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The Distingished Service Medal is being awarded to Rear-Admiral Vesey Halt. and Captain G. E. M. O'Donnell,

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BALLROOM

INCIDENT

(Continued from Page 1) Ms Yung Lal-la told the Court that she had known defendant about two weeks prior to

the alleged incident. On the night of their first meeting, she said de fendant bought $10 worth of dance tickets and she sat at his table. After 1 a.m. they went together to a restaurant for mop- per. She had some wine, as a result of which, she became drunk. After having got over the effects of the liquor-it was then about 3 or 4 8.m-witness said she found herself in a private room" in the

Navy Crosses are being awarded to Vice-Admiral L. G. E. Crabbe, and Lt-Comm. H. D. Barlow (Reu-Ying Sze Hotel, ter).

PROMISED TO BE FRIEND

She blamed defendant for what he had done and defendant ask- ed her not to let it be made

LAMA PRIESTS known and promised to be her

ARRESTED

HIGH TREASON ALLEGED

Shanghai, May 6.

On

2 charge of aiding the Japanese and high treason, severni Lama priests' and Mongols were

arrested in Ulan Bator, capital of the Outer Mongolia provinen, ne- cording to a Sian report.

It is alleged that they ploited CARMICHAEL—On Tuesday, Mayan armed uprising to overthrow 3, 1938, at Ardsheal, Worthing. the present government. Some of H. F. Carmichael, formerly, of the ring-leders have already been Hong Kong.

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friend. She stated that defendant had promised to call on her the next day, but failed to do so.

On the night of the third day defendant came to the Capitol Ballroom again. He danced with her and asked her to go out, but she refused because he had not kept his word.

Witness then stated that de- fendant said to her. "Who do you think you are? You are only a dancing girl.".

1 - DEFENDANT ANGRY Witness continued - that defen- dant gave her $5 worth of dance tickets and left the cabaret. The tickets Were in payment for dances.

She said that defendant ap- The Outer Mongolis authoritiespeared to be very angry that are now paying more attention tonight. The next night defendant the activities of certain foreighbrought a girl with whom he agents who are in Outer Mongolia | danced alone. The following to stir up the people against China | night he brought a taxi-dancer and the Ulan Bator authorities who was employed at another

International).

cabaret.

COLONY HEALTH

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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938.

In Defence Of Cricket's Little

Men

Immense Deeds Of Abel And Briggs"

Recalled

I read somewhere the other day with surprise, and consider- able sadness, the contemporary a opinion of one, who ought to have known, of two players who since then have become famous In cricket history; writes a correspondent in The Times. The writer of the pamphlet, recalling a match at the Oval, said of Abel and Briggs that they were "too small for county form." - No doubt they had rot at that time established themselves, and yet, looking back to those days, it is almost impossible to think of the time when The, Guvnor" was anything but one of the particular heroes of a ground which is especially prone to the adoration of its favourites. Nor does the mind easily tolerate the impious thought that any Lancastrian of decent upbringing failed. for one justant to acclaim the prowess eccentric ability you may call it if you will-of Johnny Briggs.

When one reads haphazard, fitting from page to page in some dusty old friend, these outspoken comira en ta änd rough criticisms of those who in achievement, even if never, in physical stature, were to be so great, one reallies, as if one had been hit on the back of the head with the blunt side of a chopper, the comparative merit of praise.

Even as Abel and Briggs were then unappreciated, so in" the years since then many a cricketer who "was not fit to either of "blanco" the boots we

After that night she did not see him till April 1. the night of the alleged assault.

"While we were dancing The following cases of diseases pumped "into each other and he were actified to the local health deliberately stepped on my foot." authorities on Thursday:— * she said. "I blamed him for doing Small-pox 3; enteric fever 1; that and before I could finish my measles 3; cerebro-spinal men-sentence he gave me a blow on my ingitis 9; dysentery 1.

face."

countries of

Austria and other Central "Europe that had been reduced to despair.

BLOW ON TEMPLE

B

"I felt much pain while he gave me another blow on my temple. kick on my abdomen. I crouched I felt faint. He gave me

took me to his once," added wit- down. The manager came and

ness.

It settled the stilte over the Auland Islands that had irritated Scandinavia, Russia

Mr. Silva: Were you conscious SETTLED and

Baltic the

all the time you were in the WHAT IS to be the future of the | IRRITATING Islands for genera-

League of

manager's room?.. Nations? Many STRIFE tions.

