Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
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!
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WELL WE'RE ALL SET--- 1. MADE SOME HOLES IN THE FENCE. NOW WE CAN ALL
SEE THE SHOW!
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Censors, Secret Agents Replace Honeymooners In Sunny Bermuda
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Honeymooners and vacationers who formerly flocked to Ber- muda in peacetime have been replaced by censors, secret service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
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 norepled France and to such coun- tries as Holland, Denmark, Hungary, the Pan American Airway's Delitan and Sweden. These nation- Clippers and ships of American als, returning to nations under Ger Export Lines to submit to man domination, constitute a coa- examination on their trips to stunt-problem. for the British secret and from Europe,signalised service. by the American sailors who are here to establish a defence naval base near St. George. The base was one of the many acquired! in the United States-British des troyer trade.
However, the Job of the" contra- band control and the censors is stag- gering in proportion. These umcials must examine, passengers, cargo and mail of every plane and ship that enters a Bernwdan port.
Nazi Munitions
Train Crashes
The explosion of a German munitions train which recently crashed into another train on one of the three main lines from Hungary to Rumunia damaged a Although an official data is avall-large part of the town of Berel- able, it is known that several persons tyo Ujfalu and
wrecked the have been detained when they at-
through the Ber-tracks, reports Associated Press tempted to pass muda control. If they are found to from Budapest. be encales of the British, they are The town is near what used to be interned either in one of the islands the
Hungarian-Rumanlan frontier here er sent to a Canadian camp, before Rumania ceded Transylvania
Confiscation Receipts to Hungary, and is about midway be Persons who have property confts-tween Pospokladany and Nagyvarad. caled here receive receipts for it in This route has been used by the they wish to appeal to the Germans to move heavy troop rein- into through Hungary British contraband control for a re-forcements turn. However, such appeals will; Romania. take years by settlement and for pros Bungarian censorship clamped perly of little value, little protest is down on further details of the no- made.
eldent.
cune
Blockade Rulings Passengers bound for the war zone) must give up my soup, matches, "Bermudans still are attempting to sugar, coffee, silk and other cem- picture their islands as an American modities declared as contraband un-vacation mot despite the war. The der rulings of the British blockade. drop in vacations revenue which an- An Axis citizen travelling on anually runs into millions of dollars special U.8. Government visas has seriously affected Bermuda ceon-
officials who was the case of Italian
returned to their country recently from the World's Fair-were forced
omy.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange officia! summary, issued yesterday says:
The Races were resumed to-day
to give up all their money except Man Blows Himself and as a result the market is very
Gold and
re-
travelling expenses, barc Jewellery also was confiscated, A French World's Fair officin turning to his home in occupied France had some 25 pounds of choco- late, sugar, coffee and quantity of women's slik stockings taken from him.. A French marquis, also return- ing to France, had to give up to the British a quantity of match folders inscribed "Help Us to Help France."
Up With Dynamite
quiet.
.Buyers
Canton Ins. $215
Union 1na. $411
021
Lands 42 Debentures $07.50 Lights "O" $6.10
A man committed suleide in hotel at Buffalo recently by blowing himself to ploces with dynamite.
He was William Wright, 40. Police said that Wright had been told to move from the hotel because he had not paid his board.
He spent most of the night sitting in the lobby.
Status Of Persons Major problem of the British The explosion of the dynamite did authorities here is determination of not injure unyone else in the lobby.
Sellers
Hotels $3.00 Tiumphreys $7.05
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CHINA RELIEF-Poster to be distributed throughout the United States by the China Emergency Relief Commit- Portrait of the Chinesa baby is by James Montgomery Flagg. The Committee, hoaded by Pearl Buck, authoress, wants to raise $1,000,000.
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HOST TO PRINCE OF WALES.
American Oil Magnate Dead
MR JOSHUA COSDEN, who was the host of the Prince of Wales during the Royal visit to the United States in 1924, has 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- homa. He piled million upon million, and climbed the social ladder until he reached the portals of New York's most exclusive
circles.
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (945 k...) and
matras (9,520 kilo-cycles) Cesar Frank's Prelude Choral and Fugue
12.15 p.m. cession
1.45
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GERMANY'S WAR ON SHIPPING
1917 and To-day Compared
Some mieunderstanding may have been caused by Mr Green- wood's datement in the House of Commons recently that ́in the matter of shipping losses the position to-day la 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- fied, 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 resemblance 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-wegian campaign of April.
