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POST OFFICE
EASTER HOLIDAYS
On Monday the 25th March, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Pool Office will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from a.m. to 10 am. un the other Branch Post Omers will be entirely closed.
and
There will be one collection from the pillar boxer as on Sundays
registered. one delivery of ordinary correspondence at noon. The Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taip and Un Long will also have one delivery of ordinary correspondence
at 11 ..
The Money Order Offre will be entirely closed during the Holidays.
Small Packet Pust to all countries 18 suspended.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
Tho Seventy-first Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offees of the undersigned on Thursday, the 4th April, 1940, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together) with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, i 1939.
The Share Register and Trans- ter Books will be closed from the 21st March to the 4th April, 1910, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1940,
A. S. WATSON & CO..
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIFTH ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company (since-registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hang Kong, on FRIDAY, the 29TII MARCH, 1940, nt 11.30.m. for the purpose
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 25, 1940.
HEART THAT WAS TO HAVE TWO KINGS BEAT FOR EVER HAS STOPPED WENT TO
DR. ALEXIS CARREL, the biologist well known for preserving living organs in glass containers, refused to comment on a report from New York that the chicken's
****[heart on which he carried
A
Himmler Has
Scored
Victory
WATCH #mmert
The Gestapo and 8.8. chtef
to Is up big things.
Though he
out an experiment in im- mortality in 1912 had ceased beating.
The doctor, who is now in France, said he was await- ing a technical report from New York (reports Reuter).
In January, 1912, Dr. Carrel took a fertilised egg from an incubator and cut out the beat- ing heart.
Detaching a minute partiele (only eight-hundredths of an has as yet fall-inch square) he placed it in its new medium of existence-em- bryonic chicken juicè taken from
cil to provide
the world with
a 11
adequate
explanation of the beer-cellar attempt on Iiter, he ja closer than ever to his Fuehrer HOW.
Last week he was able to re- port a big success The Infiltra- tom of the Reichswehr officers' CARDS
with Himmler's rellable S.S. men was completed by the end of the year,
Announcements about German officers battle exploits, new commands, or death in ac- tion always mention their mem- bership of the S.S. If they were members.
army of receffing the Report of the General Managers
Statement a
of together with Accounts for the year ended 31ST OCTOBER, 1939.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the many will be CLOSED from 21ST MARCH, THURSDAY, the
OUTWARD MAUL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail ́ore closed 15 minutes earlier than the timo given below untess otherwise stated, and where mails are advertis- | 1940, to FRIDAY, the 29TH ed to close at or before 9 um, re- gistered and parcel mails are closed at 5 pan. on the previous day. When malts are advertised to clore after 6 pan. Registered and Parcel Tails are closed at 5 p.m.
INWARD MAILS
Air Mail by
"Imperial Airways | Direct Service" London date, 18th Atarch
25. Haiphong and Fort Bayard .Mar. 25. Manila
Haiphong and Hothow
Japan and Shanghai
Rabaul and Manila
Shanghai
Strans
.Mar..
Mar, 25.
.Mar. 25.
.Mar. 25.
Mor. 25. ALT 25. Mnr.
MARCH, 1940, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 14th March, 1940.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON
WHARF & GODOWN COMPANY LTD.
Notice to Shareholders
THE FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY
An extraordinary number of these announcements now con- talu such words as "Group Lra- der in the S.5."
It was Hitler's dearest wish to Nazity the Reichswehr-Himmler has achieved it.
Where he could not persuade a regiment to take is S.S. men as officers he succeeded in con- verting regular ofBeers to mem- bership of the S.5.
MR. READER
MAKES
A CAPTURE
embryo pulp.
Two days inter it had doubled its size.
Nurses and technicians trained by the doctor have since watched over it in an attempt to prove that cells need not die if they are fed and! their wastes removed.
Every
Day For 78 Years
Was Diarist's
Record
REPUTED to be Britain's champion diarist, Mr. J. J. Jackson Barstow, Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset, has died, aged 96, at his home. at Weston-super-Mare.
Starting his diary as a youth of 18, he faithfully kept
a daily record for 78 years.
His last entry was made in writing as steady as his first.
FRANCE
Soldiers cheering the King
during his four of inspection In Franoc.
And Only 23 Years Ago..
You read how King George the Sixth is paying a surprise visit. to ha truops. Perhaps your memory gets back-and this picture will help
France.
"A fnd, not a hobby," was Mr. Burstow's description of his collection of small books, all of which have three days to the to the time, in 1916, when George the Fifth paid a similar visit to page.
A native of Yorkshire, Mr.
