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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 21940.
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS They Were Franco's Victims-Then Hitler's
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START A NEW LIFE
LONG, long ago—it would China postage stamps on view and will be held at the Omeen of the be about the spring of 1936]
Co., 10, undersigned on Thursday, the 4th Wyndham Street, Hongkong. Estab-April, 1940, at Noon, for the-life in Barcelona seemed
purpose of receiving the Report good' to
for uple at Graca
Naked 1000.
1939.
Manuela, young
DOGS FOR SALE. Well, trained of the General Managers, together wife of Juan Claramunt, bird dog and bitch, English Setter with a statement of Accounts for textile worker, and Cocker Spaniel. Apply 27, the year ended the 31st December, friend. Victoria,
and her Chinese Garden Village, Ping Shan,
recently New Territories....
The Share Register and Trans-wed to Pedro Vines, the ler Books will be closed from the barber. 21st March to the 4th April, 1940, both days inclusive.
"HONGKONG AS, REVEALED BY 'THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 00 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.60. Obtainable at Pally & Walsh, Ltd.,. Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South, China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.
CLEARING SALE, subject to unsold, of the following articles:--Feather machines. 500 watt Lighting sets, Laboratory Instruments (oll testing), Heaters and Cookeen (kerosene),
A few days ago they were picked out of the sea when a Hitler mine struck a Dutch liner which was to JARDINE, MATHESON & | Inke them to peace and forgetfulness
in South America. CO., LTD.
General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Issurance Co., Ltd.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1940.
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shoe materials, knitting machine needles, glass
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belis, neasurement lapes, sleeve links and holdera ete. For further particufors, please apply to Sander, Wieler & Co. tin liquidation), King's Building, 2nd floor, Telephone No. 24411.
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Manuela saw her young husband drown..
Victoria was already a widow. Her Pedro went, three years ago, to fight for the Republie of Spain.
She did not see him again and has given him up for lost.
and
Eight months ago Manuela Juan, her litsbund, took counsel with Victoria.
For two and a half years bombs NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN t rained, on Burcctonu, Juan's that the Fifty first. Ordinary factory had been destroyed. Food Annual Meeting of Shareholders was scarce and life was difficult. will be held at the offices of the Now Franco's forces were on the out- skirts of the city. They decided to Company, Exchange Building, Derek refuge in far-olf Colombia, NO CUTS IN NEW Voeux Road Central, Victoria, where relatives would give then
"MEIN KAMPF Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd shelter and work,
RUSSIANS STILL SCUM
COPENHAGEN,
day of April, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock, a.m. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the
The special fteld pocket edition of Hitter's book Bisa Kampf, recently rear ended 31st December, 1939. described In The Daily Telegraph, has now been placed on the market.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the
in Germany and is being despatched Company will be CLOSED from
to the front. No eats have been nude | THURSDAY, the 21st MARCH, In the text of the new edition,
As a result German soldiers in the 1946, to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd Siegfried Line will now reart the von APRIL, 1940, both days inclusive,
sidered opinion of the Fuchrer that
"a
a pact with Russia will lead to the downfall of Germany."
Ry. Order of the Board of Directors,
R. TAYLOR, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 4th March, 1940.
Further, they will read that the tendern
of their Russlan allies are "o handful of Jewish litterateurs and bourse
bandits" who had "killed or starved to death with Satanic brutality nearly 30,000,000 persons." show the truth of our racial theories." Another part of Mein Kampf states, On page 750 the rulers of Russin referring to Russia, that "the gigantle are described as "common blood Empire in the East is nearing its bespaltered criminals who are collapse a catastrophe which will scum of the human race,"
the
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200-Mile Walk
The three left the city where they iweri, born and wed, and had lived contentedly until the "trouble" had
COURS
red
Each carrying a small bundle of persond belongings and. food, they the road to the French frontier. Between them they d three pesetas. There wag no hundred transport. They walked two bund- miles in twelve days, painfully trudging across the high Pyrences until, weary and footsore, they came in sight of France and hope.
For three months Manuck, Vic- toria, and Juan waited in a camp with scores
of thousands of their countrymen and women who, like them, and fled from their native land.
Then came a welcome packet from their relatives in Colombia with money to buy their passages across the Atlantic.
Then to Paris-but to procure visas was a long and complicated business, Months passed, hope receding, and when the clouds of another war burst despair came to the little party of refugees.
