YACHTING.
GOLF.
ARMY BEATS THE NAVY. ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF
RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S
RACES.
CLUB.
ADAMSON CUP-DICEMRER"
TTE-19TH..
J. H. Stewart 99-94-75 qualifes.- Other acores:
80-10-79-
F. E. Booker
t
J. Stewart 99-15-84
'C. H. McLead'... 08-14-8
In yesterday's sailing race the Army beat the Navy by 14 points. to 118. The Army consolidated their position in the morning race by annexing 38 points to the 49 of the Senior Service. In the after-
· 1929 Fixtures, noon the Sailors managed to get one
Adamson Cup 1999 will be play. point ahead-88 to 68. The teams|ed for on first Friday in each month changed boats after the morning and following 11 days except in March and August when the com- The Morning Race,
petition will start on the second The course in the morning's race Friday in the month." was:-1, Lyeman Beacon (P); &
Fixtures at Fanling for 1929 in- Cust Rock Buoy (S); 3, Channelclude New Year mecting, Decem -ber-31st, 1928, to January 2nd; Junior Championship qualifying round January 6th Captain's Cap January 5th and eth.
race.
Rock (8)
The preparatory gun was at 11.10 a. and the starting..gum five minütés” fatër”
NAVY TEAM.
1.1
Y.S
Y.4
1.4
Y.S
G.2
G.#
D.N.F.
ANNY TEAM.
No. Pts.
30
Na Pts.
7
2
13
15
Y.1
Y3
Y.5
G.1
11
G.3
13
58
The Afternoon Race.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1928.
THE_YERMAKOFKA.
WHERE MOSCOWS FLOTSAM AND JETSAM TAKE REFUGE.
BETTER UNDER SOVIET THAN IN CZAR'S TIME.
Moscow, December 2nd.
'Gorki, when he wrote his drama of Hell on earth, Lower Depths,", did not exaggerate. Your correspondent has just spent ́an evening in the Yermakolka, one of the world's most awful sights, among human derelicts na pitiful and as hope, less as those who move through Gorki's play.
It is like a human offat hoap: fire floors crowded by about 1,700 wrecks, men and women and children-cripples, beggars, thieves, old prostitutes, drug addicts, sex perverts, deserted wives, ́ ́ just poverty-stricken unemployed.
The List Refuge.
Efficient Medical Department,
VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL.
ANNUAL FRIZE GIVING. “
MRS. SOUTHORN'S ADVICE
TO BROWNIES,
The Brownies.
"Plesar God, make mo s good girl, but you needn't trouble : 100 much about it, for. I'm a First Clam: Brownie now."
"It was very amusing, but not quite the right spirit. Brownies winners. It is a great thing to re- must be humble-so must prize member a wise and witty saring:
Gifts To The School,
You will be amused at a'stopy al There have been several informal | & Brownie in England, that ↑ Kenyi parties during the year on the the other day. A little Brownia mession of Hra Watt's farewell had worked very, very hard, and on "May Day " when Betty Long, she had won här First Glass. On bottom was chosen queen-on Em- the day she won it, her mother pire Day and on Halloween. The heard her say her prayers na masak, school has received gifts from and the Brownie said: friends, among them pot plants, a Christmas tree, a ping pong table, The H.E.F.C. presented the V.B.S. The annual prize giving of the team with a football. We appre. Victoria British School, Causeway | ciate these gifts greatly, Bay, was held yesterday morning. Mrs. Southern kindly consented to distribute the prizes and in her speech addressed herself parti cularly to the Brownies. The head mistress's report shows that a very good year's work has been done.
A large number of parents and other friends of the school attended the ceremony including Mr. A. E Wood, Director of Education, and Mr. E. Ralphs Inspector of Schools.
A series of delightful little plays was given by the pupils of the
and all that he knew was that he "You read of but one wise" mao, knew nothing."
On December 5th a Pack of Wolf 7th a Brownie Pack was formed cubs was started and on December We thank Mrs. Remington and Mr. and Mrs. Smith for all they have the movement in the school. May don't know, we fed quite alarmed, done in establishing and fostering If we think of all the things we I add on behalf of the Staff a word The girl who doesn't win prize assisted us in every possible way or more famous than the successful of thanks to the parents who have may become some day more useful? We very much-appreciate their co-prize-winner. But at the same tied operation.
success is sweet, and no one should grudge the prize-winners the reward late them heartily and wish them of hard work. I for one congraśw. further succes both in school and in the future beyond their school. days...
