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TWO BRITISH SCIENTISTS' WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. THE CABINET AND NATIONAL › EXPENDITURE.
SURE TIMES.
tron ore owy CORRESPONDENT, Í
The locates of Summer Timer as a
at permanent institution have
last succeeded in getting a hill through the But there had to
·House of Contents. he a compromise to placate the farmers. Originally the intention was to give six thear months of Summer-from the first Sundity in April till the first Sunday in October, in that period, there would be an eat hour of daylight obtained by the aimpic janwess of juugling with the clock. As the Bill left the Couunois, however, that Sanmer Time shall be from it.charts
"THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST
LONDON, July 25th."
TRXPHONE F. TELEGRAPH.
It appears from what the Postmaster General told the House of Commons the other night in the course of his annual statement on the Department for which he is responsible that the telephone is austing the telegraph. In spite of perhaps because of the reduction in rates, the telephone is caraing almost as hig a surplus as is needed to make good the losses on the telegraphs. Sir William Mitchell" Thomsim_also" quoted some amazing figures in other directions.
Last year the Pest Other handled 3.30
CHANGING MUKDEN. ATTEMPT TO STOP JAPANESE RACE MEETING.
CHINESE OBJECTION TO GAMBLING.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MURDAY, August 5th. If building operations be any indication of the prosperity of a city then Mukden is exceedingly fortunate, for everywhere construction work is visible. It must be conceded, however, that much of the pre sent building operations are forced by eason of the street widening campaige.
LOCAL SPORT...
BASEBALL.
17TH, 1925
CHINESE DEFEAT AMERICANS,
Two games were decided on the Happy Valley diamond on Saturday afternoon, when the Hongkong Baseball Club met the Chinese, and the Filipinos were op. posed to the Indians. The former game was won by South China, the Americans being markedly unlucky. The scoring on both sides was poor, good fielding being
responsible for this
The teams lined out as follows:-
"AMERICANS.
Shank
Domo
Lane
being carried out by the local authorities The principal thoroughfares are heing Hawkins widened by thirty feet by the simple process of setting back the building line Zamwait
Proulx Efteen feet on either side. Numerous
Drought structures are being demolished and sub- Charch stantial edifices taking their places; the Harlow
the think Sunday in April till the first million letters, 10 million telegrains, and net result, in time, will be a considerably
Sunday in October. The farmers have beën omegded a fortnight.
This is, 1,000 million telephone calls. wirely enough to justify the claim matie The chief advantage of the Hill is that that the Department is the most wonder. it makes Sumner Time permanent. There will be no more of the tiresome squabbles | ful piece of business organisation in the we have had to endure your after year. world. The only element of discontent is The Bill still has to pass through the that penny postage is not to be restored House Lords, but no doul their lordet awhile, lut we are living in hopes ships will be kind. If there was further
the proposed CUTTING DOWN. EXPENDITURE, erious opposition ta arrangement and the spin should be
reneurobably the farmers and their fricipis would lose the gearful concession that has been made to them, and the fall six months wouldde insisted upón,
THE KING'S HOLIDAY.
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thwing to the lung illness of the Duke of Devenshier it is now known, that is Slajesty the King will not stay at Bolton Ables, Yorkshire, for the grouse shooting this season. Instead he and the Queen are going to Stedmere, near Malian, where they will be the guests of Lady Mary Sykes. This will be the first occasion a which the widow of Sir Mark Sykes bas nétis as hostess to Royalty at her, beautiful Yorkshire home, and it will, of burse, be a great event for the country people round about.
Mr. Winston Churchill as the chairman of the new Bentury Committee to inquire into publie expenditure strikes many on- particularly lookers as providing a piquant situation. This, however, is th development which has resulted from the attempts of the Cabinet-driven u do omething by pressure of public opinion
improved city, ELECTRIC TRAMS.,
Another nutable innovation is the electric tram car system which is planned to run outside the city walls. Already most of the shacks which studded this route have been removed and the neces Sary standards erected. It is expected that the service will be in operation be fore the end of the year.
POLITICS."
CHINESE
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1b.
June Pung
gb.
Pan
1.f.
Leung
c.f.
Choy
C.
Lee
P.
