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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST

16,

1938.

The

FIRST TARZAN: STORY OF HOAX

Hongkong Telegraph THAT TRICKED THE

EIGHTH ANNUAL AMATEUR

PHOTOGRAPHIC

COMPETITION

June-September, 1938

CASH

$250 PRIZES $250

(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

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.

Prizes will be allotted as follows:

SECTION ONE:

FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Filma Double 8 Camera, Streamline Model, four speeds self-setting footage indi- cator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device. Complete with ease. Donoted by Filme Depot., Hongkong

Second Prize: $10 Cash, 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 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."

Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."

Third Prize: $15 Cash, 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 Telegraph."

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 Rites will govern the 8-Pictures submitted in Competition:

1.-The Compeition is confined exclusive

ly to amateur photographers. -No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade la permitted to compete.

3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitora sending in what are adjudged to be the best photograph In each Section. Each entry must be form entry by on accompanied which will be published during the period of the Competition, and which must be pasted on back of entry. 8-All photosraphs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Tang. kong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible.

€----No responsibility will be accepted for

repia tone should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white.

9. No pleture to be entered la more

Than une Section,

19.-Mounts to be only white or cream. and, except in the Children's Section. must be of one of the following nizes:-10" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by

No. correspondence will be entered

inio in connection with the Com- petition, 12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, nge and address on the entry form, counter signed by a parent,

13.--Members of the Staff of the Hong- Kor grep and the South China are not permitted to

Morning compete.

finat.

non-delivery af, losa of, or damage to 14.—The declsiant of the Judges shall be entries. 1-Ali entries to be either black, sepla, 19—At the conclusion of the Competition,

pletures, and must the entries will be returned to competitors or faned mounted. Hand-coloured photograplis on application at the Telegraph aBices are ineligible.

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY.

within seven days.

ENTRY FORM

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

DATE

Please use block letters and paste this

an back of each Entry, If entered lo Children's countersign pere.

Section Larent please

WORLD

"Back To Nature" For

A Fortune

JOE KNOWLES, of Seaview, Washington, is one of the big attractions on the Pacific coast this summer.

Joe Knowles won fame first as the? man who went back to nature naked and Ilved in the wilds by his bare hands,

Later he became more famous us one of the biggest hoaxers the world hus known.

PUL

IN WILD FOREST Preachers told their congregations ne was like John the Baptist.

On the day Joe was dressed only in a bearskin and was armed like Hercules, with man-size club.

TWO BITTEN BY DOGS

A dog owned by Mr. F. W. Quark,

in the

George Wong, who address. Rame

+++++++++++

LETTERS TO THE

EDITOR

QUARRELS WITH JOHN BLUNT

To the Editor.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Women Kept Death Secret

Three Months

NO MAN IN HOUSE. FOR 30 YEARS

Police officers and a doctor who entered a house in Minnis Road, Birchington (Kent), recently, wore the first men to cross the threshold since 1907.

Inside they found a woman dead.

For three months the two spinster daughters of Mrs. Florence Matilda Ward (84) had carried on their normal life with their mother's body lying in a darkened bedroom at the rear of the house.

Sir, I crave a little space in your few remarks concerning the penul valuable paper in order to make a timate and concluding paragraph of John Bant's article which appeared In Saturday's Issue of consider hat Frankly speaking, John Blunt's whole article is open to slurp criticism, as it has undoubted-

been written on the strength of An odd-job man from the village

named Hutchings facts based on a merely

ly

a

Faw

the body

their

knowledge of local condJohn To-day Joe Knowles lives, uzspro- } of Robinson Roati, was taken to the Blunt's ignorance as to local condi through the window recently and priately, near Cape Disappointment, Kennedy Town Depot for observation tions as they really exist beneath the called the doctor.

For hours afterwards crowds walted aitnost alene with the Nature which yesterday, after it had bitten a three-surface being only too apparent.

year-old him on the front pages.

In comparing the scale of wages outside the double-fronted red brick 280,000 was real

excited which HAS Twenty-five years ago

paid by foreign and Chinese firms, villa Bosion broke through The box was treated at Lite Queen John Blunt, for reasons best known curiosity for more than 30 years, people at police cordons to cheer him.

