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Vice-Admiral L. E. Crabbe, C.B.,
acting Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, taking the salute at the march past of naval landing parties at Happy Valley yesterday.
(Photo, Cheng Studio).
WAR RELIEF ALBUM
Madame Sun Fo. General W Teh-chen. Governor of the Province of Kwangtung. Sir Shou-son Chow, Professor Hsu T-shan, Professor K. K. Lim and Mr. Louis Chan have given their consent to act as the Judges for the Art Cover Com- petition organised by the China Information Service in connection with the publication of the special China War Relief Album.
As a result of requests the date for the closing of entries has been extended from the December 31, 1937 to the January, 1938.
The Album which will appear in January will contain articles relat- ing to the methods taken to al- leviate the sufferings of the Chi- nese wounded soldiers and the war refugees. It will be
Prominent Chinese
Catholic Murdered
Sensation In French Concession
REGARDED AS A TRAITOR
Shanghal, December 30.
Mr. Lo Pah-bong, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the newly formed Civic Association which was created for the pur- pose of helping to rehabilitate Chinese areas around Shanghai, was shot in the French Concession as he was leaving a friend's house and died a couple of hours later in hospital. The assassins escaped.
Mr. Lo Peh-hong who was mana- ger of the Nantao Electric Light and the Tramway Companies was a prominent Chinese Catholic and was recently decorated by the Vatican, Chinese
regarded
and other members of the Civic Association Bg traltors
as their work entails necessary co-opera- tion with the Japanese,
gory, Papal Chamberlain and Knight of the Cape and Sword.- Reuter,
CHINESE LABOURERS STOP WORK
In Japanese Iron Mines
Singapore, Dec. 30. Three thousand Chinese workers of the Japanese-owned" Dungua Irop Mines at Trengganu. which is. the biggest in Malaya, passed a re-
The late Mr. Lo Peh-hong was regarded as one of the most out- standing Catholic laymen in the world and founded the Catholic Action Society of China the motto of which was "To Suffer is to Obey.” He collected the largest sums of solution to stop work on patriotic money for the charity known as grounds and have sent a deputa- Saint Vincent de Paul of Chiria and tion to Singapore to appeal for as- described himself as the world'ssistance from leading Chinese clti- greatest beggar. He possessed the zens. Most of the workers come Legion of Honour, was Knight from Shantung and their action is Commander
of Saint Leopold, believed to be due to the Japanese Knight Commander of Saint Gre- invasion of Shantung.-- Reuter.
HONG KONG IN 1937
Outstanding Events Chronicled
In January news of the appoint- ment of H's Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. C.B.E, to the Governor- ship of Ceylon, caused widespread regret. A betition for his reten- on was submitted to the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies but
illustrated with special war photographs. hitherto unpublished. by staff photographers of the China In- formation Service. A special fea- ture of the Album will be the part played by the various relief asso- ciations in Hong Kong and Canton.proved of no avail.
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Leading Articles
Local Diary
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Shipping
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The Services Sport
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The most serious train disaster since 1931 occurred when are broke out on an express train between Sheklung and Canton. The total killed was 7 and 35 injured. Two packages contain Ing celluloid bangles were found." In the same month another accident befell the KC.R. The engine and one caach of an express were dera led at Tongtauha while on a journey from Kowloon to Canton. There were no casualties.
HONG KONG RIFLE
ASSOCIATION
Inter-Colonial Match
SOME REMARKABLE SHOOTING
and
AT SHING MUN
The new Jubilee Reservoir at Shing Mun was officially opened thus culminating a wonderful en- gineering achievement.
ARMED ROBBERY Japanese Bombs Land
Junk Attacked In
British Waters
Chan Hoi, 52, fish dealer, report- ed to the police that he left Mun Kwan, Po On District, on Decem- ber 29, on 'a boat owned by Chan Sul, with a cargo of fish for Shau- kwan.
When the boat was off Tai Long, another vessel with seven men on .board went towards the boat, and when about 50 yards away, the men on the approaching vessel told them to stop.
They proceeded, however, and the robbers fired two rounds of ammunition. Seeing that they still. defed them, the robbers gave chase and eventually overtook them and went alongside.
Armed with knives, the robbers boarded the beat and departed with the cargo, the total value of which was $61.
POWER" "PLANT
BLOWN UP"
Destruction In Tsingtao
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Tsingtao, Dec. 30. Explosions broke the stillness of night as the Chinese blew up fur- ther Japanese property including a brewery, warehouses and a dye factory and also destroyed nese drydocks and repair shops. A big are raged at the waterfront all night long which was visible throughout the city.
