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Continued From Page 1 attitude of the Italian press bad
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940.
Wang Has A ANNUAL MEETING
Headache
OF D.O.G.A.
The Diocesan Old Girls' · Asso- ciation held their annual
significant movements as the Chi- reservoir of manpower and pro- changed considerably. Maybe this SOLDIERS YES, BUT at the School last night, diner
nese Industrial Co-operatives Child Welfare Work, and Friend: of Wounded Sold'ers.
MADAME KUNG Speaking for eight minutes Madame Kung sald:-
"When I um speaking to America I feel and know that I am speak- ing to truly sympathetic friends of China. We have evidence of that sympathy in a much-needed
our relief funds,
ducts which we hope will always fortify us against want."
"We have dragged machinery for hundreds of industries from the eastern provinces. We have creat- ed some fourteen hundred indus- far, with trial co-operatives so units of, from less than ten, up to as many as three hundred mem- bers each, and they are all in where they cannot be Places
"That help has been received with abiding gratitude. It has How been used to good purpose.
COUNTRY TRANSFORMED IN MAKING an appeal to
great the extent of the require Chinese women "in Hong-ments, however, was only impress "The whole of this western
the kong to co-operate in
ed upon me following the fight country has been transformed by work of the Eugenics. League I recently took over several hund- the influx of technical experts, on Thursday, Mrs. Selwyn-red miles of our western country. educators, producers,"artisans. Ar
NO ARMS
by the fourteenth annual general meeting. There were about 30 CHUNGKING, Apr., 26- (Central) | members present
and training
votion to
was due to the reminder 'given to them by the British press that the British Navy had not been entirely inactive, but whatever the reason-Plans of Wang Ching-wel for
Speaking at the meeting. the new President, Mrs. A. M. Ethne Mat- Signor Mussolini's own paper, as organising well as other Italian journals are armies in the Wunan area and in thews, said she was very grateful. row printing a little bit of British Canton are meeting with difficul- for, the opportunity to pay tribute
Gibbons news in addition to German news ties according to reports from to Miss
(Headmistress) Shanghal. TRIFLE UNCOMFORTABLE
for her interest In the Associa It is stated that Wang has des- tion to the Committee for their As for the Germans themselves,
and they must be feeling a trifle un-patched Yeh Peng to Hankow as intalling response
willing Wuhan Pacification, Commis help; to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. comfortable, the speaker said. The
the duty Starling Jex, for her years of de- thousand actual worker-members ting puppet government in Norway to form a new' army.
the Association's landing and warehousing this THE CHINENE. & practical flow of contributions to bombed, There are perhaps thirty German effort to instal the Quis sioner." entrusted with
The Japanese Special Service Anance: and to the Hon Secre- of the Industrial Co-operatives.
had failed completely and now and they are supporting familles Rumania, Switzerland and Holland Section in Wuhan allowed Yeh to tary, Miss Mabel Churn, for the and dependents.
are keeping an eye on would-be have only the 10,000 puppet sol- very efficient and responsible way diers it recruited, but did not in which she had carried out her Quislings:
Sweden. såld Mr. Wickham Steed, permit him to get any new re- duties.
the keenest of all. The cruits. These 10,000 puppet sol- was
The speaker concluded by say- scattered st Chung- Swedish Government refused to be diers are Intimidated and demands by Nasl yang, Tungshan and other areas ng she retired with many happy Germany for preferential treat La south Hupeh and are actually memories and could assure
successor that If she got half the ment have been refused. The re- beyond Yeh's control. sult is that the German press has Wang has also requested Lieut.-friendship and co-operation that had been so generously given her begun to abuse Sweden, in the. Gen. R. "Ando; same way as Czechoslovakia and Chief of the Japanese Naval she would find her year of office Poland were abused before they Force in South China, for permis-more than worthwhile.
sion to organise an army in Can- Dealing with Norway. Mr. Wick-ton with Huang Ta-wel as com- ham Steed said that one peculiar mander. Lieut.-Gen. Ando. It is The following officers were feature was that as a result of the stated. has refused to supply elected for the ensuing year:-- Naval engagements in this sector. {arms.
