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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FEBRUARY THURSDAY,
10,
1938.
SPARE MOMENT
PAGE
TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US
Armstrong in the Melbourne Herald.
Sharpen your wits
on these codes
Test your skill at petting messages into and out of cipher. Draw up the cipher from the instructions given, Then put into code the message. It should be done within the time allowed for each grade. Grade B in the average Grade A is below the average. Grade C
man or woman.
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A
PUT into riplier the following message, replacing the vowels by Agures corresponding to the numerical positions of the letters in the alphabet. Thus A = 1, E6. And so on.
"Eve and Ada are impersonating Lady Steh and her sister I'amela,"
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B
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in the alphabet:--
"Tom failed to discover Alistair's intentions." Time allowed; Seven minutes.
C
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Article in defence of
modern
the
young n
An Air-Raids' Precautions Officer Has Been Appointed to Hongkong.
Umstrong
Destroyer on the Port Bow!
Adventures of the British Nankin in the Japanese War
"Very good; purser, hand me the register, please.
Ship Zone, bound Hongkons."
The Heutenant persued this with apparent dimculty. Then he said,
from?"
"I I wish io sce the log book,
By CADET-OFFICER W. H. SWAN, kong. Yet passing this une proved please."
space
on
corner.
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OUR
BRITISH CROSSWORDS
He was then taken into the chart- of Melbourne, who is serving on not too easy, for on nearing her we
scanned our 10% the Nankin.
saw that she had a three-flag signal house, where he he While
WAB inside the said: hoisted, Decoded, it
"Heave book.
signalinan was shifting about from TH
HE Brst intimation we had that to; I am going to board you."
the Sino-Japanese condict Wax
We did so obediently, while the one foot to the other, looking most cise great changes In our destroyer
took one look at HIJMS. Karn- uncomfortable. (W.16, mall schedule cume, when we were be- koye) lowered a
beat.
array of British While the the formidable
the bridge and drifled tween Rabaul and Manita, in the jaunch chugged over to its the crew officers
Into
The officer form of orders stating that we would of the destroyer employed themselves away
be calling at Shanghai. This
by training 4.4in. guns on to us, then exchanged a few words with was a great blow, for not only did the launch cunic
alongside, and the signalman, who communicated THERE is nothing unusual Quite often it is more the weakling's
we have passengers booked for there. Lieutenant Dampel Inoue
and a something to the destroyer by hand- about middle-aged men vent- way out than the hero's.
I know of many cases of younst M
and the officer ing their spleen on the rising men acting to throw up blind-alley at 1,200 tons of Shanghai cargo lay signalman clumbered up the ladder, fings. The captain
down into the launch 1 saw held a conversation which I falled generation.
jobs and go abroad, but they bravely in our holds, the greater portion of Lhoking
the then. Build about five being strepers for
rifles and turn down the iden out of considera-ing Cunton-Nankin railway.
sub- to hear, Then they emerged on to two
the bridge.. -guas.
captain, The young man of to-day has be- tion for others who need their help-
I am very Arriving at Hongkong we were
boarding
"Thank you the lieutenant 115 come accustomed to that perhaps aging parents, invalid sisters, and informed that practically all the stood to attention and
to have troubled you." saluted Our sorry even indiferent. But when a young on. Do they lack spunk?" I don't
the cargo sheds was chief officer smartly, aware that lieutenant said.
He and the signalman then went man turns on his contemporaries and think so. cuttingly criticises them, it is time
young men occupied with Shanghai cargo. Ships there were about 300 Chinese eyeing bill-of-work As for
1 swung around buoys in Hongkong him with fear and dismay. He was below and thus down to their boat. to sit up and take notice. There is who adopt the roles of martyrs. Something fundamentally wrong think they are in the minority. The Harbour with thousands of tons of escorted to the navigating bridge, The officer hud evidently not climbed elther with modern young men, or majority show a cheerfulness and Shansa curgo aboard. Air hungars where he came face to face with the many rope ladders, for he nearly
und empty *__bouzes_in_Hongkong and, captain Link that this awed him broke his neck on the descent. with the young critic
Fage in the misfortune which
Kowloon
Even while their-bont-was-drawing- being utilised for slightly. He said in faltering Eng- were cargo storage.
