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THERE'S GOING TO BE AN ICE SHOW IN THE BALL
PARK TODAY!
YEAH...
I WISH WE HAD ENOUGH DOUGH TO
SEE IT!
LEAVE
IT TO
ME FOLKS!
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
WELL WE'RE ALL SET......I MADE SOME HOLES IN THE FENCE. NOW WE CAN ALL
SEE THE SHOW!
February 25, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
Censors, Secret Agents Replace Honeymooners In Sunny Bermuda CHI
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 23 (UP)—A staff of some 800 British army and government authorities is stationed on this island as a final check against spying and shipments-to and from the United States which might damage the British war cause.
Honeymooners and vacationers who formerly flocked to Ber-
muda in peacetime have been replaced by censors, secret service
agents, customs officials and army authorities intent on using this Nazi Munitions
gateway to the Western Hemisphere as a marine outpost for Great Britain's war against the Axis powers.
Co-operation of the U.S. the status of persons travelling to Government, which instructed occupied France and to such count-
Train Crashes
the Pan American Airway's Belgium and Sweden. These nation-munitions train which recently tries as Holland, Denmark, Hungary, The explosion of a German Clippers and ships of American als, returning to nattens under Ger-crashed into another train on one Expert Lines to submit to man demination, constitute a cun- examination on their trips to stant-problem for the British secret of the three main lines from and from Europe,—signalised
Hungary to Rumania damaged a service by the American sailors who are able, it is known that several persons
Although no oficial data is avall large part of the town of Beret- here to establish a defence naval have been detained when they ayo Ujfalu and wrecked the base near St. George. The base tempted to through the Ber-tracks, reports Associated Press. was one of the many acquired muda control. If they are found to from Budapest. in the United States-British des- troyer trade.
However, the Job of the contra- band control and the censors la sing- gering in proportion. These officials must examine passengers, cargo and mail of every plane and ship Oat enters 'n Bermudan port.
Blockade Rulings Passengers bound for the war zone must give up any soap, matches. #ugar, coffee, silk and other can- modities declared as contraband un- der rulings of the British blockade. An Axls elllzen travelling on a special US. Government visa as
was the case of Italian officials who recently returned to their country from the World's Fair-were forced to give up all their money except bare travelling
Gold and ng expenses.
confiscated.
Jewellery also was cent
A French World's Fair official re- turning to
to his home in occupied France had some 25 pounds of choco late, sugar, coffee and a quantity of Women's Allk stockings taken from him. A French marquis, also return- ing to France, hnd to give up to the British a quantity of match folders inscribed "telp Us to Help France."
Status Of Persons Major problem of the British authorliles here is determination of
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Date
interned either in one of the islands
be cuemies of the British, they are
here er sent to a Canadian camp.
the
The town is near what used to be
Hungarian-Rumanian frontier) - before Rumania coded Transylvania to Hungary, and is about midway be- tween Pospokladany and Nagyvarad,
Confiscation Receipts Persons who have properly coins- eated here receive receipts for it in This route has been used by the case they wish to appeal to the Germans to move heavy troop rein- British contraband contral for a re-forcements through Hungary Into
n. However, such appeals will Rumania. take years in settlement and for pro- Hungarian censorship clamped perty of little value, little protest is down on further details of the ae- mate.
cident.
Bermuduns still are attempting to picture their islands as an American vacation spot despite the war. The drop in vacations revenue which on- nually runs into millions of dollars has seriously affected Bermuda econ-
any.
Man Blows Himself Up With Dynamite
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary, Issued yesterday says!
The Races were resumed to-day and as a result the market is very quiet.
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an
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Lands 1% Debentures $07,50 Lights "O" 50,10
A man committed suicide in hotel at Buffalo recently by blowing himself to pieces with dynamite.
He was William Wright, 40. Police said that Wright had been told to move from the hotel because he lind not paid his board.
He spent most of the night sitting in the lobby.
The explosion of the dynamite did not injure anyone else in the lobby. I
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CHINA RELIEF-Poster to be distributed throughout the United States by the China Emergency Relief Commit- Portrait of the Chinese baby is by James Montgomery Flagg, The Committee, headed by Pearl Buck, authoress, wants to raise $1,000,000.
HOST TO PRINCE OF WALES
American Oil Magnate Dead
MR JOSHUA COSDEN, who was the host of the Prince of
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GERMANY'S WAR ON SHIPPING
►
1917 and To-day Compared
Sume misunderstanding may have been caused by Mr Green- wood's statement in the House of Commons recently that in the matter of shipping losses the position fo-day is very much like that of April, 1917. That may have been taken to mean that Germany is succeeding in destroying merchant ships at the same rate now that she succeeded in reaching twenty-three years ago.
