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war refugees in Anhwel province,

GENERAL

ARMED MEN GUARD VALUABLE

STAMPS DIARY OF LOCAL

TODAY AT THE CINEMA

KING'S:

Hong Kong

"Farewell Again"

QUEEN'S:—

"Snow White"

CRENTAL:

"Breakfast For Two".

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:—

"I Cover The War"

STAR:-

"A" Damsel In Distress"

MAJENTIC:

"Dancing Pirate"

Coming

KING S:--

Australian Collection

EVENTS

TODAY

Anniversaries and

St. Mamertus, Bishop.

Page)

Holiday

Cinemax(See Column 3 of thi

Club Dance.

Armed men at the Sydney Town Hall constantly guard the most comprehensive exhibition of post- age stamps ever shown in the 8.30 p.m. Southern Hemisphere.

Dances-Cheero

Entertainments.-Mel Lan-fang

A conservative value of the ex- at Lee Theatre, 8' p.m hibits is £350,000.

The exhibition is being held un- der the auspices of the New South Wales Anniversary celebra- tions committee.

The Minister in Charge of the Anniversary celebrations. Mr. Dunningham, when opening the exhibition, said it was fitting that It should be given in Sydney, be- cause Australia, had introduced tr the world. 100 years previously,

of prepaid the system

postage

*Wife, Doctor And, Nurse" stamps. This had since become

universal, QUEEN'S:-

"We Who Are About To Die" OBIENTAL:-

"Make A Wish"

"King Solomon's Mines"

ALHAMBRA:

لام

Over 350 collectors from parts of the world are represent- ed, but the largest individual ex- hibitor is a Victorian with 80,000 stamps.

Malls (Jee Page 18).

Hong

Meetings Annual, of Kong Polo Club, at Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Board Room, 515 p.m.: Christ Church Committee, 6 pm.

Miscellaneous-Memorial Sec- vice for Dr. Herman C. E. Liu at

the Baptist Church, 50 Caine Road.

3. p.m

Moon-Y Moon, 13th Day. RehearsalsA.D.C. at European Y.M.C.A., & p.m.

Social-Weekly, Whist Drive and Tombola at Garrison Bergts.' Mess, Queen's Road. 9 p.n..

Sports (See Page 10), Sunrise.-5.46 a.m. Sunset-6,54

p.m.

Tides-High at 07.38 and 20.10. Low at 00.50 and 13.48.

TOMORROW Moon-IV Moon, 13th, Day.

Supset.-8.54 Sunrise.-5.48 a.m.

Extraordinary precautions have "Bulldog Drummond's Per!" been taken to guard this fortune in staraps, which represents the life work of many collectors. p.m.

STAR:-

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MAJESTIC: verw

"Personal Property" "Firefly"

REVOLT IN THE DESERT

In addition to the armed guards, Tides High at 06:55 and 19.04 who sleep on the premises, dozens Low at 00.10 and 12.58.

of watchers are constantly ..on

duty, and sheets of glass have

been clamped tightly over the ex-similar one for which some collec- hibits, to provide additional pro-tors will go to almost any lengths tection.

These precautions are Deces- sary, because some of the exhibits are irreplaceable, and many are worth fabulous sums. One collec

is often so slight that the ordin- ary person can scarcely see it. A mistake in the printing, a tiny difference in postmarks, a' vari- ance in watermarks in the paper used. are sufficient."

"I Cover the War," a saga of tion alone, in numbers 'not very the newsreel cameramen who defy large, is worth £15,000.

For example, a South Australian death in far countries in order

RARE SPECIMENS

elghtpenny long stamp properly that the world "may have its

The show plece of the collection printed is worth about two shil- thrills, opens today at the Alhamis probably a western Australian lings. It the printing shows the bra, Theatre with John Wayne in

Bwwan stamp. with the swanletter "n" instead of "h" in the the starring role.

printed upside down. There are eight. the stamp is worth £50, Having as its background the only 15 in existence, and they are. MEMORIES OF BUSHRANGERS reyolt of Arab tribes in Mesopota-worth £2.000 each.

Memories of bushranging days mia, the picture tells of a little Little did the process-engraver known episode in current history-realise when he placed a picture are recalled by an envelope to be

seen in the Victorian section. Wayne portrays a daredevit Ameri-of a swan upside down on the

In faded violet Ink it is marked can cameraman who is assigned to stamp blocks that his mistakeOpened by Robbers.

June 30, the dangerous task of photograph-was to make the stamp one of 1851. Chas. Bradshaw, Esq. Mel- ing 1 mysterious and sinister the most sought-after. native chieftain

The difference between a stamp, Supporting the star in the pro-which is almost worthless and a duction's leading feminine role is the beautiful Gwen Gaze, a new- comer to the screen, Miss Gaze portrays the lece of the com- mandant, of British forces in the desert region,

CHORUS GIRLS PAID 25- A WEEK

BRITISH Equity. the Letors' trade union, is to attempt to organise the theatre business in the provinces on the same basds as in London. It is hoped that soon there will be a standard contract and that all disputes will be referred to a. Provincial Thes- tre Council,

An official of Equity, told the News Chronicle: "The managers are almost more anxious than the actors to see the provincial! stage freed from the unfair com- petition of bogus managements and sweated conditions.

