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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
LATE. NEWS
RECORD H. K. V.D. C. RECRUITS
PARKING LIMITS
Police Innovation To,
Prevent Evasion
July 28, 1939.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS At To-day's Luncheon Of Sino-American Institute
The third luncheon meeting of the Hongkong Branch of the Chinese American Institute of Cultural Re- lations, will be held at 12.45 p.m. to. day, at the Hongtong Hotel. General Wu Te-Chen wit be the guest of honour and deliver a speech on "Cultural Nelations and Mutuat
Arnold, American
To provent evasion of the traffic regulation forbidding parking for a continuous period of more than two hours, a new device has been resort- ed to by the Trame Branch of the Understanding." Hongkong Police Department. This Mr. Julean la the numbering of the parking Commercial Attache will niso speak. spaces In Pedder Street between Reservations may be sent to the Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road, General Secretary, Mr. P. K. Chu, Chater Road between Pedder Street 223, Hongkong Bank Building. and Ice House Street, which are the parking places governed by the two- hour restriction.
When seeking to enforce the re-
PHONE CABLE STOLEN
gulation the police have frequently Thieves Make Big Haul Of been imposed upon by car owners, who, when challenged for parking for more than two hours, declared that they find in that time left and
and
same
Underground Wires
According to a report made to the Police by Mr. W. G. Grifin, of the Hongkong Telephone Company, un- derground cable valued at $734 was stolen from Villnge Road, Wongael- number alley over two hours later chang Rond, Morrison Hill Road and Shan Kwong Road between January car was never 1 and July 23.
of whit be accepted as first-hand
VOLUNTEER ORDERS issued this returned,
In future the numbers of cars and afternoon disclose that the recordi number of 130 Hongkong men have of their aileys will be taken volunteered for servico with the when a car is found in the II.K.V.D.C. since last Friday.
AVTEAKS This represents an nearly 20 recruits a day for the past evidence that the week. It exceeds all recruiting moved. Che owners genuinely leaving The cable was dug from the ground, figures since the Great War,
and returning must find a different but as it had not yet been put into Many of the recruits are believed alley. The onus of proving that he use, the theft
was not discovered to be persons who wis join up moved the ear will then rest with immediately.
the ins before the Compulsory Service Or-the owner. It is hoped that dinance ly applied to them.
novation will operate for the pro- the solution of a problem that has authorities in Bat, in many of the cases, the pro-tection of both the police and public, puzzled the Trame
A rough and ready visions of the Ordinance would not ensuring that parking space will not many countries. apply.
be monopolised by a few drivers to method adopted In some countries was for the Police officer to place a the inconvenience of others.
A Trame officer yesterday ex-peanut shell
path of the wheel; would a crushed shell some time later was pressect the view that a law
ensure regarded as indisputable proof that ultimately be introduced to Over a third of the reerulis who that the subterfuge of simply moving the car had been moved. This was have joined the Volunteers in the past car from one parking space to on successful until the publle became werk have been assigned to the Anil adjoining one would not be sufficient aware of the dodge.
Another method of marking the Aircraft Company. The great flp to evade the penalty for the two-
tyre with white chalk was similarly in recruiting to this Company will hour parking offence. permit full-strength gun crews to be'
This system is an improvement on unsuccessful, assigned to guns in future.
In addition to the recruits for the II.K.V.D.C., three ladies have valun- terred for service with the Nursing Detachment,
More than half the recculis arc Portuguese residents of Hongkong,
In comparison with the great boom in recrulling, It Is. noteworthy that resignations dropped to the lowest weekly record for several months. only one Indian retiring.
Danzig Preparations|
DANZIG, July 27-Well-informed} eireles here to-day said Danzig bas completed milltary preparations and no more men will be called to Storm Troop or pollee duty.
"We have reached a high point In tiolence measures. We will not call) up any more men but will devote our energies to training those alvendy in | uniform," they said,
It is feared that the business struc- ture of the Free City would suffer s the result of further conscription --
United Press.
Haitan Arrives
The Douglas steamer Haltan, which struck u mine off the coast of Fuklen on Tuesday. arrived in Hongkong at 3 p.m. She went directly to Cosmo- politan Dock, where she is to be re- paired.
A "Telegraph" representative at- tempted to board the ship to ascertain the extent of the damage and to hear the story of the mishap, but found himself confronted by stringent orders that no-one was to be permitted to board the ship.
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