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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1930.

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The fongkong & Shanghat Hotel. LA.

Incorpheated in Tinnakon 15. Queen's Road C. and Stubba Boad,

at 12.20

DEATH.

The

ties of A and also of those of B.

What then am I to do? I think my position must be that, neoing that

DAY BY DAY

I disapprove of the politics of both, ĮSmutstressMATION O I should judge between them on

WE MUST KEEP OURSELVES UP TO their merits apart from Parlin-ouR REST, O WE SHALL GROW IN-1 montory politics. Into that CAPABLE OF DOING. OUR reckoning will come-local know-Eleanor Root. ledge, lacnl service, ability, attain-

HEST.—

Another Criminal Instalment To-day! Really It's a Crime!

Ex-Detective Inspector

LANE-NORCOTT tells

THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP MYSTERY.

A 1886, a small but beautiful

The Empress of Japan left Hono monte, and most and best of all, lulu on the 26th inat, and is due at character and record. All these Hongkong on the 9th Jan, things being dedicated to public

The Ben Line s.8. Benledi, from

T 11.20 p.m. on August 10th,: Grade A milk and the new-Intd | life, even although the man is not Home parts vin Straits and Philip

eggs I supplied them with, of girl named Maggie Richard- course. Fine lot of British tara of my way of polition thinking, plaes; is due here on January 16th.

son, the only sister of a prominent they are! Snatching up the nn- make me feel that the life of the

Reclamation work has started off chess, editör

Vanished from her chor and shooting the moon like country would be safer in the Jubilee Street in conexion with home in Gorlestreet, Margate. At that! Curse the Navy, I say!

vehicular ferry precisely the same moment, but in propused hands of one of these men, say A, the

It is extremely unlikely that the 11.M.S. Aubrey. Portsmouth. rather than in those of li, of when scheme.

ure Stolen Battleship Mystery would there super-Dreadnought if ever I have n differt opinion and

Mesars. Mackintoal & Co., the was one, disappeared from her pri- ever have been solved but for one knowledge. Accordingly, if C (my well-known men's wear specialists, vate dock, known as "ILMS. Au- of those happy decidents which oc first vote) fails, then A shill have have issued a handy little desk broy's Private Dock. Park No Old cur when least expected. Some

Cargo Boats Here."

months Inter, while engaged on the enlonlar for the coming year.

Whitehall Post Office Outrage-it At first I was inclined to look up- my second vole, and I mark hlu

be recalled that 'a dissatisfied Mr. H. S. Rouse has reported to on the simultaneous disappearance wholesale Bricklayer and estate Non my voting paper." Lord

the police the theft of a signet of a young Margate girl and a Ullswater thinks there is a machine, valued at $46, from a dress Portsmouth battleship as a mere rent named Guy Abbey had pull- closer in- ed down this post office during the larger proportion of the electorate ing table at his residence at No, 2, coincidence, Indeed,

spection of the facts seemed to con-night for spite-I chanced to coma than is generally taken into account Chatham Road.

firm my theory that the two inci-across two used telegraph forms which at once struck chord of that is moved. by such comidera-i

A desk key was found on the lents were in no way connected. tions, and he believes it is in this Golf Course at Happy Valley yes-

For example, the captain of the memory. I reproduce them here in region that the Alternative Vote, ferday. The owner is requested to ship was named Horace ("Luff") the strictest confidence.

The vessel itself was painted a dark grey colour, and which might be confusing to the apply to Mr. W. Kent, A.S.P., at Fitz-Bootle,

Pollen Hondquarters.

weighed over 24.000 tons, besides caucus, would be most beneficial to the citizen and most wholesonin inj

being fully equipped with electric and powder magazines. The public life.

girl, on the other hand, was engaged

A stonebreaker was admitted in- to hospital yesterday with Injuries to his left leg resulting from being to poetaster of Flemish ex- Hitherto, there has been me struck by a piece of rock during traction named Reginald Penny. mt { doubt as to whether there would be blasting operations at Whitlicht.

never used paint or powder of any | description, was slightly under- many voters in the position of fini.

The police have received a re-weight, and seemed to be entirely ing their first choice not included part that a push bicycle, valued at

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, DEC. 29, 1930.

THE ALTERNATIVE VOTE.

+

an

EX

To Maggie Richardson 10 Gorle Street Margate Meet Me Opposita Margate Jelty. Six O'Clock Tonight. Reggi Penny.

To Capt Fitz Bootlo II,M.S. Aubrey Portsmouth Proceed at Once To Malta Will Join You There Admiral Kingpin.

Here at last was a clue to tho

To Capt. FitzBootle IIMS Aubey Portsmouth Meet Me Opposite Margate Jetty Six Oclock Tonight.

Admiral Kingpin. Jan 10

To Maggie Richardson Gorle Street Maryate Proceed At Once To Malta Will Jolu You There.

