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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919.

THAT LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

OUR POLICE.

Realising the extremely diffi- cult conditions under which the Police of the Colony have been working during the war period, the public will, we aro thoroughly endorse the decision of the authorities, reflected in His

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919.

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DAY BY DAY. ? 'ROBBIE'S LETTER. Mr. Stabb and his wife. It might interest Mr. Stabb to know that the first public ever played bowling match on the Teland was between three rinks of the Kowloon Bowling

WE CAN'T HAVE AN EXPANSIVE TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME,

OF HEALTHY LIFE

Hongkong, Oct. 15, 1919. STRETCH WITHOUT AN EXPANSIVE SWEEP

OF THE MIND.

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GYMKHANA.

THE NEXT MEETING.

Gymkhana

Green Club and a team of local The programme for the next Dear Alick,

bankers. It took place on what | Gymkhana, to be held on ...........for that's quite true- has aye been regarded as a very November 1, is as follows There was again a clean bill of Au optimist, is a person who desirable bowling green site, on Fire Fur ongs Race, Hand- sure, health yesterda

doesn't know what's coming to the lawn in front of the Hong-icap-For China Ponies that him, and hopes it won't. Another kong and Shanghai Bank. Among have run in any Race at the last A thief visited Dr. Kew's house Excellency's Budget speech, to last night. An alarm was raised, very good definition of an optimist the leading lights of the Bank Four Gymkhanas. Winners at is that he's a man who buys some-team were Jock Kennedy, who Gymkhanas of any Flat Races but the man got away, having thing off a Jew and expects to has been the Bank's Manager in this season, (other than Ladies' strengthen the Force and to

appropriated hat from the sell it to a Scotsman and make a Manila for many years. Cochrane, Nomination and Distance Hand- reorganise it in such a manner hatstand.

hundred per cent. profit. Writing subsequently Manager of the icap Events) barred. Entrance as to bring it into conformity

this same reminds me that ( hater Chartered Bank and, if I mind fee $5. 1st Prize: $150. - 2nd with present-day needs. During The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn,

the launching of the last new the point, Tam Whitehead was the past few years, the Police of C.M.G., has consented to become as to the fore the other day at right, though I'm a wee hazy on Prize: $75. 3rd Prize: $40.

Stakes Value This Colony have been seriously Institution for Shipbuilders and dead easy to be an optimist when honorary Vice President of the

boas at the Dock. Of course, it's also an interested player.

$200. Distance-One Mile. For handicapped by reason of the low Engineers of Hongkong.

The Kowloon chaps handled all China Ponies Catch weights » you've got inside knowledge. It's the Bank men rather badly on at 10 st. 6 lb. Winners of an open strength of the European section,

just the same wi' prophesy. Mac's that occasion and what wi' the race or open Griffin race or Ponies caused by so many men having The old man who was charged good hand at it at times-that early departure of Jock Kennedy, that have won the aggregate gote on active service. The rewith commithing an indecent

is when he can get away wi' it. the hope of a Bank Bowling Club prize in the Gymkhana Stakes in cord of the Force in the war is assault on a girl. of 13 years of Mary's the time he's tried the went West. Still, it's never too any season 5 lb. extra. Non-winn- one of which it may feel justly age, was sentenced by Mr. Lind-

weather-wise trick o' proud. and

secretly late to mend. Maybe after seeing ing Subscription Griffics allowed His Excellency's sell to-day to six months hard watching the cat wash herself las: Monday's game, Mr. Stabb 5. tribute is more than deserved. labour

and then deliver himself of the might think about utilising the Class Handicap: A Class: It so happened that during the period of its decreased The doll rafled by Madame opinion "that as like as Lo' we'd finest site yet and set about gett-Three Quarter Mile For China Ponies Entrance Fee $5. 1st the Force man-power.

had Flint in aid of the Ministering have rain the morn." Now there's ing a team together.

