C.P.R. PRESIDENT'S The
MESSAGE
Mighty
BETTER HOPES FOR Bradman
NEW YEAR
The following New Year tolo-
gram has been received locally SETS NEW RECORD
from Mr. E. W. Beatty, K.C., Chairman & President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Montreal, addressed to all officers and, employees of the Company:
IN AUSTRALIA.
Sydney, Jan. 2.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934.
LONDON STOCK
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Don Bradman, greatest of Aus-feature. "Although for nearly five years tralia's batsmen, secred a sparkling adverse economie conditions have 258 against Queensland to-day in a curtalled the revenues of the Com-Shefeld Shield match. pany, the strenuous efforts of By his brilliant scoring in the lust Canadian Pacific oflicera ánd em- few days, Bradman has now aggregnt- ployees to meet the situationed 1,000 runs for the sixth successive without sacrificing operating son, & feat unprecedented in Aus- offelency deserve all praise and tralian cricket hlatory, have, qualified us to benefit from any improvement which should no- company a renewal of trade. So far as one can judge from reliable statistical surveys, conditiona in Canada and elsewhere have shown
Bradman was assisted by Kippax, signs of improvement within the who acored 125 in 172 minutes, in- last few months and If this Im-cluding twelve four's, and between provement continues we may look them they created a new Australian forward to a brighter year in 1934 record for a third wicket partnership, than that which has closed. The totalling 303-Rauter. trade of Canada is, however, no much influenced by the uncertainty of general world conditions that
To-day his innings was characteris- ftic, his driving daring, his guiling de- lightful. He batted for 204 minutes, during which time he scored four sixes and 29 four's.
CARRIES HIS BAT,
Melbourne, Dec. 28,
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| COMBATANTS KNOCK- ED UNCONSCIOUS
CHAIRS AS WEAPONS
"I object to that man cleaning his finger nails in public.”
These words, directed at a man on the platform, were the, signal for a wild scene at a Fascist meet- ing in Trinity Hall, Great Port land-street, fast month, '
Immeriately the place was in uproar, half the audience standing up shouting "Apology." Black Shirts moved to eject the Interrupter and a moment later Aghting began.
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Foreign Bonds and Banks. it is wise to continue with The feature of the Sheffield Shield German 75% Int.
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Wales, which ended here to-day in a Japan 6 Sterling
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With the appointment by the Government of the new C. N. R. Board of Trustees, which has full, power granted under this Act to co-operato with the Direc- tors of the Canadian Pacific Rail- Way Company, it is expected that tho
of co-operation which have been recommended by these Committees will be extended in the hope of still further Im- proving the financial position of both railways.
mensures
"I am gratified to think that the difficult years through which we have been passing have demon- strated so effectively the Nourcefulness and loyal co-opera- tion of our officers and employees, and feel sure that so fine a spitit will enable us to successfully overcome any difficulties that may for the time being hamper our progress, Herewith I send you my sincere wishes for good health and happiness during the coming year. -E. W. Beatty."
MURDER
ARREST
AT LANTAU
SAMPAN WOMAN
MISSING
ar-
Cheung Chau police have rested Wong Ma-chau, n Hoklo flaherman, and charged him with the murder of a sampan woman between December 27 and Decem- ber 29.
Scores were: Victoria 382 and 200; New South Wales 356 and 144 for one.-Reuter.
LOCAL HOCKEY
H.K.S. BRIGADE DEFEAT ST. ANDREW'S CLUB
The Hongkong-Singapore Brigade I.A. defeated St. Andrew's Club by a goal to nil in a friendly hockey fixture on the Marina ground yes terday afternoon,
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|M.C.C. DRAW MATCH
India Eleven Makes Fine Recovery
knock, Nichols taking four wickets India scored only 168 in their first for 34, The M.C.C. replied with 279 for five and declared. Valentine and Nichols had 74 and 79 respectively.
Calentin, Jan. 2. According to statements made
The Marylebone C.C. tourists finish to the police, the woman, accompanied a drawn match against an India ed by the accused and two other eleven here to-day. men, left Cheung Chau Island in' a small boat at 4 a.m. on Decem ber 27. Before, their departure. they told the villagers that they were going to a near-by island to cut grusa, but soon after leaving Cheung Chau
the boat headed out to sen.
When the hout returned Cheung Chau the Woman was missing and Wong Ma-chau's associates spread the story that she had been drowned. Mean- while, Wong hnd left for Lantan Island with his brother.
