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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50

** 10%

for 3 days prepaid

WANTED KNOWN.

G.

NOTICE

, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

EVACUATION EXPENSES

COMMITTEE

The Evacuation Expenses Com- WANTED.———Ladies to assist in Hong, mittec is still holding meetings to kong's "V" Campaign by selling "deal with applications for Finan labels. Please apply to the Organiser, Box 001. "Hongkong cinl Assistance from husbands in Telegraph" or telephone 28502. All Hongkong, whose families have proceeds to swell the Bomber Fund. beon evacuated to Australia. FOREIGN STAMPS. Any kind needed by Fellowship of the Bellows who will make.up. and acil for benefit of War Fund. Send any you have or can collect or can spare from your duplientes to F.O.B. e/o Hongkong Bank, Kowloon.

FOR SALE.

THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, Vol. X nos.

Price $4 8 and 4. (postage extra), Now on sale at South China Morning Post Ltd.

NOTICE

be

DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1940 The following rates will charged for maling single copies of the following newspapers abroad:-- South China Morning Post China and Macao

10 cents per copy

British Empire and Foreign 25 cents per copy

The Hongkong Telegraph China and Macao

10 cents per copy British and Foreign 20 cents per copy 25 cents Saturdays.

Parachute Into

Bridal Gown

BUFFALO, N. Y. (UP). - When Richard K. West made in forced land- ing several years ago, he never dreamed that the parachute he used would one day become the gown of his bride. But it was.

To enable this Committed to deal with all äpplications exped!- lously, full information must ba given of the monthly salary and allowances which the applicant recelves in Hongkong and any othor particulars upon which tho elnim is based."

All applications will be treated confidentially and should be for- warded

SECRETARY, to the EVACUATION EXPENSES COM- MITTEE, TREASURY, WINDSOR HOUSE, 3rd FLOOR.

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R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 22nd day of September, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Kau Pui Shek, 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 70 years.

Intending bidders are advised that, immediately after the dispo- Miss Betty Lingle, Evanston. [sal of the lot the Purchaser (if wore a bridal gown made from the parachute when she was inperled to not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised West.

officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

After the marriage, the couple left for a dying honeymoon.

The

Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1941. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-best enteles.

Three Silver Trophies Awarded

by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prizes in each of the

++

$250

three Secilons.

CASH PRIZES

$250

SECTION ONE · Interior scenes. Tuble Top and Still Life Studies. (Exluding portraiture, plants and and towers).

1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY

No. of Sale.

Covelcon

Inland Lot

Registry. No.

No. 4319.

Between Kowloon

Intard Lots, Nes.

Ping Street

Kau Pul Shek.

Boundary

steasurements

EW,

BA per salu

pian.

about

Contents

1,000

sq. feet

*:26

Ann. Rental

Upset Price

$1.050

The purchaser of the lot will ne required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $165.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im-

2nd $40 3rd $30. 4th 510_mediately after the fall of the

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

To following Rules will govern the Competition:

The Competition is open to all photographers,

ford

The entries awarded the Trophlet for the best and second. best pictures in the Competition. will not be entitled to any other .prizes.

-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to, be die best photo- graphs in each Beelion. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which mit pasted on back of entry.

The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

must

-All photographs entered

have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been niready entered in other Competitions are Ineligible, ́8.--No rasponsibility will be accepted for non-delivery af, loss of, or clamage to entries,

-All entries to be either black, epla, ur toned pletures, and must be mounted. Edloured photo- grepha are ineligible. 1.—Pletures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied, by

maller print in black and white, -No picture to entered in more

than one Section, 10-Mours to be only white or cream,

must be of one of the following Aizes:—IGX12, 15×26.

