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X APARF SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929. 日八十月三
HEADWIND BEATS DUKE'S_MOUNTS AT AMERICA'S RYDER STRIKING CRICKET
THE R.A.F.
"FAIREY” MONOPLANE LANDS AT KARACHI:
MAGNIFICENT FLIGHT BUT RECORD UNBEATEN.
THE RACES.
STARTING TIME CHANGED FOR ROYAL VISITOR.
THREE PONIES CHOSEN
CUP LEAD
MITCHELL AND ROBSON ALONE SUCCEED.
AFTERNOON:
His Royal Highness the Duke A TENSE STRUGGLE IN THE of Gloucester will ride in at least three races at Happy Valley this afternoon, and there is a possibi- | Ity that he will also ride in a
4,130 MILES IN 50 HOURS. fourth.
London, Apr. 26.
We are officially informed that. on account of the Chinese luncheon party which is being given in
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CHANGES.
WICKET TO BE INCH WIDER
AND HIGHER.
quiry into means of
assisting
A.D.C.'S SPLENDID DONATION.
$1,200 FOR BRITISH MINERS FUND.
TOTAL NOW EXCEEDS THE $9,000 MARK.
A FINAL APPEAL.
On the eve of the closing of the Fund for the relief of dig
their families, it is with much gratification that we are able to.
announce the receipt of the biggest contribution yet made to the Fund in Hongkong.
AIDING THE BOWLER.
London, Apr: 26. The 1929 county cricket season, which commences on Wednesday next with a series of four "friend- ly" matches, is to be a test of im IN STORMY WEATHER.{portant experiments, three of them
being approved only to-day,
The orgy of run-getting last London, Apr. 26. After a tonae fight witnessed year, when more, centuries were Aftor a magnificent flight with honour of the Duke the first and by an enormous crowd, the United obtained that ever before in a out the alightest mishap, the spec-ing bell at the racecourse will be States, led Great Britain by two single season, has led to an in-tress amongst British minera and lal R.A.F. Fairey monoplane failed rung at. 2.30 m. and the first race matches to one as the result of bowlers, and the Advisory County to beat the world long-distanco ron- will start at 3 p.m.
the foursomen, played at Moor This delay will give is Royal Town, Leeds, to-day. stop record as the result of a long Highness adffieient time to return
Cricket Committee at Lord's to day, curried three of the proposals combat with heavy head-winda to Government House from Kam chance of recovery from the submitted by the special jub-com- which caused a more rapid exlinux-Ling Restaurant, where
the colossal lead built up by their initiee appointed to consider these the aum allotted by the Hongkong tion, of her petrol than was con-lancheon by the Chinese Chamber opponents in the morning, though suggested ways and means.
of Commerce is being held, and they struggled gallantly in the
The changes will change into his riding kit, if afternoon, but the other contests force immediately. The Alght was actually longer having been arranged that H were fought out to the bitter end,
The wicket is to be one inch than that which will go down in | Royal Highness shall ride Pickle and Britain all but ended all
wider and one inch higher. the official records, as the great
The departure of HMS. Suffolk plane passed over Karachi at 4 has been delayed until 6 p.m. and o'clock this afternoon (local time) the Duke expects to leave the race- but returned about two hours in-course for Government House at ter, landing perfectly at Karachi at 6.46 pm. (local time).
sidered likely.
Two Hours Flying Lost.
The Air Ministry has officially announced that the monoplano land- od at Karachi at 1.15 pm. (British Summer Timo) thus completing 4,180 miles in direct line of flight from point to point in 50 hours and 28 minutes.—Heuter.
Lator.
The Air Ministry states that Squadron-Loader Jones Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins, in the Royal Air Forco Fairey mono- plane, landed at Karachi at one fifteen p.m. (British Summer Time) to-day, abut two hours before sun- sot.
Short of Petrol.
the first rare.
about 4.15 p.m.
.
and
Duncan and Boomer had no
square.
The Final Results.
The foursomes results were: Archie Compston and Charles Whitcombe (Britain) halved. with Farrell and Turnena (United Suites).
