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Genius Is 36

MANY

ANY geniuses die at 36, and U.

if they last they often cease to continue to do interesting work after 50.

The Post-Laureate, Mr. John Masc- field, said this recently when discuss- ing the influence of Thomas Hardy.

One of the most remarkable things about Hardy, be said, was the way he matured.

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(27), Mr. Masefield (00) escaped the danger age.l

has

"Maturity is, perhaps, the rarest Hardy's influence on young English gift to human beings. Even poets begin to age at 30. Indeed, 30 is a poets was probably the most power- fatal age for genlusex. They very ful since Browning, added Mr. Mase- often dle at that age; It is astonishing field. Hardy lavented more methods those who have died then; and those of writing verse than any other man who continue very often cease to do in the great company of English poets. interesting work by the time they are 60.

BETTER AND BETTER ` "A few great ones go on getting better and better until they are 70. Ibsen was one such and Hardy an- other. He did some of his best work after 65."

Mr. Masefield, assisted by Miss Kate Hardy, the novelist's sister, wns opening a memorial room to Hardy in the Dorset County Museum at Dor- chester.

of

It contains A reconstruction Hardy's study as it was al his home, Max Gale, from which some of the original furniture has been taken.

Note: Poets who died before the "danger age" include Keats (25), Shelley (30), Chatterton (the One of the nest collections Bristol boy poet) (18), and Rupert Hardy manuscripts in the world is in Brooke, who died in the Great War the memorial room.

The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

Thursday,

G. 發送

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

R. Vicars Pray To

End A Curse

PARTICULARS. & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction

to be held on Monday, the 19th

Sturston, Norfolk.. VILLAGERS prayed here re-

cently that a centuries-old curse should he removed and fertility restored to fields that have consistently failed to pro- duce good crops.

day of June, 1939, nt 3 p.m., at the Offcon of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land West of Diamond Hill, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 Two vicars, the Rev. G. H. years, commencing from 1st Tugwell, of Stanford, and, the July, 1898, with the option of Rev. E. Stanley Thomas, of renowal at a Crown Rent to be Sturston, led n procession of 50 fixed by the Surveyor of His men, women, and children, who Majesty the KING, for one fur-sang hymns and prayed as they ther term of 24 years less the walked through the fields. last three days thereof.

Details of the

curse have been Intending bidders are advised handed down through the centuries that immediately after the dispo-in the villages that are scattered

round here. sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised offleor who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollara, ($200) in cash. This sum will be rofunded on payment of the Purchase price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

|

No.

of Sale

| Registry No.

Locality

New Kowloon Inland

Lot No 2690.

*Year. New Kowloon Inland Lot No.

2572 and West of

Diamond Hill.

of

G.

Boundary

Measurementa

N..E. W.

|taki|iret||oe||feef;

as per sale plan.

Contents in sq. feet.

Ann. Reas

Upset

Price

002 18

R.

$670

OZLOS

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS. of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 19th day of June, 1939, .nt 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Worka Department, by Order of lis Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Kau Pui Slick, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renowal at a Rent to be fixed by the

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC Cryor of His Majesty the

COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

CASH

$250 $250

PRIZES

(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")"

Surveyor KING, for ons further term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- Bal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred "doliars, ($200) in-cash. -This-sum will be refunded on payment of the

TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 Purchase price.

(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:

SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO:

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

1st. 330. 2nd. $15.' 3rd. $10.

SECTION THREE:

Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studles.

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

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30, 2nd, $15, 8rd, $10, SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. Ist, $15. 2nd. $10. 3rd, $5.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1-The Competition is confined ex-

clusively to amateur

photo- graphers

-No employee or member of any firm in the photographlo trade is permitted to compete.

3. The prizes will be awarded to tho competitors wonding in what are adjudged to be the best photo.... Sraph In each, Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com petition. and which must be pasted on back of entry,

The right "to"publish"any or all ***** of the entries "is reserved to the

Jiongkong Telegraph.

All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony af Kongkong: Photographa which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible, -No responsibility. will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries,

7-All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and, must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

photo

be mounted. Coloured graphs are ineligibla, 0-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smallee print in black and white. D-No pleture to entered in more

than one Section. 10-Mounts to bo only whita or cream. and. except in the Children's Section, must be of ons of the following sizes:-10x12, 10X20. IL--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, age and address on the entry form... counter-gigned by a parent, 13-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Pom pre not permitted to compeio.

The decisions of the Judges shall be Anal

10. At the conclusion of the Com

petition, entries will be returned La competitors on-application-at the Telegraph offices within seven days..

SECTION

NAME ADDRESS DATE

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry. If anterød in Chlidren's Bection, parent please comm tersigt here,

CHURCH IN RUINS

It claimed that a lord of the manor in Elizabethan days was flung into Norwich Prison for his Roman Catholle beliefs. To add to his punishment, an old woman villager on her deathbed cured the fields, Sturston Hall, and old Slurston Church. These buildings to-day are

in ruins.

No o

that

one can recall any of the fields were cursed ever consistently producing good crops.

