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NOTTS TO BE COUNTY B. A. T'S. CAPITAL TO

CHAMPIONS?

CHANCES IMPROVE

BE INCREASED

A RESOLUTION

FIVE NEAREST RIVALS ALL POWER WANTED TO RAISE IT

DROP POINTS

SOME OUT OF THE RUNNING

Whereas their five closest rivals dropped points, Nottinghamshire.

TO £36,000,000

ISSUE OF "PREF." SHARES

London. Yesterday.

A resolution will be submitted

the lenders in the county cricket at the meeting of the British- their match American Tobacco Company em. championship, won

- gesterday-and thus enhanced their powering the company to increase

prospects of finishing up at the top of the table.

Nolts received one of the con- tenders for premier honours in Gloucester, who were vanquished.

Yorkshire were previously with-

its capital to £36,000,000 by the creation of £6,000,000 § per cent. second preference shares.-Reuter.

(2nd

in 4 points of Notts. But as the uns (Larwood took a wkts. for

could only 197 runs) and, following-on shire of Broad acres get a load on the 1st innings, the innings) 230 runs.

Notts and York-

deficit is now 7. shire have

earb three more

Hampshire v. Yorkshire At Bournemouth, Hampshire con- matches to play and the cham-ceded 1st innings' points to York-

betweenshire, Scores:-

pionship seems to rest

them.

Hants 259 runs and 233 runs. Yorkshire 270 runs. for 3 wkts..

Each county has 28 fixtures. The standing at present is shown weclared. below.

lost fur-

Sussex v. Lancashire

At Eastbourne, Sussex led Lan- ist innings.

Lancashire (holders) ther ground. as did Kent. Al-cashire though Sussex improved their Scores;--- position, they did not get full points, And the result is that these counties, also Gloucestor. are practically out of the running.

Hobbs Nearly Left Out In the middle of the table, three counties in Derbyshire, Middlesex and Surrey all won, doing so on enemy territory in each instance.

With the exception of Essex, all the counties at and near the bot tom of the competition gathered a few points cach, but positions are unchanged.

Co

the

Sussex 262 runs (Macdonald 5 for 72) and 237 raas for 6 wkts.. declared (E. S. Duleepsinhji 122).

Lancashire 220 runs (Makepeace 105) and 82 runs for 6 wickets.

Kent v. Middlesex

At Dover, Kent lost to Middle- sex by 241 runs. Scares:-

Middlesex $20 runs and 274 runs (Wright 4 for 66).

Kent 124 runa (Darston 5 for 55) and 229 runs (L A. R. Peebles

for 64).

Essex v. Derbyshire

At Leyton, Essex lost to Derby- shire by eight wickets. Scores:

Bowlers did well generally. Not a few batsmen, however, were in scoring mood. Including Hobbs. whose name Reuter left out but included, in a supplementary cable. 25).

Essex 183 runs (Worthington 7 for 68) and 249 rubs (Slater 4 for

Glamorgan v. Surrey

Although indications are that Derby 380 runs (Lee 113) and 53 bowlers wickets prevailed, there runs for 2 wickets. were some big scores, and Worces. tershire had. the mortification of seeing their total of 447 passed A number of 2nd innings' score.

were startlingly small, especially when there was a race against

time.

Results at a Glance

At Cardiff, Glamorgan lost lo Sarrey by an innings and 56 runs. Scores:-

Surrey 379 runs for 7 wkta., de- clared (Hobbs 128).

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TYPHOON STORY..

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Glamorgan 163 runs and, follow-! GX2666666022668 ing-on, 155 runs (P. G H. Fender

Notts defeated Gloucestershire by an 4 for 54).

Innings and 27 runs.

Hampshire conceded 1st innings'.

points to Yorkshire.

Northants v. Somerset

At Northampton, Northampton-

Sussex led Lancashire on the 1st shire led Somersetshire on the 1st

innings.

Kent lost to Middlesex by 241 runs. Essex lost to Derbyshire by eight wickets.

innings. Scores:--

Northants 335 runs and 125 runs (Wellard 6 for 36).

Glamorgan lost to Surrey by an inn-93) ings and 66 runs.

Northamptonshire led Somersetshire

on the 1st innings.

the 1st innings.

M.G.C. drew with Wales.

Counties Positions

Somerset 317 runs (Clark 5 for

and 74 runs for 5 wkts.

