CANTON REGATTA.
ROWING CLUBS SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION.
QUALITY BEFORE QUANTITY,
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTOS, May 22nd. Canton Rowing Club held their Regatta last Saturday afternoon ลด Belcher Island Resch, near Shameen. The weather was usually favorable and about 200
spectators were present being a
un.
commodated on houseboats and launches kindly leat by the lead- ing firms on Shameen and on the British gunboat H.MS. Seamew and the French gunboat Figilante.
BOXING.
WORLD'S LIGHTWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP:
A FINE FIGHT,
(REUTER'S AMEZICAN 'SERVICE]
In
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23rd, 1928.
NEW Yoak, May 2nd... the Werid's Lightweight Championship Sammy Mandell beat Jammy McLarnin on poista
The fight was one of the greatest exhibitions of boxing skill in the lightweight class, since Benny Leonard in his prime. Mandell tore McLarnin for slashed and fifteen rounds but was unable to
knock him out. McLarnin's left eye was closed, his right-eye partly
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HOSPITAL FIRE AT “LES. MISERABLES."
WINDSOR
GUARDS MOBILISED AS FIREMEN
200 PATIENTS CARRIED OUT.
THE KING'S HELP.
WISDson, April 25th.
A-VICTOR HUGO CLASSIC_
ON THE SCREEN.
ARE LONG FILMS
SUCCESSFULI,
(By Ora FILM CRITIC.]
It is a debatable point whether
ENGLAND'S LAW OF THE STREET.
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH URGES DRASTIC CHANGE.
Drastic alterations in the present law were recommended by: Lord Balfour of Burieigh in evidence before the Street Offences Com- mittee at Westminster.
Lord Ballour, who in 1996 intro- "duced a Bill to amend the law, anid that in his view unless persons ac costed were actually annoyed there should be no offence.
The Chairman (Mr. H. P. Mac-
BUMPED INTO DETECTIVE.
STEWART, THE FLAT MURDERER.
STORY OF HIS ARREST..
real
The story is told in the Daily Mail of the dramatic arrest of Frederick Stewart, whose aame is Robinson, the 28-years-old clerk who was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mr. Webb at Bayswater fat. Robinson was apprenticed to an
FIGHT IN WOOD...
NURSE'S DESCRIPTION OF UNKNOWN ASSAILANT
A nurse at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, Hastings ia stated to have been attacked by a man in Hollington, Wood, a lonely spot on the outskirts of the town..
She had gone alone to the wood to gather, primroses and was.con- fronted, it is stated; by a man who stepped from behind a tree and seized her by the waist. After a struggle the nurse got away and
Special mobilised Life Guards long films are a success-that is, miilat, K.C.): It is suggested that engineering firm, but afterwards reached & tarm about a quarter of
men and coolly daring aucses re- moved more than 80 patients this afternoon from a blazing wing of the King Edward VII. Hospital at Windsor which Hamed up with terrifying suddenness.
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The whole of a regiment of the Life Guards quartered in barracks immediately opposite the hospital to aid in the "work of rescuing the
ELIZ
She was taken in an ambulancs those that pro considerably longer the use of the streets for that pur- became an invoice clerk in a provi- mile away, where she collapsed.
film. pose is
to the Royal East Sussex Hospital, offence against good sign Arm. Ho resented discipline, than the ordinary feature
Then he lived on the doie, supple where the authorities, refused to Charlie Chaplin's Bims are never order irrespective of whether in-and was soon out of work.
dividuals are or not)-LE long and he certainly knows as much done without any disorder menting his income by acting as a give her name or allow her to be Police searched the countryside. under the notice of the polied as do not think the law should take clerk to bookmakers. He soon came. cognisance of it.
Every decent woman." Lord & suspected burglar, but they secur-The nurse stated that her assistant ed only one conviction against him, was a powerfully built man, clean- Balfour said Inter, "knows how to when his photograph was taken shaven, and respectably dressed:
The skeleton of a woman look after herself in the street,
In the search for the murderer recently found buried beneath un- and unless she is prepared to give and led ar Scotland Yard. a man in charge the
There were six races, all of which closed and his nose bleeding badly. were ordered to attack the fire and Ben Eur with its vaste canvas cannot be very great annoyance of Mr. Webb little attention was dergrowth a few yards from the were hotly contested. The prizes, but ho fought every inch of the
consisting of small silver "cups, ware distributed by Mrs. V. E.-C. Ferrier.
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The committee in charge of the Regatta was as follows: Mr. J. Rodger, President; Mr. O. Friess. ner, Captain; Mesura. L. Demeure and J. H. Ferguson, In Charge of Boats; and Mr. V. E. C. Ferrier, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. The reception committee, which contributed in no small degree to the success and enjoyment of the
way.
