Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 25, 1939.
DONALD ́· DUCK
By Walt Disney
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HONGKONG ART CLUB EXHIBITION
By IRENE M. A. MACFADYEN
THE EXHIBITION of The Hongkong Art Club at the St. John's Cathedral Hall on Monday and Tuesday is an exceptionally interesting one.
A Look Through The Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 20, 1880. An editorial and other matters of interest are still unavoidably held over.
to deal with four mails in one day is a big done for a luckless Journalist, even in longkong.
No Licences To Sell Radios
Jebsen And Co. Admit
Court Summonses
The disclosure that defendant firm, Messrs. Jebsen and Co... had been dealing in wireless sets without the necessary, dealer's licence since 1938, was made by the prosecution at Cen- tral Magistracy yesterday when the Company was summoned before Mr. Edwards on nine charges of having
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Six Days Ordeal In An Open Boat
FROST-BITTEN MEN SAVED FROM DEATH
LONDON, Nov. 24 (Reuter).The seven survivors of the Arlington Court were Innded to-day from a Norwegian motor vessel which picked them up after they had been drifting six days In an open boat.
They were all suffering from Terukuni Sinking frost-bitten feet.
Two of them were detained in hospital.
One of the survivors said that after sold radios without alleence possession of the apparatus without embarking on the bont they stayed
licence.
in the vicinity of the spot where the Arlington Court Bank for 20 hours, but no ship came near. So they sut sul in an easterly direction, hoping Lo muke land.
Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown!
It Is denied, apparently an authority, It is quite the most exciting I have seen since I joined that there is any truth in the story that the Club nine years ago, on arriving in the Colony. the King of the Netherlands intende resigning the title of the Grand Duke Through nearly fifty years the Miss Ann Hsi, who has vanished at Luxemburg to the Duke of Nassau, Club has kept alive almost con- lemporarily to exhibit her exquisite
The Prince of Wales and his son, work for Chinese war charities in the
Prince George, attended Divine service tinuously, a centre for Art USA, and Mr. Willy Chiang, the lovers, chiefly amateur artists. latter a refugee from Stanghof, whereas All Saints' Church in Cairo to-day Solleitor, prosecuted, and Mr. O. E Meeting once a month to show he studied ten years under fanous afterwards lunching with General Gren. C. Marton was for the defence.
Chinese masters, has his name down fell. In the evening they dined with and discuss their work, all the for six Chinese scrolls, which he much Riaz Pasha, meeting all the Egyptian tiresome and toilsome things to wished to exhibit at the Art Club and British notables, be done by even the simplest European Confilet took him suddenly Show. Unfortunately, the threat of organisation have been accom- to Indo China, and it is uncertain plished by voluntary help, whether the scrolls will be located in
time for exhibition.
ow
As one devoted Secretary or Trea- surer has disappeared from shifting scene, another comes forward to fil the gap.
Internationally Anolfier artist known is Mr.. G. T. Chan. He ex- hibited at the Club Show last year. He studied painting and sculpture 16 The present Ilon. Secretury. Mrs. years abroad; first in Boston under C. B. Brown, has acted many times the great American sculptor, Charles in that capacity, before and after Grafeley; and later in Paris with the prolonged absences from the Colony. French sculptor Desplau. This year I am cure she must feel gratified at he is showing no less than twelve the brilliant show put up by the Club this year, even though she has had paintings as well as some fine sculp- ture including an unfinished head in
In spite of, or possibly because of,
can never have been so much and so varied talent exhibited by the Club, Scope Widened
The Melbourne Cup was won by Brave with Carbine second and Melos third
25 YEARS AGO
JAPAN TO SEEK FULL DATA
No Action Likely
Unable To Attract Holp
TOKYO, Nov. 24 (Reuter),— They had plenty of biscuits und Burrel of water, which was rationed Government is gathering all data little condensed milk, but only one The "Nichi Nichi" aays that the at half a cupiul cach dally.
with the utmost care to deter- They sighted several ships, but had mine the responsibility for the no means of attracting their attention,
mining of the Terukuni Maru. and saw them disappear.
