TEST TEAM SURPRISE
P. F. WARNER TO VISIT AUSTRALIA
AS JOINT MANAGER
London, Juno 5. The Test Match selection committee has invited D.R. Jardine the Surrey captain and England cricketer to visit Australia in September as skipper of the English
team.
Mr. P. F. Warner and Mr. R. C. N. Palairet will go as joint managers-Birtish Wireless.
The selection of Jardine to fill the important role of leader of the Englab cricket team, which goes to Australia in the autumn in an endeavour to wrest the "Ashes" From
the Australians, will not surprise, as it was come as any fairly indicated by his selection as captain of the South eleven against the North last month, and Inter as skipper of the English side against All-India, that he was well in the running for the honour.
them to 1929-9.
RACING PONY
DESTROYED
SHOT AFTER PLUNGE IN HARBOUR
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932.
WATERLOO BRIDGE,
THE RATE AT WHICH
IT IS SINKING
HOWLERS FROM FRANCE
(Continued from_Page_6.)
Whilst the London County Coun-a lighter side of International re- comedy. The curse of Babel does The Australian pony, Watile,ell are considering the new situa- lations, that is always rich in was destroyed yesterday after ation caused by the defeat of their have its compensations,
I do not know what truth there distressing accident near the Star proposal to build a new Waterloo Ferry wharf, Kowloon.
Bridge, the old bridge is still gra- is in the cartoon which, depicting Selzed with sudden fright dually sinking and, as their en- 2 Frenchman bidding effusive warned them, has farewell to a party of English swhile being led on to the ferry gindera havo
end of its effective friends, credits him with the re- the pony escaped from the maloo come to the
the harbour. Hife.
1 mark-Well, if I not and jumped into
BCC
you
free
are
After swimming in the direction There is, indeed, the possibility again, "ello!" If this la not true, of Hongkong, it turned back to that the bridge, under certain it might be. Certainly the stories the wharf, where its head became catastrophic conditions, might col- that I propose quoting are jammed between two piles. The
Inpse. Profesnor Adshead has guaranteed authentic, and pony must have suffered excruciat-
sinted how such calamity from all culinary artifice. released ing pain while being
Countless lingüistic errors lighter by might occur from this position.
crashing into one of the piers due to what has been aptly term- "the hypnotism of the After several unsuccessful after a sudden further shrinkage ed attempts to get the pony ashore, of the old timber pile foundations homonym," that deceptive simi- Mr. C. M. Manners, of the Hong- at a moment when, in the midst farity between certain native and kong and Kowloon Wharf and Go of a flood tide, there happened to foreign words that down Company, arrived and under be a concentration of heavy traffic, Frenchman to startle an his directions Wattle was assisted on the weakest spot on the road- Scot by walking into his
A
caused one
exiled
room
Bug-
up the steps of a nearby pier. way. Mr. Herbert Morrison, too, with the remark, "I hope I don't
veterinary surgeon who who was Minister of Transport in derange you."
On offering assistance on one examined the animal inter-found the last Government, says he has
hind legs that one of the
was never met an engineer, either dur- ocension to a Cherbourg school animal WAS thening or since his term of office, who boy, whose worried frown broken. The destroyed by the bumane killer. would give him any guarantee that gested the imminent shipwreck of
translation; it stands, is his English
I was the bridge, 18 absolutely safe.
waved away, with
n courageous, "No thank you, sir. It is not zee pain."
