1933-12-26 — Page 9

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1933.

LOCAL CHRISTMAS

CELEBRATIONS Gaiety And Carnival At The Hotels.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

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Hong Kong residents evidently did not intend to let any thoughts

of the depression mar their enjoy-

ment of the Christmas season, judg-Arsenal ing by the happy faces and high Derby

TOTTENHAM

DEFEATED

Continued from Paye 1).

English League.

'FIRST DIVISION

TABLE TO DATE

Huddersfield

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spirits observable at the hotels on Tattenham Saturday night. Carnival held sway Manchester, C. 21 8 68 29 32 at the Hong Kong, the Repulse Bay W. Bromwich 20 8 6 5 33 and the Peninsula Hotels, the "Nine Sun

Sunderland Blackburn

o'clock Review" at the last-named, Middlesboro with Ress Storey, Rose Lee, and a Wolves bevy of pretty girls, adding greatly Portsmouth to the galely of the evening.

Aston Villa Everton

Despite the attractions aty the

Leeda above-named hotels the Gloucester, Wednesday The Cecil, the St. Francis and the Liverpool Newcastle China Emporium were crowded}

Stoke

with guests determined to usher in Birmingham Christmas Day in a spirit of follity. Sheffield U. The cabarets, too, were doing accord Lelcenter business. The management of the Chelsea Cecil staged a variety entertainment by the Misses Strella Adair and Peg

Ray, with Messrs. Richards and Grimsby Barraclough and other performers. Blackpool

Preston

The lounges and dining-room of the Belton hotel were gaily decorated and Port Vale 'favours' were distributed to all the Brentford Plymanth guests.

SECOND DIVISION

Bradford C. H.M.S. Tamar heid a dance at the West Ham Garrison Lecture Hall which proved Bradford a great success, while Christmas Fulham was greeted in like manner at the Notts C. China Light and Power Recreation Notts 5. Club, King's Park.

Christmas Carole,

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Seeking Sanctuary

THE CHINA MAIL.

Although it often has been reported! that many. Cuban patriots are out gunning for former President 28 Gerardo Machado, who fled his re- volt-torn country, the ex-dictator docan't seem much perturbed as he is pictured strolling at Poughkeep- sie, N. Y. He is said to be contem- plating permanent residence in New York.

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Southampton 21 8 10 20 24 19 CHIANG ACTS

under the direction of Mr. Rupert Burnley Swansea Baldwin, made a tour of Kowloon Millwall parish on Saturday night, from Lincoln o'clock onwards. Visits were paid. THIRD

to the Kowloon Cricket Club, Kow-!

loon Bowling Green Club, Claremont Norwich

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DIVISION (South)

Hotel. Peninsula Hotel Humphreys' Queen's P. R. 19 12 4 3

Phil- Coventry Buildings, Kingsclere Hotel.

Exeter

lipe House and Torres Buildings, Rending and met with a response of $122.73. Charlton The money will be forwarded to St. Bristol R.

Luton Dunstan's Homes for War-Blinded

Crystal P. Men.

The Christmas Festival was cele brated by the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Saturday and Christmas Day, when

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ON ADVICE OF

THE TIMES'

(Continued from Page 1.).

GENERAL LU STAYS 25 24 WITH FUKIEN.

To-day's Short Story.

RAID

NIGHT

By H. M. Tomlinson.

EPTEMBER 17, 1915, I had other unlucky fool.

But I allayed

from France to my anxiety. I learned over one of crossed

the still figures, and scanned the was, thankful fateful document which had givèn Fleet Street, and at first to have about me the its reader the aspect of one who was things I had proved, with their staring at what the Moving Finger had done. Its message was no suggestion of intimacy, their more than the excited whisper of look of security; but I found the a witness who had just left a key- But I realised in that mo- once familiar editorial rooms of hole,

ment of Burprise that this office was that daily paper a little more an essential feature of the War: than estranged. I thought them without it, the War might become It provoked the emotions worse, if anything than Ypres. Peace.

