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Umed stroke and captured Chiong.. Ils announcement that Chiang was
Harrison
away in one of the 384 Eastern PRE-WAX pages of the Athletic News Foot. ball Annual, records that H. C. (United Services) played Rugby Football for Eng- Innd against Scotland in 1909-10 and against Ireland and France
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Donald, who is 60 years old but carries his age remarkably well, is un Australian, having been born at Lithgow. N.S.W., where his father was the first Mayor.
After his training on the old Sydney Telegraph, he joined the Melbourne Argus, and in 1803 le come to Hongkong as sub-editor of
Chinese
Morrison, another Aus-
Footballer H. C. Harrison of pre- war days is the beloved "Dread- nought (n nichtame bestowed by his fellow-Officers and friends) of Hongkong Army Headquarters to- THE Army List gives an interest- Ing and illuminating insight into day Colonel H. C. Harrison, D.8.0. the brilliant carcer, in peace and in General Stuff Officer (First Grade). war, et Major and Brevet Lt. Colonet e China Mall, of which journal he subsequently became editor, and News was received recently that N. M. 5. Irwin, who has been a managing director. On the death of Colonel Harrison has been promoted polated to succeed Colonel Harrison to take charge of the 14th Infantry is G.S.O.. in Hougkong The War Brigade at Home, and his departure Office has announced the most un- from Hongkong by the troopship usual step of promoting Major and
Brevet.
i. Col. Irwin full Colonel on Aprit 18 will Stubbs Roadly regretted by a large circle on the day he sails from England by
that includes nil Hongkong news in Hongkong appointment..
the troopship Dornetshire to take up
paper-men.
Colonel Irwin 41 years old. Ile was originally Razetted to the Essex Regiment, and was later transferred
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Unique is Colonel Harrison's record
of having played for and captained both Army and Novy Rugby teams during early days in the Army.
tralian, he took up the post of adviser to the Chinese Government, about five years later.
Before leaving journalism, ho Moll and represented the China several Australian Journals from the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War until 1004, and was also special cor- spent for leading London news-
papers with the Baltle. Fleet under
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COL. H. C. HARRISON Soldier and Sportsman
to the Border Regiment. During the Admirat Rozhdestvensky at Van Fong Great War he commanded Ave Bay and Port Dyot, in Annum, in As an officer in the Royal Marines,
2nd separate battalions in succession, and 1905, being the only British corres- few hundred dollars collected by sub- which he joined in 1907 as
was awarded the D.8.0. with two bars. pondent to witness the final departure scription from Chinese villages. He Lieutenant, Colonel Burrison spent the Military Cross, the French War of the fleet from the coast of graduated in selence much of his time in warships, during Cross, and was five times mentioned Tsushima in May of that year. which, of course, he played Rugby In
for the Navy. While he was ashore despatches, in addition to receiving Campaign for Christ
for the Army--one of those
YOUNG Chinese stood in the lounge of the Halian Iner Conte
ut Ohio with high ranking. prize money and a medal He presided at student meetings to break down the colour bor in the United States.
escape.
ore the Brevet of Major.
He also served on the North-West things that could never Frontier
the 1030-31 operations, A In happen to a sportsman in any branch for
which he
A tragic Incident in his career was was Awarded the of the Services except, probably, the
General Service Medal.
Verde in Singapore recently and his enforced stay in a lunatic asylum
In the United States. He was detain-. Marines,
Like
Colonel Harrison, Colonel brought tears to the eyes of more ed for 193 days, during which time In International Rugby Colonel
Irwin Is a graduate of the Staff than 500 people, Harrison pitained his first "cap" at College at Camberley and the Im- the age of 20 (in 1909) and con-
He was John Sung. the Chinese he made an unsuccessful attempt to Evangelist,
who
passed through month Colonel Irwin is coming direct from Hongkong this
after tinued on and off in the forward lines Perial Defence College.
his Received New Life his graduation at tite Jrunerint De- second campaign for Christianity in His County "caps" included the fence College to Hongkong, and is Singapore. He was seen off by more
Counties, Kent, Devon and
Chinese who than 1,008 excited
IN Hampshire, and in between-times be due here on April 0.
paraded on the wharf waving flugs done a spot of international Macao Governor *
and invaded the decks and saloons of which he describes as a "distressful
but laughable" time. CENHOR Tamugnini Barbosa, the new Governor of Macao, is ex- pected to arrive shortly.
This is his third appointment to this post.
Governor Barbosa's career has been
until 1920.
Midland
has
in-
But although Colonel Harrison has given up active participation in Rugby his Interest in the grand sport of millions had by no means died. He
mostly served in the Colonial Depart
the liner.
