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TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.

CLEVER DISPLAY BY MR. CHURCHILL ON

PEACOCK.

COMBINED CHINESE TEAM DEFEATED.

GOAL TOWARDS END.

[By "Wanderer."]

Although the European football ors of the Colony were not parti- cularly well represented for yester day's match pgainst the combined Chinese team, they had much the better of the game and won de- servedly by the only goal scored,

Play had been in progress for G6 minutes before the goal came, but it was well worth waiting for Hedley zent Preston away and the left-winger eluded several tackles

range with a brilliant first-time of

WORLD - CRISIS.

AT VERSAILLES PEACE CONFERENCE.

MR. WILSON'S PART. The World Crisis: The After- math. By the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P. With Maps and Plans. 308. nct. Thornton Butterworth.

Reviewed by Robert Hield in the London Morning Post,

It la impossible to open this fourth volume of Mr. Churchill's

monumental study of "The World Crisis" without a respectful and admiring salute to the indefatig- able Industry of the author, Mr. Churchill is a man

of shining

The present section of "The toring portrait of Collins, who was World Crisis" deals with "The a man after Mr. Churchill's own "Aftermath"—the four years suc

The later sections. of "After-

THE VIRGIN BIRTH.

PERPLEXITIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

coeding the Armistice, when the heart, and who was deeply impress. world was occuped in building ed with the personality of Lord the New Jerusalem on the ruins Birkenhead. of the Old. It is a period of bitter disillusionment, frustration, and

"There are many young people tragic blundoring, the moral of

at

our Universities to-day-women. which Mr. Churchill points in his math" are devoted to the story of opening chapter on "The Broken the Greek Adventure in Asin As well as men who intensely Spell." His contrast of what Minor, the recovery of Turkey, and desire to enrol themselves as dis- might have been with what the crisis of Chanak. Mr. Chur- ciples of Jesus of Nazareth, but is memorable.

chil has a very warm regard for in their way-and I don't wonder.'

feel that the Virgin Birth standa

was

This statement was made ro- contly by Canon Peter Green, reaching at the midday service at Liverpool Parish Church.

"I don't sec," he said, "how anyone can believe

not believe it-young

aonse. "Defeat," he writes, of the would Turkish demands, "is a nauseating people certainly would not. draught, and that the victors in

"On that November ovening, the three men at the head of Great Mr. Lloyd George, but he confesses Britain, the United States, and that he cannot understand how the France, seemed to be masters of eminent statesmen in Paris could the world. Behind them stood have been betrayed into so rash vast communities organised to the last point, rejoicing in victory, and fatal a step. For the Chanak confidence for the chiefs who had crisis, in which the responsibility it very often in eve it, expressed as led them there. In their hands lay was mainly his own, he has a very your garden a large number of Armies of irresistible might, and elaborate and not 'ineffective de laurel bushes as long as you had been alive, and you were suddenly flects without whose sanction ne fence, which appeals to the patrio. asked to believe that one of them and sent across a low centre, which talent and dynamic energy; but vessel crossed the son upon or tie pride of every British render.had, for no apparent reason, aud- Stock. sent Into the net from close how did he manage to accomplish beneath the surface. There was if not so strongly to his critical denly produced a pineapple, you' nothing wise, right and necessary this immense labour of writing a which they could not in unity de history of the Great War, in such leisure as the Cabinet, the House crec....Victory absolute and in- One of the bright spots in a game of Commons, and the public plat-parable was in their hands. which was inclined to be slow, was form leavo to a Minister of State? What would they do with it?

