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GERMANY ADOPTS
RUGBY..
STILL "STUMPED"
CRICKET.
BY
Rugby football in Germany has perhaps not made such atrides forward since the war as it has in France, but the development of the Kame in Berlin since 1920, ro-1 called reconlly at the 10th anni-' versary dinner
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RECANTS.
PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO NANKING.
THREAT TO NANNING.
and
80.
NOVEMBER 15, 1930.
"YEOMEN OF THE GUARD."
TO BE PRESENTED HERE SHORTLY.
to. BOB Again Hongkong is Glibert and Sullivan's most popu- ur opera The Yeomen of the Guard." Rehearsals have pro- ccoded apace for upwards of two Wuchow, Nov. 12. With the report that General months and there is promise of of Berlin's firstWang Shao-hung has pledget his exceeding good entertainment for admirers of the Savoyard tradi- Rugby football club, the Charlot-
allegiance to the National Govern tenburg, is startling.
Gilbert's immortal tale of Point. years ago the game was ment, the Kwangs situation has as-tion and lovers of music.
sumed more of a negotiating aspect. Itho in Berlin by 12 players
broken-hearted jester, nod Ma Halao-kim, a former officer every week-end went to a plot of under General Fel Chung-bat, has his love for Elsie Maynard loses been in Wuchow for some time en-nothing by repetition, and the кганя outaide
the city: their deavouring to mediate between the Philharmonie Society, which in re- pavilion
the surrounding National Government.
the peating the opera on dates next Grunewald, and for the tapering Kangal Clique Meanwhile, both month as stated elsewhere in this goal posts there were substituted sides maintain about the same re-issue, offer no apology for doing the cast-off coats of the players. Intive positions,
These enthusiastn. however.
It is six years since the opera Nanning. Ping Tang, Linehow
Hongkong, very noon natis decided that and Kwellin are still in the hands way for performe
WAR finally
having been
previously of the Kwangsi rebele. the they should amalgamate with
Recently, considerable fighting in 1899 by the A.D.C. and, it is existing sports club of Chariot-
In tenburg, and so the frat Berlin has taken place near Kwei Isten, Interesting to note, as an instance
the Kwangtung papers admitting of how people come and go Rugby football club came into
that the Cantunes have suffered Hongkong, that only one of the existence.
heavy losses, hluding a thousand previous cast will be heard in similar part in this production. wounded.
The natural conclusion seeme to Among other talen of ""The best one perhaps is be that the Cantonese bave decided, Yeomen" the beemise of these losses, to bomb that of Paint's song have Nanning until the rebels vield. It Song to Sing, Of Sullivan bad said they have decided complete- great trouble in fitting music to y to destroy the city,
but will the words. He would compose a guarantee losses to elyllins, etting and tear it up, and at last Future Assured.
There are those who think that told. Gilbert that it was a nuisance. cricket in Germany, General Wang Shaochung's uffer Gilbert, who was a devotee "Rugger" was played in a desul of allegiance to Nanking will yachting, suggested the tune tary way before the war, and, as bee bini in the position of being an old chanty which he had made 451 thin with cricket during, the war and painted Governor of Kwang4: in his crew sing, and out for sime time after it, the game fact, this is considered in sumie Sullivan composed one of the most was dropped. After a lime, howlers to be the real reasons of famous songs of the opera. ever, the Gormans found the spirit his gesture, Que Two Cuartepon-was the only time in your fe," of Rugger," and its establishment deal.
The difficulty of Auding appo nents was overcome by splitting. the original club into two. By continuation of this process of self division the original twelve players developed into six flourish
ing clubs.
As with
as a national sport along with lawn tennis, Association football. and boxing is assured.
Not so with the Germans" at- tempts to assimilate the peculiarly exclusive English game, cricket. Try as he may, the German cannot get hold of the spirit of that game.
rather resents It enjoys-or something of the same status that croquet, for example, has in Eng- land, and is often played, indeed, In a similar informal dress,
The German Press records the duration of
match in a county England-let alone the duration of a timeless Test match-with thế! awo with which one of our own might describe a Continen-
a croquet "International, with hoops circling round whole dis tricts and hundreds of thousands] of raving spectators.
