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R.G.A. (B) v. King's (B),'

a few of the arms-carriera might FUL MEN HAVE ALWAYS RUN Local Company, Gets Under Last night at the V.R.C. the be brought to book.

QUITE STRAIGHT.-Dean Inge.'

Way

R.G.A. (B) met the King's (B) in

a league match, winning by three

There is one other importment

Mr. R. J. Birbeck left for If optimism counts for anything goals to nil it was not good aspact of this problem. It con- Home on the Blue Funnel liner in the realm of business, then the polo, and the whistle was blowing cerns, the powers of the police. Sarpedon yesterday.

future of the China Suo Motion every few seconds for fouls. Both Picture Company.which recently teants were weak in their back The other day an enterprising||.

We understand that the Hon. started out to exploit "a new line, and their shooting was slow.

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Chinese policeman who tracked Mr. H. T. Cressy, the field in the production of oinema Harris scored the first point for... down an American engaged in Director of Public Works, Hong-pictures, should be well-assured. the Gunnere, and the ball was Ogan-running was publicly re-kong, is likely to arrive here Despite the enormous difficulties sent through the King's goal that have to be overcome, the mouth the second time by Barton, manded in Court because he darly next month.

progress of the Company in the whilst the Gunners were pressing fired few shots in order to we are informed that the s.s. matter of organization has now their opponents defence.

The Mfrighten the culprit who was President Jefferson, which is dus

reached a stago when the Gunners' third goal was scored by endeavouring to escape. That, bare on the 15th. instant, carries directors are enabled seriously Harris in the second half, the wo assert, is meat discouraging boavier mail for Hongkong to consider the manufactus of marksman being unmarked when

: the ball was passed to him. the Company's first film. from Seattle than any steamer to the police. It may be that which has arrived here during

We stated in our first report of The teams were:-R.G.A. (B).- coustables are not permitted to the past five months.

this enterprise that plans were Bomb. Oram; Bomb. Doggerell being prepared by arobitects for and Gnr. Woolley; Ger. Manser: Ause their revolvers in such cir

The Douglas steamer Haiching the Corporation's studio, which ie Bomb. Birton, Gor. Harris and cumstances. If so, then the or- arrived in port yesterday aftar to be erected on an extensive eres Trumpeter Callier. King'e-Upl. dere badly need amanding. In noon and reported that matters of land acquired at Causeway Beasley: Pte. Potter and Pie. qur opinion, the police should are now quiet at Amoy. There Bay. These plans, having now Carling Pte. Jones: Pro, New- have full power to fire at any are five foreign warships lying in been completed, are awaiting the abolme, Pte. McConnel and Pte.

harbour-M.H.S. Diomede, H.M.S. approval of tha Building Emberson, man auspected of being engaged Foxglove, the U.SS. Ashevill and Authority, and as it may take V. R. C. (B) v. R. A. M. C. in the arms traffic if he is run-two Japanese boats."

the Corporation has decided not The game between the V. R C. ning from justice. Indeed, if we are going to err at all, let us err

monthly water return to await the completion of the (B) and the R. A. M. C, was also shows that Hongkong reservoirs studio but to commence produc. of a scrappy nature. Baigent on the side of safety by giving on

the 1st. instant bad in tion of films as soon as certain scored for the R. A. M. C. early in the power in any instance where storage 1,093.99 million gal- arrangements are carried through. the first half, and another point mill. Thus it may be possible that in a was added to their credit shortly a man refuses to stop when called lone, * against 821.59 upon by the police to do so. If he ion gallons on the same date last couple of months time. the afterwards by Chilton, In the year. The respective figures for Colony will have what it had not first half the V. B. C. had shown disobeye the police order, ho Kowloon were 352.50 and 165:14 the fortune to possess before themselves weak in shooting and cinema industry working under lacking in combination. At the obviously must be guilty of some million gallons.

change over the team was re- purely local conditions, CASTROA No. 4 Conduit crime. What we should like to

organised and after the interval Certain tit-bits of local scenery, they put up Yesterday's Command Order] Road, Hongkong, on 8th. Augustase, also, is this extension of state that the Government of the such as the Ming Yuen Gardaus show. The V. R. C. secured A far better 1923, to Mr. and Mrs. H. A police powers freely advertised Czecho Slovak Republic have and private gardens in the New the ball. Hast passed to Lopes, Castro, a daughter. (Macao, Shanghal and Lisbon papers, in the native press. Let the conferred the Croix de Guerre en Territories, have been mentioned who sent it between the posts. It please.copy)

Chinese public know that to run Major E. 4. H. James, RE as offering an ideal background was a ding-dong struggle, the Another notification is that Cap for some of the pictures which are R.A.M.C. peppering the Club'a from the police is to invite tain and Accountant Officer S. C. to be the first products of the goal, but failing to soore further. danger. So far as the criminal Cook, M.C, has resigned his com Company.

