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toed the line when training com- menced. Thirteen are forwards. There are ten half-backs. The brochers Milburn have Sproston, Abel, and Bailey to deputise if.re- quire. Moore, Savage and Dantels. are the goalkeepers.
Besides Wilcockson, Fred Mills is a new half-back from Port Vale. Travis has been secured from Accrington Stapley as a centre- forward. This position troubled the United last season, but Arthur Hydes is fit to resume.
The departures include Potts (Port Vale), Fowler (Swindon Town), Green (Bristol City), and Jones (Birmingham).
Wednesday Worries Two new players swell Shaffield Wednesday's total to 33. The new lads are H Nichols, a half-back, from Hednesford Town, »and J. Brown, a wing forward from Third Lanark Bots to remember, however, are that Ernie Blenkin- sop went from Hillsboro" near the end of last season and that Alf
Strange suffered a severe injury.
Add in that Tony Leach has join- Led Newcastle United. Three play- ers like these will not be easily replaced
The Wednesday prospects look fair. As the management is con- cerned over one or two positions it will be seen that everything in the garden is not lovely,
A third team is to be run next season in the Yorkshire League, and considerable attention is to be given to coaching by Billy Walk er, the manager. The production of home-made players, however, is a slow process.
The bright spots about the Wednesday are that Catlin, Bar- rows Millership and Cooper all young players, showed more than average ability." They should shine even more this season. Four places well and truly filled.
I begin to wonder, all the same, how long Jack Brown, Tom Walk- er and Mark Hooper will keep their consistency. Ready made successors to all of them are not at hand.
Then, even with Starling, Dewar and Burgess available, the Wednesday's Inside forward "play was not faultless last season.
It strikes me that the club have reached a stage when changes and Important decisions will be neces- sary. However, Bully Walker, a great and talented player himself has now thoroughly settled down! to his job. The Wednesday may have difficulties to overcome. fancy they will overcome same.
Besides Leach. Tommy Jones has joined Manchester United and Williams has ghne to Southend United.
Sunderland Strength
With Newcastle United gone. Sunderland are in the limelight, It wil be interesting to watch the tussle for places in the Roker team next season. It is generally re- cognised for instance, that Mid- dleton, good goalkeeper though he is, will have to play better than ever to keep Albert Monroy out of the place. Thorpe is also ready for action after his illness,
Billy Murray and Harold Shaw are sound pair of backs. Their understudies Hall and Ives, have never let the side down.
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In Thomson, Johnston "and Haylings, Sunderland pave young and virale intermediate line. McNab and Edgar will, put up a fight for places. Last season Mc- Nab, figured in the two wing hair positions and in every forward place except the middle. To my way of think, this role of utility man has hindered his progress. It la to be hoped he will be allowed to settle in one position.
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HONG KONG
DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, › 1934.
CURRENT NEWS FROM
A TRIP IN KHENG-DONG
Kheng-dong is one of the thir- teen original districts of Hainan, no powerful financial reformerly known as Ul-hong, and sources to burn in team strength- ening. The Borough' have 23 pro- fessionals signed. It is a list that leaves room for newcomers,
The few departures include Mathieson, to Brentford; Cameron to Bournemouth, and Andy Carr, to Mansfied. Sid Jarvis and and Johnny McKay did not ac- cept the terms of re-engagement and have been "sticking out" all cinst season. The club can ill- afford to be without them.
The Borough have two useful „goalkeepers in Gibson and Hiller, and a tenacious pair of back, Jen- rings and Stuart. So far, there is, but one reserve back, Smith.
The stlwart of the team is Tom Grimths. Much depends on the tall Welsh International pivot. Un fortunately for the Borough; there is no strong deputy for him.
Brown and Forrest are forceful at right-half and left-half respec- tively and Martin can fill either wing half position satisfactory. Other young halfs are Oldham
and Weightman. Maurice Webs- ter has been re-engaged but is likely to figure mostly with the re- serve. team where his experience should help the young players.
"Last season the club had to do some shuffling in the wing fox- ward positions. George Camsell played outside-right in the last three games. As no new wingers have been. secured, there will be some anxiety among the suppor- ters-anxiety that will be allayed only Joey William and Fred Waren strike top form.
Anxiety is increased by the in- disposition of Camsell. George is not likely to be ready for some time. This means that Benny Yorsten will lead with Baxter and Bruce at his elbows. So many problems confront the Borough that their prospects seem none too bright.
