THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY JANUARY 91 192
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NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
RIFLE SHOOTING.
Some Interesting Contests.
GOLF MATCH.
England Defeats Scotland.
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Constitutional Reform. · HOPE IS LIKE THE SUN, WHICH, {
The fact that Hongkong is AS WE JOURNEY TOWARDS IT. A very interesting competition! As briefly reported by us yesterday England defeated Scotland seeking a messure of constitu-CASTS THE SHADOW OF OUR took place on Monday at Ta on Saturday in the bi-annual international golf match. The match tional reform is quite wall known BURDEN BEHIND 03-Somad Hang Range. The occasion was took place at Fanling, the individual scarea being as follow:-
a sealed handicap for a cop at Home now. Apart from the Smiles. raferances which have been made
presented by Mr. C. A. Grimes, to the subject in Parliament, the
Mr. W. S. Dupree arrived from knowledge that the House of the North by the sa. Kashmir Commons is being petitioned has to-day.
maintains its high standard lished a summary of the docu-
of quality.
The same blend, same good old age, mellowness, character, and fine flavour.
Forty years reputation.
got around in newspaper circles, the Timas having recently pub-.
Lady Walsham and bar ment which is being asnt Home. daughter are passing through on There is, wo bear, considerable the as, Kashmir, bound for sympathy felt towards the London. aspirations of the petitioners, though in some quarters t
The Warwick Comedy Com- is felt that. Hongkong is more likely to receive considers returned from the North by the Kashmir to-day. They open tion under some scheme applying their season at the Theatre Royal to the whole realm of Crownl Colony government reform than on Thursday. to have her own particular grier-
the Hon. Secretary of the H.K.RM. Smith Rile ware as for League matcher. The F. S. Harrison
League. The conditions HLR. Buckland winner, Mr. F. Vosper, proved R. E. Lindwell. “dark horse," with a total of 119, E. J. R. Mitchell with Messrs. Nicholson and Lam-A. H. Craw merton next at 105. The event N. L. Smith proved to be very exciting, as not R. Hancock one of the competitors had any C. Bulmer Johnson
[4. E. Crapnell... ink ling of the handicap potats,
F. Bavington TRIANGULAR MATCH. At Stonecutters, an Monday, J. Hooper. the Tamar, Merlin and Ambrose M. M. Mass teams mea in a triangular match, H. Hancock which resulted as follows-
ILMS. TAMAR.
Name,
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
& CO., LTD. present based it is archaic and of small-pox and cerebro-spinal Pre. Butting
Wine & Spirit Merchants. Established 80 Years.
Marriage.
... 26
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ances adjusted. In political The health return for the past) circles it is admitted that Crown four days shows two cates of) Colony government must receive diphtheris (one Portuguese and attention, not only because as at one Chinese) and one case each Lig Sig. Allen illsuited to modern needs, but fever (both Chinese). All were Sergt. Cordon... also by reason of the innumerable non-fatal. anomalies that persist as between one Colony and another. Ιπ some Colonies, the official ele
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878887222 Total.
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SINGLES,
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A. H. Firguson
10. Leslie Smith
0 J. B. Ross
Davidson
A.B. Parves
14
1
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N. C. Wilson
1
R. Bruts
1
J. D. Kinnaird-
R. K. Valentine
C. C. Stark
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D. J. Cothill
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A. Morrison
[C. A. Peel
1 J. W. Paton
J. W. Franks
134 A. R. Austin
H. E. Smith
1
J. M. Walker
0
3. C. Fletcher...
EW. Carpenter
1
D. J. Valentine'
J. Brister
0
J. Rodgar Jor...
#1 P. A. Cox
1
A. K. Henderson
R. H. Gompertz
1
S. Grey...
$218. P. Winslow
K. E. Grieg
91B. B. L. Dowbiggin
0
W. D. Fiddes-Wilson
76
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FOURSOME.
591 Smith and Buckland
... 1
Stewart and Hill
Harrison and Lindaell ·
1.
