The
Hongkong Telegraph
EIGHTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1938
$250
CASH
PRIZES
$250
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph") TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
BELL
& HOWELL FILMO DOUBLE EIGHT MOVIE CAMERA &
VALUED $288
CASE,
(Donated by Filmo Depot, Hongkong)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION DE LUXE
PHOTO ALBUM
Hand-made in leather by a renowned Vienna
artist to the value of $100.00 Donated by:-HELMUT NOCHT
To be awarded to the best action study, including sequence shots. Open to all classes.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizox will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Filmo Double 8 Camera, Streamline Model, four speeds self-setting footage indi- cator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device. Complete with case, Donated by Filmo Depot., Hongkong. Second Prize: $40 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
Third Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION TWO: GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LAND- SCAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN & ANIMAL STUDIES).
First Prize: $50 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION THREE: STUDIES IN STILL LIFE
First Prize: $30 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $10 Cash, donated by The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION FOUR: SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS First Prize: $20 Cash, donnted by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
COMMENCE SENDING IN YOUR ENTRIES NOW
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
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1-The Competition is conilned exclusivo
13 to anateur photographera.
2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographly trade in parinitted Lo competo.
B.-'letures submitted in
sepin
tone
should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white.
No plcture to be entered in moro than one section.
13-Mounts to be only white or cream, and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following nizes:-16" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by e".
into in connection with the Com- petition, 12-Entries in the Children's Section musi
3 The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sanding in what are adjudged to be the best photograph in each Section. Each entry must be 11-No. correspondence will be entered" accompanied by an entry form which will be published during the period of the Competition, and which must be pasted on back of entry. All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hong- kong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligiblo,
D-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery at, loss of, or damage to entiles.
bear the entrante name, age and addreza on the entry form, counter agued by a parent. 3-Members of the State of the Hong- kang Telegraph and the South China Morning Port are not permitted to cempote.
14-The decisions of the Judges shall be
Anal.
7-All entries to be either black, nepla, 15-At the conclusion of the Competition,
or toned pictures, and must bo mounted. Hand-coloured photographs aro ineligible.
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY.
entries will be returned to competitors an application at the Telegraph ances within soven days.
ENTRY FORM
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
DATE
Please use block letters and paste this an hudia of each Entry. It entered in Chilifron Seailan parent please countersign nere.
Minesweeper Launched
New Appointments
In Services
H.M.S. Bramble, which was launch- ed at Devonport Dockyard earlier this month, is the sixteenih vessel of the Halcyon class of minesweepers, the construction of which was begun in 1033. They are vessels of 1,750 tons and 17 knots speed, armed with two 4in. high-angle guns and five smaller of Vice- guns. Lady Pipon, wife Admiral Sir James Pipon, Inte Ad- miral-Superintendent at Gibraltar. performed the naming ceremony,
Seven cartler ships of the Navy have been named the Bramble, the last being a gunboat of the Yangtze Flotilla, which was built in 1808 and sold in 1920. The first Bramble ap- captured from the pears to have been ent Spanlards off Cadiz in 1036, a 14-gun
others ship of 112 tons. also smali vessels, schooners or guns boats, at least one of which was em- service in ployed in the surveying Australia and New Guinea about a The sixth Bramble, century ago. built in 1880, was renamed Cockatrice 10 years Inter on taking over the duties of the vessel of that name as station ship in the Danube.
were
COMMAND OF MOHAWK Commander R. F. Jolly, from the furrel drillship Marshal Soult at of Chatham, has assumed command the Mohawk, the third of the new Telbat class destroyers, completing at the works of Messrs. Thornycroft at
Southampton Bel
Before joining the 1st
30
30.
RESOLUTION COMMAND
sca
servier In
UFS
IBON ARMY-France has bullt a line of steel and concrete forts facing Germany along the Franco- German border, called the Maginot line. Here are some of the picked troops stationed in the line, who occupy the spotlight. They are shown marching to the Place Stanislas in Nancy, France.
