MEN'S SHOE SALE
ARE YOUR
SHOES FIT FOR
THE COMING WET.
SEASON-?
If there is any doubt, call and buy good ones to-morrow at Rock-Bottom Prices.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OUR FOOTBALL COMPETITION.
PRIZE OF $60 WEEKLY.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" offers a prize of $50 to the readers who send in twolvo correct fore- casts of the results of the English League 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 forecasta abowing wins or drawB.
In the event of no render fore casting all twelve matches, & prizo
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928.
F. A. GUP REPLAYS.
BURY AND DERBY COUNTY ELIMINATED,
London, Feb. 1.
LANDLORD AND
TENANT BILL.
PEERS ASSENT TO TWO COMPROMISES.
HELPING NEEDY EUROPEANS.
(Continued from Page 7.)
Concluding, Mr. Sutherland asid he had beon asked to specially mention the kindness always shown to Committee members by the Press when assistance was asked for. Their help was very valuable and was much appreciat
for the unwary, but even those of led, The persistent criticism of the cautious nature. This fine work Mr. Sutherland then proposed Landlord and Tenant Bill by a large is most faithfully undertaken by the adoption of the report and aç-
the you ladies inconspicuously, in a counts. group of Conservatives in
This was seconded by Mrs. Fea- House of Lords was rewarded by quiet, mothodical and determined
therstone and was carried unani- two important compromines when manner, es
Two.ect days every week in the mously, the measures arrived at the third reading stage of its much-harassed somewhat gloomy confines of the progress recently... **** | City Hall, will be found officiala receiving and distributing cloth-
Appeal Endorsed,
Sir Henry Pollock anid he would
At Manchester to-day, in the re-played fourth round tie, Man- chaster United defeated Bury by one goal to nil, and qualified to meet Birmingham in the next round. Manchester United and Manchester City are both at home.
The previous week, spurred on ing, Investigating. cason of like to say that he was present in "At Nottingham, the Forest do- by Lord Carson's denuclation of the distress Brd generally con- of 326 will be given to the reader fented Derby County by two goals Government for ripping up old ducting the routine work of the Colony in 1889 when the So- who sends in the greatest number of correct forecasts; and in the to nil After ninety minutes agreements," the Peers turned out the Society, and notwithstanding clety was first started. Ever since of the Bill the clause which do the many climatic discomforts, this then, it had gone on from strength to. strength and the report, event of two or more readers send-play, no goals had been scored, but clares that any contract with the good work continues unremitting for last year was the best he had ing in an equal high number, the the Forest get through twice dur-landlord by which a touant hasly, and all honour to you for it,
over latened to. Under those cir- prize of $25 will be divided,
Members Wanted.
cumstances, he had no hestitation The competition is in accordance with the rules published in the
whatever in appealing to membera Now the main point is how can of the community to come forward Telegraph during the weeks August
the Colony help the Society? and join as subscribers. As the 20-September 24.
The answer is by becoming mem Chairman had pointed out, the
"HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH” FORECAST COMPETITION,
Matches to be played on Feb- ruary 4th:-
SCOTTISH CUP,
SECOND ROUND TIES.
Stenhouse-
ing extra time. Notts Forest are at home to Cardiff City, the hol- ders, in the next round.
Lengue Match. Playing at Wigan in the North-| ern Section of the Third Division to-day, Bradford defeated Wigan by 3 goals to one.--Neuter.
agreed to forgo compensation shall bo void-unless it happens to bo adjudged reasonable by the tribunal that is one of the chief creations of this new legislation.
As was expected, the Lord Chan-bers. It will surprise many to cellor sought this evening partly know that notwithstanding the annual subscription was only $12 year. He thought everyone in to restore a provision without large number of residents of the Colony ought to come forward which the B-to quote his own what for want of a better term, worda-"would be useless." But will refer to as the Upper and and join the Society which was doing such excellent work for the the air of the understudy clause Middle Classes, .there- aro
Mrs. Nisbot expressed thanks to which the Government led on was only about 70 members on general benefit of the community, GARRISON FOOTBALL. much more modest and comely in
This is Hats.to-day., our' Conservative eyes than that of the surely quite wrong.
