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SOCIAL

WOMEN'S PAGE

WOMAN MISSIONARY

GOING TO WAR

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Journey Over Himalayas.

To The Front

Only woman member of a party of nine. Eva Spicer. forty-year-old English miss'onary, lett Rangoon on January 18. to begin A perilous 2.000-mile journey by road across the Eastern Himalayan Mountains to the war front in China.

She travelling with an ambulance bought in

with money subsoribed in Canada.

Rangoon

For nfteen years. Mas Spice: she would not ke us to boast! has been a member of the London about her.

Missionary Society on

the staff "She is a missionary, and

the

of Ginling College. Nanking. She last thing he would want is ad decided to

ambulanc vortisement. the

Jolt

CANDID CAMERA AT KWANTI RACES

But, of course, I am

Mr. D. Brittain Evans Race meeting, at Kwanti recent ly

ünit while attending a recent in-very proud of her."

ternationa}

missionary con-

ference in Madrus

Miss Spicer la a daughter of the late Sir Albert Spicer, M.P, famcu. paper manufacturer, whose mis- sionary work took him to India. South Africa, China. Australia and Samoa.

Her relatives were reluctant t comment on her adventure. One of her seven sisters said.

"Naturally we are keenly in terested in Miss Eva's travels, bu*

Fled To Britain

And U.S.A.

Round About

"You have about as much privacy these days as a' fish in a. bowl." stated an irate young man as he emerged from a public telephone booth.

to

Mr.

The friend waiting for him laughed

demanded and know the reason for his com- plaint,

"I pick up the telephone and ask for a number." replied the tele-

caught by our camera at the Fanling

(Photo by Lelva).

NEWSETTES

of

the

Tong Tat-hung, Supreme Court. celebrates 53rd birthday. to-day.

A Russian woman was shot and

WEDNESDAY'S

MENU

BREAKFAST

Chilled Papaya Juice Cereal

Brolled Bacon Waffles

Maple Syrup Coffee

LUNCHEON

Vegetable Soup

Heart of Artichoke Salad

Creamer Sweetbreads on Toast

Cauliflower au Gratin

g Cake and Tea

DINNER

Shrimp Cocktail Clear Soup

Pineapple & Cottage Cheese Salad Stuffed Peppers Baked Rice Cakes

Red Cabbage & Carrots Sponge Cake With Vanilla Sauce Coffee

JULIUS HAGEN OWES £416,947

Drew £140 A Week

his severely wounded, while her foreign From One Concern

the

Hagen, the film producer, met re- cently at Mr. Poland's once in

companion had a narrow escape,

Unsecured läbilities totalling when three armed robbers held GERMAN FAMILY phoner. "Back comes the operator

were reported by The annual dinner dance of St. them up while they were walking 416,947

Brenan Road near Warren Official Receiver. Mr. J. L Poland. asking me where I was speaking David's Society will be held at on

The Shanghai, FINED £500,000

robbers when the creditors of Mr. Jullus from." he continued. "Well, I let the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Road, her

have it. I told ner

escaped. the Hotel this evening. telephone; these operators must be! top of the list for dummies." "This Mrs. J. Rakusen of Swan Culbert- The Royal Engineers Old Com-Russell-square. W.C.

An income tax and surtax claim was not all," continued the man son and Fritz returned from a two rades Association are holding a

at Carnival Dance

the for £1.426, ranking preferentially, ecoming annoyed all over again. weeks "visit in Shangha! on Mon- Grand

Peninsula Hotel on Saturday. would absorb the assets of £50. "She demanded to know where the day via the ss. Wingsang. telephone was I told her the

February 18, a feature of which sald Mr. Poland.

Mr. Hagen had told him that his phone was in the telephone booth Mr. D. II. Hazell, of Hazel! and will be a Fox Trot Competition. attached, to a wall, that cinched Company in the Colony salled by The Judges will be Mr. and Mrs. true name was Julius Jacob Kiel- For many the case I thought."

the s.5. Yuen-sang for a business 1. G. Buckle. The Dance Music will menhagen, although By this time the poor man was visit in Singapore.

be supplied by the Dance Band years he had been known as Jullus

Hagen. His parents, who practically biting his ten cent piece

of HMS. Eagle.

from Hamburg, had altered their name by deed poll many years agu to Kleimen-Hagen,

Fines totalling nearly £500.000 and prison sentences of sixteen years were imp.sed recently by a Mainz court on the four partners -the father and three sons of the wholesale wine Arm of Hermann Sichel and Sons:

The four, all of whom have es- caped from Germany, wert charged with contravention of the Nazi currency laws.

