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OPIUM!
`DAY BY DAY.
and so forth, are normal im-
THE SEVEREST PUNISHMENT parters; but it is likely that
SUFFERED BY A SENSITIVE MIND, Shanghai, judging from recent FOR INJURY INFLICTED UPON disclosures, is one of the main ANOTHER, IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS DONE IT-Hosea distributing points in China of OF HAVING
Ballou, illicit opium, the stuff being sent down there from Siberia. As our
There is to be a smoking contemporary states: It is!
concart at the VRC to-night, monstrous that a governing body when the Water Polo Shield will such as that at Vladivostock be presented. should officially sanction and
Annual
encourage, and derive consider- The Hongkong Horticultural ablo revenue from. a traffic Society is holding its which, in the best interests of meeting at the office of Messrs Stewart Bros, to-morrow evening. civilisation, the Chinese and other Governments have been..
At the Helena May Institute for more than a decade, exdea-) on Friday, November 9th., at vouring to suppress; and it is o'clock Mrs. Gompertz will enter equally monstrous that ship-tain the children with Fairy owners can be found who will Tales. Adet, lend themselves to co-operation
CRICKET NOTES
By:
THE ARMCHAIR
CRITIC
Does my lord take the air and And so, our Jotham is back.
The fat and prosperous. It is to be a little batting practice? hoped that he has brought a little net is already up and some of the in Hongkong ginger to administer to the wreck best bowling
his pleasure. An which calls itself the Navy XI. awaits I sigh to remember the old T-away match, and his gear is angular tournaments and keen there ready for him.
Truly, a Cricket Elysium. fights we used to have when the Navy were a potent force in local! What wonder that you can't play! oricket, and the United Services And behind all this debentures. a little too potent for the Club's which nobody worries about liking! And to reflect that even except the Committee, and only the combined teams would nowa-ther because they have nothing days be hard put to it to give else to do. anybody a decent game.
Strange, too, for I see a lot of fresh-faced youngsters who look!
To Craigengewer on Saturday in this nefarious traffic." The The Caplain's Cup Competition. as though they ought to be able to see Messrs Bradbury and British Government, at any rate, played at Fanling on 3rd, 4th to play ericket. Ah! well, I sup- Sayer and their marrie men and 5th. November, was won by pose the root of the matter lies in disport themselves, which they will know where to commence Mr. S. S. Church, 36-14-22 nett, poodle-faking, tennis and other did right frisktly. Especially should a big anti-optum eampaign who qualifies for the Captain's social evils.
Cup and also wins the Pool be definitely decided upon.
Our Brave Defenders!!
point, who was quite skittish.
Many moons have passed since
I last visited the ground, and I' was struck by the appalling
A fierce battle took place on) I wonder how many players shrinkage that has taken place.
appreciate the sound Local Radio.
Sunday on the Cha Shan front really
I imagine they water the pitch between Dr. Sun's troops and financial basis on which most of too much. Anyway, it is certain- The news which we published General Chan's forces. It lasted the clubs here are run. Harkly cricket under difficulties with yesterday of the radio experis half the day and in the end the ments which are being carried latter's troops, which were at- out in Kowloon under the aus-tacking, had to retreat to their pices of a local Company encour original lines.
cover paint obtrading his person into the pavilion and square leg. doing some heavy work on the heels of the shrieking mob of dervishes who infest the touch-line of that other funny mob game. Incidentally, the ought to be taught that bowling screens are not specially erected to silhouette their figures, but are occasionally (very occasionally at Craigengower!) used to give the :batsman a chance to see the
ball.
+
ages us in the belief that it will not be so very long before this Colony is able to boast of regular.. The Chief of the Finance De well-arranged broadcasting con- partment in Canton has issued! certs. We have heard from draft regulations for the creation several sources of the success of of a Land Office, with branches these demonstrations, and we are in various districts, for the par- glad to think that the possibili-pose of registering, e-measuring ties of the movement are being and issuing new title deeds of all Rivalling the fever of pioneer more widely recognised now than fields. A sum of ten million is
ever before. Whilst it is all to expected from this source. Colonial days seems to be the the good, that these trials should'
My roving eye (the good one) opium fever of present-day China. be carried out with a view to
A report from Kongmoon states
strayed over the deserted Police The article from our Wachow testing local conditions, we do
hope that there will be no undue that the Sunning Railway Co.