1. Would Mr. Sutherland for presiding and arbitrary, one thus replaced.. appeal to all to came forward and for the interest he took in their
work. count Cave, that compensation con- and gentlemen is but $12 per following ladies would again, servo
It is now ruled, explained Vis-enrol. The subacription for ladles
The Hongkong Garrison Foot-the date of the introduction of the Home, we' would be paying Poor Niebot, Alabaster, Cock, Hunt,
tracts made before last March 80,annum, that is $1 per month. Landlord and Tenant Bill, shall be Rates; here wo exempt from upset, and that the Act shall hold sway only over such agreements reached on the near side of the dividing date.
HOW THE LEAGUE TEAMS STAND.
ball League table, compiled to Feb. Ist, is as follows:
P. W. L. D. F. A, Pts. Q. Co. 2nd
K.O.S.B. 8 7 0 1.36 4 16 HQ. 2 2nd
14
97 10
25 10 10
.
Lord Carson was absent, but do Earl of Halsbury, who was one of his lieutenants in the hot engage ment over compensation arrange ments, expressed gratitude for the alteration. It is, indeed, most material, when one compares the Jeasehold contracts number of effected since Inst March with the thousands in existence before that
Muir
Alloa.
Airdrie
Ayr Un.
響
Hamilton, Falkirk.
Forfar
Dundee Un.. Y
V Kilmarnock. Dundee.
ENGLISH LEAGUE
DIVISION I
K.0.8.B. 10 0 2 2 22 10
D Coy. 2nd
K.O.B.B. 10 6
2 3 32 18 13
Sheffield U.
A Coy. 2nd
K.0.8.B..
1
·2·
12th II Bty.
B.A.
1 7.4
2
Wolves. Chelsea.
B Coy. 2nd
K.Ö.S.B. HIQ. 1 2nd K.O.S.B.
7 4
2
1
10 10 9
8
4 31 19 13
!
R.A.M.C.
11 4 7 0 22 35
8
month.
Northants.
31st H Bty
R.A.
73 8 1
14 9
7
10 1
8 1
9 38
RE. & R.
Signals 7 1
41 0
4 29
2
20th H. Bty.
R.A.
8 0 80
2 32
0
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
MEN'S FOOTWEAR STYLISTS.
Huddersfield v. Everton.
Wednesday
Burnley ❤ Sunderland.
Fulham
DIVISION İL
UNIVERSITY ROUTE TIME TABLE.
LEAVING UNIVERSITY
Every 15 minutes 8.00 to 8.15 a.m.
8.15 to 10.15 a.m.
10.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.
.12.15 p.m. to 2.15 p.m.
LEAVING BLAKE
7.30 am to 8.00 a.m.
8.00 a.m. to 10 am.
10 a.m. to 12 noon
74
15
*
+1
12 noon to 2.00 p.in.
74
2.00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
15
*
4.00p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
8.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.
15
2.15 p.m. to 4.15 p.m.
4.15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
8.45 p.m. to 12 Mid
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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February 1st, 1928,
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Name
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V
-No. 23,
Date
Southend.R.A.0.0.
Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks In respect of matches which you think will be drawn.
been made..
Mark your envelopes "Football" on the front and write your name (without address) on the back of the envelope.
SEVENOAKS TRAIN. DISASTER,
A Mass of Wreckage.
The coach Jammed beneath the bridge was reduced to a mass of wreckage, and the one in front of it suffered nearly as severely. In the third coach, lying crushed and twisted under the bridge, the havoc
At
merely ask for 7oluntary contributions. When you think of $1 per month, it is not nuch, a mere fraction of what we may win or lose at bridge; not so much as the cost of a golf.ball slieed into the irretrievably rough; still that amount is suf- ficient to form the nucleus of a fund, which will do untold good and which will bring happiness and comfort where same would not otherwise exist.
