1946-12-14 — Page 12

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946.

INTERNMENT "Raffles Of SOCCER COMMENT REFLECTIONS Singapore" On

This is the fourth of a short Berles of verso composed In Shumshuipo Camp during the dark days of Imprisonment under the Japanese. The fifth of the series will appear next Saturday.

Visit Here

An interesting

visitor

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(Continued from l'are 8)

maintain the balance of The league table.

Many followers of the local game were much disappointed in the sound second totlefeat which Sing Too's Hongkong, who has done more team handed out to Wireless, their chief challengers for the Second since safebreaking

the re- Division championship. Wireles occupation than the most profes- have brought off many surprise re- sional burglar would do in

reason but none was more

than their very They crashed their chairs upon lifetime, is Mr W. J. Yetton, overseas general manager and engineer of the Chatwood 'Safe Co.

the floor,

BUGS

They stamped;

They raved;

They cursed;

They

Mwore.

B

this

prising to me

Sing Tao. Team in defence may changes, particularly account for some of the goa

goals. Every

credit must be given to though. Colled upon by the British Gover. Sing Too's second string,

Here Indeed la n cradle of good to Malaya in a fast cruiser, the halves and soat

forwards und unusual Jamaica, immediately after the thrust near goal have placed, them Japanese capitulation, to open up in their now almost unchallengeable They squirmed and scratched all government and bank vaults.

His place at

the end of the Second through the night,

work there caused the press in Eng- Division. land and South Africa to give him the dubious title of "Raffles of Singa- Dore,"

They slew by thousands in the ment and Far Eastern banks, he was talent. Clever Unison between

war.

'Gainst, BUGS!

Great lumps

Arose

From every

Bite.

Aght

י

'Gainst BUGS!

The colonels puffed and muttered

'Hell'

tuni

It was strenuous work while it They did their damnedest in the lasted, but was exciting and good

Mr Yetton told a reporter. W un ho Japanese occupied Burma, Malaya and other Far Eastern territories, they took all that they wanted out of the vaults they found

open were able to open.

They tried

All ways

The plague

To quell.

·

Said one, "A goat is roses to the

amell

of BUGS!"

$39.50 pair January, 1943.

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or

Having skilled engineers armed

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YETTON

n

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THERE are a lot of people who

think a Linesman Is

who chap waves a flag now and again and who fetches the ball for players. Foot- ball law is at some paina to state that the person acting as Linesman has certain

very definite duties. Primarily a Linesman should indi cate when the ball is out of play and which side should take the throw-in. His views, however, are always subject to the decision of the Referee.

pipe, they tried to open many Chat- wood doors and safes, sald Mr football 59.50 oach MALAYAN WAR CLAIMS Yetton, but did not succeed in spite

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of the time and apparatus at disposal

It is also the Linesmon's duty to direct the attention of the Referee to distinct breaches of the laws of the game and most particularly to those likely to bring the came of

into disrepute. In

this connection 11 is of intercat to rc- member that Low 6 states that their Linesmen "must, if such incidents have not come under the notice of

Reterge immediately report him." The emphasis on

05 11.4

Of course a Linesman must know

it will not be possible for decisions $10,000,000 of "banana, money" in- of ball must cross the line..

A few weeks ago Mr Yellon was the called to open a vault of the Bank of them to China In Ipoh. The premises had "must" is mine. been used by the Japanese opium distributing centre, and it was when the ball k in and out of play suspected that there would be opium-most spectators have very lazy inside the vault. It took some con- siderable time to open the massive ideas on this. The bull is out of had made serious attempts Chatwood vault door; other people crossed the touch or goal lines:

play when the whole of it hos before

doesn't matter whether it does so Yetton succeeded in getting it open, also out of play whenever the game but without success. When Mr on the ground or in the air. It is police

men and customs

found

Is stopped by the Referee. Re- worth of oplum and $250,000

member particularly that the whole

tral Linesmen naturally are "Club" Inesmen.

wider instructions and powers

The

Referee 0 to nakt opinion as to whether the when he leaves Hongkong, will pre-ball crossed the goal-line between ceed again to Malaya, then to Stam, the posts; in other words to help Burma and Java. Later he will visit the Referee to decide whether a the Middle East and Africa,

to be taken as to the extent to which

compensation will be awarded.

side.

Century-Old Business There is a great deal of work to be tha.. done in the rehabilitation of former

The setting up of a claims com- occupied countries, and Mr Yetton, Lines.orised in Law

mission does not mean that the governments, concerned have com- mitted themselves finally to paying compensation of certain specified kinds of loss and have disclaimed labilities in respect of all other kinds.

There is no direct relation be tween the amount of awards which will be made and the amount of reparations which may be received from the Japanese, and until the total amounts of admited claims is known, it will not be possible to say what relation the amount of compensation granted will bear to claims admitted. Reuter.

SAFE

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It is nearly 100 years since Chat goal has been scored. since then has been o continuous struggle against the wits of the bur- glar. Chatwood's were the first people to combat the blowpipe- burglar effectively.

4

Christmases They've Never Forgotton

When the Bank of England wa (Continued from Page 10) rebuilt, three-quarters of the security work Was entrusted to the firm, which also made a model safe, no larger than a match-box, for the Queen's Dollshouse.

In 1930, the

the Company gave up malding safes and turned their atten- tion to making munitions for the total war. Now, they have returned to their century-old business. The war has brought out many now scientific devices, and the Chatwood laboratory, the finest of its kind in England, is putting a lot of these devices to the test in a continuous effort to produce still safer safes,

There were about 150 Englishmen in the Legion. Like himself they had been working in France. And they were given permission to hold a plente in an old burn on Christ- mas evening. The post had arrived and there were parcels from their old firms and from the people at

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