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"LOCAL FOOTBALL.
The following gamey in the Hong Kong Lengan are down for decision to-day
Division I. R.A.F. e. Ráyal Artillery, at the United Services R.C. ́ground, Kowloon, at 4:30 pm. Rev feree: Mr. Phillips, K.0.5.B.. Scots Guards, ar Saakunna ground, at 430 p.m. Referee: Mr., Baldwin. POSITIONS IN THE LOCAL
LEAGUE
The Hong Kong Football League tables show that several games in Division II. "B" have been can. celled and the points may later be awarded by the Management Com mittee to the non-defaulting Club.
The positions are:-
Division I.
Goals. P. W. L. D. F. A. P. Chinese Ath. 4 4 0 0 16 18 Scots Guards... 43 1980 7
Recreio
1. Artillery
Queen's
K.O.S.B.
Police
3 1 0 0 2.3 0201944 2018 5 4
8 1 1 : 3 8.3
South China ... 51′′ 1 3 316 3
H.K.F.C. Kowloon R.A.F.
4 1 0 3 5 11 2 40 3 10 2 4.01 3 26 I Division II. "A.”
Goals.
4
P. W. L. D. F. A. P. K.O.S.B.
4 0 0 23 18 Chinese Ath.... 4 3 0 11 26 Recreio
490984
St. Joseph's
4 1 2 1 3 10 -4 S. China "B" 4 1 9 1 2 3 4 R.A. Res.
111433 University ...... 11 ! @ 30 Kowloon
4 10 3 7 11 2, Club Res. 4 1 0 3 902 S.. China "A". 4 1 0 2 3 14 !!
Division II “B”
Goals.
P. W. L.. F. A. P. St. Joseph's.... 32-101 7 5 Kung Woo 320 13 5: S. China B3 2014 63 Chinese Ath....1 10 75 Boy Scouts 3 1 U 28 0 2. Moslems
10.0.1340
S. China "A", 1 0 0 1 1 20 Kowloon
2.0.0 2 0 11.0
LAWN TENNIS
"NO, NO, NANETTE 2-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1927.
· THE QUAINTS” SCORE AN-
· OTHER SUCCESS.
مشخصية
"I HAVE NEVER BEEN BORED IN MY LIFE.”
MISER'S DOLLAR A QUEEN MARY, THE WOMAN,
DAY.
A BRIGHT AND SPARKLING PERFORMANCE
LEAVES $800,000,
VALUABLE HONOLULU
On the occasion of their previous viniț, Mr. R. R. 'Salisbury and his
PROPERTY.
Word hos been
received at
STUDY BYĽA. FORMER FACTORY.GIRL.
To some women it is given to be loved extravagantly; of few should
THE FUTURE OF OUR MERCHANT FLEET.
THE NEW KIND OF OFFICER.
THE SEA AS A CAREER.
[BY VISCOUNT INCHAPE, 0.0.2.1., CEMA, R.CLE]
Quaints scored a big success in Philalelphia from Honolulu" tell- it be said that the eyes of-an Em- the question of mercantile sen- practical "nature with a view to his}
their presentation of that very successful musical comedy from the
ing of the death of John R. Keys ia the Queens Hospital Keys lived in the Salvation Army home and made it a point to live on 81 a day,
pire have rested on them, and been
content."
appointment in due time to the post of a junior officer.
It is unnecessary, in considering, steamers for further service of a training, to emphasise the need that it shall be of the most efficient description that can be provided. As an example of the kind, of a visualising the beginner, the instruction in cases where the youth who goes as apprentice or training is undergone entirely at cadet in a steamer or motor-ship, sea, I may quote from the prospec with or without special prelimin- tus of one of the steamship lines collegea, such as the Worcester, the Dominions:- Conway, or Pangbourne, one must regard him as the commander in
Palace Theatre, London, "No, No
With this quiet tribute, Miss. Nanette." On that occasion it cap
Kathleen Woodward ends her iuti He was 79 and little was known tured the hearts of Hong Kong
mate study of the life of Queen of him. Investigation, however, sudiences, and last night. The revealed Keys had an estate of Mary,
It is noble praise-as Quaints." achieved similar success more than 8800,000, largely nworthy a tribute as has ever been when they presented the comedy at "realty, from which he drew an in-paid to the womanhood of an Engary training in one of the nautical trading with
h: Theatre Royal.
