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GLIMPSES OF CHINA.

A series of Vandyck Photogravures illustrating

THE HONGKONG · · TELEGRAPH ZMONDAY: "NOVEMBER 7. 1921.

NOTES & COMMENTS. ⠀

month

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account

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DAY BY DAY.

NO GRACE CAN SAVE ANY MAN SLESS HE HELPS HIMSELF- Henry Word Beechar.

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony on Saturday.

FOOTBALL.

Saturday's Games Reviewed.

(BY “QUIZ") Saturday's games resulted follow-

-Hongkong League.

Division I ----

Ambrose v. Tamar,

The Police were lucky to esp-winners of a well contested and ture the two points for the play a fast game by two goals to nil was in favour of the Chinese. Swan in the Paline goal brought off some good saves bat at times ha played to the gullary and al- most let his aide down.

Clark and MeWalter cleared well and Valentine played a good

On the "B" ground at Happy Valley the match ending in a goalless draw..

Hudson at centre half for the Tamar played a hard working game and Mitch in goal saved

A Master's Predicament.

One of the Canton boats did not sail on Thursday night and great deal of inconvenience and annoyance was caused to many Chinese passangere. Here are

as game in the forward line. Watson well. The formand line was led the facts-The owners, who are

was given a trial on the right by Hsitor. who tested Harwood |Chinese, havs been a little slack

wing but could not get the ball so on several occasions. For the he took up his old position inside Ambrose Savage was the out- in paying into the Treasury the money which falls due ovary The Fire Brigade was at a

after the interval where his play standing forward and he was ably Of improved. thej quarter to one this afternoon Club`·.

assisted by Hannaford. Harwood compulsory employment of called out to deal with a fire"Curlew"

played a sound game in goal and jcertain number of Indiaa guards which bad broken out in a salt-"Tamar"

saved his side from defeat. under the Piracy Preventionfish junk which was anchored of RG.A.

University v. Curlew Reserves. Ordinance. The money should the foreshore at Saiwanbo (Shan-Police

Division II.

Oathe"B" ground the University while Townsend figured between played a sound game gaining an month. Thursday was the 3rd-quisitioned, and up to two o'clock Wilts Res. 6 Club Res.

the posts for Kowloon in place of ot, in other words six days behind the Gremen had not returned. R.G.A. Res. 6 S. C. A. "B" Eve who was assisting his ship at sailors by a big margin. Sepher unexpected victory over the time. Some little time before the No casually has

been SC.A. "A.”..... 4 Punjabis yet

Sookanpoo against the Clod played a sound defensive game, University 4 "Curlew "Res. 1 Each team. fielded a Pascoe at while Samy was the pick of the officer went aboard and told the

|St. Joseph's ... 3 United

1 centre forward. The play, which for wards. His hat trick against a The games in the first division was Usptain that the guards (who

of a scrambling nature, sound defence proves his share

Chinese life and surroundings.e paid by the 28th. of each Kiwan). No. 1 firefloat was re-

A suitable present to send Home boat was due to start a police reported.

for Christmas.

AS. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Hongkong Dispensary.

All communications intended for publication should be address Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

el to the Editor.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1921.

been paid The master out

by the

AL once

0 "Cairo " 2 Wiltshires...

... 0 Ambrose

0

1 Kowloon

... 1 S.C.A.

0

1

R.G.A..v. Kowloon. On the Kowloon ground at Happy Valley. Watson, senior, turned out to assist the R.GA.

Wilts. Reserves v. Club Reserves.

On the Club ground the soldiers winning a one-sided game by six goals to ril. Ford and Lee shared the goals between them.

S. C, A. “A” v. Punjabis.

come under the Police Depari- For being in possession of awere all evenly contested the partly due to tha Tough in the victory. ment) would have to be taken Colt automatic revolver and 95 largest margin being in the state of the ground and The University won by i goals off ship as their wages hat not rounds of ammunition, a Chinese Carles--Wilts match. Seven of partly due to lack of combination to ane. Loon Fook scoring the

owners returned emigrant from Canade the teams failed to scare and only of both teams, slightly favoured other goal for the sailors.

