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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 14

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WILL IT LEAD TO WAR? LOxVJ-HLNV;-'- November £4.—A gitualitfir of tlu* greatest eomplexJlv i' ; developing in Riiilicnin. Woll-iiifoniK'd circles do nut exclude tlm possibility of it leading to war between Poland and Germany and possibly Hungary. It is sia.ted officially from Prague that Hungary is concentrating trims along the frontier and there arc also minor Polish movements. The British United Press Bratislava correspondent reports that, thousands of (Jmdi troops are concentrating on the Ruthenian frontier and are, prepared to resist invasion directed at the achievement of a common PolisliHnngarian frontier. FORMER RKPRESENTATIVE CRICKETER DEAD. An Auckland Association message records the death of Mr Alister M'Donald Hoiv.den (04), a former Auckland and New Zealand representative eriekeler. Born in Scotland, lie was educated in England and at the Otago Roys’ High School. Tie was in the Rank of Australasia at Invercargill and Dunedin, and later was a grain and produce merchant at Auckland for over 80 years. He had been a sharebroker since 1932. As a legbreak bowler be won a place in the New Zealand cricket team against Australia in 1910. Before the war he was a top-flight golfer. He loaves a wife and four sons; one, lan. Howdcn, is a prominent cricketer. THE COUNTRY CRICKET TEAM. The following will represent the Country against a Dunedin team to-morrow; Kinder, TJttley, Spence, Cutler, F. Partridge, M'Gowan, M'Kenzie, Purdue, Scandr'ett (captain), Saxton, Parker, and N. Partridge (twelfth man). STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon : Bank of New Zealand, £2 Os lid ; D.I.C. (pref), £1 3s 3cl; Electrolytic (ord), £2 os 6d.