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WATER POLO.

CHINESE ATHLETIC DEFEATS R.A.

AN EVEN GAME.

FANLING GOLF.

STARTING TIMES FOR TO-MORROW.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930.

JUDGE LYNCH IN JUDGES RULES FOR WORK FOR MILLION

AMERICA.

OUTCRY AGAINST RECENT

OUTRAGES.

"Every court-house in the State should be hung with mourning." With these words the Columbia Record, South Carolina, bows its 9.30 h.m. A. C. I. Bowker and J. own head in shame that a mob re- a prisoner from a cently wrested. G. Castle and J. S. sheriff, after clubbing the official,

shot him to death.

R. Collin.

POLICE.

NEW DIRECTIONS.

A memorandum has been sent by the Home Office to the police forces in England as to the cautions to be administered to persons in cus tody, and the obtaining of state

"MORE MEN.

The fact is that the immediate, though not ultimate remedy is em ployment in health-producing work, and it happens that in England FARMING'S POSSIBILITIES. to-day agriculture is the wealth

SUGGESTED CURE FOR

UNEMPLOYMENT,

producing work which could, be developed immediately and easily You cannot reconstruct industry save through agriculture. A clear understanding of functional or ganisation' is necessary,

during a portion of his convales- cence at Bognor Regis, and also when he underwent the second operation.

In the Honours List,

The King has decorated her for her devoted services with the Royal Red Cross (First Class) last year, and previously, alike with the other nurses attending. His Majesty, with the M.B.E. in the Birthday Honours" list.

Soon after leaving the King lasi year Nurse Black herself fell u following the strain of her duties at the Palace. Their Majesties did not forget her devotion to the royal patient and paid her several visits at the London Hospital. She was. Hospital private nursing star and has also served as nurse and sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing service.

Speaking on The relation of “What is it the farmor needs? A agricultural development to unem stendy price at a remunerative ments from them.

ployment" at a conference of em-position. If he has that there will level. Then he will be in a scoure In this, the judges of the King's

ployers and employed under the

be every inducement for him to de- Bench seek to remove any diver auspices of the National Industrial velop production, and there would be a corresponding increase in om- struction to be placed upon what recently, Mr. Montague Fordham, find work under these conditions socretary of the Rural Reconstruc. for at least a million more men on This is one of three lynchings are known as the judges' rules.

The Royal Commission on Police tion Association, said that, althe land and related industrics. which here already stained the r Acord of 1930, the other two having Powers, and Procedure had drawn though the whole future of our Doubling Production.

"An agricultural policy ought to D. occurred in Mississippi and Geor- attention to the divergencies of civilisation depended on our secur

gia, almost at the time when some opinion that seemed to exist as to ing a complete knowledge of the the based on (1) the control of im- |

the construction of the rules, and problem, there had never been any ports, (2) the introduction of the thing of the nature of a full invesystem of standard prices for the

tiad the accused negro to a tree, and gencies of opinion as to the con- Alliance at Balliol College, Oxford,ploymet. We ought to be able to formerly a member of the London

0.94"..

Drkes, "

0.25

I. Geare and D.

Forbes.

1.52

D. J. Keogh and C. Coutts...

9.36

L. Yates and H.

Lammert.

2, 40

·0.44

0. Eager and A. Humphreys.

W. S. Hoke and W. D. .Harría.

Playing against the Chinese Athletic Association in the first division of the Water Polo League last evening, R.A. lost by three goals to one, after putting up a splendid fight till about five minutes before the game ended. The score. wis 1-1 until R.A. slackened their efforts and allowed their opponents 9.19 to add two further goals. The star- dard of the game was not bigh, but what was lacking in accurate handling of the ball was amply made up by the keraness of the 10.00 R.A. players, whose efforts to score

10.04 kept the Chinese teamm busy throughout the game.

Play was fairly even in the first i half, "Chinese Athletic attacking for the first few minutes. Receiving a pass from the centre forward, the Chinese left winger, who was un- anarked, opened the score for his Bide: About five minutes later,

I.A. equalised through Gray, who received the ball after his team had

been awarded a foul throw.

R.A. attacked on resumption after the interval and continued to de so till about five minutes before the game ended, The Chinese forwards then took control of the game and mored two in quick succession. ...”.

