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THE NOTE TO ITALY
Anxiety In The Commons
London, Dec, 10. A special meeting of the Cabinet, which had been summan- ed during the morning was held at the House of Commons last night" at 8 o'clock to receive a ́ ́ra- -port-on-the-discussions which-had- taken place during the week-end between M. Layal and Sir Samuel Hoare. All the members of the
Cabinet were present except Sir $1.68 Samuel Hoare, who is in Switzer
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Addis Ababa, Dec. 30 The Abyssinian positions at Daggah Bur were bombed for -eight hourS by four Italian
•' planes.
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LAVAL'S TALK'
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(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally. Premi!! (Copyright).]
Paris, Dec, 30, Premier Laval had a conversa, tion with the British Ambassador. Sir George Clerk, cn Monday, afternoon. Nothing was announ ced us to the subject of diseus
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Nakamura, 27-year-old Japanese wife of a Chinese pirate, who was 'deported from "China recently, on her arrival in Kobe in the ss. Tatsuta Maru, stated, when Interviewed by local repor- ters, "found a pirate's life ex- citing and worthwhile. I learned how to drive an automobile and to handle a machine gun." She also stated that she was going, to spend the rest of her life on a farm in her native village..
GAMES AND PLAYERS
GERMANY AT TOTTENHAM the annual game between the Ox- tord Occasionals and Cambridge London, Dec. 3 Continental opinion on tomor- Wanderers on December 18 before row' England v. Germany Asso- coming to any decision. 8. A. Block tiation football match at Totten-ppears almost certain to retain his ham is that, while the visitors have place at left back, and both J. K. ittle chance of winning, they will Waydelin and T. L. Rowan are au contribute to Britain's "education, lomatic choices. It would not be on the improving standard of play surprising to ssd A. T. Sharpe Modern tactical tenden-Wales) given preference over E. S. abroad. ries of the game in England have loure at centre half if Wales is to been closely studied by German have a fifth player; in this coat football leaders, and delegates from Wales would presumably supply the their controlling body have watched sight wing and leave Whitlock, some of cur big matches, Advice Milford, and Ogilvy as the other to the Germans has not been lack three. Last season's Welsh right ing, and late counsel to them was wing was J. H. M. Evans and A that they should not risk playing Angear, but E. G. Clarke may be the "W forward formation against preferred to Angear, and Evans the inventors of the system, but was not good for Durbam na rely rather an exploiting the indicounty match on Saturday. In the vidual value of the players. Ger: many has played, and won, five in ternational-matches this season, all against minor football countries but it should not be forgotten that at the end of last season she was beaten on German soil by Spain. In Continental ranking she might this season be bracketed fourth with Austria and Spain, after Italy. Czecho-Slovakia, and Hung
Earlier in the day. Mr Baldwin had announced in the House of Commons that the documents drawn up as a result of the con- versations in Paris had reached London at anyearly hour in the morning and were receiving "ur. gent consideration." For the mory. ment he preferred. not to make any further statement.
"
The Cabinet meeting lasted for 70 minutes and no official state- ment was issued at the
THE EXPERIMENTAL GOLF BALL
other side Coates, of Ireland, seems certain to be in goal, and Leyland Naylor and Mcleod, the Scottish pair, should be at back. At centre. half Coulson will probably be pre- terred to Morrison, for Ireland are qurdly likely, to supply either wing half while Marsh and Evors are available. Howe, Cook, and Mc Veagh should certainly be seen in the forward line, with Anderson, of Oxford, as inside right, and James or Sneddon in the centre.