Bought was this morning ordered by Argos's were scored by the other the R.G.A. who early in the game St. Joseph's College v. United. the compradore WhoR E Lindsell to pay a fine of 3 which proves that the defence scored through Harris but the

The defendant was told of all the Clubs in sound.

Omar Ismail and Hyndman lin turn went to the Company's $75.

goal was disallowed. No score at turned out for the College in their office and explained matters. It that he could have the arms back

Club v. Cairo.

half time. The soldiers made a match against the United on the wasn's many minutes before the on the production of a permit

The Clab visited Sookunpoo on slight alteration in their side latter's ground and won hard from the compradore got the £150necessary

L'anion authorities! to clear the bill. But, oh ne. the within the probation period of Saturday where they met the after the interval, Paseos dropping game by

won & hard Caira, the game ending with the back to the half back line and

a well directed corner kick by police officer couldn't handle the three months.

same result as the match a fort-Henwood replacing him in the Rahmin Hallam opened the score money: it was nothing to do with

night previous on the Club ground attack. The RG.& continued for the College who had the better Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which reqatres him, it would have to be paid into

Amarg those who made up the where these teams played a drawn to have the advantage and of the exchanges in the opening them to forward their names and addresses with communications the Treasury. The Captain point-

ground and arrived the closs of the game. Kowloon addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as aned out that he couldn't sail with San Francisco Chamber of Come Railton could not locate Couzens cotted for them towards half. Omar and Rahmin added tired to equalise but the R.G.Agot through once for the United. out guards, otherwise he would merce party now visiting Hong-

goals for the College and Payne skort time after tha game avidence of their bona fides.

be charged for breaking the tong and who arrived by the Piracy Prevention Ordinace Empire State on Saturday, is Miss started. The Club were the first defence kicked out and edu R.G.. Reserves v. S.C.A. "B"

to attank but Wire not game ended in a win for the

The Chinese fared badly st The Police officer was but obering Margaret Rice, assistant manager

Sookunpoo going down to a much orders, it appears, and he wouldn't of the well-known St. Francis dangerous and the sailors soon R.G.A. by one goal to oil. Curlew v. Wilts. were making tracks towards the Miss give the guards back. Here was Hotel. San Francisco.

This match played on the "beasier side by 3 goals to nothing. Kent for the soldiers scored a pretty pass! A boat full of Rice is making a personal tour of Clab goal where Hindley shot pasengers and cargo ready to the Orient for the purpose of wide. The Club returned to the ground at Happy Valley went in six goals while Sadler and Keay bail get prevented notwith-studying hotel cocditions for the attack and Begg was fouled close favour of the sailors. The game each added one. standing the fact that the money benefit of the many tourists who. The referee rightly ignored was fast throughout and the Wilts wanted was produced. The Har leave the big Pacific coast port the appeal for a penalty and the were playing a good forward Cairo cleared. Following game but Wetherly cleared well. bour Master was approached, but for this part of the world. First scramble in front of the Cairo's Early in the game Cook gave the with him-sympathetic enough band information regarding the -it was a case of " It's net my best hotel accommodation will be goal, England seat in wide sailors the lead and before ball Give and take play followed, time Dyer put them further ahead. pidgin and I can't interfere. So collected and the comfort of McTavish was sent away in ite The interest came with the sailors a distracted master gave up the tourists who seek advice from struggle and gave it out that the San Francisco's largest hotel will Club right and passing to Begg leading by two goals to love. On

the latter seat in a shot, which the play being resumed the Wilts. The Punjabis received the Hoi Sang would not sail that the be better assured.

Eve turned over the bar. Offside attacked with determination but S. C. A "A" on the Railway night. And it didn't. Now, this is

against the Cairo cleared a daa-the sailors defence kept them out. ground, Kowloon, and went down what we are thinking-It right

gerous rush and play was again Menhan had a chance to reduce by 4 goals to one.

