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OUR LONDON LETTER
THE CASH VALUE OF A FIRST-CLASS FOOTBALLER.
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MOXALTY. ON HOLIDAY.
START WITH THE NEW CRUISERS,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
"As at present arranged King George will remain in residence at Balmoral until
the first week in October, but the Queen
will probably come back to London at the end of this month. Her Majesty is not manch interested in the sports and pas times of the Highlands, such as shoot ing and fishing, and, more particularly she has a dislike to the cold days which are generally experienced in the early Antumn..on. Deeside.
THE HONGHONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH,
LONDON, September 5th. I NEW CRFISSES AND PRIVATE YARDS.
It is good news to the North that of the first four now cruisers-of which two
are to be laid down in December" and two
early next year-twu are to go to the private yards.
OUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
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** HERMES " AND OTHER VESSELS COMPARED.
LOCAL SPORT.
WATER "POLO.
In the Water Polo Langue last night," Allusion to E.M.S. Hernies, whose the K.B.S.F.P.A. "A" beat the Hong- mysteries are so strong a source of in- terest in the Colony just now, is made
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kong Electric by 10 goals to one in a
in the Naval and Hitary Record of game in which the winners had matters August 26th, which mys;--
all their own way and proved much the
superior side.
The number of appointments to the aircraft-carrier. Furious indicates that the vessel will shortly be passerl into
The other game down for yesterday, H.M.S. Carlisle e. V.KC. A." #11
postponed.
This evening the East Surrey Regt.
tho V.R.C. "B" anil the
K.B.S.F.P.A.
oppose II.M.S..
Hermes.
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ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS,
In connection with the annual aquatic sports which are being held to-morrow, Thursday, Friday and Satarday after. noons, heats in certain of the events are hring decided to-day at the Victoria Beereation Club.
the Flert, and, if the sum spent upon her reconstruction he justified by her subsequent service, she will prove "a valuable acquisition to the Navy. Built ment by Armstrong. Whitworth and Co., at It is anticipated that the North East Newcastleson-Tyne, she was completed in Coast and the Clyde, which are the worst July, 1917, at a total cost of £2,130,139. sufferers from unemployment, will get one In June, 1922, she was, paid off into apiece. In addition, towns like Sheffield Dockyard control at Devonport prepara~ will benefit from the fact that machi-tory to being taken in hand for re nery and equipment for all four, includ-construction-the third transformation While at Balmoral the Queen spends ing the two to be laid down in the Royal she has undergone, by the way and to most of her days in the garden and indockyards, will be supplied from private cover the cost of the work there was in -the Navy Estimates wisiting the representatives of the several works. Four destroyers are also to be provided
£876,968 to March 31st, tu, ancient Scottish families who live in the given out to tender. - zeighbourhood of Balmoral Castle. These
for the financial year visits, as a matter of fact, are another
279,330 for the current year, or a totali proof of the infinite tuet of Queen Mary,
of £1,089,817. Of that sum charges for A good many of the old Scottish families
labour amounted to £430,792 £159.975 are now in such circumstances, because f the consequences of the war, that they "cannot afford to play the old-time pro- minent part in the social world, and the Lindliness of the Queen in paying them Little informal visits is therefore all the mere greatly appreciated.
PENT ENVTY AWAY.
This week the Russian Textile Syndi dicate which, as mentioned in a fire- vicus letter. has been here to try and indave manufacturers to give goods on credit to the extent of millions of pounds have left ca route for Russia. They have returned home without having obtained what they expected. It is putting it mildly to say that they are disappoints This is not because they have any special fove for British industrialists. but he cause they had hoped for confidener in
Russian promises to pay at fature dates They discovered that the record of the Soviet Government, is "decidedly embar rassing, Bad as British manufacturera. want trade, they are not so simple as to -overlook the subversive actions of the
Soviet in all parts of the world,
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1921-5.
The con-
At 6pm, the beats in the 410 yards Championship of the Colony (open) will be decided, while at 9 p.in., the heats of the 100 yards back stroke championship
hear it said that Lord Colwyn, Lord Eradbury, and Lord Chalmers, who com. pose the committee which is going into the question of renomirs in the fighting
and £45,000 in the three years mention- Services, will watch carefully the come, or a total of £967,897. parative cost of building war vessels instruction of the vessel has therefore proof the Colony and the 100 yards breast Government and private yards. The videst most welcome work for the Devon-stroke championship of the Colony will latter claim to be much cheaper, as well port Yard. is more expeditious At the same time, there are substantial reasons for keep- ing the Government dockyards going steadily, as safeguard for the tax payers interests.
