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The Telegraph,
HONGKONG, 5th June, 1925.
So used are people out here to the contrasts formed by the display of wealth on the one hand and pitiful poverty on the other, that little comment is caused
DAY BY DAY,
treasure which is going on in WHERE THERE IS NO. INCON- China itsolf can never be con- TESTABLE CENTRE OF POWER THERE ARE ALWAYS MEN WHO donod, nor can one but deplore ASFIRE TO ATTRACT IT TO THEM- the accumulation of debts on SELVES-Napoleon.
credit, for sooner or later the country will have to pay the rockoning, the greatest burdon in the Colony yesterday. falling on these who received Toast bonofit from the golden stream while it lasted.
There was a clean bill of health
Propaganda.
is
His Excellency the Governor to lay the foundation stone of the new building of Bt. Paul's Girls' College to-morrow afternoon,
PLAY AND PLAYERS.
PRELIMINARIES: GOOD PROGRAMME.
By "Wanderer.
Andro Dupro commenced fights have been won in the first training yesterday, quite a large round.
crowd of onlookers watching points. It might be reald that
BASEBALL, Baseball has received a decided the French boy jumped into his stride almost at once, for he fillip in the Colony this season showed fow signs of his month's and seven clubs were represented rost, and his four rounds of at last evening's annual mooting sparring with Drummor Bowles of the Baseball League. The and L/Corpl Wright would have Hongkong team, Volunteer team, Damage to the extent of $200 passed muster in any hall ae and the teams of the South Dospite the unsettled conditions.
was caused to a junk in a colli-excellent exhibition bouts. Ho China A. A., the Japanese B. C., provailing in Canton, some-one sion with the steam launch Man did a littlo light exercise in the Indian R. C., the Filipino thoro atill finds time in which to yea in the harbour yesterday. addition."
Club, and the University, have "propagandise" on behalf of the No-one was injured.
Dupre weighed 130 lbs. all been at practice and the signs Government and the Kuomintang
yesterday, but, as is generally are that no olub will be allowed Party. A recent issue of the Canton Gazette contains several Amongst the passengers who known, a boxer invariably puts to run away with the champion-
од a couple of pounds in the ship this year. columns of a manifesto attributed arrived by the Empress of
It was pleasing to see eighteen to the General Chamber of Cori- Australia were Mr. and Mrs. N. I. early stages of bis training,
doubt, goo to it that he doesn't ing out for last night's praotico" merce and associated merchants Brewer, Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. E though Sergeant Hunt will no members of the H. V. D. O. tur organisations, the main burden of Danenborg and Mr. G. Grimble:
havo to starve himself in the game and several of the players which is to praise, the Govern-
last few days in order to make, with previous knowledge showed the weight on this occasion. up extremely well. They are to Jim Cartlidge also set to work to practice catching at headquarters rub off his rough edges yesterday, this evening. and it was obvious that in a very short while he will be fighting fit.
mont and to dispute the alleged The T.KE. liner Siberia Maru, absorption of the Kuomintang on her first Express Service Party by Soviet Russia, How trip from Yokohama to San disinterested and impartial the Francisco, made the voyage in 11 be gathered, incidentally, from before the scheduled timo. authors of this manifesto are mar days and 21 hours 15 hours
the fact that they describo, Chan King-ming, and his followers as "rebele," thus revealing the cloven hoof very
"
Mr. T, M. Gregory, an old and
effectually. The well-known resident of the
It might be as well to mention for the information of a baseball scribe that "razzing" or "blaa blaa," whichever was one likes PRELIMINARY BOUTS. to put it, was freely indulged in,"
(EXCLUSIVE).
though there is, I am told, no Subject, of course, to pormis. truth in the rumour that they are
Govorament, says this manifesto, Colony, is leaving for Europe to- is not carrying out Communism, morrow on the Hakozaki Maru,sion of the Army and Navy considering the appointment of a combined business and authorities, the following con- professional coach in this phase And it goes on to explain that the on
friendliness of the Government pleasure trip, being accompanied tests will form the preliminary of the gamo.
part of the programme for June 13th's tournament:
Mr. H. Major v. Drummer Bowles.
.
tho Kuomintang has
been
י.
*
P.O. Meen, Tamar, v. A. B. Ringham, Iriquois.
Stoker Thomson, Titania, v Pto. Eaton,
Pts, Mann.
L/Stoker Piper, Submarines, v
Mr. Ed. Latio was elected President of the League last evoning, Mr. Juno Hon. Sec., and Mr. Sling, Hon, Treasurer..
