QUEER STORM CRICKET.
(Continued from Page 1.).
PEBBLES DOES WELL.
Sound Victory for Middlesex.
Essex put up a good fight against Middlesex at Lord's, in a low scoring match, and it seemed any- body'a game until the visiting bow- fers proved utterly ineffective in the fourth innings of a keen strug- gle.
Middlesex Won deservedly by nine wickets, LA.R. Peebles taking the lion's share of the honours,
Essex made 135 in the Brst in- nings (Peebles, 6 for 60) and Mid- dlesex obtained a lend of four runs, replying with 189. Essex's second krock produced 151; Dorston taking 4 for 48 while Peebles claimed five wickets at a cost of Gd runs.
Middlesex had a tank which did not supesur tow easy on a well-sonk- ed wicket, but their early batsmen rame through with flying colours, 148 runs being scored for the loss of one wicket.
FREEMAN'S FEAT.
Kent Masters of the Situation.
Kest thoroughly confirmed their claims to leadership in their game with Lancashire at Manchester. where they were at all material times masters of the situation, Bad weather intervened to prevent them pressing home their advantage.
Lancashire baited first and the Innings, which closed at (85, was distinguished by the brilliant bowel. ing of A. P. Freeman, who Look All len wickets, Thin in the arcond time he has recorded such a triumph against Lancashire.
Kent replied with 285 runs for 5 wickets, declared, Wolky contri- buting 108, witile Hopwood took 6 for 55.
Lancashire and made 81 for when stumps were drawn.
GLOUCESTER BALKED.
Somerset Out for Lowest Score.
Somerset were dismissed for 31. the lowest score for many seasons. in their first innings against Glou- cester Bristot. but the terrille storm prevented a decision being reached.
Gloucester mad 274 out batting first, and Somerset replied as stat- ed with 31. mammond took four wickets for 10 mins, and Parker look 5 for 1.
Somerset followed on and had
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1931.
The Marco Polo Trail.
French Caterpillar Caravan Now in Afghanistan.
Marco Polo would have been amazed could he have seen the unique
caravan
which recently assembled at Beirut in Syria for the commencement of A great journey over the ancient silk route which he took from Cathay to the Orient.
Specialists in many fields will study obscure tribes, geology, zoology, plant life and strange customs of Isolated peoples living as they did in pre-Christian pre-Buddhist erhs.
and
for
LEE THEATRE SHOW.
MEI LAN FAN'S ITEM FOR
MONDAY.
of
The following explanation the programme to be given by Dr. Mel Lan Fan at the Les Theatre on Monday next will be of intercal to non-Chinese patrons.
an
The first item on Monday by the famous actor will be from "The Goddess Shang Yuan" (Shang Yuan Fu Jen). by Mei Lan Fan and assisting artists. Sound recording and colour Yuan," deals with
The drama, "The Goddess Shang carly photography will be used to make
monarch of the Han dynasty, Wo permanent records of strange TI, B.C. 140-87, who.combined in chants, songs, rítunis, ceremonials The main part of the exped) and costumes.
his person two outstanding quali- Meteorological
ties: that of conqueror which en- tion is to-day reported to have abservations will be made
ofabled his serving on the bar- reached Afghanistan, and a seas, now blank un world barinn Hsiung nu tribes crushing cond section, under Colonel V be studied and na artist will make which brought him under the weather maps. Magnetism will
defeat and that of the mystic Gabriel, left Simia to join the sketches great caravan on Saturday.
of the people ethnological purposes.
away of Tnoistic priests and magi- clans. Het Wang Mu, the Queen of Heaven, who was attracted by We T's earnest quest after te secret of immortality caffed the ruler. She summoned the god- keeping were the secrets of im dess, Shang Yuan, in whose
Shang Yoan and her attendants mortality. Hai Wang Mu orden
to entertain the monarch, which brings us to the scene of the "Steeve and Duster Dancé.""