Barstow kept diaries even be "Regime Betrayed Poles" THE BIG
A GERMAN who flew overfore 1862, but these have been
Mar. 26. ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE from Heligoland has been cap- Haiphong, Holhow and Fort Bayard HOLDERS will be held at the tured single handed by Mr. E.
Japan Manila Shanghai
Air Mall by "Air France vice"Paris date, 20th
Bangkok and ourane
Canton
Halphong
Java and Manila
Japan
and Shanghai Shanghai
Stralis and Palembang
lost.
Mar. 26. Olliee of Mesars, Jardine, Mathe-Reader, a special constable, ofthe hanging of a man at York,ously condemned by the nation."
Mar 26,
Mar. 26. son & Co., ltd. on TUESDAY, 2nd Mar. 26. APIH., 1949, at NOON for the Direct Ser purpose of receiving the Report of March.
Mar. 27. the Directors and the Statement .Mar. 27. of Accounts for the year ended
Mar. 27. 31st December, 1939.
.Mar. 27.
The Transfer Books of the Com
will be CLOSED
from
Mnr. 27. .Mar. 27. pany
Mar. 27 SATURDAY, the 23rd MARCH,
27.
10 TUESDAY, the
Mor 97.
USA., and Manila (San Francisco 1910,
Directors,
2nd
date, 28th February)...Mar. 27. APRIL, 1940, both days inclusive, Air Mall by "Tosperisi --Airways By-Order-of-the Board of
Direct Service" London date, 20th Marchi
..................Mar. 28. U.S.A., Honolulu, Japon and Shang- hal (San Francisco date, 20 Febru- ury) ......
Mar. 20. Mar, 20. .Mar. 20.
Japan and Shanghai
Japan
OUTIVARD MAILS Monday, Mar. 26
and Saigon, Ceylon, India, East
South Africa, Egypt and Europe Via Marsenics-ulle 21st April.
G.P.O, & K.P.0.
Rek.
Ord.
Fort Bayard
Straits
Haiphong
Canton
Shanghal Struits
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong. 11th March, 1940.
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Marsenica, Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share
holders will be held in the Oleg .11.15 nm. of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Noon. Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, Noon 26th March, 1910, at nuon for the of the Directors' ..Noon. consideration
Noun.
...5 p.m. Report and Balance Sheet for the Tuesday, Mar. 26
year ending 31st December, 1939. ..6.30 a.. .6.30 .m
The Share Register, and Trans- Manila, Makassar und Sourabaya. for Books will be closed from the 8.30 am. 15th to 26th March, 1940, both days Bangkok
12.30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Always inclusive.
Direct Service" due London, 3rd By Order of the Board of April,
Directors,
K. P. 0. Rek.....
.Mar. 20. 5.00 p.m. Ord. ......Mar, 28. 5.30 p.m.
Rer.. Ord..
G. P. O,
.Mar. 26, 5.00 p.m. .Mar. 20, 7.00 pan.
Air Mall for Malaya, Jaya and Aus-
E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th February, 1940.
tralia by "Imperial Always Direct | szarvastele / LAROON YR OLYÁRSÁRVÁNY YOÁ
Servico-due Sydney, 1st April.
Reg.
Ord.
RCE..
Or.,
K. F. O.
Mar. 20, 5.00 p.m.
Mar, 26, 5.30 p.m.
G. P. O.
.Mar. 20, 5.00 p.m.
.Mar. 20, 7.00 ..
Journal-
of the
Shanghal, Japan, Canada, U.S.A. Hongkong
Central and South Amerlea vid
Vancouver B.C., (Parcels for Cana-
da only) due Vancouver BC, 17th Fisheries
April.
G. P. O. and K, P. O.
Par.,
Reg
Ord...
Mar. 20, 6.00 p.m. Research
.Mar. 27, 8.15, t.m. .Mar. 27, 10.00a.m.
Wednesday, Mar. 27
Hoihow and Haiphong.....1.00 p.m. Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinoes only) by tho. “Ale Franco Airwayn Direct Service"--due Paris, 4th April,
K. P. 0.
Canton
Station
Escrick, near York.
Here is his story: "I was going on my rounds when I heard a noise, in my hen house.
"On making hivestigation I found
In one of these he recorded
which he believes was the last ¡public execution there. His Marriage The first entry in his diary, on the German hiding in a corner, 1 January 1, 1862, tells how he closed with him and eventually over- broke ice at Filey Brig, near the powered him.
