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FALSE PROMISE

OF WORK Unemployed Sent

To Prison

Sentence of alx months' hard la- bour was imposed on Hung Chan, aged 50, unemployed, by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon. Magis tracy yesterday when he appeared on various charges of obtaining money from six woman,

It was alleged that defendant demanded Afty-cents from each of the complainants saying that he would find employment for them at the Canton Rubber Factory.

On Monday defendant met the were eager to get women who

further work, and demanded a dollar from each, saying that they would have to buy a badge. He then took the women to Hong Kong saying that he had to speak to a friend about their posts. When they reached the Central

1937.

STUDIES OF NATURE

For The Young Amateur

(BY ACWO)

When we were very young 'we used to play a delightful game called "I Spy." We generally play- ed it when we went out for walks. and strange to say we have dis- covered that the boys and girls of to-day still play that same old game with equal pleasure.

It is played like this,"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C.-We are on the seashore, so I is not very difficult, and yes you have guessed right. the very first time, it is

CRABS

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pope down again like lightning when he sees you (or your shadow) and you have to wait a bit longer.

EYES LIKE PERISCOPES Presently you will see his two eyes emerge ilke periscopes, follow- ed by about half a crab, he is still only half out of his dug-out. and ready to disappear again if you so much as breathe,

At last he makes up his mind you are harmless and decides to get to work ugain. Then you will see him come up rather awkward- ly, for in two of his back legs he clutches a neat ball of sand. He stops at the edge of the hole and with a violent jerk he kicks the ball away, so that it rolla Into position pattern of

among the fan-shaped balls already placed. Then down he goes to dig up more sand.

Queer creatures,-Crabs,-Cruel, ruthless, timid, industrious, comical, according to place occupation

There are the big and terrifying crabs to be found down among the South Sea Island. Crabs

that Fire Station building, he asked the come up the beach at night to complainants to wait outside.

tear and devour anything that He went through the bullding comes their way. "Woe betide the and emerged from the other en-foolish person who falls asleep on trance and went home to pack his a hot night on the sands; when belongings ready to abscond. A that crab army comes marching man who was also "staying with up in the dark he will have to fly hand front nipper like chopsticks, so wet. He uses his right- defendant and the complainants, for his life, and with some nasty

With It he scoops up sand, and and who had knowledge of the wounds to show for his careless-shovels 11 with incredible dexterity transaction, detained defendant ness. till the women returned, and then took him to the Mongkok Police Station.

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Then there are the clever and amusing land-crabs of Ceylon." They think nothing of going up a tree after coconuts; when they And a nut they deftly nip the stalk until it falls to the ground. when they scuttle down after it to make a delicious meal, which they do by inserting a daw into the spongy patch at the base of the nut. and scooping: when they have got enough room they get the claw well inside, and crack the nut.open. "

But these crabs are very different from the merry little fellows you and on Hong Kong beaches, so let's go off to Repulse Bay and have a look at them.

Hard work 1 should say, and pre- sently he feels hungry and decides to knock off for tiffin. Up he

up the beach where the sand. is comes and begins to search higher

not

into his mouth. I said SAND, since he certainly swallows a good deal and it probably helps digestion, bus what he really wants is as many as possible of these, auc- culent ittle sand-fleas, and other microscopic insects to be found on the beach. all of which make a tasty meal.

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But he does not enjoy his feast for long: an unguarded movement of yours has sent your 'shadow across his path. He scents danger and makes for home-and here you will note that no matter how scared he may be he takes very good care never to go down an- other fellow's hole! Certain death would follow if he did, unless the AT RÉPULSE BAY

other fellow was smaller, (in But it is not the least use to go which case the dug-out would be there on Bunday afternoon when too tight a fit for him.). Sooner the crowd is about. Go early some than take refuge in the hole of morning instead, when the beach a bigger crab he will dodge up is quiet and the tide, is cut (for and down, trying to shake you on there is nothing doing in the crab- (if you are unkind enough to Alive and Well-Detective-Ser- tide goes out you will see little way to his own dug-out, until with lue, at high tide). But as the chase him.) Skilfully he works his geant John Fisher Scott (28); of crabs at work everywhere. Pale a whizz he pops "out of sight, the Hong Kong Police, whose as the amber sands on which they parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, live they ny for their lives as you balls Help. Every crab has his

Now this is where the sand Duke Street, Denny, received a approach. You can see them scat-own particular arrangement. The telegram from the Colonial Office teringin every direction like leaves greeny-yellow crabs with rather stating wrongly that he had died. blown by the wind. Even your ap-square-shaped Another telegram from the Under-proaching shadow, seems to scare untidy diggers and their holes' are,

are very Amoy Secretary of the Colonial Offee them horribly, and suddenly you corrected" the unfortunate error,

will rub your eyes and find that every single one has disappeared as if by magic! Nothing is left on the beach but a lot of holes (they look as if someone, had, pushed a walking-stick into the wet sand) with a lot of tiny sand-balls neatly arranged in a symetrical pattern, nearly.

REINCARNATION, OE

DALAI LAMA

Commission Confirms Report Of Discovery

The Mongolian-Tibetan Commis- ston in Nanking has confirmed the report of the finding of the reincarnated Dalai Lama

According to a telegram received by the Commission from Haining. the provincial capital of Chinghai (Kokonor), the party of 50 Tibetan priests in search of the reincarnat- ed Dalai Lama headed by Kesang- fu is now on its way from Taerhasu to Esining. where it is expected some time about July 25.

So, you must sit down and wait a while, and just when you begin to get impatient you will be re- warded by the sight of a crab pop ping up from his hole. But he

SINGAPORE TENNIS

FINAL

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According to the report, it is in

Yong Loon Chong beat N.S. Taerhasu that the 14th

Dalal wise (holder), 6-1, 6-1, in the final Lama, the new ruler of Tibet and of the Singapore.tennis champion- head of the Yellow Lamaism, was ship. Outplayed by Loon Chong's recently found.

RETIRING AGE

Provocative remarks on the quies- tion of retirement were made re- cently by Sir Reginald Stubbs, the retiring Governor of Ceylon, in the course of an after-dinner speech. | He said that a good deal of harm was done in. the Public Bervice by persons hanging on to positions of authority when they had reached the stage at which they should retire. That, he said, was the real reason why he himself was going away. He also added that he felt it was an advantage to himself to retire when he was still young j'enough to do some work in Eng-

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easily identified. They do not ball the sand, but bring it up in shapeless tumps, and chuck it away just anyhow! Not in the least like your little cream-colour-. led crab who has arranged his pretty balls in the shape of a fan.

I am glad he managed to reach home "safely, before you caught him, and I think we will leave him there till the tide comes up and foods him out again.

But the crabs Tlike best of all

are the Hermit-Crabs and I hope to tell you about them next week.

MR. EDWIN TONGUE

Mr

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Mr... Tongue spent most of his

time in England and Germany.

He told a Tribune representative anticipation and volleying. Wise on board that he had had a very won only one, game in the first pleasant time. He did not study set, the third. He was unfor- | any methods of crime detection tunate in being of form but he either in England or Germany kept to the baseline too much during his holiday.

and was continually caught out

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