been a lot of loose talk hanging το figh: an abnormal

As I was saying, the daddy of Prize: $150. 2nd Prize: $75. out Children's League was won by about this past month or two all the bowls Clubs here is the 3rd Prize: $40. break of crime, and though at ticket No. 49. Another doll about financial rings and vested KB.G.C. and its origin is some Distance Handicap: about times it came in for criticism. raffled by the Victoria branch of interests and the like.. Naturally what interesting. I think I'm Half a Mile. For Chica Ponies. much of it unjust, it will be gen- the League, was won by ticket there's some folks that thrive on right when I say that the Club Winners of any Flat Race in erally conceded that it discharged No. 18. its duties in a manner which can-

this sort of mental gup, but fair was the outcome of a mess dinner 1919 (excepting Ladies' Nomina- not be too highly praised. Happily,

play's a jewel for all that. in Archie Ritchie's house, then tion) and placed ponies at this The following telegram the changed conditions

have received by the American Consu- the next day, but abuse him and money

Flatter a man and hell forget it in Knutsford Terrace. A little Meeting barred. Catch weights

was scraped enabled the Goverment mat- late General, Hongkong, from the he'll remember it as long as he there and then and a bit of ground side edge of course, and chalk 155 b. Pegs will be placed on out- together erially to add to the personnel of Manila Observatory at 11.40 a.m. lives. Now Chater's getting an was got in Kimberley Road lines making the position of each the Force, the new posts created to-day-Cyclone or typhoon over old man and it must be a bit where a market garden now is. pony according to the handicap including four European Lance N. China Sea, near or over Guam galling for him to hear and read Davie Gillies, the Father of the (in yards) conceded. The race Sergeants, fifteen European con- Direction unknown.

this sneering and back-biting Kowloon Docks, gave the enter will be started by sounding a goog, stables and thirty-two Chinese constables. More than that, the

In the Mixed Foursome Com-that the neighbours of a self-presented a

kind o' stuff. It's a true saying, prise a good shove off when he and each rider must keep his Police are now to be equipped petition at Fanling on Monday satisfied man

handsome cup for pony behind the line assigned to with more up-to-date arms. 13th October, the winners were satisfied wi him.

are not always competition. I might again be him until the signal is given. couple of motor-cycles are to be Lt. Comdr. and Mrs Kilgour known Sir Paul for more years were also made in the Dock, but over the line, or moving forward Now, I've wrong, but I think the first bowls Any rider whose pony is then secured and another motor-boat Other returns were Mr. and Mrs. than I care to look back on. and there was added. All these additions must N. L. Smith, Miss Moorhead and he's had his ups and downs, mind wrong wi' them and very soon

aye "something" faster than a walk, must return and start again or be disqualified. make for

an increase in the is. Evans, Mrs. Harston and A. L. I'm telling ye. It's no' always a the more enthusiastic players Mafoos may assist by holding efficiency of our Police, and the Anderson.

case of running to the Bank w began to send home to Taylors ponies if desired. Entrance Fee money spent thereon will not be grudged, because we know that

In connection with the recent fine of... but that's an old

the paying-in book. Man, I mind of Glasgow for the real Mackay, 1st Prize: $75 2nd Prize:

$50. 3rd Prize: $30. these things make for more Shanghai student demonstrations

The Club had just got settled on

Class Handicap: sory now and besides the younger its feet and beginning to toddle Three Quarter Mile-For China B Class: security and the prevention and against the selling of Japanese generation, wi' its teas detection of crime.

goods by Chinese department Wiseman's fancy cocktails and came along and said that the Prize: $150. 2nd Prize: $75. 3rd at fine, when the owner of the land Ponies, Entrance Fee $5. 1st stores, we hear that the Head variegated socks, havna imagins-green was wanted for building on. prize: $40. Office of the Since re Company, in tion enough to understand the Of course if the Club wanted to

months

age conditions that appertained in bang on. it had the privilege of Hongkong..two

WATER V. LAND POLICE,

new

residents on the peninsula, and

to-day

charged before

Mr.

The man

it is, this

FOR THE TROOPS.

AN APPEAL..

I mind the first meetings of the

One and a Quarter Mile In Kowloon there are to be Talk to most people about the League of Nations and they will considerable alterations to the cabled toits Kobe branch request- those days. Oh those dead cheap doing so, provided it stumped up Entrance Fee $5. 1st Prize: Handicap. For China Ponies. refer to the subject as though it were all a cut and dried thing, but Water Police Station in order to ing it to cease suppising Japanese days beyond recall. Let me see. something like $20,000; maybe it 5150, 2nd Prize: $75. 3rd Prize: in this attitude of finality there a greater danger to the League make accommodation for the in- goods. and has since ordered there could get a case of gin for....was more, but ye wouldna call than there ever will be because of opposition. Leaders of the move creased number of Police to be entire closing of the branch.