Aubrey Bloomer and G. Duncan (Britain) lost to Leo Diegel and and | Espinasa. (United States) by 7
and 5.
The following are the Duke mounts for the afternoon:
Rnee :-Messrs Hynes
Mackie's Pickle. Hare 2-Messes Ling
Wong's O'Monuj Have 3-Mr. Ho Kom-tong's
Kom Toug Hall
As stated, His Royal Highness may have to leave the racecourse for Government House at 4.15 m. but if there is time he will also ride in Race, 4, hía, mount being Messrs Law and Lee's Duke Chantilly.
NEW ZEALANDER'S FLIGHT.
of
Abe Mitchell
(Britain) defeated Gene Sarazen and Dudley (United States) by 2 and 1.
Come into
The striker (batsman) can be given out "leg before wicket" un- der Law 24 even though the ball muy first hit the bat or hand.
This is a cheque for $1,200, being Amateur Dramatic Club from the profits of the recent production of "The Dover Road."
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Telephons Osairal 1245 or 1947.
55 Weng Nel Chung Road.. Cua Happy Valley
Bulls and Inners
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From the Office Butts. ᄆᄆ
When we might have had foun-
tain displays
Irish News-A woman is suing har husband because she can't
Back in, Umpteen Nought Two- stand Pat.
good old days;
Water restrictions
Were unknown amictions:
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"Hu Tsing-tao, the Tao. Chun, has expressed a desire to submit,"
So we stopped up the pipes, jets says the Sunday Herald. If it had
and sprays.
borrowed the Chino Mail's political
Yet now in this Year of Great correspondent, it would have dis-
Drought,
covered that the "q" should have. been allent, as in Chiang Kai-shek the Feng Yu-hainng.
"Twas rumoured our fountain
would spout,
But a newspaper letter Made Officials think better, 'Cause the reservoir's nearly
run out!
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at the Drury Lane Theatre, Mr.. Baldwin described the Conserva- Lives as "performers."
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the Shing Mun Valley. We doubt whether the project will be fur- fountain was out of action during A render deplores that the thered by threats of that kind. the Royal visit. His suggestion
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was to place a pound of perman,
We can only suppose that our gunale' at the source and throw' Magistrates know what they are out some nice purple water. talking about as their voices often
O carry conviétion,
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"The language of many tele- phone subscribers is quite un- From the broadcast speech on called for." says an official, So St. George wo gather that some of are many of the numbers. these roses are of the rambler variety.
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The sum, we must frankly con- fess, is much, larger than we had hoped to receive, and in expressing our warmest thanks to the A.D.C. and all who in any way helped in
The Bateman cartoon has yet the wearing of such an excellent result we should like to pay a tri-
to be drawn depicting an English- Lots of these "good buys" ou man accidentally picking up a buto to the public-spirited motive the Stock Exchange are nierely bagpipe broadcast item on SL. which actuated those who OF ganised such a successful move- ment.
A maximum of seven minutes actual rolling is made the rule in- stead of ten minutes as formerly ledge the recept of a
We are also pleased to acknow- This season also aces the intro-$64.30, being the profits from a re-
Tatal to Date.
stim of
H.M.S.
"good-byes,"
Ono advan
tage of belug B defeated Chinesa General
always get foreign leave on full pay.
and J. Robson duetion of a new system of scor. cont dance organised by the Enter- is that you can
All counties are to play 28 matches, Suffolk. ing in the county championship.tainment Committee of with eight points for a win, four points for a tie, five points for a ponents three points, four for a lead on the first innings and its op- tle on the first innings, and four pointe, each for matches with no
esult on the Arst innings.
(Britain) lost to Walter Hagen and E. Whitcombe and T. Cotton Golden (United States) by 2 holen. Things looked black for Britain when the match was resumed this afternoon, with America leading in three games, the fourth being all Įsquare..
