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HOME FOOTBALL,

LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE.

The tables for the English Leagues including Saturday's] matches are as follows:-

Division 1.

PWDL FAPts. Woat Ham. 5 4 1 07 1,9 Tottenham. 5 4 1 0 9 5 9 Sunderland. 4 4 0 020 G 8 Huddersfold. 4 2 2 0 7 5 6 Arsenal. 5 2 2 1 5 4.6 Bolton.

62 22 10 8 6 Aston Villa. 5 13 116 9 5 Loods U. 5 2 1 2 6 5 5 Birmingham. 5 2 1 2 7 7 5 Notts Cty.. 5 2 1 2 7 8.5 Nowcastic. 4 1 11114 4 Manch. Un. 5 1 2 2 6 5.4 Liverpool. Everton. Wost Brom Bury?" Burnley.

4 1 2 1 444

5.0 4 1 7 8 4 4 1 2 16 8 4 4 2 0:2 5 9 4 5 1 2 2 513 4

Manch, City, 4 1 1 2 4 5 3 Cardiff. 5 1 1 3 6 9 3

Leicester.

Blackburn.

5 13 611 3 5. 1 0 411 13 2 ShotHold U. 5 0 1 4 917 1

Division II.

Hull..

Cholsou.

5 4 1 010 09 5 4 1 016 3 9 Wednesday. 53 2 012 3-8 Middlesborn' 5,4 0,115 10 8 South Shields. 4 3 1 0 73 7 Port Vale. 5 3 0 2 8 10-6 Oldham. 4 2 1 1 7 3 5 Bradford C. 5 2 1 2 7 5 5 Derby County.4 11 5 4 5 Preston N, E. 3 2 1 2 913 5 Swansea.. 4 20 2 8-64 Wolves!

4. '' } % $ 8 4. Darlington. 4 1 2 1 4 4 4

Stoke,

Blockppel.

Barnsley,

Notts For.

Portsmouth. Clapton.

"

5 2 0 3 7 9 4

5 1 3 8 10

3

5 1 1 3 7 10

3

50 32 28 3

4 1.0 3.7 13

2-

4 1 0 3 5 9 %

Southampton. S 1 0 4 411 2 Stockport. 4 10 3.2 7 2 Fulham. 4 0 0 4 2 12 0

Division III (South). Plymouth. 4.4 0 0 17 4 8 Millwall. 5 4 0 111 G 8 Reading, .5 3 2010 7 8 Watford, 5 3 1 1 9 5 7 Bournemouth, 5 2 2 1 7 7 6 Bristol Rov. 5 3 0 2 6 6 6 Northants. Gillingham. Bristol City. Nowport. Luton. Southend. Norwich. Brighton. Exeter.

Aberdare.

Merthyr. Swindon. Charlton. Q. P. R. Crystal P.

3 2 1 0 9 4 5

5 2 1 2 6 4 6 5.2 1 2 9 7 5 4 2 1 110 8.5 51 211 9 5 5 2 1 2 10 11 5

5 2-1 2 4 7 5"

3 20 113 6 4

5 2 0 3 6 5 4 5 2 0 3 7 8 4 5 1 2 2 6 8 4 5 2 0 3 6 10 4

4 1 1 2 1 4 3 5 0 1 4,412 1 4 0 0 4 3 13 0 Brentford, 5 0 0 5 619 0. Division III (North).

Bradford, Ashington.

Grimsby Rochdale. Wigan. Coventry. Durhan.

5 4 1 013

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5 3 2013 5 8 31.121 4 7

:

5 2 3 016 8 7 5 2 3 013 7 7 6 3 1 2-10 10 7 5 3 0 212 8 6 New Brighton:3 2 219,96 Rotherham. 52 2-1 911 6 Hartlepools. 5 302 8 12 6 Wrexham. 5 1 3 1995 Chesterfield. 5 9 13 4.4 5 Lincoln.. 4 2 0 2 6 6 4 Nelson.

5.1 2 2 9 13 4 Doncaster.

Barrow.

Crowe. Halifax Accrington.

5 1 2 2 8 12 4

5 1 3 10 12 3

5 1 1 3 912 3

5 1 1 3 4 6 3 5 1 1 3 7 13 3 4.10 3.811 2

Tranmere, Walsall. 5 0 2 3 715 9. Southport, 4 0 1 3 6 11 1

The Empress of Russia is due here at 7a,m..on the 15th inst.

THE STUDY OF CANTONESE.

OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE TO EUROPEANS...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1925.

THE "NOA" EXPLOSIÓN.

ENGINE FRAGMENT BREAKS

STEAM PIPE.

Although accompanied by the The beginner's class in mercan- tragic deaths of four men, the ox- tild Cantonese is shortly to re-open American destroyer

plosion on Monday on board the Non proves at the Chinese language school of not to have been so 'serious as at the Hongkong Chamber of Com- first reported, says the North China merce, and at this period of busi-Daily News.

