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· HONGKONG, 3rd Jan. 1925.
CRIME AND POLICE.
and for this roason wo foor the
are faced with a steady inoraneo,
DAY BY DAY,
and were we assured of a cor- responding, inoresso · in tbo strength of the police organise CALAMITIES,
IT IS FROM THE LEVEL, OF NOT THAT OF
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
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tion wo should have nothing EVERY-DAY LIFE THAT WE furthor to say, on the matter. LEARN IMPRESSIVE AND USE- But thoro romaius & doubt as to TUL LESSONS.~~~Thackeray.
Thore is no truth in the rumour The limit-:A Scotsman calling whether the authorities have
that a new forry is to bo rua at for "sling gina"; on New Your's Mr. Ho Kwong loft for Shang-1.30 a.m. Enown as the "Three morning. given full consideration to the hat by the Prosidont Taft.
Star." matter of polles reorganisation which we dealt with at some length more than a year ago. This Colony has the trained men, and they are doing excellent work, evidence of which is avail- From the Orodit Fonolor]
☐ G eblo almost daily. That forme d'Extremo Orient, agents Poople who use "Star" forries A roport comes from Kow L'Union Fire Insuranco Co., are not pormitted to smoke Gardons that one of the banane the bright feature in our outlook. Ltd., of Paris, we have received in or upon any part of the boats, trees has grown 40 foot this But the point which is due to be a useful pooket diary. emphasised is the doubt whether there are enough of those mon to The silk forwarded from hore pipe. go round. The "old hands " are,th December arrived in Now by Empress of Australia on the
0.0 Liko the Peak Tramway last The Legislative Council has A Router's tolegram states that
summer on the May Road fare A. Voyoo (Gloucester) roplacon just approved a
voto of over question, our chair and ricksha Prico in the English Rugby team 82,000 for a motor-car. Why to moot the All Blacks to-day.
didn't the Government enter our "not exactly an inoroane.”
coolies regard the new rates as Competition?
of
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to the annoyance of anyone else. year, showing what a popular This ecoms to bar our favourite song can do.
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Anothor byo-law says intoxi- Britain's now Promior has some porforoo, obliged to retire at York (St. John's Park) on the cated persons are not allowed to knotty problems ahead. What he intervals. They are the officers 29th Decombor, having been 24 travel in the first-class section, noods is a good spiritualistic who have local conditions at their days in transit.
Thion lots of folk we know will medium to teach him a fow fingar-tips. They aro roplacod
have to learn to swim.
cabinet tricks.
by men with slightly loss re-some days of a fishing junk last Nothing has been hoard for
sidential experience, and there soon off Cheungohau. The mastor...
with
the
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Tho further stipulation that Australian papors say the Ford goom to be eufficient for the of another hoat saw the junk or against any launch or any of Queensload. In other words, Lix no person shall spit in, on, from car is driving the camel from boarded by non off a smaller purpose. However,
boat, board shots being fired, the Company's promises" looks zio la giving him the hump. increase in the forco which and then saw the boats sail away to us like a doad not against has been sanctioned during the Piracy is feared.
democracy.
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past few years, the time must
that
On Now Yoar's Day the
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The man who, earlier in the Wook, kopt a whole lot of police mon awako, deserved a bottor fate
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Just when wo mado. a Now
Some of those Kowloon cath
This
Wivos can be bought on the
Afrion. Tharo, as hero, much more than tho initial outlay, is involved.
A cock employed in the should really be placed in the
Chronic laziness doteotive quartore at the Contr 1 mowsoun.
should be Police Station is now lying in ·
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08 B disease, 2075 = hospital with a serious stabi Bovon hundred Jugo-Slave aro This looks good for Hongkong prominent London physiolan. wound alloged to have bron omigrating to Australia. inflicted during a quarrel at the should give some of those Austral- doctors. Contral Market. The alleged an agitators a chance to sing assailant has been arrested. "Britons Novor Shall Be Slave."
This Wook's Book: "The Dry Biguros.
The Master of the s.s. Chusan,
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The U. S. House of Represent atives has just voted $11,000,000 for enforcement of Prohibition.
