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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10TH, · 1928
MEXICAN FLOODS..
DEAD ESTIMATED AT 100 TO 1,300.
15,000 HOMELESS AND HUNGRY IN LEON.
WATER POLO.
LEAGUE COMMENCED.
BY AURIOL BARKAY.]
The open match of the Water Polo League was played yesterday at the During my stay in Cairo Į assisted åt
Victoria Recreation Club at 8 p.m., when an entertainment given by the members
"MEXICO CITY, June 28th.
the Royal Navy team met and defeated of an Egyptian ladies' club, which had The number of dead in the food at the Kowloon Eritish School "B" team. lately been founded on European lines, Leon has still to be accurately determin-Lonsdale (2) were the scorers.
by Eve. goals to love.. Carline (3) and but for amusement only and not na aed, estimates ranging from 100 to 400, place of convenience or residence. Im- although the correspondent of Al Eai agine a long room at the end of which aversal figures that 1,000 perished. Pro- stage is act, A raised gallery to one bably 15,000 or 20,000 are homeless and side, with chairs and small tables, and the property damage may reach 30,000,000 below, row upon row of seats occupied pesos. by women of all ages and sizes, ranging from youthful adulta to women of 60.
All estimates are speculative until direct communications with the stricken.
The second match between the Victoria Recreation Club and the Hongkong Efee- six goals to love. Lyons (3), King (4) tric Co. resulted in a win for the Club
and Brodie (1) were the goal-scorers,
(THROUGH NELTER'S AGENCY.]
· NEXT TEST MATCH.
Their clothes are almost uniformly black; region are restored: Correspondents who/A. W. CARR RESIGNS AS CAPTAIN.
of European extraction, expressed ne cording to the age and taste of the wenter; one might safely say, where the younger women are concerned, in the height of fashion.
Anish
have reached the scene and are sending
THE NEW TEAM. reports by round-about routes have been unable to do more than guess at the nun-taincy of the England side for the Fifth Mr. A. W. Carr has resigned thè cap- ber of dund concealed by the debris." Ap-Test Match, which starts at the Oval oo parently not more than 150 bodies have Saturday, and which will be played to a Their faces are oval, with a pale clear been recovered so far,
The Test selectors regretfully acepted skin and enormous dark eves, rendered
Hunger and suffering from exposure Carr's resignation, and chose the follow- more expressive and enlarged by the among the homeless continues acute, aing team for the Final Test: quaint way the eyelids are outlined, in though some relief supplies are arriving
Mr. A P. F. Chapman (Kent),
captain deed emphasised by the lavish use of The city and the surrounding devastated "binck pencil. The Egyptian woman out-area are reported to have been placed vies the Parisian in this respect. Many under martial law. The coffin supply has wore long drooping earrings and a quan- been exhausted. Ten bodies were buried tity of jingling bracelets, which fashion I cannot help thinking that the West-
without being identiñed...-- has borrowed from the Orient
My boateas led me to the raised gallery, where we sat at a small table with other ladies whom she introduced to me; the wives of various prominent Egyptians connected with the King and the Govern ment, one a cousin of King Fund. A waitress appeared, and we ordered some drinks, coffee, lemonade, and soda water, They explained to me that owing to the feast of Ramadan they had not tasted food or even & drop of water since two o'clock-that-morning, that they were con- sequently extremely thirsty, and that all parties at that time of year took place in the evening on this account, as nobody could touch food or drink during the day time. I asked if they had many enter tainments, and she explained that their programmes were varied. Sometimes they organised a lecture on art or talks on the latest books and literature, but chiefly they selected, as to-night, music. We spoke in French. Most of these ladies had not the trace of a foreign accent. They informed me that they had been to Paris and bought most of their clothes there, though there were very good shops in Cairo, where the latest models could be purchased. There followed a discus. sion on dress, during which I ventured
Speedy burial of the dead has been ordered by the authorities to ward off danger of epidemics. Orders have been issued for burial without identification, if necessary, in trenches. BAN ON PROFITEERING CREATED,
are
Mr. G. T: S. Stevens (Middlesex).
