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BRITONS'
THRILLING EXPERIENCE
FINEST COPY OF GULLIVER
IN CANTON
(Continued from Page 1)
Mr. Murphy was sitting on the canteen steps tondling his two
Ham House Auction dogs and when the Japanese planes
SMALL UNITS TENNIS
WIN FOR THE Treasures
roared into view he threw himself PAY CORPS Inside the canteen clutching on to Following the sale at Sotheby's, his dogs.
Only one game in the Small Units Tennis League" was played Du May 30-31 of the first portion of
Several bombs exploded in the the literary treasures in' the "book compound shattering the windows Jesterday when, at Sookunpuʊo, the paradise" at Ham House, the final of the, canteen and showering Mr. Medicals by six sets to three.
Royal Army Pay Corps beat the
sale will be held on June. 20-21. Murphy with glass and debris.
Again the appetite of voracious Mr. Viser was in his own quar-Major Baird and Taylor (Pay bibliophiles will be whetted by theters which was the only building mere mention of some of the bon- not damaged in the entire en- nes bouches in this wonderful closure.
auction bill of fare.
scores were:-
Corps):
beat Capt. Harvey and Lt.
Dixon
The
6-1 lost to Barton and Webb 5-7 beat Dunsford and Birket ... 6-1 Pittham and Crammer (Pay
Corps);
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938.
FOREIGN MAILS
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Thursday. the 9th June, the General Post Office, Kowloon Central Post Office and Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 am, and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.
There will be one collection. from the pillar boxes, one delivery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays, and one delivery of re- gistered correspondence at 11.00 a.m.
The Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Tai Po and Un Long will also have one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11.00 am
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed. Parcel Post Service to. Amoy Island is temporarily suspended.
Parcels can be accepted for Kulangsu only.
Air mali letters may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mall" and bear sufficient postage. In- sufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Bervice, at the discretion of the Post Once. Air Mail Services to Shanghai, Nanking, Talngtau, Tientsin and
Peiping are temporarily suspended.
Letters and Postcards for Europe and South America beat Harvey and Dixon ...... 6-3 | are forwarded "via Siberia" if so superscribed.
Interviewed by Reuter's corres- The claim is rightly made, for pondent later. Messrs. Murphy, example, that the copy of the im-Buchanan and Viser appeared to mortal "Gulliver's Travels." 1926, ne unmoved despite the day's which has been preserved at Ham thrilling events. House for over 200 years. . the tallest and noblest known. Dean Examination of the power beat Dunsford and Birkett 6-1 Swift used to say that this was the station at Saichuen revealed that Adlam and only one of his writtings for which only the windows were wrecked
WINDOWS WRECKED
he ever received a single farthing. and the light was restored at S He would not have gained even.m, only to be cut off again when this if his friend the poet Pope the moonlight raid alarm had not acted as his unpaid liter-given. агу agent. The result was that Driving
the publisher, Benjamin Motte, paid £200 for the copyright.
sum
€3.400 COPY FOR U.S.
It is pertinent to mention this because the famous Mac- George "Gulliver." which had fetched £725 in 1934, proceeded to bring £3,400 in the Kerri sale. New
York, five years afterwards. This was then supposed to be the big-
through
WAS
the
beat Barton and Webb
די
Corps):
Watson
(Pay
6-2
lost to Harvey and Dixon. 0-6 lost to Barton and Webb..... 2-6 beat Dunsford and Birkett ... 6-2
ARMY MATCE city. At Chatham Road yesterday H. Beuter's correspondent noticed Q Wing. Middlesex Regiment, beat that at least 70 per cent of the the 24th Heavy Battery by 5 sets houses had their shatters up and to 4 in their Small Units league
he occupants had fled.
tennis encounter.
Thousands are lining the river: banks and thousands more are
aboard houseboats which go down JAPANESE
river at daylight and return
night time.
21
OBJECT TO
Eerie quiet prevails everywhere,
gest of the six large paper Arst broken only by the drone of Jap- CHINESE Issues extant. Not only is the Hamanese machines as they pass over
House copy larger by fractions of now and again to and from their RESOLUTION
inches, but it is the only "uncut" example at present known to exist
Every child who has read its Gulliver knows that the King of Liliput's ascendancy over his sub- Jects was due chiefly to the fact that his Majesty was half an inch taller than any of his leges. It is the, extraordinary size of this Han House copy which will establish its superiority in the judgment of the book collectors of the world,
READ EAGERLY
The fourth Earl of Dysart (1708- 1770) bought it originally, and when he was 23 he read it eagerly, as proved by the manuscript note: "Read through 2 voi. at Tunbridge
in July. 1731.---Dysart."
objectives: Reuter)
STOP PRESS
HOME CRICKET
RESULTS
were as follows:--
Middlesex beat Sussex by ten vickets.
