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THE HONGKONG
SERIO-COMIC AFFAIR IN EGYPT.
WAFDISTS RUSH TRAIN AND ARE MAROONED.
Cairo, May 1, Though four Wardists and two polleemen are reported to have beon injured, in an affray at the railway station here to-day, the affair had a comedy ending.
TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.
FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR OLD COURSE ON SUNDAY.
D.20, G. B. Lane, L. H. Ruffin. 0.24, W. Mulenhy, J, S. McLellan. 9.28, F. W. Jame, A. J. R. Wolf. 0.32, 0. Enger, A. D. Humphreys, 9,30, A. Ritchie, T. Low. 9.40, D. J. Gilmore, J. M. Walker. 9.44, J. A. B. Selby, E. C. Law. 9.48, L. C. Grover, J. C. Jonen. 9.62, J. E. Richardson, R. M. Wood, 0.50, D. F. C. Cleland, A. Gh
Bowker
Five hundred Wafdinte and Liberals,
ex-Premiers Including ex-Ministers, ex-Senators and ex- Deputies, headed by Nahas Pasha and Mahmud Pasha, endeavoured to entrain for Tanta (the Wafd stronghold) in defiance of a Gov-10.16, W. W. Mackenzie, G. G ernment, prohibition.
They rushed the guarded en- trance and some got past the police,
who were armed with alick Others were dispersed by a charge of mounted police. The leave the former lot refused to train, which was thereupon run to Abbarsia, where the carriages, containing the most prominent Wafdists and Liberals, were an- coupled and run into a siding; after wards being taken to the desolate region of Mokattam Hill, which is inaccessible to motor traffic.
The Wafdists were compelled to. walk home.
All is quiet at Cairo, but stoel helmeted poller Arc patrolling strategic points.
The ex-Premier Mahmud Pashaj was among those injured at the atation, being knocked down by a blow on the hend.
Harem Women Arrested.
Later,
10.00, J. S. Dykas, J. Forben. 10.04, I. W. Shewan, C. B. Johnson. 10.08, D. G. Brace, E. D. Matthews. 16.12, E. J. Price, J. B. Lanyon.
Johnson.
10.20, d. W. Pope, R. S. Beghle. 10.24, A. I. Penn, J. II. Collls. 10.28, C. W. Jeffries, T. S. Whyle
Smith. 10.32, A. H. Ferguson, C.
Boumphreys, 10.30, N. S. Ellis, G. Thomerson, 10.40, D. S. Edwards, N. K.
Titlejohn,
10.44, G. H. Wilson, G. Castle. 10.48, W. R. Vallance, A. Leach. 10,52, 1. S. Grant, R. W. Taplin. 10.56, W. C. Shields, D. Forbes. 11.00, K. K. Rounds, II. Lowe. 11,04, J. R. Way, C. N. Gahagan. 11.08, F. C. Young, 11. S. V. Momop, 11.16, J. E. Cogan, P. S. Cassidy,
HARD COURTS TENNIS.
WOMEN'S FINAL AN 'ANGLO-
FRENCH CONTEST.
Bournemouth, May 1. In the hard courts tennis both the women's and men's singles
NEW PALACE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS.
£2,335,000 BUILDING ON THE EMBANKMENT.
Westminster, Apr. 1. The House of Commons to-day considered Mr. Lansbury'a Bili to set back the bullding line on the Embankment to make way for new Government offices that will cost £2,335,000 and centru together the culture Ministries, the Board of Air, Transport, Labour, and Agri Trade, the Dominions and Station- ery Ofices, and the Cabinet Of fices-Departments which, the the First Comissioner of Works complained, were now "housed all over the place."
Work will not be started for 18 months, Mr. Lansbury declared. and in the meantime all who ob Ject, like the LC.C. and West- minster City Council, to seeing the Victoria Embarkament upset will be able to bring their arguments before
A joint committee of both Housea.
Though Mr. Lansbury, contend- od that the cost of his crowning, will largely be gigantle venture set off by what is saved elsewhere in the move, there was consider- able misgiving on the Conserva- tive benches about the expense, and even the advisability, of this wholesale transference.
pro-
As Lord Euathee Percy pointed out., the post-war tendency to in- crease Whitehall staff will bably be given a fillip by the erec- tion of palatial structures to ne. will be commodate 7,000 Civil Servants, A number of harem women who Anglo-French affair, as a result of and as for Mr. Lansbury's plea to-day's women's semi-finals, in which that the change will increase parnded through Cairo in motor- Miss Mary Heeley beat the Italian offlelency, that benefit, Lord Bus- cars in support of the Wafdists champion, Signorina Valerio, 5-7, 6.4. tace Percy suggested, might more have been taken into custody for 6-4, and Madame Mathieu beat Miseenally be won by internal reforms. displaying bannera inscribed "Boy-Betty Nuthall, 8-0, 6-3.
It is plain that Mr, Lansbury's cott the elections,"
When Nahas Pasha, who refused to leave the train, was told by the police that responsibility for the Incident would rest on him, he re- plied that responsibility would be on the British nione. Nahas is suffering from a slight bend wound, --Reiter.
SERIOUS FLOODING BY HAN RIVER.
NANCHANG AND DISTRICTS INUNDATED.
Shanghai, May 1. A message from Klakinng states that Nanchang and a number of districts along the Han River are flooded, following heavy rainfall,
Parts of the river embankment hnve collapsed and houses dwellings have been carried away by the terrific invash of water.
Thousands of people have been
and
When Signorina Valerio was leading
by 5-4 in the first set, Minn Heeley fell lutest ambitions are predestined to in dashing to the net to kill a lob, controversy. and Indly cut her knees. She reaum- ed after treatment.
GUINEAS.
Miss Nuthall served twelve gouble faults and her Kround strokes were THE ONE THOUSAND not characterised by the crispness which usually Accompanies them. Madame Mathieu was good in her volleys, and her returns were always well placed.--Reuter
LONDON-BRIGHTON.
H. HAKE WINS WALK OF
FIFTY-TWO MILES..
London, May 1. The twenty-eighth Stock Exchange London-Brighton fifty-two miles walk, has been won by H. Ilake, H. 0 hours, 4 minutes, and 32 seconds-Router,
FANCIED CANDIDATE LOSES BY A HEAD.
London, May 1. The One Thousand Guinens, run at Newmarket to-day, resulted:
Four Course .. Lady Marjorie
Lindos Ojos...
2.
3.
Twenty ran, and the race was won by a head, with a length between second and third.
Betting was 100/D Four Course, 4/1 Lady Marjorie, 10/1 Lindos Ojos.
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GIANT TAKES OFF.
DELAYED ATLANTIC TRIP OF DORNIER DOX.
Las Palmas, May 1. The Dornier DOX, the giant German flying boat, has taken off for Bio de Oro, in West Africa.- Router.
The Dornier Dox has been do dayed a very long time since setting out for a trans-Atlantic trip, by a series of mishaps, including a fire abourd. I
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