1925-08-19 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1925,

THE BRITISH EMPIRE HERRING HALL MARVIN advanced in the preceding fow lines

Extends over the four corners of the Earth, and whether in pioneering or maintaining the Em- pire's Trade, everywhere unceasing call is made upon endurance of spirit and body. How wol- come therefore everywhere is the friendly feeling and hardy health always so lavishly bestowed by DEWAR'S

Dewar's "White Label" & "Victoria Vat.”: As supplied to thr Houses of Lords and Commons.

By Royal Appointment to His Majesty The King.

SOLE AGENTS“.

BANK VAULT DOORS.

"A STANDARD FOR THE WORLD"

The installation of a Horri g Hall Marvin Vault Door is a form of insurance which cannot be duplicated Tho name itso'f. is the best proof of the hith quality of the productthe louder of Its „kind for over three quarters

of a century.

will be best judged individually by our readers, but we do not believe that there is any such coherent idea among the Chinese.

DAY BY DAY,

ACCEPT THE PLACE DIVINE PROVIDENCE · HAS' FOUND FOR Even if it You, THE SOCIETY OF YOUR CON- 19 granted that individual TEMPORARIES, THE CONNECTION westerners do often fail to attain OF EVENTS.-Emerson.

་f

The rate of the dollar en mand to-day is 20. 4.5/16d."

we

PLAY AND PLAYERS.

THE SCHOOLMASTERS' APATHY.

By "Wanderer."

do-Wanderer has been pleased in competition, the competition would his article of the 17th Instant, to require the playing of fourteen, refer to the apathy of the school games in a season extending over masters of Hongkong as regards a period of six months. football.

In putting forward the sugges- "Ond is tempted to wonder ex-tion that they take over school actly what data are at his com-football, the Football Association's Thoro was again a oleän bill of mand when he makes such a state-dden was, I take it, that of giving health in the Colony yesterday.

the spiritual heights of their national religion, it is nevertheless true that the government and administration of the lending

"Dover Patrol"-Yes, European-American countries are shall have to wait and sou. based upon certain well-defined ethics and are of a very much higher standard than those of the

ment. That a league does not the schoolboy ample opportunity countries of the east. The equities

exist is no proof of lack of interest, of playing frequently in instructive Tho Ambrican Consulate. "Moreover the fact romains that dootball; instructive in this in- of the social fabric of the west, the General informs us that a ty- the experience of recent years stanco meaning not only that they basic idens of justice, the principles phoon warning bae been received showed that a schools football play in football which gives then a of restrained liberty, the high at one o'clock to-day, stating-league did not tend to encourage chance to improve their own play

"Typhoon asst of Southorn For-good sportsmanship.

ing standard, but that they learn. integrity of governmental services.

moss, Direction unknown".

"The majority of British school to control. their tempers, realise and the general tenor of everyday

masters in the Colony are desirous what real sportsmanship conveys, life in the west are incomparably There were only five cases of of seeing local school football run and discipline themselves to take a higher than they are in the east, notifiable disease reported last on the best lines of the football in referce's decision without question. and if China's outburst of enmity of cerebro-spinal fever and one of such there is no league, a number weak, three being of typhoid, one the big. Public Schools at Home. In

There was a pf friendly matches being played

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES is in the nature of a challenging puerperal fever.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED. 1841

from

Sole Distributors

MUSTARD & CO. 16-17, Connaught Road Central, 'Phone Central 1186.

WHY SHOULDN'T YOU L

HAVE A VICTRŮLA?

Why shouldn't you, for a golden hour each day, relax in a comfortable chair, and let the masters of music pour out upon you their gifts of melody?

Such pleasure we put easily within your reach with our easy payment plan.

CALL IN AND INSPECT OUR LARGE STOCK.

S. MOUTRIE & CO.

Sole Distributors.

DISCOVERED!!!

A WONDERFUL SUPPLEMENT FOR THE TEA TABLE.

DELICIOUS

AFTERNOON TEA

PER

DAINTIES

PACKED IN SEALED TINS..

TIN

$1.20 NETT

AN ASSORTMENT OF ECLAIRS, CREAM

· SANDWICH, OTHER DELIGHTFUL BISCUITS.

THE ABOVE CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED FROM

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Ice House Street C. 456;

Peak Store P. 67.

اڈے

The Telegraph.

gesture to the culture of the west, clean bill of health in the Colony each season; and it is on those

on Monday. then it assumes a truly ludicrous quality. We don't believe it is any

such challenge and we doubt very much whether the Chinese people as a whole know what all the bother is about. Certain it is that the Chinese workers haven't worried themselves with thoughts of com-

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1925. don't understand Buch

Although the issue is not quite so clear as some folk would think, we don't believe in fogging it up.

WHAT IS WRONG?

of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to take tha place of the impossible glass one ont by the Russian Soviet, ar- rived last week from America. It weighs about 1,400 lb. and cost $25,000.

A brass coffin for the remains

lines that local school football would do well to proceed. Yours, etc., Rover."

Hobbs Achieves Life-Long Ambition.

