CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.00
for 3 days prepaid
WANTED KNOWN.
MADAME Holunde Serrault, French Corsets' Designer. Kayamally Build- ing, bih floor.
FLOWER and Vegetable Seeds such B Cineraria, Cosmos, Celery and Cauliflower, etc., may be sown from now on. Obtainable from The Clover Flower Shop.
G.
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
R.
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of JA Excellency the Governor of ORC Lot of Crown Land at Island Road, Repulse Bay, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the 'KING, for one further torm of
75 years.
-MOTOR CARS, ETC.
HONGKONG SCHOOL of Moloring)
Intending bidders are advised Limited offers you motor tuition from $20 to $75 with good European and that immediately after the dispo- Chinese instructors registered. Ad-sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not dress China Bldg. 1st floor, Tel. 20802. the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, (($200) in cash This sum will be
Naval Marriage Pay
The King's approval of the pay-refunded on payment of the Pur- ment of navo) marriage allowances for seamen, marines and reservists chase price.
of 20 years and over, instead of at PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. 21, was given in an Order in Coun- cil and published in a recent "Lon don Gazette." The reduction took effect from June 29,
Endeavour being Replaced
AUCKLAND,
Mr. F. Jones, Postmaster-General, nnnounced that the Admiralty sur- vey ship Endeavour would return to Englund at the end of August, and would be replaced by a more modern Vessel.
The Endeavour was specially built for hydrographic duties in 1912. She has a displacement of 1,280 tons and a length of 241 feet. Her com- plement is 139, commanded by Capt. A. G. N. Wyatt.
No. of Sale
Lot No. 425.-
Registry 2
Junction of Island Road and South Bay Road,
Locality
Kura) Buildins
Repulse Bay.
Boundary İkirpsuremente
N. . .
W.
As per sale plan.
DANZIG'S HOUR OF LIBERTY
(Continued from Page 1.)
Gdynin, he claimed, despite the fact that Danzig is supposed to have been Poland's solo approach to the
ECD.
August 11, 1939.
RIBBENTROP-CIANO)
ARRANGED
TALKS
(Continued from Page 1.)
been more meeting, it would have natural for him to go to Berlin. Thus Italy may have some important sug- gestions to submit to Germany.
POST OFFICE.
PARCEL POST
VIA SIDERIA BOUTE Letters and Postcards for Europe Registered and Parcel Post Servico (except Great Britain and Eire) and
Bealdes Danzig, which in itself is much more Germany's affair than Italy's, the meeting will presumably to Foochow is temporarily suspended. South America are forwarded "vie
Farcel Post Service to the Pro-Siberia" it so superscribed. deal with a number of other matters more directly affecting Italy, includ- vince of Yunnan is temporarily sus
ing the position of Hungary, the pended. migration problem in South Tyrol,
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public
At the conclusion of his speech Works Department, by Order of Herr Focrater telegraphed to Hitler His Excellency the Governor of saying. "Tens of thousands of Dan- one Lot of Crown Land at Sham-zig's people gather in the squares of this ancient German city to protest shuipo, in the Colony of Hong against the Polish threats to bombard
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Kong for a term of 76 years, Danzig. They look to you with the
Registered and Parcel Mails are commencing from 1st July, 1898, greatest confidence, reverence and un-Spain, Yugo-Sinvin, and the question
closed 10 minutes earlier than the MAIL FOR CANTON with the option of renewal at a
shakeable loyalty."
military
time given below unless otherwise Registered and Ordinary mail and stated, and where malls are advertis alliance. As the crowds dispersed at the con-of Japan joining the Axis Crown Rent to be fixed by the clusion of the meeting they were
Parcela (not Insured) will be a ed to close at or before Da.m., re Surveyor of His Majesty the chanting Home to the Reich."
