THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1913.
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STOWAWAYS.
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Some interesting items of Home sport appeared in the telegram co-
Thero is said to be more ill-will, How a Smuggling Syndicate was lumns yesterday. Sunderland have won the championship of the envy, hatred, malice and un- Football League, with Aston Villa charitableness in a roomfull of second. Football form was never Socialists than in all the armies of
Europe. more correctly borne out than in the Longns and cup ties this year. Aston Villa won the cup, with Per Doz. Sunderland the runners-up, and 75 Cts. Sunderland have won the League, with the cup winners second,
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"The Gulneas,"
Memories of a dozen years ago 16 are recalled by the victory of Louvois in the Two Thousand Guinous. J Reiff was up on the winner and ong recalls "how, in
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Departed. Among the passengers who left for the North by the Prinz Ludwig was Mr. G. Friesland.
Case of Plague,''
THE RUGBY GAME.
Thoughts on the Game During
the Past Season."
event
"If he
sacrifice even half a day's earn- ings to travel and play for their Clab in away fixtures. Hence all this trouble to Devon County about paying members for "broken time.' Only by an archaic use [SCHOLAU ARTI008.]
Speaking at the dinner given of language can we consider a It may be remembered by many to the Springbok team on their gentleman of means who can afford readers of the "Telegraph" that in team on their return to South to devote all his time to training September of last year there ap- Africa after their successful tour for and making a business of peared in these columns a short in England, Lord Gladstone was football an amateur," whilst the interview with Mr. Gabriel, an able to draw from the ethics of manin humble circumstances who. Australian Oustoms officer who Rugby football a very happy "loves" the game as it should be. had visited Hongkong in order moral for Afrikander politics. The loved, i.e. ss a recreation, and yet German Mail of April 1st-De-to enquire into the voxed ques end of the football year seems cannot afford to play it at the ex- livered in London on May lot. tion of smuggling Chinese into a fitting occasion to review the pense of depriving his family of Australia. Beyond stating that past season and to consider the Saturday morning's pay, at once plot had been discovered in present outstanding features of a becomes a "professional" if be Hongkong and that many docu- game that is ever increasing its is recompensed for these illegal menta had boon seized, Mr. vogue.
out of pocket expenses, Gabriel offered little information. The South African tour can't offed to, then he shouldn't Ho ventured the opinion, how has been the most not-play", is the answer of the doctri- ever, that the matter had been abla
at Home. The naire; but if no more satis- probed to the root and that the sturdy colonials seem to have factory way can be found out of smuggling of stowaways was at an oroated a good impression wher the difficulty, the average end. That scomed an optimistic ever they played and though (if working-tan is debarred from estimate of the value of the in- we except perhaps Morkel's de- Club play and the gates are vestigations made, but it has been monstration of the wisdom of in- opened for the Northern Union. fully justified by results. At this cluding a good place-kick in a Rugby in Hongkong. time last year charges, at the team) they have introduced no Police Court, of attempting, to new methods into the game; this
As regards actual play, no stow away were brought against is largely because home football matters of import appear to Chinese with startling frequency. has assimilated most of the les have engaged the Board's at
tention tido BORBON. Last SODA ipouleated by previous A Lucrative Business.
colonial teams and has not so year's rule that "the ball is not For some time past not
much left to learn. Out of 20 in the scrimmage until it has The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will the early years of the century, it of the case in which a man and single case has been recorded. matches played, only three were passed a man ou either side" Considering that the lucrative lost-Newport, Swanses and Lon seems to live worked well and was never safe to let the boy run charged with murder is Friday into the Commonwealth had been suffer her first defeat on the games being spoilt by the ovils of business of smuggling Chinese don-and England was made to we have not heard so much of maintained for years and had Twickenham ground.
"Inose honil." been raised to a fine art, the Buc-
Rugby is an exotic in Hong- coss of the investigation made
The Triple Crown."
kong, the climate and the hard. last year must be sat down as land has won the so-called "Triple what over-rigorous.
In International football Eng-ground making the game some astonishing.
