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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
He Pushed A Tiger's Face
THOUSANDS DIE IN NEW MASSTERROR
(Continued from Page 1)
none of the staffs of either Arm were John Murrey saw a tiger at the killed. It is also stated that no Agricultural Hall Circus "pushint foreigners were present on the pre- face through the bars" and "It look-mises ed so tome"he put out his hand to push the tiger back.
February 6, 1939.
Blondes Bad
Chess Players? QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
O blondes make good chess Do
players? the imo of the bombing.
Mr. A. Rider, director of the CATHOLIC CHURCH BOMBED The company's brief telegram re-Hastings Chess Congress, now The tiger bit the top off his finger. ported that the French Catholle taking place, says they do not. Murrey, 30 years old, lving at church at Wanhsien was also botabed. And in support of his assertion, he Gravel Lane, Southwark, was wan- dering with the great crowd of circus but no details of the effect were pointed out that of the 130 players
given.
only one fair head is to be seen. goers through the alde-show section.
"Fair-haired Chinese press reports in Chungking
people,"
he added. Between their act in the ring with stated that Japanese bombers again "do not seem to have the powers of Madome Ceelley, the tigers are eng- destroyed a elty in the intertor of concentration necessary for the ed in the side show with a barrier Chint to-day. This time, however, it game. They become nervous and to keep people well away.
A representative of Krone's Circus city of Yishan in north Kwangsl, 110 petition
Was Ute small, but lately important reckless under the strain of the com- atmosphere, In which said that the tiger is used to being miles south-west of Kweilin, on the brunettes are at their case." harkled and petted by the girl who Kweilin-Kwelyong highway.
Mr. Rider's atutement was quickly trains it and after the incident
challenged. that evening it went through its TOTALLY DESTROYED
*NONSENSE” performance twice in the normal
The report stated that Yishan to- Mr. H. J. Braunholtz, keeper of way.
day was entirely destroyed, and that ethnography at the British Muscum. the demolition was caused by in-described the theory as "absolute cendiary bombs, which also tool nonsenso." 100 Hves and Injured 600 others.-- United Press.
Children's Hospital | To Close Branch TADWORTH (Surrey) branch
hospital and
convalescent
home of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, is to be closed temporarily be- cause of lack of funda,
JAPANESE SEIZING
STEAMERS
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Komor
"There are plenty of blondes able to concentrate," he declared. "There is no reason to think they are more nervous or unfit for competitions than others.
"It has not been proved that you can associate certain mental quali- ties with the colour of the hair or type of
of the face.
"The only thing that bears on that
Ada, owned by a Hungarian, Paul question is a paper, read recently, of Shanghol, which was showing that fall fale-haired people seized by the Japanese Inst month, is are less suited to conditions of city lying in the harbour off Amoy, while open-air, adventurous life than arc the Netherlands Consul is conducting small dark people, negotiations for its release.
"There is no reason to suppose that
This was decided by the hospital board of management recently.
"During 1938, owing to the difficult times and the international crisis, the
The captain of the Ada is a Nor- a person inherits a particular colour annual deficit on the hospital's run-wegtan named A. Steen,
of hair or eye together with a men- ning costs has risen by over £10,-
are not ilaked According
to an earlier report the tal quallly. They 000, the board states,
Ada was seized by a Japanese des-
together. "Patients at Tadworth will be dis-troyer os she was pulling into Wen-
CHAMPION WAS BLONDE charged as soon as possible and chow on January 22. She was com points out that the present world A "Blonde Chess Player" (male) every effort made to place the staff pelled to hoist the Japanese flo, andchamplon, Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, in other poste"
was lowed way to an unknown des- now 45, was in his youth blondest
of the blonde,
£10,000 YEARLY Lieut.-Colonel Stanley S. G. Cohen, deputy chairman of the hospital, sald the Tadworth branch provided ac- commodation for 115 children in a healthy country atmosphere,
"It enabled us to send children there who were convalescent, thus making room for more patients, at Great Ormond Street," he said.
"The reopening of Tadworth is entirely dependent on the hospital's Income and our ability to alloente £10.000 yearly for its maintenance."
A.R.P. LECTURES
Office at Volunteer Headquarters
By kind permission of Lieut.-Col. H. B. Rose, of the Hongkong Volun- teer Defence Coprs, the Women's
Air Raid Precautions Union have
been granted the use of the Volunteer
Lination.