The Yermakofka is the last reaIn the basement of the house is
MRS. SOUTHORN'S SPEECH. tuge of the homeless in the new a medical department, an innova-
A prize giving is a pleasant fine tion. Some schools have no prizes, Russian capital, where for 16 tion since the Bolshevik revolution.
I think that is very diž. It is only kopeks they can obtain a bed for. It is clean and apparently efficient
human to enjoy a reward for good the night in one of the overcrowd-ly run. No one is forced to accept
work.
I am especially glad to give ed, evil-smelling bartacks of misery, medical attendance, but all are en-Various classes, in which all the
away the prizes to-day, for last The Yerinahofka is the last re-couraged to submit to an examina. setors did great credit to them-term at the Victoria British School fuge, too, of those who shun the tion. From two to three hundred selves and their teachers. Miss M. lahowed a landmark in its history-on by Joy Booker. Class 7: Joy- law and their fellow-men. It is the pass through this clinic daily, re-. Stuart was responsible for design
the formation of Cub and Brownie JOE HALL MATCHED FOR one place where they need show no ceiving advice, being sent to hosing and making the very pretty
ROUND FIGHT.
documents, where they are not pital, when necessary.
| costumes and settings. asked even their Dames. Only WINNER TO MEET CORPL. rarely and under extreme provoca
DUNCAN.
BOXING IN SHANGHÄL
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th, Shanghai boxing fans are looking forward to a boxing event an nounced by Jerry Morgan, match- maker of the International Sport- ing Club, on which thousands of dollars will be wagered. The bout will be over the 20.round route and will be between Pedro Campo, of Manila, and Joe Hall, the Buffalo
Bison.
tion does the police come to this place-the public is better serred by giving these persons a' bed for the night than by forcing them to prowl through the streets.
The principal task of this de partment, however, is to help the mother, and children who come to this institution. Soap, bathtubs and linen are distributed frea of charge for babies and special ar rangements are made to take care of prospective mothers.
The Men's Barracks,
men's barracks, door after floor of half-human wrecks, some resentful of the intrusion and shouting ob scenities, others too disinterested in de-aude for the deformed--men with anything to care. One room is set
The Annual Report.
Packs. I am most grateful to trs. Clark for encouraging the Brownie Pack and to Mrs. Smith for taking it over. Someone said to me the other day, "Do you really believe in Guides and Brownies Believe in them! Why, I think that the two movements-Scout and Guide are one of the greatest helps to- wards the ultimate peace of the world. The older I grow, the more I believe in them, the keener I am to assist their development by every means in my power.
Prize Winners. Mrs. Southern distributed the prizes as follows:-
Government Scholarship-Class 7 Booker, Walter Pryde, Mary Taylor, Winifred Raven, for Proficiency; Noel Booker, Special Prize for pro- gress,
Class 8-Henry Bunjo," Harry" Middle. Betty Evans, Vivienne Hol lidge, Billy Gegg, Frank Hughes, Nancy Duckworth for Proficiency.
Class Di.Billy Pryde, Maly Joy Parsons, "Ross Robertson, Michio Gibson, Derek Hollidge, Chas Evans, Jack Kelly, for Proficiency.
Class Sil:-Shella Bruce
Heritage Of Ozardom. The house is a heritage of the day of Czardom, and must not be held against the Soviet regime. Ou the contrary, it is cleaner, more humane, more intelligently conduct- The fight will be the first rounded than it was in the old days. event ever to be staged in Shanghai The derelicts to whose me it is Kowloon Back (S); 3, Channel Rock and will probably draw a record dicated are of the type whom no out arms, without legs," blind,. I will be transferred to the Central Pack shall be first class Pack, presented with a large bouquet of
house. The boys met recently in a 10-round go, Campo vinning. The Manila boy won the fight by a com- fortable margin but Hall was not in condition.
In the afternoon race the course was:-1, Channel Rock (P);. &
(8); 4, Cust Rock Buoy (P),
The preparatory gun was at 3.10 pm, and the starting gun at 313
p.m.
The results were:-
NAVY TEAM.
No. Pta
8 .D
1.3
Y.1
15
Y.3
ΤΙ
Y.3
13
Y.U
12
3
6.1
14
3
GA
1.0
12
69
Morning Race
40
Total
118
ARMY TEAM.
No. Pts. 7 10
9
y
1 17
3. 14
13
10
11
0
1.1
Y4
1.4
Y.8
0.2
G.6
G.4
68
Morning Race
56
Total
124
NEWSPAPER TRUSTS.
