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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1931.

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Pedder 88g. fut Roor. Room 6. Tel. 25169.

Opposits entrance H.K. Hotel.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras.

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and

Enlarging.

COMPANY MEETINGS

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs., Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong Kong. o WEDNESDAY, the 17th June, 1931, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc itors, passing the Accounts, and Electing Directors and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

THE

LIFE IN PORT SAID'S

BRITISH COLONY.

Law-Abiding Virtuous and Respectable.

SPOILED DEFENCE.

It is time, we think, that a few words were said on behalf of that

CHINA MAIL.

GUNMEN MENACE

LONDON.

Increasing Number of Crimes.

USE OF FIREARMS.

BAR AGAINST

JAPANESE.

Philippines Governor Against It.

THE PROBLEM IN DAVAO.

Governor-General Davis was di-

by the suggestion in

turbed

WOMAN'S POSE AS and Llewellyn were each

DETECTIVE.

Widow in Fear of Murder Plot.

LIVES ALONE WITH CATS.

When three men and a woman were charged at Southend with stealing and obtaining money from a widow, described as eccentric.

While the defeat of "Big Bill" Thompson in the Chicago mayoral

the 10th June to 1st July, 1931 Suid society whose feelings are power of the party of reform. is be introduced in the next Flipino detective officers sent to protect Company will be CLOSED from small but worthy section of Port elections, and the accession to

jboth days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.

LTD.,

General Managers. Hong Kong. 27th May, 1931.

CLAREMONT

PRIVATE HOTEL Austin Road. Kowloon.. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four ininutes frem ferry by bus.)

Sultes of rooms (single and double), not and cold water system, a modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.

EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management,

Hotel has splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible. Ternis very moderate. Reserva- tions by letter or cable.

CLAREMONT Tels.: 57ass & 57385 (Private). Telegraphie Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."

existence. I refer, of course, to the British colony-now over five hundred strong-in Port Said.

Manila newspaper that a bill should was stated that they had posed it for legislative Gession restricting her from attempts to murder her. a staggering blow perpetually outraged by the callous hailed as

Blanche Llewellyn, described as manzer in which novelists and the gangsters, police authorities Japanese immigration.

The Governor-General does not a domestle servant, aged 24, was their are seriously perturbed at the in- passengers alike ignore

creasing number of crimes in Lon- believe that the so-called Japanese charged with obtaining by false

menace warrante passing such re- pretences sums of money don in which firearms are used.

Still another case of a raid by strictive legislation, since the Japan-Mrs. Miriam Anne armed motor bandits occurred re-ene have caused no labour problem. Wesley Road, Southend. She was Strange as it may seem, few of cently-and in the centre of Lon- The standard of living has not been also charged with Walter George lowered by them; if anything, the Millett, aged 27, a motor engineer, us have been forced to make our don home here in a desperate effort to

A street-sweeper was held up at Japanese who have come to the with stealing £17, and Millett was of a revolver in the Philippines have a higher standard, charged further with stealing tro evade the clutches of the Law. In the point spite of our Casino palace (at early morning by one of three men aside from being Industrious and watches and other articles. Georgo which gambling, in the form of who took part in a "amash-and-peaceful.

William Wilkinson, carpenter, and 'boule' is allowed about twice agrob" raid at the shop of Messrs.

Albert Edward Wilkinson, of year, in the cause of charity), we Ingersoll, the watch manufactur

Wandsworth E.W., were charged are law-abiding and respectable era, in Kingsway.

with being concerned in stealing: The window was shattered, and community-as virtuous, at least,

jewellery and money belonging to. as the average denizens of any the bandits escaped in their coupe

Mrs. Harknett. Eastern hill station. We've heard motor-ear with; about £50 worth of all about what happens "East of watches. Suez, where there ain't no

This is but the latest of a long Commandments" and we thank our series of crimes in England in stars that we are far too busy in which the participants have made our various offices, providing coal, use of frearms, and nothing is oil and frozen meat with which to more disturbing to Scotland Yard speed the unending procession of than this growing tendency to leave-goers on their way, to copy the methods of American emulate such behaviour.

Simple Galetics.

ten

gunmen.

246

abandoned

BOD-

tenced to twelve months' imprison- ment.

תם

The chairmon said that he wish- ed it had been in his power to inflict a heavier sentence Llewellyn, as she had been chiefly instrumental in reducing Mrs. Harknett almest to beggary.

STANDARD TIMES.

Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for June, 1931, Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridian. East of Greenwich) aro as fol-

lows:-

لوها

from Harknett, of

Sunrise Suncot

Date

8.3.

p.m.

June

6.38

7.03

5.88 7.04

5.38 7.04

5.38

7.05

5,38 7.05

6.58

7.06

5.38 7.06

6.38 7.06

5.38

7.06

5.98 7.07

5.28 7.07

5.38 7.08

6.98

7.08

5.38 7.09

5.58 7.09

6.39 7.09

5.99 7.10

5.30 7.10

5.39 7.10

No Problem.

