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NANCY

OH, MR. BROWN... WOULD YOU PLEASE

MAKE SOME ENLARGEMENTS OF THIS PICTURE

OF ME ?

ANYTHING FOR

A PALS NANCY!

Thursday,

I'LL SHOW SLUGGO THAT HE'S NOT THE · ONLY BIG TIMER

IN TOWN!

Donations To BLACK-OUT

Bomber Fund

Chinese Seamen

A total of $1,750,427,40 was reached you- terday by the War Fund Inaugurated by Lis S. C. M. Post, Ltd, with the follow ing donations.

Jimmy's

(March)

Musical Kitchen

Box

One Scottish Puppy, per Jackey

Club Hongkong Police Force (All Contin- Rents and Clerical Staff), March, 1941

MIN A Senior (third donation).

Mission

F

TO-NIGHT

Shipping & Traffic Instructions

To-night's black-out exercise will automatically commence at 0.44 p.m. 47.20 and terminate at 10 p.m., when nor- (mal lighting and sea iraffle will be resumed. The signal for the fer- 004.70mination of the exercise will he the

switching on of all street lights.

200

The Christian Mission to Chinese Sex-

lowing donations received during the first men in Hongkong acknowledges the fol- fortnight in April.

Hongkong Telephone

Should any air raid alarm signals

road trafe must stop and pull into be sounded during the black-out, all

Co., Ltd. #100; the side of the road, extinguish all Lleul General M. W. Sue, 135; the Talkoo lights, and remain thus until the Dockyard & Engineering Co., Ltd, #25; the Hongkong Land Investment & Agency "Raiders Passed" signal has

been

Co, Ltd. $15; Mr H, R. Sturt, #10: 33.C.sounded, when they may resume

13. Mr K. S. Wong, 15; Mr D. D. For their journey, provided that their Wing On F. & M. Insurance Co., Ltlights are obscured in accordance Wing On Co. Lid. ; Sino-British Engineering Corporation Lid, 49; Tang with Black-out Regulations, Fook Plano Co., 15; Dr K. W. Chaun

identist), 48; Mr is. V. Thome, $5: J. F. L.,

Drivers of public and private

33: Mr. Kew. $2. CJLS, $3; Mr vehicles, on observing the approach Taylor,

All communications and contributions of any military vehicle using restrict- May be sent to the Headquarters, 54ed lighting, are requested to give Jordan Road, 1st floor, Yaumati, Kowtoon. All cheques and money orders should be every consideration to the dimcult crossed and made payable to the Christian conditions under which the military Mlesian to Chinese Seamen, Hongkong personnel will be driving, and in or- Please state whether for General, Goodder to reduce the risk of accident, Samaritan or Building Funds.

REFUGEES HERE

Numbers In Local Camps Show Increase

Statistics of refugees and destitutes in Government camps for April 12. supplied by the Medical authorities, are printed below, with figures for April 5, in brackets:

should either dip or switch off their headlights. These requests are made owing to military manoeuvres and manning exercises which may be in progress.

During the black-out period, ex- ternal lights of every description on

board, vessels are prohibited; and all

internal lights must either be extin- quished or obscured, so that no light is visible either from above or from any other direction.

Torches may be used to meet any special circumstance, but they must Urban areas.-King's Paris 1.302 be screened with two thicknesses of (1.303): Matauchung 1,030 (1572);ordinary blue close-woven cloth or North Point 1,520 (1,522); Morrison coated with paint. Pedestrians pre Hill 513 (518); Tal Hang squatters requested, to refrain from smoking comp 2.557 (2.557); Ngou Tau Kok and lighting cigarettes in the squatters camp 801 (801):

Rural areas.Kam Tin (2.007); Fanling Children's 327 (327).

open.

They should remain in their houses 2,144 and thereby avoid exposing themsel- Camp ves to the grave risks of personal in- Jury which are inherent during a The grand total for April 12 was binck-out, and also to necuslom 10,803, as compared with 10,867 on themselves to conditions which would April 5, showing an increase of 196. be enforced in wartime.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GUESS I'L

GO OVER.. AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT MY

PICTURE!

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April 17, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

VISIT SARONG BEACH

SPIASIO SWIM SUITS

USE GOOG COLD CREAM

504

REAL KIDS LIKS

"OUTO"

for BRĪZĀKJAST

EUROPEAN YMCA ADC PRESENTS

MRS. DOT

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.

In aid of YMCA War Charities

MAY 1,2,3.

