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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1937.
YANKEES AGAIN SPEED-UP OF, ANGLO-FRENCH
DEFEAT
THE ATHLETICS U.S. MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL
GIANTS BLANKED
New York, To-day.
The following were the results of yesterday's baseball matches:-
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn
Boston
(11 innings were played).
Philadelphia
New York
Passeau pitched.
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
R. H. E.
2 11 0 3 14
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EMPIRE
AIR ROUTES
Imperial Conference
Discussions
CANADA SERVICE
PLANS
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day.
of air
TENNIS
France Leads By
11 To 7
HARE AND WILDE
París, To-day.
en-
At the end of the second day's play in the sixteenth annual counter between the International Lawn Tennis Clubs of France and Great Britain, the former led by 11 matches to 7.
France was superior in the sing- les but Britain was better in the
Plans for improvement 2 traffic between Britain and the Do-doubles.
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minions will be discussed at the Im- perial Conference.
Preparations for improving the
The young Davis Cup hopes, C. E. Hare and R. H. D. Wilde, beat Jean Borotra and Marcel Bernard, the French champions, by 6-8, 6-1 and
6-4.
The South Africans, Norman
0 overseas air services are already in o progress, and Imperial Airways have oalready put many of the new Em-
pire flyingboats and "Ensigns" into Farquarson and Kirby, beat Bolelli
and Glasser (France) by 6-4, 7-5.— service.
Reuter.
6
1
7
Chicago
2
7
Cincinnatti
3
11
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York
8
10
Heinrich hit a homer.
Philadelphia
4
7
1
Boston
6
12
Washington
(12 innings were played).
Detroit
St. Louis
Cleveland
Chicago
ITALIAN ECONOMIC POLICY
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Those for the run from Britain to South Africa will be put into ser- vice next month and the new giant flying boats will also cover the route O via Karachi and Singapore, to Aus- 113tralia before the end of this year.
Air services to New Zealand and Cañada are under consideration.
The "Evening Standard". learns that the Imperial Conference will
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SELF-SUFFICIENCY DOCTRINE
Rome, To-day.
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RECRUITS FOR CALEDONIA
Cunard Liner's New Lease Of Life
3 also discuss the Russian project of an air route via the Arctic to the
London, To-day. United States.
Recruiting for the giant Cunard- Canada, the journal states, is ex- White Star liner "Majestic," which tremely interested, in the proposed has been converted into a training service and its strategic consequence. ship for the Royal Navy, is to be
-Trans-Ocean.
In a speech to the annual confer- ence of Corporations here on Satur- announced day, Signor Mussolini that Italy would be supplying her own petrol in 1938.
organised on a basis of 120 boys monthly until the full complement of 1,500 has been reached.
REDUCED AIR MAIL
RATES TO ORIENT Caledonia and she was first brought
Netherlands Post Office Announcement
New name. of the ship is H.M.S..
into service last week..
The Rosyth establishment where she is based is to be unique, in that, in addition to naval training for seamen, it will provide instruction for artificer apprentices.
For this purpose the dockyard warships are to be utilised, pend- ing the erection, at the cost of cost £750,000, of a permanent shore es- tablishment to be completed within the next three years.
Amsterdam, To-day. The Netherlands Post Office has air mail dues to the reduced Netherlands East Indies.
In future ten grammes will Two-thirds of Italy's coal require- ments, he said, would be provided 121⁄2 cents in postage.
The new regulations will come by her own mines.
June 5 for letters Production of iron ore was in-into effect on creasing steadily and the industry from Holland and on June 16 for
from the East Indies.- should endeavour to free itself from the necessity of imports of scrap iron.
letters Trans-Ocean,
CHILD SEES
The Duce forecast an increase in Italian exports of aluminium. POLICEMAN DIES Trans-Ocean.
DAVIS CUP
Czecho-Slovakia In Third Round
STOP PRESS
TEL. 20022 or 33993
FIRE-WALKING TELEVISED
Amateur" Not
Burned
In drenching rain afternoon Ahm- ed Hussain, the young Indian fire- walker, was televised while walking along a 12-foot trench full of red- hot embers in Alexandra Park. It is revealed that the death of
Warsaw, To-day.
Despite the downpour, the fire of Czecho-Slovakia advanced into the oak logs, which had been burning GENERAL AND FRAU Lilian Wooldridge, 14, of
Park-avenue, Plymouth, was there third round of the Davis Cup com-for eight hours, yielded a surface
of Ridge GOERING
sult of fright caused by the sight petition on Saturday when they eli-temperature of 800 degrees Centi- of a policeman's uniform. The child minated Poland by 3 matches to 0. grade, eight times the heat of boil- chorea -St. Vitus's Hecht and Caska beat Tloczinskiing water. An English amateur Dance and died soon after seeing and Hadba by 6-1, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 fire-walker, Mr. C. Adcock, also a policeman at the door of her Trans-Ocean.
Nothing Official In Visit developed
To Italy
Venice, To-day. Frau Emmy Goering, wife of the German Air Minister, arrived in Venice by train from 'Capri on Saturday morning, and was met by her husband.
house.
The policeman visited the house while investigating complaints of annoyance caused to residents by children in the district. The child was alone in the house at the time. Mr. Wooldridge, father of the It is again stressed that Generalgirl, stated that his daughter was Goering's visit to Italy is of a pri- of a nervous temperament, and he vate nature only. No Italian Minis-made no complaint against the ters are in Venice to meet him and policeman he and his wife are living almo in seclusionTrans-Ocean.
BRITISH
AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
London, Saturday. On medical advice, Hector Thomson, the hölder, has announced that he will not com- pete in the British Amateur Golf Championship to be held at Sand- wich on May 14,-Reuter.
“ADVENTURE” RETURNING
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walked barefoot along the trench.
Hussain and various volunteer fire-walkers performed the same EMPIRE UNITY feat twice recently. On these occa- sions the Indian's feet were either not affected at all or were burnt "Only Hope Of Peace"
less than those of the amateurs.
However, the onlookers, who, in- Sir Henry Page Croft, M.Pcluded Mr. F. Grisewood, the B.B.C.
the promotion and unity of the speaking at Liverpool declared that
announcer, and Prof. J. C. Flugel, Professor of Psychology at London British Empire lay the only hope of University, agreed that the feet of peace for its inhabitants, and pro- both Ahmed Hussain and Mr. bably in the end the one real hope Adcock were equally unscathed after of peace for the world.
the ordeal. ~
On the previous occasions Ahm-
H.MS Adventure, Mine-Laying "However great a blow an enemy Cruiser, is expected to return to the might attempt to deliver at Great ed Hussain' walked through the Colony to-morrow from Sandakan, Britain," he said, "the people of the
fire, while the English amateurs British North Borneo, while H.M.S. Empire cannot be defeated so long ran. This time Mr. Adcock imitat- Diomede, which recently took part as the British system of united free ed the Indian by walking calmly, in the Colony's Coronation celebranations remains inviolate, in Cana-swiftly and deliberately. tions, left Hong Kong yesterday for da, Australia, New Zealand, Africa England via Singapore,
and the East. A blow at the heart, far from enslaving or ending the The R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" Empire, would merely provide the leaves Shanghai on May 18 "for rallying point of all our free Hong Kong
peoples."
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