LONDON OF THE FUTURE.
A THOROUGH TANGLE OF PROBLEMS.
at a
THREE BUTTONS AS
POSSIBLE CLUE.
STORY OF RAID ON RA'S
HOUSE.
Three waistcoat buttons and a 20ft. rope with an iron hook were produced at Marylebone Police Court when two alleged "cat" housebreakers were sent for trial charged with breaking Into the house of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A., at Clarendon-place, Bays- water.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930.
REVOLT AGAINST THE RACKETEERS,
U. S. OFFICIALDOM WAKING UP.
NEW YORK £20,000,000
IN BLACKMAIL.
greatest
recorded Federal
ARMY V. NAVY
CRICKET..
MILITARY BATSMEN DOING BETTERL
to
The military players soon wiped off the 31 runs this morning. Duric and Thorp putting up 38 for the Both played useful first wicket. innings and passed the twenty mark before they were dismissed. ndd 23 Islewood helped Thorp
for the second wicket and with Musson he took the score to 81 before they were separated. Sig. Williams was next in and saw the total mount to 110 runs when The he was enught and bowled. Musson being 20 not out. Scores: fin interval was then taken,
There is little in the match between the Army and the Navy, as the result of this morning's play, to indicate which way the NEED FOR A PLAN.
honours will go. The Army wont to the wickets frat thing yester London, Nov. 30,
day morning and ran up a total of The eighteenth dinner of the
Timt general revolt in America 186 runs to which the Navy the Savoy
This morning Architecture Club at
against extravagantly vicious replied with 216. Hotel Wednesday will have. na ita
The two men-William Wallace, crime conditions to which the the Army made 118 for four topic "The London of the Future."
have looked forward wickets, being 85 runs on with alx The chief speakers of the evening 44, of White Lion-street, Finsbury, righteous will be Mr. J. B. Priestley, Alder and William Ellis, 75, of Rowton with faith, though oft disappoint wickets to fall.
King's Crase,
werged, seems to be nearer. Omelal man Ewart Culpin, C.C., and Mr. House,
The Federal J. C. Squire:
while Mr. George originally arrested a suspected dom is waking up. the lead of
Government, under
has Lansbury, the First Commissioner persona outside the house.
Sir Giles (the famous designer Attorney-General Mitchell, of
will attend
of Liverpool
Cathedral) said that announced that the Hoover Ad tary
duties permit.
about time 7.30 pm, he was seated in ministration had begun a war of This event happens when the whole subject of the fu- his car outside the house waiting extermination and would continue
is ripe for re- to take his wife out to dinner, the ture of Lonodon
under when he saw a man resembling effort against disorder and dis conalderation. London in
Then honesty till the nation had been goin fundamental changes-of Wallace pass and repass,
man like Ellis climbed over Cross
normalised, with or without the Bridge provides but an incident in hedge from the front garden co-operation of local authorities, the scheme of thing and at ne and joined the other man, and
upon the same national seale time in the history of iamlon has both walked off. there been such a concentration of He drove after the men, and which surely characterises the causes, each of which calls for in-saw them near the railings of the efforts of gaagdom.
He then went for the These may park. mediate consideration,
police, drove the officers back to be enumerated as follows-
First,
the phenomenal his house, and went off to keep there and increasingly-rapid extension of the dinner engagement,
P.C.'n Simpson and Salter said London into the suburbs are they watched Walinee throwing a Counties. Alrangly the Krea of Greater London is taken as being rape up to the balcony of the The book did not catch, north to south house. forty miles from and over forty from east to west, and, at a signal from Ellis, both Before the end of the century men made off, but were arrested, Detective Sergeant Whitehurst sale on the door of the drawing room he found a waistcoat button. and on the balcony two similar Later he noticed that were missing from
which the new Charing
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the
The Attorney-General believes that Chiengo is the most acutely affected of any populatlon centre, and into that city have been many Federal agusts thrown skilled in combatting organised violation not only of the laws concerning bootlegging, but asso- ciated with the white slave traffic. narcotics, and immigration irre: galarities. The Federal Govern ment now stands pledged to war
the promotion of vice andi apon expecially on the comparatively new erime of blackmailing busi
MIR,
Curiously enough the Federal Income-tax regulations penalising
TROOPS FED BY AEROPLANES,
EXPERIMENT ON N. W. FRONTIER.
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL.
Details hro just became avail- able in London of how the Royal Air Force supplied all food and provi gions for two days to a column of 1,000 men on the march from Dargai. to Chitral, on the North-West frontier of India, in September,
This was the first experiment of
its kind, and its complete success is regarded as of the highest inspor
Latice.