EFFECT OF COMBINES ON THE BRITISH PRESS:
change in government or in econ amic structure can possibly help the dregs of the teeming city
i
In the annual report Mrs. E. M. Clark, the headmistress said ---
The attendance since March has been satisfactory. Owing to an epidemic of whooping cough the attendance in January and February was very poor. The number on the
Class 10-Jean Ewing, Moira Roll during the year was 58, as com- Do realise, all of you, that the Wattie, Walter Evans, fer Pro- The writer then went through the|pared with 54 last year. After re- great event in the history of the
formation of Brownie Pack is a ficiency. viewing the work of the junior school. It means that by one pro- Arnold Brooksbank, Colin de Rome,
Class 10-Pater Brooksbank, · classes Mrs. Clark said that Classmise you gain 700,000 friends all Ros de Rome, Annette Gibson, 7. has worked well throughout the richer by all those friends. Put
over the world. Your life becomes Michael Odell, for Proficiency.
Three cheers for Mrs, Southern year. All the pupils of this Class your very best into your Brownie were given with enthusiasm at the have passed their examination and work Be determined that your close of the proceedings and sho' wad
the hard beds in the grotesque pos hunch-backed, paralytics, lying on British School after Xmas,
spreading useful work and kindly chrysanthemums by one of the tares necessitated by their deformi-
deeds far and wide.
pupil..
ties. Another roomis given over to Hall declared to the United" "Preis
Officially, the house is called "hooligans "-many of them mere "Dom Nochilyega "-House for a { boys-the thieves, pickpockets, hunt- that he will insist on a winer take-all basis, so confident is he Night's Lodging-but to the people fed creatures.
it is still known by the name of the that he can defeat the Filipino.
As far as possible the administra- On the other hand, Pedro, in millionaire who built it, M. Yer- tion separates those who are driven makoff. There are five more such to this place merely by poverty conversation with the writer, not only agreed to fight on the basis institutions in Moscow, the six to from the physically and the moral- proposed by Hall but declared he gether accommodating about fourly deformed. While no questions will put up 81,000 as a side bet thousand ledgers With the eBGT are asked, the officials are suficient
If he does the bet will be quickly mous drift of peasants to the city, y familiar with the types of this covered by Hall's admirers Hall however, the space is inadequate, derelict humanity to classify and is not popular here but patrons of and hundreds are turned away segregate them by their looks the fights are of the opinion that every night to sleep in hallways.or he is all there as a scrapper.
to wander through the streets Early this spring a new night lodg ing will be opened, as large as the Yennakofka but a startling contrast to it, being fitted with some sanita tion and comfort is posible despite the unfavourable circumstances.
The Hall-Duncan Fight. Hall won the plaudits of some hundreds of. American fans in his recent fight with Corporal Donald Duncan, undefeated welterweight champion of China. Hall was given a draw.
The fight went the full 15 rounds and in the eighth and last rounds Duncan was groggy from a succes sion of rights to the jaw. In the final round Hall, permitted Duncan to fall into a clinch.
population.
The Women,
The beds are simple metal cots, under it a thin mattress as the only with a strip of hard leather and fittings. Those able to pay 20 or 30 epeks are put into rooms that are a little more quiet and less crowd- ed.
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Some of the lodgers, upon recom mendation of their trade unions, remain for two weeks at a stretch, The rest must obtain their bed anex every night by standing in line. Beginning at six in the evening until midnight these lines around the building, are under the eyes
Almost ever
Of the 1,700 for whom there is room in the Yermakofka about 330 are women, several dozens of them with infants at their breasts. The writer went from room to room among these women-haggard crea Duncan is now in Japan but will tures, too hopeless to be ashamed of mounted police, be re-matched with Hall or Campo of their dishevelled condition, apon his return. Campo was re-stretched balf-zude among their cently defeated by the Royal Marine rags, many of them drunk, even corporal
more of them diseased. There are young girls and gray-haired women, a good many of them familiar to Moscow residents as beggars who haunt the main, streets" during the day.
Other Champions. "The Hall-Campo 20-rounder has been set for December 20th
Young Harry Wills, who came up from Manila with Campo and Ball," has not done so well here, although he was given a raw deal in one In its current issue the "Econaght, Wills has fought four fights
and lost the decision in three. mist publishes an extremely in- teresting article on the contempor- ary British Press, and the conse quences of the present rivalry be tween various interests in bringing newspaper properties under one The article traces this develop ment of a "truatified" Press from the death of Lord Northcliffe in 1922, and thus comments upon the
control.
facts:
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"Unlike the founder of the Daily Mail, who had something of an artist's love for the productions of his restless genius, the post-war controllers of the greatest Press combines appear to have aimed partly at power, but pre- dominantly at commercial" profit. With a few notable exceptions the British Press consists no longer of organs of opinion. If its direct influence on public policy and thought is small-as we believe it tobe-one reason is that the inen who have obtained the largest mea sure of control over this powerful weapon have to a very large extent been mastered by the colcesus they have created and have been compell- ed to give first heed to commercial considerations rather than the ad- vancement of any moral or politi- cal purpose.
