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ARBITRARY ARRESTS

CAPT BEER LOSES ACTION

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KOWLOON RESIDENTS allowed the 8.8. "Kailangata" to

COMPLAINT

become stranded on Cambodia Point: that he negligently allow- ed the .5. "Kamo" to Strike Considerable inconvenience a rock or reef in the vicinity of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934.

BOWLERS' BAIT

ROTARY, TIFFIN

OPEN RINKS REPLACE SPEY ROYAL

CRAIGENGOWER

GO UP

The Colony lawn bowlers will be faced with new interests this summer committee meeting of the Hongkong Lawn Bowl Association last night The meeting was presided over by Mr. B. E. Maughan.

as a result of decisions taken al a

INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR ADDRESSES MEETING

RADIO BROADCAST

A dissertation on Rotary from an international viewpoint WAS given to the members of the loca! TO-DAY'S Club at their weekly' tiffin, held at the Gloucester Building yea- terday. by Dr. Fong Fou-sec, of Shanghai, a Director of Rotary International.

has been caused to residents only allowed the s.s. "Kamo" to

The Amherst Rock; that ho nepli the neighbourhood of Kimberley strike a rock or reef nff Ockas Road, Kowloon, by the rather Island; that whilst in command of

In the absence of the Presi- high-handed action of the au- the 8.8. "Kamo," in contravention

dent, Mr. T. B. Wilsen, who is thorities in arresting servants of Fleet Regulations, the plaintiff

suffering from a sprained ankle. late at night, without the know did not keep a Watch Order Buok.

the chair was taken by Mr. M. In the course of a lengthy judg-

K. Lo, who introduced the spank- ledge of their employers, and

It was decided to drop the "Speyer to the audience and to ZBW lodging them in gaol for dum- ment his Lordship said:"Com-

munder Hole advises me, and I ac-Royal" competition

the liat onera. ping refuse.

trophy a a challenge cup for an

and use

Dr. Fong said the suggestión

The first intimation employers cept his advise the more readily 5e Open Rinks Competition, the entrance had been made that the Rotary have had, of the arrest of their cause it agrees entirely with my fee for each leam being $5. An Open world should be divided into four servants in many cases has been own view, that no prudent and Pairs Competition is also to be belt. a demand for $10 hail for their careful navigator would take his

venscl within a mile of laland.

release.

the entrance fee for each player being Ocksu. The Aitkenhehd Shield, the In-

ternational, and the Singles Comnet tions will be run as last senson,

The closing date for entrance to all competitions is May 14, and the Len

ue commences on Saturday, April

CUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE.

The

quarters, each of which would be visited in successive years by the President. According to that scheme President Nelson was to have visited the Far East and Europe this spring, but owing to various complications he had had to cut short this trip.

BROADCAST.

-TWO STUDIO ITEMS FOR

THIS EVENING

Concert.

CHILDREN'S CONCERT.

From D. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres..

1.30-7.30 p.m. Chinese Programme, .6-6.15 p.m.

Children's Studio

7.30-10.30 p.m. European Pro- gramme.

7.30-8 pm. Dance Music. Fox Trot-My Hat's on the side of my Hend. Fox Trot-This Towns Too Quiet, Fox TrotLove Looked Out, Fox Tint-Happy and Contented, Fox Trot-Roll up the Carpet. Fox Trot-On the Other Shle of

Lover's Lane.. Fox Trot-Dinner at Eight, Fox Trot-Under a Blanket of Blue. Fox, Trut-The Last Round Up. 8pm Local Time and Weather Report,

8 p.m. From the Studio. 8.03-8.30 p.m.

A Pianoforte Recital by Miss Bar-

Programme.

1. Prelude and Fuge in C. Shop Major. (Bach). 2. Concerto in C, ist Atovt.

(Beethoven). (Accompanied at the second plano by Mr. H. Ore).

Several residents in Luna Bulld ing have suffered in this respect during the last two or three nights.

