1940-05-07 — Page 2

- DONALD DUCK

LOWER--- DOGGONE IT! THEY'RE GOIN' TOO HIGH!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 7, 1940.

LOWERIN LOWER!

OKAY,

UNCA DONALD!

THUD!

By Walt Disney

LOW

UNCA

THAT ENOUGH,

DONALD'S

WAS

ONE,

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NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

A Look Through The “Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

May 7, 1800.

An American writer. says that many careful observers of Annnciat affaire, nu- Flonal and International, look with mis- giving upon the monetary situation in Ing that the present craze for speculative investments, will end in a disastrous panic, in which not only Great Britan and her colonies, but the leading nations

Europe

America Will

The Fifty-ninth Ordinary England, and some of them are predlet

Mer

There is not much danger of Queen Victoria ubsienting the throne of End

land in favour of Albert Edward of Wales as long as she lives.

thousand tons for cruise to South Sea Gongral Meeting of the Company . Islands. Must be Al condition.

State lowest price and full particu will be held at the Offices of the lars. Box 570, "Hongkong Tele- General Managers, Messrs. Jar of graph."

dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd..everely, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on WE OFFEit highest prices to any amount of gold articles, jades, jewels, Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at noon, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold for the purpose of receiving the Refining Co., 7th floor, China Build-Report of the Director, passing ing. Tel. 30727. No holidays.

the Accounts, and electing Direc- WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all goldį tors and Auditors. and silver articles, diamonds, jades, The Transfer Books of the Com-the teetan a monarch,

and the sathies of lila ow art. Jewels and gold dust. Apply China Gold Refining Co., Pedder Building, pany will be closed from the 23rd 2nd floor.

May to 13th June inclusive,

By order of the Board.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTB.

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Over

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POST OFFICE

General Managers. tongkong, 16th April, 1940.

THE CANTON INSURANCE

OFFICE LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

In spite of the frivalitles of tilsvarty te Albert Edward (ter King Edward VII-Ed.) has always been the favourite child of the Queen, When, seme ninothw ngo, the youthful Emperor of Germany eatre here and received the honours of

the

Run-

oubtedly touched the sympathy of inc mather in the Queen to see her first 10

yet anly a Prince, and lowerdowa In the social scale than the end of the HohenzollernIR,

25 YEARS ACO

May 7. 1915.

Sir Edward Grey, replying to vertour questions regarding the Japanese demands China, staire that no communication had passed between Anseries' and Great Beltain in the subject.

Bir Edward declined to make a definite statement concerning the Japanese de manda o China, pending the conchalo. of the negotiations, In Pekinut but he enplastset that concessions granted by China, could not be transferred to a su Jeet of another Pawer without the con- sent of the Government of the conce4-

.

The Fifty-Ninth Ordinary Meet-slonaire, ing of Shareholders will be held at

Mr. A. Gladstone, of the Flyin the Offices of the undersigned on Corp reported missing. Mr. Glads Wednesday, the 2nd May, 1940, was a master at Elon and is a son

of the Rev. Stephen Gladstones. He has

ments.

The "Vossischo Zeitung", the "Berliner

Tageblatt and the "Lokaianzalger" con tala pessimistle articles on Italy's at tudes, and confirm the reports that ADE- tela Hungary recently made fresh propos

admit that the situation has become most Brave in ile kont few days, and even

at Noon, for the purpose of reeciy-two brothers serving with Indian regi Ing the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the INWARD 3ATES

31st December, 1939. Air Mall by "Pan American Airways!

The Share Register and Trans-is in the hope of satisfying Italy. They Direct Service"-San Francisco

Catafur Books will be closed from the date, 30th April.

May 7 8th May to the 22nd May, 1910, May 7. both days inclusive, May 7. May 7.

Baiphong

Japan and Shanghai

Japan ....

Java and Manila

Straits

Straits and Manila

Shanghai

May 7.

.May 7.

May 7.

