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HONGKONG ROTARY CLUB SPORTING

TIFFIN MEETING Brigadier Peffers Draws Fascinating Picture Of "Heart Of Middle East"

“IRAQ CONNOTES SOME HALF DOZEN OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CIVILISATIONS, the rise and fall al a dozen empires.' a welter of conflicting religions, a babel of tongues, a medley of races and nations and 4,090 years of commerce in the intractable stuff of human nature," said Brigadier A Peffers yesterday, addressing the Hongkong Rotary Club.

FIXTURES

TODAY

BASEBALL. - Chung Hwa v. U.S.8

Mindanao, 5.15 p.m.

V

· TENNIS. — Third Division: G.D.R.

7. H.K. Ú.TC.. A.T.C. V C.C.C. K.T.GA V. S.C.A.A., K.O.C. I.R.C., C.R.C. (1) v. KITC

TOMORROW

rac-

SPORTS & GENERAL

2 Amendments To Eating Houses And Food Stalls By-Laws Passed

Two new amendments to the Restaurants, Eating Houses dud Food Stalls by-laws of the Public Health (Frod) Ordinance, 1935, ware approved by the Urban Council at its fortnightly meeting yes- terday.

RACING Miniature Horse

ing Club de Recreio.

Hon. Mr. W. J. Carre was in the Cuticl), shall be submitted for re TENNIS. — Fourth Division: A.T.C.[Chair, while members present weretention by the Counci Except

v. XIR.C.. P.OR.C. (1) v. KIT.C, Dr. N. C. Macleod (Vice-Chair-with the consent of the Council. JRC v. C.R.C., F.C. v.

P.OR.C. man), Hon. Mr. J. P. Pennefather-there shall be no deviation from Evans. MessTS, F. C. Hall, L. C. F. the arrangements for kitchen, Bellamy. A. el Arcoll, Dr N. food preparation, fond storage.

(2), BCAA 9 C.C.C.

SATURDAY, JULY 19

Brigadier Peffers painted a fascinating picture of a part of the BASEBALL - South China Athie-Chau, Messrs. B. Wong Tape, Tang scullery. seating, latrine or aNY world that has assumed as mich strategic importance in the present

Uc Association V Royal Eng!- Shiu-kin, M. W. Lo. C J. Roe other accommodation required or it has in the wars of many centuries struggle against the Hun as

neers. 2.15 p.m.; H.B.B.C. v. U.8.8. (Secretary! and Im Plug tsemig approved by the Council on the and ages and spoke of the people of Iraq and those characteristics

Tulsa, 4.30 p.m.

(Assistant Secretary). distinguishing the various races that have fashioned the political situation in the country today

The talk was one of the most, Iraq until politics and the popula- interesting given before the Rotary ion are secularised" Club over a good perlod of time

Britain's carllest connexion with When Allah created Hell, the Iraq dates back 4 1583 The ad- Arabs say of Iraq. be found that venturous sailors and ston traders: it was not bad enough So het Portugal had preceded the Bri-i ush there, penstrating to the Per- : mude Iray, and added fles.

Iraq Brigadier Peflers sald, Is sian Gulf and building the sturdy; an immense alluvial plain, with its forts that still stand along the 1wo dominant and dominating Trucia: coast. features the Tigris and Euphrates.

In 1622, Wallam Baffin, who gave, the two savage rivers the country his name to Baffin's Land in the It has, Arctle Sea, visited Ormuz. the Por- is utterly dependent upon

an area of 173,000 square miles and tuguese stronghold on the Persian! a land frontier of 2,500 miles with Gulf and was killed there in a fight Persin, Kurdistan, Anatola, Syria, with the Portuguese Palestine and Arabla

HEART OF MIDDLE EAST

It has been correctly called the heart of the Middle East, and 15! a country that has been invaded more often than any other in the world

113 desur is the Hume of ro

man

An eld book tells of the incident "Master Baff went ashore for the better levelling of his plece.j whervat he received three balls In the belly and giving three leaps by report died

ENGLISH ADVENTURERS

LAWN BOWLS. - First Division. Police R.C v. Recreio "A". Kow- loon C.C. v. Craigengower, Re- creio "B" v Civil Service, Kow.

Issue of a licence.