It is not as if he had just sat "But the hour was fleeting. Un down to jot down memories and porecived by the crowd as by the Impressions. He has taken his leaders, the spell by which they tank with the high seriousness of had ruled was already breaking. one who is writing for posterity, Other forms of authority would and whoso evidence will become presently come into play and much the material of history. The might yet be done. But for the whole story, epic in its subject and supreme tasks, for the best solu- dimensions, is fully documented at tions, for the most serviceable every point. It is not only n policies, now was the only time." fascinating narrativo, but an in- valuable book of reference.

fort,

the clever cxhibition of Peacocks at centre-forward. He dribbled with deft touches which had the Chinese defenders completely nonplussed, and he usuniy concluded with ex- cellent shots. His display, however, was not helpful to his team, as the forward line dropped into too close play as a result and the opposition

was able to crowd them out.

The Chinese were

not near-

ly so dangerous as was expected, Suen Kam-shun was out of form, while that usually amart winger Ip Pak-wa found progress extreme- ly difficult against Everest, who kept a firm hold over him almost throughout.

The strength of the Colony's team was in the half-back line where Everest, Oram and Hedley all did exceedingly well. Dodshon gave a polished display at back, his interceptions being splendidly judged, Pile, his partner, also did much good work, though he made one or two bad mistakes. Kernick and Peacock best of the forwards.

The Athletic were best served by Li Tin-sang and Leung Yak- Long.

League Football,

were the

T

Two matches are down for déci- sion in the Senior Division of the Football League, and one of them will decide whether the Police are to have any further interest in the destination of lengue honours. They are playing the K.O.S.B. at Seokunpoo, South China being

given, a rest,

To-morrow's fixtures are:

Senior Division. K.O.S.B. v. Police-Sookunpoo, 5.16. Small Units v. Somersets-Chatham

Mr. Wills.

Rond, 6 p.m.-Mr Vospor.

Junior Division.

8. China "B" v. RA.-8. China,

p.m.-Mr. Crossley. Kowloon v. K.0.8.B.-Kowloon, 5

pm-Mr. Swallow, Athletic v. Easter.-11.V., 5 p.m.

Mr. Critchett. RA.F. v. Somerseta.-Recreio, & pm.

-Mr. Mose.

Kowloon Team.

the greatest of all wars should They would say, "No, we know gulp it down, was not readily to be something of the uniformity of accepted." It is strange that nature. Why has that universal that ropugnance was so easily order been departed from? The overcome in the struggle against whole thing is a mediaval legend." Sinn Fein!

The Moral of it.

He concluded that, as one Te-

It is a rare combination, indeed here below," and whose pedantic sult of the experience of the Great

War, we have seen the last of the grent commanders.

The real difficulty with our scientióe men, added Canon Peter Groen, was that they had never

In a concluding chaptor. Mr. taken Darwin seriously. Wo Churchill surveys the whole deld, could not, he said, detach the and moralises on ita vicissitudes. cherry from the tree, and we lle points out incidentally that if could not dotach man from the Lord Grey had been swiftar to universe. How the tide was missing and warn Germany that our intervan-

"An Intense Bellever." how the venture foundered inftion was to be reckoned with, "it And a second saluto is due to shallows and in miseries is the would have resulted only in his

Commenting to a Presa repre Mr. Churchill for the literary most memorable part of this complete disavowal by four-fifths sentative on his address, Canon mastory with which he das order memorable book. Of this "turbu- of the Cabinet and three-quarters Peter Green, who was offered the ed his material, and Breathed into lent collision of embarrassed de of the House of Commons," and Bishopric of Lincoln in 1919, said its mass the breath of life ao magogues," the most tragic figure that at the moment for action the that the references to the Virgin that "the record of world-famous was that of President Wilson, country would have been involved Birth were not to be taken as his

own views. events, strong upon the thread of who appeared as "a messenger in a Cabinet crisis.. Personal narrative," moves with from another planet sent to the

"I was stating the position as it vividness and stride of drama. rescue of freedom and justica!

