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THURSDAY, SEPT. 4. 1930.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
In putting forward their de- mands for the abolition of extrality. officials of the Nationalist Govern-
DAY BY DAY
it reaches us certainly creates the impression that these agitators have followed the same course of action as many other branches in China by arrogating to themselves
THE WISE MAN IS NEVER SATISFIED rights which they are wholly un- THAT HE KNOWS, BUT THE FOOL warranted in exercising; Indeed, KNOWS THAT HE IS SATISFIED, --- their action seems to come within W. G. Prideaur. the description applied to such bodies in the last British Reply to China on the extrality question when attention was directed to
The E. and A. Company's 8.a. groups and associations which set St. Alband, is due here with the up arbitrary and illegal tribunals Australian mail on Sunday morn
ing.
of their own.
One Chinese case of typhold fover was notified in yesterday's health return.
The rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens during August to talled 5.22 Inches There were 17 days when no rain fell.
The Housebreaker and His Art.
There are two kinds of house-1 employed through a Labour Ex-
breaking-ona legitimate, the change,
other quite the reverse. Both Suitability for the work is large- are dangerous occupations. The ly a matter of health and tempera- legitimate artist works coram ment. The old adage "where. populo; the other strives by all there's no fear there's no danger" means to avoid public attention, seems to be fully borne out in the writes Herbert Jeans in the Morn-trado. A youngster of 18 or 19 ing Post.
will go to the top of a lofty build- It is the former who claims our ing on his first job and start opera- interest and perhaps our sympathy tions with the confidence of a
although that he would doubt- veteran.
less scorn. There are, in fact. There are two classes of work- fow sights more popular with the ers, the top-man or housebreaker The forthcoming wedding is an average Londoner than that of the proper, and the cleaner or ground- nounced of Mr. Robert Gordon, No. housebreaker silhouetted against man engaged in clearing and load- 354, The Peak, Hongkong, to Miss the sky at the top of a building ing the bricks, timber, and other, Blanche Ida Marshall, No. 7, Kelm-cutting away the very ground from materials as they
come down. beneath his feet.
Although there are na "definite scott Gardens, Shanghai.
The height at which the house- degrees of skill, only the more ex- The Hon. Treasurer of the St. breaker works varies according to perienced workmen are entrusted John Ambulance Brigade begs to the building on which he is en- with the task of shifting heavy details such as stone cornices or acknowledge with thanks the gaged. receipt of $100 from Mr. Fung
The houses of the old Regent-steel girders, which may run into": Kong-un to Brigade Funds.
street, for instance, were no more many tons in weight. than from 40 to 50 feet high. The
We are presuming, in the absence of detailed information, that it is the Kuomintang which was responsible for the arrest, parading and imprisonment of Mr. Hansk. If not, and the local authorities are the culprits, the matter is only made worse than ever, for there could be no possible justification for such action by provincial officials. On the other hand, assuming our interpretation to be the correct one, it might well be asked what the local authorities were doing to permit of this outrage. So, in any event, the gravity of the incident is established and the fact brought into emphasis that there is guarantee in China to-day of Mr. adequate protection for foreigners engaged in lawful pursuits. News of the affair by this time has doubtless been cabled to all parts: of the world, and we can only hope that it will create in countries con- templating a revision of the exist ing extrailty arrangements realisation of the danger of giving away too much in any negotiations now in progress.
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Owing to the indisposition, of R. E. Lindsell the inquiry into the circumstances of the Police tragedy at Lok Ma Chau, which was to have resumed yesterday, has been adjourned until to-morrow afternoon..
·
the me-
more
14% per annum, free of Income specialised work, and it is con-ed. Notwithstanding the steadiness
has
The Christian Fellowship Meet new buildings are mostly 80 feet During recent years inga will resume on Friday, Sep- to the cornice with two additional chanical aids to building have tember 5th at the Helena May. In-storeys in the Mansard, or sloping, been vastly improved. There has, stitute. The Rev. F. Short will roof, giving an average over-all however, been practically no me speak during the month of Septem-height of 100ft. That is the limit chanisation of housebreaking, and ber--Advt.
the law allows on all ordinary the methods remain much as they sites.
were twenty-five years ago. The: gentleman with the pick does most Even comparatively, new build-of the work. ings are frequently demolished to When you consider it, there make room for something on a still would be difficulties in using mo grander scale; so the height at dern appliances in buildings that which the housebreaker commences are being broken down. The ap his spectacular operations may be pliances would come down with The local branch of the Charter anything between 50 and 100 feet the buildings; and therefore hand- work still prevails. The house-
to-day earns telegram to-day from the Head ed Bank received the following above the pavement level
To every wayfarer of the Londen breaker of Office in London:"Directors have streets it must be fairly obvious money and works shorter hours declared an interim dividend for that the housebreaking business than his predecessors, but on the It is highly whole his work remains unchang- the past half year at the rate of is booming just now.
fined to comparatively few firms. Tax.""
