BADMINTON SENSATION LAST NIGHT
RECREIO “A” LOSE
TO VARSITY
LEADING PAIR TROUNCED
(By "ADREM")
Some 200 spectators who saw the needle Badminton match between
Kong.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1937.
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AUSTRALIA AND
AMERICA
FIRST DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT
London, To-day.
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to
CONSUL
RETURNS TO STOP PRESS
MALAGA
150,000 REFUGEES IN CITY
FOOD PROBLEM
London, Today.
The British Consul at Malaga, Mr. J. G. Clissold, who left there a
the
al-
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Mexico City. -An end to the Church v. State crisis is hoped for. Two agents sent Vera Cruz to inves tigate deaths of two women killed by policemen when es- caping from house where clandestine mass being held. Bitter protests had this re- sult and hope springs of a settlement of the whole controversy. —— Reuter.
His Majesty's Government in few weeks ago after bombardment of Australia of town by the insurgents and clos- Recreio "A" and University "A" the Commonwealth were treated to an exhibition of have for some time been giving con-jed the Consulate, which had been badminton seldom seen in Hong sideration to the question of their hit several times, returned yester
destroyer from representation in the United States day by British
Gibraltar following the surrender The most amazing feature of the of America
After consultation with His Ma-of Malaga to the insurgents by the evening, was the sensational col- lapse of Oliveira and Remedios, jesty's Government in the United Spanish Government forces.
He will report upon the food situa- hitherto ranked as one of the Kingdom, it has been decided strongest pairs in the local League. adopt, with necessary modification which, it is feared, may be Their complete eclipse will be ap-tions, the system that has been em- seriously disorganised when preciated by the fact that they did ployed for over 12 years for direct confusion of change of administra-
contact in London with the Foreign tion added to not win a single set.
the problems At the end of the first round. Office and His Majesty's Govern-ready created by the introduction University were leading 2-1, while ment in the United Kingdom have during the last few days of some at the completion of the second, agreed to the attachment of a mem- 150,000 refugees into the they had established a commanding ber of the staff of the Department population of 200,000. lead of 4-2. Sousa and Alves then of External Affairs to the staff of Mr. Clissold will keep in
Majesty's Ambassador created rather a surprise by beat-His
touch with the British naval
BRITAIN'S FINANCES ing University's first pair, Soon and Washington with the rank of Coun- thorities, whose services, 28 His
Majesty's Government have Liew 21-5. It was then expected sellor.
London, To-day. that Oliveira and Remedios would- The first occupant of the post plain, are available to either side in Exchequer returns show that to- vindicate themselves and level the will be Mr. F. Keith, an officer who, the civil war for rendering humani-tal ordinary revenue amounts to scores. Remedios displayed poor for three and half years, has been tarian assistance wherever pos- £606,195,597, compared with £590,- form, however, and the University the Australian External Affairs of-
681,352 at the corresponding date last year. clinched the game in the eighth set-ficer in London.-British Wireless.
• Recreio's chief fault was in their serving, which was very weak. Uni- versity as a team, were excellent and no single player is especially deserving of mention.
At King's Park last night, Univer- sity "A" defeated Recreio "A" in the “A” - Division of the Badminton League by 6 sets to 3.
M. A. Oliveirà and J. J. Remedios (Recreio “4”)
lost to C. H. Soon and K. S.
Liew
lost to T. C. Lee and K. L.
Youg
LITTLE ENTENTE
Denial Of Impending Break Up
at
Prague, To-day. Reports have appeared in 13-21 foreign newspapers that Czecho
13-21 Slovakia is withdrawing from the lost to P. E. Tan and P. K. Hui 18-21 Little Entente (Czecho-Slovakia,
L. A. Carvalho and A. M. da Silva Yugo-Slavia and Rumania).
(Recreio AM
beat Soon and Liew
best Lee and Yong lost to Tan and Hui
H.A. Alves and E da
(Recreio "A")
beat Soon and Liew lost to Lee and Yong lost to Tan and Hui
21-13
Sousa
MISS O. DALZEL HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Struck On Head By Hockey Ball
The rumours are vigorously den- 21-14 ied in official quarters, which state 15-21 that the reports were occasioned only by an attack in the Rumanian 21-Parliament and an article publish- 17-21 ed in the leading organ of the 10-21
Agrarian Party, forming part of the Government coalition.
Miss O. Dalziel, the Interport hockey right-winger, had a narrow escape from serious injury yester-
day just before the ladies' practice game at Sookunpoo, when she was hit over the left forehead by a hoc- key ball from the stick of service-
The article stated that the Little Entente was faced with a crisis as a result of differences between the three countries as to relations with the Soviet. Trans-Ocean.
COAL SUBSIDY
Still Being Considered By Government
London, To-day.
man in the game which preceded The question of whether legisla the trial. Luckily Miss Dalziel es- caped with only minor shock.
LAST NIGHT'S BILLIARDS
Two encounters in the Junior Sec- tion of the Colony Open Billiar
tion should be introduced to provide a subsidy from national funds for assisting British coal sold in for- eign markets is still under consi- deration by the Government in con- of sultation with representatives coal industry, according to a Par-
championships were played off yes-liamentary answer. British Wire-
terday evening, J. C. Remedios beat-less. ing Yuen Hong-liu at the K.C.C. by 300 points to 193, while at the Engineers' Institute Wong Yui-chee beat F. P. Sequeira by 300 poin'. to 214.
London, To-da
CANON WADDY PASSES
London, To-day.. Canon Percival Stacy Waddy, Secretary of the Society for Pro- pagation of the Gospel since 1925,
The sub-committee of the non-has died in a London hospital fron intervention committee has been malaria. convened for this afternoon.
Trans-Ocean.
He was sixty years of British Wireless,
sible. British Wireless.
normal
close
au-
made
Total ordinary expenditure is #665,611,754, compared with £628,- 242,380 at the corresponding date of 1936.-British Wireless.
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