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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 words $2.00

for 3 days prepaid

TUITION GIVEN.

CHINESE well educated young lady will give private lessons in Mandariti, Cantonese and Shanghai dialect in a Will of study. systematic course accept also any job is office. Apply P. O. Box 1420.

FOR SALE.

ان

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS, Reliable tested and

strong varieties for germination of best immediate sowing for sale at Graca Co., 10, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

SINGER SEWING MACHINES $30, Waterproof (next shipment $40). wrist watches $13. Suitcase $2-4. We buy Typewriters. Surplus- samples.

Nathan. "Michelf", 218 "FEM.C.A." Asia Life Building, 3rd. 14 Queen's.

EMPIRE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT BOUNTY PLAN

SYDNEY.

Mr. R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister, recently conferred with State Pre- miers at Melbourne in an attempt to find on agreed solution for the serious problem caused by the world drop in wheat prices,

the

It is everywhere recognised that tiovernmental assistance on an uni precedented scale will be necessary" to keep wheat land in production. Growers all over Australia are losing heavily. Many are faced with rain. The Commonwealth proposed that Federal and State Governments. should share equally in Anancial sreme to give growers 38 4d a bushel would be fo.b. As the taxpayer meeting the difference between this and the present market prier, about 3, the bounty would cost the £7,000,000 approximately

indefinite period.

any

1 3 public pub yearly for Growers are at present receiving

£3,500,000 from the flour tax.

Mr. Menzies's proposal is United to a total production of 140,000,000 bushels, the average of the last five

years.

The Victorian Premier. Mr. A. A. Dunstan, who was the chief opponent of the earlier proposal to seek an International agreement involving curtailment of production, to-dny in- sisted that the scheme must be en- tirely financed by the Commonwealth.

This is most embarrassing to the Federal Government,

is which

al- ready facing the necessity of heavily increasing taxation to meet defence costs. At present there seems little chance of the conference reaching a workable agreement.

INDIA

BOMBAY

LOOTING FOLLOWS CROP FAILURE

Following the serious drought and crop failure in Gujerat and Kalbin- war, grain shops have been looted by famine-stricken villagers. At Raver, in Khandeshi Taluka, 300 men attacked a shop, causing panic in the Bazaar.

Police

restored order, Crime is increasing in all famine areas. The rulers of various Kail- awar States are contemplating steps 16 control profiteering, as mere

merchants are doubling prices of foodstuffs.

Appeals for relief are pouring in here. The Bombay Government has sanctioned a grant of £7,000 for re- lief in Viramgam, which is the wors! affected district in Ahmedabad. Disquieting reports are also being received from other areas, including Baroda and Sind.

NEW ZEALAND

PERMITS TO REMIT FUNDS OVERSEAS

AUCKLAND.

are

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

1. All rates will be increased by 20% effective October 1, 1939.

2. All forward bookings for shipment after September 30 are cancelled.

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 18, 1939,

Militia's Girl Friends

3. Until further notice, broking MILITIAMEN in Birkenhead

nt new rates a limited to shipment within 28 days, HONGKONG-PANAMA FREIGHT

CONFERENCE. Hongkong, September 16, 10:19.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

With reference to the Notice published by this Bureau under date of September 10, 1989, it has now been decided to amend the percentage of increase from 50% to 20%, to become effective on October 1, 1939.

have

girl hundreds of friends. Militiamen in Taunton (Somerset) have none.

And efforts are being made locally to change both states of affairs.

Taunton vicar, the Rev. W. 1. Heaton, has asked in his magazine hundred xiris, fond of dancing. for to help him to entertain Milltiamen.

He has started a social club, says tamen are young fellows who need lots of girl friends:

A HUNDRED

-

"I want anything up to a hundred girls to come and dance with them."

Balonbad Women Citizens' Ac

TRANS PACIFIC FREIGHT | pociations are patrolling parks. Mrs.

1. M. Amy, chutiman, says:

BUREAU

Hongkong, September 15, 1939.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS

Shippers are informed that it has been decided:

1. All rates are increased by 2017, effective October 1939.

2. All forward bookings for shipment after September 30 are cancelled.

3. Until further notice, booking nt new rates to be limited to shipment within 30 days. HONGKONG-CARIBBEAN SEA PORTS RATE AGREEMENT Hongkong, September 15, 1939.

