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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1937.
FAST BOWLERS IN AMONG WICKETS
Seek New Air Mark
GAS EXPLOSION
Essex And Hampshire Triumph
London To-day. Alded by the bowling of H. n. Read, a young amateur fast bow ler who took 7 wickets for 35 runs, Essex yesterday toppled over, the Surrey wickets for 115 in the first innings and for 263 in the second innings to record a win by an in-1 nings and 192 runs at Brentwood. Jack Hobbs scored 5 in the first innings, whilə E. R. T. Holmes, the new Surrey captain. scored 112 in the second knock.
Leslie O'Connor, Essex's leading. batsman, was again in form, scor- ing 224 while C. T. Ashton, one of the famous trio of brothers, hit 4: 118.
Taking 6 Middlesex wickets for 38 runs, Herman material- ly assisted Hampshire to secure an 8 wickets win at Southampton.
Middlesex have unearthed a new fast bowler, J. Smith, who in thei first innings took 8 Hampshirei wickets for 102 runs.
Scores
were:
ax
cabled by Reuter
defeated Al Brentwood, Essex Surrey by an innings and 192 runs. Surrey: 15 (Hablas 5, Rend 7 for 35).
263 (R. R. T. Halmes 112). Essex: 570 for 8 dec. (O'Connor 248,
C. T. Ashton 118).
At Southampon, Hampshire de- fented Middlesex by 8 wickets. Middlesex: 147 and
for 39).
154 (Herman
Paul
Hoping to beiter their own world record for a straight line flight, Maurice Ronsi (top) and Codus (lower), celebrated French air aces, are seen al Paris. while awaiting favourable when ther to take off on an attempted non-stop flight to Buenos Aires. They were forced down, however, on the Massachusetts Coast.
Hampshire: 240 (J. Smith 8 for 102) BIG DROP IN SUGAR]
and 62 for 2.
TYLDESLEY 107 AT OLD TRAFFORD
616 In Last Six Innings
TOURISTS LEAD BY 108.
CONSUMPTION.
Threats Of Inflation Responsible.
1934 FIGURES ABOVE 1932
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
INQUIRY
Dr. Valentine Gives Evidence.
JURY SIT WITH CORONER
To-day's Short Story.
The circumstances surround. W
WATER
By James Hilton.
THEN the dawn and the saloon affray. But Leon was young, came together the well-shaped, and good-looking; his ing the death of Tola Ram Singh, little boat was still idly drifting dark, long-lashed eyes had stirred an Indian watchman employedjon the vast bowl of the ocean. many a girl's heart in the coast ports by the Hong Kong and China Darrent, ghastly beneath his from Cartagena to Buenos Aires. Gas Company, who was killed as bronzed skir lay back in the stero At first, as he gazed up into the the result of the gas explosion at and feebly muttered. His leg was faces of the two men, a vague blur West Point on May 14, was the like a streak of flame piercing up of reminiscence came into Darrent's subject of an inquiry which was wards into his body; he knew he had mind. Then, as he heard the calm opened before Mr. E. W. Hamil broken it in that last clumsy jump.water lapping against the sides of ton. Coroner, at the Central He was shivering, with cold or fever the boat, the blur cleared, and he Magistracy this afternoon.
or both; but soon, as the sunlight remember everything......Arapaca A special jury, comprising Messrs. glanced over the boat's edge and fell .diamonds......and then, like!
On
P. Tester (foreman), D. Drummond upon him, he began to writhe under a change of slide on a magic lantern, and L. Dunbar were empanelled. its keen and blistering rays. "Water that leaky, overladen trading boat! The jury were invited to sit beside water," he moaned deliriously. from Paramaribo to Cayenne the Coroner on the bench, the latter
"You know damn well there ain't which they had sailed as passengers. remarking that the jury had occu-no water, so what's the use of whin- There was a diamond-dealer at pied this position during the hearing ing for it?"
Cayenne, and after they had got the of the King Edward Hotel fire in-
Maraby's instant, mocking volce, cash, Darrent had been going to quiry.
harsh as the tearing of linoleum, quit. He had had enough of Mara- Mr. H. E. Stone, General Manager roused the injuries man to complete by.......But the storm and the of the Hong Kong and China Gasconsciousness. He looked up and wreck of the Marana had decreed Company was present in Court, while saw, backed by the immense vault (otherwise. And the vision came to Mr. W. A. MacKinlay held a watch-of sky, the faces of Maraby-"Cap-Darrent of Maraby standing up In ing brief on behalf of the Company-tain" Maraby-aud Leon, the half-the small boat with six-shooter Mr. W. M. Brown, said that he re breed. They were looking at him, levelled downwards towards the sca. presented "certain property owners." watching him.
