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NOTES & COMMENTS.
OUR VOLUNTEERS.
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1920.
DAY BY DAY..
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There was a clean bill of health in the Colony on Saturday.
a motor car.
by the 5.9. Keemun accidentally drowned.
CURRENT COIN.
(BY MERCATOR "J
FOOTBALL.
EXHIBITION GAME AT THE VALLEY.
A BIG PICTURE
THE ADVANTAGE OF THINKING
The Coronet picture house is
AND FORMING
well-known for the quality of Whatever the exact number of STRAIGHT
what it shows, and in the picture enrolments may be, sufficient men DEFENDABLE MACHINE OUT OF
There was a big boom in the
The promise of a good game to be shown this evening under to make a force hare apparently YOUR OWN MIND IS THAT YOU imports of motor cars last year,
the value of the imported cars attracted a very large crowd to the title of "The World Aflame signified their willingness to join ELIMINATE FEAR.
rising from £71,904 in 1918 the Valley, and summer-like it is more than keeping up its the new Volunteer Corps, for His
in 1919.
The picture British weather prevailing the grand high reputation. Excellency the Governor bas
£112,176
WAS well filled. formally accepted their services
manufacturers were not interest-stand
many deals with an industrial dispute. ed in this trade owing to war de- ladies attending. MeCabbin stood and Frank Keenan, the author, and the Corps has been duly
from the Club formed. Its title, we are glad to
side producer and star of the pictur mands, Great Britain being credit-down A Chinese girl has been seat see, is the one suggested by the to the Government Civil Hospital ed with only £807 of this big total, and last-minute change" in the has stated:"I should like it to оп record A5 declaring Telegraph on Deceraber 20. last, suffering from injuries received while America exported motor League side brought in Robertson go when we wrote that a rather happy way of meeting the wishes through being knocked down by rs to the value of £97,609. of the Police, Clark partnering that my story was not suggested The motor trade was, therefore, Cheung Wing-hon. Prior to the by the industrial distburbances confined to the American class. A match the Club's new colours & in Seattle last winter and Mayor of all might be to incorporate both
flag with great deal of the adverse criticism dark blue titles [Volunteers and Defence
white Hanson's prompt and effectire During the voyage from Liver-levelled at the British motor markings presented by Mr. W. methods to put down a general Corps into one-namely, the Hongkong Volunteer Defence pool to this part & member of the manufacture: is apparently dus Nicholson, Chairman of the Club strike which promised to paralree Corps. In such a title would be Chinese Labour Corps travelling to the fact that the public was unfurled, and both teams his city,
"E first thought of my plot last clearly expressed the voluntary
wasdo not appreciate the difficulties were photographed and lined out
winter. I had it shaped and, nature of the service and its air,
of converting machinery from as under.
Rest of League.-Omar (St, was already 21 work develop- that of the Colony's defence. The
war use to pesce times. The busi-! traditions of the Corps would also By the Keemun, a Blue Funnelness has to be built up. Besides, Joseph's), goal; Clarke (Police)ing the characters and pointing
2 denouement when. bo better perpetuated by the use boat, there arrived on Saturday demobilisation had been slow and Cheung Wing Hon (South China), toward of the two titles." The idea we 1.426 members of the Chinese lamentable strikes had occured. backs; Miles (Navy), Leang Yuk the trouble in Seattle burst on then put forward has now been Labour Corps, who are being The general tendency of the Tong (South China), Xavier, (St. the public. There is, of coure a officially adopted. But it is one repatriated to their homes.. motor car export trade at Home Josephs). balf backs; Ko Kin similarity between what Mayor is to produce the highest Fan (South China), Silva (St. Hanson did and what the Mayor to bave a Corps which,
A Chinese thief was to-day quality in order to satisfy the Joseph's) Forehead (Navy), Roof my fiction did, but there all re- by its strength, is worthy of the sentenced to six months hard very great demand in England bertson (Police). Au Kit Sang sembiance ceases. Colony. We know that the labour, four hours stocks and for expensive vehicles. Eventual (South China), forwards."
