SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1930.
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The following are a few interest- Ing facts about R. A. Gerrard who, from 1922 to early in 1927," was at the Diocesan Boys' School, where he
learned his cricket.
Played for Somerset against Gloucester in the Rugby County Championship Match on November,
9.
The Public Schools Putting the Weight Champion for 1929, having this Inst April at Stamford
Won
Bridge.
Played in all the Somerset Colts County Cricket matches last year, including the match "Public School- boys of Somerset" va "Somerset Stragglers."
Top of the Schools batting aver- ages for 1928 and 1929,
Represented the School in the Water
Polo team that won the i Somerset Junior Water Polo Cham pionship.
School Colours for "Rugger" and Cricket, School Prefect. House Captain and represented the School: at shooting and first class
shot (qualified). Scored two centuries For School last Summer.
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FANLING HOUNDS
Fixture List for This Month
of
The following is the fixture list the Fanling Hounds for the month of January!-
Kennels, 3 p.s.
Sunday, January 5, Hounds meet
at
Wednesday, January 8, Meet Hunters' Arms, 3.30 p.m.
at
Saturday, January 11, Meet Kwanti racecourse, 3.45 p.ni.
at
THE CHINA
PARLIAMENT OR PILSUDSKI?
THE COMING FIGHT IN; POLAND
"ALL-TOO-{{UMAN" DICTATOR
Warsaw. The coming conflict between the Polish Government and the Polish Parliament promises serious consequences
the for nation. The last phase of the fight
MAIL.
OPIUM SMUGGLERS IN LONDON
CHINESE CHARGED · IN ́· LIMEHOUSE GANG
DRUG BROUGHT FROM CHINA
London. The existence of a secret headquarters in London of wealthy oplum smugglers has long been known to the police, and there has been great activity through the is between Iwo personalities: discovery in Limehouse in the Marshal Pilsudski, former Socialist, East-end of London-of an opium and the Parliamentary. Socialist | den. Two Chinese, Man Fat and tender, Daszinski, Will there be a You Ah-hing-who were represent- minor repatition of the stirring ed by a Chinese solicitor-ware as days of May, 1920, when Pilsudski a result charged with possessing rode to power, or will the conflict articles for ppium smoking- and Wednesday, January 15, Meet at be resolved by some kind of mud-frequenting a house at Limehouse- Sheung Shui Cross Roads, 1.45 p.m.
Saturday, January 18, Meet at Pottsdled compromise? Is a dictatorship causeway for the purpose of opium likely to bo established by smoking, and were each sent to Bungalow, 3.45 pm
Pilsudski?
prison for two months on each charge, the sentences to run cop- currently, and they were also re- commended for deportation. The "Daily Express" gives the follow- ing full story of the raid:-
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Wednesday, January 22, Meet Man Uk Pin (three and a half miles from Fanling Station on the Fanling
Sha Tau Kok Road) 3 pm. Saturday, January 26, Meet Hunters' Armss, 8:30 pm. Wednesday, January Fanting Station, 3.30 p.m.
RUGBY
23. Meet
Players in To-day's Match
The answer to this question is to be found-somewhere in the puzzling personality of Marshal Pilsudski at himself, who holds the key to the whole situation. He is a fanatical at Nationalist, but he is not made of
Detective Arthur Lount, of Scot- the stuff of dictators. He lacks the land Yard, told the story of the raid. logical realiam of a Lonin, пот
"At 3.30 p.m. yesterday," he said, should he be confused with Mus- "with other detectives I went to the solini, who wears the divine righthouse at Limehouse-causeway, of dictators like a Roman toga. which I entered by virtue of a The arrogance and self-confidence search warrant of the Italian dictator is lacking in Pilsudski.
❤
Pilsudaki is really a warrior of soft heart and hard words: When he Insults the deputies, and his
The Club are playing H31S. "Corn- wall" to-day at 4.15 p.m. at Happy Valley, The Club afde is sa under: Back, R. J. Grieve; Threo-quarters, H. V. Koop. J. D. A. Hutchison, own people, whom he once called A. L. Plummer, G. P. Lammert; lot of idiots," his words and Halfbacks, J. L. Bonnar, I. A. Ross; manner remind one of a crusty Forwards. D. L. Milne Day, A. D. commanding officer shouting at sub- Suttill, F. R. Massey, J. A. E. Ken-ordinate officers or privates. He drew, B. Stock. Referee, Major regards himself as a general in Caddell.
command of on army, and thinks that the Sejm should obey him. He fought for years for a freedr which he la not prepared to gi the freedom of Parliamentary r presentation and government by Parliament.
