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INSPECTOR FALLON

TO RETIRE.

Veteran Officer Takes "Leave" Shortly.

SERVED FOR 20 YEARS.

Detective-Inspector Christopher Patrick Fallon, of the Hong Kong Police Force, who recently was awarded · the First Class Police Medal, the second European to gain the distinction in the history of the Force,is proceeding on eight, months leave prior to retirement after 20 years' service.

WEDNESDAY

BER

Japan Girds Loins To Face Crisis Thousands On Verge

Of Starvation

PROFITEERS

ARE ACTIVE

When the Seiyukal suddenly and While the Seiyukal threatens the Inspector Fallon, who has an unexpectedly came into power last Government with all kinds of unblemished record in the Force, December they promptly replaced gloomy prognostications" on one was born in March 1888, in the the gold embargo: As village of Rathdum, Ireland, and at those who had been speculating in firm them are seen on the other in a result hand, indications tending to con the age of 20 years he joined the dollars in anticipation of this rain the form of a steady growth in the. Royal Iriah Constabulary. After position were said to have netted organised movements of farmers four years there, he enlisted in the close on Yen 80,000,000 in profits in distress, and large groups Hong Kong Falice Force In Decem- almost overnight.

of petitioners ber, 1912. He also saw service

are expected As these huge fortunes were, in to visit Tokyo from 11 parts during the war,..

In March 1919, Inspector Fallon effect, made at the expense of the of the country as the open- was granted the Fourth Glass Police try at large, close observers ing of the Dit session drawn Medal for good work on the star were not slow to predict that when near. of the Criminal Investigation Detruth of this there would very like the people came to recognise the

Police Measures. While sympathising with the mo partment. He was promoted to ly be a great outburst of indigna- tives of these movements the Lance Sergeant in the same year tion. The prediction proved all 60 Government is fully alive to the and attained the rank of Inspector true and, however, innocent, Mr. danger of their developing in anch in March 1928, when he was also Inouye and Baron Takama Dan a way as to jeopardise public commended by H.E. the Governor themselves may have been, there is peace and order. Adequate police for work on the C.L.D. staff in Kow little doubt that their assassina- control is therefore regarded as es- loon..

tions were mainly due to their be-sential and, at the recent confer- As an instance of his braverying regarded as outstanding repre-ence of prefectural police chiefs he arrested a mad man in Yaumati sentatives of those capitalists who serious discussion took place re- who had run amok when armed had profited as vastly by gold dol-garding measures to be taken for with a razor on December 16, 1926.jar speculation.

the control of both Right and Left In February, last, Inspector Fallon

Their assassinations therefors Wing movements as well as of or was awarded the First Class Police served to confirm predletions made ganised agrarian agitatións. M Medal for his excellent record of and the prophets of evil proved It is in the rural districts that service in the Criminal Investiga- equally justified in their forecast unrest and discontent are most in tion Department and for special that the much vaunted Saiyukai evidence, and so ugly has the tem services during the anti-Japanese trade boom, which was expected to per of the peasantry become in disturbances last year.

follow the re-imposition of the gold many districts that the landlords themselves that the old spirit of effecting

He has been instrumental in embargo, would prove but transi- no longer dare to take action aggressive militarism is really criminals of a dangerous nature.

the arrests of many tory and fleeting. Far from the against tenant farmers who fail to dead there; and the men

country-wide depression being al- pay rent. Most of these landlords who are now advancing the claim

leviated by the Inflationary policy are themselves men of little wealth are the heirs of the former

introduced by the Selyukai and ex-even at the best of times and, su militarist regime and openly ex

tended by the Salto Cabinet that they are primarily dependent on the press their sympathies with the

succeeded the Seiyukai Ministry. In rents of their tenants, they are now When The claim now officially put monarchical system.

May, conditions have gone from bad sa badly hit as are the tenants." ^ military demonstrationA Are The wedding will shortly take to worse and the Government has "The fact is tha..."the" farmer forward by Germany for equality made under the patronage of the place of Mr. Joseph Mark, account been compelled to call another ex- in Japan is made to pay of status in armaments is one Government of the day they can ant of the Mercantile Printers traordinary session of the Diet proportionately more than double that challenges the early atten- hardly be attributed to mere Supply Co., and Miss Betty Kane, This will convene to vote appro- in national, prefectural, and town tion of the British Government. childish exuberance. Hardly a 58 Robinson Road, Hong Kong. priations immediately for farm or village taxes what the merchant

relief.: speech is made by a leader of the The French Government, which Stahlhelm or of their rival chau-

pays, and more than three times as On the occasion of the marriage

Under-Nourished Children fective tariff of the Government in the manufacturer, while the pro was first approached by Ger- vinists, the Hitlerites, without a of Miss Lim Kim-luan, the eldest

According to investigations re- many (in a manner not alto demand for "the total abolition" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lim cently conducted by the education-creases the hardships of the agri- gether fortunate), loyally com- there is indeed only too much rea- reception will be bled at Lane, Graw-000 children of school age are an-ductive urban industry on his back, of the Treaty of Versailles; and Peng-mad, to Mr. Peck Pia-lim, al authorities, something like 200,- overloaded farmer to carry unpro cultural worker and forces the municated the Reich's proposala to Great Britain in accordance son to believe that the military ford's Restaurant at 4 o'clock this dernourished on account of the

This is nothing new, but the pea- with the spirit of the Pact of clauses of that Treaty have in afternoon.

poverty of their parents, and thou- sands of school teachers have been sants, impatient at the delay in the of the European States have ad- culars by successive German

Becoming increasingly radical for hered since... Lausanne. It is Governments. For all these read last night at a farawall dinner months past, as the local treasur

sons it is not in the least degree given by the Central Police Court jes are as bare as Mother Hubbard's depression is tending to bring mate same years past and the growing, British Government is called equality of status in armaments retired from active service on the

surprising that the claim for Interpreters and clerks. Mr. Hon cup-board.

ters to a head. There is nothing upon to take is one of quite un-should have aroused profound Chinese staff of the Court on children in the country districts in fact no section of the nation is Thousands of men, women, and anti-monarchical in their agitation, usual importance and must have far-reaching consequences. The misgivings among neighbouring tober 3 after 35 years of service.

are said to be on the verge of more loyal to the Throne than the That is indeed the question with which it now has countries.

