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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 19, 1930
NEW HAT IN THE RING
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probate Or dinance, 1897, made an order limiting the time for credt. tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 5th day of January, 1940.office regardless of whether All Creditors and others are Mr. Roosevelt will seek re-
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TIME SAVED IN LESS SERIOUS CASES
The idea of making tanks do the work of stretcher-bearers would have seemed fantastic in the other war, «
But a day or two ago, when on a visit to a battalion in the line, I happened to see the notion realis- ed in practice, writes the Daily Telegraph war correspondent with the French Army.
The tank in question was one of
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the smallest of the breed. Com- Mr. John N. Garner, vice-pared with the original tanks President of the United which so much surprised those of States that he will be a can- us who were up by High Wood in didate for nomination as the the Somme in September, 1916, it Democratic Party's candidate is a Yorkshire terrier by the "side för the country's highest of a wolfhound.
The French.call these little tanks chenillettes. They are not than 3ft high. It is amazing to accordingly hereby required to election or not crystallises a see how the little monsters get situation which has long been across rough country and how they developing within the Party.climb.
send their claims to the ander signed on or before that date:
more
EDITORIAL
Sir Frederick Lelth-Ross, economic adviser to the British Government.
SURVIVAL OF THE CAVALRY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939.
FULL DRESS King's Flax For The War REHEARSAL
OF Y.M.C.A. PANTOMIME
WITTY DIALOGUE
IN "ALI BABA"
The dress
zehearsal of the European YMCA. Amateur Dra- matic Club pantomime, “All Baba,- | the
MORE ROYAL ACRES TO HELP
IRISH LINEN MAKERS
SPECIAL ORDERS "FROM THE KING which reached San- 'dringham recently mean that more flax is to be grown on the Royal estates to meet new demands arising out of the war,
More and more flax is needed today to make linen for tent cloths and for medical supplies and it is of Importance, at the same time, to maintain the peace-time export of it to the llaen weavers of Belfast.
In the United States especially: Norfolk flax is at least equal to marke for damask table the Belgian product, and may, was held yesterday evening before cloths, towels, sheets and other within a short time, surpass it.
a capacity audience, whose pro- longed laughter and applause may be accepted as a worthy enough recommendation.
The locality of Baghdad in this version of the Arabian Nights tale is given as being in the vicinity of Wanchal and Macao, but travel
by Imperial Magic Carpet airliner must indeed make this possible.
The music and the dances are delightful; the performers polished
witty as it can be. Particularly adept have been the writers of this in their homely references to things that are of Hongkong.
A MUTTSAI!
A Yeomanry Unit.in their Arable; the dialogue as
In Training
With mechanization tending to corner the Army's publicity market, that there are still 16 Cavalry re- it may come as a surprise to lear
Thus when Fatima and her son,
linen goods
of quality is now strongly established. Britain's ex- port trade, has been named her fourth line of defence; and apart
the from that, linen trade of Northern Ireland does not want to start from scratch when the wat
is over
King George has been en- thusiastic in developing this enterprise of his father. In peace time be used his in- fluence among the Norfolk. farmers to persuade them to grow the new crop,, and, in spite of the conservative pre- judices of men whose fathers had never grown flax, succeed- ed in obtaining a number of *converts.
Sandringham's fax is an imm- portant item in Belfast's annual supply and it is the King's father whom the linen weavers of North- ern Ireland have to thank in the
When war came he determined to arst place for thus making them, put the many thousands of acres at least in part. Independent of in the estates to the best possible
oreign supplies.
use of the nation and sent for his Four years ago King George the Bandringham agent, Captain Fel- Fifth Arst planted flax reeds in a lows, to discuss with him the plan- small corner or the Sandringham ning of the Royal farm lands. farm lands, Though there were As a result, several score more
Dated the 8th day of December. of the "Old Guard" Demo- convey ammunition to the front giments-three of them Regulars / Buslacé, relate to the children the those who doubted. success attend. acres are at once to be put under
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WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Administrator, No. 2, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong.
NOTICE.
AS A REPRESENTATIVE Their principal business is to
line; and ""11
they bring back wounded on the return journey, these must be patients in a state to put up with a certain jolting.
