THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.
COPENHAGEN,
Regular Freight and Passingers Service for Bangkok
M.S.Bintang"
(2777 tons)
Hongkong and return.
will leave for Bangkok
Expected on
or about
14th Juno
via Swatów on or about,
19th Juno.
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THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.
COPENHAGEN,
The M. S." AFRIKA
will be loading for Marseilles, Valencia. Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian perts on or about 25th. of June 1925.
Further Sailings —
M.S. "Malaya"
about.
Expected on or Will leave homewardbound
on. or about.
20th July.
H.S.. "Tongking" .......
M.S. "Australlen
'M:S. "Asia"
la port 15th July
20th August
25th September
Subject to change without notice. For further particulara pioase apply to
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HONGKONG CRIME.
BIG INCREASE IN LAST
YEAR'S FIGURES:
In his annual report for 1924 the Captain Superintendent of
Police says:
The total of all enses reported
TUESDAY JUNE 16, 1925.
valence of malaria which affected all ranks and the Welliniwel Police in particular.
At certain stations notably. Slin Tau Kok, Sha Tin New Station, Ta Ku Ling and Castles Peak fover was particularly vir ulent and persistent, refusing to yield to quinine although the latter was issued freely and in strict ac
SUFFRAGETTES MALIGNED.
Tainted Water Instances.
Memories of the "Intensivo. campaign" of the suffragettes in years gone by were revived last
to the Police during the year 1924 cordance with medical instrue-month by Sir Alexander Hoston, was 17,569 as against 14,200 in tions. At one period of the your 1923, being an increase of 3,369-September-90% of the Police or 23.7%. The average for the at Sha Tau Kok were down with
malaria last five years is 13,972,
last ave
The total admissions to hospital-
In the division of these cases for all stations during the year
who told a story of how they were unjustly accused in two instancos of tampering with London's water supply.
Sir Alexander was lecturing to
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a group of teachers on Pure Holyoak Massey, & Co., Ltd. Into, serious and minor offences there were 4,509 serious cases in was 403 and the total number of Water," under the auspices of the cases treated in station, London County Council, at the 1924 as against 4,011 serious fever
Polytechnic, Rogont-street." At Queen's Elda. cases in 1923, an Increase of 498 530.
the time before the war,” he said, eases, or 12.4%. There were Anti-malaria measures were ru"when the suffragettes ware vory 13,060 minor cases in 1924 a6commended at various stations | sotive, the water at one of our against 10,189 minor cases in 1923, by Major Hingston, R.A.M.C. and works was badly affected with a an incicape of 2,871 cases or by Dr. Moore.
28.29%.
It has been decided: (a) To drain the parade ground
at Sha Tin Kok Station." (b) To provide efficient wire netting for the windows and doors at Sha Tau Kok, Ta Ku Ling, and Sha Tin Stations.
growth known as oscillaria, which gives rise to taste, and the filter beds looked as if they had been fouled with a green paint. I regret to say that the suffragettes. wore quite unjustly blamed in the matter." (Laughter.):
The other occasion concerned
While there was a large in- erease in the total number of cases coming under the heading of serious crime, the number of eases of robbery, murder, attempt- od murder, burglary and house and godown breaking shows a deerease
a growth known as tabellaria, There as compared with 1923.
which was important from the In addition to above special point of view of filtratios, was a small increase in the num bor of cases of larceny in a dwell-measures, the Botanical and and in relation to questions. ing house, and a more consider- Forestry Department has done of taste. "A good many years abie increase in larcentes. Pirncy excellent work thinning the trees ago," he said, "we had a lot of continued to be a serious problem and clearing the undergrowth at trouble at one of ourworks due to at the beginning of the year, and Sha Tin and aleo Castle Peak, the excessive development of its after the piracy of the Sham Shiu The Botanical and Forestry Do- growth. According to our soient. Po ferry launch "Kwong Shun On"partment will also take in band ific notions the water had a on 2nd March, 1924, it was con- the systematic thinning of trees geranium flavour, but the consu ther temporary searchers for fer-14 New Territories Stations inable castor oil, rotten fish taste.' (Laughter.) The suffragettes were ries plying within the waters of future.
again blamed." the Colony. The strength of the outgoing searching staff for steamers and ferries, on 31st De- cember, 1924, was:
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS. sidered advisable to engage fur-and clearing of undergrowth at moze spoke of it as an abomin
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Strength of Force. Table showing
total the strength, expenditure and 10- venue of the Police Department for the years 1914 to 1924:...
Total Expenditure Revenuo Strength
Europeans Chinese (regular) ".. Chinese (temporary) 49
6
1024 1023
3
59.
30
Year
16
1914
1910
Total....... 94
48
1916
..1.215
1017
1018
Gambling.
1019
1520
1922
Three hundred and forty-four 1921
1,304 $789,100 $193,915 765,911 185,639 708,748
.102,700 1.220 694,115 797.033 840.377
AGG.084
1,281 1,1GG,084
SANE MAN'S ORDEAL.
Mistaken for Lunatic.
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A sane man who called at Room 92, King Edward Hotel, 210,071 Rotherhitho: Infirmary to inquire
219,012
325 031 about his wife allegos. that he 220,122 was:-Mistaken for a "mental
1,341 1443,627 259,876
1.381 1,633,772 370,847
erse," ordered a bath, undressed
gambling warrants were success 1023 1,589 1,630,847 349,443 and put to bed, and guarded by
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fully executed during the year as 1924 ..1.774 1,877,948 389,176 three or four men. against 202 in 1923. There were 36 Engineers, 84 Stokers, 2 Bar- Bermondsey Guardians have eight cases in which no convic-rack Sergeants, 2 Station Ser-ordered an inquiry? tions were obtained.
There were eighty-one lottery cases, compared with 74 in. 1923, Property Reported Stolen and
Property Recovered.'
geants, 2 Carpenters, 2 Painters, Sailmaker, 1 Motor Mechanic, 12 Detectives and 17 Boatmen, mak- ing a total of 202.
The victim of the adventure is a 71-year-old naval pensioner.
A dootor had given him a letter to the hospital officials, asking them to admit Mrs.---to the institution. The "Mrs." is said to have been not very clear, and one of the officials read it as Mr."
The above is the actual strength. om the S1st December, 1924, and includes all the detectives at Water Police Station and those
As a rosult the man was forcibly under the Piracy Prevention Ordetained, tis protests were ignored
The estimated value of property stolen during the year was $600, 024.84 as against $667,671.44 in 1923, a decreuse of $57,646.00 ordinance. 8.77%.
The average for the last five years is $610,893,90 as against $665,032,81 in 1923, an increase of
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SKELETON IN A TREE.
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"All the while they were A rabbit in flight near El doing this to me," he told a press- The value of property recover- Spring Arkansas, led to the dis man, I kept telling them they ed. during the year was $55,338.36 covory by A shooting party had made a mistake. I said: or 8.2% of the value of the pro- of a man's skeleton in the Why, in the name of com- perty stolen, as against $55,073.68 hollow of a giant oak (saya mon sense, don't you communi- or 8.3% of the property stolen in the "Central News"). When the cato with the doctor? I am not WELL DRILLING 1928, an increase of 90% in the rabbit took refuge in the hollow the patient. I came here about But they took, no ratio between the property stolen whose opening was only a few my wife."
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enlarged the entrance and found been in bad half an hour or more During 1924, the general health rifle and, a buckskin pouch of of Police throughout the Northern gunpowder. Foresters judge that It must be over 60 years since the District of the New Territory was not good, due mainly to the pre-opening was large enough for the
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