WARSAW MAY SURRENDER

(Continued from Page 13

retreating Polish troops lost 12,009) prisoners and many wins and units. Despite the bad weather, Nazi planes

attacked the retreating columns of troops. The Vilna radio. station Is claimed to have been destroyed.

Gdynia Holds Out

However, 14 Polish communique says that in heavy fighting, Polish troops have held out. Polish troops near Gdynia are si resisting, while the Polish Posnan army is obstinate- ly filing and the enemy has had to rush reinforcements.

The southern Polish army smashed Nazi motorised regiment, and has taken many prisoners and 40 tanks.

Covernment Leaving

BUCHAREST, Sept. 17 (Reuter).- Members of the Palish Government began crossing the frontier into Rumanta early today.

Theusands of civilians also stream- ed into safety.

Twenty Polish bombers have land- in Humana, and were later sent into the interior.

ed

Representatives of foreign Powers

in Warsaw reached Rumonia and are) trying to set up headquarters in the limited accomodation of a small Rumanian town which is already packed with refugers.

SOVIET'S WANTON

AGGRESSION

(Continued from Page 13

Polish envoy to Moscow had been handed the Russian note,

Governments Not Surprised LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter).-The Soviet invasion of Poland has not greatly surprised the British, Frencli and American govermanents. Chamberlain Mr.

Viscount Halifax were in lengthy consultation yesterday,

and

Soviet's Protexts LONDON, Sept. 17 (Reuter)-The Polish Embassy in London to-day Issued a stateinent on the Russian invasion of Poland.

Under the new import control scheme the Reserve Bank has sanc- tioned the first permits for remitting funds overseas for the purpose of payment for goods awaiting ship- The statement said: "The pretexi ment. This should facilitate urgent of the Soviet advances in an attempt cases. Only limited amounts

to justify its aggression is that the involved.

Polish Government has ceased to act Merchants have been informed and fas abandoned Puland, Uus that letters of credit will be neces- Jenying the population without pro- Bary for future importations. London tection. banks are refusing to discount drafts.

"The Pollsh Government cannot Challenged. An allow that this pretext justifies the Government amendment challenging the Govern- violation of Poland. The

ment of Poland, the President and ment to declare that it has no sym- pathy with any suggestion for the the Parliament exist on Pallsh soil and are carrying on the war with all repudiation of New Zealand's ex-

their power. ternal debts was moved recently by

'Soviet ugression violates pacts the last Mr. Forbes, former Prime Minister,

made with Poland during on behalf of the Opposition.

few years."

Must Wait

A Year For Fortune

Judge John J. Nangle, of Missouri, who is holding an inquiry Into the disposition of the £500,000 fortune left by Mr. Hazlett Kyle Campbell, heard evidened in a tiny glass-panell- ed room at Somerset House.

Govern-

NEWS FLASHES (Continued from Pape 1.)

A communique says that the men will not be made to work in industry or trade.

•

"It is not a question of protecting girls but of protecting the young

aten."

A factory near the camp, with 400 Rirl workers, has figured in diserts -

Military authorities say Militiamen may use the camp. Bit the womente i

who want the park association,

funds, will placed out patrol in

Women Invade Stock Sale

still

LYONS, Cu.

Farm men in this area are coin- plaining that "We can't have any- | iBhg for ourselves; the women will

butt in every time." Reason for! their complaints: A livestock sale was eclipsed when farm women in- vaded a public auction to place on the block their home-maile bed- spreads, table covers, scarves, rugs, vic.

That's what the American Progressive Chiropractie Associa- tion and of Sylvie Herskind, at final session of convention in Los Angeles. Measurements: 5 feet 4; 1714; bust, 34; waist, 21; hips,

II.

Dead Man in Canoe Was

Shot Through Head

YOUNG man whose body was found recently in a canoe sunk in the River Ouse at Rodmell, between Lewes and Newhaven had been shot.

The man was identified as Robert Francis Stevens, aged 27, of Frant Road, Tunbridge Wells.

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promenade at Duke and Duchess of Windsor strolling on Cannes, France, in recent holiday. They have returned to. Lun don recently.

