1940-02-28 — Page 2

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 words $2.50

for 3 days prepaid

TUITION GIVEN.

DANCING IN 8 HOURS, Ballroom, Tango, Rhumba, American Top. Tui tion rapid and practical. World's Champion's Stops. Apply:-Tony's

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Wednesday,

| NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Į

NOTICE

THE TAIPO RURAL HOME AND ORPHANAGE

13 Milestone, Talpo.

The Orphanage will be formally opened on

Saturday, 2nd March, 1940..

a Excellency The Governor will

Danco Studio, China Building, 8th.perform the Opening Ceremony door. Tel. 30933.

POSITIONS WANTED.

CHINESE LADY necks position as nurse-companion, Experienced in nursing and housekeeping. Spenks English quently, Highest

light

references. Please write Box 372, "Hongkong Telegraph."

at 3.30 p.m.

All are cordially welcome.

Hotel for Talpo at 2.00 and 2.15 Bases will leave the Peningula

NOTICE

HONGKONG

Owing to the drastic increaso In the cost of raw materials and freight. the undersigned aro reluctantly compelled to increase the price of Beor by $2.50 por caso of 43 quarts or 72 pinta, effective | 28th February, 1940.

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EWO, BEER:-Jardine, Matheson

& Co., Ltd: Manngers:

Ewo Brewery Co., Shanghai.

B. BEER:-H. Ruttonjce & Sons,

Managers:

Hongkong Brewory

& Distillory Ltd., Hong Kong.

p.m. and will return at 4.30 and U.B. BEER:-W. R. Loxley & Co., 4.45 p.m.

Reservations must be booked beforehand at the Hongkong or! Peninsula Hotel where tickets are obtainable at $1 per Return Trip.

FOR SALE.

BEGONIA and Gladioli flower bulbs Just received from Holland, now obtainable at Graca Co., 10, Wyndham THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC Street, Ifongkong. Established 1890.

FOR SALE: Goodwill and business of well known 1st class hotel, very well situated in Kowloon with liquor licence, including lease and attings, three large frigidaltres, electric radia- tors, fire ranges, celling fans, radios, ele. Excellent business proposition. Any person Interested, please apply fur further particulars from Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist, 2 Queen's Road Central.

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 60 excellent views of the Colony, Price $1.60. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Lid, Hongkang Travel Bureau or from the Publishers,

South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street,

POST OFFICE

CO., LTD.

(China) Ltd.,

Sole Agents!

Union Brewery Ltd., Shanghai.

Hongkong, 28th February, 1940.}

nt:--

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the As from to-day beur bottles Fifty-first Ordinary Yearly Meet-bearing the Trademarks of the Ing will be held at the Company's undersigned, will bo redeemed Registered Office, 4th Floor, P. & O. Building, on Thursday, 21st March, 1940, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1939, electing Directors and Auditors and fixing their fees.

Quarts — 4 cents ench

Pints - 3 cents each EWO:-Jardine, Matheson &

Ltd.,

Munagora: Ewo Brewery Co., Shanghai.

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 9th March to 21st March, 1940, both days inclusive, during which U, D.-W. R. Loxley 凸 period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By order of the

Board of Directors.

Small Pocket Post to all countries GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO., LTD. is suspended.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Moll are elored 15 minutes earlier than tha

Agenis.

Hongkong, 22nd February, 1940,

CO., LTD.

time given below unless otherwise THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC stated, and where mails are advertis- ed to lose at or before 9 am. re- gistered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day, When mails are, advertised to close aller 5 p.m. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 pm.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held in the P. & O. Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, at 11.15 Air Mall by "Imperial Airways

Direct Bervice" Lundon date, 17th o'clock in the forenoon on Thurs

INWARD MAILS

February,

(China) Lid.. Sole Agenta:

Uulon Brewery Ltd.,. Shanghai,

TELEGRAPH

F. G. H. Salusbury To Mrs. Atkins

TOMMY'S

DAY

IS JUST O.D.T.A.A.

Dear Mrs. Atkins, HAVE been visiting your son Thomas, who is one of the British troops in the Maginot Line, alongside the French, and I think you will want to know how he passes his time.