36
Mitchell and Crapnell N.L. Smith and R. Hancock C.B. Johnson and A.H. Crow
1
Rose and Kindaint
1
1
38
47 Bevington and Hopper
Maas and H. Hancock
1
30 22 19 21 9 12
71
Peel and Franks
Smith and Ashton
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Carpenter and Brister
0
Cox and Gompertz
1
55
Winslow and Dowbiggin
I
1014
Sergt. Crosse ... 30 P.O. Pater
23 24 26
C. Sergt Payne 29 21 18
Total
H..S. MERLIN.
Latest shipping intimations] P. O. Reynolds 24 28 8 ment is to the ascendancy; in are to the effect that the Kashgar Sergt. Stapleton 28 27 24 others, the unofficials have the le due to leave for the North at controlling voice. In some in daylight to-morrow, whilst the for Swatow, GREEN-BAXTER -On the 30th. January, at the Feak stances, the elective principle is Haibong axils Church, Robert Anthony Green, youngest son of the late James acknowledged: in others, it is un-Amoy and Foochow at 2 p.m. Green, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Brandon House, Fortsmouth, to Maryknown. And so on, and so forth. to-morrow instead of to-day. · Elizabeth, only daughter of Andrew Baxter, New York."
So the time bas really come when greater uniformity-should-be done by grappling with the whole problema. Piecemeal methods of treatment can only tend to add to the confusion, unless, of course. a form of government at present iá operation in one of the Colonies be taken as a model for all the others.
MAY-TAYLOR-At St. Paul's Church Vancouver B.C... secured. And that can only be were brought before Mr. R. E. 2nd. January 1922, Doris Mabel, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. J. Taylor of Vancouver B.C. (formerly of Streatham Hill, London) to Ernest Alfred George elder son of Alfred John May 1.S.O. of Bournemouth, England (late of the Hongkong Government Service).
The Hongkong Telegraph
Russia's needs.
Prince as News-Bringer?
Two motor car drivers, who
Lindsell this morning for reckless driving at Happy Valley, were each ordered to pay a fine of $15. One said that he was taking out the car for a trial spin before. returning it to the owner. He was told by his Worship that the road outside the city limits was better suited to the purpose.
For
the
A. B. Barnes... 19 18 21 Corp. Brewer... 29 15 14 AB. Hoare 19 9 20 Pie. James Sto. Makis Lt. May... 25 15 4 Wrtr. Norris 24 22 12 Sergt. Pledger... 23 20 12
Total...
ILM.S. AMBROSE. Sergt. Dickinson 26 10 13 Pte. Kirk
24 24 25 30 22 Pre. Lindea
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Result :-
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Ferguson and Leslie Smith...
Purves and Wilson ... Bruce and Davidson...
...Vleantise and Stark
Cuthill and Morrison, 134 Paton and Austin 194 Walker and Fletcher Valentine and Rodger Henderson and Gray Grieg and Wilson
It will thus be seen that England won the fall match by 23
WEDDING.
49 points to 13,
73
32
781
39
29 27 24 23 20 16 64 21
31
80
Total
485
26 21·25
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16
27 26 23
76
23 22 24 26 16 5
HE. POLICE.
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THE AMOY DISPUTE.
Reported Action by Home Government.
conleaded
"that"
to construct the flying bridge Is based upon previous agreement."
The officiating clergyman was the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle. 47 Mr. G. M. Dadwell gave the bride away and Mr. A. M. D. Wallace carried out the duties of best It is reported that the matter 550 man. Miss Pamels Dodwell will be brought up at the next
made a charming little bridesmaid meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, 57 and Master Dodwell acted as
page.
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After the ceremony at the
65 Church, a reception was held at 69 Mr. G. M. Dodwell's house. The 67 bridal pair, left in a motor car later for Repulse Bay, where the honeymoon is to be spent. After 416 the boneymoon Mr. Green will
take his bride to Hankow.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
However it may be-most likely HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1922.
