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News and Views
East End Player for Wimbledon.
A tennis player who may one day SUMMARY OF NEWS
represent England, in the. Davis
Cup has been discovered in the,
of course, is of Indian nationality. Quito a number of likely players have been tried, such as GODDARD and JORE LANGRIDOS, Voce and NICHOL, but they have not come up
East End of London. He is Myde to expectations. AF. F. CHLAP
The Great Lover!:
Robert Stone, aged 23, of Hackney. Local and Far East. AN is another example of this in-
Het How's the petrol tank, ability to make good." In many dear!"
An expert in the use of the band with Mr. A. C. Cromley, who mone killer, Mr. C. R. Hambley | conched him, he is to play in the ways he is as good a cricket captain She: Er, well, the indicabas in the past twelve months championships as we have ever had; a sportsman, for says half, but I don't know
CARD
great feldaman, a good dis it means half full or half empty.". ciplinarian, but, he suddenly gave up making runs]
South Africa last winter and,
England's Cricket Captain.
SHE ORIG
The death has occurred of Mr. Page &
Wimbledon. J. Colin Owen
if slaughtered about 1,000 horses and During the day, Mr. Stone helps ponies at her husband's abattoir et his father in a builder's business, Totion, Hants." "She is a great lover of animals her husband playing tennis in the evening stated and insists on doing the whonover, there is a possibility of slaughtering herself so that she agamo. Mr. Stone is also playing may be assured the aimals do not in the singles. suffer."
Tribute to the Police,
Twenty Years' Pesce Or--
A warning that if Europe did not get at least 20 years poses
il pan police, saying that 75 per cent, of revolutioin, was given by Profes- recently with a roll-known firm of the criminals who come into the
Special Daily Presa interview Our Kiukiang correspondent gives!
Page 7. a vivid picture of the situation in
Page B Kiukiang.
with Sonator Pittman,
The Colonial Secretary on Satur day unveiled a tablet and opened a new science room at St. Stephen's College
Page 7 Round the local cinemas, Page 3. To-day's wireless programme.
Page 3.
The American golf title, Page 10.
We all believe that there is noth-
After a very brilliant cricket COLIN OWEN. On Sunday, July 5, ing holding athletis England beck career at Oxford, DR. Jardine,
at the French Hospital J. except thicke-headedness at the top. COLIN OWEN, of the staff of the To take a concrete example, Sur match, went with an M.C.C. side on England's captain in the recent test Hong Kong & Whampoa Docker, England's best batsman, has Co., Ltd. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day not had satisfactory treatment. He with a somewhat exaggerated reggeseded Sir Robert Wallace as
an Australian tour, and came back
Mr. Cooll Whiteley KC, who was left out of the team that toured sutation for slow scoring. Latterly chairman of the; London Sessions, we, should, have either revolution A Editorial and Business Offices: 1 again, he was not in the English the claims of business (he was until has been paying a tribute to the leading to WAT or war loading to Snort.
side that played New Zealand. Da merchant bankers), have prevented dock plond" Guilty" because they sor J. Y. Thompson, of Edinburgh, I both occasions there was mishin from playing regularly in first-know the evidence against them and at the Brotherhood Conforated at Home cricket results. apprehension, but it is a pity that class cricket, but he still remains it is just the evidence of the police. Folkestone. There had to be dis such a factor should be evident. In one of the most attractive bats in Mr. Whiteley defended Bywaters in athletics and palo, in boxing and the world to watch. Of lato years one of the most memorable of Old armament of the mind before they even in our own speciality, Asso-to captain England has been a not Bailey murder trials and bad an ex- could get material thisarmament, altogether easy task, but Jardine tensive common law practice. he added. “I believe that God ciation football, we fail to win, came out of his ordenl
gives each generation one chance Selling Up " Scarface." Tand, though everyone knows that
and we are going to get cur: Political Iterary Romance, the game is more important than
It is easy for the Chicago In- the result, that little apology was
The marriage will shortly take come Tax authorities to threaten chance next February at Geneva.
Government to do all in its power not heard in the days when Great place at Brompton Oratory of to "sell up the property of "Scar Resolutions wore passed urging the Major John Walter Hills, Conner-face" Al Capono. But who, even Britain led the world of sport. It vative M.P. for the Ripon Division, in Chicago, wants to buy an son to obtain a substantial reduction is annoying to have to take thought and Miss Mary Grace Ashton, the armoured limousine, or an armchair in arms, and to take stops for eon- novelist. Major Hills is 84 and a fitted with a machine-gun and vening, through the League of Na- about these things and to be pains widower. Miss Ashton is 22. Some bullet-proof back? The only pentions, another world economicon taking and efficient, but it ought to time ago Miss Ashton wrote in an sible purchasers of most of "Al forence. Speaking on a motion de be done, Mr. BERNARD SHAW article: "I should imagine that Capone's property are the U.S.ploring the increase in gambling, men are seldom much good as hus- Army or the criminal classes. One several delegates declared that always accuses the English of hands. They have never learned to would have thought that there were those in large workshops who de THE last fortnight has not been mental laziness and, perhaps, the be. They have not been obliged to law to prevent the latter from clined to take part in sweep Hoover proposal.
great Irish dramatist might be per learn, for until recently Eve has buying bombs and breweries, but stakes were being practically fore-
had to put up with what she got," anything is possible in Chicago.ed to find other jobs.
