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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

NOT DE GATHERED AND KEPT BY ANY GREAT ABUNDANCE IN RICHES GAN-

MAN WITHOUT SIN.-Erasmus.

parently do now in looking after their money-lending interests, but that is a totally different matter to making them guilty of a punish ablo offence. Every registered watchman is apparently to be given the same powers of arrest as a police officer, and we can imagine | next, no more dangerous procedure than

here from Singapore on Monday The F, and O. s.s. Jeypore is due

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.

ORDERS BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.

Commendations.

The Very Idea!

Old Lady

Well-Meaning "Thank you so much for your song, my dear. It took me back to my childhood days on my father's fazni. When I shut my eyes and

Constable R.21 Luk Pik Hinglistened to your singing, I seemed (Chinese Company) is highly com- to hear the old gate creaking in mended by the C. S. P. for prompt the wind."

Many curios in the possession of

The P. and O. 9.3. Devanha from to invest men such as Indian watch | Hongkong, arrived in London on men, anschooled in legalities, with Sunday morning. the wide powers given to properly |

The Shanghai sworn-in and instructed policemen. (Chinese) has issued

Municipality an order Will the C. S. P. be responsible for abolishing the system of key an unlawful arrest by n registered money when renting a house. watchman? If so, why not go the Among the passengers arriving whole way and make them all police-to-day by the s.s. President Me-telligence displayed by him in men with special watching duties 7 Kinley were Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

A married woman named Shir 10th. and for his promptitude in pose the hoodoo will follow it to the

dealing with a motor accident in Queen's Road Central on October

action, upon information received, in securing the arrest on October! 4th of cue, Wong. Fal Wong, who museums have been associated at was wanted for kidnapping in the some time or

other with super- To Shan district in 1924.

stitious beliefs. An anonymous Crown Sergeant R.5 Wong Shiudonor of a medal forwarded to the Fun (Chinese Company) is con himself. "A superstitious digger." Queenland Museum recently signed mended by the C.S.P. for the He writes that he "Souvenired" 1918, and nothing but bad luck had the medal from a prisoner of war in If it is the intention to establish a Smith and Mrs. Peter Tod.

been his lot since. "I do not sup- subsidiary police force from which

convering the two injured per-museum," he added naively. The employers can engage men as watch-Mui, aged 43, committed suicide sons to hospital. men at certain rates of hire, then bar in her home at No. 9, Tung (Flying Squad) is commended by form of a Maltese Cross, is an in- yesterday by hanging herself from Constable R.333 B. C. Randali says that the medal, which is in the director (M H. A. Longman) the Ordinance should plainly pro-On Sau Street.

the C.SP. for the prompt assis-teresting one, and is not connected vide so, and such men should be

tances rendered to the regular with the late war, being more than sworn in as policemen and made, A workman at the Cement Police on October 4th, by convey. 70 years old. "I do not anticipate subject to full police discipline be-fall from a ladder, yesterday. He seriously injured workman

Works was injured through ing to hospital in his side-car any bad luck," he said, commenting. fore thej

given are

police was taken

who on the supposed hoodoo. "Museum to the Government had fallen from the roof at a house people are not in any way super- powers They should be paid by Civil Hospital,

on Caine Road, thus averting any stitious." the Police and be definitely in the

delay in securing medical atten- tion. service of the Crown. The dangers of the proposed quasi status are manifold.

Hongkong Telegraph. duty (on the report

A, DANGEROUS BILL.

The proposed Bill for the regis- tration and regulation of watchmen in Hongkong the draft of which Was published on Saturday) bristles with so many difficulties and obvious dangers that we won- der the Government has had the temerity to bring it forward. At first sight, the object which it is desired to achieve ія such

good

that one

there ja

Mrs. Croft, Hving at No. 34, Armend Bulidings, Kowloon, has reported to the police the theft: from her room of jewellery and a safety razor, valued altogether

at $70.

The s. a. Kudat of the Straits 5. S. Company, after having been lengthened by an addition to the midship section, will leave Taiko Dock to-morrow morning for trials.