is held by the young people of to this of the man of action and the prepossessions blocked the rapid

day," he said. "Personally, I am a most intense ballever in the Virgin Birth, but it must be taught man of letters. It in fortunate march of high policy. As Mr. that an epoch so fateful should Churchill puts it, "He might have] "Without having improved ap- in the light of the logos if it is have produced such a phenomenon; made everything swift and easy preciably in virtue or enjoying to be credible. The life of Christ that a man who largely helped in He made everything alower and wiser guidance, mankind has got has always been the power behind the shaping of events go moment-❘ more difficult. He might have into its hands for the first time phonomena. If you present the ous should also have the aptitude carried a settlement at the time the tools by which it can unfall-Virgin Birth meroly as an isolated to be their historian, interpreting when leadership was strong. Haingly accomplish its own exter-event then It is incredible," them from first-hand knowledge acquiesced in second-rate solut-mination.” gained at the centre of the earth- ions, when the phase of exhaus-

An interesting comment was shaking situation.

tion and dispersion had superven- In the World Crials there were forthcoming from Prebendary eil. However, as captain, he wont few men who played so conspicu Gough. "There are two views down with the ship." Ils ous a part and who challenged so concerning the Virgin Birth, both idiosyncrasies and limitations are much criticism as Mr. Churchill of which are held by equally ex- But he has the satisfaction of cellent men, One side conalders vividly portrayed:

knowing that in this book of his-the Virgin Birth of essential im- If Wilson had been either however debatable, some of its portance; the other either leaves simply an idealist or a caucus arguments may be he has made it alone or refects it.. politician, he might hava succeed-a contribution of signal and en-

on

Pleture-History. Although self-effacement is per- haps not Mr. Churchill's strong point, and although in this survey of the striekon field he can hardly avoid the suggestion of a god-like omniscience, looking down human limitations, he is singular ly free from any intentional exalt ing af his own horn. He is, in fuct, too deeply Interested in his story, and in the figures that fill it to think much about himself. Above all, he ja absorbed in the

artistic task of creation-in mak-

for its

J

mind is

myself in opposition to people who Other statesmen of his day take a liberal view on this point, might have rivalled or aurpassed but I consider that there are other him in counsel or strategy. But aspects of the Christian religion it is certain that not one of them and life that are immensely more

Important." could have written this book,

DO YOU WEAR AU?

ed. His attempt to run the two during worth, and one for which "Personally, my own in double harness was the case of not only the present but future not very agitated by the question," his undoing. The spacious philan generations must be grateful. ho added. "I have no wish to set thropy which he exhaled upon Europe stopped quite sharply at the consts of his own country There, he was in every main de cision a party politician, calculat Ing every page contribute its effecting and brazen. A tithe of the fine principles and generous senti. to the whole in casting every ments he lavished upon Europe, sentence into the form best fitted applied during 1918 to, his te

of purpose. Master rhetoric, he sometimes allows that publican opponents in the United medium to mastor him; but there States, would have made him in are passages in this book which truth the leader of a nation. His sense of proportion, operated for power, balance, and pictures water-light compartments. The que effect suggest that the author differences in Europe, hetweet! has sat at the feet of Gibbon. In France and Germany, seemed a singular degree Mr. Churchill trivial, petty, easy to bo adjusted has the gift of presenting a situa- by a little good sense and charity. tion as a picture which leaps to But the differences between Do- the mind's eye. The reader not mocrat and Republician in the only hears, he sees. The text, as United States! Here were really wore, illustrates itself. Thus, grave quarrels....His gaze was in his account of the opening of fixed with equal earnestness upon the Peace Conference he describes the destiny of mankind and the how "the orators and mass-leaders fortunes of his Party candidates. who had risen to the dizzy eum Peace and goodwill among all nations abroad, but no truck with the Republician Party at home."

