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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER

12,

1934.

STRANGE MAIL FOR BISHOP

CATERPILLAR DIES IN TRANSIT

POST OFFICE CRITICISED

The attention of the Post Ollier recently was drawn to the letter in The Times from the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, relating

Italy's Great

Experiment

'ONE-MAN CONTROL OF.

NATIONAL ACTIVITY'

CORPORATIVE STATE

Rome, Oct. 4.

- Premier Mussolini's pet dream, the corporative state, pieturesque.

to a caterpillar sunt through they defined by several observers en post,

The Post Office was not without an experiment in the one-muu literature on matters of entomo-control of national activity",

anniversary logy; there was the Post Office expected to be in working order

of reference. October 28-the

Guido for the purpure or any jo the institution of the Fascist

The idea that

regime.

The Guild's Ministry, from which the complex plan will be

run,

other Insects could not be trans- mitted puccessfully through the post was dismissed.. Even men and it was pointed out, ean, Ur enried at ordinary letter rates, and the department is prepared to carry the Loch Ness monster, if he is found, weighed and stamped-

The twenty-two corporations , for the first two ounces and

additional two which form the backbone of this d. for every

are officially defined ounces. But the fact was officially State emphasized more than once that bridges slung across the vertical "regulations are regulations," and lines of workers' syndicates and federations" that that the rules governing Tost employers" Office procedure are so comprehen- already exist all over the country, sive that they embrace even enter Their tank will be to work out the principle underlying the Corpora- pillars, bees, and leeches.

tive Slate, namely-State organi zation and control of economic forces,

to cost about 79,060,000 lire a year, it I believed, and the various staffs concerned will nami! her at least 6,000.

BEES AND LEECHES,

i

The Bishop told in his letter how correspondent sent him a cater-

These corporations will be com pillar believed to be the larva of posed of delegates from employers well as from a rare specles, and how he received and employed as through the post a fattened card intermediary "bread winners" board box and a letter from the All the delegates must be mem- Postal Service stating that the bers of the Fascist party and of packet was observed during transit"unblemished political character". whose names the Duce himself hasi to be in a damaged condition.

the was therefore forwarded to

Approved. Returned Letter Scelion and found to contain a small dead insect and

The twenty-two Corporations

HLORELŽ LANGO *

પાયાન

PUTO MAKE, KAALI

group

The Importance of the arrests made by the Shanghai Settlement police when a of ten alleged members of an aegassination group were taken from the District Court to Police-Hand. quarters under escort, it shown by the heavy armed guard which was attached to the prison van. Upper photo shows section of the police escort in the Municipal compound after the prisoners had been lock. ed in the van. Lower photo shows the 27 pistols and ammunition seized during the raids which led to the avrest of the ten prisoners. At upper left is the Mille bomb seized with the platole and lower inft photo shows another highly dangerous gae bomb, also found in the Roe Ratard raid.

WHAT FLAG

TO FLY?

Grock republic.

Neither wond the Russian eagle,

or even the Hammer und Sickle of the Soviets do, although they might be taken to represent Marina's Russian ancestry.

EMERGENCY TRAINING

She fins connections with the PREPAREDNESS

Danish royal house, and this is the flag that may be Bown. It might, however, be devided to anticipate

PRINCESS MARINA PRESENTS POSER A few dried loaves. "I have toleover every conceivable form of

London, Oct. 7. point out, the letter continued. work. production and output, In-

British officiation is in a quand-her nationality, and fly the Union that the transmission of any living leluding: Landowners and tenant crentaire (except bees and leeches) farmers; Employers and employedary as to what flag to fly when Jack.

S

Where the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, mat in Nanking, the now National Health Administration Bullding. The Congress ended on October 8..

In-

IN GERMANY

The Magdeburg-Anhalt strict recently lanugurated the first training school for protection Meanwhile, Horial London

against natural catastrophes, In busy preparing for the wedding addition, the officials of the local |Hotel proprietors, enterera, dress our organisation have been en- makers, tailors, farisis and jewel trusted with the task of instruct- ers all anticipate big business in October and November, the month ing the leaders and sub-leaders of in which the marriage la scheduled, the Labour Service in matters per- Seme hotels have already received; taining to such protection. enquiries for accommodation · dur... | In order to render the work Ing the wedding week.-Duited done as efficient as possible, the

MORE DRUNKEN

DRIVERS

PROHIBITIONIST

BROADSIDE

former hunting lodge of Spitzberg sear Dessau has been converted into a training school. The Arst course of instruction was attend- ed by 25 testers from 11 different istricts. The subjects taught elle: the fighting of forest fires nd floods, and first aid in such catastrophes as landslides, explo-

conflagrations, railway ac cidents, the bursting of dams and dykes, damage resulting from hurricanes and cloud-bursis, etc.