The New World
A month ago happiness returned with the news that visas for Colom- bia had been granted. Eagerly they entrained for Amsterdam, where they boarded the liner.
THE KING AND
THE CHORUS GIRL
NO MORE FAG CARDS "GOT a fut card, mister?" w
The King on the Drury Lane stage chatting with a member of Leslie Henson's "Gulelies," who are going entertain the troopa in France.
to
In
Played Truant To Watch Guard Change
soldier is providing his parents with problem.
THE boy who is determined to be
tions ABSOLUTELY FIRST SEEN IN HONG-in war-torn Spain, that wenry trudge
Two and a half years of suffering soon be a questior of the past,
Leading cigarette manufacturers KONG IF YOU WANT SOMETHING "REALLY" waiting in the cump and in Paris, all the issue of cigarette cards. This across Catalonia, and the despair of stated that they are discontinuing
the sure is because of "the urgent necessity SELF! IT'S 100% TRUTH THERE'S NOTHING seemed to have vanished.
hope of new world.
for conseruhig steeks of paper and LIKE THEM! DISCOVER THEY'RE 50 BEAUTIFUL Juan was sitting with Manuela board in the national interest."
Similar action was taken in the last CHIC ENOUGH ΤΟ INFURIATE YOUR and Victoria in the liner on that DEAREST ENEMY, SANE ENOUGH TO DELIGHT THE MAN IN YOUR bright morning when the dull thud of war. FAMILY-AND-CHI FINAL JOY....
an explosion shook her.
A few seconds later Juan bundled the two women into the crowded life- Now, two young women sit in a
He has been sent to farm in boat and shouted. "I will follow." Bloomsbury hotel lounge amid eight Devon in the hope that he will be Manuela saw him leap into the other innocent victims of Hitler's happy there and forget till he is a water as the ship heeled over. She savagery walling for a ship to take little older that there are such placos saw him no inore.
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RARE postage stamps are becoming more and more the gilt-edged securities of refugees and those who fear for the independence or the security of currency of their country.
The numbers exinting of the rarer Instances of forgerles which sell for stamps are known almost exactly to more than the genuine stamps. Often the big dealers and collectors, and these are forgeries which were made relative value cannot therefore be to defraud the post affected by any sudden flooding of Collectors have often specialised in the market as in the case of pre- forgeries. Some of the fakes are cious stones and metals.
easily discovered through wrongly Moreover, a fortune in stamps can spelt words or missing words; others be carried in a wallel. For that only by slight variations in shading reason many rare specimens have and colour.
Among the hardest forgeries to
Geoffrey Harvey, of Fire Colfago, 14 but his passion for the Army has Brooklands Road, Weybridge, is only
already got him into difficulties be-| enuse he could not keep his mind on his lessons.
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recruiting
offices. Geoffrey has been released from the Junior Technical College, King- ston-on-Thames, his headmaster having reported to the School Com- mittee that Geoffrey could not be in- duced to take any Interest in the school as he had made up his mind' to enlist.
Mrs. Harvey revealed that for five weeks Geoffrey played truant from school.
Loves Glamour
"He took his lunch and books every morning," she said, "but instead of going to school he went to London.
"Apparently he went to see the Changing of the Guard, 110 loves glamour, and perhaps that is why he has such a passion for the Army,
"I did not know anything about his movements until the school wrote and asked me when he was returning.
"Ho 19 now down on a big farm in much. He writes that he is rounding
been smuggled out of Austria and Alscover: are those where false post-Devon and he seems to like it very
Czecho-Slovakia.
is
They are saleable in any part of marks, watermarks and surcharges the world, though London the have been added to genuine 'stamps. best market. Prices, since the war, have Increased by from 20 to 40 per cent.
Most of the buyers in London to- day are from abroad, although the blackout has resulted in a tremendous Increase in the number of collectors in Britain.
Nijinsky May Live In U.S.
NEW YORK.
up ponies on Dartmoor.
"ills headmaster said that he had done everything to persuade my boy to remain at school, but Geoffrey would only say that he was deterrain-
"He had been
led to be a 60 several recruiting. offices, but was turned away when they found out his age. I have only
Last week, in the stamp auction. Permission to enter the United two boys, and my husband and I did:
States can be obtained, Varalov-everything to dlosuade him." rooms of H. R. Harmer, of Bond-Nijinsky, the Russian dancer whose An official of Kingston Technical street, I saw sol
sold the Finnish section mental collapse 20 years ago robbed School_sald: "Geoffrey was a smart of a collection valued at £100,000, the ballet of its greatest genius, will boy. He had to win a scholarship to tays a correspondent.
come here from Switzerland for thelbe admitted to the school, but his [whole mind was set on joining up, Top price was £425 for a block off duration of war. six rose ten-kopek stampa.
