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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 18, 1941.

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Rabbits A

Source Of

Wealth

Nestling in the southern highlands, the little town of Adaminavy lms become rich almost overnight, and scenes like those of the "gold rush" days are being enucled on the main streel, saya n Sydney report,

tht

But rabbits, nol gold, re source of Adominaby's new-found wealth. Prices for best sking have soured to 0s. 3d. lb., and every man who has no regular job to keep him in town is making long trips out to the "snow country," in temperatures well below freezing pokat, to trap rabbits.

In the main atreel, four buyers have set up their reales, and they weigh skin and pay cash for their purchases. Children sell skins

of

rabbits caught after school and are earning up to

to 20s. week. Truppers are making up to £40 on skins taken in a fortnight in the hills.

"The bank manager, the post- master and the pubilean are stilt on the job, but there are about 80 men in the hills trapping rabbits." Mr Bert Betts, owner of the Adambiaby Hotel, said.

"Labourers who have no regular employment have left town on pack horses with traps and food. To-day sking are worth is. 3d. each, but by the time these men return the prices will have risen.**

Bank Manager Retiring

By Ernie Bushmiller

JUNE 20-

IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT~These 425 cadets at West Point Military Acadamy moved into immediate jobs as second lieutenants in Uncle Sam's Army.

graduation.

Here's a view of the

Financial Front Plays Its Part

In Victory

Over Nazi Tyranny

By A. P. Luscombe Whyte

LONDON.-Voluntary effort has played a tremendous part in the British war effort. Not only in the Forces and in Home Defence, but also on the "Financial Front."

The average citizen has cheerfully faced rising taxes and prices, and on top of these he has dug deeply into his own pocket to give or lend to his utmost towards the enormous cost of waging war.

The result was amazing. To date, well over £700,000,000 in small sav- ings has been lent to the country, averaging 94 millions per week.

Fashions

Help Buy Bombers

London.

Twenty-two bombers

costing, two million dollars can be built for Britain every year by the United States as a result of the de- cision of Captain Edward Molyneux, famous throughout the world as an arbiter

or

women's fashions.

When the

the Nazis swooped across France, Captain Molyneux left his Paris

salons, which lending fashion houses of New York, _supplied the Chicago and Hollywood not to men- tion Canada. He decided to carry on from Mayfair and soon his 200 workgirls were overwhelmed by the requests received by unble for morn- Ing

and

madeyernoon frocks, "tallor evening gowns. The buyers didn't bother about prices from one of his repute.

To-day there are about 20 Ameri- fashion houses, each ordering 40 models

ber of fear and a minimum num

of repeats is 25 for each model. Therefore each order

represents £20,000 worth of business." A Canadian house takes 60 models annually. Payments are made by these houses in dollars so creating a handsame dollar reserve with which Britain can purchase war material.

"MY spring collection is already on the high sens,"

Captain told an interent importance and

interviewer,

Teux

element

time

R collection takes too long, say six weeks, to get there, it becomes dated. Therefore shipping arrange- ments are being speeded to assure quick delivery."".

Letters Three Years Late

·

Due To Air Crash RICHMOND, Va.-Two air moll

here

from

letters lost for more thin two years after an airliner crashed in the hills of Chile have arrived South America almost three years after they were written.

The

fetters.

postmarked June, 1938, bore an explanation In Span- Ish on the envelopes.

The mall had been lost June 19, on a flight over the foothills of the Andes.Later-the-letters-were- recovered and remailed-this time

whist-drives, com dances from Santiago, Chile, Feb., 1941.

After 25 Years' Work Terminating 25 years of service with the Shanghai branch of the Banque Franco-Chinolse Mr M. E. Mcunler, manager of the bank there, has resigned from his position and is leaving soon for South Amerlen

Shortly after the war began aly £30, only to lose the lead to yet cal War Weapons Weeks is given where he intends to settle down with his family

Savings Campaign was another Yorkshire town when El- freely. These volunteer workers have The retiring bank of great cial, who is 10, came to Ching ofter launched and John Citizen was land reached £33.15.0.

thought up endless ideas and "stunts" the World War and joined the bank urged to spend his spare money succeeding record

The story hesitates here with the to publicise their weeks and squeeze which was then known as the Ban- not on goods which demanded which remains with the little mill

of £42 head savings "until the pipe squenk."

Carnival Enthusiasm que Industrielle de Chine. He has labour or shipping tonnage, but town of Heckmondwike resided fifteen years in Shanghai.

Yorks. (I Some towns have taken on an al- During the

the World

on investment in the various almed at £100,000 orld War, he was a

got £36,

161; mest carnivalesque appearance dur- soldier in the 54th and 10th Regi- Savings certificates and bonds. 000!) The tiny Welsh agricultural ing their weeks with houses bellag-

village of Llanbedr ments of Infantry of the French

bands playing, inhabitants, has lent only 310 ged, army, and in the "Service Auto," he

£100 a head towards Britain's war the streets. Special Savings

Processions-1938, lent-no-less-than marching and tanks rumbling t

through nished the war as an R.TO. in the

effort, but this cannot count as a re-parties, Gare do Nord at Paris.

