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April 16, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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SOUTH CHINA CELEBRATE SOCCER VICTORIES
Celebrating their fourth consecutive annexation of the Senior Football League honours, and their win- ning of the Senior Challenge Shield and the Kotewall Charity Cup. Sau h Chinn Athletic Association held a dianer at the Ying-King Restaurant on Monday night. The function was a signal success, and among those present were (as in picture above, from left to right) Mr Mok Hing. Mr Wong Ka-taun, the Hon. Mr Li Tse- fong, the Hon. Mr N. L. Smith (President of the Hongkong Football Assoclatien), Mr Luke Ol-wan (Pre- sident of S.C.A.A.), the IIon. Mr W. N. Thomas Tam and Mr Ngan Shing-kwan (Chairman) who welcomed the guests. (Photo: Sun Ying Mag).
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HEARST TO SELL ART TREASURES
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TIE major portion of Mr William Randolph Hearst's extru-- ordinarily miscellaneous art collection, which experts say may be worth anything from £1,000,000 to £12,000,000, will be placed on sale in two of New York's lending department stores.
It is realised that it would be hopeless to try to auction them in the ordinary way, Price tags will therefore be attached to them, and they will be offered directly to the public.
Gimbel Brothers will set aside, wearing apparel, and the famous an entire floor of their shop, and cars caffection of arms and armour, Saks, the fashionable shop in Fifth Avenue, will also display as many paintings and other items as possible.
Mr Hearst has been disposing of his possessions since 1937, when he sent anonymously some of his old silver to Sotheby's. It brought more! than £21,000. In the following year at Christie's more than £44,000 was paid for Hearst silver.
He Led First Raid On Kiel
Monastery For £10,000 But even these huge stores will not be able to show their customers Mr Hearst's 12th century Spanish monas-) tory, which he had shipped to the Duffed States in 14,000 erates, and which cost om at least £100,000, This can be hod for about £10,000. At ihr other end of the price scale is an 18th century English pewter
"Scottie" is dead. "Scoltic," plate which will be sold for 12 shil-
who led the first flight of Hings.
Some idea of the fabulous nature bombers in the first R.A.F. raid of this collection may be obtained on Germany in this war. This from the fact that staff experts have was the raid on warships in the been compiling a catalogue for the
past two years. They have complet-Kiel Canal on September 4, 1939, ed 110 volumes, but they believe the day after war was declared.. they will have to A another 40 The Air Ministry has announced volumes before everything is listed that Acting Squadron Leuder William Paintings, Gems, Arms Scott, reported missing carlier, is now. Approximately 15,000 objects will presumed killed.
be put on sute. Their variety is stag- Scott was an old boy and athlete gering. They represent every phase of King's Norton Grammar School, of art from the earliest antiquity to near Birmingham; his home was at the 19th century, and almost every Kingsley King's Norton. race
Then twenty-seven-year-old fight- anything to art.
Dutch in East Indies Mr Watson's nation that has contributed. The werie-end after the raid. Scott.
Watch Japanese Moves
By John M. Raleigh
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
BATAVIA, Apr, 15 (UP).—Recent events in the Far East have produced repercussions in the NEI unrivalled since the German invasion of Holland.
Previously the Dutch press and general opinion could have been tabelled "mild" towards Japan, but since the Japanese Foreign Minister's startling statement questioning whether the
Secret Was "About 65"
Mr Basil Watson, K.C., North London's, quick-fired, quick-deci-; sion magistrate, died in London recently after collapsing in his room at the court the previous night.
He had one secret he would never
Dutch Government-in-London-held-full-power-of-administration. reveal-his-nge-But-he_was_about over the Netherlands East Indies, a new attitude of determina- tion has become evident.
The average Dutchman here realises that danger to the north has not become a thing of the past, though at present matters appear fairly calm on the sur- Ince.
"We believe that the day is cum- ing-and soon-when we will have to defend our birthright here in the Indies, my many prominent Dutch- men all over the archipelago.
