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The Annual Dinner and Dance
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 28, 1940.
It's a Grand Life, In 1,300 Years This Is All That Happened-
20's in France
say
will be held in the Roof Garden C.O. Says "They're Fine"
p.m.
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY of the Hong Kong Hotel on Satur- THE CAMERA“ Second Edition, day, 30th MARCH, 1910, at 7.30 Over 0 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Past, Ltd., Wyndham Street
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post to all countries
ja susperted,
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES
and Parcel Mall are Registered closed 15 iniutes earlier than the
E. L. STRANGE,
Hon. Secretary.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
GIVEN NOTICE IS HEREBY that the Fifty first Ordinary
Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the oflices of the Company, Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd
By PAUL BEWSHER
Daily Mail Special Correspondent with the B.E.F. · TO-DAY, quite by chance, I ran into a group of the "20's" who were among the first batch enrolled when the militia scheme was set in motion last July. They were not here in any special class, but formed a company of an infantry battalion, compris- ing a part of the British Expeditionary Force-and ready to go into action if need be.
Smart and alert, nothing dis- tinguished these lads in battle
STANDARD
time given below unless otherwise tiny of April, 1940, at 11-30 o'clock, dress from the other soldiers, SUITS
stated, and where mails are advertis ed to close at or before 9 n.m. re gistered and parcel mails are closed at 6 p.m. on the previous day. When malls are advertised to clove after 6 p.m., Regstered and Parcel malis are closed at 5 p.m.
Alr
Airways
INWARD MAILS
"Imperial Mall by Direct Service" London date. 26th Mar. 28. .Mar. 28. Mar, 28. Mar. 28.
March
Conton
U.S.A., Honolulu and Japan (San
Munila
Calcutta and Straits
Japan and Shanghai
.Mar, 28.
Shanghal, Amoy and Swatow,
Mur, 28.
Francisco date, 5th March),
Amoy
Mar, 28. Mar. 29.
Mar. 20.
Mar. 20.
and Shang-
Japan and Shanghai
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa
Shanghai
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan
hal (San Francisco February)
Japan and Shanghui
Mar. 20.
date, 20th .Mar. 29. Mar. 20.
and
extreme
N.C.O.H
a.m. for the purpose of receiving suve perhaps their
youth. Officers a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for theke spoke highly of their discipline
and good spirits, year ended 31st December, 1939.
"They are first-class, and have Rettled down very well," their rom- manding offeer told ma
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 21st MARCII, 1910, to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd APRIL, 1910, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board officers who were evidently anxious Directors,
These young men, vanguard of a Vost citizen, army which may one day be far larger than the Regular were being very well looked after by and Territorial Armies combined,
for their welfare. This was finitely a happy battalion. "The Food's Good"
NO, BUT-
MEN WILL HAVE FEWER CLOTHES
AFTER all, it seems that men's suits are not to be 'standardised.
NOW
COMES
£7,000 ΤΟ
CASE TOWN
MALMESBURY, Wiltshire. THIRTEEN HUNDRED years is a long time to wait for fame. Malmesbury, winding grey-walled, tiny English country town, has been dreaming placidly on its Cotswold Several shopkeepers were asked if hillside since 640 A.D. there was much increase in trade.
Huh. At last, in 1940, it has got shrimp paste," was the Indignant
Janswer in a grocer's shop, into the newspapers.
"That won't pay the rate!" In the 1,300 intervening years The twice a week meetings of the
abandoned.
either.""
ther.
an occasional bottle
of
it has known three other local Dadminton Club have had to sensations.
The first was when, in the 12th of the club. "And no more dances "It's a shame," said a girl member century, an adventurous young monk nomed Elmer Alled wings to his
Even Mr. Ernest Simmons, who hands and his feet and leapt boldly daily drives his motor-conch 120 from the top of the abbey" lower.
He flew 220 yards, the legend Bristol, bringing the prisoners back miles, taking a police escort into Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for sists, before gravity prevailed and he to Malmesbury from the jail and re- Overseas Trude, sald that standa fell to the ground, breaking both his peating the process at night, is unen- dedication would be the "worst possible legs.
thing."
thusiastic about the Grent Case.
"It will all come back on the rates," the said
sald anxiously.
I found them in a small village of snow-covered brick houses, incon- spicuous' amid the glittering white
front.
fields rear one section of the British
to
c.
Wearing a perfectly tailord suit, old Etonian the and starelied white collar, he had gone to lunch with the Men's Wear Council.
its chairman, Mr. A. W. Robbins,
MINES
beca have
found washed ashore in Belgium bear- ing girls' nagnes.
