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MACAO SWEEP WINNERS
MESSRS. MITCHELL AND LANG
The first prize in the Macao St. Leger sweep, valued at $7,570.2), Was won by Mr. T. A. Mitchell, Manager of Loxley and Co. who shares the prize-winning ticket, No. 6,108, with Mr. Neil Lang. Chief Engineer of the ss. Haining,
REALLY BRIGHT CRICKET!
2,000 A DAY EXPECTED FROM BABE RUTH
GOOGLY ONLY MEANS AMERICAN STUFF "
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well- Mr. Honry McLemore, known American baseball jouron list, sent to watch the Australian ericket town when they were tour ing in the United States, wrote the following report, quuted by the British Taited Press;
Well, I'm rather ashamed of my self, but I finally went to a cricket game. It was in the Broux. Just where it belonged. While I WR there, an English sort of person, A sports writer, said that if I was having difficulty understanding things would write out a words which would tell me wont Mi I give you the words, as follows:-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1932.
INTÈRPORT SOCCER OLD ARTILLERYMAN |
TRIAL MATCH NEXT SUNDAY
The following have been selected to play in an Interport Trial Match versus Royal Navy on the Hong Kong Football Club ground on Sunday, October 23; Kick-off 4 p.in, sharp:-
ANSWERS LAST 'CALL"
WELL-KNOWN RM.A. INSTRUCTOR
EARL'S TRIBUTE TO A FINE SOLDIER
Rodger (Club), Hullane (S.W.B.).
A well-known old artilleryman of Strange (Club), Lam Yuk Ying (C.A.A.), Darker (Lineolus), Tong the Woolwich Garrison has answer. Kwan (8.C.A.A.), Chan Shui Hong,ed his last call, and was laid to Dominy (Club). Howe (Club), rest at Brookwood, Surrey, last,
B.onth. Leonard (St. Jos).. (S.W.B.).
Reserves:--Lan Man (S.C.A.A.), A. Duncan (Club), B. Gonano (St. Jos.), Walker (B.A.).
MAMAK HOCKEY
Duncan
TAMAR BEATEN BY PHOENIX
In the Mamak Hockey Tourna- Phoenix ment yesterday H.M.S. beat HMS Tawar by 3 goals to 2.
For the winners Barrett scare Two goals and Swat one, while Stone scored for Tamar.
HONG KONG POLICE
RESERVE.
New ORDERS BY THE HON. MR
H. KING, LG.P.]
what
XI.
"The Australian cricket opposed a New York West Indian
He was Sergeant-Pensioner James Thomas, of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, al late Quartermaster. Sergeant Gaunery Instructor of the Royal Field Artillery. He was 82 when he died on August 25 and he was buried on the following Tues- day.
Probably the oldest surviving member of the Staff of Instructors of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he had a wide circle of fiende a the Garrison and the town, and his scarlet conted figure with his distinguishing white beard and smart bearing was frequently commended during his week-end visits to friends in Woolwich,
He was much in demand when the Old Brigade " were required for duty at Royal functions, and regimental anniversaries, and his undoubted patriotism and esprit. de-corps was at all times heartily
Treciprocated by all members of the
Chinese Company. Appointment: Lance-Sergeant
regiment.
FREE STATE'S FOURTH ARMY
NEW IRISH NATIONAL GUARD
PROTECTION FOR DE
VALERA
'MYSTERY OF COL.
FAWCETT
GERMAN EXPLORER SAYS HE WAS MURDERED
fact that he had announced no definite goal, probably because he wanted to keep it secret from pos- sible rivals. The two flew over the territory which Fawcett said be I would penetrate, that is, the ter- ritory drained by the Xingu and Tapajor Rivers. They found traçes Berlin, Oct. 7-Added to the of a Fawcett camp. Harding claims various theories already advanced but this, of itself, woul:t have as to the fate of Colonel Ph. Faw-proved nothing. cett in the jungles of Brazil, now The two ayers remained in the The Irish Free State is to have comes a German adventurer and jungle for two months, he says, near soldier of fortune, known under the without encountering a single In yet another army in the future.
pseudonym of "Tex Harding," who dian or any sign that the jungle was claims to have flown over the re-inhabited. Then, accidentally, they chanced upon a fanatical ceremony of the native cult, captured one of the participants, the White Indian girl, and, after a skirmish with the ouraged natives, succeeded in escap. ing. It was these White Indians which Fawcett was seeking, Hard- ing says, as descendants of the lost?
