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As his attractive, fair-haired 26-year-old wife came into view in the Customs shed he dashed across the guarded line, flung his arms about her and kissed her several times before Customs officials could reach him.
SHIPPING ROUTES
Americans Want To Work Idle Vessels
Without A Friend
A GRAND EMPIRE
He Forgets That Man Stalin
By MADAME TABOUIS
A Look Through The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
Feb, 13, 1800. Immense crowd have attended the reception at the Palace in Madrid to- day being the day of rejoleing, for the recovery of the tittle King Alfona.
Russia has the largest standing army in the world, 736,218 men, with 133,170 horson and 1,734 guns the standing nemy of Germany consists of 472,383 en, 84,021 horses, and 1,074, Great Britain has the largest anvy, with some 560 vessels of all clamus; italy, has the most heavily armed renneis and the heaviest guss yet afloat, but It is possible that the biggest vessels memanglah in war; so far. in pruce, and gun yet afloat may prove hom- the have proved pretty deadly to their
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1DIA In the louge of Commons, bic, Asquith announced that the British
AT the moment when France and Britain, with 30 other States, were voting for the expulsion of the Soviet Union from the League of Nations, and everything pointed to an increase in German-Russian collusion, a few persons in Geneva were informed by a neutral observer casualties up to Februnry 4 amounted of Hitler's latest grandiose scheme for a vast Nazi Em-to 104,000 of all ranks. pire in Europe.
Pansongers on the .N. Lusitanin. which arrived ni Liverpool this morn
This plan is contained in a curious and sensational ing late that when off the coast of document which I was privileged to see.
A few diplomats who have also seen it are of opinion that it is precisely the German-Russian collusion, mani- fest in the closing stages of the Geneva session, which will prevent Hitler from carrying it out:
Stalin will never be able to: co-operate sincerely, even for twenty-four hours, in setting up a system of which he would be the first victim,
tion
been drawn up under Hitler's dieta- The basis of the plan, which has onice, is a coherent solid bloc
by specialists of the "Geopolitik"} peoples of German race-the Greater
of
S.S. Terror In Polish
Corridor
BUDAPEST.
Ireland they received a wireless m sage from the Admiralty telling the commmmler to hoist the American Bag. They accordingly salted unter to
Liverpool.
A Foreign Ofee statement
declares
shit the British Government always re-
cognised the use of a neutral flag by a merchant ship tor the purpose of escap ing capture as fegitimate, and involving na brench af International Law; but that to destroy a ship carrying a non- combatant crew and enrgo, in Germany, han announced her intention of deing. is nothing less than an art of piracy.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13, 1930. A promise that there will be a great atruggle for the Open Tennis Singles Championship of the Colony was - dicated yesterday, when three. Arst- round les were played each producing aome extraordinary keen and fighting contents.
Open Championship Sincies First Round Zimmort beal A. H. Crook. 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
Ilo Ka-lau heat F. Grone, 6-2, 7-5, T. Honda beat B. Lo, 10-8, 6-2, 6-4. Y. Hachiama w., Cheng Chi-wing. Open Championship Doubles First Heand
W. Liang and F. H. Kwok, 6-2, 6-2,
W. C. Hung and Cheng Chi-wing beat
Man-kit and F. 1. Grose.
T. Honda and Y. Akiyama w.o. Yew L Wal-tsoi and Li Woog-tso! w
H. V. Parker and A. Merse.
Handicap Doubles First Round!
3. D. Humphreys and R. H. Wild beat'
0-2, 6-J.
5 YEARS AGO
of
Reich. Round this would be Д series of satellite States, over which political and economic control. n victorious Germany would exercise THROUGHOUT the Christ- mas season the Germans were Germany would be the only indus-busy evicting Poles from the ria. country. The satellite States former Polish Corridor to make would be restricted to supplying raw
materials and receiving manufac-room for Baltic Germans. He had not seen her since she went tured articles. They would be ul
The evictions are carried out. to Warsaw last August to visit her lowed to have national Industries, to parents, leave expires shortly. exploit natural resources, or import in a brutal manner: He met his Polisis-born wife four manufactures from any other country call unexpectedly at night and
S.S. men 6-2, years ago, witen she was studying Germany. dentistry at Manchester University, All Germany would thus become the inhabitants are given only a and married her shortly afterwards.workshop, under the direction
an immense, powerfully equipped few minutes to gather together With her came five other British German technicians. These would their belongings before leaving WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Reuter),women who had spent the past three constitute the new European elite, for ever homes which have 8, S, L. Paraofen anal C. P. F. James. What to do to help a child Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, United weeks in a Berlin prizen.
