THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
FATAL BISCUIT FACTORY BLAZE
SHAMSHUIPO
OUTBREAK
ONE KILLED AND TWO INJURED
MIDNIGHT FIRE
Should Navy Players Be In Hockey Interport?
Y
(Continued from Page 8.) ed and overlooked players in present team; it is to protest on
the
Manners (II.M.S. Suffolk), Lt-Cdr. F. B. Leigh (H.M.B. Medway), Lt.- Cdr. Hill (H.M.8. Medway), LA. At- kinson (II.M.B. Eagle), Surgeon Lt Cdr. Phillips (H.M.S. Suffolk) and principle to the selection of Navy Major Camped naked the tests in
O.B.E. (Army). Those who had players as representatives of the
A. W. Kitcnt Colony, and further to object to January were Lt.
(H.M.9. Wishart), E.R.A. Robinson HL.M.B Cumberland), Squadron the lack of restriction in the num bar of Services players chosen.
The Committee will be well ad-Lender J. J. Barnett (11.3.8. Engio), Flight Sergeant Clark (R.A.F.) of H.M.S. Suffolk, and A. A. Dand and G. T. Palmer of the Civilians, HINTS TO UMPIRES
A disastrous fire at a biscuit factory in Shamshuipo last night resulted in one employee being trapped in the building and burnt to death, while two others suffer-vised in the near future to establish a set of rules governing ed minor injurios.
hockey Interports which will ob
the possibility of vinto misunderstanding arising betwoon Interport teams, particularly in regard and the inclusion of Navy
any
The outbreak occurred at Nos. tho 75, 77 and 70 Apliu Street, ground floors of which were occu- pied by the Garden Biscuit Fac- tory Co., and the cause is believed to have boon the ignition of fire-players and the selection of an wood which had been left to dry alongside a stove,
The alarm was recolved by the and Fire Brigade at 11.50 p.m., two appliances from the Kowloon Station, under Mr. Moss, as well as two from Mongkok in charge of Assistant Stallon Officer Cash, were soon on the scene.
Due to the presence of about a dozon barrels of lard on the pro- mises, the blaze soon assumed big dimensions, but good work by the Brigado confined it to the ground
floors.
LAD INCINERATED, Alad named Chung Kwok-hing. aged 18 years, was trapped in the bullding whilst endeavouring to make his escaps, and bis incinera tod body was discovered later among the debris. He was found beneath a plle of timbors, having evidently been knocked down by somo heavy metal boxes falling to the ground.
excessive number of Army repre-
sentatives.
COMBINED SERVICES TEAM
To Oppose Hongkong
Interport XI
The following have been select- ed as a Combined Services XI to play the Hongkong Interport team on February 5:
Lieut. Shields (R.A.); Sub. Taj Mohomed (Punjabis), Lieut. Met- calfe (R.A.) Lieut. Comdr, Hill, Capt. (H.M.S. Berwick); Sto. P. 0. Burdett (H.M.S. Cumberland), A. N. Other, Sab. Lieut. Alexander Sinclair (H.M.S. Berwick); Lieut. Bartlett (H.M.S. Medway), Sub. Lieut. Cheyne (H.M.S. Medway).
The Services side to oppose Macao will be chosen at a later
An old woman and a girl re-date. colved minor injuries, and wore sent to hospital.
Fortunately, the building was of concrete, with stairways of the samo material, and this enabled people in the upper foora to escapo. The building itself was not greatly damaged, but the con tonta suffered badly from are and water.
$10,000 DAMAGE.
at
HOCKEY INTERPORT
Singapore Visit Likely
In March
A meeting of the Hongkong. Hockey Association was held yesterday at the Y.BI.C.A. with Mr. E. W. Hamilton, the President, in the chair.
The total damage is placed
One of the matters discussed was about $10,000. The premises were the visit of the Singapore Interpost insured with the New Zealand In-hockey team, to Hongkong, and the surance Co. for $20,000.
Chairman said that negotiations were in progress, and it was hoped they might manage to have the interport match somewhere about March 29 or March 30. It was impossible to be A member of their more definite.
Thanks to the effective work of the fire-fighters, the binzo was got under control in less than half an hour.
JAPANESE PRINTS
& KIMONOS FINE EXHIBITION AT KOMOR'S
Those who have learned to love Japanese prints will rejoice in the rare specimens which Mr. T. Okamoto is exhibiting at Messrs. Komor and Komor's art rooms. Pictures by Kokusai, Gakutei and Yelsen, in fact genuine specimens of all the grent artists' work, are showing, demonstrating graceful composition of drawing and colour.
