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Santa Claus X'MAS BOX FOR HARRY Importance Of Hong Kong
Flies To
Harry Yip
Christmas this year has come early to "Harry Yip," the Torün- to boy now in Hong Kong, and. it afrived in true Christmas fashion with Santa Claus ald- ing through the sky.
Harry's Santre whe› Captain' Craig Stevenson, pliot of the Canadian Pacifie ́Air Lines' plane which brought Toronto's Christ- maş bos to Harry on Wednesday.
The gift was subscribed by renders of the Toronto; "Tele- gain" after the "Chinn Mall" Hory of Harry. In in Hong Kong ad reached Chuca Brough Dave Rogers of the "Regina Leader
The Saskatchewan.. cram" sent the money-$498.85
through, ME JOG
Twish Hong representative
of CPAL by Hand of Captain Stevenson who flew in early on Wednesday morn- ing and was met by Harry at the »irport.
up for
Harry was ali dressed he occasion. He had on his best suit. the herringbone ("madq in Caranda," he boasts) which he was wearing when he caused a minor Str Al the airport early last August His hend of obstmate hair was well plastered down and new pair of shoes Onished off ha stylish attire.
the Toronto
Needless to say. boy was full of excitement at the aventure of receiving something from "hathe" given by the "folka back there," to put it in his own
www words. Horry
also looking for ward to a grand shopping
*pree with has guardina, Mr. Worig
* Throng, witom he calls "Ah Sook” cuncle) m whose hands he en- Trusted the "Telegram's" cheque,
fitorg Kong now
for more
then t months, Harry hos picked up a good knowledge of the Chinese language which was Totally foreign to him when he first arrived.,
The sad in now able to speak with reasonable fluency although the Canadian accent ln his speech in English as well Chinese-remains predominant.
Harry was sent to Hong Kong
in late summer by his Canadian
of the Toronto
A Christmas Box subscribed by readers "Telegram" was delivered to Harry Yip in Hong Kong by Cap. tain Craig Slovenson, plot of the GPAL plane which came in on Wednesday morning. Picture shows the Toronto Boy ra. ceiving the gift from Captain Steventon as. Mr. J. G. Twist, Hong Kong representative of CPAL, looks on.
Correspondent Says The Church Has Betrayed Its Trust
A correspondent 'writing in the current issue of "St. John's Review" takes the editor to task for publishing an article in the previous issue on the Hong Kong Dofence Force,
mother to learn the language and He says that the Church has betrayed its trust in
customs of his Chinese father.
Entertainment
Of Troops
Surne 3,000 British troops have been entertained during the past hyer months at functions spot- sored by the Forces Civilian En- tertainment and Welfare Commi:- fec.
The Committee deals with in
vitations on the Hong Kong side. The Nine Dragons Services Club degls with entertainment on the
failing to denounce wor as a practice com-
pletely hateful to God.
representative
Stressed By Church Journal
Because the need of Hong Kong by other govern-
monts grows with the passage of time, its Personalia
position is doily becoming more unique and marojovital, stôtes St. John'soReview | In an editorial.
The editorial added that it is unique as a clear
ing house par excellence for the East and West on the one hand and for Nationalist China and Communist China on the other.
MP II Pang, Calimant the Vocational Service Committee, will be the guest speaker at the Hong Kong Rotary Club Tufichéon on Tuesday at the Harig: Kong Hotel.
It is vital because the mpod thus the 'community" un similar. Unce, Mr. If Tot Chee, Hong Kong's Hong Kong by various govern-with experts coming out here not Ginger King, hes been thanked ments grows with the passage of tongue-tled government of- by the Chairman and Executive tknu. A year ago Hong Kong was plála but as men and Women of Commitice of the Boys and Girls till sharing with Shanghai: the Independent triads whose sold Clubs Association. Well-known honour of being the pichler port att is to contribute to the good for his Referosity, Mr. U has of the Far East Tokyo "being | We ́ of man.
donated 2,000 yards of bio cot- temporarily under a cloud).
