Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 13, 1940, ka vi
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
Parcels
RETURN FARE Aged
For War Internees 5 FRANCS
ONE vast room in St. James's Palace, given | over to the Red Cross, to-day looks like a grocer's shop, with tablets of soap, tins of food-stuffs, slabs of chocolate and drums of cigarettes stand- ing in rows and pyramids and symmetrical piles
on shelves,
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COMPANY WILL be held at the Office of Mosora. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 10th February, 1940, at 11.30 nm, for the purpose of Three times a fortnight one 11lb. parcel, recolving the Report of the Direc-made of goods drawn from these stores, goes to tors together with a Statement of every British prisoner of war in Germany and Accounts for the year ended 31st every interned civilian. December, 1939.
The Register of Shures of tho Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 9th February, 1940, to Friday, the 16th February, 1910, both days inclusive.
of
By order of the Board Directors,
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong, 25th January, 1940.
HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL SHOW
stated, and where malls are advertis- FLOWERS
INWARD MAILS Australia and Manila
When
or
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tered and parcel mails are closed at (opposite the lower Peak Tram ed to close at or before 9 a.m. regla-will be held at ST. JOHN'S PLACE 5 p.m. on the previous day.
[Station) on Tuesday, the 5th mails are advertised to close after 5 p.m. Registered and Parcel mails March, 1940, from 3 p.m. to 6.30
and Wednesday, the are closed at 6 p.m.
6th p.m. March, 1940, from 10 n.m. to 4 p.. ENTRIES WILL DEFINITELY CLOSE at the Hon. Secretary's office, Stock Exchange Bullding, Feb. 13. leo House Street, at NOON on Feb. 13. Feb. 13.THURSDAY, the 22nd February, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-1940, but intending exhibitors are tani (San Francisco date, 4th requested to send in their entries. January) ....................... Feb. 13. as early as possible. Air Mail by "Air Franco Direct Ser-
vice"-Paris date, 7th Feb.
..Feb. 13. Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service" London date, 3rd Feb.
Java and Manila Manila
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date, 8th Dec,, 1930)
MEMBERS who have not yet
Feb. 14. paid their subscriptions and ALL
Feb. 14.
Feb. 14. THOSE who wish to join the Feb. 15. Society are requested to send $5.00 (London to the undersigned.
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OUTWARD MAILS Tuesday, Feb. 13
Halphong
Amoy....
Fort Bayard
.1 p.m. .2.30 p.m. .2.30 pan.
Tientsin (Parcels only)....3.30 p.m. Saigon
.6.30 pan. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct-
Service"-due London, 21st Feb.
K.P.O.
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Feb. 13, 5 p.m. Feb. 13, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
J. T. BAGRAM,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1940.
Originally they went by air to Paris, from Paris to the International Red Cross Head. quarters in Geneva, and thence to Berlin for redispatch to the Internment camps.
Now, as the postal route through Belgium is open, they go direct. It takes about a fortnight | between dispatch and receipt-"Very good in- deed," said an official.
Packing is done by 20 volunteer women | workers, not all of whom are on duty at the same
time.
The parcels vary in content, but every one contains à tin of cigarettes and a tablet of soap.
. Once a quarter relatives are allowed to send individual parcels to prisoners of war. These are also sent by the Red Cross organisation.
R.A.F. PRISONER
menthe only Service which, so far, has lost any Special facilities have been devised for air-
prisoners of war,
Immediately on receipt of nows an overcoat and two blankets (issued by the Air Ministry), n small parcel of food and a package of "medical comforts"-dressings, jodine, invalid food, cough mixture, etc.-are sent to the prisoner. These go direct from Geneva, which, in turn, is supplied from London.
The average parcel contains:
1 box cheese
1 tin inargarine
1 slab chocolate
3 assorted soup
squares
lb, sugar
kidney
1 fin herrings
1 tin curry
tin Bournvita
ib, tea
1 in milk
tin honey
1
tin steak and
1 tablet sea
1 in cigaretiės
For Rawalpindi Mon Biscuits, sausages, coffee essence, marmalade, conned soup, stew, jam tins, sardines, vegetable salad in vegetable and meat essences-thej changes are rung as frequently as
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. possible.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via Saigon.
