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POST OFFICE

The Publie are requested to note particularly the time of closing the Imperial Air Mail on Tuesday, the 5th March, 1940.

Sinail Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise slated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before 9 a.m. re- istered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When maile are advertised to close after 5 p.m.. Registered and Parcel mails are closet at p.m.

INWARD MAILS

Air Mas by "Imperial Airways Direct ServiceLondon date. 24th Feb.

Mar; 4.

Amoy

Europe via Suez and Straits

dale, 18th January)

Halphong and Hollow

to the Bankers of the Company, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong, on the 30th day of September, 1940,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

NOEL BRAGA,

Secretary. Hongkong, Isi March, 1940.

HONGKONG & WHAMPOA

DOCK CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share- holders will be held in the Office of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Buliding, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 26th March, 1940, at noon for the consideration of the Directors' Report and Balance Sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1939.

The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 15th to 26th March, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order Directors,

of the Board of

E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hongkong. 27th February, 1910.

Air Liner's Fate

Oil Patch May Mark

Watery Grave

CALCUTTA, Mar. 3 (Reuter). A patch of oil seen by an Air (London Force plane was the only clue to Mar. 4. the airliner Hannibal provided Mar. 4by to-day's search for the miss

•Mar. 1∙ing plane. Mar Francisco It is not

known whether Mar. 4.definite conclusions can be drawn Formosa, Amoy and Swatow..Mur, 5.from this with regard to the Hunni- Stralts and Saigon

.......Mar. 5,bal's Inte.

Japan

Shanghai and Amoy

U. S. A., & Manila (San

date, 31st Jan,>

Jayn and Manila

4.

yet

Eurone via Suez and Straits-(Lon An Imperial Airways' flying-boat don date, 25th January)..Mar, 5. will continue the search to-morrow, ..Mar. 5, but Air Force planes are returning

.Mar. 5.to their bases. Mar. 5. Mar, 5.

Japan and Shanghai Straits

Straits and Manila.... U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai

(San Francisco date, 6th Feb.)

Mar, 5. Air Mail by "Air France Direct

Service"-Paris date. 28th Feb.

Canton

Saigon

-Shanghat

Tientsin.

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, March 4

Haiphong

Straits (Parcels only)

Shanghai

Straits, Ceylon. India,

Anxiety Increasing

KARACHI, R.A.F..

Mar, 3 (Reuter). and Imperial Airways nachines are still searching for the air liner Hannibal.

After searching the Arabian const and peninsula yesterday they took Mar. 6. off again at dawn- to-day, slales an Mar. 6. Imperial Airways communique. .Mar. 0. Anxiety-is-incrensinges the Mar. 6. exhaustive search fails to yield any Mar. G. elue.

...1 p.m.

.1.30 pm.

2.30 p.m.

Mombasa,

Belra, Lourenco Marques, East and South Africa

French Fight Cleverly

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

March 4,

WHAT IS GOERING UP TO? "Gambling For

Job" Then A Puppet Prince

For Hitler's

IT'S AN OLD CUSTOM IN CANADA

AMONG THE CANADIAN TROOP'S now stationed at an English military depot to complete training are many of Scottish descent. They took the opportunity, to celebrate New Year in traditional style by Diping the haggis round the barrack square.

Wife, Mistress, Husband Lived Together

STRANGE TALE OF

Teetotal Hitler

Puts Tax on

"DOMESTIC BLISS" Vienna's Wine

"Terrible Indignity",

THE story of how a wife, wife's consent, I am satisfied that it lived in the same house with was so," said the judge. her husband and his mistress was told in a Divorce Court case which Mr. Justice Henn Collins said disclosed "n very strange sort of domestic life.'

of

think that Mrs. How realised what "I would like to say that I do not the repercussions or the consequences to her were likely to be.

The Judge dismissed the petition

"An endeavour has been made to tepresent Mrs. How

as someone Mra, Emily Ada How, of Westmineering husband, but she did not completely downtrodden by a do. read, ford.

give me that

for the dissolution of her marriage. Mrs. How alleged the adultery of her husband,

Mr. James William How, with Mrs. Beatrice Edwards. Mrs. Edwarda intervened in the suit, which was contested.

Mr. and Mrs. How were married child, a son. They lived at Cauld at Ely in August, 1015, and have one

well-avenue; Ipswich.

and at Felixstowe.

The charge was not denied by Mr. How und Mrs. Edwards, bat It was pleaded that Mrs. How connived at

2.30pm Beat Back Nazis Though the adultery.