The plan is that a neuropathie in- and it would have been unfair to keep
This will"
The collection is owned by Mr. stitute at Hartford, Connecticut, shall him here studying engineering against Agathon Faberge, whose father was attempt to complete the cure. Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court. Many of the stamps in the collection come from the Imperial archives-the gift of the Tanr.
Fakes Worth More
After the salo Mr. Harmer show- ed 'me part of his voluminous colles- tion of forgeries--stamps that; : If genuine. would be worth about £3,000,000.
Because of their value for the pur- pose of checking and comparing other forgeries, they have a real value of thousands of pounds.
Paradoxically there are one or two
Kipling's Home (FOR THE
NATION}
THE home for many years of Rudyard Kipling “Bate- mans," at Burwash, East Sussex--has been left to the National Trust by Mrs. Kipling, with an endowment of £5,000.
It is Jacobean in style, and appears to have been built at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Mrs. Kipling expressed the wish that her husband's study should be left in its present state,
GERMAN women must have more children, orders Das Schwarze Corps ofcial organ of the S.S. men, Hitler's: Black Guards.
"In 'all parts of Germany the biri Ogures have rixen," it is stated, "For the first time since the world war ilio number of cradles equals the number of eofina.
Innocent Girl Convicted
· TIE Post Office is to be asked to pay substantial compensation lo a girl of 15 for "grief and suf- Kerlug" who is said to have endur- ed through prosecution.
The matter was discussed at a Gloucestershire Publie Assistance Committee meeting. democracies
"The percentage of our birth rate is well above that of the French and English-those dying
who are insulent enough to want to Mr. R. L. Moon, clerk to the County establish a regime of money-greedy | Counell, stated that the girl, an in- ten over the life and work of youngmate of Dryleaze Girls' Home, Wot-
nations,
ton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, was "But we must have full measure in convicted at Cheltenham Juvenile our joy. The figures just balance. Only if the number of cradles exceeds the number of coffins can victory be assured,
"Murdorous"
Court of fraud uml forgery..
Long Questioning
Later, on appeal to the Quarter Sesaloni, she was entirely exonerated, It was then stated that another girl "The system of the small family, and confessed to the fraud.. which is a murderous Invention' of
"From Liberalism, must be abandoned.
an interview, with the matron of a Cheltenham nursing "The future Germany expects not home where the girl was employed
only many children, but quality.
before her arrest, I found the girl was interrogated for a long time.
"Severe Criticism"
"We should ask ourselves to-day * Is this child the best we can pro- duce?' Whoever has one child or two children can't answer this' question with a clear conscience. tion that the Pubile Assistance Com-
"I was not until after the convic-
mittee knew anything about it. An appeal was immediately launched.
"Only parents of many children who have done all in their power to produce a fine, generation with the "The official action is open to conscientious choice of a partner can severe criticism." answer this question."
The chairman, Lieutenant-Colonel
But, except for Goebbels, who has W. E. Longfield, said that if satisfac- four children, the Nazi leaders do notion were not forthcoming from the follow their own advice,
Post Ofee steps would be taken to
Hitler is unmarried. Goering has have a question asked in the House une child.
of Commons, and the Home Office would be approached.
less has one child, and Himmler, whose paper makes the appeal, is maryled but has no children.
Forget It
LETTERS
To The Editor,
The "Hongkong Telegraph." Sir-May 1, through the medium of Calendars and diaries for 1040, printed before the war and the your poper, inquire what the P.W.D. alliance with Russin, give the German intends doing with Glenealy, the road people unwelcome reminders in the leading up from the Dairy Farm in Lower Albert Road, up beyond Caine day-by-day quotations.
For instance: January 3. Hitler Road to the gateway of the Botanical. Youth founded. "Communism leads Gardens.
to death, to misery of the nation, to It was a perfectly good road l deeline."
about four mouths ago they de-
January 10 Twentieth annivers-elded to tip a bucketful of tar and #ry of the loss of Posen (Pollah strew it with gravel. Fair or shine, Corridor). "No one of us even it is now a constant menace to one's thinks of starting a war with Poland person, not to mention one's since because of the Corridor-Adolf Hit-leather,
ler."
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