Jack Hobbs delayed not long on the high rond to further fame. Yesterday we were able to an- nounce that the Surrey veteran had accomplished a remarkable feat having equalled the record of the "Grand Old Man" and joined a select circle of three great cricket- era all of whom made thirteen centuries in a single season.

Surrey match with Somerset the incomparable" Hobbs made 101,

so surpasses both. Fifteen minutes elapsed before he was permitted

Dealing with Rover's letter in it's sequential order, one might almost ask me want is an "eagle" in golf, I imagined the apathy of the school masters to be a matter of general knowledge. Personal observation has given me no indication that Recent examinations for avia-such is not the case, and I would parative codes of morals or ethics,tion students held at Fangtien insist that the fact that there is In the second innings of the. for the simple reason that they brought forth applications from now no league docs afford some

several Chinese girls. It is said | proof of lack of interest. things.

the Director of the school const "Rover" states that league foot dered it wise to encourage the ball did not tend to encourage good girls in their desire to learn the sportsmanship, but surely he does to move and then in a simple sea- art of flying, and approved their not contend for one moment that tence he remarked that he had applications.

the bad sportsmanship, which, achieved a life-long ambition. agree, existed, was due to the fact |

This is characteristic of Hobbs, Loss of the Yue Ying Wa.

that the matches were played in He has always conducted himself Now that it is practically certain

real reason contained in the fact who achieved fame in such a com- competitive football. Is not the with a singular lack of pose in one finger at any orfe particular sphere that the coaster Yue Ying Wa has mission of Enquiry to enquire that the games were left to the Paratively short time, and no doubt cf influence and say that there cabeen dest in a typhoon, probably into the pressot Llare market control of incompetent officials? he will to-day be the recipient of be found what is wrong with China

down as another of the long of empower the Commission to call ly games were played without the Bolsheviks (and we do largely). tragedies of the sea, and an ad-pointed out to us that there is This brings one back to the offer witnesses, but it has since bean curbing hand of a referce at all? others say that all the trouble has dition to the record arisen over an ill-guided demonstra- disasters on this coast. Fortunately, under which the Commission is Schools Football League, appoint tempts a steal of home. The

of such very extensive power given for of the local Football Association Baseball Poser. No. 6,

this purpose by the Ordinance who are prepared to take over the tion of patriotism, others that it is

The Poser. Player on third at- the inevitable disorder born of thether here, and the large number,

considering the nature of the wea-appointed,

responsible officials and deal with batsman, in an effort to make the internal discord of the past few

boys who cannot control their tempers. years, while still others say that it through the China Sea in the midst

Enthusiasts in local football circles are keen to see school foot-an attempt to bunt at the ball.

The ball breaks in sharply to- ball in this Colony put on a pro-

It has been well and truly said: that it is not possible to point the

Some blame the propaganda of

of vessels that use the routes

is symptomatic of the disintegration of the typhoon senson, these tra-

In our editorial columns on Monday we regretted that H.E.'s Proclamation establishing a Com-

NOTABLE VISITOR.

admirers all over the world.

touching of the runner a more dif- ficult matter for the catcher, fakes

of an age-old civilisation before gedies are few and far between-a SON OF FAMOUS ENGLISH per busts and if the subject matterward the batter in the act of bunt-

tribute in a way to the fine "sen- manship exercised. Yet every now and again the forces of nature in anger triumph, and lives are lost

JUDGE.

didn't change the course of the The contact with the batter ball enough, to interfere with the catcher handling it.

He got the

the advance of westernism.. Each

of "Rover's" concluding paragraph out of its course and it ticks his ing at the ball. He cannot get and all of these influences may find!

was within the bounds of pos-

shirt slightly. a place (of varying size) in the

kong by the three-funelled P. and local school football should be One of the passengers to Hong-sibility they would perhaps be satisfied. The suggestion that welter of national disorganisation

O. liner Narkunda, which arrived now to be seen in China, and it will and homes mourn those who have in port early this morning, is Mr. pieced on such a lofty plane should be, but a matter of individual opinion paid the toll of the sea. The last who is the eldest son of the late returns to earth one is faced by the ball in advance of the ranner and

William Wilson Grantham, K., cause quite a stir, but when one as to how great or how little is big disaster of this coast was the Mr. Justice Grantham, the fa- conditions of affairs in this Colony What is the Proper Decision?

touched him out. the effect of such different in Hong Moh stranding, when more stand that Mr. Grantham is noted that the majority of school- mous English Judge. We under- First, for I am far from convinc- fluences. At the moment,

The Answer. The bunting at of than a thousand Chinese were making a very protracted stay in masters are not apathetic, are those the ball by the bateman, even writing we are interested in what

the Colony.

in control of school football here though he had no intention of hit- we have just read in a widely-

Our distinguished visitor was Imbued with the zeal which such ting it, constituted a strike when circulating American publication.

made & King's Counsel in 1923 an ambition would entail? Second, he missed the ball. after a long career as a Barrister is not public school football at

