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HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

NOTICE is heroby given that tho EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Sharo- holders of the Hongkong Engineer- ing & Construction Company, Limited, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Sir Elly Kadoorle & Sony, St. George's Building, Chater Rond, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of recoly- Ing the Report of the Board of a Statement of Directors and Accounts for the year ended on the 31st December, 1939, and electing

Directors and Auditora.

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 22nd April to the 1st May, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

B. ALVES,

Hongkong, 16th April, 1940.

Secretary.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE,

COMPANY. LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on TUES DAY, the 30th day of April, 1940, at Noon in the BOARD ROOM of

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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Pro-Nazi Broadcaster Condemned

AND

MOTHER GRIEVE FOR

A TRAITOR

PARIS.

FRANCE'S "most tragic women"-a grey-haired grandmother and her young grand-daughter-have been driven temporarily to renounce the world through the shame of a Frenchman's treason.

Air Gate- Crasher

Is A Nazi

POST OFFICE and B.B.C. experts are now satisfied that the "New British Broadcast- which gate- ing Station," erashed on the air, is radiat- ing from Germany,

Listeners who have studied the propaganda it broadcast belleve that

Nuzi-inspired.

Its wavelength is 50.03 metres. Though transmitting on low power, its messages, renched the country clearly and with little interference. A Real Job

the Company, SECOND FLOOR. EXCHANGE BUILDING, HONGi KONG, for the purpose of receiv- ing a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Direc- tors, for the financial year ended 31st December, 1939, and electing two Directors and the Auditors.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 20th April to 30th April, 1940, both days inclusive.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1940.

By Order of the Board,

J. P. SHERRY,

Manager.

14 Des Voux Rond Central,

Hong Kong.

CRY MEANT BETRAYAL

---HE DIED

RATHER than Warn the Germans of the presence of his raiding party, French officer allowed himself to sink in an icy stream and drown without a cry for aid.

to

INWARD MAILS Haiphong

Apr. 15. USA. and Manlio (San Francisco

The officer-according

the date, 10th Mar.)

.Apr. 10.

15. French account he proved himself Apr. 16, by this net equal to the purest liero .Apr. 30. of ancient times"was a member of Apr. 16. Colonial regiment. Waking and Apr. 10. sleeping, they had been living a week Apr. 10. with their fingers at the trigger. Straits.

..Apr. 37. Air Mall by Air France Direct Ser

vice"Paris date, 18th April.

Apr. 17,

A doctor in civil life, the hero had Air Mali by "Pan American Airways for many years carried out researches Direct Service"-San Francisco in Africa in tropical diseases. He Apr. 17. cume at war's command to serve his date, 10th April Haiphong

Apr. 17. regiment on the Western Front. Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-London, date 10th April

Apr. 18.

Halphony

Haiphong

Noon.

Proved His Courage

Many times he proved his courage. When, on the night of his death, his Colonials planned a daring rald on German pasts, they had to cross a flooded stream.

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, Apr. 15

The officer requested the honour of .3.00 pm, being arst to land on the enemy bank. Saigon

.6.30 p.m. He was entrusted with the task of Canton

.7.00 pm. | discovering the best place for ad- Tuesday, Apr. 16

vance and retreat, Manila, Makassar, and Sourabaya

3,30 a.m. Finding a canoe he crossed, despite Fort Bayard, Hoihow and Haiphong the violent current and the presence

Noon. of German 1ook-out men.

Farcels only for Tientaln. 12.30 p.m. Salgon and Bangkok..... 12.30 p.m. Parcels only for Tientsin..5.00 p.m. Alr Mall for "Imperiat Airways Direct Service"-due London, 24th April.

K.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

.Apr. 10, 5 p.m. Apr. 16, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

.Apr. 16, 5 pun. Ord.

Apr. 16, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java" and Aus- tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice"-dan Sydney, 22nd April.

K.P.O.

Ror.

Ord

Rer.

Onl.

.Apr. 10, 5 p.m. .Apr. 18, 5.30 p.m. Q.P.O.

Apr. 16. 5 p.m. .Apr. 16. 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 Air Mall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France

Dragged Down

On his way back the canoe sank. Undeterred, he plunged into the river and swam over, carrying a rope which

he tethered to the German side as

guide for the raiding party.