HOCKEY
H. Owen Hughes, J. Rodger, · A. A.
Pilsudski's attitude is that of the
Door Forced
"I entered through the outer doorway, and on the foot of the stairs leading to the next floor I found an electric bell conceated under the linoleum."
The magistrato:-Placed so that it would be pressed by the foot?
Detective Lount:-Yea
He added:
I went to the next floor, where I found a stout black door, which I forced.
On the loading leading to the next stairs I found another stout black door. It was made of planks and battens of a total thickness of about six inches,
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Chinese restaurant and general stores in West India Dock-road. Sow la manager of the restaurant and Chee an employee.
"In the service "bar," said the officer, "was a refuse bucket, and Detective Lount drained off the water and refuse. At the bottom of the bucket was found a quantity of opium weighing 1lb. 12oz."
The Magistrate:-Was it crude It is brown opium 7-Yes, sir. known as cut opium. It is raw, not prepared.
Mr. L. Barnott (with Mr. Peter H. Sin). asked for a remand, and the case was adjourced. Aaking for bail-which was granted in two sureties of £200 each for Sow and two of £100 each for Chce-- Mr. Barnett said Sow was part proprietor the largest Chinese catering busi and had lease .of
ness in the East End.
The following is an extract from Home Paper with reference to the Gloucestershire
v. Somersetshire "Rugger" Match in November.
"In Gerrard, the Taunton School boy, Somerset has a young player who would go far. Only once in each half did he get the ball when there was any possible chance of his doing anything, and on both
The following will represent the occasions he went through in excel Hong Kong Hockey Club first eleven in the He has been in Eng their match with the Army on lent style.
I forced that with considerable land for about two years, having U.S.R.C. ground at 4.45 pm on Wed-general who loathes interfering difficulty. I found further progresa come over from Hong Kong, where Inesday.-C. L. Gregory, W. Woodward, bureaucrats. Although he was one was barred by a stout trap-door his people resided. Although only Dand (Captain), J. E. Noronha, T. 3.of the first among the early fighters completely covering the staircase. 17 yenra of age, he has
Price, G. E. R. Divett, C. C. Francis, for Sociallem he has now transcend. It was firmly bolted. I heard a physique, and touched the scale at E. J. R. Mitchell and D. M. McDougal. Jed those early nims. The freedom considerable ahuffling of feet on 13 stone 7ib. His mother is now The second team, to meet the Uni-of, the whole Polish nation, whethe floor above and some shouting. at Yeovil, so one
hopes Somerset veraity on the latter's ground at 5 panther aristocrat, industrialist, bur-I eventually entered by climbing will be fortunate enough to retain on Monday, will be.-R. W. Sapsed, ger, peasant or factory worker, is up a sloping roof outside, and then his services for a long time to LA. R. Duncan, L. F. Nicholson (cap his aim now. But while Pilsudski into a window. I found on the tain), M. D, H. G. Milla, O. Butler, was quite clear about his alma and landing a ladder leading to an open come."
A. N. Other, Majer Kerrich, H. V. Other Roys Three other boys who left Parker. L. G. Frost, R. K. Valentine tactics, especially, the latter, in the trap-door in the roof.
and E. C. Fincher, Referee --N.
days when he was engaged in fight- Two rooms were full of opium
Activity in Liverpool Diocesan Boys' School about the Evans.
ing Czarist Russia and united fumes. In the large room were two
The police have also been active same time are also doing very well:
national action was possible, he is firon bedsteads converted into in Liverpool, owing to the recent in England. A. B. Clarke gained
not quite sure of himself now that couches with mats and wooden pil-imprisonment of a woman for en- excellent results at School in Work
the enemy is to be found among his lows, and on a small table there gaging in the opium traffic at that and Games. (Cricket, Football and
own countryman. For twenty was a lamp used for beating opium. port. The "Daily Mail" reveals the Shooting) and is now at Sand-
years he was one of the most in- There were also two needles, two fact that from the secret oplum hurst.
timate friends of the old, white-pairs of scissors, one knife, all used headquarters in London haired Daszinski, the man who now for, preparing opium. There were wide trade is carried on by rich a world-
stands firmly opposed to him
ir also two pleces of wire used for oplum dealers, who order the drug. principle.
cleaning pipes.
from China and arrange for its There was one couch in the passage to South America and its sale there at ten times Its original Fat said, when cautioned at price, yielding fabulous profits. One lot bought for £100 has just been sold for £3,500.
the
MR. FORD'S POLICY
EL. G. Goddard has passed Everything High Except
examinations and gained Disting tions in Mathematics and Physics.
