"MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1927.
LATEST CABLES.
HOME FOOTBALL.
AIR ESTIMATES.
KIUKIANG'S UNCONDITIONAL
VAN INDIA TO FAR EAST
SERVICE
RESULTS OF SATURDAY'S. MATCHES.
RETURN.
THE $10,000 CHEQUE,
Hankow, March 4. Mr. Eugene Chen has handed Mr. O'Malley a cheque for $40,000 envering the damage suffered by sixton British subjects n K Klang.
EXPENDITURE AT SINGAPORE,
SURPRISES IN THE LEAGUE,
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL RUGBY.
DEVONS AND CLUB
DRAW.
In spite of the fact that they have
just completed a long sen-voyage
AT THE QUEEN'S.
"EXCHANGE OF WIVES" TO-DAY."
Briefly the story deals with the
the Bath, Devonshire Regt. husband of a reserved wife who
London, March 5.
By virtue of their défent of Swan-kave a good account of themselves meets and kisses the affectionate The Air Estimates amount to sea and Wolverhampton Wanderers on the Rugby field against the Hong wife of another mar, only to be $15,550,000 —
reduction of respectively, Reading and Arsenalong Football Club, un evenly con- detected by his better half and £450,000;
have entered the semi-final in the tested match resulting in a draw of the husband of his new-found The personnel will be 33,000 English Cup. Chelsea and Cardim.
points ench, Fand Millwall and Southampton'
The teams were:
love.* Notes were exchanged Mr. Chan compared with 35,500.
Hong Kong FC Summers;. Prit-Then the reserved wife, to and Mr. O'Malley on March 2 in Air expenditure in the Middle played drawn matches. Replays chard Garrard, King, Lammert, bring about a showdown, con- which the British Government Bust is reduced by £680,000 due will probably take place during the Wales, Bockett Pugh Williams trives to have the four of them agrees "to cancel the British Muni- to the diminution of the air garri-week. cipel regulations and to and ever son at Iraq from eight squadrons Wolves was expecter: but Reading's
Foster, Stephenson, Middiston Smith, spend a week at her husband's The Arsenal's victory over the Trayes, Mackintgre, Lee, Akehurst. epitioundly the administrationpio five.
Devons: Blunington; Hoopar, camp. And within a short time Douglas, Mackay, Blight, of the uren ab Kiuking to the
Hshe has her purpose fulfilled. She On the other hand the fleet air defent of Swansen was a surprise Nationalist Government on March
as the latter with 3 points are in
Wadhum; Davidson, Elliot, Paine, finds her husband and the other arm demands
additional
Peppin Godfrey, Hardy, Redfern wife in cach better, position than their con-
other's arms. Whereupon she sets out to solve From the kick-off the Devons the difficulty; the husbands must attacked. A ne handling move-exchange their wives, each of ment by the bucks carried play to whom is to cook for the other's the Club Hine when Wales relieved mate in separate cabins. with a good kick to touch,
of the men is to be in his own The Club forwards were heelog lodge by ten each night.. The to advantage and gave their three-plan is enthusiastically received quarters every opportunity to re-by the other three. gain the lost ground but faulty is no time before the erst- handling prevasited them from while love-starved husband is sur- making any headway.
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The Nationalist Government £201,000 to raise the strength acrors who have 27 points to their agrees to confirm the existing Buad from 18 to 23 flights, represent-feredit frontaize Beences issued by the Being a development in accordance Some unusually high scoring tish authorities daring the current with the Admiralty's aircraft occurred in the league, as will be
carriers programme, the net in-seen from the tables below:- The distribution of the $10,000 is trease in the air force being ap- Fett entirely to the British
rumenter.
ten years.
tov-proximately six, squadrons,
FURTHER TRAGEDY,
MINING DISASTER MOURNERS
KELED
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Reuter.
Far East Service.
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THE ENGLISH CUP.
(Sixth Round).
The memorandum accompany- the preparations progressing for Chelsea 0. Cardif 0. jing the Air Estimates refers to
a long-distance flight with tying Arsenal 2 Wolves. I. boats with the object of develop Swansen 1. Reading 3. ing a service air route between Millwall 0, Southampton. 0. India and the Far East."