President-Miss M. C. Churn: the Swedish Navy has been put on
The reports also reveal that the Vice-President-Mrs. Leo D'Alma level strength with the German
bogus Kwangtung Provincial da e Castro, jnr.; Hon. Trea Fleet in the Baltic. One cannot Party Headquarters and the Can- surer Mrs. A. G. F. Prew; Hon. tell what Hitler's next move will be ton Party Headquarters have been Secretary Miss Mabel Churn: but it is of interest to bear in mind dissolved on account of financial Committee-Miss E Banker, Miss that the Swedish coastal defences difficulties. The "San Min Week- V. Ho, Mrs. A. B. Hamson, Miss E are better armed and better supy a periodical published by the Ford, Miss M. Lawson, Miss. J. plied with ammunition than was
puppets in Shanghai, has also Broadbridge. Miss Stella Roberts the case with the Norwegian coast-
been suspended for the same and Miss N. M. Wentworth asso- al batteries.
reason
since the beginning of clate member). this month
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"THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING.
The Fifty-ninth, Ordinary Gen eral Meeting of the Company
Clarke, while reporting that It was all mountain-an unlimited astonishing spirit of vital energy
un-
will be held at the Offices of the General Managers. Messrs. Jar dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on
THERE IS "however, an- Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at other aspect of the attitude noon, for the purpose of receiving of the Chinese towards birth the Report of the Directors, pass-control, which was not touch- ing the Accounts, and electing ed upon at the meeting of the Directors and Auditors.
League, For centuries the The Transfer Books of the pride of the Chinese people has been in their families and Company will be closed from the
the more off-spring as the re- 23rd May to 13th June Inclusive.
sult of marriage, the greater By order of the Board. the family price. This idea JARDINE, MATHESON &
CO., LTD. "
up
were taken.
Although the Swedes are not looked upon today as soldiers, the speaker reminded the Ger mans of the fact that in the old days they were a first class fighting people and if Hitler should stir them up he may meet more than his match Returning to Norway, Mr. Wick- ham Steed said that not so long
Commander-in-
WEDDING AT REGISTRY
ANNOUNCEMENTS
"OFFICERS ELECTED
her
Mr.
CHINESE ENVOY.
'TO MOSCOW CHUNGKING (Central) shao Li-tze, new Chinese Am- bassador to the Soviet Union, was honoured on April 22 at tea given by local Press circles.
Among others present were Dr The following notices of forth Chu Chia-hua, Director of the coming marriages were given Organisation Board of the Cen- Mr. Fan Kwai-wing, clerk, No. 51. tral Kuomintang Headquarters, Bulkeley Street, and Miss Ng and Mr. Yang Yun-chu, Mr. Tuan Man-shang. No, 128 Fuk Wa Mu-lan and Mr. Chu Shih-ming. Street.
respectively Directors of the East Mr. Edward Chi-kan Lam. Astatic Affairs. American Affairs, Intelligence and Publicity architect, No. 410. Condult Rond, and and Miss Frances Soun Lew, No. Departments of the Ministry of 519. Tenth Avenue, Seattle, Wash-Foreign Affairs ington, U; E, A,
the League had made some sea of them. They stretch as far seems to Invest everyong and progress in its work, addea as the eye can see, and thousands everything. that this achievement only of miles further.
"But the most revealing and im- covered a fraction of those: "Into this great remoteness have pressive manifestation of our in- Theyherent power and will to win Vic- mothers who need contracep- poured millions of people.
rom the invading Japanese tory is embodied in the women. tive advice. She attributed ded
troops and their far-fying bomb We have never seen anything like this unsatisfactory result to
ers. But the migrating masses it. Women have escaped, from the poverty and ignorance of
came westward with hope; and their cloistered lives and are work- the mass of Chinese mothers.
great numbers have joined the ing everywhere: at the front with Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke was sub- did inhabitants cultivating the the fighting men and the wound stantially correct in her mountain sides. I saw terraces of ed; behind the lines with the war- estimate of the position. The cultivation climbing up steep slopes shocked country people; far in the poorer classes of the Chinese thousands of feet above sea level, rear. in rural work in hospitals, particularly, who are un- "Away to the east, far beyond in war orphanages In Industrial educated and unable to un- sight, were the great plains, the and community services, And so derstand the fundamental ob- granaries of China, which fed and we are digging in. to resist to the jects of the work of the nourished the bulk of our popula-bitter end.