When the vessel reached Shang- ness depression it will attract hai on Tuesday afterncón, in com- special interest amongst foreign pany with two other destroyers; the firms. The Chamber of Commerce local U.S. Navy office was informed have always pointed out the great engine supplying the motive power that the cylinder of an 'auxiliary advantage to be derived from a to a dynamo had exploded. Normal. study, of Cantonese by marchatilely this would not have been regard- assistants, and the school deserving of much more support in the way of enrolments than is at prosent given it.

the

ed as a serious casualty, but unfor Ja tunately a fragment from the cylin- der caught the steam pipe supplying auxiliary engines in the ship. The piece of metal punctured auxiliary steam pipe. line, causing that part of the engine room to be filled with steam. The ill-fated men work in the vicinity of the burst happened to be engaged on same

and were unable to escape before. getting ""fatally burned. Their

Apart from the obvious fact that any business mun in the East is far more easily approached by one speaking his own language, there is the clarity and saving of time which direct

communication

names were:

R L. Shepard, Chief mechanics ensures. It is worth while noting mate, J.. L. Pinkham, first-class that Cantonese is, par excellence, mechanics mate, W. H. Kinder, the commercial dialect of China, engine-man, second-class, and Floyd

Pink-

The Cantonese, fan more than Dixon, enginuman, second-class.. Northern Chinese, have emigrated Two of the victims displayed to all neighbouring countries. great presence of mind. There are 60,000 Cantonese in ham, who was picked up un. Shanghai, but very few Northern conscious an hour later, with 'one Chinese nere or at Canton.

of his comrades, was found at his The following notes recently emergency station. Both had show- drawn up-uy-the principal of theed themselves keenly alive to the Chamber's nguage school should necessity of acting quickly and had made a gallant "effort to cut of De carefully studied:—

the steam..

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The language area of Cantonese

Steam escaping from the engine. wi, tem a further expansion as

room hutchway, those on deck nt Contohese commercial enterprise|

The becomes more in evidence at the once brought the ship to

watch was called and all engine principal trading porta like "Shang-]

to room hands went below

the

A

ani and Hankow., In normal times affected part of the ship. At first the basis of mutual good under- it was suspected that the main standing in trade. relations is broadened and strengthened when would have been

steam pipë was leaking, which Cantonese becomes an effective]

catastrophe indeed. Eventually the engine Janguage medium. In periods of room crews succeeded taking in the stress and crisis like the present situation, shutting down the valve the saying "Knowledge is Power" connecting the damaged pipe with takes an added meaning, when its boilers. perplexing situations, affecting)

When the clouds of steam had equally Chinese and Non-Chinese, subsided, the rescuers found first can.be discussed readily, without one" and then another of the recourse to English as a medium of victims., Pinkham and Dixon were communication. The compradore, still alive; Kinder was barely

business intermediary, dates recognizable. back to monopolist 'merchant days

AS

It is estimated that the accident

CORRESPONDENCE.

in Canton; decades before coast occurred just before 10.30 am. on ports were opened or Hongkong Monday, while the Noa was ap- became a British Possession. The proximately 100 miles from Shang. "pidgin" or business English, is hai, between Haimen and Woosung. suggestive of the restrictions that Dixon was the last to succumb, existed when the acquisition of dying just before noon. spoken Cantonese by Western On the ship's arrival in port, the residents in China was well-nigh four bodies were removed to the impossible. It is not to the uredit Public. Mortuary. "They will be nor is it to the advantage of foreign embalmed and sent to the United trade with China, to-day, that States for burial. freer conditions and improved occasions have not been used more widely in the acquisition" of com- mercial Cantonese. Knowledge of Cantonese adequate for ordinary business purposes is a first step to clearer insight and discernment in Inings Chinese and should regarded as an essential factor in equipment by the Hongkong mer- cantile community of the her future. In Hankow there

Sir. A statement by Mr. G. N. 10,000 Cartonese; people In key Orme appeared in your issue of positions are very often Cantonese; Thursday to the effect that St. Cantonese is useful in commerce Joseph's College and the Dince. everywhere. It is only in schools san Boy's School were not greatly and literary circles where it does affected by the strike, and that not prevail outside South China. their attendances have returned In commerce it prévalls practically to normal, as their students are everywhere. The future is with largely non-Chinese.

be

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To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.1 Hongkong Schools.

the Chinese because of their com- While walking past the mercial talent.

Diocesan School during

the

SHIPPING. MOVEMENTS. payable direct to the Chamber of ed a large crowd of Chinese hoys The school fees are $20 a month tiffin-hour on Friday, I notice.

Commerce and $10 a month payable Playing football on the concrete to a Chinese private tutor. The playground. It would certainly course of study comprises an hour's be interesting, sir, if you could The Empress of Asia arrived daily individual lesson with a get the figures for the Chinese and non-Chinese students at this The Australian-Oriental Stea-instruction in class two or three we know their presumptions are hour's school to show the authorities that mer Changte will sail for Au- times a week.

at Vancouver on the 9th. inst..

stralian ports on the 30th inst.

The P. & O. steamer Malwa is duo here with English mails on the 17th. inst. at about 10 a.m. The Soudan is due on the 18th. fast.

The 8.8. Haiching will sail for Amoy and Foochow on the 21st.) inst. calling at Amoy for Passengers only.

Chinese tutor, and

not always correct. Yours etc. MATHEMATICIAN,

Hongkong, Sept. 12th, 1925.

The beautiful and picturesque festival of the Freeing of the In- Hoots Was held recently in Japan in various places where old-time customs linger. Singing insects are doar to the hearts of the Japanese and their songs are The visitors to the British

cloarest and most beautiful in Museum last year numbered

the early autumn. The people 1,181,242, an advance of 85,889

believe that their songs are en- on the previous year, the highest

riched by the gift of liberty and total rocorded since the year of

so in cool glons and grassy spots, the Great Exhibition (1851). Dur-

gather old and young, who have ing 1923, the zest for Archaeology,

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shops where they can be special- Egyptian discoveries, was at its "It is strange that the vigur'sly bought for this ceremony, dif hoight, and led to an increased wife never goou to church!" ferent singing insects. They open attendance. It is a welcome "It's simple. She couldn't bear the cages and let them go free, surprise to find the Mustum able to hear him talk for an hour with-then listen for their ensuing burst to roport that the growth was out boing able to answor him of song. A pretty idea in a more than maintained in 1924. back!"-Passing Show, London, romantic land.

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