"I am advised that It is a well A general raid seems to have been made round about midnight and known and salutory custom of the

Kowloon Dock the offending servants have been on that a master should, himself

Recreation

Paul Harris, the founder of Club. wrote announcing that Laken to the Police Station without be on the bridge when making a

Livy landfall. On his own showing the

would compete in the Rotary, had been much interest- The employer being notified.

ed in the speaker's trip to the | League and the composition of the The salt has been that rest-plaintiff was on the bridge at 3

and expected to have the League was fixed as previously pub Antipodes and hoped to go there denta have had to go to the Police a.m. Station the following morning to island on a four point bearing at fished hut with the transfer of Crai- himself in connection with the the senior Melbourne Centenary, It would ball out their servants and in 3.30 am. When he decided to engower "B" team to

leave the bridge for his arm chair division. The First Division now con-

be a great thing if he could go i bara Balean. many cases have been compelled to

instead of remaining on watch for sists of nine teams and the Second there and see how the ideas get their own morning meals.

Mr. H. Beer, in reply to a ques

which he had promulgated had The first intimation some resid-jan hour or so until the vessel had Division of ten teams

Craigyagower Club progressed. He might be per- ente get of the whereabouts of safely passed Ockau Island, he didtion, and the

would have preferred' to run two suaded to arrange his journey to their servant in the morning has at his own risk.

"I accept the advice given me by teams in the Second Division, but take in Hongkong; he was a man been news of their arrest from

my nautical expert and I find that they were willing to be premated fo with a great capacity for friend- other servants.

the plaintiff in leaving the bridge deference to the Committee's wishes.

would be # Mesars, F. Janes, R. P. Phillips, H. ship and his visit at 3 a.m. was guilty of negligence Deer, and F. 5. M. Silva, were ap-great thing for local rotarians. in relation to his employment pointest to form the sub-committee to

Chicago could do much more Seen by a Telegraph representa culpable as to justify the defen-organise the competitions with Mr. 11. for Rotary in the Far East if Live this morning, Mr. R. A. D.dants in summarily terminating Hmpton, the hon. secretary of the the latter had a district and Forrest, Head of the Sanitary De- his contract of service."

District Governor to be élected partment, deplored the inconvenl-

annually:

tentative district ence caused. He explained that should any of the Sanitary Inspet- tors see any person in the net of dumping refuse they should in the first place ask him for his name and address. If they have any doubt as to the correctness of the answers, or if the person refuges: to give the necessary information: he is detained until a policeman ix summoned. The offender is then taken to the Police Station and there charged.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

:

ARBITRATION

AWARD APPEAL

DISMISSED

WITH

COSTS

Association.

In a discussion on the hye-laws of the Association, It was agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. B. Wyllo, that games.should be played on Sundays only by mutual consent of the clubs

concerned.

wrolo

A

(Mozart). (Chopin).

3. Second mort; of Sonata in D.

4. Preludes Noa, 3, 4, 24. 8.30-9 p.m. Orchestral. Petrouchin Suite (Stawinsky).

Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Serge Koussevitzy.

(Moussargaby).

Cortego Des Nobles ("Sinda")

(Rimsky-Korsakov).

comprising the Philippines and Copak (The air of Sortebinsk") China had already been created. and might become definite.

A Peace Weapon.

with illustrating,

and been

examples

London Symphony Orchestra con- dueted y Albert Coates. 9-9.30 p.m. From the Studio, Selections by the Music Makers. 9.30-9.55 p.m. Light Opera. Vocal Gems-Veraniquo (Messeger).

Columbia Light Opera Company.

