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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 26; 1940.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. TEACHER WANTED DESPATCH RIDERS AT GETS
HONGKONG CRICKET
CLUB
Tennis Tournament
Weather permitting FINALS will take place as follows :-
OPEN SINGLES.. MONDAY, 29th April,
OPEN DOUBLES. WEDNES. DAY, 1st May,
Play commences at 4.30 p.m. sharp each day.
Booking for Stund now open at Moutries.
Tickets $1 Incl. tax.
Prize-giving will take placé after OPEN DOUBLES FINAL.
TO SAVE GERMAN
SHE TOLD
LIES TO
GET HIM PASSPORT
BECAUSE Elizabeth London Hambly, elderly schoolteacher, met Frederick Robert IIacrdter, deported German. at Ostend in
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM | August, 1938, she was in
NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL
MEETING
prison one night recently.
He told her his troubles, She stened sympathetically. Later she got him a British passport "to save his life."
AL the Westminster Police Court Elizabeth . Hambly, for twenty years a teacher at St. Bar- The Fifty-ninth Ordinary tholomew's School, Bethnal Green # folse General Meeting of the Company was summoned for minking will be held at the Offices of the statement on August & last for the General Managers, Mears. Jar-purpose of procuring a passport for
another person. ed to close at or before i am. dine. Matheson
Co., Ltd., & gistered and I parcel malls are closed
'Misguided Wish'.
Mr. the magistrate, Marshali, spoke thest
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Porcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where tails are advertis-
at 5 pm, on the previous day. When Pedder Street, Hong Kong. on mails are advertised to close after Thursday, 30th May, 1944; at noon, 6 p.m.. Registered and Parcel malls for the purpose of receiving the aro closed at 5 p.m.
Report of the Director, passing the Accounts, and electing Direc- tors and Auditors.
INWARD MAILS
Japan and Shanghal ....Apr. 28. Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct
Service" London date, 2011 April.!
Canton
Haiphong
Japan and Shanghal
Shanghai.
Calcutta and Straits
Japan
Shanghai and Amoy
The Transfer Books of the Com- Apr. 27. pany will be closed from the 23rd Apr. 27. May to 13th June inclusive. Apr. 27+
Apr. 27. By order of the Board,
.Apr. 27.
Apr. 28.
.Apr. 28.
Apr. 28.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. General Managers. Apr. 29 Hongkong, 16th Avril,, 1940, Apr. 29. .Apr. 20.
Haiphong. Holhow and Fort Bayard.
Haiphong
Shanghai
COMPANY, LIMITED
Calcutta and Straits...Apr. 20. HONG KONG TELEPHONE, U.S.A, and Manila-(San Francisco date, 16th March)......Apr. 20. Air Mail by "Pan American Airways
Direck
Francisco Service."8an
.Apr. 30. Apr. 30.
date, 23rd April
Japan
OUTWARD MAILS
Friday, Apr. 26
Shanghal and Parcels only for Tien-
Saigon
To
Kenneth words
her
"You knew But the man had been sentenced to a term of im- prisonment here, and you tell a whole pareet of lies and that you had known him for ten years.
"Nething whatever can be said in your favour except this mis- gutiled wish to help a man whom you thought to be in danger.
"People must learn that they chuot sign passport appileation forms in this way, however good their motives. It is a most serious offence.
"I oug
you to prison for six moths, but in view of your age I will not do that. You must go to prison for three months." Mr. F. D.
for the Director
el Public *** said that she Frederirl for a German
obtained a citizen.
Itnerdier had
Bell,
Robert Hnerdter,
one
WORK IN FRANCE
THIS SCENE, reminiscent of 1914-18, shows despatch riders samowhore in France. French Official War Photograph.
The 'Red Dean' Warned
Replies To Canon Critics
BEFORE he went to a Left
Club meeting #11 Birkenhead, the "Red" Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Hewlett John- ron) repiled to the Canons Re- sidentiary of Canterbury Cathe- dral, who criticised his political beliefs.
