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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 13, 1940.97 anmhalt 2.

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Soldiers Go To Court About Rents-

1940-1941

Sented Tendors will be received at the Royal Naval Hospital, until 10 am. on the 19th March, 1940, from persona desirous of supply- ing Beef, Matton, Fowls, Pork, Fish, Cheese, Butter, Pure Cow's Milk, Ice, and other provisions and necessaries; for the year ending 31st March, 1941.

Printed Forms of Tenders and further particulars can be obtain-of ed at the Royal Naval Hospital.

The right to reject the lowest or any tender is reserved.

G. V. HOBBS. Surgeon Captain, Medical Officer in Charge. Royal Naval Hospital,

Hong Kong.

13th March, 1940.

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POST OFFICE

Judge Don't After

Tells Veteran : Worry, I'II Look the Family

TWO soldiers went to court in England recently to tell the judges of the plight

their wives and families through rent arrears.

At Brentford County Court Judge Drucquer said to Private William Stubbs: "Don't you worry. While you are abroad I'll look after them."

At Clerkenwell. Private Reid | protested, "Is this the way they look after the dependants of a serving soldier," when an order was made against his wife.

Stubbs told the Judge: "I am an old soldier, aged 51, and when I volunteered in Septem- er I did think my family would have to suffor.

He added that since the judge had suspendled the possession order as long ns he paid 158. THE FIFTY-THIRD ORÐINARY | rent, the Army had granted him ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE-21s, a week rent allowance. He HOLDERS will be held at the asked for a stay of execution, Otire of Messrs, Jardine, Mathe and the judge allowed him un- son & Co., lad, on TUESDAY, 2nd other two months' grace. A, 1919, at SOON for the Earned £9 A Week purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.

pany

Before the war Stubbs earned £9 o Brixton week with his stall at market, and owed not a penny.

"I have had 20 years of Army set- The Transfer Books of the Com-vice," he said at his home in Feltham

CLOSED will be

from Road, Ashford, and sacrificed a lot SATURDAY, the 23rd MARCH, when I joined up again. But how

cun an ok soldier keep away?" The 2nd to TUESDAY, 1910, APRIL, 1910, both days inclusive. Income 43s., Rent 20s.

Order of the Board

By

Small Packet Post to all countries Directors, 19 suspended,

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OUTWARD MAIL TIMES

Mail are Registered and Parcel closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before 9 n.m. re- glatered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When malls

are advertised to close after 5 pm, Registered and Parcel mails are closed at

p.mn.

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong, 11th March, 1940.

HONGKONG & WHAMPO

DOCK CO., LTD.

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Notice la hereby, given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share holders, will be held in the Offee of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 26th March, 1940, at noon for the consideration of the Directors' Report and Balance Sheet for the Direct Service" London date, 6th year ending 31st December, 1939,

INWARD MAILS Air Mail by "Air France Direct Servico"--Paris date, 6th March

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"Imperial Airways

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Shanghal

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Air Mail by

March.

Air Mall by "Pan

.Mar.

Mar. 14. The Share Register and Trans- American Arfer Books will be closed from the

Service-San Francisco date 7th March. Mar. 14. 15th to 26th March, 1910, both days

Ways Direct

Canton ....................

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Europe via Suez and Strait Lon-

on date, 25th Jan.),

Manila.

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Japan and Shanghai

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Board of

E. COCK. Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th February, 1940,

Reid's wife, who lives in Archway Road, Highgate, sald she had been unable to pay the rent since her hus- band was called up."

her The

She had three children and allowance was £2 3s. a week. rent was £1 and the arrears £15.

SHIPWRECKED

WALT DISNEY Siegfried Line

SENDS HIS

GREETINGS.

the

-and introduces "stars" of his new colour

Mystery R.A.F. MEN

symphony Pinocchio" REPORT

They are:

MEN

DIED

SIGHT

ONE BY ONE

OF RESCUE

IN

'EMPTY' COUNTRY

By PAUL BEWSHER, with the B.EF,

TWO British airmen flew for 21⁄2 hours over German territory at 15,000ft. in u cloudless sky. Not a Aghter 'plane came up to meet them, not an A.A. gun was fired.

They flew over hundreds of miles of roads. They were bare of any trattle. They flow over hundreds of miles of railway lines. Not a single train was

seen.

