Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 1, 1939.
5.
DONALD DUCK
GEE, LOOKIT POND UP THE SWELL
AHEAD,
UNCA DONALD!
THAT'S NO POND, BOYS,
THAT'S A MIRAGE!
WHEN WE GET RIGHT UP TO IT IT'LL VANISH?'
By Walt Disney
FRESH FROZEN
STRAWBERRIE
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$1.20 per Carton
6-19
EUROPEAN WOMAN SHOOTS AIR
GUN PELLET AT PEDLER
COURT SEQUEL TO AUSTIN RD. INCIDENT
"IF the pellet had travelled three inches lower, it would have entered the man's eye and you would be on the other side of the rail facing a very, very, very serious charge," said Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning, when he fined Mrs. B. Pears of 108 Austin Road, $50 for negligently discharging an air pistol and wounding Chek Poon, a knife grinder, on August 16.
Conspiracy Case
Mr. T. E. Jackson of the same! address was fined $5 for posses- sion of an air pistol and two boxes of pellets without licence.
Sub-Inspector R. Cunningham said that at about 5 pan. on August 14, | he received a call at the Water Police
Three Women Charged Station that a knife grander had been
At Police Court
But in the head with an air gana į outside No. 108 Austin Road.
scene
A [ew minutes later pector Further evitience was heard of a case against three women who were Cunninghams arrived on the charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the man had already been sent the Central Magistracy yesterday to hospital.
with conspiracy and obtaining money He went to 108 Austin fload and by false pretences, by pretending saw Mrs. Pears and asked her if she that they were able to obtain a dat had any arms in the house at which in Queen's Road Central for Shekhe answered in the negative.
looked around the flat and saw a few
Kam.
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The defendants were Cheng Yimm-pellets lying on a window sill and fun, 24, lio Shuet-ying, 25, and Chan asked her if, they were her property. Fong, alias Pei Po, 27. Cheng and but he denied any knowledge of Ho were represented by Mr. C. A. S. them. Russ, and Mr. M. A. da Silva pro- secuted,
Annoyed By Hawkers
he
Inspector Cunningham then went The women were charged with to Mr. Jackron's room and asked obtaining $30 and $100 on two oeca-him if he had any arms, and sions on June 23, from Shek Kum by produced an air-pistol from an ice- false pretences, by saying that they chest and handed it over. 'Mrs. Pears were able to obtain a Mal in Queen's then admitted that she had fred the Road Central, for her. They were pistol at the mun, niso alleged to have conspired obtain $100 from May and June 23.
to
Shek, between
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Mrs. Pears said she had been an noyed by the continuous shouting of these hawkers and had tried to seare Shet Chi, father of She: Kam,them away by Being at them. continuing his evidence, sald on June
Inspector Cunningham pointed our 23, Cheng Yim-fan, first defendant, went LO $109 house atel told to Mr. Himsworth that if she had hin that the landlady the been annoyed by hawkers she could flat the promised to obtain for him have reported the matter to the had gone to Macao. She said, as Police nuthorities, and not to have their return Was not definite, it taken the low into her own hands. would be better to hand over the
5100 so that he could go and stay
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at the flat before the landlady come some receipts that she was about to
draw up for Shok.
back.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
PERFUME BAR
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"Madame would like to know if our 'Enchanting Allure Special' will also keep away mosquitoes!",
REFUGEES 1839, 1939
(Continued from Page 8.).
a Special Commissioner to deal with the Oplum Question, a crisis arose. was one Lan Tak-sut, better known The official named for this task
to history as Commissioner Lin.
This man regarded the opium traffic with an uncompromising hatred and determined as a patriot to stamp out the evil once and for all,
Decree Nisi Granted
HONGKONG “CONFESSION" Photostat Copy Sent
To London LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter). -The Chinese Embassy has received a photostat copy of a letter sent to the Governor of Iǝngkong by two Chinese, de- claring that they were the real murderers of Cheng in Tientsin last April.
