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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 28, 1940.
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS
25 words $2.50 for 3 days prepaid WANTED TO BUY.
WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of gold articles, jades, wels, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold Refining Co., 7th floor, China Build- ing. Tel. 30727. No holidays. WE PAY HIGH PRICES for al gold and allver articles, diamonds, Jades, jewels and gold dust, Apply China Gold Refining Co., Fedder Building,
2nd floor,
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL) MEETING
The Fifty-ninth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Omces of the General Managers, Mesara. Jar- dine, Matheson
& Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 30th May, 1910, at noon, for the purpose of receiving tho Report of the Directorz, pasaing the Accounts, and electing Direc- tors and Auditora.
FOR SALE.
"TIONGKONG AS REVEALED BY
The Transfer Books of the Com- Second Edition THE CAMERA" Over 60 excellent views
pany will be closed from the 23rd Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at | May to 13th Juno inclusive. Kelly
of the
& Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post; Ltd., Wyndham Street..
A Look Through
The "Telegraph";
50 YEARS AGO.
May 28, 1800,
A statement has been published, says the "Mercantile Maring Service Associa tion Reporters" to the effect that the total approximate value of the merchant navles of the United States, France, Ger-- many, Italy and Russia. taken together is 33,000,000. This is a vant sum, bil 11. Im only #2,000,000 more than a third of the total, Approximate value of the uni merchani navy. The latter is valued at £3,000,000. The value of the French ner- chant navy alone in. only £9,000,000—1cm
By order of the Board.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Managors.
Hongkong, 16th April, 1940.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be RELD at the HONG KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, the 6th. June, 1940, at 11:00 AM, for the por pose of receiving the Report of
than one lenth of ours! The Russia, Ger- Directors together with a State-
man and other merchant navies is not worth talking about__yet.
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The establishment of a vaccine hitituie will be considered by the Sanitary Board to-morrow.
A Canton correspondent informs us
ment of Accounts for the year ended 30th, April, 1940.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from
that the unusual spectacle of a lisp.chi | WEDNESDAY, 29th..day of May,
was winerned there a few days ago,, the victim being a man who had madered his step-father. He was lashed on -a cross, his nose cut off, checks dashed, pieces cut out of his arms, legs and back. and after other nameless cruelties, stab- bed to the heart and bls head revered. The Executioner then disembowclld him, and with find' humour. Blcked the by- standers with the reeking entrals. Our informant adds that among the spiciators were two Artillery officers from Nong- kong, one of whom fainted at the sight.
25 YEARS AGO
May 28, 1915. "The Times" correspondent at Peking says that the United "Kales Governinecit has presented Identical Notes to China and Japan. refusing to recognise any agreement Impairing American rana in China, polfiical and territorial filegrity. of; China,"or" the Open Door paley.
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The Prest... Bureau....announcea – that_the_ Premier has decided to create a Ministry of Munitions and that Mr. Lloyd George during his temporary direction of this Department of State will vacate his post As Chancellor of the Exchequer. Il 14 undorstond—that ——Mr Artur Heiderson- (Chief Whip of the Labour Party) WIE nsist the Government, one labour ques- Elons, expecially those arising from the war,
10 YEARS AGO
May 28, 1930. Thousands of Nationalist troops were taken prisoner by the Kuonlichte forces along the Lung-Hat Hatiway new Ki- sien, whereille arrival yesterday of the 50,000 Kusininehan troops from Western Shantung, under the lenderslip of General Shih Yu-shon, has completely turned the tables against the Nationalist Army. The Kuominchun Army is 'aunch- ing auccessful counter attack against the Nationalist troops who have lost considerable ground since the commence. ment of operations yesterday.
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In the presence of members of the Church Committee, notabers of the con- gregation and representatives from Hongkong, the foundation stone of the new Kowloon Union Churcit was ind yesterday afternoon by the fion. Mr. W. T. Sauthorn.
The new Church is to be built join- ing the old one which will be used as a Sunday School and Church BIL A matshed, which had been ereeled on the site, was decorated with Пngs.