Shim
3b.
r.f.
Chan Chanson
The scores were: k
19 Chinese.. 1 1 00 Amerienas...
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0 5-8. 0 5 0 2 1
FILIPINOS RUNAWAY VICTORY.
The Indians were outclassed in all res- pects when they encountered the Filipiza Club, who won a 5 innings game by 18 to, The teams lined out as follows:
FILIPINOS. Leonard Angeles J. Sancho
G. Sancho Rull
Cruz
Politically much interest is taken in the projected Nine Provinces combine which in some circles is regarded as directed Baptista against Marshal Chang Tso Lin.. Support Francisco for this view point is found in the report Castro that the Marshal, realising, that he cannot do much more ur land, is planning the creation of a navy which would enable him to exercise his influence on the Yangiaze. Whatever be the outcome of If canhor be truthfully said that many the conference of the Yangtze leaders. i? Members of Parliament are satisfied with
secure the fulfilment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's promise when he introred the Budget to redder the re urring expenditure by ten million pounds per annan. As Mr. Churchill has pledged himself to do something really drastic perhaps the Prime Minister has chosen wisely in trasting the chairmanship of the Committee to him.
We shall know before
Lauty Sykes is a daughter of the late Sir John Gorst, she has inherited a good deal of her father's intellectual powers,itter composed of Members of the represents the one stable element in China
dee appointment of an Economy Com-Revertheless remains true that Manchuria
ar
in
But Mr. Churchill has been
and as such should command respect and support.
,
COURTESY VISITS.
There was quite a stir in town on
Cabinet. The business interests
issatisfied. These It any be recalled that when her husband died she was asked to stand in his place general, also, for the Hall constituency that he had would much prefer tust another Geddes represented, and had she done so there Committee of hard fatal business men is not much doubt that she would have had been set up to wield an economy uxe been returned. But at the time her family is ruthlessly as Sir Erie Geddes did for Monday when the Commander-in-chief of were growing up, and being a datiful years ago, ather she preferred to devner herself studying the methods of the bureaucracy,the Kwangtung garrison, General Shi- and it is said at Westminister that his rikawa, made a visit here. Of course he to their welfare.
present intention is to ration the Depart-called apon the Marshal, and the latter ments to allow them so ich money a returned the compliment: During this ex. year with the Erm intimation that they change of courtesies the streets in the will get no more, and so must cut their neighbourhood were closed to all traffic according to the sloth, and it was not until late in the after- official coats
noon that conditions returned to normal. available.
A LORDLY GIFT.
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THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR IN LONDÓN.
JAPANESE RAGE MEETING.
For some years there has been talk of the necessity of redecorating the "loyal Gallery of the House of Lords, but the matter was regularly, shelved owing to the expense. Now I hear that Lord Iveagh, head of the world-famous brewery firm of Guinness & Co...nf Dublin, has offered to bear the expense to the tune of 20,000 Since the war lucutorial was erected in the Gallery to peers and the sons of per who gave their lives in the war thesador is due to retire from the active the "ponics that were ridden out to parti- need for redecoration has become more abvious; and it is expected that the hand Hose offer will be accepted. THE CANCER DISCOVERY!
INDIANS.
3b.
S. A. Ismail
p.
Carreem
1b.
Ackber
C-
Q. Ismail
L.I.
Omar
c.f.
5. A. R. Ismail
8.-4.
Minu
2b.
Cassumbhoy"
t.f.
Arculti
1. 만
3 4 5
The scores were:-
Filipinos Indians
6 5 12 1-15
0 0 0 2 1-3
To-day at 5.30 the Filipino Club will meet a team from the U.S.S. Helenz in
friendly match.
LAWN BOWLS.
WEEK-END MATCHES.
Competitions in the lawn bowls league. were recommenced on Saturday and good matches were played. Taikoo did won- derfully well in that their teams won in both divisions. Kowloon Bowling Green Club accomplished the unexpected by de- feuting Craigengower in the first division by 13 points.
Division ...
TAIKOU. INDIANS.
