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12.30 Selections from Light Opera "Lily Of Killarney"; "Les Cloches "Monsieur Beau- De Corneville": catro" and "The Land of Smiles."
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1.03 Carroll Gibbon (Plano) and His Boy Friends.
1.30 Reuter und Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and
ments,
Announce-
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1.45 Beethoven-Quartet In Major, Op. 18, No. 51. Lener String Quartet.
2.15 Close Down.
6,00 An hour of Dance Music. 7.00 Closing Local Stock Qualo- tions.
7.02 Variety with Vafalda, Major and Minor. Elizabeth Welch. Turner Layton and Others.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 B. B. C. Recording - "Over The Garden Wall" A Sketch.
8.18 Bladio-Recital by Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor) with Piano accom paniment by E. O'Neil Shaw.
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SUN FO'S ADMIRAL CARRIES
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD.
Notice to Shareholders
VISIT A SUCCESS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND OF
Addresses House Of 128.60. (Twelve Shillings and Six
Commons Meeting Ponce) per Share on account of the year 1939 has been declared LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter). payable on WEDNESDAY, 15th-Dr. Sun Fo gave an Interest NOVEMBER, 1939, on and afterling address to the House of which date Dividend Warrants may Commons China Committee in be obtained on application at the the Commons this evening. Society's Registered Office; Union Building, Hong Kong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the SHARE TRANS- FER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED, FROM SATURDAY, 4th NOVEMBER, to TUESDAY, 14th NOVEMBER, 1939, Bath Inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
Days
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hongkong, 4th October, 1939.,
FOR THE PROTECTION OF
CHILDREN
What to do to help a child
wns Wardlaw-Milne Sir John chairman.
Members listened keenly and naked questions, both regarding many China and Russia.
Dr. Sun Fo returns to Paris on Friday.
und
During his atay at the Chinese Embassy in London, Mr. Quo Tai- chi, the Chinese Ambassador, hos given a series of luncheonk parties at the Embassy at which Dr. Sun Fo met representative, groups of Conservative, Liberal and Labour Members of Parliament, and lending | journalists.
Talks With Churchill
On Monday, Dr. Sun Fo had a Jong conversation with Mr. Wins- ton Churchilif, from which Dr. Sun tells "Reuter," he brought away a most satisfactory impression of the English Government's altitudo tu
China.
Dr. Sun Fo also spent a consider able time with Sir Alexander Cedo- an, now Permanent Under Secre-
Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or Ill-treated in a manner likely to enuse unnecessary suffering or injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any mallerary for Foreign Affairs and formerly concerning a child, would be doing British Ambassador to China.. an act of kindness by communicaties
at once with
The Fion. General Secretary, H.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
The Inspector, 40, Pokfulam Road. 1st floor.
The Inspector, 15, Star St., Wanchai. The Inspector, 12, Sni Yeung Chol 51.. Kowloon.
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Financial Adviser to the British Covernment, is giving a luncheon on Thursday in order to introduce Dr. Sun Fo to Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Beard of Trado.
Chinese circles in London are much pleased with the results of Dr. San Fo's visit, which they are convinced, have had an especially good effect
The Inspector, 52, Argyle St.,at a time when they believe that Kowloon,
Japanese propaganda was most
All further steps will be taken, and active, expenses borne, by the Society."
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved,
9.15 London Relay-The News, 9.30 London Relag-"The Kitchen Comedy" A Play by James Brydie.
9.50 Beethoven-Concerto No. 5
Navy Shows Its Efficiency
In E Flat Major, Op. 73 ("Emperor") Nazis Losing Ships
Bunno Molselwitsch (Piano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra con- ducted by Georg Szell,
To Patrols
10.30 Songs by Elisabeth Schumann
LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter). 1. (a) Donna Non Vidi Mal ("Ma-
Alleluia (b) Nel (Soprano).
