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Acknowledgment.

The Roverend Mother Feliciu desires to thank all friends for their kind sympathy in the loss sustained by the French Convent through the death of Sister Macario and for floral tributes sent to the funeral.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921

THE CROZIER RESIGNATION. -

TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

turn designated Queen's College. QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

In his reply on behalf of Q. C. In fact, in tho early part of July Mr. Bird said inter alia: It is a 1889 the Government authorized the very proud moment for me to stand Old Boys Dinner. Head Master to take possession of up here as the first headmaster to Loosely Framed Budget. NO MAN IS GOOD FOR ANY-

this Queen's College and the trans- address you. For Mr. Tanner's and At to-day's meeting of the THING WHO HAS NOT LEARNED

A sense of comradeship and for from the Central School' was your own sakos I wish he word here Legislative Council the question THE EASY. PROMPT, CHEERFUL

WILL TO Conviviality struck the predom effected in an incredibly short space to fill the role, bat for my own sake the revenue raising Bido-wan RIGHTFUL AUTHORITY,Wash-inating note in the first annual of time. With the years, the famo! I would not have is otherwiso. (Hoar of the Colony's finsoces-from SUBMISSION OF HIS

social reunion and dinner of mem of the old Government Contral hero). I feel that this is going to discussed and the objections of ington Gladden.

bers of Queen's College Old Boys' School and Queen's College as an be a historie occasion and should be business men to the Stamp Bill!

Lieut. C.E. Dodd, R.E. is ox-Associations which took place on mado plain. But we might be forgiven further reference to the pected to leave England next Saturday evening at the Hall of educational institution has spread a happy augury for a bright future. over the whole world and to-day, as I feel that this Association is going question of Hongkong's financialj month for duty with the local the College. status here by reason of the garrison.

luminating figures for 1920

The health return for Saturday contained in Friday's Govern- mont Gazelle. We fancy it must shows two cases of enteric and have como as something in the one each of diphtheria, cerebro nature of a surprise for most spinal fover and small-pox. The All the people to learn that last year the last-named was fatal. Government's revenue was more sufferere were Chinese. than its expenditure. Truo, its revenue had shrunk considerably On Saturday, the journalists of efforts in the music line, especial-holarship; men as compared with the previous Hongkong gave a tiffin party to ly his adaptation of the tune of into the world near and far and of the world. I know that old year, but its expenditure had also Mr. A. Hicks, Editor of the Hong-Sui Sing Fu ("Narcissus Song "won in the spheres of officialdors, Queen's College boys have a very been considerably reduced, with hony Telegraph, who is shortly into a poetic chant about the Law, Commerce, Science and Medi- real interest in the College and I am those illustrious sucenABCR sure that they will cooperate in the result that over $200,000 was going on Home leave. Mr. T. inauguration of the Association, cine added to the Colony's balance of Petrie was in the chair and Mr. Wero received with great delight which only the most capable and inniaintaining the pre-eminence which Ainstantaneously adopted by those dustrious can hope to achieve. the College has laborionsly and assols over liabilities. It is B.A. Hale vica-chairman.

#s their Association These gentlemen are too numerous steadily acquireil. I don't want to to enumerate hat their names to go into the history of the School as

i did the

Of the numerous members who ever, all who have passed through to be like the banyan tree. It is staged the concert, special the hands of their ablo Masters, are going to throw its branches far and mention should be made with proud to bear the title of Queen's wide and like the banyan troo it is reference to Mr. J. F. Grose, who, College Alumni Their protege are going to carry its roots with its under the influence of convivial men of the calibro second to none branches to congenial soil and I blossomed out, as products of British education hope it will be one of the plea. surroundings, much to the satisfaction of those who can be relied upon to establish santest duties of the President in present, into a comedian, and an and maintain the traditions of their future to rend on telegrams from artist of marked talent. His

who have gone this to branch societies in all parta'

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football

of that record.

known

This associa-

rather surprising. therefore, that number of onlogistic and humor- present the Government should and ous specetes wore delivered and anthem.