There were ten thousand people to see the resumption of play, but in the interval rain had commenced to fall and n bitterly cold wind
They had flown on post Karachi, THE FIRST ATTEMPT OF ITS was blowing over the course, but returned owing to the rapid ap-
proach of darkness and the pre- 'sumed shortage of petrol. The first non-stop light to India has thue been successfully accomplish-Zealand ed, while the previous British long
distance record has been beaten.
This record was the light of
Fight-Lieutenant Carr in 1927 Carr covered 3,419 miles ann-stop before coming down in the Per sian Gulf.
This
KIND.
The First Match.
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the
The final result will be reckoned on points, the troublesome percent- age system being done away with. -Router.
TERRIBLE
TORNADO
TOLL IN U.S.
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A RED WHIRLING TUNNEL SWEEPS ALL BEFORE.
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The smart" guys swear at
the Telegraph is as follows: Already acknowledged..... $7,822.00, the boss when
The amount so far received by
& £2 101, Hongkong A.D.C. allocation 1,200.00. H.M.S. Batolk dance
he 1 @ no.t 64.30. around to hear
it.
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Total ...... £2 16s, and $0,086.30.
George's Day.
FIRST WIFE--How long had you known your husband before you were married?
SECOND DITTO:-I didn't know him at all. I only thought I did.
As has already been announced, couple married the Fund closes on Monday, the 29th inst., and it would give us the in an aeroplane utmost antinfaction to be able to an- at Hankow Jant nounce that Hongkong's total has week are soon been brought up to the round expected to $10,000.
come down to Thut figure can be attained by earth. 小 the recept of a little less than
☐ ☐ $890, after taking account of the Wasn't it lucky for St. George's exchange equivalent of the £2 164. Society that the Princo didn't come received in sterling currency, here on January 25th?
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London. Apr. 26 Frank Mase,
Charles Whitcombe and Archle a young New airman, Aerodrome fo-day in a tiny single-they quickly knocked off
Compston, started out against left Lympe Turnesa and Farrell one down, but senter Cirrus Spartan light arro-American advantage, taking the
Atlanta, Apr. 26. plane on a flight of 13,500 miles first hole easily.
Seventy-one persons are known to New Zealand.
to bavo beon killed and hundreds May we appeal to one or more Some brilliant play by Farrell of others havo beon injured as the of our public-spirited residents to is the first attempt tenabled the Americans to take the result of the tornado which swept come forward, by Monday next, fly from Britain to New Zealand. lend again, and the third hole was South Carolina and Georgia yester, with this sum and thus enable
Muse will attempt a hazardous squared, Farrell saving the hole day. xen crossing of 1,200 miles beby a brilliant long putt. At the
Hongkong's contribution, with the well to Karachi is 1,130 miles which teren Australia and New Zealand. fourth, Turnesa produced a bril. all hefore it. Its track was nearly reach £2,000?
The red whirling funnel.swept | Home Government's grant, to was flown in ffly hours, thirty-British Winterss. eight minutes, including a period
hundred yarda wide, and it Hiant gutt at five yards giving the a
created fearful havoc in South | American pair a 2 for the hole.
Two down, Britain reduced this Georgia.-Renter's American Ser deficit at the next.
vice.
The route distance from Cran-
of nearly two hours occupied in
flying on past Karachi.
Strong Hendward,
BRITISH MINISTER'S
DEATH.
SUCCUMBS WHILE SPEAKING
AT BANQUET.
Stockholm, Apr. 26. The death occurred here audilen-
Both Whitcombe und Farell pushed out their tee-shots at the sixth hole, the balls lying together In a bunker. Compton declined to have his opponent's ball lifted, and as a result he struck Farrell's bali in following-through after playing his stroke.