Perhaps certain of the details of the plan played with threa three-quarters) would be more suitable, with its It is possible now to present 1892 (when the game was still gamo (O damaed, heretical pen!) Crown" for the first time since some adaptaion of the American
followed, which were not avail-
last
and for the third time only in the weirdly quilted players. How- ablo
September. The was allowed 25 1. Renders are reminded that the
history of Rugby. The only score ever, so much the greater credit Homo racing testato notorious: onnefit to be given to Mr. R. H. whole business was worked by made against England was to those strenuous enthusiasts bourne and partly in Hongkong. A fine
in the Irish match and their line field and give us some of One letter which came into the hands of those who enquired season Wales came second with of the year. The Royal Navy has not been crossed the whole the only really exciting moments into the business, and which came two wins; Scotland third with especially. The sultriest sun and for young goods." The "bille" one; and Ireland, being unable the hardest ground will not dry to back up her always magnificent (I was about to say "damp") the were naturalisation papers," and
forwards, lost every match. Union- ardour of these stalwarte, the "young goods" were young ists will notice with regret that after il career of ten Chinese. In the office of the
years
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Murder Charge. The day fixed for the hearing
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woman from Yaumati ore loose in a big ruce. Last year Reiff crossed the Channel to win next at 2:15 p.m.
the Derby on Tagalie, and evid- ently he has a fair chance of repeating his victory, this year.
Langkat Output Messrs Wright and Hornby in- form us that they are in receipt The extra half mile at Epsum of a cable from Shanghai to the ever, and the French horse may for the past month was 12,261 may make all the difference, how effect that the Langkat output
surprising thing is that the borse not again beat Craganour. The tons,
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY. 2, 1913. '
THE LOAN SITUATION.
never be allowed to run unbacked at the Bijou Theatro. like this. The victory will give variety programme has been ar- more than ordinary delight to ranged and one or two specially the winning jockey. Since the attractive pictures will be shown trouble which led to the disappear at intervale. ance of his brother from the English turf, the younger Reiff has taken a delight, which he ban not concealed, in crossing from France, when occasion offered, to try and secure a big race.
Can this be True?
A report is spread by a native paper that the Kuominting mem bets of the Chinese Parliament have decided to demanda salary of $12,000 a year for each member. Heavens above us! Are there
H. M. S. Tamar, The receiving ship Tamar, which the Admiralty intend abolishing, was formerly an old troopship. She was built about 1880 and for many years was employed for trooping purposes in various parts of the Empire, arriving in Hongkong some seventeen years ago, when she was converted into a receiving ship.
No Permit,
from Hongkong, naked for "Bille!
The Cup.
The Clubs 1o be congratulated on winning back the Cup which'
team
figures in International fixtures, has been with the Garrison for What the Search revealed. No man has done more for the the last two years. It is always These included naturalisation game and the "Harlequin idea" rather difficult to run a team that papers and books of instruction is almost as much a byworl as the has to escape from the rigours of for Chinese who were baing sent "Nelson toach."
business to get their games and practice, and much credit is due |from Hongkong. These books of
Rugby Crowds.
to Mr. Stark for his unflagging One cannot help being strack zeal in keeping the instruction were compiled in Aus- A Chinese was fined $15.8t the tralia, and were calculated to be of by the size of the crowds that are together. The Club was most socialistic gentlemen going to ask Police Court, this morning, for much use to the stowaways when reported to attend matches at unfortunate in losing the services for a salary just thried as great as allowing people to occupy pre they were safely landed. They Home. Ata time when the Nor- of Mr. Claxton in their last match even our own Radical Party at mises without a permit from the contained the names of streets in thern Union is spreading its ten with the Navy. He has done as Home thought sufficient for any Building authorities, Mr. David Melbourne, of shopkeepera in tacles to the remotest parts and much as anyone to regain the solf-denying individual who, from son, of Mesers Hastings and certain quarters, the names of Association is claiming its share motives purely altruistic, suffers Hastings, who appeared for bank managers and of police of attention from what bas al-up. The Navy lost some of himself to be elected to the House the defence, pleaded guilty, magistrates, of members of Par-ways been considered the nation and one cannot help thinking also their players through injuries, of Commons? This must surely but asked for 8 nominal liament, and the like. One of al game of Wales; it is be incorrect. We ever admired fine as the people on the pre- them, in fact, concluded with the with mingled feelings that we read
that the absence of various ships the readiness with which the Eng mises were workmen employed advice, "Please teach him the of the enormous crowds that now putting their best team on the at difference times prevented their It is not altogether an easy matter to decide how seriously to lish Radicale have distributed on them.