11.—No correspondence will be entered

into in connection with the Com petition, iz-Members of the Staffs of the

Hongkong Telegraph

and

the

Sõuin China Morning Post are not

permitted to competo,

13. The decision of the Judges shall ·

Ennal

14.-At the conclusion of the Com-

petition, entries will be returned

to competitors on application At

days. 15. The use of lines is strictly

forbidden.

the Telegraph ouens within seven

ENTRY FORM

NAME

SECTION

ADDRESS

hammer, the balance of the premium being paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale.

G. R

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 22nd day of September, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at To Kwa Wan, 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 Jerm of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispa- sal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised ofleer who will be present at the sole, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Na af Sale.

Registry No.

Inland Lot

No. 4000.

Between Kowloon

Inland Lots No

4778 & 1249,

Locality

To Kwa Wan

prox Zumax H

Boundary Measurements

พ.ศ. E. W.

(feet)teel teelfleet

as per sale

plan.

The purchaser of the lot will be required to pay to the auctioneer. in cash the sum of $834.00, (boing 10% of the upset price) im mediately after the fall of . the' hammer, the balance, of the Please use block letters and parte premium being paid in accordance

one of them forms on back.

of each Entry,

with the Conditions of.

OFS

REARWARD-The German blitz usually moves so rapidly that the invaded country hasn't any time or capability for taking prisonors. But apparently, the Nazis' have found a dif- forant situation in Russia. This radio picture from Moscow shows captured Germans. Note that many of them are more boys."

Banker Spends Vacation

Clowning Under Big Top

MT. PLEASANT, Pa. (UP).—For two weeks each summer, G. Wylie Overly, Mt. Pleasant banker, takes down what hair he has left, smears paint on his face, dons a red putty nose, big, flappy pants and over-sized shoes, and cavorts about a sawdust

circus ring.

CLUB CONCERT PROCEEDS FOR

The stoutish, round-faced, 40-year-old bank cashier, who recently was elected president of the Westmoreland County Bankers' Association, literally "clowns around" during his vaca- tions. Since 1937, he his spent his two-weeks off each year to

satisfy a boyhood longing to be a circus clown.

This season, Overly divided Travels With Wife BOMBERS

his time between two big-time When he first started his clowning Yesterday's Bomber Fund collections tent shows. His first date was "bobby," a daugther, Louise, 13, ac- companied him on his trips, but now Russell the Included an anonymous donatiorr of $1,000; with

Brothers'

te's too sophisticated," Overly sald. a result, his wife now travels with him on the "vacations."

A modest, dapper, typical banker

citizen, type zen, Overly sometimes copl-

also $503.40, being the monthly contrib-circus, beginning July 7, in Ver-As ilan for August from the Hongkong Policemont, and continuing for a week. Force All Contingents and Clerical Staff), and $153 from the Craigengower Cricket During the week of Aug. 4, he Club, representing gratifying proceeds joined the battery of clowns Iron the concert given al Die Club with Ringling Brothers, Barnum the. "Cosmopolitana" on Wednesday night. The Fund has now reached a lota) nt & Bailey circus in Chicago. 82,523,793.02. The following in the intest Just:

"To the Downfall of Swlne inter" $

10

One Killen given away by Miss

Charupogne

1

Anonymou

1,000

Mrs. C. Tavadia in apprecia-

tion for watch

found by

Jollee Reserves ******* Purchase of Bird's Fertilizer

Dr N, P. Karanjla .... Mr King W. Chan (prize from.

Fastern Athletic Association) Mary Edmonston (fourteenth donation) de.............. Messrs Gordons, Ltd., monthly donation).................................. Hongkong Police Force (All Con- tingents sted Clerical Stair) Craigengower Cricket Club (pro- cees ut Concert by the "Cosmo- peitans" on 17.0.41) ......................... -Sale al Shanghat R.A.E, Associa

tton "V" Dadies (One for $5 and

7 at $2)

ST VINCENT DE PAUL

វិធីធ

50

4.00

10

303.40

433

10

The Society of St Vincent de Paul acknowledge receipt of the following donation in nemory of the hito Mir A. C. Joteho:

Mom, 12.