The referee asked Compston
No report has yet been received from the pilots but a strong head- wind appears to have been encoun- tered after leaving Bagdad, for the first stage of 2,600 miles was covered in twenty-seven hours, while the stage of 1,630 miles from Bagdad to Karachi took twenty-fourly, whilst he was speaking at a whether he had struck the other hours.---British Wirrlegs,
banquet, of Sir Tudor Vaug-ball, and Compston replied in the The Fairey monoplane is an han, X.C.M.G., M.V.O., Bri-affirmative, the hole being awarded experimental maching designed to tish Minister to Sweden.-Renter to the visitors. remain in the air without re-fuell- [The late Sir Tudor Vaughan Fine
the play "by British Ing for 84 hours, and it is con- sidered in normal conditions to be was born in 1870, being the second pair
subsequently Don of Commander- Henry deen, Compston and Whitcombe capable of at least 6,000 miles with- out descending.
Youghan, R.N. He entered the winning the eighth and ninth and diplomatic service in 1894 and has turning all square. held positions in all parts of the world. He had been Minister to Sweden since 1927.]
Remarkable Features. Many remarkable features are embodied in its design, though certain points have been kept ni secret. It was made ut Hayes, Middlesex, and an outstanding fea- ture fa the fact that the wing hak been so designed that it can carry three tons of petrol. The wing has a span of 62 feet, and it is tremendously thick and brond. -
More extraordinary, the wing is all in one piece, and it, therefore, constitutes in all probability the
ever made.
PRINCE FLIES TO BOGNOR.
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BRIEF VISIT TO, H.M. THE KING.
London, Apr. 26.," H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to-1
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NANKING POLITICS.
TSAI YUEN-PEI TIRES OF
THE BUSINESS.
Nanking, Apr. 26. It is authentically reported that Mr. Tsai Yuen-pel, the Nanking leader and Chairman of the Control Yuen, intends to resign, ending all connection with political affaire..
CROSS-CHANNEL · AIR SERVICE.
The A.D.C. GIL
Instinct is when a chuses an electric tram.
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greyhound
To-day's simile:As healthy ar
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In view of the
absence of mat- sheds, beating about the bush at Big Wave Bay is relative-
ly a risky busi- ness.
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Members
of
to Cricket Club were naturally on a good wicket yesterday after- nadh.
George Ber- nard Shaw saya ho'n "99 per cent, like every-
body else." He muat have shaved,
The president of the American Beet Sugar Association donounced as "xinister" the overture of the Cuban government seeking free admission of a certain amount of Cuban sugar. The best sugar people, it seems, are raising cain.
a centipede with one foot in the. The smart thing for the heavy drinker to do nowadays is to marry 口
a trained nurso.
grave.
Kansu
Telegraph heading e famine:Children being eaten in
Mr. H. Davenport Browne, the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong many places." The mosquitoes A.D.C., in forwarding the hand-are had here too. some donation from that organisa. tion, says:
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A correspondent says the way
mui tsai are beaten with firewood
of a
is dreadful. In the circumstances we suggest the installation gus-cooker. be
There is no truth in the story That our fountain could not made ready in time owing to the plumber being unable to find the whereabouts of his male.
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During 1928 the Cologne Courty dissolved 845 marriages. Woo-de Cologne.
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on local football we note that no In this muddled correspondence one bus drawn attention to the important matter of playing the whistle?
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Though The Club rules the fair.
sex laboo,
As any man's Club's bound to
do,
They're allowed to meandah Around the verandah When a Duke or a Prince comes
in view.
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If all the silk hats worn on Thursday could be deposited in the Museum, they'd make a fine City. Houl.
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"Although it has not yet been possible to close the accounts for The Dover Road,' I am sending you a cheque for $1,200 for the Miners' Fund so that a remittance may be made before the end of April. I may add that, of course, the accounts will be audited in doc course and will be onen for Inspec- tion in my office in Asiatic Build ing by anyone who desires to do so
"The cheque in question includes the sum of $135.00 for which the original poster was sold by auction at the final performance. I think There is no truth in the rumour it only right also to add that the that a Hotel Bus arrived at Re- Major Malcolm Campbell is to result, which I venture to think pulse Bay Hotel ten minutes late be complimented on his tact in is very satisfactory, has only been inst Sunday evening through fol- not attempting to break the spect achieved owing to the fact that the lowing a fire engine up Stubbe record on St. George's Day. A.D.C. have taken for their general Road, account certain expenses which in The British pair won the six- The Southern Railway Company, the ordinary course of events would
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A Hongkong flapper wants to Although motorists are Inclined know how she en teenth, and halved the seventeen-it is rnderstood, has under con- have been debited to "The Dover to speed along the Reclamation "Squeeze Ring."
