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Hosa KONG, SEPTEMBER 3, 1931,

THE POLICEMAN'S CASE BOOK.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1931.

officer in charge, and the book must be presented to the Superintendent uarterly inspections for his persant. This case-book is intended to serve as a criterion of the relice- man's competener, and as such it is regarded to a large degree by the higher offers of the force. When a police defaulter, kas bis pass enquired into he is required to bring the Cass Book with him, and the officer conducting the investigar tion takes into account tas number and nature of the entries in award- ing, punishment, should the charge be proved.

My

News and Views

To a Traveller Returned from

Russia. 25 You are old Father Bernard,"

the young man said, "And" your hair has become,

"vory white; And yet you incessantly stand on

Do you think at your age it is it right ↑ "Looden Morn-

ing pork,

What Urime Costs America. -

Another roport of President Hoover law enforcement and orimo investigating commission, de clares that crime costa America

$1,207,000,000 annually: The oom. mission, which is now extinct, saya that 88 per cent of America's bill for crime is the result of probibi- tion. The commission, which a headed for two years by Mr. George WWickorham, a former Attorney General at the United States do clares itself as being' exceedingly. apprehensive over the developmort of racketeerings.

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Robot Boats,

Taxi-Driver's £5,000 Reward.. goals in the Tas driver of the Milan taxicab, The European Water Police have to submit in which an American woman, Irene

Coleman, left a vallee containing | their case-book to their Superin jewellery worth £100,000, has been tendent at the end of each Towarded with £3,000 for returning Professor Samoilovich, the scien month. If the number of bases the jewellery

tift in chief of the Graf Zeppelin's they have obtained in that month is A Thoughtful Buicide.

Aretio flight, has put forward in a “losture, a remarkable muggestion below a certain figure, an explana=" An American magazino writer, for Arctic vosges of the future. tion as to why they have not "ob- | who shot himself in a hotel at Working upon the complete success. more cases in demanded, and Buffalo (New York), Grst: laid out of the automatic instruments for tained if the explanation is deemed unused in the newspapers, had & note menn which were used on the Zep

two photographs of himself to be registering meteorological pheno- satisfactory the officer in treated as which said: "For obituary eerelin's fight, he said that it would

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be possible to extend this idea and equip au automatic expedition. This would consist of a boat with- out a living being on board and would be navigated by automatic instruments with the help of wire less. These robots would also bring back scientific geographical and meteorological findings,

a defaulters It has longt aWho's Who. maxim that has been impressed upon the men again, and again. by

Mr. C. E. M. Jond, the philoso- His Majesty's Police Inspectors in pher, made at the Summer School Britain at annual inspections, that of the Sun Bathing Society what the efficiency of a policeman is not van only be exiled a cruel attack determined by the number of cases upon women's shoes. Ho described he takes to Coast; that he should tho shots of our charmers na inadequate receptacles insecttrely be actuated by the principle that the prevention of crime is botter poised upon, small wooden pegs. Blue-Eyed Race of Beduin.

As to women's shoes, and their British engineers ;.8

eers surveying the than arrests, and that the man who effects, a lady at a loen bathingTransjordan, Syrian and Iraq de keeps his bent or district fres from crime may be, and almost invari-party remarked Everyone of you serts in connection with the Haifa- men has got something the matter Bagdad railway, report, important bl is an infinitely more cwith his feet, but the woman's-feet-archeological and ethnographie

are all pretty and well shaped How's that for high heels!" Celebrities.

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THE FIRE BRIGADE

139 FIRES IN" 1930,

The report of the dent of the Hong Brigade for the states that the number of calls svceived during the year totalled 168 Actual fren 133, chimney Ama 15, collapses 5, landslides and false alarms 27.

Compared with the previous year (1920), there is a decrease of - 51

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There were tan sorious Ares, Of the false alarms right, were given with good intent, and eight were due to electrical faults.

Huw reserved --Bystrost Fire- Alarm 48 by Telephone 150: from Police 11 from Messengers 7.

Lives Lost Persons Essened.ne

due directly or indirectly to are

Twelve persons lost their lives

(Six within City limits and air in the New Territories),

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Three persons were rescued at free by means of Fire Brigade ap pliances,

Six persons lost their lives as a result of collapses and landali- des, while three persons were' ex tricated alive by the Brigade from

JAMO:

Commendations

Woollard for the promptness, cour age and resource with which he offccted the rescue of three persons from the fire at Shanghai Street, Yaumati, on March 18, while the Chief Officer, the Hon. Mr. E. D. C Wolfe, C.M.G. was pleased, to ebmmand Sub-Offeer Lam Hung Kea for the work he performed on the above occasion. ...

