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More Man-Power?
HARD UP;
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1925.
"STRIKE EXECUTIVE'S " PLIGHT.
LACK OF FUNDS.
Canton's "Strike Executive" is
11
'VARSITY MATCH.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE DRAW.
ANNUAL CRICKET STRUGGLE..
Scores were as follow:
OXFORD.
1st innings 350 runs.
P. H.
Stewart-Brown (Harrow and Magdalen) scored 56; J. L. Guise (Winchester and Brasenese) scor- ed 58.
Is the man-power of the Colony being used to the best possible advantage in the present emer- gency?. That 'la not an idle ques- tion. There have been hundreds of volunteers who have come for- ward to give of their services freely for the common good. Others have taken the very
The annual Oxford v. Cam- sensible course of joining the hard up! In yesterday's issue of bridge University match at Lord's Volunteer Defence Corps; and still the "San Kwok Wah Po" (a protended in a draw, the batsmen. others may be classified as per-minent Kuomintang organ)
getting the better of the bowlers. forming very necessary duty to copy of which was smuggled into
Cambridge Batsman's Feat. the community by remaining in Hongkong and has been passed on to the "China Mail" is a notice
(Reuter'a Servisa.) their present billets. Still, if a
London, July 8. long view is to be taken of the by the "General Strike Executive strike and of the aftermath of the for Canton and Hongkong, of the strike, it must be obvious to the China National Labour Union," most casual observer that there is After mentioning the appoint- ment of So Shiu-ching (also spelt a host of people content to go on So. Siu-tsing) who formerly from day to day as they did before achieved notoriety as one of the the strike-without the slightest suggestion of help to the com- Seamen's Union Hongkong lead ers-as chairman and chairman munity in general. They are
of the finance sub-committee, the ahirkers and nothing less than notice issues an appeal to all shirkers! In any comparative sections. Loans, says the notice, "roll of honour" compiled with
will be officially acknowledged history of the strike the names of whatever that may mean-and it these shirkers and malingerers is hinted that money is urgently will be found missing. It is to be needed to support the strikers in hoped that a hint will be sufficient Canton. at the present juncture in the
In the same issue it is admitted
1st innings 409 runs. K. S. interests of the entire Colony that that strikers returning from Can- Duleepsinhjf (a Freshman from volunteer workers are still in ton have been victimised by Cheltenham) contributed 75; H. J. demand in the vital business of "fellow-patriots" who, under pre- Enthoven (Harrow and Pem- "carrying on."
broke) compiled 129. The latter scored 104 last year and thus equalled William Yardley's inter- Varsity record of two centuries in 1870 and 1872 (Yardley made 100 in 1870 and 130 in 1872 for Cam- bridge), L. G. Crawley (Harrow und Pembroke) scored 98.
More Useful.
Those who arranged the volun- teer route marches are probably prepared to justify them and argue that they have served a useful purpose. We sincerely hope so. But it can also be argued that
tence of welcoming the heroes, walk off with their luggage Some of the strikers have also been embroiled in street fights regarding which serious com- plaints have been made.
"CABLE ROMANCE"
[Stewart-Brown was a Fresh- man last year, but not a Blue. Guise is captain this year, played last year and in 1928 he won his Blue as a Freshman but an injury at Eastbourne prevented him from playing in the big match.]
CAMBRIDGE.
Volunteer work might be more EASTERN TELEGRAPH CO.'S Blue in 1923 and he played, as
usefully employed. Routine patrols have a deadening and destroying influence when unrelieved by Finterest. Patrols we are sure would be glad to have work, öf what may be termed a more pro- ductive character. Why not let them be put on to search the many empty houses foreign and Chinese-where it is stated are to be found nests of striking boys, coolies and amahs? The sight at the Post Office each day does not suggest a sense of order or decency. A few volunteers could certainly keep the large number of Chinese in line who crowd round a little door which seems to admit entrance to letter boxes. There are other avenues of "productive" work that would make volunteer.
ing less the holiday work it is. We need to infuse sincerity in all that is being done and to mala- tain it right to the bitter end.
TYPHOON NEWS.
LOCAL SIGNAL
LOWERED.
FILM.
AFTER-LUNCHEON SHOW,
(Reuter's Service.}
[Enthoven is hon. secretary this year; as a Freshman he won his
stated, last year. Crawley is hon. nssistant treasurer this year; he also won his Blue as a Freshman in 1923 and played last year. Duleepsinhji is a nephew of K. S. Ranjitsinhji who is better known ay "Ranji."]
OXFORD,
London, July 8. "Romance of the Submarine Cable" film illustrating the 2nd innings 214 runs for 6 fascinating story of the manufacwickets, P. H. Stewart-Brown cure, laying, repairing and every-scored 69 and E. R. T. Holmes (a day work of the cable-was ex- Freshman from Malvern) made hibited by the Eastern Associated | 68. Telegraph Companies after lun- cheon at the Savoy Hotel, presided, Including this match the total over by the Vice-Chairman, "Mr. played to date is 87. Cambridge J. C. Denison Pender.
have won 41, Oxford 36 and 10 have been left drawn..
The film gives many instances of everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat. The complicated machinery em- ployed in covering the core cable was shown in all its progresses.
HEAT WAVE.
