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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but pur readers are warned to look out for occasional. phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)

12.

ILE

20

24

16

7

10

13

22

28

29

33

134

35

36

39

140

13

45

146 447

148 149

$1

152

HORIZONTAL

1-Well-bred men'

(slang)

B-Gains possession of

B-Partaker

12-Street (French)

13-Golf mound

14-Scold

17-Birds

20-Vim

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 95-Combining form

moaning "ear"

36-In no manner 37-Cavalryman 38-Parcel

39-Full of fissure 41-Vibratory motion 43-Lubricant

44-Band downward

21-One who feasts with! 45-Without sound

clamorous

merriment

Ages (abbr.)

51-Dlabot leal

wickedness

22-Pertaining to Middle 52-Appendages

24-Man's name

(Turkish)

26-Peint of compass

(abbr)

25-Salutation

27-feminine suffix

28

Stang

term for gun 29-Short sleep

30-Sleeveless garment

of Arabia

31-Fasten together 33-Alderman (abbr)

VERTICAL

1-Precious stone

2-Medieval shirtd 3-Variety of pigeon

4-Prefix meaning

"three" 5-Period of time

(abbr.) $-Dubs

7-Ridicule

B-A crackling sound

-Pronoun

10-Bom (French)

VERTICAL (Cont) 11-The definition of

technical terms 14-To beat soundly. 16-Bed canaples 16-First woman 17-Land of Rowere

(abbr.)

18-Scraping

Instrument, 19-Law-maker

20-Idolator

23-Station

31-impassive

#2-Sorrow 33-Skillful 34-Stylloh

40-Italian for "my" 42-Prefix meaning

"badly" 46-Replace 47-Girl's name 48-Roman number 49-81de addition to

house 50-Upper clasamen

(abbr.)

BUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure These will give you a clus to other words crossing them, and they in furn to still others. A letter belongs by each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word 'puzzle worl cppear in to-morrow's issue along with a`new cross-wirn puzzle.)

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HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS

March 19, 1929.

Messra. Ang Eng Sin, A. Ash- worth.

Messra, D. G. Bruce, A. Bunch, Chas. A. Baband, Capt. J. Beck.

Messrs. E.' J. Carmichael, F. A. F. Cory, Miss E. Cochrane and maid..

Mesars. P. J. Didisheim, O. S Dawbarn, Mr. and Mrs. A. Davy. Mra. E. Foster and daughter, Messrs. J. F. Feeley, E. A. Fisher.

Mrs. C, A. Henderson, Sir E Hayle, Mr. B. Henderson, Capt. J.

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Mrs. A. Morrell.

THE CHINA MAIL,

GAMBLING MENACE

SOME LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE

POLICE PROBLEM

was planned. The raiders sailed forth from their hiding place and were able to get right among the gamblers before they were noticed. One party, dealt with the yard, the other went to the headquarters and surprised four of the or. ganizers and a banker who was actually being checked out.

Ten Lucky Years The office coffers were full. Se veral hundred of

dollars were counted, correspondence and ac- count books were most instructive: the shares and salaries of the

looking coolies in court, ill-inform-quarters of the kongal, A raid ed public criticism was often direct ed against the police for its sup pression. In reality coolle gambling constitutes a very serious menace to public welfare: rubberies, mur- ders, faction fights, affrays and In the fifth of the series of art. false reports have been proved cles entitled "Singapore Froblems again and again to have been the which Mr. R. H. Onraet, of the direct result of organised coolie Singapore Police, contributed re-gambling; an army of evil livers are cently to the "Malayan Police Ma- provided by it with a means of live- gazine," the problem of gambling is lihood; extortion and corruption dealt with. Mr. Onraet writes: complete the vicious circles.

Most of us have vivid recolleċ- Catering for Salaried Classes tions of our first gambling raida: So much for coolie gambling. a chase over the roofs or a struggle The better and salaried classes are management were given and show- on the brink of the sort of pool one also catered for, and many haveed payments and receipts. associates with Chinese vegetable, been ruined by gambling in clubs gardens, to capture a wanted man; and undiscovered gambling houses a vision of Innumerable bare feet as quite. respectably run and very one went down to a rush of coolies effectively concealed. The points through the only doorway; a room are as high as one wishes: quite in which an overturned kerosene, recently cheques for $6,000 were lamp had started x fire and raiders exchanged over a table as a proof and raided united in smothering the of willingness to play and to pay for flames: pleasant experiences when high stakce. compared with the dreadful but very necessary raids on the gam bling nonias of Penang. Heartfelt was the sigh of relief breathed as the last fair one was bailed out and left the station.

The

daily takings of the farm - were found to average well over $100. -A successful case in Court at which the Gambling God was produced as an exhibit ended the run. of lack enjoyed by this Society for, it was said, ten years.

All pre- vious raids resulting in conviction for gambling against those caught Though secret societies flourish being no deterrent as the manage-

The by extortion from gambling estab|ment paid the fines,

"Ke lishments, it is unknown in Singa-Jau San" suffered eclipse for a pore for secret societies to run their long time after this and the num- own gambling houses for the bene-ber of reports made at Carnarvon fit of their secret society funds. Street and Pitt Street Police This necessary education taught Not so in Penang. At the back Stations fell very considerably, the inexperienced a good deal of the coffin shops in Carnarvon about informers and something Street there used to be a space, half about gambling and the people con- court and half passage way, giving cerned, but was only a step towards access to all the coffin makers' acquiring sufficient knowledge yaris and to some Vacant ground | wherewith to circumvent the pro- where bean oil was matured. It fessional gambler,` organized gam-was littered with old planks and bling and the multiple evils arising rubbish, and was an ideal spot therefrom.

wherein one might have a gamble

Two Local Landmarks

Two landmarks stand out in the history of gambling in Singapore. The first, the cutting off of queues, compelled the police to alter their raiding tactics, for no longer was one policeman able to arrest, and hold half-a-dozen Chinese. The second, the closing down of the Johore licensed gambling farms, had far-reaching effects and is res. ponsible for the present develop- ment of gambling in Singapore.

