THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
1938.
Big Jewel Robbery In P. Edward Rd.
European Lady's Loss
Mrs. A. Lode, of. 192 Prince Edward Road, reported to the police yesterday that someone bad stolen from her residence a jewellery box containing $666| worth of jewellery between Sun- įday and Monday.
The theft of a suit of clothing valued at $40 from his barrack room at Shamshulpo camp, has been re- ported to the police by L/Cpl. Thomson, of the 1st. Bn. Middlesex Regiment.
WILA
A fountain pen and penell also reported to have been stolen from the residence of Miss Amy Wong, of 20 Nanking Street The property was worth $15.
SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING, will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 24th September, 1938, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 P.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
No One without a. badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure; such must be worn throughout the duration of each meeting in such a manner së tò be readily identified.
Lelle Howard, Joan Blondell and llumphrey Bogart have the lead- Ing roles of "Stand-In", Walter Wanger's howling comedy of Hollywood as the world, thinks it is, which is coming to the King's Theatre.
YORKSHIRE BECOME CHAMPIONS FOR
TWENTIETH
TIME
Triumph In Spite Of Calls Of Tests And Trials
London, August 31.
Badges admitting Non-Members to After all the feverish arithmetic of the past few weeks-
Club the Members Enclosure and Rooms at $0.00 for Gentlemen and rendered more complicated by the rain factor-the issue is now $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) clear, and Yorkshire have won the County championship for the are obtainable through the SECRET- second year in succession. Out of the 27 matches they have al-
written ARY upon the personal or application of a Member, such Mem-ready played they have won 19, seven of them in two days.
ber to be responsible for all visitors
Tennis Match To Be Re-played To-day
The somi-final match in the U.S.R.C hardcourt tennis dou. bles championship, in which the Tsui brothers meet E. C. Finchor and A. V. Remedios. will be re-played this after- noon, commencing at 4.15 p.m. The game was abandon- ed yesterday when the Tsuis were leading by two sets to
onc.
YANKEES
BEATEN AGAIN
Latest Results In U.S. Baseball
New York, Sept. 21. Rain once again caused a curtall- ment, of the Baseball League pro- gramme to-day, only one match being played in the National section and four, including a double-leader, in the American.
LETTERS TO THE against Philadelphia Athletles, while
EDITOR
"OPPRESSED GERMANS" IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA
To the Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph. Sir-in a recent issue of the Telegraph you published an article which the by W. N. Ewer in
Germans in Czecho- "oppressed Slovakia" are mentioned.
I would like to submit to you an article published in the weekly in Zeit in Dild (Time
the following
It gives statistics:
German sources there
arc Ilving In
Detroit Tigern won their twin biil New York Yankees, who have already annexed
American League ̈the peanant, were beaten by Chicago White Sox. Scores:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis Boston...
R. H. E.
0
7
V.
(Dean pitched for the Cardinals). The matches Pittsburgh Brooklyn, Cincinnati v. New York, and Chicago V. Philadelphia, all double-henders,
postponed owing to rain.
were
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia Detroll
3 0
5
а
D
0
(Greenberg Tigers).
homered
for
the
1,336,000 Germans 480.000 Germans
Philadelphia Detroit
3 1
0
the
Czecho-Slovakia 3,232,000 Germans
Poland Hungary Yugo-Slavia
Italy
.3 (Hoffenberger pitched for Tigers, and Gehringer homered. The Kume was called at the end of the fifth inning owing to darkness).
New York
2 7 3 Chicago
1 $ 4 (Gehrig homered for the Yankees).
Boston St. Louis
0
I 12 1 4 10 (Foxx homered for. the Red Sox and Almada for the Browns).
The match between Washington Senators und Cleveland Indians was postponed owing to rain-Reuter,
EXCHANGE RATES
(about)
480,000 Germans 320,000 Germans. According to statistics there are no German schools whatsoever in Italy. German schools in Hungary total 10, in Yugo-Slavia 162, in Poland $14 and in Czecho-Slovakia 5,203. In Addition thera is one German uni- two technical universities, versity;
arts and music and ono
of arts academy one pedagogical college in Czecho- Slovakia-all for Germans.
Not one
German cultural organisa- tion has been established in Italy, and Poland. Only in Hungary Czecho-Slovakia have the Germans their own broadcasting station. In year the calls upon This is the eleventh time since the, land, and this
heavy. It was addition, they control 12 por cent. of been introduced by him, and for Paymentar, and the twentieth altogether them have
Slovakian stations. of all Chits, &c.
that they have finished at the top of wonderful achievement to have five the broadcasts from all other Czecho-
one county in the last from
of the Press? What of freedom Stallstles now that in Italy there
show Test, and, more than that, each of the table, a very remarkable record. men Their first success was in 1893,
are only seven German political Their capacity for victory and the them, Hution, Leyland, Verity, Bowes
ht a similar which that victory is and Woods, got his name on the journals. Hungary
number, Yugo-Slavia has 18, Poland methods by
Milan achieved have not always been suf- scoresheet in emphatic fashion.
veicam Relently appreciated in the South.
