THE CHINA' MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1980.
TIGER. TIGER BURNING BRIGHT
AL
LTHOUGH the year 1914 marked the end of the old world and the beginning of the new, this line of demarkation cast no apparent shadow in Hongkong. The gentlemen of Canton, to whom most of the criminal classes of Hongkong had some affinity, could not have cared less.
Neither were the Europeans much disturbed beyond the fact that the Germans and British businessmen now found themselves enemies.
Away, up in Peking there was sistant Superintendent of Police In certal amount of apprehen- Reserve,
alom later in the war when they found China had cast her vote for the Alles, and that the for- raidable Prussians, with them uries of Count Waidersee. were onte ngabr the enemies of China.
But this was far from Hong- Irumediate kony, and the only results were a rush of patriol- Is, scanning of maps of the
The Western Front, and pariure of certain of the Police Force, along with ather young Engilshmen, who left the Colony far off to fit and Flanders.
die in
However, the greatest tx- eltement during the War year seems to have been occasioned
a tiger In the New The ritories.
y
Of course, if anyone lives in Hongleng long enough, they are aware that tigers are very fre- quent visitors, but for the mast part, they seen to exist in the infion of the beholders.
Two Indian Constables went to the aid of the European Policemth, ain! the tiger slunk back into the thicket.
Croucher was severely mauled and had a bruken atık,
Assistant Superintendent Burlingham, acevinpanted by number of Constables went after the injured beast. They BUT.. rounded the thicket, and stud into it. The breast laddened with pain, sprang at them.
that the collapse of the archaic monarchies in Europe, together with the seting up of democratie tüvernments, affected the whole world. But the greatest event of all was the downfall of the most tyrannical monarchy of old Hussin, and the celablishment of a form of Government founded
upon the theory of Marx, and alt that meant, ethically and econo- mically.
The new Soviet Government, in the first wild rush of succeSI, made a sweeping statement, not unsimilar to that made by the French Revolutionary Govern- ment a century and a half that all peoples who prose and overthrew their existing Govern- ments could count upon the ad
meant
Indian Constable Rattan Singh was right in the way of the charge. The tiger flaug him to earlier, which in effect de
the ground and bit right through party closed in his skull, The and killed the beast. Too late. Constable Singh was dead.
-
the Meanwhile, conditions in
Province at neighbouring Kwangling were quieter, though the disbanded saldiers of the Chinese Hevolution -
the border ec
hundering expeditions, piracles berame more freqpeni,
These latter eonditions pre- valled more or less right up in the time of the Japanese de
ປາເ cupation of Cunton, so will
胡红 again. be mentioned here
their telling becomes monu- tenotes.
In March, 1915 doubtless Ser- Eenat Croucher thought so foo, but when the villagers persisted with their stories of a tiger, just to please them, he took a shot- g, and accompanied by a Constable Halland, he act bit to look for the tiger.
A growl
The excited viligoers painted Sergeant out small thicket. Croucher, fed up with this wild liger chase, thought he would settle as one way or the other,
she went into the thickel to look for the tiger.
Meanwhile the injured Ser- Kennt Croucher was rushed by special train to Kowloon, where he was treated at the Civil Hos pital for his broken urm and
multiple Injuries.
At this time, 1915, Government at last turned its attention to
for the Police, so quarters block of three-storeyed buildings containing nine flats was erected In Cale Road.
of the Soviet.
The strike
Just as a stone thrown into pond sends out ever widening ipples, so after a time, do these uprisings and disturbances reach the far sentiered parts of the earth. By that time, the first statements might be obsolete, but nevertheless,
original somewhat,
the
theories, distorted liter through. Also, in the same year, con-
So it was building of Police At the same moment the Uger siderable
13, 1922, to look for Bergeant Stations was commencer}. teelded Croucher, and as is Inevitable..
The specials if you are taking on
However, war made certain demands upon the Colony which affected the Police, so on Octo- ber 23, 1914, the Special Police Reserve Ordinance was passeri.
д
ger
with your bare hands, you are stepping out of your class,
With
growl, jumped, the Chinese ran, Croucher hit Sergeant ground with the tiger on top of him.
the
tizer
And the
much
Constable Holland, with great presence of mind and at personal ther emptied his revolver Into
The new Force was quickly recruited in February, 1015, anil Mr F. C. Jenkin, Barrister-at- Law was appointed Command with the rank of As- tiger.
**Of course, we could
thot on January the newly formed
The-
THE tiger that was. A. S. P. Burlingham who led the porty which killed the brute, but not before it accounted for 'Sgt.
