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AUSTRALIA LOSE SIX EXHIBITION OF DUTCH NATION GOES BACK INDIA
MORE WICKETS
347 FOR EIGHT
WOODFULL MAKES A FINE
CENTURY
"BOBS" FOR HAMMOND
When play opened at Melbourne to-day-the sixth of the third
Skipper Goes
The Australian skipper then came in to join Woodfull, but only lasted a little while, playing-on off Geary, for the score, of five,
Four wickets were thus down
for 143.
Don Bradman took Ryder's place at the wicket and at the interval had made nine against Woodfall's ; 90, The 150 went up after 198 minutes' play.
PAINTINGS, ETC.
IN LONDON
TO SCHOOL
STRANGE SCENE
GOVERNMENT THE KING "SLOWLY CHRISTIAN
PULLING THROUGH "
LOAN
£10,000,000
RAILWAYS
UNDERWRITING "IN' LONDON
London. Yesterday.
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GENERAL LENGTH OF WOMEN'S
MOVING?
A TURN FOR BETTER EYES ON HANKOW
PICTURES BROUGHT FROM THE OLD AND YOUNG SUMMONED TO THE MONEY LARGELY FOR THE HOME SECRETARY'S IM REPORTED TO BE ADVANCING
CLASS ROOM `-
ENDS OF THE EARTH
A DUTCH LUNCHEON
-
NEW ALPHABET
Constantinople, Yesterday,
vered referring to the benefit liko-j
letters.
It has been arranged to give a It has been arranged by the most year's instruction in the reading distinguished connoisseurs in Eng-and writing of the new alphabet to two-thirds of the population. Reu- land and Holland, and will be in-
ter, augurated with a luncheon, at which the flood and drinks will be brought from Holland-Reuter...
Mr. Margaret Olive Johnson. aged 61, widow, of Rayleigh, Essex, and a member of the Salvation Army, was again remanded (last month) at Southend on charges of obtaining money by false pretences.
Reformer Dead
Angora, Yesterday, Turkey has been plunged into mourning by the death from appen- dleftis of Nedjati Bey, Minister of Education, who was prominently identified with the adoption of the Latin Alphabet-Reuter.
WHO FIRED?
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT
مصر
PORTANT STATEMENT
SOUTHWARD
CALCIUM'S GOOD EFFECTS GEN. LI TSUNG-JEN RUMOUR
London, Yesterday.
SKIRTS JUDGE'S REMARK'S LADY PASSENGER SUES M.M. CO. FOR DAMAGES
LAUNCH AWNING ON FIRE
A report has reached a reliable "I thought no lady would be seen. Wirelcas telegram source, whence it is passed on. forty any garment of eight years ago,
what it is worth with a remark that "at"
A "Belt sh states:
A reassuring statement about the confirmation is lacking, to the effect Mr Justice Jacks (Puisne Judge) King's condition was made by Sir that Feng Yu-halang (better known observed in the Summary Court William Joynson Hicks, the Home as the "Christian Genoral") is ad- this morning. His Lordship asked Secretary, as he left Victoria Sta-vancing troops southward against if fashions, had not changed con- tion to-day for the Riviera:
Hankow. The report adds that
Good Specific
.
+
of
London, Yesterday, 820 paintings, drawings and ob- The remarkable spectacle was The underpelting was arranged "Test"Australia had made 118 jets d'urt in silver and glass, con- witnessed throughout Turkey yes-to-day for the new India Govern for the loss of two wickets.stituting the greatest collection of terday of the whole nation going ment loan of $10,000,000 in 4
back to school, men, women, old per cent. 1958-68 stock. Woodfull and Kippax were at bat, Dutch art ever shown, was open-and young having been peremptori- The issue price will be 91 per and there were 10.000 spectators ed to-day for public exhibition at ly summoned to the classroom to cent.
learn the new Latin alphabet. The new issue constitutes the there to watch the game on a fast the Royal Academy.
He said: "I am glad to any the General Li Tsung-jen, who has been siderably and added that he is not wicket.
on the length By lunch-time Australia The pictures were brought from Even greybeards shuffled along to largest overseas loan for some time
revive youthful memories and and, as the money raised is largely King has taken a turn for better. In charge at Hankow, will not be an authority
skirts, had taken the score to 168, losing the ends of the earth, including women, nursing babies, came to for railway purposes, it should be a He is slowly pulling through. If allowed to return
Feng Yu-halang holds the north- help to the iron and steel industry the King had not been better I
Mr. J. T. Prior, who also denied two more wickets in the process. Rembrandts, each of which is learn the A. B. C.
