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DONALD

CLANG!

CLANO!

DUCK

WHAT A PLACE TO BALK!

GIDDAP!

Depp. 1940, Wale Dasey Nature 4-20

G!:

Tuesday,

C'MON-- MOVE, Y STUBBORN

BEAST!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MOVE THAT MOTH- EATEN MIDGET OR

I'LL DO IT FOR YUH!

YEAH? I'D LIKE TO SEE Y TRY IT!

June 4, 1940.

By Walt Disney

£300 Husband Sets

FARM HORSE WINS

'CHASE-ON CARROTS!

SHE PAID 'BLOOD MONEY'

SINCE leaving a famous public school for girls, Constance Freda Soward has not lived with her-parents..

16-Years-Old Boy Was His Trainer

A FARM HORSE, WAS THE 20-1 WINNER OF THE £300 BECHER HANDICAP 'CHASE AT LIVER-

She is now 35 years old, the daugh- POOL RECENTLY.

ter of a titled man.

His trainer is a 16-years-old boy who leads him as he mitted obtaining a car by false pre-draws a harrow across his master's fields. And his owner

At Exeter Police Courl she ad-

sentenced

tences, and was months' hard labour.

The Chief Constable, Mr. F. T. Tatry, said her family would have nothing more to do with her.

'I DO NOT CARE?

The Action Of A Magistrate

SIR CHARLES IGGLES-

to rx is a farmer who does not bet-but was so sure that the DEN, chairman of Ashford

magistrates, in-1 horse would win that he told all his friends to back him. (Kent)

His owner, Mr. W. R. Tate, a farmer who lives at sisted, in spite of pro- tests, on hearing the records Kidderminster, Worcestershire, was not surprised when of three brothers before the Bench had announced a deci- for stealing a car, furniture and a reporter told him that Sewfish had won.

sion.

There were previous convictions

bicycle.

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The

brothers, Cornelius, Leonard and Joseph Bates, de Tscribed-as-of-Ore, Sussex-plead- ed not guilty to the theft of 30 chickens.

"I knew he would do it," het Sawfish first begun running under After leaving fail' in 1930, whe

said, "and I told all my friends Mr. Tate's colours last year. He wan

six point-to-point racts, opened a riding school and stables!

to back him." in Essex, but these had labe-closed-

-He-won-three races in our week, i

hals Sawfish is a horse with an during which when war broke out.

owner hiked" him round the country in the same Mr. D. C. M. Nicholls, defending, amazing history.

trailer, covering about 000 miles, said the woman's father lived in the He was once the property of a

He has run in 25 steeplechases and Colchester district.

farmer and was offered for sale

has never fallen. And his reward for the £300 win "He eats only food grown on the farm, and loves carrots," Mr, Tate said.

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For six years she had apparently at Hereford. His owner at that been blackmailed by an unscrupul-time could do nothing with him.will be a feed of carrots, Dus woman with whom a very near He used to ride him, but be- relative of hers had become involved. fore going far the horse would To save her relative's home from stop and refuse to go any far- being broken up she paid "blood ther until he had a rest. money" to the blackmailer, and to

find that money she embarked on a method of crirne.

The Dead Romance Of Dead Man

A

A MIDDLE-AGED man, not yet identified, found dead in the river at Ipswich, Suffolk,, had in his pockets-

A marriage certificate.

A divorce decree,

Sold For £4 10s.

When Sawfish was knocked down!

"If he doem't run as he should he gets no carrots, and we call him Sawdust. He seems to know, too!"

to another farmer for £5 his first Stowaway Thought

owner was so glad that he gave the purchaser 10s. "for luck."

-Sawfish-wus-eventually-bought.by.66

Mr. Tute"exactly two years and one week to-day," he said.

coll-

After Mr. Eric Weale, county prosecuting officer, had cluded his case and the brothers, who were not legally represent- ed, said they had nothing more to add, Sir Charles asked Super- tendent Isaac if there were any previous convictions.