Gouther and P.C. Rutton Singh. The tiger's head used to be on display in the old H.K. Mureum.
HONGKONG POLICE
The Front
By JOHN LUFF-
all
In 1917. It was found neces- Labour Union known as the Sea- Colony a month inter on April
strike 6, 1922 in H.M.S. Renown. and sary to station Police at Castle men's Union, declared risk, ran up
'A matshed the Peak.
dormitory of all Cantonese seamen calling
Then at the height of his and mess were built, whlic a at Hongkong
world-wide
popularity, he was cell was constructed of brick.
The most unintelligent thing a heartily received by person can do is to pontificate nationalities of the Colony. upon an event of forty years ago with a 1000 ethic, Judging now, During 1922, the possibility of Branch was under the demures of the seamen seem a Detective pitifully modest. Judging then, enquiry with the result of the evidence with the murder of the Superintendent as Director
Criminal Intelligence. Russian Royal family new in memory, this seemed the thin edge of the wedge.
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. Ipson Exorona Bertion,
of
The extension to Central Police Station was hold up the same year owing to the on- arrival of certain steel require- ments frum England. (Duc, of course, to the aminunition drive for the Western Front.) However, if the disaster total war passed the Colony during the years 1014/15, dis- aster, always iteminent In Hongkong, struck with savage fury. It was on February 20, 1018, the day of the Hongkong Derby. The matshed stands were full, and the crowd excited and restless.
collapsed, Suddenly a stand and then others, the straw root of one falling upon a cooking stove. In a moment the accident had become a holocaust, a rav- Ing inferno of fury. Thousanda siruggled
Rames beneath the and the shricks of fear are still heard by matty who are still in the Colony, and were down at the races that day.
with the Red-bogey much in gestion of the C.1.D., with of
Was
fattened upon the sacrifices of burned to the ground, pitched With a such a solid front of Flanders.
ihla battles would be fought, but oli Chinese opinion against leaving the Colony would" and Comintern - inspired agitation, In Hongkong, where agitation food, shelter, and financial aid things rapidly began to lan
directed from Canton, it in Canton.
prove, took the local and traditional
The Tramway Company re- On June 19, 1925, the Hong sumed running after a stop- view. That the masses of China
Macao Im kong and
Steamboat were being exploited by
of payo
only 24 days. perialism to which was added Company came out on strike, to and by the end of July, B the new term here-Capitalem, be joined by workers of the new Kaff largely obtained Hongkong Tramways the next through the Labour Protection One is forced to admit that day.
Bureau, had the trams in full the Third International contain- ed the anest political scientists violently worded placards of an
On the night of June 29, service.
During August, labour *02- of the age. Students can dlo-
continued to Improve, cover that local agitation was anti-British nature were posted ditions
and .the Police Department and all over the City, calling out
handle the censed to
the engage- adapted to the emotiona
the City aspirations of the classes within the Chhese to wipe out
British and the British running ment of coolles, so dogs.
Hull Labour Exchange closed the Colony.
down. The Hongkong Volun Government offered substan- ieers and Special Police were tial rewards for any information demobilisest. lending to the apprehension of distributing these any persons
For instance, the student class wast fed upon such stuff which was well calculated to, arouse The Best D.C.I, was Thomas Its emotions. Yet even then, it Herry King who seamed charge was old, and not dissimilar from on March 20, 1923, assisted by that which aroused China at the posters. As a result, this method first Detective Inspector Muri- end of the nineteenth century. of agitation soon died away, On humiliation at the the other hand, hundreds of son, and then Inspector . Grunt. China's
By the end of 1923 the hands of the foreigner, almost letters were sent through the
word for strength of this Department was
word, the kind of post threatening death to
who continued worlding. stuff.used today,
A
Capitalism
A Secret Society calling itself It succeeded, as did the more superstitious stuff given to the the Labour Commission met at masses, together with the never the Hol Yuen and other sen fail, "have and have-not," line, men's boarding houses. This But all classes were united by society was recognised by all one rallying ery, "O Chinese."