They declared that their motives were patriotic and they are horified that innocent men should suffer in their place.
They offer to surrender to lawful
processos provided the Governor of Hongkong promises not to surrender them to the Japanese.
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6.00 An Hour of Variety and Dance Novellette--Serenade (Henselt); Music.
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Horry Pepper and Une Sunday
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Into Blue-Dehnel) Lalian 8.06 Selected Tangor.
on:
Milonguita (Lining); Carino Gau-
8,15 London IIitting Tha · High-
Harvey (Soprano); Sing My Heart- Quickstep (Arlen)....Victor Silves-cho (Paiva); Madrecita de Pompeya. ter and his Ballroom Orchestra; Song (Lalho)...Orquesta Tipicu Francisco Of My Heart (Wismar);
Heart Cannro. Of (Wismarische
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"Novelly
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ster and his Ballroom Orchestra Shut-Eye (Donaldson)
PERMIT TO
POUR MILK
A Cabaret Programme in Three- Moods Devised by Archie Campbell.
8.45 Studio Short Biographical
Harry Hoy and als
his Orchestra; We've Studies of Great Composers by Peter Corse A Long Way Together-Slow Gracey, No. Beethoven. Fox Trot (Stept); A New Moon and
9.15 London The News, Serenade Slow
ow Fox Trol 9.50 an Old S
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!I Can't Believe That It's You | ver)....
Connie Boswell (Vocal); The
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Short Taks on Matters Of Topical
0.45 London-Sports News and
Shobby Old Cabby Waltz (Stillman) Market Notes,
Billy Cotton and his Band; Little
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PERMISSION to pour 1,500
Wilbur.
7.00
tions.
As
-An Australian Bush Song.
10.00 London-Game
Ned: Closing Local Stock Quota-Kelly.
The Story of the Kelly Gong, Bush-. 7.03 The Aldershot Command gallons of skimmed milk Searchlight Tattoo-1035.
rangers of Australia.
10.45 down the drain daily for a
The Music of the Massed Bands of
The Light Symphony Or-. clicstra. the Aldershot Command recorded at month, with a diminishing quan- the Tattoo.
Like To The Damask Rose (Elgar, tity over nine months, was)
1.21 Light Orchestral Selections.
arr: Haydn Wood); Queen Mary's Gypsy Dream Czardas (Horvath); Interlinked French Folk Melodies Song (Elgar, arr: Haydn Wood); Two- granted to a Hove dairy firm Spanish Dance (Don Rico)...Don (Ethel Smyth); Minuet (From "Feto recently by the Brighton Sewers Rico and his Gypsy Giris Orchestra: Galante") (Ethel Smyth).
Board.
Mr. Cyril Page, general manager of the firm, Hole's and Davigdor, Hygienic Dairies, Ltd., said that the milk, the residue after making butter and cream, has definite food value,
Hongkong Woman's but the Milk Marketing Board would
Petition
not allow it to be sold for humani consumption, in ease the demand for ordinary fresh milk should be re- duced.
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Mexican. Serenade
(Kaschubee); 11.00 Close Down,
PREDATORY JAPANESE RAIDS ON JUNKS
Campaign Continues Near Hongkong
THAT the Japanese Navy in southern Chinese waters are continuing their campaign against Chinese trading and fishing funks is revealed in reports made to the Hongkong Police by the masters of several' junks on their return to the Colony yesterday.
At the Supreme Court this mor-
When the firm's application was Ining, before His Honour the Chief
Sewers Board, Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor, Mrs. cons.dered by the NE OF the first instances of his Phyllis Gibbons brought n petition Councillor Mrs. E. R. Richards,
vigorous policy was to demand, for the dissolution of her marriage sister, of Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P., on March 18, 1839, the surrender of with Mr. James Henry Gibbons on sald: "I protest against such a waste all opium stored on foreign chips in the grounds of eraelty and desertion of milk when it is so badly needed reported that about 7 p.m. on August
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Chinese waters, threatening the tor-
tor for her. He told the defenda45 ¿Station and made walking claimed, und all
Was
In the town"
desertion charge.
