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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

LONDON GANGS OF MOTOR THIEVES.

Master Afind Directing Operations.

Thefts of motor-cars and motor-cycles in London and the suburbs have become spidamic.

It is believed by the authorities that a number of gangs are at work in the metropolia. Thair. method is to study the habits of car-owners. The very first time a car is left unattended, perhaps, after several weeks' watching. thieves in waiting tako possession and drive off.

∙MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1947

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FROZEN FISH

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Messrs. Francis Dod and Co. Fillet Haddock

the City assessors, have been

instructed in no fewer than a

dozen cases of motor thafts dur Finnan

ing the last five days.

Cars are often recovered," said Captain Sandford Dod, "but the percentage is not so high as it might be.'

A USEFUL SYSTEM. Captain Dod explained a sys tem which has been adopted by his firm, and which has proved extremely useful in bringing thieves to book.

"Agents are sant our to inves- tigate cases of theft,

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When three Chicamen were charged as Pontypridd last month with landing in Britain without

of the missing car, postcards FORTUNES BY IMPORTING containing it are run, off on a CHINESE LABOUR. duplicator and sent to garage motor-Car dealer and police station within a wide area. "In one case our postcard was delivered at a garge in Wales jus}} half-an-hour before the missing car arrived. It was confiscated, and the thief given into custody. permission.

Mr. Bell of Messrs. Joba Wmagistrate said:- Bell and Co., assessors investigators for Lloyd's under- writers said that there are dozens of cases every week, many of which baffle the police.

owner's nose.

and

the

stipendiary

Behind the importation of these foreigners there is a capitalist boss, and a great amount of money is being given for securing the services of these men on the Pacifc Coast."

STOLEN FROM GARAGES. "Cars are often stolen from garages, and there are many

It was said that the men had experts in the art of driving away French passports issued at Mar- a valuable car almost under its seilles, and were sent to England on & Liverpool boat. The captain Mr. Bell regards unemployment of the vessel gave them each a in a measure responsible for the shilling, and they got another epidemic of ear stealing, and is boat to Cardiff. of opinion that a master mind,

On arrival at Cardiff they werS whose identity may not be known met by a Rhondda Chinese laun- to the actual thieves, directs the dry proprietor, and it was at the operations of the gangs.

laundry that they were arrested.

"A huge business of this sort,"

So serious has the growing list

THE BIG OPIUM SEIZURE ́AT SHANGHAL

Defendants Discharged..

The case following upon the re- cord seizure of $300,000 for more) worth of opium produced no ex- citement at the Mixed Court, Shanghai, 00. the 7th inst. Magistrale Li and Mr. Black- burn holding that the five prisoners (represented by M. J. em Lemiere atd Mr. G. D. Musso) who were stopped by the police, did not know what the cargo was and were innocently assisting in its removal. Ther were accordingly discharged, but the opium was confiscated. It as stated by the police that the man believed to be responsible for Fanning the

opium had absconded. Be wa

A night watchman at Watson's Mineral Water factory, and it had been ascertained that he ran a cargo through about a month pre- | viously.

Mr. C. Piens, manager of the of thefts become that the police said the stipendiary, is being factory, said that the lorry was have issued a special warning to/dons in British Columbia, and ken out without permission, and| owners of motor cycles and light certain Chinamen are making before the factory was supposed motors to take every precaution fortunes very rapidly by getting to be open. The chauffeur and

agains: the latest adopted by the thieves.

DEPOSIT, DEVICE.

methods young compatriots into

country."

this

A police inspector said agents were employed for the imporis tion of Chinese into England.

the two delivery coolies were amongst the defendants, but the other two, who said they were engaged by the man who had absconded, were not employed at

the factory.

Mr. Faithfull said that he had been instructed to inquire if com- pensation could be given to the informant who pat the police on

A favourite device is to reply to an advertisement offering a motor cycle for sale, to leave a

Three hundred Chinese dollars depositof, say, £10, while the cycle were paid for each man put on is taken for a trial spin, and then board a ship. -disappear.

Pending arrangements fox Another trick is to invite the their deportation, the Chinamen owner to ride with the prospective were remanded in custody for the track of the opiuma ranners. parchaser on the pillion during month. the trial spin. The thief flicks off - his cap when the two have gone some distance, and politely asks the owner if he would mind get ting it for him.

A WOMAN'S TROUBLES. Interesting Case In Ceylon.

The

Case

M.

at

If the unsuspecting passenger: Vitus as the patron saint of the does ao, he returns to find bis Fernande, wife of Mr. W. H.

of Mrs. E. cinema as if this were & general-cycle disappearing in a cloud of ly accepted article of faith in the dust. world of "movies." Scoffers may suggest that the flicker on thef

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CHINESE WILSON.

screer, and the curious action of "Chinese." Wilson, as he is people walking burriedly in film called--he is really Mr. E. H,

stationmaster Fernando, Sugegoda, on the Ceylon Govern- ment Railways, of especial

Here are the

After the birth of my son

interest to women.

facts as related by this lady-

It was understood that the Government had promised some such reward

The Assessor: In these opium cases there are always sharks about and I see there are three of