The performance went with a awing from the start, the essential brightness and sparkling charneter of this highly popular steal
come of more than $1,500 a month.
He also owned blocks of sugar and lish Queen and it well expresses pineapple plantation stocks and the personal prestige enjoyed by bonds, and had substantial deposits Queen Mary throughout the Ear in several Honolulu banks.
A canvass of the banks confirm- pire.
large balances.
endy being very capably sustained the reports that Keys carried Thirteen years ago Miss Wood The banks declin-ward worked in a collar factory and she has since been a stewardess on a liner, sold sewing machines and photographs, acted as cashier
All the numbers were enthusias tically applauded and several were encored.
At the fall of the final curtain, bouquets weré again showered on the principal fadies, and, judging from last night's enthusiasm, there should ben füll house when " No No Nanette is put on again.
To-morrow night “The Quaints". present one of London's latest and must successful musical comedies, The Blue Train," on Friday and Saturday they give "Oh Joy the Star Theatre, Kowloon. On Sunday, One Dum Thing After Another."
"
5 YEARS FOR “DOLE " FRAUDS.
**FORGERIES COMMITTED
EVERY WEEK."
at
Ingenious frauds on the Ministry of Labour carried on for over six years by a man who by this means obtained £733 in unemployment benefit were disclosed at the Old Bailey.
Albert William Gorham, aged 47, clerk, pleaded guilty to forging| and uttering claims for unemploy LADIES' RECREATION CLUB ment benefit, being in unlawful
TOURNAMENT.
possession
: "
The following are the results of matches played in the Ladies' RC. tournament:-
ed to make any statements concern.
the amoun ta. ing
An old friend of John's who walked into the city department of a Philadelphia newspaper, said he wam't laying claim to the $800,000; just wanted to say he was convine ed the John R. Keys, who died in far off Honolulu, was the same John R. Keys he knew 25 years or more ago.
embryo of the modern power-driven ship. As a junior watch-kroping offer he will be, for the period of his watch, primarily in charge of the vessel, with resort to superiors should the necessary arise,
hia
at a club, and served as quarter and with minor responsibility, dür master-sergeant of the W.AA.Cing his non-watch-keeping hours, In preparing her book, which has as to certain of her arrangements. been published with the Queen's As chief officer he will be answer permission, she has gone to all able, under his commander, for the Mamed After. Oharacter.
classes and parties for her material, care of her deck and cargo gear, We called him Happy Jack,"" and has been granted every facility for her general equipment, and for said the visitor, Albert G. Haines,
for research, covering a period of the discipline of her crew and other! a bookbinder, who resides at No. 3328 North 18th Street. Back in nearly a year.. Consequently we matters. As commander he will the nineties he worked for the Na- may regard hor biography as au- have the supreme responsibility for tional Publishing Company
thentic, and the portrait she gives the ship and her contents-the South American Street певт Locust. Denman Thompson then us of the Queen, as a true likeness. value of which may easily exceed & was starring in The Old HomeIt is the portrait of a great lady; million pounds sterling-for her stend,' and there was a character in the play who was for all the of one who has always been true correct, navigation, and for the world like Jack Keys. Happy as herself and loyal to others; o. safety and well-being of every soul Jack, the Rover' was the charac-
one who has given herself with ab- on board. ' salute and unremitting devotion to the manifold duties of her state, and who, as wife, as mother, and
ob
ter, and our Jack became 'Happy Jack.'
Judging from the despatches 'Happy Jack' bad not changed very much.
He was always eccentric and loved to hoard his money. It is said that Keys lived on a dollar a day. Why, he must have become extravagant! When I knew him he used to boast that when out of work he lived on exactly $1.97 a week.
Pinch Of Poverty.
"Happy Jack' lived in a room,
In The Day Of Salle, To-day, in each of the three stages, the officer's employment"
as Queen has led a full personal differs widely, in kind and degree, life in the highest sense of the from that of 50 years ago, when word. Hence the impression of the proportion of mechanically- completeness that her personality makes on us.