As in the West, so in the East, the first books were printed from
Council was visiting LED very
would
It
shortly, and a final rest on his discussions there. would, however, probably not be cer
until about March 10. Another matter discussed was the local International Competition, and on the Chairman's suggestion, a com- mittee comprising of Mosers. W. Woodward (England), F. G. Barros (Portugal), Surgin Singh (India) and J. Rodger (Scotland) was nomin ated to submit a scheme-for-the-run- ning of the competition at the next meeting.
Major E. J. R. Mitchell, secretary of the examining committee for um- pires, submitted the names of those qualified umpires and those who had qualified during January.
Those already qualified were Capt.
Wooden blocks. This produced THE F.A. CUP DRAW .especially in Japan a continuous
succession of skilled wood en-
gravers to whom much of the
credit for colour printing in Japan;
(By "Bully-off.")
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JANUARY 30, 1934.
RADIO BROADCAST
TO-DAY'S BROADCAST.
A TALK ON BILLIARDS BY WILLIE 'SMITH
From ZBV on, a wavelength of 855 metres.
4.30-7.80 p.m. Chinese programme. 7.23-7.30 p.m. From the Studio. A Talk on "Safety First" by Mr. Lo Bhuk Fun.
7.30-10.30 p.m. Earopean pro-
gramme.
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations, etc
7.33-8 p.m. From the Studio.
The 25th of a series of lessons in "Cantonere" by Mr. H. R. Wells.
B
8 p.m. Local Time & Weather Re- port.
8.3-8.27 p.m.
Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendels-
sohn, Op. 1).
San Francisco Symphony Orches
tra under tho direction of Alfred Horta, 8.27-9 p.m. Concert Items. Octet-Memories of Johann Strauss
(arr. Willoughby).
J. II. Squire Celeste Octet. Song Onaway! Awako! Beloved ("HiawathaColoridge Taylor). Song The Legend of Kleinsack ("Tales of Hoffman" Offonbach).
Tudor Davies (Tenor), (Rubinstein,
Octet Valso Caprice
arr, Crocko).
Octet--Perpetuum Mobile (Weber,
Arr. Crocko);
J., Squire Colesto Octet.
Song-Wine, Women and Song
(Strauss).
Song The Doll's Song ("Tales of
Hoffman"Offenbach).
Mavis Bennett (Soprano).
9-9.65 p.m. From the Studio,
A talk on "Safety First" by the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Automo- bile Association.
9.05-0.15 p...
Band-Tannhauser-March (Wag-
ner).
Band-Marcho Aux Flambeaux (Meyerbeer).
Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards. 9.15-0.30 p.m. From the Studio. A talk on "Billiards" by Willio Smith,
0.30-10.30 p.m. A B.B.C. Recorded Programme.
"Worlds Away."
A family, chronicle from the year 1812 to the year 1933, specially writ ten for broadcasting by John Watt, and produced by the author in the London studios of the British Broad- casting Corporation.
The Orchestra under the direction of Leslie Woodgate.
Band con-
The Wireless Military ducted by B. Walton O'Donnell.
10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press
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Stoke
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Continued from Page 1.3
Fulham
Is due. Even greater credit goes | Brighton and Northampton.
to the painters, for there is hardly
a record of the engraver when we look back at the roll of artists in the Genrok! period (1688-1703), or the Tenmel period (1781-1788), or pictures of Kiyonaga, at the Wtamaru (1754-1806), or Toyo- kimi.
A wonderful collection of old
HUDDERSFIELD'S
LOSS OF FORM
Grimsby
28
7. 12 30 48 21 6 13 43 59 20 614 36.48 17 5.16 30 72 10
SECOND DIVISION
2 Millwall }
League Table
Port Valo Brentford Bolton Plymouth
ceremonial kimonos is also being Well Beaten in League Blackpool
exhibited at Komor's, a lovely blend
of colour and design; also old brocade obis, the like of which has
Engagement
London, Jan. 20.
Bury Preston N.E. Fulham...... West Ham Bradford C.
Goals
a
F. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.
