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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
August 18, 1941,
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
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Rabbits A
Source Of
Wealth
Nestling in the southern bigldonds, the little town of Adaminaby has become rich almost overnight, and
* scenes like those of the "gold rush” daya pre being enseted on the main street, rays a Sydney report.
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But rabbits, not gold, are the source of Adaminaby's new-found wealth. Prices for best skins have sonced to Gis. 34, il, and every man who has no regalar job to keep him in town is making long trips out to the "now country," in temperatures well below freezing point, to trap robbits,
of
In the main street, four buyers hove sat up their scales, and they weigh skins and pay cash for their purchases. Children sell skins rabbits caught aller school und are earning up lo 20s, a week. Trappers are making up to £40 on skins taken in a fortnight the hills.
.
"The bank manager, the post- master and the publican are still on the job, but there are about 00 men in the hills trapping rabbits," Mr Bert Betts, owner of the Adaminaby Hotel, sald.
"Labourers who have no regular employment have left town on pack horses with traps and food. To-day skins are worth is. 3d. each, but by the time these men return the prices will have visen."
Bank Manager Retiring
After 25 Years' Work Terminating 25 years of service with the Shanghat branch of Banque Franco-Chinoise Mr M. E.
the
Meunier, munager of the bank there,
Stary Brodieska. Dr
IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT-These 425 cadets at Wost Point Military Academy moved into immediata jobs as second lieutenants in Uncle Sam's Army. Here's a view of the graduation.
Financial Front Plays Its Part In Victory Over Nazi Tyranny
By A. P. Luscombe Whyte
LONDON. Voluntary effort has played a tremendous part in the British war effort. Not only in the Forces and in Home Defence, but also on the "Financial Front.”
The average citizen has cheerfully faced rising taxes and prices, and on top of these he has dug deeply into his own pocket to give or lend to his utmost towards the enormous cost of waging war.
Fashions
Help Buy Bombers
London. Twenty-two bombers costing two million dollars can be built for Britain every year by the United States as a result of the de- cision of Captain Edward Molyneux, famous throughout the world au an arbiter of women's fashions.
When the Nazis swooped across France. Captain Molyneux left his Puris
salons, which supplied the leading fashion houses of New York, Chicago and Hollywood not to nien- tion Canada. He decided to carry on from Mayfair and soon his 200 workgirls were overwhelmed by the requests received by cable for morn- in and afternoon frocken, "tailor mndes," and
evening gowns. The buyers didn't bother about prices from one of his repute.
To-day there are about 20 Ameri- can fashion houres, each ordering 40 models a year and a minimum num- ber of
of repeats is 25 for each nodel. Therefore each order represents £20,000 worth of business, Canadian house takes co models annually. Payments are mnde
by these houses in dollars so creating a handsome dollar reserve with-which Britain can purchase war material.
"My
My spring collection is already on the high scas." Captain Molyneux told an interviewer. The time element is of great importance and if a collection, takes too long. say six weeks, to get there, it becomes dated. Therefore shipping arrange. ments are being speeded to assure [ quick delivery.'
Letters Three Years Late
Due To Air Crash RICHMOND, Vo-Two air mal! letters lost for more than two years after an airliner crashed in the hills of Chile have arrived here from South America almost three years after they were
letters
The
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1038, bore an
The mail hud
June. in Span-
lost June 19,
lias resigned from his position and In leaving soon for South Americ
Shortly after the war began ally £30, only to lose the lead to yet cal War Weapons Weeks is given where he intends to settle down with his family. The retiring bark of great Savings Campaign was another Yorkshire town when El- freely. These volunteer workers have clat, who is 40, came to China after launched and John Citizen was land reached £33.15.0.
thought up endless idens and "stunis" the World War and joined the bank urged to spend his spare money succeeding record
The story hesitates here with the to publicise their weeks and squeeze which was then known as the Ban- not on goods which demanded which remains with the little mill
of £42 head savings "until the pipe squeak." que Industrielle de Chine. He has labour or shipping tonnage, but town of Heckmondvike Yurks.
