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DONALD DUCK

BOY-OH-BOY! ME FOR A GOOD

MESS OF CLAMS!

2,000 MEN NEEDED FOR OVERHAUL Empress Of Japan In

Kowloon Dock

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

By Walt Disney

joan by Wale Dancy Enterprises

Svein Woche zighen erverved),

A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

A Royal Warrant has been insued, According to which the Commissariat Department has beon re-named the Ariny Service Corps, and Omeore in it will henceforth have ordinary Army rank. The Warrant aino regulates pro-

motion and retirement.

One need not "go wash on elephant” if one wants to do some- thing big. There is, for instance, the alternative of overhauling a Canadian Pacific liner. What this involves a glimpse at the work being done on the Empress of Japan, now in drydock at Kowloon, shoulder. may suggest.

The Empress of Japan went into drydock on Thursday. She is now stocked up with her bow close under the high bull at the back of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com- pany's works. Slung about her sides, clambering with far buckets up her rigging, or working within her are

men whoe number varies dalty from 1,000 to 2,000. They produce a cons tant clatter which makes conversa tion in certain parts of the ship in possible,

Like a colony of woodpeckers, with steel chisels for beaks, men tap in- cessantly at the plating of the Em- presa, clearing away her rusted paint- ing. Taking a Bake at a time, they have to elen the space below the waterline alotie

This estimate onits the work of acraping and tapping inside the ship, on the superstructure and lifeboats, and on the thousand-and-one pieces of machinery which must be dla mantled, scraped, repainted, and reassembled. Yet, in nine more days the Empress of Japan will be ready to sail for Vancouver, as fresh and clean as a new pin-and, not nearly

so prone to rust.

this may not always be necessary, even after a year's storage. Each bont also carries a case of condensed milk, which is renewed.

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Men of

of a hundred tendes are em- ployed on the Empress, and a spot is found in the for the signwriter freshening up of the fire extinguishers. arrived at Wadein! on the 20th January

Taken from their scattered stands and lined up like soldiers, these are given a new suit of red paint, on which their white lettering is neatly pleked out. They make company, being 84 strong.

New Swimming Tank

Drills also produce a racket on the top deck where extensions are being made to give the ship's four mes senger boys more roomy, comfortable

News be reached Zanzibar Stanley, with three hundred

in an exhausted condition.

25 YEARS AGO

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Seeks Interpretation Of 'In Town To-night' & Other Lady (Sandor). Magyar Imre &

Japan's Policy

Tokyo, Jan. 14.

Sir Robert Craigie, British Am- assador to Japan, to-day presented

London Relays

HUNGARIAN FANTASIA

His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.

7.40 Reginald Foort at the Organ.) Medley Of Daly's Favourites; Keep Smiling (Reginald Foort's Signatures Tune); Reminiscences Of Friml.

0.0 Time, Weather und Announce-

8.03 Varlety with Murgatroyd and

Radlo Programme Broadcast by ments. Mr. Arlta, Japanese Foreign Minis- znw on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. ter, with a new British Note request and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Winterbottom, Eddle Peabody and ing a more precise and detailed in-and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per Edlizabeth Welch,

dral.

Force,'

and

(Two

If

I had done

as was told-

Fantasia

M. Maurel and M. Clemenceau fought terpretation of Japan's policy and second.

Banjo Orch--Shake Yo' Feet 5 durt to-day with words. M.alms in China as outlined by the

H.K.T. Clemenceau

(Morgan); Hai Ha! (Morgan), as WDS wounded ไป the former Prime Minister, Prince

Konoye, and himself on November 2of intercession from St. John's Cathe with Vocal Itefrain; One-man Band- 13.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of a Service....Fred Morgan's Bunjo Rhythmics and December 19 respectively. The Chamber

It of Deputien in Paris

Many Happy Returns Of The Day Is

that Great Britain understood to-day by a vote of bib to 9 adopted reiterates her adherence to the prin- 12.30 Patricia Rossborough at the (Durke) Eddle Peabody playing his

Banjo, Guitar, Mandoline the extraordinary budget for 1880, the ciple of the Open Door and equal Plano. climaten belar fixed nl 18,800,000 opportunity and declines to agree to Hot Dog (Clair-Carier); "Queen Mando-Cello with Own Vocal Re- unilateral modification of the Nine Of Hearts" Selection "Broadway train and Piano; Ilumorous Winter Sports (Handley-Crick) Murga- Power Pact, though ene is ready to Hostess"--Selection.

