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LONDON CRIME Sarawak

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motimed by his wife and Sir P. Game Defines|

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HONG KONG, AUGUST 10, 1938.

Causes

EASY ACCESS TO

NEW HOUSES

Ruler Is

Annoyed

The only white Eajah in"the world. Sir Charles Brooke, ruler of over 10,000 miles of territory and a population of 500.000 Malay. Dynks, and other for- mer head-hunting tribes, is annoyed because his three daughters have been described as Princeshes.

An increase of more than 8,000 todictable crimes in the London area during 1937 is disclosed by Sir Philip Game, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, in his annual report published recently,

In a letter to the press, in which Contributory causes of this in-he appeals for a stop to be put to

| crease are given as

the sensationalism that has sur-

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1938. HAILE SELASSIE WINS

Judge Feels He Is Placed In "Unfortunate" Position

Remarking, "I think it is unfortunate that the question (decld- ing the sovereign power in Ethiopia) has to be decided by a Jadge,” Mr. Justice Bennett, in the Chancery Division. London, recently gave judgment for Haile Selassie, with costs, in his action against Cable and Wireless, Ltd., for €10,613'claimed under an agreement for & radio-telegraph service between Addis Ababa and Great Britain.

The company did not deny that be decided by a Judge, for, in de- the money was due to whichever clding it, it is impossible to avold was the sovereign power in Ethio-expressing an opinion on a claim plz. and this the Italian Govern-made by a foreign State not a ment claimed to be

party to the proceedings." Mr. Justice Bennett had · pre- Stay of execution for 21 days rounded his family for some time.viously held that he had no juris-was granted with a view to an ap

diction to decide what the rights peal. of Haile Selassie were, and made "Although the report about the lan order staying all further pro- The need for drafting large rela-fantastic, publicity of my two

ceedings in the action. forcements of police to certain youngest daughters having an areas to deal with political de- undesirable effect upon the natives monstrations, thereby denuding of my State somewhat ex-

aggerated. other areas.

Easy access to houses on modern he states:--- building estates; and,

Crimes totalled 92,192, compared with 83,777 in 1936. The number of cases in which proceedings were taken was 20.202, an increase o 1,868

The total of 92,192 is divided as follows:

Preventable crimes "which come or may come within the range o

DISCRIMINATING police supervision," 38.705. against

METHODS

THE JAPANESE

35,787:

Detectable trimes "which the police can do little or nothing to

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I may as well mention that It is of constant annoyance la the natives and myself that my daughters should be refer- red to as "princesses."

"This title is a pure fabrica- tion of the press, a slogan which has been used and misused, until not only our country but every country in the world is heartily sick of the sound of Sarawak.

"I wish to state definitely here and now that none of my daugh-

"Before they married their

In order to prevent," 53,487, against 47,990 ters are princesses. systematize and perpetuate a preferential treatment for their own shipping and other commer-

methods.

miet

assurances

'CARELESS OWNERS

"As has been often said, opper- tunity produces crime. Houses and flats with doors that can De pushed open or left with windows unfastened or easily unfastenable, unlocked cars

christened.

"UNDIGNIFIED"

"We have done our best to try and put a stop to the statements which have been" pouring in from California and New York, but we are helpless in the hands of this undignified sensationalism some "people make use of publicity.

that

as

BOMBSHELL TO BOTH SIDES

LIBEL ACTION IS SETTLED Settlement was announced to Mr. Justice Hawke in the King's. Bench Division London of a libel action by Halle Selassie · against

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Halle Selassie appealed, and at the Evening Standard Company. the hearing of the appeal it was Ltd. stated that Mr. Justice Bennett's Mr. G. U. Slade (tor Haile Selas- decision "came as a bombshell" to ste) said that the libel complained. both sides.

of was published in the earlier editions of the Evening Stan- dard on May 28.

The appeal was allowed, and the Master of the Roils, in giv- Ing the judgment of the Court, referred to the appellant as "His Majesty Haile Selassle the First Emperor of Ethiopia."

The action was sent back to Mr. Justice Bennett to decide whether the defendants were liable to pay Haile Selassie.

JUDGE EXPRESSES DOUBTS

In the course of the article the writer stated that one. Ras Hailu, had intrigued with Musso- lini. and that the Emperor Halle

There were other passages. Mr. Slade continued, to which the Emperor took exception. but his Lordship would appre- -clate the surprise and indigna- tion with which the Emperor saw the statement, In view of the fact that a similar libel appeared in an issue of the Evening Standard of Septem- ber 7. 1936.

