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Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to River Medway was reported re66 miles across where one can see

The death of's "Freeman of the Oceans, barrows down to a mere LEADERS PITTED AGAINST EACH the Editor, and be accompanied by cently. The Freemen inherit a the Writer's Name and Address medieval privilege They are the

from Cape Frince of Wales on the not necessarily for insertion, but

possessors "sef" "certain" "rights|American shore to East (as a guarantee of good faith.

(By Victor H. Bernstein) of fishing and dredging in (Deskrev) in Aria. Almost-exRCI-

CHANG warfare, sometimes deaths recorded the Medway, and they are;;

under the in the middle of the strait are dormant but never dead, general heading of various al recruited for among="those who have served an apprenticeship >ss! two small islands, Nanarbook and flames anew with a bitterness tercations" swell the 1934 gang- Jignalook, known as the Diomede unequalled since repeat Inter-fland death toll to at least 100, some hundreds of lalands, which are but one role necine strife has claimed the in the opinion of many obser them, of whom a high proportion apart, yet Nunarbook is in Rizs-lives of nearly a dozen gangsters vers. Others believe that one are active on the river. The fish-siar Siberia and Ignalook belongs and resulted in the wounding of every three days would be ins rights are commercially valu-to the United States. The Inters dozen others in the last three nearer the mark.

Motives Covered Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 23, 1935. able, especially those which give national Date Line, as well as the months.

access to the shellish beds. International Boundary, runs be The climax came one night To cover the precise 130- It is suprising:to find a trade tween the islands. When it is last month with the shooting of tive for a gangland murder is Socialists & The O.T.C. flourishing in its medieval Sunday in Ignalook it i Monday Dutch Schultz, key figure in the often diffient. Three иг plumage - Every July the Mayor of in Namarbook, yet the sun rises, mosaic of the underworld, and derous gang assaults were per- Indignation was recently Rochester who is ez-officio Ad-shines all day, and sets on both four of his henchmen. The Petrated during a 36-hour period end. the police report, is not yet one week. On the Tuesday roused in Glasgow by the dis-mital of the Medway and Con-spots at exactly the same time.

in sight.

morning the body of Louis covery that the Socialists, who stable of Rochester Castle, holds have obtained a majority on a Court of Admiralty on a barge.

A single unmistakable thread Amberg, whose brother Joe was the Council, intend to abolish Here the Freemen "make present-

runs through all these murders. slain in a garage in September, the O.T.C. and Cadet Corps in ments" and adjust their disputes

Those who lie dead were des- was found in a flaming car. On cribed as racketeers or followers the way to the back room of three city schools. The action

Wednesday night two men made has not yet been taken, but ENGLISH AUTHORS IN USA.

of racketeers. Repeal left a Glasgow had better not expect

His Excellency, The Governor, vacuum that sucked in discon- Newark tavern and emptied

CIG..solate bootleggers. They found

their guns at Schultz and three that common sense will prevail. Mr. James Hilton, who has held

first place in the fiction section CBE, has graciously consented an astonishing number of new bodyguards. An hour later a London's Socialist County Council issued a decree last all through the summer, has disto become Patron of the St. John and lucrative fields in which to Schultz henchman and a friend spring, very soon after it ac-appeared from the American au Ambulance Association & Bri-work. That discovery marked were shot down in a Manhattan the beginning of a new under The Ambergs represented a

harber shop. world tension, a new and fierce Brooklyn gang Schultz

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Sir Andrew Caldecott.

gade.

A Reuter message from London competition for places in dated December 11, advised the post-prohibition sun. 'death of Mr. G. P. Forster, former- Rivals Resort To Murder

The Shanghải Commercial and

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majority, that its tum list of best sellers. schools must disband their New favourites have establish- Cadet Corps and O.T.C.s, and ed themselves. They will sur exhorted the governing bodies prise people. who think that the

making a comeback after his reading public

acquittal up-State on income tax of other schools to do likewise: American Mr.

[evasion_charges. as master of Herbert Morrison has more highbrow than the Englishly of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson

Of the 22 authors represented and Co., Ltd.

So sudden death, the irrevoc-underworld ceremonies in Man- glorified this exhibition of sham

able solution of the competition hattan. Did Schultz manoeuvre pacifism with all the unction in the fiction section nine are Bri- Warwick Training tish. They include of Mr. Pecksniff.

problem is accompanying the the Amberg deaths and was he corps, he said, “instil militarist Deeping. Phillips Oppenheim, 2.1

Savings Bank have moved into development of the industrial, shot in retaliation? Or was he subordinates thoughts into the minds of chil G. Wodehouse, Maurice Walsh and

labour: slot-machine, produce shot by his own the premises vacated last week by and policy rackets just as it ac who resented his reappearance dren" and "a growing body of Hugh Walpole

On the other hand British an-tablished in Marina House.

the Chase Bank, who are now escompanied the development of on the scene of his former public opinion has a deep objec-

bootlegging. The recent mur. glories?

-Am- Or did the tion to the military training of thors no longer figure in the non- section. Mr. Somerset

ders were in the classic tradition bergs and Schultz find their the young." That, of course, is fiction

The RMS. Empress of Russia established during prohibition Nemesis in a common enemy? why Socialist members of Par- Maugham is their sole living rewill leave Vancouver on January-death in a trunk, in a burning The police do not exactly know. liament shout at the Foreign Presentative.

