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WATER POLO LEAGUE.
| R.G.A. “A” v. V.R.C. “B”.
R.G.A. "A" maintained their unbaatan record by dofoating the V.R.C. "A" by 4 goals to $. The match was played off yesterday little interest. Prior to the match. atsix o'clock and creatod not a both teams were without a defeat, the R.GA, "A" losing a point for
less-first, because it "can" de no casily evaded, and, secondly,
EITHER THE PEOPLE MUST because the law does not applyOWN THE GOVERNMENT, OR THE to Clubs and certain" other places GOVERNMENT WILL OWN THE where chits are freely accepted. | PEOPLE,—Çalvin Coolidge, Being ineffective, therefore, why
The floods have subsided at encumbor the
Sir. I beg to say that I have Statute Book Sheklung, and preparations are read with deepest appreciation with it? If a young man could being made för a big battle in the your humanly article. Have sign away,the best part of his locality.
heart," which appeared in yester salary in chits, he can surely dól
day's issue of your esteemed Yesterday's houlth the same in 10.U.s. And the shows one case each of small-pox and for the sake of our Chinese proportion, the V.R.C. "A" are roturn paper. In the name of Christ, draw with the K.B.S.F.P.A. In law cannot touch him. On the Chinese), enteric fever (British) nowadays, we have but to appeal will depend on the return match now one point bolow so that much question of bad debts, we see no and paratyphoid fever (Chinese) to our British friends for justice between the two teams.
is "the hotels own business withdrawn by Tientsin
Chinwangtao, they are prepared to take the risk, why need the Government trouble
League Table.
reason why the Government)
and humanity. Indeed, many of Infomation has been received the Chinese labourers in, the should bother itself about pro-that quarantine "imposed on Calony toif the whole day and tecting the hotels. Surely that arrivals from Hongkong has been even are engaged in risky work in R. G. A. "A" P. W. D. Pis
and order to earn a few tens of copper N. R. CA
cents with which to support their. B. S. F. P. A. 19 families, The silk forwarded from here: God bless you. Mr. Editor, for Kings "A"
United A. C. by the Enipress of Russia on the your kind consideration of the
LR. C. 9th. August arrived in New York hardships of the poor Chinese. Yesterday, all the Unofficial on the 1st. September, having
Yours etc. Members of the Council voted been 23 days in transit.
A CHINESE. in favour of the repond of the
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Our picture Page 10-morrow? will include several photographs]
History Repeats, Itself.” sented public opinion. If
The R.A. M.C. registered third aand Wong Nei Chong, as well as plebiscite were taken, we should a group of the Indian Recreation
Sir. The following, taken from whom they heat 3 to 2. At the win at the expense of V.R.C. "B" Club's baseball team.
an old book, Portugal and end of the first half the score was say there would be can over
Galicia," and referring to the whelming vote in favour of the Passengers aleparting by the state of Spain in the twenties of in scoring first through their op- ond all V.R.C. "B" was lucky law being withdrawn. Gambling ss. President Grant included Mr. last century, may be interesting
-ponents-misplay Purcy replicil is illegal here, but the Govern-and Mrs. E. Bunje, Mrs. J. R. in view of happenings here-
for the R.A.M.C. Two minutes, The author, the Earl of Carnar after, resumption, Chilton put the niens never thinks of stopping it Mrs, S. Greenfield, Mr. A. J. Kew, von, was visiting Spain, and hold Capell and Miss Capell, Mr. and ut the Racecourse presumably Mr. R. C. Burdinand Mr. conversation with
RAM.C. ahead, but Lopes because there is no public de-Rayniand Tenney,
Soon after equalised. Buigent. Menendez "one of the few R.A.M.C.) however, netted the " CARVALHO.. On August 30, and that it should do so. The
reasonable members of the last goal of the match." The gante at the Victoria Nursing Home known violation of this law is left by the Empress of Asia yes-justly attributed
of Amongst the passengers who Parliament
1820, who Shanghai, te Mr. And Mrs. T. A.
the failure was tamo, Carvalho, twin sons,
blinked at, If respect for public terday were Sir Robert Ho Tung, of the Constitutionalists to their R.G.A, B" v. King's "B.”- opinion explains that fact, then Mr. and Mrs, II. Hancock, Mr. own intemperate conduct. The The King's B. managed to why-should- Officialdom set its A Cox, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. arbitrary suppression of convents wit pretty confortably against the BARCLAY MACLAUCH- face against popular desire in re- and Mrs. H. Matheson and Mr. tails, and the decree by which first half they were two goals to Lay, Dr. J. G. Lyon Brown, Mr. the unqualified abolition of en-RGA "B" At the end of the LAN. On September at HBM gard to the anti-chit, law? In and Mrs, G. W. Olivecrona. certain properties became subject nil in favour, Potter being respon- Consulate-General, Shanghai, be-
to forfeiture when the title-deedssible. After the interval RGA fore Mr. Sidney Burton, C.M.G.
