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SPEY ROYAL CUP GAME ON SUNDAY,
The Spey Royal Cup lawn bowls match between Club de Reerelo and-Craigengower, which was re- cently postponed owing to bad ther, has now been fixed to take placa on the Kowloon C.C. ground Fa next Sunday at 3.30 p.m. Teams nto as follows:-key g
Club de Recreio-CE. Marques, LG A. Souss, C. G. Silva and R.
Luz (Skip). Craigongower:G, Buchanan, Base, E. of Arculli and U.M. Omar.(Skip).
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DACOITY IN INDIA.
MODERN ROBIN HOODS:
COVERT POPULARITY
CULTIVATED,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931.
CRIME WAVE IN UNITED STATES.
MASS MEETING AT NEW YORK.
DENUNCIATION OF WOWAUTHORITIES.
900 PLANES IN MANEUVRES.
GREAT TT WIN FOR THE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE YOUR MONEY
BRITISH MIDGET.
SECRET TESTS FOR ITALIAN FORCE
MEETING INVASION.
Roma, gut --Nine hundred fying nhchines Brith Italian Air
evur in
open Arial manœuvres on an un-
New York, August 26. One of Fors are awaiting the signal to the greatest mass-mee held in New York
Madison Gardens last night to organise a public drive against crime and gang rule.
With this “Président Hobyor” frat of the Dollar Steamshing Länos DAY OF RECORDS ON ARDS eight million dollar liner nat nearing Hong Kong, the President. CIRCUIT.
Coolidge second of the pair, létt þ Newport News shipyard on the morning of September 10 for her trial trip. The President Cobligs
THRILLÁNÓ DURLS AT
80 M.P.H.
CATTLE
YOUR
WHAT THE SOVIET CALLS ASSELETAX,
Boscow new so-called Ser-
has been put through her paces for Tax for cultural ads, str two daya and then returned to the the Kulak (rich peasants) to yard for anal touches before being tube of 100 per cent, of their turned over to the Dollar Eteamship,
Lines. She is due to loave New come-tax assessment.
Other fadividual pensanta have to
-NORMAN BLACK, M.G. Midget. precedented trale and on a novel, bar. 13min. Sless. Average Tork on Outober 16th for the People principle, as soon as thote perd, 028 m.p.hrain Ahlis forber pay froth 0% to 100%, and even
chit, Al-Romeo Captain A
commander of the President Talt those too destitute to pay income- and who commanded the President R
is an improvement in the weather-
The Italian general staff Believe that the outbreak of the next warph 17min. 3sec., 79.05 m.p.h. will be signalised by an immediate 3-S A CRABTRES, MG Midget; mass Invasion by zir
6hr 17min. Bacc; 07.02 m.ph/i For the first time since 1928. British car and a British driver have won the great International Tourist Trophy race on the Ards Offcuit, near Belicet.
Dacoity is a crime peculiar to the Indian Penal Code, which defines it a organised brigandage by bands which are associated for the pur pose; and as it is only Bossible under the special conditions of Indian life, so it refrets them in s way that may help to interpret them to mon of purely Weston ideas writes Major A. W. Howlett. The gathering denounced the We have nothing quite like it in Prohibition Law as the main cause General Balbo, the Air Minister, the West till we come to Chicago, of civic corruption and the failure maintains that the best defence, is not be anti-aircraft guns; but by where the lack of corporate moral of the police, and appointed a opposing air fests. The pending courage makes the reign of the gun committee of eventy to devise/maneuvres are based on these con- man possible, But we had it in programinn of reform, which it is captions and have, therefore, a now character strategically and tactic-
- Although an Alfa-Romeo, pride ally independent of the army and Eughad in the days of Robin Hood expected other cities will copy.
