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Tientsin, Jan. 30. The latest attempt at extortion by the local Chinese authorities has taken the form of a demand jupon Foreign 'property-owners in the ex-Russian Concession to pay a special "Anti-Red Tax” calculat- ed on the existing Rental Assess- ment tax. A well-known foreign firm in Tientsin, with property in that area, on Saturday last recely- ed the following interesting com- munication from "the Special Bureau for Administrative Affairs" of the 3rd Special Aren"?

Tientsin, 28th Jan., 1928.

Meanrs.

THE HEART.

GERMAN PROFESSOR'S

DISCOVERY.-

REVIVICATION:

AN ILLUSION.

ARE CROOKS

CLEVER?

WORLD HIS OYSTER.

It is astonishing to realise that

It has just been reported from Innesbruck that Professor Haber-the vast majority of people look on fandt of Germany has discovered the confidence tricksters, forgers, coin- hormone of the heart with the aid of ers and the generality of crooks as which he has been able to cause

being clever. animal hearts that had been removed

Judges on the bench foster this from the body to beat again although illusion (says Andrew Phillips, in from two to three and a half days the "Daily Chronicle").. How had elapsed since their removal and often, before sentencing a thief, although they had already ceased to do they not allude with regret to best of their own secord.

the prisoner's failure to use, his talents in some honest occupation, and suggest that his success would have bean undoubted?

Horinones are stimulants als charged by various internal-secre | tion glands and conveyed, by means of the blood circulation and the

This superstitution of the talent lymph, to the remotest parts of the ed crook is widespread, and conse- body where they exercise a specific quently dangerous. It frequently influence on certain cells and organs. creates for him an atmosphere of Present.

Professor Haberlandt's discovery, tolerance.. The average man, Dear Sirs,

as the Winner Neue Frel Presse" realising his own "averageness," is By order of the Governor of remarks, goes to the very root of the apt to admire cleverness in others, Chihli Province ail House Owners problem of the heart and its fune: and this admiration often merges of the Three Special Areas, both tioning. It has been known long into sympathy. Chinese and Foreigners, are invit-ainco that hearts, especially those of

The idea is formed that the

By informing you of the above I beg to approach you with the re- queat to kindly pay the above-men- tloned Special Tax necording to the enclosed debit-note with the least possible delay.

Yours faithfully,

From this

ed to pay within one weeks from frags, continue to beat after being crook is a man who by some freak the date of this letter, a Special cut out of the body even when the of luck is found in the ranks of Anti-Red Tax, calculated propor-latter is in a state of decomposition. roguery Instead of being on the tionally to their Rental Assessment

But what Professor Haberlandt falde of the angels. Tax paid for last year.

thing quite different. has now been able to do, is some-comes much of the "sleepy," be- He cut out cause artificial, sentimentality that the hearts of some frogs and placed interferes with the just treatment their upper parts together with the of malefactors. vena cava into a salt solution where

An 'Abuse of Trust, they continued to beat.

The professional crook is not, as He then found that the still beat-la rule, any cleverer than the man ing hearts communicated their ac-lin the street. The intervals be- C. K. MENG,

tion to the salt solution in such altween his coups give him ample Commissioner.

way that the latter caused hearts time for careful preparation. The The enclosures consisted of two that had been removed from the liv-guardians of law and order have debit notes for Tls.1,181.25 and ing bodies of other frogs more than no knowledge as to where he is Tia.327.00 respectively. The Een three days earlier and that had be going to strike. The world is his tal Assessment tax on the two lots come completely inanimate, to re- oyster. concerned, 'for 1927, amounted to sume their beating.

