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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

lege directly, without constabu- lar experience, and with the cor- tainty that if they remain in the force at all they will remain as offlcers. The intention to crento an officer class in the police force is unmistakable and un- deniable. One need not share the exaggerated fears of some

VAUXHALL Labour politicians that this is a

SYNCHRO-MESH

FAULTLESS GEAR

CHANGING

NOW

BEING DEMONSTRATED

AT OUR SHOWROOMS

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

Stubbs Road,

DEATH.

HERBERT AUSTIN RODGERS.At Kowloon Hospital, on the 26th June, 1933. Aged 38. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5. p.m. today, Tuesday,

LET US TALK UNITED

STATES

SAYS

SYDNEY BROOKS,

who knows America as well as England and finds they don't understand each

other's languages yet.

The Very Idea!

A GRIPPING DRAMA By Edward "Garvice" ́Kelly,

E feel bad. We have

a headache, and there. are little white spots danc ing about in front of our eyes. We feel lonely, too,. for the headache packed

our office

"Now," we says, standing up. and looking like old Solomon must have looked when he told Mrs. Sheeba he had 'other flah to fry, ¡“We'll nak you one. What are wo going to write about on a day like this?"

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Archibald Vere de Vere

door of the little cottage. It was

first step to Fascism. It is not so bad as that. But it will be thoroughly bad for the police force itself. The more educated and intelligent men enter the force the better for it. But un-

I remember it was a telephone their conditions and their mental her traps and went home less they have the hardiness to operator in a New York hotel who workings, their psychology and to mother this morning. We serve their duo term as con- first invited me to "talk United their reactions as few Englishmen ache for the milk of human kind-

have been at the pains to acquireness, with or without rum, stables, and the sportsmanship to States."

Only a little while ago the irre take their chance of promotion When I rang through to her for

Just imagine our feelings 'a with the rest, and to rely

the number I wanted I used my presalble 'director of La Chauve their merits rather than on the not, so far as I know, any marked a pinylet in which his company had tor, leading a green elephant by ordinary native English, which has Souris was ruefully admitting that few minutes ago when the Edi- accidents of birth, or of position, peculiarities of accent or pro-scored their greatest hit in Europe a string, walked into they are not the kind of mer.nunciation.

had fallen, completely flat in Now (without knocking) and said: whom the police force wants. But it proved in her case a fatal York. It turned on a Russian noble- "Kelly, where is the Vory Idea?" "Huh!" we replied, sarcastic And even if the Trenchard plan barrier to intercourse. With the man, who after losing $10,000 did result in improving the quai-shrillest assurance in the world ahe gambling went out and shot him-like, "the Very Ideal"

"Yes", he said, kicking the Ity of the higher ranks it would urged me to come off it and "talk self.

United States.”

But in New York almost every-¦ elephant away from one of our out-balance that by its effect on

body had lost £10,000 (and more) snakes, and a dirty look coming the general body of constables. "WHERE ANGELS

without committing suicide. They into his oye. "The Vory Idea. At present, every lad who joins FEAR"

could not see the point. To them Where is it?" the force knows that he has as Talking United States is much the little drama seemed fantastical. good a chance as any other to more than IL matter merely of ly unreal and remote from life as get to the upper rungs of the linguistic adjustment. The dif-they knew it. M. Balieff (for once) ladder, and that it depends only ferences in idioms, phrases, mean-was not talking their language. Phone 23124. on his own ability and conductings, accentuations and so on are

whether he does so.

learned in time. Like a Spaniard TALE OF If the or-

TWO NAVIES. in Cuba, a Parisian in Quebec or n

Then there was that delightful dinary constable's chance of pro-Portuguese in Brazil, the English-

"I'll tell you," he said, "You've motion is diminished by the re- man in America soon ninsters the play by Commander King-Hall and had more love affairs than Don servation of a growing number vocabulary of the new yet oddly Major Ian Hay "The Middle Juan and Casanova combined.

Watch". It rovolved round the Give them of the higher posts for men who familiar tongue that anasails him.

a great love opic. have come in half-way up the

Even so he may be some distance complications caused by two or Knock 'em cold."

three ladies finding themselves "You flatter us," · we replied, scale, the attractiveness of the from "talking United States."