Tea, speakers, representing State, navy
of Italy, maintained higher and the old Border freebooters; and it is not at all exaggerating to city, and county, deplored the The whole of the local network average speed for the whole 400
of the Italian telephones, tele suggest that so far as the country- reign of the racketeers, who have graphs, and wireless system has, miks than the best ever recorded side life of India goes, its state to invaded every nook and cranny of however been lent to the air forces previously for a single lap, Norwanh day bears some resemblance to that the country: Before them the The exercise will cover the sky Black, driving the Earl
STAR Fibove the Tina Gonon-Venice, aud of our own land five or six cen- police are powerless in the big Civitavecla-Rimini. Including ex- M.G. Midget, passed the post amin. turies ago,
Coîties because of the unholy alli-tremely difficult and dangerous Ap-128c., or four miles, ahead You may travel days and days busily
Record after record was broken, Boross the great plains of Indis, tee of the local governing bodies penine ranges."
Budden Altack, and among the many thrills ex- plains that are like the ocean for with corrupt, bosses financed by
The scheme is that a strong airporisnted by the huge crowd which Ovastness and seeming illimitability, graft derived from "speakersIOS.
invasion suddenly develops from the saw one of the fastest racca eyor plains where great river meander The police were not blamed speci-cass, while the national forces are siseh on the rond, were villages lo strewn like archipelagos, fically, because they are the ap distributed on general frontier dog than Howe and you, will not fool monotony, pointees of Maybre and local
fedoen. While histohing to meet Hofiry Birkin and Earl For, in spite of their flatness, they
the enemy another country invades bbat the Italian cracks, the former, from a standing start, are marvellously diversified not only politicians, who set the pace for from the west, and the national
averaging 77.39 mp.h. force re-concentrates, and defends by these same villages but by great them..
“A stern quel of many hours he- groves of trees and barren spaces in
by attacking all comers over the
Iween Birkin and Campari among the felda, where low, aquat
line of the Appeaines.
A spectacular effort by tho bushice dot the dusty earth and
Italian reservo driver to catch ve shelter from the sun, with their
the M.G. Midget leathery leaves and flaunting red trumpet petals, to the jackals and peafowl. Hero and there spread out wide_jheels, neres and acres of
London, September 16. The following were the results of football matches played to-day
Division I.
Grimsby ................... 2 Bolton ... 0 Division III.. (North),"
Rochdale 1-
Stockport Scottish Leaguə.......... Ranger 4 Aberdeen
WHY A GIRL WON
PROMOTION.
QUESTIONS SHE-
ANSWERED.
Three hundred and twenty-four women competed against 500 men at the recent Civil Service examine tion for 50 valuable excentive post carrying salary prospects with bonus up to nearly £1,000 a year.
A girl of 19 from East London College headed the list with 14 marks more than her nearest rival
a men.
"
Here are some of the questions
which were set to the candidates:
like marine currents, and where
Tammany Hall was not even mentioned. But machine govern ment in American cities is sym- bolised by that extraordinary or ganisation of the Democratic party.
The enemies outnumber the national, force, and try to obliterate Spain, will a raid of 350 planes, in waves, 50 strong. DAN
From these principal exercises The former Secretary of secondary actions will be develop ready, shallow pools where the State was cheered to the echo whened on the initiative of the opposing commandere according to the fluc- white paddy birds peek in the mud and countless duck resort in the ho said: "The police can halt taation of the conflict cold weather. The banks of the crime. Who is stopping them ?' rivers are like the-shores of oceanic estuaries, albeit they may be fitoon. hundred miles from the sex with beaches and cliflets of mud and sand and fringes of small shells And on the broken banks, half
"Oftitans to Blame." General Smedley Buttet the stormy petrel of the United States Marines, who has been Police Com missioner of Philadelphia, where
The forces ready to be engaged include 286 pursuit aeroplanes, 48 pursuit seaplanes, 48 zsault planes, 120 night bombers, and 123 day bombers, and 76 bomber sea- planes, tag
Harrison on the initial trip of that tax must pay from six to ten vessel on the round the world, sur, roubles Members of collective vice, is now at Newport News to farms having some private property take command of the President
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Coolidge Chief Engineer William, PA from six to 18 roubles por Dugan has been in the shipyards family, but those surrendering since oarly in the construction of everything to the colle the President Coolidge Mr. Dagan
spent considerable time at the plant pay nothing.
of the Westinghouse Company at A new drive has begun to make
Pennsylvania observing the burg palenia poncis partly collectivised peasants com tors and other mechanical adjuncts munise themselves completely. of the huge, ship. Boty movement to surrender
battle to the collbative Farms" "Fas inaugurated by a big group none Samata voting by solution to do this da
1of March's de
Victor Gillow, the spectacular. Riley driver, had the worst luck, Taking the very first corner a brake seized; andeks overturned out of
"All able-bodied pekannta from 1s the race 300 yards from the start.
