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ABOUT BOXING

The male community of the Colony is looking forward to a snoosssful `boring season during this coming winter, becanes from

IMTER OF HIGHER

ROSEMARY

Two non fatal came of scarlet

what has already been published fever (both Brijjakk were notified it is evident that the Hongkong yesterday, Boxing Association is making

HIFTER

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articles.” “Ona" of "the eas tiqualists ** was "speaking

Upon perusing your issue restarting'u'data I notios'undler.

Canton.

Five Furlongs Handlowy

tha beading The Sensational Pantile, Allog II. Orina, Lannon * Development In Canton". & M. Bines, Booktis (Scotia Dabla Rosemary and Rus and non-ferance to me in connection with Red Coat, Sepand, Diacarried plaining that, in spite if its name the present political movement in S, Chad). Brutos, Wes Mouse, What Is It, R. S. Brown Paper. it contained a great deal of hilter bat very little sweet. Assuming have to inform you that I did Cranby, Tredegar. Rab and that it is so, it should be remembered that these are bittar not take' a sum of $100,000, or Geordin Mao times. Most of the sweetness ay sum whatsoever, to Canton, Gymkhana Stakos —Why Not, of the world passed away on that alleged in the second para Attraction, Slam, Burning Day-

Hight, Lighting, Alavander and fateful day in August, 1914. Since graph of the said article.

I shall, therefore, be obliged if Spotted Sand. then we have dregged the cup of hitfarness - fall and completely. you will correct the above state- Ladies' Nomination-Hestra, The war has stained us in many ment in the next issue of your Both, Gibeon, Dadington, Baster,~

Samut, Sargeannt, Danne, ways, bas dwarfed much of the papar.

Thanking you for the trouble Grimstone, Cor, Nemazas, Bell beauty of our thoughts, leaving I am causing you.

Irving. Major Law, Hajor Timmis, Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone.. only the memories of happier

Yours etc.

Once Round. - Red Coat. days to act as a balance. W

LI MOW CHI. have a tangles of unrest: waTA,

Sepand, Siamese Cat, Pawnshop. Attraction, Brutus. What Is It, Blackbird Dablis, Lighting, P.S, Alexander, The Nipper, Cranby, Tredegar and Salamander.

avery preparation for it. The Rosary Sunday falls on Octo- greatest question facing the bar Srd, when there will be the Association is undoubtedly that oral Cathalle procession in the of providing a suitable venne for streets of Kowloon. the tournaments. With a large number of naval and military men stationed here, it will not be a The V. RC annual aquatic question of getting men to bez sports, extending over three days, but of providing a place for begin to-day at 4 p.m. To-marrow them to box in The City the programme re-opens at 4 pm. Hall is extremely inadequats and on Saturday at 3 p.m. in the accommodation it give and the site that was used

In connection with the Harbour last year, namely the Volunteer Headquarters parade ground, will Swim which takes place on not be available owing to the use Tuesday, we are zakad, to state that the newly-working Defense that prizes will be awarded to Corps will want to make of it. the first two ladies to finish the strikes, terrorism, murder. Chace And this has driven the officials course. of the Association to suggest that Gardens at North

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920.

THE AMERICAN SHIPPING ACT.

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Distance Handicap (14 mile).— Back Up, Aidlog II, Orion, Sinza, Wakeford, Lighting, Geordie

LOCAL BOX :NG.

SUGGESTED OPPONENTS FOR KERRISON. We have received the following for publication-

Sir,-Will you kindly allow me

to take up a small space in your paper re forthcoming contests at Hoogkong?