Another name which comes to
and the Kuomintang towards the by his wife. Soviet is simply due to the lattere cancellation of all "unequal Our Picture Page to-morrow Trostios," How very simple it all will include several photographs CHINESE ANOMALIES.is, when once explained. The re-taken at the Defence Corps sporla; cont stories of the spread of Com- a group of Surroy regimental tug- munism in Canton are, of course, of-war champions; a photograph
THE HONGKONG BOXING sheer imagination; they are of H, Brags, University sprinter,
ASSOCIATION, attributed by the authors of this the Colony'a 220 yards champion;
The Hongkong Boxing Associ- manifesto to the "Hongkong Lis and pictures of the American
ation, "Fightfan," is now in the Factories." It is noteworthy, tennis stare and Shangbai players
All things considered it is genes that it was first incorporat however, that there is no specific whom they recently met.
difficult to conceive a better pro- Association in 1920. In reality ed as the Hongkong Boxing repudiation of the allegations
gramme. Mr. H, Major, (formerly it evolved from the old Hongkong recently made by Mr. Ma Soo- The aerated waters store of Corpi. Major) and Drummer Polica Reserve, who ran all box when ostentatious oro denial of the statement that Messrs. A. S. Watson and Com- Bowles, are two of the best men ing tournaments in the Colony travagance occurs amidst scenes financed from Moscow, or that Pany, at No, 37 Connaught Road round about their weight ever during the war under the able of the worst squaler, as when M: Borodin is the leading spirit night before last by a thief who Regiment, though, strange as it the late Mr. J. C. Wilden, then Central, was broken into the turned out by the East Surrey guidance of Mr. F. C. Jenkin and half-starved locking coolies in bohind the scenes of government secured entry by removing two may seem, they have never yet Chief Preventive Officer. Mr. in Canton. Neither is it disputed panes from a back window. He met in the roped square. Drum Wilden was the Association's first tattored garments are hired to that Russians are largely om-stole from a drawer in the office mer Bowles is in great form just! carry part of tho furnishings ployed in military circles thore. a sum of $20. A report has since now and he should be able to worked enthusiastically in the manager and Mr. ⠀ Tinson of a big wodding procession. Liberty."
boen made by the chief clerk, Mr. make Major go all the way, ̧. One sees more of this in the
Peter Wong, to the police. Eaton and Thomson contested capacity of Hon. Secretary and If this manifesto, as alleged,
Treasurer. the final of the middleweight outports, though Hongkong 00-comes from Chinese merchants,
Mr. W. C. Buntor, president of championship of the V.B. C. and tion is to see that boxing in the The whole aim of the Associa- oasionally offers some striking we should have thought that affects along these lines. The they would not have bothered the Abbott School of Aviation. after the judges had disagreed Colony is run on olsan lines, and us in regard to the Thomson was given the verdict to provide real fights primarily themselves with political issues. writes
that occasion for the benefit of the Services. recent inauguration of a thrift Yet we have them supposedly aeroplane mishap in the New The fight on
that the was marked by usuless clinching In the old days the Colony. campaign here has some connec-demanding that the Government Territorios, stating
get rid of all obstacles in the machine was a newly-construct but Eaton appears to have given had professional boxing promo- tion with this matter, as en-path of "real Deinocracy," anded three-seater, and that it was up his boring in habits of late and ters, the principal ones being· couraging loss exponditure by pleading for various govern- not the plane from which the he should be able to reverse the Nobby" Hall, of the Naval wealthy people on themselves mental and military reforms. late Mr. Earnshaw met his death. decision over a longer distance.
Was the "Felix. "
Yard, Capt. Nichol, of the old P.O. Meen gained a clever win Imperial Hotel, "Jack Dempsey" and a correspondingly greater
Moreover, they are represented This latter as asking lor "perfect freedom of which is still in the service of in three rounds over A.B. Ring" a non-de-plume for Sgt. Jack De-.
ham, a hard-hitting fighter from amount on the poor who exist in speech, publication and right of the Aviation School.
the Iriquois, when they met in the Dick Whitaker, proprietor of the veny, of the Hongkong Police, and such multitudes around them.association and gatherings." The
Armed robbers broke into the final of the welterweights at the Praya East Hotel. Outside the Far East, however, it inference, of course, is that no
V.R.C. Ringham was gaining the such freedom is now enjoyed-Ngchaukee import and export is naturally difficult to accept and obviously it is not. No; firm, in Koshing Street. about upper hand as the fight proceeded mind is that of Christie. I believe such contrasts unmoved, for the the Kuomintang idea of liberty, midnight yesterday, and, by on that occasion and he is anxious he was proprietor of the Belle advance of democracy in the as we explained the other day means of a generous display of to meet Meen over the longer dis- View Hotel at North Point, now
(and · ДЕ the Party itself arms, succeeded in cowering the tance. The men are an excellent Ming Yuen Gardens, Wost has done away with much asserted) is freedom, limited to inmates, who wore forced to sur contrast in styles and a good fight One could seldom be sure of of the abject servitude of past the orders of the organisation. render the keys, with which the is sure to materialise.
seoing a straight fight in the old." centuries, which is still reflected Any other type of liberty would robbers word enabled to obtain well during the last twelve mon- the welterweight champion of Piper has come on amazingly days. When "Sky" Korrison was in Chinese everyday life. Evan know anything of the Chinese of $1,110 was extracted. They ths and he should be able to beat the Colony, Nobby" Hall pro- more difficult must it be, then, to merchant class, whether in Can- osoaped in an unknown direction. Mann, who, though he is one of duced a man who he nominated as those men whom it is always a champion of the South San accept the Oriental principle more desired than peace and ton or elsewhere, it is that nothing
pleasure to see in the ring, has Islands and many other places". that display, however expensive, good order, so that business can famous vocalists in the person of punch to go far with the stoker.