26 18 0 7 03 34 36
20 14 4 8 39 32 32
8 09 43
28' 13
26 14
2 10 40
26 11
20 11
25 28 10 .... 40
nover before been seen in Hong- After their astonishing defeat kong. The half-price sale of lovely in the F. A. Cup competition on Bradford Japaneso Incquer-ware and ten-sets Saturday, Huddersfield were to Oldham will be a further inducement today soundly thrashed in a league Burnley visit Messra. Komor and Komor's engagement at Stoke, the City Hull art rooms on February 1st.
winning by three clear goals. Southampton 26
Notis Forest 25 8 8 11 38 Five league games were played Notts County 26 8 0 12 30 and only one was productive of a Millwall... 20 12 26 39 2
8 real surprise, Charlton's failure Swansea 25 0 10 31 373 to take both points from Gilling- Manchester U. 26 8 3 15 88 08 19 Lincoln 26 6 6 14 23 07 17 Tho results (as cabled by
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH), Reuter) and revised tables follow: FIRST DIVISION.
G.C.H. SHROFF CHARGED
ACCUSATION OF EMBEZZLEMENT
ham.
Blackburn
Fung Hok-ling, aged 26 years, Sheffield U.
shroff employed at the Government Stoke
Civil Hospital, was charged before Mr. Balfour in the Central Police Court this morning with the em- bezzlement of $6.50 recolved from Arsenal Wong Wal-ying, for and on behalf Derby..... of the hospital, on January 22.
Dot-Inspector J. Murphy, for the Tottenham prosecution, said defendant was on Manchester C. 20 11- ball of $500.
2 Gillingham League Table
Goals
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pla. 20 15 0 G 58 30 10 20 13 7 0 04 36 33 25 13 0 6 64 31 32 26 14 40 40 20 32 24 14.8 26 13
Charlton
3 Birmingham
1
2 Sunderland
0
3 Huddersfield
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INDIA'S MISERY
HEAVY RAINS ADD TO QUAKE HORROR
New Delhi, Jan. 29:
The Viceoy's Fund, for the victims of the Indian earthquake which recently did such enormous damage and took so many thou- Band Hives, has now reached-the- £40,000 mark. But offelal quarters declare that a much larger sum is needed if the stricken popula- tion of the quake zone is to be permanently rehabilitated.
A high official of Bihar, where 30/10% 36/10% the worst of the losses were sus- 8/105tained, says that many crores of rupees will be necessary to restore the economic life of that province alone. A crore is ten millions.
Reports from Calcutta state that torrential rains have been sweep- ing the already ravaged country around Muzaffarpur, whore the town of that name was almost entirely demolished. Thousands of the homeless lie drenched at the roadsidea, shivering, miserable and often hungry, with no place of shelter-Router.
$ 23 £ 22% $2
50/8 55/- 29/14 28/14% 198/0 197/0
KAILAN MINE
STRIKE
Destruction of Railway Track Threatened
CODEX SINAITICUS.
› MONASTERY DEMANDS ITS CUSTODY
Cairo, Jun. 20.
A telegram demanding the re- Tientsin, Jan. 30.
turn of the famous "Codex Sinai- The Tangshan Colliery workers ticus," which was bought from have joined the strikers of the other the Soviet by the British Museum Kallan Administration collieries, and public subscription last month, The Kailan mines have been brought "as British public opinion must to a standstill.
know that it belongs to the The strikers threaten to destroy Monastery of Sinal" has been sent the track of the Peking Shanbal-by the Archblahop of Sinai to the kwan Railway to prevent the trans- British Museum. The Archbishop port of Kailan coal to Peking, if the la at present In Cairo-Reuter. Administration refuses to accept their terms,
The threat follows a statement by a spokesman of the Kailan Ad- ministration to the effect that the strike would cause no loss to the Company which had experienced dificulty in disposing of their over-
stock. This produced
problem would be automatically settled If
25 11 5 0 37 41 27 the minors declined to work. It would take some time to work off.
Clapton 0. .. 20 05 12 3 38 48 23 the surplus stocks.-Contral News,
Brighton Torquay, Southend
25 de at .. Bournemouth
Mr. T. P. K. Kemble appeared for Middlesbro... 25 13 the defence. He remarked that Portsmouth 20 10
Wednesday the ball was high.
20 10 0 Insp. Murphy:-We consider we Wolves
25 D 8 lot him out on rather reasonable Sunderland. 20 9 7
Nowcastle..
27 8 0 ball.
20 10 4 12 62 61 24 Walford Mr. Kemble:--I understand he Aston Villa
25 889 40 41 24 Newport had to borrow the money. -
Dofendant THAILA February 0.
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Bristol C.
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