(Mozart); non Lescaut"-Puccini); Verde Maggio ("Loreley Catalan); Vedral, Carino, Se Sei Buonino ("DonA special commentary issued Giovanni-Mozart); Das Heimweh; to-day states that the officiency Recorded Interlude: 2, (u) Perduta-
Fliegen Pielle of the British Navy patrols is mente; (b) La Mia Canzone; (e) Lain Und Wieder Serenata (Tosti); 3. (a) La Partida; (Schubert); Liebe Schwarmt Auf again demonstrated by the inter- (b) Granadina (Alvarez); (c) Ay, Allen Wegen (Schubert),
10.40 Compositions of Wagner. emption of the German sleamers, Ay, Ay (Freire),
Song of The Rhine Daughters Mecklenburg and Paraua. in ("Gotterdammerung")....Sir Henry spite of the fact that these two
8.45 Orchestral Music. Overture "The Barber of Bagh-
Berlin J. Wood conducting the New Queen's vessels were using bad weather dad" (Cornelius),.....The
Hall Orchestra; Veruchtet Mir 'Dle Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Meister Nicht (Finale of Opera "Die and the northern mists in their Dr. Leo Blech; Valse De Concert, Op.
Meistersinger"); Was Deutsch Und attempt to reach Norwegian 47 (Glazounow).....San Francisco
conducted by Echt (Finale of Opera "Dle Meister- territorial waters of the Channel Symphony Orchestra
singer")....Friedrich Schorr (Bari- Alfred Hertz; Pomp And Circum-
en route to Germany. Berlin State Opera stance-March (No. 3 in C Minor-tone) and the Elgar)...London Symphony Orches-Orchestra, tra conducted by Sir Edward Elgae.
0.05 Studio Comments on Recent Moment." Events.
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Both German ships had becn sheltering in South American ports. Both were self-scuttled to avoid capture.
Adopting Many Rusco German merchant ships are leaving the shelter of neutral ports and arc prepared to suffer total loss rather than continue to pay harbour dues owing to the seriousness of the Ger- man lack of foreign euTENCY.
They are using all manner of ruses to attempt to slip through the British Navy patrols,
Some succeed. But even those who succend find this uselesa owing to the British domination of all seas except the Battle.
Only Few Lossos SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" London, Nov. 14 (Reuter)-Sir John Glimour made his Arst specch In the House of Commons as Mini-
HIS GAS-MASK
Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork and Orrory carries this respirator when
he is ashore,
RAID ON SHETLANDS
November 15, 1939.
Film Star, Husband Interned, Returns to Hollywood MARLENE FAILS TO
PARENTS. SAVE HER
HIS AIM-
20,000 PLANES FOR R.A.F.
SIX years ago. when Britain ad disuried until she was almost de- fenceless. Viscount Rothermere een- tra figure in the sensalonai Prin- cess Breach Case", in London, started als campaign: "Wanted Immediately |---3,000 'R.A.F, Planes."
has the To-day this man who kanck of so consistently arriving at the right conclusion has quadrupled his demands.
The story of Land Rothermere's solitary plen for rearmament, after the
Germany hul linnged Europe's outlook, is the undercurrent of his latest boolt, "My Campaign for
new
! Hungary'
59.).
DIETRICH
(Byre and Spottiswoode ARK ROYAL
Is mala story, of course, is the history of Hungary from, the Trenty of Trainon to the liberation of nearly 2,000,000 Maryor minorities
Munich in 1938,"
Constant Fight
after
LATEST
MARLENE DIETRICH lias gone home alone to Hollywood, sick at heart, after vainly trying for two months to rescue her parents from Germany,
She tried too long. With her in Paris while she made her efforts was her husband, Rudolph Sicber, who is a German citizen. France has interned him, with 15,000, other Germans.
Dietrich came to Edrope in June. It was clear that she won in`n hurry. When she sailed from New York. rather than catch a later boat, she deposited with
tax the income authorities jewels worth £16,000 to cover a disputed debt.
