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the cash sweep's first prize and that one ticket may be bought by the man who invests $10 just as readily as it may fall to the man who invests $100. How did Shakespeare express this truth?

If Hercules and Lichas play at

. dice, Which is the better man? The

greater throw May turn by fortune from the

weaker hand.",

Many a local Anancial Hercules and a Lichas will learn this again ere Saturday evening come, and lest the fates have already ordain-

and Mexico; and all the States of Europe except Germany and Russia. The record of the League The first open book. is an minutes of the League were j

To-day the not published.

minutes of all meetings of the Council, public, private or secret meetings, are made available to the public immediately. Compare this with the recont Conference of Ambassadors at Paris in with- holding the report of the Commis- sion of Inquiry on the basis of which the indemnity of 50,000,000 lird was awarded to be paid by Greece to Italy. The League has functioned most successfully in certain cases to discourage a re-

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When they gain plenty of. money they went to the Bar shop to have a drink, and sometimes they drunk,

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Because when, usual to play. which I hear very sorry for eat and usual carry goods bring to the pawn shop.

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Gambling causes mich 1- jurious works, family men when lest in gambling come home to their wives and children with scomful looks and words to make up a scorndalous quarrel, quarrel to blowing.

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Despite FETTERED oligarchic form of government

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1994.

Hongkong

SPORTS February 20-23. Jockey Club race meeting.

March. z.--Next Tournament of the HK Boxing Assen,

PUBLIC AUCTION. February 20-Lammert Bro., at Clavadel, 298 The Penk, house hold funituro, 2.45 p.m.

a.m.

CORRESPONDENCE.

..FOOD.

To the Editor of the China Mail.F

Sir-A Chaplain in preaching at. the on Sunday evening Cathedral about the Prodight Soo COMPANY MEETINGS. February 23-Annual meeting made a very unnecessary reference of the Hongkong and Shanghai to a very sad incident which hap- Banking Corporation at City Hall, pened recently. He said that if a man realises he is going to the 11.30 p.m.

February 25-Thirty-seventh dogs (or words to that effect) there meeting of the Hongkong and are only two things to do wiz: Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co: either damn the East and all its Ltd, at Messrs. Jardine's Offices, II falseness and shoot himself or to tirn over a new leaf. This struck February 28,--Annual Meeting me and my friends as very bad not help ed that they must lose, they will sort to war. Perhaps Sweden and":

of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing form and I could be wise to accept this sure tip-Finland were never in danger of

self had the faintest idea of what set a limit to the number of bets fighting about the Aaland Islands we enjoy privileges which seem to Company, at St. George's Bldg, wandering if the Chaplain him- March 3 Thirty-fifth meeting it is to be up ngainst it, did he to be made and thus ensure that question; but let it be noted that be unheard of at Home. We road Chater Road, II a.m.-

that very ugly dispute has passed that it has been decided that the sale La run of a bad luck will not cost into history. It was settled by the of cigarettes after 8 p.. is legal of the H.K. Electric Co., at St. know the full circumstances and more than a known aum. If this League. The League's mediation so long as the supply comes from George's Bldg., Chater Rd., 11 am. has be any reverence for the March 4.-Thirty-fifth ordinary dead, I do not go to Church and unfortunately I advice-is-followed the moralists in upper. Silesia to mark the an automatic machine. If they

This is probably a war the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd., have heard this same young a Chaplain, on threa are answered completely and boundary between Germany and are handed over the counter it is annual meeting of shareholders of often

Poland has proved a measurable crime.

