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SIXTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
JUNE-AUGUST, 1936.
$250
CASH PRIZES
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TWO SILVER TROPHIES VALUE $250
AWARDED BY-
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TO WHAT ARE ADJUDGED THE TWO BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS,
SECTION ONE
FOR THE BEST STORY-TELLING PICTURE
SPECIAL PRIZE
ONE OF THE FAMOUS
BELL & HOWELL
FILMO STRAIGHT EIGHT MOVIE CAMERAS
WITH CASE
TO BE AWARDED BY MR. CHAS. 5. ROSSELET, HONGKONG AGENT.
VALUE
$235
SECTION TWO
CHINESE STUDIES- -FIGURES AND FACES
RD
THURSDAY,
BRITISH BUSINESS
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ALL INDICATIONS GRATIFYING
London, July 8,
JULY 9, 1936.
King Visits SPECIAL SALE
R.A.F. Bases
INSPECTS NEWEST
WAR PLANES
London, July 8. The inspection of the Royal Air Forer stulipus to-day by the King, accompanied by the Duke of York, For the first time this year the was the first occasion on which a average level of wholesale prices British momechshund ever made such Į showed an appreciable movement in an aerial lour. The King, who wore June, rising to 8.8 per cent. above the bite uniform of a Marshal of the j Bay and to 4 per cent, above June | Royal Air Force, flew in his own D. of last seri
H. Dragon aeroplane from Windsor,
Food prie rose by 1.2 per cent, and Arst visited the fighter station! and indutéial materinks and mamu-bat Northalt, which forms part of thei facturus by 0.5 per cent: as compared ighter comunend of the air defence of with May. The index mumber of in- | Britain, dustrini inaterials, was the highest! reconded since October last,
His Majesty then proceeded by air The Ministry of Transport returns to Wittering House, of the No. 11 Training School, recently showed all round increases in British endlways' passenger traille, and in re-
in connection formed
with the N ceipts theinfrous, in the March quar-
pansion of the force, where the pupils Yer as compared with the first quar- were paraded, and inspected this aus ter of last year Freight carried dur- men's dining hall and mess arrange- ing the twelve weeks ended Marchments and took luncheof in the n
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21. and sesultant receipts, were also piest. The bomber station at larger for all classes na compared
Midentall WILN TRIXI visitet. It with the corresponding period of 1935, forms part of the new lumber crm-
British Wiréfers,
mand, and here nireraft war. The eyews & of squidrons were inspected.
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COLLEGE WALL COLLAPSES
FORTUNATELY NO CASUALTIES
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At the Martlesham Heath net plans and armament, experimental establish ment, the King displayes keen inj tered in several aireraft including the Vickers single-seater Oghter "Spitfire 1st," which is a wing won pline with an encfused pilot's cockult, of all metal, construction, chteily duralamin, with retractable
under earringe. The "Spitfire" gave a des monstration of 11 terrilir sprind when it made a power dive and al With a deep rumbling noise, ne wall, Ishraced its wonderfof stability with a twenty feet long, situated in the low club. The Bristol Blenbin ground of St. Paul's College, (Beneaty,jabu gave a nest impressive display. Collapsed last night, fortunately with-
The Hurricane Ist." produced by n any rasunlties.
finwher Airesaft, Limited, alen The wall, which was about six feet single-seater Jong with monoplane, in height, surmounted the embank-with enclosed corkpit, an
Thither ment on the east side of the narrow Vickers single-seater fighter, stone pathway leading to the inner named, of love wing type, were also gate of the College. Entering from carefully examined. Other ners. The main gate, the pathway leads to į planes, which were inspected included the inner gate, taking a hair-pin bend four medusu bombers, two' bomber |about Halfway. The wall which transports. one general prpora | collapsed was aituated just above This Vickers Wellesley machine, and ans
bend.
Army co-operation aeroplane, at pro- The collapse was apparently due to equipment.
sent untuned, as well as the Intest. the recent rains. The debris binekod i The pathway entirely, but this Was
The King was keenly interested in Inter cleared way. The will is paid ja now fandley Page medium bomber to have been built over ten years and he studied carefully the mechan
composed of brick and is of the revolving gun turret of a "Demon" fighter. On the conclusion
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The collapse occurred just after the of the visit to Martlesham, the Royal Price Za to clear]
evening classes for poor boys at the College had been clased, and it was fortunate there were n' boys on the pathway at the time. The noise ¦ caused by the collapse was, however, caused some resident near-by t vacate their houses.
Five Killed In
1ST $40. 2ND $20. 3R $10. Experiment
SECTION
THREE
VIEWS: INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPES. SEASCAPES, ETC.
1ST $40. 2ND $20. 3RD
1ST $30.
SECTION FOUR
STUDIES IN STILL LIFE
2ND
SECTION
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FIVE
SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS
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SECTION SIX
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$10.
3RD $5.
FOR THE BEST "NEWS HAPPENING" PICTURE
1ST SILVER CUP
The
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the f.---Photographs which have been alrendy | D.-No. correspondener will be entered Into
entered in Joen competitions ATO In In connection with, the Campelition. eligible.
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la amateur photographers.
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be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white.
The Prites will be awarded to the
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dayo.
competitors sending in what are adjudged 7- No responsibility will be accepted for
to be the best photographs in each Sretion. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published dally during the peeled of the Compatition. 4.The right to publish any or all of the
entries in the Telegraph is reserved.
non-delivery, kakor damage, Photography
zat not 10
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than
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EXPLOSION'S TOLL AT WOOLWICH
London, July 3.
party mined by air to Hendon, - British Wireleas,"
King's Son Files Suit
For Divorce
New York, July 8.
Count Chedonga, son of the former
King of Spain, Bled sult for ne jannulment of his marriage to
wapbly Spanish sugar planter 2 daughter to-day,
Five persons were killed in an ex- losion in the Research Department at marriage by false promises and that He alleges he was tricked into the Woolwich Arsenal to-day.
The explosion occurred during an after their marriage the Countess uzi- Imitted that her sole purpose in wedd- experiment
One of the dead is an official of the ing him was to acquire a title. Departmeal. Commander Lens, who
The alleges the Countess had no recently retired from the Navy after intention of devoting her life to caring thirty years' service and had been for her husband, and insisted upor employed in the Artenal only thirteen living apart in a style he mad not .nonths.
alund--Reuter.
The other dead are two chemists i and two labourers.—Router Balielin}; The Countess is also bringing sull Hjerpice.
for divorce on the grounds of i}= compatibility of tempéraments.
Paris, July 1.
SECRET WEAPON
NEW CAPITAL
M. Henri Dekerillis, Rightist leader, charged that certain deputies
Londen, July 8. had ordered a model of the French Issues of new capital in the United "Type 23" aircraft gun, one of the Kingdom during the first half of 1936 most valable air weapons of which are returned at £108,980,000, ns com. France alone possesses the sreret, topared with 280,040,000 and 169,020,- he given to Russia. He demands 000 respectively in the correspond-
1930 and explanationing period Government's
British Wireless. United Press,
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