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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 6, 1940
HONG KONG'S WAR EFFORT REVIEW
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IT IS OVER a year since this Fund and ministration was inaugurated in Hong Kong, may be good for us at this moment to review the activities of the Organisation and pledge ourselves to its further support, says the Report on the British War Organisation Fund, Hong Kong Branch, issued yesterday.
It was in September 1939, soon after the out- break of the war that the War Organisation took shape under the Presidency of Lady Northcote. Various Committees were formed, money for the Fund began to come in, and a central Work Party started at Government House, from which various working groups developed all over the Colony.
These working groups turned; mean that all Red Cross work has their energies to making hos-stopped, for 9 cases of hospital pital supplies for the Red Cross supplies have been sent home and knitted comforts for the since July.
were
three Services. Instructions, pat- A project is under way to work terns and lists of requirements for the Red Cross Hospital Sup- obtained from official plies Depot in the Near East, and sources in England and a steady his should be a very useful and | production of work went on sensible. enterprise, If-the neces- throughout the months of last sary shipping arrangements can winter and spring.
be made.
Very suitable office premises, Finally, it may be of interest to storage accommodation for ma- all its supporters to know some terials and space for packing of the ways in which the money cases were acquired at Govern- sent to England by the British ment House by the kind per-War Organisation Fund is being mission of His Excellency the used, As in the last war the St. Governor and Lady Northcote. John Ambulance
Red and the have At the present date 175 cases Cross
amalgamated and have been shipped to England pooled their resources for the consisting of:
104 cases of Hospital Sup-
plies
9 cases of R.A.F.
Comforts
15 cases of Royal Knitted Comforts 47 cases of Army
Comforts
The tin lined packing are the gift of The
Knitted
duration of the war.
Appeal For Support
We are told that they need £1,- Navy 000,000 a year to keep prisoners of war in Germany provided with
TORPEDOED
EVACUEE CHILDREN IN LONDON- Some of the evacues children who were in the liner which was torpedoed off Ireland en route to Canada arrived In London from the North, prior to leaving for their homes. A policeman was first favourite, with these little evacuees when they reached tho. sta-" tion. (Copyright, Fox).
FAMOUS FLIER'S VENGEANCE
Knitted parcels of food and clothing. RAIDS
The Red Cross has been asked
cases by the Ministry of Health to pro- to ac- British-vide convalescent homes
American Tobacco Co., Ltd., to commodate 10,000 Service pa- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OF whom grateful thanks are due, trents.
BOURNE
AIR
THE AVIATION EDITOR OF
AMERICA MAS REVEALED also to Messrs. John Manners & They had already spent up to| THAT KOENE D. PARMENTIER, Co., for supplying similar cases 31st July last £750,000 on gen-
FORMERLY CHIEF PILOT OF for requirements over and above eral medical stores and comforts. THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS those given by The British-on ambulances, X ray units and American Tobacco Co., Ltd. The equipment. There must be clairns AIRWAYS (K.L.M.), AND WHO generosity of the Shipping Comr-now for help for civilians suffer-GAME SECOND IN THE MEL-
CENTENARY panies, The F. & O. Steam Na-ing from air raids and we know RACE, HAS BEEN CARRYING vigation Co., Ltd., The Glen Line that a big appeal is being made
OUT NIGHTLY "VENGEANCE and The Blue Funnel Line, for for Mobile Canteens for the men
RAIDS" AGAINST GERMAN allowing free shipping facilities of the Anti-aircraft Defence who MILITARY OBJECTIVES IN THE is greatly appreciated. Thanks are practically continuously on NETHERLANDS. are also due to Messrs. Wang duty also for the homeless and - These Canteens carry Kee & Co., Ltd., for transporting, desolate.
His raids, which are carried out the cases to the steamers.--
with them not only refreshments.
and the hundred alone, are principally against Rot- but also books
was Total Collections and one everyday needs of the terdam, where his family
killed last May. After each raid,; Serviceman.
