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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

A correspondent of the Chino Ezi and Telegraph, under date January 7th, writes

Örn, 1926

THE MODERN POLICEMAN.

P.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA.

facilities, broadcast crits big, and small, there has been no increase; in fact, for and thus, the impression is gained, but some years the statistics show a steady

• decline.

BRITAIN'S CAPITALISTS. MASS OF SMALL INVESTORS.

E entirely disagree with the critics Not long ago Mr. Runciman, in reply who persist in stating that there is an to Socialist representations of the wealth. The internal troubles in China have increase in crime. The only explanation of the capitalist clam, published somewhat interfered with the showing is that the Fress, with its modern Agures showing how the mass of capital the angreand the Station, it being

holdings in the banks belongs to small in- necessary to keep a compotent naval

seretary of the Liverpool and District vestors. Since then Mr. Lewis Edwards, force in hand ready for emergencies:

Economic League, in conjunction with the The China Station's ships form a very

Central Council of Economic Leagues, bas This statement was made by Sir James obtained typical figures from varions formidable force, and is the strongest Olive, the Deputy Commissioner of the well-known companies. maintained there since Admiral Toro Metropolitan Felice, on the eve of his re-

The majority show that the abare- tirement recently after 33 years' service. disposed of the Russian Fleet in the

bolders are mostly comparatively "small" Sir James, who is 78 years of age, join men who have invested their savings. The Yellow Sea. Still, there is not a cruisered the force as an ordinary policeman, average amount held by each is between and rose to the position of Deputy Com£100 and £500. The higher returns or a gunboat too many should graver missioner at the time that Sir Nevil shown by the railway companies is ac crises, arise

Macready was at the head of the Yard.

counted for by the fact that they are re- Captain H S. Shipway, who recently population of London has risen from 3 investment for their funds.

Since my time," Sir James said, the garded by other companies as a suitable. commanded the cruiser Dublin on the to 7 millions. Naturally there has been Africa Station, has assumed the duties proportionate increase in crime, but se not to the extent some people would have. of Captain-Superintendent at Siagu-you believe. pore, the first of his rank to assume duty Crimes of violence are comparatively a thing of the past.- When I joined the there. Captain Shipway is an experien-Force it was the greatest thing we had ced and very capable officer, and emin-to contend with, and a policeman's

greatest asset was his physical strength Midland Bank.... 11,978,800 ently qualified for the post.

Today it is a battle of brains with the Lloyds Bank..... 14,372,556 Any doubt as to the future of the ex-new inventions and schemes for defraud-Nat. Prov. Bank 9,479,416 41,603 *** German floating docks and Singapore ing the public that are being evolved Westminster

Brok 9,051,718 60,892 130 has been set at rest by the Admiralty year by year.

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE,

Barclays Bank 18,592,873 -51,011 308 "At one time the police were looked B. of Liverp. asking tenders for the construction of a floating dock, capable of dealing with to-day they are expected to be lawyers. Brit. Domin.

upos as guards against violent attack, but

Martins 2,318,000 11,300 208 2. 50,000-ton-load, for Singapore. Among doctors, in fact walking encyclopædias.

3,500 312 the firms which have been naked to ten- The vast increase in efficiency which re- der for the construction of this monster cent years has shown in the police is, in

11,100 my opinion, greatly due to the introduc- Prudential floating dock are Messra. Harland and tion, of the Educational Acts.

"It has raised the police into an Phoenix Assur- Wolff, Belfast, and the Fairfield Co.,

entirely different category. One bas Glasgow.

visions of what a policeman's" work will

The Sgures are as given below:

Company

Royal Insur

Pull-up

capital,

ote,

cfhuiders.

Amount of

Number

Average

036

57,950

55,608

259

ance Co. 1.005,000 Cunard S.5. Co..... 10,038,189 - 27,100

SUNRISE AND SUNSET

·HONGKONG

FOR FEBRUARY, 1998.

(STANDARD TIME, OF THE 190TH-MERIDIAN,

· EAST OF GREENWICH).