Then he began his swim back to the French side. Exhausted by his e- forts and the speed of the stream, he was drawn into a strong under- | current.

A cry would have brought several men to his old. But that cry would have given the alarm to German watchers. It was never given.

Instead, the heroic officer was drawn below the water to his death, Unconscious of the raiding party, the German sentries maintained their

watch-in vain.

Airways Direct Service"-due WEST POINT HOLD-UP

Paris, 28th April,

K. P. O.

Flex., .....Apr. 17, 5:00 p.m.

G. F. O.

Or...Apr. 17, 7.00 pas.

Up General Store

The steadiness of the reception showed that the broadensters were

They are the mother and daughter of Paul Ferdonnet, broadcaster of pro-Nazi and anti-French propaganda from the Stuttgart radio station.

Ferdonnet has been publlely pro- the Father- claimed a "traltor to land" in his native village of La Bataille, In Western France.

And, overwhelmed by grief at his treason, the two women have sought solace and forgetfulness in a neigh- bouring convent.

A third woman, his former wife.) has hidden her identity in marriage.

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"Trumpet & Drum" Ferdonnet's assistant and col- laborator, Obrecht, formerly known as Jacques Saint Germun, an obscure actor, has Ilkewise been declared al "traitor to the State."

The declaration at La Bataille or FETdonnet's treason was made with solemn old-time ceremony of "trum- pet and drum."

The "lown crler" read the pro-

not using a mobile transmitter, but clamation to the villagern before

a permanent unit with many techni-placing it on the walls.

cal refinements impossible "pirate" transmitter.

on

ם

In surrounding villages, and in the various suburbs of Parls where the

A full record of what was said two traitors had lived from time to

was made by the B.B.C. Monitor Service.

"We address ourselves," said the unknown voice, "to every Britisher who loves his country, no matter what party he belongs to."

Then the announcer weht on to make the usual type of Nazi attack! on Britain.

Waiting

The Monitor Service men were again waiting to record the trans- mission.

It is suggested that the station has been introduced to counteract the

failure of the regular German broad-

casts in Engush.

Hamburg and Bremen have recent-I ly shown such complete lack of originality in propaganda work that even the Germans themselves must have realised it.

time,

proclamation has also been affixed to public walls.

Ferdonnet, the former Berlin cor-

on Nuzl respondent of two Paris newspapers,

propaganda

carried France.

Boast Came Truc

in

He returned to his native village, last year with a new German wife, truvelling in a luxurious molor-car.

But his mother and daughter whom he had abandoned refused to

him. see

April 15, 1940.

The

GIRL

Over Match

North Sea.

A BLACKBURN "SHARK" torpede-carrying plane over H.M.S. Nolson somewhere in the North Sea."

Won Three Dog

Fights, Gets D.F.Č.

"MAGNIFICENT COURAGE" SQUADRON-LEADER ANDREW D. FARQUHAR, hero of three air battles in which Heinkel bombers were His notoriety as a Nazi agent had already become known in his village. brought down on Scottish soil, was decorated by the King

Ferdonnet then boasted that he would become famous. "One day France will be talking about me," he said.

His boast has come true. France talks about him-but as a traitor,

Told Ten Year Old Love

Secret-Then

Died

AS a girl, aged fifteen, stood singing in the choir of Minster Church Thanet, every Sunday morning, a young schoolboy sat watching her from the congregation.

He was Robert Clarke who, when he knelt to pray, asked that one day the pretty little choir girl would be his wife.

Margaret Barclay, the little girl, never guessed his secret. Robert joined the But when they grew up they were parted. Australian contingent of the R.A.F. Margaret became a nurse. Not till war broke out did they hear of one another again. For Robert, o Squadron - Leader had not forgollen his childhood sweet- heart.

From a friend at the place where he first met her, he found out where she was living, and wrote asking her to become his wife,

Ho reminded her of the Sunday! mornings in the tle church, other; children they played with, and told her how he fell in love at first | Biglit.

His Last Wish -

"I still cannot remember him. You see, I knew lots of boys when I was a child, I can't place which one he could be.

"Its commandant has been in touch with me. He told me that Robert's last wish was for me to make myself known to his mother, who lives at Broadstairs.