My paricular chenillette came in from a company aid post to the
QUICKER THAN STRETCHER
crats, Mr. Garner has long been an enemy of the New Deal and all its works. He has always opposed the ex- penditures on "social security. which, while bitterly attacked by American "Big Business," 889 have
battalion medical officer with a made the present who had been wounded by a Administration SQ popular grenade. Without going into de- among the rank and file tails, it
may be said that the population of the country. ground was less favourable to Of late, he has stood sponsor, stretcher-bearing than Hampstead despite his office, to many Heath would be.. assaults upon the position of the President. A shrewd and uriscrupulous politician, the
Old Man of Uvalde"
Notice is hereby given that ALVE NA LAIHOVETSKY, L.T.C.L., of 233 Nathan Road,
Kowloon, is applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalization should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secre- tary, Hong Kong,
I do not suggest that conveyance by tank is ever likely to be the or- dinary means of bringing in the wounded, and the man with the
long been laying for himself | enough to be transferred from the has grenade wound was probably glad a road to power.
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ON QUESTIONS OF FOR- EIGN POLICY, the Roosevelt administration and its erst while Republican critics are today united. They stand 886 for an interpretation of neu- urality which favours the Allies in every respect, makes H.K: HORTICULTURAL American industry the supply
SOCIETY.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Srcity will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. (by kind permission) on Tuesday the 19th December, 1939, at 5.15 p.m.
J.T. BAGRAM,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 6th Dec., 1939.
ESCAPING DEATH IS FAMILY HABIT
base for Britain and France, and at the same time implies the taking over by the United States of all the interests of these countries on the Ameri- can continent. In Far East- err policy, they are equally united on the necessity of
trailer of the chenfilette into the motor ambulance which was wait- ing for him at the battalion ald post.
But he had been brought along 'n about a quarter of the time which a squad of stretcher-bearers would have taken.
STRONG MEDICAL SERVICE The sector of the front I was visiting hos heen the scene of a eertain activity, but here, as else where, If casualties had been mul tipied by 200..the medical service would still have been ready. What the French call evacuation hos- pitals. corresponding.
to the
casualty clearing stations of the Royal Army. Medical Corp. have
presenting a strong front to heen organised
scale.
Japan and putting pressure
#t
on an immense
Times special. correspondent on and the rest Yeomanry, writes the
Nov, 20.
The Cavalry mounts, as well as
the Artillery horses, have their plate
in modern warfare Certain kinds of reconnaissance, in hilly, wooded, or marshy country for instance, are best done, on horseback.
Today I have seen something of the training of one of the yeomanry units, and theirs must surely be among the pleasantest quarters of any in the country. ducal estate is their training ground.
Wide parkland
mansion
A
encircles the outbuildings, move
and its and men and mounts among ivy-covered walls and over Delds fringed with copses. where the breches still touch the skyline with colour.
* RECREATION CENTRE
The owner's lady has lately turn- ed the strong room into a recrea- tion centre for their use, and has equipped it with pingpong tables other comforts with none of the writing desks, armchairs,
makeshift air about them which one see elsewhere.
and
In such surroundings it must even te pleasant to begin the day at six, for the men have to be a morning stables within the hall hour. They breakfast at 7.30 and go on mounted parade until 11. More
the afternoon parade. stables, then dinner, and after that
latter to compare the plight of story of Cinderella, it becomes the
this heroine to that of a muftsal, and an unregistered one at that!
Deserving of mention, among
the lesser attractions, are Hooey, Looey and policemen who have to be seen to Dobey. three Arab be believed. One, when he is not sleuthing, wears proudly the quite familiar notice, if in letters of ex- aggerated size, "English Speaker."
The principal boy. Ali Baba, is played by Anne Organ, and the leading lady, "Princess Morgiana,
Arst year's crop encouraged a tur- parts of the King's land, Including sa the Royal experiment and the cultivation for flax, while other
ther trial.