MOTOR CYCLE
SPILL
NEW TERRITORIES INCIDENT
Prince, one
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It was nine years ago that the attention of the Council was first
Sometimes the verbal shot rawn to a settlement which had occurred in one of the piers, No. 6 misses the bull by the margin of from the north side of the bridge, aingle letter. Reproducing the Opinions are divided as to the
Steps were then taken in the hope gist of an article dealing with our suitability of Jardine as opposed
that It might be arrested, but it democratic to the claims of A. P, F. Chapman, j the Kent cricketer and captain of
Mr. W. C. Routley, land bailiff was found that, in view of the type Cherbourgeois solemnly declared the English team which regained in the New Territories, was the of construction of the foundations, that our heir apparent could often snit. Another de- the "Ankes" in 1926 and retained victim of a motor crash yesterday could only be interpreted as a be seen strolling down Piccadilly Abel's Herehnite (Mini-rzen)
clared that his favourite season aftenoon when, driving a motor-warning that the effective life of, without his yele, and having a man named the bridge was coming to an end,
The following table shows the was the sprint. a piltion rider, he
"To ride on back-horse" is quite besme
uncated when enden-amount of the settlement of thel Kouring to avoid collision with a
piers of the bridge from 1829 to common blunder, but unique in
rear the arches the true sense was the slip of one | violin Solo Porm (Fibleh-Kubelki. the bus on the Saikung Road. 1924, in which Mr. Routley states that the ins, adjoining pier No. 5 were shored young man who, evidently an ar No. 693, appeared without warning up and their burden lightened, and dent modernist, sang Froni a cross-street, and he swerv- the further settlement that has raises of Christmas ed sharply round to avoid being,laken place in the last eight years:
machine into. The badanced and he, with the Chines riding pillion, was thrown to the ground. Buth men received con- fusions and sératches, but were not
The inclusion of 1. F. Warner and R. C. N. Palairet as joint manager is an unexpected move, but, with their valuable experience to assist the team, a very wise one.
IRISH TARIFFS
Chan Yuk ng
1110
• Continued from Pape 1. de Valera that the annuities were the result of solemn agreement.seriously hurt. Mr. de Valera replied that he was unaware of this undertaking, and four days later Mr. Thomas gave the terms and dates of the agre ments.
ONLY ALTERNATIVE.
Nothing further happened until The meetings in Dublin and Low- don, at which offer of an Empire Tribunal was advanced. Mr. de Valera refused, and now raised not only the land annuities ques- tion, but every issue made by his
predecessor in the last ten years
in respect of financial matters.
the
FORMER
over-
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INTERMENT
SUGGESTED BURIAL IN PORTUGAL
(Reuter's Special Servico).
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Press
From North
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1820 16
1921 1
1024
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Tuent 1902 Settlement Thehe..
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0.425
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0,54 28,88
10.08
2.045
13,025
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2.83
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0.025
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Crusoe's Describing Robinson terror on finding the mysterious another foot-print in the sand, youth produced a curious linguis tir hybrid. Confusing our idiom "at top speed" with the French a fontes jambes, he drew a vivid picture of Robinson running away "at zee top of 'is Ings."
If that was Mr. de Valera's a- | Government should insist on his similar to that which occurred who answered, "Oh, no, only for-
the Government
proposed now
Interment.
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to Foreign customs. Reenied Pier No. 5 is also 5 inches out have reached the limit of eccen
Scotsinau in a of plumb. Pier No. 6, although trinity when a sharing in the partial relief of its French cafe was politely inform dead fond with pier Se, 5, hased that one of the waiters was It is dis- sunk, it will be seen, nearly three wearing the spoons. inches in the past eight years, and appointing to learn that in the merely piers No. 2 and 3 each show in-end an apologetic garcon ereasing subsidences of nearly an brought them quite normally on a
tray. inch and a half.
How illogical, not to any ab- Besides these continuing settle-surd, many of our colloquialisms aroused by the death of ex-King ments there is the danger that a must seem to the foreigner. Our
sub- Manoel that the greater part of other occurrence of rapid
that declares
the sidence of a part of the bridge,mpathy is with the young Swiss wards!" when asked whether he titude, the only alternative for the
and for-
NOT TO MÉDIATE British taxapayer was one which,dy being brought to Portugal for
wards to work on his motor bike.