EMERGENCY REFUGEE COUNCIL

The S. C. M. Post linn received the Emergency tallowing donation 10 the Refugee Catineli (Food Kitchens):

Boys of the D.B.5. Class 4A. 1040; 833

ILIND GIRLS' PICNIC

The S. C. M. Post has received the following donation to the Blind Girls Plenic:

Mrs D. C. Tavadin, $10.

AWAITING COLLECTION

the following Organisa-

• Donations for Huns awals collection at the office of the S. C.AM. Post: Emergency Refugee Coun- elit Food Kleine Fund; St Dunstan's S.I.C.A.: B.F.R.D.C. St John Ambulance Brigade; Bind Girls' Pienie.

It all begun. Overly says, when as

alises on his experiences by giving lectures, and in many cases making

charity appearances. The bank direct tors, he reported, "never say'a word"

a boy, he carried water for the cle- about his clowning.

This year was his first with the

plnuts in a tiny circus. "That start-Ringling Brothers show, his previous

ed me," he mused.

And from that day on, the bank cashier explained, "I never gave up the idea that some day I would be come a professional clown."

Builds Own "Props" Although he obtained a lour in the Mt Pleasant bank, and became, a state banking examiner before be coming cashier, he found time to see every circus that played for miles around, read every book on the sub- jeet he could find, and bullt his own

appearances being with the smaller Russell Brothers' unit, where he has many friends.

H.K. Stock

Market

The following quotations were fested on, the Hongkong Stock Mar- kel this morning.

BANKS

HK. Banks $. H.K. Banks ... H.K. Banks (H.K.) .

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF

· INDIA, AUSTRALIA & GILINA.

Incorporated by Beyal Chartar 1851. Paid-up Capital

1922, #3,000,000 *#3,000,000

Reserve Fund Man

||Roserve Liability of Proprietors £5,000,000

.1,480 n. 178 n.

..85 n.

Chartered Banks £.

..0%.n.

Mercantile, A. & B.. £. Mercantile C. £

2312 n.

.31% n.

East Asia $...

INSURANCES

.76 st.

230 n.

Canton Ins... $.. Union Ins. $... China Underwriters $. H.K. Fire Ins. $....

SHIPPING

Douglas $. Steamboats $. Indo-Chinas P. $. Indo-Chinas D. 3. Shell (Bearers) 8/- Waterboats $.

"DOOKS ETC.

Wharves $.

'Docks $.

Providents

Kalian s/-

Roubs $.

S'hal Dockyards $.

MINING

LANDS

H.K. Mines .... Hotels $. Lands $

Lands 4% Debentures

S'hal Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $..

H.K. Realtics $. Chinese Estates $.

UTILITIES

Trams $

Peak Trams (old) $.

..442% Bn.

HEAD OFFICE:--LONDON,

30 Bishopsgato, B.C.£.

Sub-Agencies in London,

117-183, Leadenhall Street, E.CA.

West End Branch:

14-10, Cockipur Street, 8.W.1.

Manchester Branch! · 42, Mosley St, Manchester, Bi

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES) Hongkong

187 n.Alor Stor

Amritsar.

120 n. Bangkok

.11 sa. Untavla

.00 n. Bombay 70 n Calcutta

Ageneles:

.58/10% n.

.0.65 n

Iollo

Ipoh

Rangoon

Saigon Bemarang

Karachi

Seremban

Klang

Kobe

Shanghai Singapore

Kuala

Biawan

Clive Street Lumpur

Fairlie Place Kuching

Canton .071 b. Cawnpore 1034/70 .Cebu

.7.65 8. Coloinbo

Madras

Manila

Bourabaya

Taiping

Tientsin

Tongkah

Medan

(Uhuket)

Now York

Tinglao

Peiping

Yokoliama

Kalphons

(Peking)

:16/0 m. Hankow

.7 m.

