THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1925.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Backward Hongkong.
Seeing that your correspondent and I have taken, opposite sides (Pa the Witor of thỹ China Mail), and viewed the contest from dif- ferent ungles, it is obvious that we must disagree. But, without prejudice to the point at issue, I um prepared concede that Dupree was superior in science and strategy. However, like the which kept favourite
Sir-1 would like to reply to your correspondent E.R. in yesterday's sang on the ferry service to Cheung, Chow,
Bo
pony
THE
nic service is coming-must come. It will provide excitement to those who like it; it will be a boon to those who dread the sea;
it will facilitate correspondence between coast ports; and it will certainly expedite business mat ters. The volume of correspon- dence between this place and Shanghai for instance is terrific, and it follows that very often intricate matters of business are. discussed. It follows also that many a business man is likely to
CHINA MAIL.
SPORTS CABLES.
NOT SPORTS,
HOLLAND AND OLYMPIC GAMES.
(Reuter's Servicc.).
A message of May, 2 read
On the grounds that, Olympic Games are anti-Christian, and for financial reasons, the Rightists in the Second Chamber opposed the proposal to grant a million forins in aid of the gathering fixed to be held in Amsterdam in 1938. Decision was deferred.,
The Hague, May,6, Does he not know there must
The Second Chamber has reject- be an excellent service to Cheung behind in the race conserving its weigh seriously the advantages ofed the Bill guaranteeing a million connection with the the "Cazeu" in 1825, invited late, Dupree appeared to be toy his presence at some business con- holding of the Olympiad "at Chow because the Government in energy for a final spurt until too being whirled to Shanghai where norisin tenders for the running of the ing with his opponent, for reasons ference or transaction would be Amsterdam in 1928. Cheung baw ferry service, best known to him, and lost immediately valuable. Your tor stipulating there were to be four points. He realised this too late respondent's arguments might ferries eth way Baily, the last and only a knock-out of his man apply equally well to England, ferry to have Boagkong for could have given him the victory. America or Australia. That they 7 met me again remind "Candid" are not adopted or taken serious- Cheung Chow it
leave that my interest in the contestly, is all to the good showing the and also 16 for Hongkong! 7 p.m.? Thase was het in that of an imfixed belief there is in air services It mattered of a practical kind. What the two ferries would each be in sight partial spectator. of the other all the way across little to me who won, and I had no local pioneers need to do is to talk
less and do more. this obviating any possible chance money on anyone.
In regard to the challenge of jirury. This tender called for stsanvers of a certain size, and the issued by "Candit" in settle the spined whs to be not less than 12 dispute with a fight. I would miles per hour. This same ten-inform him that such a recourse į der also stipulated the fares to be is looked upon nowadays as boor- paid the first-class fare being 30 ish or schoolboyish, Besides no amount of fighting or argcing car Therefore it is quite certain change my opinion. I do not E.R. could have gone to Cheungglory in being a "champion." but Chow last Saturday, witnessed I have seen enough of the art in my days, and am now advanced the sport, and than returned to Hongkong by the 7 p.m. ferry, in viars, nevertheless with my that is if the Government. Tad vision and mental faculties intact. they were paid to do and at that |
conta.
UNBIASED.
Yours, etc..
Hongkong, May 7.
insisted upon the Ferry Company carrying out its part of the bar- gain. tiis ferry company. Len- dered, along I believe with other' ferry, companies, and were grant: [To the Editor of the China Mail). ed the monopoly of running the ferries between Hongkong and Sir-1am utterly at a loss to Cheung Chow, such service to understand what there should be start on April 1, a very appro- to bavil m in the boxing decision. priam day indeed, for they did not which was given after mature start until well on in May. That deliberation and all sane people was the Arst breach of the agrée-arcepted as the pepersverdiet. ment.
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Neither of the boats Cheung Chow nor Kung. Yik car do ung- thing like the 9 miles and 11 miles per hour respectively that this company offered to do in their tender. on which they were gran'-
Yours, etc..
Hongkong, May 6.
ACE.
* St. Peter's Church.
(To the Editor of the China Mail.
CLEAN SWEEP.
JAPAN'S TENNIS
PROSPECTS,
Messra Middy and Co's Title
Deed..............(Mr. Hayes) 2 Mr. Ma-Karlee's The Gingernut
(Mr. Peake) 3 Time; 2 mins. 5 secs. THE
GREAT NORTHERN PLATE. Seven Furlongs. Mr. Day's Borderland
(Mr. A. N. Dallas) I
Mr. Campox's Old B11 Messrs. Fay and Seth's Christ"
(Mr. Springfield) =
mas Gift.......(Mr. Heard) Equals record of Brockton and HomeBeld
Time: 1 min. 45 2/5 secs.
