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January 17, 1940.
Tribe Raise War Fund
CAPETOWN. A MEETING of the Bakgalla tribe in Bechuanaland has de cided that each initiated member should contribute five shillings to the Bechuana War Fund, "to assist the King in his struggle against Germany,"➡Exchange,
Bomb Dropped on Ship:
It
Failed To Go Off
IN a north-east coast port, fifty-four-year-old Captain Thomas Rooney and his crew of seven sat drinking tea and congratulating themselves on their escape from two Nazi air raiders who sank their ship, the 487-ton Serenity.
Captain Rooney said: "The Jerrics are washouts as marks- men. They put a lot more bullets and bomba into the sen than they put into the boat."
Out of about twenty-five bombs, they hit the ship with
three:
The planes circted over the Serenity, then dived. Machine-gun bullets went through the engine. room skylight, spattering on the four round chief engineer W. Daw-
The bridge was the main target, however, and Captain Rooney was forced to leave a shots splintered the wheel-house.
Burford, of King's Lynn, Henry was at the wheel, but he did not leave his post until the captain or- dered the crew to the boats.
Envelope Should Have Read: Rear Admiral
SON SOON
NAVAL HERO'S
WROTE TOO
A WAKENED by his headmaster at a Sussex school, a sleepy-eyed
sleepy oyed boy learned that his father was to le
knighted and had been promoted to the rank of ndmiral.
rear-
The boy reflected for a moment. Then he said: "How sick father will be! I wrote a letter to him to-day and addressed him as commodore."
As he turned over and closed his eyes he happily.
was smiling
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ΠΟΣΙ of Rear-Admical The boy was Cyprian, 13-year-old Henry Harwood, who has been honoured by the King for his three British crufsers
Guns Fire As "gallant and successful action" with
Band Plays
WHILE guns went off at one East Coast town visited by Nazl air raiders, a band on the pro- menade continued to play a Christ- mas carol, the first few lines of which bre:
OT
Harte the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King: Peace
carth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. Joyful, all we nations, rise,
the Join
triumph of the skles..
As they swung the lifeboat out. s***** i bomb glanced off the stern, It failed to explode.
As the crew pulled away other Most of them were wide bombs fell. of the ship.
The Serenity crew were rowing for several hours before being picked up. Their distress signals were seen at a feboat station.
Humbor Raided
the sea- flundreds of people on front saw the shipping attacked by bomber in the lumber an enemy district. They saw guns open fre on the rnider, saw it chased by de- fending aircraft. One witness sald he saw a machine come down ap- andparently out of control,
Jan 20 STOCK MARKET
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Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Jan. 21. Summary issued yesterday says: Calcutta, Straits and Saigon Jan. 21.
To-day's trading has been on a Japan
Jan, 21.1 Jan. 21, larger scale than that of yesterday, Jan. 21. Sales reported suggest an incipient Jun, 22. demam which may easily broaden. Jar_23.1
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Mrs. P. Wilson said she saw several planes flying in and out of the clouds. Then she saw a black machine fly. ing just under the clouds and making up river.
Two tremendous reports were fol-1 lowed by flashes of llame and great splashes in the direction of the thips. The plane disappeared, then re- appeared
moments after a few heading for the sea pursued by fighter planes. Mr.
"I think all Wilson added:
clear of the the explosions were xhipa."
Mr. H. Toogood, who was on the promenade, saw one of the machines. fall at great speed, leaving a trail of moke. It looked to be out of control.
the
RAZ. For
time, second "blocknce"--planes-bombed German mine-sowing planes that were wait- Ing to leave their bases in the Frisian Islands,
The first time bombs were dropped by the "security patrols".
arco
The official Gerinan news agency dismiss the bombing by saying: "Iso- Iated enemy alreraft renched the Hellgoland Bight last night in com- plete darkness, but only managed to drop a few hombs into the sea for outside the
of the German Islands."
Actually Beltain is now running full-scale air blockade of all Ger- many's northern seaplane bases. It goes on from dusk to dawn, seven nights a week-and so for without, one British casualty.
French Deny Sending Arms To S. China
Indignant Reply To Japanese Reports PARIS. Jan. 16 (Reuter).-A categorical official denial is given to the reports from Japanese sources that arms and munitiona! are being sent to South China by the French Indo-China railway.
It is stated that the inalstence of these reports, which French circles ace obliged to deny na regularly as they are circulated, appears to be the reflection of the desire of certain the Japanese cirries, particularly military circles, to justify by military considerations the destruction
H. K. Stock Market
The following quotations issued on the Hongkong: Stock ket this morning.
BANKS..
B.K. Banks, $
H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) 1.K. Banks (H.K. Reg). Chartered £ Mercantile, A. & B. L Mercantile, C. £.. East Asia $.
INSURANCES
were
Mar-
I
against the Graf Spee.
