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SATURDAY, OCTOBER. 1, 1927

DEALING WITH CRIME.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

DAY BY DAY.

1927.

of violence are concerned.

Shang-

hat has its daily tale of several arm- ed robberies, and frequent murders also fall to ba recorded by

AN, EXCUSE IS - WORSE 'AND MORE TERRIBLE THAN A LIE; FOR AN EX-

the local preas. There, the problem CUSE IS A LIE GUARDED-Pope... is complicated by the fact, that the port is of an international charac

The B.I..8.3. Tilawa is due here

ter, the foreign settlement im- from Amoy on Monday afternoon. There were two Chinese cases of pinges on a vast Chinese city sub-typhoid fever reported yesterday, ject to separate control (and that one being imported. not.of the best), and the turmoil in the country directly affects the population of the district. Much good work is, nevertheless, being done by the Shanghai police. deed, one cannot but assume that,

The names of Arthur Rowan, of 80, Peal Street, and Lawrance Arthur Jeeves, of A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. have been added to the In-local register of Chemists and

Druggists.

however great a crime wave may The master of cargo boat No. be in a city whore a police force 3186 was admitted to the Govern- exists, the conditions would be vast-ment Civil Hospital yesterday ly worse in the absence of such a suffering from injuries to his head which were received when he was force, or in the case of an actually struck by some heavy cargo which inferior personnel. And having was being loaded at Talkoo.

referred to the crime incidence in

Singapore and Shanghai, we may be permitted to give our own Colony a pat on the back. We have crime here, but not more than

H. E. the Governor has appoint- ed Lieutenant A. J. L. Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be his Aide- de-Camp, with effect from the 3rd July, 1927. He has also granted. the local rank of Captain to is normal for a seaport of our size Lieutenant Whyte, with effect from and importance. It is quite under-1st October. standable that, other cities should look to us for guidance in the way of upholding law and order in a heterogeneous population.

The Fun O' The Fair.

An armed robbery was com- mitted last night at No. 29, Wai Chung Street; Yaumati, five men entering the third floor where they threatened the only infaate, an old woman, with a knifThe woman was bound and he into a rear cubicle, after whithe robbers searched the house and went away with booty amounting to $222.60 in the shape of money, clothing and jewellery.

AN ANCIENT METROPOLIS.

Morning and Evening in Syracuse.

This fivefold city of Syracuse, other tradesman exhibits to a pur In anciens times the metropolis of chaser a pile of pale; buffcoloured the Meditarraucan, has dwindled, pottery, the fashion of which des down the centuries, as cities will conds evidently from Graeco-Roman but Ortygin, the only town remain daye. Fascinating, too, especially. ing of the tive, snugly packed upon when seen through and against sha its hill, between two harvours, is dow, are the cone-shaped heaps of still a place of bustling activity, golden orange, the rich bronze of delightful to wander in, on so bright dates, and the silver sheen of a Sicilian morning as this, when all onions, shining luminous in the half the world and his wife are abroad, light of the shop like a little galaxy marketing, or bound upon other 3 full moons through a clouded sky. lawful occasions.

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The streets themselves teem with They are narrow, these streets, movement, colour, sunshine and Partly, I suppose, for want of space sound. Pony traps rattle over the upon the promontory, and partly stones, drawn by steeds jauntily a nodding perhaps, to keep out something of bedecked, each with the sun, which. Inouga no more plume of red or blue upon his head, than pleasantly genial to-day, car and probably a yellow streamer be a fiery furnjeć.

hanging down from his ears, all of Since, moreover, gardens also them driven haphazard by swarthy, are crowded out, and Syracusans vociferous Sicilians, importunately must needs have a foot or tenger to take you to the Greek other than the street, upon which theater, or some other of the fur- to air themselves in the ucl of day famed sights of Syracuse, of night, that needful escape is found upon the balcony, which be