THE PARI-MUTUAL STAKES.
-One Mile, and a Half.. Mr. Alexander's Altai
(Mr. Dupree)
Mr. Day's Forestland
(Mr. Dallas) 2 Mt. We Two's Young Bill
(Mr. Maitland) 3 Time: 3 mins. 7 3/5 secs,
THE RACING STAKES-Onei
Mile and a Quarter. Mr. Liddell's Wheatcroft.
(Mr. Dupree) 1 Sir Paul's Mystic Dahlia
(Mr. Moller) z Messrs. Winsome and Hasty's
The Ortolan.... (Mr. McBain) .3 Time: 2 mins. 38 3/5 secs.
HISSEY'S OPINION.” .. Sir-Why all this fuss about (By Courtesy of Duity Bulletinį, honouring Messrs. Goldsmith and Francis? They did the worke
Manila, May 6. Howard Kinsey, in the course of iTHE RUBICON PLATE-One It finishes. If praise is to be a statement, says that the Japanese, Mila. given let it go to the steady, if will probably elena up the Olympic | Mr. Henry Morriss' Chesterfield law, faithful ones who." some of tennis events, and he does not cơm-|
(Mr. Heard) I them coming from great discedy The Filipinos any chance of Mr. Liddell's Fircroft tances have clung to the placeme
______(Mr. Dupree) -2: Mr. I. C. Bauld's. Erith and carried on.
Yours, etc..
(Mr. Bauld) 3 HUMILITY.
Time: 2 mins. 3/5 secs. Hongkong, May 6.
School Teachers.
Sir, The replies given by Mr. Orme at yesterday's Board of Education meeting, in the discus-
on
"Candid" kfts his cudget on behalf of Dupree and brings for ward
good arguments. some "Unbiased" disputes this, al (the Editor of the China Mail: though rather evasively. Having sat on the fence and watched these two scribes, I might tell ed the monopoly. The Kung Yik them that their opinions will not which the company hought count with the majority, nor will econd-hand is a confirmed all the arguing reverse the verdict She given that the contest was a draw, invalid, always in hospital.
Dupree was undoubtedly master of the situation, as well he might be with his professional reputation. -
However, he found Cartlidge to be made of tougher hide than he imagined.
is in hospital now and has been for a month and when she comics net. will probably do her usual 7 to 8 miles per hour, the passen- gers who leave Chung, Chow by her at 8 am, arriving of the post office corner al 9.25 to 930, 4m.
That is the scond breach of the
agreement.
→
Then this company. who had run this ferry service with one stumer for a few years before! they were granted the monopoly and therefore knew what the revenue was likely to be and ten-
As regards newspaper verdiets, with apologies to you, Sir, I say
that this is all bunkum.
Yours, etc....
A SOLDIER.
on the appointment of teachers are certainly very dis appointing.
It has been såld many times before that Hongkong does not get the right type of teachers simply because the ad- are not vertisements for them self-explanatory enough. Besides this, without any definite senle of salaries, based on qualification and experience, can anyone wob-
1. Kinsey, his Brother and Shot gras ar the famous Americans they play in Hongkong next, werk.)
MAGIC NUMBERS.
RESULT OF THE SHANGHAI CHAMPIONS.
THIRD DAY'S RECORDS..
Have you won-Such will be the question on the lips of all who took any interest in the Shanghai The lucky Champions Sweep. numbers for this year's spring meeting, according to a Reuter cable. are as follow:-
A. Sweep:
Ist Ticket No. 49,668. 2nd
32.448.
B. Sweep:
3rd..
1st
2nd
3rd
» .19,926.
Ticket No. 24,138."
" '2.500. 13,939.
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THE YANGTSZE CUP.-One
Milė.
Mr. Day's Duke of Portland
Mr. Ma-Ka-lee's The Knut
(Mr. Dallas) I
(Mr. Moon)
2
3
Mr. Harry White's Don
Alphonso.... (Mr. Springfield Time: 2 mins. I 4/5 secs
THE JOCKEY CUP.-One Mile
and a Quarter Mr. G. C. Purdue's Coeur de
Leon.....
.......(Mr. Purdue) I Mr. We Two's Master Robert
(Mr. Heinzerling). 2 Mr. Henry's Tiplight
(Mr. Newton) 3 Time: 2 mins. 38 3/5 secs.
THE CHAMPION SWEEP- STAKES. - One Mile and Quarter.