Air Mall by "Air France Direct Ser- vice"Paris date, 1st May. May 8. Manli

Shanghai

Shanghai

May B. Moy B. May 8 Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direet Service" London date, lut May.

0.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.. General Agents. Hongkong, 1st May, 1940.

hours, and assert that if a peaceful mulu

on impossible, the German empire will meet the new situation undismayed.

The following information has been res ceived from homme regarding the disposal of the following who left Hongkong on the Nubla, on January 9 last to join the New Arinies

C. E. M. Olive, W, Ladı, and N. C. Chunnett, have Joined the 25th Hattalion Royal Fusiliers (Frondleraman's) A. H Fairley and C. West, have joined East

Service Corps as

hax Joined Army STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Canada, US.A., Japan and Shanghai Hongkong Stock Exchange Official

(Vancouver B.C., date 20th April). Summary issued yesterday says:

May 9. May 9.1

Nibblings were again male in the Alay 9. investment area, otherwise conditions May 9. continte quiet. May D.

Canton

Canton

Japan and Shanghai

Manila

Shanghal, Amoy and Swatow May 9.

U.S.A., and Manlin (San Francisco

date, 13th April)

Canton

Mпy 0. May 11. .May 11.

OUTWARD MAILS

Buyers

H.K. Banks $1,480 H.K. Fire Ins $171 Realties $4.40 Lane Crawfords $0% Sinceres $2.30 Win Powell $14

Entertainments $7.20

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Tuesday, May 7

Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-

tain

12.30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-düe London, 15th May.

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May 7,5 p.m. May 7, 7 p.m. Air Mall for Malaya, Java and Aus-

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K.P.O.

May 7, 5 p.m. .May 7, 8.30 p.m. G.P.O.

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Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu

and U.S.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Bervice"Que San Francisco, 14th May.

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May 7, 5 p.m.

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May 1, 5 p.m.

May 7, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May B

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K. Fire Ins $175 Lands $37 Troms $17.00 Electrics $04% Dutry Farms $22

Sales

11.C. Banks $1,495 Union ins $480 Docks Cum fts $21 Lands $381⁄2

Trams $17.35

Cements $17

Kent Regiment (The Buss). B. 7. White

Clerk, and W. M. Stevens has joined the Canadlann

Mr II G. Dixey, who left in the 1lcano Maru on January 13 last with the same object, has obtained a commission In the 1 North Midland Brigade R.F.A. (T.F.) as 2nd Lieutenant. He was an ex-cadet of the Oxford University Officers Train- ing Corps,

10 YEARS AGO

May 7, 1930. The batting strength of the Australian Test team was again deinonstrated to-day when Australia complied a total of 360 runs for the loss of five wickets. There were two centuries in the innings, Richardson being exactly a hundred when hia wieket was taken. Braham, however, has now is runs to his credit and is not out.

This morning's Lander newspapers' re cord the 20th anniversary of the seces. xion in the Throne of ills Majesty King George. There will be no special ecte. brations apart from the ual 21 gun salutes at lyde Park and Windsor.

Miss Amy Johnson, who is aged 22, lett Croydon at 40 this morning in a tiny Moth aeroplane. the "Jason" in an at- tempt at a solo night to Australia.

5 YEARS AGO

May 7, 1935. Brillant weather favoured the big naval and military review at Happy Valley this morning, which formed the major event in to-day's Silver Jubilee celebrations Large crowds gathered to witness what was n most spectacular scene, marred only by the fact that forty of the mon participating had to be carried out by. bulance men, having collapsed before the parade began, due to standing in the blazing stein for about an hour.

The review was in charge of Lieut.

SSSSSSES Col. R. E. Hindson. Officer Commanding

Journal.

of the

Hongkong

Fisheries

12.30 p.m.

Research

Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and

France (Paris and Northern Pro- Station

vinces only) by the "Air France

Airways

Direci

Paris, 10th May.

Service"-duo

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.May 8, 5.30 p.m.

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Dr. G. A. C. Horklots May B. 1.00 p.m. Now on Sale May 8, 7.00 p.m.