19, and is due at Hong Kong on

Fundamental Principles car, in a dim-lit garage, in a barber shop, in the back room Canal" and the leaders of the serious reading the United States,

But, though immediate of a tavern. Beer is forgotten. tives inay be unrevealed, the party demand the enforcement is concentrating or its own af-

The na fairs. It is definitely off-Europe Dance will be held at the Repulse ing to their technique.

A special Christmas Day Tea but the ex-beer barons are cling-fundamental principles under- of sanctions by arms.

lying gangland warfare are well tion is to invite attack, but

Bay Hotel on Christmas Day, from Last year, according to police, known. none of its citizens must have Your Daily Smile!

The men involved have 430 pm.. to 6.30 p.m. A half-there were 359 homicides in been fighting for the hon's any military training. Can the

hourly bus service will run dur-New York City. Of these, 22 share of the rich stakes, -run- hollowness of the so-called

ing the afternoon. There will be are ascribed indisputably peace policy of the Socialists be

toming into millions of dollars an- no Dinner Dance that evening. fantastically

gang warfare,, the climaxes of nually, represented in the seven “Well, mummy tells me I'm too bigl

business disputes or campaigns major rackets in New York to lie in bed in the morning."

A large attendance is expected of revenge. Gambling dis-City. The rackets include at the Fancy Dress Carnival in pates typical of racketeers-labour coercion and strikebreak- the European YM.C.A. this eve-werè blamed for 13 more. Off-ling, sales of fake securities, the

[Secretary "Close the Suez! The explanation is that in the morning of February 1 next.

demon-

more strated?

Five years ago the Socialist Secretary for War, Mr. Tom

"Dad, didn't you fast, say I was too small to stay up-so late?..

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Shaw. in pursuance of this Officer (to coloured driver who has ning. Social activities at the cially. police classed 55 deaths policy slip and slot-machine in- policy, was impelled to stop the been trying to start his horse): YMCA, both in Ladies' and as the result of "unknown" dustries, activities in food mar Government grant to Cadef"Don't fret, man-talk to him.” Corps. But Mr. Shaw, to the Driver (to horse, by way of open-Men's Sections, have made con- motives; unofficially, they admit kets, laundries, restaurants and Ah comes siderable headway under the en-readily the strong probability many types of retail stores, al noisy disgust of many of his in the conversation):

from N'Awleans. Where does yon thusiastic work of the new Com-that most of these can be class-cohol smuggling and the manu- party, persisted in maintaining come from?" some sense of responsibility for?

mittees, and a bumper season ised as gang murders.

facture of fake whisky labels. anticipated.

Unreported cases and some i (Continued on Page 11) Danger Ahead that the Cadet Corps were not A little boy sat at the side of the) entitled to War Office money

Toad sobbing pitifully. An old gen-

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“But why?" asked the old man. viding the future supply of "Haven't you been a good boy?" officers." Why should that re- No, it isn't that," the youngster strain the Socialist zeal for said. "You see, my sister filted the destruction? Socialism is op schoolmaster yesterday.” posed to defence Services and especially to giving them offi-

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cers. The O.T.Cs are, beyond ed. Their clothes shock- dispute, to quote Lord Jellicoe's ed him. Any old thing seemed judgment, "an important link in good enough for coat or tren- the system of national defence."sers, waistcoats were scarce and Sad- They provide a steady supply collars not conspicuous. of such young men as we needed dest of all, the example of youth sorely in 1914. It is the utmost

corrupted age. The fatuity of fanaticism to believe modern don is no Brummell, that they spread a militarist either. It was not thus in the spirit. As the Archbishop of naughty nineties Sir Ernest York has remarked, "There is Bennett believes, when he sat nothing more absurd than to at the Hertford high table. suppose that discipline is only They were not gaudy in the of use if your aim is to fight senior common rooms and eke someone else." Both O.T.C. and the junior, but they were neat Cadet Corps are primarily con- Across the mists of the years cerned with developing esprit de ise memories of Oxford when corps, leadership and obedience the century began. One seems It is no doubt idle to commend to see a dowdy don or two, dons those qualities to the Socialist not egregiously trim, even in party,

that age of elegance, and on the under-graduates, surely, hung Inelegant Oxford flannel trousers as seedy as any Tennyson once "passed beside Oxford to day, and Norfolic the reverend walls in which of There were waistcoats indeed. jackets wholly amorphous old he wore the gown" and has Perhaps Sir Ernest Bennett can told us how the revisited Cam- bridge struck him. Now the recall a catch of those days. Assistant

“His summer ties bring on the rain,

His waistcoats simply floor us, Sir Ernest Bennett, has gone] And his joy is to entertain”...i back to Oxford, in which of old-never mind whom. What he was a don, and gives tis his does the fresher of 1995 say K senaation Tennyson these the sees a photograph of his Cambridge men are, so frank father in his habit as he sat for remarked on the same gray a group of 19007 Much what fats again" and "felt the same father was saying then of the but not the same Sir Ernest, comic undergraduates of the more impressionable perhaps, eighties and the seventies was astonished. The "young There is nothing new under the barbarians" were 20 fear sur of the High. Not even the the Hüly ard wonderfully zrzy-Crazze

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