(a) His Excellency the Gover petest policeman than one, who

find. To the south of Amman they nor was pleased to commend high- sends a great part of his time

have discovered largo cavos con- ly Assistant Station Officer J. W. bringing casts of a trivial nature

taining potsherds, figurines and before the magistrates. Under our

other relica of the Prehistoric and local system an offcer may be placed: in a very painful dilemma when

Two celebrities visited London Bronze ages. The walls bear inscrip the end of the month approaches inst month, First there was Ship- tione and drawings resembling the and the caso book is depressingly wreck Kelly." It is he who does Assyrian. A Beduin tribo, not large Either he must face a jolly things like sitting on flag in numbers, but rich, was also severe and awkward questioning, poles on the top of skyscrapers, found. They are all tall, fair and or, to satisfy his superior; he brings and has sat continuously in water blue-eyed and have no Semitic to the charge-room offenders whom for 31 days. Can you think of features. Remarkable ruins, includ he would normally dispose of with better way of preparing for the ing well-preserved 20-feet high a few words of warning. English climate Then there was walls, were discovered on the site. On the other hand the control of Timini John Avery, "King of the of the ancient Babylonian town of a police foret, consisting of a large Stowaways," who recently left Almógrube. proportion of Indians and Chi- Durban on bis 101st stowaway nese, some of whom are not very voyaga. Timiai John, besides have well educated, and to all of whoming a glorious name, seems to be British ways and standards are the only true Apostle of Economy. novelty and a puzzle, presents Cannot he be lent to Germany or difficulties, and there can be very the Cabinet Committee on Econo littlo comparison between Hong my 1 Kong.and the London polles forces.

cd.

Air Grash Due to Typewriter?

Strength of Bail

The authorised strength of the Staff for the year 1930 whe as fol- lowa: 1 Chief Officer (Hon. 1.G.P.), 1 Superintendent, 1 Co- sulting Engineer (Asst: G.M.B.), 1 Inspection Officer, 2 Station Of cers, 4 Asst Station Officers, - 1 Mechanical Engineer, Asst: Me

Chinese-14 Sub-Officers; & Fore- men, 120 Firemen 35 Mo tor Drivers, 18, Ambulance At-

Clerks Other ranks. tendants, 3 Clerks, 10. Telephone

(b) Sub-Officer, Lau Tak Kwong Did a typewriter, carried on the was highly commended by the Ine- aeroplano cause the air disaster pector General of Police, Hon in which Lt. Cmdr. Glen Kidston Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. for lost his life? That such was the case is a suggestion made in the his praiseworthy conduct in secur- report of the Board of Inquiry ing the arreat of two snatch It is obvious, that out hero a definite Mosquitoos Go to Paris.

into the accident which occurred. check is needed on the activities

Southern and western parts of in the Drakensberg, Mountains in thieves, one on April 18 and one of the Indian and Chinese members Paris are suffering from a serious South Africa. After his record on June 28, 4: of the force Without their case invasion of mosquitoes: Paris has making fight to the Capo, Glen books they might tend to become way's been remarkably free from Kidston set out, with Capt, Glad far too easy going, but excessive these insect peats, which have for stone, on a lightning tour of South, 'real should always, be checked by experienced Europena officers and years been a nuisance in the Yer-Africa, and he came to grief in a in the lust reaort, by the magis sailles and St. Germain regions, violent storm. The Board of In- trates. But, when everything is con- where they flourish in the forests quiry draw attention to the fact and on the ponds. Persistent that the airmen carried a type sidered. there does seem something westerly winds, however, have made writer and other bulky luggage un unsatisfactory policeman, having. WHEN the head of a police force unanticio abbing like thank them formke these haunts in hun secured in a rack The type ports an increase of crime in boy when he member and the dreds of thousands, and doctors say writer, it is suggested, may have the district for which he is respon policeman's marks are expressed they are becoming acclimatised in become dislodged from the rack, incapacitating the in terms of arrest, Ines and im- the capital. They aro," a medical temporarily | Hundred ($1,200) à Month for the sible it is, on the whole, more prisonment. No sensible person authority states, becoming quite pilot while he was flying, at high. First Year, Dollars Ono Thousand

likely that morals and hunesty Engineer Three Hundred (81,300) a Month for

not appreciably worsened, but that fronting the Inspector General and Paris are being asked by the city carded, then the Board conclude authorities to report the arrival of that the crash was due to the fact his senior colleagues, and we all the Second Year, und Dollar One Thousand Four-Hundred ($1,410) ·n° the police themselves have been know that the Force has, in recent mosquitoes, so that their breeding-that the plane was heavily laden, Month for the Third Year. The

more active. There is therefore, no

limite years, made great strides in smart places may be found and eradicat although not above the safety, Exchange Value of the Dollar is at.