Thursday, May 0 Straits and Calcutta

Siralls

Parecla

Letters

the 2nd Latinilon Royal Welch Fusillers, and the antute was taken by. E., the Governor Sir William Peel who accom panied by E. Major General O. C. Bur- rell. G. D. C. China Command, Drigadier General Seth-Smith and Colonel II. C. Harrison, inspected the forces on horse- hack.

LESSONS BY WIRELESS

Nazi Bomb Blew Captain

WALT DISNEY Brodowed by

Bag Frame Finder, for

LANCELOT

-IN KHAKI

From BERNARD GRAY

STATIONED in a village behind the

line in France is a young British officer who now has to answer to the name of "Sir Lancelot."

And all because of a well-meaning aunt who lives in the North of England.

A heavy parcel arrived for him one day. Like

all parcels to the B.E.F. it hore a label describing

Its contents. Thís label, said: “Bullet-proof waist- cont."

At that time the young officer's unit hadn't heard a gun go off.

"Going Crusading !"'

"Wearing your waistcoat to-day, Sir Lancelot?" he others would ask him, or “Going on a crusade or some- thing

Sir Lancelot became more and more self-conscious about his armour. Back home the fond aunt was hoping it would save his life.

KING

THE reviewing Wrens stallon- ed at Chatham Curing recent visit, when he inspected the dackyard and the Muriae and Naval Barracks. He also chatted with inen who had been saved from sunken warships. One was a sergeant of Marines who was saved from the Royal Oak, another a guter whose ship was lust last week.

He spent all his time trying to get rid of it.

Four times he threw ft. away and four times it was returned. Can't Bury Name

The members of his mess just wouldn't let him lose it. "Your jurt would be terribly upset," they said.

Late one night he went out into feld, look with him a spade-and the waistcoat.

There it stays underground and gone for ever.

But the name is a different matter. He can't bury that. He'll be. Sir Lancelot for the rest of the war.

Off Bridge Soldier with Divining

IN hospital in 2 -south-east -coast town recently was Captain Michael O'Neil, master of the British 6,439-ion cargo ship. Barnhill, injured when a bomb from a German plane blew him off the bridge.

Rod Discovers Roman

Relics Under Barracks

TWENTY-THREE FEET below Kensington Palace

It was mounlight when the attack Barracks a soldier, using a divining rod, has discovered

was made. The ship was set on fre but the blaze was put out and the vessel is now in safety,

wns

First thing Captain O'Neil suid when

ashore they got fim "Where is my wife.". Mrs. O'Neil, trey-haired, told by telephone at her home in Formy, near Liverpool, that her husband was 111, caught the next Lepin south.

Four of the Barnhill's crew were killed: First Officer Rothwell, killed by his captain's aide; Third Officer, Steward; Chlef Steward Adams; and Ordinary Seaman Housman. They died when the last of three bombs hit the ship and set it on fire.

Another innn, Engineer D. Bertram, died in hospital.

Survivors got away on rafts, were picked up by a Dutch ship and taken off by a lifehost.

Wifo Know Ship

what is believed to be a Roman building with walls four feet thick.

The 27-year-old discoverer, Acting Company Sergeant-Major J. L. Latham, told how he had spent his spare time for several years on the work.

Occasionally he found himself the abjret of embarrassing attentions, as when he carried his divining red through the basement of a big K- sington High Street store during the mid-reason sales,

There Were Legands

NAZIS

AND A BRITON

BLYTH, Northumberland

His Interest was originally roused coastal town, recently honoured by legends that the barracks were with a full military funeral three honeycombed with mysterious pas-German airmen picked up in the sages and that years ago "tunnels had been explored."

800.

A quarter of a mile away, almost at the same time, an unknown British sailor who had been washed ashore was buried in a pauper's grave by the local Public Assist- ance Committee.

have

Mr. Latham, from being a sceptic, began to see the possibilities of divin- ing, or radlesthesis, as it is known When Mrs. O'Nell reached London scientifically; and at length he was on her way south she found that the able to "pick up" the line of he last train to the coast that night ancient walls and trace a complete had gone and continued her journey map of the building.