Here is a typical day in his life at ; present. It begins in the evening, just about when you are thinking of turning on the wireless.

This, you may say, is when ho begins- to think seriously of work.

Henny bavo to go on patrol across the dark, puzzling belt of land which belongs to no man, and where--if you Co., le still long enough-a wandering Ger- man may trend on the small of your back

Co.,

Hongkong, 28th February, 1940.

FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

What to do to help a child

Anyona knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or ill-treated in a

manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any malter

Air Mail by "Air France. Feb. 28. I day, the 21st day of March, 1940, concerning a child, would be doing

Direct Ser) or as soon thereafter as the vice"-Paris date, 21st February, Ordinarly Yearly Meeting of the

Feb. 28. Calcutta, Straits and Saigon.. Feb. 26. Company shall have terminated. Salgon

Feb. 28. for the purpose of considering and Japan and Shanghai

Feb. 28. if thought it passing the following Manila

Feb. 28.

résolution s U.S.A., and Manila (San Francisco

special resolu- date, 31st Jan.)

Feb, Air Mali by "Imperial Airways Direct} Service" Landon date, 218, Feb.

Feb. 20.

Canton

Manila

Feb. 20. .Feb. 20.

Haiphong and Holhow

.Feb. 20.

Japan and Shanghai

.Feb. 20.

Japan

Shanghai

Bangkok

Feb. 20. Feb. 20. March 1 Canada, U.S.A. Japan and Shanghal -(Vancouver B.C. late, 10th Foh.)

tion:-

"That the Capital of the "Company be increased from its

on act of kindness by communicating at once with--

The Hon. General

H.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall, Secretary,

The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, 1st floor.

The Inspector, 02 Stone Nullah Lane, 2nd. Floor.

The Inspector, 12, Soi Yeung Chol St., Kowloon.

Inspector, 62, Argyle St,

All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society.

name will bel

The Informant's

kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved,

"present Capital of $6,000,000. "Hong Kong currency divided "into 600,000 shares of $10 each "to $18,000,000 Hong Kong cur- "rency divided into 1,800,000 -"shares-of- $10-each-and-that "auch additional shares shall "rank in all respecta pari passu "with the original Capital of the "Company."

Mar. 1. Haiphong. Hoihow and Fort Bayard

Mar. 1.) Mar. 1

And for the purpose of consi- .Mar. 1,

Mar. 1dering and if thought fit passing

Japan and Shanghai.

Salgon

Shanghal

OUTWARD MAILS Wednesday, Feb. 25

Fort Bayard .....

.1.30 p.m. Amoy and Shanghal ......2.30 p.m. Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Alr France Airways Direct Service”-luc Paris 7th March,

Strails

K. r. o.

.Feb. 28. 5.00 p.m.

.Feb. 28, 5.30 pm.

Reg., Ord.,

G, P. O.

Reg., Ord..

.Feb. 28, 5:00 p.m. .Feb. 28, 7.00 p.m. ..... p.m. Thursday, Feb, 20 Manila, Australla, and New Zealand via Thursday Island-due Thurs- day Island, 13th March.

K.F.O.

.March 29, 2.45 p.m.

.March 29, 3.30 p.m. G.P.O.

March 29, 2.45 p.m. ..March 29, 3.30 pm.

Reg.

Oril.

Reg.

Ord.

Fort Bayard

Haiphong

Shanghai

Friday, March 1

Amoy

Conton

Haiphong

.1.30 p.m. ....2 p.m. .2.34 p.m. .7 p.m.

7.15 am. .10 a.m. Japan

.18.30 am. Parcels only for Tientsin ..10.30 n.m. Shanghal....

.....30 p.m. Salgon, Straits, Ceylon, India, Egypt and Europe vin Marsellles-due Marseilles, 28th March

G.P.O. & KP.0.

Neg. Ord.

2.46 m .8.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, Egypt and London Parcels only-due London 13th April

Parcels

X.P.O.

Reg. Ord.

Q.P,O.

Parcels Reg. Ord.

