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EUROPEAN OFFENDERS

Traffic Summonses

R.

| PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of August, 1940, at 3 p.m at the Omeen of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Ma Tau Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of T5 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo-- sal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised allicer who will be present at the (sale, the aum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum

Several Europeans were sum-will be refunded on payment of moned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, the Purchase price. K.C., at Central Magistracy to- day for traffic offences.

P. H. Klimonack of Peninsula Court, Kowloon, was summoned for falling to carry the licence dise of a car in such a position for it to be visible on the left hand corner of the wind screen.

Klimanack admitted the offence and said that he had bis Reence In the car but the disc had not been put on as required. He had been ill

and had overlooked the malter,

He was fined $ID.

H. A. Waller of 7 Duddell Street was summoned for a similiar offence concerning bli car and he too whe Aned $10,

No Driving Licence

A. R. V. Cooper, of His Majesty's Dockyard, was summoned for driving

a car without a valid driver's licence.

in Queen's tond Central on August

8 and for allowing the ear to be used when not being duly licenced.

Cooper was absent from Court but

letter,

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A fine of $10 on each auimmons wƏR imposed.

No Permission

J. C. Matthewa, c/o Messrs. Butter-

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

Lots Nos

4217 & 3452

Tau Wei Road. between Kowloon

Inland Lots

Ma Tau

Kok.

No. 437

Ma Ta

Boundary

Kierzurements:

a per sala

plan.

BANKS

THE CHANTERED

BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Hayal Charter 1833, Paid-up Capital ............... £3,000,000

eserve Fund

feld and Swire, was summoned formers Lasbility at Proprietors. £1,000,000

having driven a private car at Pok- fulam Reservoir, a road closed to traffic, without the permission writing from the Commissioner Police.

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Sub-Inspector Clarke pointed out that a section of the Peak Road hod collapsed. Matthews had driven up from Pokfulam, The rond had to be prohibited becauso was dangerous. Matthews who admitted the sun- mons and was stated to have a clenr record, was cautioned.

Chiu Chak-yuen of 21 Robinson Road was summoned for allowing a car to be used when it was not duly Beenced and Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios pleaded guilty to the two summonses on his behalf,

Mr. Remedios said that this parti- cular motor car was for sale and was stored in garage, and prospective buyers took it out. The reason why the car had not been leenced wax because defendant had the intention of selling it and had, in fact, bought another unt.

---Chiu was Aned $10.

EFFECT OF

THE TYPHOON Yacht Blown Away

A motor yacht belonging to Mr. L. R. Brown of the China Construc tion Company was blown from its moorings at Deep Water Day some time during Tuesday night and Wednesday. Nobody was aboard the yacht at the me.

Another result of the typhoon was the blowing away of several mat-

..... $3,000,000

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CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITs received for One Tear or shorter perioda in Local or Other Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted on

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The Bank's Head Ofos in London undertakes Executor & Trustee businem, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on jemma which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies" and Branches.

LA CAMIDOR,

Manage.

VOLUNTEER CHARGED

Remand Ordered

sheds belonging to the China Con- Appearing before Mr. G. T. Lowry struction Commany. The sheds were at the Central Magistracy this at Shouson HUL No persons were morning Thomas Stephen Maher, Injured.

described វាទ a 21-year-old apprentice Yesterday it was reported that Tal-engineer, residing in Johnston Road, po Road near the 10 mile stone, has and attached to the Army Service become dangerous to tradle, as part Corps, of the longliang Volunteers, of the north side of the Bridge has

was remanded until August 28. been washed away.

Maher is

No

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 23, 1940.

HOW BRITISH WAR INDUSTRY STATE FUNERAL

IS BEATING

Indian Military Police

The Indian Army have, like the British Army, their own milltary polley, who patrol the arcas in which the Indian Boldiers are stationed. They are equipped with a number of motor cycles and lorries. Here we see a motor cycle squad lined up for inspection,

Death Of Prominent British Scientist

Sir Oliver Lodge Passes

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter).The death is an- nounced of the well-known scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge. Oliver Lodge, the English scientist,lar speakers on the wireless, s was born at Penkhull, Staffa, in June talks dealt chiefly with scientifle sub- 1851. It was intended that he should jeets and he had the gift of making take up his father's business and pabstruse questions clear to the ordin the age of 15 he entered it as a pupil.ary listener. His voice was ideal for But he spent is leisure in studying broadcasting. science. Finally in 1872 he went to University College, London, graduat ing D.Sc. in 1877.

