1939-10-24 — Page 13

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 24, 1939.

By Walt Disney

DONALD DUCK

RUM

DOGGONE WINDOW WOULD START SLIPPIN'

SHUT ON A NIGHT

LIKE THIS!

Dutch Offer LETTERS

Refuge

Armed Merchantmen

Can Use Ports

Kumaon Rifles

Dramatic Club

The Editor.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Sir, Perhaps deeply absorbed in

King Visits Recruits

Impressed By Thoir Smart Turn Out

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LONDON, Oct. 23 (Reuter).

LONDON, Oct. 23 (Reuter). securing further war and tax news.The King to-day paid his first -The German statement that

Huod ten days efforts at Gratia British ships only were allowed public entertaiment provided by the visit to a militia camp in the to enter Dutch waters after the Kumaon Rifles Dromatic Club has south of England.

remained unconumented and unre- surrender of their armament is ported in your columns. It is because of a Field Marshal, Hia

Wearing the khaki service uniform Majesty untrue, states a special com-, the performances were so ably direct visited three burracks where mili muntary.

cd, managed and rehearsed, that I tamen were undergoing The wording of the Netherlands have ventured to trespass on your stages of their 18-week training.

The King particularly commented proclamation of neutrality permits, ce to volee any appreciation.

It may not be generally known that

on one class of recru.ls which had the entry into Dutch ports of mer- chant ships genuinely armed for self, the Kumaons are the first and the only been in training for five weeks. He asked many questions and saw sub-only regiment in Hongkong that protection against German

and possesses a Dramatic Club of its own recruits being trained in wireless inarines which cinic British

tained during presentation of this working on motor engines before The German claim that the arm-play 'Rom-Leela, it was on the verge joining the transport.

of professional. 'Lady Precious His Majesty showed much interest int for self-defente converts a mer- chontman into a warship is not in Stream and others might have been in a class which was being trained in accordance with International Law, popular with the public, but the the use of the anti-tank rifle and the

packed houses (estimated at about anti-dummy tank. under which Buch arming is

4,000 people nightly) that this drama normal and recognised procedure,

for self. What President Roosevelt's decree pro-attracted, spake hibiting submarines to enter terri-boutiful singe-settings, sceneries and how betting the waters effectively prevents back-grounds, German submarines from using costumes and appropriate the music American ports as In the last war and songs-all this coupled with the when the, Brilish were obliged to maintain a patrol.

H. K. V. D. C.

TIES

$3.50 and $6.50

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A Look Through RADIO For the Figure of Youth

The “Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

Oct, 24, 1889,

ZBW, 355 metres (845 kcc.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Recital by Liya Gurevitch From the Studio

The records of the year 1880, so far.)

Radlo Programme, Broadcast by how to have been a year unparalZLW on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. ind for its succession of disasters, well as of being one of extraordinary and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.; -11 p.m. an 9,52 m.c's. per atmospheric disturbance. Storms, floods and and other fourful calamities have fol- second. lowed one another with unexampled frequency in different quarters of the globe, and it would seem as if we had not seen the last of these dire afle- tions.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 24, 1914. Paris "oMelal report, issued. eleven that alebi, slates that the Ger- mans who advanced an Warsaw have

treat, abandoning positions which they Sa organised for defence. The Ras alana are pursuing them and making

A

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neutral ships, leaving the crews to and Judging from the standard main telegraphy and signailing, and others been forced to make a precipitate re-

drown, etc.

torial

ROYAL OAK INQUIRY

masterly dances done in full pomp

H.K. Stock Market

were

Mar-

numerous prisoners

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12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- cession.

12.30 Brahams-Variations On A Theme By Paganini, Op. 35; Egonį Peiri (Piano).

12.47 Brabanıs-flungarian Dances. 1.0 Loral Time Signal and Weather Report.

103 Tino Rossi (Tenor) and the Orchestra Mascoile.

1,3 Heuer & Rugby Press, Wea. ther Farceust and Announcements.

1.45 Light Variety. 2.15 Close down. 6.0 Dance Music.

7.0 London Relay-"On the Dol." A Variety Programme,

7.30 Closing local Stock Quotutions. 7.32 Iteginald Dixon at the Organ. 7.43 Varlety with Ruth Etting, Billy Mayeri and Turner Layton.

8.0 Local Time Signal, Wenther Re- port and Announcements.

The Budget statement which Excellency the Governor ald hefore meinhers of the Tegislative Counci! yesterday will, we believe, be consider- ed satisfactory by the general public. Although the war has made it necessary to rovise the estimates of revenue, with a consequent, knocking off of some $300,000 from the figure originally set down, we are able to face the coming year without any addition to taxation. it is true that in order to balance the,

8.03 Hayden-Symphony No. 90 Ini account naum of well over a million.

ollars will have to be taken from the D Major; Vienna Pilharmonic Or- Colony znlus tunde (which are en- chestra conducted by Bruno Walter. timated to stand on December 31, 1914, 8.30 Studio-Piano Recital by Llyn at $2,896,376) but, in view of the lile Gurevitch; 1. Prelude and Fugue in 1,300 n. sablie works in progress or under con- £..74 n. templation, that is inevitable, unless C Minor (Bach); 3. Sonata In D £..75 n. some new source of revenue can be Major, Op. 10 (Beethoven).