Stir up
This was a
By September, only the boy tett of the Calony continued. povere testing time for the Police, but of the 533 Contonese Police, including de tertives, only eight desertion due to the strike occurred,
The strike draggod on be cause, as was usiai by ancient customs, the leaders themselves were not evident, but kept send- ing go-betweens. It is very 143. evident to the present writer that the real leaders were in Canton where they were instructed by Soviet observers who, on instruc-
The Police were called upon tions from the Third Interna-
to perform some tough duties tional OT Comintern, werd Instructing everywhere on the
who went on strike. One of its which included raids against the Colony's population
artaiing strikers member's wor caught with crowds of of revolu- grewe
and more theory and practice
work wad thrown upon the Police dua to This, I soy, was extremely twenty lettere upon his person, reinforced by Comintern-trained were trengthened The Hongkong Government more scientific procedures belag clever, for every class respond all bearing the chop of the mob rousers. The hands of the
ed to the call. But on the other fabour Commission, Under the Pellee declared the Union illegal in siopted in the detection and pre-
caught Hongkong. On February vention of crime, so new build hand, it proved both the power emergency powers in operation during this period in that they
ings were
who were in the Colony merely the Intelligence of the at the time, he received seven could deport any they 1922. the Hongkong Police
Third International who struck months' hard labour,
to stir up troubite. Interfered when violence and modate the growing Force.
through the best organised and intimidation, in keeping with
February 1923 SJW the wildest Trade Unions, Locally the new theorles, were used to
Police Training School removed they were the Hol Yuen and pull the stevedores and coolies from Central to Harbour View, the Association of Labour where a building had been com- Unions. Although both of these
Unions pleted a month previously.
were composed illiterate members for the most
on and re-establishment.
into the strike.
An appeal
was
erected to accom-
and
Rumours
No doubt
W08
By Juno 11, the strike of was just about total, and people left the Colony, in thousands. On the other hand, there no difficulty in engaging labour. In order to give maximum pro- tection to this movement, work- men were engaged through the Police Department.
Hundreds dieri a fearful death. (Note! As I revise this, I find
The Photography Depart- that the recent accidents at the
ment, soon to be so important, pari, the Intelligentsia organis- Race Course have occasioned
opened on April 9, 1923, d the political theory and the performing of certain rites
and planned as near as possible action departments. tu pincate the spirits of those
Varlous well-meaning. but on the lines of the Photography who died upon the Course.
totally ignorant public bodies Department of New Scotland And much mention, especially tried to selile the trouble, but Yard in the Chinese Press of the failed, because they were un- awful tragedy I briefly describe). aware of the new forces sweep- On December 11, 1918, Miring the ranks of the workers. Messer left the Police Force to Then the Chinese made un act as Colonial Treasurer, and appeal which never fails and Mr Edward Dudley Corseaden has succeeded right up to this
In the meantime new Wolte was appointed in his moment. The appeal was above place.
all theories, Marxian or other Stations at Kowloon wise. It was
kept the the Chinese op- Shamshuipo pealing to the Chinese. That moving ever outwards In
ever expanding Colony.
Mr Wolfe Inherited the usual
of incidents and crime. did it, Out on strike came the Armed robberies, Trinda, and the
run
servants, the butchers, the
like, the tale which has been so bakers, This threatened to leave often told already. In May, 1019, the Colony hungry. the Police Recreation Club in Happy Valley was opened. This
The Governor in Council
was the first effort made towards, Issued a Proclamation prohibiting
the Police Welfare in any mark ed degree.
Old school
#n
the departure of any Chinese from the Colony without a per- mit.
The C.ID., The Police Courts, the Supreme Court, and the ever growing Traffle Depart- mest kept this new organisa- tion very busy.
The Comintern-directed agita- tion aimed at the Colony failed
because:-
There is no doubt whatever that the failure of the Third In June, 1925, pollileal agita International to upset the Colony tors from Canton and Shanghai was due to the Chinese who had were in the Colony addressing established thethselves
within meetings, but they were afraid the Colony. Police to strike because they had no City and place to retreat to, should they In the fint case, they knew tho Pollee lose the first round-for Canton source of the agitation, and the would Intelligentsia the hands of the Chinese was an
in Yannanese and Kwongs Forces. have none of it.
In- However,
The Comintern was busy again, with plans on a universal scale for bringing world economy to
The Chinese established in the Colony associated them- selves with Hongkong and its welfare. Also the· in• fluence of the Chinese In-
the telligentsia was upon. side of law and order, and opposed to anarchy. The Chinese Polico, except for tho very low EXOLV tions, stood loyal to long- icong
• The
Comintern thugs, sent from Canton to use violent methods and: kouse the mobsteru were in tum given a taste of their medicine by the Chinese reeled Labour Protection Bureau.
