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a loader, follows. Thus the old spirit and discipling die down, and it is often found that once a leader
OUR HUMANITY WERE A POOR is caught or betrayed, the others THING BUT FOR THE DIVINITY THAT give up the life, and the gang STIRS WITHIN US-Bacoll ecases to exist. This, at any rate,
is the deduction drawn by know.). It is notified that the names of ledge obtained of the formation, the Kung Wo Hotel Company. altimate breaking up and dispersal Limited, and of J. T. Lloyd and Company Limited, have been struck of the Register.
of gangs which created so much troublé in Singapore In 1925 and 1926.
LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.
20.-The Civil v. Military, Problem.
We are now in a position to ex-present may, if you or Lord Clive amine more directly that problem are got in the Army. which I mentioned ju the first of Tid fact that Lord Mornington." these letters, which has been touch- was. Wellesley's own brother, ed on from time to time since, and though it made such a letter easier The silk forwarded from Hong which has run as a sort of guld to write, is all the more evidence These are the main points kong by the, Empress of Canada ing warp, however indistinctly, to of his anxiety to keep the ultimate on the 8th August arrived in Newthe whole of our intercourse, leav-military organization as free as. brought out by this Singapore York (St. John's Park) on the dng treads of suggestion hanging posibile from civilian interference...
out here and there, 1 propose. now Precisely similar in official, who also has something to 29th August, having been 21 days to gather up thicso threads and see though differing by worlds in tone,. effect,. say on this question of dealing in transit.
what kind of a pattern wo can ware Napoleon's relations with the with the new problem. If this gun
make of them.
Directorate, when from the Army, makes the "gunman," the obvious
His Excellency the Officer Ad-
The Civil, versus Military pro In Italy he wrote to his Govern ministering the Government ac-blem is nothing new. Ever since ment dutiful despatches describing line of action is to stop him got-cepted the resignation by Lieuten- the passing of that time when, at the advafitciment of their glory, ting the gun, and although this ant N. L. H. Railton of his Com-a moment's notice, a man had to while at the same time nurturing is not easy it is an aspect which mission in the Hongkong Volun-be ready to fight for the possa in his bosom that growing contempt. sion of his wife, a tribe for its which was eventually to overwhelm receives constant attention. There teer Defence Corps.
lands, and a people for its Ged, the the helpless gathering of wavering soldier has been looked on in times civilians in Paris, with a combing- are, of course, many other points, and in this connexion · Singapore does not appear to have gone the length of Hongkong in armning all its policemen, for wo notice that
that is one of the suggestions put forward by the writer of the artisanimous
It is notified that, at the expira-of peace as something of an en- tion of sheer personality and Well- tion of three months, the Wo Fat cumbrance. The well-known ever-directed luck. Stenmahip Company, Limited will, sion of the British people to the Curiously enough, both these unless cause is shown to the con acceptance of a standing Army mon may be said to liave been com trary, be struck off the register finds expression down to the preparative failures in a purely and the Company will be dissolved, sent day in the annual passage by civilian rolt. This is not the pinco Parliament of an Army Act, the to go into historical details, but one comission of which, for one year is reminded on the one hand of would mean that the Army as such Wellington's rather sorry aquabble would conse to exist. In this way with Canning over the corn laws, the Civilians of England reaffirm and on the other, of Napoleon's by vote their stubborn conviction that this small bat complicated and Council of Five Hundred, when it amazing appearance before the.
was only by his brother Lucien's readiness and superior wit that the Consulate became bla.
cle under notice. The city About Hong Kong. of securing the right material for the Police Force is also referred to, and this is said to present some difficulties, especially as the type KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd. For man needed is often Irreplace-
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THE "GUNMAN.”
No Secrecy,
Do you know that→→→→
Street and Belcher's Belcher's Bay were named after Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., who was in comi rhand of a naval expedition round the world in 18407"
The expedition arrived on the Chino Coast immediately prior to the cession of the 18- land of Hongkong to Britain, and was present when formal possession was taken..
Captain Belcher made the first survey of Hongkong Har- bour and landed at Taiping- shan, the bay which now beara his name.
20362 (RUANDERIEUSES SOLAT CONFORT
taries."
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The fact of the matter is that
highly teclinfeal organization lives ou sufferance and not by апу Divine, or even Royal right,
Having thus asserted themselves, they are perhaps the more free to tolerate, and even to discover a friendly appreciation for certain military training is not conducive foibles and characteristics which to deep thinking. This may asem scem almost inseparable from the a hard thing to say, but it is none Millitary outlook. We may notice the less true, and indeed from the in passing that this method of self purely military point of view, It assertion is not open to the mem- is not derogatory. The moving bers of a Crown Colony, whose essence of the soldier's art la garrison is neither of their own "quick decision." The general who choosing nor under their control; can make up his mind rapidly and but who cannot be denied the stand by his conclusions has his normal outlook of British citizens, battle half won before the fighting whose views on the matter have begins. And so in the soldier's been strengthened if not derived, curriculum of training certain pro- not less from the historical mis-cesses of thought are already laid fortunes of other lands than from down for him; he is taught to "ap The idea that Great Britain and
Tenders are being invited for a few incidènta in our own nationalpreciate a situation," using a France have come to some secret the construction of a store at the carcer, such as the somewhat op logical train of steps, and then Government Camber, Yaumati..pressive rule of the great Oliver, to act on it. He uses thought as and almost sinister understanding The work consists of the erection and the abortivo but none the less an analytical chemist uses the rules on the matter of naval co-opera- of a two storey building of brick trying efforts of James II to use of his trade, or a schoolmaster the tion ought to be definitely dis- with concrete floors and tiled roof. military forec to counter the will results (as opposed to the prin
ciples) of educational theory. in pelled in the light of Lord Cus-
of the people.