Carnival Enthusiasm. resided afteen years in Shanghai.
(It Some towns have taken on an al- During the World War, he was a on investment in the various aned at £100,000 and get £364, most carnivalesque appearance dur- soldier in the 54th and 404th Regl-Savings certificates and bonds. 000!) The tiny Welsh agricultural ing their weeks with houses beflan- ments of Infantry of the French
village of Llanbed, will only 310 ged, bands inhabitants-has-lent-no-less-than arching and tanks rumbling through of the Andes. Later the letters were 1038, on a fight over the foothills army, and in-the-"Service Auto," he
£100 a head towards Britain's war the streets. Special Savings dances, from Santiago, Chile, Feb. 1941. finished the war as a RT.O. in the
effort, but this cannot count as a re-
recovered und Gare de Nord at Paris.
and remailed this time whist-drives, parties.
competitions, cord as it was only part of the Coun-and treasure hunts have been held.
Both letters were stamped as dig- Savings Week as a whole.
of Merioneth's effort in their
Keighlew,
Yorkshire,
lomatic correspondence from the 'Weapons week like
U. E. enbussy at Buenos Aires and They Won The Toffee Republicans and Democrata into a were written by Alexander W. Wed-
Presidential election," with bands,
dell, now ambassador to Spain. One Good natured rivalry between
19; was addressed to Miss Elizabeth
Always a keen sportsman, he was coach to the French team the "International Walking Competition" at Shanghai, for five years. He was also a promoter of the "Shanghal Boxing Association" which was re-
The result was amazing. To date well over £700,000,000 in smull suv lugs has been leat to the country, averaging 94 millions per week.
Partly responsible for this huge total was a brilliant Idea on the part of some un-named official. Playing not only on the average man's patri- olism, but also on his natural sense
At
playing.
processions
they
of rivalry, he devised "War Weapons towns hus livened these Weeks into banners, Bags and loud-speakers, and Weddell, his sister, and the other to
sponsible for the engagement in Shanghai of the famous French try. boxer, Pladner, now blind.
Art Club Chairman
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He was chairman during vents of the "Shonghial Art Clubs," at the annual exhibitions of which he was a regular exhibitor of lands. capes and oil paintings. He staff officer of
Yorkshire Leads
squeezed
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the editor of the Southern Church-
man.
Weeks." The idea swept the coun-omething of a tournament. The or
Into ganiser of Heckmondwike, tells how town
Bren-gun "there were four Yorkshire towns carrier. Light hearted, despite the scrapping for first place. So we bombs, and generous-perhaps be-
set
cause of the bombs.
As Nazi bombing has increased in Free Danes Fighting remarkable the week, Heckmo.way through savagery, so
ready
Won
have
With Britain
The first War Weapons Week. was out to beat the lot." Halifax bet a held in the Yorkshire city of Leeds tin or toffees they could not hent seven-and ever since Yorks towns have their £20.10.0 But.
"topped the billin
savings in de- series of records.
had agree. One South Const town, alm-
at £100,000 the toffees and rafted ing
Το scomed likely Last June the citizens of Leeds them for Savings Certificates!
reach a smaller total. But in mid-
LONDON, June 5-A delegation decided that they would like to pro-
week The thrift shown by these
the Nazis towns we
bombed it. Next representing the Danish Council in vide the country with 100 bornbing has amazed offletals. In many mill morning queues were walling out- London has just arrived in America, planes at a cost of about £2,000,000, towns average pre-war wages were week showed a total of £181,000. of all free Danes in free countries side the Savings Offices, and the The aim is to establish a united front that he is one of those responsibly could not afford to give the overtime, rising wages and employ-vided the extra £81,000.
the enough only for but by lending it at low rates
The Luftwaffe had virtually pro- and to obtain the content of
Danes for London to become the
cer of the "Police Specialé Francaise," and was in charge of its organisation, and it is well kdown
for its high degrees of eflelency,
Recently he lost his eldest daugh- ter at the age of eighteen after a very long and painful illness. He has a wife and two other children.