In the absence of the President most of us are well known and I am there are many here who know itself in its present impoverished a very happy tinio spent.

(Sir Robert Ho Tung) Mr. U.proud to say that we have many of more than 1 do, but there are somo state. The solo explanation,

The Hongkong Boy Scouts Rumjahn took the chair, supem with us in this hall this even-landmarks which should be made to our mind, is that it very! Carelessly went to work in framcelebrated St. George's Day with ported by Mr. R. E. O, Bird, one

Dr. Stewart came hero in ing its 1921 Budget; it expected a grand muster and march past of the two Vice-Presidents.

The arrangements for the

In the field of sport our College the year 1862 during the first year to receive far more than it has the flag staff at Lamma Island

OWN. Out of the Government Central School subsequently Lakori stops to under the leadership of Colonel dinner were under the usually as always held her

of the Masters both past and present have when there wore only 17 pupils. realise, and it committed itself to Bowen, the Commissioner. The excellent supervision heavy extraordinary expenditure newly-formed troop from the Hongkong Hotel, the menu card inthued us with the great British However. Dr. Stewart instilled then that it couldn't afford. Boforo Ellis Kadoorio School, comprising being one of great artistic effort. sporting instinct and to-day I think with the love of book Jearning nad the fiovornment promised us a new some boys, made their first grandThe typical products of the we might match and give a good I find on the register the name of hospital for Kowloon, now Fire march since its inauguration. College (the merchant, soldier, recount of argelves in cricket, Wan Ab Sin, who afterwards bo- Brigade quarters, a new gaot, af

statesman etc.) wore pictured tennis,

nul swimming came the rarinn in the City Hall. new hospital for Hongkong, new.

The agenda for to-morrow's around a sketch of the College in all emers. In the sports in bottes that he carried this love of motor roads and the many other Sanitary Board meeting includos whilst typifying his headship over which we have competed, our selmoi books still further, for at that time

Government autumn's budget a letter from the Government the institution was a "Bird-like "

supplied the things last presaged, it should have made relative to the proposed campaign characterization of the Head-bas. a glorious record behind it, and the

as a weather cock on we have every reason to feel proud scholars with books, and thoro was sure that it had the money with against mosquitoes, whilst other master

the note on the register that he had which to pay for them. It has matters to be dealt with will the College flagstaff. proved to be very badly out in include the appointment of Mr. A band under the directorship To Mr. T. K. Dealy, the Head-] not returned his books. (Laughter). its reckoning regarding the James Reid as 2nd Class Sanitary of Professor Gonzales rendered a master up to May 1918, to Mr. E. Since then there have been 10,159 opium monopoly, whilst other Inspector, and consideration of number of pleasing selections Ralphs, formerly 2nd Master now names on the register and so thero -sources of revonne have the proposed changes in the during the evening.

Inspector of British Schools, to is no doubt that Q.C. has had a not materialised. The other] Estimates for 1922,

QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND STANJ.

our present brilliant Head, Mr. wide influence on the rising and I day the Colony was told by the

In propiosing the toast of B. Tantrer, now on home leave, to may say recent generation of China. Hon. Colonial Secretary (now The Hong Chin Moo Associa-

Queen's College 27141 Staff, Mr. R. H. O. Bred, the acting Head. There are many well known Q.C. H.E. the Officer Admin-tion branch at Hongkong yester-

Mr. C Rusjahn said: In master in his stend, and their col-old boys here and I may mention istering the Government) that a day, at the Now Victoria Theatre,

of the

temporary longnes, our boys turn for inspira-that our Chairman is the father of eaving of something like. $800-gave an exhibition performance sequence 1000 could be effected on in celebration of its anniversary. absence from the Colony of Sir tion and these gentlemen have prov-the first boy to win the King what WAH ostimated to he The orthodox form of Chinose Robert Ho Tung, it devolves upon ad themselves equal to the cccasion, Edward VII. scholarship. (Applause).

but spent during 1921, we boxing was expounded by various me as one of the Vice-Presidents, never lacking to give full measure The foundation stone of Q.0, was

to think that Venture

out exponents, who in various ad- to preside

ofse that we may look into a intare laid in 1981, at the building was of rosy hues in which our boys will not occupied mutil 1889, owing to The correspondence in the Crozier incident has been of a programme of Public Works dresses remarked on the bene- our Q. C. O. B. Association.