PLOUGHING UP QUEEN'S FLOWER GARDENS
what were formerly the Queen's. fower gardens, are being ploughed up for wheat and cats. It was found that both the Today the King and Queen each. very similar to those in certain Ulster linen woven from their own climate and the oll of Norfolk are possess handkerchief. of fine parts of Belgium, where, up to Sandringham flax, gifts presented now, the best flax in the world to them during their visit to. has been produced. Linen experts Northern Ireland after the Corona- In Ulster maintain, indeed, that tion,
by Phyllis Kirby: An Impressive DISADVANTAGES POPULATION
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Sultan Ahmed el Faksheesh 4 B Kirby, while Helen Lockhart, the Sultana. sings well.
Pauline Strange
Audrey and Oakenfull appear in Specialty dances. The play is produced b be well pleased with the result of Maler W. de B. Wood, who should
his weeks of effort.
Hundred New Aerodromes
OF THE KILT
An Experiment Of The Last War
The Times published the follow- ing letter:-
OF WORLD
NEWEST LEAGUE STATISTICS
The latest available figures of the distribution of population by
Sir-I hope it will not be const-sex and age-groups for thirty-six. dered impertinent
countries twenty-three of them 01 a mere southerner to take part in
In Europe) are given in the Octo- the interesting
ber Bulletin of Statistics issued by iri
the League of Nations.
correspondence"
The Times about the kilt. I ven- ture to do so because there is an-
Countries in which males pre-
CANADA'S PART IN other side of the question which dominate are: Union of South.
WAR
Ottawa
It was announced iri that the Imperial air development Plaps include the construction in Canada of 100 new aerodromes. The sites have already been select
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should be ventilated, even at the Africa (whites only), 1.038,000 risk of being considered indelicate.j
as against 1.005.000 females; May I be personal for a moment? Australia, 3,487,000 as against During the late Great War 1: 3,405,000; Burma, 8,083,000 38 was the writer's unique privilege against 7,774,000: Bulgaria, 3,- to hold the rank of Rat Officer to: 053,000 as against 3,024,000; Cana on her to restore the "Open that of the picturesque cid Alsa-
the Second Army of the B.E.F. In da, 5.782.000 as against 5,427.000; One name may be mentioned. Door" and equal opportunity than town. of Phalsbourg, which 15,
France. His activities were not. United States of America, 64,161,- Another taste of the eternal
The imperial air training plan however entirely devoted to the 009 as against 63.180.000; India. for American business
in exclusively occupied by the medical grooming and then tea comes at expected to cost between £50-theoretical and practical exter- 120.206,000 as against 169.554.000; Oriental markets.
Whether corps.
5.30 to release. them for the even
000,000 and £60,000,000 for
of capl-mination
trench- rats. Oc- Ireland, 1,520,000 as against 1,448 -- this policy will also carry the It is a town cof hospitals. Gigon-
ing Such is the trooper's day.
tal construction in the first year casionally other tasks came his 000; 866 active connotation of diplo- tie red crosses on the roots and In Doubtless it has its disadvantage of its operation.
way.
Japan, 34,734,000, as against 34.-. matic support of China in her the courtyards and squares an in unkindly weather, Today we It is reported here that the bo- One day a large wooden crate 520.000; Malaya, 2,584,000 as against struggle against Japan's law-nounce the fact to enemy airmen.
saw some of it in ident conditions minion Government will ask for arrived from the War Office. On 1,774,000; New Zealand, 769,000 às less aggression depends, how- and the place is out of bounds to Over the sunlit grassland came additional £10,000,000 war appro-prising open the lid it was dis- against 748,000. Female prepon- ever, on the further develop- the rest of the army
small sections, scattered as the priation in the coming session or covered to contain a quantity of derance is found in Germany, with ment of the situation
The dedication of the town is regulation order in their in
care Parliament.
garments-gents' underwear-and 38,400,000 as against Europe.
perfectly well known to the Ger to ensure that air attack shall not
36,427,000 This is to be spent in building with,, them emerged a peculiar males; Belgium, with 4.193,000 as Whether they will respect catch sections massed together. up the "home front" war defences, odour of chemicals. The SHOULD MR. GARNER BE it in the heat of battle remains to
crate against 4,110,000; Chile, 2,165,000 They gave us ELECTED, a thing that is ex- be seen,
some of thei- Canada's total
expenditure was shortly followed by official in-as against 2123,000; tremely unlikely, he
formation drill, and scattered turf this year is expected to exceed structions In these it was ex-1,915,000 against would probably
behind them in a howling charge.