MATTING WICKETS
DEFENDED
A Darwen golfer writes in sup- port of the experimental ball which
Transvaal opinion appears to be will be used in a match this week: divided on close.
the merits of turi Ministers were aware of the factor soms years golfers have been wickets, especially for young play what messages from Parts had wondering when clubs and balls ers. At a recent meeting of the given close details of the agree-would reach such a pitch of per: Transvaal Cricket Union it was ap
ment which it was reported, had been reached between M. Laval and the Foreign Secretary; but the British Government decided
bn expected from such quarters. To fection that no extra length could those who bear in mind, however the way in which ball manufactur- ers have succeeded, year after year; in producing balls of greater and still greater length it seems rea sonable to assume that the scienti c limit is still far from exhausted. Realising this, many golfers are seriously beginning to ponder the
clubs' representatives were against parent that the majority of the adopting & turf-wicket policy until be assured. H. G Deane, who cap- success at a reasonable cost could tained the South African Test team in 1999 and was recently elected to prise by saying that he would op- the Transvaal Board, caused sur-
high schools financial or other as- pose the policy of giving Transvaal
that no statement should be made and refused elfer to confirm or to deny the Paris reports. From this members assumed that the re- ports were accurate, at any rate in general outline, and it must be recorded that they created an un-need for some restrictive legislasistance towards the establishment
that
the
terma
of turf wickets. Deane, who pro- ved himself one of the shrewdest captains South Africa has ever had, said that matting wickets helped considerably to win the Test at Lord's during the recent tour of England,
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THURSDAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
1230-2.15 p.m.-European Record-
ed Programme. ·
1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-
port.
1:30 p.m-Reuter Press Bulletins,...
Rugby Press News, etc,
2.15 p.m-Close Down. 5 to 8 p.m.-European Programme. 5 to 6 pm-A Relay of the Hong
Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra. 6 to 6.30 p.m.-CHILDREN'S STU-
DIO CONCERT. 6.30 to 7 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra 7 to 7.13 p.m.-"In a Fairy Realm
Salte" (Albert Ketelbey) 7.13 to 7.30 p.m.-Vocal Gems,
Fanst (Gounod).
Veronique (Messeger). 7.30 to 748 pm-A Recital by Carrell Gibbons and his Boy Friends
1. Judy.
2. Stars fell in Alabama,
You've got to admit.
3.
4.
Give me a hears to sing to. 5. I the Moon turns green. 7.46 to 8 pm-The Bahemians.
The Dollar Princess Waltz (Fall) Moonlight on the Alter Waltz
(Fetras).
Moss Rose-Waltz (Basc). My Dream-Waltz (Wadleutel. 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re
pört: " Closing Local Stock Quotations. 8.05 to
11 pm Chinese Studio Concert.
favourable impression among the tion where distance is concerned rank and file of the Government's act only so that they may continue to enjoy their golf hat also in the supporters in the House of Com-
fear that unless something is done mons. "It was felt that, if the progolf and golf courses will su posals were even in broad outline cense to hear more than a faint correct, they went far beyond any resemblances to long-established tra thing which the House of Com-dition. Some years ago it is doubt- mons' had been asked to approve, ful whether the average club golfor d. PARKER, UMPIRE and that Abyssinia was being in with a" double-figure handicap Įvited to make a larger surrender would have welcomed any attempt
The appointment yesterday of C. "Parker df territory than had ever been to limit the flying and running
first-class umpire suggested in debate in the House propensities of the modern golf brings to a rather unexpected and of Commons. It was recognized ball. The surprising distance it the distinguished playing career of to" which Sir will travel, especially along the this great Gloucestershire bowler. Samuel Hoare had agreed in Paris sound, when badly and inaccur To Parker, who is now in his fifty- full extent toately struck has seemed a crowning first year, fama eaine late. It was represented the which M. Laval was prepared to
dispensation of providence to thou not untij after the war that he took sands of the weaker brethren. But a prominent position among Eug go; but considerable anxiety was it has become increasingly evidentish bowlers. Born at Presbury on expressed whether the House of during the past few years that, October 14, 1884, he played golf as
gramme from Z.E.K. on a Fre- Commons would be prepared to along with these encouraging cha- a boy, and he gave no gerious agree to them without protest.
