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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 8, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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CHINESE R.C. WIN "C" DIVISION MATCH
Four Fixtures Played In H.K. Tennis League
Four matches were played yesterday in the "C" Division of the Hongkong Tennis League. As expected, the Chinese R.C., last year's champions, overwhelmed the Central British Association at King's Park by eight sets The closest match was that in which the Indian R.C, fielding a weakish team, were beaten by the Club de Recreio by the odd set at Sookunpoo.
to one.
On their own courts, the Craigen- Ng und Kwok 2-6; lust to Kwan and Rower C.C. were benten by South Wong 4-0.
China A.A. by 6-3, while the Radio P. C. Yu and P. C. Chen lost to and Postal Club vislied Kowloon Leung and Lam 5-7; lost to Ng and Tong and were detented by 6 suis Kwolk 4-6; beat Kwan and Wong 0-0.
1.R.C. C. de R.
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Scares:
G. H. Fowler and N. Whitley (C.B.A.) lost to S. L. Ma and C. N. Tsang 1-0, loxi to C. L. Pang and W. K. Ma 3-6, Inst to au Fook-ki and lu Tuk-lam 3-0.
J. Sloan and D. T. Smith (C.R.A.) beat Ma anti Tsang 6-4, lost to Pang and Ma 0-0, lost to Lau and lu 2-0.
The Indian Recreation Club lost to Club de Recreio 4-5.
A. R. Kitchell and D. M. Razuck drew with M. A. Gulterres and J. Fonseca, beat. A. M. Remedios and C. C. Pereira 6-0, drew with II. A, Noronha and G. A. Noronha.
T. All and 1. Kitchell beat Gut-
M. Yatskin and V. Karpusheff terres and Fonsecu B-4, beat Reme- (C.B.A.) lost to Ma and Tsang 1-6, dies and Pereirn 7-5, lost to Noronha lost to Pang and Ma 2-6, lost to Latifand Noronha 1-6. and lu 1-0,
C.C.C. v. South China Playing at home, the Craigengower Cricket Club was defeated by South China 6-3.
S. A. R. Bux and A. J. Suud lost to Cutterres and Fonseca 0-6. lost to Remedius and Pereirn 0-0, lost to Noronha and Noronha 1-6.
A gay me sad by George Brent, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans and Kay Francis in a party scene from "Secrets of an Actress," the Warner Bros. comedy-drama showing to-day at the King's Theatre.
A Look Thro
The Telegraph'
50 YEARS AGO
Aid To Bristol R.
Criticised
Two League Games For To-day
will be
Kowloon Football Club featured in two Lawn Bowls League encounters to-day. They will
meet
Kowloon Tong in a postponed Second Division
their for match nad resume adjourned Third Division tie against Stanley. Both matches are being played away.
The following will represent them against Kowloon Tong at Kowloon Tong af 4 pm-B. Evans, W. Simp- son, J. Gibson and V. Chittenden, A. Moss, B. Thomson, V. Atienza and V. Field, W Groves, J..Eastman, P. Younghusband and T. Fergusson. The following will represent them in their match against Stanley, at Stan ley, 4 p.m.-H. Mills, C. M. Hall, S. C. Wong and Petherick, P. McCarthy, L. Bones, R. Hughes and F. Excell, D. Izatt, C. Fuller, J. Ross and P. Morgan.
KOWLOON C. C. BOWLS TEAM
The following will represent .C.C. Bowls League on Saturday against
There was considerable criticism at ja meeting of the Northern Council of the Gloucestershire Football As- sociation held at Gloucester, of the action of the Bristol Council of the June 8, 1880, Association of making a denation of KELLY & WALSH, LD., Importers of £50 to Bristol Rovers A.F.C. After Tubaccas, Cigars and Cigarettes: Fresh an explanation by the chairman, Mr. Tobaccos-Nichmond Gem Curly Out, w J. Pebworth, regarding the in the Third Division of the Lawn Richmond Mixture, Old Rip, Will Three Castles, Wiile Bristol Bird's urgency of assisting Bristol Rovers in apply for re- Eye, Cope's Golden Cloud, Yarborough's order that they might Golden Rain, Happy Thought, Dollar elected their criticism more to the to the League, the members 2-6; beat Y. K. Ng and I. C. Kwok to 2, wel and M. F. Lee (Kowloon Brond, Golden Eagle, Star Mixture.
Fresh Cigarettes. -- Sweet Caporals, glo of the Bristol Council to Tong drew with D. Leonard and J.Kinney's Straight Cuts, Little Beauties, consult the Finance
nce Committee of the Straight Cut, Virginia lost to Leung and Lam 2-6, lost, to 1.ee 6-3: beat M. Sheriff and G. Singh Brights, Buke's 'Comra, Kinney's Special Association before making a gra weight and W. W. Hirst (skip).
J. Hempsey, G. W. Bowden, A. passed resolution Favours, Kinney's Special Straight Cat, The Council
Egyptian Flowers, Sweet endorsing the Bristol Council's action, The First Division team have no Cleopatra Caporals Selected, Kinney's Half but regretting that the Fluance Com-match, but players are requested to mittee was not consulted before the turn up for à friendly game with re- Coperalt.
