HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
SHANGHAI HAS WORST FLOOD IN YEARS
French Concession Main
Street Inundated-
SHANGHAI, Oct. 2 (Beuter)-The worst flood in many years tied up transportation yesterday and today following a heavy rainstorm "which accompanied a typhoon that approached Shanghal from the
south.
The water was several feet deep in many districts and disrupted all normal facilities, functions and business communications of the city's daily life.
All schools were closed today and all Council schools for Chinese have been closed, until further notice.
ITALIAN ADVANCE
HELD UP
HESITATE ON
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CABLE
Coolie Dies Under Fall
Of Beams
One man was killed and another
TOTAL
ECLIPSE OF SUN
BEST SEEN IN S. AFRICA
[Injured when '"*: pile of wooden NEXT STEP beams, suddenly collapsed at the
Shan Mow Woodyard, Percival SCALVINIA, SOUTH AFRICA, Oct The advance of the Italians yesterday about 4.30 p.m. from Libya into Egypt has been
2 (Reuter)-Dr. Jackson, Ella Lung Cheong, a 36-year-old Majesty's astronomer states that held up at Sidi Barani for a fortnight now
and the Italians coolle, was killed when several of he was perfectly satisfied with the seem to be hesitating on what to the beams fell on top of him, pin- observations of the total eclipse of do next, according to a reporting him face downward on the the sun.
The outstanding feature made by a BBC observer after a ground, while Ho Wan, 55, foki
employed by the shop, received the exceptional length of stream 800 mila tour of this war zone.
and was sent to ers in the Corona, Blight injuries hospital.
sheets of rain, riding on, a 60-cartously on. narrow boards raiseded twice as many men as they had kilometra wind, lashed Shanghai four feet off the street.
at 3 pm. yesterday and continued till a late hour. At 1 a.m. today the Whangpoo "had risen over the Bund dyke and inundated the lower section of the French Con-: cession main street.
The observer. however, noticed that the Italians have concentrate
on this front before, but their Bus and tram traffic was vir greatest problem seems to be the tually at a standstill.
bringing up of supplies for which there is no road. Road-making is now the Italians' task.
TRAMWAYS PARALYSED
A later message stated that the entire French Concession tram- It was "predicted last night that way service is paralysed by the
the typhoon would hit Shanghal flood, the water being waist deep BRITAIN'S ARMY
today. Scores of hired cars are stalled in the deep water,
in some low-lying streets.
OF HOMELESS Continued From Page 1
The congested cinema and shop- ping district at Nanking Road, RESIDENTS MAROONED
near the Race Course, resembled Most of the city's residents were
a miniature Venice Canal severa marooned in their homes yester blocks long. day evening without any means of The ground floors of the three transportation to the amusement big department stores the Wine spats while some were marconed in on. Sincere's and, the Sun-are their offices. The shopping dis-nooded.
Chinese children are game, trict on Nanking Road, the Settle-frolicking and dancing girls trip- ment's main street, was heavily ping to rickshaws with hoisted flooded and water seeped into skirts, their modesty forgotten! many stores and theatres.
• NEW TROUBLE
"Thousands of people have lost their homes and their possessions: but as the Prime Minister said re- cently, they are still grim and
STEPS BEING TAKEN "I am not going to give you de- tails and statistics, but will try to give you a realistic picture of the steps we are taking to deal with
possible.
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War Fund.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 1940. —PAGE 7
44 American Destroyers Given Names Of Towns, Villages Common To U.K.
OF
LONDON, OCT. 2 (BRITISH WIRELESS) — THE NAMES TOWNS AND VILLAGES COMMON TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF THE DESTROYERS TRANSFERRED FROM THE AND THE UNITED STATES HAVE NOW BEEN SELECTED FOR 44 UNITED STATES NAVY.
Two ships are to bear the names of towns in Newfoundland, as well as in the United Kingdom and the USA; St. Albans and St.
Marys.
Six ships will bear, the names of towns in the West Indies as well as in the United Kingdom and the USA. These ships will be
and
NEUTRAL
SHIP ATTACKED
IMPORTANT RESULTS The two men were at the time
A broadcast new, from Daventry named Bath, Brighton, Charles-
Georgetown, Hamilton. engaged in removing sewn plonks adds that it was the best total ton. from the saving-machine which 'eclipse seen in South Africa and Roxborough.
A neutral ship, the Cosmos, was was beside the pile of wood.
that important results are ex- Twenty-eight ships are to be reported to have been attacked by It is believed that the cause of pected from the observations made named after the towns and villages a German plane, which also ma- the collapse was due to some of "by astronomers,
common to the United Kingdom chine-gunned the vessel, according the beams in the middle of the Festivities were held to cele- and the USA Their names will to a news bulletin broadcast from pile getting rotten at the beams brate the event and the proceeds be as follows, Belmont, Beverley. Daventry last night. None of the had been there for a considerable from most of them will go to the Bradford, Broadwater, Broadway, crew, it was added, were injured. time,
Burnham, Burwell, Buxton, Lan-
SWEDISH VESSEL SUNK caster, Leamington, Leeds, Lewes. Lincoln Ludlow, Mansfield, Mont- STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuter)— gomery, Newark, New Market. A awedish steamer Gondul, of 2- mond. Ripley. Rockingham, Salls mine in the Oeresund Stralt be- bury, Sherwood, Stanley and Wells. tween Sweden and Denmark
As already reported the names of the eight other ships named after towns and villa- KCS common to the United Kingdom and the U.S.A., were announced on Sept. 17. These were: Churchill (leader), Cad- "Well, Cameron, Castleton, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Clare and Campbell. Town," The remaining six destroyers
TWO ENEMY FORMATIONS Newport, Ramsey, Reading. Rich-000 tons was sunk after striking a
ARE DRIVEN OFF
LONDON, OCT. 2. (BRITISH WIRELESS) — THE SOUND OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNFIRE AND THE OCCASIONAL RATTLE' OF MACHINE-GUN FIRE WAS HEARD in the eastern districts of Lon don this morning, when two air raid warnings were sounded.