Many years in America have obliged to spend the night on a "but we'll do our best." force to the young intelligent taught me that the capacity of quite British

man-of-war. Such con-

"Attaboy," he says, and worker is so much the less, and intelligent and acceptable English-tingencles are not provided for in moves himself and the elephant, the level of the rank and file men for making illimitable fools of the regulations of his Majesty's leaving us alone with our thoughts is likely to deteriorate. There themselves all over the American Navy. But in the more spacious is another point which shows Union is beyond restraint or com- code of the American Navy, which and the snakes,

Here is the Great Love Epic. oncourages and prepares for week- how the plan would divide off putation.

I have known British Ambassa- end visits from the officers' female the higher classes from the low- er. The White Paper says that dors in Washington who were fur-belongings, such incidents are only it will be necessary to amend the ther from speaking or understand a slight variation from the normal lawny Pjones knocked gently at the

ing the American language by routine. Police, Act so as to exclude from which I mean entering into the The Americans, then, could not a wild and stormy night, and rain the Police Federation the cadets mentality and outlook of their understand what the play was was falling heavily. There was a who are recruited directly to the hosts and the atmosphere of the about, or why all this fuss-and-com-look of fear or delight (it was one of the two, but you couldn't see college. What reason can there country to which they were ac-motion and subterfuge.

The London and New York which in the dark) in the manly. be for this mysterious amend-credited-than if they had been ment, unless it is the fear that dumped down on Sofla or Bangkok. audiences were, in short, not eyes of Archibald Vere

I have known British bankers talking the same language.

Trelawny Pjones. the young officers-to-be might jarring on every American nerve And was there not a famous A gentle patter of tiny fact on be contaminated by contact, at and setting all teeth on edge just "error in the fourth dimension," the old cobblestones told Archy POLICE REFORM an impressionable age, with the when they imagined themacives to committed by a character in one of that his darling Agatha was com- trade union spirit which expres-be most imposingly agreeable. Mr. Kipling's carlier stories an Ing. Ho folded the collar of his The foreignness of the United American millionaire resident in heavy overcoat about his neck to The shake-up of the Metro- ses itself, in a mild and limited politan Police which will follow form, in the Federaion? If that States is a fact that most English-England, who, wanting to got to keep out the blinding snow.

is the idea, then this is class le- men go to their graves without London in a hurry, "flagged" the the adoption of the Bill now islation indeed. The proposals suspecting and that the remainder crack express of the crack railway before Parliament is probably as they stand apply, of course, who are aware of the truth) perline, brought it to a standstill and found himself instantly up against very necessary. A number of only to London. But their ful- unpleasant facts have beenfilment in London would be more brought to light in recent than a precedent. months obviously requiring strong measures while the growth of serious crime suggests that the force is ill-equipped to counter,modern criminal me- thods. At the same time, while

"His Majesty views with great

Ed's Note: I thought it was a it is desirable that younger men disquiet the unsatisfactory con- and akin in other respects only puny efforts, and those of men far

That they are more or less alike

cottage.

for- should be drafted into the force,dition under which so many of underscores the difficulty of either more qualified than myself have

Author's Note: You are given.. and while it is equally desirable his subjects are at present of them really getting inside the effected, is to make them better that the executive leadership housed." So wrote the King in other's mind and, nature,

friends, better disposed towards

Recovering quickly, Archibald should be in the hands of ex-

It is not more than once or twice one another, than they were in the stopped once more to the doorway. perts, there will be strong critica letter addressed to the Mayor

"Darling" murmured Agatha, as ism of the proposals submitted of "The Royal Borough of Ken- in a generation that one can im- nineties.

agine a great American statesman WHAT WE ARE

abo rushed into his arms. Alas! by Lord Trenchard for the estab-sington" on the occasion of a being equally great in Britain, or PUZZLED ABOUT.

Archibald had heard her greeting. lishment of an "officer class" in meeting of citizens called to an acknowledged leader at Wost- the Force. We have them in launch an "attack on the slums." minster holding the same position Perhaps they are all the better He had heard stories about George

power on friends for knowing each other so

"Unhand me, woman" he grow- Hongkong, but conditions here This single borough, which is and wielding the same

little. At any rate, there is hard- cannot be compared with the only one of twenty-nine subdivi- Pennsylvania-avenue.

