LAST GAME TO-DAY
The Saigon football team play their last game this afternoon when they meet Eastern at Caroline Hill at 4.30 p.m.
Several reserves of the Salgon team will be seen in action though the line up has not yet been decided upon.
Hsu King-seng, captain of Eastern may not be playing as he injured him- self in the Interport game.
The following is Eastern's team:- Lau Hing-hon; Kong Seng-king and Tsang Chung-wan; Lau Tse-chan, Hsu King-seng Lo Wal-kuen; Cheung Yung-sang. Cheung Kam-hol, Tsui Ah-fal, Ng Kee- cheong and Hau Ching-to.
and
Team Manager:-Tsul Hang.
INTERPORT DINNER
in The Soccer Interport dinner honour of the Saigon Football team was held last night at Hotel Cecil and was presided over by the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, president of the Asso- ciation.
Among the guests present were Sir Atholl Macgregor, Mr. Rennard, Con- sul for France, Messrs. Sollis, Grim- shaw, and Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, and the Captain of "Argus."
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2 27/32.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1940
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U.S. AMBASSADOR
ON "MISSION TO CHUNG KING
A denial that his trip to Chungking has any other signi- ficance than that of an Ambassador returning to the capital of the country to which he is accredited was made by Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, United States Am- bassador to China, during the course of one of his rare interviews to the Press, given this morning in the American Consulate.
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Asked whether reports published in, on being asked whether the United certain morning newspapers that he States was likely to recognise any is going to Chungking for a confer- such regime, replied quietly: ence with the British and French doubt it." Ambassadors in which the Wang Ching-wei regime and the opening of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers were to be among the topics of discussion were correct, Mr. Johnson, when he had recovered from his amusement, said:-
"The
newspapers
the
In reply to an American corres- pondent who said that he had receiv- traders in ed complaints from tea New York that, as a result of China's barter agreement with Soviet Russia, local exports of tea were going to Russia instead of to America, he said that he had not heard anything about this "but they're still drinking tea, there, aren't they?"
all along Coast have been very much occupied with who I was going to see and what I was going to do, and some of them seem to know a great deal more than I do! I am going back to Chungking, where I have lived for many years,kiang, Hankow and two smaller ports. and where I have my home.
Asked about his Yangtze trip, Mr. Johnson said that he visited Nanking, Anking, Klu- Chingklang, Wuhu,
He could not say much about the trip, save that his chief interest was to see "Of course, I shall probably be see- ing all my colleagues, but I am not the various Americans living in those going there for the purpose of carry-ports, and he saw all of them.
"I don't know anything I can say ing on any negotiations, conversations,
were all hard at or anything else. I am going there to about them. They
work at whatever they were doing." live the common or garden life of an Ambassador in the capital of the State to which he is accredited."
TIME'S CHANGES
Asked by a Japanese pressman if he found conditions in North China changed much, he replied: "Yes, of course, but time brings changes of all kinds. I even found that I was get- Ling older!"
He was unable to give any informa- tion about the progress of the pro- posed Wang Ching-wei regime, but
INTERPORT BOWLING?
"PEACE OFFENSIVES"
In response to a question about America's possible participation in "peace offensives" in Europe and the that all he East, Mr. Johnson said knew about these was what he "read in the newspapers."
There was no doubt, of course, that
wanted
the everyone
pence. But question was, how were they going to get it?
Mr. Johnson is leaving Hong Kong in a day or two for Haiphong and Hanoi, He will travel from Hanoi to Kunming by rail, and thence to the capital by car. He described the Kunming-Chungking route as consist- ing of "good roads, pleasant pany, and good food."
com-
Asked if he was going to give no- tice of his intention to travel by rail from Hanoi to Kunming, he replied: "I don't see why I should.".
Shanghai, February 7-A telegra- phic interport ten-pins meet is being considered by the Shanghai Bowling Congress and letters have been sent to Pelping, Tientsin, Hong Kong, Manila and Cavite. Replies have When it was pointed out that there of had been one or two "accidents" on been received from the Manager the Hong Kong Bowling Alleys and this route in the past, he said that one from the Secretary of the American there were also accidents when Club at Tientsin requesting further crossed the road. If one stopped to particulars. Yesterday, the Hon. Se-give prior notice to every motorist, cretary of the Shanghal Bowling Con-one would soon find that one was un- gress sent them proposed rules and able to cross the street. regulations
"I do not expect any accidents," he for their approval.
concluded. N.C.D.N.
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Contrary to custom, His Holiness attended Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter's, which was celebrated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna.
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