A Surprising' Announcement.
AMUSEMENT TAX.
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entertainment where surer is satisfied:
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or
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he afterwards told Gilbert, "when You
responsible for the
were
music as well as the words.! "1 wish you would make a habit of doing half the muste as well!"
As a result of the injuries re- the Trea-reived, a Chinese who fell off A motor forry and was taken to the Civil (a) that the charge for admis-Covernment
sion is not more than Thursday, died at 5.40 a.m. this twenty cents for each per morning.
son; or
(b) that the whole of the
Hospital on
takings thereof are devoted any duty which should have been. to philanthropic or charl-paid.
table purposes without any (2) If any person acts in con- charge on the takings for travention of, or fails to comply any expenses of the enter-with, any regulations made under tainment; or
this Ordinance he shall be liable ta a fine (c) that the entertainment is of on summary conviction wholly educational char-of five hundred dollars.
(3) actur; or
If any person prevents or
of the
the obstructs
entry Treasurer. or of any person (d) that the entertainment is
in writing authorised by him provided for partly educa under this Ordinance, he shall be tional or party, cientifiable on suremary conviction to u purposes by A snclety not fine of two hundred dollars. conducted or established
(v)
Concession to Culture.
for profit; or
that.
the entertainment Est
Ticket Regulation.
ог
In fact, so far are the Germana from a comprehension of the epical nature of cricket that the only news the exlied enthusiast could glean of the progress of last Aunimer's Test Matches from the occasional ineal Press Was notice to the effect that a day had procession supervened in the long
when no of days in the match cricket was played: such was the enthusiasm of the English for this oddl aport, however, the notices ran, that many thousands of spec- tators wailed on, gazing at the rain-soaked pitch, as though sus- pension through Inclement wea- ther were a certain phase of the game that could also be appre- clated by the connoisseur.
Or Bradman's hundreds, of the proceeds of an entertainment are entertainment during a vacillations of fortune, nothing devoted to philanthropic or chari-period of time, the proprietor shall But once two obscure lines record-table purposes and that the whole before issuing the ticket mark it ed the fact, no doubt surprising of the expenses of the entertain with the name of the person to to the native player whose Satur-ment do not exceed fifty per cent. whom it is to be issued, and shali day afternoon game does not ex-of the receipts, he shall repay to not admit to the entertainment by tend beyond the one innings, that the proprietor the amount of the virtue of that ticket any person in the second innings ("go," as it duty, paid in respect of the enterother than the person named on
of the cricket tainment. is called here) "Landerkampf," the Engliahmen, had once again batted first. Lucky England!
The price of admission means by a society not the price either inclusive for profit and consists of an shall be printed on every auch exhibition or display of ticket us aforesaid a statement work or skill, with or with-whether the price printed thereon music of material in-in accordance with the require- terest in the promotion ofments of this Regulation includes industry,
graphic art, the duty or excludes the duty, an sculpture, arta craftman- the case may be. ship or public health,
Provided or conducted exclusive of the duty, and there
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Where the duty is calculated and paid on a lump sum paid for
admission (2) Where the Treasurer season ticket or for a ticket
authorlsing satisfied that the whole of the net
Penaltics.
to any certain
the ticket. and no person other the than the person named on ticket shall obtain, or attempt to If any person is admitted for obtain, admission to the entertain- payment to any place of entertain. ment and the provisions of this ment by virtue of that ticket.
If the propricor of any enter The Europeau who, as stated Ordinance are not complied with
the person admitted and the pro-tainment claims that duty ought previously, was found in no un conscious condition in Johnston Prietor of the entertainment to not to be charged on admission to Road on Wednesday, has been which he is admitted shall be that entertainment by reason of liable on summary conviction to a the provisions of the Ordinance, he shall not less than fourteen identified as being Michael Scanne in the case of a person niell a dreman of the 8.8. Great admitted of fifty dollars and in the days before the date on which the City. He is a native of Cork, case of the proprietor of one thou- entertainment is to be held, make Ireland, and was taken to the sand dollars, and the proprietor an application to the Treasurer Government Hospital when found. shall in. Addition be liable to pay claiming exemption accordingly.
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