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友之國中

HONG KONG, DECEMBER 9, 1837.

CRITICAL STAGE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937.

enormous

HONG KONG RIFLE

ASSOCIATION

Spoon And Practice Shoot

Association owes a debt of grati- tude which it is impossible to assess at anything like its true value. It must suffice to say that without the help and support of its members, which has been so freely, given since their arrival in the Colony, the Association would not have been able to have made the progress which it has done during the last two years, and it is largely due to the way in which they have supported this Associa tion. that it was found possible to proceed with the provision of the present Clubhouse. This unit, as far as it is known, was the first battalion in the Regular Army

as a blind for the Chinese asses while lowering the prestige of! the Western Powers to, whom China had turned with pleading eyes for support. By all calcula tions, the law of averages and common sense, it was obvious that the Japanese armies would penetrats by degrees into China.

As will be seen from the scores but it is also obvious that 'on the measure of Chinese resistance given below, shooting conditions on will depend how soon Japan will the Army Ranges yesterday after- neon, when the Association held exhaust herself in the gigantic its usual mid-week Spoon "and task of fighting a prolonged war Practice Shoot, were not altogether to the liking of many of the com- and maintaining an

country. petitors, who once again found foreign a army in There are unmistakable indica-that the prevailing wind which is A common a feature at this time tions that the far thinking and of the year on these ranges, was sober elements in Japan are constantly changing both in direc- already growing apprehensive of tion and strength. In view of this the magnitude of the task ahead fact the shooting, in the S.R. (B) class was particularly good and of their fighting forces in China Pte. Cranston of the 1st Bn. The in the event of a prolonged Seaforth Highlanders would have struggle. The military clique, made a possible at 600 yards, which however, blinded by the flash of is acknowledged by all to be the most difficult distance on the in the victories. early

ranges, had he not dropped to a Japanese fashion, endeavour to magpie with his second shot, all impose on China impossible peace the rest being in the bull's-eye, in- It is for the "Chinese cluding his sighting shot.

The fact that those using the lenders to decide what shall be aperture-right and sling could only done, not forgetting that China's retura a best score of 32 at this strength lies in the vastness of distance adequately demonstrates her territory and man power and the very fine shooting of this mem- ber, who is one of those earmark Japan's weakness in her finances.

ed as being a possible member of the S.R. (a) team which will re- present the Colony in the NRA. Overseas Match. As regards those using the "1914" ride, the nett spoon Was once again won by E.R.A. Haynes of H.M.S. "Medwayings is now returning home. while L/Cpl Tonnar, also belong- ing to the 1st En. The Seaforth Highlanders, won the spoon award

terms.

will.

A LEGAL ANOMALY

The ill-fated Inheritance (Family

Provisions) Bill was once more introduced as a private member's measure, in the Com. mons recently. It is the same Bill which only missed a third reading earlier in the year by an all-night sitting which cancelled all the business on the Friday when it was to have, come up. There has been more than one Bill on the satue subject, and they have invariably had more buccess than the majority

private

members' Bills. The support they liave received is by no means surprising. In most Pother countries it is illegul for a man or a woman to make a will in such a way that the other partner to the marriage or the children are left destitute. This China has reached the critical is a natural extension of the stage of the war of resistance principle which makes one part- against Japan. The fall of Nanner responsible for the enpport of king, the country's capital is the other and of any children said to be imminent. When there may be during life. In that happens China will have Scotland the wife has a legal lost four of the most important right to one-third (or one-half if of her cities-the other three there are no children) of her husband's estate, and the chil- and 5743

being Peiping, Tientsin

dren have a right to another. Shanghai Japan has already grabbed practically the whole of third. With only a third of his North China and is attempting |

B. ALVES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 18th Nov., 1937.

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wealth therefore can a testator indulge his philanthropy to push her way further south. whims. The present Bill, proh- THE HONGKONG LAND General Matsui, the Japanese

Commander-in-Chief has threat-ably mistakenly, does not adopt INVESTMENT AND

ened to take his armies into as simple a principle as the Scot. tish, but would enable the wife. AGENCY CO., LTD.

