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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Fleet Exercises French Publicity
Next Month
Bureau
Paris, July 31,
August 1, 1939..
THE POLICE RESERVE List of Parades for The Coming Week
are;
Pallee Reserve orders by Hon. Mr. (By A Naval Correspondent) Jena Giraudug, Director of the No fewer than nine capital ships new Commissariat General for In-C. G. Perdue, Commissioner of Police will be taking part in the Home and formation, the creation of which was Reserve Fleet exercises planned for decided upon by the Council of August and September.
Chinese Company
The following have been luken ont
ALHAMBRA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
No bars on the hilarity!
No wails around the fun!
These vesseln, representing the Ministers on Saturday, stated to the the strength from July 27: Con- A COMEDY UPROAR! A LAUGH UPHEAVALI. backbone of the Navy's heavy strik-Petit Parisien that French pro-stables Lau Mau, Koh Kwai-sun and ing force, are the Nelson (Dagslippaganda at home arid abroad want Lam Chong-sing.
Constables Thomas T. Wong and of Adml, Sir Charles Forbes, Com-ed intensifying and co-operation of mander-in-Chief. Home Fleet), Rod all factors to ensure a uniform polley Lai Ching-fan are commended ley, Royal Severeign, Royal Oak should be achieved. Resolution, Ramillies, Hood and Re- pulse, and a battleship of the Reserve Fleet whose name has not yet been disclosed.
The Homes, which has been in the Mediterranean for the past six
by the Cominissioner of Police for zeal and alertness whilst on duty in M..Girhudux said the new Burcou siresting a Chinese male and female direct super-jon June 29, who were each sentenced did not contemplate vixion of the French Press,
at the Criminal Sessions for posses→
the
The undertoentioned will attend
Con
M. Brillouin, the Director of the ion of Heroin Pills. months, is due at Spithead on Thurs-Broadcasting Department which was day. After leave hus been given to also created on Saturday, Bald one Headquarters for Part II of training her ship's company in two watches, task was the erection of a number course to-day at 5.30 p.m. she will join the flag of the Comman-of powerful transmitting stations stables Tang Shu-woon, Chan Chi-
which would make
voice of wing, Chan Ching-man, Li Chung, der-in-Chlef Home Fleet.
Chan Tak-cheong, "Leung Tak-kwong, At each of the home poris prepara- France heard.
Yung Fook-pul, Joseph Tom Hung, tions for receiving and equipping, the
The department wished in part-Li Tung-song, C. H. G. Leong, Chan 12,000 ofcers and ratings of the culor to extend French transmissions Wai-shun, Wei Ying-yuen, Lo Shiu- various Reserve branches who are
to make the
kwal, Seah Cheow-hang, John Ma, about to be called up for the Fleet to America in order
American public nequainted with Wu Man-hon, William Ho, Lung Chi- exercises are in full swing, and there French thought and culture.-Trans- lup, Charles Tam, Tanh Kwon- Js every Indication that this influx of personnel will be absorbed with out delay og Hitch,
Mobilisation plans, which would not come into operation except in a natonal emergency, are now so far advanced that three times the num- ber of reservists it is proposed to call out could be accepted, equipped and appointed or drafted, to their war billets without serious difficulty.
Ocean.
Goodwill Mission
wing, Lau Mau, Kah Kwal-sun and Lain Chong-sing.
Nightly between 8 p.m. and mid- night by members as detalled by the Officer in Charge.
Indian Company Training Course-Part
IL.-The
Manila, July 31. Indicating that the Sino-Japanese " war is not halting Japan's conner- cial expansion throughout Asia, re-undermentioned will attend Head- presentatives of the Domel Agency quarters on Tuesday, and Friday for ond the Japanese Tourist Bureau Part II of Training Course at 5.30
pm. Constables Kamis
Bachoo, arrived here to stablish branches.
Faquir. Mohamed, Nand Singh, A. Simultaneously, three groups of Haroon, N. L. Advani, Lal Singh, S. Japanese students arrived on good-A. Ismail, Gosar All, Makhan Singh, wili visita. Earller this month, a A. W. Kader, M. Abker, and Sorwar
wave Tokyo short
station began Khan. nightly programmes in Mulay for Use)
Flying Squad benefit of the Filipinos, Javanese end British Malayans. A Japanese pan, and midnight by members
Patrol Duly.-Nightly between 8 newspaper has been established at detailed by the Omeer in Chorge.
SALE OF HANDICRAFTS Refugee Centre to Show Results of Training
The sale of handicrafts by the
China Tugce women to the South Industrial Centre for refugees, post-
July 22, poned from
will take place to-day from 11 am, to 7 pm. in St. Jolin's Cathedral.
The two organizations sponsoring the sale, the Hongkong Chinese Wo- men's Club and the South Ching W.C.T.U., are expecting a big crowd tu attend the affair. Besides thiqu- sands of merchandise coupons sold, Invitations to see the result of their
sult of refugee work during months were sent to many people.
Thousands of pleces of hand work by the young girls, many of whom were ignorant of handling needles when they first entered the Centre, will be displayed for anle.
Companies have donated products for the occasion.
If all the bandieratta dre sold the Centre will have been able to support itself, though from the day It started a sum of $6,000 to $7,000 has been used for its upkeep.
Singapore.
15.
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Emergency Unit Reservo Constable L. A. Martin has been The Philippines Iferaid of Manila) publishes a special Davao section in taken on the strength as from July which Japanese advertisements pre- dominate as well as pictorial layouts Acting Lance Sergeant J. Vun Der of the vast Japanese owned planta-Lely has been promoted to Lance tons-United Press.
Sergeant from July 19,
BARBARA GILMAR
Returns from Holiday
At Weihaiwei
Miss Barbara Gilmar, the sopranu, Berived in Hongkong on Saturday from Weihaiwel, where she has been spending
a summer holiday. She
Inspector (R) W. V. Field is com- mended by the Commissioner of Police for zeal and alertness in arresting two Chinese mates on May 23. The second defendant was sen tenced for alding and abetting, and the first for Larceny from person.
Patrol Duty--Nightly between B p.m. and midnight by members as detalled by, the Officer in Charge.
C. CLAMPKIN.
D.S.P.(R).
a staying in the Colony only a few days, during which time alio broadcast an operatic programme HONGKONG DONATION
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It is also hoped that after the ex-from ZBW before going on hibition a great many orders will be received
wholesale prices.
Jor
goods at
LATE NEWS
at the Victoria Hall, Singapore, in September..
On August 13
With the approach of the second
Miss Gilmar expects to return to anniversary of the outbreak of nos- her next tities in the Shanghal area in 1937, Hongkong In October, concert here being planned to toke Chinese commercial, student, labour
place before Christmas,
Cow Wins 22nd Championship
London.
and hawkers' clrcles In Hongkong arc making preparations for h gigantic "offer gold" campaign to be launched in commemoration of the
occasion.
The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the Hongkong Com- mitler for Student Relief will re- present Uhe business men and students respectively in the forth- coming drive.
In the Sussex cattle classes, of the
The campaign, it is learned, will Kent County Agricultural 25uw, at Folkestone, a 13-year-old cow Lock be patterned after that launched last Knelle 2nd, owned by Colonel J. R. year on the same pecasion. All Warren, freslt from her Royal Show Chinese Banks and the leading Chin- triumphs, where she won her fourth ese department stores in the Colony supreme breed champlonslip, went will instal "donation boxes" for on to take her 22nd champion award donors to deposit their contributions. at a leading show.
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