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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925.
DAY BY DAY.
CIVILISATION IS REFINEMENT
Hora huga hille have been out down and other disabilities over- come, with the result that to-day hundreds of workers are busy OF SPIRIT, RESPECT OF ONE'S putting up the big structure, NEIGHBOUR, TOLERANCE OF which it is hoped to opon early FOREIGN OPINION, COURTESY OF next year. In the meantime, MANNER.-Ibanez; nooded funds have to bo raised,
has a
the feelings of many residents of this Colony when wo wish the venture overy possible success.
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PLAY AND PLAYERS.
DUPRE: RETURN FIGHT PROBABLE.
By Wanderer.”
for a second time.
HONGKONG'S INTER-PORT
VICTORY,
the
Prince George is expected to in which connection it is a happy arrive in Singapore the day, aftor able to announce that there is he fought two magnificent bouts On first-hand authority I am for two years during which timo idos that the students themselves to-morrow,
overy prospect of a return bout with A. B., Dickson, winning, by. bave undertaken to raiso big
between Andre Dupre and C.P.O. a narrow margin each time. The sum for equipment. We can billiards team
Portuguese Interport Jim Cartlidge in the very near Diokson secured the belt on raturned from futuro. The members of the Morgan's rotirement from the command the project to those Shanghai by the Empress of Hongkong Boxing Association Colony able and willing to assist it, Russia...
at a meeting held last evening authorisod because we believe this school Yesterday's
tho opening of health return negotiations, and as both men big future before it shows one Japanese ca5S of aro koon for the match, it
I suppose it is necessary to Bosidos excellent educational typhoid and one Chinose case of remains but to bring them apologise for my scepticism to
together. Dupre left no doubt as, facilities, it aims at inculoating smali-pox.
to his willingness in lotters both tie in a non-committal way." the gentleman who was optimis- |high moral ideals to its students, Amongst the passengers who to the Boxing Association and to We won the inter-port cricket and in its now sphere of labour arrived by the Empress of Russia the Hongkong Telegraph, and mateb after all, though seven it will be able to offer big were Captain, and Mrs. W. E. Cartlidge interviewed by Mr. runa is nothing to shout to the Clarke, Mr. H. Porry and Mr. and Brook, the genial manager of the house-tops. The Hongkong re- attractions from the standpoint Mrs. Ho Kom-tong.
Hongkong B. A., lost ovoning, prosentativos did extraordinarily of the promotion of physical well-
expressed his koon desire to try well to pull the game round after being. Many years of thought | The Far Eastern Theosophical conclusions with the Frenchman being 22 runs behind in a game and labour are now roaching Society Notes contains a character
marked by such low scoring, and “ The magnificent display of the magnificent second innings sketch and photograph of Mr. M.) their culminating point by the Manuk, the President of the both contestants when they met stand by Capt. Morris (41) and pending completion of the now Hongkong Lodge of the Theo voted the best fight witnessed in (40) coupled with the fine bowling previously, it was unanimously Pay Lieut. Commdr. Hargreaves building, and we know we voice sophical Sooioty.
this Colony for many a long of Bowker and Rood will be day has not been 80 Last wook's health
soon remembered in Shanghai for a return forgotten, and shows four cases of typhoid (all
should
no long time to come. hitch in the Chinese), of which two were fatal arise, the City Hall should again nature of a pleasant surprise, and
negotiations
The result was much in the three fatal Chinese Cases of cerebro-spinal fever and one Fleet happens to be up North. were in a partous state until be filled despite the fact that the no-one will deny that Hongkong fatal case each of small-pox The result it will be remembered Reed and Bowker produced an The Other Side of Sport.
(Indian) and diphtheria (British). There were alad two Chinese foalings, the majority holding the Northern team in the second
a draw, was received with mixed unexpected collapse of There is a great deal to be deaths from influenza.
view that Dupre had gained the innings. 'Twas a fine fighting deplored in the news that certain
day, but still a considerable eac-finish and a credit to both sides. of the Japanese athletes who ard A trading junk which anchored tion thinking oppositely. Dupre
The victory was Hongkong's competing in the Far Eastern at tho Praya Wall with a number proved himself the cleverer ex-fifteenth in the series; Shanghai Olympiad at Manila left the of tins of kerosine on board was ponent of the noble art, but his having won thirteen and the field as a protest, it is alleged, fined $100 by the Marine Magis opponent fought with great credit, twenty-ninth being drawn. It against what they considered Į trate this morning under an and the supporters of both men was Hongkong's third auccessive. unfair decisions: It recalls the Ordinance which requires that will, undoubtedly, be only too bad feeling which occurred at vessels loaded with explosive and pleased to see the question sottled the last Olympic Games at other dangerous goods must once and for all. Cartlidge, I Colombes. This means of ox-anchor in the Dangerous Goods understand, ie willing to fight for
TROUBLE AT OLYMPIAD. pressing disagreement with the Anchorage.
