CHINESE SOCCER
SUSPENSIONS.
QUESTION AGAIN BEFORE H.K.F.A. COUNCIL.
NO NEW ACTION.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Soccer Suspensions.
[To The Editor of Hongkong' Telegraph.)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 1930.
THE EXILE · OF ::
EROS.
ITS RETURN AN EVENT
IN HISTORY.
RIDDLE FOR FUTURE.
SANITARY BOARD.
QUESTIONS REGARDING
DISINFECTION,
Questions relative to disinfect- ing stations in Victoria and fo Kowloon were asked by Dr. W. V. M. Koch at the fortnightly meet- ing of the Sanitary Board held. yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. R.
£1,000,000 TREASURE
SHIP
GUARDED BY POLICE IN
THE THAMES."
SHAH'S LOAN.
London, Oct. 13. The crew of a ship which brought treasures worth over a million pounds from the Shah of Persia to London during the week- end thought that the cargo con- alsted chiefly of dates!
Sir-Having read to-day's issue of the South China Morning Past in which appears an article on the The case concerning the two suspension of the two Chinese Some day, about, the time when! Sayer presiding. Others present Chinese
players-
were Athletic players, and, in particular, newspapers begin to record the were Dr. W. M. Pope, Hon. Mr. J. who
the last long-lived. Braga, and Messrs. M. K. Lo, suspended for infringement of noting Mr. Duncan's report on deaths of their amateur status was again my presence at the meeting veterans of the Great War, an un-Wong Kwong-tin, F. C. Hall, T. N. discussed by a meeting of the of
will arise in Chau and J. H. Gelling (Seere- the Emergency Committee familiar statue Football Council yesterday even-held on October 8th, I am forced to Piccadilly. "What's this?" will ask try).
The questions asked by Dr. Koch ing, under the chairmanship of write and acquaint your readers the public. "Who put that there?"
my presence will demand the Press. "Mystery Chairman were as follow:
and the answers given by the with the fact that
Only the officers knew that there Mr. J. Ormiston.
was something of real value in the Mr. R. K. Dudean queried why the there was most reluctantly allowed. Statue Comes to London."
Q. Will the Head of the Sani-strong-room beneath the bridge. Chinese Athletic Association did not it being put to me by Mr. Duncan at feld teams for the League fixtures the time that the case was purely bronze cast, will certify the work formation on the following mat- now lying on
Experts, having examined the tary Department kindly give in-
The vessel, a" tramp steamer, is the mud in the during the last two Saturdays, and one between the players concerned Mr. G. T. Hay, replying, said that and the Football Association and to be Nineteenth or possibly Twenters regarding the Disinfecting Thames near Rotherhithe, with letters had been received from the had nothing whatsoever to do with tieth Century, and Burlingham Stations in Victoria and in Kow- dirty barges jostling ber, and the Club in question giving certain rea- the Chinese Athletic Association, As House will suggest that the sculptor loon sons and the Committee could not
What is the method of disinfec. black walls of warehouses encam-
passing her. question the bona fides of these
the matter was of great importance-believed not to be Epstein-un
She crept up the river with no- The
meeting eventually passed a re- to the C. A. A., the players under doubtedly drew on the mythology tion employed?
A. By steam in a Washington thing to indicate that she was of wolution authorising that a fuller ex-trial being prominent members of of the Greeks. Then, within a day
two, a letter signed "Nona- Lyona disinfector, or
more importance than a score of planation be demanded by the Council this Club, I asked permission to
Q. (a) How are articles, es- them, which genariun" will be printed allinning
other tramps from across the seas for those reasons which the Chinese stay and represent
pecially bedding, cloth-which came up with the tide. A Athletic said had prevented
them request was acceded to. Obeying that the correspondent vaguely re-
ing, etc., from infec- cargo of dates and rye lay in her from fielding teams, in fairness to the Chairman's order I kept quiet calls seeing as a boy a similar status
tious cases, taken to the other clubs.