A Stoke "If.” Though Stoke City won prizes last season I classed them
as one of the most remarkable sides in the first Division. Their
start was ordinary. When the heavier grounds came they fell away. Relegation loomed , Then the team gained a con- Adence and revealed such a spirit that they romped to safety.
The Stoke pubile showed their appreciation and when the ac
were totalled up a very counts handsome profit was shown. Great work for a first season after promotion.
It was this team-work and will ingness for hard labour that achieved so desirable an end. If Stoke get this mood once agai then they have no need to worry. That is the Victoria. Ground for stadium?) "II" ·
I fancy Stoke will prove them- selves a better team. than jast term-other things being equal, For one thing the players will be less awed by the idea of First Division football.
Only two close season signings were made. They are Ken Scat- tergood goalkeeper from Brisipi City, and Jack Harbot, full back from Barrow. These additions make good the transfers of Roy John, to Preston, and Arthur Bee- chill to Millwall The Potters. with 27 players signed, have not overstocked. Note, however, that the profit made last season. re- mains pretty well intret. The club is ready for emergencies.
Two things require carefull at tention. One is that. Bob Mc- Grory, called from partial retire- ment, played a big part in the revival last season. Another is that Harry Bellars, the left-halt, wears well but he wears. Stoke City, however, seem unable to ko wrong about the spotting of young players Besides the well-known figures they
have
Little fault can be found with the regular attack of Davis, Car- ter, Gurney, Gallacher and Cón-
Winstanley, nor. What strengthens Sunder- Barber. Robson, Steele and May- land's position moreover, is the er, all youngsters ready to rise. host of promising young forwards Besides John and Beechill, at harid
Howshall (Chesterfield), Jackson
Foremost among these I would (Southend U.), Mawson (Notting place young Leonard Duns, the ham F.), Salmon (Millwall), Fict winger. Newcastle were diap-chett and Hartshorn have gone. pointed when he refused to re- sign for them a year ago. other youngster who may shortly force himself into the first team is Russell, the Edinburgh "Junior" whom Bunderland recently signed.
An-
A TOUR OF INSPECTION
Nanking, Aug. 18.
presenting lotus seeds to the em- peror in the old days when each county sent its offering to the ruling monarch. It is located in the central belt of the eastern coast of the island. The district city is a small place with no particular points of interest ex- cept the lotus ponds, a medium- sized but pagoda, and a government lower normal school Kachek, about
pork are the specialties, with na- tve vegetables in season, and the market is open early every mort- ing. This market town will take care of the needs of twenty or thirty villages, as it cover the territory between Do-fo on the north and Liau-lam (Fok-hin market) on the southwest.
A Unique Cradle This is the season for raising
white ducks fairly well-preserved foreign' or
for the Chinese New Year festivities Ducklings are on 'sala in the
CHINA
PURCHASE OF
RICE
For Famine Relief
Hankow, August 17.
Definite measures for the pur-. chase of rice from neighbouring provinces for the relief of the people were adopted at a meeting of representatives of the provision merchants in this city and Wa- chàng. The meeting was
held under the auspices of the Hupeh five miles to the west, is a far markets and almost every home Provincial · Goverment. larger and more important place has a few.
The youngsters out The provision merchants were and frequently the district magts-herding cows are supposed to urged to arrange funds for the trate maintains his
catch crickets, grasshoppers and project, Mr. Li Shu-cheng, mem- office In Kachek rather than in the district
small frogs to feed them. 80 ber of the Provincial Government. city.
nearly every powherd has his will be catch strung on a long stem of youngster who had cut & joint of grass. We JEW one ingenious bamboo some ten inches long and out almost to the bottom, made a an inch in diameter. hollowed it cork for the other end and fixed
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General Ho Chlen, Chairman of despatched to consult
the Hunar
the charge of the Provincial De- Provincial Govern- ment. Transportation will be in partment of Reconstruction.
fected districts by utilizing re- Measures for the relief of af a string to it so it could be car-fugee labour were also decided ried slung over his shoulder, and upon by the Hupeh Provincial switch of fine pieces of bamboo he kept his catch alive. Els Famine Rellef and Drought Pre- principal weapon was a Httle eighteen or twenty inches long with which he beat the grass and found his prey.
