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WANTED TO BUY.

WE PAY reasonable high prices for all gold and silver articles, diamonds, jades and Jewels. Apply Chinn Gold Hefining Co., Room 6, Pedder Build- ing, 2nd floor,

WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of gold articles, Jades, jewels, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold Refining Co., 7th floor, Chinn Build- Ingr

Tel. 30727. No holidays

FOR SALE.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED

Notice is hereby given that Mr Robert Taylor has been appointed Manager and, Secretary of the above Company as from tlla dato. By Order of the Eoard of Directors,

J. SCOTT HARSTON,

lat June, 1940.

WALLACE

Chairman.

HARPER

& CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that Mr. A. GASCON is no longer con- nected with the above. Company,

1st June, 1940.

NOTICE

The RAF Sergeants Mess, *HONGKONG AS REVEALED. BY Kai Tak, are not responsible for THE CAMERA" Second Edition, I debts Incorred through their Over 60 excellent views of the Compradore LAU KAM TONG. Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at

& Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Kelly Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

TO LET.

HOUSE in 107, Boundary Street, Kowloon Tong, with 7 big rooms, garden, garage, servant quarters, kitchen and modern sunitary equip- ment. Rent reasonable. Apply P.0. Box 970,

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are

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Air Mail by "Pan American Airways

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date, 28th May.

June 4.

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June 4

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Japan

Shanghai

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Straits and Manlin

June 4.

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THE GERMAN ARMY SHOT THIS WOMAN!

Astounding!...

Unbelievable!

Drama torn in tears and glory from the story that shocked the world!

A victim bullets: Fastoind

ANKA NEAGLE

NURSE EDITH

CAVELL

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H. B. Warner

Sophie Stewart

Mary Howard Robert Crote

RKO RADIO Picture

Produced and Directed by

WERBERT

WILCOX

Serson May by Michael Hogan

This picture has been banned in Shanghai and several other Countries. Now back again on Sunday, 9th., to the

CATHAY

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

London Welcomes

CHEERS and

bat - waving

from the huge crowd on forso Guards Parado

-na-the men- ar-

rived in buses for thetr 10% sproiion.

EFT: A hand-

shako

for

two of the men on arrival at the Union Jack Club.

BELOW

Lleul. - Com- mander Mansell and his wife an Horse Guarda Parade for the Inspection.

June 4, 1940.

Hardy Heroes

HEROINE HE

LEFT BEHIND

Some of the men were ski-ing exps and Lowered jumpers, given to them by girls in a Norwegian village.

TO-DAY Britain: is full of leave...ten days of happiness war heroines-heroines never in a cottage in the Sussex village mentioned in dispatches.

of Upper Hartfield.

Recently I met one of them

Before the wir John and Lillian —twenty-six-year-old Mr 8-lved in an LC.C. flat at Lewisham. Lillian Maynard, mother of Rent, 15.-10d.-a-week-John-worked six children all under nine in Woolwich Arsenal for £2 16s. a as she said good-bye to her week,

husband.

Driver John Maynard was re- turning to France after ten days'

THEY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE

approaching a British West Coast The wireless operator on a liner. port Estened-in to agonversation be tween two naval patrol vessels. They are married in 1930, when After several minutes uncompli Lillian was only sixteen. The fol- mentory back-chat the naval craft lowing year her first baby, Mar- suddenly went off the air, the final garet, arrived, and then came five | message being a request that the others Jolin in May, 1932, Ken-other refer to a certain passage in. neth In December, 1933, David in "Macbeth," July 1936, Richard-in-September, Upon looking up the ship's -copy,.- 1937, and Robert in May, 1938. the eavesdropping operator found

that the message read:- Being a Territorial, Jotu 1983 called up immediately war was de- clared. Lillian, with her babies, was evacuated to Sussex,

There, for six months, she has live alone with them in the lonely cottage. "People think it brave the

to stay in this lonely place with my children," she toll me. "But it is nething. It is only mother's

duty".

Daddy's Girl

"It has been terribly loucly with- out John, but it has been wonderful to have him home again,

"He has cut the hair of all the boys, dug up the garden, and even taken the Ironing off my hands."

She looked on happily

as. Baby Robert stuffed his mouth organ full of porridge, and David and Richard played air-raids with plones made out of clothes-pegs.

P

let us meet, and question. this most bloody plece of work, to

know it further.”

The liner captain, they say, is strit spluttering!

The hour of parting drew nen." John put on his equipment.

With her children, Lillian accom- paaled him to the porch,

She held her youngest in her arms and smiled bravely as John kissed ench child good-bye.

Only when Margaret-who is "inddy's girl"-began to sob did. the rive a hint of her own emotions. But in an instant she was comfort-

onco ing the child and miling morc.

