Y.M.C.A. Hold Season's First Aquatic Gala
Lai Tsun Win Open Relay
THE EUROPEAN Y.M.C.A. held the first swimming gala of the season last night, the events, except for one open relay, being confined to members. The closeness of finishes compensated for whatever defects there were in the standard of swimming.
The Lai Tun Union easily į
won the Open Relay, beating
the Y.M.C.A. by about a third Research To
of the bath.. Tsang Cheong- ming, first string sprinter for.
Lal Taun, covered his 50-yards Combat
lap in 25.8 secs,
Volunteer duties, unfortunately, prevented several members from turning out, and ne a consequence
numbers,
Night Raids
several of the heats were deplete in LONDON, May 14 (Reuter). The handleapping was very good and-The progress of research in several close finishes were seen. Clusest combating the night bombing race of the evening was in the 75 yards
medley in which J. Raberis anatched menace was mentioned by the
a fue victory from F. Willis to whom Home Secretary, Mr Herbert he conceded five seconds. A. F. May and L. A. Benn were seen in a fairly Morrison, in a speech In London exciting 220 yards. The former surged to-day. nhead in the last few lengths to win by four seconds,
In the water-polo match YM.C.A. bent Middlesex 4-0. The Kame was very clean, although the defenders on both sides were inclined to be a little slow In parting with the ball.
Results
30 yards aggregate handicap-Hrat 1. M. Cunning (33 seca); E C. Rainge (33 2/5); 3, 31. C. Eardley, Heat 2-1, G.
On the subjeci of night fighters, Mr Morrison declared: "There have been great achievements. I am told that research and development have stone as far in this Inst ten months bs they would have done in ten years of peace so that to-day those who know best think that in night inter- ception we are rather more than a shade ahead of the enemy,"
While warning against husty con- Davidson (21); 2, G. Baunders (37 2clusions from recent successes, Mr 3. A. McQueen. Heat 3-1, E. . Paul Morrison claimed that nevertheless (27 1/0); 2, E. W. Halton 12 3/5),
100 yards back-stroke handicaped", | "a significant thing is the stendy and Willis (03 3/0). G. Saunders falled to consistent rise in the curve of vic- Finish.
D. Diving (sealed handicap)—i, N.
ories since the darkc tithes of winter." Booker (85); 2. A. McQueen' (80); 3. R. Goldman (79); F. Wills (75); 8. G. Saunders (74).
220 yard aggregate handiens. Hent 1. E. F. Paul (3.10 1/3)7"2, G. Davidson (9.8 4788; 3. It. 6. Ramage. Hest 2-—-—-1.
A. F. Moy (2 49 3/6); 2. L.. A. Benn 12.1
52 4/5): . . W. Rallion (3.11).
15 yards medley aggregate handicap--
1. J. Roberin (55); 2, P. Wittis (50 2751:
1. W. B. Urd.
IT'sang
200 yards relay,1, Lal Trun Cheong-ming. Lau Tal-ping, Chan Chun- Kum Top-min); 2. European
nam.
Thursday:
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH May 15, 1941.
Manhattan
SHIRTS
NAVY AIRMEN IN MAKING—Specialized instruction is pushing U.S."Navy pilots through
in six months, instead of 12, with training day starting at 5 a.m., at the great air training contro at Poniacola, Fla. Above are pilots waiting to take off at Chevalier Field.
Soviet-Nazi Rivalry
On Lithuania Border
A party of Roman Catholic clergy who have just reached Lisbon from Kovno, Lithuania, bring first-hand information of that country, which has been completely cut off from world news centres since the Russian annexation;
They describe the Lithuanian capital as an armed camp.
Japanese And Troops are everywhere. All the city's largest buildings are taken
are
Oil Deal
Promoters' Gleam
over for purposes,
At this northern end of the Soviet-German frontier, say the priests, the twą nations are fac
Some place in the world thereing one another with undis-
some pretty well embar-guised hostility. Both are ra russed Japanese who apparent-pidly completing fortifications V.M.C.A. b. Roberts, G. Saunders, Nly were duped by three Amuri- and evacuating frontier zones.