Shyness Overcome, There has been nothing sen-
the Southern
The company takes a special in- terest in the training of its ap- prentices. A high standard of physique is insisted upon. ard the boys must first be certified by the company's medical inspectar as fit for the training they are about to undergo
for
the ..Ap-
Particular steamers are assign- ed for such training and special accommodation prentices is provided. Specially selected commandera, officers-and- petty officers are appointed. In addition a doctor, physical train- ing instructor, and wireless instructor are carried. The boys do all the practical work in the deck department of the steamer; they have regular classes of in- struction in navigation. They learn to handle boats, and sailing cutters are provided. Written examinations are held during each voyage.
etc.
The boys are encouraged to en- gage in sports, Football and cricket teams дте formed on board, all arrangements are made for matches to be played with other teams in ports abroad. A certain amount of leave is given, where practicable, but this is strictly supervised by the Com mander.
Voyages are of about six months duration, sad, on the steamer's return to the United
Kingdom the apprentices are given leave as may be possible, which usually extends to two or three weeks.
Apprenticeship in steam or motor ships having now definitely taken the place of the old-time training
where they have served their time. permanent employment in the lines
Health and six Unemployment In which he furnished himself, above sational about the life-atory, of in steam more nearly akin to those in sail, most of the youngsters find
of thirty National surance stamps, and obtaining E1 7 and 138, d. from the Ministry of Labour by false pretences.
He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting for the Ministry of Enbour, said that in December, 1990, Gorham was releared from prison after serv
Ladies' Open Championship Sin- gles (2nd Round):-Mrs. Grigor heat Mrs. Hall, 6-0, 0-3; Mrs. Cook beat Miss Assumpeño, 7-5, 1-0, 6-43 Miss E. Lo beat Miss Elaby, 0-0, ing a sentence for obtaining money 60; Miss To beat Mrs. Stark, 0-3, by false pretences. He then took. 6-1; Mrs. Miles bent Mrs. Lambert, the name of Newcombe, nad was: 6-1, 6-0; Mrs. Sayer beat bliss Car employed in that name until May, rothers, 6-3, 6-3; Mrs. Grimbis, beat 1921. He was then entitled to draw Mrs. A. Castro, 6-0, 6-1; Mrs. Gull ont of work benefit, and he drew beat Mrs. Miliard, 1, 6-2 (3rd it the name of Newcombe. Round)—Mr--Grigor beat. Mrs. Cook, 6-1, 6-2: Miss-o beat Miss To, 6-3, 6-2, Mrs. Miles beat Mrs.
Sayer, 6-1, 6-0; Mrs. Grimble beat
Elctiticus People.
barber's shop on Fourth Street near Vine. He wasn't a book- binder, only did odd jobs around the place. Work was scarce and be frequently was out of a job. He had felt the pinch of poverty and when he had employment he made it a point to save his money. He paid specified sums weekly into an insurance company to guarantee him an annuity. He made up his mind that he would not be poverty stricken in his old age.
"Keys was very methodical in his habits. When he worked for
Queen Mary; yet, in one way, it
propelled tonnage was, as yet, not greatly preponderant; the sailing- ship was at her zenith; and the practice and necessities of the work
in sail. Since that time the sail- is a veritable romance for it tellsing-ship has gone; the square of how a shy seseryed, diffideat rigged steamer has also become a and hyper-sensitive Princess mould- thing of the past. Today, the ed herself into the pattern of a vastly increased ocean-going mer great Queen. Se timid was she a..cantile tonnage under the red or a child, Miss Woodward tells us, blue ensigns consists, one may say, that she would burst into tears entirely of steam or motor-driven whenever she had to appear among But she took herself strangers.
shipė.
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ITALY AND THE DEATH PENALTY.
JURIES TO BE DISCARDED
IN MAJOR TRIALS.
Death will punish murder when
the new penal code comes into force in Italy next year, as the statute is now drafted. At present the- death penalty is confined to offences » against the State.