Hankow. The military com-

husband, or children to appeal ! mand in Kwangtung are fearful TENANTS ARE REMINDED

of an armed invasion of their of the official BLACK-OUT

territory in the near future.. between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on THURSDAY, the 9th DECEMBER, and their.com operation is requested.

0. EAGER,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 7th Dec., 1937.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

On the surface that is "indeed

ed on the handicap score.

to start a Rifle Club of its own devoted to the "Bisley" type of shooting, and the clock which was so kindly presented by the mem- bers of this Club to the Associa tion's Clubhouse. will be a lasting reminder of the very large part which the unit has played in fos tering keenness for this form of shooting.

י .

JAPAN

REVIEW

"Judgment And Great Common Sense"

One of the best English linguists among Japanese Government. officials who have recently passed through Singapore arrived in Singa- pore recently, on his way to take up the post of Vice-Consul for Japan in Sydney.

He is 30-year-old Mr. K. Miyake, educated at both Oxford and Cambridge and who, for two years has been attached to the Japanese Consulate at London.

He saw the anti-Japanese demonstrations in London outside the consulate which was ringed with a cordon of police.

"I arrived back at the consulate building with my golf clubs over my shoulder to find the whole place surrounded by police." Mr. Miyake said in an interview with the "Times of Malaya."

"At first I thought a fire must have broken out, but then I saw a large crowd of Communist demonstrators from Hyde Park, march- ing towards the building, bearing banners and their letter of protest against. Japan," he said.

The Japanese consulate was in no danger, he added, although it was guarded by police all night.

Speaking of the anti-Japanese demonstrations in England, Mr. Miyake said they represented "only the Communist section of the population.

"The demonstrations were not so big as those during the. Man- churian crisis." he said.

Healthy Judgment

Asked about the treatment of Japan by the English press Mr. Miyake said:

"If good understanding had been established between England and Japan before the conflict, there would have been no occasion for the exaggerated accounts that were published as propaganda for

China

"I believe the healthy judgment and great common sense of the British people, will in the future enable them to understand Japan and her needs, that have been promulgated, in conference after con- ference and passed by without recognition by the nations of the world."

By the same troopship, the Association is losing another of its oldest and best known members, RS Captain F. J. C.. Rybt, of the

There are not enough European teachers of English in Japan, Mr. Royal Artillery who has shot with such conspicuous success at the Miyake added and Japanese teaching methods are Inferior to those in last two "Association" Prize Meet-Europe. For years Japanese diplomacy has been handicapped by lack

The Honorary Secretary requests us to state that it is once again

rifle, although it seems practically possible to purchase the "1914" certain that the price will be de- finitely higher than was the case months ago; also that the in-

Between 60 and 70 members at tended yesterday's shoot, and for the first time no member was pre-18

sent from the 1st Bn. The Royal dividual full membership tickets will be issued to all who have Joln- Ulster Rides, since this unit is

ed since September 1 last, during leaving the Colony for India to morrow. To this battalion the the coming week-end.

The leading scores made yesterday afternoon are as follows:-

S.R. (b)

Score at Score at Score at Aggregate

Bcore Ass'n 300 Yds. 500 Yds. 600 Yds.

Nett

H'cap.

Nett Nett

Nett.

1-ER.A. W., E. Haynes.. 2.-P.O. D. J: Silcock. 3-P.O. C. Clark

SCT.

32-

4.-C.P.O. C. Pellow

scr.

5. Mr. C. Watson

SCI.

6. Mr. H. L. Langley...... 7.~~~Mr. H. W. Cory ......... 8.-L/Opl. A. R. Tonnar... 4 9. Burg. Lt. J. B. Mackie 1" 10. P.O. Tel. A. C. Hinds... 11-5gt, J. C. W. Bickel... 12/Sea. C. H. Knight... 5 13.-L/Cpl. A. Bonnell 14-B703 Charan Singh 16.-Capt. I. B. Trevor ....

888858 × × 6588*8* ₫ 8******

All the above competitors used the "1914" rife.

B.R. (x)

1.-Pte. W. Cranston,

'30

2P.O. H. Richards 3. Pte. E. Moss 4.-Pte. A. H. Cox

30"

5.-L/Cpl. J. Baird

8 Lt. G. Stapleton

7.--Pte. A. Middleton ......

-Denotes the winner of the "nett" spoon.

