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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OUR FOOTBALL COMPETITION,
PRIZE OF $50 WEEKLY.": The "Hongkong Telegraph" offera s prize of $50 to the readers who send in twelve correct fore- casts of the results of the English Lengue and Scottish Cup matches (to be played on Saturday next, February 4th) set out in the Cou pon-below. No goal scores are required; only forecasts abowing
wins 'or draws,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1928.
CHINESE INTERPORT
·FOOTBALL.
NOW SOUTH CHINA WERE
BEATEN.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
NEW FILTRATION PLANT.
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WITH THE STARS AT HOLLYWOOD.
GORIA SWANSON MAKES
NEW FILM.
CLARA BOW'S RED HAIR.
THE FOURTH TEST.
SOUTH AFRICA ESTABLISHES WINNING POSITION.
Ty Plant Described.
ENGLAND SOON OUT. The East China representatives
A general description of the established a record in the history plant is given below: pant
Johannesburg, Jan, 31. of Chinese football by triumphing
The raw water le takon from the
At the end of to-day's play, Hollywood, Calif., Dec. 30. over South China last Monday at Bowen Road Conduit by a 16" CL
At last, after many months of South Africa needed 07 runs for the Ploncer Field at Shanghai,
pipe and delivered to the inlot The final score was four goale to two in favour of the Bast, From chamber which is controlled by an waiting, the movie public is about victory in the Fourth Test, with Gloria Swanson on the acreonthis-sound position by, dismissing the time soccer was first intro-automatic Inlet control valve from get another glimpso of nine wickets to dall. They gained In the event of no reader foreduced into China, footballers of which it passes over a weir. The The titled star has finally whip. England for 215 runs in their caating all twelve matches, a prize the South have been claimed an fluctuations in the level of water
At the lunch interval, three of 826 will be given to the reader invincible aggregation. Never in flowing over this measuring weir For her now film, "Sadie Thomp-second innings on a fast wicket.
Reports of dissension in the English wickets had fallen for 85, who knads in the greatest number the aunals has the crown been automatically control the supply of son," into shape for release. of correct forecasts; and in the won by any other team in the the chemical rengents necessary to company while the film was in and in the afternoon, the score event of two or more readers send intersectional tourney. The offect purification. The reagents
wonder whether or not the film wickets, the Inst two falling short- 1 an equal high number, the victory by the Easterners marked used are sulphate of alumina and production have made Hollywood proceeded slowly to 108, for eight | prize of $25 will be divided. the first revolution which will hydrated lime which are added to will "go over." And Gloria really ly afterwards for the addition of
The competition is in accordance probably bring added Interest to the raw water as it flows over the can't afford to have a "op" on 17 runs only. with the rules published in the the intersectional competition.
monsuring weir and are then her hands. She needs Telegraph during the weeks August
The dothroning of the South thoroughly mixed with the water production for more than | 20-Septembar 24"
China champions came unexpect in passing through a mixing reason. edly and all pre-game gossips were chamber: completely toppled.. Considering. The water then enters a feed the absence of some stars in the conduit which runs the whole line-up, the East China tean length of the filter beds and thence senreely dreamt of winning to say to the beds through regulating
the valves. of subduing nothing Southerners by the decisive tally four to two.. From the demons-
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" FORECAST COMPETITION.
Matches to be played on Fel- ruary 4th:-
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MEN'S
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
DIVISION, 1.
Everton. Shefield U. Sunderland,
Huddersfield v Wednesday Burnley
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DIVISION IL
Fullam West. Brom.
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1.
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Wolves. Chelsea.
DIVISION III. (SOUTH).
Northants. Southend.
Norwich Torquay
Name
Address
No. 23,
Date
Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks in respect of matches which you think will be drawn..
The Filter Beds.
..
tration on the field the East gained The filter beds, which are six in a firm grip at the start, the de-number, constructed of reinforced fence being sure, and thus allow concrete, are of the Rapid Gravity ing the san-mon to do as much type each 24' 0" x 12' 0" giving havoc around the South goal as total filtering area of 1,728 sq. ft. The Alluring capacity is rated at 72 galls. per, sq. ft. per hour, giv- ing a maximum out-pat of three million gallons per day,
desired..