The Daily Press
HONG KONG, JULY 6, 1931.
PLAY UP, ENGLAND 1-
suaded to serve as chairman of a
exactly a triumphal progress for British sport. With abrupt and brutal frankness Router describes Royal Commission on Sport. He the efforts of our Golfing champions is well up in the subject and ot asdismal," while at our own least he would teach us that the re Wimbledon none of the home cham-ault dors matter, and it is hypo pions has got beyond the semi-final critical to say that it does not. stage. At cricket we only just held
our own against New Zealand, a country of a million and a half in- habitants, who have only recently. begun to play first class cricket. It
THE HIKER.
is no good saying "Oh all those NEVER before in the history of
foreigners and people from the
England have so many thousands
Local Notes and Events *
·Page 11.
Local tennis results, Page 10, V.RC aquatics:
Saturday's ...Page 6. The Japanese beat, the U.S.6 night fête. Helena at baseball yesterday.
Page 10. Results of Saturday's games in
Page 10,
the Lawn Bowls League appear on
Latest Cables.
and Seoul.
Serious anti-Chinese riots acour red on Friday night at Chemulpo Page 9. The text of America's reply to France in connection with the Page 9.. The Rev. Oscar Anderson has been released on delivery of medi- cal supplies to his captors.
Page: 0. A plea to leading nations to co- operate and restore the price of silver and thus complete the effect. of the Hoover moratorium, was made by Senator Borah. Page 9. Capt. Stack and Mr. Chaplin have abandoned their attempt to
Tangho-Hsien, Henan, was cap railway will run parallel with the break the England-India flight re One Chinese case of typhoid and two non-Chinese cases of diphtured on May 30 by bandits under shore all the way between these two cord owing to engine trouble.
Page 9. theria, were reported during Fri- the notorious Chuaj Er-dai. Dur-places, and from a-wow-tae, above
ing the three weeks the city was Shatin, it will also run parallel The Chinese Minister of Navy on day.
Saturday: mado a statement to the in the hands of the bandits, over with the highway. The principal effect that after the end of his year 3,000 innocent people were massa-work on the British section will lie only Chinese pilote would be allow waters Page . ered and no fewer than 10,000 here for the next three years. Aled on vessels in Chinese territoriel The Franco-American meeting others were kidnapped and held ready operations have been com for ransom, says a telegram remenced on the face of the tunnel ended at i am on Saturday and ceived from Kaifeng yesterday. which will penetrate from above the there will be a final agreement on
village of Kanghaw to Kowloon Monday if President Hoover ap More than ten persons, are ro-Tsai, preparations having been proves of the basis of the agreement," the text of which was cabled to him.
•
Colonies spoil the whole thing, by of young men and women set out
At to-morrow's, meeting of the taking it too seriously wo in Eng every week-end to tramp the woods Hong Kong Rotary Club, Rotarian land only play for the fun of the and highlands of the north or the A. Swann, MA,, D.S.C., will speak game." Is that the Imperial and plains and river valleys of the south on Rowing." the modern spirit 1 Is it not rather us do to-day. One would have ima the mentality of the minor power, gined that as motoring becanie
Nanking messages, received" în and of that unworthy creature more popular, walking would be Shanghai state that General Liu THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & whom, in politics, we call the Little come less. But the very opposite is Hsiang, one of the leading generaleported to have died as a result of made for the sinking of a shaft, -
Englander If it came to an the case. Motoring has brought a in Schuen, wil be shortly ap analysis we should probably find new love for the joys of the coun-pointed Bandit Suppression: Com-ever Foochow the that our leading golfers, tennis try into the hearts of city dwellers, mussioner for the Upper, Yangtze, players and cricketers spend just and those who are unable to taste more successful opponents from do it on foot. auch time at the game as their of them by car are determined to
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end.