That there is no lack in this game also there was too classes are concerned, it is far mission, and retains the rank of of enthusiasm is revealed by much fouling, the chief fault being

Captain.

the large number of students taking the ball under the water. batter that they should come to

for the School of anting which The result was R.A.M.C., 2; regard our police as a determined The Brunswick Studio Dance is an inherent part of the eater V.R.O. (B), 1. HONGKONG, 8th August, 1923. and ferocious set of men than a Orchestra, which has gained prine. We had no idea that The teams were :-V.R.C. (B),

the movie possessed so many C. Mackenzie; V. Hast and. R. force so restricted at every turn such a good reputation "loca{-}

ly have arranged to give local votaries until a peep at the Kitchell; THE ARMS PROBLEM.

J. Urquhart F by regulations as to make them

pile of photographa received by Schuapel, B. Assumpenon and concert at Macao Club on relatively harmless. In combat Saturday the 11th, inst. at 9 p.m. the directors convinced us of the A. L. Lopes. RA.M.C. Capt. Amongst theas wad Walker; Pte. Miles and Lee- The daylight murder, in the ing this shooting evil, our police Among the items will be Hawaiian fact.

smart looking Cpl. Pigott; Cpl. Peroy: Capt. steel guitar duets, saxophone, picture of s heart of the business centre of should be more strongly support banjo, violin and piano solos. The young man, for whom the Tomlinson, Pte. Chilton and Staff. the Colony, of a Chinese detened and upheld. This can best concert will be followed by an what akin to that occupied by the

directors claim a position some- Sergt. Baigent, done, we think, by increasing impromptu danos, tivo-by-armed men, which co-

late Wallace Roid. When the played during the aquatic fete to The league match which will be curred yesterday again draws their powers and by heavily sen-

Chinese public has been trained to bid farewell to Mr. J. R. Johnstone attention to the extreme daring tencing, all men found guilty of that Mr. D. M. Larking, of appreciate what is good for them to-night will be King'e (A) v..

in the films produced by this R.G.A. (A). of Hongkong'e criminal class, gun-running.

Mesers. Reiss and Co., who is band of directors of their own There are those who will seize

well known in Hongkong, was recently walking to his residance nationality, it is believed that this upon this incident and distort

at about dusk when he was struck ambitious youth will enjoy a pop some of the facts in order to

in the back by a motor car and ularity as extensive as that of criticise our police, especially

The telegram from Manila knocked down. He was badly The reward is one that is worth many American cinema artistes.

"The Iron Trail,” since the murderer managed to which we published yesterday, cut about the head, face, wrist striving for; hencait is not surpris- "The Iron Trail," the fine relating to the enforcement of new and lega, but managed to struggle ing that over a thousand recruits railroad drama from the narativa escape. Criticism of that type, vaccination regulations by the home, where he later became un-have so far joined the training by Rax Besch, is being shown at even if deserved, would serve no authorities there, reminds us that conscious, but is now progressing school. Out of this raw material the Coronet to-day for the last useful purpose. We would rather, it is in the East, particularly, that the potency of vaccination against

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the directors hope to secure the time. The story tells of the build. actors to produce a really sueing of a railroad through the cessful film. A preference is virgin Aläskan wilderness and is and given to schoolboys whose ready replete with adventure adaptibility from a general view romanco. There is a love theme. point, to the art of acting is not running through it, in fact there

Hall, Alma Tell and many other

approximately equal to the figure was a win for the visitors by nine The female element, to use movie favourites,

setage term, is "well-sustain

in commenting on this case, smallpox goes practically undis- stress the point that it illustrates puted. We have the latest papers in a most vivid manner the daily from Home devoting a good deal) risks which our police run in the of space to the epidemic-one can call it that of amallpox which execution of their duty. In vory has Intely been causing much

to be questioned. Then there arefare two affairs of the heart, and those drawn from the ranks of they are both delightfully free truth it can be said that they concern to the authorities in Eng-

the educated Chinese whose from the villain element and carry their lives in their hands, land and now threatens to spread The last match in the ordinary knowledge of English la sufficient pleasingly different from romances never knowing the moment when to other parts of Britain. Glouces-ixtures of the "B" Division of extent to enable them to appre of the usual screen type, The cast ter has been the principal sufferer the Tennis League was played off ciste the finer points of cinema is a splendid one and includes a bullet may lay them low. In-in an outbreak which claims over yesterday between Queen's Colasting, will come as a personal Wyndham Standing, Thurston aidentally, this man who was nine hundred cases during the first lege and the Club de Recreio, on qualification. murdered was drawing the utix months of this year sione, the latter's ground. The result terly inadequate salary of $22 for the whole of 1922. The re-games, Scores per month. Think of that, and markable disclosure is made that, Crook and Mycook best As-ed," and includes amongst its then contemplate, the risks that whilst twenty years ago, about sumpcao and Soares 7-4; beat members several girls who were these Chinese policemen (many seventy-five per cent. of babies Noronha and Ribeiro 10-1; best born in the United States. From |born in Britain were vaccinated, Eyndman and Remedios 6-5, the details given, it will be seen paid even less than the sum the proportion now is estimated A. H. Matar and Choi Ping-sum that the directors have neglected

