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HOCKEY.
·R.A.F. DEFEATED BY THE ARMY.
SIM SHIELD TIE..
The hockey match in the Sim Shield competition between the Army and the Royal Air Force, postponed last week owing to bad weather, was played yesterday at King's Park and crided in a win for the Army by four goals to one.
In the first half, the RAF fence was very sound and the Army only scored ona goal through Lieut, Burton. After the interval the Army attacked more vigorously and added three inore goals, the scoFETA being Capt. Howard (2) and Capt. Dobbie.
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This success places the Army on an equal footing with the Navy on points. The two Service teams have one more match each and both nre in a strong position to gain maximum points The Army have to meet the R.A.F. again: the Navy's opponents are the Club.
The Position To Date.
FIFTH_TEST MATCH. WEMBLEY'S FIRST
THREE BATSMEN SAVE ENGLAND
SUTCLIFFE, HAMMOND AND
TYLDESLEY,
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PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1928.
THE HONG KONG DAILY
THE GAUCHO."
FEATURING FAIRBANKS."
BEN HUR AUDIENCES—
AND AN EXCORE
DOG RACING.
WHIPPET OVERTAKES
ELECTRIC HARE.
FREE CHAMPAGNE AND A
SCENE.
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[RY. OUR FILM CRITIC.)
BRITISH BID FOR WOOD TRADE.
THOUSANDS OF ACRES TO
BE PLANTED.
OAKS IN PERILA
Twenty-three thousand acres will be added to Britain's woodlands, Doug" the beloved has return-it is hoped, by next month, and, ed to the screen,
His new picture with the opening of the tree plant The Gaucho" shows him to bear to in extended wil be Thot- ing eenson, one of the greatest nearly a agile ifconsiderably | ford in Norfolk.
ut Zero" days stouter than he was in his, "Mark
DURBAN, Feb: stk. According to "Reuter and the British Wireless Serrier, England were only saved from ignominious
Ther Wembley Stadium TAA colupee in the fifth Test Match by formally opened as a greyhound- three "batemen who scored 17 out racing track on Dec. 10th, and the of a total of 952. These were official estimate of the attendance
William the Conqueror's record will easily be broken when this ex- Tyldesley, 100, Hammond, 66, and Sutcliffe, 31. England took practicis given at 70.000. It did not look
panse of woodland, far wider than ally the whole day to compile their to be anything like as much.
But the passing of the years has the Now Forest, grows to maturity. left its mark and it was perhaps amercial value of timber and not But it is perception of the com- core, South Africn scoring 6 for The total hekling capacity of the battle rach of Fairbanks to come laye of the chase that fires the real drawn. The chief bowling honours,
wicket before stumps were Stadium is 03,000, and the plate back in such familiar guise. "The of the modern forest-maker! In went to Naper who took fire did not appear to be more than wickets for 83.
half full. The enclosure, to which Chucho" is not quite the gallant new plantations and reafforested districts, more than 100,000 acres Heore--"
the price of admission is 10., washing gentleman we used to see, have been planted since the war packed to the point of discomfort there is just a suspicion of effort total
in ha marvellous athletic feats, and avery, considerablë proportion of those prezent being there, by in-
more than a suspicion of fake In bright weather, on a faster vitation of the directors-but in
some of them. Possibly he made wicket and before 磁 moderate the cheaper enclosure there was attendance, South Africa compileder upon tier of empty seats. 74 runs for the loss of two wickets
lunch time.
There seemed to be an enormous number of bookmakers present, but
The public nowadays are know. edgable about greyhound racing, and they know that a dog which
England, 25. South Africa o for 0 wicket. South Africa's Innings.
DURBAN, Feb. 7th.
COPY than
representing 200,000,000 troes! Of these, no fewer than ninety per cent, belong to the coniferous family, consisting of the Scots pine, and such import- an attempt to prevent "The Gaud varieties as the Norway spruce. the Eurertean and Japaness arch. cho" from being just "featuring and the North American Douglas Fairbanks" a triumph of a famoils fr.
The main reason why the pine white wash the oak is that the demand for the saft consequence to character. he represents.
But wood of the conifers for building though the public is called fickle far exceeds that for the hard wood of the broad-leaved trees like the it likes
accustomed face. oak ite Doug" without youth and gal tantry is not himself as we knew and loved him, and "el Cauche"
At ten me South Africa were they were not doing much business personality, and has foreborn in and the spruce are replacing the
230 for & Cameron scored 53.