The Dean has travelled widely in) Russia and Republican Spain, and NOTICE IS HERE ORDINARY in an application form on behalf of But, well-known sympathy for the
15 Soviet system, as well
his that the FIFTEENTH Henry
The application, form was accom-criticisms of capitalism, have won YEARLY MEETING of HONG
}{e ky two photographs,
rebukes on
number or KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, PA
application was He
was crlileised iri 2 state- LIMITED, will be held on TUES-certified by Miss Hambly, and a birth ecensions. for 1pm. DAY, the 30th day of April, 1940, signed by Miss Haul this country! Cum, T. Sopwith. John Shirley,
Hamuly.
ment signed by Canons J. M. C.; 1.30 pm at Noon in the BOARD ROOM of .3.30 p.m.
the Company, SECOND FLOOR, for some time, and in May 1938 was Frederick B. MacNutt and A. Sargent,
the Old Bailey of fraud, in which they sald:- convicted 7 p.m. EXCHANGE BUILDING, HONG sentenced to eighteen months in-
"We feel compelled to make it 7pm. KONG, for the purpose of receiv-prisonment, and ordered to bude, known that we dissociate ourselves
He was deported on June 8, from
the. pming a Statement of Accounts and
political utterances of the Dean of Canterbury which, as re- the Report of the Board of Direc-j
In a statement she had made, Miss ported in the puble Press, have so tors, for the financial year ended Hambly said she had known Hard- often given the impression that he
ter for a number of years, but had condones Air Mall for "Imperial Airways 31st December, 1939, and
offences of Russia Direct Service"-dae London, Sih electing two Directors and the been helping him for only two years. against humanity and religion."
In Hiding Auditors.
The Dean Regrots... She met him in August 1930 ot The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Ostend while on holiday there. He The dean replied to the protest Company will be closed from the told her he had been to the Ok when he passed through London 20th April to 30th April, 1940, othBailey, and had been deported to an his way days inclusive.
Shanghal and Japan Tourne, Selgon and Bangkok
Sandakan Shanghel
Saturday, Apr. 27. Fort Bayard, Toihow and Haiphong. Noon
May.
Reg, Ord.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
....Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Apr. 29, 5.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Beira, Lourenco Marques, East and 6.30 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 28
South Africa
Canton
Amoy
Shanghal
Monday. Apr, 20
Halphong
Suigon
re-
Dated this 8th day of April. .7.15 R. 1910.
.0a.m.
9.a.m.By-Order-of-the-Board;-
Noon ..6.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South
J. P. SHERRY,
Maunger.
Africa, Egypt and Europe via Suez 14 Des Voeux Road Central, and London Parcels due London, 40th June,
Parcels
Reg.
Ordi
Parcels
Reg.
Ord,
Canton
K.P.O.
Apr. 20. 3 p.m. .Apr. 20. 5 pan. .Apr. 20, 5.30 p.m. G.r.O.
.Apr. 29, 3 p.m. .Apr. 20, 5 p.m. .Apr. 20, 7 p.m.
....7 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 30 Batavin and Sourabaya....8.30 am. Haiphong...
.2 p.m. Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-dun San Francisco, 7th May
K. P. O.
Apr. 30, 5,00 nm. Apr.
Ord.,
G. F. O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
30, 5.30 p.m.
.Apr. 30, 5.00 p.m. .Apr. 30, 7.00 p.m.
Air Mall for "Imperial Always Direct
Service"due London, Bih May.
Reg.
Ord.
Reg.
Ord.
K.P.O.
.Apr. 30, 5 p.m. .Apr. 30, 5.30 p.m.
G.F.0.
Apr. 30, 5 p.m. .Apr. 30, 7 p.m.
Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- trails by "Imperiai Airways Direct Serviceue Sydney, 6th May,
Reg.
Ord.
Reg,
Ord.
K.F.O.
.Apr. 30, 5 p.m. Apr. 30, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
.Apr. 30, 5 p.m. .....Apr. 30, 7 p.m.
Manila, Australia and New Zealand
vin Thursday Taland-due Thurs-
day Island, 13th May.
K.P.O.
Apr. 30, 5 p.m.
...Apr. 30, 5.30 p.m.
Reg.
Ord.
G.P.O.
Reg.
Ord,
.Apr. 30, p.m. Apr. 30, 7 p.m. Japan
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-
tah;
.1 p.m. Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and Franco (Parls and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France Airways Direct Service"--due Paris, Bth DTBY.