Manila

Mar. 1, 3 p.m. Mar. 1, B p.m.. Mar,

4.30 p.m.

.Mar. 1, 3 p.m. Mar. 1, 5 pm. .Mar. 1, p.m. 7 pm. Saturday, March 2

Manilo, Rabaul, Australia, and Now

Zealand via Brisbane-due Bris- bane, 21st March.

Parcela

Rex...

Ord,

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

March 2, 6 gas.

March 4, 8.41: 0mm.

March 4, 0.80 #,m.

the following resolutions, name-

ly

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk, via Haiphong

Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception

He may be engaged all night in wir- ing, digging and general trench repair- ing. Or he may be a sentry.

Anyhow, at the end of his various tanka, there comes "stand to."

Breakfast-Hot

Unshaven faces emergo into the day. light. Men shake themselves into their greatconta again and wriggle their half- frozen toes, and your Tom thinks how empty ha fcela

Three from each platoon go back to collect a hot breakfast.

They bring 18 back in vacuum con- tainers-hot tea, bacon, beans and bread. Tom begins to feel a now maLES,

After breakfast he cleans his rifle and smartens himself up a bit.

If it is his turn the Joins a party which goca back each day to a rest bathhouse, where there is genuine, blessed hot water for washing.

Thero be washes his feet with great care, has a shave and a reat, with his back against a wall and a cigarette in his mouth.

Quite possibly his eyes close, his mouth opens, the cigarette stub falls out and he

starts to snore.

Tea-Also Hot

As dinner time approaches they pull themselves together and load themselves

with the dinner rations for their platoon.

Bo they return to their position.

Tea-hot ten—is brought up by another party of three about four o'clock, to gether with bread, margarine, cheese and

something dainty, Ilke tinned salmon.

And it is probable that Tom will pour some of his rum ration into his tea, for the cold night in about to shut down on him like a lid.

Then the whole business of night patrols begins over again,

By the way, your Tom thinks his battle dress has proved katisfactory, except for the galters. These ought to be three or four inches longer.

"As they are they let the trouser ends flap too much.

You might mention this to Mr. Hore Belisha,

A Happy Christmas to you.

Yours sincerely,

F. G. H. Salusbury

February 28, 1940.

WEDDING BELLS FOR HANS & PEGGY

Raided

Nazi

Island

Bose

HANS BAUER, young Sudeten Czech refugee, for aiding when a group including a University professor, a barrister and a magistrate were prosecuted at Läverpool, has been freed from an internment camp in England.

And soon wedding bells will ring for Hans and 18-year-old Peggy Shimmin, of Grant Road, Knotty Ash, Liverpool.

Peggy had given up hope of seeing her fiance until after the war.

were

Bauer, central figure in a case at Liverpool recently, in which nix prominent citzens charged under the aliens regu- lations with aiding him, is now registered with the police as a. friendly alien.

"When my financial position allows It. I am hoplog Peggy will marry me," Hans told News Chronicle reporter.

And Peggy said: "It is so nice for Hana and me to be together gain and I hope this will be the last of our troubles"

The Louple met 12 months ago. Just after they became engaged de- tectives brought the news to Peggy that Hans had been arrested for an offence under the Aliens Act.

Midnight Surprise

White Hans was in the interment camp he wrote Peggy two letters of 24 Jincs weekly all that was allow- ed-telling her that he would return anmediately he was released,

h

When he did arrive at the house was nearly midnight. Peggy, sur- prised, came downstairs overcome with joy. The ring Hans. placed on her finger before he went away was still there.

Of the six men who were pro- secuted for helping Hans to avold deportation to Germany, five were £5 and the case against the other dismissed.

"It was very lucky for me," he sald, "that I did and friends.

"The 14 months which I spent illegally in Liverpool were exciting.

I almost developed 1 persecution manin, because I never was used to Megal life.

GERMANS COULDN'T

KILL HIM

LEEDS.

JUST BACK from a rald on Helgoland, this R.A.F.`pilot typifles fifty-four-year-old ex-soldier, of The spirit of the young daredevils in the British Air Force.

