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Crime in the Colony.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
1931.
normal individuals. In addition The total output of the Kailan MORTGAGE CLAIM" IN
he diagnosed one of the remainder|Mining Administration's mines" for as cancerous. Further investiga-the week ended August 15 amount- tion of this case in London has ed to 99,478 matric tons, and the proved that his diagnosis was also sales to 79,481 metric tons. correct in this ense.
The above is a short statement The French Government have of the facts, but the British Empire communicated to London a copy of Cancer Campaign' feels it necessary the Note addressed to the Italian In the public interest to make the Government regarding the naval following comments:
limitation proposals. Its contents are under examination, says à Bri-! tish Wireless cable.
1. The discovery of Dr. Bendien appears to mark definite advance in cancer research in respect of the ald It brings to diagnosis of cancer, but some time must clapse before the full value of the method can be obtained.
COURT.
Bank Given Possession of Property.
DEFAULTING CLIENT.
In the Supreme Court this morn ing, the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C.. heard an ex parte action brought by the P. and D. Banking Corporation, of Princes Buildings, against Wong Kan-wing, c/o the Lee On wineshop, 369, Reclamation Street, Mangkoktsui, for possession of certain property known as New Kowlen Inland Lot No. 60, situated at Cheung Sha Hundreds of thousands of sight- Wan, which was signed under secra paraded London on Tuesday a deed of mortgage in December, night to admire the flood, lighting: 1928, as security for a loan of
Chan Lui (13), a schoolboy, liv. ing, at 180, Lockhart Road, has been sent to the Government Civil Hospital for examination. He had 2. It is Important to lay em- been beaten with a feather duster phasis on the fact that this blond by his elder brother, for disobey- test is for diagnosis and for diaging his mother, it is alleged... nosis alone!
Ambulance Work.
In his capacity as Chief Officer (effects on prominent buildings, ar, $25,000, with interest thereon at 7 of the Fire Brigade the Hon. Mranged in honour of the Inter- per cent, per annum.
E. D. C. Wolfe says that in national 1930, the
ambulances
Congress, i
Illumination attend says a British Wireless message.
and
ed to 1.739 police cases 1979 private cases, a total of 3,703 cusca, for which they cover- ed a distance of 26,391 miles..
The work of the Motor Ambul- ancs Service attached to the Fire Brigade continues to increase as the figures in the Superintendent's report show. The cases attended by the Brigade Ambulances show Lan increase of 400
as compared with 1929, and this in spite of the fact that the Tung Wa Hospital had an, ambulanco of their own running during the whole year and
by and
Mr. H. G. Cheldon, who appeared for plaintiffs, (instructed
Stokes Messrs. Johnson, Owing to the absence of Mr. T. S. Master). said that they had de- Whyte-Smith (Ausistant Crown munded payment of the principal Solicitor), the hearing of the sum, which had not been repaid. charges of fraud against Leo The man Wong still remained in Guimaraes and Kong Sze-yik was possession of the property, although adjourned by Mr. Williams at the both plaintiffs and their solicitors Central Police Court yesterday until had written to him demanding this afternoon.
possession.
Demand d also been made for No interest According to the P.W.D. annual payment of Interest. report, the city of Victoria has had ever been paid at all, and was months in arrears. An miles of roads, now 17 approximately 71 and the "auburbs" a further so order was given by the Court in miles. Kowloon has 35 miles of June last to proceed ex parte in the
action.
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Mr. W. G. Lorimer, accountant of the P. and O. Banking Corporation, gave evidence n to the mortgage of the property for $25,000, with interest at 7 per cent. 'per annum. No interest had. ever been paid. On March 27, 1930. some of the property
Bold, the balance owing to the Bank being about $14,000.
· WAR
No reply had been re- ceived to letters demanding posses- sion.
His Lordship-made the order for passion, and granted plaintiff costs of the etion.
a second one during the latter part road, New Kowloon 83 miles and of 1930. By arrangement their the New Territories about 50 miles. Ambulanco was also made avail. The grand total is 359 miles. able for Brigade use in the event,
The conclusion of an agreement of calls being received when all Brigade appliances were out.settling the dispute between the Thanks to the assistance and ac-Vatican and the Italian Govern- The tive co-operation of the St. Johnment is officially announced. crease of 55 cases which the In-Ambulance Brigade their Motor quarrel arose from the banning of spector-General of Police rightly Ambulance was placed at the dis-the Catholic Action Party by the states may be considered emin-posal of the Brigade at a time Italian Government in May, says a
when serious difficulties would Reuter message from Rome. satisfactory. Likewise
have arisen had there been no
Losses amounting to hundreds great cause for satisfaction is spare ambulance available.
