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AUSTRALIA IN STRONG DISASTER THREATENS
POSITION IN TEST
Bradman, M'Cabe Master Attack
BUT WICKET IS SHOWING
SIGNS OF WEARING
Although losing another wicket soon after play in the fourth Test match recommenced ut Adelaide this morning, Australia consolidated her position when lunch time had arrived, the score being taken to 157 for 2. Bradman and McCabe were then in an undefeated partnership.
Brown lost his wicket when he had made 32, only having added nine runs to his overnight score. Then McCabe joined Bradman and this pair successfully defied the English attack, Australia's captain being 70 and his partner 35, both not out. Thus Australia was 115 runs ahead, with eight wickets in hand.
The wicket is showing signs of wear, particularly one patch, which it is considered will make it tricky for the fourth innings.
MATCH RESUMES
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Adelaide, Feb. 2. There were 25,000 spectators present when the fourth Test match resumed this morning. Over- night, Australia were 63 for 1, Bradman being 20 and Brown 23.
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The weather was sunny and cool, but the wicket was showing signs of wear, there being a patch on the leg zido at one end.
This is likely to
make the fourth innings dangerous,
Only 29 runs had been added to the overnight score when Brown lost his wicket. He glanced a fast ball from Voce and was caught low down on the leg side by Ames. He had scored 32 in a stolld Innings which lasted 127 minutes, and hod boundary
to his credit. The score was now 88.for 2,
Bradman at this stage had taken his score to 43 and was then joined by McCabe.
one
This pair defted the English bowl- ing and at the lunch interval the score (Continued on Page 5.)
QUESTIONS COST OF EDUCATION
H.K. POLICY IN LIMELIGHT
MR. M. K. LO'S QUERIES
Pointed questions on the per capita cost of education are being asked in the Legislative Council to-morrow by the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo. Figures are cited showing that it costs Govern-
Asks Mercy
For Men Whol
Shot. Him
Shanghai, Feb. 2.
The Judicial Yuan is divided over Mr. Wang Ching-wel's ap- peal for clemency on behalf of the men who were recently sen lenced to long prison terms as result of the attempt to assassinate him in Nanking In 1935.
A
be-
Some members hold that the sentenced men should be pardon- ed because they sincerely lleved that Mr. Wong was un- patriotic. Others contend that the accused men were merely professional killers to whom political considerations should not apply Reuter.
Seamen Want To Return To Work
LEAKAGE DESPITE SECRET BALLOT
(Special To "Telegraph")
KEEL PLATE OF MIGHTY
BATTLESHIP IS LAID
At Birkenhead, recently, the keel: pinie of one of Britain's two new --36,000-ton-baitlesidps, the Princo, of Wales, was laid-in-the presence. of a huge crowd. At a cost of approximately £7,000,000, 'this great fighting ship will be floated to lake lis part in the defence of the Em- pire. I said it will mount two new types of guns and will have Ave inches of armour on her decks, which will resist the largest known air bomb.
HAYASHI FILLS
HIS CABINET
Emperor Formally Installs Members
Special to "Telegraph”
Tokyo, Feb. 2.
The Emperor of Japan has formally installed the new
the Cabinet, under Prime Ministership of General Senjuro Hayashi.
At a few minutes before 10 a.m. to-day, General Hayashi announced that he had completed his Cabinet selection. Ho
procevled to the Palace at once..
A Cabinet meeting was expected to be called at 1 p.m. to-day, but so far there has been no official announcement.
The personnel of the Cabinet will not be known until then.
The latest forecast is that Mr. ¡ will probably sever his connection Suesko, assistant to the Procurator with this party. San Francisco, Feb. 1. General, will become Minister of Other appointments remain open to Justice, and that Mr. Tatsunosuke doubt, but they will be made known ment over eight times more to secret, the report is abroad that an will be Minister of Agriculture. He United Press,
Despite the fact that balloting is Yamazaki, member of the Showakal, as soon as installation is complete caucate a student at Govern- overwhelmingly favourable vole ment provided Secondary return to work has resulted from the Schools than that at Grant-in-unions referendum. Aid Schools, and that, based on. (Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
"TEST TEA ̈SCORE:
136 not out)—Reuter,
to
Steamship companies are recalling their office workers in preparation |for the resumption of business they
anticipate.