When Ble renched Paris she volted reporters, said mysteriously that her purpose in Europe was not to make films.
Then she set to work, using every Influence of money and friends, to get her old mother and father out of Germany,
Prussian Officer Dietrich's real name is Magdalen von Losch. Ifer father was a Prus sian officer in the last war. He has
The Hamburger who broadensts been retired from the
army for for Dr. Goebbels, has repeated again many years now, and lives in a little
Lord Itothermere's constant fight in his best Morris Oxford necent, the house at Potsdam, cobbled, quiet an old question, "Where is the Ark suburb of Berlin which is really the
Royal?"
for Hungary-it started with article in The Daily tail in June 11:47--Is
weli
well known. Le53
Since this is about the hundredth known are the stories of the awe, time he has asked without apparently amounting almost to worship, with getting an answer, we must tell him which the Magyars hold "the Little the truth, writes the Daily Mirror. Father of Hungary," as they still call
The Ark Royal is on Streatham Jln.
Common.
headquarters of the German Army,
For ten years he has lived there with his wife, supported by their famous daughter.
Dietrich tried to get them out, to take them back to Hollywood with In May 1938 Muzi Jew-haiter Streicher branded her £1
ber
This stood in her wayt
All the great characters of modern
It has been painted bright yellow Julius Hungary appear in the narrative some making special trips to Drilain with green stripes, and has been traitress to the Reich "for consort- In the hope of persuading him to turned into a factory for making ing with Jews in Hollywood, and for accept their throne, others deter- bulls-eyes. The main deck has been acquiring American citizenship." mined never to slacken until Trainon
dug up and planted with artichokes and its injustices were righted.
and celery. The funnel is full of ice- The Magyars are a
Rothermere soon verted into a pin-table saloon,
In. The crew are dressed in football became their uncrowned king vited to visit the country, he rightly jerseys, pink tights; and wear spurs, declined, and asked his son, the Hon. and are engaged in knitting miltens Esmond Harmsworth, lo deputise for out of cobwebs for dwarfs. him. Mr. Harmsworth duly made the This is offlelal and final, in spite journey in 1920 and was staggered at of anything that Mr. Churchill may the enthusiasm of his welcome.
Twelve Bombs Dropped tive race, and Lord arm, apprecia-cream and the bridge has been con- Germany was to award her an honour,
In First Visit
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Nov. 14 (UP)~It
is reported that a German recon.
the Shetland Islands again naissance plane was scen
day.
over
to
During Monday's rald the German planes dropped at least 12 bombs esilmated at 500 pounds each. A tragiment weighing seven pounds hit a small house, four bombs dropped in the sea, four close together on land and four three miles distant stop a hill.
The bomb which fell on the land burst less than a quarter of a mile of some occupied schools,
One eye-witness stated that the projectile which dropped into the sen was-an-aerial-turpedo...
The planes flew very low due to heavy rain and a thick haze. They were visible only for a few seconds and were greeted by fierce A.A. fire, after which two of them were seen to wobble.
Memorial To George V.
Indian Tribute To
Late Monarch
NEW DELHI, Nov. 14 (Reu- ter)Unvelling a new memorial- to King George V, the Viceroy
of India, said that King George
was more than a constitutional
ter of Shipping when he replied in symbol and abstract expression
the debate on shipping
He announced that hitherto out of 3,070 ships convoyed, only seven were lost.
This was a striking example of the cc-operation of the Navy and the Mercantile Marine, and showed that! the convoy system gave security.
Dealing with freights, Sir John de- elnred that it was essential to pre- vent a large rise of freights and a re- petition of unfair and Welf profits, though shippers must be given a red- sonable return for their expenses and risks.
INDIA IS READY FOR STERN WAR
LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter). However stern and prolonged the war, India is far better prepared to meet it than in 1814, declared Sir Frank Noyce, former member of the Viceroy's Coanell, addressing the East India Association to-day.