It was announced that the
on the
Committee:-Meadames
Featherstone, Southorn, Weall, Innes, Woodhouse, Murray, Shell- shear, Tracy, and Miss Drury.
The Annual Report.
The following are extraeta from the annual report:
Owing to the trade depression in the Colony during the past year the Society has had an abnormal number of calls upon Ita resources. 06 applicatione have been made Donations are most welcome, for rollef; embracing in all 128 but a steady income is even more men, women and children. After desirable, Mrs. C. C. Alabaster, of duo investigation, 67 applicants No. 614 The Peak, our hard-work-were granted relief; being 43 now Ing Secretary, or Mrs. Shelishear, cases, the remaindur being found Rent Restrictions,
c/o The Hongkong University, our unworthy or were dealt with by The other concession decides that energetic Treasurer, will be only kindred Societies. The total num- the tribunal shall not entertain ap- too glad to acknowledge applica ber of persons who have actually plications for compensation for im-tions for membership: provements or goodwill if the tonant is holding his premises by virtue of the Rent Restrictions
Acta.
|received benefit from the Society Where a great deal of assistance is 128; this is exclusive of the can be rendered by the public is in number of children put to school the way of assisting the Committee by the Society. In nearly every in the matter of obtaining employ case clothing has been provided ment for those, (both men and by the Society. "Gertainly," admitted the Lord women,) out of work It is a
Thirty canes have been assisted Chancellor, "there is hardship on heartbreaking business for the financially with sums ranging a landlord if the tenant remains in Committee to probe every possible from 20 cents to $420. Sixteen possession against his will, and source in this connection. There have been found employmentrand. stays on statutorily piling up a are but few large industrial con-advertisements have been inserted: goodwill contrary to the landlord's curns here which can absorb even in the local newspapers for those desire."
temporarily those who are anxious unemployed who are unable to to earn their own living.
The measure would then have been bandied about between the two Houses. As it is, the Socialist among the Commons are bound to be full of wordy Indignation over the diodifications.
(Continued from Papo 1.)
All claims must reach this office came wedged beneath the bridge. nat later than Wednesday follow- The front of the Pullman car
afford to advertise for themselves. ing the date on which the matches which followed was thrown across
This reform pleased Lord Dynevor
Two passages were secured to Eng- Appeal to Empleyers, are played. No prize will be towards the central buttress of the so much that ho offered his "great
land. Landing money has been awarded for which a claim has not bridge. The coach already jammed gratitude." It is well that the
I quito co the difficulty of the given in several other cases,
During the past year, at a cost. within, prevented it from entering, Peers have thus amicably settled Before sending in your coupons, and so, with a crashing of glass and these matters among themselves. employer who had a staff organised mark your forecasts on the dupli-twisting of metal, it slid still fur- If the Bill had gone to the Commens to exactly suit his requirements, of approximately $2,989, 18 chil- The Society. is cate list given below. Keep your ther to the right, and was finally without the milder substitution, and again there Is reluctance to dren have been supported at dif- duplicate lists and compare them lying right across both sets of the Lower House would almost as take on anyone who has not ferent schools. later with the published results of the bridge.
suredly have reinserted the original proved a success elsewhere, or greatly indebted to Directors of who may have como down in the the following schools, who have disliked clause concerning com-world through their own fault, or made this possible by accepting the matches and if you find that you have eight or more correct send
pensation contracts.
should I perhaps any, their own reduced fees: Diocesan Boys' In a claim for the prize.
