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THURSDAY, FE BRUARY 21, 1921:
SOCIAL February 29,At City Hall, Fancy Dress Ball, in aid of the S.P.C.A., 9.30 p.m.
March 1-St. David's Society Dinner.
Hongkong
SPORTS, February 21-23. Jockey Club race meeting.
March 2--Next Tournament of the H.K. Boxing Assen.
February 23.-Hongkong Police Boxing Tournament at Volunteer Headquarters, p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS,
PIRATES?
RIVER STEAMER MYSTERY.
REPORTED ATTACK.
Police Making Thorough Searck.
Startling rumours were current. late last night that the Kongmoon steamer"On Lee," also well- known as a Macao excursion boat, had been pirated after leaving Hongkong and that the gang had taken her away to some point out of her course. When the Tai
Lee, the sister-ship of the "On Lee arrived at her wharf here it was mentioned among river shipping men that rockets had been seen from the "On Loc" and that a request had been made to the Naval authorities for a gunboat
to go in chase of her.
February 22-Lammert Bros., at Godown No. 6 Upper, the HK. and Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Co. Ltd.463 sacks flour, II a.m.
February 25.Lammert Bros., it 44A. Nathan Rd. Kowloon, house hold furniture, and one cottage | piano, 2.45 p.m.
February 26-Lammert Bro, Definite information is still hard. at Clavadel, 298 The Peak, house-to secure, but it is known, at any hold funiture, 2.45 n.m.
rate, that the "On Lee" came Into harbour about midnight under the escort of No. 2 police launch which saw her rockets in Castle Peak Bay, and went to her assistance. What is supposed to have taken place is best described in this morning's Police Report. which is as follows:-
of playera will visit Gront, dat racing season began, Truth's |
Wo are told are February 22.-Theatre Royal; Britain and play against some of sporting writer gave a list of PROPHETS, without "honour in "The Nine O'Clock Revue"; 9.15 the Clubs in the lower divisions fifteen horses it should" pay to
their own country. p.. of football, and against the great follow." One of his readers This we imagine will be the fate amateur combination known as consistently followed the Hat, of the Director of our Observatory, "The Corinthians,”... Our Univer- betting a pound each time any one Mr. Claxton, although a word in sities also should be found willing of the fifteen ran. That meant an commendation of the accuracy of to meet these exceedingly efficient investment of £89. Sixty-four of his statements is due, "It will be exponents of the soccer code. It these were losses but the odds remembered that when a recent needs a little organization and received made the balance of wins thunderstorm had spent itself Mr. preparation in advance to bring produce £132.175.8d., a profit of £68 Claxton assured a newspaper man auch an idea-an idea we have odd. This satisfactory and very that a cold spell of weather would held for a long time, to fruition. fortunate result" was largely due to follow. That cold spell has come. Incalculable good can be expectedne horse paying fifty to one. It has spelt many things, some of to proceed from these "expedi-But such odds are rare and cannot them badly such as "a code id the tions."*
The Chinese team that be expected by the systematic dose increased coal and are from wood bills and attendance in Doc visited Australia were loud in punterHowever, apart
interest in the experiment, thetors' consulting rooms. their praise of the manner of their gentleman doubtless considered der how many thought of those reception, and doubtless the "Aussies" were also loud in their 189 a fair risk for the fun, he had derelicts whe nightly seek com-
secured during the season:
posure in sleep on the hard flags praise of young men of another
of Hongkong's unsympathetic race "and" colour, able to play
And that, after side-walks li As a true prophet such a vigorous game in a
OUT HERE," all, is the way Mr. Claxton should gain medals clean sportsmanlike manner
most people re- and our Observatory an increased to the last minute and the last gard racing, whether they bet measure of confidence. ounce of stamina. Visiting teams capriciously or systematically. help a section of people given to Those who risk more than they can insular views to a knowledge of "afford to lose are the gamblers their particular rase, and perhaps seeking neither the pleasure nor give a keener zest to reading the excitement but simply the gain | water about that country,. thethe sheer, sordid gain. For cently by candidates in British manners and customs of the these reason and self control have North Borneo: people and the things they manu-no appeal. They are deaf to the facture or are willing to buy and sell. If there is any leveller in the world it must be sport. Men meeting in combat bave no time to waste on the question of what may be termed social barriers, or an opponent's creed or colour. The game's the thing and it goes to the best man-or the man who has fitted himself by clean living, diligent training and a keen desire to have his name high up in the winning list. It is interest- ing to note that, judging from lose they mostly consider the money well invested for the ex- those selected to represent China citement they have had. And that in both tennis and football, the is the true spirit of the occasion. majority have come from Hong- kong. Whether this is due to the healthy influence of British Sport We cannot definitely say. Signs point to the fact that it is. All the more reason then why we should be more than keenly interested in the fortunes of Ng Szo-kwong and his colleagues.
