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CHINA MOVES WEST
THE PAST few weeks the world has learned of one geographical change in China as a result of the Japanese invasion-the changing
of the course of the Yellow River
dykes by the invaders.
But there is a far more impor- tant change taking place in the
geography of China than
the
EDITORIAL
What Our
Readers Say
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REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS
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The Editor of the Hong Kong
Daily Press]
COMBATTING EPIDEMICS IN CHINA
(Continued from Page 3)
GOVERNMENT UNITS
The Chinese Government has
WEDNESDAY, JUNE
29, 1938.
Swatow Tension Causes
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Influx Into Colony
HAICHING BRING EIGHT
HUNDRED REFUGEES
When the Douglas Steamship Company's Halching arrived from
Bir-There are persons born in Hong Kong without birth- cer- tificates nor marriage certinentes, organised three big anti-epidemic Foochow vla, Amoy, and Swatow yesterday afternoon, Police "had bringing up their children without units, each consisting of from 150 diffealty in keeping back the huge crowd that had gathered outside
to meet the 890,or more refugees on board. A registering them, and all are above to 250 doctors, nurses, sanitary en-
gineers, sanitary inspectors, etc., to .There were many foreigners from Swatow and Foochow. seven years of age.
In the past registration of births deal with epidemic problems. in
Most of the refugees were from emergency case, a sailor from an the northern. central and south-swatow, where a Japanese landing American gunboat having been after that the Registrar General's /ern areas of the country respec-is reported to be imminent.
taken ill at Swatow. Two naval tively. The National Government permission was needed. But after has also granted 180.000 dollars to porter that Swatow was practically went on board to meet the sick An arrival told a Daily Press re-ratings from the U.38. Mindanao seven years of birth. the Registrar the League of Nations' Epidemic deserted All shops were closed man who was, however, able to Commission for its preventive ac- and the population had difficulty walk unaided down the gangway tivities.
bad to be done within 3. year:
has no power.
What is their status now" in Hong Kong? If it is nl, what is
to straighten them the process selves up?
T.
Hong Kong. June 28.
ATTACKED
Canton, June 28"
A
of
H
The task of each unit after its buying foodstuffs. The water to the waiting ambulance. arrival in its area has been. first, supply had been cut off on account
Police were also busy inside the of the recent bombing of to establish contact with the
the whart. A European Bergeant was waterworks. local Health Administration and.
busy examining the Chinese pas- During the night, the town is sengers, who were required to be secondly, to survey closely, not
enveloped in darkness. It only local epidemic conditions, but
was in possession of a sum of $20 before. following the blowing up of the RAILWAYS AGAIN also the existing machinery for stated, partly due to the fact that being allowed to land..
controlling them. While this the Kal Ming Electric Station had
Most of the passengers" could being
bombed and tonsiderably done. anti-smallpox
beer. and anti-cholera vaccination is being damaged, and partly on secount ofatisfy the regulation, one man in carried out and preparations made precautionary air raids measures particular producing a large bundle diversion of the Yellow River, and The Canton-Hankow and Can-for the production of typhus vac-being enforced by the military au-of notes, and pointing his thumb
thorities at night.
behind him where his family of that is the transter of commercial tan-Kowloon Railways were sub-cire and calf lymph locally.
Meanwhile.
A fire: Brigade was waiting out twelve the purchase centres from the coastal districts]jected to further attacks by Japan.
were coming down the
to the hinterland; the opening up ese bombers this morning.
stares for the base supply was side the Douglas wharf for an gangway. completed in Europe and supplies of Western China, particularly At 8.30 m., nine invading ma Szechuen and Sikang, to China's chines reached Namkong, on the
dispatched to Hong Kong. These include large quantities of "drugs modern industries.
Canton-Kowloon line, and released Everywhere in Szechuen, one of more than 10 bombs which des-epidemics feared during the sum- required for the combating of the most important sectors of troyed over 10 houses and killed China's western life-line. the and wounded five persons.
eople are literally digging their way out to the world...