IN DISPUTE It is suggested that he should
It is now more than seven years Perhaps he imagined that this 1 Mr. de Valera bad arged that buried in the Church of Sao since the timber supports on which ubiquitous vehicle was construc-
General Tsai Ting-kai, officer the burden which the annuities Vincente, beside his father and the safety of the bridge dependsted with a "reverse" in Scotland. commanding the Nineteenth Route involved should tre considered
brother, who were assassinated were put in, and prior to the Belief's little less startling are Army, returned to Hongkong yes- and be made The subject, of
fore ex-King Manoel's,own eyes Council's proposal to build a new entertained by many foreigners | negotiation and consultation, the
terday from Canton after a series in 1908.
bridge a question arose about their concerning the Land of Cakes.
Canton Government would not have 1
renewal. This would be an under-These superstitutions are mainly of conferences with the fused.
Kuomintang Party leaders, taking, the Improvements Commit- concerned with costume and tee reported, which would be both dietary. There is, for example, a While admitting the intention of difficult and costly. The supports French proverb to the effect that his Army to establish a new Fly. were substantial when put in, bat: "there are two kinds of Scotsmen, ing Corps in Fukien, General Tsai in addition to the risks from fire those who drink whisky and talk was emphatic in saying that the and collision. they are liable to and those who drink 10 whisky Nineteenth Route Arc would decline in medinte for peace be- This reminds me of certain | tween General Chan Chai-tong and commercial slogans prominently the Hainan "rebellious" Navy. displayed in Cherbourg shops
Mr. Thomas asked the con- fidence of the House for the Gov- ernment to impose, in their own way, duties which would runle them to obtain the amount. but no mure.
tine,
-LABOUR AMENDMENT.
An amendment moved by the Labour Party urged resort to ar- bitration, the personnel to be de- termined, in case of disagreement, by the Ottawa Conference.
SHIP'S CAPTAIN
ROBBED
NOTES STOLEN FROM erosion.
CABIN
મ The loss through theft of considerable sum of money
has been reported to the police by Captain Gillespie, of the as. Wo
J'ing-yec.
OVER
DISPUTE
PIECEGOODS
and don't talk."
with the manifest intention of General Tsai is leaving for catching the eye of American | Fukien in one or two days where tourists homeward-bound for the he will assume the task of direc land of dollars and hypothetical ting an expedition against 50,000 drought. One of these was ax Communist bandits. The Canton fine a "bull" as ever came out of Government authorities have pro- the Emerald Isle. It read: "Irish | raised to render financial assistance
towards this expedition. Scotch whisky sold here."
Another notice that 48માં to figure in a St. Malo shop window arrival of the goods) without a will doubtless now have vanished. British visitors blessed with a denial of contractual liability made to the plaintiffs themselves
Mr. Arthur Greenwood (la-
While the vessel was alongside Continued from Page 1) bour), after crilieising the Gov-
on Sunday, ernment for lack of patience, de- the Chiu On Wharf
some person Further the plaintiffs may quote vlared that arbitration was still states the master,
a the retention by the defendants of entered his cabin and stole the way out of the difficulty, -
contained the material document (the con- Sir Austen Chamberlain said leather case, which there could be no question that a three $100 bills, and also three tract itself and the two notices of prosperous Irish peasantry
WAS
£10 notes. the result of the credit extended The victim suspects a cabin bay to Ireland for the
purchase as being the culprit.
CASHIER WHO IS "WANTED"
WARRANT ISSUED
FOR ARREST
Police Headquarters stated to
me.
Wednesday. .01.17/32 .18.47%
EXCHANGE RATES
Yesterday.
9284
18.22%
.15.12%
14.07%
.20.59/16
20.5/16
.215
236
560
650
Nom.
