1940-01-18 — Page 17

an

P.&O.S.N.CO.

TO

STRAITS, INDIA

AND

UNITED KINGDOM

PASSENGERS And Cargo`

SAILING

MID FEBRUARY

ALSO FREQUENT FREIGHT STEAMERS

B. I. S. N. CO. LTD.

Sallings to Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta,

E. & A. S. S. CO. LTD.

Sailings to Rabaul, East Coast of

Australia and Tasmania.

ALSO FREQUENT SAILINGS to ShanghaI AND JAPAN.

All veksels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without

01300

Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted.

For details apply to

MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.

Phone 27721.

N.Y.K.O

JAPAN

LINE

SERVICES UNCHANGED JANUARY SAILINGS

PASSENGER and FREIGHT

SHANGHAI & JAPAN MANILA, SYDNEY, and MELBOURNE via Way Ports HONOLULU, SAN FRAN- CISCO, and LOS ANGELES *VANCOUVER and SEATTLE.. LIVERPOOL via SINGA- PORE, SUEZ, and Way Ports

THIS WEEK NEXT WEEK

NEXT WEEK

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 18, 1940.

IN FRANCE”.

WITH THE TOMMIES “SOMEWHERE

British troops disembarking at a port "somewhere in France"- British official photograph.

1,000 M.P.H. GIANT ARE TEETH OF THE

How The Big Guns

Are Tested

From IAN MACKAY

BOOMTOWN.

CROUCHING' behind a thick steel shield this

SHELLS NAVY

Proof of Pacifism

QUESTION AND ANSWER at Manchester Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal:

Judge Burgis: What is there about his life that has made you think he is a Christian pacifist?

The Rev. H. Lonsdale: Well, he lives with his mother-in-law.

morning I watched £2,000 of your money and mine being THIRTY - THREE WORDS OF COMFORT

blown to smithereens in about a tenth of a enjoyed it.

second--and

For it proved conclusively to me that our money is not being wasted,

This was the last day of the Ministry of Supply tour and we watched experimental experts proving the FORTNIGHTLY FORTNIGHTLY efficiency of the great guns, monstrous shells and deadly machine-guns which last week-we-saw-being-fashioned- EARLY FEBRUARY in the factories by skilled and eager British craftsmen.

FREIGHT ONLY

BOMBAY via SINGAPORE,. and Way Ports ..

NEW YORK via JAPAN,

·LOS ANGELES, &-PANAMA

·CALCUTTA ́ ̧via SINGA- .PORE and Way Ports.

NEXT WEEK

NEXT WEEK

LAST WEEK

Complete Information From Your Agent or: 'NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA

TELEPHONE 30201. General Fissenger Agents in the Orient for Cunard White Star Line

KING'S BUILDING

PRESIDENT

LINER

SAILINGS

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

Fortnightly

Το

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Shanghai, Japan & Honolulu ROUND-WORLD SERVICE

To

NEW YORK & BOSTON

Via

Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Sucx, Port Said, Alexandria, 'Naples, Genoa, and Marecillos.

** AMERICAN ⋆ *

PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERÝTUE"

"ALSO AGENTS FOR TWA), THE POPULAR TRANS-CONTINENTAL AIR LINE"

12, Pedder Sirnest just

Telephone 28171.

TON-WEIGHT SHELL

The high spot of to-day's demon- stration was a test of a ton-weight 15in. Naval armour-piercing shr which was fired point-blank at a foot

WOMEN IN

thick armour plate of the toughest SOVIET BOMBER

sleet in the world.

we

What happened to that plate were not allowed to ste, as that part of the business is slit a secret.

But we saw the scuring flash of the gun, heard the shattering explosion, the sinister swish of the missile as it was hurled at 1,000 feet a second- over 1,000 miles an hour-and the 1 tore its way savage smack as through the solid sice).

Although we were several hundred yards away from the target we had

to hide in thick ste: shelters.

We

LONDON,

Copenlingen reports state that women flers are taking part in the bombing of Helsingfors.

A woman's body, riddled with bullets, was found among tho crew of a crashed Soviet bomber, which kad machine-gunned'

civilans In the streets,

She was possibly one abong many, as the Rusalan Air Force has long been open to women.

were told that when this gun is onŠOSIOS the job nothing is safe within an area of a few square miles, as fragmenis of the steel plate are sometimes hurled Incredible distances by the impact.

BUTTON STARTS IT

Two minutes before the gun is fired everybody within sight takes

cover.

A bell is tolled to warn distant

Stenographer "Gun-Man"

DALLAS, (UP). — With blazing pistol in each hand, workmen to look out, an officer Corrine Maddox, a stenographer, shouts "Stand by," and slowly counts 26, shot and killed Brooks Coff

man, an attorney.

