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economic starvation? It is in- deed a serious matter calling for very serious action,

There is, undoubtedly, a grow ing realisation that something ought to be done and, if we read the trend of the times aright, we

DAY BY DAY.

BO MANY WORLDS, SO MUCH TO】 DO, 80 LITTLE DONE, SUCH THINGS TO BE-Tennyson.

The rate of the dollar on de

think that the next few weeks mand to-day is 28. 4 5/150, will witness some practical effort

to secure the removal of thei gang of mis-fits up in Canton. Meanwhile, we would hearten

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday...

The roar wall of No. 5 Kung those who are bravely sticking Yan Lane, West Point, partially to their posts in the outports by collapsed this morning. No-one the assurance that the Britishers was injured. by

of Hongkong are heart and soul! with them in their fight against by the B.. Empress of Russia

The silk forwarded from horo Installing this attack on our welfare ahd on the 23rd, July, arrived in New PYRENE Prestige. Unfortunately, Hong-York (3t. John's Park) on the

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The Telegraph.

Friday, August 21, 1925.

THE ABSORBING. TOPIC.

it

con-

We in Hongkong who think we have endured a fair amount of the stress and burden of the strike and who are now gratulating ourselves that the back of the labour trouble has been broken have, perhaps, been prone to forget the people in the outports like Shameen, Swatow,| Amoy, etc. Their's has been, aj

PLAY AND PLAYERS.

SCHOOL FOOTBALL IN HONGKONG.

By "Wanderer."

"Rover" has replied to my com- What I doubt is that the school- mentary of Wednesday and adopt masters have the necessary zeal to A similar tone to that running go through with an attempt to raise" through his original letter. He local school football to the standard is content, to a large degree, to of British public School Football. make statements without giving. His any real reason for them. is a wise plan. It leaves little scope for argument.

"Rover", however has tabulated his opinions' and I propose to deal with them in that way.

•

No. 1.-I do assert that the bad

16th, August, having been 24 of the matches in competitive foot- days'in transit. .

"Messrs. Carroll Bros. are in receipt of a cable from Singapore advising that the price of Rubber is now $1.20 per lb. Also, that the Tapah Rubber Co., Ltd. has declared a 10% Interim Dividend.

No. 4. In that "Wanderer" ap- pears to have respect for British Publle School football let him sup- port the effort to have it out here, not throw cold water on it. It can be done "Rover"

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No. 8 and

In this connection I wonder whe sportsmanship in local school foot-ther there is not a fine, distinction ball was mainly due to the poor which can be drawn between throw ball. In games played since then cold water and regarding a pro.. disbanding of the league, thereject as impracticable. has been a noticeably improved No. might well have been merged spirit. "Rover"..

18 my answer might well apply to both. Behind most public schools "Rover" is of course at perfect at Home is a wonderful tradition. liberty to assert, but it does not That tradition inspires a youth, to help his point to state that there great deeds on the playing fields; has been an improved spirit since the honour of his school comes be- the league was disbanded. He fore all else, and the average pud- has missed the essential differ- lic school boy would as soon do any The drivers of two cars, which ence between league and friendly thing unsportsmanlike as insult his collided whilst going in opposite football. It can well be under master. near Tytam Tuk Roservoir, are to dier te decisions when there is it would take to imbas this spirit directions along the Stanley Road atood that boys are less inclined How long does "Rover" imagine blaming each other for not obey nothing at stake, but does not that into the Hongkong schoolboy (the ing the rules of the road. The

issue? student striker) and does he con- case has been reported to the Sportsmanship is not to be ac-sider it possible to raise local school

Bavour of evnding an Traffic Department,

quired by keeping the boys out of football to such a high plane with- the paths of temptation. Which out this spirit being behind the

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brings us to

scenes?

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Teachers Responsibility." The article from a Rangoon paper which we reproduced yesterday, on student agitation in different parts of the world, with particular refe- rence to China, touched one aspect of the subject which has perhaps not received due consideration in

H.E. Sir Edward Stubbs will, it previous discussions. This is the is understood, be leaving Hong-

No. 2.-Re incompetent control No. 5. His explanation that responsibility of the teacher, who kong by the P. & O. ss, Malwa,

which is due to sail homewards of games, I can only speak off-friendly games at Home are due to has before him a large number of on October 17. Mr. Cecil Cle-hand for senior Schools League geographical difficulties is ingen- growing-up youths at an impres- monti, the new Governor, is ex-In it, to the best of my knowledge, fous but incorrect.