Education At Sea.. Having obtained his second mate's "ticket" the youngster doos the uniform of a junior officer, but his nautical education continues in an intensifed degree as, with pro motion to higher ranks, his repon sailing-ship have disappeared emer- zibilities increase. As in other firmly in hand, and though a cer-gencies peculiar to herself. But walks of life, the tyro must pass the publishing company he ate attain shy reserve has never left her. the ocean does not change. Pre through a probationary period, but a restaurant on Second Street at
she stands forth to-day, conspicuous blems remain which are peculiar to the case of the budding mate his The thousand articles of the new the same time every day. As 5000
the sea, although they affect the training and his probation march code have already been hewn from Pot pie and ality and serene dignity of ma would sing out,
ner which are the distinctive attri plenty of crust!!
Lu those days saloons served tutes of queenhood.
In this book are many stories free lunch. Keys would stroll into
showing the Queen's innate kind. ness of heart, her unaffected sin cerity, her unweariness in all man- ner of unobtrusive well-doing, her remarkable memory and powers of observation, and her practical goud sense, which almost amounts to a kind of genius.
One of her Majesty's main characteristics is her zest for life.
This seemed to be the beginning as he entered the place the waiter for just that fine poise of person large power-driven vessels of to-day side by side, so that, in the few the solid rock of Fascist principle
of a long scheme of fraud, which required forgeries to be committed Mrs. Gull 6-1, 6-1
every week. He gave the pames of Ladies' Doubles Handicaps (semi-etitious people and drew money finals): Mins Carrothers and Miss their behalf, and also for wives bar-room, watch his chance, grab Ellaby (Scr.) beat Mr Russell and children who did not exist. In partly consumed glass of beer Brown and Mrs. Lynch (2/0); Mrs. nearly every case he gave the name and then demand, Miles and Mrs. Tottenham (20)
lunch? bent Mrs. Stark and Mrs. Jaines
(-15).
:
to a different extent, the difference being that in all circumstances, the element of risk to life and pro- Perty has, by the doubling or quad- rupling of power-units and propel lers and the adoption of wireless devices, heen lessened almost to the vanishing point, so that steamship travel is to-day probably the safest of all forms of travel.
New Needs..
cars where weeding out becomes necessary, either from inability to by Alfredo Rocco, Minister of learn or other cause, the break ocJustice. It ushers in many im- curs at a stage where it is not too late to make a start in another Portant changes, especially for direction; and it is my belief that offences against children, for re- in such cases a few years early gulation of the drug and drink training at sea is never without traffic and for social welfare. value in after life,
One article declares foreigners plotting abroad against the Italian : state or insulting by spoken er written word that state's dignity
::
on
Mercantile marine officers, completing the necessary certificat ed service, are eligible for commis sions in the Royal Naval Reserve. From the fixed training centres be
cadets. pass annually into the Royal
Where's my of the employer of the person he
When out of work he would was purporting to be as Gorham. When the Ministry wrote to Gorham sleep until noon to save breakfast Mixed Doubles Handicap (nd asking about his employees he was money. He cooked his lunch, and Round, Grigor and Mrs. able to give them a satisfactory his daily repast was prunes and coffee. Then he would saunter up Grigor (ser.) beat T. Lanyon and answer.. Miss Carrothers (ser.); C. Grove The fraud, which was practical to the Y.M.C.A. and spend most and Mrs Grove (× 178) heat C. P. I undiscoverable, went on for six of the afternoon and evening read- James and Mrs. James (scr.): H ́years and three months, and in that ing When he was put out at 10 Everything interests her. Only the officer now demands, in face of the forenamed a certain number of or attempting to kill or injure E. Remington and Mrs. Remington time Gorham dbtained £733 from celock, he would go to one of the other day she said: "I think, i can numerous inventions which modern Navy. With the latter, attractive Italians for polítical reasons will: (eur.). best T. A. Martin and Mrs. the Ministry. The matter was disrailway stations and continue his honestly say that I have never beejscience has brought to his aid, as this feature is, this article is be liable to punishment in this
| covered in August of this year, reading, until early in the morn- } bored in my lile. ""And how.oftra much wider range, of knowledge. In not concerned. But it is of ad- country.
