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AUSTRALIA'S FIRST
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Canberra.
The
May 8, 1939.
Herr Hitler's Family
Tree Published
celebration, of
Berlin, Chancellor
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Hitler's fiftieth birthday lends special ITALY AND GERMANY interest to "The Family Tree of the Fuhrer," published in an bficial series of "Family Trees, of Famous
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stated, and where malls are advertis- Government for defence materials
(Continued from Page 1.)
Letters and Postcards for Europe ed to close at or before 9 a.m., re- and munitions-amounting to millions European history, who have been of pounds to private factories through-remendously interested in their own
Baltle and the Central | (except Great Britain and Eire) and childhood,
Herr Hiller disilices it is the out Australia.
Each carries out the South America are forwarded via gistered and parcel malls are closed having his carly years discussed. European zone.
at 5 p.m. on the previous day. 10 For a
realisation of Its task in full Siberia" if so superscribed. ong time German newspapers
INWARD MAILS
Among these orders is one
atatement of Accounts for the Sydney factorles for 50,000 gas have been forbidden to publish any. (autonomy without the other being LONDON HITCH WITH trols, the first. to be made in
RUSSIA
(Continued from Page 1.)
1938.
trolio.
years.
an
which would have revived the triple 4th May to the 18th May, 1939, ton of senior technical posts in all the few meagre details to be found two countries are resolved, because
alon.
support partner, but only to facilitate the The munitions factories at Mari-
Herr Hiller's personal history be-way.
1914 swept him The Share Register and Trans-yrong, Victoria, and Lithgow, Now fore
into the South Wales, are being enlarged, and Bavarian Army is a blank, therefore,
case only is solidarity "In one for Bocks will be closed from the there has been a general reorganisa for the German people, except for
rigid and entire, namely in Ideologien war. In that case, the ummunition, explosives and amall in the first chapters of "Mein Kampf.” lliance against totalitarian expan- both days inclusive.
the Commonwealth, arms factories in the
cach one knows that the defeat of The "Family Tree," while leaving Governor BallaLord Hunting cld, Herr Hitler's early lie untouched, one would mean catastrophe for the Governor of Victoria, salled recently does give a slight picture of his other... for London in the liner Mooltan, 20,- forbears.
Count Clano is returning to Rome 052 tona. Thousands lined the Herr Rudolf Koppensteiner, who to-day, and Herr Joachim von streets of Melbourne to the docka, und has carried
the
extensive Ribbentrop is going back to Berlin. he was given State and civic fare- research work for the "Hitler Family wells.
Tree" with typical Teutonic thorough- Austrian Allens-Among aliens ap-ness, has actually managed to trace plying for entry Into Australia is a the Nazi Leader's fore-fathers right; former Austrian judge, who said that back into the sixteenth century. he would gratefully accept work in domestle service.
France has relterated its bilaterali Franco-Russian Mutual Aid Pact of 1935,
Ila understood that Moscow has informed France that Russian policies envisage no isolationism or Russo- German rapprochement,
the
To-day's Cabinet meeting surveyed foreign outlook, particularly the German-Polish crisis, ii. Litvinoff's resignation, and the reported presence of German
technicians In
mliftary
Northern Italy,
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The Fifty-eighth Ordinary In the French viewpoint, Britain's General Meeting of the Company rejection of a military alliance with will be held at the Offices of the Russia does not imply the failure of The Anglo-French efforts to reach a General Managers, Messrs. Jar- working agreement for the guarantee dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder of the territorial integrity of the States bordering Germany.-United Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 25th May, 1939, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report
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London, May 6, The Soviel Ambassador lo London visited the British Foreign Office at
1.1.
He was in conference with Lord
SOUTH AFRICA
out
WEDDED TO THE LAND
This is not the first "Hitler Family Tree" to be published. In 1932 Herr Karl Friedrich von Frank brought one out in a Viennese genealogical Journal.
From one
point of view Herr Koppensteiner's task has not been as dificult as it might at first appear, Herr Hitler comes from purely pen sunt stuck, established exclusively in! one region.
Warsaw Weakened?
