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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

NOTICE in hereby given that tho EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share- holders of the Hongkong Engineer ing & Construction Company, Limited, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Sir. Elly Kadooria & Sons, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report, of the Board of Statement of Directors and w

Accounts for the year ended on the 31st December, 1939, and electing Directora and Auditors.

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

By Order of the Board,

B. ALVES.

Secretary.

Hongkong, 15th April, 1940.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE, COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY

HONG MEETING of KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on TUES- | DÂY, the 30th day of April, 1910, at Noon in the BOARD ROOM of the Company, SECOND FLOOR, EXCHANGE BUILDING, HONG KONG, for the purpose of receiv- ing a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Direc- tors, for the Anancial year ended 31st December, 1939, and re- electing two Directors and the Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOORS of the Company will be closet from the 20th April to 30th April, 1940, both daya inclusive.

Dated this 8th day of April.

1940.

By Order of the Board,

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April

15, 1940,

-Pro-Nazi Broadcaster Condemned

MOTHER AND GIRL 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

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 publicly pro- chimed a "traltor to the Father- lund" in his native village of La Italie, 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,|

her identity in has hidden marriage.

"Trumpet & Drum"

TC-

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

Listeners who have studied the laborator, Obrecht, formerly known propaganda it broadcast believe that is Jacques Saint German, an obscure, actor, has likewise been declared a is Nazi-inspired.

"tralior to the Stato."

Its wavelengtli is 50.03 metres. Though transmitting on low power, As intɛsages reached the country clearly and with little interference.

A Real Job

Ferdonnet's

oasistant

and

col-

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

The steadiness of the reception!

The "town crier" read the pr slowed that the broadcasters were

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

permanent unit with many techni- placing it on the walls. cal refinements impossible on Elf In surrounding villages, and in the various suburbs of Paris where the "pirate" transmitter.

two trailors hud lived from time to time, the proclamation has also been affixed to public walls.

Ferdonnet, the former Berlin cor-

Nazi respondent of two Paris newspapers.

WILM

A full record of what was said made by the B.B.C. Monitor Service.

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

Then the announcer went on to Manager.make the usual type of Nazi attack!

in Britain.

J. P. SHERRY,

14 Den Voeux Road Central,

Hong Kong.

CRY MEANT. BETRAYAL

---HE DIED

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

INWARD MAILS Haiphong

.Apr. 15. U.S.And Mulla (San Francisco

Apr. 15.- ~~ The~~ officer-according-to-the Apr. 15. French account he "proved himself Apr. 16. by this act equal to the purest hero Apr. 16. of ancient times"was a member of Apr. 16.

n Colonial regiment. Waking and Apr. 19. sleeping, they had been living a week Apr. 16. with thei: Bagers at the trigger. Apr. 17.

Amoy

Java and Manila

Saigon

Stralls.

Stralis and Sulgen

Straits

Air Mail by "Air France Direct Ser

vier"-Paris date, 10th April.

Apr. 17.

Proved His Courage

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways for many years carried out researches

Direct Servica"-San dale, 10th April Haiphong..

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-

carried France.

On

propaganda

Boast Came Truc

in

He returned to his native village, last year with a new German wife, travelling in a luxurious motor-car,

But his mother and daughter whom he had abandoned refused to see him.

The Watch Over The North Sea

A BLACKBURN "SHARK" torpedo-carrying plane over H.M.S. Nelson "somewhere in the North Sca."

Won Three Dog

Fights, Gets D.F.Č.

'MAGNIFICENT

COURAGE"

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 shor here..

She is Mina Dorothy Hughes, a tail brunette, whose home is at Battersen Park-rond, S.W.

Her. flance is Robert Saunders, still

In a Nazi camp ai Nuremberg.

This is hier, story I told by people with whom she had travelled jame.

40 In A Coll

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

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

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

"On December 1 the police took me to prison.

in

I was put with 40 other women

a small cell. It was horrible.

"We slept on mattresses on stone floors. The food was nothing more than blacks bread and sour soup,

Became III

"After a time I was moved to an- alher cell with only eight girls. They were all politicni prisoners.”

Miss Hughes become III.

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

With Miss Hughes were 34-year- old Miss Edith Bagol-Hart, from Munich, and Miss Lucy Baker-Beall, a 71-year-old teacher from Poland.

Mias 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 said.

CANADIAN G.O.C. IS ALDERSHOT C.-IN.C.