Chi-
Chinese authorities announced their intention of blowing up the new super-electric power plant in the industrial district.---
Reuter.
Mr. Gilbert Harriman
TO SETTLE DOWN
IN SYDNEY
Mr. G. A. Harriman, one of the Captain Douglas Lome Camp-
most popular members of the Hong bell, master of the Chinese Mari-Zonk Sharebrokers. Association. time Customs cruiser Cheng Kong. well-known was fatally shot by his cabin boy Hong Kong Jockey Club, and
11 British waters outside Hong Kong.
Mr. George Hutton Potts, Chair- man of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. died in Swatow.
owner-rider of the
chairman of the Stewards, Macao Jockey Club sails by the m.v. Neptuna, on January 9, 1938, with his family for Australia where they will be settling down, in
The first Regional Commission Sydney. His boys will put into 11 of the International Meterolo- "prep" school here. g'cal Organisation held a con- ference in Hong Kong.
The Waseda University Hockey team paid a visit to the Colony in January.
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ART TREASURES MOVED
TO SZECHUEN
(From Our Own "Correspondent)
Hankow, Dec, 29
I have made arrangements to attend Press Conference presided over by Dr. Y. Y. Li of the Foreign A Omce. So far the only real news
On the Army Ranges at Kowloon City the teams chosen by the
is the departure to-morrow morn- Committee of the Hong Kong Rifle Association to represent the.
*ing (Dec. 30) of a refugee train for
Mr. Harriman Colony in the NE.A. Inter-Colonial Postal Match for the current year,
Hong Kong. We all hope it will fired yesterday afternoon ander remarkably difficult conditions. Al.
get through. M. Oretsky, the new ""Gilbert," as he is popularly- though as will be recollected, the match was fired in pouring rain
Soviety Ambassador, has arrived. known to large number of last year, this year the weather remained flue, but a rusty wind of
He called on Dr. Wang, the Foreign friends and business associates. unusual strength, and which varied constantly in direction, proved
Minister, a couple of days ago and amongst whom, number many of to be the undoing of many who, at the practice shoots which have
will proceed shortly to Chungking the local Chinese business leaders, 'been held during the last fortnight, have done consistently well.
in order to present his credentials. is head of the firin or Messre. G. The China art treasure 'from A. Harriman and Co., in Ice House The most remarkable feature of the variable light),
wind Nanking passed through here the Street, and although he may be the shooting was the brilliant which, as already stated, never other day bound for, szechuen. I away for only a few years, his. effort made by those using the blew from any one direction for With the boom closed below Klu- absence will be greatly felt. "ride, as issued," and it is of inter- more than a minute or two at akiang shipping down river is at a est to note that unless the scoring time. It must be remembered that ir other Colonies in this series the person using the aperture- shows a great Improvement on that sight has the advantage of greater of last year, Hong Kong should accuracy 26 regards remedying find a place very near the top of these particular vagaries, but on the list.
the other hand, the person using the open sight has no need to worry about visibility, and clear definition of the aiming mark.
Those using the "1914" rifle found themselves shooting against weather conditions, which meant constant changing of the aperture- sight both for elevation, (owing to
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Possessed of what has often been complete standstill and business described as a keen business brain, men here are fairly dejected.
Mr. Harriman has seen the local Steamers are still running to share market rise to--very--great- Ichang and Chungking. Matters heights, and also when business are not exactly "hot" at Shansi was almost at a standstill, but and Ichang and jawlessness is fair-come what may he never allows ly rampant. We all hope and pray anything to disturb his stole ́calm that China will come out of this and for that reason has deservedly misery without losing one inch of been called "the man for any ber territory or even the least little emergency" by his colleagues, bit of face.
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Near Military Hospital
Five Children Die When School Is Hit
AIR RAID OVER CANTON
Canton, December 30.
Four bumbs dropped near the Girls' School at Salchuen, a fewɑ miles to the north-west of Canton. Several others are belleved to have hit a new military hospital there but at present there are no details regarding the casualties.
To-day's aerial activity appears to have covered a considerable ares including several places along the Canton-Kowloon' Railway, Namkang and Sheklung where the bridge still defles the Japanese attempt to destroy it at Nanshup and Wonglik. The air raid alarım was sounded shortly before noon and the "all clear" was given at 2.20 p.m.