have been lent
The National Schools for gen- in Great Britain. British Wireless should certainly not have left Lon-ern provinces of Honan, Shenai and being an expert, said that he re- Kippax was the first to go, after worth a fortune,
don. I saw Lord Dawson late last Kanay and he has occupied most of membered many years ago when eral instruction in the new char-Service. making 41. He fell to a fine ball from by H.M. King George, American
night and be assured me that both Shantung acters were opened with impres-
Li Tsung-jen is, like Marshal L were bound to increase in length, predictions were made that they he and his colleagues were satisfied Tate which he played outside the Millionaires, British Peers and by sive ceremony, the speeches deli-
now with the progress the King was Chai-sum, one of the "big four" of They had not done so, he added. créase' but which broke in and pip-the Great Dutch Galleries.
making. Progress must of neees. the Kwangsl military group which His Lordship said that they have ped off his bails in double-quick The exhibition will be openedly to follow the new revolution in
gity be slow, but it is continued. I is in authority in the southern pro- KOWLOON
feel that the worst of the illness is vinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi and become shorter.
Mr. Prior was for Miss Georgia time. Kippax took 94 minutes for three months.
over and that there is every rea-Hunan and also Hupch in central
Gale, whose address was given.as over his innings and got four
SMASH FOLLOWS REPORT
son to hope that slow but gradual Chinn. four's, states Reater.
Both the "Christian General" and at St. Francis Hotel, Hong Kong, improvement will take place." Mr. B. Wylic,, President of the
Another fact which is regarded Li Tsung-jen have gone to Nanking, and who unsuccessfully sued the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, re-as reassuring is that His Majesty's the national capital, to attend the Cie des Messagerlas Maritimes, Each Queen's-building, for $200 damages ported a somewhat mysterious occur doctors did not return to Bucking- Disarmament Conference. rence to the police last night.
ham Palace this afternoon, and it commanda a big army in the alleged to have been suffered by At about 7 o'clock, while some was understood that they would not Nationalist organisation, that un-her through her clothing being set members were still at the club, a visit the Palace again until this der the "Christian General" being alight on defendants' launch, by known as the 2nd Army Group, inegence of defendant'sser- Mrs. Watson, living at the Kings- evening. clere Hotel, was sitting in the ladies' room when she was suddenly startled
and that under Li Tsung-jen being valida. part of the 4th Army Group.
Over Miss Gale's Head A medien) authority explains that by a report, which sounded fike calcium, which is now being ad- General" and the Kwangel military given by the plaintiff taken de bene
A clash between the "Christian
Mr. Prior produced evidence cracker being fired. Almost simul-ministered to the King, is a well group (of whom another of the "big ease. Plaintiff was not in Court. proven specific in cases of thinness four," General Pei Chung-hsl, is in of the blood stream. It has a clot- the north and, possibly, in a post-Paul Lecat" belonging to defen- Misa Gale arrived by the 8.5 ting effect on the blood and, there- tion to assail the "Christian Gen- ford, prevents bleeding. It is very eral's" rear) would, to say the least, dat, he said, on Oct. 22, 1929, effective in cases in which tubercle be a calamity for China.
when the ship anchored in mid- is possible or suspected.
In the opinion of the "China stream. Plaintiff, together with operation of injecting the sub-Mail" political
a ataam launch correspondent, others, boarded stance is simple, being done by a troops under the "Christian Gen-which took them ashore. When glass syringe with a hollow needle.eral" may be marching, southward the launch was about half-way be- The skin is punctured above a vein from Honan province towards or tween the ner and the shore, for and the contents of the syringe are into Hupeh province (governed some reason which could only be sent into the blood stream.
from Hankow) The move may be guessed at, the awning caught fire The statemeent by the Home Secre- in accordance with agreement, or The outbreak occurred, unfortun- tary suggests that the calcium is directed by local commanders.
A ately, over Miss Gale's head. treatment is having the right At present, it would be difficult burning piece of stuff fell on Mias effects.
to detain General Li Tsung-jen in Gale who was wearing a tailored The following bulletin was issued Nanking, or anywhere else, with cloth cont, waistcoat and skirt, and at 8.15 o'clock this evening:-"The the object of wresting. Hankow scorched the shoulder of the coat. taneously, some broken bits of glasa King has passed a good day and from the Kwangsi military group. The case for the Forestry Depart-fell into the room.