The In- country of "Atlantis."
We have already the "Green,' or Regular Army: the "Red"gion traversed by Colonel Fawcett, Army (the I.R.A.); and Dr. O'Higgins' * White "Army. -
The colour of the new army-wili be a delionte shade of pink.
to have landed among the Indians who, he says, murdered the ex- plorer, and to have brought out as captive a White Indian girl who, he claims, is the only available per
Its spouser is Mr. Frank Aiken, Minister for Defence in the deson who can substantiate his claims Valera Government. Its official of Colonel Fawcett's death. title in to be "The National Harding is now seeking a pub-
LIFE FROM THE STARS
INVISIBLE COSMIC RAYS THAT AFFECT HEREDITY
New York.-The possibility that the stars affect heredity is shown by measurements of cosmic raya which are revealed by two physicists of Denver University.
Many scientists believe these in- visible rays come from the spars. The Denver men, J. O. Stearns and Wilcox Overback, compare them with radium rays and find striking similarities.
Heredity comes into the picture because one of the latest discoveries of science show that radium rays can affect heredity even new species.
creating
The Denver scientists describe
Quard." In theory it is to be a lisher to bring out his book, which dian girl they left on a plantation their experiments in a letter to the kind of volunteer reserve,, in which he says he is offering in order to the young men of the country arcend, once to be trained and drilled.
From Red to Pink,
Mr. Aiken hopes, by this move ment. to get control of the LR.A., and tone down its faring red to a less alarming pink. At the mo- ment he does not trust either the R.A, or the Regular Army over rach. Since he came into office be has been hesitating as to how best he might combine the two under his own control.
The National Guard scheme is the outerme. He hopes, by provid-
ing all the facilities possible for Many Royal Artillery officers who taining and drilling without im have won renown have, o insing the obligations of regular mimerable occasions, enjoyed re. military service, to wean from the enlling incidents of the days when I.A. the young men throughout 18 endets at the Royal Military the country who have heen drifting
XI, at Innisfail Park, New York. R Diam S. K. Chan and Con Academy they came nader Ser. into the ranks of the extremist or
to day, and, led by the devastating sinble R48 Yu Man Cho have been bowling of the only left-handed googly exponent in the world, Leslie O Brien Fleetwood-Smith, dismissed the home sido for a total of 152 runs."
promoted to the rank of Crown Sergeant and Lance Sergeant, as from October 17, 1922, respectively. Training Course-Part II-AIL recruits will attend at the Chinese Folks, I saw that. But don't ask Company's Headquarters on Tues me to explain. I arrived about anday, October 18, at 5.30 p.m., for hour after the match started, while the players were sut la lunch,
Thought It Was Over.
instruction.
Revolver
Practice: Revolver
geant-Instructor J. Thomas,
A Proud Moment.
ganisation.
With the Pink Army at his disposal, Mr. Aiken believes that he will be able to make the Gov.
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One of his proudest achievements was to he chosen as representative crnment secure against any threats of past Artillery-mea to assist to its existence from either the General Lord Horne to the unveil." Reds" or the "Whites."
The "Reds" are certain to see ing of the Royal Artillery war
through their game, and take active memorial at Hyde Park Corner.
A member of the famous 71st steps to prevent any lapses from Broken Wheel) Battery, at Tel-el- their ranks. Nobody who has any the Kennedy Road Range on insisted on his spending a holiday the least likely to have anything to Wednesday, October 19, at 5.30 p.m.with them every summer since their do with Mr. Aiken's "Pinks." under S.I. Hopkins. All members return to England. who have been detailed will assemi- ble at the Range at that time.
practice will be carried out by
The West Indinus, who went out members of the Chinese Compuy Kobir, his old battery have always sympathy with the "Whites" is in
to bat first, were leading 152 run
to nothing. Figuring that with one team 182 runs ahead the game was as good as over, I was just ready to leave when my English friend found me.
"Don't go," he said. "The Aus tralians haven't come to bat yet. They'll make 12 runs in half an hour."
Training Course-Part 1.:-All
recruits of the Chinese Company will attend Central Police Station for Squad Drill on Thursday, Oct.
Half an hour, hell! They made 152 runs i 15 minutes. They made 20, 1 5.30 p.m. runs so fast the boys who kept the scoreboard quit putting them up one at a time, and started hanging them up in tens-20, 30, 40 and so on.
uniform and cap with white cover,
Indian Company. Inspection Parade:All ranks of
Major the Hon. Earl Denbigh, K.C.V.U., in sending condolence to Gibbona (née · Thomas), Mrs. wrote:He was a fine old soldier and I was very glad to and him again a few years ago.