Twenty thousand spectators ap- plauded his bulldog courage.
where the attack is stated to
it not more about screen plays than, any other producer.
There can be no doubt that certain long screen plays have had merits that outweighed the disadvantage,
His experience was that the paid to Robinson's movements be
have occurred. and ever changing scene was aster tedious, nor except for parts of the amount of active solicitation in the cause he was not regarded as
streets to-day was vastly less than man likely to commit murder Eventually someone recognised bis modern séquence "Intolerit ever had been.
photograph as like that of the man beau Geste ""rose trium- He understood that the police who was seen running from the
The bar was crowded, and as the phant over an extra three quarters wee very much against the object of his Bill. It was, a fact that
This started a new line of in-sergeant opened the door a diminu of an hour and no have several under the preson: law the police quity. Sgt. McTaggart and Sgt. tave mide with his and spilt others." But unless the extra time had a considerable hold over women wellsby were instructed to huat forcer collided with him and spilt a is justified by a story which not only
Robinson, who was missing from glass of beer..
-ance.
a
170 patients in the hospital
Later more than 200 men of the Coldstream Guards were rushed to the scene at the double through the streets from their barracks half a
away. Great anxiety was shown by the King and Queen, who are in re will not bear compression, but whichgested to him that this was useful his accustomed haunts in West Ken-
STRAIN OF LIFE TO-DAY.mile
CAUSE OF MORE HEART
DISEASE.
DR. GOODALL'S WARNING.
sidence at the Castle. They offered to put at the disposal of the hos pital authorities all the resources of the Castle in the emergency.
The fire broke out between 2 and
regatta, consisted of Messrs. Aing on the growth of heart disease. 3 p.m. in the second floor of a witg. |
Giovanoli, N. S. Ellis, L. Henry, and G. Woudenberg.
The regatta started promptly at 3.20 with the Single Canoes mile race. There were six competitors Mr. J. Rodger winning by half a length and Messrs. L. Deoarti, V. W. L. Stanion, G. E. Stockley, and P. A. Leynaud, finished in the order. named.
There were only two entries for the Double Sculls "R." over a dis tance of mile but the event was most keenly contested. Messrs. M. Brennwald, B; 0. Friessaer, Stroke; and W. Seiffert, Cox, managed to get ahead at the end and won by a canvas length. The defeated crew consisted of Messrs. W. Eekeri, Bow, E. Lund, Stroke, and R. Kudicke, Cox.
Only two entries were also re- ceived for the third event for single sculla, over half a mile, Mr. V. E. C. Ferrier just managed to beat his opponent, Mr. O. Friese-- ner, by a canvas length. "The next race consisted of double seulls with ladies steering over distance of mile. The event was won by 1 lengths by Messrs. A. E. Quin, Boy; V. E. C. Ferrier. Stroke, with Mrs. Ferrier as Cox. The other crew competing consist- ed of Messrs. F. E. W. Lammert. Bow; J. Rodger, Stroke, with Mrs. T. Ó. Lammert as Cox.
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A naval race between two double wherries from H.M.S. Moorhen, and the H.M.S. Seaview respective ly was won by the Seamew by niany lengths
3,
The final race was for four oar boats. Messrs. F. E. W. Lammert, Bow, J. Rodger, 2 L. Demarti, O. Friessner, Stroke, and W. Seiffert, Cox, won by 4 lengths. The defeated crew was: Messrs E. Lund, Bow, R. Klewitz, M. Schloemer 3, W. Eckert, Stroke, "and R. Kudicke, Cox.
The umpires for the regatta were Messrs. J. Baud and A. Hoff- meister; the judges Messrs. H. A. Annett, R. E. Batchellar and H. H. Bond and the time keepers Messrs. A. J. Evans, W. H. Hewett and A. Quinson.
Mr. Ferrier, Secretary and Trea- Burer of the Canton Rowing Club, told our representative that the regatta had been quite successful.
Dr. J. Strickland Goodall, lectur at the Institute of Hygiene, Port- land-place, W., said the increase was not confined to this country, but also occurred in the United States and Canada. Other points from his lecture were:
Phramatic fever cannot be the main cause of the increase in heart disease; it is less virulent than it was
is interesting in every reel the audienco aro apt to echo May Sinclair's critique of a contemporary novel, "How long, O Lord, How long: "
We have been told that "Les has been extensively This floor is occupied by bedrooms Miserables"
the servants and cut, and yet what remains takes belonging to nurses. Below it on the first floor nearly three hours to show. Victor is the large Alexandra Ward, hous-Hugo belonged to the age of the ing between 30 and 40 women
three volume novel, and an attempt patients, and below this again the has been made to separate the King Edward Ward, with about an pictorial episodes from a mass of descriptive" and philosophical writ equal number of men patients.
ing. The result is a series of scenes some of which are very good, with others of very little value as means of story telling.