His decision to sever his long con- nection with the Banque Franco- Chinoise has been taken for purely private reasons.
FELLOWS OF THE BELLOWS
JULY
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the
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Harvard 'Varsity Inherits Hotel
uf interest they could help equally, ment for all has swollen family in- Posters, processions, speeches, loud-
A seven-day campaign was staged comes to an astonishing degree." speakers urged citizens to roll up to altere, vagance on new clothes,fur- radio sels and other Juxuries banks, post offices and other centres would not have been surprising. In- and invest in war bonds and certi- stend-thirty or forty pounds a head fleutes. And at the end of this first invested in savings. War Weapons Week perspiring ac- no only help the country's war ef- Savings which countants had tatted up a total of, fort now, but will aid its transition
Harvard University is now pro- not £2,000,000, but
enore than to peace
peace condition when war is won prietor of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, £3,300,000-ur enough for 3 extra 75 bombers.
centre of New York society. The org
organisation behind the Sav-
The title to the Ritz Carlton, ond Not
to be outdone Bradford, the Ings campaign has been largely run of the world's most famous hotels, rest Yorkshire great
rival of Leeds, by volunteer labour, which helps to
was bequeathed to the University by rushed to organise their own week.
explain
how
Robert Walton Goelet. Leeds, with an average of over £0 was raised at a cost to me cover boetel whose wil has just been
the Govern- lent by every man, woman and child, ment of only £1 per £1,000 raised, proved, was chairman of the board of had said rather complacently, "Beat The country is divided into twelve the Ritz Carlton. that if the canst." And, rather to regions, with a salaried commis- Leeds' chagrin, Bradford did beat it. stoner, assisted by paid experts and companies
Local Pride The Secret organisers and an army of unpaid One of the oldest of New York's Playing up local rivalry.their com- workers, in charge of each. In all prominent hotels, the Ritz Carlton in paign leaders whipped up an average about 250,000 volunteer workers are often chosen for debutante parties. of over £11 from each Bradfordian, now helping to gather in the money. Valued at £958,300 It has 300 including nearly £5,000 in the pen-
Nearly the labour behind lo- rooms and 475 employees. nies and sixpences of schoolchildren. This really started the ball rolling. Liverpool took up the challenge and contributed over £10 per head, When Greater Londor ended her own monster Week recently there was hardly a town of consequence in the country which had not held is own Week.
Most towns set themselves a de- finile object-£100,000 · to
He was director of many real estate
In America.
Tomb Of Tamerlane Opened
By Soviet Excavators
MOSCOW, June 21.-The magnificent tomb of Tamer
bombers or fighters, £500,000 for a
buy lane the lame Timur—at. Samarkhand in south-western Aria destroyer or up to millions to pur- has been opened and Soviet archaeologists examined to-day a
chase a battlecruiser. And in nine; skeleton they said dispelled legends that the great Oriental
oversca
centre a "world Federation of Free
Dance." Dancs.
in
The frea Danish movement here is to be known as "Free Danes Great Britain and Northern Ireland." The Members of the Delegation to America
are
Mr K. G. Petersen, chairman of the executive committee of the Danish Council; Mr E. Hertel, member of the execu tive tive committee; und Captain P. Membeke, who joined the Free Danes in this country after having resigned his post as Naval and Air Attache to the Danish Legation in London
Classics Quoted.
By Shepherds
LONDON, June 7-Scottish shop- herds have no monopoly of tho classical learning. Recently over- heard was a conversation, between one { our West country shepherds and a farmer who was bemoaning the lateness of the spring and the bad growing weather
comes,"
"Don't Worry, maister," rejoined the shepherd, twill be all right presently when Phoebiy
Now. Phoeby has come and it is all right. The red. Inndscape is rapidly turning green.
