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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the Sale" by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of July, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of four Lots of Crown Land at Kam Tsin, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at Crown Reat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
latending bidders are advised that Immediately after the disposal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised Officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
No. of Registry
Sale
No.
1 Sheung Shulj Kam Tsin.
Inland Lot
2
No. 9.
10.
11.
12.
ments.
Locality.
Boundary Measure Contents
Annual Upset in
Rental Frice. N 5. E, W. #q. feet ft. ft. ft Fft. About *
As per sale plan 21,780 100
"
*
871
37,600 172
138,020 -838.
201,45 926
1,504
3,557
8,050
In the Matter of the Com. panies Ordinance, 1932,
and
In the Matter of the Alliance Trading Company, Limited.
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HONOKONU, JULY 28, 1940.
Government Under Fire
THE HONGKONG GOVERN-
EDITORIAL
NOTICE TO EVACUEES
On July 20, notices were. sent to certain women and children advising them to prepare for evacuation direct to Australia on or about July 28. It is now announced that the ship will not sail before August 3. Further detailed in- structions will be sent out in due course.
CORRESPONDENCE
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940.
COLONY'S
FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM
LETTERS WRITTEN BY H.K.'S "DEPORTED" WIVES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS YESTERDAY PURSUED ITS INQUIRIES INTO THE VARIOUS COMPLAINTS THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY HUSBANDS IN HONGKONG FROM THEIR EVACUATED FAMILIES IN MANILA.
Several of those interviewed by a representative of this paper were willing to submit extracts from letters received for publication in furthering the efforts made in these columna to convince the Government of the terrible conditions to which their families have been subjected, during their “deportation," as the Government scheme was so aptly described by an unofficial member of the Legislative Council yesterday.
to
It will be comforting some of those- husbands who have been distracted over the letters they have received from their wives. to know that, ac- cording to an official state- ment made yesterday, women and 'chlidren with no "pure British" qualifications. who appear to have been "inadver- tently"
the evacuated with rest of the women and chil- dren, are to be given the option of returning to the Colony.
The following are extracts from letters which have been submitted for publication;
like this I have tried to keep my letters cheerful but. I must get it o my chest.
FAR WORSE THAN
WANCHAI
CREDIT BALANCE
A record surplus of the Colony's credit balance of $17,091,170 was re-` vealed in the Financial Report for 1999 which was tabled in Legisla tive Counell yesterday. Most of the main sources of revenue showed substantial increases,
The Estimates provided for a do.... ficit of $1,659,898. Actual revenue exceeded the estimates by $5,380,-
the year brought the Colony's cre- 727, and the surplus at the end of
dit balance to the record total of $17,001,170.
The special activity in trade, due to the diversion of a much increas- ed proportion of China's trade to
The following are extracts from Hongkong, continued throughout: two letters received by a husband the year and the increase of the from his wife in Manila, dated Colony's population owing to the influx of refugees was maintained. July 10 and 16.
been
very
Official Statement
War
LOSS OF TRADE
& EVACUATION · MENT faced determined opposition yesterday from the To the Editor, H.K. Daily Press. Unofficial members of the Sir.-Your Correspondent "Exas- Legislative and Finance Com-perated" in your issue of July 22 mittee when the subject" of has made it quite clear that the
This gentleman states, that his the
War Revenue Tax Department will compulsory evacuation
wife was not the type to com- was brought up for considera- not be able to collect sufficiently to
plain unless things were really un- tion in connection with aber of examiners, experts and ac- pay for the employment of a num-
bearable. He added that, know- series of questions which hàd countants in the field of Income
ing his wife as he did, the letters been put to the authorities Tax from England.
received must have
Continued from Page 1 restrained, and later again when a sup- The Commissioner of War Tax
"There are no baths here and racial discrimination in the
As regards the allegation of plementary "Token Vote" for will be surprised to find if he makes BRITISH CONSUL'S last night I had a shower in &Cabinet's explicit instruction, it $10,000 for meeting expenses a round of all Factories, Pubile
publie rooth with three other wo had always been held. In the.. of the evacuation of women Utility Companies, Department
men. I hate it. I don't think original 1939 evacuation scheme, and children was vigorously stores, European. stores, Commer-
"I am just not going to Austra had one yet and quite a few peo-that special treatment would be opposed. We have in these cial firms, professional men, Stock
necessary for persons with no real columns consistently taken up broking firms and other business lia and not under the conditions ple won't.
"A lot of people were sent to domicile in Asia and it had been" 416 the case against the bungling concerns that they are facing dis-that we have been living in for
Bagulo today. I wanted to "go, hoped that India, Macao, Indo- methods which the Govern-aster and therefore the prospects the past ten days.........