The defendants, he said, had

Mr. Justice Bennett said that he apologised and agreed to make a" had now to decide whether the substantial payment to the Em- Plaintiff was entitled to judgment peror.

It was held by the Court of Ap-Selassie had cus off the feet of one peal that there was no rule of law of his nephews who intrigued with that deprived the plaintiff of his Ras. Haflu. right to make his claim here," and that the fact that the King of Italy who was not a party to the proceedings, had put forward 2. "A rise in the number of indieta-names were Miss Leonora Margaret claim to the money by asserting cial interests on the China coast, ble offences," writes Slr, Philin Brooke, Miss Elizabeth Brooke, and that it was vested in him, did not

Miss Nancy Valerie Brooke. At affect the position. are employing discriminating "would seem to indicate either a least that is. what they were! PUBLIC AUCTION

lowering of the standard of honesty for an increased general careless- The policy pursued is largely one PARTICULARS AND CON. of pin prieks. Restrictions are im-ness in the protection of property.

and or more probably both combined. DITIONS of the Sale by Public posed, delays are enforced

facilities are withheld On the Auction to be held on Monday, aimlest prétexts of military exigen- the 15th day of August, 1938, at 3 cies. Protests, when not ignored. with applogles and PARTICULARS AND CONp.m., at the Offices of the Public are

whose chronic non- DITIONS of the Sale by Public Works Department, by Order of

fullment augurs i for that, im- Auction to be held on Monday, His Excellency the Governor of

with suitcasts. "and rugs in provement in Anglo-Japanese re- the 15th day of August, 1938, at 3 one Lot of Crown Land at Stanlations so eagerly desired by the them, unchained bicycle lean- p.m., at the Offices of the Public ley Beach, in the Colony of

ing against the wall, all these make Works Department, by Order of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years,

for things easy

the criminal. His Excellency the Governor afwith the option of renewal at a

"There seems to be some just-1 ane Lot of Crown Land at Tai Crown Rent to be fixed by the trol over its military and naval teation for the conclusion that the Hang Road, in the Colony of Hong Surveyor of His Majesty the commanders in China; that these"

is becoming acquisitive lastinet Kong for a term of 75 years, with KING, for one further term of 75 commanders in their turn cannot stronger than the urge to honesty. with certainty impose their will-statistics of juvelle crime appear the option of renewal at a Crown

years.

particularly in political matters Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor

to support this conclusion, as the Intending bidders are advised on the more extreme of their! percentage of arrests of persons of His Majesty the KING, for on

that immediately after the dis-junior officers; and finally, the dis-up to 20 years of age shows a pre- further term of 75 years.

posal of the lot the purchaser Cipline maintained throughout the gressive increase."

Japanese armed forces on the Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will

Japanese Government.

The facts of the matter are, of

course, that the Cabinet in Tokyo has a somewhat precarious con-

"I would be extremely ob- liged if the gentlemen of the press would realise once and for all that there are no such people as Princess Gold, Pria- cess Pearl, and Princess Baba, but that I have three daugh ters whose names

the Countess of Inchcape, Mrs.

and Harry Roy,

Mrs. Bob Gregory."

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are

DAUGHTERS' WEDDINGS

for the agreed sum. The defen dants had never disputed Hability and wished to pay what they owed to whoever was entitled to receive 1-"But I doubt whether they can safely pay the plaintif" his Lord- ship said.

Polish Himalaya Expedition

mountaineers

Are

re- count of the large number of simi- lar foreign applications, "but the Government proposed that the expedition should take place next. year.

Did the fact that the Italian

Polish Government had been and was re- cognised by the British Govern- making preparations for an ment as the de facto Government Expedition to the Himalayas, of Ethiopia vest in the Italian The Polish High Mountain Club. Government the right to sue for has applied to the Government of and recover in the English courts Kashmir for perinission to carry...‚'

the a debt formerly due to and re- out

expedition. Permission Sir Charles's eldest daughter, coverable by the plaintiff as Sover was refused for this year on ac- Miss Leondra, Margaret Brooke elgn of Ethiopia, who was (if not. the applicart), will | mainland 'is of such poor quality Housebreaking figures show that married the Earl of Inchcape in cognised by the British Govern- be required to deposit with an that ultra-nationalistic prejudices 66 per cent. of the total occurred 1933.

ment as the monarch de jure? Miss Elizabeth Brooke's wedding authorised officer who will be pre-inflamed by anti-foreign-and pre-in six of the 26 police divisions.

