READ'S
LIGHT LAGER
BEER.
FINTS.
TEN HONGKONG THE ARIFF.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Strike.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922.
DAY BY DAY.
FOOTBALL.
HALF THE GOSSIP OF SOCIETY TO-morrow's Matches. [WOULD PERISH IF THE BOOKS THAT ARE TRULY WORTH READ- ING WERE BUT RED-George Dawson.
Y
There was ons non-fatal onse
of plague reported yesterday.
to
100
This evening is Hongkong's last opportunity
Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece The Kid." Comical, human, it is the droll comedian's finest achievement,
---
BY "QUIZ.”
STUDY.
The continued absence of the A. PLEA FOR SERIOUS Carlaw has upset the league and thair non-appasrance this week- makes 6 matches dropped. It will be inpossible to pull up these back fixtures.
The Hongkong F. C. hava de cided to run the shield competition The League matches for to and clubs are shortly to be invited
to completa..
MONTOW Sre---
DIVISION 1.
Kick off 400 p.m. Kowloon v. Hongkong Club- Kowloon ground, Happy Valley.
“H.M,S, Cairo v. South China- Navy 'A' ground.
LEAGUE TABLE. The table for Div. I is :--
GOALS.
Club P.W.L.D.
...10 6 1 3 16 6 15
"Tamar" H.M.S. Tamar . Hongkongkong Club10 24 11 5 14
S.C. A. Police.—South China graund.
9 5 13 14 5 13 Wiltshires 10 5 4 1 1813 11 RG.A. Y. Wiltshires-800-"Curlew" 6 4 1 1 10 7 9 kunpes ground.
...1060 13 13
to the Editor of the "Hongkong
Telegraph."
**
"Sir-I am much obliged to your "Mfr. Robert MacWhirter" for his goatle bit of sarcasm, but as he means well and is a good "Soot," I cannot refrain from acquainting him with the fact that I am too old for the advies › be has dished up for me. Per hapa he is a young man and is ignorant of the fact that I bare already experienced fifty winters and have long since gone thr..ngh piles of Rationalist literature, in-
The outstanding local question of the moment is the strike of Chinese seamen, resulting in the |bolding up of a large quantity of shipping. The men came out en strike this morning, their Union having failed to receive a reply [from the owners, in spits of häv. ing sent three communicatio s It is evident that the men very much resent the attitude of the companies towards the Guild and if a Bottlement is to be arrived at it must be through a greater measure of recognition of the U.S.R.C. Members and Subscri- Guild's position. The decisionbers are informed that there Lo deal direct
the will be an additional Dance on with too late to make Saturday, the 14th Januay, 1922 any difference to their at the U.S.RC.. Kowloon. action. They
on Special Pask Tram will run at strike and the river and coastal 12 45 awn.---Advt. bosts, together with many of the harbour launches, are presented A race to the capital of an from operating. This is a serious toknown kingdom in North the political mattar regarding the Colony's Africa between food supply, it for nothing else, jagents of two rival governments & CO., LTD. and it is to be hoped that the forms the main theme in the plot
employers will consent to of "The Leopard Woman,” EU 2 Punjabis v. Kowloon Re- negotiate with the Guild through exciting adventure alma showing serves-Railway ground, Kow-Hyder, May, Valentine, Payne, and suppositions of these erring
loon.
Fresh Stocks have arrived
SOLE AGENTS
A.S. WATSON
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
'Phone 16.
Marriage.
L
men came
1.20
dut
--
golding the works of Darwin and
Haeckel and other writers of their school of thought and also 8the late Sir Hire S. Maria, that, when I corresponded with'
R. G, A. "Cairo "
...10 3 52 79 8 H'kong Police.10 3 5'2 11 19 8 “Titania 10 352 918 B.+Kowloon ... 9 4 50 611 "Ambrose " 10 17 918
DIVISION IL Kick off 2.30 p.m. - United A. C. v. South China —United ground, Happy Valley.
St. Joseph's v. Wiltz ReserveK. -St. Joseph's ground.
H.K. Club Reserves v. Univer-
sity.-A.K. Club ground.
→ 2 points added.
6
the famons British Scientist, be sent me lots of soch Htersty in the attempt to convert me his way of thinking.
