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LOCAL TENNIS TOPICS.
PLAYERS AND THEIR METHODS.
(Specially Contributed.)
FRIDAY, JUNE
1928
CORRESPONDENCE.
-PLACE OF WORSHIP DOOMED.
HIGH ABOVE.
BOILING OPIUM ON A.P.C. BUILDING.
tolle the farmers when to expect "the real hot weather and raluy (The Hongkong com- rodeon." munity is entirely with them in the latter respect.). But there is one practice which has been handed down from generation to genorstion although nobody can place the root origin or give a sound reason for it. It is the custom to take part in a show dog feast and eat as many in his room and two others search-matob between the C.R. and Chinese Government resumed land of persons have been boiling lichecs as possible on summer ing his front parlour together with I.B.C. was again postponed on which had been built a place of opium. This clandestine prepara Rolatice day. If anybody is for a fourth keeping guard was the Friday owing to the soddon ground Christian worship, with a view to tion of the poppy is unlawful and proceeded to raid. tions. I fool sure that a loud ory Officers tunate enough he would need to sight-which confronted a Chinese at theO.R.C. The match was eventu be tactful to be able to watch the when he returned to his house at ally played off on Wednesday last building new roads or communica- yesterday a number of Rovenas preparation for the meal and see Kowloon Tai at 8,30 last night, and a good and exciting game would be raised and no stone would the place. As the building is act
more unfortunately they sulted in a win for the Indians by
There is in the to get to the top la by means of the accomplished. the pleasure on faces se it is bring Still
house winding scaffolding stairs for part; served, he should try to do so spotter him and at once drove hin 10 games, the scores being 87/43. bo left unturned to prevent it being completed the only way Owners of full-grown chows need from his honte. One drow â re-The Club des Becreio, I hear, peninsula of Kowloon. a not worry as to the probable fate of volver and struck him on the arm; conceded a walk-over to the Indians which has been purchased by a guild of the journey, then over and up a while another threatened him with who have encountered no serious of Chinese worshippers with funds number of steet beams and lastly thoir pots. Only young male pa dagger. A kind neighbour blew opposition this season. They have scribed by thousands of people.a bit of real mountaineering are wanted and its tongue must be a whistle at this stage. The rob therefore won the league without This is not a temple but a sort of across poles and reinforced red The boilers had prepared black before it is considered her lectumped with $30, in money defeat for two successive seasons here whore members of the fenter for eventualities and their position doliency. These are mostly pro-
Congratulations to the young club.nity associate to offer prayer and was an admirable one for keep» In the Junior Division league to live in when it suits their con- ing a look-out As soon as the cured from farms on the mainland and also from the interior, some
atcit the Indians scored an over: verience. Notice has been received officers were seen they quietly got weeks before the day and subjected
whelming victory over Queen's that as the Government wish to out the other way and as they were to a fattoning process. This year Hehers are cheap so they will be
According to a message to the College in a rather tame affair, the
Bunzed. Could not an exception be place, they, easily made their way thousands will be eaten because it ment has replied to the Soviet Note were again prominent and I venture made in the case of a place of wor-to terra firma and escaped. Perch plentiful and after the evening meal Daily Bulletin, the Tokyo Govern scores being 67/32. The Rumjans build a read, the land will be 10-familiar with the geography of the is believed to be beneficial.
from Moscow, announcing the to state that a team composed of
mised on behalf of the British officers could not give chase and selection of Mr. Kawakami to dis-Itunjahna will give the best six of ship as Sir Henry Pottinger pro-ing on their precarious holds the cuss the preliminaries with M. Joffe. the Color a very close game. Government to respect Chinese had to be content with seizing four
1.R.C. University and C.R.C. arc
[To the Editor of the " China Mali.*]| REVENUE MEN'S TRICKY CHASE
SirWhat would your Christian In a small matshed on the top-of The long looked for "A" Division rondom say if they heard that the the A. P. C. skyscraper, a number
Firmness Needed.
What guarantees the Powers will exact from China over the Lincheng outrage it is too soon to predict, but they should certainly demand the banishment of Teo Kun and the Theban of Shantung, as sy de Ltd mandled the banishauent of Prince Tuan after the Boxer Rebellion. It'
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Yours, etc., Hongkong, June 22, 1929.
