1940-04-15 — Page 14

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

'April 15, 1940.

Nitro-Glycerine Explosion Devastates London Outskirts

MILES OF HOUSES, works and green-houses were rocked, smashed and made windowless by the nitroglycerine explosion at the Royal Gunpowder Fac- tory, Waltham Abbey, Essex.

Above (left) you see one of the injured men being taken from the Royal factory, and above is a view of nearby greenhouses in which 5,000 panes of glass were shattered by the blast of air which followed the explosions.

(Left) Policemen held up everybody who wanted to go near the scene of the explosion. (Above) A platoon of soldiers marching to the factory to form a guard.

WOMAN'S FATHER

GENERAL

ABOUT

AS the jury left the box after a libel case at Chester |

WENT TO

MAJOR

Assizes, one member asked Mr. Justice Stable what were Lilian Harvey

the Seventh and Tenth Commandments.

The Judge replied that, subject to correction, he believed they Escapes Nazis

were "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife,"

Mrs. Blanche Agnes Gristwood (70), of Sandon Road, New- ton, Chester, and Miss Greta Marion Stewart (22), a typist, of Kingsway, Nowton, had been

found guilty and bound over on Major Coombs, replying to Mr. three charges of publishing de- Dertram Reece (for Mrs. Gristwood) famatory libels concerning Ma-sald his wife was 15 years older than he and they parted after continuous Jor Bernard Coomba, whose

quarrels. address by direction of the judge was not disclosed. On Postcards

The libels, according to the pro- secution, were on postcards addressed to the major at his mess.

He declared he first met Mrs. Shone| Innocently in 1925.

General Sympathetic

Frank Gristwood, father of Mrs. Shone, said Major Coomba refused to see him, so he got in touch with the general officer-in-chief commanding the Western Command.

The first dated on or about Septem- ber 20, 1030, read: "to which woman will you assign your Army allowance. The General, stated Mr. Gristwood, To your wile, to your inlatress near was very sympathetic and said that the camp, or to the mistress left in it was n maiter regarding discipline

Chester?"

In the Army.

The second postcard dated October He Instructed Colonel Brown, the 10 said: "Seventh and Tenth Com-Officer Commanding Major Coombs, mandments. Ever read?"

to see Coombs.

REPORTS that Lilian Harvey, who London-born film actress became Germany's most popular star, has been interned in Ger- many are untrue. She is safe in France.

Mrs. Walter Harvey, her sis- ter-in-law, who lives in Edgware. SAYS!

"The latest news we had that she is staying at her villa at Juan-les-Pins."

RUGBY HAS

NEW SPORT

Divorce Suit Lasts

15 Years

NEW YORK.

GAOL, £500 FINE,

FOR RACKETEERS

WAR contracts racketeers are likely soon to face the penalty of two years' im- prisonment and a £500 fine.

The exact method of stopping this war-time scandal is now being considered by the Govern-j ment. An early announcement is expected.

The Ministry have warned firms not to listen to intermediaries who think that they have a special' pull in Government departments. Com- missions for introductions are definitely frowned at by the Government.

There are still people who think that they possess a particular and irresistible line of ap- proach. They are about to receive a rude shock.

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THERE has ended in America A divorce suit which began fifteen years ago.

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It was begun by the husband, Wiley Hitchcock, school teacher, of Chiengo.

And it was contested by his wife, Winifred, also a school TWO hundred boys of Rugby teacher, to whom he had then School have discovered a new been married ten years. sport-they are knitting com.

Ever since their battle has gonej forts for the Forces.

on-before thirty judges sitting in Some have become profielenialx different courts. enough to knit pullovers, but they

Wiley Hitchcock was granted his have not yet all solved the mystery

of the extra siltches that keep sp-divorce--because his wife- pearing,

Clairo Luce, the American film

A third dated November 14 rend: Mr. J. Jones Roberia (for Miss "A fellow is pretty tow who Stewart) sald that she had been in- comes between what might be a discreet. happy couple, especially when they The jury found Miss Stewart, who have a baby. I wish it could be typed the postcards, guilty, but in- actress, who raised funds in London understood that men who get wo-discreet and Mrs. Gristwood guilty for a mobile canteen for men passing men into trouble don't make honest under provocation. Binding them through Rugby, performed the open- | women of them if they marry them over the judge ordered Mra, Griat-ing ceremony at Rugby, and after- The whole thing is futile,"

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anid that Mrs. Gristwood had daughter, Mrs. Judith Lucy Bbend,

who was married, and a mother.