Sir Frank sold that the seule of: India's war exertions depend to a great extent on the course the war takes in the next few months, but her most important function must be to act as a supply centre Egypt to Malaya,
from
Queen And Polish Girl Guides
LONDON, Nov. 14
of the unity of the Empire. - He was everybody's friend.
In the task of rebuliding from the last war, the part he played was not a small one,
The memorial represented a tribute pald
beloved sovereign by his people in India,
With the exception of the head and crown, which were made in England, the whole of the marble memorial was made in India.
It stands beside the Viceroy's house and secretarlot.
SWITZERLAND'S BLACK-OUT
ZURICH, Nov. 14 (Reuter) --A greater part of Switzerland, including the towns of Zurich, Berne and Basle, were blacked out to-night till
dawn.
The Swiss Federal Council has authorised the Government to sequestrate.or· expropriate any pro- perty which they need and where they cannot reach an agreement with the owners. '. ...
GOLD POURS INTO UNITED STATES
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHU WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP). The Department of Commerce lo-day reported that gold imports; into the United States for the week ending November 8 totalled: $27,0577110 | cross fo, the leader of the Polish Gifl which is, ansificrease: of--: $7,000,000 || **Guldes, many, at whom lost their over the previous week???! PELANG
lives during the Nad: Invasion for potuihla total 37,440,119 cúde from W their country, Marchelondern Australla and $1,765,970 from Japai,
Queen lo-day pi-sented & bronze
Lord Rothermere, Hungary's wrong |
dis- ever uppermost in his mind. cussed the minorities problem with Signor Mussolini, and his brief but penetrating picture of I! Duce is one of the happiest moments in his book. Hungary rewarded Lord Rother- mere with a gratitude which would have been enibarrassing had it not been so obviously genuine streets his name were named after him: became u household
the word in downtrodden country he fought for. Finally, he tells how he launched
say.
French Guns
Roar
B.B.C. Observer Sees West Front Action
LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter). his campaign for an R.A.F. which-In a broadcast from Daventry would dominate the world,
Between Munich and the war, Lord to-night, Mr. Richard Dimble Rothermere-visited-Hungary-where bey, the B.B.C. observer, said:
who gave that the British and French they lonised, the man
A month later, Dietrich hit back. When there was a rumour that Nazi
she commented tartly: "Not even Hitler himself would dare. He knows what my answer would be!"
Postscript: Garbo has no troubles like this. Her relatives live pence- fully in Stockholm, where she goed to visit them, at her will, once a year- between pictures.
U.S.-Japan Relations
Tokyo Paper Optimistic Applauds Recent Settlements
TOKYO, Nov. 16 (Reuter).—
them their first Inspiration to fight zones were similar in detail but "Highly encouraging from the against the peace treaty, They gave differed much in general princi-standpoint of Japanese-Ameri him a saviour's welcome.
can relations is the announce-
At the end of the journey you are ple.
left pondering two problems: (1) The Allied Armies thus had the ment made yesterday by the Suppose Europe had listened to Lord best of both systems and their com- Foreign Office, duplicating the Rothermere in 1927 about minorities bined resources mude the force one announcement of the Japanese --would there now, have been a war? Jo unrivalled Bexibility,
observer
And (2) Suppose we had accepted Whereas British artillery favoured Embassy in Washington, of the settle. the suggestion for 6,000 aeroplanes mechanisation, the French had great ment of some cases in China in- velving Japanese damage to or in 1033 would there then have been faith in animals, and the
occupation of American: properties," had seen some of the finest horses he says the "Japan Advertiser," an Munich? Questions like this make the book had ever seen engaged in this service. American-owned and managed new
Many were regulars" while others paper. had been pressed into service.
splendidly important; but apart from The size of the questions It raises, it remains what Lord Rothermere in- tended it to be an absorbing record of a wrong slowly righted.