More and more Items are being
TO BLIGHTY
EVENING TOURS SHEGARTED I
LIKE AND LE1OND
Helps
Scientist Win War
Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, added that bright smile of his to air- men's decorations of a French bus when he visited Royal Air Force units.
Volunteers Fight for Finns
Donald Not Duce's Spanish
A Spy
Want to
FROM dusk to dawn in every British naval base and harbour there is an unceasing flashing of signal lamps as ship talks to ship and to shore.
Anybody, friend or foe, can, see the messages and read them -If they know the code.
Sir Ambrose Fleming, the famous scientist, has invented, at the age of 90, a simple and. cheap spy-proof lamp, the signals from which can only be read by the specially equipped receiver for whom they are in- tended.
Sir Ambrose, inventor of the valve that made broadcasting practicable, demonstrated the lamp to J. D. S. Alan, the Sun- day Dispatch Aviation Corres- pondent..
Pencil Of Light
Sir Ambrose, agile and certain in- his actions despite his years, took the lamp and directed a fine pencil of light at my eye from the opposite end of a corridor.
I looked through a small tube. The light took a durk colour. then changed to steady white dot-und- dush flashes as Sir Ambrose operated the shutter of the lump.
the
If that pencil of light had been surrounded by cute renders and sples, they would have seen nothing. Only I with the tube could detect flashing of the Morse code.
It spies were very close to the lamp they would see only unbroken white light.
The invention miny prove of in- estimable value to the Services and the Mercantile Marine, providing, as It does, a spy-proof method of sig- nailing over short distances.
"Polarised" Light'
The secret of Sir Ambrose's lamp is "polarised“ light.
In Light consists in vibrations. ordinary light these take place in all directions, Polarised light jooks. Itonic. Italy, struggling as she is to build just the same to the naked eye, but SIGNOR MUSSOLINI, anxious at up her front line strength, has few the vibrations are, in fact, confined the westward spread of Bolshevism, planes to spare for the Finns. But
singic plane. -OFFICIAL is adopting towards the Finns' strug- under a pre-war contract a total of ONALD DUCK and his nephews ONA
whose antics on Page 3 delight Telegraph" readers, are all under the watchful eye of Ministry of Information.
are no
le much the same attitude as he 150 scouts and bombers are now be
leved to have been delivered did towards the Spanish civil war.
Omelally there
Italian Finland from Italy, volunteers going to Finland--but I understand that young officers have been asked privately. if they are
靄 Enya willing to volunteer, pondent,
corres-
Cinema audiences in England have added. Latest recruits are a black-been laughing at the film "Sca currant purce and halibut liver oil.
Scouts," which features the famous battalion-the Arditi, who have taken Members of Italy's Death's Head Donald and his In room piled with bales and
an oath never to retreat-have offer- atacks of suppiles are parcels ready
three duckling
ed again to take up the fight against nephews having the Soviets which they dropped less the to go to Germany for the survivors
most In- known where they are. of the Rawalpindi as soon as it is
redible
than a year ago in Spáln. adven- Crear tures with inc shark and a little boat--and laugh- ing started be- fore the film.
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valumbles are being, landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Lascar
Here also are botes destined for seamen, who, trople-born
Feb, 13, 5 p.nu.Whart and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-suffer bitterly from cold in their Feb. 13, 7 p.m.oon, whence delivery may be obtain-prison ship moored off the
Baltic port of Bremen. Air Ball for Malaya, Java and Aus-ed immediately after landing.
tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due Sydney 19th Feb.
Reg.
Ord.,
Reg.,
K.P.O.
All claims must be sent in to me
421 or before Wednesday, 21st 1940, or they will not be
Feb. 13. 5 p.m. .Feb. 13, 5.38 p.m.]
Damaged Packages will be examin- G.P.O.
by the Company's Surveyor ed by Messes:-Goddard and Douglas in Feb. 13. 5 p.m.
· Ord.j
Feb.-13. 7 p.m. the presence of the. Consignees at
10.00
a.m. on the 17th February, Shanghai, Japan and Honolulu
G. P. O, and K. P. 0.
1940.
Consignees must have a Revenue Rep...Feb, 13, 1.00 pm.