Club.-G. Rodger, goal; Black | enrolments have not been so twelve strokes with the birch, only the United Kingdom may be targe as was hoped, and we there a charge of snatching a head-hand able to meet foreign competition and Tonkin backs; Railton (cept.), fore appeal once more to the from a woman in Connaught after the motor car industry had Stewart, J. Rodger, halfbacks
had time to recover. The com
McPhail, Hamilton, Reichelmann, eligible nen of the Colony to Road Central.."
ing of the cheap
But I do assert that if my way motor car Boyen, Reiis, forwards, join the new organisation, which,
was foreshadowed at the end Referee. Lt. Soook, R. A. should be applied where strikes from every standpoint, promises!
In connection with Holy Week, of last year by the announce- The Club faced a very strong threaten in real life and it is a to be a better-run affair than from to-day till Thursday the ment of the formation of £5,- sua on the kick-off and Stewart practical, easily executed way- either the old Volunteers or the
following services are being held 000,000 company, which intends was early in the picture with good all conflict between employer daily at St. John's Cathedral: to embark at once on a great headwork. The League Team and employee would end for no better
than Major 45. Holy Communion; 10.15. campaign of mass production. swung the ball out to Au Kit ever. What's my way? Good Bird could
Matins: at St. Paul's College British cars with their high Sang on- the Adjutant. Major Chapil, 6 w bilet
the left. but this service and democratic proât- p.m. Evensong
an prices are very difficult to place player
just raissed, the sharing." Rapson, is one of the most genial address by the Bishop. and popular officers in the
on the Hongkong market, and it ball rolling to touch. Ko Kin is doubtful if the manufacturers Fan and Silva combined nicely Colony. Both have done, fine
at Home will ever care to take and the South China sprinter service in the war, and to each has fallen the Distinguished Service Order. So the new Corps will be in the hands of capable men who know more about soldiering than the whole of our local amateurs put to gether. It is up to the young men of the Colony to give them their whole support. BUILDING LOANS.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD,ing to choose a name, and quite
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS."
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1920.
OUR PRINCE.
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At Shaukiwan on Saturday, trancar accident occurred, when
Each put
down a strike and oach mán saved the day for his city through methods akin, an appeal to reason, yet the actuating principles of
each were different.
to the Club team and the centra
half signalised his return by play
the China market seriously. seat in a fine centre which was Chinese passenger was thrown With the completion of the motor cleared. The Club got moving ing one of his best games. J. Rod- ger and MePhail also got through with severe force in alighting road round the Island there is on the right, and Railton fell and
a tremendous amount of work from a car when it was resing now a great feld in the Colony twisted his ankle and was forced at full-speed. He received rather for cheap and serviceable cars. to retire. On resuming again, and undoubtedly the "Club's severe injuries which necessita:- Motor cycles are also becoming Railton was little more than a partial success was in a great popular in Hongkong. The im- passenger and changed with measure due to the fine half-buck ed his removal to Hospital.
ports under this head last year McPhail. The Club defence had line. G Rodger saved many Apparently insane. a Chinese reached £8,872, in comparison a Warm time and on two warm shots and Tonkin And man was fished out from the with the previous year's figure of occasions the League team Slack got through a busy after- The Government has taken a water in the vicinity of the £6,319
just missed scoring in ех- noon with credit. The forwards very sensible step by deciding to Kowloon Ferry yesterday. It
citing exchanges. The game
were considerably weakened by advance money from public funds has not been discovered how be There has been a slight renewal was fought out at a fast pace and Railton's accident, Reichelmann to persons proposing to build got into the water, but the belief of the export of wolfram and Hamilton burst through for the and Hamilton being the pick. The houses for residential purposes. is held that in a fit of madness other ores to the United States. Club but hit the side post. The League team deserved to A Gazette notification on Satur- he jumped in. He has been re-but for the present Europe seems League right wing. Silva and Ko win on the day's play, but the day intimated that applications moved to the Government Civili to be doing very little with them. Kin Fan, were playing a fine goals missed by both sets of for- for advances should be sent in to Hopital.