Recently we made a trip through the southeastern part of the dis- trict. There are auto roads to most of the markets but as our objectives were principally village homes we walked leisurely from place to place until the last day when we rode back to Kaches. Our first day's journey was taken l hard showers, and the rice field on a rather rainy day after sever,
paths were slippery, to say the least. The soll is mostly a yellow grey clay, quite fertile, with one or two red earth stretches over some small hills, and sand along
Turtles are a source of interest the coast. Our first host is the an the sea-coast. Great huge possessor of a garden', as he calls things, they are sometimes caught it, which is a good example of in the nets of the deep-sea fisher- diversified crops. This garden is men and sometimes are caught perhaps five acres in extent, sur-on shore as they come to lay their rounded by a thick hedge of eggs In Kau-kit-fo we saw six thorny bamboo and pandanus, in a pen awaiting their turn for with one well-made entrance gate slaughter, which is kept securely locked. It is on rolling ground and sloping gently to the south, one corner being low cough so that the large square dus well has water suf- Aclent for use in the garden.
Twenty-one or two years ago the man began to clear his garden. and planted it first to cardamom seed. The price of cardamom seed fell and he grubbed cut the plants and put in rubber trees. A few years later he himself went to the South Seas and when he saw the amount of rubber taken from the trees there he decided the yield
from his trees was too small to pay and he grubbed them out. Now he has only local products but is making good money on them. His main crops are guavas (seling 165 for a dollar in the market this year), and the tree known as 'toa lulu from whose nut the best grade. of hai-oll is made. The oll brings at least 81.00 a catty, often more. He also has jack-fruit trees, a few coffee trees, carambolas, and sever- al hundred pineapple 'plants. Around the edges are ginger, and two varieties of peppers, and in
open spaces are sweet potatoes and various varieties of melons.
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chasing large quantities of seeds vention Committee. Besides pur- for sowing in the autumn, emer- geney relief funds have been re- mitted to the drought-stricken districts of Tungcheng, Tungɛhan, Tsungyang, Lötten, Yirigshan, and Lishan, in eastern Hupeh.
According to a telegram from Mr. Nan Kuel a deputy has been sent by the Hupeh Provincial Government to Nanking to appeal to the Central Government for
Negotiations Kang-mul relief.
Central authorities are proceed- Ing satisfactorily.— Kuo Min.
village we saw Ave others two of which were being sold as ment in Fok-hin market the day we were there. Such turtles weigh 150-200 catties. The butchers' buy them for $13.00-14.00 a hundred cat tles, live weight. The shells "are said to
Practically all the meat is con- weight 20-30 catties
sidered edible and is sold at 580 cash & catty (about 14c). The shells are sold for a dollar or ten and used to make tertilizer. The top shell is of course oval and roughly three feet by two and be deeply curved, but will measure perhaps a foot deep. Such a shell would make an excellent bird bath den-and in Hollow I once saw or a gold flah pool in a rock gar-
one used for a baby cradle!
Kilns are frequent all through this region, Lime kilns burn the the boats and even the innumer- coral that is brought ashore by able seashells that collect near the villages. "Speaking of shells the big heavy white guyster shells one half of which is all I cared to lift same nine by twelve inches in size and very thick, are the usual
with the
heavy smooth board four or five feet long two inches thick and eight or ten inches wide fald fat on the ground in front of him. At his right thin flat pieces of board are kept standing on edge, at his left the helper scrapes off hunks of the wet clay with his feet, rolls them dexterously also with his feet, into crude cylinders some ten inches long and four inches in diameter and keeps them near the worker's hands. The worker has a pile of Ane "white" sand at his right, also. He has a hallow wooden frame the size of the brick he desires to make, sets it lengthwise on the 'boardin under, dusts in a bit of the fine front of him, slides a thin board sand, slaps down a roll of clay into the frame and presses it armiy slices it off with his steel bowstring, picks frame and slides the brick along up the hollow
on the big board. When six are
big troughs to these villages. done the helper stops his treading,
little boards
and
Balt kilns are located near Fok-piles the six hin market and produce a good their bricks up carries them to quality of "cooked' salt. The pro-a sunny spot and sets the bricks A Decadent Villaze
cesses are interesting. The tax on edge to dry, hurrying back The next day we visited what on salt is $2.10 per hundred cat- with the little boards; and renews, is certainly the most decadent ties at the kiln. One boiling his treading. brickmaker and his Chinese village it has been my lot makes 250 to 350 cattles of salt. tender make about 400 bricks a to see. This village was settled The salt gabelle men are on the day, a skilled worker can turn out many years ago and must orf-job and as a cooking is finished from 400 to 500 hundred fat tile ginally have been the home of they weigh the salt, and as it is a day, and perhaps a few less familles of means. The houses packed into the smaller
round crown tile are a day's job. The are large and well-built and in baskets in which it will be carried brick and tile are piled together many of them the altar tables to market the tops of the piles in the kiln for aring, which takes before the resting place of the are neatly rounded off and about forty-eight hours. ---- ancestral tablets are beautifully smoothed over, and the inspector
Ears as well as eyes can be kept carved. When I exclaimed over a presses his seal firmly several open to advantage on these trips. trinket & child had they told me places over the top. Only loads Chinese are good storytellera I It was part of the ornament of of salt so stamped are accepted was interested in a tale I heard the cap worn by a degree man in for sale in the markets
as the recently. the ancient days. But now a penalty for evading the salt tax desired to visit their respective Two daughters-in-law.
