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DONALD DUCK

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 22, 1939.

By Walt Disney

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THINK

YOUR

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HONGKONG'S only success in the Irish Sweepstakes draw was a £100 consolation prize,

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Swatow also had a

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LETTERS]

THE SEVEN SLEEPERS;

To The Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph

used to speak Sir, My father with considerable envy of the Seven! Sleepers of Ephesus, but I doubt if their sleep was sound us that of the Seven Sleepers of the

must rise and

baroque

palpi-

tapes, only an inch or two short, the

Berty Wat Raney Entopthes

M. LEBRUN

President

Of France

In London

A Look Through

The Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

March 22, 1880. Thibaldo Borraday, Port Often clark, was summoned this marking far oming to register the arrival of his fourth little cherub. Ha explained that he had been so upset at hearing of thu erent that he did not get over it in the two months allowed for registration,{ I thought he would not be troubled:

next by nervousness

Lime. Threo dalinra.

The pubile are again taislug their ivolere, in a wail that can be heard at Tytani, on the perennial question of our local ronds. Those on the lower lovel certainly are anything but credit. able to the place. We have Fardly had i an inch of rain this year, and yet the whole length of Queen's Hond Central| is one vest quagmire, with occasionnt stretches of impassable flints, Even in dry weather the roads are maintained in a grossly-careless way--they are as furrowed as a potato feld, and the sys- tem of sweeping is simply Idistle. On the upper ronds, where the trame a numirel, mincadniu is all right, but in) the main street asphalt or conerete

paving would be Infinitely cheaper, ciesner, more permanent, and expedi- tions than the present mitd-and-dust wort.

25 YEARS ACO

March 22, 1014. We were informed this morning that the tiger that is said to be renting the Peak Just now, paid n visit to the ear- dea of Sir William Rees Davies during the night.

now 300 native Indian troops aistioned Colonel Seely stated that there were

situation

WANG CHING-WEI

ATTEMPT ON WANG CHING-WEI Secretary Killed By Assassins

TSENG CHUNG-MING, the

on in Chind. Sir Edward Gretary of Wang Ching-wei, died agreed with him that they might make of wounds yesterday after- April if nothing unforeseen secure, noon at 4 o'clock, which he re- arrangements to withdraw trene troops

ceived during the attempted Assassination of the expelled

night, according to the South Kuomintang leader on Monday

China Daily News, the local ver- nacular paper which is generally considered as Wang's organ.

The following appointments ere not!- in the Government Gazette: Mr. J. Becen to act as Assistant Colonial Assistant Postmaster General; Mr.. Secretary; Mr. N. L. Smith to aes

dent of imports and Exports and Gov. A..Taylor to the assistant Superinton- ernment Oplum Monopoly Analyst; Police Constable E. J. Field and F. E. Inspectors.

Public Works Department. Think of the exciting visions which must flicker through those comfortable minds as the heavy-laden air of Lower Albert Road stirs with the faint drone com- mon both to a Government Oiler and a queen bee.

LONDON, Mar. 21. Think of the startling edifices bearing Macdonnell

THE CLOSE FRIENDSHIP Road across the Peak Tramway which subsisting between Britain and

full with the intions of those ill-edged lungs. France accounted for the extra-at Hongkong, their presence there being closest follower and chief secre- Venelian bridges, Roman bridges, ordinary warmth of the welcome bridges, squat modern accorded President and Madame bridges, goodlit bridges, a brides Lebrun when they arrived in

bridges with appreciative with heavy silk ribbon across them England to-day on a State visit and golden scissors to cut the ribbon lasting until Friday,

Think of the mental incli- Londoners turned out in force along

the lavishly decorated streets, which. dream plummets just slightly out of sometime or other, the distinguished true and the venerable rusty survey-visitors will traverse during their ing paraphernalia of those dreamers stay, French colour emblems enter of dreams...

ed largely in the scheme of decora- Actually Macdonnell Road has no

Lions, bridge. It has had no bridge for The President's ship, accompanied Becker to be temporary Sanitary four months. The detour-Kennedy

by British warships and R.A.F. Road is a minor death trap and its bombers overhead, passed through Government has not bonourably kept It cannot be gainsaid that the British

The paper, which confirms that Junction with Macdonnell Road

double line of warships dressed ita pact of 1903 so far n the Eastern Mrs. Tseng Chung-ming and one sort of impromptu car park where it overall, whlie a 21-guns salvie was flect is concerned that fleet-composed other were also seriously wounded," 1s possible to spend many quick fired us the President entered Dover of the East Indies Squadron, China

whether Wang Jumbled frame to a waiting for the Harbour, where he and Madame Squadron, and the New Zealand Divi does not mention Jumbled traffle to sort itself out. The Lebrun were greeted by the Duke of ion. In that year the Government Ching-wel was harmed. bridge itself is a simple stone

undertook to station battle cruiser one Gloucester, who

Guards structure which the normal munici-

flagship in East Indian waters, to Three assassins were arrested, the uniform. pality

have completed in three would

send the New Zealand, gift, dreadnought, weeks if the weather conditions were

MET AT VICTORIA STATION to the China Station in a similar capa- paper says. adverse and labour scarce. Before where it was met at Victoria Station

