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What did the

Rancher say

R. M. S. "Viceroy-of-India”

A Grand English Ball in aid of Seamen's Charities will be held in the

PENINSULA HOTEL

on TUESDAY, FEB. 13

DANCING 9 p.m. till 1 a.m.

Como and dance the Lamboth Walk, Palais Glide. Boomps-a-Daisy, Paul jones, Velota, otc. to the

VICEROY OF INDIA'S BROADCASTING DANCE ORCHESTRA

TICKETS:

Obtainable at the Reception, HONG KONG and PENINSULA HOTELS or at the DOOR-

CENTS--$2.00

LADIES-$1,50 (Refreshments included)

Saturday,

·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

February 10, 1940.

TO AID CHINA RELIEF

FOLLOW

Ligu

the

REAL QUALITY

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GARMENTIGLEANINGISYST

AIR CONDITION

DRY CLEANING

FOR ALL TYPES OF CLOTHING

RUG AND CARPET SHAMPOOING OUR SPECIALTY

THE STEAM

Hong Kong Depot, Peak Depot,

AT THE

LAUNDRY Co.

Head Offer & Works 57032

OPENS

Tel. 21270, Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr., Tel. 20030. Tel. 20352. Kowloon Depot:

Tel. 58545.

TO-MORROW

KING'S THEATRE

GREAT IN' ITS HUMANITY I- DEEP IN ITS UNDERSTANDING!

ELECTRIFYING IN ITS THRILLS! HEART-RENDING IN ITS ROMANCEI

Unforgettable

in its appeal

To the most powerful emo- lions'men and women live byl

Golden

A SOUZEN NAKOULIAN

PRODUCTION

Produced by

WILLIAM PEREDERO

BARBARA

arring

· ADOLPHE

OU

Based upon the Grand Thure any ar CLIFFORD QUITS

WILLIAM

STANWYCK - MENJOU HOLDEN

Screenplay by Lewis Meltzer, Danish Taradosh, Sarah Y. Maica, Victor Huerman A Calonbia. Diction

Count the "TELEGRAPHS”

everywhere

THESE are a few of the masked partners who are helping the funds of the British and Chinese Rellef Associations at the St. Valentine's Day Supper Dance at the Peninsula Hotel.

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NAZIS PLAN BIG ATTACK ON ENGLAND

ADMIRAL RAEDER, the Nazi Navy's commander- in-chief, is preparing to avenge the Graf Spee and regain Germany's naval honour by a full-scale attack on Britain, says the naval correspondent of the Sunday Chronicle.

Hitler has ordered him to bring the German Fleet out of its hiding at Kiel into the North Sea, and launch the offensive in two directions:

KENTUCKY RUES

(1) By engaging the British Fleet in the hope that he can do enough damage to impair Bri- tish mastery of the seas.

(2) By shelling British coastal towns and ports-especi-

FREAK LAW ally those that are not defended

FRANKFORT, Ky. (UP) It's against the law to keep a cow in a tenement in Kentucky.

Nudist colonies In the state must be surrounded by a 20-foot wall of brick, cement or stone and must be inspected "at such times as may be deemed necessary by the attorney Keneral."

-to wreak as much havoc as chant ships.- possible, among British mer-

In both cases the German war- ships will be backed up by wave after wave of bombing and fighting planes, large numbers of which have been attached to the Nazi Fleet in readiness for the part they are to play.

The statute revision committee Admiral Roeder has twice taken- of the Kentucky general assembly hin ships out from Kiel-not far out is faced with the task of consider of course to practise their strategy, ing the value ol the foregoing and the British Navy know very well statutes and scores of others. The what is happening. committee, headed by Robert K.! Cullen, is revising Kentucky Jaws, suggesting the repeal of many en- acted years ago which crous to-day.

New Mino Belt

They also know that scem ludi-

when the clash does come, there can be ne doubt about who will win-and it will not be Admiral Raeder.

One law, passed in 1922, prohiblis a person from walking along a street| dressed in a bathing suit unless the town has police protection.

Donth On River Covered Another law provides that if a per- son dies aboard a river bont and no one claims the body that the master of the vessel shail "cause the body to be burled on shore at least four

feel deep."

In fourth-class cities, a law says, a police court shall have jurisdic- tion "over all cases of blowing horns,

THE STRENGTH OF THE GERMAN FLEET IS:

Two battleships. 2 pocket battle- stips, G cruisers, 20 destroyers, 20 submarines,

THE STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH FLEET 15:

Fourteen balifeships and battle-' crulacra, Gatrcraft carriers, 58 heavy cruisers, 180 light cruisers, 60 submarines. +

And, in addition, right along

lying kites and crying aloud by day Britain's cast-const, from the north

or night."

of Scotland to Dover, is a newly-laid

A Frankfort man did take advan- mine belt to guard our shores. tage of a law passed in 1886 which offered a $5 reward to any person

Not all the British warships. Isted bringing ashore the body of n human above, are, c course, serving with being found floating in a navigable he Home Fleet but there are more. stream. The law stated that the than enough ready and waiting to

¡deal with Admiral Raeder, stream had to be navigable.

Pioneer days still exist for laws German fights over the Orkneys and One of the reasons for the repeated which provide thut oxen, home- made yarn and spinning wheels shall Shetlands has been to try to find out be éxempt from court executions what proportion of the British fleet levied to settle judgments.

No Balls On-Road

In Kentucky you can't feed allow any animal to wear 4 bell while it is pulling a vehicle оп D turnpike, plank or gravel road.

{in concentrated, in home waters and whether a very large number of our ships are dispersed over the ocean routes.

or That Information, of course, Ger- many will not be allowed to possess unt the battle begins. Then

she [will find out soon enough.

One strange law provides that nny) person operating a steam-propelled engine on a state road must send ly settlements with the city clerk, ahead and keep at least 200 yards in and when approved by the council, advance of such engine a messenger, shall be spread at large upon the whose duty It shail be to warn all record,” persons of its approach.".

However, all of the amusing laws The committee also is examining are not of anclenty vininga. At a laws for faulty and vague language.number of recent sessions there have One example was a statute doning been attempts to pass a law requiring the duties of a treasurer In a Arth dogs to wear tail-lights and bark at class city: "He shall make quarter, all railroad crossings.

as they drank the

Bom 1820 -still going

strong

last round up?

"Good old JOHNNIE WALKER

- there's a whisky for you"

What is it that makes men so enthusiastic about Johnnie Walker? Surely it is the fact that this famous whisky is not merely "good" and "old," but a blend of the very finest whiskies of Scotland, mellowed by years and years of maturing in the wood.

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