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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY MAY 31, 1930.
Our Saturday Picture Service.
INTO THE SLIPS.--Wereestershire v. Australia at Worcester, May 1- second day, D. J. Bradaina (Australia) puts a ball past Major Jewell, in the alips of C. Walters.~(Sport and General).
NAVAL WEDDING.-Wedding of Lt. Commander St. John Pitt, R.N., and Miss Constance Bethel Hervey, at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, S... The. Bride and Bridegroom,, leaving the Church under an archway of swords of Chinese Naval Cadets, (Lt. Comm. St. John Fitt is Offeer Commanding Chinese Naval Officers now studying in this country on H.M.S. Erebus at Plymouth)-(Sport and General).
ENERGY AND GRACE-Preparing for the Royal tournament which takes place at Olympia, London, May 29 to June 14. Field gun display by H.M.S. Excellent at Whale Island, Portsmouth. A striking picture of energy and force during the display. (Sport and General).
EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA-This remarkable photograph of Ras Tafari Makonen, Emperor of Ethiopia, was taken immediately after Ras Tatari's accession to the throne as sole ruler, following the death of the Empresa Judith. For some time the throne had been jointly occupied by the Empress and Ras Tafari-
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SIDE CAR RACING.-The_British Motor Cyclist Kacing Club organised 200-mile sidecar races on the Brooklanda track, Weybridge, Surrey, on May 3. Unfortunately, a fatal accident marred the proceedings, R. L Hleatt, the well-known racing motor cyclist, was killed when his machine crashed into the fence and overturned whilst taking part in the class F 600 ce. race, which he was on the point of finishing. He had previously broken two records during the race, and was travelling at a speed of ninety miles per hour. (Sport and General).
THE NAVAL PACT.-Another step towards the disarmament of the big navies took place on April 22, when the Naval Pact between Great Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy, was singed at St. James's Palace, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister), Britain, signing the Pact (Sport and General).
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"AS IN OLDEN DAYS.”—The opening of the 1930 conching sensont. beautiful weather, the Greyhound Stage Coach opened the reason, on May 1, with a successful run from the Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly, London, to Gigat Fosters, Windsor Forest and back, a new route this season—(Sport and General).
GRAF AND R.100.- The Graf Zeppelin visited the British air- ship station at Cardington, Bedfordshire, to pick up her commander, Dr. Hugo Eckener, (who arrived in Britain from_America) and fy back to Germany. Hundreds of spectators were at Cardington to watch the arrival. The R.100 at the mooring mast under the nose of the Graf Zeppelin. On right is seen the ground party of several hundred men holding down the. Zeppelin.(Sport and General).
CROWNING THE MAY QUEEN; With picturesque ceremony, the Annual custom of crowning the May Queen was carried out at the Browning Hall, Walworth, Exst London, early on the first of May. Little Gladys Goodwin, the now Queen for the year, being crowned by the retiring Queen, Ivy Healey (Sport and General),
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