Winterbottom und that consider constructive suggestions for

12.40 Primo Scala's

Accordeon troyd

Minds with not a single Thought) men, modification-Reuter.

Band.

with Monte Crick at the Plano; Firm Language

Whoops We Go Again (Harvey); Plano Duet--Sweet Adeilne-Selce London, Jan. 15. If The Old River Thames Were The tion (Kern, Hummerstein).... Arthur The Hongkong correspondent of the Danube (Roberts-Butler); Six Dance Young and Reginald Foresythe_with Sunday Times understands that the Hits'; Intro; Hometown; The greatest Not for a long time has Japan heen British note is of some 2,000 words mistake of my life; Ten pretty girls run; Vocal-The Girl I Knew ("Glamorous Night-Novello); Far n goodly visited by such a dienster as has be and lays down in firm language You're here, you're there; Let us be Away In A Shanty Town ("Glamor-

fallen her sines Saturday, What is the totni lons of fe will not, of course, be firmer perhaps than any Britain has sweethearts over again; Horsey, ous Night"-Novelio)......Elisabeth less serious than might appear from used since the China war-the British horsey: Six Hits Of The Day: Intro: Welch necomp. by the Drury Lane the aerious nature of the visitation, attitude to the policy deliberately Vienl Vient; Whispers in the Dark; Theatre Orch. cond. by Charles Apart from the work on the en-though to-day's telegrams are not re- pursued by Japan in closing China to Sympathy: Remember Me; Afraid to Prenilec, gines, which on this occasion involves rate, in that the terrifle eruption which equally Italian and German as well chorus,

Basuring. One pleasing fact, nt. gay all trade with the Western world, Dream; Gangway......with vocal 8.30 London Relay-The Royal Air the dismantling of three huge tur-

took place on the island of Sakurajim as British and American. area bines. perhaps the an.

biggest single while it destroyed the village, does aut

1.0 Time and Weather.

A talk by Sir Edward Campbell, of over $70s square yards very piece of work being done on the Em- appear to have

1.03 Frances Langford (Vocal) and M.P., Parliamentary Private Secret- Recalling the recent utterances of been attended by no much like cutting two acres of wheat press of Japan is the installation of grent loss of life as might have been Prince Konoye and the dimculties put the New Mayfair Orchestra.

ary of State for Alr. a blade at a time.

a steel. swimming tank for tourist fenced.

people have been in the way of British trade, the note "Hide And Seck”-Sciection (Hoff-

8.45 Liszt-Hungarian class

passengers. The deafening killed," anys Reuter but "70,000 persons in stated to repent in a most formal man. de Ellis)....New Mayfair Or- For Plano And Orchestra. racket of pneumatic drills way aft have fled, the telegraph operater alone manner the British Government's nd-chestra cond. by Ronnie Munro; It's Jarques Dupont (Piano) and the on B-deck indicates where this tank remaining."

herence to the policy of the open door Like Reaching For

The

Moon Orchestre Symphonique (of Paris) | is to be located. It will

give the

ald down in the Nine-Power Treaty (Sherman-Morqusec); Long Ago And conducted by F. Ruhlmann. Empress two pools, the Brst-class

10 YEARS AGO

and firmly and unconditonally re- Far Away, (film Three Cheers For 0,01 Sougs by Jusal Bjorling pool being deep amidships.

o treaties Love'). Frances An appalling disaster, probably the jects unilateral revision