The teams were:-

R.A. Ribbards. Dangerfield, Cavanagh, Gray, Malthy, Lead- beater and Lewis.

Chinese Athletic Association,---

Siu Tin Lin, Kwek Tung Sin, Chan Chen Lok, Fung Kwok Wa, Tam Chee, Chan Kain Ching and Choi Chak Lou

HOME FOOTBALL.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE

FIXTURES.

The following are the football fixtures for to-day in the first division of the Scottish League: --- Airdrie "

r. Kilmarnock. "Falkirk.

Ayr

Celtic

Cowdenbeath

Dundee, Hearts Leith

Motherwell

Partick St. Mirren

2." Hibernians.

Aberdeen,"

, Rangers.

. East Fife,

7. Hamilton.

7. Queen's Park,

7. Morton,

Clyde.

LAWN TENNIS IN AMERICA,

TILDEN RETURNS TO FORM.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEWPORT, August 21. The following are the results of the quarter-finals in the Casino

tournament: -

W. Allison beat Shields 6-8, 6-%, 6-4, 6-4.

G. M. Lott beat Sidney Wood 6-4, 75, 16, 04. 1.

F. Hunter beat J. Van Ryn 8-6, 46. 63, 1-6, 6-4.

WT.Tilden Mangin 6-2, 6-3, 7-5.

beat Gregory

Ladies' Championship.

FOREST HILLS, August 21, The following are the results of the quarter-anals in the American Lawn Tennis Championship:

Betty Nuthall beat Dorothy Bareness Levi beat Pentiope Anderson 4-8, 04, 9-7.

Mrs. Harper boat Mary Greef 36, 0-1, 6-4.

W:"Weisel 6-1, 6-1/2 1

Marjorie Morrill tent Ethel Buckardt 46, 6-3, 6-2

U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, August. 21." The following are the results of the baseball matches played in the National and American Leagacs

Chicago St-Louis

National League.

6 New York 10-Puladelphia

"American League,

5 Cleveland

York.

elphia

8 Detroit

Uhicago

gton

St. Louis

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0.06

of the Southern papers were con-

W. C. Shields and Com-gratulating themselves that 1939 had particularly as to how Rule 3 should {tigation into the cause of unem- main articles of produce, and (3)

"mander Morris.

A. E. Lissuman and R Young. H. C. Shrubsole and J E. Haig.

A. G. Coppin and E.

des Voeux.

Comdr. Priestley and Capt. Weir.

WHAT GRACE DID AS A BOY.

been disgraced by only ten mob outrages. Now, they feel keenly the fact that the record for this year

has been marred so soon.

However, there is some hope in the situation, at least in South Caro- lina, where Governor Richards has set the machinery of justice in icction...

Dispatches tell us that he sent a public prosecutor to the scene of the outrage and ordered a dozen State detectives to aid the local author?-

The wonderful batting of Brad-ties to single cut and arrest the man can he compared only with that of the great "W.G.," who also. made cricket history sensationally in his early years. Here are some of the latter's feats as a youngster and some of Bradman's.

Grace.

At 9.-Played for West Gloucės- tershire.

At 12-Scored (51)

At 18.-Made 24 not out for Eng. land against Surrey, and 113 for Gentlemen of the South.

At 19.-131 out of 201 at Lord's for Gentlemen..

guilty persons. The vigour and dispatch with which Governor Richards, Solicitor Harris, and the grand jury Oconee County have acted." observés the Asheville Citizen from a neighbouring State, **Are convincing evidence that everything is being done that can be done to vindicate the State's flouted sovereignty and to bring those who flouted it to justice."

But the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. which has taken an energetic stand against Judge Lynch, is not so sure taken in Mississippi, where it says that equally vigorous action will be

"nearly 500 victims have preceded Dave Harris to a mob death since At 23.-Over 200 twice and over tably not 1 per cent. of the mur

the records have been kept, and pro- 100 eight times.

Between 20 and 25.-Unchallengderers have been punished". ed rungetter.

It is to be promptly noted that At 39. In first match in this the Southern Press is united in. a country between England and Ausstern and vigorous denunciation of tralia made 152.

Bradman.

At 21-Made highest individual score in first-class cricket-69, not but for New South Wales' Inst January.

Scored 340 against Victoria. 87 and 132 not out for New South

Wales against M.C.C.

