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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BRITAIN TO LAUNCH 50 NEW WAR VESSELS THIS YEAR Five Battleships To Be Commissioned

LONDON, July 12.

IN-a survey on the commissioning of new ships, the naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" gives the following data:

In addition to the battleships King George V and the Prince of Wales, launched recently, and the battleship, Duke of York, which is to be launched on September 16, two battleships, the Jellicoe and Beatty will be completed before the end of the year.

All these warships will have a displacement of 35,000 tons.

FIVE LIGHT CRUISERS

Five new cruisers, the Fiji, Nigeria, Mauritius, Trinidad and Kenya, with a displacement of 8,000 tons each, will also be launched before the end of 1939 as well as the following:-

Seven smaller cruisers of 5,450 tons each, four aircraft-carriers each of 23,000 tons, ten to 15 destroyers of 1,700 tons each, and nine ocean-going submarines of 1,090 tons.

According to the same report, the three light cruisers, Nigeria, Mauritius and Fiji will be launched next week.

MODERNISING BATTLESHIPS

The modernisation of the three battleships, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant and Renown is also about to be completed. The first two will have a displacement of 30, 600 tons, and the Renown of

32,000 tons. Trans-Occan,

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Ready To Save China” Says Wang Ching-wei

PEIPING, July 12.

IT is reported that the formation of a Japanese-sponsored Federal Government is being discussed in Tsingtao by high re presentatives of the Japanese armies in North and Central China, and the Peiping and Nanking governments.

A Tokyo message anys that Wong Ching-wet In his newspaper the, "Central China Daily" declares, ac- cording to a Shanghai report that he' is "ready to assume the responsibility of saving China there is any way left open."

The article, which la addressed to Chinese residents overseas, compares Chiang Kai-shick to a losing gambler, and declares that none of Japan's peace terma la ruinous to China.

Wang Ching-wel brunds the Chin- ese guerilla warfare as o sorry fallure. The article follows his appeal in his paper yesterday for peace in the Far East.Reuter,

Owing to inability to obtain a large enough launch for the occasion, the annual plenie organised by 9e Christ

RESCUED

FROM WELL Strange Prison For Arabs

JERUSALEM, July 11. BRITISH police and troops to-day rescued alive ten Arabs who disappeared from Nazareth |

Typhoon Shears Away

From

Hongkong

UNLESS IT makes a dramatic turn, the typhoon which was reported yesterday afternoon to be heading for the Colony. is now certain not to come anywhere near Hongkong.

According to Royal Observatory reports this morning, tho, depression had curved north-eastward and is in the western part of the Bash! Channel, moving NNE or north-east, which will take it completely away from the Colony.

The typhoon at present is at least 350 miles away and is likely to pass south of Formosa.

There was a slight decrease in temperature yesterday, the maximum being 91, two degrees below that of the previous day, but this morning the thermometer was up to 88, suggest. ing that that 93 mark may again be reached to-day. Humidity this morning was 72 per cent.

July 12, 1939.

"I THINK

I'LL PONG

THAT ONE"

Mah Jongg has become a favoured pastime of the Seaforth Highlanders on duty at the Lausa police station in Shanglial, and this picture showr four of the Scottish Lads enjoying s game, while a crowd of comrades look on and enjoy the fun.

Former U.S. Ambassador Is Very Ill

NEW YORK, July 11. MR. WILLIAM DODD, former U. S. Ambassador to Berlin who resigned in pro- test at being forced by the Department of State to attend a Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg, is seriously

Philosopher Who Shocked The World ill with pneumonia.

Friend

of Strangers

He has been given two blood

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Dies in Suffolk Home ben y after his retire-

NEARLY 70 years ago, a boy of 12, shy and dreamer, during the past two months. sat on a gate in New South Wales and wrote a poem.

They were found huddled atļ

Yesterday, two months after his eightieth birthday, Church Group of the VDMA. for the bottom of a well, south-east that same dreamer is dead. next Saturday has been postponed of Nazareth, until the following Saturday, July 22, -leaving-Police. Pier. Kowloon,_at_3)

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When The Circus Came To Town.