there is a slight improvement in for 383 (A'Beckett), 9 for 394 ment was conducted by Mr. L. R. A detective was sent round to the His Majesty's condition. (Grimmett), 10 for 397 (Oxenham) Andrewes, who made his first ap-club to investigate. He reported
Signed Stanley Hewett, Hugh M. pearance in Court in his capacity later that in a pane of glass in a Rigby, Dawson of Penn. as an Assistant Crown Solicitor. window facing Cox-road, he found a
The defendant pleaded that he mall hole, which appeared to have! had only cut down branches of wild been made by a revolver bullet of trees which overhung his master's small, calibre. Fram the floor the He denied that he had detective picked up pieces of glass. garden. gone into the plantation and cut the which had fallen from the broken
window. A careful search was car trees there.
ried out. In the room for the bullet, Mr. Andrewes told the Magis. but it was not found. trate that during the past fortnight Inquiries were afterwards made 20 some 100 trees had been cut down in by the detective among other club 58 the plantation, and therefore forest members, servants and ricsha coolies guards were detailed to keep watch. and other Chinese outside the club, 200 Yesterday the defendant was seen but no one saw anyone loltering in the vicinity of the Club, or heard
OH, ARE YOU!
COLONEL'S LADY AND GOVT, OFFICIAL
ing are that the ball occasionally. M. Oxenham, b Geary ..
W. A. Oldheld, b Geary The only signs of the wicket wear-E. L. A'Beckett, e Duckworth,
b White.
3
41
A WILD WOOD CASE
15
Lurns, and more often keeps low.
Woodfull's Century
There were 20,000 spectators round the ground after the lunch Interval 'to Watch Woodfull reach 101 after 250 minutes' play, in the course of which he had two narrow escapes from playing-on. The 200 went tlp
C. V. Grimmett, e Duckworth,
b Geary
D. D. J. Blackle, not out
Extras
Lo Chuen, a gardener in the 'em- ploy af Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, 2DS.O., of No. 28, Lugard-road, The Peak, was this morning charged be- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy, with the un- 397 lawful possession, of 150 cattles of Fail of wickets: 1 for runs green wild wood, which the prose- (Richardson), 2 for 15 (Woodfull), cution alleged had been cut from 3 for 57 (Hendry), 4 for 218 (Kip-the Government plantation at the pax), 5 for 282 (Ryder), 6 for 287 back of the house. (Oldfield), 7 for 373 (Bradman), 8
after 269 minutes' cricket, and very shortly afterwards Woodfull was caught be- hind the sticks by Duckworth off Tate. Five wickets thus fell for 201 ruwa. Woodfull was at bat for Tate 271 minutes and played, a masterly Geary innings. securing seven four's.
Oldfield then joined Bradman, but was clean bowled by White after
Total
Larwood
BOWLING ANALYSIS,
0. M. E. W. .37 3 127 3 .40 17 "87
2
.31.5 4 83
3
Hammond White
8 4 -19
1
.57 30 64
Jardinc
1
0 10
making seven. Brudman got his 50
England-1st innings after 143 minutes' batting, and the J. B. Hobbs, e Oldfield, b side's 250 was registered after 339 minutes' play.
Two runs later the last arrival,
A'Beckett H. Sutcliffe, b Blackle
W. R. Hammond, e A'Beckett,
b Blackie
,
100 Cut Down
"CLEARING LATER"
N. E. winda, modorate, over- cast.at first, clearing later is the report till noon to-morrow. The typhaca is still shard to the N. E. of Japan. The anti cyclone now appears as a belt of high pressure stretching from the Yangtaze Valley to S. Manchuria. The monsoon will moderate.
"Much About The Same" Reuter states:-
The
and his condition remains much The King had a fairly quiet night about the same.
A CAR DRIVER
PUBLIC EXAMINATION IN BANKRUPTCY
"SIGNING FOR ANYTHING"
"You will spend all your Hoe in hill above his maater's house, and watson and caused the damage to like that," the Chief Justice (Sir
Although the damage was very The Szechuan War
alight it was sufficient to ruin the The skirt and waistcoat H.M.S. "Tern," a gunboat, has coat. arrived at Chungking, on the Upper were not damaged,
What exactly happened when the Yangtze River (along, which Gen- erala Yang Sen and Liu Halang fire broke out, it was difficult to have been waging war), escorting say; the first thing that Miss Galer China S.N. Co., Ltd.). the Britain as "Kingwo" (Indo-knew was that she was seized by
the coxswain, who pulled her out An escort was needed because of the way. The fire was soon put shipping on the Upper Yangtaze out. has been suspended on account of hostilities.
