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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 17, 1939.

to U.S.

Earl of Warwick "Sells Britain"

"It's High Time They Really Knew Us"

MAIDSTONE, KENT.

THE EARL OF WARWICK, FILM-ACTOR PEER, 15 GOING TO "SELL" THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO AMERICA.

He is shortly embarking on an ambitious enterpriso -a lecture tour throughout America, planned with the object of bringing nearer together Britain and the United States.

He will endeavour to remove) misapprehensions about the

Man Tells Of Fight British so that Americans can In H.M.S. President better understand our ways and A CHASE of a suspect after an

encounter in the President, the R.N.V.R. vessel anchored! off the Embankment, was des- cribed at the Mansion House recently when a man was re manded for a medical report und for further inquiries.

of the Sidney Smith, aged 31, Seamen's Home, Well-street, E., was charged with ansaulting Waiter James- Newson, a ship's keeper. He pleud- ed not guilty.

Newsom rald he was awakened at 5.20 .m. to-day by someone walking about overhead aboard the President. He went up and saw Smith.

"I asked him what he was doing aboard my ship," said Newsomn, "and he replied, I was told by a man on the Embankment that I could come aboard the ship."

The gangway was closed, and hel

problems,

Recently the Earl of Warwick, who is staying at Leeds Castle, near here, talked about his new plans. He arrived in England on a short visit to see his son Guy, aged three.

HE SAID THAT, WHEN HE WAB IN HOLLYWOOD, HE FOUND THAT MANY AMERI- CANS HAD EXTRAORDINARY IDEAS ABOUT ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH,

"Sone American newspapers have created a bad atmosphere by dis-

the British lorting

outlook and motives," he said.

FRIENDSHIP TOUR

"I think it is high time that) asked Smith how he got aboard. Ife Amerkans-particularly the younger repiled, "Over the top."

Newsom said that Smith jumped on

generation-learned

something

of

him on the gangway and hit him on the British Empire, British ways and the nose. After a ztruggle Smith_ran British traditions.

up the gangway and on to the Em- bankment.

Ile (Newsom) chased him past the Temple Tube Station, blowing his police whistle.

Smith was caught, and after another struggle was detained, with the help of another man, until the police arrived,

"Invaded" Island: Jersey Protest

St. Helier (Jersey).

Jerrsey is considering the sending

by n

of a report to the Foreign Office pro- testing against the "invasion' party of 50 Breton, fishermen of the British Istard of Maitresse in the

Jersey.

"I am going to try to 'Sell Britain' thes

Americans themselves would say. America is already friendly towards us, but there is alili a lot more to be done, and the best way to do li is by personal coniaci."

Details of the lecture tour are in the bands of the Earl of Warwick's agent in America.

UFS

Two motorized units of British troops in readiness in Jerusalem for possible tloting. They' watched 2000 Jewish women march in protest against the British policy which Palestine an Arab siste, or would permit federation of Palesilge und Byela.

'UNCLE SAM'

IS.

DEAD

of "INCLE SAM," the last

Brighton's donkey men. known to thousands of children. dropped dead in a Brighion street recently.

xun-

They say he died from stroke, but his friends think he dled of a broken heart.

His name was Samuel Martin, and he was 69. For 40 years he had a dozen donkeys on Brighton front.

A few weeks ago, owing to im- provements to the lower esplanade, he lost his pitch and had to take a new position ree miles away. near Black Rock.

hls friends

He complained to that his new pitch was too far from the town centre, and he miss- ed the crowds of holiday kiddies who were always around him. With tears in his eyes, Sam kald the night before he died that be "Telt right out of things."

Doctors Can't

Make

Me A Cannibal

would make-

Clare Defends "The Women"

MISS CLARE BOOTHE is not only beautiful: she looks gentle and kind.

But she is the woman thousands of American women hate, because she wrote the play called "The Women."

The play is now running in London, and Miss Boothe re-

Gives Bone Tocently arrived there from New

Save Son

FIGHT-YEARS-OLD

York just to see it performed be- fore an English audience.

SHE'S NOT WORRIED

"The Women" has already earned £250,000, has an all-female cust of forty, and it gives catty, grasping and Colin unfaithful wives a complete showing- Frederick George, lying in up. bed in the Park Hospital, Davy- hulme, Manchester, said: "They're going to put something on my head to make the hair grow again. I fell and hurt my head."

