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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1939.

DONALD DUCK

JUST

THAT

LICKED

810 IBULLY

AGAIN, UNCA DONALD!

DON'T WORRY, BOYS, YOU'LL LICK HIM SOME DAY! REMEMBER-GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE

ACORNS GROW!“

TWO HOURS LATE FOR SUPPER! JUST

WAIT'LL I

FIND 'EM!

Copt 1919, Wah Deney Profumont,

Hang-bang,

So! WHAT'RE

By Walt Disney

YA DOIN' UP THERE?

JUST

EATIN' ACORNS,

dan, by ty

HONG-KONG or Con Stenuida

où l'on trafique, où l'on vole, où l'on tie

ой.

et dont les prisons sont pleines...

A. REPRODUCTION OF THE HEADING IN

"HEBDO"

Paris Magazines Grotesque Libel On Hongkong And Our People

"Hongkong-where they laugh, trade, steal and kill, and where the prisons are full up.”

This is the heading for an extraordinary article on Hongkong, pub- lished recently in the Paris magazine “Hebdo.

The article is signed by Howard Bruce.

"Hongkong lives and moves with the Jitters from sun-rise to sun-set and from sun-set to sun-rise," Howard claims.

Most Hongkong people, he claims, gets their money without | much work.

On an average there are between 2,000 and 3,000 arrests every week, but "never anyone arrested is able to do his term in prison because for the last five years the prisons have been full up.

"Of ten people you meet in the street at least one third are escaped prisoners..

The most popular sport in Hongkong is stealing." Below we give a translation of the article in full: "One Chinese City (Chinese the Chinese Empire. in name only because it is a

NEWS IS KNOWLEDGE

many

new

QUESTION,-How

merchant ships were launched in 19382 ANSWER-1,119 vessels, with a tonnage of 3,033,593, the high- ext world total for 17 years. The Ayurer torre fasuci by Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Q-What proportion of the world

Jaunchings

from Wps. mode British berths? A-34 per cent, of the total, or 1,030,375 tons. The percentage compares unfavourably with the 1930

jigures,

Britain when launched more than half the world's new merchant vessels. Q-What was the biggest versel

Irunched in the year A-The new liner Queen Eliza- beth, 85,000 tons. She is the largest ship in the world. (The Normandie is 3.000 tons and The Queen Mary 81,000 tons.) Q-Which country ranked second'

in the building of new ships? A.-Germain with a total of 450,- 797 tons. The largest German ship taunchest in the year was the liner Robert Ley, 22,000 tona.

Q. Where does Hongkong rank? A-Ninth,

A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

UNCA DONALD!

FRESH

MUSHROOMS

$2.25 per Ib.

Lane, Crawford

Limited

-RADIO-

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

Hal Lorenzo & Toby Gray weather and Announcements.

1.15 Reuter and Rugby Press,

From the Studio LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programne

Broadcast by

April 4, 1889. The vague rumour we hinted at thej other day as being in circulation in the empital of the Two Kwangs to the effect that a concessing had been granted by the Viceroy for the construction of a

allway between Kowloon and Canton Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 045 k.e's. is significant of a great commercial and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. movemval shortly to be started at war and B-11 pan. on 9.52 M.C.'s per gates, that can scarcely fall to make, second, wonderful changes and prove mutually‡ advantageous to Chinn and this Colony Feese awessall nucleus, with its centre in populous Canton and is eighty-mile cession from St. John's Cathedral.

awerping Bround,

12.30 p.m. Carroll Gibbous and lis with Kowloon and the "Malin und Gibraltar Boy Friends, of the Far East" on its tangent, a Sugar Rose (Fats Waller); Breakin' gigantle network of railway communien-fin a Pair of Shoes (Step); I was tion might be started in China, and the Anything but whale Rapire opened up 10 elviliullon nnd progress,

circumference

Η. Κ. Τ.

