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SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 20, 1928.

-DAY BY DAY.

AN ENEMY DESPISED IS THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL ENEMIES.ima

Tenders are being invited for purchase of No.: 2 Fire Float.

that America is the logical place to obtain them, since the best terms. can be obtained there. Ho doas, zowever, hope for assistance from other countries as well, witness his Publius Syrus. references to financiera and bual- ness men in England and Germany being ready to co-operate. The "contracts" of which he speaks have obviously been hawked about in

There are thirty applications to come before the annual Licensing Europe and the United States on Sessions on November 7th. this basla and could no doubt be | ---- concluded on Nanking's terms, which, however, are hardly likely

The Ben Line as. Bon Novis, from Home and Straits ports, is to prove acceptable to foreign in- due here on the 25th instant.

terests.

昨

TRAPPING EMBEZZLERS.

Home Police Familiar With Every Trick.

Seldom do the police trap the the extent of £160,000, from the embezzlers. These are criminals Bank of Liverpool, had boon rob- who are invariably found out by bing his employers for three years. their fellows or by privato investi-] Yet there had been frequent sur gators.

prise inspections and regular Unfortunately, ombezzlement is audits. But there was a song in among the most common forms of the system. He was always a crime, and the culprit is always willing and seemingly able assia- the best educated man among tant at the audits. criminals. As a rule ho gets a Most banks, however, mado this long run before detection, for the impossible after the Liverpool

In honour of Trafalgar Day, simple reason that he holds a revelation, but there remain many The London Times hit the situa-

which falls to-morrow, officials of responsible position, and can carry other businesses in which the tion off to a nleety when it recently the Hongkong branch of the Navy out wall laid plans with every auditors are helped. It is a commented on the John SmithLongue laid wreaths on the Cono-circumstance In his favour, " method always attended with syndicate. It remarked that there taph and the Wanchai Monument

this morning. did not appear to be the alightest possibility that British Arms would be disposed for a moment to con sider advancing further

auns or supplying more material until the amounts already owing to them h been paid. "When the Nationalist Government na dealt astiafnctorily with this question," it added, "and also honours long-standing obliga-1 About Hong Kong. tions, British firms will doubtless again be glad to co-operate in the

| commercial development of 'China. The next step towards pehabilita- tion needs to be taken by her." Mr. Stanley Dodwell also wrote re- cently much to the same effect, pointing to the necessity of those who are out for money at any price to show that their polley is a workable proposition." Until that time comes, we shall continue Lo

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1928. doubt these stories of the placing

THOSE CONTRACTS.

of wonderful contructs, whether in America, Britain or elsewhere,

Earl Birkenhead, Earl Birkenhead's resignation from the India Office loses present day politics one of its most com-

But, as in many other branches risks, and chartered accountants of crime, quite small things often are strongly against the practice. prove disastrous. A bank official, One company lost over five thou sent to prison for a series of sand pounds, It was discovered Orders have been made for the defalcations extending over a long that there had been a system of removal of all graves in portions of period and involving several thou-false entries extending over some section A and Plague Trenches in and pounds, was detected only years. At the audit it had been Kai Lung Wan East Cemetery and through three small cheques paid the custont of the defaulting in portions of acctions A, B and Cinto his own account with his cashier to read aloud the entries in Mount Caroline Cemetery, bank. His affaira seemed quite into the auditor as a means of assist

order when a travelling surprise ing that official in his work.

Unfortunately for the cashler a inapoctor of the bank suddenly descended upon him, but the now auditor making his inspection astule officer noticed that these for the first time accepted the help. cheques had been made payable to but survested that he should have a publie oficial whose office was the fateful book. The cashler stated, but not his name.

| affected to agree, and went out of He drew attention to this, and the room ostensibly to get his was told that the cheques bad journal, and did not return.

Of course, this led to a thorough simply been changed for a friend examination, when a long series of discrepancies were revealed, Nothing more was said, for the but the detectives in tracking the explanation was quite plausible.