"I'm a woman who has never had a telephons row with another woman, If you know what that is," Miss Bootie said as she sat on the arm of a luxurious chair in her bedroom at Clarkge's Hotel, Brook-street, W., swinging an expensively shod foot on like a happy schoolgirl.

The "something" they out Colin's head later, after a delicate

She isn't worrying although she two-hours operation, was a section lost the friendship of lots of women of bone from his father's skull,

with whom she used to take tes, bc- Had the boy been an adult the skull cause she wrote this play. might have been mended by a silver "The women who fell out with me surgical plate. But such a device because I wrote "The Women,' are the would not grow with a child's head, find I can do without. They don'! his father, Mr. Sidney George, 37, amount to a row of beans, anyway," years-old trulterer, of Worsley-road, she went on. Swinton, Manchester, made the sacri

Butlers Group, 12 miles south of 66 WHEN I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, Marin and a small travelling menagerie of live fish, all wearing c Front. famous Frenchmen Innded recently and built white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather a small but near the official flag than eat his fellow creatures."

as

Led by M. Durand Couppel de Saint Marie," the seascape painter,

star.

the

They placed inside a notice stating

tor refuge Л

Not that George Bernard Shaw is expecting to die French-mariners, and also deposited just yet, but this was his forcible way of expressing his

that this was to be

A chart of the territorial""waters of

the French and Jersey coasts showing Maitresse us neutral territory. They quoted as their authority a fishing| expedition of 1839.

CHALLENGE IGNORED

They were discovered by Deputy Le Masurler, of the Jersey States) Farliament, who has a cottage on Maitresse. and his son, when they called to the Island for the week-end.

M. Lo Masurier protested that the Frenchmen had no authority to land on British territory, but they con- tinued to erect their refuge hut.

M. Le Masurier returned to Jersey and informed the Ballit, Yesterday the Sintes vessel Duke of Normandy

with

official left for Maitresse party.

staunch adherence to his pet creed.

The operation was successful.

Bluebirds Respect Mails

"It cleared the air between me and

a lot of their women, also, and now we know where we stand.

NATURALLY CATTY

"I don't say the women in the play

represent English warnan-3 don't

know English women at all-but I do

say there are plenty of

women like that.

American

9502-Falls Stroll.

Park Parado,

9301-Lambeth Walk,

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Maxwell Stewart's Ballroom Orch.

Bouth Of The Border. F.T. 9548-Birthday Of The Lille Princess. F.T. F.T.

Billy Cotton & Ills Band,.

Masquerade Is Over.

0530-Angels Never Leave Icaven, S.F.T.

Funny Old Hills. ("Paris Ifoneymoon") Q8 0510-Blackbird Hop, Could Dc.

Viskon,

0520-Red Ro

Roses,

0555-Venetian Night.

They Say

9341-Paul Jones.

9.8

Q.8.

Tango,

Tango.

Tango.

Oscar Nabin & 11is Romany Band..

Emil Roosz & His Orchl..

Song Without Words,Tango.

9345-Sing Me To Sleep With A Song Of The West

Thero's A Ranch In The Rockies ..Carson Robinson & His Pioneers. 0532-Molu Tight-Hold Tight,

Medley,

9538-Sweetheart. (Film.) Walz.

Romany.

..Freddy Gardner & His Swing Orch.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

$250

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All the same, I'd hate to think that TWO-SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 BUTTE, Mont. I'in unwomanly enough never to be are entered in the books of the

The post-office department and cutty. All women are a bit calty- It is 60 years since the

Recording Angel an aggravated

Charles Bessette tre entertaining it's natural to them. It's fun tal- world's most famous vegetarian

and outrageous falschoods.

their annual tourist visitors here. Ing between ourselves about Mrs. So renounced for ever all forms of

"During inesses, doctors and The guests are a family of bluebirds and So. I nemilt it." flesh-foods. Now, ut the age of family have tried in vain to make who for the past 10 years have built It gets rather worrying to think extracts. Denth is their nest in the rural post-office box that this beautiful blue-eyes, golden- 82, he has revealed what it was me drink meat

at Bessette's farm. The birds oczupy hatred woman with all he cheek of a ANIMAL LAW

only one side of the box and leave small boy is running around London that made him a non-ment-enter, better than cannibalism,

"People defending the eating of

1 sald. other and that Nature's law is not

humane law.

JUST NONSENSE

"I became a vegetarian when I

first discovered the writings of Shmeat, say that animals prey on each scient room on the other side for listening to the things that are being

ley, whose works I read from end to end 60 years ago," he said.