The Shanghai Educational fighting for top place in the Junior Association, the N.C.D. News Division and, all being well, they understands, has decided to ask have to play off a triangular tie to for permission to review all moving ascertain the winner of the league. All not occurred since the birth of the pictures before they are placed Such extraordinary rosulta bare before the general public. obnoxious pictures or parts of them Jumer League in 1910 during [To will be censored.
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which season the Vanguard Club (no longer in existence) came off victor in a triangular tio with Kow loon & C.R.C
A few comments on the Indians team are not out of place.
A. PLEA FOR EQUITY. the Editor of the “ China Mati."
Sir,-1 refine to believe for m moment that the finding of the jury: in the case of Lo Kam-shan was concurred in by the Chief Justice, Sir William Roes Davies, or that the death sentence will be confirm ad when the matter comes before His Excellency the Governor in Council. The whole case is de sad
crete.
taels of opium with the usual par aphernalia,
WATER SUPPLY. RAINS WASH SILICA INTO
RESERVOIR.
A correspondent having drawn attention to the colour of the water from the tops supplied through the rider mains from the Ellot filter- beds, a representative the China Mail interviewed Mr. R. M.
this moming. Henderson, the Water Authority,
vice, delivering the ball with the full face of the racquet and standing in lino with the base
"The reason for the discolora line. He is difficult to beat,
very simple," said Mr. Henderson whilst possessing no formidable it is extraordinary. The impres drives has a useful cut in his gion of men prosent throughout the tion of the water complained of t entire proceedings was that the We are feeding that area from back band strokes which take a Crown was not in any way anxious Pokfulum Reservoir. The Peak lot out of his opponent. He re- to press the caso. It appears Road is under construction-above tuze nearly everything ovey the net and leaves his opponent to strange that a second charge, of the reservoir and the recent
manslaughter, not amounting to heavy
make mistakes.
rains have
washed
dictment. The defence put for reservoir, and this has not yet had promise, possessing a useful word by Mr. Brower, which evoked time to settle. There is no means D. Rumjaba-a player full of murder; was not added in the in- a quantity of road material into the backhand and forehand drive,
this were done the Chinese people. While cricket, polo, tennis and might be spurred into throwing off other games were in progress on the military yoke which is slowly tho Shanghai Public Recreation but surely crushing them. How Ground last Thursday evening an ever, whatever stops are taken the exciting incident occurred. A polo O. Rumjahn-bas, & peculiar ser Powers should firmly refuse to replayer was thrown from his mount, cognize any government in Peking having struck one of the concrete until the cclipes of the arch-plotter posts in the vicinity of the ground, Teao Kun. During the trouble be- and the pony bolted. First of all tween Chang Teo-lin and Wu Pei-he made for the cricket pitch and fa (Tsun Kun's right hand man) then for the tennis courts, where- last summer, despite. assurances upon one of the players proceeded that neither side would interfere to head him off. The player suc with railway communication between ceeded in getting close to the pony Peking and Tientsin, each side in and made a dive for the reins, but turn took possession of the line, the pony, immediately swerved, seized-the rolling stock, and ao inter and starting his career anew barged fered with the traffic that the re-into the wire railing, where he got II. gular train schedule had to be can-entangled and fell. The tennis players at once cleared the railing celled. For some days, the Corps and sat on the pony's head, thus Diplomatique refrained from inter-bringing his career to an end and ference. On one occasion, an averting what might have proved a American officer of Marines volun- serious accident in view of the teered to take a party of men with fact that the animal appeared to be machine-guns and rifles in an open somewhat badly entangled. truck and clear the line of the tres- passers--they were trespassers under the Protocol signed after the Boxer Rebellion. He was not oven thank ed for his offer. Finally armed guards were placed on the trains Mr. Kagooka, Japanese Minister | ing. The Ruhr is still a hotbed of between Peking and Shanhaikan. to Czecho-Slovakia, has been trans-A: hate. Russia and her border States but even then trains were not allow ferred to The Hague, says a dre
ed to run if the railway authorities patch to the Daily Bulletin. WEBB-On June 14, 1923, at have failed to reach agreement over thought there was the slightest Shanghal, to Mr. and Mrs. armaments. The Latin American chance of a straggler froni either
Sir Edward F. Crowe, K.C.M.G., Sidney Webb, a daughter.
