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No. 14595, ✯✯✯AGOT¶XX# BAGET HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1937. HAN ⠀★★Ƒ******** Price

Whelan - Owen Fight

Ends In Draw

Interesting Boxing Card

A very interesting boxing programme was presented at the Po Hing Theatre last night, the main event, a 15-round featherweight contest between Bud Whelun, Royal Ulster Rifles and Fusilier. Owens, ending in a draw after the latter had missed a glorious opportunity of scoring a knock-out in the second round.

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In a bantamweight contest Fusiller Fisher had the better of a fight with Young Aromin, winning on points by a comfort- able margin." Fisher showed that he was a two-handed Dghter and although he is already well-known to local fight fans, more should be heard of him in the future.

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The main bout of the evening 'member of the Sunshine Gymna- produced some

very fast boxing slum. He first lifted 140 pound and although Owens scored a good | weights with both händs above his number of points in the first six head, and then went up to 210 rounds, especially in the second pounds. This was followed by an

Queen Mary watching the march past of Chelsea Pensioners during the Oakapple' Day celebrations,

round when the gong saved Whe- exhibition of one-banded weight MINE-LAYING

lan, the latter came back in fine fashion and from the seventhi round onward piled up enough points to gain him a draw verdict. It will be recalled that when these. two fighters met in the last Army championships they also fought a

draw.

WEIGHT LIFTING

A weight fting exhibition was given by Mr. Clement Affouye a

THE HON. GIL MONTILLA

lifting.

RESULTS

Reggle Ewert beat Kid Gonzales on points.

Flyweight

Dennis Manders beat Kid Sala- zar on points.

Iron Bux, Jr. beat Little Bertic in the third round.

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STOP PRESS

London June 18. Results of Home Cricket County matches commenced on Wednesday

lows:

Passing Through On and concluded to-day were as fol-

Way To Manila

The Hon. Gl Montilla, Speaker of the House of Representatives of

the the Philippines, arrived in Colony yesterday, on board the President Hoover, from the North and will be leaving by the same vessel for Manila.

5.9.

Mr. Montilla has been in Wash- ington D.C.. conferring with Pre- sident Quezon who is spending Bome time in America and in Europe before returning to the Philippine Islands.

SUBMARINES

FOR COLONY

Two New Craft On Way Out

Loudon, June 18.

Two new mine-laying" sub- marines, H.M.S." Grampus -- and H.M.S. Rorqual left Portsmouth to-day to join the China Station Fleet.

Both are of 1,500 tons and carry six torpedo tubes and full mine-laying equipment.

The Grampus and Rerqual will

Lancashire defeated New Zea- landers by innings and 74 runs.

New Zealanders: 220 and 149 (Sibbles 4 for 28); Lanes: 443 stay five days each at Penang and (Paynter 94. Iddon 108. Oldfield || Singapore on their outward jour- 101).

ney and are due to arrive in Hong (Kent defeated Glamorgan on first Kong on August 16.- !nnings.

Heuter.

Kent: 388 (Ashdown 102) and

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Japan Wont Play

NO NAVAL GUN LIMITATION

Tokyo, June 18.

Mr.

The Premier of" "Japan, Hirota has formally informed the United States- Ambassador of the Japanese 'Government's decision to reject the informal, Washington proposals for a parzy, between the powers concerned to discuss the limitation of the guns callbre, of

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Contradictory Evidence

At Explosion Enquiry

New Boiler Plate Below

Standard, Says Expert

CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN AT THE RESUMED HEARING OF ENQUIRY BEING CONDUCTED AT THE CENTRAL MAGISTRACY INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE DEATH OF A CHINESE SEAMAN WHO WAS ONE OF THE MANY VICTIMS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT OF AN EX- PLOSION ON THE OSAKA BHOSEN KAISHA. STEAM LAUNCH. DOJIMA MARU," AT QUEEN'S STATUE PIER ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 17,

MR. W. A. BUTTERFIELD. SUPERINTENDENT ENGINEER OF THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM COMPANY, STATED THAT IN HIS OPINION A NEW PLATE, INSERTED IN THE BOILER AS A RE- PAIRED JOB WAS FAR BELOW THE STANDARD. -

MR. CHUTRO KOGA, MANAGER OF THE KOGA ENGINEERING COMPANY, WHO REPAIRED THE BOILER, ENGINE AND HULL OF THE LAUNCH IN QUESTION, WAS' EQUALLY EMPHATIC WHEN HE EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT THE PRESSURE TEST OF THE BOILER WAS FULLY TESTED BY A GOVERNMENT MARINE SUR-' VEYOR WHO FOUND THAT IT COFED WITH OFFICIAL REQUIRE-

AUDACIOUS

THEFT FROM

CITY SHOPMENTS.