The posit.ons of the Clubs to WHY WOMEN ARE UNDER./ has done fast times on one track
date, are:-
Navy
Army
Club
R.A.F.
P. W. L. D. F. A. P.
11 000
H
4 10 10 9 મ
41 3 0 15 2 ý 30 4
216 0
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HOME FOOTBALL.
TWO LEAGUE MATCHES PLAYED.
FIRST AND SECOND DIVISION.
(THROUGH AUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Feb. 6th Two English League football matches were payed to-day, one being in Division I. and the other ia Division II. The results follow: Division I.
Tottenham 1, Bolton 2.
Division II.
Port Vale 2. Preston N.E. 0.
ROWING AT SINGAPORE.
HONG KONG AND OTHER
POLTS INVITED.
PAID.
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INJUSTICE BEGUN IN THE HOME.
Men who despise housework and women who have to do it formed the basis of the presidential ad- dras given by Mra. Tidawell. of Londen, at the National Union of Women Teachers' Conference in Chester on January 3rd.
Women's work is never come," is an adage that should not be tolerated by the woman of the future, declared Mrs. Tidswe
The fact that women's work in the home so largely consists of hand work, together with the fact that traditionally no claim is made for a nioney payment to the wife. in respect of such hoe duties, has caused work of this nature to be depreciated.
The ordinary man will say that hekorps his wife: the opinion is often expressed that a married woman should not take up paid work outside the home belause she has a husband to 'support' her. Even the Government, in its cenus forms, returns married women as
unoccupied.'
At the annual meeting of the Singapore Yacht Club last week it was deded to issue invitations to an interport rate for fours, these to be sent to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, the Shanghai Rowing Club, the Canton Rowing Club, and the Manila Rowing Clubs among others.
DERBY PRICES.
**Despised."
The result is that housework is despised: it is women's work,' and man of a certain type con- siders himself demeared if he is required to engage in household duties. I however, married man with a family loses his wife, he finds that he has to spend far more in getting his home run by a' paid housekeeper than it cost him when the duties were performed by his wife, even though the payment. nos equal to that which a man would expect for the same work. The low valuation attached to women's work in the home has had ia effect on women's work outside The home. When the value of hard work in the home, which is cssen- WHAT WAS OFFERED YESTERally brain work, is justly assess- ed, women's work in general will le mare justly valued, and we shall no longer have women teachers, Mr. Frank Haytor's latest prices women olerks, women shop nesig- for the Hong Kong Derby are given household workers paid at a lower tants, women, cooks, and other below. Since Tuesday Heir Ap- parent is still quoted at 2 to ì.
rate than men, teachers, men clerk's Peck is now quoted at 6 to 1. aa
men shop assistants, butlers, loot against Tuesday's 4 to 1. November men, and, above all, chefs, simply is 6 to 1 against the previous 9 to breuse some are women and others Eight of the others are also are men irrespective of the impor offered at slightly longer" odds.in which it is carried out."
tance of the work and the manner which reflects the popular confid- ence in the favourite. Sitting Bull remains at 100 to 10, but Pickles' price is now 11 to 2 as against 6 to 1 on Tuesday, Blackstone Hall, Guild Hall and Manor Hall are all offered at longer odds.
DAY EVENING.
The latest prices are:-
Peck, 5-1.
Piekle, 11-2.
Harlene, 33-1 Movingher, 33-1. ·
U Un II., 100-1. Blackstone Hall, 30-1. Guild Hall, 60-1. Manor Hall, 00-1. Duke of Vernon, 25-1. Young Pretender, 33-1. Heir Apparent, 2.1. Sitting Bull, 100-16, Bakers Bay, 20-1. Coos Bay, 33-1. Deepwater Bay, 40-1. Monterey Bay, 12-1 Comrade, 33-1,
"Capta`m -25-1′′
New Year's Dya, 10-1, Boxing Eve, 100-19. Mish fish, 3-1. November, 6-1. Handsome Stag, 33-1. Wilsonie Stag, 8-1,
SHANGHAI JOCKEYS
“ARRIVE." Shanghai jockeys arrived here by the 6.3.: Prendent Pierce to take part in the Hong Kong Jockey Club-annual-race meeting:
They are Mr. H. Maitland, who will ride for the Dunbar stable; Mr. A. J. P. Heard, of Messrs. Jardines, for Messrs. Hynes and Adackie: Mr. V. M. Hamovito, for
TURKISH WOMAN AND
THE VEIL. ·
and won many crinitesta does not neessarily do so on another where the conditions are different, so they were there merely watching points. and getting a line to the form of the greyhounds who will be run- ning on the track throughout next year at its bi-weekly meetings
Reterogeneous Crowd,
I met several people at the Stadium, students of human nature with financial minds, who were little interested in the racing, and
Output,
Every species of tree produces a varying amount of cubic timber na are every year. The output of the is not a pleasant personality desoak is alone thirty cubic feet, that pite his repentance. "El Gaucho" of the larch, sprixe, or Scots pine fir often yields as much as a
does not matter, the story does not sixty, while the Doug red feet.
