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Commercial Antecedents

Of Hong

Kong

(Continued from Paže 1)

fence, offer of a settlement at a Chinese port would have been ac- cepted by the British Government, provided the security and freedom of commerce could be assured.

The lecturer then continued as follows:

Captain Elliot was firmly con- vinced that Hong Kong was a necessity for the concentration of

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935.

LADIES HOCKEY

TRIAL

Impressive Display-

The final of the Ladies' Hockey Trial took place yesterday after noon at Sookunpoo ground and produced form that augurs well contest the forthcoming for

Miss Walker

GREYHOUND RACING

CHANGES

Effects Of Restrictions On Betting In England

We shall see many changes in next June when the section of the greyhound racing in England after Betting Act relating to the sport

home paper. comes into operation, "statea, a

This cam-

pose of bookmaking.

A pari-mutuel pany could run and spend capital on a machine

There is no need for tracks to pool,

install the tote on a large scale from which they will never be allowed to make a profit.

Some people are saying that the smaller fry will fall by the way alde that they cannot exist on. Some people will say that grey hound racing could not exist with 104 meetings a year.

THE BOAT RACE ART TREASURES

FROM PEKING

University Frial Eights

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Jan. 9, - "The Oxford and Cambridge Trial Eights were decided recent- Ly

The weather

The Cambridge race was rowed

and resulted in a win for B crew, stroked by S. R. Tubbs (Shrews- over the Adelaide course at Ely,

bury and Calus), 2 lengths, in 15 min. 4 sec..

was quite ne though dull, and there was B falfly stiff headwind blowing downstream so it was against the crews The start had been timed This may prove to be a miscon

out betting.. Many, however, befor 2.30 p.m., but it was nearly an hour later before the crews got off the-ception, for it will probably believe that it could, and, not mere-

found that the small tracks, with

ly exist, but become more popular the mark. The standard of row- the low overhead charges, will

Anyone who goes dog racing ing was not so good as in recent come out on top. v.

The number of meetings per will realize how fascinating the years. year at which batting is perinis-sport has become. sible is limited to 104, but there be maintained without betting? la no restriction on the number of meetings which may be held with

ting facilities.

Both teams put up a good show and despite repeated efforts the part of the forwards

defences held out.

on

Nine players have so far been selected and the two vacant post- tions, namely, the left back and" left wing berths will be announced in due course,

PROMISING YOUNG SKI ER

temporary gain it brings to this Calony is undoubtedly a menace to regular commerce. We now know that a year or so ago the Nanking Cavernment were nego- tiating with the Hong Kong au- against Shanghai. thorities for the establishment of and Miss Molly, Remedios were: a customs collecting station on the both tried out at left back and lines of Palmerston's fuggestion lars wing positions respectively but, apparently the proposal did and both certainly displayed form not appeal to the Canton provin-worthy to be. Included in the British interests and he put this in the forefront of his polley. He cial authorities and Kowloon Ral teams. Whites and Colours, were way Station is still the only place the, selected teams that took part was opposed to any movement for the opening of, what afterwards in the Colony where the Chinese in the trial and the score at the became to be known as, Treaty Maritime Customs functions. The final whistle was all. Ports nor was he in favour of the point in Palmerston's despatch retention of Chusan, which loomed which I should like to stress is much larger than Hong Kong in the clear demonstration of a de- the view of the British Govern-stre to co-operate with the Chin- ment. Elliot's plans and his sub- ese authorities, & policy which has been consistently followed by Brl- sequent actions were, however, con- trary to the instructions of Lord tish Governments during the suc- Palmerston and although his pre-ceeding ninety odd years. liminary convention was the basis of the Treaty of Nanking (to be ratified in 1843) he had incurred the displeasure of his Government and was recalled in August 1841. Trade with Canton had been re- 1841. and sumed in. March soon recovered lost ground but only for a. bare two months. With the arrival of two High Commissioners from Peking Canton and Hong Kong to prevent hostilities were renewed by the smuggling." It was laid down that Canton forces and the

no. Chinese vessel" should anchor tloops were brought into action. in Hong Kong harbour without a After capturing the forts protect-pass from the Carton authorities Like. Mr. Duncan Kessler, the ing" Canton "the city itself was

but unfortunately the latter, in- Oxford captain, he is short and this oppor- compact, which many experts hold threatened but a bombardment was stead of welcoming withheld pending further negotia-tunity of regulating the trade be--to-be the perfect build for the tween the two ports, refused to racing ski-er. Mr. C. P. Green, that the junk the Cambridge captain, who fell issue passes, so traffic Into Hong Kong virtually but managed to finish eighth is ceased. In giving evidence before tall and long-limbed...