£120,000,000, not including £20,-
plained that the vests and pants Egypt. 7,120,000 as against 7,058 --- deviate very little from this general line, al-
swords in line, that might have| 000,000 voted at the "emergency had been impregnated with cer-000: Estonia, 600.000 as against. come out a nightmare. They session" in September to cover
tain poisonous chemicals which 531,000; though there might be more
rode in gas-masks, hot and steamy war expenses on the cutbreak reason to expect that the
probably on such a fine morning hostilities. means used in pursuit of it,
and one learned that a mask has especially in Latin America,
A mother put her arms around her three menfolk in their home, and said: "I must be the luckiest woman in the world."
of
And she must be because during the past month her hus- band and two sons have escap- ed death at sea by miracles.
The mother is Mrs. George Bell, Would be of a nature reminis-
Stead-street.
youngest
Jarrow,
Нег
aged
son, Joseph, eighteen had walked into the house the only uninjured survivor of the steamer Hookwood, sunk by
a mine
"Of course, I'm all right," he told her. "Aren't we always?" Recently Mr. Bell. Sen,, was working in a ship. A metal plate fell. He turned his head aside-and the plate fell painfully on his toes. He was taken home. "Of course I'm all right," he told his wife "Aren't we always?".
A month ago Mrs. Bell heard of the torpedoing of the steamer Ledbury. Her son George was one of the crew. He turned up safely. "All right? Of course..." he said.
Daily Mirror.
mans.
NAZI AIRCRAFT » CAMOUFLAGE
Change For High Flying Machines
and
war
beer designed for horses, but it is LONDON SCHOOLS not yet in supply.
NOT TO REOPEN
MOUNTS WELL CARED FOR
They sent some of their number
of were thought to be fatal to the
body louse-pediculus vestimenti the scourge of all armies,
Earl De La Warr, President of the
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The schools in the reception areas, were beginning to settle down.
Denmark, 1,802,000:
Finland. 1,941.000 as against 1- 894,000; France, 21,400,000. S against 19.900,000; Greece, 3,128,-
It was the interesting duty allot-000 as against 3,076,000; Hungary. ted to the present writer to carry 4.034,000 as against 4,458,000; Italy, out experiments with these gar-21.849,000 as against 21,067,000; ments. A small camp of bell tents Latvia, 1,053,000 as against 928,000; was erected not too rear to Mexico, 8,434,000 as against 8,119,- question of obtaining the human 1.420,000; Netherlands, 4,324,000 as Poperinghe, and then came the: 600; Norway. 1,479,000 as against subjects for the experiment.
against 4,308,000; Foland, 17.986 000
First of all 12 volunteers, with- as against 17,124,000; out lice, were asked for from an Portugal, 3,570,000 as against 3,- infantry battalion in the line. 256,000; Roumania, 9,182,000 as Most of the battalion volunteered, against 8,871,000; United Kingdom, and after some close scrutiny 12 24,562,000 as against 22,725,000; were selected,
guaranteed free Sweden, 3,166,000, as against 22,- from infection. Then 12 thorough- 725,000;" Sweden. ly lousy soldiers were indented for against 3,101,000; Switzerland, 2,- 3,168,000 ·AS. and 12 kilted Highlanders reported 178.000
as against 2,034,000; themselves at the camp.
Czechoslovakia, 7,787,000 as These heroes in the cause of against 7,372,000; Turkey, 8,221,000 science, who were to wear the un- as against 7,937,000; USSR., 75,- derclothes, had not been selected: $85,000 as against 71,043,000; Yugo- they happened to be the first 1 slavia, 7042,000 as against 6,892,- numbered off by the sergeant- 000.
cent of the McKinley era. The real difference between his administration, and the
Further evidence has now been to jump for us, among them a Board of Education, in a broadcast. New Deal would, however, be gathered that the Germans have youth who years ago set up a new said that he did not feel justified the discarding of the forward- abandoned the ordinary form of record of 7ft. 5. at the Inter- yet in reopening schools in the looking social policy which:
camouflage for their high flying national Horse Show. He then rode | evacuation areas, though he agreed has
reconnaissance brought the
United aeroplanes.
bombing a horse called Swank. Today he that many children were "running States, in point of social legis-j
was not so unusually mounted, but wild." lation. to the level of the down
Among the machines brought his horse, like the others, was good "For the present the authorities European countries, most ad- fighters on
by British and vanced in this respect.
