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"DONALD DUCK

SCRAM!

SANTA

LUCIA

SOLE MIO!!

12.16

Monday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 13, 1940.

Cope by Web Duney Enterprises 1918) World nights reserved

WALT DISNEY

CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HONGKONG'S NEWEST

ADVERTISEMENTS

25 words $2.50 for 3 days prepaid WANTED TO BUY.

WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of gold articles, jades, jewels, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold Refining Co., 7th floor, China Build- ing. Tel. 30727.

NOTICE

I hereby give notice that I have resigned my position as Manager of Jimmy's Kitchen, Hongkong, ns from July 1, 1940.

JOHN HEYNEMANN.

NOTICE

Nolice is hereby given that J.

WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold Hynemann is no longer an assist-

and sliver articles. Diamonds, indes, fant in the employ of Jimmy's jewels and gold dust. Apply China | Kitchen.

Gold Refining Co., Pedder Building,

2nd 'loor.

FOR SALE.

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY

A. LANDAU,

Proprietor.

11th May, 1940.

THE CAMERA" Second Edition, THE INDO-CHINA STEAM

Over G excellent views of the! Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at. Kelly 品 Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Burenu or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

POST OFFICE

GENERAL HOLIDAY·

NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

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,

On Monday, The 13th May, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8.00 am to 10.00 a.m. Sheungeun for the purpose of receiving the Branch Post Ofler will be open from Report of the Director, passing

.m. to 9.00 a.m. and the other Branch Post Ofices will be entirely the Accounts, and electing Direc-

tors and Auditors. closect,

There will be une collection from The Transfer Books of the Com- the pillar boxes us on Sundays and one delivery of registered und or-pany will be closed from the 23rd

dinary correspondence at 10 aan.

The Brunch Post Offices at Stan- ley, Tai Po and Un Long will also bava one delivery af ordinary cor- respondence at 11.00 a.m.

The Money Order Oleo will be entirely closed,

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended

· OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Malls are! closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise "stated, and where-mails-are-advertis- ed to close at or before 9 am re-

May to 13th June inclusive.

By order of the Board.

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

THE CANTON INSURANCE

OFFICE LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

The Fifty-Ninth-Ordinary Meet-

TWO OLD MEN

HAD SECRETS

TWO OLD MEN

ONE WORRIED, ONE DIDN'T CARE, AND NOBODY KNEW THE SECRETS THEY KEPT IN THE LAST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES. NOW, WHEN THEY HAVE DIED, THEY CAN BE TOLD....

ALEXANDER EDWARDS, of

Mount Pleasant-road, Hust-

ings, used to walk through the

streets of the town with a sack over his shoulders instead of a coat.

COMMUNIST CHIEF

gistered and parcel mails are closed ing of Shareholders will be held at His clothes were ragged, he wore IN HITLER'S

at 5 pm, on the previous day.

When the Offices of the undersigned on

mails are advertised to close after Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940,7

5 p.m. Registered and Parcel mails at Noon, for the purpose of receiv

are closed at 5 pm.

INWARD MAILS

Halphong

May 13.

Japan and Shanghai

Saigon

Shanghai...

.May 13. May 13. .May 13. Altways

ing the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1939.

The Share Register and Trans-

Direct Servico"-San

Francisco

date, 7th May.

Saigon

May 14,

May 14.

Shanghai and Amoy

May 14.

Stralls

.May 14,

..May 14.

Air Mall by "Pan American Alwar fer Booka will be closed from the May 14. 8th May to the 22nd May, 1910,

Amoy

.May 14. both days Inclusive.

Shanghai..

Siraits and Munila

Air Mali by "Air France Direct Ser-

vice"-Paris date, 8th May,

Canton

JARDINE, MATHESON &

CÓ. LTD,.. General Agents,

Hongkong, 1st May, 1940.

May 15. Vol. X No. 1

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, May 13

THE

.5 p.m.

Tuesday, May 14

Parcels only, tor Straits and London

-due London, 23rd June.

Parcels,

.3 p.m.

Noon. Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien- 2.30 p.m. tsin Japan Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Egypt and Eur- ope vfu Brindisi-due Brindisi 6th June.

G.P.O. & K.P.O.

ROB

,2.15 p.m. Ord..

.3,00 p.m. Salgon

6:30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Always Direct Service"-due London, 22nd

K.P.O.

January, 1940).

HONG KONG NATURALIST

A quarterly Illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and S. China.

Birds and Butterflies of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Spiders: Interesting Hong Kong Plants.

May.

Reg.

....May 14, 5 p.m.

Ord.

.May 14, 8.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord

.May 14, 5 p.m.

May 14, 7 p...

A Synopsis of the Fishos of China.

Air Mail for Malaya, Java and AuK- tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice”dus Bydney, 2011 May.

Reg.

Ord.