† 2 points deducted. “ The following will represent the "United" against South China
Having passed through the "B.-Beach, Bradley. Hopper, mill and having been dissatisßed Watkins, Leonard, Urquhart, with the unconvincing theories the Secretary for Chiness Affairs at the Kowloon Theatre this
Clamo. Reserve: McDougall. and misguided scientists and in an attempt to arrive at evening.
The Club are away again this settlement Io snother part of
The following will represent philosophers, I started to investi! this issue we give the latest ress The Police reference to the week to Kowloon on the latter's the H.K.Club against Kowloongate and discover things myself, 03 the subject, and must be murder at Belcher's Streat yester- ground. The last meeting be-G. Rodger, W. Gerrard and J. with the final result that I am content to leave matters where day morning is comprised in this ween these testas ended in a win Rodger (Captain), M. L. Railton, now a Arm believer in God the they are at present pending news bald announcement:-Sent to the for Kowloon by a goal to nit but J. Stewart and A. Mair, D. H. Creator, and the truth of the NICHOLL-EDKINS-O the 12th January, 1922. at St. of further developments. May G. C. II. five Chinese females Kowloon had to hand the points Banner, A. Forsyth S. D. Begg, Deluge as recorded in Genesis of John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. Copley Moyle, M.A.. those come quickly and way they from No. 93e Balcher's Street over to the Club for playing Eve W. R. Kuhr and E. G. England.
The following will represent the assisted by the Res. Crote Reen, R.N., Lieut. Angus Dacres Nicholl, be favourable to resumption of saffering from serions wounds of H.M.S. Cairo without per R.N. son of the late William Nicholl, F.R.C.M., and Mrs, Nicholl, | work.
ssid to been inflicted by a man mission. This was hard luck for H. K. Club Reserves against the Bible, friend Robert Mao- of Glasgow and London, to Winifred Rose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
now in enstody. Removed to the the Kowloon Club who deserved University Hutchison, Israel, Whirter! Therefore, my part- Public Mortuary yesterday the their wis on the play. They will Pritchard. Sorensen, Stutz, Mabing advice to friend G. T. Edkins, of “Taikoɔ”, 113, the Peak, Hongkong.
An Empire Air Mail.
We notice from a Home con- remains of a Chinese female, 23/be out this week ead to repeat the Donald, Hast, Angus,' Hyde, MacWhirter" is that he should temporary that Mr. Holt Thomas years of age, a prostitute, who result of the first match. The Goldenberg and Besseley. Re-devote more of his time to serious Valley grounds where the playing £1,000 FROM MUNICIPAL DANCES,sations for the amusement of your Club are not the same team away serves:-Duncan and Ogilvie. from home especially on the
fields are so narrow.
Last
week
The Hongkong Telegraph
tarms
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922.
THE IRISH TREATY.
is there
20 appearance
ment.
When Wong Sang was brought
**
L
the Bible.
Beware how thou jéerest at the
Robert
study and research, instead of making rash and empty generali- Having obtained & revenue of readers. they best about £1,000 last season by means are of municipal dances, Tottenham the District Council is to convert the at public baths into a suitable danc-
Pearson is
Yours, etc..
TSE TSAN TAL Hongkong, January 12th.
Between Ourselves
By Robt MacWhirter.
set meals
day
It was and waited on hand and foot,
Empire Air Mail ny aaroplane is been caused by a man in custody is salt of the opinion that an died from injuries alleged to bave practicable, and that the Post-Motive unknown." master General has said that if such a service could be establish- ed he would be prepared to con- before the Magistrate this morn- the Wills. and now sider the question of using it. Mr.ing for the offence of snatching a second to the Tamar in Holt Thomas estimates that a hat from Helms Thorgensen, an league. Railton was out weekly mail to Australia might engineer of the Steamer Hamos, week but his ankle was rathering hall. be run far a sum of from £150,000 at the Praya East yesterday, his tender, yet be played a plucky to £200,000 per
With a full side out the 121312 An Worship said that he had heard game seroplane Empire Mall requires, that the practice bad become of Club should win. be believes, not a subsidy but frequent recurrence in the Colons. On the Navy "A" ground & support. His latest calculation Inspector Blackman said he had very fast match will be seen be
that the service might|a similar esse two months ago tween South China and Cairo and As might be expected. the latest journals from Home is are full of the Irish settlement, the Articles of Agreement machine of 3a- per ton mile. With spoke
be maintained at a cost per Inspectors Kent and Browne each win for the sailors would not be to baving similar ex-surprising. In the last meeting being printed in full. Without analysing this historic all that Mr. Holt Thomas says in periences in their respective between these teams the sailors Did ye ever notice how a thing ye came out P. & O. or Japanese . document paragraph by paragraph, it may be noted that advocacy of the service we are in districts within recent dates lost by a goal to nil after a well might be said in two entirely Mail when you'd rather have approbation on the English side of the St. George's Chan- cordial sympathy, but his plea sentence of three months' hard contested game. The Chinese different ways and yet mean the been anywhere else thas tied to nel is all but unanimous. We have the dramatic spectacle seems to us only to strengthen labour was inflicted.