The baby is as white as death but they would not send people China and China itself would be ment adopted in connection for profits are absolutely nil tor
with small children. Today we the natural destination for all We have Had no food for the past 1940/41. with this evacuation scheme
Instead of a scorched earth po four days. The food we have gets were told we were going to the others. and have repeatedly pointed ey on the remote possibility of worse every day. The sight of it-Hotel in the City, a very Circumstances in recent months out the serious effect it was trouble, we are pursuing a worse makes me sick. Food is hard to fold part of Manila ( having on, the normal econo-line of destructive action after pro- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. mic life of the Colony. We gress of a century.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
also claim to have been the NOTICE IS HEREBY first to expose the deplorable GIVEN that ап INTERIM Conditions under which the DIVIDEND of Fifty (50) cents Supervision of the evacuated
per
Strand West, First floor, Company, Canal Road Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Hongkong. Kong, on Monday, the 19th day of Angust, 1940, at 12.30
o'clock in the afternoon.
Dated the 25th day of July,
1940..
East,
women and children
Yours, etc.
DISGUSTED
Twenty-one cases of tuberculosis,
ADVICE
"
have greatly altered in this latter “WELL, A LOT OF FILIPINOS respect, but I get.........
can assure this "So you think we are going to TOLD ME THAT IT WAS A VERY Council that should further eva- be shipped in comfort. THE BRI-BAD PART OF THE TOWN, NOT cuation be ordered the fullest can- TISH CONSUL HERE THINKS FIT FOR WHITE WOMEN TO sideration will be given to the LIVE IN. We were taken to the claims of all races. The evacua- VERY DIFFERENTLY. I HAD A CHAT. WITH HIM YESTERDAY-City in Army trucks. We were tion already effected will clearly for: about an hour facilitate such supplementary sc- and we finally arrived. It was tion. ghastly, right in the natives quar- I should perhaps make it clear ter, No Europeans at all. Very that the secret print of the so- narrow streets and closely packed called 1939 Evacuation Scheme was houses.
in the hands of the Secretary of for the Colonies
¡ON HERE,
"He thinks the evacuation has been a mistake from the very beginning and said that nobody in Hongkong seems to know what they are doing."
NO CHAIRS SIT ON
Honestly dear
you
TO
44
many
As the Honourable Colonialog Secretary has said, that scheme contemplated a much more - urgent emergency than now exists; and moreover, the re- commendation included in that scheme to the effect - that priority should be given to the families of all volunteers has evidently not been considered applicable in present circum- stances,
NOTICE is hereby given that Share has been declared Hongkong was being carried
from HEALTH-RETURNS AND HE ADVISES ME TO STAY jolted along the abovenamed Company can payable on WEDNESDAY, 14th out by the local Government's re of enteric fever, twc, of dysen- not, by reason of its liabilities, AUGUST next, on and after representatives. On this-lat-tery and one each of small-pox. continue its business, and that which date Dividend Warrants ter point, however, we diphtheria and cerebro-so'nal fever a meeting of the creditors will
refrained may be obtained upon application studiously
from were reported to the Health Au-
It was far worse than living in State the heart of Wanchali be held at No. 48A, Bonham at the Registered Office of the criticising the Government in thorities for the 24 hours ended at
I was months ago and was no doubt fully simply horrified. We were dump-considered by His Majesty's Gov- the hope that an opportunity midnight on July 24,
ed there with our luggage, and Iernment before "the present decl- would have been taken "at
finally learned that we just had sion was reached. yesterday's meeting of the NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO Council to make a full and no immediate urgency for the imagine what it is like unless you that we could
cannot to grab the best accommodation GIVEN, that the REGISTER frank statement of Govern- evacuation measure being see it. We are quartered in a "The room I got was about half of MEMBERS of the Company ment policy in answer to the rushed through as it was and Preparatory School building and the size of our one at home, will be closed from WEDNES. charges which had been that, therefore, the Govern- there were originally 188 camp DAY, 31st JULY, to WEDNES. levelled at the authorities.
ment must be held entirely beds on our floor. We have no DAY, 14th AUGUST, 1949,
THE GOVERNMENT, how-responsible for the confusion chairs to sit on and if we want both days inclusive.
ever, failed to try and regain and chaos created in Hong- to sit down we have to sit on our the confidence of the people. kong and the hardships and beds. A statement was, it is true, misery imposed on the people.