Ground Bad.
A good South Africa, going in a second one time, and holding an advantage of G3 runs on the first innings, had made 55 runs for the loss of one' wicket when stumps, were drawn,
scores are:
With his portrayal of Christ in The King of Kings" still stand-The ng out as his best plece of acting, H. B. Warner is now supporting Vera Reynolds in "Walking Back." This worldly role is quite a con- trast from his highly religious one. Little intimation has been given of the story but Vorn plays the part of a wicked, wild little flapper-so it wouldn't be hard to guess what the Walking Back' stands for.
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Here's some real news at last. Our present crop of moviedom's An- would-be actors aren't as lazy as they have been said to be. ders Randolf has just organized many of them into a cycling club. Visitors in the cinema village may expect to see Adolph Menjou, John Barrymore and a few of the others riding to work on their bicycles almost any time now.
Owing to the inclement weather conditions, a good number of fans
Each bed contains specially were prevented from witnessing graded sand to a depth of 21 the contest which created such afaid on top of a bed of specially surprising resull. The ground graded pabble 1' 8" in depth. was soggy and slippery and con-The water gravitates through this trol of the leather was extremely filtering medium, is collected by a difficult. However, a couple thou-straler pips system laid on the sand of spectators braved the con- floor of the filter bed and is drawn off into covered inspection boxes, through a valve controlled by
William Boyd is now enacting automatic gear. The filtrate then the role, of a steet riveter in passes into a covered pure water "Skyscrapper." He used to do channel and so to the service re-just that very thing eight hours servoir.
tinuous drizzling.
Y. C. Wu of the East kicked off, the slight wind being in favour of the South, An exchange of raids soon followed,
Before the game was seven minutes old Wu, the centre-forward, got the ball in a scrimmage in the South goal, and slipped to W. T. Lee who scored the opening goal.
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What could be a better combi- nation? The fiery-haired queen of Hollywood, or one might say the entire world, in a motion pic- turo entitled "Red Hair?"
some years ago. The first twenty minutes flow a day in order to eat regularly from each bed after 'elennaing, automatically flows into a low
One role that many women feel lovel wash water tank below the they could play brilliantly on The South. launched several attacks but the defenders of East. filter beds, from where it is the screen, but not in real life, is China checked the advance in a pumped to a high level wash water the nart that Glady's McConnell most delightful way, spoiling the tank on the roof of the Chemical has just Anished doing with Harry House, ready for filter washing. Langdon. Gladys is supposed to chances of scoring by the
When the filter becomes choked be a discontented young wife. Southerners in a nick of time.
with accumulated impurities, it is Wu was unfortunate enough' të leave the field after sustaining an cleansed by first agitating with injury to his leg in a clash with compressed air through the nozzles C. C. Chen was deputed of the strainer pipe-system and Liang. and faithfully atuck to his duty. then flushing the loosened impur- The Easterners were again onitios to specially designed wash the offensive when C. W. Chen de- water channels by a reverse cur- livered a cross shot to the left rent of cleansing water.
The whole washing process is field. N. I. Ling met the ball with his head but diverted the sphere necomplished and the bed is again a period of to W. T. Lee who was within the in operation within Before sending in your coupons, scoring range, Lee took a first ten minutes. One man can carry mark your forecasts on the dupli-time klek and beat Yib, the through the whole operation with cate list given below.. Keep your Southern goalie, with a stinger." out moving from the operating duplicate lists and compare them
With a two point lead the platform.
confidence Infer with the published results of
galnod Easterners the matches and if you find that while the Southerners played with you have eight or more correct send the determination of balancing the In a claim for the prize.
All claims must reach this office not later than Wednesday follow ing the date on which the matches, are played. No prize will be awarded for which a claim has not been made.
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The Chemical House,
The flim 18 certain. to be one of the big box office attractions of the coming year. It won't be a great production Clara doesn't go in for them. But it will be en- tertaining, the principal requisits of any picture so far as the pub- lic is concerned.
