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POLICE METHODS. STOLEN DYNAMITE. FIRE AT UN LONG MARKET,

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CONSTRUCTION COMPANY DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND

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Considerable damage to buildingsTM and their contents is reported to have resulted from a fire in the Un Long Market, New Territories, yesterday,

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The Hong Kong Excavation File Driving and Construction Com- "In his book "Episodes and Re-pany were yesterday Aned $25 for flections." published recently. Major failing to employ proper watchmes General Sir Wyndham Childs, who to watch their dynamite magazina, this being a breach of the dynamite Was Assistant Commissioner. At Scotland Yard for eight years, ex-storing license granted to them.

Dealing with the facta of the presses, in regard to the police sandals which occurred towards case, it was stated that the Police,

No. 7 appliance was promptly the end of his term of service, the in the case of dynamite magazines, despatched from Kowloon and suc- opinion that the wave of popular had first to be satisfied that the coded in getting the fire under feeling" which arose against the place where it was proposed to control after some arduous work,

Two buildings and their contents CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd. Metropolitan Felice was "primarily store the dynamite was a suitable were severely damaged. The two due to the Press and their insati- one, and then they required the ap-Upper floors were used as dwellings able lust for news and copy, and plican to submit for their approval and the ground floors as shops.

The appliance returned to the after that to the desire experienced two watchmen to guard the ma-station at 起 late hour in the by back-benchers of the House of gazine

evening.. Commons to achieve some form of The defendant company dis- notoriety, which hitherto they had missed their sub-contractor On failed to secure. Several notori-May 23, and the latter took away ous cases," he proceeds, red, in which persons of position two watchmen. No new watchmen were arrested by the police- in Hyde Park These were taken up with rost by the Press, although, looked at from an impartial point of view, there was nothing out of the normal about them.".

occur with him 80 of his men, including

were put in their place. During

the night of June 7 and 8 the dynamite was stolen.

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A report was made to the Police and investigations were set on foot, and it was discovered then that there were to watchmen at the magazine and accordingly the sum- mong was taken out.

Mr. E. D. Shank of the defen- dant company explained that the old sub-contractor was dismissed because he was not making satisfac-

Sir Wyndham deals at length with the position of the police in these affairs, and, commenting upon the findings of the Royal Commis sion, he says that the officers of the Criminal Investigation Depart- Iment came to the conclusion "that the detection of crime in the futuretory progrees with the work on would be almost impossible if the rules were accepted. "I don't think myself," he adds, "that the crime game can be played accord- ing to rule. My own conviction is that a police officer is entitled to use any and every subterfuge to gain evidence."

hand. New contractors have been appointed hat in the interval the theft had taken place.

It wae stated that the Police in Aberdeen are searching the hill. side in the belief that the dynamite is buried there.

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The Gutteridge Murder. In other chapters the author deals with the part he played in the solving of the murder of Police Constable Gutteridge, and how his MUSICAL TREAT TO-MORROW. interest in the case was first arrest- ed by the curious elevations on the The arrangements for the third base of the cartridge; the Arcos public band concert, to be held to- Raid, the attempt to poison the morrow night at the Kowloon Foot- Commissioner of Police (Sir Wil-ball Club, are practically the same liam Horwood), and the Zinovieff as those on the previous occasion. letter. About the letter he ob- serves: "I am in the happy pos- this time the performance will be It should, however, be noted that tion of having no knowledge what- soever on the subject of the Zino- given by the Band of the Argyll vici letter, so I can conclude by and Sutherland Highlanders. This giving it as my opinion that if Mr. Zinovieff sent it, he was, in col is the Regimental Band which, loquial language, 1 Blithering under the baton of Mr. Beat, play ed with so much acceptance at the opening concert. It may he recall ed that, under his predecessor, Mr. Rickett, who composed the famous Colonel Bogey March, the

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aguinat the Communist band of the 93rd Highlanders reach- organisation."

Referring to his army career, Sirlence and was widely famed,

ed a very high standard of excel- Wyndham recalls the Tonypandy riots, and confesses that the months The Kowloon Residents' Associa ho spent there had the effect. of tion, which has undertaken the or- leaving me in a state of complete amazement that any human being sould be a collier. The Rhondda Valley and the river, which 30 years ago, I believe, was a first-class salmon river, were the nearest ap- proach to hell I ever want to see." advantage is that they can be book- Of the Armitsar case, Sir Wynded beforehand at Anderson's music ham says, "Unlike the majority of store, and reserved for the evening. soldiers, I found myself unable to

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