1940-02-02 — Page 2

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50 for 3 days prepaid

TUITION GIVEN,

DANCING IN 6 HOURS, Ballroom, Tango, Rhumba, American Tap. Tul tion rapid and practical. World's Champion's Steps. Apply:-Tony'a Dance Studio, China Builling, floor. Tel. 30033.

FOR SALE.

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

و

February 2,

YES-IN

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 6 MR. CHIPS' (REAL LIFE)

G.

WAR.

NOTICE

HONG KONG WATER SUPPLY

HAS A BIRTHDAY

BRITAIN'S REAL LIFE “Mr. Chips," - white-haired Mr. Alfred Pretty, of Hartington-road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was 80 last month.

receiving and It is hereby notified that a

He spent the day constant supply of water will beswering telegrams and letters of

world. thxiven in all districts from 5.00 greeting from his "boys" all over the

...on February 6th, to 12.00 pm. on February 8th., in connection

New Chinese with the Festival.

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY Edition. Second CAMERA" THE Over 00 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Lid, Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

POST OFFICE

INWARD MAILS

Calculta, Strafs and Saigon

Feb. 2.

Balphon, Heilrow and Fort

Shanghai, Amey and Swate

Straits

Cautoa.....

Japan and Shangloi

Samiukan

Shibai and Armay

Shanhad

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japon m

Bayard

Feb. 2.

Feb. 2. Feb. 2. Feb. 3. Feb. 3. Feb. 3, Feb. 3. Feb. 3. Shaugbat

(San Francisco date, 12th January).

Feb. 3. U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Manila (San Franetsen date, 4th January} Feb. 3. Feb. 4. Feb. 4. Japan and

Shanghai and Amoy

Shanghat

Canute, U.S.A. Bondhulu,

Shanghai (Vanenuver 11th January)

Foron and Swalow

Haiphorst

Saigon

Shanghai

Bangkok and Saigon

Suaut

BC., date.

For the greater part of 70 years he bern associated with Framing- Yearham College, Suffolk, as schoolbuy,

nster, and "old boy."

He first arrived there In Eton trousers. 110 Jackel and drainpipe was then ten.

A. B. PURVES,

Water Authority. Public Works Department, Hongkong, 1st February, 1940.

G.

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held an Monday, the 5th

Ils cehoolboy days over, he stayed acam assistant muster until 1081.

Then came a break.ot five years Northampton- while he taught at a shire school.

But he went back to Framlingham, |

voted assistant- Bully aure! unaster.

WOR

Still Busy

n

Mr. Pretty, like the other Mr. never really retired. Chips, han he is Old Framlinghamilan No. 1

He founded the Society of Old Flect-street Framlinghamians in day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m.,Lavern. He is still its sceretury.

Old Framail:bambus write to him at the Olices of the Public

to him, from -Works Department, by Order of from all parts of the world, and the

young ones write His Excellency the Governor of Framlingham when they seek advies, As I sat talking to him, his pile of one Lot of Crown Land at Mong

telegrams grew, Kok, in the Colony o, Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years,st one he opened. with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Band by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

"Greetings to our dear 'A.P. from all at Framlingham College," was the i

"Dear A.P."

"They all call me A.P." Mr. Pretty elkled. All his letters start "Dear A.?"

"Ah, Brown," he said, picking out

'88 to 'Du,, to

sotterrandum.

Wa

Intending bidders are advised Feb. 5. that immediately after the dispo-be Fell. 5.

sal of the lot the Purchaser (if Feb. 5. Feb. 5.

not the applicant; will be required authorised Feb. 5. to deposit with Feb. 6.oilicer who will be present at the Feb.

ate, the sum of two hundred

#21

Air Mall is "Pan American Airways oftars, 122, in cash. This sum

Divert Servier-Sau

datr, 27th January

OUTWARI MAILS

Friday, Feb, &

Touraine

Fort Bayard

Amuy

Shanghai

Francisto

Feb. 7. will be refunded on payment of

12.30 p.m.

2.3.m.

2.30 p.m. 2.10 p.m. 2.30 p.in.

....10.30 a.m.

Parcels only on Tientsin.