any case to tell the men of this and afterwards at the Union Colony that they must not "siga the small sums received daily by for which they deserved then put one through, but their It is reported that owing to could not be produced, were acts played very hard and managed Church by the Rév, 1. Mäc, for drinks" smacks tou yuch of the Finance Department in execratim of every honest man, opponents quickly scored another Gillivray, M., B. D.D. treating them like childr.n. 1: Canton (said total not more than and which might have shaken three. Evans. Nowshaime and Thomas Charles Barclay 141 Esther Machend, eldest daughter
is an irritating form of Prohibit-8300) Dr. Sun has ordered the far more legitimate government.Petter scoring "one, each. This
Yours etc.... of the late Angus Machanchlan, in, and it is about lime following sums to be sent in
wedaily by the districts named :-
OBSERVER. Grydnbek. ༣་་
forgot that the law was ever Hongshan, $3.000; Shun Tak, Canton, Sept. 5, 1923. passed. Still, as we say, it will $2,500; Sun Bui, $1,000; Pun Yue, $800; Hoi Ping. 3800 and not matter much in practice, WINTE. On August 30, at When we are thirsty and do not
Hok Shan, $800, the General Hospital, Shanghai,
MARRIAGE
DEATH.
Norma Patricia, dearly beloved Want a meal as well as a drink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman we can always sigwun LOU, White, agod 92 sponths.
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The Arms Ordinance..
was also a tame game.
SOMETHING NEW IN PICTURES.
A Welcome Novelty
at The Star.
"It is pleasant to be able to
Sir, notice from the now- Antony Misnik, a native of Po landrand a naturalised American papers the Hon. Mr. Kotewall's citizen, appeared before Mr. J. Katement before the Chinesel Wood at the Magistracy to-day Chamber of Commerce "that the the 9th. Edward Arthur Johnson Everyone Helps.
Government had asked him to charged with being a stowaway on i age 49 years. Funeral passesWe doubt if there has ever been Shanghai. The prisoner, who and over all firearms to the welcome a novel in at the Star
board the ss. West Keats from inform everyone in the Colony to the Monument at 5.30 p.m. Fri-such a ready, and almost spenwas discovered after the vessel within ten days, after this week. The general public day 7th. inst. Deeply regretted.
taneous, response to the needs off had left the Northern port, was a stricken nation as there has turned over in the water Police heen in the case of Japan. All on arrival here. Sentence of over the world help is being three months hard labour was offered and giyen. Foodstuffs imposed. and other supplies are being gathered for despatch, resources
The Telegraph.
HONG KONG, 7th Sept., 1923.
NO CHITS,
...
a
which the J?W rigorously enforced.
law will be have become a little tired of the There is, however, one point, dies, and it is not an easy matter
21 wold slapstick kind of come and that is whether the Govern nowadays to find pictures with ment will make a small allowance any real appeal to the sense of for firearms which have been humour.
Local Radio.
Was
A must enjoyable whist drive, bought and paid for by those who
"The Ladder Jinx", the picture are willing to hand then over are being marshalled, funds havelin aid of the Ministering been opened, subscriptions are Children's League, was held at
to the police? I think some such question, is an ambitious effort,"
and an eminently successful one. pouring in. and money is being tho Kowloon Duck
urrangement should be made. Reading
Berides its distinctly funny situa voted most generously hy various Room last night, the event.
Yours ele.
ON LOOKER. tions, the directing has been administrations. In Hongkong having been arranged by Mrs.
scientifically and skilfilly hand- It is still illegal, to sign this we are certainly behind no other Ramsay, I resulted in a sum of Hongkong, Sept. 5th, 1923,
led so that the production as a for a lesbolig liquor in local hotels place in these efforts with our 886 being raised. There was
whole is a satisfactory answer to unless
public funds, donations of rice large" ernwd present, and refresh- you happen to hear and other necessaries, Nuval and ments were served. The prize-
the clamour in the Press for a sident thereof, or excoming when medical assistance, and Govern, winners were: Gent: 1. Mr.
really high type of comedy film. Sir, Music, heard this aftor- you have a meal, with your ment vote of a quarter million Barr: 2. Mr. G. Stewart:
There is no screaming absurdity dollars.. drink. A "meal" we may ex-efforts of the Colony will go some
We trust that these booby. Mr. D. J. Purves. Ladies: undoubtedly a reproduction of story of business life, and the extremely good in. The Ladder Jinx." It is a 1. Mrs. Macaskill; 2, Mrs. plain, is, for the purposes of the way towards speedily relieving a Smythe, bo Mrs. R. guitar through the medium of an romance and humour it contains. Ordinare, thirty cents' worth of portion of the distress which has Goodman.
excellent gramaphone.
The trials of the young business food.
Will you be good enough to man who scorns all superstition. The law prohibiting the been caused by the great calamity
furnish me with details of trans-land so incurs the displeasure of signing of chits, excepting under which were only told yesterday [in Japan, the full horrors of
mitting station and routine times"Jinx" the imp of ill-fuck, are these circumstances, was passed when
GAOL FOR SHROFF.