Immense corps of labourers are Approval has
obtained engaged constructing a vast high from the "National Government by way system which will eventually General Wu Te-chen, Chairman link up with the Indian Ocean by of the Kwangtung
Provincial way of Burma, and with Europe by Government. snd General Yuway of Russia, Han-mov, Pacification
HỒNG KONG
the
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RICE TO MEET SHORTAGE
Canton. June 28.
been
NOTICE.
WATER SUPPLY.
Commis
sioner for Kwantung. for the im- WITH CHENGTU, capital of Sze- port of 200,000 plculs of Siamese chuen, as the radiating cen
rice free of duty to relieve the tre, first-class roads will one day Consumption during the current]
shortage in the Chaochow-Me-run through Yunnan, Tibet and month has increased greatly, duchsien area-Central News). principally to the larger popula tion being supplied.'
Consumers are earnestly re DR. HODZA RECEIVES
FRENCH MINISTER
quested to exercise every care in the use of water and to have
delective water fittings repaired without delay.
R. M. HENDERSON, Water Authority.
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Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 27th June, 1938.
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BANK HOLIDAYS.
in its bearing upon the domestic problems of Czechoslovakin,
sinkiang. More than 5000 kilo- metres of public highways in Sze- chuen are now open to public
traffic, with many more miles fast nearing completion. -
Communications
BUSINESS
COMMUNICATIONS
for
and
business
In Accordance with Govern CALM IN HANKOW route has now been provided by ment Ordinance, THE EX-
How calmly. the residents of way of Hong Kong. Haiphong.
mer. In addition, the stores sent include one and a half tons of
SCOTS GREYS BEATEN
In the meantime, 14 other bomb- quinine. supplies of tetanus and The Roehampton Cup ers raided Yingtak, Pabong and diphtheria anti-toxin (the gift of
On
Keep Cric Values
Did you know that there used. to be "an Anglo-Saxon 'word' cric Yuentam on the Canton-Hankow the Danish Red Cross), smallpox Sir Harold Wernher's Someries meaning a staff, and that our line. At Yingtak, they dropped a lymph, dried milk, cod-liver oll House team conceded half a real word cricket means a little staff? number of missiles in the suburbs. etc.
Whereas the word bat (did you their return Journey ther
start to the Royal Scots Greys PROVINCIAL HELP. dumped several explosives
and beat them by eight goals to know) is derived from the French Various Governments and pri-61 in the first round of the Roe-name for the lath wand»of the Nganchanngau. on the Chaton-
vate organisations have contribut- hampton Cup
stage Harlequin, writes a Home Kowloon Railway(Central News).
Chigh bandicap) ed stores or facilities of one kind tournament.
correspondent. or another to the League Epide- mic Commission.
CANTON DELEGATES
TO PEOPLE'S COUNCIL
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, June 28.
LAWN BOWLS
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The report continues: "It seems
tall.
BAD LUCK
There are no wickets, but the
In the Bodleian Library at Ox- The Greys were outplayed in the third and last chukkas, ford is a manuscript of the date The Provincial Governments of each of which they had two goals 1344 with a picture of a monk Hupeh. Hunan and Kiangs are stored against them without being bowling a ball at another monk. taking an active part in the anti-able to reply. During the rest of who is about to strike it with a epidemic work and are allocating the game. however, they more cric. In the neld are other monks... additional funds to strengthen than, held, their own.
Captain their health services. Hopeh. Guinness worked hard for the batsman stands before a hole, and where formerly nothing existed in losers and hit four, of their goals. the art of the game (unless the Representatives from Canton to the form of health organisation. while Captain Findlay and Lord batsman hit a catch) was to get Prague, June 28.. purposes have been greatly accele- attend the People's Political Coun-is organising health services in Roborough shared the other two. the ball into the hole. And this Dr. Milan Hodza, Czech Premier, rated by the construction of good cl have delayed their departure for nine of its most important dis-For Someries House, Sir Harold accounts for the original type of received M; de la Croix, the French roads through Yunnan. Kwetchow. Hankow until early next week in tricts.