Dator

Sunrise.

February 5th. 7.01 ....

eth.. 7.01

.7.00 8th....8.50 (9th, 2.8.50 (16th C:39

11th. 12th. ...37 13th......6.57

0.39

Sunset. 8.15 p.m.

58.14

8:18

6.16

17

6.16

6.17

:6.18

6.19

6.15-

Hth...6.33

6.00

28th.

.6.38

8.20

18th 6.55

6.91

17th......6.55

6.21

18th......8.54

6.91.

19th.8.53

6.22

-96th...8.52

6.99

21st...BL

8.23

send...8.5O

gard.

...6,50

6.94

24th.

..0.49

esth... 0.49

28th..

..0.19

6.2%

.6.47

28th 10.48

6.98

Wind Direction.

2.4

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, February 4th.

Previces On Date On Day

Day st

ance Co..

Ins. Co. 4,200,000

Ins.

Co.

at ? p.m.6 am.

p.

Barometer ICD Temperature

30.11 30.13

30.10

67

65

Humidity

67

F. 01

68

5,353

8,170

East

Calm

Force

3

123 | Weather

Q'

101 Fafn

0.00

0.00

-0.00

9,997-

BC3

-

173

Highest open-air Temperature on 3rd Lowest open-air Temperature on 4th

456

243

73,382 -12,253

326 194 33,253 178.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

From Feb, 8th to 11th, 1926,

18,000

173

HIGH WATER.

-LOW. WATKE.

24

Hong

Standard

Time

h. m.

F

[: 5 km 1 19 828 18

49,240

In connection with the April ex-be in the years to come, but all I can say P. & O. Co... 0,632,518 amination of officers for promotion, the at present is that the present police Mersey Dka & books suggested as suitable for the system is entirely sound and perfect. in

H. Bd. 32,641,000 military history subjects are the official every department," account of the operations in Waristan Conditions to-day are extremely satis-Courtaulds, Ltd. 20,000,000: 43,826 Thos. Tilling,Ltd. 608,848 2,500 1919-90, and De Watteville's book on the factory to one who started when duties same campaign: the official history of extended to an exhausting number of Vickers, Ltd... 23,929,290 the Russo-Japanese War and the reports hours every day. The policeman at that John Barker& Co. 2,390,000 from our attaches with the Japanese time, though the cost of living, was con- Harrods, Ltd...,915,000 armies; The Campaign of Lano-Yung," siderably lower than at the present, was Selfridge &

Co., Ltd. 3,114,866 by Rowan Robinson, and "The Japan poor man, and his pound a week could

J. Lyons & css in Manchuria," by Cardonnier. not go very far.

Co., Ltd. 3,345,838 25,834 Additional for the October examination

LiverpoolGasCo. 3.163,000 €,251 506 the books recommended are those on the 1914 campaign by Brigadier-General Ed-

M&S. Railway 429,175 305,029 1,319 L&NE.Railway364,871,191 232,031 $1,142 monds and Major General Sir Frederick Maurice. Von Kluck's "account of his

Southern march on Paris; and. Ludendorff's book bf memories.

SCARED. BY RIB-TICKLING: A PROSPECTOR'S EXPERIENCE IN

NEW GUINEA.

“Naturally, we then had very few offers who could go here. there, and everywhers in order to carry out the necessary investigation work properly,

"To-day the examination system makes it impracticable for any dude' to coo- tinue long in the force, and consequently this creates a high degree of intelligence.“

In my opinion, despite the criticisms that are being continually levelled at the heads of the police, there are few faults in the present spatem. In fact, I do not knew of one glaring fault or any minor

faults which could be remedied.

TOO YOUNG UNDER FORTY,

J

WHY ENGINEER EMPLOYERS PREFER OLDER MEN,

Great activity is now being displayed by Australian prospectors for oil in the various islands in close proximity tog Australia's northern coastline, such as Timor, Papua, and the mandated ter ritory of New Guinea, where experts declare oil is to be found abundantly.