Do you know that~~~

BIRKERIGNONEZ

Mount Gough is named after Major General Sir Hugh. Gough, who was in command of the British forces at the Uno Hongkong was taken over?

Graham Street is named after Lieut.-Col. Hope Gra- ham, of the 59th. Regiment, who on May 10th, 1855, as- sumed command of the Garri- non and was appointed to sent in the Executive Coun- ell?

Granville Avenue, Kowloon, is named after Earl Gran- ville, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1860.7.

aR It matter of convenience.

But the cashier was evidently culprit had the long voyage to nervous, for on the following day Melbourne before the delinquents he gave quite a different explana-was brought home to justice. tion, and this naturally aroused

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suspleton and provided a cluo. Watermarks have played a great. Examination of the accounts re-part in legal annals. This hidden vealed that a system of misappro-clue in notepaper has trapped. priation had been carried on for murderers, and provided many a long while.

traps for witnesses. Hidden in the pages of nccount books it lins Nothing more than a "house for been the undoing of not a few sale, immediate possession," notice embezzlers.

One man had successfully sur- proved the undoing of one bank official. But the house In ques-vived several annual audits be- tion happened to have a rather cause a cheap form of locse leaf fine old door, and the travelling ledgers were in use, and his plan inspector for the bank was some-had been to keep a secret Block thing of a crank on such matters. of pages' with identical numbers Consequently, on passing through and pattern. Hence it was easy aubstitute 2 page when the street he could not fall to be to

required. But an auditor with attracted by it. accounts of the local branch he examining, and chanced to look at Later when going through the sensitive fingere felt a slight dif-

ference in noticed one in the name of a cus- tomer alleged to be living in this the watermark and compare it to the previous page. The pages Observatory returns for Septem-house. He commented

This slight clue led to the ber show that the average mean curious fact that the address had were different. temperature was 81.6, the highest not been altered since he had

of minappropriation being 91.1 and the lowest 72. noticed that the house was empty, exposure

nearly twelve There were 119,7 hours of sunshine The nervous explanation offered extending over

lic goon years, and 3.915 Inches of rain, whilst the did not satisfy him.

found that it was only one of t average humidity was 75,

number of bogus accounts by Nowadays important companles which the defaulter had manipu-using loose leaf books take the Inted his books and obtained

precaution of having locked pagca, so that this ruse of the embezzler is out-of-date.

on tho

a page

he was

Coming so soon after the prick- ing of the John Smith syndicate bubble, the report which we publish

A first and final dividend of $12 ed yesterday to the effect that amanding personalities, and EDR per cent, has been declared in the number of contracts has been land a brilliant statesman. The case of Leung Ching-chun, of 182, awarded to American individuals parting appears to be final, and for Queen's Road East, and a second dividend of $5 per cent. in thẻ mat- and corporations, involving recon-that reason the profound regretter of Chan Shui-taun, of G3, Des struction projects in China running expressed by Mr. Stanley Baldwin Voeux Road Central. into many millions of dollars, is will not be confined to one side of particularly Interesting.

When the House. Ilis debating skill was analysed, however, the statements scarcely excelled in his time. In attributed to Mr. Po do not appear his public utterances he had to amunt to a great deal so far as moments of pure eloquence which concrete results go. The only captivated all hearers whatever actual "contract" mentioned is one their political teanings, while his for the construction of a canal in every word was listened to with the

It is notified that His Honour the the Tientsin area, but even this closest attention lest a neat touch Chief Justice has appointed Mr.

