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Sallings to Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta,
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Sailings to Rabaul, East Coast of
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All veksels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without
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Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted.
For details apply to
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Phone 27721.
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SHANGHAI & JAPAN MANILA, SYDNEY, and MELBOURNE via Way Ports HONOLULU, SAN FRAN- CISCO, and LOS ANGELES *VANCOUVER and SEATTLE.. LIVERPOOL via SINGA- PORE, SUEZ, and Way Ports
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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 18, 1940.
IN FRANCE”.
WITH THE TOMMIES “SOMEWHERE
British troops disembarking at a port "somewhere in France"- British official photograph.
1,000 M.P.H. GIANT ARE TEETH OF THE
How The Big Guns
Are Tested
From IAN MACKAY
BOOMTOWN.
CROUCHING' behind a thick steel shield this
SHELLS NAVY
Proof of Pacifism
QUESTION AND ANSWER at Manchester Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal:
Judge Burgis: What is there about his life that has made you think he is a Christian pacifist?
The Rev. H. Lonsdale: Well, he lives with his mother-in-law.
morning I watched £2,000 of your money and mine being THIRTY - THREE WORDS OF COMFORT
blown to smithereens in about a tenth of a enjoyed it.
second--and
For it proved conclusively to me that our money is not being wasted,
This was the last day of the Ministry of Supply tour and we watched experimental experts proving the FORTNIGHTLY FORTNIGHTLY efficiency of the great guns, monstrous shells and deadly machine-guns which last week-we-saw-being-fashioned- EARLY FEBRUARY in the factories by skilled and eager British craftsmen.
FREIGHT ONLY
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE,. and Way Ports ..
NEW YORK via JAPAN,
·LOS ANGELES, &-PANAMA
·CALCUTTA ́ ̧via SINGA- .PORE and Way Ports.
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TON-WEIGHT SHELL
The high spot of to-day's demon- stration was a test of a ton-weight 15in. Naval armour-piercing shr which was fired point-blank at a foot
WOMEN IN
thick armour plate of the toughest SOVIET BOMBER
sleet in the world.
we
What happened to that plate were not allowed to ste, as that part of the business is slit a secret.
But we saw the scuring flash of the gun, heard the shattering explosion, the sinister swish of the missile as it was hurled at 1,000 feet a second- over 1,000 miles an hour-and the 1 tore its way savage smack as through the solid sice).
Although we were several hundred yards away from the target we had
to hide in thick ste: shelters.
We
LONDON,
Copenlingen reports state that women flers are taking part in the bombing of Helsingfors.
A woman's body, riddled with bullets, was found among tho crew of a crashed Soviet bomber, which kad machine-gunned'
civilans In the streets,
She was possibly one abong many, as the Rusalan Air Force has long been open to women.
were told that when this gun is onŠOSIOS the job nothing is safe within an area of a few square miles, as fragmenis of the steel plate are sometimes hurled Incredible distances by the impact.
BUTTON STARTS IT
Two minutes before the gun is fired everybody within sight takes
cover.
A bell is tolled to warn distant
Stenographer "Gun-Man"
DALLAS, (UP). — With blazing pistol in each hand, workmen to look out, an officer Corrine Maddox, a stenographer, shouts "Stand by," and slowly counts 26, shot and killed Brooks Coff
man, an attorney.
(ел.
On the word "en" a button. is pressed in a kind of a cement pill-} box some yards behind the gun.
Five feet from him on a busy street. she took a 32-caliber gun from her handbag and u 38-caliber platol from a shoulder holster under her left arm and began firing. Coffman fell and
The cost of the shell and the 4001b. charge of cordite required to launch it 19 £1,000. Damage to the armour plate and all the ather incidentals begged her to stop fring cost nearly as much again.
to
Have you ever wondered what hap- pens to the shells which are fired out by scat They are retrieved galloping waggon teams and examin ed to see how they have stood up to the test.
She kept shooting while Coffmer struggled to his feet and staggered across the street, falling again on the opposite side.
It was awful to have to do such a thing," Miss Maddox told polier who trested her.
Last month alone 10,000 shells were fired here. The firing is done when
She and Coffmän had stabbed heri the tide is at a certain height, and during a quarrel last May and had shells of all sizes from pom-poms to annoyed her several times since. Ho 16-inch leviathans are found on the had met her at a soda fountain and sand at low water.
offered to take her home, but instead,} Machine-guns are viso tested here drove to the country, asked her to
FOR NOWITŻERS
him to California, and accompany stabbed her in the chest when she In one corner of this depot of de- refused, site sald. Leaving her in a struction stand four toll" pylons-itch beside the road, Coffman drove 12011, high-with a curious cagelike to the shoriff's office, where he sur structure auspended between the rendered. masta. It is 40ft, lang and only 3ft Miss Maddox is free on: $7,500
(hand, awaiting trial on
aquarc.
It is one of the most important of charge,
all Mr. Hore-Delishin's possessions.
·Six-Inch howitzen aro trained, on
a. murder
it and belleve it or not the thells torce they have travelled is rncasured never fall to pass through the aft and the ixperts then know exactly tunnel on their way out to sea, the trajectory and the general per
When they ara picked up the dis-1formance of the shell,
0:
HE IS the living God and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed....He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh, signs and wonders in heaven and in earth.- Daniel vi, 26. 27.
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CONSIGNEES' NOTICE,
BERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Bringing Cargo from Marsellies vla Salgon
Consignees are hereby informed" that their goods with the excupt.on of Oplum, Treasure and Valuablet ere being landed and stored into the Wharf and Godowa Ltd., Kow. leon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed Immediately after londing,
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All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 27th January, 1940, jar they will be recognized,
Damaged Packages will be examin
Shrveyor
od by the Company's Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 fum, on Monday, 22nd January, 1940,
Consignees mus
must have Revenus - 10meer in attendance when any dutie Jeble goods are examined by tho
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