weakness. Let us remember, how- School, Italian Convent, Diocesa ever, that one must not always be Girls' School, and St. Joseph's judged by the first failure; It often College. serves as a severo lesson and I
Among the various nationalities can speak with personal know-assisted have boon British (includ ledge of several cases in Hongkong|ing Australian and South when men have been down and African), Amorlean, Dutch, Wrought among the passengers was During this final discussion in out and have subsequently work Eurasian, Russian, Filipino, terrible.. A number were killed outright. Some of the injured were the Lords the case for and against ed their way up in the world and Spanish, Greek, Latvian, Indian,
now good and respected Norwegian and Swedish. wedged among the wreckage, and the measure was once again briefly are
The thanks of the Committee. were released only with dificulty. presented. As Lord Dynavor views citizens. So I most earnestly ask One of the dead bodice, that of a, a severe shortage of business employers, when appealed to, to do are accorded to the Rev. W. T premises will follow, mortgages their almost and stretch a point Featherstone, Mr. R. Sutherland, woman, was not recovered until next will be called in, and endless litiga to amake an opening even if only M.B.E., Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shen- morning.
About 150 yards of metals needed tion will ensue.
for a short time, and by so doington, the Consul General for the relaying in consequence of the ac- As the Lord Chancellor sees it, live up to the very human motto, Netherlands, Dr. de Castro Bastn cident. They had been torn up as the Bil! atrengthens the leasehold
"Gire him another chance.” the derailed train made its final system by remedying its grievances, zig-zag dash. The wreckage was leasings will be granted "much as cleared within two days, but a speed | hitherto," and all landlords will limit of from 10 to 15 miles an now be obliged to be modelled on hour over the newlylaid lines was the voluntary good landlord. imposed.
MARK AND KEEP THIS DUPLICATE LIST. DO NOT FORWARD IT TO US. IT IS PRINTED FOR YOUR CONVENI- ENCE BÓ THAT YOU MAY KEEP A RECORD OF THE PORECASTS YOU HAVE
v. Falkirk.
SENT IN: Stenhousemuir V. Allon. Airdrie
v. Hamilton. Ayr Un. Forfor Dundee Un Huddersfield Wednesday Burnley Fulham
v. Kilmarnock, Dundee.
West Brom.
Norwich
Torquay
V. Everton.
Sheffield U.
v. Sunderland...
V. Wolves. v. Chelsea.
v. Northants. v. Southend.
TEST CRICKET.
"
Deserved Tributes.
and Capt. Baylis, Hon. Sec. G.C.O. Also in very special measure to the Trustees of the City Hall for the Before moving the adoption of use over a long period of years the report and accounts I desire of a room in that building. on behalf of members to place on The Committee appreciates the record the excellent work per-ready co-operation of the fol
rólieving The names of the dead were:-- If Lord Oxford over put in an formed by the President, Mrs. Nis-lowing Societies in Miss Helen Winifred Hatton, this would have been one of the oc- ocutive officials of the Society to time: Gozeral Charities Organ- appearance in the House of Lords bet, the Committee, and other ex-caseA of distress from time Dover: Mr. Francis William Checaeman. Folkestone; Miss casions for him to have re-uttered The report gives in detail the perisation, St. Andrew's Bociety, SOUTH AFRICA'S COMFORT- Dorothy Eldridge, Finchley; Folice that profound phrase "Wait and sonnal of the Committee and the British Legion, St. George's positions held by various members Society. St. Vincent de Paul, Constable Frank Calster Halsell. "C" Division Metroplitan Police;
throughout the year. It will be Y. M. C. A., Mission to Seamen.. Mrs. Bridget Teresa Halsell, his
noted that Mrs. Alabaster has filled The Society is grateful to the wife; Mr. Edward Gordon: Forbes
the post of President, and for some Colonfal Government for its annua]; Higginson, Folkestone; Mrs. Nita G.B.S. WON'T GO TO US. [igne past. has been carrying out grant-in-ald and for the grant of a Hannah Norton, Hampstead; Mr. Arthur Thomas Salisbury-Jones, stockbroker: Mr. Norman Stewart
ABLE VICTORY.