9.15 P.M.

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Investment Bankers and Brokers

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trado

Manila Stock Exchange"

Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchanze, Inc., New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montreal

New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange-

Hongkong Sharebrokers Association

Shanghai Stock Exchange

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and BUENOS AIRES

Cable Address: SWANSTOCK

HURRY UP AND BOOK FOR

BOY MEETS GIRL

Last performance Sat. 19th at 9.15 p.m. At K.C.C.

Seats $3.00; $2.00; $1.00; bookable at

Messrs. MOUTRIE & CO. or THE CLUB.

NEXT CHANGE at the

LEE THEATRE

More thrilling, more romantic than "The Count of Monte Cristo”!

Edward Small presents

The SON of MONTE CRISTO

starring LOUIS HAYWARD JOAN BENNETT

with

GEORGE SANDERS FLORENCE BATES-MONTAGUE LOVE xcruenplay by GEORGE BRUCE directed by ROWLAND V. LEE ROWLAND V. LEE production ruldased twu UNITED ARTISTS

CHINA'S LIFE LINE-With the Japanese continuously bombing the Burma Road, China is dependent for supplies from the outside world on the Na-thuonet Rand, sanda wiched in between the Gobi desert and the 'Tibet highlands, in Kansu Province, and operating from Soviet Russia. The road lias through wasteland where towns perch on

terraced hillsides, top panel. The people are not true Chinaso, but Moslems, descendants of migratory Turks and Arabs, loft panel, They formerly waged war on the Chinesɔ, but a compromiso has now been effected. Thousands of them live in caves, right panel; high in cliffs. This inland road is practically inaccessible to the Japanese.

Murder of Wife: B.B.C. Adviser

Found Guilty But Insane

AT the. Old Bailey recently, Professor Arthur Lloyd James, 56-year-old linguistic adviser to the B.B.C., was found guilty of the act of murdering his wife, but insane. He was ordered to be kept in custody during the King's pleasure.

the

Longer Life Possibility

Use Of Chemicals

ginia, April 16 (UP). The pos- HUNTINGTON, West Vir- sibility that the span of a human life may be extended to

185 years with the aid of chemicals Four women were on the jury had come to the conclusion that Pro-has been: suggested by Dr Wil- when

almost fessor James was suffering from de-lam Marias Malisoff, of the professor whispered his plea of not guilty.pressive insanity. He looked tired and relieved know what he was doing at the time

He thought the professor would Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

Dr Malisoff told the Huntington when a warder gave him the of the offence, but would be incnp-Executive Club how he had reversed signal to sit down.

able of knowing that he was doing the symptoms of old age in rabbits wrong.

by feeding them with sodium thiocy-

Devoted To Wife

Mr Justice Wrottesley gave per-nate. The chemical, he said, scat- Mr G. M. McClure, for the pro-mission for the professor's son to see tered cholesterol, a polsonous mate- secution, made it clear that the pro-him, and remarked of the professor: in the bodies of the rabbits.

rial

He said that cholesterol is a waxy fessor was absolutely devoted to his "In my opinion he is a very sick substance which forms

on human wife (balter known by her maiden mun."

arteries and that a study revealed a name of Elsic Owen, under which

relationship between the amount of the substance on the arteries and old age.

she frequently broadcast).

The real issue for the jury was whether the professor was respon- sible for the acis he did, if they be-: lieved he did them.

Bleak Future

Long Canadian Phone Line Because of the wartime need for speedy telephone connections be At the police station, continued tween eastern Canada and the Pacifle Mr McClure, the professor said: "Coast, the longest direct voice chan- thought my powers were falling, and nel via land wires in the British Em I could not cope with my work, pire was placed in service recently, Rather than ask her to face a blenk The new circuit, more than 3,000 future I decided she should die and miles in length, links Toronto

Vancouver This voice channel

and

"There is a possibility, he said, that a method may be discovered which would scatter the cholesterol deposits so that old nge symptoms could be retarded or even be made to dis- appear.

MORE BEER DRUNK IN STATE BARS

not be asked to face it. I thought | 800 miles longer. 'than the Toroni Government beer is boing drunk. Ini

I would also kill mysalf,”

In the North of England more

the Carlisle, Gretna and Cromarty Death was due to a fracture of the Calgary circuit which, on its open- districts, where the Government run

Ingin December, 1937,

the WILS the pubs, the profits for the last skull and concussion

financial year were £117,046, which have been used, which might longest in the Empire.

The now voice path has been made to £37,000 more than in the previous possible through the co-operation of year. Reduction in unemployment Depressive Insanity - five of the beven separate systems and wartime additions to populations Dr H. A Grierson-Bentor Medical which comprise the Trans-Canada are the reasons given in an official Officer at Brixton Prison," waldhotelephone system.

report.

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