To talk United States," there-ly a sign of an approach towards led. "Go to your George." problems of London, and even sions of the County of London, here, we have yet to be convin- no fewer than 26,000 persons are fort, is an accomplishment that real comprehension. They still do Yere for short) "I thought it was ced that the system is entirely still living in slum dwellings; and goes beyond a command of the not talk the same language,

verbal variations, the vocal inflec- One sees this at every turn in the in the best interests of the force. there are many other boroughs tons, the felicities and the bar-unending debate over the War Most of the proposals in the in which the conditions are as barisms that the Americans have debts. Here (for the first time in Trenchard scheme for reform of bad or nearly as bad as in Ken-injected into the English language, my experience of Anglo-American

(Continued on Page 10.) the London police are reassuring.sington. Though the problem It embraces such a knowledge of

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

A Five-Year Plan for

Slums

The

At least two of them are not.in London is more formidable Criticism will be concentrated than elsewhere, it exists in al- upon one single point-the direct most every industrial city in recruitment for the higher posts Britain. Upon this side of the of university or public-school housing problem, the Govern- Imen who have not served as con- ment, goaded into activity by stables. Some of the proposals severe criticism of its housing are admirable. No one will quar-policy as a whole, has decided to rel with the ending of the sys- concentrate its energies. tem by which constables have broader question of the general Been able to hire themselves out provision of houses for the work- to private persons in their spare ing classes by subsidized build- time, and the appointment of a ing has been put aside. The few additional inspectors, not to British Minister has called upon deal with particular cases of the local authorities to prepare crime but to study in general the a programme such that the changing methods of criminals slums may be completely swept. and to devise adequate counter-away within five years in the measures, is a really constructive provinces, or a somewhat longer suggestion. The establishment period in London. The condemn. of the new police college is, in fed areas are already known and itself, a step in the right direc-scheduled. The slum owners will tion. The police force has for not be compensated beyond pay- some time been suffering from ment for the site value of the the lack of training-other than land. Though there is no gen- the routine experience of daily eral subsidy for housing, now for displaced duty-for the more responsible accommodation positions. There has been no-tenants may be subsidized to the thing, for instance, equivalent extent of £1b a year. These are to the successive courses through powers which the Minister deri-i which army officers pass as they ves from legislation passed by are promoted. If Lord Tren- the last Labour Government. chard simply proposed that no What is now is the determination constable could be promoted to to apply these powers, to insist the higher, ranks until he had on, a time-table of action, and to been through the police college take the utmost advantage of ho would command pretty gon- the fact that the present period eral agreement. The point to of low prices affords an oppor- which objection will and shall be tunity for building such as has raised is that it is proposed that not existed for nearly twenty young men should enter the col-years,

sist in blinking.

I do not myself know of any English officialdom in its most two peoples in Europe who are so English mood when he attempted dissimilar in instincts in some of to board the train?

No, we shall never their fundamental characteristics and in the general cast of their the Americans and they will never civilisations as the English and the understand us. Americans.

TAKE SOME PAINS.

understand

1-have spent some forty years of my writing life in trying to make the two countries and the two peoples a little more comprehensible to one another. All that my own

"You go right to the fore man and toll him to make those fellows stop kidding you and calling "you" nicknames."

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de Vore

Editor's Note: You said it was raining heavily,

Author's Note: The snow started since then.

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The door opened an inch and the dim gleam of a candle light shone through the aperture.

"Is that you, Georga?" said a sweet, maidenly voice.

Archibald drew back a pace and fell down four flights of stairs.

too.

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*

"Vero" she said (she called him

the milkman."

comes

"At this time of the night?" he naked scornfully.

"Ayo" she said. "Our milkman' is mad and

at strange hours. Believe in me, Trelawny. I swear I've been true to you."

"Me and the South Wales Bor- derers" he roared.

"Not Nol" she whimpered. Agatha was sweet when she whimpered and now she whimper- ed as she had never whimpered be- fore. Slowly Plones came under the spell of her whimpering. He took her in his arms. He kissed her. This went on for a long time.

But stop! Other eyes were watching them. Had they known it, George Thawi Was At that moment standing by the window. An occasional flash of lightning showed up the dark scowl on his face.

Grinding his tooth at what he saw, George drew his machine gun from the portmantenu he al- ways carried.

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Ed's Note: Must havO been the man known as Portmanteau George.

Author's Note: Must been..

havo

George loaded the gun caroful- ly. Slowly ho took aim. His fing er gently pressed the button that' would rolease the lead poisoning."

Crash!

Flame apurted from the muzzle of the gun and Archibald Voro de Vere Trelawny Pjones fell, ahot through the heart. Agatha fell, shot through the 'brassiere. Goorgo fell into a pool of water And later into the hands of tho police.

The police hanged Gaorgo and his relations lived happily ever afterwards,