Wheeled Away In Beds
The Brewas discovered by a maid Heart disease is almost entirely who saw smake coming into her due to arteriosclerosis (thicken room and ran downstairs and gave ing of the walls of the arteries), the alarm. At once alarms were which to increasing, but is materiang throughout the building and alising at a far younger period of life.
A few years ago the age of sudden death was between 50 and 60. Analysis of recent cases shows that the age is becoming much. less.
Arteriosclerosis, transmitted through successive generations, is caused by increased intra-vascular strain due to hard physical work, mental strain, and emotion.
Cocktail Habit... Professional men are specially and liable to mental strain emotional disturbances in their work, and these account for the development of heart disease to which such a large number of medical men, stockbrokers and actors, and others succumb.
The form in which we take our invereion öf pleasures is an Nature's demands for adequate rest. Night clubs, the cocktail babit, and excessive smoking can- not be too strongly condemned." Dr. Goodall said nothing raised blood pressure to the same extent as emotion, and added:
Look at the lives we lead. We are always on the rush, always escaping for our lives; we can't even cross the road in peace. The whole of modern life cuts up rest and tends to increase emotion, and emotion increases intra-vascular strain. I cannot help thinking it is very largely due to all this that there is this tremendous increase of heart disease.
PRESIDENT GRANT. PASSENGERS.
All patients were wheeled away in their beds from the two wards beneath the burning upper floor and taken down the long corridors out of the danger zone.
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"Les Miserables" is a French the whole staf, who had been train-sim, and a Frenchman's respect for ed carefully in fire drill, rushed to their posts, off-duty nurses going to the classics of his own language is their wards. The staff then waited part of his patriotism. An American for instructions.
producer, had he tackled Buch a subject would have put some "pep" into it, and in doing so would have transferred the whole story to in spirit A modern America German might have made it as beautiful as the "Nibelung" series. Victor Hugo was a great man, but he did not live in the age of film, and it is doubtful if his theme could be really satisfactorily ex pressed in that medium
Meanwhile men in the Life Guards barracks, had seen the fames and asked if they could help. Miss "Morris, the matron, asked that 30
men should be sent.
They were immediately gathered and rushed across to the hospital with their own fire hose and ladders, While some of the men began to attack the fire others rushed, into the building and helped to move the beds out of the threatened wards.
As regards acting and technique "Les Miserables has some fine passages. The principal characters B5 L Jean Valjean, "Cosette Oficers' Ceremonial Dress.
child and Madame Therardier" The fire was spreading with appal- are very well taken. The scene of ling rapidity and the whole fegi- the child in the wood is almost ment of Life Guards, with the ex-perfect and, there are excellent in- ception of the men on duty, were turned out. With them were a num- ber of officers, including several in ceremonial dress, with swords,
One of these, Lieut. Ferguson, throwing off his coat and his sword, led a party of men through a sky- light, and, working feverishly in his shirt sleeves, helped to cut away burning wood from the roof with a hatcher.
cidents in the house of the good priest. The actual revolution scenes are better than many that deal with the same subject and give a quite extraordinary sense of reality,
Les Miserables" is a fim to see. You may perhaps be a little disappointed at times during the showing, but you will leave the theatre feeling that you have wit nessed a film which is out of the ordinary, which has the quality of breadth and occasionally rises to real greatness,
Meanwhile the Windsor fire brigade was starting to work on the blaze, Great masses of flames were bursting through the roof while the patients were being gradually moved farther from the danger zone, the wheeled beds being lined up in the military hospital in the Life the corridors and backed into the guarda barracks. Other patients, wards at the other end of the hos.principally children, were taken to the anatorium of the Imperial Ser- pital.
vice College in the town.
The Interport cricket and tennis teams for Shanghai were among the passengers aboard the Pre- dent Grant which sailed for Sanmove the patients Francisco via Shanghai yesterday.
Operation Finished,
The blaze increased and there was a change of wind It was feared
When the fire had been brought that the whole hospital might catch alight. It was decided then to re-under control a number of patients were taken back to the hospital. Private cars were commandeered. At eight o'clock Colonel A. I. Motor-ambulances were summoned. Churcher, the secretary, said that Mr. R., E. Lindas, the Senior Nurses and soldiers carried out of the 193 paticats in the hospital Magistrate, travelled to: Shanghai patients on stretchers and laid them this morning between 40 and 50 se scorer to the team and Lady on the grass. Others, wrapped in
All the spectatura as well as the 'Stuart Taylor war'a member of the blankets, were lifted out of their would be away from it to-night, contestants enjoyed it very much Hong Kong tennis team. Other
and
another, regatta in December inte journey-were: Mr. and Mrs. S soldiers into the waiting motor-
which we hope Hong Kong will take part."