Reg.

K.PO,

... May 14, & p.m. May 14, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

May 14, 5 p.m. .May 16, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu und U.S.A. by the "Pan American Airways Dircot Bervice"due San Francisco. 21st May.

K.P.Q.

May 14, 8, p.m. .May 14, 5.30 p.m.' G.P.0, 1.03N

·May 14, -5 1.1. May 14, 7p.m.

../7.00 p.m.

atc.. otc,

PRICE $2,00 Prepaid subscription $7.00 (Back Numbers from Vol IV. available)

On Sale at Morning, Past

- Building.

METROPOLE HOTEL.

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PICENTRAL CLEAN

"COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF

-no-collar. Old slippers took the place of shoes. People looked at him, and gave him a few coppers.

SERVICE

TWO leading Czech Com- Years ago he made sweets and munists, who fled from their kept a shop in the High-street, country when Hitler marched in, He said he was the first man and have since been staying in Moscow us the guests of Stalin, to make Hastings Rock.

have returned to Nazi-occupied are Gottwald and Their names Schmerzel, and they have returned All the children knew him. They with the full knowledge and permis-

sion of the Naz! authorities. were sorry for him.

And the people called him "The Prague.

Lollipop Man."

When he died recently he was 85, and it became known that he had left some money. The amount was £22,000.

They have undertaken by Stalin's orders the task of carrying on anti- French and anti-British propaganda among the Czech people.

sation which

already working in

Hand In Glove This is only one instance of the FRIENDS of James Arthur enrefully co-ordinated Nazi-Soviet Hicks, a retired draper, of propaganda and espionage organi- Leeds, wondered what was the many countries. worry on his mind in the lat- ter years of his life. He refused his food; Was mean with his money;

and

Had a nervous breakdown.

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10 Reasons For Leaving Home

Girls either have, or can think up, ten reasons for running away from home. bays give only two. according to the Missing Persons Barcau of the New York Police

which Department,

questioned 5,690 persons under twenty-one who were missing and then fouzá In 1930.

There were 2,079 giris ex- tioned. The ten reasons for lease) ing, in order of frequency, were: 1.-An overwhelming yearning

to be, a stage or film star

2. A fervent dislike of school. 3.-Unpleasant

home condi-

tions.

4isted by bad companions. 5-No definable cause (in most such cases officials noted mental deficiency).

6.Ideas Implanted by cheap Action.

7-Misplaced confidence In a friend or companion.

9. Just plaki contrariness; and 10 Dislike of selfish parents. The boys' two reasons were dis. Ilke of school and unpleasan! home conditions.

Among the boys the peak age for running away is fifteen; for girls it ranged from Altern to seventeen.

Sustaining its reputation for enterprise, the Gloucester Hotel has engaged a new dance band which is now playing nightly in the hotel's ballroom to the delight and satisfaction of its patrons.

Eight in number, the hand, known as the Gloucester Hotel Music Masters, has gained immediate popularity for its musicianship, snappy rhythm and ideal tempo. Swing is given its proper place in the band's nightly programme, sup- ported by a series of skilfully presented comedy numbers, and blended with strict-tempo modern waltzes, slow fox-irois and tangoes..

PROVINCIAL

DOCTOR GOOD

AS HARLEY-ST.

-Court's £200 ruling

WREXHAM, (North Wales).

He made clock that. timed the world

A LITTLE more than sixty years ago Edwin Turner Col- Lingham was apprenticed as a small boy to a tailor in Ring- stead, Northants.

But the boy preferred making. watches and clocks to cutting out clothes. So he went to work for a watchmaker. Now he has died at the age of seventy, a world-famous clockmaker.

Mr. Cottingham, whose home was..........at....... Thrapston........Northants, made the standard time keeper at Greenwich Observatory. It never varies more than one.. 200th part of a second a day.

His clocks are to be found all over the world. There is one in the Royal

WHEN Mr. W. F. Humphreys, sixty-seven-year-old magis-Alfred Observatory, Mauritius. It is trate and county. councillor, got a bill for £200 from a specialist who had operated on him, he thought to himself, "It would be cheaper for me to die."

Things They Ask The British Museum

How Of Potiphar

Did Wife

The effect of this work can be felt Do Her Hair?

1 But at Wrexham County Court Judge Sir Thomas Artemus Jones allowed the claim for £200 by a

ear, nose and Wrexham specialist, Mr. R. D. Aiyar.

throat

And this is what he said:-- "Provincial doctors are equally as skiitul as those in Harley-street, or other such place bearing an exalted address..

For Mr. Aiyar, It was stated that treated for Mr. Humphreys was seven months, and had two opera- tions as well as consultations and Itreatment before and after the opera-

tions.

even in London, where many Czech

For the second operation-one Communists who were admitted to

LEARNING to deal tactfully needing extreme skill and technique this country as refugees have with- drawn their earlier offers to volunteer with eccentrics and cranks is Mr. Alynr. charged a hundred for the Czech Legion.