Any 28, 1933,
5 YEARS AGO The entire Code structure, under which the major part of American atas kas been conducted far the past two years. is invalidated by the Supreme Court de clalon, handed down to-day, Full constitutional Section Thres of the Na- tional Recovery Act, under which Congress delegated to President Rooseveli| full authority to make and enforce Codes.
iency
the Ofeer
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to THURSDAY, the 6th of June, 1940, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd. May, 1940.
PENINSULA HOTEL ROSE ROOM Friday, 31st May, 1940 9.30 p.m. RECITAL ON TWO
PIANOS
by
NURA KANIS & KLARI VACO
with
ELVIE YUEN SOPRANO
Compositions by BACH, BEETHOVEN, CESAR FRANCK & ARENSKY FOR TWO PIANOS
"Arias bij
PUCCINI, CATALANI & ELGAR ADMISSION: $2 & $1 (including tax)
Docking at the
HONG KONG & PENINSULA HOTELS
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From EUROPE and STRAITS
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SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and BUENOS AIRES
Cable Address: SWANSTOCK
The
Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition
June-September, 1940.
Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.
For the best and second-best, entries.
Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.
First Prizes in each of the four Sections.
$250 CASH PRIZES $250
SECTION ONE
General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes:. Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
SECTION TWO
Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30, 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION THREE
Still Life and Table Top Studies. 1st-Silver--Cup.-2nd.-$30-3rd.-$20-4th.-$12.50,
SECTION FOUR (Craftsmen's Section)
The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this effect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or. from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.
Consignces of Cargo per Company's st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30, 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
steamer are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 3rd June, 1940, will be subject to rent.
Damaged packages must be left in Government House was the venue of
the Godtowns for examination by the a rather unique scene this morning whers, Consignee's and the Co.'s representa- at the investitute of honours cosferred tives on any Tuesdays and Fridays upan local residents by is Majesty the King in the New Year List, Ilis Excel 2.30 p.m. within the free storage Administering the period. For the examination of Government, Bir Thomas Sauthon, In- damaged dutiable goods, the con- vested his wife with the o... tecration signees must arrange for a Revenue
decorating Lady Southion, Sir Thomas kissed his wife alust prolonged Omeer to be present. applause.
Also invested was Lieut-Col Dr. G. D. R. Black, J., MD, who received the in ten days of the steamer's arrival Insigals of an Officer of the Milltary Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
After
HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ~
WE ARE AT WAR
We know you help War Charities, but please do not forget that war. no war, Hungry CHldren MUST be fed......
.or
We dally feed hundreds
All claims must be presented with-
here, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fire insurance has been effected, NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA. Hongkong, 27th: May, (1940.
New GAUZE
Kind of
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Obtainable at all drug
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RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition!
1-The Competition is confined ex- clua❘vely to amateur photo- graphers. 1-No employee or member of any firm in the photographie trade is permitted to competo,
3.The prizes will be awarded to the compeilters sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Each graphs in each Baction, entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com-
Ke petition, and which
be pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph..
5.Alt photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in ollier Competitions are ineligible to responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of Ions of, or damage to entries
-All entries to be either black. sepla, or taned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. 4-Pictures submitted: in sepia tones hould be accompanied by a smaller print tři blick and white. -No pleture to entered in more
than one Section.
10-Mounts to be only white or cream. must be of one of the following pices:--10X12, 10×20. 12.
11. No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Members of the" Stoffe of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 12-The decision of the Judges shall
be final.
-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within sover Алуг.
SECTION
ENTRY FORM
NAME
TADDRESS.
Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry in. Sections 1, 2, and 3.
EIRE'S POCKET NAVY
A: SOUTHAMPTON firm has secured a contract to build pocket warships, for a small; 'swift fleet which the Elre Govern-' ment is forming to guard territorial waters.
Orders now being placed for motor torpedo-bonte and other types of fast, armed patrol craft total, £250,000. The torpedo- boats are capable of: 60 kmeta,dual
600 Hens Let RADIO POST OFFICE
Loose On Fifth-avenue
Scramble For Free Dinners SIX HUNDRED chickens Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Buffs and ‚Bantams—ran wild in New York's Rockefeller Centre one afternoon recently,
ZBW, 355 metros (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles).
First of the "Toast" Series
is
Small Packet. Post to a countries-
suspended..