The total exports for last year game and from a fine piece of wards was the only poor feature the Colonial Treasurer, and a
were valued at £229.975, against forward work Ko Kin Fan just of a very interesting game. Committee has been formed for the
The old tale of being given it £1,385,395. In 1918, 199,909 piculs missed, the ball going high. The success of the match from the purpose of advising the Gerern- to carry" was to-day resurrected of wolframite left our shores, the Club were playing & hard defen- Hongkong Football Association ment regarding the advances. We by a Chinese who was caught by value of which was £1,267,789, sive game against an enterprising into view WAS clearly presume that it will be the busi- the Police with 57 taels of pre-while last year only 28,265 piculs set of forwards and at the interval demonstrated by the fine crowd ness of this Committee to express pared opium done up in a packet valued at £145,158 were exported. there was no score,
present in the grand stand, and its opinions, after learning the and stowed away on his person. Manganese ore is the next largest The League team, on resuming, augars well for the success of the state of the Government's finan- A beatific smile illuminated his item of export in this department, burst right through and Forehead game in future seasons in Hong- ges, on the amount of money to countenance when the sentence the exports being about half that sent just over the far with a fine kong.. be set aside for this specific of the Magistrate was made of the previous year. namely, drive. Excitement prevailed At the conclusion of the game purpose. Save for the Colonial known. It was a fine of $6,500 £48.778 against £83,557, Ship when successive shots were made the Club players gathered round ments of antimony have almost at the Club goal by Silva and the grand stand for the present- League ation of the League Cup presented ceased, the returns showing that Robertson A stabbing incident which only £947 worth was exported forwards were playing a hard by the Hongkong Daily Press: Mr. occurred on the 18th June, 1919. last year. The United States game at this stage and swing Ralston, Hon. Sec. of the bal abot in good HK. F.A., referred to the support did not lead to the arrest of the book about three-thirds of the ing the
style. Reils missed close he had received during the past culprit until Thursday last when total exports of minerals and ores 注 Revenue Officer followed up from Hongkong.
arose
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in at the other end, and Reich- very successful season, from the elmann, after beating several Hon. Seca, representing the opponents, delayed his final shot naval and military interests
Treasurer, whose views on such or six months' hard labour. a matter would naturally be of The Prince of Wales is on his way to Australia and it is as value, the whole of the members certain as anything could be that he will find there the same enthusi- of the Committee are Unofficial astic welcome that awaited him on his arrival in Canada. Apart members of the Council. They altogether from the political side of the visit it is interesting to look are certainly not individuals who for a moment at the young man who is probably destined to become feel the present shortage of houses the crowned head of the British Empire. One has only to look at the or who need money grants with certain information and caught manner in which he has conducted himself since he came to an which to build. For these reasons, the man at First Street. It was
There has been a marked ex- too long and missed a good of the League, Messrs.-May and age of responsibility to be conscicue that here is not only a future we should have been glad to have stated that on the 18th June a
between the pansion of the Chinese domestic chance. The League defence was Warne. He welcomed back their king but a future man of moral and mental strength. In the days seen nominee of the Kowloon quarrel
on the prisoner and another man who industries as a result of the war- very steady and Leung Yuk Tong former President, the Hoa. Mr. of the great war, when the call came for men, our Prince was not Residents' Association slow to join those who were fighting in France, but it is not gener-body. Perhaps it is not too late was subsequently the victim in Among the new industrial vent at centre half was spoiling the Holycak, who bad recently the stabbing affray. After his ures are floir and rice mills, cot-work of the Club forwards in fine returned to the Colony, and hed ally known that he shared all the risks of front line work, just like now to add one.
death, the prisoner disappeared ton weaving mills any other officers might have done. The general impression seemed SITES WANTED FIRST.