Too young ander forty." One of these Australian of hunters Mr. Arthur Lindsay has returned to This surprising slogan is being, applied Sydney from New Guinea, where in the to certain engineering trades, employers course of five journeys through practical having declared that they prefer men over ly unknown country he travelled 800 forty to those who have not reached that miles through swamps and jungle and age. In some other trades the situation wide tracts covered with stiff: kúnni is exactly the reverse, men over forty, grass, and he declares that he is satis- being discouraged from applying for fred that the Germans, who previously vacant positions, owned it, new of the existence of oil deposits

Mr. H. Ward, chairman of the Engineer ing and Allied Employers London and District Association, interviewed on the This, Mr. Lindsay reasons, is respon

new policy said it all depended on what sible for Germany's marked pertinacity the employee was required to do.png in demanding the return, under man-For development work, he added. date, of the territories of which she was and that requiring the higher skill it deprived by the Treaty of Versailles.

After travelling several weeks along the valley of the River Ramu, which is navigable for 200 miles, and where he picked up eight natives as personal at tendants and 20 more as carriers. Mr. where in 1912, two exploring Germans were killed and eaten, en

Ct. West.

·90,000 1,644

Railway...149,000,000

Railway146,894,465 135,108 1,037 The market values have not been given, as they fluctuate from day to day.They are readily obtained from any share. list.

and capable of better work than they did years before...

1 Days of

Month

Daya of

Satur

Sa

Man.

Tues.

Height..

1.

Hong Standard

Time.

Height

ift in b. m. ft. in ig

9.0 6m 2 41. 46m 8562.8

34154

10 310 0

74.27 4.1 9 40

459 5 8

8 m 684-00-19 53286 & 10 33 4.0m 1 19.

9 m 7

The young man, chiefly because of the Wed 10 disturbance which the war brought to Thur. 11 trade, has not had the opportunity of educating himself in his trade. Some of them belong to the class who came in as dilutees and, through no fault of their own, they do not know as much as

the fully trained men.

"The mass production system which has penetrated certain branches of the industry. has its disadvantages as well as its advantages: A man on this kind of work may be an excellent workman at that job, but if he loses it and tries an- other he may be of little use in it, because, he is given something to do he does not understand.

Then the amount of unemployment has undoubtedly caused deterioration in value among some of the younger men, Here again, they are not to be blamed altogether, but it lessens their chances.

is fact that employers look more and The sld apprenticeship, system, which more to the older men. There are a num lapsed during the war period to a large ber of reasons for it the extent, is, I am glad to say, being reviv

The older engineer has the widered. experience. He has served his five years' "Employers are particularly anxious to apprenticeship, and, as a rule, has become get the more suitable youths into train- with mechanics as with musicians or men coming on, but at present it is the artists. They are really young at forty older workman who is the best all-round

(Continued on next enlama.)

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE Lindsay came on a called & fue craftsman. It is largely the same ing,

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A German punitive expedition put the fear of the white man's firesticks"? into the Korek natives, scores of them being killed, and the rest fleeing to the mountains.*}*

Mr. Lindany was the first white man to visit Korek zince the event, which the natives had not forgotten His vivid description of bis interview with the Luluai (chief) of Korek is worth reproducing.

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"He stalked up to me," said the ex plorer, carrying his spear. He stood. close up to me and stared into my eyes, saying nothing, I stared into his Ho stuck his spear into the ground and put his face within an inch of mine, 7:7,

"Then, with both hands he began to feel my

chest and sides, pressing my desh with his fingers It Bashed into my mind that he was feeling ine to find out whether I was At for the royal:table L remained quite still for a minute, star- ing back into his unwinking eyes

**Then I began to feel his own royal ribs and chest, passing my hands down both his aides, He took a sudden panic and literally ran away. Probably be thought that I intended to eat him, in- stead of Him asting me. Anyhow, I had f no more trouble with him." by

53 YEARS WITHOUT 4 HOLIDAY.

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It is stated that she and her husband nice that time never took a day's holi4 day, but spent every working day, from. 9 am to 7 pm, at the stoze

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