Crowds followed the coffins of the by car. She sold:

fallen Germans; the British sailor, It happened that a section of the whose life had been lost in the ser- "When I arrived I did not know walls ran under an unfloored buse vice of his country he may what had happened to my husband, ment in the barracks, and it was de-been the hero of a naval engage ent but as I drove into the town i could see a ship on fire out at sea. / Sided, to dig there. At 23 feet down went to his last resting place un-

the spade struck walls which were honoured, uncared for. 1 guessed It was my Husband's ship. I recognised the mast.

found to be exactly the width, shape ind composition foreseen by "In the Spanish civil war he took auldier. refugees from northern Spain, lo France, and ran food through, the

Rare coins of Henry VIII, and blockade into Barcelona. I stayed James 1, now mounted in the officers" in France so as to be near him. mess, were discovered as well. These

tlic

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Mr. Winston Churchill, the Lord, will be asked to explain s unfortunate contrast,

What About Our Mon?

Mr. R. W. Sørensen (Soc., Ley"},

"He was in scores of air raids. His he was able to identify himself, na how.) will ask "Whether, while preser

Jast

Thorpe was

an expert

Danger never Worried him once Fellow per ton old coins, and

HOM

enjoys it. He went all through the Society,

war, commanded a ficet of trawlers minc-laying Lord Crewe presided at the annual ver

and mine- One In Threo Has Power general meeting of

Radiesthesis has a great future, he the British sweeping in the Adriatic. Institute in Paris, which was held: "They gave him the Italian V.C.— belloves. If it is studied here with the

it's called the Order recently at the London Omce, Old Iinly-und the French Legion of France. In his experience, one pet-

the Crown of seriousness which it receives Burlington Street.

Honour.

son in- three has the latent power of "Although he's very ill-ho'a forty-divining.

He forceces the time when hortluj- sca. Is this the end of the sea for

The

The

in Paris, Sir was elected presi- dent; Sir Erle basador, and Dr. Granville-Barker,

Ronald Camps, the

late Am- nine-he's worrying about going back)

to

д

a

ving the traditions of Britain ser

ini

pealing the treatment of enemira killed in war, he will take steps to make sure that British teamen be accorded dignifled and considerate Interment."

"Don't, please, think I want to alop honouring German airmen who are brought down," BI. Sorensen told the "Sunday Ple- torial,"

"But what about our men? Thinks

the late director of the institute, were me? he asked. I told him he had will not hold of the divining rod, of that soller buried as a pauper ins elected vice-presidents; and Mr. B. S. better get well before thinking about will "match" soil with the particular Blyll. Washed ashore, unknown

needs of particular plants, and| slips.""

He was the man whom Blyth Townroe, honorary secretary.

leticians will be able to match foods should have honoured as a hero." Sir Henry Pellium, chairman of the finance committee, gave a report on of lessons over the wireless for British with the content or demand or n

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given human body. the derision to reopen the institute last troops in France Was greatly up- auturi when it was learned that the preclated.. 9.30 am. Morning Post Building. University of Paris continued to be

He also referred to the arrange- Available for study in Paris.

ments made for a series of public Mr. Hugh Sellon, the director, lectures to be given in Paris this stated that there were already spring under the auspices of the several hundred students at work in institute, beginning with an address) the institute, and that the provision' by Lord Samuel,

Swalow, Amoy and Formosa

Fort Bayard

Manila

10.30 am.

10,30 a.m.. :12.30 pm: 3.30 p.m.

Price $3.00.

A.C.S.M. Latham has been in the Shot M.P.'s £133,000

Army since 1033. He, is a serimis. horticultural student and has done Lieut.-Colonel. Anthony John much antiquarian research work. Muirhead, of Haseley House, Great The outbrrale of war interrupted his fascioy, Oxon, Conservative M.P. studies for a degree at King's for Wells, who was found shot, has. -College.

left £133,358 119. 1d.

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