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September 13, 1939.
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AGITATION GROWING
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case
the
about 120 miles long and 50 miles after all, sanction the release of this issued the Hongkong Stock Miar-north and south, in enclosed on both, news.
rides by Germans and causes anxiety.
Apart from the confusion in Bri- ket this morning.
Strategic Railways
tish offices of newspapers, and Two railways hitherto unnoticed in agencles at such activities of the German strategy are now worth Ministry, there is a growing fear that brand is being watching in the north from Koenis the British £70-berg to Bialystok, and in the south hampered by Inck of information.
from Cracow to Przemysł and Lwow
agencies all the diverse which might form the most formidt-
requirements of the Ministry are b .72 n.developing on
the right and left flanks of the new Pollch positions placed of a serious disadvantage between the Vistula and the Burmpared with American and other
jagencies not so bound. rivers.
One instance of this to-day was when all the London evening news-
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Moreover, British news
...32 1.3.6 ossistance to German attack/Who comply with
200
340
14.
.12 n.
"General" Weather 165 sa. "General" Weather will be the papers displayed stories from non-
Ereatest ally of the Poles, The British rourees illeging that Britis "Daily Mail" reports that the three-Tommies were fighting sile by side 07 months drought was broken yester with the French while a few hours the Ministry of Information day and heavy rains are already later de n. troubling the German heavies. The made a statement that the fritish 30 n. Polish Embassy has no confirmation troops were not yet in action. .88/9 of this but says that this time of the
the Ministry's Commenting
"The .0.10 0.
activities in a recent leader, year is the likeliest for reins.
Since Napoleon's day, Polish mud Times" sold: "We wage this war in the sight of all neutral nations: .99 b. has been famous,
believing our cause is just, we court Civilians Aid Defence
their judenient and we desire them? BASLEX, Sept. 12 (Router).-Ato have the fullest materia! for ..7% n. picture of the defence of Warsaw is forming that judgment."
110 n. iven by the Riga (Latvia) corres-
pondent of the "Hasler Nachrichten" showing that every available person, .8.70 b. including women.
men, and children, are helping to barricade the 2 .capital with oli trams. railway
10 b and sa. į
$1.10 b.
4
"old,
carriages and air raid debris.
111
Questions In Commons? LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter).—Mr. Chamberlain will give his second "war bulletin" the House of Commons at 2.45 p.m. to-morrow .5 b. According to the Berlin eorrespon- when he is expected to carry on the 32 bdent of the same newspaper, it is story of the war from the point to par. a. expected in Berlin that the operations which he took it on September 7. .7.90 n.around Warsaw will cause serious Any questions which may arise as ....8 n. losses to the German army-owing to to the function and working of the
will .44 sa. the groups of Polish troops behind Ministry of Information
.98 n. the German lines which con-answered by Sir Samuel lonre, Lord
tinuously harassing the German rear. Privy Seal.
Warsaw Suffers
10 b.
7,40 n.
.3.70.
are
(Reuler), LONDON, Sept. 12
be
Warsaw has suffered very heavily has turned and is attacking the Ger- .60 b. under extensive air bombardments mans.
22 b. during the past 24 hours, according
7.85 sa. to Polish wireless reports.
Bitter Aghting is in progress along
4.70 b. One of the buildings destroyed is the Bug River front, where Polisi
cularly
reports
new
"Les battles on the southern front, along
the San Ine, where the Germans are trying to turn the Polish centre and sever the Warsaw-Lublin region from Eastern Gallein and Rumania.
501 b. believed to be the palace famous as resistance is described as being parti-
18 n the Inte Marshal Pilsudski's residence .11 n. (now the Pilsudski Muscum) and 21% so. regarded by the Foles as a notional
7.60 n. shrine. 19/- n.
Naxis Race With Rain .22/-. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Sept. 13 (UP).—The semi- Cald: Marg. (ord.), Sh. $....14 nometal Moscow.
news
"Le Temps" orgin Cald: Macg. (Pro.), Sh. $...13 n.
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machine
Poles Trapped
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Unofficial.
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.1 n.operation.
BERLIN, Sept. 13 (UP)—German observers estimate that ̄ ̄ 17, "of ̄ ̄ 18; [Polish divisions have been either "Le Temps" states that the centre wiped out in the fighting on the west 17.00 not the Polish front is retreating, but bank of the Vistula or are trapped |
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NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
$250
CASH
PRIZES
$250
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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: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.
1st. $30, 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies,
1st. $34 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd. #15. 3rd $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. Ist. $15. 2nd. $10. 3rd, $5.
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The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined ex-
clusively to
photo- graphers
1-No employee or member of any A in the photographie trade is . permitted to compeio. 3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitore pending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphi in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will De published during the period of the Com
which petition, and
maint bo Dasted on back of entry.
4. The right to publish any or all of the entries la reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
must
All photographe entered have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Pholographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. -No responsibility will be necepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.
All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must
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BACK OF EACH, ENTRY
photo
be mounted, Coloured graphs are ineligible. Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by smaller print in black and white, 9.-No picture to entered in more
than one Bection.
OF 10-Mounts to be only white
cream
and,
the except Ln Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12, 16X20.
11No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.
11-Eatrics in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, age and address on the entry farm, counter-aigned by a parent. 11-Member of the Blafs of the the Hongkong Telegraph and South China Morning Port ara not permitted to compete. 14-The decisions of the Judges shall
be Anal.
15-At the conclusion of the Com
petition, entries will be returned to competitors os application at the Telegraph oftions within seven days.
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