No grounds exist for restriction at the present time, nor are there likely to be any, unless the volume af Immigration increases to a point Mr. G. R. Paling, who prosecut- ereating a labour problem, he be-ed, said that in 1929 Mrs. Hark- lieves. There is no indication that nett, who was 68 years old, Was they will be such a problem. visited by Llewellyn, who then

Governor Davis dislikes to see sold flowers from door to door. anything arise to upset the friendly relations between the Philippines and Japan.

He said it was true balance of trade last

"Mrs. Harknett," he continued, "is somewhat eccentric. She ap pears to have been under the im- that the pression that her neighboura for year was some time past had been trying to

murder or do her some harm.

heavily against the Philippines and that it is true the Japanese are de veloping the hemp industry in Da- vao, but neither is a season for re- stricting immigration.

"She lives alone in her house ex-

cept for a tribe of cats. When the police interviewed her there were 14 cats in the house."

Llewellyn Boon got into Mrs. Harknett's confidence and became aware of her eccentricity regard- ing the neighbours. In June, 1929, she told Mrs. Harknett that the Chief Constable had sent her to help her.

It is believed that the propor tion of criminals who now carry Not that we are without our arms is at least three times what simple gaieties in Port Said. Until, it was before the War.

There were RS тапу дв recently the more soulful of us ran a little Browning Circle. We used, smash-and-grab raids in London to meet every week at each other's alone last year, and in many enses

Election Complaint. houses and read poetry aloud and the criminals were armed. Near-

The Governor-General said that talk about what it all meant. ly 2,000 cars were stolen in the publication of such articles are un- After that failed, we ran a Debat same period-miny of them fortunate as they atir up bad feel ing Society among ourselves. That motor bandita who might have been going on still, if them after they had been used for ing between the two peoples.

Governor-General Davis has re- it hadn't been for one unfortunato raids.

She paid frequent visits and ob- incident. (The subject was "How Scotland Yard has a list of atceived a complaint from a certain

Mr. Martinez of the Democrata tained money with unfailing re- to Spend New Year's Eve." It had, least seventy London

party that Jose Tevis, candidate for gularity. The money, she said, opened so nicely with our Chair- who are known to go about arm-

Governor, WOR assaulted and was to help pay for the case which woman reading aloud an inspiring, ed. They are all young men, and seriously injured at Bais, Dumague the Chief Constable had taken up little message from Miss Wil-most of them belong to gauge te, with the connivance of the for Mrs. Harknett. Llewellyn said helmina Stitch of the Daily Sketchi who use moter-cars

police. He immediately telephoned that the Chief had sent her, to but somehow after that it took peditions. the wrong turning; one young man There is now a regular traffic to Secretary of the Interier Ventura listen to what the neighbours were from the Y.M. too, making sugges in the underworld in the sale of who will send a special investigator saying. Another excuse was that

with power to net. The guns are smuggled executive will take drastic action tives

The chief she wanted money for the detec- tions in the most dubious taste.

who were watching and into the country from France and i? necessary to insure a peaceful guarding her at night. Belgium.

Then, of course, we are all keen card-players. Almost every week we meet at the Parish Hall for a bridge drive, supervised by our

revolvers.

criminals

for their ex-

Women Terrorised.

An alarming number of the

offices.

and clean election.

Exhibit Praised.

She brought a number of letters to Mrs. Harknett, several of which purported to come from the Chief,

and included such the

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F. HEERING Y

DEXSLARES MA

Chaplain. We play for a useful raids in the last twelve months Governor-General Davis also has Constable prize and wind up the afternoon have been made on shops and post a letter from General Frank McIn- phrases a "with love from with lemonade and petits fours.

There have also been tyre, Philippine trade commissioner, Chief and all.." There were other LAMMERT BROS.Aa for At Home Days, we're still

devils about them. One way and many cases of women being ter conveying a message from C. Bas-letters purporting to come from rorised by revolvers, and of police-come Slemp, American commission- Scotland Yard and from Lord Rus- another (and one must not forget

Llewellyn introduced Millett exposition, to the effect that the the working parties at the Y. W men being fired on by criminals er general at the Paris colonial sell.

in danger of arrest.

Harknett

Detective- for the annual-bazaar), one need hardly ever have tea in one's own Yard is that the only way to prepares favourably with the best in

The general opinion at Scotland Philippine exhibit is one of the best Mrs.

in the American group,

Sergeant Hart Davis from Scotland Yard. house. Ou the whole, no one can vent gangster methods from be the whole exposition.

coming prevalent in England

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

-Public Auctions -

deny that we Britons in Port Said lead not only virtuous and amus- THE Underaigned have received ing, but useful lives.

Auction

ZIESS and BUSCHT instructions to tell by Public

FIELD GLASSES

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YOU

ARE INVITED TO INSPECT OUR

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POSTAGE STAMPS IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS AND IN APPROVAL

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10. WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

ON TUESDAY, June 2, 1931, commencing at 11 .m., at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

A Fresh Consignment of:

Boneless Cooked Ham, in tins and

Smoked Bacon, in tins.