States Ambassador to Britain, is Anyone knowing of a child who going to London with a proposal to has been assaulted, neglected, or swap certain English and American Etreated in a manner likely to shipping routes which would result cause unnecessary suffering or injury in the putting to work of die United to health, or knowing of a parent
The achievement of this scheme ness or old age. Young mothers. States shipference with Mr. Cor- who is seeking advice on any matter
After
for turning Europe into a German newly born babies, invalids old concerning & child, would be doing sell Hull, the US. Secretary of State,
colony is planned In three stages, men, all are forced to leave. The #r: act of kindness by communicating Mr. Kennedy declared that he hoped
First: Completion of the German Poles in this district now wait every at once with-
to induce the British to turn over to
"Unity of the German State" by night in dread of the order to leave. The Hon. General Secretary, the United States certain routes that
the inclusion, In addition to Aus- ILK.S.P.C., Old City Hall,
are now operated solely by British
tria, of
Secret Radio Stations Danish Schleswig. the Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, ships which have already been re-in this coming relative or friend left German part of Poland, and Alsace A number of secret radio stations 1st floor.
moved from there in order to carry
Lorraine. The Inspector, 82 Stone Nullah war materials by other routes.
Miss White gave a vivid picture of
are being worked by Polish students. Lane, 2nd. Floor.
Second: Extension of the frontiers, They keep the Polish people inform- conditions In Berlin.
of Greater Germany to include tered of events throughout the worl though eggs are only 1d. each, one populated by German peoples, but pressors und
She saw very ittle bacon, and, ritories which are not at present encourage them to resist their op- give publicity to the Mr. Kennedy is leaving aboard the except for young children and can parts of the German nation.
tunes not that. Milk is skimmel, politik" principles, Manhattan on February 21. He is not always be hud. Sausage is the
form
integral worst tyrants among the German
occupying force.- going to Italy and France at first but only incat always available, though ity Polish part of Poland as far as by the Gestapo for having a secret
These territories include the strict- hopes to be in Luhdon when
In Lublin eight students arrested Sunner Welles arrives there.
comes under the meat ration of a the present Russian frontier, Bo- radio shouted out the name of an- half kilo (Just
a pound) a hemla, Moravia, Slovakio, Hungary, other student
part of Croatia, reaching the Adria- them. They were immediately shot who had betrayed Sugar ration is half a pound a fe, Holland. the Flemish port of week; Jam, 400 grammes (28 ounces) Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg. by the Gestapo.
St. Kowloon,
Mr. Kennedy said that the possi
for increased export from the United States
Three Stages
with a privileged position over the governing and intellectual classes off often been in their families for Marion White, an upright, elegant,
Only one among them, Miss Helena satellite countries.
generations. dauntless figure with the typical calmness of her racy, was of English family and blood. turning from after 15 years' two smull attache cases, a mackin- tosh, a few shillings, prd the clothes, she stood up in. Miss White has not
the fitinent, she
country.
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Ronie, Feb. 13, 1936. Italy in enlling troops of three No exceptions pre made for sick-mecbunised army clans to the coloure
In view of the thrent of war
with Abyssinin, following fresh hostilities on the frontier of Italian Somalliand,
Newspapers give the greatest premin- ence to the speech of General Jan Smuts, delivered yesterday in Capetown. and particularly to the statement of the veteran soldier-ataleamun's view that the Japanese policy was a serious risk to the peace of the world.
The Inspector, 12, Sai Yeung Cholbilities for the of lumber to Britain could buy only one a week and some-which, according to German "Geo- names of Polish traitors and of the !
The Inspector, 52, Argyle St., Kowloon.
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice Is proved.
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Second Talk of the Series "Some Great Anthors"
Broadcast by
Radlo
Programme
Z. B. W. en a Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm. und 8-11 pm. on 9.52 m.c's, per
second.
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were connected with the plan.
BRITAIN BUYS FROM TURKEY
ISTANBUL, Feb 13
Mr.
(Reuter).
month.
over
a month; butter, a quarter pound a week; margarine, 00 grammes week; lord, 60 grammes cheese, one-eighth kilo a week.
Determined To Fight
and Denmark.
"proteges,"
This
In Debt For $2,500,000
NEW YORK (UP),—William Cooper, head porter of an apart- nically, he owes $2,600,000, ment house, learned that, teck-
Cooper made the discovery as a Students Stoal Plane
government witness at the trial in Germantration of those countries
Federal court of four officers of the week; is to be accomplished in one genera-
No sooner is
one secret radio defunct New York Title and Mort- tion at the
longest by scattering the station discovered and destroyed than age Company which falled in 1933. populations throughout Germany new one begins to work.