Mary Hospital,

to himself, omitted to mention that Women fought to kisa him, and

An amalı, Lam Chau-kwai, 15, of, while the average

MAID NEVER SAW THEM employee of teel his biceps.

Duke Street, was bitten by an Chinese firm is uneducated and only

Since they went to Birchington from unknown dog in Prince Edward able to speak his own language, the Road near Embankment Road yester- Chinese employee of a foreign firm, Brighton in 1937, Mrs. Ward and her day, She received treatment in the who is sometimes, not always paid daughters, Gertrude and Beatrice, Kowloon Hospital, but the dog has a higher wage, possesses a knowledge lived in complete seclusion from ths

of English and knows at least some outside world. not been traced.

thing about typewriting, shorthand, shipping. book-keeping, banking or

Even the mall employed for years in order to acquire a knowledge of at the house had never seen her em- Any

these

subjects, the A. Chinese firm in Lyndhurst

yee of a foreign firm ployers. They locked themselves in Chinese employee

one room white she worked. Denise way defrauded of $102 worth had to spend yours of harte su

Candles Chinese at school

expend much money, Fires were seldom Ht. of alma by two unknown yesterday. The men entered the not only on account of schout fees, were mostly used to provide the fight- Shop and ordered the Alm to be but also in connection with the pur-ing.. delivered to an address in Chiu Lung chase of books, etc. The higher

he receives, he Is Mother and daughters never went it change of out, except to take occasional walks be at night, dressed in black and heavily therefore

the veiled. In the earlier days they made cycle runs along the sea front.

Two months before his Boston re- walked ception Joe Knowles had into the wild forests of Maine, ked except for a loincloth.

i had announced to the world that he was going back to nature. He was going to live alone is wilderness, nding food and shelter by his own elemental strength and canning.

He also announced that he would keep in touch with the world, by Beratching a diary on a phere of birch

it under bark and leaving sump for a trapper to pick up.

a tree

The trapper would duly forward the birch bark record to a Boston newspaper.

Breathlessly the world waited for the outcome of the adventure. The birch bark diaries were found and published.

Nature

The world learned how Man had it his fire with sticks, built himself lean-to, had caught sh with his hands, run down a deer and strangled it.

They read how Nature Man met a bear.

CAUGHT BY TRAPPER

Nature Man clubbed the beast to death, slammed it, and wore the skin as a trophy and his only covering.

That was the story of Joe Knowles, the Nature man

...

FILM FIRM VICTIMISED

one af

Street, and when this had been done wage which to fet

they disappeared without paying for the goods.

U.S. COMMODITY

PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

New York, Aug. 15. New York Cotton

Opening

New York Rubber

15.78b/85a

Closing

8.15/16 3.24/24 8.24 N

8.27/27.

15.86 700

15.08 /00 15.90 14.00 10.07 /07 18.086/154 16.15b/20a

Oct.

8.12/12

Dec.

8.20/20

Jan. (1039)

Mar. (1039)

8.21/21 8.23/24

May (1030)

8.20/26

July (1939)

Spot

8.29/29

8.29/29

4.31/31

8,27

Sept.

but the story Isn't complete. The rest of it be- longe

to Michael McKeogh, now a civil servant in Boston.

Dec.

Mar,

May

Dec.

Sept.

May

01/01

G0%/40%

04 704

6294/0231

65/05

Saturday's Sales:-

13,580,000 bushels. Chicago Corn

751% 51 4876/4814

Way back in 1912 Michael was a free lance newspaperman with a load of ideas.

He met Joe Knowles in a bar, Joe was boasting of what he could do in the wilds, quoling early life experi- eher as a trapper.

To-day's sales:-1,120 tons,

Chicago Wheat

Michael McKeogh had a brain-❘ Sept.

wave.

So he pushed Joc into the woods, as Nature and Joe began his fe Man.

Joe should become the second Robinson Crusoc. "We'll make a inillion." he told Jue,

Dev,

May

Ct. Dee. Alay

McKeogh sat at a typewriter in a Ittle woodland cabin, hammering out the "birch bark" messages, white Jor skulked.

He just lay around the cabin sun- bathing and refused to go out and tackle nature, in, the raw.__A_trapper ran Joe to earth and had to be put on the payroll.

But for was still not inclined to fight Nature with his bare Asts.

Urged on by the typewriter-pound- ing McKeogh he went out and found adend deer and skinned it, but the stench of the skin was so terrible that McKeogh flung it away.

