DONALD DUCK
TERMITES! DOGGONE WOOD-
EATERS RUININ THE ONLY GOOD TREE I'VE GOT!
THERE! BY MORNING THEY'LL BE GONE!
*Cope, 1840, Wali Daney Produzion
World Rishta Kemend
Admiralty Census Of
Motor-Boats
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
June 20, 1940.
By Walt Disney
DEATH BY SHOOTING OR HANGING WILL BE THE PENALTY FOR SABOTAGE OR SPYING
HUNDREDS of yacht owners are affected by a Seven
new Admiralty Order which compels all who own self- propelled pleasure craft (including motor-boats) between | 30 and 100ft. in length to register them with the Director,
Small Vessels Pool, Admiralty, immediately.
purposes.
Years' Effort Is
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If War Impeded
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50 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1800, The tremendous rains which have pre* valled during the lastparatively intte fortunately, done
damage. A portion of a bank near tṣa; Naval Hospital gave way last night, als though it had only been put up after the
has been overset by the gusts accompany- ing the squalis, but no"lives have" beën) lost.
THE death penalty-either by shooting or hanging-is to be imposed in grave Hoods in May last year. A junk or twe
The intention is to secure records which will give the cases of spying and sabotage. Admiralty a sound estimate of the number of small craft which would be available in case of emergency.
This was announced by Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary, in the Commons: A Limit to Fishing
received recently when he gave details of new regulations under the Emergency Powers Act. Ficy fishermen tiave notice of a new Admiralty navigation People who systematically publish matter likely to foment opposition to the successful pro- order which states that permits are secution of the war will be liable, after a formal warning, to a sentence of seven years' penal necessary for all plenstre bouts are vitude or a fine of £600, or both. that ro bost will be allowed to take visitors fishing inore than 1 miles
It will also give them a useful record of the small boats which might be used for unauthorised | from the shore,
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
SECTION ONE
$250
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 Each will be required to make a declaration to this effect. 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.
Anyone possessing such materiai} after having been warned is Hable to two years' imprisonment or a fine of♬ up to £500.
Powers are given for the closing: of printing pressed concerned and pnother
regulation makes It AS
offence to endeavour to incite men liable to military service to evade their duties.
Asked if he had borne in mind ex- periences endured by other countries us a result of enemy action within, Sir John said: "White I should be sorry to think circumstances in this country were exactly comparable
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TWO men who loved the same woman, wife of one
with circumstances elsewhere, the of them, and remained good friends, committed suicide Government had in mind in framing
these regulations, dangers to which together.
it might be exposed."
Every effort had been made to
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25 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1010. A Paris communique says that there has been great activity during the last two days. The fighting north of Arras has been extremely intense since yester- day. There have been numerous des- perate Infantry neilons and the stilllery duel has been violent and continuous.
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CURRENT · ACCOUNTS operea soa FIXED DEPOSITS received for One YeRT or aborter periods in Local or Other Cur rencies at rátes which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with Interest allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trustee business, and claims recovery of British Income We stormed the enemy's trenches caal, north and south of Neuville with the Tax overpaid, on terms which may be bayonet ant grenades, under violent, ascertained at any of its Agencies and artillery fire bombardment. Nearly 300,000 Uranches.
shells covered our vigorous infantry at-
tack.
Eleven German Divisions were engaged. and they lost very heavily. Our losses,
Letters they left behind disclosed this at the inquestroops remains perfect compare this
define the purposes of the Regula at Gravesend. "We three cannot live without each tions in as precise terms as possible. other," wrote one of them. The woman is now in a
There was no question of them at- tempting to punish people honestly expressing minority opinion,
When Death Will
Bo the Penalty
The Bill providing for the death penulty was introduced, and, in #written statement, giving more details about this and the new re gulation, Sir John said:
"A person may be sentenced to death if, with intent to help the enemy, he does, or attempts, or con- spires with any other person to do, may act which is designed or likely to give assistance to the naval, militaryį or nir operations of the enemy, or tol Impede sirch operations of his Majesty's forces, or to endanger Ilfc. "I' "praitically every case trei-
chery of this kind would constitute an offence under the existing law of
treason, but it has been thought ad- visable to make these treacherous
activities separately punishable un- only for the duration of the war.
der an emergency measure. valid
Colonel From The
Tower
On Trial
LIEUTENANT- COLONEL H. F. L. WIL- LIAMS, M.C., of-a-search- light regiment (T.A.), was brought before a Chelsen court-martial recently.
