The Very Idea!
THE HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
RATES OF PAY WHEN CALLED OUT.
RESIGNATION RULES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FORCED LANDING IN DESERT.
FATE OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER
A FRUITLESS SEARCH.
Baghdad, Dee. 30.
A traveller was making his way along a country road, when he came across an old stone-breaker. Addressing the man, he asked how long it would take him to getī ta the next village; but the man went on working, neither speaking por The Governor-in-Council has looking up.
The traveller, thinking the old made the following regulations under the Hongkong Police Resorve Ordinance:
Every person desirous of becoming a member of the Reserve shall make application to the Captain Superintendent of Palice in accordance with the form in the Appar dix to these Regulations. Every member of the Reserve who is desirous of rosigning from the Reserve shall give one month's notice in writing to the Captain Superintendent: provided that: (1) no such notice shall be given while the Reserve is called out for active service; (2) it shall be lawed by a wild Afah tribe.-Reuter, ful for the Cantaln Superintendent to dispense with the notice in such cases as he may deem proper.
The traveller returned, the old man said, "I just twenty minutes to the village?"
fellow was dent, went on his way He had not gone far when he heard the stone-breaker calling after him"Hey, mister! Come back, come back."
when take you get into
"Why didn't you tell me that when I asked you?" remonstrated "How did I know how fast you was going to walk till I saw you?" retorted the old man.
the traveller.
Take, O take those lips away
That just now I sought to
kiss,
Otherwise I never may
Seck again that longed for
bliss;
And go easy with the "atick,"
With the "stick"--
You put it on too thick,
Heaps too thick.
:
Members of the Reserve shall be entitled to pay only during such
SATURDAY,
A BIG WATERFRONT FIRE
CLYDE LINER "SENECA" DESTROYED.
£300,000 DAMAGE.
A Petrol Explosion.
Later.
DECEMBER
100 CIGARS FOR $72,000.
SWINDLER WHO GOT A
POOR REWARD.“
Stories of famous crimes and criminals are excellently told by ex-Chief, Inspector Gough, of the C.1.D. in a book of reminiscences called "From Kew Observatory to Scutland Yard Mr. Gough, who began as a boy at Key Observa- tory, was concerned in unravelling the sensational bank frauds by Goudie, the young bank clerk, who, by means of forged cheques, swindled banks out of nearly £170,000.
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New York, Dec. 30. The air liner with the mails: At Hoboken, New Jersey, fire failed to arrivé last night from swept two blocks of buildings on Caira, and a wireless was received the Hudson waterfront, and burn from the Pilot saying that he haded the Clyde liner "Sonera" to the been forced to land in the desert water's edge, and destroyed two piers and several barges. The 200 miles from Baghdad.
Another Imperiul Airways ma-damage is estimated at £300,000.- chine went from Baghdad early Router's American Service.
Goudie, says Mr. Gough, was a the morning and was unable to find
decent, quiet-spoken fellow enough, the missing acroplane at the post-
certainly the very opposite of the tion indicated. The search was
popular conception of a criminal. resumed in the afternoon by a ma- All the resources of the fire de- Mr. Gough and a colleague chino piloted by Captain Warner, partment, aided by fireboats and escorted Goudie to Liverpool after whose wife was a passenger in the volunteers, fought the flames his arrest. After we were com- missing liner, which is believed to which started on the pier and fortably settled he says, I produc- have descended in an arca popalat-spread. The Captain and First ed a cigar. Goudle was enjoying Mate of the 8.a. Seneen were com-himself with a cheap cigarette. pelled to slide down a rope to es-Suddenly he looked up. That's a cape from the flames.
nice cigar you're It is believed that the fire was said quietly. caused by an explosion of petrol on the pler-Reuter's American Sar- vice.
THE POLISH DEBT.
period as the Reserve hall bo HALF YEAR'S PAYMENT TO.
called out.
BRITAIN.
All officers of the Reserve above the rank of sergeant shall be
London, Dec. 30,. entitled to pay for the full period It is learned that on Monday during which the Reserve is called next the Polish Government will
10 the Such pay shall be as fol- pay
British Treasury "I am not going to prison. Such out. rot, I never heard such a thing laws:-Deputy Superintendent at £175.156, representing half a year's in my life. I will pay a fine, but the rate of $140 per month; Assis- payment on the Polish relief debt. I am not going to prison," exclaim-tant Superintendent at the rate of --British Wireleva. ed a woman named Adelaide $120 per month; "Chief Inspector Plaster, Shillingstone. when she at the rate of $100 per month; was sentenced at Christchurch to Inspector at the rate of $80 per. four month's hard labour for month; Sub-Inspector at the rate stealing 4% pinta of milk, valued of $60 per month. at 11., by milking a cost in a fold.
She said in evidence that "she had milked the cow for fun, was the sixth time he had dis- The prosecutor stated that this covered that his cows had been
milked by unauthorised persons.
The Chairman of the Benen said the necused had rendered hergolf liable to a fine of £100, or six month's hard labour. It was a mean theft.
Lord
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Justice Atkin In an agricultural case in the Court of Appical: There are many people in the country who would rather see a good bullock than a good picture.
