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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925.

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Discovery Near Tunis.

HISTORIC ERROR.

A School Boy's Discovery.

Craigongawer stillecmain on top CHINA TRIP POSTPONED. ul the first League: by conson: of

Manile, May 28.-Mre. Leonard thoir victory over the Kowloon Wood is seriously ill with lover and Bowling Green Club. The three her trip to Shanghai with her matohes in the premier division daughter has been postponed. produced some interesting play, Renter.

and the victors bad to struggle hard for victory. Taikoo found the K. O. C. a raro handfull,' but although they went down on two rinks, the margin on the third was aufficient to given them the verdict. Civil Service sustained – their fourth successive defeat. That they |ara a Club to be reckoned with was

HOME GOLF,

ENGLAND BEAT SCOTLAND. Ho to-day, the usual international London, May 28. —At Westword-

When they woro ahown the ploture of the execution of Mon troso, one of the boys at once Insisted that the ploturo depicted the High-straat and not the Grassmarket, and inquiries were An interesting story was then sot on foot, which have now hidden behind the announcement convinced the First Commissioner made in the House of Commons that the boy was right and tho A humble sponge-diver has just that Lord Pool, the First Com-inscription wrong. It is B made by accident one of the missioner of Works, had decided strange Irony that Sir Walter most thrilling discoveries in the that a mistake had been made in Scott, who was probably the first history of archaeology.

the description of the pictura of to perpetrata the error, was him

BCENE OF ULYSSES' ADVEN

TURES.

Equipped simply with a brooch the execution of the Marquess solf dux at the Royal High clout wrapped around his walet, of Montrose, which is hung in School. a heavy store in one hand to hold the corridor leading to the

bim under water, and a knife to members" lobby of the Hougs AR a tributo to the scholar's: out lodeo tho sponges, he was of Commons. Ho is convinced, | sklil, it has been agreed that the diving in the Mediterranean, off on the evidence submitted to him, prosont inscription, which is now the coast of Tunis.

that the execution took place in to be replaced, shall be presented the High-street of Edinburgh, and tothe school as a memorial. not in the Grass-markot,

shown by the fine Sght they put up against Kowloon Dock,

In the second division the Police preliminary to Monday's Amateur under the water, and are ablo, by stated in the inscription, which is

are on top. The K. C. C. lost their first match,

DIVISION I

Craigengower v. Kowloon Bowling Green Club,

Played of Happy Valley, Craigeugower

Kowfcon B., C. Smith.. 7

| winning by 60 to 53.

Craigengower

DY Fritz

Rodrigues

Ione

Nish Duncan

12: Bana

Farrel

20

Naves

Ilasel

Souza

Thurston

Green Bradbury

Simpana

25

Muic

Mufatoali Holland Liby

24

Muskett Roenvlet Denui

McFarlane

Tetal..... 69

A..R. Whibley

19

16

Talal......... 52 Kowloon C.C. v. Talkoo. Played xd "Kowloon €.6., the visitors. winning by 6 points.

K.C.C.

4. C. Flatcher

J. A. How

T.R. C...

J. Sloans

T. Petersba

J. Gitxon

A. G. Pile

B. Morrison R. Wollage

21.

O. Whitley

J. Laing

A.U. Brawn

J. P. Robinson1

L. E. Lammert

P. WA Ramsay

J. Fraser

R. E. Nicholl J. lyde

داری

W. Seall

"W. Weir

J. Ferguson

H. Binig

T. Grinshaw

1. Rannel!

W. Wotherspoon

08

These men keep their eyes open! Championship was played. England holding their breath, to remain

now to be altered accordingly. beat Scotland by sight matches to submerged for sovoral minutos. five, two games being halved.--.j

During one of his plunges, Attention was first called to Bouter.

thirty foot beneath the surface, the mistake as the result of a he suddenly behold a sight that visit to the House of Commons by | frightened him almost out of his 200 boys of the Royal High wits a beautiful woman, stand- School at Edinburgh last summer. ing upright and unclothed omory- ing from a mass of seaweed. Sho was plainly visible through the green, translucent water.

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FOOTBALL.

ENGLAND WIN SECOND .TEST...

Melbourne, May 23-Before a crowd of 16,000, and in showery weather, the English soccor touriste best Australia in the second test by five goals to nil-Router,

VILLAGE OF GHOSTS.

Ho did not know whether it was a ghost or a mermaid, or a woman of flesh and blood, por- haps recently drowned and seem- ed to be alive.

He did not wait to flad out. A. fow terrorised and: powerful swimming strokes brought him to the surface, where he climbed aboard the diving boat and relat- led the marvel.

ENTIRE PLAN.

