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FOR SALE.
FLOWER BULBS of gindloli and begonia. Just received from Holland and for sale at Graca Co., No. 10, Wyndham Street, Hongkong. Estab Jished 1896.
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ..of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1930-at-3 p.m., at the Oilkes of the Public Works Department, by Order of . His Excellency the Governor of ose Lot of Crown Land at To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal it n Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 76 years,
Intending bidders are advised
THE CAMERA" Second Edition. that Immediately after the dispo Over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.00, Obtainable at sal of the lot the Purchaser (It Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. Hongkongnot the applicant) will be requirod Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd, to deposit with Wyndham Street.
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an authorlaed
officer who will be present at the
sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sun! will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
No. of Sale
Registry No.
Locality
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS | PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1910, at 3 p.m., at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of
one Lot of Crown Land at Mount Cameron Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for n term of 21
years.
Kowloon Inland
No. 4231. Between To Kwa Wan Road, Ha Heung Road, South West of Kowloon
Inland Lot No. 4148.
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Content
$496
$19,875
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Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispó sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised oficer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum
to be held on Monday, the 26th will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
day of February, 1940, at 3 pam., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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Registry No
Locality
Garden Lot
No. 115.
Mount Cameron Road.
Adjoining Rural Building
Air
Lot No. 420.
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About
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q. feet.
Ann. Bent
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Mall by "Imperial Airways
Direct Service”...--London date, 14th February.
Amoy
Bangkok and Saigon
Halphong
Canton
Shunghal
Canton
.Feb. 22.
Feb. Feb. 22.
22.
Feb.
22.
Feb. 22.
Feb. 24. .Feb. 24,
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Chosen
MISS MONA FRIEDLANDER
February 22, 1940.
to “Ferry" Planes for the R.A.F.
Biru, W. Crossley
Miss R. Beca
་
Mex. G. Patterson
Miss J. Hughes
Here are the photographs of five of the eight women pilots who have been selected to "ferry" the light type of R.A.F. trulning aircraft from factory to aerodrome. They have all had many years' flying ex- perience, and will be attached to the women's section of the Alf Transport Auxillary under the command
of Mise Pauline Gower.
THREE MEN WHO FOUGHT THE ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE TO MARRY
Admiral's Medal To
Be Auctioned
LONDON.-War medals and decorations belonging to the late Mr. E. E. Needes of High- gate, Loondon, have been sold nt.
ARMY DOGS Gendining's, Oxford-circus,
RECRUITED
France Opens Special Station
PARIS, (UP).-The French Army has opened a recruiting station for army dogs.
Dogs will be accepted either as] gifts or on loan for the duration of the war. They will be concentrated) at a training camp where they will be taught special courses which in a few weeks, turn them into specialists
for patrol work, Red Cross, despatch! carriers, or for observation duty.
Among them was a Naval Service Medal with six bare awarded to Rear-admiral Cock- hurn, for gallant conduct at sen at St. Vincent, Egypt and Martinique.
Blockade
From H. do WINTON WIGLEY
ON BOARD H.M.S. AJAX.
AS the fearless Ajax, with her two small companions, Exeter and Achilles, waited hopefully outside the River Plate for the goliath Graf Spee to come out and fight, her (carpenter set to work on a strip of teak.
And as you step on the ship's quarter-deck you see at once the result of his handiwork.
You see the panel recording engagements of ships of the name, beginning with St. Vincent, 1780, and coming down, through Trafalgar, to Jutland.
Underneath is that strip of teak, now brilliantly polished and
●●• ¦ bearing in letters of gold "The Plate, 1939-the very latest of
British naval honours.
As flames of self-destruction mounted into the sky from the Graf Spee, Chips had affectionately polished up the panel and Ajax sailed home across the South Atlantic with the honour shining beneath her after gun-turret.
Is Ruinous: Just Splinters of Shells
Nazi Wail
article AN
ZURICH.
