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FIRST ROUND.
L. B. Holmes (15) heat E. Thomp son, 4 and 3.
W. J. Waddington (17) beat Pay- Comdr. G. N. Tetley, up.
E, P. White (15) brat S. A, Sirag, (10), 3 and 2.
A. G. Urgell (17) beat J. D. Kinard (11), 3 and 4.
N. K. Littlejohn (12) beat J.
Purvis (18).
RAIN, THE SPOIL· SPORT
OPENING OF TENNIS -SEASON WASHED OUT
History repeated itself yesterday when the rain upset all arrange- weeks ahead--in ments-planned regard to the official opening of the 1933 Leagno Tennis season.
The match between these old rivals, Indian ILC. and their neigh- hom. Chinese R.C., promised o These be a very koon struggle,
clubs houst some very fine talent,
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EXHIBITION AT HÄNGCHOW
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HANICHOW, May 16. The Native Goods Exhibition and
a "Buy Chinese" Movement were simultaneously launched here yes terday. The Exhibition will be Large crowds on the first day open for 3 weeks flocked to the Exhibition where na tiva products are being sold at re-
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
DEVELOPMENT
(BY A SHIP'S PURSER.)
CHANNEL CROSSED ON SURF-BOARD
TOWED BY SPEED-BOAT
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Dover, Sunday, Capt. D'Arby Butherford, of Gloucester House, Park-lane, London, crosed the Chan- ; net from Dover to Calais on a surf
There is a legend of the ser which, like the old tale of the seaboard yesterday in the 40min.
Whem he returned to Dover by Birkenhead-At the invitation serpent, receives, new life from of the chairman (Mr. R. D. Holt) time to time. It might be called boat he said that he was disappoint members of the Mersey Docks and the myth of the £1,000-a year ship's Harbour Board a large party of steward. guests inspected the new Bidston
To passengers, especialy those Dock at Birkenhead. It is a wo drawn by the innovation of the
not to have made the crossing
W. A, Stewart (9) beat A. Wand à large crowd of tennis enthu-native manufacturers and dea'ersterly extension of the. Birkenbeau$1-a-day holiday cruise, on ship wore only a gweater and shorts and
Hodge (17) 3 and 2.
E. Lewis (8) heat W. L. Alexan-
der.
C. 1. Bradley (0) best. S. 5. Perry.
J. J. King (15) z. E. Owen 4/3.
J. Shepherd (18) and A. E. Char- man (not yet played).
A. B. Purves bent H. H. Mundy
(10), 3 and 2:
J. A. R. Selby (8) beat J. L. Adams (17), '5 and 4.
HAPPY VALLEY FOURSOMES.
THIRD ROUND.
R. S. W. Paterson (17) and W. Woodward (17) bent . P. White
(15) and H. T. Brooks (17), 3 and
1.
'R. C. Law (8) and W. A. Stewart (10). A. E. Charman (11) and J. Shepherd (16), not yet playrd
W. A. Weight (15) and J. S. Dykes (13) hent J. P, A. Davis (17) and E. Thompson (18).
H. H. Mundy (10) and C. W. F. Booker (0) beat A. MacFarlané (17) and E. D. Matthews (8), 3 and 2. Bogey Pool Fanling and 28 Mar cancelled owing to insufficient ; entrics.
U.S. BASEBALL
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
NEW YORK, May 20.
Following are the results of U.S. bussball matches played on Saturday!
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poned were:-
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"A."
Hong Kong C.C, ", Kowloon C.C. Chinese South Chin “A”
R.C. "B."
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South China
University Recreio.
To-day's Matches,
A list of to-day's Axtures to gether with some of the teams will
be found below. The best game on the programme should be the one between Chinese R.C. and Club de Recreio which will be played on the Causeway Bay courts.
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B." Division.
Chinese R.C. r. Recreio. Graduates . South Chinn, University U.S.R.C. Hong Kong C.C. ». Indian R.C. Civil Service. Kowloon C.C.
