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The Empress of Russin was due at Nagasaki at 4 pm. yesterday.

The Empresa of Asia arived at Shanghai at 1 pm. yesterday and is due at Nagasaki at 5 p.m. to-day.

A Chinese was fined $160, or The following vessels are expect. three months bard labour for posjed to be in wireless communication sesalon of illicit opium, at the Cen-with Hongkong to-day-City of tral Magistracy this morning. Spokane, Hiram, Kaying, Tirpitz, Senior Rovenue Officer Watt, who Kiulang, m. s. Java, Ixion, Agra, prosecuted, said that the man was Anhui, Lompoc, Shantung, Solye only recently discharged from goal | Maru, Menade Maru, Meiji Maru, where he had completed a three- Kwangtung, Docteur Pierre Benoit, year sentence.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY'S CRICKET.

A-FULL PROGRAMME.

-DRAW AT KOWLOON.

The

MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927.

EUGENE CHEN'S ASSURANCES.

"GRUMBLES" IN PARK LANE.

DEBATE ON "THINGS I

OBJECT TO."

(Continued from Page 1). There was a very full pro- gramme of League cricket on which helps ond to understand.. Saturday, no fewer than six gameshow Chinese mob anger is creat-

To spend ten minutes objecting being played.

ed, is shown here by one of the to one's pot aversions, with a refugees from Hankow.

It is one

of the illustrated crowded audience to listen and ap charity-was, the privilege of a the H. K. Cricket Club and the pictures which have been posted number of prominent people who "The first division match between posters containing a series, of Plaud-and all in the cause of

K. C. C. resulted in a draw.

on the British Cenotaph and the Club batted first and after lasing Municipal Buildings in the British gathered at 18, Parkinne, and four wickets for 29 runs had to Concession at Hankow. The first spoke on "Things I object to.".. slow up. Runs came quietly with picture Is the Soviet flag, with Hancock (67) and Pearce (41) top the hammer and sickle prominent. Ining Town, in whose ald the meet- scorers, The Club declared at 174 for 6 wickets, leaving Kowloony displayed. Then come pictures only an hour and a half to bat, of Marx, Sun Yat-sen and Lenin. Next is a representation of Russia In which time they knocked up 99 extending the hand of, friendship runs for four wickets, Brace and

to Young China. Lyal were top scorers.

Chinese.--Reuter,

The Dockland Settlement, Can-

ing was held, will benent consider- ably as the result of this mass at- tack of "grumbling.".

"I object on principle to chair- men," announced Major Beith (Tan In contrast with this is the Hay) who presided, and, therefore, CRAIGENGOWEK DEAT

picture of a bloated John Bull had a right to deal with the sub- standing on the necka of two feet. I have lectured under 528 UNIVERSITY.

prostrate Chinese. The next illus- of them," he added, "and 1 loathe

them all." Playing at home Craigengower trallon shows the game Chinese

Listeners thoroughly enjoyed managed to beat the University by waking up and half upsetting 4 small margin. The University John Bull, while the final picture themselves, and so did the speak mado 145, A A. Rumjahn being shows the same Chinese on top of ers (there were eight of them Mr. Nigel Playfair objected to ons short of 50, Craigengower did. John Bull and bayonetting him apart from the chairman). not open too well, but thanks to through the heart. There is, of

Everybody seemed to like every. Abbas and Rumjahn matters im-course, sultable letterpress in the "modern spirit to toleration." proved considerably. Seven runs

thing. They had given up object. were required when the last man

ing to things. The "Charleston" went in and these were obtained

was allowed in the nursery un- amld much excitement. Bradbury,

checker; old ladies attended the who carried his bat for 34, was the hero of the afternoon.

latest Restoration; and scholars a telegram has been received from liked their lessons. This was all wrong. He urged à return to Wuthang to the effect that the

narrow-mindedness. Central Political Committee call-healthy ed a meeting for the purpose of There must be less of the "Marvel- discussing the immediate with tous, I love it, and more of the..

it." (Laughter.) drawal of extra-territoriality, and "Revolting. Let us do away with that the meeting came to the con- clusion that the time was ripe for such

INDIANS BEAT CHINESE. The remaining game in the first division was played between the Chinese R. C. and the Indian R. C. on the ground of the former, the Indians winning by 94 runs. The Indians compiled 164 for seven wickets, A. II. Madar scoring 65. The Chinese could only reply with

70.

