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WATER POLO.
TWO CLOSE MATCHES. 'AT
· THE V.R.C.
There was a very large turnout at the Victoria Recreation Club last evening when the two Chinese clubs-Chinese Athletic Association and Chinese Bathing Club-met is the premier division of the local water polo lenguo.
As can be expected, the game was very keenly contested, the shouts and cheers of the supporters of the respective sides adding more excitement to the show.
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GERMANY BEATS NAVY.
VISITORS.
Kiel, July -The British cruiser squadron on its first official visit.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931.
CRIPPLE'S DEATH IN RIVER.
to a German naval base since 1914.
SULOIDE PACT WITH MARRIED MAN.
was visited by thousands over the The reason why Finchley dairy weekend. On Sunday afterncon manager named Joseph Stevenson huge crowds witnessed the football and Miss Freds Thain (35), a match between a team of Britisheripple paralysed from the waist buejackets and a Herman naval down, drowned themselves in the eleven which ended with 3-0 victory Witham, was disclosed at the re- for the German. Another part of sumed inquest at Foston, the programme arranged in boncur
They went to Lincolnshire by car
SEVEN HOURS UNDER 20 FT. OF MUD.
DIVER'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
I have just shaken hands with a diver who for seven hours was trapped under a soft, mud bank iu
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MODIFIED THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
PROF. EINSTEIN AND THE
·SUMATRA' TESTS:
"MUST BOW TO FACTS,”
Berlin, June 18-Professor Ein-
BISHOP SHOCKED.
EARLY MARRIAGES OF YOUNG CLERGY.
I FEEL INCLINED TO SAY
“BLESS YOU,' BUT——"
"I Am Bolt-Hearted."
The second thing is that many of the thinking clergy are puzzled had distressed by the vory early and improvident marriages of the young clergy. (Laughter.)
"Tam bound to say it is rather aahook to me when a -man on whom I havo spent £1000, money entrusted to me, on educating him,,
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tried...
"I am one of those soft-hearted
of the visitors was a race between and a cosatable said a mat' on the apparently lifeless body, unserowed not by any speculation of a semiton-Ingram) at the Church As-happy! At the same time I think
The Brst half was characterized British and German Bailing by a lot of fouls for minor offences yachts, as part of the Kiel regatta on the part of the Chinese Bathing Club men who managed, however, week, which was attended by Ad- to keep their opponents out of miral "Ashley-Rushton accompanied shooting range with the result that there was no fooring in this stanza, After the interval, play became oven more axciting and as both teams had an equal share of play, it looked as if there would be no
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scoring at all, Towards the end, howovor, "Chinese Athletic Associa tion wore lucky to find the net after a scrimmage outside tho Bathing Club goal, and keeping their opponents away for the rest of the game. emerged victors by the only goal scored in the match," The Junior Game. Spectators who remained behind after the senior game were treat ed to another close affair when Chinese Athletic Association net the Argylis in the junior division. While the military team had the advantage as regards weight, the Chinese more than made up for this by their superior speed. The soldiers, however, held a 3-1 lead at half-time. «
The Chinese returned fresh after
the interval and attacked with re- newed vigour and this resulted in their getting two further goals to share the points with the Argylls.
river bank bore the impression of wo people sitting side by side for some time. Cigarette onds and chocolate wrappers lay round."
by the commander of the naval looked," he added, "as if two people had eat side by side by base, Admiral Hansen.
the river for a long time with their legs dangling over the bank.”
THREAT TO CABINETA doctor said that there were no
MINISTER'S WIFE.
marks on the woman to show that
THREE YEARS FOR MAN BELIEVED INSANE.
obe bad struggled.