Always a keen sportsman, he was

cord as it was only part of the Coun- and treasure hunts

Both letters were stamped as dip- been held, have of Merloneth's the French teom

in coach to

thefr the

effort in

tomatic, correspondenco Yorkshire, they ass

frons the "International Walking Competition"

At Keighlew,

U. E. embassy at Buenos Aires and went into War Weapons week like at Shanghai, for five years. He was

Republients and Democrats into

were written by Alexander W. Wed- also a promoter of the "Shanghal

Presidential election," with

dell, now ambassador to Spain. One bands. Boxing Association" which was re-of rivalry, he devised "War Weapons towns has livened these weeks into their 10-stone Mayor parading the Weddell, his sister, and the other to banners. and loud-speakers, and was addressed to Miss Elizabeth sponsible for the engagement in Weeks.' Shanghai of the famous French try. The Idea swept the coun- something of a tournament tells howtown squeezed into n

ganiser of Heckmondwike,

Bren-gun the editor of the Southern Church- "there were four Yorkshire towns carrier. Light hearted, despite the man.

bc- scrapping for first place. So we set bombs, and generous-perhaps The first War Weapons Week was out to beat the lot." Halifax bet a cause of the

bombs. held in the Yorkshire city of Leeds tin of toffees they

could not hent As Nazi bombing has Increased in He was chairman during seven and ever since Yarks towns have their £26.10.0 But, halfway through sogers, so have savings in de years of the "Singhal Art Club," "topped the bill'in វរ remarkable the

One South Coast town, alm- at the annual exhibitions of which series of records.

week, Heckmondwike hind - gree.

ut £100,000 the toffees and raffled ready won

seemed likely to ho was a regular exhibitor of Innds-

Last June the citizens of Leeds them for Savings Certificates!

reach a smaller total. But In mid- LONDON, June 5-A delegation and oil paintings. He was decided that they would like to pro- capes

week staff officer of the "Police

the Nazis bombed it. Next representing the Danish Council in The thrift shown by these Specials

wee

were waiting out- London has just arrived in Americu, and was in charge of it! vide the country with 100 bombing has amazed ofcials. In many in thorning queues and it is well known ones at a cost of about £2,000,000 towns average pre-war wages were weck showed a

side the Savings OMees, and the The aim is to establish a united front not afford to give They could

enough only

total of £181,000. of all free Danes in free countries for frugal living. Now money, but by lending at low rates overtime, rising wages and employ- The Luftwaffe had virtually pro-and to obtain the consent of overacu of interest they could help equally. ment for all has swollen fumily in-sided the extra £81,000.

Danes for London

to become the centre of a

Ia "world Federation of Free Danca."

boxer. Pindner, now blind.

Art Club Chairman

responsible

His decision to sever his long con- nection with the Banque Franco- Chinoise has been taken for purely private reasons.

Partly responsible for this huge ty total was a brilliant Idea on the part Savings Week as a whole. of 'sone un-narned offletul. Playing

They Won The Toffee Good natured rivniry

not only on the average man's patri- etism, but also on his natural sense

Yorkshire Leads

it

the

between

towns

that he is one of those res for its

high degrees of

emetency. Recently he lost his eldest daugh-

A seven-day campaign was staged, comes to an astonishing degree. ter at the age of eighteen after a very Posters, processions, speeches, loud- long and painful Illness. He has a

speakers urged citizens to roll up to nixtravagance, on new clothes,fur- wife and two other children.

banks, post offices and other centres would not have been surprising. In-

Harvard 'Varsity niture, radio sets and other luxuries and invest in war bonds and certi- stead-thirty or forty pounds a hend fleates. War Weapons Week perspiring ac nos only help the country's war cl-

And at the end of this first Invested in suvings,

Inherits Hotel Savings which countants had totted up a total of fort now, but will aid its transition

Harvard University is now pro- not £2,000,000, but more than to peace condition when war is won prietor of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, £3,500,000ar enough for an extra and over.

centre of New York society. 75 bombers.

The organisation behind the Sav- The title to the Ritz Carlton, one Not to be outdone Bradford, the ings campaign has been largely run of the world's most famous hotels, great

Yorkshire rival of Leeds, by volunteer labour, which helps to was bequeathed to the University by rushed to organise their own week.) explain how the first £600 Robert Walton Goelet Leeds, with an average of over £8 was

was raised at

Goelet whose will has just been lent by avery man, woman and chlid, ment of only £1 per £1,000 raised, proved, was chairman of the board of had sald rather complacently. "Bent The country is divided into twelve the Ritz Carlton. that if the canist."

FELLOWS

OF THE

BELLOWS

JULY

SCORE

435

a cost-to the

And, rather to regions, with a saloried comunis- He was director of many real estate

companies In America.

300

Leeds' chagrin, Bradford did beat it. sioner, assisted by paid experts and

Local Pride The Secret organisers and an army of unpald One of the oldest of New York's Playing up local rivalry their cam-workers, In charge of each. In all prominent hotels, the Ritz Carlton is paign leaders whipped up an average about 250,000 volunteer workers are often chosen for debutante parties.

