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FRIDAY, JANUARY

ceased to molest them and life anger for the tyrannical, and his the hypocritical; became altogether more agree-scorn for

volumes have been devoted to the able. Meanwhile, whatever the surpassing charm of his verse, future may bring the foreign the fervour of his appeal, the devils not only triumph in the clearness of his vision, and the West but are also a power in the absolute sincerity of his soul- volumes have been devoted to East, and the "China. Mail," their every aspect of his soaring genius, played oldest newspaper in this part of that vast realm, may perhaps be permitted, for the 80th time, to wish the Chinese race the season- able "Kung hay fat choy."

An Illustrious Medico.

yet perhaps one cannot improve the simple tribute he wrote for a friend but himself richly earned: Few hearts like his with virtue

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If there's another world he lives

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If there is none, he made the best

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WATER BATTLE..

HOW ARMED ROBBERS":

WERE, FOILED,

SMART POLICE WORK.

One of the most illustrious figures in the medical world passed away at Cambridge last month in the person of Professor John' Irvine Hunter, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Sydney, at the early age of 26 years. His career is an objecti lesson to medical students, in Hongkong and elsewhere, showing that nothing is impossible to youth, given the brains and the application for study. At the Albury District School, the Port Street Bays School, and the to commit an armed robbery at 11 restaurant in Hunghoni wery Médical School he carried all before him. Two years before heipped in the bud by smart work. on the part of the police early po graduated at the University he Wednesday morning On the men acted as prospector and demon-heing surprised by the police, they strator in the department of took to the water keeping up a anatomy, and immediately after running fire at their pursuers. graduation was appointed Assist- Some men on a junk, apparently ant Professor of Anatomy, Sydney the confederates of the mobbers. University. He was then only 21 also jumped into the water years of age, and held the honourscenting danger.

The plans laid by a gang of men

on

FOOTBALL

GAMES

SOME ANTICIPATIONS.

[By "Dutchie."} The following games will be

during the Holidays SATURDAY JANUARY 24. League-Division L

R. A. v Kowlood, Soakumpoo·· ground.

Club v Tamar, Club ground. Kick off at 4 p.m. sharp,

League-Division II. " Recreio "A" v University, Kow loon ground.

Kick off at 2.30 p.m.

Junior Shield Competition. 'Surrey Reserves v. St. Joseph's, Sookumpoo ground, w

Clab Res. v. Drums, Club ground Kick off at 2:30 pm.

MONDAY, JANUARY 26.

- Juice Shield Competition. Kowloon Reserves v. Moslem Club, Kowloon ground.

Kick off at Ita.m., sharp.

Interport.

Hongkong Shanghai, Club

Kick off at 3.45 p.m. ground.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

South China

Ground.

Shanghai, Club

Kick off at 4.13 p.m.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 United Services v. Shanghai, Club ground.

Kick off at 415 p.m.

V

Owing to the late arrival of the Shanghai footballers their game with the local team has been post-- poned until Monday. The Chiuese will meet Shanghai on the Wednesday and the Services on the Thursday. For the convenience of the public generally the time for starting the games on Wednes REDUCED TO ASHES.day and Thursday have been put

'back to 4:15 p.m.

of being the youngest Professor A earth. in the hold,of, the junk in any first-class University in the resulted in four men being foun world. After lecturing for a term with wet clothing. They were he was granted leave of absence to premaly arrested, tour abroad, with the object of The wenpons were brown, away studying methods of teaching, and by the inen on entering the water research in anatomy. Amongst hit a revolver and a robbers' kit those associated with him were seized on the junk. London was Professor J. L Shell hear of the Hongkong University. After an absence of eighteen months he returned to Sydney via America, where, he addressed the medical faculties of several of the largest Universities, and on, his return was appointed, to the Chair, of Anatomy-a re-

MAT SHED AT THE NAVAL

DOCKYARD.

Booking for the Interport game · on Monday closes at Anderson at: 5 p.m. to-day, but tickets can be

A fire broke out in a carpen-obtained from the Association markable and unprecedented tar's mat shed at the Naval Dock Secretary at the Hongkong Foot honour. One of Professor Hunter's yard shortly before nine o'clock ball Club House to-morrow" " greatest achievements was the last night. The mat shed was re- Monday. remarkable results obtained by duced to ashes in a few minutes.