Kowloon residents will learn Sergt. Nash... 25 24 29 it will be that some considerable tima will elapse before the whole with interest that 31r. H. Ldg. Sto. Newton 27 24 8
over personal P. O. Parish THE SOVIET TO ATTEND AT GENOA.
question is seriously taken up, and Ray will take
the Kowloon Pre. Pitcher in the meantime Hongkong has management of The Soviet, which for a long time declared that it a right to know why it should be Theatre from to-morrow. Under Bugler. Rush would bare no dealings with the hated "bourgeois" Gor-denied privileges which are ex- the new scheme, the programme
An interesting wedding took oments, has shown sense so far that it has accepted the tended to other Colonies. We will be changed three times a wonder whether it is possible that week and one night (Tuesday)
place at the Peak Church yester- A Peking report states that Mr. itation to the Genoa conference. A change of policy the Prince of Wales will be will be devoted to dancing. A new H.M.S. Tame defeated Am-day afternoon, when Mr. Robert Chu Chao-hsia, the Chinese Windicated by Moscow some time back, the out. ne bringing to us news of the grant feature will be monthly tickets brose by 105 points.
Anthony Green, youngest son of Charge d'Affaires in London, has H.M.S. Tamar defeated Merlin the late Mr. Jarges Green, telegraphed the Feting Gorera- being the trade agreements with Britain and other coun-ing of some concessions to the which will eatitle the purchaser
M.R.C.S., L. R.Ü. P., of Brandonment, saying, that he bad taken trie Whether there has been any change in Communist popular demand? If so, it would to one seat at each change of the by 157 points.
H.M.3. Ambrose defeated Mer-House, Portsmouth, was married the matter of the bulk at Amoy meitality remains to be seen; sheer force of circumstances make his visit all the more picture. programme.
memorable. At any rate, warst month, prices have been in by 59 points.
to Miss Mary Elizabeth Baxter,up with the British Government, bás compelled a change in the Bolshevist front. While could none of us wish for a better fixed as follows:-Eor matinces
LEAGUE MATCH.
only daughter of Mr. Andrew and that it bad reftibed the through there was a hope that the peasants, with their newly-medium
whom to paly, 54; for any performance,
H.M.S. "Ambrose" met the Baxter, of New York.
Chinese request that Masara acquired land, would be able to provide foodstus, the announce the Imperial Govern. Toe success of this venture H.K. Police in a League match at
Mr. Green is on the staff of the Butterfield and Swire be ordered ment's decision-assuming, of so cosvenient to ciems patrons Stonecutters DD Soviet held to its policy of opposition to the "capitalist
January 28. Hankow branch of the Hongkongto stop work on the bridge before and Shanghai Bank. Formerly argotiations on this matter could Governments. Now, with drought and other troubles, course, that it is a favourable will be watched with interest.
one. The Prince has already
H,MS. AMBROSE.
he was in the head office in be continued. the peasants could not, if they would. supply nearly all brought jor. during bis presen: Before leaving his ship to join
Hongkong and at that time he i Mr. Cho adds that the British group of Con- the strikers yesterday, a seaman For something like a year, therefore, a tour, to one
was a familiar figore at local GovernmealTM process of change has been at work among Russia's rulers.stitutional Reformers, inasmuch of the Hwah Jah, & Chinese
concerts, being the possessor of a the Chinese Government should well-trained and pleasing voice. be held responsible for They have not altered their attitude graciously-rather as he opened the new Parliament steamer, took opportunity to steal
in the Crown Colony of Malts fire blankets which he concealed P.D. Parish
12 Mr. Green came to Hoogkong the present trouble Τα have they spoken as if they were conferring a favour by which has been set up in response in his kit bag. He had just S. H. Nash 23
that 51 shortly before the wedding to view of the fact
the negotiating with the other countries of Europe, or at least to the demands of the people descended the ladder when he L. Sto. Newton 28 30 21 meet his bride, who arrived by Chinesa officials had taken no they have hinted that in coming to the aid of Russia the there for a more representative was seen by the Captain. Mr Sergt. Dickinson 27
63 the Empress of Russia.
steps to deal with the agitators in forra of government. Compared Gustaf Baiden, and was ordered Pte. Kirk other countries are merely performing a duty.
