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Edition.

FOR SALE.

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Second

THE

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MOTOR CARS, ETC.

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INWARD MAILS Alr Mall by "Impertal

Airways Direct Service"-Londen date 22nd ...Dec. 1. November.

US.A., lionplulu, Japon and Manila (Son Francisco, date 6th Nov.).

Shanghai

Calcutta and Straits

Haiphong

Japan and Shanghai

Minita

Shanghai

Straits

Bangkoï Salgon and Tourane

Haplon; and lodgw

Japan

Shanghai

Shanghai, and Amay

Strnity

Japan

Sandakun

Dec. 1.

Dec. 1.

Dee. 2

Dec, 2.

Dee. 2.

Dec. 2.

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 1, 1939.

BRITAIN IS MAKING SIX TIMES AS MANY SHELLS AS IN 1914-18 WAR

of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 1th day of December, 1939, at 3 p.m.. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land near Diamond Hill, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term al 75 Ixt commenting trom years, July, 1898, with the uption of renewal at a Crown Rent to be nf 11ia fixed by the Surveyor Majesty the KING, for one fur- ther term of 21 years Jess the Inst three days Thereof,

OBJECTOR

DRUMMER BOY FACTORIES' SWIFT TURN

TO MUNITION WORK

Desmond Tester, the 20-year- old film actor, who played the drummer boy in "The Drum," ap- plied to a conscientious objectorń” tribunal at Southwark recently for

service,

SHELLTOWN. .

total exemption from militaryTO-DAY in this humming town, with many distinguished French and neutral as

·well as British journalists, I was shown over one of the master munition works which is turning out shell cases faster than has ever been done before, says a corres- pondent.

Tester, who lives at Little Book- han, Surrey, said he felt that to entertain troops, cliher abroad or In home hospitals, would be building up their morale and helping them to return to fight.

Tester Bald he was prepared to do farm work, and the tribunal placed him on the conscientious objector let on condition that he found such work.

Battles

This one factory alone-I cannot come nearer to it than to say it is neither in the North nor the South-is producing shell cases at the rate of one million a year. Before very long it will probably be working faster even than that.

I was told that Britain could now produce munitions six times faster than at the peak period during the last war,

A short time ago this great factory was producing the implements of peace, but now it is Vibrating solely in the manufacture of munitions.

Over Over

Added to War

Aether Risks

Most of the work done here is the production of anti-aircraft shell cases, and most of the workers have been transferred on a scheme which was worked secretly long before the war from other industries.

There is even

All over England shells are being made by textile factories and works which recently were solely engaged in the manufacture of locomotives, mining machinery and motor components.

a amall seaside There garage which has been turned into a was a time when it was fought only on land and on sca. Now workshop for producing the lighter | It is also fought under the sea and in the air. And radio makes type of anti-aircraft shells. possible.still another form of war, the war on the ether.

to

PARIS-War is constantly seeking new dimensions

tional tiep munleation. Interna- However, the

Mon Only

In the factory we visited to-day

no women are working as the work

is too difficult for them.

are

At Loud as war breaks out every Imprisonment in the Tower of Lon- Intending bidders are adviard. belligerent country tries to seal up den for treasonable activity was

over the German radio, considerable extent normal speaker

Many of the men I spoke voice which is most that immediately after the digpo-

means at

of those English from the the fathers and relations sal of the lot the Purchaser t

service is suspend- often heard In

are German stations suggests German who will soon be flring the shells. almost not the applicant) will be required d. Cables, telegrams, letters .Dec. 2. to deposit with au authorized censured. It becomes a matter of who speaks English correctly, it They all seemed to be

savagely intent on their jobs.

In one section of the workshop we Dec. 2.officer who will be present at the delay, sometimes of dieulty lo with a perceptible accent,

Some of the German broadcasts saw great furnaces where the steel ol sale, the sum

hundred tro's frontiers which are normally iwo Dec. 3.

are in excellent French and the billets, after being cut to the exact This dumquite open. Dec. 3. dollars, ($200) in cash.

