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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936

OFFICIALS VISIT CANTON Delegation From The North

UNITED FRONT SOUGHT [From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day.

US. BASEBALL

RESULTS

Giants Trounced By Phillies

BIG WIN FOR CARDINALS

New York, To-day. The following were the results Messrs. Sun Fo, Yeh Tso- of the League baseball matches chang, Wei Tao-ming, Fu Ping-played yesterday:- sheung and other Nanking officials, who arrived in Hong

National League

W

3 12 4 11

Eleven innings were played.

Kong on Thursday afternoon, Boston jarrived. hère yesterday morning Brooklyn

by train from Kowloon.

Arrangements were made for them to proceed direct to the Philadelphia Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall to pay their respects to the late Mr. Hu Han-min, Chairman of New York the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Executive St. Louis Committee. They are in Can-Pittsburgh ton to make arrangements for

Mr. Hu's funeral service and

15 16

FLOOD AREAS IN CANTON Suburban Districts

Inundated

BUS TRAFFIC SUSPENDED

[From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, To-day. After inundating West River towns to a depth of four feet. the yellowish foods announced their arrival here early yester 0 day morning by submerging the western suburbs to a depth. of several inches. Pedestrians! had to remove their shoes when 0 going across the streets.

P. Whitney, Walter and Sulik!

homered.

Shameen, where the foreign! concessions are situated.

is

about 1% feet above the high water level The water may 1rise a little higher, but there is! Ino danger of inundation in that

0 ✩

0

Walter pitched.

J

11 17

4

3

American League

3 * 5 11

13 20

the conveyance of his remains St. Louis to the Purple Mountain in Nan- Chicago king for burial.

2762,

The highways in Shiuhing and other West River towns are? 1 under about two or three feet lof water, and bus traffic has The Nanking delegates will Detroit

3 been suspended. If the water Goose Goslin hit a home run. does not recede in the next few also take this opportunity to

Kuomintang leaders!

Cleveland used five pitchers urge the

10 13 here to proceed to the capital Cleveland in order to present a united

Averell hit a home run. front. They will plead for national unity.

On the other hand, the mili tary and political heads here met on Thursday afternoon and

the decided that

Central Authorities should take active

measures against the Japanese at inroads. It is stated Kwangtung and Kwangsi will Read the masses for a nation-

wide

against movement

and aggression Japanese against any form of dictatorial Government. under any consti- itution.

SABOTAGE IN A STEEL WORKS

Making Wires For Aircraft

DAMAGE TO GIANT FLYWHEEL Shefeld-Police here are mak-

-Reuter.

EURO-AMERICAN STUDENTS

3

days the crops will be destroyed-

Sun Hing and Wan Fou? counties, on a tributary of the West River, were Rooded by heavy rain on May 19, and the vast entire area resembled a lake. For two days the people] had to stay on the upper floors. Fortunately the deluge subsided on Thursday.

The early floods are causing Dinner And Dance At the river current to flow fast,

H.K. Hotel

SUCCESSFUL EVENING

and ferry boats as well as other craft here find it hard to nego- tiate the main stream, while river steamers from Hong Kong About 100 people attended have to proceed very slowly the annual dinner and dance of and carefully when going with Returned the tide. the Euro-American Students' Union, which was held

last evening at the Hong Kong "BLACKWALL HITCH” Hotel, which was a thoroughly

enjoyable affair. Dr. Li Shu-

far. President of the Union.

was in the chair and amongst those present were the Hon.! Sir Shou-son Chow, Hon. Mr.

Falling Bale Causes Fatal Accident

Three days after William T. N. Chau. Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'0. Sims, aged 46. of Parfrey- Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Messrs. T. Ostreet. Fulham, obtained work Ts'o. Y. K. Chow, Andrew with Convoys Ltd. Fulham. Cheung, K. D. Chau, Li-Chor-after a period of unemployment, chi, Thomas N. S. Tam, J. She was killed by a bale of paper. McLaren, Dr. Y. S. Wan, Dr. weighing 13 cwt, which fell ing extensive enquiries following K. W. Chaun, Dr. K. C. Yeo, Dr. from a crane.

General Gaston

At a Hammersmith inquest ja case of suspected sabotage at Li Shu-pui, Sheffield factory which supplies Wong, General S. N. Au, Mrs. last month, Mrs. Charlotte Sims Bessemer steel wire for aircraft Kendall, Mrs. Ma, Miss Wong said her husband was so pleased Ying and Miss Doreen M2. to have a job that he brought and torpedo boats,

Dr. L Shu-fan welcomed the the money home every night Steel ropes attached to a giant flywheel in the Bessemer-road guests of the evening and said it and gave it to her. factory of Arthur Lee and Sons was his duty as retiring president William George Shepherd, of Ltd. were found to have been of the Union to say how honoured Fulham, who slung the bale partially severed. The discovery they were by the presence of such which fell, said that he fixed a some persons as the Hon. Sir Shou-son half hitch on the hook of the daybreak

the first shift Chow, the Hon. S. W. Ts'o, Hon. crane. It held the bale by was starting up the machinery. Mr. T. N. Chau, the Hon. Mr. M. friction only.