The Teams.
uced prices. Altogether about 150
frun Shanghai and Nanking are participating.
order to further arouse inter- est in the Exhibition and the Move. ment, public entertainment Pro grammes are being given while a reception will be held on Monday for representatives of industrini, commercial and women circles.
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RESEARCH SHIP RETURNS
Marine Life in the Antarctic
Specimens of minute marine life from the Antarctic have been brought home by the Royal Research Ship, Discovery II, and are being added to those already sent to the Natural History Museum for seein tifice examination.
In one of the laboratories at the Museum a section has been devoted to the researches of the Discovery. A representative of The Observer was shown, glass jars containing Kowloon Cricket Club:-C. crustneen, worms, sponges, geologi- Stapleton and G. C. Burnett; Weal specimens from the Orkneys, Wirth and N. A. E. Macauley; Little shrimp-like animals, known as krill, which were described as Jack and J. J. Ferguson.
Civil Service O.C-Bradley and typical whale food, and forms a plant life on which the krill them- Bendall: Barrow and Bickford; selves feed.
Todd and Wilson
K.0.0. Teams.
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A single jar may contain a couple of thousand of these tiny specimens A netfull when The following have been selected of whale food. to represent the K.C.C. in the "brought up from the ocean looks, it Division and Mixed Doubles
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Thursday and Friday respectively "C" Division ". Deutscher Klub. G. A White and R. S. Capell; D. S. Green and A. E. Collins: J. S. Smith and D. D. McKay.
was said, like a mass of jelly. It is only when this nase is put into spirit that the specimens float away from each other, and take definite form.
The first step thai has now to be taken is that of sorting these speci- mens. This will be done by mem- bers of the scientific staff of the Dal-Discovery.
Mixed Doubles . Recreio.. E. U. Fincher and Miss O. ziel: A. E. P. Guest and Miss M.
Griffiths: E. F. Fincher and
Hambly.
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in an hour. Several times he had been forced by the wash of steamers Hong Kong. 29th May, 1933. to lie down on the "plank" to prevent it from overturning. He
dock systein," which already com-
board for the first time in their said that although the weather was prised the Alfred, the Wallasey lives, the problem of steward's tips idea he felt bitterly cold.
The 17ft speed-boat which towed the Egerton, the Morpeth, and the is one of considerable perplexity Morpeth Branch Docks, at the and, at the same time, a subject him was piloted, by Mr. Arthur mouth of the East. Float, "the Vic- toria Duck in the body of the East of keen curiosity. Stories of four. Bray. Capt. Rutherford hopes to
incomes figure Float, and the graving docks and from mouth to mouth. The earn year.
confidently make another crossing later in the wharves in the West Float.
ings even of a modest table waiter are placed somewhere in the re gion of £500 per annum.
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ROGRAMMES A ENTRY
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The Bidston Dock: opens off the landward end of the West Float. With a width of 400ft., n. length
How far is this from the reality! of 1,000 ft., and a minimum depth of 30ft, it can take vessels of 28ft.
Although, in good times, a ste draught at all states of the tide. ward may take six, eight, or even Besides ample quay space on either ten pounds per week in tips, there side,
.and two
tor exists in the modern liner an ex- PROGA for the Fifth Estra small vessels near the entrance, traordinary "back-stage" organi passage, 100ft. wide. from the sation designed to relieve him of Race Meeting, to be held in Maoso Weat Float, there is an area of 8 a great part of this wealth. It is on Sunday, 11th June, 1933, may be acres of land immediately sur a "racket" so extensive in its ramis obtained as The Sports Club, Hongkong rounding the dock available for fication, so powerful, yet so sensi- Jockey Club Stables, or at the Offices of mills or factories, which could be tively law-abiding in its operation Megre. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, easily connected with the thres that by comparison the Chicagoan, Des Voeur Road Central..
