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(From Our Own Correspondent.) end, the programme of matches in After a forced holiday last week

the Lawn Bowls League was re- sumed on Saturday. Taikoo No. 2 are now head of the table, and as they have the same number of points as Kownon. Dock and still have two matches in hand, they are practically certain of the Cho pionship. Full details follow KOWLOON DOCK V. TAIKOO NO. 1.

KONGMOON, August 25. While the detachment of Yunnan troops at Kongmoon was being disarmed by Sna's troops under Commander Chan Chak, a similar coup was being enacted at San Wui city, the capital of the district. About 300 Yunnanese troops were relieved of their weapons by Played at Kowloon Dock, Taikoo troups of the 1st and 3rd divisions winning hy one point. without a struggle Some of the KOWLOON DOCK. TAIKOO NO disa mard soldiers escaped and Gourlay intmediately attacked one of Kong Keith moon's suburbs, viz, Shui Nain, Johnston where fra houses were ransacked. Gray (S.)

Another of Sun's subordinates,

Chow Chi-tsing has pested about Atkinson 1,000 men on board gunboats and Henderson commandeered junks at Kain Chuk Puncheon and Lak Lan, "the two strategic Gow (5.) points of the southern delta, McKelvic Examination anchorages have been Duncan instituted at these two points.

Hedley The passenger tow-boats running Lapsley (S.)

| between Kongman and Macao have been again requisitioned for military transport,

EUROPEAN LADY'S

JEWELLERY.

FIVE YEARS FOR THEFT.

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TWO SERIOUS SMASHES.

LOCAL MOTOR, TRIALS. sustained a fractured thigh, a smashed ankle and five broken ribs. Mt. Burleigh died shortly before.midnight on Saturday as the result of the terrible injuries he had received.

BOTH VICTIMS SUCCUMB.

[By Argus.]

A shower of rain fell shortly after the ambulance had left for

Under the auspices of the Hong-Kowloon and it was decided to kong Automobile Association and postpone the meeting until 3 pp. the Hongkong Telegraph, the Hong-next Saturday. The best time so kong motor trials opened on far in the unfinished contest for Sanirday afternoon at Chin Wan,

in the new territories. The officials eyele solos unlimited is Im. 35 215- were:-

sec, by Mr. F. Baker on an Indian. General Committee: Messrs. Further reference to the weeting D. Lambert (Chairman), F. Baker,

A. G. Hewitt, A. Hicks, J. Parsons, Will be found elsewhere in this C. S: Saunders, J. Smith, B. Wylie, issue. and the Rev. G. Upsdell.

Sub-Committee: Mr. F.

nklin and W. K. Reynolds. Ho. Secretary and Treasurer: Mr. P. M. Hodgson.

Mackintosterolis

Sloan Weir

15 Wotherspoon

James

Muirhead

(S.) 20

Youngstyli

23 Ferg(S) 15

-Whitel

Lilliecrap

Grinshaw

15

Hamilton (S.) 19

Total 53

Total 54

K.C.C. v. C.S.C.C.

Played at Kowloon, luon CC. winning by 10 points.

K.C.C. Cornley

Doucc Gibson Stevens (S.) Nicholls Davidson

C.S.C.C. Massey

South Murphy

20 Hill

Hall

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Deacon Taylor

P.

Starters: Messrs. D. L. King and H. J. Peirce.

V. R. C. FETE.

At the V.R.C. swimming pool na

Record Keepers M. H. R.Saturday there was a large attend- Meacock, Lieut. Walsh and thence present when the fourth night fête was hald. Some close finishes Rev. G. Upsdell.'

Time-Kerpers Capt. 3. Men, were witnessed and a fine exhibj. Hewiit: Mr. G. T. May and Me L.

Harman.

tim of diving seen.

The results:

Two lengths hurdles handicap,

Marshal: Sergt.-Major Williams, Pearae; 2, W. Matchia. Refreshments Superintendent:| Mr. W. J. Stokes.

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Two lengths handicap (men:- hers), J. A. S. Kent, time 28 3/5 sees; 2, A. Busschaert, time 32 5

SOCS.

High dive. 1, C. Mackenzie; 2. A. Duncan and T. L. Kaight.