a purse, the winner to tako all,
More and more one wonders After having visited the site of ruling of referees and umpires is
and if such terms are quitable to whether Olympic games serve apparently becoming more com-
Dupre, and there seems no earth- any useful purpose. Even the new Diocesan Boys' School mon, and the crop of "incidents" and then read the details of the
at international sports meetings
ly reason why they should not so during the greater games in during the past few years is
be, a fight of surpassing merit which the whole world competes proposed lay-out of the huge quite considerable. In looking
should result.
unpleasant incidents arise and now we hear of Japanese track buildings and adjacent grounds, back through the records of
and field men leaving the field at we cannot but admire the enter- previous contests we find that
Manila in protest against alleged hardly a big meeting has been prise of those who have conceived held where national feeling has
Poking, May 19. "Men who have won fame in unfairness by officials. The report The Government states that it the scheme, and are now working not been so intense that com- has received confirmation through doing exceptionally
Hongkong boxing have been states that they sang
well
national anthem and that many of hard towards its consummation. petitors have seemingly forgotten indirect routes of the flight of Home of lato, latest news to
them пето ip tears, while" Yesterday we printed; a detailed themselves, and the net result of Tang Chi-Yao from Yunnanfu.
hand being that A, B. Chadwick, it was considered necessary to the "coming-together" bas often It seems definite that, whether who won tho
call upon the police in order to featherweight description of the proposals, but threatened to do more harm to he has fled or has merely gone to championship belt outright, has, avort more serious trouble. Fol it will serye to give to give some
international harmony than good. join his troops in Kwangsi, bis at the I.S.B.A. Championships lowing on successive wins by the It would appear that idea of the magnitude of the the
as position is most critical.
held at Portsmouth, won the the Philippines in the day's rivalry of the various A private report states that featherweight championship of events, the Japanese retirement undertaking if we recapitulate nations. grows, with
the Tang Chi-yao's old enemy, Chiu the Navy and Marines, and is in appears on the face of things to one or two of the more outstand-modern tondonoy to specialise in Han-ting, has taken advantage such fine fettle that there is be the result of poor sportsman- ing figuree. The whole site triumph transcend
athletics, so does tho desire to of his absence to start a revolt every likelihood of his going on ship, but until further details aro all other against Tang Chi-yao at Yunnan, to win the championships of both to hand, it is better to preserve Covora approximately twenty- considerations, and bitterness of and that Yuan Tau-ming is co-the Army and Navy, and of the an open mind. The standings in three and a half acres: the build-spirit at losing becomes reflected operating with Chin Han-ting Imperial Services.
the track and field events are: in inability to take a decision, against Tang Chi-yao, whose ings alone will have an area however unfair it might appear, forces also Buffered raverses
A. B. Duncan, one-time middle-now-Philippines 72. 1/3, Japan quivalent to the whole of the in what is known as a "sporting near Nanning, Kwangsi. Daily weight champion of the Colony, 3rd and China, poor Okina, Hongkong Cricket Club ground; spirit". It occurs to the observer Bulletin.
has been doing exceptionally well in Service boxing, and Peggy Evans, heavyweight, is beating all-comers.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 20th May, 1925.
LOOKING AHEAD.
•,
and there will be some twelve to fifteen acres of playing fields. The total cost of the project will be some $980,000, 'towards which á sum of $265,000 is still noodod. The main hall of the building is planned to be 100 feet by 30 feet, and underneath it will be a huge covered-in playground where the scholars may indulge in exercise on wet days.
TANG CHI-YAO,'
FLIGHT REPORTED.
WORLD COURT OF JUSTICE.
Washington, May 19.
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SUCCESS OF OLD HONGKONG BOXERS.
+4
success.
