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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
a pointer. And there is some thing very inspiring in the fact
10. 1933.
THE SOCIAL EVIL: III
VAUXHALL that in this, as in so many other
spheres of endeavour, Britain is POMPAAN ON HIS ROUNDS
IS TAKING A RISE
THIS YEAR
STRAIGHT UP-THE SKY SEEMS TO BE THE LIMIT.
by no means behind the times. New Men Behind the Scenes.
This is the third article by thevance information, in Blank "Telegraph's special investigator on Street, and was fairly successful. Hongkong's social evil. Yesterday In the beginning ho marahalled he dealt with sly prostitution chis forces, stationed one nub- centrated within um areas defined,
The Very Idea!
A WOULDN'T SHIP
By Edward Kelly, Master. "Yollo!" he whimpered. "A small bottle of Formażono on a
dead man's chest."
W&B wharves,
too
In our day, when anlt horse was a luxury, and when eight months out from home we used to have boot salad, and the binnacle was used as a savoury, a little thing. about not be able to go alongside wharves would never have troubl
od us..
We had a rubber bottom in our a Nor- wegian freighter. Inst ship the "Bsurd",
and he now proceeds to discuss the ordinate at the bottom of the After thirteen trying years
activities therein of the Police Vice staircase, and another in the rear
The Empress of Britain, which to cut off escape in that direction. Slr Eric Drummond, the Secret Squad.
A cautious estimate has placed With two others he ascended to arrives here to-morrow, ary-General of the League of Na- tions is definitely retiring at the the number of those practising the floor-and the surprise, the large to go alongside the Kowloon end of June. His place is to be sly prostitution at well over 1,000, vital condition for succeRA
and most of them are to be found complete: he had inmates and taken by Monsleur Joseph
in Buch alum quarters as were clientele bottled in. Avenol, a Frenchman, who, as described yesterday, fato which A panicky customer, temporarily Deputy Secretary-General, has the foreigner rarely penetrates bereft of reason, wun with difficul-
receiving critical been his second-in-command sin- without
nt-ty restrained from suicidally leap ce 1923. The old traditions should tention, much less in his role of ing over the verandah balustrade.
Several the Inspector going the rounds. To-day, after warning of the therefore continue. other changes in personnel have The work of the Police Vice clientele who looked oddly sheepish and particularly the in the circumstances, ha takes the Owing to Squad, already taken place.
Sentor
who woman and the case into Court. Omeer the expiration of their contracts European the Italian and German Under-directs its nativities, is arduous The Police Magistrate is accustom from 9 arduous that one hesitates for ed to these details and requires Secretaries departed
his well-being to heap on him the only n perfunctory recital from the Geneva at the end of last year. Increasing responsibilities evolv-Prosecuting Police Officer. "Four
ed from the new regime.
Toonta......funn beds (the odd is The new German Under-Secret- ary-General is Dr. Trendelen-
When not co-operating with the jaituated in the corridor)...... five berg. He has been associated officer at the Secretariat of Chin-men...four women.
Defendant in the dock the prin with the economic and financial ene Affairs whose special duties
are sometimes necessarily limit-cipal tenant she holds the rent work of the League for many
the nominal functions receipt, your Worship. She has a years and knows the workings ed to of the Secretariat well. As his of his Department, he instructs previous conviction.
hle men in their
Worship: Ono respective first task he will take over the
duties and 50 perfect those dollars fine, or two months, supervision and control of the details having their culmination ture confiscated. organisation of the forthcoming in the more or less lightning raids World Economic Conference, conducted nightly on suspected £500,000 is now being spent at There is no doubt that this side houses. Lodging houses for wo- Lulon in buildings and new of the League during the next
men suspected of visiting the volets clus referred to and masange- equipment to speed up deliveries few years is due to become as
halia which are not what they because production on some important as the Disarmament models is now lagging 4 months Section, for all the League's
behind delivery requirements.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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Incorporated in Hungkong,, Blubbs lowd
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DEATH.
The
Hongkong Eclegraph.
FRIDAY, FEBRUÁRY 10, 1933.
A GREAT FLIGHT.
A
IIIA
LUCK
Her masts were so tall that a man falling off the top would be picked up on the way hack. from Buenos Aires, after spend- ing nine days in Wolhaiwel Cove with ullage thrown in.
Other times, the cry would come "Prataa hundred from the crow's-neat,
ahead." Might be one Furni: Shoals
time we would cut the centro out of the shoals.....next time wo'd
By A.P. Garland.
"I believe in the old-fashioned
scrap our keel off. O.K..
Sail without a keel.