12 noon Rey of Service of Inter-

1.30 Dance Music. Super Swing Junk Men's Sere- nude; Ju-Da. Ovie Alston and His

Hunt Orchestra: Wallz. I

Waltz... # Victor Silvester and His Orchestra. 1.40 Relay of the Rotary Tufin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. Speaker:-ME- Atkins-Subject:-"Education in Re- fuzeo Campia."

2.15

Cluse Down. 6.00 pm. Relay of the Dauce Or- chestra from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel.

Bloom

(u) Outside of Paradise; (b) Lul- Sentimental (Filmlaby in Rhythm; (e) I'm Madly in trale.Take any Tip"); Stars Fell on Al-Love with You; (d) Miss Annubella We are not in a position to say what bima (Perkins): Judy (Lerner); Mr. Brown; Record. Love in steps, have already been taken to bring Dodds Takes the Air (Film Selec-Rainger); I Hate Myself (Ager)....

Sydney Torch, Organ. This long talked. af Kowloon-Canton; tion); Double or Nothing (Film rallway to a practical bearing, but doubt Selection). Remember? Intro.leather is in Bloom; (e) Believe Me; (a) Loch Lamond; (b) When the not that it in the outcome of matice forgot to enterprise, emanating directly from

(d) I found my Yellow Basket; Re- this colony.

Two (Dubin); September in the Rain (Dubin).... James Melton: Raisin' The Rent (from

Cotton Club Revue).....Roy... Bargy and Ramona.

remember: Mr. Heart Stood Sun: See you Again; My

I'l

We may with a very short time Blue Heaven Can't Help Lovin' That cords. Melody for

Year's Kisses,

expect to her the Kowloon Canton irun- Man; Thus and Weather.

1.00 Time

1.03

Greta Keller,

(Thomson);

(a) Dream To-night; (b) My

horse snorting, and shaking its steamy mane along the fertile plains extend- ing from dur trans-marine town to the

The Laugh was on Me (Carter);} City of Rama. Of all the want under When I leur French takings we have yet seen started in Hongkong this Canton-Kowlana railway Trust in Me (Ager); A Lļite Ramble Bonnie Lies over the Ocean; (c) Soli-

tude: "The most popular sport in Hong-scheme stands Fucile princeps. That Springtime with you (Sarony). the incipient vitinge of Kowloon with stealing. People steal kong is

its extensive tracts of level ground, its LORDS' DEBATE |little everywhere.

broad ronds and

healthiness reputed

"One

and coolness in the summer months, will rise giant-like and be in the courne:

once.

that easily imagine CUA

of a few years on important township.

and that the port and business of Hong- kong will increase far beyond what was ever deemed punsible does not require) wach gift of prophecy to foresee,

Fear

In Reich Neighbours

Continued From Page L

(d) Yes, We have no Bananas. 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota-

thens.

{n}

A Variety Programme. 7.0 St. Louis Blues (Handy).....The Boswell Sisters; We Agree Perfectly (Coots) and On Top of a Bus (Arden) with Orchestra; ....Len Bermon Everything's Rhythm with my Heart (From "First a Girl"); The. Little Silkworm (Hoffman)....Jesale Matthews; Flanagan and Alien Me mories Introducing: Can't we Meet Again. A Million Tears, Underneath the Archey, Wanderer, Dreaming,

"Until recenly Shanghai was It alleges that Hongkong has 3,000 hotels, and the only more important than Hongkong, people who have a steady trade are the policemen and the but since a few months the Station-Master!

British port of the 'Rising Sun' fongkong is heaven to thieves when one realises that the Judges have has become the great city of the only just got time to pass sentence Yellow Continent.

on murderers, for whom there is not "Hongkong is 21 yellow even room in the prisons. Chicago with an addition of a "There is no Instance for the past

There is perhaps, not a city in small New York,

5 years where a man who wears his Europe where more drink is consumed watch und chain on his waistcoat has] than In St. Petersburg. The population). not had his pocket picked at least a considerably short of a million, yet "Leprous Walls"

they drink every day 10,000 bottles of cessary for me to stress the appre- Where the Arches used to Be.... "The Old City with its leprous

wine, 1,480,000 pints of ale, and 1,600,-

action tave Flanagan and Allen; Medley, Intro. walls is built on the hillside beside "There are 3 big hotels in Hong-100 glasses of a vile spirituous liquorhension in which this

The Girl in the Little Green Hal the fshing port.

kong, the Metropole being the most known in the country by the name of rise."