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matter, what the public wants is Doug was quite avidently the decision of the director. The Gaucho in consequence is "fea turing Fairbanks and Fairbanks the performances of the grey-
is somewhat of a disappointment. hounds, but who were keenly in- But, and it is a big but, our herò, terested in the effect the opening he he Bagdad thief or Spanish of Wembley will have on the ma
robber. is still Doug," he still ket in greyhound racecourse com
can laugh and leap and ride amaz pany's shares because apart alto-ingly; and he has given to the "gether from the gambling on the cincin world s leading lady who is part of the public over the racing both lovely and accqnplished, and there is a tremendous gamble bes a big part to play in the pic ing engineered in this class of ture. share.
It must be said that at Wembley nothing has been left undone to attract the public to this newest gaming house.
Racing began at eight o'clock anal at seven o'clock there was a recaption. If Major-General Seely, who is chairman of the directors of the Wembley Stadium and Grey; hound Racecourse Co, Ltd, and who stood inside the door of the Club,
received" each individual of that enormnots throng who surged through the doors, he must have been a very tired man at the end of the evening.
The Club Room. The Club-roon is a vast place. predominant note in its decoration, with magenta and yellow as the which is of almost inconedvable garishness.
Never, perhaps, in London before has such a hetero genous crowd of people of all tembled to receive the spacious hos- classes been drawn together as as pitality of the Directors.
If it were possible to remove, as whale, the crowd during the night of a big fight at The Ring, Blackfriars-rond, and dump them down among the regular crowd at a Palais de Danse, something like the effect of Saturday night might be created.
Acapitality! And the hospitality accorded whole length of the vast room there was a buffet, and there prodigious numbers of lobsters and chickens were handed out. There was n limit to the supply of champagne. which was all free. Several people went upstairs during the course of the evening to watch the racing.
Lupe Yelpez was almost unknown before the shewing of The Gau- cho" She is not unlike a Dolores del Rio with more fire and less spirituality. To watch her is a delight if you love beautiful things, and we shall look forward to her next picture.
origin of the City of Miracles are The earliest menes shewing the beautfully made, shmost a lovely and the camera work by which one as the beginning of Ben Hur,'
Bees the gradual growth of the city very, clever.
We feel sure you will enjoy "The Gaucho although you will not feel that it is the best picture Douglas Fairbanks has given us. There are aughter, and the movement is quick scenes of real beauty and plenty of and varied.
At The World And Star. At the World is The Irresistible)
and at the Star Roudolph Valen Lover" which was very well re reived last Sunday at the Queen's,
tina in a good adventure story Gled
The Eagle."
Four Thousand A Day. On an average, four thousand people saw Ben Hur" daily dur ing is eight daje shewing at the Queen's, that means that 4,000
The different heights of the trees is partly responsible for this state of affairs-the fir sometimes reaches the height of 120 feet, but a 300. foot oak is rarely found.
e
The passing of the bow and a the English yew. In the course of row meant practical excinetion for the next century modera conditiona joined to the effect of the disap- Prance of the wooden ship may bring the same fate to the oak tree. view of the widespread planting Many people imagine that, in
activities Britain will soon covered with vast pine forests. But planters are only just beginning to replace the fellings of "the war period. when nearly 500,000 acres were *wid bre. Meanwhile, Britain annually import some £50,000,000 worth of timber-80 per cent of it soft wood-much of
try which might be grown in this coun-
steady rate of 30,000 acres every Afforestation must proceed at the
Britain's forests regain their pro year for sixteen years before
war condition:
SECRETS OF AN EXECU-
TION.,
CORONER QUESTIONS A GAOL GOVERNOR.
NOT ALLOWED."