The internal situation in Hungary | copied for Canton and despatched as glatered and parcol mails are closed. KING, for one further term of
is viewed with some uneasiness in circumstances permit,
at 5 pm. on the previous day. growing absence of friends Berlin, and lately there has been
INWARD MAILS wards Germany, while the Yugo-Slav Government has reportedly refused to kin at the disposal of the Axis in place the strategic rallways of Slova-
ease of war.
24 years lens the last three days
thereof.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sul of the lot the Purchaser ( not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer: who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash This sum will be refunded on payment of the Pur- chase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
New Kowloon inland Lot No. 2715.
Between New Kowloon
Inland Lots Nos. 2660
Road, Shamshuipo.
Contenta in
sq. feet
Annui
Bental
Oplet Price
I No. of Sale |
Registry No.
Locality
1200
14.000
$150
$3.500
survey of the coastline and outlying
She arrived at Auckland for sur-Islands was expected veying service on the New Zealand years or longer. station in June, 1937 The complete
The
to take ye
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH
ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
$250
CASH
PRIZES
$250
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Protest Against War Threats have met la grave times to protest DANZIG, Aug. 10 (Reuter)-"We betafe the whole world against the anti-Danzig war threats which the Poles have been making for weeks past," declared Herr Foerster when addressing a mass demonstration here to-day.
Herr-Foerster said that foreign Journalists had assumed that the sation, but the position was too serl-
Nazis
wanted to launch a'fresti sen-
ous for sensations.
ет to-
not p have to hold protest demons-meeting at Salzburg is for the pur-
"It would be more pleasing for us trations, but Palleh war threats and provocative speeches and articles, force us to do so. As omelot circles in Poland are taking part in these war threats, we are compelled to express our views clearly."
Herr Foerster declared that Poland was trying more and more to increase the hatred of Germany, and Poland wanted to take the whole of East Prussia and smash Germany in a bloody war.
From
Shanghai
Jopan and Shanghal Saigon
Shanghai
Shanghai
Manila
Japan and Shanghal
Straits
Shanghai Straits
September Crisis Expected ASPÉCIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME, Aug. 19 (UP)-Diplomats here believe the foreign ministers' pose of determining whether italy will completely support Germany's
(Papera etc.) London, date, 13th solution of the Danzlų desire for a problem in September, or whether
Tientsin....... Italy will continue to apply the brakes
Haiphong and Fort Bayard" to Germany.
Shanghai and Amoy Stralis.. Shonghal
Palchoi, Hoihow and Fort Boyard .. Szechuen Straits and Europe vin Negapatam,
A high diplomatic oficiul to-day told the "United Press" that the month of August will be quiet, marked by italo-German discussions suallar to that at Salzburg, which will decide the Axis policy for September, when a crisis is considered inevitable. is also believed the Axis is bring-
"Let Poland take the following points to heart," declared Herr Foering pressure on Yugo-Slavin to adopt
at least a benevolent, neutrality.
No Hitler-Mussolini Mecting
ster:
"At A Given Time--"
"War threats, however challenging. will arouse in Danzig no sign of fear, wo Nazis have acen to 1 that the people of Danzig don't lose their nerves in this time of tension, because previous experience has given them confidence that at a given time, Nazi leadership will do the right thug we have done everything to protect Danzig against a surprise attack, or a coup d'etat, and to answer accord-
accord ingly; let Poland be quite clear that Danzig does not stand alone abandon- ed in the world, but that the great German Reichs and leader. Herr - ler, will stand at our side in the event of an attack from Poland."
Herr Foerster declared that Danzig was not English, it was not French and it was not Polish. If anyone had the right to be uneasy about the future of Danzig, it was Danzigers themselves. Danzig always had been
German city.
#1
Hour Of Liberation Will Como "Danzig's population fully realises, and firmly believes that the hour of allberation will come and Danzig will return to the Reich, Danzigers look with special love and reverence to Herr Hitler, who, they are convinced, will fulfil their desire to return to the Relch and give them back their self- determination which was denied them In 1919.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Pur- chase price.
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 | PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
(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:
General Pictorial Section: Landseppes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION THREE:
Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.
