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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
London, August 25th.
THE PRINCE DEPARTS,
Who would be a Royalty in these days when the fierce light of publicity beats upon every movement of the individual There is no privacy whatever. The Prince of Wales's trip to his ranch nas been written, up in all the newspapers till it seems nothing more can he said on the subject. The Bereagaria on which he made the trip across the Atlantic has been photographed insile and out: the suite he occupied has been made familiar to everyone in the illusfented papers- his bed, his bath, his sittingroom, his books, the nature and colour of the furni ture, till one knows all about it, in' as much detail as one knows all about one's own more or less humble' domicile.
TILAMES RIVER BOATS,
FOOTBALL.
SUCEDING IT THE GAME"
COURT OF ENQUIRY,
THE STRANDING OF THE 8.8.
** TECUMSEH."
The Court of Enquiry, which is to be
It has often been remarked by foreign-SCORING FROM A CORNER KICK. ers that London does not make right use of the Thames. Years ago there used to be a dect of steamers plying between
In Association football this season it various points from Kew to Greenwich, and it was a real pleasure" to take a trip will be possible to ware direct from a held at the Harbour Office on Monday next to enquire into the eircumstances' on a summer's day. Besides it was a corner kick. Untler tag old rule it was neans of making a journey across Town necessary for the ball to touch a second surrounding the stranding of the to places parallel with the Thames. But player before a goal could be scored. Teemach on Cust flocks recently, will be
In future a goal will be registered if the composed of the following members:-- on the plea that the service did not pay
Pyesisleur. Lieut. Cohdr. Či. F. Hole, majority on the London County Council ball goes into the net direct from the
R.N., Harbor Master and Marino carried a motion to dispose of the steam.corner kick.. ers, and the fleet was accordingly dis persed.
Now, as one result of having a Minis try of Transport favourable to making the best possible use of every means of travel
The recent decisions, of the Inter Magistrate. national Board an the interpretation of the laws, it judiciously put in fores by referees, should improve and quicken the 50,
7.
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Lieut. Comdr. C. R. H. Harvey, C.B.E., Superintendent R.N. Chart Depot, H.M. Dockyard.
Capt. A. J. Holland, Marine Superia- tendent, C.P.S.S. Co. in Hongkong.
Capt. H. Lenman, Master of the
Southwestern Miller,
Capt. A. D. Kelman, Master of the 8.8.
whistle whenever a player was found to Last season many referees sounded the in the Metropolis it is likely that a serbe off-side, without troubling to note his vice of river craft will be restored. The position in respect of the actual play at With a view to obviating plan is to make a start on the stretch of the moment.
these unnecessary stoppages, the follow River between Hammersmith and "Wool-ing official decision, has been appended | finong. wich. Mr. Harry Gosling, the Minister to Law 6: it. There are to be nator beats capable of Transport, is really enthusiastic about
of carrying about three hundred passen gers apiece, and it is intended to provide facilities for refreshments at popular" prices. The plan is devised to relieve the congestion in the main streets to some extent; and I believe it will succeed. ADMIRAL BRIDGE
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It is not a breach of the law for a player to be in an offside position, but only when in that position he inter- feres with an opponent or with the play a player who is in an offside position advances towards an opponent or the ball, and in so doing causes the play to be affected, he child be penalised;
GOALKEEPERS BEWARE.
A FELONIOUS DEMAND,
FOKIS FINED.