BECOND DIVISION GAMES.

There were three games in the Second Division, the Kowloon C. C. beating the Hongkong G. G. by one wicket and five runs almost

CHINESE REPORTS. RETURN OF CONCESSIONS DESIRED.

A report from Canton says that

A step, no matter how vigorously the decision might be opposed by the Powers. It is also stated that the meeting deciled en other radical measures.

"

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According to another Chinese report, the Peking Government, following the British evacuation at Kiukiang, intends moving for the retrocession of all the Concessions on the point of time. The 1. R. Cat Tientsin, and Messrs. Luk bent the Navy by 48 runs, and the Civil Service were beaten by 58 runs at home by the Club de Recreio.

In friendly games, the Police beat the University's second string and the Recreio second team de- feated Craigengower.

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LAWN

BOWLS

KOWLOON DOCK SEASON CLOSES.

Prizes won in the various Club com- petitions were distributed at the Kow leen Dock Recreation Club on Satur-

Idealism And Murders. Most of the really disagreeable.

from an excess of idealism, in- misfortunes in this world came isted Misa Cicely. Hamilton. No war was possible without an out- People who pouring of idealism.

set about making others better were largely responsible for the killing of others in large quanti- ties, because they wanted to make them good in large quantities. America had ideallam and uplift Chung-yu and Chao Yu-lin are in large quantities, with the result suid to have been ordered to form that there were more murders in a Committee for the purpose of America than in any other elvilis-

ed country. reporting on the subject.

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It is also reported from Chinese

Mrs. Rosita Forbes objected to sources that the extremists in being awakened at all hours of the Kiukiang are holding a series of night, whether in an American mass meetings and conferences hotel to be informed that her door with the object. of securing the was not locked; by an Arab in support of all classes for the Western Arabis who threatened ünconditional surrender of the to die at an awkward hour of the Concession to the Chines2.

GUILD DISPUTE.

(Continued from Page 1).

night, or in Syria during an eclipse when nativca, under the impres- sion that a whole was swallowing the moon, were trying to shoot the offending animal, thus making sleep impossible.

..

A more serious note was struck of Canton, and sometimes in the by Prebendary Gough and Brig.- General Blakeney, General Blake-

"Before the

day, after a series of rink games Bank of China. had been played. The results of these strike," continued witness, toney objected to the apathy shown games were as follows:

K.D.R.C.

K.C.C.

R. J. Goodman J. Hyde

J. V. Ramsay J. Howe.

W. P. Hedley

R. Lapsley

K.D.R.C.

E. Docherty

R. J. Dixon

J. C. Brown

16

J. Fraser

J. Gibson.17 Club de Recrela

E. Sousa

J.

Ribeiro

R. Ribeiro

R. M. Simpson 30 L. Souza.....17

K.D.R.C.

Entertainments.

ALL COMEDY PROGRAMME

ELEANOR BOARDMAN

IN

THE WAY OF A GIRL

An unsually clever Comedy with many. unexpected twists and several big Thrills!

BUSY BUDDIES

An uproarious Christie Comedy and a

Laughable Aesop's Fable TO-DAY ONLY

QUEEN'S

LON CHANEY

IN

The ACE OF SPADES

.

WORLD-

GOLDEN DREAMS

from Zane Grey's Novel.

The STAR

PRINCE A PRISONER,

UNDERGROUND PLIGHT OF PRINCE ARTHUR.