Looking Back 50 Years,
a heavy rainstorm which ragea Hong Kong Daily Prett, June 0,
Inst wok 1900. The south-western part of the city resembled a lake, and all affe had to be suspended. Houses collapsed, boats were capsized and number of people drowned. The
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. J. J. Paterson to be
Member of the Authorized Archi-a teets Consulting Committee during
a
The new Tramway Bill which has
Deen agreed upon by the amal- gamated companies is published in the Gazette, coupled with the name
Page 0.
DEATH OF MR. COLIN OWEN,
POPULAR MEMBER OF "KOWLOON, FIC.
our organisation, particularly of Britain, and a National League of the absence on leave of Mr. B. Dtioning on Friday on account of Messrs. F. B. Johnson, T. Jackson, J. Colin Owen, passed away at the
training and preparation, is old Hikers, complete with an official F, Beith. fashioned and slipshod. We have song, has been formed to look after plenty of players of real genius, their affairs. The movement is as His Excellency the Governor has but they have an awkward tendency popular among women as among appointed Mr. G. G. Wood to be a of failing, at the crucial moment.men. A Glasgow firm put. a Member of the Authorized Archi-
Fukien Provincial. Government was compelled to suspend runo
the flood. Not until yesterday afternoon did the water begin to subside.
An important. Shanghai real
of the Hon. F. B. Johnson as in- troducing it. The promoters "are bar W. K. Hughes and Ng Choy. The tramways authorised by the Ordi-
nance are:
Tramway No. 1-single line, one
An exceedingly popular member of the Kowloon Football Club, Mr.
French Hospital yesterday morning following an operation. Mr. Owen had been in indifferent health for some time but in spite of this, news
CYRIL TOLLEY, in the golfing world, women's hiking uniform on the tecta Coneaiting Committee during cetate transaction took place durmile two furlongs, 4.24 chains, in of his death must come as a shock Shanghai only and BETTY NUTTALL are clear ex market recently, and sold 10,000 out-the absence on leave of Mr. A. 8ng the week-end when the Ramos jength, commencing at the North- to his wide circle of friends, with
The Interest, lesa Income Tax st és
Bd. in the £, will be
Ox £20 DesextuREA Į - Per Coupon (Gross) Lews Tax at 4/6 in the £
amples of this weakness. On their day they are brilliant beyond imagination, but at about the seal
the
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12, 0.
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Hiking has got as firm a hold in Germany as in Britain. It was D
MacKichan,
interests, owned by Mr. A. Ramos, fermerly of Shanghai and now,
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It is notified that during the ab-resident of Madrid, Spain," and
invented the system of wayside Larssen, Consul for Denmark is
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ter Road and the National,
as well as an apartment building
in North Szechuon Road Exten-
Net Amount Payable
On £100 DEзENTURES ( Per Coupon (Gross)
Les Tax at 4/6 in the £
Embassy the Victoria,
west corner of Inland Lot No. 471, whom he was very popular and thence passing along the Praya held in high esteem. East, Wanchai Road, and Queen's
The late Mr. Owen had been for Road East, and terminating at a
26 years on the stuff of the Hong point opposite the entrance to the Kong and Whampoa Dock Company".
final stage something generally German schoolmaster who, in 1910, sence on leave of Mr. Karstan consisting of six theatres, the i again, loses his matches because herstels, éight of which are to be Hong Kong, Mr. Birger Nness will Empire, the China, the Car Eastern Market at the junction where he was well liked by his col
gocs wrong. “Bunny"; AUSTEN
he would be saved for the event hiking possible. But the movements
"
with
Tramway No. 2.
leagues. He is survived by his Tramway No, 2-A double line, widow and daughter both of whom. one mile four furlongs, 1.21 chains are at Home at the moment and Net Amount Fayable £2. € 6. where he was most likely to win differ in each country. The Wan- His Excellency the Governor bassion, wore sold for T.,.800,000. Mr. in length, commencing at
point "BORDE" JONES, DOK BRADMAN, dervogel of Germany, the bands of appointed Mr. O. G. S. Mackie to Ramos resided in Shanghai for opposite the entrance to the Ras who were to have come out here to young people who tramp up and be a Member of the Authorized more than 25 years and was prob-tern Market at the junction with join Mr. Owen in September, The deep sympathy of Mr. Owen's many
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presented.