Its absurdity seems then be- success. Jugo-Slavia withdrew measure.

occasions and every time I felt that finally-for betting comes a harmless pleasure. If her troops from Albania at the beyond all reason and a reflection at St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd.,lad of

March. 6-Nineteenth Annual I do not go to Church to be amused Meeting of shareholders of the with cheap slang but to worship it la ignored-well, "hardship behest of the Council of the on present day intelligence.--

League. In the case of Italy,

Those who receive

Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. in the and to receive sound instruction might easily result. That many Greece and Corfu which is prob-

HONGKONG, letters from "dis offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co, and encouragement. In the Church

tant parts

of England we expect straight CHINA will ignore it does not, however, ably the most vital of the

are Ltd, I am. urged to ask their

talking, and reverence and dignity, give the moralists much argu-antagonistic critics' argument it

Slang sounds smart and funny ment. Man is a gaming animal, can be said that the League un-correspondents to address their

perhaps but it does not last and doubtedly exercised a palllating missives simply to Hongkong.

the meanest man has no use for it and if you deprive him of his races influence to prevent a possible war Many add the word China and the he will find other ways to have a between Greece and Italy. The result is that a harassed and

in Church. In Hongkong we flutter, in spite of all the reproof League may only be a half a bewildered postal official-probably HONGKONG V SHANGHAI wonder why people don't go to Church; it is because people want League, but as someone has said a lady-indulges in a wild guess and all the caution in the world.

it is half a League onward.

To-morrow's Great Race.

chestnut

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and adds on extra postage where

the great roar of laughter intimated To-day's Poem,

to the speaker what had occurred.

This is a mischievous instru-

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(A. Song.)

ment," he commented. "I wonder- Oh, sing a song of Hongkong ed whether you heard it.”

Since we penned THE EIFFEL, our reference to the Elfel Tower

Town

And masts against the sky, Of great ships sailing up and

down,

And steamers passing by.

A song of narrow, winding streets

Where buildings graciously Go down to where the Harbour

II a.m.

INTERPORT SHOOTING.

soldiers, all to count.

"It is hoped that Shanghai will be able to shoot off the same day, at the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Range.

Hongkong is very hopeful of winning, because the local Scottish team includes some of the best shots in the Colony. Among these may be mentioned Swan, Good- man, Logan, and Young.

Yours etc..

ort

MAN, IN THE PEW. Hongkong, February 19.

RESTLESS CANTON.

SUN YAT-SEN'S LATEST TROUBLE.

ligious subjects of all kinds an enquiry is made concerning the SCOTTISH COMPANIES COMPETING. feeding with instruction on re- and all they get at present postage to "Hongkong, China."

Thanks to the enterprise of keen. is either cheap slangy sermons The micro Hongkong is a British possession. A MISCHIEVOUS phone which It is a simple statement of fact, but shots in Hongkong and Shanghai, with no weight or tame

Could not we have Hongkong, as all the Colony

Mr. Lloyd not generally known-even in led by Mr. R. Sutherland, Chieftain dates.".. INSTRUMENT." knows, takee" the name of its

George held places where they sell stamps of the Hongkong St. Andrew's some sermons occasionally with great annual. race from the famous Home event, but how in his hand when addressing a Very often it is confused with Society, and Captain Alastair some learning and thinking in many people are aware that the crowd of 30,000 people in the Hankow whilst one dear old lady Campbell, Officer Commanding the them? I have heard that there are Town Hall Square at Rochdale, invariably compares it to the sound Shanghal Scottish, an entirely new Chaplains ja Hongkong who can Hong departure is being made in inter oblige with such. Do not think Derby was first started so long says the London Times, gave rise emitted by a motor-car. ago as 1780. In the first race, to an amusing incident. He was kong China" is not correct. Such port history with a shooting contest that the ordinary man has no which the Lord Derby of that day developing an anti-protectionist a designation is really an insult to between the Hongkong and the brains; the present Labour Gov- "Hongkong, near Shanghai Scottish Volunteers.emment is rather a surprise to said Feed arranged, Sir Charles Bunbury

argument from the history of Hongkong." won with big

colt Lancashire. **John

Bright's China" right do, but this again is Each Company is to shoot off on most people. Jesus Diomed. The first Royal victory victory was a Lancashire victory," a waste of time and good ink, and a given date, and results are to be my sheep. We would be rather

"floor space" on an envelope.

exchanged by cable.

