TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 1930.
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Draw for English Cup- Fifth Round
WREXHAM GO UNDER
MOTORING CYCLING
Entries for Reliability
Trial
Fifty-two competitors have enter- ed for the 225-mile Reliability The draw for the fifth roundTrial organised by the Motor of the Volunteers proper of the Football Association Cycle Rection Cup was made in London yester on Friday, the first man leaving day. It is to be played on the at 121 a.m. on Friday, other com- ground of the Club named Arst in petitors following at intervals of each tir, on February 15, as fol- one minute. lowa:-
Neweastie Brighton.-
The following is a list of the competitors published by the Hon.
and their numbers in the trial:
COMPANY REPORT
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROBBERS' CAPTIVE
The Bank of East Asia, | Lived in Caves for Five
Limited
DIVIDEND AND BONUS
The Directors of the Bank of East
Asia, Ltd., announce that, subject to audit, the profit for the year ended December 31, 1929, after writing aft all charges and making provisions for
Months
YOUTH'S PRIVATIONS
*
roid killed the merchant's elder bro- other and kidnapped his son.
depreciation, bad and doubtful debla, including the balance 5-101,749.71 brought forward from 128, amounts to $1,192,027,02, which The Directora propose to deal with at the fortheoming annual meeting as Collows:-
Tu pay a Dividend of $0
per share, on
hares
Huddersfeld v. Wroxham or Brad Secretary, showing their machines To pay
ford City. Aston Villa . Blackburn. West Ham v. Millwall.
Swindon
or Manchester
$ 100,000.00
50,000
City v
4.981.
(1) B. G. Wit inas (Humber 2%). (2) 1. W. Gregory (Humber 3.40). | To transfer to Reserve (3) P. S. W. Smith (Triumph
a bonus of $2 per hare on 50,000 Shorea
100,000.00 250,000.00
To
bonus Directors, holders of founder shares and the stoff
to
J
73,676.73
and
To write off furniture
and fixtures To carry forward
21,260.54 447,094.68
Ifull. Sunderland v Notts Forest. Middlesbrough or Charlton v. Ar-
senal or Birmingham. Sheffield Wednesday 'v. Derby or
Brafford.
Then one of the fourth round matches left undecided on Satur- adda day was played yesterday, Reuter.
On
Bradford City, of Division II, received Wrexham of the North- "ern section (Division 1) and won
by the odd goal in three. Saturday, na gon was scored at Wrexham, where the City earned the right to a gceand trial on their own ground. In the fifth 'round, Bradford City visit Hud- dersfield. Wrexham is the last Northern section club to be knocked out.
A League Match Flushed with their Cup success on Saturday, Blackburn Rovers played a Division I League match yesterday with Leicester (who are out of the Cup) and won by three goals to one. The table reads:-
Goals, P..W. D. L F. A. P Wednesday .21 15 5 4 62 20 35 M'chester C. 2 14 6 5 61 43 31 Derby
......25 13 4 8 47 45 30 Livergaul..26 12 5 9 44 50 29 28 Leeds.25 13 10 47 37 Aston Villa 25 12 49 62 48 28 Middlesbra' Blacklan 27 11 Huddersfield 26 11
.25
26 14
(4) J. Barg...) (A.JS, 3.08). (5) J. Parvis (B.SA, 4.03). (6) C. Borandi (Arlel 500). (7) CL Gregory (Monet
Goyan 500).
(H) W. J. Woolley (A.J.S. 24). (9) L. A. deeves (Triumph 4 hp.). (10) P. L.. Parton (Indian 698). (D) C. R. C. Ham (Brough 630). (12) W. G. Robinson (A.J.S. 4.08). (13) R. Rathmel (Norton 4.99). (14) 0. A. Curvalho (Raleigh 250). (15) G. Lynn (Nurtun 4,9). (16) J. Hill (A.JS, 1.98).
17 R. S. Rogers (A.S. 4.98). (18). Davies (B.S.A. 3.49). (10) Tau Mas-chun (Harley D h.p.). (20) EL
Kew
(Itadge Whitworth
4,99).
(21) H. G. Kew, ciludge-Whitworth
4.09).
(22) E Zimmern (Rudge-Whitworth
1.99).
(23) T. S. Chan' (B.S.A. 4.93). (24) S. J. Clarke "(P. & M. 499). (25) A. Guseon (Harley 12 h.p.). (26) E. Marriott (Harley 3%). (27) S. G. Poole (Harley 12 h.p.). (8) A. Philippens (Harley & h.p.). 2) EL. Pinguet (Harley 7 hp.). (30) Kuan Wing-long (B.S.A.). (31) Mr. M. F. Olesen (Harley 5
h.p. (30) J. E. Wilson (Gillet 8%).
