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··LOCAL FOOTBALL PROBLEM.
"EDUCATING" THE CHINESE SPECTATOR.
CLUBS' RESPONSIBILITY.
By Wanderer";
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
14, 1927.
THE COMMUNISTS.
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is particularly resented by Kuo- mintang leaders who feel that she is boldly attacking the Kumintang in the interests of Communism, whereas when she made her pro- nunciamentos, it was believed that she was opposed not to civilian Government under the Kuomintang but to militarism, which after all, is as reprehensible in the South as in the North.
Semi-Communists in Nanking.
`OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY AIMS TO DECEIVE.
"TELEGRAPH" FOOTBALL
COMPETITION.
PRIZE OF $50 WEEKLY FOR EASY FORECASTS,
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The "Hongkong Telegraph" offers a prize of $50 to the readers who send in twelve correct forecasts of the reaults of the English and. Scottish Football League matches (to be played on Saturday next, September 17th) set out in the Coupon below. No goal scores are required; only forecasts showing wins or draws..
In the event of no reader forecasting all twelve matches, a prize of $25 will be given to the reader who sends in the greatest number of correct forecasts; and in the event of two or more readers send. ing in an equal high number, the prize of $25 will be divided.
Read the Rules below and follow them carefully
Rules of Competition.
1. All forecasts must be contained on coupons cat from the "Hongkong Telegraph," the name of address of the entrant to be plainly printed in the entrant to be p
ONLY AN ILLUSION.
It is interesting to see the rise of the beauty shops all over the When a man throws als topee
world. Every town has its quota, in the air and takes a brutal Hck
all of them dedicated largely to at it on the way to earth, one may
the production and maintenance of very well accept it as a fact that he
artificial beauty. Dressing tables is excited, and as this has hap pened, in greater or lesser degree,
of many women now have as many with consistency during minor
preparations on them as the old- friendly football matches wit- 3. Nanking is being over-crowd-time doctors' pill cases used to ressed recently, I make no apologyed by semi-Communists, by the contain, and the women's bill for for referring, before the season is under way, to the problem of men who were responsible for all cosmetics is almost as large as their bill for movies, and that rurs the control of Chineso spectatora. the strength which the Commun-into scores of millions.
I have no desire to dig up theists developed in Canton and Han. distant past, or to cause any
Cosmetics are the stock in truda fresh unpleasantness, but there kow.
semi-Communists of all beauty cures and beauty have been one or two incidents are politically the most unreliable treatments. What women але during the past two or three weeks which make it appear that the persons in Chinese affairs. They doing by using these cosmeties is seeking the illusion of health. Chinese spectator is no better ure opponents of the Communistic After all, the healthy tissue is be sent in, but a separate coupon must aducated in the matter of sports-political and economic programme, the most beautiful tissue. manship that, he has formerly Recreio were playing a military with the Communists when it pays team, and the large crowd of them to do so. Most of them Chinese spectators yelled un-
were Mike Borodin's main- restrainedly at any decision giveh
stay while he was in China. They against the Portuguese, merely
May, 1925. They support. ed him against General Chiang Kai-shek. They tried to keep
These
fyielded
Sun-
2. All envelopes must be addressed to the "Hongkong Telegraph," 1/8,] Wyndham Street, and marked "Football Competition" on the front." with sender's name (without address) on the back.
3. Any number of attempts may be used for each attempt. shown. On Saturday, the Club debut they always ally themselves light and fresh air have never ed to the competitor who sends in 4. The prize of $50 will be award- creams and paints and lotions as supremacy to
beauty twelve correct forecasts On one bringers of beauty to women. coupon. If there is no correct fore- cast of all twelve matches, a prize During the World War science of $25 will be awarded to the com- did much to increase the know-petitor who sends in the greatest number of correct forecasts on one surgery. Men who were horribly one competitor forwarding an equal disfigured had whole new faces winning number of forecasts, the built up.
$25 will be divided equally between such competitors. No competitor, than one share of the prize. however, will be entitled to more
because they dislike the Club de brought him back to "Canton in ledge and the practice of plastic coupon. In the event of more than
Recreio.