Flattened against the wall, to comes, in this way, the most characteristic and beautiful of Sy-let Jehu pass, I remain so, to give raeusan domestic architecture. passage to a procession of children this country is, addicted to pro- From house after house, and even from floor after floor, the sessions, a brilliant file of stream- in 50 the wake of which comes a harmoniously the line of frontage strident clamour, beating about my either side the way, that cars, and echoing from wall to wall stranger--for the love of them of the street. by All the genuine old balconies Maltese fishermen, from the har- finds himself bumping into passers-

modern imitations are built upon of the city-though not all the bour, in faded narrow-striped suits stone corbels, variously carved, in of yellow and white, bearing be Ionic horns, spirals,

tween them a great plaited basket acanthus, and leafage of all kinds of shining fish and pair of gleaming "Vascolini!" they mostly from classic

balconies project; breaking ing colour, rainbowbright,

imitated models.

curves,

Its authors are two sen-tanned

sent "Duce."

brass scales. are shouting, "Vascolini," as they go past a shop bearing the title, Flowers one sees, also, festoons "Circle la Fascist Culture," within of drapery, sphinx faces, aybils, and whose open doors I can see the you impassively from above. Even mystic women, whe gaze down upon inevitable portrait of Italy's pre- the ironwork railing is sometimes Greatness of modern Italy! flowered, and hammered often into Greatness of the days of old! Here graceful curves inspired evidently is the huge, grim, buff-coloured wall by the Graeco-Roman models with of the cathedral, which once was which the city abounds. Those bal- the temple of Minerva, crowning conies, moreover, decorative in this hill of Ortygia, its enormous themselves, are a setting for other fluted columns still in place, and decorative effects-a handsome partly visible, through the more Among the news items in the brunette, in a crimson shawl, sit-modern masonry "engaging" them. topical gazette which will be ting, stitching the while at white Their massive, protruding capitals screened at the Queen's Theatre to- garments, among green plants still serve as corbels, upon which morrow are the trials of the world's growing from Greco-Roman bowls; the battlements above are reared. largest submarine, H. M. .S. und another, feeding from her own. "Oberon," the start of Captain hand her tame caged bird. Courtney's attempt to fly across the Atlantic, France's Unknown Warrior's gunve the re-dedication of after the insult by Communists, and the recent Alpine train disaster in which English tourists were among the victims.

We have not the slightest doubt but that there will be a large and spendthrift gathering at the Lee Gardens this afternoon and evening, on the occasion of the M. C. L. fair. Perhaps it is not too much to say The screen version of Alfred that never before has such an Savoir's celebrated stage success, elaborate fair been organised by "The Grand Duchess and the Wait- this hard-working.band of Indies, } er," will be the to whom the Colony owes many traction at the Queen's Theatre feature al- thanks for reminding us all of our to-morrow. This picture will be obligations to those less fortunately followed on Wednesday by "The circumstanced than ourselves. Love of Sunya," Gloria Swanson's Under the banner of the Hongkong first United Artists film, which will A few weeks ago it became evid- Women's Guild and Ministering be the feature attraction at the ent, from the frequency of refer- Children's League a continuous en- Queen's Theatre for the rest of the ences to violent crime in the Ma.deavour is made on behalf of many week.

charities, individual appeals for layan newspapers, that the southernwhich would not perhaps meet with Crown Colony had become in- a very big response. And so it is fitting that the ladies of the Colony volved in 27 crime wave of

should have formed themselves and serious dimensions. Some months the children into an organisation back, there was an agitation in the to take special cure of these many Singapore press against the newesser hat quite worthy charities. This year, in place of the usual fete type of Chinese criminal, and the and sale of work in Government persistence of the use of lethal wea- House grounds- fixture which al

ways had a strictly limited appeal pons in robbáries ard disputes.