Imprisoned underground in a gether with others, I drew the towards the menace which threa money out, and when the strike tened the country by the enemies lift eage, Prince Arthur of Con- eccurred there was no money in of the Empire, who sought to stir naught had an exciting experience

up trouble with the object of at-recently. the bank"

taining revolution and the down- fall of this country.

Mr. McCallum:-You sent the money up to Canton?

Witness: No.

Prebendary Gough objected to the fact that there was so little objection to what was happening within our midst, and which might prove fatal to the Empire.

His companions in distress in- cluded Admiral Bruen and the Dowager Lady Dimedale.

This was one of a series of ad-

ventures among East-end hostels

FIRST-CLASS BRAIN REQUIRED.

'VARSITY SCHOLARSHIPS FOR

ENGLISH MINERS.

A search for a first-class brain among the mining community was mentioned by Viscount Chelmsford when presenting prizes to War- wickshire County mining students at Nuneaton.

run by the British Sailors' Society, was convinced that K.B.G.C.

A. W. Gourlay J. T. Uobble

D. S. Neilson

W. Harney

J. Melaggan B. Wylie

S. Gray

...28 W. Russell

Yacht Club

K.D.R.C."

W. Greig

F. Cullen

C. Henderson

Bullock

Mel. Messer

Davis

J. Puncheon...33 Dixon

.13

K.D.R.C. Visitors (Mixed)

Crookdale

Marks Rodgers Roylance W. M. Johnston 20 Hazel

W. M. Moton

Coleman

Total..126

16

Iminediately the strike broke out the Treasurer went to Canton? No; he remained in Hongkong.

When did he go to Canton? He remained in Hongkong until the day before yesterday, when he went away to his native country.

THE PICKET SCHEME.

I am going to put it to you' that he went to Canton as one of the. earliest strikers, and has played 'a very active part up there since then as a picket on the picket strike scheme? There is no truth in that

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VAUDEVILLE PROGRAMME.

CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF VARIETY.

This season marks one hundred years of variety in America, and a gigantic cross country celebration of this fact is to be launched simul- taneously from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast and carried out with

Limehouse.

Lord Chelmsford stated that be A first-class brain could be found among the...

Supt. Jones, of the Sailors' miners and their families just as Memorial Hostel, who was working anywhere else. The Miners' Con- the lift, told a Daily Chronicle re-tral Welfare Centre were going to offer next yoar ten scholarships in presentative:

the mining communities, which

The Prince wanted to visit the

Gulld

laundry, and as it is in the base would enable a miner, his sons or

daughters to enter a university. ment we took the electric lift down.

"We had on board, besides the They would receive a sum for Prince, Lady Dimsdale, Admiral outfit which would enable them to E. F. Bruen (chairman of the Sea dress ns other students. They Training Committee), the Rev. would live, not as students in D. F. Mackenzie (deputy chairman lodgings, but in the college, so of the society), and Miss Gibbons, that in no way would they be dif- organising secretary of the Ladies' ferent from other students.

They need not continue in the "Apparently we were overloaded, dan elaborate programme of special and instead of going only to the mining trade, but would be guided basement we went lower, into the by the election committee as to the best carcer, whether medicine, art, literature, or any other sub- "The lift doors are automatical-ject.

"If we can produce one first- in case of jambing, and the outside class brain out of the 100 scholar- doors were also automatically (ships during the next ten years," concluded Lord Chelmsford, "the "To add to our difficulty the scheme will have justified itself."

A

well at the bottom of the shaft.

Total....87 at all

Mr. Loseby: I must object. Is At the conclusion of the play, speeches were delivered, and the it really part of the defence as to following prizes wore distributed by what these plantiffs have beon Mr. A. O. Lang:

Club Championship. 1st, "(present- doing?