LINCOLN, Jan. 4th. The jury, at an inquest at Lin- coln Patison, to-day, on Bertram Horace Kirby, who was hanged for the Louth bungalow murder, were directed by the coroner, Mr. J. A. Langley, to view the body...
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GIRL SWIMS DOWN A Now in the
MAIN STREET.
TEN MINUTES "DIP" FOR A TEN SHILLINGS WAGER.
STORY OF ENGLAND'S FLOODS.
MAIDENHEAD..
Was
An astonishing Bood seene provided at Maidenhead when a woman swam backwards and for wards along the main road.
The swimmer was Misa May Ruffell, daughter of a local baker, whose premises are in Bridge-rond."
Miss Ruffell is a skilled motor- cyclist, who won the Amateur Cup in the London women's reliability trial a month age. She had rande a wager of 10%, that she would be able to swim along the road during) the floods.
Her chance came this morning.
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The experience was anlendid. stayed in the water for ten minutes.
great crowd watched me."-
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STRANGE SCENE IN ST. PAUL'S.
PREACHER STOPPED BY SHOUTING MAN.'
Loynoy, Jan. 9th. A middle-aged man, his features partially hidden by a large pair of dark spectacles, yesterday made an attempt to interrupt the morn- ing service at St. Paul's Cathedral just as the Rev. T. Wellard, the preacher, was about to begin his Bermon. He was forcibly ejected.
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are requests for a re shewing as executed person must be viewed by many were unable to get seats. It
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A general impression of this openting meeting is that however vast the crowds that may be at tracted in the summer months, win. ter greyhound racing will not ap peal to a big public.
Intense
doubt many people will want to go about eight weeks time, and no
a second time.
NEW YORK'S WEALTHY BEGGARS.
TO THEIR PITCHES" BY TAXICABS.
NEW YORK.
being the world's richest city, New In spite of the proud boast of York has its beggars, and they are not simple-hearted.
BOSNIA LAGS BEHIND.
Travellers who have Faged through Sarajevo and other towns of Mohammedan Yugoslavia will forts were made to attract the have realised that European Turkey public, and the response was is taking longer to change its spots nothing like what was expected, than Turkey proper. In Turkey it which suggests that, only the dyed Like the matti-millionaires they is an offence to wear a faz; and in-the-wool mulor will leave his have their own standural of riches. woman no longer go covered, but comfortable home on a cold winterThe business is so, profitable that strive to emulate their European night and stand about in the keen one young man when offered a job sisters in following the mods or blast and the rain hoping to make at 23 a week said he could earn chasing the flying ball. Baseball. money by betting on the dogs. more on the streets and remain ha it is rumoured, enjoys the especial } In the cheaper enclosures there own boss. patronage of Kenal Pasha. In was none of the hectic enthusiast Bosnia, however, the women go that could have been seen at the About like murky ghosts in their other meeting that took place in black sheets, and the country is
the course of the last Summer and one of the last hopes of the fez Autums, manufacturers.
I shall a
he said body of a person who dies in ways direct the jury to view the prison, and shall do so in this case, because the jury are the guardians of the outside public to see that everything is done properly and in accordance with justice."
The governor of the prison stated that the execution was carried out expeditiously.
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City churches.
11, Ice House Street, Hong Kong.
The man had secured a seat by one of the massive pillars a few feet from the pulpit, and, as he did not stand up, it was some moments before the vergers could discover who was shouting inter- RED RAIN IN AUSTRALIA. ruptions.
"In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the people of Eng- land," he began, and caused Mr. Welland to pause for a moment. "I protest against the ministers The coroner: Can you say how of this Church continuing to act long elaged between PierrepontAs Christian ministers on (the executioner) entering the cell and the drop-I am not allowed to say. It is laid down that no record of that shall be taken. I not allowed to say anything except that a very short interval elapsed.
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"That Is The Law." Are you allowed to say how long the body remained banging!-No, sir, I am not.
The coroner: I will put it to main hanging for an hour-Yes, you in this way. Does a body re- for an hour, and that was the time in this case That is the law.
The foreman: Are those instruc executions-Yes, for all exeu- tions general instructions for all tions. They are direct from the Secretary of State.
The highest amount earned in a week by plying adroitly the piteous look has been, it is said, £100. It is not uncommon for professional Jezzure to keep their own banking Hare Caught.
accounts, ride to and from "work" An end to this is now to be ex The racing had to amusing taxicabs, and spend the winter peeted. The head of the Bosnian points. One dog,
Bug Attack, in Florida.
