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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 11, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
AUNT FRITZI'S BEEN MAD AT
ME ALL DAY ---
EVERYTHING I DO LATELY SEEMS
TO BE WRONG!
HO HUM... GUESS I'LL GO UP TO BED SOON!
One Time Ogpu Chief Found Dead In U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter), General Krivitsky.
stated to have once been Sceret Police Chief in Soviet Russia, has been found shot dead, according to Louis Waldman, an nitorney.
The General is said te have been going under the name of Samuc! Ginsberg. Waldman said that he obtained the in- formation from detectives, who told him that Krivitsky shot himself, but the attorney did not believe this.
Krivilsky, he said, had been en- operating with the United States Federation Investigation Bureau. He came to the United States several years ago and later visited England, but returned to
to America last
Octuber.
Krivitsky gave evidence on October 19, 1038, before the Congressional Committee on un-American activities. He said that he broke with Stahn because he refused to take an active- part in the purge of the Communkat Party in 1930 and 1937.
CHINA FIGHTING
REPORTS.
oul
SHIUHING, Feb. 10 (Central News). Fighting has broken again on the Chungshan-Sunwu border regions.
About 1,000 Japanese and puppet
made troops from Chungshan forced landing at Tuchkong. Nammo and other points under protective aerial and naval bombardment on encountered stub- January 6. They
born Chinese resistance and with- drew towards night.
Exchange At A Glance
SELLING
T.T. London
Demand London T. T. Shanghai
T.T. Japan 'T.T. Indizt
USA Manta
1/27
1/21M
430
.1021
8215
4714
444
T.T. Bangkok
.1491⁄2
T.T. Salgor
:102%
Next.
.10014
1/8
T.T. Batavia
TT. France
T.T. Switzerlatul
T.T. Australiu
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
4 m/s.D/P London
4 m/s L/C USA.
4 m/s France
30 / India
1/3%
1/3
241% Nom. .BAY
US, Cross rate in London 4.0214 US. Cross rate in NY....4.03
STOCK EXCHANGE STRENGTH OF
EDGED HOLDINGS
GILT
SANTA- PLEASE WIPE YOUR FEET BECAUSE I GET BLAMED
FOR EVERYTHING AROUND HERE
Maney
-TANIE
CAR THAT STARTED RAFFLE
Lady Howard Of Effingham
Reported Detained Under Defence Regulations
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH“ LONDON. Feb. 10 (UP). The "Press Association" fearns that Lady Howard of Effingham is be.ng de tained under the defence regulations. Lady Howard is a Hungarian, the daughter of a
of a Budapest business man who bequired British nationality by her marriage to Lord Howard.
Hier maiden name was Maria Mat-
The following morning they rade
LONDON, Feb. 10 (Router)—On an attack at Pakao, and
Wour the Stock Exchange to-day, general youngshan in the district of Chung- strength of gill-edged holdings and or sham, but met with equally at India irredeemable stocks in connee vin Gertier and she was married in resistance and suffered heavy causal- les. Falling to make any bendway, tion with the mobilisation of Indin-1038 they sent a column in the afternoon dated issues, provided the main fen- to rtlack Wangshan in the Sunwure in the markets.. district.
Federal Debt
Treachery Act, Appeal LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter)-Mrs Elsewhere everything was quiet: Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, who was the early buoyancy
following Mr, previously sentenced to death on Churchill's broadcast mostly was not charges under the Treachery Art, to fully maintained owing to the quiet-day heard Lord Caldecote in the Court of Appeal announce that con- ness of trading.
viction quashed.
Probably Messrs Gilman & Co., Ltd., did not fully realise what they started when they gave this beautiful Sunbeam- Talbot Car to be raffled on behalf of the War Füd inaugurated by the "S. C. M. Post" and "The Hongkong Telegraph." A re- cord number of additional prizes have been donated, the total value being approximately $40,000.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
sixth
A total of $1,578,880,43 and £3.12.9 was renched yesterday by the War Fund inaugurated by the S.C. M. Fort, Lid. with the following donation: Patice Recreation Club Mtingsang Strappel Box (fourth
donation, CN$140, 5L & TIC stance of Donnid Forbes Pre- Hentation
Rektene Liars (seventh
(Sun) Box (wrek Treasury "Shrapnel Box"
det 8.2.41)
Mr D. SClaichte (inshihiy
donation) Harbour Ofee Nickeln and Dunes
weekly donation) .....
Pay
Mr W.. Ahern, Vohnteer Camp
then in Haiphong
$ 55
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Africa War Fronts
British Surprise ·
ĈAIRO, Feb. 10 (Reuter), ~The British occupation of Mersa Teclat and Kurora in Eritrea is announced 1.30 | in a Middle East G.H.Q, communique. Meanwhile pressure on the enemy 30
position about Keren is being con- | 4,71 tinued.