The point had not been sent at the sale, the sum of two dominantly

covered by English Judicial anti-British propa- Broadly, they cover the areas into Mr. Harry Roy, the dance band

authority, and he had to der be required to deposit with a hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. ganda do not appear to have been which housing estates are being leader, took place in 1935, and the laid out most rapidly, and to dance band leader composed 3

elde whether it was the law of authorised officer who will be This sum will be refunded on

which communications" by road tune, "Sarawaki," in her honour.

England that the plaintiff, re- « Miss Valerie Brooke. then 21 present at the sale, the sum of

| payment of the purchase price.

cognised by His Majesty's Gov- THE EXISTENCE of this state of and rail are most highly developed

years of age, married Mr. Bób two hundred dollars, ($200) in

affairs is proved by the accu- "Easy communications tend to

all-in wrestler, at

erament as the de jure Em- Gregory, the cash. This sum will be refunded PARTICULARS OF THE LOTmulated evidence of a year's mal-facilitate housebreaking in these

Marylebone Register Office last peror of Ethiopia, had lost the practise based on "force majeure." districts

right to recover on payment

a debt due year. notably many places,

as thieves," states the report.

to him in this country because There have been reports from Shanghal the Japanese treated

the country in which he once The report notes that a high America recently that she is plan- foreign property with a commend-proportion of shopbreaking and ning a new country in the Duten

ruled had been conquered by able degree of consideration so long housebreaking is the work of local East Indies to be called "Baba-

Italian arms, and because the as fighting was actually in progress juveniles. In one typical division land."

British Government recognised but when the tide of 30 per cent of the arrests for

that that counity, or the JAPANESE hostilities had receded. housebreaking

of were

greater, part of it, was now ruled by the Italian Govern- ment,

price.

of the Purchase

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

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Registry No.

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Inland Lot

dioiting Inland Lot No. 3564. Tai Hang

No. 5330.

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Rural Boilding Lot | Registry No. orth of and adjoining No. 4'2.

Rural Building Lot No.

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303

13,350

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The expedition will consist of a few men with equipment reduced to a strict minimum, in contract to the large personnel and elabor- ate equipment or most previous" Himalayan expeditions.

Members of the same Moun- tain club have already accom- plished some daring ascents in the Andes, in South Amer- £8, where they

several hitherto ..peaks.

conqu.red unscaled

The Rajah'a position as

Preparations for the present people Ruler is a romantic one.

expedition have already been com- the Japanese saw their under 18, and 60 per cent, under 20. He succeeded his father, Sir

pleted down to the last detalls.. chance and showed, by

were even higher,

Charles, in 1911, the first. Rajah

They have been made under"¡the degrees, their hand.

Giving Judgment for Haile direction of a Polish mountaineer "Some experienced police of being Sir James Brooke, who was The threadbare plea! of military necessity still-nearly cers." remarks Sir Phillip. "are in- made Ruler of Sarawak, in 1839 by Selassie, with costs. Mr. Justice well known abroad--M. Bernad- nine months after the Chinese clined to attribute, the increase of the Sultan of Borneo in gratitude Bennett said "I think it is un- fortunate that the question has to armies withdrew from Shanghai-crime among the young to the for his suppression of a rebellion. debars foreignera from resuming removal of many of the unpleasant their lawful vocations in Honigkew consequences which previously fel- 6186 and Yangtsepoo, both part of the lowed detection." He adds that

| International Settlement.

perhaps the most fertile cause is

: OPIUM FOUND.

AT RAILWAY STATION

INTERFERENCE

:

Hotel For Malaya's "French" Resort

Port Dickson, chief' sea-side resort in the Federated Malay. States. rendezvous for holidaying planters, will become Malaya's first sea side town with a hotel.

Sixty miles from Kuala Lumpur, twenty from Seremban, 150 from Singapore, Port Dickson, once a fishing village, is now a populous holiday spot and boasts some of the most beautiful villas on the Ma- layan sea front:

zikiewise.

Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader or the last British Everest Expedi- tion. recently gave a lecture in Warsaw before ୫ large Polish audience in which he described

his own experiences during his three expeditions to the Himalay-

THIS OLD LADY WAS NOT SO SHY

Little old lady passing by. Seemed so sweet and so shy.

Mrs. Jimeyfeld entered the bank...

In other parts of occupied China, the lack of employment. arbitrary interferences on similar

BIGGER FORCE lines with foreign rights continues, and representatives of corporations Other points from the report are: Police Statistics. Uniformed and large finan- cial institutions Branch: Out of an establishment WITH FOREIGN are not permit of 18.271, the strength at the end The Kowlcon-Canton Raliway

RIGHTS.

ted to visit or of last year was 17,733. CID. Station is receiving the, especial |

inspect their strength, 1,153;

establishment. attention of Revenue Officer E. T. properties. It is interesting, in this 1,165. Women police strength, 96: Warden In search of drug-connection, to

note that while establishment, 143. de (Middle School for Chinese Boys) traffickers.