Such an interpretation of Mr Greenwood's words is not justi- fled, nor indeed was It Intended (writes a naval correspondent) for he went on to qualify them by saying that the position was not as bad as it might have been. The resemblanco between the conditions of 1917 and those of to-day is indeed one of kind rather than of degree.
The position in April, 1917, engaged in preparation for the Nor was not only one of great dan-weglan campaign of April. ger, but there were then no Since then, owing to the causes al-" means of reducing that danger mounted, but they have only now rendy noted, they have steadily then in sight. Admiral Sims, reached about the level to which they of the American Navy, recorded | were brought down by the end of conversation with Admiral 1917. That level, as Mr Greenwood Sir John Jellicoo, then Firat Sea but the position, as he went on to said, is for higher than it should be; Lord of the Admiralty, in which explain. is not one of imminent Jellicoe told him that he could danger,
sce no means at the moment of reducing the losses of merchant. shipping,
More Destroyers Needed There is no such glocmy outlook to- day. So far as the losses to-day are the result of U-boat attack, the high rate is due solely to shortage of anti- submarine craft for convoy escorts.
The causes of that shortage re perfectly well known-the defection of the French Navy, the oddlilon of Italy to 0111* sity
for takings, and the neces-
special measures against the danger of Invasion-and the shortage is in process of being steadily made good.
Destroyers, both from British ship- yards and from the American Navy, are steadily coming into service, and, thanks to the present efficiency of the Aɛdio and depik charge. It only needs sufficiency of destroyers to restore the mie of destruction of U-boats to what it was in the early months of the present war.
So for as losses are the result of the new methods of air attack the position is not
not quite so simple. A new technique of counter oction has to be devised to deal with the new form of attack, but that problem, it is to be hoped, is already on the way to solution. In any case, the threat to shipping is nothing like so grent as was the threat of the U- bont in 1917.*
High Seas Raider
There Is
air
NIPS PLOT-A plot to over- throw the regime of King 1bn Saud, abovo, of Saudi Arabia was reported recently with ar- rest of six persons, one of whom has been executed. They planned to kill the King.
Bomber, B.W.O.F. Funds Acknowledgments
third method of destruc--| tion in use by the enemy-the ralder on the high seas, either a disguised merchant ship or a solitary mun-of- war of more formidable strength.
The threat of the raider, however,
A total of $1,504.07600 was reached yes terday by the War Lund Inaugurated by is not on the level of
I he acts donations:
Wales during the Royal visit to the United States in 1924, has U-boat or the alrera that of the the 3. C. M. Post, Ltd, with the following
died suddenly, aged 59. He had a heart attack while travelling in a train at El Paso, Texas.
A one-time poorly-paid clerk in a Baltimore (Maryland) drug store, Mr Cosden became rich in a night in the oilfields of Okla- homu. He piled million upon million, and climbed the social ladder until he reached the portals of New York's most exclusive circles.
RADIO
ZAW, 355 metros (845 k.c.) and 31.45 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Cesar Frank's Prelude Choral and Fugue
It was while he was the Prince of Wales's host at a week-end party that a thief entered his house and stole £30.000 worth of Mra Cosden's jewels.
Jewels worth £4,000 belonging to Lady Louis Mountbatten were niso stolen.
This was the peak of both the social and financial success of Mr Cosden.
so as to do a substantial amount of destruction of shipping his career is se focated and destroyed by superior certain to be short, for he will soon be forec.
Miss Marion Potter (seventh dona-
tion) Mr D. E. Davis (In memory of
Dick Slattery)
A. & R. M. Amarin
Hongkong Aquarium Society - (in memory of the late Mr I. E. Slattery...............
Mr and Mira B. Sugars (in
$100
10
If, on the other hand, he seeks to prolong his survival by evading the
memory of the Info Mr R. E. defenders, he will do, little execu-
Slattery) tion.
Recreation Club 250 The Admiral Graf Spee pre- Hongkong Electric Recreation ferred the second alternative, with "Unexpected Wist die 68.50 the, result that her bag was no more
B W. O. F. The following are subscriptions received than nine ships In three months. to date for credit of the British War other raiders seem to have acted. Organisation Fund, Hongkong Branch: and to be acting, on the same prin- ciple; that menace should soon be well in hand.
and
$30;
acknowledged, £100 649,633,78, __Dr_ Ks. $Y.Chaun (monthly). Anonymous $3; Lam Fook-tya (monthly),
Anonymous,
John Forbes 910; Actual Figures
(monthly), 23: Mr M. M Drake Finally, a glance at the actual (monilily), $10; Davis, Brook & Gran figures of sinkings shows the matter monthly), 10 Sale of renovated toys per Messrs Millington Lio, $50; M. G. in true perspective. In April, 1917. Carruthers (monthly). $15 CALM.NS. the peak month of the last war, Ger- Meas nonthly), $10; 10 W. Hume (month- many succeeded in sinking very ly), D; Members of the Indian Coy of ***, the HK. Police Reserve (Apr/December nearly 900,000 tons of shipping, of 1940), $156.40; Tev, and Mrs T. A. Brand- From that peak the losses which some 550,000 was British, foot finecilly), 63; D. C. Edmondston
were (monthly), 1950. Total $649,305,18, brought steadily down, and by the end of 1917 they were about 400,000 month of which nearly 300,- tons per 000 were British..