No, It is not a sinister fare plọi by Iitler. Just a French sallors' custom of writing the name of sweetheart or wife on a mine be- fore laying it.
(Last) War
Meanwhile the case drags on wound kills man
Then there was the end incident of the Duke of Claronce who, you will remember from your history books, was drowned at the Tower of London the town hall, the hanglug curtains, ile heard the Council's views from
In a bult of malmsey wine in 1478.
the witness-box in the wings, and Seven years carller he had seized the Ben the great estates, including those in the Bench bullt high up on the back
Ex-soldier Arthur iloward Paget, of the stage giving the whole who said:
Wiltshire.
thing of Warwick "White
willing to support
the King the air of a play rehearsal in its early of St. Paul's-road, Clifton, near the Maker, when he died, Government to the hilt, and to sub
Thirdly, there was the case of Miss stages, when most of the actors are Bristol, was hit by a German bullet merge a considerable degree of in-Hannah Wynney who, in 1703, at the
haltingly unsure of their parts. while fighting in 1916, He was then dividuality in helping the war along, age of 33, was caten by a tiger, which Malmesbury, but it is certainly no fourteen operations. Now he has Justice is doubtless being done at twenty-four. Afterwards be had we would warn against a polley of escaped from a circus visiting Mal-spectacular £7,000 entertainment. standardisation for our industry." mesbury.
Exports Vital Mr. Hudson was there to tell the tailors and manufacturers of men's A private, busy in an outhouse went to do their utmost to stimulate kitchen, slepped up and saluted jour exports, smartly
The discovery came as a surprise
I had called at the pond quarters of a Territorial battalion of the Gloucester Regiment, and the colonel said: "Like to see some of our militia?
R. TAYLOR, Acting Secretary, Hongkong, Jih March, 1940,
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
· LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
The Seventy-first Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders 3G |
will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 4th April, 1910, at Noon. for the OUTWARD MAILS
purpose of receiving the Roport Thursday, Mar. 28
of the General Managers, together. Sandakan
.12.30 pm with a statement of Accounts for Fort Bayard and Haiphong, 1.00 p.m.
2.30 p.m. the year ended the 31st December, Shanghat Amoy
7 p.m. 1939. Manila
..7.00 p.m.
..1.30 p.m.
Calentto, Straits and Saigon Mar. 30.
Mar. Japan.
Mar. 30. Mar, 30,
Manila
Sandakan
Friday, Mar. 29 Fort Bayard and Holhow Bangkok Amuy
"Well, you'll soon see one," he the butcher over here." went on, chuckling. "Sergeant, call
And he added significantly:-
"In view of the overwhelming need for overseas trade, a great deal of home trade will inevitably have to be sacrificed."
Ife said that the Government would "Yes, sir. I'm a Militiaman-or like to see exports surpass those of ጊሩ፣. We're all the same now," he 1020, the boom year,
Then Ute
they were worth £25,000,000 "Reginald Berry's my name. My to us. Last year they were about
is at King's Stanley, home
near £10,000,000. Stroud, In Gloucestershire. I'm butcher in civilian life, too. I was The Share Register and Trans- called up in July with the first lot, ter Books will be closed from ths and will be 22 next July, I love the .1.30 p.m. 21st March to the 4th April, 1910, life, and the food's good."
Pte. Berry was the first Militiaman .2.30 p.m. both days inclusive.
I had met in France. But there were Shanghai and Parcels only 15, Tron-
JARDINE, MATHESON & plenty more. We walked through ...30 p.m.
CO., LTD.
the snow to a large barn Biled with Shanghal, U.S.A., Canada, Central
nien eating their midday meal of and South America (No
for
stew. Леге Canada only) vla San Francisco
of men almost entirely Militiamen
was a whole company due San Francisco, 19th April.
A throng of young men in battle- G. P. O. and K. P. O.
dress, mostly with the ruddy checks Par..
of the West-countryman, gathered round.
Ain
Mar. 29, 5.00 p.m.; Reg., Mar. 30, 9.45 am. Ord.,.....Mar. 30, 10.30 am. Strails, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe Vis Marsellles--due Marvelles, 28th April
Ord.
K.P.O.
G.T.O.
►
General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hongkong. 14th March, 1940.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN .m. that the FIFTY-FIFTH ORDIN 330 pm. ARY YEARLY MEETING of the -Company-(since-registration) will pbe held at the Hong Kong Hotel, p.m.