It was with great interest that.

could meat him?

the

Mr. Wildin makes a misirke

has left its mafk, on thing and everyone. Even the to restful countryside. has sufficiently large matsbed could of the Portuguese Republie on of events and wealth have brought be erected. We are not enamour- October 5th. The programme will an enormous increase in moter which bits spoilt ed of the suggestion and we don't include an open-air dance and traffic

The Bandman Comedy Com Mac, Rab, Mash, Surprise, Winter think that the majority of boxing supper at the Club de Recreio, pedestrianiam and robbed the enthusiasts will view

lovely country roads of their quiet pany last night gave a repeat par- Light, Scottie, Rebate, Discarded with Kowloon.

freshness. Nothing is now the formance of "The Naughty Wife" 81. Cbad), Barning Daylight, P. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires any considerable pleasure tha

same. We have reached an era at the Theatre Royal to a good S., Tredegar, Why Not, Red Coat, A Hongkong resident who of upheaval and riotous change; house. The play abounds with Black Cost, Supper Dance, Black- them to forward their names and addresses with communications necessity of having to make so dressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an long a journay. Take the big!

number of Kowloon men and rived from Canton yesterday and the newspaper must march amusing situations, and there bird Dahlia, Brown Paper, Moon- continual outbursts of shine, Speame (Claymore Dahlia), idence of their bona fides.

All communications intended for publication should be address-think of the time it would take states that a force of sepays is with the times. Events, however were

them to go and from a tourna-busy with barbed wire entangle-black, must be chronicled and laughter as the story was unfold Ringwood, Wee Mouse, Brutus, mants од the Shameen, in criticised, and progress faithfully ed. The parts were ably filled, What Is It, The Nipper and

Alexander. ment were it held so far away. Of course, special travelling Anticipation of coming trouble in recorded. The sweets of the past each member of the cast giving a

11⁄2 mile Handicap-St. John have given place to the bitters of capital rendering of his or her

(Season Ticket) Why Not, Søpe - ...the present We can only hope character. facilities would no doubt be provided, but even if that were

During the set the audience 4nd, Siamese Cat, Pawnshop,

Dabha la the final of the Kowloon that the aftermath will return as

were kept entertained by Mr. Patrick (Gleamore Tedo Miles at the piano, Through Attraction. What Is It, Alex- might be sufficient to deter them C. C. handicap doubles, concluded in part that which we have lost. Why not hold the tournaments in on Tuesday evening, after post-FIGHTING 13 HIS MIDDLE NAME out the whole of the Bandman ander, Stam, Lighting, P. S., and Kowloon? There, close to the ponement owing to rain, Dr.

Paddy IrelandAnd whin season he has most ably filled in Burging Daylight. ferry, is a large tract of waste Woodman and his son (sersteb) that big bully John Bull axed me the intervals, his spirited playing ground upon which building seems boat Abraham and Stalker (owe if Oi wad stop foighting his of popular Jars funes as well as remote as ever. The site where 30), 6-3, 6-3, 6-2

bboys, Oi said, 'Do yo see any as his renderings of more serious the open-air Cinema was erected

grane in me aye ?” And whin Oil selections, having frequently a few years back would make an

With the dancing season rapid-woke up and looked in th' glass, brought forth expressions ideal venge if the Association

art of right, all right; and black and

To-night the Company stages could obtain permission from the ly approaching, those who have begorra, me eye was grane, all appreciation.

"Good Night, KurseTMTM and Goverment to erect a large not yet acquired the

another good house matshed and allow it to stand all mastering the latest steps will be seller, too, bad cess t' him."

CRICKET. through the season. The ground interested to learn that instruction

anticipated is idle at present, at any rate. is being given by Mr. and Mrs. There would be a transportation Miles, so well known to those! problem to consider even with who visited the K. C. C. concerts pression, "That's not cricket"

applied to a mean oranunsporting); that site. The hundreds of as "Lena" and "Tedo." Intending serion. It expresses tritely the for information for flats or houses service men in Hongkong and pupils can be assured of expert honour and integrity of the game and they are sent away hopeless. I read Mr. Wildin's proposed the large number of civil-tuition. Mr. and Mrs. Miles are of cricket. It is the sport of And the shortage is being taken programme of the Hongkong

to have

be also seeking pupils for the kings and of urchins, of rich and full advantage of by the small Boxing Association in your paper

Compare the a few days ago. taken across the harbour, but pianoforte.

poor. No matter by whom it property owner.