Y.M.C.A. A II. C. Fardley, &. E. Paul.
A. F. May, D. Hutchinson); 3. European
D. Bonkers, E, W. Rallion): 4, Army (Pte
Elms, Signa Hodges, Ple Melfugh, Signa Hunt). Time 1, 55 4/6,
Water-polo-Europeus Y.M.C.A. (II. Eardley; F. Willis, L. A. Benn; A May: W. Hatton, R. Goldman. EF
Paul) beat Miodiese (317 Stanton; 1/Cp1 Muchenbach, Simma Thunt; P.S.M.
Ure: L/Cpl Binden. Pie Burdre, Pte Joning) 4.0. A. F. May scored
coats, one in the first half.
Major Baseball
High Scoring
In Games Yesterday
cans into making a deal for de- livery of $25,000,000 worth of oil to Japan, reports the New York Paper, "P.M."
If the US. Government charges are correct, the three men made the
д non-
tremendous deal through
existent ertmpany, got the Japanese to post $130,000 in advance, got them to send a tanker to nuston at cost of $20,000 and there lead them into finding that no one in Texas had ever heard of the men, the com- pany or the oil.
Russian officials are freely beasting of the approaching day when the Bolsheviks will overrun the defeated Reich.
Fifteen miles on the Russian, side
Nuzis have cleared the frontier to the
Heaviest Snowstorm Since 1888
News can now be published' of
which
of the frontier all civilians have been the great snowstorm evacuated. On the other side the raged in the north of England depth of more than sides have
Home Guard Learning Jiu-jitsu
G. KOIZUMI, one of the greatest jiu-jitsu experts out-
side Japan, is teaching British
civilians and members of the Home Guard how to defend themselves against Nazi para- troops in case of invasion.
Mr Koizumi, who founded the Budokwai Judo Club of London in 1918, has devised a series of 10 lessons in both attack and defence against an armed
chemy.
Members of the club are al- ready being instructed.
Home
Guard headquarters In several London areas have arranged
for Mr Koizumil to visit them and mile. Both in the third week of February: then how to disarm a man with a give demonstrations. Не shows thousands
of workers It is believed to be the greatest gun, bayonet, knife, revolver, employed building concrete defence snowstorm since 1888. works.
Maginol
Linc
roder.
Russian Invasion?
Travellers are told by local Not content with burning up thesidents that the Germans had brought Japanese, the American promoters also had nebulous plans for selling various portable defences of the fenilar Belitious all to England and
and incorporated them in Lithuanian frontier works. France. They nurtured and closed (UP),— { 123 deals with
the
expensive Scoring in two of yesterday's ceanic telephone calls made from ames in the Major Baseball sche- the chambers of a New York Judge dule was high. Boston Red Sox now dead. New York City is said beat Chicago White Sox 10-7 in to have paid about $6000 in tolls the American League and Pits and local charges. burgh Pirates humbled Philadel-
NEW YORK. May 14
phia Phillies 12-7 in the National.
Scores were:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
11
E
Battery: flughes, Johnson. Bruer.
Battery: Stelucevich Diet,
-Pailadelphia
Horrst. Deck, Livingaton. Pittsburgis
12
14 0 Bouers,
Kiinger, Baker, and Davis,
Brauklyn
G 10
1
Battery: Wyntt, Owens.
Cincinnath
Buten
trans-
Only one of the men has been ar-
bail.
Sevlet lenders, according to of flcers stationed in Lithuania, be- lieve victory over Germany within a comparatively short time. This would be followed by a Russian Invasion and Bolshevisation of Germany.
