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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1932.

desperate

DAY BY DAY

ORDER TO NETEMPER MYSELF A MONG,

THE COMPANIONS OF MY POVERTY.-

Beranger.

The Ben Line .. Doneruachan, from Home via Straits, is due here on Sunday.

which he

KREUGER A POPULAR IDOL-

BY PAUL HARRISON

were

In

were

to help the child, such terms as "conviction" and "sentence," like- ly to hamper them in after life, should disappear. Another criti- cism put forward is that the Bill

OFTEN AFTER BEING PRESENT at should have raised the age for

But the testimony of his inti- BUMITUOUS BANQUETS IN THE MIDST

"M Kreuger is in conference".| Juvenile Courts up to 21, instead or NEW ACQUAINTANCES I

11AVE

"M. Kreuger cannot be dis-mates shows that Kreuger loved of 17 years. The Young Offen- GONE TO DINE THE FOLLOWING DAY turbed"..."M. Kreuger is with luxury and speed, and had a flair Ho simply confined ders Committee, after stating IN A BACK-SHOP OR A GARRET, IN the bankers now. Ife said to as-for romance.

sure you that the principal and his whoopee-making to his own that 2,000 of there young people

interest will be paid in a.. Edomain. Theysay his "only weak.

E. Drelli..

ncanes"

champagne and. Drelli. are sent to prinon overy year, gave

But so careful- While the trim little secretary beautiful women. it as its considered opinion that

Karin Bokmann, attended to calls ly, or perhaps bountifully, did the "both In the public interest and

and callers one morning in 1931, bachelor industrialist. gunrd his for the welfare of the young of,

Ivar Kreuger, the mighty match- privato affairs, that not one of fender concerned, it appears to us

Scaffolding around a house being maker, was alone in the "silent them ever has been aired in court. office Ile ncquired control of a big to be the duty of the legislature built on the site bordering Jardine's room" atop his Stockholm

Bazaar at Causeway Bay, gave way building. What he had been do-night club in Stockholm, but is and of the courts to see that so

yesterday, throwing Chol Lob-fat, aing didn't look in the least im-paid never to have gone there.. of paper scat- The entertainers, instead, some- far as persons under 21 are con-plasterer, down a height of 50 feet to portant. Sheets cerned, Imprisonment Is aban- the street. He received fatal, head tered over his big desk had been times went to Krougor's private injuries and died after admission to covered with a namo copied many parties. Incidentally, that club hospital. doned as far as possible."

times E. Drelli

E. Dretli now is dark and bankrupt. Its clientele went broke along with . . E. Dreilli. When we come to look into the

During quarrying work on the hill- Finally the big blonde indus-the billion-dollar collapse of the general problem of the youthful side at Beichers Fort yesterday, a

The silent Swede had half a offender, it will be recognised that, boulder became dislodged and rolled triallat drey out an important-Kreuger "empire."

down the slope. A stone mason was looking document and studied it. in the main, it is the whole pro-struck in the right leg and was some-Ha high forehead was furrowed dozen houses or apartments blem of poverty and social cond] what seriously injured, being sub-with a frown, his blue eyes dull Stockholm and its suburbs, and a tions.. The child who comes be- aequently taken to the Governmented by sleepless nights of worry, lonely retreat on a tiny island in

Civil Hospital.

He may have noticed that his hand the Baltic. A yacht and the fleet- shook a little, but be ateadied test speedbont in Sweden fore a Juvenile Court rarely comes

Falling from a bunk on from a prosperous homo; usually

was sleeping, Wong Po, an apprentice with an effect as he bent over the moored at his private dock. He The Match King once declared he is from a home where the neces-painter, Ilving af 134, Apliu Street, document and wrote for the last bought and drove the fastest care. He took the paper, together that the rules of his success were and still sity for the mother to go out to Shamshuipo, yesterday, suffered con-time, "E. Drelli."

eunion and other injuries, and was work until late is imperative, or reported this morning to be still in an with a copper plate etched with silence, more silence.

"Here in seven to his Stockholm office build- overcrowding unconscious condition at the Kwong the likeness of an Italian hende, to more silence. He applied them where

Wah Hospital, to which he was re-a printer-engraver. moved after the mishap.

matter an important I must at-ing, which, thickly carpeted and. conditions exlat-homes In which

tend to it myself," he explained with insulated walls, was nearly there can be little control over the

want widow, attempted to So Mui, 66. a

you to a quiet at the height of a busy children. Until there is a win-take her life yesterday by cutting her confidentially. I

threat with a razor at her home at print this text with a border from day as it is now, following the de-. In addition to his luxurious ing out of these slum areas, wo

14, Jubilee Street. She was taken to this plate. Print 42 of them, Say bacle. cannot expect the young criminal the Government Civil Hospital where nothing of this. It is a secret be-

"silent room" where he never, un- the meantime, examination by a surgeon showed a cause of the strained relations be-business office, Kreuger had Lo disappear. In

superficlul cut. The wontan in expect tween Italy and France." much will depend on the spirit ned to recover. Another case, that of As he rode back to his office, hejder any circumstances, was to he

Young woman, Ng Sui-heung, 28, which the new Bill is operated,

turned out fatally for the victim, who must have known that the people disturbed. Only he and the jani- he ap-there he secluded himself to make once it becomes inw.

