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THE HONGKONG

TENNIS MATCH.

TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY: 1, 1930.

RUMJAHNS BEATEN BY A BETTER PAIR.

WIFE'S WORK FOR HUSBAND.

THE ROMANCE OF SIR JOHN

FORTESCUE.

HIS ARMY HISTORY..

After indefatigable labour Fortescue, ex-King's Librarian at stretching over 30 years, Sir John Windsor Castle, has completed his

SERVANT PROBLEM

SOLUTION:

COUNCILS TO GOVERN PAY

AND HOURS.

A report on the Domestic Ser- vant Problem, which will create considerable discussion, is to be presented at a national conference of Labour women in London early in June.

JUDGE CRITIC OF POLICE.

SALT THROWN IN FACE OF FATE.

A DIVISION "ROTTEN TO HOW THE “13 CLUB" DEFIED".

THE CORE."

SUPERSTITION.

There was a large crowd of spectators on the HKC.C. ground Francisco last evening, when Aragon and Gordon Lum met and defeated S. A. and H. D. Rumjalin in an exhibition match, part of the proceeds of which are to go to the Sepoy Disaster Fund..

The feature of the match was undoubtedly the magnificent play of the Filipino champion, who was tremendous "History of the British Charter," and has been prepared shown to be rotten to the core. seen on the top of his form and who shone in all departments of the game. His deadly driving and his effective volleying were parti. cularly noticeable, whilst in court craft he had his opponents fre. quently guessing. His partner was not too impressive and never seomed to settle down,

Fate was gloriously defied when All Fools' Day was celebrated by INCOME OF BRIBES, The Thirteen Club', windun The conduct of the Brightside cheen at the Connaught Rooms, Division of the Sheffield police for Sir Arbuthnot Lane baing the It is described as "First Steps years past has been most lament guest of honour.

Covers were laid for 39-three. has been towards a Domestic Workers able. That division

13's--the tables being arranged in the shape of an open umbrella,

The Rumiahne had to admit defeat by a superior pair, but they put up a plucky fight, especially in the third and fourth sets, when the tennis reached Π high standard. After winning the third set, the local pair looked like running off with the fourth also, as they, led at one time by 4/1. However, Aragon then asserted himself and it was mainly due to his fine play that he and his partner took the set to 5/4 in their favour. However, the

Army," and now offers the public the thirteenth and last volume of the work.

and love.

His achievement hides a wonder ful story of persistence... romance To Sir John the research and writing have been a labour of love delighted in since he always military history.

of Industrial Women's Organisa-citizens who had been used to as to defy almost every known by the Standing Joint Committee It was a very painful thing for and decorated in such a fashion

tiona

The committee declare that the this country-and rightly 80-

look upon the police force of form of superstition..

Before entering the Dreaded number of domestic workers in Kensington. Westminster, Hampas a body of men who could be Room for the luncheon proper the trusted to do their duty, to find 12 remaining club members (and stead and Chelsea is so large that that there were officers who had the more daring of their guests) these constituencies as represen- bookmakers as bribes paid to pre-But even the 12 members consider. if they organised they could make received a regular income from deliberately afe 13 hors d'oeuvre. tative of domestic workers in-

ed that it would be unlucky to veat them doing their daty.' terests as a Durham County con-

consume 13 drinks! The work had also the special stituency is representative of Such was the comment of Mr. affection of Lady Fortescue. Sir miners and their wives, or John had a slender purso and, in Lancashire town of the textile sizes when the hearing was.con- Justice Humphreys, at Leeds As- tinued of the series of cases in order to help him to be free to workers. pursue his task, his wife became a

which two constables have bec fashionable dress designer, trading

accused of corruptly accepting under the name of "Cintra," and their

gifts and five bookmakers have Watling." directing operations from

been accused of bribery. home at Hampstead:

Flowers and Music Setting.

Why Service is Unpopular. After referring to legislative proposals in Germany to regulate rest, sleeping rooms, holidays, &c., the committee point out that in

England there have been at least Wonderful creations were design-four Government inquiries into flocked to "The Admiral's House," The last, in 1928, made some good od by "Cintra," and society women, the conditions of the profession." Hampstead, where

hidden suggestions.

Rudo fewer than twenty games Rumjahns were not yet finished, wore necessary before the match was finally decided.

brchestra used to play classical

One of these was that local Aragon and Lam won by 6/3, music while dresses were viewed committees of employers and em 6/2, 3/6 and 11/9. or three sets to a background of banks of ployed should be set up, to work to one and 26 games to 20. -.--flowers.

out rates of pay and general! A return match is to take place

In the last sentence of the preface standards-in fact, Whitley Coun- on the Club ground at 4 p.m. onto his last volume, Sir John proud-cils for domestic workers. Saturday.