Johannesburg, Feb. 1. The fourth Test match was won by South Africa, by four wickets, their second innings score being 16 for six wickets-Reuter.
England's scores were 266 and 215, whilst South Africa's frat in- nings yielded. #28.
The first two Test matches were won by England, and the third was drawn.
DEMPSEY RETIRES.
sce.**
J
ELLIS ISLAND AND COMIC
the arduous duties of Iton, Secre- passage to Shanghai Also to the Lary. Those of us who have had Government. Civil, the Matilda, the experience in Committen work Italian Hospitals and to many other
Self. Southgate; Miss Alles Marion IRONY OF LIBERTY STATUE know only too well what that bodies and fudividuals and for their Arnold Roger Young, Ottinge, Kent; Miss Jessle Christina Hatch,
New York There is no
Im
neans, As such, you are the kind assistance, at chigf executive you are expected. The Committee would like to Folkestone, and Master Leslie Parmediate prospect of Mr. Bernard zp to keep bright and smiling against giving money to seemingly to know everything, do everything, warn residents of the Colony fitt, aged 7, Button-by-Dover. Shaw's visiting the United States, These qualifications she has more distressed cases without first, mak- according to his biographer, Mr. than fully complied with, and I Ing enquiries of the Hon Secretary Archibald Henderson, who made feel that we are all deeply for a Member of the Committee, as According to a message from the announcement in the course debted to Mrs. Alabaster for her this frequently leads to fraud and Hollywood to the Chicago Tribune of an amusing address recently, most valuable work during a year overlapping.ty has be Douglas Fairbanks and Mary. Mr. Henderson said that Mr. of exceptional difficulties. We The work of the Society bene Pickford are to become "cliff Bernard Shaw had recently been must not forget, however, that fited considerably, and will benefit dwellers" after the custom of the invited to visit the United States. Mrs, J. H. Hunt for some months more in the future, by the help of ancient Indians. Their cliff home The famous litterateur had re-cock the Secretarial duties and is Organizatier, of which the on early in the year most ably under-the newly formed General Charities is to be built at Salona Beach, San Diego, and according to the plans.
'plied
also due our hearty thanks for all Mr. E, D. C. Wolte, C.M.G., Is Chafr New York, Feb. 1.
the dwelling will be ready by next Why should anyone who is in her hard work one man, Mr. Gubbay, Hon Treasurer, Mr. Tex Rickard has announce summer. In design it will be London want to go to Now York? Mre Goldsmith,
late and, Capt. Baylis Hon. Secretary, ed that Jack Dempsey, the ex-similar to those to be seen on the I am afraid to go to America, Treasurer, has temporarily left and towards the maintenance of heavyweight champion of the shores of the Mediterranean. I should certainly be stopped at the Colony and during her teren which the HK B. S. subscribes world. has permanently retired
Eilis: Island and incarcerated of office did not spare herself in $100 a year. from the ring-Reuter's American Service.
TEX. RICKARD'S ANNOUNCE. MENT:
A society has been formed in there, if I expressed any doubt furthering the interests of the During the year the Committee Germany for the "renovation of as to the liberal truth of the Old Society and. I should like to put has kept in close touch with-the- the Reich," with the ex-Chancellor, Testament story of Elisha and the on record our keen appreciation of Society St. Vincent de Paul and Dr. Luther, at Its head, and has bears.
hor untiring assistance, Our with the Jewish Benevolent Bo For the first time in 160 years are 200 signatories, ranging from lasued a manifesto, to which thero
thanks are also due to Mr. Hampden ciety. By this means, and with the General Lying-in Hospital,
I am, it is true, a master of Ross for kindly auditing the at the help of the Police and the Lambeth, Is appealing for funds Krupp, Thyssen, and Count Key comic irony, but even I could not counte to rebuild the nurses home and serling, to the Socialist Mayor of endure to see
Liberty. out-patients department.
Berlin,
the statue - ofi
G.C.O. overlapping has become Jalmost Impossibility,
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