RAIN AGAIN AFFECTS BASEBALL
Causes Postponement of Three Matches
SERIOUS FAIR
PROBLEM
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NEW PEACE FORMULA
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public, namely the matsheds on the it will be prepared to confer ground opposite the hotel. Owing with a vit to Intercede for
to the Fire Brigade restrictions we were unable to erect a mat-peace
in the
purpose
event of
con-
conven-
Washington, May 24.. Three postponementa in
ting balustrade around that por-sultations with other Powera for the tion ao that the public have free this Major Baseball Longues pro-accers. The committee did, at an pursuant to the appropriate arti- being arranged, gramme were caused by rain to early stage, consider the desirabi cle of the Disarmament day, and in the Philadelphia y St. lity of making a charge for adtion. Louis encounter, a thunderstorm mission but the suggestion was broke over the ground after the thrown out by a majority vote. sixth innings bringing the game to an abrupt end.
SCARCITY OF HELPERS,
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933.
ASTON VILLA'S BIG CAPTURE
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football Dix scored over 200 goale and Immediately on leaving he nigned for Bristol Rovers, playing
age of 15. la his first League match at the
PALACE RETENTIONS.
Wolverhampton's recruit is §. | Protheroe, the 19-year-old Merthyr outside-left, while Chariton have "In the event of a decision deter-signed as a profesalonal J. Aitken,] mining the aggressor following also an outside-laft, from Canter- Another defeat for the New
such a consultation and In the tury Waverley. York Giants and Pittsburgh's nose
My suggestion for overcoming event of the United States Govern- unt of Brooklyn were the featurca thir difficulty next year in to in the National League, whilat charge a substantial sum, say $1.ment agreeing with this in its in- Detrult and Philadelphin helped for admission on the first day as dependent judgment, it will under- to refrain from any action themselves to points.
is done in all big shown the world take
un-and to withhold its protection from Results as cabled by Reuter over. That would keep the
wanted away on the first day, its citizens who might engage in were:
Then for the remaining days activities which tend to defent the charge of saya 20 cents could be collective effort which the States made which would he willingly
In collective consultation may paid by all who were really inter- think it necessary to decide upon
against the aggressor.
NATIONAL LEAGUE...
R. II.
E. 6 14 0 5 13 Q
for Brooklyn
and Vaughan for Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
(Lopez bomered
Cincinnati
New York
Chicago
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ented in the Fair.
Crystal Paince have placed thef following players on the retained list:
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PROGRAMME OF RECORDED MUSIC
From Z. B. W., on wave length of 355 metren (84.5 k/c.),
6-8 p.m. European programme. 6-6.18 p.m.
Ballet Egyptian Bulje (Luigini)— New Light Symphony Orchestra €1254/C1255 Selection The Maid of the Moun-
6.18-6.45 p.m. Musical Comedy,
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. C1881 Vocal Gema-Dear Love- Light Opera Company
C1809 Selection-No, No, Nanetto-- Now Mayfair Orchestra C1887 Vocal Gems-The Three Musketeers C1890
Dunn, Turner, Parry, WIlde,Light Opera Company. borts, Mandera, Turnbull, God- Nicholas, Harry, Simpson, Ro- dard, Barrie, Fyfe, Parker, Tyler, and Rooke.
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to
are
Terms have been offered Brown. May and Clarke (W.). FRANCE BETTER PLEASED.
Rivers and Clarke (G.) open to transfer, and these have Monsieur Paul-Boucourbeen granted free transfers: (France) congratulated Sir John
Crilly, Simon and Mr.
Jurris, Charlesworth Davis and welchford, Smith, Doncaster, Berry, comed the new formula as a great Nash, Allen, Knight, Walters, step towards the pence of world.
Traynor and McGregor.
If we were to try and arrange scheme now, it would mean a tremendous amount of organising and would take a couple of days to get going. Then again there is a scarcity of helpers, b 10 4
Next year Wo
shouldincrease Philadelphin..... 2 8 0
the Pavillon space to double and (Klein homered for Philadelphia make a similar increase in regard
The discussion on the revised and Warneke and Hartnett forto ganways which are far from
satisfactory this year. We could British plan
proceeded through- Chicago)
The German The match between St. Louis encircle the pavilion with a hamut the afternoon. and Boston was postponed in boo and matting fencing far delerate said that Germany was account of rain,
enough away from the actual stands Willing to accept the British Plon to meet the requirements of the but strongly urged that the German Fire Brigade, and avoid all fire right of equality should be speci- risks. Entrances and exits could tently rendered. in writing he arranged at convenient points. incorporated in the text
part-British Wireless.