SMART LADS
CAPTURE BAG-SNATCHING
THIEF
Measure of Damage
Mr. Prior referred to the croBÉ- examination by Mr. H. C. Macnamara (for the defence) when Miss Gale's 'evidence' was taken.. Miss Gaje admitted she | thought the fire to have been cauà- ed by a spark from the funnel of
A'Beckett, was sent back with sixA. P. F. Chapman, b Blackie 24 by the guards cutting wood on the the report which frightened Mrs bankruptcy if you do your business EUROPEAN LADY STARTLED the launch, It was also put it to
to his credit. He was completely beaten by'a yorker from White,
At the ten interval the score stood at 262 for seven, of which total
E. Hendren, c A'Beckett, b
Hendry
|D. R. Jardine, c and b Blackie H. Larwood, c and b Blackie G. Geary, 1.b.w., b Grimmett G. Duckworth, Blackie .... [M. Tate, c Kippax, b Grimmett At close of play Australia had J. C. White, not.out scored 347 for eight wickets.
. Bradman had made, 60,
For Hammond
. Extra
Total
13 later the guards, from points
of
62 vantage in the plantation, on the hillside, saw a quantity of green Iwood stacked on the roof of the 3 servants' quarters of Col. Bird's 21 house.
B
The guards reported their dis- 1 covery at the Forestry Department office, and an official there obtained.
417 a warrant at the Central Magistracy
the window pane.
NIAGARA FALLS
NEW WORKS TO BE CONSTRUCTED
SCIENCE BEAUTY,
STARTLED anti that the fire might just
or
The boys are to be highly com- as well have been caused by a Henry Gollan, C.B.E., K.C.) told Hau Pak-yan, aliae Ah Hau, amended for their prompt and cour-cigarette cigar-end being motor-car driver employed by the ageous action. They have set an thrown on to the awning by some Dragon Motor, Car Co. since 1914, example which I hope will always careless person on the "Paul in the Supreme Court this morning. be followed should occasion arise. Lecat" when the launch was lying
Mr. E. L. Agassiz (Official Re- They are a credit to their school." alongside. ceiver) asked debtor, in the course This was the commendation In dealing with the measure of of his public examination, whether Major C. Willson, O.B.E., gave to damage, Mr. Prior sakl it was. true he would have "signed for any a number of students of St. Paul's that the clothes were 18 months old Washington, Yesterday.
thing because an Indian memey-College, Glenealy, who effected the but they were expected to mat a In commemoration of Hammond's' Fall of wickets: 1 for 28 runs to search the place. The search re-
The State Department has an- lender asked him to do so.
arrest of a Chinese who snatched long time as they had bean tailor- wonderful effort in scoring a (Hobbs), 2 for 161 (Sutcliffe), saulted in the 150 cattles of green
Debtor replied that he would. a handbag belonging to Mrs. E. M.ed by one of the best ladies' tailors nounced that the American-Cana- double-century on
in London. Miss Gale was attired the Melbourne for 201 (Chapman). 4 for 238 wood being found on the roof. This dian Treaty has been signed for His Lordship asked if debtor was Hazeland.
(Hendren), G for 364 (Hammond), wood, Mr. Andrewes said, would be
The rascal, Lee Lam (38) was in clothes of a similar, cut but of ground-following his double-cen-
for 364 (Larwood), 7 for 381 identified by a person competent to the construction of works at the serious in giving the answer. tury at Sydney-the people of the (Geary), 8 for 885 (Jardine), 9 do so as wood from the plantation. Niagara River in the neighbour Debtor said "Yes, because it is the charged before the Magistrate with different colour, made by the same hood of the Fails, to maintain and Indian (moneylenders') rule to in the theft of the handbag which tallor, when she gave her evidence. city are subscribing to a "shilling for 391 (Duckworth), 10 for 417
Evidence was given by Mr. J. R. Improve the scenic beauty of theist on more being signed for that contained $200 in money, a cheque She then looked very smart, but
actually changed hands, fund" for his benefit.
Mr. Agassiz also questioned and other articles, valued together those clothes were oight years old!
Is it Short?? debtor on his borrowings from In-
According to evidence, the dians and others in 1927. Debtor
Yesterday's Play
Search Warrant
falls and the rapids. Reuter's Carr, a Supervisor of the Forestry
American Service. Department He said that as the RW result of information he received
(Tate).
HOWLING ANALYSIS,
A'Beckett
D. M. .37 .20 B 35 .55 14 114 .36.11
44 14 94
67
4 0 14
Australia-2nd Innings
7921 from the two guards in his office Mr. E. A. Winnington-Ingram yesterday morning, he went to No. has been prompted to be an officer 228, Lugard-road. He walked some of Cinas V of the Malayan Civil
120 feet past the front of the house Service.