E. P. o.
Day 1. 5.00 pm. May 1, 5.30 p.m. P. O.
May 1, 5,00 p.m. May 1, 7.00 pm.
Ker.,
Ord,
Rer..
Ord.,
Hong Kong.
NEXT CHANGE
AT. THE
KING'S
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
BASIL RATHBONE
NIGEL BRUCE
JDA LUPINO ALAN MARSHAL
TERRY KILBURN GEORGE ZUCCO
·Henry STEPHENSON" E..E..CLIVE
bed by the workar
4 2014 Onday Ear Phone -
Bury Zonach in Churns of freda Pal
1930.
Germany.
She learned of his troubles, and that he was hiding, having escaped from the ship in which he was deported when it arrived at -Bremen.
the
from Canterbury in Liverpool.
Standing at his carriage door at Euston Station, he said:-.
"I greatly regret the raising of these issues and differences of view -between ̈mysetr and my ̈residenti~| ary canons at this thine of grave) national tension,
"I also regret that it is not possible for me to make public statemerit
Of
Nazi
Move
Sir HOWARD KELLY, for- mer C.-in-C. of the China
Squadron, who gave 24 hours warning of the Nazi invasion of Norway.
The Dowser
DOW
Is Right
-Says Scientist
They discussed with another man how best she could obtain a British passport for Haerdter so that he could live in Belgluun as a British eltizen.
The reason was that if he went on those specifte issues at this part- back
to Germany he would becular juncture, since you will appre- killed, because he hated Hitler and late that this can only be made the Gestapo, She felt very sorry through the same channels as those in which the differences were raised.
"The only other things I Visiting Ostend again at Christ-myself to say on this matter is that I can permit mas 1038, last Easter and last July, there will be found a complete re-spent ten years in the study of she saw Haerdter on each occasion, and on returning to London decided bulint of untrue statements."
for him.
to obtain a passport for him in the name of her friend, Harry George Bell. Haerdter gave her a photo-
raph of himself.
When the
the passport was issued she again went to Ostend, and handed
the at
OWSING-the finding of water and metals under ground by means of the divining rod-received the blessing of two scientists at the Royal Society of Arts.
The scientists. Mr. J. Cecil Maby and Mr. T. Bedford Franklin, have
dowsers and their craft.
Mr. Maby declared: "The time has
The dean's comments following hls much-criticised visit to Spain come for physicists, engineers geolo- in 1937 caused him to be publicly ist, even medical men and analy- rebuked by the Archbishoptical chemists, to recognise in this Canterbury
Church Assembly. Once, when criticised for his Left Haerdter had been arrested as tendencies, he said "You can call me
n Bed," an alien in Belgium, and she had arranged for £10 to be sent him ench month.
It lo Haerdter.
He was an engineer before he was jordained, unil his first job was in a She obtained the passport only to railway carriage works at 136. n save his life.
werk.
Gracie Is Going To
Marry Twice-
ancient craft the seeds of a genuine science."
He compared atoms of the various chemical elements 10 miniature broadcasting stations and dowsers to wirtless receivers,
the
senso
Are dowsers specially gifted? The
answer was: "Yes, perhaps, in that they are more respon- sive to stimuli than the average per- son, but not in the sense that they necessarily possess some fuculty un-
| possɑssed by normal people."
M. P. asks about
'HUSHED-UP":
HOLLYWOOD, THEN HOME RESCUE BY
quiet home marriage.
GRACIE FIELDS is to stay in Hollywood for her marriage to Monty Banks, her film producer-and they will have a second ceremony porters discovered their plans for a at Peacehaven, Sussex,
"Monty and I expect to marry with- in a week or ten days," she said to a Los Angeles correspondent.
"We intend to have 3 second Telcamb wedding ceremony at Church, Pencehaven.
"My sister began her happy married life there, and I wanted to have our wedding there, too.
Changed Plans
"We changed our first plans and arranged for ceremony at mother's bome in Hollywood because she is too I to return to England al present."
