RAJPUTAN CHEEHOLK
P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
Taking Cargo For
Stralis, Java, Burma, Ceylon,
East and South Africa, Australla, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe, PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M, GOVERNMENT
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. and all callings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice?
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
About
Destination.
1st May. Marseilles & London.. 15th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
20th May. Bombay & Katachi,
From
8.8.
Tons
Hong Kong
CORFU
**Bangalore
*Itajputana RANPURA *Mirzaporo "SOMALI
itawalpindi' 17,000 14,300 8,000
17,000 17,000
7,000
7,000
NALDERA
10,000
• Cargo only.
22nd May Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
29th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 12th June. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 19th June. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
20th June. Bombay Marsellles & London.
+ Calls Casablanca. All vessels may call at Malta.
* Calls Tangier.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILING
TILAWA
SANTHIA TALMA SIRDHANA B,000
10,000 8,000 10.000
11th May
22nd May
5th June
10th June
SHIRALA
8,000
3rd July..
-EASTERN
NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN
TALMA
CORFU
Port Singapore,
Swettenham
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.. ·
& AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
7,000 10.30, 1st May.
7,000
7,000
4th June Maalla, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, 2nd July,
Melbourne & Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TANDA
7,000
*Bangalore
8,000
10,000
14.500
0.000
10,000
7,0001
Sirdhana
NALDERA
NANKIN
• Cargo only.
6th May. Shanghal & Japan. 11th May. Shanghal & Japan.
13th May Amoy, Shanghul & Japan, 13th May. Shanghai & Japan.
27th May. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan,
Shanghai & Japan, 3rd June. Shanghal & Japan.
27th May.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notire..
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The Agents. Phono 27721
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FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE
ANTENOR Balls 6 May for Marselles, London, Rotterdam
AJAX
& Glasgow. salls 19 May for Marseilles, Casablanca, Landas Reiterdam; Hamburg & Glasgow
LIVERPOOL SERVICE
PROTESILAUS salls 23 May for Havre, Liverpool, and
NEW YORK SERVICE
Bromborough.
RHESUS sails 7 May for Boston, N.Y.. Philadelphia & Baltimore via Manilo, Straits
PACIFIC SERVICE
& Cape of Good Hope. (via Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama) TYNDAREUS calls 18th May for Victoria, Vancouver &
INWARD SERVICE
Seattle
EURVI (CHUS Due 1 May. From Europe via Straits CALCHAS
Due 3 May. From UK vla Straits MENESTHEUS Duo 9 May. From U. K. via Straits #pecial reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation. For freight, passage rates and information apply to
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Tel. 30333.
Agents.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 29,-
Mrs. Simpson Nears End Of Divorce Fight
London, Apr. 28. It is understood that formall- the ties, la connection with. application. on behalf of Mrs. to have her Ernest Simpson, divorce decreo nisi made abso- lute, were completed to-day,
Before an application can be made in the Divorce Division cerlain preliminary proceedings have to be complied with Nomerset House and notice of not less than six days must be given.
which The first day on
the decreo can be made absolute therefore will be Monday next. -Reuter.
Third 5-Year Plan Needed
Moscow, Apr. 29.
In view of the inet that the second five-year plan has been mostly ful filled before schedule, the Council of People's Commissars has decided to request the State Planning Commis
the Commisaars of the sion and Soviet Union to complete an outline of the third five-year plan and pre- to the sent for confirmation Council by July 1.
Eight Counts Of Burglary Of Burglary Lengthy Police Search
Rowarded
. After two months of intensive investigation by the police, Chan Hung, 20, unemployed, described na the man who has been responsible for numerous burglaries in the Wan- chni district since 1930, appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the morning Central Magistracy tits charged on eight counts of burglary Involving goods valued at $800.
Sub-Inspector Darkin stated that defendant's method of entry was to climb up a drain pipe and, with an expanding jack, forced the iron Bars of a window. Some of the stolen property has been located in various pawnshops and it was known that some of it was disposed of in Macao.
After defendant's admission lo ave previous convictions, Sub Inspector Darkin asked that a very severe penalty be imposed on defendant.
On
An additional charge of returning from banishment Wes preferred The third five-year plan is already against defendant. His plea was not taken and the hearing of the case being discussed in the
was fixed (or May 4 at 4 p.m. Reuter,
press,
BRITISH TRADE
OVERSEAS
WHAT LATEST FIGURES DISCLOSE
overseas
London, Apr. 28, The Board of Trude has now calculated the volume of trade in the first quarter of the year, the corresponding compared with periods of 1938 and 1935, by valuation of the trade of all three periods at the average volumes the whole of 1935.
re-
of
Comparing the first quarter of this of last year with the first quarter
United exports of year
Kingdom goods increased in volume by 10 per cent, re-exports declined by 4.5 per cent, and imports Increased by 2.5 per cent.-British Wireless,
Just Arrived
ex S.S. Rawalpindi
from
1937.
No Mercy For WAR HERO IN PRISON Do You Smoke?,
Cameramen On Aerodrome
Burbank, Apr. 28.
Guards, have been ordered to "shoot the esteras out of the hands" of photographers in to vicinity of the Lockheed Aircraft' Corporation near this California town, following the publication of a picture of the U.S. Army's "mystery" stratosphero plano which is awaiting tests here. armed Guardis,
with rifles, have been stationed at the Lock heed test field-United Press.
MORE HEROIN
CASES
FOR FRAUD
(Continued from Page 1.)
Metropole, Hotel n's a boxing tutor. Whilst here he became bankrupt.
In 1907 ho went to Malaya, where, according to London police records. he was associated with `n woman Bus- pected of espionage, and consequently came under suspicion. ChristlewNX also well-known in Singapore as a bookmaker.