On the previous Saturday, a number of Chinese aimlessly kick-
ing into goal on the Sookunpoo ground were turned off by troops, at which they gathered forces and proceeded to stone the play ers of a match then in progress, bringing an early and abrupt termination to the game.
him in China
the when
Hunanese militarists ordered him
were
5. All forecast coupons must reach
the "Telegraph" office not later than 12 o'clock (noon) on Saturdays. Coupons received after that time will| bo_disqualided.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” FORECAST COMPETITION.
Matches to be played on Sep- tember 17th:-
DIVISION L
Birmingham Bury Wednesday
V
V
Cardiff Sheffield U. Bolton W.
DIVISION II.
Hull
V
S. Shields
Presion N.E. Y
Port Vale
Luton
DIVISION III. (SOUTH).
Y Brentford Plymouth
Coventry V
DIVISION HII. (NORTH).
Accrington New Brighton v
✓
V Darlington Halifax
Cowdenbeath
SCOTTISH LEAGUE,
Hamilton V Dundee Falkirk
T
V
St. Johnstone St. Mirren
Name
The beauty specialists out of Hankow and now they quick to seize upon what had been betrayed and denounced him when learned about face rebuilding, and they realized that his fate was as a result, there has sprung up sealed. These semi-Communists a new practice of plastic surgery have been too closely associated whose practitioners claim that with Borodin for their denuncia- they can make women lock years
6. The results of each week's tions to be taken too seriously younger than they actually are. Some of them are so tied to him
Competition will be announced in the Plastic surgery to correct physi-Telegraph" of the Fridays follow- Address by personal associations, that to be a
ing the dates on which the matches are played.
7. Competitors who have forwarded
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That such things can be when the excitement of competition does not exist, is sufficient commentary in itself, and it seems question of forewarned, forearmed. should the opportunity offer, they cal appearance and restore tissue Ten of the 20 teams forming the would call him back. It is a lost in accidents has a great place Hongkong-Football League are serious matter for Nanking thatin' surgery, but the tendency. of eight or more correct forecasts must
so many of them have arrived in many plastic surgeons is to adapt send in claims for the prize. Enve- No. 3. Chinese. They attract. on
that city during the past two days. all the means of quackery to pro-lopes containing such claims must be
If the semi-Communists have mote their work..
average seven or eight thousand spectators to their various matches each week, and it is as well to emphasise to responsible Chinese
marked "Football Claim" and must Wednesday following the dates on
their way at Nanking, they will The competent and ethical surreach this ace not later than the undoubtedly ally themselves with
Date
9. No match contained in the
cfficials that clubs are responsible the Communist armies marching geon will never resort to face lift- which the matches are played, fail-coupon which, from any cause, is not
It is very seldom that a player play the game in the right spirit, but until the spectators learn to accept anything occurring on the field of play in the same spirit, unpleasantness is bound to creep in. I wonder that before now. appeals to sportsmanship have not been made through the Chinese newspapers.
offends. indeed the Chinese teams
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
TO-MORROW'S MATCH,
A rugby match has been arrang ed to take place on the Happy Valley Football Ground morrow afternoon between the
up:
40-
L
so many
A LORRY JOY RIDE.
FINE AND BIRCH AS SEQUEL.
for legiing and nose
purposes of beauty alone, munist nucleus in Moscow, There nor will he promise results that are such direct lines leading to are not achieved by the quacks Moscow in the personalities of the who are careless of promises. semi-Communists that there can no longer be any mistaking the which Borodin left behind him. Communist legacy of trouble For instance, why are members of Mme. Sun Yat-sen's party seeking office in the new Government which is to be es- tablished at Nanking? Have they
A curious motor accident occur- repudiated her altogether or are red in Jubilee Road yesterday. they acting as her agents? These are questions which cannot be morning, which resulted in two ignored, and are not being ignored men being charged before Mr. R. by Chinese. For wherever one driving a P.W.D. lorry without per- E. Lindsell this morning, for roes these days, the main subject mission. of conversation among Chinese, northerners politicians and those who abhor and scutherners, politics, is why did Mme. Sun go to Moscow and what is the political consequence of her conduct?
