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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1935.

TO BATTLE YANGTZE

FLOOD

Council Submits Report To Government

to

the

S. AFRICANS FIRST UPSET

Century Stand For Fifth Wicket

S E. Levy & Co.

7. ICE- HUSE, STELET

ARKARS ♣ BROENZA

NEW YORK COTTON BEOHANON

COMMODITT EXORANGE, ING, NAT.

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE CANADIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE, INC.

CORRESPONDENTS 5^*

WHITE, WELD *`30, XEW YOìn

THE CHIEF WHIP

(Special Air Mati Service)

SOUTH CHINA FOOTBALLS WIN AGAIN

Two Players Sent off London, Aug. 10, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty and former Chief Whip, made it known

Ipoh, August 26. few days ago that he was retirand last match of their vist, the Meeting the Rest in the second ing from politics, at the and of

Special Air Mail Service

London; Aug. 12 tweed General Han Fu-chu, Chair- Nanking, Aug 23,

With the return of X. Balaskas, man of the Shantung Provincial the South African team was re- Efforts of the National Econo- mic Cosnell in battling the flood Government, and Mr. Cheng Shao-stored almost to full strength for catastrophe during the past few chin: Assistant-Director of the the match with Gloucestershire,

·months are reviewed in an official Water Conservancy Bureau of the although Cameron was acting as rsport, submitted by the council ro NEC, on July 21. They resolved captain in the absence of Wade the National Government,

that:

Balaskas soon showed that he had $130According to the report, practi- (1) The Shantung River Affairs fully recovered from his injury, 10 t, cal measures for flood prevention Bureau shall be held responsible and took four of the home county's were issued by the council to var for closing the dyke-breaches un- wickets. Thanks mainly to Sin- 13-9

fous provincial governments and der the supervision of the Shan-eld, who hit a century, and to his $190

water conservancy organs early tung Provincial Government and in atth-wicket stand with Neale, last spring. Upon the approach of "co'laboration with

Yellow Gloucestershire. were able to com- River Conservancy Commission. the high-tide season the council

pile the useful total of 279. In appointed Mr. Fu Ju-lin, member (2) The National Government reply, the South Africans scored of the NEC. Water Conservancy, shall be petitioned for appropria- 144 for the loss of four wickets be- Commission, and Mr. Mao I-sheng, tions for closing the dyke-breaches, fore stumps were drawn. VIIjoen Director of the N.E.C. Water Con- Frier to the receipt of the appro- being 'not out 84. The tourists servancy Bureau. supervise priations from the National Gov- thus have to score 138 to gain the flood-prevention work in the eramant; the funds shall be first lead with six wickets at'll to fall. Yangtze River. Mr. Kung Hslang borne jointly by the N.E.C., Shan- Binfield played forceful cricket, yung, standing member of the tung and other provinces concern- and reached. 51, including seven NEC. Water Conservancy Commis ed in the following ratio: 3:3:1.4's, in the just under one hundred (3) Under the present circum- minutes. Beabrook was fourth to sion, and Mr. Cheng Shao-ching, Asslastant director of the N.EC stances the following urgent relief leave at 124, Vincent-beating him Water Conservancy Bureau, were measures shall be taken: accumu- completely with a grand break-this Parliament. Now it is said South China footballers won by 3 instructed to supervise food-pre-lation of silt around the dyke-brea- back.

that the present Chief Whip, Cap-goals to nit. Once again the whole vention work in the Yellow River.

ches; adequate protection to the

The crowd was treated to some ain Margeson, is also leaving gaine was marred through frequent Kiangsu Dyke; formulation of a sparkling cricket by Sinfeld and politics when this

infringements of the rules and it Parliament detalled scheme are

ready. Neale in the afternoon, when, al- dissolves and giong into business. finally ended by one member of each Work on closing the dyks- though Cameron frequently alter-

Someone should point out to Cap-side being ordered off. T

The Rest were a weak combina- is too Margesson before it Board of General Staf Was

Birkenhead and Sir Robert Horneadad Khan, Caleb and Davidson dispatch several

all State players have not regarded the two careers requested to airplanes to make an aerial survży

In the first half., South China led na mutually exclusive. Detalled

Everybody at Westminster and one nil, the Rest failing to equalise the flood situation,

not least the political journalists when awarded a penalty kick. In measures for closing the dyke- breaches were worked out in accor- longer. being caught at deep-would greatly regret the dis the second half Sien Weng scored. dance with the result of the sur-square-leg after a faultless innings appearance from the House of Leo Kwok Wai scored the third

in which drives and perfectly timed Commons of a very popular and goal. leg-side strokes predominated. His partnership with Neale produced 102 runs in seventy minutes.