ground, pathetic in its emptiness. correspondent published yester-delay in putting radio on a sound has protested against the seizure
Sad to think that SOUND "FRANCIAL BASIS" day, cast a vivid light on con-basis in Hongkong. Valuable of a junk with 200 tons of coat
All the king's horses ditions on the West River. where experience is now being gained. consigned to the railway. for the back for a moment, my mastors. And all the King's men
from which much will be learned. purpose of supplying the river to the old homeside club you can't put the Police sidetogether toll has to be paid in opiumi to But the time must come when gunboats with fuel. The Com- played for. Do you remember again and raise eleven.good men the enthusiastic collectors of the Government, already most pany threatens to suspend its the ever-recurring debt at the end and true.
will have to service if the junk is not released.of the season? Usually wiped various type along the route.sympathetic.
make its mind up regard- As he puts it, the boats' crews
10 the conditions ing
be
&
off by the local J. P. after it had
know that opium is so valuable put into force here. The Post- The Caton Dully News states cost you nearly as much to prime skipper, comes the following:-
that it is worth their while to go
more."
tection
to
one
From Shameen, via their genial master General's Committee at that commanders of river gun him with old Scorch. The cheque Shameen had & fifty-fifty, contess va smuggling, even though the Huce has already issued its boats have been instructed by was always signed with many with an American baseball team, Customs officials find some of report, the main features of which Admiral Chao Chak to give pro-flourishes at the annual dinner, merchant vessels the while you (in ccordance we give on another page to-day. the treasured stuff and the rob- and this should be of value in plying between the various ports with previous instructions) com ber hands make off with still guiding the authorities here. in the West River disticts. In bined admiration, appreciation,!
Monopolies are evidently not order to check the bandits more gratitude and respect in This smuggling goes.on favoured by the Committee men- thoroughly each commander is applauding murmu?. all over China, and in addition tioned, and it may be possible allotted a certain section for his
Or do you mind the miserable the poppy is grown and the home here in Hongkong to permit more supervision, and it will be his
to do the duty and reposibility to maintain fasco of a cancers or dance which industry is fostered whenever than one concern
the peace and order over that took broadcasting. provided adequate
place of the limelight- opportunity offers. Fortunes are
section. la some parts of the deviled
which J. P. and coveting. river where the bandits can being made ont of the traffic in prevent interference and jam-
invariably plunged you deeper in p We loos to the Radio easily gain access to attack ner-the mire, till your secretary and some cases millions of dollars in ming."
treasurer were well-nigh beside a few months and there is no Society to do all in its power chant vessels mines are laid.
themselves? to encourage broadcasting, no
arrangements
аге
to
sign of a check. despite all that matter who does it, because it is officialdom and Customs vigil-obviously to the interests of ance (which is hampered severe members that they should be given plenty of material to "pick ly) can do. And meanwhile the
up" Above all, we trust that Chinese delegate to the League the Society will put the interests of Nations Opium Convention of amateur receivers above any tries to make out that a new era other consideration whatever. of freedom from this drug evil is
dawning! He has also hinted Whose Rickshas?
4
FOOTBALL.
CRICKET.
And your own struggles with refractory nets, the erection of which stole from you the daylight: No necessary for their satisfactory: use?
ESPECIALLY POINT"
all beautifully kept and oiled. A observed "Say! that guy pitches pavilion where you may loll in a swifty apple"!
The following players will
And those Saturday afternoons, represent Sacred Heart Football when your whole horizon was Club against King's Res. on bounded by the gear you had Saturday at 2.30 st Sookonpoo had been deputed to look after?.
playing them at cricket and base- "A" ground:-A. Cruz: A. Jack-
ball. The crack swiper of the son Capt.), B. A. Hyder: M. Y. Adal, C. Chilton, C. Derry: A. R. Now for the brighter side, as Blue Sox was bowled by a anorter that, foreign smugglers are to We wonder whether many Dallah. Iso Kam Fook, Cheung we see it here. A ground which, from Gordon which brauk up
have noticed the blame for encouraging the traffic people
Kam Chun, Shuen Kam Chau. as far as climatic conditions will the ferniture pretty con-sider- truly wonderful collection of Chen Kam Yau. Reserves:-Tam allow, is kept like a billiard table, able." He turned to the nearby and on looking the facts square old, brokendown rickshas which Kong Lang and Lam Wing Chun. A forest of hats, in serried ranks, fielders, and, in an admiring voice ly in the face we have to admit adorn" the entrances Co that here he is right. There is no quite a number of office buildings The other day getting away from the fact that in. Hongkong?