WHO TOLD YOU THAT?

'I See your daughter is back -hume again, old boy."

"Yes, she is. We found it too expensive having her living in a flat supporting herself."

bourne/

It had been posted from. Wart- nambool two days earlier and was on its way to Melbourne. when bushrangers "stuck up" the coach, went through the mail and dis- carded the letters after remov- ing money and cheque.

Another envelope with a history is one addressed to Australia that was carried out of Paris by bal- loon during the Prussian slege of 1870 and brought on by boat.

BISHOP CONDEMNS “DYING EUROPE"

More Savage Than For 1,000 Years

FISH TRAVELS

200 MILES

||

IN MONTH

Europe, "more savage than for a thousand years, "Is dying. This is the judgment of Dr. Henry A. Wilson. Bishop of Chelmsford, who, writing

his Diocesan.

In

Chronicle, declares:

“A civilisation- which can give

birth to the shameful persecution

"There are still some bad cases

Of the 528 mallet with tags on cf the Jews. the spraying of of aweating. We had a complaint

them, which were released by the mustard gas. upon. Abyssinian about one management which

Fisheries Department off the villages, the lying and dishonesty was paying its chorus girls 15 a week under the old ving in" South Coast of New South Wales (which make a system and giving the leading girl 10 a week per head to cover the whole catering expenses of 12 people.

only

one. turned up.

has numbered 304,

The first batch of mullet was released in March as part of a "One actor manager complained scheme. to gain information on to us that a touring management the life habits and growth of owed him £33 of his salary after these disha. about four months of work...

FOUND $3, MISSED LIFE SAVINGS

mock of treaties and agreemente. is a civilisation not worth preserving. Western civilisation must be cleansed or eise it had better make way for something better.

nature: '.

an

A panic closely resembling insanity is running like epidemic over the whole world All the fish had numbered cel-

crushing over all the chivalry, luloid discs secured to their gl-decency and humanity in human cover by a metal clip, and records of their weight and length werk

"We used to hear a great déal carefully kept. o

about the progress and enlight Mullet, number 304 had the dis-enment produced by civilisation -tinction of being the first and and education. These refining only tagged Ash to make a re-ap-Influences are now proved to be Dearance here. Strangely enough absolutely futile in effecting any. it reached the Bydney fish mar-real change for the better in kets before the tag was noticed.

human nature.

་་

When three Chinese entered the house of a Chinese woman in It had travelled over 200 mlies

"NO PARALEELS 'IN HISTORY Chemor. Ipoh, recently,, all they between its release, a month pre-

"An unblasert judge would be could get for their trouble was viously, and its capture at Port $3 which was found on the per- Hacking, about 20 miles from driven to the conclusion, that "Europe is a much more, navage: Sydney, son of the woman.

Another 500 mullet will soon be place than it has been for pér- The men after thoroughly ex- turned loose an Fort Hacking and naps 1,000 years, The Executive, Yain has re-t The Chairman of the Yunaan amining every part of the house, the Hawkesbury River: each "It is strange, for instance, mited $100,000 for the rellet of Provincial Government. General left much disappointed. The wolf have a numbered tag attach-to read that during the Crimean War. Russia, the most, backward states a dispatch to the Sin Wan Lung Yun, will shortly mobilize man, however, had her hard-ed to the ill-cover.

inning earned savings in a trunk outside The Fisheries Department Have nation in Europe continued to Pao. The remittance, it is stated, three more divisions of Yunnanese the housei

renewed their offer to pay 2/5 of pay, the Interest on its foreign dis- A was made following the receipt of troops for the front, states

the value of the nth to the lucky loans to the very nations it was This was not telegram from the Becond patch to the Hwa Met Pao. The

haberman who captures one of ghting against. Emergency Service Corps of the Yunnanese troops. It may be re- Yuan, which recently arrived in called, recently gave a creditable LJuan, the temporary seat of the account of themselves in the battle deliver an provincial administration, to make of Taferchwang, where they dog- Investigations into the conditions gedly held their ground in spite Club

tomorrov of the refugees.

of heavy casualties

.a

Mr. Walter Hanming Chen will the tagged mulet, provided the considered at the time to be nsh or the tag with details of the anything extraordinary The Jass fish's measurements, and place, never seemed to have occurre Hotel time and method of capture are that a nation at war wal justined

forwarded to the Department. in breaking Its pledges,

at St. Francis

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1938. -PAGE

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"Massacres like those of the The Western civilisation which general population at Guernica, we are warned will disappear in 13 8 mere by- and women and children in Bar the next was celona, have no parallels in past product of Christianity. It cannot history; probably even the blood-continue to exist unless Chris curdling records of the doings of tianity is present to bring it to the Tartars and Huns had some the birth, day by day, and to redeeming spark of courage and

nourish" it continually.

"It will not require a warto dity for the defenceless

History has, taggot us again and,

drain" that the only rear it. It là dying if not already basis upon which a moral appeal (dead, in more than one Europe can be built is religion.

country"

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