Harry Bridges, strike leader, sald that even if the voto were only
ecmpleted Wednesday the men would
be ordered to resume work Thurs-
·GUARDS NINE ~ YEAR - OLD ·
BRIDE WITH SHOTGUN
(Special to "Telegraph").
Sneadville, Feb. 1.
ILLINOIS CITY AS MISSISSIPPI RISES
REDS INVADE SHENSI
Government Is
Embarrassed
munists
Shanghai, Feb. 2.
now threatens
Smallest Break In Levee Means Death
4,500 MEN HOLDING TO "LAST DEFENCE DITCH
Cairo, Illinois, Feb. 1. Forty-five hundred men, holding virtually A rapid more by the Com- the last ditch of this city's defences against the the Mississippi's spate, are awaiting their zero hour, Government plans for the paci- which will come with the crest of the flood. It is fication of Shensi province, approaching rapidly as wind-lashed waters, which have already been delayed swiftly eddying in the river's bend, drum by renewed recalcitrance on the ominously higher and higher against the levees" frailsuperstructure, upon which the community's The Communists are pouring re-life depends.
part of a section of the rebels,
inforcements into Northern Shens) in an effort to consolidate their grip on
the territory to the north of the Wei Alver, and have declared a bogus
Government at Fushih
Agents of the Reds also continue
their attempts at stiffening the re- sistance of the rebels at Sianfu. ¡
The rebels themselves oppear to be at sixes and sevens, como continuing
This is the greatest danger spot in man's 1,200-mile river battle-front. The mounting waters warn of an early crisis: Grim levee sentinels patrolled the flood-lit seawalls in freezing weather throughout last night and to-day, watch- ing for any sign of a break which might turn the city into. a vast graveyard, under 25-feet of water and mud, and all within a few minutes.
their withdrawal in accordance with 26 Cases Of
their agreement with the Govern- ment, and others sticking to their posts-Router.
WORKERS BATTLE GUARDS
11 HURT IN FIGHT FOR FACTORY
STRIKERS EJECTED
Diphtheria In
H.K.LastWeek H.K. Last Week
of
No fewer than 20 cases diphtheria were notified in the Colony during last week. There were five deaths from the disenso. Three cases of cerebro-spinal fever, with two deaths, were also notiled, as well as two non-fatal casca of puerperal fever, fatal case of typhoid, one fatal case of small-pox (imparted), and one non-fatal case each of measles and chicken-pox.
There were 67 deaths reported from tuberculosis.
Gas Alarms Will Warn Hongkong
оре
New York, Feb. 1. While Mr. A. P. Sloan and the General Motors Corporation directors were in executive ses- sion declaring a dividend, 100. employees closed the Tarrytown plant and picketed the office building where the company chiefs were in session. They booed Mr. Sloan's departure IF ENEMY AIRCRAFT when he drove off in his automo- ARE APPROACHING
bile with
a policeman on each runningboard. A thousand spectators watched.
Twenty years ago--
A cloud of white mist rose suddenly across No Man's Land and wafled swiftly towards the trenches..
Meanwhile, at Flint, Mich., com pany guards and union members of the Chevrolet plani battled Inside the
An ear-splitting screeching made factory. When the day-shift work-men fumble for their gas-masks with men were starting for home, some of their hearts in their mouth. their number started a sit-down strike. At least nine were injured,
There was no mistaking that naise. one of them seriously. Bullets were It was the Strombos iron, used only fired and gas bombs tossed.
ito warn the men in the trenches and
dug-outs of the approach of gas. Pickets broke all the windows on It saved hundreds of thousands of the first floor of the faclory.... lives.
A company offcial sold the guards had elected all the rioters and that loyal workers held the plant-United
Press.
· TROOPS
have
CALLED
February, 1937--
Few people outside these cities of the "Boad zone" have any conception of the speed with which 'disaster con come. One small break in the levees, and the cnormous weight of water clutches and tears Its way through, trickle growing to 1 cataract, cataract to a deluge în 'à matter of seconds. Nothing can resist it, once the yellow-maned flood is free. Mon and all his works go down before this rushing monster.
