1941-08-11 — Page 10

DONALD DUCK

WELL, WELL A WEIGHING

MACHINE

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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14 POUNDS!

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ME?

I DIDNT RECOGNIZE YOU

PUTTING ON. WEIGHT!

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Frutillas, Lianquilue, Puerto seized by the Chlacst,

Thirteen Chinese soldiers made a The arrests followed house stationed at Mannshan, southwest of during oftack on the Japanese troops

Puch on the Canton-Hankow Roll- way in south Hupeh, on July 24. They killed more than 20 Japanese officers and men and captured two light Calcutta machine-guns and eight rifles. .

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POSITIONS VACANT. WANTED: Bangkok Nursing Home

The Register of Sharea of the Nursing sister, English State regis- tered and S.C.M. Overseas Nursing Company will be elosed from Association member preferred, a SATURDAY, 16TH AUGUST, 1941, about 35. For particulars apply Mrs

25TH MONDAY,

AUGUST. Allinson, 92, Waterloo Road, Kew- loon or Matron, Bangkok Nursing | 1911, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board Directors,

Hume.

FOR SALE.

THE HONGKONG NATURALIST. and 4. Price $4 VOL X nos. 3

sale at (poglage extra), Now on South China Morning Post Ltd.

The

Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1941. Two Sliver Trophies Awarded by. ILFORD, LTD. For the best and second-best entries.

Three Silver Trophies Awardad by EASTMAN KODAK CO. First Prizes in each of the three Sections.

$250

CASH PRIZES

$250

...

SECTION ONE Interior scenes. Table Top and Still Life Studies. (Exluding portraiture, plants and and flowers),

1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10

SECTION TWO Portraiture.

1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY -2nd-$40—3rd-$30—4th-$10--

SECTION THREE

Plants and Flowers..

1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $50. 3rd $30. 4th $10

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

2.-The Competition is open to all

photographers.

lord

-The entries awarded the

Trophies for the best, and second- best pletures' in the Compellton, will not be entitled to any other priets,

-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section, Each entry must be accompanied by, a fonn which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must bo pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all

of the entries is reserved to the Jongkong Telegraph,

All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are innigible. 4. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of loss of, or - damage to entries

-All entries to un elthor black,

Bepja, or toned pictures, and must' be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are insligible, B.---Platures submilted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a emaller print is bišek and white. 9. No picture 19 entered in mora

than one Section,

10.-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12, 16X2,

11. No correspondence will be entered

into in connection with the Com

elition, 12--Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Port are not permitted to compete.

19. The decision of the Judges shall

be final.

14-At the conclualot of the Com

petition, entries will be returned

to competitors on application st the Telegraph offices within seven days.. 15.-The use of aliases is strictly

forbidden.

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ADDRESS

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of each Entry,

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The Hongkong Telegraph China and Macso

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British and Foreign

20 cents per copy 25 cents Saturdays.

Mock Invasion

Of

Black Country

LONDON, Aug. 10 (British Wire- less)-Big Reale civil defence exercises in which the Home Guard, military and civil. defence services ço-operated were carried out over a wide area of Birmingham and the Black Country during the week-end.

The attacking forces were regular troops while Birmingham was de- fended by its Home Guards and a force of reller troops composed of British, Free French, Dutch and Czecho-Slavakk

regulars, แ WAB assumed that an enemy force of two ctivisions and two panzer regments attacking Birmingham from the southwest and to help the invasion, paratroops were dropped on the south, and north sides of the city in the early hours to-day.

were

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U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02% U.S. Cross 'rate in NY.

H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning,

BANKS

German propagandists that Germany searches. did not intervene

ene in fraq out of re-

gard for Muslim liver and properly

A quantity of

propaganda

was contradicted by raids on Damas-matter has been seized. cus and other holy places and now The Minister of the Interior is

there are almost daily raids on the to make a statement. clvfl population in the Suez Canal.

Japanese Raid Over Kunming

KUNMING, Aug. 10 (Central News). Twenty-six Japanese planes raided Kunming at noon to-day. Kept at an altitude of about 5,000 feet by Chinese anti- ircraft fire, the raiders dropped over 100 bombs indiscriminately, causing more than 10 casualties

about demolishing

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Luftwaffe Humbled LONDON, Aug. 10 (British Wire-

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Hongkong Telegraph. Sir.-I am sure that all members of the Chinese public who travel third class by ferries of the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd., and the be gauged from a Moscow Agency Star Ferry Co., Ltd., will be deeply message stating that 1,105 awards grateful to His Lordship Mr Justice

IP. for bravery have been made.

