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EXPLANATIONS
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Mother Of 6 Children Under 1 Year
Here
There
RECENT pue
Everywhere.
THEN Elzire Dionne gave LORD MAYOR'S RECORD TRIP
W
IF SHERLOCK HOLMES LIVED TO-DAY
FAMOUS TECHNIQUE NOW
OUT OF DATE
Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to tuples on May 28, 1934, she be lucky, Sir Percy Vincent, the the Editor, and de accompanied by came the mother of 6 children all Lord Mayor, should not be the Writer's Name and Address under 1 year of age. Her next
birth to her famous quin- On the principle of "third time! ALL GLAMOUR HAS GONE OUT OF
not necessary for insertion, but oldest child, Pauline, was but 11 baulked of his proposed trip
Vancouver. ⚫es o guarantee of 'good faith. months old when Marie Tronne, Annette, Cecile, and Emelie came along.
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Pebble House
to
His two predecessors each plan- ned oficial visits to foreign coun- Itries.
The
year before,' when
DETECTIVE BUSINESS
(By Clive Fenton)
Sherlock Holmes were alive;jof-the-world, the psychologist and to-day and carrying on his the successful business man. familiar business at the old ad- It would not do for him to be Last year Sir Stephen Killik dress in Baker-street, he would abstract, as Holmes often was, N interesting Port Washing was to have gone to Belgium find it very hard indeed to make for all the time he is up against ton, Wise. landmark, has Queen Astrid's death led to the a living. Not only would he be up slick, quick-thinking, quick-mov been preserved as the gate house visit being cancelled.
against crooks much more skilfuling opponents. Hong Kong, Friday, June 5, 1836 at the new power plant. It is the
Imagine Sherlock turned loose Sir,bet his methods, including his famous pebble house. now more than 8 years old. The house Charles Collett was to have gone famous technique of deductions, in an American city--Chicago, for instance-and you have an idea of originally was built as a dwelling on an oficial visit to Holland, his would be hopelessly out of date.
This is an age of rapid progress, the pathetic figure he, would be in 1848 by Edward and Elizabeth own illness made it impossible.
and in no field has progress been
crime and crime-detection. This ing the methods of detectives of) as Denmark, Sweden, Northernetion of to-day and yesterday-fingerprint system these in the modern game of crime-ûghting Ireland (Sir Percy Greenaway) for in crime literature the mirror make his methods seem as slow as and Italy (Lord Ebbisham).
Drugs In China
This is the first time A Lord more spectacular than in that of up against the tough, resourceful, Not the least of China's Dodge, constructed entirely of internal troubles at the present stone picked up from the shores time is the menace of the drug of Lake Michigan. The stones are Mayor has crossed the traffic and it would seem that all very smooth, about the size of In recent years, however,
Atlantic.
Chief
modera crook.
Poor Sherlock Flying squads,
her praiseworthy efforts to get exxa and their varied colours make Magistrates have ventured as far, Can be best illustrated by compar-radio-cars, the third, degree, the
rid of opium are rendered use beautiful walls. less by the growth in the use;
of morphine and heroin, far more terrible in their
effects.
And, as in most of China's
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
the old stage-coach.
Actual Happening
that art holds up to life is a fairly The Vancouver party will con-true one. sist of 14 or 15-and a mass of luggage The robes of civil troubles, the sinister influence i Mr. H. M. Curtis, the Hong dignitaries take up a lot of space. lock. Holmes's method was to be. Stance, of this modern in the back-ground seems to be! Kong representative of Imperial An urgent trans-Atlantic request in with a few facta, some
Japan..
the
From An Armchair Take, then, our old friend Sher-1
of
What would he think, for in- case of erook-catching? It is an actual Airways Ltd has announced that that "Cinderella Coach" which were handed to him by his happening in an American city Even the death-penalty in on June 16 the RMA. Delphinius should be included in the party had clients and some deduced by him-only a short time ago. stituted for violation of the is due to arrive in the Colony, to be refused. laws prohibiting trading in and after this date the service from consumption of drugs has fail-
•
ed to check the spread of the here will be maintained by this air TAX ON LIPSTICK? evil. Mr. Victor Hoo, speaking liner and the Dorado. These two
at the meeting of the League:
liners, which
are of the same
Lord Titchfield is a bold man.
man
The car of a wealthy visitor to self, and from these facts by bril-
up by armed lant reasoning solve the problem the city was held
men in a quiet residential area. with which he was confronted.
Now Holmes undoubtedly was a The chauffeur was shot and bad- who could reason acutely. wounded, the owner of the car of logic was chloroformed and robbed of in bis constituency. he asked the Seldom did his chain of Nations Opium Committee at type, will thenceforth be operat-With nearly 26,000 women voters) Geneva a week ago, stated that ed on the service from Hong Kong Chancellor of the Exchequer re-break down. Sitting at home in his wallet containing £200, and his cently whether he has considered his frowsy room, finding inspira-eleven-year-old daughter was kid- nearly 1.000 persons in China to Calcutta.
and lipstick facepowder,
other tion alternately in his violin, his napped, presumably to be held to were convicted and shot in 1935
A private dance for members cosmetics as a source of revenue drugs and his dialectical games/ransom.
A passing commercial traveller for violation of the anti-drug
with his obtuse friend, Watson, be laws. He did not, however, and their friends is being held
France has taxed cosmetics but succeeded in unravelling all the found the car with two unconsci ous men in it and phoned for the state how many of these were at the Kowloon Bowling Green traffickers in drags and how Club on Saturday, commencing at then French women have not the complicated knots.