When such a pitch, at which the where it is asserted that the colour-

(he was called to the Bar in 1890, Home so successful because of the batter had bunted and missed, came fed and native races of the world, to the list of ships that disappear he spent many years travelling which exists in those schools? batsman, the bail immediately be- from the Inner Templo) though high standard of sportsmanship into contact with the person of the especially the races of the East with with practically no trace left. It in various parts of the world. He And third, is not public school came, dead, their ancient cultures, are aroused will probably never be known what North America, Finland, Mexico, the reason that the schools are as able to handle it and make the has visited, among other countries, football run on friendly lines for The fact that the catcher was to challenge the assumption of the actually happened to cause the dis- and the West Coast of Africa rule so far apart that it is impos-play at the plate cannot be given moral and Christian superiority of aster, for even had there been time Born in London in 1866, the European-American, races. to

Msible for all teams to play every any consideration. The ball was seek ald she had no wireless Grantham was educated at Hat other of the numerous public school dead when it struck the person of

row School and Trinity College,) One of the consequences of the with which to summon help, Nei- Cambridge, where he obtained the elevens-even in their own geogra- the batter, a strike was charged un great war, says the writer, has been ther, be it noted, could she re-degree of M A. He married, in phical district?

ngainst the batsman and the 'run- There are, I believe, eight senior ner who was apparently retired at 1897, a daughter of the late Sir;

third base.

drowned, and the British Navy gave an exhibition of one of its many uses, in the gallant saving of life. The Yue Ying Wa adds

the loss to the white man of his ceive any weather warnings by Andros de la Rue, Bart., and has schools in this Colony. Should the plate was entitled to return to previously unchallenged superiority radio. Her loas, among other five sons end three daughters, they all enter teams in a league -the right to lead and the power things, raises again the subject of Ho is a Major in the 6th (Cyclist) to rule, because there has come the necessity for all vessels voyag-Among Mr. Grantham's recrea Bu. of the Royal Sussex Regt self-consciousness among educated ing in these waters being ade- tions are hunting, shooting, and easterners that the men of the westquately equipped with wireless. are not of the high Christian and

Terms of Contempt.

stool-ball, and he has published a book on the last-named sport. Among the clubs he belongs to at Home are the Carlton, Royal Automobile, Ranelagh and

GAY MALE ATTIRE.

men's attire.

"

READING CORPORATION.

Japanese Delegates' Visit.

A

Latest Paris Move. moral excellence of which they would persuade themselves and

Puritanical clothing worn by

delegation of Japanese The second case of Chinese be-M. C. C. Ho has been Recorder men since the close of the eight mayors now in England on s others, The charge is made that ing prosecuted for the use of of-of Doxl since 1905, Christendom (those - countries

eenth century is going to under short visit to obtain an insight fensive terms towards Special

go a radioal change.

Into the country's system of whose peoples profess Christianity) Constables, based on an expression pears to have been placed on this diotated women's frocks, will at working of its charitable and At least Paris, which has long municipal government and the is not really Christian, that people in the game of ranh jongg, and indulgence either by the Chinese fampt to put a dash of colour in selecte

welfare" organizations, who can wage such a destructive volving a knowledge of subtle in-

"Į selected Roading as, a suitable war as that which lasted in Europe nuendo, recalls the frequent indul-

law or moral opinion. It is indeed

Gayer striped suitings; col- contra for the purpose. from 1914 to 1918 cannot have genco in abusive language by the

fortunate that the ensuni visitor oured evening clothes

They were received by the opa), embraced the lessons of the Sermon Chinese masses. It may be, as in to the country le blissfully ignorant emerald and capphiro "stude and Mayor (Alderman F. A. Cox) and links; carefully designed socks representatives of the Council of the Mount; and that the the cases we mention, that the of the langunge, else he (and she) with handkerchiefs to match and Social Welfare. The programme Occident has no title to send term is merely offensive slang, but would find that abuse of the gorgeous dressing gowns which included visits to the Town Hall, Missionaries and teachers to the more often than not it is really foreigner is quite common," and will rival in colour the exotic Employment Institute Royal richness. of the Court of Louis Berke Hospital, and National Institute for Research in Dairy- Orient until the Occident has obscene phraseology that-is employ.often delivered without particular XIV are due, so it is said.

Faris tailcra point cut that mening, an interpro or accompanying become Christian itself. China's ed. One of the first things that ill-will.. In a way it has become

Woro once adorned more the party. A visit was also paid present attitude towards, foreigners strikes a foreigner in China, so soon habit with the untutored classes, gorgeously than women, and to the local police court. The of the west, is, it is said, in the as he has mastered the commoner obviously a matter that requires sartorial history may easily luncheon.

like profuse expectoration. It what has happened race in Mayor entertained the guests to westerner's claim of moral, edica- ing with obscenities, is the troquent reform, though, in any case, it is repeat itself. tional and spiritual leadership.

amatter entirely affecting the use made of them in any ordinary Whether there is much or little dispute among Chinese, of both mentality of the Chinese them- justification for the theory sexes, and in public. No ban ap

on

nature of a challenge to the terms of abuse, practically all deal.

selvas.

X-ray treatments reduce the A new species of oranges severity of whooping cough, says almost as large as footballs, are Dr. Lawrenos N. Boston, after being raised in the Near East using thom in 750 cases