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CHINESE SUFFERING FROM MANY HUMILIATIONS
"Our country is suffering from many humiliations, and she is counting much on you to wipe them out when you "grow up.” Those words will always be remen bered by thousands of war-torn children, for they Come trom Generaliszio Chiang Kai-shek, China's national leader.
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The Generalissimo Implanted that stirring message of great im- port in the young minds on the cecasion of the dedication of the Provisional Wartime Children's Home of the Refugee Children's Relief Association in Hankow on May 1.
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MANY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
The sixth Empire summer school will be held at Southampton from July 13 to 22 and is open to all men and women interested in the British Empire.
The provisional programme of speakers includes:-
Major-General Sir John Brown, K.C... C.B.E. Deputy Director- General of the Territorial Army:
Right Hon. S.M. Bruce, P.C., C.H., High Commissioner for the Com- monwealth of Australia:
Captain V.A. Cazalet, M.C., M:P., Parliamentary Private former Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade;
Colonel A. B. Clough, O.B.E, Executive Officer of the M.C..
Visiting the children's home on its opening day in company with the national leader were General | Ordnance Survey, Southampton;
Mr. J. Coatman. CIE, MA.. Feng Yu-hsiang, Vice-Chairman of
Mr. P.V. Emrys-Evans, MP.. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Conservative Party:
the National Military Council.North Regional Director of the General Huang Cal-hsiang and British Broadcasting Corporation; Mr. Chow En-la. Vice-Ministers of Political Affairs Board of the Na- tional Military Counell These three leaders addressed the 500 children as they lined up.
NEVER FORGET HARDSHIPS General Feng called them his little brothers and sisters, "Study deligently so that you may grow up in mind and body to become useful citizens and solcters in the campaign for overthrowing our enemy." said he.
*Prepare yourselves for the day when you can alm a gun at the Japanese invaders," exhorted Gen- eral Huang Chi-hsiang.
"Never forget the hardships you have suffered and through such bitter lessons of wer may your bodies and souls be moulded into strong pillars for the great task of of building up a new, independent and prosperous China after the Japanese aggressor is driven from our midst," declared Mr. Chow En- tal
MANY ILLITERATE
Sir Firozkhan Noon., KCLE, High Commissioner for India;
Sir Edward Grier, K.C.M.O... K.O.V.O.. D.S.O., M.P.. former Governor of Kenya Colony:
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Bart., G.C.B., KC.V.O., M.P.. former Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean and Ports- mouth;
Right Hon. Lord Lloyd, P.C.. G.C.S.L. G.C.LE.. D.SO., former High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan:
Lieut-Col. A.J.. Muirhead. M.C.. M.P. Under-Secretary for Indi and Burma.
There will be opportunities for discussion at each meeting," whlie visits will be arranged to various places of interest in Southampton and the neighbourhood.
The enrolment fee is 1 1s: ac
board. commodation (including lodging and gratuities) £4: fees for lectures only (the whole course) 106; and fee for individual lectures
At the dedication ceremony Madame Feng Yu-hslang gave a 25.
detalled report. The children in The school will be accommodat- the Provisional Wartime Children'sed in the University College halls. Home, she said, were all picked up from Kaifeng and Chengchow along the Lunghai Railway line, and their ages ranged from two to Afteen years. Their parents had either been killed or rendered destitute by war. Upward of 70 per cent of them were illiterate.
MACAO'S NEW BUILDING
Opening Ceremony Well Attended
The youngsters will he sent away from Hankow to places in the pro-
(From Our Own Correspondent) vinces of Szechuan, Yunnan and
Macao, May 21. Kwelchow where arrangements
An event of outstanding interest are being made for the establish- ment of permanent homes
to local businessmen took place for
this afternoon when
F. the thet.
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The Refugee Children's Reller Rodrigues Office Building la Praia declared was formally Association, Madame Feng reveal ed, had already established opened in the presence of a large branches in Hong Kong, Chung- rathering of officials and residents king, Chengta (Capital of Bze- of this Colony. chuan) and Luan in southwestern Anhwel, Province. ·
The ceremony concluded with the children singing the song Little Wanderers" which describes in heart-rending words their aim- less pilgrimage before, they were brought to safety in Harikow
The inauguration ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Macao, the Most Rev. D. Jose da Costa Nudies, who also wished the owners every prosperity in their enterprise.
The building, which has under- gone complete interior renovation, marks a new phase in the history of the business of F. Rodrigues and Company and another progressive step in the successful career of its head; Mr. F. de 8. F. Rodrigues, From a humble shop back in 1916. were shown around by members this company has grown steadily of the Refugee Children's Reller and today ranks as Macao's lead- Association among whom was Ma-
-MANY VISITORS The Home was visited on its opening day by thousands terested in the welfare and educa tion of war waifs. The visitors
dame Huang Chi-hsing...
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ing business house,
HONOURED GUESTS Among those who attended the The Children's home occupied
Ceremony opening
were Mon- the old premises of the Tung Jen
seigneur Pashan (Vicar Apostolic Hospital. On the ground floor of of Kongmooni, Brig. Gen. The the two-storeyed building are the mudo de vera (manager of the sleeping rooms which are kept Fanco Nacional Ultramarino), Lt.- clean and well-ventilated. They Col. J. Vieira (Private Secretary to have no beds but sleep quite com-H E. the dovernor of Macao), fortably on cotton-paddec Ina-
Major, Arez (Chief of Police), Mr. tressed.
Pedro Lobo (Chief of Economic Services),
Martins Mr. Luciano
On the walls inside the rooma and along the hallway, upstairs (Postmaster General), Dr. A. Mir- and down are plastered numerous anda (Chief Judge), Lt. Albano cartoons, striking to behold. They d'Oliveira (chairman of the Macao. portray China's little wanderers Municipal Council), Mr. Carlos through war, who have at last
Conceicao, Dr. J. Vila Franca and found their home..
many others.
PHYSICALLY FIT
The children are being kept Association immediately after its physically t by Mrs. Attille inauguration in Bankow on March Frankel Wang, a German girl, who 10, according to a report, has up is better known among her Chin- to April 12 netted $94,745.23 in ese friends as Captain Wang Eslap cash, while pledges for the support of 3,867 children at 80 per head fing, the Doctor.
per year have been secured during the same period.
Though busy among the Chin- ese wounded soldiers to whom sha has dedicated herself out of love for her Chinese" husband and China, she has volunteered har services in attending any little allments" that may develop among the inmates of the Provisional Wartime Children's Home of the Refugee Children's Reller Associa tion,
The drive for funds launched by the Refugee Children's Bellet
Madame Chiang Kai-shek tope the list by raising £10, US$15 and 226,380.84 in cash and secur- ing pledges for the support of ne less than 2,459 children, while Madame Huang Chl-hsiang" comes second at $20,988 in cash and pledges for 442 children to her credit. Madame Feng Yu-hsiang raised $3,503 in cash and secured, pledges for 511 children,~~(CIC.).
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