It states that beats will be pro-i (vided in 1927 with the intention ; of making an extensive cruise me London, March 6
1028 as a self-contained ünit in Two men were killed add 23in-Par Eastern waters, dually visit. jured owing to a motor bus conveying Australian porta. A survey ing people to Cwm to send the of the route is at present being funeral of the mining disaster vielcarried out by a ground party. time turning over and falling over kontor. ubanie Keator.
Mine' Disaster.
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THE SCOTTISH CUP.
(Fourth Round), v
Bo'nese 2. Celtic 5. Falkirk 2 Rangers 2 Partick P. Bunder U. & Arthurlie D. East Fife 3.
Division 1.
bate f
Aston Villa 3. Suhderland F. # Rugby, March 5.
The Air Estimates include Bohen W. 1. West Brom. The fund opened by the Lord 600 towards the provision of Burnley 3. Blackburn 1. (. Mayor of London for the relief aerodrome facilities at Singapore, Perbe et 4. Birmingham 1. of the families of the miners kill---Router.
Berda Reicester 1. ed in the mine: disasters at Cwmn Shree Squadrons. Liverpool 3, Wednesday 0 and Bilsthorpe has in one day
Lendon.. March 5. Manchester U. 1. Bury 2. reached the sum of about £6,000.
The met Air Extimates for the Newcastle %, Everton 8 His Majesty the King sent £100 coming year total £15,550,000 Sheffield W..3, Tottenham
Division. IE and Her Majesty the Queen £50, compared with £16,000,000 for
The Miners' Federation, which the current year. In a memor. Bradford C... Darlington 1.
Hul 2, Grimsby 31 has also opened a fund, has re- andum accompanying the estim
Middlesbro 1, Notts. Forest ( ceived in one day £10,000, a large nses. It is stated that operational Pert Vale 3, Barnsley 2. proportion of which is in shillings units 10 maintained are Preston N.E. 5, Oldham 2.. and sixpences British Wireless equivalent to sixty-three squa- South Shields 1. Pulham Service.
[dróns, of which fifty-six hre on a
regular basis.
CYCLONE HAVOC. SHIPPING TOWN COMPLETELY
WRECKED.
FIVE HUNDRED KILLED.
DIVISION HI. (South),
Two new non-regular squadrons --one special reserve and one au- Brentford 3. Crystal Pai D: xiliary Air Force have been Brighton 3, Gillingham 2. formed and the Home Defence Bristol R. 4. Queen's P. R. 1. Force has also been increased by Exeter 1, Bristol C. 1. the addition of one regular Luton 4. Newport 1. squadron, which becomes avail Merthyr 4. Bournemouth 6. able through the reduction in the Northampton 3, Watford 2.
Norwich 2. Aberdare 2. Imperial Garrison in Iraq.
Southend . Plymouth 2.. The Home Defence Force now Swindon 2, Charlton 0: « It is reported from Port Louis! Mauritius, that five hundred consists of 28 squadrons, includ- people have been killed in aling seven on non-regular basis.
DIVISION III. (North), cyclone at Tamatave, Madagas- More than half the original pro- |
gramme of 52 squadrons has Accrington 3, Walanib 5. thus been completed.
Barrow 0. Stöke D.
CAT.
Capetown, March 5.
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The cyclone struck the east side of the island, and devastat. It is intended to form two new Crewe 1, Doncaster 3. ed Tamatave. The steamers regular squadrons for Home De- Durham 3, Nelson 3. "CRtinat" and "Ville de fence during the financial year of Halifax 4, Rotherham 2. Marseilles" colded and were 1927. In addition one new. non- Hartlepools 2, Wigan 1. drive ashore.-Reuter.
regular squadron will be formed. (Lincoln & Bradford 1. Paris, March 5. Provision is made for five new Southport 7, New Brighton 2. According to reports received figures equivalent to two and Rochdale 5, Ashington 0. Stockport 3, Wrexham 2. here by
commercial Shipping half squadrons for the feet air Tranmere 3, Chesterfield 2. houses, many ships anchored in farms. These are required for com- Tanataye harbour have been mission as an aircraft carrier in⠀⠀ lost. No official information has course of the financial year. hitherto been received-Reuter. The "strength of the Beet air London, March 5. farm will thereby be raised from
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
Division 1.
Glyde 2, Hibernians C. Hamilton 4. Cowdenbeath 2. Kilmarnock 2. Queen's Park 2,
St. Mirren 2, St. Johnstone 1.