we were passing a certain spot in much of the opium being dis-Queen's Road when we saw tributed in China to-day has couple of Chinese pushing out been imported, for instance from into the street from one of the
H.K.C.C. TEAMS." Persia, and is being traded in by vestibules the most miscellaneous. assortment of ramshackle rick-
The following will represent foreigners who find the business has it has ever been our lot to the H.K.C.C. 2nd XI against more lucrative than any legitim-gaze upon. Some had hoods.C.R.C. 2nd XI in a League match some had none others were"
at Causeway Bay on Saturday, envered in the dust of ages; and 10th November commencing at An illuminating reference to all had thin iron tyres. Whose 2.15 p.m.-H. E. Hollands (Capt.). this aspect of the subject is made they were, and what possible use G. H. Piercy. D. H. F. McMaster, they can ever be, we have not the J. N. Owen. D. Reid, W. W. by our Shanghai, contemporary faintest idea. We have seen Mackenzie, D. E. G. Nicholson, Shipping and Engineering in its similar relics in other buildings.A. K. Mackenzie, H. Griffin. C. Rfearlessly take hazardous chances look forward eagerly to the next issue of November 2nd. where it Judging from their age-worn Baron, and N. J. Perrin.
ate commerce could be.
been used by old fogies in top-
as
your slothful ease and your every Also, after a hit the baseball want is catered for. I wonder men automatically dropped their in how many pavilions at Home bats. The extra length of the bat you could comfortably don dress being denied them, many were clothes ?)
!
"SAFETY LAST.”
THOSE WHO ADOPT THE MOTTO. What are care-devils? Men who
in their different fields of
meats and come out smiling.
run out!:
to inspire them and make them
carry on."
The thought of personal danger does not enter their minds. The love of adventure, the fascination of thrills and the gambling in-
of stinct to "beard the lion their professions makes them
thrilling situation that they will face.
is pointed out that Vladivostoct appearance, they must once have) In the Armistice Holiday endeavour. Men who plunge is the importing and distributing hats and frock-coats they cer- match, the following teams have themselves into perilous predica These **dare-devils*. only centre for the opium traffic, and tainly do not belong to the been selected: -"
G. R. Sayer's XI-0. R. Sayer The world is full of those who deplore one fact, and that is that that much of the drug is carried present era. Failing their removal
life insurance companies show on British registered ships. Our to the Museum, we would suggest (cap.), Rev. E. K. Quick, A. E. flirt with danger. The fireman great besitancy about issuing that the authorities get busy and Wood. A. A. Rumishn, H. Bal the policeman, the arctic explorer, them policies, some companies contemporary quotes a recent make enquiries
absolutely. An to owner hatchet, U. Omar, F. J. Ling, D. the Africian hunter, the soldier refusing it. specific case of a vessel carrying ship, and if nobody claims them, Fritz. F. J. De Rome, F. Baker and sailor, the aviator, the amusing thing occurred in this inventor, the chemist. the regard when Harold Lloyd was a cargo of 300,000 lbs. of the stuff, they might possibly be given and F. C. Miller.
E. J. R. Mitchell's XI. E. J. R."buman-fly" who scales the side perforthing his hazardous feats & large part of which was destin-away to anybody who wants an
Mitchell (capt.), R. E. A. Webster, of buildings, the missionary who that of climbing the side of ed for the Siberian port, and its
Lt. Commander Jotharn, Pay Lt. fearlessly brings his religion to twelve-story building in his new valac there would have been
Commander Paffard. E. G. Lam- the savage, and scores of others. Pathe-comedy, Bafety, Last, mert.. A. C. I. Bowker, Pay Lt. These different classes of "dare which is being shown at the nearly ten times the purchase price in the country of origin. Dr. A. G. Wilkinson, who died Gregory, G. R. More, A. I. Gace, devils" all risk their lives in their World Theatre. The comedian Besides tho vast quantities at Northampton recently, aged AV. T.. Dean and E. G. England. own particular lines of duty, was forced to promise his in- 88, served in the Crimean War Play commences 2.15 p.m. on fearless of the outcome and surance agent that he would taken to Vladivostock by ship, a with Florence Nightingale. He Saturday, 10th November, and prepared for the next assignment, never risk Ale life in such a man- on Monday, 12th And they all believe In Safety ner again. But just the same, the great deal also arrives by rail, was in practice until ten days 10.15 am.
Last" and adopt it as their motto thrills are there me thrills 1 1⁄2 and practically all of it fads its before his death.
odd bit of firewood.
WORKED WITH FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE. ·
November.