1950-08-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1950.

First Postwar Drop In London Crime

For the first time since the war there was a substantial decrease Inst year in the numbers of indictable offences known to the London Metropo- litan police. This is revealed by Sir Harold Scott, Commissioner of the Force, in his report for 1949.

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Offener against the person in In some casca, it is re- ported, housebreakers have 1019 exceeded those in 1938 by disposed of the tools of their 2.6 percent, robberies and as-

70 percent. traile. They have decided breakings by nearly 20 percent that the possibility of a long Indictable offences known to the period of detention raisesce in the Metropolitan dis- Kriet in 1949 number: 108,077, the risks of their calling against 120,597 in 1910. beyond the point where it is avereare over the year amounted to 20,520 offences, or 10.2 per- remunerative."

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This 13 attributed 10 Crasinal Justice Act of 1948.

H

created new sentences of correc-

£3,510,000,

The

He Is The Talk Of Deauville

Chief topic at Deauville £3 MILLION LOOT

is not Egypt's King Farouk. Value of property stolen, a Nor is it Miss Narriman five training and preventive destimated by owntern, was

the Egyptian girl tention

with Sadek, cumpared

whose name has been linked The with King Farouk's. 1}{171 everyone is talking is n London book- about maker. Mr Percy Thompson. Lir Thompson has done the thing every tourist dreams about, With his £50 allowance in his porket he played hacenrat in the Casino at Deauville, where be way on holiday.

"When habitual criminole are £4,647,000 in 1948. Property worth £020,000, or 17.9 per- found on arrest to be in posses- sion of copies of an Act of jeant, was recovered during the Parliament it is n tala As year. cumption that their study of the new criminal law is dictated by something more than an academic interest."

In crimes at violence 1945 Improvement on thowed some

though the figures were 1948, still disturbing.

Last year 31.3 percent, of in- were cleared! Welcome though the reduction dielable offences

is, it gives no cause for com-, compared with 20.5 percent, placency, tates the Commi5-1948.

Crime statistics remain stoner. higher than in prewar years,

Preserving

Famous

Pictures

"'Fre Conksioner drass prelal attention to the increaves the arrest of children of [nin and 19 years old. In theup. fers aged nur, this went int from 349 in 1847 56 430 in 1948 ind 450 in 1949. In the group

10 the Corresponding Bets were 467, 543 and 670.

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In a fortnight he was £33,000

That is a lot of money.

£18.000 ON A CARD

With his £33,000 in pocket, cy the Thompson bet £18,000 turn of a clude card. He lost. That Thompson hag nothing to TORTY atst. If i had a

problem which shoutanfit of £15,000. Like a wi

man he went home. (not box mestert: L"

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French Girls Set

Festival

Fashion

Edinburgh, Aug. 21.

With nearly 10.000 visitors already in the city, next expected in the and more than 90,000 more three weeks, Edinburgh tony settled down to prove that its International Festival of Music and Drama is the ana bieg at event of its kind in Europe, if not world.

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The Kovaa shained the city bend fe.ky. C040 in a ment But that

2 come sag note to the limit. Tie nesible con-e he was milky.

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night he let the lot.

But festiva! authenti stored in motif in eve

"There in a Mory that when he belang mag fill next year Wirl Was Two it wor

The Permits of the emplog-west home after that Galeri:1 songs Febreed

vaid to Perez¦ Buid an calciat damere to the picture, camed went of polics dogs have trên cure, his father

eaut Are Brettigant during Heyrar | Thompson: "If 7 bad won £40,- wou by thefantine relative humukay,

mave had stream mantu by marly pet. With the ad the Commoner says he had 1 hould have lacked

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come į mokant

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have traight home"

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Whating of putting Gown Sir Haroki colls attention fol

ha horded his

How for the Vant the magnitude of the town of on, on time. Bergsing win the Festival of father's advice.

A Bander of

ricans

attene phere of rondalinnang: there is no potret the tintis besita diam ac has been the care until

now,

outuber.

traffic. Bladet

This plant 1 Jarierenz tommprovement, for which I felt stipply Several other galleriet to patom at key points And if the experiment proves on roads lean to the eximbi- in land, ani sureful live other gali rokon, tre actually will be smilarly treated.

considerable amant of These are now twice as many petang hemmandation off the vratom to the Nata nal Gallery Fathway for cats and enchers at for the war.