Dr. Sung addressed his followers
one of his books, Dr. Sung tells of his days in the mental home
"The doctor said," he writes, "thab briefly; they sang hymns and smiled if I stayed in the hospital for 40 days cheerfully, but fully half of them it would be sufficient, but when it were weeping, some silently and some came to the last, he would not let me more emotionally.
go, so I could not stand it and argued with him in a loud voice, They were saying good-bye to #
It has long been known that in machine industries there are people whose physiological make- up causes them to be particularly prone to accidents. The same
refereeing, a pastime he still conclusion has now been reach-dulgesave up the game after I was cd in regard to motor-car kicked in the face by a Welsh for drivers. In a test taken in one word," he once drily told me. of the British Colonies recently,
This
made the doctor all the mare it was discovered on analysing
man who claims to have made thou- ment of the Portuguese Government. sands of Chinese converts lo angry and he had me locked in a the figures, that five per cent,"
has shown keen interest In the
He is the son of a former Councillor, Christianity, to a man who was once great ward with madmen. The men game
me in Hongkong, and has many Artur Tamagnini de Abreu Barbosa locked in a mental asylum in the inside were all fighting and cursing." of car drivers had thirty per times refereed Triangular Tourna and Da. Fatlmu Tamngnini de Abreu United States and who is now, the After his escape he was caught and cent. of the accidents, that ten ment matches. Cricket, tennis and Barbosa. The late Senhor Barbosa "hot gospeller" of China and the treated like an
an animal” and put back. soccer are three other sporta which more than 30 years ago held high Chinese,
in the madmen's
"It was very ward. per cent, were involved in fifty he has enthusiastically followed.
of Macao posts in the Government
Sung is a man who puts himself terrible in that room," he comments. and Christianity into the news "Not a moment of quiet, until I Hongkong Football Association and affairs in China, Japan, and Slam. that of the remainder seventy-is currently President of the Hong- The new Governor came out to annoy the orthodox. He has mode Dr. Sung calls the mental home his five per cent. had no accidents kang Arca Sports Board.
whirlwind tours of. Malnya and theological college because he studied at all. A point of interest to limited spare time to
Nowadays he gives most of his
everywhere he has left behind bands the bible while he was a patient. He yet another
of converts,
says
that when he got back to China Hongkong. in view of local sport-shooting, a sport that takes
Around him on him on many excursions into the New
Singapore when he left there were hartly not brain trouble.
the wharves at he saw his parents and "proved that "Safety First" campaigns, is the Territories with a shot-gun-slung
hundreds of Singapore
I had received a new life and that it Chinese- conclusion reached that educa-over his shoulder.
mostly working class men and women "Carthage" Captain. tional measures have no effect Served under Smuts
with s
a fair number of young and good looking girls-and he turned on the proneness to mishaps.
APTAIN H. M. Jack, at present commanding the P. and O. liner mission hall.
"Carthage" was born at Muree, India, s supporters, who wore the budge He was educated at Dulwich College and waved the flag of the Chinese and
has his home at Marl- Christian Evangelist Band, rurely borough, Wilts. took their eyes off him. He spoke but little and then usually
Captain Jack was apprenticed to timate word to someone near him. Shaw, Savill and Company in 1897
and
served in their salling ships burst into the first line of a hymn Then someone moved by the occasion "enil," making voyages in them to "Lindfield" and "Samuel
per cent of the mishaps, and Last year he was Chairman of the and Inter was in charge of Portuguese his unorthodox ways which always not help thinking of suicide,"
LL of Colonel Harrison's netivities,
Macho from Portugal with his parents when still a child and remained there until he was 17 years of age after having matriculated in literature and science in the Macus Lyceum. Upon his return to Portugal he became a student in the University of Coimbra, Recalled to Lisbon
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In this connection, it is pointed however, have not been confined March 1018 he was appointed the liner's lounge into an improvised
His
an in-
now
I could
Governor of Macao for the first out that there are people who, to sport, as a glance at his military me. His administration of the whilst otherwise enjoying good record will show
Portuguese Colony, which gave Three years after he entered the general satisfaction, continued until eyesight, are nevertheless un-Royal Marines in 1908 he became & July, 1919, when he was recalled to able to detect objects quickly full Lleutenant in the Royal Marines Lisbon by virtue of a change in the
Artillery, On the outbreak of War Government. from the sides of thoroughfares he was Assistant Adjutant, and was By General Gomes da Costa, who when driving their cars. This seconded for service with the South was well-known at Macao and long- in Chinese which was taken up by Calcutta, West Coast of America,
African contingents-first command kong, Scot is only one of the defects from ing a battery in German South West again appointed Governor of Macio, dock officials and ship's officers look- O. in 1902 as 5th officer and served Senhor Tamagnini Barbosa was everybody. Stewards, travellers, Australia etc. He joined the P. and which people whose physiological Africa, and later the Tran
Transvaal Bat- the appointment being confirmed by ed
on amaze
amazed.
the company until the outbreak of make-up il fits them for motor tery of South African Heavy Artillery the then Minister for the Colonies, the
And most amazed of all, let it be War when he was transferred to the In France. He served under the
the distinguished Colonel Joao Bello, one driving have been proved to famous Boer leaders, General Botha of the most illustrious colleagues of Catholic priests returning from Rome
one said, were a number of Roman Navy. suffer. The recommendation is west.
and General
in the South- Mousinjo de Albuquerque,
to their stations
He was posted to H.M.S. "Isonzo," and for African Smuts
in the Far East previously the P. and O. liner "Isis" campaign, and
instance of these two Two nuns attracted by the waving of on the express service between Brin- of ministers, Senhor war he conceived a great admiration. Colony of Macao, arriving there in wonder what it was all about and ship was attached to the Adriatic the century and allies of the Great again the reins of government of the went into the lounge; they seemed to In the first stages of the War, the
"mopping-up"
December, 1920, where he never the young Squadron Messenger. In South-West Africa was successful ceasingly and unsparing of himself Dr. Sung Who locked more lies & 50, Captain Jack was posted in
to ly concluded in May, 1816, Colone! been working for the well-being of tennis player than an evangelist, H.M.S. Harrison was sent to France, where Macao and is inhabitants. He was
'Armadale Castle," then serving as an Armed Merchant Cruiser.