Entries ULOSH at 3 p.m. on trunk railway systems already serv gangster is but a heavy-handed. ing the Birkenhend dock system. bungling amateur in the delicate Tuesday, 30th May, 1933. "It is the position of the new matter of graft and its collection. dock, its excellent approaches, and the proximity of suitable land for further extension that are looked on to justify the expenditure of over £700,000. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, as Mr. Holt pointed out after the luncheon which the Mayor of Birkenhead (Councillor D. McWilliam) gave to at the Birkenhead the Town Hall, regard their acquis tion on the Cheehire side of the river as D means of attracting manufacturers and importers and exporters to settle on the land sur rounding this dock.
visitors
Modern Equipment.
Behind those, smohly swinging doors which shield the vulgar and strictly utilitarian atmosphere of the liner's pantries from the "sensi- tive oye and nose of the first class passenger saloon, exists the Inner; Circle of the tip-dividing racket. The pantryman and his assistant pantrymen, the confectioner, the saladman, plate-pantry stewards, and pumerous assistants all con fidently claim participation in the rake-off." And woe betide the steward who fails to share his tips amongst thein.
The pantry workers in their turn: must tip the kitchen staff. The as sistant cooks "expect an interest in the spoils and see that they get it. These must tip the glory-hole ste- wards-the men who keep the glory-holes, or dormitories,, spick and span.
"In a variety of ways may pres- sure be brought to bear upon de faulters. By to means the least of The site lies on the boundary these is through the man's own between the two county borouglis feeding for the steward himself;
and of Birkenhead Wallasey. obtains his food from the pantry. Ocean-going vessels can use it. The man when the passenger meal is new river entrance lock serving over, and it will be hard fuck, the whole Birkenhead dock system indeed, for him if he is suspected provides a sufficient depth of water of not "oming clean" with the
that can vessel for any
pass pantry staff. In the through the Suez, Canal.
new electrically docks there is a driven coal conveyor for wagons new sheds, When the work of sorting has up to 20 tons, and Mrs. been finished, the specimens will be cheap power, and the low rates named; and those that are new offer other inducements to enter described. Although, perhaps, little prise in this area. that is extraordinarily new can be Mr R D. Holt, speaking at expected-for in the Antarctic one luncheon, said the board believed gets rather a mass than a variety that work at Bidston had very of material--there are, to quote an great potentialities, but frankly, it authority, always some new things was a speculation. The adjoining turning up."
docks in the old Wallasey Pool One of the chief objects of the had proved a very successful place Discovery's expedition was to carry for manufacturers, and there was on researches into the whaling in-
no obvious reason why the new potential dustry of the Antarctic, and to map Bidston dock should not be the the oceans, with a view to finding same. The Harbour Board were the distribution of whale food, and doing their bet to develop the hence the distribution of whales traffic on the Cheshire side of the theinselves.
river and had a very great traffic there because the export trade t the Far East, India, and South Africa was now being conducted from Birkenhead.
NEW R.A.F. HIGH SPEED FLIGHT
FAMOUS UNIT TO BE RE-FORMED
The Air Ministry, however, has a intration of making an attempt at present to regain the air speed record, which has recently been 18 628 secured by Italy.
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The High Speed Flight of the Royal Air Force, which was aboli-| shed after its world speed records It is understood that the re in the Schneider Trophy contest, is searches have confirmed the belief to be re-established.
that the whale food is confined, to certain types of water. There ap- pears, indeed, to be every prospect that the results of the scientific ex
Mr. Holt said much was being amination of the specimens, when heard just now
of trade agree complate, combined with the farmente. What Birkenhead needed The main reason for re-forming vestigations already
was that an agreement should be made, will the high-speed flight is the steady show that the Discovery's second made ending the rupture of rela increase in the speed of the Inter- commission in Antarctic waters was
tions with the Irish Free State. It ceptor and Fighter classes of aero extraordinarily successful.
had affected adversely not only the plane, and the need for a unit to
importation of cattle and sheep at the lairages but also the exporta- tion of coal to the Irish ports. Everybody on the Mersey would be glad to see peace with the Free State
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Such ratings as the liner's deck steward and smoke-room steward, both commonly believed to be £1,000-year-men, are faced with an even more formidable array of The assistants and hangers-on. dwindled to but £200 or £300 a year, before the sharing-out pro cess is completed.
income of £1,000 has
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Throughout the whole of the ves sel's catering department, this re- markable organisation extends. "Palin grease" is tip-mousy, and an apt name indeed, for, like a lubricant, it seeps down through the whole complicated machine of efficiency in service, oiling not only the more visible and obvious bear- ings but being conducted down even to the last insignificant cog in some inaccessible corner..