A letter was read from St. Duns. tan's, acknowledging with gratitude the receipt of £6, s. 1d. sent by the gleaned on his travels, the spirit Assixiation. It was decided to make of rotary as interpreted by differ a similar collection on the closing | est clubs, the speaker said he day of the coming season.

much struck when The Chief Justice. Mr. A. D. Aing Association

The Secretary of the English Bowl-standing on the Sacred Mountain Selection. "Princess Ida

(Sullivan), expressing of Shantung to look down where MacGregor, gave his decision to-pleasure the entrance to the Em- day in the application made on be- [pire Games of team from the long. Confucius once looked down, and Mr. Forrest painted out that the half of S. Latir Husnin to set aside kong Lawn Bowls Association, and Inspectors often found that ser- an award made by Mr. T. E. Fence assuring them of a warm welcome vants gave wrong names and ad-in arbitration proceedings between from, the purent body. dresses for the purpose of shield-the applicant and Messrs. Hang ing their employers,

Shun and Company is respect of a contract to supply cont.

CORRESPONDENCE

Gande, Price Affairs

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph. Sir-With regard to the report which appoured in your paper of the annual general meeting of ----Gondo, Prive & Co., Ltd.. yesterday. as my name has been dragged into a discussion raised by Mr. Bondd, may be permitted a small space to convey to your readers # few facts regarding 2713 connection with the firm?

#

When I took over the Managing Directorship at the end of 1913, the shares of the, Company were then worth about $2 each (paid-up value $10), and the nett loss for that year was $13,950, in spite of the fact that we had then also to meet an amount of $23,686, which later turned out to be a dead loss to the Company. The very next

- After reviewing the case tongth, his Lordship said he was satisfied that the conduct of the parties before the umpire on De- [cember 14th, 1933, amounted to a waiver, on the part of the appli cant, as well as by the respondents, of the obligation on the umpire to And expressly that there had in fnet been a lirunch of contract by the applicant.

The application was disinissed with costs.

ARMY CRICKET

East Lancs Defeat

Artillery

SHANGHAI PRESIDENT.

Mr. W. A. Turnbull, for many years popular President of the Shang- hai Lawn Bowls Association, was at the annual meeting re-elected to the chair for the coming year..

CHILDREN'S SPORTS

reflect that there was not a tion below which was not doing harm to its neighbours, and that he was powerless to alter that state of things. Rotary was a for assisting ready instrument the nations to an understanding They should remember that the differences which separated in- dividuals wore the same things that separated nations, but they were all alike under the skin.

Anent skin he remembered a child who remarked to his for elgn teacher that she had a love ly hide! The teacher corrected

Kowloon Junior School him and told him he meant skin.

Hold Meeting

The annual sports meeting of the Kowloon Junior School was held yes- terday on the Kowloon Cricket Club grounds.

Quite an enjoyable time was spent by the children, who displayed great keenness in the sporte.

At the conclusion of the progran.me, Mra. A. O. Brawn, wife of Mr. A. 0.{ Brawn, Inspector of Schools. dis

In the semi-final of the inter-Unit cricket competition, the East Lantributed the prizes.

ahire Regiment met and defeated

A silver Cup, presented by Mrs. the Royal Artillery hy ten runs on

Clark to the Senior Boy and Senior the Kowloon C.C. ground on Monday. Girl with the highest aggregate of Capt. P. V. Williams won the tose points, was won by George Saunders and put the "Lillywhites" in on and Ruth Barrett. pitch that was taking the spin,

The East Lancashires were dis-

28,

RESULTS.

2, Roy Styles. Inter-

At the church the following Sun- day, the apt pupil sang to the tune of "Hide me, Oh my Saviour hide," the words, "Skin-me, Ob

Saviour, skin!" (Laughter). Every nation had something good but they did not each pos- sess the best in the world. They used to sing that America was the land of the "brave and the free," but since he ind started dodging traffic there he felt they would be justified in calling it the land of the "quick and the dead." (Laughter).

In conclusion, the speaker said he would like to see a spirit of optimism among Rotarians. He had that spirit himself and, though it seemed that everyone was preparing for as armament race, it was no use sitting down

ing war.

optimistic

He

was

Now Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mr. Malentm Sargent. Vocal Gems "Florodorn" (Stuart).

Light Opers Company. 9.55-10.30 p.m. Variety, Orchestral The Love Dance

(Hoschna).

