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LAST YEAR'S ACTIVITIES..

HOME FOOTBALL.

LEAGUE SECOND DIVISIONS.

SEPTE

WHO IS RIGHT?

Foreigners in the War.

19243

U. S. AIR 'MAIL.

Successful Operation, But

Monetary Loss.

LIFEBELTS FOR AIRME

Weird Escapes From Crashes Flaner

Tiny parachutes, to act as bolta for airman, have been voloped after, years of exper

mont.

It was only to be expected that a protest would be raised over the A report on the operation in the alleged action of a foreigner who first month of the continuous ruadá 2.

motor car trip from schedule air mail service between Shanghai to the nearest point on | Now York and San Francisco, in-

In one of tho ngatost of th the battle front and for a time augurated on July 1, loaves un. 2.St. Burgurd... 1 worked a maxim-gun, says. the certain whether the servico will now designs the entire apparatir North China Daily News. The be successful enough, financially packed into one small castly inciderit may or may not be true, to be continued, says a Washing arrangement has boon so simplif handlod casa. Tho whol but it forms the basis for pointing ton massage. The service is being od that the pilot takes his "If

There is in Shanghai operated at a loss: Thero wore belt" with him into his cookpit

London, August 23-The follow The annual mocting of the Rowing are the Infort agus Secund loon Football Club will be held on Division results: Friday evening at Bt. Andesw's Church Hall, Kowloon, when the Beottish Second Division. following report will be submitted Alblon.. for adoption

Alloa *****

Bathgato Armadale

1 Forfar Finance, The profit mudo ou Broxbura... 9 Johnstone the working of the Olub for the past Clydebank..... O Arbroath Dondeo .....1 Clydo....

Lwelve months was $1,130.00.

of your Committee to take over the Bar and rud same as a Club con- corn, instand of leasing same out to 8 Chinese "boy,” as in' previous years.

Membership. A largo increase in membership has taken place; during the past 12 months. Tho number of members on the books of

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This is largely due to the decisloa Dunkerlina... East File..... 1/an ox-army aviator who is our- no acoidente, good tinio was made, and uses it as a cushion,......

East Sterling... 2 Dumbartourently reported to have received and from a physical viewpoint King's Park 2. Boness.

an offer from ono side of $1,000 a the ability of the Post Offico month to work an aeroplane for Departmant to operate the service English Second Division.

thom, and a bonus of $10,000 it was demonstrated. they London, Aug. 30

prove successful. A "I roaliac," said Postmastor and loap overboard into the af 1 Clapton ... foreignor was said to be piloting General Now to an interviewer, his parachuto opons and bear

whereupon, by automatie action/ Blackpool ***... Bradford City 1 Fulham.

i tho rschino that flow

that the quastion of revenue fubim to the earth. ovur Chelsen.........

1 Covuntry City 0 Shanghal last wook and there one of utmost importancos in this

have boon

many roports of new service. We have under

reported in brief Crystal Palace 0 Sheffield W... 1

Lelograms the Club on the Blet August, 1924 Derby County Hull City...... foreign avlators and artillory-way an intensive campaign traffic Macrosdy, one of America'o best. rucontly, Major Manchestor U. I Leicester City 0 mon engaged on other sido, solicitation.

It is being carried airmon, had to spring from a Middlesborough Barnsley... 0

It is not to be doniod that on primarily through the post-plano in mid-air in order to save Port Valo...... 1 Wolverhamptons foreign armies when engaged to masters and secondarily through

his life. Southampton.. Ohlian warfare bave employed men of commercial clubs and South Shielde 0 Portemouth

other nationalities. For instanca, business organizations across the chute the aeroplano plunged to After he had taken to his para Stockport. 2 Bloko....

Lord Kitchenor fought with the route.

Since the gross income from earth, aud, collapsing in a mass French against the Prussians and a famous American scout the service for the first month of The inhabitants, rushing to the of brokon parts, burst into flamess Lord Roborte's its operation is substantially less spot, strove in haste to extricate

Third Division. (Southern Section.) Abordaro....... 1 Bristol City Brentford..... Brighton & II. Bristol Rovers. 1 Merthyr.

were 220, as against 137 menabors twelve months previously. Committee record with deep regret the dentbe of Messrs. 1. Hutchison, P. Shaw and F. Wright.