Valuable Camera Disappears

A daring theft was perpetrated in the heart of the business centre

of the Colony in broad daylight yesterday. The theft was carried out single-handed in a most auda- clous manner.

The man, stated to be a Chinese, according to a police report issued last night. entered the shop of capital ships to fourteen inches-Mesars Schmidt and Company, In Reuter..

Chater Road, shortly before 2.30

ALLEGED JAPANESE

COMMUNISTS

Shanghal, June 18.

It is reported that a number of Japanese communists hay secretly There is already one mine-lay- | arrived in Shanghai, and that the 93 for 5: Glamorgan 318 (Eing destroyer. H.MS. Adventure, Japanese Police are watching their Davies 96).

attached to the Ching Fleet. activities (hinese Evening Press.

Somerset defeated" shire by 3 wickets.

Worcester-

Worcester: 170 (Wellard 6 for 70) and 154 (Wellard

5 for 52); Somerset: 194 (Martin 8 for 66) and 131 for 7 (Martin 6 for 44).—

Mr. Montilla is accompanied by | Reuter. Miss Mercedes Montilla.. his daughter.

Chicago. June 18. Among other prominent per The boxing promoter, Mike sonalities on board the President Jacobs, stated to-day that the Hoover, are the following:

winners of the Braddock-Louis

Judge (Miss) Theresa Meikle, ofight will meet Tommy Farr in a San Francisco, who is on tour of title bout in London late in July the Orient and is proceeding to or August.-- "Manila. Miss Meikle is a member Reuter of the San Francisco Municipal Court and after a short stay in the "P.I., will return to Hong Kong.

BANKER RETURNS

Mr. and Mrs.-P. T. Hue returned yesterday after a stay of some months in San Francisco, in cofi- nection with the re-opening of the branch of the Bank of Canton in that city. Mrs Hue joined her husband in Japan and others in the party included: Mr. and Mrs. M. Y. Tang, of Shanghai, and, the Misses Wing Yue For and Sing Man Law.

Also returning to the Colony was the Count Francisco de Courseulles

de Barberville, after a stay of

some months in Shanghai.

VOLGANO EXPERT-

An interesting visitor to Hong

PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES

London, June 18." A Government motion declaring that in the opinion of the House the salaries of members of Par- of Commons it is expedient that lament should be increased from

£400 to £600 annually and will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.-

British Wireless.

WHEN GENERALS MEET

Paris, June 18.

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D.EL

The would-be customer asked to

see some

apparently

cameras, those of the costly type.

Then when the assistant's back was turned, the Chinese disappear- ed and with him a Leica camera, valued at $300.

A report, was made to the police at Central and investigations are proceeding

Sensation Provided Race Goers On

Last Day Of Ascot Races

London, June 18.

The Royal Party was again present on the concluding day of the Ascot Races. The weather was cold and dull and as a result the first race brought no cheer when" Mr. Mosenthal's Lady of Shalot. 100 to 7, beat Lord Derby's Fair Copy, 8 to 15, by a neck to win the Jersey Stakes. The flour merchant, James Rank, won the Britannia Stakes when his Azam Pasha, 10 to 1, the favourite, finished first com. fortably from a field of 32 starters.

Something of a sensation was provided, in the Hardwicke Stakes, after Midday Sun, start ing at 2 to 1 favourite, confirmed his Epsom victory by beating Plastercast and Flares by one and a half length, and a head respectively in a feld of five.