Amoy in the proper manuer, and that the right of the British firm Further, as we said just now, it does not follow with Malta's aspirations, it is to show what he bad in the bag. Fra. Pitcher because the Soviet is entering into relations with other very little that Hongkong asks. The seaman then dodged into the Pte. Rush
23 33 17 Powers that it has abandoned its innate hostility to them. All the same, it would be gratify forecastle and bid away in a dark Pte. Liaden
ing if the Prince could sunounce corner. A tussle ensued for the
Total When Lenin gave the first sign of a change of front or of that our wishes have been possession of the bag and its tactics, be intimated that present conditions were un-conceded.
contents, sad at length the wire.!
22 19 16 favourable to rigid adherence to Bolshevist policy, which Chinese Doctors at Home. less operator joined in the chise Sergt. Dick
and overhauled the seaman as he Sergt. Griffi... 25 27 18 might have to wait ten years or more before it could People at Home seem to object attempted to jump into a sampan. Sergt. Mair 23 20 12 assert itself a pretty plain avowal that Moscow was to anything Chinese. A little Mr. J. R. Wood heard the tale Bergt. Sheppard 25 93 17 saspending, not discarding, its programme. On the other while ago there was a scare re-this morning, and, expressing the Sergt. Mashell... 20 24 25 hand, this may have been meant as a sop to the extremists,garding the alleged unwholesome-view that the conduct of the Sergt. Knowles 28 20 19 Again, whatever the intention at the time the words were cess of Chinese flour, and before seaman bad proved his guilt, Sergt. Wright... 21 uttered, it may be that Lenin and his associates are learn- that there was the famous hinese sentenced him to six weeks hard
pork agitation. Now, according labour. ing by experience, and. from the political point of view, to a Reuter report of the proceed. welcome the opportunity afforded by Russia's dilemma of ings of the Burnley lasurance
A chase that took constable returning, partially at any rate, to the concert of Powers Committee, there is an objection
not only to Chinese doctors but to and thief from one sampan to under the guise of adjusting an economic breakdown.
the Whatever the reason, we now have the fact that the employment of Chinese as another and resulted in
sistants by English doctors. One capture of the thief when he representatives of the Soviet are to meet the statesmen of of the members of the Committee jumped into the sea, was de Europe, perhaps of the world, at Geneva in an attempt to spoke complainingly of the fact scribed at the Police Court this solve the economic problem. Mr. H. G. Wells, who is that Hindoos and Chinese were norning in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's frequently obliged to admit Soviet faults, in spite of his buying practices in the East End Court. After snatching & gold
of London and taking "panel" chain and pendant, of the value Mr. H. B. Ollerdessen, the well-apprentice tailor was working, fares, it is well to remember, kre sympathy with that body, tells us that it is the only possible patients under the National Insur- of $90, from a Chinese lady near known cricketer, was married at and, after engaging him in con- free rides in comparison with cab administration in Russia at the present time, a view that ance Act. Why there should be the Koshing Theatre. yesterday 8t. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, versation, they suddenly seized hire in Berlin, which city recently has gained considerable ground, not, it must be added, an abjection of this nature we afternoon, the thief ran on to the on the 25th. inst., to Miss Mand him by the throst, and gagged increased its taxi fares a thousand because of merits in the Soviet, but because of the absence cannot understand. The only Praya and clambered into a sam-McLachlan. daughter of Mr. J. him with his own pair of scissors. per cent, and then added fifty They then stole from a box per cent. to the new damnod, of any other effective party. So much being admitted, it is valid ground for objection would pan. Hard pressed by the con- H. McLachlan.
be one of incompetence. If Hin-stable, he jumped into the next The Rev. Father Maumus Felix several pieces of clothing, and making 1,500 per cent rise in á satisfactory to note that the Soviet has appointed & repres-doo and Chiasse medical students boat and then into the water. It officiated at the ceremony which decamped.
