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THE DUKE OF NAZI REPLY GLOUCESTER AT TO BRITAIN
THE FRONT
Major-General -the Duke of Gloucester talked and joked for three-quarters of an hour with at ¿group
war correspondents whom he met accidentally in a roadside cafe by the Front Line.
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"INTENSIFIED" MINE WARFARE
AMSTERDAM, Nov, 24 (Reuter) "We shall answer Britain's latest The meeting occurred as the measures- with intensited mine Duke was going about his duties | warfare,”, neutral correspondents. as a liaison officer in a downpour In Berlih were told. of rain. The Duke and the war correspondents chatted in a tiny parlour which was reeking with to- bacco smoke and steaming with the odour of wet trench-coats.
'TALKED WITH BROTHER The Duke of Gloucester revealed
"Germany will lay mines off the British coast as she regards her- seit perfectly entitled to do so without a breach of the interna- tional law.
Latest Nazi
"Tall Story"
GESTAPO & BRITISH SECRET SERVICE LONDON, Nov. 24 (Reuter) -The latest Naxį "tall story" is that the Gestapo has been 'communicating with the Bri-
tish
Secret Service for the past three weeks through sreret radio transmitters sup- plied to the Gestapo by British agents.
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NEWSETTES
There will be a musical pro- gramme" arranged by Mr. J. R. M. Smith, at the Y.M.C.A, tomorrow.
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Mr. Harold Seth, wife of the late Mr. Harold Seth, returned to the Colony yesterday.
Sir Elly Kadoorle, K.B.E.also arrived in Hongkong from the North yesterday,
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The Gestapo, says the story, had the British.code without the Bri- Sir Frederick Maze, K.BE.. Ins- tish knowing it." But here's the pector-General of the Chinese rub of the story the Gestapo Maritime Customs, arrived in the
the communications Colony from the Nartli yesterday. and broke of on Wednesday!
Mr. J. Harrop. Managing Director of Messrs. Backhouse & Co., arrived LONDON GAZETTE in Hongkong yesterday. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Harrop.
"It is true The Hague Con- vention forbids the laying of that he had talked with his brother. mines on trade routes and enemy got tired of Major-General the Duke of Wind-harbours, but the British Govern- sor. twice since he came to Francement turned these harbours into war zones by arming cargo ships and the convoy system,”
to serve with the British Ex- peditionary Force.
In 'muddy Newmarket boots and awet raincoat the Duke of Glouces- ter and his aide walked into the small cafe room, which festooned with flypapers covered with dead files, where our party was drinking coffee.
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The busy French housewife bustled about the crowded par- lour serving the coffee, oblivious to the identity of her dis- tinguished visitor.
TIFFIN, MY BOY, TIFFIN
Lovely smell of cooking in the club this morning. Scrambled eggs, cut- lein, and that excellent curry the secretary introduced from Penang. Makes a feller's mouth water. I've half a mind to go through the lat."
"Can't you talk of anything except food ? I doubt if I shall over eas again.” “
"Faicly dripping with sweetness and light this morning, aren't you 7. Advanced case of hangover, I'll ber a couple of chips. Some of you young fellers haven't enough sense to some in out of the rain."
"That's right. Moralins, you hypo- crits. I suppose you never woke up with a head or a tougue like a strip 'of ancient gumy bag,"
"On the contrary, 1 have in the past cultivated name of the finest hang- overs of all time. But that was back in the bad old days before I'd heard of Rose's Lime Juice."
"What on earth has Rot's got to do with hangovers ? "
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"Everything, my dear Watson. wipes them out. If you stick to Gimlets or have a good stiff swig before going to bed, you'll have no regrets in the morning."
"Rose'z Lime Juice you said ?”
"Yeh Rose's"
"Lend me a pencil, and I'll write '}} down."
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WAR OFFICE, NOV. 10 REGULAR ARMY
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Col. A. G. Wells, D.S.O.. RA.M.C. retires and is retained in his appt. (Nov. 10): Col. J. S. Hughes, M.C., retires on ret, pay (Nov. 11), and is granted the hon. rank of Brig. It Col. J. B.A. Wigmore, M.D., from. RAM.C, to be Col. Nov. 101, with seny July 28, 1937.
COMMANDS COMMANDS AND STAFF
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will be present at the contert to be given by the Hongkong Stigers at the University of Hongkong at 9.30 p.m. on Tues- day next, Nov. 28.
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Mr. and Mrs. L. Dunbar returned to Hongkong yesterday. Mr. Dun- bar is resident partner of L. Dunbar & Co., and Mrs. Dunbar is chair- man of the Ladies' International Club
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will be present at Hongkong Jockey Club's Twelfth Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley on Saturday, next, Dec. 2, at 2 pm.