They wouldn't believe you-Ed. me a liar for a few odd thousands.

$40. ment at Home have, apparently, recognised this, for news has come accommodated when the

H. K. T.)

Half Mile Race for Larsen Aye, it's true that Even in these days, ye see, there Subscription Griffins-To bo zid- The following candidates were through that a national campaign to make better known the objects Fire Station is erected. This is a successful in their examinations money talks, but you believe me was something of a housing pro- den by Mafoos. Catch weights of the League has just beer inaugurated at the Mansion House, at

very necessary step, of course for certificates of competency he- Chater realised

there have been times

when blem. Onyhow, the Club, no 140 lbs. Conditions to be which Mr. Asquith was the principal speaker. It is well known But we have often wondered

some of the having the ready cash, got announced later. Entrance fee that in the Versailles Peace Treaty there is laid down the basis of whether it is the wisest arrange.fore the Board of Trade. Hong disadvantages of having

an scared out. this world-wide League, and that officials have already been ment possible to make one section kong during September. L. Jimpediment in his income. Hard particular building site might 5. Prizes for Owners: 1st $100. appointed to pilot it, but it is not generally recognised that for a of the Force responsible both for Fugler. First mate, steamship: cash is no hard to get rid of still have been in

2nd $50. 3rd $30. Prizes for use as & Mafoos: 1st $30. 2nd $20, 3rd $10. country to subscribe to the League and carry out its high internation- the policing of the harbour and W. Lumsden, First mate, steam-Ave, he bad his hard times in bowling green, for the building

Entries for all events, close to al ideal, will, in some cases, be accompanied by a surrender either the peninsula. In most other ship; R. A. Downs, Second mate between, let me tell you..

contractor hasna worked his the Hon. Secretary. Hongkong of actual territory or some vital interests. It is in this connection places where Water Police are Square Rigged); and W. C. Becks.

In those early days it was wicked will on it yet, and what's Gymkhana Club, on Wednesday, There were five! River mate. where unintelligent acceptance of the mere principles of the necessary, a separate body of

just as hard to make money as more forbye the Club would have 22nd October. League, without a thorough recognition of the sacrifices that may men is entrusted with harbour failures during the month.

it is to-day. Fifty years saved a queer mint o' money by ensue, will constitute a danger. On the face of things, the ideal work, these being quite distinct

hence a photograph of the Kow- remaining, as I will show.. No“ of all nations being welded together for the protection of the peace from the land police. In Kow-small boy and a man were loon of

will of all world, all under a solemn obligation to support each other loon, the Water Police deal but Lindsell with being stowaways children will talk about the old and were soon the proud pos

to-day

be to be denied their game, they unrecognisable and our grand- then approached the Government i against an unfair encroachment by any single member of the League, only with harbour crime but is so transparently in the highest interests of mankind, that most also have the responsibility of on the ss. Lai Sang

admitted the charge. The boy

rummies and of the fine chances sessors of a se in the middle of men unthinkingly say By all means let's have 2 League. But no maintaining peace and order in said his father had given a foki they missed. As I was saying. a swamp, now part of the Kow- An appeal is made for books. benefit or privilege was ever worth much that did not cost some-

the big area known as Kowloon thing to get, and it is going to cost a little more than the recent war Point. It must be extremely 555 to buy a ticket; he got the thirty years ago we all had our loon Cricket Club. After build-games etc. for troops proceeding chance. According LO ouring the new Club House. laying Home for demobilisation on the to induce all nations to join. The League can only be a complete irritating for men who should be ticket but had lost it. His father

brains and foresight. as our the lawns and settling down com-ss. Khiva on about the 1st of success if all nations do join, and it is fairly common knowledge concentrating on barbour work was produced and said he gave American friends would say, we fortably, the order to move care November. that certain adjustments will have to be carried cut before all to have to investigate such matt-555 to one of his fokis to buy a

"look a ticket for his son. He did not

chance. Through a again, this time to permit of the Any gifts of the above kind nations will willingly and enthusiastically come under its bindingers as thefts in the households of his son had lost the ticket hundred different causes, many laying out of that part of King's (money is not required) will be clauses.

until he

of us fell by the wayside. Mr. was arrested.