¡mental hospital.
were serious, but the morale of our: 13MMER
Into the Battle of Paris-Ed.).
strength with the 150 Divisions thrown
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nationat haterd or the cold blooded
A hundred years ago yesterday came the closing passage in a war that hadi lasted, on and off. for two and twenty) A verdict of "Suicide while of measure out of the horrors of the first years. Yet, though it arose in great unsound mind" was recorded on French Revolution, we cannot Rather from contemporary writers that it was. Donald Gray (36) and Cyril marked by anything like the Inter- Arthur Collard (25), both de slaughter and tyranny of the present war. corators, who were found gassed
10 YEARS AGO in the kitchen of Gray's home; in Lamorna Avenue, Gravesend.
June 20, 1030. Despite strong Unoffelal protests, the Gray was married, with one child. Legislative Counell yesterday afternoon. Collard, who lived in Maydeld Road, after a three hours' debate, approved the Northflect,
was single. They had the extent of excluding the HCL. allow. Salaries Commission Report, modiñed to been friends for about a year. Col- once and the rent allowance for dollar lard often spent week-ends at Gray's salaried meers of less than ten years' home.
servies. All the Unamictals excepting the Hon. Mr. Paul Lauder and the ion, Sir! Shausen Chow, who wore members of the Commission and did not vole, voted against the Government.
Gray's wife, It was stated, has been in a mental hospital for about three months.
"Stranger Than Life"
duct to the prejudice of good ather."
three cannot ilve without
each
Collard wrote: "I would rather
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5 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1933. necessity of Anglo-Japanese friendship While Sir Samuel Hoare, Britain's new Foreign Minister, was emphasising the; and understanding to preserve the peace of Asia, the London Times" was pre- paring to Jasua one of the most scathing: comments upon Joey in China į yet seen in the
press. It come The charges alleged that he had Frederick Carter, Gray's brother-as an echo of Sir Samuel's pacine utter- been on terms of undue familiarity in-law, said that Gray told him that in the House of Commons yesterday ro- ence and to the milk-and-water speeches with Sergeant E. Nicholson, serving Collard was
fond of his peeting the North China #Ruation, In his unit, and that he had allowed (Gray's)
"This will obvinte the necessity of order and military discipline, complying with all the special forms and that he had behaved "in a have died for good old England, but and dignities of a treason trial, and scandalous manner unbecoming it cannot be. will also provide that the sentence{
Life is strange, but
that three people should love each other so much."
of death may in certain circum- the character of an officer and this is almost stranger than life stances be carried out by altooting gentleman."
Instead by hanging.
Honest Opinion
Will Be Safe
very
"The Government are anxious to him to share his room as a sitting friends., but they were still
can
In
avoid any unnecessary interference room. with our traditional liberties, butj
evidence they feel that a distinction
and
Colonel Williams Inust now
the stated he had been under close arrest be drawn between the for five weeks, most of the time in mere expression of honest opinion on the Tower of London. the one hand, and on the other, the Geliberate und systematie advocacy
of defeatist or noti-war polleles with national resolu-
Had Brought Up Boy
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th.. $12.50. intent to weaken the air to a nuc- Colonel Williams had brought up
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition.
1-The Competition is confined ex-
clusively
photo- aisateur graphers.
to
R-No employee or member of any firm in the photographie trade la permitted to compete. 3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending In what are adjudged to be the best photo- Ench graphs in each Section, entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com petition.
must bo and which Basted on back of entry, -The right to pubilah any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
- photographs entered
must
have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong, Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible 6-No responsibility will be accepted
for non-delivery of loss of, or damage 10 entries.
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
-All entries to be either black, Repla, or loned pictures, and must La mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. --Pictures submitted in sepia toner should be accompanied by m maller print in blick and white. 9. Na pleture to entered in more
than and Section. 10.-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following nizes:-10×12. 10×29.