These are the productive "A remarkable change has come League, and living as they do tion..
areas which the Japanese invaders over the attitude of the whole of
CAN HITLER WAIT? in a continual state of im-
have always longed to bring under cur people toward the troops. In The question is, Mr. Wickham poverishment, have not the
their control.
olden days soldiers were mercen- Steed added, can Hitler wait in- faintest idea that skilled ad-
"These they sought to conquer arles, and were ranked low in the definitely? The fron mines are in vice and treatment is avail- for exploitation when they began scale of life. Now we have a Citi- Northern Sweden and, in this con-- able to them to solve their their 1-starred aggression. They zen Army. It works with the peo- nexton, the speaker added that the
At the Supreme Court Registry family problem. Direct con- can never conquer them. Already ple, and the people work with it. Skaggerak te not altogether safe yesterday, Mr. Wong Kam-tong, of for the German Navy for, in addi-No. 1, Queen's Road East, ground tact with these women is, the Japanese forces are shrinking The Friends of the Wounded "Sol- therefore, vitally necessary under the blows our armes have diers, sponsored. by the New Life tion to the British Fleet and the floor, was married to Miss Leung dealt them. Already they are Movement, has become nationwide. minefields, the French Fleet is also Zse-yin, of No. 8 U Lam Terrace and it is here that the more enlightened Chinese women shor ening their lines to go on the It is a movement of voluntary ser-active there.
ground floor. can be of inestimable service defensive: their military leaders vice by the people for their de- The people feel that this contact with the to the League by establishing have endeavoured to hide their tenders.
shamed faces behind the flimsy through it they are all helping educated classes.
curta'n of the pathetic puppet to resist the invader; and that "show that they have at last set spirit of unity will yet defeat the
at Nanking after so many invader. futile fallures
While unceasing warfare has A MOCKERY
been disastrous to life and pro- "That so-called government is a perty in China, it has, however, mockery: it is an insult to human done a thing acutely observable intelligence. Instead of possessing in these western regions, if not in treaties. it has our coastal cities. It has stimulat- power to make been formed to break treatles anded the people to respond again to destroy foreign interests in China the old national spirit of at Japan's dictation. It represents operation. That, coupled with our nothing in China but the dregs of age-old ability to survive the most the political cesspool. The names overwhelming calamities, will, is still deep-rooted amongst of the treacherous tools of Japaram confident, ensure that we will.. the Chinese people, no matter are anathema in China: as they save our heritage, and preserve it in what straitened circum-should be General Managers,
in every respectable for ever. stances families; are forced to part of the world. Those people
MADAME CHJANG Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940-
live. Any attempt, therefore, who may curry their favour will Madame Chiang Kai-shek said: 226 to proffer advice against large frown at their own folly scon "I have only a few minutes in families is looked upon with enough. Nemesis rides hos upon which to add a. few words to those horror and suspicion. This the heels of the traitors. It will of Madame Kung. They must be prejudice against interference not be stayed by the barriers of confined to a direct appeal to all with their accustomed
see that falsehoods which they and thei: liberty-loving people to in- timate family life. will un-Japanese masters are erecting to China is promptly given the justice doubtedly be most difficult to overcome and will hardly be possible of successful achieve- NOTICE is hereby given that ment until the masses ot the EIGHTEENTH ORDIN China-the workers and their ARY YEARLY MEETING of families-are trained by other Shareholders of the Hong Kong means
any eugenics Engineering and Construction body can command, to changeį Company, Limited, will be held views which have been hand- at the Offices of Messrs. Sired down to them for genera-
tions. "Elly Kadoorie & Sens, St.