All members below the rank of Sub-Inspector shall be entitled to phy when the Reserve is culled they are actually employed out but only for the days-on-which- duty. Such may shall be as fol- lows:-Sergeant, $3.50 per day; Lance-Sergeant. $2.50 per day Constable. $1.00 per day.
BETTER TRADE OUTLOOK.
ENCOURAGING SIGNS,
London, Dec. 80.
KILLING OF CATS.
VETERINARY SURGEON
FINED.
"RED" SUSPECTS.
ALL DEPORTED FROM
.HONGKONG.
On enquiries this morning, we learn that the 250-Chinese arrest- ed as suspected "Reds" on their arrival in the Colony from Canton "Red" coup. during the anti have all been deported from the Colony:
smoking,
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Do you like cigars? I inquired. But he allowed the 'question to go by default. Instead, he said, I'li tell you something rather funny -connexion with cigars. Upon one occasion I owed Stiles and Kelly £400-or they said I did, which amounted to the same thing. Goudie's Story. Stiles and Kelly were two of tool of the group who made a Goudie, and they had £72,000" of the "swag". This gives point to Goudie's story, which continues thusi
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They were given the choice of
Anyway, I called at the restaur- destination, and were dispersed inant where they were dining to batches along the coast, the
By this greater number preferring to land pay over the money,
much in their time, I was 80 at Swatow.....
hands-that-they made-na-bones
WOMEN NOT TO WIND about keeping me cooling my heels.
CLOCKS.
Richard Johnson Sargent, a veterinary surgeon, of Stoke Road, Guildford, Surrey, was fined £10, with 10 guineas costs, at Guildford recently on a summens for causing unnecessary suffering to two cats A POST OFFICE REGULATION, by unreasonably killing them in an improper manner on October 7.
in the vestibule for half an hour or so before they told the waiter to show me in to them.
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I suppose the answer must have rather staggered him, because just for a moment he didn't say
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1937.
By the time this happened they Women either cannot or are ret had reached, the caffer stage, and For the prosecution it was stated to be trusted to wind clocks. That Stiles was smoking an expensive that Sargent had some cats to seerns to bo. the view of the Leigar about nine inches long.
After I had handed over the che destroy, and took them in a chloro- General Post Office. form box to the local dust? This revelation is made in one que 1 commented on its aroma. destructor for incineration, of the technical books of the De
Do you smoke cigars! Gilps in- When he opened the box news-partment ("Clocks and Time Dis-quired.
Stationery was moving asibution.")
Office, paper covering
No, I said. I can't afford them. though something was alive,, and 1s. 6d. which buries in a mass of A more encouraging note. is of five cats that he had turned out engineering language much I smoke nothing but Woodbines. Judge Snugge, at Bow County Court, of two talkative women: struck in allicial quarters regard- two were breathing. One, a white formation about the extraordinary ing the trade outlook for Great cat, tried to get on its feet, and lacks and watches provided for Is this perpetual notion?
Woman, at Willesden: My hua-Britain than has been the case for went on struggling for some time. the official age of the G. P. O.
Sargent then got a sledge hammer It is laid down that the winding band told me he was working some time past.
and killed it.
of elocks is to be done as far as anything at all-he just looked. overtime, but I knew better. He
Reports available for guidance
It was submitted that cruelty possible by officers of the deparl- Then, quite suddenly, he burst out what! I'll make went out in his best clothes.
indicate that following the disas was emused by the "unreasonable ment, but if for any reason, such-I'll tell you Man, at Feltham: He was jac- ing the cross-roads, Solicitor: trous peried in 1926, when the pro-killing," and the method of chloro- na the fact that only female officers you a present of a hundred!"
And, believe me or not, Goudie That is impossible: There are onged industrial troubles caused forming a cat as a preliminary to are employed, it is not practicable
a serious setback to the trade of taking it to the destructor was for the winding to be done by the added, that was all I had out of four cross-roads,
Post Office lui, Mr. Hay Halkett, Marthorough the country and the few months of grossly negligent.
There is a wonderful calcula- £72,000. street magistrate: The most dan-Stagnation which were experienced
Expert evidence was given that graph used in timing trunk tele- Mr. Gough adds that for all not more than one cat should be phone calls which, as illustrated in practical purposes this statement gerous time for a woman to take this year after the necumulation
of of old orders had been worted off chloroformed in a box of the size the book, seems to produce enough was literally brue, and was proved to drink is between the
signs of improvement became up of that produced. It was stated evidence to confound any sub- forty and fifty..
"Judge Bairstow; to a barrister parent about last August. The that Sargent, served in the R.A.V.C. Scriber who protests that he has in evidence at the trial.