In her he was employed on escort WHO is this Dr. Sung who can turn duty, mainly in the Atlantic covering
thus made that all drivers who land's enemies of the beginning. At the list arbosa assumed flags bearing the sign of the Cross disi and Egypt.
he saw the Armistice as Staff Officer later recalled for service in Portugal. Science Graduate quarters. for Artillery at the 11th Corps Head-
He saw "Blighty" rarely during the
Pen v. Sword
liam Henry Donald, came
Affair."
WHO
are proved to be inherently incap able of taking charge of motor vehicles should be eliminated, as this is considered imperative if there is to be any appreciable reduction in road casualties. This should be done, it is, sux gested, by withdrawal of their licences, not as a penal measure, but as a prevention designed for A German bullet nearly ended his Former adviser of the Young the protection of the public from carcer at the crossing of the River Marshal, Donald has for some time those who are unfit to drive the world was celebrating the "false Scheldt, in Flanders, on the day that under modern conditions. Pre-armistice"a week before the Armis- tice was actually signed. The wound, vention, it is urged, can do much fortunately, was not serious. more than punishment ever has
last two years of the War. One of A FORMER Hongkong editor, Wil- atheism, ancestor worship and Bud- of troop ships bringing American the occasions was after he was gassed
into when this method of warfare was the plcture as a result of the "Sian
Arst utilised in 1916.
from $30.00 accomplished. The ideas put mand the First Battalion, The Green
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foward are of distinct interest to motoring communities every where, and nowhere more so the "1027 trouble," when Britain was than in Hongkong, where there boycotted. He was Instructor at the
famous Quetta Staff College, wrecked
thousands of Chinese from convoys of cargo vessels, and in 1018 dhism to Christianity and who can troops from New York. He continued make usually unemotional Chinese in this service until Armistice. adtilta weep in, public?
In 1918, Captain Jack returned to He halls from Fuklen and went to the P. and O. and commanded various America to study with the aid of a liners "Lahore," "Perim." "Nankin,"
"Mantua," "Rajputana."
"Rawal- pindl." und branch liners "Baradine" and "Balranald."
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WHILE In the "Rajputano," Captain
Jack rescued a number of the passengers and crew of a Chinese vessel which had run ashore on the Helshan Jelands.
Her people gained the shore and it was only with considerable difficulty
Newspaper heading:" England | Which reminds us that even that Captain Jack was able to is so much congestion in crowd-in the 1935 carthquake, from 1930 All Out At Tea" Australia cer- lucky numbers are unlucky for monecuvre the "Rajputana" Into, a ed thoroughfares. It might be to 1031, and at the Imperial Defence tainly appeared to have them on some people.
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Auntie Caustic thinks an Aus
of value if an analysis were three years as Senior General Staff
College in 1832. He also served for toast. made of a year's traffic mishaps Officer in Singapore, and for four in this Colony, with a view to
After England's good start in tralian whaler is an Antipodean ascertaining whether there are into trouble and who are thereby the Tests, It'll be a cinder lose harpoonist. drivers who figure frequently in a danger to other users of the the Ashes now. --~
Such an investiga- roads. The human factor plays
accidents.
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tion might not produce results the greatest part in most accid Repulse Bay is renowned for in any way similar to those ents, and as no two people are its flowers and winter bathers. which we have quoted from an- of the same mental make-up it Freesias! other Colony, but it does seem would appear inevitable that reasonable to suppose that there some take quite naturally to car-
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The season is now here when.
lucky numbers.
Motto for local Wha's Leek's
position which allowed him to send in his boats against a strong three knot tide and a heavy sea.
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The ship's motor boat towed some of the life boats towards the beach | 20
and with considerable difficulty and danger the whole of the ship's com- pany, to a total of 144 people, were finally brought off to the liner, all lives being saved, and even the Welshmen: ship's dog being rescued.
They were duly landed at Hong- kong and the Ch
Chinese Government, later presented Captain Jack with an An old resident, about to re-a certificate of Honour in recognition Imposing document which they called tire, has only just taken up golf. of his seamanship and services,
In 1931, Captain Jack took com→ He reckons it will come in handy
when she left the builders and has gardening at Home.
served in her ever.alice.
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might be a certain number of driving, whilst others may be through tickets, people think of when he has to do a spot of mand of the P. and O. "Carthage"""
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drivers who are prone to run quite unfitted therefor.
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