There were three cases of enteric fever during the past week, one There was also one Chinese case of British imported and two Chinese. paratyphoid fever. Yesterday's health return gave no further cases of notifiable disease.

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farther

"Jadge, I desire to be excused from jury service." "Why?" ask- Training-Part 3 (Musketry). ed the court. "Because I can only The following Police Reservists hear with one will attend at the Kennedy Road do." said the Judge, "we only hear car." "Oh, you'll Revolver Range in mufti on Satur-one side of a ease ut a.time." day, October 29th. at 2.30 p.m. sharp for instruction in revolver shooting under Inspector H. J.Are you a messenger?-Boy: No. Magistrate at Tottenham to boy: Paterson-

-Magistrate: Then are you an errand boy?—Yes..

15 men to be detailed by 0.C. Chinese Company.

15 men to be detailed by O.C. Indian Company,

5 men to be detailed by O.C. Flying Squad.

Man at Aberdeen, charged with being drunk and incapable, was suid to have had on him two bottles smelling of methylated spirits. Man; They were for external use only.

Police Training School. Classes for Instruction in Part 2 This story is being told of a Lon- of training course will be held at don judge who like husic. the Police Training School under, He was the guest of a box-holder Inspector H. J. Paterson on Thurs-at a musical play, but his hostess day, October 27th, and Tuesday, maintained an even flow of chutter November 1st." commencing both all through the piece. evenings at 6.30 pm, sharp

At the end, she cordially invited Training Part I (Squad Drill). ing performance at Covent Garden him to join her party at the open- All members of the Police Re-this season. serve who have not yet been pass- "With pleasure," said he. "I ed out as efficient in Part 1 will would like to hear you in grand parade in mufti at the Central opera." Police Station for Squad Drill and Rifle Exercises under Sergeant R. Jazz should be denounced and J. Hunt as follows:-

made taboo among the white races. Chinese and Indian Companies-Sir Henry Coward. on Thursday, October 27th, and Oratory and eloquencè Tuesday, November 1st.

not go very far nowadays.-Mr. October 20th. Fall in on each

Flying Squad on Wednesday,William Archibald. evening at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

London is the worst offender in the matter of Sunday trading

Women are braver than about facing the real facts about success and failure. Mrs. Oliver | Earriman.

In the case of ship's guards the police are not going to have any disciplinary powers, but in the case of watchmen on shore the C. S. P. cap fine watchmen for neglect of of an employer, presumably), or can order them to TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 25, 1927. | do defaulters' drills or remove them from the Watchmen's Itegister (thereby, depriving a man of his living). Those powers are far too drastic for the C. S. P. to hold in the case of a nou-police employee. It is suggested in the draft regula-

The Royal Observatory reports tions that the employers of watch-that the V-shaped depression has men will pay the men's wages into moved to the N. E. of Japan The

Chinese anti-cyclone the Treasury and that the Police north this morning. Moderate will actually pay the men-a fact monsoon may be expected along the which does not, we imagine, destroy S. E. coast of China, and over the N. China. Sen The forecast locally the relationship of employer and is: N. E. winds, moderate; fine. employee as between the principals

The Harbour Ofice Reports for concerned. For the police to act

the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. as go-between does

this not rob the morning gave 14 arrivals and 13 the inevitable tendency to wel watchman of his civilian rights, departures of which seven and British. come the Bill as a step in the right and as a civiliar be ought to be free four respectively were direction. Watchmen in Hongkong the proposed powers of impost British carrying the highest in

Cargoes were generally poor, with are notoriously bad as a class, and tion and restriction which the C, S. ward. There remained in harbour many an employer of them would P. will have over him. Em-jut 9 m., 66 vessels of which 26

were British.

