1941-05-15 — Page 13

Y.M.C.A. Hold Season's First Aquatic Gala

Lai Tsun Win Open Relay

THE EUROPEAN Y.M.C.A. held the first swimming. gala of the season last night, the events, except for one open relay, being confined to members. The closeness of finishes compensated for whatever defects there were in the standard of swimming.

The Lai Tsun Union easily won the Open Relay, beating the Y.M.C.A. by about a third of the bath. Tsang Cheong- ming, first string sprinter for Lai Taun, covered his 50-yards lap in 25.8 secs.

Volunteer duiles, unfortunately, prevented several members from turning out, and, os a consequence Hoveral of the heals were deplete in numbers.

The handicapping was very good and several cluse flashes were seen, Closest nce of the evening was in the 75 yards

medley in which J. Roberts snatched fine victory from F. Wife to whom he conceded five seconds. A. . May and L. A. Denn were seen in a fairly exciting 220 yards. The former surged aheud in the last few lengths to win by four seconds.

Priority For

Distance Bombers

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ WASHINGTON, May 14 (UP).—It it revealed here to day that United States defence oficials have placed long range four-motored bombers and en- gincs at the top of the "urgent production" list.

A revised listing of priorities com- piled on a basis of shortages and

In the water-polo maich Y.M.C.A.rgency placed the status of engines

bent Middlesex 4-0. The game was

very cican, although the defenders both sides were inclined to be a Hittle slow in parting with the ball.

Results

50 yards aggregate handlexpent 1- 1. J. Gunning (13 secs); 2. a. Nam (33 2/5): 3, It. C. Eardley. Tent 2-1. G. Davidson (27): 2. G. Saunders (27 275 1. Mequeen. lient 3-1, E. F. Paul (21 1/0): 2, E. W, Haftton (29 2/8).

yards back-stroke handleap.

Anish.

and bombers just behind the rating assigned to machine tools, thus put- ung them in the same class with such items as the Panama Canal defences, Sinall navy ships and anti-aircraft MASTER.

Meanwhile, the War Department is developing plans to expand immedi- ately facilities for making four- engined bombers and it is understood that funds from the $1,500,000,000 Willis (23 3/0). C. Shunders failed to available for the expansion of muni- tion plant facilities will be turned into Diving (seated handlean)-1, N. D. the Booker (15); 2. A. McQueen M 3. R. production of up to 500 bombers

The 4, F. G.

new programme wB)

plants and enlarging the us- mbulants which are now under construction at Fort Worth, Texas ud Tulsa, Oklahoma In addition to converting other type of aircraft hints and the engine industry like

Saunders (741.

Thursday

HONGKONG TE

May

1941

** NAVY AIRMEN IN MAKING-Specialized instruction is pushing U.S. Navy pilots through

in six months, instead of 12, with training day starting at 5 am, at the great air training centre at Pensacola, Fla. Above are pilote waiting to take off of Chevalior Fiold.

Soviet-Nazi Rivalry

On Lithuania Border

A party of Roman Catholic clergy who have just reached Lisbon from Kovno, Lithuania, bring first-hand information of that country, which has been completely cut off from world news centres since the Russian annexation.

They describe the Lithuanian

armed camp.

Home Guard Learning Jiu-jitsu

4. 2. Wilis (13) 6. robbly provide for two new as Troops are everywhere. All the city's largest buildings are taken side dat hul sun inerts, fish

E. Y, Paul (330 1/53; 2, G. Davidon 13.6 4/5): 3. V. G. Ramage. Tinat 2-1, A. F. Miny (2 4 3/0); 2, L. A. Bonn (2. 52 4/5); 3. E. W. Halton (3.11.

73 yards medley aggregate handleap

1. Roberts (53); 2. F. Wills (68 270 3, W. B. Ura,

(Tsang wisc.

200 yardı relay.—1. Lai Txun Cheong-nilng. Lnu "Tal-ping. Chian Chui- nam. Kum Hop-min); 2, European YMCA, A (11. C. Eardley, B. F. Paul, May, D. Hutchinson); 3. European YBLCIĄ. JI (G. Roberts, G. Baunders, N. D. Bookers, E. W. Rafiton); 4. Army (Pi Bima, Sigma Horlites, Pts Mellugh, Sigmun HunŮ). Time 1, 65 475.

Water-polo-European Y.M.C.A. (II. C. Eardley; WHE, L. A. Benn. "A. May: E. W. Halfón, H. Goldman, Paul) beat Madlesex (Bdsm Stanion: L/Cpl Muchenbach, Sigmin Hunt P.SM. Ure L/Cpl. Binden, Plo Burdge, Pte Jennings) 4-0. A. F. May scgrei atl coals, one in the first half.

Major Baseball

High Scoring In Games Yesterday

Research To Combat Night Raids

LONDON, May 14 (Router), The progress of research in combating the night bombing mennce was mentioned by the Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, in a speech in London to-day.