Winner, Tls. 3,000: serond. Tis. 1,500; third, Tls. 70. For China ponies. Winners at this meeting. to be ridden by Jockeys who have at least five flat races in
CHINA MAIL'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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HORIZONTAL
4-Noley breathing
B-Domestia animals
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18 A flower
15-Sylvan Grenk.delty 15-To annoy. 17-Qloomy
18-Largo tub.
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24—A southern State of U. 8. 25-A spack
20-In the dinmotion of 29-Misconduct
29-Postinaater, (abbr.) 31-Wespons
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cross-word puzzle.)
HANKY PÁNKY,”
der that teachers are content to do just sufficient to keep their places? I do not say all the teachers do this, but I certainly Hongkong, May 7.
believe a few would take a great To Mar Editor of the China Mad, deal more interest in their work
If they were given the right By the courtesy of the Hong-won Sir.-If your porrespondent inducement. Mr. Orme probably kong Jockey Club the "China Mail" Hongkong or China, or Jockeys dered accordingly, found that: the Candid" is to be believed. then has had so much experience with is able to publish the third day's approved by the Stewards.. 7p. ferry each way did not
(Mr. Heard) 1 LEE WHITE COMPANY BACK pay and asked permission from local boxing shows, of those who Chinese students that he has results. Sir Paul's Saucy Dahlia, Mr. Henry Morris's Warrenfield
AGAIN, take part in them, are not quite found it unnecessary to employ which did not run in the Hong- the Government to withdraw it honest. He would have us qualified men. I wonder if tax-kong Derby although entered, Mr. Day'a New Zealand
(Mr. E. McBain) 2 which permission was evidently believe, that Dupree did not "make payers and parents can be satis- after winning the Shanghai given for there has been no 7prings" round
Derby on Tuesday, ran third in Sir Paul's Saucy. Dahila
Two performances in the same (Mr. Moller) 3 his opponent ferry since last October. At the
the Champions, also under Mr. because it would have affected the
Time: 2 mins. 31 3/5 secs. evening establishes record for same time the Government gave former's engagements elsewhere.
Eric Moller's guidance. Mystic
The previous fastest time on Hongkong. That they were both the ferry compug, which is really Your catfespondent goes too far.
Dahlia, another of Sir Paul's string.
made by Rosewood in successful testifies at least to one a few ablers or his effort to put a halo on the composed of
which won the Governor's Cup record wa
2 mins 32 2/5 secs. Cheung Chow village, authority to head of his hero (pardon the
here, got a place in another race.
thing-the excellence of the raise the first-class fare to 85 alliteration) he stamps him not
One record was equalled and the champions (over a mile and a THE FOOCHOW CUP.-Three entertainment provided.
Quarters of á Mile. much as a sportsman, but as an
quarter) was run in 'record time... individual with his "head screwed i
Resuits follow:- on the right way."
cents.
And there this Gilbertian ferry service stands to-day.
I wonder what would happen if the Peak Tramway Co., or the Star Ferry Co., curtailed their services by withdrawing the trams or ferries that did not pay. and I also wonder if the Govern-
Yours, etc.,
WELL BALANCED.
· Hongkong, May 6.
Bathing Scandal."
to the Editor of the Chino Mail)
fied
in this way?
QUERIST..
Yours, etc.,"
Hongkong, May 7.
ARMS ON LINER.
CHINESE TAKEN INTO 'CUSTODY.
Revenng Officers whn bourded the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress
of Canada a few hours after for
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THE FLYING HANDICAP
CLASS-One Mite..
1
www.
Miss
Mr Henry Morriss Bracken-Lee White and her talented Com- field. .........(Mr Heard) I jany established themselves as Mr. M. D. Springfield's Harry M...(Mr. Springfield)
Mr Liddell's Ravenscroft
(Mr. Dupree) Time: I min. 30 2/5 secs.
Misses V and D McBain's Grey
Duck...(Mr E. McBain) [ Messrs, Winsome and Hasty's ment would allow them to if they
The Whinchat...(Mr. Edgar) 2
THE NEWCHWANG CUP Mr. Richmond's Bunny asked permission. No doubt if
(Mr. Sweeting) 3, Mr. J.C. Bauld's Erith
Three Quarters of a Mile. either of these companies asked
Time: 2 mins. 5 3/8 secs. permission to curtail their ser-
(Mr. Springfield) vices the request would not be
Mr. Bortock's Te Kooti dealt with in the same easy man-pressing topic-nnd that is the
HANDICAP,
(Mr. Bucknell) B" CLASS-One Mile.
Mr. Day's Shadowland ner as the Cheung Chow ferry series of hideous matsheds which A Chinese was taken into custody.
