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„POLICE USE POCKET
RADIO PHONE.
DEVICE INVENTED BY
A CONSTABLE.
EXPERIMENTS MADE.
Three more sensational motor bandit raids were reported in London in one day, last month. From a warehouse in Shoreditch 3,000 pairs of silk stockings were carried off, quantity of clothing was removed from a shop in Can ning Town, and men who smash- ed a tobacconist's shop window at Fulham drove off on the ap proach of a constable without taking any goods.
General welcome was given to
the announcement of new police planes, which include the use of pocket wireless sets for every officer on his beat, to deal with "the motor-bandit menace.
Raids on shops by men who es cape with the stolen goods in stolen motor-cars are now of daily occurrence. Frequently there are four or five auch raids in a day and shopkeepers, especially jewel- Jers, are becoming increasingly
anxious.
An official who has been closely in touch with the wireless experi- ments said:
The scheme will be at work within the next 18 months in a number of important forces.
The porket sets have a radius of 8 miles, and few horoughs in England have a larger radius than
that.
Where there is an efficient police-box system the only mess- age needed will be, "Go to your box at once for instructions."
When there has been a motor- bandit raid, descriptions of the men, together with the make, colour, and index number of their fear, could be broadenst within a few minutes to every policeman in the area, and there would be little chance of the bandits 08- caping.
POLICE RESERVE.
THE
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by thel Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector General of Police, state:
General.
Revolver Practice. The regular weekly revolver practice (volun- tary) will take place at the Bowen Road Revolver Range on Wednes- day, September 24th, from 5.30 to 7.00 pm. It will be open to all ranks of the H.K., Special Con atables, Chinese Company, Hong- kong Police Reserve and to all persons holding permits to carry,
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1930.
HARBOUR PLAN FOR HAINAN.
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CINEMA NOTES.
NORMA SHEARER SCORES IN
"THE DIVORCEE,” ...**
.
The communication between ship In "The Divorcee," which le and town is maintained by cargo showing at the Queen's Theatre junks; drawing up to 4 feet. Even for the last times to-day Norma these small craft are unable to Shearer again conclusively proves navigate the channells at low water; that she has few compeers on the it is only at high water that they talking screen. The star, who ran proceed direct to the anchorage. has a poise and beauty all her At low water they have to round, own, gives an intensely moving the sandbanks, making the distance portrait of a woman who in an to the anchorage 5 to 6 nautical attempt to meet the standards of miles. Communication between a sophisticated society gives her the shipping and the town is entire self up to promiscuous living and ly stopped in bad weather. At almost succeeds in losing her other times the cargo junks are ex-husband into the bargain, posed to beavy squalls, which are Miss Shearer is seen as Jerry so frequent in this locality, causing Bernard, daughter of a million- much inconvenience in regard to aire, who after three years of Police Training School.
and damage of cargo. Under the married life discovers that Ted, The weekly classes for Police' most favourable circumstances
her husband, has recently carried Reservists at the Police Training cargo junk may cover the distance on a liaison with Janice. Bitter School, Kowloon, will be held on between ship and town in about ly hurt, she forces herself to of her accept the explanation Tuesday, September 23rd, at 6.30 one hour, but as a rule it takes
her p.m. All members of the Chinese much longer, often three hours or husband that he still loves and Indian Companies, and of the even more. It may be said that
only and that the affair was Flying Squid who have not yet the technical conditions are as bad passed Part 2 of Training Course, as they can possibly be. should attend.
arins.
Chinese Company. Revolver Practice. Members of the Chinese Company, who have passed Parts 1 and 2 of Training Course, will attend at the Bowen Road Revolver lange on Wednes day evening, September 24th. at 6.00 p.m. sharp for revolver prac tice under Musketry Instructor E. Carpenter.
Flying Squad. The weekly instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section will take place on Tuesday, September 23rd. Fall in at Tsim-tsa-tsui Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Khaki Uniform and Cap with Khaki Cover.
The final instructional patrol of the month of the. Hongkong Section will take place on Friday, September 26th. Fall in at the Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress-Khaki Uniform and Cap with Khaki Cover. All members should attend.
SOVIET LURES FOR THE TOURIST.
GIVEN CIGARETTES CAVIARE
AND SOAPI
con-
A TAXI INCIDENT. Moscow. Foreign tourists on flying visits to Soviet Russia in groups of more than 200 at a time are being treated royally and feasted on the fat of the land.