Den been catinatiresi,"

Telling

Mr

Bank

Darryl F. Zanuck, with cocktail glass, cigar-the

man from Hollywood who produced "Pinky" puts over

a point to Britain's J. Arthur Rank, at a réception given

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Rita Taking Up Golf

Rita Hayworth to faldig Rolf lessons in Drouville.

Yesterday the Jeft her husband, Aly Khm, and her seven-mouth-old baby, Samin, for an beur's fird praeffer with predest Jonai Freemaulle. Sin reth- Mae a grey shirt, it

sweater imi shite

2nd a Lord, fler fee is brown and freckled, Says Freeningle: golf swing in road: ne of the most promising rupit

have ever had."

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Better 'Talking Books

>

Best Modern

English For New Bible

Beretso Khama and his wife Ruth walk from the giant flying boat that took them from Africa to Southampton and into exile.

BOAC officer carries their baby Jacque- cof. line, in her travel Behind Is Nalidi, Seretse's

Ishter. Buth, in tweed suit

Good progress is being and woollen gloves, found Inte by the 15 translators, the temperature nearing 80 Lawy of ther university degres

profesor, who are now al

wark en preparing a modern

version of the Bible.

They

Jare translating from texts!

in the original

Jannage,

beow and Greek

Dr Munitin, Brhen of Truro

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jhich in pote

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the work,

had been decided

til that {

arb" for the new version.

(London Express

Service)

BAPTISM

PRESENTS PROBLEMS

Baptism

of Princess

"1 bet modern Eng-|Rizabeth's baby, presents

will avoided and we hope to produce Bible in trte English," he nal. The bed rehohrly text cil by the available will be translators

now fell,

several problems."

be

The birth must be registered afore the baby is six weeks the christening can performed at any time.

If the baptisin is postponed A new work is netery, it is until October, after the Royal return from Balmoral Family

cannot be per- the ceremony have going on was successful it language of the Bible is informed by the Archbishop of

Idra for these two events Jeome fogather is pented to be But of the Lord Provost, Sir Andrew

Mamay, wo thoumt that in this way he would Het The authors to write about the

festival. But may m writers are complaining about the accommodation they brent

allocated

your may deife and hestels and warding schools. it if the pokucat altuation

im uncertain,"

monent Americans

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up and down mempile tim of rain.

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Canterbury, might be possible to have lyle which is today dificult to understand without considerable magnetic tape records of a rudy. The Authoriset Version Australia at the end of Septem- back to 1611 and ther. In the ease the Archbishop complete book for the blind states

York may be the officlating | which would run uninter- Revised Verslon to 1884.

pelate.

THE ABSENT CHOIR in evigner trolling |

ruptedly for 10 or 15 hours.

FOUR PANELS

the

before Saptism Prices Succi Tast night's concvy by

This was stated by Sir Ian intermittent quafls Paris Rodo Greetia was by Fraser, MP, chairman of SI

of translature Getober, the toyal choir may Three parals way of being an hu dostvro: Dam fan's, at Newenstle.

have been formed, ine for the not be available. The choristera for the main festival diet.

For years the blind have Old Teglament, one for the New are on holiday, and are not THEY WORE FURS

rand "Talking Testionent

the due to one for

assemble again until heen troled with

A literary panel rib choral parts would nor Although ١٤ was Scotland, cafucted by $1. Roer Der-hook" bnt the dis records of Apcrypha.

which they esist have to be fos alzo been established to tweet and kartan. found 1111le miere. consisting at works by

deal with the Krammatical mally be arranged by the Rev. Rots el

and changed in quently, or Bizet, Phure.

the Foxell.