Record Convoy Of 50 Ships
tenths of these cases the total aimed conqueror's body had been removed by Persians. at has been greatly exceeded. Some- time doubled, trebled or multiplied The crypt of the Mongol Empire a broad-shouldered mun with the by five or six.
builder who led legions "of a thou- right leg shorter than the left.. ...: NEW YORK, May 23 The largest As the campaign progressed, the sand horses' from the Volga River also found in the tomb the skeletons 50 ship Jandapples and food, has The archaeologists reported they occan convoy. In history, more than behind. Edinburgh.."bunged_its, anx- early Agures per head were left for to the Persian Gulf and from the of Tamerlane's two sons and that of i worth of war suppiles and food, has. pencer" to the tune of £26 for every Hellespont to the Ganges in the a grandson, Uieg Beg, great Orientat crossed to Great Britain safely from Inhabitant. With Yorkshire till fourteenth century was opened June astronomer of the fifteenth century. Canada, Collier's Weekly reported to- fighting gamely, Halifax raised 10,
Tamerlane died on Feb. 17, "1405,"
day. C20.-10.0. pery head; Tho small Prying Inta Tamerlane's coffin, the on the far side of the Byrdarya River Reynolds, staff correspondent of the The report came from Quentin Yorks town of Silsden promptly cap-archaeologists found bones they said while leading his armies on a pro-magazine, who made the crossing pad this record with a figure of near- fitted the description of the ruler-jected Invasion of China.p
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STOCK MARKET REPORT
Summary, issued Saturday, is:
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal
Buyers
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan B
H.K. Govt 3% Loan (1034) B5 II.K. Govt. 34% Loan (1040) OS H.K. Banks $1,380 Canton Ins. $225 Union us, 3403 H.K. Fire Ins. $185 Docks $15.85
Holcis
$3.40
Lands X.D, $34.50 Realties $3.15
Chinese Estates 5101 Trams X.D. $17.10 Yaumati Ferries $22.75
glits "O" Lights
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"N" $1.30 Electrica "OX. Rts $21.00 Electrics "N" $21.25
Electric Fectric Rts. $11.20
Telephones "O" $23.10 Telephones "N" $0.50 Cements $14.75 Ropes $0.80 Watsons $11
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Hotels $3.00 Watsons $11.50
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H.K. Banks $1,385 Wharves $91 Electrics "N" $21.30 Watsons $11.25
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Philippines Looks To Water Supply
With the outbreak of intestinal disease in Tayabas, district in tho Philippines, illustrating the need for safeguarding the water supply and with epidemies from polluted "water ikely to occur during a mass evacua- flon, the Civilian Emergency Ad- ministration through the Philippine Red Cross is taking no chances with the health of nearly 200,000 people in Mnulla and the suburbs who may be evacuated in an emer- Rency.
A complete mobile laboratory has been set up to make sure the water In the 20 evacuation towns In Laguna and Rizal is potable and to guard constantly against pollution,
Hongkong Firm Buys Ship
The "Fairplay," a shipping moga- zine published weekly in London, reports that the American steamer "Atlantic Gulf," of about 4,150 tons deadweight, bulli in 1919, and owned by the Atlantic Gulf and Pacifc. Company of Manila, has been pur- chased by Messrs Wallem and Com- pany, Hongkong, for about Pesos 500,000.
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of the
2nd. Battn. The Royal Scots
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1st. Battn. The Middlesex Regiment on the Hongkong Cricket Club Ground
9.30 p.m. SATURDAY, 23id, AUGUST, 1941.
Tables seating from four to ten may be reserved and paid for in advance at $1 per person, on application to Mr. I. E. Roberts, c/o Thomson & Co. Hongkong Bank Building.
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