I have spent most of to-day aboard Ajax. You would never think she had been two years on commis- Ision, sometimes in the tropies, sometimes in the ice off the Falk- land Islands, and finally at grips with the pride of the German Navy.
She gleams trim and nent.
"
If you walk around, looking closely, you can see small chips and scars here and there.
in Goering's An Army order specifies that dogs periodical, the "Five Years' too Plan," written by Emil Helfer- should be neither too small nor big, but be healthy, alert and intel-rich, admits the strangulation "Oh," says D rating, "those prej and whistling and chivvying each ligent.
of Germany's trade by the just splinters of shells that burst in other. British, contraband control." the water. They're nothing."
Some of these fellows who strugk such a crushing blow at German Helferrich, a German economle ex- The top of her after-must is
As in 1914-10, England's power has on a spar below, but it Alles all the brought the German overseas trade more proudly in our eyes, to a complete standstill.
Alsation police and sheep dogs are
one lot of Crown Land at preferred because they have a natural pert, writes: "We must face facts.danged and the White Ensign Mex Haval prestige are little more than
Tytan, in the Colony of Hong King, for a term of 75 years. with the option of renewal at. Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of
75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the salez-the-sum-of-two-hundred- dollars, ($200) in cash. Thla sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
| PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Bala
Bural Balding Los
Registry No.
Locality
U.S.A
Francisco date, 29th Jan.). Feb. 23.
Honolulu, and Japan (San
U.S.A., Hanolulu, Japan, Shanghai and Manila (San Francisco date, 26th January
...........Feb. 24.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Directe
Service" London date, 17th Feb-
Haiphong, Haihow und Fort Bayard.
ruary...
Shanghai
Stralis
Canton
Japan
Monila
Sandakan
Shanghol and Amoy
OUTWARD MAILS Thursday, Fob, 22
Shanghai
Sandakan
Haiphong Stralis
Lot No. 147, No. 433. Opposite Rural Building Island Road,
Tytan.
Boundary Measuremonta
N. B. X. W.
As per salo
plan.
Dontenta iz
Upses Price:
3,750
Feb. 25.
Feb. 25:
Feb. 25. Feb. 25. .Feb. 25. Feb. 25.
HONGKONG CRICKET
CLUB
TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1940
.Feb. 25, .Feb. 25. Feb. 25.
.1 p.m.
Service"due London March.
*G.P.O. & K.P.0.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
camouflage colour and because their natural talents approach nearest to those of wild wolves.
During training each dog is handled hy only one soldier who later controls
him at the front.
On Patrol Duty
boys..
the
But they munned their action ofcers and elder like heroes when they were within suicidni distance of a far mightier foe.
"German ships are lying in more Her after gun-turrets were put outstations, as than 100 harbours all over the globe. of setlon, but they are shipshapeetings told me, These goods and ships are blockaded lagain now. by the British Navy and part of the
have alrendy been conAscnted.
"Export Or Dio"
Valentines For
Hitler
IN one of those turrets was C. T
As Tough As Tha
Men of Old
UP on deck again, sailors were
"Another complication is that Ger-) Dogs used on patrol duty at night man huporters will not be able to Watson, of Westcliff, the Chier swabbing decks and singing "Down are specially trained to whine when unload and store any goods which Gunner's mate, who was in charge Mexico Way. Tacir trousers were the enemy approaches. Dogs on ob-might eventually arrive, and which of a young gun crew, servation duty are taught to go hunt they ordered and paid for a long time
At the height of the battle they rolled to the knees: thele feet bare. when
On an upper deck four men bad ing for Germans, and
they ago, owing to lack of space, The were chalking messages on the shells
flash towards the Grafcene from somewhere for a breather that were find them to return to their posts tragedy of 1914-18 is being repeated und gutde troops to the spot.
on the German export front.
Spec.
and were standing in the wind. "One for Hitler," they wrote:
They were wearing thin white many must export or die. The whole
Chaddy being trom Claddy,"
singlets without arms. (1 am not allowed to tell you what the wen- ther is like down here, but it is nut
The present generation of, British seamen appears to be just about us teugh as any other.
