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MONDAY, AUGUST 13,
∙1934.
·日四初月七
SHOULD VOCE HAVE BEEN
IN THE TEST TEAM?
SUCCESS
STARTS
FRESH
CONTROVERSY
CONFLICTING PRESS COMMENTS
M.C.C. SHARPLY
CRITICISED
Voce's
London, Aug. 13.
brilliant bowling, feat on Saturday has revived the leg theory controversy in a new form.
Conilleting views are expressed by cricket correspondents in the morning papers owing to the omission of Voce from the Test selection in view of his achlove- ment on Saturday..
The Daily Mail commands the Selectors on their refusal to be
stampeded on the strength of a single performance.
Captain M.-J. Ayling (left) and Captain Leonard G. Reid, the British fliers, who were forced by anzide trouble to descend at Heston or their attempted non-stop flight from Wasaga Beach. Canada, to Bagdad, In the pinne "The Trail of the Caribou.".
The Daily Herald, on the other NON-PARTY
band, says that the omission will undoubtedly arouse keen disastia- faction and bitter criticism. The Marylebone Cricket Club hove finally demonstrated,
Bays the journal, that they have given way to the Australians fast leg
theory bowling.
on
- OBJECTION----.
According to the Daily Mail's cricket correspondent, a strained atmosphere has resulted from Voce's fast leg-theory attack. nt Nottingham and while no official complaint has been made, some of the Australians have suggest- od that the Nottinghamshire Committee should be informed of their resentment,
POLITICS
PRES. ROOSEVELT OFFENDS
PARTY MANAGERS WORRIED
(Special to "Telegraph")
B Zalegronk. Copyright. Telegraphie
Admiral Byrd Rescued
LONE VIGIL IN THE ANTARCTIC Washington, Aug. 12. Admiral Richard Byrd, the famous polar explorer, has at last been rescued from the New York, Aug. 12.
observation hut in which he The Daily Telegraph's cricket President Roosevelt's re-passed the winter alone. that the Australians saw no recent speeches, indicating his Admiral Byrd кая semblance between Voce's leg lack of patience with purely
----OR NOT?~~~
expert, on the other hand. says
theory and the "body-ling" attack.
sogea Orainanes, 12. 131 ama!
£136. Received Apat
to which objection was taken in party politics, have aroused
much comment.
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JUNK CREW RESCUES EUROPEANS
FROM AN OVERTURNED BOAT
NEARLY 300 DOGS DESTROYED
At Kowloon Dogs' Home In July'
According to police in- formation, during July 297 dogs were sent to the Dogs' Home, of which number 272 were destroyed.
. There were still 25 dogs in the Home at the end of the 'month.
Of the dogs admitted to the Home, 61 were from Kowloon Tong, 119 from the New Territories, and 117 from Kowloon.
HAVANA STRIKE UPROAR
CITY CELEBRATES MACHADO FALL
SEVERAL BOMB OUTRAGES
(Special to "Telegraph”)
(Zy Telegraph, Copyright. Thegraphia Wem anges Ordinance, –17). "Received · Anguat 17, 1.28 PM
Hayang, Aug. 12.
THREE LADIES INVOLVED ADVENTURE
OVERTAKEN BY THUNDERSTORM:
NEAR CHEUNGCHAU
SEEN IN PERIL JUST BEFORE DARKNESS SETS IN
In the violent thunderstorm which broke over the Colony and local waters on Wednesday evening last week, a party of Europeans, including three ladies, went through an alarming experience that might have cost them their lives but for the pluck of the crew of a junk, who launched a small boat in a high-running sea and rescued them from a sorry plight, clinging to the wreck of an upturned fishing-boat.
The duilen for the giant Sovial
srected of Moscow.
The incident, details of which have only just come Palace and statue of Lenin to be to light, occurred in a gathering gloom, accentuated by the dark clouds scurrying overhead. Darkness increased after their craft had been capsized by a huge sea and but for the fact that the rescue junk passed within shouting distance, they probably would never]
have been seen.
CAPSIZED BY GREAT WAVE
The party, Included Miss Sybil recently become a Christian, clung Dalziel, a member of the stuff of to the end of the boat and prayed.
JUNK TO RESCUE.
The city was in, uproar, with a the Diocesan Girls' School; Athol series of bombing outrages and a Dalziel, her younger brother; Mias strike of workers connected with Burkwall, a missionary from Can-but at first it failed to observe They shouted to a passing junk communication services; to mark |
DOYEN DRAMATIST
SUDDEN DEATH OF
N. Y. WRITER:
MR. AUGUSTUS THOMAS
New York, Aug. 12. The death occurred aud denly, as the result of an apoplectic stroke to-day, of Mr. Augustus Thomas, the doyen of American play wrights.
He was seventy-seven years of
"His career began as a “law”
of his
the anniversary of the downfallton; Slater Watson, of the Govern- them and continued on towards of the Machado regime.
ment Civil Hospital; Mr. M. E. the open sea. Two women were.