attempt has also proved a miserable army taking a pot-sbat at a passing
And France still delays train. On the day of Chang Tso British Commercial Counsellor, lin's withdrawal from Fengtai, the in Tokyo with Lady Crowe and son, ratifying the Washington pact, train from Shanghai was only two has left for England on furlough, Britain stations away when recalled to Tien- and will probably be absent about Lutterworth, England, Harold moreover finds herself no longer an tsin. Previously to the order for nine months. T. Mousley (formerly of island. Aviation has laid her very the train-being recalled, Tientsin Shanghai-Nanking Railway).¦
was aware that the line was clear The death is reported in the Hail, a missionary of the Presby- DALGETY.-Suddenly on June heart open to attack. With her pre from Peking to Fengtai and that Japan papers of the Rev. A. D 21, 1923, at 119 The Peak, sunt meagre air force her capital all Chang's troops bad already pass terian Church of America for the Margaret Mackay, dearly be could be laid waste in u few hours.ed Tientsin and that the Shanghal past forty-five years in Osaka. He
was 79 years of age. A loved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Surely then she owes it to herself, train had a clear line. Captain Dalgety, aged two years and
Munton, the British Officer in four months. Interment 5p.m.; to the Europe whose bulwark she charge of the guard on the train, Friday 22, at Happy Valley. forms, that she shall keep pace with repeatedly asked for permission for
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Entries for the Extra Gymke
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL-
The death occurred on June 14
Federspici, after a lengthy illness, in Shanghai of Mr. M. H After coming out to China in 1913 in the service of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Mr. Feder spiel was for a couple of years stationed in Amoy and thereafter approximately seven years in Shanghai.
A most imperturbable man ho praise from the Chief Justice, is of preventing this material from will work for every point thoughery convincing when read in con- being washed into the reservoir. it might appear unplayable, His junction with the sworn statement The sedinient in the water consists low volleys are pretty, to watch of Dr. Ip Kam-wa, who in reply to of very fine particles of silica Mr. Brewer, said he expected the (China clay) which percolato and hard to return.
child would recover, otherwise he through the filter beds--silica is 8. A. Rumjaha forceful player would not have allowed it to be quite innocuous.
"The reservoir in question is a but liable to be erratic at times handed over to its mother. and has a very uncertain service.
The summing up of the Chief very small one, but if we refrained He ought to make a first rate Justice was decidedly favourable to from using it long enough-a player with a little couching the prisoner and the surprise matter of weeks to allow the extraneous matter to settle, the He has a variety of strokes evinced in Court when the foreman water would overflow and run to oharacteristic of a good player. of the jury returned the baze waste, which we cannot allow in H. Ramjahn appears to know verdict as the China Mail appro- view of the present shortage, the game but is generally elow priately terms it, speaks volumes. Everyting however, is being done on his feet and weak in over Enclosing my card," head returns, He should put mors biff on his service which he
8.
Yonta, etc.,
BENEFIT OF DOUBT,
too often attempts to place out Hongkong, June 21, 1928... of reach of the striker out; } .) Would do better on the offen- Rive.
to minimise the inconvenience as far as possible” ~
KOWLOON COMPLAINT. With regard to "Kowloon Resident's complaint in the China Sir,-I-should be glad if you Mail that the "poor water carriers would let me add my voice to the get a good. cussing out by the H. Ismoil-a very graceful appeals which your correspondents scavenging coolie for trying to player whose style somewhat re- have made for the unfortunate-pri-economise water, Mr. Henderson sembles that of Ng Sze Kwongsoner convicted of murder this was dubious about the good inten His returns are a rule tonweek. Most certainly he should not tion attributed to the water-carriers. soft thus allowing bis opponent hang and I hope the Governor will He thought it far more likely that to out-place him. Should be see that he does not. Where can I the water had been dammed up in hit hard and forget the occasion sign a reprieve farm?
he would meet with better suc
cess.
