1940-07-29 — Page 24

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A CHILD

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GERALDINE

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GLADYS GEORGE

JEFFREY LYNN

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

N. ZEALAND ANSWERS THE CALL

Fine Response To War Service Appeal

WELLINGTON, July 28 (Reu- ter). Reviewing the result of the recently terminated system of voluntary recruiting, Mr. F. Defence, Jones. Minister of

stated that altogether 80,000 men had volunteered for service overseas with the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force.

Volunteers for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force totalled 03,747, of whom two battalions were already Overseas,

The

Territorials

st have brought into

training a part of the Territorial

Army which, with ปาล new

July 29, 1940.

DUTCH FLEET WITH US

units being formed would provide The Dutch Minister of Defanco, Licut. Col, Dyxhoorn inspected

a war strength of nearly 30,000 men. New Zealand would be the fest Dominion to reach is peak under the Empire Air Selwme, and when she did so, she would be able to turn out 3.700 fully or partly-trained air- men, a year.

Netherlands

units of the Dutch Home Floot in a British Harbour.

Dutch Royalty in

Not Beaten England

Queen Wilhelmina

WHILE their grandmother,

CLIPPER. MAILS Increasing Amounts Being Carried

The amount of wait received at Inspiring. Message By the Queen of Holland, was at Hongkong for despatch to England by Clipper is increasing each week, Buckingham Palace Princess At present the amount of mall has Julians a two children were play-averaged between 30 and 40 lbs, # ing in the gardens of their new week, but this amount will rapidly increase as India has 1,000 kilos of home in London.

mail a week for England,

Speaking in Dutch, Queen Wilhel- mina declared that the war had re- vealed itself more and more clearly as a war between good and evil-a battle between God and our con- science on one hand and the forers of darkness, now in the ascendant, on the other.

lonely square.

LONDON, July 28 (Reuter). -The Netherlands will carry on the war until the morrow of a Only a few people were waiting

This mail is at present belge sent outside the house in Eaton-square, free and happy future dawns,.W.. when the royal refugee chil- because if Indin were to send all her

by surface routes and not by air declared Queen Wilhelmina, in-dren came out to

mali by air it would crowd out mail play. augurating a new Dutch pro- There were no armed guards from Australia, New Zenland, Malaya gramme to be given dally by the one or two policemen were there and Hongkong.

to watch the traffic, but a crawling Pan American Airways can easily B.B.C.

taxi and a horse and cart were carry 1,000 kilos of mail from India the only vehicles in sights in addition to the mail being received Princess Juliana and the two lite from Singapore, and Rangoon. This princesses crossed the road to the mail is at present being carried by it is garden gates of this quiet, almost Imperial Airways planes, but

expected that permission will be aranted the C.NA.C. In the Already At Homa Prince Bernard peeped out to future to carry mails from India op make sure the coast was clear. He is Rangoon-Hongkong service,

Soviet Women's Flight was still in his Dutch Ariny uniform Sam Browne, Jack boots and spurs

Moscow, July 28. and he beckoned to his wife and The Soviet plane Ukraine, bearing children.

its crew of three women alers of the Princess Juliana seemed already Red Army in a daring: 5,000-mile at home.

Bon-stop light from Habarovsk to She had borrowed an English pram Lwow in Soviet-occupied Poland, for Princess Irene-no gas-preet cot was reported approuching Sverdlovsk, for her now, nor even a gas nusk in near the Ural Mountains, the whole party-and gently sherlock on Sunday morning. dropped it down the two steps to At 5.32 o'clock on Saturday after-

What Is At Stake

Her Majesty added: "What is at stake is the liberty of those the world over who wish to work for the good of mankind and to do so without be- Ing frustrated by evil-doers.

nor

"Just as in earlier days neither the force of arms, nor the flames of the ntake,

impoverishment and suffering succeeded in exterminating our love of liberly, our freedom, etu- selence and religion, so I remain con- vinced that we and all who think like us will emerge from the ordeal. strengthened and chastened through our sacred sufferings."

Flag Flies Proudly Queen Wilhelmina continued: "Our beloved flog files proudly on the seas in the great Netherlands, in the cast and west. Side by side with our allies, our gallant men continue the struggle. The Empire overseas, which had given such striking proof of the sympathy in the calamity struck

Is the Motherland,

wh.ch

more

the

pavedient.

at

near

1.00

noon, the Ukraine was reported over the 10- She wore a net tied with white falshet, 2,000 miles from ribbon over hed head. Her dress barovsk airport in central Siberla.-- was a thin summery checked frock Domei. and coatee, embroidered with Uny flowers.

Beatrix,

clutched a doll in une arm; the other was streiched up to grasp her tall father's hand,

Air Sorvica To Resume

Kwelin, July 28. the elder Princess. According to the Japanese sources service in Hanoi, the regular, wir between French Indo-China and Hongkong will be resumed soon.— Wah Kiu Yat Po.

An

Maharajah's A.D.C. Leave

Imperial Airways plane left Hongkong yesterday for Bangkok with two passengers. They were

She had on a smocked- frock, like her playmate, Baroness Roell, with whoat she romped in the gardens.