On the subject of night fighters,

Mr Morrison declared: "There have been great achievements. I am told that research and development have one as far In this last ten months as they would have done

of

NEW YORK, May 1-1 (UX), Scoring In two of yesterday's games in the Mafor Baseball sehe

ten years dule was high. Boston Red Sox beat Chicago White Sox 10-7 In

peace so that to-day those who know best think that in night inter- the American League and Pitts-

ception we are rather more than a burgh Pirates bumbled Philade!-shade ahead of the enemy." phia Philles 12-7 in the National, Scarty werz;

NATIONAL LEAGUE

R I

Battery: Hughes, Johnson.

While warning against hasty con- clusions from receat successes, Mr Morrison claimed that nevertheless "a significant thing is the steady and consistent rise in the curve of vie atories since the dark times of winter."

-Philadelphia

Bruer.

Hurst Deck, Livingston. Pittsburgh

12

Battery: Stelncevich, Dietz, Klinger, Baker and DaviN.

Batters,

Brooklyn

11

I

Battery: Wyatt, Owens.

Cincinnati

.2 0 0

Battery: Derringer, E. tale, fluten-

ings, Lombard).

The New York-St Louis and Boston Enteago matches were postponed.

Japanese And Oil Deal

are

Promoters' Gleam Some place in the world there

some pretty wel! embar rassed Japanese who apparent ly were duped by three Ameri- cans into making a deal for de

over for military purposes.

one

At this northern end of the Soviet-German frontier, say the priests, the two nations are fac- ing

another with undig- guised hostility. Both are ra- pidly completing fortifications and evacuating frontier zones. Russlan officials are freely beasting of the approaching day when the Bolsheviks will overrun the defeated Reich

of

Fifteen miles on the Russian side

the frontier all civilians have been evacuated. On the other side the Nazis have cleared the frontier to the depth of more than

thousands sides have

works.

#mile.

Russian Invasion?

Heaviest Snowstorm Since 1888

News can now be published of the great "snowstorm which

G. KOIZUMI, one of the greatest jiu-jitsu experts out-

civilians and members of the Home Guard how to defend themselves against Nazi pára- troops in case of invasion..

Mr Koizumi, who founded the Budokwai Judo Club of London in 1918, has devised a series of 10 lessons in both attack and defence against an armed

enemy.

Members of the club are al- ready being instructed.

Home Guard headquarters in several London areas have arranged

aged in the north of England for Mr Kaizumi to visit them and

demonstrations. He Both in the third week of February,

give

showe

of workers It is believed to be the greatest them how to disarm a man with a gun, bayonet, knife, revolver, or employed building concrete defence snowstorm since 1888.

club. Snow fell for 60 hours and Man With Knife Floored covered an area extending from I watched him deal with a man Yorkshire to the Scottish Bor-who lunged at him with ä knife

(writes o der. Trullie was brought to a

"Sunday Dispatch" re- porter). standstill.

He stepped neally aside, caught lock that made him drop the knife, the man's outstretched orm in Į the tossed his ossallant on to the floor.

Travellers, are told by local re- ridents that the Germans had brought various portable defences of the Maginot Line and incorporated them

in Lithuanian frontier works.

In one night snow fell to the depth Soviet leaders, according to of-of ft. in one part of Yorkshire, and ficers stationed in Lithuania, be- troops and Army vehicles were turn- Hleve

victory over Germany withined out to clear the snow from the a cumparatively short time. This Great North Road, over which thou- would be followed by a Russian sands of civilian and military vehicles Invasion and Bolshevisation of pass daily. Snowdrifts in some areas Germany.

were from 5ft. to 100. deep. The chief of the G.P.U. In the dis- trict of Tuargi told one of the priests: The Soviet will attack the Germans s soon as they are beaten by the British. Soon the Red Flag will be goat revolution in Germany. Everything! flying over Berlin. There will be is already arranged

Shot Before Wedding

A landslide at Aycliffe, near Dar- lington, stopped a number of trains, and the passengers were supplied with thousands of sausage rolls and

milk for the children.

Soldier's Description

0

EastRed

Ir T'd been In earnest," he told me, "I'd have broken his arm as well.

"The main thing about Judo to get a man off his balance, and then you can do anything you like with him.

"Don't waste your strength on un opponent. Let him do all the work, and then use his strength to get him off his balance and make him power- less."

"After Capture

A soldier in a Yorkshire camp writes: "We were ordered out on In one of the lessons he shows to the main road and in a blizzard how to escort prisoner to the near- reopened" the road to Darlington. est, police station or military point. You get a grip on the man and Hundreds of troops were out all day digging, widle heavy vehicles and walk beside him. If he resists you break his wrist or arm, or you apply Bren gun carriers later maintained 24-hour service in order to keep the hold that causes so much pain that

he soon gives in. roads open. Our company did guard

"Mr. Koizumi knows a variety of graph and telephone wires duty up to the waist in snow. Tele deadly strangleholds, some of which down to the ground under a weight can put a man out in a few seconds. Many women have learned Jiu- foot of snow frozen on the wires jitsu at the Budokwaf Club during Battery: Dietrich, Appleton, Itous, Trelivery of $25,000,000 worth of marriage and died in the Kent/alled the Army's G.P.O., called out

themselves. The Shimais, sometimes the last few years. Battery: Dickinan, Newsom, Judd, Pen-oil to Japan, reports the New and Sussex Hospital at Tun-real ties in pole-climbing.”

heir linesmen to give trainees some York Paper, "P.M."

bridge Wells.