8. D. Ismail-a persistent player who works hard till the end. Has a forehand drive as a mode of attack, but his over-head re- turns and volleys are as a rulo weak. On the whole the play ems on the side are well paired as clear understanding has been shown in most of the games I have seen them' play. In their fixtures the Indians secured the following victories:
H.K.C.O. 52 goes to 47 K.C.C. U.S.R.O.
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Yours, etc.,
HUMANG Hongkong, June 91..
"PUBLIC GAMBLING."
To the Editor of the " China Mall."
the road drains to make the task of the water carrier easier. The road- coolies, at any rate, have definite instructions to remove all obstruc tions in the road drains.
whore close to where the gatas is played. Hongkong, June 21, 1923.
INTO THE EAST
Sir, Is the honourable member for Kowloon absent since he has not "hoved" any proposal that public gambling in his village should be stopped? I heard a whisper [To the Editor of the " China Mail:”] that a powerful syndicate intends applying for permission to open aj
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Kowloon, June 21, 1928,
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intended only for loving eare.
Sir,Overseas Member dom- casino on up-to-date lines. Can plains that I have been unndoes. you or your renders throw any light sarily hard on the late Lord North- on the matter as I should like to get cliffe; that I have denounced gossip Bo garding the first charge I have nothing to say beyond pointing out. that my judgment was based almost entirely on passages relating to Hongkong, passages which accord.
[It was learned at the Colonial
STREET FOOTBALL..
Much sympathy will be felt for the times. Sad is this attitude the train to continuo to Peking, a Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Dalgety in the because it is hard to upset. Tot it distance of 16 miles, but it was death of their daughter, Margaret must be upset if another great war ordered back to Tientsin, 64 miles Mackay, who died suddenly at 119 Naturally the Chinese Peak, aged two years and four distant! is not to break out. History-very military leaders took the foreigners' months. The funeral takes place recent history, too-has shown that action as a sign of weakness. We tc-day at Happy Valley at 5 p.m. nations ready for war will surely eat that firmness must be the make war. And who will deny that watchword when dealing with the the nations are not now ready for military masters who pull the
strings at Peking. war; that they are not all preparing against the day; that another 1914 When the news leaked out that will not be the only result? Accord- Britain bad luupobed a super sub-ingly every hoste must be made for morina 1,400 tons larger than any another Washington conference;
B.K.C.O. HONG DOUBLES. yet built, the loyal citizen hardly not simply for clearing up certain hana to be held on July 7, close to
The entries for the Hongkong Miss Edna S. Cole who has been knew whether to groan or laugh. difficulties arising from existing morrow, Saturday June 23.
teaching In Stam for the past forty-Cricket Club Hong Doubles closed Perhaps his first impulse was to treaties," as this morning's cables
The total output of the Kailan four years is leaving the country last Friday and there are 24 psim groan. Hore we are, the Inst great report America's Naval Secretary Mg Administration's mines for and returning to her home in entered which include Commodore war not five years old, getting ready has auggested; but for rigidly limit the week ending June 9, amounted America. She came out from the Grace sud. Commander Worthing Secretariat this morning that stepe ingly everyone could weigh for him. them with different results. And Git would sxem) for the next great ing-or better, drastically reducing to 94.975 tons and the sales during Oxford Pomale Seminary, Onto, ton, Messrs. Redmond and Forster,were under consideration" to put a self. I have weighed them and In answer to an appeal from the Forster, Sewell and Humphreys, stop to any public gaming there your correspondent bar weighed there the matter ends. Regarding conflict. Certainly the new sub-not merely navel armamente but the period to 90,386 tons.
Mission at Chiengmai for ladies to and F. and J. D. Humphreys who might be in Kowloon. I
the second charge: I would remind devote themselves to the education are all expected to go pretty far, but marine comes within the Washing also air forces and land forces.