Trade
in the Far East' lish:
1-have-orders-lo-inspect away our wireless was crackling out to the commodore at Hongkong re- -this-ship.”
bad been Ideas of acquiring was momentarily at a standstill.
stopped Instead of two days it was 12 days 1.s
The captain gave him a piercing porting that we had "Young Man" must, lo my mind, independence are dangerous. I either be very young or extremely to be hoped that those young men before we finally swung clear of the look, and I felt he was dying to say, and boarded by Japanese.
At 2.24 pm, we proceeded at full self-satisfied. His approach to the who have the great advantage of a Kowloon wharves. A number of our "Whose orders?" Then he looked
As the destroyer drifted problems of his generation reveals a comfortable home don't cast it aside crew had refused to go to Japan.
destroyer was riding caslly in the minutes. liking for romantic myths more than for the wild goose chase that he map we had to sign on many new hands, across the smooth sea to where the speed, having been stopped for 24 At 10.30 am. we cleared Lyemun slight swell, with all her guns trained astern our captain gave the order to sober reality,
out for them. If they do, it is at
Island, just "Go West," he urges young men least ten to one they will meet with pass, rounded the Ninepin Islands, on us. I lucked through my glasses dip our flag to her."
We reached Woglan proper and could see the gunlayers adjusting mah to-day and entered unemployed or in blind-alley fobs, disaster. No young
stop being a without means can "refuse to be de-No longer were we under the pro- their headphones, and as we drifted outside Hongkong, without further Show your spank."
his tective wing of impregnable Hong- 11 can sinless he martyr."
cease being "dependent" pendent,"
of the East. Wently so those muzzles followed us. incident, and at 0.50 p.m. we berthed For a lonk mement our captain in Hongkong, safe and sound under un other people, sirike out on your stomach in the interval between Rong, Gibraltar
Job were inside the China coast blockade paused. He was thinking of his de- the guns of the British forts, and own and help to build our Empire."
leaving home and finding and every blur on the horizon migit fenceless passengers. A great res-none the worse for our adventure.
with high-sounding phrases.ne "So runs his clarion call to Unlike "Young
Then albeit very glad to see warship. As a precautionary ponsibility rested with him. Man." I am a firin be a
vessel was plastered And what a call! Like the spicches of certain voluble gentlemen in upholder of the younger generation. measure our
don't think
they compare at all with Union Jacks, both for aircraft foreign countries, it is mostly sound I
with their much-and shipping. We also flew a large Ensign at the ga end. and bombast, stirring to listen to, unfavourably
praised
seniors. They are every bit new Red but containing no real help for those pra
who were disappointed a clever and no
less courageous. Tourists
I believe that in this eas it is the many discontented successful people critic why is at fault, and very much night well
Young Male.
50.
it concerns.
show
them
Lip
the war zone
what might be ahend.
und
Does the recent writer not under- And, doubtless, they heartily dislike with the long stay in Hongkong for- stand the grim realities that face the smug, perverted young man who got their grievance In the thrill of many of his generation? Can he not vainly tries to
in order to further his *see that it is not always the "punky" otherwise,
man who runs away-yes, runs away own self-antisfaction contrast. -to distant lands to seek fortune.
Strachan Nisbet
HONGKONG-CHUNGKING TIME TABLE
Direct Service (Via Hankow until further notice.)
SOUTH BOUND (Road Up) NORTH BOUND (Read Down)
Tues.
Fri.
STATION
(DO-2) 8.00 11.00
Ar LT HONGKONG
Lv CHUNGING Ar
Mon. Thurs,
(DC-2) 14.00 8.00
HANKOW-CHENGTU TIME TABLE
WEST BOUND (Read Down)
EAST BOUND (Road Up)
Sua. Tue. Mon. Wed
Tits Bat Fri.
