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Tuesday,
The Annual Lawn Bowls Match between members of St. George's and St. Andrew's Societies will be held on 9th December at 2.30 p.m. Radio Programane Broadcast by at the Kowloon Howling Green Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k..Club.
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and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pan.
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with Mr. W. Macfarlane, Dairy
12.16 p.m. Short Service of Inter-Farm leo and Cold Storage Co., 12.30 Peier Dawson (Bass-Barl-Lld. Causeway Bay. tone) and the B. B. C. Wireless Mili-
ecusion.
lary Band.
1.00
Local Time Weather Report.
Signal and
POST OFFICE
INWARD MAILS
1.03 Debray Somers Band.
Reuter und Itugby Press, 1.30
and Announce. Weather Forecast
ments,
1.45
D. B. C. tccording--"D'Ye
Ken John Peel?"
Canton
A Programme in Honour of the Japan and Shanghal Famour Cumberland Huntsman writ-Jepan and Shanghai
ten and produced by William Mac lurg.
2.15 Close Down,
4,00 An hour of Dance Music.
7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota
tions,
7.03 Magyar Imee and Hils Hun- karlan Gypsy Orchestra.
Manila Shanghai
Shangbui
Straits
Straits and Manila
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Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Francisco Service"-San Direct
.Nov. 29. date, 21st Nov. Air Mail by Alr France Direct Ser- vicoParis, date 22nd November.
7.14 Strauss' Waltzes. Acceleration-Waltz (arr. Holine) ....Orchestra Muscolle, Wine, Wo- Bangkolt and Salgen men and Song....Mavis Denne Canton
Orchestra; Tales with (Soprano)
Japan From The Vienna Woods; Blue
Java and Manila Danube, Philadelphia Symphony Or chestra cond, by Leopold Stokowski. Japan and Shanghal Japan and Shanghai Manila Saigon Saigon Sandaicun Shanghai
7.30 London Relay-The News. 8.00 Local Time Signat, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Variety Programme with George Van Dusen: Alico Faye: Quen-
Nov. 29.
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Nov. 29.
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King and Queen Attend
Prayers for Peace
THE KING AND QUEEN leaving St. Paul's Calliedral with the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank Bewater, after atiending Day of National Prayer service. Prayers for blessings on the Allied arms were said in all cathedrals, churches and chapels in the country.
A Look Through
The Telegraphi”
•
Hull Lauds Speech
Finds Agreement With Mr. Chamberlain
Nov. WASHINGTON,
November 28, 1939.
Amazing Story of Wealthy German Girl
(REFUGEE)
WOMAN TO LEARN
This astonishing story of a German mald's adventures In England was sent to a London newspaper by a woman reader who wishes to remain anony- πάρτι.
When you think of a German refugee you imagine, possibly. Bali with a hunted look in ther oyrs and tow shillings in her handbag.
She drags a cardboard suitcase containing all the clothes sho owns a poor wall grloved at the parting from her own people bat rrateful for the shelter of a British home.
Thai was my idea of a German re- fugee-until I took Fraulein Schmidt Into my house, says п reporter in a' Landon paper. Schmidt is not her real home. I must disgulse every- jng that could give her identity away, but I will hide nothing else.
"Tom a respectable middle-class Engilshwoman one of thousands who have been moved by pity to give!
Nazi from to shelter
refugees persecution,
Postcard After Eleven Days
When a relative told me that ho had received a letter from a German woman, the wife of a former Govern- ment officlat, asking if he knew of British household that could receive a Cerman girl of 10. of partly Jewish origin, 1 said that I would, take the girl.
I learned that I must employ domestlo servant the girl as a and pay her 158. a week and her board. Although I was told that she had never been trained
to
On
any sort of work.. I agreed, That
December. was last
arrived; March 14 the girl and not so I wrote to her mother in Germany and asked when I might expect her. Three days Inter a police sergeant knocked at my door.