K. Lo and others. He understood

Very Perilous Coroner Dr. Edwin Smith: "It was fortunate that the ma- that it was the first time that Siri Ichinery had not attained normal Shou-son Chow had attended this It is a very perilous thing to do speed," Mr. Arthur S. Lee said to function, but Sir Shou-son was with a bale weighing several me to-day. "An engineer noticed perhaps the most senior Euro-hundredweights, is it not?-1 once American returned student in watched the other men use it. something wrong and at

the ¡pulled over

lever

which China as he was a returned stu-It is called the "Blackwall The hitch." Sometimes the loop of brought the flywheel to a stop. It dent of 55 year's standing. was then found that several steel Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, he said, was the free end of the rope is fixed ropes had been partially severed.la returned studeat of 40 years over the hook and is safer.

"Had the speed of the flywheel standing, while both the Hon. Mr. not been checked considerable T. N. Chau and the Hon. Mr. M. of accidental death from in- damage must have been caused K. Lo had been back for over in the factory, where more than years.

was

zt made weeks ago, when

Fortunate

The jury returned a verdict

20 furies caused by a bale which

With regard to the Hon. fell owing to insecure attach-

was ment to the crane.

50 people were working. The dy-Mr. Lo, Dr. Li said Mr. Lo ing ropes might have killed some-president of the Union only two body.

years ago. Since then, he had

"We have come to the conclu-been honoured by His Majesty sion that the interference with the King by being elected to the Legislative Council of th Colony. the ropes was deliberate."

(Applause).

Mr. Lee added that at the re- quest of the police the incident]

had hitherto been kept secret.

New Officers

Dr. Li announced that the fol Inquiries are still being pur-lowing had been elected as office-

LOCAL NEWS ·

BREVITIES

The R. A. Sergeants Mess, at Kowloon, will hold a Whist Drive and Tombola at 8.30 p.m. to-mor-

TOW.

Four Dollar Line freighters sued by the police, and Govern-bearers of the Union for the en-built in Shangbai in 1921 by the ment departments in London havejsuing year: been advised of the occurrence.

MINOR MOTOR MISHAP

Car Collides With Island

Kiangnan Dock and Engineering to Company

be zold mayTM President.-Mr. Peter H. Sin. Hon. Secretary.—Mr. T. O. Tso, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Hon. Treasurer. Mr. Y. K. Company, according to reports re- Chow.

ceived here from San Francisco. General Committee. Dr. Li

are the latest Shu-pui, Dr. K. W. Chaun, Mr. The following KL Chan and Mr. Andrew donations to St. John's Cathedral Tseung.

Organ Fund.

Mr. Peter H. Sin, the incoming Already acknowledged: $781 President, asking for the support P. L. Collison 50, G. K. Oliver 20, of the members, proposed that Mr. and Mrs. T. 50, Cathedral Or- during the coming year they naments Fund 175, and Cathedral There was a minor motor mis-should hold a conference similar Servant 25. hap at the junction of Garden to those they used to have while Road and Queen's Road East last students in America.

The RMS. Dorado, which left night when private motor car-No.} "We have," he said, "a house Hong Kong at 11.55 am. 2974 ran into the traffic island at

somewhere in the New Territories, terday for. Penang, carried 48,059 and

of mail, 1.192 kilos. of the foot of Garden Road

in which we propose to spend a kilos. knocked down one of the concrete week-end for the purpose of such feight and one passenger, Mr. W stanchions.

and I hope it will J. Keswick, booked to Penang. la conference Enquiries made at Police Head-enable members of the Union to quarters this morning elicited the meet on more intimate terms Doreen Ma (Piano Solo), Mr. Li news that as the alicer in charge There will be riding, shooting. Chor-chi (Song), Mr. S. B. Tan of the case was still out making swimming, tennis and other forms (Violin Solo), Miss Daphne Gock-

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COMMENCING. SUNDAY

THE STORY OF LOVE THAT KNEW NO FEAR IN A CITY THAT KNEW NO LAW!

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(Song), accompanied by Miss Nora Flint body was injured. It is not known course.”

Dancing was continued until who was driving the car at thej During the evening, musicalį

items were rendered by Miss late hour.

Printed and Published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, investigations, no details were of sport. You will hear more of son (Tap Dance) and Miss Elvie

by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILSON, Manager, at 3A, Wyndham Street, available beyond the fact that no this from the Committee in due Yuen Victoria, Hong Kong.

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