IF, ON THE OTHER HAND, George's Building, Chater Road,
the excellent objects for Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock which the Eugenics League is working so assiduously can be (Noon), for the purpose of re brought home to the Chinese years of war our fighting strength ceiving the Report of the Board women of the poorer classes, is greater than ever it was. of Directors and a Statement of where this tendency to large are planning with the hope of be Accounts for the Year ended on familles, with undue impair-ing able to carry on to the end the 31st December, 1939, and ment to the health of the hoth nancially and economically, electing Directors and Auditors. mothers and children is un-
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 22nd April to the 1st May, 1940, both days inclusive.
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HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
By Order of the Board.
than
Frighten old friends of China.
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that is her right; the justice she has earned by almost three long years of unparalleled bloodshed and suffering.
"An array of facts stands out as clear as crystal. The chief one is that Japan has al- ready shot her bolt in China. "We in China ask that a stop be China, without any assistance. put to one of two things; either at all, and with comparatively the Congressmen, who are the law- stop eeble armament, has fought...makers of America. should
·Japan to a standstil).
expressing horror at aggression, or "The unity among the Chinese they should ..stop
encouraging defenders is beyond question. The aggression by permitting gasoline, determination to continue resist, oil, and other war materials to go Ing is staunch and resolute. There to Japan. is no thought of peace; there can be no talk of peace while Japanese soldiers are on our soil.
"At the end of almost three
We
"We are fighting the battle of free men under dire handicaps. but we could have surrendered.
".
ago there were those who criticised the Allies for not sending help to Finland. The best reply to these critics, he added, was that the very troops and equipment for Arctic conditions meant for Finland were despatched to Norway without any delay and Hitler's initial purposes were thwarted.
THE BUDGET
· Turning to the Budget in Britain. Mr. Wickhain Steed said that the most severe criticism levelled against Sir John Simon was that he Was not asking us to pay. enough.
We do not enjoy the strain on our pockets, he said," but we would
solute resistance and sacrifices which we have been making in China, But if continued American assistance to Japan compels us to succumb there is no telling what still may happen.
"If such a fatal thing should occur. this much is certain: Japan's Navy, which, it is report ed, is being feverishly enlarged by the construction of several great and secret battleships, will be free to take possession of the Dutch East Indies, If the opportunity arises, That opportunity will sure "I wonder if your Congress- ly arise if Japan can contrive it. men have ever given one You already have the spectacle of thought to what would hire her coldly calculating upon the happened if Ch'na had surren- embroilment of Holland in the dered to the believed Invin- war; and you see her unable to eible might of Japan.
hide the plans she is eagerly mak- "The answer is obvious Japan ing to prevent the Democracies! would have had her naval, mut from placing a Protectorate over fortunately most prevalent, should shoulder the full bur-tary, and air strength intact she the islands." another serious problem den of spreading the neces- would have been able to use our "So far as Japan is concern- which will also have to be sary propaganda and visiting territory, our manpower, and our ed, her success, if she steals a faced by the League. This is the homes of their unfortun-resources in support of aggresive
march, would merely be, fur- the opportunity which such a ate sisters who have no con-operations against the Democra. ther fulfilment of the notor- metamorphosis of traditional tact with those who have tic countries:"
ious Tanaka Memorial; bat ⠀ custom will afford the un-banded themselves into a
swould be a windfall gained by her because of Democratic scrupulously-minded quacks body to remedy the evils of "Secretary... and midwives to profit illegal ignorance and porverty. Re-the seizure of Indo-China, Burma,
fallure to recognise the impor-- Lance of fostering China's re- Hong Kong, 15th April, 1940. ly by inducing Chinese mo-cently, speaking from the pul- the Malay States, the Dutch East sistance.
thers to place themselves in pit, a minister of the Church Indies, Australia, and New Zea their hands by holding out endorsed the work of the sand. promises of quicker and easier League and emphasised the "she would have avoided the treatment than the skilled necessity for widening the Philippines. She has been taught and authorised methods used the scope of birth control to believe that so long as she does by the League. There is no knowledge to all sections of not actually touch the possessions doubt that such illegal prac the community. The weight of America, the Congressmen will tices are being carried on in of public opinion in the take no steps against her, no mat- this Colony even today.