India returned to the attack with a will and had scored 152 with the tons of only one wicket when play cndes. Johnstone and Ward had 69 und 77 respectively, and were finished.-Reuter.
INDIA'S TEST TEAM.
Calcutta, Jan. 2. The Indian eleven for the second On hearing the story of the wo-Test Match on January 5, was an- man's death from the villagers. noun ni to-day, as follows:
the police made enquiries and on Now Year's Day arrested Wong,
Up to the present, the woman's body has not been found, but police launches are searching the waters surrounding Lantay and Cheung Chau Island. '
K.C.R. TRAGEDY
VICTIM INTERRED
THIS MORNING
The funeral of Private Langdon, of the East Lancashire Regiment, who met his death under such tragic circumstances on Monday evening took place this morning at Happy Valley.
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RADIO BROADCAST
TO-DAY'S - BROADCAST.
'A B.BC, RECORDED
PROGRAMME
From 2.D.W. on a wave-length of
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4.30-7.30 p.m. Chinese programme. 6-6.15 p.m. Children's Studia Concert
7.30-10.30 p.m. European pro. gramme.
7.30-9 p.m. Recorded music. Orchestral-Spanish Dance, No. 1
(Moszkowsky). Orchestral-Spanish Serenade
(Bizet).
Now Light Symphony Orchestra. Octet-Second Movement from
"Symphonie Pathetique" (Tschaikowsky, arr. Robertsbn). Octot-Sceno do Ballet (de Berlot... Men were smashing at ench
arr. Sear
H. Squiro Celeste Octet. other with chairs, women were
Chorus-Sylvia (Speakes-Gaines). beating off attackers with umbrel-Chorus-Autumn Sea Jas, and men were lying uncon- scious of the floor.
Chairs hurled by supporters of the interrupters rained on those on the platform, and very soon there were hundreds of smashed chairs all over the hall..
(Baker-Gericke).
Associated Gice Clubs of America. Piano Concerts-Hungarian Fantasia
(Liszt).
Arthur de Greef and the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. Violin Soto-Waltz in Sharp
Minor (Chopin). Violin Solo-La Capricieuse (Elgar). Branislaw Huberman.
One man lay unconscious under Song--The Three Ravens (nr. La pile of broken chairs,
The first move of the interrup- tera was to tear down from the walls a Union Jack on which was superimposed a black swistika. Stewards at once rushed forward with cries of "Imperial Guard."
FLAG TORN UP.
A standard bearer was attacked and the flag was torn to pieces. No quarter was given and men with blood streaming from wounds beat at one another with chairs Windows were broken and one man had most of his clothes ripped off.
After the fight had lasted a quarter of an hour, a strong body of police forced its way into the half and some of the more violent men were forcibly removed.
Kenndy Scott). Song-The Bontmen (Harris).
John Goes and the Cathetral Male Voice Quartet. 'Cello Solo-Musette (Bach-Pollain).
Cello Solo-Mazurka (Popper).
Pablo Casals. Orchestral-Petit Suite de Concert
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New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. 9-9.30 p.m. A B.B.C. Recorded Pro- gramme.
"Ellan. Vannin through the Ages" A Manx National Programme writ ten and produced in the Londan Studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation by Malcolm Frost.
Music by Gerrard Williams, based on traditional airs.
Cast
Robert Speaight Harman Grinewood.
Narrators,
Foster Richardson. Baritone, James Topping. Tenor. The B. B. C. Wireless Chorus and the Orchestra conducted by Leslin Woodgate.
9.30-10. p.m. Selections by the Music-Makers.
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Dance Orchestra from the Yellow the interrupters aro alleged to be-Dragon Dancing Academy by courtesy long to the British Union of of the Management. Fasciste.
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AUSTRALIA WINS.
ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM
SOUNDLY BEATEN,
It is stated that a member of the Imperial Fascist League, J. R. Rushbrook, was taken to the Mid- dlesex Hospital.
Later the smashed chairs were put in pile, and the meeting proceeded in an orderly manner.
There were cheers when. Major A. S. Liese, leader of the move- ment,
address the appeared to meeting with his head awathed in bandages and, his torn clothes pinned together.
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Melbourne, Jan. 2.
The Australian Lawn Tennis
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Australia, by her victory to-Silver (spot)... day, wins the test rubber-Silver (forward) .---- Reuter.
The body was brought from the mainland to Wellington Barracks where the cortege assembled. The funeral procession comprised Col. A. C. Marah, Commanding Officer, East Lancs, Lieut. F. W. Beer, n detachment from the Lincolnshire The wedding in announced to take Regiment, the Lincolns Regimental place in the near future of Mr. Jono
ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA AIR-RACE
Captain T. N. Stack To
Enter For £15,000 Prize
10.30 p.m. Rugby Press News. 10.35 p.m. Close Down.