MUCH DIFFICULTY

In Introducing the motion, Mr. Carrie said, "We have for some time had considerable difficulty in getting licencers

of restaurants

ADOPTION MOVED

After the letters received from Government signifying the ap- loon BG.C. "A" v Indian RC Proval of the Legislative Council Kowloon B.G.C. "B" v. Kowloon to previous amendments of the by- Docks R.C. Second Division: Pr. laws had been tabled, the Chair and eating houses to provide ade- accommodation for the son 0.0 Recreio, Kowloon man, pursuant to notice, moved quate

adoption of the following preparation of food, food starage: Tong v Hongkong CC., Hong the

and scullery accommodation kong FC v. Kowloon CC, Crai- amendments:--

"We often find food being pre- gengower v. Tatkoo R.C. v. Cral- 1 By-law 7 2 ts rescinded! gengower, Kowloon FC. v. Kow- and the following by-law is sub- pared out in the yards where the washing of utensils are also being loon B.G.C., Recrelo v. Hongkong stituted therefor:

carried on. F.C., Hongkong Electric v. Poilce R.C.

SWIMMING.

"Also we have, at times, found persons sleeping on the tables, etc.,

72. Adequate kitchen, food preparation, food storage and KulA at Chinese scullery accommodation shall be Bathing Chub, 7 p.m.

provided to the satisfaction of the SUNDAY, JULY 20

Council and the walls of the ac BASEBALL. -- U.S.S. Mindanao v

commodation so provided shall be Hongkong Basebal; Club. 10 a.m. imperviously surfaced to a mini- to the Ordinance will ensure the

H.B. WITHDRAW

mum height of eight feet.

"Many times I have warned licencees but there has been no legal means to enforce my warn- ings. The proposed amendments

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941.

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JUNK EXPLOSION

The man received injuries to his

provision of the necessary ateom- (2). The following paragraph is modation for food preparation. added after by-law 7 (2)-

food storage and scullery." Dr. Macleod seconded motion was carried without dis-morning aboard a junk anchored sention.

near Kowloon City.

A 33-year-old Chinese was head and body and was taken to seriously injured when a mysteri- the Kowloon Hospital, where his and the ous explosion occurred yesterday condition was described as "quite

H.B. have definitely withdrawn | Unless already provided under

A lct-by-law 2. plans showing the lay from the Baseball League, English ter with regard to this decision out of premises, as approved by the

from Mr. J Tonnochy. Hon. Secre tary of the H.B. team, to the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Base- ball League, states in part:

"Inasmuch as

In 1638. Baghdad was occupied of peripatetic ladies who by the Ottoman Turks write boring travel diarles, This merchant adventurers were enter 50-called desert, however ส 1ng the country from India, and waste 1 useless sand but 1.62 alan biteresting historical point is great extent represents ancient that as far back as the late years farmlands Jung abandoned

the 17th century the British

under

I!! the reign of Sapor many Government had already centuries ago, this desert nurtured) taken the protection of solpaing

your Committee | has been unable to see the justice of our request for postponement of today's game with the Mindanao

a terrning population but all that from pirates to the Persian Gulf remains of that monarch's capital.! German penetration of the Arab team, we are. therefore, reluctant- Hatra, are a few gigante blocks of! world dated as far back as 1898ly compelled to ask you to accept strume and # waterless river. its when the regal mountebank. Kaiser our resignation from the Hong- ancient bed while with sait. Whelm, rode through Jerusalem'ng Baseball League," monument to man's inability toļon a white horse, proclaiming him-

live in harmony with his neigh self protector of Islam, while his FIVE LICENCES

bours.

трули

engineers surveyed the rate for the

REFUSED

The following applications for Itences were refused by the Urban Counell at ts fortnightly meeting yesterday:-

country presented many Berlin Baghdad Rallway. which contrasts Tales could be trio of was to have reached from Scutar] ! the cruelties of the desert. an the Bosphorus to Basra and crucible from which the worst and Bahrein on the Persian Gull. best features of the Arab characi By 1918. Brigadier Peffers con ter have been forged One could third. "we were in ocupation of speak of poisonous winds slaying a great part of the Arab world whole caravans, pads reeking with our dispositiim of it and the legary Triangle Street, ground floor: food maddening thirstf political tragedy it brought in shop licence for No. 4, Morrison and of a loneliness that drives men later days arr 101 matters on Street (the third recess from the

brimstone.

Lo hysterical terce

Others would speak of an ele mental peace and a twilight so ex quisite in Its beauty that even the prosate soldier has felt the need to catch in colour, in poetry or in musle their essuier and ecstasy

ARAB OF IRAQ

which I care to dwell.

Eating house Ucence for No. 10,

side of Ching Wa Kok Tea House "In Iraq, with the dangerolis en- and for No. 60. Bonban Strand thusiasm of youth, not unmixed East (the first recess of side dovri. with its fally, we set up a civil ad- bakehouse Hcence for No. 51, Matn ministration eager to dispense jus-Street, Stanley. ground floor, mülk tice as we saw it and to teach fairshop Licence for No. 22, Somerset dealing between man and man. Road, ground floor

Within a year my friends in Six licencea were granted by the were being Urban Council between July 2 and The Arab of Iraq in his mental. The political service moral and physical make up is a murdered in cold blood and rebel-14, inclusive, consisting of Food product of this land. a victim. as Ron, fostered by the very persons shops (2). Bake houses (1). Swine! ether peoples are, of his past and whom our administration had most 2 and Restaurants (1). present surroundings. To anyone benefitted. pursuing the study of the influence of geography upon character, he would make an interesting subject

to commence upon.

ad.'

