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THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934,

THE COLONY'S STRAY DOGS

NOTES OF THE DAY FEET OF CLAY: The Very Idea!

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JOHN DILLINGER

UPER-MEN are popularly sup÷ fremote hiding-places far beyond

posed to be one of the pro-reach of their pursuers."-

ducts of the great American Re- public. While some of the ex-

since the good old days when an outlaw might also be a gentleman,

day.

a

Which brings us back to Public

1

JEEJEEBHOY PASSES

ON By George

"THE GOLDEN CANDAREEN,”

Last Instalment

IT

IT was a beautiful sunny day in Hongkong and. apart from the Number 9 Typhoon Signal which had just been hoisted, there was nothing to mar the peaceful serenity of the great City.

Nothing, did we any?

will have conjectured by this time that the broken uniovely creature whom we have described dropping her feet all over the Prays is no other than car heroine.

Madge was on way to force Reg into a tiffin date having swallowed her pride and a tidy lot of gin in arriving at this decision.

Mr. Eugene Black's" hnnounce- mont that the Federal Reserve Banka are now, prepared to re ceive applications for direct loans to industry may prove to be one of the turning points in the Roone velt recovery programme when the hibits lately on view are of doubt- Jesno James had his Imitators, value of its

operationa

ful authenticity it cannot be but none achieved much notoriety saed. Elforts to create now denied that at least she has given or was such a distinctive figuro, primary money in the United the world the super-out-law. His escapades entered the realm of States have not proved conspica-public Enemy No. 1 ne John fiction before the end came. Six- ously successful and it is hard any at this stage what will be the Dillinger, enjoys that unenviable penny "shockors emblazoned with precise effect of the expansion putation. The outlaws known a lurid portrait of the outlaw, com contemplated by the use of silver. to Europe are but feeble offshoots plete with wide brimmed hat and a of crime compared to this robust brace of six-shooters, flooded the It has, however, been clearly "killer" with the "anake'e eyes" United States and were rend with

hown that until

"accondary and a murderous sense of humour, fearful joy by the rising genera- money" becomes more

widely whose exploits continue to fill the tion. Other outlaws of the plains used, until that is, there is an Increase in business loans, in- newspapers and give the police followed him into cheap literature. The brotherhood had its monument

Along the Praya came a large, ereases in currency supplies are of many sleepless nights.

Times have indeed changed in the paper-backed novels of the gaunt woman. making rapid pro- little value.

gress by the simple expedient of The machinegun age has sent the Ifting up her feet and dropping old-time outlaw into oblivion. His technique seems curiously crude in them a little in front of her. Expert examination in the last

This new type of desperado the light of modern methods. The As she ente up to the Star few months has revealed clearly' that "secondary money" is show thrown up by the machine-gun age outlaw of to-day disdains to hide Ferry she raised her rugged..

n wilderness. He heavily-lined face towards the of course, among car manufacturers, there la

ing no great expansion in propor-lucks manners as well as morals. himself in Vauxhall Motors.

Vaux tion to "primary money. Bankers He has nothing in common with challenges society from an armour clock and noted that it was twenty For the leat thirty years the na

Gas past twelva. hall has stood for all that is best in British have insisted that an increase in the heroes of the Corsican hills ored car and cities are his prey.

waistcoats. the "Rouge wotoring. The "Prince Henty,

must wait upon the Stellian celebrities of the bombs, chuin mail Noir," the prince of record-breakers, the business loans

"A quarter past twelvo," she 10/99" thes And IKILOGR

many other business recovery. Business men. Mafia. Unlike them, he will kill wireless, awan-off shotguns and

world Vauxhalls have built for the firm

naturally retorted that the Indus a friend as readily as kill automatic pistols are his tools of muttered, instinctively correcting

been the clock. renowned, reputation.

progress has trial machine cannot start with- enemy, if the act will ensure his trade. His Inspect a Vauxhall Light.Bir and

out financial lubrication. The freedom when hard pressed. His speeded up and his traditional The brightest of our readers nak for a demonstration.

case has simply been made wore light from the law has left a trail enemy, the sheriff, still lags be

counter-of corpses, broken cars and riddled hind. He has been known to evade by this argument and

military forces as easily as a wide argument; for, as time goes on, bank buildings.

