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U.S. ROUND-UP OF ILLEGAL TRADERS IN LIQUOR AND NARCOTICS

STARTLING CRICKET

WYATT KNOCKED OUT AND TWO

TEST RECORDS

ENGLAND 27 FOR 4 AGAINST 535 FOR 7

Headley 270 Not Out

Kingston, To-day.

England are in a desperate posi- tion as the result of yesterday's sensational play in the fourth Test

R. E. 8. Wyatt

match against the West Indies. At For The

the close of play the tourists, with

six wickets in hand, required 358

to save the follow on.

Two Test records were shatter- ed during the day, and Bob Wyatt, the England captain, was knocked out by a blow on the jaw when attempting to avoid a fast rising ball from Martindale In the first over of the tourists* innings. He was immediately

Home

Our Birthday Supplement

rashed to hospital for an x-ray WELL-KNOWN LOCAL

examination.

(Continued on Page 12) Scores, as cabled by Reuter,

were:-

WEST INDIES

1. Barrow, b Farnes

C. M. Christiani, b Paynë...‚'.......

G. Headley, not out

E. 1). Sealey, b Paing

1. Constantino, bw, b Paine

J. Moodie, c. Townsend, & Poine

F. Fuller, b.w., b Hollis

R. Grant, Wyatt, b Paine,

K. Hylton, not out

Extras

Tola! (for 7 wkta dec.)

Fall of the wickets:

Smith

Farnes

Wynll

Hollies

1 2 3.4 5. 6. 7

592 294 352 376 381 628

Holmen

Paine

Iddan

270

CONTRIBUTORS

On the occasion of its nine- tieth anniversary the "China Mail" announced that it would shortly add new fea tures to its reading-matter." To-day it offers the first of these, in, the form of a sup- plement, to the public, in the

22 confident hope that it will

535

Bowling Analysis

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22 2. 83

0

24 4 72

5 1 12

48 11 114

8 0

40

56 12 168

7

ENGLAND

24

R. E. S. Wyait, retired ... Townsend, e Christiani, Mar

Lindalé

Hammond, e Hylton, b Constantine 11 Painè, lbw b Martindale

E. R. T. Holmes, b Martindale

Ames, not out

Hendren, not out.

Extras

Total (for 4 wkts.)

Fal of the wickets:

1

2

23 25 26 26

2+

enhance both the interest and

the value of its pages.

The supplement, which will appear each Saturday, will deal, from every angle, with the things that matter in house and home.

Amongst those who will contribute towards its success are, Mr. A. S. Konya, whose work as an interior decorator and artist is known and es- teemed

throughout South

Africa, and Miss Phyllis Juby. a charming writer on all mat- ters of home interest. Both are well-known' as regular contributors to the columns of the "Sunday Herald':

England won the first Test, the US. ADMIRAL

West Indios the second, and the

third was left drawn.

This pre sent encounter is the deciding one.

LOCAL DOLLAR DECLINES

Spot Silver Drops

The local dollar has declined. %, opening on demand this morning at 1/11.

1."

TO PAY VISIT

TO CANTON Courtesy Call Before Retirement

AUGUSTA DUE HERE TO-DAY.

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

POST AGAIN THWARTED

STRATOSPHERE

DASH HELD UP

AT CLEVELAND

OXYGEN SUPPLY RUNS SHORT

Averages 270 m.p.h.

Cleveland, Ohio, To-day...... Wiley Post, who left Los Angeles |yesterday morning in an attempt at a stratosphere flight to New York, landed here as his oxygen supply was running out.

Officials state. that his speed averaged 340 miles per hour, but

Wiley Post, the world famous American round-the-world flyer and hla equally famous plane, the Winnie Mac.

a later report stated that the speed BALANCE OF POWER HAS

was 270 mph Reuter.

Captain Wiley Post, the one- eyed Indian flier who circled the globe in record time, was in New York on a mysterious mission on March 2.

The airman, whose effort to make a stratosphere flight from Los Angeles to New York came

PROVED A FAILURE

CONSULTATIVE SYSTEM MUST

REPLACE IT-SIR J. SIMON

London, To-day.

to grief due to engine trouble, last night said that the defects of the pre-war system of balance Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary, speaking at Swansea declined to reveal the nature of of power were burnt into their memories by the events of Aug. his mission to newspaper men upon his arrival in New York ust, 1914. from Los Angeles.

„FOUL PLAY, ALLEGED

BIGGEST IN HISTORY

1,219 ARRESTED

AND $1,000,000 IN

DRUGS SEIZED

SIX WOMEN CAUGHT IN WASHINGTON

Government Drive

New York, To-day. The biggest round-up of illegal traders in liquor and narcotica in the history of the United States oc- curred yesterday when 1,219 per sons were arrested, of whom 741 will be charged with the illicit manufacture of liquor, 247 with

counterfeiting.

