1952-02-07 — Page 8

"VIMY"

"BOOCHOW"

*HUPEN"

"POYANG" "HINKIANG"

"YOCHOW"

"POYANG" **FUNING"

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

BAILINGS TO

Pnompenh

Bangkok Tlentsku

Keelung Singapore, Penang &

Belawan

Yokohama Nagoya Osaka & Kebe ...... Djalcurta & Sourabaya Bangkok

5 p.m. 7th Feb. 5. p.m. 11th Feb. 10 am, 13th Feb,

Noon 13th Feb.*

5 p.m. 18th Feb.

5 p.m. 17th Feb, 10 am. 22nd Feb. 10 a.m. 24th Feb. Balla from Custodian Whart

ARRIVALS FROM

"SOOCHOW"

.Kobe

"HUFEI"

Tientsin

"FUKIEN"

Singapore

"POYANG"

HANSI

"PAKKOK!

"FENGVIEN"

"YOCHOW"

"SZECHUEN"

Kell

Osaka Singapore Bangkok Singapore

Bangkokt

0th Feb.

9th Feb,

11th Feb.

am. 11/12th Feb.

14th Feb. 14/15th Feb..

16th Feb. 10/17th Feb. 18th Feb.

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

PTAIYUAN

"CHANGTE" "GILANGSITA"

.

**TAIPING"

SAILINGS TO Kore Yokkaichi Nagoya Yokohama Kebe & MDIE........ Sydney & Melbourne Yokkaichi, ...Kure,

Nagoya, Kobe, Yoko- & Shimizu

12th Feb, 19th Feb.

20th Feb,

“TAIYUAN“

Japan ,Sydney

5th Mar, 18h Mar.

"TAIYUAN" "CUANGSHA"

ARRIVALS FROM Australia & Manilu Australia

7 a.m. 8th Feb,

8th Feb.

10th Feb.

Australia

M

Manilo

1st May.

Moji

"CHANGTE"

"TAIPING**

"TAIYUAN"

Kobe

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

8th Mar,

Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Aden & Port Bald.

"ANTILOCHUS”

"CYCLOI'S"

"TELEUS"

"CLYTONEUS"

Liverpool

Marseilles, Liverpool & Glasgow

Genoa, London,

Rotterdam & Ham- burg

"ANCHISES"

Scheduled Sailings from Europe

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1952.

CHINA MAIL

MOEN NAWINONAM, YALLIG

HONGKONG

PUBLISHED DAILY (AFTERNOONG)

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Postage: China and Macao #1.50 per month. U.K., British Possession and other countries $3.00 per month.

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Telephone: 24611 (5 Linco). KOWLOON OFFICE: Balisbury Hord. Telephona: 52638.

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Souvenir Caused A Rumpus

London, Feb. 0.

Hull polico have become the owners of a 2lb. souvenir shell which, after being used as a door stopper and a. paper weight of a house for 10 years, suddenly showed a spark of life.

When a Hull woman, knocked

the souvenir. from the mantel-

piece in her son's bedroom, there was a small report, a flash and a wisp of smoke. >

Terrified she fled downstairs, expecting the explosion at any moment. She waited two hours and then called a neighbour to fetch the police to dispose of an unexploded bomb.

The policemen asked the women to show them where the bomb was, but she refused to go anywhere near the bedroom.

The officers went alone. They

found the shell on the bedroom

floor.

After studying the shell a police sergeant plcked it up and underneath was the explanation - spent match head.

The shell had fallen on to the match and ignited it. The shell Itself was harmless,

Remember Lot's

Wife

London, Feb. 8. Major-General B. K. Young, director-general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, told a pleasant story when he launched the Society's "More Courtesy" campaign for

CHIVALRY ANTIENT SCRIPT. An stationery of distinction. In boxes of forty fly sheets and 1852,

or eighty singie torty envelopes ahcela and forty envelopes. $0 per

NOTICE

Mr Billmeir Nets Himself A Million In Shipping Deal

London, Feb. 6.

A shipping deal brings in. £1,422,000 tax-free for 50-year-old Mr Jack Albert Billmeir. It is part of a £2,320,000 cash share out to be made to share- holders in his Stanhope Steamship Company.

The money comes from sell- ing 11 of the company's black and-red - "Stan" Boats with a blue "B" for Billmcir on the

funneta.

Mr Billmeir collects. his £1,422,000 from his 080,730 sharos, the biggest holding in the company. It represents 20s.

share.

a

Band Leader

Shot During

Circus Act

In

London, Feb. 6. Two plain-clothes police of cers sat in front seats at Parkin's Circus in Birming- ham's Bingley Hall to watch shooting act after the circus's band leader had been shot the leg by a ricochetting bullet in the afternoon performance.

The police officers will report on the accident and any danger there may be in the shooting act.

