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EDITORIAL
What Our Readers Say'
"PASSENGER TRAINS
NOT ENDANGERED
Japanese Planes Raid Saichuen
Canton, July 25. Sirens were sounded #1 1230 p.m. today and 20 minutes after- Sir-With reference to the re- wards, 16 Japaness " planes ap- port appearing in the press on peared overhead They circled Saturday, July 23, to the effect | over Shckpal, and the White Cloud that the Japanese authorities are Mountain for some time and then protesting to the Diplomatie Cops flew over Salchuen and the Wham- regarding "unscrupulous use by poa loop-line where they dropped Chinese of the passenger trains for over 10 bombs. conveying war supplies," we, the undersigned, "for and on behalf of our respective administrations, em- phatically deny that any war material has been or will be con-
veyed in the freight cars attached
to passenger trains.
The freight cars in question con- tair either mall or over-flow par- cels traffic of a usual, commercial nature which is in excess of the accommodation available.
Y.-C. CHEN.
Managing Director For and on behalf of the Canton-Hankow Railway.
LI LU-CHAO.. Managing Director, For and on behalf of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese Bection).
E. 5. CARTER,
Manager
For and on behalf of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (British Section).
July 25.
It was
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1938. Are
Judge Says Nurses
"Workmen"
"No Compensation" Decision Upset By Appeal Court
The Court of Appeal, by a majority (Lord Justice Greer dissent. ing), decided recently that Miss Anale Wardell, a nurse at a Farn- borough hospital of the Kent County Council, was a “workınan," and could qualify for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act.
Chinese anti-aircraft batteries directed brisk are at the raiders. keeping them at a high altitude. The invading planes were first Chungshan and sighted above were seen later to pass over Bocca
He upheld the view put forward | contract of service and 30 be a Tigris and Whampoa and reach
by the County Council that Miss "workman." the outskirts of the city.
After encircling over Canton at Wardell's employment was not a Did it make any difference that high altitude for over half an "contract of service" but a con- the water bottle might have been hour, the Japanese flers turned tract for services."
put on a doctor's or sister's orders westward to Salchuen where they Lord Justice Slesser, in his judg-on the body of a patient for cura- started to empty their bomb racks. ment (with which Lord Justice tive purposes, so that the nurse then was not under a contract of More than twenty houses were des- | Mackinnon agréed), sald the de- troyed and a dozen civilian people nition of a workman under the service? killed or wounded.
Workmen's Compensation Act was Hi Lordship thought that whe- With the havoc done, the raiders "any person who has entered into ther she was performing curative turned their way northward and for works under a contract of ser-services or not she had entered visited a number of stations along vice."
into one contract of service and the Canton-Hankow railway. At the time of the accident Miss had agreed to take the County Shaho and Tingtak, they released Wardell was acting under the in- Council's orders about her work, exercised through doctor, matron, more than a dozen bombs, causing structions of a hospital sister.
er sister. slight damage to the rails. **
She was B fully qualified
Judge Clement, in Maldstone County Court, had previously de- clined to "make an award in Miss Wardell's favour after she had been injured about the face by the explosion of a tin of antiphlorestine while it was being heated, and which resulted in permanent scars be- ing left.
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Leave to appeal to the Louse of Lords was given.
The raiding squadron finally nurse who was subject to the The County Court Judge, war": divided themselves into two groups. hospital rules and regulations as wrong in holding that the nurse one heading for the Canton-How-to times of sleeping, meals, and was not a "workman." and the ap- icon railway and the other for recreation, and was generally un-peal succeeded.
der the control of the matron.
He (the Lord Justice) thought It was clear that at all times the nurse was required by her contract of service to obey directions as to how she should do her work, though the particular person who Instructed her might vary accord- ing to the particular work.
U.S. CONSUL
during the governorship of Sir Cecil Clementi that visits between the bonds of friendship. began to be exchanged and it is) a happy augury Indeed that in IN CANTON spite
of all
And the troubles
tribulations we have since had that LEAVING these extremely pleasant functions!
have been continued.
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Canton, July 25.
The County Court Judge did not Mr. Irving N. Linnell, American Consul-General in Canton, will appear to have considered that IT was Str Geoffry Northeete's
first visit to Canton but the leave here in November and will nurses were the servants of Kent¦ reception that was, accorded" him
even when were only doing administrative showed us no indefinite manner be succeeded by Mr. Myrl Scott County Council
Myers, who has been serving in that the officials and people of the Far Eastern Division of the duties, but this appeared to him
(Lord Justice Slesser) to be con per according to the Canton Daily
mitted facts.
to Kirsten, wife of Aage Jor, Canton had..even before they met state" Department in Washington,trary to the evidence and the ad-
gensen. a sor
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Shanghai Mrs. Lilian Kalie Wilson, aged 65 years, the widow of the late Mr. H. C. J. Wilson.
