1937-11-20 — Page 24

CAPT. EYSTON OFFICIALLY BREAKS WORLD MOTOR

SPEED RECORD AT 311 MPH

New York, To-day.

CAPT. George Eyston, the British racing motorist, has officially broken Sir Mal- colm Campbell's world land speed re- cord.

Official figures released last night] reveal that the new mark establish-

ed by Capt. Eyston is 31142 miles MANCHESTER

an hour Sir Malcolm's speed was 301.1292 miles an hour.

Capt. in his northward run

on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utan NOVEMBER

did 305.34 miles an hour, and on the southward ran, 317.74 miles an hour

His average for the kilometre was 312 20 miles an hour-Reuter.

HANDICAP

London, To-day.

The following is the latest call- over for the Manchester November

JAPANESE TENNIS Handicap, to be run on November

CHAMPIONSHIP

Osaka, To-day.

Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel yesterday won the Japanese Men's Doubles title when they defeated Yamagashi and Mura- kami in an exciting and drawn-out game.

The final scores in the Germans

11-13, favour were -10, 6-2,

6 264

127:-

100 to 8 Nectar and Severino 100 to 7 Inglefield offered

100 to 7 Rasibus offered, 100 to 6

taken

100 to 6 Solitaire offered, 20 to

taken,

18 to 1 Velvet Cushion offered, 20

to 1 taken

taken

STOP

CHÍNA MAIL, NOVEMBER 198

Shanghai, To-day. Creation of an agricultural Utopia in which refugees from Shanghai may again and work, food and a haven from war is the ambitious

amme a group of local usiness-men and philantro phists is preparing to launch. With $50,000 and 35,000 wow of fertile land in north- ern Kiangsu as working capi tal, the sponsors are ready? to embark on the project, but shifting of the war to the Taihu area is temporari ly holding up the plan.

According to an official of the newly organised Shang-- hai War Refugee Migration 35,000 Association, some

MOW of undeveloped land near Kaochen and Liyang, and farming centres near the Kiangsu-Anhwan border, have been secured from the Kiangsu provincial govern- ment, which has promised to co-operate.

25 to 1 Petit Bleu

offered 25 to 1 Stainless Stephen offered,

33 to 1 taken Reuter.

Marie Luise Horn won the Ladies Singles title by beating Miss Sasa-won three titles, the Men's Singles, kura 6 2 6 1

the Women's Singles and the Men's

The German visitors thus have Doubles.

T

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SEDLEZAODY-

For a start, only a thou- sand refugees, all able bodied men and women, will 00000 be migrated. They will be given ten mow of land each, while agricultural experts will try to introduce modern farming methods of fertilisa- tion-Renter.

Chinese

Shanghai, remfor

are pouring into the Soochow area in order to sten Japanese onslaught, acco ing to these reports, add that the Chinese ford backed by fresh troops, are putting up a grim stand in an effort to prevent the de fence line on the eas

Dan

of Taihu Lake from being shattered

Chinese troops last night were stated to be ing their strongh positions, with Wakiang, Chapoo hu as centres fighting is in

Chinese reports Chinese troop fending Kas they admit tion there was

However

pressed over the Chinese de- fenders, of whom there has been no news for hours.

Last despatches sa several fires had broken and that the Chinese were fighting grimly their backs to the Lake ed west of the city- Reute

just received complete new line

of Christmas Cards for

the

coming season

Their reasonable prices

make it easy for you to remember all your friends.

CHINA EMPORIUM

(Stationery Dept.

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