Buch a profession, an intuitive SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928. hendun's statement to Press re-
His Excellency the Olleer Ad-
It is natural again that the sus grasp of a situation is of the presentatives at Geneva, when he ministering the Government has picion with which British civilians greatest value, and it is on such made it perfectly clear that there appointed Mr. Ernest Hillas Wil-have always regarded the presence a power of suddenly visualising the had merely been the solution of liams to be Assistant District of an
armed force inside their whole of a subject, as it were in the Anglo-French divergenes of Officer, in the Northern and Southshores, should be reflected in some one picture, coupled with practice opinion with regard to the ern Districts of the Now ferri-manner by the very human' charac-in using a well-known formula principles on which the question
ters composing that force. To of reasoning, that most great Singapore, like Hongkong, has
quote but one notable example, the military leaders have based their civilian can of naval disurmament might be In recent years witnessed a change approached. He definitely stated
In addition to Bebe Daniels' new Duke of Wellington, though by no success. But the
deliberate, more funda in methods adopted by armed rob- that there was nothing in the comedy, "A Kiss in a Taxi," which means the plain fre-eating soldier afford to be more unsophisticated,
"hit-first-and-negotiate-more will be screened at bers for terrorising their victims shape of an agreed "policy," no Treatre tomorrow the Queen's afterwards' kind; was extremely mental; he generally has time on averse to civilian control, excepting his side, he is always in the major- and ensuring success in their ven-accret clauses and no alliance or day, the latest "Felix" cartoon that limited control which loyalty ity, and his mistaken, when he tures. It was not so very long promise of co-operation. There Felix, Laughs It Off," will also
to the polley of the Government makes them, usually entail loss aud- be shown.
though den, and the service of the King made calamities. His upbringing tends possibly wider ago that the Chinese robber was had been agreement on the text of seldom armed with anything more
an Ascord, copies of which had
essential; His Excellency the Officer Ad- At the opening of the Mysore to give him a much more expert dangerous in the way of a weapon been sent to America, Italy and ministering the Government has campaign in 1799, Lord Morning-mental view of life, and though
Japan for their observations. than a dagger, but nowadays more Unless all the other nations con- | District Officer, Southern District, to visit General Harris army, es-advantage of his upbringing, there appointed Mr. J. A, Fraser to be ton, the Governor-General, proposed only one man here and there takes often than not he equips himself
Is nothing radically absurd in hi cerned at Geneva were in agree New Territories, with effect from sembling in camp at Vellore. with a revolver or some firearm of ment with the proposed Conven- 20th August, in addition to his
"Your presence in camp," wrote doing so.
But there are few soldiers who that type. The "gunman" has tion it would fall to the ground," other duties.
Colonel Wellesley (ns Wellington
to a liking for the evidently come to stay, but it is he added, and this in itself should
then was), "Instead of giving con- will confess fidence to the General, in fact de study of, say, Peychology gratifying to know that both here be sufficient to give all the assur-
And so, fundamentally, we find His Majesty the King has ap- prive him of the command of the
If "1 were in at once a tendency for character to and in Singapore the police are ances required. It will bo remem proved the appointment of the Army gradually getting the mensuro of herd that at the Nuval Disarma-Hon, Mr. C. G. S. Mackle, to be General Harris' situation, and you develop along different lines ac him. None the less, the growing ment Conference last year there an Unofficial Membor of the Legis- joined the Army, I should quit it. cording to the side of our question lative Counell for such period as .. Your presence will diminish to which an Individual happens to was dieagreement not only between the Ilon. Sir Henry Palleck, K.C., his powers, at the same time that, belong. In my next two letters I the United States and Britain but is acting as Attorney General of as it is impossible you can know propose to examine the application also between Britain and France, the Colony.
anything of military matters, your of these tendencies in so far as powers will not answer the purpose, they affect Hongkong. and all that has happened since 18
SIM. that France and Britain have ro viewed their positions so that they Road, in the Kowloon City district, A matshed situate at To Kwong are now in agreement on prin- was destroyed by firo yesterday ciples. Far from thero. being any afternoon. The Fire Brigade at- thing sinister in that, there can tended, but the structure was well only he good, for it marks a slago alight when they got to the scene. in the reaching of unanimity amors The loss for the contractor who the whole. With reference to the recently sigued Pack, Lord Cushenowned the shed is csilmated to Paris
amount to $200.