The proposed eliminating con- the Star Ferry Company would

played, in reveals the spirit of existing rents of the Chines8-

It fas-owned houses of today with those tests for the middles is a good possibly consider mating special For mooring their cargo bosts fairness and manliness. arrangements so that congestion at a distance of less than acinates and attracts the mere of two or three years ago, and idea and should prove very in- Attitudes such astounding increases will teresting sport, but why only A new development has arisen in the American merchant could be avoided. There seems hundred yards from low water love of playing it. marine question by the refusal of President Wilson to annul the no site available in the City, and mark, between the Gas Works, assumed in some sports have be found that serious contempla eliminating contests for

lack of dignity, bat in tion should be given to take middles: why not for the welters Commercial Treaties with foreign Powers, a step which would be of the other places Kowloon Shek Tong-tsui and the Bowring-s

remedial action by the control of as well? necessary were the new Merchant Shipping Act to be put into strikes us as being the bestton Canal during probibited hours cricket

Once you were wrongly We all know "Sky" Kerrison yesterday. the masters and graceful Lithe men and boyarents. that the housing is the one entitled to the belt operation. That Act, as is knowo, involves the taxation of goods. carried in foreign ships, sad in order to legalise such taxation the INTER-PORT CRICKET.

Having spoken of one sport, let mistresses of nine cargo boats in flannels and blazers, clean and informed existing commercial arrangements between the United States and

Court by Commander over Marine

the green tarf. They serious to warrant taking any contexts to decide who should foreign Powers would of necessity have to be revised. Whatever us speak of another, or rather, of were this morning fined at the wholesome looking, are spread question was not sufficiently contest, but why not a series of action President Wilson had taken in the matter would have a big forthcoming sporting event brought him a fair measure of criticism, for, on the one hand, there-the inter-port Cricket Match C. W. Beckwith, RN, & each move here or there, or there action. But are interests which would like American shipping to be given the with Shanghai. As will be seen with the exception of two, who obedient to the orders of that peep behind the scenes and advantages planned by the sponsors of the Act, whilst, on the other, from our news columns to-day had several previous convictions strategist, the bowler, and there watch the movements of the when he says Leading Stoker there are those who are far-seeing enough to realise that legislation there will be a trial match be and who were fined $10 each is never a question as to his right stringpaliers and the poor house- Dagenhardt is the champion of of this type invites foreign retaliation. Thus we need not be sur-tween "A" and "B" teams on They pleaded guilty to the charge, or a doubt of his wisdom. It is seeking puppets, there is no the China Squadron. For 008 clean game a game of discipline, question but that you would take thing, several ships in the If you have experienced the thrill steps to prevent this system of squadron were not at Wei-bai-wai prised to learn that President Wilson's refusal to annul the Tresties the Cricket Ground on Saturday

afternoon, and we presume that We have been favoured with an of hitting a ball to boundary, or rapacity.

at the time the competition took has been vehemently denounced by some shippers whilst others as a result of the performances advance copy of The Rock, the the joy of taking a wicket with

place, so could not send repre- approve of what be bas done.

the Hongkong new Catbolic magazine, which is

a lovely swerve or a leg break, Every period of trouble in sentatives. Not that I want to American opinion bas been very divided on the question of the at, that match

We are to make its appearance to-morrow. OT even the satisfaction of Canton finds huge numbers of belittle Dagenhardi's perform expediency and the justice of legislation of the character embodied team will be chosen.

geo-The number, which contains

holding a catch in the slips, Chinese refugees crowding into ance; far from it; but I think QK the in this Act. Apart from possible retaliation, it has been urged not a little pleased at

very open method close on fifty pages, is extreme-

And the present there. you will know the spirit and the Hongkong.