Omeer in attendance when any duti- Feb. 14, 8.30 a.m. Shanghal, U.S.A., Central and Southable goods are examined by the Com-
America and Canada via San pony's Surveyors.
Ord..
Francisco, (No Parcels for Canada) No Fire Insurance will be effected -due San Francisco, 1st March. by us in any case whatever.
R. OHL, Agent.
Parcela
Reg.
Ord.
Parcels
Reg.
Ord.
K.P.O.
Feb. 13, 5 p.m.) Feb. 14, 9.45 a.m.
.Feb. 14, 10.30 a.m. G.P.O.
Feb. 13, 5 p.m.HE
Feb. 14, 0.45 m.
Feb. 14, 10.30 a.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 14
...B.30
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Bangkok Ford Boyard and Holhow 1.30 p.m. Afr. Mall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinos only). by the "Air France Arways Direct Service"-due Paris, 22nd Feb.
RCK.
Ord.
Бек
K.P.O.
Feb. 14, 5 p.m. Feb. 14, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
Feb. 14, 5 p.. Ord .........Feb. 14, 7 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt, Malta and Europe via Marseilles-due Marsellies, 11th March-and Lon- don Parcels due London, 20th March.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
.Feb. 14, 5 p.m. .Feb. 15, 0.45 a.m. .Feb. 15, 10.30a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15
Parcels
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Canton
Sandakan Shanghal Fort Bayard
Haiphong
Amoy
Tourone
Friday, Feb. 10
.7.15 am.
12.30 p.m. 12.30 pm.
.2.30 pm.
...3 p.m.
8.30 .. .B.30 am.
Manila, Australia and New Zealand
vin Thursday Island-due Thursday'
Island 2011 February,
Parcels,
Reg
Ord.,
Parcels, Reg. Ord,
K.P.O.
Feb. 10, 4 p.m.
.Feb. 10, 0 p.m.
Feb. 10, 8.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
.Feb. 16, 4 pm.
Feb. 10, 5 pm.
Feb. 10, 7 p.m.
Tientsin (Parcels only) ...12.30 pm.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu
and U.S.A. by the "Pan American
Airways Direct Service"Duo San
Francisco, 23rd. February
K.P.O.
.Feb. 10, 5 1.2L
Reg.
Ord,
G.P.O
Reg.
Feb. 16, & pat
STARTS TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S
&
ALHAMBRA
Limited
Roadshow Engagement !
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COUNT. THE "
...Feb. 16, 5.30 p.m" TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
;Feb. 17; 7.30 KM/
Lord Clarendon, who is in supreme command of this service has already paid public tribute to the manner in which the German authorities pass along the things sent out.
Red Air Force
Bigger Sham
Than Army
That was be. cause, in addi- tion to the usual film censor's cer- Uncate, the film
was herakled with the words "Complying wita the requirements-of-the-Ministry-cf Information."
The idea of the bellicose. Donald having any possible connection with the war has tickled Britain immen sely.
The words have been deleted from the censor's certificate of all future Aims.
"We have dropped the Ministry of THE Allied High Commands have Information bit out now," said the received details of the much- Ministry of Information recently, vaunted Russian Red Air Force, "because we realised that on certain which show it to be a bigger sham pictures it would look silly. than the Red Army, says the "Dally Express."
For her 4,000 mile wide continent Russiu has a first-line strength of
ittle more than 4,465 machines.
Compared with the latest pro- ducts of the chief Western European) Powers G5 per cent of the Red machines are obsolete. There are no new-type machines under pro- duction.
The Russian second-line machine strength is about 2,000 planes. Lack of advanced training machines Ja
"The labels were printed before the war as an emergency measure. It is nows to us that Donald Duck has re- celved such a certificate."
Blame for The
Terrible Defeat
of Poles
restricting the ouput of trained pilots TN an address to the Polish Cabinet
to 2.000 a year, a useless figure for large-scale war in Europe,
Split In Two
at Angers, General Sikorski, the Prime Minister and Commander-in- Chief of the Polish Army, outlined his programme.
