1940-04-25 — Page 2

Thursday,

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INWARD MAILS

Australia and Manila

Canton

HONGKONG CRICKET

CLUB

Tennis Tournament

Weather permitting FINALS will take place as follows:-

OPEN SINGLES... MONDAY, 29th April.

OPEN DOUBLES.. WEDNES. DAY, 1st May.

Play commences at 1.30 p.nt. sharp each day.

Booking for Stand now open at Moutries.

Tickets $ Incl. tax, Prize-giving will take place after OPEN DOUBLES FINAL.

THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE OF GENERAL

MEETING

runs

private

war

Defies Nazi Navy

BURLY Captain 'Chris- tian Holm, forty-three year-old skipper of the Danish steamer Inga, has called a truce in the pri-. vate war he has been waging against the, Ger- man Navy since the enemy invaded his country.

The war began early in Janu- ary, when his 2,000-ton ship, bound for England, was hailed by a Nazi patrol boat far out in the North Sea. Said Skipper Holm:

"It was pitch dark, so I shouted back that i was stopping. But in- stead I ordered all lights out and full speed ahead, and ung over the wheel until we were heading straight for that Nazl boat.

The Fifty-ninth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing

German explain

the the Accounts, and electing Direc-

danger, and just had time to get out tors and Auditors,

The Transfer Books of the Com-of our way. It was too dark for him to do anything to us, and we just pany will be closed from the 23rd hurled abuse at each other. May to 13th June inclusive.

By order of the Board.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. General Managers. Hongkong, 16th April, 1940.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the EIGHTEENTH Apr. 25.

ORDINARY Apr. 25.

YEARLY MEETING of Share- Halphong, Hailew and Fort Bayardholders of the Ilongkong Engineer

Apr. 25.

Construction Company, Apr. 25. ing &

25. Aur. Limited, will be held at the Offices .Apr. 25,

of Messrs. Sir Elly Kadvoric & Sons, St. George's Building, Chater Apr. 25 U.S.A. and Manila-San Francisco Road, Hong Kong, on Wednesday,

Japan and Shanghai

Saigon

Shanghai

Shanghai, Amoy and Swalow

dote, 31st March). Munila

Apr. 25 the 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock

.Apr. 25.

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"Last thing we heard was radio message from the German: 'Don't worry, Inga, we'll get you? next time." "**

'Get Him' Order

Skipper Holm reached Britain, and started back aguln across the North Sen. His friends in other ships warned him that the Nazi patrols and U-bonts were out for his blood.

One particular boat, they said, had been detailed to get him. But no- thing hoppined.

for Britain. Out in the North Sen he was signalled to stop by a U-boat

said:

The skipper left Denmark again

"You are, the famous runaway

won't get away this Inga. You time"

Europe via Sucz and Straits-(on- / (Noon), for the purpúse of receiv- Let's try to get away again."'

don date, 18th Murch)....Apr. 26. Japon Manila Shanghal

SECRET IS OUT

German

cartoonista havo begun poking fun at a “secret weapon". Franco la supposed tom possess. Here are · two examples of Teutonic humour on the unbject from the “Ber- Ilner Hilustrierte."

The secret weapon (above) la revealed. It is a plant magnet swung over the German lines and used to lift the troops from their trenches by the attraction of their steal helmets.

The sun (right) rises in the East, that is, behind tho German Ince, so the French have invented, on artificial sun, which they attach to a balloon on dull days. This is meant to deceive the Germans, who ceoordingly turn round

and shoot at their own positions,

CITY

OF

FLINT

MASTER

ACCUSED

UNTIL

A.

NEW YORK. Joseph now, Gainard, skipper of the freighter City of Flint, has been an heroic figure.

But to-day he stands accused by the National Maritims Union of "gross neglect of duty", and "re- Into the Nazis' peatedly playing hunds."

April 25, 1940.

Beachcombers Reap £40-a-day Harvest

from War Wrecks

WAR-TIME beachcombers around Britain are earning up to £10 a day, on their lucky days.

Wherever a cargo vessel has been sunk off the coast since the war they have gathered there with their grappling tackle.

