CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, July 18, 1939.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. EMPIRE Yard And G-Men Seek
G.
R.
25
words $2.00
NOTICE
for 3 days propaid
TUITION GIVEN.
Owners of Motor Vehicles are horoby notified that they will be
DANCING IN HOURS, Ballroom, prosecuted if their vehicles are Tango, Ithumba, American Top found unlicensed on the roads Tullion rapid and practical. World's after 21st July. Champion's steps. Apply:-Tony's Dance Studio, China Building, th floor. Telephone 30933.
WANTED KNOWN. CHINA POSTAGE STAMP'S of latest issue in commemoration of 150 years of U.S.A. Constitution, obtain- able at Graça Co., 10, Wyndham Street, Hongkong,
Similar action will be taken against unlicensed drivers.
C. G. PERDUE, Commissioner of Police,
18th July, 1939. B.B.C. Lose 5,000 Listeners
Royal Prize Winners THE B.B.C. fear that Britain
At Show
London.
has reached radio-saturation point their revenue is begin- uing to fall.
NEWS.
Ex-R.A.F. Officer
LOCUST MENACE IN UNITED STATES "G" men are co-operating with Scotland Yard and the Air Ministry in a search for British born Francia T. Byrne Worman, former R.A.F, officer.
KENYA
Nairobi. Kenya is faced with a grave locust menace. The situation has develop- et rapidly in a few weeks and is now uncontrollable in the more inaccessi- ble areas.
In these districts, according to Government communique, eggs and hoppers-young locust cannot be destroyed except at prohibitive ex-
pento.
Heports from Uganda and the Sudan indicato that Infestation is be- coming' worse, Numerous swarms are also coming from Abyssiniu.
in
Wille efforts to destroy hoppers all accessible areas are to continue, the partial Insurance scheme. NEW ZEALAND PREMIER REPLIES TO LONDON CRITICS
Auckland. Replying to London criticism con- the New Zealand Finance Minister, and the New Zealand internal loan of £4,500,000, Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, said:
Kenya Government is considering a
There is a warrant out for his arrest on charges of false pretences.
Worman Is balleved to be in America, where, he alleges he was sent on secret mission to purchase £2.000,000 worth of aircraft for the British Government.
Bohemian London Going
WAS
London.
The
With the closing of the Adelphi The charges alleged against him are that he Induced certain people, to Hotel bar for the last time recently, on one of the lost links with the greni guarantee a banking account which last year he drew sums of days of Bohemia was broken.
Hotel
originally money, and secondly that he obtained Adelphi
"Osbornes" and is mentioned by that £1,000 in cash by false pretences.
title in "Pickwick Papers." From the Worman, who is aged 34, is alleged detailed description there is little doubt that Dickens went there fre- to have said that he would receive per cent, commission on his purchases of American aircraft.
Dark complexioned, Wormon has been a well-known airman in Eng- land, and 1935 he was an entrant
in the King's Cup race with his own Comper. "Streak" 'plana."
He left the Air Force with the ranki of Flight Lieutenant and became a private pilot. He was popular at Croydon airport, where he frequently chartered 'planes for pleasure flights.
quently.
Fox Shot Near
Charing Cross
London.
London is net so far removed from
the country after all since a fox was
Five thousand fewer radio licences The King and the Duke of Bed-were taken out in June than in May, ford were prize winnera at the Herl-Such a drop has never occurred be- fordshire Agricultural Society's show fore in the 15 years history of the 'nt Hatfield Park recently. The King B.B.C.; there has, in fact, been an was awarded, firsts in two classes, average increase of 46,252 per month.cerning the mussion of Mr. W. Nash,
shot recently on The B.B.C. budgeted for June on a The Duke and Duchess of Glouces- ter spent about, three hours in the normal increase which would have £20,000 revenue. showground. Heavy horses made a meant an extra brilliant display, and dairy Short- Instead, there has been a decrease of barns had some good classes. In the £2,500, or a total budget defeli of Shire horse classes the society's gold £22,500. medal went to the Duke of Bedford
Instructions have been sent
for the Tour year old Ally Woburn (every department to cut down ex- Debutante. Among some good Sufpenditure, and a skeleton programme folk horses the King won first award service in being prepared for the next with his 7 year old mare Vernons three months. Marguerite.
