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PLAYING THE GAME,
CHINESE AND ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927.
FAKED NOTES ?
PHOTO ENGRAVER IN COURT.
A COPPER DESIGN,
Further evidence was taken by
ISLAMIC UNION.
MOSQUE AND CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS.
un-
NEW OFFICE-BEARERS. [By "Mentor."]
The annual general meeting of Saturday after Saturday, as we Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central the Hong Kong Islamte Union took see the huge crowds wending Magistracy this morning in the case place recently. Owing to the their way to the football matches in which a Chinese employee in the Mr. U. Rumjahn, the chair was oc- avoidable absence of the Chalaman, we wonder how all those Chinese photographer department of the cupied by Mr. S. Ackber spent their Saturday afternoons Commercial Press, Belcher Street, ten years ago. The great wail in Kennedy Town, la charged with All, having rend the notice conven- The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Juman England, that far too many making a copper design of a $5 note ing the meeting, Mr. Ackber re- people look on while only a of the Central Bank of China; and viewed the activities of the Society sprinkling play, does not carry three other men were charged with at some length and mentioned the much weight here because, on aiding and abetting him.
various improvements Saturdays, all our pitches are
that had Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the Mosque and cemetery. He men been made in the Mahommedan utilised, and if a hundred more defence of the Commercial lads desired to play they would employee, whilst the other accused ble that Mr. Sepher. Hun. Treasurer, Pressioned that through the great trou-
NETS have to mark out makeshift wore defended by Mr. C. 3. Hugh-had taken in the collection of sub-
The latest colours and designs in absolutely fast dye Qurtain Nets.
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yard
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SILVER WEDDING.
HARLEY-FRASER.-On Novem-
er 22, 1902, in Hong Kong Cathedral, William Frank
Harley to Ethel Fraser.
DEATHS.
CRUICKSHANK. On November 19, at Villa La Madeleine, Cannes, William Arthur Car ruthers Cruickshank, formerly of Hong Kong, aged 67. DONOVAN-On November
Shamrock, Parklands
Apprentice's Evidence.
acriptions, the Society was now In u fairt good financial position. He
ren-
pitches on the Wanchal reclama-Jones. tion or betake themselves to Aberdeen or Stanley for a piece of A young apprentice employed in thanked Khan Sahib Nawab Khan. flat ground. So if we want more the photographer department of the uf the Indian Moslem Society, for players we must have more play- Commercial Fress gave evidence the valuable services he had ing fields. These great gather-this morning. ings are of comparatively recent November 22 at about 8 p.m. after
dered in connection with the im- Ho sald that on provements in the cerigtery. growth and are a sign that the he had had his food, the second action of the repotr and ecounts. Mr. Mr. Ackber proposed the adop Chinese are now aware of the cused asked him to accompany him S A. Hamid secunded carried un- value of outdoor games and bodi- to the Ming Sing Chong photo-animously.
+
ly exercise. The beneficial effects grapher's shop are seen in the improved physique Market.
near the Central Mr. Ackber tendered his resigna- of many of the young Chinese.
tion as a trustee of the Mosque and This is good, but there is a fly in the first and third accused waiting
When they arrived, they found guardian of the cemetery, and Mr. the ointment, and the football outside the shop.
Sopher was elected in his place, boom is fraught with dangers.
Second accused bearers for the ensuing year!-
The following were elected office- Mr. U. Ranijahn (Chairman). Mr. S. Sepner fun. Treasurer). Mr. Juman Ali (Hon. Secretary). 4. A. Samy, S. Ackber, and Abdul Messrs. J. M. Dyer, O. Madar, Karim (Committee).
game
remained outalda with the others, and sent the witness in to call out) then went to Blake Pfor where the a man named Kwan Man. They second accused held a conversation in low tones with Kwan Man, and
house.
A vote of thanka was accorded to
Rumjahn. A. Rahmin, seconded by Mr. D.
Victory Not The Thing. It has often been said that far too many of us set too much store on winning competitions instead of getting enjoyment, either as players or watchers, out of the then all five adjourned to a tea the Chairman on the motion of Mr. games themselves. The should be primáry, the result
Here the second accused handed secondary; but far too often the to Kwan Man a $5 note of the Cen reverse is the case. Big crowds tral Bank of China and asked him are largely responsible for this to make a photograph of it. Kwan because they put a fictitious value Man asked for $40 for the job, and on the competition, and, with after consulting Nos. 1 and 3, the WOMAN WHO WAS KNOCKED their mob psychology, engender accused agreed to pay the price ask- barracking and all too audible ed by Kwan Man. Then No. 1 feree.
.
DRIVER CHARGED.
DOWN.