Mion. Wed
Sun. Tuc.
STATION
Fri,
Thu, SAL
(DG-2)
(Loening)
(Loening)
(DC-2)
11.45
8,00
LY HANKOW
17.10
11.15
0.40
LY BIASI
LV
15.453
10.40
Ly ICHANG
Lv
14.45
13,00
LY WANKSIEN LV
13.25
·15.00
Mon, Wed. Sun. Tao. FIL Thu. Sat.
14.40
Ar CHUNKING LY
10.30
(Stinson)
(Stinson)
15.10 17.10
15.10 17.10
LY CHUNKING Ar
Ar CHENGTU
Lv
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Jar Freight or Passage, apply to:-
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the Union
P
Juck fluttering once more.
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
20
$50,000,000 $20,000,000
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorized Capital .... We arrived at Kobe, second port Issued and Fully Paid-Up... of
was Reserve Funds: Japan. Everything there hustle and bustle. War was a dis- tant thing no longer, but grim reallly. Two
0,500,000 Sterling Hongkong Currency Reserve $10,000,000 great battleships lay Reserve Liability of Proprietors $20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE:—HIONORONG. BOARD OF DIRECTORS:--
in the harbour, fuelling and taking In stores. At specially isolated! whurves eight troop and supply shipst lay loading.
They were all painted grey, with
black hulls and funnela, j
we
G. Mlakin, Esq., Chairman.
Hon. Mr. 1. T. Johnson, Deputy Chairman.
1. 3. Manson, Esq."
T. E. Pearce, Ean.
A. L. Bleida, Esq.
Sir Vande our M. Grayburn.
CHIEF MANAGER,
DRANCHES:-
LONDON
LYONS
MALACCA
MANILA
MUAR JOHORE) MUKDEN
and they comprised some of the J. K. Bousfeld, Esq. . 3. Morrisen, Esq. finest vessels In such companies as A. It. Compton, Esq. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson the N.Y.K. and the O.S.K. All day B. II. Dodwell, Esq. and night the city and environs rang to the tramp of marching feet.
We left Kobe next day, and
beautiful inland
AMOY steamed through the sea of Japan. As we were travelling BANGKOK
on! BATAVIA knots jal a speed of 13
2001 BOMBAY caught up with six troopships, which CALCUTTA had left before us, and for Some CANTON time we steamed with them. At 2 CHEFOO
COLOMBO p.m. on the 26th we anchored in the DAIREN Shimonoseki Straits, at the western FOOCHOW gateway to the inland sea. By now HAIPHONG HAMBURG we were in the thick of troop and HANKOW supply ships, and we would haveHARBIN been in an awkward position it ONGEW
TLOILO Chinese acroplanes had chosen to PO [come over, as Shimonoseki la only JOHORE 1540 miles from Shanghai,
кон
KOWLOON
NEW YORK
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TSINGTAO
YOKOHAMA
terms
Incorporated by Royal Charter 2833 TEAD OFFICE:-LONDON. 38 Bishopsgate, E.C.2.
************. £3,000,000 Pald-up Capital Reserve Fund £3,000,000 Reserve Llablity of Proprietors £3,000,000 MANCHESTER DRANCHI:
71 Mosley St, Manchester.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Alor Star Ipoh Amritsar Iloilo
Batavia
Karachi Klong Kobe Kuala
SAICON
Semarang..
'Seremban Shanghai
Singapore Sitiawan
Fangkok
Bombay Calculia Centen Cawnporo Cebu Colombo Dethl
Lumpur
Sourabaya
Kuching Madras Pontia
Talping Tlentin
Tongkah
Medan
(huket)
Haiphong
New York
Taingiao
Hamburg
Peiping
Yokohama
Ifankow
(Peking)
Zamboanga
Jarble
Penang
Hongkong Hangoon
Foreign Exchange and General Bank- Ing business transacted.
Current Account opened and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
The Bank's Head Office in London undertake Executar & Trustee business. nad clalins recovery of Britial Income Tax overpald, on terms which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies & Branches.