4.30 p.m. Canton

..7 p.m. Marillo, Rabaul, Australia, and New Zealand via Brisbane-due Brisbane 22nd March.

Por

Reg.

Ord.

Shanghai

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

.Mar. 4, 5.00 pm .Mar. 5, 8.45 a.m. ..Mar. 6. 8.30 am. Tuesday, Mar. G

.8.30 a.m. .8.30 a.. 10.30 a.m. Straits, Ceylon and India..19.30 a.m.

Salgon and Bangkok Cantor

Shanghai

Fort Bayard

Manila,

Shanghai

Makassar

12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. рап and Sourabaya

2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. Tientsin (Parcels only)....2.30 p.m. Halphong ****

..3 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due London, 13th March,

Reg.

Ord.

K.P.O.

...March 5. 5 p.m. .March 5, 5.30 p.m. G.F.O.

Reg.

...March 5, 5 p.m. Ord,

.March 6, 6.30 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- trails by Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due Sydney 11th March

K.P.O.

5.00 p.m.. ..5.30 p.m.

Outnumbered 3 To 1

PARIS, Mar. 3 (Reuter).-Further details become available about a clash Moselic between French and German on, the, Western Front west of the patrois on Saturday.

A party of 30 French soldiers were surprised by 100 Germans, who al- tacked them from three sides,

Fought Way Out

The French fought their way out and drove the Germans back in con- fusion. The Germans suffered some what heavy losses.

At midnight at □ poin! u few hundred yards further along, the Germans tried to rald French lines. They were repulsed without difficulty.

West Front Raid

And Ambush.

PARIS, Mar. 3 (Reuter)-A com- niunique issued to-day says that in the course of a raid west of the Vosges, the enemy took a few pri-

soners.

On our side, In the region of Lau- teur, we laid an ambush which suc- corded.

There was marked activity of aerial forces on both sides.

Ecg. Ord.

G.P.O,

Reg. Ord.

500 p.m... .6.30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar, 0--

Stralis Manila

Shanghai and Japan

Amoy and Shanghai

LONDON, Mar, 3 (Reuter)

..0.30 nm.

10.30 am. 10.30 a.m. 12:30: pan. Airmail for Indo-China, Iran, and,

Kermit Roosevelt's

New Appointment

Tho

Talk in the Garden

judgment, said the case was excep

Mr. Justice Henn Collins, giving tional at any rate, he hoped it was.

Impression.

"Mr. and Mrs. How gave me the impression of being a couple with mutual trust and confidence, and it is inconceivable that a woman of not know the inception of this to be her years and experience- she did what I am sure it was should not house in which this terrible indignity have taken any steps to leave the was being put on her.

cuse,

do not believe," Mr. Justice

VIENNA. TEETOTALER Hüller his sent a present to the wine-loving Viennese a special ten per cent. war fax on every glass of wine. But to punish the tee-totaleta equally the same tax has been imposed

lemonade, on ersatz tea and ersatz coffee.

A special entertainment tax will be levied in addition.

cocoa,

The Viennese police declare that the use of motor-cars for visiting restaurants, theatres or shops will be forbidden,

Open Hostility With Himmler

DIPLOMATS BUSY ON

NEW PEACE MOVE

AMID a week of rumour that a new peace effort, backed by powerful neutral nations, was imminent, the Free German Radio broadcast this statement:- "Herman Goering is gambling high. His high- est card is the Hohenzollern card."

Goering, declared the announcer, was prepared to offer the western Powers a Hohenzollern prince as "puppet ruler of Germany."

Woman Keeps Home Fires Burning

Convinced of the failure of an expected large-scale Nazi offensive in the spring, Goering "is possessed with the idea of having ready all the threads for the moment when he can be- come Hitler's successor the new grand man.. of Germany." The Nazi Party would then he "driven back." Bohemia WHEN Mr. Richard Palmer, certain concessions and Ger- and Moravia would be granted

a Naval Reservist, was called many's relations with Russin

up last July his wife, Louisa, would be curtailed. 31-year-old mother of two boys. ing coal business alone. was left to carry on a flourish

Since then Mrs. Palmer has been doing more than a man's work, keep- ing the business going.

4

I found her shovelling coal in her yard at East Acton Lane, Acton, W. "In addition to buying the coal," she said "I have to keep the books, In all the Government forms, take, the orders, answer the phone and help, the men fill the sucks in the yard.

