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CHINA WAR TAKES TO THE AIR

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shot down at Khoan, the Klangst city lost by the Japanese last week.

Nanchang Fighting

On China's good earth, military operations continue unabated on the outskiria of Nanchang, Kiangst capital.

The Main body of the Chinese terces advancing towards the Klangs crpital on both banks of the Kan River is reported to have joined the Chinese vanguard which has been engaging the Japanese outside the gates of the city.

A Chinese attack on Nanchang expected to-day.

Several fires are still raging inside the city. It is reported that the Japanese are "mopping up" a number of Chinese plain-clothes men who are responsible for the fires Inside the city.

In Kwangtung

Following a week-end of sanguin- ary fighting, Hokshan, 23 miles north- west of Kongmoon, has been regained by the Chinese,

The city was captured by the Japanese on Thursday when two columns succeeded in converging on it from Kongmoon and Tonshulhow,

The Chinese counter-attack, which sortedl on Test Friday, was crowned with success on Sunday

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ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER required by THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD. Salary Dollars One thousand two hundred ($1,200) a month for the Arst year, Dollars One thousand throo hundred ($1,300) a month for the second year, and Dollars One thousand four hundred ($1,400) a month for the third year. The exchange value of the Dollar is at present fixed by the Government at 2a 4d. Free first class passage for the O cer appointed and if married for wifo- and children up to six years of ago. Agreement for three years on the Board's usual terms, terminable at any time within that period at six months' notice on either alde. The Board has a Provident Fund to which the officer must subscribe. Free un- furnished house will bo provided, The Board carry on, under the Ports Ordinance, an

extensive business да Wharfingers and Warehousemen, the nett rogistered tonnage of ships berthed at the Board's wharves for tite year

onded 30th June, 1938 wna 9,756,- 410 tons and the grand total tonnage of General Cargo, Coal wards for the same period was and Fuel Oil inwards and out-

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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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May 1, 1939.

POST

REGISTRATION

of

BRITISH SUBJECTS

FORMS CAN BE OBTAINED AT ALL POLICE STATIONS, POST OFFICES, OR OFFICES OF THE TRAVEL BUREAU

IT IS HOPED THAT REGISTRATION

WILL BE COMPLETED IN A FORTNIGHT

NOTICE.

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has been called by the committeo on Tuesday, 2nd May, at 8 p.m. Will all members please attend.

FOR SALE.

Fitted with

Bride Hid Jewels:

Fined £782

POLAND KEY TO WORLD PEACE (Continued from Page 1.)

as an attempt to break Anglo-Polish harmony.Reuter.

Beck To Reveal Poland's Plans

BRIDE who interrupted her Cannes was fined £782 13s. 40., honeymoon to fly home from with five guincas costs, at Croy- don recently, for attempting to evade

payment of Customs. duties on jewellery and clothing

WARSAW, Apr. 30. The Pollsb

Foreign Minister, It was stated she hild

Colonel Beck, will speak before the £250 11 bracelet in her sleeve,

Polish Parliament on May 5, accord- She

Mrs. Margaret Turner, of Edgemoor, Buxton. Der-

Milne ink to reports published to-day. byshire.

have had considerable executive One 35 Feet Brooke Motor Boat at Croydon airport. experience, and should possess pronounced business and organi- sing abilities. Applications are to be addressed to the Chairman, The Singapore Harbour Board.

One 100 H.P. Brooke Engine In running order. Completely equipped with tools,:

and Forms

moming when the Japanese began THE BANK OF CANTON, spares, accessories and drawing Customs, said that Mrs. Turner had

to retreat norili-enterly towards Kow-

kong.

It is claimed by the Chinese that 500 Japanese were killed during the week-end encounter.

Hokshan is now in ruins. It is estimated that 200 civilians were kill- ed and

hundred buildings demolish- ed by the heavy Japanese bombings turing the Japanese attack on Hok- shan and their subsequent evacuation. It is reported that the area north of Kongmoon and east of Sunwal is now clear of Japanese,

Severa Japanese Satback

Yungyun, May 1. A military despatch from the Hokihan front reports heavy Japanese selback in the vicinity of Kamkonghu, five miles north of Hokshan.

The Japanese launched the attack with 3,000

troops, resisted by mechanised units, but were driven back to Kongmoon and Kowkong by dogged resistance, suffering hundreds of casualties.

A wide area north of Kongmoon and west of Sunwul, according the despatch, is cleared of main Japanese forces.-Central News,

China's Air Activity

Shanghal, Apr. 30. Aerial activities again feature the Sino-Japanese hostilities with the organised Chinese air force claiming

new victories.

1ho

Chinese reports any that Chinese planes co-operating with the land forces in

southern Shuns!

have Infleted heavy casualties on Japanese troops entrenched along the Chungtiao River from which the Japanese troops have been compelled to flee to the mountains.

LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that Dividend Warrants for all classes of shares of this Bank are now ready. Shareholders are request- ed to apply for them at the Head Office No. 6 Des Voeux Road, Central, or through any of the Branch Offices of the Bank, or, Bank of Canton, San Francisco.

By ordor of the Board

of Directors

AL Y. TANG, Chief Manager. Hongkong, April 22, 1939.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Full details Tender

of

The answer to the German memo- rundum will be handed to the Ger- man Ambassador shortly afterwards. It has not yet been announced

ON HONEYMOON Mr. B. M. Stephenson, for the been spending her honeymoon in the whether Colonel Beck will address a on South of France and owing to full meeting of Parliament, or the trouble with the domestic stuff nt hee Senate foreign affairs committee. home returned for a few daya.

may be obtained application personally or in writ- ing to

The Equipment Officer,

Royal Air Force Station,

Kai Tak,

Hong Kong,

on or before 8th. May, 1939,

WATCH FOR OPENING DATE

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The Fifty-Eighth Ordinary ARTIST. Meating of Shareholders will be hold at the Offices of the under- signed on Thursday, the 18th May, receiving the Report of 1939, at Noon for the purpose of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the

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For superlative results give your

At Croydon Airport on February

9 she presented two suitenses for has not been at his post for some The German Ambassador to Poinnd clearance and was warned to declare time, but it is announced that he will articles obtained abroad.

return on Monday, although con- She declared gloves and stockings firmation of this is lacking. and then and that she had nothing further,

It is reported that the diplomatic Mr. Stephenson said that when that of Berlin, and with the return ceremonial in Warsaw will follow empty jewel cases were found in her of the possession a senior officer was called.tations between the two countries will Ambassador diplomatic re- He asked her whether she was wear-be resumed. ing any of the jewels which came out of the cases,

She produced a bracelet, which had cost

£250, from underneat sleeve of the blouse she was wearing. and a brooch-from-underneath her scarf.

It

wag found that nearly all the clothes in her cases had come from firms abroad.

Poland's Air Defence Polisli newspapers to-day the

turn their attention

from the Fuchrer's speech to the new air defence loan which had not yet been fully sub- scribed, although the time is prae- ically up. Government organs im- press upon the country the necessity Asked why she had said that her

of strengthening air defence, since Jewellery had been left in Cannes this is one of the week points in na- when she was actually wearing it,

tional defence. Mrs. Turner said that she had, been "terribly silly" and was Inexperl- enced of the Customs,

WILL LOSE JEWELS The total value of the articles was £598 16. 11d., and the duty she had attempted to evade amounted to

£184 118, 5d.

Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C. denied that there was pre-

situation, the

Commenting on the. International Conservative paper "Czas" stated that the Polish Govern- ment naturally wishes to maintain its non-aggression pact with Germany, and desires good neighbourly re- lations with the Reich, though not at the expense of vlinl Polish interests.

"The "Dziennik Narodowy" declares

year ended the 31st December, photographle work to an artist Mrs.

Turner had been that in dealing with the Danzig pro-

1938,

The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the Chinese planes later raided Yung-4th May to the 18th May, 1939, cheng

aerodrome where a number of both days inclusive. grounded Japanese planes were de- stroyed.

Tite reports added that Ave Japan- ese planes later Intercepted the Chinese

planes, and in the ensuing dogfight one Japanese plane shot down. No Chinese losses were reported,

Poyang Lake Raid

WAS

An additional nthe Chinese planes alding the Chinese offensive northern Klangsi carried out a sur- .prise raid on the Japanese troops on the West Bank of the Poyang lake and bombed Japanese transports on the Yangtse, allegedly sinking three transports and killing more than 200 Japanese troops.

Chinese pursuit planes also claim ed a victory ut Sian where two Japanese planes were alleged to have been shot down during a Japanese

raid on April 20.

found.

So far the wreckage of one of the Japanese planes has been Five Japanese planes were said to have escaped. The Japanese squad ron was intercepted and driven off before they could get over Slan to bomb their objectives.

One Chinese plane was damaged and forced down, but the pilot was nol Injured.-United Press,

French Plane May Call At H.K.‹

PARIS, Apr. 30.-M. Gilbert Den- nls, well-known French viator, left Paris in his Coldron Simone plane ut 0a.m. on Saturday afternoon on a

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agents. Hongkong, 27th April, 1939.

is a photographer and bas had many ledge of the world and had never should be the deciding factor, since up without very much know-blem, the interests of Poland alone years chemical training.

been abroad before.

Danzig lies wholly within the Polish. There was no attempt to conceal sphere of interest, and the security of the empty jewel cases and she was the entire country would be jeopar- wearing the jewellery for sentimental dised should the free elty become a

German military base.

