The last first division" cricket match of the season was played on the Kowloon Cricket-Club ground on Saturday when the home team. Champions for the 1935-36 season,- Father G. Byrne, S.J., will give were beaten by 6 wickets by a an unprofessional talk before the team drawn from the rest of the Hong Kong University Medical League.
Page 10. Society at 5.30 p.m. in the Union On Wednesday, Assembly Room April 29, and not on Wednesday, next as previously announced.
Thrilling sport was witnessed at Sookunpoo on Saturday when, in spite of the stifling heat, no less According to a telegram recej than four records were shattered ed from the office of the St. John at the annual Hong Kong Volun- Ambulance Brigade in London by teer Defence Corps athletic meet- the local branch. the celebrations ing. the Corps Infantry claiming· of the jubilee of the Brigade will two of these to win the Inter-Unit follow the termination of the Championship and the Comman- Coronation functions in May next dant's Cup.
year.
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At the meeting of the Rotary Club to-morrow, Professor L. Fors- A motor accident 171 which a ter will give an address entitied "A trafic constahie was
injured 18 Glance at three of China's Provin-
st night. Car No. 1429, driven land to Hankow. by Mr. K. Higaski, a Japanese which was travelling in a westerl
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The brilliant sunshine that we had on Saturday afternoon took a change for the worse towards the
pach Erd Observatory in Switzer- land returned immediately, one being caught at the New Year in contained in a police report issued ces," based on a recent trip over evening when the clouds started exactly the same spot on the same bridge over the River Spree where originally it was captured-r Transocean News Service.
SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS
to gather over the hills. By night- fall it looked as though we would
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The target accommodation at
One case each of Diphtheria and be in for another of those damp direction along Queen's Road Entric Fever and two cases of nights that we have been experi- struck a traffle post at the junc-Cerebro-Spinal Fever were report- encing all too frequently of late. tion of Wellington Street. A wel- ed to the Health Authorities for halwel constable, P.C.D. 210.. Chi the 24 hours ended on Friday.. Kwu Ying was slightly injured in the right leg and had to be treat- (From Our Special Correspondent)ed in the Government Civil Hospi-
Canton Apr. 19.
Bal. A strong Japanese policy to- It appears that the car driven. wards China is envisaged by the by Mr. Higaski swerved to avoid a projected appointment of Mr. Shi-colision with another vehicle com- geru Kawagos. Japanese Consulting from Wellington Street. The General in Tientsin, as ambassador, accident occurred at 11 a.m. t China. The prospective, am- bassador is well-known here, as he
served as consu. general in Can-
ton some three years ago.
Observers here recall the active and energetic work of 'Mr, Kawa-
Ros in rounding up reactionary Koreans in Canton, Beveral of them were suspected to be carrying an anti-Japanese activity in the city.
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LIGHTNING TAKES HEAVY TOLL
Storm Sweeps Hankow And Other Cities
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Hankow, April 19. eighteen persons were killed and nity were injured
Pang Wing aged 36, master of Stonecutters on Saturday was tax- buat No. 1385H, and his son, Fanged to the limalt when the weekly King, aged 7, were admitted to spoon shoot of the Hong Kong the Kowloon Hospital as the result Rifle Association was held. Over of burns caused by an explosion 170 attended the shoot with the re- on board their craft in the har-sult that as has happened in the bour at 2 am on Saturday.
past, those aring in later details did so in poor light and at a time Tai Lo, a labourer, was admitted when the haze made visibility very to the Government Civil Hospital | poor.
Page 10. on Friday but died soon after ad- mission. He was injured, when, a The HK.V.DC. held their Ride bag of sugar fell on him at the Competition yesterday when the Talkoo Sugar Rednery while he Blake Shield; Francis Cup and was working.
Corps Championship were some of the items on the programme. Re- The Street Bleepers Shelter Bo-sults appear on
Page 12 elety have closed their three shel- ters as from last Saturday night.
The wedding was celebrated in.
Maria Ribeiro), eldest
Mr. Kawagoe was later transfer red to Tientsin. He also discover directly or indirectly in lightning The Health Bulletin of Eastern the Colony yesterday between Miss ed the article on “gossips of an em-storm and heavy rain which swept Ports for the week ending April 11 Regina peror" in the New Life Weekly. Hankow. Wachang and Hanyang are as follows:-Plague: Colombo daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julio For printing an article against the yesterday: afternoon. Summer case: Cholers: Negapatam 1 case, Carmo Vieira Ribeiro, of No. 14, Japanese emperor, the editor was heat was felt here in the midst of Rangoon 3 Bangkok 10: Small Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, and imprisoned, It Mr. Kawagoe did a bright sunshine. Then the sky Pox: Bombay 101 cases, Karachi 8. Mr. Carlos Antonio Noronha, of not see the article, it would have became darkened and a tropical Moulmein 9. Negapatam 2, Ran- the Great Northern Telegraph passed unnoticed
storm followed.
goon 1, Vizagapatam 1, Hong Kong Company, Limited. "Electric" supply was cut off by 2, and Shanghai: 9.
Page 7. the raging storm. Over 100 houses in the three cities, collaps- ed as a result of the storm and rain," Many small boats on the Yangtze River wore capsized g
DEATH OF SECRETARY TO U.S. PRESIDENT
the inadequate representation of the country can be given and can trade unici im wes based on a utilise successfuly the same de misconception of conditions in India. ¡mocratic machinery that has been In a county in which agriculture: evolved in this country through a the occupation of 90 per cent, of hundred years of experiment." (the population most of the mem-Politically India' ta 'still a child. bers for genera constituencies, will The merit of the new Constitution he' returned by voters who belong is that it allows for growth. In. it the working classes, Trade the process many mistakes (will unionism, where it exists at all in be made, such as the Indian India, is not the highly organised | Assembly's' - denunciation of the The death has occurred of Mr. Neon lights and sign boards. The following warning "was der the patronage of Br Henry machine we know in this country, Ottawa Agreement. Through the Loute McHenry Howe, Mr. Frank, ware blown down by the gusts of issued from Manlia in a telegram and Lady Pollock, in the Hall of but is in its primitive beginnings, process of evolution Lord Linlith-In D. Roosevelt's decretary and wind The damage to the three despatched at 3.30 pm. yesterday- the St. John Ambulance Associa- The most serious danger to progress sow should prove" "a strong" and political adviser.-
cities is extensive.
Cyclone for typhoon East of tion, Tal Hang Road, Lindly lent in India in any assumption that efficient guide.
Mindinao, moving WN.W.
for the occasion."
Reuter,
Washington, April 19.
Union Neve.
TYPHOON WARNING
A highly successful concert, in aid of the buliding fund of St. Mary's Church, Causeway Bay was given on Saturday night, um
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