The airmen-a 23-years-old scr- geant-pilot und a sergeant-observer -returned only when their film had run out.

They brought back a perfect pic- torial record of their amazing flight. They were summoned to B.E.F. head- quarters and congratulated on "an exceptionally brilliant reconnais- sance."

1

I heard from the airmen their own story

"For 20 minutes we cruised to and fro above a camouflaged aerodrome behind the Siegfried Line," said the. observer.

"Our photographs of it, taken by an electrically operated camera, show that there was a squadron of Messer- schmitt fighters on the ground. Yet not one rose to attack wi

"Over one big railhead, which I know from previous experience to be ar with an-aircraft guru, we flew for half an hour. We made five op- make sure we got everything possible on our film.

"Yet not a shot was fired at us.

from the ground, but we ought to have been spotted."

TWELVE men clung to the rigging of a shipwrecked trawler as a rocket life-prouches from different directions to was shot to them from the shore.

After the husband had given evi- line dence Judge Earengey, commented: "The fact that you are on war service does not justify you in refusing to pay rent, Landlords have been badly one they dropped exhausted into the sea. | hii."

"Tried To Do Justico"

He would adjourn the case gene- rally on the understanding that Mr. Reid should pay 15s, a week until she got a hardship allowance, permitting her to pay the full rent and sume- thing of arrears, the first 158. to be pald imunediately.

They could not secure the line. Their cries for help grew fainter as one by Maybe a bit of haze had screened us

Then he, too,

At last only one man was left. For eight hours he hung on. slid beneath the waves.

In this way the skipper and crew of the Fleetwood trawler

Merisin (291 tons) lost their lives when the ship went on the CODE

rocks at Bulghap Bay, near Ramsey, Isle of Man.

Six bodies have been recovered. When the men's cries for help were heard it was found im- Private Heid: We have nothing but possible to launch the Ramsey lifeboat.

Port St. Mary lifeboat put out, but p the bounty I got when I came on

could not cover the 25 miles Journey get that for my own use leave.

In time, for fighting in France. Why should 1 give it to him? The allowance my wife gets is not for him but to feed

childreu,

my

Members of the Ramsey Bfe-saving corps were lowered down the 600ft. elt and put out two lifelines which could not the shipwrecked nen secure.

The Judge: I hope when you think over the whole matter you will feel that the Court has tried to do justice to a serving soldier.

Only two days before the men of the Merisin had been presented with Pawned Wedding RingTM

£100 for saving ve Dutchmen from after reporter Mrs. Reid told u leaving the court:

"I do not known open boat in the Atlantic. un going to pay the how on earth

Anchor Explodes Mine

the When

8,000-ton

Mar. 16. THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, 1. out of my present allowance.

.Mar. 16. .Mur. 16. .Mar. 10.

Fort Bayard and Helbow...1.30 p.m. Manile, Straits, Ceylon, India, E. and

Rex. Ord.,

LIMITED

NOTICE is hereby given that the

Two of my three children are twins, nine months old, and require special food which costs 10s. a week.

This is how I have had to live TWENTY FIRST ORDINARY singe my husband went to fight," she YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office added, producing a bundle of pawn- the Company No. 10, Des Voeux tickets for jewellery, including Rond Central, on Saturday, the 16th (wedding ring. March, 1940, at 3.60 p.m. for the pur-

Bose of receiving the Report of the Directors of Accounts for the year ended 31st p.m.December, 1939.

S. Afrien, Egypt and Europe vin Brindisi-due Brindist 5th April. G. P. O, and K. P. 0.

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Airways Paris, 21 March,

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They're a Careful Lot, These Scots

THIS happened somewhere among the Scottish islands.

The pilot had run out of petrol. It was getting dark

tanker Mamura was heaving anchor of a south-cast roast port the anchor and he made a difficult landing struck a mine, but the vessel was on the sandy beach of what he thought was an uninhabited is undamaged.

land.

| LETTER

ON

| MAN KILLED

BY TRAIN

A LETTER in code was found on Mr. Gordon Walker (45), a company director, of Moyleen Farm, Marlow, Bucks, who was killed when he fell in front of a G.W.R. train at Mal- denhead Station,

It is expected to be produced when

the Maidenhead coroner opens the in-

quest.

a

Mr. Walker, went to the railway station from the Queen's Club, men's bridge plub at Maidenhead, where he was seen to write a letter which he placed in his pocket just before he left.

