Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 24, 1939.
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Bees Capture A Warship At Sea
WARMING, bees flew a mile, and asknew how ip handle bees,
SW
half out to sen from Portland The message reached the Portland:
recently and landed on the deck of police.
the cruiser, Newcastle,
A constable in plain clothes,
They took possession of a sailing accompanied by a raliway ganger,
boat stored andchips.
For hours, hot and bothered ratings tried to entice them into 'pans of grease.. They failed.
In desperation, the warship had to
signal to shore for some one
Gracie,
was taken to the Newcastle in high-speed navel launch.
The railwayman, Mr. C. Hawkins, of Rallway-cottages, Portland, pro- duced a hive. He gathered up the swarm with his bare hands. After who explaining to the admiring crew that honey was his hobby, he salted away and went home to bed.
"The bees are now in one of my hives and I hope, they will get busy," he said later.
Fields, M.A. Hoppers On And In
Manchester University Governors recently decided tu confer the honorary degree of Muster of Arts on Miss Gracie Fields.
The Air
COALINGA, Cal
The latest way to crash radio is to
"I am very proud" kald Gracie, become a grasshopper. During the "Monchester is the next station to my recent grasshopper infestation of this home town. I shall have to start region, the noise they made while! swotting languages to cope with ali mowing down the crops was suc- the letters I can now put after my cessfully broadcast throughout the name."
6. state.
The
Flanked at right by Il Duce. Count Clano and other officists. King Victor Emmanuel awards medal in Rome to widow of a soldier killed in Spain. Fifteen of these
were awarded.
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
$250 CASH
PRIZES $250
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW
CLOSING DATE & TIME:
29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION,
IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
For Story-Telling Pictures.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION TWO:
Ceneral Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10, SECTION THREE:
Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.
1at. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined, ex- clusively. to amateur photo- graphers.
2-No employee or member of any fem in the photographic trade is permitted to compete,
3The prizes will be awarded to the competitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo graphs in each Beetlon: Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must be fasted on back of entry, 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION FIVE:
Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years,
1st. $15.
RULES
hayo
All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony nt Hongkong. Photographs which been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. 6-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, Tosa of, or damage to entries,
7-All entries to be either black, sepla, or toned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured
photo ...traplis, are ineligible,... 4-Pictures submitted in sepia tones
should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and while. -No picture to entered in more
than ang Section. 10-Mounts to be only white or
cream, and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one
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of the following sizes:-10x12. 10x20.
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be finel.
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Iron" herei
honour
medals
The General Nearly Died
At Dawn
THIS is the story of the General
Who Nearly Died at Dawn. He bad as close shave as any British general during the Great War
at the hands of his own side.
The War Cabinet, anxious to dis euss aircraft defences, telegraphed to the front for one of their oir generals, who decided to fly to England as the quickest means of transit.
He forgot to warn the anti-aircraft defences.
RECEIVED WITH
A BARRAGE
His scaplane was seen at Dover, where fire was opened on him, and the nireraft warning was telegraphed to London, where he was received by a barrage fire.
He hud to fly southwards from London and approach froin the west- ern side, where the barrage was in- complete.
Londoners went scurrying to the Tubes for shelter from the general's pinne.
The story was recently revealed in the diary of the late Sir Basil Thern- son, Brital's spy catcher during the War.
SON OF AN
ARCHBISHOP
Str Basil, son of an Archbishop of York. personally interrogated every enemy spy who was shot in London during the Wor und his nutu- biography.soberly-written-as-a-dlary- contains many pictures of what goes on behind the scenes in Time of crisis.
He is full of praise for the courage and bearing of Carl Hans Lody, the German spy shot in the Tower.
HE NEVER
FLINCHED
never
Sir Basil recorded in his diary:
He never flinched, he eringed, but he died us one would wish all Englishmen to die-quiet- ly and undramatically, supported by the proud consciousness having done his duty.
of
The birth of the tank, which re- volutionised warfare, is given two lines in Sir Basil's diary:
I heard to-day that they are building in Birminghom n new contrivance, which they call a land battleship. It is built by struclor of armoured cars,
TALK AT
THE PALACE
con-
Under the dule November 5, 1918, appears the following: "At dinner at the Palace last night, King George talked of the wire cage built on the roof of the Palace as a protection against Zeppelins, and said that he did not think it would be very effec- live, and added.
"The Queen says, we shall have to go down into the cellors.
"Lord Rosebery, his guest, suffer. ing from His Majesty's teetotalism as they all seemed to do, asked, Could we not go down there now, Bir?
The Scene Changes," by Sir Basil Thomson, (Collins, 18g.).
Prosecutor Is Magician
PASADENA, Col. City Prosecutor, John W. Joslyn. probably has more tricks up his Aleeve than any other pubile prosecu- tor in the United States-even if all the tricks" aren't legal. He has just been elected member of the select magicians club here, being an ex- pertatened, elgarette and coln tricks. ............
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