King's Maurice The virard 2012032

Inquie in London show that aspect of the translation. A private investment smartly dreeft weinen who at

seemed to be chosen 24

Mr Stanley Chapter by chapter as they reccntor, end the aim is to enable blind people Inneth BIVCH which has turned thousands tendida

Beren -ical Canterpart to Ine

to pick up a book, "read" a tew are written, the translations are Paper, the King's Choir-master.

to to it der submitted

the respective They have not yet discussed of acres of African bush into by the Ending Speaking Union Breworks dispay that will end

chapters and revest hour of Mr Lewis Douglas, the Festival on September 3.

kg pinsely switching on or af land bearing half a dozen United

panels in draft form for detailed the procedure. States Ambassador.

This

two court The 12in

R Marguerite Long, the "Har-

dises at present in

there critsen and revirion. valuable crops has been sold Many worben word furs over

will occupy of France, played use are on

some years. eficials who made the arrange- the micro-groove | veur

of for the Ito

baptism the State financed afternoon Cocktail frocka, riel Colien

or

the manuscripts havements 11 Jazzy Ravel G Major lang principle. By being run at 24 When

was persunded revolutions a minute instead of ben flually approved, the new Prince Charles. That ceremony

be published by the look place

the music- A moup of Freneb girl by persistent applause, to take 78 for ordinary gramophone re- lible will

and continue for about Oxford

Cambridge room of Buckingånen Polace, students, wearing men's Scottish the unusual course of repeating cords they

25 minutes.

University Presses.

Tatted up as a chapel. Eight years ago, a private bonnets pinned into various the last movement, company, Swaziland Ranches shapes by imitation Jewellery Ltd, was reststered at Mbabane, clipk, sveined likely to start а capital of the Protectorate. They festival fashion. Already they botight 110,000 acres In the ex- are complaining about imita- treme north between the Black-tors. Umbeluzl and

Colonial Development Cor-Predominant colour was black, concerto, and

poration for £626,000.

Fiver

Thr Komal

Most of it was semi-tropica|| GIRLS JOIN UP

bush, labited by buffaloes, leopards, hyenas and buck of all end. In the rivers were

jerocodiles and hippopotami.

grown,

SIX CROPS

FOR KOREA

Thirty-one women -- mostly N-NAAFI givin-are awaiting their mureling orders to Korea, to Within seven years, herds of They were among the Brai ranch raifle were bulit up, irri-volunteer after NAAFI head- gation schemes were construct-quarters at Claygate,

Surrey, cd, and tobacco, rice, ground had appealed for staff to serve stockroos (for hemp,in canteens near the battle area. cotton and maize were being One of the women, Miss D. W. Lane, serving with NAAFI Now the company have rold in Nairobi, volunteered by cable. the whole of their territory to A NAAFI offelal said; "After the Colonial Development Cor-the volunteers have

bean poration,, who plan to extend medically examined and docu- the ranches, trigale a further mented, they will be sent to the 50,000 acres.

Middle East, where they

will Chairman of Swaziland be kept as a mobile force ready Ranches, Mr S. G. Menell and to go to Koren as soon as the four of his fellow directors-Mr | military situation permits." C. H. Leon, J. Hernov, B. L. Eventually the girls, who will | Bernstein, and Basil Herov-probably ny to the Middle East, are Johannesburg business men, will join the task force of 200 Mr Menell is on the boards of en NAAFI workers who more than 30 companies; his volunteered on and after August

by Mr Zanuck at Claridges. (London Express Service) biggest Interest la gold mining, 2.

K. O. CANNON

PUT THAT GUN AWAY, LUIGI THEY ARE SWIGING THE SEARCHUGHT ON TO US. DO AS I TELL YOu! GET DOWN CANNON,

STUARTİYOU,PIETRO, MAKE LOVE TO ME! CLEAN THIS WAY}

QUICKLY!

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

15 IT NOT PERMITTED

TO MAKE LOVE IN

VENICE THESE

DAYS, NO.

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REDELS

A THOUSAND PARDONS,

SIGNORINA! FORGIVE ME!

A VERY COOD NIGHT

TO YOU BOTH!

BUONA NOTTE.

NIGHT...

Under

Mother's

Watchful

Eye

in

Bonnie, a purebred pointer, watches as her litter of 14 pups get their dinners from bottles, held by Jóel Eaton, three, and his sister, Joan, five, in St. Loubs. The mother dog came from a litter of 18 herself, so largs familles are no surprise to her. (Acme)