the House Commons, in 1847 Sir Alexander Matheson roundly cordemned this arrangement on the grounds that It subjected Junk owners uimited squeeze on the part of the Sir Alexander stated Mandarins. that the trade of the Colony. which had appeared to have such

brough a promising future, was

British

tions for an armistice. A conven- tion. was signed at the end of May and on payment of an indemnity of $8 millions the British forces were withdrawn.

A Free Port

The scene now changes to Hons machinery of Kong

where the government was being set up, rules and regulations laid down; off- clals appointed and the first land sales carried through. Captain Elliot issued a proclamation on 7th

June 1841 to "merchants and trade

ers of Canton and all parts of the empire, that they and their ships have free permission to resort to and trade at the port of Hong Kong, where they will receive full protection from the high officers of the British nation; and Hons Kong being on the shares of the Chinese empire), neither will there be any charges on 'imports and

ernment

Now In view of the situation which has arisen here during the past year or two since China's customs tariffs were so greatly in- creased it is of interest to con- trast the last clause of this passage with what Lord Palmerston pre- sumed had been laid down Captain Elliot. 나 '

As I have pointed out, Palmer- ston's recommendation arrived top late to be embodied in the Treaty of Nanking but Sir Henry Pot- tinger, who had succeeded Ellot as Superintendent of Trade and first Gov- the was concurrently ernor of Hong Kong, framed a set of regulations for the examination of Chinese funks trading between

a Committee of

to

OL

1101-

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Jan. 4.

Mr. Digby Raeburn, the winner for Cambridge of the downhil

race in the Oxford and Cambridge ski races, is one of the most pro- mising at the younger generation of skd-ers.

...

Out

Alternative Shows

Could. Interest

Why Not & League? The answer is probably in the afarmative if the racing is made attractive enough.

Will the tracks hold meetings Why not throw" "open "to the without betting Or will they public the trials run by the dogs dabble with boxing or wrestling engaged at forthcoming meetings? tournaments?

What a glorious chance to com- will be dog-mence a league. Every track

Their mainstay

racing the object for which they could have its first and second were bullt and to which they

league team of six dogs to repre Why should they sent it in the club matches. must adhere. not run the dogs on the other nights, or maybe afternoons, with out the use of the totalisator or bookmaker?

P

Greyhound racing could be run at the licensed tracks on the non-approved days provided that betting is absolutely prohibited

Parl-mutuel betting run by bookmakers on a track is perfect

legal for the 104 approved days

Both Mr. Raeburn's mother, Lady Raeburn, and his sister, Missly

first-class Patricia Raeburn. are ski-ers. When the depression was at its height and it was consider-

Part Mutuel Pools

At the moment it is not likely ed unpatriotic to go abroad they that many bookmakers will join were pioneers of ski-ing in Scot-together in this respect, but that land.

does not prevent a new concern coming into the eld

They found, however, that its Its novelty. only virtue lay in heather making rather too springy a basis for good ski-ing snow.

#

There is nothing in the Bill to

prevent any track from forming a subsidiary company for the pur

THE B. B. C. STUDIO

Former Skating Rink

to a standstill by the junk pars regulation and was diverted to Camsingmoon, on the west coas of the Pearl River - estuary. He said that when he left Hong Kong ir. 1846 ships which would normal- ly have entered the harbour were passing to the south of the Colony making for Camsingmoon, where a flourishing township of three to four thousand inhabitants, had exports payable to the British gov-sprung up. The place even boast

(Special Air Mail Service) ed a European hotel with a bi- lard-room. The regulation ver