ROYALTY peddling narcotica, and 26 with ESCAPES

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTED

KING OF HEJAZ AND CROWN PRINCE

London, To-day.

.

Six women were arrested in Washington on charges of dealing in narcotica,

The arrested persons include whites, negroes and Chinese.

drugs have been seized Reater." Altogether $1,000,000 Worth

MCCARRAN

AMENDMENT

IS REJECTED

201

There was nothing in that system, he said, to put in the way King Ibn Saud of the Hejaz of the first beginnings of the avalanche Statesmen had learnt and the Crown Prince, Emir from bitter experience that after the great war there was no auch Saud, yesterday -narrowly escap Captain Post was, in fact, in a thing as victory, and that everybody was the loser.ed death by assassination during belligerent mood. He hinted

They had set themselves to create a world organisation for the early morning devotions-in darkly that "foul play" had the express purpose of maintaining and promoting peace and the the great mosque of El Haram SENATE SAVES THE brought, misfortune to his first substitution of a system of consultation for a balance of power according to a communique Issued attempt to soar across the con- That tremendous conception had in fact produced great results. by the Hejaz Legation in London. tinent in record time by ascend-even though it had not, always succeeded. ing into the upper air.

(Continued on Page 12)

DARING HIGHWAY NANKING'S VETO

ROBBERY

Pig-Breeder Beaten

Unconscious

ON SOUTHERN

ANTI-RED DRIVE

Officially Declared To Be True

COMMUNISTS MASSING FOR FRESH DRIVE

A daring highway robbery wAS reported at Kowloon City last night when a Chinese pig-breeder was. waylaid and robbed at the South Gate of the Walled City by

beat four men, who

him to

[From Our Own Correspondent] insensibility with short hammers

Canton, To-day. and made off with his canvas

Despite conflicting reports, it belt, which contained 844 in notes was authoritatively learned yester- jand cash.'

day morning that the Nanking

RELIEF BILL

Washington, To-day.

The Senate, by 50 votes to 38, yesterday rejected Senator

It is stated that Zeidis from PREPARES WAY FOR VOTE ON the Yemen, armed with daggers. ADMINISTRATION COMPROMISE Referring to the disarmament attacked the King and Crown problem Six John Simon said Prince but were shot down, by there was no doubt that what the bodyguards. Reuter: had been contemplated was that Germany's enforced disarmament GOVERNOR GENERAL Patrick McCarran's "prevailing would be followed by agreed re- ductions in the armaments of other states. Britain indeed had reduced her armaments and had now reached the stage be yond which she would not pro- ceed further with such unilateral| measure.

(Continued on Page 0)

BRITAIN'S CATTLE

BILL

Australian Premier's Visit Next Week

London, to-day.

OF NEW ZEALAND

wage". amendment to the Relief BILL

It thus saved the bill and pre- Tributed On Expiration pared the way for a vote on

Of Term Of Office

the Administration's compromise proposals providing that prevail. London, To-day.ing wages shall be paid only for public building The Rt. Hon, Lord Bledisloe, P. permanent

C who left New Zealand for schemes and shall permit the pay England yesterday after serving ment of the "security" wage for for five years as the Governor other work, unless the private General, received a remarkable scale is thereby endangered. -- tribute to the popularity which he Reuter

A Reuters message of February

and his wife had earned.

occurred

Commenting on the high suc-22 stated that the first major defeat Yun Po, 48-year-old pig-breeder of military authorities - did order

cess of Lord Bledisloe's term of for the Roosevelt forces in the con- |No. 68 Sai Tau Village, reports that Kwangtung and Kwangst divisions

Bervice, the Times refers to his test over the Relief Bill he left his pig farm at Hak Lo to cancel the Kwelchow expedition

expert agricultural knowledge, when the Senate, by 44 votes to 48, Chuen at about 9.45 p.m. yesterday on the ground that the Central

The third reading of the Govern-which proved such an asset to the supported organised labour in ap and proceeded home.

forces could handle the Reds with, (Continued on Page 12)

out the co-operation of the Sou-ment's cattle bill was carried in the farming community, but says that proving the McCarran amendment, House of Commons yesterday by 118 that alone would not have won the requiring that on emergency public thern troops... THEFTS REPORTED Nothing is known as to whether votes to 29, and later received Its instinctive affection, of the New works "the prevailing rate of wages"

(Continued on Page 9) the Kwangtung and Kwangsi first reading in the House of Lords. Zealand people. "Even when the shall be paid