Mystery of Dancing" Light,

Up under the sunshine, in broad Fonny Compton, the Warwick-daylight, it seemed less terrify- shire "Village of Visions" which fing and presently several of the boasts that it has more ghosts men dived down together to ex- than any other place, has been plore and solve the mystery. visited during Eastor by record They found, says a writer in crowds of ghost-hunters, says the Science Siftings, a beautiful statue 20 Daily Express.

of Venus that had been submerg The principal attraction is the ad for thousands of years--a dancing light of the Burton Das-drawnod Vonus that no other sett hills that shelter the village human eye had looked on sincs 26 on the West. This ghostly light long before the Christian era-

Is now in full activity darting with whose secret had been drowned. eorie swiftness from crest to crest, with her beneath the waves. hollow to hollow all over thes It wasn't scientific interest or 16 wide expanse of the hills.

archaeological ambition that lod Each night of the holidays the sponge divers to explore fur- hundreds of ghost-hunters were ther. It was plain human cur out seeking the dancing light, iosity-and what they discovered and scores report having seon it. will presently astonish the world. It appeared to some close at They found an entire submerg- band, a dull, yellow sphere, rather ed city thirty fost beneath the like a small Chinese lantern. waves, with temples and palaces Others, saw it as a bright pinpoint and housos still standing, with of light moving with an undulat-bright coloured fish swimming! 21ing motion, and with great along its streets, and in and out)

rapidity, across the slopes of the of its crumbling doorways. hills.

Total 61

Total......... 55 Kowloon Dock v. Civil Service

C.C.

Played at Kowloon Dock, the home, team winning by points.

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Henderson

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Courlay Docherty Keith Lapsley

P. Knight Gregory Grimmitt

Uswick Alderman Allanı

Drukin

15-

30.

Total... 67

Total.....

53

DIVISION II.

Taikoo R/C. v. Kowloon C. C.

THREE THEORIES.

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The sponge-divers reported their discovery to the French Go- vernor of Djerba Island, between

The dancing light was first which and the mainland of the noticed three years ago, and has Tunisian coast, off Africa, the been more popular with ghost-sunkan city lies.

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it to Count Byron Kuhn de Pro- One is that it is due to marshrok, the brilliant young excavator gas generated in the lowlands of Carthage, and bis beautiful about Fanny Compton and por wife, Countess de Prorok, who colating through rook-fissures to has aided him in his researches. the hills. Another is that it is a The Count is now preparing an phosphorescent owl. The third expedition which will include an Sailing Played at Taiko, the teme team from the Birmingham broadcast this lost city.

is that it is due to wireless wavos attempt to solve the mysteries of winning by 24 points.

ing station striking sparks from the ironstone of which the hills are formed.

Before Fenny Compton dis of the discovery are

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THE LOTUS EATERS,

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G. C. Harrison

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W.. Buckiurrough

V. C. Labrum 30

"Total......75

have appeared in every dark lane the Syrtian Sea, the "Inhospita

and in every barn that looks Syrtis" of Virgil's Aenaed," A. Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son Ltd., or the deserted. Families have their and that the island of Djerba, American Express Company Hongkong, own private ghosts.

| immediately adjacent to it, is There are thirteen reputed the famous "Isle of the Lotus spectros. They include ghosts Eaters," of which Homer sabg that clank and moan, and one in his Odyssey. 14 that is said to juggle with

crockery.

Total:52 Indian R.C. v. R.H.K. Yacht Club,

Played ut Bookuupto, the Indian R. C... winning by 44 points.

R. H. K. Y. C.

8. T. Williamson

F. G. Vaux

Androw

J. 5. Shellshear

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LEAGUE TABLES.

Division I.

Craigengower C. C....... Taikoo Rt. C... †Kowinop Dock›R, C. 17} Kowtoon B G. C.

4·4

4. 3

# 1

1

2

The sunken city of the drowned Venus was evidently once on the coast of this island or an adjacenti small island which gradually dropped beneath the waves..

It was at, or near, this spot that the famous hero of Homer's Odyssey, Ulyssos, and his con- panion wanderers had their; marvellous adventuros with the 1. W. D. 1. "Lotus Eators," of which Homor sang in his poov, who had the power of turning men into swine, (and with sirens; whoso singing. lured the ships of marinors to the 3 2 rocks, whore they wure dostroyed.

One of the most interesting! features of the discovery of this! lost city of tho drowned Vonus is B that it may bring to light evon 14 moro ancient relics which have a boaring on the disputed quee-

"I. R. C.

Bay

Ivani!

Rum

D. Bunjaku

27

Madar

Kharao

Hartem Omar

17

Kesia

Pelley

Nazarie Hyder Irynail

White

Putin

Adams

Division II.

36

Tatu......80

4 Police R. C..

Kowloon C. U........ Total.....36 Taftoo R. C.

Indian R. C.......

1 4

2

E. W. Carpenter

Kawlom CC........ Civil Service C. Cl...!

Erist Point R.C... Polled R.C. Point B. C... Phiyed at East Point, the Police | R.,H. K. Y. G.- winning by 7 points,

Shuts For and Against,

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268 203 65

240 221 19

211 256

Craigengower C. C... 29 189,90 21 Taikoo It. C.

Kowlain Duck R. C Kowinos B. G. C....

201 200 Kowloon C, C.

204 Civil Serrics C. C.

Division II:

East Point R. C. Barclay Thorburn WBlingrson Fowler

Whiltrui Welter": Chen." Forben

1

Police R. C. Black man

EL

Logan Grant West

T'unt Whant Mair

J. Charku

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G. M. Shaw

Police R. C. Kowloon C. C. Taikoo

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20 Indian R. C.

Total.....61 R. H. K, Y. C.

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