Words camot express my heart-be fitted manfully and ably to up-the slowness of the Government. made public, and it is just as well that it has. When the Extraordinary involving the re-ficial effects this method of re- cord expenditure of nearly $5,000,- creation would have on the news of General Crozier's resignation reached the Colony 000 a great deal more could be physical welfare of China,

felt pleasure in being among you held our glorious annals. As years There were at first 718 boys in this this evening at this our first old rol! by, they bring in their train molding The Yellow Dragon as in the midst of daily reports of ferocious outrages and avoided could be deferred until similar reprisals, there was room for a surmise that General the financial stability of the A successful whist drive was boys dinner in this Colony and at wider knowledge and it is indeed a you know was founded by Messrs.

warranted such Crozier, Commandant of the Auxiliary Cadets, must have Colony

hig held on Friday evening in the having this opportunity of saying a pleasure to see our old and honour- E. Ralph and James. It is laid that the object of this are Sergeant Mess of the Wiltabire few words of appreciation towardsed School breasting the times in the down detected his men in some exceedingly grave misconduct to schemes. If our revenues

getting less (the tendency is al Rgh, Murray Barracks. The Matre that we pupils both fore-front. To you I say this even magazine was to be a bond between cause him to resign at a critical juncture. When slaughter in that direction) and big sums of following were the prize-winners of the pt and present, owe to her, ing that this our first gathering the present and the past pupils and and incendiarism have become daily occurrences it is some money are required to defray the Ladies 1. Mrs. Stroud (172); L. need of dilate upon the Listory together of our old-School boys in am very pleased it has accom- relief to find the facts no worse than the correspondence cost of needed developments, then 2nd, Mrs. Prickett (166); 3rd, Mrs. of the College as the magazine of Hongkong is a great move in the plished the purpose.

Government will muut Anderson (166); Booby, shows them to have been. On February 9 a party of 31 our

Mrs. College The Tetion Dragan alright direction and it is, I am sure, tion is no doubt a good thing, Q. Gents. 1st, Mr.

Contains ready auxiliaries was ordered to carry out a raid for arms at assuredly have to drop its objec- Silvester (137).

interesting in the hope of everyone bere present, C. past papils should not be like a tions to raising loans.. In any Patey (178) 2nd, Mr. Cousins farm near Trim. It is alleged that the men who carried case it should draft its Budgets (174): 3rd, Mr. Devaston (173); article thereon subscribed by Dr. G. only the forerumer of many more ship that misses through, the water out the raid were guilty of looting, taking away money and with a better chance of realising 4th, Mr. Long (171); Booby, Mr. H. Bagson Wright in the 1993 May happy and enjoyable assemblies of and the waves of a trackless ocean nature. Such functions and know no more about it. Q. C. whisky, wine. fowls, pictures and other property. The ther than

one Macpherson (136). The duties of number. A brief summary of the a similar wine and the fowls, it is said, were consumed in the mess, presenced to the Colony with M.C. were ably carried out by lief events in the history of the ought to become an annual institu- should be like a beacon that can throw its light far and wide and auch a shout of approval last R.Q.M.S. Miller.

College subscribed by Mr W. L.tion. (Applause). Some members of the company appear to have given October.

Handyside also appeared in 1940 Mr. Ramjahn read a letter from the old boys should remember they information, in consequence of which General Crozier held'

The .B. Waring Company June issue.