Evacuated schoolchildren are sharing in this rich harvest in many places.

Those who tow ashore bales of cotton are paid between £1 and 30s. for the salvage, while others are busy hauling ashore huge lengths of expensive timber, which are stacked on the foreshore.

The boatmen's tackle for land- ing boats is used to haul heavy

CHAT WITH goods up the foreshore and

CANNIBAL

AIR. MALCOLM MACDONALD,

guards are left at the stack while the men go out for more.

Many of the usual beach- combers have gathered enough

Colonial Secretary, told an Oxford Wood and coal to Inst them audience of a chat he had had with through at least two winters, a cannibal chief In the South Sea and children have found a ready Islands. The conversation went like sale for cases of concentrated this:

Have you yourself eaten human Aesh?

Yes, many a time.

What does it taste like?

Good roast pork.

Which taste the better-coloured

men or white men?

Coloured men, because white

medicinal preparations.

"There is not so much risk and it is far more proßiable than fishing," a South Coast fisherman told a reporter. Chronicle reporter.

Small Fortunes

Are Being Mado

"Many of the Londoners who own'

men have too much salt in their boats, but usudily lay them up for the

Best

Have you ever catey a white man? winter, are coming to join in the.

No, only an 'American,

harvest. Small fortunes are being made,

Mr. MacDonald told dons

and "Schoolchildren 'combing' The undergraduates of this experience to bench near here have been picking drive home a point in his speech that up eases of concentrated cascara and

it would not have done to grant com-"" ready market at 1s. 6d.

plete freedom in every part of the world. Gradual and steady evalu- tion was the better way, he said.

TALL?-DON'T TRY TO

BE CUTE & CUDDLY

TALL girls should never apologise for their height-they

Miss Peg Newton, New York modiste--she is 5ft. 10in. her- self-gives this as a key rule for the tall.

Captain Guinard dismissing the "I said to the boys," he said, "It's dark, and we're faster than they are.

charges laconkally as "ridiculous." | should dramatise it. Two sailors of the freighter and a cabin boy have mude affidavits say- ing the. Report of the Board of So he ordered full speed ahead ing that Gainned neglected several

Here are other gens of advice: Statement of and thumbed his nose at the U-bont. opportunities to get his ship away Apr. 26. Directors and a

"The last thing I heard," he said, from the Nazi prize

and ta crew

You can't get by with cuteness. Apr. 26.

Accounts for the year ended on the

"was a radio threat from the cap-get in touch

the Apr. 20. 31st December, 1939, and electing

with the American Be dignified Instead-or

strea authorities.

| 1ype. Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct

Wear high heels. A tall woman in Service" London date, 20 Aprli. Directors and Auditors.

The union now demands thul his not heels seems to be apologising for Apr. 27,

masters certificate be cancelled.

her height. Don't do that-drama- Apr. 27.

tise it! Without good posture, cona- dence and a bit of dash you are lost. Don't wear a hat with a red fea-

look like a

Canton

Halphong

Japan and Shanghai

Shanghol

Calcutto and Struits

Apr. 27. Apr. 27. Apr. 26.

Apr. 27.

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Japan...

Apr. 28.

Shanghai and Amoy

.Apr. 28.

Haiphong, Holhaw and Fort Bayard.

Apr. 29.

•Asst. 20. Haiphong Shanghai

.Apr. 20. USA and Manila (San-Francisco.

date, 16th March........Apr. 20. Air Mail by "Pan American Airways

Direct Service."---San

date, 23rd April

Japan

Straits

Francisco .Apr. 30. Apr. 30, .Apr. 30.

OUTWARD MAILS Thursday, Apr. 25 Parcels only for Tientsin.12.30 p.m. Shanghai (Parcels only) ....1 p.m. Shanghai and Japan Fort Bayard

Haiphong

Stralts and Calcutta

Parcels

Letters

Shanghal

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 22nd April to the 1st May, 1910, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

B. ALVES.

Hongkong, 15th April, 1940.

tainhe water is cold. You had

LA

we

flew

better stop. Then, away: 'We'll wait for you.'" But on the way back to Denmark Skipper Holm took a different course and reached home safely.