New Fight with Bourgeoiss
motor lorry No. 1622, belonging to It appears that the driver of the P. W. D., tools a fitter and a younger apprentice out to Jubilee Road, where a motor roller was working.
No prize will be awarded for which a claim has not been made.
10. No member of the "Telegraph" staff will be permitted to, compete in 8. The "Telegraph" will accept no this competition. responsibility for the loss or non-. 11. The Editor's decision must be delivery of coupons. No correspon-accepted as final dence or interviews" will be entered dispute in connexion with the Com on all paints in into concerning this Competition, petition.
MARK YOUR ENVELOPES "FOOTBALL" ON THE FRONT, AND WRITE YOUR NAME (WITHOUT ADDRESS) ON THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE.
Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks in respect of matches which you think will be drawn.
If you forecast eight or more results correctly on one coupon, don't forget to make a claim not later than the Wednesday following.
Watch the "Telegraph" on Fridays for results.
FAMOUS OUTLAW,
(Continued From Page 7.)
secured included a 12 bore Win- chester Repeating Shot Gün and 37 rounds of ammunition.
25th April
1927-Firearm
dacolty at Nyungbinhin village.
cil to inform his sister at Fyawbwe Two villagers received un-ahot While the thugyi wounds. Cash and jewellery to
The driver it would seem left the of his arrest.
le was accompanied by the appren-attacked the constable inflicting in- Road, where they turned the lorry his escape, although handcuffed tice fitter. They reached Sassoonjuries on the arm and made good round and returned to where the Since then he has been the terror of
roller was.
Having taken a joy ride, they at- tempted to face the lorry in the same direction as it was before they drove it away but the lorry ran into the embankment and the front axle was bent. The damage
the Meiktila and Thazi District.
26th-28th April 1927.- Police informer shot dead near Pyungen
in Thagaya village. One inmate 8th May 1927-Firearm dacoity
Srwe Byaing, Advocate) shot dead and three. (including Head Judicial Clerk and his wife). seriously wounded. The woman
subsequently died in hospital.
16th
His Crime Sheet. His crime sheet makes startling reading.
The following are the details of former (one of San Hpe's asso- June 1927. Police In- crimes committed by San Hpe at ciates) shot dead near Thazi:-
village. Prior to the 3rd January 1926
Meda'w
Club and Waseda University who are returning to Japan after successful tour in New South Wales., Kick off at 5.30, p.m.
I have only touched upon the The following teams will line open, more-or-less above board car, to go up the hillside, While was looking for the paper and pen- the value of Rs. 3,060 taken.
political activities of the Com-
he was gone, the driver of the motor eil San Hpe, it is alleged, picked up roller jumped into the driving seat a dab nearby and cut S. I. F. Mg "Club.-H. J. Armstrong: A. munists. But beneath the surface of the lorry, turned it round, and Nyi Pu on the head killing him on
the Communist Party of China is drove it along the road for a mile. the spot. E. Pritchard, R. F. Wright, A. C.
reorganizing, is
He is said to have next village. preparing to 1. Bowker, G. P. Lammert; C. D. grapple with what they call the Wales. Lieut. Mattingley; bourgeois nationalistic reaction of Foster, Lieut. Hankey, Lieut.
Nanking. This will undoubtely be Welch, H. F. Akehurst. W. Be- the major political struggle for veridge, R. W. Lee, Sergt. Bruno
some time to come, but it has one and Sergt. Stewart.
saving grace and that is that the Waseda University--Kobure: anti-Communist elements within Nakajinu, Pakigawa, Baba, Sun- the Kuomintang and among the abori; Maruyama, Honryo; At- Chinese people will not have time suml, Kimura, Ohta, Yanashita, to be lulled into passiveness to Shimidzu, Sukegawa, Sakakura and aggression. The anti-Communists Kaneko.
are in a fighting mood, for they done amounted to $30. Referee Lieut. Kinmont, Scots feel that the Nanking Conference Guards.
is an exceptional opportunity to Inspector Alexander, prosecuting San Hpe was an absconder under 18th June 1927-Firearm da- save the Party frem defeat and the said that the driver of the motor Section 18, Habitual Offenders Res- coity at Yondaw village. nation from disgrace and if the roller had no licence to drive a triction Act.