1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies, ist. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15. 2nd. $10. 3rd. $3,
RULES
The following Rules will gavern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- graphiera
-No employee or member of any frm the photographie trade is permitted to compete. J.-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com peliuion, and which must be parted on tack of entry.
The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Talegraph,
ruuat
All photographs entered have been taken in the Colony.. of Hongkong. Photographer which have been" slroady" entered in other Compellians ara, tnoiigible. 8.-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, lass GÅ DI damage to entries,
-All entries to be alther black, sepla, or toned pictures, and must
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY
ba
mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. 8.-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by, a smaller print in black and white, -No picture to entered in more
ong Section,
10.---Mounts to be only while or cream, ́and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12,
11.-Ne correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- polition,
12mEntries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, age and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent. 19.-Members of the Staffs of the
Hongkong Telegraph and South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 14-Tho decisions of the Judges shali
be Anal.
the
15-At the conclusion of the Com
petition, entiles will be returned la competitors on application st the Telegraph attices within seven days.
SECTION
NAME
ENTRY FORM
ADDRESS
DATE.
Planete block letters and pasta this on back of each Entry. If entered in Children's Section, parent pieses coup tersign birE.
1 No. of Salo
Lot No. 4170.
Registry No.
2152.
Locality
PETȚUȚ VODJAOJ
Cheung Ning Street,
Boundary
Measurements
[N. [1] E. | 1.
|teetfeet ferl|fret:
86 per sale
plan.
Contents in
Вель.
Price
Агл.
nq. feet.
Upset
9.734
3178
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Hitler.
Likely
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, Aug. 10 (UP). The with the Italian Foreign Minister at German Foreign Minister's meeting Salzburg to-morrow, according to well informed circles, will give them both an opportunity for a thorough review and co-ordination of the Axis powers diplomaile activity.
Influential quarters do not confirm that Count Ciano and Herr Von Ribbentrop will arrange a meeting between Hitler and Mussolini, and such a meeting is not generally ex- pected.
for to-morrow's No programme meeting has been announced but it is expected that Count Ciano will re- main in Salzburg until Sunday.
FRANCO'S NEW
KEY MEN
Burgos, Aug. 10.
we cannot do better than to promise pair, Cesena, Munos, Grande, is hour, I believe that The Secretary General of the to remain united, no matter what regarded in political quarters bere as may happen, and that we shall ward the representative of the younger of resolutely every attack on the sacred German soil with the forces of the Falange for
generals who have been supporters at our disposal, and carry out every
A considerable time. order given by our leader, Herr
General Munoz Grandle received his military training in Morocco in "The day may not be too far dis- hard Bghting against the natives. tant when we shall come together Shortly before the outbreak of the again for the celebration of Danzig's Civil War he became usistant Chief reunion with the Reich."
of Police. The Popular Front regime, Speech Welcomed
this however, dismissed him. from BERLIN, Aug. 10 (Router).The post because of his Nationalist restrained tone of Herr Foerster's sympathies, and after the outbreak of speech is welcomed in German the Civil War he was arrested quarters, and a commentator con- Madrid and sentenced to death. trusted it with the "excitable extra-death sentence, however, wis vagance of
of the Polish press,"
carried out and he came to Nation- alist Spain through an exchange of prisoners. In the final stage of the War he commanded an army corps and greatly distinguished himself in
He added that Poland should take note of this offelal announcement that Danzig was prepared to repel any attack, and that it would stand alone in doing 50.
the Catalonla offensive.
July.
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dale,
Air Mall by "Imperial Airways
Direct Service"-London Dih August.
Manila
Australia and Manila Shanghai Manlia
For
Per
Burdwan Hakone Maru Laos
Due
.August 11.
.August 11.
August 11,
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.August 11.
Min
August 11.
Pres. Taft
August 11.
Tango Maru
August 11.
Tantalita
August 11.
M/V, Victorlat
August 12.
Suwa Maru
August 13.
August 12.
Hector
August 19:
Hothow
August 13.