Saigon

Saturday, Feb. 3

Air Mail for “Imperial Altways Direct Service"dur London 11th Feb.

Reg..

Ord..

G.P.O. & K.P.0.

.. Feb. 3, 5 pau. .Frb, 3, 5.30 pm.

Straits, Ceylon, Judia, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Sucz

Aant Loudon Parcel-due London,

26th March.

Feb. 3, 5 p.m.

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

Parcels

Reg.

Fel, 6, 8.45 am.

Ord

Conton

Cupton

Canton

Feb. 5, 9.30 am.

Sunday, Feb. 4

Monday, Feb. 6-

Shanghal and Japan Parcels unly for Shanghal..230 p.m.

Hulphong

Japan

Manila

The Purchase price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

1 So. of Sale.

Kawicon Inland Lot

Registry No. |

Locality

Ja volun

No. 4232

Bute Street

Tong M Road.

Boundary Measurements)

N9

E

As for sale

pian.

Contents in

8q. feet.

Ann.

Rent.

Upset Price!

9,600

181 $

$17,150

THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

"Now let me sce

sure."

SHIRLEY SINGS

TO AID DISTRESSED

Shirley Temple in the costume in which she made her radio debut on. Christ- mas eve, when she sang Blue ** The songs from Bird" and "Silent Night" with Nelson Eddy. donated the cheque to the Motion Picture Relief Fund.

She

SCHOOL CLASSES FOR CAMOUFLAGE

Camouflage has been introduced as one of Die subjects at the Southi- Eastern Teelmical College, Barking,

since the war.

Men who had experience of camouflage in the last war have been appointed 12N Instructors.

Pupils will not only be sent to military establishments but also to camouflaged factories,

"There has been a big change in the type of pupil attending the col- lege since the war. Large numbers of housewives have joined and are studying domestic science, needig» | work and cookery.

Many soldiers when they return to And the reemds proved that civilian fe will find their wives

.

Mr. Pretty kimws all his old boys.

Class-war Gives Way

Mosc

To Rumba

Toscow listeners got an un- usual and pleasant surprise. Rumbas from Moscow.

It is generally understood that the Soviet regime frowns on this bourgeois class of frivolous music," which is only heard on

rare occasions,

It was a pleasant change from the English talks on Collective Farms and the History of Com- aluniani.

HOW THE NAZIS LIE

cooking splendid dishes for the minimum cost -- and eulting and making their suits. Tailoring is among the subjects taught at the college,

Error Sank Thetis As Crew Escaping

N open door and an open

AN

1940,

NEWS GUIDE

Home

By BERNARD MOORE

For

Rule The Burmese

A statement that the British

Government': 'recognises that the

attainment of Dominion status is the natural issue of Burma's constitutionul progress was made by the Governor of Burma.--Rangoon, cable,

valve, letting the sen enter. Jailed For Bigamy were found when, naval experts examined the salvaged sub- marine Thetis,

This was disclosed at the resumed inquiry in Lendow into the loss of the submarine, which sank on June 1 while on trials.

"There were only four survivors. Nmety-nine Ilves were lost,

were

This statement, which has been eagerly awaited in Burma, marks a

further stage in the country's |

YEAR AFTER

WIFE DIED

that

advance towards Home Rule.

After the first Burma War in SPOTLIGHT |1826, Burma, was administered

as part of British India. Then under the Government of India Act-the first step towards In- dia's new Constitution-she was separated from India in 1935.

ON

GERMANY

CITIES FACE BANKRUPTCY

Burma niready has a Senate not a House of Representatives, but recent-

asked for The wholesale closing down assurance similar to those given to of "non-essential" industries in

in 1020, that she should

ly Burmese

India

lenders

eventually have lome Rule. Their Germany is proving disastrous to the civic finances of many demands have now been satisfied.

These

Roughly twice the size of the large municipalities. British Isles, Darma has a population derive a substantiul part of of 14,867,000. From her capital, their revenue from an income- Rangoon, on the deltu of the River tax on local industry, Irrawaddy, teakwood, th, silver and petroleum are exported.

The population of Warsaw has been drdered to be inoculated against the danger of an epidemie of Typhus, states the German official

message.