Reichsbank To Buy capacity to strike foar and terror as
In Open Market
Berlin, Feb. 5,
"I agree that a mere blonde (he continues) cannot scowl and frown at his opponent with the suma
can raven-haired players possessing fierce
black cycbrows, and chess masters have not yet reached the stage of boxing champions who go unshaved to their contest, but when they do blondes will be at a disad- vantage.
"Miss Vern Menchik, the woman's worki chess champion, is brunette woman who can beat her. and has yet to find n dark-haired
The Reichsbank has abandoned the practice of buying bills of exchange and cheques issued in foreign currencies exclusively at Relchsbankc discount rates, and will, in future, purchase them at the discount rate of the country in whose currency they "Suhlberg, the Swedish champion,
dinavian is as fair as one may expect a Scan- 10 be. Reshevsky, cham- plon of the United States, is going bald, although he is only 27, but what hair he possesses is definitely fair."
are issued.
It will also refrain from deducting the fee on bills and cheques-Reuter,
Chinese Blow Up Troop Train
Chungsinng, lupeh, Feb. d. Lecture Room daily in the mornings A Japanese troop trairi carrying until further notice, provided it is not | more than 500 soldiers struck a mine required by the H.K.V.D.C,
laid by Chinese guerillas at Kuan-
HOPE ABANDONED Men Trapped in Japanese Submarine
Tokyo, Feb. 4.
This room will be used as the office tien, on the Tientsin-Puchow Roll- Hope has been abandoned for the
way southeast of Fengyang in Anh-crew of 40.
Japanese submarine 1-03 with #
for the W.A.R.P. Union, who will be ready to help and give advice to any members of the publie from Da.m. to 11.30 am. every day.
on
Lectures have also been arranged fort-First Aid, Mondays, com mencing on February 13, at noon; Anti-Gas V. A. Course, on Tuesdays, at 10.30 am. (the fourth lecture "First Aid and Nursing of War Gas"); "Running Repairs" for Motor Am bulance Drivers (a short course com- mencing on Wednesday, February 8, at 11 am.); Anti-Gas Modified Full Course, for Air Roid Wardens, on Thursdays at 10.15 am. (the third lecture, Methods of Gas Attack from the Air").
Will Indies wishing for a course on "Practical Nursing" please send their names in, stating if they are available for evening or morning classes. These will be given at the Queen Mary Hospital,
All letters may be addressed to, the Hon. Segreteries for W.A.R.F. Union, c/o H.K.V.D.C., Garden Road, Hong- kong. (Entrance via the Government Omers).
THIEF TAKES SAW MILL
wel, lust Friday, a report reaching here reveals.
More than 300 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in the accident.-Central News,
Japanese School On Fire
Chungking. Feb. 0. A Shanghai despatch reports that a big fire of unknown origin broke out at the Japanese Tung Wen
4.
College on Hunglao Road in Shang- hul on the evening of February consuming a number of small houses.
The main building of Tung Wen College was set on fire and burned by the Chinese forces when they evacuated Shanghal.-Central News,
British Intelligence
Falls
London
Rescuers were unable to reach the vessel on account of the great depth of water in the Bungo Channel,
United Press. Earller messages said that attempts were being made to save the lives of crew of the Japanese submarino which sank in the Bungo Strait after collision with another submarine.
the creu
The disaster, according to an an- nouncement by the Ministry of the Navy, occurred during manoeuvres in which the two submarines were participating.
KULING FOREIGNERSTM America Not Informed Of Japanese Request
Washington, Feb. 3. Replying to reports from Shanghai, the State Department sold they were aware of the Japanese request that foreigners evacuato Kuling before February 10.
The State Department made, no comment as the weather special in- structions would be sent to the American Consulate at Hankow, which is handling the situation, How- ever, they recalled that standing in- The average intelligence of Britons structions and long been issued to is declining rapidly, Dr. H. A. Fraser Consuls regarding such emergencies Police chief Homer G. Hogan is Roberts, chief investigator of the and indicated that they regarded seeking a thief who stole a seven-ton Burden Mental Research Trust, who those to be sufficient. The Instruc- portable saw mill from woodlot has completed an analysis of the in- tions authorise the removal of Ameri- where Nelson G. Tibbets was clear- | telligence of 3,400 Both children, ro cans from danger when deemed ing hurricane-felled timber,
ports,
ndvisable. United Press,
MEDFIELD, Mass.
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