10 be of seathy irony, or delicale banter, E. P. H. Lang, Deputy Registrar. Whenever An embezzler in loan, not a contract, from the sunld be lost. His figure is one of the Supreme Court to be a Com brought to justice there is always A chief official of an office doing Chin Famine Relief Association. which the Commons can ill afford misaloner to administer oaths and public surprise when the defalca-n large busincas in "integrity to lose. As member of the take declarations, affirmations andtions have been spread over a long policies" anys there are 26 dif- For the rest, all that appears to Cabinet, his work In the India Of-attestations of honour in the period. Reputable banks and all ferent tricks adopted by dishonest have been done is to engage three flee is best left to historians, but if Court, so long as he shall hold the important companies have periodi-melals. Of course, they cannot or four American advisers in con-his activities as 'Lord Chancellor office of the Deputy Registrar,

are to be accepted as any eriterion, nexion with the rebuilding of he had the art of real statesman- Nanking, the oft-heard-of «nimpoa ship which precluded any possibility

of failure.

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Three lots of Crown land are to

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cal audits, while banks and Insur-be disclosed, but the fact that they ance companies, as well as numare known enables the big army bers of trading concerns, have of travelling Inspectors used by His Government col-be sold at the P.W.D. offices on No privato inspectors continuously on all great financial and industrial enterprises to do their work more port scheme, and the currency re-learnés Choroughly enjoyed his pro. Yember 5th. They aro New Kowtour whose work is to make aur- į

efficiently. This is why.systema. vocative outpourings: it was

helon Inland Lot 1172 (about 16,000 prise examinations of accounts.

tic embezzlement is, unfortunate- I who said of his friend Mr. Winston square feet, upset price $6,000).

How is it that a fraudulently, still too common in smaller con- easily content with the best of about 8,525 square feet, Churchill that he is "a simple soul, New Kowloon Inland Lot. 1177

confcased to panies are less often victimlaed. everything!" Small wonder, then, price $12,780) and Inland Lots official is not more speedily detect cerns, but the big banks and com-

MUNRO BLAIR. to that "the band of brothers" as he (about 10,400 square feet, upset forgeries and embezzlements to disappearance of his familiar figure describes the Cabinet, regrets the price dollar a foot).

form problem.

It is pertinent to observe that Mr.

Sun Fo, who is credited with stat

for these "contracts" were made by

fug that the tentative arrangements

himself whilst he was in the United

upset

ed?

| States, was one of the Nationalist from their conclaves. It is some- The Harbour Master notifies that leaders with whom. Professor John what surprising to find at this lime surveys involving diving opera- Smith was brought into contact of his life that his dauntless ambitions are being carried out over Lion has guided him into business the line of harbour bottom be- in connexion with the alleged channels, though we have no doubt tween Queen's Pier and the inter- formation of the big British that his redoubtable energy and section of the east side of Nathan audacious intellect, which enabled syndicate. Indeed, he was referred his rise to fame with such remark-Road with the Kowloon Harbour to in the article, which purported alle alacrily, will carry him to front. One diving barge, flying a to give the details of this venturersity. His position in the public sampaus are employed on the work success in his new sphere with equal red flag, a motor boat and two as having taken part in put-esteem is unassailable, and he will which will be completed in about ting the fishing touches to enter upon his new career with the one month. the British contracts. The nows best of good wishes. Fortunately,

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"AN IGNORANT

CLERGY."

CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR ON HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE.

BRITISH WOMAN FLIER CRASHES.

KILLED DURING QUALIFYING FLIGHT.

It was

A verdict of Death by mis- clergy were alluded to by Dr. G. G. adventure was returned at the in.

"The dangers of an ignorant Coulton, Fellow of St. John's Col-quest at Brooklands on Miss Mar- lege, Cambridge, when the Modern caret Honor Wellby, who was Churchmen's Conferenco met at killed while flying at Brooklands which we gave yesterday quot the value of his council: the House were passengers

Two recent visitors to Hongkong Girton College, Cambridge, recently, recently.

Dr. Coulton contended In his

the first case in Eng- ed Mr. Sun Fo дая saying of Lards, over which he has already Zeppelin which has just crossed paper "Is a Science of Illatory land of a woman's being killed

established an almost complete the Atlantic to America. Thoy Possible"" that history was awhile flying alone, that the American "contracts" ascendancy, will have greater op were Karl Van Wiegand, European science capable of presenting them Miss Wellby was a pupil at the have, since his return to. Chinn, portunities of appreciating his manager for Universal Service, with an ordered knowledge of Henderson Flying School at been confirmed by the Nationnifst een grasp of essentials and gentle and Lady Hay Drummond-Huy, the relations between them.

