10.
LAWN BOWLS.
SEASON COMMENCES NEXT SATURDAY.
THE COMPLETE FIXTURES.
The Hong Kong Lawn Bowls League commences on Saturday, May 5th. All the clubs competing ́in "last year's toumament have again entered for" this 86a400.
There will be seven teams in the first division and sine to the second. A feature of this season's league is the entry of two teams by the Club Recreio in the second division.
The season will extend to Sep- tember 1st. No provisions, how-
had been. ever,
made for bad weather, but postponed matches will be arranged by the Hon. Scoretary, Mr. C. J. Tacchi,
The "ixtures, are as follows:- First Division.
May 6th:
Kowloon C.C.. Civil Service
C.Q Kowloon B.G.O. # Craigen.
Rower C.C.
May 19th:
Kowloon B.G.Cr. Craigen
gower. C.C.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, APRIL 30th, 1928.
Royal "H.K.Y.C. «. East Point!
R.C.
Taikoo R.C. v. Club de Re-
creio" B."
Club de Recreio "A" e. Kow-
loon C.C.
May 19th:
Civil Services C.C. v. Club de
Recreio "B"
Kowloon
Kowloon
East Point .C. e.
B.G.C.
Royal HK.Y.C.
6.0.
Club de Recreio “A”
R.C..
0.0.
«. Taikoo
May 28th:
Taikoo R.Cr. Craigengower Club de Recreio "A" v. Civil
Service C.C. Royal H.KY.C. r. Club de
Recreio "B. Kowloon C.C. r. 'East Point
R.C.
June 2nd:
Royal H.KY.C. v. Kowloon
B.G.C.
East Point R.C. e. Civil Ser-
vice C.C. Taikoo R.C. r. Kowloon C.C. Craigengower C.C. v. Club de
Recreio B.'
Kowloon Docks R.C. . Police
R.C.
June 9th:
F. Taikoo R.C. lat v. Taikoo
R.C. 2nd.
May 12th:
Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon
B.O.C.
Craigengower 0.0.
loon Docks R.O.
Police R.C. r. Taikoo R.C.
Kow.
F. Kowloon C.O. 1st . Civil
Service C.C: 2nd.
May 19th:
Kowloon C.C. v. Police: R.C. Kowloon Docks R.C. v. Ciril
Service C.C.
Taikoo R.C. r. Craigengewer
C.C.
F. Kowloon B.G.C. Craigengower CC: 2nd.
May 28th:
Ist
Civil Service. C.C. r. Talkoo
R.C.
Felice R.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C. Craigengower 0.0. 2'. Kow-
loon C.C...
F. Kowloon Docks R.C. v. Kow-
loon B.G.C. 2nd.
June 2nd:
Kowloon. C.C.
Docka It.C.
1
Kowloon
B.G.C.
1.
Police.
Taikoo
Civil Service C.C.
R.C.
Kowloon
R.C..
F. Club de Recreio "A" v.
Craigengower 0.0. lat."
June 9th:
Craigongower C.C.
Service C.C.
Civil-
Kowloon Docka R.C. r. Kow-
loon B.G.C.
Taikoo R.C.. Kowloon C.C. F. Police R.C, e. Kowloon C.C..
End,
June 18th:
Police R.C. r. Craigengower
0.0.
Kowloon C.C. P Kowloon
B.C.C.
Kowloon Docks R.C.r. Taikoo
T.C.
F. Civil Service C.C. 1st
Royal H.K.Y.C.
June 3rd:
Civil Service C.C.. Kowloon
C.C.
Craigengower C.C. . Kowloon
B.G.C.
Police R.C. Kowloon. Docka
R.C.
F. Taikoo R.C, ist v. Club de
Recreio "B"
June 30th:
Kowloon B.G.C.. Civil Ser 1vies C.C.
Kowloon Docks R.C.
Craigengower C.C.
Taikoo R.C. v. Police R.C.
T.
F. Kowloon C.C. 1st East
Point R.C.
July 7th:
Police R.C. Kowloon C.C. Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon
Docks R.C...
Craigengower C.C. r. Taikoo
RC.
F. Taikoo R.C. 2nd r. Kowloon
B.G.C. 1st.
July 14th: .
Taikoo R.C. "Civil Service
CO.
Kowloon B.G.C. v. Police R.C. Kowloon C.C.. Craigengower
C.C.