Mr. Weale: You cannot ask that; now, sir.

YES, I SAID TWO FARES!

Napier Johnstone's

"OLD HIGHLAND” CLUB WHISKY $6.25 per bottle $68.25 per case

EXTRA OLD

12 YEARS IN THE WOOD.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Wife On Fire"Free"

"NEW YORK. — Driven temporarily insane by worry through not having a job, a milkman. Rudolph Flury. 38, threw kerosene over his wife while she was sitting her in her nightdress on daughter's bed and' set fire to her.

The wife waved her life by wrapping a blanket round her blazing body.

Flury was incapacitated collision as a result of a while driving his milk van in 1932. Thereafter, slow grinding poverty had caused Mrs. Flury to attempt sui- cide in December last.

She does not blame her husband, saying he was worried because he could the not buy things for children. He was

a good husband and she loved him.

His Hobby Was Float Fishing

D.S.O. Now Fishes For Nazi Mines

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BEFORE the war began, Mr. R. B. Edwards, superin- tendent of Crewe Municipal Baths, spent his leisure at

No decision has been made his favourite hobby of fly Sir Charles: I am going to ask the and float fishing.

question,

Mr. E. R. L. Rix, the magistrates'

clerk, pointed out that a decision had to be reached before records were Decision Known

England Only

Only presented

"My wife drove him to Liverpool Safe Country"

in the farm trailer because we can't afford to send him to race meetings by train," he said.

Trained By Boy

"I have not been able to get about; and Marth has been working him," said Mr. Tate. "le takes him for

at farm work. Nothing heavy,

Tried To Swim Here

away

The Wainer lifeboat went out and two steamers wore hqlf up iff the Sawfish was trained by Mr. Tate's Kent coast-all because a Spanish 16-years-old son. Martin.

stowaway had determined to get to England, the only safe country,"

Half a off the coast the stow

overboard from Dutch ship to swim ashore. Coast- guards saw lights and heard eries for of help, so the Walmer lebont was dis- sent oul. 1t arrived to ree o "The boy thinks the world of the tressed Spaniard being hauled to n He is thought to be a man who horse and reekcons he will win the lifeboat from a Norwegian steamer. has been living in Ipswich for some National next year, I feel pretty! The stowawny was put back on time, but who has no relatives there. confiderat about that myself,"

beard the Dutch boat.

it is believed that the man hadis Kallops and sometimes puts him

walked into the water in the black-course. etil.

BRITAIN STARTS INTERNING HER ALIENS

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3.

ALIEN MEN of German and Austrian origin have been rounded up throughoul Britain and are being taken to internment campe. Photo shows aliens entraining at a Londen station

under armed guard.

Sir Charles: I do not care, I know what our decision is going to

To-day he is Lieut.-Comman-

the

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The

32 DES VOEUX RD. C.

Hongkong Telegraph Tenth AnnualTM Amateur Photographic Competition

June - September, 1940. Two Silver Trophies Awarded

by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-best entrios,

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK Co.

First Prizes in cach of the four Sections.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION. ONE

General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

der Edwards, of H.M.S. Watch 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30.. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. ful, facing death daily on East Coast, dealing with the backwash of the Nazi mine war- fare.

and stripping live enemy mines

--SECTION--TWO-

SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.

His courage and skill in securing Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. be and am entitled to ask this ques-without regard for his own safety 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. - tion. Superintendent, please say.

Superintendent Isaac said utere have earned for him the D.S.O.

For nearly eight months the baths were no previous convielions, and the men had been employed at a superintendent has spent his days, and often his nights, paddling out in- brickfield for two years.

