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Thursday,

Boy

of Ten Ran

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Staff of

30- £27,000 Deal at 26

What Is considered the best pleture of Queen Elizabeth taken this year is above. It shows her at Grove House garden fete, London. She wears ankle-length embroidered gown with bolero. Hat trimmed to match.

London Cannot Find Enough Policemen

LONDON Police need 900 recruits to bring the force up to establishment, but cannot get then. Last year 400 more men left the force than entered it. In the women police there is a shortage of 37,

Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner of Police, states in his report for 1938, which was issued recently, that the in- creasing mileage of streets to be policed makes an increase in establishment justified.

But this cannot be done so long as the present authorised total of 18,252 is not reached.

"It is difficult to assign the leauses which are affecting re-

Elephant Charges cruiting." Sir Philip says. He

Motor-Car

JOHANNESBURG,

An elephant J. the Ruanda National Park, in Belgian lerritory, charged motor-car in Watch Prof. Gevers, Prof. Sutton anel

Prof. Mendelsohn, all of Wit- watersrand University, were Aru- velling.

Pent, Gevers bruke a lost and Was Hown 10 Nairobi fat treatment. Both the other vect- -pants of them were slightly_bort,

London Solicitor Arrested

WHEN Robert C. Barn-

stone was six he had to sell four newspapers to make a halfpenny profit.

When he was 26 he was able to write a cheque for £27,600.

And this, according to Mr. Barnstone, America's Watch King; is due to his "gaining everyone's fidence and going straight."

con-

Mr. Barnstone, now 45, in visiting London. At Grosvenor House recently he said:

"I first began earning money when I was six years old. I actually sold the first Hearst newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Boston-but when I say I started earning money. well, I mean that I made just one halfpenny for every four newspapers I sold."

"STAFF" OF NEWSBOYS

But within four years Robert C. Barnstone was rend "jubber" of 20 for 30 newsboys-an "employer" who chreked their sales and their receipts and was trusted to handle the money they brought in.

Until he was 12 years old Robert went to school in the morning. worked in a stationer's shop in the evening, and at week-ends sold Sun- day newspapers,

Then," he said, "1,went to work for my brother in a jeweller's shop jin a shoe-shine parlour. And at the

points out that a high physical, educational, and moral standrod is! required, and adds: “1 am convinced. indeed, that its better to go short than to lower the standard.”

age of 17 i struck out for myself in my own jewellery business.

"At the age of 28, I wrote out a cheque for £27,000 and bought up ык business. Since then, well, my

15,000 and £20,000 a year."

September, 14, 1939.

UFS

Only woman wearing trousers ever to be greeted by Pope Pius Is shown arriving at Vallean. She is Empress of Annam, part of French Indo-China, and is a devout Catholle. Pope presented her a lapis lazuli rosary,

Voyage On Queen Mary As Tip To Taximan

BY RADIO-TELEPHONE recently, contact was made with the finer Queen Mary, 350 miles on her way to New York, and

Britain's luckiest taxi-driver, 54-year-old Anthony living expenses have been between Edward Barnes, ceased pacing the decks to talk about To-day Mr. Barnstone is a special-his trip to America at the expense of a Pittsburg man,

whom he drove on a tour of Southern England.

ist in expensive watches, which he

sells in every city in the United

States and sells for not less than 15 and anything up to £200, Re wears a magnificent gold one which

is worth £60.

EMPIRE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN STEEL FOR INDIA

SYDNEY.

Barnes, who lives in Lower Richmond Road, Richmond, sailed recently from Southampton with his host, Mr. W. C Fownes,

Visiting England with his family; for the first time, Mr. Fownes e21 gaged Barnes and his brother for the tour.

"A FINE FELLOW"

Mr. Pownes said Harnes was such " fine fellow" that he offered him this "tip-trip."

"I just could not believe my luck," Barnes said by radio-telephone.

Fortune For Buddhists

SIR WALTER WILLIAM STRICK- LAND, "the wandering baronet," who died in Java a year ago, left un- seiller estate in Great Britain valued at £15,844,

“Here I am aboard the most won=] |derful ship in the world. Your callį

The whole amount is to be devoted brought me from the decks, where to the spread of Buddhism, the which was taking a wall before turning in purpose, it was staled after his death,

"It's a wonderful night; wonderful!h: had provided £250,000. stars, wonderful muse-everythingį wonderful.

Sir Walter renounced the title of which he was the ninth holder in "It all happened so quickly.

1923 when he became a citizen of "Mr, Fownis and I became friendly | Czerho-Slovakia.

