K 15
SPECIAL EVENTS.
GENERAL.
1929 may be classed as a quiet year from a Police standpoint. Despite the water-shortage and dull trade, the year was not marked by any conspicuous crime wave or by industrial unrest. The increase of 147 cases in the figure for serious crime gives no cause for alarm. The population of the Colony certainly did not diminish during the year. Building and other development operations in various parts of the Colony attracted a large body of casual labour.
The suppression of the activities of Communists continued to be an important branch of Police work throughout the year. Communists have failed to obtain any serious hold in Hong Kong, but frequent raids by Police reveal that the Communist Party still maintains, or seeks to maintain, cells in Hong Kong. Their Agents are forced to conduct their activities with great secrecy, and there is evidence that the personnel of the Party's Representatives in the Colony is frequently changed. It is significant that most of the Party's Agents who have passed through the hands of the Police have been of the young student type, and appear to have been controlled from Shanghai. Their efforts had been directed to cause trouble among the labouring classes of the Colony. On September 29th, Police and District Watchmen succeeded in "capturing" a Communist Meeting in full swing at a Chinese Temple on the outskirts of Kowloon City. Over fifty persons were arrested. The principals were subsequently banished.
WATER SHORTAGE.
Owing to prolonged drought, the severe water shortage continued throughout the Colony until July. It became necessary to construct many large tanks along the sea-front in the City of Victoria. These were filled with water imported by steamer and lighter from neighbouring places on the mainland. Service from the street fountains was restricted to three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. The construction of the water-side tanks provided the emergency water service available throughout the day and night. Special Police were required for duty to control the queues at each street fountain and tank. To meet the demand, the Emergency Unit, District Watchmen and Police Special Guards, had to be detailed for this duty. It is largely due to the co-operation of the Chinese public as a whole that no serious disorders occurred throughout the shortage.
K 15
SPECIAL EVENTS.
GENERAL,
1929 may be classed as a quiet year from a Police stand- point. Despite the water-shortage and dull trade, the year was not marked by any conspicuous crime wave or by industrial unrest. The increase of 147 cases in the figure for serious crime gives no cause for aların. The population of the Colony cer- tainly did not diminish during the year. Building and other development operations in various parts of the Colony attracted a large body of casual labour.
The suppression of the activities of Communists continued to be an important branch of Police work throughout the year. Communists have failed to obtain any serious hold in Hong Kong, but frequent raids by Police reveal that the Communist Party still maintains, or seeks to maintain, cells in Hong Kong. Their Agents are forced to conduct their activities with great secrecy, and there is evidence that the personnel of the Party's Representatives in the Colony is frequently changed. It is signi- ficant that most of the Party's Agents who have passed through the hands of the Police have been of the young student type, and appear to have been controlled from Shanghai. Their efforts had been directed to cause trouble among the labouring classes of the Colony. On September 29th, Police and District Watch- men succeeded in "capturing" a Communist Meeting in full swing at a Chinese Temple on the outskirts of Kowloon City. Over fifty persons were arrested. The principals were subse- quently banished.
WATER SHORTAGE.
Owing to prolonged drought, the severe water shortage con- tinued throughout the Colony until July. It became necessary to construct many large tanks along the sea-front in the City of Victoria. These were filled with water imported by steamer and lighter from neighbouring places on the mainland. Service from the street fountains was restricted to three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. The construction of the water-side tanks provided the emergency water service avail- able throughout the day and night.. Special Police were required for duty to control the queues at each street fountain and tank. To meet the demand, the Emergency Unit, District Watch- men and Police Special Guards, had to be detailed for this duty. It is largely due to the co-operation of the Chinese public as a whole that no serious disorders occurred throughout the shortage.
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