Mrs. Shona hnd known the major for a number of years. He served in the last war and married a 1015. Many parted.

Chief Wrens' Pay Up £3

BIG increases in pay are announced for most officers in the Women's Royal Naval Servico. A Chief Officer in the Mobile Section

years ago he and his wife now recelves £350 a year instead of £200,

*10 1938 Mex. Shono and the major Pay for Wren privates in the General Mobile Section will be went away together. In February of reduced 8d. a week, but they will be accommodated either in quarters last year Mrs. Shone left him and or in approved lodgings and will draw naval victuals in kind or returned to her husband, but she was now living with the major again, appropriate allowances.

Put sand in his shaving cream; Destroyed his lecture notes; Soaked his clothes in `water; Shut of the heat in his bell-

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Destroyed his bed-clothes; Hit him with a brass candle-}· stick; and

Beat him' while he slept.

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COMPANY RESULTS

Macao Electric Lighting To Pay $1.50 Dividend

The following report will be sub- mitted to the shareholders at the annual meeting of the Macao Electric Lighting Co., Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mat- thews, Mercantile Bank Building, 2nd Floor, at 11.30 am on Wedoen-

day, April 24:,

After charging $191,737.09 for de- preciation, there remains a not profit for the year of $320,301.00 which, together with $135,381.72 brought forward from the year 1938, has been carried to the credit of Profit

Appropriation Account..

Lose

and

It, is proposed to deal with the balance of $459,243.52-as, follows,—— To pay a dividend of $1.50 per share on 10,000 shares, $130,000; to pay a bonus of 50 cents per share on 90,000

nhares, $45,400; to pay to the Gov

ernment of Macho 5% on the amount distributed as

as dividend and bonus terms of Clause 15 of the Extension Contract, $0,000; To transfer to General Reserve, $150,000; to carry forward unappropriated, $120,243.02. The Directorate

The present Directors are Mears. N. G. Beale, Fu-tak-lam, F. J. Gelllan and H. N. da Sliva. Mr. Fu tak-jam joined the Board since the last meeting and his election requires the confirmation of the shareholders. In accordance with the Articles, Mr. F. J. Gellion retres by rotation but, being

Con ellgible, offers himself for re-

Under Article 113 of the Company's Article of Association, the Directors

muration Is fixed at $1,000 per annum each or such other as the company in general meeting may from time to time determine. In view of the expansion of the com- pany's business, it is considered that the Company should Increase ouch remuneration to

lon to $1,500 per annum ench and resolution to increase such

remuneration

ion accordingly -will bo placed before the meeting.

The accounts have been audited by

Mesars, Lowe, Bingham & Matthews,

Chartered Accountants, who retire but offer themselves for re-election,

MINING DIVIDEND

from Word has been received Manila to the effect that Mines Operations Inc. have declared un initial dividend of half a centavo payable on May 7.

AIR RAID DAMAGE

Terrific Bombardment On Shayuchung

Another

Walchow, Apr. 14. terride aerial bombard- ment was carried out. yesterday afternoon in Shayuchung, Kwelchung, and Titfuk, areas, south-west of Wal- chow.

At 10.15 am, a squadron of five Japanese naval planes took to the air from warships in Blas Bay and flow

over

Shayuchung where they releas

ed a number of bombs and sprayed the town with machine-guns.

Later the squadron bombed Kwelchung and Titfuk, and acouted over Tamshui, gateway to Walchow. During a two hours; flight over. Fo. On and Walchow, over forty bombs were

majority dumped, the

on Shayu- chung.

No fewer than 120 carualles result- ed, while between 20 and 30 shops and dwelling houses in Shayuchung were demolished. About two dozen wounded citizens were conveyed to where

wen en route to Kowloon,

were sent to

to hospital. A steamer which was making for Shayuchung returned to British waters immediato- ly after

of the receiving information attack and anchored off Pingchow Island, off Tilfuk. After the Japanese left a few of the passengers landed at Shayuchung, but most of them re- to Hongkong by the same

turned

steamer,

It is stated that some of the Japan- ese bombs were incendiarles, which scored 'direct hits on goods piled on

the shore ready to be steamers for Hongkong.

loaded on

Rumours of another Japanese land-

ing at Po On are in

Woh Kiu Yat Po.

circulation.

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