Picnic DiscoveLY,
Joseph Leonard Stevenson (21) said that Miss Thair we a friend of the family and frequently went and in the car with his father mother. He continued:-
"My sister and her young man
The proverty of clergymen andes to me after four weeks and the Thames, and nevertatieas was stain said inst night that his gen- the "early and improvident waysays that he is going to get mar rescued uniújured after a desperateral theory of relativity may hayp night, writes - # News Chronicle. rupostérieur des to be modified. His theory stands ringes of the young clergy" were When his comandes brought up hisor falla by nacertained data and referred to in a spooch by the
Bishop of London (Dr. Winning People who feel inclined to say 'God bless you my children, bo tuo face glass of the heiniet, and were greeted with a broad smile, they threw their caps in the air
sombly in Westminister. in exultation and on
"Well, that's the limit," said the man Give me a drink, R
The divor, thus saved from death almost as by a miracle, was a rosy-chocked man named William Milton, of Sa. Awdry's road, Borking,
Milton had a dangerous job to do. He had to descend into a been lowered to form part of the jetty which Messrs. John Mowlem and Co. are building for Ford's new motor works at Dagenham Dock.
100-ton steel caisson which had
philosophical kind. It will be rei membered that one of these data is the deviation of the light from the planot Mercury under the gravita tional attraction of the sun.
This deviatión "and its extent were
predisted by Einstein before they had been established by actual, ob- servation. To establish them an eclipse was needed, for only by shut ting off the sun's rays is it possible to observe the positions of the stars near the sun's rim. In this way the The caisson had not settled lovel position of the planet Mercury was on the river bod and Milton was recorded. If the position of tho lowered 30 or 40′ feat inside the
He said that the best day of his life was when he had collected £40,000 in three weeks, and had sent four hundred £100 cheques to clergy. He added.
I shall never forget the touch-
ing letter from one of the clergy to say that 'When that cheque foll out on the breakfast table my wife came round and kissed me, and said, "New doar, I told you God
would not forsake us."!
"And yet, in spite of all this,
Sontence of three years' penal (Mr. Clifford Howells) and myself cylinder to break up a pices of Planet is also recorded at a time had the sort of feeling that we and my sister sometimes went pic-rook which was causing the obstrucwhen the sun is not between it and
servitude was passed at the Old Bailey on John Menzies (59) for demanding with menaces £500 from Mrs. Greenwood, wife of the Minis ter of Health.
car.
tion.
Suddenly the rock gave way and Milton, guiding ropes, life lines and all were sucked right through the hole and the diver became em the caisson; "
are not really cutting the ice woj ought to. Why is it the Church has not taken to heart what I be lieve to be a very great scanda!!
The Arst reason, I believe, iš that the working man cannot be
we ought to look into it.
Young people are not allowed to get married if
if they are clerks in the City, subalterns in the Army, or young officers in the Navy, un- til they have reached a certain standard. In one or two cases people have come for help from the Por Clergy Relief Fund within five yeare,"
jawambele ke iptd
Smiling through Poverty.” The Bishop added that a third reason was that some clergy camou flaged the whole thing, and a fourth was that the poverty of
ethers was hidden by the smiling self-control of the people who never complained about it.
In one house in the East End, which he visited, he found that the clergyman's wife was housemaid,
everything
A letter to Mr. Greenwood read: Mies Thain, when my sister and bedded in 20 feet of mud outside phantly vindicatod-or so it seem-lieve that a man who has from £8 cook, and nurse to the whole cstab-
ting both of you with a bottle of
vitriol.
on.
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This was at ten o'clock. All at- siderable.. tempts to raise him failed.
a week.'
but
given them a living wage."
JUST ARRIVED
wal
the earth the deviation in the track icing with Miss Thain and my
of the light coming from the planet father, who went together in the "Last October we all went on a
can be ascertained.
Einstein's prediction was trium- picnic. Father was in the car with
cd-by a series of observations her young man on a motor-oyale "This is an amphatic warning overtook the car on the way bone.
to £8 a weak is not a rich man.lishment, 16-Mite Dash to the Rescue. stretching over several years that failure on your part to remit It was standing at the side of the
He immediately went up danger different parts of the world, Thore We had a day of prayer in East spotlessly clean, and ho had a nicely cooked suppor. The Bishop without delay £500 will cause me road, and father and Miss Thain signals, which were answered by was, of course, ne absolute certain London for the poverty of the concluded
wera, embracing each other. That
*“You de find real poverty in the to carry out my intention of get-upsöt my sister very much and In the men working the air pump.ty, for the margin of error is conclergy, and a working..man said.