Whichever way the Government When picked up, they were ex hausted and namoat too weak to hold decides, it will be equivalent to (befriending one belligerent and anta-
After Mr. Morton had pleaded guilty to the summonses, Mr. Abbott said the offences were discovered. thorities were checking sets in pos- In September when the wireless au- session of aliens. They found that Jebsen and Co. had been dealing in sets without the necessary dealer's licence, since 1936. Nov. 26, 1014, Reuter's correspondent at Lisbon
"Jebsen and Company had never atates that Congress has adopted a ro solution proposed the Premier Up to the issue of these suminenser, out. authorising Portugal to intervene in applied for or been issued with a Heavy seas had been breaking overgonising the other, which might mean the war at any suitable moment, in licence," said Mr. Abbott. accordance with the terms of the liri have since applied for, but have been the boat and two of them in turns that Japan will be dragged into the tlah Alliance, and also authorising the refused a licence." necessary measures.
by
10 YEARS AGO
Eighty thousand
the former
Gaverner
Đả
Nov. 25, 1023.
under the
"They
Bots in Godowns Three of the sets concerned in the Hongkong was introduced to another! "Laikie" film at the Queen's Theatre summonses were in Court, while, 28
tn excellent Testerday, when "Four Devila" was the others were in a godown.
picture was only In asking for the confiscation Principal attraction int programme. The partially "Laikle being, for the most the 31 sets, Mr. Abbell suld he was para except for "nulses off" and the aware that the confiscation itself was
orchestral special
accompaniment a beavy sentence, and if
such an alient.
order were made, he would not press
exceedingly well produced. The "Four
of
had to bale constantly.
survivors Four other
are still
European war,
*Such breaches of International
open boat following the sinking of law may temporarily cause damage their vessel by a German submarine, to neutral shipping, but now that The survivors said that the sub-method is definitely ascertained sult-
can bo marine commander examined the able measures ship's papers from which he learned counter-nei it," that it was a neutral ship bound for a neutral port.
However, he still insisted on sink-: ing the ship.
He refused to take them aboard for transfer to another ship, suying that he had no room.
taken to
Parcels For The Troops Hongkong People May Send Gifts
Embatsy Statement Mr. Abbott said the Tele-Com-missing.
The British Embassy has issued the following statement: munications Ordinance was passed in
Dutch Survivors Safo
"It has been established by the April, 1935, and brought into force In October. Jebsen and Company's
LONDON, Nov. 24 (Reuter).-Five British Admiralty that German air- to cope with an embarrassment of the clay of HE the Governor, a riches she hardly bargained for, there splendid head of Mr. Alfred N. Mac-uty town of General Ld Chung activities took place in Desember, survivors of the Dutch steamer craft laid mines in five different. about two months after the adrecht, 6,133 tons, were landed on localities off the East Coast of Eng- being no less than 204 exhibits on fadyen in bronze; a plaque of Mrs. yen who arrived at Nanning on Thurk the catalogus from 28 contributors.
day last and immediately assumed the ordinance came into force. He could the north-west coast of England to land after the dark nights of Novem- Middleton-Smith and other busts.
I do not think Messrs. Z. Z. Lec, post of Commander-in-Chief, are ready not believe that defendant firm were day by a trawler which picked them ber 20 and 21.
to Invade Kwangtung. A lergs contin- completely ignorant of the regula the present evil times, I think there Ng Ko Hung or Peter Leong have gent of Kwangsi troops have already lons of Hongkong, and submittest after seven and a half days in un shown with the Club before, although arrived at Tekhing on the West River that the offence could not be regard they have all, I think, had exhibitions while General Wang Shao-kung.hed us merely technical,
left Kwanga), this year for the benefit of Chinese Red Cross. They have each Wuchow for the front yesterday. sent in beautiful work.
Panet, The Art Club, beginning as a select Mrs. Truda
fresh front circle of artistic friends meeting at studies at the Grosvenor school of each others' homes occasionally, has Art in London, exhibited last year. widened its scope until now it has She has done some very interesting almost an international atmosphere. work this year, chiefly local scenes, modern study, showing the effect The Hongkong Working Artists', with her free, individual, outlook. Guild, which is the child of the Club, has....brought.....to it during the past
Hongkong Scenes year at least half a dozen artists, of A very Interesting thing about all story, it was entertaining and for a heavy fine.
Addressing the Court in mitigation several nationalities, most of them the newcomers to the Colony is their Devil" nro a quariette of trapeze ex- driven to Hongkong by world dis- treatment of Hongkong scenes and perts, who are seen in some amazing of the offences, Mr. Marton sald turbances. The two organisations scenery. Each has a different out-stupta, and the tale revolves around Jebsen and Company was a Danish. Of course there is Arm which had been doing business have been a strength and insiration ook. I should like to see an exclu- their love affairs.
a siren who intrudes into the lives of to one another, giving opportunities sive show of their various reactions
these young people, but in the long run since 1095 and was recognised as a Arm of the highest standing and in- for meeting; and avoiding provinci- and treatment:-"Hongkong With a
all works out for the best.
tegrity. A number of German as- alism by importing fresh points of Difference!"
Janet Gaynor is one of the quartette, sistants were employed before the view, and training.
