1939-05-16 — Page 17

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 16, 1939.

DONALD DUCK

HOW DO HOMING ➤ FIND L-HOME, UNCA PIGEONS

THEIR WAY DONALD?

'AH, THAT'S, THE

MYSTERY,

BOYS!

NOBODY KNOWS!

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A Look Through The "Telegraph'-

50 YEARS AGO

May 16, 1809. It is said to be under contempin tion to start a cotton spinning factory at Mlike, Japon, with a capital of 1250,000.

25 YEARS AGO

out of

May 16, 1014. Arising

the loss of the Titanic several applications under the Workmen's Compensation Act were heard recently at Southampton County Court. It was stated that in three cases the widows of members of the. Tilanie's crew had married agoln,

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ON YOUR WAY,

PRISCILLA!

LARCENY BY TRICK

Disappears After Taking Delivery of Gold Armlet

The theft of a gold nrmlet, valued at $145, from a goldsmith's shop on March 24 led to the appearance of Chan Cheong, 32, unemployed, before Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy yesterday charged with, turceny by trick.

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Air Raid Precautions In Hongkong

HOW TO CHOOSE A

FAMILY

LMOST ANY room will serve

Inspector W. Muir said that Chan went to the Wah Cheong goldsmith's shop at 204 Queen's Road West on March 24 and selected a gold armlet

05 a refuge-room if it is which he ordered to be delivered to

When the soundly constructed, and if it is an address at 101 Road.

with the casy to reach and to get out of. shop assistant arrived armlet, defendant received Ex-

it.

The windows should be as few and cusing himself, he went to the rear small as possible, preferably facing of the premises and disappeared. a bulding or blank wall, or a narrow

On Saturday the shop assistant saw street. Chan in Queen's Road Central, and

+ him orrested. It was

discovered house at the Hill Road

was a

ground Aoor room facing a wide street or a stretch of level open ground is chosen, the windows should

The stranger the walls, floor, and ceiling are, the better. Brick partl tlon walls are better than Inth and plaster, a concrete ceiling is better than a wooden one.

The scheme of providing out-of-sing-ong girls' residence, which her possible be specially protected. door cinematograph entertainment was in the habit of visiting. for residents of Kowloon in the sum-

Defendant told Mr. Houston that iner evenings has now materialised, he had solti the armiet to another and the project will be initiated on goldsmith's shop in Wanchal, Saturday. The venue will be the. Sentence of three months hard Wigwam Lawn Tennis Club grounds, labour was imposed and defendant which are most conveniently loented, was ordered to be sent back to the and show, will be given (weather country after serving his ventence. permitting),

Wednesday, every Saturday and Sunday commencing at 9.15 p.m.

Linan, has gone chief ofeer, Kwang-

chow.

REFUGE

An Internal prasage will forma A collar or basement is the best very good refuge-room if it can be

position for a refuge-room if it closed at both ends."

can be made reasonably gas- proof.

Tho Bost Floor

If

The

enterprise should secure a

A cellar or basement is the best. Mr. J. Crossett, chief officer, Tean,phice for a refuge-room, if it eng be large measure of public support, for the promoters are sparing no effort has gone chief officer, Fatshun, Mr-made reasonably gas-proof and to secure the enjoyment and comfort D. C. Cameron, chief officer, Fatahan, there is no likelihood of its becoming Mr. E. Wood, from flooded by a neighbouring river that of patrons. There will be music and is on reserve. refreshments while the charge is reserve, has gone chief officer, Tear may burst is banks, or by a burst certainly most reasonable -40 cents

Mr. E. L. Hurley. chief officer, water-main for adults and 20 cents for children. Hain Peking, is on reserve. After the hot and steamy days of summer nothing could be more en- Joyable than to sit out in the open air in the cool of the evening and Shengking, has gone chief officer, Alternatively, any room on uny see the latest cinema pletures. It Chekiang. Mr. A. F. Macginnis, chier floor below the top floor may be solves the after-dinner problem by officer, Cheklang,

has gone chief used. bringing the cinematograph to the officer, Shengking.

Top floors and attles should be very doors of Kowloon's residents; Mr. W. A. McDonald, from reserve, | avolaed, as they usually do not give and there will be no grounds for has gone chief officer, Wuchong, Mr. | sufficient protection overhead from complaint on the score of lack of J. R. Forster, chief officer, Wuchang,, small incendiary bombs. variety, as new films will be shown is on reservé, every evening.

