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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY
ECHOES OF 1861
Criticism Of The Police Arrangements
18, 1935.
MOTOR RACE SEQUEL
Lorry Drivers Fined
A race between two motor-lorry
from country ships. These classes drivers in Connaught Road West for the portion of the force on Wednesday had its sequel at known as Indian constables, They Central Magistracy when Ip Wei- are all alike—pariahs in mind and shui, driver of lorry No. 1994, and body the most apathetic, thick-Lau Shữ-po, driver of lorry No. headed, hallucinating.useless 4093 were charged before - - Mr. mongrels that were ever heard of, Schofield with reckless driving. we believe. There is an animosity The first defendant who had sever- of race between these pariahs and a previous convictions for minor the Chinese this should be a offences was finet $120 - and the strong objection to employing second defendant was fined $75. them...
with the alternative of one month's hard labour.
We in common with all our con- temporaries, have preached long and in vain upon the text that protection to life and property are mast essential to the welfare of this colony, simply because Its prosperity hinges on those two great desiderata in contradistinc- Llan to the lawlessness which per Vades
the country round about The Press of this Colony, anable to disagree on a point that was so palpable, have never ceased to Regarding the Europeans the denounce the utter inefficiency of defect is still worse. The police the Police force, both as regards force wants eyes which must be quantity and quality. Yet Gov- the property of some Europeans ernment has been content to stand whose heads are screwed on pro- llatiessly by, allowing matters to perly. Nat one pair does the
Sub-Inspector Saunders who prosecuted said that at 2.05 p.m. on Wednesday he was standing in the main entrance to the China Provident godown at West Point.
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remain in the groove into which force possess at this moment, and when he saw lorry: No. 4093, which ENGLISH FORUM FRENCH PENAL
they have been allowed to work, no wonder-the marvel is that until some danger overshadowed such good men are got that we us, when a temporary augmenta- sometimes see. The only mode tion of the force was drawn from whereby a European can join the the sallor's boarding houses or police force, is to enter as a police from the Macao bandy legged sable garrison. The danger over, the force is allowed to dwindle to its 'old moribund strength, the groove having become deeper, and more obtuseness the order of the day.
We and that the Colony is an El Dorado for the Chinese thier, whether pirate, footpad, burglar
constable. Should he prove steady, he s sure to be promoted, and should be prove intelligent, he is certain to better his position by leaving the police.
was empty and carrying six coolles; pass the entrance at a very fast speed, going west. It was followed by lorry No. 1994 driven by the second defendant and this lorry was also going at a very fast speed, Both drivers increased their speed, and it was evidently a race between them. He est ated the speed of the first lorry to be about 35 miles an hour while the second lorry when it overtook the first must have been going at 40 miles an hour. He had never seen such a plece of real reckless speeding since It were both on the wrong side of the road, and the second lorry was within a few feet from the sea when overtook the other.
Let any one see the quarters as signed to Europeans who Joth the police in this manner. let them see the company they have to keep, the work they have to do,
Officers Of New Club Elected
Hong Kong English Forum a At the second meeting of the
newly formed club at the Chinese YMCA. In Brloges Street, held ing officers were elected to take on Wednesday night, the follow
office for the coming year—
President: Mr. W. C.. Young: Secretary, Miss Phyllis Ing: Trea surer, Mr. Nathan Yeung; General Committee, Mir Hensy Kwock, Miss Rose Fay and Miss Josephine Wong.
SETTLEMENTS
Their Abolition Advocated
Paris.
penal code-the
Far-reaching reforms in France's famous Code Napoleon-are embodied in the conclusions reached by the Codi- fication Commission appointed
or pickpocket. They come by the and then be told of the miserable he had been in the Colony," They Vice President: X, James Poo three years ago which has just
water, escape by the him, and are difficult to catch. They are is race, adroit, bold and very agile That is the enemy we have to
meet.
And now for the force we have to oppose this enemy. Dhobies from Madras and Goa, and lasers
WAS
pittance allowed them.
then be understood why the police force is called a refuge for the destitute. It will be seen glance that all men of character and intelligence spurn the idea of joining, and thus it happens that THEFT FROM ST. JOHN'S the force is without eyes.
HALL
Before Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday Chan Wat
completed Its labours and recom- mends abandoning no fewer than 145 articles of the Napoleonic code,
THE PACIFIC ONCE alias Chan Wei Sath, umem- Canton Raliway Station gate on maximum of twenty years, al-
DRY LAND?