In Middlesbrough many people had hostess the mechanism of a revolver and many households were without He was explaining to his host and. to leave their homes by the windows, when a shot rang out and he collapsed milk because supplies could not be for the first time drove to the meet- with a wound In the chest.

got through.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

7 13

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Boston

cock,

Detroit

4 12 J

Meisain.

Tebbetts.

Washington

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Battery: Gopalca, Thomas,

Ballery: Sundra, Early.

St Louis

Battery: Jarria, Grace.

Pulladelphia

01001-

If the US. Government charges are correct, the three men made the tremendous deal through a existent company, got the Japanese to post $130,000 in advance, got them to send a lunker to Houston at n

Ballery: Hadley. Denn, Potter. cost of $20,000 and there lead them

Harris, Bayes, Wagner,

Cleveland

Battery: Harder, Desaustels. New York

Battery: Rufing. Dickey.

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into finding that no one in Texus had ever heard of the men, the com-

or the oil.

peny

Not content with burning up the Sese, the American promoters

had

Japan's Bid For S. the

American Trade

Captain Peter Watkinson, of The Loyal Regiment, son of a Walton-on-the-Naze doctor, wa recently injured in a shooting of accident only an hour before his

At the time 100 guests had assem- bled at Ticehurst Church, where he was to have been married to Miss Esme McKenzie Ticehurst.

London Doctors Lack Work

nebulous plans for selling sinflar fictitious all to England and France. They nurtured and closed

denis

with expensive trans- oceanic telephone calls made from

Many medical men are discovering the chotnbers of a New York judge that there is not sufficient work for now dead. New York City is said them to do in London. to

have

paid about $6000 in tolls

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, May 14 (Domel).The and local charges. placing of 200 products of Japan's)

Dr Halliday Sutherland, assistant nedical officer to the LC.C., makes

Only one of the men has been arts comment, writing to the British

light industry which witte exhibit-raigned and he was held in $6000

ed in South American ports in the ball. showroom aboard the Osaka Shosen Kaisha liner Montevideo Maru, 7.300

lons,

was completed

yesterday. The

vessel is scheduled to leave Kobe for

Latin America

on May 21.

The floating fair is sponsored by the Japan Industrial Federation and

the Japon Machinery Manufacturers'

Union. The

"Time" Magazine's

Plans

Air Edition

to print

Medical Journal about the decision

to admit oversens doctors temporarily to the medical register:

"In the London area I and three of my medical friends with whom have compared notes complain of inck of work. The authorities wil add to our discontent it any allen

a light-weight | doctor is given any work so long us

paper edition of exhibits which will be Time," which will be shipped by by a British doctor in need of cm-

the magazine that work could be equally well done

displayed in a 240 square yard show-afe to Latin America and later, it ployment.” room include electric appliances, hoped,

to Britain and other

precision machinery and other pro- foreign countries, are announced in

ducts of Japan's light industry.

Free Frenchmen

Demonstrate

New York.

The first issue will appear shortly

and will contain the same editorial

matter as the American edition, but different set of advertisements.

A

Chicken Business Booms In Russia

similar service to Alaska, Soviet authorities decreed recently SYDNEY, May 14 (Reuter). Howall and the Philippines is plan- a new system for obligatory supply- cable from General de Gaulle was ned, but ultimately, it is hoped, it ng of eggs from farms to the State. read at a large meeting of the Free will prove possible to print overscar The object is to stimulate poultry French, urging redoubled attacks on editions in London, Buenos Aires breeding. Vichy and declaring that Admiral and Honolulu from zinc plates which Darlan la France's Quisling agent for would be flown to these places. Germany.

The decree provides that farms must deliver at state prices three to 15 engs yearly for each hectare

M. Brenac, the local, Free French One hundred thousand Chinese (2.471 acres) of land, depending upon fender, sald Unt the Free French In youths in Hongkong, mostly students, the fertility of the region. Such 'Australia wore with the French will sign their names to a letter to deliveries previously have been based people

in the struggle against Gor-President Roosevelt and the Ameri- upon the number of chickens owned "many,

can people thanking them for their instead of upon the size of the farm. There were emotional scenes at the efforts in organising a nation-wide; A similar rule already has been meeting and cries of "Vive China-Week campaign in the applied to incat in order in stimulate France!!!end "VIvò"T'Australia,” United Statos., WE

TO THE SENATE

BY PONY

A member of the Eire Legislature

Ing of the Senate In Dublin with Snow fell in Wales also. Contact pony and trap-because he had no with the upland village of Mynydd petrol for his car. Another senator Lianderol, which has a population of seeing him arrived remarked "one over 300, was broken for a day and hundred miles two nights.

water."

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