Warwick v. Worcester

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WHERE THE TYPHOON SCHNEIDER CUP

FILLED UP

KONGMOON HAVOČ STORM IN DELTA FOR 3. HOURS ON THURSDAY NIGHT

+

TRAGEDY

ANOTHER CRASH ITALIAN PILOT RUSHES TO HIS DOOM

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Thoughts Terse, Perverse-and Worse

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"Russian planes in, flight."-But PILOT AND 'PLANE DISAPPEAR over Chinese territory. MANY CAUGHT AFTER LULL

Rome. Yesterday. After being in surpense for

The best time for kidnapping in Captain Giuseppe Motta.

a Yaumati is bed time. more than a day, it is now pos- sible to say with some degree of member of the Italian Schneider

tcam Cup

while testing a precision where Thursday's ty

Macchi seaplane, which had phoon passed inland and filled up

entered been to cause no more damage.

for the race, erashed at Lake Garda, near. Desenzano, and was drowned.

The Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, stated the place of entry to be "near Macao" In fact, so far as indications show, the storm passed to the north of Macao and over the southern portion of the delta of the West and Canton Rivers,

"The Big Parade."--Round the Club bar on a wet evening.

Cheerfully stolen: There are no knots on the Notts cricketers.

****

An Italian Request The Italian team has requested a

The papers always tell us of few days postponement in order: that their new machines may be Crown land sales but never, of ready in time for the race at Cal-half crown ones.

shot on September 7.

Captain Motta, who was one of

The main thing is that we can Pakkai, the port of Kongmoon the most brilliant pilots.in Italy had now get as much water as we like City, appears to have been struck een tasting а "Hush Hush"

Trom the main. by the full force, this place being speed seaplane only a few minutes about 100 miles (or less. as the when from a height of a few hun-

The Police keep the hawk's eye crow flies) W.N.W. of Hong Kongdred feet, with terrific velocity open to rope in offending hawk- or about 50 miles N.W. of Macao. he hit the surface of Lake Garda. ers.

was

there Machine and pilot disappeared leav-

"to

To make matters worse,

an appreciable full which ing no trace. tempted people out of doors congratulate themselves" (as a "China Mail" correspondent says) then the worst came.

It also appears that the typhoon must have moved onward, after Hong Kong, rather slowly, as it had not abated in Kongmioon until late at night.

GREAT HAVOC

Scenes of Despair in Pakkai

by Night

Pakkai, Kongmoon, Yesterday. At 4.30 pm on Thursday, August | 22, the storm was blowing very strongly from the north-west.

Own

Newspaper heading: "Other One theory of the disaster is that Men's Cash."--Never "Our Motta was overcome by the fumes Cash" by any means. in a similar way to Williams at New) York on Thursday.

Committee's Decision

✰

"Rain later."-There'll be A drought of adjectives to describe it, especially over the week-end.

Following several hours' meeting of the Schneider Cup Committee, it was officially stated that the Italian Air Attache had been in- The man who recently stole 28 lb. of brazing solder from the formed that the rules of the Inter-Kowloon Docks was very brazen national Aeronautical Federation did not permit of the postpone- ment of the Schneider contest once all the entries had been received. -Reuter.

Rice Crop Hopeless

There was a lack of spirit in the way the Scots celebrated "Spirits Day" on Monday.

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It's very nice to sit on a Com- mittee. Not that, the Committee like it, though.

□ AND

Fancy an article for Peak con- sumption on common colds-No- thing so common, thank you.

A coal junk was alongside the ferred to and this landmark again launch which supplies the motive turned out to be the salvation of.. power to the Canton Suncheong tow. unfortunate souls. While coal was being passed to the launch, the junk broke away and The rice crop of the second half soon turned turtle in this part of year is hopeless. Frukt crops have the West River,

perished and Hong Kong will pay Two of the crew who did not get high prices this winter. clear were thrown into the water! Silk cocoons have failed because where they dang to the upturned of too much rain.

A man who was having a serim mage with a stolen spade was caught by Sergeant Scrim.

Our thoroughfares are far from hull, helplessly driven along. Hope Many small houses in the vicinity thorough when they're always was given up but, fortunately, the collapsed and the damage was under repair. wreck was piled up on a sandbank aggravated through the presence of at Ngoi-hoi, half a mile down the River.

an abnormal number of visitors With ac much water about now from up-country. No fatality has is the time to float a new com- At six o'clock the wind died down been reported so far-Our

own pany. and the weather cleared.