Eventually. seriously Taviin, of the Sanitary Depart shouting from some of the party after prolonged wounded when a bomb exploded ment, and two Chinese boatmen. the junk turned back towards the in the Nationalist Political Club.)
Police afterwards searched all on Wednesday evening, they hired
It appears that about six o'clock capsized boat. automobiles and pedestrians for fishing boat in Cheung Chau sort of dinghy and dragged the The crow of the junk lowered weapons.
Harbour and, complote with bedraggled party on board. They pany late in the day went on each pyjamas, sailed towards and escorted to the cabin. Some
The workers at the power com gramophone, records, cameras and were then shipped over to the junk ng strike in sympathy wih the com- Lantau Island. At about sovon of the party, unable to stand the student under the father munication staff who are demand- o'clock, after having caught two Ashy smell in the cabin, came on wife, but he gave it up after two ing all back pay and the discharge fish, they decided to return to deck but it was too dark for them years to become page-boy at the of the executive, who formerly Cheung Chau in order to escape to see anything. They imagined 11st Congress, after which he separated from his Antarctic Ex-worked under General Machado. the storm which was threatening all sorts of things, among them spent six years working in the
The strikera refused to accept the Government's counter pro-
freight, department of a rallway.
He began writing as a special posuls, which included a return to
correspondent and illustrator on work for forty-eight hours to give
St. Louis, Kansas City and New the authorities time to consider
York newspapers, eventually bo- the situation
coming editor and proprietor of the Kansas City Mirror.
been
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BOAT CAPSIZED.
On the return journey; the boat began to fill with
pedition's main base on the Bay of Whales by a succession of violent blizzards which have made attempts to traverse the 123 miles
water. Observers draw attention to the from the main camp Impossible The entire side was dismissed for fact that recent events show that until the last few days. 237 of which Woodfull made 81.
Mr. Roosevelt is not only talking
Australia.-Router.
Voce on Saturday took eight) Australian wickets for 66 runs,
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The good news is contained in
a mesange received by the National Little Amorica.
THE RETURN OF of non-party government but is Geographical Association from
politically sponsoring those who believe in the work of the New
- The message added that Admiral
spirits.
being that they had been picked up by pirates!"
LANDED AT CHEUNG CHAU.
Two or three of the party.com- However, about 8.30 pm, they menced to bale. with buckets and were landed at the Cheung Chau encils when suddenly, the boat, Jetty and reported the matter to on caught up by a great wave, the Police.
capsized and flung all the party: overboard.
This evening, with the excep. tion of sporadic bombings, the city was quiet with soldiers patrol.-United Press,
OF
SUTCLIFFE
London, Aug. 12. Deal regardless of their party Byrd was thin and weak after his
ordeal, but retained his good NO MORE WASTAGE England's team for the affiliations. Final Test will be anvico of Senator Lewis, the chair-Thomna
This action is against the ad- The rescue party, 'under Dr. GOOD LIQUOR
Poulter, loft Little nounced on the morning of man of the Senatorial Campaign America on August 8. They had the match. Fourteen players Committee, whe is an advocate of twice previously been turned back Americans To Bid For have been invited to attend of regular Democratic organisu-Reuter,
unswerving Administration support by storms, and other mishaps.- at the Oval on Saturday tions,
next.
The list reveals that the Selce-
PEOPLE LOYAL
Members of the Administration
FOUR MONTHS "ALONE.
The United Press says that the rescue party reached Admiral
tors are under no delùsion about claim that the rank and file of the England's weakness in previous people throughout the nation are Byrd's igloo in a tractor, at the games all the usual batsmen are still overwhelmingly for the New third attempt. In again, Sutcliffe returning at Deal. the expense of Keeton-but the
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Byrd, who had been there alone
choice of bowlers will on this As a result of Mr. Roosevelt's for four complete months, was occasion includo no fewer than speech in Wisconsin, Mr. Henry P.
Fletcher, the chairman of the Reweak but very jovial. They plan four speed merchants.
It seems highly probable that publican National Committee is to take the Admiral back to the three of them will secure inciu-naking----
main baseUnited Preas. alon, G. 0. Allon, Bowes und "Is President Roosevelt starting Gover.
third party? I should like to A surprise choles is 1. A. R. ask whether the Progressive Party Pooblon, the Middlesex amateur, is to be taken over as an adjunct who has been consistent without of the Democratic Party or whether brilliance all the season and did there will be an amalgamation?" well in the fourth and fifth tests United Press.
of the 1030 tour.
The team will be chosen from:
R. E. S. Wyatt, captain.
Sutcliffe,
C. F. Walters,
Hammond,
Hendren, Leyland,
Ames,
G. O. Allen, Verity,
Bowes,
Gover, (Barrey), Clark
1. A. R. Peebles,
Gregory (Surrey), §
James Langrdige and Nichols (Essex) have not been given in- vitations for the Oval.