As the plane pulled up a crofter appeared through the gloom.

During the past four years he had "Are you German?" he delived at Marlow with a friend, Mr..

weremanded.

There was a sudden roar and a huge column of water shot high into the air as the mine exploded.

Members of the crew forward were

Four slightly injured. They were attend-

from the shore

ore in a lifeboat. Because the captain of the Nor- Songa refused a PITTSBURGH Count Fritz Dan wegian

together with a Statement Count Now

And 'Proud'

Mister hurled of their feet, Of Ited by a doctor, who reached them

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Satur day, 8th March, 1940 to Saturday. 1611 March, 1010, (both days indi- Juan Frederick von Bernstorft-Blen-U-boat commander's demand to s sive) during which period no transferner has renounced his title to become papers that his ship was carrying con- just plain Fritz Bernstorff, an Ameritraband, his vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantir and the crew left to reach ean citizen and proud of it.

The member of a Danish family and as best they could. that traces its nobility for back took the oath of allegiance to the United States January 18 and remarked:

of shares can be registered.

By order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 26th February, 1940.

FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

mention."

For

#

G. Simpson. His friends include "No," said the airman, "I belong many stage and screen celebrities. to the air base at

"You're nol Scottish," repiled thei wary crofter.

"No," said the pilot. "1 really be- long to Capetown.".

Boy Evacuees Cycled 300 Miles

Our Were

Leaflets

BLOWN To Vienna

BUDAPEST.

NAZI words of comfort to the people of Vienna: If you find a British leaflet in your garden It has not been dropped from a British plane flying over Vienna.. It has been blown from the French frontier by the west wind. The official Nazi newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter, on the front page-this-week-end, trics. to back up the official Naxi state- ment that no British planes have flown over Austria and Crecho- Slovakia,

In spite of the efforts of Nazi officials, thousands of leaflets dropped by British planes over Vienna liave been picked up by the Austrians,

The explanation is very simple, says the Vorikischer Blocbachter. "I

you drop a leaflet from height of thirty feet the wind will drive it about fifty feet The Austrians are then "way." reminded of the "frequent west- erly winds" Germany has been experiencing during the last few wecks.

Bombers Can't Be 'Silent'

The crofter inquired exhaustively five and nights the crew into the pilot's bona-fides and de

-luys

One manded his papers. · drifted in their two lifeboats. drifted nabore on the Eireann const.

At last, when the pilot expressed aį "It's a great privilege. I'd rather

In the boat was the British radio

SIX-FOOT Kenneth Toshell be called Mister in this country than operator, Mr. Thomas Murray, of desire to shoot all the Germans in

(15) and Nevill Williamson Count in any other country you can Preston, Lancs. It was his third ex-Berlin, the crofter was satisfied.

perience of torpedoing, for he served "If that's how you feel," he said, (16) are to stay for a few days After receiving his citizenship in the White Star Liners Laurentic "you have landed in the right place, with Williamson's uncle at Mel- GERMAN bombers will not

Mr. Bernstorff recalled and Cymras in the last war.

Come and have a cup of tea."

kinthorpe, the Westmorland be able to take our defences log with Marshal Karl Gustav

"We had only two biscuits a day, What to do to help a child

the and when we sighted Fastnet Rock Mannerheim, Commander of

Everything possible was done for village where they were found unawares by flying across our Anyone knowing of a child who Finnish forces defending their coun- Light on Thursday, every man was the pilot in the village, Next day he after a search for them through consts unheard.

got petrol and took off to continue his ten counties. against the Itussian invasion. trozen almost stiff," he saki. has been assaulted, neglected, or though not a Finn, he served with

flight. manner likely to Mannerheim's White Guard in 1928-

Depth Charges lll-treated in a cause unnecessary suffering or injury Mar. 14. 5.30 pm to health, or knowing of a parent

Anti-submarine operations oft tho Mrs. Bernstorff, the former Hedvig British coast were described by the G.P.0.

who is seeking advice on any matter Alfsen of New York, at first opposed crew of the trawler Ruff when she .Mar. 14.5 p.m. Mar. 15, 7.30 am. concerning a child, would be doing her husband's desire to give up his an act of kindness by communicating title but he said she was happy over al once with-

hig netion now. The

General Hon.