"No more room in here, by God! Mr. P. Grant, Assistant Superin-
And the latter, rolling his eyes to- -- tendent of Police, conducted the ease. wards the "Captain" in a glance of
First Patient.
fawning adulation, murmured: "No It was stated that the deceased, water, Cap'n. Thasso, heh? No! Tola Ram Singh, lived in a hut be-dam water except sea, and sea no side the pasometer and was among good, heb?" He laughed a silvery, the first patients to be admitted to childish laugh-he was only a child; the Government Civil Hospital. The in the body of a man. jexplosion took place at about 11 a.m.
and
phir Mranges Ordinance, 1894. Regive evidence. ceived June 4. 0.49 pan.)
paln To Darrent, lying In
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "This Green And Pleasant Land," by Marian Bower.
on May 14, and as a result 41 people thirst, the pair seemed the malevo- And I'll shoot the first guy who lost their lives, and over 70 were in-lent symbols of all that he had learn- thinks there is!" Some pour devil} jured. An entire block of terraces ed to hate most in the world. Mara- had tried, but Maraby's gua, being
Clarence Street was destroyed, by was strong as a bull, and Leonwel, had missed fire. Then, with all; in while seven flats at the end of Dar-lithe as an antelope; and in Dar- his might, he had brought down the ley Terrace were completely gutted {rent's throbbing brain the strength butt-end on the knuckles that had by fire.
and the litheness merged together clutched the boat's edge. And Dar- Medical Officer's Evidence.
into a single hideous abatraction. rent, fainting from pain, had been Dr. D. J. Valentine, Medical Of-Maraby's fists could crack a man's unable to intervene. feer in charge of the Government skull with one blow; Leon's long, The bout was small, but it could (Bu Telegraph. Copyright, Telegra Civil Hospital, was the first to brown glistening hands could wring have held a dozen at least. As it a man's neck with сле twist. was, its occupants numbered only London, To-day.
He said that the deceased was Maraby was middle-aged, thick-four, and the fourth man had clam- Ernest Tyldesley, Lanco- shire's veteran No. 3 batsman,
New York. To-day, admitted to the Hospital at about necked leather-skinned, monstrously bered in before Maraby or Leon had
has scored 616 as the result of
The Dyer Company has estimat-11.15 a.m. on May 14. He was auf- ugly: the fourth and fifth fingers of been able to stop him. "You not his last six innings.
ed the sugar, consumption in the fering from severe burna extend- his left hand had been bitten off by send me away," he had implored. ing over his head, face, and chest piranhas in the Orinoco River, and when Maraby had found him there. Yesterday at Old Trafford
April, at
He was immediately removed to a white scar ran down his cheek "I know big sea. I tak you velly played a masterly innings for 107 413,773 long tons, ON compared
ward and treated for shock. Dur-where he had been knifed in some soon to big ship. You be dam glad against the Australiana at Old) with 516,389 tons in April, 1933.
ing the evening of the same day Trafford, hitting 11 boundaries in Consumption in the first four
day his condition became worse his stay of 165 minutes,
months of 1934 was 1.707.716 tons and continued to decline towards
tous the evening. He died the
next morning at 7.15 a.m., the cause of
be United States during
At the close of play, however, as compared with 1,790,032 the tourists, with nine second in-last year.
nings wickets in hand, were lead- The report explains that deliver-death being shock, following severo
ies in March and April, 1933. in-extensive burne. Reuter creased sharply due to the threats Dr. Valentine said that his in-
of inflation. This is partly
ing Lancashire by 108 runs.
Scores
were:
ан cabled by
ros-juries were
Australians: 367 (8. J. McCabe 142,jponsible for the present decline.
13. A. Barnett 52).
26 (or wicket.
Lancashire: 285 (Tyldesley
Fleetwood-Smith 6 for 107).
Nawab And Ames In Unbeaten Stand
107,
231 RUNS IN 220 MINUTES
London. To-day.
The Nawab of "Pataudi (Worces ter) and Leslie Ames (Kent) took
the opportunity of adding 231 in 220 minutes in an undefeated fifth wicket stand in the Test Trial at Lord's yesterday where England replied to the Rest total of 218 with 434 for 4,
The consumption for the first four months of 1934 was 3.6 per above the corresponding period of 1932.-United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
cent.
CONGRESS MAY RISE ON SATURDAY.
Gag Rule To Halt Filibustering.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
consistent with that!
of a huge burst of flame occuring in front of him, adding that the front of his hair wat badly singed.
BILATERAL NAVAL CONVERSATIONS.
No Reply From Italy
And France.
JAPAN AND U. S. TO ATTEND
when I tak you to big ship." And Maraby, with a curse and a kick that laid bare the man's shin-bone, hud: let him stay.
Now, on that first day that follow- ed the first night, the fourth man sat at the prow methodically chew- ing.
on
He WAR 3 Chinese. Darrent thought he must have been kitchen- boy, or something of the sort, board the unlucky Marana. He was London, To-day.
from Washing-grotesquely ugly, even by celestial 11.15 am and 1 p.m. on May 14, ton state that preliminary bilater-standards.