holds. and returned, from the The Chairman gave a review of throughout the proceedings, but in the Circus, known (if memory is
faithful) as Eros. the oral statemerits
station? the proceedings at the hearing by the finding that Appeals Board on Wednesday, Oc-made by the two players gave no tober 20, of the appeal against the thing for the Association to con- Auspensions of two Athletic players, viet, I asked permission from the as follows:
meeting to allow them to play for At the invitation of the Chairman, the Club the following Saturday, as the case was opened by Mr. Wongwe were short of players, Kwong-tin whose statement read in part:
While admitting an offence under Rule 12 of the Association Rules, the appellants deny most emphatically that they have ever violated Rule 29 of the Rules of the English Assaela-
tion in letter or spirit.
The grounds of appeal are, firstly, that no fair trial has been given, and secondly, that a wrong construction has been placed on the acts of which complaint has been made.
Mr. Duncan replied that they 'could not do so at the moment as they had to conrider the case but would let me know the next day, when I was surprised to receive a letter from the Hon. Secretary in forming me that the players con rerned had been suspended for life, it being alleged that they had vic lated Rules 12 of the H.K.F.A. and 29 of the E.F.A.
After that, events will move fast, and it will' be established that Westminster City Council, together with the L.C.C. and certain other cherished old institutions of the capital, thinking to give London à huge surprise, are jocularly at the bottom of the whole affair.
(b) Is there a special gang
of coolies employed? (e) Are special vana em- ployed for such con- veyance?
But the Baharistan was met by a guard of police at the Rother- hithe Wharf, to the astonishment of the men who were waiting to berth her.
They did not know that she con- tained treasures which the Shah of Persia has loaned for the Inter- national Exhibition of Persia Art at the Royal Academy in January. Behind Sealed Doors.
A. Special motor vang are em ployed wherever practicable; and the infected articles are handled only by the regular cleaning staff Lighting Legislators.
of the Department in accordance Everyone
the fable with para. 5 of the relevant by- knows of the bey
I was on board the Baharlatan who cried "Wolf" laws. nobody took
notice
Q. of
Is every care taken to en-yesterday, writes a Press represen- him in the end. Eros;
So it is about sure that no damage is done to tative, but there was no sign of the articles sent for disinfection? the treasure. It was behind the
articles AB A. Such
the sealed doors of the ship's strong
any
good official authority, has
every newspaper, on
lators, are getting on.
an-
"Wrong Construction."
I was not satisfied with the de-nounced at least fifteen times in Medical Officer of Health con-room and the keys are kept by
the last five years that Gilbert's siders can be effectively disinfec- Captain Dodds. The second ground for appeal is
cision and made an appeal to the handiwork is about to return. It ted without danger to the public. You could go and make friends that wrong construction has been Council, but the decision was sus
would be tiresome to say so again, health are disinfected with all due with Dennis, the wild pig brought over for the Zoo, who lived in a placed on the acts of which complaint tuined for reasons unknown to me. even were the "damnable iteration" care. has been made. Mala fide has been I then asked for the statements true. But perhaps people still care.
Q. Is it known as a fact that case on the poop deck and found attached where the benefit of the written out by Mr. Duncan and pur-to know how our great Deliberative articles of clothing, bedding, the Bay of Biscay very trying, and doubt could ve
very well have been given, porting to contain the exact re- The appellants admi: that on join-marks made by the two players and Bodies, London's Lighting Legis- mattresses, etc., have been found you could listen to the carpenter's to be destroyed or damaged when bul-bul singing in the cabin, but if ing the team they were given $2 a found that they did not bear a true
returned after disinfection, and you went 'for'urd to the strong day as travelling expenses and having interpretation of what these play- $100 to buy football gear, a blazer
Westminster City Council, the is it likely this has been done dur- room a guard of policemen barred London County Council, and a dress suit. It has been sugers had actually stated.
the ing the process of disinfection?
your way. A. If these statements
The gested by Mr. Duncan that the
written by Ministry of Transport, the London |
Medical Officer of $150
The police guard will be aboard the nature of was in
grant.