1/3rd.
their
THE ARMY AT PLAY. Last week's Garrison Tennis League matches resulted as fol. lows:
H.Q. Wing, East Surrey Regt, boat "B" Coy., East Surrey Regt. by 74 to 25,
what is said and written about nowadays that a good deal of
sportsmanship is farcical, and that the definite trend is towards
RATTLER" MORGAN ILL. life or death. Fortunately, this winning, as if it were a matter of
It is with regret that we boar spirit. has not entered into the
of the serious illness of" Rattler" purely amateur games that do
Morgan, whose fights always attracted a full house at the City not involve national fooling, but
R. A. O. C. beat "D" Coy. with the increasing tendency to idge favoure American adherence gone
It is stated that President Cool Hall. Morgan has already under- East Surrey Regt. by 70 to 20, make prowess at athletic contests to the International Court of Just-Zealand for stomach trouble but 53 to 46.
two operations in, New Small Units beat R. A. M. C, by business and not a pleasurable without means of obtaining relaxation or American Service. exercise, so is there an increasing
dolay.-Reuter's it is not yet known whether his socond has "been successful. departure from the original spirit,
Stoker Petty Officer Morgan hold and if unsuccessful to try and do af all sport to try one's best,
the welterweight belt 59 to 40,
better next time. In these com- ments we are throwing stones at no particular nationality, for the show that the new way of considering sporting sponsors of the scheme (amongst prowess has gained ground all whom the Headmaster must be over the world.
Those are only a few of the facts oulled from the details already" published, but they are aufficient to
THREE SAILORS.
INDO-CHINA CO
SOVIET AND BRITAIN.
WELCOME TO OUR NAVY.
Moscow, May 19.
R. A. S. C. beat "A" Coy., "East Surrey Rogt. by 61 to 38.
R. E.B" best R. E. "A" by
OLD AGE SCHEME.
LABOUR AMENDMENT
REJECTED.
London, May 19. The House of Commons bas
THE YEAR'S WORKING. We are informed by the Indo- China Steam. Navigation Co., Ltd., that after providing for depreciation, all liabilities, out- goinge, and taking into account, items transfoŕred, to Revenue Account namely £17,705 12s. 11d.
M. Frunze, reporting to the passod the second reading of the from Investment Fluctuation
Saviot Congress, said the Rod Widows and Orphans Old Age Reserve and £191,000 from Con- Army had been reduced tanfold Contributory Pensions Bill, as tingency Account, there remains to half a million men, which was outlined in the Budget speech, a oredit balange of £944 18s. 7d., the smallest Army in the world after rojecting a Labour" amend which it is proposed to carry relative to population. He advo-mont by 401 to 125.-Reuter.. forward to next year.
counted as one of the most enthusiastic) are men of vision, who have a profound faith in the growth of the Colony and in the. future demand for the very best
SLEEPING IN RAILWAY that can be offered in the way
TRUCKS, of educational facilities for the rising genoration. The Diocesan Throo sailors, P. H. Hagorty Boys' School has traditions of of America, A. Manis of Malaya and M. Mattostp of Spain, ap- which it is justly proud. It pearod as defondants at the can also point with pride to past Kowloon Magistracy this morn- HONGKONG. ANGLERS. thirty million roubles, which was achievements. But its work is ing, on charges of being vagranta
without any visibla means of pubsistence.
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THE COMING COMPETITION.
cated the adoption of a territorial systom for defence purposes, Dealing with the Navy, M. Frunze declared that the estimates were
only an eighth of the Tsarist esti- matea and were inadequate when' compared with the naval ex- penditure of other countries,
GERMAN TAX ON MOTORS.
Berlin, May 19. The Ministor, of Economic Affairs has sanounced that the Government. is introducing to cope with the demands made plaint of Mr. H. P. Winslow, upon it. Believing that a now manager of the Kowloon-Canton fishing competition to be held the Baltic Statos reported wish will be on automobiles.-Reuter.
With regard to the "deep goal Finally, M. Frunze referred to moderate Customs duties protect- ing industry. The bighost duties school is essential, those in passed the night in one of the kong Angling Club, we learn that hold manoeuvres in the Buitie Railway, yesterday. They had ander the auspices of the Hong-that the British Navy should whose hands its destinies lia railway trucks.
it has been decided to postpone He said: "If the British F NEW GERMAN BANK have had the courage to strike out on bold lines. This schome, that he had some friends in the The reason for the postpone-objection. Even Leningrad will Hagerty informed his Worship the ovent until the first wook in visit the Baltic with other objects
Colony, who were willing to take let it be remembered, is not one care of him, but he did not go to mont is that the water le at be prepared to give it a friendly
Berlin, May 19." which is merely in the stage of them yesterday because, he was present considered too cold for a reception. He denied that the being considered advisable, Big untidy,
The Gorman Gold Discount successful contest. Mombers of Boviota had participated in Bank has roduced its discount the Club will be advised as soon rocent occuronces in Bulgaria,rate from oight to seven per conti progross has already been mado, All three defendants were ro-au definite arrangements have Heuter. as a visit to the site-will prove.manded for 24 hours,
-Reuter been made.
June.
than in 1919, wo shall have no
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