Colony fully supports this ex-ter what the people of America THE NECESSITY of con- pression of view and,
"when it may think
"But she would have been abu vincing Chinese mothers that reaches the classes referred to they should seek the advice of in this article, the League. the Pacific, and been able to hold to secure complete mastery over only recognised clinics, where which deserves all the CC it with resources under her own they can get all the necessary operation it asks for, will cer- command. She would no longer advice and treatment they re-tainly have made a great ad- have required American markets, quire is vitally important. vance towards the goal of gasoline, où, or anything else. "*"The people of China are deafen Here again, the Chinese mem-establishing family health in "The swift defeat of Democracy ed by bombs, but they are anxious- bera of the Eugenics League this part of the world.
was, however, prevented by the re- ly listening for your "reply."
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STRIKE SWIFT "She would have been able to | strike swift and powerful blows ir
Mr. Cheng Tsang-po, Manager of the Central Daily News," who presided paid a tribute to Mr. enjoy less the thought that we are shao as a distinguished scholar not doing as much as we should. and former journalist and be and Hitler would not like our reply lieved that he would cement even when he gets it.
more closely the cordial rela- tions between China and the Soviet Union.
We do not appeal for the active help of the nations whose battles! we are fighting, Mr. Wickham
Replying. Mr. Shao said that Steed sald. We hold the fort for civilised humanity and we shall he would do his best to establish not surrender it.
lasting Sino-Roviet friendship.
NEWSETTES
Mr. J. L. Sparke, of Benjamin &z j Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell gave a Potts, Shanghai, is spending a hol- very interesting address to the day in Japan accompanied by Mrs. R.AO.C. meeting at the Glouces Sparke.
Mr. R. P. Morris will address the next weekly meeting of the Hong- kong Rotary Club on Tuesday on "Empire Wireless Communication." |
The Hongkong Y's Men's Club will hold its eighth anniversary dinner at the Metropole Hotel on Friday next, May 3, at 7.30 p.m.
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ter Hotel last night on Names in Hongkong.".
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His Excellency the Governor has on medical advice cancelled all engagements cuialde Government House for the week ending May 4. Lady Northcote has no Dublic engagements,
The Hongkong Volunteer De- fence Corps annual dinner and Mr. J. P. A. van W, Errens, o prize giving will take the form of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maats-a smoking concert at which the chappi N.V, of Shanghal, accomprizes will be presented. It will panied by his wife, left Shanghai
be held at Volunteer Headquarters recently for a holiday in Japan.
Jon Friday, May 17, at 9.30 p.m..
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The Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Buil The St. John Ambulance · Asso÷ who have been prominently conciation & Brigade will commence. nected with missionary work in First Aid Lectures in English at Korea, have retired and returned
Headquarters, Ta Hang Road, ba to America.
Tuesday, May 7 at 4.30 p.m. As previously advertised the lec-. Quarantine restrictions imposed turer will be Dr." (Mrs). LV. "Through our refusal to accept by the Government of Ceylon Rosenbloom M.B.Ch.B. (Edin).
Japan's dominance we haye 'bog":
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ged down her any in China; and against arrivals from Hongkong can keep it there. While we can on account of smallpox, have been
Appearing before M HL' C.. removed.
Sheldon at the Central Court defeat it in time, we will do it all, the sooner if, justice is done to us.
yesterday, charged with the theft Members of the Hongkong Foot of electric wire from No. -28. Then it cannot possible be of any ball Referees' Association had an Hennessy Road and unlawful pos- service to the aggressors in this
from 8.30 pm, to i am.
present world upheaval. That is enjoyable time at St. Francis Hotel session of houss breaking imple- help to the Democracies which is last night when they held a dance ments, Kong Nam. 29, unemplgy- ed, was sentenced to two months beyond price at this juncture,
hard labour "The question is, will justice be done to us? And that can only. The cheero Club is holding a be answered by the people of Gala Dance on Monday at 8.30 Mr. C. W. Forter, vice president America and by their Congress p.m. Music will be supplied the and general manager of Shangbat men.
Band of the Royal Scots by kind Telephone Company, Federal Inc. - permission of the Colonel and USA has returned to Shanghai Omcers and all service men and and has taken up residence at him
old address. their wives will be welcome.