Mr. Duncan had only been read out Traffic Advisory Committee, the Health is not aware of any ins- until the treasure is removed to- it is my contention
that these sums of to the players whilst the case was Metropolitan Police, the Commis-tance.
morrow. Police will watch the money were never given in the nature being tried on October 8th, and sioners of Crown Lands and the Q. Have any complaints been unloading, and will guard the of grants nor was their receipt con- their signatures secured to them Underground Company all have a made, or any claims for com- motor lorries on their way through sidered in such a nature. I wish to
as being entirely correct, the de-frozen finger in the Piccadilly pic. pensation been sent in for des- the streets. make it clear that $2 day were
e procision to suspend would have been The last three may be exonerated, troyed or damaged property? "We knew we were taking trea- vided for
of any travel- the
·A. The Medical incur- justified and would have no grounds having done their part, but the
Officer of sure aboard," a ship's officer said, ling expenseK
might bc red while on shore and for no other whatsoever for complaint, but the first four are still playing the trusty Health does not recall having re- "because of the precautions at purpose. Every cent of that money fact is that the Emergency Com- and archaic game of "passed to ceived any complaint or any claim Abadan, the Persian port. There had to be accounted for and a signed mittee have charged these players you, please.”
for compensation..
were a number of crates covered statement of how the money was spent on the strength of statements
with canvas and carrying big' seals. They came by car, and had to be given. I had a copy of this alleged to have been made by the statement for our perusal.
your
were accompanied by a squad of The $150 in question were provide latter but which actually were writ ten down by the Emergency Com-
Peralan soldiers with fixed bay- for the
the express purpose of purchasing
onets, who stood by until the mittee more or less as they pleased. football gear, a blazer and a dress sait. Considering the
I have no hesitation whatever in
strong room door was locked and low
purchasing value of the dollar at the present mo- stating that had these statements
sealed." ment
be con- been read out to the players and sidered excessive and is hopelessly correctly interpreted to them, that mearre when compared with the sum they would have refused to sign
E650 which an Australian cricketer them. of
a tour of England. receives for n
This sum of $150 was ear-marked for
sum
cannot
A. Yes.
It was also mentioned by the Chairman that an application for an eating-house licence in a tea- shed on the roadside at the junc- tion of Sai Kung Road and Wang Street, Kowloon City, had been re- fused, and that an application for the registration of No. 14 Essex Kowloon Crescent, ground floor, Tong, as a dairy, had been grant-
ed.
First Time in Europe.
No one knew, however, what was in the crates, and except for the officers no one knew that the tramp was carrying anything more valueable than dates.
Great secrecy was observed. A golden argosy like this tramp might have tempted some adven- turers to revive the ancient pira- tical industry! There are marau- Previous Day. Yesterday: ders off the Arabian coasts who
EXCHANGE RATES.
123.635 .25 036
.20.38%
18.16
.193 075
123.665
25.035 might have given, the Baharistan 20.385 an exciting trip.
Q. Is the process of disinfec- On August 11, the Ministry oftion carried out carefully and un- Transport stated that the final lay der experienced supervision? out of Piccadilly Circus. has been approved, and that there was no further obstacle to the return of the Shaftesbury Memorial. Work- men were indisputably seen in the Circus on the morning of the 15th. They had their breakfast there, drilled up portions of the road, and also wish to say that the Coun- then vanished without trace.
Then the Ministry specific purpose and again, as Mooting held subsequently to the
of Trans- Committee in the case of the two dollars travel. Emergency
meeting, port admitted that there was a mis- ling expenses, every cent had to be that neither the players nor a repre- take. The Traffic Advisory Council accounted for. If there was any-sentative of the C. A. A. were pre- had not been definitively satisfied thing left after the purchase of the sent and I believe the decision to with the lay-out. So some more several objects, which are the pro-suspend was sustained merely on experiments were conducted, and in perty of the Club and are to be re-the strength of Mr. Duncan's re- this way, after a period of micro- turned when demanded, the balance
neemarks, there being no chance for scopic watching, they discovered was to be returned to the Club.
they were-no-yes-they actually Paris.. They only act as an agent of the the defence to conduct their case.