If you have any doubt about the Captain W. J. Andrews, Chion risk of flooding ask for advice from Navigation Co., is on Home leave.

Mr. J. H. Forbes, chief offeer, your local Air Raid warden.

In a house with only two floors These small bombs would probably and without a collar, choose a penetrate the roof, but be stopped by roam on the ground floor so that ine top floor, though they mugat burn

rough to the floor below if not you have protection overhoad. quickly dealt with.

in flats or tenement houses, either its Own each household can make arrangements or communal refuges can be mac.

accom-

5 YEARS ACO

·10 YEARS AGO

May 14, 1034. May 6, 1929.

The terrible dister at the West An advance of a most pleasing Point works of the Hongkong and nature has been prepared by Govern China Gas Company this morning: ment since

we outlined, several ranks as one of the most calamitous months ago, the original plans for in the history of the Colony, the

Appalling scenes were witnessed construction of the new motor

It is, however, important that top- road in the New Territories. The following the explosion, marked by

awellers should and project has now been enlarged a great flash et flame from the Com-floor ambitiously and will include the pany's largest

great plates modation downstairs. Kasometer, provision of a public golf course near from which were hurled many feet They might share a refuge-room, Hebe Haven, in the midst of some away. Over seventy badly injured or they might make arrangements to of the prettiest country on the whole persons, many of whom are not ex-occupy the basement. But the base- of the mainland, while a big scale pected to live, were treated at the ment premises will have to be pre- reclamation scheme will give the Government Civil Hospital. Sixty, paved us refüges in the same way Colony a new and its biggest recrea- inmates of one of the nearby terraces as ordinary rooms, according to the tion ground. The road itself, which are said to be missing, or unaccounted instructions given in, this book. will be approximately 23 miles long for, and many were killed almost in-

on a circular route, will open up stantly. country which in the past has seldom been traversed by Europeans, will The prospects of peace between lend facilities for new bathing Bolivia and Paraguay to-day are beaches and possibly, an entirely new exactly nll. residential district.

Feeling of enmity between the countries is now being worked up to Captain A. H. Bathurst, from a frantic pitch. reserve,_has_gone master, Hanyang. Bob are massing troons to continue W. T. Paul, chief officer. the hosillities on a greater scale, and more ferocious fighting Ik

Mr.

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Kwangchow, has gone chief officer, even Linan, Mr. W. J. King, chief officer, expected.

It is suggested that in any flats,

or tenement house, or house occupied by more than one family, representa- tives be chosen and formed into a Protection Committee to decide upon the most suitable rooms and to pre- pare them as refuge-rooms, if it in a two-storeyed terrace house should ever be necessary

choose a room on the ground Even though your household occu- floor. The flanking walls will pics one room only, many of the protect you from the blast of a precautions recommended in the book

safety of all.

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for the

bursting bomb.

can still be carried out, and will help to protect you. So do what you can.

Size of Refuge-room Although an actual rald may be over in a few minutes it might be necessary to stay in your refuge-room for some time, even perhaps for several hours, until the gas in the neighbourhood has been cleared

away.

You should therefore know how many persons can remain safely in one room without suffering any ill effects.

For rooms of normal height (eight| to 10 feet) an allowance of 20 square feet of floor area for each person will crable those persona to remain in the room with complete safety for a con- tinuous period of twelve hours with- out ventilation.

A room 10 ft. by 10 ft. will hold. three persons.

A room 15 ft. by 10 (t; will hold

four person.*.

A room 20 ft. by 13 ft. will hold six persons.

·

Another Mathod

...

You can still make a refuge-room even if you have no surplus room to set aside, in war-time, specially for the purpose. If you have only one

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-RADIO-

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kiló-cycles) Miss Si Kui-ma' (Piano) | Horatio, friend of Hamlet; Laertes, son of Polonius; Fortinbras, prince of From the Studio

Norway; Players, Lords and Ladies, Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Scene: “THE MAGIC FLUTE" ACT 2 Denmark; Production by John Rich-

Radio Programme Broadcast by mond, 7.30 Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. ing those things you haven't gat, one and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 pan. tions. by one.

ni 9.02 m.c's, per Put them in a box, or in a and 8-11 p.m. drawer, in the room you have chosen second. for your refuge-room.