It is notined for general informa- In the prezent war, losses of mer- tion that a public session of the Com- chant shipping were brought down to pulsory Scrylee Tribunal will be held a very low figure in March last, in on Friday, February 28, at 9 a.m. In
Council Two years later, in 1928, with £1, which month the whole of the Ger- the
Chamber, Colonial 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,
to friends man Navy appears have been Secretariat. Weather Forecast and Announce-080,000 that his eastern
loaned him, Mr Cosden went back to
"Game Josh" Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Fre! quency of 845 .c's. and on Short
The pendulum began swinging Wave from 1-2.15 pm, and 8-11 p.m. back. The great Cosden and Co. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.
through which "Gamo Josh," as he 12.15 p.m.
Short Service of Inter-was called, had bullt a personal for
tune valued at £10.000.000, declined. Villas on Long Island and at Palm Bench and Newport were sold, the Cosden private railroad car disposed of, and the family retired from the pubile cyc.
| cession.
12.30 Greta Keller (Vocal) and Billy Thorburn and His Music.
1.00 Local Time Signal, and Wea- ther Fleport.
1,03
iments.
Variety.
1.45 Mozart-Concerto in A Major. the oil folds for his second climb up
2.15 Cinse Down.
5.45
0.00
0.30
tions,
6.32
the financial ladder.
Twice A Millionaire Establishing headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas, he invested in oll lands, and developed them and the Cosden Oil Co., which he had formed, unil they were credited with a paper value of £3,000,000.
Indian ProvMMINE, Closing Local Stock Quota-
Compositions of Sibelius. Karelia Suite, Op. 11; Alla Marcia -Intermezzo....London Philharmo- nic Orchestra: Symphonic Porm "The Oceanides," Op. 73....The B.B.C. At least half this value had been Symphony Orchestra cond, by Adrian Boult: Slickan Kom Ifron Sin Alsk- lings Mote... Marian Anderson (Con- tralloy with Piono acc.; Finlandin Tone Poem, Op. 20, No. 7....Sir Thomas Beecham cond, the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
7.00 London Relay-The News. 7.15 London Relay Britain
Speaks.
Telk by J. B. Priestly.
7.30 Portuguese Programme. 0.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Band Warzon
Arthur Askey,
doch and Company.
Richard
acquired by Mr Cosden.
Then in March, 1950, Mr Cosden was taken !! In his more modest new home in Florian, and for weeks lay In a critical condition.
His company potentially still was elrong. Its assets exceeded its labi- lilies, but cash for current debis was
□ receiver was not at hand, and appointed.
Fletcher Pearls
Mr. Cosden devoted part of his wealth to sport. At the height of his enreer he owned a string of 92 racehorses and was sometimes refer- red to as the "Thomas Lipton of the turl.
Mrs Cosden added lustra to her social success by her acquisition of the famous Fletcher pearls, valued at £100,000,
8.25 Charlie Kans at the Plane. 8.35 Film Selections. Everybody Sing Film Selection,. Louls Levy and His Orchestra: Stars Over Broadway-Selection; Nise and Shine Selection....Sydney Kyte Edward Elgar,
and Itis Plecadilly Hotel Band; 943 Cesar-Franck-Prelude, Cho- Thanks for the Memory Two rale and Fugue,
Sleepy People: 'Big Broadcast of Alfred Cortot (Piano).
1930-New Thanks for the Memory 9.45 News In French (on Bhori
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross Wave Only). Vocal); Everything in Rhythm 10,00 London Relay-Talk: 'Boots Selection.....Louis Levy and His Abroad'. Gaumont British Symphony with Vocal,
9.00 London Relay-The News. 9.15 London Relay-Question of the Hour",
10.
9.30 Elgar-Fromsart Overture, Op.
("When Chivalry lifted up her Jance on high"-Keats)....London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Sir
10.15 Brahms Quintet la B Atiñor. Op. 115,
1st Mov: Allegro; 2nd Mov: Adagio; 3rd Mov: Andantino-Presto non azñal, ma con sentimento; 4th Mov: Con [moto—Un poco meno mosso........Busch Quartet and Reginald Koll (Clarinet).
10.50 Brahms Gypsy Songs, The Madrigal Singers. 11.00 Close Down.
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