School team sionable stage of their mental pected to arrive in the Colony Fractically all games were con- not infrequently travel thirty, trolled by outside referees-mill-forty, fifty milea to play other development, and can make or

tary men."Rover",

schools. Rover." mould their whole character.

Suddenly leaving the footpath Here "Rover" makes the mistake

The second sentence is a perfect feature of teaching influence has to run across the roadway, a little of assuming that, in stating that corroboration of my "explanation.". been streased in relation to mere Chinese boy was seriously injur- the games were left to the control I did not attempt to make any con- ad by being run over by a motor of incompetent officials, I was attention that public school elevens" moral qutlook and general res-

car in Queen's Road West, near tempting to east a slur at the re-did not travel. But the schools ponsible mentality, but there is Eastern Street, yesterday. The fereeing of schoolmasters. I have also the question of political thought and even the matter of re- volutionary ideas, which have come largely into schools during recent vears. The problem.of proper re-

This

harder lot than ours and we gulation of teachers who thus im

thank the North China Daily!

part sentiments opposed to the

about the end of October,

bo serious.

COMPANY ORDERS,

ARMOURED CAR COMPANY.

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car belongs to the Fung Hang met many good referees in the ranks are so far apart that the boys do not firm of No. 76, Des Vaoux Road, of the teaching profession and frequently as they might deire.

get the opportunity of playing 'as Central. The boy was taken to have met a considerable number of the Government Civil Hospital, bad ones outside it. My point is

In conclusion "Rover" says where his condition is stated to that schools matches were left in feel sure that most Hongkong the hands of officials whose deci-schoolmasters appreciate the kindly siona the boys often openly flouted, intentions of the, Hongkong Foot- The question of who the referees ball Association but, though it were matters little. Furthermore means more work for themselves, News, whose comment we print existing government of the State

there have been league, games play- they prefer local school football to, is not unknown in Europe and

ed with no referee...

remain on the présent lines, ed yesterday, for reminding us

America, but it is especially a

No. 3. "Wanderer" doubts the I should hesitate to express the and the folk of Shanghai of that| fact. Even during the hot daya menace in the case of Asiatic

The following Orders for the zeal of schoolmasters in working opinion that this is a "dog in the of June and July, when house- countries where disloyal people of Armoured Car Company, H.K. up a system of friendly matches. manger" policy, but the mention of V.D.C., are issued by Lieut. R. L. In the past season one senior school"more work" does induce the hold servants, office staffs, etc.,)

the country are able to exercise Moncrieff, the Officer Comman in the Colony played avery school speculation as to whether this has control. were practically all out here, we

In some schools the cur-ding :-

that it formerly played in the league anything to do with the fact that Parades will be held as fol- and had five additional fixtures. the schools football league has not did have the benefit of big com.riculum, indeed, might be said to

lows

"Rover":

been-resuscitated. include anti-government mercial organisations like the)

propa- Guptiere, Monday, 24th. Au Dairy Farm, Messrs. Lane Craw-ganda. The responsibility of cer- gust, for N.0.0.5. ford's, etc., to fall back on fortain teachers and professors in Tresh supplies of daily food schools and colleges in various And although there are still parts of China is great, and in the many households in the Colony trouble we are now witnessing it who have no servants, and would be interesting to discover although many offices and busi-just how much is directly due to certain men who moulded the clay nesses are being run on skeleton

in their hands with no proper staffs involving extra work and

reckoning of the results of their strain on Europeans, our lot is

work. not so hard but that we cheerfully carry on. The small

can

Polar Flights. isolated communities in the out- The news of" the abandonment ports, however, are in a much of his projected fight over the different plight, living as they do Polar Sea by Lt. Comdr. MacMillan

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Drivers-Monday, 24th. Au HONGKONG TRADE. gust, as detailed.

Mobile Column Wednesday, 2nd. September, signalling.catc..

All ranks who have not already fited are reminded that Part 1 Musketry will be fired on Sunday 23rd. August at Peak Range

at 9 a.m.

"FRENCH NAVAL COMMAND.

NEW FAR EASTERN

COMMANDER.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.

CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE,

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* PALESTINE LOAN,

ZIONIST CONGRESS SUGGESTION.