Spradbury Royal Efe4_79). (30) L. C. Pennell (Raleigh 3.08). (95) J. (à Hughes (Indian 4.35), (6) W. C. Simpson (Harley 3), (37) W. L. C. Miller (Excelsior 2). (38) Chan Wang-kams (B.S.A. 4.99). (99) C. Geror (P.N. 500), (40) T. S. Whitler (AJ.S. 93). 10384L 27
(Nerton 490). Wiel (Norton 4.00). (12) B. A 50 42 26
(13) RW. S4 (Raleigh 8 h.p.). 11. Schroter (B.S.A. 3.49). (46) . Tape (Sunbeam 4.30), (40) i Braga (fadian Scout). (47) Chin Ting-sum (B.S.A. 4,97). (48). R. Winsor (Norton 4.9). (49) Foo Eng-long (A.J.S. 4.99). (50) H. S Cappingdale (Zenith
10
דזי
12 M 52
54 62 23
Bolton Leicester Shefield G. 194 45
54 23 Burnley ....26 9 7 10 55 61 26 Birmingham 268 7 10 41 38 29 Portsmouth .25 8 7 10 43 41 23 West Ham .20 M'chester U. 20 10 Arsenal....25 9 Sunderland .98 7 11 39 50 31 Everton .26 6 8 12 46 56 20 Newenstle .25 0 2 14 47 07 20 Grimsby ...24 7 4 13 43 59 18
313 39 52.23 4 12 40 38 22
Chinese Inter-Sectional
Match
(51) W. Walkinshaw (Triumph
494).
מ
$1,192,927 92
SOVIET WAYS
Hundreds of Peasants
Evicted
Riga. Yesterday. The campaign instituted by the Soviet against the Kulaki (peasant households owning three cows or | equivalent other livestock) has began in earnest. They have been given three days to depart from the various districts where they live, leaving their honies and all belongings behind. Hundreds of families have thus been evicted framt one district alone in the course of two days. The Soviet Press says that the Dan district is pledged to clear out all the Kulaki in the course of a week-Reuter.
marches (when kidnapped he was dragged away without shoes),
Manacled All the Time During the whole of the five months he was in captivity Tang Fung was never free from manacles which were attached to his wrists. and ankles. He had to eat and sleep in
9
COMMENCING TO-DAY
ΤΟ
1st
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY them, and during the
Many
rahbars faided the house of a reternedegs added to the agony he suffered On September 3 last year a gang of marches the heavy chains on his Chinese merchant from Peru, sarnamed from his lacerated feet. Tang, living at On Lok Chuen village, times he was in a state of collapse near Fanling, as in the course of the when he reached the next hiding
The place and was unable to eat. robbers did not have time to ransack The food supplied to him was the house because the villagers knew described as very poor and meagre of their coming and raised an alarm-just sufficient to keep him alive, by beating drums and firing Verey and it is a surprise that half- Fights. They left hurriedly, 'ten starved and suffering from minutes after breaking into the house, pasure, he did not long ago die. and drove away in a motor car, taking with them the merchant's son and a their way round to the same village Eventually the robbers worked gardener.
The gardener was subse to which the youth was taken im- quently released because there was no
tance of securing any ransom money mediately after his capture and for him, but he had been so terrified there they stayed in the temple. by the robbers that he refused to dis- close the place where the youth was held..
Given Up As Dead Now, after a lapse of five months, during at least three months of which time the youth had been given up as dead, comes an echo af the outrage by the recovery of the youth alive, but very weak because of ine privations which he suffered in the hands of the robbers. It transpired
that the youth, Tang Fung (16), was taken to Chinese territory, just beyond the border, where he was held pri- soner in a house for a few days, after which the robbers, fearing detection, moved to a cave.
His captors never stayed long in one place, being constantly on the move, and during the five months of his cap fivity the youth had to live with them in live different caves. During the week
before his liberation he was taken to n village in the Po-on district, abcat three dours' walk from the British New Territories border, and there de- Lained in the Cheah Kung Temple, from which he was taken away by the Chinese authorities and handed over to the local Police who returned him to his home.
Relating the story of his experi- ences in the hands of the robbers, Tang Fung said that he was not WARRANT OF ARREST ISSUED il-treated in any way, but his
For failing to appear at the Court for the past three weeks on the days specified for him to at- tend, Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning Issued a warrant for the arrest of
For the first four nights after his
sufferings were great all the same. expture he and the robbers lived in A house just beyond the British border. and, although he had to sleep on the floor, he did not com plain because it was then warm Wong Chi, residing at 360, Shang-weather and he did not experience
much discomfort.
hai Street.
The summons against him is that he did unlawfully fail to pay to Lai Yau-kum, a woman, to the amount of $60.50, for work done in con- nection with repairs to 26, Cheung Chau Island. In July, 1929.
(52) E. L. Groome (Brough 680). The Team Entries The team entries are as fol Indian (3), Humber (2), Brough ́(2) lows:-
and Monet and Goyon, F.N., Gillett, P. and M., Ariel, Royal Enfield, Ex- eclaior, Sunbeam, and Zenith one each.
Witchell
Zimmern
A Chinese inter-sectional foot. Whidey.
