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brought to light by the research of Today's wireless programme.

a French doctor aged 19 years.

Buccess and Fallure.

Forty years ago Henry Bond and Frederick Show became apprentices in the same drapery businera, Honry Bond "died in a common lodging-house last month, Frederick

a partner in the firm. Ho had helped his old workmate by giving him buttons and studs each week to sell in the streets. A verdict of Death from Natural Causes was returned.

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Crickets Junior "L.B.W."

Full details of yesterday's races.. Pages 6 and 7.

Twenty-two Communists were executed at Tainan yesterday.

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the faces of the younger genera-Shaw, giving evidence at the in tion; to fear rather than trust queat on Bond said that he (Shaw) Latest Cables. them. But we, in Too H. try to understand their ways. If you want to deal with the younger generation to-day you cannot deal with it any longer by a system of negativos. You cannot wrap them cotton wool, the cot- 10n wool will simply

Catch fire," Viscount Gaschen said he believed that Too H, was one of the most wonderful movements of the present day. It stood for courage, science, and brotherhood.

Crime in U.S.A.

I would be interesting to know who advised, the Honourable the Colonial Secretary that the bathing beacres at Taiwan and North Point were so ill-supported by the Is Old Testament times a number-up in public that there was no needing of the people was a rash and to maintain them during the com-impious undertaking--a point of ing season. The argument about which we are invariably reminded

bathing clubs and provision by every time a census comes round.

caterers being sufficient for the In modern days it is rather an Colony's needs in this matter is as opportunity for serving the Inter belpful as saying that the trams dieties of system and routine, as is and 'buses should be abolished be shown by the fact that according of cause niost people, nowadays, have, to a Home paper one of the prize private cara No one expects the exhibits at the Business Efficiency senior members of the Government Exhibition at the Business. City, to play the ride of Haroun al London, is an elaborate machine Raschid and to mingle in disguise for dealing with the census returns. with those who 150 the public With the aid of this instrument bathing sheds. But we do expect hundreds of intricate tables" will them to make full and satisfactory be prepared merely by running enquiry before taking a step of panched cards, representing every no little importance to the health individual in the country, through of a large number of people during the machine.". Perhaps that is the the trying summer months. The kind of thing which the better sort facts, as far as we are able to of Israelites foresaw when they gather them from enquiry, and from objected to a numbering of the correspondents, such as the Rev. peuple-they may have feared that

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E. A. ARMSTRONG, whose letter we it would reduce the oitizen to a published yesterday, are that these punched card whose purpose was beaches, particularly those at North to be pushed through' a machine. Paint and Taiwan, have always been The proudest nad the poorest are most extensively used on holidnya | all equally abused before the con- and in the evenings by men, womenquering cog-wheels; the individual and children of all nationalities.song con number, but only North Point was the bathing bench i slip of punched pusteboard, for the Portuguese community in which might mean a peer, a poet, the Happy Valley district, for or a pastrycock. many Chinese and Indian people However, if that is what happens [555 and for quite a number of suldiers to him in the course of a census, from the Wellington Barracks. At the incident is only emblematical Taiwan, English, Chinese, Filipinos of the daily life. The Robots are and Portuguese crowded the huts, his rulers, and more and more especially when the tide was favour of them arrive, This Business nèle during the evening. There was Efficiency Exhibition was full of a shelter of sorts and large numbers them, from the latest dictating of English children, from all parts machine which refuses to make of Kowloon, spent whole days play mistakes" (does this mean that it [836ing on the sanda. It was not an will correct the dictator's gram- idral beach; often the water was mar!) to machines for addressing dirty and the enclosure so full envelopes which select the required that it was impossible to swim in lists and allow the other stencils TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that comfort. But still, it was safe, to slip by without leaving their I have retired from the Firm of sad people could get their dip. imprint. These things represent Mesens, BENJAMIN & POTTS na

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A general decrease in crime in 1.000 cities during January, as compared wth December, has been reported by the bureau of investiga tion of the Department of Justico, In a monthly bulletin, prepared under supervision of the director, 3. Edgar Hoover, the average num her of crimes committed daily in these cities was given as 1824 for December and 1711 in January. The number of homicides reported daily decreased from an average of slightly more than eight to slightly less than eight, and the daily aver

Re of cases of manslaughter by negligence dropped from less than seven to less than five. The num ber of cases of criminal assault re- ported, however, averaged more than one each day, above December, All other categories, listed under "offonses known to the police," de creased materially.

