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Įbeing shot down in midair by Chinese pursuits on the soullicastern antakiria of the city,
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* NEW YORK. CURLY-HAIRED Charlie Ross was
Several large fires caused by the kidaopped in German-town, Peansy-
Incendiaries inside Chenglu elty were Ivania, when he was four years old.
June 12, 1869. That was sixty-five years ago.
Home thousands of shares and minot put out by the fire brigade until Hons of dollars are reported to have late at midnight. been manipulated 03 the Hongkong) Three of the bombs made direct It is hereby notified that com-haired, seventy-year-old carpenter, sure who is the boss Ananias of Rogue Western China University outside the Recently Gustav Blair, a white Share Market today. We are not quite hits on the British missionary-owned Hongkong-Kowloon, by experienced mencing at 9 p.m. on Sunday, the was legally recognized as the same Alloy there are so many, candidates southern gate. Two foreign members instructors from England. Intensive 11th June, the hours of supply on Charlie tons by Maricopa County for the honour. Course $25. Comprehensive Course the Island will be reduced to 10 Superior Court.
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Bir Hercules Bebinson, a once popular been wounded, Phone 57122, 623, Nathan Road.
When Charlie Ross was kidnapped Governor of Hongkong, nays, that Im-l At Chungking, the rajdera, were m. and p.m. to 9 p.m. It is his abductors demanded £4,000 ran-perialism is deemed, and that the chief greeted with furious bursts of anti- never re- factur in future colonization will be aircraft fire as soon as they pent- hoped to restore full supply by rom, but the
Republicaalam. He condemns the sys-trated into the city and were forced p.nt. on Tuesday, 13th June.
During the long years since hun-meddling with the wishes and interests witnesses stated two of the Japanese Japan tem of irresponsible bodies in England to fly at a high altitude. Eye- Strults dreds of people claimed they were
of the colonies. The Colonial and machines were sent crashing down the kidnapped chlid.
perial Institute to wit. •
in midair. A search is being made Mr. S. Smith rose to call attention for the wreckage.
Chinese pursuits gave relentless to the opium trade with China, and to meye: "That this House views with chase to the raiders until they were deep regret the history of our oplum driven well out of their rolding range. policy towards China, and regards the All the Chinese planes returned to traffic in that drug as repugnant to the their base in safely.-Central News, true intocents of that country; [that] it enlls upon the Government of India) to take steps looking to the final ex- tinction of urges upon
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LETTERS
Pen Friend
To the Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
CO., LTD.
NOTICE
turned.
He Bought £200 - Cross In 4/- 'Lot'
GRAHAME SHANKLAND, twenty-one-year-old Cambridge undergraduate and curlo collec- tor, bought a "Hot" at an auction at Folkestone, his home town, for
48.
The lot included un 18-inch figured
Experts at the sale falled to re- cognise the value of the cross.
Mr. 1. N. Murray, B.Sc., M.L.E.E., A.M.I.Mech. E., Deputy Manager, will act as Manager of the Com-cross- |pany during the absence from the Colony on leave of Mr. D. W. Munton, Manager,
By Order of the Board of
Sir, I am writing to you in the hope of securing a pen-friend in Directors, Hongkong
1 am 13 years old, and interested
in slamp collecting. I can corres- pond in English only.
Hoping that through your columns
(Sgd.) JOHN V. BRAGA,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 9th, June, 1939.
I shall obtain either a boy or girl pen FALSE ENTRIES MADE
friend.
NOREEN HANTER.
570-Bedford Park Avenue, Toronto,: Ont., Canada.
AMERICAN INCIDENT Japanese Trawlers On Pacific Coast
San Pedro, June 10. A Japanese trawler, the Minowa, and six others to-day headed for the Orlent after the Minowa is reported to have been ordered away from the U.S. Navy's training base at San Clemente Island.
Employee Found Guilty
Of Falsification
Found guilty of having made a false entry in the account book of the Ping Yuen Fan Dlm on Decem- ber 26, Wong Chung 24, was bound over in a $100 bond for 12 months and ordered to pay $100 compensation to complainant when he appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday.
Mr. A. Y. Hon prosecuted, and Mr. C. A. S. Russ was present for Wong. In giving judgment, Mr. Himsworth sald:
1935.
From
Shanghai and Swatow Manila
Shanghai Straits
Haiphong, Pakhol and Fort Bayard Kingyuan
Nanning Shanghai and Swatow
Per
Calchas
Shanghai
Ginyo Maru ........ Glenshiel
Due.