County Court: volume of exports of British pro- during the war. In November net had his three minutes"
work on the duce and manufactures in the year 1026 he was appointed veterinary Greenwich time signals go out Mr. F. E. Smith-now the Earl of Same lines as yours, and I am 1913 marked the culmination of inspector for the borough of Guild-automatically every hour every day Birkenhead--and Mr. E. G. Hem
the Observatory, The deeply grateful to Providence for one of the greatest periods of ford, and was also appointed to from
merde, was sentenced to ten years' even trade expansion in the economic carry out official duties in connexion signals pass over underground it. Barrister: Ani 1 am
history of the country. Yet the with the Guildford and district wires to the Central Telegraph penal servitude, but he did not more grateful than you are.
live so long. volume for the first nine months shelter for, unwanted cats and Office, where a chronopher control of 1927 was 77.4 per cent. of that kittens.
clock operates the necessary con- Kelly and Stiles, who had the Judge Have you anything to
period in 1913. The falling off in
Sargent stated that he had to tacts, and they pass thence all over £72,000, got off with two years, offer to the Court before sentence volume needs also to be qualified kill about 600 cats in the year. England, Scotland, and Wales. is passed on you?"
"It used to be the rule," said a Prisoner-"No, Judge. I had ten by the consideration that any These two cats were in the chloro-1
given quantity of textile goods clock-maker to a Daily Mail how exchanges for more of other before he took them to the de-porter, that only father wound the The cliss had been told before-Roods than before the war, cotton structor. When he got to the stock, but that is now out of date. HOW MUCH DO YOU
wool, silk and as having all Structor he found they were breath- Nowadays most clocks are hand by their master-"Don't advanced notably in price as com in and killed them with a hammer casy to wind and women can do it answer unless you are almost cerpared with raw materials in gen--the quickest and most painless very well. If they are capable of tain your answer is correct.
"Now, tell me, said the inspec- tor, "who was the mother of our
Scottish
Robert great
bero, Bruce?"
He pointed to the top boy, then round the class. There
at Clerkenwell
My mind does not
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was no
ro-
very
looking after the delicate watches death that could be given thum. **
Counsel for the defence said they they wear, they need have no fuar would give formal notice in time to mechanism as the modern clock."
of handling such a sturdy bit of
eral British Wireless.
SCHOOLBOYS ON TOUR,uppeal."
Londdi, Dee. 30.
answer. Then at last the teacher ON VISIT, TO SOUTH AFRICA: of that class leaped with joy. The boy who was standing at the very fout had held up his hand.
"Well, my boy," said the in- spector encouragingly, "who was she?"
"Please sir, Mrs. Bruce?"
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The Prince of Wales 'knitted a silk stocking during his visit to the Armistice Weck exhibition of disabled ex-Service men's work at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington.
Private Jack Evans, of the Eastbourne Hosiery Industry, was showing him a stocking knitting machine, when the Prince asked
To 43 public schoolboys, who left London to-day for a three months' trip to South Africa, the Prince of Wales sent a special message! He' said: "Your tour will be full of interest and I think you are very fortunate at the outset of your careers to have an opportunity of gaining first-hand knowledge of one of our great Dominions. I shall be interested on your return. home to hear from the Committee an account of your tour."
The boys, whose ages range from seventeen to nineteen, were those selected by the Schools Em- if he might work it. Seating pire Tour Gommittee-British himself at the machine, the Wireless.
turned the Prince vigorously "handle, and remained at work until he had made half a silk stocking.
While the Prince was inspect- Ing some baga he was shown a Boston grip. He opened the bag, peered beneath its folds, and asked "Since this has an Ameri- can name, where is the false bot- tom for the whisky bottle?"
Lawyor: Then you say that this man was drunk?
MORE GOLD· FOR U.S.A.
SHIPMENTS FROM CANADA.
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New York, Dec. 30... Stimulated by the discount on the Canadian dollar more gold is returning to America from Cana- da, the Bank of Montreal in New York receiving another shipment Witness: I do not. I merely of $2,000,000 making $4,000,000 total of say that he sat in his car for consigned to it and a three hours in front of an excava- $5,500,000 since the recent move- tion waiting for the light to turnment from Canada to New York began-Reuter's American Service. green.
HONGKONG CHAFF
By B. R.-B.
If you mean to stay long
In Hong Kong,
1
It's best to bespeak
A house on the Peak.
Goudic, who was defended by
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Exprcas..
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 15 of this issue.
1 Where are thene places which have been referred to in "Daily Express" news items within the last two or three days: Tangier; Warsaw; Karachi;. Berns; Bel- grade?
What is the recognised length of a Rugby football pitch!" What is the purpose of the fight! on which Sir Alan Cobham om barked a few weeks ago?
4 Who composed these musical worka: "Merrie England"; "The Submerged Cathedral": "Moon- light Sonata": "1812"; "Podt and Peasant."'
What is meant by "takbig silk's What rank do the following hold respectively: Sir William Robert- Bon; Earl Beatty: Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Jahn Buchan, .M.P.1
7 With what natione are the follow- iny coina identified; Peeata; pfonnig: guilder; tira; anna; kronor; louisa; centime?
8 le an employer, bound to give a gorvant a character" on the termination of his employment? Name the longest note used in musical composition.
10 Who is the general secretary of the Trade Union Congress?
11 What is Complino
12 With which of the arta are tho following connected: Sir Edward Elgar: John Masefield; Sir Frank Dicksco; Dr. Robert Bridgna; A. J. Munnings; Sir George Fram
ton?
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