel swim movement of hand followed by a goose chase in addition to losing bis eut They hurled me out, mer has to maintain grit and deler sharp ery of pain-an earring has hat. It was, abruptly twitched hauled lato an adjoining hall with What happened outside ?-I was mination through a long series of parted, company from its fair away from behind by a person who buffetings and discouragemdits owner, to be spirited away with remained perfectly still, bolding the an inspector still round my throat
hat bahind him, whilst an accom
and one kneeling on my chest. I its quick footed acquirer.
the owner of the hat thinking the Yes, I was gasping for breath. plice immediately ran away, and was thrown.
Did you loán consciousness?— Intter to be the actunk, thief gave "Nippy," who is training hard Passers-by remain completely unease and so became the laughing was adjourned:
After other evidence the hearingTM| stock of his friends-
'tial Channel swimmers, And, at
on the matter.
Girls attok it better than men 'do.'
That is largely why Mr. Wolffo All this happens within two this season is pinning his faith to Mins, Juno French, the 18-year-old seconds so swiftly, that even
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·A CAPTAIN · TO REST.
COUNTY, CRICKET'S LOSS?
On the authority of the Glouces- tershire Selection Committee it is announced that Beverley Hamilton Lyon, the captain of the Gloucester- be likely to assist the county again ahire County cricket team, will not this season:
Family illness and business, olaires ม. are said to be the reasons. The skipper has been absent frore: the inat six matches.
Lyon has been regarded as one of the most enterprising leaders of the day. At the Oval gainst Surrey ha declared at. 83 behind on the first innings, "nod although Fender followed his exam- pld the Westerners won by three wickets.
conscious of the coup. Then there here under his tuition,
Though a mero slip of a girl, there buyers who, inadvertently leav Then, there are pocket-cutters, who youngest of those in training, Missing their bank notes for change or operate on the mosquito buses ply. French is credited with the kind of five-footway, have their money lang route. It is wise, when carry-
collection on the counter nearest the ing on the Tanjong Pagar-Gey: GANG WAR BEHIND pluck that is likely to win through snatched away. The inevitable ing a considerable sum of money on She used to serve in a City sequel is a hot argument between one's person, to travel by the trolley
PRISON WALLS.* shop-her home is at Shoreditch the victim and the shopkeeper is bas, first class, rather than by a
STABBING IN SING-SING: When Yorkshire and Gloucester and of iate she has been a "Nip-sixing who should bear the loss.
met at Sheffield no play was possible. py" at Brightang
New York--A third cass of stali. on the first two days, and the first It is in that sphere that she has
The Gangstera" Inflexible Law,
ing in Sing Sing Prison within & innings of each county was declared acquired those qualities of smil. Next come visitors from out-
The two gangs operating in the month hag again directed publi, at four, each aide giving away byen. ing pluck and endurance which stations. At the corner of Cross Kreta Aver area have an inflexible attention to prison conditions. The Gloucester won by 47 runi. will stand her in good stead whon Street and New Bridge Road is a law that any booty should go to the warden of Sing Sing suspects that J Senbrooke, the old Cam- she makes her Channel attempt photographer's studio, its spacious common purse to be afterwards the gangstera who make up the | Uridge Blue, who is a master at window panelled with highly heare divided among the members in such majority of the prisoners are carry Cheltenham, will take over Glouces tified and coloured portraits of fair meisure as the leader deorsing on their feuds of the outsida | ter captaincy. Chinese actresses, singing girls de just. Therefore, if one who knows world inside prison walls. raimondo and others. To residents the local underworld has his pars John Delucca, the latest victim, of Singapore these pictures offer nestolen it is not up to him to report was stabbed in the darkness of the attractions, but to people from out to the police but to note the time prison cinema. A swift, dendly stations they are a rare trest. Al and place of his loss and then buat kafe brust was delivered silently, most laily groups are soon atands on the chief of the territorial gang and Delica annk to the floor with time now. They are out to recouring stoel still gazing sxedly at the the victim is tougher than a groan. Before he died he either "hotographs and lost; in raptuous the leader be gets his pure return could not or would not identify his
per Foru
"Miss French looks like having a
strong competitor in Mins Lly Copplestono Miss Poggy Duncan and Miss Micky West. Of cours, these hardy girls are not out more ly to swim the Channel. That has become almost a fashionable pas
Kar, the Empire the res
sent held by cho
Gertrude Ederic,.
do that
have to beat 14 Hours 30 minuts
If determination will do thesa days one of them will
fcotly easily the -nimble fingered softer he has to concede: portion operated, on the pockets of theen of the spoils as tea monty And starera Kedves andiamos kolm that is how Singapore's - minor
(Continued on next Columns criminals work.
In all three stabbings no weapons were found Usually spoons stolen from the mess-room" and sharpened to razor edge aro 'used.
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Mr. LG. Merry, from reserve, has gone second officer, Fausang.
Mr. W. 6. MeArthur second
second officer, the same ship.
Mr. G. 1./Lawson, acting master, Kingwo, has gone master, Fuhwo,
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