We can afford to entertain those ton cloth and 500 pairs of rubber Today, Hong Kong stands with- Intellectual ginats. We only need shoes. out a rival., But this only makes the will th tb so.. It is a well be the Colonyhore Indispensable known fate that many of the best than ever, as now" thère" 15" no "brðina in England would like tỗ Departures from the Pontaula other city in this part of the visit various parts of the Empire Hotel on Wednesday included Mr. world Where governments (both and advise them about their and Mrs. D. Kunjara, Mr. and de jure and de factoy could obá | problems,
| Mrs. L'N. Kedesmu, Mr. and Mrs.
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(at nu the services di a modern The leading Universities usun!- W. S. Hope, Mrs. E. Lopez, "Mesars, elty completo with Banking. fy give long summer vacations J. C. Dayld, lon Hont-chun, educational and hospital ement- enable, their professors; and 'lec-C. C. Moor A. Lagson, K. Wornie ties as well on political asylumturers to, teke the wings of the and police protection.
Who would live thought a century Hitd, when Hong Kong was still a baren rock, that it was deathed to be a city which
burbplans to every corner of the and W.: H. Church. globe. Let us attract a few here, It will be, to say the least, moned well spent concludes the editorial,
Obituary
Among the new arrivals at the Feninsula Hotel on Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs, J. Clapárols, Kim Yong-shik, 'Mr. nhl Mrs. S. Copleston, Mr and Mrs. H. T. Krieger, Mrs. D. 'G; Old, Messes C A. Gandhi, w. w. Braden, ArC. Kho, E. C. Wee The pany Old Chips Hands | and W. W. Jolley. It in a notorious fact of his will learn with great regret of now residing in Hong Kong
doing the job of a modern state? This raises the question of the organisation of the island community to plny 'Its part dd- equately as the supplier of all needs, whether political, material, | meital; "or" chimercial.)
tory that great empires which
live
Mr. H. A, Lucker
işl
Babaonger
who
on their capital, on the the death of Mr. Harry A. Among pho heritage of the past, and cense Lucker, for many years one of bearded the BOAC plano for to be creative, soon lose their the outstanding, Americans in Yokohama yesterday were Captain position of embience. The law of North China.
Jones, Lt. Comdr. Carver, Major 6. Metinn, Mina Jane Strel- history applies to small communi- Mr. Lucker, who retired a little tatt, Moses, PL/Williams, B. ties as well as to large empires. over two alid a half years ago D. Caylor, F. A. Pollock, V. T. C. The insulor porifion of Hong died in his native city of El Paso Morris, Vandegrift, W. E Bradon, Kong renders It' peculiarly Rable in Texas, on December 6. HB W. Mason; R. Ibssh, Lacas
to resting on its laurels and eldest son, Mr. Gerald D. Lucker Yih, Hao Yung-tang, Chin Ping- Ing satisfied with things as thoy la ut present residing here, at
Repulse Bay Hotel.
aff
Stimulation Napded
The late Mr. Lücker was What was good enough for our graduate of the Law School at fathers cannot be good enough for firit care but to Chin Jest be
Cornell University, and when he the greater demands of the so- tore the first World War he was ule age. Hence it is essential associated with Dr. C. J. Fox, H. for rommunəl growth that "the
bost minds of the United King-practised before both the Amer don should regularly be levited can and British 'Courts, but later to come to the Colony to stimis toned the Chinn-American Trud late and vitalise the body politie. Its Co. In partnership with M.
Louis McCowan, and
became I would be money wall
President of the Company on Mi if (say) the General. Commerce, the
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Chinese
| McGowan's'--death?
Marth China he took
nan, L. "Antrag and ✪, A. Gandhi.
