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Hongkong, bih Fobruary, 1940. HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY
OF
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VEGETABLES the will be held at ST. JOHN'S PLACE Obtainable ut (opposite the tower Peak Tram Tuesday, the 5th Keily & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Station) Travel Bureau or from the Publishers,
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Wednesday, the 6th |March, 1940, from 10.a.m. to 4 p.m. ENTRIES WILL DEFINITELY CLOSE at the Hon. Secretary's office, Stock Exchange Building, Ice House Street, at NOON on
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and THURSDAY, the 22nd February, 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cyclos) London Relays Including "Cards on the Table"
MEMBERS who have not yet Radio Programine Broadenst by ZAW on & Frequency of 845 k.espald their subscriptions and ALL join the and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. THOSE who wish to and 8-11 p. on 9.52 m/es. per Society are requested to send 35,00 trend.
to the undersigned.
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12.15
cession.
p.. Short Service of Inter-
12.30 Glo
Hawaiians,
Bordin and
12.43 Gershwin-An American In I'aria
New Light Symphony Orchestra.
Signat Time 1.0 Local
Weather Report.
and
1.03 Tessie O'Shea (Vocal) and Benny Goodman and IIls Orchestra.
1.30 Reuter and turby Weather Forecast
ments.
Press
and Announce.
J. T. BAGRAM.
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1940.
THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
1.45 Carroll Gibbons (Plano) and THAT 11s Boy Friends.
2.15 Close down.
6,0 An hour of Popular Classics compered from the Stuto.
7.0 Closing local Stock Quntatious 7.02 A Military Band Concert. 7.30 London Relay-The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Re- port and Annowitements.
8.03 A Spanish Programme with Tito Schipa (Tenor),
Habanera-Danse Espagnole (Pablo Sarasate)... Rene Benedelt: (Vio- lin) with Maurice Faure at the
Piano: Gri Albeniz....
(Pergolesi,
Posy (Tos11)
urr.
THE FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COMPANY WILL be held at the Oilce of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 16th February, 1910, at 11.30 nm. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc tors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.
The Register of Shares of the anada (Albeniz); Cordoba Company will be CLOSED from
Nina ..Orquesta Odeon;
Bourdon):
A Litle Friday, the 9th February, 1910, to (Tenor) Friday, the 16th February, 1910, Tito Schipa with Orchestra; The Lover and the both days inclusive.
(Granado
Bateen
By order of the iteturn Schipit (Tenor) Directore, - with Tango . (Albeniz):|
Nightiano);
Joyec (Schipu).
Tango Bolero
(Juan Llosas)....
Darnabat Von Geczy & His Orebes- Dance (Granados-
trai
Spanish
Kreisler)....Yehudi Menuhin (Vio- lin) with Ferguson Webster of the Piuno.
8.40 London Relay "The Ear of Britain."
London Relay-News Sum- 9.30 London Relay Cards on the Table."
0.45 Variety with Gracle Fields, Henry & Jolin Ronald Gourley, Others.
Brass Band-Cavalcade of Martial Songs (arr. Nicholls); Punchinello Colliery (Rimmer)....Bickershaw Band cond. by William Haydock;
the Old Vocal--Outside
(Nael & Others); Father Thames Wallace, O'Hagan) with Orchestra; Fields .Gracle
Door
அ
Stage
Plano Medley--Charlle Kunz War Time
Piano Medley No. D. 31 Intro:
Run, Rabbit, Run; I'm sending you the Siegfried Line; Adolf; The Wash- ing on the Siegfried Line; Here we go again; Kiss me good-night; Sergeant- Major....Charlie Kunz; Humorous
Henry) Murgatroyd's Letter (J.
"Bioscom"
Joo
·Board of
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager Hongkong, 25th January, 1940.
G.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 12th day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Ollices of the Public Works Department, by Order al His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Chuk Un, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commen- cing from 1st July; 1898, with
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BRINGING THE GRAF SPEEWOUNDED ASHORE
THE FINAL CHAPTER Wounded from the
Admiral Graf Speé are brought ashore to Montevideo to be interned.---Foz, Movietone News.
Captain Hans Langsdorff, who
February, 6′′ 1940.
SKI-MEN HEAR
Hid Soldier Sweetheart In Cellar
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Elsie Boardman
was accused at Bolton, recently, of concealing an Army absentee-her lover.
The Adsutral
Graf Spee
met-
ing out of Montevi- deo harbour La
end her luglorious
сагет.
A.R.P. CHIEF WAS DRUNK
CAPTAIN
ERNEST
CHARLES
SMITH, aged 38, of Neville! Court-Cricklewood, N.W., on ARP. controller, and Inn Munroe, aged 40, of Rydell Mount, Holders Hill-road, Hendon, N.W., a company director,! were each fined 10s. at Hendon for being drunk and disorderly.