"The incorporation in the Relch This is Romance, My Heart Humped "The modern city is spread around popular, though the other 2 have redko,

of nearly 8,000,000 Czechs was over the Moon.....Len Bermon with the commercial harbour. Hongkong also a high class clientele,, but there

clearly a departure from the prin- Orchestra; Let Yourself Go (Berlin). The following information about the hes three thousand hotels, three hun-re 2007 other hotels.

ciples which Herr Hiller had and I'm Putting All my Eggs in One dred and fifty, thousand Europeans,

Jews may interest nome of our reislers: { "These are the 'free' hotels, which-Sentland reckons only 1,000 Jews;

hitherto proclaimed,

Busket....The Boswell Sisters. one mililon Asiatics and from twenty the police control from time to time Ireland only 1,000. In France there are

"It was not unnatural in the light 7.33 Musical Comedy Selections. thousand to thirty thousand. Ameri-only.

70,000 Jews, of whom 40,000 are la of such a departure, for other coun- "Out of the Bottle" (Ellis) and gans and Australians.

Paris. In the British cotonics there tries bordering on Germany to feel "Tell Her the Truth" (Tunbridge).. "But these live not on exportation.

"In fact the police never control are something less than 20,000 Jews that their independence might equal-

.New Mayfair Orchestra: There's a productive work, but them as they are loo busy trying to The total number of Jews throughout ly be in jeopardy.

Small Hotel ("On Your Tacs"). sight the world Is between

and ten have created a mixture of occupa-arrest murderers.

ition. Jews are found in large num-

Bebe Daniels And Ben Lyon; "The tion which is unique in the world. "The 3. main hotels have rooms vera along

northern the

counts of!

His Cat and The Fiddle" Selection "In Hongkong people live Xwith safes and their clients are in- Africa, as well as in Abyssinia. In count there is not an empty hour in in these safes.

Jews ora dwelling in Mexico and in to re-establish some measure of con-run's-1930 Revue Vocal Guma

Light Opera Company. that city of wonders.

8.00

Time, Weather and An- "No insurance companies insure almost every Stute of America. There Odence in Europe, and His Majesty's "A complete anarchy exists in the against theft and burglary in Hong-Jew Persin. 10,000 to 10,000 in the tion with certain other governments. nouncements.

are supposed to be from 40,000 to 50,000) Covernment had been in communica- organisation of trade.

still pro- 8.03 Terence Cssey (Organ). "One can almost say that there kong. Their risk cases on arrival Khamtes and a flke number in India. These consultations were

of the steamer in port,

Parade of the Wedding: Wedding About forty thousand Jews were trans-ceeding, and Viscount Halifax said are only two kinds of citizens in Hongkong

"In every room of the hotels there ferred upon the annexation of the pro- he was not in n position to make any of the Parades; Waltzland-A Medley who have a steady oc-

of Waitzes. cupation. The Policeman and there notices 'Beware of Pickpockets' vinces of German Empire, winal statement.

600,000 Station Master.

also give recommendations whose 60,000,000 inhabitants which The modern city which is around against thefts which are daily oc-elong to this remarkable race. -1: the United Kingdom there are about one

and Toby Gray (Accordeon).

6.45 The Comedy Harmonists. hundred thousand dows, of whom seven-] the central square is bult of blocks curences In Hongkong,

Liebesiled (Kreisler); Humoreske Алер of buildings looking night and day!

Kenths are in London, the greater part of the remainder being in Manchester.į ike an anthill.

(Dvornik); How Can it Be? (Folk

Congo Song);

Lullaby (From Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham.