aames of vegetables." The par- attend English matches. The take the opposition of the Senate to the Loan Contract. Admittedly, plauded the unprejudiced fashion peerages; we have always ap-
Stolen Gluc.
ticulars in the books were learnt climax was reached on the new battleship they ought to be ground. With the advent of our Before Mr. Hazeland, at the the situation gives rise to considerable anxiety and must not be re-in which the daughters of De-Police Court, this morning, Lam One letter which was seized, and when no less than 35,000 people The Army were
by the would-be immigrant.casion of the Calcutta Cup match, able to do better next season. garded lightly, but we are not without hope that the gloom will be mocratic America have consented. Shui and Chai Sz, were charged which had accompanied one of passed the turn stiles of the
unfortunate relieved. The Senate has repudiated the Loan on the ground that to waive all personal feeling with feloniously taking five tins the Chinese, said that he had Rugby Union ground at Twicken- services of Mr. Monteith who in losing, through injury, the the President and the Cabinet went over the heads of Parliament and become duchostes and of black marine glue, valued at been well and carefully instructed. ham. Is this a healthy sign? We has in signing it. In a country where constitutional government was marchionesses; we felt inclined $19.50, and 56 lbs. oakum, Yet another book of instructions hope so, but bave grave douba, figured frequently
to doff bonnet to Mr. John Burns valueri at $5,60, the property of
in Scottish properly fixed and accepted the protest of the Senate would carry when he did violence to his the Hongkong and Whampoa son for whom the book was in-most sporting of all crowds, but the arrival of D.C.L.L. late in the gave hints in English. The per-The Rugby crewed is usually the They were also handicapped by ant a little weight. But China and her government cannot yet be feelings by condescending to be Dook Company, at Hung Hom,tended was told that, when he unfortunately sizne are not measured by the standard of older natione, and, however much her made a Cabinet Minister on on the 19th ult. The first delen-entered the Customs Ofice he wanting that some of the worst Reason and their prospects for next leaders may be disinclined to believe it, 'will'not so be measured for salary of four figures; and we al-dant was sentenced to two was to say "good morning" if he elements of "soccer" rowdyism Rugby enthusiasts may well con- some time to come. Parliamentary procedure as understood in most shed tears of sympathy months' imprisonment and four went in the morning, "good-day," have come to the surfare, daring aider that their game is the finest Peking, is a very different thing from parliamentary procedure as it with the Labour leader who, last hours' stocks. The second manif in the day, and when be was the year and, not to go so far of all games. It is a game that.
asked if he spoke much English, afield as the unfortunate scenes calls into play all manly qualities: he was to say, "I know a little in Paris during the Scotch matol English, but having resided in on New Year's Day, on one occa- knowledge, quickness, nerve, and physical strength, endurance, my native land for some time Ision (at Blackheath) the referee unselfish discipline. Above all have forgotten the words."
even had to "caution"
section the latter: there is no game of of the onlookers. The cause of which the very essence is so At the End of his Tether.
the larger and larger crowds that much the sacrifice of the iu The syndicate must have learn-naremble to witness Rugby foot-dividual, to the side. It is ad of the visit of Mr. Gabriel to ball is undoubtedly the opening Hongkong and of its purpose.
democratic game where
operates in other countries, and this factor has to be considered at present.
year, ent down to s ' imortal was discharged.
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gorge at Frascati's while the wives and children of East End strikers were crying for food. Then what shall we say of China's Democrats, who ask to be paid. $12,000 per annum for their patriotic services? But perhaps the story isn't true.
A Threat or What?
FO
Internationale.
| year should be distinctly brighter.