SHOP
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday," I dare say it was the desire to escape
moruing, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, from the glare of publicity that made the
three Chinese shop coalies pleaded not Prince of Wales decide to go aboard the
guilty, when charged with: (1) felonious- y depanding 80 from a woman named Berekgarin as four o'clock in the morning One mure of the gradually dwindling
Cheng Sze Kiu, with intent to steal the at Southampton. Accompanied by Prince and of retired flag officers, who formed
The second decision concerns the inter-same at No. 43 Lower Sha Po Village, link in the Navy between the old days George he climbed up the side by means of the Trafalgar traditions of service con- tions caused by minor injuries to Kowloon City, on September 4th: (2) players, which have vastly increased of unlawfully assaulting the complainant, of a rope ladder, and stepping on deck ditions and the present time, has gone recent years, notably, in professional with Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge whose
games. A slight mishap to a player apologised to, the officers on watch for death is reported. He first went to sea caused the game 10. be stopped and the first defendant at one time lived with making an appearance at that unconvenio, when the Navy was still ander trainer to be summoned. Heferees will tional hour. Then he turned in, and kept sails, and the guns were of the sooth now have to carry out the following new to his cabin till the great liner was well pore type mounted on wooden carriagesdecision on law 13:
just us in the days of Nelson. Yet he out at sea. By all accounts the deck lived to see the complete transition from near where he had his quarters was sails to steam, and from Nelsonian gun- thronged with passengers, mostly wonen nery to that which was employed in the
Great War, in which he took a part. hnel girls, anxious to catch a glimpse of him. And so it is all the time with a
popular person born into the purple. It is next to an impossibility for them to lead a life free from the cbtrusion of the crowd at home or abroad.
WHEN KING EDWARD WAS BORED.
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Mr. Arnold White, who writes in The Referee every Sunday under. the non-de- plunie of "Vanos," refers to the death of Lord Knollys, and tells a very interest- ing story of King Edward. When the late King was Prince of Wales he sent a com- mand invitation to Mr. White to diae at Marlborough House, but it was declined" A spend invitation was also declined: Then the Prince sent for Mr. White and asked him point blank why he had refused" to comic. The answer was, "Sir, I could not accept an invitation to sit at your table until I was sure that you knew what 1 had written about you.'
sure.
It was stated by complainant that the
other night he brought the second and her but he had turned her out. .The third defenduats to her house in Sha Po Village He demanded $20. She said If in the opinion of the referee she had no money to pay. First defend- player has been seriously injured the land then said "What about the bangles?” kame shall be stopped, tha: player at She replied that she had not got any. once removed, from the held of play. First defendant then struck ber. The It is recalled that when he was on the
and the game resumed. If a player is second defendant incited him to do so China statión us Commander-in-Chief slightly injured the game shall not be as she would not hand over the money danger from aubmarine warfare. over twenty years ago he perceived the stopped until the bull has ceased to be asked.
in play.
The principal tenant deposed that the way, he caused to be constructed targets A further decision on Law 13 has been first defendant demanded money from representing the cooning tower of a sub-framed to prevent the unsermly, mobbing the complainnut, and said, that after marine, and had horizontal rudders Etted of referers by players who disagree with asking What about the bangles" he to make the target dive and come up decisions of the presiding allicial. Ex- at her. The frit defendant admitted again to the surface at the control of the citable goalkeepers who rush inte mid- that this was more or less what happened. towing ship. This was to train his others field and seize the referee by the should lie did not mean to hit her in the eye.
two defendants were and men in gunnery to, meet the newers will in future be ordered off if the The other menace that he believed was coming-nj referre does his duty.
friends really wonderful sense of provision on the The decision of the bourd reads as
First defendant was ordered to pay part of a man who, as a boy, had helped follows:-
In fine of 823, or, in default, undergo to fire round shot at the Russians in the. Crimea.
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LORD GRAY UY YALLODON.
Any.
A player may inquire from a referee as to his decision, but is not entitled by word or action to show dissent from any such decision. A referee is reqair. ed to treat the bruich of this instruction as ungentlemanly behaviour.
Announcement is just made that Lord Grey' of Fallodon has retired from: the Liberal teadership in the House of Lords: and in this way be slips out of public life All these decisions will be welcomed by with characteristic prodesty. Although followers of the game as calculated to his eyesight, is much improved, this being improve the play by eliminating irritat- the reason for his temporary retirementing delays. It remains for the referees from politics some few years ago, when to put them in force in the proper spirit he was threatened with complete blind- and with due discretion.—Boity Ani... ness, he has to exercise great care and dare not subject his sight to any severe
strain,
But Lord Grey has always had numer
LOCAL SPORT.
FOOTBALL.
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month's hard labour; the second de- fendant was fined $10 or two weeks hard Inbour. The third defendant was caiz- tioned and bound over to keep the pease 123 a personal bond of $50 for six months.
THE PHILIPPINES AND PROHIBITION.
VOLSTEAD LAW INAPPLICABLE TO
PHILIPPINES.
