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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER: 22, 1940
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THE UNITED STATES NAVY HAS REDUCED THE TIME RE- QUIRED FOR WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION BY ABOUT 12 PER CENT THROUGH A SPEED-UP SYSTEM IMPOSED IN GOVERN- MENT AND PRIVATE SHIPYARDS..
This was revealed after a Navy Department an- nouncement in Washington yesterday that the Unit-
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be launched at Newport News, Virginia, on Decem- ber 20.
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cate that many vessels on the ways will be launched 19 EMPLOYED BY MARCEL ahead of schedule.
Two battleships and three large cruisers are among ships ready Lo slide into the water in 1941. The keels have been laid for six battleships under the two-ocean navy programme.
Contracts have been let for nine more but construction has not yet started.
and Indiana are scheduled to be The battleships South Dakota
launched in the
nine next months. The keela were lald late last year. Considerably more work must be done to all warships after launching but the speed-up sys- tem is being applied in this con- nection as well,
Two Battleships
will be
MOTOR-BOAT CHASE
A KITCHEN BOY, LAU KAI,
CAFE, NO. 70, NATHAN ROAD, WAS PLACED ON A $10 BOND TO BE OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR FOR ONE YEAR BY MR. E. HIMSWORTH THIS MORN- ING WHEN CHARGED WITH THEFT.
It was stated that accused wrote Palace a chit and went to the Hotel,, drawing a tin of coffee, Convicted of possession of 36a bottle of pepper, a tin of pine- at on board a sampan at Chan Kwo gallons of dutiable Chinese spirit apple, a chicken and meat,
7.30 p.m. yesterday.
Mr. E. F, Gingle, owner of Ling on Sunday, Chan Sul-so, 19,
Hotel, was fined $300, or three months' Marcel Cafe and Palace at Kowloon this morning. hard labour, by Mr. E. Himsworth draw supplies from the Hotel for said accused, was accustomed to
use in the. Cafe. He made a Revenue Officer J. E. Tocher check at 8 p.m. yesterday
and who prosecuted, stated that at discovered that the articles in- 6.15 a.m. Revenue Officer F. A.dented for were not in the Cafe. Fowler, on receiving information, Accused admitted the theft. proceeded to Cha Kwo Ling with
As a result, the 35,000-ton a party of Chinese Revenue Om- cers .on board a motor boat. battleships North Carolina and Washington, launched
There they saw accused's sampan earlier this year,
and called on him to stop. ready for service sometime next autumn. Accused was seen to dump Launching of the cruisers At-several tins into the water and Janta, Juneau and San Diego, sal off, but he was chased in the construction of which started this motor boat and arrested. At the year, also may be expected next point where he dumped the tins, year, according to the survey. they fished out, altogether ning
OF 42 submarines ordered 4-gallon tins of spirit. since the end of 1938, it is possible that 34 will be launch- ed next year. Four submarines have already been launched this year and two, more. will possibly enter the water before December.
Destroyer Fleet
This year seven destroyers have been commissioned, seven have bean launched and the keels of six laid down, under the program- me of 174 vessels of this type.
One more destroyer will be ready for service this year and about 12 next year.
AFTER THE WAR
IN CHINA
Drafts of the post-war economic reconstruction pro- gramme and the new indus- trial programme are under discussion of the Central Planning Board in Chungking.
Central News.
ARE THESE PEOPLE
TO
STARVE?
SIR,-The following cable has spite of the War! The American been received from Canton: "RE- Advisory Committee for Civilian LIEF CENTRES FEEDING ONLY Relief in China has received cor- CHILDREN FROM THE FIF- respondingly large sums from
Between now and 1941 the U.S.. Navy will also get three new TEENTH FOUR. THOUSAND America. The Foreign Auxiliary minesweepers, one repair ship, OLD DESTITUTE one submarine tender, three sea- WOMEN MUST BE plane tenders, one submarine | AWAY PRICES ARE chaser and a small Rotilla of tor- NORMAL RATE pedo-boats. — International News | STARVE UNLESS Service.