When an invusion of this size swoops down on Moscow managers of the three State municipal hotels are frantic. According to tract with the Soviet Tourist compelled to Agency, they are evict a sufficient number of guests, foreign and Russian from rooms to make place for the organised tourists. The dining-room of the Grand Hotel, the largest in the city, is closed to all Russians from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., so that "tourist simply an unimportant phenoaviars and steak and other itema visitors may get special meals of
menon of the current moral code Commercial Advantage.
of modern civilization. With regard to commerce Hol-
When, however, she subsequently how is at present the only cam- meets her husband at his own munity on the Island, where trade game and gives herself to his of any extent is carried on. The best friend, Ted looks at things geographical position of Hoihow in an entirely different light and is favourable, and its proximity to deserts her. Utterly disillusion Kiungchow, the capital of Hainan ed. Jerry abandons herself to a Island, contributes to give it a period of free living. After a preponderance over other places. notorious existence a climax re- The development of the island veals to her the futility of her will not apparently, be brought actions and in an unexpected about by the natives themselves, manner she contrives to win her but by people and capital from husband back again." abroad, and will, as conditions áre now and nrust remain for many years to come, be managed from Hoihow and Kiangchow.
The plot carries with it several minor situations, including pathetic interlude in which the husband of a woman whose beauty has been ruined as the result of an automobile accident is torn between loyalty to his wife and his love for Jerry,
on
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A shop for cigarettes, chocolates and soap has been opened in the hotel, because, these articles hardly be bought for any price anywhere in the city. Customers must present their tourist agency tickets before they can buy in this shop. About 90 per cent. of all the taxis in the city are placed at the service of the tourists day and night for sight-seeing purposes.
The extent to which the desire to please goes is illustrated by the following incident: A woman guide. and interpreter for two tourists came out of the hotel to find all the taxs gone. A moment later a taxi passed. The woman succeeded in stopping, it, and ordered the two Russian occupants out. They pro- tested that they were clerks of the Státe Bank carrying valuable papers. The woman then ordered the chauffeur to evict his fares. He' refused. Whereupon she produced a secret police card, ordered the chauffeur to drive to the nearest traffic policeman, and with the aid of the policeman she succeeded in clearing the taxi for her astonish-
AMERICAN STOCKS.
The shifting of trade from channels once established often involves complications and, be- sides, the vested interests. of Hoi- how itself must be reckoned with. "They Learned About Women.” With due regard to these circum--
Masseurs and rubbers instead stances, it is still open to discus- of make-up men, baseball coaches sion whether Hoihow has reached, instead of dialogue directors, and or will in the future, reach such howling mobs instead of quiet commercial importance that the sound stages, were
used in the Sharpshooters' Company. spending of large sums of money filming of the thrilling World Riot Drill--The Riot Drill this to create a modern harbour on a Series games in "They Learned ed visitors. Brighton Experiments. week will be held on Thursday technically inappropriate site is about Women," Van and Schenck's afternoon, September 25th instead justifiable. Cheap and easy trans- first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star- A Brighton policeman, Police of Tuesday, September 23rd, as portation by sea and land is a sering talkie, which opens Constable Redgrave, formerly a usual. Members will fall in out- que you for the development of a Tuesday at the Queen's Theatre. wireless operator, has been res-side Queen's Pier at 6.15 p.m. and country or a community. Hollow In the games, Van served ponsible for perfecting a small proceed by motor transport to is in this respect poorly circum-catcher and Schenck as pitcher, receiving set, no larger than an Kennedy Road. Members will stanced.
on one of the teams. Both form- electric torch, with which it is bring their rifles, belts, revolvers At present the transportation of erly played semi-professional now proposed to equip the police and truncheons. Uniform if cargo is as follows: from ship to baseball in Brooklyn in identical all over the country.
possible.
lighter, from lighter to shore. positions. His experiments were made on-
Motor Patrol. A detachment After harbour improvements have the suggestion of Mr. Charles of the Company will accompany been made, either according to Griffin, Chief Constable of Brigh the Flying Squad on their weekly Leigh and Orange's minor scheme ton, with whom the idea of a port patrol on Friday, September 26th,
or according to the Netherlands able set for the police originated. Members with cars and motor Harbour Works' proposed scheme, For weeks past Police Constable cycles will fall in at Police Head- the same inconvenience of trans- Redgrave has been experimenting quarters at 5.15 p.m. sharp. on the Downs and cliffs near New Uniform-Caps with
Khakiportation will remain. Should the last mentioned scheme be adopted haven.