The large Brigade Ambulance of thousands of pounds sterling afforded by the disclosure that,met with an unfortunate accident will be incurred by Lloyd's under following the murder of
a result of the an which put it out of commission for Writers na member of the Police Anti-a considerable time but thanks tonouncement by officials of the Con- SEQUEL TO JUNE ROBBERY.
Bank that the St. John Ambulance Brigade tinental Illinois As usual the annual report of Communist Squad in December, who generously placed their Am-veteran employee has confessed to
The residence of "Captain and the Inspector-General of Police an important Communist orbulance at the disposal of the Fire ercbezzling "a substantial but un- Mrs. Krogh-Moo, at 18 Peak Man- sheds a good deal of light on the ganisation within the Colony Brigade the Ambulance service determined sum" from the bank's stons, was entered during the last work of the Police Department has been definitely suppressed was carried on with a full comple-bond department. One estimate week-end in June by burglars who and renders superfluous the for the time being. Earlier lastment of machines throughout the makes the defalcations C$3,000,000. stole jewellery from Mr. Krogh
The fidelity of the bank's 'em- Moo's bedroom to the total value of hackneyed query: "Where are year, it may be recalled, a serious By using the St. John Brigade ployees is guaranteed under a $4,115. In a report to the Police, the Police"? Every page of the effort at interference in indus. Ambulance it was also possible to policy placed with Lloyd's, says a
Mrs. Krogh-Mog east suspicion on A Chinese house "boy" who was, report for 1930, just issued, trial matters by Communists overhaul all the Brigade Ambul
alleged to have absconded. shows that our Force is by no was made in connection with a was at the disposal of the Fire. means a dormant one and that it strike of 600 female workers in a Brigade, for a period totalling six merits to the full the encomiums tobacco factory. A meeting was thanks of the Government no iss months during the year. The showered on it on the occasion of broken up by the Police and the than the public are due to the St. each annual inspection. The leaders, all Communists, were John Ambulance Brigade, and the very nature of their duties makes convicted and subsequently de- Tung Wa Hospital Authorities Tor the members of the Force the ob ported. On this phase of their their public spirit and generosity.
It is hoped to secure, even el ject of public criticism, not al-work during last year the Police er co-operation and more complete ways of a kindly or constructive Force deserve the grateful, thanks co-ordination of the various type: bat the wonder in, looking of the entire community!
mater Ambulance Services. In the Colony in the near future.
to the easy facilities for the in-
flux of criminally inclined Chin-
Mail Commentary.
ese, that not only have we a fine record to show in regard to law and order but the degree of pro-Diagnosis of Cancer. tection given to peaceable citi- zens is well above the average obtaining in certain other cities in the Orient.
It is unfortunate, of course, that there was, an increase of 58 'per cent. In serious crime last. year as compared with 1929, he sides an increase of 17,9 per cent.
The London Hospital Research Committee find that the claims. ad- vanced for a test of Dr. Bendien's cancer diagnosis cannot be justifi- ed. The following statement was made on July 27 by the British Em pire Cancer Campaign:
year,
Reuter mesange from Chicago. ances. This additional ambulance
News in Brief.
Two- Cinese cases of typhoid fevar were notified yesterday.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was humidity was 87 at 10 a.m. and 90 78 degrees. The
at 4 p.m.
THEIR FIRST ELECTION.
Women To Vote In South
Africa.
South African women will be voting for the first time in the by election rendered necessary by the death of Mr. Emile Nathen, K.O, a member of the South African party, who represented one of the Johan- nesburg constituencies in the Union Parliament.
The election is expected to be held at the end of the year.
Since that day the Police have made investigations, and a sequel this morning was the appearance before Mr. Williams in the Central Police Court of Tam Hok-kam (34), alias Tam Sting, male, unemployed, and Yee Foo (37) married woman. The former is charged with the larceny of jewellery to the value of $3,350 (recovered) while the wo- man in charged with unlawful re- celving of the property.
Det. Sergeant MacDonald applied. for 48 hours remand, which was granted.
SUDDEN TEMPTATION.
It was not until last year that the Union Parliament passed a bill en-
A Chinese youth, the son of a franchising all European women in well-known Shekki merchant, was the Union.
charged befor Mr. Williams this There have been two main reasons morning with the theft of a box for this "delay.
the total First, the matter containing clothing to has been complicated by the native value of $200, the property of a The P.W.D, annual report records vote in the Cape. "Secondly, the trader. that during 1930 Broadwood Road franchise
"Détective-Sergeant D. Fitches in- qualfications differed
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On learning of the claim by Dr. to Caroline Hill Road was widened considerably in the four provinces, formed the Court that the box had Bendien, of Zeist, Holland, that he and surfaced to admit of motor Attempts to accommodate been left by the trader during his had discovered a method of diag traffic.