150 yards invitation-1 D.Lyon,

time 1.39 35 secs.; 2, A. May, time 144 15 secs.

In spite of the fine weather, there was but a small attendance present. Unfortunately, the day's proceeds ings were completely spoilt by two accidents--both of which proved Kowfatal-in the Hill Climbing contest which was over a severe and tortuous confrse. It is true that the

Two lengths' handicap (ladies), first accident, in which Mr. H. J., Miss M. Blansdon; 2, Miss R. Hooper was severely injured, took place on the flat, but the Decidem to Mr. Burleightons place at a very difficult head.

Proceedings opened with acceleration tests for (1) Cycle

(S.) 22

Hyde (5.) 19 Pathyjohns (S.) 25 Solos 550 c. c. (2) Cycle Sotos on

Fleg

Kautt Alderman

(S.) 32 Allan

Total 71

Convicted of straling jewellery worth $550 which belonged to Mrs. W. M. Parsons of No. 2 Broadwood Terrace, a Chinese was sentenced Overy to five years' Ingprisonment by the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Abraham Davies) at the Criminal Sessions Davis this morning.

Tacchi The evidence given ly Pile

With witnesses the Crown the effect that on July 6 the pri soper was arrested in a Queca's Road prwnshop where he was trying to pledge some of the stolen jewellery. Other articles belonging to Mrs. Parsons were found un him when he was searched, Mrs Parsons had reported to the police that the jewellery had been stolen lier dressing table the from previous night.

Heartfelt sympathy will go out from all regions to Hongkong in the terrible calamity which has he- fallen it, said the M. C. Durly Naer of Monday, August 30. Frequently a typhoons have indicted their unwelcome visit on Shanghai in recent years, it is very rare in deed that they do damage here at all comparable to aviat lingkong has often to, reperi. The typ Jon of 1905 in Shanghai was an exception. libiding with an exceptionally high tide, so that sampans went about the Treets of the central district and the North-China Daily News reporters of the day are said to have swam home after putting the paper to hed." And the typhoon of 1915. which did great harm pad for a timeriously interfered with the electricity supply, will long be memorable. Hit for the wurst fagy of typhoons it appears necessary

Mr. R. Cowgill, in his presi- to go to tropical regions jus witness the one that wicked-Stow-last-linkulderduamual-Con-

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The prisoner's defence was that man gave him a dollar to pawn the jewellery.

C.C.C.

(S.) M4

Total 61

limited (3) Cycle Cambiantions (4) Motor Cars. These tests took place over a 200 yards curse ou the flat. The results were in-

MOTOR CYCLES SULOS (50 CC.) Competitor. Machine. Time.

secs.

1.-S. C. Saunders, Triumph 13 2. D. Cayless, Ivy 3......... 14

MOTOR-CYCLES. SOLOS (UNLIMITED).

12.35

Chue.

Challenge te mi race-The win- ning team was formed of D. Lyon, B. Rasmussen. G. Jack, A. Gunner McDade Time 2.15 15 secs,

Mixed nomination race. 1, Miss Beil and G. Jack.

At the conclusion of the swine ming events, an exciting game of water polo was witnessed between the R. A. M. C. and King's B. The result was a draw of 3 goals all.

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION,

In asking Mr. W. Logan, acting Chairman of the Cub, to present *C.C.C. v. K.B.G.C.

the prizes, Mr. R. C. Witchell, the Secretary, mentioned that the lady Played at Craigengower, the K.B.G.C winning by 9 points.

competitors were not as many as desired. He expressed the hope E.BG.C.

that the next fête would receive Green

Harvey Souza

better support from the faiz sex and 12.4-5 | asked that their entries be sent in A. Macfarlane Bradbury (S.) 14 Russell (S) 261-A, Gascon, H. Davidson 15

-MOTOR-CYCLE COMBINATIONS. before the evening of the fête, to facilitate the bandicapping arrange- Ford

2.-F. C. Weller, Henderson 16.2-5 | ments. Lammert

MOTOR-CARS.

Dancing was kept up to a late Onlar

hour.

W. Macfarlane Guy

Barr

Duncan

Farrell

1.-F. Baker, Indiana. 2.-H. S. Burleigh), H. David-

son...

Basa (S) 23 Edwards (S.)-111.-C. D. Lambert's 19.6 kp.

