U.S. BASEBALL
RESULTS
PHILLIES BADLY
BEATEN
Many Games Postponed
The following
New York, To-day.
were the results of
games played in the Major leagues:-
Boston
Cleveland
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E. 10 *
7
Averill hit a home run.
221
Huge Increase In R.A.F.
London, To-day.
The Royal Air Force has been increased by 42 squadrons since the British rearmament prow gramme› came into force, says the "Morning Post.”.
The bombing fleet now com- prises 113 squadrons and fight- ing planes between 1,400 .and 1,900, says the journal Trans-Ocean.
Employers
New York
4 16
1
Dimaggio and Gehrig hit home runs.
Chicago
5 13
0
0
1
2
6 10
0
Declare
Philadelphia
Detroit
Greenberg and Fox hit home runs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh
13 8
පස
0
Todd, Brubaker and Jensen hit home
runs.
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Boston
1
6 0
4
9
0
0 4 1
Boycott At Geneva
Geneva, To-day.
It îs stated that employers have decided to boycott the dis-
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1937.
SUEZ ROYALTY
TO EGYPT
Increased by £100,000 Annually
London, To-day.
A new agreement has been sign- ed between the Suez Canal Com- pany and the Egyptian Govern- ment by which the company will pay a royalty of £300,000 annually instead of the £200,000 paid hither- to.
The company agrees to build a military road from Alexandria to Port Said at a cost of £30,000.
The company also agrees to em- ploy 33 per cent. Egyptians on its staff instead of the present 25 per cent. Reuter.
CHINESE NAVAL CADETS
Freedom Of China Arriving To-day ·
The game between St. Louis and cussion in committee of various The Chinese naval training ship, Washington in the American League draft conventions in connection Tsi Yu, "Freedom Of China,” with was postponed owing to rain. In the National League, the encounters be- with
the International Labour 40 cadets on board and 200 ratings, tween St. Louis and New York Giants Conference now being held here. is expected to arrive in the har- and Chicago and Brooklyn were not
The employers are prepared to bour this afternoon on her voyage played for the same reason.-Reuter.
state their objections in principle to the South Seas. but will not enter into detailed dis- She will stay here until Friday. cussions of the convention to which Originally it was planned to al- they are opposed.
low the cadets to visit the local Declarations to this effect were Naval Dockyard, but to-day being a made in the textile and chemical general holiday, this has been post- committees on behalf of the em-poned until August when the ployers group, with the exception training ship touches the Colony
SCHMELING EARNS GOLD MEDAL
Outstanding Sports Feat Of 1936 -
Berlin, To-day.
of the United States and France. on her return trip.
The French and. Belgian workers' 1. On their arrival here this after- delegates threatened that the work-noon, the cadets will pay a visit to ers would impose a 40-hour week if the Hong Kong University. Max Schmeling, German conten- the negotiations at Geneva were un- der for heavyweight boxing cham-successful.-Reuter. pionship honours, has been award- ed the Gold Medal for the outstand- ing sporting achievement of 1936
ing magazine "The Ring.”
in the United States by the sport-
"WE ARE PRETTY”
The award is prominently
played in the Berlin papers,
dis- who
Say Spurned Village
Girls
say it is a recognition which con✩ tradicts all the decisions preventing
Schmeling from fighting Braddock Theodora went wild for the heavyweight crown.
AT THE IMPERIAL
CONFERENCE
Imperial War Graves Commission
STOP PRESS
TEL. 20022 or 33993-
"MISSING" PLANES
It
is understood that both
planes of the Far Eastern Fly-
ing Training School have been
impounded by the Kwangutng
military authorities and permis-
sion for their return to Hong
Kong is being withheld at the
moment.
Chang Yuen, who landed at
Canton, is under arrest.
Flight-Lieutenant
.Holroyd
Smith is returning to the Co-
lony to-day..
Two
Gibraltar, To-day.
warships navigating
without lights fired over twenty
rounds on the insurgent port
of Ceuta early this morning.
The shore batteries'- both at
Ceuta and Carnero, a point on
this side of the Straits, return-
ed the fire after searchlights
had spotted the raiders. -Reu-
ter.
SUICIDE PACT
WIFE SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL
At a meeting of the principal and Mar- delegates to the Imperial Confer- tinstown village belles are wild be-ence yesterday with Mr. Chamber- In making the award, the maga-cause they are considered unattrac-lain in the chair, a memorandum zine referred to Schmeling as the tive.
from the Duke of Gloucester, Presi- "fighting gentleman.”
Six-year-old Kathleen Hawkins dent of the Imperial War Graves "The admiration of American and was selected. Queen' of this Dor Commission, communicating a re- German youth for a true sporis chester village's Coronation Day port on the work of the Commission man," says one Berlin paper, "is suf- carnival, because the older girls was considered and the Conference ́ficient to take the wind out of the are "unattractive" to quote Miss decided to place on record its warm school mis-appreciation of the work which had sails of the unscrupulous clique in Hindley, Kathleen's
tréss.
been accomplished and of the man- New York and Chicago." Trans-
A suicide pact, by a young couple ner in which the Commission had Ocean.
discharged and was continuing to staying at the Luk Hoi Tung Board- discharge the duties entrusted to it. ing House has resulted in the death The Conference further consider of both. The husband Lau Yee-ho, ed the situation in the Pacific and 28 year-old tailor, died as the re- the Far East and the meeting wassult of opium poisoning while his adjourned until to-morrow-Bri- wife, Lau Sze-wan, who was taken to the GC, H. în a critical condi- tish Wireless.
died early this morning. The couple registered at the Boarding House on Monday and to all ou ard appearances were very happy. They purchased a large quantity of opium yesterday -after-
AT BECKENHAM
W. C. Choy Beaten In Straight Sets
Said one belle: "There are as many pretty girls here between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five as in any village. We may not make up like town girls. We don't have' to: we are pretty."
In defence of local beauties Mr. F. C. Grayer, proprietor of the vil lage store, parish councillor, choir- master, chairman of the cricket Beckenham, To-day. club, and member of the church W. C. Choy, the young Chinese council, said: "It's a disgrace to tennis player, was eliminated in the say Martinstown girls are not pret- second round of the Kent Cham-ty. I'd like to have seen a girl of pionships at Beckenham yesterday twenty leading our carnival pro- by E. J. David.
Choy, who had been conceded a walk-over by Avory in the first round, lost by 6- 6-3 Reuter.
Owing to the inclement weather, the naval, military and air force parade in celebration of the King's Birthday was cancelled this morn-
ing. Ships in harbour were not
dressed. They are to dress ship on December 19, which is the actual date of the birthday of His Majesty.
cession."
"
“Miss Siam," beauty queen, who was elected in December, was found dead at Bangkok, with two bullet wounds in her head, and the man she was engaged to has been arrested.
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C. T. Wang Presents Credentials
Washington, To-day.
tion, a
The new Chinese Ambassador, noon of which they both partook. Dr. C. T. Wang, was received at No definite motive has been dis- the White House yesterday and pre-covered but it is thought that fin- sented his credentials to President ancial worry was the cause of the Roosevelt-Reuter.
{couple's action.
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