"There was no doubt who he was, rectory when he was born, and He bore on identity ring with the of which his father was vicar. words: Heligoland, Germania,"
"But the prisoner gave no Hitler salute. He merely shook out his feathers and squawked-like any other blackbird.“
Husbands, Here's
Your Chance
On August 8, 1888, he married Miss Mary Woodiwiss, eldest daugh- fer of Sir Abraham Woodiwiss, of Derby, who has not survived her husband. The entry for that day reads:
"A fine morning. To Michelover i Ch. 10.30, with my father. Mar-1 ried by any father and Mr. Brind- ley, 20 to breakfast. Left by noon train for the luktes. Arrived at Old England Bowness. Place full. Mr. Barstow went to Weston- super-Mare 50 years ago, and look a prominent part in public affairs,
A PROSPECTIVE husband has sent a queer request to the editor of a Guernsey newspaper. He wrote:
Can anyone help me? I am just over military age. i am on the point of being married. Will someone of le leaves several daughters. His experience come forward and dis only son was killed in a flying
stade me from such a alep?
jvident.
-RADIO-
Radio Programine Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 843 k.c.'s. und on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. indi 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per second. ILK.T.
"ONE of the principal reasons for Poland's defent in September was unquestionably the then existing Governmental regime, unanim-
These were the frank words of General Sikorski, the new Polish | Premier, addressing his Cabinet in Angers, France.
General Sikorski accused ex-Ministers of "Irreparable negligence"
in military matters, as well as economically and politically,
WASTE OF MATCHES
MR. RUSSELL LAT- HAM, chief of the economy
A fundamental principle of the new Polish Government was a branch of timber control, at total break with the regime of Governments acting outside all 'control the Ministry of Supply,
public opinion,
by
• 1,000
PAINTED
BUTTERFLIES”
'Dumb' Devonians
REPLY TO Evacuated
Spinsters
SOMEWHERE IN DEVON.
smokes a pipe.
On his desk thero is an ash- tray into which he puts every day a score or so match-ende, some half-burnt, some hardly {burnt at all.
Mr. Latham has been looking at Government specifications of articles using wood and whittling wood out and af tiem, saving inches here there, making economies that will be worth £1,000,000 to £1,500,000 in a year,
He has been thinking about the match-ends on his desk--and about the millions on oiber desks, on floors
Maybe that our matches will be
"JUST a thousand painted butterflies from London" and navements. a--that is the rejoinder by local young men to the thou-smaller and be kept in smaller boxes.
sand spinsters evacuated to this town.
The spinsters, employed by a blg self A: E. B. Devonport, pleads that? Insurance company, have complained West Country reserve, not shyness, is
Mr. Latham pointed to his ash-tray and sald to a reporter: "Look at that, Pure waste.
"It has been estimated that we ber every year-to say nothing of the boxes.
uf the lack of "dates" with boy the reason for the spinsters lack of waste in niatches 2,500 tons of ilm-
friends since they were sent to live local success. here, and have necused the local "Besides," he goes on, their af-| "We aro now looking into this young men of being "dumb,"
feciations of upeech and their man-¦wasinge and we are considering suK- "Devonshire men may be dumb, but nerisma make these girls conspicuous, geations. There is no reason why all they are not mugs," writes "A Real and that is something we detest." this timber should go into matches- Devonian" to the "Daily Herald." "They prefer their
"Affectations"
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
own beautiful A B.B.C. Recording Of Lullaby, Leslie Hutchinson (Vocal)
at the Plano.
6.30 Liszt-Sonata in B Minor.-Devon girls with real complexions. Light Variety
Vladimir Horowitz (Piano).
"That is why the 1,000 painted 0.57 Liszt-Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 11.
butterflies who have invaded glorious by Estlo 7.10 Songs
Ackland Devon have no chance with the and Webster (Contralto)
Booth glorious men of Devon." (Tenor).
7,30 London Relay-Tho News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements, 12.30 Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) and
0.03 This week's programmes. Band Scala's Accordeon Primo
8.07 Dance Musle by Rer Fox & Hill-Billy Medley, Primo Scala's Its Orchestra. Accordeon Band; Proud of You, 8.32 B. B. C. Recording-Light Everyone Must Have A Sweetheart, Variety-With Clapham and Dwyer;
and Barker, Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) with Orchestra; Harley
Janet Joyc You
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- cession,
Can't Pull The Wool Over My Helmar Fernback, The Hill Dilllei Eyes, When The Swallows Nest and Tony's Red Aces. Again, Prime Scala's Accordeon 9.15 London Relay-News Şum- Band; Grandma Said, Deep In A Dream, Esic Carlisle (Vocal) with Orchestra; Sweethearts, Primo Scala's Accordeon Band.
1.0 Local Time Sigunt and Weather Report.
mary.
9.30 London Relay-This Free- dom"
9.45 The Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards—The Smithy in the Wood, The Turkish Patrol, Acclamations 1.03 Bongs br Paul Robeson Waltz, The Grenadiers Waltz. (Bass) with Orchestra and Chorus.
Edited by
mcats.