It was stated that a police officer was called to eject them from o public-house.
When police went to the house, it was stated,, she told them that she
W. had not seen Gunner Gibson since the previous Sunday.
But in the cellar, which had been locked, the officers found Gilson hiding.
CALL OF BLOOD
0
N the ice of a small Finnish laite,)
was seen recently a line of men
In civilian clothes standing will sicia
by their sides. In front of them their
wearing ennt,
offeer, a lean, tall nim), Jackboots and a white snow studied me and shouted an order at them: "Right turn."
The words in English with a Can- dian necent sounded strange in this Finnish setting. The squad turned,j some swung their skis deftly, some clumsily,
The American-Canadien Brigade, most of whom are of Finnish extrac-: tion, were in training.
The officer served in the great war. He was with the Canadians at the first as attack at. Ypres. A month ago he was in the Canadian Army, but the authorities granted kim slek leave.
Under his agreement with the Finns he is free to go back to Canada any moment he is needed there.
I looked along the faces of the mea. Their average age was well in the thirties. They were almost all! as broadly built and as tough ag the home-born Finns, who drilled near them.
Among the Canadians were lum- bermen, railway worlters, farm workers and a elevi In a tourist Soine had done military office. service in Canada and in the er Navy. United States Army Others had never held a their hands before.
Lumbermen
Hun in
Two of the Americans had seen firsting in Finland before during the War of Independence against Russia; others had done military service 'in Finland before they emigrated.
They are learning to ski quickly and to fire the Finnish automatic pistol and machine gun.
Miss Boardnan www dischargerl Amont the Canadians under the Probation Act.
Miss Boardman told the "Daily twenty-year-old boy who was a sea man in a ship coming from Aur- Iterald" afterwards, "I hope I will tell when war broke out. He de- not affect Bill's Christmas leave. serted and joined the party in New, We have known each other for about York.
a year, and were hoping to be married ot
Chrestmas
"As 1-hove not heard anything about his homecoming. I have not put up the "banos, If he should get his teave we shall be married by special licence."
One of the Americans, Arthur Wil- lams, told me in a rich, Bronx e- cent that he had been in the Ameri- can Navy for tour years. He was a house painter in New York when the Finnish war broke out,
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THE LONDON "Sunday Pictorial” has revealed the identity of the man who conducts the daily "hate cam- paign" for Germany against Britain over the radio from
They stood arguing; outside and re- Hamburg.
the option of renewal at a Crown committed suicide after scuttling defused to go away.
Ront to be fixed by the Sur-ship. veyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof. Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo Is That Man..sal of the lot the Purchaser (f
Henry and M
In
(Watts) The Night That We Met ly not the applicant) will be required
A Black-Out (Kester).... Handley with Plano accomp;
Fox-
to deposit with an authorised Trote Don't Worry About Me (from officer who will be present at the
What Goes
two hundred salo, the sum of Cotton Club Parade')
(from 'Cotton Up Must Come Doweraldo and Hils dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum Club Parade') Ochestra with Vocal Refrain; Humor-will be refunded on payment of of the Pied Piper (J. the Purchase price. -The Ston Henry assisted by Henry)
**Horridge; Plano-Medley Ginyds Intro: Easter Parade: With every breath I take; His Majesty the Baby; June in January; One good tune de- serves another: The big bad wolf
Vocal dead...
Ronald Gourley; Just A Catchy Little Tune, 'Sing as we go) Love (nim 'Sing as wo go') ....Gracle Fleids with Orel.; Fox-Trote You Grow, Sweeter As The Years Go By, There's Something Wrong with the Weather....The Organ, The Dance Band and Me, with Vocal Refrain; Vocal-You Needn't Have Kept It A Secret (O'Connor and
You Others) Goodnight to (Denby-Watson)...Morton Downey
with Orchestra.
11.0 Close down,
(Alm
All
"A DENIAL AND
A CHARGE
MANCHESTER, Feb. 5 (Reuter)-
Sir Oswald Mosley, the Fuehrer of
No..of
Boundary
Monzuramenta
N.A.E..
feet wel teri|fart}
Ana Rent.
Upset
Price
German Women
Angry
He is William Joyce, one time director of propaganda of the British Union of Fascists and the former co-leader
Are of the National Socialist League. Arel
At New
Restrictions
ANTWERP.
For weeks people have written and telephoned asking the solution of the mystery of the identity of the man who has come to be known as Thousands of "Lord Haw Haw." listeners in Britain are convinced he Is English.
Any doubts that Joyce is the man were disposed of by a woman who was interviewed by the "Sunday Pictorial."
She is Joyce's former wife, now living in the tiny village of Waldron,.
Sussex.
Recognised His Voice
jo
mc.
matter, she said, "That's W.J., isn't 17-olie always called her father W. J.
"I am positive he is the man, He even tells the same stories that he used to, tell me.