"I have had enough for a time."

WAR on the Western Front, in ther waving in the air. But wear Finland and in China, has been do- smart hats; don't try Secretary. SHOP WRECKED-rinting America's front page for little brown bird by squashing your many months, but to-day It was hats down and wearing drab colours. pushed to the inside puges by home

THE ROYAL ENGINEERS.

New Colonels-Commandant

The War Office announces that the King has been pleased to approve the following appointments as Colonels- Commundant, Royal Engineers;-

Lieutenant-General Sir Guy C. Willams. .c., c.M.G, D.5.0., with effect from February 10, 1940, in sue- ression to Colonel Chonorary Maj »r- General) C. Cofilu, v.c.. C... D.N.O., retired pay, who attains the age limit for the appointment on that date.

1.30 p.m. 2,30 p.m. .3.00 p.m.

Apr. 25. 5 p.. .Apr. 25, 7 pm,

Major-General G. H. Addison, c... 7 p.m. ..., s.6, reired pay, with effect, Friday, Apr. 26

from March 30, 1940, In successton lo Straits and Calcutta

Major-General Sir Henry F. Thuil- Parcels.......Apr. 20. 9.30 am.

lier, Ren, C.zn.a., retired pay, who Letters... Apr. 28, 10.30a.m. Shanghal and Parecis only for Tien-pletes the tenure of his oppoint-

ment on that date. Good p.m. Tourane, Saigon and Bangkokt

ts/n

Sandakan

Air

7

p.m.

.....7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 27

Fort Bayard, Hethow at Haiphong. Noon. Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-duc London, 5th May.

G.P.O. and K.P.O,

Reg. Ord.

....Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Apr. 27. 5.30 p.m. Siralls, Ceylon, India; Mombasa, Beira, Lourenco Marques, East and South Africa ..........5.30 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 28 Canton Amoy and

.7.15 a.m. ...9 n.m.

Nooth

and Sitanghal

Monday, Apr, 29, Haiphong Struits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe viu Sucz and London Parcels dus London, 18th June.

K.P.O,

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Parcels

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Parcels

Nog.

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Apr. 29, 3 p.m. Apr. 20. 5 p.m. .Apr. 29, 7 pm. Canton

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2 p.m. Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A., by the "Pan American Afrwars Direct Service"mục Sau Fransisco, 7th May

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THEY SLEPT ON political news.

Girls 5ft 10in, to dft. Zin, seem to be increasing, says Peg, but fortu- nately they are less likely to be self- conscious about it than their mothers were.

White-haired Republican Senator A six-wheeled torry crashed into a Arthur Vandenberg, one of the mony shop in Bath-street, Ashby-de-la-polential candidates for the White They carry their heads proudly, Zouch, Leicestershire, and smashed House, speaking at St. Paul, Minne- she declares. They don't stoop, even the door, the plate-glass window, and soin, last night shouted:→

when dancing with a short man.. A glass show-case inside the shop,

But Mr. and Mrs. W. Gadsby, who "The American people are. tired of And, best of all, they don't try to ke

"cute and cuddly" were asleep on the premises, were life on the flying trapeze. They are

Peg ought to know. Her profes- not disturbed.

tired of Bureaucrats, Boondoggieraton Is dressing tall women. Her They slept on until aroused by the Barnacles, Drains Trusts, Ballyhoo little shop has high-ceilinged rooms

and Bunkruptcy."

police half an hour later.

and ber Alter is 5ft. Oin.-ail part of the idea of making women live up to thele height.

GIRLS MAY TAKE War Drums Will Be

CHARGE IN A.R.P.

BRITAIN'S civil defence may have to be shouldered

Silenced, Unless-

The war drums are beating again, and Britain's vellum manufacturers

(you can count them on the fingers of one hand) are working to capacity

drum-makers for more and more drumheads.

almost entirely by women if the war develops to tre-to satisfy the demands of the Army

mendous proportions.