The value of the fifth wicket stand was exemplified by the of the Yellow River to invade north startling breakdown which follow Kiangsu the

ed Crisp und Balaskas soon had the measure of the later batsmen, and with the last five wickets going down for 53 runs.

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NEW SCENIC SPOTS

Slap, Aug. 16.

The new stations under con- struction at Yensbih, northwestern Honan Huayin, eastern Shensl;, and Lintang central Shensi, which Are scenic spots along the Lung hal Hallway, will be opened on Bept. 1 for the convenience of tourists

BERLIN'S AIRPORT

WATERWORK BROKEN “ Since early last July, as a result

moun of heavy downpours and

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Lain

tain freshets in its upper reaches, repairing funds. Meanwhile, the ed his held. runs came at a good jste that men like the late. Lotion and lacked the services of All-

the Yangtze River, the report says. had been rising continuously with the result that it broke all water- marks of the corresponding period in previous years, including the highest record reached in 1931, the year of the great food in Chins

Meanwhile, the Halang River. the largest tributary of the Yang- ize River, which has a very shal- low bed. swelled terribly with the addition of big volumes of water.

vey:

THE FLOODED AREAS In view of the widening of the flooded areas in west Bhantung and the threat of the flood, waters

council called an

emergency conference -of the Kiangsu and Shantung provincial governments and other organiza- tions concerned Aug. 5 to discuss. measures to cope with the situa- tion. The following decisions were reached at conference:."

pace. In two hours forty minutes the 200 was reached, and 21. runs later Sinfield reached his century

his fourth of the season. Sinfield did not survive much

In an hour the South Africans lost their opening pair for 53 runs a full-toss deceiving Mitchell, and a fine length ball beating' Rowan.

rient Chief Whip. A former adjutant of the 11th Hussars, he was bound to be a masculine Whip, LESS TIME FOR RAILWAY. his command, and when he has not expecting perfect obedience from

TRIP received it he has gone purple in right of the miscreants, which in also in character with an" adjutant of Hussars.

ex-

Upon receipt of reports about the sudden rise of the Yangtze River and the Hsiang River the council, the report asserts, immediately in-

But on the whole he has done structed the Yangtze River Con

his dragooning with a light hand, servancy Commission and the

and has the esteem of the Govern- Klaughan Engineering Bureau to

ment hosts and also of the Labour exercise the greatest precaution

sad Liberal Oppositions, with against an impending food. The

whose Whips he has to work. The NEC. also requested various pro- (1) The Yellow River Conser Viljoen, however, batted uncom-stillians all speak well of best proof of this is that the vincial governments concerned to vaney Commission and the Shan-monly well; and ran to 50 in just him, though it has been his jok instruct their subordinate river tung Provincial Government shall over an hour. affairs organs to redouble their be jointly responsible to provide efforts. in flood-prevention work, an outlet for the flood waters of Engineers and river experts were the Yellow River, that have pour- also despatched by the council to ¦ed into the Nanwang Lake, into tospect and supervise flood-pre- | the Tungping Lake, while the Huat vention work along the said rivers, Raver Conservancy Commission and

DECREASE IN WATERWORKS

The watermark of the Yangtze River at Hankow, Aug. 10, the re- port says, was 44.35 feet, showing a decrease of 7.05 ft. as compared with the highest watermark (51.35 ft) at that port July 14. This

dicates that the water level of the

river has lowered considerably. the rise of the

· However, since Yangtze and the Hsiang River. many breaches have occurred in the dykes along the rivers. Ac- cording to investigation, the flood situation in Hupeh is wurst at Chunghsiang and Tienmen, where the dykes have suffered the most collapses.