Motor Cyclist Section like some system devised whereby players of these watchmen will be

(Flying Squad). he could get real watchful service able to report to the C. S. P. Some of the Chinese papers at The following members of the instead of the half-dazed incompet-cases of negligence or misconduct Shanghai last week published, the Flying Squad have been passed ence he so often gets now. White and upon such a report the C. S. P. following startling report: "Ac-out as efficient in Part 1

Many curious inventions which cording to news secured by the Constables R.306 S. B. Kitchell, have formed the subject of recent realising the obvious shortcomings will have power le fine or impose Labour, Unions Unification Con- R.318 Foon Wing Fook, R.321 T. application to the Patent Offiec of so many of the present watchmen other penalties. This is a whelly mittee, the Chinese Communist A. Barry, R.326 Li Iu Sang. R.328 were described by an official to a and while sympathising whole- wrong procedure because it puts party now is in financial dificul Henry Kew, R.331 A. E. Greenway, 'ress representative who called into the hands of irate, ill-tempered ties as a result of its failure in R.333 E. C. Randall, R.334 J. Carr. there. According to the official, Hankow. We learn that the party The following miembers of the inventive minds are on the increase. or vindictive employers the power has received instructions from a Flying Squad have passed their One of the must remarkable inven- to inflict what might be undeserved certain nation that an organization examination in Part 2 of Train tions, the creation of two Germans, punishment. It should not be left to plan the abduction of vealthying Course (knowledge of Police is a flying machine with flapping

persons in Shanghai should be es duties and. to the questionable "impartiality"tablished, in order to secure funds Sergts R.301 Choa Hing Kee,

Regulations):L. gusfilled wings.

Another German idea, it is claim- for the party."

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heartedly with employers, we find urselves unable to approve of the suggested. Ordinance because of the thany points of wrong principle it edhtains. In the first place we are told that as from 1917 the Captain Superintendent of Police has been Applying watchmen to private em- ployers, and that of the 600 now supplied, 10 me ships' guards (due soon to be voluntarily instead of compulsorily employed) and 270 are employed on shore. "The scheme

of employers in general to feport to the police the alleged or real shortcomings of their employees, and for the police to have power to impose penalties.

IF

Shanghai showed reports of seven Last week's police records at armed robberies, in which 41 men participated and secured all

ether $2.000 in money and pro the police have arrested eight more men implicated in armed gobberies, four of whom already

face.

do

тел

R. 310 P. O. Peuster, Constables ed, will prevent or remove wrinides R#26 Li lu Sang, R.327 Look King, or puckers at the side of the mouth Wittenbach.

333 B. C. Randall, F335 H. And nose, and thus beautify the A process for extracting - gold from sea water has been sub- mitted by a Czecho-Slovakian..

Other applications for patents'

on

The weekly instructional patrof of the, Hongkong section Thursday, October 27th, will start

5.15 p.m. sharp,

Our view of the matter is that unless Indian watchmen (and that Derty fa che day. On their side, from Central Police Station at include:

is the body aimed at are definitely incorporated into the Police Force and dealt with in matters of disperson's charged with other crimes, have criminal records, and fifteen

nine of whom previously have been in the hands of the pollee. Through the agency of the Finger print Department, the police were able to identify the body of a Chinese found in the Louza dis- triet as that of a notorious old "Jag"

dinance.

(Sgl.) F. C.,MOW FUNG,

A.S.P. (R). Acting Adjutant. Hongkong October 25, 1927.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin

A toy bomb, provided with an ex- plosive charge and fuse for dis- charging paper streamers,

A mechanical violin. A transiugent

projection screen,

cinematograph

A device for discerning defective patches in fure,

បទទ

A telescopic umbrella for while wheeling a perambulator, London, Oct. 24.

Means whereby an umbrella can .124.05 be held in a bag or music case,.

.34.09 A method of Pasteurising beer, 12.10% and

.20.10 A swimming appliance consist .18.17 ing of blades of plates attached to

34.52 the hand and forearm. .103%

.2.7/10

785

The magistrate looked severely 47% at the small red-faced man who had .2/014

been summoned before him, and returned his gaze without 4.87 flinching.

1/10% who

25.25

"So you kicked your landlord .89.10 'downstairs ?" said the magistrate.. .18.08. Did you imagine that was within .18.49 the rights of a tenant?" .104%

has evidently been appreciated by employers. The police are in a better position than individual empline and education as policemen, players to select the bost men....

