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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1937.

THE

Air Covers Held Up In

WORLD Hong Kong

GOES BY

Senders Must Wait Two Months

Philippine residents who

dis-

". The bureau of posts in Manila wrote to the postmaster genéral at

HAVE no intention of turning

this column into a sports chat patched flight covers on the inau- the Hong Kong nor do I wish to poke fun at heavy gural flight of weight boxers, “but I think you

Clipper to Macao and Hong should read this little item concern-Kong on April 28, 1937, must wait two months before they can get ing one Levinsky, known as the

their covers back.. Kingfish, owing, it is cruelly rumour- ed, to the fact that his sister re- vived him after he had been put to Hong Kong on May 12 asking that sleep in the ring by Joe Louis by the flight covers which are still un- gently waving an overripe herring delivered to their addresses be re- turned to Manila in a separate pack- Formerly known 23 "King,"age" addressed to the director of Levinsky from then on was labelled posts, Manila. with the sobriquet of "Kingfish.”

in his face.

The postmaster at Hong Kong has But to get down to the story. replied to the effect that “in the King Levinsky was the guest at atabsence of requests from the ad- banquet presided over by Len Har-dressees themselves such covers vey, the Wembley promoter. King must be returned to office to ori- is a modest fellow. He sat through gin on the expiration of two months the banquet, taking, every item on from the date of receipt.” the menu as it came. Then came the toasts which usually follow the lun- cheon. Len Harvey rose and gave the first customary toast, “Gentle- men, the King." Levinsky sat still in his seat blushing at the high honour that he thought had been conferred upon him.

LOCAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS The Weekly Return

We understand there is no truth in the rumour that he was held cap- tive until after the Coronation for In the Colony of Hong Kong: during fear he might wander into West- the week ending at 8 a.m. on Saturday minster Abbey and repeat his mis-dents, as the result of which one per- there were altogether 42 traffic acci-

take.

son was killed and 20 persons were in- jured.

A Bit About Braces

The person killed, a Chinese male, aged 22 years, died as the result of in- juries received whilst alighting from a moving tramcar.

Of the persons injured,. 9 were pe- of destrians, who were either walking or running across the road and were

I have never seen the point wearing ornamental, gaily pattern-struck by vehicles. ed. braces. Who sees them but your- self and your family when you lay the carpet on the stairs?

!

Four tramcar. passengers and one bus passenger were injured while alighting from moving tramcars and a moving motor bus respectively.

An enterprising firm, however, is

The lorry passengers were injured encouraging purchasers of its red, through falling from two different mov- white and blue Coronation braces to ing motor lorries. grope under their waistcoats, yank the result of collisions between vehi- Two bicycle riders were injured as out their braces, and say "Look!" Icles. say "enterprising" because braces, One motor cycle driver was injured when suddenly released, are apt to when his machine skidded. smack back against the chest and cause some pain; and this firm sup- plies free.. with each pair of braces a red, white and blue pad-you pin it to your shirt-which absorbs any causes. such shock.

Vehicle

A motor

when his vehicle collided with a wall.

cycle driver was injured

Of the 42 accidents, 15; were colli- sions between vehicles; 12 were colli- sions between vehicles and pedestrians; were due to other

Number

19 14

and 15 accidents

But this firm has not foreseen Private motor car

Motor lorry what will happen if one's friends Public motor car pull out one's braces to have a look Motor bus and pull so hard that the buttons Motor cycle

Tramcar come off one's trousers. A sudden Bicycle descent, perhaps, from the sublime Rickshaw to the ridiculous?

ULYSSES.

SWATOW AFFAIR

No Settlement Yet Achieved

Canton, To-day. Negotiations between the Chinese Japanese authorities for set- tlement of the Sw ow incident have not been-concluded----

and

PROTEST AGAINST

INTERVENTION BY DUCE

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Los Angeles, May 29. Police dispersed 150 persons mill- ing in front of the Italian consul- late in downtown Los Angeles to- day.

The demonstrators carried ban- ners denouncing Premier Benito Mussolini's policy toward the Span- Mr. S. F Ling, representative of ish civil war. They were organised the Commissioner of Foreign Af- to protest against Italian, fairs for the two Kwangs, is to go tion in the war,

interven-

to Canton by air from the port this A member of the American

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