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Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition
NOTICE IS HEREBY
ALSO
left no doubt of Britain's determina- on to carry on until freedom was
won.
The New York Times said--"Lord Inlifas rejected Hitler's appeal to renson' bertuse it came with no sug- gestion that peace must be based on GIVEN that the REGISTER of justice. The Important thing to-day MEMBERS of the Company will be is that the courage of the British closed from WEDNESDAY, 31st Empire in unbroken, its spirit strong, JULY, to
its head high. WEDNESDAY, 14th
This is an important thing because will power AUGUST, 1910, both days inclu-kind will prove a terrible weapon in of this the great battle soon to begin.
Hitler
does not understand the British people, but he is a good enough lacución to
know that he faces a formidable foe, when, in an heur like this, the British Foreign Secretory can quietly make asser- Lions such as Halifax made yester- day."
nive.
..
By Order of the Board.
W. T. SIMMONS,
Secretary, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1940.
IMMEDIATE DISPOSAL
-SACRIFICE
The speech is warmly commended throughout New Zealand. The gen-
eral feeling is well summed up by the Wellington Evening Post, which
be to collaborate in the declarations of the rest of the
Untacte bellenland's answer will
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Lord Halifax because. It carries For the best and second-best entries Radio, 1940-Refrigerator, 1040 true Christians who abhor war in
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SECTION ONE
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CHILDREN
General Pictorial: Land and Seacaper: FOR THE PROTECTION OF
Architecture: Street Scenes, etc. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
SECTION TWO
Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human
Studica.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.
SECTION, THREE Still Life and Table Top Studice. Ist. 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 n declaration to this effect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraphi or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographle Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition;
1 The Competition is confined ex- clusively 10 amateur photo- Kraphers,
-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographie trade is pernilted to compote. 3.The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphi in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must be posted on back of entry.
the right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
B-All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Pholographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible -No responsity will accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.
All entries to be either black, sepla, or toned pletures, and must be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible, B-Pctures submitted in sepia tonos loud bo accompanied by smaller print in black and white. Q-No plolure to entered in more
than one Section.
10-fonts to be only while or creat, must be of one of the following
ize: 10x12, 16x20,
11--No correspondence will be entered
into in connection with the Com petition.
Hongkong
13-Menbers of the Staffe of the Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
13-o dectaton of the Judges shall
be final.
14At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven
jays.
What to do to help a child
now
Administration circles, who do not believe that the conditions existing in the world would facilitate npeace satisfactory to the Demo- craetes,
Informed circles are keenly In- terested in Lord Halifax's repeated references to the United States attitude towards Germany which Anyone knowing of a child who were interpreted as signifying Bri- has been assaulted, neglected, ortain's great dependence on United 11-treated in manner likely to States moral sympathy and support cause unnecessary suffering or injury
Lord Halifax's reference to more
A
H.K. Stock Market
were
The following quotations Issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar kot this morning,
1
BANKS
....1,180 b. 200 11. 2..08 n.
H.K. Bank $..... II.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) I.K. Banks (II.K. Reg.) Chartered £,
Mercanule, A. & B. £. Mercantile, C. E Eust Asta 5.
INSURANCES
Canton $. Union $. China Underwriters $. H.K. Firo $..
SHIPPING
Douglases $. Steamboats $. Indo-Chinas P.
Indo-Chinas D.$. Shell (Bearers) s/- Waterboats $ x...
DOCKS ETC. Wherves $...... Docks (old) $
S. Decks (new) $ Providents $.. Sli. Docks Sh. $...
Kailan s/. Raubs $. H.K. Mines
Hotels Lands $.
MINING
LANDS
Lands 45% Debentures S'hal Lands Sh. $.. Humphreys .
H.K. Realtics S.. Chinese Estates S.
UTILITIES Trams $. Peak Troms (old) $. Peak Trams (new)
Y. Ferries $.
-.03 n.
.20% 1.
.114 D.
.73 n.
.218, .340 b.
100)
.60 cls, .
.120 n.
11 n.
100 n.
.00 n.
32/0 n.
0.00 5.
.10 s. .15.60 b. 1.15 b.
.3.10 b.
.23 л.
10/ n. ...0.55 n.
. cls. .
.3 70 s.j
QUSTED-Arthur Dietrich,
pross attache of German Lo- gation in Mexico City, brother of 1-litler's press chief, ousted by Moxicans.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal .32 su.Summary issued yesterday says: .100 n.
Spent Leave Saving Lives At Dunkirk
Young Man's Devotion To Duty
LONDON, July 28 (Reutor),
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post.to all countries Is suspended.
OUTWARD MAIL, TIMES Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below, unless otherwise ed to close at ur before 9 nin. regis stated, and where malls are advertis- Stories, about Dunkirk con- fered and parcel malls are closed nt tinue to come to light. The malls are advertised to close after pin, on the previous day. When latest concerns a 19-year-old lad, 5 p.m., Registered and Parcel malls who at one time was a salesman are closed at 5 pm. nt Covent Garden and who volunteered for service with a trawler.