It is wrong to give them police and the system has now grown to

powers or the status of anything such an extent that it seems desir- other than the private employees of able to regulate it by Ordinance." their private 'employers Let the We would say, most definitely, that police continue to supply them as at it is better to continue as at pre-present if they will for that is a service well appreciated by many. sant than to regulate it by Ordin employers, but we warn the Govern at present in the motor industry Copenhagen ance because the system cannot be so regulated without creating legalment to guard against the many pit- especially, and this is reflected in Vienna

Helsingfors anomalies and other difficulties.

falls and errors of the proposed Or- the Olympia results. But it is a

sign that business in general is Bucharest

Lisbon We hope to see much better, and that a good deal of Buenos Aires Among the many provisions to

public discussion of the measure prosperity either exists or is an-Shanghai which exception can be taken is

before it is ever allowed to go on ticipated. There has been much Yokohama that which stipulates that ro'non-

the statute book of the Colony.

tendency to enviange a return of New York Chinese person shall act as a watch-

commercial prosperity recently. Geneva man unless he is registered by the

The absence of any big industrial Milan disputes, or the threat thereof, the Stockholm Police and no person can employ Work for Unemployed.

Oslo any such unregistered watchman.

gradual recovery from the disas Prague This restriction is wholly at vari-gratifying in the report that as a year ago,

There is something particularly trous coal strike of just over a Madrid and the atoady rap- Athens ance with a person's right to exer-result of the motor show which prochement, which is being built Ro cise free-will in the matter of secur- has just concluded at Olympia, (despite handicaps) between Bombay ing or giving employment. One there is to be work for about the employers in Britain and their Hongkong

90,000 unemployed in Britain employees, are all tending to the Silver (spot) can also strongly object to the There is also the satisfaction of ideal of a business revival. The Silver (forward) decres that watchman shall act knowing that the British motor in- first fruits of the motor show have as a money lender or take part industry is to have full-time activity been the assurance of work for

The Interport Cricket XI wil the business of a money-lender or result of the orders booked at the are recipients of the dole. Oun for the whole of next year, as a nearly 100,000 mon who at present.

The principal picture in the new be having is trial against the share in the profits of any such show. Certain works will have to good thing leads to another in com continuous programme at the Star Rest of Shanghai before proceed- business for it ought not to be extended to meet the demand timistic to expect a revival in other "Souls For Sale," the story of a preserve Shanghai's winning re- merce, and it may not be too op- Theatra to-day and to-morrow is ing to Hongkong to attempt to be loft to the Police to thus set up. There are two im branches of industry at Home be- girl's struggle to win fame in the putation. After victories in the

portant deductions to be drawn say in what individual of this Colony may or

manner any therefrom, the first being that the The eventual absorption of large Eleanor Boardman, Mac Busch, only needs to win the cricket, to sides the motor works, next year. movies. The featured players are polo and the lawn bowls, Shanghai British product has established it-numbers of unemployed spells het Frank Mayo, Barbara La Mar, have had a most successful an- may not employ his money-pro- self, not only at Home, in the face ter conditions generally, and it Richard Dix, and Lew Cody. Of tumn sporting deason. The men vided the manner is lawful It of outside competition, but also may be that the next twelve-fering many glimpses of motion who are making the trip to the may hot be desirable for watchmen abroad, and secondly, that bust month is to sea real prosperity ve picture life, Souls For Sale" is Colony can be relied upon to do

ness is decidedly "looking up." It happens that there is a boom turn to the old country. The full of incident and has a climax their best to ensure that this is.

the case, says a Shanghai paper. auguries are certainly favourable on a grand scale.

to waste so much time as they ap-

"I'll bring my lease in and show 28.314 it to you," said the little man, grow- ..367 ing still redder, "and I'll wager .5.59/04 you'll agree with me that anything 1/5.15/10 they've forgotten to prohibit in ....1/11

that lease I had a right to do the .23.3/10,

.25% very first good chance 1 got?” -British Wireless."