"I should like to have a talk with Fraulein Schmidt," he said..
replied. "She is not here," 1 astonished. "So far as I know, she is still in Germany."
"She has landed at a British port," said the sergeant. "I have been
asked to explain why her arrival
here has not been reported."
TRIED SECRETS
AQUAGAL-No. I Aquagal at the New York Fair Aquacade
La next year will bo Eleanor
over 110 She takes Mann, pot on the resignation of Eleanor Holm, at end of season, who will marry Billy Rose.
struggled with nine trunks and suit-
On the eleventh day after her cases, there stepped from the tax a arrival in England I received a post-tall, handsome young woman, neatly 27 card from her: "I have arrived, but expensively dressed.
My hus- Meet me at the station,"
"Rules? 1 Only Broak Thom" She smiled as she greeted me, but Half an hour later a taxicab inden with luggage pulled up at my door. I told her at once of the policeman's
driver call. Then she laughed. While my husband and
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1889. Nothing shows no clearly the radical Nov. 29. difference between the mental bias alt (Reuter).—Mr: Cordell Hull, the innd went to meet her.
the sexes no their fashions. Those of American Secretary of State, in women ure rapid, general and pro-
Reunion a formal statement to-day said while ounced," changes rarely and gradually. Nor are that he was gratified, but not the vagaries of fashion conned to surprised at Mr. Neville Cham- dress. There aro farhlons in Im morality as well as in sols, styles in berlain's speech, in which he anid Jusipation as well as in hete, and that Increased trade is the pre- pupular forms of suicides an weil of bustles. In all these the peculiari requisite for a lasting peace in tten of the sexes show gut, but in Europe. nothing more conspicuously than in
Nov. 20.. Nov, 20. .Nov. 29. Nov. 29. Nov. 29. la Maclean: The Vagabond Lover Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service-London, date 22nd Nov. Nov. 30. Nov. 30.
and Orchestra Mascotte.
Vocal-Il's Party Time Agula (Van Dusen)....George Van Dusen with
Orchestra; Vocal-Wake Up and Live Haiphong (from the film); There's A. Lull In Japan My Life (from Wake Up and Live')
Japan
Nov. 30.
Nov. 30. Nov. 38. .Nov. 30. and Manila (Sari Francisco, date Gth Nov.)..
Dec. 1. .Dec. 1.
....Alice Faye with Cy Feuer Or Shanghai chestra; Cinema Organ-Cinema Me-Shanghal and Amey mories: Intro: These Songs from: U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan "Orphans of the Storm;-Four-Horse-
men of the Apocalypse; Way Down Shanghai
East; Dorothy
Vernon of Haddon
Hall; La Risita;
OUTWARD MAILS Orphans of the
Tuesday, Nov. 28 Storm; Robin Hood; Charlie Chaplin's
1.30 p.m. Fort Buyard, Theme; The Gold Rush; Way Down
Covered Wagon; What Parcels only for Shanghai
.1.30 p.m. East; The Price Glory: The Singing Fool. Air Mall for shaped as ass Direct Service"-due London, 6th Quentin M. Maclean; VoculJust A
December, Vagabond Lover (Kester and H): As Long As Our Hearts Are Young (Kester and I)....The Vagabond Lover (Tenor) with Orchestra; Or- chestra Children of Spring-Waltz (Waldteufel)....Orchestra Mascote.
8.30 Studio Two Plano Recital by Muriel Gubbay and Harry Ore.
1. Fugue in G Minor (Bach); 2. Gavotte in G Mupor (Mozart); 3. Caprice Briliante Op. 22 (Mendels- sohn).
9.50 A Short Orchestral Pro-
gramme.
9.05 Studio-Comments on RecentĮ Events.
9.15 London Relay-News Sum- mary.
Parla.
New Light Symphony Orchestra with George Gershwin,
Endorses Statement
uleldes. When a man makes up his mind to bring his life to a speedy
Mr. Hull hoped, when the time termination, the chances are two to five that he will hang himself. After hang- came, to give these economic Ideas ing come shooting.
action,
they?