From
Japan Swatow
Air Mall by "Imperial Airway
Direct Bervloe" ---- London, date, 3rd Bay
Haiphong and Fort Boyard Shanghal and Amoy Java and Manila Calcutta and Straits
Australia and Monila
Japan Mantin
Tientsin
that com-
Shanghai
Warsaw report saya A official quarters decline ment on tho German-Italian milliary and political pact unill more is known of it, but there is no feeling here that. Poland's inter. possible national position in any negotiations over Danxlg has been weakened by the pact,
of the Directors, passing the tennis court in the village of Verulam, recorded in this "Family Tree" have assurances of moderation from Ger-
Accounts, and electing Directora and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Hallfax, who informed him regarding Company will be closed from the the British reply to Moscow's P18th May to the 8th June, 1939 posals for tri-power military
Inclusive. · lance-United Press.
Counter Proposals
Paris, May 6.
10
The French Foreign Minister to- day reported to the French Cabinet on the progress of negotiations bring Poland, Russia, Rumunia and Turkey into the peace front. He explained Britain's proposals to Moscow's sungestion for a tri-power military alliance, and stressed the Pope's efforts in favour of peace.
Counter-
be
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Cape Town. Four hundred and fifty-eight native women were found guilty of murder al the end of South Africa's biggest mass trial, held on a disused
near Durban.
They had been accused of stoning to death
man named Somson Nkbinde, who had had a dispute over money with their tribal chieftain, Chief Shembe.
Eleven of the women, who were found in possession of weapons after stoning, were each sentenced to By Order of the Board,
months imprisonment. The JARDINE, MATHESON & others were each sentenced lu three months' imprisonment, but they will CO., LTD.
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to serve the sentence If they are of good behaviour during the next three years. Forty-two women Hongkong, 25th April, 1939.
were nequitted and discharged. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. military aeroplane crashed into the sea
Three Airmen Kliled. Wupid at Durban recently after being in collision with a Gipsy Moth. The occupants of the Wapiti, Lt. Kinsey, an Air Force dying instructor, and his pupil Pilot F. P. Schoeman of Pretoria, being killed. A military plane also crashed near Johannes- burg, the pilot, Lt. C. J. Enslin, be- ing killed and his passenger, H. T. Snyman, seriously injured. NEW ZEALAND
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(NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA.)
From EUROPE and STRAITS,
The Cabinet approved and Pre- sident Lebrun signed six decrees in- cluding defence' precautions and rein- forcing control of the foreign prèsaThe Steamship In France-Vulted Press,
HOBSON'S CHOICE
Beggar Prefers Neither Of Two Evils
serve.
"HARUNA MARU” having orrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at lobal whence delivery may be
Central the
SUBSIDISED LABOUR PLAN TO CONTINUE
Auckland.
Mr. P. C. Webb, New Zealand Minister of Mines, announced recent ly that the scheme of subsidising workers until in employment was to be continued until the men were all absorbed into other industries.
ugo.
such a pact.
The view is held unofcially that the pact has been force on an un- willing Italy, which has no desire to see a European conflet over Danzlų, At the same tme, it la thought receiving The twelve generations of Hitlers likely that only after not moved from the land on which many could Mussolini have agreed to they settled several centuries These families of peasants, living in
tie villages off the benten track in is now for Germany to deelde
The press leaves no doubt that it Upper and Lower Austria-the Forest future of Polish-German relations. Danube and what used District between the swiftly flowing Czech-Austrian
to be mained tenaciously rooted to the soil many will choose the way of peace, and their modest possessions. They and will begin negotiations on the did not marry outside the district, basis outlined by Colonel Beck in his so that the "Family Tree" reveals speech.--Reuter,
fifty-eight famliy names. Quite interesting from the purely sociological
view,
only
frontler-have
of
Ticntain and Swatow
Air Mail by "Pan American Air-
Per
Arabia Maru Chungng
Due.
May 8,
.May 8.
Imperial. Airways Pläno
May 8.
Jean Dupuis
.May 8.
Taiyuan
May 6.
Tjisadane
May
Sirdhana Talping
May
May, 0.