6 Pedder Stroot (Above the premises of LAZARUS, Opticians.)

Brides Must

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The Fifty-eighth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Oflees of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, purpose of receiving the Report 26th May, 1939, at noon, for the

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fler left for Bagdad at 6.50 am.

After

arriving at Salgon, the

record-breaking flight from Paris toch fler will continue his fight to

Tokyo via Hongkong or Shanghat

Sulgou

The plane arrived at Athens at 4.25 a.m. and after refuelling, the French Domitt

Be Late

Strong criticism of brides who arrive late for their weddings has again been expressed.by Canon W. H. Gay, Vicar of Christchurch, Hamp- shire.

He had

eight weddings at his church on Easter Monday. In his previous attack he said that it was selfish and inconsiderate to keep everybody waiting.

"BAD FORM"

learned from a bride a few weeks "To my surprise," he writes, "I

eagerness ago that it was belier to be late, for It was bad form to show too much to .be married. What hypocrisy! And what childishners!

"Of course, they are cager for girl not too cager?" matrimony. What he-man wants a Canon Gay said: "I don't believe in this bad form business. It's all nonsense

MIRROR'S FAULT

"I believe the mirror is, at the bottom of it. The bride cannot get away from her looking loss, touch- ing her lips up and pulling on the powder and paint, trying to look her

telling her it was a good auguty for added that he congratulated one bride who was punctual recently, her husband getting his breakfast la time.

reasons.

"You will realise," he added, "that she will lose all the jewels and they are not only of strong realistic value but of stronger sentimental value." Mrs. Turner, who is 25, was for 'nearly Ryear housekeeper at Edge-

moor to

Mr.

Rupert Turner (54), whom she married at Chapel-en-le- Frith on November 30 last.

Mr. Turner is a director of Mesara, Turner and Newells.

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Usual Reich Plan Another paper expressed the fear that the Danzig Government may one day proclaim the union of Dan- zig with the Reich. Should Poland then take action to protect its in- forests, Germany would intervene to protect the German popula- flon at the mouth of the Vistula... Trans-Ocean.

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Calcutta and Streits

Imperial Airways Plane Kumsang

.May 1. .May 1.

Almall by "Pan American Airways

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Airways Plane

May 1.

Japan

Tusima Mary

.May

Shanghal

Hector

Shanghat and Swatow

Hunan

May May

Saigon

LAOS

May

Szechuen

May

Tatuta Maru

Straits

Van Houtz.

Japon

Nellore

.May 2. May May 3.

Manila

Pres. Cleveland

May 3.

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direct

Service"-London dato.

29 April

Imperial Airways Plans

May 4.

Japan

Santhia

May 4.

Japan

Arabia Moru

Moy B.

Conte Ross50

.May 5.

Canada,

USA Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver B.C. date,

14th April)

Emp. of Japan

May D.

Shanghol

Glenapp

May 5..

Straits

Harun Maru

.May 5.

Air Mail by "Pan American Air-.

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Day 5.

Straits

Pyrrhus

.May 5.

Australia and. Manila Jaya

Tanda

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May 5,

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Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- Imperial Airways Plane Mon, May 1.

tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"due Sydney, 8th May.

Saigon Halphong

Air Mall for "Imperial Direct Service due 8th May.

K.P.O.

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Ord,

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K.P.O.

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May 1, 5 p.m.

.May 1, 5.30 p.m.

G.P.O,

Reg Ord.

.May 2, 7.30 am.

Airmail for Mania, Guam, Honolulu Pan-American

and U.S.A. by the Pan American Airways -Direct Service"-due San Francisco 8th May.'

Tuesday Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya.. Tilnegara Swalow.....

Kaying... Fort Bayard, Pathol and Haiphong Klungchow Parcels only for Straits, Penang, Hector

Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Marseilles London--due London, 8th

and

June.

Japan

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Kumsang

..May 2, 5 p.m. Tues., May 2, 6 p.m.

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Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA., Tatula Maru....Tues., May 2..

Central and South America via San Francisco and (Popers only for Canada)-due San Francisco, 25th May-and Europe (except Great Britain and Elrc) via Siberia

Wednesday

Kwelyang..Wed., May 3, 12.30 p.m. Wed., May 3, 2,30 p.m.,

Wingsang Tsinan

Wed., May 3, 3.30 pm,

Thurs., May 4, 10,30 a.m. Tegelberg..Thurs, May 4, 3.30 pm.

K.P.O.

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Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Place

Direct Service"-duo London, 11th May

Swalow Swatow Amoy

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May 4, 7 p.m.

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Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- Imperial Airways Plane

tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due Sydney, 12th May.

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Ord.

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Ord,

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G.P.O.

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