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MONDAY,

Mr. E. D. Shank returned from carry on and work hard for the Manila by the 8. President Me- benefit of stray animals that fro- Kinley to-day.

quent our streets, etc.

Please, If you can, support by

Mr. L. R. Andrewes, acting your altundance our annual meet- Treasury Solicitor, left for Home Ing on Wednesday, April 22, at on Saturday by the P. & O. steamer 5.15 p.m. Karmala.

Yours, etc.,

Two returned banishees, both of whom were banished for 10 years in 1929, were at the Kowloon Police Court this morning, sent to jail for 12 months with hard labour.

At Murray Barracks on Saturday Mrs. Gross, wife of Lieut. Col. R. F. Gross, officer commanding the Bat- talion, presented the trophies com- pleted for during the South Wales Borderers' athletic meeting.

For having possession of 40 tacks of raw opium at Kowloon Railway! Station, Chan Cheong, an unemploy- -

ed Chinese, was fined $1.500 or Bve months imprisonment at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning. The oplum was discovered tied around his legs.

Ho Cheuk-sze, a married woman living at 29 Conduit Road, has re- ported to the Police that at noon on, April 11 she entrusted a

man with a quantity of furniture, valued at $296, to be removed from

2. Saigon Street to the s.s. Saigon.

The coolie is alleged to have since disappeared.

J. RUSSELL,

President.

Hong Kong. April 11.

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.

APRIL 13, 1931.

PARIS COLONIAL SHOW.

No British Pavilion at French Exhibition.

ond

The International Colonial Ex- hibition of Paris, that is to open its doors to the world in May, wili, beyond doubt, be one of the most lovely and harmonious among in- tornational exhibitions held since their original parent, the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park.

The Exhibition starts with immense advantage, namely, the natural beauty of the site. The Bois de Vincennes, at the eastern gates of Paris, is a splendid park of wood and held, nearly 2,000 Police Training School, acres in size, and about an eighth The weekly classes for Police of this, in the vicinity nearest Reservists at the Police Training Paris, has been taken for the Ex- School. Kowloon, will be held as usual to-morrow at 6.30 p.m. All You will enter the Exhibition members of the Chinese Company over a wide and lofty bridge, built and of the Flying Squad who have to cover the main thoroughfare not yet passed Part 2 of Training | through the Bois de Course should attend.

which, of course,

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. | Wolfe, CALG., Inspector General

of Police.

Practice

mus.

Chinese Company.

Parade.--A

Hon.

for

hibition.

Vincennes,

must be kept open. On your right stands the practice superb dome of the Cite des In- parade Chinese

.G.P.sformations; here will be concen- inspection will take place at the trated the intelligence service of Central Police Station on Thurs- the Exhibition and the exhibitors, dny, at 5.30 p.m. All members and in the galleries that run out Urform, Belts without frogs and taken by countries that have no attend. Dress-Winter} from its base are the sections

Cap with White Cover.

pavilions of their own. Probationers. The following

Britain's Lack of Interest. Dr. Arthur Woo, residing at 27,

Sad probationers are apecially requir

to Babbington Path, has notified the ed to attend the Police Training greatest Colonial Power on earth, say, Great Britain. Police that a doctor's ase, contain-School, and Squad Drill at the will only be found here, our ing various Distruments, to the value of $200, was stolen from his Central Police Station on Tuesdays Government

aur manuine- ted Thursdays, respectively.

turers not deeming larger partici- motor car which was parked In Connaught Road Central. near the Star Ferry wharf, between 7 and 10 o'clock last night.

Appearing on a remand charge of ly more arduous duties apper-the unlawful possession of 2,900 taining to a Volunteer. There

tacle of prepared opium, valued at $34,800, the stoker and engineer of seems to be no co-operation be- the ss. Pong Kong were at the Cen- tween the Volunteer Corps and tral Police Court this morning be- the Police Reserve, the latter of fore Mr. Schofield, fined $150,000 which

with the alternative should refuse

of one year's hard labour each. Chief Proven- on its roll one who tive Officer Baller prosecuted. obviously should be a Volun-

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to ac-

THIS VOLUNTEER RACKET.

(To the Editor of "China Mail"] Sir, I am afraid I have not the time to carry on a protracted cor- respondence on this subject, though I thank the various people who have taken the trouble to write pointing out the error of my ways.

and

R99 Frank Chew, R74 Ho Kwai-pation worth their while. Various hung, R61 Lam Man-kit, R89 reasons are alleged for this, but Luk Kang-cheung, R09 Pong the result is humiliating when our Kwok-tin, R6 Tsoi Long-shan, share is compared with the exten- R68 Edward E. Tip, R64 Silver Bive pavilions of Holland and Bel Pong and R81 Kwok Shui- gium, and the gorgeous contribu- cheong.

tion of Italy. Squad Drill. All recruits of the To the left of the entrance Central Police Station for Squad politan Section-a colossal build- Chinese Company will attend bridge is the Palace of the Metro- Drill on Thursday at 5.20 p.m. ing with a tall and shapely tower. under L. S. R.43 Tao Chi-on, the top of which will be brilliant

Flying Squad.

with searchlights-put up to hold Practice Parade.-A practice exhibits of all French manufac- parade for Hon. I. G. P.'s inspec- turers who export to the Colonies. tion will take place at the, Central Police Station on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. All members must at. tend. Dress-Winter Uniform and Cap with White Cover.