The infantry column set out over the difficult
north of country Peshawar towards the Hindu Kush
with two halts previously fixed, one between Dargai anil Malakand and the other farther in the'monalaina at
Chakdarra Ench day the column required about three tons of provi- Squadrons were ordered to supply sins, and two Royal Air Force
thein.
The Squadrons, which belonged to No. (Indino) Wing, stationed at Risaline, are equipped with West- land Wapiti two-seater general par- pose neroplanen. The supplies word 40 attached to smail parachutes of n- 14 special typo.
20
Army Innings. Lent. R. V. Dewar Duric, e
Edwards, Lynl Capt. N. A. Thorp, b.w., Jowit Lieut. J. Hasiewood, b Baker Lieut. A. II. Muaron, not out Sig. J. Williams, 1.3.w., Lynl Capt. R. G. Lockner, & Baker L/C. F. W. Fry, hw, Lyal Lieut. M. H. F. Waring, b Jowitt Majer R. M. Airey, 1.6.w., Haker 20 Cpl. W. T. Davies, Nosh, & Gloss fie. It. Salmon, e Edwards, b Lynl
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will have stretched to Brighton on this sortis and to Sathend the east. It must be remembered that the population of Greater London is almost twice that of Scotiand, buttons.
nearly three times that of en-three buttons PU
Ellis's waistremt. with greater travel mark; and. facilities and more ambitions con-
Ellis produced three waistenut
Jowitt ditions of living, the population will button and said that they we failure to report all sources of
the three which came off his waist-income, ny been more effective Lyal
Moseley
than the criminal law aimed direct- | Baker The magistrate allowed the men at the principal offences-pro Glans ball in one surely of £25,
bably because of bank co-operation Aylmer -but direct netian is promised Edwards
spread out much further,
Second, consideraute changes are going on in the centre in the mat- ter of rebuilding. for we have renched a paint when the incidence of expiration in ninely-nine-year lenses will now be occurring with greater frequency.
The Street Problem.
routes.
cont.
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the Burnham plan, and New York hus prepared its plan after six year'a wurk. Reme in rebuildingi
nove,
"Drys" Co-Operate. The organised Urys, apparently
lesa though
7
21
Safely Dropped.
To column at each halt
marked
7
19
10
186
out a large circle on the granul, on which the neroplanes dropped their loads within the circle. On the first day the fourteen aeroplanes, ench
four loads, dropped 48 muc
Total
Bowling Analysis.
M.
W.
2
15
3
$5
11
3X
3.3
Navy ist. Innirigs,
Lleut. Com. Squanes, b Fry
3
A. B. Nash, b Williams
e Durie, h Williams Lieut. C. L. Glass, c and h
Musson
12
52
M. J. H. Barrett, e abd b Durio 26 Lieut. Com. Branton, e Lockner,
b Duric..
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on a plan; yet London has prepared cocksure of Mr. Hoover's slane! Sub. Ligt. F. W. G. Edwards,
certain Third, mechanical transport has no plan of any kind.
The two chief difficulties at the self-sacrificial impulse, are offer- change the whole Cupetion of our: streets. They have becerie cross-moment lie with the Town Planning ing the Federal authorities their Act, which in the first place makes country through-tradic
Whole Consequently we are rapidly reach no provision for the fature plann- full co-operation is the ing the strangulation point, anding of built-up area; and in the cter of gang blackmail suppres-Sub. Lieut. Moseley, Burle, b
sjon, wherever circumstanECH Musson the present street plea of London second, vests its power solely in the
Mid. Jowit nat out is quite unfit for any logical solu-hands of Individual local authorities, might make it valuable.
That freeborn business men J. C. Lyal, b Willinras tion of this problem, no matter how no matter how small they may be.
American Com. E. A. Aylmer, b Williams Regional planning sehenna can ander the influence of
Aluanon, efficient our methods of control may only be prepared by the roasent traditions should abjectly submit A. R. Baker.
Williams b.
Fourth, during the last few years of all the District Counsels con- to such domination by the banded there has been a movement of in- cerned, and then only on a non-blackmailers and
regional collectively as "racketeers." as is dustrialiam towards the goath of statutory basis, for England. New factories are spring-committee has no power to carry revealed in New York, speaks
out its scheme.
for the modern spirit. ing up within the Loudon aren.
It is declared to-day that com- One only needs to take a journey: along one of the new arterial roada Thus it is that the Greater Lon-plaints already inlicate an actual Fry
as the Great don Regional Planning Committee anal blackmail paid in New Williams Bent Landon such West Rond--to see this.