Witness sald that the people believe that It has been

The invaliable in- weakened beyond remedy. Many formation distributed by the Inas summoned and she was given sufering much pain, "A doctor more are afraid that as a world ternational Labour office helped an injection before she was sent

force it must be discarded.

The British Empire, which has accepted the leadership of the peace-loving nations, is arming at a pace and on a scale which should render it invulnerable to any attack.

MORE MERCHANT The United States of America

SHIPS

U.S. Construction Programme

Washington, May 6,"

are devoting blillons of dollars to strengthening their defences,

Every day the dictatorships be- their

come actions.

more belligerent in

to draw world-wide attention to

Was

Under cross-examination by Mr.

the lot of the working peoples into the hospital. many lands, paved the way to wards the removal of dangerousing-shing Lo witness said that disparities in national economie when she woke in the hotel after conditions and stimulated political having got over the effects of drink she found herself undressed. and social progress.

in

Mr. Lo:

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to

of

The primary League objective She very annoyed, but did not was to allay feelings of enmity make any complaint either to the between the countries who had police or the management of the been at war and remove by all Capitol."

VERY ANNOYED meand possible the causes of in- ternational misunderstanding and

You were very much Only yesterday the U.S. Secre- prejudice.

annoyed when you saw him the tary of War (Mr. H H..Woodring/ When It undertook to impose next night? Yes. issued a ·warning to Germany, sanctions it became a contender You were annoyed with hum bé- Japan and Italy that if dictator in the international field and cause he did not buy a present for

time? Not because countries push democratic equn-placed a strain so great upon you la The Maritime Commission has tries, too far, the result will be individual national interests that that. I did not care for the pre- accepted bids totalling over $16.-war.

it almost reached the breaking sent. 000,000 for the construction of BUT THE LEAQUE ideal-law point.

You did not expect such a thing before violence, reason before Most people eight steel cargo vessels of 13,900

democratic from him either I did not.. tons each by the Federal Shipping force-still remains as the hope of countries believed that the chief Witness, replying

further Company and the Sun Shipbuild-humanity, supported by case as danger was to be found in the questions, said that on the night ing Company, which must be com› strong as that presented and ap- lands ruled by dictatorships, or in of the alleged assault, defendant `pleted within 600 days:

proved when the covenant was strongly, governed lands ke came to the Capitol with a party

Japan This follows the announcement first adopted.

She denied a suggestion that she made by the Chairman of the The Prime Minister of Great GERMANY. ITALY and Japan had struck a girl whom defendant Maritime Commission that imme- Britain has indicated the need withdrew from the League. had brought, on the face

for recon- diate plans include the rehabili-

The United States had never been

Is it a custom in Shanghai, that NEED FOR struction. It a member.

a girl who dares to slap a man tation of "West Coast shipping, in-

been cluding the construction of vessels RECONSTRUCTION has

Juggested not costing from $90,000,000 to $100,

trans- that the League Covenant shou'd 000,000 embracing three

Another taxi-dancer, Misy Wong Pacific passenger liners, seven fast be separated from international DIVISION League countries on Kam-la. testified that defendant

treaties and become an cargo vessels for the round-the-peace

one side NOT

and the came to dance at the Capitol quite world service and five cargo ships crganisation with a direct objec-HELPFUL non-League countries frequently. for the service to South America- tive" in comprehensive interna-

on the other.

A FAST NUMBER Honal co-operation and peace.

In that case "the balance of

said, (Renter),

Complainant, she The foundation of the League power" a system denounced by dancing with a customer. It was meant a vital change in national the League's founders, exista only a fast number and they bumped and international policy and was in another and aggravated form. into each other and defendant expected to introduce a new world The growth of the League to stepped on complainant's foot. order almost by summary deci wards absolute effectiveness will The latter reasoned with him and ( slons, tragjik

take time. Removal from the he gave her a blow. Complainant The League was made the

covenant of penal and inquisitorial tried to seize defendant but she supervisor of international treatles, clauses might seem to rob the could not do so and was given was empowered to impose penal- League of its tminediate ?ractical | another blow "He also kicked ties in default of obedience to value.....

her on the lower abdomen. She Its edicts and to exercise in all

Nevertheless it is imperative to crouched down," added the wit- attempts at

design a form of agreement to ness. mechanical efficiency,

EUPHRATES RISE CAUSES TRAGEDY

Barded, "May B

A severe storm hits caused part of the Hiver Euphrates to rise, and a town near Bagdad has been isolated by high

ed out to assist in rescue, and rellef work.