AMERICAN LEAGUE, Washington.....
Detroit
1 I F 10
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(Habel homered for Washing- ton)
Philadelphia
St. Louis
HOTEL PROBLEM.
7 3 2 4
be idler would The
rother difleuit to
out in carry
the
علوم
(Only six innings were played on account of a thunderstorm breaking over the playing field)
Boston Chicago and New York y Cleveland games were postponed through rain.
WHITE PYGMIES
- DISCOVERED
IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
Paria.
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A race of White Pygmies described by three Frenchmen who have landed at Morsgilles after an expedition lato the heart Africa.
These three explorers, MM Martineau, Lesourd and Zakler. were sent by n Paris newspaper
of
and the
DIAMOND OF
Milwall have offered terms to Wilson, Yuill, Sweetman, Walsh, Pipe, Newcomb, Hancock, Graham. Swatiow, Forsyth, Bloxham, Hor- kins, Poxton anu Moseley.
ton, Robert, Bend, Hookings, Har-
Brighton have re-signed Webb, Marsden, Wilkinson, Brett, Thompson, Farrell Smith, Witaon.
15 RETAINED AT DELL
Southampton have decided to retain 16 playera for next season.
Peninsula Hotel proper and would ILL-LUCK IN PAWN Six have been given free trans-
require careful consideration.! One way of overcoming it would| he to have one entrance and ong exit so that there was a stream of people all going in the same dir; ectium the whole time. This would avoid congestion to a great extent.
ITS HISTORY OF DISASTER
The famous Hope diamond, of My own personal feeling is that sinister reputation, is among the we should call a meeting in the collection of gems that originally next few weeks of all exhibitors, cost millions of dollars which has and all interested in the Fair, to been pawned with a Washington discuss these problems and consi-dealer by Mrs. Evelyn Walsh Me- der what is to be long in the fu- Lean. ture, if a Fair is held here.
month.
SAMPLE HUNTERS.
She Is raising a loan with which he hopes to save for her three children the Washington Post." now in receivership.
fers and one, Frank Osborne has been placed on the open-to-trans- fer list. Players retained are: Scriven, Adams, Sillett Roberts, Campbell, Bradford Woodhouse, Veni, Brewis, Drake, Holt, Ruddy, Lareketi, Cole and King.
to Riley, Bishop. Dunmore, Harris, Free transfers have been given Collins and Cable.
Charlton Athletic are offering terms to resign to:
Robertson
Rustic Wedding Sympliony (Gold- mark, Op. 20)---Vienna 'Philharmonie Orchestra conducted by Robert He- ger,
'M-103 All recoxia in the above European Mesare, S. Moutrie & Co. programmes are "kindly supplied by
7.25-8 p.m.
The entire musical numbern of "He Wanted Adventure"-Hobby Howes; Judy Gunn, Marie Burke, Raymond Newell, Wylie Watson, with Theatre Chorus & Orchestra conducted by Joseph Tunbridge DX450/DX402. Messrs. Anderson Music Co.)
(This Suite is kindly lonned by
Report Local Time and Weather
8 p.m.
8.3-10.30 p.m. Chinese Concert from the Studio.
10.30 p.m. Itugby Mid-day Press. News.
10.35 p.m.
Close Down.
THREE PERISH IN FARM FIRE
CHILDREN HANDED DOWN THROUGH SKYLIGHT
A woman #d two children house about two miles from Aber perished in a fire at a lonely farm-
lour, Banffshire, early yesterday, and her husband, who made herold efforts at rescue, and another child are in hospital.
The victims were: Mrs. Thomson (21), wife of John
Thomson,
Roderick
Thomson. her 18- months'-old son, and Mary Thomson, the eight-year- old sister-in-law of Mrs. Thom-
son.