Brooklands and was qualifying Government. But we are still insignation leaves a

raillery. Nevertheless, his

"Ought not the elements of for her pilot's certificate. renditor of a weekly syndicated page In the in Lio London doubt as to the nature and extent Cabinet which Mr. Baldwin will find Wiegand mul Lady Hay

Sphere. Toa Christian history to be famillar o Colonel Henderson said that For all Christians?" he asked. "We Miss Wellby had flown over ten of these. What would appear to it extremely difficult to fill.

among the numerous press corres cannot too often remind ourselves hours with an instructor and 1 have happened is that Mr. Sun, Fo

pondents ordered China Inst (he said) what Newman wrote hour 38 minutes alone.

She took off with the tail low,,, and other Nationalist representa-

year at the time of the main just before he quitted the Anglican Scotland Yard Issued a state- Nationalist northern drive. Both Church: 'It is melancholy to say indicating a bad start," he said., tives abroad have been enquiring mant recently respecting a box passed through Hongkong on their it, but the chief and perhaps the "When she approached the rail- only English writer who has any way she turned, but without bank- as to the possibilities of securing containing 42oz, of hydro-chloride return trip

of cocaine which disappeared

claim to be considered as

aning sufficiently. This caused tho foreign financial aid for reconstruc-white it was being taken in a

ecclesiastical historian is the in-machine to swish its tall round to The health bulletin of Eastern del Gibbon."" tion purposes In China, holding out lorry from Church-street, Batter-parts for the week ended Saturday

the right and nosedive. The má-. nst a bait the possibility of big con.sen, to the King George V. Dock Inst, issued by the Director of think of these words in connexion and suddenly cart-wheeled ver He (Dr. Coulton) asked them to china continued to lose height, The box was of wood, and mea Medical and Sanitary Services, with two incidents which emerged tracts, coming along later. Insured one foot long by six inches gives the following cases, the in the recent Prayer Book contro-ply to the di other words, China wants foreign deep by alx inches wide, and was figures in parenthesis indicating versy. A Bishop had vefced the that the accident was caused by The Coroner-Would you say financing of projects for which ale marked K.P. and Company. De deaths; Plague, Rangoon (4), claim that Reservation "la in every an error of judgment?--I would one ounce packets. The discovery Pnom Penh 1 (1), Tunglian 70; true sense of the word a Catholic the idea is to get the money from that the box had disappeared was Cholera, Bombay (2), Calcutta custom." Yet it was notorious that rather say that the machine lost. loans whilst those who do the work made when the lorry reached the (17), Madras (12), Bangkok 1-(1), there was no trace of that custom,fying speed in turning without will be paid on the long-credit dock, and it is thought that it Shanghai (1) Small-nox, Baerah in the only sense which really was anking. That is what happen system. This is most likely the real Much

was stolen. 9 Bombay 12 (4), Madras 18 (7), at issue in that discussion, for ed Importanco 18 attached Moulmein 2, Negapatam 7 (1), over a thousand years after Christ's

death.'

Investigation. meaning of Mr. Sun Fo's remark to

which is Tuticorin 2, Vizagapatam 1, Pon-

Another Bishop, a specialist in "That," said Dr. Coulton,"18: that China will require large sums ous that have been reported to anak 1, Pnom Penh 6 (2), Shang- frankness that the question of Fast-centuries of partial study. The one of the biggest and most serdicherry (1), Batavia 1, Ponti history, confessed with honourable where we stand after so many for reconstruction purposes and the authorities for some time, hal (1) Mukden 1.

ing Communion to which he was harvest is always there, but where: personally attached needed serious have the labourers been?"

cannot herself.find the money, and

din. The cocaine was wrapped in

elther fell off or

the loss,