Herr Hermann Sichel, head of the firm is now in London with his wife. His three sons, Karl Eugene and Franz, are understood to be either in England or the United States

SPECIAL BRANCHES

The men are alleged to have be- gun to transfer their property fum Germany in 1932.

The money, amounting to hun- dreds of thousands of pounds. is

said to have been taken from the frm's head office In Mainz to specially created branches in Lon- don, Amsterdam, Paris and Bor- deaux

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B

came

to two and his voice went up H.E. the Governor and Lady several pitches. "But no, I get the Northcote will be guests of HE. It is notified that. His Excellency number and it is not the one I had the General Officer Commanding | the Governor in Council has given!

"They had been naturalized Bri- asked for five minutes previously!" and Mrs. A E. Grasett at Flagstaff directions for the rescission of

tish subjects for 48 years, and Mr. Order Then laughing again, he held up House at 8.30 p.m. this evening the

of June 27. 1938

Hagen had been a naturalized Bri- in the published

Gazette of

fish subject all his life in this Mr. P.T. Chen, secretary of the June 28. 1938 15

Government

country. Ministry of Finance, is a visitor Notification No 496 declaring Nothing, sald Mr. Poland, hinged to Hongkong. His friends are ex- Macao to be a place at which tending to him their condolences an infectious OT contagious on the loss of his father.

disease, namely, cholera, prevailed and the same is hereby rescinded.

his ten cent piece and said. "I

goled them, got this slug back."

WEDDING

AT

REGISTRY:

Mr. Wong Yip-wing, merchant "Keep Fit Movement" classes are

conducted of No. 320 Shanghal Street, and being

for Europear. Miss Fung Wal-hing. of No. 3 ladles at the Helena May Institute Sharp Street East, were married Thursdays and at the Kowloon yesterday at the Registry. Supreme Cricket Club on Fridays, from 10.30 Court. Mr. T, J. Gould. Deputy Jam. Registrar of Marriages, performed]

Fung Man-sheung.

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the ceremony, which was witness- Mr. W. O'Neill, loest manager ed by Mr. Tang. Kwong and Mr. for Reuters. left for Home on long leave. During his absence. Mr. C. R. Graham Barrow, for- merly of the Canton office, will be in charge.

Viyella

fashion fabrics

Schiaparelli is showing Viyella models dresses, blouses, suits, sportswear – in all her latest collections. And she herself is styling the new 'Viyella' weaves and patterns now in all the shops. You must see them, they're just perfect for the now shirtings and skirtings and orthodox day frocks.

Look for the name on the selvedge.

From all good stores throughout the Exat, Isuny difficulty, ~piens zorila · Wm Hollina & Co., Ltd. Viyella Hours, Notting. luz, England.

YES! It washes

NO! It never shrinks · ·

DAY NIGHT

WEAR

The Navy, Army, and Air Force Section of the European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, are holding a Services Dance in the West Lounge of the "y" on Monday, February 6. The Dance will be from 9 p.m."

The marriage is announced to take place shortly of Mr. Vincent Malborn Benwell, sanitary Inspec- tor, residing at The Hut, Smith- feld, Kennedy Town, and Misa Kathleen Winch. of No. 180A Nathan Road, Kowibon.

The chairman of the Hongkong Travel Association acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the subscription, for 1039, of $1,000) from the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation.

Mr. T. Bolt, Inspector of Works of the Public Works Department. is proceeding on Home leave with' Mrs. Bolt and his daughters, Evelyn. Kathleen and Margaret, In the sa. Rajputana on Satur- day.

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His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased under section 187 (1) of the Buildings Ordinance, 1935, by order to direct, and it is hereby ordered, that the provisions of section 122 of the said Ordinance shall apply to the New Territories.

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It is notified that a valuation of the tenements in Hongkong, Aplichau. Kowloon and New Kow- loon for the year commencing July 1, 1939, shall be made before the 20th day of April, 1939, or as soon thereafter as may be,

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on the slight difference in the name.