--constituted under the auspices of York City of £20,000,00. Fifth, modern facilities in travel Mr. Neville Chamberlain in Novem have given increased mobility to her. 1927-is representative of no the citizens of London, not only to fewer than one feandred and thirty- reach homes as far away Brighton, but to make them sook in
as
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A Gilbertian Positlan.
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thus known
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cessfully, most of them within the circle. On the second day 54 loads Each para- were dropped anfely, chate load weighed 12011.
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The country is extremely difficult for such operations, and the success which attended them indicates how co-operation with aircraft may celerate the progress of armies, in countries where land unications are difficult andt' slow. The vulnerability of a column the march is reduced if it. enu safely rely for its provisioma upon aircraft.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cabled quotations
12 at the close of the augar murkots
6 yesterday have been received by Messrs. Pentreath and Co.:-- 210
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Total
Bowling Analysis.
M. R.
W
1
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03
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Thorp The same scandal exists in Darle
cities, lesser degree in smaller while conditions surpassing even
Musson
10
Army, 2nd. Canings.
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24
29
13
London Ferminals.
March 1931 5/331 down 8%d. May 1931 6/G down 8d. August 1931 5/9 down 8d. December 1931 6/1%1⁄2 down 71⁄21⁄2d.
New York Terminals.
March 1931 1.15 down 4 pts. May 1931 1.23 dawn 1 pt. July 1931 1.30 down 1 pt. September 1931 1.38 down 2 nts. December 1931 1.42 down 2 pts. London, 29/12/30-U Ultimate 2 ratification of scheme seriously prejudiced by latest developments 126 and
and situation at the moment very Airey, obscure. Nevertheless, still hope- ful that solution will be found in view of pressing needs,
Confi- dence all markets severely shaken.
seven fent authorities of which those of New York plague Chicago. Downr Darie, e Baker, & Jowitt
is the London Cinnty Council is no Chicago the acknowledged Thorp, b.w.. b Lyat a wider field for their social re more than one, Such a situation is centre of "racketeering," which Halewood, Lyal, b Glass creations. Consequently, there is Gilbertian, and, as may be imagined, mens blackmail ander threats of Musson, not out less pride in any locality to resist the initial operations of the com-financial loss, and personal injury, Willams, e and ↳ Jowitt the spoliation of districts; and, the mittee were somewhat cambrous. † with murder as the final rebuke nare important social centres-it was not until the appointment for laggards. Virtually every
Total (for 4 wkla) such as the rain streets of the in 1929 of Mr. Raymond Unwin, as trade, vaention, and commercial or Fry. Salmon. Davien. West End - have become overcrowd-| Technical Adviser that any hen-industrial activity in the Metro-Lochner and Waring to bat. ed in the evenings by people whof way seemed to have been made.politan region to-day is shadowed previously found amusements in With his able guidance the Com-by grim threats. their own districts. This will mittee has produced Ita
Method of Blackmail. tend
increase
3:14
report.
is This
very
dawiti unis
salutions afe elber to good us far
of the Lyal Kroes, but
To give
iden Som enlarge
the
promenade
and under the present arrangement it seriousness of the extortion, it is Baker amusentent nrens of the West
cannot fur.
120 It deals chiefly with stated that racketeers are at Glass End
or to encourage more lively the decentralisation of population, present levying a tribute of three Edwards local centres under the scheme of the reservation of open spaces, pro- halfpence a hundred-weight on all posals for amentiments to the Town freight from ships or railways at This brings me to one of the most Planning Act so as to include built New York docks or railway ter-LIES OF THE BLACKEST. recommission, Captain J. D. Camp- important points of all. We must up areas, and proposals for the minals. Every railway and all have many more open spaces and constitution of a Regional Planning steamship companies but one are aports grounds. This is not merely | Authority for Greater London.
victimised. systematically
Lo
satellite towns.
the first
as
Ap-
Bowling Analysis.
O. M.
R.
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w. Do not see, any immediate pros-
pects of improvement.
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a matter of amenities or ordinary These two latter are cardinal nut-parently this "racket" is a graft of convenience; it is a matter of direters without which little further
banded drivers for money paid by necessity, for the motor-car has de progress can be made.
Of the 131 cases of perjury in employers direct to them. How 1928 only 19 came from London, strayed the exorcise of walking, and
A Hint From Chicago, they later divide with the leaders while all told, offenders from what industrialism has drained the health
When the Central Authority in is #1 mystery. Refusal means may be described as urban areas point; aml if we are to hold any likely to be formed it is difficult to material positively unmoved or sumbered only 62. This includes place in the work either in sports been prepared for Central London, the criminal surcharge is
say, but meanwhile no plan has possibly destroyed. Of course 25 from the County Borough of or physient endurance, we
even-Tynemouth, which caally secured have at least ten times the number not even one of a suggestive kind: tually added to the retail price, the record for perjurers in 1928. of open spaces for sports and re-herefore it seems that it would be and passed on to the consumer.