MILCH. On July 20, 1938, at the Country Hospital. Shanghai Mrs. Mina Milch, aged 28 years. the dearly beloved wife of Mr. Joseph Milch and mother of
Ronnie Milch.
Sun.
Mr. Myers served in Canton in' A matron or sister might be free 1909 and 1919, when he was Vice-in the way they did their work. Consul and later Deputy Consul-and consequently not under con- General, He has also served in tract or service with the County Tientsin, Swatow. Mukden, Chung-Council who appointed them. king and Kunming.-(Interna-
him sonally.: learned tq hold him in the highest regard. Governor Wu Te-chen of Kwang-
we all know him and respect hi tung, is no stranger to Hong Kong and since the Japanese started tional their murderous visits from the air
to the Kwangtung capital, our EVACUATING
admiration for him has increased tenfold. The administration of
REFUGEES
DICKSON. On July 21, 1938, at the | Canton goes on as though nothing General Hospital, Shanghal. has happened. True, there have William Power Dickson, aged been preparations for the Protec FROM WUHAN
QUESTION OF ORDERS
But the evidence was that the nurses, at least in their adminia trative duties, were under the com- plete direction of the matron or sister.
If Miss Wardell had injured her. self while doing" administrative routine duty on a sister's instruc- Hankow, July 25. tions such as putting a hot water About 1,000 war refugees will be bottle in a patient's bed on a enid doubt she of the lowest order--but the wheels evacuated from the Wuhan area night there was no
67. years, beloved husband of tion of the officials and members Freda Dickson.
of the public during these air raids raids which savour of barbarism
HYNDMAN-On July, 21, 1938, at the Shanghai General Hospital, Mrs. Bessie Hyndman, aged 36 years, the dearly beloved wife of Mr. I. Hyndman and mother of Margaret and "Roy Hynd-
man.
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of the Government continue to within the next few days and will would have been acting under a more on, the morale of the people be sent to Húnan.
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being maintained at the same high Due to the lack of means of standard. And to what must this transportation, they will travel on be attributed? The guiding gentus foot following the Wuchang-i of Governor Wu Te-chen
Changsha Railway, along which
It is not at all necessary for us many connecting stations have
to state that the destruction done been established where they may at Canton by the Japanese almen rest.
-pr whoever were flying those Women and children refugees, of planes has aroused disgust not whom there are still many only here in Hong Kong but also and in Wuchang, will be sent to
here
CUSTOMER IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!
Rare Helmet Rescued From Oblivion
BROTHERS. NEGROLI THOUGHT TO BE THE MAKERS
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cam- bridge, with the aid of a grant from the National Art-Collections Fand, has acquired a parade helmet
of the sixteenth century, with the visor modelled in the form of a Hon's mask and the skull embossed with nymphs and trophies in the vigorous style of the High Renais-
sance.
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consummate workmanship ornament and the choice of the
indicate the brothers Paolo and Filippo Negroll of Milan as its
in all parts of the world. It is only Human in boats or vehicles-Cen Chinese Fokis Views makers. They were, in their time,
natural, however, that due to our tral News). nearness to Canton and the "friendship that exists between the two ports that the sufferings of the people of Canton should draw than deeper sympathy - here elsewhere.
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SERIOUS FLOODS IN AMERICA
Have Court Sequel
city the leading craftsmen, in a famed for its armourers, and among their patrons was the Em- peror Charles V.
"The customer is always right."
The skill required to hammer out Such is the slogan of mary of the world's finest shops, such also is the whole sküll from one plece of the slogan of many of the humbler metal is considerable, and the easy shops. Such is not the slogan of and fluent modelling of the hn- New York, July 25. THE visit of His Excellency to the New England States are battling a shop in Shanghai, Street where man figures in this case is master- the ly. This helmet represents affected areas, therefore, was with severe floods and many com-a toki la called Lau Sang. such a demonstration of sympathy,munities are marconed. · Crops are
On Sunday afternoon a woman peak of the armourer's craft be- though the visit
was only an washed out, and roads and bridges entered this shop. She examined fore the decline set in in the sec- Informal one, that it evoked the have been swept away.
a suitcase, for sale as a leather end half of the sixteenth century."
GREEK MOTTO. deep appreciation of the authorities! In the picturesque sheep country suitcase. She was dissatisfied with
The Fitzwilliam Museum's bejmet in Canton and in Ban Saba, Texas, there are also it. She said it was made of paper. the heartfelt serious foods.
Lau Sang was not sathfed with closely resembles one, which be.. gratitude of the
The national death roll is eight, her statement. Lau Sang slapped longed to Charles's son, the Arch- duke Ferdinand" of Tirol, which is people in gen- and thousands are homeless. her face.