From the well known Packers:

"Koler & Ankexsmit," Holland. To be sold in One Tin lots to suit Purchasers.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Hong Kong, May 30, 1981.

Auctioneers.

to:-

and com-

He thinks

George Wilkinson WAA bound money will be available for publish- over for 12 months, and Albert Ed- ing in pamphlet form the data on ward Wilkinson was sentenced to three months' hard labour. Millett | Philippine exhibits.

Governor Davis said a few words

of farewell at the closing session of the

division superintendent this afternoon.-Manila Bulletin.

surprise a man in a heavy overcoat stepped out and thrust a revolver in my face.

Impose still more gevere Topees Not Worn.

penaltics on criminals caught in possession of firearms; and Sometimes a nervous passenger Tighten up the Customs Inspec- who, In a fit of dare-devilry, has tion at the ports. strayed from his or her party, will| Judges are determined to do approach us and with touching everything in their power to sup- confidence enlist our help in repress the armed gangs, and heavy turning him or her to safety. In sentences have been imposed when such cases we are absolutely de- gunmen have been convicted pendable even if it is something assize courts. Mr. Justice Hum- of an ordeal to be seen by our phreys recently sentenced a man friends piloting a wild-eyed, topeed to ten years' penal servitude for Etranger through the European shooting at a policeman. Quarter. (A topee in Port Said,] The raid in Kingsway took place we must remark, damns the wearer at 145 a.m. The sweeper who utterly and finally in the eyes of, was held up was George Smith, an Anglo-Egyptian).

aged twenty-four, who is employ Very often, of course, we receive, ed by Westminster City Council. appeals for assistance from friends! "It was all over in less than a and relations both in Britain and minute," Smith said afterwards. what they could.

"A car pulled up with a jerk I the East. "I shall be passing

"Then the three made off in the strolled over towards it, and tocar like, lightning." through Port Said in the Wiltshire

HONG KONG HEIGHTS about the end of the month" (they

For the information of visitors the following Hat of some of the highest points on the Itland and Mainland is published:-

Island.

write), "If you are still there by any chance" (we suspect the writer of a lurking fear that we have probably long since been knifed, or come to some equally sticky end, in one of our Haunts of Vice)—: "It would be no jolly if you could Fest come and look us up. We might even venture ashore, if you thought it quite safe.

Victoria Peak Signal Station

1828

1774

Mt. Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge

1726

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sanatorium

The following unclaimed tele Mt. Davis

grams are lying at the EE. Tele-Bowen Road (filerbeds) graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:---

Mainland.

Miss M. Combes, 0S.K: 'Line,| Connaught Road, from Wellington, Talmoshat.....

N.S.W.

Eugene Chen, from Penang. Mable, 2, First Floor, Hing Hon

Road, Macao.

Yearbook, from Auckland, N.Z. Porthalt, from Rangoon.

S. LACK,

Manager. Hong Kong, May 28, 1981.

PLASONABEL

PRICES

EMİNƏ, MAIL, MLPO.P SA WYKONAR ETİ

Kowloon Peak

AH KWAI

HOUSE

SHIP and

PAINTER

GENERAL CONTRACTOR, Formerly at 86, Pottinger Street HAS NOW REMOVED

62, LOCKHART ROAD, WANCHAL Teloplione 22049.

Pity.

Such a call never remains un- 1805 answered. It is quite useless, we 1000realise, to expect from the blase 877 homeward-bound passenger Any 297 sentiment but that of pity for our lot. To such, our expensive and Feet. (in our eyes) luxurious fate make 8124 no appeal. No punkaha?. "No"com-' 1971 pounda? Only two servants, in place of the teeming hordes of gardeners, boys, syces, etc., of the true East? (And those two, alas, not only wear shoes in the house! but persistently neglect to salaam

It is all very regrettable, wo ad- mit. At the same time we reflect with returning confidence that we are, at any rate, one stop removed from the domination of the hyper sensitive British servanta -and strong-minded landladies, who for | the next few months, will control the activities of the holiday-F at home.

and

"Make a move

this will apenk," he said.

"At first I thought he was drunk, or joking, but when I smil- ed he said, 'Cut that out or some- thing. will happen!' He held me covered while two other men

smashed the window and grabbed

King and Queen of Siam

King Prodihipok and Queen Hambai-Barni, monarchy of Blum, possć bratty for cameraman aboard their special Canadian Pacific train at Fanooster before starting their trip to New York Tia the Canadian Rockies and Chicago,//Indisposed, when the Canadian Pacifio Hiust Empresa, os- JADAN, KYTİYAƐat Victoria and Vansourar after a recorde. breaking voyage from Tokohama, His Majesty King Fradafhipok was une *... able to receive the official delegátios of welcome. ."Eis flest public ap- pentance was when he walked from the royal suits aboard the big while liner 30 the walling koral train parked herlite the Jhip.

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