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| PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ..of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m.. at the Officen of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at To Kwn Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong. for a term of 75 yenra, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 76 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sul of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Ofces 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 ef Hong Kong, for a term of 21
years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo sal of the lot the Purchaser (if
not the applicant) will be required authorised to deposit with an
officer who will be present at the|
will be refunded on payment of
OF THE LOT.
PARTICULARS
Bexistry No.
Locality
Kowloon Inland. Lot
No, 4231.
Between To
Road, & Ha Wan South West of
Inland Lot No. 4143.
No. of Sale
G.
Boundary MeasurementB
N. B. z. w.
a per ale
plan,
26,500
Contents in
aq. feet
ADD
“Rent.
Upset Price
About
R.
FLORI
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 22, 1940.
Chosen
DIISS MONA FRIEDLANDER
ARMY DOGS RECRUITED
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France Opens Special Station
PARIS, (UP)-The French Army has opened a recruiting station for army dogs.
Dogs will be accepted either 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)
to "Ferry" Planes for the R.A.F.
QO29
Mrs. W. Crossley
atlas 1. Hoc
Mr. G. Patterson
Miss J. Hugdien
Here are the photographs of five of the eight women pilots who have been selected to "ferry" the light type of RA.F. training 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 Air Transport Auxillary under the command
of Misa Pauline Gower..
THREE MEN WHO FOUGHT THE ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE TO MARRY
Admiral's Medal To
Be Auctioned
LONDON. Yar medals and decorations belonging to the late Mr. E. E. Needes of High- gate, Loondon, have been soldi at Glendining's, Oxford-circus.
Among them WIL л Naval Service Medal with six bars awarded to tear-admiral Cock- burn, for gallant conduct ai sen at St. Vincent, Martinique,
Egypt and
Blockade
From H. de 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 tenk, now brilliantly polished and benring 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 Spec, 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:st Splinters of Shells
Nazi Wail
ZURICH.
I have spent most of to-day aboard Ajax. You would never think she had been two years on commis- sion, sometimes in the tropics, sometimes in the ice off the Falk- land Islands, and finally at grips with the pride of the German Navy.
She gleams trim and neat.
Some of these fellows who struck such a crushing blow at German
sale, the sum of two hundred | PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS for patrol work, Red Cross, despatch! dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum
of the Sale by Public Auction | carriers, or for observation duty,
AN article in Goering's to be held on Monday, the 26th
Au Army order specifies that dogs periodical, the "Five Years' day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m.,should be neither too small nor too Plan," written by Emil Helfer- and scars here and there.
If you walk around, looking closely, you can see small chips the Purchase price.
at the Offices of the Public big, bul, be healthy, alert and intel-rich, admits the strangulation Works Department, by Order of gent,
"Oh," says n rating, "those of Germany's trade by the just splinters of shells that burst in other.
are and whistling and chivvying cuch His Excellency the Governor of
British contraband control. the water. They're nothing.” Alsatian police and sheep dogs are Lot of Crown Land t
Helferrich, a German economie ex-
The top of tier preferred because they have a natural pert, writes We must face facis, damaged and the White Ensign flea naval prestige are little more than Tytam, in the Colony of Hongcamouflage colour and because their. As in 1814-16, England's power has on a spar below, but it flies all the Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a
natural talents approach nearest to brought the German overseas trade more proudly in our eyes.
to a complete' standstill. those of wild wolves. Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Is Majesty the KING, for one further term of
No.of Sale
Registry No.
Localist
Garden Lot
No. 115.
Mount Cameron Road.
Adjoining
Rural Building
Air
Boundary
MensuramenĒJU
AN ICE BAG plan.
Contents in
Ann. Hent.
3400
| Upset
Price|
A boat
030's
POST_OFFICE
INWARD MAILS
Mail by · "Imperial Airways
Direct Servies”—London date, 14th February.
Amoy
Bangkok and Salgon
Haiphong.
Conton
Feb. 22.
Feb.
22.
Feb.
Feb. 24.
22.
Feb. 22.
USA, Honolulu, and Japan (San Francisco date, 20th Jan.). Feb. 23, Shanghal
..Feb. 24.
Canton
.Feb. 24.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan, Shanghel.
and Manila (Son Frunchuco date,
26th January
..Feb. 24.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-London date, 17th Feb-
ruary
.Feb. 25.
Haiphong, Hoihow and Fort Bayard.
Shanghini
Siraits
Conton
Japan
Manlin
Sandakan
Shanghal and Amoy
OUTWARD MAILS Thursday, Feb. 22
Shanghal
Sandakan
Haiphong
Strülts
Feb. 25. Feb, 25. .Feb, 15
25.
.Feb. 25. .Feb. 25. Feb. 25. Feb. 25. .Feb. 25.
