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A small fire broke out yesterday | promises was accidentally set -efternoon at the ground flour of alight and an alarm was imme- diately sent to the Fire Brigade, No. 43, Gilman Bazaar, a lane which arrived at the scene prompt. opposite the Bakilly Company atly. The leak in the pipe was re- Des Voeux Road Central. Apaired and the damage done was teakage in the gas fittings in the assessed at a few dollars,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1927.
THE SIPPING MEN. AT WORK,
SOME "TAILS BY A CAT."
BRITISH BEER ON ITS TRIAL. THE PRINCE'S HAPPY HOME.
London, Nov. 2.
OUR FOOTBALL COMPETITION.
SHANGHAI PLAN. against such risk by contributing
TO REWARD BRAVE :,
POLICE.
AID BANDIT VICTIMS.
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according to their moans to a fund which we merchants are ondea- vouring to place in the hands of the Municipal Counell, supported by an advisory committee of Chin- ese and foreign merchants, who would supervise the distribution of the rewards as follows:
1In the case of apprehension and conviction of kidnappers, arm- ed robbera and those threatening the lives of workers, to each of those participating in or lending to the capture of such offenders a suitable monetary reward:
PRIZE OF $50 WEEKLY.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" London, Nov. 7. Yesterday was the opening at
A tone of simplicity dominates offers a prize of $50 to the readers the Agricultural Hall, Islington,
the alterations in Mariborough who send in twelve correct fore- Na of the annual Brewers' Exhibi-House, which is expected to be casts of the results of the English
(to be played The Allied Merchants of Shang- tion. (United States papers please Prince of Wales, by Christmas.
residence of the Cup matches ready, as the
on Saturday next, December ha have addressed the following copy.)
10th) set out in the Coupon communication to the Press:
No goalscores are No good work can be done with- below. required; only forecasts showing out the necessary funds to meet
the high costs pertaining' in ali 2. In the case any one 2830- wins or draws.
lines of life those days. It is, ciated with such capture recelyes- In the event of no reader fore- therefore, most important that bodily injury, proved to the satia- casting all twelve matches, a prize those who have the organization faction of the Committed to be in- of $25 will be given to the reader of methods to cope with kidnapping flicted whilst apprehending, at- who sends in the greatest number and armed robbery should have tempting to apprehend or in the of correct forecasts; and in the sufficient funds in hand to mete tracing of one of these criminals ovent of two or more readers send-out rewards to those assisting in a monetary reward commensurate ing in an equal high number, the bringing such nefarious characters with the gravity of the injury re- prize of $25 will be divided."
It must be apparent to everyone 3.In the case of any policeman, that the greatest menace to life, detective or assistant being proved industrialism in to have been killed in the attempt property and China to-day are organized kid- to apprehend or lead to the ap napping, banditry, armed robbery prehension of this
wear now-
It is a fine exhibition, full of the most recent devices of the trade, which give it, indeed, the look which all exhibitions of everything seem to adaya. The stalls are filled with ninases of machinery, so admir ably intricate that anything might happen when they are set in mo- tion, and textiles, tools, or toffee indifferently spring from them. In the present case they are chielly battling machines, and if there is any thirst in the country which can compete with them it must be a miraculous one.
The smoking-room has been left as King Edward jokingly arranged Thousands of dummy books line the walls, completely hiding the doors. They all have faked titles, such as "Nine Talls, by a Cat. The books concealing the such as doorway contain clues "The Passage Out."
The Prince insisted that the much 68 Toons should remain they wore in Queen Alexandra's days, though he welcomed in stallations such as central heat- ing.
His grandmother's pets' ceme-
It is in the annexe hall that the tery, of nine tombstones, includ- exhibition takes on a good, home-ing "My Darling Togo, my con- ly look of primeval beer. Here stant companion for 12 years," behind two vast counters, forming rentains carefully tended, and is two sides of a rectangle, are visible from the bedroom win- stacked cask upon cask of the en-dows. couraging fluid. There must be
contains The studs
filled with
at least two hundred of them, all cupboards. ranged there for the competition memoranda. between brews. Judgea were busy yesterday lusting the com- petitors, so to speak.
Anonymous Casks.
The barrels are all strictly anonymous, covered at the ends with circles of brown paper, upon which numbers are chalked. The judges write down in chalk upon,
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table whereupon attendants" draw seven glasses and place them upon the given numbers.
The judges sip from the glasses, and then, as they say in really polite cireles, regurgitate upon the floor. Sometimes a second sip is needed, and there are dishes with amall pieces of cheese, which the judges nibble between sips to clear their palates.
secret
private
M.C.C. IN SOUTH AFRICA.
GOOD SHOWING AGAINST NATAL.
Durban, Dec. 6. The M.C.C. scored 354 for and declared; and Natal replied with |192 and 167 for 8, the match being
drawn. Reuter.