. What can be sald, too, of probably the rarest impression of the first) issue of the Third Folio of Shake speare's Plays, which is cogently be- lieved to be the self-same Shake-j
London, June 7. speare, which Samuel Pepys bought |
Results of County Cricket cham- on July 7. 1864, "as recorded in his plonship matches concluded today diary? He apparently had the precious volume covered in rich red morocco by Charles I.'a blader.j Later, however, he let it go to make way for a copy of the Fourth Follo, issued in 1685. now preserved in for 69) and 314. '. the Pepysian Library at Cambridge.
Whether the theory be right or wrong that most of the coples of the Third Follo were destroyed in the Great Fire, it is certain that there are not many survivors of this 1683 Imprint, and it is equally certain that this Ham House copy is cf outstanding importance,
STEEL STRIKE IN BOMBAY
Bombay, June 7.
A further, number of steel mill workers walked out today in addi- tion to the ten thousand which struck yesterday.' Two different steel works are affected.
Armed police are guarding the works and the situation is at pre- sent quiet.-(Reuter Bulletin).
KING AND QUEEN
Middlesex; 577 and 2 for 0; Sussex: 264 (R. W.-V. Robins &
Hampshire beat Kent by eight wickets.
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Kent: 199 and 347 (Fags 129; Heath 7 for 89);
Hampshire: 306 (Creese 103) and
151 for 2.
Surrey beat Notts by 11 runs. Surrey: 105 (Butler 5 for 18) and
L.L.O. Conference
Geneva, June 7,
When the Chinese Workers' de- legation at this "morning's con- ference of the International La- bour Office, submitted a resolution |expressin" concern for the suffer- Ings of the Chinese, the Japanese objected.
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The Japanese delegate again objected on the grounds of pro- cedure and argued that the time limit for submission of resolutions was past.
The conference bureau upheld the objection.—(Reuter),
"KWEICHOW INCREASES FARM PRODUCTS
Kwelyang, June 7. With a view to increasing the province's farm products the Kwel-
concluded an agreement with the chow provincial authorities have
credit loans to Kwelchow farmers. Farm Credit Bureau for $500,000
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Tientsin
SCOTSMAN WHO LEFT £87,000 Women are to be admitted ई. administrative posts in the India Tillycorthie House, Uday Station, Mr. James Rollo Duncan, of Office, it was announced at dinner of the National Association nerd boy "at the age of 10, emi- Aberdeen, who started work as a
of Women Civil Servants at
ind grated to Bolivia and made a for- Criterion Restaurant, W. recentiy tune tin mining. left personal
Miss Ibberson, a member of the estate of the total value of £87,611, Airma!! Council of Women Civil Servants, of which. £83,193 is in Britain. said that the Society for Women's He was 78 at the time of his death. Service had secured from the
Mr. Aw Boo-haw, well-known overseas Chinese Industrialist and philanthropist, who arrived in Hong Kong last month, is sending a delegate to Hankow to Interview India Office a declaration that the from thesc Generalissimo Chiang Kai-stiek and exclusion of women the Central Government author- posts would cease next year.
This would be the ities regarding his latest project
first time, women
CHINA'S TEACHERS'
SUPPORT
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G.P.O. Reg. 3th 500 PA
Ord. 8th 6.00 AM
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FRIDAY
Amoy Sandakan *Shanghai
Hankow, June 7, for the establishment of a home Miss Ibberson said, that
Unwavering support for General-Kongmoon for maimed army
officers and administrators bad been allowed issimo Chiang Kai-shek was the Shanghai, Japan. Canada, U.S.A.
She identical. resolution soldiers, and an orphanage for the outside the home services.
adopted in Children of the war dead.
hoped that the exclusion of women meetings in various cities, includ-
Colonial, The project. for which Mr. Aw from Dominion,
anding Changala, Nanchang, Kweiyang contributed $2,000,000 has been ap-|Foreign
would and Chungking. in celebration of proved by the Generalissimo, Enger | soon cease.
Teachers Day yesterday.
Bir
Office positions
Ernest Fase, the
to have it realised within three
Public The Chungking meeting also de-. months, Mr. Aw is sending the Trustee, testified to the efficiency cided to urge the Clovernment and delegate to Hanbow to discuss de- of women civil servants in his de- other organs concerned to give ré tailed measures with the Central | Þártinent, where a woman held lie to teachers from war affected authorities-Central News), the high position of Trust Officer jareas (Central News).
C. & S. America and "Europe via
B.C. (Parcela Vancouver
for Canada only)-due Vancouver B.C., 27th June-and "Europe via Siberia na madistea
Hinsang.
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