E. F.

F. Cressall who made certain

comments concerning The decorations include three for very caustic women while three men have been the practice of ticket sellers short

changing third class awarded the title "Hero of the Soviel Union.

From

sal of the judgment as A perusal of

it would up- The first of the latter is Captain reported-in-your-paper,

under the Batley, who led a battalion, which pear that His Lordship had been encircled, through "im- Impression that the practice in one

of recent passable"

my origin. From repeatedly swamps and

personol SIAN, Aug 10 (Central News), attacked the enemy from the rear.

knowledge, however, I can Sian and "Hancheng · Slenyang,

The second is

is Lieutenant Kamers-say that the practice did not originate with the increase in the war time Ichwan, Shensi Lowns, were raided chikov, who

Air Mail to Rangoon to connect brought .220 b. x 42 Japanese, planes in five groups down four enemy planes and four value of the Hongkonk heen in Servico will until further notica be

single-handed

one. cent with the British Överseas Airways yesterday. Incendiary bomba were more in co-operation with comrades, piece, but has actually dropped at

The third is Junior Lieutenant existence for the past 20 years and is closed on Mondays and Fridays. nt.Sinn.

known ἐσ practically Nine Japanese planes raided Tall Ridny, who destroyed Ave

99% of the local Correspondence for despatch by this must be superscribed by Chinese population. It night also route this morning, dropping more than 20 planes single handed omrades. His be pointed out that although not a "C.N.A.C." bombs in the vutskirts. Damage was with the help of slight. A lone Japanese plane re-plane was pierced by 28 bullets but party to the fraud, the Ferry Com- .00 n.

concerned pantes

could not have been is still in service. connoltred Sinn, .70

ignorant of the practice, as, apart 40/42 n.

from daily squabbles outside the .6.53 n.

short changing. correspondents have, on more than One occasion, valeed their criticism of the practice in the Correspondence Column of your paper.

Y. K. CHAN.

.495 n.

185 b.

1

120

n,

Central China Withdrawals

CHUNGKING, Aug. 11 (Central

enemy

DEFENDER LOST ticket omçes over

The public are reminded that it is

■ breach of postal regulations to close in a postal cover communi- cations intended for persons other

han the addresses.

The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is tem porarily suspended:-Yunnan, Ste- huen, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fukien except Amoy and Kulange), Iwangsi, North and East of

91 n. News). Large numbers of Japanese BUT CREW SAFE .15.55 b. troops in Central China have been

LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter). 5.80 b. transferred to Manchuria recently .2014 m. and puppet troops have been dis-An Admiralty communique patched to take up garrison duties in announces that the destroyer .13/6 n.places where the

Japanese have Defender (attached to the China Exhibition In Aid Of Swanghing.

71% n evacuated, according to a Shanghai Station at the outbreak of war) cts n. dispatch.

Organisation and training of more has been sunk with no loss of .3.20 b. puppet troops is intensified. Re-life.

35 .cently while embarking on Inpanese "The Defender was commanded by .07-n, ships for Tsingtao for training, many-Licut-Cmdr-G. L. Farnfield. 18.30 h. of the 2,000 puppel troops under the

7 n. command of Tao Shin-sheng tried to .3.10 n. escape. Several deserters were shot 101 b, dend by Japanese troops on guard.

Carrier Off Amoy

Fex.d. 16.90 & 5.

MR C. ROGERS'

APPOINTMENT

by

Chinese Refugees

An interesting exhibition of pot plants, Chinese paintings and tropical nah opened on Saturday morning, and will continue until Tuesday, t 00 the Sih-Nan Girls' College, No, Waterloo. Road, Homuntin. The ex- hibition

is open

to-day and to- morrow from noon to 10 p.m.

The

exhibition, which is sponsored the Chung Sing Benevolent Mr C. Rogers has been appointed Society, is in aid of the Fund for the Economic Adviser to the Govern-relief of refugees of Kwangtung and the ment of liongkong in connection with Kwangsi. Y. Ferries

In the plants section 1.22 11. carrier attacked, Changchow, the problems immediately. Lights China

(old) $..

..5.95 sa dropping several bombs. Later they from the freezing of Japanese and several hundred pots of dwarf trees China Lights (new) $......1.30 .came to Yungan and dropped six Chinese assets and the inclusion of and cacti of various types from H.K. Electrics (old) x. rts 21.00 n. bombs in the southern suburbs, caus- Hongkong in the sterling area, America and Africa; while the fsh HK, Electrics (new) $......21 b. ing about ten casualties and wreck- Mr Holl-Patch, British Financial include specimens from South HK. Electrics is $. .10.00 sa,ing several house0.