(ел.

On the word "en" a button. is pressed in a kind of a cement pill-} box some yards behind the gun.

Five feet from him on a busy street. she took a 32-caliber gun from her handbag and u 38-caliber platol from a shoulder holster under her left arm and began firing. Coffman fell and

The cost of the shell and the 4001b. charge of cordite required to launch it 19 £1,000. Damage to the armour plate and all the ather incidentals begged her to stop fring cost nearly as much again.

to

Have you ever wondered what hap- pens to the shells which are fired out by scat They are retrieved galloping waggon teams and examin ed to see how they have stood up to the test.

She kept shooting while Coffmer struggled to his feet and staggered across the street, falling again on the opposite side.

It was awful to have to do such a thing," Miss Maddox told polier who trested her.

Last month alone 10,000 shells were fired here. The firing is done when

She and Coffmän had stabbed heri the tide is at a certain height, and during a quarrel last May and had shells of all sizes from pom-poms to annoyed her several times since. Ho 16-inch leviathans are found on the had met her at a soda fountain and sand at low water.

offered to take her home, but instead,} Machine-guns are viso tested here drove to the country, asked her to

FOR NOWITŻERS

him to California, and accompany stabbed her in the chest when she In one corner of this depot of de- refused, site sald. Leaving her in a struction stand four toll" pylons-itch beside the road, Coffman drove 12011, high-with a curious cagelike to the shoriff's office, where he sur structure auspended between the rendered. masta. It is 40ft, lang and only 3ft Miss Maddox is free on: $7,500

(hand, awaiting trial on

aquarc.

It is one of the most important of charge,

all Mr. Hore-Delishin's possessions.

·Six-Inch howitzen aro trained, on

a. murder

it and belleve it or not the thells torce they have travelled is rncasured never fall to pass through the aft and the ixperts then know exactly tunnel on their way out to sea, the trajectory and the general per

When they ara picked up the dis-1formance of the shell,

0:

HE IS the living God and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed....He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh, signs and wonders in heaven and in earth.- Daniel vi, 26. 27.

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA'& CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1883 Pald-up Capitma 1. 3000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors 15.000.000 Herve Fund £3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.

28 Dinhopigste, E.C.L fab-Aganeiss in Landaki 117/123, Landenhall Biroel, M.C3. West End Branchi 18/10, Cockspur Street, SWA Manchester Branch:

81, Mosley Street, Manchester, I. AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Rankoon

Aloe Har

Harbin

Hongkong

Ipoh

Saigon

Bemarang

Hollo Karachi

SerembanÀ Shanghai

Мінцятого

Kobe

Kuala

Fairul Place Lumpur

Cawnpore Cabu

Kuching

Madras

Sitiawan huursdays

Taiping

Tientsin

(Bhuket)

Tongka

Manlie

Calamba

Medan

THINKUO

New York

Yokoherna

Stalphone Hamburg

Peiping

(Peking)

Amritsar

Bangkok

Bembay

Calcutta

Agencies:

Clive Street

Canton

Hankow

Penang

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Genera Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local Or Other Cur Fencies at Tsiam which will be quoted un ipplication

EAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened to Local Currency and Starting with interbet allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank' Head Office fr Landon undertakes Executor & Trustee buskommt. and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ertained at any at tus Agencies" ausd -Branches.

LA CAMITICAR,

Manager,

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE,

BERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

Bringing Cargo from Marsellies vla Salgon

Consignees are hereby informed" that their goods with the excupt.on of Oplum, Treasure and Valuablet ere being landed and stored into the Wharf and Godowa Ltd., Kow. leon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed Immediately after londing,

ποι

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 27th January, 1940, jar they will be recognized,

Damaged Packages will be examin

Shrveyor

od by the Company's Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 fum, on Monday, 22nd January, 1940,

Consignees mus

must have Revenus - 10meer in attendance when any dutie Jeble goods are examined by tho

Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

R. onl Agent.

ROOM BATH

CENTRAL

$6

CLEAN

COMFORTABLE

Quality Shoes THEMAC

SAXONE

What Comfort!

Comfort! In These New

BRAND

"MAC' Shoes

Styled for sports, for appearance and for dress

KEEP COMFORT, BY DEPENDING ON THE WELL STYLED, WELL BUILT 'MAC' SHOES. THEY'RE REAL VALUE AND ARE AT THE HEAD OF THEIR CLASS !

Sole Agents:

CHINA EMPORIUM

[SHOES DEPT.

2nd FLR.1

AVAILABLE IN ALL POPULAR SIZES