Oversons Member that I explicit A sale by public auction of a ton pact, but that is only another Unless the real world conference quantity of valuable household of girls arriving there on April 9, the naval representatives are hot
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To the Editor of the "China Mail "ly stated that the author had ex- despre pressed his intention of making his cause for despair. What lasting held, and unless it achieves real furniture by Messrs. Lammert Bros. benefit does the treaty ensure when results-but the alternative is too at No. 56A Nathan Road, Kowloon Mrs. T. C. White batter known
Bir-Bergeant Elston was instru- notes public and that some of them Is advertised for June 28 at 2:45 pm.as Princess Dor Ling, the author of
mental recently in securing the oon he had actually published while milf "Two Years - the Forbidden
viction of same youths who were alive. Against this your correspon- would have been more carefully annoyance of pedestrians
May I direct his attention to the edited by the author ther by his junk pleaded guilty to a charge of she proposes to write, Mrs. White;
little level at Glenealy just below relatives. Having read a pamphlet boat who is a Minchu by birth, was a According to the Chinese lunar unlawfully anchoring his the plain citizen groans. Any calendar to day is Ifrio-chih or the within the limits of the Easter lady-in-waiting to the Empress No offici 1 annoucement has the stepa loading from Caine Bosd. the late Viscount wrole soout the wonder, either, that our prophets summer solstico. There is one Cable ground at North Point. He Dowager, and a married to been made as to the ftustion This is a particularly favoured pitch Prods, I cannot agree. The styla former member of the American on the Weit River but a number of where from 15 to 20 nippers enjoy was too much alike. Overseas
the smaller Cese copales, predict direful ovents very, very point about the Chinese calendar was fined $5.
Consular service.
operating ships between Hong- the game at almost all hours of the Member drags in Lord North woon.And that is why the which may not be generally known
kong and Wuchowounce that day. I hate to inform against the cliffe's mother. Accordingly I The Canadian Pacific Steam= "nows' about the new submarine also and that is, their equivalents for the solstices and equinoxes always coin provokes a chuckle. Since another side with the Gregorian calendar ships Ltd.. send us some very A charming at Fresco wedding their vessels will now resume the youngsters, but the foot remain would recommend him to read the attractive literature of their well took place i Shanghai last week through trip. This would mean that they constitate a nuisance, and chapter which H. G. Wells devotes conflict is inevitablo let us be ready. Whether it agrees with the calendae known services. These include a in the garden of the YWCA that the river is clear and that there our worthy Sergeant will be conto Napoleon in his "Outline of His section of the community by its Wells views that great man's lettera Let us build our Bingapore naval or not, them to disputing it if brochure on The Canadian Pacific Normal School for Physics Train is no hitch it bringing down food ferring a favour on a goodly-sized tory" and study the light in which
the weather is puy criterion Route, with a mass of useful in ing, when Miss Ruth Howes, of supplice to Hongkong bases and. let us have our super Everybody has got into the coolest formation and a wealth of beautiful Yonkers, New York; became the walk along the Wuchow being removed. ehmigrineeLotube strong clothing convention will allow and strains, another on Resorts hride of Mr. Robert Shaw of meamer wharven on Connaught This attituds is, of course, vory and, fatis are putting in overtime within the Canadian Pacific Rockies Tacoma, Washington, Miss Howes Road West to-day showed that But sadder far are the ones which the result that a cold at this time similarly got up, and a book has book for three years a member most of the ships had already jeft P.B.-A poster written
of the year is quite common. The Across the Pacific These are of the secretarial staff of the their berths. There is nucli con- almost make it logical, Our groch Chinese do not observe the date in all splendid productions And will National YWCA, and Mr. Shaw gestion at both posts and freights eat, uncuiotional Premier see the way they do a festival; it in doubtless be appreciated by all late has served, with the American will be plentiful for some time to
Board Mission at Tungchow. Western Europe's civilisation crack merely a mark in the calendar which whose hands they fall;
it permita these now terrors? What terrible to contemplata.
seal service, indood, does say treaty
promise when its terms not only fail
to limit armaments but also fail to The Summer Solstice.
reduce them? Any wonder that
In the Marine Court, this mor City" is shortly to return to China, ning, before Commander Beckwit for the purpose of collecting
favourites.
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WEST RIVER.
RN, the steersman of a trading material for several, stories which CHINESE STEAMERS AGAIN caught playing street football to the dent might argue that the notes;
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