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Bong Kong.

Telephone

20752.

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Canadian Pacific

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N.Y.K.

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Friday,

LINE

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Wednesday Asama Mary (starts from Kober BEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Robe)

301 APE

2nd Ort

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 24, 1940.

Fighting Cooks of

The B.E.F.

Rescued Wounded

In Motor Boats

BANK NOTICES

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED.

A FIGHTING cook of the B.E.F., Lec. Corpl. Benjamin H. Booker, Welsh Guards, has won the Military Medal. He and the company cooks under him fed the Authorised Capital troops, rescued wounded and fired their rifles in their spare time.

"At Boulogne, between May 21 and 23," stated the War Office report, he was in charge of his company cooks and throughout the fighting and under heavy fire he was. able to feed at least 150 attached personnel besides his own company,

Other MC.x:

Capt. Charles Phibbs Jones;

"At the same time, he was always ready to take up a firing position with his cooks whenever the enemy attacked.

"Later, when the company had orders to withdraw, Liner-Cpl. Booker managed to evacuate a large number of wounded by dr.ving thein back Jorries,

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"On reaching the barlour, anding that the ships were on the opposite shore, he at once got hold of one of the few motor-boats working and to the got the wounded safely over Klitjen.

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Capt. Rhoderiek Lathan Cam Winchell Gave

bell Rase;

Lieut. (Acting Capt.) Cyril Hugh Reginald Heber-Percy:

Ambulances

Road Offer =—-18, Grseschurch Hirook, London, ECJ.

£3,000,000 1,800,000 1.050.000 1254.500

Aubscribed Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund and Rest

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MR Walter Winchell, highest- pald American columnist, has,

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BENSON,

Manager.

Priping

(Peking)

Perang

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Sergt. James King, Wekh Guards, secretly provided four ambulance earned the DC.M. when at Boulogne units for the Allies and has "le returned to continue with his acting as medical grant at the contributed 300 dollars

On battalion R.A.P.

several fugee funds. cooking datire whin the company

Iden on intervention sho held the approaches to the harbourenstons he went out and carried in wounded under very heavy ghellifre

he wrote; modifying. A year ago fell exhausted, having The future of American youth is until strained himself.

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Sergt Thomas Burke, RQMS F Todd Jones

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ngo he was urging America to awake liken prisoner

to the threats of pirate nations,

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Mr. Winchell, Inheriting the mantle the front luv under hewey Are and trical trait

powertal in the streets of the town continually of Arthur Brisbane, an a

influener in American Journalism and -hiped at from bosses

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story of a legless pilot's re- Advanced the Ford, Chaplain.

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12.10 The I Billies and London Plano Accordeon Band.

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1.45 Variety Programme, 215 Close Down.

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6.32 Buch Two Fiano Concerto in C Major.

Arthur and Ulrich Schnabel with the London

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0.53 Folles D'Espagne (Corelli). Enesco (Violin).

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1.45 A Mozart Programme. 2.30 Close down.

3.0 Compositions of J. Rebastian

7.30 London Relay-The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Relay-Recital by the Choir of St. Joseph's Church.

8.45 AtudieThe 12th of a Bèries of Book Reviews,

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9.55 Lint-Ballade in B Minor....

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10.15-11.15 am. Relay of Morning Service from the Methodist Church. 12.15 Verd"Il Trovatore," Act 4. 12.50 Meyerbeer-Ballet Sutte, "Les Patineurs."

Sadler Wells Orchestra cand. Con- stant Lambert,

Cradle Song of the Virgin Mary

| (Reger); Andante Religioso (Thome), 10.15 Bunday Evening Epilogue from the Studio,

Conducted by a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

10.33 Close Down.

CHEERO CLUB The following are Cherry Qua activities for the coming week:

Monday, Whist Drive 8.30 p.m.; Wednesday, Dance 8.30 p.m.; Thurs day, Bridge and Mah Jong: Friday, Daris and Table-tennis.

Owing to the Blackout exercise on Tuesday, August 27, the Whist Drive has been brought forward a day to Monday, August 28.

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