To-day's service began at Bagmoor

08

Farm, Stanford. From there the pro- cession walked, singing a hymn, to a field in Sturston Parish known Hangman's Round. From an oak In thia feld. I was told, a farmer some years ago hanged himself.

PILGRIMS' PATH

The

Curlews wheeled overhead, sun shone atfully through the clouds. A special hymn was sung.

It contained these lines: "Thy blessing on these fields e'er cursed, we pray Thee put to-day: that by Thy grace they

dant crops always produce, abun-

At Walsingham Way, the path along which pilgrims walked to Walsingham Abbey, the Rev. E. Stanley Thomas sald a special prayer.

Rush To Join The Army

London, June 14. Approximately 230,000 persons Joined the regular and auxillary forces during the last three months according to information given to- day in the House of Commons, Reuter,

Detective Wan Man Relief Fund Previously acknowledged Anonymous

"Valpri"

Dillo

Thanks Delayed 22 Years

.$02

SANTA ROSA, Cal. About 22 years ago, Mrs. Sarah Dunbar was, one of many Women who made "comfort bags" and cent PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. them to soldiers at the front in the

No. of Sale |

Registry No

Locality

2

Kowloon Inland

Lot No. 4146.

Ping Street,

Kau Pui Shek.

Boundary Measurements

N. || A|E. W.

Alper anle

plac.

$1,669,

Contenta in

g. feet

Ahabal

Bental

Upset Price |

2.225

$25

|HUNGARY WANTS OLD TERRITORY

(Continued from Page 1)

Yugo-Slavia was also being carefully watched.

League Criticised

The Regent sharply criticised pence dietates and the League of Nations for serving the maintenance of theso dictates.

Referring to the failure" of the Admiral Disarmament Conference, Horthy said: "The time for negolia- tion has possibly come but it will be difficult to take the first step. It would therefore, in my opinion, bo. the most fortunate solution if the highest and most unselfish forum of the world, that of His Hollacss the Pope, would propose to call the great Powers for the discussion of concrete problems."---Trans-Ocean,

Healthy British Recruits

London, June'-14.--

Authoritative British quarters, both medical and military, are surprised and gratified at the uniformly high physical standard of the men report- ing for the militia. The first batch. of 18,000 men examined gave 93 per. cent; ft for active service. – Eighty- four percent were in first-cinas health-Reuter Special,

World War.

In one of hers, she enclosed a note asking the recipient to write her. Recently the

reply

came from Tommy W. Boerman, an English Tommy, who explained that he had misltid the address and only found it recently.

M-G-M'S BIG SHOW OF MELODY AND MIRTH!

Eleanor

POWELL

YOUNG

HONOR CU

BURNS

ALLEN

SATURDAY.

QUEEN'S

June 15, 1939.

SENNET FRERES

HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS

Gloucester Building Pedder Street

STOP WATCHES

POST OFFICE.

VIA SIBERIA ROUTE Letters and Postcards for Europe (except Great Britain and Elré) and South America are forwarded "via Siberia" if so superscribed.

·OUTWARD MAIL, TIMIES Registered and Parcel Malls are

closed 16 minutes earlier, then the timo given below unless otherwise atated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before § a.m., 'res

·MAIL FOR CANTON Registered and Ordinary mall and Parcels (not Insured) will be ec- cepted for Canton and despatched as gistered and parcel malls are closed circumstances permit,

I at 5 7.m, on the previous day, INWARD MAILS

Canada, USA., Japan and Shanghal

From

Fer

Dao,

FOR ALL SPORTSTM

(Vancouver B.C., date, 27th May). Emp. of Russia

.June 15.

Shanghai and Swntow

Nanning

June 15.

Manila

Shanghai and Swatow

......

Pres. Taft Fronto

June 15.

June 15,

Shanghal

Bhutan

June 16.

Shanghai

Gertrude Maersk

June 10.

Haruna Maru

June 16.

Helyo Maru

.June 10.

Airways Piano

June 16.

Canton ... Comeville

(June 17.

June 17..

Kasima Maru

June 17.

Kutsang

.Jung 17.

Jako Moru

June 17.

June 17.

June 18.

.June 18..

.June 18.

June 19.

FOLDING TRAVELLING

CLOCKS

8 DAYS. WITH OR WITHOUT. ALARM

MOVADO ERMETO

Shanghai and Formosa

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direct Service"-London date, 19th Imperial June Haiphong

Manila

Straits and Europe via Negapotam (Papers etc.) London date 18th

Calcutta and Straits

Manila

Straits

Straits..

Tientsin and Swatow

Tientsin and Swatow Japan ***

Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-London date, 14th Juso

Java and Manila

Teucer

Potroclus

Tingchow Yochow....

Buenos Aires Maru

Imperial Airways Plane ...June 19... Tiisadane

June 10..

OUTWARD MAILS

For

Swntow

Pakhoi

Fort Bayard and Bangkok Manila

Halphong

Per

Thursday

Date and Time.

Hothow..Thurs., June 15, 1.30 p.m.. Soochow ...Thurs., June 15, 2 p.m. Gustav Diederichsen

Thurs., June 15, 2.30 p.m.

Empress of Russia

Thurs

Talsang?