Covers, Tunics, Shorts, Puttees, Belts, Holsters and Revolvers.
a third handling of cargo, by road Winter Uniform.-All members from the junk harbour to Hoihow, not at present provided with must be added. winter uniform should apply at once to the O./c. Company,
He received messages broadcast from ships and from the wireless station at Newhaven with a small crystal set fitted to his helmet. Later he produced a still smaller valve set. He is still carrying on his experiments.
Mr. H. M. Black, chairman of the Brighton Watch Committee, told a Daily Mail reported that Brighton would probably be the first town to adopt pocket wire- less for the police.
"I expect the system will be used here experimentally before Christmas," he said.
A WIDOW'S NAME SECRET.
CHARGE AGAINST MAN MET
ON MOTOR. TOUR
An attractive young widow's meeting with a London clerk dur- ing a motor tour of Scotland last September was referred to at Mary- lebone when Alfred Gorgon Gibbs, aged 35, a telegraph clerk employed by a cable company, was charged with threatening to murder hor.
The prosecutrix, whose name and address were not disclosed, said she was of independent means. After the tour she and Gibbs walked out
(Sgd.) D. L. KING,
D.S.P. (R).
LITERATURE AND LICENSING.
(Continued from Page 6.)
English freedom. That gentle writer, Izaak Walton, had no qualms about the true uses of the inn. When his day on the river was over he loved to spend his evening with his brother Peter and his friends at the inn, and there "to tell tales, or sing ballads, or make a catch, or find some harmless port to con- without offence to God or man." tent us, and pass away a little time
Do Magistrates Understand? This ideal use of the inn is not understood by magistrates whose manifest desire to kill any form of expressing joy on licensed pre- mises is often displayed in decreet forbidding music and any form of "harmless sport."
For this reason I should glean from the Aedate Longfellow's together until April, when they had memories of the inn at Sudbury, a disagreement and she refused to when- see him again. Soon afterwards he wrote her a filthy letter.
inn
In May she saw him. in Baker- "street, W., and ran away from him, nir,
but be followed her. As she was going towards her club he seized hor, dragged her across the road, and struck her on the chin, causing her to fall. On August 9 she re- colved another letter from Gibbs.
Technical Drawbacks.
Instead of being made up be- tween seenes, the teammates were rubbed down and massaged by trainers. and given technical advice by Mike Donlin; Giant veteran, who acted as supervisor of baseball action in the picture. All of the other players were pro- fessional stars and all went in for regular training rouliness be
Thousands of extras filled the grandstand and
tween
scenes.
CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM NEW YORK.
85 145 100
The following quotations have been received from their correspondents in New York, by Messrs. Swan Culbert son and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shang- hai, (Cable address: "Swanstolic Shanghai) who are not responsible for cable mutilation
New York, Sept. 20. Tone of Market-Steady. No. of Shares Done.-750,000. Call Money-25%. American Smelting Anaconda Copper Baltimore & Ohio Borg Warner Continental Oil A study of the prevailing con- bleachers at the famous Wrigley city. Service Common, ditions makes it perfectly clear made, providing the greatest bed- Eastman Kodak
Curtis Wright Common that from a technical point of view Hoihow Bay is not the right am of noises ever recorded on Electric Bond & Share
the talkie microphones. Jack General Motors. place for the construction of a deep water harbour for the Island Conway and Sam Wood directed General Railway Signal of Hainan. The coast in front of the feature with Bessie Love play. Goodyear Tyre & Rubber the Holhow river does not exhibit who make thier debut in the pro- International Cement ing opposite the singing stars Granby Consolidated any natural features, favourable duction. Included in the support-International Nickel for a harbour, which if, built ating cast ane Mary Doran, Eddie Montomegry Ward this place, must entirely depend Gribbon, Benny Rubin, Tommy Radio Corporation upon artificially made protection Dugan, J. C. Nugent and Francis Radio Keith Orpheum works for its serviceableness.
Field, where the scenes
X. Bushman, Jr.
were
The report further deals with different sites for building
Bebe's Voice in Rio Rita." harbours, and suggests the Is.. An eye and ear feast par land being divided into three excellence: Such is the treat in sections, the north-eastern, store for patrons of the Central the north-western and the Theatre where Radio Pictures southern, each having its own all-talking, all-musical
extrava harbour. Suitable sites for such ganza, "Rio Rita" is showing, harbours are as follows: for the with Bebe Daniels and John Bolca southern section at Yu Lin Kan in the outstanding roles. Bay, for the north-western section at Sun Ying Bay and for the north-eastern section at Manin Bay.