Brains.
injunction.
'Play not for gain, but sport,
Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure,
stakes his heart- Perhaps his wife's too, and
whom she hath bore.” But these are in the minority- out here in the very small minority. Nearly all our Happy Valley punters seek the thrill. When favour with due clation; when they they win they accept Fortuno's
SALARY
CUTTING.
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not
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Statistics are zvailable but Imagine the applica tions for increases in salary would outnumber by many thousands those that make a re quest for д reduction. Lord Haldane is to take less than he is entitled to and Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald is to do the same. Here
ESSAY ON THE WATER BUFFALO. The water baffalo is da animal of the cow kind, and Is black in colour. It is not at all an animal of prey,
"COMPANY MEETINGS, February 23. Annual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at City Hall, 11.30 p.m.
February 25-Thirty-seventh meeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., at Mesars. Jardine's offices, II am."
It usually stands about five to six feet high; sometimes it February 27.-Yearly meeting of reaches about eight, but seldom the Hongkong Tramways Ltd., at more. Its appearance is rather the offices of Messrs. Jardine clumsy, heavy and slow, yet itMatheson and Co., Ltd., Noon. performs its work with the utmost grace,
February 28.Annual Meeting of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing. and therefore its master Ukes Company, at St. George's Bldg., him very much and does not Chyer Road, II a.m. mind when the mosquitoe bites him and only pricked up its
cars
and the mosquitoes run away, and its back is very flat and it like 'the small boys mounting on its back and bring it to and fro.
March 3-Thirty-fifth meeting of the H.K. Electric Co., at St. George's Bldg., Chater.Rd., 11 am.
March 4.-Thirty-fifth ordinary annual meeting of shareholders of the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd., at St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd,
They could swim over ata.m... stream easily, because they have a big stomach just like a boat, which hollow inside.
who lectured DR. THOMPSON, this week on his bandit ox-
March 6.-Nineteenth Aunual Meeting of shareholders of the Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. in the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd, tI am.
also is an American Judge reperiences, has worked many years
LOCAL AND GENERIL. questing a decrease in salary, in China-first among lepers at It is only on rare occasions and suggesting that G$5000 a year puts Pakhoi, and now in the temperate
A successful whist drive was In rare places that congregations (an unnecessary strain upon the region of Yunnanfu He is a
The indifference of colleague of Dr. Neville Bradley held at the Seamen's Institute, of the best brains are to be taxpayers. found. We realised that on rising some men to money is not a little not unknown in Hongkong. Dr. Praya East, last night, when the from a very interested reading of remarkable. We read the story Thompson is a surgeon of note and following were successful: Mrs. of the famous scientist recently for a time-lectured in Liverpool Picket, Mrs. Charlsworth Mrs the University's Degree ceremony dead whose salary
went into University. His trying experien- Thorne, Mrs. May, Mrs. Smith, and and the speeches made at it. The thousands. На stipulated forces in the north do not appear to Messrs Beal, Stevens, Flynn, Leask OMONSMARQUEZ University itself is an example of something much below his official have had any serious effect; if and Bell.
the dream and the vision come to pay and that it be paid into his anything they have added to his reality, and if for no other reason account. The official sum was vigour. Abook-from-his-pen- than that it is likely to present however paid in, but at his death would be an interesting document to us from time to time men with it was discovered that his draw-and a valuable treatise on manuers' ⚫ outstanding mentality, broad ings had been small and just and customs in China during one feeling and vision do we bless it. sufficient to meet the absolute of its most interesting stages, Monday's ceremony must prove needs of living. He had found
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There was a young Jady of Ryde Who could look very nice if she tried.
