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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 29, 1938.

EX-CITY CLERK AS KING

CHINA"

Made Fortune From Spain

BECAUSE, in two years, he has made a fortune running ships to Spain, Mr. Jack Albert Billmeir, 37-years-old London shipowner, is called "The King of Spain" in the City. Now he may soon be called "The King of China" too.

His fleet of 22 British-registered ships is now being used to take arms and food supplies for the Chinese Government as well as for the Spanish Government.

Recently 6,000 tons of arms and ammunition were unloaded from his steamer Stanhall at Rangoon, Burma.

The arms, which come from the Soviet Union, will be trans- ported to Chinn by barges und special convoys of lorricy,

The Stanhall, which is owned.

Now he has bought a large house by the Stanhope Steamship Com- in Bishop-avenue, East Finchley, and pany, Ltd., of which Mr. Billmeira forge country residence near Whit- la principal hareholder, has for stable, the past two years been engaged on Spanish war trade.

She arrived off Rangoon, and Tay outside the harbour strongly guarded, waiting for permission to unload,

While Burmese officials were wondering yesterday whether the unloading of the arms might cause international compileations, Mr. Billmeir Was spending a qulot week-end out of town. "I'm not going to my where he is," hia secretary sak.

publicity at nil,"

Kent. Bishops-avenue called "Millionaires' Avenue" locally because so many rich men live there,

"MADE A MILLION'

Many rival shipowners say that Bilimele made nearly * million pounds in Spanish war trade.

and by

But prohibllive Insurance charges, Iow cargo rales. heavy risks of shelling General Franco's grunboals and aeroplanes have cut down the to he

"big money" that was "We want noi

HIS BIG CHANCE

made. Owners

the. 140 British-!

OF

UFS

If new surveys of British Guiana prove promising, according to Prime Minister Neville Cham- berlain, Britain will lease 10,000 square miles "on Generous terms" 10 Jewish refugees from Germany. This is a view of Stabroek Market in Georgetown, capital city. British Gulana's principal products

are rice, coffee, coconuts, diamonds and rum,

MOTHER NOT SURE

WHICH IS

WHICH

DENHAM (Bucks).

Jack Billmeir's rise to one of the registered ships trading to Spain are TONY and Monty Maling, eleven-year-old twins, are so alike strongen places in British shipping beitinning to look elsewhere.

has been metcorle. He was a ship- brokers' clerk, und the Stanhope Stearnship Company, Ltd.,

with

their

two ships, were almost unknown.

Then war broke out in Spain. Quickly. Billracir, who

Dìump,

Imported Eggs Kill A Girl

their

Girl Tenor Dies

In Hollywood

Ruby Helder, the tle girl with the man's voice, who sat on the radle some years ago, bas died In Hollywood.

Bristol was her home town. Sant- ley heard her sing and gave her lessons for seven years.

A Vienna throat specialist said her Jarynx was heavier than the ordinary woman's.

that their mother, Mrs. Beatrice Maling, uncertain which is really Monty and which Tony, recently asked the Rev. W. Allan, curate of Denham, if she could have them rebaptised. She helloves that after

"Of course, they're each known

Her ambition was to sing in opera, first baptism, when they were themselves by the same name for tables, Tony may have become years now...And my instinct tells but her trouble was that, althoughi and which her voice was big enough for the me which is Tony reserved, and wears pince-nez.

Monty, and Monty Tuny,

tenor's music, her presence was in- rained control, and in two years

Mr. Allan told her he did not ionty. But this is how I think they adequate for the tenor's strut.

For the past few years she had increased the fleet to 22 vessels.

South Shields, (Durham). think it was possible by the orthodox may have rol mixed.

"When they were babies I had lived in America, retired. While trading in the Mediterranean several of his ships have been bombed A germ from imported duck eggs law of the Church of England for a

a blue ribbon on Tony and a pink 40 when she died. and shelled. He featured in the caused the death of twelve-year-old child to receive a second baptism.

on Monty. But when they Mrs. Maling said at her home in ribben storms of protest which followed the Veronlen Hudson, of Livingstone-

Denham road, Denham were four months old we took the which was which. street, South Shields, it was revealed New altacks on ire British flag.

He owns an unpretentious via at the Inquest in South Shields re- "They're getting more difficult to tell ribbons off, and engaged a girl to have muddled them.

apart as icy crow older. I don't take them out in the pram and put named Lamorna in Stanhope-road, cently,

Veronten died on November 8, and know what will happen when they them to bed. Hornsey, Almost every one of hla ships has a name beginning with the following day her father, mother start taking the girls out, or if some- one of them some "Stan," after the qulet Hornsey road and two brothers were taken to body leaven where he has lived for many years, hospital. They have since recovered. money,

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"Connie, their little sister, and I aro the only people who can tell husband can't "Tony always had the top end them apart. My of the pram and the right half of He's given up trying. He's always the bed. But the girl couldn't tell calling them by the wrong names."

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