The Selection Committee announce that should P. A. Gibb be pronounced unfit for play, owing to the injury he sustained at Lords on Saturday, Price will replace him. Gibb was struck in the forehead by a ball and had to have three stitches inserted.
Hutton, who was rapped in the knuckles by a ball and found in hospital to have a fractured middle finger, was not available for selection because accident, of the which 1. Straight drive upriver from Kiukiang.
2. An encircling movement north of the river. 1 3. A drive south to Nanchang and thence to a point on the railway between Hankow and Changsha.
It is pointed out that, although the shortest in distance, a direct approach upriver from Kiukiang is very difficult owing to effective daily bombing raids by Chinese aircraft.
Independent reports confirm a definite series of successes for the Chinese air force against Japanese ships in the Yangtze.
Foreign residents, who total about 1,200, realise that they may have a grim period before them, followed possibly by months of' isolation from the outside world, Stocks of imported supplies are being accumulated at a time when the prices of such supplies have doubled.
Many foreigners, who have sent their families to Hongkong, are in a dilemma, as they find they cannot remit funds from Hankow.
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