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EARLY IN JUNE, 1840,
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IN EAST
Badlands Japan's
Army
CAPTURED SHIPS
13
TAKEN HOME
LONDON, April · 14 (Reuter)--- Twa German trawlers
captured by the British Fleet of Norway were brought into a north-east Scottish port today,
A third German trawler Wis
terday.
could clean up the Badlands overnight. But Japan's Army knows better, It much prefers to cultivate the THE 'BADLANDS” Badlands as I a source of needed revenue 2) a point of pressure on OF SHANGHAI
the International Settlement, For Driving out of Shanghai's In- | over В year the policing of brought into the same part yes- `ternational Settlement to the Shanghai, both inside and out- westward one notices the broad, side the Settlement, has caused a quiet residential streets «suddenly | two-way controversy. give way to a crowded, garish The Japanese want control of area, bright with neon signs and the Settlement and the Settle- highly coloured bill-boards.
Ament's Municipal Council wants section in which there is miny a
to help keep order in outlying long luring arcade leading to areas. Last week the Municipal gambling halls, opium dens, places Council won a slight concession. of “special”, entertainment.
An agreement was signed permit- HELL-SPOT
ting Settlement police to "help" This is Shanghal's notoricus patrol part of Japanese-controlled "Badlands," most vicious hell-spot | Hongkew,
which 15. technically
"
In the East. The Badlands have part of the Bettlement anyhow, beer patrolled by slovenly, bully-
· LITTLE PROSPECT 19h Japanese controlled Chinese
Still wide open were the Bad- policemen known as the "Ta Tao
lands. Bo little prospect was Boys (for the puppet Ta Tag there of cutting out this cancer Government) who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese and preventing its spread to for- assassina working for the Wang-six back-to-the-wall years on the elga areas, that last week, after
Ching-Wel Peace and Reconstruc- tion Movement use the Badlands Municipal Council, which also had for their base, and Puppet-elect to triple its $1,000,000 budget last Wang's own, fortified hideout is week to keep pace with the stum within a dice-throw of the most bling Chinese dollar, the Council's Chairman, Mr. Cornell, S. Franklin notorious oplum and gambling
announced his intention of re- joint in the whole area.
No day goes by without at least from Mississippi, home State of signing. Mr. Cornell Franklin halls one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the Author William Faulkner (who is married to Mr. Cornell Franklin's adjacent International Settlement
first wifel, -so much so that no one is par ticularly surprised at advertise- ments In the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mer- cury setting out the fine points of certain bulletproof vests.
KNOWS BETTER
Shanghai's "biggest fall in the world," Ward Road Gaol, is ex- pected before the end of 1940 to house 10,000 prisoners, most of whom have spilled in from the
WEATHER REPORT
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 a.m.. April 14. Barometer (at sea level), 30.08 ins. Temperature, 71 F.
Humidity, 79 per cent.
Wind Direction, W/N Wind Force (Beaufort), 1. Temperature; maximum yesterday,
75 F
་
Temperature minimum last night.
66 F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs.. ending 10th
today. 0.13 ins
Total rainfall since January 1st
10.41 ins.
..
Against an average of. 8.07 ins. Sunset tonight, 6.43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.03 a.m
4 p.m. April 14.
Barometer tat sea level), 30.04 ins. Temperature, 66 F.
Humidity, 71 per cent,
Wind Direction, NE.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 3.
Maximum temperature, 72 F. Minimum temperature, 88 F. Rainfall, mil
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 16 to 21 Apr. 1940. HIGH WATER.
Week
*qi99 661
Beng Kong
Standardi
Time.
LOW WATER
Hong
Kong
Height
Standard Time
Height.
RADIO TRAINING SCHOOLS
OTTAWA-The first of four wireless training schools to be established in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Train-
ng Plan was opened in Montreal on March 11, the Minister of Na-
tional Defence recently announ- ced. The personnel under instruc- tion as ground wireless operators will total 120 airmen. A further intake of sixty similar trainees will be effected on March 26, while twenty officers
will commence the same date as training on
Cariadian Air Force.
In "the Royal Signals officers
The nucleus of the wireless school was created at the R.CAP. Station. Trenton, Ontarlo, where instruction has been provided for some months,
julepa, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right |to Cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and a Sghting his pretty second wife are tired "A good sport and gentleman. Mr. Cornell Franklin of all this warring and ready for has transplanted the South-mint a little reconstruction.
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