German sporting fournalists ex- press the opinion that Braddock's step is due to the manoeuvres of "certain wire-pullers," who arc materially interested in the post- ponement of the fight.
The
papers severely criticise i The sequel of a car crash into a these methods, comparing them fire hydrant was the appearance of with the
exemplary fair play an unlicensed driver at the Kow-
games,-1
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crashed into it from the rear. "AR.A.0.C. Association swimming gala which prevalled at the Olymple loon Magistracy yesterday, Page 6.
held yesterday at the Y.M.C.A. bath Transocean News Service. There was a large and representa- tive gathering present which in- cluded Colonel J. F. King and Lt.- Col. R. F. Johnson.
there he soug in the same race tion falled to pull up and ran into the back of the second bus. making the situation a rather serious one.
So far as it can be ascertained no one was injured. although the drivers had a rather bad shake-up. The first two vehicles were some- what badly damaged, the second which got sandwiched coming out the worst at both ends, some glass panes also being shattered.
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The Civilian team, comprising the Maycock brothers and V, San- ders won both the 100 yards medley relay and 100 yards freestyle relay races. Master J, Clewer annexed two prizes, whilst Staff Sergt. Hop- kinson was placed in a good many events. Pte. Lawler was successful In the 50 yards championship and LIC. Brice in the 100 yards cham-
BRUTAL MURDER pionship.
IN JAFFA
Public Detestation Of Crimes
London, August 19. The
recent recrudescence of violence in Palestine, of which the latest example is the shooting with fatal results of two Jewish nurses attached to the Govern- ment Hospital at Jaffa on August 17. has deeply shocked opinion
here....
The crime has been severely condemned by the Arab National Committee at Jaffe, and the Jewish National Assembly has de- on the High Commissioner and discuss the situation with him..
At the conclusion of the events. Mrs. J. King presented the prizea to successful competitors in the West Lounge.
RESULTS
50 Yards Ladies Championship: 1. Miss Bowstead; 2. Mrs. Wykes
25 Yards Breaststroke, anal: 1. V. Sanders; 2. G. Hopkinson."
50 Yards Medley: 1, J. Maycock; 2. Lawlor.
Mrs. Wykes: 2, Miss Bowstead.
25 Yards. Mermaid Race, final; 1,
OLYMPIC STAR'S MASCOT
Doll Damaged By Admirers
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Copenhagen, August 19. Twelve-year-old. Inge Soeren- sen, winner of the bronze medal in the women's 200 metre breast- stroke at Berlin, was accorded such an enthusiastic reception on her return that she was hardly able to escape from her numerous admirers, who pressed so close to the crack swimmer that her favourite doll was badly mauled.
When "the young mother" saw the catastrophe which had be fallen her "child" she failed to show the same pluck which had won her the Olympic laurels and sobbed ike a little girl before the eyes of her astonished admirers.— Transocean Name Service.
BRITISH WAGE INCREASES
100 Yards Championship. final: 1. L/C. Brice; 2, Staff Sergt. Grant. J. Clewer; 2. Staff Sergt. Hopkinson. 25 Yards Cruiser Race: 1, Master
75 Yards Mixed Race: "1. Mrs. Wykes, Maycock, and Staff Sergt. Wykes; 2, Staff Sergt. Hopkinson. Miss Clewer, and Pte. Lawlor.
London, Aug. 18. In the rate Change 100 Yards Medley: 1. Civilian which came into operation in Great Sanders); 2. Senior Rank (Staff Sergts. Grant, Bowstead, Wykes and Cooper),
of pay.
They have has been established at Kwangs! / cided to send a deputation to wait team' (Maycock Brothers, and V. Britain last month. are estimated
width General Li Tsung-jen as Chairman and Commander-in- chief, and Generals Pel Chung-hai and Tsal Ting-kal. Vice-Chairman and Commanders of the First and Second Route Armies respectively.--
Reuter.
APPOINTMENTS BY NANKING
So far the Olympic Games 4605 have justified themselves, but the other hopes of their founder have THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC not been fulfilled.'