houses of the clergy. We must told. That incident
Last night, at meeting of theto me, I am not going to pray forever rest until we have restored mother was opened my eyes to what was going The alarm was given, and work- German Physical Society, Profes-that. My mate and I get only £3 the self-respect of our clergy and "You are asking to have your On the day after he saw his men, firemen, engineers "and off-sor Erwin Freundlich, the director haunt burgled. Rest assured ne father for the last time he received cials rushed to the rescue. Divers of the Einstein Observatory, at of the observations made by him- time will be lost in that respect.". Jetter from him. In this he went down, but could not find the Potsdam,, reported on the result
Raid: Another letter read:
More, divers Fore sent, for. from self and his staff during the total "I am writing you, "Greenwood, madhouse keeper, mother will not want to hear from Moylem's works at Battersen, and eclipse in Northern Sumatra £500 is the sum I demand from you try just to forget me.
me. Don't think badly of me, but they made a 15-mile dash to the May 9, 1829, under perfect condi
Professor Freundlich an- Kiss Poppy.
soene in a speed boat. The Port of ❘tiona
that differ from those based on the generol for your trickery on Feb 5 lust and Mum for me, and my dying London Authority also had a diver.nounced conclusions
ready,, You in your exalted position ought wish is that you will never want. This tragedy may stop some peo-
No sooner had divers removed thecry of relativity. He and his to set a noble example, you scouple's evil minds. I am writing this some of the mud from around the assistants estimated the deviation A trans-Atlantic yacht raco, indrel,
caisson than mere mud was swept of light from the planet, Mercury in the office asd preparing for then the tide, and it was four as being about 28 per cent grea- teaded to test the skill of the
"Bear in mind members of your cad."
hours before Diver Davis, one of ter than Einstein assumed it to de, Amateur yachtsmen of the United
Olear They Wore Loyers."
the band of diving heroes, got in States and Great Britain, will family will sustain trouble unless
or until I get redress. You will After other letters had been read touch with the imprisoned man and
the coroner said:
It is clear that this man and gave his hand an encouraging grip Another diver went down and steered the air line clear of a sharp edre inside the caisson.
TRANS-ATLANTIC YACHT RACE.
2,050 MILES TEST. FOR AMATEUR SAILORS,
Newport, Rhode Island, July
Taken to an Institution,
3)
DS your
vitriol. Your haunts are all get women were lovers and agreed to
commit suicide together." at-able."
"There is the position they find themselves in as the rest of their action and there is the fear of public exposure. You cannot have a stronger motive.
start from this pert to-morrow morning. The race is sponsored by receive what you need most- the cruising club of America, in conjunction with the Ocean Rac ing Club, which holds the Fastnet races off England. It is expected that ten or fifteen yachts will start un the 2,950 miles voyage to Ply mouth, England, and the winner should arrive in from three to four works, depending on weather con- ditions. All the contestdats pro. pose to follow the Great Circle
-route,
"
Mr. R. N. Rucker, private secre- tary to the Minister of Health, said that for some reasons Menzies was sent by a relieving officer to a poor law institution and kept under observation for four days and then released.
Definite entries include: Land falla ketch owned by Paul D. Ruat: Seven Seas, schooner, F.L.. Delenlaugh: Amberjack, schoon- The Recorder: Was it anything 4, Paul D. Rust; Mistress, schoon. 'to do with Mr. Greenwood "er, George E. Roosevelt: Dorade,
yawl, Olin J. Stephens; Lord Jim,
Mr. Rucker: Only that Mr.
achconer, Paul Nevin; Lismore, Greenwood was the central autho-
ketch, William Roos Ladrone, rity. schooner, George M Pulver.
Other possible starters include the
"You need not seriously consider the question of murder. Stevenson carried the crippled woman to the river bank, but that was a part of the pact.
lost man.
This was the real danger in the underwater drama. Once the air lino was punctured by the sharp edge Milton, would have been
drowned like a rat.
For hours the riverside drama was watched with breathless an xiety. One of the divers went down with a steel-cutting machine. to try to make a hole through the caisson by means, of which Milton could escape.
