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BURGLARIES.

UGGESTIONS FOR THEIR

PREVENTION.

There is some uneasiness feltin the Colony at present as a result of the recent serios of successful burglaries. On the question of how to prevent such burglaries an expression of opinion has been of given us by the manager Messrs. J. Uliman and Co. the jewellers. By a stroke of good fortene, this firm has escaped so far from the attentions of the burglar, probably the only firm such af jewellers enjoying immunity.

Asked as to the circumstances to which he attributed this im- munity, Mr. Goldsmidt said: **Touch wood, you never know. scared, exactly Ar not but I do not feel quite at

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"Have you complete confidence in the Police ? queried the interviewer.

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Certainly, I have. The Police do their best to help us. They cannot do everything. In the. first justance, they have defend lives and not properties. I do not see how the Police come into this question. You just walk' from, say, the Queen's Dis- pensary up to "the American Express Company's offices, which is about 200 yards, and you will find 20 watchmen employed every night within that area. How then is it possible that robberies still occur, with 20 live watchmen about? I cannot understand why this battalion of watchmen is not properly organised. In a porting spirit I come down sometimes at three o'clock in the morning and find, as a rule, all the watchmen sleeping at the

same time. If they are awake it is by accident. They seem un- concerned when any burglares take place at their neighbours' shops. A watchman will tell you that it is no business of his if his neighbour's store is burgled. would suggest that these watch men be organised so that a watch man will be a sort of night guard

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The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., launched yester- day from their Kowloon Docks) who has lately taken it upon the steel single screw steamer himself to criticise that hard-War Sceptre," of the "B" class working and badly-paid body of two-deck standard type, built to men, the shipping people? Is he the order of the Shipping Con- an ordinary profiteering shiptroller, London. The "War owner, is be an ex-seafaring Sceptre" is the fourth vessel of

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per hour. second, let him keep quiet and The dimensions are 400 B. P. hide his shame. Fortune is 52 Mld. x 31' Mid. Tween ader Folice supervision "ard fickle, and he may one day decks 90 high.

The gross control. If for every ten yards find himself forced to again tonnage is 5,100 tons and there is a watchman, as at pre-associate with the" rejects" etc-tonnage 3,300 tons.

he sent, I think that would be If, however, belongs to The "War Sceptre" was grace- suficient as far as watching goes. the third category, I would advise fully christened by Mrs. S. H. The sooner these gentry are him to avoid mixing in disputes Dodwell organised the better."

about which he knows nothing. "Rejects, "fcrsooth! "Ajax," who- has about as much sense as his namesake, had better follow his example and pass out" in a similar manner.

What do you think about the recent barglaries?" asked the interviewer.

"That's a very hard thing to answer. Jewellers' shops bare always been, in all parts of the world, an attraction to the burglar. Jewellers are at a disadvantage. {

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As regards the recent rob- Hongkong, Dec. 17, 1919.

beries, the jewellers are not

blame, nor the police

nor anybody that I am Aware of"

"But how can these burglaries be prevented?

"I can offer & few suggestions, some of which have already been Applied. There should be lights in all the shops, giving an view from outside to easy inside so that person outsider can see what happens inside."

Anything else?"

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"Certainly.Just pass along after 11 p.m. and go under the arcades of the shops and you will find.

them dark. Why do not the authorities light them? Most of the burglaries have happened under the arcades of shops. I am also of opinion that there should be policemen in uniform at night in the business quarter of the Colony, Having detectives in plain clothes prowl- ing about at night may be all right to catch thieves. but we do not

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to catch actual thieves but to prevent them from doing and thieving. Having policemen in uniform on duty in the carly mornings and at night would serve to frighten the robbers and burglars away. There would also be ma excuse for the waichman to Bay

ho that could see not a policeman in order to report any occurrence Nobody should be allowed to sleep under the arcades or in the alley ways. This should be stop- ped immedately, whether they are watchmen or not."

"Have you ever needed the help of the Police ?"

Some two years ago I did, when. I missed a padlock one morning. That was a few months before the Falconer robbery, but I have to acknowledge

that the Police gave me every help and advice. One sugges- tion they made was to light my. shop at night, which until then I did not do. In fact, I have always found the Police very hard-working and trying to do their best. It is impossible for people to sleep in their establishments. Consequently, we have to leave our stores entirely in the hands of more or less watchless watchmen.”

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