Secretary, .1.00 p.m. H.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall. 2.30 p.m.

The Inspector, 40, Pokfulam Road, 3.00 pm. 1st floor. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA., Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco (No Lane, 2nd Floor,

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Friday, Mar. 15

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Parcels .for Canada)-due

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The Inspector, 12, Sai Young Chol

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The Informant's

name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved,

POPE'S · CELEBRATION

Giant

New York. Plons of a huge new bomber, large enough to fly the Atlantic and back non-stop, have been in the hands of a foreign agent, it was revealed.

The bomber is now nearly finished at California. The plans were stolen but subsequently recovered, .10.30 o..

Alr'corps and commercial engineers 1,30 p.m.

Vatican City. Mar. 12. have been working.secretly on this .2.30 p.m.. The Pope celebrated the first plans for over 12 months. It weighs Airways anniversary of his Coronation as more than 70 tons, its wingspread is 24th Pontiff with A special Pontineal over 200ft., and its new model motors.

High Moss in St. Peter's this morn- promise a range up to 7,000 miles.

The service was conducted by The new bomber is expected to ing the Dean of the College of Cardinala undergo its first teats next summer. p.m. and nearly 50.000 people attended One foreign Clovernment-which, it is not stated-ls known to be interested,

Direct Bervice"-due London March

Ord

Amoy

GPO. and K.F.O.

To

...Mar. 16. 5.30

Sunday, Mar. 17.

4.30.

Reuter Bulletin,

arrived in west coast port.

len-mile

of speed.

It has not been possible to produce an engine slleneer without sacrifice.

The bomber cannot afford to lose even 10 m.ph. in excliange of the for the doubtful gain silencer, as it is already 30 m.p.h, than the to 50 m.pl. slower fighter.

The boys left their billets at Col- chester, saying they were going for a Black-out Adds To

cycle ride. Instead they to the North-300 miles, cycled

"The boys are little the worse for Juvenile Crime at

their adventure, only very remorse- "We faw some naval vessels and

One-sixth of the crime in Brighton fit," Mr. Williamson said, at his home. then card thuds of depth charges

Gordens, Chingford. in Conigsby during the past year has been com- said one of the crew. exploding

"Our chip began to roll and pitch mitted by juveniles, the number of "There is no question of their bel and the Nip's bell clanged loudly as young offenders having risen by 45 in trouble ut their school in Col- the noise from the propellers is suf- we buffeted about. We could not see to 224.

These facts are disclosed in the whether they got the U-boat or not."

Mined in the North Sea in Decem- Chief Constable's annual report. It ber and abandoned in a sinking con-adds that shopbreaking and the num- dition, the steamer Eakdene has been ber of people kliled and injured in brought in by tugs and docked for street accidents also have increased

ins,the result of the black-out. repairs.

Butter Now

Ersniffz Butter

HERR SCHMIDT, of Berlin, just can't do without butter in cooking.

But he can't get any butter.

His chemist has come to his aid. For a few marks he will sell Herr Schmidt a little bottle of perfume, ne mo

A few drops of this new triumph of ersatz invention, and the butterless dish smells and tastes just as though it had been cooked In 'best butter-so they say.

chester."

Sun Yat-sen Memory

Even when engines are silenced, ficient to betray the presence of the bomber to the sound locators round the coasts.

tions. Parlleularly striking was the group representing the Army, under the personal command of Gen. Lu Shih, Chungking garrison, common- unita Chungking, Mar. 12. der, who led the mechanised

Jatest firearms and

WAT, Chungking to-day celebrated the with the anniversary of Spiritual Mobilisation trophies.

In Day which falls on the 15th anniver-

the morning tree-planting sary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. ceremonies took place in eight dis The

ranged .programme

from tricts. The entire city was beflagged memorial meetings, demonstrations as the day was proclaimed a national of gilders and athletic contests in the holiday. In the afternoon Wei Chao, daytime to a big torchlight proces-of the Chinese Aeronautical Adaira Commission, gave a demonstration on Twelve groups took part in the glider flying machine built by him, procession, including the Party Gov- for which only native material have ment, fighting services, police, frel been used. There was also been. brigade,, members of youth labour, inspection of the citizens' air defence merchants and Women's organic nits~Reuter,

sion, in the evening.