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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 1940

CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. They Were Franco's Victims-Then Hitler's

ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50 for 3 days propaid

FOR SALE.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Tho Seventy-first Ordinary RARE DIE proofs of Hongkong and General Meeting of Shareholders

MINED

START

LONG, long ago—it would China postage stamps on view and will be held at the Offices of the he about the spring of 1936 fox sale at Craen Je Co. 10, undersigned on Thursday, the 4th Wyndham Street, Hongkong. Estab-April, 1940, at Noon, for the-life in Barcelona seemed Manuela, young purpose of receiving the Report good to

Ushed 1890.

DOGS FOR SALE. Well trained of the General Managers, together wife of Juan Claramunt, dog and bitch. English Setter with a statement of Accounts for textile worker, and her

bird

and Cocker Spaniel. Apply 27,

Chinese Garden Village, Ping Shan,the year ended the 31st December, friend Victoria, recently

New Territories,

"ITONGKONG AS REVEALED BY

1939.

out of the sen when a Hitler mine

The Share Register and Trans-wed to Pedro Vines, the THE CAMERA" Second Edition, ter Books will be closed from the barber.

of the 21st March to the 4th April, 1940, Over 00 excellent vlows Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at both days inclusive. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

CLEARING SALE, zubject to unsold, of the following articles:-Feather machines, 500 watt Lighting sets, Laboratory Instruments (oil testing). Henters

and Cookers (kerosene),

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Hongkong, 14th March, 1940.

power lamps and accessories, GREEN ISLAND CEMENT leathers, the materials, kollting glass lamp-shades,

machine necans, gentleman's belts, Indy's measurement tapes, sleeve links and holders etc. For further particulars, please apply to Sander, Wieler & Co. (in liquidation), King's Buliding, 2nd door, Telephone No. 24411.

NO CUTS IN NEW

"MEIN KAMPE”

RUSSIANS STILL SCUM

COPENHAGEN,

CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifty first Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the offices of the Company, Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria,

Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of April, 1910, at 11.30 o'clock, a.m.'for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1939.

The special feld pocket edition of Hitler's book Mein Kampf, recently described in The Daily Telegraph, has now been placed on the market in Germany and is being despatched Company will be CLOSED from

to the front. No cuts have been made in the Lext of the new edition.

As a result

German soldiers in the Siegfried Line will now read the con- dered opinion of the Fuchrer that " pact with Russin will lead to the downfall of Germany,"

Further, they will read that the leaders of their Russian allies are " handful of Jewish litterateurs and hourse bandits" who lud "killed or glarved to death with

brutality nearly 30,000,000

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the

A few days ago they were picked

struck a Dutch liner which was to take them to peace and forgetfulness in South America.

Manuela saw her young husband drown.

Victorin was already a widow. ffer Pedro went, three years ago, to fight for the Republic of Spain.

She did not see him again and has Riven in up for loni.

and

Eight months ago Manuela Juan, her husband, took counsel with Victoris.

For two and a half years bombs. had rained

'on Barcelona. Juan's factory had been destroyed. Food was scarce and life was difficult. Now Franco's forces were on the out- skirts of the city. They decided to seek refuge in far-off Colombia, shelter and work.

where relatives would give them

200-Milo Walk

The three lett the city where they were born and wed, and had lived contentedly until the "trouble" had

come.

Ench carrying a small bundle of personal belongings and food, they look the road to the French frontier. Between them they had three hundred

THURSDAY, the 21st MARCH, 1940. to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd APRIL, 1940, both days inclusive.transport. They

·

pesetas.

It There

red miles in twelve

was no two hund- By Order of the Board of trudging across the high Pyrenees deya, painfully

Directora,

until, weary and footsore, they come in sight of France and hope. R. TAYLOR,

For three months Manucle,

Vic- Acting Secretary.toria, and Juan walted in

camp of thousands of their with Hongkong, 4th March, 1940.

countrymen and women who, like them, had fled from their native

show the truth of our racial theories." land."

kcores

Another part of Mein Kampf states, On page 750 the rulers of Russin Then came a welcome packet from referring to Russia, that "the gigantle { are described as "common blood-their relatives in Colombia with Empire in the East is nearing itsbespattered criminals who are money to buy their passages across collapse catastrophe which will!seum of the human race."

the Atlantle..

the

Then to Paris-but to procure visas Tomamu was a long and complicated business. Months passed, hope receding, and when the clouds of another war burst despair came to the little party of

A Dash Of Fashion Spices

KONG.

