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NOTES OF THE DAY

Settlement of the trade war between Britain and Soviet Russin is the most sensible act of both governments for some time past and congratulations are due to Sir John Simon and M. Litvinoff. Tho happy outcome of their conver sations could not have been easy of nchievement. The chief obstacle

was abandoned with feelings

Canton-Hankow Railway.

VAUXHALL trade will result.

CADET

of

P. C. SELIM MAHMOUD VINDICATED

A TALE OF HONGKONG COURTS

By C. V.-L.

*

for the Telegraph

progress.

con.

The Very Idea!

INSPIRATION.

By Eddie "Perspiration" Kelly.

HAVE you ever sat back in a comfortable chair, waiting for an inspirationswaying gently backwards and forwards, soothing your depression, with the fumes of a fag, feet on the

cuspidor tables, and

close handy?

eye here and there, and making

speciul note of the excellence of the Inst column on page six.'

We looked

the through Court reports, wondering ab- sently whether Romeone had usurped our shroff & authority and had gone cry-

ing to Mr.

cry.

dislike

C. D1001 Sellm Mahmoud of the had come under suspicion because to success was national dignity, P. Central Division was sad in an it was a complete blank. Viewed which frequently leads otherwise reasonable people along paths from exquisite way. Being and, it fol- against the fact that his beat dur-

was llatless. ing that month was laid through NO? Well, that's how we were to-day, when a which they instinctively shy. In lows also that he REALISE the this case, the trade boycotts had With a mind completely detached, district notoriously over-run with both he mechanically entered Kall Kai unticonsed hawkers, it was hinted for Hone on, long enough

On previous occasions he was sanctum, bearing the Telc governments to realise the futility (here translated as Curry Street) that he had boon willfully negligent..boy came timidly into our "With the Editor's compli- of the procedure, to discover that without realising his embargoes never did anybody, any The unlicensed hawkers, who had able to take refuge behind the plea graph on a silver salver. good. Once Rusala saw her way taken possession of the pitch, start that the Inspector sahib throw out clear to release Messrs. MacDonald ed up on his approach, but half-way the few cases he had brought in. ments," he said in an awed voice, Lund Thornton, therefore, the war down the street they stopped to On this ocension ho was unable to and after salaaming in approved

of stare back in wonderment at this again advance that defence.

He came away from the dreaded fashion, silently withdrew,

We glanced casually through On other mornings he had given interview with tho Polico Chiof relief on both sides. If the episode indifferent, transformed molo chai, has caused Britain and Russia to look at a mutual problem from the them quite a run, but to-day he did with a feeling of having boon the paper, casting an approving

He thought it was just too bad: other's point of view for a brief not as much as look in their direc-noverely reprimanded.

have tion. It was true that for one while, it may yet prove to brief moment he did emit a spark His mind went back to what an served a useful purpose.

of ill-temper. More from force of inspector sahib, that very morning, routine than any special interest, he had declared in the Court. The paused before a basket abandoned Inspector had told the sahib on the by a fleeting hawker, and after first Bench that "these Indian gazing all unseeingly at it, had stables are not capable of doing Although a good deal of nonsense suddenly and viciously lunged out anything except catching hawkera." Of course he had had nothing to But even this performance could do with it-particularly. The case has been written about the plans with his foot. for completing the Canton-Hankow not hold his Interest for long. in point belonged to another man, Railway, it is safe to say that when After a last violent kick which sent a comrade, but the generality of through traffic to Hankow has been the unoffending article tottering the criticism made him. resentful.

The Magistrate had also chided' established, a lip to Hongkong over on its side, he continued on

Modern develop his way, with a return of his for- the colleaguo for "catching vomen and children", although he (Selim ments in the realm of transportmer air of listless Indifference.

Mahmoud) knew they sometimes Wynne Jones.

We dislike people who have destroyed the attractiveness

Plainly something was decidedly gave more trouble than anyone else. of the original dream of a through route from Kowloon to Calala, bat ubnormal with P.C. Selim Mahmoud,"Catch one of your size," the sahib Pete cries after he's had a few

whe is known to be ordinarily a had also said to the colleague, and whiskies. Therefore we

But stop. What is this we see? in opening up the hinterland China and providing a short route most cheerful member of his con-it loft Selim Mahmoud, always Pete.