"It makes a man feel he has some- thing to fight for," was his only com- ment as he walked up the garden path and waved back once more,

Canton

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June 6.

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June 6.

June.ti.

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(Vancouver B.C., date, 18th May)

Japan and Shanghai U.S.A., and Manila-(San Francisco

date, May 11)

June 6.

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Our Colonios are the envy of our anomics

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Air Mail for Manus, Guam, Honolulu

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CRIPPS FOR MOSCOW

IN ACTION AGAIN—One of the buses carrying the men broke down

on its way to the parade. These Hardy men got out and pusheds

Milliners

British

To Make

Shells

C.O. Told To Please Himself

EDWARD VICTOR MORGAN,

24-year-old graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, who said he would take a suitable job in the Food Ministry, was grant- fed unconditional exemption by the C.0. Tribunal at Cambridge recently.

Morgan told the tribunal that he was engaged in research work in ceonomics, He жда doing some teaching for the University, but as it might not continue owing to the war he had applied to the University Ap-

TN France's armament factories more than 800,000 women are pointments. Board with a view

working alongside 1,700,000 men in the nation's war drive,obtaining a post.

Britain, following the lead of France, now wants thousands of women -skilled and semi-skilled-for war work. Ways and means of meeting the demand are being discussed.

Mensures likely to be Introduced are: Substantial expansion of the Ministry of Labour's training schemes for women and perhaps the introduction of a double-shift system;

BRITAIN'S AIR FIGHTERS

Extension of the existing training schemes in workshops;

Creation of a more highly cfcient system of distributing the available, supply of skilled women workers;

Diversion of women workers from The Defiant two-seat fighters, the luxury trades, millinery, gowns and firal single-engined fighter plane the like, to wartime industries.

provided with a moveable gun turret,

are reported to have been in action

for the first time on the Dutch coast

Trade Union Aid

Replying to a

to

member of the tribunal, he said he was prepared to take a sultable job in the Ministry of Food.

Mr. J. Nutter (a member of the tribunal): What you are waiting to get is a good job. Would you be prepared to go into the Army?

Morgan: If I wanted to go in the Army I should apply for a com- mission, of course.

"Lonve It To You"

Mr. Mutter: You would have to serve in the, ranics at the start-I be- love that most members of this University spend only a short time in

Trade unions are prepared to co- the ranks. recently. They brought down at operate in introducing more women least two enemy machines, a result workers into factories, which appears fully to justify this The employment of

new class of fighter.

The Chairman (Judge Lawson Campbell), announcing to Morgan women that

would be unconditionally:

The Dellant Is a monoplane with workers will, of course, be reviewed registered, said: "Having heild your fixed guns firing forward and with a side by side with the problein of high attainments from Dr. Clapham, turret and gunner with four machine absorbing unemployed male workers. the members of the tribunal think it guns behind the pilot on top of the fuselage..

This turret enables the machine to fire to either side and astern, automa

5.00 p.m. Morning Post Building. e interruption being provided for

.5.30 p.m.

.4.00 pm. .5.00 pan. 170% www.7.00 pm: Air Mall for Indo-China, Krmni, "save

Fratico (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Alr Franos Airways Direct Service"",

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Ord. Amoy and Sha Stralis

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June 5, 5.00 p.m. June 5, 5.30 pm G.. P. 0.

June 5, 5.01 June 5, 7.00

7pm.

...7 p.m.

London, June 3.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange. Omeint

the safeguard of the machino's tall. Thus, unlike ordinary fighter aeroplanes, the Defiant la defended Summary issued yesterday says: against attacks from the side and above

A moderate-turnover was recorded

The turret and the gun, together and embraced Landa at $32 Trams with the gunner rolate by hydraulic at $10%/10.10, Electeles at $58% and power, actuated by the gunner by the Telephones (Old) $24. Intest control. The gunner can

Sellers

Baler

It is reliably reported that the elevate or depress the four guns, Soviet Government has agreed to the which are not independent of each appointment of Sir Stafford Cripps other. British bombers and Bying Ambasador to Moscow, boals are also provided with turrets. Sir Stafford is still in Athens bul The Germans have a turret on some it is understood he will soon continue of their bombers, but it is un- his journey to Moscow-United Press, spilsfactory.

Trams $10.30

Lands..$124 Trame $104/18.10.

·Electrics $58%% Telephones (Old) $241⁄2·

best to leave it to you to decide what you can do."

Dr. Clapham was sitting on the tribunal, and it is understood that Morgan was a former pupil of Dr.) Clapham,

LAICHIKOK HOLD UP Two Armed Bandits Rob Money Changes

Brandishing revolvers, two Chinese kept the staff of the Tak Shing Money Changers, Lalchikok Rond, under cover, while they robbed the establishment of Chinese currency and.colns to the total valué of $100, about 1.58 p.m. yesterday,

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