The following will represent the Kowloon Football Club 1st XI against the Royal Artillery' on Kowloon Football Club Ground on Thursday, 4th April; kick-off at 6.15 p.m.-Guest, Pile; Dowman, Easterbrook, Bliss; Eastman, Hed-mits of power and victory, in the ley, Hannan, McKelvie and Miles. rough and tumble of the struggle, Reserves-Hast and Morgan,

all balanced themselves precari- ously upon the unsure, shifting Though the story of the Pesce platform of public opinion, and Conference is bitter reading, it claimed to be guiding mankind to has its comic interludes. As leigher destinies." Equally vivid when the Dominion" Premiers is his epitome of embarrassed de-made it plain to President Wilson magogues."

that they meant to keep the Colonies which they had taken from the Germans.

EASTER GOLF.

RESULTS OF THE HOLIDAY COMPETITIONS.

For the Shanghai Visitors' Cup, played under handicap over 36 holes at Fanling on Easter Sunday, there were 52 competitors. R. K. Hepburn won with a score of 145 (82-83 165 -20). Other

scores were:

H. A. Lammert - 90 † 92 -- 189

879718

M G..พ

A Webster

08 91 = 180

30 181 #2 = 142

38182

B. Robertson 85481166 – 12 m 184

0. E. G. Marton

T. L. Chrlate

A. J. Ferguson

R. M. HoRia

A. Plarey

BL #1 == 174 - 23 = 154

Ta + 29—186 -- Ber. :: 186

8178 x 160 --

478 169

17

W. D. Brown 84169 12 - 157

A. D. Humphreya 89 + 13 = 181

L. D. LAWrence 18 +88 176 10 - 160

J. B. MacLaren 12 + 100' 183

J. S. MacLaren won the prize for

best 18 holes with 71 mett, equall- ed by M. G. Mills, but doelded on best last nine holes,

Fourball Foursomes,

This was played from March 29th to April 1st, and twelve patra entered. R. K. Hepburn and D. J. Gilmore won with a score: of 67 (76-8), Other Acores were:

O. E C. Marton and E. D. Law- rence 72-869.

T. L. Christle and R. K. Hepburn 70—8—71.

Comdr. Taylor and Comdr.

| Brown 79—6—73.

Fine Phrases.

Decidedly Mr.. Church Is no

"And do you mean, Mr. Hughes,' mere black-and-white artist. He said the President, that in certain is a colourist as audacious as circumstances Australia would Sarolya, as may be seen in such place herself in opposition to the phrases an

opinion of the whole civilised "Maharajahs and Emirs of world? Mr. Hughes, who was very a thousand years historic de deaf, had an instrument like a scent, advanced in glittering machine-gun emplaced upon the gravity"

table by which he heard all he "Through the confusion | wanted, and to this challenge he marched the ordered phalanx of replied drily: "That's about it, Mr. the General Staff, bearing the President." Great Design";

i

"Russia, self-outcast, sharpens And that was that! No wonder her bayonets In her Arctic night, M. Clemenceau, at the next meet-

and inechanically proclaims ing, exhorted Mr. Lloyd George, through halfetarved lips her philosophy of hatred and death";

"Hore we stir the embora

"Bring your savages with you.”

"Murder by the Throat.""

Mr. Churchill deals very fully of the past and light the with the Russian imbroglio in all beacons of the future. Old its phases; but next to his chapters flags are raised anew;;the pas on the Peace Conference those re- sions of vanished genorations | lating to the Irish Treaty are the awake; beneath the shell-torn most illuminating and human in sofl of the Twentieth Century, their append. The world knows the bones of long-dend warriors now how the astounding capitula- and victims are exposed, and tho tlon to the murder-gang occurred, wall of lost cause sounds, In and how the two men mainly rea the wind":

ponsible for it were Sie Austen "The trumphant statesmen, Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead, idols of the masses, acclaimed as There is a caustic pon-picture of saviours of thoir countries,} the egregious Do Valera, with his were still robed with the glam silly posturings (his fuxistence on our of war-achievement, and Gaelic at a conference was counte ahod with the sanctions of. De- ered by Mr. Lloyd George's relap- emocracy."

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