25 YEARS AGO

"That city, à compound of British Possession) centralises races, of fight and of trade, this at the moment the activity of asiatic Chicago, is Hongkong.

A GIRL HAS TO SO SOME

LIVE

BODY MUST GIVE!

Pardon 'em? You'll Forgive those little "racket-dears" any- thing, because they pay their way with a million laughs!

PARDON

OUR NERVE

with

LYNN BARI

JUNE GALE GUINN WILLIAMS MICHAEL WHALEN EDWARD BROPHY Executive Producer Sol M. Wurtzel Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone Screen Play by Robert Kills and Helen Logan A 20th Century-Fox Picture

TO-MORROW

THE

KING'S

nor on any

Other Governments

important It seemed

for

"Telusively by tradeind on tal structed to put everything they have Amerlen there are 560,000“ Jews,undi Majesty's Government_to_take stena New Mayfair Orchestra; "C. B. Coch-

Everybody Rushes

the hotel for a rest and then at' 6;

Jittors

70 Per Cent. Thioves "Hongkong is the most dishunesi town in the world.

April 4, 1914.

It is understood that the King has: requested Sir John Andersonte "for

the Colonles, to draw up the prelimin-

April 4, 1929.

8.15 Studio-Hat Lorenzo (Piano)

"I may say at once" added Vis- count Halifax, "that the Govern- ment is fully alive to the Import- ance of the attitude of the Soviet Government, and it attaches value to good relations with Russia.

We are bound to have regard to "Sanders of the River"); Love me a the fact that the relations of some Little To-day (Brodszky).

9.00 London Belay"Accent States with Russia are complicated,

as to

9.15 London Relay-The News, 9.39

London Relay "Food for Thought."

Short talks on matters of topical interest.

0.45 London Relay-Sporta News and Market Report.

9.50 Maria Olszewska-Contralto.

Sapphische Ode; Die

Mainacht

"The head of the police in Hong- "During the day everybody rushes kong is 'Mr. E. R. G (the nam about closing a few deals and going mentioned in, the article is unknown

but I

I can assure the Ilouse that so hyilm". far as His Majesty's Government is A further selection of dance tunes. to the banks. (Hongkong is the city to usemEd.) who told me "There are an Under-Secretary of State for in the Far East which has the most in Hongkong only 10 per cent, to 12 arg plans for the tour of the minions,

concerned, these difficulties do not some new, some old, arranged by oxiat. banks). Then the people go and per cent. of honest people. 70 per which is to be made by the Prince of

Kames Moody; The Singers:-Anna have ten in one of the hundreds of

Heferring to the arrival of Colonel Meakin and Jock McCafferty: The fashionable teahouses, then return to cent. are thieves, manlies or Blep- Wales and Prince Albart. It in expert-

rest comprises, affed that a year will be allotted for the Josef Beck, Viscount Halifax said he Players-George Allsop (Guitar) and tomaniacs, the

As tour, which is to begin in the autumn! o'clock again rush to the club where business men of doubtful habits.

and Canada.jcussion with him on the many pro- one meets the most incredible In-a consequence only the more Import- 1916, Australia will be visited first, was looking forward to a frank dis- James Moody (Piano). |dividuals gathered there,

oat criniinals ure punished. and then New Zealand no one "The Governor of the town, Sir; The trin will alan probably take in the blems of common interest.

United States. (The tour was cancelled knows why or how

Not Encircling Rolch Geoffry Northcote, is of the same owing to the great war.Ed.)

Again referring to the Govern- opinion.

"In his opinion it will take perhaps It is stated that after the estimates ment's action regarding Polund, the "In this fashion Hongkong lives 50 years to

give Hongkong the for the fund to be applied to the study Foreign Secretary sold that this was and moves with the jitters from sun-

of neroplanos and automobiles are represented in certain quarters as o mentality of an average city. rise to sun-set and from sun-set to

"Meantimo Hongkong lives, sings, passed by the Japanese Diet, the War desire to encircle Germany. Nothing sun-rise.

laughs and steals. This Eden of Department will laugurate the con- could be further from the truth.