.2.30 pm. .12.30 p.m. ....I p.m.
one
75 eura.
1
During training each dag is handled only one soldier who later controls
him at the front.
On Patrol Duty
and guide troops to the spot. And then to return to their
after-mast
"German ships are lying in more Her after gun-turrets were put out than 100 harbours all over the globe of action, but they are shipshape by the British Navy and part of them These goods and ships are blockaded ingain now.
have nirendy been confiscated.
"Export Or Die"
front.
Valentines For
Hitler
IN one of those turrets was C. P.
Westcliff, the Chief!
boys.
But
they munced
their action
stations, as the officers and elder ratings told me. like heroes when they were within suleida) distance of a for mightier foe.
As Tough As The
Men of Old UP on
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo-
"Another complication is that Ger- Dogs used on patrol duty at night man importers will not be able to Watson, of
deck again, sailors were sal of the lot the Purchaser (if are specially trained to whine when unload and store any goods which Gunner's mate, who was in charge swabbing decks and singing "Down not the applicant) will be required servation duty are taught to go hunt-they ordered and paid for a long time
the enemy approaches. Dogs on ob-might eventually arrive, and which of a young gun crew.
Mexico Way." Their trousers were At the height of the battle they rolled to the knees: their feet bare. to deposit with on authorised ing for. Germans, and when they ago, owing to lack of space. The were chalking messages on the shells oflicer who will be present at the
On an upper deck four men had posts tragedy of 1914-18 is being repented that were to flash towards the Grafome from Komewhere for a breather
on the German export. Hale, the sum of two hundred
Spee.
One The Fuehrer himself said 'Ger-
and were standing in the wind. for Hitler," they wrote; They Despatch corriers are trained to many must export or die. The whole "One for Goebbels" and "With Jove duck trousers and low-necked cotton dollars, ($200) in cash. This num
were wearing thin white run from advance posts to company, of the import and export trade, par-from-Chaddy, Chaddy-being-singlets without arms. (I am not will be refunded on payment of battalion or regimental headquarters, ticularly exports, made the rentest youngster of 17. the Purchase price.
making use of trenches ar covered efforts to carry out the Fuehrer's
allowed to tell you what the wen- Then there was the boy who, as ther terrain where they escape being seen wishes, and the result is that in Kiel, he stood at his station, found delight or is like down here, but it is not
hot.) Luebbeck, Bremen, and Haraburg talking in the hoarse tones of They carry messages in a pouch they are all gradually heading for Popeve the Sailor Man. worn around the collar. Red Cross ruin,
Beaten by dogs are trained to find wounded "None of the flems were able to soldiers and lead stretcher bearers build up any financial reserve owing
to heavy taxation, end us they are CAPTAIN WOODHOUSE told me If there are enough
compelled to meet their interest pay- he had a magnificent crew. volunteers, ments and all liabilities and cover What did the men think of their France will maintain an army of a their overheads, they are all heavily captain? Well, here is a senior rat- thousand dogs.
ing on the subject,'
The Germans ought to have wiped us up," he said. The gunnery
or shot.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale
Rural Building Lot
Registry No.
Locality
No. 433.
Upposite Bural Building | Lot No. 147,
Island Road,
Tytam.
Boundary Measurements
N. b. R. w.
||7e|feat|get fret]
As por salo plan.
Upset Price
Contenta i
15,000
$172
Ann. Bent
3,750
HONGKONG CRICKET
CLUB
TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1940
Entries close on Saturday, 24th February, 1940, at 6 p.m.
2.30 pm. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
Amoy
.-7 p.m. † Shanghal
.7.00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23 Amoy and Shangbal
10 p.m. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Amoy and Shanghai
..2,30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24
Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via Straits ...
.8.30 nm. Saigon. Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
10.30 a.m. Parcels only for Tientsin...2.30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct
Servico" due London 3rd March.
Gr.D. & K.r.o.
*ker.. Ord., Haiphong
by
to them.
involved."
CRIPPLED BOMBED,
VESSEL 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,
dion.
Botter Gunnery
The present generation of British seamen appears to be just about as lough as any other.
Some of the crew carry pleces of shrapnel in their pockets and one gave me a salt-stained cop-ribbon, "H.M.S. Ajax," that was worn during the battle.
"I Have A
Magnificent Crew"
I VISITED Cuptain Woodhouse In
was good. But ours WOS better; his cabin, where photographs of his
The Graf Spee was hit again and
again. We had only two hits aboard family stood in sliver frames.