suprised if we read that he tried was in 1788, when the "First he declared, and then remarked

Subject to confirmation from the to be funny to attract or that he Gentleman in Europe" won with in an aside: "What about Cobden,

Northam port, Hongkong will was content "to mug along" in Sir Thomas. The race has been was he Lancashire?" The aside

shoot off at Talkoo on Sunday the old way. Excuse my slang run in a hurricane which blew was heard all over the square, and

afternoon next. The conditions but I want the chaplain to un- booths and tents over the course;

as at present arranged are for ten derstand this letter. it has been run, absit omen, after

men a side, shooting part two of a snowstorm. In its first year the distance was only a mile, but the

the musketry course for trained

winning-post of 1780 stood where the winning-post stands to-day, and though we may wonder what the eighteenth century sportsmen would have thought of the crowds and the motor-cars of to-day, though London has so devoured ♦♦♦ the country that to go to the Derby by road is to drive through a continuous town, though the old humours of that journey have been destroyed by the speed of modern traffic, still the fair on the Hill is busily merry as it was when Frith painted his record of a Victorian Derby, and those who watch from the Grand Stand still look upon the same landscape of green down and woodland and distant spire as the sportsmen of

Evidence reaches 1780 saw when they planned the

us almost daily of race. Our British love of horse-

the distance the racing is indeed much older than

China Mail the Derby. King James I had travels. The latest evidence is his jockeys and bought blood-from the Musical Courier, of New stock. Mr. Pepys saw races on York, one of the greatest musical the downs above Epsom wells, journals in the world which recent and, like a good fellow, let his ly published the China Mail's elerk go and see them when he appreciation of young Emil could not get away himself. Danenberg as follows: Charles II took his Court to Professor Danenberg's youngest Newmarket, and the Rowley Mile son we confess. gives us furiously -for he was called Old Rowley to think. Here is a boy, six years after his favourite hack-etill old, with only about nine months the gloom of those whose "joss preserves the memory of his love tuition to his credit, able to play is dead out." Routine's hum-of the Turf. Before his century the piano with all the aplomb, was out all England had learnt expression, insight, and brillance CLARKE, On Sunday, Decem- drum scrapped for the nonce, the thrill of racing, and there given to but few. His repertoire 1711.

ber 23, 1923, at Tunbridge every thought.will centre in the were meetings all over the coun- consists of no fewer than 74 Wells, England, Charles Cecil Clarke. late Commissioner in sport and the Colony will make try.

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DE SOUSA On February 14,

HAVING A FLUTTER.

Goddess Chance reign supreme

It what

child.

hey

and mentioned that it was likely to be the last construction of its kind ever to be built; we have come across the opinion of William Morris on that structure. He was once in a company of artists who. were heartily abusing the Eiffel Tower. To their surprise, Morris asserted that he never failed to climb the tower when in Paris. His explanation was satisfactory. "When you are on top you are on the only spot in Paris where you can't see the damned thing."

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WIDE FLUNG..

to

meets

The busy, crowded Quay.

Of pretty girls with dancing eyes,

And silken ankles neat,. Of headlands green, and azure

skies,

And flowers in the street.

Where 'trams go clanging to and

fro,

And busy motors rush, Till that soft hour, when, lights

aglow,

The evening whispers, "Hush!" Now, twinkling gally everywhere,

The stars begin to shine, She's young, and gay, and very

fair,

This Hongkong Town of mine!

WEATHER CALENDAR.

FEBRUARY 20.

'tis mistaken, for now E, It shows terribly again, and want a little good weather, -Swift.

TRUTH WILL OUT.

This is the first interport contest Hongkong and the Shanghal of any kind arranged between the Volunteers, and it is hoped to make

the event an annual one for a trophy to be held by the winning side for the year.