will be out to win, as they now same thing. Even the very to the one place for weeks, despite occupy the third place in the accuracy of a message can in a all the comforts o' modern steam- of the sons of Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain-the the case for immediate experi
ment with available nitships,” An It was stated in a case of league.
messure make it just miss the ship travel. Even wi' our smoke- two famous statesmen who parted company over Home aeroplane service might succeed larceny, before Mr. B. R. Wood The Tamar receive the Police point. I couldns' but think in rooms, our ship's libraries, our Rule-joining their benisons over the treaty. On the floor with sufficiency of relays on this morning, that the defendant on the South Chins ground and you appeal for the troops in the deck games, our fancy dreas of the Legislature. Mr. Austen Chamberlain proclaimed the principle of the old post Chinese woman who was good game is expected. The Telegraph yesterday that the affairs. our porcelain baths, his belief that bis father would have supported the settle-horses, but an airship service charged with the theft of clothing Police have got a couple of new same thing could have been said our morning cup of beef tes
should carry with it all the ad-from a fellow-lodger, was in ment, while Lord Gladstone expresses the warmest avantages of the through train-straitened circumstance due to football at home.
in quite a different and in no' and thres man who have made good in
such a formal way. proval In addition to this we find Lord Birkenhead Moreover, Commander F. L. M. the failure of her busband to send expected out after a fortnight's kindly meant, of course, but some even then, ses travel ima' what imself (the erstwhile galloper" to the Ulster chief) Boothby points out that the air-money from the ship on which berest and with Valentine in form how it seemed to lack just that it's aye eracked up to be sad we announcing the outcome of the pourparlers in these specific ship costs to-day would only be is employed as a seaman. It was the navy defence is in for a warm Warmth of feeling that I think often get fed up to the teeth and
The representatives of the British Government 24.94. per ton raile, with 1s, as the necessity of having to save time. The Tamar beads the league would have made all the odds. wish we were at work again.
the ultimate figure. "A combined her family from starvation which and will try hard to stick there, Let me see if I couldas' just Now, I dians" want ony of you d the accredited plenipotentiaries of Sinn Fein had put service by aeroplane and airship, compelled her to commit the Millington has strengthened their put the case maybe no just so Wilt's lads to get annoyed and their names to a document which he believed would be using the former for distances of crime. The appeal was allowed attack and in a league match in shilly It might make all the think that what I'm about to any memorable history, in and on which he was prepared, and les than 400 miles and the latter by his Worship, who only bound midweek he scored no less than difference in the result and that, smacks of charity. I know you his colleagues were prepared, to ask for and abide by for longer distances" as Com- her over in a sum of 50 for a six goals. The sailors defence when all's said and done, is what well enough to sarree that you'd
mander Boothby suggests, would period of six months.
resent it under ordinary circum- the suffrages of their fellow-countrymen."
still requires stiffesing for should counts most wi' every appeal Mitch have an off day to-moZTOW Te vee, in a very short time stances but I feel sure that this is This was the Lord Chancellor's answer to the op-appear to be the ideal arrange- position of the Die-Hards, among whom the occupant of
A somewhat antiquated re-they are probably likely to drop. the lads of the Wilts will be going a thing that needs only to be volver, which the defendant ex-The sailors won the last match way. Some of them are going mentioned to bring it about and the Woolsack was at one time such a prominent figure. Early man.
