The British Broadcasting Corporation "announce that in 19%, eight hundred and eighty-nine SES, mes-/sages wore transmitted from London fend Provincial Stations. This is slight increase over the preceding year, in which there were only eight hundred and fifty eight such messages. There has been a marked increase in the number of successful messages, Lo 5658 per cent. in 1994! 8 against 4475 per cent, in 1983, and the Corporation are inclined to attri~ bute this to the fact that they no] Tonger issue SES. broadcasts. for missing persons. A big increase was Fecorced in the number of messages brosdeast for witnesses of accidents, there being 218 in 1934 as against only 123 in 1833. The of sue cess for this class of message has also Increased, from 48.78 per cent in 1993 to S414 per cent. in 1034, There! has been an increase in the number Jof successful messages broadcast tu Jcases of dangerous illness, Le- from 51.70 per sent In 1083 to $8.70 per cent. in 1994. robber it never" ocetra fo. him te When a policeman te shot at by a
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our aay replying to the Har ben one thin hooting and attempting to arrest he Shooters "The Arma Tdentifeation Buresu of the SMP. mast, however, be "put down as exceptions. "Thelt work. ts to find out, when posse, whether a weapon captured by the) outside patrols has been used in any ther crime, to trace down Ite antic Cedents, a2"it/ were' and sometimes the results of their investigations are very surprising. The percentage of countries of origin, published as an extract from the report of the Commissioner of Police for 1934 yesterday, is among those surprising dis-feries. The percentage was 44.5 ized of Spanish origin, teen per cent. of German origin, twelve per cent. of Belgian origin, ten per cent. French, nine per cent. American, four per cent. Chinese, three per cent. Italian, one per cent. British, per cent.' Austrian, and' one per cent. obscure. How does it happen that s0 many pistols come from Spain, when direct contact between Spain and Shanghai is so slight? The, Janswer is the cost. Spanish pistols can be bought in various ports of call favoured by ships coming to this country at an equivalent of less than twenty-five francs apiece, with a tundrad round of ammunition. They Jean be sold here at over $60, The life of these pistols is not long, a Colt. but they prove use. ful to criminals who fire through them only seldom, Such pistols, most Jot them smuggled into Shanghat, are usually dropped over the side of shi coming into port while the vessel is till in the neighbourhood of Woo: sung. This sort of smuggling is dim-cult, if not impossible, to stop at this fend. A few years ago the proportion fof German pistols used by Shanghai's underworld was very large, but since the Nazi regime came into power, there seems to have been a stricter control exercised at the other end. which explains the decrease in the percentage seized last year. The de-[crease might, perhaps, give an in-@icator of what the authorities of other countries can do to ald in sup pressing armed crime in Shanghai.
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