Alves Ismail

"Forbes

Total 51

Kynoch Chapman

Whibley

(5.) 23

Tutal 60

know,ference of the National Association Greener (5) 14 Hall year.

And those

a typhoon ia of Head Teachers, deplored the| tell as that even Hongkong that would not be even tendency still in regard the elemen- ; sidered at all out of the primary tary school as quite a sepamte pradaces a sense of helpless terror entity instrued of part of a sitiommi! which cannot be imagined by those system that should lend natindly through the secondary sehoods to the who have not experienced it.

universities.

A few days ago we read of some Chinese in Hongkong who made

biter complaint of the prevalence

of typhoons nowadays, which, he

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sait, seemed to blow up almost | Miss Edgeworth's story of "The every week. Curiously enough, Bracelets" ate strawberries grown very much the same idea prevails in their gardens, in the open, in in Shanghai. As we said above, Apri we do not pretead dat tey equal either in number or violence those

that the South has to endure. But

most people here whose memories

go back even po more than fifteen

years will agree, we think, in hold- ing that typhus are much com- moner,visitants of theport than they were then. Writing from nemmery it seems that we might then expect two or three hard gales during a summer, which were rather the hack wash of a typhoon than the real thing. That wondl be a great event not to be looked for every year. We regall nute in Septem- ber, 1911, when a large pontoon was thrown up on the garden front

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TAIKOO NO. 2 v. POLICE R.C.

Played at Taikou, Taikoo win- ning by 62 to 55.

TAIKOO NO. -2.

Dinnan Maxwell Sloan

POLICE.

Taylor D. Clarke Oge

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Crossley (drivan'liv C. D. Lambert). 2.-The Hon. Mr. Ai G. M.

Fletcher's 21.76 h. Olds-- mobilé (driven MA. G. Fletcher) 2.-J. Parson's 27.3 hip: Buick (driven by C. H. Rowe) 2---1. Smith 23.4 lup. Chan- iller (driven by J Smith) Studebaker.....

sees.

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16.1-5 For the hill-climbing contests, the spectators took up positions at coigns of vintage along the route, which only allowed each group to watch the progress of the different i

Wallace (S.) 18 J. Clarke (S. 15 competitors along a section of the McLeod Holland

It is a commonplace that when Nature slays, she is more ruthlessly Pirrie destructive than are the most evil inventions of man. A freshet on

course. The first contest was for

| cycle solos (50 cc)and resulted

as follows:-

Drinmond

Knight Reid Grimmett Robertson

(S.) 18

(5.) 20

CYCLE SOLOS (500 C.C.)

Grant Conlan Mair Gerrard

1.-D. Cayless, Ivy 3.

m,S,

1.40

J

(S.) 20

Total 62

LEAGUE TABLE.

2.--S. C. Wong, 334 hp. A.J.S. 1.42 THE FATAL EVENT.

(S.) 20

In the next event, for cycle solos ! unlimited, the two distressing ac- Total 55 cidents took place. The fist

victim was Mr. H. J'Hooper, a warder at the Lai Caf Kok prison, He was riding a high-power Har- ley-Davidson. When riding aloog

the Han river wipes out ten Barker thousand lives in a few seconds: O'Brien in the deadliest hours of the Great Laing War the daily victions of shot and G. Morrison shell were of one time in cur in number to those of the so-called Spanish influenza; and whenever a volcanic eruption occurs, the rest of the world exclains in amazement that people can be so foolhardy as to live in such a neighbourhood. From which we might deduce an explanation of why Hongkong TC-

P. W. L. PTS, the flat, some 300 yards from the mained a barren, fever-stricken Taikoo No. 2

18 start, the machine was seen to Q 3 18 Swerve to the right and hit the Taikoo No. 1.12

4, 16 bank, the rider being thrown K.B.G.C...... were

6 5 12heavily onto his heath. Dr. Wood- Police R. CII 5 6

16man and Dr. McKemity were soon Craigengower C.C. 12

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6 on the spot and the unfortunate Kowloon C.C... 12

man was sent to the Civil Hospital, 6 3 9 Civil Service C.C....12 396 where he died at 2.20 this morning.

