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The police force here is large and powerful and, judging from closer observation than we are usually afforded, reasonably ef- ficient. Are we to believe, with The wedding arranged between such a force at the disposal of Mr. John Henry Fox and Miss the powers-that-be, that inform- Patricia Carton Cooper will take ation available to the small staff place on 16th. July, 1938. No in-of a newspaper cannot be gather- vitations will be issued but all ed by the police except at the friends will be welcome at the sacrifice by a journalist of his Reception to be held in The self-respect? Jacobean Room of The Hong Kong

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Hong Kong, Thursday, June 23, 1938. The "Royal" Porpoise

POLICE RAID

To "catch a Crab", or to "catch

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a Tartar", are actions that well known to be followed by We are not sure whether indig-troublesome consequences to the nation is the right note to sound one making the capture; but it with reference to the now highlyfence of the skipper of the Dutch appears from the recent exper- publicised police raid on the of vessel "Johanna Hendrika," that fices of the "China Mail" yester- to catch a porpoise is no less to day afternoon. It is true that be avoided.

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perhaps was to be expected. Museum

thority, and the Natural History and await their plea- There was, in fact, an element of sure. The captor finds, indeed, humour to be discovered, in the that for some time through all careful scrutiny of unpaid bills his affairs one increasing por- and the MSS of budding short poise runs. story writers, in the poring over Our sympathy must go to the papers which had long lost their harassed skipper: the trouble. was not of his seeking; for the meaning even to members of the porpoise arrived uninvited upon staff, all in quest of an imaginary the deck of the "Johanna.” One document which the responsible might have guessed as much, be- official leading the party had no have never been good, if one may cause the manners of the tribe reason to believe existed and was judge from that other episode, at 7.00 a.m. at 10.20 a.m.

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