His first post was that of Reader In Natural Philosophy at the Bed- furd College for Women and in 1879: of he became assistant professor appiled mathematics at University College, London. Two years later he was appointed to the chair of physles College. Liverpool, University holding that post till 1000, when he was chosen first Principal of the new Birmingham University, remaining there till his retirement in 1919.

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His Work

His work included Investigation into lighting, the seat of the electro- motive force in the voltaic cell, the phenomena of electrolysis and the speed of the iron, electro-magnetic waves and wireless telegraphy, the motion of the ether near the earth, to and the application of electricity the dispersal of fog and smoke, for which he devised apparatus. He was president of the mathematical and physical section of the British Asso- clation in 1891, of the Physical Society: In 1899-1900 and of the Society for Paychical Research in 1001-4.

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ikis researches had much to do with the development of wireless tele- graphy a fact that was recognised by Herlz-and in 1887 he was elected member of the Royal Society. Later he put into practice a system that included condensers

which zyntonised two circuits and devised a "call" for actuating an electric bell, He found that the action of electric waves enormously reduced the re- sistance between two metallic faces. Jis device he named "coherer" or wave-detector and on this busla he constructed a receiving] apparatus. For his ploneer work in this direction he was awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts. Psychical Research

sur-

Dans were injured when bailee of charged with larceny by belief in spiritualism and communica-

part of wall, seven feet high, collapsed at the rear of No. 25 Stone Nullah Lane yesterday. It was ported that the collapse was due to the recent rains and the typhoon.

re-

Prof. I. E. Armstrong having virtually asked him to withdraw from the Royal Society because of his

quantity of rations, come tion with the dead, Lodge stated in prising four packets of tea and a tin March 1920, that he was quite ready of milk, which were to have been de- to do so, if the request was made of- Ilvered to No. 4 Volunteer Company felally. At the meeting of at Cape Collinson on August 19, but British Association he predicted that which he, it is alleged, converted to before it met again at Oxford they would be in undisputed touch witli The second charge against Maher "the next_world".

his

own use.

FOR FIRST TIME is receiving packets of tea and a tin

IN HISTORY

FROM PAGE ONE

Straits of Dover came under fire from heavy guns mounted on the French

coast.

"Warships escorting the convoy ut

once laid noko screens to conceal the conveal from the enemy.

"Although some shells fell fairly close to the ships, no ship of the

of milk knowing they had been stolen.

kim.

Advance Theories

the

After the charges had been read

Of late, he pointed out, one dis- to Maher, he pleaded not guilty. Mr. covery after another had completely revolutionised sclentiße theories and C. d'Almada was present in Court for it was not out of the question that the Maher was remanded to August 28 domain. On the other hand, he once next one might be in the spiritual

of $500 was fixed. when the case will be heard. Bail declared his belief in the possibility that life would some day be created in the laboratories of the biologists. He also asserted that sooner or later men would be able to control the weather.

ON GUARD

Convoy or escort was hit or received IN CANAL ZONE

damage.

at-

The same convoy was Inter tuoked by enemy aircraft. No dam- - oge was caused by this attack, and the enemy was driven off by our gunfire and fighter aircraft.