General McNaughton, G.O.C. Cana- dinn troops, has taken over the

Aldershot command.

SQUADRON-LEADER ANDREW D. FARQUHAR,upervision and administration of the He will be in charge for the next hero of three air battles in which Heinkel bombers were

six days while Lieutenant-General: His notoriety as a Nazi agent had already become known in his village, brought down on Scottish soil, was decorated by the King Broad is away on short leave.

Ferdonnet then boosted that he

GRIN AND BEAR IT "One day. Hamburg and Bremen have recent- would become famous. ly, shown such complete lack of France will be talking about me," he originality in propaganda work that said.

France His boast has come true. even the Germans themselves must

talks about him-but as a traitor. have realised it.

easts in English.

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 regiment on the Western Front.. 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.

A doctor in civil life, the hero had

in Africa Francisco

in tropical disenses. Be came at war's command to serve his i .Apr. 17. .Apr. 17. Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service-London, date 19th Aprit

Apr. 18.

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, Apr: 15

Haiphong

Salgon Cunton

Haiphong

Tuesday, Apr. 10

Noon. 3.00 p.m. .0.30 p.m. 7.00 p.m.

Manila, Makassar, and Sourabaya

Many times he proved his courage. When, on the alght of his death, his Colonials planned a during raid on German posts, they had to cross a flooded stream.

The oflleer requested the honour of being first to land on the enemy bank. lle was, entrusted with the task of discovering the best place for ad- vunce and retreat.

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

8.30 a.m.

Noon,af German lonk-out men.

Dragged Down

For Robert, a Squadron - Leader had not forgotten 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.

ile reminded her of the Sunday) mornings in the little church, other children they played with, and toldį her how he fell in love at first sicht.

His Last Wish

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

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

recently.

He received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The investiture took place at un Aerodrome in Scotland which the King visited after decorating eight officers and men of the Royal Navy at a Scottish dockyard.

Farquhar won

D.F.C for shooting down a ralder single-handed ut North Berwick carly, this month.

the

Magnificent Dash

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

While on patrol in a Vickers Spit fre he sighted the Heinkel, followed it into a cloud, and, sighting it again in d a clear patch, gave a burst with his machine-guns.

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

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

on

Four Days Ago He was also the leader of the squadron that shot down the Arst enemy raider to fall on British soll, the Heinkel that came down on the Lammermuir Hills, near Dalkeith, on October 20.

It

Force

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178

Di by Called Pružný 3 modlenie, Tue,

By Lichty

was the same Auxiliary Air squadron that crashed "I don't know where to get into Heinket near S1, Abb's Head, Bers touch with her there, and I hardly wickshire, Parcels only for Tientsin., 12.30 p.m.

Farquhar, In his Spitfire, followed: Saigon and Bangkuk ....

12.30 p.m.

But Margaret could not remember like to. Though her son wanted me

for his wife I'm in an avisword nosi-the raider down, but was too late to

prevent the Germans destroying it. Parcels only for Tientsin 5.00 pm.

On his way back the canoe sank. him.

Lion... Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Undeterred, he plunged into the river

The Naval men decorated by the that he "The commandant said After she had received his Jelter

Camdr. Li A. K. Direct Service"-dus London, 24th and swam over, carrying a rope which she had a phone call from him as would put some ittle remembrance King April,

from me on Robert's grave, and that Boswell, who received the D.S. How Submarine Starfish Was Lost K.P.O.

Kuide for the ralding party.

being sent to France, and asked her when he is home he will call to see Lieut-Comdr. D. L. Saumarez, who given the D.S.C.; Petty Officer to wait for him.

Reg.

Ord.

Reg.

Ord,

.Apr. 16. 6 p.m. Apr. 10, 5,30 pan. G.P.O.

.Apr. 18, 5 p.m. .....Apr. 16, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service”—duo Sydney, 22nd April.

K.P.O.

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

her. Ord.

Reg.

Ord.

.Apr. 18. 6 p.m. ....Apr. 10, 7 p.m.

he tethered to the German side as a Aldershot. He told her that he was

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

" will bring a wedding ring with me when I came home on leave," he told her.

me.

Was

мете

"I would have cherished the mem-II., Flavell, neting Petty Omeer H. G. ory of seeing Robert just once, but Mounder, Ldg. Seaman T. W. Bo- verall. Scanma G. C. Sterry, R.N... it was not to be.

Chief Enginemän G. McClelland,. R.N.R., and Enginemon R. W. Fox, R.N.R., each of whom received the! D.S.M.