Elk Ignores Scarecrow
BOY SAVED BY FATHER
London.
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A 53-year-old man who could not swim slithered down an almost per- pendicular mudbank and plunged in Flagstaff, Ariz. Forest Ranger Bill Brown's efforts the River Avon at Bristol when to raise a garden at his ranger station younger man who was rescuing a boy In Long Valley are all in vain. Even from drowning get into difficulties. Benrecrow, laments Brown, won't The elder man had just dragged the scare away an cik. He said every others into shallow water when he time he plants a garden the elk bent found that the bay was his 11-year- him to the harvest.
old son.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
$250
CASH
PRIZES
$250
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph")
TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250-
(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. $30. Zod, $15.
3rd. $10,
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studles.
int. $30. 2nd. 515, 3rd. $10. SECTION FOUR:
Still Life and Table-Top-Studies. 1st, $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE; Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15. 2nd. $10. 3rd. 35.
RULES
The following Rules will gavem the Competion:
1The Competlilon is confined ex-
clusively
photo- to amateur graphers 2-No employee or member of any arm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete. 3-The prices will be awarded in the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by n
be form which will
published during the period of the Com
muat petition, and which
bo
pasted on back of entry. The right to publish any or il of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.
entered mat have been taken in the Colony of llongkong. Phulographs which have been already entered in ather Competitions are ineligible. -No responsiblity will he accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or Bamage to entries.
3--All photographs
All entries to be either black, sepis, or toned pictures, and must
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY
photo-
be mounted, Coloured Araphs are ineligible. -Pictures submitted in sepia toner should be accompanied by a Binaller print in black and white. D-No picture to entered in more
ihan one Seclion. 10-Mounta to ba only while or
cream, and, except
the Children's Section, must be of une of the following sizes:-10X12, 18x23.
It-No correspondence will be entered tnto in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Entrtes in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, age and addren on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent. 13-Member of the Staffs of the
Hongkong
and Telegraph
the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.
14-The decisions of the Judges shall
ba final.
18-At the conclusion of the Com
petition, entries will be returned 14 competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within sever clayo.
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
DATE
ENTRY FORMI
Please use block letters and paste thie on back of each Entry. If entered i Children's Section, parent please c012- terlyn here.
There
of
"Our whole effort is towards provi. dloga sterling surplus. The critics should give the Doininion a chance.
1s TOOM for difference opinion regarding methods of control ot imports, but the Dominion cannot Wi: take more than she can pay for. are prepared to make an agreement with Britain to exchange goods and services of equal value. Britain was told that in 1937, and that is still the position."
The chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. Donnelly, told the an- nual inceling that the trading banks had done everything possible within the limits of their resources to main- and tain the Dominion's publle private finances. The banks had re- cently subscribed largely to the £4.- The Bank 500,000 Government loan.
for of New Zealand hnd applied £500,000. I held previously £5,- 540,000 Government securities. AUSTRALIA
PLANS TO WELCOME DUKE OF KENT
Sydney.
When the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrive at Perth from England on November 16 they will be greeted Australian by two cruirers of the squadron. The cruisers will then es cort me iner Strathaird, 22,284 tons, in which the Duke and Duchess will be travelling, to Sydney.
Representatives of the Common- wealth Government will probably travel overland to Perth to welcome the new Governor-General and the Duchess.
A University Press, Dr. K. S. Wallace, Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University, who has just returned from a world tour, says he is hopeful that a University Press will soon bo established in Sydney with the "blessing and practical "help" of the Oxford University Press. It is likely that, if funds are made available for the Press, an Australian will be sent to Oxford to study the organisation of the University Press. SOUTHERN RHODESIA
FARMS AS PREY OF WILD BEASTS
Salisbury, Southern Rhodeslo. Owing to the increasing depre- dations of wild animals, the Matabele- land Farmers' Union issued a quex- tionnaire to its members as to their losses.