Squad Drill. All recruits of the Flying Squad will attend at Cen- tral Police Station for Squad Drill L. S. R.333 A. W. Mooney. on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. under

Special Duty-Members who are detailed for special duty at the Races will parade at Central Police Station on Saturday at 13.30 hours. The weekly Instructional patrol

Hard by stands the Colonial Muscum. This is built of atone and will be the sole part of the Exhibition to remain after this yenr, the rest of the buildinga being of temporary construction. The facade, eighty yards in length, is completely covered by sculpture in high relief representing the peoples and products of France's Colonies and her ports that assure her liaison with them.

Thence we move on to the lake. of the other

round which most pavillons are built.

Temple of Anghkor.

tion of the Queen's Palace at An- Here is a fascinating reproduc- tananarivo, in Madagascar, and a ritual column surmounted by four giant aurochs' heads. Here an in- of the Hong Kong

The weekly instructional patrol viting Indo-Chinese pagoda; here take place on Friday. Fall in at compound. And here, as you come Section will the wide extent, of the Belgian the Central Police Station at 5.15 half-way along the lake, la the p.m. sharp. Dresa Winter moat beautiful sight ever seen in Uniform and Cap with White an exhibition, an object again Cover.

teer. There are degrees of CORRESPONDENCE, shirking one's duty to the Colony, and some succeed admirably in being permitted to take the line of least resistance. Knowing that the Corps is strictly of a volunteer nature, we use the word "permitted" intentionally. There is such a thing as moral suasion even in the case of a volunteer body. Nobody would desire to

I have no objection in principle of the Kowloon Section will take "alang" one like "Lai Tee" for not at present being a Volunteer to Volunteering as such, and I have place to-morrow. Fall in at the no wish for it to be thought that Tsim-tsa-tsui Fire Brigade Station if it is true that he has spent am making any criticism of the in-at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter more years of his life in Regular dividuals who constitute the long Uniform and Cap with White Army and Volunteer units than a Kong Volunteer Corps. The point Cover. normal non-professional soldier is, however, that the Corps is a voluntary one after all, and if it has any right to expect. This is isn't rumeiently attractive to draw Hong Kong, Monday, April 13, 1931. not the class whom His Excel-the right kind of men in larger lency the Genoral has in mind numbers, then the remedy lles in its when he tilts at certain persons |

own hands,

I tried to show, in a fairly mild for not joining the Volunteers. manner, why I did not consider that

unique, so unbelievable as to stop Sharpshootera Company. "Lai Tee" cannot be expected to the Corps as at present organised

your breath. At the end of - an Strength.-Constable, R474 Leonavenue over two hundred yards Says a letter-to-the-Editor old wear a cap that is not meant to was fulfilling its real function in the Cotorez 11s been taken

on the long, flanked by hleraphantic man "if nothing else the Corps fit him. But there must be many Colony, and I attempted to make a strength of the Sharpshooter Com boasts and long halustrades cover- constructive proposal. More than has had some useful and cheap others, much younger and less ex- that, I cannot do.

ed with lace-like tracery, stands pany as from April 1, 1931.

Riot Drill-Riot Drill will be the temple of Anghkor, In Cambo- publicity in the last few days."perienced in such matters, whom Having, however, spent more carried out on Kennedy Road on dia, rising steeply from the plain Thus is summed up the corre- the cap must fit. These latter years of my life in Regular Army Wednesday at 5.15 p.m. Members on a flight of a hundred steps and spondence in the Press in regard are the shirkers of an obvious and Volunteer Unita (Oh, Yes! I will fall in outside Queen's Pler blocking the sky.

have been a Volunteer, strangely at 6.10 p.m. with revolvers, belts, to the Volunteer Corps.

duty, even though it be a volun- enough!) than a normal non-profes. holsters and truncheons. Uniform A Volunteer Corps either is or tary one.

sional soldier has any right to ex- optional. Is not essential in this Colony. Instead of the annual genera-pect, I take the strongest possible objection to the manner in which Years of experience and various tion of hot air on the part of auccesalve G.O.C.'s of this Com- crises in the Colony's history some of whom Volunteering is mand stand up in public and slang have demonstrated that it is not expected, unless it be as ame for evading my obligations to That being so, all part of the very useful Reserve, at soldiers" in my spare time. And the Empire because I will not "play essential. other questions are subsidiary, which maintains the physique that, Sir, was what 'prompted me to Naturally the best time to em-and keeps the eye in practice-write my original letter. phasise its importance is the occa- essentials in all schemes for local