Penang

General

and

37 n. Dothi

and TOREIGN EXCHANGE

.2 cta n. Banking Business transacted..

opened CURRENT ACCOUNTS

4.37. FIXED DEPOSITE received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other 384. Currencies at rales which will be quoted ..07% non application.

.22 13.

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in

8 b. Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application. 415 n. The Bank's Hend· OMes in Londos .100 b. undertakes Executor and Trustee busi

ness, and claims recovery of British 18.40 s. Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be nicertained at any OL 28 Agencies and Branches,

W. IL EVANS THOMAS,

Peak Trams (new) ($.

..3 n.

Star Ferries $

61% n.

Y. Ferries $.

au.

.24 b. 'Chino Lights (old) $. 714 n. Ching

Lights (new) $. 2.55 0. HI.K. Electrics (old) x. rts 24 sEL IK. Electries (new) $....234 n. H.K. Electrics

Ris S Macao Electrics $. Sandakan Lights $.. Telephones (old) 5. Telephones (new) $..

INDUSTRIALS

.1374

SA.

Manager

POST OFFICE

The following changes in postage .18% n.jrates will be effective as from 18th .13.10 n. September 1941.

Letters Postcards

25 b.

.9.40. b.

eachi

$0.04

$1,85

$0.00

per 4 oz

$1.00

Macao and China Cald: Mack. (Ord.), Sh. $....45 n. New Zealand by air Cald: Macy. (Pref.), Sh. $...35 .

via Hangoon Cantor Ices $...

.....1 n. Europe all countries $3.50 Cements $.

17.15 sa.

air mail murcharges per 34 oz

HI.K. Ropes S.

.104 s. by air to USA, and

onwards by sen

.....1934 sa. Parcel Post Servicg to Japan is 13.45/13% 9. temporarily suspended.

STORES, &C. Dairy Farms $... Watsons $. Lane Crawfords $.. Sinceres $

Wine On (H.K.) Wm, Powell, Ltd x.d.

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $. S'hal Cotton Sh. $. AUSC.

.0.20 b.

.21% n. The public are reminded that it is .39 n. a breach of postal regulations to 1.80 b. enclose in a postal cover communi- cations intended for persons other

50 m. than the addressee.

.305 n.

101

n

.98 n.

tem-

of

The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China H.K. Govi 40

porarily suspended:-Yunnan, Sze- ILK

Govt

311⁄2 (1934)

08 churn, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fuklen H.K. Govt

(1840) 3%

n.(except

Amoy and Kulangsu), Ch. Govt 5% 1923 $Bds. .:43 n. Kwangsi, North and East Entertainments $

..0.

Kwangtung, Constructions (old) ....1.00 n. Constructions (new)....80 cts . Small Packet Post to all countries Vibro Piling $..

.7.20 n. is suspended, ! Marsmana Inv. (Lon.). 8/- 7/0 n. Marsmans Inv, (H.K.) s. 1/6 n.

Permit

A felong friend of Overly also has No Clearance been bit by the tent show "bug." He Leung Mui, 41, Juni mistress, was is Clark Queer, editor of the Mt. | fined $5 or a week's hard labour by Pleasant Weekly Journal," who Conde J. Jolly nt the Marine Court

yearly takes a freak show on tour this morning for leaving Hongkong with a carnival-

UNITED U.S.A.

without a clearance permit.

Sergeant Wheeler stated that he had seen Defendant leaving Hong- kong and when she caught sight of the Police launch, she had turned was carrying a

"props" for the thae he would get MEANS "NO WAR" round and made back for the Har-

the chance to use them.

bour. The junk

Finally, in 1937, after er tetter- The Committee to Defend-America cargo of 30 sacks of peanuts. writing, Overly got his chance with by Aiding the Allies held n rally in the Russell Brothers elreus, which the Brooklyn Academy of Musle re- was playing Mt. Pleasant at the time, cently.

General Decapitated.

By Plane Propellor

He has not missed a summer since Ed for Ansell Mowrer. Chicago "Daily News" writer, listed os rett- then.