People came out of doora -to in- quire for news and to congratulate | each other on escaping from what "might have been worse."

Typhoon Resumes

Then the typhoon suddenly re- Work is to begin on the construesumed-after the full-but this time tion of an additional reservoir in from the south-west. Hong Kong Island, namely, at Aberdeen, where the old Tai Shing paper mills are to be removed to make way.

At Birmingham, Warwickshire Warwickshire led Worcestershire on led Worcestershire on the 1st inn-

ings. Scores:--

Worcester 447 runs (V. Fox 198; Mayer 5 for 86) and 123

The upper dam is to be built No. of runs for 1 wkt.

shortly, approximately 425 feet in Warwick 483 runs (R. E. S. length and 110 feet in height, and also about 900 feet of catchwater Wyatt 132).

and contingent works.

Gemes Played Points

(1) Notts

25

144

(8) Yorkshire

25

197

(8) Lancashire

M.C.C. v. Wales

26

152

(5) Sussax

26

132 At Lord's, M.C.C. drew with

(3) Gloucester

26

129 Wales. Scores:-~~-

(8) Derbyshire

26

128

(9) Middlesex

25

122

Wales 249 runs and 225-runs. M.C.C. 179 runs

and 256 runs

(6) Kent

28

119 for 8 wkts.---Reuter.

(7) Leicester

26

119

(10) Surrey

25

104

(11) Hampshire

96

(12) Essex

88

(13) Warwick

79

E4

45

40

(14) Northants

(15) Worcester

*(18) Somerast

(17) Glamorgan

25

[Figures in brackets indicate posi- tions held before this last series of en-

V. Fox (Worcester)

gagemonts.]

Seven Centurions

Whysal (Notts)

,244

198

R. E. S. Wyatt (Warwick)

198

Hobbs. (Surrey)

128

K. S. Duleepsinhji (Sussex)

122

Lee (Derbyshire)

113

Makepeace (Lanes.)

105

Best Bowling Performances

I. A. R. Peebles (Middlesex). 7 for 64

Worthington (Derby).... 7 for 68

Wellard (Somerset).

Tarwood (Notts)

Durston (Middlesex)

Macdonald (Lancs.)

Mayer (Warwick)

Clark (Northants)

Slater (Derby)

6 for 36

5 for: 87

5 for 55

5 for 78

for 86

5 for 98

4 for 25

P. G. H. Fender (Surrey). 4 for 54

Wright (Kent)

Notts v. Gloucester

4 for 68

⠀⠀⠀⠀ London, Yesterday...

Nine drst-class cricket matches-

of three days) ended to-

(each day.

At Nottingham, Notts defeated Gloucestershire by an innings and 27 runs. Score

Notts (1st fnnings), 396 runs (of which Wy62" made 244), *

Gloucester. (1st inuinga).... 189

(Continued on next Colum

As has been announced, the com- plete scheme ought to prove a valuable addition to the Colony's facilities and bring in more than 2,000,000 gallons of water a day.

correspondent.

IN HONG KONG

Cargo Junks and Lighters Recovered

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The Red Generals assert that their troops are in the pink of condition.

The muddle at The Hague has

to nothing whatever do with The two cargo junks and a light- haggis. er which broke adrift from the

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1 *

Great havoc was wrought and steam launch "Tai Sang," which The Reds on the Marichurian scenes of indescribable despair were was towing them from Canton, border seem more bomb-astic than enacted during the night.

and met with the typhoon whenever.

Chung, near The barometer foll very low but opposite Tai Lam no official reading has been issued, Castle Peak, have been recovered Popular air heard in the Colony From 7 to 10 p.m. the damage by a Police launch which towed during the typhoon: "Blow, blow, piled up everywhere. Plants, veget them back to harbour. ables, roofs, matsheds and jetties suffered the most,

The three craft were badly bat-

blow the man down."