Desputeh carriers are trained The Fuelurer himself sald Ger="one"for" Goebbels"-and-With-love duck trousers and low-necked cotton
tones of
run from advance posts to company, of the import and export trade, per- battalion or regimental headquarters, ticularly exports, made the greatest youngster of 17. making use of trenches or covered efforts to carry out the Fuehrer's Then there was the boy who, as terrain where they escape being seen wishes, and the result is that in Kiel, stood at his station, found delight or shot,
Luebbeck, Bremen, and Hamburg in talking in the hearse They carry messages in a pouch they are all gradually heading for Popeve the Sailor Man.
Beaten, by worn around the collar. Red Cross ruin.. dogs are trained to find wounded soldiers and lead stretcher
bearers bulld
to them.
"None of the firms were able to up any financial reserve owing to heavy taxation, and as they are compelled to meet their interest pay- If there are enough volunteers, nents and all liabilities and cover France will maintain an army of a their overheads, they are all heavily thousand dogs.
involved."
CRIPPLED VESSEL BOMBED, SUNK
THE ruthless bombing and machine-gunning of an unarmed British ship were described by her crew, who were landed at Flushing by a Dutch steamer.
don.
Better Gunnery
hot.)
Some of the crew carry pieces of shrupnel in their pockets and one gave me a salt-stained cap-ribbon, "H.M.S. Ajax," that was worn during the battle.
"I Have A
Magnificent Crow"
I VISITED Captain Woodhouse in his cabin, where photographs of his family stood in stiver frames.
CAPTAIN WOODHOUSE teld me he had a magnificent crew.
What did the men think of their coptain? Well, here is a senior vat- ing on the subject.
The
to have Germans ought wiped us up," he said. "The gunnery was good, But ours was better. The Crat Spee was hit again and again. We had only two hits aboard
He was sorry he had nothing to use we had had a British crew the Ajax feel we are only part of say, but finally remarked: "We in aboard the Graf Spee it would have been a different story. In fact, if our captain had commanded the Graf Sper, even with her German crew, it would have been a different story.
A
the Navy.
ones because
"We are the lucky we made contact with the enemy. Otherwise, we are just the same as
anyone.
"We are glad to set foot in Eng- land again. DOWN in the wardroom was crowd of naval and marine officers is that, as captain. I know I have
"The only other thing I have to say The bombed vessel was the Highwave (1,178 tons), of Lon-from other ships, paying a congratu-magnificent erew."
latory visit.
In this cheery atmosphere we had lunch, with a buzz of conversation around us.
Seven of the crew of Ajax were kilted.
Their bodies were committed to the scd.
Tho Eyo
While the Ajax was ploughing the South Atlantic on active service, the padre was calling out the banns for these marriages,
She had neither guns nor radio, and when the attack took Entries close on Saturday, 24th place in the North Sea she could
FINALLY, 1 met three young 2.30 p.m. February, 1940, nt G p.m.
All of the "daris" they said, fell Only a few weeks ago the ward-bridegroom-to-be among the crew. 12.30 p.m.
not move because her engines
Into the sea, so it is not possible to room was the hospital, and these They are A. B. George Hunt, who were out of order.
tell whether this weapon-which was young surgeons now chatting over is to marry, Miss Rose Kitney $1, 2.30 p.m. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
tried out during the last war-was their meal had their instruments Peter's, Rochester; Chief Stoker John Amoy..
7.p.m.
The second engineer said: "First really used.
spread out, ready for emergencies. Harland, whose dancee is Mias Rose Shanghal
7.00 p.m.
the "plane machine-gunned us from Friday, Feb. 23
The official German News Agency The padre was standing by to. at- Simpkins and who is to be married at Wimbledon; and Supply P.O. T. A. Amoy and Shanghai
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES all sides. Bullets whistled through claimed that Nazi raiders had de. tend to the wounded and dying. 10 c.m.