Probate of his will his ·THURS been granted.

en the tour,

Order: for 40,000 tons of Austre iron and steel are reported here to have been received from India. This brings Australia's total exports MORE CRIME There was a further increase of 3a1for the year to Joine 256,800 tons. per cent, in the number of indictable] Steel authorities consider that fu- crimes compared with 1937, which lure orders should be investigated to Philip attributes to the lack of aggertam whether they are for Em- manpower. On the other Jind, there pice defence, or come

from per-i "Two days ago, when the taxi-trip! was a notabile decrease in the

maneut citstomers, and not from ended, he said. "Would you

ALL FOR BUDDHISMI Care! Teentage of seting offenders.

(quarters seelong caly temporary to come to New York as my guest? He directs that boxes of many- An interesting

fact was that, how-teurce of rupply

"I said "Yea, and went home to tell scripts, books and papers deposited. ver the courts dealt with them foc Refugees Learn English.—The Edu- | my wife. She was too surprised to in Prague should remain there at the their first offence, the Sounger mei, valah Department here has insta say much, but she did say I deserved discretion of the trustees, that the and boys between 18 and 25 were ́nted.

:pecial classes

a Holiday,

18

per-i

and

the m

found to have a gresder propuction for refugees and other ahens from of reconvictions than the older miti. Bubenia, Austria, DAGSK And first offenders placed on pra- Lithuania. About 500 of bation showed a greater proportion grants have enrolled. af reconvictions than those treatral ins

RICHARD P. CLOWES, 71.jany other way,

S. Phily has some strong worda year-old solicitor, of Puties, to say against the tendency of cer member of the firm of Nye, a drivers to take advantage of a Moreton and Clowes, of Ser-less rigid application of the Traffic i jeants' Inn, Temple, was arrest-Acts.

JAMAICA

£17,000 GRANT FOR MEAL FACTORY

KINGSTON, Jamalen.

LEG-PULLER

trustees should have access to them. and that "one of the boxes or their contents shall be removed or trans

te

nf

"I came aboard the Queen Mary forced to any place in England, Scot- at Southampton with only one suitj Jand or other part of the British case and three shirts, I shall have¦ Empire,” six days in America,

The rrskue of his estate is to be "Mr. Fownes will take me to the held in trust for 21 years and used World's Fair and 1 cm tell you I'm to printing, repainting and publishing excited."

his MSS, and then the income is to Asked what his taxi-driver friend: pak to a Buddhist sarlety ed by City of London detectives!, "So long as there are people," he

says, "who are prepared to defy the Legistative Council voted a grant of was

Electusi members of the Jamalea in Englund said when they heard bead chairs or laboratorica recently.

off to New York, Barnes, physics and psychology on Buddhist Mr. Clawes was taken into custody taxation in its enforcement, the police Government-owned corn-meal fac- leve me. They know is for a bit propaganda.

low or to take advantage of any £17,000 for the establishment of a laughing said: They wouldn't bees, any surplus to go to Buddhist shortly after leaving Charing Cross cannot reduce the number of prostory for the improvement of

the of a leg-puller and they thought it Hospital, where he had been a pallent sccutions as much as they would like, corn industry on the island. for about a fortnight.

know the truth." He was taken by Detective los- the deliberate offenders there must sion, established, some years ago, is pector Grime to Snow Hill police inevitably be included a certain doing at it can to stabilise minor "This is my dream come true. I'vel station, where he was charged with number of people who are not in that industries for the benefit of smaller always wanted to see America. fraudulent conversion.

category."

¡ growers.

stipulates that

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The

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NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939 CASH

$250 $250

PRIZES

(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 Pletorial Section: Landscapes,

Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

One unfortunate result is that with The Govermanent Marketing Divi-was just another jake. Now they Christian or Euren shall be ap-

Sir Walter

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181. $30.

Four Boys in Runway

·Train: Brakes Released

KENYA

NATIONAL MOTOR RACE MEETING

MOMBASA. Kenya's Arst national open motor [rave_meeting_took place ricently on

It was considered that Ute race- |course will serve admirably, when

FOUR boys who got on to a railway siding at Greenford the Nairobi Racecourse. (Middlesex), to play Indians and cowboys, had a real adventure.

completed. Prizes

"Mr. Fownes has been most gener- | our, paying for everything on the trip,

"And all because I lked him and he liked me, and we both knew al Jittle bit about old buildings, andį antiques.

RECENT WILLS

pointed or employed in connection with the proposed chairs.

Naval Recruiting

the

Recruiting for the Navy con- tinues to be satisfactory.