French There is no dimculty in getting are bringing the children to the the Western Front beasts; most of them are hunters. schools in small lots for medical have been several finished in a Equally there is no difficulty in inspection and treatment," he said. jority of the people of the i
IT IS BECAUSE the ma- pale shade of blue,
looking after them, for the land-"I do not say that this is the last country are well aware of this silhouette against the sky. The an indoor riding school.
Generally speaking a high flying owner races and has stabling of word, but I assure you that we are aeroplane is seen Es 3 dark quite an exceptional, order, even watching the point carefully," that Mr. Garner is not likely colouring hardly affects its visibility to muster any more support for observers on the ground.
The day has gone when yeomen from the electorate than that
took their own horse to the war. forgotten man Mr. Alfred
Even so there are one or two. Fof Landon, whom the President
"Just because it has not suited the most part these are men with Hitler to bomb the big towns, at defeated so resoundingly in
no previous acquaintance with a once-that means Just nothing. the 1936 election. The De-
horsemen of the office stool. Imagine your feelings if you bring Forty-eight hours after she had (mocratic Party has probably
motor-works, hands. miners, them back, and in a fortnight, we The experiment proved interest-scope for studying the man power been sentenced to death at Taun-made enough of a study of
brewers' labourers. They must have are bombed. With the full force tng if futile, but this is neither the of the various nations in certa'n ton Assizes recently for murder- the causes of the Republican
chose to be in the cavalry and are the had the urge in them, for they and responsibility of a member of place nor the time to enter into age-groups. In particular, the ing her five-month-old son, the failure in that year to avoid
immensely keen on their job.
Government. I therefore details. The point is that every numbers given for the age-group. Home Secretary has recommended making the mistake of put a reprieve for Winifred Mary ting into the field a candidate
They take to it quickly, many of | away."
implore you to leave your children kilted soldier in the trenches was 01. 20 to 49 are of special interest the excellent fellows we saw at ex- ¡
thoroughly lousy, not, let it be and they will no doubt be closely Watts, 19, unmarried. of Ashili, (near Ilminster; -
who cannot possibly take full fine polish, while aerodynam- six months in quarters. Occasion-
clearly stated, through any fault examined for various reasons at ercise today being no longer than advantage of the policial
of his own, but of the pleats of the present time The Director of Medical Bervices capital accruing from the glint which must be avoided for never will make much of a hand
Ically destrable,
Misa Ann Todd, the 29-years-old his kit. which made ideal lurking produces the ally the officers and a man who British stage and screen actress, places for the loathsome parasites, acknowledges the receipt of 120 popularity of the New Deal. camouflage. The Germans, how at it, and he goes on to the office
|was married at Chelsea register from which safe retreats it was we all must bravely fate what the yerds of cotton cloth for the in- Thus, even If Mr. Roosevelt ever, seem to regard the small mechanical side.. terned Chinese soldier from the does not stand, Mr. Garner's increase in performance as being
Nigel impossible for the unwilling host late Frofessor A, E. Shipley termed Tanaye, Flight-Lieut, Tangye, who to evacuate them, Wing On Co. Ltd., per Mr. P. nomination is extremely un-
Obviously the appeal of the hörse 30, first met Miss Todd when he
"the Minor Horrors of War." Kwok Acting Manager.
worth the sacrifice in camouflage. remains in these days of tanks likely.
was an adviser to Alexander Kords
Yours, cc.. -The Tim OR,
and motorized units.
for the film "Things to Come."
PHILIP GOSSE: Steyning, Bussex, Nov 17.
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But a top colouring of the shadow-shading type used on British machines have a high camouflage value so faras lying above are concerned, observers in enemy machines
to reduce the aeroplane'e perforin- All camouflage covering tends ance, first, because it produces an appreciable increase in total weight, and, secondly, because it gives a
rough surface.
to Flight-Lieut.
major.
Once again, Sir, I apologize for dwelling on so repellent a subject in the columns of The Times, but.
The tables also afford ample
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