Small Images Found On Small Uninhabited Island
Man's steady progress in map- them is little Sarah Ann, in the ping the unseen world beneath the mid-Pacific, Scientists expected to oceans by means of echo soundings so it is a grstand from which sheds occasional tantalizing glimto observe the solar eclipse of 187, mers of light on the extravagant but recently United States naval Lut hunting legends or scientific vessels sought it in vain. theories of lands that vanished i
nder the sea.
The island hit rished. Thou sands of lives were lost when On the floor of the Indian Ocean Tuanaki in the Cook group was British Oceanographic expedition swallowed by the Pacific in 1836. recently discovered a submarine But wherever the changes in plateau and two ouried mountain the face of the earth and sea have ranges separated by a deep valley. involved large areas, they are Immediately men wondered whe believed to have come about "with ther these were yestiges of a the slowness of time itself. hypothetical continent, Lemuria," assumed by the late Ernst Hein rich Haeckel, German naturalist, to have existed in this very locali" ty, in order to explain the distri bution of the monkey-like lemurs.
The north-eastern coast of the United States, for example, is supposed to be sinking at the rate of twe feet a century.
Atlantis
The captain of an American
Atlantis is the most femons naval resecl, on sounding, duty in land lost in the sea. The poignant the Pacific for many years, has and fascinating story of Atlantis pieced together the outlines of a was given to the world by Plato huge continent-like mass lying who had it from Solon who in deeply submerged between North turn had heard it from a priest of America and Asia, raising again Egypt
the question of the one-time exis-Much conjecture has centred Lence of a continent in the largest around the Azores which atand on of oceans.
a huge elevation, of the ocean Since the days of Plato and floor, the Mid-Atlantic Rise, ex- probably even before the imagina- tending with two short breaks tion of mer has been stirred by from Iceland to the latitude of tales of a whole continent freight- Cape Horn, and lying about mid- ed with humans, suddenly going way between the Old and New down by the head like a stricken Worlds ship" says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters hot the National Geographic
Society.
The mammoth Pacific too has its mysteries of vanished landa. Re--
Some reputable scientists have maintained that some islands pent the Azores may have disappe Ak perhape catastrophically, as late Immense Changes as the human period, thus giving That immense changes have rise to the Greek legend taken place in the distribution of land and water areas in the long life of our planet, has long been märkable" stone images fannd" un. known, of course; to students of little Easter Talind 1,000 miles science the recent discovery of sub-west of Bouth America have Jed merged river valleys off Cape Cod, men to wonder whether, this 40- and nearly three miles below the square mile patch of land is not all surface of the ren in the Bahamas, that is left of a large island group: region gives proof that many aress continent and an extinct of the present ocean door Ware once dry lands
“Many islands are known to have disappeared suddenly. Among
PIRATES CHASED
Women And Children Rescued
three who
the Azores, it stance on, a submarine elevation of continental size, the Easter Island Rise.
LOCAL ESTATES
Local Estate to the
has been
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$13,0
Churier
ployed, was charged with the theft of a clock, from St. John's Hall. Bomba Road, on December 31, and the theft of nine volumes of books from St. Agnes Girls' College, No. St. Stephen's Isme, on Tues-
Defendant pleaded not guilty and the case was remanded until next Wednesday --
The Rev. K. Carpenter and Miss Agnes Par were the complainants.
A sixty-year-old widow, was charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yester day with being in possession of
nine taels of non-Government pre- pared oplum and two and a quar ter pound of dutiable tobacco, She was arrested outside the Kowloon
Tuesday evening. Revenue omcer Brown stated that she was only a carrier. A fine of $1.000 or six months was imposed on the frat charge and $10 or 14 days on the second.
The most significant reform -is the abolition of the notorious | Bagne system of deporting crimin- als for life to penal settlements in Cayerine, it being advocated to substitute Imprisonment up to a
though the Court may decide that the prison sentence be served in the colonies instead of in France. penal settlements as such, how- ever will cease to exist.
Surprise has been created by the retention of the death sentence Liu Wah, 57, banished from the and even the extention of its ap- Colony last year for a period of five plication, though a break with the years, was charged before Mr. E Told tradition is made in the re- Wynne-Jones in the Central Police commendation that executions by Court with returning Asked by the rublotine should no longer his Worship why he came back, the take place in public. In the light defendant replied that he came to of the experience of recent years Hong Kong to borrow 310 to go to much heavier punishments are Canton to hawr. Six months hard provided in the new code for Jabour was imposed.
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