Mark your envelopes" "Football" | count, Both sides were alternate- three floored bricked and rein-And "Red Hair" should even in-1
on the front and write your name (without address) on the back of the envelope.
MARK AND KEEP TRIS DUPLICATE
LIST. DO NOT FORWARD IT TO US. IT 1 PRINTED FOR YOUR CONVENI ENCE SO THAT YOU MAY KEEP A RECORD OF THE FORECASTS YOU HAVE SENT IN: Stenhousemuir v.. Alloa.
Airdria
¡Ayr Un. Forfar
Dundee Un. Huddersfield Wednesday Burnley
Fulham
v. Hamilton... v. Falkirk
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* Dundee.
P
Everton
V
Sheffield U.
7. Sunderland,
v. Wolves,
West Brom. Y. Chelsea.
Norwich Torquay
V. Northants,
Y. Southend,
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ly attacked and the custodians brought off some sensational clear ances. T. U. Loh, the goalie of the home team, found it an easy task to handle high shots and Bayed on several Occasions of the dangerous onslaughts Southerners.
Before long C. W. Chen repeat- ed his old trick by another cross shot after receiving a throw in. The ball dropped at the feet o W. T. Lee. Lee nimed at the tar- get, Yil fumbled and allowed the ball to roll into the net. Then the interval arrived and the East China team were leading by three goals to nil.
South Press.
the
Judging from her fan mail and the box office receipts on her pic- tures, Clara easily ranks among the first five of Hollywood's cele- The Chemical House, which de abrities in the matter of popularity. forced concrete structure, contains crease this popularity. For one the lime mill and alumina tanks thing the story was written espe on the top floor, the reagent pro- cially for the queen of her heads portioning gear on the middle by Elinor Glyn, the, author of door and the pumps and compres-It," which definitely, established: sors on the ground floor, while the Clara as a star.
roof carries the high level wash Clara's last few pictures have water tank.
The alumina solution which in fallen almost inte the class of poor productions. And they would prepared by dissolving alumina have taken a terrible tumble had
blocks ferric
in twelve-hour it not been for Miss Bow's viva- capacity tanks, is plped to acious personality that actually put regulating box which controls the life into them. "Red Hair" should flow by means of an automatie be different. There was little or táper valve under a constant head, no story behind "It," but the story The lime mixture fa prepared in was clearly written especially for the lime and pipes to the lime, Clara..
container which has continuona Elinor Glyn has done the same agitating gear, actuated through with "Red Hair." She knows shafting from an undershot water Clara-has studied her. And she After changing ver
wheel driven by the incoming raw has learned just what the girl Southerners seemed to have been water. From the lime container with scarlet tressus can do best Invigorated by the rest and press-the solution is fed to automatic in front of a camera. Those ara ed the Eastern defence incessant-
the things that. Mme. Glyn says So we will have Clara. Bow in: she will incorporate in hor story. "Red Hair with her fiery, locks, photographed in their natural colour through the entire film.
ly. In a break-away the homesters ipping bucketa which can be set made a good move on the right to give any desired quantity of
K. K. Chen contred and
field.
efforts
reagent.
Provision Against Breakdowns.
NATIONS MOURN EARL HAIG.
C. S. Yee ran up to net the ball: An off-sido kick was given to the
To provide against breakdowns Southerners against Yes.
the the air compressors and wash- ... In spasmodic Easterners got away with the ball. water pumps are in duplicate, one W. T. Lee carried the leather upset of the former being-operated the field and collided with the by an electric motor and the other goalie who ran out to intercept. by an oll engine, while one set K. K. Chen was close behind Lee of the latter is operated by a and having been credited with water, turbine and the other by an four straight goals the East China electric motor,
The new filters have been con- men played loosely.
While the Easterners displayed structed within one of the old slow can Army, commanded by General alackness the Southerners took the sand filter beds and the two re- Pershing, and pray that no shadow chance and within the last va maining beds have been covered of differences may ever darken minutes netted the ball twice in over and converted into filtered the friendship of our two nations."