Women's Enfranchisement Bill to absence in the Hon San Imports Dea Vœux nosing cancer by examination of the
Rond, blood, the Britlah Empire Cancer A standard length of 100 feet the cross-play of these factors fall- & Exports' godown,
It appears that the defen- in minor erime. That naturally Campaign, following its regular has been measured for local refered repeatedly until last year.
dant and another man stole the box cannot be laid at the door of the procedure, instituted inquiries. As enca, according to the annual re-.
between them. When stopped in Police. In times of depression a result it was decided in agree port of the P.W.D. It is marked
the street by a Chinese constable Bendien with Dr.
to by two brass blots under the north
one man boltel. Defendant elect- there is ever a tendency for crime ment
A FAMOUS CLOUD.
ed to take all responsibility in the to increase not merely in Oriental Put the matter to a test. Samples portico of the Supreme Court,
of blood were taken from 38 per countries but in Western coun" sons, some cancerous., (as deter The highest temperature reglaterally covers the flat top of Table to a sudden temptation.
The "Tablecloth" that occasion-matter, and stated that he yielded tries, as well. With the pheno- mined by microscopic examination) ed at the Observatory The Mountain, in South Africa, is pro- three months hard labour: A Defendant was fined $300 or menal rise in the cost of living. These samples of blood were taken August was 94 degrees..
in London by a physician on the temperature: reached 90 degrees hably the most famous individual the poorer classes have become staff of a large London bospital and and over on nine days, 34: on the cloud in, the world, having been friond of defendant's father under- less poor and the temptation to the test-tubes containing. Die sam 25th, 93 on the 24th, 92,on the 10th, described in numerous books of took to have the youth taken back resort to crooked ways has in-ples were numbered. The numbers 91 on the 8th and 26th and 90 on the travel since the latter part of the tp his parents in the country.
and corresponding diagnoses were 7th, 11th, 22nd and 23rd. The seventeenth century. It consists of creased, in ratio. This is a phase entered on a sheet of paper and minimum temperature was register a dense cloud-sheet, formed when
Ten Years Agn, of community life outside the placed in a sealed envelope. The ed, on the first of the month-75 warm moisture-bearing, winds, are forced up the steep slope of the ambit of any Police Department, samples of blood, and the sealed degrees.
mountain, especially in Summer:
(From the "Ching “Mall” of September 3, 1921.1 no matter how well equipped it envelope were then conveyed by Dr. may be for its task of preventing ney, scientific secretary of the in- The completion by the Great The cloud often pours over the
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%. vestigation, committee of the cam-Western Railway of their system of brow of the mountdip, like a mighty crime and punishing criminalspaign, to Dr. Bendien's inboratory, automatic train control has resulted cataract, and is dissolved as the
Sir:-In connection with the pro- Things in the Colony during last Dr. Pinay, himself was unaware of in over 2,000 miles of track and wind is warmed by compression in
of Trumpet--Island, : I year
when the effects of the
ts of the the diagnoses and was present 500 engines being equipped at a descending to a lower level. The posod sale
cost of $250,000, with a system effects produced by this rolling should like to ask two questions. which gives audible warning to the mass of vapour are sometimes in Firstly, Trumpet Island Chinese Blump in the dollar made them throughout the entire test.
Twenty-one specimens were test driver of the state of the signals. describably grand, and the pheno- territory? And secondly," arising selves felt among all sections of ed-five were taken from cancerous This method, in addition to its menon is all the more striking be out of that, if the answer is in the wage earners, might easily have patients, two from normal people merits as 'safety device, will lead cause's perfectly clear sky general amative, has, the Chinese Gov- been much worse,
and fourteen from patients with th speeding up of night freight ly prevalls over the surrounding arnment Elven Its consent to the strains," and is described de one of country while the Tablecloth over te In my opinion, there” la other dedans.Dr. Bendien gor rectly diagnosed the five specimens the greatest developments in Bri- spreads the mountain-Charles something to be explained about the report that armed robberies known to be from cancerous patish railway operating methods, Fitzhugh Talman, In The Realm of the whole matter. showed, last year a welcome de-tients and the two taken from ayu a British Wireless message, the Air,
It is gratifying to learn from
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