26th June 1927-Firearm da Communists and their semi-Com-lorry. He pointed out to his Wor- 3rd December 1926-Arrested coity at Magyiwa village. munist agents ruin this Con- ship that he was not being charged under Section 18, Habitual Offen-
Attempts to Arrest ference, it will prove beyond a with driving without a license, but ders Restriction Act by Sub- shadow of a doubt that the sole only for driving without the permis- Inspector Maung Nyi Maung and In the early stages of his out-: aim of the Communists is to pro- sion of the P. W. D.
Police Constable Maung Kywe at lawry, the Deputy Inspector- duce confusion in China. ·
The roller driver claimed that Thagaya village, Meiktila District: General, Northern Range, con- the Sub-Inspector, centrated his flying squad on the his roller, and that he drove it seriously wounded the Constable task of arresting him and the
was in the way of Murdered a little distance away. He said and escaped from custody.
D. S. of Pollee organised the local the apprentice was responsible
14th January 1927-San Hpe force with the for the long drive, and also for with two companions, raided the Military Police parties were also same futent, hut of the village headman of sent up but, San Hpe had so far Okshitkon village Meiktila Dis- always eluded his pursuers. The 12 current opinion was that the
HOME CRICKET.
NEW ZEALANDERS SCORE
WELL.
London, Sept. 13, At Scarborough, the match be- tween IT. D. G. Leveson-Gower's eleven and New Zealand was drawn. The scores were:
New Zealand, 447, and 103.
(for 3 wickeis). Leveson-Gower's XI, 316. For the New Zealanders in the first innings, Mills compiled 152, and Blunt 131.-Reuter,
CHOLERA IN PERAK.
BELIEVED TO BE INTRODUCED BY PILGRIMS.
Ipoh, September 5. The authorities are most re- ticent about a second outbreak of cholera in the riverine kampongs, north of Teluk Anson, where there were over 60 casos recently. The Principal Medical Officer and the Chief Health Offleor spent the week-end in the district with a special staff of European doctors.
It is believed that the cholora was introduced by returned. pilgrims.
FAEL
RAYS
After a man has spooned around he gets "married and starta forking over.
the lorry
the accident to the car!
league with him and gave him in- formation of raids by means of torch-flashes.
The youthful. fitter, made a trict, and decamped with a statement to the effect that the bore S.B.B.L. gun and a Shan villages round about were in roller driver had told him that hedalwe. wanted promotion and would apply 27th January 1927.-Women and for a lorry license.. Seeing child shot dead at Medaw Village, lorry lying idle, he thought it was Meiktila District, by San, Hpe. a good opportunity to take some lessons. He said that it was first defendant who drove the whole way. When the car was brought back to the spot from which it started, the elder of the two told the apprentice to turn the car round. The apprentice admitted that it was while he was turning the car round they ran into the embankment.
11th March 1927.-Ywpale East, firearm dacolty (armed robbery) suspected to have been committed
"About 40 good conduct convicts, by San Hpe and followers.
serving long sentences at Maid 13th March 1927-San Hpe Hill Prison for their annual stone Prison, were taken to Camp rounded up at Medaw village but change of surroundings and oc escaped after shooting dead a Constable of the Police Party month. They are expected t
eupation in Parkhurst Forest last 15th April 1927-San Hpe and stay for a month at Camp Hill, an accomplice each armed with a where they do light work in the gun fired three shots at a Mount forest and have their meals se Mr. Lindsell fined the rollered Constable in Htanaunggon parately from the other prisoner driver 550, or in default four village and decamped. Missed the They travelled by motor-coaches. weeks hard labour and the ap- Constable, but a child received to Portsmouth and crossed in a prentice was ordered to receive gun-shot wounds in the thigh. Government, vessel to Cowes, 19th April 1927San Hpo and where, in passing through the twelve strokes of the birch," The Magistrate added that he hoped followers committed a firearra harbour, they had the opportunity adequate steps would be taken dacoity at Magylbinbu village of witnessing the yachting regatt against the driver of the lorry:
Three houses burnt down. Loot They wore grey civillan suits.