€3,801 DOMESTIC DEBTS

The causes given for the fallure In the appeal case which came are, 1 think, well founded. Mr. before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Hagen was making a very sub- MacGregor. and Mr. Justice J. Astantial income he had £140 a Fraser in the Court of Appeal week from, one large concern-and last Friday, it was erroneously his Babilitles of £3.891 for domes- stated that the appellant wastic debts and loans are, therefore, represented by Mr. H. Somerset not as large as they might seem." "In January. 1937, just before Fitzroy, instructed by Mr. F. H.

In the various Laseby. of Messrs. Russ and Co. the crash came Actually, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy companies he was interested in..

he had a surplus of £8,394. He instructed by Mr.

has had no Income since the be- Sutherton Russ

ginning of 1837.”

was

C. A

BARRISTER AT KWANTI

Mr. H. C. Macnamara (left) well-known focal barrister. and Mr. E. M. Hazeland photo- graphed at the Fanling Race meeting. (Photo by Leica).

A previous failure by Mr. Hagen In July, 1919, was a different state of affairs. He was then in part- nership "with a dim distributing company, which paid aid in the pound on Habilities of £11,568, but Mr. Hagen paid his own debts of £373 in full. He obtained his dis-,, charge in 1929. subject to judg- ment for £1,000, which he paid,

AIR MAILS

The northbound service from. Bangkok via Imperial Airways is due at Kal Tak this afternoon be- tween 4 and 5.p.m. The weekly service of Air France from Hanoi is due at Kai Tak, to-morrow between noon and I p.m.

Pan American Airways China Clipper is reported due.next Wed- nesday the 8th, noon at Kal Tak The return fight will leave Hong- kong the following day. Thursday. at approximately 8.30 am.

13-YEAR-OLD GIRL HAS

SUPERNATURAL

POWERS

Grey-haired jurists and educators, sceptical of new fangled- ideas, but vastly more sceptical of occult magic, recently joined in affirming that a thirteen-year-old schoolgiri, of Jonesville, Louisiana, possesses supernatural powers.

"

Alice Belle Kirby, a farmer's daughter, has repeatedly demon- strated that she can stay suspended in the air.

She can make a 709 lb. piano move at her command. She can The Hongkong Chinese Dancers make a plano play without being Association are to hold

touched by visible hands, and make a ball-j room dancing competition at the tables dance. Hongkong Hotel Grill Room from

All this was pooh-poohed", until

He had previously said. "Even I saw it I wouldn't believe it." To-day. Mrs Wright said: "At her command I have been thrown from tables several times. Two others and myself, each weighing fifteen table stone, were thrown from a

4.30 to 7p.m. on February 3, 4 and 5. three men, each weighing fifteen at one time,

All funds collected will be donated stone, were thrown from a table. "It was no gradual affair. It to the British Fund for the Re- One of the three was Education went to suddenly and dumped us Hef of the Distressed in China, Superintendent H. W- Wright. on the floor."

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939.

POWELL'S WINTER

SALE

NOW PROCEEDING

This year is has more than a special claim for your attention. Owing to the mildness of our present winter an unusual amount of goods are being offered at Bargain Prices. We mention a few.

HALF PRICE Underwear, Hats, Caps, Tien.

SHIRTS & PYJAMAS

Fancy Tunic Shirts at

i

Dress Shirts Sports Pyjamas

33.25 @ for $9.00) $5.75

2.70 8.75

[(Usually $10.50)

BOOTS & SHOES

Oddments in Black & Brown at 69.75 $12.75 $14.75 White $1.95 & $5.75

331%

Discount off Regular Prices. Overcoats, Ready-to-wear Suits, Travelling Rugs,

.Fullovers,

Sweaters Slipovers, Waistcoats, Dressing Gowns, Gloves, Scarves, Suit and Attache Cases.

SOCKS & HOSE

A large assortment of Plain, and Fancy Cashmere at prices, $95 (81.45 $1.75)$1.95

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Grey Flannel Trousers...810.50

20% Discount will be allowed off all other regular

stock except a few proprietary articles. Wm. POWELL, Ltd.

10, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Open until 6 p.m.

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now he says it with orchids and looks

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