One of the world's most not in my opinion the necessary and a fight took place at the City is necessary at times, other-be carried on without interrup: Miss Mabel Garrison is due to
Hall. The public watched Ker It is also hoped to arrange afrison knock out his opponent in wise one loses standing, "face,” dom, as conceived by the pol- give a concert at the City Hall contest in which Pte. William-four rounds, but the sequel was
"Democracy" and "free" and all else which counts for iticians, does not enter into their to night when there will doubt-son will appear. Williamson has even more humourous, for the rank in the East. The will ex-minde; they wish to be free of less be a large and enthusiastic been walking through the Surreya man had hardly recovered when he plain the adverse comments political agitations and the effects audience. Mias Garrison's pro- lightweights, and most of his was prrested as a naval desorteri
thereof. These and other facts gramme includes excerpts from which have been caused at make us doubt whether any re some of the most famous operas Gonova, as reported in a news presentative body of Chinese and also a number of songs and message yesterday, by the giving merchants would bother to issue
such an obviously inspired feature is the group of folksongs of a huge and
very expensive manifesto as the аде under banquet, by the Chinage doleg-notice. The whole thing looks ation, while China remains in very unconvincing.
Another big success was TO- arrears with her subscriptions
gistored by the "Our Cabaret and loan instalments, and has to
company at the Star Theatre,
The King's Birthday was cele- The twelfth international cotton Kowloon, last night, when, in the brated in the usual manner by conference has opened in the accept outside aid for her
presence of large audience, a shameenites yesterday. At 10 presence of the President of the famine-stricken populace.
most enjoyable programme was a.m. Divino Service was held at Republic and Government Yet
The lady artistes Christ Church, Shameon, the Rov. officials. Bubmitted. it is impossible to
were all in excellent form, whilst OI. Blanchett, C.M.B., pronching. condemn the Chinese represent-
Jan Carlyll and Reno Delyse Many of Shameon residents, delegatos represent twenty-one Three hundred and twenty. atives for thoir act, which was taken over to more mado a great hit with their num together with naval forces States, including Britain, Gor
As from to-day, now owners
bers. Frank Milne was also o attended, merely based on age-long cus Commercial News-tho journal
many and other European in- tom; and the criticism savours published by the Hongkong Chin-tremely funny. There will be a
From 11 am to noon & racep- and the United Statos.
dustrial States, Egypt, Japan,: of absoluto ignorance of Eastern morce and formerly known as
080 General Chamber of Com-new programme to-night
tion was hold by His Britannic! social life. At the same time, if the Chung Ngoi Sun Po-and shows how observers are bogin-will continue publication under and encouragement of trade and LL.D., at the British Consulsto ning to take stock of China's the now style and name of the industry. In this connection, It General and was attended by
Overseas Chinese Daily News. may be mentioned that all official practically every Shamoon and afterwards dancing took. actions, and how little she can The Overseas Chinese Daily announcements and important afford to continue her wasteful News will be conducted on the information of commercial incident. Notable absentees were place until 2.30,
the Chinese officials, who, in In the evening, Sir James most pro- forest of the Hongkong Chinese previous years, attended in all Jamieson held on official dinner oxponditure, not merely on grossivo lines, The principal aims Gonoral Chamber of Commerce their pomp and glory. At noon at which all the Consular official dinners given abroad, but of the paper will be the service of will, by special arrangement the toast to the King was gival representatives and Naval officera on an army of useless hangers news without fear or favour for already entered into, bu ox and shortly afterwards all were present and at 9.30.p.m. an on, masquerading patriots," and of mutual understanding and goed columns of the Overseas Chinese whore the British residents were Canton Club Theatre and was the common woal, the promotion clusively published in the adjourned to the Canton Club impromptu dance was hold in the rival" war lords. One can for followship botwoon foreignors and Daily News. We wish the venture at home to all their friends. The kept up until the early hours of give a little extravagance in Chiuose, and the advancement every succoss.
toast to the King was again given the morning.
be looked on askancol If we access to a safe from which a sum
tion.
LOCAL PRESS,
CHINESE JOURNAL CHANGES HANDS.
most modern and
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with which the concort will be concluded,
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KING'S BIRTHDAY.
SHAMEEN CELEBRATIONS.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shameen, Juno 4.
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COTTON CONGRESS.
INTERNATIONAL INTEREST.
Vienne, June 4,
Majesty's Consul General, Sir, The congress is to last tbroo James Jamieson, K. C.M.G., days. Reuter.