HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Police To Perform Militia Duties
Ao toportant Bill is published in the Government
Gazette and refers to the ability of certain police bodies to be call- rd проп to perform combatant duties as Militia in certain circumstances
If war breaks out or in other time of emergency, the Police Fores, the Hongkong Police Reserve, the Police Force, regulated under the Naval Establishments Police Ordinance, and special constables appointed under the Peace Preservation Ordinance, or any of them, shall be able to be called upon to perform com- balant duties as Militia forces either in addition to or in Dew of the duties they are required to perform as Polico.
Such Militia forces will be AT independent military force under the Comunand of and trained by the own officers and will not. unless the Governor so directs by Proclamation be under any othe command.
subject to such terms and re- gulations as the Governor may declare Such declaration shati be by Proclamation published in the Gazette and shall state the limits within and the period for which the Corps or any part thereof shall be so employed."
LABOUR UNREST ¦ IN COLONY
TAI HANG RUBBER FACTORY STRIKE
D
For two days the Tal Hang Rubber Partory lay idle when the ngineering SELIT struck work sometime last week
On Tuesday
Wednesday work WILS L A standstill but the men returned M.: work an
En Thursday when the Chinese gineering Assomation intervened
it
GENERAL
Science tames little "Tough Guys" HAPPINESS COMES TO OUR DEAD END KIDS
=(GY OVERSEAS DAILY MAIL REPORTER) High Wycombe (Bucks)-London's "Dead End Kids who came here in hordes at the height of the blitz, are running straight at last
They really "beat up" this peaceful country lown when they first arrived.
They carried on the gangs that they formed in London's shelters. They looted and plundered when they were not just "playing naughty.”
No house could bold ther
In an endeavour to settle the dis- They were he despair of the peo- pute It is believed that the disple with whom they were billeted. pale arose VEI
demand for Today I saw some of the "Dead higher wages
End Kids 1 met when Louring Later inquiries revealed that London's shelters. They are nut negotiations are now in progress angels yet--don't think that -but between the management and the they bear little resemblance to the workers.
young rougnecks i used to know How has this happened? It is vital social ex-
A
TOMMY GUNS
FIRE 700 ROUNDS
TRAMWAY STRIKE Information has been received largely due to In the Stralis Settlements the that 11 agreement has been periment: an experiment Thai
reached on Friday between the may be repeated In evacuation lips nearly every
These forces shall, if it becomes, necessary or expedient so to de in; the Defence of the Colony, ungage in Military operations against the matter is dealt with by Defence armed forrea of any enemy at Regulations. The Police Force tempting to Invade or otherwise Military Service) Regulations,
carrying out warlike operations 1941, Nos. 2 and 4 of which pro-
against the Colony or against s'vide that the Police Force shall.: Majesty's forces
becomes 11
In normal circumstances the pedient tu, Police are essentially Prace 01- operations
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necessary or ex engage In military against Armed forces
Hongkong Tramways and their Artisan Staff following a demand
or an increase of wages
ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL
The
following
Ap
cers without combatant status but, in defence of the Colony and that in abermal times of war and 'In
performance of any military emergency. such as the present, duties the Forer is to be an in
have beri where the security of the Colony dependent military force under pointed to be the standing mem may be compromised at any time, the
tive command of
Inspectorbers and secretary respectively of by parachutist or other forma ufGmeral of Police
the Employment Arbitration Tri- hostile attack. It is necessary
The Hungeng Bill is a adaptabunal, according to an announce- give the police, for their own pro-ton of both the above precedents ment in the Government Gazette: fection, combatant status
under bearing to mind that Arbeie 1 of Mr E Williams, Crown Coun Section 1 Chapter 1 of the Annexsel Chairman The Hon. Mr บริ
1899 N T Tam, Prof R Robertson, and to Hague Convention di ot
dealing with the Qualitendons of ; Mr D. R Holmes Secretary belligerents provides
Messrs :}181
14 Iu-hong Employers Jaws, rights and duties of war ap representative. and Mr I Chow. ply not only to armies. but as Workers representative, have been
mulitla Fid Volunteer ceps - selected by the Labour Officer lo fullling the tolowing condi- be members of the Employment tions
Arbitration Tribunal for the pur-
International Law
the
The information Gazette further points out that section 50 of the Northern Rhodesta Poller Urdinance. Chap. 46, provides that ***|| the event of war or other time of emergency members of the Corps are Bahle to be employ- ed for military purposes and when so *mployed shall be
Commodities War Risk Insurance
Proposal Disfavoured
Το
A MINUTE
Although his name ts on our day. few people
centres all over the country
om this side of the Atlantic have The experiment has been con heard of John Tallaferro Thump- ducted by Dr Margery Posthuma. | setl brventor of the now famous thr Haricy-street psychologist, tommy gun, writes Clement Yorke who moved here when her home in the Overseas Dally Mall and clinic were bombed.