FRIDAY the 29TH Hold Home, và n Shanghal
.7.00 pan. Saturday, Mar. 30
MARCH, 1940, of 11.30 . for Touranc, Salgon and Bangkok
Haiphong
Shanghal
Parcels only for Tientaln
8.30 a.m. 2 p.m. 2.30 pm. .2.30 p.m.
BALALANI
NELSON
The screen's king of send toumed with the mal sallomal star surprise in year!
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ILONA
MASSEY
Sepant itinal New Sven of Sang!
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Donald Hawkins, a 21-years-old 'bus conductor. of Bristol, was the Arst I spoke lo. With him was Jack Baldwin, a 21-years-old worker In the Cannock Collieries in the Forest of Dean.
"We call it the Forest of Dean Company" Captain N. E. Hind. of! Huntley, near Ross-on-Wye, told me.
There are quite a number of men. Forest. They are first from the
This was a high tribule, for Cap-Į the purpose of receiving the tain Hind served in the last war in Report of the General Managers the Irish Rifles, and
wounded. together with Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31ST OCTOBER, 1939,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 21ST MARCII, 1940, to FRIDAY, the 29TH MARCH, 1940, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 14th March, 1940.
HEALTH BULLETIN
83 Deaths Last Week From T.B.
One case of Small-pox, two of Diphtheria, Ave of Typhoid, four of
was badily
"Don't forget London," one man called out. Ile proved to be Lance- Corporal Percy Sennett, of Kenton. near Harrow, who was a charge hand hand in a duiry when the Militia turned him into a soldier.
These young men had left all kinds of work to become part of the citizen army. One of the youngest
Cecil Hodges, worker from Taunton. A Remarkable Man
was
bu
That me
means that
you and I will asked to cut down our pur- chaics of clothes.
The purpose of the lunch was to announce the Council's publicity and propagande carapalan to sell British men's wear abroad.
BOMB ON
SCHOOL
"Tyger Fierce" Her tragedy is poignantly com- memorsted on a graveyard of Malmesbury Abbey:
tombstone in the
In the bloom of Life She's snatched from hence
She had not 700m
To make defence
For Tuner fierce
Took life away
And here she lies
In bed of Clat
Until the Resurrection Day.
Even the
dled at Rookwoode Military Pensions children have ceased bothering to gaze at the accused as Hospital, Cardiff, they are herded in and out of their motor conch prison,,
At the Cardiff Inquest the verdict In fact, Malmesbury thinks the was that death was due to kidney whole thing is a flop.
trouble following the gunshot wound.
Sarah Must Stay Married
MRS. SARAH PALFREY FABYAN, the United States Wightman Cup tennis player, was, at Salem, Massachusetts, rc-
papers until January 1, 1940, when tained (says Reuter). Mrs. Fabyan, who is 27, married Mr. Mar-
Bul Malmesbury never got into the fused a divorce from her husband.
The judge ruled that her cruelty allegation had not been sus-
suddenly it became the centre of a
huge prosecution for alleged fraud, shall Fabyan in 1994. Involving £10,000, 20 accused, 115 witnesser, 1,500 exhibits, and all the bustling activity of a large-scale Alice Marble, she won the ladies' doubles. court case.
She is a familiar figure at Wimbledon.. Last year, with Miss
Making History
And every day since, apart from Sundaya and a short adjournment caused by illness, the town hall's council chamber-which also serves
Badminton court,
Foor, ns
dance
concertroom and theatre nuditorium --has been occupied by proceedings which, after six weeks, seem likely to go on for at least another two,
What a break for Malmesbury folk, you might think,
New faces, money being spent in
-Children-Were the town by visiting witnesses, solic
At Prayers
SIX HUNDRED boys and
tors and onlookers, history being made under their noses in a police court which, hltherto, has had to deal with the mildest and most moderate of rural vices.
But Malmesbury thinks otherwise, girls at morning prayers in a It is not merely bored but thorough- Lincoln school heard the dronely disgruntled. Nearly everybody of an aeroplane-then a bang, concerned in the case does not return and the crash of falling tiles and masonry.
111 next day.
Said the landlord
of the George,
Philip McGoldrick:
Mr. An R.A.F. bomber had accidentally "Who will have to pay for this dropped a practice smoke-bomb on case, for the witnesses brought from the roof of Monks-road council Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham, for the transport of the prisoners school.
Tenelers marshalled the children daily from Bristol? a paper-raill
Why, us rate- and marched them into the corridors. payers,
Then it was found that little dam-
"Won't Pay Rates" Inge had been done.