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not kept bright the fame of IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED chivalry; instead it sinks steadily
A communique issued in Jeru- lower. One must not wholly
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Commissioner expresses his deepest per Share has been. declared for the six months ended become a wild, nationalistic race. has run away with us and has
SOTTOW and abhorrence at the recent brutal murders and attacks 30th June, 1936, and will be with the baser sort of newspapers
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the competitors
exception of some murderous In- Coubertin's Free Trade in Dividend Warrants may be bathletes has become an athletic
dividuals, the whole people of Palestine will share his detestation tained, on application at the Come
No need to recall the un-
of these horrible crimes culminat- pany's' Registered Office, P. & happy incidente of past Olympic
ing in the murder in Jaffa of two Nanking. Aug. 19. Building.
Mr. Chiang Ting-fu, director of
Jewish nurses when returning to Games at which those same
Jaffa Government Hospital where the political affairs department of they had devoted themselves to newspapers exclaimed. witch the Executive Yuan, has been a healing of the sick regardless of greedy horror, for there have pointed Ambassador to Russia, been plenty of worse and more following the approval recent ones in international foot- Soviet Government, and he will the public to assist the authorities of the sioner relies on all members of ball. And Coubertin's hope that
proceed to Moscow in the autumn. Mr. Liang Lung. Charge d'Andres the athletes of the world, by in Czechoslovakia, has been pre- meeting at Olympic Games, moted might form an international oudy country. By order of the Board of of friends is still far from fulfi-: Directors.
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TRINITY COLLEGE OF
MUSIC LONDON
war.
Reuter.
Minister
to
the
DR. ALFRED SZE ASKS LEAVE
May Not Return To Washington
same
Nanking, Aug. 19, It is authoritatively learned that.
ment. Until 1932 they were given little chance of meeting except in their actual contexts. In that year the Americans, most, Idealistic as well as most enter prising of races, were the hosts for the Olympic Games and housed all the competitors to gether in a specially constructed village so that they might meet cach other at leisure. The ex periment is being repeated this year at Berlin. But differences of language must always be au The last day of entry for the obstacle, and it will be long be torthcoming examination
fore any considerable body of in- ternational goodwill is built up Theory will be 28th August, 1936. by these means. The only rapid Entry forms may be obtained method of promoting friendanip Reuter from thie Local Secretary.
Local Examination in Theory 5th December, 1936.
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c/o The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.,
in
and admiration between nations through sport is the demonstra
race or creed. The High Commis-
in
attempted murder and violence."
prevention of all acts of
A curfew extending from 8 a.m. yesterday until 5 a.m. this morn- ing was imposed on Jaffa,-- British Wireless.
TREASURE ACQUIRED BY MUSEUM
The famous Guelphic Treasure. Dr. Alfred Bze is asking leave off one of the foremost collections of absence to return to China. It is medieval religious goldsmith work understood that because he has has been acquired by the Prussian been away from China too many State Museum through the Prus- years he is anxious to be back in stan Minister of Finance, Dr. Pop- litz. The Treasure, which former- Meanwhile the belief is currently consisted of 82 pleces, many that Dr. Alfred Sze may not return of which have however been sold to Washington and devote his en-to U.S.A. in farmer years, was las tire tirag to industrial enterprises in possession of the Duke of Bruns
his native country.
tion of such chivalry as the runner, whereby their own Americans showed in 1992 when presentative was deprived they refrained from appealing certain victory. But such 462 against a gross foul by a foreignerosity it rare to-day.
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Thefts of Axtures from houses in Knutsford Terrace are reported on Page 8.
Damage caused to the Colony's, main cable was the subject of a case heard at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday.
Page 6.
Four Indians were charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday after- noon with assaulting an Indian constable.
Page 7..
The Chief Justice stated yester- day that traffickers in dangerous. drugs in the Colony will be hearily punished,
Page 7.
The case was continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, wherein Cheng Chung was charged with attempted armed robbery. After further evidence was taken, the jury retired for a short deliberation and returned a verdict of "Not Guilty."
Page 6.
R. Duncan and S. Randle yester- day won the Open Lawn Bowls Pairs championship. Page 10.
A draw for Australian paniès was made yesterday...
Page 10,
to have resulted in an increase of LOCAL AND GENERAL nearly £60,000 in the weekly full- time wages of over 1,000,000 work- ers and In a decrease of about affecting 44,000. The principal increase was in the en-
British Wircicas
Go Get 'em Race: 1. Lt. Gillam. Plate Recovering: 1, L/C. Drake: £3,800, 2, Staff Sergt. Cooper.
