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Friday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH May 17, 1940.
DRAMATIC Photographic
SOPRANO?
MESSAGES
Competition EXCHANGED ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Francesca Donios' Vocal Additional, Prizes Given Recital At Rose Room By Eastman Kodak Co.
Premier's Greetings
To Dominions
Music lovers of the Colony, were The "Telegraph" takes plea- LONDON, May 16 (Reuter) ——Mr. treated Bongs by Mme. Francesca Denies additional trophies are to be to a delightful recital of sure in announcing that four Belgian dramatic-soprano, Rose Room of I the Peninsula Hotel awarded in this year's Amateur
Photographie Competition,
last night.
at tho
She has just returned from a most successful concert with the Municipal Orchestra in Shanghel
the first three
the Australian Prime Minister: Mr. Winston Churchill has exchanged messages with Mr. R. G. Menzies, Mackenzle King, the Canadian Prime Minister; Mr. Peter Fraser, the New Zealand Prime Minister; and General Theso have been donated by the Eastman Kodak Company, and will Jan Smule, the South Afclean Prime take the form of handsome silver Minister, on the assumption of his While in Europe last year she cups to the value of $75 each office, as Prime Minister extended her repertory to include
The message They will be awarded as first prizes Prima Ministers sent greetings, re many new English and Flemish con-in each of the four sections. cert songs. She introduced "Vold-
Following an exchange of views Commonwealth against tyranny and ferred to the unity of the British viooltje (Wild Violet) by J. Hubens, with the Hongkong Photographie a beautiful romantle melody, to Society, it has been decided to revise barbarism and to the waging of the Hongkong last
long on the programme was Goring four, as follows: Thomas Winds in the Trees" which General Pictorial Lands was most popular a a generation ago, Those lovely melodies that never foll to. please, Tosti's "Chanson do PAdieu" and Dvorak's "Songs my Mother taught me" were the high- half of the pro- lights of the second
the classes, of which there will be.
war to an end.
capes, Seskaper, Architectural and co-operation. Sirect Scenes.
Co-operation Promised Thus sealed assuring-their fullest The message to. General Smuts was Closo-addressed to my friend of so many
years, and faithful comrade of
2.--Portraits, Informal ups, Human Studies.
3. Siin Life and Table Top last war! - Studless
4-Craftsmen's Bection.
singer concluded her recliat
In the latter section, it will be with two Flemish songs.
stipulated that the whole of the work Professor Harry Ore, who accom-shall have been done by the com- panied Mme. Denies, and also con-petitor, and strict rules will govern tributed pianoforte solos, earned his the entries, share of acclamation.
The programunes was as follows:
J.
Recitatik si Cavatine;
The other prizes will be the two (previously announced) by Messrs. Ilford Limited, for the first and second best entries,
Cette nu j'ai revu Glue donate
(Iphigento en Tauride)
2. Planoforte Bolos;
(a) Prelude in A fat
(b) Mazurka in D
3. Two English Song;
the
The message read: "It is a com- fort for me to feel that we shall be together in this hard and long trek, for I know you, and the Government, and peoples of the Union will not weary."
In replying, General 8mats sald he was deeply moved and assured Mr. Churchill of his whole hearted co- operation.
Mr. Churchill also exchanged greet-
and $250 in cash, awarded by thisings with Mr. Eamon de Valera. Chopin Chopin newspaper.
The Competition will be held from U.S. AMBULANCES
(a) Winds in the Trees Con June 1 to September 30,
Goring Thoma
(b) Absence .... Easthope Marlin
4. Two Arias;
INTERVAL
(a) Dondeleta
Boheme) Puccini
(b) Lärmes (Werther) ................ Blossenet Planoforte Bolon;
JAMES MCCALLION
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No.
FLEMINGT ROAD AN
6. Two Songs;
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(a) Chanson de l'Adieu
TORI (b) Songe my mother taught me ... Dvorak
7. Two Flemish Songs;
(a) Veldviooltje
(b) Kindje
J. Kubens 1. Mortelmans
Nazi Army Checked
Hitler Starts Counting His Chickens
I
ATTACKED
Deliberate Raid By Nazi Planes
PARIS, May 18 (Reuter)"It was not an accident,” mid the head of a convoy of five Amerlenn Red ai- Cross ambulances which were tocked on the Western Front by LONDON, May 10 (Reuter) German planes. Early this morning the German rúdlo told the German people a thrilling tale of how the world is gazing in wonder at the marvellous courage and stripes. displayed by the German army In Holland, Belgium and France.
Two at the ambulancea were des- troyed despite the fact that they all displayed the Red Cross and the stars
One volunteer is said to be missing. A Geman plane directed artillery Hitler long ago foresaw this fire on the armbulances, the ambu- |beautiful pleture of the future which |lance crews claim.
was now being realised on the battle- More Volunteers Arrive flekis of the west, the announcer went SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH** Paris, May 16. on unblushingly.
PARIS, May 10 (UP)-Eight With the French armies spreading
The German press to-day trumpets American ambulance drivers were on the Belglen front from the sea
hour accorded a hearty welcome at Paris across the Lorraine to the Rhine, the that the battle is a decisive buttle is now fully engaged, Opera for the German people. They must railway station this morning.
They are immediately departing tlons have passed the stage of sur-forget the great sacrifice of life and Prise and have entered the think only of the outcome which will for the front in the newly-organised manoeuvring phase. Front line be to give Germany a great world Benjamin Franklin
out watched under from a duge empire and make her the mightiest American
a battle in which
armies were locked on a continuous, front which blasted carly hopes
In the world.
Germany might have had of repost- BEWARE EARLY
the drive to the Morne in
1914-United “Press,"
London, May 10.
Radio Holland announced the Ger~
SUCCESSES
man mechanised units were moving History Of Somme, 1918
through Amsterdam-United Pre13. London, May 10.
Radio Brussels announced that Ger- man mechanised units had penetrated
Press.
As Warning
Corps,
section of the Volunteer Ambulance
A large number of American volunteers are already in the hottest
section of the front lines,
More Communists
Imprisoned
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' PARIS, May 16 (UP), The Gov- imprisoned another LONDON, May 10, (Reuter).The ernment has the Allied lines for considerable Journal de Geneva," a Berne news-eight Communists for "disseminating depth at several points.-United paper, to-day БАУБ that despite Hitlerism and Stalinism".
Holland's capitulation the
A milltary tribunal has sentenced Dutch Berin, May 16. Navy will participate In Allied two women and a man to five years' --A-D.N.B: report says that German naval operations."
imprisonment-and-a further five troops will be immediately with-
Communists were given sentences drawn from Holland to take part in The great resources of the Dutch ranging from one to three years. the "great battle of Namur."-United Colonies, says the paper, are at the
disposal of the Allies.
Press.
LATE NEWS
General Gamelin has chosen a site DAY OF PRAYER
SUNDAY WEEK
for the great battle on the western front, continues the "Journal de Geneva,"
This does not allow us to foresee Its issue, but give the Alles conЛ- dence and good chances of success.
The brilliant successes of the Ger- man Army on the Somme in 1918 were a prelude to ils destruction.
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