Rear-Admiral Horwood heard the news by wireless as he paced the bridge of the cruiter Ajax, waiting German for the off Montevideo pocket battleship to come out and fight again.
His knighthood is the first of this becomes a Knight Com- war. He mander of the Order of the Bath.
Purry (ILM.S. Captains W, E.
C. H. L. Woodhouse Achilles),
F. (H.MS. Ajax) - and (ILMS. Exeter)
S. Bell are made cem-
panions of the same or ter
Congratulations descended
in
shoal on Mrs. Joan Harwood, wife
of the new rear-admiral.
To every message she returned the
reply: "There is only one
Siegfried Line Soliloquy
Why must I stand in this death-
awept trench,
Pear...and
noise...and horror
..and stench.
My spirit and soul exhausted? Why must I face the suffering, the
fright.
My father faced in the Kaiser's
fight.
Until he fell exhausted?
WHY? My Fuehrer, my leader,
has ordered it 19,
Aline but to do, to die; just to
know
IIIS PATIENCE IS EXILAUSTED.
LUMBERMEN LOVE
OUR JAM,
HATE
OUR DAMP COLD
Lumberland.
BIG, blue-eyed Peter, handsome, like a great boy who
message I have, and it is this: i am had never grown up, sat down on a log to-day sharpening a bow saw as he told me his ideas about England, says a correspondent.
Was
that the King has very proud honoured my husband.'"
Miss Joan Mrs. Harwood Chard before her marriage in 1924.
She said she was sure her hus band would not upprove the publicity which had attended his feat.
"He would put it that he was only doing his duty," she said, and added. "I only hope that the rest of the en- gagement with the Graf Spee will turn out as well."
besides There is another Cyprian. He is Stephen, aged seven, ... Both boys have made up their minds ..87 n.
1,365 sa.
. n.
.28% n. 131 .78 0.
Canton $.
Union S... China Underwriter $. II.K. Fue $..
.207 n.
460 1440. .180. n.
SHIPPING
Douglases $ Steamboats S. Indo-Chinas P'S Indo-Chinas D.$.
Shell (Bearers) s/- Waterboals $
724 b.
.11 n.
100.
.80 b.
77/6 n.
7/1⁄2 1.
DOCKS ETC.
102 b.
21 sh
Wharves S. Docks S. Providents $. New.. En Sh. Sh. Docks Sh.
MUNING
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HK. Mines $.
LANDS
Hotels S Lands S..... S'hai Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $... II.K. Reafiles $. Chinese Estates $..
UTILITIES
ECI
to follow father's footsteps in the Navy.
THAT'S ALL
MR. A. C. SARRE gives publie notice to people who have been illegally pleking tomatoes at Deloraine, St. Saviour, Jersey, that he will be shooting rabbits there every night from now on.
That's all.
HAZARDS
We were 1.000 feet up in a pinewood forest, just below the Scottish border, and Peter is one of the 300 Newfoundland lads who have come over to cut
OF WINTER timber and help win the war. FLYING
How R.A.F. Combats
Natural Enemy
"Fishing in summer, logging in winter is what most of us do along the shores of New- What sur- foundland," he said. prises me most is how cold it is
here.
"We all feel it badly though we The difficulties of winter fly have been used to 20 degrees of frost. dry. Here it is damp, which makes ing round the coasts of the But that is not cold. It is just dead. ¡British Isles are exemplified by lit cold. That is why you see us all
the following account of a patrol mumed up in woollens... by a Royal Air Force Constal Command aircraft.
Big Appetites
"Since we have got on the job at camp we have had fine food, They Two junior officers at a station in say we have got big appetites. Per- *** the for North were detailed for a chaps we have. The best thing in connaissance flight, one lo pilot, the England is jam. We help ourselves
up to that." other to navigate. They were before dawn and were driven to the
LETTERS iteraft through slect and a driving
Shumchun Vegetables
.4% sa. To the Editor,
19.80_n
,234 n.
The "Hongkong Telegraph."
wind. lorry became the mud, but they pushed it out and
went on.
Joined by a wireless operater, they felimbed into their aircraft and look
The camp manager told me he had never met such fam caters.
Captain Jack Turner, the Colonial Government forestry officer, who is in charge of the men, is very proud of his contingent.
"Prettiest bunch of boys that ever
foff in the grey light against the gafe. came over from your oldest colony to
the motherland," was his comment.
Out at sea weather conditions wereMost-of-these-iada-como- from Sir, The production of garden .18/- n. vegetables at the refugee farm has worse. The aircraft was alterately families that settled out there 200 When dusk falls, and the axes no .10 n. reached a point where supplies are pushed up from below, like a ping years ago.