Cooper testified that in 1030 and proper and abolishing all non-Ger "The German people are deter- mun iational characteristics.
1931 he was employed by the com- Two young students of Poznan, pany as a $30-a-week clerk. He said British representatives of the Minis- mined to fight," said Miss White. "Rea: Germany" would then extend members of the former Poznan Fly his duties consisted of signing papers, try of Supply who are now at Ankara "They are. persuaded that it was fraim Skagernek to Fiume or Trieste, in Club, recently crept into the most of which he did not read, and have concluded a contract to purchase economie collapse, and not the defeat and from Bale to nearly 6,000 tons of dried raisins and of their army, which lost them vie-)
nerodrome, overpowered the guard Asalstant Attorney General Bernard Konigsberg.
and took off in a Third: Disarmament and tory in 1918.
Messerschmitt Tompkins pointed out that he had rubjuga- Other British delegates have con- tracted to purchase nearly £1,000,000 but the Government has its people would be subjected to various re-
There is much anti-Nazi feeling. grand
tion of countries neighbouring the machine. They few safely to a neu- signed a bond for $2,500,000 on in
tral country. of tobacco annually.
Germanic Empire. Tresc
apartment house. .Feb. 14, 5 p.m.
so well in hand that they dare not strictions and reduced to the rank of
Officials expressed the opinion that These amounts may be substantially express their Feb. 15, 9.45 a.m.
Cooper still owed the money-at least Increased.
opinions publicly, .Feb. 15, 10.30 a.m.
"People in Berlin have no hate for
COLUMBUS, Ohis, (UP). - Kenan puper-but they admitted there Thursday, Feb. 16
Talks Concluded 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-
the English people. All their hate Is
Italy Not Included
neth de Vault, 20, is in jail. He was little likelihood of it ever being .7.15 am.
BRUSSELS, Feb. cession.
13 (Reuter).
collected, climbed into a locomotive cab, pulled concentrated on Chamberlain, whom The document mentions France, levers and ended a short trip in a timer former president; H. B. WI-
The Negotiations which have been pro- they blame for all their troubles." 10.30 a.m.
12.30 The Comedy Harmonists-ceeding for several weeks in London
defendants oro George T. Mor- French-speaking Belgium, Rumania, roundhouse plt. "I just wanted to liams, former chairman of the board, 12.30 p.m.
Mrs. 12.42 De Groot and His Orchestra and Paris for new trade agreements German-born wife of a Birmingham the Scanding lan States. It does not told arresting officers,
Louise Swain. 60-year-old Jugoslavia, Greece, Bulgarla, 12.30 p.m. 1.00 Local Timé Signal and Wea-between Belgium, Britain and France lotet chef,
and go to Wheeling, West Virginia," he and H. F. Breitwieser and Joseph .2.30 pan. they Report.
hud to choose between mention Italy-perhaps to avoid in- .3 p.in. 1.03 Dance Musle by Roy Fox and
Shields, forreer vice presidents. now been successfully cun- her husband and son, a chartered cidents with that Power. pp. His Orchestra.
necountant. She and her son were 1.30 Renter
Turkey is apparently left to Russia, und Rugby Press,
visiting
relatives in Germany and on the strength of a kind of German- .8.30 a.m. Weather Forecast and Announce-
the son was interned because he is Russinn "condominium" .8.30 alm.ments,
of military age. "It was a terNble Dardanelles, and of industrial con- over the .3.30 p.m.
1.45 Musical Comedy Selections.
wrench to leave him behind," said cessions to be determined by special. Manila, Australia and New Zealand 2.15 Close Down.
Mrs. Swain,
conventions. via Thursday Island-due Thursday
Mrs. Helen Mackenzie wife of Dr. Island 20th February.
Hugo Mackenzie, British director of K.P.O.
a Wargow school, brought her 12- NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (Reuler) year old son, Herbert, with her. He
had been in three weeks she spent in prison.
an orphanage during the
The one thing all the women told me they feared during their stay in was the "moral torture" of
Ord.
Canton
Shanghai
Sandakan
Tientsin (Parcels only)
Amoy and Shanghai
Friday, Feb. 16
Amoy
Tourane
Japan
Fort Bayard
Haiphong
Parcela,
Rek.
Ord.
Reg,
Ord,
6.00 Mozart-Magic Flute." Act 7.95 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
have cluded.
A Surprising Decrease
Feb. 16, 4 p.m.