Results.
Jez, Mr. H. Owen Hughes, Mr. H R. B. Hancock, Miss Hancock, Mr. A. W. Ramsey, Mr. E. C. Fincher,
cars.
Guards' Gas Masks. The scene was now an amazing Rev. E. K. Quick, Mr. G. R. Bayer, ona. Windsor, Eton, Datchet, and Capt. 1. Erekine, Capt. N. Thorpe, Slough fire brigades were attacking Cap. G. N. Musson, Capt. A. N. the furnace of fame and soldiers Reynolds, Mr. F. A Redmond, Dr. were flinging from the windows and Mrs. R. E. Tottenham, Mrs. blankets, mattresses, pillows, beds,
tables, and chairs, V. Miles, and Mies Enid Lo.
Among other passengers were:
SINGLE CANOES-1st. J. Rodger; 2nd, L. Demarti; 3rd, V. W. L. Stanion; 4th, G. E. Stockley.
DOOELE SCULLERlat, M. Brennwald (Bow), O. Friesener (Stroke), W. Seiffert (Cor); 2nd,
Stl other soldiers were carrying W. Eckert (Bow), E. Lund (Btroke), I. Kudicke (Cox). ..
SINGLE SOCLIA-1st, V. E. 0. M. J. P. Bourne, superintendent out operating tables, glass cabinets of surgical instruments, and cylin of the Hong Kong & Shanghai ders of oxygen and piling them on Forrior; 2nd, O. Friesener.
DOCBLE SCULLS (Ladies Cox):- Hotels, who is on a business trip the lawn.
Inside the hospital soldiers and 1st, A. E. Quin (Bow), V. E..C.to the North; Mr. W. G. Goggia,
nurses were running to and fro in Ferrier
(Stroke), Mea Ferrier the Manager of the Bank Line, (Cox); 2nd, F. EW. Lammert Ltd, agents for the Ellerman & the smoke. Here and there men (Bow) J. Rodger (Stroke), Mrs Bucknall Lines, who is travelling to patients, barsfooted and in their Shanghai: Mr. Ho Ki, a promin pyjamas, were to be seen making ent local Chinese resident, and their way to safety.
Dozens of Lifeguardsmen, wear- family, travelling to Shanghai; Baron A. Sadoine, Commissioner of ing gas masks, were fighting the Customs in Kongmoon, returning home to Europe on furlough: Dr. flames. Many of their gas masks,
in the dense fumes. John Andereon, of the Hong Kong were lent to the firemen for work University, who is returning to England on vacation; Dr. J. B. Guzdar, M.B., B.8. travelling to Shanghai on a business trip.
T. O. Lammert (Cox)
NAVAL RACE (Double Wherries): 1st, H.M.S. Scamew; 2nd, H.M.8. Moorhen...
Forn Oin-1st, F. É W. Lam mert (Bow), J. Rodger (2), I, Demarti (3), O. Fricesner (Stroke), W, Seiffert. (Cox); 2nd, E. Lund (Bow). B. Kiewitz (2), M. Seloe mor (3), W. Eckert (Stroke), 1. Kudicke (Cox).
A number of the patients were (Continued on next Column).. carried on stretchers by poldiers to
When the fire broke out an opera
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tion was in progress in the operat ing theatre, but was completed by the surgeon in spite of the excite- ment going on outside,
The top storey of the wing collap sed into the Alexandra Ward. The concrete floor prevented the débris from falling into the King Edward Ward beneath. To-night a down- pour of water from the firemen's jets made bailing "hot by the smouldering débris above was pour- ing on to the floor.
While a Life Guardsman was at work on a ladder. it fell, but he managed to jump from it and saved himself serious injury.
Policemen, Boy Scouts, and other volunteers also helped to fight the fire, rescue the patients, and remove the contents of the hospital
Dr. Gayner Jones was working in the operating theatre at the time of the fire. He said:
I had almost finished the second the fire bell. The three patients of three operations when I heard were immediately taken out on stretchers I have just visited them. They are all well.
of a certain class. It had been sug to the police to cbtain information concerning the underworld and the haunts of the criminal class so that the officers could more readily lay hands on them.
Mr. Macmillan: Is it your sug. gestion that these women are a branch of the Criminal Investiga- tion Department of New Scotland Yard unofficially-Yes.
sington.
"Sorry, Old Man "
Southend, Robinson was traced to and for two days Sergt. Wellshy walked the streets of the town with out any success. He was about to return to London when he made a final call at a public-house.
(Continued on next Column).
As the man turned round he said, "My fault, old man; sorry," and to the officer's surprise he saw standing before him the man for" whom he was searching.
Robinson was taken to London the next day, and it was not long that they had solved the mystery of before the police were convinced the Pembridge-square murder,
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