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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 17, 1939.

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WE HAVE A GOOD

STOCK OF

✪ Reels

• Baits

• Hooks

• Lines

and other fishing

accessories.

Inspection Invited -

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

Dine at the

Hardware Dept.

Parisian Grill

Good Food Fine Wines

DINNER & DANCE MUSIC by The Blue Danube Trio

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MEN'S, WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S

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THURSDAY

MONDAY

10 a.m. ta 12 Noon.

Duke and Duchess of Windsor making a tour of World War battlefields, pay a visit to Fort Vaux, one of the famed defences neur Verdun, France. The Duke afterwards broadcast his pence plea from Verdun.

Heart-Cry Of 1877 Found In Floor

JUST about the time that

Europe was settling down Boy Star's Family

again after the Franco-Prussian

war, the vicar of Keston, Kent, decided to have a new floor put

church.

"In Poverty"

into the chancel of the village THE family of Freddie Bar- tholomew, London-born film He called in two Whitstable star, are "virtually on public carpenters.

They did their work thoroughly M. S. Meyberg, a lawyer, in a charity in England," said Mr.

and everyone was satisfied with it.

How little the village knew that those two enrpenters who Inboured in their midst had worked with burning

hearts.

Hollywood court recently.

Neglect of

COMMON ILLS MAY MEAN days of suffering

WH

THOLE days of suffering, and in many cases

weeks of anxiety and pain can be definitely avoided by the simple action of taking ‘ASPRO.' When people realise what a wonderful medicine tablet 'ASPRO' is-how, it soother pain-how it reduces feverishness, and how, after ingestion in the system, being a solvent of uric acid-an'in-' ternal antiseptic-an anti-pyretic or fever reducer and a powerful germicide, it strikes at the cause of numerous complaints, then much suffering will be avoided much illness prevented.

ASPRO

IS THE SAFE MEDICINE

4 SHOWS

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Mr. Meyberg appeared for his son, THE

a

Mr. Leonard J. Meyberg, also lawyer, who represented the film After 2 years, the floor had just with his aunt, Miss Myllicent Bar- star's parents during their litigation been taken up again and

heart-ery tholomew. from the past revealed.

Written in pencil under one of the floor boards was this message:

E. M. Nicholls and his mate John H. Amos, of Whitstable. This floor was laid on October 25, 1877.

Hope soon to get away from Kiston. Three months have we been transported in this outlandish crib,

Mr. Meyberg, junior, sought judg- ment for £1,548 for legni services.

Freddie Bartholomew on the grounds He is trying to obtain payment from that the star's parents are too poor

ta

pay (says the British United Press). Freddie, in evidence, said that he did not know where his sisters Hilda and Eileen were,

"I believe my father is able to care Three miles from nowhere and for himself," he added, "but my everything of a shilling a 1b, all sisters should be cared for."

but butter, and that was is. 7d. The court reserved its decision. The "nowhere" which the dis-

gruntled Mr. Nicholls described Kes-

ton as being three miles from is pleasant country tane to Bromley, I Bromley, Kent.

am sure that a little courtesy would have won them a seat on one of the "Sixty years ago Bramley, a flour-many maricet carts plying between Ishing market-town, was a much live think there must have been some

Kesion and the town. Her place than Whitstable," an elderly Keston resident said recently,

other reasons for Master Nicholls' dis- "And even if our two discontented like of our litle village. visitors were too tired after their "Perhaps one of Keston's village day's work to foot the three miles of girls had spurned his attentions,"

Nazi Girls Taught

to Like Britons

Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.

DAUGHTERS of high Nazi officials and a number

of English girls have found the secret of inter- national peace.

In the lovely schoolhouse and many German girls as possible to grounds of the Augusta-Victoria learn to understand and like the College here they study langu- English and vice versa. ages together, learn domestic science and somehow, in spite of the "International Situation," refrain from fighting!

She opened her school, brought over some German girls, added some English girls, shook the cock- fail, and the result was-#locess. Now, if the "international situation" straightens itself out, she is planning Mrs. Helene Rochell (nee Bonning to open another school for English hoff, of Berlin), wife of a London and German boys, run on the same barrister, has determined to teach as lines as her college for girls.

War Objectors Will

Not Be Penalised

ASSURANCES have been given by, would be on fire."

Mr. Chamberlian to Free Church The question was raised of what leaders that a sympathetic attitude the altitude of the Government would will be adopted towards conscientious be towards someone who felt he could objectors who refuse to perform any not accept alternative national service type of National Service.

because the alternative still involved This was stated by Mr. Sidney him in the war machine. Berry at the Spring assembly of the Mr. Chamberlian, indicated that Congregational Union of England there would be no question and Wales, which continued at the penalising the man who took that Memorial Hall, E.C., recently.

view.

of

He described a recent meeting A resolution, which was enrried, between Mr., Chamberlian ' and six unanimously, expressed gratitude-to representatives of the Free Churches. President Roosevelt, for his message told the Prime Minister," he and urged the necessity of summon- said, "that if by any

ofing the conference he had suggested. slackness of organisation, the position of conscien- Another resolution asked the tious objectors were not fully res-Government to dent with the refugee

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IMPORTANT FEATURE PICTURES SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME

JOHN, GARFIELD

Bares the

Startling Truth

About

"BLACKWELLS ISLAND!

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