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail, are- On Naval Occasions civsed 15 minutes earlier than the Radio-Programme. Broadcast by time..given below unies otherwise. Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. I stated, and where mails are advertis- and on Short Wave from 1-215 pan. jed to close at or before 0 sm. re- and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per glstered and parcel melli are closed second,
at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When H. K. T.
malia are advertised to close after 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- 5 pm, Registered and Farcel mails ccsalon.
are closed at 8 pm. 12.30 Dance Music.
They had been released among the Weather Report, throng of Fifth-avenug promenaders by "Woody" Hockaday, an eccentric New Mexican."
....
peace."
0.00
INWARD MAILS Air Mall by Pan American Airways
Ho came rattling up in a horse-! drawn buggy Olled with crates.. Ho Weather Forecast ware Father Christmas" costumaments.
145 Peter Dawson (Bass-Darlione) and
shouted, "I am Santa Claus from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am in a Military Band Concert. giving away chickens, Peace. The 2.15 Close. Down, whole world
Tchaikowsky-The going to have He held up a Leghorn in either Lake Ballet Musta-London Phil
conducted by Australia and Manila hand shouting "Come and get them." harmonic Orchestra
Calcutta and Straits te opened the crates letting Antal. Dorat! loose the
aquawking hens
they
6.32 Closing Local Stock Quota-Calcutta, Straits and Salon May 29.
Canton tions. scrumbled in every direction, com- -0.37-A Concert by Richard Crooks | Japan-. pletely halting the traffic.
There was general sensation. In (Tenor) and Essie. Ackland (Con- Saigon the midst of it Hockaday whipped tratto). up his horse and galloped away 7.00 Compositions of Debussy
When
leaving six hundred Easter schlekcen dinners behind him.
7.20 London Belay-The News.
Air Mall by "Imperial Always Direct Service" London date 22nd May.
8.03 Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) and Bangkole und Tourang the Orchestre Raymonde.
Canton
8.32 Sea Song Ship Ahoy Japan
Flang
1.00 Local Time Signal und 1.03
Patricia Rossborough at the Tano.
Somers 1.14. Debroy
Band 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,
Announce
Direct Service"-Sah Francisco-
date, 22nd May
May 28,
Australla and Manila
May 28.
and
Japan and Shanghai
May 28.
Java and Manila
May 28.
Saigon Straits
May 28.
May 28.
Air Mail by "Air France
Direct Ser
Swan
vico”—Paris dato, 22nd,
Mar.
May 20..
.May 20...
May 20.
Shanghai Shanghai
***May
May 20. May 29. May 20.
MBY.
20.
5. May 29,
9.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements,
May 30. May 30.
March, Sea Songa Me
Medley
May May 30. May 30.
Bands of the
May
30..
Keen; The
Bandmaster G. C. Likes His Bottle-O: Clear the Track, Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct
Service" London date, 25th May,
June 2. June 2. June 2. June 2.
June, 2. Haiphong and Holhow Juno 3..
Sailor Shanghai
May 31. June 1.
8.57
0.15
9:30
0.45
10.13
The couple were identified at the
OUTWARD MAILS ‘.
Tuesday, May 18 Inquest as Leonard Willan Greenmary. (30), married, of Glebe Road, Hayes, Talk. Middlesex, and Miss Dorothy May Elliott (26), of Woodford, Berkeley Major-Alfred Cortot (Piano) and Straits and Calcutta
Cesar Franck-Sonats in Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya Glos. Miss Elliott had lodged at the Jacques Thibaud (Violin). Greens house for 12 months.
Short Variety. Programme.-am London Relay-News Sum- London Belay-A Topical
Straits
.Noon.
-1 p.m. ...2 p.m.
Respighi-The Birds A
Japan.
.....3.30 p.m.
Direct Bervice.”
K.P.O.
ner.
Ord,
Reg.
Ord.
Champagne, Then Death
Massed Shanghai Royal Marines (of Shanghai
Portsmouth Command) cond by Tientaln
WHEN police examined a car Let the Bullgine Run; Sally Brown: Hanging Johnny; Whisky Johnny, at Kilkhampton, near Bude, in John Goss (Baritone) and the Cathe Australia and Manlia which a man and a woman were dral Male Volce Quarlet with Plano. Calcutta and Straite
8.45 StudioThin Toast". Series Manila found dead, they discovered an en Naval Occasions No, 1: Reserve Shanghal empty champagne bottle near Flect. the driver's seat.