Lieutenant-General E. K. Squires, C.B.. 1.5.0., M.C., with effect from June 3, 1940, in succession to Colonel thonorary Major-General) Sir Syd- That is the opinion of Ad-, happened in Poland and gallom little;

D'A. Crookshank, KC.31.G.. C (miral Sir Edward Evans ("Evans Finland," he said.

B.S.0, M.v.0.0, retired pay, who of the Broke"), London's A.R.P. attains the age limit for the appoint Commissioner, who warned the

country recently of the danger ting to A.R.P. workers, said:

ment on Brat date.

THE BEST DIET

DURING

CONVALESCENCE

After operations, or wasting and other diseases, you feel so weak and exhausted that you wonder whether you'll ever feel really well again. Everyone urges you to cat. Yet food nausentes

you. But you simply must cat. Doctors all over the world have found that Horlicks can be re- tained by the weakest stomach and the patients find it agreeable palatable. Horlicks im- mediately starts to pour now strength into your exhausted body. At the same time it sti- mulates your faded appetite.

and

Your convalescene is shortened and in an amazingly short time you

Icel

ready for anything again. Full of energy, and vi- tality. Keep Horlicks always ready at hand.

Thousands Ready

After his speedy the Admiral, chat-

if the war lasts I feel sure that

of losing the war on the home women will supersede men in many front.

mare services. They are only whit ing to be asked.

.

"Keep constantly in training, for the great trial which we believe awaits you." Sir Edward implored) a Camberwell parade of 2,000 civil defence workers.

"I hope the time will never come for women to take over the task," he said, "but people in this country have not yel given a proper appreciation to the value of man-power, which is limited.

Jimited that. "In fact, it is so unless the best of our manhood is properly employed. 'I believe It possible for us to lose the 'way on the home front,

"I am not a pessimist, nor am 1 an larmist,

"But I do face facts and I do be- Hleve that to-day too many people are sitting back complacently, ex- pecting to win the war by, leaflets and a debate rather than mobile the nation's reserve, man-power, will-power and thinking power." Sir Edward'said that unfair criti- clan of the Services had Inrgely dis. appeared.

"The nation has become A.R.P. conscious and (M)

certainly air-raid- minded after learning of what had

But this side of Britain's war ellort

is likely to be held up If the Minister of Supply doesn't do some- thing quickly about the supply of calf skins.

Manufacturers are having dim- culty in getting thein

.. and English calf skins make the best vellum.

Mr. H. T. Loosley, whose family "There are hundreds of thousands have been making vellum by hand of Women volunteers ready to step at New Eltham, London, S.E. for into men's places if they are need more than 200 years, says: "There cd. "With the exception of light are not enough English calf skins to and heavy rescue parties, the fire go round, and the supply of import- service and possibly the deco-ed hides is limited. Something w lamination servlee, I sen no reason have to be done soon if the manu- why women should not undertake facturers are to 'keep pace with the a great deal more."

demand."

Thoumadi Acclaim It One

of the Great Motisa Pictures Of All Time!

RONALD COLMAN

in KIPLING'S

The Light that Failed

WALTER HUSTON Dudley Diggsa - Itên Lupinu Maria! Angeles » Emini Cosser?

UW, Paramavai Pietver

SHOWIN. G.

TO - MORROW

At the QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

AL

ono

*resort

south-east coast people were queueing up for permis- alon to take away lengths of timber and many were using cars. Some of the bungalows on seafronts have timber stacked in their gardenis.

home.

Sheets of compressed cork which, have been salvaged by one man are stacked in the garage and garden of his [Name "beachcomber" given origin- to white man in Pacific Isländs ally making living by collecting goods washed ashore from wrecks.. Holi-

resorts day

are beachcombers' paradise in stimmer and more stormy parts of coast in winter.]

SENNETFRERES

Gloucester Bldg., Pedder St.

have one of the finest selections of

RINGS SET WITH SAPPHIRES,

EMERALDS, DIAMONDS, BLUE ZIRCONS.

also- ENGAGEMENT

& WEDDING RINGS

DIAMOND WATCHES

New Arrival

of

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MOVADO