The party entrained for. London city, and to otherwise improve the

fighting efficiency of the naval forces "Domel" says that four Chinese Its destruction it served not

in the East and Far East. more by the King and Queen, other mem than a hundred or two

visited the secret residence of Wang vehicles

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matter bers of the Royal Family, the Prime

* China Ching-wel at 3 a.m. day, so it is of relatively little im

Minister, other members of the armoured cruiser Defence and the light. Squadron has been weakened. The portance to the general public. Cabinet, and a number of notables.

Attacked with pistols, Mr. Tseng personally prefer it as it is.

cruiser Monmouth have been withdrawn. The

Their Majesties with their guests, from the squadron, and neither bar hung-ming, private secretary to Mr. jumbled confusion of shaped drove in a carriage

procession stones reminds one

been replaced, although that was to be Wang Ching-wel, and his wife and an earlier Buckingham Palace, which President the condition of withdrawing the New one other person were seriously Stonehenge erected by a somewhat and Madame Lebrun left later In

Zealand. Its two rattle trap more backward civilisation

"0") wounded; Mr. Wang Ching-wel was than

the day to full several engagements, cruisers, the Psyche and Pyramus and inderstood to have escaped unhurt. that which produced the balanced concluding with a State banquet to-

the crazy all sloop Torch, couldn't put plinths to be seen on Salisbury Plain night at the Palace.

up a five minutes' fight against a single ASSASSINS ARRESTED Dartmouth or Bristol. io-day. I like the long journey to

After the

royal procession had

of

wore 0

to

the

of

fact

10 YEARS ACO

Hanol, Mar. 22. March 22, 1939, The four Chinese who attacked Francy was cast into deep nursing the retreat of Mr. Wang Ching-wei the sudden death of Marshal Foch, near Hanoi on Monday morning, were wh was Commander-in-Chief of the) Allied Forces in

France during the arrested by French police shortly

afterwards, 5 YEARS AGO

Although subject to strict exami- March 22, 1934.

keeping nations, the pssussins are The following wil represent the silent.-Domel, Judian Recreation Club In a First Divi- alon League match ngainat the Army on' Saturday at Sookunnoo.. Mndar

my office, sandwiches and a ginss of entered the Palace, the crowd out- milk at the car park junction, and side broke through the police cordon the wild, mad, hopeless dash through the battling taxis of Kennedy Road. and rushed across to the Palace gates, According to a conversation which King! We want the President".

and stood shouting: "We want the 1 overheard some days ago several exasperated private car owners are Lebrun, with Their Majesties and

Eventually President and Madame Great War planning to bridge the gap with planks in order to get

the young princesses come on their enre balcony. directly to their doors. I consider

of President and this gross interference with

The arrival public work. These bridges

Madame Lebrun in London was and televised to a West End Theatre-Captain), A. R. II. Esmail, A. K. Iemail, roads and dams are

timeless A heritage of the disinterested public servant and any ideology which envisages their being taken over by private enterprise is to be condemned tensity to the warmth of the welcome us reactionary, Besides, think of the which great crowds, which had as- cost of the homeward passages of

at Victorin Station, and

#

Reuter.

GREAT CROWDS CHEER

London, Mar. 21. Recent events added dramalle in-

sembled

5. A. Ismail, A. R. Kitchell, M. P. Madar, A. R. Ninu, F. D. Pereira, A. H. Rum- Jahn, A. S. Suad and A. R. Sufind,

IMPORTS FLEAS

ANOTHER KILLING IN SHANGHAI

Shanghal, Mar. 22. Wang Chieh-Jet, fax collector_of j the Industry Ministry of the “Re- formed" Government, was shot dead when a Chinese assassin attacked him In a room in a Chinese Hotel on Hankow Road in the International Forest Grove, Ore. Sefilement at 99.30' 'am, on Tuesday, BL- England has imported 1,000 fleas.)

The assassin knocked at the door the by Dr. C. Anderson, head of the bio of Mr. Wang's room and after as Madame logical department of the University certaining his name fired a voller of of Oregon. They were shipped to pistol shots, Mr. Wang was killed at the Tring branch of the British instantly.

Museum at Hertz, England.

