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LAWN BOWLS

Open Singles Results

BASA'S NARROW ESCAPE

R. Basa playing yesterday in the Open Singles of the Lawn Bowls Championship had a narrow escape frour elimination in the first round. He was playing against his own, No. 3. H. Beer, and the two had a close struggle all the way. Beer was leading 18-10 at one stage, but thren to Basa gave the Intter the lead of 19-18, Beer deew level at 19-19 al was lying two in the next hand when Bash managed with his last wood to remove the second shot. In the next head Beer again lay the shot and once again Basu, with his last wood saved himself from defeat by drawing the shot. He then followed this up with a single which gave him the match. The game wont to heads.

The resuls of yesterday's matches ware as follow-

R. Basa, hest H. Beer 21-20

heads).

S. Eccleshall beist F. V. Whittu

23-13 ( heads).

E. G. Post bent W. Molend 2.

IA (21 heads).

A. E. Caotes beat S. Ranille 21-

18 (20 heads).

DAVIS CUP

TENNIS

U.S. BASEBALLTM

"NEW YORK GIANTS DEFEATED

WASHINGTON, May 21. THE New York Giants suffered defeat in a double header against St. Louis to-day and had seriously their league position affected.

Chicago brat Brooklyn in two games, nosing them out in the first, and securing a clear cut victory in

the second.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.

HONG KONG POLICE TIME'S CURTAIN FALLS

RESERVE

(Orders-by the Hon. Mr. E, D. 0.

Wolfe, C.M.G., I.G.P.)

General.

Life Saving Class.-The Life Saving Class for Water Drill will commence on Wednesday, May 31, and every Wednesday following. Police launch will leave Blake Pier It is most ut 18.30 hours sharp. essential that all candidates should maka an effort to attend so as to complete the course as early as possible. 1

Pitchers held the upper hand in the American League encounters, in which Detroit were blanked out y Brown of Boston and the Washington Senators suffered similar experience at the hands of Miller of Chicago,

Scores as cabled by Renter were:

National League,

Chicago Brooklyn

R. H. E. 714 1

10

2

(O'doul twice homered for Brook- lyn. There were ten innings).

Chicago Brooklyn

St. Louis

+

A

10 0 10 ON 24

2

6

13

.3

8

1.

*

New York

1

2

Sty, Louis

13

E.

New York

10

Cincinnati Philadelphia

1 G

3

Cincinnati

4

7 0

Philadelphia

American League,

Washington...... Chicago

0 17 G }]

1

ITALY TO MEET BRITAIN

IN THIRD ROUND

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 21.

ITALY will provide the opposition for Britain in the third round of the European Zone of the Davis Chip competition:

Italy qualified by defeating Ans- tria by four matches to one to-day, capturing the last two singles with but light difficulty,

Both Stefani and Baron de Mor argo took four sets to beat Matejka and Artens respectively, Stefani yielding the third as

breather" and Morpurgo conced- ing the first, but thurenfter holding the upper hand.

Germany,

South Afrien and America completed their ties, but interest hinged on the concluding mateles as in each instance decision hal been reached in the first three rubbers.

The final scores nabled by

Benter were:

NORTH AMERICAN ZONE

2 10. 0

Chinese Company.

1

;

II.--All

Strength. The following men bers have been taken on the strength of the Chinese Company as from dates shown against them: Constable Rei Tse Kwing lu, May 3, 1939: Constables Rau Ku -Chi Shek and 129 Chan Chung

Tung, May 19, 1933,

Training Course-Part

Company's Headquarters on Tues day, May 3, at 5.30 p.m. for in- struction.

Flying Squad. Training Course-Part II-All recruits will attend at the Chinese Cozipant's Headquarters, Queen's Road Central on Tuesday May 23, at 5.30 p.ni. for instruc tion.

HOW A PLANET BREAKS UP

(Father MacDonald have concludes his fascinating lectures on the Universe and modern thepries as to its beginning and, probable end. As to the latter, he seems to think it will more than last our time).

earth

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that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1952, at 11 o'olock A.M. for the purpose of receiving tho ments of Account to 31st December, Report of the Directors and the State- 1832, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

once the earth had been. Can this all come to pass? So far as As tronomy can say it can come to pass. But will it come and if so when 7 Such things have happened before. They are accidents and usually unforeseen. But at pre- sent there is po sign in the heavens that shows the near approach of such a catastrophe, no giant star seems to loom in our track in the distance. But who knows whether, some such thing may not come like Hong Kong, 1st May, 1933. a thief in the night? Astronomy has nothing certain to predict as to all this and so we may be in

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from th MAY to seth MAY, Both Days inclusive.