The principal demand at moment is for men to train as air gunners in the flying branch. There They released the brakes of trucks in which they were play-sucis necessary work as the banking

are 140 vacancies to be filled during Sir James G. Owen (59), Exeter the early weeks of September, and ing and 20, weighing 250 tons, ran down n slope for 670 yards. of corners with sandbags has been for 38 years editor and managing conditions of entry have been some-

The train crashed through three level crossings and into an classes were given. All makes and 204 (net £18.491),

in the various director, Western Tinies, left £21, what relaxed temporarily until re Army Ordnance depot where men loading vans jumped clear. -

quirements have been met. Instead ratings of cars could be entered and The

Mr. T. S. Jones (72), Radyr, a of education up to school certificate told in Ealing run under offelal handicapping ar- story was

rangements.

past president, Cardin Chamber of standard in mathematics and elec Juvenile Court recently. The boys,

Women's Hospital Traiping-Most Commerce, a former chairman Car- tricity, for this entry only a sound three aged 11 and one 12, summoned of the women of Mombasa who have diff and Bristol Channel Shipowners' knowledge of arithmetic is

required, for "interfering with the train, there- passed their

and late a partner FL and ability to satisfy the Navy examinations Association by endangering the safety of railway have accepted an invitation to at- and J. H. Rea, shipowners, left 20,- examinera in a short intelligence test. employees," were placed on pro- tend the European and native hos-330 "so far as can at present be as Previously candidates had to travel Redhill SO S

bation. Their parents were cach}pttais

and nurse pctual sick and certained" (not £9241).

to a naval centre to take the examina- nceldent cases. They are also as-

Mr. T. Plant, Leleester, director tion; now they may be examined by TADPOLES are unable to make ordered to pay £1 s. 6d. costs.

sisting the doctors in operations. Benjamin Russell and Sons, hosiery their local recruiting officer, Age

manufacturers; left- £2,805 (net) limits are from 171⁄2 to 22 years.

£1,402).

Tadpoles

In Distress:

Inspector

A.R.P.

their way up the sheer sides train and breaked 4t, an

A man jumped into the moving of a pond on Redhill Common later applied more brakes, and the

when they want uir." (Do train stopped against other trucks. Flags Tell Safety

tadpoles require air?)

This urgent matter was brought to

Score

Children Mourn Rooster

Gross value is the total of all os- reis possessed by the deceased be- fore deduction of liabilities. Net the attention of the Redhill and R.S.F.C.A., in London, the following

personalty, is comprised of all HOUSTON, Tex. (UP)-Houston property such as money, shares and arlawood Common Conservatora by statement was made: the RS.P.C.A., which made sugges-

police will dramatise fatal automobile leaseholds, after deduction of debts lans to remedy the hardship.,

expenses. It excludes: "Tadpoles do not come under our accidents with flags. The all-white and funeral Conservators, met and solemnly jurisdiction," said an oficial. "The traffic safety car will carry a black realty (freehold property), any] CAMDEN, N. J. (U.P.)-Two hun- decided they could do nothing to letter was written by our representa-flag on its radio aerial on days that charges on which must be deducted dred children held funeral services

*The tadpoles,

tives at Redhill without our know- the elty has no fatalities and a while before

not realty, in vacant store for Dickie, the There, the matter now stands. Tedra. There is no such thing as flag on days when such accidents Estate duty is payable on the total neighbourhood's pet rooster. He later At the headquarters of the cruelly in a case like this,"

of net personally and net, really, ". was buried in his owner's backyard.

occur.

arriving at the

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studles.

1st, $30.

2nd, $15. 3rd, #10 SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. 530. 2nd. $16, 3rd. $10, SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years.

́ist, $15, 2nd, $10, 3rd, $5.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition;

pliote

1. The Competition is confined ex-

clusively 10 amateur graphers

2. No employes or mamber of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.

3. The prizes will be awarded to the mercompetitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo. graphs in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period, at the Com- petition, and which mut pasted on back of entry. ~~The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

5.-Au photographs entered must have "been" taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible, 6. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, low of, or demage to entries.

All entries to be afther black, aple, or toned pictures, and must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY

be

mounted. Coloured graphs are ineligible.

photo-

B-ictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by sipaller print in black and white. No picture to entered in more than one Scotion,

10-Mounts to be only while or cream, and. except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following sizes:—10x11 16x20.

11-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, aga and address on the entry forTEL, counter signed by a parent. 13--Members of "the 'Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 14-The decisions of the Judges shall

be Anal.

15-At the conclusion of the Com- palition, entries will be returned to competitors on application st the Telegraph offices within seven - days.

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

DATE

ENTRY FORM

Plezan use block letters and parts this on back of auch Entry, Il antena za Children's Section, parent, please cOSITI terigu bere.