peace-making

*

When it was brought face to face with the task of enforcing

those worthies has had his photograph sold on post-cards on his county ground-if he has been particularly lucky he has even been included in the gallery" of portraita in Wisden. THE GENIUS OF ABEL Abel, for his part, will live in the memory of those who saw him, but for many and many a year to come. He has become a fashionable subject for argument whenever his crops up. There are essentially the pro-Abelites and the anti-Abelites, though none сап ever" question the black printed figures which Win tell anyone of the immense deeds he achieved. There are those who are in-

name

Italian Naval Display For Herr Hitler

clined to dianis him as no more than a's rood - county bataman-and- what a misar- able, ungrateful way that is to talk of any cricker even if (12) is sometimes a pretty accurate description. It was said, too, that he could not play fast bowling; some even went to such depths of slander as to suggest that he flinched when the ball rose too abruptly, or too fast. The people who spoke in that ignorant man- ner. much 8.3 some have spoken in recent" years. of Mead of Hampshire, must-have either had a very trafï under- standing of the art of bats- manship or they, must have Kad a curiously twisted sanEE of humour.

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Abel, to be sure, would have had to use stilts-if such con-- venience is permitted by the laws of the game-to have been able to play over a sharply rising ball with the ease of W. Gunn or some such another. Actually be made up for his lack of inches by the development and execution of strokes which may have been considered" fanciful by others with a less facile comprehen- stor

No Australian batsman. and they are masters in the technique, could flick a ball more easily away from the region of his head to the leg boundary, and there WES never much sign of Bobby Abel caring very much for the “ safety of that shining little -face under the chocolate cap.

Now that the subject is mentioned you will and, if you have the time or the in- clination to think it out, how frequently the smallest men have been the more inclined to hook the ball' This is not necessarily proved by recourse to a mathematical diagram which shows that a ball of normul length is comparatively shor- ter to the smaller man than it would be to a giant who it he were enough of a giant might take the ball no higher than on the dap of his pads and then escape being given out leg-before-wicket by feet. It would be more probable that; if you were to ask a ttle man, a very ttle man not much larger than one of the dwarfs who have been shown lately in a fim of great popularity, he would tell you that the hook stroke came naturally to his imagination as a method of attack, for con trariwise the noble lunge forward of the left leg after the manner of great men such as L.CH. Palairet is barred to them by physical limitations.

- We have all seen funny litle men performing all manner of acrobatics and nonsensicalities in pantomimes, but I can only remember one music-ball turn when small men played crie- ket, and that was when they were supposed to be studying geography in a classroom. On. that occasion I have a positive recollection that the attempt to score runs, elementary "and ""uncouth as it may have been,

was the employment · of „27. sweeping stroke with the max- ter's ruler or the school poker in the direction of mildwicket. Maybe if they had been comics. of a fuller size they would have done much the · dame- just as "most boys do when they are granted the privilege of having a net-but that la not to say that I am wrong in my inference that small men are bookers. Yes, and cutters too, for which any album of cricketers will bear ample witness, Again in this respect the photograph either printed on paper or stamped in the mind will show how often the more diminutive men cut off what a 'coach would call the wrong foot, which of course does not really exist, it being merely # question of getting the bat to, and over. the ball at the most convenient moment for the striker.

And if Abel nailed the lie of the gentleman who so casually referred to anyone being "too" small for county form," what of Briggs to complete a double exposure of twaddle? Briggs, perhaps, will be rememberet chiefly by those who saw him at an impressionable age aa a provider of mirth, with his scan- pering up and down the pitch and the hair-raising escapes to which he exposed his partner, a tradition which has been almost the property of Lan-· cashire comedians. But what of the Briggs who played in 31 Test Matches for England against Australia, who is one of the very few bowlers who has taken a hat-trick in one of these games, and who in many occasions, although he only once scored a century against Australia, was a persis tent nuisance to them at his rather modest place round "about No. 6 or 7 in the batting order? His performances in representative games, both in- dividually and collectirely, are most imposing reading, and even if there are a great many people who know that already I will wager that there are many more who do pot. Such is the disadvantage of being a little man.

