1938-05-20 — Page 16

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"PATROCLUB" Sail 4 JUNE. for Barseilles, Imaden,

Rotards & Glasgow *MEMNON" Bails 15 JUNE, for Mars., O'blanoa, London,

Rotterdam, Hauburg & Glasgow

LIVERPOOL SERVICE. "PROTESILAUS" Baik 21 MAY, for Havre, Liverpool

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VISITING FOOTBALLERS SIR HUBERT

ENTERTAINED

Saigon Team Guests Of S.C.A.A. At Dinner Party

The South China Athletic Association were hosts to the Federa tion Cochin-Chinoise de Football de Salgen at a very enjoyable dinner at the Kam Ling Restaurant last night.

In the course of the evening. Mr. Leung Wing-chin, captain of the South Chins team, presented a souvenir far to the captain of the visiting team. i

After the usual toasts had been played against the best local talent. proposed, Mr. Mok Hing, acting They have proved indeed to be an chairman of the SCAA, sald:-all-conquering team.

This year in Hong Kong, football Mr. Jean Michaud, our visitors history has been made. It was not genini manager, remarked rather long ago that we gathered together modestly on his arrival that they to welcome the Islington Corin-had come to the Colony to learn thians from England, and now, with the game of football from us. On the excitement of that visit barely the contrary, they have proved to subsided, we are afforded the op- us that there is nothing" that we portunity of welcoming and enter-can teach them. Indeed, there are taining our distinguished visitors many aspects of the game in which from Saigon.

we must be the pupils and not the masters.

GOOD SPORTS

WILKINS GIVES UP

After six months of fruitless search in the Arctic for the six Soviet trans-Polar fliers, lost since August of last year. Sir Hubert Wilkins has given up hope of finding the missing men.

The search may be continued by Russian diers from the Siberian side of the Polar regions.

If the Alers were

Bir alive. Hubert said in an interview, they would probably now be found nearer the Asiatic" continent.

"If they landed on the ice," he continued. "the drift would by now have carried them over to the Russian side of the Arctic."

More than 23,000 miles were covered in the search during which Six Habert was assisted by the aviator. Hubert dollick- British

Kenyon.

The aeroplane used in the search was the one in which Dick Merrill twice crossed the Atlantic last summer. - *

The

..

fiers dis-

It was about eight years ago that my Association Arst undertook the project of sending a team to tour Besides 'demonstrating their pro- the South Seas, Since then our foot-wess' on the field our visiors have ball team has visited those shores

shown us what thoroughly good

six missing sports they are. Their genial disappeared on August 13, 1937, after position has endeared them to all crossing the Pole on the third who have come into contact with Russian trans-Polar fight to the them. Their fortality and friend- United states, Hiness have made us feel that their stay here is all too short.

Sir Hübert Wilkins began his

at regular intervals, and on each of those occasions, Saigon has been Included in their itinerary. "

Words are inadequate for me to describe the wonderful treatment our team received during their all too short stays in Salgen. We are I can assure them that they have search at the request of the Soviet Indeed gratified, therefore, that we left nothing but the most admir-authorities. He made his base at are afforded this opportunity. and able impression on our minds, We Fairbanks, in Alaska. we sincerely hope that this will be hope that they will pay us another the first of many occasions for us visit before long, and we further to demonstrate our appreciation hope that they will forgive us for and to reciprocate, in however any shortcomings on our part and small a measure, the great kind- will bring away with them nothing ness and hospitality showered on but the plesaatest memories of our team by our honoured guests.

their sojourn here.

Mr. Jean Michaud, manager, of IMPROVED FOOTBALL Football in Saigon has improved the visiting team, suitably replied") beyond recognition. When we first thanking the South China Athletic visited Saigon, the game was then Association for the hospitality ren- still in its infancy. The great im-dered to his team, and speaking provement of football in Saigon has highly of the standard of football been borne out by the magnificient played locally. ilsplays given by our visitors in the few exhibition matches they have

GT.

NORTHERN STAKES

York, May 19:

The Great Northern Stakes, over one and a half miles. was run here today,

Pound Foolish (1-1) won by a head, from Valerian (6-1). "Babot (6-1) came in third three, lengths behind Valerian.

There were four starters.

winner protest against the overruled. (Reuter).

CHRYSLER AND FORD ACCUSED

was

Washington, May 19. The Department of Justice Is Instituting proceedings against the Chrysler and Ford motor corporations under "the Anti- Trust Laws.

The companies will be charged with coercing car dealers by re- quiring that car purchases be financed by their affiliated com- panies. Reuter).

INQUIRY

INTO

TUBE COLLISION

London, May 19."

HOME CRICKET RESULTS

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938.