Our old friends in the Club have Among new exhibitors are several sent in exceptionally fine work, Luis and she gives a fine performance, in a war, but they had since left the
The man part well suited to her temperament. Chan has sent in ten water-colours fer voice, sise, reproduces better than the wireless sales was
Company, artists of international, reputation. and two oil. How he finds the 10 those of the others heard, although a
Dr. Emma Bormann, (Mrs. Milch) raoke fresh pictures, with all the work
strong American accent permentes all men who had disappeared, and they from him the the talking. Indeed, even French police were unable to get some of whose wonderful woodcuts, he puts in for the Gulid, is a wonder. etchings and aquatints were exhibited Lee Byng sends some twelve of his and French circus attendants (the film reason why the licence was not ob-
has Paris for setting) are heard tuined. 1- Always here last year, recently joined the latest water-colours,
Apart from this! speaking American. Club when passing through the mirabic,
Incongruity, the aim is most interest- Colony on her way to rejoin her hus- Mrs. C. B. Brown contributes sixing, and abounds in thrills. band at the C.M.S. Hospital at charming pastels. Mrs. Balean, Mrs. Palchol. She contributes twenty plc- Franks, Miss Whitely and Mr. G. H tures of scenes in ten countries, in- Bond, returned from furlough at cluding England and U.S.A. as well home, show they had not forgotten There is an ever-swelling volume of sets in 1937. Nu sals were import-Beach Va., charging that the Institute relatives or friends in the service, as from tragically familiar places at the Art Club by contributing studies evidanen that there are present; Austria, Prague, Dalmatia, made on their travels. Mr. Highet, Germany keen on the re-armament of ete. and a portfolio of small wood- who was a member of the Club so the nation and set upon a doctrine of cuts, etc. She was a lecturer on Art long ago that I did not know him, is fores to attain their ends. Subjects in the University of Vienna, showing Indlan
studios and
one
Pro English scene. Mrs. Cleave, a new
cape.
Missing Names
5 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 1934.
In charge of one of the
Pro-Japonism Charged
Pacific Relations
Under the title of "Expedi- tionary Forco Supplies Service," Thomas Cook and Son, Ltd., have organised the supply of standard parcels to troops serving at
Institute Indicted Home, in France and the near
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP),-
! of the
East, prisoners of war and men who are interned.
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no
The Company undertakes to pack, Mr. Milsoo K. Haan, representative despatch and Insure standard parcels at B., 7s. Od., 10, 15, 20, 30я. Chinese Korean Peoples The first time the firm had im- League, has published a letter which and 2 to individual members of ported sets into the Colony was on has been sent to the officers of the the service, and to messes with the November 28, 1838, when they im Institute of Pacifle Relations who are compliments of the senders.
out that It is pointed Six sample ported two sample sets.
who perhaps have sets were imported in 1030, and in now assembled for their seventh in-
ternational conference at Virginia residents, faetlann ined in 1939.
alded, encouraged and Spread Will wish to send presents to British Mr, Marton said the moment the Japanese culture in the United States troops. In such cases, parcels may be despatched for distribution at the goods arrived in Hongkong the firm and Hawall
as being "de-discretion of their officers to whom had always fled a declaration with He described this the Superintendent of Imports and citedly un-American and must as the Company can pass any special Exports and the Government did suredly be contrary to the best in- One generous resident in the East,
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Miss Irma Last, formerly a Pro-member, sends in a Japanese lands- fessor of Art at the same University,
Imports and Exports that Jebsen and Institute, Instead of furthering a study to deliver parcels to men, who on and
Art Instructor at now
the
Grent Industry and keenness hus Diocesan Girls' School, shows water
Company were importing these sets of peace, unfortunately invited
Christmas morning have not received 08, colours, charcas studies, oils and been shown by all contributors,
grave dunger in the Far East by be- have hnd
Bet Found With Gernian'
coming the tool of Japan in Hawalla present from home. Orders for woodcuts, the latter
her without exception they
single parcel or for a regular period rather
addional work thrust on them by
"It was quite trus that the 'matier and America.
feal delivery are also accepted. speciality I belleve.
war conditions. There are few crafts
first came to light when ofelula
above. The prices mentioned Mrs. Erne Freedlander, from Berlin exhibits. Mrs. John Wyatt breaks
found a radia in possession of a Ger-
based on the retail purchase price of and Milan, is known throughout Art new ground with costume dolls, being
man whase property was being
"but
He asked for an investigation of the contents of the purcels plus the circles on the continent as a pioneer sold for the Soldiers' Cigarelle Fund.
liquidated." said Mr. Marton, artist of great distinction. She is Mra. Franks sends in some remark-
Injuries to Private G. D. Hut-when Mr. Wiele was questioned, he the policles favourable to Japan, and cost of postage, which would have to now Director of Art Studies for thei able photographs.