"Our fighters shot down one enemy aircraft during this action,"

("Reuter" and "United Press")

ARCHBISHOP DEAD

Primate of Spain TOLEDO, Aug. 22 (UP),—The death occurred here to-day of isidoro Cardinal Comey Toma, Archbishop of Toledo and Price pain at the

zwell-afol

the Best Frederic W. H.

and he declared that Myers'a

In 1020 he was chosen to deliver Myers memorial lecture to the Society for Special to the "“Telegraph" · Psychical Research. It was Mycra BALBOA, Aug. 22 (Domel). who introduced him to spiritualiam -The acting Governor of the nuence and help were still with hira Panama Canal Zone, Lt. Col. and that when he had questions to Glen Edgerton, was issued an ask, Myers was ready to answer. order requiring all vessels enter This he often did through his ing the ports of Balboa and leutenant my son Raymond. The Cristobal to halt near the naval vessels stationed outside the entrances to the Panama Canal.

in the nature of spurts of inspira- best assistance he got, however, was tion" which came from Myers.

n March 1928, Lodgé devised á The announcement states that it is simple apparatus to do away with the not safe for commercial craft to pro- wireless bowler who mars the cood directly to the Canal because enjoyment of other listeners. This "changes are being made trora time set was successfully demofistrated in to time in the Channel"

Sept. He was one of the most popu

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At 78 he was still a great walker on the Wiltshire Downs and # keen dancer.

THE CLOCK

HEROES WERE

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter).Į ********* -How British Industry in beat- ing the clock in Its great { armaments effort was related by Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Supply, in a broad- cast to-night.

Ho was still anxious not to suggest that we had caught up with the enemy, but cited a list, of amazingly rapid transforma- tions of factories from peacetime} to wartime production since lastĮ May.

Wonderful Effort

He declared that we now have an arms Industry greater in its output and far greater in its future produc-} tive capacity than anyone would have dared to think possible three months

ago,

"Reckoned as three months of effort and menured by our immediate needs, it is indeed an achievernent, but when we think of our worldwide tasks of defence and offence and of the two or three years of

campaign- ing in many parts of the globe that may well be before us, we see our work hitherto as the beginning of the beginning. We cannot, and will not, relax,"

IN SINGAPORE

LONDON, Aug- 22 (Reuter).---Squadron Leader Dennis Clare Oliver, killed, on active service, served in Singa. pore between 1935 and 1938.

Naval Paymaster Com mander Cecil Stanley Bishop, now reported kill- ed in the loss of the air- craft carrier Glorious, served from 1933 to 1938 at Singapore in the base=" ship Terror.

FOR TROTSKY

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)President Cur- denas of Mexico has order- ed a státa funeral for the late Leon Trotsky, who died. in hospital on Wednesday night as the result of a murderous af- tach on him by a guest in his own house.

JAPAN'S CHANGE IN POLICY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UP)-OMelal circles here have declined to comment on Japan's diplomatic shakeup which is sald .................................. to be the most extensive in Japanese history and is belleved to preange a sharp change in the Japanese foreign polley under the Matsuoka-Chashi combina- tion.

Political Adviser For India

The Japanese Foreign Minister haz ordered home forty diplomats includ

ng five ambassadors, nineteen minis- ters, five counsellors and eleven Australia Sending

consuls-general The ambassadors Include those af Washington, Ankara, Guns To Britain

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter). France and Brazil. -The India Office announces) Political circles here profess to be £100,000,000 Programme that Sir Francis Wylle, Governor perplexed by the move but some CANBERRA, Aug. 22 (Router) of the Central Provinces and ed as a sensational gesture mainly to Informed quarters believe it is intend- Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minis Berar, has accepted the appoint- impress the Japanese public. ter, in a broadenst, said that during ment of Political Adviser ren- the three months' existence of the dered vacant by the selection of Ministry of Munitions he had op Sir Bertrand Clancy to be Japanese diplomatic corps were ex-

Changes Wero Expected proved

Some important changes in the. £100,000,000 (Australian Governor of Punjab on the expected as soon as Mr. Matruoka took

munitions programme,

Australia, he said. 17 now supply- piry of the term of Sir Henry office as Foreign Minister in view Ing munitions to Britain, India and Crnik.

of his energelle methods and inten- New Zealand.

By the middle of next year, Aus-Governor of the Central Provinces

Mr. Henry Joseph Twynam, Acting lon to promote a "Great East Asia” tralia would be employing directly and Berar,

doctrine. has been

But these wholesale changes were or indirectly on munition production Governor of Central Provinces and appointed

not expected since nearly all the 150,000 people out of a population Herar in succession to Sir Francis Japanese diplomats were already re- of 7,000,000.