3. L. Hobbs (Surrey),
W. Rhodes (Yorkshire).
F. E. Woolley (Kent).
H. Sutcliffe (Torks),
E. H. Hendren (Middlesex).
MW. Tate (Sussex).-
F. Larwood (Notts).
G. Geary (Leicester). G. Brown (Hampshire). The twelfth man is Ernest Tyldesley, of Lancashire
THE NEW CAPTAIN. Mr. Chapman, England's new captain, Among the very few identified dead is not yet 8 years old. He is England's Simon Angulo, wealthy Spanish youngest captain since the first appear merchant, and Senora Ignacio Granados, ance in Erst-class cricket of Dr. W. G. wife of the owner of the newspaper La Grace, though the Hon. Ivo Bligh (DOW Informacion.
the 8th Earl of Darnley) was only 24. when he took the England side of 1882 to Australia.
The Al Universal correspondent failed to find any railroad routes oper and was able to reach the city only by travelling attractive bataman, and a brilliant field. Chapman is probably England's most on muleback and railroad handcars. He A left-hander, he has already had cor- found some of the streets of the city still siderable experience of Test cricket, submerged, with buildings crumbling un-having played both in England and Aus- der the water.
tralia.
DRY RASH BROKE OUT ON BODY
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Special dispatches from Guanajuato A Cambridge Blue, he had the honour report that clothing and other supplies of scoring a century on his first appear- are being assembled there to be sent to
ance. Chapman learnt his cricket at Leon by muleback and automobile. The Uppingham; he played for Berkshire in OCEAN yet because of the inundated conditions qualified for Kent last year, after having success of these measures is not known the Minor Counties Championship, and of the roads leading to the stricken city.
been resident at Canterbury.
GOLF.
About one-third of the city was reduced to a mass of mud and débris. Local com- mittees have been organized to prevent CANADIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.
to admire the bat of the lady next to profiteering in food and to distribute 're- me a sort of turban made of brownlief aupplies among the homeless. chiffon
SURVIVORS SEEK TO IDENTIFY
'DEAD.
NOGALES, ABIZ., June 36th.
MONTREAL Angustiath Macdonald Smith, of New York, has won the Canadian open golf champion- ship with an aggregate of 293.
CHANNEL SWIMMING.
"You like it? I made it myself. drape my veil round it, and then when go out it comes down and covers my face. You see it is more becoming like that." And she proceeded to unwind ber chiffon A dispatch to The Herald to-day said scarf, which was made of the same that the estimate of the number who ANOTHER UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT. material as the turban. It then fell over perished in Wednesday's flood in the re- her face like a motor veil. I noticed that gian of Leon, State of Guanajuato,
LONDON, August 9th. the other headdresses consisted mostly Mexico, had been placed at 1,300. All Colonel Freyberg, V.C., entered the of pieces of white or black and white the bodies have been recovered. The Channel at Cape Gris Nez yesterday chiffon cut on the square, called marku, waters of the Saatiago River, which night, but gave up after covering nine which were. raised over the face by means caused the damage, were reported as miles in eight hours. of an elastic, a contrivance which cer- receding.
tainly was neither as effective nor as Torrentisi raing for two weeks have becoming as my friends ingenious in-caused the greatest floods in the history vention.
What scent do you use?" the same lady asked me. see. I am sure I know it. Is it not "It is so good. Let me Paris' of Coty! There are two Paris, One of Coty, the other of Bourjeois, yours is Coty, I feel sure.
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NO NATIVE DRESSES." "You are right," I said, "zad laughed in astonishment... I could not help feel ing a little disappointed at seeing every- one in European dreta. In my ignorance I had hoped that at least some of the older women would have reverted to their native garments; the remembrance of a similar entertainment at a pardah club in India being still fresh in my mind, and the wonderful "saris worn on that occasion. But, as my hostess explained, Cairo is so near Europe that its woman have become modernised."
of the region, the dispatch said.
Churches, public buildings and homes
The water was extremely cold.
PERRAULT'S ATTEMPT.
LATER. The Frenchman, Perrault, abandoned
relief of the homeless, according to the after 1 hours. which escaped have been opened forms his channel swim from Cape Gris New dispatch. Long lines of flood victims are attempt to swim the Channel.