A brother-in-law sald Green lett Salte for Small Orchestra Brussels Air Mail for "Imperial Airways- home on March 13, leaving a nolej Royal Conservatoire Orchestra con- for his wife stating that he was going ducted by Desire Detsuw.. away with Miss Elliott.
10.30 Dance Musle-Sing Sing, 11.00 Close Down,
Money for Wife Sergeant Avent said that - în `the MALTA PREPARING man's pocket he found scaled
Malta, May 27. envelope containing £8 10s, address- The Governor has ordered curfew ed to Mrs. Green. A length of hose- from 11 pan. to 5 am. as defence pipe was connected to the car's ex- measures against paruchtilists, haust pipe.
The publle, are informed that... -if The Jury's verdiet was that Green they fall to observe the curfew they and Miss Elliott took their life, such run the risk of being shot-Reuter petion being premeditated,
Bulletin.
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J. ULLMANN & CO.
May 16, 5 pan. May 28, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
May ta, B.p.m. May 28, 7 p.m.
Air Mail for Malaya, Jaya and Aus-
tralia by "Imperial Always Direct Service.
Reg.
Ord.
neg.
Ord.
K.F.O.
May 28, 5.p.1.
Mar 28, 6.30 pm...
G.P.O.
„May-28, -5, p.m.
May 28, 7 p.m. Air-Mall for Mania, Guam, Honolulu: and U.S.A., by the "Pan American. Airways Direct Service,"
K.P.O.
RCA.
May 28, 6 p.m.
Ord
G.P.O.
Rez.
Day 28, 5 p.m.
Ord..
Saigon
Shanghai
.Day 28, 7 p.m. .7.00 p.m. p.m.
Wednesday, May 20
Saigon, Ceylon, Indie, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Suez and London via Long-Sca-Route. G. P. O. and Eг.O.
Parcels
Reg.
Ord.
.Da.m. .11.15 a.m. .Noon. Manila, Australia and New Zealand-
-via Thursday Island
K.P.O.
Reg.
Ord.
.5 p.m. ,5.30 p.m...
G.P.O.
Rett.
.5 p.m.
Ord.
Straits and Coleutta,
Parcels
Letters
Fort Buyard and Holhow
Shanghai and Japan Formosa
..7 p.m.
10.30 a.m.
11.80 a.m.
..Noon.
.Noon.
.6 p.m.
Ale Mail for Indo-Chins, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern · Pro- vinces only) by the "Ale France- Airways Direct Service",
Amoy
K. P. O.
May 10, 5.60 p...
May 10, 5.30 p.m..
May 29, 5.00 pm. .BIMY 10, 7.00 pm....
.....7 p.m.
Reg., Ord.,
G. P. O.
Reg.,
Ord..
Thursday, May 30
Canton
.7.15 am.
Sandakan
0,30 ам.
Swatow and Shanghal
..1.60 p.m.
Baiphong:
Japan
Parcels only for Tientsin.
.2.30 p.m.
Amoy
Straits
Friday, May 1
Dairen
Manlin
Japan
Salgon
...3 p.m.. .2.30 p.m..
.7.p.m.
p.m.
.8.30 a.m. .0.30 a.m.
Manila, Rabaul, Australia and
Zealand vin Brisbane
2.30 p.m.
7 p.m.
New
GP.0. & LP.0. /
Parcels,
..May 31, 5.00 pm.
Re
June 1, 8.45 am..
Ord.,
Saturday, June T
„June 1, 0.30 a.m.
Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-
-tain
.9.30 a.m. Shanghai
.Noon.
Air Mafl for "Imperial Airways
Direct Service,"
Reg
Ordis
Shanghai
G.P.0, & K.P,0.
Julai, Junais, ip.m. ..June 1, 5.30 p.m. Bunday, June 1
Monday, June 3
Porcels only for Canton
a.m.
70.m.
Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.
Central and South America and Canada via, San
Parcels for Can.
Parcels
Rog
Ord
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June 1.45 m. June 4, 10.30 am.