50 Yards Championship: 1. Pte.gineering industry.- Lawler: 2. J. Maycock.
50 Yards Family Race: 1. Staff Sergt. And Misa Bowstead; 2. Staff Sergt. and Mrs. Wykes
Blindfold Race: 1, V. Sanders. 100 Yards Relay Free Style; 1, Civilians team (Maycock brothers. and V. Sanders); 2, Junior Ranks (Pte. Pitt, L/C. Frisby, L/C. Brice and Pte. Lawlor).
KING EXPECTED AT CORFU
Athens, Aug, 18. King Edward VII is expected to Balloon Race: 1, Master Clewer; arrive at Cortu, shortly, but as be 2. Lt. SteveRS.
is travelling incognito no oficial welcome" will be given.
PLATINUM PRICE GOING UP
Rearmament Responsible
London, Aug, 19.
A very keen demand for large
1
rearmament is mainly
However, the Greek press declares that the people of Corfu will find means to demonstrate the cordial relations between the two coun- tries.-
Kruter's Bulletin Service
GERMAN SHIPS IN SPANISH WATERS
**Hong Koox Daliv Press“ Specia.
Berlin, Aug. 18.”
Four cases of enteric fever and one of cerebro-spinal fever were notified to the local Health authorl- tles on Tuesday.
An unknown Chinese, aged about 55, collapsed in Second Street on Tuesday, and struck his head severely against the payment. He was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
During the typhoon on Monday, a hole was torn in one of the har- bour pipe-lines carrying water from Shing Mun, and a cable between. the island and Stonecutters was severed.
The forthcoming marriage is an- nounced of· Renaldo Alberto da Silva, manager of the Colonial Trading Company, a resident of 13, Knutsford Terrace, "Kowloon, and Lina Dumont Bilva-Netto, stepo- grapher of the Flying School, and residing at 10. Granville Road, Kowloon.
ADMIRALTY VISIT
quantities of platinum to-day caused the price to jump from
A telegram addressed to Koike 170/- 210 an ounce compared
Matsubara Hotel from Osaka is now with 160 last month and 140/- The German Naval Authorities lying unclaimed at the offices of "Hong Kong Daily Press", Special) | In August 1935.
have decided to replace the Units the E.E. Telegraph Co., Ltd. World Berlin, Aug. 18.
in the Spanish waters with other responsible for the increasing con- units. sumption, entailing stringency in Torpedo boats "Beeadler" and "Al- The Cruiser "Koeln" and the avaliable supplies, especially as batros, stationed of the Spazun large producers principally of in Northcoast, will be replaced by the ternational nickel, are offering less Cruiser "Leipzig" and the Torpedo-
London, August 19. The First Lord of the Admiralty, freely owing to the probability of
boats “Jaguar" and "Wolf." On the a, still higher price, which also is
Sir Samuel Hoare, will visit Malta" increasingly attracting speculators Cruiser "Nuermberg." the tagship
South and Bouth-east coast the and Gibraltar at the end of the -Reuter.
of Admiral Boehm, and 4 Torpedo Enchantress
month in the Admiralty Jacht
boats will replace the Battlecruiser |
British Wireless. Admiral Scheer" and "Detrtsch. land," and the two Torpedo boats.
The above ships will leave Ger- many on the 20th of August and arrive off the coasts of Spain about Muse from Gilbert and Sullivan | the 25th, while the units they are operas will be played at the fun-relieving are expected to return to great collection of mediaeval collec-eral on Thursday of the famous their home ports in the beginning gention of religious art
e
of
wick and Lueneburg, who had also negotiated for sale with America. reputedly asking for six million dollars, "The motive behind the turchase of the Prussian Stat
a Museum is to keep intact the last
"veinmurene" d'eus Servins.
ACTOR'S FUNERAL
London, Aug" 18..
Savoyard, Bir Henry. Lytton,
British Wireless,
of Beptembez Transdenn New Harulca
JUNKS LOST
"Canton, Aug. 19. Chinese reports state that eight fishing junks, were sunk in the vicinity of Blas Bay daring the typhoon, ten lives being lost Rester.
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