THE YOKOHAMA BIECIE DANK. LIMITED,
Y.100,000,000
All that day we bunkered at our KUALA LUMPUR
time 趨 Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- Capital (fully pald-up) anchorage, during which stream of troopships phased us, 33reney and Fixed Deporiis received for Reserve Fund
HEAD OFFICE:-YOKORAMA. practically every ship going from one year or shorter periods in Local
Branthes and Ageneles at which | Alexandria Itongkong Jangoon Japan to China passes through the Currency and Sterling on
Bangkok .tixtriking. Filo de Janeiro 8.00
Karachi San Francisco straits. Hospital ships, supply ships will be quoted on appileation,
ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT Batavia
Kobe
flenttia Bun, Mon, Wed, Fri. kinds, and they were uncount
Landon Semarang jable. Most of them were the crack DOXES in various sizes TO LET.
Los Angeles Bhangħad Tue. The.
Ilonghon, 10th May, 1037. ships of Japan's merchant service,
Bitfapore Bat
Sourabay hence Japan's heavy subsidising of}
Bydney (Stinson)
her shipping.
Tientaln 10.00
*Taingiao 8,00
Tokyo Yingkow
(Bunson)
14.30 22.30
TT was on the last day
of our'
CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION. 'King's Bldg., Connaught Road-
Tel. 3313)
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,
Berlin Bombay Calcutta Canton
Manlia Datren
Moji. (Dajny)
Nakasaki Fenglien NAKOYA
(Mukdan) New York
Otkr DEAKE
Ilonalutu Peiping
The Business of the above Dank is Hamburg
voyage, when we were about 54 | condicted by the Hongkong and Shang Hankow Paris miles, from 1fongkong, with Pedra nei anking Corporation. Rules may be tarbin Blanco rock on our port beam, that obtained on application,
nighted, n. Japanese destroyer, FOR THE HONGKONG AND BILANGKAS
BANKING CORPORATION, fine on our port bow. She was the last we would meet, we knew. Once
V. M, GRAYBURN,
past her, then heigh-ho for Hong-Hongkong, 18th May, 1937,
'chief. Manager.
Interest allowed on Current Accomta. Deposity received for fixed periode at rates to be obtained on application,
Y.. RANO,
Manazel. |-~ Itongkong, · 11th September, -- 1937, -
ACROSS
191
1 No this Ash does not display all the colours of the prism (two words 7, 5),
8 Book of the O.T. (7).
9 A plant not a reptile (7).
12 A good dog of our
days (4).
13 A chess-piece (3).
nursery
14 "A coldier full of strange oaths and bearded like the" ("A" You Like It') (4).
17 Lie (7).
18 Disease (7).
10 State in a hurry (7).
22 One of the deer family (which
looks rather thin) (7).
24 One of the duck family (4). 25 This Cambridge College does not date back to Roman times (5).
20 Not one in a hundred but the
other way round formerly (4). 20 Antonym of activity. (7). 31 What Persian town is recom- by transport com- mended panies? (7).
32 Presumably this sort of enter- lainment would not be wanted
in the tropica (12).
DOWN
1 This form of man trap in quite
common (7).
2 One of the goat family (4). 3 Metal that is used medicinal-
ly (7).
4 This tree sounds like an in-
quiry about one of its relatives (7).
B Anglers like to hear, the music
of this dance (4),
Part of the body (3),
7 I may be this music that is
this in making one switch of one's wireless (12).
26
precious
10
123
15 substance 10 This
more valued than its mother (5).
11 Found again suggesting that the punters do not want black to come up at the tables (12). 10 Heraldie colour to make things useful in winter sports (8).. 16 The sort of dog to mark the
spot for a Scotsman (5).
20 Can this kind of country ever
be beautiful? (5).
21 A plg swallows a fish and be-
comes a bird (7).
23 This spaniel is not of much use if he doesn't keep his head
(1).
23 Little bird much in evidence in
times of rejoicing (7).
27 A bucolic kiss (4).
20 Wine (4).
30 Tree (3).
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