Camo Macro harbour,...chuck
the engines overboard
and
To
through with casn
If we
Speaking as a captain, were in charge of the Empress of
efforts are now being expended manifold duties Intely, but it leirtues," said Finsen heavily. Britain wo would yell out,
the
the
purport to be, have added to his the sly brothels, which are most constant source of worry. Hydra-Headed Monster
dicated
in the
"Ask yourself who are the men that have made good-
have immovable bowal"
"Yat Yee Sarm seal" (Chin- "I know," said Kinley. "Theoso for "Yes, our wharves are also: men who have made good sau- steel!") LET'S GO!
"I know the yara," said Kinley, "A beautiful woman picked him up”
And if we win-we win. If the wharves win...... Harry for **Hullo. Carey Japaneso stomach!")
* •
RAMBLED RHYMES. The Magistrate Twiddles
Thumbs
his
They're tucked Away well out
of Sight
Though He Wouldn't Talk He knows Very Well That When he's not Wrong he is
Right
The Tomcat on the Wall Is Having a Terrible Fit His head's stuck in
A salmon Tin
And He doesn't Like it a Bil.
•
wash
to bring about economic as well as material disarmament. The new Italian is M. Pilotti, another man who for several years has
The hydra-headed munster of cepans, drainpipes, sock-suspen- had dealings with the Lengue as
He will Greek mythology may be fittingly dera
"The men," said Finsen, "that an Italian delegate.
brought into comparison with the carry on with the work that used problem, which keeps rearing up have possessed Industry and per- to be done by the German Under-ts hend after seeming extinction. severance, punctuality"
"And all stations to Marble Anyway, the days of wouldn't Secretary-General, Herr Dufour- A floor, it has proved, may be raid-
ships seem to have come backt. Then he continued seriously, By the way, speaking of coming SOUZA,At the Kowloon Hospital, Feronce, namely social worked one week, and the tenants dis- Arch," broke in Ilimbury.
with back, do you know that the aver- Kowloon, on February 8, 1938, (drugs, white slave traffic and persed or deported, and
who has Juse Thomas de Souza, nged 69 the rest) and Intellectual Co- next, the same business la dis-"Listen to this. I was
enoughage resident of the United States ut man to-day belag carried years. Funeral will pass
M. covered the operation or Education.
to carpet Hyde Park. ate 11 lbs, less ment a year ago Monument at 6.30 p.m. to-day. Tilotti was the first of the newly another address. The fine, im-¡ dollara (Shanghai and Meenu papers please copy).
appointed higher members of posed on the "principal tenant" in Three years ago, in New York, he than he did 30 years ago
CABEA han not apparently, was reduced to his last crust. the Secretariat to take
the such
acted as a deterrent, although it Incidentally, he still keeps the solemn oath of allegiance to the has lately been doubled. With crust to remind him of old times. League in public before the evident. Incility, she is able to pay Then a motor-car knocked him members of the Council. In the fine, or more correctly speak into the middle of next week." order that an Englishman maying, has it paid for her. be in one of the higher posts of And by whom? Responsible the League, Captain Walters Police officers, impressed, speak of
"A big, black nigger picked him who has acted as Sir Eric's right a "ring", or a number of "rings",
aro pooled, up," thundered Himbury. "When hand man for several years, is by whom resources to be promoted to the rank of not only to acquire "replenish he came out of hospital he found ments" but also to meet con- that in the mix-up with the car Under-Secretary-General and remarkable truly
ac-will look after internal ad- tingencies in one direction in his uvula had been twisted several by Court fines. That degrees away from the true north complishment is that of Squad-ministration. The post of De- same ring, it is further declared, so that his voice was all hurky, A few months later he was a radio ron Leader Gayford and Flight|puty Secretary-General render- maintains a regular spy system.
colossal salary and Thus it has come about that crooner at a
bodyguard of Lieutenant Nicholetts in having led vacant by the advancement of
Patrol certified assassins to stall of the covered a distance of six thou-M. Avenol is most probably to be through his being hedged in by had to keep a sand miles without a stop in a filled by Mr. Phelan, an Irishman spies, the "Pompaan on little over fifty-seven hours. who was been head of the Diplomoves like a danger-sigaul. It is love-sick women who camped out
fore he has set hla foot far from virtues my aunt's elbow!"
WHAT ER SELL The feat is a tribute alike tomatic Department of the Intersignalled and "telegraphed" be-on his doorstep. Old-fashioned "That's nothing," said Finsen. the intrepidity of the airmen national Labour Office for
Headquarters. A procession of
When scientist puts you on the and the qualities of British last twelve years. It will be a Serior Oflicers succeeding to the "A chop I know suffered terribly
Al- very good appointment, if it is unenviable post of Vice Squad from insomala. Used to spend water-waggon, he makes it a joy- engines and equipment.