At various other times Yardley, 71, while in Czecho-Slovakia there
Oslo. Indeed, there was a time, not so
they had to face Gibb and Smailes were among Engure 2,401 political and other_news-
Amsterdam PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
long ago, when
land's selected, and what with this papers, besides the offelal Gazette, and the claims of the Trial and the published in German.
Neither Italy, Hungary nor Yuga- Copenhagen. The Price of Admission to the much ill-considered crillelem,
Stockholm Everyone is now agreed that, for Gentlemen and players' matches,
theatres. German have Public Enclosure is $1.00 including
in Czecho-Prague including excellence of individual technique they were not fully represented in. Slovia Persons,
two, while all Tax, for
Helsingfors. are 17 permanent New York. there Ladies, and la payable at the Gate. and for perfection of sustained effort 11 county games. Injuries have also Poland has
and mutual understanding, they set played their part, so that, look at it Slovakia
Bucharest. Soidlers and Sailors, in Uniform are
an example to all the other coun-which way you will, it is a very fine German theatres. admitted Holt Price.
No German book has been publish-
Vienna performance. By Order,
ed in Italy. Yugo-Slavia published an C. D. BROWN,
Another
thing that has won re-
average of threo German books per Secretary, spect is the way Yorkshire players!
annum, Hungary 54, Poland 107 and have acquitted themselves for Eng-
Czecho-Slovakia 1819. Hongkong, 10th September, 1938.
The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, (Tel. 27704) will close, at 12 NOON.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tele- phone 21020.
ties.
for a
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SERVICE:
ONLY TWO DEFEATS
only twice de- They have been feated--by Middlesex at Lord's when Gibb, Hutton and Leyland were the vietims of accident, and by Surrey at the Oval, when these three, as well as Verity. Bowes and Yardley were away, and Smailes broke down and during the Turner
Injured wny course of play.
Of the newer men, none has dis- tinguished himself more than Robin- son, an off break bowler, a frie feld a good close to the wicket, and
bitter, natural left-handed
who, late in the season was awarded his erunty
cap, with all that that as- sures for the future,
BUTCLIFFE STILL SUPREME
Among the seniors Sutcliffe still stands supreme. When the pitch is bad and the situation a critical one he has no equal as he proved by a superb bit of work against Glouces ter on a ruined wicket at Sear- borough, and by the way he assumed complete control of the situation in the second innings against the Aus- trallons at Shemeld.
That rain ruined Yorkshire's ex- pectations of victory in that match with seven wickets in hand they wanted only 67 to win-was a cruel disappointment to them, and to all their admirers.
the In A. B. Seliers they have complete captain. You could tell him for a leader as soon as you saw
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd. him. He is accused of being lucky In the matter of winning or of not 33, Wong Nei Chung Road,
winning the toss, but under him the opportunity is made just as often as Tel. 28330,
It is offered.
Tel. 31261.
These facts, which are taken from German statistics, speak for them- selves.
DEMOCRATIC READER,
the
that
Not Part of Reich Sir,In to-day's issue of your esteemed paper I read about "Return of the Sudeten Territory to German Reich" I am afraid
the forming of this may induence wrong opinion by your readers and hope you will excuse me if I take herewith the liberty of informing you that
any
connot be there is not and question of returning these terri- tories, because In history they never formed a part of the German Relch. From about the year 700 A.D. they belong to the Holy Crown of St. Venceslaws 1.c., Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, and have not been enlarged by one inch of foreign territory by the treaty of Versailles.
JAN STRAKATY, Agent for the Czecho-Slovak Ex- port-Institute,
C. IN C. FLAG TRANSFER
His Excellency, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Ke.B., Commander-in- Chief of the China Station, will transfer his fing from HM.S. Cum- berland to H.MS, Kent, on Monday, September 20. H.M.S. Cumberland will sail for the United Kingdom on the following day.
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U.S. AIR CHIEF KILLED
Washington, Sept. 21.
Westover, Major-General Oscar Chief of the United States Air Corps, was killed in a plane crash near Vulice, California-Rester..
Burst Into Flames
Burbank, Cal., Sept. 22. Major-General Westover was on a tour of Californian aircraft factories and was preparing to land on n private field at Northrup in a Lock- beed plane when the machine side- slipped and crashed three-quarters of a mile from the field.
The was
1 was instantly enveloped in flame and Westover's body was charred ulniost beyond recognition. pilot, Sergeant Sum Hymes, sprayed with petrol and became a human torch,
Two houses were demolished and a motorcar ruined.-United Press.
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