A man put his head through a to Hankow and the Upper Yang tingent. If the truth be told, he anxious to learn, floundering help-

windscreen and broke his arm. taze, the project is decidedly worth was thoroughly disappointed, and lessly about for an explanation. while. A substantial saving in in that condition of mind summed

Did the sahib intend they were We suspect the Telegraph is time and costs will be afforded the up in the word "fed-up." Only Hankow importer and exporter who that morning the sahib on the to catch only men? And here hiding something. We suspect makes Hongkong his main supply Bench at Central saw fit to throw P. C. Selim Mahmoud stopped sud-that his fellow experienced just us a few weeks ago. depot and he will not be slohy to out his caso (his third within a denly on his tracks, and frowned the same sort of thing that hap

week) because, he was informed, it contemplatively at a mean-looking pened to grasp the advantages.

essential street coolie, the while he puzzled Pete was driving us home in his was trivial and lacked evidence.

over the next requirement. "Of car after a party with a few of These minute points of law al-his size"?

the boys. Somehow, we must have Mah- He himself measures.6 feet 7 dropped off to sleep. When we ways worried P. C. Selim moud, who never could see the inches in his policeman's No. 11 woke up, there was a fellow look- Newspapermen are certain to be necessity. He argues that if a per-shoes, and it will be difficult to finding straight at us, with a nasty interested in the new law put into son carries a basket of vegetables amongst these cheera one of his leor on his face. We promptly hit a hawker. bulkiness to catch. Surely the him-and put our hand through effect in New Jersey recently, un-in the street he is

ho bands the vegetables Sakib had been good enough to the windscreen. Pete hit us on der which no court, grand jury or f

Don't you see what's happened? The history of piracy on the other body could require any re-to another person he is selling make a joke about it. He could the head with a cranking handle.

porter to divulge the source of con-them. And if he sells them with-not have been serious.

If the stricture were literally Just another case of history repeat- Itself-but the Telegraph China Const contains few fidential information used in news out holding a hawker's licence, the

law simply re-import becomes clear: he has com carried out; and inch for inch, and ing episodes so revolting as the story articles. This

came to the conclusion that, short Anyway, it's not so very of the seizure of the Sheng An/cognises what has long,been the mitted a distinct breach of the pound for pound were required, he wouldn't say so..

code of the profession; that a repor Hawkers' Ordinance.

Right at the outset of his career of weighing these hawkers with graceful, even if the Telegraph was and the dastardly cold-blooded ter is in honour bound to protect the destruction of life which, ac person from whom he gets informa- our policeman had been Initiated to their own scales before arresting right. Many a man has done tion of legitimate interest to the the mysteries of that Ordinance, and them (which would be putting the worse than put his head through

elementary cart before the horse) the only a windscreen and break his arm...

he WES permitted, companied the shocking affair.public. Courts and juries have fre- its application in an

We don't know what your home Three of the victims were slain quently tried to compel reporters form to an everyday experience on individual in their sleep; none was given a to reveal their sources, and in most his beat has for him the same logically, to arrest would bo P. C.

instances they have failed. All too facility as returning a fish to the Selim Mahmoud-HIMSELF.

He would, in that event, have a. to chase himself. word of warning or a vestige of often they have made the attempt water that is its natural element,

Despite the care with which he simply because the repórter has mercy; one of the victims was

b. to take a running jump at woman. Such was the barbari-made public something that cer-has been drilled, P. C. Selim tain-highly-placed persons wanted Mahmoud still retains firmly plant-

From P. C. Selim Mahmoud's ty exhibited that, but for the concealed, and the action has beened notions of his own-that-are- difficult to shift. Consequently, he known facts and the grim con- an effort to get the reporter into was plainly distressed when inform-standpoint, therefore, he is to be Bright Young Things have lost

trouble such laws provide fresh

ed that it was not sufficient to say readily condoled with.

THE CAR WITH THE SILKY PERFORMANCE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. Stubbs Rond. Phone 23124.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1933.

NEW MENACE ON CHINA COAST ?

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Supporting Press Freedom.

himself.

He feela

dis-

foot in the soup, and had a sore is like, but we have often put our

head for days,

Then, you must have heard of the Chinese general who had a hand in some graft and lost his -head.

And how many of Hongkong's

fessions, it would be almost un-bulworks for the freedom of the saw a sale". The handing over that he has been grieviously mis- their heads over a naval officer

to

press.

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Another Blow To "Prestige."

Was

'

THE CHOICE.

It won't be an easy decision.

believable that Europeans could

of the goods to the buyer, the pass-understood and unappreciated. With and broken their hearts.