Bel radio is the worst enemy of French, Intelligence Service has re- tengil, are heated to a temperature Dec. 3. will be refunded on pagment of

renaeship. The Maginot Line can- vealed the alleged identity of two of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit.

These billets then pass through Dec. 3. The Purchase price.

col Rep the German broadcasts in renegade Frenchmen who are aiding PARTICULARS OF THE LOT French and English out of the allied Germany in this service. One, whe bewildering number of processes

countries.

Cermany has prescribed is variously known as Obrecht and before they are Anally turned out as severe penalties for listening to for- St.-Germain, went to Germany some the finished shell cases. The men eino ixtadcasts. But the very een-years ago after becoming involved are so skilful that the final product

is exact to a millionth of an inch. time which in legal dmculties in France. derable amount of

on Engl

After the cases are Anished here French and British stations devote to has specialised in attacks

an effort to separate the bromicasting In German Indientes a lund, in certam confidence that some Ger- Allled powers and had put forward

Work For Deaf Mutes mans will be daring enough to listen the slogan: "The British will provided to the forbidden news and to pass it the machines, the French will pro- vide the breasts." A second French-

One of the most interesting places un to trusted friends.

man in German service, Paul Feron-in the great building was the shot net, has written books on Czcelo-blasting room where one of the main slovakia and on Hitler which ore of processes the cleaning and finishing a German propfigandist character of the inside of the shell cases-is An unknown French woman is un-carried out. other German broadcaster.

Dee. 3.

Dec. 3.

.Dec. 4.

.Dec, 4.

Calculis, Straits and Saigon...Dec. 4.

Alr Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct

Service-London date, 25th_Nov.

Dec. 5. .Nov, 5.

.Dec. 5.

Australia and Manila

OUTWARD MAILS

Dec. 5.

. Dec, 5.

Amoy

Japan

Shanghai

Friday, Dec. 1

Haiphong

.1.00 p.m.

Fori Boyard

Shanghai and

parcels

Tientsin

.1.30 p.m. only .2.30 p.m.

for

Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New

Zealand via Brisbane-clue Bris

bane, 19th December,

Strulla

G. P. O. and K. r. o.

Reg. Ord..

Saturday, Dec. 2

.0.30 am.

Satgon

Amoy

Maniin

Par.

"Bangkek"

No. of Sale]

nland Lot

Begistry No

North East (

Locality

near Diamand

and Hill.

New ho 2711

New Kaloon faland

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Boundary

Measurement

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19,000

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$121

European Y.M.C.A.

to other factories to be filled fitted with fuse chips.

There is so much broadcasting in various languages that it is some times Impossible to know, from the language, the location of the station on which one is "tuning in." How

Never la my life have I been in

The ever, the character of the news soon makes clear its country of origin. An interesting and significant fea-such a nerve-shattering din.

ture of the German broadcasts is noise was incredible, and 1 wondered their Occasional WARNING ON FALSE NEWS

"anti-capitalist" how the men could stand it.

I learned that the men working! character. There is an attempt to Here in France there is no res-

of the workers in here are draf mutes who are per- Triction

listening 0:1

German the morate to

and France by representing fectly happy. But for the fact they England brandcasts. The Minister of in-

the

to attributable the can see the wheels whirling they do formation, Jean Giraudoux, broad-ne east a statement warning the French nachinations of "international fin- not even know what on inferno they

Whether, as part of are living in.

The instructions to these men have people that Gerinan stations often unce capital." but out

but he dis-the agreement between Berlin and false news,

Moscow, Communist propagandists naturally to be given in writing, but 240m7th Annual Pantomimo claimed any intention of employing have been imported from Moscow for they are highly intelligent and very

the prevent punilive measures to

service on the German radio cannot proud of the contribution they are hearing-of-German-broadcasts. As, a

making to the national effort. result the possibilities of censorship be ascertained. are somewhat miled. It would be impossible to conceal any big event,

Dec. 1, 5.00 prn.

Dec. 2, 11.45 am.

Dec. 9.30 am.

10.30 m.