Hyder
In the same division the Kowloon
It is stated in well-informed quarters
A sensation was caused last Wednesday Cricket Club could only score. 34 against that great satisfaction is felt in diplomatic
when Mukden police attempted by force the Taikoo Recreation Club's 66, thus: circles here that Baron Hayashi is not. after all, to be separated for long From: to stop the meeting of the Japanese Race losing by 32 painte.
Club. A posse of about twenty dashed at England. The veteran Japanese Ambas diplomatie list on August 1st, because of the age limit, and be will return to his own country thortly afterwards. It is no uiere conventional phrase to say that he is exeredingly popular in London, and many were the expressions of regret when it was fearned that he was compelled by the rule of his own Diplomatic Service to give. up his position this year.
I.K.C.
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cipate in the third race and several acceled in seizing the reins, but as the police received no assistance from the Chapman jockeys the task proved too much for Warnock The cement this week that it has
then and they had to desist, but pot be. Grimes Been discovered that cancer is due to
fore one polleeman, was knocked, down Young
S. Stewart wer has treated something in the nature
and injured. Prior to the meeting th probibiting the meeting on the ground Maxwell of a sensation Dr. W. Gye and Mr.
Masden, authorities had issued an ordei J. E. Barnard, whose names are bracket ed together in connection with the great However, it is now known that he is that it was attended by gambling which Matthewa erent, have anddenly leapt into fame.to come back again to London in Decem-as permitted under Chinese law. Muirhead The daily and weekly papers are full of her-nos as Ambassador, but as guardian Negotiations between the Japanese Cop- the discovery, though it is extremely to fiis Imperial Highness Prince Chicibu, ul General, Sir. T. Funatau (who former; difficult for the mere layman to master, the second son of the reigning Emperor,ly held a like position in Hongkong), and P. H. Stewart the facts. The subject is too technical who is pow in this country completing his the Foreign Department failed to reach Broadly speaking, it appears that to pro-education, mentioned previously in this agreement, and the atter has yet to be loun duce caucer two factors are require-un correspondence. This is an arrangement debated. The Japancac contention is that McLoud extrinsic virus which is common in its which will suit the Baron and his many malignant action to various species, and friends exceedingly well.
production.
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Kochgio
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Total......60
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K. Ismail Ram D. Rumjahin
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Hussain. Dyer Hartea S.-E. Ismail
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Omar.
Madar
Kharas Kitchell
Total...
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Daily 1 become more astonished at the intelligence of the modern child, write a, schoolmaster in a Home paper. Awed, rather, at the possibilities before mankind- when the present young generation has grown up and taken the place of us who must soon pass on
Children of eight years who play Chopin with emotion; Beethoven interpreted by a girl of twelve; boy champions ut chess; youngsters who prefer Shakespeare^ to Dickens, and can tell you why; engineers of ten who play with wirclese sets, and build elaborate toy bridges, scientifically perfect, and explain to you just why the ear is missing on two gylinders; young mathematicians who can solve problems as quickly as their instructors; voracious (Skip)......14 young readers who know much more about the past and present: of mankind -46 than most of their parents these amazing" youngsters are not exceptions or pro- digies; they are familiar in the experience of all who have much to do with children, Almost every child of today is P. W. D. L. P. potential specialist in some branch of 9 7 0 2 14 knowledge or art. "At a very early stage 9702 14 the aptitude shows itself, and sometimes 9 6 1 3 12 it develops in a way which startles us and makes us feel suddenly that we are 8 2 0 6 old fogies, slow-witted and stodgy.
Every mother knows that her child, ban special abilities in some direction. But wo who deal with the children of many mothers know that nearly all modern chil- dren are remarkable
LEAGUE TABLES. Division 1.
Craigengower Co. Taikoo R.C. Kowloon B.G. Kowloon Dock Civil Service C.C.