"I don't know where to get into touch with her there, and I hardly

But Margaret could not remember te to. Though her son wanted me for his wife I'm in an awkward post-

him.

recently.

He received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The Investiture took place at an aerodrome in Scotland which the King visited after decorating eight officers and men of the Royal Navy at a Scottish dockyard.

Farquhar won the D.F.C, for shooting down a raider single-handed at North Berwick early this month.

Magnificent Dash

on

"He has led his squadron with magnificent dash and courage several occasions," states the Air Ministry account of his gallantry

While un patrol in Vickers Spit- he sighted the Heinkel, followed it into a cloud, and, sighting it again

fire

in a clear patch. gave a burst with.

machine-guns.

his

Though he expended only a small amount of ammunition, his fire was so accurale that both engines of the raider were put out of action and it had to land.

During the German raid on the Firth of Forth on October 10, he chased one of the raiders over the roofs of Edinburgh,

Four Days Ago

He was also the leader of the squadron that shot down the first enemy ralder to fall on British Foil, the Heinkel that came down on the Lammermuir Hills, near Dalkeith, on October 20.

It was

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the same Auxiliary Air

that crashed Force squadron Heinkel near St. Abu's Head, Her- wickshire.

Farquhar, in his Spitfire, followed the raider down, but was too late to prevent the Germans destroying it.

iter she had received his letter to commandant said that he The Naval men decorated by the she had a phone call from him at would put some little remembrance King

were Comdr. L.. A. K.

Left Her Lover

In

Nazi Camp

A 19-YEAR-OLD girl typist who went to Vienna with her sweetheart in August has been back alone after months as a prisoner of the Nazis.

I met her as she stepped ashore: here.

She is Miss Dorothy Hughes, a tall brunette, whose home is at Battersen Park-road, S.W.

Her narica is Robert Saunders, still

in a Nazi camp at Nuremberg.

This is her story as told by people with whom she had travelled home.

40 In A Cell

She and her fiance arrived in Vienna four days before war broke out.

Mr. Saunders was arrested and sent to an internment camp five days after war with England started.

"I stayed on in the hotel," she aald, "knowing nobody, lonely and unable to speak the language.

"On December 1 the police took me to prison.

"I was put with 40 other women In a small cell. It was horrible.

"We slept on mattresses on stone floors. The food was nothing more than black brend and sour soup.

. Became II

"After a time I was moved to an- other cell with only eight giris. They were all political prisoners.".

Miss Hughes become

A few days ago she was moved to Berlin, and then allowed to leave for home.

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With Miss Hughes were 34-year-

Miss Edith Baget-Hart, from Munich, and Mics Lucy Baker-Beall, 71-year-old toucher from Poland. Miss Baker Beall, whose family's home is at Bexleyheath, Kent, lived in Poland for 32 years.

"There is nothing there now but plunder and murder," she snitt.

|CANADIAN_G.O.C. ISˆ ALDERSHOT C.-IN.C.

General MeNaughton, G.O.C. Cann- over the dian troops, has taken supervision and administration of the entre Aldershot command.

He will be in charge for the next

six days while Lieutenant-General Broad is away on short leave.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

"I think you're getting gypped on that hand lotion, Ma- your hands ain't any softer than before."

Aldershot. He told her that he was from mo on Robert's grave, and that Boswell, who received the DS.O. How Submarine Starfish Was Lost being sent to France, and asked her when he is home he will call to see Licut-Comdr. D. L, Saumorez, who was given the D.S.C.; Petty Officer to walt for him.

It was.not to be.

"I will bring a wedding ring with would have cherished the mem-II. Finvell, acting Petty Omeer H. G. me when I come home on leave," he ory of seeing Robert just once, but Launder, Ldg. Seaman T. W. Br

verall, Senmon G. C. Sterry, R.N.R., told her.

McClelland, Chief Engineman G. I'm

R.N.R., and Engineman R. W. Fox, R.N., each of whom received thei

Only a few days after he had gone- his commandant sent a message to ray he had crashed and was don- gerously ill.

Died Unexpectedly Margaret prepared to leave her job and go to his side, but another mes- sage arrived shortly afterwards say ing he was alightly better, and she

was not to worry.