Later details reveal that over 20 bombs were dropped on the residential, educational and industrial districts to the north-west of Canton, destroying, according to Chinese sources, more than 20 buildings including the Wahmel Middle School, and the Shahho Girls' School and Commercial College at Salchuen,
All the schools were badly damaged but only 35 were killed in- cluding five children. Four bombs were dropped near the Mill- tary Hospital but il transpires the building was not hit. The patients were frightened but not harmed. Anti-aircraft, splinters landed on the roof of the chemists, Watson's, on the opposite side of the road to the Reuter, office on Shameen.
WALL TOEN AWAY ·
Two schools in Salchuen, which are understood to be American- owned, present a sorry picture when Reuter's correspondent visited the scene of this morning's bombings. "I saw the entire wall of one building torn away while nearby a huge bomb hole had upheaved the children's garden breaking the swings and chute which yester-- 'day was used by the children. The other school roof was badly, damaged and several small dwellings reduced to bricks and mortar and a field nearby was scarred with several holes at, present over run with an excited crowd- of, Chinese endeavouring to secure bomb splinters The Japanese objective seemed to me to be the arsenal or industrial establishments which are situated in the district. For- tunately casualties were comparatively small. Only a solitary blood- stained mat lay on the roadside and gave a hint to what may have occurred At the moment the all clear has sounded and the Chinese, who are now thoroughly air minded, ́have nonchalantly resumed their normal activities as though nothing had happened,”~~Beuter.
Vice-Admiral L. E. Crabbe, C.B., accompanied by officers, photo- graphed at the Naval inspection at Happy Valley yesterday morn- ing (Photo, Cheng Studio).
Well Liked In Japan
The following letter was sent to us by a Japanese resident in Matumoto, Japan. We are not publishing the name but original (post card) may be fuspected at our city offices, Marina House, at any time.
Matumoto, Japan December 19, 1937. To the Publishers of the Hong Kong Weekly Press, Hong Kong.
Gentlemen,
Would you mind sending me a specimen copy of the Hong Kong Weekly Press?
I wish to know the land and people of China nowadays, and ac- cording to the Catalogue of Periodicals of Maruzen, Tokyo, the Hong Kong, Weekly Press in one of the most reliable and popular news- papers, published by foreigners in China.
Therefore I should like to have a specimen of this representative. newspaper, the Hong Kong Weekly Press.
(Single Copy, 10 cbs
Per Month. $3.
The Duke of Guise, Pretender, to the French throne, whose name has often been mentioned in con- nection with the French "Hooded Men" affair.
WHAT HONG KONG IS DOING
In an interview yesterday after noon Miss Irene Ho of the Hong Kong branch of the National Wo- men's Rellef Association gave an interesting account of the work the Association is doing and the very generous response of the Chi- nese people the world over. The Hong Kong branch serves as a re- distributing centre" for all supplies received and it also lends a hand to other patriotic organisations in distributing their supplies.
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At the outbreak of the war: China found herself rather short of nurses and doctors, and appeals were sent out. Many people ponded and they were sent up to the front Unes and various other stations to tend the wounded
The Association has, during the past few months, sent up no fewer that twelve thousand packages of clothing, supplies and other com- forts to the troops. They are now preparing many units of medical supplies and Instruments. Each unit cost $2,000 and consists of bandages, lodine, ointments, in- struments etc., as per instructions from the Ministry of Health.
Contributions
..and. clothing would be very much appreciated and if anyone desires to send them: please address the parcel to The Hong
Kong ̈ ̈National Women's Relief. Association, c/o The Bank of Canton, Hong Kong.
DANCE HALL BAN
IN JAPAN
"Baneful Influence On Public Mind''
Tokio Dec.. 30:-Admiral Suet- sugu, Japan's new ultra-nation- alist Home Minister, has ordered all dance halls in Japan to close from April as part of a crusade to: mobilise the national spirit. Ad-. miral Suetsugu regards dance halls as a baneful induence on the public mind, a definite threat to good morals and as # menace to manners, peculiarly Japan's OWL
Heuter
THE DOLLAR
TT. ON NEW YORK: 36-15/18 IT. ON LONDON: 1. 27/8d.
London Silver Market,
From Our Own Correspondent).
London, Dec. 30.1 London allver prices to-day were up 1/8 for Spot and 1/16 for "Forward," as follow:---
Dec. 29.
Dec. 30.
BDot...... Forward..
..18-7/16
....18-3/8
18-9/18 18-7/167
PANAY FILM PREVIEW New York, Deo, 30: A preview of the nim depicting the bombing and machine-gunning of the Panay In the Zangtse was shown last night and a copy was sent this morning to Washington where it will be seen by Government om cials Contrary to rule the Navy Department allowed the film to be exhibited to the public without an official preview,*-- Beuter's Bulletin Bervice.