Shang Yuan and her companions dance with their dustera, which are the conventional means of de- noting personages of divine origin. The graceful flourishing of long sleeves well epitomizes the Inge old refinement of the Middle
Kingdom.
cameras
OLIV
tion of modern times."
more
Seven caterpillar tractors equipped with radio, aound-record- Devices on “Tanks.” ing Instruments
And colour
The caterpillar cars, are the engaged in thla adventurous journey, which
result of
than 10 years termed by
is the US. National vehicle which will negotiate rough experimental work on a type of Geographical Society ELH the
and roadless areas, "most extensive overland explora- with its trailer, is a separate unit Each car
French Enterprise.
and can proceed for a number of days it cut off from the rest of The society is co-operating in the expedition. The trailers carry the expedition, which is a French
cots, camp chairs, and a tents, enterprise, under the leadership camp table, as
well AS
food of M. Georges Marie Haardt, who supplies. Parts are Interchange was the first man to crass the able, and each ear carrics, equip Sahara by motorear. Yet another ment for minor repairs, through part of the expedition will operate a fund where there are no servic. later this summer from Peking, stations en route. driving weal across Mongolian To keep the front wheels from deserts and the plateau of Chinese sinking in sand and marshy Turkestan. The two sections will ground the new cars have a roller must at Kashgar in mid-Aria, afixed to the bumper. The device making a thorough survey of the looks like a gasoline tank at the land and peoples of Ahat littles wrong end, but when the front of known region of Asin.
the car sinks the sand the round Coming South,
tank supports the weight of the After returning to Peking, the front end and revolves the entire expedition will turn south, caterpillars push the car ahead. !< Saigon,
French Indo-China, Each unit of the expedition then traversing India, Beluchistan will carry a radio station which and Arabia to round out an over will operate on both short and land trip of 2101C than 15,000 long wave-lengths. One ear of miles. The expedition will be in each unit will be devoted solely the fik about 18 months. to radio communication and at all Paris.
times will keep in touch with
WORLD FLIGHT
ATTEMPT.
EFFORT TO CREATE NEW RECORD.
MOTOR DRIVER
KIDNAPPED.
CAR FOUND ABANDONED AT LO WU.
Indications of a premeditated plot to kidnap a motor-cae driver
Roosevelt Field, N.Y., May 20. Mr. Wiley Post, winner of several
were revented in a report which was national non-stop aeroplane races, issued from Police Headquarters
male 36 for 2 when the game for announced to-day that he will take this morning concerning the myo- off next week in an effort to flyterious disappearance of a Chin- around the world in less than ten days.
minated.
COMPLETE WASHOUTS.
No Result at Swansea
or Worcester.
His plane is at Roosevelt Field, Work on preparing it for the flight is all but complete and the noted aviator expects to start within a
Glamorgan and Hampshire carl few days for Old Orchard Beach,
obtain
four points from their maleh 1 Swansea. Glamorgan nade 165 for 7 ned declared, and Finmpshire hit up 27 for 2.
Maine, where there is a long. natural sandy runway,
From a brief intimation niade to the police it seems that three Chin- ass dressed
While there are intervals when the orchestra alone furnishes the accompaniment, il is characteris- tic of Chinese drama that dance and song are closely linked.
The show is in aid of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 4 Ministering Children's League, tickets being on sale at Moutrie's and the Lee Theatre.
Although the show starts at 8 p.m.. Dr. Mei Lan Fan will not appear until 10 p.m.
Bookings for the second evening (Tuesday) will be at the Sincere Ca.. Wing On Co., and Sun Co. The programnic on Tuesday will be "The Prince's Parting with his Favourite."
"CHARLIE."
(Continued from Page 6.) willing hands to aid in their de velopment, is there any likelihood that Charlle and his friends will feel the urge to abandon cultured case in favour of hara work?
