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the

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Cited

ST. LOUIS.

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of the Army Ordnance

department,

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

ARROGANT JAPANESE ATTITUDE British Attache Held

As Chinese

Spy!

PEIPING, June 1 (Delayed).

A JAPANESE spokesman admitted this afternoon that the Japanese army authorities at Kolgan had been holding Lieut.- Colonel Spear, the British Military Attache since May 26.. Spear was expected from Chung-

He said that Lieut.-Colonel | king at the end of May.

On Tuesday the Japanese press carried the story of a mysterious foreigner, claiming to be a third Power Military attache, being arrested north of Kalgan on May 26 and taken to Kalgan.

Lieut.-Colonel Spear was known,

to carry a passport, but no admission by the Japanese that they had been holding the Britisher was made until

to-day.

Board of

4

as a spy.-Router.

W. L. McKENZIE,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 6th June, 1939.

forces and national guard are in needDRUMMER BOY" IS 53

of $100,000,000

of equipment

#mmunition which it would ordin- arily take two years 16 produce,

Ice Plant Built For Trailer

LEIPZIG.

London

The British army's oldest drummer hoy is 53. He is A. S. Thompson, who joined the Territorials at 17, attained the rank of company quarter- master-sergeant and then reverted to

he ranks when he was 50.

An auto trailer lee making plant) offers a new luxury to motoring in

TOLEDO, O. remole • regions. The machine, Add signs of summer: Bird house operated by connecting its driving and kite-building contests have been unit with the auto moler, was demon- Jannounced by the city recreation strated at the Leipzig Fair.

department.

German Miners

Go Slow

June 5, 1939.

Opium Dens In Shanghai

Was

London.

Reference to oplum dens in the Shanghal district

made in a question in the House of Commonя recently.

Bir John Haslam asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a British-owned newspaper in Shang- hal published on 1st March the

POST OFFICE.

VIA SIRENIA ROUTE

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Malls are

Letters and Postcards for Europoj (except Great Britain and Eire) and South America era forwarded "vin closed 10 minutes earlier than the Siberia" it so superscribed.

MAIL FOR CANTON Registered and Ordinary mail and

ume given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertis-

names and addresses of 34 opium Parcels (not Insured) will be ac-ed to close at or before D. a.m., re- dens in the Shanghai district outside cepted for Canton and despatched as gistered and parcel malls aro closed the Jurisdiction of the Shangial circumstances permit. Municipal Council which have been

(at 5 p.m. on the previous day. Heensed by the Japanese

nuthorities

INWARD MAILS for $300 each per montli; and und whether he will make strong repre- sentations to the Japanese Govern ment on the necessity for immediate- ly suppressing opium traffic in the] area under their control?

A report of widespread revolt of can miners against the recent reuse of their hours by 45 minutes shirt has just renched the head- quarters of the Mineworkers' Federa-Berm tion of Great Britain.

From

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direct Service"-London 31st May.

Haiphong and Fort Bayard Straits and Haiphong. Tientsin and Swatow Shanghai and Swatow Formban Australia and Manlio Shangha

Shanghai Calcutta and Straits Amoy Saigon Halphon Manila

Straits

Mr Butler: My Noble Friend has received a report to the effect that before 1st March there were some 31 opium hongs in the western extra- is under Japancae control, and Settlement area at Shangharnits and Manila since this date four more have been established there. These hongs are licensed by an Oplum Monopoly Bureau, to which it is believed that they each pay a monthly fee of some $500. The question of an approach

matter is under consideration.

Sir J. Haslam: May I ask my right hon. Friend whether he re- members that I have been asking this question for some time now, and cannot something be done to stop this, abominable traffic? hon. Gentleman say whether

Mr. G. Girauss: Con the right:

the licensing and authorisation of opium dens is a complete innovation?

Due.

For

dale,

Imperial Airways Flane

....Jano 5.

Jean Dupuis

June 5,

Lycaon

Nanchang

Canton Maru

from the Chinese Ines was treated teeism throughout the Ruhr, Saar and to the Japanese Government in this Japan and Europe via Suez (Papers

In explaining the arrest of

Details are given of almost univer. Jeut.-Colonel Spear, the Japanese spokesman said that anyone coming col cu ennny methods and absen-

Upper Silesia. These methods, it is stated, are resulting in a serious loss of output.

NOTED RADIO EXPERT. DIES

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man of the War Office Committee ou

Wireless Telegraphy in 1912,

Aided War Wounded

The report has reached England through underground trade-unton channels, Mr. Will Lawther, neting president of the Mineworkers' Federa- tion, said that its authentielty could not be doubled.

"I am acquainted with the author," he said, "and I have so much falth in his veracity that I am circulating the report throughout the federation."

is the ease.

Mr. Buffer: In reply to the last supplementary question, I think that In reply to the former, I am aware of my hon. Friend's per- tinacity, and I hope it will be re- warded.

