1937-06-14 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1937.

THE

Fraud

Attempt On

WORLD Whiteaways

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GOES BY

Detectives of the Central Police Station in Shanghai are looking for a Chinese who walked into the Whiteaway, Laidlaw Department

ed that he was an important figure in the offices of the Greater Shang- hai Government. He instructed the store to send the goods to the Kiang- wan Civic Centre.

HERE seems to be some mea- sure of disagreement among

Store and ordered $10,000 worth of the Colony's sports editors as to merchandise. the identity of one Hammond, a The man is alleged to have stat- County cricketer. One journal has it that in the Sussex-Gloucester match, concluded on Friday last week, both Wally and his lesser- known namesake, H. E. Hammond, shone with bat and ball, respective- ly.

Another newspaper,

A soft-spoken, well-dressed man, however, insists that the Test cricketer

officials of the store were inclined it was who both scored a century and Nevertheless, $10,000 worth of goods to believe that his story was genuine.

is a lot of goods to let out The presence of a Hammond on credit. They called

the Greater both sides seems to have clean Shanghai offices. bowled one of these sports editors.

took six wickets.

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The department store was in- As a non-sportsman (from every formed that no such order aspect) I think it is distinctly not goods had been authorized and sug- cricket for Hammonds to be split gested that the police be notified. If in twain in such anseemly fashion.jcaught, the man will probably be Though they are no relation it would, charged with attempted fraud. we feel, have been more considerate It is believed that if the order of them to have qualified for had been filled and the goods the same County, if only to make dispatched to Kiangwan, the truck life easier for the hard-working carrying them would sports departments of the news-waylaid en route. papers. One can recall, however, the Kilner brothers, Roy in Yorkshire eleven and Norman play- ing for Warwick, as he still does, a most disloyal proceeding for a Tyke. On the other hand, there was the splendid example set by the Graces, Fosters, Gunns, Tyldesleys and doubtless many others. All of which is most absorbing.

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CANTON DOCKS

CLEAN-UP

Modernising Wharf System

Canton, Yesterday. The ancient wooden wharves on the Canton Bund are to be trans- cording to a Government order is- formed in the near future, sued to-day.

ac-

to demolish the present wharves The order instructs the police

between June 16 and June 30.

In their place will be construct- ed new cement landing piers, to before August 15.'', be built by the respective owners

Failing this, the Government wharves to cover the cost of con- will collect the rents for the

struction.

While on the subject of sport the noble game of lawn bowls should be mentioned, it apparently being the season in Hong Kong for this somnolent form of amusement. The amount of space devoted to the sport in local newspapers seems to be an effort to place it on the same plane as, let us say, cricket, tennis football, which is manifestly absurd. The sight of dozens of middle-aged individuals waddling up the green behind their over-fat stomachs holds no appeal for me, though I don't suppose this fact will give any of the gentry in question sleepless nights. I don't think it unreason- able to appeal for less boosting of this game.

The average paper de- votes, let us say, two columns daily to the game. This is 12 columns in a six-day week, 48 a month, 626 (I think) a year, ... well, you see the idea. It is far too much. Ra- ther turn those same columns into reports of the daily dice-throwing MOVING TO KULING contests in the clubs. This, I feel, would have far more human in-

Another new feature of this re- construction of the Canton water- front is the issuing of new num- bered uniforms to wharf coolies.-- Our Own Correspondent.

GOVERNMENT

Nanking, To-day.

terest, an expression repeatedly hurl-| Meetings of the Executive Yuan ed at reporters, súbs and other will be held in Kuling from July 1, beasts of burden by editors and and all ministers and chairmen of other slave drivers. Drake's famous the different ministries, and com- game of bowls against the Spanish mittees will move there for the sum- Armada, who were decisively defeat-mer.-Our Own Correspondent. ed in the only Test Match of the series, should have been the last game in history. All others are in the nature of an anti-climax.

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them. Riotous drinking parties are taboo. No more hearty laughter. Instead, the men slink in and out So another "male stronghold," to like a pack of evil-doers. It is an- quote Mr. Reuter, has fallen to other sign of the times. Not that the fair sex. These women are be-we men are becoming more broad- coming a nuisance with their minded but it seems that clubs are insidious encroachment on premises unable to pay their way unless previously sacred to man. No club wives, daughters and sweethearts is the same once the ladies have are admitted. It, were better that been let loose în it. Those jokes the darn things were abolished, the that made you chuckle so much clubs, I mean, not the wives, daugh- have to be told in a hushed whis-ters and others. per, which takes the sting out of

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