Glenn Huckaby, an American marine, handed him a decisive lac ing in one fight. Jock: Creighton, of the British garrison, als de leated him, as did Pedro Campo. Wills, however, beat Joe Sacramen to, lightweight champion of China. Joe injured his right hand in the fifth round of the fight.
In Campo's latest fight he drew with Sammy Braunstein, another American marine. The fight wont ten rounds, and caded in a draw. It was a just decision.
The big surprize of the last fight card came in the special event when Young Gonzalo, one-time champion around these parts and who hails from Manila, knocked out Eddie Drake, of the American marines." -- United Press.
..
Even the infants crawling over their mathers seem incapable of smiling in this house of horrors Who are these mothers?
The ad ministration of the Yermakoffa can answer the question only for the few who have been sent by the trade unions. merely passing through the city for The rest are nameless,
night from 130 to 300 are turned away. By 8 in the morning all but the two weeks' tenants must leave.
Antiseptics.
The beds are sprayed with anti- septies every day, and the rooms. are cleaned several times a week. But despite these efforts, the place with slime. The best efforts of the is grimy, the corridors slippery administration are helpless against the nightly invasion of dirty and diseased humanity.
number of members of the former According to popular rumour a heurgeoisie have been "reduced to bald-headed old woman was point living in the Yermakofka. One a night perhaps with only the 15 ed out to the correspondent as the kopeks for a bed here, perhaps former owner of large estate in driven out by their husbands.or. Crimes. families, perhaps seeking the awful must always be accepted with a Such stories, however, protection of this house for fear of large dose of scepticism. United the law:
Prese
DUTIES OF THE "
ACCOUNTANT.
NEED FOR IMPROVED METHODS.
that the authorities conferred upon the various officers were not exceed- ed. The difficulty with most or- ganizations was the absence of proper orders and instructions. Examples of such orders and in- structions were brought forward and commented upon, and it was In a lecture delivered before the shown that the same method could Incorporated Accountants Stud-be applied, to the wider sphere of "While the developments we ents Society of London on "The management control just as freely have traced are the inevitable re- Accountant as an Administrator," and simply as to the financial con- mult of modern methods of news- Mr. Thomas Haworth said that at trol. paper production, nevertheless, tention had recently been drawn to from the aspect of the public in-balance-sheet deficiencies, and there stock-in-trade was a matter upon The question of the valuation of terest, there is little in the develop- seemed to him to be an equally which accountants generally should ment of the Press combines to ad-
strong case against the usual form take added responsibilities. Deal- mire and much to regret Alike in of revenue account. It was often ing with the various problems relat the competitive antics of some of
erude and uninformative, but its ing to the keeping of technical re- our noisiest dailica and weeklies, biggest fault was that it was an in the frank avowal of Mr. Barri omnibus account in which many be regarded as coming under the cords and as to how far that could son that he buys journals to find a different viewpoints were inextris control of the accounting officer, The Esader's Feelings,
market for paper, and in the mean- "To the readers of a quarter of ner in which the Berrys and Lord ably mixed up.
Mr. Thomas stressed the point that In century ago the daily newspaper Rothermere have bought up to-day The accounting officer might well the accounting officer should have of his choice had the intimate a Liberal, to-morrow a Tory, news consider whether accounts in such these records under his control if quality of a personality. It is a paper, there is an underlying form could not be improved, and economy in the keeping of records quality unsensed to-day by the cynicism which is repugnant to the practising beeguatants might also were to be obtained Very often reuder, who inevitably feels be he best traditions of British journal with advantage get away from the there was complete lack of co-opera- never so securely registered ism; tends to give colour to the traditional form of presentation in tion and co-ordination between the that he is but a cipher in the seven-belief that democracy is....! figure net sales certificate, where against a solidly hostile Capi- dealt with live and up-to-date in recard on the other. Where there favour of alternative methods which executive act on the one hand and by опе unit of De combine't talist - Press,” and undoubtedly formation. The accounting officer was no order in the production it multiple Press seeks to expand weakens the influence of the news was without doubt the auditor of welt it was impossible to expect its advertisement revenue.
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