Two brilliantourturies'in last Tests in Austrália.

131 at Nottingham in present

Trsts.

254 at Lord's in present Tests." 334 at Leeds in present Texts. Broken Foster's record of 997

made 27 years ago.

939 at The Oval in present Testa.

LOVERS' SAVINGS ON A GREYHOUND.

WON £150-AND FAINTED!

A Girl fainted at Ball Green greyhound racing track recently,

be reconciled with Rule 7. ` .

Rule 3 is as follows:-

Persons in custody should not be questioned without the usual caution being first administered Rule 7 is in the following terms

A prisoner making voluntary not be Cross- examined, and no questions should be put to him about it except for the purpose of remov- ing ambiguity in what he has actually said.

statement

must

ployment, and, so far as Parlia ment was concerned, none of the

lenders, and few of the rank and ale, appeared to have any idea of how and why the present unemploy- ment arose. The wanted something as complete as the report of the India Commission."

tribution. It is quite likely that the scientific organisation of dia-

extended

if we developed electricity, provid ed a complete system of drainage and irrigation, and knowledge on the use of machinery and fertilisers, we could feed our- selvos, but we should have to eat "One result of want of exact more pork and bacon and long beat knowledge is that from time to and mutton. We could increase time many fantastic statements our output from two hundred azil- and suggestions are issued to the lions to five hundred millions, and public which, combined with the employ an extra million-and- widespread ignorance on the sub-a-half workers in agriculture und› For instance, if he has mention-ject, create that muss hysteria related industries."! ed an hour without saying whe| which is the characteristic of the ther it was morning or evening, age. The number of our popula- or has not made it clear to what"|tion intermittently unemployed individual or what place he in-can hardly be less than 6,000,000, tended to refer, he may be ques- and the number living to-day un- tioned sufficiently to clear up the

der the shadow of unemployment point.

can hardly be less than fifteen mil lions. The latter figure is likely to increase to twenty millions.

Questions Not Allowed. Upon these points the judges advise :-

Rule 3 was never intended to authorise the questioning of a person in custody after he has been cautioned on the subject of the crime for which he is in custody.

Agriculture.

"Unemployment in agriculture has risen, if we except the war period, almost continuously week by week for, I suppose, a century, and it has been specially marked since the war. It has been the most remarkable feature of unem ployment both for its persistency and its extent. The employment in agriculture Ja already reduced by over a million, and the surplus labour in the town, and industri- The judges, however, point out al centres has mounted up. The relative cost is, perhaps, seventy that in some cases it may be neces-million pounds a year in unemploy mob murder. A characteristic viewsary to put questions to a person ment allowance, and the reduction is expressed by the Richmond in custody after the caution has

in our national wealth production Times-Dispatch, which saga:-

been administered.

by two hundred million pounds.

A Scornfal Gesture, "I no instance is lynching an offence which may be condoned by good citizens."

It is revolting to the sensibili ties of civilised men.

Long before this rule W3.5 formulated and since, it has been the practice for the judge not to allow any answer to a question so improperly put to be given in

evidence..

Hidden Property.

For instance, a person arrested for a burglary may, before he is formally charged, say, "I have hid den or thrown the property away," and, after caution, he would pro- perly be asked, "Where have you In the procedure is revealed | hidden or thrown it?" participacts unfit for partnership such irresponsibility as marks the

in the State. The very act of iynching is a scornful gesture to ward orderly government. It is an afront to those institutions which are set up to the end that men may be punished in a judicial manner for their sine against society.

"Any pereot who takes a life, or is an accessory in the taking of one, without the sanction of the law, is himself a murderer and is subject to the "penalty for that crime.

"Lynching bees can not but bring reproach upon the South. Apologists seek to excuse them on the ground that social conditions here are different from those obtaining in that is merely beginning the ques. tion.

ties appear to have arisen with The judges state that no difficul- regard to Rules 1 and 2, which ex- plain that when a police officer is endeavouring to discover the author of a crime there is no objection to his putting questions to any persons whether suspected or not.

When

he had made up his mind to charge a person.. however, he should first caution the person before asking any further questions..

while homicides among negroes are numerous, the usual case is that of

negro who has killed a negro. We believe that the South is reducing. this tendency, too, by improving the And the Nashville Tennessean asserts emphatically-

when Biplane won the second race, other sections of the country but living conditions for the negroes.!!

and thereby hangs a tale.