I wonder!
hired a public motor-ear in Shan-
in European clothes PHIPPS Floats in
Street, Mengkok, at 3.50
yesterday, with instructions to be taken to Taip. The car, driven By Wing Cheung. aged 27, was From Old Orelimard, Mr. Post in necordingly engaged and the three his single motored Lockhead Vegamen conveyed to the New Terri- At Worcester, somewhat similar monoplane will By to Harbour tories. Neither the car nor the conditions prevailed. Derby Cook Grace. Newfoundland. He will then driver returned and a search wa first knock and made 175. Worsar across the Atlantic to Berlin instituted by the palice. rester made a great effort 5, and then lay his course for Moscow,
Later the car was found abandon- btain first innings point bat! Novo Sibersk, Note, Edmonton anded on the Lo Wa Military Road time and the weather werd against on to New York and what he hopes near He Sheang Chung. but the them. Thele innings was brought | will be a new record.
driver has not been located. It is Je expects To rover 19,000 believed that he has been kidnap mile on his flight. Of this 6,600 ped. miles will be over water.
14 an abrupt ending at litt for 2:
GREAT CRICKET BY SUSSEX.
Do Well to Get First Innings Points.
Sussex drew out their best cricket in order to obtain firs! innings points against Northamp tonshire at Northampton,
follow on. A better exhibition enabled the visitors to escape. They put up 95 runs for the Inas of three wickets, but still needed) 56 to avoid an innings defeat.
HURRICANE HITTING AT OXFORD,
New Zealanders Scare ut Amazing Pace,
L
L.C.C. BUDGET. TOTAL SUM OF £14,527,000
REQUIRED.
Details of the London County Council's annual estimates, show that of the total sam of £14,527,611 required, £2,950,241 for Public As sistance. and £1,511,601 for tram- ways.
A special provision of £31,950 is made for part of the cost of the
provements: £345,000 is for the.
THE CALM AFTER
THE FORM.
NONEWHERE a strand of red
tape is being tied round my | wild onts; and in some din vault being pigeon-holed. my past is | Ichabod!
If any proof were needed that truth is stranger than fiction, the eenes form which I have Slied up would be terribly convincing.
But now my soul is as dry as my fountain pen, and I am floating in the Calm after the Form.
Here I am in my ancestral seat, N.N.E. of the fireplace, with all the virtue gone out of me. I have rend, marked, squirmed, and got indigestion. Do you, felt bureau- erats, think that it has been easy for me to fill up my destiny along the d......... line?
How easily I might have twitted you with Cray:
Nor further werk his duasier to dis- close.
Only one day's play was possible Royal Victoria and other dock im-Or draw his fraillies from their
dread abode.
The Sussex bowling received considerable punishment when Northants opened the game, Timms scoring 90, while Cux fell only two runs short of a eptury. The imings closed at ina. Jumes Langridge returning good figures in the match between the New creation of the final section of the in the circumstances, taking 5 Zealanders and Oxford University County Hall, and of the total sam
How, mordantly I might have wickets for 58 rgus..
but in that short period, the to be voted to the Improvemente "Be your age! What's a scrap of kissed at the Registrar-General: Sussex pased the Northants tourists put up the collossal score Committee, £300,000 is in respect paper" total with five wickets down of 488 runs, scoring at an amazing of the reconstruction of Waterloo thanks largely to the brilliant has pree
But not for me such circum- ting of their skipper, K. 3. Vivim obtained 135, M. 1. Page Bridge, and £207,000 for widening
Bridge. £260,000 for Lambeth ambulation of Duty. Duleepsinhil, whe
madu 112. hit out for a bright 113, and Mills
Though my pen was dipped in With the score-board showing 2 Leontributed 92.
gall I drugged up my poor garish secrets until my heart was rent for the little devils lying there so helpless, blinking in the floodlight of offlelaldom.
Woe and Whoa!
H
5. stumps were drawn,
WARWICK IN LUCK.
Yorkshire's Big Hitting. Warwick obtained
Hoint more than they deserved from Yorkshire's visit to Birmingham,
Yorkshire put up the huge total of 468 runs for B wickets in condi- tions which gave no indication of the coming storm. Sutcliffe and Holmes' made a great stand for the first wicket, Sutcliffe being the first to go, after scoring 120. Holmes went on to make 2501
Rain intervened, and when Warwick were able to go in they put up a poor show, six wickets falling for 64 runs,
· SURREY IN TROUBLE.