Donamon Castle, near Roscom mon, belonging to Mr. St. George Caulfield, which had been in the cupation of 200 members of the IR.A. sinc: Sunday, has been evacuated. It is not likely that 1.shall be unable to bo present
Mr. de Valera's Government will at his funeral, but please accept
pay astion regarding this Dress: Whitethe few flowers as a tribute from take
the (Broken challenge to their, authority, the surviving officer Wheel Battery), Tel-el-Kebir."
An outstanding instance of bów in Enlisting at Bristol 1908,
Thomas
Bay Completely Mr. de Valera is under the thumb of the extremists was Sergeant-Pensioner
in India and Egypt (Khedive medal and star),
He provided at Kilrush. District Court, when, in obedlease to the orders of the 1.R.A., charges against completed twenty-one years ser- vice and retired to pension, and was for sometime a shoemaker at George Gilmore, the I.R.A., lender, and two of his subordinates, named Royal Artillery Barracks, wa
On the death of his Ryan and Lowr, were withdrawn by
the Government. They were charg wife in 1910, he went to Chelsen od with the attempted murder of Hospital as a pensioner.
During the Great War he did two detectives and with conspiracy lo murder. Counsel Ranounced that some magnificent recruiting work, the charges would be withdrawn and also fulfilled small parts in im
and an inquiry set up into the de- portant propaganda films, such as
Every Mothers Son," and others, tien of the police.
service
All these runs, mind you despite the Indian Company will parade the fact that there are nine ways in which a batsman may be retired. Central Police Station on Thurs He may be stumped, caught, run day, October 27, for a general in -out, bowled, Jog-before-wicket, ob- struction, hit wicket, handling ballpection of equipment, etc.. by the
Woolwich, Company Commander. in play, hit ball twice.
The batsman, however, gets his 5.0 p.m. sharp. share of the breaks. When he hits
Fali in at Dream: White
a ball he doesn't have to run. Juniform, cap with white cover,
Those not
in
he sees that one of the fielders is belt, Arancheon, whistle, and arm- going to get it he just stands still let with badge. and it doesn't count. Not until he possession of uniform will attend
in mufti. No members may be exhibiting as truch zeal as an am. absent from this parade without.bitious recruit."
smacks it over the fielders' heads or through their lega, does he ran.
Evan Three Thousand.
There were two fences surround
ing the field, a low one and a high
leave from the Company Com- mander.
The Equipment Offer TRAM DRIVER'S TERRIBLE e. A ball that, struck or clear-will make it a point of being pre-
ed the little fenes was good for four sent. Recruits will attend. runs; a poke that cleared the big
feneo was good for six TUBE. figure that Babe Ruth, on
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Flying Squad.
CHOICE
Fresh acts of terrorism have oc- curred in Dublin. Parties of I.R.A. men have visited various cinemas and warned the managers against showing films of merabera of the Royal Family or any, other "Bri tish propaganda.***
A police sergeant was fired at by three men at Clondalkin, near The the city, but was not hit.
Training Course-Part II.:-A!! RUNS OVER MOTHER TO SAVE ilante esaped. members who have not passed part
a good afternoon, would be good for two or three thousand runs,
The fielders are known by very│11. of Training Course should at fetching names, such as square-legend at the Chinese Company's mid-on, mid-off, slips, long stop, Headquarters, 17, Queen's Road and gully.
Cricketers are very poor un field Central, on Tuesday, October 18, ing, if yesterday's match was Any 1939. criterion. They missed pop tigs that an outfielder in the three-eye league would get in his hip pocket, and muffed grounders that any bush league shortstop would have hand led blind-folder.
PASSENGERS.
Tokyo. The Mainichi reports a extraordinary story of the driver of tramear endangering the life of his mother in an attempt to save the lives of the passengers of his car.
Bilobi Kancko, a driver in the Hemploy of the Chichibu Railway in the town of Minano, Saitama Pre- fecture, was driving an electric car over a railway bridge, when he noticed two women walking on the bridge before the car. One of these women he recognised as his mother,
Emergency Unit Reserva. Strength:--Constables 43 L Moorman and R451 A. H. Stedman have been taken on the strength of the Emergency Unit Reserve as from October 7, 1032-
Equipment: All members of the
t
A policeman who held up a motorist for having no lights Howth-road, Dublin, was threaten. ed with a revolver: The policeman grappled with and disarmed the man, who was arrested.