PRIVATE TO COLONEL Leaving Malays on the outbreak of the Great War, Christie, enlisted as private in the British Army Gal- lantry and a flair for soldiering won ilm the command of the 23rd Bat- tallon Highland Light Infantry. His name was mentioned in despatches, and he became Lieutenant-Colonel WAB DW
awarded the O.D.E. (Military: Division).
After
the. war, Det. Sergt. O'Sullivan went on, Christie returned to Malaya, where he came under the notice of the police owing to the sale of a large consignment of arms, He later was associated with Marshal Chang Tso-lin in China Christle disappeared for some time after obtaining $5,000 from a Chinese by issuing a post-dated cheque.
ENOUGH DRUG FOR MILLIONS OF PILLS
Stated by the prosecution to have been in possession of enough heroin to make a few million pills, three Swatow Chinese, Chan Wing, Tang be-
ARMS DISCOVERED Chol and Ng Kim, were brought fore Mr. K. Keen at the Central
His home in Shanghai was raided His Worship sentenced defendant to two months on each of the first with possession of the drug at No. French had been told by a Chinese Magistracy this morning, charged
by the French police in 1925. The six charges, the sentences to be con- 360 Des Voeux Rond West, yesterday,
Christie's gun-running secutive,
the remaining two charges, he was also sentenced to call the ease would be for conunitial, The police found a
Sentor Revenue Offeer Grimmitt general of
activities.
consignment two months, the sentences tu run ant added that he understood Mr.
rifles, carbines and revolvers, concurrent with the others.
in-shing Lo would appear for the of
large together with 20,000 rounds of am
He was charged along munition. defence. Defendants had a
of heroin and strychnine, with an American, a Gerinan and a quantity
Defendants were remanded for one Frenchman, and received the senteree
that cost his rank sufficient for several million pills.
and tile. week, on bait of $10,000 each.
He married an American woman A second case of
possessio
of drug
at Kinklang in 1928, but Four came before Mr. K.
deserted her. Opening a business fa Fan Kam- Swatow men. Ma Ming, To Wai, 10, unemployed, with a
shing. Wong Chiu, and a juvelle, Shanghai the same year, he dis long list of larceny charges, appeared Yuen King, were charged with the appeared after passing a number of before Mr. W. Schoßeld at Central Magistracy this morning. possession of heroin at No. 07 Con-valueless cheques. Six charges in respect of different naught Road West. Senior Revenue Officer Grimmitt said the amount of houses were preferred against him. pills found numbered about 150,000, formal remand of one Sub-Inspector Darkin said defen-He asked for dant was not actually a burglar. week, which was granted. Though his method of entry into a house was similar to that of Chan drain llung, namely climbing up a pipe. To Wai did not force an entry but selected open windows. Defen dant had been in operation from October, last year, until March this year.
ANOTHER CASE
Some of the stolen properly had been recovered, the total value of which was about $500. Defendant was arrested at the same time and place as Chan Hung.
Defendant was sentenced to one month on each charge, consecutive, and was recommended for banish
ment.
BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION
soon
AGAIN DESERTER Nothing more was heard of Christie until he again appeared in a Court in Hongkong, charged with obtaining $20,000. by fenud in a huge arms deal. He was acquitted. Deported from China, and "unwanted" in Hongkong, he went to London and married again. After obtaining huge sums of money from the woman, he deserted her.
During the evidence at the London trial this month I was disclosed that been Christie had in recent times shipping arms to. Abyssinia and, through France, to Spain.
Simla, Apr. 28. Casualties suffered by the Infantry into action Brigade which went
the Some 20 or 30 years ago, Christie against hostile tribesmen in
22, was a popular figure in Hongitang. Khaisora Valley to-day
He was the middleweight champion killed and wounded.
total
It is belleved the tribesmen of the Orient at one singe, and his suffered heavily.
The Fakir of Ipi's nen attacked
were severely British camp and punished.-Reuter Bulletin Service,
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New York, Apr. 23.- General Pershing, the "American commander-in-chief during: Great War, Admiral Hugh Rodman, and others of the American delega- tion to the Coronation, salled to-day abbard the President Harding.
General
cral Pershing has been furnish- ed with a special self-designed uni- form, described as the most gorgeous
over worn by an American officer. It cost over $800,--Reuter. "
NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS
London, Apr. 28. The First Lord of the Admiralty announced in the Common, at ques- tton-time that contracts for three battleships of the 1937 programme, which will be named Anson, Jellicoe and Beatty: were being allocated res- to Messrs. John
Brown, Hunter
Lyne,
and
Richardson, Wallsend-on- with machinery by the Wallsend Silpway and Engineering Company; and the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company-British Wire-
U.S. COMMODITY: PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are Issued by Reuter.
May July
Now York Cotton
13.12/10 12.05/07 13.20/27 12.08/13.00
13.02/02
13.00/00
12.75/75
12.70/71-
12.72/72
13.05/05 12.70/70
October December
12.07/07
March
Junuory Spot
May July
September
13.72 New York: Rubber
December .. January March.....
Sales for the
May
13.55
22.20/25 20.70n 32.47/47
22.43/30
22.50/50 23.470
20.83/05
20.00/95
21.01/01 21.000
22.42/42 21.00/00
Chicago
e day!!
12,700 tons.
Wheat
..... 128/128% 120 /120% July 1174/117 11734/117% September 1145/1144 114738/110
Tuesday's sales: 30,014,000 bushels.
Chicago Corn
.... 12746
130%/12044
1172/117% 118/119
September 109%/10945108/108
May
July
July
May
October
Winniper Wheat
120/120 127 127-
110%/1152 1104/110%/ 12014/120 1294/1294
York Bldg,, Hongkong.
“GINGER" JANE IS IN THE NAVY NOW!
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careori
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TERROR
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COMING to the
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