International Novelly Orchestra. Pianoforte Solo-Give me a Ring.

Carroll Gibbons. Orchestral-The Call of the Angelus.

Salon Orchestra.

Gracie Plebla (Comedienne). Fox Troi--How Could we be wrong.

Song-My Lucky Day.

.

Lew Stone and His Bandi. Orchestral-Pan and The Wood

Goblina.

International Novelty Orchestra.. Orchestral--Dream of the Ocean.

International Novelty Orelicstra. Fox Trot-Experiment. Soug-Mary Rose Orchestral-Fairy Tiptoe.

Lew Stung and His Band.

Gracie Fields... {Comedienne), £,

Salon Orchesten. Orchestral-The Mosquitoes' Parade.

International Novelty Orchestra, 10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press Newa.

10.35 p.m. Close Down.

NOTED POLITICIAN

HON, MR. ROLAND GREEN VISITS COLONY

"Australia fs definitely on the

has up-grade. Unemployment substantially, decreased, and

a note of optimism prevails.” day by the Hon. Roland Green, Member of the Commonwealth House of Representatives for a New South Wales constituency. when he was interviewed by a South China Morning Post repre

This statement was made yester

year the profit & loss accounts missed for 74 runs, Lieut. C. C. showed $10,700 on the right side. Garthwaite taking five wickets for 12 100 yards (Senior Boys)-1. Jimmy In 1915, the profit was $15,393: inand Capt. D. B. Mihell five for 36 Lindsay; 2. George Saunders. Senior 1910, $35,136; in 1917, $24,377; in runs, C. S. M. Elvin caused the | Girls-1, Ruth Barrett; 2. Margaret 1918, $80,106; in 1919, $32,040. dismissal of the Artillery team for Bard. Intermediate Boys. Terd and doing nothing about prevent-everywhere in the Commonwealth Excepting in 1926 and 1928, when runs, by taking right wickets for there were small losses of a few thousand dollars, all the subsequent yours had been good unes save the indiance where the Japanese_har-; bour runner victimized the Com- pany. In short. the total profit earned during my Managing Direc torship was $401,018 and the losses $30,247. The shares tu-day worth about ten times their value In 1913.

Are

I hope the publication of this letter may satisfy the questioning shareholder as to what I had done for the Company. I desire to take this opportunity, as a shareholder, in compliment the new management upon the year's work.

S. C. PANK.

A.D.C. Bookings

Sir. With reference to "Demo- crat's" letter In your issue of yes, terday I much regret that there has been a misunderstanding with the booking agents with regard to the booking of sents for the pro- production of "The Firat Mrs. Fraser"

Will your readers kindly note that all monts are bookable and that service men in uniform

aro ad- mitted to the $1 seats at half price?

E. S, C. BROOKLA,

Hon. Soc.

HI.K. A.D.C.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Panzer, of the Geographical Department of Sun Yat- son University, will apeak at the next meeting of the Thursday Club at Canton to-morrow. Els subject will bol "What's wrong with the Hong kong Cost?".

BOWLER INJURED

Australian Test Cricketer

Ferguson: mediate Girls-1, Cania Bounvia; 2. enough to think there would not be one, and Rotary should work Margaret Rodger.

50 yards (Junior Boys)-1, Douglas for the unity of peopies to this Bertrain; 2. John Booty. Junior end. Girls.-1, Audrey Brewin; 2, Mary E. Mr. W. N. T. Tam thanked the Grant,

Skipping (Senter Girls)-1, Ruth Menker, who was accorded hearty Barrett; 2. Winifred Ingram. Inter- applause. mellate, Girly-1, Sybil Roussenut 2.j Tara Bonavia,

Aden, Apr. 10. As the steamer Orford, with Aus- tralian Test Team aboard, was put-1, ting Into this port to-day, Australia's star bowler, O'Reilly, tripped on the deck and fell heartly, jarring both his wrists.