Reuter.
Buxton.
Referee: Mr. S. J. Jordain,
Each
felted with klases and canned
Devons Firat to Score. The soldiere kept up the attack Junk; and the other husband is and were playing a sound game but stuffed with good food and stary- the Club defence held opt untied for love. Then each mantriés Blight "diddled the opposition, by to hoodwink the other, but the going round the blind side of the wives make them keep to their serum. He scored a well deserved bargains. try at the corner. The kick at goal But then when
the now well- fifailed
fed husband begins to brag with- Up to this point the Devons de-out cause "about the reserved served the lead as their play was wife's love-making, matters reach superior to that of the Club.
passes.
The Club threes were at fault and a-climax., And both husbanda could not settle down to take their undergo a change of tempera- On one occasion Lammert ment and each, in his way, sub- secured possession and gained dues his wife. ground but a clever save and kick Eleanor Boardman and Lew by"Mackay saved the situation und Cody play the Rathburns, the re" (play remained in the Cluð half. served wife and Her måte, and Shortly after this the Club came Renee Adoree and Creighton Hale more into the picture and good foot-the Morans, the other couple, The work by the forwards carried play picture was adapted to the screen near the Devons' re
y Frederic and Fanny Hatton from
a stage play by Hamilton.
Club Press & Draw Level .. From a scrum, Walca secured the ball and opened up the play, with a nice break through but his phas was not taken and a'Chance to score: was lost,
The Club returned to the attack
Cosmo
WORLD THEATRE.
and made a bold bid to penetrate" "HIS JAZZ BRIDE" TO-DAY the Infantrymen's defencol
At last the pressure told and from
ja scrum near the Devone' Hre, Lam-
ONLY.
Marie Prevost as "The Jazz. mert obtained the ball and forced Bride" of Matt Moore has been
his way over at the corner. Ha kick at goat fell short.
told by her selfish married friend,
Half time: the Club (1 try) 3 played by Mabel Julienne Scott, point-lat Devons (F try 3 points that the way to enjoy married So far the Club had improved and life is to win the first battle, considering that they were playing keep hubby at the office fourteen with only 14 men (Willams having hours a day trying to pay the to go off early in the game with a bills and turn her attention to ap- damaged thumb), they did very holding his social position with well to draw level before the inter- ivak
"good" fast, fashionable
:some
.
On resuming, the Club forced crowd. the Devons to defend and it was
So the little jazz bride tried it, touch and go for score when the but her husband died hard and ball was carried over and one of their reactions upon each other the Devon backs had to touch down, prove very interesting. The bad
Binnington's Saves.
friend's husband, played by At this point Williams returned and helped to ense matters for the George Irving, succumbs when Club forwards who had been put-
his chance to make. some graft ting a little extra vim into their money comes and as a result an- play. But this extra pressure was other defective pleasure boat is needed and the threes were receiv-launched upon the Hudson to Ing the ball from nearly every imperil hourly the lives of its acrum. Although the Club could not passengers. One night the two score owing to the rood defence put fodlish wives with their escorts up by the Devons they kept the, sol- diers in their own twenty-five.
portrayed by Don Alvarado and Towards the end the play be- John Patrick, attend a wild party Peame a bit scrappy and settled down on the boat. It is overloaded.
What happened to the mid- Binnington, at full back for the night revellers on the jazz and Devons. Belded well and saved his gin soaked pleasure boat? What hine on more than one occasion.
did the boy's mother and the "Just on time Lammert hnd great run from his own twenty-five
girl'a mother, played by Margaret. and it was only a good tackle by Seddon and Heier. Dunbar, think Hooper which prevented a certain and do about the situation? These questions are interestingly, satisfactorily, and thrillingly answered in the film.
A wireless message received by eighteen to twenty-three fights, Lloyd's from the
| about midfield: steamer equivalent to, about eleven and a "General Duchesne," via Mauri-half squadrons. tius, states that the damage in the
One new squadron will also Madagascar cyclone amounts to commence to form for army co- over 100,000,000 francs. The operation at Home in addition to town and harbour of Tamatave four squadrons already provided. are completely wrecked. Reuter. This is called for by development For Catterick as an army training
centre:
Increased Strength.