Mr. White then told the Prince that he had collected in a book a list of the occupations of His Royal Highness from Janaury 1st to September auth and had
The Manila Times of the 22nd inst.. commented, "It is, for the most part, a
Governor-General Wood to-day cabled list of the engagement of a man of leious private sources of interest, and the
the War Department requesting that it Mr. White sent the book to the break from public Hfe will not mean the
acquaint the American Consul-General Prince at Lowes, and a Royal invitation wrench that it would do in the case of
A QUEEN'S COLLEGE MATCH. to visit the Prince followed. The Prince some of his contemporaries. He is, at
at Hongkong of its decision to the effect that neither the 18th Amendment 'nor the himself met the journalist as the litter course, a great lover of Nature, "and is
The following will represent
the the Volstead aware applicable to stepped aboard the yacht Uxborar, and one of the heat authorities in the country Queen's College Past Pupils in a foot, Philippines. The Department's decision the first words he used were-with a on bird life. Next to this branch of study broad smile" You are a damned fool. he loves fly-fishing, and his book on the ball match against the Masters and was handed down in Dctober, 1922. Nobody else I know would have owned subject is a classic. As a statesnian bground at Causeway Bay to-day-standings is asked by the Chief Execu
Pupils of Queen's College at the "College" Prompt correction of the misunder- name will always be connected with his Hachiuma, Lo Fung Cheung, A. Give The 18th Amendment is not applie up,"
Later on Lord Knolly's wrote to Mr. effort to avert the Great War in the Mahomed, S. A. ismail, Y. M. Adal, Yable to the islands because they are not White saying there were many things the
momentous days of 1914-a hopeless task, A. Wahab, Lai Siu Lun, Ip Kau. E. Alia regular organized territory of the Prince of Wales had to do which the out-
as it now seems, seeing that Germany Moosdoen, A. A. Rumjahu, J. S. A. Laited States. The Volstead law cannot rulers had already made up their minds Curreem. Reserves: S. Ohtsuka and A. be extended here because it does not speci- side world would call pleasure and amuse-, ments; but they were often anything but to precipitate the catastrophe. a source of pleasure to him, though his position devianded that every year he should go through a certain round of social duties which coustantly bore him to death"
The present Prince of Wales would probably endorse, what his grand father said on this point.
MISS MARGARET BONDFIELD, M.P.
LORD BEAUCHAMP
Butt.
STATEMENT BY AIR MINISTRY.
fieals mention the islands.
Lord Grey of Fallodon is to be suc- RECENT FLYING DISASTERS. coming on foreign vessels will be ad ceeded as Liberal leader in the Lords by Lord Beauchamp, He is very like Loril Curzon as a mudel of department, a possessor of a certain stateliness of man- ner, great ability, and intimately uc quainted with the management of public business in its higher brunches. He is Warden of the Clique Ports, and has held many important offices.
Miss Margaret Bondfield, P., "the very able Labour woman who was the frat of her sex to hold a Ministerial apTHE REPARATIONS SOREEMENT. pointment, has let loose a storm of critic ism about her devoted head. The other
With the exception of a few papers day she stated in the course of a lecture the agreement just concluded
In
Collector of Custorns Aldanesc said this morning that any cargo of liquor
nitted into the islands without any re- quisite except the ordinary bill of lading. Replying to recent criticisms of the Air If a vessel has no bill of health from the Force, in connection with flying accidents,inst port of call, he said, quarantine the Air Ministry in a statement admits officers here may recommend a fine of that the number of accidents in, 1024 has not more than 2,000 as provided in creased, compared with 1922 and 1923, the administrative code. The inferener but points out the increase in the size was, however, that only a nominal fine of the force, while the average amount of would be imposed.