The 32 farmers who replied had between the last 372 head of cattle by wild dogs. Lions, leopards, and crocodiles accounted for another 130 icod.
In view of the extensive damage tu crops done by kudu, the second lar gest and most handsome of all Afrl- con antelopes, it was suggested at the ineeting of the Union to which these losses were reported that kudu should be classed as vermin and not protect- This ed under the Game Laws. drastic, step is not likely to be taken, Work on New Dam.-Construction work has begun on the N'eema Dam, on the N'cema river in the Essex Vale area. The new dam is to supply Bulayawo with water.
Secret
Service
HITLER'S IDEA: Hier is belloved
to have a new lden about Danzig:-
He will not declare Danzig a part of the Reich. Nor will the Danzig Senate declare Danzig a part of the Relch.
Hitler will declare the citizens of Danzig to be citizens of the Reicn.
**
This move would apparently con- Danzig nothing in the travene Statute. The terrilary, would remola legally separate from the Reich as before. The Danzigers would citizens both of Danzig and of the Reich,
•
be
Thus Itter would keep his promise
to the people of Danzig that they would return to the Reich.
METROPOLE
ROOM BATH
$6.
CENTRAL
CLEAN
COMFORTABLE
Modern Methods In Court
London.
The depositions at Brentford police! court were taken down direct on to a
the borders of Hampstead Heath, less than five miles from Charing Cross as it was raiding rabbit warren in the grounds of a It was shot by a 21 private house. year old girl who Bred from her bed- room window 40 feet away. The family were aroused at dawn by a noise in the grounds of their home.
Time And Space Overcome
St. Louis.
typewriter by the Clerk, Mr. Bray. Two brothers who separated 34 Brentford is the first court in the years ago, in Cape Town, South London arca to do this.
"The Africa, have been reunited here. F. J. greatest beneft" sald Mr. Bray. "Walhuler left South Africa to be derived by people who have to rend come an American Investment dealer the depositions if a case goes for trial and anally settled in St. Louis. His If they cannot read a Clerk's writing brother is Major C. R. Wolhuter, an from the low court. they are engineer of Cape Province, who chose absolutely at sea,"
Hens Snub Air Conditioning
16 remain there.
Twin Of 15 Fly 8,000 Miles Alone
Kathleen and Margaret Murray, 15- Berkeley Cal. years-old Aberdeen twins, made a The University of California ex-fight of more than 8,000 miles. They perimented for a year to ascertain if left Croydon airport to join their Penong, Stralis Settle- egg production could be increased by parents in keeping the hens in cooled hen-ments, where their father is a banker. houses. The answer was no. Only The journey took 814 days.
ne
ascertained, the university reported, and this was
thing
was
that in the hot days, the lens were Firing practice will be carried out noticeably more comfortable in the from Fart Davis between the hours
of 10. 4.m, and 2 p.m. to-day.
cooled henhouses.
Their accuracy, reliability & long life have won for them á world-famous reputation
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Manila
Alr Mall by
Manila Haiphong Saigon
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Per
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Canton Maru Cremer Hunan
July 18.
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July 10,
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..July 18.
daic,
Imperial Airways Plano
July 19.
Kwelyang
July 18..
M/V Tal Fing
July 18.
Shanghai and Swatow
Soochow
July 18.
Shanghai
Talyuon
July 18.
Shanghai
Zulderkerk
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July 10.
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.July 10.
Durban Maru
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Tuesday
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Amoy
Japan
Canton
Wednesday
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..July 20. 5.30 p.
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...July 19, 5 p.m.
July 19, 5 p.m.
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Monday
Mon. July 24.
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Amoy.
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Direct Service"-due London, Sint
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