.June, 12.
June 12. -
.June 12.
Air Mail by Imperial
Direct Service-London date, 7th- June.
Imperial Airways Piano
June 12.
Kanchow
June 12,
Nako Maru
June 12.
Agamemnon Cremer
June 13,
.June 13.
.June 13.
.June 14.
Francisco Pan American Airways Plane
Juno 14,
Pres. Taft Shirala Cornevlile
June 14,
.Juno 14.
June 18.
June 14.
Imperial Airways Plane
Jane 15.
Bhutan
June 16.
Gertrude Maersk
.June 10.
.June 10.
...June 17.
.June 17.
lier Blajesty's Government Popular Front Plan Air Mall by "Pan American Airways
to the Chinese Giovernment that, in thei next revision of the Treaty of Tientsin, full power will be given to extingulah; the trade in aplum if it thinks it."
Discarded
London, June 11.
Direct Service"---San
Manila
dato, 7th June,
Japan Manila
The hon. member said he must ask the House once more to register a pro-i
A conference of committees form-Canada, U.S.A.. Japan and Shanghai
(Vancouver BC., date, 27th May). Emp. of Russia test against what wan a national in. ed to deal with petitions for the
of શ Popular Front, Air Mall by "Imperial Airways He would attempt to prave these two formation
in London to-day, Direct Service-London date. 10th (ex-propositions-firet, that we had forced held a meeting
Soon that cross will be auctioned by Sotheby's, and may fetch perts think) as much an £200,
It is n Limoges enamelled crucifix a rare specimen of French medieval
art.
Sedan Packed With
21
COLUMBUS, O. Motor-cycle Officer Lloyd W. Vest thought he had faulty vision when he stopped an automobile near the Oblo State University campus. He began counting university students as they cilmbed off and out of the machine. There were 21 in and on the five passenger sedan.
Leghorn Lays Huge Egg
SANFORD, Flu. George W. Turner
carpenter, belleves his white English Leghorn chicken has established some kind of a record with an egg which measured three and a quarter inches in length circumference. It weighed four and
the opfum trade on Ching against the when it was decided, after hearing
Juno determined opposition of that country: Sir Stafford Cripps state that a Popu-Shanghal and, secondly, that we had thereby done inr Front was not politically practic- Shanghal | Incalculable harm to China.
The House divided, and the numbers able, that the campaign should be Japan, Shanghat and Formosa
forthwith wound up and the Jocal Halphong and central committees disbanded. Shanghai Reuter.
were
For the resolution Agniet
Majority
88
105
77
The resolution was therefore rejected.)
25 YEARS AGO
Much has
Companion For Mr. Strang
June 12, 1914.
theng been written in columns during the last few years re
London, June 11. Karding the housing problem, and sug
The Sunday Times asserts that a Restions have been offered from time to time with a view to reducing the member of the Cabinet will follow ever-increasing burden of house rent Mr.
Moscow which tells na heavily on the resources
William Strang to
of the ware earning classes of the cum provided that his negotiations with munity. Nevertheless the supply of the Soviet reach, the expected result, adequate and reasonably priced accom- The newspaper stresses the difficulties modation coathues to be far short of of Strang's mission raised by the the demand and the housing question is attitude of the Baltic States.--Trans- one of the acutest problems that has Ocean. to bo tackled by those who are forced to Beck residence in Hongkong and who are not in the happy position of being provided by their employere with "free" quarters. The ituation
that has become so neute
AUCCESSIVE schemes to supply the
received the heartiest welcome from a harassed community.
WANI
For the frit time In England, aj
Sandwiches, Die
Straits
Calcutta and Straits
Straits
Strafts
Japan Rabaul
Java and Manila Calcutta and Siraits Japan
For
Haruna Maru Canton Helyo
Maru Kasima Maru
Kutsang
Patroclus
Teucer
Buenos Aires Maru Friderun
Sunthia
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Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- Imperial Airways Plane
Airways tralia by "Imperial Direct Servica"-duo Sydney, 10th Jane
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Washington. June 11. A serious epidemic of typhold has
The seven Japanese trawlers have Sec 3 (b) of Ordinance 33 of and six and one-half inches in descent was made by a parachutist from broken out among school children
been ordered to
past three years the Gulf of California.