EXCHANGE
OF SHOTS ON BORDER
Manchukuoans Seize Russian Soldiers
The
CANTON BOMBED
Cunton, July 21,
The air raid alarm wus sounded at
2 pan, and 15 Japanese planes bomb-
TROOPS
PURSUE
RAIDERS
ed Saichuen and the Tienho er-Eight Dead At Hands
drome from a height of 10,000 feet, doing very little damage and causing
very few casualtics.
The "All Clear" was the 13.25 p.m.-Reuter.
in
the
sounded at
an
Of Arabs
official the raiders-United Press,
of
Gran Chaco Treaty Ends Dispute
Ľ
Jerusalem, July 21. Hsinking July 21.
Five people were killed when an Tribal
In the Mediterranean Flotilla in
urmed band of Arabs attacked the The tension prevalling on
Settlement be on
Jewish the Mohawk
Factories Destroyed
Kiryatharoshet cast Soviet-Manchukuo trontier has will probably elew to the publle during Navy Week
west irontier, Ave spread to the
Shanghai, July 21. near Haifa last night.
It al Portsmouth which beglas on July
Soviet soldiers crossed the border
air China nuval
is understood that there were South
casualtica among British Commander Jully served as sub-
Dnear Manchuli and exchanged fro
raiders attacked factories, godowns several Beutenant of the destroyer Foxhound with Manchukue patrols yesterday.
and
subsequent clash. the arsenal at Patongkow, troops during during the War and has since com-
Haukow-Canton Railway Another armed band raided Vivien, und Two of the five were captured by on manded the Rowena,
No in
which labour camp in southern Palestine, guards.
northern Kwangtung, Beagle In 1935-37 he was in com- Munchukuo frontier
air attacks. killing three Jews and wounding two. are reported on either had survived previous mand of the Admiralty yacht En-casualties
were prac- Police and troops are in pursuit of side.
The remaining factories chantress.
"annihilated," Manchukuo Government tically
communique states.
also raided aircraft through the Incident
The naval garding the Cupluto C. H. Knox-Little, whe has lodged a protest with the Soviet re-
since Soviet Consul-General at Harbin. been Director of Operations
Loyang Station on the Hankow-Cun- Four warehouses and 1935. is to resume
Reports state that a group of five ton Raliway. command of the battleship Resolution, Soviet soldiers approached the bor-two locomotive sheds in the yard of which has been refiting at Devon-der the near Szetashan, about 30 the station were set on fire.
The Resolution miles cast of
Manchull, at 1 p.m.
compound The tracks in the port since February.
on the Canton- will
to-day with Commission
Sheklung Station yesterday. Chatham crew as a training ship for
Two of the soldiers crossed the Kowloon Railway were also destroy- Squadron.
rd.-Domet, boys in the 2nd Battle
penetrated into Man- Home Fleet, and as soon as possible border and
Rogline Bombing after completing her refit on July 30 chukuo territory about 100 yards and to give opened fire on two Manchukuo bur- will proceed to Sheerness
She wl take the der guards. summer leave. place of the Ramillies.
Captain Knox-Little was in com- mand of destroyers throughout the Wur, and was patches for his service in the Tetrarch at the Zeebrugge-Ostend operations, in which he escorted the blockships. After the Armistice he commanded in the the
Sportive
operations in Marmora and Black Seas against the miris and Bolshevists, and was the Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd class, with swords, after the evacuation of Odessa in February, 1920. His last conunand was of the cruiser Danae on the America Station, from 1932 to 1935.
mentioned
Responding to the Soviet attack, Manchukuo patrols arrested the
in disinvaders.--Domei,
COLONY'S TRADE EXPANDS
The
of the
Canton, July 21. Japanese planes raided the Canton-
FORE
Both before and after HeartT her children, n mother needs plent of simple, easily digested, nourlan ment to meet the extra demand made upon her system.
Doctors and nurses know tha Horlicks la an Ideal food for both expectant and nursing mothers. Not only is it extremely palatable and easy to take, but it promotes sound. sleep and prevents morning sickness? Horlicks, morcover, provides the extra nourishment nursing mothers need. It is invaluable where thos digestive powers are weak, and tends to prevent constipation."
