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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY

"I NOW

REALISE the

NOTES OF THE DAY

wor

Settlement of the trade between Britain and Soviet Russia Is the most sensible act of both governments for some time

past and congratulations are duo to Sir John Simon and M. Litvinoit, The happy outcome of their conver- sations could not have been essy of achievement. The chief obstacle

1933.

P. C. SELIM MAHMOUD VINDICATED

A TALE OF HONGKONG COURTS

By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph

C. D1001 Selim 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

progress.

FULL JOY of MOTORING” clear to release Messrs. MacDonalded up on his approach, but half-way the few cases he had brought in.

has caused Britain and Russia to

The Very Idea!

INSPIRATION.

By Eddie "Parspiration" Kally.

HAVE you over sat back in a

comfortable chair, waiting for an Inspiration-swaying gently backwards and forwards, Boothing your, depression with the fumes of a fag, feet on the tables, and cuspidor close handy?

NO? Well, that's how we were to-day, when a boy came timidly into our sanctum, bearing the Tele- graph on a silver salver.

"With the Editor's compli- ments," he said in an awed voice, and after salaaming in approved

which frequently leads otherwise reasonable people along paths from exquisite way. Being sad, it fol-ngainst the fact, that his beat dur- which they instinctively shy. In lows also that ho was listless. ing that month was laid through a this case, the trade boycotts hnd With a mind completely detached, district notoriously over-run. with gone on long enough for both he mechanically entered Kali Katunlicensed hawkers, it was hinted governments to realise the futility (here translated as Curry Street) that he had been wilfully negligent. of the procedure, to discover that without realising his

On previous occasions ho was embargoes nover did anybody any The unlicensed hawkers, who had able to take refuge behind the pica good. Once Russla saw her way taken possession of the pitch, start- that the Inspector salib throw out down the street they stopped to On this occasion he was unable to and Thornton, therefore, the was abandoned with feelings of stare back in wonderment at this again advance that defence.

Ho came away from the dreaded fashion, silently withdrew. relief on both slides. If the episode indifferent, transformed molo chat.

On other mornings he had given interview with the Police Chief We glanced casually through look at a mutual problem from the them quite a run, but to-day he did with a feeling of having been the paper, casting an approving eye here and there, and making other's point of view for a brief not as much as look in their direc-severely reprimanded.

tion. It was true that for one He thought it was just too bad. while, it may yet prove to have 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 con- gazing all unseelngly at it, had atables are not capable of doing Although a good deal of nonsense suddenly and viciously lunged out anything except catching hawkers."

with his foot.

Of course he had had nothing to has been written about the plans

But even this performance could do with it-particularly. The case for completing the Canton-Hankownot hold his interest for long in point belonged to another man Prices from €295. Let us give you a trial. Railway, it is safe to say that when After a last vlolent kick which sentn comrade, but the generality of i through traffic to Hankow has been the unoffending article tottering established, a flip to Hongkong over on its side, he continued on

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The

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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1933.

ments in the realm of transport mer air of listless indifference.

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have destroyed the attractiveness of the original dream of a through. route from Kowloon to Calais, but in opening up the hinterland of China and providing a short route to Hankow and the Upper Yang tsze, the project is decidedly worth while. A substantial saving in time and costs will be afforded the Hankow importer and exporter who makes Hongkong his main supply depot and he will not be slow to grasp the advantages.

Supporting Press Freedom.

press.

Jaw

on

special note of the excellence. of the Inst column pago six,

We looked through tho Court reports, wondering ab Bently whether someone had usurped Our shroff's authority and had gone cry. ing to Mr.

Wo dislike people who cry. Pete cries after he's had a few whiskles. Therefore we dislike Pete.

The Magistrate had also chided

and children", although he (Bellm Mahmoud) knew they sometimes Wynne Jones. Plainly something was decidedly gave more trouble than anyone else. abnormal with P.C. Selim Mahmoud. "Catch one of your size," the sahib who is known to be ordinarily had also said to the colleague, and most cheerful member of his con-it left Selim Mahmoud, always tingent. If the truth be told, he anxious to learn, floundering help- was thoroughly disappointed and lessly about for an explanation. in that condition of mind summed

evidence.

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From P. C. Selim Mahmoud's

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Just another case of history repeat- Don't you see what's happened? ing itself---but the Telegraph wouldn't say 80.

dis-

graceful, even if the Telegraph was

Anyway, it's not so very right. Many a man has dono worse than put his head through a windscreen and break his arm.

We don't know what your home

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

the Chinese general who had a Then, you must have heard of

hand in some graft and lost his head.

But stop. What is this we see? A man put his head through a | windscreen and broke his arm. up in the word "fed-up." Only Did the sahib intend they were We suspect the Telegraph is that morning the sahib on the to catch orily men? And here hiding something. We suspect Bench at Central saw fit to throw P. C. Selim Mahmoud stopped sud- that his fellow experienced just out his case (his third within a denly or his tracks, and frowned the same sort of thing that hap- week) because, he was informed, it contemplatively at a mean-looking poned to us a few weeks ago. was trivial and lacked essential street coolie, the while he puzzled Peto was driving us home in his 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 ways worried. P. C. Selim Blah- He himself measures 0 feet 7 dropped off to sleep. When wo moud, who never could, Bee 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 NEW MENACE ON interested in the new law put into son carries a basket of vegetables amongst these cheena one of his jeer on his face. We promptly hit

effect in New Jersey recently, un-in the street he is a hawker. bulkiness to CHINA COAST ?