SNAKE CHARMER KILLED
BITTEN BY ONE OF HIS PET COBRAS.
A Serious Offence.......
Another snake charmer has lost Ob, you, I forgot to tell you.. If| the batter swings and misses one Unit who have not received their but when he noticed them the dis and the catcher lets the ball get equipment cards are to apply to tance was so short that there was a his life through being bitten by a by him and roll to the boundary, the Equipment Officer for sume atanger of the sudden stopping of pot sake, says the Jangkok Times. possibly a fall of the car into the been bitten many times betere, it's four runs. Tour runs on nonce. No member will be supplied the car entailing a derailment and He was a wealthy man and had- with any equipment from Police river below, His care for the lives until his wife had a firm belief in "strike."
"Googly," which the Australian Store without producing this card
Defendu:-The weekly defendu of the phasengers outweighed his his ability to treat himself in his bowler had plenty of is just an
This time the treatment did not class will meet in the gymnasiumconsideration for the life of his own way. athen word-fon ** stuff,!!
And when a batsman in bowled at Central Police Station-on Fri-mother, and he allowed his car to for a duck" it simply means he day, October 1, a 30-Mem), on, with the inevitable-raault bring relief, and the man died be
struck out without getting a run. bers from other reserve Units are You can realise what serious cordially invited
(Bgd.) D. L. KING, offence this is when I tell you that
D.B.P. (E.) even when a guy gets 20 or 30 runs
Hong Kong, October 17, 1932.
in one time at bat, he's only hit-f
ting about ,071.
of serious injuries to both women fore-a-doctor could be summoned. His mother was flung into the river The snake that bit him, was a pet sixty feet below, and the other cobra which he had brought up, woman was run over, her left leg being some two years old. Presum being cut off. Both are in a critical, ably had not been bitten by a cobra
J:before. "condition.
for all, the futile ex-
near Cuyaba, says Harding, where she has been adopted by the wife of the owner. Both kept this phase peditions which from time to time of their expedition secret, he ex have been organised to seek out
plained, since they would have been Colonel Fawcett, and which he pro-xubject to fines by the Brazilian inises will contain the conclusive Government if it had become known proofs of his story.
that they had kidnapped an Indian. Harding is well known in Brazil The girl will be able to substantiato where he lived until 1929 by hunt-his story that Fawcett and the ing sanke specimens and capturing members of his party are dead, he wild animals for exhibition. Prior claims, and thus avoid the risk of to that, he completed a 21,000 kilo- father lives in a fruitless search. metre horsebalk ride from Mexico Harding says the lack of news from to Brazil.the Rettin expedition in search of City over He lived for a time in French Fawcett, which is now overdue, in Guiana, and returned, two years fluenced him in telling about the ago, to Germany. He is now living Indian girl, whom he had hoped to save from the confusion of official and scientific questioning.
in Berlin.
in 1929,
the Andes
Harding says that he undertook the search for clues to Colonel Fawcett's expedition as a sporting The two, flying an all. proposition with Lieut. Will Bornes metal Curtias monoplane Aying boat, set out with only a copy of the old 18th century Jesu map which Colonel Fawcett had used. over the inner jungles.
United Press.
emanating from earth.
Physical Review. They shielded two-tenths of a milligram of radium about as much as the point of a pin-within a covering of lead, a centimetro thick.
About six feet away, they set up a sensitive meter capable of record.
ing both the faint radium raya filtering through the lead and the conic rays coming from the sky.
With the radium at this fixed the distance, they found that cosmic ray effects were constantly equal to about one-third of the radium rays in the power of ionisa- tion.
Ionisation is the break-up of an atom. It is also the way in which radium rays are believed to have created new species recently in
laboratorios, In the species- building the ionisation broke up the atome composing the genes, tiny Tiving units which control heredity.
Dr. Arthur H. Campton of the Bcieutists have speculated, how University of Chiengo, now conduct- ever, as to whether there may have ing a world-wide series of testa, been periods in the remote past finds about 18 per cent, more cosmic when cosmic rays felt more thickly. rays in temperate than in tropie science Bath this speculation and the poszones. But nowhere has sibility that long ago there was found enough cosmic rays to be a more radium have been pointed out really big factor in heredity. They as interesting guesses upon the are fewer than the radium raya He says it was clear from the be origins of new species of animals naturally in the air and much less ginning that Fawcett had greatly and plants many millions of year than the radium rays everywhere. (Continued on Previous Column, multiplied. their difficulties by the ago.