And could manage a smile' If she thought it worth while But she certainly failed as a
bride.
against
a
SOCIAL AND PERSÓNAL.
A Reuter cable from New York announces the death of Doctor Alexander Garrett, the presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
According to a Reuter cable "The-Stream of Life," the wise from Peking, the Walchlaopu (Chinese Foreign Office) has re ceived a telegram from Ma Fu Hsiang, Tutung of Chahar, saying that Father Van Praet has been rescued from the bandits and reached Taliang safely on February 15.
men say, "Can bear us on its crest,
1
In some enchanted, magic way, To havens of life's quest." When work's the quest, and small
the craft,
There's naught to make us
merry; We're over-crowded fore and aft
Aboard a Kowloon ferry.
"
WEATHER CALENDAR.
Vice-Chancellor's chair make speeches of unparalleled charm and abundance of wisdom. We hope to analyse one of them at no distant date, but our plea here is that the proceedings so faith- fully recorded by the local press should not be allowed to be hidden away
unremembered among pages. The University's expendi-
As ture may be great but there
DANCING. Canadian Roman should be a moiety found to have
Catholic Bishop's the three speeches set forth in an attractive pamphlet and distri-indictment of dancing we have the buted as freely as possible. There words of a Dr. Cruickshank who are in these three speeches, noble tilts at "the encouragement of bookishness and sedentary habite" words, shining precept, and a tolerance preached that should as "the worst possible training for Girls" he SAYS, the young:" find a responsive chord in those 'need a training whereby they who, dwelling amongst a strange can develop a sense of honour and fatherly way. Many races have and wonderful race, profess to be loyalty to each other. Games do 1764.
The buoyancy other forms of sport but none we optimism which seems to pervade ethical teaching." It is a matter of of more to instil these qualities than "FOHNSON — ROSS. — AI
Bt think to vie with the more re- the utterances we wish made opinion of course, but the Doctor's Joseph's Church, Hongkong, by freshing and sporting ones of more permanent speaks well for is highly interesting, Berd. Father Augustine an February 18, 1924, Leicester their northern brothers. It is the the future of our "Lighthouse."
Sir Henry May has Granville St. Clair, son of the wide space of the downs; the The now Vice-Chancellor has made Late Mr. and Mrs. H. R. crowds and the colour and the sion, and the best wishes of Hong- a good start and a good impres-
CLUBS. left behind him bro- chures on yachting Johnson of Manly, Sydney, to three or four moments of intansa kong are with him in a task which and racing but none on Clubs. Margaret Jessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ross of when the winning post is has engaged such brilliant intel- The omission should be remedied sared that make all the differ- leats as H.E. Sir Charles Eliot, and for quite an interesting volume Manly; Sydney.
could be made on the history of etice; and if there is a "Httle on Sir William Branyate.
the Colony's Clubs. There is for with some fancied favourite
instance the P.E.N. Club which
MARRIAGE.
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FEBRUARY 21.
"The s.s. On Lee"
-left Hongkong at 7 o'clock last night. with 250 passengers and cargo. At 8.50 when the ship was off Ling Ting Island in Chinese waters, two shots were fired. Mr. P. Martins; chief officer, at once put the alk Indlun quards in "position and they kept the pirates off the bridge. The vessel was swung round and returned to Hongkong without Icave. anyone being allowed Many shots were fired but no been appears to have injured."