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Boats stand ready for the evacua- tion of the flood-fighters; but if the (levees break; their hopes of life ‘are ``.`
smail,
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Point Of Confluence The Ohio River is pouring into the Mississippi at this, their point of con- fluence, at a rate of nearly 3,000,000 cubic feet a second. Cairo standa at ho very point of their juncture, and its levocs bear the full weight of the Mississippi, freshened by the Ohio's iumbling bulk.
However, forecasts cheered the flood-fighters, for it is the expressed belief that the hand-made barricade of sandbags on the top of the flood- wall will save the city of Cairo and the lives of those who have not al- ready evacuated the threatened, arcu.
Floods Receding
At Portsmouth, Ohio, meanwhile, the flood waters are receding and (Continued on Page 1)
CHATER RD. PARKING CONFUSION
LACK OF NOTICE COMMENTED ON
OBSTRUCTION SUMMONS
The absence of a notice prohibit-
Kowloon residents of the younger generation will laten curiously to the high-pitched screech of a strange huing parking of cars along the sides strument. But to those who knew of Chater Rond was commented upen 1014-1018 in the trenches of France N. S. Ellis, of the Asiatic Petro It will bring back vivid memories.
leum Co. (South China), Ltd., at the TO SECOND RIOT Ministers and social workers have commenced a campaign
Central Magistracy this morning day, thereby permitting the first ships of organised protest against a fortnight-old" marriage of
Flint, Later.
The Air Raids Precautions Com-when he was summoned for causing to shll on Thursday or Friday, I slender, blonde Eunice Winstead, nine, a third grade school girl,
Three thousand stay-in strikers mittee has purchased two Strombos on obstruction by parking his car would be a month before resumption
gained possession of the horns for demonstration purposes in there. of schedules was normal, intimated and Charles Johns, 22, both back woods residents
Chevrolet No. 4 factory, after un Hongkong. On certain days this this labour general.".
Mr. Ellis said that, in the absence The bride's mother, Mrs. Lewis Johns, bewildered by the angry earlier attempt to capture another month, the horns will be tested in Winstead, herself married at 16, is public Interest in his marriage, with factory had ended in serious floting, order to try its effectiveness in this of such a notice, many people were under the impression that cars could/ The Golden Hind is ready to sail training her daughter in the duties a shotgun barred reporters from his in which 12 were injured, two Colony.
be allowed to park there; in fact, the a crew is signed on.
evident antagonian of her neighbours. gerently, he yelled. There ain't
If it proves effective during the But the immediate problem will J. W. Wolfenbarger, backed by this. It ain't gonna keep up."
The Solicitor-General of Tennessee, agonna be no more pictures about 1,200, National Guardsmen with rifles, tests this mouth, it will probably be be the removing of cargoes. Some clergymen and others, Is canvassing
machine-guns and tear-gas to occupy adopted as the method of warning the belleve avaliable longshoremen are the statutes for legal means to force à Christmas doll.
His girl-bride woopingly cuddled the rict area, putting It Into a state Hongkong populace of the approach
of virtual military blockade, of enemy aircraft,s not sufficiently numerous to answer the calls.
annulment of the marringg,
The bride's parents are character- The troops are ordered not to with """There have been no formal pro-istically resentful of the invasion of disturb the strikers or enter factories Meanwhile the Chamber of Com-tests for petitions, but something their privacy and demand that unless requested by the ciyle authoritairen centena 33 mezco, estimates the strike - har cost should be done about that marriage," | "furriners" keep Waway-United | les-Reuter, About:$817,000,009—United Preza, ✨ - he, muld, fajn zoo
Press
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Australia 262 for 4 (Bradman | for Japan with scrap Iran as soon as of a housewife, oblivious of the three-room honeymoon cabin. Bellvernor Murphy has ordered
sides of the road were never free from cars, a
Trame Sergeant You, who issued e summons, ald he went to Chater Road on January 20 and saw dafen-,
2Ąts
Tough Afrika 62Ant's car outside Watson's front-
the repube
in Deland ut inld there was a mall Kound in the kunidone, which HA
Continued on Proc. Hist