Camp Traces.
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY'S DAILY WEATHER
STAT ON
Wladivostock. Nemuro Hakodate
Takio Kochi Nagasaki Kagoshima- Oshima Naba Ishigakijima... Bonin Inland ... Cheloo Shanghai Gutzlaff...... Wenchow....in Foochow
Amoy .... Bwatow Taiboku....... Taichu Tainan...dio
Koshun Pescadores ...... Hong Kong Gap Bock ...... Macao Heihow............es Pratas Island.. Phulien
Поко Кста
STANDARD
REPORT.
OCTOBER 17, 1932.
WxD
OCTOBER 16, 1982.
BAROMETER
Bio
WIED
AT SEA LEVEL
'A2 8ZA LEYES
Inche
Mill
JAPIENIĄ
Inche
Millis.
EXPIRESTA
CRIKVERINEJ
99.94 7611,5 30.02 762,4 52 30.08 764.8 59 80.12) 785.0 87
7 ENE 7 ENE
80.08 784.0
SE
29.98 761.5
ESE
29.86 758.5
E
29.76 78.0
ESR
29,76 756.0
NNW
29.821 787.5
NW
#
29.84 758.0
NNW
80,00 762.0
BW
29,95 741.5
WNW
80.02 262:5
29.98 781.0
NNW 1
30.04 783.0
NW
**
29.98 761.5
N
8
30.02 782.5
BAE
29.99 781.5
'NNE
а
80.02 762.5
NE
29.98.761.5
NE
-89.081-761.5
NE
29.84 758.0
SSW
L
29.98 760.1 68
NE
NNW
A
14
80.08 768.4 77
BE
80.11 784.7 76
6
N
8
SE
80.03 767.7 72 29.99 71.7 80.00 762.0 30.01 762.2 79 29.93 760.325 29.91 759.6 85 89.90 759.5 1 29.08 780.2 81 29.90 769.4 79 49.90 759.4 79 29.89 759.8 85 29.89 759.2 as 29.87 788.681 80.88 759,081 29.76 755876.
6
30.04 768.0 70 30.03 762.7 70
6 KNW
2 b
6NNE
2
NE
ENE
29.98 761.5 70
E
29,98 700.6 70
**
NNE
99.96 760.8 72
0
b
NE
29.91 759.6 76
NE 4
NNE
& B 7
ENE
6
SE'
29,92 760.0) 74 29.93,780.2 74 29.91 759.7 78 99.90 759.874
NNE
ENE
E
***
NE
29.89 789.1 79
NE
8BE
99,90 759.6 73
NE
NNE
29.78 758.8) 79.
E
141
29.81 757.2 77
.4
·
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29.76 7869.85
6 ENE
99.24 758.0) 76
JE
<t
8 29.74 7555 86
N
*
Vigan ... Maxila Lagasp! Calboroy
29.78 755.2 88
*
W
***
1
49.78.755.9 88
8
NE
29.82 757.3
Troletur. Illo Coebu
29.72755.0 91 29.72 7660 88 29.73 765.8 88
8
NEW
29.80 766.81 79
6 83W
9 SSE
29,70 764.4 91
29.70 754.4 88
NE ENE
29.80 756.B 79
Surigao Baipan Gusm
29.71 754.688
$
***
29.90 769.4.80
447
E
Tap. Palsw Labuan
E SM
29.86 78.8 70
29.82-757.3 79
6 8W
19.89 769.1 72
Warnings
Fourane ......... Cape St. James..
Beaco Sparri Taguegarao
11,
12,22 29.74 755.8 11.00 29.78 754.8
(420,85 758.8 85
*+4
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September 10d. 18. 15m.-Typhoon within 60 miles of Lat. 14° N. Long. 110° E., moving W.N.W, October 17d. 104. 10m.-The anticyclone remains over N. China, and a depression is crossing central Japan. "The typhoon hau probably entered the const of Indo-China in about Latitude 14o N.
Hong Kong minfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 9.00 inch.. Total since January 1, 87.52, inches, against an average of 70,84 inches.
-FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON ON OCTOBER 18:
Distance A-Shanghai to Turnabout -B.-Turnabout to Hong Kong
0.-Hong Kong to Osp Rookvi D-Hong Kong to Hainka Birate
Korth China fes"
Ростает
N.E. winds, modorate.
N.E. winda, freaks; fine.
W. JEFFRIES, Eirector.
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