Pres. Roosevelt Urged To

End "Fear"

President Roosevelt has been

"You should inform the Ameri- told by the nation's leading can people that, proud—as you woman publisher that he can end should be Rome, May 6.

proud of the great. The grandiose Italian naval dis. the recession single-handed if he moral and social advances, which play having passed without a hitch. will forsake, "hate and vanity" in have been made under your lead- Signor Mussolini has returned to his own thinking.

ership, yau are willing now. to Rome...

In an open letter: published in consolidate, these and attempt no Herr Hitler dined again, at the the Washington Herald recently, more until your Cabinet, your leaders and you Royal Palace with the King last Mrs. Eleanor Patterson took up a Congressional night, appearing on the balcony dare the President has been ad- agree that the nation can foot the to, acknowledge the cheers of a dressing to visitors lately and told bill." hundred thousand people.

him exactly what he should do to banish the fear that is After dinner the German Chan- cellor drove through the crowded depressing industry. streets to the San Carlo Opera "You said once," Mrs. Patter House and left for Rome imme-son reminded the President. "that

H.E. the Governor will be present diately after the performance the only thing to fear is fear when the finals of the Colony Open itself, Fear is depressing indus- Tennis Doubles Tournament 18. Much comment has been raised try. With due respect, you should played on Tuesday at the Hong at the manner in which the King concede the obvious: this fear 18 Kong Cricket Club. of Italy and the German dictator fear of you. have been brought together so

there.

Plainly the cause of peace is in the face, is the leader of girls? i frequently during Herr Hitler's of

helped by creating still-No.

another division, with

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which all the great Powers" can) Witness Riso stated that as de- subscribe without fear for their fendant was about to strike again, own national rights.venng de ja European intervened. Y

water: Troops have been call-the covenant's coercive clauses the Terms favourable to rational. "I have no knowledge as to contributing Powers realised the friendly consultations between re- how the assault originated," said magnitude of its difficulties.

presentatives of all forms of witness when cross-examined by STILL THE LEAGUE did work of Government will be approved as a Mr. Lo

great valda in post-war restora- new beginning. revitalising hope After further evidence the tion. It carried through a policy and offering a basis for stealy hearing was adjourned to the of Ananelä! – reconstructión in progress,

afternoon of May 28,

""""Many "Hves are reported to have bems lost while live stock and peose

uffered extensive damage.--(Reuter),

visit.

PERSONAL

PARAGRAPHS

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"It is fear of shifting "policies; H.E the Governor and Lady a hostile attitude toward Northcote will dine with Vice- legitimate business; of insistence Admiral Le Bigot on board" the

The frequency with which the on discredited tax methods and French flagship, Lamotte Picquet. King and Herr Hitler have been other laws which prevent the on Saturday next. brought into official contact has earning and retaining of fair and changed the entire original scope honest profits. Jam and character, of the visit.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Perching are "It is fear that, if you work out due to arrive in the Colony on Herr Hitler was to have come to constructive plan, you won't their honeymoon on May 25,- They Italy as the head of the Nazi stay put. It is fear that, if a plan have already made reservations in Party on a visit to the head of the of yours is proved bad, you will the Hong Kong Hotel Fascist Party. Instead, subsequent stick to it stubbornly because you! proceedings have transformed the are unwilling to admit that, like Mr and Mrs. G. C. Craner ar- plan into a visit of the head of all the rest of us, you make mis-rived in the Colony from Bingapore by the ss. Hakone Maru yesterday. the German State to the King of takes. Italy(Reuter).

"Mr. President, you can elimin- They are staying at Hong Kong ate this baste cause of the de- Hotel, pression very simply. You com-j mand an instant audience of the The many friends of Mr. J. E whole nation. Through a mes- Grose, the well-known share- age to Congress or some other broker, will be interested to learn vehicle, you should address your that his son, Herbert, returned to London, May 8. self at once and convincingly to the Colony by the ss. Conte Verde The Duke of Devonshire Cled at remove the fear that keeps ap lagt weak after an absence of 10 from years In England. Mr. Grose, Jr. Chatsworth early this morning plicants for loans way Hn would have been 10 in a few banks full of money, and prevents an architect by profession and weekarand had been in falling us from turning into pronts the is an Associate of the Royal In- health for the past six months greatest store of natural resources tube of Bish Architects He succeeded to the title in 1908, and industrial ingenuity in the dition to having obtained Diploms of the Architectural (British Wireless),

ciation.

DEATH OF DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE

World.