"This case will cost £7,000 before The bomb had hit a dividing wall it is over. True, 17 of the prisoners have lunch here every day under
in the roof and lodged there,
It produced a lot of smoke, but no police escort. But what I charge for fire, and the city fire brigade arrived their meals will go back on the within a few minutes and put out the bomb with chemicals.
rates!"
In the kitchen was cook, Mrs. Rhodn Fry.
Although they were. sleeping on the earth floor of a barn with the tem perature far below freezing point outside, they seemed extraordinarily cheerful.
"""There's a
a lot of us, and it helps to keep us warm," one of them suid.
Many of them praised the food, which they said was better and more ample than they had in England.
This battalion must be one of the . The children Aled out without room to put 34 lumps of sugar in 17 most extraordinary In the whole panic
Miss Heath, headmistress of the in- fants department, said that, to avold a scare, she told the children a water. ipipe had burst.
B.E.F., for serving with the Militin- Half an hour afterwards they were men are several men who have be back at their lessons. longed to the Territorials for over
years,
Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Meningitia, 12 of Dysentery and 53 George Wiltshire, of Chequers-road,
of Tuberculosis were reported on Gloucester, an engineer at a public Tuesday.
MADE
institution in private life, joined the POOR BY
battalion. In 1018, and fought in the battle of the Somme.
LEGACY
During the week ended on Satur. day, eight cases of Small-pox with
Sergeant-Major S. J. Wilcox joined eight deaths, 12 at Diphtheria with In 1913, and has been with the bat- three deaths (one imported), two of talion ever since, doing training Scarlet Fever, 11 of Typhoid with every year since the last war, in three deaths, eight of Measles, nine which he was wounded twice.
year-old But the most remarkable mon of Chicken-pox, 11 of Meningitis there wm Regimental Quartermaster- with four deaths, 19 of Dysentery Sergeant V. G. Smith. He joined the with 10 deaths and 134 of Tuber- battalion in 1009, when he was work- culosis with 63 deaths were also reing as a clerk in the goods office at ported.
Gloucester
Station. He served through the last war, was "Indly
Foreign Report
GEORGE GREEN, a 54- Upwell, Norfolk, farm-worker and his wife. Ann, who is two years older, . looked after an Invalid, John
HUL
"I shan't be sorry when this is all over," she said, as she dished up 34 fried
led eggs, then hurried across the
saucers.
"Still I must say,” she added, "some of the prisoners are very good. They come out to the kitchen and help me the dining their meal into
carry
room."
During the luncheon adjournment the prisoners, escorted by policement, are allowed to go shopping in Mal- mesbury,
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See our Display
New York-Judges in a solemn When the invalid died, the wounded at Passchendacle, and was Greens' inherited his estate, cover a new name for mothers-in-
compotillon held in New York to dis The Health bulletin of Eastern awarded the DC.M. for lending an which was worth £203,
law, which would avoid "unpleasant Ports for the week ended March 10 attack. shows the following cases of infee. tious diseases:
goon one case. Cholera Allahabad
But a relative claimed £40, which connotations at present associated he said he had lent Hill, and a court with the word," finally chose Kin-
mother.
were
made
Blitzkrieg Mother, Erantz Mother, Maiherink, and Motherkind.
Pingue. Basseln one death, Bad Nazis Seek Food Pill action was decided in his favour.
The costs were £116, the sale of Among several hundred sugges- and Rangoon one case each, Akyab GOERING, Germany's economic the property cost £23, medical and tlons they turned down were: two cases, Calcutta 60 cases. Small-dictator, is seeking to beat the British funeral expenses were 263.
Karachi, Madras blockade by pills-food pills.
Recelving orders pox-Allahabad, and Shanghat one case cach, Delhi A Danish chemist recently back against both Mr. and Mrs. Green. and Sabang four cases ench, Cawn- from I. G. Farben, Germany's biggest Adjourning Mr. Green's case in To-morrow! QUEEN'S
pore 23 crises, Jodhpur nine deaths, chemical works, said that research King's Lynn bankruptcy court, the Porbandar
24 cazes, Bombay 47 chemists have been ordered to pro- registrar said: Saturday! ALHAMBRA Calcutta 71 casco, Cochin duco the H. G. Wells pill which is to "It is an instance of a small cum seven cases, Rangoon 3D cases, take the place of moit, butter, eggs being swallowed up by enormous law
and vegetables in the Nazi diet. Macao 17 cases, Hongkong 12 cases.
Costs."
The audience, in which mothers- in-law predominated, received coldly the suggestion Mother Rat, submitted by an embittered male competitor.
and Prices
Sennet Freres
Jewellers of Roputo
Gloucester Bldg.
Padder St.
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