11- No corespondence will be entered Into in conaretion with the Com- petition,
12-Memberi of the Staffe of the
Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
13. The decision of the Judges shall
be fanl
14-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven days.
ENTRY FORM
Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry in-
Sections 172 and
"As a result of the latest episode in Sino-Japanese relations," says the "Times". "the power of China has sustained ans other cruel blow. Although the apontac miliarista acted contrary to the wishes of the Foreign Office it is only too cer tain that Japanera "Government leaders will not disdain the fruits of the soldiers' incursions in diplomacy."
LETTERS
Collard often stayed at Gray's home.
Collard's father said that Collard id him that Mrs. Gray was madly in love with him and he thought a lot of her.
This is un extraordinary cose, but the letters clearly show that both The Government and people of Abys- men loved the same woman," gaidania are convinced that war is inevitable Major H. Halse, prosecuting, sald the coroner (Mr. G. E. Penman).
within four months, un to prosecute the cessful conclusion."
and educated two boys, one of whom Regarding
the Regulation concern- was Nicholson. Since the war the ing the incitement of men liable to colonel and Nicholson had dined to- mulitary servler, Sir John said: "gether, as they had done before the will be, no oilence merely to state war, and had also been on shorti the statutory rights of mun llable to holidays, The colonel called Nichol-i military service to claim exemption son "Erle" or "Nick". on conscientious grounds, nor will
Major D. G. Gibson, of the Search-i the Regulation prevent the giving of guidance to a young man who is light Regiment, sald Colonel Wil- troubled in conscience and seeks Hams' attitude when on parade was quite different from that when off advice from a priest or a friend."
Mr. David K. Burdett, a Queen's support any suggestion of a war the parade. The colonel acted with the College, Oxford, undergraduate, has lottery as I do feel that it would The Regulations also give Government power to Intem non- strictest propriety and the relation- found a new way of declaring his touch a far greater number of people enemy aliens who would ordinarily ship between the two was what he love for a barmald be deported and provision is made would have expected to and between hotel. for the control of persons repatriated an uncle and nephew, or father and no indication of from enemy territory who, though son. There was
favouritisin. technically British subjects, have no close association with British Interest.
Dogs To Go
On Rations
Why Wooderson Left A.F.S.
His Love For Barmaid Went By The Board
at
War Lottery
To The Editor.
The "Hongkong Telegraph." Sir-Without delving into the ethics:
of gambling I should like to strongly
Oxford than have already contributed to your
excellent War Fund.
It may be that valuable gifts In With two men carrying sandwich the way of jewellery be given to boards on which appeared "——
Fund and a lottery would sure- your unfair to David" and "Do not bely be on excellent way of realising -'s dupe," he paraded down the
such High one afternoon.
gifis.
If Government fool that one lottery He wore evening dress with is going to lead to a multitude of other black velvet smoking Jacket. His lotteries they could easily avoid this buttonhole consisted of an orchid, aby legalizing one Government con- lily and a white harebell.
trolled lottery strictly for the War Soon, to be in the R.A.F., having
Fund. Watched by an amused crowd ho
With regard to the morality issue- registered with his age group, Sydney stopped outside the hotni and recited
I would only repeat what I was Wooderson, holder of the world's a love poem he had written for the privileged to suggest in the Press last DOGS are to have special running record for a mile, tells why occasion. There was no response. November when advocating that
he resigned. "on the spot" froin the At the suggestion of his friends he
Government Fon ง lottery and Auxiliary Fire Service.
tried singing the poem. Swi
no donated all the proceeds the Im response.
perial War Chest.
"Surely it could not be classed as a terrible sin it the proceeds of such a lottery were used to help our fellow men."
E. M. S.
war-time biscuits.
to adopted
Manufacturers are now con-
Wooderson says he wad sidering the production of a type
ropri- that will not infringe regula manded twice for the procedure ha obtain time off for tions, flour and wheat sub-athletle training, although he had stances having been barred by first asked the correct procedure and a Ministry of Food order
had only neted on.
For just a moment the girl was seen peeping from a window, but cho quickly disappeared.
Sadly, Mr. Burdett re-formed his litla, procesalon and retired.
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