He went on leave just before the evacuation of the B.E.F. When he re- turned the Officer Commanding the Shanghai and Amoy trawler asked him where he spent
Haiphong and Hollow London and Straflá Saigon...
INWARD Australia and Manila Canton Haiphony:
Canton
MAILS
.July 24. July 24. July 24..
.July 24,
July 25.
his leave. "Dunkirk," he replied,
Could Not Bo Put Off
It
transpired that he reported at Sandakan Chatham in uniform and asked to be Air ail by "Imperial Alewass allowed to join in the task of gelling the B.E.F. away. He was told that Bangkok since he was on leave he could not be Haiphong, Halhow and Fort Bayard
July July 25. July 26. July 25.
Servico"
„July 25.
July 20.
given another job,
July-20.
Undaunted, he returned home, got Japan
into civilian clothes, pleked up an Manila identification card and volunteered Shanghai.
July 20.
July 20.
again. He became part of the crew U.S.A., and Manila (San Francisco of a small motor boat that made three trips to Dunkirk.
July 20.
date, 1st July) Canton
*July 28.
When his leave wan
July 27
July, 28.
July 25
July
27.
July 28. .July 28.
by "Imperial Airways -
July 20.
Japan, Shanghal and Formosa
July 29,
Francisco
date, 23rd July
..July 30,
Calcutta and Straits
..July 30.
Japan
..July 30.
Japan and Shanghai
..July 30.
Java and Manila
July 30,
July 30.
Market continues steady and with turned to the trawler, 9.00 na continuation of enquiries but there
over, he re- Japan and Shonghaf
Shanghai Japan and Muniin
a. is still a pronounced dearth of scrip. Internment
.315 m.
Union Insurances $340
10114 n.
Впуста
.16% b.)
Docks (Old) $15.50
7.40 n.
Ducks (New) $15
3.70 1.
Providents $3.75
Star Ferries $..
.60 n.
Lands $31.50
.21 57.
Trams $15.40
China Lights (old) $.
Chian Lights (Old) $0.40
.3 b.
Electrics (Old) $30.00
.37 Si
Cements $1425
.35% 55, 17 m. ....16 n.
Watsons $8.40
Sellers
.114.
2214,
.8.30 b.
China Lights (new) H.K. Electrics (old) HK. Electrics (new) $.. Macao Electrics (old) $. Macao Electrics (new) Sandakan Lights $ Telephones (old) Telephones (new) S.
INDUSTRIALS Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. $..14.00 n Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $...12 n. Canton Ices $.. Cements $.
H.K. Ropes $.
STORES, &c. Dairy Farms $.. Watsons $.
. Lane Crawfords $.
Sinceres $...... Wing On (ILIC.)
1 n.
.142 b. .4% n
.18.15 3. ..8.60 so.
.7.45 n. 2.50 n. .30 al.
Powell Ltd. $
n.
the in the
COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $.. S'haf Cotton Sh. $. MISC. H.K. Govt. 4% Loan
.34% 7. .180 b.
102 n.
to health, or knowing of a parent than one nation beyond the scan who who is seeking advice any maiter opposed Hitler's philosophy is seen concerning a child, would be doing an attempt to encompass an act of kindness by communicating entire Western Hemisphere
at once with-
The
Hon. General H.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
Secretary,
The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, lat floor,
The Inspector, 82 Stone Nullah Lane, 2nd, Floor.
The Inspector, 12, Sal Young Chof St., Kowloon.
anti-Nazi campaign.-United Press.
Axis Powers Reaction
Berlin, July 23. An authorised quarter to-day de- for the Germans clared that the Halifax speech was Д Anal negative said not on behalf of the British answer to Hitler's offer as he had
The Inspector, 52, Argyle St., Government.
Kowloon,
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society,
The Juformont's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved.
MILITARY ACTIVITY Russian Troops Busy On Big Diomede Island
Is
To this there is only one answer and it is not with words," it suld. "From
the German side there nothing more to discuss. The die is cast."
Other quarters take particular exception to the religious tone of the speech and say that his descrip- tion of the Nazis as unti-Christ is hypocritical plety.
hands but behind him stolks
"He walks with a bible in hls the Devil," they declare.
cwn
Romu press-attacks--Lord- Seattle, July 23.
Halifax, especially his references to Officers of the coastguard cutier peace with Justice which, several Perseus said to-day that residents on papers assert, is Mussolini's the American-owned Little Diomede formula for settling European prob- Island, in Bering Strait, had reported lems. They affirm that no such sighting on the nearby Russian- peace with justice plan has ever owned Big Diomede Island consider-en drawn up by England.-United able activity, seemingly of a military Press.
nature. The residents
said that a
detachment of Soviet troops. was at present constructing a large plane KENYA COFFEE CONTROL hangar,
Nairobi, July 23,
They had also sighted a number of submarines at the Russian island. control
The Government has taken over United Press:
of the coffee Industry.- Reuter.