His Lordship:-I must trust Mr. C. Shiner) S. Gray; ed by Mr. 2nd, (presented by W. R. Loxley and McCallum. Co.) R. J. Goodman; 3rd, (presented Continuing, Mr. McCallum asked by Mr. J. Gibson) J. A. Lindsay.

witness whether the third plaintiff Handicap

Singles (prizes present- ed by

by Mr.

M. Dyer) J.-A. Lind- left the Colony as soon as the strike R.

G. Brown, 3. started. Witness replied that he Handicap

Scott Messrs. T. S. Morrison, H. H,

again. and A. M. McDougal) D. S. and IL G, Cooper; 2nd, (presented by Captain I

Kennedy and fossrs. J. Tully J. C. Brown,

Inter-Departmental Bowls Compoti- tion. Won by the Drawing Offee this Hongkong Guild up to Canton Street, there was offered for the down, mistook my meaning, and (W. M. Johnson, J. McLaggan, J. S. with your knowledge and consent? first time in Manhattan, a real went to the first floor and waited that we were able to open the

variety programme, a collection of there. So. I shouted, but it was. doors. Meintosh, and J. V. Ramany).

Tennis (American Tournament).- Is it within your knowledge that divers brief acts, such as had in hopeless, as the rooms in the base-

presented by Mr. A. M. Simp- they went to Canton within the previous years served as interment are at the end of long cor-took the accident sportingly, but son). Afr. and Mrs. G. G. Millard; 2nd, firat three months of the atriks?ludes between the acts of legiti-ridors.

"Then I thought of my polica

say, 1; Rs.1st. (presented by might have gone and come back self-conscious gropings of a formly controlled to prevent accidents

events and features adequate to the occasion.

A century ago there began in the American theatres, the first

of

entertainment destined for world wide popularity,

In December of 1826, in the locked.

out, and they took the funds of Theatre, Laurens

I put it to you that plaintiffs, wo; three, four, and five, all went

and S. L. Vellinga) E. Docherty and to Canton when the strike broke city of New York, at the Lafayette stewards, whom I told to follow me

--No.

(presented by Mr. David S. Nelson), Mrs. Cuthill and Mr. W. P. Hedley." I don't know.

mate productions.

Dear Canal

?

"Prince Arthur and the ladies

when I asked him to go up in it When the strike occurred, this It was an interesting and im whistle and blew several sharp again, to visit another part of he Unior ceased to function al-portant experiment, soon followed blasts. This, I afterwards learn-building, he said, with a twinkle The Burlington Hotel, Dover, together? Well,

walk upstairs." Homeone was by other New York houses, notably ed, caused the sailors in the rooms in his eye; I think we had better which contain some 300 rooms, looking after the Union's affairs. the Mount Pitt Circus qn Grand above to rash out into the street

in the bellef that there was a street Among upaxpected incidents of and which has been lying empty

I put it to you that at least 90% Street in 1827.

the morning was the meeting of for some time, has been sold for of these men went to Canton when During the season of 1926-27, scene,

The engineer at the other ond Prince Arthur with a ship'a conversion into residential flats.

the strike broke out and it ceased special weeks will be observed by to function.-Witness denied this. way of marking the various miles of one of the busement corridors steward with whom he had been at Group-Captain R. Williams,

There are many members like tones in the progress of variety ran along to see what was the sen.

In the reading rooms he had Tonkin, Limehow and Kaijo Maru. Chief of the Australian Air Staff, the defendant who owe money on from its humble beginnings to its matter, and found us all. like rate.

chat with several merchant sea who is flying from Melbourne fo

as vaudeville, sharing with the "Then he went back to the power men, and was told that in two Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK Samoa, reached, Kieta, Salons contracts previous to the strike ? more distinguished position now in a trap."

moving picture, the vast allegiance room, and hauled us up to floor years 160,000 beds had been pro- PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndhan Street, in the City of Island. His was the first seaplane

of the people..

level again with the windlass, Bovided for men coming off ships. Victòria, Hongkong.

to bo geen in these waters.

YOB.

The case was adjourned until the afternoon of January 13th.