York
.1/7.13/16 3.594 8,01
1/7%
3.56
8.80%
33
43.11/16
434
.COM
600
.1/3.11/32
13%
121%
25.87% .70.0/16
26.65
120%
.183%
19,17/32
as evidence corroborative of the sense of humour used to admire of land. He did not believe that
broker's statement. And so it is.it as a supreme example of com- Mr, de Valera in this matter spoke
But, even with this support the mercial candour, though the irony. the mind of a race that was never
broker's evidenen does not satisfy was unpremeditated. The legend Gene thus-English MoneyBerlin angenerous and always faithful to
Morcover, I cannot find that its plighted word. It was not be
the defendants' contract has treat. Taken." It was taken right wil-Olo
ingly in these days. But alas! Helsingfors cause Mr. de Valera did not think
ed any contract by estoppel.
is Athens..... he would not get a fair verdict
(to misquote Villon) "where from an Empire Tribunal that he
CLAIM FAILS.
the pound of yester-year?" Which Duenos Aires...Nom. rejected it, but because he was as
For this reason I decide that question, after this brief excur- Shanghai
sion into lighter things, brings New unwilling to recognise the British Commonweal of Nations as he was
the plaintiffs' claim for damages us back to the pressing problems Amsterdam
Vienna. Madrid to maintain the Treaty. There day that a warrant has been issued for breach of contract cannot of the hour. A. A.
Bucharest, never was a time when it was more for the arrest of Chan Shing-tack, succeed.
Hongkong. important that the sancity of n cashier in the employ of the This being so, the question of treaties should be upheld.
Brussels China Light & Power Company, the sufflelency of the memorandum
LOCAL ESTATES.
Milan. Later, the House approved of the Ltd.. on a charge of embezzling in writing does not arise. I would
Prague imposition of the duties by 220funds to the amount of $8,100. like to state, however, that the
Stockholm.. votes to 31.--Reuter and British Chan Shing-tack has been miss-memoranda, namely, the two PROPERTY OF OFFICIAL OF
Copenhagen 18 Wireless,
ing it is alleged, since Wednesday, acknowledgments previously re-
HONGKONG BANK
Lisbon. He Is 30 years of age and sferred to. do not seem to satisfy
Rio. married.
the provisions of section 4 of the
Letters of administration in the
Bombay Sales of Goods Ordinance and for estate of the late Mr. Alfred Douglas Yokohama the reason that they have not been Watton, an official of the Hongkong Montevideo. "made and signed by the party to and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Montreal. be charged or his agent in that have been grouted to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. N. Watton of Surrey, behalf."
England. The
local estate had been I have given judgment for the valued at $31,330.35. defendants, because the plaintiffs Letters of administration have alan have not discharged an
granted in the estate of the late resting upon them.
Wong Shau-kal, merchant, to his Wong Chau-shi. Realty and widow The conduct of the defendant's It is officially stated that as n
Probate of the will of Tae Yue-ko, reqult of the conferences in Shang-manager has, in my opinion, not personalty total 818 400.
straightforward. If the merchant, has been granted. The Mr. Harrison Hughes, the prom hai between Messrs. T. V. Soonk.been inent ship-owner, was to-day un-Ho Ying-ching and Wang Ching-market had followed a different trustees of the catate, which has been animously elected Vice-President of wel, that the monthly military bud-course, the defendants might also valued at $20,800, are Tae Kui-yuon (eldest son) and. Tao Loung-ahi properties (daughter-in-law). Two Cannal Company in got has been fixed at $18,000,000 bave acted differently.
I give judgment for the defon- are to be held in trust for a son and succession to Lord Inchipe representing an increase of $5,000,-
000 monthly.-Reuter.
dants, but without costs, Rentor.
SUCCESSOR TO LORD INCHAPE
MR. HUGHES ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF SUEZ CANAL CO.
the Suez
Paris, July 5.
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MONTHLY
Nanking, July 5.
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CHOLERA EXTENDS
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epidemic, which has been raging round the coast, is now striking further inland,
The disease has obtained a grip of. Suiyuan and Shensi Provincen and in North Honan there are marg hundreds
datly. of fresh cases
heavy Tho mortality is very Reuters Special.