"We are called by bugle band at made, soon after most terse The next matter of importhe day at 5.30 p.m. At 9.30 pm. 6 am. and have our last meal for replies had been tabled to the tance which emerged from
EXPENSES QUESTION Jour lights are put out.. questions asked by the Hon. the discussion was 'the con-
"I decided I could not possibly Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields said that "Now that the main party, of stay there with (a vejbe noted with astonishment that Mr. Leo D'Almada. As afirmation by unofficial mem-jevacuees have left, there are only months old baby) so I took a taxi neither in His Excellency's state 414 statement of the Govern-bers of the Council of the about 400 of us left here.......NOW!
ment nor in the Colonial, Secre ment's views and its an-charges of racial discrimina→ THAT THE OTHERS HAVE LEFT | I have found accommodation, tary's replies to Mr. D'Almada's xiety to protect the welfare' tion against representatives OUR FOOD RATIONS ARE GET with I am afraid it is going questions was there any mention. of the people of this Colony of the Hongkong Government TING SMALLER AND SMALLER to be very expensive, but I knew made as to who would bear the ar it fell short of any value. In, sent to Manila to look after This morning at breakfast I had you would want me to move", fact it was merely evasive the comforts of the evacuees. small fried egg on a piece of and tended to thrust the en-The unofficial member wholdry toast and about three prunes. tire responsibility for the addressed the meeting made We cannot get a second helping muddled situation
'By Order of the Board, HUA-LIN CHEN,
General Manager.
Q.
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By Order of the Board.
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary.
419
| Hongkong, 22nd July, 1940.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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·PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS. of the Sale by Public Anction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of July, 1940, at
RENOVATION OF LEPER SETTLEMENT
tion for 144.
of
on
session"
people who were moved into. Manila on Monday objected to the place they were put in. Women and children sleeping
PLACES.
WIVES
"There were six beds in it and only one very small 'nar- row window. No bathrooms, the lavatories were out in the back somewhere. There was то air anywhere. Everyone was terribly worked up and "one or two had hysterics.
.:
and left
I
"A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
at the door, I shouted out who had been evacuated, both as re- is it?" and a man's voice replied: tards passage, their stay in Manila. "Open up, sister, we want to come and return. in for "a drink and a chat."
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson: A Hist
I screamed for the boy, and the was prepared in 1939 and wince- manager, while Pclung to me kept up to date. What list is that? in terror.
His Excellency: The list, I under- stand, was prepared in the Post- Office and we asked about three months
There was another banging at the door and the Same voice shouted; "“Quit" your bawling, honey, and don't try high-hatting us. The last two rals in this room were quite
sociable, pally "ind
What's eating you” anyway? : "We" are, real nice guyk”
ago, by wireless and through the Press, for any names or alterations in that list to be put up. As regards Mr. "Shields" remarks I can assure you that all the points raised by you have been given very careful consideration in the last day or two v ——
penses for the evacuation. :. There- were a large number of people whose wives and children had been sent away and many hus- 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
of anything: "Votes totalling $460,673 were ap-shoulders
the his assertions on the basis of
bands here were suffering “hard- Public Works Department,, by
"Tonight we were dished out the Home documents in his possession
Here is an extract from a letter ship. proved at a meeting of the Finance Government-or, to be more and on the statements of minced beef on a piece of toast, tel, where
with about s desert spoon of describing conditions in the Ho- Order of His Excellency the Committee of the Legislative Coun-
Whatever Government's decision Governor of one "Lot of Crownell yesterday.
this lady and her was about the method of expenses- the exact,
British War, people whose veracity, he a small piece of cake, about an daughter were lodged:
he would like Government, at an "Land at Shamshuipo. In the With regard to a supplementary
Cabinet. Up to this stage, said, be had no reason to inch square and an apple, and "We had scarely been in bed an early date, to make a clear state- Colony of Hong Kong for a term vote of $18,000 for renovation of the yesterday's meeting of the doubt. The Government was that has to last us till 7:30 am. hour before there was a knocking ment to reassure the people who
buildings at the Leper Settlement, Legislative Council moved asked for an assurance that tomorrow morning. of 75 years, commencing from Kennedy Town. Hon. Dr. Li Shu- along its usual official groove, a full investigation into these "I hear that many of the 1st July, 1898, with
the fan asked whether it was advisable despite the great public in- charges would be made. option of renewal at a Crown for the institution to be within the terest which had been arous-
THE GOVERNMENT reply Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor confines of the city Emits.
ed. The opposition of the to this was, we presume, given of His Majesty the KING, for The Acting Colonial Secretary unofficials, as representing the in the one further term of 24 years less said that there was accommoda- opinions of the public in the which followed and, official
"private
in the basement of an old Filipino hotel" the last three days thereof.