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far, as Canton disorders permit), thus will the Chinese start the new year with joy and with hope, Thus will this great race, having added one more chapter to its age old story, face another twelve months' history, its national instinct as strong as of yore, the involuntary nerves. Experiments Brigade stood by, but their assist call of its destiny as clear as ever. in the School of Anatomy, in the ance was not required,

him, in conjunction with Dr. N. D. The men of the Dockyard Brigade There will be two First Division of and others who rushed to their fixtures on Saturday, the Artillery Royle, in the treatment paralysis. Dr. Royle became con- assistance were successful in pre- being at home to Kowloon. The vinced that patients suffering from "spastic or rigid paralysis venting what might have proved latter will not be at full strength a disastrous fire had it spread to and a win for the Gunners -I. owed in considerable measure the the store rooms containing inflam-anticipated.

That China will yet cvercome the

disability they suffered from tomable material close to the mat the released activity of the shed. The Hongkong Fire The Hongkong Football Club

Sydney University led to an opera-

A FATAL FIRE.

are at home to FL.M.S." Tamar when a good and fast game wil be seen. The Club will be with

evil forces threatening her heri- tion on a human patient with a

The fire at Nos. 60.61, Woosung out Bishop, but they have some tage, that she will yet recover her view to reducing the rigidity of Street, Yaumati, in the early new arrivals who are expected to Improve the forward line: Howard paralysed limbs consequent upon hours of January 3, which rell drop to left back position. A ancient greatness there can be no injury to the brain. The success sulted in nine lives being lost, was draw is a likely result. doubt whatever. Modern republics was astonishing. The rigidity the subject of an enquiry at the and Kowloon Magistracy yesterday cannot be substituted for auto-immediately disappeared,

There will be no Senior Com- freedom of the limbs soon asserted afternoon cratic systems centuries old with itself. The work carried out by Hamilton sitting a Coroner..

with Mr. E. W petition games to-morrow, but two out a certain amount of confusion. those young scientists represented

of the Junior matches will be After the evidence of a Chinese played off and one on Monday. Rome was not built in a day, one of the most important witness and the medical officer of neither was any present day advances in medical science in the Kowloon Mortuary, the Of the two games to be played recent years, and it was referred Coroner and jury left to inspect government established in a

to at length in all the leading the scene of the fire. decade. The French, are said to medical journals of Great Britain

The enquiry will be continued be Europe's most logical people, and America. This will of itself on Thursday. but a brief 125 years has seen suffice to show the loss that has been sustained by the death of their country's government re- Professor Hunter, not only by the empire, Sydney University, but by the monarchy, republic again, once cause of humanity throughout the more empire, and now yet again world.

Hongkong, Friday, January 23, 1925. public. dictatorship,

CHINA NEW YEAR

:

republic. A century and a quarter

forms but a fraction of China's

*FULL COURT.

KUNG WO RESTAURANT DECISION. Judgment was given in the Full Court yesterday for the landlord (Lam Cho-yin) in the Kung Wo Restaurant case.

In the initial proceedings, the

to-morrow, neither is certain. The College will have the pick of both "A" and."B" League teams for this competition, and should turn “ out a strong side against the Regimental Reserves. I should not be surprised if a replay wil have to take place before a decision is come to.

The Drums visit the Club ground to "try conclusions with the Reserves, and although Shield football is not League football, a win for the Band stems indicated. On Monday morning Kowloon Reserves are at home to the

Kung hay fat choy1. Even the history, fourteen years but a Immortal Memory,

The Chinese Often people can be heard to hard times and the capricious fleeting minute. weather cannot make, Hongkong's have a secret of perpetuity. "A say, as a reproach against life, heart heavy in this happy season, Mediterranean civilisation, as we "Oh, it will be all the same a China's greatest festival has come are now discovering, was destroy answer to the age-long query at West Point, claimed for possent they are composed brostly of the hundred years hence." This landlord of seven Chinese houses Moslem Club, who are new-comers. to this competition. pnderstand round once more. The new year, ed before our history began. ad quid venisti? might well stou. The acting Puisne Judge members of the Sacred Heart

same

celebrated countless times before, Before Minos was, China is, sub-depress the mind but for the (Mr. Justice A. Dyer Ball) gave team, but they also have the call is here again, its appeal not one ject to anarchies and conquests thought that the world still has its judgment for the Restaurant on several other good players. whit diminished and its charm, if and superficial changes of all poets and its musicians, its pain- (tenants) on the ground that the and should give the Kowloon tesm