The
With women the fashions in suleide brond and effective application.
Mr. Hull specifically endorsed Mr. are very diferent.and.far more change- able than amongst men. It may he Chamberlain's statement that only by assumed that women who contemplate an increased interchange of goods suicide have never seen other women and services can the standard of who have actually committed the msh Hying be improved.
Mr. Hull indicated strongly for the otherwise the blunders
unpardonable. would ba make that she shall not danguro herself. re-enactment of the Trade Agree- funtinental Iden in a woman's mind in Arst time that he would insist on a Such a thing never occurs to a max ments Act on its expiry in 1940.
This programme has been carried Acting on this notion, a woman rarely
soldom blows her out in the conviction that it is essen- her throat, brains out avaida throwing herself that to bring back. the balance of over the clina, er indeed does anything American agriculture to industry. which will disfigure her lovely person.
Rek..
Ord.,
K.P.O. .....Nov. 28, 5 p.m. .Nov. 28, 5.30 p.m. G.F.O.
cutx
KCE.
Ord,
.Nov. 28. 5 p.m. .Nov, 28, 7 pm.
and Air Mail for Malaya, Java
Australia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-dae Bydary, 4th December.
K.P.O.
Beg..
Ord.,
.....Nov, 28, 5 po ..Nov. 28, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
ECK.
Ord.
.Nov. 28. p.m. ..Nov. 28, 7 p.m.
5.30 London Relay-"Cards on the
The Drummer and the Coolt; Tom's Table."
946
Gershwin--An American Ingone to Hilo; Boney was a warrior..
..with Mate Chorus and Accordean. 10.12 Hilo Hawalian Orchestra. 12.23 Dance Programme by Juan 10.03 Songs by Stuart Robertson Llossas and His Orchestra and Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orches- (Bass-Baritone).
11.00 London Relay "In England
Aboard The Windjammer--Medley tra of Sea Shantics; Intro: A-ravin Shenandoah; What shall we do with Now." the drunken Sailor; Hullabaloo Balay;|
11.15
Close Down.
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does so, in eleven insiancas out of Press On Nazi
She may be as ugly as sin itself, but she would like to make a good corpse. A woman, therefore, who kila herself three ways: by: waive, in one of poison, by drowning, or by hanging.
25 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1014. Countries at War:-Germany, Austria and Turkey
Britain, Russia, Franco, Belgium, Japan. Hervis. Mon tenegro.
against
Mr. Churchill has announeed that the
War Methods
Counter-Measures Expected Soon LONDON, Nov. 27 (Reuter). battleship Unlwark has been blown up-The "Daily Express” says that at Bheerness. Mr. Churchill added that every war produces some new only twelve men of the Balwark, which method and we are now going belonged to the Fifth Battle Squad through one such patch. were anved out of 700 or 800.
In the last war, U-boats and gas The following passage is published at made trouble for a time, but counter- Munich from a letter from "the well-
Britain's seaports are still open known Colonial painter, Vollbehr, who measures were soon in operation. is one of the official battle pointers."
At the desite of the Emperor I was and her ships are still coming in.
Commenting on the reaction to the required to show him all the 40 pictures
that I have painted. The Emperor was British Lan on German exports, the in a very confident mood and his pride "Daily Mail" asks whether we should in the brave army and hle German peb sit supinely in our island waiting for ple flashed from his eyes at every word.į starvation.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1925.
The only alternative to stopping
the Nazi exports would be to retaliate by laying mines indiscriminately-as
Wang Scho-hung, gas of the "Dige Nazis have done, but "this we will Four" of the Kwanga! Clique, arrived never do,"
at Takhing on the evening of the 2618
and has taken over command, it a
Oslo's Representations
understood, of the Kwangal armies now OSLO, Nov. 27 (Reuter).-It is Advancing down the West River on Canton. Over 60,000 Kwanzael troops understood that the Government will are reported to be concentrated at Take make representations to London in connection with the latest measures bing awaiting the order to advance.
by the Alles in pursuance of their economic warfare,
5 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1934.