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In conclusion the report states that should it be found unprac- tical, technically or financially, to construct a deep water harbour at Haihow, shipping conditions are that something must be done by such at this commercial centre,
Bebe Daniels is a revelation to from the parlour of the way of improvement either by a
She has junk canal leading from deep "Rio Pita" audiences.
built her following on portrayal water right up to the town, or a
she junk harbour, situated at a dis- of silent roles, but now tance from the town, connected blossoms forth as a vocalist of exceptional merit and easily holds with the same by a motor road.
The Board's investigations when her own with John Boles, leading completed will make it possible to man, who has had years of train- pass judgment on the merits of ing on the operatic stage. the propositions.
the
A pleasant murmur smote
Like water rushing through 2 weir;
Oft interrupted by the din Of laughter and of loud applause And, in each intervening pause, The music of a violin.
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ment of technicolour in many Harry Tierney's music, 48 written for the stage production barge. In these sequences the sequences aboard the night club of "Rio Rita" and the book by screen is alive with people, Gay Bolton and Fred Thompson, literally hundreds of them, and never were more ably presented the specialties are worthy of the than by such players as Miss best spot on any vaudeville bill. Daniels, Mr. Boles, Bert Wheeler, "Rio Rita" ja a fine contribu- Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, tion to the newest expression of Helen Kaiser, Don Alvarado, the cinema audifilma. It has others in the cast.
200 mystery, adventure, music, song, Georges Renvent and the
action, colour-everything that goes to appeal to the eye and the ear.
"A Night of Mystery and "Gay Paree.".
M. Leo Eleanore Ninon and Mantin in "Gay Paree" opened to an appreciative audience at the Majestic Theatre, Howloon, last night. Their revue, partly in Being of Spanish descent, Miss English, is above the usual type Daniels fits her "senorita" role in Hongkong. Undoubtedly the like the proverbial glove and limits of the theatre detracted from gives to it a dash and finesse that their performance, but the audience stamps her as a versatile star of expressed their pleasure at the the newest expression of the excellence of the show. M. Man- celluloid drama-the talkies, tin and Mlle. Ninon began with a Official persons' who make a hol-
The initimitable comedy ability song that is both catchy and well by of Licensing are out of touch
of Bort Wheeler and Robert rendered. They followed this with When the tourist yacht Stella with the people's views on the sub-
Woolsey who were featured play- an exquisite dance, enhanced by the Polaris arrived at Trondjem last jest of the right managercent of Competing at the world tractor "Rio Rita", enhance the value of wore. Their performance is good éra in the stage production of beautiful gown that Mlle. Ninon month with a party of British inns. If they would refresh their trials here against 30 other types Hadio Pictures' adaptation of the from beginning to tourists direct from England It minds with masterpieces of English of tractors made by firma from all
end. The was found that all the passports Literature they might learn some parts of the world, a notable Ziegfeld success. Helen Kaiser, management of the Majestie is had disappeared. The passports thing of the true principles of Li- success was scored by British also with the original "Rio Rita" gratified to offer such had been laid in one bundle in a censing,
built Dieach engined machines. company gives to her role of balanced programme to its patrons cabin, and it is believed that it
By running on crude oil these can
at popular prices. must have blown overboard when
be operated at less than one third the brother of "Rio Rita and Hollywood beauties Evelyn Brent Adolphe Menjou, assisted by the the coat of petrol or paraffin Georges Renavent as the Kingka and Nora Lane, is seen in his best Sea. The passengers were allow The Government's resolution' driven tractors. They are made ed to go on shore on the condition imposing new tariff charges has by a British combine of agricul- jou" the bold, bad mystery Paramount picture, "A Night of
bandit, gets out of the role the Mystery"
Mr. Coleman, prosecuting: It containa threats to murder? Yes, Gibbs was committeed for trial In custody, and Mr. Bingley, the magistrata, ordered him to bo medically examined.
the yacht was crossing the North
The Sudbury landlord was, how- ever, a Justice of the Peace, and no doubt granted himself any license he required; a very excellent rya- tem that might be re-introduced to- day.
Ottawa, Sept. 20.
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SUCCESS OF CRUDE OIL TYPE AT TRACTOR TRIALS.
London, Sept. 20.
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