Thompson, who died a year agu, spent he inventing weapons
FROM NEW
YORK
of
At the end last year the kids of death. He was a pioneer down here were at the height of small arms and ammunition, and! their Telga Shops were being although he had hundreds of in- robbed by clever ruses windows were being broken
name it is the i which he will
1. his ventions tommy-gun by
Dr. Mcore, the MO.H, derided remembered. that they must control the chil- dren before it was wo late Ile got in touch with Dr. Posthums She liked the idea She was
trained in New York, knows it means to deal with real End Kide from the slunds Bowery
clinte at
for two
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1941. --PAGE 9
25
If you Value
your Health-
Insist upon
Gordon's GIN
NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients
tommy-gun. Its comparative ight- ness 14b. ioaded with 50 rounds ... and Its effective shortrange
fire rapid
have revolutionised modern infantry war
Britain began to take
hot tee
but
E-X-
Son of an American Ariny cal onel he graduated 1 the US Miltary /cademy and decided to specialise to arms and ammuni what tion He entered the fight Art-and simost immediatriy adopted he served for 32 and the whole of the Thomp- Drudi
Hiery, in which
years before retiring as a colonel Sun Machine Gun Company's ont the i
pal was earmarked for our Army In November 1914
In June 1940 the company was His expert knowledge of wea-1 She agreed to run a
month the local health centre
pous of all types made him in producing 5,000
and how rapidly output has beer valuable to the US Artny. days a wees, and to examine the when America came into the war
nanded may be judged by the rart really bad cases who had already in 1917 he was appointed chief of Home Guards, too, been sent to a hostel.
So the Dead End Kids were and manufacture of
the hound set up to control design being equipped with them
For cluse hand to-hand fight put on parade beure Dr. Past-
mg. the tummy-gun is deal and huma for an
and ammunition hour every week
finitely superior to the bayonet. the she
talked LO them: watched!
ut there are good reasons why them play slowly, but surely, led
was not until after Le instit will not entirely replace the them out of the blind mental war, however that he produced rifle and bayonet, alley in which they had lived
his first tommy, gus
Umpressed by the performance shotgun, then American gang-
That they be commanded by a pose of the settlement of a dis- person responsible for his sub- pute between the Hongkong and
ordinates, that they have a fixed Kowloon Motor Drivers Unlon, and
distinctive emblem recognisable at the Yellow Taxient Company, the a distance: that they carry arms Shanghat Taxicab Company the openly and that they conduct then operations in accordance with the laws and customs
war"
Central
Taxico Company. Blue Tax cab Company and the Star Taxicab Company.
INCREASE IN OPIUM DIVANS CAUSING
By Chinese Hongs GOVERNMENT CONCERN
Representatives of Chinese com
mercial organisations held a meel- ing al
Chinese the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce | General
Friday evening to ascertain the views of the Chinese business ecminunity on Government's pro posal for a compulsory Commodi- tle War Risk Insurance on goods Vauled at and
The increase in the number of Opium and Beroin diyans in the Colony, is causing the Government considerable concern.
says the Hon. Commissioner of Police, Mr J. PennefatheTM- Evans.
t is realised that the ordinary procedure of arrest of offen- ders followed by prosecution in the Courts is too lengthy to be effective in preventing the increase of these divans.