Shensi, Hu-İview of the postponement of this Hunan has appropriated $90.000 tain Hamilton-Russell three, and
Wernher scored four goals, Cap bowling being underhand.
Then the game grew and in the Minister, yesterday for a lengthy
nan, Hupeh important gathering from July 1 in addition to the regular budget Captain Hersbrugh-Porter
century the seventeenth
single talk on the international situation BETTER
other to July 7.
for health services, and negotia other.".
stump was placed at each hole to provinces, The Canton delegates are Messrs. tions are now in progress for a
The Greys got away from the tell the bowlers and felders where It is understood that a special
and the Sen-kan, Huang Yuan-pin, and new scheme for the year 1938-39. throw-in and obtained their first the holes were. Two stumps were Ministerial Council will meet today, Chinese Past Office has been able Yang Tsu-I and Miss Wu Chibi- Funds for this scheme are avail-goal within half a minute of the instituted in 1700 with a long ball
to place 60 additional, motor trucks. mel.
able from the so-called Health start of play It was not until top. The question 35 to whether
Important developments arë ex- Surtax, and $1.000.000 have al- negotiations with the Sudeten Ger- the mail routes."
The middle stump was introduc the end of the chukka that Cap- man Party will be resumed this
With the closing of Shanghal aspected in China by the early part ready been collected for this pur-tair Hamilton-Russell was able to led by the Hambledon Club on the week, depends upon the outcome of a transhipment point, the authori- of July when the Council will have pose.
score for Someries House, follow-downs inland of Portsmouth in this meeting.-(Transocean).
ties had to depend wholly on the an opportunity to deliberate on the Canton-Hankow rallway for the future relations with Japan and that the Health Service will be 10g a centre by Sir Harold Wern-1775. And that is the origin of transportation of East and North other important measures. able to meet the emergency in the her, with a shot under his pony's the way in which the Test Match Is played before tens of thousands. China mads, but an alternative
spring and summer with larger
of spectators. appropriations than had been ex- pected. This is partly due to thei The former player had bad luck CHANGE BANKS will be Hankow are viewing the threatened Hanoi and. Künming. "From Kun- At the Kowloon, Bowing Green influence exerted by the presence early in the second chukka, alt- GIFT TO HAMPTON
ting the past after a hit-up by Sir CLOSED for the Transaction attack by the. Japanese is indicated ming, as Yuncaniu is now known. Club green yesterday afternoon of the League of Nations units.
Next Captain COURT PALACE al PUBLIC BUSINESS on by the following paragraph, re- mails
The reports from China indicate Harold Wernher. Kwelyang, M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh
Two William and Mary chairs FRIDAY, the ist JULY, 1938. printed from the Central China Changsha, Hankow,
Chungking beat O. P. Remedios and E. Scuza that the Chinese authorities, local, Guinness scored again for the und Chengtu.
by 26 shots to 11 in the Open provincial and national, as well Greys, but two goals followed for have been placed under the cano- as Chinese public opinion, value Somerles House before they got pies in the first presence chamber "Members of the Hankow' Race Club and Recreation Ground are the development
Attention is also being paid to Pairs Lawn Bowls championship.
of rapid and The following have been selected the services of the League Anti- their next. First Captain Ham-and the audience chamber of the apartments at Hampton advised that there will be a dance efficient air services over these to represent the Hong Kong Elec-epidemic Units highly, are anxious ilton-Russell scored and then Bir State
Wernher put # sitter Court Palace. on Friday, the 24th instant, in the areas.