Langford (Vocal) (Tenor). worst in local history, accurred

"La but leaves the door open for revision with Victor Young and His Orches ot

Gloconda" Heaven And Waging Lighthouse, the China Mer by negotiation.

tra; The Gay Nineties Waltz Ocean! (Ponchiell!) "L'Atrienna"--Oh chants' na. Hisin Wah, striking a rock The correspondent declares that the Medley... New Mayfair Orchestra Paradise! (Meyerbeer).,...with Or- and rinking within an hour, with the result is to align British policy with wth Vocal Refrain; Sweet Heartache chestra conducted by Nils Grevillius. Jun, 1 is fenced, of nearly 400 lives.

that enunciated in the United States (Alm "The Hit Parade'); Was It Rain 9.10 Tehalkovsky-Theme And One item of renovation that defies chants' feet, the Hain Wal was coming British note is in no wise identical Langford (Vocal) with Victor Young

One of the nest of the China Mar- note of October 27. He adds that the (Alm The Hit Parade')....Frances Variations From Suite No. 3 la G. computation is the re-caulking of the into harbour round three o'clock in the The lifeboats alone are a formidable deck seams. Along miles and miles teeth of a gale and heavy seas. The With the American, but the principles & His Orchestra; Globe Trotting With item of overhaul. There are 28 of of planking Chinese boys squat, Waglan Tcht-keeper sighted hor to the animating the two are the same. The Tiger (arr. Phil Green),...New 9.30 London Relay-The News.

Phil cond, by of them, espable

There is no passage that can be Mayfair Orchestra accommodating moving along inch by inch as they eastward, and observed that she was

9.50 Turner Layton (Vocal) at the Plano, 1,862 passengers, or 181 more than pick out the old oakum, after which taking a course which would bring her implled as a threat of retaliatory Green. the ship

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Weo- A Waltz Was Born In Vienna is certified to

fresh alling is poured into the open to close to the Northern end of Wa action; nevertheless it would be a cracks. There are, too, the ship's urlan.

mistake to rule out entirely the possi-ther and Announcements.

(Crocker and Loewe); It's Great To more. These are thoroughly inspect-/1,804 lifebeits to be meticulously in- Captain M. F. Junnen, well-known on the subject of departmental survey, Variety. Twenty-one rails can carry 1,380

The skipper of the s.s. Hain Wah was bility of such aetion which has been

1.40 A Programme of Latest Be In Love Again (McHugh); A) Chinn Count and he and

Beautiful Lady In Blue (Coots). Japan's other Europent officers, are believed to to be contemplated in the immediate (Stolz-Dostal)....Eugen Wolft & night.

although nothing to drastic appears

Violes Selection Orch, Wild

10.0 London Relay-In Town To-

His Orchestra; Vocal-Winter Draws!

froma personalities Introducing On (Harper); We've Got To Keep Up every walk of life in interviews with With The Joneses (Elliott)...Gracie Lionel Camlin, Dashes from the news the Fields with Orchestra; Orch. Let of the week, and Standing on A Song Go Out Of My Heart--Slow-Corner (Michael Standing interviews Fox-Trot;

Cinderella Sweetheart the man in the street'); Edited and Welle Waltz.... Oscar Rabin & His Romany produced by C. F. Mechan. Band; Vocal-Come Back To Erin 10.30 Dance Music. (Claribel); When Irish Буса Arc Fox-Trot Avalon; Quickstep One of the remarkable piracies for foot. That makes the spool Smiling (Olcott & Ball).Phil | Marge....I

..Harry Roy and His Or bourd all the CPS. ships.

Chain of 1,000 Links

Home considerable time-remarkable for bought the other day for 15. 3d. Regan with Orchestra; Dance Orch.---| chestra; Swing-step Clownerle Called Leside the Empress in the the length of time the ship was in pirate rather unimportant, doesn't it?

