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RAJPUTAN CHEEHOLK

P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

Taking Cargo For

Stralis, Java, Burma, Ceylon,

East and South Africa, Australla, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe, PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS

UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M, GOVERNMENT

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. and all callings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice?

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

About

Destination.

1st May. Marseilles & London.. 15th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

20th May. Bombay & Katachi,

From

8.8.

Tons

Hong Kong

CORFU

**Bangalore

*Itajputana RANPURA *Mirzaporo "SOMALI

itawalpindi' 17,000 14,300 8,000

17,000 17,000

7,000

7,000

NALDERA

10,000

• Cargo only.

22nd May Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

29th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 12th June. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 19th June. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

20th June. Bombay Marsellles & London.

+ Calls Casablanca. All vessels may call at Malta.

* Calls Tangier.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILING

TILAWA

SANTHIA TALMA SIRDHANA B,000

10,000 8,000 10.000

11th May

22nd May

5th June

10th June

SHIRALA

8,000

3rd July..

-EASTERN

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

TALMA

CORFU

Port Singapore,

Swettenham

Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.. ·

& AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS

7,000 10.30, 1st May.

7,000

7,000

4th June Maalla, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, 2nd July,

Melbourne & Hobart.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

TANDA

7,000

*Bangalore

8,000

10,000

14.500

0.000

10,000

7,0001

Sirdhana

NALDERA

NANKIN

• Cargo only.

6th May. Shanghal & Japan. 11th May. Shanghal & Japan.

13th May Amoy, Shanghul & Japan, 13th May. Shanghai & Japan.

27th May. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan,

Shanghai & Japan, 3rd June. Shanghal & Japan.

27th May.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notire..

For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbook, etc., apply to

The Agents. Phono 27721

MACKINNON MACKENZIE CO

RECIO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG

THE

BLUE FUNNE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST | PASSENGER SERVICES

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE

ANTENOR Balls 6 May for Marselles, London, Rotterdam

AJAX

& Glasgow. salls 19 May for Marseilles, Casablanca, Landas Reiterdam; Hamburg & Glasgow

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

PROTESILAUS salls 23 May for Havre, Liverpool, and

NEW YORK SERVICE

Bromborough.

RHESUS sails 7 May for Boston, N.Y.. Philadelphia & Baltimore via Manilo, Straits

PACIFIC SERVICE

& Cape of Good Hope. (via Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama) TYNDAREUS calls 18th May for Victoria, Vancouver &

INWARD SERVICE

Seattle

EURVI (CHUS Due 1 May. From Europe via Straits CALCHAS

Due 3 May. From UK vla Straits MENESTHEUS Duo 9 May. From U. K. via Straits #pecial reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation. For freight, passage rates and information apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Tel. 30333.

Agents.

-1, Connaught Road, C.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 29,-

Mrs. Simpson Nears End Of Divorce Fight

London, Apr. 28. It is understood that formall- the ties, la connection with. application. on behalf of Mrs. to have her Ernest Simpson, divorce decreo nisi made abso- lute, were completed to-day,

Before an application can be made in the Divorce Division cerlain preliminary proceedings have to be complied with Nomerset House and notice of not less than six days must be given.

which The first day on

the decreo can be made absolute therefore will be Monday next. -Reuter.

Third 5-Year Plan Needed

Moscow, Apr. 29.

In view of the inet that the second five-year plan has been mostly ful filled before schedule, the Council of People's Commissars has decided to request the State Planning Commis

the Commisaars of the sion and Soviet Union to complete an outline of the third five-year plan and pre- to the sent for confirmation Council by July 1.

Eight Counts Of Burglary Of Burglary Lengthy Police Search

Rowarded

. After two months of intensive investigation by the police, Chan Hung, 20, unemployed, described na the man who has been responsible for numerous burglaries in the Wan- chni district since 1930, appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the morning Central Magistracy tits charged on eight counts of burglary Involving goods valued at $800.