and silk style, and feeding his own men. honoured them with his presence to be that the Prince was just over in France and nothing more. It is to be hoped that in this and was not seen until last week flatures, oil and paper mills, brick From one of his passes Silva that day. He also gave a bi f but he was, in fact, of and in the fighting services.
and cement works, etc. Foreign tricked severel opponents, but was statement of the Club's record in matter of loans for building, the
machinery is needed in this forced off the ball when shooting. winning the League without a There is on record that he applied to be allowed to
Government will show just 25
industrial expansion. There are Several corners to the League defeat, over the top with his men, and that when he was refused permis much consideration to the in-
being point only in South team were well placed, but lost promising markets sion he replied "But why can't I go? Even if I do get knocked out dividual desiring to build one framed photograph of the Naval China for propelling machinery as cleared, and the League forwards best games of the
A beautiful rose bowl and a I've got plenty of brothers." There is very justifiable price about a house for his own occupation as to man like that. The effect of his war experiences has been very appar-interests thinking of erecting say
Dockyard Defence Corps, of well as foragricultural appliances were attacking when the final against the Club's old friends, the ent since the Prince returned after the armistice to take a more pro block of buildings. Already the
which be
whistle went, the game ending in Navy. He congratulated the Commanding was
a pointless draw. Officer. were presented to Mr.|
Club and asked Mr. Wilton, their minent share in public life. It at once became obvious that he intended Government has advanced 2 to make his own the cause of the soldiers and sailors who had huge sum of money at a low Athol Anderson who is about to The high exchage value of The League team may not have Chairman, to present the Cup
Mr. Wilton banded the Cup served in the war. He never lost an opportunity of stimulating the rate of interest Lc a local estate leave for Home, at the Naval silver and the diminishing service been the best that could have been
the team, and con-
when he described.
was arrested.
and for electrical accessories.
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of the
season
gratitude of Britain to these men. His personal influence began to company, and while this will Kennett made the presentation direct results of the waz, have had ably well balanced lot, and there of
Yard Club on Friday. Mr. of coastwise and oversea shipping, picked, but they were a remark to Mr. M. Railton,, the Captain
War
cannot spare
QUIZ.
present,
America at
account of the newer
grow with extraordinary rapidity. People found something very help the situation some- charming about his speeches-1 pervasive sense of humour, a what by the provision of and paid a warm tribute to Mr. much influence upon the foreign was not a weak spot in the team. gratutated him on his team's readiness of wit and a way of turning a phrase that added force to more flats, at the same time it Anderson, who suitably replied. trade of Hongkong, but on the The backs and goalie were very fire record, cheers and a "tiger" his facts. This young man had something to say and he knew how will not necessarily mean that An excellent musical programme whole the year was not a bad one steady, and Leung Yuk Tong and being called for by Mr. Railton to say it. A few of the cynical wondered at first who was writing we shall have cheaper rents. The was provided caring the evening, for Hongkong industries and Miles played fine football in form the Club players. The cup, good trid of halves. a handsome trophy with an his speeches for him. It then became known that the one thing time has come when the private Mrs. Clay and Mr. Longyear commerce. Shipping and sugar the Prince could not do was to make a speech from notes-that, individual who
presiding at the piano. those refining, which are among the Ko Kin Fan and Silva caused elaborate dragon design, standing indeed, he spoke best when his speeches were quite unpremeditated. enough cash to pay for a house contributing items being Messrs. principal industries of the Colony, the Club defence much anxiety, on a blackwood plinth, with the Within a few short months this young man has become a new force should secure an advance from Allan, Crocker, Clay, Cawsey, did very well. The shipyards the play of this pair-reaching a previous League winners inscrib in international politics. He has rapidly developed an influence
Lewis, Bentley and Prickett. worked to their full capacity, the high standard, and Foreheaded round the edge, will be retained only limitation being the difficul- Robertson, and Au Kit Sang did by the Hongkong Club for a year, which is far beyond that accorded merely to his station in life. the Government for the purpose, Because this Frince has seen war in all its nakedness he hates it repaying the loan by instalments
Information to the effect that ty of securing materials for cer- many good things. The presence comparable to present rentals. intensely. To him war is shorn of all its specious glamour-it is merely an abomination of blood and filth and desolated homes to be But it seems to us that before three armed 'Chinese were on the tain purposes. The volume of of Stewart made a great diffence
people reach the stage when they prowl at Yaumati led the Police business was far below normal, avoided at all costs save that of honour. Because he knows will think of obtaining Govern- to send detectives to Reclamation not only because of the shortage
he has become a force for peace in the world.
