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EDWARD ARNOLD
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A COLUMBIA PICTURE
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936
BRITISH AMATEUR
GOLF SERIES Ex-Shanghai Boy Favoured
WALKER CUP PLAYERS FAIL
CANTON-KOWLOON
RAIL FARES
Strong Competition
From Steamers.
PROBABLE LOWERING OF RAIL CHARGES COMING
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
REFORM PROPOSALS
CONSIDERED
ARCHBISHOP'S OPINIONTM
London. To-day.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at the opening of the Convocation of Canterbury yester
situation and the proposals for the reform of the League of Na-
St. Andrew's, To-day
[From. Our Own Correspondent] A strong northerly wind upset
Canton, To-day. in the British many players
Because the travelling public Amateur Golf Championship yes-
in consider that railway fares are terday, Cyril Tolley, holder 1920 and 1929, and Jim Ferrier somewhat high, the daily ju (Australia), the ex-Shanghai bor venue of the Canton-Kowloon day, referred to the international
$ day who is now favourite for the title, Railway is now yielding only a
tions. He said that if the League. both being taken to the 19th in little over $4,000
against normial
was to fulfil its high purpose ther their Third Round encounters.
lower. could not acquiesce in its being Tolley beat S. B. Roberts, the $7,000 a day.
Steamer fares ex-Welsh champion, while Ferrier eliminated K. V. Braddon (Buck-Passengers in reduced circum-jreduced to a position of a mere aggressive nationalism inghamshire), after being actual-stances do not mind taking a council
longer time over the journey spirit of
and at one period.
Hong was too strong, and the fear and Canton ly three down
between
are suspicion it aroused too rife. Both, however, easily won their Kong, provided the fares
low. The new motor vessel
Fourth Round matches.
Outstanding defeats in Third Round included those Erie Fiddian, Rex Hartley Tony Torrance, all of whom Walker Cup players.
JACK MCLEAN OUT
the
of
receipts
are
as
of
of
conciliation.
The
Lee Hong is carrying a full load "We cannot abandon or whittle of passengers every trip. be down what the League stands actual circumstances of the time and tween this port and Hong Kong, for." declared the Primate. - "The are as her fares are the lowest.
The
In view of the river competi-seems to have discredited it, but tion, the Canton-Kowloon Rail the ideal remains and will remain way is studying the situation for the Christian world. The ex-English Native cham-with a view to reducing the ultimate basis of justice and peace pion T. A. Bourn, who won the fares for the three classes. will be the moral and spiritual one British title at Westward Ho in The boom is over. now that the of a reconstructed League of N 1925, beat Robert Harris in the ancestral worship season has tions"-British Wireless Service. Fourth Round, but Jack McLean, ended-
However, the railway looks the ex-Scottish champion and a Waker Cup player. was surpris-forward, to better business after Double-Terth ingly beaten by Robert Sweeney. October 10. the
Alec Hill (Sandy
Ledge) beat freight traffic from the Canton-
SMUGGLING IN
N. CHINA
MORE QUESTIONS IN COMMONS
London, To-day.
the Oxford University player, at celebrations, when this line will
handle the
and passenger the 20th.
There is a D. R. Tweddle. the British Walker Hankow Railway. Cup captain, by 4 and 3 while possibility of the joining-up of Roger Wethered. Hector Thomson, the two lines as Hong Kong and Arana, the Spanish champion, Nanking are reported to be in!
Mr. Anthony Eden answered a were all suc-favour of such a link. and Eustace Story
"NOTHING IN IT
number of questions in the House beating Leonard cessful, Story
Interviewed this morning con- Crawley, the Essex cricketer, by
ceming the proposed cutting off Commons yesterday on Thomson beat a fellow Scot in Fares by the river steamers and smegling in Northern China. The Mitchell by 3 and 2 after both had any subsequent action by the Rail-Foreign Secretary, referring
Walker, Chief Manager of the the position put forward gone out in 32 to equal Bobby Way Administration, Mr. R. D. various suggestions for improving Jones's record. now done 14 under fours for three Kowloon Canton Railway, stated, questions, said
and the rounds-Reuter.
one up.