"Now men don't interest me. I'm Only a few days after he had gone) his commandant sent a message to afraid. My work is all that matters, vay he had crashed and was dan- gerously ill.

Died

Margaret prepared to leave her job Iron Cross Man

A ery would have brought several men to his aid. But that cry would have given the alarm to German watchers. It was never given. Instead, the heroic oficer was and go to his side, but another mus- drawn below the water to his death sage arrived shortly afterwards sny Unconscious of the raiding party, the ing he was slightly better, and ahe Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and German sentries maintained their was not to worry.

France (Paris and Northern Pro-watch-in vain. vinces only) by tlle "Air France

Direct Aleware Paris, 25th April,

Wednesday, April 17

K. P. O.

Service"Que

WEST POINT HOLD-UP:

Up General Store

was beiter another message follow

Details of the deeds which had

not an-1 won these medals were nounced.

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

ALL ESCAPED BY

DAVIS

HATCH

AMSTERDAM.

THE first 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-

WAS

Air fall for Mantia, Guam, Hono- If he did not receive the money he thought it was someone having a was sentenced to one day, court helyesterday, by the English Methodist saved-and that from one of the heatment seemed very ft, had

imprison, Church.

ridge, of the Columbia Broad-the boat then sank again.

Miss Breckenridge said that the A FORMER German ser- Directly after she had heard hei

Mise Breckenridge said that prisoners in the camp included. 120

Britons and 55 Frenchmen.. geant-major, Willy Teller, has Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Edwards casting system.

Given Farewell Party

during a visit to a camp. for joined the British Army Auxi-

The officers live at the top of a ed to say he had died suddenly. "It would have been nice to have liary Pioneer Corps.

Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Edwards, who Allled prisoners of war in Central cone shaped hill, in a 700-year-old He was wounded four times by 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 with drawbridge, ...Apr. 17, 5.30 p.m.)

is now twenty, told me.

three times were entertained at a farewell party from the submarines-it will be turrets, courtyard-and a fine view. It G.

Home recalled that both crows were has been modernised, with central P. O.

She is nurse al n. Greenwich Great War, and

awarded the Iron Cross for bravery. Int the Sailors' and Boldicra .Apr. 17, 5.00 nm.

hospital.

"At first, when I received his later. With a threat to blow up the shop

At the Liverpool police ................Apr. 17, 7.00 p.m.

Mrs. Edwards has been an active men of the Starfish she heard access to a varied library. played wanted, a Chinees on Saturday morn-joke with me. But he reminded me ment for changing his address with-

Inocial worker, having done much for the story of their misadventure. bridge. a of Fo many incidents during my child-out notifying the authorities.

The Starfish, she was told, lay on Among British prisoners in the ing successfully obtained $8 from

"I did not mean to offend," he

the bottom for nine hours, unable to castle are men from Borneo, Canada, general store in Water Street, How-hood, people we knew and places I'd

Singapore, New Zealand, India àñɑ”. ganisation. ever his success was short-lived for almost forgotten that I know him to, said, “and, I have joined your arme he fighting forces in knitting and or- shortly after the West Point Police be genuine. He joked at my upturn but it is not that I want to fight Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were promove.

Eventually, after the Germans had South Africa. clock as a souvenir. soldiers but sented with a against my former 11050 and frecision. 100, cd

Дooded When searched the man was found- "I did not promise him I'd murry, against Herism and alt it means. Rev. J. E. Sandbach and Mr. J. 11. dropped 32 depth charges, It wan Davis rescue apparatus enables men. escape hatch wollen pressure equals "Because my grandfather was a Celling, Circuit Steward, spoke in impossible to escape. The aftermoat to rise to surface from

outside. submarine. .Apr. 17, 15 p.m.

that of Co to be in possession of four hand I and I would tell him when I met Apr. 18, 7.30 2.m. 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,

Standard British Navy' since The whole crew got, out Thursday, Apr. 18..

first entered the store ha 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 through the Davis escape latch, and 11.30, am. 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.

quantances. wife and nine-year-old son." 1.30 pm. only $3 by the shop keeper.

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Ord.,

RCK..

Ord.,

futu and USA., by the Pan American Airways Direct Service" -duo San-Francisco, 14th April. K.P.O.

Ord,

Reg.

Ord.

Sandakan Swntow

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..Apt, 17, 5 pm.

Apr, 17, 5.30 pm.

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arrested him.

next leave.

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