Reggie Penny

In-

I quickly formed a theory and fur- in the short feet represented by A $20, belonging to Mr. C. Dalziel, ofnorant of the force of electricity.great Stolen Battleship Mystery! ther investigation confirmed my However, a secret visit to Ports- SILVA Terember 29th, 19:o, and B. and Lord Ullswater has been No. ba. Armeul Buldings, was

am. at 17. Jordan at pains to discover the approxi-stulen yesterday while it was left mouth elicited the following fact suspicious. These telegrams hid

become sadly mixed in transit. outside the house.

On the very day of the theft a young dee, when delivered, they read as Road. Kowloon, Mrs. Pilu-

girl answering to the description of

follows:- mena Fonsera da Silva, aged mate number of these uncommitted

The actual number, he In Canton the press consorship, Maggie Richardson had been scen

conversation 88 years, Funeral will pass voters,

with

able- the Monument at 5.30 pan, 16- |linds, is close on two and a half which has been in force for over in

a year, has been withdrawn since bodied SAMARITALIA named Hoghin. day. Shanghai, Macao aut mullion people, and he submits that the 25th instant, an order to this Hogbin was traced and made the Manila papers please copy).

it would be to the advantage of the effect having been issued by Gen-following voluntary statement when

pressed :—— State to find a place within the ral Chan Chai-tong.

I am Albert Hogbin and I work' veling system for people in this

The report of the M.0.I. for five on the battleship Daisy nt serub- position. The result, he thinks, days ended fit midnight, shows that bing. Last Tuesday 1 was going one Chinese case of diphtherin, one into a boozer when I was stopped would it all probability turn a

Chinese case of small-pox and one by a young woman who said: minority into a najurity represen-case of meningitis have been report-cuse me, sailor, but do you care?"

"What for" I asked prompt. falion in every case. To allay thed during the holidays.

"Oh, for

Thus ended one of the greatest anything," said the young

century. dissatisfaction felt by these whose

Hke this. naval sensations of the Mr. Alexander Clark, Divisional wom "You see, it's

woman.

mile from Margate votes are now of no account would inspector at Central Station, who I'm a reporter and I've been sent H.M.S. Aubrey was found safe at doubtless be an act of justice. has been discharging the duties of out to Interview passing sailors, anchor one

Chief Inspector in the absence of because people say they don't care. jetty, where she had waited ever Considerations such as these have Mr. P. Grant, who is away on short Now what I want to know is this, since for her Admiral, and Maggie ino doubt been a factor in the Gov-leave, is going over to Yaumati Do ton care?" "No, I don't," Richardson, the beautiful missing In view of the fact that the erament deciding to incorporate the this week on transfer to that disaid. "Not for nothing?" she said, girl, was discovered, alive and

trict.

"No, not for nothing."I said "Ner woll, in Malta. There, believing for nobody?" she asked. "No nor her face to have to have tricked Alternative Vote has been includ- Alternative Vote in the Bill which

her, she had married the widower A fine of $50, ur one month's Im-for noboily neither." I said. in the Electoral Reform Bat is shortly to come up for considera-

prisonment. was imposed by Mr. I then walked into the boozer of a late Colonel of Girl Guides. which is to engage the attention of

Butters, at Kowloon this morning, and left the young woman outside. on a Chinese who pleaded guilty to I haven't seen her since nor I don't the House of Commons early ini

a charge of loitering in the back-want to. She was a plain-fneed the New Year. il will be of

yard of 514, Shanghai Street and young woman and not my typont not being able to give a satisfuc-all. what interest to see precisely

tory account of himself. this new method in British elections will involve. In a letter ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT which he addressed to the Prime Minister in July last, after the Police Reserve Orders by the failure of the confererve on elec-Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, toral reform over which he prg. Inspector General of Police, state: sided, Lord Ullswater set forth tha

General, position in detail. He explainest Revolver Practice-There will at the that there was no subject connecte no revolver practice

Kennedy Road Rango on Wednes ed with politics which had given day. Décember 31st 1930. greater dissatisfaction that fact that individual constituemees

the

Tion.

POLICE RESERVE.

.. WEEK.

(Signed) ALBERT HOCHIN, A.B.

NEW CANTON AIR SQUADRON.

George Andrews, a ship's officer, This seemail to lead nowhere and

SIX FIGHTING PLANES was to have appeared before Mr.I was on the point of returning to Batters, at the Kowloon Magistracy London when a man in a striped

FROM US.A.**** this morning, on charge of hav-japron entered the local police sta

Canton, Dec. 28. Ging behaved in a disorderly man- tion and requested to see the off-

The Bureau of Aviation has deci ner by fighting in the Nathan Hotel rer in charge. He added that it thin morning.