Martin (x 4/8
Mixed Doubles Cub Champion ship (1st Round):-L. M. 9. Lloyd and Mra. Miles beat C. Grove and Mrs. Lynchi; R. E. Tottenham and Mrs. Tottenham beat W. A. Nowers and Mrs. Cook..
Ladies' Club Singles (1st round):
Mrs. Cook beat Mis. Stark; Mrs. Miles beat Mrs. Jauea; Mr. Hall beat Miss Ellaby.
when Gorham was arrested for ing being in unlawful possession of un- employment insurance stamps, and land. admitted the whole matter.
Happy Jack" was born in Ire
He served in the British Army and also in the American Haines thinks he may bave a few relatives in this coun try, but believes-most-of-bis-folk are in Ireland.
In a written statement to, the marines. Judge."Gotham, said that had the
Ministry of Labour officials done their duty it would have been im possible to carry out these frauds. In pasting sentence, the Recorder Men's Singles (2nd Round):- (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) said that Colonel Riss Brown beat J. W. no blame at all attached to the Norrie G. H. Bond beat G. T. Ministry of Labour. Only by ne- Pilgrim; Rev. Alexander beat Tident was this fraud discovered.
Lanyon Major W. B. Stevenson beat Major C. Willson; C. Grove heatR. M. Henderson; R. E. Tot- Lenham bent A. H. Crook.
A THIEVING SON,
STOLE CLOTHING FROM HIS
MOTHER'S HOUSE..
A Chinese youth, who was describ- ed by his own mother as a bad boy, was sentenced to four months' im- prisonment by Mr. R. E. Lindsoll | at the Central Magistracy yester day for the theft of a basket of clothing.
The youth's excare for stealing the clothing, which had been left by a friend for sife keeping with his mother, and then pawning it was that he had to do this in order to
yaise money to pay house rent. This
statement was denied by the mother, who said that she paid the rent berself
La passing sentence, His Worship remarked that the youth had not only brought shame on himself but on his mother as well.
FINGER PRINTS TO BE DESTROYED.
INNOCENT MAN
WOMEN ARE BLAMED
FOR WARS.
But if the seaman's calling has, ad come ways, been simplified, his education as a junior and senior
as the days of the clipper ship many vantage to the mercantile marine
of the seaman's difficulties were
messmate).
text,
we think of the life of royalty of one long boredom!
Variously Interpreted. officer in the mercantile marine off- Quick Sympathy.
net by methods which probably cer in the practice of his profession. This clause has aroused consider differed not much from those which to avail himself, as many do, of able comment in foreign circles The queen has always taken a deep exercised the mariner of St. Paul's the privilege of special naval here, but it is too early to grasp interest in social questions, and has days. No better all-round train-. often astonished Labour leaders ing for the young seaman will in courses of instruction in gunnery, the real meaning of its wording, her sympathetic understanding, of all probability ever be evolved than etc., na a preliminary to twelve jurists themselves.
torpedo, hydraulics, electricity, for it is variously interpreted by: their movement. Her wide philan- that which was afforded by sail months service in one of His thropic activities among the poor Yet the apprentice or cadet who Majesty's ships, where the R.N.R. In any case the full text of of London are, well known but it may no longer have the advantage officer is usually received as a good, thoroughly examined by a special
Signor Rocco's is the personal touch at the back of such training must by some
code will be of them that count for so much)
means convert to practical use the
commission which Premier Musso....- Labour's Tribute.
knowledge afforded by his text-
Saa As A Caraer.
lini intends to summon shortly. New Youx, Oct. 1st.