Things you probably possess al- ready:

Candles and matches. Hammer and nails.

Scissors.

Old newspaper and brown paper. Some clean rags.

Needles, cotton, and thread.

to collect:

A candle Inmp, or an

hand lamp.

electrici

น

H. K. T. 12.00-12.20 p.m. Kelay of Service

from St. of Intercession Cathedral.

12.30 Compositions of Llart 11- elading his Rhapsody No. 2.

Closing Local Stock Quota-

7.32 Percy Heming (Baritone) in a Light Orchestral Programme,

Serenade (For Frederick Dellus on John's his Sixtieth Birthday-Warlock)

The Constant Lambert String Orches tra cond. by Constant Lambert; Fair- ings;

Come

To The Fair ("Songs of Fair"-Easthone · Martin) ~and the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2... Jock The Fiddler; The Ballad-Monger of the Fair-Easthope Philadelphia Symphony

)....Percy Heming (Baritone) (Belton)... Philip Green and His

Orchestra

conducted by Leopold Stokowski; ng

Concert Study In D Flat Major,

Suitable material to protect the Ezon Petri (Plano); Consolation (With Orchestra: Down The 'Mall

windows from the blast of an ex-3)....Natan Milstein (Violin) with Orchestra; Joggin' Along The High- plosion.

Leopold Mittmann at the. Plano; way (Samuel) and The Devout Lover Gummed

Waltz No. "Mefisto"

1 ....Serge (While)..........Percy Heming (Baritone) Koussevitzky and the Boston Sym-with Plano. Plywood for blocking the fire-phony Orchestru.

0.00 Time, place.

nouncements.

paper and adhesive!

A few tins or jars with air-tight ilds for storing food.

A bottle of disinfectant.

1.00 Time and Weather.

Ballads. 1.03

Weather and

An-

(Alm

Soul of Mine (Burns) and Bless

8.03 New Dance Music. This House (Brahe)...Essic Ackland

Waltzes-Wooden Shoes A box of First Aid Supplies.

(Contralto) with Organ; Tramping Sweethearts') and Sweethearts (from A list of additional things to get. Through The Countryside (Allison) the film)... Primo Scala's Accordion Are On Parade Band; Fox-Trots Tell Me With Your Into your refuge-room, if there should and The Drums

Peter Dawson (Bass Kisses and Love. Doesn't Grow On ever be a war, will be given later in (Neville)..

Baritone) with Orchestra

Trees (film 'A Song Is Born') Gene Krupa and His Orchestra.

this series of articles.

If you have n wireless set or re-i 1.15 Reuter and Rugby Press,

,8,15 ·

London Relay Cricket..... ALO.C. v. West Indies.

ceiver it would be useful to have it Weather and Announcements. in the refuge-room so that you could,

1.30 Dance Mundo. hear the news and pass the Lime Slow Fox-Trot-I Nearly Let Love! A commentary during the third away. Make sure that the plug for Go Slipping Through My Fingers and day's play by Howard Marshall from It, and the leads for the aerial and Fox-Trot Got To Dance My Way Lord's Cricket Ground, London. earth, if these are required, are made Te Heaven. Billy Cotton and His

8.30 Studio Plano' Recital by rendy.

Band; Fax-Trot-Ohl You Sweet ass B) Kal Mo. (To-morrow: Things To Do In Thing....Harry Roy and His Orches

War-Time)

Belay of the Rotary Tin 140 Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. Speaker: Rotarian Sir Henry Pollock. Subject: "More Legal Anecdotes."

13 .:

STOCK MARKET REPORT

tre.

2.15 Close Down.

8.00 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the long- Hongkong Stock Exchange official kong. Hotel. summary issued yesterday cayat (a) When my Dream Boat comes!

Wharves, Providents, Hotels and in; (b) Darktown Strutters Ball; (c) Watsons changed hands in fair blocks I'll Dream To-night; (d) Shalk of during the day, whilst Docks, Electries, Araby.