Hammond's magnificent double century, the collapse of the Eng-Hendry',, lish "tail," and Australia's fine Grimmett Oxenham stand at the opening of her second
Blackle ... innings were the features of yes- Ryder terday'a play. The tourists were dismissed for 417, just 20 more w. M. Woodfull, e Duckworth, thin Australia made in her first b Tate effort, and the home alde went on Sto acore 118 for the loas of two
wickets.
Australia-1st Innings
W. M. Woodfull, e Jardine, b
Tata
V. Y. Richardson, b Larwood ..
H. L.' Hendry, at Duckworth,
b White
A. F. Kippax, b, Tate
7 W. A. Oldfield, b Whita
and then proceeded some 50 or 60 0 feet up the hill at the back of the house. From here he looked down
107
12
41
J. S. Ryder, played on, b Geary ·
5
D. Bradman, not out
60
| E. L. A'Beckott, b. White
Extras
6
H. L Hendry, c Jardine, b
Larwood
23
V. Y. Richardson, c Duck-
worth, b Larwood
..
:..'
at $272.
His Lordship:-1 am not an au- thority 7-Neither am 1.
related how he had purchased an snatching occurred at 2.30 p.m. His Lordship-Haven't fashions Austin car for $1,200, a half-share yesterday, whilst Mra, Hazeland changed considerably of late? I in another car for $250 (which he was walking down Glencaly in the thought, no. lady would be seen in no company of Mra. Millet. The thief any garment of eight years agor got back because it made
Hudson car approached the ladies from behind, Mr. Prior:-She would in theso money), and also a from his employers on the hire. and then, after snatching Mrs. tailor-made clothes. purchase system-$600 down and Hazeland's handbag, dashed off in into Col. Bird's place and on the ed to see the master but was in 12 monthly instalments of $200 front of the startled ladies.
With great presence of mind, roof of the servants' quarters he saw formed that Col Bird was not in, aach.
quantity of green wild wood so the servant was asked to fetch spread out to dry.
The witness the mistress. Ni then looked about the hillside, which
When Mrs. Bird came, the wit was Government plantation, and ness showed the warrant to her and discovereds ome 40 odd green stumps explained that he wanted to search of wild tres, altuated immediately the roof of the servants" quarters. above the house." All the stumpa:
"Oh, are You!"
:
His Lordship Is it a short
When $850 was: outstanding on Mrs. Haceland and her friend ran skirt?: the Hudson, car, debtor defaulted after the thief, calling for, assist Mr. Prior replied that he had and the Dragon Ca, ho said, seized ance as they went. The cries of not measured it. His Lordship're the car under the agreement be the ladies attracted the attention marked that in a few years' time. of some 30 Chinese schoolboys in ladies would probably be wearing tween them.
ft. Agassiz asked debtor if he the play ground of St. Paul's College their skirts down to their ankles thought his employers, after 14 They all rushed out and took up again, in which case the skirt, if were fresh, and the stump farthest Mrs. Bird asked the witness if he years service, had treated him the chase for the ladies, eventual-short, would be of no use at all. harshly Debtor's reply to this was y capturing the, accused after a Mr. Prior asked his Lordship to from the house, the witness calcul was a policeman, and when he re-that the company treated every brisk runā ated, was some 150 feet away, plied that he was from the Forestry body alike.
walt and see.. "Many years ago When searched after his arrest, can remember when skirts first got Leaving the two guards to watch Department, Mrs. Bird exclaimed: (Total for 7 wkts.) 252 the place, the witness came to town "Oh, are you and then Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 2The contents Intact, was found con- was said that they were bound to Mrs. Hazeland's handbag, with items short as they are now when it A. F. Kippax, e Jardine, byd Fall of wickets: 1 for 7 and took out a search warrant at told. the witness that ho American Ambassador to France, cealed on prisoner's person Increase In length, but they had Ryder, c Hendren, b Tate 112 8 for 138 (Kippax),: 4 for 148 the Peak at about 1.15 p.m., and that she had caught two of the witcally ill at his estate at Chagrin of six months hard labour and 12 Hi Lordship. They have be
100 (Richardson), 2 for 60 (Hendry) the Magistracy. He returned to could wait outside. She remarked Mr. Myron Herrick, is lying criti The Baglatrate passed sentence not done go. D. Bradman, b Hammond,.....72 (Ryder), 5 for 201 (Woodfull), went to the front entrance of Coloss men looking into her room and Falls: Okyger le being admipister atrokes of the birch, and then com for 228 (Olañela), 7 for 252 Bird's house where a servant and said she would shone for the ed to him. Reuter's American Ser mended, the schoolboys, who were
come shorter. (Continued on Nest Column) (A'Beckett).
Iswered the door,The witness ask- (Continued on Page 14.),
not present in Court
(Continued on Page P.)
J.
Larwood
vice.
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