The husband is suffering from Vickers (goal), (back), Morris and Rankin (half-aged three and a half, is in a criticni burns, and his daughter, Minnie, backs), Robinson, Black and James
condition. (forwards), have been
When the outbreak was dis-
goalkeepers; fvill, Smith, Baker, Wright (A) and Wright (H E), "I see no reason why next year we should not run a World Fair,
Oates and Baikyard, backs; Job- We know we will be about 70 per
ling, Pugsley and Biswell, half- cent British with the strong re-
backs; Wilkinson, Kenyon. Black- presentation we have of British
Mr. McLean is estranged fromwell, Nash, Yardley, Pearce Boul- Firms in the Colony. That is her husband, Mr. Edward D. ter, Doherty Hobbis and Moore, big thing to hope for and would McLean, son of the late John R. ferwards. have to be run for probably McLean, who, of
with his great wealth to back him, made of the "Washington Post" one of the most influential newspapers in the As at most similar exhibitions country. The newspaper was left placed on the open-to-transfer list. covored Mr. Thomson broke a sky- to investigate the lives, of these samples hunters were in promin-in trust for the McLean children by Free transfers have been granted light and leapt to the ground.
ence at the Fair yesterday and their grandfather.
to Harbot and Major. everywhere one could hear the
Securing
ladder, he entered the query "Have you any samples?
Birmingham have signed three bedroom and carried his daughter from the Europeans and English Mr. Edward McLean bought the centre-half from Northwich: F.ing her blazing nightdress.
young players). I, fughes, Minnic to safety after extinguish. speaking members of other na- Hope diamond for his beautiful Harris, tionalities or vau pan mow?" wife, the daughter of Thomas F. Osborne Ath.. Birmingham; and an inside-right from: From the hundreds of Chinese pre-Walsh, a Colorado millionaire, in F. Clack, goalkeeper. sent who surged round the stands 1911,
three years after their grabbing every piece of literature marriage. He gave about £36,000 they could lay their hands on. for it.
strange people,
They landed at Dakar (Senegal), travelled inland via Bamako and Gao to the Scoundou region, and firally reached the almost unknown tract of country where the White Pygmies ve.
The White Pygmies are a very primitive race, about three feet high, with enormous head, Their skin is light in colour, and they keep themselves strictly apart from other trilies and live by hunting elephants and antelopes. Reuter.
VENICE NO MORE AN ISLAND
JOINED TO MAINLAND BY BRIDGE
The result was that soon after
£360,000 Deal
the opening, the stands were prae- The agreement with the jeweller, tiently bare of pamphlets giving M. Pierre C. Cartier, contained details of special goods and there this significant clause: "Should any fatality occur in the family of were no samples for late comers.
Edward B. McLean within six months, the said Hope diamond is agreed to be exchanged for jewel- lery of equal value."
COLDEST EVER
NEAREST APPROACH TO ABSOLUTE ZERO
A "good luck" toast was drunk merrily in champagne by the
seller, the purchaser and their lawyers. But it was not very long before there began a series of In two countries overseas renew-quarrels between Mr. Mclean and Venice,
ed.attacks are being made on one his wife. of the strongest uf Unconscious that it was making
nature's These led to their separation and history, a cart horse inaugurated citadels "absolute zero," the low- the new bridge which mukest possible temperature, at which endless litigation. Venice, for the first time in its all motion censes and even the rest-
legaly moving atom is stilled. history, no longer an island.
California, From Berkeley, Reuter message announces that
The bridge crosses the Lagoon and the Grand Canal and links
Overcome by Smoke
When he bad mounted the ladder Players retained by Watford a second time his wife handed him are: Slater, Brown, Dwington, their son Roderick. Climbing to Lewis, Findlay, Wood-Ward, Chap-the bedroom a third time, Mr. mun, Barnett, Lane, Lowe. Davies, Thomson managed to bring his Carter, Moran.
SHOT-BUT DIED FROM FALL
DIRECTOR WHO
WENT CROW-SCARING
wife to the skylight, and was lift. ing her through when she was overcome by the smoke and fell back into the room.
Thomson again entered the room, but owing to the dense smoke was unable to find his wife. Almost suffocated, he ecrambled to the sky- (light and fell to the court below.
When he recovered he ran bare- [footed for a quarter of a mile to
another house for help.
linoleum manufacturer, was found ren were rushed to hospital, where Mr. Alexander II. Dewar, 21 Mr. Thomson and his two child- dead at the foot of aren steps at Roderick died shortly afterwards, his home at Blackheath recently. Beneath him lay a shotgun.
Although pellets from the gun £1,770,000 FOR CLERGY dia-lieved to have been due to thehad entered ale body, death is be-
STIPENDS fractured skull.