The sun rose high and blazing into 68 patients were admitted, with a naval conversations will begin
All Resources Mobilised. Dr. Valentine said that between
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TRAFFIC CASES.
Driver Buys Car But No License.
Complete Acceptance By France.
Mr. F. Reck, driver of private GREAT BRITAIN PLEASED
car No. 2887, was fined $5 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morning, for driv. London, To-day.
ing without an appropriate license The approval of the report of Baron Aloisi the Italian delegate, on
on May 23 in Garden Road. the holding of the Saar Plebiscite on the car on the same day,
Mr. Reck stated that he bought
four further cases during the rest in London in the middle of this the sky. It was the huge, glaring January 13, was given yes. $10 For Overtaking Car.
of the day, making a total of 72.
month.
sun of the tropics, and the calm seal
terday by the League Coun-
Appearing on a summons, Llu at seemed to focus it like a burning-
cil, M. Louis The boat drifted on indefl-French delegate accepted the report No. 4104, was fined $10, for over- Barthou, the Yuen-tak, driver of private car There were no oars-they
Of this total 20 died within 24 The American Ambassador hours of admission, and 11 have large, Mr. Norman Davis, is at glass. since died on various dates. present in Geneva but is expected nitely.
had been lost in the storm-but without reservation stressing the taking a moving tram car in Whit- Thirty-four patient have been in London at about that date.
But there responsibility of the Council, and the field Road. discharged and 12 remain, of
The discussions will deal with there was a small sail.
report regarding the liberty of the; which one is in a serious condition, procedure and technical questions was hardly a breath of wind, The necessity that all provisions of the
provide a few square feet of inter- mittent shade, in which Maraby and Leon crouched together.
Darrent at one end and the fourth
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra- certain complications having aris-preparatory to the Naval Confer- sall flapped lifelessly, serving ohly to vote and the guarantee of security Wong Ching, driver of private car
phic Messages Ordinance, 1804, Ren. The others were certain to bolence to be held next year.
criced June 6, 9 am)
adhered to.
two
Nearly Serious Accident. Fines of $20 were imposed on to the people of the Saar be boyally No. 2058, who appeared on cured, said witness.
Japan has also agreed to the
summonses of dangerous driving Washington, To-day. On immediate receipt of the news British proposal that such dia-
Capt. Anthony Eden. Great Briand for failing to apply full con Administration officials are driv- of the explosion all resources of the cussions should take place, bul
tain's delegate, praised the spirit trol. Traffic Inspector Nicol stat- ing to
All no reply has yet been received in man at the other were exposed to which enabled Germany and France ed that defendant nearly collided adjourn Congress next hospital were mobilised. 133, while Saturday, which is possible, but matrons, sisters and attendants were London from the French and Ital-the full force of the sun's blinding to reach an agreement on this point, with a public car with about 15 Both batsmen unprecedented.
called to duty, and arrangements for lan Government.-British Wire. stinging rays. Darrent moaned a
little from time to time, but the British Government more than
adding that nothing would please the people in it. The gag rule has been institut-access to the University Surgicalļless Service.
fourth man chewed on imperturba-extension of this spirit on led in the House of Representatives Clinic, where four doctors and stu-
other MILITARY TATTOO He seemed, indeed, perfectly domains. content; nor did his features betray It was now for the Council to study the slightest anxiety or resentment, the working of the agreement so
The Nawab's contribution to the huge partnership was Ames scored 108.
have hit ten boundaries.
Scores 13 cabled by were:
Reuter
Rest: 218 (C. F. Waiters 57, Mitchell in order to halt Republican filibus-dents lent aid, were made. ALENA GOLDFIELDS
tering.-United Press # for 88). England: 414 for 4 (Sutcliffe 24, R Gold Bar Co.
E. S. Wyatt 36, Nawab of Pataudi 133 not out, Ames 108 not out).
Wyatt Retires With
Injured Hand
London, To-day.
R. E. S. Wyatt received a blow on
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per S.C. available beds in the hospital were made ready, and in one case a whole ward was made ready.
RHODESIAN STOCK ISSUE.
Exceptional Measure.
the hand from a fast ball when bat- As un ting in the Test Trial yesterday at which does
London, To-day. exceptional measure,
The Assistant Stewart mobilised all stretchers and coolies, and every- thing was made ready. Detective-Inspector formed the Coroner that 16 bodles
Fender in- :
were found outside, bringing the total of deaths to 41.
DISPUTE.
Soviet Offer So Far Unacceptable.
NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW
London, To-day.
bly.