Sir Robert Bo Tung in which he are acting in that light. It is there. an investigation.

still draws big houses, there bo- Our old School-formerly known tendered his cordial good wishes fore well to remeber that they are As a result of this investigation live of the alleged The "Spurs" Again.

ing a large attendance on Saturas The Government Central School, to Queen's College and the esteem not ploughing a lonely furrow in ringleaders were placed under arrest, while the other 26 In the early days of the day night, when "The Speckled was instituted by the British Goved teachers and for prosperity and life but they are members of a cor,

Football Cup-Band" was produced. The play members of the party were dismissed, subject to the Association. approval of General Tudor, the Police Adviser to the Secret-times as "thie Cup"-Southern noteworthy for the powerful act and in my time, in the last seventies

known in those was admirably interpreted, beingement in or about the year 1601-success to the Q.C.O.B.A." ary for Ireland. Threats are alleged to have been made clubs were particularly successing of the members of the cast, and early eighties, conducted by the against the informers, which though reprehensible, is ful Thou came professionalism, Mr. Charles Quartermaine nade late Dr. Frederick Stewart, who hardly astonishing, seeing that where the offence is not of and for a long period the South, a big hit in the part of Sherlock was later assigned to other official the unpaid Holmes, whilst Miss Edith Smith | duties, namely, those of Mugistrate, a dark kind members of most bodies of a military charac-adhering

regime (though there wores Edith Stonorgave a very clever Registrar General and Colonial} ter regard it as a breach of comradeship to "blow the gall."scoptics about), saw no more study. The other parts were also Secretary, which last named office General Tudor was away at the time, and possibly his of the national trophy.well taken. The matines per he held until his decease Dr. absence was one of the causes, as suggested at the time, of London teams and clubs from formance of The Morchant of Stewart's brilliant reputation as a The letters from the Kowloon has found a new and stable centre the misunderstanding between General Crozier and his around the great matropolitan Venice" was all that could be day scholar and adminstrator is too well Residents' Association flash upon of gravity and that the Kowloon

To-night the Company superior. General Tudor sent instructions for actionare played many exciting games sired. against the 26 cadets to be suspended until his return to could not cope with the full-time which should

between themselves, but they stages" She stoops to Conquer," known to call for any comment by the world in troubled times. Tong scherne has not been lost

attract a full mc. Dr. G. H. Bateson Wright Wars and

of ware, eight of. To all that is evil this Dublin, but in the meantime they had been sent to England, specialists from the North and house.

cornos next into the School history shipping disasters, volcanic erup- beneficent Association spells dis- tions, akin eruptions, earth- aster. Let the Honourable Claud- where they protested against their dismissal, on the ground Midlands, and seldom did a

and we are proud indeed to reflect quakes, taxes and still mors ius tremble in the gubernatorial that they had been condemned without trial. Concerning Southern team advance beyond

upon our good fortune in having taxes had combined to infuse chair; let Em'ly be duly and the initial singe of the this the correspondence leaves us in some uncertainty, the

had such a capable successor to Dr. into men's minds a spirit of fear fittingly subservient, let our pro Competition proper. The one statement being that General Crozier held an investigation London team with pretensions to

| Stewart. Dr. Weight by reason of and wonder; a chilling apprehen- fiteering landlords take heed; let Notifications were issued by his sterling abilities won a reputasion of something more direful the brokers consider their end. and heard considerable evidence." Some sort of an inquiry meet the League clubs upon an the Civil Government and Police was evidently held, perhaps only of an informal kind, while equality, the famous Corinthians, Departments yesterday to the tian throughout the Far East which to come had shaken the Colony's The K.R.A. is ALIVE and Mr. to perpotuate his faith in the continuity of things. Jackson the mouthpiece thereof. a matter involving arrest or dismissal would presumably call adopted a policy of non-participa- effect that as the inauguration of will over serve

Composed of I for a regular trial. General Tudor's action resulted in the tion,

Varsity Dr. Sun as President is to take name in ur School Associations. Not in vain did all creation To the Legislative Council and this terrestrial P.W.D., local gods in the Editor- recull of the 26 cadets, a court of inquiry to be' instituted.

Bay players, its place on May 5th, the day should Mention should here be made by groan; when members usually played in the be observed as a public holiday me of those staunch supporters of sphere travaileth something is ial Chair, Christian Scientists and Whatever the shade of guilt to be attributed to the Cup for their respectivo clubs. and decorations should be exhi- the late Dr. Stewart and Dr.about to be brought forth, some the quarrolling Churches he will accused, it is clear that they were not involved in any Towards the end of the nineties, bited by the public.