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1841, the Chinese officials of pre- vious ages not desiring to encour age people to go to an island so exposed to typhoons. Unfortu- nately the equal failure of China's officials to develop other places not able to Nature's furies and since grown but of knowledge" antler foreign hands, forbids

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SHOTS FOR AND AGAINST.

For. Up

644 509 135 -- 748 606 142 - 771 049 122 B. C.

652 612 40

After Mr. Hooper had been re- moved and the course cleared, the contest was resumed. After the sde arrival of six competitors ut sne. theory. For all its typhoons and native unhealth- Taikoo No. 2.

the finish had been reported, Mr. H. S. Burleigh, on a Harley-David- iness Hongkong is one of the most Kowloon Dock...

son, started on his journey. He beautiful spots in the British Em Taikoo No. I.

Kowloon

hal almost reached the top of the pire, as it is certainly one of the

Club

hitt, when, in taking too wide a most striking, examples of the British knack of colonizing. It has Police R.C....... 633 663 30 sweep at a bend, he get with dis- weathered worse typhoons than Craigenower CC. 676 720 53 aster. According to the statement that of the day before yesterday, Kowloon C.C....... 634 754-120 of a European Sergent who wii- its development has gone Civil Service C.C. 612 848 -236 nessed the accidem, the foot-rest forward almost unchecked, the

of the machine collided with. ravages of the tempest quickly NON-LEAGUE COMPETITION. one of the post supporting the made good and charity lavishly outpoured to succour the families

Yet

and some damage done to ship-rock till ceded to Great Britain in Kowloon Dack .12 ping: but at the clast moment the storm recurved Und we spared the worst of it. Siccawei's records seldom agree with popular recollections of weather and very possibly might детс

this case. Yet we are nearly that it is only since the typhoon of 1015 that the practice of firing a gun, when the typhova is within a hundred miles of and aiming at, Shanghai, has been established; anti certainly during the last three or four sugners that ominous gun has been heard with very unpleasant frequedey. All over the world the popular belief that the seasons are clanging appears to be general. La Peking, we were recently told, the Chinese aro convinced that the Panama Canal has affected the weather across the Pacific and that the

KOWLOON DOCK v. TAIKOO B, Souh has colder winters and the of those whom wind or wave de- North hotter suniers than instroyer. It is an objectlesson bothin days of yore. Ta opposition to energy and the sense of coinmunal Played at Kowloon Dock, Taikoo Peking's idea the general con- responsibility on which one cannot winning by six points. Scores: ception of simumers in Shanghai is, but dwell, in contrast with the lack KOWLOON DOCK. we fancy, that they are not as hot of these qualities on the mainland. F. Goodman as they used to be. Whatever the To each his taste, and doubtless R. Goodman Panama Canal may have done to touch of the polished efficiency of C. Stewart the climate of China, it certainly seems to have affected that of the Isthmus. We read speculations on the Influence of kun-spots on terrestrial weather and the possibi lity that the ice cap at the North Pole is shifting. And looking back more years than living memory-can-rench, it-is-a-standing mystery what Charles II meant by saying that a man could sleep out of doors more nights of the year in England than anywhere else ho Dew; and how the schoolgirls in

TAIKOO B.

Crichton T. Peterson S. Stewart

railings on the right hand side of the "course. Presumably the impact caused the rider to lose control. At any rate, the machine hugged the fence for some 30 feet) before one of the railings gave way and Mr. Burleigh was thrown down the hillside.

He was "brought up" by coming in con- tact with a bush. He was consci- ous when placed in the ambulance

been a horrified witness of the accident.

Hongkong is the outcome of R. Dixon (S.) 2: Matthews (S) 27 accompanied by his wife, who had

KB,G,C.

On arrival at the hospital it was found that Mr. Burleigh had

desires which oriental nature does not feel. But new longings and

K.B.G.C. v. C.S.C.C. dissatisfactions unknown to its fathers are becoming visible in the younger generation of China, and winning by 10 points. Scores:

Played at Kowloon, Civil Service one would hope that the time is not far off when she too will battle with the political starins that rond her Smith and will arise renewed with fresh Hatt life from all their wreckage, os J. C. Brown Hongkong arises from the shock McKay of every typhoon, unconquered and Taikoo B now meet C.S.CC in th undismayed.

the Onat.

C.S.C.C.

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