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When the "On Lee"'arrived she was brought alongside the Police Pier at Kowloon and placed under a strong guard. Early this morning, the Criminal Intelligence Department went on board and a rigorous search was carried out among the passengers, their luggage, the ship and any possible hiding places. At the time of our first edition going press, the police were not in a position to say anything definite but it seemed as though the first stage of the search had been gon through The passengers were being separated into batches and conveyed across the harbour to the Central Police Station where they were subjected to another search. -Their-luggage was brought along -with them, comprising the usual travellers* packages with Mah-Jongg sets
Se &c., while one passenger had with him a large bundle of clogs. Until the inquiries are completed it is not possible to say with any degree of certainty whether any pirates or other bad characters were captured
or not.
That an element of doubt exists is evident from the whispers going around that there has been some misunderstanding, one man going as far as to state there were no pirates at all but somebody or board the "Oa Lee" accidentally fired a couple of shots or so and Others His fellow journalists yesterday this caused the panic. presented to Mr. T. Petrie, who point to the piracy of the "Tai On," 'San Nam Hoi," about a retired this month from the editor- now the ship of the Sauth China Morning decade ago when the pirates were from occupying Post and sails for Home on Satur. prevented
therefore
set day, several handsome souvenirs, the bridge and
to the vessel with all including a rose bowl, cigar box fire
board. By this they and a cigarette case. There was on
no ceremony, in view of Mr. Infer that if there had been pirates What has become of you the rifts were accompanied by a have submitted to capture without Petrie's recent bereavement, but on the "On Lee" they would not in these inundations, that letter expressing the high regard a fight and would rather have have drowned us all, and in in which Mr. Petrie is held by his taken to the water than have re- this hot and unseasonable colleagues in the newspaper world mained on board when their posi winter 7--Gray,
here. Mr. Petrie has also been sion became intolerable. presented with a handsome silk ther view is that the pirates scroll by the Chinese members of would not have acted till they were further away from British the South China Morning Post Staff.
waters as has been the case in previous outrages,
WIT. AND WISDOM.
The most fascinating of all things is a secret-provided you don't know it.
* * *
A KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
ARMED ROBBERS INTER RUPTED.
THE CORONET.
Ano
"THE MARK OF ZORRO".
An unexpected turn occurred in Lively, laughing Douglas FaiN... an armed robbery at 6.80 p.m. banks is assured of a big rocenjiva ydsterday. Five men, on the pre-at-the Coronet to-day, when The A woman thinks that her hus-tence of delivering fish, entered Mark of Zoro", probṛbly, one ef and is the wisest man on earth No. 28, Western Street. As they his greatest successes, is due,
were armed with "revolvers and Of course, one expects schem the day he leads her to the altar.
daggers, they had no difficulty in whenever Douglas appears, but in The trouble with the modern overpowering the tenant, Luk this film, there is, besides all kin dance is that, by the time you King-ching, who had her four of movement, an interesting se have learned it, it isn't.