Above all, was found dead with a rope passed were saying: "Look, there goes tor had keys to the room,

his wily schemes and to study the there is wide power invested in twice around her neck, hanging from M. Kreuger! How tired

a typhoon shutter at her home at 91, pears, planning his big deals.

other manifold manipulations. the Lord Chancellor to make rules Wuhu Street, Hunghom. Suicide is they any he works night and day, few records that he kept of his

Almost in these times it is

constantly travelling, for the Juvenile Courts, and this advanced by the pollee authorities, helping Sweden and the

countries..

SAW nt to maintain good to have so rich and powerful Krouger Bends to the hope that a way will

apartments in New York, Berlin, a friend. be opened up for real consultation

They never could have dreamed Paris and London. Staffs of do- assuring the

that their idol had just executed mestics kept these places In view of the fact that Hong-between the Court, the parents, have to go about

conviction all world of their

that kong is shortly to have its Juvenile the probation officers, and

in the child's there is no serious risk of inflation the greatest single fraud on re-stantly in readiness for the great

cord the forgery of $100,000,000 man or hle guests Courts, coupled with other men- others interested

when what they really mean is worth of securities.

good yet see Bures in the interests of youthful welfare.

that they cannot enough grounds for trying to hope offenders, it is interesting to note

for it." The politicians share this! Not even his suicide last March time he had under construction, some of the provisions of a new

attitude of the bankers to such an could shatter the romantic glamor in the heart of Paris, a.now busi Children's Bill which is at present

extent that they have invented that had grown up about the man. nesa building topped by a pent- before the British Parliament. The

Designed primarily as the head- new word to take the place of Only now, as the investigations house fairyland.

proceed, is the world learning to

quarters of the Banque de Sucuo main Act governing the treatment

It was natural that he should jet de Paris, it was nearing com- of young offenders and children needing care and protection was and the redaction of war debts seeking ways to hecomplish an have become the centre of misin-pletion when his suicide brought passed in 1908, and it was rightly until after the Presidential elec-end, the truthful description of formation and fanciful legend, the work to a halt. Every stone regarded as a landmark in the tion is a remarkable confession which they are afraid to present for he seems to have made him was specially cut and numbered self, deliberately, a remote and before being imported from Swe- history of juvenile legislation, be-No attempt is being made to hide to the public. This fear mani- mysterious figure. When he spoke den. Elaborate vaults, strong as the feeling of the Admlaistrationfested alike by political leaders at all, he was shy, almost diffident, a fortress, already have been in-

no stalled in the sub-basement. enuse for the first time it was re-

and financial leaders must in-le dreaded reporters, had

Plans called for a magnificent cognised that the problem of the tion, is inevitable, except to the evitably stand in the way of an spokesman. America knew him

on the roof. delinquent child is different from American public, and appareatly intelligent and definitive settle-better than his own Sweden, for private apartment that of the adult and needs special it is the intention of the Republi- \ ment of economic and financial it was in New York that he grant-! There was to be un open Bummer

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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 15, 1932.

JUVENILE COURTS.

America's Polities America's intimation that her delegates to

world economic conference would not be able to

who are investigating the case.

An Unreal Figure.

give their views freely on tariltslation: "Reflation" is what they know the real Kreuger.

call it, and they are assiduously

that a reduction, or even cancella.

the election

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and

Icon-

The Paris apartment where he shot himself was not a particu larly sumptuous place, but at that

He

flowers, with exotic plants and treatment in every respect. The jean Party to fight

What seems to be needed is a made his only publie address,

Nearly everything about the aviaries for rare birds, and a ter- of leaders, new Bill, in many particulars, is with as little reference to these conditions in the United States. cd his only lengthy interviews and garden, and a winter garden filled hased on the valuable report of vital issues as possible, instead leader, or a group

of doing what would appear to be willing to risk their own political man was as paradoxien as the race from which he could contem- the Committee on the Treatment the obvious thing in Britain, futures in the effort to convince fuct that he cheated thousands of plate the delightful old Place Ven- ped by a statue of his only idol- Napoleon. of Young Offenders, issued in namely, seeking the mandate of the voting public of the righteous investors while posing as a ben- dome and its central column top-

ness of the programme in which evolent giant.