Dr. G. A. C. Herklots
1.45 Dance Music.
2.15 Close down.
0,0
Now on Sale
Mar. 27. 5.00 p.m. Mar. 27, 5.30 p.m. af
Iteg1, Orl
G. P. O.
Rek..
Ord..
..Mar, 27, 5.00 p.m. Morning Post
.Mar. 27, 7.00 p.m.
Thursday, Mar, 28
Holhows
Rabaul
Salgon, Madong,
7.15 am Price $3.00.
..1.80.p
Salamana, and
.3.30 p.m.
Another Devonian, who signs film-}
I
FOOTNOTE:
no reason why matches and match- was
handed the following verse,baxes should not be made half the composed In her all-too-spore size. tline by One
"One auggestion is that matches of the evacuated spinsters;
should be made so that they can be I don't While country life, as some may tell, lighted at both ends. But
think that would be very practical or Is just as good as heaven. This London girl's idea of hell very popular.
Is Devon, glorious Devon.
K.C. DEFENDS HIS
DAUGHTER, SAYS
SHE WAS SCAPEGOAT
SIR NORMAN RAEBURN, famous K.C., defended his daughter Sheila in a police court case at Woking, Surrey. Miss Racburn was summoned' for causing an unobscured light to be shown at Woking Hospital at 7.30 p.m.
The summons was miscon ceived, said Sir Norman.
Ills daughter was only a volun-
SOCIAL SERVICE
"Auciter suggestion is that wooden matchboxes might be given up. al- throwing', the tonetlier. Instead of bozen away we should fill them
Grecers and apabi
tobaconnists would sell bundles of matches to fit the boxes. There would be a tre-' mendous waving.
www heve to make it our aim that not a single ton of timber should be brought to this country, taking up valuable shipping space and dangering sailors' lives, unless it is absolutely essential."
L
en-
HOW HAUPTMANN WAS EXECUTED.
NEW YORK, When Bruno Hauptmann was led to the electric chair for the kidnap- murder of Colonel· Lindbergh's baby he was "bewildered and almost in- senalble." This is revealed by the
10.0 An hour of Variety with 1.13 The London Talladium Or- Charlle Kunz, Hing Crosby, Frances chestra-Merchant of Venice Suite Day.. Vivian Foster & Others (Rosso).
Conviviality, Columbia Vocal Gem 1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Company with Orchestra; Would
tary nurse. The matron was re-Annual Meeting of Church memoirs of the executioner, the late Robins und Weather Forecast and Annouhçe You?;
Roses, Bing
sponsible for running the hospital. Crosby with Orchestra; Guitar-
It was stated that a brilliant light
Robert Centre Next Week
G. Elliott. Dipsomania, Len Fills with Piano could be seen five hundred yarda
Hauptmann was executed in 1980, The annual meeting of the Social four years after the kkinapped, chikd You Have That Extra Something, I'm away, but experiment showed that Service Centre of the Churches will the Children"Vocal A Fool For Loving You, Frances Day the light was very dim, and could be held on Thursday, March 20, at Wound und Gems from Walt Disney's "Snow with Orchestra; The Parson Talks be seen only when one stood under 3.30 p.m., in St. John's Cathedral moke his proposed fast-minute re- Explaining Hauptmann's fallure to White
and the Soven Dwarfs", About Marriage, Vivian Foster (The the caves. Chorus and Orchestra directed by Vicor of Mirth); Charlie Kunz Plane
velations, Elliott's a trained Jay Wilbur, The Merry-Go-Round Medley No. R.6, Charlle Kunz; Savoy
His Excellency the Governor will "Before Hauptmann could collect his Building. Studio Story by Aunt Pat; Barnacle Somers Band with Male Broke Down, Sidney Torch (Organ); Minstrel Songs-Medley,
and be in the chair and the speakers will wits
belleve It would Bill, The Sailor, Pop Eye (Vocal) Plano Medley No. R.18, Charlie Kunz cost for the hospital author (Chairman of the Centre), Mise N. Zhave been impossible for film to with Novelty necomp; Lambeth Walk; with Rhythm accomp. Later On. This lies, he added.
Ellott (General Secretary) and Hon, inve expressed himself with any Gracie Fields (Vocal) with Orchestra; Heart of Mine, Lealio Hutchinson. The magistrates dismissed the sum-Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Director of clarity, even If he had something of
11.0 Close down.
Medicol Servičo).
UATRON When Mother Nature Sings Her
Hall.
nurse,
Ille daughter,
seven days a week working
memoirs Boy:
Debroy twelve hours a day, was being made include the Very Rev. Dean Wilson and in the chair.
he WBR In the death chamber
Quartet:
mons.
vital Importance to say."!
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