ness and eficiency, but at the same present fixed by. Government ated for misgivings when we learn 26. 4d. Free First Class Passage for from the most interesting and comtime, we hope that the Cane Book is only one of the many factors, and the Officer appointed and if married prehensive report of the Inspector-not the most important to be taken for Wife and Children up to Sir-Years

General of Police for the year into account, when delinquents are of Age. Agreement for Three Years:

1920-30 that there were an extra when promotions are being don- being reproved, and, still more, on Board's Usual Terms, Terminable

350 serious cases of crime, compared sidered. at Any Time within that Period at Siz Months Notice on Either Side. The

with the previous year, the figures. Board has a Provident Fund to which.

for the two years being respectively

Colonel F. Hayley Boll broke his the Officer must subscribe. Free

5,681 and 5,340. Minor cases went

callar-bone when out riding at Unfurnished Hou will be provided.

Shanghai on last Thursday morn- The Board carry on, under up from 13,500 10 19,200, a differ- Government authority, an Extensive

ence of 3,400, or nearly ten a day;

A council meeting of the Honging but he is making satisfactory business as Wharfingers and Ware-

Kong Football Association will be progress towards recovery. and one wonders how many of these ALTHOUGH small-pox is no longer held next Tuesday at 5.30 p.m., housemen, the Nett Registered Ton-

When the name of Iosef Naidus Looking Back 25 Years. N ange of Ships berthed at the Board's Prosecutions were what a theologian that it once was, it is still a discase, repondence with the English was called yesterday morning to A correspondent of the Hankow the scourge to the civilised, races when, among other business, cor Wharres for the Year ended 3uth would call works of supererogation to be dreaded. Every discovery Football Association will be con

answer a charge of entering, the Daily News showed some ingenuity June, 1980, was 10,127,821 tons and

or good works beyond whas that will tend to prevent. it or to sidered.

Colony without a proper passpor in the following paragraphs;— there was no answer and the police Stour, stifling, selling streets, the Grand Total Tonnage of General

is required" on the part of check its virulence is therefore Cargo and Conl Inwards and Out

officers, concerned. There are two

welcomed by both the medical pro Suffering from injuries received office in chargo of the case, Ser-sweating skins, saturated shirts, geant Mottram, asked that bail of show summer's sunshine scorching wards for the same period was

fession and the members of the

through falling into a quantity of 3,219,415 tons. In addition the

opinions among theologians, about public, Tho, latest to be reported burning 1088 paper, a boy named 8100 which had previously been lyuch stenchy street sure to granted to the defendant, be con- secure some, scavengers: Streetstalla Board operates Five Graving Docks; the value of works of supereroga is one made, by investigators who Lam Eai, aged 5 of 11, Choung fiecated. Naidus claimed at an aolling sticky sweeties soordely podza ranging from 896 feet to 896 feet in.

are working under the auspices of MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. length, together with a Ship Repairing tion, and no doubt senior police the Medical Research Council. Ac Sha Wan Road, was taken to the earlier appearance in Court that sanitary; still, small scamps show Members are Notified that they Business, The Workshop attached to

officers also differ on the principle,cording to a report by Dr. JAMES Kowloon Hospital for treatment, he had lost, his passport in Can-sublime satisfaction serenaly quick- ton, and the case was adjourned king such seducting saccharing sup- and their Ladies must Wear their the firaving Docks are capable of as applied to the subordinates. We CRAIGIE and Professor W. JAMA

An Alsatian dog belonging to for a week to enable him to find oplies. Sinking sensations summe- Badges prominently displayed.

executing the heaviest ship repairs have already in this column called TULLOCH, published by the Council,

flocculation reaction" can be Mr. Williams of all for obser the passport me anddenly seize sun-scored attention to the time and money obtained in the case of small por, was taken to Mataukok for obser

suttiers; substantial wigging soon vation after it had bitten: Yim When Inspector Cuff entered a somewhat supplement auch anggings expended in making hawkers obey

as in certain other infections.

The new discovery may have far- Kaw, aged 11 of 3, Pilkom Street down, train from Canton at Fani-pirits. Boft abadows sucosed Bug the proper code of regulations, and reaching results na regards the on Tuesday The lad was removed ing and asked one of the passenggesting sleep. Sweet plumber toon there is more than a suspicion that rarly diagnosis of smallpox and to the Kowloon Hospital for treaters on the train for his ticket, the chattered! Such auperfluous sɔands, siteman replied that he was a cadet startling screeches, shouts, singing, the hawkers often play, to native the more effective prevention of ment," vys

this infection. Hitherto there have been

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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

HE INAUGURAL RACE

THE MEETING will be held

(Weather Permitting) at the AERIA PRETA, MACAO on SUNDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER, 1981, commencing at 1.80 MGA

The First Bell will be rung at 1r..