Bagish. I have not heard any them in Court to-day who speak

thing about this regulation, but I will make inquiries. the Anti-Opium Association, sup- Mr. Rawlinson, secretary of

ported the application. He said that the Government intimated that rewards would be given and the Association brought this to

tion serve to remind us of our with St. Vitus Dance appropriate. formerly a journeyman gardener very poor state of beat the notice of the Municipal Conn-!

debt to those famous men.

to my sex assailed me.

con-

il, with a request that it should I had be incorporated in the by-laws. backaches, People who gave information against opium smugglers did so at great personal risk and placed themselves in considerable iso- pardy. If rewards did not follow,

presidency of the British Associs with Fakes Dance association Wilson, a Birmingham man, and Denzil eight years ago I fell into

Bat, But long ago. some authorities at Kew Garden is one of those

Headaches troubled me for their laboricus days that great claimed him as the patron saint who have found that romance and institution, the National Physical of comedians and dancers. In adventure are still to be bad for tinually, other ailments peculiar Laboratory, would not have been Germany, in the 17th century, it the asking. As a result of four most unbearable able to play the supreme part in was a popular belief that good journeys into Western China in and became so depressed that my was enabled to play in the late health for a year was secured by the past 14 years, 3279

World's husband had difficulty in persuad- war. Sir Thomas's part was in bringing gifts to his image, and Work, he was doubled the naming me tren to go out for a walk itself memorable. He occupied dancing before it on June 15, his ber of distinct species of woody We consulted doctors and they for free years the post of festival. The Dance of St. Vitus plants capable of being grown were of opinion that my troubles information would not be avail- principal chemist, and paved the thus became a familiar phrase, outdoors in England; sent to the way towards those wonderful and gave its name to a nervous Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, were due to bloodlessness. developments which secured the national safety when the hour of trial came. Sir Thomas, at the

age of 76, still writes lelightful essays on scientific topics, and talks as well as he writes.

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Mr.

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The Assessor repeated that he. would look into the matter.

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My husband finally obtained Mass, (where they are now grow- ing), more different and distinct supply of Dr. Williams' pink pills for me in the hope of A palace in miniature has been trees and shrubs than are to be acquired by the purchaser of the found native in the cool, temperdition, and within two weeks alleviating my raiserable con- late Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's ate part of Eastern North house in Grove End-road, St. America; collected in the interior pills I felt a decided improvement including risks of dust and glare

from commencing to take-these

you can get for the hot season— John's Wood, which has just been of China within the last few years, My appetite began to revive and is a pair of Sir William Crookes

and successfully introduced into This slack holiday season for sold. Though not large, as some most people is the busy time for residences no, it cost the famous cultivation, more new plants than the pains in my back and loins Glasses the ideal guard from 1-asened in severity. My head-glare. There are two varieties one curious and rare profession artist £70.000, not including bis any other plaat-hunter.

Wilson is not yet 50, but in ad-aches also became less frequent of this glass: (a) A glass very Baye & Home journal. It is that own services, for he was of the expert who renovates the designer of the unique decore-dition to his Chinese travels, he and I began to take a more lively slightly tinted, of a pale amethyst has also searched Japan and interest in things about me. colour which looks almost colour- wax models on which drapers, house. The interior is a mona Korea with good results, and is Boon a healthy colour returned less. (b) A neutral tins which farriere, &c., display their wares for ladies. This being the month ment of beauty, a life-work of the now on a journey round the world.to my cheeks and I joined my cats down the glare as well as husband with pleasure in his absorbing the harmful rays. evening walks. In time all m Crookes lenses of any prescrip- when they are not the least re-great master, carried out in an quired, the shopkeeper calls in the infinite variety of styles and,

aches and pains left me, and I Rever

tion in either regular or Toric specialist, who repairs the ravages scenes. Sir Lawrence, in fact ence which the year's wear and the made his home a museum of studied. It belongs to the "long found myself fully restored to form are manufactured by thef

health." sumptuous marbles, luxurious house" period, and is said to

Hongkong Optical Co, Successoru asles bave wrought on the waxen furniture, Onyx windows, and messure a quarter of a mile along Dr. Williame pink pills are an to Clark & Co. Manufacturing beauties, replacing a lost finger precious hangings. In one room ite frontage, with a labyrinth of a ideal tonic for all nervous, weak and Refracting Opticians the nail or remodelling a damaged

was a beautiful grand piano which basement in which those of the blooded people, men and women most competent optical sau chin and restoring the complexion. cost its first owner. an American family who have penetrated have too. To-day is the best time to facturing establishment in Bosth Then his lady assistant redresses

millionaire, £10,000.

generally lost themselves very begin them. Of any dealer: Chins located in 53, Queen's the hair in the latest style. For

5000. If there is a longer house direct from Dr. Williams' Medi-Road Central. ste this complete renovation

in England it is. Kippar Park, cine Co. 96 Szechuan Road, model doctor charges a guines Wentworth Woodhouse, where whose builder had the one am. Shanghai, price $1.50 per bottle, ·OLD PURSE'S GOLDEN LINING. per figure, some of which cost as Lord Fitzwilliam entertained

Four hilf sovereigns were found bition of outdoing Wentworth, $8.00 for six bottles, post free. much as 250 each.

A communication from a film company refere casually to St.

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the asking.

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