Singapore up to February, 1918, the date of the Johore enactment closing the farms, was with one ex- ception singularly free from or- Games of Poh ganized, gambling.

and Fan-Tan undoubtedly flourish- led, but only the Chap-Ji-Ki lottery

was organised.

Chap-Ji-Ki banks, judging by the record of Court cases, were opened by clerks and eashiers in firms and banks and by certain recognized promoters, the most notorious of whom boasted he would run over any policeman attempting to stop him when or his way to Johore with the list of hackers and their stakes. He was defeated just outside Way- ang Satu Police Station by half-a-dozen handcarts usually to be found on this part of Bukit Tinish Road.

Chap-Ji-Ki Lotteries

In those days Singapore Chap-Ji- Ki lottery bets were made on-the Johore declaration of the day, news of which used to be belephoned to those interested. There was gen- erally a pre-arranged code word and the messages once received. were broadcast in Singapore, “9 bags of rice" for instance would

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The craze for gambling does not depend on trade or other conditions but on the successful efforts of a number of promoters. There have heen outbreaks during boom time; there is an outbreak of it at the moment. It is without doubt the most important problem the police have to contend with.

"NINA," a clever interpretive dancer who, together with her partner. "Jacques," will appear during each per formance at the Star Theatre from Friday to Monday.

WAS

inform bankers that the 9th char- with the certainty of being able to acter had been drawn that day, get away, by one or other of the the code word being rice. The many bolt holes, should the police system was open' to a good deal of appear.

It cheating as losing bets were accept-

од raided

countless ed by some of the bankers after the occasions and those caught charged winning character was known. with "gambling in public." But as After Johore closed down, Singa- this procedure of dealing with the pore for a year or so was singularly place had gone on for years, it came free from Chap-Ji-Ki betting but a to be considered as merely a rendez- number of the old assistants of the vous for street urchins, well nigh Johore Fan-Tan-houses came over impossible to raid successfully, and to Singapore town, and gradually really hardly worth the trouble. jorganized ways and means to make The "Sour Lime Kongsi”

the promotion of gambling a pay- At this time (1916-1916), a secret ing proposition.

society known as the "Sour Lime The organization of gambling Kongsi," so called on account of the among coolies was undertaken by a corner it had made in extorting certain wealthy Teochiu organiza- money from the lime importers of tion and was centralised in the two Penang, was having a feud with the main districts of New Bridge Road- "Ke Jiau San, and though reputed Market Street area in "A" Division most powerful, appeared to be get- and Fraser Street and Rochore ting the worst of it. It was while Road areas in "C" Division. The making enquires into the source of promoters found the business so the "Ke Jiau San's" funds that it lucrative that the rents which they was discovered that the Carnarvon were able to offer for ground flour Street gambling was not a push- front rooms opening on to the five-half-penny-gambling-in-public foot way were such as to tempt affair, but a well-organized farm, many of the respectable shop keep run by-and for the benefit of the ers of these districts.....

"Ke Jiau San."

Organizers in the Background

The Gambling Suppression De-

In spite of their look-out systems.partment got to work and the place it was never very difficult to arrest was watched from a nearby house. a number of gamblers, for. at one From early morning to dusk the time 40 to 50 houses were doing scene never varied: a space was business in full view of the public cleared, sheds erected, and two road, and as soon as the police left bankers were in attendance. From with their prisoners a new lot of 11 am, to 3 pm. there used to be gamblers almost immediately took four bankers and the game was their place! The promoters and "Poh" Market folk were notice- the organizers remained in the able at certain hours; the krani background and it was well nigh class came in about tiffin time and impossible to identify them, locate again at 5 pm. Informers were them, or prove their gullt

often noticed among those taking

In 1918, the Gambling Suppres part in the gama Gradually with sion Branch and "C" Division un the help of glasses the faces and masked a number of promoters in movements of the troupiers and "A" Division and bankers in "O" bankers became familiar.

They Division: exemplary punishments had their regular hours and left were inflicted by an understanding with their banks and papers when Messrs. S. Peake, G. Petreguin. magistrate and subsequent banish their turns were up; where they Mr. S. Schofield, Mrs. M. Sawyer, ment completed the business. went to baffle the watcher for W. Vander Steen.

This type of gambling, limited weeks. But there came a red Messra. E. Thomas, H. C. for the most part to Tepchiu and letter day when, looking into the Trivedi, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Hokchias, did not occur again until back norms of the houses nearby, Tuombly

1925 when it once more attained its he saw, lit up by a fortunate light Messrs. R. P. Whitham, A. G. old prominence, and as the only out- effect, s foss table with a Gambling Withers, 8. S. Wong, Mr. and Mrs, ward and visible forms were a num- God, the Deified Tiger, enthroned. G. G. Wilson.

ber of unhappy and inoffensive and guessed it to be the head-

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