Freyberg has decided never again to passing through improvised morgues in attempts to identify missing relatives.
Stores and warehouses have been thrown open to the hungry.inhabitants. Every precaution at hand is being taken to pre- vent the outbreak of pestilence.
Efforta to bring food and medical sup plies into the region are being hampered by crippled rail facilities. Miles of trackage have been washed out, or are still covered with water, the dispatch said, and railroad bridges have been swept away. Relief crews rushed from neighbouring points are finding the disas ter far greater than they can handle with their limited facilities.
Reports from the upper reaches of the Santiago River in the north-eastern section of the country near Lake Chapala, to the effect that no perceptible rise has occurred within the last few hours, is an indication that the peak of the flood has passed, the message said.
By now the musicians were taking their places on the stage. A middle-aged man with a smiling countenance and a betas selled tarbush, who appeared to the head of the troupe, aut in the centre holding an instrument that resembled a kind of zither with strings of sheep gut, The present disaster is declared to be called a "kanun." He was accompanied even greater than the one last January, by three others The first was armed wher the Santiago River broke from its with a "rikk,” a sort of tambourine with banks and 1,000 persons were drowned.— little bells attached to it, the second had T. Times.
banjo, the ud," while the third was content to sing or rather intone
П
vivre.
reiterated chant in a minor key in a soft jingle. She was alim and exquisite" high-pitched nasal voice. The concert opened with a plaintive refrain sustained dressed, and full of a vivid joig de on one or two notes, rising at times to
How beautiful she is," I remarked, look at her. " and how happy." My hostess turned to Oh yes, that is Princess
a subdued crescendo and then falling to
a distant remoteness,, always with the sume fatalistic, distinguishing strain to She is very emancipated; in fact, the constantly récurring syllables of 18 4 h't bek' h'thek.!"
one of the most up-to-date of our women.. That means I love you," " whispered
She spends most of her time in Europe, my friend in the turban with a laugh. of freedom even here." As I crossed the and her busband allows her's great deal Thus the music continued, varying from garden and followed her to the gate one song to another, with always the where our car was waiting for us, I cast same monotonous réfrain; eternity of sound and similarity of rhythm They one more look behind me. Princess X. sang and played late into the night looked beyond her, where I could just was still laughing and smoking; but I while the soft Egyptian breeze stale obtain an impression of faces, lined and throught the open doorway and the blue furrowed with age, like parchment some ness of the sky outside seemed to envelop of them, nodding imperceptibly as if us like a curtain of sapphire velvet. My beating time to the music, and yet rigid, hostess and I slipped away at an early impassive, in their mask-like stolidity. hour of the morning. Some of the What mattered emancipation and new re- audience had already vanished. Others forms to these women They had left. sat in small groups in the miniature their youth behind them. It was too late garden outside the building; I caught now; too late for them to change. Why a glimpse of a beautiful woman smoking could not the younger generation liv and laughing in an undertone. As she contentedly as they had? And then I moved her head, her diamond earrings understood in swayed and fell on to her neck with a and zenana still exist to-day Daily sfagh why forem (Continued on next column.) *Telegraph.
-RIVER ́ LEVELS.
Bulletin from
BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG,
Waterlevala (in Erglish Fest) at 8 am.
Place of Observatios.
Highest
W. Lovel
'pop foona
W. Lovel
recorded.
-1926
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BONGEONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, August 9th.
Previous On Date On Date
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Barometer Temperature Humidity Wind Direction...
"Force Weather...
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B-Blue_sky; C-Cloudy; D-Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning; M-Mist; O- Overcast; P-Passing showers; Q- Squalls; R-Rain; T-Thunder,
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From August 10th to 16th, 1926,
HIGH WAL
LOW WATER.
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Fri. 13
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0 12
4 8 5 6
8. 5
7 14
0
6.6 Falling Sun.
15m 1 16 4 8 m
I 15.1 +15,72 +14.88 Mon. 161 56 +4.33.8
6 57
743
5 1 8 10
Went Biver North River at Shishing +41,9 0 at Tsingyur. +28.7
North River
at Samehui +2.3-5.0
East River
at Bheklang, +15.3 -3
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