Parmentier drops a signed' note Total collections for the Fund Let us, in Hong Kong, support advising the Dutch for their own now stand at a little over $604,- all Patriotic Funds whether for protection where he will be strik- 000. Of this amount £27,000 Bombers, War Savings, or any ing the next night. has already been remitted to other effort which can help our England. Purchases of materials Country and its righteous cause, An unconfirmed report alleges (less sales of wool to the Ma- but let us not forget the special that the Nazis have placed a price laya Patriotic Fund, &c.) amount claims of all work of mercy, heal-equivalent to £3,000 on Parmen- to $1 lac, (approximately). ing and comfort to those who sut-tier's head. Marine and War Risk insurance, | fer that perhaps we may go free.
&c., on shipments to England In the words of the British War After the invasion of Holland, cost about $5,500, and office ex-Organisation Fund Poster showing Parmentier escaped first to France, penses about $6,200. The bal- the Red Cross Nurse and the Men then to Lisbon, and eventually to ance in hand with the Hon. n the Services, "WE NEED YOUR England, where he offered his ser- Treasurer stands at $58,047,00 on HELP.” the 31st October.
Evacuation Crisis
The sudden evacuation of the Service men's wives and families and the subsequent big exodus of women from Hong Kong follow- ing the evacuation order early in July, plunged the British War Organisation into something of u crisis. Nearly all work centres had to close down and materials,
UNFENCED MACHINE
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Stressing the danger of "un- fenced" machines in factories, Mr. D. W. Phillips, Inspector of pro-
vices, on condition that he would be permitted to raid alone and to use a Dutch 'plane. He asked for nothing except bombs and fuel..
SHANGHAI AMERICAN
finished and unfinished, came Factories and Workshops, ARRESTED
pouring into Government House secuted the manager of the in a flood.
A
Com- Owing to the short Kwong Sang Engineering absence of the Honorary Secre- pany, of Portland Street, before Abraham Shapiro, American tary on leave, the Assistant Secre- Mr. 4. A. A. Macfadyen at Kow-citizen, was detained at the Cen- tary, Mrs. L. Well, was in charge loon this morning for failing to tral police station following his of the office and much praise is "fence" a machine. Accused, was arrest on a warrant issued by the due to her for her clear head and fined $50.
American judicial authorities in efficiency in dealing with those It was stated that the sum Shanghai on information filed with difficult days. It was decided to
mons, was issued following a the U.S.. Court for China by Mr. carry on the Government House visit to the premises by Labour Chas, Richardson, Jr., Special As- Work Contre as long as any wo- Officer Ng Sul-tong, an accident sistant to the District Attorney men could come and a good having occurred in the factory who is absent from Shanghai, attendance has continued;_mostly at 1.55 pm. on October 18..' Shapiro who was 'arrested by
of Auxiliary Nurses, V.AND‚s and
The accident resulted in a the special branch was unable to those allowed to remain hero. worker being daught in the furnish the US.$100 ball and was Kowloon work parties amalgamat-:| wheel of in Murfendað ma-detained at the. Central Station ed into one centre which hur bioching! The worker, received | pending his appearance before the continued to meet once allweek, and the Wool Depot was kept, up at tho. Helena May Institute and open on Thursday mornings.
Another question which arose out of the possible threat of Hong Kong becoming, a theatre of war was a request that the British War Organisation should provide a reserve supply of swabs, bán- dages &c. for local casualty hos- pitals-civil and military. It was decided to undertake this world A cook-boy, Lau Yau, of No. 2, man, 788 Bubbling Well Road, and already 12 cases have beery Breazy Point, has reported the four gold fillings and ono platinum completed and are in storage, at theft of $55.70 in money from his filling to the alleged value of Government House. This does not room yesterday.
U.S.$48.
injuries to the thigh and Harcourt when he will be formally been since detained: In hos-arraigned: before Judge Milton J. "pitki.
Helmmick.
The manager of the King: Kwok Bulb Company of Sai Yeo Street The information filed by Mr. was fined $76 for keeping an Richardson alleges that Shapiro unregistered factory, and for committed a larcency on October allowing the premises to be 28; Inst: The charge reads: “That over-crowded on October 19 Abraham Shapiro on or about
October 28, 1940, did feloniously tálóa und, carry away from the dental office of Dr. Norbert Lehr*