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride Fox-Trot; Swing; Rumba-Rumba Acrobatique Overhaul extends from the fc-

Partners Fox-Trol calm Our sample prints, day by day, will Change

Azerola (Piano); Fox-Trots- boats fear to their food provistons. bed of the drydock are her two hands and the length of the journey

travelled before the vessel was re-cost us Is. 40. foot, but we shall Carefree) Billy Cotton & His Bye, Bye, Baby: Until To-day. Over 1 tons of "hard tack" has to be anchor chains, with anchors attached jeased-was carried out aboard the not print al mir 120,000.

tedious task 3

awaits

Our Band with Vocal Refrain; "Conversa- Ambrose and Hls Orchestra with the removed from 84 air-tight bread Here

Poo An travelling between Shanghai) director may photograph a scene tion Plece" Nevermore (Noel Vocal Refrain; Quick-step-Get Hot; tanks, inspected, and, if it is con- "woodpeckers." Each chain has over

.Gloria He Coward).

(So-Slow Fox-Trot-Makin' A Fool Of aldered desirable, replaced. Hard 1,000 massive links and could almost

An one of the biggest six times before he is satisfled.

Gonello and His tack being wellnigh indestructible: be wound around the street block and fastest vessels in the China Mer- may order only two of these to be prano) with Carroll Gibbons & His Myself....Nat

printed. Let us say we have 30,000 Boy Friends,

Georgians with Vocal Refrain; Fox- (and, co

some claim, Indigestible) bounded by Connaught and Chater chante fleet.

Ronds and Ice House and Pedder

Pirates from Hilos Buy appear it. of prints.

2.15 Close down.

Trots-Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Streets, At the end of each a 7 ton to have been responsible. They com It does mount up. I reckon we 0.0 For The Children,

Music, Lost My Man (Alm 'Soft lights 5 ewt anchor is waiting to be cleaned belled her Austrian manter Captain have already spent £10,000—not all Nursery Rhymes; Intro; Hush--and weet muste; I'm All In (alm) The ship's propellers have also been led to steer her south and she tra of it extra, but we shall come to that bye; Hot Cross Buns: Dame get up: Soft lights and sweet music....Am-

reller does the const at practically moved. The shaft casing,

com- full speed.

Curly Locks; Tom, Tom; I saw three brose and His Orchestra with Vocal our ships; There was a frog: What have Retrain.

etc.....Uncle George's! run you got:

11.0 Close down.

Checking the Lifeboats

quarters.

the

three

spected. ed by Lloyds and Government sur-

At sea the Empress of veyors and any repales or renewals ordered are effected. Each lifeboat passengers and crew consume, on an have lost their lives in the disaster.

tons of water a day, to be scraped, average, 250

Since, however, the ship

and

raft has then

papered, and re-varnished.

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necessary

| future.-Reuter. can pack The threat of oppnation to the rati The only lifeboat which escapes this away 3,880 tons in the tanks in her fication of the Kellogg Pact dit nut treatment is lifeboat No. 13-for the double bottom, this is a matter of no eventuate. The

legislation the US. Sonate, thei good reason that I does not exist.roncern. At overhaul time whatever posed through

Treaty being entified by 85 votes tol Nor in there a No. 13, a No. 113, a remains of her water supply has to UNU,

are oul; her funks No, 213, or a No. 313 cabin; in fact, be pumped concession to popular superstition cleaned and given a fresh has made the evil's number in any coat of cement. combination absolutely

taboo on

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the most lovablá rogue that ever

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later.

Grafton

of hard wond, inevitably sufiers

of Now we have to think Throughout the voyage, the Captain some wear, and the parts affected was kept on the bridge under etare prints, the coples that are have to be replaced. The shafts are guard, a pistol being kept at his bẹnd to through the projectors of your Party with Orchestra; An Animal drawn back into the ship to permit persunde him to carry out the pirates' cinemas,

blading. The Poo An Brully came tu this work to be done,

Alphabet (A Guessing Game For Tiny Tots); Noah's Ark (Containing The Names Of The Animals Heard

London Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Sir London Renald.