CAT Plane Still Missing
Up to a latoffföur - last night" the whereabouts of the Civil Air Transport aircraft piloted by Captain J. McCover which has been missing since it left Hong Kong for Kunming
on Sunday
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had still not been ascertained.
An official of tlie CAT said yes- Throughout his long career ih terday that the search for the shd Quilds
a icading missing plane lins widened. part in most of the netivities of added that Captain Robert Snoddy hong
as the jointly create (ph for a long time the American planes are being sent out. Areas
the Tientsin' community. He was in how using Hoiphong.
search bart from where the year sufficient to invite member of the British Municipal to the North and South of Hui- successively alx lending men gre Council, an owner und Hon. Women from the Unto King-treasurer ut the Lentsin get phong and blo the area North dóm, each to stay a highlh or Club, and hid high offices in the of Bangkok me being thoroughly two "here for the exchange or Tientsin American Association, scorched,
The local CAT ofco is expect eas..
the Generol and American Cham
Captain Snuddy some time today.
His letter in full states:
"If England wishes to retain. Things hd Come to u sud Hong Kong the must do, some- puss when a magazine which is thing more for the Chinese who supposedly
inhabit the place than tell then of Christian opinion in Hong Kong hew lucky they are to be secure can descend to printing an article under the Union Jack. such as appeared under these houses is constructive; it lasts for HKDF in your
"Money spent on schools and
This will give the public iners bers of Commerce, and othering a report of the search from November issue. Ever since the Church founded
ader 50 years and more: it binds Chi- of the mother country a chance institutions. the alliance with secular
te was in Chungking during!. au- nese to the British flag As no to appreciate Hong Kong's Vital therity which has lasted from the forge will ever do: but in three position in the world and at the the war as an official of the CNAC DISPUTE necession of Constantine to the years time money spent on train-time let the people here Federal Economic Administration,
A release, by in wfficlit of the present day, it has betrayed its ing a band of a thousand local lear mom a stream of distingut and re-ppened his business if pro-Peking faction of CNAC yes. Mainland.
trust in failing to denounce war defence volunteers might as welled out what we must do Tientsin after the war. Here urday doiled that there were as a practice completely hateful have been, poured into the depths to serve hod which the heal-tired in the middle of 1947 and Leveral hundred CNAC employees The biggest individual contri-God, whenever there was the of Kowloon Bay.
tion of eminence which the vicld-returned to Texas. bution received by the Committee
who had registered with the N- situdes of fortune have thriật| If Christianity is to compete upon us.
Mr. Lucker's first wife, whh tionalist Manager: Mr. Shen-To- being of war pessibility is the return trips to Macao made declared, for I for one find it will not be by using its own wen-visitors when they return home Detring, the noted Comitisslode who huld gone to Mr. She's effic
more successfully with Communism t
dier in childbirth, was prie of the hsich, on Wednesday. The release avaliable by the To Hing Com-than faintly sickening to read a
Above all, it will enable our talented daughters of Herr von said that there were only nine pony, limited.
Christian newspaper apparently pons of force and hate.
to univence public opinion on our of Customs and Posts in Tientsin, ni 7, Tee House Street and they The very fact that the Church tehnik These six yearly guests who rivalled his great chief, Bik eluded those who had already that its sub- advocat an organish Ten Servicemen are taken dal-hould"
17 centuries condoned the should be chosen for their has for company's ss. Cheung Hing. By tion entirely devoted to fighting practice of fratricide glorified by ing and leadership Robert Hart, In stature and perheen dismissed by the Peking
popular the name of war appears to have
sohility. "In -- 1936 Mr. Lucker Management; buddhirika në ven Three of them could be Mem-married a second time. file wife official ulso challenge: Mr. 600 members of the Forces will cread: but it
Christian one, dulled the conscience of Christ bere of Parliament, while the other who pre-deceased him, was, the Shen's clee to publish the names have made a return visit to the
the Tow
periodicate which fans to the barbs of paclism three could be taken from lat daughter of Brigadier-General of the several hundreds of em- Portuguese Colony.
like your own, are able to put with which the Bible and more such as the following:--Borit Glangoy, of the US Army, and ployees who have registered with principies before
the gospels bristle. popularity, especially
Lindsay Sir Walter Moberts, their three young children are then / NANG might perhaps take advantage
Hard To See
Lord Beveridged. B. Triestley, living with the grandparents in Also according to the release of the privilege.