VISIT EVOKES HEARTFELT
| APPRECIATION
LTHOUGH. the visit to Canton
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO HONG KONG AND "The provisions in question GIVEN that the REGISTER of
CANTON do not apply to Contracts an. MEMBERS of the Company will tered into by any incorporated be closed from SATURDAY, Company in its corporated 30th JULY, to SATURDAY, capacity and made for the 13th AUGUST, 1938, both days general benefit of the Com. Inclusive. pany."
T.. L. ROGERS,
Colonel, R.A.P.C. Treasury Chest Officer, His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, 21st July, 1938.
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eral. In this In Rhode Island and Massachu- At the Kowloon Court yesterday, now in the Imperial Armoury at by His Excellency the Gover- confection a special vote of thanks setts generally the damage is most Lau Sang appeared before Vienna, and is known from the in- nor. Sir Geoffry Northcote, was has to be given to Lady Northcote severe. Tobacco growers in, north Macfadyen charged with assault. ventory drawn up in 1696 45 11 unofficial in nature, it nevertheless who. - alsp showed the greatest Connecticut complain of the loss Mr. Macfadyen took a lentent viewHauben mit dem Lewengesicht. "It served to further. By Order of the Board,
strengthen sympathy for the sufferers in their of $1,000,000. The cotton crop in of the case. Lau Sang, was bouna appears in his portrait on the title- the ties, that bind Hong Kong unenviable plight.
Georgia is also badly damaged-over on a bond of $10 to keep the page of the large follo book of drawings, by Francesco Terzio of and Canton so closely together. W. F. SIMMONS,
peace for one year.
famous men, many of whose arm- Happening as it did when Japanese THERE have been times, in the
Lau Sang is not the only man ours he had collected together Secretary planes were almost continually now forgotten past, that the
[overhead, it also served to gain for relations between Hong Kong and improvement of communications who does not believe that the cus-his castle at Ambras.
The Fitzwilliam casque differs in His Excellency and Lady Northcote Canton have, perhaps, been some-and consequently trade between tomer is always right. Ngai Sang
appeared before Mr. Barnett at the the decoration of the comb. whi the highest regard and esteem of what strained, but those were the the two places.
Kowloon Court yesterday, also includes a Greek motto, "Thog the people, not only of Canton but days when China was torn by. *** JUMBLE SALE also those of Hong Kong, more internal troubles and strife. But CANTON win take sometime in charged with assault. He is a stali walkest proudly before the stars,"
atthe Kowloon City damascened in gold. especially the members of the those days have long since been complete the necessary repairs keeper
It is stated that the helmet ap The St. John's Cathedral Mo-Chinese community.
relegated to the background, to be and reconstruction following, the market. thers' Union will hold a Jumble Situated as the two ports are, regarded only as a page in the despicable and cowardly attacks by A woman had come to his stall peared at a sale of theatrical pro Sale on Friday at 3 D.m and Hong Kong and Canton have long history that has long since been the Japanese but if it is any to buy pork. She examined a pièce pertles in London, where it might would be very grateful for gifts become inter-dependent on each forgotten.
satisfaction to them the people of ot pork. She said it was not worth have been sold to disappear into of clothing and, miscellaneous ar other, not only for purposes of Today the position is vastly Hong Kong are following their the price asked. Ngal Sang resent the limbo where unwanted thear ticles, which should be sent to trade and commerce, but also in different. Canton has learned to every effort in this, direction with ed this statement. He resented it trical properties eventually go.. the Cathedral Hall on or before the many other directions. For look upon Hong Kong 28. a the utmost fiterest and sympathy: in a bigger way than did Lau Rang. But it was noticed by a smuli Friday morning?·
these reasons the very cordial re-necessary part for the smooth The history of Canton is too great He slapped the woman across the trader who purchased it on the lations which have existed between running of its machinery and vice to allow people like the Japanese face three times. The woman fell chance of its being something out of the ordinary and brought it to. Dr. Von. Dirksen. German Am- these, ports have always been a versa, and for this happy state" of to destroy it. Material damage down
Ngal Sang was fined 310 and was its late owner: One of the Brat bassador, left London for Ger-source of great pleasure and salts affairs both ports have played has been done and in some cases
important parts. many on Saturday night on leave faction to all concerned, while the equally
The very extensively too. But the spirit ordered to pay $5 amenuis to com- people to whom it was shown was. extending over month or six authorities have taken advantage completion of the motor road from that made the glorious history of plainant. He was also bound over Mr. James G. Mana, Keeper of the weeks, according to & British of every opportunity to strengthen Kowloon to Canton has, in a large Canton possible is ever-present on $25 to keep the peace for six Wallace Collection, who at once re-
cognized its importance. Wireless message.
the bonds of" friendship It was measure, been responsible for the It has not wavered: it will not months.