..

Shanghai, Honolulu, U.S.A., Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco (No Parcels for Canada)-due San Francisco, 22nd December

Parcels Reg. Ord.

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

5.30 p.ni.

Kowloon

ALI BABA

4 p.m. .5 p.m. Wednesday, Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Thursday

Service" due London 10th Dec.

Rex. Ord.

Shanghai

Straits

G. P. O. and K. P, 0.

Friday, ....Dec. 2, 5 p.m. ..Dec, 2, 5.30 pm Saturday,

Sunday, Dec. 3

Monday, Dec. 1

.0 a.m.

1.30 p.m. Fort Bayard

7.00 p.m. Canton

Tuesday, Dec. G Balavia and Sourabaya....9.30 a.m. Fort Bayard and Hollow..1.30 p.m. Haiphong.**** .........2 p. Straits, Ceylon, Mombasa, Belra, Lourenco-Murques, East and South ....2.30 p.m. Manila, Strnita, Ceylon, India, Egypt and Europe vin Brindisi-due Brindisi, 28th December.

Africa

Reg.

Ord.

Dec. 20th 5 p.m.

ALL SEATS BOOKABLE

$2.20 G $1.10

Children (Matinces only) $1.10 & 70 cts.

at least from the large number of persons who possess radio sets.

US

Cripps Rejects Offer

Rejoin

Το

almost SIR

Labour

of the

Nazi Boast Scorned

Realistic American

Attitude

WHY DUCE DID NOT MARCH

PARIS.

Light is shed on the present position of Italy by indications which have been received kero of the reasons given to Herr Hiller the for Italy's abstention from Follah campaign during tho visit of Count Clano, Italian Foreign Minister, to Saltburg and Berch- fesgaden in the second week of August, The reasons are under- stood to be:

1. It had always been a tenci of Fascist foreign polley that Po- land should be independent

2. The desire of the German Government for Hallan military co-operation was la flat contradic tion to the reserve, expressed by Haly when she signed the Italo- German military pact the pack of steel that she should be allowed two or three years to complete her milliary prepara- Bons.

The promise made by Ger- many last year that in futuro Italy's claims should have priority was not being observed.

They Tried The Lucky Dip

A fair helper at the St. John's Cathedral Fair deserts her stall to try her luck at the fucky dip.-Ming Yucu.

HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN LEICESTER GARDEN

LEICESTER-The presence of human remains in

a bungalow garden near here, which brought Scotland Yard officers to investigate, has been explained by a local doctor.

He put them there,

This correspondent was able to hear both Marshal Goering's speech to the German munitions workers Dcc. 21st 9 p.m. after the first week of the war and to Hitler's address Reichstuchrer Dec. 22nd 9 p.m. the Reichstag on Oct. 6 over the

strange,

STAFFORD CRIPPS, for such a purpose, all open democra- Was 11 radio. It Dec. 23rd 3 p.m. curie sensation to be living in the M.P., who was expelled from the ic change becomes impossible, thus

enabling the ruling powers capital of, one belligerent country, Labour Party because of his Party to maintain their position and ...9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 26th

surrounded by censorship, demands

to travel and United Front activities, has re- their policies." 3. p.m. & 9 p.m. for special permits

other wartime restrictions and yet to fused to rejoin the Party. be able to listen in at an important

He has been told that he will be meeting in the capital of the enemy,

document with cheers and songs punctuating re-admitted if he signs

expressing regret and promising not the speeches.