1. Prelude in B Flat Minor (Bach); 2. Adagio from Sonata in D Minor (Beethoven); 3. Variations, Op. 12, on

French Air (Chopin), SE

8.50 Mendelssohn--Symphony No. 4 (Italian") In A Major. Ange

Sir Hamilton Harty conducting The Halle Orchestra,

9.15 London Relay--Tho News, 0.30 London Relay "Food for Thougbà un d

Short talks on matters of topical

Interest.

0.45 London Relay-Sports News

and Market Notes.

Act II.

9.50 - Mozart's "The Mario Finto”

Strienz; Fabbry; Grossmann: Schep- Singers in order of appearance: pan;

Marherr; Berglund; Husch;

Trams, Dairy Farms Ex Rights, Dalry 0.14 Record: Plano-Time Melodies Farms Rights, also attracted some Intro: China Boy: You're in Ken- attention though on a slightly smaller tucky Sure as You're Born; Shelk, of scale. With buyers and sellers being Araby; Japanese Sandman; Bye Bye fairly evenly balanced, prices re- Blues; Who's Sorry Now Fiano moined steady.

Duct by Baldwin and Howard With String Bass and Drums Roswacpre: Tesner; Berger: Bällke: Spletter: Lemnitz; and Chorus with (a) Sixty Seconds Got To the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra gether; (b) Waltz Medley Part 1; (e) conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Waltz Medley Part 2; (d) Same, of

11.00 Close Down. these days!

Hongkong Bank $1,350.

Union Insurance $410,

H.K. Fire Insurance $180.

H.K. & K. Wharves $100.

H.K. Docks $17.

Humphreys $7.00.

ILK. Tramways $18. Star Ferries $85. China Lights (Old) $8.40. HK. Electrics $50.

Maçao Electrics $10.00. Telephones (New) $7.4. Canton Icca $1. Cements $124. H.K. Ropes $3.65. Dalry

Dairy

Ex Rt. $21. Rights $154.

Watsons $7.00. Wing On (H.K.) $41. Entertainments $0.55. H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 3% Prem. II.K. Govt. 34% Loan par.

Sellers

H. & S. Hotels $5.86. China Lights (New) $5.00. Macao Electrics $17, Watsons

Sales Hongkong Bank $1,355. H.K. & K Wharves $107. H.K. Docks $17. Providents $44.

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H. & S. Hotels $54. Humphreys $7.80. H.K. Tramways 16.70/60. H.K. Electrics $504. Sandakan Lights - $12. Dairy Forms Ex Rts. $21%. Dairy Farms Rights $15. Watsons $8/7.95, Antameka Pr. .30 Brgulo Gold Pa. .24% Benguet Consolidated Ps. 11.80 Coca Grove 37.

IXL. Ps. 13

San Mauricio Ps. 1.00 United Paranale Ps. 59 Itogon Pr. 23

North Camarines Pa. 42.

VALUABLES LOST

room you can make it a place of Kowloon Lady Drops Gold

greater safety-oven) if: you adopt only some of the suggestions contain- ed in this book. Do not think you

Cigarette Case

Mr. G. A. Avrana, residing at tho have no protection. Any room with Peninsula Hotel, has reported to the solid walls is safer than being out in the open, so don't run out into the Police that his wife löst a gold street, to find better shelter if you where between the Hotel and the

cigarette case valued at £37 some over gel an air; tald warning.

Star Ferry on Sunday. Get There Things

Mr. Taylor, of the Central British School, also reported the loss of "a These are some of the things that wrist watch and a handbag contain- will be useful in your refuge room. ing $37 nt Taiwan Beach, Kowloon, Keep them in mind and begin collect on Sunday.

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0.35 Records: I Walt For You (Alm Evensong-Spoliansky) Mischa Spollonsky (Plano); A Bou- quet For Cole Porter-Intro; What this thing called love?; Night and Day; I'm In Love Agala; You've Got That Thing; Let's Do It: Love for Sale... Arthur Young (Piano) and the Youngsters. With Vocal Chorus. 6.45 London · Relay Scenes from The Tragedies of William Shakes

John

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Gielgud In Characters: Claudius. King of Denmark; Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Courtiers: Gertrude, Queen of Den- mark, and mother of Hamlet; Polonius. Lord Chamberlain; Ophelia, daughter of Polonius; Hamlet, son of the late, and nephew to the present King;

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