Sub-Inspector Darkin stated that defendant's method of entry was to climb up a drain pipe and, with an expanding jack, forced the iron Bars of a window. Some of the stolen property has been located in various pawnshops and it was known that some of it was disposed of in Macao.

After defendant's admission lo ave previous convictions, Sub Inspector Darkin asked that a very severe penalty be imposed on defendant.

On

An additional charge of returning from banishment Wes preferred The third five-year plan is already against defendant. His plea was not taken and the hearing of the case being discussed in the

was fixed (or May 4 at 4 p.m. Reuter,

press,

BRITISH TRADE

OVERSEAS

WHAT LATEST FIGURES DISCLOSE

overseas

London, Apr. 28, The Board of Trude has now calculated the volume of trade in the first quarter of the year, the corresponding compared with periods of 1938 and 1935, by valuation of the trade of all three periods at the average volumes the whole of 1935.

re-

of

Comparing the first quarter of this of last year with the first quarter

United exports of year

Kingdom goods increased in volume by 10 per cent, re-exports declined by 4.5 per cent, and imports Increased by 2.5 per cent.-British Wireless,

Just Arrived

ex S.S. Rawalpindi

from

1937.

No Mercy For WAR HERO IN PRISON Do You Smoke?,

Cameramen On Aerodrome

Burbank, Apr. 28.

Guards, have been ordered to "shoot the esteras out of the hands" of photographers in to vicinity of the Lockheed Aircraft' Corporation near this California town, following the publication of a picture of the U.S. Army's "mystery" stratosphero plano which is awaiting tests here. armed Guardis,

with rifles, have been stationed at the Lock heed test field-United Press.

MORE HEROIN

CASES

FOR FRAUD

(Continued from Page 1.)

Metropole, Hotel n's a boxing tutor. Whilst here he became bankrupt.

In 1907 ho went to Malaya, where, according to London police records. he was associated with `n woman Bus- pected of espionage, and consequently came under suspicion. ChristlewNX also well-known in Singapore as a bookmaker.

PRIVATE TO COLONEL Leaving Malays on the outbreak of the Great War, Christie, enlisted as private in the British Army Gal- lantry and a flair for soldiering won ilm the command of the 23rd Bat- tallon Highland Light Infantry. His name was mentioned in despatches, and he became Lieutenant-Colonel WAB DW

awarded the O.D.E. (Military: Division).

After

the. war, Det. Sergt. O'Sullivan went on, Christie returned to Malaya, where he came under the notice of the police owing to the sale of a large consignment of arms, He later was associated with Marshal Chang Tso-lin in China Christle disappeared for some time after obtaining $5,000 from a Chinese by issuing a post-dated cheque.

ENOUGH DRUG FOR MILLIONS OF PILLS

Stated by the prosecution to have been in possession of enough heroin to make a few million pills, three Swatow Chinese, Chan Wing, Tang be-

ARMS DISCOVERED Chol and Ng Kim, were brought fore Mr. K. Keen at the Central

His home in Shanghai was raided His Worship sentenced defendant to two months on each of the first with possession of the drug at No. French had been told by a Chinese Magistracy this morning, charged

by the French police in 1925. The six charges, the sentences to be con- 360 Des Voeux Rond West, yesterday,

Christie's gun-running secutive,

the remaining two charges, he was also sentenced to call the ease would be for conunitial, The police found a

Sentor Revenue Offeer Grimmitt general of

activities.

consignment two months, the sentences tu run ant added that he understood Mr.

rifles, carbines and revolvers, concurrent with the others.

in-shing Lo would appear for the of

large together with 20,000 rounds of am

He was charged along munition. defence. Defendants had a

of heroin and strychnine, with an American, a Gerinan and a quantity

Defendants were remanded for one Frenchman, and received the senteree

that cost his rank sufficient for several million pills.

and tile. week, on bait of $10,000 each.