For all that, we know on un- Tis.603,30, and this was an'in-` Systematic investigations carried deniable authority that only a crease of Tls.69.30 over the amount out by Professor Haberlandt enabled small percentage of crooks earn a paid in 1926, The Special Anti-him to discover that the re-animat- living equal to that of the aver- Red Tix. therefore, totalling ing substance to which these effects age skilled mechanic. They have: Tls.1,508.25 amounts to two and-a- are due is discharged from certain their "crowded hours," whon some half times the total (increased) parts of the heart only. It causes big coup has come off; but against Rental assessment tax for 1927, the pulsation of the heart, and is this have to be placed many and as it is intended to be addi- capable of accelerating and strength-failures and long periods of idle- tional to the ordinary taxation for ening its action. It is, indeed, the mess. And looming over every- 1928, this will mean that the firm hormone of the cardiac functiona. thing is the shadow of the prison in question is calmly called upon

cell. to pay Tls: 2,111.55 in place of Tis.663.30, for the current year. There is nothing, of course, to pre- vent the worthy Governor of Chih- 1 Province, and the enterprising Mr. Meng, from sending in debit- notes for similar amounts, and re- questing payment within a week, every month,

Positive and Negative.

Certain defialte features, both Take the case of even some of position and negative, of the newly the greatest financial crooks with- discovered substance justify Pro- in the last 25 years, All their al- fessor Haberlandt to classify it leged cleverness has not kept them among the hormones and at the same from the dock of the Old Bailey. time to assert that It is not identi- Prominent examples will come cal with any of those already known. readily to your mind.

We have but an incomplete know- The real angle from which to ledge of the nature of hormones, but view the subject is this. A cer we know that they are heat-proof. tain amount of mutual trust is the

Professor Haberlandt's discovery basis

upon which civilisation

fits in with this characteristic. On stands. In the small give-and-take the other hand, it cannot be identi- transactions of life guarantees or cal with the hormone of the safeguards are out of the question. suprarenal gland because it differs The average man trusts his fellow- from It In not contracting the blood man.

It is to be hoped that indeed we assume that as a matter of course-all foreign Arms in receipt of this impudent demand will flat- ly refuse to respond to it, or any other "invitation." to pay "Spécial Anti-Red" or other illegal taxes imposed by General Chu Yu-pu and lymph vessels. It cannot be an This is the whole raison d'etre and his subordinates. They are adipose substance because it does of the crook. He uses that little under no obligation whatever to not dissolve in other, and ained it is bit of mutual confidence to the pay them, and it is sheer effron not dissolved by alcohol, it cannot be disadvantage of the confiders. He tery on the part of the Special an albuminous substance.

poses as an. honest man until his Area Administrations to demand Moreover, it is altogether differ-victim is off his guard. He abuses them. We have here a very glarent from the cardiac nerve mib-the trust placed in him, and thus ing instance of the methods of ex-stance recently discovered by Pro-reap his ill-gotten gains. tortion practised in Concessions fessor Loewy; Professor Haber- which revert to Chinese control. landt's countryman. For all these

The Annals of Swindling.

The annals of swindling reveal-

crook's occupation; and, we must

It is not surprising the Foreign reasons it must be regarded as aed here and there some ingenuity, Firms which do not enjoy, extra-substance unknown heretofore.. territorial privileges are contem- It is quite possible that Profes but, even if we disregard the plating the removal of their offices sor Haberlandt's discovery will moral issues, nothing to warrant into areas where they are not prove of very great importance to any encomiums. Thieving is a liable to these recurring attempts medical science. It may enable us to "squeeze" them by the local auto render effective aid to failing credit him with a certain amount thorities. Chinese, we suppose, hearts in the most natural way.

of intelligence, but, when allow will not be "invited" but ordered, The discover reckons with the pos-ance is made for certain mechani- to meet this new levy. But it is sibility of using the hearts of cal inventions, swindling has taken not calculated to make them on- slaughtered cattle for. the extrac-no step forward since the earliest thusiasttic over the "Anti-Red" tion of heart hormone which can. No doubt there are crooks, big

days of the craft. cause, as directed by General Chu then be utilised for curative pur-and little, who have safely retired Yu-pu and his hirelings-"P. and T. Times."

Once it has been made possible from the game, and settled down to obtain the new substance with a

in comfort on the proceeds of their sufficient degree of purity, there rogueries. But when we consider will be no reason why it should not the roughly approximate amount be thus utilised, and this is mere-of the booty, and the horde of ly a question of time. It is evi- people among whom it has to be MONTE CARLO'S BID FOR NEW dent, therefore that the new dis-divided, the rewards appear inade-

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