FOREIGN MAILS

On Tuesday, the 24th May the General Post Office, Kowloon Cen- tral Post Office and all other Branch Post Offices will be open from 8.a.m. to Noon

There will be one collection from the pillar boxes, one delivery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays and one delivery of registered correspondence at 11.00 BEI.

The Branch Post Omdes at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long will also have one delivery of ordinary corespondence at 11 am.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.

Air mall letters may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mail" and bear sufficient postage. In- sufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Service, at the discretion of the Post Office. Air Mail Services to Shanghal, Nanking, Taingtau, Tientsin and

Peiping are temporarily suspended.

Letters and Postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded "via Siberia" if so superscribed.

Japtin

From

Shanghai and Swatow. Japan and Shanghai.

INWARD MAILS

Japan. Shanghai and Formosa ... Straits and Hothow Shanghal

Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan,&e Bhanghai (Vancouver B.C., date 30th April).

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direct Service"-London date. Imperial 15th May.

Marilia

Haiphong. Pathol and Holhow.

Tientsin and Swatow..

Strults

Straits and Europe via Negapatan.

(Letters and Papers) London

date, 21st April................... Japan

Shanghai and Swatow. Tientsin Strulta

London, May 19. The scores or cricket matches played today are as follows:-

Australians V. Northampton-Straits

Australians, 230 for shire.

Calcutta and Straita (Brown 102 not cut).

Cambridge University v. Not-Calcutta and Straits

Mr. Wong Ka-tsun proposed the tingham. 99 for 1. toast of The Guests."

Are There Men With Tails?

Does a strange race of men with talls exist in Papua?

Plausible evidence of the existence of tailed men has beer given by a man trom the Fly River, area. according to the annual report of the Lieu- tenant - Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray, which has Just been issued.

This man, the report says, was emphatic that talled men were to be found somewhere jo the "east of the Kemp Welch. Pressed for further details, the native was confident that at least one of these persons had a tall Asked why he was so positive about this indivi- dual, he replied, with "delight- ful simplicity: "Because I ate him."

AMERICANS HAVE FAITH IN CHINESE VICTORY

4

Java

Hampshire. 210 for 8: Worces-. tershire. 289.

Kent, 133: Gloucestershire. 221 and 159 for 7.

Middlesex. 227 for shire, 280.

8 Lanca-

Oxford University. 240: Leices- tershire, 60 for 2.

Surrey, 182 and 152 for 4: Derby, 94.

Sussex. 243 for 5: Warwickshire. 301.

Yorkshire v. Essex. 103 tor 1- (Reuter).

BASEBALL NOTES

(Continued from Page 10)

The second game of the day will be a clash between Recrelo and the Chinese Baseball Club and it will be interesting to see how the Portuguese shape out, with the Chinese gang who are much more experienced, and who have much better coaching under the redoub- table Abe Liu, former leader of the Honolulu Ail-star Chinese cham pion team "of 1927 which toured China that year.

Por

Due

Taims....

Szechuen

10th. May 30th May

Souden...

26th Mar

Kasima Maru.

90th May

(Muinam.

Conte

20th May

Biancamang

soch, May

41

Emp. of Japan....

20th May

20th May

20th May

Kingyuan................. Chengtu.... Antilochus.........

20th May

31st May

21st May

21st May

22nd May

22nd May

2nd May

Anhul.. Antenar.

Cand May

23rd May

Tjisalak.

23rd May

Mausang..

24th May

24th May

Airways Pläne Neptuna

Fushimi Maru..........

Nako Maru.....................、

Taiyuan..

Hoshow.

Shirala.. ....Kanchow.

Tientsin and Swatow. Straits and Europe via Suez (Let- ters and Papers) London date, 28th April-and London parcels- London date, 25th April.................................... Rajputana. Air Mail by "Pan-American Air-

ways Direct `Service"-- San Pan American

Airways Plane Francisco date, 18th May... Air Mail by Imperial Airways

Direct Service "--London date. Imperial- 19th May.

21th May

25th May

gith May

Airways Plane

25th May

OUTWARD MAILS

"

REGISTERED AND PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

For

FRIDAY

Samshul and Wuchow Kongmoon · Swatow and "Shanghai..

Air Mail for "EL.M. Airways - Ser- vice"-due Amsterdam, 31st May, Manila

Straits, Ceylon, India, East and *South Africa, Aden, Egypt and. Europe via Marseilles due Mar- seilles. 20th June......

Fer

Date and Time

Friday, 20th

Chung O.. On Lee....... Kiangst.

Kastma Maru... Emp. of Japan.),

8.15 AM 10.00 AM 19.30 Y

G.P.O. & K.P.O. Beg. UTI

4.00 M

4.30 22

4.30 PM

G.P.O. & K.P.O. Keg. 20th 415 ra

Kasima Maru....Ord. 20th 5.00 PM

Straits and *Europe via Marseilles

--due Marsellias, 22nd June.....Soudan.