It is a system enthroneil by an- cient custom, an atmosphere in the midst of which the budding ship's steward is brought up. Even as a bellhop, making his first voyage at sea, he will, if he is not too.
man into parting with four or five. seasick, be lured by the pantry- tice in order to get peace. They shillings of his meagre £1 185. per hoped Ireland would realize that month by an enticing offer of such her best friend for all time com- delicacies left over from the pas mercially was Great Britain. senger menu
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cream, peach-melba, or cocoanut. tween five hundred and eight hun- dred in the number of officers of
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SAYINGS OF THE WEEK
I am too old in politics to sub The question of using these mors fiscal year but there will be an ex- powerfal, fuels is engaging the at-penditure of 884,000,000 on naval scribe to these pscucks rayolution tention of the Air Ministry, and construction under the public works ary theories which are too mach divorced from reality and fraught L. Per experimental flying with them has programme.
The Navy has at present 5,500 .657 lately been carried out. The chan 679 ga would entail nu alteration in officers. A special committee head with too much danger to the mats. 543 machine or engine. In any emer-ed by Assistant Naval Secretary of the people. Mr. R. C. Wallhead, 538 gency it would immediately be Roosevelt will decide which officers M.P
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I am sorry for these young men. Slight modifications in the wings to increase the top speed and yet ed to be out by 2,000 down to 77,000 So many theories 381 make very little difference to the and there will be a ten per cent. Tonks.
landing speed are also the subject cut in the 2,100 civilian employees of experiment, and it should here of the Navy. The, General Board membered that a great advantage of of the Navy will recommend to the British aeroplanes is their tower President what ships should be landing speed. Streamline covers built under the construction pro for the wheels, and wheel brakes,gramme. are other important details,
DOCKERS REBEL. AGAINST SWASTIKA FLAG
ANTWERP, May 10. Dockers to-day refused to unload. the German steamer, Watussi, which arrived here Aying the Swastika Bag in accordance with Chancellor Hitler's recent instructions.
The captain of the Watussi tele- graphed the ship's owners Ham- burg for instructions. The answer was an order not to remove the flag
The Jews have stood by the graves of all their oppressors in turn.--Doan Inge.
It is true, pathetically trus, that neither in the Labour Movement non in the avowed revolutionary Socialist Movement in this country the ordinary man find a cause. Mr. J. Middleton Murry. The old idea that too much development is likely to ceman discontented. obsolete.-Lord ¿Continued on next Column)
A fine of 81,000, with the alter Mrs. Landau, wife of the pro-native of four months' imprison. prietor, of Jimmy's Kitchen, who ment, was imposed on a Chinese was badly injured by a motor car for the possession of illicit opium. driven by Mr. H. P. Bailey in Another Chinese was fined $1,900 mental Queen's Road East on Thursday or six months' imprisonment on s night, was yesterday reported to be similar charge. The first defendant improving It was stated however, was arrested at the Yuen On Wharf, and the second at Ping On Wharf. that she is not yet out of danger.
with
Trenchard.
I am doubtful whether a high standard of living can be any sub- atifute for knowing how to live- The Hon. Harold Nicolson.
Have we not enough imagination anywhery in pur country to make some place for those who have no paid occupation, in order that they may, at least fool that they belong to us?-Mr. C. Deliale Burns.
The professed literary class to showing as it does a complete lack day puts our education to shame, of general culture.-Professor E. L. Armstrong.
For being in possession of 21 trels of prepared opium, and 44 taels of raw opium a Chinesa waa. fined 83,000 or, in default, nine. months' imprisonment at Centrat Magistracy yesterday. It was stat ed the defendant was arrested in Sutherland Street with the opium tind found his legs.
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