Commissioner In the Fac East, has America, Java and Indin. .18.00 s.

One of the raiders was hit by Chin-proceeded to Chungking to act as The paintings, In scroll form, fea- .12 n. çse änti-aircraft fre and crashed in temporary British member of the ture both ancient and modern, Chin-

23 n. the hills at an undisclosed place. Chinese Currency Stabilization Fund. ese work.

(old) $.. Peak Trans (new) S.. Star Ferries $

S.

Macao Electrics $.

Sandakan Lights $. Telephones

(old) s Telephones (new) $..

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Catd; Macg. (Ord.), S.

YUNGAN, Aug. 10 (Central News). 7 n. -A

hay Japanese alreraft-enrrier ..3% n arrived off Amoy. .53% 11.

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..in. .14% b. .0%. n.

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Cements $.

H.K. Ropes S..

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18.90 n.

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214 n.

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MENZIES SENSES CRISIS

At the close of the exercise, General Sir R. G. Finlayson, G.O.C. Western Command, who was in charge of the exercise. expressed fa ADELAIDE, Aug. 10 (Reuter). satisfaction. "The exercise," he "Developments which brooked no said, "has taught us particularly the delay" was the reason given by Mr value of iinison between the military R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime and civil services."

Minister, for the cancellation of his tour of Australla hnd his decision to zeturn immediately to Melbourne for a full meeting of the Cabinet,

QUEEN'S THANKS called for noon to-day.

14

five planes from

British Prisoners

arising

there

of War Fund

Massed Band Concert

All persons attending are asked to purchase a programme with badge sold on the Ground and, in advance, by Lady Programme Sellers.

Tables seating from.4 to 10 may be reserved and paid for in advance at $1.00 per person on application to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. 1. E. Roberts of Messrs. Thomson & Co., Hongkong Bank Building. There will also be a number of seats and a limited number of tables unreserved...

Refreshments will be obtainable throughout the Concert in exchange for coupons of $1.00 for all Alcoholic drinks and 50 cents for all non-alcoholic. These coupons may be purchased on the Ground; or in advance from the Lady Programme Sellers and from the Hon. Treasurer.

Due to the generosity of many donors almost the entire proceeds of all refreshments will go to the Fund.

The following telegram has bein U.S. Cruisers Move Hongkong Cricket Club Ground

received Excellency the

Governor from the Secretary of The two heavy United States cruis BRISBANE, Aug 10 (Reuter),- Stato for the Colonies, London:

ers Northampton and Salt Lake City, "Your" telegram 785 has been which arrived here unexpectedly Inst conveyed to Her Majesty who great- Tuesday on a training cruise, sailed ly appreciates the Icind and loyal to-day. Their destination is not dis- message on occasion of her birthday," closed.

SATURDAY

are

23rd AUGUST 1941.

Small Packet Post to all countries, s suspoaded.

Air-Mall-by-Pan-American Airways Direct Service"-Spr Francisco dale, 5th August........Aug. 12, Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 10th August. .Aug. 20.

INWARD AIR MAILS

OUTWARD AIR MAILS Monday, Aug. 11

Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to com- nect with the "British Overseas Airways.

I

K.P.O, and G.P.O. Reg.

....Aug. 11, 4 p.m.

Ord. Aug. 11, 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 12

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan Ame- rican Airways and Trans-Atlantie Services."

Reg.

Ord.

Ree.

Ord,

K.P.O.

Aug, 12, 5 p.m. ...Aug. 12, 5.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

.Aug. 12, 5 p..

.Aug. 12, 7 pm.

Friday, Aug. 15

Air Mall by Air to Bangoon to connect with the “Brliik Överness Airways."

EP.O. & G.P.0. Reg.Aug. 15, 4 p.m. Ord. ................Aur. 15, 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 20

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Hono

lulu. U.S.A., and Europe via “Pan- Trans- American Airways Allantio Services."

Iteg. *Ord.

Rex.

Ord,

K.P.O.

and

...........Aug. 20, 5 pm. .Aug. 26, 6.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Aur. 20, 5 pm.

Aug. 20, 7 pm.

St. Dunstan's Needs Your Help

for the curtain of life- long darkness has' fallon; : but there also is hope, for they are learning to be blind, and soon will go but. into the world useful, con- fident and happy citizens."

(Sir Ian Fraser--Chairman of St. Dunstan's.) Send your donation to

EL Dunstan', Hon. Treasurer, British War Organisation Fund c/o Hongkong & Shanghai Barking Corporation

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