His wife, Annie Margaret, a collecta director of Stanhope, '£110,000 on her 80,000 shares. For each shore In the com- น pany, shareholders are niso get one share worth £1 in a new Stanhope Steamship Com- panty. This will take over the remaining seven "Stan" boats,

HIS FORTUNE

So in the end Mr Billmeir's kipping fortune in cashi and shares adds up to £2,402,000. He started in chipping བས་ཥུཿ Ba-a-week office bay In a Lon- dun ship-broker's office two months before his 14th birth- day.

His ambition — to be a

shipowner.

The Spanish Civil War in 1031 made him. He bought 23 old ships and ran the Franco blockade with them with sup- piles for the Spanish Republican Army,

His ships made Page One news, with such dauntless skippers na Captain "Potato" Jones,

His hobby is nalling in 193-ton motor yacht Aronia. He is the Commodore of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. His home is at Elstead, Surrey. It 18 modest establishment for a

Captain L. A. Phayre, genomni | millionaire. manager of the circus, has su pended the part of the act in which the accident occurred

be unt special guards.

едн

amad oct is that of Cheroke

On sale at "S. CM. Possroadsafety lecture advised, the

A schoolmistress giving

children never to look back when crossing a road. "Remem- what happened to Lot's wife," she said."She looked back and turned. into a pillar of salt."

The Zetland Lodge 525 EC.

+

Genou, London,

Rotterdam & Glasgow

via Mula ......

..21st Feb.

Casablanca, Dublin &

. 25th Feb.

0th Mar,

Dabiln

via Manila & Liverpook

22nd Mar. 28th Mar,

Halis

Liverpool

Sails Hotterdami

Arrives

Hour Kont

Salled

18th Feb.

do

Saled

17th Feb.

do 5th Feb,

22nd Feb. 1st Mar, 11th Mar.

G. "PATROCLUS"

12th Feb.

1th Feb.

18th Feb.

25th Feb.

17th Mar, 24th Mar. 1st Apr.

5th Mar,

10th Apr,

NARDA--WAIT!

LENORE--SHE'S JEALOUS OF US!

S. "ANTILOCHUS"

G. "PELEUS"

S. "AUTOLYCUS“

G. "ANCHISES"

S. "CLYTONEUS"

S. "ASTYANAX"

G. "AENEAS"

8. "ASCANIUS“

G. Loading Glasgow before Liverpool,

S. Loading Swansea before Liverpool. Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load & discharge cargo.

DE LA RAMA LINES

ARRIVING via MANILA FROM

U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS "MENESTHEUS"

"DONA NATI"

23rd Feb.

16th Mar.

Lathay Pacific Hirways Ltd.

Routa

Departs Hongkong

Arrives H.X. (on return) HK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 6.00 a.m. Mon. Thurs-8.45 a.m. Tues. Fr, (Connects at Bangkok with U.3.A. to tangoon) IK/}}ano/llaiphong DC-3) 10.00 .. Tues. 2.15 p.m. Wed. 11K/Sagua/Singapore (DC-4) 12.00 Noon Tues. 4.10 p.m. Wed. HK/Man/B.N. Bornes (DCA) 0.30 a.m. Tuza, Fri. 3.45 p.m. Wed. Bot.

All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to

ICONNAUGHT RD C Tel 30331 8 BRANCH OFFICE SO Connaught Rd.,

4878

ber

Whereupon an urchin jumped The Ladies'

Festival up and said: "Please, teacher, I was out driving with Mummy arranged for

Friday,

week. She looked back telegraph February, 8, is postponed. and turned into a

polel"

Jast

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SO I SEE. IT'S REALLY FUNNY, 15N'T IT?

Indian chief Eagle Eye, who doos sharp-shooting with ride and pistol. When the accident occurred he was lying back wards on a chair to fire a .22 repeating rifle over his shoulder. But the chair collapsed and bulict the gun went off: The ricochotted into the band The band leader, Mr James Harris son, 48, was taken to hospital, where he is detained.

NO, IT'S NOT FUNNY. 1 SUPPOSE NARDA,WAITZLET THAT'S WHY SHE'S YOU ME EXPLAIN!

MUST--

ACTED SO STRANGELY.

LENORE - YOU'VE GOT TO LET ME TELL HER!

FERDINAND

He likes It Still

PI-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS

Manila, Feb. 6. Foreign Omee sources said that there would be no meeting today of Philippines and Japan- ese reparations negotiators" but that their

take place tomorrow or Friday.

third session might

The two negotiating teams have met twice thus far-lást Monday and the Monday before last.-United Press.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis ·

GOSH, WHAT ME SUPPOSED TO 907;:

EXPLAIN--WHAT? YOU SAID YOU LOVE HER. THAT'S IT! ARE YOU COMING,LOTHART |

5-12

↑ NEXT WEEK, THE SECRET OF LENDRE.

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ‘'ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/Freight serviCE

Outwards "CARTHAGE"

"CLIUSAN”

"CONFD" "CANTON"

Leaves London 10th January 22nd January

7th February

0th March

Arrives Hongkong 11th February

19th February 10th March 7th April

Via Suuthampton, Port Bald, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Penang & Singapore.