tric Recreation Club in a League for the extension of their activi-Harold 6092 Parl Mutual Room commencing at
The Eurasia and China National game against the HK. Yacht Clubs and have shown them the at- through to obtain the lead at They have been presented by the most friendship and confidence. three goals to. 21. Before the First Commissioner of Works, Sir 10.30 p.m. with Mr. Havsky's Band Aviación Corporations, which are on the latter's rinks on Saturday
MATERIAL GIFTS
change, of pontes, however. Lord Philip Sassoon. The chairs former- 11 attendance. There will be a under the supervision of the Chin- at 3.30 p.m.:----
Rchorough regained it for they belonged to the Duke of Leeds, facilities have been received: Greys,
and are covered in deep; mulberry The Danish Government has
Somertes House had much the silk velvet and gold braid, with given. 5.000 doses of tetanus ant!- better of things in the third richly crested tops also covered In toxin and one million units of period, and Captain Dawnay and silk veret. diphtheria anti-toxin, while the Bir Harold Wernher put on goals The cresting of the upholstered,
In the fourth chukkaarts of the chairs is outlined with Danish Red Cross has contributed for them. a further 10,000 doses of tetanus Captain, Guinness hit the only circular beaded nails. anti-toxin and two million units goal scored. Honours were easy business centres to the west is
THE CHINA Finance and Develop-of diphtheria antitoxin.
in the penultimate stage, for, not just temporary, enterprising
Captain Hamilton-Russell ment Corporation of Shanghai, The firm of Bayer, at Leverku-after Canton who lost their parents establish themselves in Western To avoid delay and unnecessary during recent Japanese bombings China in anticipation of prosperous Chungking railway, is helping to atebria
construction of the Chengtu-mission with 2 kilogrammes of Captain Guinness replied for the
Greys. The last chukka was thus The President Coolidge, which waiting, licences may be forward. arrived here yesterday and are now times to come. Most of the larger evelop the timber industry of the The General Secretary of the began with the Greys only half arrived from Manila yesterday. ed to Police Headquarters through | war-Time Child Welfare Associa or agencles in Chungking and china Development Corporation, steps to make available for Dr. unable to do anything-right until for Hong Kong:--
being taken care of by the local foreign Armis in China have offices West China regions, while the West Lord Mayor's Fund, has taken a goal down, but here they were brought the folowing passengers the post and should be accom.tion. panied by a crossed cheque in Meanwhile, it is learned that the Chengtu, many of them transact-specially organised to assist the Robertson clothing and supplies the end. First Bir Harold Wern Mr. Frank A. Abraham, Mr. lavour of the Hong Kong Govern- Association has found a site at Uning large volumes of business. promotion of various Industries in provided by the Fund, which the her scored for Someries House Ludwig Bleyer. Lt. and Mrs. G. F. ment covering the necessary fees. Long, in the New Territories, or consequent lack of transport by the installation of several impor-
Despite low water levels and Szechuen, has been responsible for latter will distribute as needed. after Captain Hersbrugh-Porter Blodzett. U.S.N. Lt. and Mrs. J. T. The licences will be returned News),
(First Week Day in July) and SATURDAY, 2nd JULY, 1935. Hong Kong, 28th June, 1938.
NOTICE.
Owners of Motor Vehicles and all drivers are hereby notified that licences are due for renewal on Monday, the 4th July, 1938.
through the post.
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(Sd.) T. H. KING. Commissioner of Police.
28th June, 1938.
6090
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Post.
are sent to
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cover charge of $1.00 per person. ese Ministry of Communications, J. R. Way, R. A. Starling, S.. The following material gifts and
Early reservations should be made and which operate services from Deacon, W, B. Muskett (skip). as being the last dance of the sea-Hong Kong, have made Chengdu a R. C. Butler, G. 6. Thomson son a record attendance is expect station for West China airlines. G. T. Padgett, L. de Rome (skip). ed."
Today It is possible to fly from Szechuen to South China dally.
W. Stoker, J. F. Hedley, A. F. Paul, J. Sloan skip).
CHILD REFUGEES REALISING that the transfer of
BROUGHT HERE Fifty Chinese child refugees from arms and indiviuals have begun to apart from being interested in the iden in Germany, has supplied the bad scored for Someries House
La child refugees camp. (Central
NEW EGYPTIAN
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had taken the ball down the Bowers Jr., USN, Master J. T. steamers, tons and tant plants in this province.