DO
IN COLONY:
Every now and then Maraby would that a guarantee could be given to November Likely Date. curse him afresh and ask him when all Saar inhabitants whether voters they were going to meet a ship, and or non-voters-British Wireless Ser- he would reply, without any sign of vice. fear: "Me tak you big ship bimeby. cap'n. Elmeby, cap'u."
-
"I don't belleve the swine knows any more where he is than I do,"
The Secretary for the Overseas Maraby grunted, and Leon, with a Trade Department, Mr. Colville, leer, added: "Thasso, Cap'n.
not imply the with NEW U.S. TREASURY when questioned yesterday as to trash don't know anything."
Lord's. He had to retire, but the drawal of hia request regarding injury is not likely to keep him from the optional conversion of trustee 'playing against the Australians on securities, the Chancellor of the
Friday.---British Wireless Service.
BOB WYATT CAPTAIN
Exchequer Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, has agreed to an immediate Jenue by the Government of South-
ern Rhodesia for the purpose refunding he Southern Rhodesia, 5] A sensation has been caused by per cent stock of 1034-1940.-Bri-
Continued from Pape 1).
the omission of Harold Larwood,tish Wireless Service.
KING'S BIRTHDAY DINNER
London, To-day.
of
OFFERING.
20 Obtain Funds For Recovery.
NATIONAL DEBT RECORD FIGURE.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
¿ceived June 5, 9 `a.m.)
That
PRESIDENT'S RETURN
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL · (By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra» phis Meranges Ordinance, 180k, Re- ceived June 5, 849 am.)
Washington, To-day President Roosevelt has return-
the result of the negotiations in Yet it was the Chinese who, at Moscow between the representa-intervals, left his position at the prow tives of the Lana Goldfields Limit-and went to alter or adjust the sailed to the White House. United ed and the Soviet Government, to Maraby and Leon watched him with Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co. reach a settlement with regard to a curiosity half-envious, half con-
The
The possibility of a Military Tattoo being staged at Sookanpao during the first fortnight of No- vember is at present receiving the consideration of the local Military authorities.
The project is at present in its very preliminary stages, and it has not yet definitely been decided to hold the tattoo, but a committee has been elected to discuss the matter, and, if necessary, to make preliminary arrangements.
The last Military Tattoo was
TOMI MARU DUMPS held in Hong Kong in 1928 when
COAL CARGO.
Weather Good For Salvage Work.
the arbitral award of £130,000,000 temptuous. Neither knew anything in favour of the Company, said of the sea or of acamanahip, the
many spectacular displays of war- that, while the Company had con-"Cap'n," if it had had any origin in |
fare and other military occupa- olderably revised its former de fact at all, had been a purely mill-
tions were given. Bluca-that date. hero of the Australian series. It is
jmands, the offer from the Soviet (tary distinction. (Dy Telegraph, Copyright, Telepra-Government was so far unacceptable, There was a little food-e feir
[many applications have been made understood, however, that he has not]
nhle Memages Ordinance, 1894, Re- and represented only a small in-sodden bisculta-and some damp to-
to the authorities by the public for yet fully recovered from his foot in-
a repitition of the performance. Jury and that the Selectors are hold
eroase on the former offer. The bacco which Maraby chewed, Washington, To-day......
A large quantity of coal, which the The proposed scheme for this ing him back for later service.
The purpose of the new United Position was under consideration. fourth man was offered nothing, nor
| did he ask........
vessel is carrying an cargo; was.die-jyear's Tattoo is on a much larger -British Wireless Service, -' The selection of Kenneth Farnes, King's birthday, the Foreign Secre- States treasury offering is to ob
On that second night. Darrent charged into the sea yesterday by scale than that of 1928. the young Essex bowler, was in the tary, Sir John Simon, gave a dinner,tain recovery funds. The new loan the Government: $2,010,000,000 in slept fitfully again, though the pain the Japanese steamer, Toml, Maru, m nature of a surprise, while George last night at the Foreign Office, at issue brings the national debt to cash, exclusive of the $811,000,000 of his leg gave him no real reat which is at present aground off Pra- damaged in the No. 1 bold. Efforts Geary's comeback to international which the heads of all diplomatic record of US$26,995,000,000 devaluation profita. Therefore, Oace, however, he was awakened by tas laland, according to information to tow the vessel, from her position ricket and Patsy Hendren's for that missions in London, and Members of surpassing the war-time pook of the cash position is $1,000,000,000 the shrill, plending voice of the received from the Talkoo Dockyard will be carried out as soon as pos- matter, is also surprising, ́- These the Cabinet were prosent.--British $26,698,000,000 in August, 1919. better than the previous peak.--- fourth man:"
Compapy this morning. ›
sible. The weather conditions are three are the most likely to be pasɛ- Wireless Service.
The issuance, however, gives United Press per S.C. Gold Bar Co. (Continsind on Page 10,1"
The vessel is stated to be badly good. od over.
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