Teiresias
May 9.
Emp
of Japan
May 10.
Holhow Hupch
May 10,
May 10,
Lima Maru
.May 10.
Airways plane
May 10.
Pres. Doumer
May 10.
ways Direct Service-San Fran- Pan American cisco date, 3rd Mar. Salgon
Straits and Europe via Suez (Papers etc.) London date, 13th April and Landon Parcels-London 6th April Shanghal
Зарап Straits
date,
Ranchl Talthyblus Tango Moru Bhutan
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways. Direct Service"-London date, 6th May Shanghal
U.S.A., Honolulu and Japan (San
Francisco date, 15th April) U.S.A., Honolulu and Japon
May 10.
May 10.
.May. 10.
.. May 11.
Imperial Airways Plane....May 11. Marechal Joffre
Pres. Harrison
(San
the
Francisco date, 21st April) Straits and Manila Japan and Shanghai Shanghai
the
The "Gazela Polska," the Melal re-Government organ hopes that
Amoy Japon
Ger-
Straits Manlin
the
Agreement Final
point Family Tree" does not reveal any- ROME, - May 7-The Italian Gov- Hitler's ancestry or throw light on and milltary agreement concluded as thing remarkable or starting in Iferrernment announces that the political why he should have emerged shot up like
of the negotiations be- leadership. a comet to German tween the German and Italian Foreign Ministers at Como is designed to make father's German-Italian Axis relations final.
-Domet
and the result
ifis grandparents, on bls side, Johann Georg Hiedler, born in 1792, and Anna Maria Schlekelgruber, born in 1705, who lived while Napoleon
was rampaging through Europe, would surely have been extremely astonished if they had known that their son, Alois, would have a son who would, be compared with the great Corsican,
These paternal grandparents were
Bill Protects House-Buyers
orc
THE house-buyer and the building In their graves decades before their ociety who tend him money famous grandchild, Adolf, was born.given more protection by the Govern- A child of his father's third marriage,ment's new. Bulling Socletles Bill, Adolf Hitler was born when his father was fifty-two years old.
SU
Issued recently.
Amusement was caused in Mr. T. J. Houston's court at
Goods not cleared by the 14th May, Magistracy on Saturday, when 1939, will be subject to rent. incndicant, Wong Kam-chol, 99, who Damaged packages must be left in
MILLERS AND WEAVERS
Mra. Elay Borders, "modern Portia," was charged with begging at Bonham the Godowns for examination by the
of West Wicklķim, Kent, Who Strand, West Point, on Friday, naked Consignce's and the Co.'s representa- how long prison term he had to tives on any Tuesday and Fridays at
There is no variation in the social defended, without counsel's help, a status ol Herr
building society action against her, Hitler's forbears. 2.30 p.m. within the free storage
Import Control Scheme.-Viscount They were all small peasants who alleged certain anomalies in the law. examination of Galway, the Governor-General, re-worked, in individual lle was given the alternative of period. For the
So the Government have drawn up geing to the Home for the Aged damaged dutiable goods, the con-cently informed the Bure
Bureau of im- millers and weavers. must arrange for a Revenue parters that he does not intend to "Hitlers," it is elained, were
The
this Bill to give statulory recognition signees or going to prison. He was told Omeer to be present. Poor
to points that were not clear. The would have to go to gnol for a
take any action following their peti- found in this district na carly as the All claims must be presented tion about the new. Import control afteenth century: month.
within ten days of the steamer's regulations. The Bureau had asked Wong was asked several times
Herr Hitler's father. Alois Hitler per cent, deposit. A building society whether he was wiling to go to the arrival here, after which date they for the suspension of the regulations born in June 1837, the month Queen can advance him up to seventy-five | house-buyer must pay at least five Home, but replied that he would cannot be recognized.
to their Victoria came to the throne, is the per cent. of the purchase price. Up
frat Hitler who managed to raise himself out of the humble ranks of guaranteed by certain specified ad-
lo twenly per cent. more the peasantry into a higher social ditional securities.
rather return to the country. Even tually, he was taken into the Mogisirate's chambers and dealt with thero.