Master E. Scott The Peninsular and Orient ground. and then followed this Bowers, III, TONS OF tons of machinery | MACHINERY
Much is being done in Szechuen Steamship Company has agreed with another. At the end Captain Bowers, Miss Maritta D. Bunch.
Rev. Brother Chee Hoy, Mr. have been shipped to improve the silk industry with to convey to China, free of charge. Findlay hit the sixth and last) SHIPPED
Fernando M. Chan. Mr. and Mrs. for 50 or more facthe aid of the Ministry of Econo-goods of which the transport is goal of the game for the Greys. tories now being mics of the National Government. entrusted to it...
Chung Lu, Mr. George R. Clark established in Szechuen.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Cooper. Mr. Through the recently: Hundreds of cases of valuable SILK
The Compagnie francaise des
More than 1,000 refugees from James Espy. Mrs. Rosario formed sik Corpora- Messageries Maritimes granted different war areas now in Han-Gemora, Calro, June 28. books and antiques have also found (INDUSTRY tion of Exechuen, in 50 per cent, reduction in fares to kow and about 20,000 refugees The new Egyptian Cabinet of their way from Pelping and Nan-HELPED
Mr and Mrs. A., W. Gibson, which the provincial thos, members of the mission who from eastern Honan will shortly Miss Rosamond Groff-Smith Mas- Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, recon-king to all parts of Yunnan, Kyci-
government is inter-travelled on its ships. structed on a coalition basis, pre-show and Szechuan..
ested, better crops and better mer- sented itself to Egyptian Parlia-.
The Arm of Jardine.. Matheson sent to Stan, according to in-ter Geoffrey Groff-Smith, Mrs. M. Although the present activity in chandising methods will be pro-and Company, of Hong Kong has War Refugees Relief Commission, tute. Mr. Nicaslo Osmena.
formation received by the Slan F. Lavrouhina, Miss Rosario Ma- ment yesterday--(Transocean). the west has been prompted by moted.
undertaken to receive, store and which is now making arrange the Sino-Japanese hostilities, the Farmers are also being assisted re-dispatch into China all stores ments for their accommodation. ground had already been prepared by government agricultural and intended for the mission. It has
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With Japan's threatened attackminstrative organisation,, which |
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Mrs. Paula M. Paredes, Mr. R. R. C. Pee, Mr. Enrico Pirovano. Miss Velma "Potta, Mr. A P. R. Raagas, Mr. T. Ramchand, Mas- ter Lucien Rocke. · Jr., Mr.
The Owners of this vessel will not be responsible for any accounts,
A remand of 48 hours was grant-to a great extent by the branches forestry experimental stations. also placed the whole of its ad- against the vessel dinless endorseded, by Mr. Butters at the Central China's leading banks and local by the undersigned.
Court on the application of the government banks operating in en Hankow playing a prominent is extensive, at the disposal of Indies: desiring to participate on Frederick Rodriguez police yesterday, in the case, In Szechuen, who, through the co-part in the news. It is timely to the Secretariat without charge, their own account in the work of Mr. Armando Sales, Misa Car- which a street coolle Wong Kl. 32. operative, societies of the agricul. draw attention to this marked the League merely refunding ex-medical assistance to Chins un- men Santiago, Mr. H. C. Bhogren. was charged with beying indict-tural communities, have made con- development in the west as It perditure actually incurred by the dertaken by the League,, have Miss Phyllis Bnow, Mr. P. H ed bodily harm on Y'n Yan. onsiderable contributions, to economic shows how futile are Japan's at ar
each made a gift in kind to the Southard. Mr. Kang Han, Miss the haliside at Aberdeen an "evelopment during the past two tempts to bend China's will to her nally, the Netherlands. Gov; value of 25.000 florins 160,000 Helen Wong, Mrs Dorothy B. 8091 Saturday. :
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eriment of the Netherlands East florins in ‘ali).:
Youne.(
A. E. PEEK,
Master.
Hong Kong, 25th June, 1938,
years.