Inasmuch as the decision arrived were, after all; really and truly Geneva Club for the purpose of these articles at by the Football Association here quite satisfied. Eros Eureka.
Berlin Question of Status.
Oslo... nothing in these nets on the part of ten out by Mr. Duncan and which happen. Seeking the cause of the sing Athens the appellants to point to, as "pro- the players under trial would un-inactivity, the London County Buenos Aires fessionalism." Only to a very sus doubtedly have refused to admit as Council, Scotland Yard, and any Shanghai picicus mind eculd any such allege-being carrect if the contents had others appealed to courteously re- New York
•tion seem
to wholly been made known to furred tion the messey Committee must submit that the attitude adopted Council; and they are, it is now Stockholm
to Westminster City have been extremely prejudiced against the appellants to have
are Lakon the in-y the governing body all along has clear, the prime, authentic Rip Van Vienna Madrid Winkies of the piece. terpretation they have' regarding these acts. The grounds I have plac-
At first the Council refused in- Montevideo ed before you, I submit, are good and
formation, then grew willing to Hongkong. sufficent reasons for allowing the ap-
Vouchsafe a little, but with the Brussels quoted as having said anything. Copenhagen. instruction that they were not to be Milan. The appellants have now been sus- the English Football Association in Yet one sentence must be quoted Prague pended for three weeks, and I am the matter, the cable reading as fol- for its utter sincerity and shining asking you to consider, that sufficient lows:
truth. "A point the Council has Rio.. punishment has already been adminis "Reference Chinese Soccer tour- tered and that such suspension shall ing team this Association has de always attached great importance be removed."
cided after due trial that players to," impressively declared this De- having accepted sum of money have liberative Body, "is that they should unwittingly forfeited amateur not proceed too hastily." status. This mean they cannot again
Hongkong as all competitions hero are amateur.
I submit, gentlemen, that there is was based on the statements writ- But nothing more seemed to Helsingfors
been an arbitrary one.-Yours; etc.
J. LEE.
Hon. Football Manager Chinese Athletic Association.
peal and for reconsidering the quesult of which it was decided to cable
ponishment.
tion of
Mr. Duncan read his statement re- citing the full facts of the tour and its ebandonment, made at the Appcal Board meeting.
Rules Can Be Altered.
Mr. Ormiston, addressing the Ap- peals Board, said, in part:--
"I believe I am correct in stating that it is not the Council's desire that they should be suspended indefinitely, but the only manner in which they be reinstated, assuming that they aphaid the decision of the Council, is to alter our Rules to enable us to rein.
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A "Rehearsal."
"It may still be some time before to reinstate them as amateurs after Eros is back?" I inquired. “Oh, adequate terms of suspension? Aa yes," said the Council with our decision has caused consider simplicity.
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Bucharest..
Lisbon..
38.11/16 1/7
4.85.23/32 12.065 18.115
34.435 42.20 .818 .39%%
.1/3.7/16 .34.825 .02.705
.18.16
.163%
.108.25
.4.16/16
1/5 23/32 Bombay. Yokohama
..2/0.17/32 Silver (spot)...16% (forward) 16%
18.16 Probably only two or three peo- 1934 ple as yet know exactly what is in 375 the treasure crates, although the contents are known generally,
1/7 The crates have not yet been 4.85% opened," said Sir Edward Denison 12.06
Ross, director of the School of 18.11% Oriental Studies yesterday, "but 34 47%
they contain ancient sculptures, 41.95
818 books and manuscripts that have 39% never previously been seen in 1/3 Europe. Their value cannot be 34.825 | estimated. They are worth untold 12.785 money."
--18.10
1634 Aeroplane Foils Bandits.
108.25
4% The treasure was brought over 1/6.95/32 the mountains from Teheran by 2/0.17/32 aeroplanes at the command of the 16.9/16 Shah of Persia in order to outwit 16.7/16 the bandits who haunt those -British Wireless.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
"THE FLORADORA GIRL" WORTH SEEING.