Danish to 45 years of age are now o Widengren, young amateur who has been racing Belled to work at days dabully Maseratie in England, and was without pay, and to provide Hong in this race as part of his draught Anituais on roud. honeymoon, charged a sandbank st Newtownards, and hind to dig a The infrin must pay à tat in Hou car out. In Comber Village the hig of work. Mercedes hit one of the Midgets. The Midget went on, but the giant limped into the pite and retired.
Lawis Taibok was the only ear that mover stopped from Sagfall to finish, and it was typical of this A small unofficial stand with tremendous race fat bis average sixty people on it collapsed near the of 77:13 m.ph. was a much higher starting place, and women and speed than that of Caracciola's children were thrown to the winning Metodes in 1929, ground. Four were taken to hos-could only hish fourth pital.
Alfa-Romeos Well Beaten, British cars gained a great triumph for they secured four out of the first five places. 9. A. Grab- tres, driving a Midget, would have boca second, but he was caught unawares in the last fifty yards
Standilind mostly font thể diệ couraged Campari on the post for fifth place, and the thres Rileys-book- the team prize with the Austink second fac
hidden by ereeper, lie countless old the Republican "machine" con will be made with 20 machines atted when the Italian Borzacchini shot mobile Club, mid that he only wish
temples, ruinous and cold, glooming through their matted jungle growths Describe the morphology of the and haunted by cobras and panthers tadpole at the stage when it and the wild tribes of monkey folk, nearly resembles a fish, Indicate the nential points of similarity and "of difference.
Discuss the phases of growth and the ultimate fate of a healthy plant in, a pot of moist earth if it is placed under an air-tight ball jar and kept in a light place.
In what rospects has the British Broadcasting Company advanced, and in what respecta may it be sug. gested that it has injured, the cause of music in this country 1
Limericks.
Task of the Pollos
trols the city, said quite frankly
"Amriecan citizchs are to blame.
In addition, special experiments with new appliances for reconnais sance, and 13 machines for trying new aerial torpedo. work.
Their votes can clean up the city they vote for clean government & paly 10 or 12 feet will be made with in twenty-four hours Why don't
Low flying tests at a height of police force and à city's adminis single seater Ansaldo 03 chasers, This is no more fancy picture hit tration are just as good the atted with front and flank machine- is true of thousands of miles, and it men who boss them Gangsters guns and Asphyxiating gas tanks. may be imagined that in such i exist because the public officials
Attention will also be given to wilderness there is ample lurking have betrayed their trust the mobilisation of 60 tourist planes room for those who adopt the band Twenty thousand cheering citi-as part of the 153 inessenger and
contact machines; it's life, whilst the task of the zon crowded the great hol!. palies is little likely to be realiae Twenty thousand more clamcured by those who dwell in the bon for admission outside. By means contrated populations of Europe of a national radio book up the As if that is not enough, speeches were heard by invisible hugest mountains in the world, of 1 millions throughout the country. Two mothers of babies blais in ns to all their lower slopen with dark jungle that only the wild the recent street shootings were elephant and the tiger can know,
on the platformok yet affording an almost inviolable sanctuary to those of the human race who can brave for a space the malaria.heir wild boasts and
boundarice of this terrain are the
Describe, with illustrations, the characteristic features of the limo rick and account for its popularity, Show how a mammal" which you havo studied fe.g., rabbio or rai) is adapted to its environment, terror of
Expound any one case of simple Mendelian inheritance in plants.
Explain how, your muscular and nervous systems will enable you to write the answore to this examina
tion.
Gangsters and racketoors wafa. denounced as sata, permini, hu man scum, and cowards, compar
100 Arrests in New York. Moanwhile, the police last night organised a "drive" isgainst the lawless elements, which resulted In over 100 arrests, The prisoMUTA Unluckily there is another handiare charged with various offences "cáp to the forces of law and order..