LOCAL IND GENERAL

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CANTON, February, 19.. Speculation is rife as to what Dr. Sun Yat-sen will do to appease the various hordes of mercenaries which have flocked to his banner from different Southern provinces. The Hunan troops now number about 10,000 and their attitude is New York, February 18-regarded as aggressive by the Thirteen lives were lost in a fire Yunnans who have hitherto made in a tenement house in the Ghetto hay while the sun shone, Ap district to-night. Some of the parently the Humans have an eye inmates were burned to death in on the gambling and

their beds.--Reuter:

other revenues and have refused to move to the East River even on a A lantern lecture will be given promised payment of $200,000.

That a serious undertone prevails at the Helena May Institute on Monday, February 25, at 5:30 pm. is evident from the alarming re by H. Gordon Thompson Esq.. ports in the vernacular press, some M. D., P. R. C. S. Subject: "Along papers going so far as to hint open the Thibetan Border." All are mutiny. One thing, however, much welcome. The Pathe University seenis certain, and that is Dr. Sun's Machine will be used on this military power is now

stronger than at the time of the occasien.Advt:

last East River Campaign, but as

A new motor-lorry company, yet the offensive has not been to operate on the Peninsula and taken against even any of his the New Territories, is mentioned smaller opponents in the province. in Chinesa. business circles this morning, it is stated that shares up. to $300,000 are being called for and that the service will in-

contributed pleasing solos,

SOGINE AND ·PERSONAL

PRESENTATIONS TO SIR WM. BRUNYATE.

pieces, all played from memory. It W18 our privilege, the other day

Histon

the to youthful executant. for the first chubby ime; to watch the and thus will Hongkong go The League: 1924, at Berkeley, California, "racing mad.”

Critics are so fond of telling fingers almost race over the keys,

clude Shatin, Taipo, Sheungshul, HONGKONG UNIVERSITY) In Europe we know that an age Mr. A. M. de Sousa, late of

in Kowloon, Chinese Maritime Customs, the The moralists may condemnus what the League of Nations and to listen to music that like

has not done or not been Lincoln, is for the ages. His feet in dying. Here in America and Un Long, with headquarters as yet do not reach the pedals, and would be easy to miss the signa dearly beloved father of Mrs racing because it encourages able to do, that a thought

a contrivance has to be fixed to of coming change, but I have little Mr. Frederick Mason A.R.CO., R. Dreysse (née de Souza.)

gaming so long ago as 1180 the or

actually enable him to make use of these doubt, that it will come. ALT.CL, new organist at St. John's

The undergraduates of the Bishop of Chatres declared gam-done may not be out of place necessary aids to correct planoforte realization of the aimlessness of Cathedral gave his first recital at

The League became four years old playing. He Improvises also life lived to labour and to die, the Cathedral last night. A well Hongkong University gave a con- ing the "mother of lies and per on January 10th last. At the age Hits memory is obviously outside having achieved nothing but selected programme including ex- cert in the University Hall o The China Mail, Juries but we have, the highest of four the Infant League is the ordinary, and his interest in

authority, Charles Lamb, not less, a sound healthy, growing and music stamps him as being born to avoided starvation, and of the cerpts from Brahms. Schumann night in honour of Mr. W. W. that man is a gaming animal. In promising

When the the wonderful art of music. birth of children, also doomed to Wagner, Dvorak, Hamish Mac-Hornell, the new Vice-Chancellor, Eliot, the ex-Vice-Chancellor. Sir BONGLONG WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1924 the Homeland they do not face League came into being it had Lessons in harmony may mean the the weary treadmill, has seized Cuart and others, was highly ap- Sir William Bruayate, the retiring eighteen membera Promptly, unearthing of powers of compost. the minds of millions Sir Auick-preciated. Mrs. N. Mathieson Vice-Chancellor, and. Sir Charles

Charles, was unable to attend.. this fact honestly. They defend however, every invited State that tion which we hope shall be for the land Geddes,

At the conclusion of an enjoy- racing primarily, because it im- had been neutral in the war benefit of the whole world. And

able concert contributed to by Dr. proves the stock. Out here we (except Ecuador) enrolled itself. yet it was but by a mere accident