Thore is somewhat nasty At Monday's Logislative Coun- osu-dour about this Cologne oc- oil meeting, the Colonial Secretary cupation. explained a vote of $21 for uniform
for a prosa man as being necossary
to "make him look a respectable Lota of Hongkong folk who go Government servant." We'regard to the theatro ooom determined
profession.
flutter.
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Some Hongkong people wore too blind to soo the Now Year in
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come when the junior officers Consul for France and Madame than epced those past few days.
There has been more spirit will find more responsibility on du Courthial wore at home to a
白 回. thair hande. And hayo wo large number of their friends and sufficiont of those thoroughly compatriots at their residence in Year resolution, our neighbour instalment plan in South East
Pank Road. Refreshments were trained junior officers to draw
partakon of, whilst a number buys a saxophone. upon! From roporte about mon remained to dinner. rosigning, others boing sont home medically unfit, and so forth, it ecoms as if the supply for some time to come is going to be very limited. Continuous experience of a
We come then to the need for thing makes one nearly indiffer. ant to it, unless directly affected, police reform in torms purely of personnel inoroase. There time is approaching when the certainly should be plenty of now matter of serious crime in Hong-material for the older men to B. and S. boat, reports that a
Chinese female coolio passenger Morning After," by O. Goodo. kong will be viewed by most work with before their time to committed suicide by jumping Evans. residents as a feature of the retire draws nigh. Otherwise over the sido whilst the boat was Colony, to be taken as a matter tho "acclimatised" portion of the coming down from Canton. Ex- of course.
During the past six force will always be in a state of treme poverty is supposed to have unhinged the woman's transition. Apart months thore has boom con-
from that mind. tinuous series of armed robberigs aspect, there is the obvious one attended by violenco, and of
the rapidly Increasing murders committed under cold-Population of this Colony, and ally, wo wonder whether, during this as an insult to the journalistic to got their $3 worth of publicity. his stay in Poking, ho will still blooded conditions usually with the great increase of armed lay claim to the Presidential title. robbary as the motive, and as the criminals, with the menace of of one thing we may be sure
future accretions to be faced, namely, that he will sook to ex- Throo brokers won the yacht your hos boon drawing to a
tond his influence,) dospito his race to Macao and book, It's close the incidence of orime has requires a much larger police assertion that he does not intend not true that they noorly lost it increased. Perhaps this gradual force. Even the larger traffic to gain political power. As was by the temptation to go ashore in dosage with crime reports has necessitates more men to cope to be expected, bis first declara- the Portuguese colony for a littlo
tion in Poking has boon one obscured from the gonoral public with it. As we bave previously directed against the Powers, for the serious nature of the in-pointed out, to draw upon the he says that the freedom and
A gallon of spirit can make a From the number of rasolu- crease, but when one takes the regular police for traffic mon is equality of China have been sold
to foreign countrioe by the car go about 20 milos, but on half tions It has passed, it will soon trouble to look back through the to weaken the provision for au Manchu Government, in days this quantity a Kowloon resident be known as the League of last few months for purposes of pression of crime-which, after past, by the conclusion of unequal can go crazy. a year-end review one is im- all, is the main object of the treatios, so that we are still in mediately struck by the police system. There are various the stato of colonists of foreign
There is said to be more taking A Homo papor_says :-" Wo countrios." We have heard that magnitude of the position, not mattors which requira tackling cock-and-buil atory bofore. There stock in Ice House Street those must stop motor drivers drink-
Bottor ing." 26 an early dato. Among the are, Dr. Sun says, many ways
stop drinkers only as it is to-day but also as it
ធ ថ threatens to be a few months Asiatic members of the force of "saving the country,
We are authorised to contradict hence if no check on crime can there is not exactly a happy posi-rogorvos his views on tirls subjuot
until later on. Wall, we have at the rumour that owing to the A botanist writes in an out- be devised in the meantime. Notion, an outstanding instance of any rate the assurance of the shrinkage in the Peak tram cable, port contemporary that beautiful doubt the whole of China is pass-which is the indiscipline amongst acting President that existing it is proposed to experiment orchids grow wild in Hongkong.. the Northern Chinese contingent, treaties and conventions are to be with now ones to be supplied by So do the collectors who can't ing through a severe crime wave,
respected, so Dr. Sun's tirades the Eastern Extension, and this Colony is feeling the If botter terms of service are against such agroomonte, will not We can however, backwash. All the treaty ports, required, there should be no out much ico.