He took seven
Putney Bridge.
H. G. Owen-Smith, the South Large sums are also to be spent African, who is now in residence on the provision of additional ac at Oxford, was the only howler ommodation for nurses and "ad- who enused the
mission villas" at various Mental visitors the Hospitals. slightest worry. wickets, but at a cost of 163 runs. Brigade amounts to £732,205, un The vote for the L. C.C. Fire Oxford made 20 for 0 in reply, increase of over £50,000, due prin
My age! Woe and woot but there was no play on Thurs-
My wife's age! Woe, woe, and day or Friday,
cipally to the need for replacement Whoa! of appliances. An increase of
Born at aoa, of naturalised Lat- about £7,000 is estimated in respect vian parents unable to speak of the L.C.C.'s contribution towards Welsh! the cost of constructing arterial
Great Zeus, destroy me with a ronds for the relief of unemploy- thunderbolt! ment.
LIGHT BLUE ROWLER'S EFFORT.
Bul Canibidge Only Just,
Esenpe, Defent,
Apprentic Master
And now even my calm 'deserts When these estimates come be me, my head wins, I see dotted Some interesting cricket was fore the Council eighteen Socialist lines in front of my eyes, and a seen at Cambridge, but the light amendments will be put forward. farrago of Instructions (ace over) Blues only narrowly escaped de-Many of them, if passed, would in are dancing a jig en my brain: feat at the hands of Nottingham- volve the Courtell in considerable shire.
"Under one additional expenditure, the demands Notis batted first and
Puddler'sTM
"Out of some including: additional
for work, provision brilliant bowling by A. G. Hazel-promoting legislation to enable the engine-driver's name?" "Brothors Home duties," "What was rigg, who took 6 wickets for 27 Council to conduct a London Muni- and alsters have I none," Brick runa, brought about their dis- elpal Bank on similar lines to that Leicester had the luck of first misal for 196. Cambridge fared conducted by the Birmingham Cort and a half weigh a pound and
half, how much innings when entertaining Surrey worse. They were all out for 162.poration; the establishment of the drive crick Engine-
In their second innings, Notts Council as. and in consequence, the Oval tenni
London's
wholesale month--" found themselves in dificulties on lared. Cambridge had obtained tun of more open
made 306 for 8 wickets and de-markot authority; the construc
air swimming
hours at L.C.C. elections.
Out for 80 at Leicester.
a wretched wicket,
one
It's lovely and cool here in the
Leicester made 237, dismissed 160 for 7 wickets when stumps baths, and the extension of polling ward. I've got quite a pretty Surrey for 86 and obliged them to were drawn.-Reuter.
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Violoncella Sufe-Song Without Words,
In D Mendelsohn).
Pablo Casals.
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Fox Trot-Cheerful Little Earful. Fox Trot-I Miss A Little
Miss. 2366-1,
Fox Trat-Overnight, Fox Trot-To Whom It May
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Fox Trat Walkin' My Baby
Back Tome. 2404-D. Waltz-Walling by The Silv'ry
Rio Grande. Waltz-I'm Alone Because }
Love You, 2330-D. Fox Trot-The-Little Things
in Life. 233-1-D. Fox Trut-Sweetheart of My
Student Dayn. · 2331-D. Fox Trot-Who's Calling You
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Waltz-Don't Forget me In Your
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11.30 p.ni. Close Down. SUNDAY'S PROGRAMME.
10.00-11.00 a.m. St. Joseph's Church Service Reiny-Sermon-(Duty to God). "The Meaning of Religion" by the Rev. Fr. Kennedy S.J.
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Dorn Labbette anil Norman Ailin. 4730. Plano Solo-Ballado No. 1 in G Minor
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Robert Casadosua, 0400. Organ Solo-Avo Maria (Schubort).
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