This is a case of falsification of accounts with Intent to defraud under to Japan To substantiate such return
charge it is after having been engaged for the necessary for the prosecution to prove shrimp fishing in that the defendant was employed by the complainant in the capacity of a intent to Reports sald the incident occurred servant, uid that with
defraud the complainant he made nt Sun Clemente when the United
entry in a book belonging to his mis- to sta States fleet was proceeding
tress, for their first manoeuvres since re- turning from the atlantic.---United Prezi
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I should like to state at the outset
one-half ounces.
Explosives Worry City
LARAMIE, Wyo of this case that I think the action would have been better brought by
City ofcials are going to do the receiver of the business which something for truckera who tran- defendant is allegri to have defraud- sport explosives and combustible ed, but the fact that it was brought liquids. Plans for a special parking by one of the co-partners is not, in lot were drawn shortly after a truck my opinion, fatal to the action.
containing 1,100 gallons of com- The defendant in his ovidence pressed gas blew up in a nearby stated that he was employed by Garage and shook the windows of the complainant in the capacity of
a city hall. bookkeeping clerk, that i was his duty to enter items of expenditure in
a day book, and that he did enter Professor Pledges
an item of $400 in such book repre- senting money spent for decorative
work.
No Quizzes
COLUMBIA, Mo.
a plane. The experiment was carried who are believed to have eaten sand- out at the leadon Aerodrome, Mr. W. wiches which were exposed too long Newell, who has already made many to the sun. Seventeen of the children successful descents from balloons, as have died and more than 100 are cending in a biplane piloted by Mr. very ill-Trans-Ocean. Heginald Carr, who also carried as pan- nengers Messrs. F. W. Gudden and A. Lilleywhite. When the biplane has climbed 2,000 ft. Mr. Newell jumped clear, and the parachute, opening out immediately, lended in oila, 22ker. 011 the farther dof the aerodrome,
For the first time in the brief hla
tory of living pictures one film, already
Palace before the King and Queen of
J. Forest Flower
Is Gardener.
Santa Cruz, Cal. Police Judge W. A. Deans' love of famous, has received the Royal com- nature is so great that it almost saved mand. In the hail room of Buckingham a driver from a fine for traffic violn- Denmark, and the whole Court, Mr. tion. When the man announced that Herbert Ponting displayed his Antare- his name was John Forest Flower, tic aerica. A special screen was erect His Honour was so interested that he ed, and Mr. Ponting tretured as he doesį asked his occupation. It was that of daily at the Philharmonic Hall Mr. o gardener-The-combination-touch- Ponting has now succeeded in putained the judge, but he imposed the Ing for photography all the acknowledg-u
ments which previously were reserved customary fine. for the drama, painting and literature.! His Antarctic photographs and films. have had as great a success as a popular) play, being shown to crowded houses daily.
President Yoon Shih-kai, Hou Shih- the
The prosecution contend that this is a false entry and attempt to prove their case by two methods. First,
Dr. Charle Marsh of Stephens by alleging that a contract support Junior College for Women has a sure ing this entry has been altered, and way of winning the good graces of chang and all the members of secondly by verbal evidence of the students. At the beginning of the Cabinet will attend the opening of the semester he tells his pretty proteges | Tanchongyuan which will probably se contractor who was paid the sum for the work done as stated in the book, there will be "no quizzes, no grades, held on July 1. (au died last week. Now I hold that since no handwriting and no attendance--if you don't wish-l expert, evidence was given to prove that the contract had been oliered, the opinion as to falsification of this document given by non-experts, Is open to considerable doubts,
1,"
Japan's Birthrate Falls
TOKYO.
is
10 YEARS AGO
Whittler Carves Tiny Chain
Clevelands, O. Peter A. Morris, a 70-year-old blacksmith, belleves he is as good a whitler as any in the country. To prove his contention, he generally. carries some of his work about in his packet-a tiny chain with wooden A congregational meeting is to be shoes at its ends, and a reproduction held at the Union Church, Kowloon of Abraham Lincoln's face. night to consider the church and marwo building scheme proposed by the Joint) Building Committee of the Hongkong| nett Kowloon Churches. The oppor
June 12, 1920.
