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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER

23, 1929.

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One of the most interesting Shanghai rugby football matches this season was witnessed at the Canidrome when Shang hul and the US Marines drew 8-all. Top photo shows a scramble after a serum. The local players are shown in the bottom picture, while some of the Marines can be seen on the right and left.

ANNUAL YACHTING PORTUGAL LOSE TO

CHINA.

CRUISE.

TEN START IN RACE TO MACAO AND BACK.

INTERNATIONAL CHARITY CUP

SEMI-FINAL.

SEVENTY-MILE TRIP. THREE GOALS MARGIN.

China

There were ten entrants for the

3 Portugal annual Boxing Day Yacht Race to

China had the game safe within Macao and inek, held in connexion with the Royal Hongkong Yacht ten minutes of the opening, Ip Pak- Chub. The

following yachts Wa scoring a nice gand after eight minutes, Tso Kwal-sing adding to started, handicaps indicating minutes and seconds being in the lend almost directly from the centre-kick. Portugal failed to get together and very rarely challeng- ed the superiority of the opposi-? tion. A third goal came mid-way through the first half, To Kui-) sing heading through neatly.

brackets:

La Cigale (ser.) U. and I. (1.80). Wanderer (1,00) Asuma (1.00) Coquette (6.40) Norseman (6,80) Queen Bee (6,80) Typhoon (8.4K)) Curlew (8,00). Chinook. (13,00)'

The yachts made a good start from Murray Pier at 7.25 this morning on a head tide, with light winds.

Providing conditions are favour- able, it is expected that the first boat back will arrive at about 8.30 to-night.

The distance to be covered is about 70 miles and the trophy for the race is the Potts Challenge Cup. The time limit for the enurse has been fixed for 10 a.m. on Saturday.

ELECTRIC BOOM IN BRITAIN.

RECORD FOR YEAR'S EXPORTS.,

The fact that the Chinese were definitely the better of two sides for the rest of the game and falled to add to their total conveys its own stary. They indulged in pattern weaving and fancy tricks and their shooting was far from good. One or two efforts came eloso, but after the first half, interest lagged.

Portugal were unexpotally weak, | As a rule, they manage to muster a spirit for international matches which makes them formidable how- ever poorly the Recreio have been doing in the league. The recent steady improvement of the Recrele promised a lively tussle yesterday, but it was not forthcoming. The side was at sixes and sevens all through and, except when they forced a couple of corners they were not dangerous,

A. V. Gosano led the forwards; but he was never given an oppor tunity of showing his mettle. He was never given a decent pass by a colleague and he was too care- fully watched to make much out of ho huphazzard kicks which came his way..

An Interesting feature of the A record in export work has been game was the return of Fung King- achieved, by the British electrical cheong to the soccer field. He play- industry during the first nine ed a fairly steady game, better than months of the present year and one generally expects of a player' there has been a considerable in who has not touched a ball for two crease in the number of people months.

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Export contracts on the cn-

gineering side have amounted to

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£8,000,000, while home contracla of the electricity supply In Hol-! land has come to Britain. We were not less than £16,000,000.

An officiul of the British Elec- have even penetrated such coun-

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO,trical and Allied Manufacturers' tries as Finland and Bulgaria, our

OF CHINA LTD., Queen's Buildings, 'Hongkong. Telephone Central 518.

Association said that the electrical plant has gone to the Far East industry was about the only in- and Russia, and there has even dustry in the country which had been a contract from the Christ developed a strong export trade pus Islands,

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since the war. That was largely "The electrical Industry employs due to the fact that we took the between 180,000 and 200,000 peo- Initiative in design in the techni-ple, and the figures are steadily cal field and had kept it ever growing." "

On the other side of the pic-1 ainee.

"Our home contracts," he added, ture, it was pointed out that the "have meant increased business in development of electricity in this the iron and steel trades, and we country had not kept pace with

The letters "GE.Care your have justified extensions in their the rest of the world. The Elec-

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"During the two years before January last we could not do more than hold our own in export, busi- ness, but in the last nine months we have made a moat remarkable recovery.

tricity Commission, le erecting great power stations, but is doing. nothing to develop the demand for the power it will have to sell,

British manufacturers were sup plying Canada with only 1.6 per cent, of its electrical appliances Behindhand at Home." and machinery, that country taking "Practically every contract In less of our output than any other connection with the reorganisation country in the world.

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