We could go on like this for be guilty. The type of in-

ing of the payment sum, and the ne-a little further training, he dividual capable of such outrages

companying worda-in short, the convinced he could qualify for a columns and columna. But what's against all human decency us-

various progressive acts legally brainy job in the C. I. D., but he the use? We're searching for constituting the transaction which agreed that as a detective tracking inspiration. ually confine themselves

The last of the English players only could be accepted as evidence, the desperate criminal to his lair, their natural haunts, the under-made their exit from the Men's had not impressed him with their ho would be as conspicuous while worlds of Chicago, Marseilles Singles championship at Wimble- necessity. Laboriously poring over on the trail as a South Sen Islander But it is hard to see how we can

don yesterday, leaving overseas the entry in his note-book, he was flaunting a grass skirt. and such places-they usually competes in complete control. disappointed when, half-way, the This patrolling of the streets as avoid making it, one way or the herd among their own kind. The Englishman is reputed for the sahib on the Bench stopped the a necessary part of the policing of other. We are rapidly approach-

of carefree, nonchalant manner in case.

a city is all very well and useful by ing a great fork in the road and The appearance of a gang

itself. Still it suggested that by there is no middle course. Before which he takes his sport, and “mas- desperadoes indulging in whole-kee" is usually the popular reaction Pondering over the proceedings keeping him down to it, the people long we must make one of the sule murder without provocation to reverses such as have been sus- afterwards, his bowilderment grow, higher up were thinking he was not most important choices in our

(Continued on Page 0.) or excuse upon the China coasttained at Wimbledon. Which is Only the other day his case book perhaps, just as well. Nevertheless,

is profoundly disquieting even newspaper sports writers, in their while the "adventure" has come endeavour to arouse the English-

to

a sensational end in the man to a more serious and pains- taking study of his sport, have made arrest of all responsible. It has England prestige-conscious. The long been recognised that an elimination of Austin, Perry and enterprise which a group of Hughes before the semi-finals is another blow at our "ability-to-win" twenty or ao Chinese coolies prestige, although happily our good periodically carries to a success-name as sportsman remains unim- more im- ful conclusion, could be efficient-paired. This is a for

portant consideration. ly tackled by a mere handful of desperate Europeans. The Sheng An piracy may bring re-Repeal in Finland. tribution upon the heads of the

One of the promises made in the perpetratore, but the start they campaign to rid Finland of prohibi- have made, brought to disaster tion was that repeal would do away merely by accident, might easily with smuggling of liquor, for under the dry inw smuggling had proved encourage further experiment.

troublesome. Wets claimed that The menace is probably more with an easy access to liquor all this apparent than real, although, would end. Now that the dry law against that, who would have ja no mere in Finland, it is possible to check promises with results. It believed the Sheng An piracy was recently reported that rumrun- to be possible, except in fletion, ners have been particularly active lately in the Baltic. Smugglers, until it actually occurred? who have found safe hiding, placés There is the admission that among the many small islands in plans for the outrage had been the Baltic, have repeatedly defied gunboats and coast guard' cutters.. developing since last year to pro-One zumrunner, on being challenged vide food for thought. And if by coast guard oficiais, showed a further citation were needed, five gun, The Finnish Government is foreigners boarded the Tientsins concerned about the increase in smuggling that, because one of the Maru-at-Tangku on Saturday liquor ships Is described as a "Bri morning in circumstances which tish rumrunner,' Finalch authori ties are anxious to confer with tho aroused grave suspicion-before British Government on the matter. anything was known of the The case of Finland is illuminating, fateful affair on the Shong An. It shows clearly that the promises ent of repeat militant are an uncertain The facta are disturbing, to say Index to the performances of repeat the least.

(trlinghantih

history.

Yes, we are wondering whether we shall pay the wine-merchant or the rent.

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•

A BETTER WORLD.

In spite of all our troubles, we have a great deal to be thankful for. By keeping that in mind, we can help to advance the dream which, has hovered

over

our

horizon for a quarter of a century, the dream that it is possible to make the world better, a new life possible for the average man; the dream that that freedom and con- tontment and happiness could be made an everyday reality.

Yes, the droam that the muzzl- ing order had been extended to headaches.

Strange thing, our headache when she reads the column always. enquires why we don't take an Aspirin instead of boring Our Admiring and Extending Public with our creature ills.

But we've never sunken to the low level of calling her a creature- yet.

CAR MODES.

This Tiger. Car man has challeng ed our self-respect and the little Vanity ha parmit ourselves, Matil da's a very nice car or at least no we thought. Now she looks shabby, and do mode, apres vous and so are you, so to speak. We are no longer happy.

If next week, you see an 'outsize: bloater' tearing down the street, gloaming fishly from codfish oyes that'll be us, or Father, Matilda. with us playing the part of Jonah. There will be one marked différence between Matilda and the average/ blonter, however. The gills will be