by reason of its nature--there has Matters appear to have "gone from been organised a grand fair at Lee bad to worse, and now it is a ques- Gardens, appealing to man and tion of prime importance for our

woman, old and young. Perhaps sister colony.. Hardly a day passes in Singapore without at least one case of murder by "gunmen being reported. Only recently, the Straits Times in a leading article | asked whether Hongkong,could give the southern port any hints as to the method of overcoming the menuce of armed hooligans. It appeared to us then that this Colony certainly could, and that the

Only a few yards away, across the Piazzo di Vuomo, are the azure Here and there a balcony dweller waters of the harbour, sun-flecked may be seen lowering a parcel, by and rippling in the sea wind; and a cord, down to a receiver in the beside it one of the antique world's street; another has made here most famous water courses, the gaudy with bright clothes, hung Fons Arethusa, sung by Virgil, out to dry; and some, in the side and by Shelley too, and of which streets, by stretching a cord from Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton wall to wall, have festooned and before the Battle of the Nile: flagged the way with warm festal "We have victualed and watered," colours, as though some conqueror and surely watering at the Fountain of old were about to pass..

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Dr. S. A. M. Sepher, who it is a sad thing that the ordinary graduated in Hongkong University man in the street has to be intrigu-and left the Colony in July last cd, amused and cajoled before year for Home, hos passed the

The streets themselves, as well of Arethusa we must have victory." he will give liberally to charitable examination of the Fellowship of as what is above them, have their institutions, but it is nevertheless the Royal Faculty of Physicians charme, for those with hours of

Green, not blue, like the neigh a fact, and, recognising. it for the and Surgeons at Glasgow. He is leisure, and eyes open to observe. bouring sea beside it, is the Fons the fact that it is, it were better now taking the Edinburgh Practi-The gloony or surlit courtyards, Arethusa-green with weeds and for those who organise on behalf of tioner's course and expects to re-into which at every turn one car tufted grasses, among which font charity to choose ways in which turn to the Colony next year. money will be most easily attracted. the seven men who sat for the the sense that many of them are are ducks, and of gray-which are Of peep. are decadent, no doubt, in islands of white and orange, that For all the time and money spent examination only Dr. Sepher and fallen glories, occasionally squalid, seagulla swimming above maneuver- on the old fetes at Government one other passed.

and inhabited now by humble peo- ing deets of fish. House there was but on incom- mensurate return financially. This

ple, where once the great ones The hour for this spot, however, The Health Bulletin of Eastern lived; yet a charm still hangs about is not noon; but the first after sun- afternoon's fair ought to result in ports for the week ending Sept. their a bumper sum being raised-more24 shows six cases

vanished splendor, and a set, when the bell music of the hom- than sufficiently large to bear the Bassein, one at Bombay and one as it will at Tunis, over the water the light is fading in the east, and. of plague at glimpse into them will often revealing goats is hushed in the streets, extra cost of the greater, organisaat Colombo. Cases of cholera-Roman columns and capitals, and the soft, languid, southern night tion, and then leave a bigger mar-

were notified as follows: Basra other survivals in stone of Syra- begins to curtain the gloaming hur 10. Calcutta 11, Madras: 7, "Tuticuse's glory-balustrades,

and bour of Syracuse. corin 1, Singapore 1, Bangkok 2, stately staircases, trodden, perhaps, Tourané 3, Shanghai G, Amoy 4, for nearly 3,000 years. Canton 2, Tientsin 17, and Dairen

A NEW AID TO NAVIGATION.

chief factor in such crime suppres sion could be summed up in one phrase-arm all the police in Singa- pore, and teach them how to use gin of prolt for direct application

to charity. their weapons. That conclusion is to the Fair!

Come on! Let's all go

strikingly brought out in remarks passed last week at an inquest in Singapore, by the Coroner, who urged that the authorities should issue revolvers to all the members of the police force." The case under consideration was one in which a detective and a police sergeant, armed with one pistol between them, had to face and try to arrost a number of armed and desperate gangsters who had committed a murderous assault on a man. It appeared that the Singapore au-

APPROACHES TO AMOY.