F. Kowloon B.G.C. 2nd v.
Kowloon Docks B.C.
July 21st:
Civil Bervice C.0. » Craigen-
gower C.C.
Kowloon B.G.c. v. Kowloon
Docks R.C.
Kowloon C.C, v. Taikoo 1.C. F. Kowloon 0.0, 2nd v. Police
R.C.
July 8th:
"Kowloon Docks R.O.
Kow-
loon C.C.
Police R.C.
Civil Service
C.C...
3
Taikoo
R.C..
B.G.C.
1. Kowloon
F. Craigengover C.C. Jut v
Club de Recreio. "A."
August 4th:
Craigengower O.C. v. Police
R.C.
Kowloon, B.G.C.
C.C.
Kowloon
Taikoo R.C... Kowloon Docks
R.C.
F. Royal H.K.Y.O. v. Civil
Service C.C. lat.
May 5th:
Second Division.
Civil Service 00.. Kowloon
3.G.C. Craigengower C.O. v. Royal
H.K.Y.C.
+ Club.de
East Point R.O. Recreio "A"
Club de Recretó "B". Kow
boon C.C.
Royal
Civil Service C.C.
H.K.Y.C. Kowloon B.G.C... Taikoo
R.C.
Club de Recreio PA
Craigengewer C.C.
SECRET HISTORY OF GALLIPOLI.
DISCLOSURES BY MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT.
SAVING A MENACED ARMY,
WHAT LORD NORTHCLIFFE did.
A newly published book "The Uncensored Dardanelles," by E. Ashmead-Bartlett, is likely to create A great uproar because it reveals so much that has long been con ceales. In it Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, one of the most famous of war cor- respondents of his time, has given the inner history of the Dardanelles campaign.
Present with the British forces as a representative of the British Press, he writes of tremendous and eye-witness criticises from the rich fund of ax- perience which he acquired in many conflicts before the Great War.
events
43
13
His intimate knowledge and his! experience at the time were profit- less to the people of this country because the military censorship sup pressed the truth as he told it in his letters and telegrams. Before. the war, in 1006, the British Staff and condemned an attack on the Dardanelles as impracticable. Yet that very enterprise was blindly and precipitately attempted in 1915, at moment when the British Army in France was short both of troops and of munitions, and when the whole total of heavy guns in France with.
East Point B.C. v. Club de į our units was under 100.
Recreio "B."
June 18th:
7. Civil
Craigengower c.C.
Service C.C. Taikoo RC.e East Point
7% Kowloon
R.C.. Kowloon. B.C.C.
.C.C.
· $1
It was attempted with utterly in- adequate numbers-disregarding the certainty that the Turkish army, 250,000 strong, would have to be en- countered; and it was attempted, in the wrong way if Mr. Ashmead" Bartlett is correct. He holds that it the Allies had attacked at the
Club de Recreio "B" . Club Reck of the Gallipoli Peninsula, at the Bulair lines, victory might have been won.
de Recreio "A.”-
June 23rd:
East Point R.C. v. Craigen-
Rower C.C.
Club de Kowloon B.G.C. 24
Recreio. "A." Kowloon C.C. t. Civil Service
C.C.
Royal HK.Y.C. . Taikoo R.C. June 30th:
Royal H.K.Y.C... Club de
Recreio "A"
Craigengower C.C. t. Kowloon
C.C.
Club de Recreio "B" . Köw-
loon B.G.C.
Civil Service C.C., Taikoo.
R.C.
July 7th:
Kowloon B.G.C. r. Civil Ser-
vice C.C. Royal H.K.Y.C. Craigen
gower C.C.
Club de Recreio "A". East
Point H.Q
Kowloon C.C... Club de Re
creio "B."
July 14th:
Craigengover C.C. . Taikoo
R.C.
v. Club.de
Civil Service C.C.
Recreio "A.” Club de Recreio "B". Royal
H.K.Y.C.
East Point RC. v, Kowloon
C.C. July 21st:
Craigengover C.C.. Club de Recreio "A" Royal R.K.Y.C. *. Civil Ser-
vice C.C.
*
Taikoo R.C. v., Kowloon B.G.C. Club de Recreio "B" v. East
Point RC.
July 28th
i
v.
