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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, CJULY 25, 1935
CRICKET FIELD STORIES GRAVE AND GAY
{Continued from. Page 4)"
SITUATION IN
MONGOLIA IS
DISCUSSED
Questions In House
Of Commons.
2.
making the ball lift. The first Down went Mr. Douglas, but ball the amateur received from presently he got up, shook him-the left-hander was just shore of self like a dog coming out of the a good length, and it flew up. We water, and ordered play to pro-saw it hit him plumb on the head. FOREIGN MINISTER DISCLADIS ceed. He was not going to bojand down he went like a los intimidated by a mere amack on the head.
He soon recovered, and then! made his way, slowly, and some-
ALL KNOWLEDGE
London, To-day. As he prepared to take his what bewildered to the pavilion An attempt in the House of stance again, the umpire's voice Mr. Bray had done exactly the Commons by Mr. AC Moreing said: "You're out, Mr. Douglas!" same as Mr. Douglas had done, (C. Preston) and Major-Gen The skipper looked amazed, but and was rightly given out After WF. Knox (C Wycorabe) slowly made his way to the pavi-s little time Mr. Bray knew be to extract information as re
the situation in Outer: lion, anger rising rapidly at what was out all right for his thumb wards be thought had happened.
began to pain him.
Mongolia and Western China The umpire bad no doubt about yesterday was singularly ar His pads were thrown one way-]
Mr. it. He said afterwards: "If it fruitful. Sir Samuel Hoare-dis- his bat another, as Perrin went in to commisserate hadn't hit you on the thumb first claimed knowledge of the rela- sir, you'd have been out for the tions between Outer and Inner with him.
rest of the season.”
Mongolia, whilé he had no offi- Why He Was Out ···
cial information of the Japanese Singing Fieldsinan
demand to establish a military But this time the skipper was] : almost in tears with rage, and be We still recall with a laugh an Consul at Urga in response to a appealed to Mr. Ferrix. "You saw incident of which my team-mate, request from Outer Mongolia
was the Lental He added that he had ordered it. Pete. The ball dies up, hits Jim Cetmore.
covergure. Jim has + fine tenor a report on the political situa- me on, the head, goes to point, and I'm given out. How voice, and is rightly proud of it tion in this region.
but he often sings at the wrong! As regards the recognition of could I have been out, Pete
Outer Mongolia Sir Samuel Hoare "Off your händ” was“ the time.
We were playing at Ilkeston was not aware whether the republic} laconic reply from Mr. Perrin The umpire's decision was per-when it was not nearly such a had been recognised by any for fectly correct. Mr. Douglas had good ground as it is now. They eign country and remarked that so bank at one far it had been regarded unneces- instinctively thrown up his hand were making up a to guard his head as the ball flew, side of the field with slag from a sary to raise the question of Bri- and it had hit his hand before neighbouring mine.
itish representation, but he going on to his head...
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The boundary was marked by a mised to consider Mr. Knor's sug- single line of forms, behind which gestion for an enquiry into the de the : newly-made bank dropped cline of the Outer Mongolian cura- A few years later I was to see
twenty or #teeply down
thirtyvan trade from Tientsin, in which Mr. Charles Bray given out in
feet. Jim
was fielding on the British merchants were interested, exactly the same way. It was.
boundary, and every now and as a result of Outer Mongolia against Nottingham. at Southend,then could be heard singing away coming increasingly under the in-
merrily. This annoyed Mr. Dou- fluence of the Soviet. glas, who repeatedly ordered him Sir Samuel Hoare likewise, dis- to stop.
claimed official information about Suddenly the ball went crack-the Chinese Communist depreda- ing along the ground to the boun-¡tions in Shensĩ and Szechsen, and dary near Cutmore, who went invited Mr. Mareing to submit anyį. after it full pelt. Too late bejinformation he had-Reuter. (Continued from Page 3
saw the single row of forms, andj VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM..
oo late he realised he could not! An earlier message stated that 3-I would not have seriously
blamed South had he decided stop himself, so he did the only the general beadquarters of the to bid six at this point. How-Possible thing. He tried to leap Kwenting Army virtually sent an Jim ultimatum to Urga on July 14 de- ever, South must be admired the form. Unfortunately
caught his foot, with the result manding the establishment of a for respecting his partner's
that he went head over heels Japanese military Consul, in Outer sign-off, even though the sign-down this slag heap:
Mongolia and the withdrawal of all Mongolian troops from the The sight of Jim suddenly dis- Manchukuo frontier, otherwise "the West opened his fourth best
South let spade, and
the appearing completely from view Japanese army will act decisively." It was reported that the Japan- trick ride around to his Ace was funny enough, but a maute
later when he reappeared the ese civilian element in the Man- East's
endez- which was forced by
whole side were convulsed with chukao Government was Queen South immediately rea-
langhter. There was
Touring to tone down this demand scarcely a lised that he had arrived at a ver white spot on him. His face, to an exchange of permanent mis- dangerous contract as from the
hands, flannels, and shirt were sions between Urga and Hsinking, bidding the Ace of clubs was al- most surely marked in the West more like those of a sweep than demilitarisation of the Manchurian
la cricketer.
and Mongolian frontier, and settle player's hand He knew that his jonly hope of fulfilling his contract was to set up a diamond trick on but realised that to do this be and hands. All he got from the Outer Mongolia was closed to in- had to let the opponents in at skipper in the shape of sympathy ternational trade,
was: "That'll teach you not to! Some Chinese. interests in Mos- least once and that if West got
cow-were of the opinion that the in to lead through the club King sing when you're fielding.".
dismissal of General „Márale on Golf Extraordinary all would be lost. South finally
Jim Cutmore and Jack O'Connordinate officers was largely due to
July 16 and of numbers of subor adopted the line of play which: would make the task of the de-re always joking with or against the apprehensions of Tokyo that
He led each other, but the year before they might involve Japan in fence the most difficult. the King of hearts from his own last, at: Folkston, they were quarrel with Russia, as it hand and then drew the second"kidded by the rest of us to play
generally believed that they tried round of trumpe by leading the big golf match on the Sunday to do so in 1933, with a view to ten and overtaking with dummy's Side bets were rife, the two, co seizing the maritime provinces and] Ace He now led the diamond testants also had a little bit on.
Neither had played the game Queen from dummy.
Against a less astute defensive before. Off they went, with bor- Four questions asked in Partis- player than East happened to be, rowed clubs, on a very hot summent yesterday were evidence of South's cleverly selected player's afternoon, to the Hythe the interest in the friction be would have succeeded. There is course, which is a trying one on teen Outer and Inner Mongolis, no doubt but that most players, any sort of day. They had read the danger of reactions seeing the practically solid danser caddies and insisted that Russian and Japanese relations
dummy, they should not be put off by zap. would not have played the Kinging followers, so we let them go reasoning, that to do so would set and by themselves.
As was to be expected they However, East looked head went all ways over the course, He realised that if South held the and both found many lone or singly guarded Ace of Jim however, discovered a grand
way of reftingmont diamonds the diamond suit conlth;
her sid eventually be set up, whether the when Jack was over the c King was played or not; and also of the fairway Jim would pi that it was most important in his ball, hold it in his case South did not have the dis- and then with the other ma
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first round of diamonds rather as it came down he would throw than his partner, East accord- his ball out of the banker with ingly played the diamond King on the other hand,
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(Continued from Page 8) rains News regarding the inter and Spring Wheat crops is more bullish. The market looks higher in spite of small speculative support Weather conditions are mostly favour
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