plained was picked up by him between these teams by two goals straight Home while the bulk go it'll help in some small way to Some people may speak of his present attitude as a coite- In view of Mr. A. H. Crook's from a rubbish heap, formed the to all.
to Fidia and maybe won't see ameliorate your conditions when the Old Country for goodness mawed up for weeks on that bort. of recen: lecture on early man it is subject of a charge szeinst a certainly Joes and
The military teams in the knows how long. You know, Is a word, I'd like Hongkong this in the ex-"galloper's" declaration. Lord interesting, to note that Mount Cainese before Mr. J. R. Wood
Everest and the Broken Hill Mine this morning. Though the revolver league play their return match except when there's a war on, we folk just to have a look round and Birkenhead would probably explain it assign of in Northern Rhodesia have yield-was not a serviceable one. In-at Bookunpoo, the last game be-treat our soldier lade very fix up a nice wee parcel o' books Progress, and here he would not be without plenty ed Ene material for the specula-spector Browne, stated, it could seen them eading in a victory casual. It's a shame and we or magazines that they're through of justification. There was a time when English dislike tion of those who make the bu-be used to frighten people in the for the Will's by the odd goal in know it's a shams but we keep wi. Now don't be ower kind.
five. These teams play good on doing it all the same. of Home Role was very real. The spirit of the times has man family their special province dark, and would therefore be a football and there is nothing needs a scrap at the other side of a dive at the paper rack and grab
of study Is the great mountain nse to one who bad criminal changed. When the bistory of the post-war period which has defied the explorer for intent. He would not go so far between them. This match will the world to make us fully everything printed that's in sight, Comes to be written. the reconciliation of Unionism so long inhabited by a race of as to suggest that the defendant probably be the last League realise their existence. And Just use little discretion and with Home Rule will be recorded as an outstanding wild buman creatures of whose used the revolver for that purpose. Match the Wilts. will play then it's Tommy this and Tommy no' be sending a mixed collection in Hongkong. AK the that and teas and cinema shows o' juuk for the sake o' getting rid example of political phenomena. The surfeit of conflict existence there have been ru-A fine of $10 was imposed, the
new regiment BITĪVOS
on for Tommy, but when there's no of it. day revolver being, ordered to be bas effected a transformation in the habits of thought of mout
Crochet-books, Church Sunday. The Wilts. have always danger of medals being dished Magazines and Missionary litera-.. nearly all men. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, with his Whether these "abominable snow-confiscated.
men” exist or not, there is no
dane well in league matches out, Tommy may go to the devil ture, daily newspapers, old guide inherited hostility Home Rule and his Op-question as to the genuine anti-
since their arrival
this for all we care. A new regiment books and tables o archange and position to the settlement in South Africa, is but an quits of
station and the RG.A. are likely comes here but more notice is the like, are no the kind of thing to go down this week as the Wilts, often paid to a perambulating that's wanted. You laugh, but instance, though a conspicuous one, of this widespread recently found in the Broken
will be all out to give them circus or a menagerie. We have I've seen reading matter for the K.CC. 1st. XI. Y. NAVY. process. The fact material to the present subject is that, Hill Mine
At Kowloon on Saturday at farawell slump In midweek the the boys wi' us for a couple of troops before now. with few exceptious, the Irish treaty has the support of all London. Its precise
| matter of doubt. In the opinioa 2.15 p.m. The following have gunners got home by the odd goal years and just when they're Then there's playing cards (but shades of opinion at Home.
of Professor Elliot Smith it is been selected to represent the in three.
beginning to be mosquito- see that there's a full pack in " Reuter's suminary appears to have given a very fair undoubtedly a new species of the K.C.C.-J. P Robinson, J. In the Junior division the best proof they slip away some fine every case), games such as chess, iudication of the terms. There is an Annex to the human fareils, if not a new Stalker, B. D. Evans, C. I should be seen on the St. Joseph's morning like a knotless thread. draughts and dominoes, ludo and genus. Dr. Smith Woodward Stapleton, E. L. Braga, Capt. E. ground where the College receive There is never sa official welcome the like (for the kiddies) and what Articles giving a statement of the facilities required by ticks it is that of a later man G. Spinks, C. Dance, F. E. the leaders of the division. The and no public bon voyage, Lord, about looking out a few of the the Imperial Government in respect of naval defences, and than the Neanderthal. Darwin's Lawrence, F. G. Thompson, L. J. College are going strong just now what some of these lads must gramophone records that you're as these have satisfied the Admiralty it may be assumed theory as to Africa being the Blackburn and C. P. James. and in their last two matches think and what they must say sick tired of hearing long ago? that due precautions have been taken. The difficulty over home of the human family has L.B.C. 1st XI v. UNIVERSITY. against the South Chins A and about us.