A. E; Dawson, after a few years
at Wakefield Grammar School, gain
ed an Open Music Scholarship at Keble College, Oxford.
are
It
Wages
Was recently that Henry Ford, the
announced motor-
Pilsudski has been called "Hamlet" naturo, a “human, all-second room. car magnate, had increased the too-human" Ogure. In May, 1926, dally wage of all American em- he refused to assume full persona! Limehouse Police Station, "Me no Two sons of Mr. Wong Kam-fuk ployees in the Ford Motor Com- power. He did not establish Asmoke." Hing said, "Me there but
boarders at Leighton Park, pany workshops from $6 to $7 a dictatorship as so many mon in his no smoke. Me ace friends." School, Reading. Wong Sik-kuca day while other advances wote given shoes would have done. Although Detective Randall said that he was Senior Champion of Sporis to employees receiving from $7 to
an enemy of the Parliamentary sew Fat on the roof of the house. and Games in 1928-1929, and 310 a day.
system, he believed that his people
Roof. Chase Wong Sik-hon was Junior Cham-
"I climbed on the roof," added In this connection the following wanted it. Therefore he let the pinn. Both these boys were part message from New York (dated Sejm meet, But there is no doubt the detective, "by means of a lad- cularly good at football and November 22) will be read with that his fight against the autocracy der. Fat jumped on some out gymnastics when they were at the terest:-
and absolutiem of Russia had made houace. I followed and arrested Diocesan Boys' School.
Henry Ford stirred the country ing a Polish Parliament to function,
him somewhat suspicious of creat him." with a dramatic announcement that he would immediately raise the he wanted it to work according to wages of more than 100,000 workers his own plans, that is, for the on his pay-roll, after a conference whole good of all the people, and
not as a party forum. with President Hoover recently
Pilsudski must have believed that the vision could be turned into ac- tion, and for three years he has watched impatiently the working of nayetom which he despises. But without a Parliament, Poland must
CRICKET
Some of the Teams for To-day
The K.C.C. team, against the Army,
The announcement took America's industrial magnates almoat com- pletely by surprise.
The automobile king sald: "Nearly everything in this coup
In the near future?
in to-day's League match on the Kow-try is altogether to high-priced, have a dictatorship. Will this come loon ground, is as follows:-W. Brase whereas the only thing that should. (Captain), E. C. Fincher, E. be high-priced is the man Fincher, F. Goodwin, F. E. Lawrence, N. H. Row, G. A. V. Hall, E. Zimmern, works. Wages must not
who come
A. T. Lee, D. Laing and S. Jex. down; they must not even stay at Umpire, J. P. Robinson; scorer, A. Hyde-lay,
their prosent level; they must go
up, and, even then, that would not. be sufficient.
GOOD DEFINITION
Detective Fairbairn said that he saw Hing climb from the roof of the house to the roof of the next house. Later, he saw him leave the door of another house in the Causeway. He arrested him in the street,
At the Bottom of a Bucket Two other Chinose, Dao Chee
magistrate, Bir. Sharpe, states the and Loo Sow, alias Chay Tal, were also later brought before the same "Daily News," and were charged with unlawfully being in posses- sion of raw aplum. The following is the story in detail wala
Detective-Inspector Edwards said. he went with other officers to a
The following will represent the "We must see that the increased coroner, was told by'a Royal Marino 24
Dr. F. 3. Waldo, the Southwark H.K.C.C. against the C.S.C.C. to-day: wages are not taken from our that in the Navy a man who had 1st XI Away (F)-T E. Pearce people by means of increased been drinking was not classed as (Captain), H. V. Parker, J. R. Kintos, valties."
H. Owen Hughes, A. C: L. Bowker, F. Bolshevism and Socialism Sulitoe, E. B. Duckitt, O. Moor, J; B.
Collis, C. AL Rickett and A. C. Back.
Arthur Brisbane, one of the most
2nd XI Home (L) W. W. Ma widely read editorial writers in the Kenzie (Captain); G. E.-R. Divett, country, commenting on Ford's an-
R. K.. Hepburn, C. E. Gahagan, J.nouncement, saya
being drunk provided that he could do properly any duty that was put before him,
"A very good standard," observed the coroner, who said there were
so many definitions of dranken-
Ashworth, 9. S. G. Stanesby, JR. If all this is not rank Bolness. He added that he would like Way, W. Harris Walker, R. M. Wood, shevism and Socialism, what on to see a deinitè standard settled Be A Dowler, MacDonald.
upon in the courts of law.
earth would you call it?"
MYSTERY DISEASE
Berlin, Yesterday. Fifty-two children died a short time from a mysterious infantile disease sweeping through Hammer. stein camp, where there were quar- antined 4,000 Mennonite refugees, recently repatriated from Russia, There are 40 other cases of the
to
disease, which is a sequel measles, with symptoms of high fever, and inflammailon of the Cornen, eye and cheek-Reuter.
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