Miss Charlton, of Birmingham, was the girl, and by winning the race Biplane not only won Miss Chariton £150, but a comfortable

home as well.

"It is true, of course, that the best and more responsible people of the South, believing firmly, as they do, in the orderly processes of After she bad recovered and col-"government, neither participate in lected her winnings, Miss Charlynching bees nor condone them. ton, pretty twenty-two-year- That, too, however, excuses this old brunette, told me why she was class only in degree. It is the so concerned with the result of the business of these best and more responsible people to teach the

race.

Tommy, my fiance, is a fitter thugs, through drastic action, that in Manchester,"

she said. "We such mob murdera as were commit have been engaged for two years, ted in the States of South Carolina and been saving up to get marri-and Mississippi will not be cd. We had fifty pounds saved, tolerated.

The lowliest person, be he white and I was expecting him home this

or coloured, is entitled to his day week-end

in court after a charge has been preferred against him.

Yesterday I received a letter from him in which he said that he had a friend in the air service. He concluded his letter, 'Expect me back by plane."

"I thought nothing of it until I happened to see that a dog called Biplane was running to-night: The last words in Tom's letter kept ringing in my car: Back by 'plane.'

Bets Split Up.

"Our record for the treatment of the negro is not yet all that it should be. We confess that there are occasionally white men who are unjust and unfair in their attitude toward the negro,

"But these white men are not re- presentative of the great majority of their fellow-citizens.

"We have made real progress in. solving the lynching problem. No. effort should be made to deny the South credit for what it has achier- ed in this direction.

* {

"As a matter of fact the average. white man and the average negro in the South understand each other.

There is no hostility between “He should enjoy all the pro-them. There is a mutual recogni. tection the Government can afford, lios of the fact that each is neces and every opportunity to plead his sary to the well-being of the other. case before an unbiased jury, Only There are very few white roen in under such conditions can the State Tennessee who cherish any kind of fulfil its destiny. Mob role, if it animosity against the negro because continues, will head the community he is a negro, de for the barbariam which characteris ed ́our uncivilised ancestora. Send

On the contrary, there is gen- a half-dozen lynchers to the gallows rally a real affection between the *So I took our £50 to the dogmal business would be rooted out white people. We call on them to or the electric chair, and this dis- two races. The negroes are entrust- ed with grave responsibilities by the race without consulting him of our modern life." have often heen, to the races withYet it has been asserted by at help us in the care of our little Tom, so I knew that I must not least one Northern metropolitan ones, and they are invaluable in offer the lot to one bookmaker. I paper that white men kill negroes sickness and in distress put £20 on Biplane with one book in the Bonth without conscience and maker and £10 each with three without punishment, à charge that others. I got three to one, and is bitterly denied by two Tennessee papera Members of the editorial stood to win £150.

staff of the Chattanooga News

"When I had put it on I sud

The better provision that many white communities are making for the health, the education, and the living conditions for the negro is evidence of a desire to do them

and wanted to get it back, but I and found that, so far as that Stats community. All over Tennessed the

13 knew it was no use..

is concerned, the cruel charge is white people are contributing of

I saw another-dog, leading at absolutely untrue,"In Tennessee, their means to give the negroes bet- the second fence and nearly col-for rumber of whites killed by ter advantages than they have had, lapsed. Then I saw Biplane come negroes exceeds the number of so that they will continue to live negroes Lilled by whitesStatistics in contentment and in amity with from Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the white people, Memphis prove this. Furthermore, These facts are not appreciated

(Continued on next Column.) by our Eastern critics.”

0 up and win, and the strain was 7 too much everything went black

I will never gamble again as long 2 as I live,"

THE KING'S NURSE.

PERMANENT SITUATION AT

THE PALACE,

Nurse Katherine Black, who was one of the nurses to attend the King during his illness last year, has now been permanently appoint ed to the Palace staff as "Resident Nurse."

This appointment bears no special. significance in relation to the health of the King. Nurse Black's ser- vices will be at the disposal of any member of the Royal Family at the Palace who may become ill. Her appointment has been confirm ed and she is already installed at the Palace in quarters which have been provided for her in the south wing.

Nurse Black was the first of the" nurses to be called in for the King's illness. She remained till the end and was with His Majesty

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