Thomson has
There is nothing in it," would add nothing further.
not
The holder för the past two years, W. Lawson Little, is competing as he is now !fessional
the
to
best
means
in the! that he thought of checking smuggling would be the restora- Ition to the Chinese preventive!
a pro- "QUEEN MARY AT agencies of the normal means of
KHO SIN-KIE WINS
EARLIER PROMISE
MAINTAINED
Paris, To-day.
CHERBOURG
(Continued from Page 1)
So
exercising their authority.
other far as be was aware no Government, apart from the Chin- lese, British and United States! Governments, had made repre-
She was dressed over-all and be sentations on fore she left the Blue Peter was Tokyo,
this subject at Am- but the British
rus up at her foremost mastheadbassador had kept in close touch to join the double house flag of with the representatives of the the Cunard White Star Company, other interested Powers.
Mr. Eden added that the atter: fying at her aftermast. In the Third Round of the
Many busy hours preceded the tion of the Japanese Government French Lawn Tennis Singles liner's departure and every in-had been called to the detriment of the caused to legitimate Japanese in- Championship here yesterday,cident, from the muster Kho Sin-kie, the Chinese Davis entire crew of 1,100 and boat-terests in general by the incidence Cup player, beat Robert Mur-drill, with the launching of all the of wholesale smuggling in North ray (Canada) by scores of 6-2, 24 unsinkable motor-lifeboats, to China-British Wireless Service. 6-3, and 64 to qualify for the the arrival of many distinguished Fourth Round, where he will passengers and their friends, was meet the Swiss contender, Eheered by the quayside sighters. Maneff, to-day.
SKIPPER'S CERTAINTY
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Kho confirmed the favour. In an interview the liner's Cap-
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able impression he created in tain. Sir Edgar Britten, who re-l
from well messages his match against Lesueur, and ceived has completely recovered the wishers all over the world, said sure the Queen Mary form which gave him the cham- he was
great success, pionship of China. He kept a would be a beautiful length, seldom coming poke of her as a link of good- up to the net, but when he did will between the two great Eng- it was with good judgment.
lish-speaking peoples.
and
KING EDWARD'S CORONATION
Proclamation To Be Broadcast
London; To-day.
The British Broadcasting Cor- poration announces that the pro-
not to be clamation of King Edward VIPs
It will be interesting to see The Captain was how his smooth game will drawn on the question of record-coronation will be broadcast from
stand up against the forceful breaking. strokes of his Reuter.
Swiss rival.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S INDEPENDENCE
London. To-day-The Foreign Secretary was asked at Cormons question-time yesterday what was the Government's policy towards the maintenance of the indepen ¡dence of Czechoslovakia. Mr. An thony Eden replied that the policy was that which resulted from Joyal adherence to the Covenant d the League of Nations-British Wireless Service.
On
The property of the Chiu Steamship Co., which included the well-known steamer Hydranges, Permanent Pier No. 6, Hong Kong, a steam launch and a buoy at Swatow, which was put up to suc tion yesterday at Messrs. Lammert Bros. galeroom, failed to obtain s bid and was withdrawn.
Was
Some 360 boys, accompanied by 20 Fathers and teachers, left the Aberdeen Industrial School at 6 am today for a one-day trip to Macau. The excursion rendered possible by the ficence of Sir Robert Ho Tang, who wished to give the boys this holi- day as a mark of appreciation of a good year's work.
mini-
He said the ship had the Empire station at Daventry on
electri-
a schedule, and he thought that Friday May 29 from 8.50 a.m. ap-
they kept to it they would not proximately. Subsequent break the record. Great crowds cal recordings will be broadcast at 5.15 pm and 9.20 p.m. gathered last evening at Cherbourg (2 pun,
to welcome the Queen Mary on G.MT. on May 29, and at. 1 her first call-British Wireless and 5.15 am. on May 30,--British
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