With reference to closing the dyke-breaches, the report states that the council has already com- missioned Mr. Lin Yu-lung, section chief of the NEC. Water Conser- vancy Bureau, and Mr. Tang Pe pu, technician of the same Bureau, to the Yangtze River and Hsiang River respectively to make inspec-

the Klangsu Provincial Govern- ment shall be jointly responsible for the leading of the flood waters of the same river, that have flowed into the Weishana Lake, Into the sea through the Chungyunho, the Liulangho and the Euapho..

(2) The Yellow River Canser- Yancy Commission and the Shan- tung Provincial Government shall Jointly dispatch river experts to make inspections and draw... up plans to induce the main flood flows back into the Yellow River, the report points out, seems to have been aggravated during the last few days. According to a re- port of the Yellow River Conser vancy Commission, the flow of the river at Shenchow about 1 o'clock in the afternoon of Aug. 7., was about 16,800 cubic moors per sec- ond, and toward 12 o'clock that night it rose to 18,500 cuble meters per second.

EFFORTS \REDOUBLED Upon receipt of the report, the tions and draw up detailed plans council immediately wired to, the to this end. Work on closing the Hope, Shantungnd: Honan Pro- dyke-breaches has now been start-vincial Governments, asking them

ed.

GLOUCESTER —Flest Innings Sinfeld, e. Rowan, b Tom

Inson

102 Stephens, e Mitchell, b

Crisp ....

5

Hammond, b Balaskas...... 38 B. H. Lyon, Dalton, b

Balaskas

F. J, Seabrook b Vincent Neale, b. Balaskas

D. A. C. Pake, st Cameron,

b autchell

21

3

81

t

Barnett, lbw, b Crisp

24

Parker, c and b Balaskas

14.

Goddard, b Crlap

0

Smith, not out

3

Extras: ****

Total

-279 BowlingCrisp 3 for 50, Viljoen for 10, Balaskay 4 for 101, Vin- cent 1 for 42. Tomlinson 1 for 43, Mitchell for 26.

SOUTH AFRICANS First Innings B. Mitchell, b Hammond...10 E. A Rowan, b Goddard... 31 K. G. Viljoen, not out .... A D. "Notize, Jbw, h Parker.. I. J. Bledle, e'and b God-

dardise

64

'9

H. B. Cameron, not out

Extras

21

0

Total (4 wkts.).... 144 To bat E. L. Dalton, X. Balas- to redouble their efforts in flood-kas, C.L. Vincent, R. J. Crisp, and

D Tomlinson. Prevention work and meantime dispatched Mr. Li Yi-chin, Chair- man of the Yellow River Conser- Fancy Commission, Mr. Wang Hu- chen, section chief of the Water Conservancy Bureau of the N.E.C., and a number of rivers experts to

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK

to see that they were ruthlessly ridden down (that is surely how the excavalry officer thought of the operation) in the Division Lobbies, night after night and. week after week

In some ways of course, his task has been the easiest any Chief Whip has ever had. When will another Chief Whip be master of majority of 480 The thing is still so astonishing that it sends Fou to the reference books to ron iron it.

Tientsin, Aug, 23, The railway trip between Pelping and Tientsin's which at present takes three hours will be shortened to two hours--a reduction of one- third-following the completion of adjustments of the track as well as improvement of road-bed on that section of the Pelping-Liagn- ing Railway Trial ruds will be made shortly. Kuo Min

£70.000 A YEAR AFTER DIVORCE

Speciál Air Mall Service)

London, Aug. 10, After their divorce. Barbara Hut-

ton (now Countress von Haugwitz » Reventlow) paid Prince Malvani at the rate of £70,000 a year...... · ·

« She, revealed this to Reuter's Copenhagen correspondent yester- day, when told of the report from

AERONAUTICAL COLLEGE New York that the Prince, who was

Complete Training Centre

For India

An Aeronautical ing Centre in India will be opened in October

in New Delhi,

killed in a car smash, had left her

£400,000.