Parcels,

Reg.

Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, USA. Pros. Tatt

Central and South America via San Francisco and (Papers only for Canada)-due San. Francisco, 6th July and Europe (except

and Eire) Great Britain Siberia.

via

June 18, 3.30 p.m. Thurs., June 15, 4 p.m.

Thurs., June 15,

K.P.O.

June 15, 4 pm. June 16, 5 pm.

di

Ord.......June 16, 5.30 p.m.

Parcels,

ReL.,

Ord,

G.P. 15. 4 p.m.

June 16, 5 p.m.

June 15, 7 p.m.

Air Mail by Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Plano

Direct Service"-due London, 22nd- June

Thurs, June 13.

K.P.O..

Reg.

June 15, 5 pa

Ord.

Jano 15, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Rer.

June 15, 5 p.m.

Ord.

Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- Imperlat Airways Plans 46, 7 p.

tralia

"Imperial Airways by Direct Service"-due Sydney, 23rd Juno

Fort Bayard

Thurs, June 15.

.....June 15, 5 D..

K.P.O.

June 15, 5.30 pm.

G.P.O.

June 15, 5 p.m.

Reg.

Ord.

Reg.

Ord.

Shunchih

Thurs., June 15, 7 p.m.

Friday

Air Mall for "KLM, Airways Direct Haruna Maru

Service"-duo Amsterdam, 29th

June.

June 15, 7 p.m.

....Fri, June 10.

F.P.O.

June 16, 0.30 am. .June 16, 10 4.0.

RCE.

Ord,

G.P.O.

Reg

Ord..

Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, India, East Haruna Maru

and South Africa, Aden. Egypt

and Europe via Marseilles-due- Marseilles, 17th July.

Reg.,

Ord.,

June 16,-0.30am. .June 18, 10 am

Fri, June 16,

·K.P.O.

June 10, 9.45 am.

Reg

June 16, 10.30 a.m. · G.F.O.

.June 10.9.45 .m.. Ord.......June 10, 10.30 am,

Hangyang..Fri, June 10, 12.30 p.m.

...Fri., June 16, 1 pm. Kingyuan. Fri., June 18, 2.30 p.m.

Alr Mali for Endo-China, Iran, Air France Plane Fri, June 10,

Lang

Parcels

Jane 16, 5 p.m.

.June 16,7 p..

Fri., June 10. June 10, p.m.

Papers....June 17, 3.30 a.m.

Kasima Maru Sat, June 17, 3.30 p.m. Cromer

.Sat., June 17, § p.m. „Sat., June 17, 5 pm..

.Sun., June 18, 9 a.m

Bun, June 18, 9 ...

Swatow

Haiphong

Swntow

and Frane (Paris and Northern Provinces only) by the "Air France Airways." Direct · Service" -due Parts 23rd June

K.P.O.

Rec.,

Ord.

June 10, 5 pm. „June 16, 8.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Reg.,

Ord,

for Straits and Shirata (Papers only)

(Parcels and Papers) for Calcutta

Saturday

Formosa, Shanghal and Japan Amoy

Satgon

Helikon

Sunday

Swatow and Salgon

Kalgan

Shanghal via Swatow

Yusang

Monday

Japan and Honolulu

Helyo Maru Mon., June 19, 10.30 ş.m.

Mon, June 19.

ID.

Ден

Jane 10, B p.m..

Ord.

June 19, 5.30 p.m Gr.o

Reg.

Jane 19. 85 Dat

Ord.

**June

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

tralia by "Imperial ---Airways. Direct Service"--dua Bydney, 20th- **Jano ;;

Mon, June 18

K.P.Q.

Reg Ord,

A

Reg. Ord

Kutsang Tuesday

· Canton

Record

Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Plano

Direct Service"--dan London, 26th Juna

WATERPROOF WATCHES

THE WATCH MANUFACTURED FOR HONGKONG and

ALHAMBRA TROPICAL CLIMATES

Japan

Haiphong

Papers only for Straits, Ceylon, India, East Africa and (Parcels

18,7 DAIL.

¡June 19,

June 10, 5.30 p.m.. G.P.O.

«Juno: 19, · 5' PLA

June 19,-7÷DAL¬

Mon., June 10, 7 p.m..

Tues, June 20; 2 p.m...

and Papers only for South Afrien Buenos Aires Mari

vla Durban)----

Fort Bayard

...

Pakhoi via Fort Bayard Swalow

Swatow Tientsin

Haiphong

Tues., June 20, 2:30 pria

Jean Dupuis Tues., June 20, 2.30 p.m

Kaying

Yochow

Wednesday

Chuanchow and Amoy Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Hono- Inlu, and U.S.A. by the "Pan- American Airways Direct Service" de San Franciaso, 28th June.

Wosang

„Tues., June 20, 2.30 p.m.

Tues, June 20, 1.30 p.m...

....Wed., June 21; 130 pm... Ninghai ....Wed, June 21; 3.30 p.m.. Mingsing

Wed, June 21, 3.p.m.. Talyuan ....Wed., June 21; 3.80 p.m.. Pan American Airways Plane -

Wed., Jime

Jane 21, 5:30 pm,

730