SER ARNOLD WILSON "My chief in those days--Sir Arnold Wilson-the greatest ministrator I ever knew and latter- iy killed as a gunner in the RAF which he joined when nearly sixty!

weathered the storm with com-

32 CHOLERA FATALITIES

two

Cruel, harsh, intolerant and an archistic, he has a love of person

The following is the Returns of al freedom which tends toward

/uotiñabio-diseases notified as hav- lawlessness and carries his in-petence and dignity, but his a3-ng occurred the Colony during dividualism to the point of an-ministration was damned and con- the week ending at midnight in archy. The desert has made his demned at home by propagandist July 12 bady hard and has given him other pennyjacks who were mure inter- Cerebro-Spma) Fever, four савая qualities, a spirit secking com-

ested in catching "economy" votes (two deaths): Chicken-Pox, munion with God and a hospitality than maintaining the dignity and cases; Cholera, 59 cases (32 admitting the traveller to his tent. prestige of an Empire.

deaths); Diphtheria, two cases In several matters in his at-

(one death); Dysentery. 44 cases tachment to religion and the other

(23 deaths); Enteric Fever. 19 fellow's chattels--he is a combina-days-among them the belief that tion of the Scotsman who keeps such a thing as political gratitude ses (five deaths); Measles, three cases (two deaths): Tuberculosis, the Sabbath day and everything ever existed."

282 cases, one imported (144 |* deaths).

"I lost many Ulusions in those

else he can lay his hands un and After the rebellion. Brig. Fitters the Irishman who prays hard at continued, the problem facing Bri- all times especially on his neigh-tain was the creation of an Arab bours. He appreciates argument. State to stand on its own feet hair-splitting and feuds, especially Iraq was eventually crested free when these latter are several cen- and Independent, linked to Britain turies old and fruitful in nights by a long term treaty of alliance, and sudden, deaths,

under the wise guidance of King

FOUR-DAY RETURNS

The Returns for the four days ending at midnight on July 14 is as follows-Cerebro-Spinal Fever three cases: Chicken-Pox, one case: Cholera, 30 enges: Diphtheria His love of the precise and ac- Felsal. With his tragie, death, one case; Dysentery, 20 cases: En- casea; Meaalos, curate, as shown in his genius in atability vanished and a procession terle Fever, five mathematics, is offset by a pro- or Governments followed. allection of picturesque hyperbolae

In his speech and in the ordinary

TRANSITORY CABALS

two cases; Tuberculosis, 108 cases.

business of life. He is enduring, busy fishing in the troubled waters it to last exactly that much.

By 1934 Hitler's minions were Iraq being small enough to allow in adversity dignified and resigned of Iraq, fomenting the discontent and in success overbearing to the of politically minded army, officers point of cruelty.

vasions,

SPEAKER THANKED Wing-Comdr. A. H. 8. Steele-

and lavishing promises. of power Perkins thanked the speaker. Ro- FLOTSAM AND JETSAM and gold on the brittia intellectuals tarian am Ming-fan presided at But Iraq contains in all some of Baghdad. Until the coup by the meeting. A visiting Rotarian 3,000,000 people, among them the faschid All, the country, ostensibly present was Rotarian 3. G. Badt- flotsam and jetsam of a dozen in under Feisal's son and grandson cott, of Chengtu,

Persians, Kurds, Tur- was controlled by a series of tran-

Cuesta prosent were Mosarà. C. komana (relica of Tamerlane and story cabals, cifques and inw. Neame, A, 8. Witham, Lt.-Col. Genghis Khan), Jews, Assyrians, trigueta.

F. C. Field, Mr. B. V Boxer, Major Christians. Babeang and Yozidla. Quite recently Rachid All Moody, Messrs. M, Pirenne and K,

The influence of religion on/mother of the powerful religious F. Fiatchar (Macao). polities te so great in the country Giant family, and a hireling, of Rotarian J. Choy, who had that a prominent Arab, now in the Hitler, seized the reins, of power been on a visit to Burma, Malaya forefront of recent activities, once and announced his own dictator and India, presented the Club with fold the speaker-""There can be no ship. The coup lasted exactly 10 the flags of the Rotary, Clubs of stable Government or stability in dayli, the anti-British aliment in Hadyoon and Aggra..

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