HIDING IN CABIN When anooping game wardens and reporters made things dangerous Na- ture Man hid in the cabin undier McKeogh's bunk.

Then things got too hot; Nature Man came back to Boston. Nature Man was given a formal reception.

At Harvard University the Director of Physical Instruction declared that Knowles had grown and that "his physical condition proves the selenti- fe worth of this remarkable experl- ment."

To-day McKeogh sometimes recalls The past and murmurs:

"We could have made a million if Joo had acted right."

Winnipeg Wheat

50%/50% 4734/475% 50%/304

69/687% 67/67% 68 7677% 057/68

6078/087%

160 Naval Men

I

Taken

Ill

that the

it, may as a fair return capital which he has invested.

passing, I would challenge John Blunt to prove that foreign firms pay an uneducated Chinese, of the type employed by Chinese firms, a higher wage than that paid by Chinese firms, after taking into consideration deduce tions for, living expenses. Finally, I do not think

T advice which John Blunt offers in the last paragraph of his article is likely to be followed by Chinese firms at this stage, particularly in view of the fact that it commun knowledge that the majority of foreign firms in Hongkong: ure nowadays doing their very level best to lower the scale of if not wares to a point equal to, below, that paid by Chinese firms for uneducated and unskilled labourers.

Y. K. CHAN.

Malla. About 60 men, including members) of the I.A.F. squadron attached to the aircraft-carrier Glorious, have been admitted to hospital_from_the| R.A.V. station Suffering from food

Glarious and LM, destroyer Wishart were due to sail on a cruise but their departure has been post- poned pending the recovery of the

nen.

In London the Admiralty confirm- that about 60 men from IIM.S. Glorious have been taken with Malta. It was food poisoning at pointed out that there was no reason to suppose that any of the men are seriously 1.

nan,

But Joc, retired Nature appears to be content with the tri- bute of trippers. And he has a wife, ugift for painting, pleking from the tide and Nature.

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary, issued at 3.15 p.n. yesterday, reads:

The market opened firm wilk more enquirers at lower levels.

Buyer

Hongkong Bank $1.435 Ilonakonian) 19h Union Insurance $495 11. Fire Insurance $203 Union. Wnternola $ ILK. & K. Wharves 3128 Providents (01) $3.55 Pravidents (New) $3.40 Staub 99.00

1.&. Hotrin 30% IK Lands $304 HK. Tramways $17.05 x.. Peak Trans (d) $0% Star Ferries $78

11.10

China Lights (0) China Lights (New) 58 FK. Electrics $603

Telephones (Old) $26,20 Cements $16.05

1.K, apes $4.30 Dalry Farms 5251⁄4á Watsons $12

Construction $1.00

K. Govt. 47 Loan G250% pm. Consolidated Chhia Prov. (DE), $7,10 Consolidated Chinn Pruv. (New) $0.00

Selicts

11. & S. Hotel 0.83

Raubs $10/10.30 1.K. Lands $3815

Sales

K. Tramways $17.05/19 Dairy Farm $3

Antanioks P. 33 Atoks 32

Baguio Gold 21 Denguel Consol 11.30 Coco Grove .455 Consolidated Mines 0945 Demonstrations 27 I. X. L. 03

Paracale Gumaus 13 San Mauricio .04 Suyor Conan) -17!1⁄2 United Paracales 3314

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The only animal on the premises was a dog, and when a police officer

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RECENT. CHANGES Villagers report having seen many changes at the house since the middle of April.

Netting Whs removed from the windows, exterior woodwork wns given a new coat of paint, the con- survatory at the front was white- washed.

Curtains appeared at windows pre- vlnusly shuttered-windows where curious villagers used to gather years ago to hear lovely singing und play. ing on the piano that came from in- side,

For the first time since their rest- dence in the village the two daughters were seen taking afternoon walks. Once in the last few days they were driven out in n ear with drawn blinds,

When the police entered it was found that every room was uncar- peted. Large cupboards all over the house were found without exception to be screwed up.

After the discovery of the boby the house was closed and accommodation secured for the two daughters in the village.

Mrs Ward is believed to have been the widow of a doctor who died about 35 years ago. Beatrice, the elder daughter, is 43, bat her sister docs nut kuow her nge.

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