Paluce,

and

route.

the whole Public Works Department, outside, Buckingham

No. The system must stand. And along the processional I for one am happy to do without my Ragged decorated, and lined with including 80 different types, raised bridge as long as the Seven Sleepers troops, gave the President of are at peace and Lower Albert Rond French undisturbed by the sound of stone) Lebrun.

Republic and masons and road builders,

MUMBLE-WURIBLE.

HUDSON WELCOMED British Collaboration With Poland

The King and Queen were Victoria to meet their State guests, and after they had alighted from the train and shaken hands with thele

Majestics, they were introduced to a gress down the Mall. People surged distinguished company, headed by the into the roadway and the car was Prime Minister, the Foreign Secre brought to a standstill as men and tary, and chiefs of the defence, ser women vices.

pressed around, cheering and French Flogs. wildly, and waving miniature British OPEN NEW PREMISES Within three hours of arriving in

The day was 'the 12th anniversary of the occupation of Shanghai by the Army in 1927. The culprit is stüt Chinese National, Revolutionary

ut large-Domel.

ANNUAL POUND DAY

His Majesty and the President then inspected a guard of honour before Warsaw, Mar. 21.

entering the Arst State carriage ac The Polish people have. amply companied by the Duke of Glouces England, the French President and shown in history that they cherish ter, who had travelled from Dover Madame Lebrun were among hund Hospitals will

The Alice Memorial and Affiliated: the same ideas as Britain of freedom with the president, while the Queen reds of thelt own countrymen

hold their annual und liberty, declared. Mr. B. S. and Madame Lebrun occupied the women when they visited the new Gifts will be received by Mrs. S. W. and Found Day on Friday, March 24. Hudson, British Secretary for Over-second earringo, acas Trado, replying to an address of

premises of the Institute Francala in Tso, from it om to 1 APPEARANCE AT PALACE

p.m., and welcome by the Polish Minister of

South Kensington, and heard the by Mrs. C. B. Brown from 2 p.m. to Shortly after reaching Buckingham building declared Commerce, M. Roman, yesterday, Palaea the King and Queen and the Princess Royal. The Princess Royal plint, which will be open

open by the 4 pan. on the Bfth floor of the Hos- "When we see liberty disappearing President and his wife appeared on is co-patron of the Institute with M.. spection. in country after country, our two the Balcony response to the In-Lebrun. nations have a common contern." sistent cheering of people.

This evening, Their Majcaties gave The Press heartily welcomes Mr.

The following articles are sullablo When Inter in -iäe; ofternoon the

Stalo banquet at "Hudson's visit, declaring that clos- French President and

Buckingham for gifta: Cotton wool, bot water Madame Palace in honour of the French Pro- bottles, antiphlogeatine, evaporated collaboration between Poland Lebrun visited Queen Mary at Marl sidont and Madame Lebrun, which; milk, Denger's Food, Morranite, Grea's, and Brilain la ardonly desired, by hborough House, the spontaneous; en was followed by a reception. British calico, sheeting, Tannelette, brooms all parties-Router,

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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 k.c.)

Song Recital From Studio 1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather

By Jack Grenham

Report.

1.03 B.B.C. Orchestra and Reginald | Foart LONDON RELAYS

"Iolanthe Overture (Gilbert and Sullivan) Radio Programme broadcast by Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg); .. B.D.C. Theatre Orch. ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c.'s, One Kiss (Romberg)... and on Short Wave from 1 to 2.15 Foort.

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Selection "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden," "In the Shado of the Palm" "Little Dolly Daydream" 12-12.20 Relay of Service of Inter- "Sweetheart Moy" "Lily of Laguna" cession from St. John's Cathedral. ... Reginald Foort. HM.S. Pinafore 12.30 Elsie Carlisle arul Jack-Selection (Gilbert und Sullivan) Ifylton's Orchestra

...B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra. "Bitter Sweet" Selection (Coward) 1.30 Reuter

Orchestra. Conversation for Two Weather Forecast and

and Rugby Press, Announce- (Emmerich)... Elsie Carlisle. Fox-ments.

second.

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trot: Girls were made to Love and 1.40 Variety. Kiss; Waltz: Love Live for Ever and The Little Boy that Santa Claus rule my Heart Paganini").. Forgot... Les Allen Baritone with Jack Hylton's Orchestra. Everyone Piano. Quicksteps: Swingin' In the must have a sweetheart (Grundland): Corn; Who Stole the Jam Nat. Proud of You (David)... Elsic Gonella's Georgians. Isn't this Carlisle. Foxirois: A Melody for Lovely Day: No Strings (from nim Two; September in the Rain. Top

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Rogers Hylton's Orchestra.

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Nat Gonella's Georgians. 2.16 Close down. 0.0

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Mr. Wilkes at Home in His Bar 67. Parlour; Presented by S. E. Reynolds 25.30 sa. and Pascoe Thornton.

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