There are so many native Staten, lary, and will be brought before ranging from vagrancy to burg- ranging from mighty province like the magistrates in due cours Hyderabad to tiny principalities What period of chemical activity the size of Rutlandshire, in which do you associate with the names of the British law fails; and as they Priestley, Lavoisier, Davy, Schools all march with British territory it Name some of the achievements for is easy for miscreants to cross the which ench of these men is famous, boundary, probably some small What is gas tar, and how is it "stream, and set the British Raj at obtained Describa briefly how, you defiance since the processon of ex- would propare from it specimens of tradition and difcalties of execut- benzene and phenolding them are no laborious and cost-
From what sources is acetic acid ly as to be seldom worth while. ́obtained and what are its'more inię);
portant practical applicationa1
You are given a small piece of iron and you are asked to investi. gats its magnetic properties. Des »cibe your precedure, ak
Discuss the evidence in support of the statement that sound is pro pagated as a ware motion in
with whom the pirates, bandits, and Robin Hoods of old were men with charming and chivalrous, manners"
of a
Indian life come to light. Yet there is hardly one of them but, ✨✨À Tygkal Gang.
adequately and sympathetion:ly It will be seen that the Indian presented, would make the fortune film artist In. the West. Event Robin Hood has everything in hit the love, interest is there for all favour and, like the Robin Hood too often (from their point of of tradition, be cultivates a covert view) the secrets of the gang are popularity among the villagers of betrayed by some Dellish among his area by making a great show the dancing girls the bazaar of
and of robbing rich hunnias
the nearest city whoan lure the money-lenders and giving to the robber with his easy spoils finds it poor. Thorn is, of course, always impossible to resist
recognised leader, And he lays his plans with great cunning, often for months ahead. One suca I knew who had lost a hand How exactly would you proceed through the bursting of a home in order to determine the average! made pistol, and he seemed to have
mattor.
Can you offer any explanation of the shifting of rubbar production from Brazil to Malaya and the East Indies?
The Try This One.
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Cheap Pistols, But usually the dacoit goes the primrose path; with great equani- mity, confident in the passivity nad want of public spirit of his victims.
The manœuvres will last eight days, and it is calculated that in that period the post of fuel alone will exceed £24,000. Foreign Air Attaches and observers have been invited to witness only the closing graud aerial paradd over Epezia.
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Yokohama
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MR. CHICHESTER. NOW
RECOVERED
STAYING AT KOBE BEFORE LEAVING FOR LONDON,
1989 Rare In Doubt,
followed the TL race, Col. F Speaking at a banquet which Lindsay Lloyd, of the Royal Auto past into second place. Even so, hin ere, bis there and then to the all-conquering Alfa-Romeos were accept the invitation of the Govern soundly beatad
face the question as to whether He was afraid they would have to mont to return to later next year..
racing would be possible at all next year. idaces menar
10 à fox more strenuous contest and Norman Black repeated, though with a less favourable handicap his victory on a similar
of
In the Irida Grand Prix of Dublin Tast June. The Midgots supercharged for the first time in a long race, were known to le amazingly fast for their size, but it was not thought they could last if they set a speed to challenge the Alfaa seriously
For the Italian team the race wis a series of maddening disappoint- ments.
- Vain Appeal to Stewards,
First came the staggering blow of "the loss of their champion on his second lap. In conference fore the race Nuvolari elected to drive car No 7 though the rest wanterl him to take No "8. "No. 7 why in trouble from the start, ended the first lap 200 yards behind Bir Henry Birkin, dud seizód a piston on the
econdit
The team manager appealed to the stewards for leave to transfor Nuvolari to No. 8, Boriacchini's car but that way contrary to the rulis, Campari then became the team fender. He and Bitz · Hänty Birkin had a great duel for Baveral hours, in the heat of which the necessity of catching the Midgets was apparently overlooked,
Then de the last resort Horzac- chini, eitherto lying in reserve;", Wad Cold to go all out He had the fastest of the three cars, and, though the least experienced of thi teamy had done one. marvellous lap. in Tomin, Base, the focord in this
[day of recordent was
Aanishing spurt trendndous, but it was too late. To ratch Black the Italian had to lap in 10min. sec. and Average 81 miles an hour for over fifty milos. Lap after lap he did in 10min: Osec. and 10min. 10ses.