He was sorry he had nothing to
us.
t we had had a British crew say, but finally remarked: "We in aboard the Grat Spee it would have
the Ajax feel we are only part of
"We are the lucky ones because
anyone.
been a different story. In fact, if the Navy. our captain had commanded the Graf Spes, even with her German crew, It we made contact with the enemy. would have been a different story." Otherwise, we are just the same as
"We
are glad to set foot in Eng- Dgain. "The only other thing I have to say magnificent crew."
land
The bombed vessel was the Highwave (1,178 tons), of Lon-crowd of naval and marine officers is that, as caplain, I know I have a
mct
DOWN in the wardroom was a
from other ships, paying a congratu- latory visit.. She had neither guns nor radio, and when the attack took. In this cheery atmosphere we had Junch, with a buzz of conversation place in the North Sea she could
around us.
FINALLY, All of the "darts" they sald, fell not move because her engines into the sen; so it is not possible to room was the homital, and these
Only a few weeks ago the ward- bridegroom-to-be among the crew.
three young were out of order.
They are A. B. George Ilunt, who tell whether this weapon-which was young surgeons now chatting over is to marry Miss Rose Kitney at St. tried out during the last war-was their meal had their instruments Peter's, Rochester; Chler Stoker John The second engineer said: "First
really used.
spread out, ready for emergencies. Harland, whose flancco is Misa nose the plane machine-gunned us from
The official German News Agency The padre was standing by to at- Simpkins and who is to be married all sides. Bullets whistled through claimed that Nazi raiders had de- tend to the wounded and dying. at Wimbledon; and Supply P.O. T. A. the second mate's cabin, and two of stroyed 14 merchant steamers and
Seven of the crew of Afax were Nunn, who will be married at St. our men fell wounded, one in the four patrol vessels off the east coast.
Giles, Durham, to Mrs. Ada York. shoulder and the other in the leg.
Stoker W. F. Ritchie, who has left! the ship; Is to be married in Scot "Then the 'plane circled round,
land.
"Ten bombs were dropped, and the last, big one, took the whole side
killed.
Their bodies were committed to the sea.
The truth of this can best be gauged from another Nazi claim that three The Eye British ships, the Highland Monarch (14.172 tons), and the Andalucia Star (14,130 tons), the Highland Patriot
(14,042), tons) were overdue at Rio de Janeiro. All Arrived
wardroom was a tall, fair young man. padre was calling out the banne for While the Ajax was ploughing the of the Ajax STANDING at my elbow in the South Atlantic on active service the He was the eye of the Alex that these marriages, fatal day. He was catapulted from,
At home, in their own churches,
her deck in an aeroplane and flew the brides-to-be were listening to over the thundering, smoking ships, the banna there and praying that telling the little British feet all that Alax would come safely home. he could see,
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables dropping bombs each time it came are being landed and stored into the aver us. first anali incendiary bombs, Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon then high explosives. Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- Feb. 24. & D.moon, whence delivery may be ob Feb. 24, 5.30 p.m. tained immediately after landing.
"The bridge was carried cican awny. The forward mast went down .......8.30 pm. Sunday, Feb, 25
All claims must be sent in to me like a alnepin. Formosa, Shanghai and Japan 0 a.m.will not be recognized,
on or before 1st March, 1040, or they
In London it was stated by officials Shanghai (Parcels only) .9.00 am. Damaged Packages will be examin- of the ship away.
of the companies owning the bonts Selgon, Sandakan, Madang, Salo-ed
that all three had arrived at Ro
I shook hands with him, con- maua, Rabaul and Tulagi..0.0.m. Messrs: Goddard and Dougins leave the ship and take to the boats.
the Company's Surveyor "We had
same time ago.
gratulated him, and told him I had
WELL, here the is, victorious and Monday, Feb. 20
only three minutes to
heard that he gave warning of a safe. Canton
the presence of the Consignees at 10
Residents In a south-east coast torpedo that was streaking for Ajax, 7.15 ama.m. on Monday 20th February, 1940. "Darts" Dropped on Ship Shanghai, Jopan, Honolulu, USA,
town heard
what appeared to be
He smiled and said, “We all had Central and South America via Oficer in attendance when any duti- Consignees must have a Revenue
"pom-pom" Bring out at sea in jobs to do that day." San Francisco-dua San Francisco able goods are examined by the Com-to have
southerly direction. It continued for A "shower of silver darta" is said more than a quarter of an hour and
No more than that. 17th March
been dropped by a Nazi then there were two very heavy ex- pany's Surveyors.
'plane which attacked No Fire Insurance will be effected tawler, the Fussell.
Grimsby plosions in quick succession. by us in any case whatever.
IT is obvious that Ajax is what Just before dusk the town was they call in the Navy a hanny ship, The crew took to the boats but shaken by another heavy explosion Juter went back la
To-day the crew were "und at the damaged out at aca and doors of the houses work, but they were the vessel and got her to port,
erriest near the sea front were forced open. crowd of Tars you ever saw, singing
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