nights a week counting the Chief is now beginning to under-seven though the fliers did not actually made, since Phelan was in
not, at the special invitation of one two-yes, or reach their goal, they added a British Ministry of Labour dur-stand why, on arrival on the sus-sheep so that he became the best ride. Believe it nor believe it
find it sheep-counter in
of, those University chappies, we in touch pected premises, they third record to British aerialing the War and is
shrouded in Stygian twenty-two, hemispheres. As
spent yesterday afternoon. con- achievements, thus illustrating with political circles in many generally"
Lastly there darkness, and the woman who result he got a splendid job incentrating on water Water you in the air. other countries, our supremacy When we recall the fact that it is some talk that Mr. Ham- holds the rent receipt greeting Australia, where a man with Inow, that wet stuff you
them with a surprised look and abilities could be appreciated. with. was only a matter of twenty-five bro, of Norway, who has been smirk, disclosing gold-filled teeth. There his widespread reputation. He showed us all sorts of tricks,
Except for thin "responsible" won him the band of the daughter years ago that Bleriot aroused one of the kecnest critics of the world interest by committing his League at the last four Assem- principal tenant and perhaps one of a millionaire. squatter-and she but when he began to produce Under-or two dowdy looking meniala, the was fairly aquat herself, and he's some amazingly natural waves in fate to the reliability of his zero-blies, will be made an
now the owner of 1.467,346 sheep a vest-pocket ocean it proved too plane engine for some half an Secretary-General so as to keep apartment is deserted.
Once in a while the pompaan is-counting from left to right much for us. With a faint hiccup. hour while he crossed the Eng- the point of view of the smaller
successful. For example, last and can have lamb cutlets eight we staggered out into Caine Road. lish Channel, it will be realised countries well to the fore.
night he conducted an important days out of seven what a tremedous advance has
raid about which he received ad- them. science of been made in the aviation. The Great War, of course, undoubtedly accelerated Considerable public interest aviation progress, and since that has been aroused in London by time there have been many ill-proposals to pull down Waterloo ustrations of man's gradual but Bridge, and to alter the appear- steady conquest of the air. The ance of Carlton House Terrace, Post-Gatty world flight stands the fine block of residential out in particular as one of these, buildings overlooking the fam- the route being covered in samneous Mall leading from Trafalgar cight days with several stops. Square to Buckingham Palace. On the basis of the latest Bri-This attitude contrasts in its zeal tish feat, it is probable that the to preserve the architectural same route could be covered by benuties of the past, with the in- the giant Fairey-Napler machine difference that the past itself to masterpieces of in three stages. How time and showed
Contrary distance are being eliminated is Gothic architecture. well shown by the new record to popular opinion, there has now set up, a feature of which probably never been an age was that the airmen were in con-consciously devoted as the pre- stant communication with their sent to maintaining the scenic headquarters during their epoch- and architectural amenities be making flight. When Drake set queathed to it by its predeces- out on his nautical circling of the sors. But in one respect the globe, it was nearly three years difficulties of so preserving the before he got back. During all amenities of the past grow con- The increase that time, practically nothing tinually greater. was heard of him. He sailed of taxation and the gradual unknown seas, trusting to the equalisation of wealth make it theory, which many doubted, less and less possible for private that the earth was round. For individuals to keep open and in the aerial navigator nowadays, good repair those huge castles however, there is not a mile con- and houses of historic interest cerning which information is which are one of the most pic- not available, and even on the turesque features of the English It is strikingly longest flights the airmen ean countryside. keep in touch with the outside significant that only a few weeks world. Thero is grent and ago a castle in the Midlands was wonderful destiny for aviation, sold for $7. The cost of main- of which the record flight of taining such a place is so Squadron Leader Gayford and siderable that no one felt justf- Flight Lieutenant Nicholotta isfied in offering a bigger sum.
Castles in Distress
80
con-
if he wants
"I'd love to, dear, but I promland Napoleon I'd take him
to tho movica this afternoon.
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KELLY'S DIARY.
February 9. Heard from What- isname about becoming a member of the Legislative Council. Ho'r not too keen about it.
Expects to be in the next Hon- might ours Llet and thinks wo queer his pitch.
Gave some good advice. "Don't about tako too strong
a ling
economy or Shing Mun Dam. No-
body understands either and an open mind will enhance your re- putation."
(What for, we wonder. Open- mindedness?)
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BALD HUMOUR.
Somebody has discovered that bald men are funnier than those who have managed to keep their bair on.
We do not know how the dis- covery was made, but it is a long time since anyone tendered con solation to the bald, and we don't mind..
Educational and other experts. with fell intent, spend many hours dovining intelligence tests for the young. It would be more useful to have a system of humour testa for the grown-up members of the population, go that we might know exactly where wo stood in this column, being thin as a rake ourselves.
A column could be included in: the consus paper, wherein the por- son under cross-examination would bo Invited to any whether his head la hald, hairy or covered with a to win. We are too well used alling up inquisitive official forms to be offended at that.