Emerson was, have been very necessary to im-

from transferred. Begg was injured the sailors' lead but seat the ball absent

the Punjabis press upon the Company the fatt

and had to retire. Forsyth tested over the bar with only Hardy to side,and the attack suffered in that ship's guards” wages must be

Eve with a long shot the goalie beat. Both teams worked hard but conséquence. Lees and Board- paid into the Treasury promptly.

saving well The play continued the defence beat the attack (illion worked hard but the smail The impending gathering at Washington, so far as but was it necessary to insist on

fast and even, and the defence every time and the final whistle Chinese were much too nippy for relates to combatant forces. has been often referred to as taking those guards away when Big Building for Singapore. proved sound on both sides. brought relief with the sailors. the Indian soldiers. the Disarmament Conference. This is a misnomer, and it the money was produced? Would

Steverson gave Rodger a couple We understand that the Union of hard shots to stop and the play is as well that the fart should be quite clearly understood. As Mr. Hughes the American Secretary of State, or, as we been meted out if the owners bad Insurance Company of Canton was in the Club half for Play not been Chinese? Would the has placed with Messrs. Swan and micates. The interval arrived should say. Foreign Secretary-frankly declared: It master have been prosecuted if Maclaren, architects, Singapore, with no score. will not be a disarmament conference. but a conference on bad gone to Canton without the the contract for the erection of a Resuming, the sailors took up Pres-guards? Was there KOT con-fine seven-storeyed building. to the attack but found the defence restriction of armament-quite a different thing ident Harding has gone to the length of saying that sideration shown to the many be of reinforced concrete, on sound. England was sent dow

Chinese passengers who had Collyer Quay, Singapore.

If I were yon chap that writes For the rest, English is the actual disarmairent might do more harm than good, and reckoned on reaching Canton new offices of the Union In-centreing, the ball going behind. page I'd change the headline, accent and each district its patois the wing but shot at goal instead of the screed on Saturdays on this spoken language. True, we have the existing world conditions lead a certain support to next morning Need there have surance Company are to be at the other end Rodger maa Passe Papers would be more in but if we are to maintain that this contention. which at first has such a discouraging and been quite so much stubbornness? erected on the site at present died a shot and the sailors swarm-keeping, I'm thinking. If you's such constitutes a language then forbidding appearance. But if actual disarmament. There are others thinking all occupied by Messrs. Bousteaded in the goal mosta but rebel Rambling Thoughts on Current the Somerset man, the man tron and, with the Hongkong and came when tiale sent in wide aff Matters then I need never be the Yorkshire 110075, the a dismantling of ships and weapons before their normal those things and more.

Shanghai Bank erectiog a five-the post, sailors pressing and hard up for a subject, for after Cockney, ay, the Oxford scd period. with diminution of personnd-is not at the present Pastal Rates.

storeyed extension alongside, the Forsyth kicked behind. From the I've exhausted the

HIRD Bible Cambridge

is Co гроте stage feasible. there remains abundant scope for the Coo-

new buildings should greatly corner kick, Rodger beaded clear and Shakespeara and Barns English than the Borderer or the ference, as the most cursory glance at last year's Budgets

enhance the appearance of this and Begg forced Thompson to and the Hundred Bes: Books, Highland Scot. They all speak will reveal. That the Conference will effect huge "cuts

corner. A ding I've are got what I think my variations of the same Isogosge. in the next and future naval appropriations (apparently

cong_struggle_ended with the imaginary friends think and say It's this same thing that makes Įtinal whistle. The game coded to come and go on. He's got & it difficult for some Scotsmen to the military branch is not to be seriously discussed, is the

in a goalless draw.

whole week to write a column understand Barns. A Forfarshire chief hope, assuming that Powers cannot agree to a period of complete suspension.

McTarvish turned out to assist and a half, a week's news to play man Ends the Ayrshire dialect the senior team for the first time wi', and yet he needs must go very difficult. To infer, as Mr. It was with some surprise that we read an article by

this season.