Gracle and Monty. Banks confirmed
In Real Names
This application, says the United Press, was made in their real names, Grace Stansfield and Marto Bianchi. Gracie la 42. Her divorce from revue producer Arcbie Pitt, was made absolute last January.
Monty Banks is 43 and his first wife was the inte Gladys Frunzin, American actress,
WOMAN SPY TO BE SHOT Sentence of death for espionage
that they had applied for a marriage was passed by na Marseilles court licence recently, but sald they did martiat recently on a woman, Eugen- not take out, the licence when re- fem Lulz.
|
GERMANS
THE rescue THE
of Squadron-Leader i Farquhar at Berwick by German] ulrmen when he brought down his third plane was referred to by Mr.: McGovern (LL.P., Shettleston) in the House of Commons,
He asked the Air Minister why the j
airmen had not been German allowed to receive public credit for this, humane act, and why the Daily Mail, which published the story in its first edition on Febuary 23, was com pelled to delete it. Was it in the in- terests of this country that brave acts by Germans should not be acknowle- dged, while we condemned brutal acts?
Sir Kingsley Wood said there were security questions Involved, and other considerations,
Mr. McGovern: It is shocking, pure humbug, most disgraceful,
HITLER'S
BIRTHPLACE
RAIDED
AMSTERDAM. VILLAGERS of Braunau, Hitler's birthplace in Aus- tria, awoke one morning to find the streets and fields covered with leaflets dropped by the R.A.F. Everybody picked them and read them, despite the ban. This is what Mrs. L. J. Oakley, an Austrian-born British subject, sald te-day when she reached Holland from Germany with her two-years old daughter:
"One entire
up
packet containing thousands of lenflets had falled to
pen
A NEW VOICE
WHEN, for the first time in his life, Peter Cripps opened his mouth to speak- he asked for something to eat!
But the sound of his own -volco frightened him so much
that he lost his appetite.
"Hot buttered toast," he mur mured to Sister Louise, leaning. excitedly over her patient.
When the hot buttered toust came. Peter could not bring himself to eat [it. The strangeness of hearing hàn- |self speak almost like other small | boys find mude blm forget everything
clue.
Peter is twelve years old.. For the last ten years a rubber tube in his neck has had to serve as his wind- pipe.
Now surgical wizardry has given him a real windpipe, mode of ski Kinfted. from his left arm.
an
This is the first time such operatium has been performed.
Until a few days ago he had to breathe through the rubber tube opening from the front of his neck,
His efforts at specchi could be un- derstood only after long experience. How It Was Done
Now his whispers are quite "intelli- gible. There are hopes that is voice will grow strong and normal.
be re- Peter's windpipe had to moved when he was two years old. For nine years he has been under the supervision of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street. London, two of whose surgeons planned the operation which has made him like other boys,
A fortnight ago skin from his arin was rolled round a rubber tube about three Inches long and half an- incli across and placed in his throat..
Six days ago the tube was re- moved and the skin graft left. Petor's home is in Vincent-road, Dartford, Kent.
"It's lovely to be able to speak
and landed with a tremendous now, and it doesn't hurt a bit," he sold. crush on someone's root, dislodging several tiles.
Hopes to Swim
"What A Pity'
"Eventually, local schoolchildren
"I shall be able to do all the things
were ordered to gather them from other boys can. I shall even be able the streets.
to swing" His eyes lit up as he
+1 wanted to keep mine as thought of swimming.
a souvenir, so when they came to me
I told the little boy that I had burned
What a plfy,' he said, 'Perhaps you would like one of minic'."
1d. Barber Left
£1,800
Before the operation swimming was impossible for him.
Sister Louise, proud of the pailent.
ins mothered in Ishe
hospital, said:-
"At first he choked when he tried to eat.
"He is having to leam to swallow, "The opening in his neck will heal
DANIEL MURPHY, Glasgow and we hope that his voice will be-
I
car
platelayer, lived at a lodging-come much stronger. Nobody house, paying Od. a week.
say whether it will ever be quite
He bought and ecoked his own food, normal."
and cut his fellow lodgers' hair atf id. a time.
-Murphy-has-left-£1,023.–
1-Poela
Peter watched us as we talked, but. there was no longer envy in his eyes.. Now_be_can_lalk, tog.....
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