The wavelength for the German to take part in any campaign ogninsi station of Cologne is quite similar the declared policy of the Party. to that of London. So, when one This undertaking he has refused to

stens to the B. B. C. (British Broad-sign.

o'clock casting Company) in its

In an outspoken letter he declares evening broadcasts one sometimes hears snatches of music or conversa- that the document he has been asked to subscribe to might be that of some

The bungalow is in a field on, bungalow because of the war scare. tlon in German.

totalitarian Party in a dictatorship

following special commentary was the banks of the River Wreake, I thought that if they were blown CLAIM AND COUNTERCLAIM State.

am not prepared to express

near Syston, five miles from here. up or anything like that, it might

cause confusion. The war of the ether often as-regret at the action taken by me,"

"I put them in the zinc container Mr. William Simuns, Foreign Editor

Two young men landing from sumes the form of claim and coun-he states, "as I am now more than

car, I was going to sort them oui, terclaim. So the German radio ever convinced that the action was of the Scripps-Howard newspapers a boating expedition found the and took them to the bungalow in my but found I had not taken my rubber stations one evening, in an English not only fully Justined but was the emphasking the absurdity of the remains in a zinc bath.

They Informed the pollee. The gloves, no I left them in the garden. message, claimed that the aircraft-only action that I could have talten Lenst inade in Berlin newspapers that

"I came back to get my gloves, but was too busy to return and complete Anderson's Music Store carrier Royal Oak had been damaged consistently with my best interests et Germany is now master of the North Yard was informed. Sir Bernard

and added: "Brilons, ask your Guv- constituents and the of Sea and the North Atlantic, pointed Splisbury was called in

The doctor rents the bungalow, the job. ernment: Where is the Royal Oak?" the workers of this country.

"One or two ports were of no fur- "The declared policy of the Party out yesterday that it would take the The prompt report of the B. B. C.

"I put the remains there myself ther interest and those I was going Allled and neutral shipping from the was that the Royal Oak was at its can only be changed democratically Relch more than 15 years to sweep He said: accustomed station unharmed.

by the agitation of a minority and. that nas it is now proposed to bind mem seas at the present rate of destruc- They were a number of anatomical to bury. The others I intended to There have been rumours

surgical operations.

"The poller, of course, have been Briton who had been condemned to hers not to engage in any campaign in this Agure not taking into ac- specimens that I have collected from rebuttic.

"They included two amputated to see me and I have explained mat- legs from separate persons, and they ters to them." were all interesting cases because of The Chief Constable of Leicester- their abnormalities. They wore all shire (Captain C. E. Lynch-Blosso) preserved, and I had had some for sald: five or six years.

G.P.O, and K.P.0.

.Dec. 5, 2.45 p.m. .Dec. 6, 3.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"dge London, 13th Dec. K.P.O.

.Dec. 6, 5 p.m.

Rar.

Ord.

Reg.

Ord........

Deo, &, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

..Dec. 5, 5 nm.

.Dec. 5. 7 p.m.

Air Mall for Malaya, Java and Australla by "Imperial Airways 'Drost Service"-due Sydney, 11th

December.

Rer.

Ori,

Пек Ord.

K.P.O.

.............Dec. 5, § p.m. ...Dec. 5, 8.10 p.m.

G.P.O.

Deo. 5, 5 pm. .Dec. 5, 7 p.m.

Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South

Africa, Egypt and Europe via Suez and London Parcels due London, 9th January, 1040.

Parcels

Reg.

Ord. Japan..

Sandakan

Shanghai

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

..Dec. 5, 4 pm. .Dec. 6, 8.45 a.m. „Dec. 6, 9,30 a.m.

..7.00 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 8

.8.30 · a.m. ..2.30 p.m.

BOOKING OPENS DEC. 1st

at

Y.M.C.A., Kowloon

and

Hong Kong.

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France (Paris and Northern Pro-

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Dec, 0, 5.10 pan. publication.

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Reg

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LONDON, Nov, 30 (Reuler).--The

issued to-day::

count replacements,

CAN THE B. B. C. SURVIVE

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mythical figure is the Innnest school- boy "humour" and does more harm than good.

If things continue ke this, the B.B.C. will find itself at the end of the war with only a fraction of its present income. There Is nothing abroad to listen to; there is still less at home. Nobody will bother to re- new a licence, and the B.1.C. as we knew it will quietly pack up,

1 give the B.B.C. life for the dura- tion of this war and no longer, unless, once and for all, it gets to understand public laste,

This war, is its last chance,

We are perfectly satisfied that

"I moved them from here to the there is no question of foul play."

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