catch. Surely the him-and put our hand through der which no court, grand jury or If he handa the vegetables Sahib had been good enough to the windscreen. Pete hit us on 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. China Const contains

If the stricture were literally few fidential information used in news out holding a hawker's licence, the episodes so revolting as the story articles. This simply re- Import becomes clear: he has com carried out, and inch for inch, and 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

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

came to the conclusion that, short and the dastardly cold-blooded ter is in honour bound to protect the

Right at the outset of his career of weighing these hawkers with destruction of life which

ac-person from whom he gets informa- our policeman had been initiated to their own scales before arresting tion of legitimate interest to the the mysteries of that Ordinace, and them (which would be putting the companied the shocking affair. public. Courts and juries have fre- its application in an elementary cart before the horse) the only Three of the victims were slain quently tried to compel reporters form to an everyday experience on Individual he WAS permitted, 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 be P. C.

instances they have failed. All too facility as returning a fish to the Selim Mahmoud-HIMSELF. word of warning or a vestige of often they have made the attempt water that is its natural element. He would, in that event, have mercy; one of the victims was simply because the

Despite the care with which hel reporter has

a. to chase himself. b. to take a running Jump at woman. Such was the barbari-made public something that cer- has been drilled, P. C. Selim

himself. ty exhibited that, but for the concealed, and the notion has beened notions of his own that are tain highly placed persons wanted Mahmoud still retains firmly plant- known facts and the grim con-an effort to get the reporter into dimcult to shift. Consequently, he

And how many of Hongkong's fessions, it would be almost un- trouble such aws provide fresh a plainly distressed when inform- standpoint, therefore, he is to be Bright Young Things have lost

theed that it was not sufficient to say readily condoled with. He feels believable that Europeans could bulworks for the freedom of

"saw a sale". The handing over that he has been grieviously mis- their heads over a naval officer be guilty. The type of in-

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

ing of the payment aum, and the ac-fa little further training, he

We could go on liko this for Another Blow To "Prestige."

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

various progressive acts legally brainy job in the C. I. D., but he the use? We're searching for ually confine themselves to

constituting the transaction which agreed that as a detective tracking inspiration. their natural haunts, the under-made their exit

The last of the English players only could be accepted as evidence, the desperate criminal to his lair, from the Men's had not impressed him with their he would be as conspicuous while

THE CHOICE. worlds of Chicago, Marseilles Singles championship at Wimbic necessity. Laboriously poring over on the trail as a South Sea Islander

It won't be an easy decision. and such places-they usually don yesterday, leaving overseas the entry in his note-book, he was flaunting a grass skirt.

But it is hard to see how we can competitors in completo control, disappointed when, half-way, 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- This patrolling of the streets na avoid making it, one way or the The appearance of a gang of carefree, nonchalant manner in case.

a city is all very well and useful by Ing a great fork in the road and which he takes his sport, and "mas- desperadoes indulging in whole, keo" is usually the popular reaction

itself. Still it suggested that by there is no middle course. Before sale murder without provocation to reverses such as have been aus- afterwards, his bewilderment grew. higher up were thinking he was not most important choices in our Pondering over the proceedings keeping him down to it, the people long we must make one of the or excuse upon the China coast tained at Wimbledon. Which is Only the other day his case book (Continued on Page 7.) is profoundly disquieting

perhaps, just as well. Nevertheless, 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- arrest of all responsible. It has England prestige-conscious. The taking study of his sport, have made 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 so Chinese coolies prestige, although happily our good periodically carries to a success-name as sportsman remains unim- ful conclusion, could be efficient-paitad. This is a far more im-

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 perpetrators, 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 encourage further experiment. troublesome. Wets claimed that the dry law smuggling had proved 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 no more 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 activo until It actually occurred? who have found safe hiding placeB lately in the Baltic. Smugglers, There is the admission that among the many small islands in plans for the outrage had been the Baltic, have repeatedly defled gunboats and conat guard cutters. developing since last year to pro- One rumrunner, on being challonged vide food for thought. And if by coast guard officials, showed a further citation were needed, five gun. The Finnish Government is foreigners hoarded the Tiantain smuggling that, because one of the so concerned about the increase in Maru at Tangku on Saturday liquor ships is described as a "Bri morning in circumstances which tlah rumrunner," Finnish authorf- aroused grave suspicion-before British Goveromont on the matter. tles are anxious to confer with the anything was known of the The case of Finland is Illuminating. fateful affair on the Sheng. An. It shows clearly that the promises The facts are disturbing, to any laden to the Cariesmauetool:regu

of repeal-militant aro an' uncertain truniphant

even

One of the promises made in the

afford to keep our home open,

history.

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

the rent.

A BETTER WORLD.

our

In spite of ail our troubles, wo have a great deal to be thankful for. By keeping that in mind, wo can help to advance the dream which has hovered over horizon for a quarter of a century, the dream that it is possible to make the world bafter, a new life possible for the average man, the dream that that freedom and con- tentment and happiness could be made an everyday reality.

Yes, the dream that the muzz)- 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 Oar Admiring and Extending Public with our creature illa.

But we've never sunken to the low level of calling her a creaturo ·

yot.

CAR MODES.

This Tiger Car man has challeng- ed our solf-rospect and the littlo Vanity we permit ourselves, Matil- - da's a very nico car or at least so wo thought. Now she looks aħabby and do mode, après vous and so are you, so to speak. We are no longer happy,sed ele

If next week, you so an outsize [ blontor" tearing down, the · ́stroat, | gleaming fishily from codslah'eyer, that'll be us, or rathor, Matlidá with us playing the part of Jonah: There will be one marked difference batween Matlidar and the average

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