9.0 Orchestral: Egmont Overture, ..74 n. found. Certain Is it that the policy. £....20% n.

followed in to be preferred to any new Op. 84 (Beethoven)......The B.B.C. form of taxation and. after all, we Symphony Orchestra cond. by Adrian ..10% n.

must count ourselves fortunate that we Boult. ..12 . lave a surplus to call on—a surplen,

and splendour did not full to impress the audience. The whole Interesting

and Instructive anecdotes of Ram- The following quotations Lecin' was followed in good detail, issued on the Hongkong Stock the announcer's dietion being suf-set this morning. ficiently loud and clear to be heard and appreciated,

The atmosphere during the per- formance and the amisulë attitude of

LONDON, Oct. 23 (Reuter) -1 the public's hosts, the Kumaons, learned fron well-informed quar- lers that an enquiry into the sinking

deserve commendable mention. Be- stdes the receiving · committee,

of H.M.S. Royal Oak is proceeding, an accommodation co-operation was

no furiber details are yet perceived throughout between mt divulged.

the regiment's officers and privates It is repented that German state towards the audience. In fact, for ments to the effect that another ship the public's comfort a free bar was was torpedoed on the same occasion provided and drinks could be had are without any vestige of founda- there if desired. The sorting too had 1lon.

been very carefully and painstakingly arranged with special reservations for ladles and children. This con- geniality was duly reciprocated by:

MILITARY TALKS se audience which consisted of ladies

COME TO END

and gentlemen both Indian and Europeans, servicemen and civilians who talked and conversed freely ANKARA, Oct. 23 (Reuter) The among themselves.

The encouraging support of the Anglo-French military talks with' Turkey have ended and General notable omelats was not lacking" Wavell and General Weygand, the either. Major-General A. E. Graselt M.C. China 'Command, and British and French representatives,

other Brigade British and Indian; have left Ankara.

Meanwhile in Berlin, Herr von Officers were seen on various nights. to That everyone was enjoying it was Papen, the Nazi Ambassador Turkey, who was recalled to report obvious from unanimous outbursts of last week, has been ordered to return applause from time to time. Thanks Therefore must be given to the to Ankara Immediately.

Brigade Commander of the Kunnons Who granted the permission, and to Subedar - Major Hoshiyar Singh through whose diligent supervision [ve enjoyed a series of delightful

evenings.

AN APPRECIATOR.

Transport Sunk

FOWLIANG, Oct. 24 (Central)-

A Japanese transport loaded with military supplies was hit and sunk by Chinese artillery near Mating on the

south bank of the Yangtze River EARL BROWDER

below Klukiang, on October 14.

Two other Japanese transports steaming upriver from Nonking were severely damaged by Chinese shells on the following day.

Fuehrer Receives Von Ribbentrop

LONDON,

Oct. 23 (Reuter) Rome wireless reports that Hitler received Herr von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister, in Berlin to- day.

Neutrals Annoyed By Contraband

LONDON, Oct. 23

(Reuter)

INDICTED

D

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (Reuter).—A federal grand jury has Indicted Earl Browder, sccretary of the Communist Party in the United States, on charge of making a false application for a passport.

Browder was immediately put into jcustody,

He pleaded not guilty allowed bail in $10,000.

and

буда

Pleased With Pact

ANKARA, Oct. 23 (Reuter)--The Prime Ministers of Turkey and Iraq have exchanged telegrams of con- gratulation in connection with the triple allance between Great Britain, France and Turkey.

In Baghdad, the Iraq capital, the Complaints continue to be received allance is considered a signal success on the part of neutrals with regard for Allied diplomacy, and a

vital

to delays owing to the contraband factor in the future conduct of the control, but it is pointed out that if, war,

neutrals would realise the British point of view and co-operate, much delay would be avoided.

It is believed that the German au- thorities are planning to make it more difficult to distingulah between genuine and false consigneca.

Hitler's Verbose Week-End

LONDON, Oet. 23 (Router)—It is

| leamed that Hiller spent the whole of Saturday, in Berlin in consultations

and the Nazi ambassadors in Rome, Moscow and Turkey.

Soviet Economists with his General Staff, the Admiralty

For Berlin

MOSCOW, Oct. 23 (Reuter) --Herr

von Ritter, the German envoy who

has been in Moscow for a fortnight

in connection with the...now Russo-

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1% n. 170 n.

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10 YEARS AGO

Det. 24, 1020.

0,05 Studio-Comments on Recent Events

9.15 Landon Itelar-The News. 0.30 Moussorgsky-Pictures At AB Exhibition; Boston Symphony Or chestra cond, by Serge Koussevitsky. 10.0 Violin Soles by Yehudi Menu- The Telegraph" le authorised de hin; Minstrels (Debussy); Flight Of

Bumble-Bce initely to state that the first talking The

(Humsky-Korsa- 00 A picture to be shown at the Queen's kov); Danse Espagnole ('La Vide .30. n

Theatre is "The Singing Fool," which| Brevo"--De Fallo-Kreisler); Notturno, | .84/41⁄2 n. will open one week from to-day on Op. 20, No. 1 (Szymanowski); Turan-

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711⁄2 - goers, and which is the big hit of the .125 n. Queen's Brat "tnikic",

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5 YEARS AGO

Oct. 24, 1934. Professor Picentd, who was accom-

10.20 A Light Orchestral-- Concert will Mavis Bennett (Soprano) and Derek Oldham (Tenor),

11.0 Close down.

n. panied into the stratosphere by Madam STOCK MARKET

.4 n. Piccard, during his recent, has ended| anfely near Cadix. They went up from) Deaborn, Michigan, early in the mein- 4.30 n

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.3 n. .73% 11. The amazing achievement of the two

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Lands were placed at $32 and

Farms

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0132 1.

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Soviet Warships Enter Libau

LONDON, Oct. 23 (Reuter)-One Soviet cruiser and two destroyers Corinne Grimths, famous Alin star entered Libau Harbour to-day, new German Trade Agreement, left for of the allent era, has usmccessfully cording to the German official wire Berlin to-dar. SEGLE

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