The-Chief-Justice and a jury con-
that, as regards their future criticism of the players-and-re-handed-No-2-a-35-note of the Hong tinued with the case this morning ownership, he had no reason to conduct came
If such sportsmanlike Kong and Shanghai Bank, and the in which Sandi Khan, Mr. C. Ber- anticipate any change likely to be rougher element of the Chinese payment on account, promising to charged with the manslaughter of from only the latter gave this to Kwan Man a nard Brown's Indian chauffeur, is detrimental to British interests spectators one might shrug one's pay the balance of $35 later on. will carry no conviction among those fanatics would drop such was working on the verandah of the shoulders and hope that in time The next morning the witness the lessees and other Britons in tunately, however, some Euro- Commercial Press Building when he the Concessions. That he intends fortunately, however, some Euro- noticed Kwan Man coming along to pursue that policy, which many less, and this fact is greatly to be was
peans are not altogether blame the street. Second accused who of us think will prove disastrous, deplored.
on the adjoining verandah also saw Kwan Man and went down
areas.
Sir
pears
Boorishneas..
the
who died from severe injuries re- Chinese woman name Ip Ching. eived through belug knocked down night of November 21 by a Buick In Connaught Road West on motor car driven by the accused. ducted by Mr. S. Fitzroy, whilst Mr. The case for the Crown was con- to meet him. They both disappear-120 d'Almada, Jan., appeared for
moon.
WOMAN KILLED.
ARMED ROBBERS' PALTRY HAUL.
re-
the latter
on
tion.
Constable's Evidence. An Indian constable who said that
horn once.
more than 10
is unfortunately proven by his reminder that the Government. We have taught the Chinese ed round a corner and about five proposed to relax rather than ex-how to play Association Foot-minutes later second accused
the defence and produced in. Court tend British control in the ad-ball, and very apt pupils have turned to the works.
a model of the section of Connaught ministration of those municipal of their skill, artistry and team
they proved to be. We are proud The case continued in the after-
Road where the accident occurred.
When the case was resumed this work, and when they go to Shang.
morning Mr. C. Bernard Brown That reminder puts the case in hai or tour Australia we follow
said that the evening in a nutshell. It means, in effect, would an Interport side.
their doings as eagerly as we
question he drove the car from the But that the Concessions at Tientain, our tuition must not stop here.
Hong Kong Club to Jardine's cor- ner, arriving there at 8.5. Prison- Chinkiang, Amoy and Canton Just as the masters in the various
er then took the car. Standing or- schools have taught the Chinese) (Shameen, that is) are doomed to scholars how to play, even so port of an armed robbery which been reached half-an-hour later. The police have received the re- to the garage, which should have dore were that he should return it suffer the fate that has already should European spectators show was stated to have been committed Sandi Khan had been in witness's overtaken the Concessions at the Chinese spectators how to by a Chinese man and a woman on employ for six months, and except Hankow and Kiukiang. Grass is view a game sportingly. Some of Wednesday night at Saiwan,
the remarks we have heard in the Cheungchau. The rald resulted in for growing in the streets of what local grandstands from Europeans one of the victims being murdered, drunk, had given entire satisfar- one occasion, when he was was the Hankow Concession; the are worthy of a frenzied pit-man and the robbers got away with only bund is a dirty and neglected or mill-worker at a "local derby" two pieces of jewellery worth $5. stretch of waterfront; shipping win by hook or by crook (that is people in the house, which was un-night of the accident said that when at home howling on his team to At the time of the raid the only prisoner gave him a lift on the and commercial activities have putting it mildly) and thinking numbered, were a 76-year-old Chin- they approached the godowns the ceased; what few Britons there of the shilling or half-crown. he ese woman and her grand-daughter. speed of the car was about 10 miles are still in the place spend their has laid on the home side. Euro- The story of how the old woman an hour. They knocked down two time in empty offices and the from such boorishness.
here should be exempt met her death was told to the police people, and club, hoping against hope for a should realise that, in a way, he
Each by the little girl.
prisoner sounded his change for the better.
The girl and her grandmother with a lamp post. Witness told the The car then collided Austen Chamberlain, by virtue of though he suspects it not, his ing by the robbers breaking down anid he did not know if prisoner
is an ambassador, that he is one were sleeping when they were prisoner to stop, but he refused. of the ruling minority, and that, awakened at about 7.30 in the even- his pronouncement in the House actions are being scrutinised. We the door. The old woman went out had had any drink. He was sure Cross-examined, the constable 19, of Commons a couple of days ago, some persons to watch a game and and was roughly handled by the miles an hour. When witness saw Avenue, Bognor, the beloved has killed their aspirations. What keep cool; they must get excited, robbers, and when the girl rushed the two people who were knocked
know that it is impossible for of the sleeping room to investigate the speed was not wife of J. P. Donovan, retired is equally unpleasant is the fact their pulse quickens and even out a little later upon hearing down they were walking in the mid- Commissioner Chinese Postal that he has confirmed the worst though both teams are strangers groans of agony from her grand-dle of the road, Whilst passing the Administration. GRAHAM-On November 10, fears of their fellows in the other to them they inevitably find their mother, she found that
at Cheltenham, Catharine Concessions. Britain is going to combatants. There is nothing
sympathy going to one lot of strangled by one of the intruders. in the opposite direction. Hannah (Kate), widow of
godown he saw no other car, along Geo:'ge Frederick Graham,
relax control in these areas, wrong in that, and in all prob-
Place Ransacked. I. M. Customs, Shanghai, They all know what this will ability these people derive more life, telling the robbers to take The old woman pleaded for her
The case is proceeding. KINKE-On October
board the F. & 0.8.8. "Malwa," mean, and so should the Secretary than less highly strung phlegma-bers released her after warning her pleasure from watching a game every thing, and eventually the rob- homeward bound, Mabel, wife of State for Foreign Affairs, of C. C. A. Kirke, C.B.E., lately
ties do: but their eagerness not to make so much noise. Then H.M. Consul of Swatow.