Four-fifths of the
There are two men holding. International aettlements, and niggardly rofusal by the Govern envisage the arousing of strong
ment to meet the increased ox-anti-foreign feeling if Dr. Sun is oystore come from the United every official position in Shang- puroly Chinaso cities #TG
permitted to preach his doctrines Statos. This explains why the hai. A rogular Civil Borvanta*
Paradise. manaced by armed robbers, and ponditure. We do not need to in the capital, and for the re- people there are so silent. the threat grow bigger ovary stross the absurdity of expecting lationships between China and
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Bad handwriting is said to be a Sir Claud Sovern says "facing not be given carte blanche in this mainland continuo and the daily, in loyal service to an ad-
sign of ill-health. Then some of bricks"have arrived from Formosa regard.
our taipans must be pretty near in large quantities. Handy for quantity of arms smuggled into ministration which apparently
Complaints.
doad..
our many contractors. who have the country multiplies. It is considors them worth no moro
lost faco, Residents and office-workers
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along the Praya aro complaining "Bowleritis" has now attacked realisation of the serious pro-
Wo think that enough has born again of the nuisance oreated by No. I. Platoon, indicated in this review of the the vessels which range alongside, bloms which lie ahead,
erimo position in the Coleny to and sound their whistles at odd times, day and night. It is place it becomes inevitable that justify our plos that the whole suggested that a good deal of this man who acts the clown.
matter of police reorganisation is unnecessary. For instanco, the local police force must havo|
should be considered at an early the "warning blasts" of certain Its share of notico, especially date, so that any roforms which river
steamors Bro possibly somewhat overdono. The old might suggest themselves can complaint about tho rofuse beginning to look shabby.
In a discussion of crime in any
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days than stocktaking.
.but ho
when lawbreakers aro found to bo on the increase. This fact is
bo put in hand with the least dumped on the Frays is also no doubt fully appreciated at headquarters. Whon' we remom- bor all the intrionto problems: with which our police force! to grapplo, Wo cannot expressing acknowledg
has
avoid
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A chemical sponge that absorbs bad odours has been invented, MacWhirter says one at the Fortuno novor amilos on the Green on New Year's Day would
have come in handy.
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From the apposrance of some folk, the Now Yoar is already
possible dolay. And we shall being revived-and quite rightly. The earthquake shook reported leave the matter there for the Anyone who has taken a night this week is now thought to have stroll in the vicinity of these boon the heavy tread of architects dumps will know what an abomination they are. The latest carrying home their Christmas "grouao" is one which the Banitary. authorities might
prosent.
Sun in Poking.
cumshaws.
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Our chief complaint against saxophons players is that they always seem to be working to boat the band.
If some of these fox skins hawked about Hongkong were lat loose, they'd probably find their way to the Dogs' Rome.
It would be interesting to know observo-it is said that nightsoil Unliko most realdonts, the precisely why Sun Yat-sen bas is now being dumped into junks Hongkong Government ended the It ie constantly performing gone to Peking. He assorte that much too noar tho Western yoar with more money than it It is naturally impossible that it is not to secure a post or to Market, whore the food in Loxpected.
We can unhoroonod. Residents in tho any polica systom should be gain political power.
well understand the former part noighbourhood point, to tho ablo to suppress all forms of of this statement, because Dr. Bun typhoid monaco, most probably A pathotic voice was heard 'at
In London'n man smoked olgars Borious crime, but much can be has always professed that he is fly borne, and they rightly urgel 4.30 a.m. last Thursday asking done towards decreasing the acti-the only logal President of the that this matter be given atten- the stilly stare: "OIWhy did I for forty-oight hours without
Republic. That boing so, he could tion. The old adago of provon- klas that girl Of wh-yo why-y stopping. Luckily, this vitios of evildoers. In viowing hardly be expected to be cooking a tion being better than ouro is 7, 0-0-w-w-hy-y.y! He will be several weeks before Christma
whys or next year.
gifts wore being handed out the incidened ol ́orime hora we position of lower rank. Incident-apposito in this regard.