Moscow Dismissals,

Graze for Odd Pots.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Siam arrived at Kobe yesterday.

Page 9. There was a splendid master at Animal pots are in demand more the Shanghai Boy Scouts' Jambores Page : than ever, says an emiment home yesterday..

! authority. There is a steady' salo,”

The death. is announced of Col. he declarés, "for leopard, „Jion and London Gordon, ex-Commander of oubs: An elderly lady I know the Shanghai Volunteers. Page 0. has allowed her bear cub to grow

As a result of the London Naval · up with her, although most owners sell this kind of pet whon it reaches Treaty, Japan discharged 8,200- maturity. To-day it romps in the naval dockyard workers yesterday Pago 0. house like a big dog. Tortoises are morning gaining in popularity. There is.

Shanghai, about those creatures: it is gener-struggled valiantly with a mad dos.. one great mistake that poople make ally believed that one can stand

Page 9. on the back of a tortoise without thus preventing his playmates from injuring it. This is not so. Mon- being bitten. keys, ton, are being adopted as pots.

of Master Jacob,

As the result of a Japanese Marine or a much wider scale. They are so intelligent and so amusing that shooting a Chinese farmer at Han. more and more parents are allow.kow, a strong anti-Japanese_agitn

Page 9. ing their children to keep a pot tion has arisen. monkey in the house."

Toronto's Progress, ..

The Easter Conference in New South Wales ndapted. Premier Lang's motion in favour of a fur ther period of socialistic policy. Page

The Schneider Cup British team. and their seaplanes are expected to achieve a speed of 400 miles an hour and to exceed in a dive 500 miles:

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of ten years has heen signed by, the An agreement covering a period Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha with the object of minimising competition on overseas trade routes. Page 0.

The second annual report of the Commission, Dospite the serioun shortage of Toronto Industrial workers and charges of forced anys that the coming of so many labour, authorities have announced new industries to Toronto in 1830, that through a special cleansing and the rapid prograss that many process some 136,000 Government of them had already made, might Union have been dismissed from said the report, "is one of the few public employees in the Soviet regarded not only as encourag

but us remarkablo. "Canada, service. It was stated more than said 123,000 persons have been thorough countries in the world, where such examined and "cleansed," developments are occurring at the Numerous others were transferred present time." The report showed that thirty new industrial firms of to different jobs, where it was be lieved they more better fitted and outside origin came to the Toronto

According to telegrams received many were demoted for lack of area in the year 1930. In the great

in London from Paris differences of skill. A large percentage were dis- majority of casca these new firms

The principal represented parent companies of opinion have arisen between the missed outright. causes of the dismissals were des large resources. The movement is French and Italian Governments cribed as "distortion of the govern- still at its height. The Commis regarding the drawing up of the Page 9. ment policy, bureaucratiem and sion said that there were in ita Naval Agreement. incompetence." In Moscow, along prospect files 160 British, United

Under a new

Ordinance the with the "cleansing," authorities States and European firms which

have informed the Commission they publication of statements of au already have completed examina- tion of 10 central departments of are definitely considering the estab unfriendly nature likely to impair the Government, employing 31,000 -lishment of a Canadian plant, and the relations of the Indian Govern persons. Two hundred and fifty with which the Commission, its offi- ment with foreign states is punish- Page V.. department are in contact. offices, employing 74,000, still fecials and its industrial engineering alle by imprisonment and a fine. main to be investigated.