AS

Man Walks Into Plane Propeller

S a plane landed at Croydon recently and was taxi-ing towards a petrol pump a man walked into one of the propellers and was killed. He was identified later as Anthony Mackeson, aged thirty- seven, of Trevor-street, Knightsbridge, S.W. The plane, an Air Dispatch was recently suspended from

Cavalry Club.

An official of another company at | Dragon, was booked to take off again as a.target for searchlight Croydon said: "Just before I heard practice at Doncaster.

the

about this accident I had been talk- ing with a stranger who wonted a "A labourer was beckoning me to-Joy ride in one of our planes. wards n petrol pump, and I was taxi-ing slowly looking out of the left hand side," cald the pilot.

"I felt a slight jar and then heard a shout above, the noise of the en- kines. I looked the other way-and saw a man lying on the tarmac."

The police have ruled out any possibility of an accident.

CLENCHED FISTS

Stevens' hands were clenched as if

in fighting attitude.

In his pockets were twe lumps of chalk, each weighing about 26.

The canoe was found tilted up- wards on the river bed by the crew of a Dutch motor-vessel near a wharf belonging to the Alpha Cement Com- ¡pany,

RIVER DRAGCED

In a search for a weapon police ragged the river. Operations will be resumed this morning.

It is thought the dead nan may

| have had a companion.

Stevens was of independent means and his parents are well-to-do. He intended to go to Holland for canoeing holiday,

Poster Led Him Astray

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POSTERS of young men in bathing trunks, advertising Richmond Baths, Surrey, in- duced Mr. Kenneth M. Turner, of Friars Stile-roud, to go for a swim-with bathing trunks.

But he was refused permission to bathe will them. Costumes, he was told, were necessary for gentlemen.

Mr.

POST OFFICE.

SUSPENSION OF ALL UP EMPIRE

AIR MAIL SERVICE

PARCELS TO CHINA, Parcel Post Service to China 10. As from 5.00 p.m. Monday, 4th subject to a Customs Embargo os September, the all up Empire air certain foreign goods, a list of which malt service is suspended for the time may be seen at C.P.O. & K.P.O. being.

Firat class mail for destinations served by Imperiat Airways whether included in the all up scheme or not will be subjected to a surcharge of $1.00 per half ounce if sent by alx, in addition to the present air mall rates.

to

sen!

Letters may however be such destinations by surface transport at the following rates:- (a) To British Possessions:-

15 cents for the first ounce, 10 cents for each succeeding

cunce

10 cents per postcard.

(b) To Foreign Countries:-

Per

25 cents for the first ounce, 10 cents for

ounce,

Formosa

In all cases parcels can only be recepted for despatch as circum- tances permit and at senders' risk.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMIKS Registered and Parcel Malla are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before 9 a.m., re gistered and parcel mails are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day.

10 cents per postcard.

All letters intended for despatch by ench succeeding air must be so superscribed, and

bear a blue air mall label.

INWARD MAILS

Al Mall by "Imperial

Direct Service"-London 10th September.

Straits

Shanghai

Manila

Shanghai and Amoy

Calcutta and Straits Sundakan

Japan Haiphong

Java and Mantia Straits

Duc.

From

Canion Maru ........September 18.

dale, Imperial Altways Plane

Airways

M/V Shantung

Protesilnus

-

September 18.

September 18.

September 18,

Soochow

Tyndarcus

Brisbane Mau Hupeli

Istami

Newchwung

September 18. September 19

September 10.

September September 19. September 19.

.September 10,

Tjibadak

Van Heut:Z

September 10.

Air Mall by "Air

France

Dirret

Service"-Purls date, 13th Sept. Air France Plane

.September 20.

Strals

Shanghai

Beiusevain Cyclops

.September 20,

September 20,

Air Mall by "Pan American Airways

Direct

Service"-San Francisco Pan American Airways Plane

date, 14th September.

September 20.

Australia and Manila

Kitano Maru

.September 21.

Japan

Narioga

.September 21,

Saigon

Alhos 11

September 22.

Straits

Conte Rosso

September 22.

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai-(Vancouver B.C, date,

2nd September).

Enp. of Canada

September 22,

Haruna Maru

September 22.

Mamita

September 22.

September 22.

.September 23.