Miss Barbird Ward, Mrk.NAL DE Stucks, Dr. C. E. M. Joad anti Professor Arnold Toynbee,
ly to and from Macno by the
the end of the year
more
thon
In the period under review, 1,200 Servicemen were entertain- ed at swimming partics.
The
least
"Pacinem is hot
is
and
■
asked to ust in the organisa- The British Council, might be udn of these visits.
Money Well Spent
Paso.
ARMED ROBBERY
· AT GOLDSMITHS
Last; lavoring Pat. 8X5y? four or five méfi armod with "revolver's We have had a large number entered the Wing Sang Goldsmith
the Peking Management has paid the wages of their employees for st half of December · on Weddesday, M
PYREX-PYREX RYREX
boats and crew were provided by "The Hong Kong Defence Force "Yet it is hard to see how an the Hong Kong Eastern Shipping Is a typical example of on Company, the Hong Kong You-stitution of nominal public ap- all men are his brothers, sad
In honest Christian cun believe that mati Company, the Hong Kong peal which in actual fact wastes of one father who command Whampoa "Dock Company, the resources on totally diepro- ment "la that we love one. . an- Hong Kong Motorboat Company portionate scale. Everyond is other, while at the same time he BẠC HỌC HỆ Buttonfee.
agreed in the worldly camp that is train
Is training to kill a lot of :De- Some 700 members of the Hong Kong should help to de-
te nighted. Chinese whom soma of visitd, recently from high Shop at:28, Ngan Chin Leong Forces were invited to private tend Itself: but few reckon a madman may send across the Government allele felt Road, Kowloon City and took parties for dinner,' tom luni wild expense the business is Shumchur
across that they are sent to Itong Kong away HK$16,000 in gold and following PYREX, ware—–— awimming and bridge | rifining us into, and the misérable. The truth is not that they are proves that Whitehall considere Jewellery. In snatching the gold
results there would be to shojy dishonest but just that they. This important for the heitly from showcars one of the Top During the summer months, the fer it even if those, who applaud don't think of it that way: widermpire. 2
growth of this tuttiest of Hibers cut his wrist on the glass Ladies Recreation Club, and the would find the chergy to join they don't think of it that ways needed is seniothing By All the robbers ran into the billa
"Do Something For because the Church, and in this instance "St. John's Review," tu not prepared to lay aside the "Three million dollars have sin of courting popularity which been appropriated to "the use of does so easily beset it, and stand the Force, and when one thinks up and preach the:
choone, games:
| Sück-O Club, entertained about 500 troops. to tea, swimming and use of Club facilities.
Chinese":
of the desperate need for houses "We are fortunate enough in
surrounding Kal Tak.
A report of the robbery was regularity KKDF", was an un-made to the Keyloon City polke fortunate topse
MOTOR JUNK SEWARESINKS
The inoke
The Committee stated in a re- lease yesterday that it wishes t
"When things come to a crisis, thank the helpers and donors and
the Christian is-fquife on his hopes they will continue to con- tribute In the New Year..
knees and the enemies of God The Committee also welcomes rind the crying shortage of schools, Hong Kong to have a set at come out against him w correspondence from those inter- one really wonders how such a Ministers, whose care is for truth, wirds and staves The Honger shal ested in inviting troops to their decision could even luve been and who are hold enough to Kong, regiment will Burdly homes and entertaining them." made
preach, it'"'in' putute: will son equipped with more
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