Rejected £20,000 To Let Him Divorce

A HUSBAND'S offer of £20,000 if his wife would provide him with evidence

"1. That the Directorn be of Optum, Treasure and valuables £5 TO BURN for divorce was mentioned

are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongitong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed immediately after landing.

HER

in the Divorce Court recent-

HOME ly, in England.

"and they are hereby authorised "to capitalise the sum of $3,000,- 1000 Hong Kong currency part of "the undivided profits of the "Company standing to the credit "of the Company's Reserve Fund "and to allot to the Members Damaged Packages will be examin- coachman, made this bequest in Edward Beddington Behrens. "holding shares of the Company ed by the Company's Surveyor her will: "as on the 1st day of July, 1940, | Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the

Mrs. Barbara Jessfe Behrens,· MRS. FLORENCE MARY of Kent-road, Harrogate, was All claims must be sent in to me SCOTT, of Brighton-road, Wat-granted a decree nisi because of will not be recognized. on or before 0th March, 1040, or they ferd, 68-year-old widow of a desertion by her husband, Major

"in respect of the net amount "capitalised fully paid shares of "the Company

presence of the Consignees at 10.00 am. on Saturday, 2nd March, 1040. Consignees must have a Revenue

£5 to my brother-in-law, John Altey, "to burn up my home." "It was impossible to carry out

of equivalent officer in attendance when any dutler wishes literally," Mr. Airey said, "nominal value in the propor-able goods are examined by the "tion of one share for every two ¦ Company's Surveyors, "shares of the Company then'

No Fire Insurance will be effected "held by such persons respec-by us in any case whatever.

"tively and that such shares go "allotted shall rank for divi- "dends as from the 1st day of "July, 1910.

R. Ond

Agent.

At the time of the marringe In 1031 Major Behrens was 34 and hils wife 21.

The case for Mrs. Behrens was that the marriage was exceedingly happy for a time. but in 1935 her

"because the house was not hers.

"She asked me before she died,usband became less attentive to her, however, to take her furniture and belongings into the garden and burn them.

"After her death I arranged with her landlord to dispose of the furn!- ture as she directed.

Other legacies in Mrs. Scott's '£421 will were

C00 to her sister Sarah, to be ptil in the Post Office Savings Bank in her own name, "and not for pay- ing of house, but to be used for doctor's advice in your old age," and

He left her in February, 1936.,

was Behrens, Mr. Neville Laski, KC. (a

Evidence

given by Mrs.

Iriend of Major and Mrs. Behrens), Mrs. Behrens. and Sir Montague Burton, father of

"Got into Trouble" Mr. Justice Langton · anid

Her

SWEDES

NEW

C.-in-C.

MR. WILLIAM LONSDALE,

Ewart-street, Tong-road, Leeds. drank a toast to-day to the momory of a day in 1915, when for the second time in twenty- four hours he faced a German firing squad in a prison yard- and lived to tell the story,

Plump Mr. Lonsdale, grey-haired, wearing a bowler hat, told me he would feel even more like celebrating to-day if the Army "doctor he saw a tew weeks ago had passed him as nt for overseas service, says a correspondent.

But the doctor marked him as t only for home service, and that is too tame for Mr. Lonsdale,

Mr. Lansdale was wounded' and captured in September 1014 at Mons. and taken to Doeberitz prisoners' camp.

"Knocked Out Guard

On November 9 a bullying German guard struck him in the back with a rifle butt-and then the Yorkshire private knocked out the guard.

A Berlin military tribunal sen- tenced him to ten years' imprison- mont. Hindenburg appealed against the sentence as too lenient, and he was retried and sentenced to death, On January 1, 1015, he was pul against a wall in a prison yard to face a firing squad, Just before he was to be blindfolded an officer spoke to the sergeant in charge. and Private Lonsdale was sent back to his cell,

The same thing happened again. the following morning-twenty-five years ago to-day-and again he was takon back to his coll

Mr. Lansdale sald: "Each time I

GENERAL THOERNELL ада been appointed Commander-in-Chief felt quite resigned to death. I stili

they

Wern of the Swedish military forces. He don't know whether

genuine

last minute, reprieves, or

when my appeal was pending." disqualified herself from obtaining the sentence to be commuted to ft- The Kaiser later gave orders for

The question of the child's custody Lonsdale was finally released at the teen years' imprisonment, and Mr.

end of 1910,

is 62 and kas first made a survey merely a scheme to break my spirit of European armles

Major Behrens did not go Into the witness box and his counsel took practically no part in the proceedings.