Royal
East
Costly Frontal Attacks,
It is doubtful whether he is right. here, for if 50,000 British troops had been, disembarked at Bulair they would probably have been captured. or destroyed.
I shall always' continue to be- lieve. Mr. Bartlett says, that our disasters in the field were due to the faulty tactics and still more faulty strategy of Sir Ian Hamil. ton and his advisers, who from first to last persisted in hammer- ing away at the Turkish entrench- ments ... in a series of cost- ir, frontal attacka which never led to a single victory."
The first results of the landing, the plans for which he declares sar- castically "might have emanated from Troy, not Mudros, he sums up
thus:
We shall require, enormous re- inforcements and fresh disem- barkations at very different points.
We are barely holding our own on the peninsula, there is absolutely no question of an ad- vance, and to enable us to keep the ground we have won we are compelled to retain all the battle- ships off the coast, constantly bombarding the enemy's trenches. His verdict on the generalship is as follows:-
It would be almost hopeless for any military critic to attempt to. defend the scheme of operations as either sound or practical. They were in opposition to every ac cepted principle of war as laid down by the dead masters of the past, and opposed to every one of the revised lessons of war 'ne modified by our experience on the Western Front.
Kowloon B.G.C.
H.K.Y.C. "Civil Service C.C. e.
After the landing had failed, the Point RC.
only alternatives were to despatch de Recreio C. an army and a well-equipped
Kowloon, 0.C. v.
Club
Taiko
Craigengower C.C.
v. of at least 250,000 men to the Dar- danelles, or to withdraw the inade. quate force which was attempting the siege of strong Turkish fortified positions, held by excellent soldiers, who wero far better equipped than the British at that date. The first
August 4th:
Civil Service C.C. v. Craigen-
gower C.C. East Point R.C. v. Taikoo
R.C.
B.G.C.
what the real situation" was, and Becire a withdrawal.
What He Told Kitchener. It was
Bartlett sought to achieve when he this object that Mr. found that the people at home were being grossly misled by absurdly optimistic official reports.
The result of Mr. Bartlett's efforts was not the withdrawal of the ex- pedition, but the despatch of some 80,000 additional raw troops, who were involved in the Suvla Bay dis-
Aster.
. . .
But
ANNIE LAURIE."
STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE.
AN UNUSUAL FILM.
- LILLIAN QISH IN À NEW
ROLE.
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC)
"Annie Laurie" has not much connection with the ballad of that name, except through the excellent orchestra of the Queen's. The
masancre
of Glencoe
We aro
BERLIN BURDEN OF
GAIETY.
DANCES, DINNERS, AND BEER-EVENINGS.
struck
and the Chancellor · an- nounced that there would be a re- turn to the old-fashioned custom of n clase-senson for official entertain- ments during Lant The decision was appreciated by ministers and officials, who found the strain af long-drawn-out entertainments night after night too severe.
FOUR GREAT BALLS IN ONE been more of them than in any pre-
NIGHT.
BIRLIN.
The whirl of dancos and dinners and bear-evenings and afternoon parties has been so violent in Berlin this season that the Government (Continued un next Column),
As for publio balls, there have
vious season. There have some- times been half a dozen monster balls on the same night, "and it has been difficult to know which to at tend. I solved the problem for my- salt by going to four public balls in one night and had more than enough for the entire season.
A Very Grand Affair. The first, called the Colonial Ball, was very grand, and the com mitteo insisted that applicants
tion.
must bring some sort of introduc Several thousand people prove that they were eligible and they filled the foor of the galleries of the gigantie Marble Hali of the Zoological Gardens."
amie really a story based on the Avery is charming as Enid Camp- in which bell and Husee Simpson gives a
clever character sketch as "Sandy.managed Annie Laurie, a girl of the Camp- The playing of a piper during De Cian," figures as heroine.lt the flm added very considerably to seema rather a curious role for the effect, and the haunting melody
iss Lilian Gish whom
of Annie Laurie accustomed to see as the ill-treated heroine, complete with snowstormn and baby, and she did not make the best of it. Perhaps that was not the actress' fault. She is not the type of hardy Scottish woman- hood that Annie is intended to be
and what is more she must either sacrifice all those familiar gestures which have given her her place in Mr.etardom or interpret her part badly.