Doctors here were unable to say at once whether any bones were

broken, but thought it unlikely. The injury in nevertheless extremely pain- ful Brid temporarily crippling

Reuter.

CANTON SPORTS

Rain Causes Some Postponements

Canton, Apr. 10, Despite the inclement weather all lies athletes showed very good spirit in the second day of the Municipal Athletic Meet yesterday.

On account of heavy rain in the afternoon, some of the items were postponed..

Banny Hop Untermediate Boys)

George Telford Ferguson: Spencer. Intermediate Girls-1, Nan Taylor; 2, Eva Grady, Junior Boys 1. Bobby Harper; 2. Douglas Bertrum. Junior Girls, Audrey Brewin; 2, Peggy Dedear.

sentative

оп

The chairman anounced that The Hon. Mr. Green, with his the following appointmenta had wife, arrived in the Colony been suggested,

by and were now Monday

the Australian open for the Club's considera- Oriental Illner Changte, on a health Lion.

and pleasure tour of the Far East.

President, Mr. M. K. Lo; vice President, Mr. M. J. Perrin; Joint Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. M. F. Jligh Jump (Senior Boys). Key and II. Hong Sling: Direc- George Saunders: 2, Ronald Luck tors. Mr. W. Anderson, Professor Senior Girls.-1, Barbara Jonen: L. Foster, Messrs. P. A. Macin- Margaret Boyd. Intermediate Boys.

1. Roy Styles; 2, Bobby Woener, toah. . B Montarges, C. Intermediate Girls1, Tania Bonavia; Wang, and P. K. Kwok.

| 2, Jane Tinson.

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Patulo Race (Senior Boys)-1, George Saunders; 2, Fraser Thomp son. Senior Girl-1, Ruth Barrett; 2, Hazel Millington. Intermediate Girls-1, Tania Bonuvia; 2, Jill Paris Stokes. Intermediate Boys, Geor- Geneva. ge Spencer; 2, Roy Styles. Junior Berlin. Boys-1, Billy Harrin; 2, John Booty. Helsingfors. Junior Girls, Audrey Brewin; 2, Onlo.

Athens. Mary E. Grant.

Sack Race (Seniur_Boys).—1, Wal- Alilan... lace Desterhaft; 2, George Saunders, Buenos Aires. Senior Girls-1. Marela Grayo; 2, Shanghai. Winifred Graye. Intermediate Beys. Now York. |----1, John Cameron; 2. Telford Fer- Amsterdam,

guson. Intermediate Girls-1. Sibyl Vienna. Prague. Houssent; 2. Joyco Crookdale,

Obstacle Inco (Senior Boys),-1, Madrid. Javelin Throw-1, Oong Wa-ming Jimmy Lindsay; 2, George Saunders. Bucharest (47.06 metres); 2, Huang Tch-ching; Senior Girls-1, Ruth Barrett: 2, Hongkong- 3, Chen Yu-shong; 4, Liang Hsi- Katherine Grant. Intermediate Boys, Brussels. lan.

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STUDIO ESTABLISHMENT IN KOWLOON

A forecast that within five years, à modern cinema studio for the production of Cinema talkies will be established in Kowloon by the United Photoplay Service Limited, a big film manufacturing and distributing company incor porated in Hongkong, waa nudo by the company's Managing ¡Director, Mr. Lo Ming-yau, on Monday. Mr. Lo was the guest at the reception given by promi- Including nent local residents, Lady Ho Tung, Sir Shouson Chow, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotowall etc., nt the China Emporium, in connection with Mr. Lo's do parture for America yesterday on the President Taft, to undertako a Nanking official mission to study

ho film industry In America.

Mr. Lo Ming-yay, speaking from his many years' experience;

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as a cinema theatro owner in ose films abroad. He omphasised Peiping and other northern ports, the hope that the Company" would said that a better foreign impres build a film studio in Kowloon, ston on Chinese affaire could be where the climatic and geogra→ nchloved through adequate diatri-phical conditions were bution and presentation of Chin-suitable for such a project.

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