Homewarde "CARTHAGE" "CHUNAN"* "CORSU" "CANTON"

Laavos Hongkong Dae London

15th February

23rd February

14th March

11th April

1711 March 22nd March

14th April

1211 May

Accepting catgo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bem-

bay, Aden London.

Outwarda "SHILLONG” "DÚCOTRA"

Homewarde "SOUDAN"

FREIGHT SERVICE

Duo Hongkong

From

18th February

London a Continent"

12th February

Leaves Hongkong

15th FebruaTY

For

London de Continent

Swetenham,

Accepting exrgo for Bingapore, Part I'chang, Colombo, Aden, Genoa, Maranilics, London Hamburg, Antwerp & Botterdam, with liberty to call At Bombay if Inducement offers. Tanks available for carriage of oil in Bulk. Limited passenger Space for refrigerated cargo,

accommodation

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

"SANGULA”

**WARLA"

due

7th Feb.

salls in Feb.

-que 23th Feb. sulls 25th Feb,

from Calcutta,

Hangoon, Ponzing & Sincepure for Japan

from Japan

for ChillingONE Via Singapore

(These venel, have retrigerated cargo space) P. & O./B. 1, JOINT SERVICE

"URLANA"

**OKHLA❞

due 13th Feb,

palla 14th Feb. die 10th Feb.

from Karachii. Bombay, Columbo

& Singapare for Japan

from Japan for. Singapore Colombo, Bombay & Karachi

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN 5.5. CO., LTD. "NELLORE”

Lails 28th Feb.

for Port Moresby, Sydney & Kislbourne

All vessels have Uberty to call at any parts on. or off the regiè & the route & aliing are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Telephone Nos

BEN LINE

DUE

NANCY

Habit "Reigus"

OH, SLUGGO-- ITS STARTED

TO RAIN.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

SHIPS

"BENAVON" "DENVENUE" "BENATTOW" "BENLEDI". "BENCRUACIŁAN"

"BENAVON".

“DENVENUE"

{"DENATTOW"

NCRUACHAN”.

DENLEDI"

ARRIVALS

FROM

U.K. via Manila onezabt. 28th Feb.

Japan

U.K. via Hingapore

‚U,K, via Singapore

Japan BAILINGS

Kure, Yokohama & "Koba: --

Direct to Singapore, thence Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin & -Hull,

Avonmouth, London S Hamburg. A Kure, Yokohama & Kobe.

25th Feb.

18th Mar.

30th Mar,

20th Apr.

Lasting on or sht.

24th Feb.

25th-Fob

23rd Mar.

4th Apr,

20th Apr.

Direct to Singapore,

thence Liverpool.

1st May

Direct to Singapore,

hence. London, Hull.

Dubila & Hamburg,

Via Singapore and Fart Swettenham..

Calla Manila, Cebu, Tawau, Sandakan, Jesselton & Labuan.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD.

York Building,

Agents

Telephone: "84188.

JOHNNY HAZARD

ER I GUESS I FORGOT--

By Mik

12-27 mak

By Ernie Bushmiller

I WAS THINKING

I WAS AT MY -HOUSE

By. Frank Robbins'

Pino

At the

P.G.

For

Reservations Tel: E7880

its dee-licious!

Salm

Toffee

ON SALE IN · SHOPS THAT SELL THE BEST

TYRES

FIAT CARS

all models

Wife In Car Falls 300ft

Over Pass

London, Feb. Q.

A husband and his wife, were descending the Horseshoe Pass, Llangollen, when their car mounted the kerb, dropped into a field below, thon plunged 300ft Into the valley beneath.

The Deputy Chief Constable of Denbighshire announced that ten result of the incident..25- year-old Terence William Har- rison will appear in court st Llangollen accused of the at- tempted murdar of his wife, Christine, aged 20, a native of Gisborne, New Zealand.

The police gave Harrison's address as c/o Whoathill Firm, Uppington, Wellington, Shrop shire. The couple arrived there from New Zealand in Septem- ber and lived in a carvan on the farm.

The crash occurred on the night of November 25. Mrs

Harrison, who had head in- juries, has left hospital.

And Robert Pedals On

London, Feb. 8.

20

A young man rode into Gloucester en 'a cycle with 14 rear lights, two hooters, two mirrors, a Stars and Stripes: Bag, and a car speedometer, Robert MacArthur, who is and comes from Florida, was on the last lap of a seven-month tour of Artunda.

Hia cycle had a radio mast tos-but no radlo. Ho that to buy food, kad

You have to pat like a horse to pedal a bike like th

like this ho

60,000

te has

Hold

since he was 10, and onço'made 19,000-mile tour of the United. States and Canada. He has been in hospital with exha

WOHNKU..

THEY DIDN'T

SEB US!

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