Should reception preve satisfactory, the programinie between 5 and 6 p.m. will be repinced by a relay from Daventry,
DIPLOMATIST'S ROAD SMASH
LADY LONDONDERRY GIVES EVIDENCE
Lord lewart and a special jury fa The hearing was continued by
the King's Bench Division of the action by the Marquis Alphonse Pallavicini, First Secretary at the Hungarian Legation, of Beaufort gardens, Kensington. against the Loudon Passenger Transport Board. The scion is the sequel to a colli- sion between a Green Line conch and the Marquis's car
on the Portsmouth-road, near Putney at 11.30 on the night of June 19, 1932. A passenger in the car was the Marchioness of Londonderry who, with the Marquis Pallaviclal, had dined that evening with the Duke of Sutherland at Sutton Place, near Guildford. The Marquis received severe injuries. He alleges that the coach was negligently driven.
The Board blame the Marquis for the collision.
Lady Londonderry gave evidence, She said she noticed that, when the car was approaching a bend of the rond near where the accident, lap-
Captain T. Neville Stack is mak-pened, the Marquis changed to a 1/6% ing arrangements to enter for the lower gear and checked, the speed. 23.42 England-Australia air race for the All the time he kept to his proper,; 19.30 MacRobertson Trophy, next Octo-side of the road.
ber. This will be the longest air race over held, and the first prize is the MacRobertson Trophy and £15,000.
"I first saw the couch about sixty yards away," contínued Lady Lon donderry, "and It was on its wrong side of the road when only thirty yards away. It came along very It is a speed event in which both quickly and the Marquis slowed up 35% day and night flying are permitted. his car and steered on to the pave
210 The first man to reach Melbourne ment. The, coach seemed to come 5.16 under the conditions of the constraight at us.. 19.5/16 test wins. American and German
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Captain Stack has obtained for the race a new British machine known as the Airspeed AS 6. It has a retractable undercarriage Mariani Pinto, clerk at the Mercantile of the Peninsula Hotel for St. George's strong Siddeley Cheetah engines. Owing to the use of the sixth floor and will be fitted with two Arm- Band, and a firing party and armed Bank of Indla, Ltd., and 1lving at all on Friday, January 6, the usual Its range is between 1,200 and that, in trying, suddenly, to take
Esmeralda de Souza, of the same Lanty Road, Kowloon, and the Mario dinner dance at that establishment is cancelled. It is announced for the convenience of those attending the ball that a special dinner will be served in:] the first floor lounge at 7.30 p.m.
escort from the East Lancashires. Deceased's comrades were the pall- bearers.
address.
A short service at the gravesido was conducted by Rev. J. C. L. Jaard, Army Chaplain, following
During the three days ended Janu- which the firing party fired three ported to the health authorities
ary 1, one case of typhold was re- volleys, and seven buglora from the Lincolnshire Regiment sounded the
The health bulletin of Eastern ports "Last Post" and the "Revellie", The Manufacturers Life Insurance for the week ended December 23 Among the savoral wreaths was Company has opened an office at 87,shows the following canen of infectious one from Lieut. F. W. Beor, The Bund, Canton, and Mr. 8. V. discases: Small-pox: Beirut 12 cases, N.C.O.'s and Men of the East Gitting has been appointedl Acting Hongkong 1 case. Typhus; Alexandria Lancashiren; and H.M.S. Keppel. District Manager,
11 case, Meningitis: Hongkong 1 death.
1,500 miles, and Captain Stack expects to maintain nearly 180 miles an hour.
"My head went through the wind screen of the car and my faco was streaming with blood and so I could not see in what position the conch was after the impact. The Marauls was badly crushed by the steering whref."
She dis-ented from a suggestion
the band of the road. the Marquis d in hia tumne sida,
Addressing the jury for the do- fance, Mr. Ibary, K. C.. said that Captain Stack was one of the evidenco would be called to show first men to fly to India in a light that the conch was being driven aeroplane. In 1931 he set up a close to the grasa verge on ita pro-“ number of City to City records, urtside of the road at a reasonable including that from London tonnee, and that the plaintiff's ear Constantinople in 14 hours and the crashed into it. being alewed by the return journey in 14 hours. Heract practically on to the opposite knows a great part of the Austral- | path. inn route,
The hearing was adjourned,
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