John Fenton, Miss Adelina When the first Assembly met in that the inherent talent was dis

Remedios, Messrs B, C. Lee, L. E. Avery pretty wedding took Ho, T.K. Kwok, K. T. Khoo, Chan, place at St. John's Cathedral, Ong, and Dr. Sousa presentations ou February18, at 3 p.m.; were made to Sir William Brunyás the bride and bridegroom: being and the teaching staff. Mr. B. C. Miss Millicent Nichall and Lieut. Lee, Chairman of the Students'. Richard R. Beauchamp, EN The Unton, presented to the retiring Revs. Copley Moyle and T. B. Vice-Chancellor two handsome sil Powell officiated, and the bride, ver vases and an incense burner who was given away by Mr. G. T. and the presentation by the teach Baking, was attended by the ing staff, made by Professor, Mid- Misses Nancy Cubitt, Betty Bromdleton-Smith, was a beautiful wich and Valerie Goodfellow as silver bowl. bridesmaids, and Masters Divid Edkins and David Beavis za pagen. The bride's dress was of white

corrette with a white face train & Standard Remedy The duties of best man ware ably Chamberlain's Couch Hemedy

Frompt, carried out by Squadron Leader standard family, monilisini CF., Gordon, O.B.E, DE.C reliable and effective for,

resulting 'croup, bronchiël oợtight, RAFA reception was from whooping cough,

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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMBUTE.

How many Hongkong people are (willy-nilly) franker. Wo November 1920, there were 42 covered the purchase of a toy really, really know anything make. no pretenatons about im members. Six more States were piano and its manipulation being about Horses ? Few enough, we proving our quaint little China admitted, including one of the the first discovery of the young, "ex-enemy, States At the boy's aptitude. Hongkong will"} wot. Yet these four days will ponies. We accept their perform-second Assembly in 1921, three have an early opportunity of listen- find most the Colony describances in the same way that we States were admitted. The third ing to his prowess, and will cer ing, discussing and criticising the accept the social intercourse and Assembly admitted Hungary, the tainly wish that these early mant

February 20-Coronet Theatre; performances of some odd hun the band as very pleasant inci- fifty-second member, Abyssinia festations of geulus will blossom and the Irish Free State were forth Into something lasting Who

Charles Ray In The Girl dred China ponies. Large crowds dentals: But only as incidentals. admitted by the fourth Assembly knows, here may be another Chopin

Loved. will flock to Happy Valley, array. The flutters the thing. Our chief in 1923. During this period, no

February: 20-Star Theatre ed in their best, and will there object is to make ten dollars grow member withdraw from the

The British North" Ond Exciting Night strain their eyes to watch these where only one grew before, and League Argentina withdrew her GAMBLING. Bernge Herald is our February 20-World Theatre

delegates from the firat Assemblythe authority for the Reginald Denny in The Abysmal same absurdly small mounts in besking to do this we secure but still retained her League following extracts from an essay Brite career round the course, Stu Immense: pleasure, delicious membership. On its fourth birth on gambling contributed by February at Theatre Royal: larger numbers will eagerly scan excitement.

day the 4 members of the candidate at the recent Learners The Quaints fa"Undergound to

Anywhere, 9.15 pm. Yet further charm, before the League Include all the States of Examination

KABOCIAL the evening papers for reguits and

Asia except Afghanistan and

Hall February 20-At City their mlen will become Jubilant, Goddess of Chance we are all Turkey, all the independent

Fall in ald of the melancholy or

hic as the largely equal. True, the tote may States of Africa (with the poasle

¡9:30 pm). tale Lestold Bande will quicken bring bigger returns to the ble exception of Egypt), all the

Mitch SE DITE the Joy

with heavier Investor (though also it States of Latin America except Andden

lessen may not) but only one ticket can the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,

VIPER ESSAY ON GAMBLING

“Gambling Is" an offensive vice mamit li

to get in trouble Fancy and puntalament, therefore, the S.P #intention

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