4 n being brought to the city daily. Our pong ball on a fountain and forced
So suddenly that the longer ring across the hilla the men .3% cts. list includes tomatoes, carrots, beet downwards
and lettuce, all of which are speel-navigator would rise from his scat get back by lorry to their camp-19 .5% sn.ally grown for salads, only sanitary into the air, hang poised for a mo-miles from nowhere and make their
aawn evening entertainment.
These young stiants, partnering .33% b. fertiliser being used, Brussels sprouts ment, and then drop back with
In the each other
Iancers and .13 m. and broccoll are also available and crash.
one .81% b. they are entirely new crops for
quadrilles, whizzed
a hundred round, while 4.60 n. Hongkong.
clopped.
1}.
His instruments on the table be fore him were leaping up as if they Within the fortnight cauliflower, were the subjects of levitation,
The pilot was held in his seat only Trams $.........
17.00 b. & sa, Savoy and red cabbage, sweet corn,
beans and peas of different sorts will by his safety strap, but he was some- Peak Trams (old) S. Peak Trams (new) $. Star Ferries $.. Y. Ferries $.
China Lights (old) $. China Lights (new) H.K. Electries $. Macao Electrics $.
Sandakan Lights $. Telephones (öld) Telephones (new) Tractions si~
another admirers.
8n be ready for the public. These veget- times jerked against it for $8,000,000 WORTH
.00% 0. 24 7.05 11.
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from the further
OF PLANES
4ables are all priced reasonably and that he was almost "winded." The carry our guarantee that they are wireless operator was also suffering handicap of air hygenically whalcaome.
NEW YORK; Jan 10 (Reuter) - We would like your readers to avail sickness.
One enormous gust threw the air- 4themselves of this opportunity by
phoning their orders to 26821, or craft almost on its back. Salt from It is learned that negotiations are 181⁄2 50, writing to the Shumchun Rural Wel- the white foam rising from the sea progressing between Britain and the ..11
b.
Care Centre, Room 320, Prince's was whipped 1000 ft into the air, and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation crusted the windows of the aircraft for an $8,000,000 order of pursuit 25% Building. Des Voeux Rd. Central.
Juntil it was difficult to see through planes." EMILY KO, .9.00 n.
Assistant Secretary, them.
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Tractions (Pret.) s/-
INDUSTRIALS
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Cald: Maeg. (Ord.), Sh. $..14.00 n. Cald Mack (Prof.), Sh. §....13 n. Canton Tees $. Cements $.
H.K, Ropes $
STORES, &c.
....1 p. .10.40 9.
Dairy Farms (old) $22.00 n. Dairy Farms (new) $.21
Watsons $...... Lane, Crawfords $ Sinceres $.. Wing On (H.K.) Powell, Ltd. $..
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Stock Exchange
Trading Quiet
The fierceness of the gale can be estimated by the fact that on the first "leg" of the patrol, against the wind, the aircraft made a ground speed of only 80 knots. But on the last part, with the wind, the aircraft home at more than 200 lenols.
came
Such flights are the daily duty of LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuter)-On Coastal Command. In spite of wind.
the Stock Exchange to-day, although sleet and snow, the aircraft of this trading was quiet, gilt-edged securi- Command must.
patrol the
ties rallied in the early dealings and around our shores and for ent over maintained their improvement. 180 n.
Ewo Sh. $.....
· · · · · · · . (x.. d.) 344
S'hal Cotton Sh. $. Zoong Sing, Sh. $.
the North Sea and Atlantic, to guard Kaffes were very steady, but other British and Neutral shipping from
n. groups were Inactive owing to the submarines and mines. Filghts have
Imminence of the
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n. Parliament.
170 21. 44 m.
Wall Street was firm.
by
Wing On Textiles, 3h. $..
MISC. HK. Entertainments $. Constructions (old) $. Conalepallens (new) $.. Vibro Piling. $........ Ch. Govt. 5% 1925
G. Bonds
.40% .
.7 b.
.1% b.
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.. so.
100% n.
,101 sm. 05% n. 18/- n.
herial bombardment of the last rali- way communication existing with that part of Chinn which is free from ( | Japanese..occupsilon, AMET,
Chially U.S. Goods
sayn The statement
that the greater part of the traffic on this line consists of goods from the United States.
If these allegatione and bombard- ments are repented,
will
HR. Govt 1% Loen
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French circles SHIP AGROUND
ON REEF
think that be tempted to
of the the orientation despite
Government, which does Japanesa
DARWIN, Jan. 16 (Reuter)-Tho nol desire difcull relations with
come British steamer, Kerkur, 5,052 tons, Wester Power, these peía. from the militarists which think bound for Melbourne from Singapore,
they that
need not respect, went aground on a coral reef on the with due discipline, the instructions North Australian coast to-day coming to them from higher bu There are 00 passengers on board. thorities and the. Japanese., Govern-All ore nato, da
A vessel has gone to her assistance.
nient.
of recently been enrried out hundreds of
miles from land in winds af gale force.
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