Mr. Somerset Maugham, the mentioned) encounter in the par-at only thirty-sight per cent; lost to Assumpcao and Soares 5-6; no source from which good novelist and playwright, who re- We and the papers give almost beat Noronha and Ribeiro 7-4 material may be secured. The cently returned from a winter's formance of their duties.

daily instances of strenuous lost to Hyndman and Remedios difficulties are well-realised by wanderinge in the back-blocks of have asid before, and we repeat opposition being met with by 5.6.

those in the business, but these South-East Asie, describes that it to day, that the pay these nien those who desire to suppress M. P. Mader and Wahab lost have not been allowed to stand in region as “a land, where no one vaccination. to Assumpcao and Scares 20 the way of the project. With the starves." This leads a comments- receive is altogether too little, the disease by

This objection appears to best Noronha and Ribeiro 8-3 arrival of their expert cameraman, tor signing himself "A Wanderr" That, however, is incidental to ba coming principally from lost to Hyndman and Remedios Mr. Lips, from America, it is to remark on the queer parador the main issue, but it is a matter the lower classes, though the 4-7.

expected that the real work will that the nearer you get to the great immediately begin. Mr. Lips is centres of wealth the easier it is that demands early attention, all more learned "antie,"

well-known in cinema circles into starve. The lonelior the wilder, the same.

includ-

ing several medical men, are

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

making the most of the opport-ference scheme, and, whilst America, Germany and Switzer the more forsaken, land is, be it unity offered to put forward their awaiting further developments in land, and he is expected here in Lapland, Siberie, or Sumatre, the more assured man is of eustenace. particular views. With such per- that direction, note with special a few days.

The whole trouble, of course, in these cases of shooting is that

sons in opposition-men who are interest the formation at Faking One of the largest salaried We picture prehistoric man as the Colony must be full of men presumably experts on matters of of Financial Readjustment sators of the Chinese stage, Ling having a fearful struggle for life in possession of arms. That is a disease and its prevention-one Commission, for the purpose of Chin-shat, well known in China probably our ancestors of ten result of the gun-running which can be excused for wondering investigation and audit of foreign and this Colony, has agreed to thousand years ago had a very is known to be such a profitable whether the objectors have not and domestic loans that have not act for the new Company. The much easier time of it then moat got some grounds to go by. If we suficient security, arranging for directors told & Telegraph reporter of us do to-day. There were, at business in Hongkong. Here let look to results, however, we find their adjustment and amortisa that a certain amount of training least no long, hours of imprison- us re-emphasise a point we in the East that vaccination has tion, and generally considering is necessary in connection with ment and slavery for the “bread- recently made-that any man proved efficacious. There may be the question of future Chinese the adaptation of Chinese stage winner." Families spread out in- failures Occasionally, but wo financial policy. The commis aeting to the requirements of the telligently 08 Mr. Maugham caught engaged in the traffic, whe-should rather take these as the sion bas as chairman, Dr. W. W. cinema, but if the experiment found them dotug in North ther be be European or Chinese, exceptions that go to prove the Yen, who, so far as we can judge, turns out to be a success, it should Burma, instead of herding into be given the full rigours of the rule than doubt the wisdom of a is about the best oboice they had enable a close connection to be mobs so numerous that they ate law. We want Hongkong in this practice that appears to have in the North. We trust that it maintained between the Chinese all the fruits, caught all the feh, overwhelming evidence in its will be able to evolve something stage and the new industry in-and scared off all the game-as respect to be made a place to favour.

really helpful to the country. Enitiated by the Chine Sun Motion most men do to-day. If a man be feared. Light sentences are

passant, we recently notod a sug- Picture Company.

in North Burma is hungry he useless. The profits to be made China's Finances.

gestion made by a Home cortes.

poes into a house and is given a pondent that the League of

meal, says Mr. Maugham. And you may find the same unoon-

in the game far outweigh any One wonders whether China is Nations, having been so successful chance of conviction, with the shortly to have a fair chance in solving Austria's problems of A. special vaudeville company solous, automatic hospitality in mere possibility of alx months in of emerging from her present finance, might devote its beneficial are coming to the Star Theatre the wilds of Siberia and Lapland, TO geol. All arms cases should be state of chaos into one of approxi- energies to China, and that the on Saturday next for a short sua tropical Ching, and the Phillp mate soundness, financially and League'e experts might succeed son. Giassical dancing, vousl and pines. The lands with the elbow sent to the Criminal Scasione, otherwise. At present we look where others have failed. We other items of a high order are room are the lands where no one Another course of procedure hopefully to the round tablo con- wonder.

promised.

starves,

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