The greatest disaster in McLeans' ownership of the reyear-old son, Vinson, known as the mond was the death of their 10- the city with the mainland.. It is search workers in the State Uni-]£20,000,000 baby. He was killed i
versity have attained the lowest by a motor-car outside his home, (272.8 C) within one-fifth of a temperature yet reached by man degree of the lovest possible tem-.
one of the longest in Europe.. *
The Mayor of Venice was to have inaugurniod the bridge by
perature
Executed Queen driving over it in a car. But a
Murder, madness, suicide, pover- horse, harnessed to an empty cart
And Professor P. Kapitza, the to have followed the owners of the ty and other misfortunes are said standing near the entrance to the bridge, decided otherwise, before Russian scientist for whom speeing world-famous blue diamind since the amazed spectators could in-low-temperature laboratory terfere, it had pulled its cart over recently built by the note very sold it to Louis XIV. more than Tavernier, the Belgian traveller, at Cambridge, explained to a repre- sentative of the "Morning Post" 280 years ago. bow a
into Venice.
Ho is the only horse to have an opportunity of crossing the new bridge for it is part of a motor way" and is forbidden to horse trame.-Reuter.
KING RECEIVES AMBASSADOR
M. CORBIN PRESENTS
CREDENTIALS
London, May 24. The newly appointed French Ambassador, Monsieur Corbin, was received by the King at Bucking- ham Palace to-day and presented hia Lattor of Credence-British Wirates.
|
German scientist
was
Its owners have included Queen
planning to reach to within une-Marie Antoinette, who died on the hundredth of a degree or less scaffold in the French Revolution of the absolute zero."
and Sultan Abdul Hamid, who was Professor Kapitza stated that deposed by the Young Turks, the results already obtained would usafat scientists to explain many of The present Duke of Newcastle the mysteries of solid matter, in- inherited the gem in 1893. I was cluding the conductance of cles originally the eye of a Burmese tricity by metals and their maxidol and the legend is that the idol notic properties.
Jafd a curse on the stone." -
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF HOPE IS A LIGHT DIET, BUT VERY STIMULATING.—Balzac.
Struck by a bus at Kennedy Town, Wong Kwong was admitted
right hand,
to
2
The police were inclined to think that the gun was accidental- ly discharged as Mr. Dewar was descending the stairs and that the shock caused him to stumble and strike his head.
Mr. Dewar, who was 58. WAA
chairman and managing director Company, Ltd., and we at Pads of the Greenwich Inlaid Linoleum Lodge. Blackhealth, which stands in grounds 40 acres in extent,
Before breakfast he went out to
WORK OF ECCLESIASTICAL
COMMISSIONERS
The income of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, for the year preceding November 1 issued, totalled £3,371,701. Jast, according to their report
•
the rental of estates, £1,179,713 This included £1,315,002 from from dividonds and interest, and scare away carrion crows, which employed in payments to benefices,
£244,579 brought forward. had been worrying his chickens, bishops, and chapters, and in The 14:123] of £2,873,230 wns.
taking the shot-gun, which VAA kept in the basement,
defraying other charges, while £411,092 When he did not return a search capital for the further endowment appropriated as
found near the place whore was begun and his body was of benefices, shotgun is stored.
the After allowing for other ex- Mr. Dewar, a Scotsman, leaves award was £257,378 18A. 6. Tho penditure, the balance carried for- widow and three daughtera. He net rental from the Commission- was amember of the Blackhealthers' estates shows a further sab Congregational Church and of the atantial decronsa mainly due to West Kent Scientific Soalety.
He took considerable interent in agricultural depression. Hospital yesterday with an Injured district, and from time to time he
Since their establishment 02 the unemployment question 'In the
ago, the Commissioners gave valuable asalstance to the have permanently augmented or Chan Wai, a dyer, when he accidental- A would-be suleide, Fung Kwok- Greenwich Unemployed Center, endowed upwards of 0,200 bone- ly fell into a vat of dyos at Yaumati leung, was rescued from the harbour He Was Involved in an accident cos, the value of these grants yesterday. He was in a critical state yesterday by a seaman of the some time ago, which left him exceeding £1,770,000 per annum in when conveyed to Hospital.
met with a bad knee.
perpetuity.
Severe scalds were suffered by
vehicular ferry, Man Kin,
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