September 23.

Straits

Japan. Shanghai and Formosa Straits and Manila

Japan

For

Straits

Shanghai

Swatow and Amoy Canton

Pres. Coolidge

Suwa Maru Agamemnon Rakuyo Mana

OUTWARD MAILS

Per

Monday

Brisbane Maru

Date and Time,

Moo, Sept. 18, 2.30 p.m. Denbighshire Mon, Sept. 18, 3.30 pm. Kingyuan Mon, Sept. 18, 3.30 p.m. Canion Maru. Mon., Sept. 18, 7 pm.

Tuesday

.Tues., Sept. 19, 8.30 am. Kwangtung Tues., Sept. 19, 2.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways

Direct Service"-Due London, 27th September.

Moula, Makassar and Sourabaya. Tjinegara Shanghal

Plane....Tues., Sept. 10.

K.r.o.

.Sept. 19, 5 p.m. .Sept. 19, 7 pun.

K.P.O.

Rek.,

Ord..

Sept. 10, 5 pm. .Sept. 10, 5.30 p.m.

G.r.o.

Rec..

Ord..

Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Imperial Airways

Australia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"due Sydney 25th September,

Plane.Tues., Sept. 19.

Reg.,

Ord.,

Rek.

Ord,

Wednesday

Canton

Haiphong

Parcels only for Halphong Japan

Sept. 19, 5 p.m. Sept. 19, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

.Sept. 19..5 p.m.

.Sept. 19, 7 p.m.

Wed., Sept. 20, 2 p.m. Wosang......Wed., Sept. 20. 2 p.m. Islam....Wed, Sept. 20, 3.30 p.m.

Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and Air France Plane...Wed.. Sept. 20,

Northern

France (Paris and

by the "Air only) Provinces France Airways Direct Service"- due Paris, 20th Sept,

....Sept. 20. 5 p.m.

K.P.O.

Reg..

Ord,

Sept. 20, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.,

.Sept. 20, 5 p.m.

Ord.,

.Sept. 20. 7 p.m.

K.P.O.

..Sept. 20.5 p.m.

Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Hono- Pan American Plane Wed., Sept, 20,

fulu and U.S.A.. by of

So Mr. Turner sent a letter of pro- test to the Baths Committee, saying that their advertisements are con~ tradictory to the regulations.

Newman, superintendent

"I am Richmond Baths, sald: ponsible for the regulations, and an taking no notlee of the complaint.

A "IT ISN'T DEĊENT"

res

don't think it decent for men to wear trunks in a closed-in bath. It is different in the open air, where people want to sun bathe.

"The women here would object to Lit. Men must not display their

chests while swimming."

The posters were bought by the Baths Committee, who displayed them.

War-Time Nerves

Some of Britain's most brilliant specialists in nervous diseases are co- "He insisted on flying in the rear operating with the Government In cockpit instead of the front. The devising means to deal with the pilots sit in the back seats of our emotional and mental strain of war- machines.

time on civilians and the armed forces.

on

"The man seemed to be behaving strangely. 1c Insisted flylegi

Important recommendations behind, and finally I had to tell him expected shortly.

we couldn't possibly take him up.

He had walked straight Into the spinning arc of the propeller. The He went away." engines were switched off. The force of the impact on the man's head had splintered off six inches from each tip of the 6ft. long pro- peller.

ANKARA, Sept. 18, (Reuter).— Nothing has been revealed as to

Airport police found, two scaled the purpose of the visit to Russia

pockets. envelopes In Mackeson's of the Turkish Foreign Minister.

They opened one addressed to a e- lative. It said: "There is a power

It is stated, however, that the visit.

will present an opportunity to streng-behind me that drives me. I must do then further Soviet-Turkish tics.

witnesses to be heard in. America and Canada."

It was given privately by Mr. Fletcher an exocutive officer in the Registrar - General's Department. whose testimony, dealt with certi- fcater of births, deaths and marri-

Mr. Nangle is to pay a short visii Nangle afterwords stated: to the Continent before returning 10 "The Inquiry is now closed for the Ireland for examination of the tran- British Isles. The result will pro-script-of evidence and exhibits. bably not be known before another

He will then return to the United year. · There are about 200 further States to report on the inquiry.