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SATURDAY'S BRIDE

n hall, under instructions, at a small] People Like Them The overhaul of the Empress of bay near Swatow, where the gang dix- Japan is divided into departments, embarked with their booty last even- WE E assume we have a pic-in An Animal Alphabet)....George

ture good enough to be Baker (Vocal) with Orchestra: Stu- Mr. J. N. Wilkinson Weds. Mr. H. G. Donaid, Superintendent of Ing. They carried off nine of the Engineering with the CP.S., as The Foo AR is now headed for Shungit 9,000ft. long and we

wealthler pinsangersk for rxom, shown round the world. We make dio-Serial; Little Man, You've Had

Miss Teresa Lam charge of the engineering section, and hai and is duo to-morrow.

order 2004 Busy Day (Hoffman & Wayne)....d

Mra, Captain A. J. Holland, the Company's

coples. Multiply 9,000 by 200 and Les Allen with the Marine Superintendent, has charge of

answer in any language is Norman: Sidney Torch at the Organ. The wedding took place on Satur- the deck department, the touching up minister, and former Mayor of Shang

Mr. Wu Teh-chen, political vice-1,800,000ft.—at 41⁄44d, a foot,

0.30 Closing focal Stock Quotations day at St. Joseph's Church, Garden 6.32 Carroll Gibbons & Its Bor Road, of Mr. Joseph Nelson Wilkin- of comroximately 350 cabins being an hal announce that

I think that makes £31,875; in the General Chiang item on his list.

Kai-shek in returning to Nanking ordinary black-and-white film you Frends.

Hitting

New High-Film Selec son to Miss Teresa Lam. There is plenty of work to do on fore January 28. He will be met there could get those 200 copies for about

tion; Breakin' In A Pair Of Shoes The bride, who was born in Marno, the Empress, but some of the boys by Marshal Chang Houch-Hang,

£0,000,

the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. fare not above mixing pleasure with; Mr. T. V. Soong, foriner Finance)

Add that £31,875 to our £10,000 (Stept); Sugar Rose (Waller); Now is business, Thus two of them an Minister, is also leaving for Nanking and we have £41,875. We might as That You're Gone (Kahn & Fiorito): Leonidus Carlos Lam. She wore a Can't We Talk It Over (Washington wedding dress of white satin trimmed Saturday found the deck quoit lines) liefore the week-end.

well make it a round £42,000, Irresistible and took time off for a

What's an odd £123 at this stage? & Young); Double Or Nothing-Film with silver, featuring an upstanding. quick gume of pitch penny.

Press reports alleging that Chancel- Now some of that £42,000 would be Selection: Mr. Dodd, Takes The Air Elizabethan collar. The skirt ended in a tong trbin at the back. She lor Hitler of Germany had separately noid out, anyhow, whether we were-Film Selection.

7.0 A Light Spanish Programme. carried a bouquet of white chrysun- approached various members of the filming in colour or black-and-white, Litte Entente with

If I Could Forget Your Eyes (Al-themums. "tempting offera" But how much?

APPOINTMENTS

Officers in New Posts And Promotions

the

J. B. Mackle

RainsadikeuUHITED ARTISTE

Ernest Frank •

Directed by ARCHIE MAYO

Introducing

SIGRID GURIE

Hamadi Qalduri's new servou föd

AT POPULAR PRICES

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via the Austrian province of Carinthin

ometally denied in Derly.

Orchestra: Sevilla (Albeniz): Miss Rosa Lam, the bride's younger

Carnaval

ble" and that he had offered Jugosla-me what he reckoned was the extra with Albeniz) Arthur Rubin-sister, acted as bridesmaid, and wore

themt to join the "German I asked a famous producer to tell beniz)....Benlumino Gigi (Tenor) if Jugoninvia would support the 10- coat of using colour. He replied: "I union of Germany and Austria, are estimate £10,000 on the making of steln (Plano); Un Barberillo Alegre a pretty frock in sky-blue satin, fea- the film and £25,000 on 200 copies." (Villn-Prado)....Conchita Supervin turing puffed sleeves and very full

with Orchestry; skirt," She also carried white chry- | Colour negative Is about four Umes (Mezzo-soprano)

It will Pastora (Murillo-Miranda); La Zin-santhemums. It is notlded that illa Excellency American Hallar

Sixty per cent, devaluation of the the price of ordinary film.