London, Jan. 9. The studio has length of 110 soon became a dead letter and de- The interest aroused by theft., exclusive of a balcony which spite the pessimism of Sir Alexan

long controversy over the recon- has a depth of 19 ft. 6 ins. The der Matheson, who thought tha

struction of Waterloo Bridge has width of the studio in 72 ft., and what was left of trade in Hong Leon general, and for the B.B.C. the height he its slightly curved Kong would be crushed by the there has been especial interest. ceiling is 32 ft. the centre, And burden of a Crown Colony Gov. The existence of No. 10 Studio 20 ft. 8 ins.. at the walls by ernment, and of Mr. Marin, who which is accommodated in an old The normal electtie supply for thought that the Colony was a warehouse near the approach to all purposes is derived from the This is what Lord Palmerston pestilential island which would the bridge on the Lambeth side of Metropolitan Electric Supply the river has depended for some Company, who have installed a writes to Sir Henry Pottinger innever be habitable by white peo long time upon a decision being sub-station on the ground floor...

ple, the newly acquired concessiori

in regard to the recon- As was the case at Broadcasting. reached

House provision has been hide H, M. Government have gradually developed into a trading struction of the bridge.

centre and although it had its With the early prospect at the for an emergency lighting system reason to suppose that Hong Kong has been ceded with the con- set-backs it u'timately fulfilled end of 1932 of Rennie's bridge in case of a fallitfe of the supply A diffèrētit the visions of Sir John Davis, being demolished and No. 10 company's main dition that British and other

be system has, however, been employ Foreign" Merchandise imported in- who stoutly resisted the defeatist Studio haring therefore to to Hong Kong should there pay to arguments of Mr. Martin and vacated, arch was made for ed at Maida Vale Fifty per cent. Chinese Customs House officers the confidently predicted that it would accommodation for a new No 10. It soon became clear that the become the great emporium for B.B.C. would have to build this established Import uzual and duties which such goods would the trade of South China.

new studio, as no existing hall of suficient size could be found con- pay upon being imparted into

veniently situated in London. China; and that such duties hav- ing been so paid, and the mer

his despatch of 31st May 1841.

chandise being duly stamped by ANTI BAGPIPE

the Chinese Customs officers at Hong Kong, there should be full liberty to all persons to carry such Merchandize away to any Port in China, without its being able to

HIGHLANDERS

any further payment in such Ports Preference For The

or elsewhere on account of Import dúty."

Clarsach

of the main lighting and all exit zigns in the studio and a small percentage of the lighting in the control room, studio listenlig rofà corfidors and other import tant places the all the signal light sircuits are wired through two contactors on a special switch-

In February, 153, the BBC's attention was directed to the old Skating Rink in Delaware Hoad,board. N.W.-no longer used for skating, If the main supply should fail but as a store as offering a build one contractor releases, disconnect ing in which the new studio might ing the emergency lighting cir be formed cuits from the main supply bus The building is in a quiet neighbars, the odd contacto operates,

bourhood, about five minutes from contecting this light in load to a

Warwick Avenue Tote Station 230-70lt. 908 eff four second- It is, for the most part, & one far battery. which is installed on storey building, and occupies the ground flou adjacent to the site rather more than twice the witch room and is charged by site-arca of Broadcasting House. 12 B.P. motor generator set. Its length is approximately 475 Upon the resumption of the main fect, and average breadth 116 Leapply the D. contactor releases operates, fest. The height is approximately and the A.Contactor 20 feet to the eaves of its pitched thus restoring the emergency light roof, which is slated and glazed to the mim lapply. over its entire area. At one end upper storey being level with the pavement outslife.

"It is possible that British Com- merte might be much, encouraged,

(Special Air Mail Service) 1f goods which had once been landed at Hong Kong, could be

London, Jan. 9. carried from thence to any Chin- Love of bagpipe music is sup ese Port without being faole to posed to be the test of a true any further payment on account Highlander. But apparently some of Duty: and the Chinese Customs Highlanders are less enthusiastic the building is two-storie, its House officers in Hong Kong would about this music than is generally be less likely than the Chinese supposed. A Gaelic correspondent Authorities at other Ports to at says this is not a new thing. He tempt ( levy exhorbitant and knows of poems which refer to the legal Duties,.......these arrange bagpipe in anything but compli ments must be embodied in a mentary terms. Treaty

