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THE HONGKONG

MAY TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

6, 1937.

Pittsburgh Continues Brave Pace

Britain Garbed In Finery For Coronation Day Heavy Hitting In

WHOLE COUNTRY INFECTED

WITH SPIRIT OF GAIETY

Work to Settle Busmen's

Strike Behind Scenes

(Special to "Telegraph”)

London, May 4. With only one week remaining before the glittering ceremony of the Coronation itself, London has gone thoroughly gay. The route of the Coronation procession has become a fairyland of coloured bunting, red, white and blue decorations, while nearly all the public stands have been completed and will accommodate hundreds of thousands of spectators, who will pay anything from half a guinea to 20 guineas for a scat.

The masonry of the upper stories of Oxford Street has literally been ripped open to provide a view of the procession to sight-seers.

It is estimated that London at present is entertaining 1,000,000 visitors. An armada of huge overseas liners is packed to capacity with people from all parts of the the various seaports, in work, arriving daily at bewildering succession.

High Tribute

To China

Paid By Mr. Eden At London Banquet

Ambassador Plays

All the Dominions' Prime Ministers and the Empire's contingents of sailors and soldiers have now ar- rived.

On Coronation Day 10,000 menibers of the St. John Ambulance Brigade will cope with the vast crowds'. casualties at 35 dressing stations and 00 first aid stations.

The whole country is infected with gaiety. The smallest villages, like the towns and cities, are ablaze with bunting and decorated with all nun. ner of patriotic devices.

The only disappointment in London

Host To Notables over the failure of the busmen to

London, May 4.

At the banquet given to-night at Claridge's Hotel by Mr. Quo Tai-chl, Chinese Ambassador, in honour of the Chinese delegates to the Corona tion of King George VI, there were about forty Chinese and foreign guests. The room was charmingly decorated with, spring flowers, and the ocension was noteworthy for the pleasant atmosphere of general easy friendliness.

The Chinese Ambassador, in pro posing the toast of "The Guests," said "Last year,

settle their strike, but even this the people are accepting with their usual good humour, despite the heavy con- gestion in underground trains and all other forms of conveyance. Efforts are being directed towards securing settlement of the dispute before the week-end.—Neuter Special.

STRIVE FOR SETTLEMENT

London, May 4.

11 Is understood that definite moves are proceeding behind the scenes to try to get London busmen to resume their work towards the at the time of end-of-the-week, Chinese Art Exhibition, we Chinese walked proudly in London, and Lon- dun was very China-conscious. To- day. the process is happily reversed, and the Chinese in Londen enthusiastically 2.30,-5.15.-7.15,-9.30.

Britain-couscious, heartily submerging ourselves in the universal manifestation of respect and admiration for the new King and Queen."

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CORONATION HOLIDAY

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DESCENDANT OF CONFUCIUS, The Hongkong General Chamber Mr. Quo Tal-chi drew attention to of Commerce has received a notifica- the fact that Dr. H. II. Kung, the Uon from the British Chamber head of the Chinese delegation, was Commerce, Shanghai, that the Mem- not only Vice-President of theber Banks of the Shanghai Foreign Executive Yuan, but was also the Exchange Bankers Association have

lincal descendant

declare of agreed to

holiday on seventy-Arth

12, to mark the Confucius. He was thus on embodi- Wednesday, May ment of the two ways in which China occasion of the Coronation of H. M. and Britain meet in units of instinct. King George VI. Admiral Chen, also a member of the delegation was no stranger, said. Mr.

and he was now happily re-decade Reving old sallorly contacts.