NINE DEATHS IN
EAST U.S.A.
1.
105 DEGREES V,
(Reuter's American Service.)
The telegram quoted below was
New York, July 8. received from the Manila Obser- The East of the United States: vatory by the American Consulates been gripped in a heut ware. General, Hongkong:-
from which there are at least mine uths.
9.05 a.m., July 9-Cyclone or typhoon hear or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.
-Signal, Down
At 9 this morning, the "local" to tighten up the precautions typhoon signal was lowered at the
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Be that as it
position. There are, it is true, critics who aver that the Govern- ment might have done this and) done that at the very commence- ment of what may be described as "the operations." may, the non-Chinese community are beginning to realise with every fresh proclamation that the authorities mean to gain the upper hand of the elements who know not law and order.
SINGAPORE BASE.
PROGRESS AT THE NEW -
DOCKYARD.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, July 8.
For two days violent thunder- storms only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions."
The temperature at Washington. yesterday was 105 degress Fahren- heit.
MOROCCO.
THE ENEMY'S LATEST OFFENSIVE.
..
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, July 8.
It is reported from Fez that the French north of Wezzan have'
Reuter does not mention rain. Accordingly, it may be presumed
that there was little or no inter- ruption on the three days but that the batting possibly on a hard, dry wicket-was so slow that a draw was inevitable on the third day (yesterday). At any rate Oxford were only 156 runs on when stumps were drawn so that there was little chance of declar- ing.
WORLD RECORDS.
FOKKER AEROPLANE'S LOADED SPEEDS.
(Reuter's Service,)
Amsterdam, July 8.
M. Grase, chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew ʼn standard. Fokker DXS machine (of 450 horse power with a Napler-Lion engine) a hundred kilometres at an aver age speed of 266 kilometres; and two hundred kilometres at an average speed of 265 kilometres, with a load of five hundred kilos. These are belleved to be world's records..
In the House of Commons, re-evacuated two advanced posts plying to Commander J. Ken- after the removal of the stores worthy, Mr. W. S. Bridgeman and the destruction of the decidents have occurred on the described the progress of the work fences.
SAAR BASIN.
Warsaw, July 8. Further in-
Polish-Russian frontier. Twenty Russian soldiers crossed the frontier and fired on the Polish frontier guards, who drove back. the Russians of whom one was wounded. mortally police recently arrested two hun- dred Soviet emissaries on the Eastern border. Reuter's Ser- vice.
EXCHANGE.
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at the new dockyard in Singapore A later despatch reports that in preparation for the dredging the Riffs have mustered ten thou Before the end of the strike the work for a berth for the floating sand riflea in the Wergha region. Government will be in a position dock on the arrival of the dredg- where they are endeavouring to at least to know who are frienda ing fleet in November.
win over the tribes. The enemy and who are enemies-who are:
is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against merely scared mortals and who are
Fez from the north to the south. secret emissaries of the force) behind the whole strike" move-i AN AMERICAN LOAN. ment. With those who have felt
POLICE MOBBED. obliged, through sheer physical
(Reuter's American Service.)
(Reuter's Service,)' fear, to obey the injunction to quit
New York, July 8. their service there may be a. The complete success is an-
Shanghai, July 8. certain
A French firm, having a con- amount of sympathy, nounced of the four million dol
aboard Jars loan for the Saar Basin at signment of tobacco. although that may well be kept in seven per cent, which is offered Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's reserve until the strike is over. here and-in Chicago at $97.
s.s. Shuntien alongside the French Bund, attempted to remove the The business at the moment is to
cargo this morning, using their carry on the life of the individual
Own Chinese labour, Messrs. and of the community without any
Butterfield and Swire arranging. semblance of sentiment, however
for guarda.
As 3000 BR the work com- humanitarian some would like to
menced, well-dressed Chinese," be, toward those who have
with a mob of striking wharf- innocently been parties to the
(Reuter's Service.)
coolies attempted to prevent the general dislocation. Nothing must
work. The French police manned Newcastle (N.S.W.), July 8. the gangways, but were forced on alati be permitted to interfere with that. The association football (aent back on to the ship, Ms business, not even a "wait and out by the English F. A.) bent
Seeing that the situation was see policy in respect of develop
Newcastle by three goals to nilserious the captain of the Shuna Bapore
tien sounded his syren for help, fekaalla ments in Canton, which can be Tokyo, July 8--An earthquake and a party of British blue-Ondemand - left to take care of themselves. yesterday morning shook Nagoya Jackets from A.M.8. Hawkins On Shechel Dislocation inevitably implies and a wide ares of country around went to the rescue and easily dis- On donné As day succeeds day and the monetary loss of some kind, direct it. There were a few casualties parsed the crowd strike shows no nign of a sudden or indirect. The measure of that including one person kliled. One coolle was seriousty Kürt,
Some walls and chimneys Collage and an Anusmilte policeman | Gori#0 collapse, it is evident that the loss must be reduced to the and ground fissure were deprived of his rife during the Bowen me authorities are grimiy determined, absolute minimum..
caused». Reuter's Service,
Mrs. Angus and family wish to thank all their friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes and the many letters of condolence received in their recent sud bereavement.
Hongkong, Thursday, July 9, 1925,
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