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Wong Yuen-kau, master of a junk
he was sailing near Man King Sha in Chinese waters when he saw
Spain Neutral
Madrid, Aug. 31
a Japanese trawler approaching. He and his crew of four left the junk, and rowed towards land.
A "High General Staff" has been From a distance he observed the called into existence by a decree of
to the Japanese board his junk, set fire to
When Mr. Page was told of the suggestion he commented: "I don't think we should be permitted by the Milk Marketing Board to give it nway. I will, however, go into the matter and if anything can be done I shall be glad to do it."
The Milk Marketing Board has no power to prevent the skimmed milk being given away.
his vessel, he managed to extinguish the flames. Damage to the extent of $100 was caused.
...
Other Outrages
The main task Incumbent on the new body will bo to bring about concentration of the military and economic forces of the Spanish nation Lee Kam-shiu, master of another in order to assure the country's inde- junk and that about 11.30 p.m. on pendence in the event of an outbreak August 28, he was stopped by a of war in Europe. Japanese trawler near Lin Tin Island, Ten seamen boarded his vessel and placed under the direct authority of The High General Staff will ba took
rifles, 170 rounds of away two
General Franco himself, to whom it ammunition,
$30
Hongkong money will make proposals destined to en- and canvas valued at $40.
The Hon. Mr. Leo D'Alauda Jnr.. Shek said he paid $136 for rent Shick protested and said the chops eign merchants that their lives would acted for the plaintiff. The suit
"GIVE IT AWAY” and $30 for defendant's commission, were faked, but the second and third be forfeited if the order
not was not contested. Cheng said the money had
Mr. David Edwards, the Board's to be defendants suld as the shop Pock obeyed,
a genuine business con-
In the course of his references to surveyor, suggested that a recon- | handed over to the landlady before Hing was
The General Chamber of Commerce authorities. Mr. D'Almada said that mendation might be made. the flat could be turned over
to cern, the chop could not be a fake, in the Canton "Concession" sought to this was the first case in Hongkong dairy that anyone able to take head then leave. Rowing back to General Franco issued to-day, him.
Shek finally agreed and the docu- After they had talked for awhile,ments were chopped and signed by Play for time, and made un offer 10where a petition was brought on the milk away should have it fre
surrender some 1,037 chests. This rounds of cruelty and she left and returned later with the documents he handed over the Comunissioner, who pointed out that ground but an alternative one.
defendant. After signing was contemptuously refused by the The desertion was not an additional the first ather two defendants.
Second defendant said she was the $168 and left,
one British merchant (Mr. Lancelot landlady and third defendant claim- On June 24, not finding the fiat Dent) was alleged to have over 8,000 At the conclusion of the petitioner's ed to be a cousin of the second de defendant had promited to obtain chests under his own control.
case, His Lordship pronounced fendant and neted as a rent collec for him. Shek went to No. 7 Police Conditions grew desperate. A boy-
decree nisi. cott of the "Factory" site was pro- he would meet thei outside the One August 14, Central
Chinese servants Theatre
with the money.
down Wellington Street with his
to the English formally interdicted. were ordered out on strike. With his daughter he met the three daughter, Shek saw the third defen-
Things went from bad to worse. defendunts. After having tea they dont and she was taken to the station
As food and water were both cut The attack upon a British
vcssc!. went to the Fook Hing cabinet-box and charged. A few days later the off, the foreign merchants were"The Black Joke," in which the crew makers where first defendant volat-other defendants were located and forced to a decision. On March 25, and its only British passenger were
The News Chronicle was informed ed out a man as the master of the charged.
1830, they signed a bond, "pledging slaughtered, raised excitement to such by the Board that farmers supply was brought back by Leung Lai the army, navy and air force.