The chief of the G.P.U. In the dis- lgned and he was held in $6000 trict of Turgi told one of the priests: "The Soviet will attack the Germans as soon as they are beaten by the British. Soon the Red Flag will be will be revolution in Germany. Everything!
already arranged,"
"Time" Magazine's lying over Berlin. There
Air Edition
Plans to print a light-weight paper edition of the magazine "Time," which will be shipped by pire to Latin America and later, it is hoped, to Britain
and other
Battery: Derringer, E. Riddle, ter-reign countries, are announced In
ings. Lombard).
The New York-St Louis and noston Client matches were postponed.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chiengo
Hostou
7 11
Battery: Dietrich, Appleton, Ross, Tresh. Battery: Dickman, Nowson, Judd, Pen-
cock.
Detroli
Battery:
Tebbelt. Washington
30
Gorica, Thomas,
Battery: Bundra, Early.
St Louis
Battery: Harris. Grace.
Philadelphia
Harris, Hayes, Wagner,
Battery: Hadley, Dean.
Cleveland
Battery: Harder, Denné
Desultois
New York
Battery: tuning. Dickey..
+ 12 1
McKain.
18
13
5 0 Polter.
ก
1
G
1
Japan's Bid For S. American Trade
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, May 14 (Domel)-The placing of
200 products of Japan's
New York.
The first issue will appear shortly and will contain the same editorial matter as the American edition, but a different set of advertisements,
A similar service to Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines is plan- ned, but ultimately, It is hoped, it will prove possible to print overseas editions In London, Buenos Aires and Honolulu from zine plutes which would be flown to these places.
Nazis Would Revive Slave Days In Africa LONDON, May 14 (Reuter)"I the Nazis won, hope of civilisation in Africa would be at an end and its peoples would be thrown back into slavery under German task-masters," declared the Colonial Secretary, Lord Moyne, broadcasting in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nyasaland Protectorate.
Lord Moyne said that inen from ntt) purts of Africa had been fighting Uke lions in the Empire's armles which had destroyed Italian rule in East Africa.
light industry which will be exhibit- Lord Gort At Gib ed in South American ports in the GIBRALTAR, May 14 (Reuter) showroom aboard the Osaka Shosen The new Governor of Gibraltar, Kulshan liner Montevideo Maru, 7,300 General Lord Gort, assumed tons, was completed yesterday. The mand to-day and took the oath of vessel is scheduled to leave Kobe for allegiance at Government House. Latin America on May 21.
The floating fair is sponsored by
the Japan Industrial Federation and
the Japan Machinery. Manufacturers*
Union. The exhibits which will be
com-
NEW CHINESE GLACIER.
A
new glacler has been
dila-
TS
Shot Before Wedding
standstill.
club.
or
B מ!
Snow fell for 60 hours and Man With Knife Floored covered an area extending from I watched him deal with a man Yorkshire to the Scottish Bor-who lunged at him with Jenife Traffic was brought to a (writes "Sunday Dispatch" re-
porter).
He stepped neatly aside. caught In one night snow fell to the depth lock that made him drop the knife,
the man's outstretched arm of 4ft. in one part of Yorkshire, and then tossed his assailant on to the troops and Army vehicles were turn-floor. ed out to clear the snow from the Great North Road, over which thou sauds of civilian and milltory velucies pass daily. Snowdrifts in some areas were from 5ft. to 10ft, deep.
A landslide at Aycliffe, near Dar- lington, stopped a number of trains, and the passengers were supplied with thousands of sausage rolls and goats' milk for the children,
" rú been in carnest." he told "I have broken his arm as well.
"The main thing about judo is to get a man off his balance, and then you can do anything you like with him.
opponent. Let him do all the work, "Don't waste your strength on un
and then use his strength to get him of his balance and make him power- -less,
After Capture
reopened the road to Darlington, est police station or military point.