The object of the measure la to depression was at its worst he felt ON TILAWA troops will remain in Liuchow and

Wuhsuan or continue their expedi- continue the interest and assistance and proclaimed an unconquerable tion. This matter is still under to the British livestock industry, faith in the future of the Donn Three Officers Find

negotiation between the Canton Pending further discussions with inlon, a faith shared by all who Cabins Rifled

meat import into Great Britain, courage of its people. British of the B.I. there will be no necessity for the which, it is hoped will lead to a Wireless Service. Steam Navigation Company's vessel southern troops to go to Kweichow, general agreement on a long terms policy for the meat industry in the 84. Tilawa are' ruefully examining (Continued on Page, 1£)" United Kingdom, their pocket 'books and cash balances and wondering whether

Three ship's officers

LOCAL ESTATE

and. Nanking authorities. If the overseas interests concerned in the know its fesources and the sturdy rate Rev. J. Maconachie-

Kweichow Reds are under control

WEATHER FORECAST

Leaves $56,600,

The Rev. John Kirk Maconachie, formerly of the Union Church,

The Prime Minister of Australia, Fair and warm, with coastal fog Kennedy Road, who died at the

Admiral · Frank B. Upham they will ever see the money andKWEICHOW FORCES the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. A. Lyons, P.C.. or mist at night, and moderatene, No. 7 Barton Crescent,

Bpot silver, declined 1/16, being Commander-in-Chief of the quoted at 27-5/16, while forward sil- American Asiatic Fleet, who left

articles which were removed from REGAIN TSUNYI

their respective cabina yesterday |

var advanced 1/10, being quoted at Manila yesterday for Hong Kong, the Kowloon Whart by culprits.

27%

made off with over $110,

my (Continued on Page 12).

MIDSHIPMAN INJURED

is arriving in England next Friday north-easterly and easterly winds, Dawlish, Devon, England, on to discuss the question personally was the weather forecast for to-day, March 2, 1984, left local estate with the British Prime Ministers insued by the Royal Observatory or under $56,600,

this morning. British Wireless Service..

Broken Government Appointments

Canton, To-day, According to a military despatch-

On the application of Mr. DJ Lewis, solicitor for Katherine |Höcking Maconachie, widow of the deceased, sealing of Probate", of |the Will was printed,

NOTICE TO MARINERS

Is expected in Canton on Sunday] The London on New York cross-evening. He will arrive in Hong who obtained duplicate keys and Bandits Defence Line rate was quoted at -U.S.$4.78%, Kong this afternoon aboard the As compared with US$4.75%, U.S.S. Augusta, his flagship. while the New York on London rate While in Hong Kong, Admiral was quoted at £U.S.$4.7914, as Upham will board his armed compared with £--U.S.84.78%

His Excellency the Governor (to retirement, with effect from yacht, USA. Isobel for, the con- tinuation of his journey to Canton,

A tramway warning which was from Kwelchow the Kwelchow has been pleased to appoint Dr. March 9, 1985, is gezetted.

His Excellency the Governor haa via the Pearl River. The Amerl disregarded had serious con troops, in conjunction with the George Duncan Ralph Black, can visitor will call on various quences yesterday at Morrison Central forces recovered Tsunyl 0. B. E. to be a member of the been pleased to appoint Mr. Mi- The attention of Mariners is

in the morning of Tuesday,

Medical Board for a term of three chael James Breen, provisionally, directed to the International Code A Chinese ship's painter was Chinese officials here on Monday Hill Road, when, Midshipman instantaneously killed yesterady and will spend Tuesday in aight Horsey, of H. M. S. Defender, at fell into the hands of the Reds on years, with effect from March 1, and subject to His Majesty's plea of Signals 1981, which authorises Bure, to be temporarily an. Of the use of one long blast to Indl afternoon when he slipped from seeing. The visit will end at noon tempted to board a moving tram- March 10

appointment of Mr. James folal Member of the Legislative cats, do not pass ahead, his perch while painting the hull on Wednesday next, when Admiral car, slipped, and fell, sustaining

to act an Inspector of Council, with effect from March the use of one long blast for English Schools, vice Mr. Arthur 9, 1985

other purposes may lead ito con Robert Sutherland on leave priori D (Continued on: pore 05

sion and should be discontinued.

CHINESE PAINTER KILLED

of the Sa Kwong Chung at the Upham will return to Hong Kong: worious Injuries to the head. Kowloon Dock and fell 20 feet to the en route to Shanghal bottom of the dry-dock

(Continued on Page 12)

was rushed to the Royal Naval Hospital in a serious condition":

sunyi recaptured

ment" forces,3; £he bandita", defence line (Continued on Pa

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