Since then, owing to the cauces al- ger, but there were then no ready noted, they have steadily means of reducing_that_danger mounted, but they have only now then in eight. Admiral Sims, reached about the level to which they of the American Navy, recorded were brought down by the end of 1017. That level, as Mr Greenwood A conversation with Admiral said, is far higher than it should be: Sir John Jellicoe, then First Sen but the position, as he went on to Lord of the Admiralty, in which explain, is not one of Imminent Jellicoe told him that he could danger.
see no means at the moment of reducing the losses of merchant shipping..
More Destroyers Needed There is no such gloomy outlook to- day. So far as the lassen to-day re 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. are perfectly well known-the defection of the French Navy, the addition of Italy to our enonles, and the neces- sity for taking 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, anil, thanks to the present efielency of the Asdic and depth charge, it only needs a sufficiency of destroyers to restore the rate of destruction of U-boats to what it was in the early months of the present war.
So far as losses are the result of the new methods of air attack the
is not
quite so simple. A nosition is new technique of counter action has to be devised to deal with the new fonn
nir
uf attack, but that problem, it is to be hoped, is already on the way
the to solution. In any case, threat to shipping is nothing like so great as was the threat of the U- boat in 1917.
High Seas Raider There is a third method of destruc- tion in use by the enemy-the raider on the high seas, either a disguised merchent ship or a solitary man-of- war of more formidable strength.
NIPS PLOT-A plat to over- throw the regimo of King Ibn Saud, above, of Saudi Arabia was reported recently with ar- rast of six persons, one of whom has been executed, They planned to kill the King, Bomber, B.W.O.F. Funds Acknowledgments
A total of $1,604,070.00 was reached yes" The threat of the ralder, however, terday by the War Fund Baugurated by is not on the level of that of the the S. C. M. Post, Lid, with the following U-boat or the aircraft. If he gets donations:
tion)......
***** $100 so as to do a substantial amount of Miss Marion Potter foeventh dana- destruction of shipping his career is Mr. D. E. Davis in memory of
Dick Sinttery) certain to be short, for he will soon be located and destroyed by superiorno Aquar force.
10
10
08.50
Society (In memory of the late Mr R. E. Slattery) If, on the other hand, he seeks to
memory of the lato Mr R. E. prolong his survival by evading the Me and Mr 11. E. Sugars (In
Slattery) defenders, he will do, ttle exceu- It was while he was the Princeton. The Admiral Graf Sper pre- Hongkong Electric Recreation Club 230
the second alternative, with "Unexpected Win
n w. o. F. The following are subscriptions received of Wales's host at a week-end the result that her bag was no more party that a thief. entered his than nine ships in three months. to date for credit of the British War Previously acknowledged, £100 onst house and stole £30.000 worth of Other raiders seem to have acted, Organisation Fundi fongkong Branch:
and to be neting, on the same prin- | sein,da3.78. Mrs Cosden's jewels.
soon be ciple; that menace should Jewels worth £4,000 belonging well in hand. to Lady Louis Mountbatten were also stolen.
This
was the peak of both the social and Onancial success of Mr Coselen.
"Game Josh"
Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Fre-
The pendulum began swinging quency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. back. The great Cosden and Co. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.
through which "Game Josh," as he Short Service of Inter-was called, had built a personal for- tune valued at £10,000,000, declined, Villas on Long Island and at Palm and (Vocal) 12.30 Greta Keller
Bench and Newport were sold, the By Thorburn and His Music.
1.00 Local Time Signal, and Wea- Conden private raltroad car disposed of and the family retired from the public eye.
Two years later, in 1928, with £1,- 100,000 that his loaned him, Mr Cosden went back to the oll fields for his second climb up
ther Report.
1.03 Variety.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce nients.
1.45 Mozart-Concerto In A Mafor.
215 Close Down.
5.45 Indian Programme.
tlon Closing Local Stock Quota- į
the financial ladder.
eastern
felends
Twice A Millionaire Establishing headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas, he invested In oll lands, and developed them and the Cosden Ol! Co., which he had formed, until they were credited with n paper value of £3,000,000.