Germany's Claim.

News In Brief.

Mutual Confidence, to which most fact been evaded in several pardMr. Hon Kam-sing was honour unpaid, or only paid in part, for much needed reforms, have been

clear that the decision which the

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MENACING BLAZE QUENCHED.

Spread Checked By Brigade Effort.

to deal is not, new. It arises in only wise conclusion to reach. Wong Mun, 27, a married woman starvation, reduced to living on nearly 50 per cent of the popula equity from the Treaty of Ver- Public opinion in this country ex-of 5, Kai Yee Road, was admitted roots and grasses, and the prefec- tion represented by the agrarian sailles, and has been implicit in pects that the Government, in to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday tural Governors, at their recent communities. all the discussions on disarma spite of its many pre-occupa suffering from burns on her face, conference in Tokyo with the Pre- allegedly inflicted by her husband,mier and other Government heads, ment during the past few years. tions, will consider the problem who, it is alleged threw some sort vied with one another in presenting

as early as possible, and follow a The case for equality of treat firm line upon the policy which of acid over her during a quarrel, harrowing details of the distress in ment was repeatedly stated by it adopts. Geneva is no doubt

their respective areas. Coming, as Count Bernstorff before the Pre- the place where

Trouble over family matters is these reports did, from local of- paratory Disarmament Com-

the final dis stated to have caused a young ficials who are more inclined to mission; Dr. Bruning never al binding decisions taken; but it Chinese married woman, of 64, Yee matters, the dismal stories from un- lowed any doubt to exist in the is not too early to devise a policy Kuk Street, to take an overdose of dor-rate than over-rate such infor |minds of other countries that his

which will meet the demands of oplum in an attempt to commit mal sources that have been current

But for the prompt action of the own people would unanimously Germany in so far as they are suicide. She was removed to the for some time past appear merely Fire Brigade under the direction of refuse to accept indefinitely a found to be legitimate, and at Kowloon Hospital in a serious con- to be confirmed. differentiation which they held the same time safeguard the

Acting Superintendent J. C. Fits The Government is pledged to do. Henry, a fire which broke out on the its utmost to relief this country ground floor of a four-storey build-

of the Disarmament Conference

cussions must be held and the

dition.

to impugn their sovereignty principle of limitation. It is and at the end of the first stage not possible in the long run to At the Rotary Club timan held wide distress and is fully alive to ing at No. 22 Jervals Street in the Herr Nadolny announced that keep a first-class Power in yesterday at Mesara, Lane, Craw- to the serious possibilities of what early hours of yesterday morning. his Government could not take second-class position; it cannot ford's Restaurant, an interesting may follow if it fails in its dificult would have had more serious re further part in the Conference be said to be within the range of talk was given by Mr. H. A. Boyce task. On the other hand, it cannot aults. There was no loss of life

that it does The two shops immediately ad Coombe, of London. Mr. Boyce. vate funds- without a definite recognition of practical politics that other na Coombe, who is a former resident, not possess,

tions should immediately reduce

and there is joining No. 22 were also involved, "the equality of rights between nations. The point was also their armaments to the level of of Java, spoke of that country, deal-limit to the amount of bonds it can the flames spreading rapid

Mach without seriou Ing with the geographical and pos Germany and it would be un-1

Impairing damage was indered by the by Herr von Papen at

horities and flooring of No.2 forgivable Wenkness to climatic conditions, the people and Lausanne,

are therefore faced

Loger of the fames spreading to the Schleicher has driven it home!

dilemma and

may upper floors was averted Four ap ses pliances were in attendance from

ceths Central Fire Station.

made and Generaly you the righe 140, unlimited "rearms, the coloniation of the Island

ment in cases where disarma-

out.

let

in a series of unequivocal statement has actually been carried. The Headquarters Committee of well go up if the coming ments.. Frankness is not neces- sarily ill-advised in diplomacy;

A middle way must there, the Girl Guides Association wish to slon passes off without dist

The blaze was extinguished by and the German claim cannot be fore be found. Quotas not express their sincere thanks to Mr. Government Rice Monopoly.

Already there are indications of a.m. The cause of the outbreak is evaded by arguments that its confined to one branch of arma H. Green, of the Botanical and presentation in diplomatic form ments can be suggested which

at present unknown at this moment is inconvenient. will preserve the principl

It is linked with the Disarma-limitation, and the promise can ment problem, which is in course

of treatment at Geneva; and it is now a cardinal point of Germ policy that further part

in the Geneva discussions is ditional on the precede

Bize

Forestry Department, for his valu serious tension ahead. On the one

able help in laying out the ground hand the Betrukal," round the Hat They are also pre

ntation in the greatly indebted to Mr. Tang Shiu. Cabinet, kin, who generously provided the Go cumenta refreshments *at the opening cere- for

ony on October 7990

HAN CHAW GIRLS SCHOOL CELEBRATION.

House No. 20 is coupled by Chan

a

Kwong Wing, and is insured by the South British Insurance

while No. 24, la occupied by Chan Chuen Kee, a dealer Inforeign goods and

is also insured The house in which the fire originated was (unoce

The Ministry of Nank

$100,000 from

Funds to

sist in the