quency of 640 kilocycles. racteristics, the modern ball has thought to cricket till he was seven- slowly but surely brought about a teen or eighteen years of age. He 8.05 to 8.35 pm--Orchestral Music, BACK TO GENEVA
Overture Wag- Tannhauser the principles of played his first match for Glouces revolution
her), course construction far from weltershire in 1905, but it was not un- come to the middle-aged and the til 1990 that he really asserted him- elderly, to whom golf has appealed sell. As a bowler on the slow side in the past as a pleasant and not of medium pace he stood alone, and the left-hander's usual spin and too strennous, form of healthful, re-
break combined to make him even more difficult to play. Five times
18
the
It
understood that Cabinet agreed that the proposals contained in the Paris agreement should now go forward to the Council of the League of Nations, to Signor Mussolini, and to the Emperor of Abyssinia; but it can-. not be recorded that there was any enthusiasm for them. Mr. Eden, in his speech in the House of Commons last week, made it clear that the proposals must be "acceptable" to
the League or Nations and accepted" by Italy and Abyssinia-a
distinction in
creation.
in
MAKING COURSES TOO LONG
has taken 200 or more wickets
in a season for Gloucestershire. Ar-
ough he was probably the most consistent low left-hand bowler of ais day, his Test appearances against Australia were limited to one at Manchester in 1921. Against ssex að Gloucester in 1975 he too. seventeen wickets for 56 runs,
against Middlesex at Bristol in
"To many golfers the pleasure or longer drives has been more than counter-balanced by the knowledge that the average course has been lougthened far beyond the limits of their physical endurance. It is a poor advertisement for any course when players stagger oli the las. groen jaded and footsere, but that, terms which has been duly noted I am assured, is a common experi- and the general feeling at West- thee in these days of reconstructed minister last night was that the courses and extended lay-outs. Thus responsibility for final decisions it. would seem that even amongst been transferred to those whom the long-distance ball Now Geneva. Sir Robert Vansittart, has Battered most restrictive legis the Permanent Under-Secretary oflation against yet longer balls, and State for Foreign Affairs, did not the consequent removal of any ex- return to London for the meeting etise to lengthen courses still fur of the Cabinet; but Mr. Peterson, ther, would be welcomed with wide-neft match Parker hit the wicket spread satisfaction. Many clubs, ive times with consecutive, balis. for their part, would heave & sighhe second delivery of the five was, of relief that the costly and fantas tic policy of lengthening courses to keep pace with technical improve mante in the golf ball had at long last come to an end."
has
the Foreign Office expert, who had brought the documents 'relating to the Paris agreement with him, was in attendance at the Foreign Office yesterday and will return to France this morning. After the meeting of the Cabinet Mr. Eden. who is in charge of the Foreign Office during Sir Samuel Hoare's holiday, was in telephonie com- munication with Paris.
There were many Ministerial conferences after the meeting of the Cabinet, and these continued for some time after the singer the House of Commons. It was announced that Mr. Eden would be learing for Cenova at 2 o'clocally
morrow afternoon as originally arranged.
OUTLINE OF PROPOSALS -It is believed that in substance the proposals drafted in Paris are: 1-Italy would receive Danakil and the eastern part of the Tigre, including Adows and Makale. but not Aksum.
2-Ethiopia would obtain the port of Assab in Eitrea and a cor- ridor to that port through Italian territory, or alternatively the port of Zella,
A British Journalist in Soda, representative of a semi-cincial British news agency as well as of the "New York Times" has been 3-Italy would receive in the notified that his permit of rest-south all the territory included dence in Bulgaria, which expired between the frontier of British on December 24, will not be re- Somaliland, the eighth parallel of newud.
latitude in the north and the 36th
11 p.m.-Close Down.
8.05 to 10 p.m-European
Fro
Doubinushka (arr. Rimsky-Kor-
sakov)
Polovtal March (Borodin), Eugen Onegin-Waltz (Tschal-
korsky).
Elegiac Melody (Grieg). 8.35 to 8.48 pm-A Recital by
Richard Tauber (Tenor)
1. Dein ist Mein Ganzes Herz
(Lebar).*;
2. Immer nur Lacheln (Lebar). 3. Thine my thoughts are, Mar-
garita (Helmund).
4. Good Night, Oh my Lovel
(Abt).
8.48 to 9 pm-Hawaiian Musio. Hawaiian Stars are gleaming. Oh! Roszlita.....