This year Overly could have play-sons why America should go to war

VICHY, Sept. .18 (Reuter), vd two-weeks

stand with either the at once the need to create "a sense General Yoanitu, Chief of Staff of

Rumanian Army, Ringling or the Russell shows, but of dire urgency and provoke a sult-the

hos been accidentally killed in nighting from chase the split turn to avoid making tary war paych

Would result a long jump with one elretts,

in the an aeroplane at Tignina, says a Overly fashioned his own make-up, abolition of strikes and that by con-Bucharest dispatch, fie was decapl- as well as the "props." He musses his voying or some means we would be tated by the propellor. graying and

and receding hair, applies sure our material gol to Britain. His body has been brought to

le.

INWARD AIR MAILS Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Servico-San Francisco. date, 19th September ....Sept. 20. Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 30th September ..Oct. 7.

OUTWARD AIR MAILS Friday, Sept. 19 Ale, Mail by Alr to Kangoon to con- nect with the "British Oversear Airways.”

G.P.O._and_K.P.0,

Rez.

Ord,

.Sept. 10, 4 p.m. Bept. 19, 4.30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22.

Air Mail by Air to Hangoon to con

meet with the. "British Overseas Alsways."

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

Ord.

..... Sept. 22, 4 p.m. ..Sept. 22, 4.30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlanilo Services."

K.P,0. Reg...Sept.:20, 5 p.m. Ord. .....Sept. 26, 5.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Sept. 20, 5 pm. Sept. 20, 7 pm. Tuesday, October.7

Reg.

Ord.

Senator false bushy eyebrows, points large

Claude E. Pepper felt, Bucharest. white Hips, adds a red putty nose; however, that America could stay His customary costume is a dress suit out of war only if President Roosevelt with a shoe-string

received the support of the united

Indian Standard Time Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, His net seems to go over with the nation." ircus crowds as

A third point of view at the rally, ar those of the

and Europe BOMBAY, Sept. 18 (Router).—It | U.S.A.

via *Pan- as well full-time funsters, judging from the attended by 1,000, wng

American made by is understood that the Government of

Airways and Trans- applause he receives. And he has Herbert Agar, editor of the Louls- Indin are examining a proposal to Atlantis Services.” trouped with the "biggest names in ville "Courier-Journal," who said advance Indian standard time by one clowndon," who, he said, always Nazism was "revolution against civi- hour.

bend over backwards" to be nice.

lization."

Under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Mark Young, K.C.M.G.

THE TIN HAT BALL

at the

PENINSULA HOTEL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 from 9 p.m. to 2 a,m.

Dancing to the Band of

The 2nd BATTN. The ROYAL SCOTS (By kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. McDougall, M.C. and Officers)

and

ART CARNEIRO AND HIS 'BAND-

CABARET by CAROL BATEMAN

Tickets $5 including supper, now on sale at The Hongkong and Peninsula Hotels, Moutrio's, Anderson's, Tsang Fook Plano Co., S.C.M. Post, TABLES SHOULD BE RESERVED WITHOUT DELAY.

The proposal is intended to mini- mise Inconvenience to the public arising out of A.R.P. arrangements, particularly black-outs.

„Oct. 7, 5.00 p.m.

Oct. 7, 5.30 p.m. -

F. P. O.

Reg. Ord.

Пег. Ord.

a. P. o.

..Oct. 7, 5.00 p.m.

Oct. 7, 7.00 p.m.

VICTORY BADGES

Brooches and Button-hole Type'

A NEW CONSIGNMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED THROUGH THE SHANGHAI ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION.

Replicas of the International Code Flag Signal

Minimum charge

two

dollars.

On sale at Morning Post Building."

ENTIRE PROCEEDS TO BOMBER FUND

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Investment Bankers and Brokers

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Chicago Board of Trade ·

Manila Stock Exchange Winnipeg 'Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York

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