Nunn, who will be married at St. Amoy and Shanghal
the second mate's cabin,, and two of stroyed 14 merchant steamers and .2.30 p.m.
Giles, Durham, to Mrs. Adin York. - Saturday, Feb., 24''
Pringing Cargo from Marseilles via shoulder and the other in. the leg.
our men fell wounded, one in the four patrol vessels off the east coast.
Stoker W. E. Ritchie, who has left Strafta
...:0.30 am. Saigon.
The truth of this can best be gauged
the ship, is to be married in Seal Swalow, Amoy and Formosa
Consignees are hereby informed
land. 10.00 a.m. that their goods with the exception
Then the plane cleled round, from another Nazi claim that three British ships, the Highland Monarch Parcels only for Tientsin.2.30 p.m. of Opium, Treasure and Valuables dropping bombs each time it came (14,130 tons), the Highland Patriot Algul for amplat Always Direct are being landed and stored into the over us, first annil incendiary bombs, (14,172 tons), and the Andalucia Star
Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon then high explosives. Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-
(14,042) tons) were overdue at Ris Her..
....Feb. 24. p.m. loon, whence delivery may be ob-
de Janeiro. "The bridge was carried clean Urd.,
Feb. 24, 5.30 p.m. tained immediately after landing.
Away. The forward mast went down All Arrived Halphong
...5.30 pun All claims must be sent In to me.
like a ninepin. Sunday, Feb. 23:
on or before 1st March, 1840, or they Formosa, Shanghai and Japan a.m.will not be recognized,
"Ten bombs were dropped, and the
In London it was stated by officials, Shanghai (Parcels only)....5.00 um. Dainaged Packages will be examin- of the ship away.
Inat, a big one, took the whole side of the companies owning the boats
that all three had arrived at io I shook hands with him, con- Salgon, Sondakan, Madang, Sala ed by
WELL, here she is, victorious' and the maus, Rabaul and Tulag..0 nm. Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in leave the ship and take to the busts."
Company's Surveyor
gratulated him, and told him I had some time ago, "We had only three minutes to
heard that he gave warning of a safe. Monday, Feb. 26
Residents in a south-east coast torpedo that was streaking for Ajax. Canton...
the presence of the Consignees at 10 .7.15 am. n.m. on Monday 2601 February, 1940. "Darts" Dropped 'on Ship
town heard what appeared to be Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.,
Ho miled and said, "We all had "pom-pom" Bring out at sea in n jobs to do that day.". Central and South America via Officer in attendance when any dull- Consignees must have a Revenus
scutherly direction. It continued for
No more than that. San Francisco-duo San Francisco able goods are examined by the Com-to have
A "shower of allver durts" la süld more than, a quarter of an hour and 17th March
been dropped_by_n_Nazi then there were two very heavy ex- 'plane which attacked A GPO, and K.P.O.pany's Surveyors,
Grimsby plosions" in quick, succession. No Fire Insurance will be effected tawler, the Fussell,
IT is obvious that Ajax in what Fab. 24,5 p.m. by us in any case whatever,
Just before dusk the town was they call in the Navy a hanoy ship. .Feb, 26, 0.45 am.
The crew took to the boats but shaken by another. heavy explosion To-day the crew were 'hard at- Inter went back to the damaged out at sen and doors of the houses work, but they were the merriost vessel and got her to port.
'near the sea front were forced open. crowd-of-Tars you over saw, singing
Farcels
Nog.
Ord. Halphong
..Feb, 26, 19.30 a.m.)
.1 p.m.
R. ONL
Agent.
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At home, in,' their own churches,
of the Ajax STANDING at my elbow in the ardroom was a tall, fair young man. dle was the eye of the Ajax that fatal day. He was catapulted from her deck in an acroplane and flew the brides-to-be were listening to over the thundering, smoking ships, telling the little British fleet all that Ajax would come safely home. he could see.
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