6.32 Compositions of Sibelius. Karella Suite, Op. 11; Alla Marcin -Intermezzo... Lot
...London Philharmo- Orchesten; Symphonie Poem The Oeranides," 73....The
At least halt this value had been B.B.C. 3.B.L. Adrian acquired by Mr Cosden.
nic
On. Orchestra
Symphonyan
cond, by
Then in March, 1930, Mr Conden
1 Boult: Suckan Kom Iran Sin Alsk- I was taken 151 in his more modest new
Ings Mote... Marian Anderson (Con-
tralto) with Piano acc.; Finlandia-home in Florida, and for weeks lay Tone Poem, Op. 20, No. 7....Sirin a critical condition. Thomas Beecham cond. the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
7.00 London Relay--The News.
Lontos Relay Britain
Speaka',
Telk by J. B. Priestly.,
7.30 Portuguese Programine. 9.00 Local Ime Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Band Wargon'.
Arthir
Askey, Murdoch and Company,
Richard
8.25 Charlle Kun at the Plano, 8.35 Film Betections.
Everybody Sing-Film Selection.. Louls Levy and His Orchestra: Storm Shine Selection: Rise and
Over
..Sydney Kyte and His Piccadilly Hotel Bond; "Thanks for the Memory-Two Sleepy People; lg. Brondenst of 1938-New Thanks for the Memory Bob Hope and Shirley Rosa (Vocal): Everything in Rhythm Selection.....Louis Levy and His Von British Symphony
His company potentially still was strong. Its assets exceeded its labl- Hilfes, but cash for current debts was
A receiver
was not at hand, and appointed.
Fletcher Pearls
Mr Cosden devoted part of his wealth to sport. At the height of his eareer he owned a string of 32 racehorses and was somelimies refer- red to as the "Thomas Lipton of the turf."
Mrs Cosden added lustro to her social success by her acquisition of the famous Fletcher pearls, valued at:
£100,000,"
£
Edward Elgar,
9.43 Cesar-Franck-Prelude, Cho- rafe and Fugue.
Alfred Cortot (Plano),
9.45 News in French (on Short Wave Only).
10.00 London Refar-Talk: 'Scots! Abroad'.
with 16.15 Brahms-Quintet in B Minor.
On.
0.00 London Relay-The News. 1st Mov: Allegro; 2nd Mov: Adagio; 9.15 London RelayQuestion of 3rd Mov: Andantino-Presto non assal, the Ifaur*.
10.
ma con sentimento; 4th Movt Con
0.30 Bigar-Frossart Overture, Op.moto-Un poco meno mosso....Busch
("When Chivalry lifted up her Innce on high"-Keats)....London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Sir
Quartel and Reginald Kell (Clarinet).
10.50 Healms Gypsy Bones. The Madrigal Singers,
11.00 Close Down.
Dr K. W. Chaun (monthly). $30; -Anonymous-65;-La-Fonk÷lyo-Insanthly), $201 Anonymous, $10: John Forbes Imonthly), $25; Mrg M. M. Draka Actual monthly), $10; Davia, Brook & Gran (monthly), $70; Sole of renovated toys
Actual Figures Finally, a glance at the figures of sinkings shows the matter per Messrs Minington Ltd, 30; M. G. in true perspective. In April, 1917, Carruthers (monthly), 115: QAIM.NE. the peak month of the last war, Ger- Mess (monthly), $15: D. W. ilume (month- succeeded in sinking very $10; Members of the Indian Coy of
the Police Reserve nearly 900,000 tons of shipping, of 2000). 3156.40: Rov, and Mr T Brond- which some 550,000 was British. foot (monthly), $5; D. C. Edmondston From that peak the losses were fmonthly); $250 Total $649,303.18. brought steadily down, and by the end of 1917 they were about 400,000 1ons per month of which nearly 300,- 000 were Brilish.
Tribunal Session
It is notified for general informa- In the present war, losses of mer- tion that a publle session of the Com- chant shipping were brought down to pulsory Service Tribunal will be held A very low figure in March last, in on Friday, February 28, at 9 a.m. in Counell Chamber, Colonial man. Navy appears have been Secretariat.
which month the whole of the Ger- the
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