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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 16th June, 1925.
Moscow
gang have
To-day is the birthday of King everything to gain if China be-
Gustav of Sweden, who was born comes further weakened by a in 1858. repetition of the foolish Boxer uprising, or if the country were
Dover 8800
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PLAY AND PLAYERS.
KOWLOON'S LACK OF BATHING FACILITIES. By: "Wanderer:"
Kowloon, with all its oxtoneive that sea-front, is totally devoid of bath shoulder statement of your your straight-from-the ing facilities of any description, opinion is certainly not without and it therefore comes as a bigger the support of "those who follow- disappointment to hear that, od the fight closely." owing to lack of funds, the or- "As a comparatively now comer
to split up into a number of Amongst the passengers who ganisera of the new European to this City, I had littlo use for arrived by the Empress of Asia Y.M.C.A. due to opon in Septem- the cynicisms of people who separate Communist Republics were Mrs. G. Grimble, Miss bor, are obliged, for the time be- gratuituously informed me that on the lines of the shining ex- Grimble and Mr. J. H. Back-ing, to drop the scheme for the boxing visitor could never win amplo est by the
housu..
provision of a swimming bath at in Hongkong except by the ko. numorous
the rear of their premises in route. As I before mentioned, I suctions of modorn Russis. No
Salisbury Road: Kowloonites placed little credence in Buch doubt the Sovjot Government
A trolley laden with stone ran where they might go for half-an-decisions are customary as the are badly in need of some place smoke room chatter, but if such would then fall on the necks of over a Chinese quarryman at the hour's dip after the day's work is verdict its proved disciples, and the Government Quarrios at North o'er, and it noods only a public provided always that the judges. given on Saturday, combined gang of adventurore killed, and his remains were to come forward and make the men, the question le cortainly. Polat yesterday. The man was spirited gentleman (or gentlemen) are presumed to be competent would set about "improving" the taken to the Mortuary. lot of tho
way clear, by his moral, and clothed in a now atmosphere, poor downtrodden
financial support, for the estabe "My sojourn in Hongkong has Chinese peasants-millions of
lishment of this facility for the been a short one. My interest in whom bavo
young men of the mainland.:**** foroignor, but know the iron
tion list, started by some gentle-the past eight months. The the game has been keen. I have I feel sure that even a subscrip-attended most tournaments in hand of brigand and tuchun only
man or hong with an encourag-number of times when judgos too well-and in a mutual flood
ing figure, would be well sup have disagreed in contests, in ported. of crocodile tears would make Queen's Theatre,
which the ordinary man-in-the- vows of oternal brotherhood. It
street feels surely safe in his would be a laughable picture
BASEBALL POSEES.
own particular verdict, has boon...” Poser No. 3-It is the last half noticeable. Judging, as a whole, were it not beset with so many Life" will be the subject of this leading by the score of 2 to 0.
"Some Difficulties of the Inner of the last innings with one team is of a pretty low standard, gloomy aspects. And unfor week's "Public Lecture of the.
though fortunately, in the With two out and runnera, on interests of boxing, reformes tunately the Chinese massea Hongkong Lodge of the Theo- first and second the batsman have Invariably picked on are blissfully ignorant of the sophical Society, 16, Queen's triples, sending both runners over the right man. On Saturday danger that threatens thom, but June 17th, at 5.45 p.m. The Public count.
Road Central, on Wednesday the plate, apparently levelling the there were two extremely bad
decisions. It would be inter continue to be driven liko sheep aro cordially invited. Adut. The runner on first, originally.esting to know how the referees at the bahest of successival
in making the circuit failed to figured that Ringham had beaten touch second base. The ball was Pooley and Cartlidge had beaten cliquos of place-seekers
thrown to that base, and the up-Dupre political conspirators.
and
Council Meetings.
Somewhat of a departure was made yesterday, when the Legis lative Council met at noon instead of the usual hour, 2.30 in the afternoon. As it so happened, there was very little business on the agenda, with the result that the meeting lasted a few very minutes. All the same, weara
RUSSIAN SYMPATHY. wondering whether, excepting in
messages
which
As the bero of a circus, Jackie is the envy of all small boys this Coogan, a bareback riding clown, wook in his now First National picture, Ciroua Days," showing for the last time to-day at the
of
Failing to get out of the way the. Aberdeen bus, which was turning round a corner, & Chinese was injured in the foot when one. of the wheels passed over it, at the junction of Queen's Road and Centre Street yesterday. The man was taken to the Govern ment Civil Hospital.'
OBITUARY.