Too Park. The Government met gratefully received, and should be Let us just take one or two points to illustrate our mean- it is unreasonable to expect them Lindsell discharged the boy, and many mistook their own faults them very handsomely on this sent to Military Headquarters. ing. Spain, in spite of the great number

of intervening to keep down crime both on the ped the nian $25, or one month for misfortune and as often occasion, however, wi' the result really forgiven the British for annexing hart our and on the mainland as hard labour. years, has never

28 no' - were basy trying that the Club is now the proud Gibraltar. In fact, the majority of European countries look upon well. The sight of a European

to correct the mistakes of their possessor of the fine and con- sters of the game. The former our holding of this great key fortress with a considerable amount policeman in Kowloon is one that

It is not to be thought that Britain would ever is all too rare. Considering the to-day before Mr. S. L. Smith of their own.

A small boy was in the dock neighbours by substituting some renient quarters it occupies to- tas attained a record of which When the bar-day. Sir Matthew Nathan" was it has every reason to be give this back to Spain, but how vastly would trust and con- size of the place and the large charged with picking $150 from rest's a failure we often for-at the opening ceremony. He's proud in League Matches and fidence be strengthened if "Britain magnimously declared population, the place is notorious- the pocket of a seaman. Com-get that we selected the seed no' the first Governor that's had the Singles Competitions. that Gibraltar henceforth, would be an International gateway ly under-policed. Maybe the

ourselves. Anybow. Chater kept a silver jack presented to him at plainant gave evidence that, at garrisoned by some of the International Ponce it is proposed to dual duty requirements are 10 am. yesterday, he was outs de Plugging away, first at one thing, the K.B.G.C. and even though League Committee were held in create under the League? By such an act we should only be responsible for this fact. At any the Cheung Hing boarding house often at two. It's true he's made our new Governor isna' sports the Morning Post old office. One following the same principle that has been established in the case rate, the time will soon come

came daft, he's got precedent and to of the rules made then was that of Constantinople, for it is one of the terms in Turkey's Peace Treaty when consideration will have to talking to a friend, when he felt money, but none of us that this gateway to the Black Sea will be guarded and kept be given to the desirability of somebody pulling at his breast out here to study the flora and spare for any interest he may in all League Matches only bowls of No. 3 bias could be played with. inviolate by international custodians. During the discussions on making the Water Police a dis pocket. The defendant was not fauna of the Island. Hongkong set take in bowls.

As I was saying, ye've got to This was in order to make the the Peace Treaty a great deal was said regarding Britain's sea power tinct element in the Force, quite tall enough, so he had to pull at went more to length in those

the pocket. He turned

Now since Sir Paul's remember that twenty years chances equal for all, for up to dominance, and, whilst Britain very wisely refused to subscribe to independent of the other

round days.

weird and got him by the arm, and reclamation in the Central dis- ago Kowloon had no golf course, that time there was a any:bing that would place her in a position of insecure defence, branches.

handed him over to the police.trict the place looks a bit more no Cricket Club. nor Tennis co lection of "wood" in the there would be a great deal less heartburning in France and

How many America if Britain's predominance were not so great. One of the THE HOUSING PROBLEM.

folks Courts and that part of the Colony, some. of which had next The defendant had seen him prosperous.

here пок realise that change the money at a money

it's Peninsula then behind Knutsford to no bias at all. The K.B.G.C objects of the League is to secure the reduction of armaments upon

yon, which a great deal of money that might be put to more humane As to the Budget speech gerer-changer's. Mr. N. L. Smith to

wee. pleasant-faced Terrace and Chater Bungalow has all the apparatus for testing that we primarily owel was nothing more or less than a the bias of bowls and, to my mind, purposes is annually squandered, and this will assuredly affect Great ally, so far the criticism of which ordered him to receive 10 strokes man

The K.B.G.C. can a notable omission in connection Britain just as much as any other nation. Mr. Asquith in his speech we have heard most is that more of the birch, and sentenced him King's, Queen's, Prince's, York, wilderness.

St. George's and Alexander take not a little credit for what wi' the recent Interport Match at the Mansion House frankly admitted that the armaments of all specific emphasis was not laid on to three weeks' hard labour.