"South African troops have advanced 50 miles inside Italian ter- ritory in southern Abyssinta in the Hobuk area.
The communique adds that the
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15 12.04
Correction Yesterday we aektuwledged from 7. This should have read,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter).] -The Federal debt mit was in-
Her life is epared but on other Mrs Spendhery in memory of the late and Industrials were narrowly irre- crensed to $65,000,000,000 Federal Tax exemptions were regular, home rails attracted small buy-charges, sentence of 14 years' penals. May I Didden and moved from future issues of Federal ng while among foreign bonds, Bel-servitude was imposel.
Both the trial at Winchester and family to memory of the late Mit G. T.
May and the late Mrs Spradbery
THE BW.o.i. Government obligations by a vote of glan and Japanese issues Improved.
the appent were held "in camera."
Folting are subscriptions received to the House of Representatives-to-day.
dale for Ciedit of the British-War-Or ganitation Fund, Hongkong Branch:
These men are
making their
contribution!
Won't you
make yours?
(A.S.T.)
Please send your donation
to
WAR FUND:
S. C. M POST; LTD.
Collected to date $1,576,886.49 and £5.12.98.
Remitted to London £96,389.19.6d.
(Readers are invited to send suggested text for this appeal)
Wall Street was firm.
$132,270.10.
Portuguese
ot Staff
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clearing up of areas up to El Aghein in Libya is proceeding satisfactorily and that intensive patrol activity in Italian Somaliland continues,
New Location. Taclai in Eritrea, which has been
LONDON, Feb. (Reuter)-Mersa occupied by the British, is a village the Sudan-Eritrea border. on the Red Sea coast forty miles from
Karora is a small town lying inside
Previously acknowledged, 100 and Hongkong and 5. L. Howley (monthly), 82; G. 1. Shangh Bank monthly) $50; Pay Sub Cautherley (monthly). $20; L. M. Wylie Imonthly), $25; M. F. 1, Haymes (month tyl. $10 G. Lyon-Mackenzie imonthly). the Eritrean border forty miles in-
(monthly $160: Miss K. M. Anderson So: Miss J. W. Buckwell (monthly), 140:
It is pointed out in London that this Miss H. M. Bicheno (monthly), $10: M. Berata & Co. finonthly), $25; Ate and is advance into Eritrea from the north
Alabaster
monthly), 50, would. constitute a C. H.
movement E. Joffe Wakeham (monthly), $100; monthly), 310; S. A. Kent (monthly), 10, to-day's communique is the arst Mr and bira C. M. Hall (monthly 150; to make any mention of this direction.
(monthly $10: Mr FM. Anonymous
Fudney
Deacon
E. W. $35: (February), $25; Per Lady MocGregor
Percy Che
land,
new
NEW TERRITORIES HELICE The members of the Committee of the New Territories Relief Association beg 10 acknowledge the following donations and gifts during January towards maintenance of the clinics and hospitals in the New Territory villages:
$100: John Moodle hin, $10: Fung Kwing-shing. $20 Shum (February), 550; J. A. V. Stort Davis Sung-wan, $10 un On-ting. 910. Toini
monthly $10; Sale of 1 C.ILSS. Badge, $635.385.90.
Davis. $2; per Mr Lynns. $1: Arthur Anonymous, $13.50; the Staff of the Union Ltd. Insurance Society of Canton (January), $34.00; 5. E. Edgar (February), $5: Some members of the last of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. Nov/Dec. 1960, Jan. 141, $347.50; Miss Grace Ezra
Cheung Chan Elders, $140; 10 Tuen, (monthly), $15; Lt. Col. J. W. M. Stewart, D., N.C.. Cor Middlesex Regiment. $1.000; $102.30: Per Mr Leung Pun-wah (for Yan Kowloon Docks Recreation Chib for SiO Clinie), $30; Dr 1. C. Wong, 123; Per Dunstans (10th Contribution), $150: Men Mr Leung Pua-wah, $10; 'Mensra Kwong of "D" Coy at Middlesex Regt. 34 BD; Lee, $10; Mesra Kan Lal Kei, $10; Mesra A. A. of Macas, 850; E. Thornhill in Yeung Man Lee, #10: sierra Yu Wo, $10 memory of the late Mre Annie May, $3; Mezars Tal Lee, $10. Messrs Ho Kwai
$1; Count Francois D'Hardivillers, Ting, $10; Messrs Kiu Shing. #5; Fanting. $500; Some of the Chinese Giant of Holt's $5.
Mrs Rouse (Mxth gift), One parcel of Whort-January, $45.05; 3. 8. Dunnett
(monthly). 20: Yon Plug Industrial and socks for babies. Commercial Association, $23: Shum p
China Relief Fund Account.-Per Madam
Tong, 15: Ng Kim-yun, 120; Ho Chuck-Taug. $1,030 (National Currency).
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz
Investment Bankers and Brokera
Members of New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Manila Block Exchange
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
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