STILL TOUGH
small
{}] tils
GANGSTER'S IDEA
Bone of them fought against | 9j| The sawn-of
One of them is still fight. widely used by
her
ing. He is the wildest of them sters, he adapted the
all:
idea and
700 A MINUTE
are NOW
1
The greatest use of the tommy gun is for "spraying" bullets the enemy at 700 rounds a minute This would
a touble-haired fiery fellow made a short-barrelled quick-fire as a full automatic. who will throw anything on sight, automatic gun and likes to wreck almost every thing he sees.
They have almost
given up hope of him; almost. but That qulte. He is the terror of the. town, the undisputed tough guy.
I saw today just how Dr. Post- huma gets to work on the chil- dren, She uses what LB
called play therapy.
She gives them toys, and from
With the approval of the Hong-will be seized and taken to ine
new method Police Station in that particular their play makes her deductions. $15,000 kong Government a Over a premimum of 1 per cent. ner is to be adapted in the next few section.
¡days.
al
month
One child, for instance, Imme
The occupier of the divan will diately picked up the model of a The cities of Victoria and Kow-be given Though the matter was discusa-
a list of the property wolnan. put it on a rallway line for Police pur-seized and will be informed that, and ed at length no decisions were loen are divided.
Fall over li with a train each under on a certain date, application will When asked who the woman was reached for the majority were not poses, into sections.
the control of a European Police In agreement with the scheme.
be made by the Police to the she said it was her mother. Each sergeant will in Magistrate, for the destruction of There was the key to the whole The meeting was adjourned and sergeant.
[future be responsible for the the representatives were asked to
the property seized, divans in his consult their organisations and fl cleaning up of the in a questionnaixe relating to the section and for keeping his sec-
tion free of them in future. proposed War Risk Insurance. These are to be returned this week
QUESTIONNAIRE questionnaire
The three items. "Do you
The Occupier will be informed that, should he wish to show cause
Arrests will not ordinarily be why the property should not be made, but all divans will be raid- destroyed. he
attend may
the
ed by the Police and all imple- Magistrate's Court on that day to contained ments
for smoking and drugs state hla case.
approve in principle
the of
proposed
the institution
ommodities War Risk Insurance?
If not, state your reasons."
What is your opinion in regard
to compulsory Insurance of
valued at and over $15,000?"
goods
Do you approve of the proposed
per cent premium per month?
If not, stute your reasons."
Some representatives argued that compulsory insurance will raise further the cost of Ilving
since
the burden of the premium will eventually fall on the shoulders
of the consumer.
Fraulein Gets Justice
(BY OVERSEAS DANY MAIL REPORTER)
A Fair-haired German woman looked back at the figure of Justice as she left the bombed Old Bailey recently and remark- ed to me: "I think the sun is shining doubly on English Jus- tice today,"
An Engüst Jury of seven had accepted her word against that of her mistress, Mrs. Heather Campbell Grenville Holms, 45-years-old wife of a former Army captain.
trouble.
A
stole
CALLOUS PARENTS 12-year-old boy who from his billets and trom shope was another problem,
Eventually Dr. Posthuma dis- covered that he had callous parents and had no one to really care for him. Pilfering was his way of making himself noticed.
Dr. Posthuma says he will cease to pilfer as soon as she teaches him that grown-ups do cure him,
The children's not end when
After early experiments it was not widely adopted by the Ameri
because can Army
of its short range ¡ effective
paratroops were unknown in those days
J! did however become the main weapon of America's vasí underworld
Little was heard of it in Europe, however, until German puratroops landed in the Low Countries.
EASE OF OPERATION
be used only in great emergency
Its extreme range is 600 yards. but best results obtained from shoulder-almed single shots at 100
yaras
Quick bursts from the shoulder I would find their
target at 40 yards. but Hiring from the hip at a rapid rate reduces the effective- ness of the gun to 25 yards.
GORDONS
DRY GIN
SICHHATTI
LONKON
Village Settlements Scheme
The proposed village settlements
In the Silver Mine Bay ond Hebe Haven areas may involve no finan- *!@k enmmitment to Govern. ment if proposals made at a recent meeling of the Central Committer of the Lantau Island and Port Shelter Village Settlement Scheme prove to be practicable.
There is a possibility that part of the bigger Scheme can be run on the lines adopted by the Chi- nese Industrial Co-operatives Move ment in Free China,
A meeting of the Committee was held at Medical Headquarters last Thursday for further discussion of The Scheme
It is understood that the ques- tion of formation of a company to develop village settlements, for a start, in the Sliver Mine Bay area of Lantau Island, was con sidered.