Stewards are not usually on the course at Ascot where objections are "not done" but this time the Stewards objected to Flares with the rider, Pat. Beasley, retaliating. by objecting against Midday Sun,

The Stewards over-ruled Beasley's objections and disqualified Flares, placing William lance, at 9 to 4. third.-Rauter,

TOURISTS CONFERENCE FOR

HONG KONG

· Hong Kong has been chosen for The Chief of the German Ge- this year's Oriental Tourista Con-

Kong is Mrs. Isabel Jaggar, of the neral Staff, General Beck, who is ference. ⠀⠀⠀ Hawn Volcano Observatory in how in Paris on a private visit,Thus the Colony within the next Hawall, Mrs. Jaggar is en route called on the Minister for war, M. few months will be the scene of to Nairobi, Africa, and has the un- Daladier, the morning The dis- intense activity as the experts of usual profession of studying vol- tinguished was entertained to travel facilities, representing many canoes and earthquakes...

lunch by the Chief of the French countries and neighbouring poris, General Staff, General Gamelin will congregate here. This will be Transocean News Servica,1080 the second conference of this newly Appointed body and it has been convened following the success of the inaugural one held in Tokyo, Japan, last year

After a sojourn in Shanghai on business, Mr. TN: Lee, manager of the Branch of Communications,

·returned here by the President. Hoover, while a brief visitor here in Mr. Chester Fritz, who is en route to Manila on a business mis-

· ́sion.""" Messrs. E. and E. Rodgers,

Bons of Mr. EA. Rodgers promin ent local business man, returned by the President Hoover, after a stay In the United States, where they attended college.

BITTEN BY DOG After it had bitten Chan Wat-The selection of the Colony is a ming, a motor mechanie, at a distinct feather in the cap for the garage in Boundary Street, a black Hong Kong Travel Association, pomerarian was sent to Mataukor which was only formed within the for observation. The police are

Dast Year" OF 50. Jooking for the owner of the dog,

(Continued on Back Page).

DIVING FOR COINS

Attempted Arrest Leads

To Policeman's Immersion

Va-

SUN YAT SEN RELICS

Nanking, June 18.

The inquest was adjourned until

ANALYST'S EVIDENCE June 23 at 2.30 p.m. Mr. W. Schofield

Mr. V. C. Branson, Government sať as Coroner, assisted by a special Analyst, gave evidence that on May Jury comprising Messrs. L. C. F18 he was asked by Mr. Shaftain Bellamy (foreman), W. T.. Stanton AD.CI to accompany him to and M. H. Lo..

'Queen's Statue Pier to examine

Mr. J.T. Prior, of Messrs. Wilsome of the, deposits. He scraped kinson and Grist, held a watching | off three separate samples, namely, brief on behalf of the Osaka railing east of the pier by the steps: Shosen Kaisha, whilst Mr. O. C. E. | pillar above, the railing and the Marton, of Messrs. Deacons, repre-edge of the pier, below the railing. sented the Hong Kong and Wham, On May 19" be accompanied Mr. J. pos Dock Company, Limited. C. Fita Henry and took specimens Acting Inspector A. L. Hopkins and of the packing material from the Det-Sgt. F. Estall were present on dome of the boiler. He examined behalf of the police.

these four samples and found that the main constituents of the first the dome-abestos. He found no three were the same as those of

evidence of any of the product of explosives present. On examining the wood work of the launch there was no evidence of burning.

Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield produced a twin spring allotted safety valve for demonstrating how the one at the Dojima Maru worked.

Mr. Toshiyuki Katsunuma, Man- ager of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha was also present at the inquest.

MANSLAUGHTER

CHARGE

Taipo Man

n To

Stand Trial

(Continued on Pare B)

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 1. 2-3/44. T.L. ON NEW YORK: 30-5/19.

London Silver Market

From Our Own Correspondent)

London, June 18. London silver prices to-day were.

Brought before Mr. J. Barrow at "up 1/8 as follow:

the District Office: North, Talpo,

yesterday on a charge of man-8pot...

June 17 June 18 20-13/16 20-15/16

slaughter, a man named Wong Forward...20-13/18 20-15/18. Sul was committed for trial at. the next Criminal Sessions.

Mr. H. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, conducted the case for the prosecution.

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