wbo should try in some quarters that America would only injure her own interests ing this by enforcing an enactment of this order, and that there are other adopted, for there was entertained ly well got up, nicely illustrated roll of cricket wherever the trouble is no exception. The Station and far better means of building up a merchant marine adequate lo in some quarters a fear that the and contains a wealth of matter English language is spoken it is exodus of these people at the conclusions with him befors

close home, Hongkong team would be a mat- of special interest to Catholica,

B. P. O. Bullivan, H. M. S. Moth, if we are to judge by the Manils papers there is considerable oppositer of selection by one particular much of which, however, will played, not only by English time of writing is in full swing be is matched for a belt contest tion fell against the Act in the Philippines, and expecially agains: Club. Among the men who have appeal to the general public as people but by other races who again. The Hongkong basts Theme Include :---

swarm-who, by the way, is not a middle national game. In many a back-bers of refugees are the provisions aiming to shut foreign shipping out of the inter-island been chosen for Saturday's match well. Features worthy of note have caught the infection of our are packed and large_num- trade. We have even heard it said that some Americans in Manila are several who have dogs really are the poetical contributions by block township of Australia, you ing into the Colony. And mark weight as stated in your paper, hold that that opposition is the result of British propaganda, though good service for the Colony in Mrs. Jackson, whose lines on

& flat clearing to find a cricket seldom go back. A few thousands welter-weight limit during resea what good basis there is for the belief we cannot imagine. Io say the past. Mr. W. C. D. Torner, Hongkong at Sunset" are zich may emerge from the bush into this: once they are here they but has always fought at the

Stoker well be described C30

2.5 The section "Kowloon and its crimination in regard to coastal shipping, for the simple reason

For Hinterland"

more than probable you will see of China are missed no more than touches on many that none is enforced. To take the Straits Settlements and India as veteran Interport player,

a lanky youth knocking up as bandful delved from a sack of Hawkins, who hassiready fought, known matters of interest to the com- was

But the thousands en-Kerrison and retired owing to century with apparently the rice. typical of our general policy. American vessels are just as free to many years he

of Hongkong's best manity scross the barbour, whilst indulge in the coastal trade as are British boats. And the same can

of Hongkong Then we have such the various articles contributed same ease as he would cut acroaching on the slready limited trouble with his hand;

It is housing spaces

Ld. Seaman Codling, H. M. S... stick of sugar CEDO, the same ja Africa, Indis must have the effect of gradually Titania, who lost the decision to denied us in Japan. Our shipping policy amounts to discrimination well-known against nobody, and in view of that fact it is a little ungenezaus to Hancock, Mr. T. E. Pearce and Fuck has made & splendid start,

R. O. Bird, asly to mention & and we wish it all success. 1tand

other possessions, pushing the European out of Dagenhards after so extra round It is impossible and who, in the opinion of a good- where it has

irresistible the island. RE lay Filipino opposition to this proposed American legislation at the few who have previously will be issued monthly at 20 cents traction for the wanderer. It that this condition of affairs many judges, could do much ..door of British propagandists.

The better over a longer distance? thrills him with the remembrance can go on indefinitely. When we stop and consider this American Merchant Shipping presented the Colony in Interport per copy.

of past days, of English summer facts must be faced. The position Mr. Borliegh, who Me Wildin Act, we cannot help recalling how much its provisions conflict matches. Major Bagnall, is well

For the theft of a hammer head afternoons, blue skies and springy of the housing trouble is worse mentioned in his interview.