Dr. Li said he hoped the Govern demonstrated at the Finance Hongkong,
Colony, was, however, clearly secrecy being what it is in “T. BELIEVE BAND 8% AGENTS Intending bidders are advised ment would bear in mind the even-Committee meeting when the probably never be given the THE PREMISES
the public will HERE WENT AND INSPECTED AND TUME- that immediately after the dis.tual solution of the question.
FISHERIES STATIONS Government spokesman, the opportunity of reçelving DIATELY REMOVED THEIR posal of the lot the Purchaser
Regarding a vote of $21,289 for Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, was this satisfaction" to their STAFF' (if not the applicant) will be Fisheries Research Station, the made.
TO OTHER to realise the full outraged
feelings. What, required to deposit with an Financial Secretary said that the weight of public feeling and however,
"Why on earth should we be authorised officer who will be proposal to erect a building had indignation over the evacua- cause for some satisfaction is must give them
treated like this?" "Can't some- ' present at the sale, the sum of been held in abeyance and, al-tion.
that the whole proceedings in
body do something about it? though in the present circam- two hundred dollars, ($200) in
THE UNOFFICIAL mem-Council yesterday proved that
NO PRIVACY-S stances it did not appear likely that bers made it quite clear to the Government has placed
Really we are not making & mg u cash. This sum will be refunded the grant of $160,000 from the Co-the Government that they itself in a "most embarassing fuss over nothing. We have tried "Ob, O-kay, sister; if that's the "The child caught a cold on payment of the Purchase price. lonial Development Fund would be were not prepared to be made position. The fact that the to keep cheerful as much as pos-way you feel about it. Come on and had to be taken to hospt»
forthcoming in the near future, it 12 accessories to the fact" of orders for the evacuation treated like undesirables....
sible but it seems we are being buddy" came the reply and foot- tal in Manila IN LESS THAN work of the Etation should be cur- the Government's bungling. came from the War Cabinet
steps-retreated."
TWO WEEKS IN MANILA MY “Do you know in the lavatory "WE "HAVE" NOT HAD "A ried on by a nucleus staff from the The Government spokesman cannot excuse the Govern there was just a row with no SINGLE NIGHTS SLEEP SINCE
WIFE LOST IS FOUNDS. University.
was disconcerted over this ment's mishandling of the privacy.........
The first night my wife was in THIS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Fort McKinley she and a friend attitude and eventually suc- entire operation. It will be If they want us to travel to PLEASE GET US OUT OF HERE had to have a shower bath in full ceeded in having the debate Interesting to see to what ex- Australla under the same comAND BACK TO HONGKONG.", view of the other women evacuees continued in "private session." tent the authorities now pro-
There was not even ·B (Canvas: In the meantime, however, pose to proceed with their
screen for them, several interesting facts bad further plans for evacuation Keeping in step with most or emerged. The first was that in the light of the present the big, cities elsewhere Hongkong the evacuation order was in publle stand. A frank state-state of nerves when we arrived husbands, who had a pile of let where she had some relatives is to build a shelter for the safe the first instance only ap- ment, even now, admitting here only after three days. Some ters he had received from his wife friends familles of the Bervic keeping of its valuable museum plicable to pure British their error and an attempt to of the people on the boat were in Manilla before him, in an in- and Dockyard peop collection. They will be kept in women and children and the alleviate the present, most housed like cattle right down interview with the Daily Fress yes- gone there previous an underground concrete shelter not 100 per cent British unsatisfactory position will be the steerage. which is to be built at North Point. families, who had inadver- preferable and received why send us to Australia when My wife went down in the
terday said
"When she arTĪTS Hongkong's museum collection tently been sent away, would with more confidence than there are all those
they could not includes the famous. Chafer collec
and Asia. It was so bad below, where she had
they had put her that she indz Thank God Dan my three-year old kiddie had to foriable
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT was considered desirable that the
Boundary
Measure-
No. of Bale |
Registry No.
Locality.
New Kowloon Inland. Lot No. 2820,
Street and Tai Po Road, Junotion of Pei Ho
Shamahaipo
manta.
It ft. ft. ft.
As per
sale plan
quare fest
About
TOU
|
Annual
Rental
Upees Price
B9
8,378.
H.K.
MUSEUM COLLECTION
*
ditions as we travelled, from?" Hongkong to Manila we fust couldn't ... do it. WE SHOULD ALL GO BAVING MAD. GOD "We were all in a bad enough
fion of plotures which are of great be allowed to return) - This is the continuation of a most children left in Hongkong? historic vahe
an admission that there was palpable blunder 5
"I LIJOITy (to have
I shouted back: "I shall call the police unless you stop annoy
CHILD TAKEN TO HOSPITAL my many
stay on deck all the way from: Hongkong to Manila,
After my wife had been there two weeks she saw the Consul and One of the many aggrieved got permission to go to Baguio
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