·
tunity will she be inken Rayon Possibilities
The evidence of the contractor, however, who is alleged to have done the work is on a different footing. Hia evidence was unshaken on cross-
Rey. J. Horace Johnston bon rayaye. Japan's war against China examination, although it was con-
Following the inspection of plans and tradicted in toto by the defendant responsible for a drop of from 300,000 drawings of the church and manse. The case therefore depends on whe- to 400,000 in the number of Japanese there will be a supper, during which
Births during 1938. Figures indicate the. toast of "Prosperity to the
Union ther Court believes the evidence
that the war in China is reducing Church, Kowicon" will be proposed by of the defendant
dant or that of the con- Japan's birthrote to the point where Mr. C. C. Hickling. and having heard tractor,
both of em in the box, them
have no doubt deaths are exceeding births, whatsoever, that the contractor told
true story
and that his version of the facts is correct. I therefore find the defendant guilty of making a false entry in the account book with intenti to defraud his employers.
Distress In China
Relief Fund
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banic- ing Corporation acknowledges the following subscriptions to the British Fund for Relief of Distress in China, Honly acknowledged $472,604.77 Hongkong Embossing Co.
and South China Branchi
25.00 26.10
Ho Cheong Yuen Tong B.F.R.D.C., Hongkong and South China-Branch Subscription Committee (Charity Bazaar).
483.54
$473,139.41
Cat Rides Fire Truck
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Two-State House Burns
MOUNT AIRY, N. C
A two-state house four miles north of here has been destroyed by fire.
The large, two-storey frame house
was built exactly on the state line between Virginia and North Caro-
lina.
Surreys Becoming Relics
are
Tulare, Cal. Old-time buggies, surreys and other horse yehicles of the early days “becoming zo rare that the Chamber of Commerce quickly snapped up a Surrey that was offered for sale here. It will be kept for use in "early day,”- "western" and other pageants.
Indian Moslem Dead At 132
New Delhi, India.
́ ́A Mösleni named Bhadu Fakir, whö Engine Company No. 3 claima one | died at the age of 132 in the village of the smartest mascols in the world of Philipnegar, near Kustes; was bes is its cat, “Boots," Tüle cat not only lieved to be the oldest man in India. goes to every fire on the truck but Bhadu Fakir retained all his teeth can ́also: slide-down the brass pole ) and was in full possession of him
faculties until his last linews.
when the alarm sourids.
Explored
Sydney, Australa. British experts are being sent here to investigate possibilities of making rayon from the Australian cucalyptus. If their report is favourable, a com- pany probably will catablish a plant The disorders at a Fascist meeting at for the production of rayon goods Olympia lant week were the subject of
5 YEARS AGO
June 12, 1934,
a statement in the House of Commons com eucalyptus pulp at Melbourne. by the Home Secretary,
NO. 13 ENVELOPES
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Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya.. Tjlnegara Tues., June 13, 8.30 a.m. Swntow
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Amoy Halphong
Wednesday
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......June 13, 5 p.m.
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tralia by "Imperial Airways. Direct Bervice”—due Sydney, 23rd Juno
Thurs., Jane 15.
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Friday
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..Frl, June 10, 2.30 pm. Ninghai ....Fri., June 10, 2:30 p.m.
Air Mail for Indo-China, Itan, Air France Plane......Fri, June 10.
and France (Paris and Northern Provinces only) by the "Alr Delphos, O. Franco Airways Direct Service" departments were holding a meeting Lealle Peltier, amateur astronomer
While representatives of 13 fire There's a new star in the heavenrot.]. duo Parts, 23rd. June.
CINCINNATI, O.
.Jana 16, § p.in.
June 10, 7-p.m..
at suburban Cheviot City Hall on the who has discovered seven comets and 13th of the month they were inter- a nova. He's a father—and, jt's a ] Air Moll for “R.L.M. Airways Direct Harima Maru, vaak.....Fri, June 15. rupted at 10.13 p.m. by a call from boy, the Cheviot fire department.
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CITIZENSHIP WON AT 78
--PLYMOUTH, Mass.
Age Is ho handicap to becoming an
June 16, 5 p.m. June 10, 0.30 pm. ....Fri, June 18.
G. P. O. and K. P. 0.
June 10, 4 p.m. June 16, 7 p.m.
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Mon, June 19, 7 pm. MUSKRAT BECOMES
PET
ROCHESTER NH.
A cold snap gave Mr. and Mrs.
American citizen. Among 150 mem-Oliver Kidder a new pet. A baby. bers of the Americanization classes to mukent which had evidently wan receive a gradusion certificate re-dered from the Cocheco, river was. cently was. Me: Odile Boulque, 70 found huddled against a collar win
dow trying to get warni years old,