Clubhouse.Sinco Lio inst annual mooting the Clubhouse bas boon completed, and cost of sate has been paid off. Several improve tuents have recently been effected therate and the question of filting Exeter hot water showers in the dressing Luton, room is now under consideration. Millwall. Tho Club aro indobled to tho Newport generosity of three members for Norwich tha gift of na overhoud fun for the Southend Clubhouse.

Football Teams were entered

Swanson..

1 Reading

0 Gillingham

Bournemouth.

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worked with

other

2 column against the Boors. The than the cost of maintenanoo, it from the smouldering debris the

conditions in such cases, how-sooms to me that it would bo body of the pilot. sider more or loss on either side the exact balance between Income over, are more equal, and an out-unfair to lay too much stress upon would not greatly affect the and outgo until we have had the general result.

In China it benefit of at least four to six might. An oxporianced foreign months' intensive traffic solicita

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I Plymouth..... U Chorlton

Swindon.....

Watford... 1 Northampton.. in both divisions of the Hongkong

(Northern Section.) Langue, but dal not finish amongst

Accrington 2 Rotherhaal tho loaders. The Benior 1 roach Ashington... 2 Chesterfield ed the final of the Hongkong Crew.......... ◊ Traninere Shield for the second consecutive Doncaster..... 0 Barrow..... year, but had to rest content with Grimsby u Darlington.... being runners up, boing boaten Halifax Wrexham 10, by the East Surreys in the Hartlepool Rochdale Xial game. Records for the season New Brighton Bradford,

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Is there

опо amongst Us who can eay beyond the pos- sibility of contradiction that the balance of right is in favour of any one army, whether it be from Peking, Makdon, Kiangsu Choklang, or Canton? This is not a war of nations, but a civil warin which no two of five armies are in absolute agreement and it may come to the state whon all fivo are fighting against each other. If the question cannot be answered, would it be 10 the credit of any foreigners that by their moral effoot and actual work they provented & victory for the side that possibly may have been right in its convictions Bod genuine in its offorts? The con- Two Uhueso: were committed to demnation would be oven greater the Sessions for trint by Mr. I in the case of a man who simply Lindsell at the Magistracy yester day afternoon on a charge of at tempted murder,

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED

MURDER.

TWO MEN COMMITTED.

selected a point on the front haphazard and, without caring which side be aided, played a machine-gun on to the forces in

body, and their surprise turned to But there was, of course, no amazoment when Major Man ready, unharmed strolled among them from whore he had slighted

with his parachute.

Roal-life thrills equalling tboso of a cinoma film, have been ex

conperienced during the parfacting of these now-type parachutes.

convorsa

Perhaps the weirdest experience THE STATISTICS.

of all, rosently, was that of sa The report shows that the orors-airman who had to donort bla continental mail planes flow plane while on a night flight, 173,910 miles during their first 31 He desconded earthward in his days of oporation. Cloudbursts, parachuto, and wayfarera wero tornadoes and severo electrical astonished to hear a voleo calling storms were encountered, but in to thom froin the darkness.

By suola ghostly spite of these obstacles the aver age westbound time was 39 hours, tions" the airman not only warn- 49 minutes, and oastbound 36od those below of his impending hours, 21 minutos, as compared descont among them, but as- with the best established rail- cortained, by the questions ho road mail schedules for the same asked and the answers shouted distanco of 85 hours westbound to him, the "lio of the land" for Com his sotual contact with the and 00 hours eastbound. Pared with the bost rail schedulo, ground.--Ex. tho poorest westbound por- forniance of the air mall—55 hours 40 minutos-was 30 hours, 20 minutes better than train timo with 32 hours, 21 minutes saved on the poorest eastbound por- formance.

Part of the delay in ate mail delivery is attributted in the ro-

AMBIGUOUS PYJAMAS,

Comedies of Errors in Belgrade.