7.07 Concert by Vladimir Horowitz Exports from the United States for Feb. 10, 5 p.m.
and Pablo Casals Govolle Tendre, high-grade avlation spirit in the last .Feb. 10, 5.30 p.m.
7.30 London--The News. G.P.O.
quarter of 1030 were 15 per cent. 0.00 Local Time Signal, Weather flower than the corresponding 1938 Feb. 10, 4 p.m. Report und Announcements.
figure.
-8.30
Berlin
trallan.
The others are foreign-born collaborating Negro Spirituels-Nobody CONTROL BOARD
wives of British subjects.
enemy,
40
be of
The Britists Empire is pulted to pleces by means special agreements with the Do- minions when they are entirely Reg- Ord.,
detached from London." Britain will then be no more than a little. Farcels,
island at the mercy of the Power Reg..
which dominates the Continent. Ord..
Feb. 16, 6 p.m. 8.03. Studio-"Some Great Au- Exports to Russia, which stopped being constantly spied upon by the of all her colonies, which would be France, of course, is to be deprived Ale Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu series of Talks by Father Ryan, ..not been resumed by the beginning
Feb, 18, 7 p.m. thors"-2: Swift-The second of a at the beginning of December, had Gestapo, and U.S.A.. by the "Pan American
annexed to Germany's African Em- Always Dirret ServicyBus San The Trumpeter, Nirvana, with Plano
Dennis Noble-Baritone.-of Februnry.
Fifteen British women, Miss White pire. Francisco, 23rd. February
The expected heavy demand from Among them are Mrs. Rayner, of schente dream, however, Hitler for-
snid, remain in the Berlin prison. In his efforts to realise Accompaniment by Gerald Moore. K.P.O.
this in- 8.40 Barnabas Von, Geczy and lis
the belligerents has not materfallsed. Harrogate, and Miss Graf, an Aus- gets that he has been reduced to Feb. 10, 5 pin. Orchestra. Feb. 18, 5.39°D,M,|
0.03
with G.r.O.
his greatest Feb. 16, b p.m. Armstrong with
Knows the Troublo I've Seen, Louis
He forgets that by the Pence of Feb. 17, 7.30-a.m.Quartet: (a) I Stood on de Ribber, the Lyn Murray
Breat-Litovsk in 1817, which seemed Saturday, Feb. 17
(b) Peter, Go Ring dem Bells, Paul Shanghai and Japan.....10.30 a.m.
to be as advantageous to Germany Robeson with Shanghai
Lawrence Brown; Go Down, Moses,
·Pluna. Accomp. by Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Paul Robeson accomp. by Lawrence cording to the Rumanian Legation in LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter)—Ac-
from the League seems now, Lenin Service"-due London 25th Feb.
necomplished the demoralisation of] Brown, G.P.O. & K.P.O,
the Kaiser's Army in one year. 9.13 London-News Sun:mary.
London, a control board to cover pro- LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter). Since duction, home consumption and ex- the outbreak of war, the production document in Geneva consider that The few who have seen the Nazl .Feb. 17, p.m.
9.30 Billy Russell-"On Behalf of ports of all kinds will shortly be set of antimony in Canada has .Feb. 17, 5.30 p.m.
the Working Classes,"
been eight to ten months will be sufficient, Monday, Feb. 10
0.45 The B, B. C. Dance Orchestra.
up by the Rupanian Government. speeded up and t estimated that this time, for Stalin's doctrines to Institution of the board will form between 60 and 70 tons are now ar- undermine the forces of the Third .7.15 a.m. directed by Henry Itail,
part of the general scheme to con-riving in the United Kingdom every Relch. .0.30 a.m. i
10.10
B. B. C. Recording "Play-trol ni Rusannia's natural resources month. ing the GameA Farcical Extra-with a view to conserving supplies antimany is of good quality average Butler and to M. Paul Boncour, the .1 p.m.
An authoritative conclusion to this p.m. Vaganza by L. du Garde Peach, Musle necessary to the country.
According to market circles, the effect Was communleated to Produced by Control boarda will be
set up ing up to 00.8 per cent. for which the British and French delegates, before later to deal with foodstuffs, timber current quotation is £98 cif in the they left Geneva, from which I have and other materials.
United Kingdom.
Just returned.
Rcx.. Ord.,
Canton
Dairen
Haiphong Canton Straits and Calculti
Parcela Ori,
2.30 p.m.
Feb. 19, 5 pm. Feb. 20, 0.30 am.
by George Baker.
Charles Brewer.
11.00 Close Down.
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| MORE ANTIMONY then ne the expulsion of the Soviet
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