★ Local Notes and Events

1900,

Dy Sir John Bmale's departure the Colony sustains the loss of one A Chinese from Fokfulam village of its oldest residents and most was slightly injured in the head ay experienced officers. The learned u shot from a gun while he was gentleman first landed on these worshipping at a tomb on the hillhores in 1861" upon his appoint-

An Indian constable attached to side at Kai Lung Wai on Sunday, ment as Attorney-General of the the Hunghom Station has been de. It was later ascertained that Kong Colony, in which capacity ho Lained on the charge of theft of a Inng-of-the-Tung-Les-Ship Build-rendered eminent service-to-the. ekitken which he is alleged to have ing Company, who holds a game Government, more especially in stolen from a basket at the Hung licence, had been out shooting is connection with matters arising out the vicinity and that the villager of the American Civil War, and hom Ferry, Whnrt.

had been hit by a stay pellot..

and J. Beauzille (Engineer Com- The Misses Y. C Wir and L. K. Mr. O. T. Simpson has made a a question of sale machinery on the totalisator, We Wu, daughters of the Chinese report to the police to the effect that I pany.) Against these there are six his motor-car was destroyed by fire resignations:-Gunners L E. Lam-. [557 negotiations.

It is strange that find only one hint of the inefficient Minister to Washington, arrived in the Shek O Road on Saturday mort, H. J. Haslett W. G. Goggin, the ... President night, Mr. Simpson states that he H. G. Kennett, J. A. Griffiths, and the members of the Government can human instrument in the details yesterday on

8 returning to town when he had Sopper J. G. Milne-Hong Kong be blind over

arcnsion to stop, his lights having | Daily Press, April this inatter. Do which are given of this exhibition-McKinley.

gone wrong and when he opened the they really think that bathing in the mention of a "desk with two

It is announced that the annual, bonnet of the car, it burst into Looking Back 60 Years.. a need only of those who can afford tops, so that when the lower sur

scribers of the City Hall will take THIRD EXTRA LACE MEETING COMPREHENSIVE AND COM private matalieds or membership of face is crowded the upper one can meeting of shareholders and sub-flames.

clubs Do they not realise that be pulled into position above it." place in Messrs. Jardine's board- in tropical heat everyone wants to For that cautions "crowded," sub-room on Tuesday, April 14, at 12.30 bathe, and that the bathing habit stitute a truthful untidý "—and ["1.m. " is inculcated in their own schools i at last we seem to be out of the There-seems-no-realisation in official clutch of the machine and back in eireles, that Kowloon in a huge the hopeful atmosphere of a healthy, modern town, tint, the Causeway human disorder; Bay district is also developing, and that both these areas should be provided with the proper amenities

The discovery of the Larkinville of up-to-date cities. The mentality that allowed the Kowloon-Canton gold nugget, the "Golden Eagle," Railway to blot out what could have at Perth has drawn wide, attention to the possibilities of unexploited been one of the finest sen fronts gold resources in Western Austra in the East is evident once more in An oxodus of goldsoekers from in the matter of bathing facilities. Kalgoorlie and other mining en At Central Magistracy yesterday

tres has created scenes reminiscent Mr. Williams fixed the hearing of People. want to batho-and, no

of the early days when Bayley and the case in which Harry Simon is doubt the official reply is, "Do Hannan discovered alluvial gold at charged with stealing, or obtaining they 1 Howinteresting. We have no Kurnalpi. The Larkinville nugget by falas pretences or other tradu- weighs 1,138oz., and was found lent means, a letter in the name of evidence of its and it is not 4 18in below the surface of the Mr. A. W. Bummers of Mesirs. right half No. $ Company) H. F.

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the maintenance of neutrality. The incumbent of that office hoing por Mr. Douglas Jenkins, formuar

mitted to accept privato practice, V.B. Consul General at Shanghai,

Mr. Smale, in addition to the dia. charge of his official duties, liko arrived yesterday in Hong Kong Looking Back 25 Years. where be will be in charge of the Apparently the Hong Kong wise practised with much success American Consulate. He w

Volunteer Corps is having a su at the local bar. Upon the decease companied by Mrs. Jenkins,

ccesful period of recruiting, no of Chief Justice Adams in 1800, fewer than ton having joined sinco Mr. Smale was elevated to the the publication of the orders. They dignity of that offre, which ha aro:-Mosara, H. Foarman, O. B. has retained uninterruptedly to the Williams, E. Chalmers (all to right the prosat time. His Lordship half No. 1 Company), N. J. B. has therefore been resident here for Forbes, P. Jack, H. W. Kent, T. C. un less than twenty years, and has Vernon, E. P. H Lang (all to occupied the Judicial Bench for fifteen years-Hong Kong Daily Haines. (Left half No. 1 Company), Press, April 7, 1687.