Valued at £958,300 it hos of over £1 from each Bradfordian, now helping to gather in the money.

Nearly all the labour beliind fo- rooms and 475 employees. including nearly £5,000 in the pen- nies and sixpences. of schoolchildren. This really started the ball rolling, Liverpool look up the challenge and contributed over

£10 per head. When Greater London ended her own monster Week recently there was hardly a town of consequence in the

Week Which had not held its-own

Most towns set themselves a de- object-£100,000 to Guy

falle

Tomb Of Tamerlane Opened

By Soviet

Excavators

Free Danes Fighting

to

With Britain

The free Daulsh movement here is be, known an "Free Dunes in

Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

The Members of the Delegation to America tre Mr K. G.

Anker- Petersen, chal

chairman of

of the executive committee of the Danish Council: Mr E. Hertel, member of the execti

P. live committee; and Captain Membeke, who joined the Free Danes in this country after having resigned his post as Näval and Air Attache to the Danial Legation in London.

Classics Quoted

By Shepherds

LONDON, June 7-Scottish shep- herds have no monopoly of the classical learning. Recently over- heard was a conversation between one of our West country shepherds and a farmer who was bemoaning the Tateness of the spring and the bad growing weather.

Record Convoy Of 50 Ships

"Don't worry, maister" rejoined the shepherd, twd be all right presently when Phoeby comes." Now Phochy has come and it is fa MOSCOW, June 21-The magnificent tomb of Tamer-all right; The red landscape

rapidly turning green. lane--the lame Timur-at Samarkhand in south-western Aain tomboys or aghters, 500,000 for a has been opened and Soviet archaeologists examined to-day a chase a battlecruiser. And t'a nine-skeleton they said dispelled legends that the great Oriental tenths of these casbs the total nimed conqueror's body had been removed by Persians. at hns been greatly exceeded. Some- time. doubled, trebled or multiplled The crypt of the Mongol Empireja broad-shouldered man with the

bullder who led legions "of a thou-right leg shorter than tlie left.

NEW YORK, May 25,--The largest campaign progressed, the sand horses from the Volga River also found in the tomb the skeletons Dahlus loaded with $100.000.000 The archaeologists reported they prean convoy in history, more than early figures per head were left for to the Persian Gulf and from the of Tameriano's two sons and that of worth of war supplies and food, has behind." Edinburgh" "bunced its sax- pences" to the tune of 20 for every Hellesport to the Ganges in the a grandson, Uleg Beg, great Oriental crassed in Great Britain safely from Inhabitant. With Yorkshire still fourteenth century was opened Juno astronomer of the nfteenth century, Canada, Collior's Weekly reported to Behting gamely, Halifax raised 19.

Tamerlane died on Feb. 17, 1405, das alleg £20.-10.0, per head. The

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STOCK MARKET REPORT

Summary, issued Saturday, Is:

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omcial

Buyers

H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 90 1LK. Govt 3% Loan (1934), 05 H.K, Govt. 34% Loan (1040) 03 H.K. Banks $1,380 Centon Ins. $225 Union Ins. $405 H.K. Fire Ins. $105 Docks $15.05 Hotels $3.40 Lunds X.D. $34.50 Realtios $3.15 Chinese Estates $101

XD. $17.10

Light Ferries $22.75

"O" $0

"N" $1.30

"O" X. Rts $21.00

U IS

"N" $21.25

Rls. $11.20 Telephones "O" $23.10 Telephones "N" $0.50 Cements-$14.75- Ropes $8,80 Watsons $11

Sellers

Hotels $3.50 Watsons $11.50

Sales

H.K. Banks $1,395 Wharves $01 Electrics "N" $21.30 Watsons $11.25

Philippines Looks To Water Supply

With

the outbreak of intestinal discase in Tayabas, district in the Philippines, illustrating the need for safeguarding the water supply and with epidemics from polluted water ilkely to occur during a mass evacua- tion the Civilian Emergency Ad- ministration through the Philippine Red Cross is taking no chances with the health of nearly 200,000 people in Manila and the suburbs who may be evacuated in an emer- gency.

A complete mobile laboratory has been set up to make sure the water in the 38 evacuation towns in Laguna and Rizal is potable and to guard constantly against pollution.

Hongkong Firm Buys Ship

The "Fairplay," n shipping maga- zine published weekly in London," reports that the American steamer "Atlantic Gulf," of about 4,150 tons deadweight, built in 1919, and owned and Pacifc by the Atlantic Gulf Company of Manila, has been pur- chased by Mesors Wallem and Com- pony, Hongkong, for about Pesos 500,000,

Massed Bands

of the

2nd. Battn. The Royal Scots and 1st. Battn. The Middlesex Regiment on the Hongkong Cricket Club Ground 9.30 p.m. SATURDAY, 23rd, AUGUST, 1941.

Tables seating from four to ten may be reserved and paid for in advance at $1 per person, on application to Mr. I. E. Roberts, c/o Thomson & Co Hongkong Bank Building.

Make up your Party Now

In Aid Of

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