Frank Objections
1
Negro Who
Challenged Goering
sixty-live. He was over age when
he joined the Irish Guards at the out- break of the last war.. That would mear he was in the neighbourhood of forty,
over
When I was found he was age, he persunded the authorities to allow him to go to France and fought; In the trenches,
Decided Views
Mr Watson was boxer, cricketer soldier, author, animal lover and a man of very decided views which "COLONEL " HUBERT sometimes caused hostile erillicism- FAUNTLEROY JULIAN, the particularly his "war" on speeding which he declared In 1930. He was Negro aviator who played al piso severe on black-out offences. saxophone while making a para-
Here are some of his views:- chute descent, is reported to On black-out offences: "I saw in have signed on for the Royal the last war, more often than I wish Canadian Air Force as an in- to remember, the effect of high explo- sives. I um determined that no child structor for ferry-pilots. and
The Dutch and native press, taking their cue from public feeling every where, have adopted a rigorous plat form of frank expression cuncerning Japanese pollutes in China and the inediation conferences held in Tokyo between French Indo-China Thailand.
commented:
in this district shall be killed in on air raid owing to the carelessness of
In 1930, Julian was appointed chief of the Abyssinian Air Force, though that Force consisted of only three grown-up people.
The Netherlands Indian paper out-of-date machines. He left the On "brainstorm" pleas: i am sick "Locomotief" recently
The Netherlands Indies holds the service of Haile Selassie after he had of these brainstorms. They never sume objections to a Japanese drive crashed the Emperor's personal aero-licip the other side. They only help
plane.
the fellow in the dock, the southwards as England and
"Colone!" Julian challenged Goer- Japan United States. II
become
On cycle thefts: This is a particu- Singapore's neighbour through the ing last September to meet him in
air combat over the English Channel.larly cruel form of theft because the mediation In Tokyo, we should con-
bicyle is the poor man's motor-car. alder this highly dangerous in every; The challenge was not accepted.
sense of the word?"
Businessmen from Batavia, who their have been ordered home by concerns, have remarked upon how flagrantly the Japanese press derides the NEL. Another matter arousing considerable attention are
reports
that Tokyo's German Embassy now! has a staff of more than three hun- dred.
Japan. Closely Watched
Japan's movements Aro being
closely watched by the Dutch dove most ernment bere, and though anthoritative sources belleve that
trouble is not as imminent as it was
plans for the future.
were caught
Major-Gen. Percival Is New G.O.C., Malaya
A CHANGE in the Malaya Command has been announced by General Headquarters (Far East). Lieut-Gen. L. V. Bond, C.B., will shortly leave Malaya to take up an appointment in the United Kingdom. The post of General Officer Commanding, Malaya, will be taken over by Major-Gen. A. E. Percival, D.S.O,
Joining the Army na a temporary O.E.E., M.C.
lieutenant at the beginning of the
* few weeks ago, few think that the Indles have been left out of Japanese Major-Gen. Percival served as Great War, Major-Gen. Percival was General Staff Officer, First gazetted a captain in the Essex Regi- unprepared Grade, at Malaya Commandment in October 1910. oncel" said a high offelal, "but that headquarters from 1936 to 1938. He commanded the 7th Battalion, will not happen again!".
In 1938, he went to Britain to the Bedfordshire Regiment, through- This attitude is reflected in the became G.S.O. 1 to Gen. Sir John out the last year of that war. In here. Where hitherto the Dill, who was then commanding the September 1024 he was transferred to press
the Cheshire Regiment as a mujor. indles have remained quiet, now First Division at Aldershot. they have advanced far enough in their preparations for all eventualit- lex to speak up and lot covetous neighbours understand that they will tolerate no overt moves to the south.
On the outbreak of war, Major- Gen. Percival went to France with Wounded and three times mention- the B.EF. Binca Dunkirk he has ed in dispatches, he has a cleap to commanded the 44th Division in his D.S.O, the O.BE, M.C., and the Britain,
French Croix de Guerre..
In addition to paintings they in-eutenant, said: "We took the Ger- clude Jewellery, poltery, manuscripts, mans completely by surprise.'
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