It is not too late, however, to should not blind them to the the female robber entered the sleep- stay the doom of these other Con-virtues of the other side, nor ing room and proceeded to ransack
should it cause them to wink at the place. cessions. Energetic representa-questionable tactics indulged in by Whilst this was going on, the girl to be on view at a medical exhibi- tion of the grave and ruinous con- their favourites and then howl in saw her chance and slipped out of tion in Manchester, and "one of sequences that will follow the execration, should the others re-neighbour's house where she gave vide the body with as much vitamin indignation, and very often the house. She proceeded to a these pellets, it is claimed, will pro operation of the Government's taliate. There is such a thing as the alarm, and when she had suc-D as would be absorbed through policy may still be made; and this "playing the game" in the stand ceeded in securing assistance and re-the naked sidn in one hour of is where individual Members like as well as on the field. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Mr. Looker and bodies like the Secretary of State for Foreign China Association can prove of Affairs, has again spoken on supreme usefulness, Members China in the House of Commons, of Parliament, as much as the and again has emphasised that British public as a whole, are the Government intend to proceed ignorant of what is taking place with the policy which was laid in China and where the Govern- down a year ago, a policy which, ent's policy is leading as. The theoretically ideal, is, in the debate on the Shanghai Defence day arrangements:--On Monday. A FORMER RESIDENT. Still, the dope that Keats demanded opinion of Britons working and Force supplementary estimates December 26, and Tuesday, De living in the country, going to in the other day vividly brought this m
cember 27, the General Poet volvo distinct hardship in prac fact to notice. What is required tice. In the House Sir Austen at Home is forceful reiteration of was questioned regarding the the case for the Concessions. White Paper (published last week) in which the Government announced its decision to surren- der the leases in the Chinese treaty ports conceded by the China Government between 1851 and 1861. Not a grain of comfort,
29,
Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 23, 1927.
THE CASE FOR THE CONCESSIONS.
on
CHRISTMAS MAIL,
POST OFFICE ANNOUNCE ARRANGEMENTS.
A notice from the General Post Office gives the following particu lars regarding the Christmas holl-
and
CENTRAL HEATING.
"SUNSHINE TABLETS" ON VIEW.
["Sunshine tablets" are reported
turned to the house she found that strong actinic light in the South of the robbers had run away. Her France or in Switzerland."] grandmother was lying dead on the Comrades, let me bring you tidings floor, and by her side was knife with. Brighter than I ever brought; which it was believed the old woman Winter's churlishness and chidings had been butchered by the robbers. The girl would not be able to identify alther of the robbers be- black. cause they had painted their faces
DEATH OF MR. W. A. C..
CRUICKSHANK A
Shortly will be sat et naught; Gally shall we pay our footing
To the forcest blast that chilla Now they've found a way of putting
Sunshine up in little gills. Keats, to be completely candid, On the whole it seems to ape
Took a rather awkward shape; Who could carry round a beaker:
Of the warm, authentic South? Rather let the sunshine seeker Pop a pill fato, his mouth, Give me then, the sunshine pellet,
Never mind about the dose
will be
the branch offices open as follows:~~ The G.P.O. on Monday from 8 am to 9 a.m. and on Tuesday! The death is reported from from 8 am to noon. The Kowloon Cannes, at the age of 67, of Mr. Post Office will be open on Monday William Arthur Cruickshank, who from 8 am to 9 am, and on will be remembered by old re- the prices of eggs, the cost of yingpuz, Yaumat! and Shamahaipo Mattheson and Co., before it be with my own prescription gally Mainly because of increases in The Wanchai, Sheungwan, Sal- the heads of Messrs. Jarding, That I may acquire a gross
Tuesday from 8 a.. to 11 am sidents of Hong Kong as one of Tell me quickly where they sell it ving at Home advanced by two branch offices will be open from 8 came a limited company, over points in October.
Shall the bottle then be decked-
a.m. to 9 a.m. each day. There will twenty years ago, Mr. Cruick-
According to reports from Bas-boxes, and one delivery of ordinary Hong Kong in those days, and, like
bo one collection from the pillar shank was a popular resident of "To be took in dozens daily, rah, fifty persons, including twenty correspondence each day, as on most members of the Princely LUCIO in "Manchester Guar-
As the weather may direct," is to be derived from his reading wahabi's raid on the Irak frontier fered correspondence each dayat keen interest In racing China O for a beaker full of the warm
police were murdered in the Sundays, and one delivery of regis- House before and afte-rhim, took a dian.des of the decision, and his statement police post
Express and Telegraph.