C

agency. Berlin

Cities which depend on the textile, shipping and leather Industries are faced with bankruptcy, for these are the industries which have been most severely hit by the war. Even where factories and businesses have not closed down, their taxable income been drastically reduced by rationing of their raw materials,

A widespread

demand for State subvention of hard-hit municipalities

has

areas.

non- therefore,

SO rumours that have come from is volced by the "Koelnischer Zei- Poland during the past few weeks tung." It points out that the local seem to be confirmed. Ruined War-burdens of the war are at present saw is now paying the price of those being unevenly berre, because parti- terrible days when hundreds of Ger-cular industries are grouped In eer-

Centres of the men guns pumped sheils into 11.1ain destroying drains and water supplies essential. manufactures, and exposing the inhabitants to dis-suffer disproportionately.

Naturally," adida case as well as injury.

In this respect history appears to paper. "any help from the Reich be repeating itself. Poland, overrun will be conditional on the munielp- by German troops" in 1914, spent the ality having exhausted every pos- remainder of the war years neglected sibility of making ends meet. Above and in misery. Casualties from dis-, alt pubile service and expendi- the Eastern front were ture not essential to the conduct of greater than the gures of those the war must be stopped." killed in action,

Case of

the Cologne

One man who played an Important Crime and Punishment

The following crimes and punish-

part in the reconstruction of the health services Poland in the

post-war years was the Papal Legate,ments were reported from Germany Mgr. Hatti, who died early this year during the week-end: as Pope Pius XI.

It is now possible to send short messages to persons In Poland through the International · Red

In Geneva. Society Cross Geneva cable..

AS in the last war, Geneva has become the avenue for communication between the belligerent Powers on humanitarian questions.

destination,

For stealing sandbags valued at 55. during the black-out-death;

Rabbery during the black-out, 2 persons-death;

Attack on a woman-death; Setting are to barns and crops, 2 persons-death;

Listening to foreign audio — 4 years' imprisonment;

Asking too much for the sale of horses-three dnes of £860, £415 and £250.

prices."!

The horse dealers were stated to, "have taken gross advantage of the Immediately after war began an present shortage of horses, to enrich JOHN SHEPHERD WILSON, 38- Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney-year-old Glasgow constructional office was opened (in the building themselves excessively." General, for the Admiralty, said the open door and valve were in the engineer, was sent to prison for six used for many years for meetings

weeks at Edinburgh Sheriff's Court. of the League Assembly) to enable Oversea Internces

prisoners of war to communicate with

Noz! newspapers are trying to escape chamber.

tor bigamy. "After many of the men LONDON.-A summary of a

Ant of the Inst war is followed, the make capital out of the alleged bad Already dead, some effort may have. His lawful wife died more than a their families. Later, if the preced

year ago, it was sald.

Dominions und Colonics. The "Koel- They had parted in 1910, and she same office will arrange for the ex-treatment of Germans in the British speech on conditions in Germany been made to escape, and the door .7.15 a.m. .5.00 p.m.

aftributed to W. Rupert Davies, may have been opened by someone married again, apparently thinking change of wounded prisoners.

Each belligerent Power has its pischer Zeitung" declares that "in President of the Canadian Press, who did not realise that the valve was that he was killed in the last war.

have confiscated the private property Wilsontown censors at the Red Cross head-many cases the British authorities -Fiscol said. --The .10.30 a.m.

was radiocast during the English araben-he-auggested..

bigamously married a domestic ser-quarters to examine all-communica of Germans, not to safeguard it, but .1.30 p.n.

"Cannot Stick It" news period over the Hamburg-

Mr. Justice Bucinill: That might vant in 1930, describing himself astions before they are sent on to their to auction it forthwith at 'give-away

her stern sank so why ....3 p.m. .3.30 p.m. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Cologne radio station.

flere is what the announcer said: explain THE .3.30 p.m. THAT

"The President of the Canadian suddenly:-It might.

Chiel Petty Officer Rowkins, who ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING news agency, the Canadian Press,

10.30 a.m.