PITY ON THEM TO CABLE TEN HONG KONG.”
TWO GIRLS WHO RAN AWAY
THE STORY OF HOW A MAN WAS FOUND WITH TWO GIRLS IN CHEUNG CHAU LAST THURSDAY, WAS
MEN AND to the National Red Cross Society TURNED of China has been the principal TEN TIMES | agent for the distribution Ο MANY MAY these funds in South China, and YOU HAVE has itself raised large sums for PLEASE TRY a similar purpose.
THOUSAND
Although it is true the Chin- ese Community in Hong Kong I crave space to write three has contributed large sums for things.
0
national purposes including ref (1). I want to make sure that lief in China, yet the needs 01 the facts are known by the starving cities, of which Canton general public, and in particular is an outstanding example, have by the Chinese, community, in not been presented in such Hong Kong. Ever since the oc-way as to elicit contributions cupation of Canton, rellet work commensurate with the cost
on by
the the relief which it is necessary has been carried Committees of the Canton
In- to provide. ternational Red Cross with the
I am aware that Canton is an financial support of the RELATED
various "occupied" city; its relief is said BY INSPECTOR G. W. MORE-Relief Committees in Hong Kong to be the concern of the
Gov- and elsewhere. TON, OF THE S.C.A., BEFORE
Such criticism ernment which has assumed con as has been offered has MR. J. BARROW AT TAIPO
been trol, and I have been told agair that the food given was insuffi- and again that the Chinese peo cient for the maintenance of an ple in Hong Kong are unwilling adequate standard of health; what to support relief in "occupied has been given was one TWO
daily areas. I feel, however, that mcal of just over two Chinese the Government
concerned ounces of rice gruel flavoured unable or unwilling
to organis with beans. Large sums of relief, ther the responsibility
to de
Con
DISTRICT COURT THIS MORN ING WHEN TSANG MAN-YIU AND LI FUK WERE CHARGED WITH HARBOURING GIRLS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 ́ ́WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THEIR GUARDIANS.
Tsang Man-ylu was fined $30 or money, have been expended but must pass to the Chinese peo one month's hard labour and Low NO RELIEF SOCIETY HAS ple, here or elsewhere, ENOUGH MONEY TO Fuk, who was alleged to be main the need which
MEET what they can. The politics o ly responsible, was fined $60 or Canton.
still exists in the situation are not my two months' hard labour.
cern; common humanity is calling Inspector Moreton stated that the British Fund for Relief in can should respond with ald.
The Hong Kong Committee of from its need, and those whi on October 11, the girls, Lo Kwal, China has had to indicate .to (ii) I therefore
thi 18, and Tsang Sun, 17, left their those responsible for relief in appeal: ARE THESE PEOPLE IN homes and were reported by their Canton that the most it can hope CANTON TO STARVE OR NOT guardians to be missing.-
to do. from now on is to attempt If not, then large gifts.are needed The girls, it was later revealed, the support of destitute children $100,000 would suffice to the end had gone to Shatin, where they, in that City. The Committee of 1941. If they must
starv were met by Li Fuk, who took was aware that numbers of men then your readers, as well them to Tsang's hut. Two days and women must be left to starve. I must go about day by day after he took them to Cheung
A sidelight on the situation is knowing that people are dyin Chau, harbouring.
in this surgeons are finding it im from starvation. boarding house under the care of possible to operate because the Tsang
.them
make
Gifts, could be sent, earmarke The girls' guardians, on in-patients are not strong enough to for Canton relief, to: The For formation, went to Cheung Chau stand the strain of the operation, eign Auxillary to the Nationa and caused the arrest of Tsung, (1) The British Fund for Re-| Red Cross Society of China,
First Floor, Gloucester Build while Li Fulk was arrested in lief in China, formerly known as Aberdeen by the police as, the re- the Lord Mayor's Fund, has col-ing. sult of the interception of a letter lccted in England more than addressed to him by one of the 220,000, and gifts on a smaller scale are still being received in
Yours faithfully,
FRANK SKONT,