Certainly none of Mohaminedate, entitled in Serbia which is owned by the conductor
them works on Sunday. Reis-ul-ulema Djemaloudin ef Tchau of a popular hotel orchestra, got
So Adorative is begging in the shovitch, recently declared that it distinctly out of time in the race ty, that schools exist in which the Lieut.-Colonel Lambert, explained The medical officer of the prison. was time progresk reached the faith for the Bermuch Hurdle. He was trade may be learned. Here you how he examined the body after ful in Europe.. The faithful have favourite, and he went out of the
may study the proper way to carry the, execution. He had a special risen against his words, and a con- trap with a good lead: indeed. he hidden a sound limb after the man stairway and steps to make the ference of all Mohammedans in the went so well that he caught up the
Ben af Arthur Bourchier in "Tren- examination directly after country is now to consider the im-hare and passed it.---
sure Island. The vacant expres drop He mounted the steps, felt "portant question. Meanwhile Itris- Then the hare went on again and sion of the blind can be learnt, and the pulse, and tested the muscular
ul-ulema Djemondin ef Tchaushe- fonled him so that he lost ground, sometimes the master will form vitel's supporters, in the daily and was tenton three lengths by company of three or four begin- Death was immediate.
responses.......They were absent. Press, content themselves with the Liverpool dog, Ballyshane,wers, place them daily on tucrative. The usual verdict was returned pointing out that their old-fashioned which started at 10 to 1 against. stande, and share the tiroceeds that Kirby was executed according -brethren evidently cannot read. When the result was hoisted it was Une legless Beggativen ELTÖRS Arabic, as the Koran is silent on received with a great deal of boo- the water in New Jersey, where he
to law
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both the disputed points; and in ing, which lasted for some five owns property. In the city he is
Kirby murdered his wife, who any case, whatever authority RAYS, minutes, the public being evidently
was found with her skull fractured an ex-soldier who lost his legs in and amaze beside her. It was az- the fez in disappearing, and the under the impression that it should. younger women will soon all be un- have been · given.“ no-race."--
the war, although they were actual guest at the trial that Kirby was ly cut off when he was hobo-ridinginanne when be killed his wife, but Coverco
Picquet in the Daily New
"on"a"rallway.
recovered his manity afterwards.
the
grounds that they are the greatest accessories in the moet hellish
Wrong8.
Ordered To Stop.
MANY NEW YEAR FROCKS RUINED.
Ushering in the New Year with a strange meteorological pheno- the
menon, which in past ages was the cause of superstitious horror, showers of med rain fall in Mel- bourne almost before the clamour and cheering that heralded the passing of 1027 had died
It was then that a verger reach ed his wide and ordered him to stop or leave the cathedral, Two other vergers also approached him, but he continued to shout. Wrongs in defiance of the laws of both God and man on the people and the poor by our own political and local ministers, judges, magis trates, law officers, and chiefs of police."
No more of his speech was heard, since the three vergers had by then seized hold of his arms and were escorting him to the door, whenes he walked rapidly away.
He said to people on the steps that be would return to repeat his protest and that he had a grievance
against the police, who, he alleged, were
charges
bribos.
arresting poor men on false and were accepting
"HOLLYWOOD" OPPOSED. Residents of Borcham Wood and Elstree, Hertfordshire, are "sip in arms against the proposal of the cinema industry to change the name of the parish to Hollywood, if necessary representations will be made to the local authorities call ing upon them to resist the pro posal strenuously,
While many revelers were rel
homeward they were fung caught in the red rain, which ruin- ed many a pretty frock and bespat tered dress shirts with a slimy red paste. Marks of a strange visita. tion from the sky were everywhere noticeable on Jan. Ist in the red dish stains that coloured strectl and bucklings, and hesmirched thi grass and flowers of every subut Lan garden with fecks of mind.
Several
meteorological factor
combined to produce the rain red mud. A line squad was pass ing over Australia on Dec. 31s from the interior of the continen Strong aortherly winds blowin
carried impalpably fine red dus almost in a direct line over Mel bourne. The atmosphere was comf pletely charged with this fine pow der, which an officer of the weathe Bureau described as, "the stuf buur-glasses are made of."
Having maturated the air wit this dust from a thousand miles i land, the north wind dropped early in the afternoon leaving & dut pall over the city that spread bile from haze, visible for 50 min in the reflected rays of the setting
Bun.
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