Wylle.

garded ns ardent proponenta of Mr. Archibald Henry de Burgh whatever policy Tokyo dictates. MOSCOW, Aug. (Reuter)-Hamilton, a judge of the Oudh High the conviction here the changes in This impression has long caused Sir Stafford Cripps, the British Am-Court, has been appointed a Judge of bassador to Rula, saw the Foreign the High Court of Allahabad on the diplomatic personnel made Hitle Trade Commissar, M. Mikoyan, to-retirement In October next of

i difference in basic relations day. Their talk lasted 45 minuter.

Tokyo. Edward Bennet.

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Joe Louis T.K.O's Godoy In 8th Round

FODIL

ALBERT:

4 DAYS ONLY

JOE LOUIs

and

ARTURO GODOY

Loser Begs To Continuo After Fight Stopped NEW YORK, June 20

ZORINA !

to-day

(UP)—Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion, re- tained his

ZORINA !

ZORINA !

ZORINA

crown

IN A THRILLING FIGHT

SEE THE KNOCKOUT

IN THE EIGHTH ROUND

against Arturo Godoy, Chi- lean challenger, when the referee stopped the fight in the 8th round and gave a

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ZORINA

!

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technical decision to Louis. The night was scheduled for 15

Godoy weighed in at 20111⁄2 lbs. and Louis at 199.

rounds

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SUPER-KILLER

WE PROMISE YOU

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FIGHT PICTURE

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challenger who Louis re-established himself as the ring's super-killer with his technical knock-out Godoy was a rugged and blood-smeared foiled Louis over 15 rounds in Feb- ruary.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL WITH THE

MOST BEAUTIFUL LEGS.

Arco tode.

.

EVER

SEEN

After, the referee had stopped the fight, Godoy ran to Louis corner and berred for a chance to continue, but he was escorted back to his own corner by the pollos,

the canvas and halted The referee, Billy Cavanagh, lifted Godoy the bout after Godoy had been floor ed once in the seventh and twice in the eighth rounds.,

Godoy, was apparently helpless, and was spouting blood from gashes over his left eye and on his cheek and

mouth.

Sir

Not Prepared To Join Axis

with

Informed quarters are Inclined to regard the new shakeup as A gesture merely for home consump tion. Unofficial authorities here mostly do not believe that Japan is prepared to cast in her lot with the Axia

They sald Japan will be cautious about

her adventures in Indo China and the Dutch East Indies- until the outcome of the Battle for Britain is more certain.

Wholesale Reorganisation TOKYO,

23 (UP) The "Asahi Shimbun," predicts the fure ther retirement of diplomats abroad and shifts in virtually all the different departments of the Foreign Office.

It adds that the

Minister Foreign

intends a thorough reorganisation of the Foreign Office through a mixture of Foreign Office talent and unofficial circles. There will be general purs- Ing of the Foreign Office which Is regarded by the so-called American and British faction as a step towards the reorientation of the Japansee diplomatic policy the recall of the

the paper adds.

The paper

Japanese Ambassador from Washing- ton is suitable because Japan has buffered a diplomatic blow in the United States abrogation of the 1911 treaty,

Recalled in the Far East are the Counsellors in Peking and Manchu- kuo and the Consuls-General in Manila and Vladivostok.

NEW AIRLINE TO MANILA UNLIKELY NOW

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UP), Authoritative circles hero to-day said the Manila-Jova air line is a matter which is still under active considera- tion although there is little prospect of a favourable decalon in the near future.

The State Department has reiterat- ed that there is nothing new in the - developments.

The Netherlands Legation here de- cilned to

comment altbough intimated that the matter remains in the hands of the Ualted States.

Unofficial speculation is that the United States favours the inaugura- tion of the airlice but fears that It landing rights are granted to the Dutch it would create

a precedent under which other less welcome powers might demand equal rights.

Alleged Demands

On Thailand

LONDON, Aug. 22 (Brush Wire- less)-Mr. R. A. Butler in the House of Commons to-day old the Foreign Secretary, had no information that

had any Japanese demands

bren made on the Government of Thai- land;

No communication on that subject had in consequence been addressed

to that government by the British Government.

The situation in Thailand was being watched.

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