So there was a romantic side to 1927. It marks another step for-the country on them. It would they believe. That does not menn Simple-Yet Luxury-loving.

Loo, Ivar Kreuger. They say, ward, but in some quarters is not seem that Mr. J. M. Keynes, the that what is needed in either af

For instance, much has been that there was a kindly one.

tastes and once declared that so far

as he regarded as suficiently thorough- well-known British economist, put new apostle of inflation, or an im

his finger on the root of the evil passioned advocate of debt can- said of his simple going in ita provisions.

ever had been discharged. He One of the most important in his recent article in the "Atlan-cellation, What it does mean is homely ways. He often travelled knew no employee of his companies

that there should come out of the unattended, and never allowed his lie Monthly, when he said that present depression and distress name to appear on a passenger was reported to have declined a changes in the proposed legislain the United States it is almost men with

enough to list. He almost invariably de- tempting offer of Russian match- tion is an improvement in the con-

inconceivable what rubbish a enunciate a progressive, even nclined invitations, and was stitution of Juvenile Courts so as

public man has to utter to-day if radical programme, for its correc- despair of society "lion hunters" wood because some of his

cigarettes in to bring them more into line with he is to be kept respectable," Thetion, and stand ready to sacrifice He wore plain clothes, ate plain would be deprived of jobs, He

real fact is that many politicians their political futures, if neces- food, and smoked believe, rightly or wrongly, that ry, in its defence.

the practice already adopted in

the more advanced towns and in- troduced in London by an Act of 1920. Provision is made for special rota of Justices specially qualified for the work, and it is further laid down that Courts L'ollee shall not be held in

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the electorate in the United States is utterly without intelligent com- prehension of economic, financial, or international problems. leader of one of the parties said not long ago that very frankly while every intelligont nan knew Court without sanction from that there was no longer any hope the Secretary of

State of the payment of the interallied Another provision is the raising debts, and that while

courage

W

many in-

of the age under which children telligent men believed that thelr. can be dealt with in the Juvenile cancellation would so atimulate The international trade as to be in the Court from 16 to 17 years,

end a source of profit, even to the Courts are also to be given power creditors who arrendered

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to den 'with all cases of neglect rights. any public man who, ad- up to 17 years of age, instead of vacated such-a-mensure, or who 14 as at present, while the general admitted the impossibility of such sign his own powers of the Juvenile Courts to payment, would

Some- are abolished, political death warrant. order whippings

with this 1 par There are many other excellent whine provisions, but there are also mat- is the statement of Mr. Newton made ns part of lis dealt D. Baker, ters which have not been

campaign for the Presidency, that with at all, such, for example, as the question of United States par- the provision of Observation Cen- ticipation in the League of Nu- tres or Central Eemand Homes,tions should not be raised in the which were, in a sense, the pivot presidential campaign this year. on which many of the recommen- Mr. Baker has long been known as dations of the Young Offenderan foremost advocate of American Committee turned. The Bill also participation in the League, yet he declines to defend his own con- differa in another important res-

victions before un electorate pect from the recommendations

which he

in hostile Huspecta

On Kaynes goes of the Committee in that it does Mr.

to say: not provide that offences proved "Serious and sonsible bankers, "or admitted-kr-the-suvevils Court who 44 men of common sense are shall not rank as convictions. It trying to do what they can to stain hay well been argued that if the the tide of liquidation, and to whole intention of the Court in stimulate the forces of expansion,

moderation.

"I'm so glad, Mrs. Dobbs, that you have decided to see your face through."

the

men

gave generous bonuses to his aldes--and six of them have been arrested as accomplices in his chicanery.

Not Eccentric.

He had few personal eccentri- cities. It is not true that the Match King never carrled mat- ches. Nor did he, as legend has it, always carry a million kronen In his pocket. On the contrary," due to his forgetfulness of de- tail, he sometimes found himself unable to pay a tixi driver..

Despite his penchant for speed, Kreuger had been pledged by his bankers to stay out of neroplanes. But he refused to take out any insurance on his life. Ils aged parents, who are still living, and his brother and four sisters were well provided for, he believed. Besides, at 52 he was lithe and healthy, said he'd live to be 100. and declared he never would re-

He once said:

tire

"I don't know how much money I've got, and I don't care. What difference does money make?"

Power, the Frankenstela.

So it was not money that beck- oned him on to dazzling indus- trial coups and triumphs of inter- national flance. It was

power. He had sought it ever since he was 27, when he had returned to Sweden from America, land of ma- chines and mergers. He reached into nearly every country in the world to snatch at opportunity. Ho became the largest private money lender to Europo. He dreamed, perhaps, of dollar dicta-

torship.

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