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This was especially pleasing to Britain, which was united Mr. Quo expressed the pleasure to China by tics of very ancient and honour which they all felt that friendship. It was yet another proof Mr. Nevill Chamberlain and Mr. of the intrinsic vitality of the Anthony Eden were sparing time to Chinese race and of their ability to be present in these crowded days. adapt themselves to new circums-

Mr. Anthony Eden, in replying to the toast, said nobody with imagination could fall to be stirred by the striking recovery which China of had made from the troubles of

tances.

any In conclusion, Mr. Eden paid a warm tribute to the wise leadership Chlang Kai-shek.-hat

Marshal

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Steals Games From Dodgers

Many Encounters

Now York, May 1

Boston gained ground at the ex- pense of St. Louis in the National League to-day, hitting sixteen times to the Cardinals' pathetic three, and sqoring eight runs to one. There were no errors.

Pittsburgh, top of the League, con- tinued to set the pace, swamping the Brooklyn Dodgers with ten runs to three, though actually the Dodgers out-hit

them. Brooklyn had ten safeties and the Pirates only eight, but Dickshot, in fruly piratical style, hit a homer and scored crowd ahead of him on the bags to steal the game. Brooklyn only scored three Umes. Each had one error.

New York defeated the lagging

tell hitting two home runy. The Giants hit fourteen to nine, but

Cincinnati Reds, seven to six, Bur-

their three errors allowed the Reda to score six runs and might have

been disastrous but for Baricll's bat-

Chiengo Cubs went on a spree, hit nineteen safeties and scored fouricen runs. Collins, Marty and Bottarint piled up hit homers. Palindelphia the remarkable total of 27 hits but could only harvest seven

Wilson hit a homer. Phillies had two

errors,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

The New York Yonkers shook

Detroit badly, for the Lengue-lend-

one error.

ing Tigers were held to four hits and a lone run against the slugging Yanks, whose fourteen hits yielded ten coun- ters. Yankees had two and Detroit a place this Boston, striving for season, whipped St. Louis eleven to to the six, hilling eighteen times Browns thirteen, and committing one error, one less than their opponents.. Galike contributed *3 useful home run, an

homered and Bell

for the Browns.

Washington overwhelmed Cleve- lond, with twenty hits and twelve runs after eleven innings of play. In that fateful lust inning the Senators went wild, hitting right and left, and the Indians, befuddled, fell into four errors. The Indians scored five rins an twelve hits.

game

The Philadelphia-Chicago was postponed on account of rain. Reuter.

"JUAN IN CHINA” WAS AMUSED

SAW WELL-FLESHED GIRLS AND DRANK GIN-SMASH

"Juan went ashore at Hongkong to marvel at such solemn respectability established in landscape so undis- ciplined and lovely,

There were parts of the city that looked like an extension of Leaden- hail Streel. Its pillars and grey It pilasters spoke of high finance. advertised the gravity of imperial commerce. The long harbour was crowded with shipping. and from shore innumerable sampans sped, the sturdy well-fleshed Chinese sailed or rowed.

"Less muscular than this maritime gymaceracy, but not less vocal, were the wives of well-paid civilians and of less-well-paid naval officers, who were shopping in splendid shops or conferred upon affairs of moment in the lounge of a fine hotel.

"And In the Hongkong Club, among the prosperously large and dignified eillzens of Empire, in furni- ture of imperial magnitude and in semi-ecclesiastical gloom, Juan drank a notable drink-one of the many that the servants of Britain Overseas have invented for the comfort of their un-

ceasing labour-called a gin-smash.

"Juan in China," by Eric Link-

Published by Jonathan Cape.

later.

Trolleys And

Trams Likely To Strike Too:

London, May 4. The definite possibility has arisen that tram and trolley-bas men may strike in sympathy with the London bus-workers.

Delegates of the workers aro meeting to-day and will demand "plenary powers for

strike action" from the executive of the Transport Workers' Union.

According to the secretary of the Western Area Trolley-bus Co-ordination Committee if the, demand of the men is refused they are likely to take unofficial action-Reuter,

PAPAL NOTE TO GERMANY

Vatican City, May 4. controversy between

the

The Valicon and the German Government over the position of Cathollesin Germany was carried a sloge further -to-day when a Papol Note, replying to recent allegation, was handed to the German Minister to the Holy See.

-Reuter.

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