H.K. Banka $1,200 Hotels $3.75
Telephones (Old) $22.50
Sales
Yaumati Ferries $21 Electrics (Old) $37 Electrics (New). $35.50 Telephones (Old) $22.25 Dairy Farms $10.15 Watsons $8.60
Mistakes
Sir John Anderson's Admission
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).
Shanghal and Amoy
Mall
Servico"
Air Mall by "Pan American Airways
Direct
Servico-San
OUTWARD MAILS Wednesday, July 24
.....1.30 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
.7.00 jim.
-In the House of Commons to Rabaul and Manila day, the Home Secretary, Slr John Anderson, admitted that "cases of mistakes were made in Straits and Rangoon interpreting internment instrue-Fort Bayard tions."
Shanghai Sir John added that it was
Manila and Batavia.... that a further examination would be
Thursday, July 25 likely to disclose in a cases circumstances justifying the re- Sandakan
number of Shanghai and Parcels only for Tient- lease of individuals interned.
Shanghai Swalow and Parcels only for Tien-
tain
clear
Early Rectification Any mistakes must
be rectifled
Bin
.2.30 a.m.
.12.30 p.m.
Noon.
Friday, July 20
1 p.m.. 7.00 p.m.
8.30 in.
10.00 am.
who Fort Bayard, Holhow and Hatphong.
H.K. Govt. 3% Loan .....95 m. with the least possible delay. Con-Amoy H.K. Govt. 314% (1940)....95 nsideration must also be given to en- Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G$8ds, 40% n.larging the categories of exemption Shanghai H. K. Entertainments $....0.00 n. to include particularly those Constructions (old) $14 could render services of special value Constructions (new) $.. ..1n.
or make a significant contribution to Straits and Calcutta Vibro Piling $..
8 n. the war effort. Maramans Inv. (Lon.) s/1 0/1 0. Marsmans Inv. (H.K.) /- ..4/-a small advisory commitee to assist ITc announced the appointment of him in this matter.
THE PRICELESS EXPERIENCE GAINED BY GOODYEAR IN BUILDING MILLIONS MORE TYRES THAN ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER IS WHAT KEEPS GOODYEAR QUALITY ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. RIGHT NOW, GOODYEAR SCIENTISTS ARE AT WORK IN- THE WORLD'S FINEST RUBBER RESEARCH LABORATORIES DEVELOPING THE TYRES YOU WANT TODAY- THE STILL BETTER TYRES YOU'LL NEED IN THE FUTURE.
Manila, Australia and New Zealand Parcels, ...July 26, 10.30 am. Letters, ...July 20, 11.30 am. via Thursday Island.
G. P. O, and K. P. 9. Reg.
July 20, 2.40 p.m. Ord....July 20, 3.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, and United Kingdom
K.P.O.
Parcels Reg.
.3.00 p.m.
.5.00. p.m.
Ord.
.5.30 p.m.
G.P.0.
Parcels
.3.00 p.m.
Reg. Ord.
.5.00 pm. ...7.00 p.m.
USA, C. and S; America, Canada and United Kingdom via San Francisco (No Parcels for Canada).
G. P. O. and K. P. O. Parcela.......July 26, 5 p.m.. Reg, "July 27, D.45 am. Ord.,.July 27, 10.30 am.
Saturday, July 27
p.m.
p.m.
Shanghol Haiphong Stralts, Rangoon and Calcutta
3.30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways- Service" to Durban and thence by Bea Service to United-Kingdom, G.P.O. & K.P.O. Reg. July 27, 5 pm. Ord...July 27, 5.30 p.m. Manila, Australia and New Zealand
via Thursday Island
G.P.O, and K.P.O. Parcels......July 21.5 p.m. ..July 27, 5 p.m. July 27, 5.30 p.m. ...6.30 p.m.
Reg.
Ord.
Canton
Monday, July 29
Amoy and Shanghal. Haiphong
8.30 am,
Noon,
Straits, Ceylon, India, E. and South Africa, Lisbon and United-King- doin,
Canton
G. P. O. and K, P. Ó.
Reg
Ord..
"
July 20, 2.46 p.m. .July 20, 3.30 p.m. ... 7. p.m.
Tuesday, July 30 Manila, Molassar-and-Sourabaya
8.30 am. Shanghai
12.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, Indin, Mombasa, Belra, Lourenço Marques, and South Africa via Durbon.2.30 p.m. Air Mail for Manila, Guaut, Honolulu, U.S.A.. and Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans- Atlantic Services."--"
K.P.0.
Пет Orl.
July 30, 6 p.ni. July 30, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg. Ord.
July 30, 5 p.m. July 30, 7 v.m..
tralia by the. Bervice."
KP.0.
Iteg.
July 80, 5
Ord.
Ord.
July 30, 5.30 p.m. Gro
July 10. 5 pm. July, 39, 7 p.m.
Thursday, August 1
Shangliat
1 pm, Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New 2.3.30 pm. Zenland via Brisbane,
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...Aug. 1.5 p.m.
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.Aug. 2, 8.45 a.m.
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