LAWN BOWLS.

K.C.C. LEAGUE TEAMS FOR SATURDAY.

The following players have been Relected to represent the Kowloon Cricket Club in the opening games of the Lawn Boyle League:

"

Telegram Shock.

telegram arrived which read:

There was consternation when a

"Greatly regret unable to attend. tuncheon. Wife too superstitious.

But it was regarded as a lucky

If, continued the judge, it was omen that the official time for the ever thought desirable to have an handing in of the telegram was object lesson to demonstrate the marked "11.56 a.m." the digits of

corrupt. gifts, they would agree those members who had already Importance and necessity of the which tot up to the magic Statute dealing with the giving of Thirteen!

This coincidence quite cheered that that object lesson was afford- ad by this case.

assembled and they were still more. cheered when, sharp at one o'clock -the Thirteenth Hour--In walked Major Watling himself!

"Miserable Spectacle."

The evidence showed that the confidence held in the police of the Chronicle representative. "some

"Ah," the major told a Daily.

ly dedicates his history "with lov- The unpopularity of domestic | Brightside Division had been body must have been trying to

ing thankfulness to my wife," who, as he points out, was "but a child, of whose existence I was for many years to remain unaware," when he began the work at the beginning of the century.

story.

Sir John also permits a glance at a more private side of the romantic His wife he places on record, "fought incessantly to win for me the leisure for completion of my task" in defiance of pain and sick

1st Team v. K.B.G.C.-Home. H. Overy, F. Goodwin, J. C.Ass. Lyal, J. Gibson (Skip).

H. Gittins, W. Webb, A. Hyde Lay, J. Fraser (Skip).

TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS TEA DANCE & DINNER DANCE. Tacchi, A. E. Silkstone (Skip).

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A. C. Burford, J. Howe, C., J.

Reserve: E. Lammert.

2nd Team v. C.C.C.-Away.

Purves, O. B. Raven, V. C. Labrum, J. M. Jack (Skip).

W. Borrowman, C. G. Harrison, W. Goldenberg, B. Petheram (Skip).

T. W. Carr, L. A. Jeeves, W. W.

The author has made but little money .out of his history. In the first 25 years he

service is held to be partly due to the fact that it separates the ser vant from her own surroundings, often by a long journey, and takes her into new ones where she has an inferior social status.

wholly misplaced. The men had lied and lied and lied as the miser able spectacle in the witness box revealed.

make an April fool of the Thirteen Club. But that really is funny (with a slight, shiver) about the time of the handing in, isn't it?”

When luncheon was announced

Mr. Justice Humphreys told the jury they need not consider in the members anapped open 12 large When at home the girl moves their verdict what effect it might umbrellas and marched into the among equals and feels a sense of have upon the police witnesses. room under an arch of ladders independence. Away in service. They were not being tried, but of decorated with unlucky yaw she feels a sense of helplessness, the 11 officers who had given Mr. Albert Marchi, the chairman she feels that she cannot defend that any public authority would very ferrule of the umbrella table, and often a weight of ignorance; evidence, he could not concalve of the club, sat himself at the herself when things go wrong.

ever think it right to employ such and-with every knife crossed and with spilt salt strewn upon the table cloths, the whole company fell. to and made merry. -

men again.

Witch's Delight,

Standards for Employers.

The case dealt with was that The committee state that were did not make £1,000. As it the Employment Exchanges to deal George Henry Parkin, 42, who was grew volume by volume the most with the registration of domestic charged with having corruptly

They made merry despite-or be- it added to his income was 14s, a workers, providing a room for in- given £4 to P.-c. Crookes, jointly

cause of hundreds of the symbols. week. Had not King Edward made terviews between employers and with P.-. Maddison. him Librarian at Windsor in 1905derstanding that no jobs were to said that after this case the phrase dened the black heart of a black of supersitition spread out upon employees, coupled with the un- Mr. Jardine, K.C., defending, the tables that would have glad- he would have been compelled to

be offered which did not come up "lying like a have given up the work.

trooper" would be witch. other come "lying like a Shefield police- Despite his limited means, the to a certain standard,

There were toads and newts and author got great joy and adventure methods of recruitment would

man." It WAH quickly decline in importance.

a terrible thing green serpents; a white elephant from his task.

to think that for years. past and a scarlety demon; eats with On the question of general con- hundreds of cases in the police arching backs; green monkeys and

He found it necessary to travel

Reserves:-A. J. Kew, J. S. Europe to visit the sites of bygoneditions of work the committee aak: court had depended upon thela single magpie; cracked mirroray

MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS TEA DANCE & DINNER DANCE Hirst, L. G. Blackburn (Skip).