Jew weeks. entative set of delegates. A round-table conference having at Home who have secured their was a very dejected-looking thief was of a quiet nature owing to The victim of the second rob-
The ancient and Interesting been fixed, what results are to be expected? The outcome degrees are to be barred from prac who was subsequently marched the death of the Pope. The bride, bery is a resident of the village of the trade agreement with Russia bas so far been small-tising in the country in which they between two policemen to the who was given away by Mr. of Ngs In Tan, in the Kowloon, little kingdom (Nepal) in which or rather insignificant. This, however, does not supply a received their instraction, such Police Station. In passing sen-McLachlan, wore a white brocad City district. Whilst going along the Prince of Wales shot his first proceeding will scarcely be stence of nine months hard labour, ed silk dress with court train the road to Yaumati, he was way-tigers is the most independent of criterion, remembering Russia's plight during recent months, compliment to the alleged liberal and twelve strokes of the rattan, and carried a sheaf of roses. The laid by four men, who stopped his all native Indian States. It has a famine having aggravated the prevailing chaos. M. mindedness of Britishers. Here the Magistratë said that worden bridesmaid and page were Miss ricksha aud compelled him at the bees ruled since the eighteenth Tchitcherin has just declared that the Soviet's object at la Hongkong we have Chinese and children were to be protected Vers Prince and Master Billy point of a dagger, to surrender century by Gurkhas, who furnish 'such scoundrels as the Prince. Miss Prince was also his pocket money, amounting to some of the world's best soldiers the conference will be to prevent the economic subjugation doctors, lawyers, etc., and by from
dressed in white and with fur $215. Not content with this, the for our Indian Army, but it is of Russia. On the other hand, it seems to be pretty well experience we all know to what defendant.**
s high degree of ability they can
cuffs and a muff to match trim-robbers stripped their victim of closed to Europeans hardly lewe agreed that a revival in Russia is impossible without the rise. If a Chinese, Hindoo or
med, with red berries. Mrs. his New Year jacket, valued at jealously than Tibet. As a result aid of foreign capital. A financial corporation, with Egyptian medical student wishes
McLachlan, the bride's mother, is $9.40 and also took away his hat. of this exclusive policy, which Britain playing a leading part, is in contemplation, and to practice medicine in the England, but with the ever-widen- grey, Mr. C. McLachlan, who The third case took place in the Indian Government rigidiy the district of Balwanbo, where respects, little is known about a this is the medium which Mr. Wells considers most suitable. country in which he stud ed,ing scope of education we shall acted as best man, Mrs. Princ The Powers have no ambition in the direction of the there surely ought to be no bar have to accustom ourselves to Mrs. G. L. Wootton, sister of th". gang broke into a hut and at-great part of Nepal, and much of sgainst him doing so. And, so the changing order, dotit it will bridegroom, and Mr. and Mrs. Je tacked one of the inmates with the information about social and "economic subjugation" of Russia, It therefore appears long as the National Insurance come as natural to think of the Everleigh were among the large chopper. He received several cats economic conditions is mere to be a question of whether the Soviet will show itself states Act leaves it open to any qualified Chinese doctor in England as it gathering at the church.
in the face. When whistles were guesswork.” Yet for morta ihan a manlike enough to accept workable conditions. The world doctor to accept "panel" patients now is to think of an English A reception was afterwards blown the robbers made an early century the rulers of Nepal baten still has plenty of need of Russia's granaries, as soon as there can be no valid objection to doctor in Chios. We ought no held at the home of the bride retreat, taking with them the first been our best friends, and they, these can be replenished; and Russia, as events have shown, people making their own choice. to bestow education with out room, 111 Jessfield Road. The likely-looking box to band. This sent us a force of 8,000 min which It might seem a little unusual for band and bar its application with newly married couple are spend-however contained only a few did good EHITISE during the has plenty of need of the world."
Chinese doctor to practier in the other.
ing their honeymoon si Hankow, pieces of ection glothing.
6 6
Total
H.M.S. Ambrose won by 134]
points.
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INTERPORT CRICKETER
MARRIED. Leading Shanghai Batsman Weds.
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To every trade its organ. The 20,000 taxicab owners of Great Britain now boast a journal of their own, for. No 1 of the "Steering Wheel," A new fort. (..
has made Its pearance. The journal (opens Three robberies were reported its career with the astound- to have taken place yesterday.ing assertion that the canny Best It was related, in the first case, in Glasgow pays thrice as much that two men entered No. 2 for his cab hire as the spendthrift Lyndhurst Terrace, where an Londoner disburses. But Glasgow
nightly. THREE ROBBERIES.
Mutiny