S5588RÉSZETISÉ

B5+

85+

198

73+,

t-Denotes the winner of the "handicap" apson. NOTE-The handicap of each winner has been reduced by one point as shown. This procedure applies to all SR. (a) and 8.R. (b) Spoon Shoota.

to the High Court (or to the OXFORD DEFEATS CAMBRIDGE IN

county court if the sum involved

is less than £2,000) for a will to

be set aside and a juster distri-

a black picture of the presentbution made.

plight of Chins, but the Chinese The debate on the Bill became

people and the

millions of

WLA

ANNUAL RUGBY MATCH

London, Dec. 7.

Before an attendance of 40,000,

to-day. This

Was

of linguistic ability.

1. "Languages are the tools of diplomats and we them," he said.

rust

master

Mr. Miyake sald when he arrived in London a few years ago, he could hardly make himself understood in English, although he had. studied it at universities in Japan.

At present there are nearly 1,000 Japanese in London of which

500 are in business, the others being mainly students. said Mr. Miyake.

TRIANGULAR HOCKEY

TOURNAMENT

Depleted Navy

XI Trounced

By The Club

A. REED BRILLIANT

Another smashing defeat at the hands of the Hong Kong Hockey Club saw the Royal Navy lose all interest in the Triangular Hockey Tournament at King's Park yesterday. The Navy fielded a depleted team, their defence in particular being weak, and the -margin of five goals to nil was a true reflection of the play. Their defeat was one of the heaviest in the Tournament series for a long time.

The Club's forward line was in great form and the fact that most of the attacking was done by them was responsible for W. A. Reed frequently appearing in the com- paratively unusual light of attacker pure and simple. Not that his de- fence was not as perfect as ever. Time and again he broke up at- tack after attack in his usual sonid style, so steady and reliable and yet so unspectacular that one does not truly recognize the fine- ness of his play if one did not watch him and the run of the game closely.

slight hesitation whether to takę the shot himself or to slip it to his inside-right proved fatal, and he found himself dispossessed of the ball.

The play swung to the other end. and from a pass Fowler seized on the ball on the wing, dribbled for a couple of yards, and sent in a. shot, which dimenit surprise though it was because of the angle at which he had to make it, should not have scored. Half-time found. the Club leading by two clear goats. NAVY RETALIATE Immediately after the resump- tion the Navy forwards palled. themselves together and for a period play was confined to the- Club half. During this time Willle

Another hard-working player was A. Hates, who, however, ex- pended considerably more energy with less return. J. E Potter, also, was in form and the Club, half-Reed gave further proof of the truism that, taken day in day out, back line was so seldom passed that and the backs had little to do. What he is one of the best players that local they had. Wallace and E. V. Reed have ever stepped - on

hockey field since the game reach- dealt with neatly and effectively.

Of the five forwards Tom Whited its present popularity. Without

ball awkwardly bouncing scored an unconverted try.

Cooke, the scrum half, scored another try one minute before the

verted:

At half-time, Oxford led 8-0. Mayhew, un Oxford forward, following up a long punt, scored an unconverted try in the second minute after resumption, to in- crease the Dark Blues' lead to 11-0.

Cambridge retaliated and Bruce-

Lockhart, the stand-off half. drop- ped a goal to the 24th minute. Seven minutes later, Mayhew beat three men and registered another Cooke completed the scoring in the last minute with a try, but the kick for the, extra points again failed- Reuter

fastest but the understanding of the line as a whole was good and at times reached such a pitch of excellence that the Ave men work- ed as one,

pass after pass by a Navy forward would land on or near his stick with uncanny certainty, a step- forward, a flick, and the ball would. be transferred up the field, gen- erally almost on to the feet of Whitley or Bickford. Sometimes,.- though not often, he would take the ball right up himself but he never forgot he was a defender as

well, and got rid of it as 2000 as: he thought any danger might fol- low his hanging on to it too long: Reed played a truly marvellous

| somewhat involved in hypothetic- which included His Majesty the China's foreign friends need not al cases. Against the possible King, Oxford revealed surprising interval, and this time Brett con- ley and Bickford were perhaps the his seeming to move about much, despair over it. There is no widow left; penniless owing to her form to defeat Cambridge by 17 gainsaying that the whole world

husband's belated infatuation for points to four in the annual Inter-

rugby encounter 5797 prays for peace in this cruel and (the expression is that of the varsity

tragic war, but we do not believe member for Penrith and Cockerckenham that China will ever sell her soul mouth! "a fighty. bit of stuff" Oxford's first victory since 1934.