children with her as well as a lady fascinating cass of dual identity. visitor and a female servant, walla, scalea heights, and so on, is Fairbanks fights-duela," jumps over
romance with a pretty soport attractively unfolded
Is for ever losing its Committee So I said: "Don't be discour- To the winners then a wins dia-
You all know him and appointing those who do not aged, Alec. I may learn to love He is the man with a seem to realise their responsi" | you I had the same trouble with wetion in the spanding of their
system. Tips leave blifties. There is the Short Story olives."" "earnings." To the losers--if him cold; fancy stirs him not; | Club which blossomed in one night discretion has mof taught a lesson ipinition he utterly scorns. Nothing and withers for the want of sustain -better luck next time. Atill away his choice but system, ing enthusiasm. The H.A.ES. Although not
in Happy Fall be the burned Just what his system is you cannot seems an interesting sort of Club. always learn. Sometimes he will We wandered into the tiny room Hongkong goes to Happy Valley hopes of many many all too soon let you prise out of him the fact that constitutes the Club's premises this week, it is safe to say almost forgotten. By Sunday it will that he is backing the jockeys: the other evening and saw on all everyone will take a keen interest mean the buried hopes of hun- other times he will guardedly dis- hands enthusiasm that may be nega the proceedings there or the dreds whose numbersalas close that he is Invoking the law of tive but which is highly developing. mault of them. It may not be were not where it was hoped they how) Mostly, however, he will steadily at all this for a space of a There was a time when only the When the robbers had tied up the his very best style, and his lore
averages (though you cannot see and needs no toning (on looking dineult to determine the attrac-would be. Three Latin phrases answer you with the one word year, a joke will appear for we bold and naughty went in for inmates and pocketed $148, the tion which centres upon the Sport there are, which translated mean: system: And with that you must are writing of the Hongkong chemical loveliness, but now even husband knocked at the door on his way home The robbers of Kings, for in it there may be fortune favoure fools: fortune to your way content. His faith, if Amateur Photographic Society good dye young.
thereupon opened the door and schood the parable of life that is the hold; fortune aids the genuine and not merely arise to It fills a need and should go far, escape the importunities of punters There in our Onton Club also very
rushed downstairs knocking the ike raeo is be the swift; that the beare. Take your shości!
sasking the sure thing" and the select and breathing that air which
husband down to the landing dead - cert"—his faith is touch only those liking onions appreciato,
below, weak go to the wall and that
ing, for more than once it has been If tline permits we shall certainly conclusively proved that betting write a brochure on Clubs, fr systematically unusually means should sell well amongst wires: ultimate loss. Even if you follow whose husbands are continually the advice given in this column working late at the office or un-
those only who canter in succOBS-,
fal formation receive the plaudite
of the crowd. Even if what is China's Termin Team.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised. a The Mail
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Not the least of the chern in the film is the series of beautiful scene, showing Mexican California in hot-blooded early days.
For the rest, it is recommended to the public that they are the po PANGANG DECAMPS.
Two bottles of wine, a rock; a ture, which is undoubtedly one of revolver loaded in five chambers the most spirited ever abown heregg and 2 ales converted into daggers termed gambling were abolished with the entrance of a team of yesterday and limit the number of avoidably detained in town.
were left by an armed gang who from our race-courses, or in con- tennis players to represent your bets so that a nun of,bad luck
February 21-Coronet Theatre;were surprised when they entered
Leaders of the Swanjiste, in nection with the running of China, the Republic definitely cannot cost you more than a known
Mr. Baldwin is The Mark of Zorro,
No, 36, Shanghai Street, at 8.20 declaration of their policy, announ horses, we are inclined to think takes its place in the world of sun, still the chances am against
"UNCONSCIOUS.. said to have
February 21-Star Theatre; last night. In attempting to their intention of asking the Cont the attraction would still be a sport. Its more or less repre- you
made the "The Gilded Lily delete overpower aman they were not and Provincial Governments whe supreme unconscious fest of the February World Theatre quick enough to prevent his stops they intend to take for the great as ever. It is tempera sentative team of football players! | hha visited Australia and proved mental
Last year the century, when in congratulating Reginald Donny in The Abysmal shouting out. Simultaneously, his immediate establishment of full The Spaniard kills his that againat players of their owi HOW SYSTEM China: Mail the speaker on his selection he Brate her daughter-in-law blaw a police sponsible Government in India f but; the Filipind watches the weight, they can well hold their WORKS. quoted a striking said the Government look to February 21-Theatre Royal whistle, This had the desired they do not get calis notion, they in struggles of his prized bantams own. Presumably the day is not
example, which him for support the Opposition The Quaints in • Underground to effect of getting the rubbers to tend to institute a policy of parace, and cares for them in a more than for Cistant when a Chinese team still holds good. Before the 1932 look for Protection,
Anywhere, 9.15 p.m. 7.
run off without asking kay boot?, ent and consistent obstruction;