Hirst ball championship between South-Zimm ern China and Eastern China Kew (H.) teams has been arranged under Kew (H. G.) the auspices of the Hong Kong Will
Rogers
tion.
Williams
Chinese Amateur Athletic Federa-Clarke Braga The Southern China team will Tape be selected from the players of Schroter
Gascon
Marriott
Poole
Furvis
Smith
Barnes
Olesen
Miller
Groome
E. K. Foo
W. W. Chan T. S. Chin.
The machines in the competi- the South China Athletic Associa tion and the Chinese Athletic Astion are as follows:-- sociation. whilst
Harley Davidson (8), B.S.A. (7), the Eastern A.J.S. (7). Norton (5), Triumph (8), China team will be wholly repro-Rudge.Whitworth (3), Raleigh (3), sented by the Loh Hwa Team of Shanghai.
The match will take place on Thursday
+
inter-sectional
football
at Caroline Hill ground, at 3.30
p.m.
Further matches are:
Friday, at Stadium, 4 p.m.-East- arn China v. Royal Navy,
Saturday, at Stadium, 4 pm-Com- bined Chinese v. The Rest of the Colony,
Monday, at Caroline Hill, 4 p.m........
Eastern China v. The Army.
GOLF
The Players from Manila
The team to represent Manilo in the triangular Interport golf contest at Fanling has been eelected and is as follows:-
Colonel R. E. Parrott (Captain), W. R. Cothran, W. Douglas, G. W. Mackay, J. R. H. Mason and Capt R. H. Fielder.
The team le due to arrive on Monday,
Otto von Poret.
CRICKET
The following will represent the H.K.C.C. v. United Services at Chinese New Year on Club Ground on Thursday and Friday (Play commences at 11 a.m.) ;---
TE. Pearce (Captain), H, Owen Hughes, A. Reid, H. V. Parker, J. E. Richardson, E. R. Duskitt, A. C. Beck, E. J: R. Mitchell, K. H. Batger. G. E. R. Divett, and H. J. Armstrong.
Phil Scott
Sufferings In A Cave
When he was removed to the cave,
ex-
Temple Raid Planned. Then the Chinese authorities got "wind" of their whereabouts and planned a raid on the temple. The robbers were taken by surprise and found in the boy's company.
to
The boy, as stated, was returned British territory, whilst the robbers are being detained by the Chinese authorities for trial. is probable that they will meet with the punishment of death.
It
It is understood that during the first two months' captivity Tang Fung's people were communicated with by the robbers for ransom. Negotiations were, of 'course, diff- cult, because the robbers were con- stantly moving about, and then, for the following three months, nothing more was heard of the youth and captives, and Tang Fung was Then, when tho given up as lost.
robbers and their captive got to the Cheah Kung Temple, they again got into touch with Tang Fung's relatives, but before the Intter could act the Chinese authorities got in- formation, and, moving with com- mendable alacrity in secured the release of the youth the matter,
and captured the robbers who had charge of him.
Others At Large
The arrested robbers, however, only represent a small percentage of the gang which carried out the raid at the Tang ouse in On Lok Chuen vlage. The number of raiders was placed at 50, and they have probably dispersed since the
arrest of their confederates.
however, his sufferings began. He DARING BURGLARY had to sleep on the damp ground. the cave was open to the winds nyi rains, and he had no sleeping sheet
to spread on the ground and no Experts at the Majestic
blanket.
When the winter set in
he suffered terribly from the 'cold, because he had no clothing other than the summer apparel which he was wearing at the time he was kidnapped..
Theatre
A daring burglary in the office of the Majestic Theatre, Nathan Road, Kowloon, WEB discovered at 1.30 it WAX from the British border, moving rifled and $880, representing the
The robbers never went very far yesterday morning when
found that the safe had been about in a circle. They always takings for the week-end was stolen went from one hiding place to an- from it.. other under cover of night. The To gain entrance to the office two distance between the various caves. locks had to be picked, and the safe was between three and four hours' also had two locks which were neatly walk over hills and down dales in forced, which showed that the burglary ragged country. He suffered from was the work of skilled lock-pickers. sore feet as the result of these
Jack Dempsey.
Phil Scott, of England, on canvas after being fouled by Otto Von Porat, in the second round in Madison Square Garden, New York, Jack Dempsey, who refereed the bout, is sending over the British fighter, prior to declaring him the victor.
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REDS IN GERMANY
Stoning All Motor Cars
Berlin, Yesterday. Communists were very active on the outskirts of the capital, several hundreds in a 'village outside Pota- dam being besieged for an hour in a restaurant where Extremo Nation- alists were holding a meeting, They fled when the police appeared.
The Communist members of the Steel Helmet Association clashed at Nauen and several were wound- ed. Outside Koapanick, near here, scores of Communists, including women, stoned all motor-care, shouting "Down with the Bour- geolse.". Several motorists wore
| injured.—Reuter.
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