Directly after shio had heard he

"Now men don't interest me. afraid. My work is all that matters,

Iron Cross Man

D.S.M.

Details of the deeds which had won these medals were not an- nounced.

ALL

ESCAPED BY DAVIS HATCH

'AMSTERDAM.

THE Grst authentic account of the loss of the British sub- marine Starfish, which with the Undine, sank while on patrol In

In Our Army LEAVING FOR HOME the Heligoland Bight, was given to-day by Miss Mary Brecken

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Given Farewell Party

ridge, of the Columbla Bread-the boat then sank again. A FORMER German Ber

Miss Breckenridge said that the Miss Breckenridge said that Britons and 68 Frenchmen.

prisoners in the camp included 120 was better another message follow-geant-major, Willy Teller, has Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Edwards casting system.

joined the British Army Auxi- ed to say he had died suddenly.

during a visit to a camp for The officers live at the top of a "It would have been nice to have filary. Pioneer Corps.

Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Edwards, who Allied prisoners of war in Central cone shaped hill in a 700-year-old. He was wounded four Umes by

with drawbridge, Reg., Apr. 17, 5.00 p.m. Chinese Threatens To Blow seen him just once," Margaret, who

British and French bullets in the will be leaving Hongkong shortly, Germany she spoke to survivors castle complete Ord., ..Apr. 17, 5.30 pm.

is now twenty, told me.

She is a nurse at a Greenwich Great War, and three times were entertained at a farewell party from the submarines-it will be turrets, courtyard and a fine vlow. It awarded the Iron Cross for bravery, at the Sallora and Soldiers' Home recalled that both crows were has been modernised, with central hospital.

"At first, when I received his later. At the Liverpool pellee court he yesterday, by the English Methodist saved and that from one of the heating. With a threat to blow up the shop

The men seemed very at, had Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Hono- If he did not receive the money he thought it was someone having a was sentenced to one day's imprison- Church.

Mrs. Edwards has been an active men of the Starfish sho heard access to a varied library, played lula and U.8.A by the "Pan wanted, a Chinese on Saturday morn-joke with me. But he reminded me ment for changing his address with-

of so many Incidents during my child-out notifying the authorities.

social worker, having dono much for the story of their misadventuro.bridge.

Among British prisoners in the American Airways Direct Servfoeing successfully obtained $8 from

"I did not mean to offend," he the fighting forces in inliling and or The Starfish, she was told, lay on --due San Francisco, 24th April.

general store fi Water Street. How-hood, people we know and places I'd

the bottom for nine hours, unable to challe are men from Borneo, Canada,... ever bis success was short-lived for almost forgotten that I knew him to cold, "and I have

want to fight"Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were pre-move.

Singapore, New Zealand, India and shortly after the West Polat Police be genuine. He joked at my upturn- but it le not that joined your army, annisation.

noldiers but rented with a clock as a souvenir. Eventually, after the Germans had South Africa, against my former arrested him.

ed nose and freckles too,

"I did not promise him I'd marry, against Hillerian and all it means. Rev. J. E. Sandbach and Mr. J. H. dropped 32 depth charges, it was [Davis rescue apparatus enables men. to rise to surface from flooded "Because my grandfather was a Geiling, Circuit Steward, spoke in Impossible to escape. The aftermost

Lescape hatch when pressure equate I said I would tell him when I mot

that of sea butalde, submarine. grenades and a bayonet. When he him, but I promised there was no Jew the, Germans forced me to adopt appreciation of what Mr. and Mrs. ballast tank was then emptied. This first entered the store he demanded a one else. He said he was going to the name of Samuel and finally Edwards had done and the esteem brought the boat's stern above the high sum of money but was given bring a wedding ring home on his drove me from the country with my that they had gained from their ac-surface. The whole crew got out Standard in British Navp since

quantances. wife and nine-year-old son."

through the Davis escape hatch, and only $8 by the shop, keeper.

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Reg. Ord.

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Swntow

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.Apr. 17, 5 p.m. „Apr. 17, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O. ZUGABE IT, B 1.20. ......Apr. 11, 7.80 a.m. Thursday, Apr. 18

11.30 am. .1.30 p.m.

When searched the man was found

to be in possession of four hand

next leave.

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