Labour leaders of both sexes have books; and it is the aim of bis
The conditions of employment, This body will be made up of the Women thus far have utterly been quick to appreciate the deep instructors to ensure that he shall pay, and the likelihood of advance country's leading law experts, in- failed as world peace makers and sincerity of the Queen's feeling for consolidate that knowledge by ob- ment in the profession of a navigat cluding the Presidents of the to the contrary have been respon- the poor. "It always seemed to
servation and practical experience ing officer are attractive, and Courts of Appeal, the Attorneys sible for many of the world's me," remarked Mrs. Olynes to the through modern channels. In the carcer have, at least, as much to Courts of Cassation.
at sen, learning ancient wisdom young men adopting the rea as a General and the Presidents of the greatest wara, says the Yoman's authoress of this book, tha result, the steam-trained officer has hope for from the future as is the Home Companion for September poverty really hurts the Queen'
They may modify the APPLICATION OF AN in an article headed Women as and the iste Mary Macarthur, the then found wanting in those average expectation of the educated though the underlying Fascist prin-
War Makers"
Most of the real work for per- who worked in close collaboration of large vessels in all emergencies few, as in all professions, fall by will begin with enforcement of the
women's trade unions organiser. qualities of seamanship which are man entering professional or mer ciples must remain unchanged.
necessary for the proper handling cantile employment ashore. Some
An important innovation which manent peace is still being done by with her Majesty during the war, de A young man who was brought men," continues the article, "and clored that the great desire of her
and under all conditions of the way. The man up on remand at East Ham Police the movements should have the life was to reveal to the Labour weather.
through to the command of liner 20 code is the abolition of panel Court on a charge of loitering and strongest support and inspiring Party the woman that is Queen
attains to a position which brings juries in criminal cases. Fascist as a suspected person, declined to leadership for the mothers of the Mary?
For the training in steam of the good pay (usually also a not un- opinion has been demanding it for have his finger prints, taken, and nation. The statement that women they were taken while he was under have hitherto failed
But perhaps the grandest tribute hudding junior officer the our-substantial pension), and which a long time because on several oc- remand.
makers should be repeated again to her genius in human relation- ticulum is of a comprehensive kind. confers a greater measure of per casions anti-Fascists guilty of In the nautical training colleges it onal prestige-and, at the same murder have been acquitted or Detective Sergeant Rushton now and again.
ship comes from another woman
light sentences. said that the man bore a good char. There is bitter truth in the who served her with the best days differs not much from the range of time, greater responsibility-than found guilty on points carrying. acter, and the police inquiries recent statement of the great of her youth. If I were on the studies in our public schools, save falls to the lot of most men.
In the course of a long and busy Exactly how the jury will be re- showed that he had acted foolishly leader of women, Carrie Chapman eve of some decision that would that subjects more closely related
to the career of a navigating officer life as a shipowner, I have known placed has not yet been settled, but and thus aroused suspicion.... Catt, that women have caused more affect me or my children, if ever are specialised. The P. and O. some thousands of mercantile off-probably it will be by instituting
The magistrate (to the man): irritation among nations than any I were in difficulty or distress of You will now be discharged. other influence which has resulted any kind, of all women in the Company has for some years cers and commanders, both within a court with a Judge, two Magis The man: May I have my finger in history's great wäre. Mrs. Catt world I would go straight to Queen operated an assisted scheme under and outside my own connections; trates and two well known citizens which boy candidates, carefully I have been honoured to number nominated by the court. Fascists prints which were taken, or have attributes this to the tendency of Mary." There is a world of signif selected by scholastic and physical many of them among my pergoun hail the revised code as essential women throughout the world to cance in this tribute, for it is given examination on the part of the friends; and I can say, with all to the new regime. The penal-code repeat in exaggerated form state- to one who has never worn her company's officials, are admitted to sincerity, that they are as fine and now in force, they say, was based ments of men in regard to matters heart on her sleeve and Ins the Thames Nautical Training Col- effective a body of men as the on social, philosophical and juridi of race hatred and other phases of almost constitutional inability to lege (HLS.M. Forcester) for a term British Empire produces and a cal visions which were born of the
go out to people." foreign policy which might make
of two years, on satisfactory com- company of, which their fellow-giti! French revolution, and of which two countries spring at each other's **Queen Mary " by Kathleen pletion of which the youth is draftens have, never more than today, the Fascist State is a radical nega throat."--United Press.
Woodward (Hutchinson, 76, 8d-)med into one of the company's mail cause to be proud.—Sunday Times, ¦ tion."
them destroyed! I refused to have them taken in the first instance because I had committed no offence, Detective Sergeant Rushton They will be destroyed.
The man then left the dock ap parently satisfied.
peace-
The Sallor's Training,
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