1938-12-29 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 29, 1938.

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EX-CITY CLERK ASKING OF

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 army and ammunition were unlondeil from his steamer Stanhall at Rangoon, Burn.

The arms, which come from the Soviet Union, will be trai ported to China by barges and special convoys of lorries.

The Stanhall, which is owned Now he has bought a large house j by the Stanhope Steamship Com- in Bishop-avenue, East Finchley, and pany, Ltd., of which Mr. Billmeira farge country residence near Whit- la principal shareholder, has for table, Kent. the past two years been engaged called "Millionaires Avenue Incally! because so many rich men live there.. on Spanish war trade.

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

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Wille Burmese officials were wondering yesterday whether the unloading of the arms might cause international complications, Mr. Bilimele was spending quiet week-end out of town. "I'm not going to say where he is," his secretary said. We want no publicity at all."

HIS BIG CHANCE

and the

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"MADE A MILLION'

Any rival shipowners say that 130mete made nearly A million pounds in Spanish war trade.

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Jut profilblive Insurance charges, low cargo rates, and heavy risks of shelling by General Franco's gunboats and acroplanes have cut down the "big money" that was to be made.

Owner's of the 110 British-

Imported Eggs Kill A Girl

UFS

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

are rley, coffee, coconuts, diamonds and rum,

MOTHER NOT SURE Girl Tenor Dies

WHICH IS WHICH

DENHAM (Bucks).

TONY and Monty Maling, eleven-year-old twins, are so alike 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,

their!

"Of course, they've each known were ihemselves by the same name for become years now...And my instinct tells

me which Is Tany unit which Monty. But this is how I think they may have got mixed,

Jack Billmeir's rise to one of the registered ships trading to Spain are strongest places in British shipping| beginning to look elsewhere. has been meteoric. He was a hip brokers'

clerk,

Stanhope Steamship Company, Lid, with their two ships, were almost unknown.

Spain.

She Then war broke out in

belleves that after first baptism. Quickly, Billmeir, who is plump.

when they babies, reserved, and wears place-nez,

Tony may have gained control, and in two years

Monty, and Monty Tony. increased the fleet to 22 vessels.

Mr. Allan told her he did not While trading in the Mediterranean

South Shields, (Durham). think it was possible by the orthodox several of his ships have been bombed A germ from imported duck eggs law of the Church of England for a and shelled. Be featured in the emused the death of twelve-year-old child to receive a second baptism. storms of protest which followed the Veronica Hudson, of Livingstone- Mrs. Maling said at her home in attacks on tre British flax.

street, South Shields, I was revealed New He owns

Benham road. an unpretentious

villa at the inquest in South Shields re- "They're getting more difficult to tell Denant: named Lamorna i Stanliope-rond, cently. Hornsey. Almost every one of his

apart as they grow older. I don't Veronlen died on November 8. and know what will happen when they ships has a name beginning with the following day her father, mother start taking the girls out, or if some- "Stan," after the quiet 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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Ruby Helder, the little girl with the man's voice, who sang radio some years ago, has died In Hollywood.

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

A Vienna throat specialist said ber farynx was heavier than the ordinary woman's.

Her ambition was to sing in opera, but her trouble was that, although her volee was big enough for the tenor's music, her presence was in- adequate for the tenor's strut.

For the past few years "When they were bables I had lived in Aineries, retired,

she had She was a blue ribbon on Tony and a pink 48 when she died, ribbon on Monty. But when they ribbons off, and engaged a girl to have muddled them. were four months old we took the which was which. I think she may take them out in the pram and put them to bed.

"Connfe; their little sister, and I aro the only people who can tell had the top enl them

husband apart. My of the pram and the right half of He's given up trying. Ho's always the bed. But the girl couldn't tell calling them by the wrong names,"

"Tony always

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