ters and its sculptors; that it still notice to quit, served by the land- a good game. anything in these material times, kinds, but still the same China, treasures the exquisite creations lord, was bad. The facts were greater than ever. All is now with the same kind of art in its ready for the great day to-

bronzes, the earliest morrow. Preliminary sorties with sophisticated yet simple scepti crgckera have already scared away cism; that remains to this day the demons. Lanterns, quaintly But this, we are told, does not traced, have been hung outside mean mere inertia, for many will

can breathe and eyes.can see." This decision was reversed by _doorways and red papers have agree with Mr. Bertrand Russell But those whose eternal-sum-the-Full-Court-

been distributed for luck. Feasts that the Chinese enjoy life more mer" shall not fade, are very, very Yesterday, the Restaurant (de have been arranged and best than we do, and have deeper intel- few; and though they have fendants in the original action) clothes selected. This evening the lectual interests; only they have wrought their magic in many applied to the Full Court for leave Chinese daughter will draw water made up their minds about things as far apart as the bustling stage against the decision of the Full. ways, and their lives have been to appeal to the Privy Council

for three days' use and the well as we have not; they are born and the lonely hills, yet have they Court."

the master spirits of the past have that the two party walls on the In the Second Division of the Remem- extremes of the two end houses League, the Recreio."A" and left for all humanity. bering this, the, appreciative can were not to be demolished and University will play their post- rejoice that "it will be all the the notice was therefore held to poned fixture of October 4. Judging same a hundred years bence" be bad as it did not give the from the result of their game on pay, five hundred, five thousand exact nature of the reconstruc- December 20, an easy win for the

Recreio boys seems likely. years hence, eyen "so long as mention.

the wa

ALLEGED MURDERS. SEQUEL TO DEATH OF A COOK.

CARETAKER'S FATE.

(in Hongkong, a prosaic city with their minds made; up, and the one supreme thing in common. The Court comprised the Chief Preliminary evidence in this main) will be sealed. The maid- have been for thousands of years, They all have that divine attri-Justice (Sir Henry Cowper case in which Chan King-chung, a servant will sweep the house with where we incessantly argue about hute which writes them each as Gollan), and the Puisne Judge fok at the Hang Tai neat stall extra care. Ensuring their main it and try huge experiments that This who loved his fellow-men. (Mr. Justice H. H. J. Gompertz) Central Market, was charged with This great humanity, which is Giving judgment their Lord causing the death of a cook by tenance for another twelve moona, to them would not have been the real genius of the immortals, ships said that it was obvious that stabbing on January 1, was coss- children a very wide term for worth trying. Seek as we may to rarely burned with greater pas-the judgment given on appeal to cluded at the. Central Magistracy this occasion, including young men despise this indifference as bursion than it we in the breast of the full Court was absolutely final yesterday, before Mr.), R. Robert Burns, the ploughman in this case. The right to appeal Wood. The accused was cons- still unmarried and spinsters who barous, we must yet, as the poet, whose memory the whole had been taken away under local mitted for trial at the next have not yet performed the cere-Times" has pointed out, remem- English-speaking world celebrates law, and the application would Sessions

Another case in which a man mony renouncing matrimony ber that it was before we were this week, the 165th anniversary accodingly be dismissed

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.G. (In- named Won In was charged with "children" will be given money, so and may endure when we are no of his birthday, Burns has been

described as Scotland's national structed by Mr. E. Davidson) was the murder of a topch

they have longer The Chinens of the soot, He is more infinitely more for the Trabastant (appellant taker, at Circular Pathway lived. The kitchen, god, returned future are not likely to trouble than that. He is one of human- defendants) and Mr Eldon on October 2, was adjourned for a

his report to heaven, themselves with the history of our ity's poets. Intensely alive to Potter, K.C. (instructed by Mr. week The Accused, who

The decline and falls but they may everything, he knew himself and Mackamara) for the landlord alleged to have lived with the append a note to their histories of knew mankind. Volume respondent plaintiff.de caretaker, disappeared after the Sealed

have been written about his Jove ha mort the effect that in certain century for the bartender com application for stay of crime, but was arrested by the

police a few days ago, execution was disallowed, West: passion for

ing his collected (as.

will