PURSE SNATCHER
No claims will be admitted after pending a legal test as the goods have left the Godowns. validity.
No fire insurance has been effected, † UGANDA
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA. Hongkong, 8th May, 1930.
against purse-snatchers. Suddenly
a man ran up to her, appeared bat-
BAFFLED
Cleveland, O. Mlas Hilda Misch wrapped her purse in a newspaper as a precaution Misch,
"MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON" EXPLORED
Kampala, Uganda.
fed when he couldn't find any purse. Members of a Polišli scientifle ex- Then I just screamed and scream-pedition have returned here after ed, and he went away," said Miss spending three months in the Moun- thing of the Moon," the Ruwenzori Range
which separates Uganda and the Belgian Congo.
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Its
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CIRCULATION
The bulk of local newspaper advertising is carried by The South China Morning Post and. The Hongkong. Telegraph
BECAUSE OF THEIR CIRCULATIONS
The expedition spent 40 days in the Ruwenzori Mountains without return
ing to their base camp, and later
are now
cases,
to
first be
When the Bill becomes law, the
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G.P.O.
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Tuesday
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Fort Bayard and Haiphong Swatow...
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Parcels only for Straits
Swotow
can
be
Shanghai and Japon Swatow Haiphong
class,
As both of his parents--lready re-
If the balance above eighty per ferred
to above were dead before
cent, is met by a "builder's pool" he was twenty, the youthful Alois Cecurity given by the builder), or learned the trade of shoemaking, and society must tell the buyer in writing. guaranteed by an outsider, the must have studied hard, for later on Otherwise the sum will not be re- he achieved his great ambition and over became an Austrian Custonis official. coverable except by leave of the The society when making 0л Indvance shall be decined to warrant At the age of fifty-six, while Adolf that the purchase price is reasonable, was still a small child, he retired on unless written notice is given to the a pension and became there had been no French Revolution
former. I contrary,
DIFFERENT SPELLINGS
His father's, ambillous nature,
court.
The Building Societies' Association
out the remarkable feat ofsa officially hated by the Nazis favours the Bill. They say: "It op- the two active volcanos,Alois Hitler would not have beenalins the best standards of building and Nyamlagura, in two able to emancipate himself from the society practice." days. The
four They spent
in the peasant class, days crater of the intter volcano, from which streams of lava flowing down into Lake Kivu,
The botanist collected 200 different species of mosses most of which have not previously been known.
SHARK CAUGHT Big Specimen Landed Outside Lyemun
therefore, and the social changes Church two days later. The "ex- brought about by the French Revolu-pectation of life" amongst the male tion, made it possible for Adolf Hitler ancestors is seventy-eight, while the to enjoy on excellent education at the average age reached by the male Linz Secondary School,
ancestors is seventy years.
A "shark fishing" party comprising Traffic Inspector S. C. Saunders, Mr. Lau Man-ts, Mr. Tao Ho-sun, and Mr. Wong Kwok-ching, had a suc- cessful day out on Saturday morning. After the bait had been in the water for two and 0 half hours a 95 lbs. shark.
was caught,
The party left Shaukiwan at 7 4.m. and proceeded to their grounds, a mlie outside Lyemun, The shark, which was five feet ten inches long. bnly look the sportsmen four minutes' to surface..
Mr. Wong, of the Sun Co., Ltd., in the 1938 season caught five sharks, which varied from about five Tent to seven feet in length.
Anglers Have Big Day
LONDON.
Two Lincolnshire anglers can lay claim to the record for one-day calch of piko-they caught 25, and 13 of them weighed more than 10 pounds each. The two men ceased fishing only because their stock of bait ran out,
For those who are interested in The spelling of the name "Hitler" such details, one learns from the during the centuries has been varled; 1 "Family Tree" that Adolf Hitler was Hydler, Hitler, Hytler- Hetler, Huct- born on April 20, 1889, at half-past fler, Huttler, Hueffler, Huettler, Huet- six in. the evening al Braunau am ler, Hielder, Hiettier, Huedler Hitler, Inn and baptised into the Catholic Hutler, and Hitter.
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