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BURNS PHILP LINE

Passenger & Freight Service To

AUSTRALIA

We have a vessel sailing

shortly

for

Saigon

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 10, 1940.

BRITISH BATTLE SQUADRON

Madang

Salamaua

HR

ere's

THE

ØST.

13

Rabaul

Sydney and

Melbourne

Excellent passenger accommodation with a large number of single cabins at 'no supplement. Built-in Swimming Bath and Spacious Sports Dock.

Passenger & Freight Agents: GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CÒ., LTD.

Tel. 28031

Go Empress

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and Europe!

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P. & O. Bldg.

Speed cross the Pacifle by luxurious Empress linera, then... Victoria... stop over if you wish ... and Vancouver In Canada's Evergreen playground. NEXT BAILING FROM HONGKONG

FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER. (Omitting Honolulu)

Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side, at Vancouver take you through the Majestic Canadian Rockles-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery. Niagara . Falls and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.

Then Montreal and Quebec, дay French-speaking -eilles-on-the-famous-St.-Lawrence Seaway,-and-a-quick- crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Pacific's Atlântie flect.

NEXT SAILING TO MANILA

LAST WEEK IN AUGUST

For full information consult your travel agent.

Union Building,

Hong Kund

Telephone

20752.

ог

Canadian Pacific

World's Greatest Travel System

PRESIDENT

LINER

SAILING S

To SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES

Via Shanghal. Kobe. Yokohama & Honolulu.

55 "President Plerce"

SS "President Coolidge"

SS "Prezident Taft"

To NEW

YORK AND BOSTON

AUG. 20 SEPT,

*

SEPT. 13

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay & Capetown.

SS "President Harrison"

SS "President Folk"

AUG. 20 SEPT, 20

TO SINGAPORE & PENANG

SS "City of San Francisco"

SS "City of Los Angeles"

י

AUG.

AUG. 27

14

To SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES

Direct

⚫ss "City of San Francisco"

vin Yokohama.

* * AMERICAN

SEPT.

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PRESIDENT LINES

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AGENTS. POR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN.

AIR AND UNITED AIR LINES.

11 Pedder Street

Telephone 28171.

The British Navy is still the strangest single force in the war.

It has made Italy's entrance into the war unimportant.

battle-squadron with H.M.S. Nelson loading.

If Nazis

Invade Britain

Hore is a

Seven Rules For

All Civilians

SEVEN rules to learn and carry out efficiently if the Ger- mans invade Britain are given in an official eircular to be dis- tributed to civilians.

It is emphasised that if Germany's invasion threat is put into effect they will be driven out by the Navy, Army and Air Force. but the ordinary civilian can do much to help. Stay Put

This is instruction No. 1.

When Halland and Belgium were Invaded refugees crowded the roads, preventing troops from advancing to their defence. If the officer com- manding decides that the pince where you live must be evacuated he will tell you when and how to leave. Until then, stay where you are. Ignoro Rumours

To create panic the Germans spread rumours among civilians and issue false instructions. When you receive an order, therefore, make sure it is genuine; nost you know your local policemen and A.R.P.

warden.

Keep Watch, Keep Calm

If you see anything suspicious, nute it carefully, and Inform your nearest pollee station or military officer.

Don't rush to tell your neighbour: give the facts to the authorities. Passive Resistance

Don't tell u German anything; hide your food, bicycles, maps; make your car or motor-cycle useless. If you

Man Who Lost

A Fortune Sues Son

A DISPUTE between Mr. Arthur Sainsbury and his son, Mr. James Arthur Sainsbury, about the ownership of 3,000 £1 ordinary shares in J. Sainsbury, Ltd., was the subject of an ac tion before Mr. Justice Tucker in the King's Bench Division.

ton

Mr. Arthur Sainsbury, of Welling-

Court, Knightsbridge, S.W claimed declaration that the shures by his son, were held as trustee whose address was given as Foun- tain House, Park-lant, W.

Cross-examined by Mr. G. O. Slade (for the son). Mr. Arthur Sainsbury said that when he retired in 1920 he received £202,000 for his shares in J. Sainsbury Limited,

are a garage owner you must evolve Mr. Slade: Would it be right to

plan to protect your petrol and

customers' cars.

Help the Military

say that you had dissipated #for- tune in speculation on the Stock Exchange and horse racing? The latter, no; the former, yes: but not

Be prepared to assist Service of-to the extent of £202,000, eers. You may, for example be ordered to block roads to hold up an enemy advance.

But don't go blocking roads until told which, you may limpede our own troops.

Organise Defence

2

If you are in charge of a factory, store or other works, organise its defence itt

If you re once, worker, make sure that you under- stand the system and know your

Parnchuflsts part.

Fifth and Columnists are powerless against organised resistance.

Think First

Your courage is your best defence. but think before you act and think of your country before yourself,

The Post Office will begin distri- bution of 14,150,000 coples of the leaflet ibis morning.

con-

At this stage there was a sultation between the parties, und Mr-Slade-said: "The parties-have-

terms, the machinery of come to which will have to be worked out."

The hearing was adjourned.

ALIEN FINED

. For using his moter-car con- trary to the Aliens Order, Charles Senter, a Swiss subject, of St. Winifred-road. Folkestone, was fined £1 at Folkestone.

When seen by a police officer the previous night driving his car, lie said: "I am nqt aware of the order."

Senter told the magistrate that he was shopping.

Senter was also fined 10% each In three cases for having failed to report to the police on three different days.

Saccharine Again Used

To Save

Saccharine became, in the last war, an extensive substi. tute for sugar in tea and cof- fec.

Sugar

walers and fruli drinks. Some manufacturers preferred sugar be- cause it puta more "body" into the drink; they have now had to re- vert to accharine. *This hos substantially increased

It has not yet been called on to play the same part in this war, but the demand, which in peace is about Eaccharine manufacturers have al-75,000lbs, a year.

ready begun. to come to sugar's re- The price liet to save shipping space.

of saccharine has risen from 49s. d. per lb. to 98%. Id. since The field over which sacchurine the war began, not so much because, can replace sugar is limited. It is a of the extra demand, as because of sweetener; but it is not, like sugar, the high duty levied on it.

a source, of energy. It can take Being 650 times sweeter than su- 11 can take thegar, weight for weight, it is far more the place of energy. place of sugar in ten, but not in Jam heavily faxed. The duty has gone puddings. cakes and the many othet up from 30s. to 838. 4d, per lb. ways in which people normally take

Exports Stopped

their sugar.

NOW

It could replace only a fairly small! A few weeks ago large quantities, part of the 2,000,000 tons or so of of saccharine were being exparted to: sugar which Britain normally eats Indle and China, but that export has in a year.

stopped. Overseas trade Jy strictly controlled by the British Saccharine Sales Company In col- The plant for manufacturing sac-laboration with the Government. charine is limited, too.

Two Factories

A leading subchorine manufac-

There are two manufacturing plants turer said:

[In_the_country, both working through

a 'single sales organisation. But they

are capable of producing all the

There is no question of sacchar

ine replacing sugar completely,.for

It has no food qualities: There is

saccharine which the country: Is Bike... ... #lao... little chance = "of (an "ersals"

ly to require.

In pruce time, saccharine largely used for sweetening mineral

sugur, being produced, because no successful research has been ear.. ried "out."

"No doubt Sir, Hong Kong

was gayer in those bad old days,

BUT-you're pinched our mug!" i

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