Now if you take half-an-hour the oath of allegiance has been surmounted, if not in an been revived by this discovery. The following will represent B teams scored 8.zosis with Well, as I was saying, some to-night and fix up a nice wee XI in their only one against them. The day next week & trooper will parcel and send the coolia along ideal, at least in a fairly satisfactory manner. Ulster Bir Arthur Keith anticipates that the LR.C. 1st.
presently India will come tu, league match against
the soldiers have been strengthened (take away the Wilts and despite wit it to the Telegraph office I'm has the option of joining, or of remaining outside with the especially Northern India, to University on the LBC. ground by the arrival of the Peking Com all that must be admitted, there's aure Joe'll only be ower pleased division of Tyrone and Fermanagh to be deliminated by alexpand our knowledge, and to-morrow at 2.15 p.m. Atelpany and they should wis after a quite a lot in Hongkong that'll be to forward it to where the Boundaries Commission, it being, of course, left open from the new light we obtain we Arculli (Captain), M. H. Abbas, hard game.
sorry they're leaving. The Regi- contents'll do the most good: to the Northern province to come in later, if she so shall be able to show what races A. H. Rumjahn, 8. K. Ismail Another good game should be ment has, in lots of ways, earned You've got to wind that women decides. The Imperial authorities gave way on the subject were in the world 100,000 years 8. D. Ismail, 8. A. Ismail, J. S.
good name for itself during its and children will be on the road Correen, D. Rumjahn, O. Ismail,
atay here. The officers and men as well and anything that'll help of fiscal autonomy, it being felt that the practical trade “go."
S.A. R. Ismail, & F. M. el Arcalli
have been, good sports and their to make the voyage loss irksome requirements of the two countries will ensure the sub-
LR.C. 2nd XI v. R.A.M.C.
record has in every way been a will, I feel sure, be appreciated. stantial observance of Free Trade. In short, the status of
The following will represent
clean one.
Now folks dions be sticking, Ireland is described as being almost identical with that
the LR.C. 2.d. XI in their league
Man, did ye evar travel on a Just let's see what ye cáo down We are informed by the officials match against the R.A.M.C. o serves should play a good game trooper? Yon's fierce. Now I'm And as long as I mind, and in? possessed by Canada. In view of later cables it may be
bn the club ground and with a of the Dairy Farm Co. that the the latter ground (Happy Valley), felt that the rejoicings are, to say the least, a little pre rumour that they have just lost a to-morrow at 215 p.m.-E. Abfull side the home team should going to paint ye ■ picture o' cáre I dinnaʼhave another chance:
the discomforts oʻ ́s voyage o' again, I wish everybody in the mature. There are some solid grounds for expecting that he contract with a famous Moosdoen, (Captain), E. Moos WID
that kind, the lack o' space and Wilte. Regiment the best of health the Home Government, which has won the approval of the Shipping Company is entirely dedu, &. H. Medar: O. Ramjaha, Kowloon Reserves and Fun- the grease and gravy atmisphere and luck and I hope they'll have world, will yet be justified. Irishmen have at last per-without foundation. In point of HD. Rumjahn, Y. Wahab, jabis meet on the Railway ground down below but I'd just like ye, a smooth passage all the way and reived a prospect of peace that sane men will not readily fact they have renewed all their A. K. Mine, S. Abba, M. Sadick at Kowloon and win for the in your mind's eye, to compare fesch their destination adala
contracts for the current year, N. B. Kitobell,& R, Nuserin.. (civilians is expected.
(such a passage wi', the last time dog bys. let slip from them through, the action of extremiste.
to
since Hooker's
the human skull
and now
age is a
THE DAIRY FARM CO. ́An Idle Rumour.
CRICKET.
seen on the United ground where the home team oppose South Chins B. A win for the United is expected.
University and the Club Re-
•
It hearted all of a sudden and make
.