ment advances they will want to Street in an attempt to intercept of shipping and high freight The Prince's tour of Canada and the United States was, as Mr.know what the Government has the men. This took place on rates, but also because of the the demand, and so long as the from Lloyd George said, "Not merely a triumph but an opportune to offer them in the way of sites Saturday morning, when success closed markets to Chinese pro- present conditions prolong. Tin and on there is consid- triumph." Certainly his few days in the United States did much the locality, the price, etc. If was achieved by the detective induce ia Europe and because of plates are about 814 a case, wire conditions to ensure the continuance of good relations between the two great the Government will open up a the capture of one of the gang, high prices for foreign goods nails $16 a ceg, mild steel barserable delay in shipment of the English-speaking Powers. His slay in Canada was a remarkable big new ares-say King's Park who, on being. searched, was everywhere. Political troubles (small sizes) from $12 to 813 & metal from the United States. personal triumph. He intends to tour the whole Empire, or, as he prefers to call it, "That partnership of free nations, the British map out dozens of sites, fix the found to own two revolvers which, in China, the reduced buying picul, medium sizes at $11 a picul, Prices are stationary in most.
galvanized wires, now witholding their hands. Commonwealth, Now he is on his way to Australia and will then upset price at a low figure and however, were not intact, as some powers of the people, due to a and large sizes from $9.12 a departments, Japanese buyers
are very scarte, the go on to South Africa. "It is not so much what you learn about Face no absurd obstacles in the parts were missing. When ques-failure to sell their products at picul. In
way of building requirements, tioned at the Police Station, an advantage and other elements stocks
quoted being from The flour market is weak, there the world that is valuable in travelling," he has said, "But what then we have no doubt that approved to be false, were made trade. Nevertheless most imports $19 to $23 a picul, depending on being no arrivalsduring the week.
various statements, subsequently combined to reduce the importprice
whe said were made upon a rising markets, sizes. Japan has been in the No American four is offering, up that appeals to the sentiment and keepe it united. In America large numbers. In such an area, by the prisoner
mau it is the flag of " Old Glory" whilst in Britain and our Empire it is individuals as distinct from com- on the Monteagle gave him the ordinarily profitable.
who arrived and were, therefore, more than market for steel bars, and has only Australian and North China purchased a considerable quantity (Steamboat brand.) These are the of the smaller sizes. The purchas-only available stocks in the mar the King, There is nothing servile in our attitude, it is just the panies. Such a plan would be arms; and that it was his inten- way we have chosen to express our nationalism, When we have far preferable to
Government tion to sell them to a certain The local metal market con- ing has now temporarily halted. ket at present. Australian No. 1 the assurance that our future King is also a man among men, then building; but the scheme wants marine hawker. A sentence of tinues firm. Prices are continu- All sizes of galvanised wire with is quoted at $3.20 per sack, while how much greater is the common appeal for unity and patriotism.to be thought out on large lines. one year's hard labour was to-ling to advance, and it is believed the exception of the eight-guage No. 2 is not precurable. North As Britons, we can well afford to pause and speak with pride of Cannot a start, be made in this day inflicted on the prisoner by will continue to do so, so long and him who is now actively engaged in even more closely welding to direction at once?
Mr. N. L. Smith. gether the Empire of which he will one day be the nominal head:
you learn about your own country."
Each country has its own rallying point; something in its make-
plicants will come forward in preference should be given to that, a
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the -larger sizes Bre China brand is offered at $299
as the deliveries are not equal to practically impossible to secure per sack.