THE FOOTBALL SEASON,,
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take place.
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GOLF.
A CORRECTION.
With the exception of the Engle, the Farinns is our largest aircraft-carrirt, her displacement being nearly double that of the Hermes. It is interesting to note that the displacement of our air- craft-carriers is follows:-Engle, This work sees the opening of the foot-20,000 tons: Furious, 10,100; Argne, 14,430; Hermes, 10,950; Ark Rugal, 7,080; ball season in Britain, the winter. game and Pegasus, 2,070. In addition to this beginning almost before cricket has end-list, the Conrayenne and Glorious, each e. For the next seven months a vast of which has a displacement of 19.600 proportion of the population of this tous, are to be converted into aircraft- country will be engrossed with the for- carriers, and in the Navy Estimates pro- tunes of the various clubs and the lead-work out these regsels during the current WIN FOR O. "AND A. L. RUMJAHN. ing players.
But what a pity it is that football has
much into the grip ai profe
sionalism: The "stars" are bùught na wealthy. Tolk buy pedigree balls. Re- cently the Arsenal bought the illustrious Buchan from Sunderland for £9,000 down and £100 more for every goal that Buchan scores for his new club this The transaction is indicative of the spirit in which the football is played in these days, and no wonder the best friends of the game cre uneasy, PERPLEXING PROBLEMS,
season.
vision is made to meet the cost of the
financial year. As the Herm was the fret ship specially designed by the Ad- miralty for transporting aircraft, it
would appear that a ship of moderate dimensions is considered the best for this service.
FAMOUR WOMAN JOURNALIST.
In a previous report of the Fanling September Bogey Pool, Mr. M. M. Mans was in error announced as the winner with a card of 1 up. The actual winner was Mr. A. H. Ferguson with a card of 2 up.
TENNIS IN « TIENTSIN.
The Ruujahn brothers (Omar and. A.L.)
decisively beat Bodiker ani Theuerkauf
in three straight sets by a score of 6/4, s/n, 671 in the Men's Open Doubles Finals at Tientsin on September 9th From the spectator's point of view it was: a fine match to watch. The light was. good; it was not too hot, and the players were all in fine form.
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The match as a whole was a good'de-
monstration of net play against hase line driving and in this instance net play won. Time and again standing at the wet the Rudjahn brothers returned the terrific, drives of both Bodiker and Theuerkauf with telling effect.
There is much regret in Fleet Street at the death of Miss Mary Billington, The spokesmen of the Russian delega. tion declared on the eve of their depar-
for many years a member of the staff of ture that it is the British banks which
the Daily Telegraph, and one of the pioneers among women journalists. Miss refused to give credit. But they knew
Billington, who was the daughter of the attitude of the books perfectly well Lefore they left Moscow, Until th One writer, referring to the foregoing Rev. G. H. Billington, vicar of Chrilbury,
In the first two sets the taanis seemed Dorsetshire, was one of the founders of Russian Government are ready and will-
"deal"usks what may be supposed to the Society of Women Journalists, of to be very evenly matched but in the ing to honour Russia's debts and make he the workings of a player's mind in which she was-president from 1913 to last set the Germans seemed to go to reasonable preparation for their disfront of goal? His conscience tells him 11. Early in life she secured a position pieces and this of course gave the Rum- ou The Echo, the first and for a long jahn pair their chance, and they ended charge Russia will be regarded us an that ought to pass, but Mammon whis time the only halfpenny evening news the match with a six-bae set. undesirable customer. Who wants to do pers in his car that if he does not score paper which was owned by the late Mr. Pasamore Edwards. After several years? business with a defaulter who glories in the goal with his own foot bang go a service on that journal she went to the his dishonesty Wy own belief is that hundred pounds away from his old Daily Graphic, and later, in 1807, was op- the Soviet Government have been misled friends" in Sunderland. What of the pointed to the staff of the Daily Tele- graph, with which journal she was as- by the constant plea of the Labour lead-other cars in which the Voien of con-sociated down to the time of her death. ers here to trade with Russia ou terms science is not clear-cases in which it is of credit. Moscow imagined that the quite an open question whether to pass desire for orders that would give amor to shoot? Is a forward to be saddled, ployment in England would overcoma nt sne of these exacting moments, with ihr distrust that they must know exists the additional responsibility of whether
ncerning Russian, good faith,
Sunderland shall gain £100 or The Arsenal save it?