MONDAY use of firearms by robbers calls
HATS
IN FELT AND VELVET.
SHOES
FOR ALL OCCASIONS.
SUITS
WOOLLEN 2 & 3 PIECE.
Lane, Crawford's
LADIES' SALON.
for increasing vigilance, the more No pa these desperadoes usually work in gangs.
In an illuminating artisle which Singapore police official has just written there are aime Interesting disclosures made which no doubt have their counterpart here also. It is pointed out that the old gang
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which even those which he has at
EXCHANGE RATES.
Shanghai Yokohama
Brussels robber bad many things to contend dan again gave expression to Bri-
Amsterdam with, and his modus operandi was ain's desire to go forward slowly
Two lots of Crown land are to Borin ... but surely along the path which of necessity controlled by distance will lead to permanent International be offered for sale at the P. W. D. Copenhagen and the urgent need for numbers. peace. He counselled patience, ofices on the 17th instint. These
Vienna aro Inland Lot 2838, having an One man armed with a knife was purtinently remarking that ond
sould not arrive at a new heaven area of about 20,800 square feet, Helsingfors insufficient as a guard over a num-simply by the signing of a Pact, with an upset price of $6,690; and Lisbon |ber of victims, so that as most of the It is inevitable that disarmament Inland Lot 2839, the area of which | Bucharest
gang were occupied in mounting must be accompanied by reasonable la 4,200 square feet and the upset Buenos Aires safeguards and if there is some dif- price $33,600. guard and only one or two were ficulty in arriving at agreement available for searching and looting, regarding the nature of those
It is notified that His Excellency Now York the,, job took some time. In addi-safeguards that difficulty will only
be overcome by the patient and the Officer Administering the tien, numbers made the get-away diligent examination of all points Government has been pleased to Milan
a Committee for the Stockholm more difficult and delection casier, of view and a sympathetic con- constitute How does the modern "gunman" sideration of all claims. The purpose of advising the Registrar Oale compare with the old type? Ac-utions who have signed the Pact of Companies on the qualifications Prague cannot 48 yet throw all thoir of Chinese applicants for recogni- Madrid cording to the offlelal referred to, armaments on the scrap-heap, bat tion as auditors under the Com-Athens ho is a product of the town, and, they might be able to achieve sano panies Ordinance, 1911, and to lie.
Bombay as a paneral rule, the gun, and rot and tactical disarmament by con-appoint the following to be mem- Rombong
stractivo measures. Is is pleasing bers thereof: The Secretary for silver (upot) a willingness to take risks or exert to reflect that Britain is well to Chiness Affairs, Mr. Li Po-kwal, Bilvor (forward) physical strength, has made him. the fore in this hutnane trond. Mr. Ko Leung-wa, Mỹ. Ti N. Chai "He is not a man of brawn and
and Mr. Ip Lan-tsun..
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PIGEONS ROB THE LORD MAYOR.
NO MULBERRIES FOR THE MANSION HOUSE.
The Lord Mayor of London will .18.18 not have the honour this year of
34.426 being offered a basket of mulber
rics from the Finsbury-circus .102%
Garden, a custom which his pre- ,2,7/82|decessors have enjoyed for many
.700% many years.
.4756.
This year there are no mulberries .2/7-and all because of the City's at
1/10.15/32(tack on the pigeone!
4.85 6/16 When it was decided to reduce .25.20 the number of pigeons a light- 92.00 hearted contractor thought he had 18.18 an easy task. He did not find the pigeons so accomodating as he ex-
ed. They refused" at first to
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CLOUDY AND RAIN.
go Into iu nets, yet he managed to reduce their numbers.
Doubtless he thought he had suc eeeded, but that is not the opinion of the Finsbury-circus gardener, who declares that the "pigeons flocked to his littlo onais! Year after year he has had mulberries, and a well-laden basket has boon musclo, but oftén a weakling, a Anothor adjournment was recès-
forwarded with unfalling regularity to the Mansion House, ancak and a coward." The ease of sary yesterday in the District Peterborough Cathedral his success attracts a number of Court Martial of Gunner Shipley thorities have been alarmed to
This year, the pigeons have had. men who never had the strength ar and Lance Bombardier Cotton of find that the death-watch, bentle,
According to the Royal Observa- the lot. Not a berry have they the Royal Artillery, The caso has wrought much havor tory's forecast issued this more left for the Lord Mayor! The fruit. courage to be the old typo of gang against Shipley was copoludod but in the timbered roofs. The dean, ing, the weather for the week-ond grow, but just before they could robber, but inevitably as the gang judgment will be promulgated in the architect and the contractors will be cloudy, with some rain. be picked for the Lord Mayor'a becomes larger, proate become due course. The defense in the nte ta commultation with experts, Moderate north-east winds will pre table the pigoons found them.
The gardeñor has complained to smaller, and a consequent split into other case has yet to be heard and specimens of the damaged vail. The trough of relatively low two, three or four gange, each with Cotton is being defended by Lieut. material are being forwarded to pressure still extends from Indo the Guildhall, but so far no official.
Ottor
London,
China to Guam.
ation has been taken!