The Western Air Command has a
Two principles would govern Po- total of 3,240 of the most modern lish action: first a complete rupture machines allotted to
The with the former system of governing Eastern Command, which covers outside the control of public opinion; the Mogollan and Manchurian and, second, the right mun in the
first-line right place.
frontier, has
machines.
1,223
General Sikorski said that the "terrible defent," for the consequences: There are two types of Russian of which the nation was paying in warplanes which experts say "com→ pare not, unfavourably with the blood, was due to multiple causer, but modem medium-type bombers of especially to the fact that national other nations. They are called the energy was directed into the wrong.
channels, whether in
in military, polit- SB and Ts.Kb,20.
enl; or economic spheres. The SB la similar to n
Nor, he said, must a regime of Blenheim and has a maximum speed favouritism be allowed to creep back, (of about 280 m.p.h. A Blenheim will The Prime Minister then thanked his
do 200 m.p.h.
colleagues, on whose patience and The Ts.Kb 20 has a maximum speed quailtica he felt sure the Polish nation of 245 mph. and a range of 1,000 could count. miles with 3,300 lb. of bombs,
British
The best Russian fighters are the 1.10 (SSF), of which the Western Command has 713 and the Eastern Command 320. These machines are similar to British Gloster Gladiators, which have long been superseded by newer types.
Trade Delegates Meet In India
NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (Reuter).
The morale of the pilots is high, Japanese and Indian delegates to the But discip- Trade Discussions between these two they are good-aighters. Hac. Manresalt of the 1937-8 countries met yesterday,
purges, is low, Every coshmanding The discussions are revolving
olloer of every squadron in watch
ed by a politionă representative;-
around the existing agreement for cotton plece goods and raw cotton.
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The projector sends out a beam of polarised light. For the dots and dashes of the message it changes this momentarily to ordinary light.
The naked eye cannot detect the difference. The casual observer sees nothing but a steady unwiniting glow,
Italian mechanics and test pilots are said to be acting as instructors to the Finnish Air Force. Because of the Soviet blockade, any further deliveries would be made direct by air across Germany. The Romic Press to-day makes the message stands clear that Finland is agiting a war flushes of white. in the north for a cause that is very nearly Italy's own.
The special receiving instrument, however, filters the polarised light and makes it appear darker and of is different colour. On top of this out in separate
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"I was called in by the late Lord Fisher," said Sir Ambrose, "to advise on this method of signalling in the last war.
Admiralty Know
"It was possible to use polarised light, but the crystals available were ED small, rare and expensive that a simple projector and receiver would have cost hundreds of pounds.
"Now the complete apparatus con bo made in large numbers for a few pounds.
"The range of this secret signalling is limited to a few miles by the cur-
เทมม vature of the earth. A lamp on a {most-would--have-a-wider range-in- proportion to the height of the mast, "I have kept the Admiralty fully advised about this lamp."
Even R.A.Majors
Must Go Back
To School
The Royal Regiment of Artillery motto, "Ubique'" (everywhere)—has "Invaded" one of Britain's most noted Брая
It is the only artillery officers' "school" of its kind in the country so far.
The puplis are an interesting mixture of old Regulars, Terr!- torial Reservists, members of the Officers' Emergency Reserve, anf younger blood.
They come in batches for a proceas of hardening tuning up, and refresh- Ing.
Men of 50 who said good-bye to their gung a quarter of a century ngo, have to learn onew. Their grey hairs and their beribboned cheats will
not excuse them from gun drill, minlature range work-and endless lectures.
*Generally, 16 is a case of the more. the ribbons the fewer the pips. Majors and caplains of the last war HAVO to start all over again... Ka second-leutenants,
RAWALPINDI MAN IN
NAZI CAMP Lotter To
Mother
Was of
After the destruction of tits armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi by the German "pocket battleship" Deutsch- land and another enemy warship among those reported missing Ablo Seaman Jumes Spears, Tower-Street, West Hartlepool.
For days his mother heard nothing of him. Then a card arrived saying ho was in a
internment German camp. Recently, she received a letter in which he said:........
I am all
"Don't
about me, worry
right. The people here, are treating
well
15
to up now,
"When we sailed in the Rawalpindi. we laughed and joked about what we would do if we ran into any German- naval craft, never dreaming that it was the Inxt voyage for inost of us,"