If these five men ware matched with the spirit of Allied co-operation which was in evidence remembered as a player who be- during the war and which we were told was to continge after fore the war had to reckoned with peace wasdeclared. For example, there was the Economic Conference in any match he played, and Capt. from the Kowloon Docks, a turf and the sounding smack of than ever. As it is, the majority of the Allies in Paris, held in June, 1916, when measures were Davies as a bowler proved to be Chinese mechanic at the Naval the ball as it meets the bat and of Europeans are living cheek by in eliminating contorts for the the andoing of many a good Dockyard was to-day sentenced flies in a graceful curve to the jowl with Asiatics, and soon even honour of meeting Kerrison, it drawn up, both for the period of the war and after, to facilitate on a batsman last season. In fact one to the heavy penalty of two boundary. Cricket is English that privilege will be denied them would provide good sport for the permanent basis an economic alliance. These permanent measures, expressly described as applicable to post-war times, were conceived could go through the list almost months hard labour in conse so simply English that it has in-unless something is done. To boxing public of Hongkong and

play cricket" building operations are being for premier honours

I thouki also: Ike to mention with a view to assuring "the independence of the Allies not only so from end to end and find some-quence of the application of a bred into our race the constant aggravate matters, most of the also find a man fit to fight Kerrison

done by Chinese, who, when they far as concerns their sources of supply, but also as regards their thing in the way of praiseworthy Police Officer who informed the endeavour to

to make. The the Magistrate (Mr. G. N. Orme) through life.

let to Europeans, coolly demand that in my humble coin? financial, commercial and maritime organisation." It is true that comment

of selection will be that a check was necessary for

nearly double the rent asked Duganhardt has not won all at that time America had not entered the war, but we recall these matter

by no means an easy task, the crop of petty larcenies which

A lady, like many others, in, by European landlords. The fights with ridiculou resolves because they are typical of the spirit of cordial solidarity though it is comforting to think have of late been occurring

of the Govern-fas stated by - Mt which then animated the Allies and which was later shared by that Hongkong has to many good with great frequency at the Hongkong, was anxiously but apathy America as well. In fact, one of President Wilson's famous Four-

A Dockyard. The question of putainly seeking a house. At ment in this critical wafair to consider teen Points was absolute freedom of navigation in peace and war players it can draw upon.

"A house authorities so iscking in sentiertänded him, outside territorial waters, except when seas may be closed by inter- Ramjahn and Ng Bre-kwong will ting the prisoner in stocks was length an advertisement appeared is lamentable. Are the responsible Webb, He

other than raised, but objection came from la The Morning Post national action, whilst another read as follows: Removal as far represent Clubs as possible of all economic barriers." With the spirit of those two European and we sincerely trust his Worship, who said that in this to let on Kennedy Road." She ment sad the desire to do the that be was. points, this American Merchant Shipping Act conflicts; moreover, that every consideration will be case the question of loss of face applied to the landlord (a Chinese) right thing that they are willing its introduction is a poor indication of the promised Allied unity, shown in order to make the had to be considered. He would and to her consternation: this to continue doing nothing If so, Ld seeing that the discriminatory provisions it contains would operate selected team as representative of be agreeable to impose stocks on spacious man coolly demanded there is nothing mow 0,1 alike against America's friends and her forrser enemies. President the Colony's best players as a confirmed rogue, but in this 1226 & month for three rooms and beyond this: That the longer the Wilson,by refusing to facilitate the enforcement of the enactment possible. Shanghai will probably case the prisoner was a first 2 kitoben-unfurnished. Your situation is Deghatal; the more is acting quite consistently, whilst those who resent his attitude bring down a very strong com-offender, and to put him in stocks Excellency, the housing situation difficult will ther would appear to be unmindful of past promises of Allied co-oper- bination, but there is no reason s&& warning against other would is in s perfectly alarming state, the time atsives End, & Crisis coin- stion. In any case, legislation of this class est breed much why Hongkong should not come be offenders would defeat the very Day after day, liar, pois legislation. Then the cost,

the newspaper once below threefold trouble and ill-feeling and we trust that it will not be further come out of the fixture with purpose for which such punish stresor of people basies Bnancially and politically, will be

every credit if not with victory ment was provided.

the needs of the

country.

To

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case, America or any other country cannot complain of British dis. who is to captain or bad esus, in merit, and by Colonel Bowen-match in progress. And it is from the saturating population years: Walters,

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