MR. JOHN RAMSAY OF SHANGHAL
pire, who had noticed the slip. I saw the previous meating called the runner out, retiring the between the latter pair and pag- side.
sing aside my view on that fight, What about this play and what I would say that in view of the was the score when the inning dispute which arose on that oc ended?
oasion, it would have been advis the game, & to 0. The two runs etandpoint, to have appointed AnswerThe first team won able, from a general sporting that crossed the plate did not three entirely new officials to counter orig
take charge of the scrap on Saturday,
!
The runner originally on first, failing to touch second on his way to the plate, pulled a "bone" that rendered the runs void...
When the ball was thrown to second base and the umpire. ruled him out for his failure to touch that base, he simply made a force The rule says no runs can ecore play out of the situation. on a play in which the third out is a force play That was the situation here.
"THE BIG FIGHT DECISION.
"There was one change only and that, I am given to under stand, because Mr. Logan was! disinclined to again accept the responsibility of adjudication.
The integrity of the judges must be accepted but it is open to officer should adjudicate in a duel question whether or not a navalga concerning a man in his own Service. I am inclined to the view that this procedure was rathor unfair. to the Frenchman and was surprised that his
BREVITIES.
unusual circumstances, noon would not be the best tíma at As the days go by wa see more which to hold these meetings, of the sympathetic spirit animat- We should imagine that both in The death occurred at Obama, ing the Moscow Soviet in its the case of our Officials and our Japan, at 11-30 p.m. on June 9 of
business men it would be far Chief-Buperintendent John Ram attitude towards the Chinese preferable to assemble at the say, of the Shanghai Municipal trouble. Alona of the European earlier hour, and thus allow the Polico. nations the Russians are actively afternoon to be free for the
ordinary work of the day, Thore. Superintendent Ramsay was endorsing the Shanghai and other is no reason, that we can see, born in Nairn, Scotland, on April A reader signing himself secondo made no appeal. " outbreaks, and probably are in why any Council meeting (ex 4, 1855. On leaving school he was
Suum Cuique" writes me to-day I have been obliged to deleto # firm of en. concerning the bout between several references not exactly full accord with the most absurd cepting perhaps those devoted apprenticed to
to the Budget) should last longer gineers in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Andre Dupre and Jim Cartlidge complimentary to Hongkong domands of the student bodies.than an hour. Even in the cass Scotland. He was the oldest and from his lattor I take the judges, mainly because they make Wo omit particular reference to of the possible exception, it might member of the Municipal Police, following extracts
no distinotion. We have several sympathetic
I have perused with interest quite good judges of the game in be an advantage to start at noon, having joined the Forco after for the result would most likely several years with the Salford the various reports of the the Colony. haye been received in
China ba a cutting down of much of Borough Police Force, Lan- Cartlidgo-Dupre battle in your from British and other Labour the superfluous speechifying cashire, on August 31, 1888. In contemporaries, as well as your
which marks Budget Day. It 1885, whilst a Sergeant in the own account, and I was pleased, The annual meeting to which organisations. It is sheer ignorought to be possible for the Force, he was transferred to the albeit surprised, to find one local | I referred on Thursday last week ance of the true position which Sanior Unofficial, whoover he Shanghai Water Works and later sporting journalist who would was that of the Hongkong Foot- has dictated those messages, and might be, to speak for the returned to Police Duty. He give due appreciation to the ball Association and not of the they have not the "endorsement whole of his colleagues in was promoted Chief Inspector in visitor and, regardless of the con- Boxing Association as misprinted, a brief, condensed speech 1992 on the death of the late sequences, is apparently prepared The meeting is, I understand, to of a whole nation. It would do on points with which there Chief Inspector G. Howard and to give credit, where credit is due. be held on June 26th, some of our own Labour men els disagreement with the Govern-until 1917 was the only Chief "Hearing a great deal of com great deal of good were they ment: on other issues, silence Inspector in the Force. On the meat, favourable and otherwise, A golfer we know refers to his could be taken as indicative of croation of the rank of Superin on your report, differing widely brassie as his blond stenographer given free passage out to Shang consent. These are days when tendent in 1919 he was promoted from other oritics (sic), one feels explaining that it always gots hai, for instance," to observe there is a demand for "tabloid" to that rank and given title of obliged to hasten to..assure you him into trouble... matters for themselves. Perhaps speeches: not lengthy orations Chief Superintendent. they might realise thon that the which are seldom read by the past twelve months and proceed- occupying columns of space, and He had been ailing for the] original strike of mill workers-public. Hongkong's public mon ed to Japan on sick leave in the most probably engineered by the must get into line with modern middle of April, where he passed tendencies in this direction. And away at the age of 70 years, political agitators, who never we can conceive of nothing more having spent nearly fail to make cats' paws of the likely to bring about this result contury in the public service in labjurers, or to conscript them than the knowledge that if they England and Shanghai, for fratricidal warfare has deve the pangs of hunger asserting overstop the limits they will feel
loped into a student affair. On themselves as the hands of the further exquiry they would clock move around towards the
tiffin-hour.