Ca
The Secretary of State for Colantes send this messINTU
During 1923. Police
the Kuomintang A Labour Protection Bureau the was hard at work. Armies advanced and occupied devised by a Chinese Military to the Hongkong Police Force, telligence
Then all wOB ready, Oficer ensured that the Chinese Dated December 30, 1025, it Canton.
to long cong reade: "I have to express my and agents of the Third Interna- remaining loyal
Liu were not intimidated.
satisfaction at learning of the the link be- Chung Hol was tlonal moved into Canton
loyalty displayed by the Chintam The work done by the Chinese members of the Force, and my tween the Third International The particular form of agita- and the Chinese, and on June detectives in arresting the thuge appreciation of the work of the
Comintern ten of the tion varied according to locally. 15, 1925, ha In Great Britain for instance, Hongkong
a standstill the next year.
summoned
representatives
cannot be
to overestimated. As a whole, the Police in this trying crisis." This was about as effective as
SATURDAY: it is to deny them entry at the this agitation exploited the fast Canton, and gave certain orders. Chinese members of the Hong- kong Police Force stood firm and moment. But it did prevent that the soldiers returned from
hours Twenty-four
later, loyal, although in turn them leaving by the regular sea the War had received a very
were
On March 1, 1902, the Police and rail services. Sio they raw deal, while munition wild rumours spread through throatuned with violence, if they Training School replaced the old walked out. They started out workers and industrialists had Hongkong Victoria would be did not desert the Force, Police School.
early on March 3, 1022, ond met the Police somewhere about The old school was started in Kowloon Water Works. 1800,
and was staffed by English master and two Indian The Police cried halt, and the masters from the Education De- Chinese leading the march partment. Strange as li must cried back, but those at the seem to us now, the object was back cried forward. So forward' merely to obtain some degree of It Was Ilterncy in the Police Force.
Sans water, money und spring garden kan
HE IS A MAN WITH A MISSION
At the 8th mile stone, the SOMEWHERE in the parched semi-desert of
Australia's Northern Territory a man, his two sons and two daughters are trying to disprove gilators to half, but by this a theory that the Outback can never be conquered.
Police were feinforced with At first, the old school was a
the military. voluntary Institute, becoming compulsory for all members of the Force who lived within walk-
The
Police called upon the
TO CONQUER
They were in air They have sold up to start a farm in the Central THE OUTBACK With a shower of stores Mount Wedge area. and the urizing of anything to
ing distance of Central, where time. the School existed in 1072.
mend.
With the opening of the hand.
Bchool was closed.
they broke through the Gibert Coppock, who for 29 have been made. Tribes of "We've got every comfort we only a radio call and a fow Police Training School, the Police Police cordon. The troops fired, years believed that the Outback sooming aloriginal blocks need.
and five persons fell dend. The could be lanted, has brought pass Through from time to The Principal of the Police orowd dispersed and returned Training School was Inspector W. to Hongkong. At the Judiet long 600 head of sheep and a ilme.. C. Gerrard. He has a consider enquiry,
the jury found
ablo staff of Chinese and Indian verdict of Justifiable homicido. teachers, with an English Drill Instructor, and one Indian and
ohe Chinese Sergeant Major,
The Prince
.
few rules from further south.
hours away in a fast bit-plane," From the aire surveys, A radio his did form
Coppock says the soli pOČITIS to bo If Coppockt aucceeds, then
good and there other farmors will be tempted "We've got plenty of pro-strong indication that there In the Outbacic he will have to love the
belt, visiche, and a two-way battery is water 12 to 10ft, below the to build his own home and plant where grazing land is a radio to call for more if we run unface.
short. many acres of lucerne (a plaut premium.
• constal
maybe
to "We hope get down cultivated for fodder) to feed Hls nearest héighbour in "It not like the old days deeper
than that and bvby over a 'roud- when the fearest doctor was and the subterranean catch- The great unrest which follow- The airike was settled on his sheep. But before anything 200 miles
where can cane hundreds of miles away, and ment.. If we can do, that; our cd World War I made liselt felt March 0, and the Ecamen's cire, he will have to find water less desert
Tho Bound the ·Caprocks
you had to goi there by buggy Lucerne and sheep, Tilch won't in the Colony in the year 1922. Union was allowed to re-open,
out to conquacks not rith.
be the dream people thirile," On lb way tough Acelf at all. Those interested in the social H. R. H. the Prince of Wales virtually unexplored by white
Gogpool
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London Expieka Bervios). the air Sprinājis Erveys freka nepecần bê thons yasrs will recall (Dhsion of Windeck) visited the
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