Lying for Friendship.
of the nation beyond the economic
erention.
must
or
ILM.S. alrcraft-carrier Hermes has arrived in Singapore on its way to its base at Hongkong. The vessel has been home to reft and
bell, M.V.O., O.B.E., has been re- Heved in command by Captain E. J. G. Mackinnon, D.S.O., and a change has also been made in the senior R.A.F. officer, Squadron Leader A. W. F.. Glenny, M.C.. D.F.C., has been appointed.
Tai Kam-fei was charged, before Mr. Butters, at Kowloon this morn- Ing, with possession of a roll of better for Loudon to adopt the
cloth in Temple Street yesterday. Labour unions are also muleted, Chicago method and form an un- every member of one (unaffiliated
What deductions, if any, are to The defendant said he had bought London Without A Mai, official body of those interested in
the cloth from the Fung Hing shop in Hongkong. A feki of the shop. These are the main factors in the the subject to support the official with the American Federation of be made from these figures?
committee and urge the authorities Labour) being assessed eight To start with, if Mr. Justice denied having sold the defendant problem of London, and we have inta sonic definite action. With the shillings weekly, with no pretence McCardis is right, the 131 caacs any cloth. Defendant was describ- dane little or nothing to solve them. successful example of the Chicago of giving value other than im-of perjury, known to the police ed as a police official from Swatow. The little that has been done seltene in mind, I suggest that this munity from further persecution. cannot possibly be the correct fine of $50, or one month's im amounts
to this: Under the Town unofficial organisation should be Nearly all, union musicians must total. Therefore they are hot a Planning Act, vach Jocul authority formed, at once of all those Lon-pay four shillings dáily or risk true guide except to prove that a prisonment, was imposed.. is nominally obliged to prepare a doners--and not only Londoners injury
com- Joss of their job. particular section of the town-planning scheme for its un- who are interested in the subject Lantrymen are especial victims, munity in better than another as A merry party was held at St. 'built-on areas, Allhough the Act or who care for the future of Lon-many establishments having been regards this offence, which brings Pauls Orphanage last week, when came into force twenty years ago, don. This London Planning League dramatically wrecked.
us back to the declaration of the and although it was obligatory for might prepare a manter plan pure-
The prosecutor who has ex- Psalmist that all men are liars." #everal friends provided a Christ- each local authority to preparo
mas trent for the Chinese girl Perjury is probably committed orphans there. A Christmas tree scheme within a certain term of of a suggestive kind, which the posed these, and many other de yehra, only a small proportion of Central Authority-if it ever comes tails, pledges himself to find and out of friendship as much as any- was erected and a Santa Claus local authorities
to be formed could look to an a drive out the offenders, though thing else; the oath, which, after gave several gifts to each of the actually have
pre- valuable expression of public desire. Now York in absorbed by the all, is a matter of personal con inmatea..Afternoon ten was pre- pared schemes. In same And the plan need not be costly or miseries of hard times, and is science, being regarded as a small vlded for All the children, Mother drastic in its Auggestions. It curiously apathetic to all such thing as compared with the need
Superior and sisters. опроні.
In matters. and should Include the future needa
to do a friend a good turn. as through Ignorance apathy. Notable amongst these traffk. opon spaces, and social
As for perjurers of the Divorce Boveral suthorities within amenities and it should set down
Court-their number is legion. All Greater London; and the most re- the main lines of desirable change
Among the Now Year festivities who have read Kipling remeraber markable axarople in the whole of next hundred years, so that when will be a dance at the Craigen- that maxim of Hatz:
Is the London County buildings are pulled down in the night given by the President of gower Cricket Club to-morrow Council. Yot every capital
If there be trouble to Herward, city in
normal way they could be put back the Clubs to all membora. Mr. B. W.
and a lie of the blackest can the civilised world except London | has prepared some sort of plan, to now frontages. If this had been Bradbury, the President, extends clear, Amsterdam has been working on done a hundred years ago we would an invitation to members to bo a plan since the beginning of this not be in the muddle we are in present.
loent authorities are law; not so much through
ilon
nre
its
century. Chicago is being rebuilt now.
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Lio, while thy lipa can move or a
man is alive to hear...
Among the passengers arriving by the President Cleveland yester- day from the United States was Mr. G. T. Thach, who comes to the Colony to join the staff of the National City Bank of New York. Ko is accompanied by his mother. Mrs. A. T, Thach.
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