He married an American woman A second case of

possessio

of drug

at Kinklang in 1928, but Four came before Mr. K.

deserted her. Opening a business fa Fan Kam- Swatow men. Ma Ming, To Wai, 10, unemployed, with a

shing. Wong Chiu, and a juvelle, Shanghai the same year, he dis long list of larceny charges, appeared Yuen King, were charged with the appeared after passing a number of before Mr. W. Schoßeld at Central Magistracy this morning. possession of heroin at No. 07 Con-valueless cheques. Six charges in respect of different naught Road West. Senior Revenue Officer Grimmitt said the amount of houses were preferred against him. pills found numbered about 150,000, formal remand of one Sub-Inspector Darkin said defen-He asked for dant was not actually a burglar. week, which was granted. Though his method of entry into a house was similar to that of Chan drain llung, namely climbing up a pipe. To Wai did not force an entry but selected open windows. Defen dant had been in operation from October, last year, until March this year.

ANOTHER CASE

Some of the stolen properly had been recovered, the total value of which was about $500. Defendant was arrested at the same time and place as Chan Hung.

Defendant was sentenced to one month on each charge, consecutive, and was recommended for banish

ment.

BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION

soon

AGAIN DESERTER Nothing more was heard of Christie until he again appeared in a Court in Hongkong, charged with obtaining $20,000. by fenud in a huge arms deal. He was acquitted. Deported from China, and "unwanted" in Hongkong, he went to London and married again. After obtaining huge sums of money from the woman, he deserted her.

During the evidence at the London trial this month I was disclosed that been Christie had in recent times shipping arms to. Abyssinia and, through France, to Spain.

Simla, Apr. 28. Casualties suffered by the Infantry into action Brigade which went

the Some 20 or 30 years ago, Christie against hostile tribesmen in

22, was a popular figure in Hongitang. Khaisora Valley to-day

He was the middleweight champion killed and wounded.

total

It is belleved the tribesmen of the Orient at one singe, and his suffered heavily.

The Fakir of Ipi's nen attacked

were severely British camp and punished.-Reuter Bulletin Service,

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New York, Apr. 23.- General Pershing, the "American commander-in-chief during: Great War, Admiral Hugh Rodman, and others of the American delega- tion to the Coronation, salled to-day abbard the President Harding.

General

cral Pershing has been furnish- ed with a special self-designed uni- form, described as the most gorgeous

over worn by an American officer. It cost over $800,--Reuter. "

NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS

London, Apr. 28. The First Lord of the Admiralty announced in the Common, at ques- tton-time that contracts for three battleships of the 1937 programme, which will be named Anson, Jellicoe and Beatty: were being allocated res- to Messrs. John

Brown, Hunter

Lyne,

and

Richardson, Wallsend-on- with machinery by the Wallsend Silpway and Engineering Company; and the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company-British Wire-

U.S. COMMODITY: PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are Issued by Reuter.

May July

Now York Cotton

13.12/10 12.05/07 13.20/27 12.08/13.00

13.02/02

13.00/00

12.75/75

12.70/71-

12.72/72

13.05/05 12.70/70

October December

12.07/07

March

Junuory Spot

May July

September

13.72 New York: Rubber

December .. January March.....

Sales for the

May

13.55

22.20/25 20.70n 32.47/47

22.43/30

22.50/50 23.470

20.83/05

20.00/95

21.01/01 21.000

22.42/42 21.00/00

Chicago

e day!!

12,700 tons.

Wheat

..... 128/128% 120 /120% July 1174/117 11734/117% September 1145/1144 114738/110

Tuesday's sales: 30,014,000 bushels.

Chicago Corn

.... 12746

130%/12044

1172/117% 118/119

September 109%/10945108/108

May

July

July

May

October

Winniper Wheat

120/120 127 127-

110%/1152 1104/110%/ 12014/120 1294/1294

York Bldg,, Hongkong.

“GINGER" JANE IS IN THE NAVY NOW!

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