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SUPREME COURT REGISTRY.
seem to suffer from perves or "off down the highways.and byways with Architects' Consulting Committeeably the first foreigner to see the Tramway No. 1 st its termination, | friends will be felt for his widow Nes Amount Payable £11. 12. 6 days. Because our real geniuses knapsacks on their backs and sing during the absence on leave of Mr. great possibilities of the cinema thenco passing along Queen's Road business in China, and especially East, Queen's Road Central, and Payment will be made in Loon are such unsafe propositions Eng ing lustily, began as an ostensible John Owen Hughes./...
in Shanghai. He had cinema Queen's Road West, and terminat Curency at the Demand Ruying Rate land is generally represented by attempt to recapture the temper Peter Davison of the theatres in Hong Kong and Haning at a point opposite Inland Lot of Exchange of the Day the Coupon is quite talented performers who have and outlook of the wandering echo- Governor-General of the Philip kow but his principal centre of No. 219 at the junction with Tram
By Order, B
worked their way up by infinito lars of the Middle Ages,
"He 7o. pino Islands, Col. Dwight F. operations was Shanghai, pains, and yet do not touch inter
way Noj a But there is no medievalism” in
Davis, arrived in Shanghai fast tired from actual business in Tramway No. 3-A single line, Eational form...
British hiking. It is exclusively a The failure of the coming genera modern phenomenon. Britain in-week-ond and will return to Mani: China four years ago, and, as star-seven furlongs, 0.50 chai tion to reach top standard is clearly deed has had in the past her on Wednesday in the Dollared, is now in Madrid, where he length, commencing at a point
str. Prosidbat Madison, Mr. has built a 10-storeyed appartment teen in the world of cricket. There gront walkers, men who could do are three men playing in England their fifty miles in a day. But Davis bolteros that, owing to his with a huge cinema theatre, which to-day who, admittedly, stand with most of these walkers took their Central will resign his position kind ip Europe,
mother's illness, the Governor- is considered one of the best of its the greatest of cricketers, JACK pleasures solitarily. HOBER, FRANK WOOLLEY and MAU-
within the year, eiga One of the pleasantest things in Nahke the Provisional Certificate endowed with natural genius for Hazlitt "but I like to go by my Boys' Labour Union have addressed TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN RICE TATE They have all been the world is going a journey," says The Shanghai Ningpo Steamship No. 67/438 dated Hong Kong (20th
soll. A walking tour should be Fishrany, 1928 fer Four Shares of the game, they have taken immense gone upon alone agrees Steven-petition to the Chiastungpu_ro. this Bank Numbered 129900/12000 pains to perfect their powers, and on. But Sterno exclaims, "Let me questing that steps should be taken inclusive registered in the Name of
Imve a companion of my way, were to forbid the China.
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Looking Back 25 Years,
PRESENT ARRANGEMENT
[TO STAND,
Estate of LAS LAN SHANG (deceased) they have the big match temperat but to remark how the shadows Co. from placing the steamer Hain Railway, particularly in the neigh-Lot No, 189 from Marine Let: No..
Peiping on the Pootoo week-end But note that it is only for a now, but, in thein day all three single companion that he asks; the excursion runs, as Postco is not, a selected themselves" for an Eng modern biker prefers a platoon, treaty port but entirely Chinese
Thatenzzzettacks upon the coppia ja varangmata land side. No one would have tryside, at least in Britain, are on territory. By placing their these thought, of omitting them. There in tirely a product of the twentietil on the Poolco run, the writers say, only one youngster in England who century, born of wholesome desire the foreign stoarship company con for occasional escape from the hus bolda a
Chin omparable posit name the of civilization into the quiet of cornod is oncroaching on ly, K. R. DULKE SINGUJI, and be rural life,
soyareignty..
opposite. Inland Lot No. 219 at the function with Tramway No. 2 at ite termination, thence passing along Queen's Road West, thenes The Gatetic contains the draft along that part of Centre Street of an Ordinance to amend the which lies between Queen's Road Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873 West and Praya West, thence along of the principal Ordinance ro It is explained that Section 13 A few months ago we referred to Praya West, and terminating at quires two Deputy Registrars for the progress that has been made a point in the roadway there cp the Supreme Court. There is at with regard to the Kowloon Canton posite the Northern end of an impresent only one, the duties of sc
aginary lino separating Marine ountant formerly performed by
one of the Doputy. Negistrare. be“. bourhood of Taipo, where i
several 100.
sing now undertaken by another Fermand miles of embankment had been
Tramway No 4 single lino,
officer. to four miles two furlongs in length, It is considered desirable to con- raised, Now it is interesting, t
popmenting at the Nerth, son.com, tinue the present, arangement and, are heater Bowl treener of Inland Lot No. 471; thence that the personal of the Registry indications that the work is being passing along the Shankiwan Road should be decided by the Governor. seriously taken in land. Trocs to a point on the north side of and according to the requirements of have boom out down, Lie road clear opposite to the centre of Shaukiwen the time. This, Ordinance amende od, and the routs marked out from Lot No. 1-Hong Kong “Daily, section 13 of the principal Ordin-
anco: accordingly... | Shatin to. Taipo, tây là known, the | Press, July 6, 1881/
By Order of the Court of Directors JE SV. MIGRAYEUEN,LA
Chief Manager.
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