If you take the Buff Book and and confidence with which the man The second pupil to secure the compare the long list of building go about their work, accidents. will sometimes happen. The in-- honour, Lo Koon-kan, of the Hong- contractors who build up with the surance companies are fully alive kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., short list of demolition firms who to this risk and frame their tariffs
been awarded a Grade. 1] do the preparatory work of break-
accordingly, the insurance pre......... "Certificate of Proficiency and ing down, you will be able to form mium being generally from 10 to
15 per cent. the local this hazardous business. Silver Medal with gold centre by some idea of the exclusiveness of
Fatalities, however, are happily Skill in the trade is, in a great rare. But it is the experience of physical culturist, in a physical
on measure, a matter of heredity. at least one of the leading firms culture demonstration held submarine L.19, recently on the of his father; and there have been dents accur in falls of ten than carried out many hazardous
China Station, has also won two cases of housebreaking firms have in falls of forty feet or more. mans have for many years been flights in recent years, but none so diplomas for physical attainments ing three generations working on The explanation of this apparent" been without these special rights hazardous as the one which has and ju-jitsu.
a job at one time.
anomaly is that there is just room No particular training is given, in a ten-feet fall for the workman and have not suffered in con- been crowned' with 'success and
A Chinese was charged before but the gang, of course, is under to turn a half-somersault and sequence. We have, however, from which exceeds in importance the Mr. Whyte Smith this morning the direction of an experienced strike his head on the ground, time to time encountered complaints flights of Commandant Fitzmau- with having assaulted a Chinese workman. The gang will vary in whereas in a longer fall, there is from German nationals of the dif- rice and his companions from Ire girl, a waitress in the Restaurant number according to the extent an opportunity for him to regain his, equilibrium and, perhaps, ficulty, if not the impossibility, of land and the more recent flight Nathan in Nathan Road. The de- of the job.
On the demolition of Lever reach the ground feet foremost. of Majer Kingsford Smith to New-fendant was stated to have accost-
Nearly all the chief housebreak- securing justice in Chinese Courts, foundland. In both these cases cd the girl about midnight on Sep House, at the foot of Blackfriars
tember 2. near the Majestic Bridge, for example, which is now ing firms have their headquarters whilst there have been one or two the shortest route from east to Theatre and asked her for some going on, some two hundred men in London; there are few, if any, instances in which German subjects west was chosen Costes started
not all followers of the trade in the pro- He then struck her two are employed. These are have suffered indignities and been off from the capital of his own blows on the head and on the experienced in the trade, many of vinces. Provincial demolitions are had been them being young men who have generally carried out by local unable to secure any redress. It country and landed in New York, chest. After evidence must, nevertheless, be understood adding many miles to the distance heard the man was convicted and sought employment on the job and builders, and if the job is one of workmen. It is perhaps signifi-row a leading hand from a London that Germans living in China would of the previous east to west sentenced to three months hard have been taken on as promising magnitude. they will usually bor naturally be reticent in complaining flights. Yet his flight fails to labour. He had a precious con-i cant that none of them has been
(Continued on Page 7.)
Costes' Flight. Dieudonne Costes, the famous.
French airman, has now probably achieved his life's ambition by making the first direct Aight from
Professor Mauricio,
ment in China have on more than one occasion contended that there can be no danger to foreigners if this course is followed, as the Gar. Europe to New York. Costes has Monday. Mr. Reginald Smith, of The son follows in the footsteps in the trade that more fatal acci-
of their lot, since it is quite con- ceivable that they might find mat ters made even worse for them if they directed attention to the un- enviable position in which they of ten find themselves. In the cir- cumstances, they have little option but to suffer in silence.
thrill as did Lindbergh's, although it is far more important as 2 flight and a far more difficult un- dertaking, The fact that Lind- bergh was alone gave to him the lustre which is only now beginning to fade, but merely because Costes had with him a companion does not detract one iota from the magnificence of the feat. Flying the Atlantic from west to cast has become comparatively common,
The news from Swatow, which we published yesterday, telling of the experiences which befel the but there are few who undertake representative of a big German the more difficult reverse
chemical firm in the town of Chao An, comes appropriately at a mo- ment when the extrality question
route.
So Costes has now added further to his records. He has been fly- ing for eighteen years, during which time he has held many re-
la once again to the fore. This cords for performances with loads gentleman was on a legitimate busi-of 500 and 1,000 kilogrammes. He ness trip to investigate the activ- has flown practically all over the ities of the local Kuomintang which world and has done far more than had been threatening merchants any other French airman to give who deal in foreign fertilisers and France a worthy place in the re cords of aerial achievements. which had had the effrontery to tell His feat in flying from Tokyo to Chinese farmers that such ferti Paris in 103 hours in 1928 was lisers were poisonous. He was then hailed as the greatest feat scized, apparently by the Kusmin in French aerial history, It is tang, tied with ropes, paraded typical of Costes that he has not through the town with a "fool's rested on his many laurels and cap on his head, and then flung into that he has ventured on perhaps the most difficult of all flights with prison together with the three
the exception of the direct Pacific Chinese who were accompanying crossing. It is also typical of him. Such is the measure of Costes that he has made a success security given to a foreigner who of his greatest undertaking. If enjoys no extrality rights! Apart from the indignity suffered, the in- cident serves to throw into relict the chaotic conditions which pre- vail in China at the moment. The Kuomintang organisation, has not only been guilty of an unwarranted When the case against a Chi- interference with legitimate foreign nese, charged before Mr. Whyte Smith yesterday with having trade by working up a boycott stowed away on the, B.s. Kentucky against imported fertilisers, but it from Shanghai to Hongkong, came has scemingly defied such conformed the Court that the defen- up to-day, Sergeant Shepherd in-
stituted authority as exists in the dant was UI in the Tung Wah town and carried through a most Hospital and that the S.C.A, would
send him back to Shanghai. despicable outrage. The story as
before he was not a national hero he will certainly become one now and the world will join in congra- tulations to him and to his native country.
money.
viction.
What's that noise, mother?
"That's just my idol, darling, dragging home his feet of clay!!!