Now they declare that they will an important part of the staff's training at the British Museum. not fight in an "imperialist war,“

Further striking examples of the closeness of German-Russian colin-

Inside Germany.

guineau,

Bill Gave Shock

similar to the clock at Greenwich. Great Mirror

There is another at Hongkong.

In 1910, when Sir Arthur Edding- ton, of the Cambridge Observatory, led a British expedition to Principe Island, 100 miles off the West Const of Africa, to test Einstein's theory of relativity during an eclipse of the sun. Mr. Cottingham went with him. The clockmaker was in charge of the Instruments driving a great mir- ror from which the sun's rays were reflected into a camera.

Mr. Cottingham also 'cleaned the clock at Trinity College, Cambridge, and quickened slightly the striking cpparatus:

Since that time only two men have been able to run round the quadrangle while twelve is being struck, a former undergraduate boast. They are Lord Burghley, the hurdler. and Gay Butler, the quarter-miler....

No clocks puzzled the former tollor boy. Once he renovated the 200-

House. year-old timepiece at Burlington:

Tut, Tut, Tut

In January he was taken to hos-

Mr. A. J. K. Esdnile, who re- Ile considered this an extremely pital, where he died the fol- boration have been given mo by tires from the secretaryship this reasonable amount, but Mr. Hum- phreys had a "great shock" when he quarters well informed about affairs month, has met many eccentrice got the bill. He offered one hundred lowing month, aged 77.

They point out that more than 30,- during the 36 years he has spent guineas for the complete treatment.

This was not acerpted. there. While he was there his house-

Mr. Alyar told the judge he keeper,, going through his 000 Russian workers are already working in Germany and undergoing

"The Museum, as well as being a papers, came across a mytraining as engineers and

melal

centre for serious students, is also thought his fee reasonable, and salu, sterious bundle of letters. workers.

the meeting place of all sorts of "In view of the risks and, if I may They revealed, that for years

Advance Guard

cranks," he told a reporter at his say 50, the skill and experience

needed, it is a justifiable fee." advanco

Great Ormonde Street "fat.

-Golf Special Hicks had been the victim of But they form only an

guard of the Soviet Labour students

Mr. Alyar said he worked the bill GOLFERS on Welsh courses are a blackmailer.

who are to come in much greater "I have met people who believe At Leeds Assizes, Mr. Justice

the earth is flat and people who be-out by exact calculations.

And Mr. Humphreys said: "When facing a serious Innguage numbers to Germany. Cassels sentenced the black-

It is well known all over Germanylieve that they are reincarnations of

1, got the bill I thought it would bo problem. They are looking for mailer, Robert Dransfield, a that the number of Russians there is famous figures of the past.

something to say when they "One afternoon a woman rang me cheaper for me to die." 30-year-old commercial increasing, although no mention has

and asked how Pollphar's wife

develop a slice, traveller, to five years' penal/been made of it, either in the Nazi P. hair. I was taken aback for, charges were not based on a fixed

did newspapers or the radio,

Rumour exaggerated their numbers a moment and replied that all my scale like solicitors'.

Everything was left to the realm to such an extent that a frequent re-knowledge of Potiphar's wife came mark heard is: "There are Russlane from Holy Writ and that this did not of human judgment, and this differed all over the place these days” tell me about her style of hair-in the case of nimost every one.

The number of German experis dressing. who have gone to Russin Is small.

servitude.

FOR "WORLD'S

BEST WIFE"

Commander Wrey nearly eleven years

Back Again

an

The judge sold skilled surgeons

Potiphar's wife probably shaved her Information hend and wore a wig.“

Mr. Eadaile has seen many im- provements mode in the Museum.

Treasures to-day, he said, are bet-

nak "I shall Bureau, ahe replied, and rang off in **Ten minutes later she rang me

To the belt wife in the world," ago. Commander Hugh Bourchier Wrey, He grants all the property to his a huff.

RN, of Park-lane, London, W., who wife, Mrs. Ruth Wrey of Park-lune, dled. at Hove, Sussex, in January. "As a slight token of my love and back saying that they had referred ter and more artistically displayed, for the best wife in the her to me,I then told her that, like less crowded, and proper lighting is

other Egyptian women of her time, regarded as a very important factor. £10,000. The will was

leaves the whole of his estate of esteem made bylworld.”

Up till now they have never had to think. The rich old "Blankety blanka!" came out quite naturally. ¡But in future they may have to be

content with Jack Warner's "De- da, de da, de dial"

For the caddies, if a recent proposal

gocs through, will be girls.

Some members have already' taken.

out girl caddles,

The die-harda, however, aro- thres-

leninu sit-down strikes.