join the th, thus making them dormie one,sideration the inauguration of a Road.""
road, it should be remembered Impossible to lose, but Americi dying service across the English "I should like to take this op- that pedestrians have Prays won on the eighteenth green and Channel, to supplement its exist portunity of thanking all those who rights,
Ing boat service-British Wire-assisted in the production, both in front of and behind the curtain; as
regard to advertising, booking, loan of furniture and fittings, etc. Without their assistance the result would not, of course, have been ncarly so satisfactory.”
They lost the teath, won the eleventh, again conceded the victory to the American at the twelfth, and then the sides won in turn up to the fifteenth where they were still all square.
halved the match.
Duncan Overwhelmed.
The tremendous advantage held
largent cantilever monoplane wing day flew from London to Bognor, by Leo, Diegel and Espinosa to visit HM the King, and re- against Duncan and Boomer in the morning is explained by the brilliant card they returned. The
The engine is a 530 h.p. Na-turned also by air.
Ker Lion, and is in effect, a ser- His Royal Highness spent five Americans went round in 60. Ace edition of the racing Napier hours at Cralgweil House-tril ish engine used to win the Schneider Wireless. Trophy, and the world land spoed
record
FUNDS FOR HANKOW,
and
The plane carried one thou- sand gallons of petrol, weighed 61⁄2 tons, when it ascended
Shanghai, Apr. 26,
Against such a brilliant per- formance, the Britishere had little chance. They started badly,
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lena.
PROJECT.
TUAN CHI-JUI.
FORMER PREMIER SAID TO BE VERY ILL.
Shanghai, Apr. 26. Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, the former It is reported from Tientsin that Peking Premier and head of the
a dangerously i
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The community should make presentations to those who proteat
It was unfortunate that the ed against working the City Hall well as others who helped us with lady on the Peak tram on Thurs ornament. Fountain pelis are
day morning, who referred to the suggested.
benefit of the top atmosphere," should have been aftting next to o man wearing one.
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This Italian operais Reall splendid.
The "Suffolk" Dance.
Great words of little wives: "I Some of these Genova delegates', like the way the Duke smiled at speeches are certainly disarming, the "Suffolk" dance is,
The welcome subscription from me when he shook hands."
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"Diana:"After all, my dear, it
Young couples are warned that
vestigated.
halving the first and losing the once famous Anfu Political Clique, of the Fund. This event took place is better that he should go to his squeezing is being officially in-
first hole in the afternoon, thus being eight down. A series, of halves followed, after which
at Cranwell at 10.30 #,.. on* It is reliably reported that one Duncan and Boomer won the Wednesday, and it was thought million dollars have been sent by eighth and ninth, törning. six that the petrol would be auf-the Central Bank in Shanghai to down. ficient to keep the engine run the Central Bank in Hankow to Three successive halves were ning three days and nights non facilitate the working of the new played on the homeward saw
branch..
(Continued on Paga 10.) ..
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OCCASIONAL RAIN,
The weather forecast till noon to-morrow.de:-Northerly or vari- able winds, moderate to light; eloudy: occasional rain.
at the Helena May Institute on St.club than reach for it! George's Day, Tickets sold brought
in $108.00, and the expenses were
០.០
$44.80, leaving a sum of $64.00 for Cheung Chow news from a
Captain Campbell's attempt did
the Fund. We desire to express contemporary: The big matshed not Pan out quite as he expected. our, thanks to the organisers of this theatre is gradually being dis event, which has caused a further mantled; the next show will be put "Tile. The term "top" hat has welcome addition to the Miners' up by the vegetarians." Possibly, now received Government, appro- POUR KEY MA Wings of the Cabbage val, Lid" being considered vul-