Five British aircraft manufae-
turing firms have entered for the £30,000 Daniel. Guggenheim com- petition, which is designed to pro- rote safe flying. Mr. Guggen- heim, an American millionaire, At the end of the judging a founded the fund." The competi- cerlain number of bottles filled tion, will remain open till October from the preferred casks were 1999, and the tests will be carried taken by the judges to a final out at Long Island. Two Ameri court of appeal, which they hold edn firms have already entered. in some upper recess of the hall, Machines must have a maximum and from them the prize brews speed of 110 miles per hour, 4 will be selected by to-morrow.
minimum speed of thirty" five Froth.
miles per hour, they must be able to land in a 100-feet en- Various points influence the closure, and in taking off must judges. Colour is one; the per-clear a thirty-five feet high ob-
of a bright struction within 500 feet. feet beer must be brown amber. Froth, all blowing
and glowing. is another; the As for the actual taste of the glasses are filled at a distance of beer, it is no good laying dowa about a foot from the spigot, so principles
or
attempting
to
The competition Is In accord- ance with the rules published in the Telegraph during the weeks August 29-September 24.
الأرد
"HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH”. FORECAST COMPETITION.
Matches to be played on De- cember 10th:---
ENGLISH CUP,
V
Bradford City v Rotherham U. Crewe
Stockport. Darlington
Rochdale. Tranmere R. v
Halifax T. Rhyl, New Brighton v Bournemouth v Bristol R. Gillingham V Southend U. Luton
Norwich C. Swindon y Crystal Palace. Peterborough v Aldershot, T. Brighton. Northampton v London Cale donians
Bath C.
Name
Address
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Date
to justice.
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ceived:
class
of
and the intimidating armed agita- criminal or criminals to the satis- tor. They menace everyone, and faction of the Council concerned the life of the richest and poorest and the advisory committee, a very is equally held in contempt by substantial monetary compensa- these nefarious raseals, who tion to the family of the deceased. would enrich themselves by threats and acts of violence.
Who Suffers Most?
Deposit In Savings Bank.
The kidnappers and ärmed rob- bera stop at nothing to gain their This terrible menace can only objects. People are kidnapped in be combated by co-operation on the Settlement and brought to the
от Concession
those the part of all. In these dangers, French- ench person has a duty towards regions of Chinese "territory call- his fellows, particularly towards ed "Greater Shanghai" and there those who are in the greatest held in captivity and as frequent- Conse- danger of being shot, killed orly the reverse is the case. wounded by these criminal outlaws quently, there must be co-ordina- of society. Those who cannot lion in the methods of suppress- give physical, intellectual, or in-ing the evil and there is nothing formative assistance to the police thoroughly as the co-ordination In that could. produce this result as can greatly assist by contributing the system of rewards following in accordance with their means, conviction of the outlaws. Those to an organized fund which would who сал afford it, and are: be used to stimulate in various therefore the subjects of the at- ways the apprehension and bring tention of the organized kidnap- ing to justice of those who make pers and organized armed robbers, a practice of these outrages should, not quibble about the few against society. Who is it that dollars or the.. fow thousand run the greatest risks of Injury, if dollars which they can contribute not death, at the hands of these to such an anti-kidnapping or criminals? Certainly not the anti-armed robber fund, in the kidnapped person, since there is way of insurance. They must be no money procurable from a dead very careful in guarding against body and it is the money the evilly disposed persons, who may criminals want. The columns of parade as representatives of such the Shanghai papers will clear fund collection, by depositing any doubt upon the subject. themselves, or through some trust- It is the police and their assistants. ed person, such money as they in- At all times, day or night these tend to subscribe with the Muni- brave men in the Settlements, in cipal Savings Bank in a special ac- French Concession and in count kept for the purpose. They outlying areas, called Greater would be assured of, the correct, Shanghai, are called upon to risk allocation of rewards to Settle- their lives in attempts to copement Police, French Concession Police and Greater Shanghai with armed robberies, kidnapping
the
that the froth has a full chance analyse. The judges, with years in respect of matches which you and, labour agitation, murders and Police through the medium of the
to manifest itself. What is sought in froth is clarity-a good vint ners word, anyhow.
Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks of experience, between their shoulders, just feel boer, and that think will be drawn. f all there is to say about
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Chinese Merchant Committee co- operating with the two Municipal" Council authorities.