RAYLET IN PLUS FOURS.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
V.R.C. ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS.
During her professional career, Miss Billington had travelled a great deal.
[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG She had intimate knowledge of
DALLY PRESS."] Russia, and an. two occasions she made.
SIX-1 note in this morning's issue visits of investigation to India, being specially interested in the position of of your paper that there are a number of women there. Upon this subject her book, events for Chinese gentlemen included Woman in India," has been a recoged sports. Why not include an event in the programme of the above mention- nised treatise on the position of women Jarlet in knickerbockers-plus fours to This is amusing.hut. of course, the in the Indian Empire. During her ill for Chinese ladies? As you are probably ness Miss Billington was the recipient aware they are taking a keen interest be precise-is a nine days wonder in Lon-fact is that all football is, at its best,of many kind inquiries by the Queen, in this kind of sport, and I am sure such SET
ar: event would attract a number of the along and is drawing crowds to the Kings-essentially a matter of teain play, and who also sent for her a gift of flowers.
fairer sex, especially if the event was way Theatre. That is naturally to be ex therefore a wrong sort of force seems to SERING THE COUNTRY...
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NANCHANG STUDENTS."
FIRE TO BAT. WAREHOUSE.
The idriatic News Service states that according to the report of General Fang Pen Jen, Tupan of Kiangsi, six students of the Nanchang College were arrested by, the police on the evening of the 15th Inst. for having broken into the ware house of the Nanchang agency of the British-American Tobacco Ub at night and, set fire to the cigarettes stored there.. According to General Fang over two hundred students rushed into the
Ware acters was not their hose, their mantles, any reduction would bring many owners
house, socora panied by many bad char their gorters, but their thoughts, their to the verge of bankruptcy." Two- which is engined to enable it to keep At the annual meeting at Auckland acters disguised as students, and destroy- emotions, their sufferings, and their joys. seater, cabs, they believe, would only ite place in the tide of trafic, and runs on August 4th of the New Zealand In-ed about one hundred cases of cigarettes. In brooding upon the skull in my plus add to the congestion of the streets, and so smoothly on big pneumatic tyres that surance Company, whose local agents are The damage done by the students "fours. I am like any serious-minded
fallow of to-day who has just a touch of make it still more difficult for the pre- the fatigue of travel loses much of its Messrs. Holyoak, Massey and Co., the amounted to over ten thousand dollars.
sent owners of taxi-cabs to
terror. There is a small kitchen. at tho shareholders were informed that the The six students are being kept at the melancholy in him."
rear which tea is prepared, and little directors felt justified in recommending Court of Public Procurators pending in- living." There is an element of truth in this
tables before each of the passengers for an increase of the rate of dividend, and vestigations, adds General Fang, as it is but all the same I am on the side of Adong Londonors there is a strong the trays. By means of a frame aerial they accordingly recommended that a feared they had been instigated by Mr. Henry Baynton, who recently play general feeling that taxis are much touplased in position the pick of the broad sum of £118,750 should be distributed by vicious poople to disturb the peace and ed Hamlet for the thousandth time. He expensive to be at all widely useful. casting programmes is drawn upon for way of dividend for the year, being order of the province. admits, in an interview, that he found The truth of the matter is that there entertainracat during tea. May p quivalent to a dividend at the rate of In the same way as General Haino ir. the Kingsway performances remark are far too many taxis on the streets. Hotel accommodation is booked in ad 1/7 per share. In order to meet this in- Hupei, General Fang, is adopting a able, even epoch-making," but he cum Each cab thus obtains such infrequent rance, and every arrangement made in crease in dividend it would not be necos-stern policy towards the students in plains that it is not Shakespeare," and employment that high fares are necessary, detail. Those who do not care to travel sary to draw on the underwriting profits their movement for national liberation, that
one of the greatest plays" ever if any profit is to be carned on the day's, their own motor cars lack neither for more than £7,154, as the income and the students associations in Poking, written has been converted into modern work
comfort nor convenience by using the new derived from investments was only short Tientsin and Shanghai are demanding (Continued on nezt Column) coaches →→H.R.
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