"Mrs. Behrens seems to suffer," a decree." confinued the Judge, "from an Iri-

curable desire to employ a solicitor was reserved.

and to work behind his back.

"Because of that incorrigible fall- ing she has got herself into a ron-| siderable amount of trouble.

N. Y. K, LINE "2. That If, on such distri-

(NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA.) "bution as aforesaid, any person "would be entitled to a frac-

From EUROPE and STRAITS "tional share the Directors shall, "In lieu of issuing Fractional

Consignees of Cargo per Company's

£2 to Mrs. Burchell "for helping "Certificates, cause the whole Vessels are hereby informed that

me with Laurie." their Goods are being landed and

"Laurie" was Mrs. Scolt's later, "ahare to be allotted to a person placed at their risk in the Hongkong "or persons to be named by the and Kowloon Wharf and Godown whom she nursed for many years.

Mrs. Burchell, who is a neighbour, "Directors and such share shall, Company's Godowns at Kowloon,

said, "I think everyone loved hez, "at such time as the Directors whence delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 4th She was like a fairy godmother to "think fit, be sold and the pro-March, 1940, will be subject to rent. Brighton-road." "ceeds distributed amongst the Damaged packages must be left in "persons entitled to the frac- the Godowns for examination by the Charlie Chaplin Was understanding Unt he would pay hier

By order of the

"tione making up such share. Consignce's and the Co's representa- tives on any Tuesdays and Fridays at 2.30 pm. within

the free storage period. For the examination of damaged dutinble gootis, the con-

Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO. LTD.,

Agents. Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1940.

COUNT THE

TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

Omeer to be present..

All claims must be presented with- In ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.

His Customer

"Mrs. Bebrens had had an inter- view with her husband on the pre- vious day, and received from him a remarkable proposal.

"It was that she should provide

with

evidence for divorce on the

£20,000 and she should have the sole custody of the child.

Ignorant of Law

"It is perhaps only fair to Major Behrens to any that he appears lo have a total ignorance of English divorce law.

signees must arrange for a Revenue George Redmond sold newspapers in For more than 20 years 58-year-old

Piccadilly Circus.

Charlie Chaplin. when visling London, was one of his customers.

A few evenings ago Redmond left

"I think Mrs. Behrens entertained his pitch to cross the street, was this proposal, but in no wny bad knocked down by a taxi, and killed. given her real mental assent to it He lived at Weald-square, Upper and, when she discovered that it Clapton. E., and was known to thou-wan n Bagrant breach of the law, she sands of West-End thentro-goers. rojected it.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

No fire insurance has been effected.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA. Hongkong, 27th February, 1940.

A verdict of "accidental death was "For that reason I think it is fair 'returned at a recent inquest.

and right to any, that she has, not

New Minesweepers Will Blow Up All They Catch

By COMMANDER 11. PURSEY, R.N.

THE Admiralty has come to the rescue of fishermen who are in daily peril of "catching" sunken but still dangerous mines in their trawls.

Patrol and other naval craft are so busy that all they can do is sink mlues by rifle fire, but now special vessels are to be filled for the dangerous task of collecting floating mines and blowing, them up,

These vessels will operate "destructor sweep." This is a trawl with. a large wooden float and an explosive charge in the “cod end." **

The sweep will be towed between two vessels, which will manoeuvre round the mines to get them into the trùwl.

When several have, been collected-if hey have not exploded of their own accord they will be blown up by dring the charge,

During mine clearance after the last war twenty mines were "scooped up" in one sweep. : One then exploded and set off the others, providing. as an eye-witness described it, a "grand- đồ”... ·