He played a better back a quarter of a century to Passim does: that braid Scots is Mr. Mark Sullivau, the political correspondent of one pi the oldest and most sober of American journals, to the

DISARMAMENT.

it

the same kind of treatment have

Of late there

UNION INSURANCE

SOCIETY.

The

have been announced several small revisions in our local postal rates and in particular corner in the sister Saturday's Government Guzette, port. the Colony was informed that on host of places certain revised

parcels being posted to a whole

rates of postage will be imposed. A little while back the postage on letters to many destinations was

teised, and the Government has imposed these various revisions

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Cruelty and Danger.

conceda

A

Between

Ourselves

By Rob MacWhirter.

To the Editor of the Hongkong game in the inside position than dig up a minor post, comment a language because it contains

Telegraph,"

he did on the wing. J. Rodger on a Shanghai divorce case and words which are not translatable effect that one danger to the Conference is the in a manner which has made it

partnered terrard at back while paraphrase an imaginary fight without difficulty, proves nothing. misunderstanding of the United States attitude. and fairly difficult to ascertain just

Railton took up his old position between the Volunteers and thin Thieves' argot in French is in the middle is

air. Ay, true, you sort o' thing French; pidgin English after all the nature of the misunderstanding which Mr. Sullivan how much difference bas been

might be Rambling enough in all is English, and slang, in Day Sir. Bumour has it that in The forwards showed better conscience but it takes attributes to the other Powers makes his assertion still made. We previously voiced a

more language does not become another more astonishing. The writer quoted states that some/ Protest against the raising of Canton the anthorities have been combination but lacked accuracy than one reading to find out the tongue because it's messing way

postal rates at Home and the persecuting a number of attrac-in shooting.

Thought that's in it. But I've & be obscure. To make a boomerang foreign statesmen seem to have acquired the very regret arguments we then used apply tive Taper-girls who have been The sailors played a good game question to answer first. No. of one of Mr. Passim's Own table view that America is so strongly in favour of re-with equal force to what is now seducing people to keep them, but their inside forwards were Mr. Passim, I never heard of Mr. points, Sydney larikan dialect

carried out by duction that she will reduce anyhow." and that other being

our many of whom were found in bad marksmen. Matthews at James Slimmon and if you's a while maybe a fine mediam for So long as brothels. It is said that some of centre half was the outstanding fair sample of his poetry. I'm poetry in the hands of a capable nations can have the benefit of this reduction without OWB Government. entering into any agreement to reduce also. Mr. Sullivan cheap postage can be given it those who have been caught were player on the sailors side.

glad of it.

mao, still remains English for all should be jealously guarded, botb put in a boat and when at some Mr. W. E. Wakeham controlled would have America's representatives give as reply to the matter of letters and of parcels. distance from the shore they the game with satisfaction.

What's more forbye. I'd just that. Hke to repeat that I'm still of the I maintain that braid Scots is any who hold this impression; - Full steam ahead and] It is of inestizable value to the were ordered to be burnt to death.

business man and the postal ser-

Police v. S.CA.

opinion that 'brald Scots is an an inadequate vehicle for modern see who goes broke first."

It's range is terribly. vice is one of the finest dissemina creatures are flying to Macao and

It is now said that these poor This match on the Club ground comfortable vehicle in which thought If there be any Powers which harbour the view thus tors of information and knowledge. Hongkong in order to avoid such was a big draw to the Chinese to carry literature. I go further, limited and nothing short of the assigned to them. such a warning might well have a On turning up the financial state-a torkollator Icons followers of the game who lined. It's much too uncomfortable to invention of new doric words can salutary effect: but it is difficult to suppose that anybody ment of the Colony up to the end was arrested and sent to prison the ropes 3 or 4 deep. The play have but in one corner of ons extend it. Imagine & Wells at

newspaper at one time. The tempting to cover the range of credits the United States with the extreme pacificisin of July this year we find that the Here in Hongkong they seems to Estoured the Chinese in the open Telegraph is under a big enough ideas as presented in "The New

but they were weak in front of mentioned. Her prodigious naval progratomes since 1917 expenditure under the heading of be ignored by the police and I