"Think of the state of mind they worked themselves into and the shame which had come upon them, All this time the hand pump was and ons is almost bound to sym-kept going. Relief parties took
on
Professor Einstein was present at
the meeting, and declared that physicists must bow to facts when they ara established, and that a certain modification of the general theory of relativity might be need. ed as a result of Dr. Freundlich'a eoneltuions
EIGHT MILE TRACK OF DESTRUCTION,
BIRMINGHAM STREETS
WRECKED.
nathise a great deal with Miss turne supplying Milton with oxygen Birmingham, June 16.-The dam.
Thain. It was a dreadful position. for a crippled woman to find her
self in."
.
The jury returned a verdict of Mr. Arthur Greenwood gave evi-felo de se in both cases. Merry Widow, schooner, owned by dence as to receiving the letters. William McMillan of Baltimore; He had no knowledge of Menzies
The signals. grow fainter, and itago done in Birmingham by yester was not known it be was still alive, day's whirlwind is estimated at Air, however, was still pumped to £100,000. him and the indicators showed it was reaching him.
It was nearly 6 o'clock when the elimax came. Three divers went
This is probably a moderate estimata A tour of the stricken belt showed that hundred of houses and shops were damaged, as well ings
the Carlsark, yawl, Carl Wesgantshaving been sent to a Poor Law THE END OF THE WORLD. down together and fought their as twenty or more factory build-
Maitones II, W. B. Luard, Fa
mouth, England; and flex, owned institution.
by the Royal Engineers.
"If the Minister of Health is not responsible, who is--the butcher, ironmonger, or whom?" exclaimed Menzies, who added that it was a mean trick to take a man to an
The novelty in the race is that it involves small yachts handled by non-professional skippers and, for the most part, by amateur sailors. No compoting yacht may be more asylum. than 72 ft over-all, nor less than 45 ft. The race will sailed on a time allowance basis, since it in volves bcats of varying size and sail areas. The largest yachts have handicaps of as much as several diya,
BAER SUCCUMBS TO -UZCUDUN."
WIN 'ON POINTS AFTER
TWENTY ROUNDS,
Reno, Nevada, July 4-With Jack Dempsey, the former heavy weight champion of the world act ing as the promoter and referee, Paolino Uzoudun, of Spain, to-day. won a decision after rounds of
BIR JAMES JEANS UNCERTAIN
way through the thick clinging med. As fast as they cleared it away the tide silted it up again.
At last Milton was located and a none was tied round him.
A large proportion of the dama ged property was not insured,
Boards and Barriers, Scores of smashed shop fronts and houses are boarded up. There has never boen so much roof-repair
After Menzies had been found book of 'mainly scientific interest. rade seized it, gave, it a hearty work on hand in the city at one
guilty an inspector said that Men- ties in 1913 was arrested for dis orderly conduct. He tried to get an interview with the then Lord Mayor, whom he wanted to deliver
For the first time the Honthorn den Prize has been awarded to a The work chosen is Mr. Geoffrey Dennis's "The End of the World, published by Mesara. Eyre and Spottiswoode
award criticised Mr. Dennis for Sir James Jeans, who made the
Inch by inch he was hauled to the surface and when his bare hand showed) above the water a com- squeeze and shouted "He's alive." His Own Story: Milton afterwards told me the story of his experience :-
"I have been over six hours in
time,
Whole streets have been more or less wrecked.
Barriers have been erected along considerable stretches of pavement, as there is danger of falling tiles 4 letter to the King in order to having devated most of his book utter darkness," he said to me,slates and masonry, and masses of find his relatives.
He was remanded to a mental destruction by a domat.
to the possibility of the earth's and from the moment I was debris are being cleared away.
"A blown through the hole. in the enis- In the Greet area several fac home' and was eventually dischar-comet said Sir James, is the son I was completely lost in the ged as cured.
razy tunatic of space. It is like mud
In February of last year, while a man who runs noc to get his "There was at Rowton House, Camden Town,name into the papera."
his conduct, roused suspicion, and The possibility of the earth's he was removed to an institution, moeting its doom through collision where he remained for four days, with a comet, he suggested, was no and was then released. He had more than 1 in 28,000,000.
written to Lord Byng and Mr. This Year, Next Year- Noville Chamberlain similar letters
to those in the present case,
Dostor Thinks Him! Insane.
