The
Hongkong Telegraph
EIGHTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1938
CASH
$250 $250
PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph") TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
BELL & HOWELL FILMO
DOUBLE EIGHT
MOVIE CAMERA & CASE, VALUED $288
(Donated by Filmo Depot, Hongkong)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION DE LUXE
1
PHOTO ALBUM
Hand-made in leather by a renowned Vienna
artist to the value of $100.00
Donated by:-HELMUT NOCHT
To be awarded to the best action study, including sequence shots. Open to all classes.
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE: FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Elmu Double 8 Cutera, Streamline Model, four speeds self-setting footage indi- cator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device, Complete with case, Donated by Filme Depot, Hongkong.
Second Prize: $40, Cush, donated; by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION TWO:
GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LAND- SCAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN &
ANIMAL STUDIES).
First Prize: $50 Cush, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION THREE: STUDIES IN STILL LIFE First Prize: $30 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $20 Cash, donated by The Hongkong Teicgraph."
Third Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
SECTION FOUR: SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS First Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
COMMENCE SENDING IN YOUR ENTRIES NOW
RULES
The following Rules will govern the 3-Pictures submitted in
Competition:
1- Competition is confined excjualvo
ly to amateur photographers, 2-No employee or rever of any firm
In the photographic trade is permitted to compete.
3 The prizes will be awarded to the computera Bending in what Are
an entry form
sepia tona should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white.
-No picture to be entered in more
than one Section,
10.—Mounts to be only white or cream, and, except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following size:-16" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by I".
adjudged to be the best photograph 11-No. Correspondence will be entered in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by
into in connection with the Com- which will be published during the petition, period at the Competition, and which 12-Entries in the Children's Section muİNA must be pasted on back of entry.
banr the entrant's name, age and
alted by a parent.
All photographis enterer must have address on the entry form, counter been taken in the Colony of Hong-
kong. Photographs which have been 13.-Members of the Staffs of the Hong- already entered in other Competitions kong Telegraph and the South Chiňa are Ineligible.
Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
6-No responsibility will be accepted for
non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to 14.-The doctalons of the Judges shall be, entries.
dral.
All entries to be either black, sepin, 18—At the conclusion of the Competition,
or toned pictures, and must be
mounted. Hand-coloured photograplis
are ineligible.
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY.'
entries will be returned to competitors an application at the Telegraph allices within seven days.
ENTRY FORM
SECTION NAME
ADDRESS
DATE
Pienso use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry. If entered in Children's 'Baction parent please countersign... nAVE,
THE HONGKONG
CORRIGAN LOSES LICENCE
Unable To Fly His Plane From Eire
TELEGRAPH,
Washington, July 10. ̧
Douglas Corrigan, 33-year-old flown the Atlantic by mistake, has been deprived of the licence for his plane by the Air Commerce Bureau hert.
Irish-American who claims to have
This
move prevents Corrigan leaving Dublin by alr in his own machine-Reuter Bulletin.
Corrigan landed in Eire yesterday Atlantic, but declared he had intended to fly from New York to Los Angeles, non-stop, and owing, to failure of his very few instruments took an easterly instead of a westerly course.
after u 20-hour crossing of the
His plane has been described as being held together with wire and his de-icer equipment was a long rod, PUNISHED AND
CONGRATULATED
Dublin, July 19.
The Irish Customs Department has detained Corrigan's battered plane as
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1988:
RANDOM RAMBLINGS
By "John Blunt"
Years spent in the East have fashioned me after that "Wise old owl who sat on an oak; The more he heard the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard... and I took "a pattern from that, old bird."
That excellent axiom is unfortunately a thing of the past. Having recently returned to Hongkong, I resigned myself to settling back into my inarticulate niche, but alas! life has changed so depressingly that one feels goad- ed into uttering his cry to swell the pandemonium of strange wailings,
Into
HON. PAUL IVY STERLING
Society, in the generally accepted assure themselves that their is no sense, has disintegrated into so many prior claim to their charity in Hong Young men with communistic lean-practical, diametrically opposed fragments, kong itself. Let us be sensible and and moreover, let 13 ings weakly preach Insidious fallacies not forget that all cranks, in no'mat- which they have become en-ter what sphere, are a menace. mashed, Bereft of loyally, devoid of common-sense,
they imagine that by Balling
athwart convention they will bring about the
the millenium. Clerics delve a result of the action of the U.S. Deness and preach anything from "red"
nto political crazi partment of Commerce in suspending doctrines to the creed of dictators. Its certificate.
They wantonly sacrifice the simplici- ty and beauty of the Diving and
(Continued from Pago 6.) spiritual for the material and the evidence. Confronted with these secular. Some of them even become snobs and then wonder why they facts, Mr. Sterling decided to are not permitted. men. Humility is as foreign to them claring that by such means, it
to patronise auso the simple affirmation, de as is vanity to a leper. 1 am, of would be more likely to secure examples... the not
speaking of the unfortunate truth from a witness than all ment Buildings and gave Premier de inaincere, the eine spilt over the with native customs,
hypo-mongers, the pseudo-attempts to comply Much plety is being
and the remember, Hongkong always has had continues to the present day. refugee problem. As long as I can form initiated by Mr. Sterling its mas
masses of destitute beings, who,
Corrigan states that he will en- deavour to obtain the release of the plane and, if successful, will ny to London within the next few days, after which his plans are indeflaitc. However, he muy fly to Glasgow to put the plane on exhibition at the British Empire Exhibition.