OF THIS COMPANY WILL be Rupert Davies, stated in a speech examined the Thetis on November 11, Messrs.in Toronto that all those journailsis was asked by the judge why the after ...1.30 p.m. held at the Ollice of

and politicians who talk about re-escape hatch wus not used after two

Germany should be men had escaped. volution in 2.30 pm. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on

"Sometimes during flooding a man 2.30 p.m. Friday, the 16th February, 1910, described as silly fools.

"The authority of litter was not feels he cannot stick the pressure," he at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of

Why replied. "A mun panics.

"Somebody may have opened the receiving the Report of tao Direcmenaced in the home front.

should a majority of German people tors together with a Statement of not be prepared to support Hitler who door on the forward side to allow him

to get out. Accounts for the year ended 31st has done so much for his country?

"Or a man may have tried to open Davies warned his audience nut to December, 1939.

believe falsehoods about starvation in the hatel, but could not do it. To get dangerous to the man put someone may have open- underestimate

Tuesday, Feb. $ Batavia and Sourabaya....0.30.a.m. Munla

Fort Bayard and Hoihow Parcels only for Tientsin Straits.

HI, FOLKS!

We're millionaires now ...and am the all-

American playboy! Get met for some grand fanl

6th BIG HIT!

THE HARDYS RIDE HIGH

LEWIE

CECILIA

with

MICKEY STONE ROONEY

PAY PARKER. HOLDEN Beren Play by Agnes Christina Johnston, Kay Van Riper and William Ludwig Directed by GEORGE B. AKITE

ས་ས་

TO - MORROW QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

FORTY-SECOND

divorced..

Men

Woman

Accused By

Killer

Unfortunately for the credibility of this statement, the "Kolonialpost" gives an entirely different account. It describes how German-owned plan tations in Tanganyika are being managed either by neutrals or by Britons, under supervision of the Custodian of Enemy Property. The wife and children of the interned owner continue to five In the house.

"TIGER WOMAN" Winnie Ruth Judd returned to Artificial Honey the asylum at Phoenix, Arizona, after wandering for a

A special ration of artificial honey

The Register of Shares of the Germany. It was very strength ed the forward door and flooded the fortnight in the desert, and made a startling confession. week only. Each person is entitled

Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 9th February, 1940, ta Friday, the 16th February, 1940, both days inclusive,

By order of the Board Directors,

Shoulder Theory

is being issued in Germany--for one to buy cz. of this substance, which

the

She revealed for the first time that two men helped resembles a mixture of treacle and and economic resources of the Reich submarine."

The German home stations also

Commander R. M. Edwards, Sub- her to dispose of the bodies of her two women room fat, radiocast the suminary in German.

(Mr. Davies, in his speech to the marine.Assistant to the Director of

mates whom she killed eight years ago in a crime which Furniture Control appalled the nation.

One man, whose name, she gave

of Toronto Canadian Club Nov. 13, said Naval Equipment, said that in his he was convinced the German people oplaton the bow cap on No. 5 tube were "right behind Hilfer" but assert- was not open when the vessel lett ed that on that account the war guilt; Liverpool.

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager Hongkong, 25th January, 1940.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &· FINANCE CO., LTD.

was not Adolf Hitler's alone but had "In my view, in the ten minutes police, helped her, she said, to dis- Was "trifling" with him.

The latest sphere to which price Hedvig Samuelson, when they threa-

the tened to tell her husband that she control has been extended

manufacture and sale of office furni- ture. The Relch Commissar for Price Control has drawn up a list of maxi-'. "Ana threatened me with a pis-mum wholesale and retail prices for lol. I grabbed a butcher's knol desks, chairs and other articles. and stabbed her twice in the shoulder," she said. "Then, as No New Statement

grasped the gun, I was shot in the land.

"I twisted Uie gun, and, it fired, killing Agnes. Hedwig entered the dour and started to attack me with an. Ironing board, and I shot her dead."

to be shared by the German people before the accident someone inadvertisect the bodies so that both would "I Shot Her Dead" "who supported him and Idolized cutly moved the bow-cap operating at in a trunk which she later shipped

lever towards the open position," he to Los Angeles. him."