People invited to the opening of a fruit preserving rentre at Ken Like the Bren. It can fire single ley, Surrey. were asked to take shots-a big advantage when it is goose-berries from their own gar necessary to conceal fire power dens for Jam-making. More than from the enemy unt the very last 20 pounds of fruit were supplied
in this way.
The ease or operation of the moment
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WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for for all gold and silver articles. Jade, diamonde, jewels, watches. treatment does fountain pens. Apply Far East they leave the Diamond and Gold Refining Co., clinic. Miss. G. E. Neal, a psycht Room 621, China Building, 6th | atrist, visits the parents and
floor foster-parents of the children and gives them advice.
open.
I saw the "Dead End Kids" the shelters were their
Sundays and Holidays!
KOWLOON OPTIČAI ÇO., 563 "beat up" their Nathan Road American graduate
now I
Mrs, Holms was found guilty of Miss Muller gave her evidence when fraudulently converting 140-her in slow, faltering English, and hunting-ground; I saw them when German cook's life savings which when the Common Serjeant, Mr. they tried to nad been entrusted to her for safe Cecil Whitley, K.C., asked her why countryside retreat; and custody.
she went to the police, she replied know that most of them are not optician, test eyes and fit glasses to six in a quiet voice, "Who else could really 'Dead End Kids" at all. at moderate terms. Thoroughly It was help me?"
They are ordinary boys and girls scientific. £140 THE
Bumming up, the judge told the who need firm and sensible hand- had been made by her husband, jury of a similar case at the Old Hing, some ordinary human kind- At its budgetary conference con- who paid the money out of his Balley In the third year of the cluded in Shukwan, the Kwang-own resources.
last war. A Jury then had tor enti. case affecting the credi-
BUDGETARY
CONFERENCE
She was sentenced months' imprisonment.
mated that restitution
tung Provincial Government has Miss Irma Muller, aged 41. had sider a decided to designate the 31st fiscal no one to turn to when she found bility of an enemy allen.
year as the year to increase agri cultural production,
ness, and the love many have never known.
her mistress would not give her Lord Coleridge told that jury of £700 a year, was stated to re-
Ocullata prescriptions Alled Broken lenses duplicated,
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TEL, 69455.
back her money. Her family lives that in the centre of this great ceive £8 a week for housekeep- Bituated in the Heart of How- A budget of $2,500,000 for agri- in Germany. and her brother city stood the chief criminal court. ing. plus 1 a week for herself. loon. Try our Fancy Cakes & cultural reconstruction was passed. Eugen is in the German Labour and on its dome, reared high Her husband “purchased her clothes. celebrated Sweet-Heart Short-
(Central Newal.
Corps,
above the busy hum, stood the Mrs. Holms also gave psychologica! Cake a real delight. We also serve She was completely alone in a dominant figure of the Goddess of consultations, and had a brass Chinese Vegetarian Dishes pre- | foreign country, but she had the Justice.
plate outside her dat it Torring-pared by master chef, Greenwich babica under 18 courage to tell the police.
In one hand she held a sword ton-place, W.O.: "Mago. Psycholo- months whose mothers attend in- Miss Muller had been working to smite down the evildoor, and in gist." rant welfare centres have recent-for Mra. Holan for about six the other the scales of justice. He Miss Muller afterwards told me: ly been getting half an organe a months when she was persuaded asked the jury, in considering the "1 think English justice to mar- day. This has been arranged by to draw her savings mit of the case, not to let any prejudine dis- vellous. I first told my troubles Greenwich Pubile Health Commit. Post Office Bavlogo Bank.
turb the even bilance of those to a Czech friend, and he advis
*
tee with the co-operation of frull Mrs. Holina told her that i anscales brokers at Greenwich Market and internment rush the would not loca! greengrocers, who reserve have time to draw it cut, and that cases of oranges for the children, it would be taken from her,
#7 A WEEK
me that the police would help. me."
MIs, Holms, whose husband. So a friendlear German met Capt. Holms, M.B.E., had a salary justice in England.
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