realiso that these students! form the class which, as things Terrorism,
THE UNNANESE.
half a MOSTLY NON-CHINESE AND
PARTLY MOHAMMEDAN,
We have received the following lettor for publication;
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similar in many respects to the inhabitants of thous countries, ⠀・ The province. mountainous, sparsely inhabited, and the natives are backward in social conditions. Development has been hindered by lack of communications. With its neigh bours, Kwangsi and Kueiohow, the province of Yunnan basi rorism which prevailed, Anothor
Sir. The news in to-day's suffered in the paat from revolts. gratifying aspect of the incidente Telegraph about the cruelties against Chinese dominion, owing is to be found in the intervention Practised on the defeated and to the large proportion of non- go in China to-day,' provides It is a thousand pitios that the by foreign naval mon, at obvious disarmed Yunnaness by the Can-Chinese inhabitants-in one aros victory of the Government forcesy great personal risk to them-ton populace, makes sad reading. three quarters of the nativos are Canton should have been solves; and in this connection To begin with, the poor wretches aboriginals of the Mico trile pressors of the poor." So much marked by such terrible happen- too much praise cannot be lavish woro ignorant peasants, for the The large element of Mohem- for the value of misguided sym-ings as those recorded in oured on the Commander of H.M.S. most part, impressed into service, medans in Yunnan has led to and willing to take orders from several attempts to throw off the pathy; though it cannot be denied issue of yesterday. There is, Robin for seizing the opportunity whoever paid them to fight: The Chinese yoke. The last big affair however, ons bright spot in the of delivering a pacifying homily treatment they havo had will over was a favolt lasting from 1856 to that such an attitude by Labour affair, and that is that the which had its due effect on the bo a blot on the fair name of the 1872, which was suppressed with in other countries offers golden atrocities wore not the work of crowd. All the same, there can be Cantonese. But perhaps wo soc an iron hand. It is recorded that opportunities to the agitatora, who the Cantonese soldiers, who nothing but reprobation on the in this outbreak merely the post this warfare cost ton millión
appoar to have aoted with com- part of all right-thinking people at samblance of a promise of activa of victory, even to the point enacted during the hunting down strongly in China to-day despite So in the recent struggle, and oan turn there mossages into the mondable restraint in their hour the awful stones which were up ill-feeling of centuries and the lives, an average of 625,000 a
race antagonisin which exists so year.
stragglers to places of safety, who, after all, were more tools in
potential war lords and
in
sequel, we perhaps observe:
faid. Howevor, wo are dealing at of shepherding many of the of these unarmed Yunnanose, all that is said about unity. God
present with the avowed approval The whole air appear the service of others. Now that To the average foreignor the the blazing of age-old, pent-up of the Russian Government. have been an examplo - of Canton is free of "outside". Yunnanese are merely Chinese fires. It is a matter for note by
Russia has nothing to lose by wreak
mob rulo- # determination to troops, we sincerely trust that the from. Yunnan province, but in those who look to a China of the vengeanoo Д poor, Canton Government will eattle reslity they are distinct from the future in which all the in- her ondorsement of any anti-helpless soldiers because
down to sound reconstructive rost of the Southern Chinose, habitants, north, south, gaat wost British and anti-Japanese, or they happen to have fought un-work and so bold the reins of being largely aborigines, with and central, are to be in perfect dor the banner of militarists who power as to permit of peace and slight admixture with true Chin- accord and working in hamonicus general anti-foreign, movement had placed heavy burdens on the prosperity being established in oso settlers Many of them are union towards one goal-the- in China. The Saviot have lost shoulders of the people. It in this war-stricken city. In that Mohammedans. all the concessions they over bed clear, however, from the accounts work, they will have the good
which we have received that wishes of the best elements of Yunnan, is situated on the
Yours, etc. at the treaty ports, and thoir in the better-class Chinese wore their own people and of for borders of Burmah and Indo-
WO.T. OPIS fluence in Manchuria is largely thoroughly disgusted at the ter- oignors as well
China, and the people are Hongkong, June 15th, 1925,
welfare of the State I'