TM Drop Into Field, The drama of that foish was only equalled by the thrill of the first
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Weight of rain water which falls treated with the veneration of a His arms are clem into their Osaka, September 11-The New Jay when, to the intense delight of on the Thames catchment arealacky general by the other men- usually get a blacksmith
Discuss the "geographical factors hers of his gang. There were some company and be makes his own Zealand aviator Mr. F. U. Chichenthe crowded stand, it was seen that concerned in the evolution of any eighty of them, and the long tale powder and slugs and patakas,ter, who crashed badly at Katsuura Birkin and Lord Howe were well two of the following Hamburg, of their tracking down by the small bombs which explode on being | some weeks ago, has now practically ahead of the Italian cracks. · Lord Genoa Singapore, Hankow Chi-polies, the stories of their raids, thrown down. With these and recovered from his injuries cago, Rosario,
the plans they laid, the prelimin smouldering torches his creeps une arrived here this morning by Howe was caught by Campari, but Sketch the temper of either Fope ary spy work, the secrecy of their to the sleeping village on the plain, steamer from Shingu, where ha last until the fifth lap, and im or Dr. Johnson, as a friend and us private lives in their villages and, when all the band is round it been recuperating, and proceeded mediately afterwards, descending
foe
between the summonses of charges in with appalling shouts to Kobe He will stay in Kobe for Bradshaw's Brae too fast, he shot The Protestant Reformation of their leader, their deeds of tor and explosions. The thatch is fired, some time before leaving for off the rond, through shedge, and the sixteenth century was the great rorisation and bullying, made and in the light of the blazing huls London Ento a potato fields a 7ft. drop.
Driving ever faster and faster, est dissolvent of European conser great book more enthralling than the villagers dash out poll-mell to Mr. Chichester set out from Aus Birkin was gradually catching up
Atiam." Elucidate, with examples any fiction as it appeared in the hide in the crops and undergrowth: tralia in an endeavour to Bigsto
It was worthwhile to pass the judgment of the special judge ap- Was betide the fat bunnis who England by a very unusual route the leading fidgets on handicap, Parliament Act (1911) if only to pointed to try the case. But the lingers too long to hide his board, which included Japan find Green with Cathpari about a minute he
hind him. demonstrate the necessity of decolt does not always have things Rags soaked in parafin are wrap land in the itinerary. Next, lop saw a furious struggle
The enterprise came to grief when Sowerful second chamber to a demo all his own way and it occasional-ped round bis podgy hats and then cratio State desirous of intelligently happens that the village gets lighted to make him disgorge and his plaze came into contact with between the Englishmann and the Government. Discusa,
warning and puts up a fight. Many at the same time; not seldom, pay a telephone wire at Katsuura and Italian. Both for once made glips, The Continental System was a tiny battle bloody as any off the grudges of years of subtle Mr Chichester, who was pinned and Birkin's put him out of the like pasumatic trrd if it was waged on those far-flung plains financial jugglery. The village underneath the machine narrowly rack He hit the wall of sandbags at Comber and thôngh able to cat- punctured in one place it was 120 and is never hoard of in the great plundered and fired and many out escaped with his life. NE METRO tipus tie vaar, was crippled. Cam
Shortly after the accidentia less" Discuss
outer world. It is only in the rages committed partly out of The qualigus set at this examine daily routing of the magistrate a savagery, partly to inculcate terror declared his intention of making pari also misjudged his cheed at a tion are framed to suit the higher cours and in the geols that these amongst other villages the band another attempt at the Australia turn, hut he found an oscope road
and went "with the loss ofcharaRMEN secondary education of the country things which are commonplaces of breaks up and all soak their secret England flight rid the Gay Enecod or two NA WESTERN and the standard of the best of the Dentinued at foot of een haunts till a call from their lender but nothing has yet been Girls Public Schools.
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