In these difcult times of anxiety and worry, the task of carrying on und doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy, Horlicks builds up strength, vitality and prevents that 1stlessness and tiredness caused by constant nervous strain. H. M. Hodges, 400–408, Asia Lite Building, Hongkong.
Archbishop
Wants To
Banish Cars
THE
Archbishop of York would, if he could, banish cars and acroplanes from modern life.
He explained why when he ad- dressed the boys of Rugby School at Speech Day recent ly.
"The motor-car is disintegrating the community life in the smaller towns," he said. "The larger towns never had its
"I mean that community life in which all the people mixed and played on the village to under green and learned stand each other.
HE BARS BUSES "Now they go their own way
cars and motor-buses."
deplored the present ten dency of poople to segregat themselves into classes.
Buenos Aires, July 21. Paraguay and Bolivia have signed a formal treaty ending the century-He old Gran Chaco dispute.
The treaty
the
Hankow railway in four visits from 7.50 a.m. to 4 p.m. to-day.
was signed in Bombs were dropped on Pingshek,
and presence of delegates from six medin- Sakno, Sheungtsun, Yuantan other points, causing the demolition tory nations, including the United of many
civilian houses.-Central StatesUnited Press. News.
U.S. COMMODITY
PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
New York, July 21.
New York Cotton
Statistical Branch Imports and Exports Department re- ARMY APPOINTMENTS
ports that the combined values of P. Nos- Imports and expurts of merchandise Major-General Francis
of 1938 worthy, D.S.a., Mc., who has been during the first half year offctating as Deputy Chief of the totalled $812.1 million (£37.8 mil- General Staff in
India since the lions) as compared with $565.3 mil- middle of May, took over the appoint- lions (£31.2 millions) in the first
Major General half year of 1937, and $375.8 millions October ment last week. Nosworthy Was formerly G.S.0.1 (£24.2 millions) in the first half December
Jan. (1039) year of 1936, China Command.
Mar. (1939) Major-General C. 3. D. Auchinleck, In terms of local currency the total
May (1939) whom he succeeda, is the new Com-
visible trade of the Colony Increased mander of Meerut District, which was vecated on July 18 by Major-General by 21.1% in the first half year of July (1930) R. J. Collins. The new Commander 1938 as compared with the first half Spot at Meerut will
out the re-year of 1937, and by 82.0% as com-
total September organization of the military strength pared with the first half year of 1930.
In terms of sterling the
December there the transfer of 3rd Division
by
March troops to Lucknow, leaving in the visible trade of the Colony increased
May Meerut arca the 3rd Cavalry Brigade by 21.2% in the first half year of and 7th Infantry Brigade supple- 1938 as compared with the first hal mented by the troops at Delhi. year of 1037, and by 50.2% as com- pared with the first half year of 1036.
carry
NEW BRIGADIER
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Opening Closing 8.03/04 8.73/73 8.71/73 8.87/07 8.70/70 8.80/88 0.01/83 8.03/03
8.05/15 0.80/88
New York Kubber
15.45b/65u
15.60 /62 15.08 /08
8.97/97 9.01N 3.88
15.54b/58a 15.08 /70 15.77/78 15.03b/85
Sales for the day:-2,500 tons.
Chicago Wheat
July. September December
Wednesday's Sales:-
091%/60 70%/09% 70/00% 7134/717 714/719%
21,307,000 bushel, Chicago Corn
The new commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade nt Dover, Colonel J. G. W. Clark, M.C., was a cavalry officer, and commanded the 10th/5th Lancers from 1933 to 1938. He will become a brigadier at 40. He joined the 16th Lancers in 1911, and served In the line in France, was wounded, mentioned in dispatches, and twice The Hongkong Stock Exchange September decorated. He also served on the official summary, issued at 3.15 p.m. December stuffs of the 2nd London Brigade, yesterday, says: 113th
The steadiness in the market con- Brigade, 32nd Division, VIII Corps; and other appointments tinued to-day with a good demand for shares but with few if any sellers.
and
have included those of G.S.0.2 at General Headquarters, G.S.0.2 at the Staff College, and G.S.O.1, Operations and Intelligence.