IT IS A BAD STATE of affairs for baseball that the League i zaust rescr to an inferior ball at present. Last week-end the teams had to use old balls, but the farcical week before showed a display when one clout put a ball Salgon out of commission, Those "balls Kongmoon were supposed to have been made The following message has been in America and had the marking Generalissimo and of "National League" on them,

The Ministry of Transport in- quiry into the accident on the underground rallway on Tuesday between Charing Cross and Tem-received by ple stations will be opened

Hankow, May 19.

to- Madame Chiang Kai-shek from but they were definitely not Na-

tional League balls. morrow. The inquest on the six the Kingston branch of the Ameri-

The sailors were the chief vic- victims will also begin tomorrow.

Most of those injured in the can League for Peace and Democr-tims of those bad balls, as such heavy hitters as Stofan couldn't accident are well on their way to acy:

to make do any better than complete recovery, only one being

"We extend to. you greetings We scratch bits. This will be elimina- still seriously British Wire-

·less);

have faith in Chinese victory for ted, however, when the new Falls the cause of national freedom arrive in the next shipment from the States. But, pending their and International justice."-en-arrival, balls will be purchased

from Manila for the local League.

WOMAN ENGINE tral News).

DRIVER IS 86

The only woman engine driver who ever worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway has celebrated her 88th birthday.

Mr. Mary Ellen Wilkinson be- came an engine driver when she

الو

MACHINE-GUNNING OF WOMEN

AND CHILDREN

and her husband were pioneering BRITAIN DEPLORES (machine-gunning of boats contain-

at Cartier and North Bay, Ontario, A divisional superintendent of the railway visited North Bay while Mrs. Wilkinson's husband was operating the railway turn- table and when he asked who was fring the engines and keeping the pumhouses going he was surprised to hear that Mrs. Wilkinson" was performing these duties. After that her name was place on the payroll,

ACTION

OF JAPANESE

CHINESE TROOPS SHOT ON AMOY BUND

London, May. 18. The Foreign Under-Secretary,

ing Chinese women and children during the recent attack by the Japanese army, on the Island of Amoy, said he had no oficial re- ports that boats containing Chinese women and children were machine- gunned, but a number of Chinese soldiers were taken prisoners and shot on the Amoy Bund by the Japanese.

He declared that His Majesty's

No longer able to handle the [Mr, R. A. Butler; replying to a ques-Government cannot, too strongly throttle of a locomotive, Mrs. tion in the House of Commons deplore and condemn such a viola- Wilkinson is busy turning out about the reported wholesale shoot:tion of the Hague Conventions

ing prize winning needle work.

of Chinese prisoners and (British Wireless).

SATURDAY

into

Japan, Honolulu, USA, Canada, . Central and South America and "Europe via San Francisco-due San Francisco, 9th June.. Shanghai. Japan and Europe via

Biberia......

Afr

N

Protesilaus. Fook On

Pres. Cleveland..

Fushimi Marq...

Talma

Biancamano

Hellkon

Conte

"Straits and *Calcutta...........................

Mall, for "KL.M." Airways Direct Service"--due Amsterdam. Conte 2nd June Airmail for "France Orient. Alr- ways, Bervice" fue Marseilles. 5th June. Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, Egypt and Europe via Naples due Naples, 13th June...... Air Mail for Stan, Lanchow and Chongtu, etc,' (via Hankow) by the "Eurasia Airways Service" (To further points by surface transport as Services permit). Haiphong Saigon.

Blancamano

Eurasia Piano Muinam. *Helson

Air Mail for Wuchow, Kweiyang and Chungking by the "C.N.A.C. Airways Direct Service."

SUNDAY

C.N.A.C. Plane

Air Mall for "Imperial Airways

Direct Service."-dde, London. Imperial ̧··

Airways Pikac

• 29th May

"Superscribed Correspondence Only,

G.P.O.&K.P.O.

Keg 4.15 PM Orl

3.00 PM

Saturday, 21st

9.30 AM

· 10:00 AM-** G.P.O. & KP.O. Par, 26th: 5,00 PM Reg. 21st 9.45 AM Qol 21st 10,30 AM

3.30 PM Par. Slet 4.00 PM ́und. 21st &03 PM, GP.O. &KP.O..

Rog, Grd,

+00 PM 4.30 PM

GP.O.&KPO Bog. 4.03% Ord. 4:30 PM ¡G.P.O.&XP.O.

Hog. 4.10 PM Ord. ' 5.00 1

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[ Beg, *

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5.00 PX

5,00PM

5,00-PM.

BEFO Reg. Ziet 6.00 PM {rd.::41: 50Ỡ TM

GP.O.

ileg lat 5.00 PM | Urd. 23rd 8.00 AM,

Sunday, 22nd GP:O&KP.0, Reg. 21st 400 PAR Ord. 22nd Noon

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