While Princess Irene, the baby blinked her blue eyes in the sun closely attached to us in thinking Princess Julian read the non Capt. II. Nidan, the Alde-de-camp to and feeling than ever before,

paper. and Prince Bernhard With unshakeable-unity,-we-in-back-into the house... tend to vindicate our independence und that of all our territories."

Pan-American

Conference

Delegates Approve Chilean Proposal

Animal Painter

went

TURENIGILIUITATE Woo Cho-pun Exhibition Draws Crowds

The exhibition of works by the: HAVANA, July 28 (Reuter).-The well-known animal artist, Mr. Woo Economic Co-operation Commission Cho-pun, at the Chi Yung Middic of the Pan-American Conference has School has attracted large and ad- adapted the Chilean proposal pro-miring crowds. There were some 60 viding that Latin-American countries pictures on view, no less than 40 of shall take over the public utility con- them being of tigers, Mr. Woo's fa- cerns controlled by extra-continental vourite subject.

None of the works shown was for interest which are threatened with

but it is worth recording that sale seizure by foreign interests.

The proposcal Includes a general two recent paintings have been ac- will be quired. One is a group of tigers now

the Maharajah of Indore, who re- cently-passed-through--the Colony- after a visit to the United States, and Mrs. G. R. Bhland, onc of the Maturanl's maidservants. Both arc

eturning to India.

Mail Schedules The China Cipper is expected to arrive at Hongkong to-morrow from Manila.

An Imperial Airways plane is due this afternoon from Bangkok.

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Steamship Company's office.

To Be Regulated

M. Schamke, head of the Chilean delegation, in submitting the proposal, suggested that the acquisition of such concerns should be regulated by the of the nation concerned. constitution

It might be either by expropriation or some other sysicın.

The majority of such concerns In Lat-America are British, French and Dutch.

B. Schamke said this step was essential in order to prevent further Infiltration from overseas.

West Indies" Position` LONDON, July 28 (Reuter).-Com- menting on the decisions of the Pan- American Conference at Havana, the Trinidad Guardian" says that the West Indies find themselves in the position of a patient on the operating table, listening to the surgeons dis- cussing the operation but denied any part in the consultation.

So far as the British colonies are concerned, says the paper, there is this difference: the patient is not nud never will be under the anaesthe- tic because Britain is not going to be icfested.

Tientsin Agreement

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AL JOLSON

ROSE OF

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A 20th Century Fox Picture

"THE HURRICANE"

Dorothy Lamour Jan Hall

„Victor McLaglen

PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER". Bartholome

TOKYO, July 29 (Domei)-Follow- WHY BE DOWNHEARTED?

ing his interview with the Foreign Minister, Mr. Yasuke Matsuoka, on Saturday on the general Anglo- Japanese, relations, Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, called on the Foreign Minister again at 11:00 o'clock this morning. The

FOR THE BEST OF GOOD CHEER

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London, July 28,

Issued An Air Ministry bulletin to-day stated."Enemy operations not divulged. over this country during the night! were or a small scale and were mainly restricted to areas of Wales and South-west England. A few bombs were dropped, but only slight damage was caused and there were no casualties.

enemy

"Early this morning an bomber was shot down by R.A.F. fighters off the south-west coast and second enemy bomber was brought

In South-cost England." Gown Rester..

KOWLOON FIRE. Furniture and Goods In Garage Damaged

Fire damaged a quantity of furni ture and miscellaneous goods stored In a garage in Luna Buildings, Kim- TOKYO, July 28 (Router).-An berley Road, Kowloon, on Saturday agreement regarding the mainten-night. once of peace and order in Tientsin

The garage was locked and it is similar to the recent Anglo-Japanese not known how the fire began. It is agreement.. has been signed by the believed the property was stored by French Ambassador and Mr. Matsu- cvaruces now in Manlio.

The Fire Brigade at Tsimshatsui miya, Acting Japanese Vice-Minister

extinguished for Foreign Affairs, according to the was called and

blaze. "Domel" agency.

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TRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEM CHILD'.

MEN OF MALTA

MALTA, July 20 (Reuter)--Vice- Admiral Sir Wilbraham Ford broad-

FOR THE U.S.

SPECIAL TO, THE "TELEGHARM” HAVANA, July 28 (UP)--Argen-

cast a message from Mr. A. V. tine lins become America's "problem... Alexander, First Lord of the child," according to the "Havart Admiralty, and Admiral Sir Dudley Fort."

In an editorial, the newspaper Pound, First Sea Lord, expressing to

""Argenilno had better all officers and men, both of 11.M. declares: ships and dockyards at Malta our quit looking down her nose at twenty

of admiration

the stout-hearted other nations in the Americas, and manner in which they faced the 'con-recognise the dunger that lurks tinued enemy attacks."

maybe the is acting on certain The message added: "The gallant endurance of the Maltese personnel assurances from Berlin.. Maybe the und citizens of Malta ever since the is guessing Germany will win the outbreak of hostilities commands, war and that she will be un' good universal respects."-

terms with the victor,"

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