Bardic Differences

Accommodation And. Dimensions

Control Boom 7

The amplifiers and line termills jonasip ményt for the screened Post Office cable between Maida Yale and Broadcasting House, STE The B.B.C. decided that a large installed on two racks in the con orchestral studio could be control room, the front rack is equip structed inside spert of this ped with all the amplifiers and building, that the existing accom the line termination equipment, In the seventeenth century a modation in the two-storey block and the rear rack with the battery Policy of Co-operation It seems to me that Lord Pal Keppoch bard composed song in would provide suitable space for discharge switchboard, distribution

praise of the bagpipe and another waiting rooms, band rooms Grése, frame, and fase pattels merston showed considerable fore-bard produced a brief approval, ing rooms, and that here Four control positions and one- sight and commonsense in sug But third bar in a vigorous would be sufficient roort for addyswitch position are, provided. gesting the establishment 02 poetic tirade condemned the noisy tional studios likely to be required Four control positions are prov

anticipated that addi- Chinese Customs House in Hong instrument, which was invariably in the course of the next few ed, is it

be provided LE Kong although when the Chinese played in the morning to awaken years:

tariff was later regularis the leer low uniform level there clarsach (harp

Incentive to amug

situation has hos

the high barLIS

nd smuggling

He preferred the

and eloquent about it bard, on the other

to the disrach as an

inafe

ament andits:

and "drowsy, for women and girls then

Pian

gineers

each club match there could

dogs of each club in each heat; be two heats and a final; three

the first, second, and third in tach. going forward to the final

Interesting Trials

The first dog in a final-would soure two points, and the second dog one point. Thus a club could gain a possible three points per match

These clubs could be run by the owners with assistance from the tracks, but no prize money need be offered, although a percentage of the "gate" could be allocated to ting cluba Bahing part,

Tral races could be run on these "non-becting nights, and the same dogs could be handicapped according to their times in these trials and placed in a race which would be run on the approved day.

This would maintain interest without betting and with add tional matches arranged chiefly by owners, these Trial Nights" could be made really attractive...

When you have

quests

i

i

There were two departures from race, tradition in the Oxford which was rowed at Henley. In the first place, three crews were selected, but the A crew was potentially that which has been practising as the University crew for next year's race, and included 'all the old Blues.

This crew took no part in the race, but rowed over the course after B and C crews had finished their race. Secondly, the course

R.A. Exhibition Next Winter

Spécial Air Mail-Service)

London, Jan. 8. Sir William Llewellyn, the pre- sident of the Royal Academy has

the announcement made in that the next winter exhibition at Burlington House confirmed

will be of Chinese art

The chairman of the committee arranging it is by the special wish of the Chinese Government. the Earl of Lytton, who two years "ago, headed the League of Nation's mission to Manchuria and signed The vice- the Lytton Report." chairman will be Sir William Llewellyn himself, and the general Becretary. Mr. W. R. M. Lamb, secretary of the Royal Academy.

The treasures from the great Palace of Peking were," said Bir William "removed some time ago to Shanghai for safety, and are packed in 23,000 cases. In order that the four British represents- tives who are going out to China may see them, they will be exhibited in the next few months at Shanghai to them and to others.

"Meanwhile those members of

was downstream from Marsh Lock the committee who remain in to Hambledon Lock, thereby giving London (among them Mr. Lau- the crews the long stretch of waterrence Binyon and Professor Per- at Henley, which is the best test cival Yetts, of London University) fot Putney........ m

will begin' assembling the exhibits from 19 countries." Chinese art 'að a whole, including carpets and Turniture as well as paintings. sculpture, branzes and porcelain. will be flustrated on a large. scale, from the earliest times to about 1800.

The race between B and ✪ crews was won rather easily by B crew by 14 length in 17 min 13 sec: but on the whole it was a disap- pointing race, as it was expected that the crews would be more evenly matched

PARIS TO MADAGASCAR FLIGHT

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily "Press (Copyright)-Y

Paris, Jan. 23.1

The members of the committee going to China are: Sir Percival David, Mr. Oscan Raphael, Mr. George Eumorfopoulos, and Mr. Hobson, of the British R. L Museum.

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A new, record for a fight from

Sub, Lieut. F. W. B. Webb, of Paris to Madagascar has been established by the well-known H.M.S. Diana, is at present in the French airmen, Genin and Robert Royal Naval Hospital suffering who left Paris on Sunday and from a badly sprained ankle re- arrived in Tananarivo at midday celred, while playing on Wednesday, having made the Tuesday. trip in three days, thirteen hours and eighteen mtcutes against the previous record by Sale and Goulette of four days and seven and a half hours.— Transocean Kuo Min.

Mr. Ellis Joseph received severe injury to his face when playing, football in Caroline Hili on Wednesday.

-have CAPSTAN

CAPSTAN

the preferred cigarette

the

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