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THE S. S. HUE. It is just possible, indeed, that knowledge of this fact helped to decide President Yuan in completing the Loan Agreement without Beeking the sanction of the Senate, China has no other man who
Cargo of Tin Dischaged. sees so far or so clearly, and the President probably decided that an assembly which hardly knows the first thing about the conduct of
Morare, Marty have received a wire from their agents at Fort serious business was better left out of account in carrying out
Bayard, stating that the stranded negotiations so delicate and so far-reaching. No one can blame him if he did adopt such an attitude. Equally it has to be remembered
Hue has discharged her cargo of At any rate, in the office of the up of the play due to proper use all olssses can meet and strive In our Northern News the other tin. The rice which she was despatching agents at this one being made of the bucks. It together, putting all their strength that the opposition to the Loan is being conducted by the Kuoming day we gave a short account of a tang which has a majority in Parliament and which is bitterly meeting on the Californian ques carrying, having become water was found a cable from one of the makes the game easier to fol- into one united purpose for the low-attractive in fact even to space of a brief seventy minutes. opposed to President Yuan. It is doubtful, indeed, whether the tion, at which Count Okami appiled, was thrown overboard. syndicate in Melbourne, "With those spectators who
Salvage work is being continued draw new steamer's cargo or Lam
have It is the only game which gives opposition is aimed at the Loan so much as at the President himself. remarked that "if the Japanese by the Hongkong and Whampoa ruined. Apparently the sender never played themselves and each player this sense of physical We question whether the objection to the Loau is not a deliberate insisted on their rights, they must Dock Company'sing David Gillies. of that cable had got cold feet ledge of the rules. And here lies it is a game for the heyday of possess only the vaguest know striving all the time. But alas, scheme to undermine, if at all possible, the power of the President, finally resort to an appeal to
Once again, is it not within the bounds of probability that Prearms, which, for, the sake of left for the scene of the mishap very near the end of his tether been a mere "spectacle" for the players gather together to do hon Mr. Lambert, Lloyd's surveyor, and not without reason. He was the danger. Rugby has never youth and when to-night the humanity, would be regrettable." sident Ynan, recognising that the power of this political faction must Not halt so regrettable, we opine, this morning, by the Portuguese when he sent that cable. uninitiated and the more it be our at the shrine of Rugby foot be broken if he and his Cabinet were to be permitted to do useful
All this is not a fanciful piotare, comes so, the more is it a lure for ball, let them determine to enjoy work toward the making of a new and more prosperous China, deli- as it would be for Japan-if the
but a statement of solid fact. It the company promoter and the aach successive Reason at it were berately ignored the Senate in order to precipitate the inevitable Count's meaning is that his coun-
is a fact, too, that there was a Northern Unionist. struggle between himself and this reactionary party? He could not trymen have it in mind to attack
profit in respect of each personThe play's the thing" and woe surely come when they will only After all their final one. For the time will have chosen a more opportune occasion. The time was not of his America. These are the days of choosing, it was forced upon him. For one thing, he can urge, and excitement and we have given up bas urged, that the Loan was approved by the National Council fooling surprised at anything which itself held out against foreign supervision for quite a time and said or done.
8.8. Kwangeliowan.
JUSTI LEAVING.
who passed the Customs of £100
the
Dr. Justi of the firm of Muller and that the amounts were divided betide us when it shall be thought be able to feel the thrill of the and Justi, who has been, in Hong- among the members of the of Rugby Football "The gate's
game at second-hand as spectators kong for the last ten years, is syndicate. In the course of a
on the tonch-line. So drain your in the end was forced to recognise that on no other terms was a loan
The Working Man Player. retiring and will leave for few days, however, it should be
goblets and drink heartily to the possible. For another, in making the Loan Agreement (if our sur- Morphine Instead of Oplum. home, via Siberia, on the 6th possible to set forth the facts This leads us to the vexed quee glory of Youth and Rugger or mise is correct) the ground for the inevitable struggle with the Since the sovore suppression of instant.
be even more fully than they have tion of the v working-man player. ever, the evil hour draws nigh Kaomingtang, he would naturally calculate upon having the support opium began, morphine has be- Dr. Justi is greatly liked and been given hero. Meantime it Club football now takes ite when" Ichabod is, written of the Powers. It seems very much as though President Yusu had come very popular with the opium much esteamed by the Chinese may be stated that information to teams so far afield that there your Rugger days when some shown more than usual astuteness at this juncture and there need smokers, who use this as a sub-and Portuguese communities and, hand, is to the effect that some, if are few fathers of families stiffening of the joints, some be little fear that he will win his way in the end. But the whole stitute, says a Hankow paper. The for services rendered to the latter not all, of the Australian members amongst the industrial clas business is singularly unfortunate, and the sooner the clouds are import of foreign spirits is also, community, he has been decorat of the syndicate are cooling their however good sportsmen and dispelled the better for Uhina.
increasing
d by the Portuguese Government
heels Insol
keen players, who gen sford
ning of nerve or smey pers No more football for old man
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