25 YEARS AGO
decision was taken,
S. L. Leonard and E. S. Howard lost to . K. Leung and C. L. Lam
6-1 bent Y. L. Kwan and K. X. Wong 0-3.
Win for Kowloon Tong
Kowloon Tong Playing at home beat Radio and Postal Club by 61⁄2
W. H.
S. Cassumbhoy and S. K. Chang: Almeda 6-0; beat K, M. Au and C. W. Richmond
4-5.
SPORT. ADVTS Tong) beat Leonard and Alineda
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (weather - permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on
SATURDAY, 18th June, 1939, com-: mencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Dell will be rung at 1,30|
D.M.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
No One without a badge will be ad- mitted to the Members' Enclosure, Such must be worn throughout the
1. Lim and J. E. Ling (Kowloon 6-3; drew with Au and Lee 6-0; beat Singh and Sherif 6-1.
H. G. Hsu and Y. C. Lee lost to Leonard and Almeda 1-8; drew with Au and Lee 6-0; beat Sheriff and Singh 6-4.
Veteran H.K. Journalist
Death Of Former
duration of each Meeting in such "Telegraph" Newsman
manner as to be readily identified.
3
Juno E, 1014. His Majesty King George reviews the first, second and third leets, and all the Botillas at Spithend un July 18. It will be the largest assembly of battle: *hip *een In thu Home waters. Altogether about 400 vessels will take Jinrt. (This was the famous and opportune gathering, of the fleets just before war came to Europe.-Ed.)
Router's correspondent at Panam A states. tant the liner Alliance has traversed the Gutun Locks and texted the electric towing locomotives, which worked without a hitch.
Recent Rester's telegrams, It would) be observed, have referred to the latest of the Cunard liners, the "Aquitanin."
Welcome
To U.S. King And Queen Leave Canada
NIAGARA FALLS, June 7.- CANADA bado Their Majes- This mammoth vessel, it appears from ties an affectionate farewell on vessel is further gratifying evidence of
SUS-
the fact that the prestige of our night as over the water, America premier steamship line, and through waited in a mood of tense of British shipping generally, is being
to pense
receive the first mirably maintained. The alm In building the Aquitanie reigning British monarch to set was to provide a third whip which would foot on United States soil, he equally acceptable to the travelling pubile as the Lusitania and Mauretanis companied by his Queen. have prověd ta he. It will be re-
ac-
KB.G.C. nt 3.30 p.m.
down and J. M. Jack (skip).
W. H. Hobbs, T. A. Fabel, R. Men- W. Naef, A. Madar, A. W. Romsey and T. W. Carr (skip)..
serves.
CRICKET SCORES
London, June 7. Lunch cricket scores were:
Cambridge 92 for 2 against the Army
Derby 119 for 3 against Worcester; Surrey 148 for 3 against Gloucester; Hants 124 for 1 agains: Lancs; Kent 185 for 4 against Glamorgan; Northants 80 for 6 against West Indies;
Essex 125 for 3 against Notts; Oxford 110 for 3 against minor
ccnties:
Somerset
·
for 3 against
Warwick 115 for 4 against Sumen Leicester 112 for 2 against York- Reuter Bulletin.
Detention Of Sagres Aired
Badges admitting Non-Members 10 The death of Mr. E. A. Snewin, the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and a former member of the "Hong- an article in "Engineering" that the her side of the gigantic falls to- Middlesex; $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) kong Telegraph," is announced are obtainable through the SECRET in a cable from London. ARY upon the personal or written
Mr. Stewin, who had settled at application of Member, such Mem-Worthing, had been gravely ill in the ber to be responsible for all visitors Royal Sussex County Hospital, introduced by him, and for Payment Brighton, for some time. of all Chits, etc.
Mr. and Mrs. Snewin left this city The Secretary's Omec, 1st Floor, in 1907, when Mr. Snewin joined the
membered that the two earlier vessels Nearly 500,000 "neighbours" of the Exchange Building, (Tel. 27704) will "Straits Times" in Singapore.
were built under agreement with the two great democracies of the western close at 12 o'clock Noon.
Mr. Snewin's first six years in the
Government, who provided a sum of hemisphere had gathered throughout Tiffins are obtainable at the Club Far East were a period in which with the "Hong-
£2,600,000 secured on debentures at 23 House provided they are ordered in kong Telegraph,"
per cent. interest, for the construction the day at the historic border aver arrival advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. he travelled far into the interior of of the hulls, and a sum of £160,000 per which Mr. Cordell Hull, on 21920).
unum for the maintenance of the ships from Washington, will greet Their China, and he had some remarkable PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
with o tell of what he saw in China stories to
Majesties o handshake. The price of Admission to the at the beginning of this century.
Speaking of his "pleasing mission Publle Enclosure is $1.00 including: In Singapore
Snewin was for
The Victoria Theatre management has of an informal nature," Mr. Cordell Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, some years the
and reporter
for ence more provided a tit-bit of eine Hull said at a press conference to
the great detective film and is payable at the Gate. Soldiers the Colony "Hansard," the proceedsman of 5,000 feet in length, the day that this was a time when
could be an and Saltors in Uniform are admittedlings of the Legislative Council, and tragedy at the masked ball making the visit of this nature Half Price.