The New World

A month ago happiness returned with the news that visas for Colom- bin had been granted. Eagerly they entrained for Amsterdam, where they boarded the liner.

TOLD: MORE

TO CHILDREN

A

ON WAY

NEW

LIFE

THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL

NO MORE FAG CARDS

"GOT

The King on the Drury Lane stage chatling with a member of Leslic Henson's "Galettes," who are going to entertain the troops in France.

Played Truant

To Watch

a fag card, mister?" wil Guard Change

soon be a question of the past,

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Geoffrey Harvey, of Firs Collage, THEY'RE SO

Juan was sitting with Manueln board in the national interest,” BEAUTIFUL

Brooklands Road, Weybridge, is only CHIC

Similar action was taken in the last 14 but his passion for the Army has ENOUGH TO INFURIATE YOUR and Victoria in the liner on that DEAREST ENEMY, SANE ENOUGH TO DELIGHT THE MAN IN YOUR bright morning when the dull thud of war.

an explosion shook her.

already got him into difficulties be- FAMILY-AND-OH: FINAL JOY....

cause he could not keep his mind on his lessons.

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A few seconds later Juan bundled the two women into the crowded life- Now, two young women sit in a boat and shouted. "I will follow." Bloomsbury hotel lounge amid eight Manuela 'saw him leap into the other Innocent victims of Hitler's water as the ship heeled over. She savagery waiting for a ship to take saw him no more.

them to safety,

Fortune May Be In Your Pocket Wallet

He has been sent to a farm in Deuon in the hope that he will be happy there and forget till he is a tile older that there are such places as recruiting offices.

Geoffrey has been released from the Junior Technical College, King- ston-on-Thames, hia headmaster having reported to the School Com- mittee that Geoffrey could not be in- duced to take any interest in the school as he had made up his mind to enlist.

Mrs. Harvey revealed that for five weeks Geoffrey played truant from school.

Lovos Glamour

"He took his lunch and books every morning," she said, "but instead of

going to school he went to London.

"Apparently he went to see the Changing of the Guard. He loves clamour, and perhaps that in why he has such a passion for the Army.

RARE postage stamps are becoming more and more the gilt-edged securities of refugees and those who fear for the independence or the security of currency of their country.

The numbers existing of the rarer instances of forgeries which sell for stamps are known almost exactly to more than the genuine stamps. Often the big dealers and collectors, und these are forgeries which were made relative value cannot therefore be to defraud the post. affected by any sudden flooding of Collectors have often specialised in the market-as in the case of pre- forgeries. Some of the fakes are clous stones and meinis.

easily discovered through wrongly Moreover, a fortune in stamps can spell words or missing words; others be carried in a wallet, For that only by slight variations in shading

and colour. many rare specimens have been smuggled out of Austria and Among the hardest forgeries to Czecho-Slovakia.

discover are those where false post-Devon and he seems to like it very They are saleable in any part of marks, watermarks and surcharges much. He writes that he is rounding the world, though London is the have been added to genuine stamps. best market.

reason

Prices, since the war, have increased by from 20 to 40 per cent.

Most of the buyers in London to- day are from abroad, although the blackout has resulted in a tremendous Increnso in the number of collectors in Britain

at a

Nijinsky May Live In U.S.

NEW YORK.

movements unul the school wrote and "I did not know anything about his

asked me when he was returning.

"He is now down on a big farin in

up ponies on Dartmoor.

"His headmaster said that he had done everything to persunde my boy to remain at school, but Geoffrey would only any that he was determin- ed to be a soldier.

He had been to several recruiting offices, but was turned away when they found out his age. I have only

TF permission to enter the United two boys, and my husband and I did Last week, In the stamp suction Stater con be obtained, Vasalov-overything to dissuade him." rooms of H. R. Harmer, of Bond- Nijinsky, the Russian dancer whose An official of Kingston Technical street, I saw Gold the Finnish section mental collapse 20 years ago robbed School said: "Geoffrey was a smart a collection valued at £100,000, the ballet of its greatest genius, will boy. He had to win a scholarship to says n correspondent.

come here from Switzerland for the be admitted to the school, but his whole mind was set on joining up, Top price was £425 for a block of duration of war. six rose ten-kopek stamps.