which assembled civilians in ecsta- Ypres is within the region where, vhen soldiers enter it, they abanic support of the sacrifices, just as don hope, because they have be the staff of a corps headquarters, come sane at last, and their at some comfortable leagues behind minds have a temperature a little the trenches, maintains ita fighting below normal. In Ypres, what-men in the place where gas ever may have been their heroic shells tend to

sense and irresolution. and exalted dreams, they awake. see the world is mad, and sur- Frender to the doom from which a world bereft will they know give them no reprieve.

and

engender common

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "When I Was In Africa," by Massimo Bontémpelli.

there

There was a way in which the office of that daily paper WILS familiar. I had not expected it, and It came with a shock. Not only the compulsion, but the bewildering in-

I left the glare of that office, Its consequence of war was suggested

Reason was not heat and half-hysterical activity, by its activities. there. It was ruled by a blind and and went into the coolness and quiet fixed idea. The glaring artificial of the darkened street, and light, the head-long haste of the the dread left me that it could be telegraph instruments, the wlid lit-a duty of mine to keep hot pace with ter on the floor, the rapt attention patriots in full stampede. of the men scanning the news, their stars were wonderful. It is such a "abrupt movements and speed when tranquillising surprise to discover they had to cross the room, still there are stars over London.. Until with their gaze fixed, their expres-this War, when the street illumina- sion that of those who dreaded tions were doused, we never knew aomething worse to happen; the sug-it. It strengthens one's faith to |reation of tension, as though the discover the Pleiades over London; Last Trump were expected at any it is not true that their delicate moment, filled me with vague alarm. glimmer has been put out by the The only place where, that incf-remarkable-incandescent energy of plent panic is not usual is the front our power stations. As I crossed

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Of Command.

Foochow, To-day.

General Lu Haing-pang, a Fu-]

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e musical programme was presented

Watford auditorium. Aldershot on both days in the

recently Clapton ... Miss Pool Ying-lam, who returned after several years of Newport Southend studying music in American, delight-i

Gillingham ed with her piano

while Bristol C.

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19 6 12 2 25 47 12 THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) ming contributed instrumental num-

attached to the local office of the bers. Addresses were given by the

15th Army, Nanking promised regu- Rev. Yung Park and Mr. Chan Yik Chesterfield king.

Christmas Carols.

Stockport Walsall Tranmere Carol singing formed the basis of

Barnsley Churen music on Christmas Day, the Halifax Kowloon Union Church holding a Doncaster

Rau local service at matins, at which the Kar

Accrington Choir and Juvenile Choir rendered **** York carols.

Grewe

In the evening, at the Hong Kong Carlisle

Wrexham Union Church, Handel's magnificent Hartlepools work "The Messiahı" was rendered, Chenier

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ANNUAL TIFFIN TO shadows of its past.

SERVICEMEN.

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line, because there the enemy is London Bridge the City WAS within hail and is known to be an-silent as though it had come to the end of its days, and the shapes I could just make out under the stars were no more substantial than the Even the Thames was a noiseless ghost.

London at night gave me the illu- sion that I was really hidden from the monstrous trouble of Europe, and, at least for one sleep, had got! out of the war.. I felt that my suburban street, secluded in trees and Importance, was as remote from the evil I know of sa though it were

Y.M.C.A. Christmas

Entertainment.

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HOCKEY MATCH WITH BOYS OF H.M.S. EAGLE

Over a hundred and fifty mem-in Alsaka When I came to that bers of the Y.M.C.A. and their street I could not see my neighbours' about guests sat down to the annual homes. It was with some doubt! [8,000 officers and men with over Christmas tifin to Servicemen yes-that I found my own. And there,

10,000 rifles and other light arma-terday, Mr. J. M. Hunt, O.B.E., with three hours to go to midnight,} ment.-National Press.