Great Britain is usually, by virtue Discipline.-300 officers punished Sea and shore at Port Dickson | Also it is one of the richest of the At the Kowloon Court yester of her greater stake, the principle for defaults, against 246 in 1936. 17 European residents say, bear a smaller towns. Malaya's wealthy Mrs. Ira Jimeyfield, aged 75, was day, before, M1. Barnett, wore sufferer, the conspicuous post-War dismissed or required, to resign. striking resemblance to Juan-les- miners, rubber estate owners, have shopping in a street at Farming- The New School Year of the Wah, and Kwok Chu. who had revival

of German trade που Middle School will begin at Stan tried to smuggle two taels and 19 suffers from disabilities which net-Vehicles now 568, up by £6. In Pins, famous South of France hell-built houses in the district acquitton, Michigan, when she heard a ed property which will fetch high noise coming from a bank across Jey, on September 5th.

facis of prepared oplum respec- ther the letter nor the spirit of the out-lying districts motor-cycles are day resort.

has replacing bicycles.

The possibility of making Port prices in the land market today. the road. tively, into the Colony, were sen- Anti-Comintern Agreement There will be an examination tenced to two months' hard labour been able to modify.

Traffic-Accidents do not in- Dickson the leading holiday sea With modern hotel in the

two bandita who shouted crease in proportion to the increase side resort in Malaya is visualised vicinity property values will go up saw for new students on September and six months" hard labour. The

in the number of vehicles,

in the annual report of Mr. J. V. still higher; Port Dickson will be "everybody He down." 3rd, at 9 a.m.

Over a year's experience has

Cowgill, Resident of Negri Semcome a refuge for Malayans during To conceal the oplem they had shown that there is a certain

bilan, in which he draws attention blistering August. The Preparatory School (In tried a parcel of salt fish, a baskeamount of truth in the fact that Chinese) will re-open on Septemor dried vegetables. ber 5th, at 9.30a.m.. when Parents are requested to bring NEW ASSOCIATION their children.

The Chinese War Time Student For Prospectuses apply to Mr. Groups Association of Hong Kong Fung Man Sui or Mr. Chan Pak will be inaugurated this month. Luk, Messrs. Harry Wicking, The object of the Association is to promote learning and mutual Prince's Building, (Tel. 30241) understanding. All Chinese col. orto

lege students as well as middle

DEATH OF M.P. school students are requested to ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

become members of the Associa

London, August 8. tion, and the place for registration Captain R. C. Bourne, Conserva- 15 at the Chinese Evening News tive M. P. for Oxford. died in Lon-

don today (Reuter)," from 2 to 6 pm.

STANLEY

6167

alternative Anes are 880 and $350.

considerable jealousy and intrigue exists Internally among the Japanese fighting forces on the one hand and Tokyo on the other, and

RUBBER COMMITTEE

td the opening there of a small hotel.

Beautiful, sheltered bay at the 8th mile will be the sitna-. tlon chosen for the hotel. Gov- ernment is prepared to consi- der a lease of this land to any applicant who could show that he had satisfactory plans for the development of a hotel on this site. N

SWT

MANCHU GOODWILL

MISSION

Two employers of the bank lay down while the bandit scooped £300 cash from the counter.

But Mrs. Jimeyfield did not Ile down.

And when one of them tried to seize her she gave him a Shanghai, August 9. kick. Then a hard smack The Manchurian amity und

The two robbers fed leaving economic mission, which is travell-hundreds of notes lying on the

AGREEMENT

London, August 9. it is not infrequent that one hides The Chairman of the Interna- behind the other but the final tional Rubber Regulation Com responsibility rests ·with the mlitee announces that a con- Japanese Government.

tracting Governments, who were

the- parties to the agreement for regulation of production" export of

Police, belleve the two were. rubber, have accepted the Com-Bix hundred Ashermen Malay

The delegation consists of eight notorious Middle West bank rob- mittee's recommendation regarding and Chinese. Five in thatched huts. the continuation of the regulation at Port Dickson, make it one of the Japanese, nine Manchurians, one bers.

Said Mrs. Jimefield; "Is that so! for five years after December 31, most picturesque of Malaya's Mongol and one Korean (Trans-

and went on shopping.. 1938-(Reuter).

towns.

ing to Italy, Germany and Nation-counter.

Mrs. Jimeyield ran after them alist Spain on board the Terukun!" Mara, arrived in Shanghai yester-but they escaped. day

Ocean).