Even before that, all confidence in the British force was dend:
Every day, wrote Mr. Bartlett at the end of July, 1915, the criticisms of G.H.Q. and of the incompetency of some of the generali become stronger and, more open. Sir Ian is criticised because be does not visit the front lines and is quito unknown, even by sight, to the majority of his troops. 1 consider this injust. After the Suvla Bay battle, Bartlett wrote:-
Probably the producer was respon We have landed again and digible for the fact that she did another graveyard That is all neither one or the other. Annie
· Deathly depression reigns at Imbros. The truth is now generally known that we have fail- ed everywhere,
The blame for this, probably the greatest reverse ever suffered by a British Army in the field, must primarily rest with Sir Ian Hamilton and bis Staf
7
There was no longer any hope of victory
There was no more fighting, ex- cept desultory skirmishes between the trenchel Nevertheless. Our
Laurie
was unmistakably Lillian Gish all the time, wearing with some discomfort the clothes of quite a different woman.
д many
WAL & VOTY
pleasant change from the usual
Orchestral selections. ---
The Scottish piper will play at the 6.10, 7.15 and 9.20 perform ancer on Monday and Tuesday, by permission of Col. Comya and
ollicers
of the K.O.S.E, add popular selections will be given by the Bank of the KO.SB at the 9.20 house on the game two daya.
THE WEEK'S PROGRAMME.
Queen's.
To-day and to-morrow: "Annie Laurie
at 9.30, also selections by
But Mua Gish is charming even the band of the K.0.5.B.
Wednesday to Saturday: "The in her discomforture and "Annis
Battles of Coronel and the Falk Laurie ""is interesting counts. The atmosphere of the land Islands," a wonderful naval Alm made with the assistance of is reasonably period
convincing, and it does present a very differ the Admiralty in which 38 ships ent tale to those usually given on and nearly 40,000 men play the the screen.. There is something parts of those who took part in the heroic and virile about it, even real battles. The ships, used are though the members of St. An- mestly, sister ships of the vessels army faded steadily away. The dispirited soldiers, no longer drew's Society may not be quite which were actually engaged dur- satisfied with Hollywood's repre- the naval actions of which this keyed up by hope of victory, went sick in great numbers. Dysenterysentation of their native land. We picture is a faithful record.
"World. are sure that if you are not of that was the chief enemy, the cold and damp in the trenches accounted disguished body you will enjoy the for still more, and finally as a
film, without their qualifications about historical accuracy, and feel the thrill of the fighting and love- making..
climax to so much human suffer ing there came the great blizzard of November 28th-20th, which caused many hundreds of deaths and necessitated the evacuation of 16,000 men,
Lord, Northelife's Décision, Mr. Bartiets makes it clear that in the end the withdrawal was forced on the Government-after the military authorities had urged it in vain-by Lord Northcliffe. Mr. Bartlett saw him in November, 1016:
He cross-examined me at length on the impasse at Gallipali, and whether there was any possibility of achieving success in the future. I told him that in view of the approach of the rainy season and winter, galer, together with the advent of Bulgaria into the war, we must remove the troops with- out a day's unnecessary delay. Northcliffe thoroughly.
He declared agreed with me. that evacuation was also his policy and that he intended to press it on the Government.
Further, says Mr. Bartlett
Once having decided to ad- vocate the withdrawal of the ex- peditionary force from Gallipoli, he never once wavered in this détermination and brought every sort of private and public preasure to bear on the Government. Had Dot the Cabinet unwillingly and belatedly decided on evacuation, Northcliffe'was prepared to make the most damning exposure of the conduct of the expedition in his papers, quite regardless of the censorship.
Mr. Asquith's Administration could never have stood the truth becoming known to the public.
That some 70,000 British troops were brought away alive and whole
Kowloon C.C. V. Kowloon alternative, owing to the dearth of from that Golgotha of Gallipoli was trained troops, and munitions, was one of the many unknown services Club de Recreio "A" . Club out of the question. Therefore, the which Lord Northcliffe rendered to
de Recreio B."
only chance of averting disaster was his country in to inform the Cabinet or the nation'Mail August 11th: ..
Craigengower C.C.
Point R.C.
"
East
Club de Recreio "A". Kow-
loon B.G.C.
Civil Service C.O. e. Kowloon
0.0.
Taikoo R.C., Royal H.K.Y.C. August 18th:
Club de Recreio “B” «. Civil
Service C.C. Kowloon B.G.C. v. East Point
R.C.