As above stated, those who see the advisability of contributing to such a safety and anti-kidnapping. insurance fund can pay the amount We, members of the Shanghai they wish to contribute into the Community who get all possible Shanghai Municipal Savings Bank protection from the police, give Anti-Kidnapping Fund
Depart Before sending in your coupons, any amount of verbal recognition ment, obtaining at the time of de- mark your forecasts on the dupli-
of their courage under the posit a particular number in ex- cate list given below. Ксер your duplicate lists and com- greatest danger to their lives and change for the amount contributed. pare them later with the pub persons. Is, however, verbal re- The Municipal Savings Bank will ished results of the matches and nition? Are we doing everything in the local press. the various subsequently acknowledge in the cognition really sufficient recog-
Municipal Gazette and through if you find that you have eight or to encourage this sacrifice on the numbers and amounts contributed more correct send in a claim for part of the police and their as-without disclosing their identity the prize.
sistants at the call of duty? Are those who continually risk their evilly disposed persona. lives in the protection of their Worth-While Result Seen. fellows not deserving of some greater reward, than everday lip and press praising of their bra-chats are convinced that by fol very? Is it not time that some-lowing our lead in the building up thing more substantial in the way of a large fund, there will be a of rewards for bravery and ro-very rapid diminution in the risks wards for successful prosecution industrialists in the risks of kid- nun generally by merchants and of duty in running down gunmen napping and armed robberies as and kidnappers were done for well as in armed intimidation of those brave men functioning in. and round Shanghai as police, both peaceable industrial workers. We, therefore, urge our co-industrial- in the Chinese and foreign fets and fellow merchants to sup- branches of these services?
port to the limits of their capacity the fund we are now organizing for. their self-protection.
Mark your envelopes "Football" on the front and write your name (without address) on the back of the envelope.
MARK AND KEEP THIS DUPLICATE LIST DO NOT FORWARD IT TO US. IT IS PRINTED FOR YOUR CONVENI ENCE 80 THAT YOU MAY KEEP A RECORD OF THE FORECASTS YOU HAVE
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SENT IN: Bradford City Crewe Darlington Tranmere Z. Now Brighton Bournemouth Gillingham Luton Swindon T. Peterborough
v. Rotherham U
v. Stockport.
v. Rochdale. v. Halifax T.
v. Rhyl.
v. Bristol R.
V
v. Southend U.
v. Norwich C. v. Crystal Palace v. Aldershot T. Northampton T. v. Brighton, London Cale
donians
V Bath C
"HOCKEY MATCH.
We contributing Chinese mer-
If the police, as our employees, owe us certain duties in the pro- tection accorded to us as their cm-
The funds though paid into the ployers: then as their employers, Municipal Savings Bank by the de- we owe these men," our employees, positors will not be left lying idle special rewards for special risks there, but will be invested by the taken by them for our protection Municipal Council under the advice Admittedly the Council do their of the Merchants Advisory Com utmost to compensate police of mittee in such manner as they con- all grades, who may be injured in sider will swell the funds so as to the discharge of dangerous duties, increase them, with the minimum and compensate, to a certain ex- of risk, to amounts adequate to" tent, the families of those who meet all rewards earned under the may be killed in the discharge of conditions of subscription.
Any A good game was played at such duties, The funds of the person so desiring may arrange King's Fork yesterday when a Councils in the foreign Conces through their own bank for the hockey team drawn from the Borsions and the French Settlement contribution of amount they desire derers succumbed to the Club are limited and in these days of to be held in that Bank at the dis- second eleven, the final score being continuous rise in cost of every posal of the Municipal Council and two goals to nothing in favour of form of living the compensa- the Merchants Advisory Commit the Club. There was very little to tion, which it is in the power of tee, with a afipulation that the choose betwen the two sides their Council to give, for such self. Bank and the amount be notified to throughout the game, the Club sacrifice is by no means. In keep the special department of the Municipal Savings Bank.. The being, rather the more forceful ining with the risks taken.
"CLUB DEFEAT THE K.OS.B.
front of goal. The soldiers were Every dollar that goes into the fund is now open and we trust our none too well balanced and the hands of the kidnappers or arm in contributing so that all may see fellow merchants will not be slow. Club backs did not always rise to ed robbers tends to the strengthen the urgency of preventing kidnap- the occasion as they should, have ing and increasing the organiza-ping and armed robberies. done. Both goal-keepers had some tion of these outlawa; whereas, In this matter it must be realiz thing to do and both sides were every dollar which we arge shoulded that the Municipal Council only unfortunate on several occasions, be placed in a fund to reward act as trustees of the fund on be
The first goal fell to the Club in those who bring about their appre half of the Subscribers. the first half, Jacobs Larkcomb hension and conviction, must tend inding the net with a good shet, towards making the lives and pro- and when the interval arrived this
had not ban improved upon. Tod Perties of those contributing to added another for the Club in the wards such rewands much safer. second half. A few seconds bo-
fore the final whistle sounded, the Borderers were all but through, but the ball struck the upright.
Insurance Against Capture.
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Those who risk capture by kid- nappers would do well to Insure Mrs. L. Austin.