There is no romance in him. lung police net and to slip through businesses that are starving for financial accommodation must be He would be outlawed by the out- the walls of an apparently im- come increasingly risky as credit laws of the past.

pregnable prison with the case of a Hondini. propositions. That is why the

The American school of crime Government

stepped in. Through the Reconstruction Fin-was nearly responsible for putting ance Corporation, it has already the now defunct Mafia on a new strengthened the position of the basis of outlawry. A few yenta Enemy No. 1, the elusive John ago, before Mussolini sent the. in- banks, and now, through the pro- damitable Cesare Mori to Sicily to Dillinger, now at large with a

The umah who, you will remem posal to make direct loans to in-

heavy price upon his head and an dustry, it is taking the initiative break up that centuries-old organi incradicable smile upon his deber, incautiously flung herself at in financing borderline business,sation, it was the object of careful In no other way could the Gordian study by certain graduates of the generale face--Dillinger, King of Madge's feet in our last instal gangster or cadet branch founded the Outlawn. His charmed life fament, has learat her lesson by now kuat have been cut.

in Chicago,

nightmare to the distraught and is reduced to her normal state guardians of the pence in every of mind. She is supposed to be These worthics were transplant- Western State. A fugitive con- ccompanying Madge but prefers ed Sicilians or their sons who had vict, he laughs at prison bars, and to walk on the other side of the The scheme is no innovation. rison in the bootlegging and his merriment has a sinister ring.road taking a surreptitious peop In the Hoover Administration, the racketeering games. An injudic-Even his pursuers laughed grimly into her beloved volume of Chau-

Cor's "Early English Poems." Federal Reserve System was em- tous murder forced two of them to when he bluffed his way out of powered to make loans direct to flee the country and they were guarded cell with a wooden revol Arrived under the winddwe of deserving applicants unable to next heard of under cover in ver and made national fools of the the PW.D., Madge elevated her

with elder obtain accommodation at the com- Palermo. Contact

warders in his path.

ginas eye towards the place where No-one acquainted with the mercial banks. Little business, brethren of the Main there dis-

Dillinger's record tends to prove Jeejcebhoy, his hair neatly smarm- facts is likely to dispute the however, was done. Apparently closed the possibilities of that outlaws are born, rather than cd behind his cars, was leaning

the old-fashioned statement made by a correspond- the credit conditions imposed were organising ent yesterday that the police are too exacting. Another effort to brotherhood on Chicago lines and made. His life of crime was en- over a typewriter. As he mani- tered on voluntarily as an antidote cured his dainty fingers, his clear to the boredom of the Indiana ham voica carolled in song while the faced with a difficult position in clear the channels between the making it a "going concern."

They might have succeeded buti dealing with the present out reservoir of idle money and the

became the · Erst outlaw of admiringly at a distance. break of rabies. If existing Public was made when industries for Mari's drive inland from theet where he was born. Since he Director and other satellites stood

were

required to band together in-coast. The Mafia fell piecemeal America, the incidents of his mis-

Jeejeebhoy paused a moment to regulations are hot adequate, to

to borrowing from the a slow business, but wholly sue. should be strengthened, in order Reconstruction Finance Corpora- ussful. The Chicagoans fled dis- papers and inquiring reporters mouth in the approved mannor. to give the police lawful author- tion. But, except for the cotton mayed to the hinterland, intent have ransacked his home town for As he did as he saw Madgo." ity for steps considered necess- textile industry, moves to effect only on saving their skins. When stories; as they do when a man be-

She drew back into the shadow dry in combatting a very serious such borrowing organisation seem captured with their more reput camca President-cicet of the United

and tried to disguise herself as the For one thing,able companions in outlawry they

1 is still bark of the tree. She would have danger. The suggestion made to have been rare.

Public Enemy No. the procedure was cumbersome. were thankful to be extradited to that the Colonial Veterinary For another, strict requirements the comparative safety of the "Johnny" in Mooresville, Indians, stood a better chance if there had Surgeon and the Government's as to security were not lightened. Chiengo courts. The others were whence ho cane. The 1,774 in been a tree there but as it was law officers should consult for the The new step is designed to relax put in cages.

habitants have only to cast their cajeebhey had already discovered. purpose of devising measures the requirements.

I saw some of them months later memories back ten years, to recall her:

Giving the Director his at their trial in a market town, him as a 21-years-old machinist which can be enforced, and which

where the peasants had gathered and the son of a trusten of the writer to hold, Reg thrust aside hold some prospect of success, is

from miles around to stare at their First Christian Church. He had the lift which had been brought up therefore much to the point.

There is clearly a great need late masters. They were a deject-an engaging grin and went to Sun- for him and shinned down the Much of the present trouble, we

for some such financing, Quite ed lot without their haloes,

day schoot because he had to. Bad are convinced, is due to the large part from the urgency of the The American outlaw has al-companions were "Johnny's" down- number of stray dogs which in-situation, industry in the United ways been in a class alone, Jesse Lall. His "hero" was Ed Single- fest the New Territories. How Slates requires the same kind of James, the train robber, was the also had the germ of outlawry in ton, a boy older than himself, who many of these animals there are, "intermediate banking facilities first spectacular member of the it would be difficult to say, but which are already available to fraternity to become

national him, if in one district alone it was make loans which can be liquid sheriffs and their posses Ingging

agriculture.

prefer to figure. His rough-riders, with found necessary to destroy some ated at the end of the process of