MISSING AVIATORS,
STARTED ON FOOT FOR
CAPE JURY.
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LEAGUE TABLES.
The following tables show the score. number of games played by each Result: the Club 1 try) 3 points team and the points they have gain--1st Devons (1 try) 3 points. Jed: Matches played on Saturday
It will thus be seen that it is the prepared in all to increase strength of the Royal Air Force during the year by the addition. of approximately six squadrons or their equivalent. «
Casablanca, March 6. The French air company's aero-f
As a consequence of the settle,. plane landed near the wreck of
ment of the northern boundary Larre Borge's aeropiane."
question and of the progress in Local Moors informed the oceu. the development of Iraq., the pants that the Uruguayan airmen Army air garrison in Iraq is have started on foot for Juby.-Reuter,
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Earlier Messages.
Cape
Paris, March 5.
being reduced from eight
squadrons to five. In all eleven and one third squadrons are t present located in middle eastern
A message from Agar says theatres. Six squadrons continue that the seaplane, with the to be maintained in India.- Uruguayan airmen, Major Larre British Wireless Service.
Borges and his brother; as been found sixty miles North-East of
Cape Juby in Spanish West
Africa. Reuter.
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Seized By Tribesmen
Casablanca, March 6.
The seaplane of the Uruguayan
airman Major Larre Borges, who
LEAGUE COUNCIL..
GERMAN TO PRESIDE AT MEETING.
Rugby. March "6. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Bri- with several companions left tish Foreign Secretary, arrived Rome on February 20, to fly to at Geneva this morning to attend South America, WOH found the meeting of the Council of the smashed to pieces sixty miles League of Nations which opent: North-East of Cape Juby, in to-morrow and over which for Spanish West Africa. There is the first time a German Dr. no trace of the airmen. Moorish Stresemann will preside-Bri- tribes in the neighbourhood arotish Wireless Service.
still in revolt. Apparently the
airmen alighted on the sea owing
to a breakdown, sought refuge,on
WHARF ACCIDENT.
a beach and came to grief in Whilst working cargo on board crossing the bar of the river— the "City of Bath" at No. 2 Holt's!
Wharf yesterday, a coolie was in Reuter.
Madrid, March 6. jured by some fron plates falling A message from Las Palmas on him. He was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital in a critical says that a native has reported condition. The accident occurred that Larre Borges and three through a chain breaking whilst the others are unhurt but have been iron was being hoistad on the seized by tribesmen Reuter: glerano.
are included in these figures:
Newcastle Huddersfield Burnley Sunderland
Division I
Aston Villa
Leicester
Liverpool Blackburn
West Ham
Arsenal' Bolton Sheffield U. M'cheater U.
Tottenham Wednesday
Birmingham
*Derby C.
Bury
Cardiff
Leeds Everton West Brom.
Plymouth
DIVISION III (South)..
Bristol C.
ป
30 47
Brighton
24
41
Swindon-
30 11
32 37
Millwall
29 39
35
29
38
Newport
30
.37.
Crystal Pal
20
32
Exeter
31
32
Bournemouth
30
31
Luton
31
B1
26
20
BO 28
31
27
Bristol R.
28 26
Charlton
201
26
Coventry
30 24
Northants
31
23
Merthyr.
30 22
Queen's Park
80
2
Gillingham
29
21
31
21
17
DIVISION III (North).
30
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New Brighton
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To ago thirty years during the
course of a picture was the difficultį
task accomplished by Otto Hoffman. who plays a character role in "The Circle," to be shown next week.
The character which Koffman portraya appears in both the pro- logue and the play between which
lapse of thirty years occurs.
It
ns at first believed that a double would have to be used for Hoffman in the prologue, but a tent showed that he could overcome the difficult task.
The picture was directed by Frank Borzage for Metro-Goldwyn- |Mayer with ñ noted east, including; Eleanor Boardment George Fawcett, Alec B. Francis, Eugenie Besserer, Malcolm McGregor, Creighton Hale, Otto Hoffman and Eulalie Jensen.
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The story, adapted from the famous Spanish navel by Viconte Blasco Ibáñez, tells of the love of a young Spanish statesman, and an opera prima donna. Gorgeous set- "tings » and gowns, 2, spectacular thrill in which a food sweeps sWay @panish villago, and other massive details make the offering out of the. ordinary.
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