Last week I mentioned that be- tween the planets Mars and Jupiter there was a cluster of small bo dies, tiny planets, in fact, aircling round and round the sun as the or any other planet does, These tiny planets are called As teroids and we find them to be not a heavenly caravan of wärdlated travellers who happen just to be going that way and keep together for company and safety. They tell us they are very closely related, in fact belond to one family, and they do look like one another and show a commen örigin. It that once upon a time, at a very remote apoch there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter, quite large one, but not so large as Jupiter, Round and round the sued but lightly

seems

peace.

The Supreme Architect,

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

(713

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Drees; White uniform and cap with

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leave from the Company Comman-

der.

Boston Detroit

? 1

0 0 0 0

(Brown pitched for Boston)

New York St. Louis

4 4 3 81 0

(Combs homered for the Yankees),

PERPETUAL MOTION DISCOVERED

CHINESE FARMERS PUMPING MACHINE,

Actording to message from a villager named Ng Kwangi,

ung of the Ngai Chok vilinge the Ping Sam District, Kvangri, after twenty years experimenting, ims succeeded in developing a per petual motion pumping sunshine,

This machine is for irrigation in time of drought, and, the inventor America beat Canada at Montre-believes that it should be most use. aj by five matches to love, Ellsful to the farmers of the Whangho, worth Vines (U.S.) beat Wright Yangtze and Pearl river districts, 7-5, 0-5, 7-5: Wilmer Allison (U.S.)

It is reported that Mr. Ng has beat Nunns 0-4, 84, 0-4.

already submitted his pumping ma- 'chine to the Provincial Government for registration and patent rights.

EUROPEAN ZONE

South Africa beat Switzerland

at Basle, winning the first four Leebruggen 0-3, 62, 03: H. Tim- rubbers.

mer (Holland) beat Kuhlmana 6-2. Robbins (S. Africa) beat Fisher | 6-3, 6-2. 8-10, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 0-4.

Germany beat Holland at Berlin y four matches to one.

Von Cramm (Germany) bent (Continued on uext Column)."

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Italy beat Austria at Genoa by four matches to one.

Stefani (Italy) beat Matejka 8, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Baron de Morpurge (Italy) beat Artens 4-0, 7-3, 6-3, 6-3.

Emergency Unit Reserve. Strength-Lance Sergeant R133 R. A. Starling has been permitted to resign from the Emergency Unit Reserve as from 15th May, 1033. (Sgd.) D. L KING,

D.S.F. (R.) Hong Kong, May 9, 1931,

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that the it came fairly near the sun at au- they have at least not been unin of the Company will be held other time quite far away. But teresting to listeners. Very simple HEAD OFFICE Union Building, kept trying to cut that turn near and unlearned minds by contem. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY 1933, at 11.15 AM, for the purpose of the sun as fine as possible, until one plation of what they observe in

receiving the Report of the Directors day an accident, took place, it cut the universe easily come to a know-and the Statements of Account to 31st the corner just too fine and there ledge of the Architect thereof. December, 1932, and of declaring was spill, the planet, got complete Modern Astronomy interprets the Dividends, etc. ly-shattered into small fragments universe as the work of a supreme and there was no one there to bind mathematician, of a mind to whom them up again.

the most abatruse mathematics is as a mere instrument skilfully hand-inclusive, led. I quote a sentence from that scientist Sir James eminent

he says. Jeans: We discover,"

It is not recorded that any one saw that sccident happening but similar accidents have been scen, and it is supposed that the Ae troids are the fragments of that ill-fated planet and that they have moved out now to a more sale and less existing distance from the sun.

д comet

was!

That the universe shows evidence

of a designing or controlling power that has something in common with our own individual minda." But the simple and unsophisticated ones of the world have long ago, without any mathematical dexte rity, seen that evidence and right.

In the year 1846 seen to try the same stunt and got broken into two fragments and an- other vae in 1916 also got split in- to halves for its rashness in get-ly evaluated it. So that no all the ting too near the sun. A more serious accident was actually scen in 1882 when a comet was observed to break up into four parts as it rounded the sun at very close que ters. The shooting stars, that we

Company will be CLOSED from 9th The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

MAY to 28th MAY, Both Days

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

(714

Hong Kong, 1st May 1933.

BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-

ANCE CO., LTD... (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.-

that the SIXTY-SEVENTH

laborious conclusions of modern NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN science, with all its magnificent ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING achievements, are modern. Having

thus, surveyed from end to end and of the Company will be held at its from dawn to evening of the Uni-Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 2016 MAY, HEAD OFFICE Union Hailding, verse's long day this series of lec-1933, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of

so often see in the heavens are be tures may Dow well come to a close. receiving the Report of the Direstora

GANG OF MOTOR PUMP

THIEVES

lieved to be fragments of comets foolhardy enough to come within the sun's danger zone. There are also families of comets whose mem- bers follow one another round the sun in their very elongated orbits as though they originally formed a single and larger comet. So too FOUR CHINESE SENTENCED the rings of Saturn are considered to be due the fact that a former moon of Saturn tried to see how close it could get to that planet and succeeded in getting too close for its own safety: It was broken up into myriads of small frag- ments which now follow one an ether in a continuous stream form-

that ring-like

appearance round Saturn.

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Before Mr, Schofeld at Central Magistracy yesterday four were charged with the theft of a tumber of motor pumps from the Wanchai" district..

Detective Sergeant Fitches, who

prosecuted said the first defendant was arrested on Friday. He point ed out a shopkeeper to whom he had sold one of the pumps for 815. These Accidents.

The fourth defendant took the police to No. 13, Upper Lascar Road, These accidents do happen. You where the second pump was recover remember, ton, how the planets 10.00 and our earth' were said to hard. This had been sold for $20. come into separate existence awing The pumps were worth about 8150 to the tidal action of a great each. The ring-leader had not been star that, in its wanderings, came arrested, and the gang was appar What if ently well organised. Complainant perilously near he sun. that star came back again and so had lost about seven pumps during disturbed the courses of the planete the course of the last month. that the earth was forced to alter defendant was sentenced to four Defendants pleaded guilty. First As path and like a new one that brought it at one part of its round months hard labour, and the second too near the sun. We can imagine and third to three months each, something of what would happen while the fourth defendant received if the earth got within that den sentence of "four months' hard ger zone. The sun would look big, labour on the first count, and two ger everytime we came near and months for possession of offensive. smaller everytime we went further recutively the sentences, to run con- away from it for if we came near- er at one time we should go fur ther away at another time of the усах.

Political Hacketeering.

na.

As we approached the critical

The American Legionnaires who, distance there would be a general have "dominated" affairs in the lossening up of the foundations of United States to the extent of de the earth, accompanied by great Eying successfully two Presidental rumblings and earthquakes

vetoes, met their Waterloo when part broke from part with great President Roosevelt took office. violence. Great landslides would. occur great gashes and chaams With a stroke of the pen be delet would appear all over the surfaced 400,000,000 dollars from the an- of the earth, the earth opening up nual payments to war veterans. A and swallowing all things that few startling statistics may help to walked upon the danger spots. The Sive readers some understanding sun's heat would increase and of the most shocking example of diminish to great extremes Tre political rocketeering of all mendous tidal waves would roll tions in all agai.'!!. over the Oceans submerging i lands and continents. The roaring of the sea and the noise of the earthquakes would be frightening. Rocky would be hurled from moun- tain sides, volcanoes burat forth into activity. The eens and rivozăt would soon boil up Alling the at mosphere with clouds that would obscure the sun's fight; but give. a kindly shaderom it, heat. Cities would fall in ruins in great rarthquakes, flames would edn. sume them, "

dan this Happen?

Terror and panic, famine and untold, horror, would cover the face of the earth. Few couki Bur vive long those calamitous days. But soon it would be over, Life would have ceased and instead of the planet, failed, the sarth there would remain a group of frag ments, great broken rocksand: de bris of all kinds to mark wherq

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(715

Hong Kong 1st May, 1933.

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Nhat the Provisional Certificate No. 57/4909 dated Hongkong, 14th January, 1918, for one share of this Bank numbered 85952. registered in the name of Mrs. Josephine Calista Thom, has been Lost or Stolen, and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before 27th May, 1933, a new certificats for the share will be issued, and the aforesaid Provisional Certificate No. 57/4909 will be there. alter treated by this Corporation as Nall and Yoid.

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Tiffins are obtainable at the Olnu House provided they are ordered from the No. 1-Boy in advance, Telephone 21920,000 PE

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