The plan in that a neuropathic in-and it would have been unfair to keep The collection owned by Mr. stitute at Hartford, Connecticut, shalt him here studying engineering against Agathon Faberge, whose father was attempt to complete the cure.

This will."

Joweller to the

Russian Imperial

Court. Many of the stamps in the collection come from the Imperial archives the gift of the Tsar.

Fakos Worth Mora

After the sale Mr. Harmer show- ed me part of his voluminous collec- tion of forgeries-slamps that, if genuine, would be worth

about £3,000,000.

Because of their value for the pur- posa

of checking and comparing other they have a real value of sands of pounds. Paradoxically there are one or two

Kipling's Home

(FOR THE NATION)

THE home for many years of Rudyard Kipling —“Bate- mans,” at Burwash, East Bussex--has been left to the National Trust by Mrs. Kipling, with an endowment of £5,000.

It is Jacobean in style, and appears to have been bullt, rit. the beginning of the seventeenth century. Mrs. Kipling expressed the wish that her husband's study should be left in its present

state.

GERMAN women must have more children, orders Das Schwarze Corps official organ of the S.S. men, Hitler's Black Guards.

"In all parts of Germany the birth Brures have risen, it is stated. "For the first time since the world war the number of

tho cradles equals

number of Dofflits.

"The percentage of our birth rate

is well above that of the French and

Innocent Girl Convicted

THE Post Office is to be asked to pay substantial compensation to a girl of 13 for "grief and suf- fering" she is said to have endur- ed through prosecution,

The matter was discussed at a Gloucestershire Public. Assistance

English-those dying democracies Commitice meeting. who are insolent enough to want to Mr. R. L. Moon, clerk to the County establish a regime of money-greedy Caunefl, slated that the girl, on in- men over the life and work of young mate of Dryleaze Girls' Home, Wot- nations,

ton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, was "But we must have full measure in convicted at Cheltenham Juvenile our joy. The Ogures just balance.

Only if the number of cradles exceeds Court of fraud and forgery. the number of coffins can victory be nssured.

"Murderous"

Long Questioning

Quarter Later, on appeal to the Sessions, she was entirely exonerated: It was then stated that another girl had confessed to the fraud,

**The sysirm of the small family, which is a murderous Invention of

"From an interview with the Liberalism, must be abandoned,

matron of à Cheltenham nursing "The future Germany expects not home where the girl was employed only many children, but quality. before her arrest, I found the girl

was. Interrogated for a long time."

"Severe Criticism"

"We should ask ourselves to-day *Is this child the best we can pro- duce? Whoever na ono child or two children can't answer this question with a clear conscience, tlon that Use Public Assistance Com-

"It was not until after the convic-

mittee knew anything about it. An "Only parents of many children appeal was immediately launched. who have done all in their power to produce a fine generation with the conscientious choice of a partner can severe criticism." answer this question."

The omelai action is open to

. The chairman, Lieutenant-Colonel But, except for Goebbels, who has W. E. Longfield, said that if satisfac- four children, the Nazi leaders do not tion were not forthcoming from the follow their own advice.

Post Ofce steps would be taken to Hitler is unmarried. Goering has have a question asked in the House one child.

of Commons, and the Home Office would be approached.

Hesa has one child, and Himmler, whose paper makes the appeal, is married but has no children.

Forget It

Calendars and diaries for 1940, printed

before the war and the alilance with Russio, give the German

TINEFITIMIZE RES

To The Editor,

The "Hongkong Telegraph." Sir-May I, through the medium of your paper, Inquire what the P.W.D. intends doing with Glenealy, the road

people unwelcome reminders in the leading up from the Dairy Farm in Lower Albert Road, up beyond Calne day-by-day quotations.

For instance: January 3. Hitler Road to the gateway of the Botanical Youth founded. "Communism leads Gardens. to death, to misery of the nation, to It was a perfectly good road till decline.'

about four mouths ago they de

January 10. Twentieth annivers elded to tip a bucketful of tar and ary of the loss of Posen (Polish strew it with gravel. Fair or shine, Corridor). "No one of us even it is now a constant menace to one's thinks of starting a war with Poland person, not to mention one's shoe because of the Corridor,-Adolf Hit-leather. ler."

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