Wreaths. succession. N. T. Liang fed K. Z water service reservoirs. The Demand For Poppy Sung with a timely pass. Bung plant was designed and manufac scored the first goal for the South tured by the Paterson Engineering
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There has been to-day a re- from the In front of the goal-mouth. Soon Co., Winsor House, Kingsway, markable demand for wreaths of after the success K. Z. Zao placed London, to the specifleation of Flandera Popples
a good centre which K. Y. Zung Mr. R. M. Henderson, M.Inst.C., factories at Richmond and Edin- burgh which Earl Halg establish- utilized to add another point for M.LMech.E., Water Engineer
Erection was carried out under ed, and where neverely disabled his team.
employed, the supervision of Messrs. Pater ex-Servicemen pre son's representative and Mesars. Three thousand wreaths have been. The Hongkong Excavation, Pila ordered from the Richmond factory Driving and Construction Co. were alone and the others have come the contractors for the reinforced from all parts of the Empiro
British Wireless. concrete and building work.
HOME FOOTBALL. OLDHAM: DEATS BOUTHAMP. TON.
London, Jan, 31. Playing their postponed match in the Second Division of the Eng- lish League to-day, Oldham.do- feated Southampton, by three goals. to one-Reuter.".
TO-DAY
Dollar on demand 2/- 6/16. 6.11 pm Lighting-up
The E.A.S.M.A. Message.
The following telegram has been sont to Lady Halg from the Hong- kong E.AS.M.A.Ex-Active Ser- vicemen's Association of Hong- kong express grief at Empire's loss and sympathy with you
England: 265 and 215. South Afrien; 328 and 56 (for
1 Wicket) Reuter
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following is the list of local shazo quotations issued to-day:
Banks,
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Hongkong Bank, $1,200 b. Chartered Bank, £21 b. Mercantile. A. & B., £327 n.. P. and O. 10 n. Eust Asia, $734 b
Insurances. Canton Ins., 2600., b. 'Union Ins., $300
b.
North China, Ins., Tle. 143 n. Yangtzo Ins., $461 b.
China Underwritore, $2.40 8.· China Fires, $215 n.
H. K. Fire Ins., $680
Shipping. Douglases, 401 11,
B.
H. K. Stonmboats; $26 b. H. K. Tuge, $2.90 Indo-Chinas, (Prof.), $36 Shell Trans., 65/n. Union Waterboate, $182 b.
Mining. Bonguete, $2.35 Kailans, 62/6
Lantkate, Tle: $181 b. S'hai Exploration, Tis, 2.85 8 Raubs, 841 b. Tronchs, 17/6b.
Docks, etc Kowloon Wharves, $1291. Whampoa Ducks, $44. b. China Providents $6.40 sa. Hongkowa, Tls. 163 b. Now Engineeringe, Tls, 5 8. Shanghai Docks, Tls, 94 br
Cottona.
Ewo Cottons, Tis. 8 b. Orientale, Tls. 2.10 S'hai Cottons, Tis. 48 (old) b.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $8.60 sa. H. K. Lands, $641 ·b. S'hai Lands Tis, $133. b.
b Humphreys, $143 Roaltios, $8.60 5. Territorials, 814 n.
Public Utilities. Tramways, $27) 8. Peak Trams, (old) $14 n. Star Ferries, 864 b
China Lights, (Comb.) 816.40 h. H'kong Electrica,'$75 b. Macao Electrics, 864 b. Telophones $4.45 b.
China Buses, Tis 6 n Singapore Tractione, 11/9
Industrials.
China Sugars, $918. Malabons, 8277 n. Canton Icos, $3.75 b. Cements (Comb) $11.85 Ropos. (Old) $8.75 b. United Asboston $10
Stores &c. Dairy Farms,"" Watsons, $121 Der A. Wing, $6 m Lane Crawfords, $3.60. Mackintosh, $22 B Sinceres, $9 b Wm. Powells, 25 n
Miscellaneous.. Amusements, $27 b. Constructions, $1k nary B'que Ind. : Boods, 56% b 1. K, G. Loan. 5% Proir..
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