Buildings--blocks of business has been done since.

was that no test of the bowls was Powers still immeasurably exceeded the maximum for national our biggest and

houses, the subject of admiring So keen was the interest in made before the game. Of course safety.

comment by every visitor to bowls in those early days of the it may be that the rules of the We have only quoted two facts to be faced by Britishers just to show that the League of Nations is not a thing to give thoughtless

Hongkong? Kowloon, formerly game here that a bowling club Hongkong League didna' apply, a collection of garden lots and was also started at Cosmopolitan but you can easily understand, acquiescence to, and it would be possible to cite questions affecting

muddy swamps, is to-day-well, Dock where a small community for instance, if a Shanghai man the possessions of other countries in just such a similar manner.

you know just what it is of enthusiasts flourished for a was playing a bowl wi a No. 4 Peoples, the whole world over, bave got to face the possibility-in

Under the circumstancos can ye number of years until changes bias, bow be would have a bigger some cases the certainty-of sacrifice in order to gain the greater

wonder at Chater's optimism? reduced their number and the chance of drawing in" on advantage of decreased war risk, and it will in cases.entail the

His Excellency the Governor don't myself, but what I often do Club went out of business as a packed head. giving up of many cherished ideas associated with their national But the public would have wel- histories. The many questions of boundaries need only be hinted comed some clear-cut expression entertained the various Heads of marvel at, is the quiet unostenta-going concern.

The Police and the Civil Service st to prove the contention. Glib lip service to the great idea of the of the Government's general Departments at dinner at Govern-tious way he goes about, despite

then took up the game and the League will help it not one iota; there has to be a thoughtful policy so far as this question is ment House last evening. There it all.

Aye it was a good game and former had the distinction of understanding of all its problemos, an altruistic surrender of things concerned. The Government must were present-Dr. and Mrs. C. bear upon situations that will need the most careful of handling. view. Then why could it not lour, R.N., and Mrs. Tayloor, Mr.somely if all their players had for three years in succession, For this reason we heartily welcome the campaign that has been have been outlined in its broad as- and Mrs. E. Ralphs, Mr. and Mrs. been up to their usual form. Wi' thus carrying off the fine rose often than no that he's twitted He's started at Home, and the decision to set aside November 11 as a pects? As things are, we can only P. Jacks, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. bowls every man in the team has, bowl presented by Fred. Howell, for not playing the game.

League of Nations Day." For the campaign to be a success it assume that certain items are in Brayn, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. to add his quota if they expect to the first President of the League, told "that's cricket, no bowling." ahonki provide for lectures to be given on the international aspect tended to relieve the problem. On Tutcher, Commander C. M. Beck-come out on top. A lucky shot The Civil Service were handicap- After Geordie McMurdo's exhibi- of things, and although Reuter makes no mention of this, we can the introduction of the Budget at with, R.N., and Mrs Beckwith, now and then is no' to be despised,ped wi' their green fu those days, tion of successful driving and the hardly think that such an important provision has been left out. Home, the Government usually Capt. and Mrs. E. H. Gray, Capt. but 21 heads takes a long time to but we may expect very much good skipping of the Shanghai The best brains of all nations will have to be brought to bear upon declares its policies on the burn- and Mrs. G. E. Stewart, Mr. and play and a man has to be con better things from there now team there should be a little less the matters involved, for it is only by an intelligent and franking issues of the day. Housing Mrs. G. A. Woodcock, Dr. and sistently good if he and his skip that the Shanghai team bas de-diffidence in regard to "driving." inspection of them, coupled with a greater spirit of toleration is our most pressing problem. Yet Mrs. G. P. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. are to keep on speaking terms.clared it the best green in the It's all in the game, mind I'm

telling ye among the peoples of the earth, that this dream of world-wide peace, we are still in the dark as to the J. A Bullock, Mr. T. F. Claxton, If I'm no mistaken, among the Colony.

at the Telkoo and the K.C.C, are, com-

Tours truly conceived during the horrors of the world's greatest war, can be lines on which the authorities Mr. H. A. Nisbet and Mr. J. D. Interested spectators *intend grappling with it.

Lloyd.

Taikoo-Shanghai match were paratively speaking, the young- developed into an actuality.

most serious

problem housing. We are aware that much of the programme com- prised under the heading of Public Works Extraordinary, such as the opening up of new areas, will materially affect the situation eventually and may be expected to encourage building operations.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

October 17, 1919.

This in a thing that might be considered in future interport matches, for, when all is said and done, it's only fair for both sides. Another thing, when a man

already possessed, and an enlightened train of thought brought to have some definite scheme in W. McKenny, Capt. Basil Tay- Taikoo should have won hand-winning the first League trophy drives" in Hongkong, it's more

RÓBT, MacWHIRTER,