The countess added that it was hardly correct that he had left such a sum in cash. It was. prób- able, she said, that the value of

his palace in Venice and other pro-

perty would amount to £400,000.

The object of the Centre is to provide in India the facilities for TEWFIK IN CONFERENCE

compléte and comprehensive train

ing for those aspiring to careers in aeronautical pursuits.

Aug. 31,

A half-hour 181K too the station between the Foreign Minister Aras, and the Bulg Minister, when the former passed through there, yesterday en route to Bled.

An official statemen

The instruction provided, will be based (says the Statesman) upon the present-day demand for practical efficiency coupled with the necessary technical knowledge in stead of being run upon a system of mere academic knowledge which has little commercial value."

MAT Eadon (the Governor and Principal of the proposed conversation announced that mu Aeronautical Academy), has altual regret was expressed at the ready received hundreds of applica attacks made by the press of esch

country on the other, and that the tions for entrance to the AT.C.L

intelectual drcles of both nations would be invited to co-operate in creating a conciliatory atmosphere. Tranioccan Kun Minis

YANKEE IN MISHAP

Simultaneous with the rise of the Yangtze River, reports that the Yellow River had swollen were re- calved. The council was informed by the hydrometric station at Shenchow July 8 to the effect that as a result of continuous heary

The Reichswehr puts up with downpours, the now of the river make a careful Inspection of the the Hitler régime just as one puts was at first about 2,700 cubic me food situation in west Shantung tera per second, and later rose to and north Kiangsu, as a prelimin-up with an unsympathetic mother-

London Aug. 31. 9,900 cubic meters. The food senary step toward drawing up a law for the sake of a pretty

The Lamotís: Ameri racing son came two or three weeks ear comprehensive scheme to aght the wife. She won't live long" Cup-|

yacht Yankee, tain Karl Felsen. Her this year than in previous Yellow River flood.

I am no hater of work at the millionaire. Mr, Concluding the report states right time of the year, but it is has been compe that the present food disaster against nature in August" Mr lish regattas has by no means ended. Thers 18 Robert Lynd,"

mouth while

years.

⠀ SIX BREACHES

Promiscuous dancing is notori- ously a means of fostering the lusts of the mesh, the Justê of the ege, and the

Northern the Free Chur

tance of

by the which Eng-

BIG ALTERATIONS IN PROGRESS

London AuF 30, Progress 16 being made with the Port of London Authority's, deve- lopment scheme, which is to cost WR £1,750,000 and will give regular employment to 800 men for Ove years

Wher the alterations to the Royal Victoria Dock are comple

deep

Other yachts went to the assis

which was here were

towed into

no casualties:- Pri

of a culture:

Berlin, Aug. 31; 4 That Berlin's airport, the T-On Juy 10, the report continues, a grave danger of the aggravation The hands of many an old Nazt big Jacht race, pelhofer Field, will be vastly ex six breaches occurred in the of the situation, as autumn foods guard have been itching as he carried away. tended so as to enable the author at Tungchuang, Yencheng halen in are coming soon. The counch is watched the insolence of the Jews ities to cope with the phenomenal Shantung. Not much water has growth of civil aviation in the last poured in from No. 1,2,3 breaches,wever, exerting its utmost efforts, foreign race on German soll

Lo. continu's battling the disaster.Dr. Goebbels." few years, was the gist of an an- varying from 60 to 80 meters in nouncement made to-day by the width, which are hemmed in by State Commissar for Berlin city, the Klangsu Dyke.--But large Dr. Lippert.

- volumes of water have been rush, Both east-bound and west-bound trains, it is announced, will make The Tempelhofer Fied is situated ing in from No. 4 and 5 breaches. regular stops at the new stations, right in the heart of Greater Ber-The continuous onrush of the flow lin, a few minutes by underground widened these breaches until they with

Sian-Lancho

railway from the centre of the city have now become one gigantio has made

It is stated that between May 1933 gap, measuring about 2,000 meters

wide, in the and May 1935 the number of pas

asin sengers arriving and departing has

risen by 50 per cent --- Transoocan Keio Ming

ighway

Four measures for closing

the "reporcfstates were. decided upon at a conference be

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