(Mr. Dallas) Possibly E.R. can now under-spoil the appearance of this and will be charged before the Mr. F. B. Marshall's Larch Tree
Time: I min. 30 4/5 secs. Magistrate with
service. .
arrival yesterday on a gate for contraband were rewacht by the Sir,I am not going to inflict iscovery of a rifle, an automatic you with anything on this topic. | revolver, and 800 rounds of ammuni-- But it serves to introduce a more,
other benches. In the early days
the
stand why he could not get back permission was readily given to possession of the arms. from Cheung Chow last Saturday. put up a shed, but in those days Under the present housing con- the demand was a gentle one. ditions in Hongkong, surely it is
The proximity of the hotel
the duty of the Government to see at Repulse Bay has created that ferry services are maintain-
demand until the shore
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ed. and not reduced merely to is what it is to-day. The result satisfy a Chinese company. There is there is a monopoly and there are Europeans living on Cheung is also a business in renting mat- Chow regularly, who have, to sheds. think the PW.D travel daily to Hongkong and should revoke its permission- bark, and they are at the mercy of giving a year's notice--and not this company. If the. Goyern- allow these constructions at all. ment would only compel this ferry Instond the beach should be free. company to carry out its part of to all, so that anyone coming the bargain until the next tender along with either a huge umbrella is due in 1926 I think, residents or tent for undressing and dress- would be satisfied, more houses ing purposes, would have a re would be built and occupied, and sonable oportunity of finding a the island would grow to what it spot available. At the moment ought to be, Hongkong's suburb. the place is a poor imitation of
Is there some reason why the Government does not insist on the ferry service? Does the Govern ment not like the place, or what is
Yours, etc.,
VICTIM..
it?
Hongkong, May 6.
Boxing Decision,
To the Editor of the China Mail).
Sir,-Unlike "Candid" It.make
to
Blackpool, where grown-ups go, not so much to bathe they do that but spend precious hours loating, smoking, and eating. The proportion of children bathing at Repulse Bay compared with adulty is worthy of note,
Yours, etc.
• SKIN DEEP,
Hongkong, May 6.
Local Air Service,
no apology for encroaching on (To the Editor of the China Mail.) your space as he has apparently {[~
been disturbed in his reverie and Sir-Why this effort to has come back with another strangle a suggestion before it tiräde.
has almost reached birthdaAn
unlawful
THE FLYING
(Mr. Heard) I
FAMOUS STADIUM TO BE PULLED DOWN.
New York, May 6,
Madison Square Garden, has ended its career with a series of boxing bouts. It is r's Ameri- being demolished; in its place a monster office building will be erected: can Service
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prime favourites on their previous
2 visit and it was not surprising to find a fine 6.15 p.m. audience at the theatre yesterday and a full house at 9.16 p.m. The show went with the usual swing and there was never a dull moment. "The Peaches" danced, Mae Baird I and Archie Thompson danced- und that is saying a lot; Fabbie 2 Benstead and Billee Lockwood gang; whilst Gus McNaughton, 3 Ernest Sefton, Reg. Dandy and
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BORBED HAIR WOMAN APPEALS,
According to the "Malay Mail" April 21, the bobbed-hair Chit women sentenced to ten years Bob Cory were supreme in their individual and collective offerings.attack on Mr. Richards at Kuala rigorous imprisonment for her bomb Miss Lee White and her husband Lumpur is to appeal at Selangor, Clay Smith are in a Revue class Mr. Justice Deane will hear the by themselves. They sustained
their world-wide reputation and appeal.
added not a little to the success of
a really fine show, The short season will be continued this evening. It is safe to say 'that. all Hongkong will be there.
'LEAVE THE BOX."
JUDGE REBUKES WOMAN.
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The jury at the Old Bailey found Harold Douglas Moffat, 49, a rub. ber expert, of St. James's Square, Bath, not guilty of obturing money from Miss Beatrice Sophia Cope, & nurse-companion, by false pretences, and he was diselurged.
After Miss Cope had said in Levidence that she did not give Moffat any money on the faith of his +having promised to marry hat, Siz H. F. Dickens, Common Serjéant, said:
Your evidence is exactly con}
TO-DAY'S SMILE.
CHIVALRY IN EXCELSIS.. While they sit down we hold the babies-Evening News, London.
A PICTURE OF SURPASSING
BEAUTY-
Maurice Tourneur's
triny, to what you said before the LORNA DONE
magistrate,Your evidence is most unsatisfactory: Upon your own showing you have perjured yourself. Leave the box,AMINAT
Hedded that Miss Cope should
· not have a penny piece of expenses; She had lied to shield Moffat.
An enthralilag love tale of thr
days of the "bloody Doon