Good Sherlock was an excellent Police. In five minutes they were many were incurable drug-19 p.m. addicts; this is a point on which
Estimates of the amount spent detective-in his day. But com- on the job; in five hours they had money and enlightenment is desirable. The Australian and New Zea-annually in Britain on beauty prepare him with any modern detec-arrested the criminals responsible, But he did make the very signi- Land Association are holding a parations vary between six and tive of fiction. These hard-boil-recovered the stolen
ed sleuths you encounter in the released the daughter, who was Launch picnic On ten million pounds. ficant statement that China's moonlight
This is how the police set about biggest difficulty in dealing with Saturday night (June 6).
Quite a modest tax, therefore, modern detective story could give frightened but unhurt,
Ithe task. the traffic was the action of launch will leave the Police Pier, would bring in a useful sum. WheHolmes a start and a beating in
certain foreigners" in taking Kowloon, at 8.30 pm. -
ther it would be practical politics solving any modern advantage of their privileged
is another matter altogether.
The
position to indulge in the trade There will be à bridge and on a vast scale, thus paralysing mahjongg drive in St. John's the efforts of the Chinese Cathedral Hall on Friday, June 12, authorities.
at 8.30 p.m. The charge for ad-
vote"
MOTOR CYCLISTS THROWN
· IN AIR
blem.
crime pro-
No fewer than six detectives Iwere rushed to the scene of the High-Speed Crime
hold-up in a fast car equipped For crime, too, has been speed-with "two-way radio-that is, ed up. Where Sherlock lolled in messages could be received and his armchair and reasoned things transmitted while the vehicle was Mr. Lyall, the British asses-mission is $1. including light re-
Two motor cyclists were hurled out in a cloud of tobacco smoke, in motion. Simultaneously, radio sor on the Committee, was more freshments. The proceeds are in specific in his accusations. The air of the Cathedral Organ Fund. into the air when their machines the modern detective summons a messages were flashed to various collided in the Southport Motor fast ear and works 24 hours a day points within 100 miles radius of Changli district in the demili-All will be welcome.
Club's 100-mile race at Ainsdale, digging out facts. The sleuth of the crime.
(Continued on Page 10). tarised zone, he said, had 131 opium shops, the majority of Recent acting
appointments one breaking his leg and the other 1935 has to have in him some- thing of the scientist, the man- which were run by Japanese; made in the Hong Kong Police are escaping with slight bruises. Jand, when
Governor as follows:-Sub-Inspector S.
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the Shepheard to Acting Inspector, situation, he was removed, as Police Sergeant Oliver to Acting being anti-Japanese. He Sub-Inspector, Lance Sergeant T. further stated that, of the 323 Hunter to Acting Police Sergeant, opium dens in Amoy and 319 in Lance Sergeant Groves to Acting Foochow nearly all were ru Police Sergeant.
by Japanese subjects. mostly
Formosans. These people, like The s.s. Tarda is scheduled to those in the demilitarised zone, sail at 6 p.m. to-morrow instead rely on their Japanese nation-of at 10 a.m. on Sunday. ality for immunity from
the
penalties of the law. And, it is As only one nomination, that of to be remembered, these opium Mr. M. T. Johnson. has been re- dens are the suppliers of other (ceived in response to the invita and worse drugs.
tion to the Justices of the Peace!
the
The Japanese delegate, in (other than Government Oficials). in the Government characteristic Japanese fashion, published made the usual evasive reply. Gazette of May 28 last, to submit of The Japanese authorities, he nominations for the purpose
Excellency said, "were not well-informed recommending to His on the subject," but the Govern-the Governor & Justice of the ment would make every effort Peace for appointment to to clear up the matter." But vacancy on the Legislative Council the Japanese Government must caused by the absence from the be aware of the enormous dis-Colony of the Hon. Sir HL E crepancy between the quantities Pollock Kt., KC., LL.D., it is of deleterious drugs manufac-notified that the meeting of the tured in Japan and the legiti-Justices which was to have been mate exports for medical use. held to-day, will not take place. The figures collected and given
was
out by the League of Nations One case of enteric fever are at their disposa.. There reported to the local Health an-
is little doubt, if any, that huge thorities during the 24 hours end- quantities of these drugs find ad on Wednesday.
their way into China along with
the other smuggled goods which Your Daily Smile!. are being poured into the coun-)
try under the fostering care and Artist: "Td like to
exhibit this. protection of the Japanese, who Could you suggest a title?" are the world's chief producers Well-Paid Administrator:
Very modern Why not call it of Dermful drugs-to-day.
"Home"?""
The continued use of heroin Artist: "But it's a landscape. Call can have but ope ending the it Home? Why? mental and bodily run of the Well-Paid Administrator: "Because addict. The death penalty pro-there's no place like it."
vided by Chinese law may seem
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to some to err on the side of 'I 'eat' seven eggs this morning.“ severity; but the world would "Of course you mean 'ste." be a better and cleaner place if "Well, maybe it was eight.” other nations followed the Chinese example, at least as wi (looking over travel folders)
Economy First regards traffickers in dele-why not take an ocean cruise this terious drugs. Such men are summer, dear!"
beggarz "can't
vermin and should be dealt with Husband: "Em-m, as such.
be cruisers."
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