"I heard through friends that Joyce went to Germany a few days before war broke out."'
The former Mrs. Joyce said she married him when she was twenty.
Slashed With Razor
"He is a brillant lingulat, speaking Tin four languages," she went on. friends prophesied a great career for him when he was a private lutor, but I'm afraid he has a queer twis!! in his make-up."
GERMAN women, already harassed. by the shortage of food, are openly indignant over the new order requiring boys from ten PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to 18 to undergo semi-military training.
The Gestapo-mostly youths of be- They make little effort to hide, their feelings.
tween 20 and 25 are malting whole-
"I knew it was William Joyce--my
husband-the moment "Why doesn't Hitler go to the sale arrests, largely of Catholle former Western Front himself?" is a ques- priests and people who have held listened to his voice," she said.
minor political posts.
"My mother and sister, who knew
"At one Fascist meeting he was Lion frequently heard,
Reports of discontent in Germany
Sixty thousand Czechs have been Joyce well, have written
slashed with a razor, lle carries Germany and are They, too, have recognised his voice. to reach here, and even transferred to
the scar to this day, stretching continue
"Joyce
is the father of two of my
from mouth to cat." it half of them are discounted being kept hard at work on farms.
They are not allowed to return to children. They are eight and eleven seems obvious that the publle moralo
Joyce left the British Union of 1 deteriorating.
the Protectorate, nor are their re-years old.
the Fascists three years ago. He formed "One night I turned on In Austria a considerable army and latives allowed to accompany them.
wireless while they were in the a party called the National Socialist huge bodies of Black Guards find the At Mahren, all Jews between the
room. Joyce was speaking. My League, whose insignia was a ship's The motto of the task of preserving order and pre- ages of 14 and 17 have been mobilised
eldest daughter turned pale, and steering wheel. venting
a whole-ume job. and 3,000 of them have been sent to
when I asked her what was the League was "Steer Straight," Shops
Join labour corps in Poland. The shops in Vienna have far
Leave Stopped smaller stocks than those in Berlin' and in Hamburg.
New Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No. |
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Chak Up-
Locality
a per le
plan.
30.000
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Dutch Service In Atlantic
LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter)-Plans
After the German occupation of Madame Chiang's
All the hotels and sanatoriums in Poland, leave for men engaged on the Austrian spas and health resorts the construction of the Siegfried Line have been requisitioned for evacuees was cancelled, owing to the lack of from the Siegfried Line regions,
transport. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia conditions are perlups WOTIC.
denled allegations for the Netherlands Trans-Atlantic DUNCAN IN COMMONS to migle men.
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CHUNGKING, Teb. & (Reuter) NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (Reuter). So great, however, hun been the Madnie Chiang Kai-shek, in a stir-Plans for the inauguration of sub- open grumbling that reguler leave ring speech to-day at meeting stratosphere 'mall flights from about after three months is to be granted organising the Friends of Din the beginning of May were discussed to all married men and every six Wounded Society, pledged personally yesterday by 150 P.W.A. traffic and the British Union of Fascists, in a speech. (o-day
London, Feb. 5. With this decree, another Nazi to raise $100,000 for the Society. She operations men.
in Honorary Chairman of the move-
It is expected that one fight each made that his sister-in-law, Miss Service are now so advanced that the
Sir Andrew Duncan, recently op- slogan has been proved to be empty ment, while Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister
The of Finance, la Chairman.
way daily will be maintained at the Unity Milford, had been aiding the Netherlands Minister in Washington
has been instructed to apply for per-pointed President of the Board of words "Holidays with Pay."
beginning. enemy.
He also charged that a man be-mission to make the necessary ar-Trade, was returned unopposed as order lays it down that no wages
of the two Member of shall be paid.
The movement, which will be Four motora Boeing stratosphere Another blow to the working man! Heved to be a Mosley adherent, who rangements in the United States, re-jone
Parlament for the City of London. Interrupted a recent speech by Mr. ports the "Dally Telegraph',
The service will be established on Ile succeeds Sir Alan Anderson, who is the stopping of overtime pay, or formally inaugurated on February 10, planes with sealed cabins and super- engines will maintain the fr expected to enllat at least 100.000 charged Winston Churchill in Manchester,
"special production allowances." was taken back-stage and there mera weekly basis at first but the ulti- has retired..
The employers get no benefit from members, The ult of the movement service, Bying at 20,000 feet.
The west coast terminals will be mate aim is to have daily morning elessly beater.
The Conservative Party spokesman and evening connections with New
this, for the money saved must be paid to the inx authorities. denied this,
York.
Sir Alan Hained the scat unopposed at the by-election on April 8, 1930- Reuter
wounded Chinese soldiers, is to obtain one "friend" for every
Sun Francinea and Los Angeles.
& CO.
Chater Road.