Post Office was $31,583 whist the

am informed that two of our goal; and Clark and McWalter handicap as it is without inviting Machiavelli" by means of some- exclude any such idea. The world has rather come rouna income was $43,806, or a profit on lads bave already contracted the playing with confidence kept its readers to assimilate dislect thing akin to the Scots vernacu to the opposite view that America has been not so much the seven months working of disease and that visible eruption them out. At the other end Chino two bits of the papers in lart. The thing's ridiculous. the peace-maker as the pace-maker; nor, while everybody $12,024. On the year we shall, have been developed on their was very safe and the Police the serb sap inserted solely for medium of expression is no longer one day. Which brings me past What's more forbye, such a is ready to give Uncle Sam a full meed of praise for therefore, make a profit of about faces. Surely the Governments inside men were slow. Half-Mr. Passim's benefit right to the representative of or adequate to

time arrived with no score assertion organising the Conference, have there been indications $20,000 on our Post Office and we ought to take immediate measures

my part the modem Scottish tempera- that the U. S. Administration has since become so obsessed think that is a fair sum for a Col- to protect the Colony from each Changing over the Police brought that the Scot's Vernacular is ment. Between ourselves braid

ony the size of Hongkong. But on a calamity as leprosy,by having Watson to the inside position in Indeed with pacific intentions as to lead to the conclusion named. looking up the estimated expend the matter investigated at once, place of Mair who went out. on And never was. Nor ever will often to sentimental and comio no' language, at All Boots has been prostituted : too Perhaps some distinction should be drawn between Gov-iture for next year we find that and instruct the Sanitary Dept. the wing.

ends to be nowadays taken ernment and people. The latter, at any rate considerable owing to the fall in exchange our to keep a strict watch and search This change had the desired The only pure national lan-seriously except by perfervid sections, have certainly manifested of late a marked share of the mail subsidy will for these poor creatures and have effect for early in the second guage Scotland Has ever Scots. That's what our Harry

cost about $80,000 instead of them isolated and treated in a tendency towards a large modification in armaments. $60,000 and, also. because a larger haman way.

Watson sent in a shot bad, is the Gaelic. To-day the Lander's, our J. M. Barrie's, our which the Chinese Having got this misapprehension out of the way, we may number of mails are being sent

goni- ancient language of the Gael is and all the rest of our slushy keeper partly cleared and declining rapidly and will soon kallyairders have done for us. turn with some hope to the prospect of practical co-oper- by non-contract vessels, Transit

Mair coming up on the right sant take it's place among the select All this silly sentimental non- ation in the desired aim. It is reported from Washington Charges are estimated to amount

the ball into the not thereby win-company of the dead. English sense over national dress and ning the match for his side. The is all conquering. Soon a gen over skibboleths of speech are but that the U. S. delegates have prepared a definite scheme for to $50,000 as against the $30,000 for this year. That is a pretty

Chisses took up the attack but eration will arise which, even in vain externals. We have a Boat- far-reaching reduction, no doubt meaning modification in big increase in expenditure,

offside play stopped them when the remotest regions of the High- tish nationalism, but it is these respect of future programmes. Particulars will be await though we cannot help remember why we have to pay more. close in Leang Lai Fong and Ip lands, will find this language things that are thwarting. Its ed with profound interest. but he general idea seems to be ing that when exchange went only analys to sepute that Kan sent in shots that strack the sufficien: for all the purposes of evolution fo-day Folly std cot on the right lines. We trust that the proposal will bear high we didn't get any cheaper our postal rates are kept as low goal posts and rebounded into life. The two tongues cannot servatisms. Let's forges them -some-approximation to the earlier one for a completel Postage. Now that it bas come as possible, and if the Govern-play. The Police kept them out flourish side by side: the most They're thinus of a by-goBS/EST-

down we have the bogey of ment has that in view too, we and une Arrived leaving the vigorous prospers at the expense and have kept us back long suspension during a trial period.

exchange trotted out to explain should be glad to learn of it, Follce winners by one goal to nil. of the other,

enough

Yours etc.

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