No one without a Badge will be Candidates should be between 85 and admitted to the Members' Enclosure. 40 Years of Age, have Firat Rate Badges admitting NON-MEM-Technical Experience, have handled a BERS to the Members' Endlosure at large stad and labour force, and have $1 each are obtainable through the Secretary upon introduction by a

Member.

Members can obtain upon applica Lion to the Beretery Badges (limited to two) for the free admission to the Members Enclosure of Wires, Lady Eelativer and Friends.

Refreshments will be obtainable in the Enclosure,

but

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of admission to Pablio Enclosure in 20 Conta,

STEAMERS.

had considerable executive experience, and should possess pronounced business and organising abilities. Applications are to be addressed to the CHAIRMAN SINDATORE HARBOUR BOARD.

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ANTI-SMALLPOX DISCOVERY.

Local Notes and Events

Two cases of typhoid fever were reported on Tuesday,

from the files.

police officers, the role of the unbeen confusing variations in the A service in memory of the travelling to Hong Kong. He had starting shall stop teribbling. bappy oysters to a famous wairus symptons of the disease. A serious Master, Dock and Engineer Officers of literature. Howkers must be case of small por may be almost in- of the sa Kwongsang, who were distinguishable from chicken pox lost at sen on August 10, will be held kopt in order, but the great in and receivo inappropriate treat at St. John's Cathedral, on Tues. crease in offences against small fryment, and the discovery of a de day September 8, at 5.30 p.m. The generally inevitably suggests that finite laboratory test for the condi- officiating alergyman will be the AN ATTRACTIVE EUROPEAN the petty offender is being used and therefore or red import Rev. G. T. Waldegrave

ance,The serum prepared has also not controlled by a certain number of the police Much of the trouble

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RESIDENCE at TAIPO.

the Situated South of Hallway between

been found to have marked immunis The cases fixed for yesterday ing possibilities, and there seems afternoon to be taken before Mira a likelihood that it will confer W. Schoßold and Mr. E. IL VI

of Canton who had no intention of surely seem and Steamor som intended to get off at a point called The sibilant sentences are suggestive Cheung Muk Tau from where he in spots of Hong Kong Hong could proceed to Walchow by bus. Kong Daily Frett, September 3, He was unable to substantiate his 1906,

aim that he was a cadet and de when charged before Mr. Fraser at Looking Back 50 Year

The training school for Chinese to was fined 810 or in, default, two Kowloon Magistracy yesterday he weeks' hard labourbe employed for teachers of English will be opened to-day, and will for the present be amalgamated wi

Tairo and TAIPO MARKET STATION seems to arise from the fact that immediate protection, without any liam af Central Magistracy were pleased to make the following pro the Government School at Wanch every police officer, both European risk, on persons brought into con both postponed owing to the visional appointments from the 1st The establishment of such sch and Asiatic, is given, on joining tact with smallpox cases, and even typhoon The case against Kong inst Mr. Alfred 3. May to he has been decided on at the sagge the Hong Kong Force, a record

put a final chook on a caso if it is Fie Yick and Leo Arthur principal of the Governmenttion of Dr. Eithel The Secre book, wherein must be entered full just beginning. Further, the serum Guimaraes in connection with Normal School. Mr. Wong Kim of State has also ordered that produced line the power of prevent the alleged fraud of 67,000 Lan to be assistant master of the Bitel shall henceforth inspect and complete details of every case ing the ordinary vaccine virus from from Chinees newspaper Government Normal School. Afy annually examine the Cen with which he is to any material causing the inflammation and ulcers editor was down for hearing, G. Caldwell to be an assistant School: The followin tion of the skin without intefezing but owing to the absenon of Mr. master' in the Government Central appears in the Caret cellengy the Goveror extent connected. Each entry must any way with its potency and Whyte Smith for the Crowny Rehnot long Long-Du

-(Continued on previous Column.). W the case was put back until today, September 21881- bear the signature of the constable's immanising agent

containing 8 Reception Rooms and 4 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, English The 8.8. ATAISHAN will Leave Bath Atted with Hot and Cold Water, Hong Hose at 9.4., returning from Flush Water-closes, Fitted for Macao at 6 r.M

Electric Light, Hard Wood Floors, Conveyances will be obtainable at Lawa,ute, 30, the MACAO, WHARY.

For further particulars, apply SUPERINTENDENT OF CROWN- TANDE PVDE DISTRICT OFFICER, NORTH,

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