of each pilot has increased fying
It was learned at the Custom Hous by. nearly 100 per cent. The ratio of machine that the steamship Theseus brought in a hours flown in the year ending June, 1093. considerable quantity of brandy and at the LLP Conference, that women's gard to German Reparations, to which to the number of fatal accidents showed whiskey from Glasgow, the uploading of really important work is and always would the (ierman delegates have set their an increase of 47 per cent, compared with the cargo having been made in the ordi be in the home and not outside. She hands at the London Conference, has the previous year. This increased to $4nary manner. The steamship Knowsley does not, of course, desire to bar women met with a good reception: There are per cent. in the year ending June, 1924. Hell which came in this morning bad 75 from ecgaging in business or in public people who affect to believe that Ger
cases of gin on board, it was learned at the Custom House. The vessel came from. New York vid Newport News, Port Said, the fact that peace in Europe is impor-QUESTION OF THE RUBL-
Sabang and Singapore. sible, and all chance of European restora- On the question of the French occupa- These two instances can tion in an economic sense in equally im- tion of the Rubr, the opinion here is that sidered as, test cases because the shipm possible, unless the Germans are admitted that region. ought to have been evacuated were on the way to the Philippines from into ordinary international relationship at once. There is not a single plausable other ports before the ruling of the again.
argument for the retention of French American Consul General at Hongkong troops in the Ruhr, now that practical was handed down, it is said. effect is to be given to the Dawes Report "Manila will never be dry
"assured The British point of view has always been Customs people this morning. Vessels that the occupation was illegal-an incoming from England and the United fringement of the Treaty-and as both the States passing through Singapore are ax- French and the German Governments pected to bring their usual cargo of have accepted the Dawes Beport it is no booze, they said. longer possible for the French to pretend' that Germany is still in default. The last vestige of justification for the occupation is legally and logically gone,
life, but she is quite convinced that what ever else they may do the primary work of women in the community is to build up the family. A woman's influence as mother is of paramount "consequence in shaping the moral and spiritual develop ment of the race.
This pronouncement by one of the lead ing women in the political world has. auturally brought the feminists" up in arms. They are all for what they call the freedom of women. Any suggestion that women are better employed in their own homes instead of competing with men in the labour market in various callings, and professions raises their ire. Miss Bond- field is, however, unperturbed by what they are saying about her, and sticks to: ber opinion--which she has reiterated ia the course of Presa interviews that the guidance of the young in a mother's prim-" ary duty, and it ought not to be left to servants and others while the mother in away from home, përforming this or that job under the mistaken view that her outside activities are more important, and "are the sign of feminine freedom,
many should never be allowed to rise from the dust; they are unable to grasp
This is what the agreement in efect will bring to pass. The essential points of this historic instrument may be sure marised as follows:-*,
Currency stability: full economic and fiscal sovereignty for Germaas in Ger- man territory: fixation of Peace Treaty charges.
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not be cox-
ALL BREECHED ALIKE.
NO MORE FANCY CUTS FOR SUBALTERNS:
Two transitional years; then payment "to the Entente: Powers of about 871 millions annually in sterling: this aum, to be increased to 123 millions annually. The French, however, are to remain for External loan to Germany ôf 40 mil-¦a your jonger; and on this point there lions sterling
are two things worth noting. The ou Modified military regime in the fuhr: eupation of the Ruhr was never mentioned complete evacuation in one year. during the London Conference; indeed it Good news for military tailors, 201 The external loan which it is expected was expressly excluded from considera corresponding depression for fastidious will be raised in London and New York tion. But if it was not referred to round subalterns, anys a London paper, is con- will set Germany on her feet. There is the table it was discussed in the lobbies, tained in an Army Order ordaining that I am bound to say that, on the whole, a lot of loose talk that the loan oughts and as a matter of fact it could not be all officers of dismounted services, except judging by what appears in the news never to be given by the victors to the kept out of discussion seeing that so, much those of kilted regiments, shall hence papers, Miss BondGeld seems to have had vanquished; but really the Allies cannot hinged upon the question. The other forth wear a uniform type of breeches the best of the argument. The public of help themselves. Germany is very much point is that in this matter of the Rohr The order gives minute directions a this country always lean towards the idea like a debtor who owes heavily to the French Government has been driven to the cut, material, buttons and toles, that for a woman the care of the home creditor, who must find enough capital the promotion of the happiness of those to keep the debtor going as the only around her in the domestic circle-ia more means of averting complete disaster and worthy than any other form of personal losing everything.
service,
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by French industrialists, who want Buhr saama, pockets, buckles, straps, and even coal for emelting French iron, their own linings of the new garments.
coal being no good for the purpose. This. In future the frog" will be worn fact gives the clue to French policy-attached to the bolt, whether the wearer
carries a sword or not.
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