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A Shanghai dispatch states that Miss J. T. C. Smalley, daughter Monk Yuan Ying, Chief Executive of Dr. J. Smalley, Medical Officer of the Chinese Buddhist Associa in-Charge, Kowloon Hospital, re-tion, who was arrested by the turned to the Colony yesterday.
St. Andrew's and the Y.M.C.A. will debate on "The War is Won by Pro-
Lt. Gen. JM Marshall-Cornwall,paganda" at the YMCA on Wed- C.B. C.B.E, D.S.O., M.C., Col. Condt nesday next. Nov. 29, at 9 p.m. R.A.. from Dir. Gen., to be spec. empid
(Oct, 2): Maj-Gen. A. Carton de Whart,
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Kweilin,capital of Kwangst, will
V.C. C.B. CMG., D.S.O., to & spec.be turned into a municipality on appt. (Aug. 25 to Oct. 7 incl.): Col
Japanese In" Shanghai on October 10 has been released. He a re- cuperating in a hospital,
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Lady Northcote will be present at a display by Miss Violet Capell's School of Dancing in aid of the Diocesan Girls' School Building Fund, the British War Organiza
Medical Relief Fund at the King's Theatre, on Wednesday next. Nov.
terop. Brig.) J. G. W. Cark, M.C.January 1 next year, it is reliably tion Fund and the International
from Comdr.. to be Comdr., and is learned. granted the acts, rank of Maj. Gen. whilst so empid (Nov. 1); Lt. L. P. C. Sheen, Worc. R. to be Staff Capt. (Aug. 1 to 31).
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ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY
CD and A.A. Branch-The notiin. regarding Lt. Col. E. S. Browne. D.S.O.. M.C., la the Gazette of Oct. "B is cancelled.
ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS
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Their Majesties the King and 29, at 5.10 p.m. Queen' returned to London Wednesday after
spending three
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From the outbreak of the current
days at Sandringham. (Reuter).hostilities, on July 7, 1937, to the end of last October, individual
His Excellency the Governor will donations for the promotion of see the 14th Battery, H.XV.D.C.education totalled $1,019,000, ac- cording to statistics compiled by
Mal. C. W. Knight is placed on the shoot at Pak Sha Wan at 4.30 Pthe Chinese Ministry of Education,
bp list an account of 1-health (Oct
17).
QUEEN ALEXANDBA'S IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE
tomorrow.
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His Excellency the Governor and
Sister Miss M. I. Geldart resigns Lady Northcote will dine with the her appt. Nov. 1)..
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hongkong on Tuesday next, Nov. 28. at 6 pm.
MEMORANDA
Lt. Col. E. L. L. Acton, M.C., empid. list (late E Surrey R, retires on ret DAY (Oct. 18), and remains empld. Lt.- Cal, the Hon. I- M. Twistleton-Wyke- ham-Fiennes, M.C. empld. list flate R.A.), retires on ret. pay Oct. 30).
and remains empld.
“IT CONTINUES, IT LIVES"
LONDON, Nov. 24 (Reuter) Dr. Edouard Benes declared yesterday that his country was not crushed. "It continues.
it lives, it exists," he said. The present Nazi dictatorship Is incomparably worse than the absolutism and militarism of the Kaiser.
"This WAT Is the same struggle as in 1914 for princi- ples and must end in the crushing of Hilterism."
FIRING PRACTICE Firing practice will be carried out between the hours of and midnight today."
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will visit Mr. Kwan Wai-nung's exhibition of paintings at the Chinese Chamber of Com merce tomorrow at 12.30 p.m.
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will be present at the Scottish Concert to be given by the St. Andrew's Society of Hong- kong at the King's Theatre on Fri-, day next. Dec. 1, at 9.30 p.m.
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote will die with the Chieftain, Vice-Chieftain, and past Chieftains of the St. Andrew's So- ciety of Hongkong on Friday next. Dec. 1, at 8 p.m., at the Hongkong Hotel.
POCKET EDITION OF "MEIN KAMPF”
LONDON, Nov. 24 (Reuter)-Herr p.m., Hitler's "Mein Kampf," It is-learn- ed, is to be published in a pocket- Firing Area 'C' will be affected. edition size. In order to make it Firing practica will also be handy in size it is thought pos- carried out between the hours ofsible in London that chapters on p.m. and midnight tomorrow, the evils of Bolshevism may be Firing Area 'A' will be affected.
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The largest donations were from abroad, being $198,392 followed, by $116,013 from Szechwan. There were altogether 56 donors.
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An insecticide for the preserva- tion of grain in granarles 19 the invention of Dr. Hsin Chieh-lu. professor of agriculture of the Na- tional Szechuen University, who has filled a request with the Min- istry of Economics for a patent. The professor claims that his in- secticide kills all misects and is at the same time harmless to grains and human beings.-(Internation- al).
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