Ahis while I still have courage."

E

Action Beats Words

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the "Pan

American Airways Direct Service" -due San Francisco 27th Sep- tember

Reg.

Ord.

Reg.

Fort Bayard, Pakhoi and Holhow.. Parcels only for Shanghul Japan

Shanghai Fort Bayard

Ord.

Sept. 20. 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

..Sept. 20. 5. pim. Sept. 21, 7.30 a.m.

Thursday

Soochow ..Thurs., Sept. 21, 9.30a.m. Hupeh....Thurs., Sept. 21, 2.30 p.m.. Kilano Maru Thurs., Sept. 21, 7 p.m.

Friday

Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa. Aden. Egypt and Europe via Marseilles-duc Mar- reilles, 22nd October.

Halphong

Shanghai

Manila

Formosa, Shanghai and Japan

Conte Rosso. Fri, Sept. 22, 8.30 am. Sinklang....Fri., Sept. 22, 9.30 am. Suwa Meru. Fri, Sept. 22.

G.P.O. and K.P.Ò. Rest.Sept. 22, 12.45 p.m. .Sept. 22, 1.30 p.m. ..Fri., Sept. 22, 1, p.m. Athor II.Fri., Sept. 22, 1.30 p.m.

Tsinan

Ord

Empress of Canada

Fri, Sept. 22, 3.30 pm.

Haruna Maru Fri, Sept. 22, 3.30 p.m.

K.P.O.

Sept. 22, 4 p.m.

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., President Coolidge ....Fri, Sept. 22.

Central and South Amerien and San Francisco-due Conndo vie Sun Francisco, 12th October

Sept. 22, 5 p.m. Sept. 22, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

.Sept. 22, 4 p.m.

.Sept. 22, 5 p.m. Sept. 22, 7 p.m.

„Sat, Sept. 23, 8.30 am.. .Sat, Sept. 23, 1.30 pm: Sal.. Sept. 23. 2.30 pm.

Parcels

Reg.

Ord.

Parfels neg Ord.

are

Shanghai Straits

Shanghai

Baturday

Mulnám. Anking Szechuen

Sunday

Halphong

Talang

Monday

.Sun., Sept. 24, 9. a.mi.

Shanghai Jupan

Hoihow. Hosong

Mon., Sept. 25, 3.30 pm. Mon., Sept. 25, 7 p.m.

Tuesday

A sub-committee, appointed at u recent meeting between Sir, Walter Womersley, Minister of Pensions, and the specialists, met recently in an effort to formulate practical conclu- slons.

..... Jean Dupuls Tues., Sept. 28, 10.00 a.m. Manllo, Australia and New Zealand Atula, Maru

via Thursday Taland-due Thurs- day Island, 8th October,

Lord Horder was in the chair, and Sir Hubert Bond, Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Dr. Bernard Hart, Dr. Gor don Holmes, Dr. J. H. Macdonald,. ELYRIA, O Councilman Elmer. E. Mapother, Dr. H. Crichton- Fort Bayard and Haiphong

to persuade the Nelson' tried

Miller and Dr. W. Aldren Turner Elyria city council that the roofing were present. atop City Hall was defectivo Fail-

It was explained that experience Ing by words, Nelson took off his cout, climbed onto the roof and and scientific research in post-war

had added · immensely No one had recognised the fair, brought down a sample shingle to years. curly-haired man As he walked show it had not been nalled down medical knowledge of nervous and towards the plane. And nobody had properly. The council, impressed cognate disorders, and Sir Waller felt enuse to challenge him.

with his acrobatick as well as his that this knowledge might be shingle, valed to investigate Coun- collated us to be of service to medical

men in another war. Muckeson, a former cavalry officer, cllman Nelson's complaint.

UNCHALLENGED

to

Tues, Sept. 26.

K.P.O.

Reg

.Sept. 26, 5. p.m.

Ord,

Sept. 20, 6.30 p.m.

G.P.D.

Reg

Sept. 20, 5 pm.

Ord.,

Sept. 26, 7, p.m.

Thursday

Fort Bayard, Pakhot and Hoihow.. Sandakan

Sulyang..Thurs., Sept. 28, 9,30 m. Woolgar Thurs, Sept. 28, 330 p.m.