We can recommend a visit to the
places. A forced. landing would probably have meant death for the airmen, although they were armed to the teeth. The bundits had the mortification of seeing Crown jewels of Persia flying over their heads.
deck.
a tromp
able trouble amongst Chinese Clubs Though the. Transport Ministry please cable reply as soon as pos- states that the disposition of Pic-
There are rubies and emeralds, turquoises and diamonds, silken sible." The Chairman said that no reply cadilly Circus is settled and up- Queen's Theatre, where "The Flora carpets woven by the ancients of Council te- dora Girl" is at present the main the East in gold and silver and has been received to this cable, and proved. Westminster Clause the matter must consequently be left partant that the Council disagreed one, but it is admirably handia brought from the tombs of the old the Hong- at for the time being.
Shahs. Some of these objecte of alterations Continuing. the Chairman said that with them. "Well," said the De-It has to do with a wealthy young Persian art, worth a king's ran- annual gene. it was clearly understood by all pre- partinent, even though the site of man, already betrothed to a girl of fore could not participants, there sent that the meeting in Mr. Dyer's the island in the Circus has been his own social status, falling in love som, have never been gazed on by: an unbelever...all resting on office was quite informal and he un determined, it has yet to be seen with a chorus girl. There are, of the Thames. mud in football during the present season. derstood Mr. Lo's letter was
was where the statue will go on the course, the usual complications, but steamer, with Dennis the hog rum- I belleve Mr. Duncan has An alter garded as a private communication
De island."
everything comes out all right in maging for scraps on the poop native proposal to make in this con- to Mr. Dyer. He may, however,
might expedite matters wrong in this respect.
Westminster Council is going to the end. He was sur- with regard to term of suspension. prised that it has since been published resolve this point by putting up Much of the attractiveness of the
Since the meeting of
of the Council on in the press, by whose, permission hea lath and canvas profile of the film lies in the revival of memories the 16th instant I have given the sub- did not know. He felt that it should god. He will be tried, no doubt, of the nineties, when "Floradora” ject serious consideration and unless have been withheld from publication in thirty-four different positions, was the rage amongst musical come to the story, and the acting through-
appellants can place further evi- until they were in a position to reply and the six other interested parties dies. The period is truthfully in-out is really excellent.
favour before you I to it; this
this could not be done, until invited to inspect each one of them terpreted, and there are some ex- Marion Davies takes the lead they received a reply to the cable and at their leisure. Following that, tremely funny scenes, especially with great success, and she has op under our existing Rules the Courell Mr. Kotewall's return to the Colony: the real figure will be fetched home those at a bathing beach, the quaint posite her Lawrence Gray, who is
In the circumstances he thought the Council would agree that they had-if anyone remembers where it is. costumes worn being a reminder of equally good. The other parts are done their utmost in the interests of So I refuse to-assert once more how styles have advanced since also in capable hands. The film is the appellants. The position created that Eros will shortly be back. those days. Then, of course, there well worth seeing, being light and was most unfortunate and regret Christmas, however, not being a are some excellent stage scenes, entertaining, with some happy
matter within the jurisdiction of whilst it is good to hear many of musical features.
the
dence in
In their
am constrained to the opinion that
could not have reached any other decision."
Yesterday's Decision.
Addressing yesterday's Council meeting, Mr. Ormiston referred to the letter written by Mr. M. K. Lo to the President of the Association (Mr. R. M. Dyer).
Following that. ho said, a meeting was held in Mr. Dyer's office as a re-
table.
Mr. J. W. Baldwin, moved a vote of Westminster City Council, is de the old musical favourites amongst In addition, there is a news reel mittee. This was seconded by Capt in the Morning Post. confidence in the Emery Confinitely coming.-A Correspondent, the songs and choruses. Humour and a really funny. Laurel and
and romance are cleverly woven in-Hardy comedy.
Deacon and carried.
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