are not amenable to Chinese law, but so they enjoy extra-territorial privileges and far as I can understand the Chinese have an intrinsic virus whose setion is only raz BISLEY MEETING,
a grievance in respect of the Club having shown in the particular species of its For the first time the King's prize at obtained a charter to form a Race Club. more fully It is interesting to note that Dr. Gre Bisley has been won by a Royal Engineer. It is an interesting story which I may re-
Iafe some day when I am Smith, aged 9, who is employed as & acquainted with details, the son of a railway workman, and waste proved to be an ex-Sapper, Mr. A. born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He clerk by Messrs. W. H. Smith & Sons, the started life as a railway clerk carning ten bookstall rm, in their London offices, "shillings a week. At the age of 17 and he belongs to their minuture rifle
took up spare-time study, and after club. He
"chaired" after his DICKINS WOLSHIPTER. caying himself practically all the victory in the manser traditional to Bis- pleasures of life which young men take leg, recived the gold medal, the gold they may be will be sorry to learn of the Kowloon C.C. as a matter of course, he had saved en badge, and £250; and he also received death of Mr. Bertram Waldron Matz, who ough to come to London and qualify for what he greatly valued, a telegram of con bas just passed away at the age of 60. his B.Sc. degree. Then he went to gratulation from King George. The in- A Londoner by birth, be entered while a Edinburgh University, Ending the money
Indian R.C. for his expenses by soting as a school evitable interviewers have elicited the young mai the office of Dickens's Taikoo R.C......................................
fact that Smith is a bachelor and a total publishers, Chapman and Hall, and was soon seized with the cult of the great master in the Midlands. Two years be
abstainer. Jore the war he qualified as a doctor, and
There are, I presume, few of the writer. He pursued it with such tremend East Point R,C.
ous energy and zest that he became the R. H.K.V.C. be served in France and Italy with the
prosent-day competitors at Bisley who can British army.
recollect its beginnings some forty years acakowledged authority na Dickens in this ago. It is a successor of the old Wim-country.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA.
Lovers of Charles Dickens wherever
8 2.15
8 2 0.7
! "Division II. Police R.C.
Kowloon C.O.
"The Taikoo
4
870 1 14
8 6 0 9 19 as 0 3 10
8 4 0 4
9
7 1 0 0
2
7007
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SHOTS FOR AND AGAINST. Division I.
It was Mr. Matz who founded the I hear that although Queen Alexandra's bledon meeting, which bad to be abandon- "Leafness continues to increase her generaled because the Duke of Cambridge, who Dickens Fellowship, as well as besith gives, no cause for anxiety. The bad a bouse in the neighbourhood, object Dickensian," the organ of the Society. Craigengower Queen Mother, who at one time preferred ed to the possible depreciation of bis He conducted tours to many of the places Kowloon B.G. to dine alone and very late, now dincs property owing to the popularity of the mentioned in the novels, including of Civil Service regularly at nine o'clock with any guests annual gathering. His Royal Highness, course Bochester, and the odd corners of Koridon Dock staying in the house. Every day she goes then Commander-in-Chief of the British Leadon made famous by the master. He Kowloon C.C. for a long drive, which she thoroughly on- Andy, earned a great deal of unpopularity edited the National Edition of the works, over his petion in the matty; and it was and the Memorial Edition of Forster's jaya, Queen Alexandra corresponds a good deal with the Empress Marie, who a long time before a suitable site could biography. There was no man living who Police now lives at Copenhagen. One of her be obtained Birley was not liked as a pleasures, which she looks forward to, is muskatry camp at first, but it has grown the news of the day in the papers. This in popularity as the years have gone by keeps her abreast of everything which is bob with Regulars and Territori In (Continued on neri Column). going on.
was a better authority on the inna and Taikoo
plies-lore of "Box" and his books, and Indian R.C.
it was in accord with the main purpose Kowloon Co.
F. A. U.
D.
604 461 144
557 509 48
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515 502
13
0
468 182
0
450 M0,"
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20
133 603
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Division II.
*** 527.400 127 479 418. 03.
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B.B.K.7.C.
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Even the babies of to-day are pre- cocious, I know kiddies of two who can speak fluently and recite from memory, and a child of throe who can solve simple cross-word puzzles. It is all very natoni- shing, disquieting oven.
The fact is, we live in an intellectual age, at the summit of a high civilisation.
The parents of our modern infant prodigies live and move in a world where in
14telligence must continually be exercised
over the simplest problems of daily Ele. 170 1Their children are mentally bright, first bocause they are the offspring of parents who use their brains, and secondly be- Cause modern children themselves hava every opportunity to develop their minds to the full. A wonderful futuro awaits o mankind when these children, and their
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