Soldier's Description_ A soldier in Yorkshire camp
a writes: "We were ordered out on how to escort a prisoner to the neur- In one of the lessons he shows to the main road and in a blizzard
You get a grip on the man and Hundreds of troops were out all day
If he resists you digging, while heavy vehicles and walk beside him. Bren gun carriers later maintained a break his wrist or arm, or you apply 24-hour service in order to keep the he soon gives in.
3 hold that causes so much pain that Captain Peter Watkinson, of duty up to the waist in snow.
roads open. Our company did guard
Mr. Koizumi knows a variety of The Loyal Regiment, son of araph and telephone wires sagged can put a man out in a few seconds. Tolo- deadly strangleholds, some of which Walton-on-the-Naze doctor, wa down to the ground under a weight recently injured in a shooting of a foot of snow frozen on the wires Jitsu at the Budokwal Club during Many women have learned Jiu- accident only an hour before his themselves. The Signals, sometimes the last few years. marriage and died in the Kent their linesmen to give trainees some alled the Army's G.P.O., called out and Sussex Hospital at Tun-real practice in pole-climbing."
TO THE SENATE bridge Wells.
BY PONY
He was explaining to his host and hostess the mechanism of a revolver when a shot rang out and he collapsed with a wound in the chest.
Al the time 100 guests had arsem-
led at Ticehurst Church, where he Esme McKenzie Ticchurst. was to have been married to Mis:
A
London Doctors Lack Work
Many medical men are discovering that there is not sufficient work for them to do in London.
Dr Hallday Sutherland, assisturit- medical officer to the LC.C., makes this comment, writing to the 'British Medical Journal' about the decision to admit oversens doctors temporarily to the medical register:
m3
"In the London area I and three of
medical Irlends with whom have compared notes complain of work. The authorities will Iack of Fodd to our discontent if any alien doctor is given any work so long as that work could be equally well done by British doctor in need
displayed in a 240 square yard show-covered by Chinese geologists on room include electric appliances, the side of a mountain near Pashan,ployment." precision machinery and other pro-In the Hanchung Basin, aldng the ducts of Japan's light Industry.
Free Frenchmen
Demonstrate
SYDNEY, May 14 (Reuter)-A
Shensi Szochwan order. An CX ploration parly of the Chinese In- stitute of Geography' came upon the mass, which is estimated to be 300 square-kilo-meters in size.
on
cable from General de Gaullo wan
TRAINING CADRE read at a large meeting of the Free The Military Authorities announce French, urging redoubled attacks on that there will be no Training Cadre Vichy and declaring that Admiral parade on Friday, May 16. The Darlan is France's Quisting agent for parade will be held as usual Germany.
Tuesday, May 20. M. Brenne, the local Fro French leader. said that the Free French in
London, May 14. Australia were with the French The Norwegian Minister in Mos people in the struggle against Ger- row, who is no longer recognised by he Soviet Government, has left for There were emotional scenes at the stockholm, according to n. Moscow meeting and Cries of "Vive la désunten quoted by the Lyoca Radio, Francel" and "Vive l'Australia. --Router:
many.
emn-
Chicken Business
Booms In Russia
Soviet authorities decreed recently n'now system for obligatory supply- ing of eggs from forms to the Stale. The object is to stimulate poultry breeding.
The decree provides that forms must deliver at state prices three to 15 cars yearly for each hectare (2,471 nerea) of land, depending upon the fertility of the rerion. Such deliveries previously have beon based! upon the number of chickers owned instead of upon the size of the form. A similar rule already has beca applied to ment in order in sumulate caillo-breeding
In Middlesbrough many peeple had to leave their homes by the windows, and many households were without A member of the Elre Legislatur: milk because suppiles could not be for the first time drove to the mest-
ot through.
ng of the Senate in Dublin with
Snow fell in Wales also. Contact pony and trap-because he had ne with the upland village of Mynydd petrol for his car. Another senato: Llandecat, which has a population of seeing him arrived remarked "onr
ver 300 was broken for a day and hundred miles to the two nights.
water."
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