Yours, etc., sion of the annual inspection by defence - let each citizen `ex- P.S.-If nothing else. Mr. Editor, the General Officer Commanding amine his conscience and ask the Corps has had some useful and in South China, who would be himself whether he is really per-cheap publicity in the last few days, criticised as failing in his duty forming á citizen's duty by re- hasn't it? were he not to take the fullest maining outside the Corps. For, advantage of his position on such apart altogether from any moral an occasion by making a plea for suasion or any other kind of

To the Editor of "China Mail"]- | greater numerical strength. suasion, it is really a matter of

Various devices have been re-individual conscience, and all the Sir-May I, through the medium sorted to the past in the direction General's pleas and all the con-of your readers to the fact that the tween February 15 and April 1,

of your paper, draw the attention of seeking new recruits amongst troversies aroused thereby may annual general meeting of the the clock being missed at Chinese those eligible for membership fail in their objective. Even so, Society for Prevention of Cruelty New Year. The charge of stenl- but who, for reasons of their so long as we have a Volunteer to Animals will be held in the ing the barrel was dropped, but

Board room own, elect to stay outwith Its Corps let it be one of which not Matheson & Co. on

of Messrs. Jardins, the defendant was sent to prison Wednesday, for three months on the other ranks. Circulars have been sent only the Colony but every portion April 22, at 6:16 p.m.

That

Hong Kong April 12,

The paper plant of the Powell Miniature Range Practice. The River Paper Company has increas Company Rifle Club will hold its ed its newsprint capacity output usual weekly practice on theto 630 tons a day with the installa. Miniature Range on Thursday at tion and operation o a seventh 5.15 p.m.

newsprint machine. In 1912 the (Sgd.) D. L. King, D.s.p. (r),

company started

with two news, print machines and this has In- creased, year by year, until to-day seven machines are required to handle the business.

"STOLE TIME.”

LAI TEE THREE MONTHS FOR LARCENY

OF A CLOCK.

S.P.C.A. APPEAL.

1

The Okanagan Telephone Com. pany has completed the best year Mr. Bishop, of the Green in its history and now has over Island Cement Co., appeared in 5,000 phones serving the cities of the Kowloon Police Court this Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Sum- morning as, complainant in a merland, Revelstoke and points case against Woo Ngan, who between. Some 215 additional was charged with the larceny of 'phone services were installed dur a clock and a barre the property ing the year, aixty of them being

in the Vernon Exchange. of the Company.

The articles we stolen be-

count.

many who help in this good work; among the character actors of

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "Chino Mail" of. April 13, 1921.3

To-day's dollar is worth 2/ 7.

•

to heads of firms seeking full par- of the Empire can be honestly We have an Influential list of ticulars of their employces from proud.

can easily be Patrons, a large Committee, and After months of searching

Nine bodies have still to be ré- the angle of eligibility and sulf-achieved by community co-but attendances at these amaual Hollywood and making tests of all covered from the ruins of two ability as Volunteers. Some operation and encouragement meetings have been marked by the the Chinese actors who might fit houses in Old Bailey, which col- business offices are represented which can never retard but can absence of many who might at into the title role In "Charlie lapsed this morning as a result, It in the Corps by their full comple-ever inspire every good move-tend and help by their presence the Chan, Carries On," Fox has engagia said. of incomplete internal re

work of the Society. ment; in others not one has ment maintained in the interests given to empty seats, to an atten- The character is

A report ed Warner Oland to play the part. construction of one of the buildings. a philosophic Of the many who had remarkabla joined, although it is known that of the whole Colony,

dance of those who faithfully at Chinese detective. The cast in escapes from death none is serious- tend Committee meetings, does not this adaptation of the detectivo |ly injured. An expert who has bad give that encouragement necessary story by Earl Derr Biggers in a look at the place tells us that the to a Committee serving in a public cludes Warren Hymer, William houses were very old, that repairs duty.

Holden, C. Henry Gurdon, Mar- were under way, and that the auction sale of furniture, While we are very grateful for jarls White. George Brent, John Chinese workmen had put in the nating three days, will commence in the support accorded us during the Gatrick, Jason Robarda, Mar- usual "fying shores," His theory la the Station Hotel, Kowloon, on April past year, an attendance com- guerite Churchill, Peter Gaw that these, were jammed too tight 23, Messrs, Lammert Brothers being mengurate with our work will thorne, Arthur Clayton, John T. against the party wall and jarred the auctioneerä.

greatly help a new Committee to Murray and Zeflo Tilbury,

so tant under stress it collapsed.

certain members, of the staff ought to be in the interests of the Colony which provides the neces sary protection for them in times of trouble. It is known, too, that some prefer the quieter life of the Police Reserve to the trifling

News in Brief.

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