The defendant was was urgent and concerned the mis-cided to add a third air squadron to however, absent and his bail of $10 ing battleship. The following is the Kwangtung Provincial Air was estreated.

verbatim report, taken straight Force, and has recently placed or from my notebook, of my interviewders through an American firm for Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress with this man, who gave his name the purchase of six fighting planes Winter Uniform

at n cost of $70,000 each. The and Cap with as Waters,

Me: Well, my man. And so you planes are to be 350 h.p. two- White Cover.

wish to

to make a statement con-kçaters, each fitted with two ma- cerning the missing battleship. Ichine guns. Waters: You're all wrong there, The new machines are expected ·

chum. What I want to know is to arrive in Canton next month when the Third Air Squadron will

Police Training School. The weekly classes for Police

Chinese Company.

in large numbers find the majorityReservists at the Police Training of their voters' views lost. The Schnol, Kowloon, will be held as Alternative Vote, he thought, apusual on Tuesday, December 30th at 5.30 p.m. All members of the peared to be a step in the direction Chinese Company, and of the of allaying that riissatisfaction. Flying Squad who have not yet A further joint ng was that the Passed Part 2 of Training Course

Should attend. proposal for the Alternative Vote] had suffered from being mixed up

Mr. F. Mow Fung, A. S. P. tuo mach with Propés Híound Repres

R) relinquishes command of the entation, though from one point | Chinese Company with effect of view the two Are essentially from December 31st. 1930 and la appointed to command the Emer- different. The object of Proquarrenez Company, Hongkong Police tional Representation is to provide Reserve with Tect from January against the under-representation The Inspector tieneral of Police or non-representation of minori- wishes to express bis appreciation ties, but the object of the Altur- of the services rendered by Mr. native Vote is to provide against C. Mow Fung while command- ing the Chinese Company of the Hongkong Police' Researes,

the under-representation or, was representation of majorities.

1st. 1931,

Flying Squad. In showing how the Alter.ntive

Surdugtl-Sub Inspector B. C. Vote would work, Lord Ullswater Randalt relinulshes command of says the method would be the the Flying Squal. Hong Kong Police Reserve with effect from simple and Innithe seg of making December 31st. 1030.

a short lect of the two highest The Inspector General of Police

wishtos candidates on the poll. The pori-

to express his appreciation of the

the services rendered by Mr. B. „tion of the vajer exercisicr the C. Randall while commanding the Alternative Vots might at Brst Flying Squad of the Hong Kong

Police Reserve.

appear to raise a stiff psychologi Promotion Constable R333 A. cal problem, but all such difleni-W. Mooney of the Hong Kong. tics quickly dleappear, Illustrat-Section, has been appointed Lance witir effect from Decem- Sergeant, ing the point, Lord Ullswater takes her 20th, 1930.

'n case whore there are three enn-

The ow

wankly instructional text

Kowloon Section will patrol

of the didates~A, B. and Cand voter take pince on Tuesday, January who favours C. I, the voter for 6th, 1931 Fall In at Trim-tun- C, is put in this position: Ho tsui Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 Bays, "I approve of C, and he gets form and Cap with White Cover.

Un!- p.m.

sharp. Dreas Winter my first vote but I may fall: C may The next weekly Instructional not even get into the short le patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Friday, January I sincerely, disapprove of the poli-End. Fall in at Central: Police

.

Sharpshoolers Company. Leave Constable R402 B. S. M. Valcki has been granted 3 months' leave of absence from the Colony, ax from 31st. December 1930,

(Sgd.) D. L. King.

who is going to pay me my milk bill, that's what.

Me: Which milk bill?

be formally inaugurated by Direc-

Wong

Kwang-yut, Chief of the

for

D. SP. (R) Waters: Why the bill for all the Aviation Bureau, with Mr. Chan

hope you didn't come along "just, to keep me informed

the wall-dressed sportsman should wear.

Yau-ahing, the present Vice-Com- mander of the 2nd Air Squadron,

as its first Commander.

The Inauguration of a third squadron

18 partly due

to the needs of civil aviation, several of the firat air squadron being now utflised to maintain the regular air routes. connecting Custon with Wuchow, Swatow, Pakhoi and Hoihow,-Out Own Gorrespondent,

KWANGTUNG POLICE

FORCES.

CENTRALISED CONTROL NOW-

SARRANGED.⠀ .

Canton, Dec. 28. "General Auyang-kue. the Popu lar Chief of the Canton Polico Forco, Is to have his powers ex- tended to control all the police throughout Kwangtung Province. This is the result of a decision of General Chan Ming-ahu, Ciell Gov- ernor of Kwangtung, who, appre

great progress and ex- plating the cellent organisation of the Can- Police Force, has invited Gen- eral Auyang-kue to extend his knowledge and organising powers to all the other towns and villages

the province. throughout

ton

The

will assume his new,

boat Intely after £6 New

Year holidays, and at the

the

same ho will

over command of Kwangtung Provincial Peace Main- tainance Corps, thus having under his solo control all the bodies for the maintenance of law and order throughout the Province,

Own Correspondent.

Dun