Thieves' Trick Irk

Grocer

He was a member of the Inventions] Panel of the Ministry of Munitions, POSTERS TORN DOWN and established with Lady Nonnan,, IT'S SPRING IN TOLEDO the British hospital at Wimereux

"The general conclusion of the re which between 1914 and 1915, treated port is that the German miners who 3,600 officers and men.

are not in a position to down tools openly are indulging in a sullen ca' He become a Staff Captain in 1916fcanny policy and absenteeism on an and was promoted to the rank of unprecedented oppression, but be- Major in 1917, and after the war he cause of their weakening samine. war hon. secretary of the Budget Wireless Telegraphy.

Committee "It is clear that Field-Marshal

COLUMBIA, S.C. appointed to draw up a complete Geering's order of April 1. increasing here didn't mind losing the cigarettes The proprietor of a small grocery wireless scheme for the Empire. the miners' hours 53 week, is not

having the desired effect."

and chewing tobacco thieves tool: After that he was always closely

from his store one night. However, associated with wireless and tele- Mr. Lawther gave me some at the he objected very much to the rubbers graphic communications develop details of the report as follows:

having dumped a sack of sugar into ments, and in 1923 was a member of

a sack of rice to get an empty bag the Broadcasting Committee.

to carry away their loot. He spent several hours sifting the two sub- stances.

The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

$250

CASH PRIZES

$250

Ruhr District. The Workers' Front called meelings at all the mines to He was vice-President of the Radid explain the Coering order. Or 3,700 Society of Great Britain, a Fellow of workers at mines 1 and 2 only 500 the Physical Suclely und of the appeared. Of 4,000 workers at mines American Institute of Radio

Rinecra, and a Fellow of the Rayal 3, 4 and 5 fewer than 500 appeared. Hongkong Benevolent

Geographical Society,

He entered polities in 1900 when

proportion of those present at other mines was even smaller.

Upper Slesia: Posters bearing the

he was elected Liberal representa- Goering order have been repentedly tive for South Wolverhampton, te- torn down.. On the first day of the taining the seat for ten years. Then extended working time, many miners from 1910 to 1923 he represented went to the pits late. They said they the Blackburn constituency.

had overslept.

Chorus Has 1,100 Voices

MINERS' ANGER

Society

Jumble

Sale

The authorities feared to take the usual drastic action. Meal times are prolonged, and the men explain that owing to the longer hours at the coal! face and the lack of nourishing food they must have more rest. Lorain, O.

Saar

Owing to the anger than 2,500 public school puplis participated in a great music had to be postponed for a fortnight.

of the

-the-increase-of-hours- TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 hood of Hiawatha," featured a com-way of compensation that an extra

festival here. The contata, "Child-The authorities, however, asked by St. Patrick's Catholic

(Donated_by_“Hongkong Telegraph”).

(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)

SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW

CLOSING DATE & TIME:,

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION,

IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizes will be allotted as follows:

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SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures,

1st. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO:

General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

let. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10,

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.

1st. $30, 2nd, $15. 3rd, $10. SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE:

Snapshots tulcen by children under fourteen years.

1st. $15, 2nd $10. 3rd. $5:

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition!

The Competition is confined ex- clusively

amatow photo-

graphers

O!

2-No employee or member of any

firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.

be

J-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what aro adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Bection. Each entry must be accompanied by 8, form.. which will be published during the period of the Com palition, and whitch must pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong-Telegraph, — sa All photographs entered must have been taken in Mẹ Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible, No responsibility will be necepted for non-delivery of, less of, or damage to entries. 1. 7-All entries to bo ofther black, sepla, or toned plctures, and must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE.IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

photo-

be mounted, Coloured graphs are ineligible. 1-Pictures submitted in sepin tonca should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white, D-No picture to entered in more

than one Section. 10,--Mounts to be only white or

creany, and. except in tho Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12. 10x20. 11.-No correspondence will be entered

into in connection with the Com- petition.

12. Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, ajo and address on the entry form, counter-algned by a parent, 13—Members of the Staff of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Borning Post ure not permitied to compete

14-The__deptalons of the Judges alall

be final.

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15-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within severi day's.

SECTION

ENTRY FOUM

NAME

ADDRESS

DATE

Please usa block letters and paste this en back of onch Entry. If entered in Children's Boetion, parent please coun-. tersign hers.

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At the pit DEF, out of more than TUESDAY, 6th JUNE 5,000 men only 17 appeared for the

CLEVELAND, O-Glenn A. Toaz, nidday shift and none for the night of Cleveland, has invented an elec shift. A few hundred men appeared trically-lighted device to show varled for the morning shift. positions of dots in making Braille Of the 1,500 men at the pit FGH. characters for blind readers. He says 100 men went to the morning shift, his device will expedite the printing 13 to the midday shift and none to of books for the bind.

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