> Although they appeared to be to secure it. If peace could still

set the war victim whose the lighter and smaller side, the be attained with honour, then by wife decided she would have Dark Blues confounded the critics all means let the Chinese leaders nothing further to do with him by being superior in all depart- seek and find it at the earliest How to uphold the rights of the ments of the game. The deadly possible opportunity, but if the first without at the same time tackling of the three-quarters and the magnificent work of the for- Draft Programmes and Entry only terms for peace which Japan rewarding the enllousness of the wards in the loose kept Cambridge

will allow are those which would second? No one suggested a on the defensive. The Cambridgetry, which was not converted Forms for the Thirteenth Extra

deprive China of her political remedy, and most members were backa spoiled movementa by har- Race Meeting to be held on

with content

inventing Saturday, 18th December, 1937 independence, then China's con-

gloomy family tangle after an- (weather permitting), may be tinued resistance, and obtained at the Secretary's Office, fight to the finish would be the other with which they proved Exchange Building; the Cimb only honourable course open to that the Bill ought, or ought not, House, Happy Valley: the Hong her, and that, as most world ob to be mule law. To denounce. Kong Club; the Sports Club; servers have repeatedly emphasis the present Bill and of the same and the Stables,. Shan Kwong ed, may even prove her salvation, time to declare an earnest wish least of all Generalistat there should be no more Nobody," Entries close at 12 o'clock simo Chiang Kai-shek, expected cruel disinheritance gets you no THURSDAY, 9th anything but initial victories for where. It may not be perfect NOON on

A brief turn of the tide saw Japanese arms. The parade of (it inakes, for example, no provi-

A handbag, containing $41, the the Navy take up the running and military might held in Shanghai sion for illegitimate children) the other day and the vociferous but that it may be misused in

was from close range he would have wick, the Oxford left wing three- Prison, was lost while she jubilation in Tokyo following some cases does not cutweigh the foggy pitch when W. N. Ren- property of Mrs. Gillath, of Stanley Lieutenant Donald nearly scored those victories must, therefore, the namerons ocessions on which quarter, opened the scoring in the shopping at the May May Com almost certainly scored, in fact,

minute. He gathered an pany yesterday afternoon. 5793 be taken to have been directed it could be used to secure justice. I sixth

Road.

December, 1937.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

1 bitter

and

ried passing, and, their attackera were completely throttled and not given space to operate. Many

movements were broken up before they developed.

The Oxford players deservea their victory, which may partly be attributed to Brett, the Oxford captain whose last-minute shuf- ning of the Oxford defence trans- ferred H. D. Frenkes from full back to the three-quarter line, which previously was Inclined to be weak in defence.

It was just possible to see across

FIRST GOAL The first goal came as the re- sult of a short corner. The ball was directed almost on Dirett's stick and he took a hard low shot would gave the Naval goalie no chance, This was after a period of even play, when the Navy were getting as much of the ball na their opponents, but for some time game yesterday.

WHITLEY SCOTES after this it was all Club. Raid

Following a missed opportunity followed raid and but for some de- termined work by Comdr. Spencer by Dirett, he, Bickford and Whitley and Lt. Miller, the Club would have returned to the attack, and some got through at least twice again clever interpassing saw Whitley within fifteen minutes of their with the ball and only the goalle

Strangely enough, first point.

to beat. That made it three-nii, Spencer, who was now playing a | and after that the game beesIG great game, later fell off to such much less interesting The Navy Mrs. Kennedy. of No. 12 Boares an extent that one could remember } as a side appeared to have shot Avenue, reported to the police little or none of his work in the that while she was shopping at second half, Bata's yesterday afternoon, the lost a handbag containing $30.

HANDBAGS · LOST

TURN OF TIDE

had he been a little quicker, but a

their bolts and did not look as it they would Ankh full of aght as they had done in their previous two games, in which, Tournament though badly beaten, they actually play than the winners in the had much the greater part of the

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