schmied, the Volunteer casualty dur- said he understood that it was only the reasons why the Koreans from be paid by the public in England It Hawaii and territorial United States they made up the parcels themselves for refalters
have to
and paid the postage. The cont Working Artists' Guild. She exhibits
-Insurance of He also told the official are barred from the Institute. oils, water-colours,the latter exam-
Several accustomed names I miss. ing Thursday's typhoon, have proved necessary
lig also charged that the Institute packing, despatch and ples of her own fascinating, and in-
Mrs. Talz, who passed away a few more serious than at first thought and licences,
Company, drawing. triguing "school" and a
Hospital yesterday revented ed 6 sets for Radieland Engineer-as become a "party to the subjuga- the parcels will be borne by the A selective price-list is expected Her basic drawing teaching is that weeks ago, is represented by some further examination at the Kow-that Jebsen and Company had order
oll and charcoal studies, being sold loon
soon which will enable residents to which is taught in Paris in the lead for the benefit of her orphaned that apart from multiple cuts onding Laboratories, and that 28 soteflon of China,”
brulses, Private Hufschmied suffered had already arrived only a few days
send special parcels, but is fenred and full disclosure was made võlun- An order detailing standard prices the list will arrive too late to despatch Auw Mr. G. V. Smirnoff, well known children. Mrs. Pfister, one of our a broken leg and fractures of both before the officials visit, A completo
oldest members and temporarily arms.
tarily."
for evaporated milk, ster!lised natural parcels of selected contents for Christ- now, however, The circumstances of the accident' Regarding the penalty of $1,000 milk, thick cream, tinned pork and mus. Orders given shows works in oils, pastels and pencalony by this cruel war, is revealed yesterday showed that empowered by the Ordinance, Mr.beans, tinned sardines, tinned salmon] should reach London by air mall int and Ink. Desides local scenes he loss I miss Mrs. Ascho's namo
Christmas delivery. gives us refreshing now scenes from the catalogue. Her charming pictures another Volunteer bad a norrow Marion submitted that it was direct and coffee, has been made by Mr. time to post standard parcels for
of the harbour have generally been escame from serious injury as he was ed against persons found in posses-W. J. Carrie, Controller of Food. a notable feature of the Club show. thrown clear and sustained only slon of transmitting sets. Enquiries. Chinoso Exhibitors
I expect she has been too over-superficial injuries.. whelmed with work to send any-
ing studios. artist from Harbin and Tsingtao, only, let us hope, exiled from the
Manchuria and Russia.
exhibitors. Among newcomers
had been made by a Mr. Von Has- Private Hufschmied was driving to sell regarding a licence, but he un-
There are no less than eight Chinced thing In Many others are in the Hongkong on a motor-cyclo and side derstood that Mr. Von Hassell had Mr. K. K. Llui B.A., Cantab, formerly I hope I have given the true im-car about 10.45 a.m. through torren been told that licences
Principal of the Academy of Fine Arts а! Атоу,
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or absent.
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War Ban
On Long
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IRLS who attend dances to the pubire ballroom, at Ramsgate copy for display ad
were only pression that it really may be Dal driving rain during the height necessary for retail dealers.
Mr. Marton said the acts which of the typhoon. Visibility was prac- liberal education, us He holds the diploma of the Slade pleasure, to go carefully round this leally nil and the cycle after several Mr. Abbott had asked for confisca
mitted that that was an extraordin- school, London, and studied also in Ane exhibition: the work and the unpleasant near-accidents" ran into tion were worth $3,000, and he sub-
a brick wall.
arily heavy penalty to inflict on à Paris and Genéva, Though refugee subjects treated being so varied, ho belongs la a special sense to Hong- ..While may safely say it has
The passenger was thrown elear firm at the present time.
"I think you will. agree. that they kong, as he is an old St. Stephen's never been more worth a visit, I must but the driver suffered the full force
was picked up committed the offence unwittingly, College boy. Ito contributos several emphasise that it has never been so of the impact and of his lovely paintings of scenery and important for the artists sake that and taken to Kowloon Hospital for and, they ask mo no express their The official reason for the ban is that as the ballroom, is on tising not later delightful flower plecos.
pictures should be sold. Also, please immediate treatment. An arm and regret for their inadvertence," sald an upper floor accidents might occur through womou wearing 2 p.m. on the day
long dresses tripping on the stairs during an air raid. Most of the Chinese artists paint remember there are only two days of a leg were put in plaster, but yester Mr. Murton.
Mr. Edwards adjourned all sum But the girls welcome the iden. We shall now be able to publication. in Western style, but two joined the it, being most difficult to come by at day a serious swelling resulted in the
discovery that the victim's other arm monses until this morning when a dance in slacks, or jumper and skirt,” they say, Club this year who practise the pure | this time. Aradition of Chinese Art
So DO COME (encly) and DO BUY. was also fractured,
dection will be given."
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