A story of robbery and kidnapping sure organic co-operation betweent shop. She then asked him for his Hearing was adjourned until Sep-themselves never to deal in opluma pitch that the Governer of Macao milk for
cream, cheese and Ice- chop as she wanted to guarantee❘tember 12 at 2.30 p.m.
again or to have anything further to declared that he could not answer cream making at a reduced rate,
of a junk. He said that six partner do with its introduction into China,for the safety of British
General Vigon, who is also Secre→ residents
Japanese sailors from a motor boat tury of the National Defence Council, For the purchaser to sell the skimmed boarded his junk near Shum Mun is at the head of the new organisation Three days later. Coplain Elliot more than eighteen hours longer.
milk left from these processes would customa station about 5 p.m. en which will comprise departments for offered to deliver up all the oplum
not be fair to the farmers,
August 30. owned by British merchants in Can-CAPTAIN Elliot decided not to
military and economic affairs, as wall The Medical Correspondent writes:!
They searched his vessel, and took as an intelligence department charged ton, but ปาล Chinese authorities,
compromise the Portuguese wilst jubilant at this turn of affairs, authorities further, and at noon on when it is given to infants as a sub-raving, they took with them his concerning the fighting forces and Skimmed milk is only dangerous away $10 Chinese currency. Before with the collection of information would not relax the boycott untli Monday, August 20, 1830, the British stitute for whole milk. The skim- brother, Leung Ko-ming, and two of economic situation of foreign coun every chest had been turned over, residents left.
ming only deprives it of a small the crew, Ng Kwan and Wong Shing.tring-Trans-Ocean, To Insure that this was carried out, | Eillot, as well as the other merchants, Men, women, and children, clasp. proportion of the constituents, the fat and were held as hostages.
ing their treasured possessions, hast-chlet deliciency being in Finally, on May 21, 1830 the last ened through the streets of Macao, vitamins. Mechanical separation re- mare than does ordinary and assembled on the Prayn. Here, noves chest af oplum was surrendered and in the presence of the Governor, who skimming. destroyed by the Cluese by burying had the whole of the Portuguese It In quicklíme.
The food value of a pint of garrison ander arms, the refugees embarked on schooners, brigs, par-skimmed milk is roughly equal to for that of 202, of bread, 4oz. of butter, ques, and Junks, and set sail
It is a tlo less than succeeded in getting the oplum, Hongkong.
14oz. sugar, he destroyed the foreign trade; for
half of that of whole milk. the whole British community mediately left for Macao.
STOMACH PAIN
guickly stopped by 'BISMAG'
RISMAG]
BISMAG
It
BISMAG (Bisurated Magnesia) is the unfailing treatment for the relief of stomach troubles. gives quick relief because it instantly neutralises the harmful aclds which cause indigestion and gastric ulcers. It also spreads a protecting him over the inflamed stomach lining and thus allows digestion to proceed without pain until the cure is complete. Get Bisurated Magnesia (powder or tablets) to-day: the way it stops pain and comforts the stomach will amaze you.
(Bisurated Magnesla) Magnesia taken after my meals is the only thing that
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ON HYERY PACKAGE
A noted Doctor says ;'" I find that * Bisurated"
keeps me free from pain and discomfort, and I take it regularly. Toften prescribe it for my patients; and have had very good results.
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FOR QUICKEST STOMACH RELIEF BISMAGI
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The mournful procession of salting craft that left the harbour of Macao on their forty mile journey to Hong- The oplum trade, however, was not kong was an epochol one. dead, nor even buried, as it sprang into life once more, and the Fate had unawares played a trump fantastic prices which the drug com- card, and as a result of the successful manded attracted smugglers on aculmination of the war which fol vaster scale than ever before.
lowed, as if; in rècompensé for the hardships of these refugees of 1839, This unexpected renascence of the Britain won a Colony which was dès- outlawed trame so aroused the ire of tined to become the entrepot of the Commissioner Lin that he command- Far East, surpassing the brightest ed the Governor of Macao (then not glories of Canton and Macao a direct Portuguese possession) to order the British community, which had taken refuge there, to leave at Conce. A boycott was ordered, and the supply of provisions of any kind
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