(Brahms). Viscount Halifax added: "It is a

0.57 Bralims-Double Concerto in "At the Montmartre or at the Gangsters is easily the most extra-truction of 15 acropinnes nt Toko- rozawa. The number of aviation a- 'Montparnasse or at the 'Gay Purls, ordinary city in the Fur. East.

cers will be increased to 14, double the case that a strong Germany is set in The city where the buildings are number at present exiniing

the midst of Europe, and if her A Minor Op. 102. rushes and after

Played by Thibaud (Violin), and the same crowd

city rickshaws, the

10 YEARS AGO - neighbours feel apprehension having walked all day long on the next to the

her intentions, and in the end take Casals (Cello) with the Pablo Casals promenades, the shop windows of where the lowest class of pickpockets

the best drawing - A sensation has heen caused in common action in self-defence, that Orchestra cond, by Alfred Cortot.

10.30 London Relay—An Organ which are equat to those of Parls are received in

result flowD from an instinctive and New York, the people still find rooms, the city where people meet Kavno, Lithuania, as a consequens of reaction, and certainly is, not the Recital.

a rald by the police on a dewspaperi time to go and dance in the godowns, the most lowdown individuals.

From St. George's Chapel, Windsor "Hongkong lives on traffic of arms, office where a secret meeting of the creation of any outside departure In

by W. H. Harris with an introductory or basements of the cabarets. Most people

C.V.O get their

without drugs and pleasure. Ten per cent. Eecial-Democrat party leaders was ba-British polley."

"We have undertaken this com- talk by- Owen much work. Hongkong had to be of the honest, people of that city are in hold, over one hundred being taken

mitment, not in any spirit of hostility 50., Mc Librarian to His Majerly come, therefore, one of the most civil servants, bank clerks and hotel into custody. colourful spots on the earth.

keepers. Cabarets are full up, and

11.00 Close Down. there are not enough taxis in Hong his now duties at the Foreign Ofee.

11.R.II. Prince George to-day begain to any country, but in the hope and the King

belief that by so doing, we might kong. One must cable at least one

5 YEARS AGO

strengthen the cause of European April 4, 1994. stability and price." "On, an average there are between day ahead to make reservation for

Franco's recent warning to Britain, 2,000 to 3,000 arrests every week in rooms Shops are full of customers. Ten-houses, coffee-houses, clubs,

that the Hitler Government would' econ Lord Shell, giving the Labour Hongkong, but never anyone arrested motorbuses, airlines (of which there be sturning, ita attention to navel - Party's view, said: "The Govern is able to do bls term in prison

with nervous armament has been quickly Jualiud, ment has our support in the state- because for the last years the are 2).are swarmed

have boon published ment wo rumours

have just heard, and we prisons of Hongkong have been full people. Hongkong lives 100 minutes Blany

abrend regarding the nature and extent per hour. [up.

af Germany's likely, demands but no welcome the change, of polley it im-: "There has been

Indication In forth-coming. plics." ofletai 4 Murdom A Day since 1933 and therefore only those

Germany expects to participate in next Lord Crewe, Opposition Liberal, yith sentences of at least 4 years "There are between 4 and 5 mur-year's naval conference with a view to also supported the statement.

Lord Arnold, Independent, ex- fare put in prison.

ders per day in Hongkong but only procuring some revision of the Treaty

obtain cranter pressed surprise at the Opposition 2 or 3 criminals are arrested every of Versailles anil so

naval security, according to to-day's week. In other words people have Berlin newspapers, which however, pul view that there should be no im- to protect themselves.

Hixhed denials of the report published mediate debate.

The Ilouso then adjourned. abroad that Germany hne drawn up a

Reuter. Big Navy building programmes.

The newspapers emphasis that it

money

All Criminals,

no moro

room

"The others condemned are sent to Singapore.

"As a matter of fact they all escape, so that of 10 people you meet in the street at least one-third are escaped prisoners.

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