Corrigan to-day visited the Govern-
Valera a first-hand account of his amazing fight,
ic awoke at 9 am and read a sheaf of congratulatory cables from all over the world. One was from Henry Ford, the motor magnate.
course
the
in the early hours of the morning Transferred To Ceylon can be seen searching the garbage MAY CIRCLE GLOBE
bing for snacks
of food,
Apart from the long con- or some troversy over the form of oath discarded trifle which Corrigan's casual comment that his few cash at a marine dealer's store! to be a administered to Chinese
may fetch a plane was "good enough to fly around What of these? The Street Sleepers witnesses, there was much evid- the world" has led some to belief that Society was founded some years ago ence to show that the Supreme the idea of circling the earth is dawn-to assist them. The S.P.C. cares for Court was not functioning
the children, but both of these
H
trans-Atlantic exploit crented a sensation in newspapers un both sides of the English Channel,
Hundreds gathered outside the U.S. Legation to catch a glimpse of the jaunty Irish-American-United Press,
HAD MAP OF RUSSIA
San Diego, July 19. It is suspected that Corrigan had every intention of Blying around the worki.
It is recalled that he was found in possession of a map of Soviet Russia shortly before his hop from Los Angeles to New York-United Press
PUBLIC MAY BACK HIM
or
has socletics complain of lack of funds well as it had been originally regularly, being utterly unable to hoped, and the Attorney-General cope with the demand
on their meagre resources.
was widely blamed by his con- remember great impulse stirred to assist these temporaries on account of what and the poor within our gates, and was alleged to be glaring in- yet, people are thinking in terms of efficiency. Indeed, whether this the foreign blind
Indifees, apparently indictment is entirely
true or to the prior claims of those born (many of not cannot be said, but at least, them) within our gates. Let us dis- as was remarked, at the time, courage cant and humbug and take "there were two Police. Magis stock of ourselves and our Colony trates and an Attorney-General, before we invite Chinn's destitute to all well paid and certainly not dock here. I know the strict sense friends, and I am sure that they will after Session, cases of justice inherent in our Chinese over-worked, and yet, Session handful of foreigners down for trial which, even with- and a sprinkling of Chinese wish to feed, house and clothe refugees, let, out the handling of prisoners' them put their hands in their own counsel, fell to pieces by their pockets, and then announce the own limit to which they are prepared to through some legal flaw, which inherent weakness, and go. But Arst of all, let even them it was said an attorney's appren- tice at Home would be ashamed to have overlooked."
Los Angeles, July 10. A movement is under way here to finance Corrigan for a flight around the world by means of subscriptions from the public.—United Press.
FILM COMPANY OFFER
Hollywood, July 19. Hal Roach Studios have cabled Corrigan an offer of a film test and a contract if the test is successful. ---- United Pr€53,
WASHINGTON STEPS IN
Washington, July 19. The Department of Commerce hasi cancelled Corrigan's experimental licence in order to prevent him from attempting a westward trans-Allantic night.
The Assistant Secretary of Com- merce said that the punishment would involve the suspension of the pilot's certificate for from 30 to 00 days-United Press.
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Queen Marie's
were aet
Consequently, in view of this
state of affairs, when the news of the appointment of Mr. Ster-
Lieling to a Pulsne Judgeship in
Body to
In State
A
Bucharest, July 19. Queen Marie's body has been removed to King Carol's Palace at Penesh, outside Sinaia, where it will lie in slate for two days, On Thursday special train will carry the body to Bucharest and on Sunday the entire Royal family will accompany the re- mains to the nearby monastery of Curta de Arges, the burial place of Rumasilan Royalty.—- United Press.
MAFOO KICKED AT VALLEY
IT'S TRUE!
JEANETTE MEDONALD
HER OWN WHITE PONY Z
LED CARILLO OWNS THE LARGEST AUTHENTIC COLLECTION EARLY CALIFORNIA COSTUMES AND RELICS Paff his own
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LEONARD PENN 15 A DETECTIVE LIEUTENANT ON Ke LOS ANGELES POLICE FORCE
New York, N. Y.-"IT'S TRUE! that in-spite of her fame. Jeanette MacDonald is very studious," says Wiley Padan. "At one time she studied ballet dancing under Albertina Rasch. Every day when not working, she takes a French lesson and also a sing- ing lesson. No plans interfere with these, for she adjusts her social activities around these two all important lessons. Also on her program are an early morning swim, a Spanish lesson and usually a tennis lesson!".
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Coylon was received in the Colony in late October 1856, few, if any, of the community show- ed signs of regret. In fact, the local opinion of him was that he as tolerated but not liked, nor "generally esteemed for forensic Hong Kong Depot Tel. 21279.. powers." The preas announce ment of the day was succinet in its summary: "Both the learn- ed gentleman and the community were congratulated on his re- moval to a newer and richer field of inaction, and as for the Ceylon folks, in the words of Burns- We wish them luck o' the prize man."
The Hon. Mr. Sterling spent While exercising a horse in Happy somo eight years in his new Valley yesterday, a mafoo. Chin post, when he retired on a pen- Wing-kin, 35, of the Hongkong Jockey sion. Died at Southsen, Hamp- Club, wris kicked in the abdomen shire, August 23, 1879, aged 75
and was later admitted to the Queen Mary hospital for treatment.
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