A foatue of Belgrado lunatio asylum is that the inmates wear gular attire. There is perhaps

The prosecution alloges that the Goods shipped and the Colomal kung Hotel and an open air concert defendants decoyed the complai opposition, for that would be Port to the lack of a lighted air. Pyjamas as tho norms) and re-j uant (a Chinese ductor), taking him downright murder and wo profor way ofther into New York or nothing moro than oconomy in | very enjoyablo social functivar held į to the-biliside at Shuukiwan Best to believo that no foreigner would San Francisco. The lighted air thin, but it will be understood that ·

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on the Football ground, were two

during the year. Several open air under the pretext that a patient re- Band Concerts under the auspices quired his attendance. On the way

of the Kowloon Resilents Associn.

tivo have taken place on our they set upon bin, knocking hima) ground during the sumpor months, down and inflicting veral stab

INDIAN'S TRAGIC DEATH.

JUMPS OVER VERANDAH.

wounds with a chisel as well as other : injuries. An Indian Sergeant arriv-¡ ed after the defendants had left,

do it.

THE FLORIN.

way oxtonds from Clovoland,

Ohio, to Rocky Springs, Wyo.. as in the popular mind pyjamas The course is now boing light-have become associated with od from Mather Field, in the lunacy the prosent period of in- Sacramento Valley, to San Fran troduction of them into Belgrada

as the "modern" nightwear givoaj cisco. The routo is also being rise to certain misunderstandings. lighted across New Jersey into Thus a youth who on a bot: Now York, NO that planes carriving nour New York or Saned from his gárdon a distanco summer night incautiously walk- Francisco early in the evening down the road to listen to a may proceed with proper lights

policeman se a lunatic (as ho

and helped the couplainant to the Visitors Mystified by British Police Station. The first defendant:

Coinage, was arrested en inforamtion at

to guide them. This, says the distant orchestra was arrested by One of the British institutions report, should make the future Conmught Road Central on August

mont freely criticised by our performance of the air mail 7th, while the other accused

foreign guests now in this country planes much better. ught at Macau three days earlier is the cutroney, writes a corres- Mr. 11, S. Fitzroy condusted the pondent to a Honio paper. vase for the prosecution.'

later defence

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The ne

The notes are easy enough, of

had no passport in his pyjama. pocket), and spent the night in the cells. Not wishing to be re- The body of an Indian guuner of

cognised by passersby the next the I. GA, who had committed

morning when takon, to the police: soicite, was discovered by the cond defendant was represented by focurso; it is the small change those who are not used to those court, he begged for a waste- which puzzles thom. Twenty colas, one may easily be mis-papor basket to cover his head, authorities lying on the ground near Mr. D. McCallum. the Kowloon Military Hospital carly Both defendants reserved their shillings to the pound presents no taken for the other when they and the polico, careful with their great difficulty to those accustom-❘ are not in company. Thus, lunatio, gave him one. Ho was yesterday morning and was

ed to a docimal coinage, but why, if n visitor from overseas a merry sight marching between thoy ask, twelve pence to the proffers three florins for an bayonets in pyjamas and baskot.

A nero serious confusion has shilling Ton would bo so much article priced at 78, úd., he should simpler.

not be regarded as a swindler, now occurred. A Bolgrado bürg- Some of our baser stroot but merely as an innocent abroad. her found a burglar in his house, vendors probably meet them half. It is high time that alther the and chased him (in pyjamas) way in this, rospect by giving halferown or the dorin was down the road till they found a short change for silver. But thesoabollahod, and for proference the policeman. He gave the burglar strangora are not easy to over-

in cbargo, but the burglar de- roach, and count their change

manded reacue from a madmana moro carofully than does the

Both were taken to the station but the burglar was believed and. freed, while the other spent the night in gaol.

YACHTING.

taken to the Kowloon Mortuary.

Thu

had been lit- gunter ted Vio the Hospital the pre- Xvious morning, but the nature of his complaint is said to have beon mknown. At seven o'clock he went,

to the verandah of the second SIX METER RACE CUP. floor and threw himself over, strik-]

Oyster Bay, Sept. 16-Eagland ing the ground bend Grst. He died

won the International six metro Deceased waa instantaneously. quite young, being only 19 years of yacht race cup, scoring four vic-nativo.

lories to the United States' three. What chially causo confusion are halfcrowns and ftorlis. To -Reuter

ugo.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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Few people are aware that the twoshilling picco was introduced about 75 years ago for the specific purpose of making people used to a decimal coinago.

A New One on Willic

17'S EXACTLY

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WHAT KINDA TING IS

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BY BLOSSER

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