The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Governor has appointed Dr. Government title to and worship af but for the present it seems may pro- pervin (Mezzo-soprano) with Orw. J. Wilkinson, a well-known and

the upper limit, very soon be much less expensive, gorella (Palatelle)....Conchita Su- to be Malariologist. all monetary gold in the United States, ducer friend is not for out.

chestra;

(Lucena); La Habanera (Lucena)... Cordoba popular resident of the Colony, and Medical Department, with effect from and the creation of an Exchange Is it worth 117 My answer. 13. January 4.

Equalisation Fund

For 2,000,000,000 "Yes--and howl" People like coleur. Philharmonic Orchestra cond, by the late Mr. Wilkinson. Miss Ada Martha Harrington has were the principat proposals in Presi especially women, who study it more Cantero: Cello Solo by Joan Pablo. Mr. Lam gave his daughter nway

dent Roosevelt's eagerly awaited Men closely than men in everyday life in Hungarian Folk Songs. been appointed a Nursing Sister.

7.30 Magyari Imro & Ili Orchestra in marriage, and Meners, W. R. WI- kinson and It, J. Wilkinson undertook Mr. H. A. Mills is to act as Post-ce to Congress.

and whose eyes are more sensitive You master General until further notice.

Are The Fellow, Friend the duties of beat men, Mr. A. M. J. Wright has been ap-

But to satisfy the trained feminine Tykody: My Little Velvet Hat; Oh!

How pointed an Architect, Public Works

It Seems: Hungarian Later a reception' was held at the eye it must be good. So we come Cardas, Of George Nogy

Long

(Boka home of the bridgegroom, 20 Johnston Department.

back to the old truth thất, within. Karoly)....

...Mazyari

Itin Rond, and in the evening a Chinese [renson, the best is never too dear.

Imra

Bedinner party was held at the Ying Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra: You pay no more to acc A. E. Redick thought he saw just Alms, but more of you sen them, so t Az Orn (Frono Frigyes); Leanyok,

colour Cornflower (Kados); Tik Tak Tik Tak King restaurant. Mr. W. R. Illyer has been ap-another log in n dry creek bed-un- that the producer of a good colour Legenyek (ficcsey Gyula). Kalmar moon, which is being spent at Meno pointed Deputy Shipping Mailer. til it showed its teeth. The "log" nim can get his money back with Pence by stagyar Imre & Hu she wore a lovely dress in bille

Captain Frank Sale, Army Eduen-was an escaped four-foot tlonal Corps, is to be a Member of which a neighbour had brought from

Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra; Pale, chiffon velvet embossed with white SETON MARGRAVE Yellow Rose; I Love You Beautiful flowers. the Board of Education.

Florida.

Mr. P. V. Reveley la to be Assistant Wireless Engineer, General Post

Office.

to it.

"Log" In Creek Is 'Gator

Findlay, O

alligator interest.

Wion Mrs. Lam left for the honey-

I wouldn't have this nasty cold!

Give me

DAYER

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ACTION!

ROMANCE !

ADVENTURE !

CASSIDY ISN'T LAUGHING NOW!

He's sworn a death-feud on /his brother's murdereral...

CLARENCE E.

MULFORDS

'NORTHE RIO GRANDE

forturing WILLIAM BOYD

A Paramount Picture wifi.

GEORGE HAYES

STEPHEN MORRIS

RUSSELL HAYDEN

JOHN BEACH BERNADENE HAYES

A Harry Sherman Preductior

· TO-MORROW.

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