RETIREMENT OF LAST N.L.H. OFFICER
Britain's one-man regiment, the North Irish Horse, disappeared on July 13, when Major Sir Ronald Ross, M.P., the only serving officer of the regiment, reached the age limit and retired.
TC-
Notice was given in last night's London Gazette that he will linquish his commission and retain the rank of major. Sir Ronald Ross became a major in the North Irish Horse during the War, since when the rank and fille have terminated their engagements and all the other officers had reached the age limit.
Largest Wind Tunnel Built
Minneapolis.
The nation's largest college wind tunnel, in which gales of 150-miles- can be unleashed, an-hour velocity
will be completed in about a year in the University of Minnesota's ongi- neering laboratory. It will be used by aeronautical engineering students and faculty members for research work.
Buyers
Hongkong 'Bank $1,509
Hongkong (Lon.) 190 ex diy. Union Waterboats D H.K. & K Wharves $1274) HK. Docks (Old) $21 HK. Docks (New) $20 Providents (Old) $3.40 Providents (New) Raubs $9.00 Venz. Goldfeld $3 H. & S. Hotels $0.55 H.K. Lands $353
3.30
K. 4% Deb. $100 HK. Tramways $17.70 Peak Tram (Old) 56% China Idghts (Old) #11 China Lighia (New) $8 HK. Electrica $61 Telephones (otu) $201 Telephones (Now) $0%, Cements $16.05 Dairy Farms $30%
Wnisons $30
Entertainments $0.40
Construction $1,70
1.K. Govt. 314
Maramans (ILR)
11% pr
Consolidated China Prov. (Old) $0.80 Consolidated China Prov. (New) $0.00
Baier
Hongkong Bank $1,610 o.d.
H.
Si Hotels $6.55
Tramways $17.70
HR Electrics 201 Dairy Farms $503% Antanuka 39
Atoka 20
Dagulo Gold 213 Benguet Consol 10.30 Coco Grove A
Consolidated Mines .0035
I. X. L. :55
Parucio Gumbus 13 San Mauricio 401 Buyoo Consol 17: United Paracales ál
July
58 /58% 59%/50% 50%/59% 58%/56% 57/58
Winnipeg Wheat
1012/101 July......
October 76/774 77%/774 December.. 75%/3%
70/76%
Oslo
EXCHANGE RATES
Copenhagen Stockholm.. Prague.... Helsingfors. Brussels..
July 10,
July 20.
Geneva.
.21.50
21.40%
Berlin
.12.25
12.24%
Paris.
.178.11/84 178.13/04
Athens Milan.
.5472
54774
.03/2
03
.10.00
19.90
Amsterdam.
.8.05
9.05
.22.40
10.39%
22.40 10.80%
1422
141
2204
2204
29.10
20.082
New York.
.4.02% ..Nom.
4.01%
Nom.
.110.3/6
.nom.
110.3/0 nom.
Hongkong Shanghai. Bombay Montreal.. Yokohama
18, 3d. Dd. .1/5.29/32 1/5.29/32 .1.94 1/2
1s. 3d. ១៨.
4.03
1/2
Belgrade.
.217
217
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670
201
18.04
2.27/32
194
10%
103
Vienna Lisbon Madrid.
Bucharest. Montevideo. 201 Buenos Aires....10.03% Rio de Janeiro..2.27/32 Silver (Spot)....19% Silver (forward).10% War Loan,
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British Wireless.
Brahmaputra Floods Assam; Damage Heavy
Calcutta, July 21.
the Flood waters from Brahmaputra River are causing considerable damage in Assam. have Thousands of natives been rendered homeless, while damage to crops is extensivo.- Reuter,
Although he did not believe: 1 putting back the clock of s called progress, he would ce tainly "devent"-If that wer the opposite of invent-th internal combustion engine.
FOREIGN SERVICE OF U.S.
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