number of the houses are in ruins, is very severe
parents' homes. The father-in- communista others by typhoons, ous too. The clay used is a good stay away only a some having been destroyed by Brick and tile kilns are numer- law essented, but said each could still others by the white ants who quality for such work, yellowish could go at once, but one must be month they. flourish when the houses are grey when wet but turning red back by New Years and one by empty of thely human occupants when baked The men making the the fifth month feast, and one In the homes that are left there fatter roof tiles use a wooden must bring him water in a basket are only women and a mere scat-frame something like a stencil and the other fire in paper. Be- tering of children. What few men
wildered by the condition, they are left of these families are in
started out very sad. A stranger the South and even the Chinese
asked why they were so forlorn speak of the village as long past
and was told the riddle. He solved its prime.
it for them thus "One of you Then bring your father some of must be home by New Year? the sweet rice flour cakes that are The other bring some of the always made at the New Year. glutinous rice cakes stuffed with
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plate, about seven by ten inches in aige. The frame was lightly dusted with ane ashes, the clay slapped on, pressed down, cut with a fine steel wire set like a bow nat on the ground. When dried string in a wooden bow, and laid a trifle the tiles are laid in pilles over rounding heaps of sand to
-in-
In contrast to this place a few days later we visited a new town a market, only three or four years old. It is known as - give them the required curve. The and is on the sandy coaster plan semi-circular crown tiles were about half a malle. from the sea modelled over a smooth cylindri meat or sweets wrapped in leaves The townsite in a level as a cal wooden block the plain flat and steamed, as for the fifth, table, and only two or three sheets of clay laid smoothly month feast. As for the rest, one mallow trees at the back of the around the model and the edges or you bring a lighted main street mye shade, bus the pressed firmly together, a round side a paper lantern, and the
Candle breeze is delightful The main hollow bamboo ring twirled around other water in a wicker far ned street is about a block and a half the top to make the small Atted with oiled paper such as those in There is no apparent weakness In order to study the food sitha-
long, wide, and is lined with une in the Bunderland team
and two story brick shops with end, and the die slipped off and which peanut oil is carried, and With tlon in the various drought- I imagine Manager John Cochrane xiang, Anhwel, Klangai, Hupeli At the north here is a cross are ared the round model will be the promising reserves available, stricken provinces langsu, Chele roofs. The market place is set upright to dry. This worker all will be well *
at the south end of this street. used water to keep his clay from will next season reap the reward and Hunan-Mr. Kan Nal Kwang street with thatch houses, where
sticking. Before these crown tes of his steady team-building po Vice-Minister of Interior, left for there are eating places, black split lengthwise to sive the semi- lley of recent yeara.
Anking yesterday on a tour of
circular form used in buliding. smith shops, etc., and a few more inspection which will take in Nan thatch houses are back of the
Brick-Making Middlesbrough's new manager, chang, Wuchang, Changsha, Chin- main street. The town is clean Mr. Whf, Gillow, has a decidedly Klang and Hanzchow, stin task facing him The club Kuo Min:
Middlesbrough Anxiety
Ackl Test
Mr. Bacon: "You should never Judge a man by his clothes,
Man Basen: I was judge him by his
The brickmakers worked two by and orderly and growing gradual-two. One man stands up to his ly. Fresh fish, turtle meat and waist in a hole in the ground, a clothes
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