Particular value is attached to rapid intelligence service, a the repeal of the Dry-Laws capacity for quick orientation, Ability to charged that arrests for drunk- sketch-drawing, and eness during the first three months operate optical instruments. The of this year increased 1.68 per training at the school itself is the corresponding supplemented by visits to other cent.

parts, whilst a practical demong- period of 1933,

iration of the work taught will be ench held at the conclusion of course of training,

Washington, Sept. 28.

One of the first major broad- rides of the Prohibitionists since

over

The report bristled with static- tics und comparative analyses of figures compiled from the poliet blotters of 192 cities. It

Was

by post except with the special per-connected with nit forms of in-Princess Marina of Greece comes mission of the Postmaster-General dustry: Trade, agricultural pro- to stay in England. is prohibited." The departmental

The Princess is shortly paying issued by Mr. Deets Pickett, disorderly conduct decreased 4.21 officials appeared to enjoy the due, mining, banking and

"There is an alarming increase humorous vein in which the Bishop (surance, ses, air and land trans-an official visit to the King and secretary of the Research and per cent.

Prohibition and in arrests for drunkeness in replied to what was described as port, liberal professions, hawkers Queen, the parents of her husband- Education Department, Board, of

in- a "routine letter." But the Bishop's of

lee-cream, old to-be, Frince George. But Prin-Temperance,

stance, Coatesville, Pa., shows an eriticism of the postal regulations clothes, rags and bottles, street CC88 Marina has no country, and Public Morals of the Methodist industrial communities; for

therefore no flag.. It would not be Episcopal Church.

He said that arrests for driving increase of 700 per cent, for the musicians. door-keepers, commer-tactful to fly the old Imperial blue An official said: "We are an

and white Creek flag. because Brit- while drunk increased 14.90 per beer perlod and 1,100 per cent, for xlous that the Post Office should be rial travellers, and so oft.

ain has friendly relations with the cert.. but "strangely", arrests for the repeal period," he continued.

caused some resentment.

newspapers,

used in every way possible to give Each man and woman who earns a definite service to the publie. Bees and leeches are allowed to be a living

ar draws income from

sent by letter or parcel post be property will be marshalled under, ease they are of commercial yahte. ¦ and pay dues to, a State-controlled! Leeches are used very largely by

2. Jorganisation.

the medical profession, and it has

.

been a common practice to transfer This colossal task of putting bees from one part of the country

to another for the purpose of in- every worker in the proper cate.

erenaing improving the stock onry is so complicated that the

程

bee farm. The Post Ofice also make-up of the various organisa tions has been changed over and

permits to be sent through the over again and the end, even now,

post articles for medical is not yet in sight.

letter amination or analysis." The off-

elal quoted from the regulations. - which state that deleterious liquids

or substances, though otherwise are arrangements in regard to live prohibited from transmission by animals, which can be sent by ex- post, may be sent for medical ex-press delivery if they are confined amination or analysis to a recog been a common thing for boys to a auitable receptacle. It has ulzed medical laboratory or in-be sent through the post. They go stitute, or to a medical practitioner etter rate, the charge being ac of veteriunty surgeon, by letter

to the weight of the boy.

ost-"on ng account by parcel Recently a man. posted himself in 1 post"--but the liquid or substance that way, and he was taken to the must be enclosed in a receptacle address by a telegraph messenger. hermetically sealed or otherwise If a man desired to be sent to a securely closed. Live bees and leeches are allowed to pass by letter distant part of the country, he would be taken therallway

to

of parcel post on condition that they station, handed over by the post- are sent in suitable cases and so man to the charge of the guard, mucked as to avoid all risk of injury and at the man's destination, he to officers of the Post Office or to would he placed in the care of a other packets.

postman, who would deliver him

INSECTS. BY PERMISSION.

at the desired address.

The caterpillar to which the "Er the caso of the caterpillar- Bishop refers," the official added, referred to in The Times, If it had "was apparently sent in a thin card. been placed in a properly packed board box, which would obviously container, probably the Bishop suffer damage under the lond of would have received it. The Post Ofice in anxious to do everything ordinary packets placed in the same mull-bag. There have been where it is desired to send any it enn to serve the publle, and cases where serious damage hna | been caused by packets which have, particular-lasect, or any number of not complied with the regulations. leeches, application should be made live insects, other than bees and ermission may be obtained to send

and other things. There to the Post Office."

All ranks of the Shanghai Sattlement Police joined in paying their last respects to Van Nyobku, vatoran Chinese detective of Loun Station, who was shot down in the Lester Chiness Hospital in one of the most sudacious crimes ever perpetrated in Shanghai. Above is shown a portion of the long funeral procession carrying banners which told of how a brave man died. Below-s group of high official await the passing of the aortage. From left to right are shown Deputy Commissioner R. C. Alers. Captain R. M. J.-Martin, Extra Commissioner. Major F. W. Gerrard, Commissioner, Brig. Gen. E. B. Magnachten, Vice-Chairman of the Council, and Assistant Commissioner T. M. Yao

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