When They Played The Polka.

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Stop Beatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush.

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as it was."

Reuter-tihor of books.on-tho-pyscho-as it Worked In The Sun”

PHOTOGRAPHS

by "Staff Photographer"

appoaring in the

"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST"

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

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Morning Post Building,

Wyndham Stroot.

He was Houry Havelock Ellis, in longhand-and that is not as easy

|logy of sex which shocked, an

earlier generation-now, with his and the sun.

He Ilked best to work in the wind

Mr. Dodd, shortly

ment, predicted that there would be

another Great War.

"The logical outcome of the vast war preparations in Europe will be

another war," he declared.

Since his retirement he had spent most of his time compiling a history for the southern States of America.

He is now 70 years of age.---United Press.

passing, mourned by a world On the lawn before his pleasant Brighter Tone On

which has lost one of its greatest modern home stands his portable philosophers, scientists and man study. wooden building, wide- of letters.

windowed, that revolves on a turn-

Stock Exchange

Up to his death, Havelock Els table so that It always faces the sun. LONDON, July 11-A brighter

Inside you will find such works of Initial spent most of his time at the open his as "The New Spirit" and "The Stock Exchange gave place sub- undertone on the London window of his home in the heart of Criminal," which were rural Suffolk, solving personal pro- nearly half a century ago.

published sequently to a definite upward trend blems for complete strangers who

in prices with buying also slightly | You will certainly find, too,

some larger. wrote to him from all parts of the

volumes of Swinburne. world.

Gilt-edged securities and oils Many years ago un ancestor of showed useful gains, while Kaffes Washbrook, preached in a village benefited from wider buying,

Wall Street was stronger.-Reuter And until yesterday, in the same Special. few hours after the called report of quiet country-side Havelock Ellis tils passing.

LAST INTERVIEW

By a strange coincidence, his last church a couple of miles away over particularly non-producers. interview with a London newspaper the Suffolk meadows. arrived in Ilongkong by sir mail af

'preached-but Ja sermons

were

The interview was with Stuurt silent, and his congregation was Weston, Stalf Correspondent of the scattered throughout the world. ("London" "Daily Herald."

Bec

their

"I have never seen and shall never;

those

who write with troubles and seek my advice," the G.O.M, told Weston.

"I do my best to answer them all. They seem to regard me as an intel- lectual Aunt Sully,"

A Sick Man

Even two monthar 19, Weston wrote! to the "Daily Hernit, Havelock Ells was a slek man. He had a throat complaint which made eating dimcult. He was allowed to talk for only a few | minules at a time.

Anglo-French Loan Plan Contemplated

LONDON, July 12.

IT hus been learned from: authoritative sources that Britain{ and ance have evolved a plan for To the villagers he was "Mr. Ellis, a parallel stabilitation loan, probably!

the old gentleman who never goes about £10,000,000, for the purpose of

out."

stimulating

Polish

and

exports Yet his conversation was as facile, stabilising the value of the zloty. his wit as piercing. his judgment as;

This would be separate from the shrewd as ever; and his memory was military credits which have already) unimpaired.

been arranged, "Yet for the life of mo cannot re- It is understood that Lord Halifax) member how, many books 1 have told the Polish Ambassador to Lon | written," he said, "but I'must go on don that he thought Germany j

writing. That my relaxation; recolling from any drastle aetion in keeps me alive.

| Danzig, but at the samo time

,

he

"No, I never dictate, and I cannot advised Poland, to maintain their bear typewriters. I write everything; vigilance-United Pros.

never realized that

there are so many advantages in

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Premier As Hon. Commodore

London, July 11.

The appointment of the Prime Minister as honorary Commodore of the Royal Air Force was published in the "London Gazette" this evening.

Mr. Chamberlain is honorary Com- modore of the 916th squadron of the auxiliary air force-Trans-Ocean.

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