Secretary of the YMCA, Mr. A. and a book, and some circumstances W. Ingram, Assistant Secretary, that certainly had not changed, I and their wives, presiding at the had retired thankfully into a frag- four long tables.

ment of that world I had feared we Mr. S. A. Gray, proposed the toast had completely lost. of "Wives and Sweet-hearts at "What a strange moaning the Home," while Mr. L. D. Skinner. re birds in the shrubbery are making!" At the Supreme Court on Satur-plied with "The Bachelors,”

my companion said once.. I listen- After tiff the guests were entered to it, and thought it was strange. 20 5 11 4 39 50 14 day, Mr. Tycho Wing, barrister-at-

The an- There was a long silence, and then

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the soloists being-Soprano, Mr. New Brighton 10 6 A. M. Bowes-Smith; Contrako, Mrs. Rotherham

Southport

I. L. Lockhart Tenor, Mr. W. J. T. Gateshead Phelps; Bass, Mr. W. H. Bailey; Mr. Darlington G. E. Longyear was at the organ. Mansfield Following the service, a social hour Rochdale was held in the Church Hall.

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News In Brief.

.20 4 10 6 28 42 14 law, until lately practising intained to indoor games.

TABLE TO DATE

"What's that?" she asked. "Lis-

39 6 12 1 23 41 13 Shanghai, was admitted to practice nual. hockey match between "Y" she looked up sharply. Scottish League. In Hong Kong on the motion of the members and Boys from H.M.S.

Hon. Mr. C.G. Alabaster, Attorney Eagle, which was played at King's ten!" |General, supported by an affidavit Park, proved a thoroughly enjoyable from Mr. J.B. Ross, manager of the game, resulting in win for the good.

home team.

Bishop Hall preached at St. An- drew's on Christmas morning, when' he continued his course of interest-

Motherwell ing sermons on "Christmas and Ad-

Rangers vent." The evening service was de- flearts voted to the carol singing, with an Aberdeen address by the Vicar, Rev. W. Wal-Kilmarnock

Ayr. Utd... ton, Rogers,

St Johnstone Appropriate music, was rendered Falkirk in St. John's Cathedral for the Queen O' Christmas services, the Dean preach-Celtic, ing in the morning and the Bishop in the evening.

Hamilton Dunder Hibernians

A midnight choral Eucharist was Clyde

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all the Roman Catholic Churches.

At the Catholic Cathedral confes- BALKAN STATES DRAW CLOSER

sions were heard all' the evening up

to midnight, when the Holy Com-

munion was celebrated.»

FOOTBALL TEAM

ON STRIKE:

(Continued from Pagi 1).

[better market in Roumania and Yu- go-Slavia for her manufactured products,

The plan envisages an economic programme for one year's duration to start with.

Dispute Over Payment the delication of railways, water-

Of Doctors Bills.

Other matters proposed include ways, postal administration, tale phone, and belographie, service:] Uniform rates and unrestricted ser

New Yorkvice would be establish The foosball team Bay Pittston Uniformity of y (Pennsylvania); High School went likewise would be arta on. strike when the aphool Athletic Planned 'Assosiation napunt What It]been pract would not

Mystery Witness at Nazi Probe

I listened. My hearing is not

"Nothing!" I assured her. "There it is again.” She put down her book with decision, and rose. I thought, in some alarm.

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· “Trains,”... Ir suggested.. gan bubbling. The dog next door. Your imagination." Then I laben- ed to the dogs, it was curious, but; they all seemed awake and excited

What is the noolse like?” I ask- ed, surrendering my book on the antiquity of man,

The twisted her month in a comi-' cal way most seriously, and tried to mimic a deep and solemn note.

"Guns," I said to myself, and went to the front door,

Beyond" "the", vague ⠀ opposite shadows of some elms, lights twin- kled in the sky, incontinent sparks, as though glow lamps on an invisi- ble pattern of wires were being wwitched on and off by an idle child. That was shrapnel. I walked along the empty strost a little to get al view between and beyond the villan. I turned to say something to my companion, and saw then my allent neighbours, shadowy ""groups" about me, as though they had not . ap. proached, but had materialis where they stood, Wa/ watched those Infernal sparks, AS

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