Grooms the Horses "Also I look after the four horses. I feed and groom them and harness | them ready for work in the morn lags.

"The only thing I have not done) so far is to take the coal out on the carts. I have four men working for me, and being the boss. is so easy) Job.

"This is back-breaking work for a woman. But I don't mind the hard work it 1 can keep the business in a good state until my husband; *** | comes home."

Few Prisoners Of War

Captured To Date

This Ja

transmits

were at work in all countries, it was Goering's agents and go-betweens staled.

"Meanwhile Himmler is coll- lecting evidence against · Goer- lug," the broadcast ended, "but hesitates to strike the blow dgainst the man who is, after all, * his famediate chief."

Story of Shot From Behind At the same time another extra- ordinary story of open-hostility be- ween Goering and Himmler, the two, most powerful men fighting for the succession to Hitler in Germany, is the statement purporting to bave with come from sources in close touch

Frau Eminy Goering Lausanne,"

According to Uze Lausanne story which, it should be un- phasised, has not been confirmed from Berlin-Goering was shot at from behind and alighur wounded in the right leg In mysterious circumstances while hunting in a forest near Waper- that on December 18..

in

It is stated that he was shot while crouching in natalking attitude, peering through trees.

As he, fell to the ground other members of the party rushed to aid him, Goering, it is said, sensing an attack, ordered the forest to be sur rounded.

Ordered them to be failed

. Six men were found, but, although Goering questioned them himself, they could not be connected with the shooting.

Goering ordered them to be jailed.

Nevertheless, the report goes on..

Then, in furious anger, he called in Himmler and ordered a Gestapo After the Investigation Himmler,

investigation.

natural since

himsel!

to be killed like...simple

Before

Inter ho accused Himmler of plotting to get rid of

Jim.

ler refused to believe him. but since then, according to the

has stubbornly refused to parti- Lausanne story. Goering kas formed his own

bodyguard and cipate in any official or public ceremonies.

"For from leaving the house on Mrs.How's-case was that in one occasion, she sought out the 1938 her husband, a builder and house in which her husband and his decorator, became friendly with mistress were to spend a week-end Mrs. Edwards, and. in October, rather than face solitude in her own

GENEVA With the present European conflict 1938, the (Mrs. How) left home. house."

yielding so far comparatively few war prisoners, the War Adultery was alleged to have ક્ been committed by Mr. How and Henn Collins continued, that the Prisoners' Agency of the Red Cross here has turned its Mrs. Edwards at his house in Ipswich wife was asking the husband to dis- attention to administering relief in Poland.

card his mistress until after Mrs. How's married slater arrived at the

it is said, reported to Hitler that tlie house.

Established for the purpose quiry. The Agency

shooting

probably Kimple "No doubt the wife did try to supplying information pertain-post when it is in relation to a pri-him Himmler's report, but Goering

of handling correspondence and query to the German authorities by

hunting a

accident. Hitler summoned, Goering and gave stop it, but not for very long, being to prisoners of war, the tar very few packages have been

soner, directly if it is a civilian. So was not satisfied, cause once she had left the house,: again under the influence of her Agency has found that with the forwarded. relatives, she refused to answer exception of a few U-boat crews Polish civilians are only now begin- and declared that he would not allow Ife few Into a rage, it is stated. letters from her husband. " In at least one letter Mr. How said

or aviators forced to land inning to get in touch through the Fritsch." It was common ground that, would do anything to get his enemy territory, the present Agency with their relatives abroad. Mrs. Edwards was living with Mr. Wile back. He asserted that his re- character of the war has caused 4,000 Persons Employed How as his mistress for several lationship with Mrs. Edwards began few prisoners to be taken by months during which Mrs. How because his wife consented.

During the World War more than either side. was a member of the household. Mrs. Edwards had made out their The judge held that Mr. How and

4,000 persons were employed, most There was no sort of disguise

At first it was reported from Ger- Geneva Prisoners' Office. The office

of them without about the situation.

any pay. In the man sources that there were some handled more than 10,000,000 letters. The question the Court hnd to de-

700,000 to 200,000 Polish prisoners, cide was not whether Mrs. How

although Geneva reports listed only knew of that relationship and ac-

about 50,000. But now it is under- Spain, without reviving the Agency

During the recent elvil war in} stood that German authorities are under its present name, the Inter- quiesced in it, but whether she con- sented,

gradually dismissing, most of their national

His wound was only superfi- Red Polish prisoners and allowing them founded services which accomplished