If possible 7 Speech was very many and all ludicrous, accounts some six years agot following the begun to come through. to the
clear. but nothing to identify "The Ladder Jinx" is a stop Embezzled Guild Funds. originator of this extremely en-in the right direction, and should dramatic, production by the then outside world. Tokyo, one of the
most beautiful cities in the East. For embezzling funds collected tertaining "all too short a con- help to make the comedy filmy Colonial Secretary in the Council has been more than half deva-from the members.
cert." More will be more figure much more prominently in shroff 2 Chamber of a handbag full of stated, and. Yokohama, the big employed by the Mutor Car appreciated."
the realm of photo-plays. dishonoured slips representing nearby port, absolutely wrecked. Drivers Guild was this morning. drinks which were consumed but life which includes
Apart from the appalling loss of sentenced by Mr. J. R. Wood to Hongkong, Sept. 5th., 1923. never paid for, Since those days,portionate number of foreign re-p Certain sume were missed und It is hoped later on to arrange
eyewitnesses
IL pro-three months hard labour..
Yours etc.,
J
LISTENING IN.
Radio In Canton.
Li
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'THE SUNKEN SUB.
ways and men's have been dissidents and the terrible suffer the defendant left without notice regular, demonstrations, details covered of evading the law, but ings of the injured and pitiful as soon as he discovered his of which will be given in our recent intimations to the Gor-homeless, there is the gigantic spent only $130 out of the total of
hardship of the destitute and position. He ploaded to having columns."- Ed. ff.K,T)
Salvage Work Progressing. nem that the provisions of loss to the country of essential $326 in respect of which he was
Salvage work is progressing on the Ordiñance are being violated services; factories, harbour works, charged.
the synken submarine L9, which (by whom nobody appears 10 sories. Altogether the
and naval and military acces-) Mr. C. H. Lysan prosecuted;
went down in the recent typhoon.. Sir. While we of Hongkong) Yesterday the L8 was brought know) have led tgr.official not-involved, must present the worst
are congratulating ourselves on on the scene and this VONNO] Iras fications that the law will be horrors of a maleri battlefield, we find human sympathy taking the fact of a demonstration in been assisting to pump, air into. strictly enforced, so long as it vision that can be made for the among the peoples of different looked the fact, that for some and lighten her. By means of without even the alleviating pro-the place of all other feeling radio broadcasting, we have over-ther sister ship to expel the waler remains on the Statute Book.
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wounded in actual-warfare,
We were led to believe from
A Staggering Blow..
recent statement that if there
aree
G
lands. We NCE the nearest time past in our neighbouring the tugs it has been possible to approach to the brotherhood of city, Canton, radio broadcasting move the 19 further inshore, Sho man that history records. It is has been a fait accompli and Isnow lies in much shallower water It is obvious, that Japan has a matter for the cynics to note, destined to be a potent factor in and at mid-day to-day, when the were any public demand for a suffered a staggering blow, with though 'tis true it needed a vast the get-together-movement.
tide was almost at its lowest, repeal of "the law, it would be some of her most prosperous ior-national calamity to bring out the Dr. Sun, with his usual clear quite a substantial portion of the taken note of by the Govern-loss of trade alone will have an It makes is hopeful of a day play in the future development of vessel were showing.
ritory, absolutely devastated. The best qualities latent in humanity. vision, realises the part radio will conning tower and one end of the Mr. Pollock, да one almost paralysing effect on a dawning when the proper realis-China, and has had installed in of the public representatives large part of the country for years ution will come to every nation Canton, machines which are the on the Council, yesterday moved to come; and the billions of of the world that in lending the finest product of the Western
ment,
damage done to
the repeal of the material clause regions will take many years to of amity, can come the true and of the most competent British considerable time to the in-
the affected helping hand, in a cordial spirit Electric Co.; supervised by two in.“railway cars" he has given v in the Ordinance, it after make up. We doubt whether all everlasting peace of which our engineers in the Orient, these spection of his radio system. lengthy debate his motion was the assistance which the other great thinkers have dreamed. machines are giving perfect Two weeks ago Mrs Sun, killed by the Official Votonations of the world are now Almost it would seem as if the results.
"Incognito, broadcasted some Frankly, we cannot understand to cover a tithe of the damage plish what the conferences of about radio and in spite of his an epochi in the history of China. Dr. Sun is very enthusiastic selections from Confucius, really. rendering can amount to sufficient forces of Nature might accom- the attitude of the "Government suffered. It is certainly a new mutually suspicious Governments constant "preparations to flea" un this "question. It must know era, not only for the Pacific, but, bavo failed to achieve. So loi ît Canton, and the time spent in
BEN PON O. BYRD," that from the standpoint of pre. we hope, for the world. Already be.
taking refuge on gunboats" and Hongkong, September 6th, 1953,
Yours.ee,
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