1994 he did the hat-trick in each Bristol in 1921 he took all ter innings, and against Somerset
wickets in an inuings for 79 runs. Last season Parker took 103 wickets in championship matches for Glous cestershire at an average of 24,5 rans. For Gloucestershire against Yorkshire at Bristol in 1922 in his
wever; a no-ball,
An extraordinary sight was wit-
· JUBILEE HOCKEY MATCH
nessed on a lonely beach. Dity It does not appear likely that miles from Cape Town, when ap Wales will contribute more than wards of 300 huge toothed whales, four, players to the Anglo-Welsh known as fales killers, dashed team which will meet Scotland and Ireland in the Hockey Association's themselves ashore on November 28. Jubiles maten at Beckenham Asherman who witnessed it said January: Two of these should cer
Uninly be. G. B. Dodds, the goal keeper, and J. W. L. Hardie, back. Having had no trial games the se- lectors must rely on club form, and possibly they may wait until after
degree of longitude in the west, in- cluding-most of the Ogaden..
her new frontiers 74––Within ̈"her" Ethiopia, would preserve her full independence and would receive League assistance for her develop ment and the carrying out of necessary reforma
is was an awe-inspiring sight as
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to 9.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin (Copy- right by Reuter).
9.15 to 9.30 pm-Ensemble Sing-
ing.
Since we fell out of love-The |
Milla Brothers.
Mr. Whittington Selection.
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph.
Ole Faithful--The El Billies. Feminine Fancies.-The Carlyle
Cousins.
9.30 to 10 p.m.-Dance music. 10 p.m.-Big Ben: close down,
COMMUNICATION
The following list of ships are
expected to be in wireless com- munication with Hope". Hong Radio yesterday.
the great shoal made a determined SHIPS IN WIRELESS dash for the shore at dawn at high tide, leaping over the rocks and to death dashing themselves against the sharp surfaces until they ware all killed. The bodies elther floated back to the, ses or were stranded high on the beach;
Soli, Sinabang. Nanchang, Hwüh which is now thickly littered with shun Sungshan Maru. Cetus, their. vast black formas. Another Genoa Maru, Roggeveen, Negato school of whales, this time forty Maru, Rashin Maru, Hal Hing. of the bottlenose variety, were Patroclus. Ostri, Tamara, President stranded on November 27 on the Cleveland, Toko Maru Arabia beach between Carnoustie and Maru, President Hoover, General Buddon Ness, on the Forfarshire Pershing, Ginyo Maru, Tug-Taikoo side of the Tay estuary.. The General Lee and Naldera Mr. Hugh Dalton is asking to whales at Carnoustie measure from morrow whether the Acting For ave to 20 feet long, and the larger eign Secretary wit now make a specimens are estimated to weigh further statement regarding the two tona. The school is spread proposals submitted on behalf of two miles along the beach, and his Majesty's Government and the dimeulty was found, in removing French Government to the Italian the whales. Bome of them were Government for a settlement of alive 24 hours after they became the war in Abyssinia.
stranded
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H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE
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QUOTATIONS
The year coming to a close to- day was not a good one for the share market, the world depres-
lon and other circumstances. having caused
22 severe slump. during a great part of the year but
towards the close. a
smart recovery took place and it may be said that the market is quite nor- mak Low as confidence has been restored and business is being con- ducted on a sound basis, artificial manipulation having been almost eliminated.
WE WISH OUR CLIENTS A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR BUYERS Hongkong Bunks, $1485, Bank of East Asia, $76. Venz. Goldfields, $3. Wharves (old), $974. Providents (old), $1.45, Hotels, $51.
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HK Ropes, $41. Dairy Farms, $201. Sinceres, $2.20. g
Govt 34 Loan, par.
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Telephones fold). $25.35/25.45. Cements, $7.
H. H. Ropes. $4.85.
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Steamboats, 33.
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Providents old, $1.45. · Stár Ferries, $881. Taumati Ferries, $18. Lights, $10.60 Light Rights, $14. Electrica, $89. Telephones old, $25.35 Canton Ices, $14. Cements, $7.
Ropes, $5, Dairy Farms, $201. constructions old, $11 Constructions New, 30 cts. Nanyangs, $3.20, Ginceres, $2.20 | HX Wing On, $381;" 8hat Wing On, $45 Watsons, $4.
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Lightë, $104. Light Rights, $4.50/5.55. Cements, $1.
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