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the Nan Yang Tobacco Co's premises on 16th November. The meeting was broken up by the Police and the leaders, all Communists, were convicted and subsequently deported. The most serious occurrence however was the murder of L.S.C.384 Tse On, a member of the Police Anti-Communist Squad, who was trapped by Communists in the Nga Lok Restaurant, Yaumati, and shot dead on the 11th December, while attempting to obtain information in connection with a Communist Anniversary. Following his murder, considerable further Anti-Communist Police activity ensued, revealing an important organisation within the Colony which has been definitely suppressed for the time being.
3.-EMERGENCY UNIT.
The Emergency Unit, which was organised three years ago, has continued its useful work throughout the year. Consisting of forty men with three British Police in charge, it is divided into five Squads, of which three are always available for emergencies and one for paid outside duties. During the year, the Emergency Unit responded to eighty-five calls, fires, outrages, and minor disturbances; it earned six thousand dollars for special duties and gave one hundred and sixty Police, i.e., ninety-six Indian Police and sixty-four Chinese Police, a most useful revision course in their duties, besides training them in special work, such as Riot Drill, Lewis Gunnery, Physical Drill, also Police Regulations, and revolver shooting. Police are attached to the Unit for a period of three months, following which they return to regular duty.
4.-GAMBLING.
Following on the restrictive measures adopted by the Police during succeeding years since 1928 to prevent the running of irregular lotteries by all and sundry in connection with the local Race Meetings, which had assumed very serious proportions, the necessary legislation to enable Police to deal more effectively with such lotteries was enacted during the year when Ordinance No. 12, amending the Gambling Ordinance No. 2 of 1891, was passed. The effect has been to reduce such lotteries to more reasonable proportions and to eliminate irregular sweepstakes.
5.-HAWKERS.
It was found necessary to reconsider the distribution of stallholder hawkers throughout the City and Kowloon, owing to increasing traffic congestion on the one hand and complaints from the Sanitary Department on the other. A number of stalls had to be cancelled at the annual relicensing in October to meet the first difficulty, and in connection with the latter, it