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battles, and at some places he made extraordinary discoveries..

On the field of Vittoria, for ex- ample, he found a sheer cliff, men- tloned by no writer and shown on no plan of the battle, yet a topogra- phical detail that CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM affected the campaign.

Mr. Herbert Cribb, who from the beginning drew the maps for the

NEW YORK.

Should there be regulations as to accommodation and food?

How could such regulations be standardised and enforced?

testimony of such men.

and dragon's blood.

but recommended him to mercy, fronted by two small open umbrellas The jury found Parkin guilty, Behind the chairman-who gat and added that they believed Par--gazed a great stuffed owl, and kin acted ander pressure of the other dead birds of ill-omen were

police. Sentence was deferred. materially

The following quotations have been history was as intent on accuracy received from their correspondents Messrs. Hayden, Stone and Co., ofas Sir John.

Rivers had altered courses OF New York, by Messrs. Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz. Sassoon House, Shang-were canalised, coast lines had hai, (eable address: "Swanstock," changed, marshes were drained. Shanghai), who are not responsible forests felled, land was reclaimed for cable mutilations.

New York, Apr. 30. Tone of Market Irregular. No. of Share done. 4,000,000.

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or else abandoned to the sea, villages either absorbed in towns or obliterated—all this happened dur- ing the six centuries covered by the work.

At Least Two Checks.

Whether overwhelmed by piles of records, old and new, or faced with 4 crude early maps and rude scrib- blinga on documents, Mr. Cribb 114 produced the maps as demanded.

02 Then the enthusiasts would check 47 maps and text, fighting excitedly 51 the battles and attacks not once, but 46 several times. There were always 81 at least two checks and sometimes 34 more na in the case of a Buenos 46 Ayres affair, quoted in the last volume's preface. Sir John writes:

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36 "With Immense difficulty I got hold of three or four plans and charts of the city and worked out

88 all the details of the attack.

46

"We had read and checked it at

Standard Oil Co. of New York 40 four distinct stages, when Mr.

Simmons Company

Union Carbide & Carbon

United States Rubber

United States Steel

10 Cribb produced a new survey and

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29 told me!" "The orientation of all your plans is wrong. What you have called north should be east."

"Altogether we checked that

RESULT OF THE CITY wretched attack on seven different

AND SUBURBAN.

LUCKY TOR WINS BY TWO LENGTHS.

occasions, making 14-times in all, before we could pass it."

The new volume which deals with the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and lesser campaigns, takes the history of the Army up to 1870. It is published, together with a book of maps, by Macmillan at

London, Apr. 30. The result of the City and Subar. ban Handicap, run at Epsom to-day over one and a quarter miles, was: 40s.

Lucky Tor

Athford

Vatout

2 2. 3..

2

Mr. E. G. Boulenger, director of Sixteen ran. Won by two lengths, the Aquarium, told the London with three-quarters of a length be Zoological Society that inside tween second and third.

Betting was 13/2 Lucky Tor, 8/1 crocodile had been found: Eight Athford, 10/1 Vatout-Reuter. long rows of beads, which, when worn with a girdle, formed the walking costume of a missing The following will represent Club native woman, one pair of silver de Recreio in a hockey match against circular earrings, one single bead the Hongkong Hockey Club "A" on Friday, May 2nd, at 6 o'clock sharp of a pattern which had been out of at King's Park ground: F. Barros, local fashion for a century and a D. Alves, A. A dos Remedios, D. half, one jam-jar, and the neck of Lopes, R. Silva-Netto, F. V. Ribeiro, a bottle. The crocodile, a monster 3. A. do V. Soares, H. A. Botelho, C. 15ft. long, had been shot by Mr. K d'Almada Castro, A. A. Remedios and Lee Guinness, the racing motorist, F. J. Remedios..

in the Gambla River, West Africa.

How far can hours be regulated in the individual household?

How can the young be protected from tasks which are boyond their strength?

perched about. the tables In branches of yew, sallow and Ivy, Finally, huge bunches of fateful Might not all these questions, Employment Exchanges should be black irises and sickly green tullpe Whitley Council which would lay employers who did not conform to and added a garish touch of night. it is asked, be tackled by a local guided in offering posts, leaving decorated the room and the tables;

down the standard by which the find their workers elsewhere. mare.

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