After a retirement the Bench fined to the sin thigh boots clinging 1st. Cornelius Bates £20 and the other racks, exploring caves and dangling were perilously on the end of a rope over two £10 each, saying they

sent to unrealeable cils to put an end to very fortunate not to be prison without the option of a fine. Nazi inines cast adrift from

How He Fights Them I spent a day, with Commander Edwards and o navul

the rocky Yorkshire coust after a north- easterly gale had set a number of

BABY WEIGHED

7lb. 11oz. at Birth 7lb. Zoz. at 6 Months

PARENTS FINED

The parents of श chlid which weighed 7lb. 11oz. at birth, and only! 71b. 2oz. at death six months later were each fined £10 with £4 2s. 6d. costs at Leyland, Lanes, recently on

charge of

of neglecting the child.

mineflects,

crew

on

the

mines racing on the tide towards the

shore (writes a reporter). One or two had buried themselves in the

· 400-foot-cliff.--Others had - perched precariously on the boulders racky promontory

sand for into the caves tunnelled into

SECTION FOUR (Craftsmen's Section) ·

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who Each will be required to make a declaration to this effect. entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

of 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

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Commander Edwards's duty is approach, single-handed, every dere- lict mine whict is believed to present unusual problems. His expert crow of mine-disablers remain at # dis-

It was stated that the couple, Joseph creet distance from the mine-usually N. Nutter (22) and Edith L. H. Nut-500 yards to half a mile-while he ter (17), formerly of Croston Rend, examines it.

Farington, near Preston, were mar- It may contain as much as 8001b, ried in May last year, but were not of high explosive.

now living together.

Rope

If he suspects that the mine is of Dr. R. T. Cook, pathologist, sald an unusual type he takes out his ho considered death was due to con- notebook, sketches it from different gestion of the lungs secondary to angles, Lobulates each step he pro- malnutrition.

poses to take in dismantling it, and Defending colicitor said the facts then takes the notebook back to the had been before the coroner, who safe keeping of his crew. found there was no criminal negli

Job At End Of gence,

One of his most dangerous jobs was to disable a mine washing against the foot of a cliff and imperilling a school on the cliff top. He was lowered by rope over the cliff in the bluck-out and worked successfully on the mine while suspended up to the waist in water.

Hapsburg

Archduke

To Marry Vanderbilt Heiress' Daughter

Archduke Felix of Austria-Hun-

Commander Edwards is 37. Be- gary, third son of the late Emperor fore coming to Crewe he was Batha Charles and brother of Archduka Superintendent at Maidenhead and Olto, has become engaged in the Cheltenham. His wife and child are United States to Countess Sylvia ving, in the South in his absence. Szechenyl, daughter, of the former

Hungarian Minister in London and THEY LIE AWAKE

Washington, Count Lazialas Sze- chenyi, who died in 1938,

The German Homo Once has Issued a decreo that sedatives ("the Her mother was formerly Miss abuso of which may undermino Gladys Vanderbilt, £2,400,000 heiress health't), may be bought only on of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, who doctors orders. married Count Szechenyl in 1000. Reason: war worry is making Archduke Felix, who is 24, was a masses of Germana lie awake ΠΕ mullary codes in Austila until the night They are taking more-and Razis marched In...

more drugs to help, them sleep,

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

The Competition is confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- graphers.

1-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographic trade in permitted to compete,

5The prizes väll be awarded to the competitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo

Each graphs in each Section, entry must be accompanied by a for which will ho published during the period of the Com- and which must be petition, pasted on back of entry, 1-The right to publish any or all of the entries in reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

All pholographa entered must. have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already, entered in. other Competitions are ineligible 0-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, lon, of, ur darnage to entries,

SECTION

NAME.

ADDRESS

1-All entries to be either black. sepia, or toned pleturen, and must be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible.

B-Pictures submitted in mopia tones should be accompanied by smaller print in black and white. 9-No picture to entered in more

than one Section. 10-Mounts to be only whita' or cream, must be of one of the following

icon-19X12, 10×20,

11-Ne correspondance will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.

the

12-Members of the Staffs of the

Hongkong Telegraph and South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 13--The decision of the Judges shall

be final.

13-At the conclusion of the Com- palition, entries will be returned to competiton on application at the Telegraph offices within seven

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and paste this on back of cách Entry, Sections 1, 2 and 3

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