Weather conditions will un doubtedly influence the final selec-i tion. On a fast wicket, the first aleven playars in the list would almost certainly constitute the team. A chance », of - the wicket playing trickily would probably enable I. A. R. Feebles to gain his place to the exclusion of Gover The chances of Gregory and Clark seem small in the absence of any
Hopwood and Mitchell of the accident, although Gregory will bowlers in the Fourth Test have probably be nomfanted twelfth boon dropped, with Keston, and
man.
́GERMAN MARKET
INVASION
'RUMOURS OF TRADE THREAT
London, Aug. 18: Worldwide dumping, by Ger- Inan manufacturers is throa- toned by the Hitler Govern- ment, according to the Daily Herald's city editor, who says the goods will be sold at or be low cost in a desperate at. tempt to obtain funds to pur- chase raw materials. German manufacturers have been in- formed that it is a national duty to sell abroad, even at e Toss. Those rofusing will be boycotted in public contracts. -Router.
Seized Stocks
(Special to "Talegraph”3.
(De Teiseraph, Copyright, Tolagropate Blan sages Ordinance, 1891. Basalená August
$35 mm.)*
New York, Aug, 12. An end to the waste of good liquor by Revenuo men
Is likely to be called.
It is learned that instead of order. ing its destruction, the Treasury is working out a play to give in- dividual retall buyers a chance to bid for 150,000 gallons of high-, grade Imported liquor which was seized during Prohibition.United Press.
"BACK TO THE LAND" IN AMERICA
SMALLER CHICAGO
POPULATION
(Special to "Telegraph").
Aan dramatist, he blossomed Inte in life. His chief. works' wore The whole party express their The Burglar, Man of the World, The non-swimmers were quickly keen gratitude to the crew of the Afterthoughts, The Man Upstairs, dragged back to the overturned Junk, which hailed from Shauki-Oliver Goldsmith, A Proper Im boat which was used as a raft. wan and was numbered 3438 HW. Grande The Education of Mr. propriety, Indian Summer, Rio For some time, retaining a very They are full of praises for their Pipp, Palmy Days, Reuter. uncertain hold on tho waterlogged plucky rescuers.
eraft, they were buffeted about. It appears that, several years. in the heavy sous, the Europeans ago, the same junk people saved attempting to cheer, cach other the survivors of an aeroplane
while one of the boatmon, who had crash.
BUTTERFIELD STEAMER
IN COLLISION
TRIPLE -MISHAP ON BEND IN
WHANGPOO RIVER
CURRENT IN CONTROL
Shanghai, Aug. 18. was inevitable the skipper order Three Yangtsze rivered the engines hard astern, steamers were, involved in collision yesterday afternoon in the Whangpoo.
KIAN, DAMAGED. The Kian was hard hit on the starboard side and her bridge house and superstructure wore The mishaps occurred, near the considerably damaged, Garden Bridge band shortly after) five o'clock in the evening.
Aftor colliding with the Kinn, the Tungahun, ung by the
The China Navigation. Com current with idle angines and bows pany's a.a. Klan, which was foward crashed in, struck the port side of 10h Tolagraph, Corpright. Telepraskli Mes bound and keeping well upon the the Japanese ship, Fongrang anges Ordinamas, 117ses Reprived August atarboard side of the fairway, M.K.K. whartin
Maru, which was anchored
at
tho
front of
"RED" BATTLE IN FUKIEN
“800 WOUNDED ARRIVE IN FOOCHOW
Fonchow, Aug. 13. That 800 wounded soldiers wore. conveyed to Foochow and admitted into various Hospitals for trest- ment this, morning indicated the seriousness of a battle between the Government troops and Com munists at a point lietwéon, Min- hou District and Foochow last night, although the Communists were eventually repulsed.
According to information, the battle went on throughout the whole night, in the struggla. for the possession of strategle points along the rivers banks. The Communist force was said to conalat of 2,000 men under, the command of Lo Ping-hui, who when they retrosted, left hundreds of casualties-Central Newslet
STOP
PRESS
Shanghal, Aur
Chicago, Aug 12 noticed a Chinese steamer, the The population of Calcage is Tungahun, belonging to the Tatong the Japanese Consulate-General to-day: 8,268,618 as compared with Stonmship Company proceeding where they lay wedged together 8,876,438 In the census of April, down river for Wahu and Yang by the current until the Chinese
Early this 1930 19
taza ports and bearing down on so we towed off by two tuge The decreneo is attributed to a the came alders The Tunashun was only slightly were found anot
and proceeded down river, Birdsforeigners. "Back to the Land migration, They sighted one another almost damaged by her adventures, and one of them hea due to the depréselón, many on the bend the Kian's "ongines the Japanese regie) suffered lite Murder is supe other cities, are ringing mimi were immediately stopped and more than Moratobed paint Blar'docresENA
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