Jone of his dutles was lo take down
fourth of this exciting and entertaining, example to those sections series. Here again the star perform world which threatened chaos By Order,
the official record of the court-martial C. B. BROWN, which followed the Singapore mutiny ers Fastonian, and Jure, pit their wit anarchy in their International re-
ngalant
each other. To explain the lations. - Secretary, in 1915. He was 23 years with the
detail of the picture would be unfair Hongkong, 5th June, 1830.
"Straits. Timea."
Active Froomason
NEAT and
Correct Indulge in Eastern exile--the study of
neater
Mr. Snewin was actively associated with Freemasonry in Singapore, but with that exception he lived a very retired life. His main hobby was one in which he unfortunately could not
old brasses in Sussex churches,
A serious illness caused Mr. Snewin to relire from Singapore a year oF two before he would normally have The
done, and after he settled at Worthing man's clothes his health continued to be
Dur- poor. ing the last two or three years of his the smarter his life he was extremely frail and suffered great deal of pain, but old friends from the Far East, visiting him on leave, always found him You can be as-cheerful and keenly interested in all that they had to tell him. He was sured of correct about 62 at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow, two ft and
styling sons and one daughter. His daughter besides
is the wife of Inspector W. L. Byrde, reason-of the Stralis Settlements Police. able prices at Both his sons, Mr. G. M. Shewin and Mr. W. J. R. Snewin, were in Singa- pare some eight years ago and are now in' England.
appearance.
MARIANO TAILOR
41, Hankow Road, Kowloon. Tel. 50674.
In service.
of the and
in many respects, and for the dramatic He added that no two peoples had force of the subject to be thoroughly more in common than the United
Slates and Britain. Appreciated it must be seen.
10 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1920.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has to-day
Government.
KU
Crossing The Bridge
LONDON, June 7.
In a reply to Mr: H. Day in the House of Commons who raised the incident of the detention of the
Sagres, Mr. Butler stated that full for the information was necessary. formulation of detailed claims, and this was not yet avaliable,
thi
ม
He added that as Mr. Chamberlain had stated on May 24, the Govern~ ment reserved all its rights in respect of compensation-Reuter,
Propaganda In War Time
Trans-Ocean.
Jased the list of the new Inbour Their Majesties are due to stay for
LONDON, June 7. about two and a half hours on the The former Britishi Ambassador to The list contains many surprises Canadian side of the Falls before re- Italy, Lord Perth, has been offered Although several ministers have changed Joining the royal train to cross the the pest of director of propaganda in to other departments, thirteen out of International bridge at 1.30 p.m. Propaganda Ministry to be created the nineteen members of the now Cabinet were members of the Labour where Sir Robert Lindsay, the British in the case of war, the "Daily Ex-
to Washington will press" learna. Ambassador Cabinet of 1924,
British propaganda is at present To a carlier Administration, Mr. present Mr. Cordell Hull, who, like Ramony MacDonald had combined the all members of the welcoming com- handled by various committees under duties of Foreign Secretary, now under mittes, is wearing a lounge suit. the guidance of Sir Robert Vansittart, taken by Mr. Arthur Henderson, with! Ten thousand school children diplomatie adviser to the Govern- those of Prime Minister and First Lord; and outside of the hotel wherement. The most important of these of the Treasury.
With the appointment of
Ass Their Majesties were dining privately committees is the "British Council" Aforgaret Dondfeld Minister of before entering the United States, with Lord Lloyd as official chairman. Labour a woman attain Cabinet cank in the hope that they would appear for the frat tline.
on the balcony overlooking the Falls. 5 YEARS AGO
The train made six brief atops in June 8, 1934. ils run to-day, including Hamilton, Germany's return to the Disarmament Canada's Birmingham" and the sixth Conference is believed to be practically largest city in the dominion, and St. asured, although those closely con Catherines, where Their Majesties nected with the negotiations that have disembarked and drove the rest of so dramatically Improved the outlook the way to Niagara Falls in a car, decline to maka “any · diselonuren coh- ceming the inducement that has effected American side of the Falls, Their After the presentations on the M. Barthou and Mt. Anthony Eden Majesties will return to the train has a long conversation-to-day and it which will immediately steam to in obvious that a greatly improved Washington where President and Mrs. The second Executive Counell
It is widely felt that this move is Meeting of The Chinese American atmosphere now provells, Institute Of Cultural Relations will
It is the lows of the British Roosevelt-and what is likely to be delegates that the future of the Con- the first real heat wave of the likely to have an unfavourable In- be held at the National City_Bank ferance entirely depende
the summer-are waiting to greet their fluence on the negotiations now pro- (Mr. S. T. Bitting's Office) on Friday, Franco-German conversation that are royal guests al 3 p.m. to-morrow-eceding between some of the Fat 5.30 p.m.
promised,
Reuter.
panies and the Government-Reuter,
the change in Germany's attitude.
upon
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