"A WORLD-WIDE AFFAIR. The following, from the fort-

Stockholm; August 20. nightly Price Current and Market Report, of the Hongkong General Messages from King George, Chamber of Commerce, reflects the President Coolidge, and President present state of the Import Hindenburg, hoping its laboura will market:-

promote world peace, were read at. Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy to-day's first working session of the Cotton Goods. Our market remains Oecumenical Christian Conference,' almost at a complete standstill, and on life and work, which the King Doctor beyond isolated clearances strictly declared open yesterday. limited in both quantity and style Atkinson (United States) announc- for Formosan, Straits and Siamese ed that besides six hundred de- Porte, there is nothing doing. legates already present, represent-- Rear Admiral Bagire has been Latest Cotton quotations to handing all the Protestant orthodox day by day under the shadow will come as a disappointment to appointed Commander-in-Chief of are these dated Liverpool 18th communities except Rossla, a fur- of grave uncertainty and in a his supporters and to all who are the French Naval Forces in Far instant, Mid. Am. "Spot" 15.12d thar hundred were expected to more or less precarious state. interested in scientific exploration. Eastern Waters, in succession to Eg. Sakel 30.75d.

Vice-Admiral Frockot.

Cotton Yarn-During the in- The life on Shameen for the few Following as it, does the definite

The Jules Michelet, which is terval our market has ruled quiet. left must be monotonous and fallure of Amuridsen some time ago, the new Commander-in-Chief's No business of any importance has deadening in the extreme, while it suggests that such attempts are flagship, is due to arrive in Hong- taken place and prices closed on the at Amoy and Swatow, where not feasible unless the weather con- month with the new, Admiral. nominal:

kong about the end of the current easy side. Quotations are purely there is so much open animosity ditions happen to be extremely At about this time the Jules No. 108. $190/203. No. 12s. shown by the leaders of the anti-favourable. This does not holdery, with Vice Admiral Fro $195/210. No, 16s. $225/235, No.

hot on board is expected to 208. $220/225.. . Arrivals British movement, there is a out any hope of the predicted open-put into Hongkong. from Sban Shipments Nil Sales Nil. Unsold Nil. cloud of actual threat which ing-up of Polar regions by means ghai and it is thus likely that the stock 4,426 bales. Bargains 8,800 must be extremely wearing. of quick travelling in aircraft will take place here.

handing over of the command bales. Well might the question be asked Yet the idea has not been abandon- The Jules Michelot, which is a

Woollens Market closed.' Raw Cottons: There is no if the Home authorities really ed, and there are several other ex-sister-ship of the Jules Ferry change to report. know of the conditione being peditions planned for the attempt which will then be leaving for will relieve the latter. cruiser,' suffered? Has it yet dawned to conquer the North Pole by air, Europe with Admiral Frochet. upon them that here in South including the use of a Zeppelin- China, there is open hostility type airship. Perhaps in the end

as exports limited, Quotations: LATE SHIPPING NEWS. being directed by a band of it will be found that airships are will be recalled that the explorer American Patent $4.80 per sack; Bolsheviks up at Canton; that the only craft likely to prove con-has a staff of radio exports with American Cut off $3.80 per sack, Amoy and Foochow only, on the American Straight $3.85 per sack,The Haiching will leave for the southern trouble will never sistently successful in such flights, him, and special apparatus, with Shanghal Flour 33.60 per sack, 24th, at 1 pm. onlling at Amoy be settled by parley and negotia where long voyages without the which experiments in short wave Australian Flour $3.80 por Back, for passengers only. tion with Peking; and that necessity to land for refuelling are transmission and so forth are beWindow Glass-No quotations on the 2nd, prox.

Canadian Flour $3.60 per sack... The Van Overstraton will sail Britishers who have a Treaty usually required. Nevertheless, in ing carried out; and it was only available, on account of the existing right to live peacefully in the other directions the MacMillan ex- the other day that he conducted a conditions. Porta and trade without inter-pedition is likely to be of much radio telephone conversation with ference are being subjected to a Importance, particularly in the a newspaper man in Chicago, over cruel form of persecution and

Fof wireless data. a distance of some 4,000 miles,

a

Vienna, August 20,

The Zionist Congress has passed resolution in favour of a Pales- tine Establishment Loan of ten million dollars, to be floated' under Nations, and the establishment of the auspices of the League of

industrial banks In Palestine.

Metals Business remains at a Reuter, complete standstill.

Flour Market Report-Stock:| about 300,000 sacks, Market: dull

Sugar, Market quiet.

A was made from oharcoal by standstill owing to the existing used auccessfully as a motor Saltpatre-Market at a complete Swedish scientists now is being

Snot

troubles.