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tered by the wind and lost most Now that Ghandi has left off The launch towing the regular of their deck fittings, but they eating only raw foods he may be- tow back from Macao foundered in managed to remain afloat and by come quite caltured. front of the Customs. The tow exceptional luck kept away from

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(large junk, with passengers) itself the rocks. When found, the junks A Shanghai paper refers to à was driven on to the sandbank re- and lighter were still drifting, Chinese vernacular sheet as a

their crews being too exhausted by "mosquito” journal. the fight during the typhoon to attempt to take them into bar- The Shyok Dam in India has bour.

burst-the Shylock dam here The plucky seafarers, including makes it a habit. several women, did not suffer un-

CHINESE TROOPS MOHILISING FOR SERVICE ON THE FRONT

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their equipment; already packed, Chinese troops are shown here marching through the streets of Mukden city, in Feng tien province, in the wath of Manchurin, for service at the front (in went,"north" and east). Orders do mobilise have been given and many unite, have been moved up this

experi-

duly from their terrible

Events in Manchuria suggest ence and with a little rest should that it should be called the be quite fit again. They can Knellogg Pact.

count themselves lucky that none of their number lost their lives.

Electrician Injured

Whilst repairing electric wires which were blown down by the typhoon outside his house in Mallory-street, a Chinese elec trician named Chu Kau received a severe shock, yesterday afternoon, which threw him to the ground,

The Buffaloes are not such a wild set of billiard players as their name may suggest.

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Torsat's Roosters coming to the Queen's Theatre are something to

crow over.

U

A perusal of the sporting papers;

He was removed to the Govern at Home show, that there can be ment Civil Hospital in an uncon- sprinter's as well as printer's scious condition.

Disaster Averted

errors:

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A Chinese female hawker has been fined two dollars just for crying her wares in a prohibited

Brea.

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Judging by the increase in the number of accidents the blunder- bases in Kowloon appear to be expanding.

The victory of Miss Palfrey over the British tennis player was no paltry affair for the Ameri-

cana.

A munition dump has been blown up in Roúmania. The na- tives don't seem dumps.

to be in the

their

After the Police scored first lawn bowls win of the sea- son the No. 1 typhoon signal went up.

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The Somersets provided a Band of hope to the K.C.C. last Satur- day for the concert was not post- poned on account of rain,

O CAD

Nobody was more surprised than the players when the K.C.C. lawn bowls match was postponed last Saturday.

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In spite of the typhoon and the awnings being removed, there are no signs of the "fiddles" in the saloone of the Star Ferries.

"on The Tientsin Police were the carpet" when they were lock- ed up in the

carpet factory for five hours.

Kowloon must be reckoned ä typhoon shelter judging by the crowds who dashed across on the last Ferry at noon on Thursday.

Judging by the daily rush for the "China Mail" the sport of paper chasing in the Colony 18 quite healthy.

****** The Russian Bear is not hav- ing it all his

own way playing with the Chinese dragon on the Manchurian border.

D

A Russian armoured train has made its appearance up North, but there's no word yet of the famous steam roller.

"English producers have some thing to learn from America about clear story telling." Shades of Izaak Walton.

White suits are apt to turn black in a few minutes on the Kowloon buses or the ubiquitous. "Black and White."

The Hong Kong Football Club have not appointed a Committee to enquire into who sent the typhoon that demolished their grand-stand.

"A considerable percentage of the K.O.S.B. will probably be re- lieved under the trooping scheme instead of going to India."-Very much relieved, in fact.

O p a

Talking of fines it would be quite untrue to say that “two dollars a day give the Magistrates their pay."-That would be put- ting too fine a point on it.

M

On the Chinese calendar to- day: "Stepping of Heat." But who's to stop it? The traffic police are quite busy enough as it is...

and

What with these muzzles the ban on taking them on pi

nies to the New Territories- eanines are having a dog's

The latest record"? is it.. When the "Sui Tai" turned "Sutcliffe's Double Century." back from the Macao trip on 'Tis à Test Match lovietone Thursday she reached Stonecut Special....

In a hung power contest the

ters and anchored when the full force of the wind commenced. The .3. Kwong Ying (Captain Chinese hawkers would not only Sinclair) on the Wuchow run, take the biscuit but the whole anchored just ahead of him and blooming bakery.

during the height of the typhoon

The chief thing about tivities at the K.C.C. on

was the celebr

the second strings test

the Lawn Bowls Leagu:

Yet another me Lawn Bowls, Ase"

And it took

a report fo

First

the vessel drifted onto the "Sui Having stretched their vocal tee has been Tai." The two vessels collided organs during the close season several times and only very clever footballers and baseballers have seamanship avoided & disaster now begun to stretch their legs. The Kwong Ying" broke her chains and drifted, alongside and If District Watchman No. 8 small-pe made fast to the "Sui Tai When effects any more arrests for pick then

pocketing be sure kill the indus- try

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