RADIO SETS FOR WESTERN FRONT
Another Big Gift By Lord Nuffield
"It adds: "The fact that cases of this Famous Guns In Action kind can be settled quietly and easily The British too, however, are does not detract from the importance ready to use horse transport should of their settlement, nor does it matter. it be necessary.
greatly whether the compensation for French officers say that the bad damage called for consolation or weather which has been prevailing | Indemnity.
it too difficult for "What matters is that progress is might make mechanised transport, but not too being made in the 'nogollation of settlements, and that the Japațièse dimeult for their horses.
Mr. Dimblebay said that he had and American authorities in China watched the famous French "75" in are gaining experience in recchelling action and also the somewhat over- differences and reaching agreements. shadowed "105's" and "150's."
The "Japan Advertiser continues:
The latter are particularly deadly "If enough progress is made in dis- and he had the good fortune to scoposing of cases of this kind, an atmos- LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter)hem actually in use against German phere will be created in which it may -Lord Nuffield's benefaction-positions.
be possible to approach the more
he has just contributed £60,000 The batteries were on the edge of dimcult cases, those involving -in- for the amenities of the men in a wood. A mile away was a village
held by light French pasts, and the three fighting services--
the other side of the village across
pertant principles, with somo.com- idence that they can be solved."
JAPAN'S SUGAR DIFFICULTIES
comes 24 hours after the Air the small plain, was the wood in Force Comforts Organisation had which German advance posts were Issued an appeal for £5,000 to believed to be.
The corner of this wood was the enable them to accept a makers'
objective. offer for a thousand radio sets
Accurato Firing for that figure.
The B.B.C. observer and French the Tokyo Presumably, therefore, Lord Nut-offlcers went forward to an observa-month, the Tokyo and Osain sugar feld's gift will provide 3,000 sets for tion post set up in a shell hold of the exchange will be forced to close just war, and focussed their glasses their doors in the near future, ar- cording to reports published here to- on the wood.
the Western Front.
NOVEL OTTAWA
CEREMONY
The Orst shell whistled overhend
and fell slightly short.
TOKYO, Nov, 15 (Reuler).-- Following closely on the abolition of rico spol market last
day
Enforcement of regulations in con-
The range was Increased and shells nection with the control of com- modity prices, it is stated, has killed. landed exactly on the objective.
The fire was very accurate, said the hopes of sugar dealers and the B.B.C. observer, and it was brokers that the market would be,
allowed to operate somehow. OTTAWA, Nov. 14 (Reuter) --A really extraordinarily remarkable| ceremony without precedent took how quickly the new gun crews had
An application to the Commerce place at Ottawa to-day when Mr got to know their weapons and to and Industry Miniitry for formal Faltbairn, the Australian delegate to handle them properly,
permission to dissolve the exchange the Empire air talks, was sworn in
has been granted,glass as Austrailan Federal Minister by the
The last general meeting of the the Tokyo Sugar Exchange will be held shortly...
Governor-General of Canada, Lord PARLIAMENT TO
Tweedsmuir.
Sirdhana Entered
A Mine-Field
RISE NOV. 23.
LONDON, Nov. 14 (Reuter) Tha present session of Parliament' will Lerminate on November 23 and the new session will open on November
Board of Directors of
案
British Contraband Statement
LONDON, Nov. 14. (Reuter) Tho Chairman of the British Contraband ex-Committee stated to-day that wa are
LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuter)—The 28. Admiralty, a skates, that the B.I. The King's speechi, which is steamér sífchaha, which, lank in the pected to be very short, will be read determined to us all righs lit con- Singaparo: Kodak on. Mánday, “must by the Royal Commissioners, fave inadvertently offered a British The King will not attend person- mine-field.) Sigurgeir Sallynes
nection with contraband, abut he hoped that as little, inconvenience as possible would be caused to neutrals:S