Cross

committee

clat la added.. Whatever be the truth of the story to return to their homes, apparently a similar task. It answered 3,000-of Goering's pence plan

the view of speeding up the 000 queries concerning missing civi-feud with Himmler, there is a be- and his economic rehabilitation of the coun- tians and soldiers on both sides. But lief in London try.

that a new peace In the present conflict, as the war is offer of some kind, sponsored by the This leaves the problem of caring War Frisoners is applicable, and the tral nations, is likely to be made to international, the 1928 Convention on Pope and backed by powerful neu- for the Pollsh civilians whose plight is perhaps worse than that of Pollab Ancy was recreated on Sept. 0 of Britain and France within

this year. prisoners.

weeks, GENEVA.

Letters are Free DESPONDENCY and bit-

The task, in this early stage of terness spread at League protect communications of civiiluns the beginning of hostilities, prisonera There is no special Convention to of 20 years ago. Then, soon after. the war, is widely differont from that headquarters when the Inter-with their home or other countries. by hundreds of thousands fell into national staff learned that the Whereas secretariat is to be partly prisoners is free of postage taxes by lian prisoners came up later and was correspondence for war enemy hands. The problem of civi- liquidated "for the duration." international agreement, no

PARIS-The United States Govern- uch dealt with separately. If that story were accepted, said

agreement exists for civilians, A

ment has leased temporarily, a the the judge, it was clear that Mrs. oficials received notice to quit. Two- to neighbouring countries. Rumania Swiss citizens during the World War were married in 1930.......

League great

mány Folish refugees have fled

This Institution was formed by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor picturesque Chateau de Cande, where How did not consent to the incep-thirds of the floor space. of

Mr. How had informed his wife that a doctor had told him he must have a mlatress, take drugs, or undergo an operation, and Mrs. How said she believed that state- ment.

She was deeply attached to her husband, an attachment which, in the circumstances the judge found, must have been merely companion- ate. Mr. How was deeply attached to his wife.

During a week-end in the mer of 1030, he was away from his; wife, and admitted he had been with Mrs. Edwards, giving ns hls excuse his doctor's advice.

612m-

LEAGUE SACKS 210

Two hundred and

ten

with

i

tion of the relationship between her League Palace, which cost £2,000,000 and Lithuania in the north. They under Red Cross authority. Its fune- the and Hungary in the south. Latvin 1914-1918, and was at once placed

and Mrs. Edwards.

It

a few

French Chateau Leased By U.S.

to build and furnish, is to be closed. Inquire about relatives left at home, tion is to serve as a link. Between Dedaux, American friend of the Duke

There are now 313 League oficiala or who

has been

Poland

The story told on the other side left, with the likelihood of scores of flight. Then pappeared during war prisoners and their relatives. was that Mrs. How said it might them being thrown overboard next divided between Germany, and Soviet

bo a way out of the difficulty if her husband took Mrs. Edwards as

year.

Russla and while communications lave of late become easier with' tho area under German occupation, it is still almost impossible to reach the

"WAR leased from Charles and Duchess to house

overflow services of the Paris Embassy and ns an emergency Embassy should the French Government leave Parla, SHIPS FOR TURKEY

The castle-like old building. has deep underground passages affording London, Mar. 9. protection against air

raid

dangers. Turkey has placed orders in a Bri-It is situated in the Leire valley State, wetters come from the United from 3,500 to 10,000 tons. The cost of upon. Embassy clerks already be

tish dockyard for four ships ranging near Tours."

of Pollalt origin. Each day the mail British credits recently granted to which includes, one of o finest: brings at least 3,000 letters of, in-Turkey-Reuter,

private golf courses in France..

In the League's heyday they num- She aurreated that her husband bered 720. A large proportion of and Mrs. Edwards should talk It those sacked are women secretaries. Soviet area.. over in the rartleh, and they did Many had worked at the League for

more than ten years.

50.

Franco (Paris and Northern Finnish Ald Bureau announces that Provinces only) by the "Air France Mr. Kermit Roosevelt has been grant Airways Direct Servico- duded permission by the War Office to Paris 14th March.

resign his commission in the British Army, He has been ,5.00 D. Officer

appointed Commanding the British .5.30 pm. Contingent of International Volun-

"Reluctant as I to believe that Higher reade League omncials over toers. .5.00 p.m. 7.00 pm.

He will have the rank of Colonel. ly did exist was brought about by the their jobs for the present.

the state of things which undoubted the 1,000 a year level mostly keep

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Ord.

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