Jean Dupuis
August 13.
Kiungchow
August 13,
August 13.
August 13.
.August 13.
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August 15.
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August 15.
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August 15.
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.Fri, Aug. 11, .Aug. 11, 5 p.m. ..Fri., Aur. 11.
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..Aur. 11. 3.00 p.m. .Aug. 11, 6.30 p.m. ......Fri, Aug. 11.
..Aug. 11, 4 p.m. Aug. 11, 5 pm. .Aug. 11, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
.Aug. 11, 6 p.m.
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..Aug. 11, 4 p.m.
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Aden, Egypt and Europe vla
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Reg..
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Aug. 11, 5 p.m. .Aug. 11, 3.30 p.m.
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Reg
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Halphong
Parcels only for Straits Manila and Naples-due Naples,
September,
Formosa, Shanghai and Japan Amoy
in
The not
Parcels only for Straits Shanghal
Although General Munoz Grande int hes hitherto not been engaged political activities to any extent, that he did not have occasion to state his politi
political views in public, political quarters here declare that it can be regarded as certain that he is a firm supporter of the Falange, whose ab-
Foreign political circles in Berlin that the are agrecably surprised speech was couched in moderate language, and contained
no sensa- tional announcement.
Herr Hitler listened to the speech at Berchtesgaden, and heard the crowd chanting: "We want to return to the Reich before the demonstra-salute Inyalty to General Franco Is tion began.
Girl
beyond any doubt.
The
new Vice-Secretary of the Falange, Camero de Castillo, is re- garded as an exponent of the young- of Falange leaders. A: the age of 20 he already held, the post of Civil Governor of Seville. HARTFORD, Conn. (U.P.)The He relinquished this post to serve d5 male ego suffered a severe setbacka volunteer on the Nationalist cruiser when announcement was made that Canaries. After a relatively short girls captured the highest awards me
be become Adjulant this year in the city's two high. General Naval Staff. Trans-Ocean. schools.
Students Score est generation
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Santiago, Chile, Aug. 10. At a special Press Conference an official explained the Hispano- Chilean situation. He said that the first replies from the American nationa strongly supported the Chilean stand as regards the right of asylum in the Embassles at Madrid.
Ho confirmed that Chile had asked ΣΟ make a the American nations common demarche direct to General Frango in final attempt to secure the safe conduct of 17 persons now taking asylum in the Embassies United Press.
Saturday
3rd
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.Aug. 11, 5 pm. .Aug. 11, 7 p.m. Fri, Aug. 11.
Aug. 11, 4 p.m: ..Aug. 11, 5 p.m. .Aug. 11, 5.30 p.m Gr.o.
Aug. 11, 4 pm. Aug. 11, 6 pm. .Aug. 11, 7 p.m.
Yatshing Sat., Aug. 12, 9.30 a.m. Helton...Sat., Aug. 12, 10.30 .m. Kwangtung .....Sat., Aug. 12, Noon, Anshuri ...„Sat., Aug. 12, i p.m.
M/V. Victorlå Sat., Aug. 12, 3.30 p.m.- Suwa Maru..Sat., Aug. 12, 3.30 p.m. Cremer
.Sat., Aug. 12, 5 p.m.
Monday
Salgon, Madong, Salamaua, Tulagi
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Sindang..Mon., Aug. 14, 1.30 p.m. Szechuen Mon., Aug. 14, 3.30 p.m.
Friderun...Mon., Aug. 14, 4.30 p.m.
Mon, Aug. 14,
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Direct Service" duo 21st August.
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Reg
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Java Air Mail for Malaya,
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Tuesday
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Soldier Jailed For Salgon
1917 Surrender
PARIS. DENE RABAT, forty-four-year-old It French soldier, who in 1917 on the Western Front climbed the para- pet of a trench and surrendered to the Germans, was sentenced to ten - y'ears' jali by a Faris military tribisnal.
recently,
After the war he ilved in Germany and Switzerland, but was arrested when he eventually returned France.
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