One Saturday night they waylaid two hundred recently, the num-buying raw materials and the dis-impotently behind, meet then an elderly arecer named Morgan on

settled Western ber must be legion. According posal of the finished product. In-States, holding up railway cars his way home from the village bar to law, all dogs within the Colony vestors generally help industry to Inden with specie, sifting the ter- ber shop, beat him about the head WEDNESDAY, JULY 4th have to be licensed, although no make capital improvements, and rified passengers to their last gold and tried to rob him. "Johnny" fer is payable where it is shown take in return bonds with a long watch, shooting down every human for the first time used the male to the satisfaction of the Inspec- maturity. An intermediate credit impediment in their path, and formula, "Stick 'em up;" We

are.

offering our

tor General of Police that a dog "ystem is necessary to fill the gap: vanishing again to one of their For several years, the United Complete Stock of these

is kept by an agriculturist as States has witnessed the spectacle shoes at give away prices.

watch-dog and is necessary for of a money reservoir with most of that purpose. This exemption the outlet channels clogged up." follows somewhat on the lines of If the present move is a step to- This unusual offer is

the law at Home, but whereas brought about by our deci- to farmers in England one or sion

more dogs are a necessity, for the relinquish

the rounding-up of eattle, sheep, Lotus and Delta Agency.. etc., that is not the case here in Hongkong. The point therefore suggests itself whether far too

Meanwhile, the precise signific many dogs are not permitted to New Territory agriculturists.ance of Senator Dies' explanation It would, indeed, be interesting still puzzling observers of the of the Treasury silver polley is to know whether any actuni market. If the statement check is kept on the number, authoritative, it means that the whether licensing is enforced, or Treasury is proposing to

carry out law whether the

requiring the 75:25 ratio policy, requiring owners to establish to the antis- the purchase of over 1,246,000,000 faction of the police the necessity ounces of silver, by the end of the President Roosevelt's mess.. of having dogs is applied. It is year.

recalling conceivable that if owners had age to Congress is worth

In this connection. He said: to pay a licence fee for such dogs "We should move forward n na were not strictly needed, there rapidly as conditions permit in would be a marked diminution brandoning the metallic base of! in the numbers on the mainland. our monetary system and But in addition to dogs actually stabilizing the purchasing and owned, there must be very many, debt-paying power of our money not only in the New Territories, on a more equitable lovel

should not neglect the value of but in Kowloon and on the island silver in improving our monetary as well, which aro strays. ayatem. Since 1920 that has been These, being in nobody's care, obvious. Some measures for mak- the are obviously of a type likely to ing a greater use of

allver in

for spread rabies. It would there-public interest are appropriate fore be a wise plan if, along with independent action by us. a strengthening of the existing others, International co-operation should be sought. Of the former regulations, some definite action class la that of increasing this pro were taken to investigate the portion of silver in the abundant number of ownorlow animals, metallic reserves back of our paper with a view to their duction currency Here again, however, as one step in the

paign the question comes, Does It mean

what it hints?

there is every reason why they limingsuge companies as a pre-into his not of gendarmes. It was spent youth have filled the news yawn, covering his hand with his

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“Well, we can't pay anything on Billy's alimony until Irene gets

a cheque from her ex-husband,

Mor-

stairs.

type-

In a moment he was by her side. ed haarsely into her ear which he "Have you got it?" he whisper-

had pulled down a couple of feet for convenience.

For answer Madge drew a quart whisky bottle from her stocking where she had kept it carefully hidden. Inside, the dreaded cock- coach was imprisoned.

Jeefcebhoy reached out his hand to take the bottle but Badge with a subtle leer put it back in her stocking.

"Reggia dorling, how about my reward 7" Then relapsing into the vernacular, "How fashion you face Ao muchee red allsame father?" It was true; Reg was blushing! Could he kiss this girl when he was promised to another was the wild

that throbbed thought through his brain.

"But Madgo, look you," he be- gan, his native Welsh coming to his aid at this difficult moment, "It is no good whatever will come of this. I love another."

:

Madge gave a loud shriek of horror and fell in a dead faint.

Jeojeobhoy quickly removed the whisky battle and, as an after. thought, took the meat skewers out of his erstwhile sweetheart's hair and pinned the hair into the ground.

Then, hand in hand with the amah, he passed from view

(Dear Readers.This is the lost. of Jecfcebkay as far as we are. concerned and we must leave him and his lowly love to their troubles. Much as it pains us (and Madgo) to leave her in her. humiliating position, we find it better to do this than leave her at large. If we had continued we might have given her a wig_80 that she could be free again but far be it from us to hope to im- prove on nature. Rather let us shed a saline tear on one so much. misunderstood and deceived, and lupe that in the unwritten in atalmente of her futtire life the may meet a love worthy of her noble character,)5