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No. 22776. 號陸拾柒佰柒仟弍萬弍第日查拾月陸年未辛 HONG KONG. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931. EЯ BLIJEFCHO Price

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(July 25.).

St. James the Apostle. Volunteer Aquatic V.R.C.. 9 p.m.

Sports,

A DUTCH AUTHOR VISITS OLYMPIA.

RITUAL WHERE THE HORSE IS KING.

Baseball Hong Kong Baseball Club 1. U.S.8. Helena, të DRI I have just looked at "the cream on the Continent. The England

Lawn Tennis: B Division ; M.B.K. South China; of the world's horse flesh amid the that is disappearing stands side by Division: A.T.C. C.S.C.C., setting of a beautiful and exotic i side with the new Britain that is K.C.C...R.C.. S.C.A.A. v. garden writes Dr. G. J. Benier; in process of birth. Y.M.CA, H.K.UT.C. v. D.K.

the Dutch Author, in the Evening' Lawn Bowls-Firat Division:

Inside, people who worship horse- C.C.C.. Taikoo R.C., E.C.C., Standard The quotation is from a manship and to whom the horse is Civil Service C.C., Kowloon Dock notice which a kind-looking gentle- religious emblem were rubbing- ROV Police RC, Kowloon man placed in my hands as I'enter-shoulders with those whose know- B.0,0. Club de Recreio, Socond Division Taikoo ROCCO. ed Olympia. I confess I was feel ledge of the one-horse-power en- Civil Service C.C.K.C.C., Club ing ill at ease. My acquaintance gine must-have been as limited as de Recreio r. Kowloon BGC with horses lacks that intimate Royal H.K.T.C. v. H.K. Electric R.C.

touch which gives one bow legs and Queen's Theatre: The Easiest a serene heart; it is in fact, limit Way."

World Theatre's What A Maned to one glorious drive in a Star Theatre: Dancing hansom. through the nocturnal Sweetien."

streets of London three or four

her.

Central Theatre: "Once A Siu

King's Theatre: "Men of the World."

Prince's Theatre: Hollywood

Revue"

"

Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Hepulse Bay Hotel.

European Malla-Inward - Europe

years ago.

I had been assured that at the

International Horse Show I should seo the pomp and circumstance, the worship of ritual and the cult of good form that is England, and

via Bucz (Hosang); Outward that I must not miss this opportu Europe via Siberis (President nity of acquainting myself with Taft) 3p.m; Europe via Suez most important aspect of English (Yasukuni Maru) 6 p.m. #

Tides --High at 5.19 and 823; life. It was the people round, Low at 1.21.

among and on the horaos with whom I was mainly concerned. But I knew they are a race apart, speak ing a language of their own; I felt it would all be very difficult.

"You can't enlarge one end of

Bunday. (July 90.)

5th After Trinity. Baseball U.S.8. Helena v Chi- nese Athletic,

my own.

014 Superatiiion.

What were they doing here! Had they collected in order to give the lio to the old superstition that the English are a nation of shopkeep- ers only intent on material advan-

age? For here, after all, they were proparing to gaze at horses, out-of-date, old-fashioned creatures that are being rapidly superseded" in trade, agriculture, and the Army by the all-conquering machine."

Had they come to bear witness to the newer theory that the Eng- lish are effete and unable to keep. pace with the times!

Old Syd, a picturesque gentleman in a green huntsman's coat with red facings, blew the five-foot born.

is going to blow two thousand

Queen's Theatre: "City Lights." the horse and not the other," saia times in the course of the coming..

World Theatre:Cheer Up and Smile.

Star Theatre: Song of Ken- tucky."

Central Theatre: "Lord Richard in the Pantry."

King's Theatre: "Lightnin'. " Prince's. Theatra: Cockeyed World."

Tes Dance at King's Restaurant, Tides:-High at 6.15 and 9.30; Low, at 2.05.

Monday

(July 27.)

P.W.D. Auction" Bale of Crown' Lands, 3 p.m.

lady with a bowler hat and riding breeches to a gentleman in the row

above her.

"If this isn't cruelty to animals!" I remarked to my neighbour. "Do they do that because every jumping horse must carry a weight of eleven" stone?"

"She's talking of photographs," was the reply.

Abominations,

week. Seven horses described as backs, entered the ring.

one?" ask-

"Don't you like that ed my

neighbour "I prefer 289-she bas a pretty |face," "I replied.

But it's the horses they're going to judge, you know." So, I looked at the horses, and saw that 295 did not like the band made unexpected sideward" movements, and nearly knocked down one of judges, who promptly, gave it the third prize in order to show that

The large hall of Olympia waa slowly filling with a crowd which Water Polo:-First Division:--it would have been extremely there was no ill-feeling. Had I Chinese Athletic Association v. South Wales Borderers.

difficulty to classify socially. It boen a judge, 298 would not have Queen's Theatre: "City Lights" | was thoroughly mixed, and as ex- passed unnoticed. She did look World Theatre: "Cheer Up and pressive of the changing times in pretty! Smile."

Star Theatre: "Song of Ken- which we live as the building itself tucky"

Central Theatre: "Lord Richard in the Pantry."

King's Theatre: "Lightnin'."

in which it was gathering.

Old Syd's hora introduced a series of Vehicles drawn by two The older part of Olympia is one horses each, which held their tails of the ugliest structures over crect- lüp nad moved like automatic toys,

Prince's Theatre: Cockeyeded by the nation that has been "D!" said a gentleman in

in a World."

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Tides:-High at 7:10 and 10.07; Low at 12.16 and 2.54...

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It looks with wonder upon its prize. magnificent new wing that can Cleveland, in '61 and '62, was stand comparison with the best devastated with foot-and-mouth dis- works of the most during modernists: (Continued on Page 4.)

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