The new light on Chapel Island, which has recently been completed and will be a great aid to navige tion of vessels when making the port of Amoy, was inaugurated a few days ago by Mr. Pichon, (Com missioner of Customs), Mr. Roy (Consul for France and Senior Consul at Amoy), Mr. R. Hare (Inspector of Lights), and a fium ber of friends,

was Bombay 1, Calcutta 2, Madras 2. Rangoon 6. Balikpapan 5 and Bandjormäsin 33,

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Through the dense leaves of the green avenue below, sheltering the. sea-walk from the sun,, is, seen the

1. The incidence of small pox Ilere, for example-disclosed twinkle of lamps, and over this more strikingly though the frame background of foliage the harbour of a shadowy arch-is an open yard shimmers, In pearly silver-gray, of singular beauty, with buildings beneath the arching vault of dark- low-roofed, in mottled tiles of softening translucent blue, spangled al- The Saturday half holiday finds grays and fawns, upon which a ready with ¿ golden star or the Colony's three principal cinemas flock of doves, preening themselves, two, encircling a erescent silver. each showing pictures that are sure and sunning their wings, are ex-mbon, of which the reflection, in- to give general pleasure. The quisitely visible, and yet almost visible as yet, will come soon to Queen's Theatre offers Charlie invisible too, so closely do the the call of darkness. Against that Chaplin's famous comedy, "A Dog's colours of their plumage harmonize mirror of burnished waters the Life," and Cynthia Stockley's story and blend with those of the back-hulls of the harbour fishing boats of darkest Africa, "The Claw." ground.

and barges are silhouetted pitchy The World Theatre presents Jackie. In one of these courtyards, among black, and southward loom's majes Coogan in "Old Clothes," the sequel a pile of dried grasses-that shetically the great steamer from Tri- to "The Ragman." The Star Thea is tressing, I think, into matspoli, which dropped anchor there tre offers "The Boob," a whimsical sits a blackrobed Syracusun woman, but an hour ago. Olmsted and George K. Arthur as frocks, standing at her knee, while, deck is doubled below, in a streak comedy of youth with Gertrude with two beautiful children, in blue A line of lamps along the upper the leading players. Those films at the next gateway, a young girl, of quivering gold, Seaward the are all being screened for the last dreamy-eyed, leaning with southern sky la Indigo purple, against which grace and insouciance, against a the great globes of the embankment. door-post, is indolently plaiting her lamps hang, like golden oranges, long black hair, which hangs in a from the shady though still dis-. dark cloud over each shoulder dowi tinguishable palms and fig trees.. to her waist. · ·

Long I sat there, watching the.com- Through permanently open doors, ing of the night, until the harsh, unconsciously grouped, living pic-tearing scream of a passing car tures of family and business life brought me back to the active world are everywhere to be seen--a shoe-again. maker at work with his awl; an-

P. A.

thorities do not issue revolvers to the Malay police. but give them

The trip from Amoy was made rifles when they are out on patrul. on the Ping Ching. On arrival, Obviously, the desperate criminal Mr. Spray, who has crected the time to-day. - Lavoids the bodies of men going with is. Mr. Pichon dwelt on the in- structure, explained the mechan- rifles, and takes the risk of falling portance of the island and the. foul of a solitary constable whom difficulties of erecting the light. he knows has only a truncheon. It Mr. Roy also spoke, after which the light apparatus was set in appears to us that the Malay police motion.

are rightly termed "intensely loyal" by the Singapore Coroner, for to expect à man to go out on lonely beats at night with the hourly pos sibility of menting armed ruffians, who know he has only a baton as a weapon, is certainly to count very largely on his loyalty and pluck.· ́It'

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DATES OF GLOSING.

It is announced in the latest: Government Gazette that the bath beaches at North Point and Tai Wan Bay will be closed on and after the evening of Sunday, the T6th October, 1927, and that at Kennedy Town on and after the evening of Monday, the 24th of October, 1927.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1927--An Ordinance to protect the revenue,

of the Colony