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a glorious under tainty about it all and although I know the air line was in danger of being cut against the sharp edge at any moment, things were too exciting to be really frightened.
tories require to be re-roofed. At the Burbury Brick Works damage amounting to £1,000 was dona. Roof timbers, shoot metal work and tree laps were carried distances of
from 20 yards to 100 yards.
At Small Heath Park two
keepers gathered 100 children in the refreshment room and saved them from flying, branches, which hurtled through the air.
Great Gaps.
Narrow escapes' from injury or death are recorded. In a few houses the roofs crashed through bedroom floors. It was impossible for dozens of families to sleep in their bedrooms, as the roofs wore open to the sky,
"I kept on with the signals, not Sir James humorously ridiculed knowing whether they were being Mr. Dennis's embpasis on the pos received or whether the fines were Bibility of the immediate annibila being pulled by the tide. But I
had faith in my, coinrades above. Near the same spot a resident tion of the earth. "The and," he Dr. Grierson, medical officer at said, "may come this year,
and all the time I was getting air' saw a light car lifted up and swept hard and fast fighting, over Max Brixton Prison, said that Menzies year, sometime or never. A scien- from the pump
qway for nearly 50 yards. Baer, the young California heavy was suffering from delusions.
I just lay there helpless in the Great gaps were made in many. tist put his money on 'sometime,
horrible mud which, with the tide, dwellings, sometimes the side or Stadium built for the purpceo by The Recorder: Do you think he Mr. Dennis puts his on this year as such great sucking power I back walls collapsing, weight. The bout, staged in a Dempsey was witness by 17,000 is mad—I do. Ilo zays Lord or next year.
Byng was also reponsible-for-fail-The-Hawthorndon Prize of £100 could not move my body, and I people
The fortunes of the battio were ing to prosecuto Mr. Arthur Green is awarded annually for the best could not tell whether I was on even until the 16th round, when wood for not taking action in the work of imaginative, literature by my head or my heels. My ten was Paolino began to build up a dematter. He has also written to Mr. & writer under 40 years of age. that I was in 'n slanting position, finite advantage and Bear weaken Baldwin and the Lord Chief The committee that awards the with my head lower than my feet
prize consists of Miss Alice War "When I felt a hand touch mine ed. Some roughing was acted at Justice. various times thoughcut the bout The Recorder: Do you really render, Mr. Laurence Binyon, Mr. I know I was saved., I owe my life and there was an abundance of think he means to carry out his Edward Marsh, Mr. J. G. Squire to the heroic divers who fought and Mr. Robert Lyndon for their way to me. I had no ides evidence that there is bad blood threats? I do. between Paoline nad Baer..
Passing sentence, the Recorder Last year" the prite was won by of time, and I was surprised when SWEETRO kosekdowns-in-the-sald hadid, sa in the win's own Lord David Cecil's biography of someone told me I had been ander fight and the boxers, appeared, to interests and in the interests of Cowper Tor Stricker box water 30-long and now I'm
Mr. Geoffrey Dennis is on the going home to my wife.. suffer more, from the beat than they the community. did from each other's blows. I think you pre mad, and so staff of the League of Nations at He hughed when someone, mug. Paolino wen G.$18,000 and Baar does Dr. Grierson, said the Re Geneva. His previous books in beited he should go in the am G.812,000. The attendance fell, acorder and if you are, you will cludo Mary Lee Harvest in buence to the hospital, I'm all
d, and "Declaration of right," he mid; I'm ready to go. Its path varied from 200 yards to little under Dompey's anticipo e sent to Broadmoor for the rest Poland,'
l'a quarter of a mile wide. tions.
of your life or until you recover." Love."
Frog down again.
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Many people slept on the ground floor, and are continuing to do so. The whirlwind appeared to start. at Colebank-road in "Hall Green, and follow the cours of the Cole Valley through Sparkhill, Creet, Small Heath, Bordesley Green, Baitley, and Erdington, a distance of eight miles,
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