Kowloon C.C.
H.K.Y.C.
Royal
Taikoo RC. v. Club de Recreto
"A August 25th:
Club de Recreio "A" v. Royal
H.K.Y.O.
Kowloon .... Oruigengower
0.C.
THIS YEAR'S INVENTIONS, ARE WOMEN ABLE TO
CONSTRUCT:
AUTOMATIC KETTLE.
3
the war. Daily
valuable for travelling and can quite well be carried in a hand- bag, where it is hoped it will not be confused with a lipstick.
- A Woman's Invention.
Gardeners will delight in a wea- pon for the destruction of dande. Bon roots. It is on the principle Is it true that women have little of a suction cork extractor, and constructive or inventive ability 1 lifts out the whole root most effec The proportion of women applying tively. An electric kettle that auto- for patents for inventions seem to matically cuts off the current when point to this. As against three it is beginning to boil dry will be thousand men the are only five a boon to the sheent-minded and a hundred women, and although preventive of fire. women are engaged in almost every trade and profession and are num- bored, in their thousands sa drivers
The trend of most inventions as of motor-cars, their inventions are present seems to be to pack 1 almost entirely domestic and labour bousehold and its belonginge into
the smallest possible space. eaving.
There is a combined dressing- Men, on the other hand, contri- table, washstand and tea-tablet bute ideas that range from & new is a woman's idea, and as it is life-saving raft, complete with cabin made of aluminium and therefore for rough weather, to a hair clap light, it is auggested that it will for attaching a switch" They be useful for airplanes and yachts. too, however, have some bright A dining table that can be con ideas on domestic problems.
verted into a bed, ́à collapsible Now Form Of Iodine.
clothes-airer which will dry clothes Club de Recreio"B". Taikoo Dae than has invented a new dust and apparently cook the dinner at
R.C.
receptacle which opens and closes the same time, and a baby's cot East Point R.C. v. Royal automatically and is so designed that can be used to hold a bath.
H.K.Y.C.
that the dust from the head of sand that can be folded lato a amali | space and tucked away, are among Note:-Matches marked F show mop cannot escape into the room.
Perhaps one of the most wel the inventions of 1958. It only the club disengaged in the
come inventions of 1823 is iodine in remains for someone to invent a datex marked. League, on Friendly matches may be play. a new form-solidified and contain collapsible house to contain the ed as indicated, if so desired. 1ed in a small case. It will be in family of the future.
Kowloon B.G.O. v. Club de Re
creio "B." Taikoo B.C. . Civil Service
C.C.
September let:
Kowloon Craigengower C.C. g.
B.G.C. Kowloon C.C. v. Club de
Recreio
There are several well known names in the caste besides that of the star. Creighton Hale plays Campbell and Norman Kerry is Ian MacDonald, Patricia (Continued on next Column}.
young
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Today: "The Valley of Hell." To-morrow and Wednesday: "The Wrong Mr. Wright."
"The Thursday to Saturday: White. Rose,"
Star. To-day: "A Man's Past." Tuesday and Wednesday: "The Manicure Girl."
Thursday to Saturday: "Hell Bent for Heaven.”
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There were crowds of pretty girls, charmingly dressed, and alim young men at this ball. Their tic kets had cost them, if they applied early, only a each, and I noticed that most of their elders ordered. hock and not champagne. People of this class have nowadays to be careful.
I looked on for an hour, put a
domino black satin
over my shoulders, and went off to the cos tume ball, which was called the Ball of the Prominent. One was supposed to see all the prominent people of the theatrical and variety world.
More Clothes Worn. gitted through a series of intimate
Figures in and rather dimly lit rooms, and I' was struck by the fact that the women wore far more clothes than last year.
There was positively one young woman without a bodice, and all had stockings.
fantastic dresses
Next I went to a monster ball, which I think was called the West- halian Ball. It was the jolliest There were thousands of nice con- of all, and only cost half a crown. fortable people of the lower mid- Idle class at the inevitable tables
or dancing in an enormous hall. arrived when beer and wine had made them merry and when they were beginning to put on all sorts of
queer head-dresses, including magnificent tiaras, with waving plumes (price 1s.), and when there was a tendency to ait holding bands.
And then to the fourth ball. But I have no space to describe that, and besides I cannot-I really can-
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