A certain number of Communlet -troops are known to be in the vicinity
of Wushow. The danger at the present NAZI CAMPAIGN
moment la that the Communists along
the banks of the Fu River will advance
down to Wochow which is reported to
be weakly protected by troops. The
presence of Kwangel and ununeer
A FAILURE
PARIS, Nov. 27
(Reuler)
forces in the neighbourhood, however, French military expert comments that may deter the Communists.
the Nazis were at one time confident China wishes, to dwell in peace with of the success of their U-boat and
nir warfare. N Japan, ha basis,ni equality and
The U-boat and air campaigns have fraternity, declared Harzbal Chlapy Fat-shek, yesterday, in an interview falled to come up to expectations, and granted to a reprezentative' of a leading this explains the Naz! decision to it Japanese napapots:ihy 20gaka Awahl. tensify the mine warfare.
Chinx, and Japans are brothar nationsı) But the British found a necessary. both of them should deal with the
other in a friendly, and, honrat way, by solution in the last war and will plo which they can find at plate together, so again.":
the
MORE THAN
"RULES" SHE EXCLAIMED.
"I DON'T READ RULES. ONLY DREAK THEM”
I could see nothing to laugh nt. When I asked her, later that day, how she had managed to bring so much luggage, which included. a portable gramophone, she replied:
"Oh, I have four more trunks at my uncle's place in London, He arranged everything for me. have to come I didn't even
Customs.
Two
the
through omclus from London met me at the docks and made every- thing easy for me.
WDS
"My uncle, you know, formerly a very high official in Berlin and now is an important man in London. Ha know! Members of several of your Parliament."
The girl did not look Jewish,* asked her how much Jewish blood
I was in her, and she said nons,
She stayed with me five months. On Aug. 12 ahe took a hollday and went to London. From her uncle's, address she wrote to me.
"Under the Nazi laws I could not return to Germany, which has the intention to expel all people of Jewish origin.
It seemed she could be a Jewish refugee or not, as it suited her. And she was certainly no pensani,
"I was enthusiastically for Hitler at first," she said "but Achi wlien 1 see what he has done to the good people of Germany I hate him and all his gang, He la mad, and his neurologiat is. always with him.
"He has many doubles, and already some have suffered for him. One wus poisoned, another shot."
And here is something that su puzzles me greatly. Why was this. Alt so inquisitive about factories and other big works in our district? She
through wanted to go
the works where my husband held a responsible position, but I told her it could not be done.
That's a pity," she said, dis- appointed. "I wanted to take photo- graphs and see everything. In Nor- way I always did that.
"TT'S A QUEER HOBBY," I SAID, "FOR A GIRL OF 19."
SUCH THINGS," "I LIKE SHE SAID, AND ASKED WHERE ARMED GUARDS AT THE WORKS AND WHETNER ANY ENTRANCE WAS LEFT UNGUARDED.
Jewellery In Eastor Eggs There were no jewellery or furs in her luggage when she arrived, but a little Inter she came in with a box of tiny chocolate Easter eggs and show-
ed me with great glee how cunningly her mother had hidden pieces of PAS JAJECZENIA JK Jewellery in the tin foil and chocolate. They included a diamond ring 150 years old.
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EVERYTHING THIS GIRL TOLD ME ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THIS SUMMER HAS COME TO PASS.
"I ter does not die before
over and August," she said,
over again, then in August dreadful things will hoppen."
The girl left my house suddenly in the middle of August. A few days before that I offered to let her go to London for a few days, but she said Bize did, not wish to go.
Then she heard from her uncle and became frantically earer to go. What did they know?
Since her departure I have learn- led that she told people she was go- ing to Paris. I do know that she has a visa for a South American country, but she is still in London, with her uncle.
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