"Shelley wrote:

Never again may blood

brast

bird ar

Stay with the enamous stream

זיי

human fegat, agree with

"Animals do not all prey on one another-te elephant, the but the norila, &c., ore vegetarians. In any case, we cannot plead the example

mail.

Seeks Twice-Lent Violin

of the animals for our conductress LADY JOICEY, of Ford Castle, student at R.CA. please communicate

ger eats its cubs

Shelley. Many

frightens him off!

"All edible animals existence to their edibility.

owe

with Lady Jolcey, Ford Castic, Ber-! Borwick-on-Tweed, had a wick-on-Tweed? valuable violin.

She lent it to a friend who lent to a friend who practised on it at

"I do not know the name of the woman who has the violin now, nor where she lives, except that it is somewhere

London," Lady Jolley said:

11 is people are convinced that they could

their The Frenchmen had gone. believed they returned to Chausey, not possibly keep well without ment.

"But their existence involves an a French Isisnd midway between That is just nonsense. The Tipper-

near coast, ary peasant with his potatoes and immense slavery of men and women the French Maitresse and

buttermilk. Caesar's soldiers with to animals. Nobody ever seems to the Royal College of Musle. where "Marin Marie's" father has a

Their rations of grain, the Russlan consider whether they might not be

"It is two or three years alnce 1 house.

Now Lady Jolcey wants the violin his black bread and better employed.

two. The A high official of the Jersey Goy-mouli with

"Animals chin be slaughtered pain-back. But her friend is dead, and SAW the violin. I had crnment said: "We take an extre-rubage soup are only three exam- mely serious view of this invasion. ples of excellent health on meatlesslessly. To some extent they are her friend's friend cannot be found other one, which was better than the

That is the story behind a personat Gofriller, I played myself. The islands have, belonged to the diets out of dozens I could give you where the gun, called the humane

advertisement published yesterday!-- "I wanted the Gofriller to be play- killer is used. "I have lived and worked British Crown since the Conqueror

GOFRILLER VIOLIN-Would the ed so that it should not deteriorate without flesh, fish, or fowl, and But to say that they all are is be- and are part of the King's posses-

lady who was lent this violin when a land that Ja why I lent it all statementa to the contrary yond human mendacity." slons as Duke of Normandy."

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"And now I want it back, although

I am sure the woman who has fi does not realise it. She has left the! college and the authorities there can- not trace her. . bad a letter which would, have helped me, but unfor- tunately I destroyed it.

"But she knows my name, and as (soon as she, realises I want the In- strument back she will communicate with me."

Wedding Was

His Gift

"WHAT would you like for your silver wedding anni. versary 7" Mr. Jack Harman, of Crane-road, Twickenham, Middlesex, asked his wife.

"To be married in church," she replied.

?

So, Mr. and Mrs. Harman went to Holy Trinity Church, Twickenham Green, and were married again..

Their first wedding took place dur- ing the war, at a register. office.

Mr. Harman, a Catholic, had hitherto refused to have the ceremony solemnized by the Church of Eng- Band.

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, elc. Ist. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

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

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

Still Life and Table-Top Studles

1st. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10. ·

SECTION FIVE: Snapshola taken 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 to amateur photo- grapher

1-No employes or member of any Arm in the photographic trade fa permitted to compele,

3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitor sending in what are to be the best phot- graphs 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 pasted on back of entry. The right to publish any or all entries to reserved to the

be

Hongkong Telegraph. Alphotographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong, Photographs which have been already entored in ather Competitions are ineligible. -No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery at. loss of, or damage to entries, 7.--All entries to be either black, wepia, or toned pictures, and must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE BACK OF EACH ENTRY

be

photo-

mounted. Coloured graphs are ineligible. B-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by smaller print in black and white. No pictura to entered in more than ona Section,

10--found to be only white, or cream, and, exeapt in the Children's Boctiori, must be of one of the following sizes:-10x12, 10X20. 11--No correspondence will be entered

inio in connection with the Com petition,

12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, aga and addrern on the entry form counter-signed by a parent. 12--Members of the Stads of the Hongkong Telegraphs and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.

14. The decisions of the Judges schmil

bo'final.

15-At the conclusion of the Co- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven dayı.

SECTION

NAME.

ADDRESS

DATE

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and parte ihta

on back of each Entry, if entered in Children's Section, parent please coun- teraign hare,