Wright, namely the late Mr. Alex. great turning point was due to speak anon.

arrive in the history of the Meanwhile to all good men black misdeeds of the kind that have been the subject of many clubs in the Home Counties It is rumoured that war will be Falconer who was very highly e- Colony. And bobold, Mr. Jack and true he holds aloft the beacon questions in Parliament, and General Crozier's action has having atop professionalism, declared between Kwangtung and teemed by masters and pupils, and son has released from his file of Light and Leading. He Leads; some suggestion of pique. His letter to his superior shows the Southern teams began to Kwangsi immediately after the Mr. Alfred J. May who retired in the K.R.A. Correspondence with it is for the rest of the Colony to

make a ebow. The performance President's inauguration. that his resignation was not due to dissent from the use of of Southampton in reaching the armed forces in Ireland, his grievance being that discipline semi-final was a signal. That at the was not sufficiently strict. It may be noted that the men struggle in the snow concerned were not members of the much-criticised Black Crystal Palace saw the "Saints" succumb to Notts Forest, but and Tans, but of the auxiliary organisation of cadets, con- the margin was the narrowest, and Saturday's Matches. sisting of young ex-officers acting as privates. Discipline Southern teams no longer faced The Lawn Tennis League many of us have passed through the hearted babblers, Mr. Jackson by reprinting his epoch-making among a body of this type would not always be easy to their rivals with the same pre-season began on Saturday, when old School's portals. In or about was but biding his time. Com- utterances shall continue to shine maintain, and perhaps the formation of such a corps was monition of defeat. It was in 1901 a number of ties were played off the year 1882 the then Governor, pared with him

that the Cup came back South, In the Senior Division, Kowloon Sir John Pope Hennessy appointed injudicious, Holders of his Majesty's commission, in after a replay. The Spurs were Cricket Club were at home to the a Commission to inquire into the which term we may include ex-holders, have a fine tradition the victors, and now, after a lapse Civil Borvlee, a keenly-contested question of providing more room for of honourable service, but the suitability of a force of the of precisely twenty years, they match ending in a win for K.C.C. educational purposes than the Gov kind here concerned is open to doubt. In this case the have repeated their achievement, by 52 games to 47.

ernment Central School allowed, In the 2nd Division. C. R. C. eventually the outcome of the Com transgressors probably regarded their breach of regulations defeating the "Wolves" in what as nothing much worse than a youthful spree. It cannot was evidently a closely-fought beat Kowloon at Causeway Bay missioners' report theroon was the atmosphere of the recent past has Association Is AWAKE and

game. We may be sure that by 59 games to 40.

this On the Civil Service courts, orection of a now College close by now relaxed and men may go andet be expected, however, that the victims of the escapade London-not North London only should reciprocate this view of the occurrence, which was-was distinctly vocal on Satur- Club de Recreio were the visitors this site of the Government Central about their business convinced majestically moves and has its

day evening.

and they won by 56 games to 43. School-which now college was in that in the ERA, the universe being. Bouw, wow! the more deplorable coming at such a period of tousiou.

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Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

rumours

1000 on pension after spending 27 the Government-and the rag- follow in his footsteps. If the yoars in this School, 18 years of ing storms are calmed. Who path seem obscure, question not which he carried out energetically said that this beneficent Associ- his wisdom, but follow. There and capably the duties of second ation was reactionary and that have been journalists before but master and to whose untiring efforts retrogression had appeared in their names will be heard no its ranks? Out on you, faint more. Some there may be who

with a diminished and reflected "We petty men light but like weak and flickering "Walk under his buge lega and stars they shall hide their beads for ever in the effulgeren of bis peop about, To. And ourselves dishonour it is said at times, may nod; he glory. Out brief candles. Homer able graves."

never. Let it be known to uil The tension of the electrified men that the Kowloon Residents"

chaotic debacle