"I am tired of hearing people say udded.

knew nothing about surgery," she 'We must not blame the German

"Perhaps, realising that he had "I couldn't have done that myself. people,' said Mr. Davies, "Why not? moved it, but not realising what he told the pollee.

har done by moving it, he moved it

Another man friend helped her to They put Hitler where he is."

back again." Mr. Davies sald that he expeets a

She also described for the first) "It might be some man who had move the bodies.

these time details of the double murder NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN long war which could be shortened

for which she was twice condemned that the ANNUAL ORDINARY only by "n revulsion of feeling in no technical knowledge af

Germany against Hitler's iniquitous levers."

The Judge: Do you think it would to the gallows, but escaped execu with of convenience

be possible for a man to push it with tion and was declared insane. GENERAL MEETING of Share-marriage Russia."1

his shoulder without knowing what he She said she started to night with holders will be held at the HONG

had done?-I think he would know her girl companions, Agnes Lerol and KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong,, on

he had moved it. It is a stiff lever,

The conditions of the after escape Thursday, the 15th February, 1940,

Com- chamber was full of anomalies, Co at 11.00 A.M., for the purpose of

mander Edwards salu." " receiving the Report of the Direc

"It seems to me that, with the after tora together with a Statement of REWILDERED bridegroom Private food valve open and, the door into DE. Auger, nged. twenty-one, the engine-room open a man in a Accounts for the year ended 31s1.scratched his head outside Brentford reasonable state would have been December, 1939...

Register Office, and cald of his bride; able to step into the escape chamber

Iris has rushed me off my feet and shut that flood valve," this last three days. I can hardly The inquiry was adjourned,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from Saturday, 3rd, February to Thurs- day, 15th. February, both days Inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd, January, 1910.

COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE -

Bride Swept Him Off His Feet

realise-I am married Bho has

the ring."

His Wife Is In Germany

"I AM married to a German girl," said an applicant to the South-Eastern Conscientious Ob- jectors Tribunal at Bloomsbury. "She is a British subject now," he Germany at the outbreak of war and is still there having met her family I consider, them all as part of me."

Jane everything, even to buying RAILWAYS BACK added, "but unfortunately, she was d

TO NORMAL

It was only two days.carlier that Min irts Clarit, aged nineteen, ef Clonmel-road, Teddington, appeared

LONDON, Feb. 1' (Reüler)all- nt Brantford Police Court and ob- inned the

the magistrate's consent to her

way traffic in Britain, dislocated by marringe.

bad weather is now running almost not much soldiers Serving

hove

normally. time, so Immediately after the case. On the Southern Rallivay, for in was aves. Miss Clark went straight stance, trains are running to schedate

exception without

The applicant, 22 and unemployed, asked that the Press should not publish his name for fear his wife's relatives in Germany might suffer,

He said he knew that her, brothers in Germany would not want to fight

from the court to the register office atmost serious difficulty is exagainst him, but they had no choice, nnd gave notice of marriage by The

pecini Bernce.

The following day she bought perienced on the main line between in the matter, 77 her own wedding ring, and on the London and the North, and railway He was registered conditionally, on

jor forestry, next she was preparing for her wed-communication with Scotland is still taking up work bisher In agriculture dling and buying her trousseau.

Impossible.

On India

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons to-day the Under- Secretory of State for India, was asked about the political situation in- India and about further discussionn

the Viceroy

Indian

Winnie wrote an eleven-page - Deziveen,

ter, in which she named hitherto un❤ suspected accomplices,

and

that Gandhi was

The answer was it

Police

forces of several States meeting the Governor-General next searched for Winnie till her capture. Monday and that the Secretary of

make. On her lateat escapade she walked State had no further statement to across the desert at night.

GUN-GIRL HOLDS UP WOMAN IN BLACK-OUT

AS an Epsom woman was walking home in the black-out, after. visiting a cinema, she was joined in a lonely part of the road by a young woman who said to her: "It's nice to have some one to walk with in the black-out." They had gone only a few yards when the stranger pushed a revolver against her chest and snapped:"Come on, I'm desperate. Give me your handbag and all your money, or I'll shoot."

The money was handed over-two shillings. "Say nothing about this," said the stranger, and ran away, Iler accent was foreign, possibly assumed. Police are watching for her..