Two enemy formations flying at a great height, towards the capital were reported to have apparently come from the Kent coast. They were driven off.
•
IN OPEN LIFEBOAT LONDON, Oct. 2(Reuter)- After being four days and four nights in an open lifeboat, 21 out of 29 of the crew of the Norwe gian steamer Vestvard, have land- ed at an Eire 'west coast" port.
The Vestvard was torpedoed last Friday off the Hebrides and sank in ten minutes. The captain 'said that two torpedoes - were
The regular news broadcast by Carroll Alcott, Shanghal's lead- Late office workers are cursing these homeless people. ing announcer, was kept off the the elements for bringing the new When bombs come shrieking During the night there was a lull in several districts, but, they were air as the transformer room of trouble in the wake of the week-down and fires crackle, our air for about one. hour before mid-promptly brought under control Station XMBA was flooded.
long bus strike Just ended and raid wardens and workers and night in air activity over London. and all were extinguished. In Old-timers described the flood the city presented a confused pic-firemen get to work as quickly as The "all clear" period was broken these towns a number of casual transferred from the United States red. The first struck the ship as the worst in many years and ture of a traffic tangle.
lifeboats, one of these was struck Our plans then are to later by a sixth warning of the tles reported, is not large. but in-Navy are being manned by the and when the crew embarked in
AS BI- bárs, cafes and night clubs were Avenue Joffre, the main street get the people, whose homes have day.
cludes some persons being fatally Royal Canadian Navy.
by the second torpedo. nounced by the Canadian Gov- flooded. Three feet of water in the French Concession, re-been destroyed, Into the various The night raids were the subject Injured.
Survivors made for the strigh ernment, these ships will bear the isolated the swanky French Club sembles a long canal with the side centres which have been prepared of the following official communi-
"Bombs were again scattered names of towns and villages com- coast but four days elapsed be streets as reservoirs. The district for such emergencies. Here they que: ·
widely over many parts of the mon to Canada and the United fore they landed. The Race Course, in the centre is devoid of all means of trans-are given food and drink and the "Enemy air attacks last night London area. Reports so far re- States. They will be named Au- The enter engineer stated that. of the downtown district, wasportation and pedestrians have
much needed rest, while during the were widespread over many parts ceived show that the damage and napolis, Columbia, Niagara, St. he was torpedoed in last Decem- turned into, a lake. Residents of no choice but to roll
up their
of Britain, but they were particu- the number of casualties have not Clair, St. Croix and St. Francis. ber but he is not going to give day a hot meal is provided. the fashionable Park Hotel were pants, strip their shoes and stock-
"In" one centre I visited. these larly directed against the London been serious.. forced to make their way out pre-ings, and wade home.
South-East England. unfortunate people, were having area stewed ox-tall and milk pudding-High explosive bombs were drop- not bad for war-time. But these ed on a Mersayang, but several in a village in Essex, a number of SENUSSI CHIEF people do not have to remain in damage to buildings,
area.
British Pilots
Praise US. Planes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (Reuter)
Japanese Are Advancing To Hanoi
· BROAD POLICY
and
dealt with and the damage was Incendiary bombs were quickly
not extensive.
"A number of casualties occur- however, several being, fatal.
HOUSES DAMAGED
"In South-East England, bombs were dropped at numerous points.
demolished houses were
and casualties caused. Elsewhere, from all parts of the country, the dam- - age reported has been slight and casualties few."
EIGHT DOWNED "In other towns in North-West Reuter adds that the first report England, houses and Industrial shows that eight German aircraft buildings were damaged. At one were shot, down since midnight | of these towns fires were started without any of ours being lost.
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احمد
VISITS HIS TRIBESMEN
"AN
INTERESTING CEREMONY
up.
US. MISSIONS
IN WINDIES United States missions are visit- ing the West Indies for the pur- pose of inspecting the bases given to America by Britain, stated a news bulletin broadcast from Da- ventry last night, help?
A party of United States army and navy officers have left Miami for the Bahamas, where they will CAIRO, Oct. 2 (Reuter)-An confer with the Duke of Windsor. interesting ceremony marked the Governor. visit of Sayed Irdriss, Chief of the
these centres for long, as they are more or less only clearing houses, Our idea is to have them billeted in houses which have been pre-red, pared for them so as to relieve the CHUNGKING, Oct. 2 (Reuter)-centres of overcrowding when fresh -Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Japanese forces which entered batches arrive.
·Aircraft Production, in a statement Indo-China overland from China to the British Purchasing Com- and by sea at Haiphong, are at The broad policy of the Minis mission made public here says: present advancing in a scissor's try, of course, is to evacuate as "The flow of neroplanes from the movement, directly towards Hanoi, many of these as possible to the United States will give renewed according to Chinese fle'd dis- country. In doing this there are confidence of a triumphant con- patches from the Indo-China several things to be considered. clusion of the long a'r battle..
frontier.
One thing which I have learned The Japanese troops are stated in my talks with these people is to consist of one whole division that in spite of Herr Hitler's from North Indo-China, plus 30,- bombings and their terrifying ex- 000 men from the Haiphong area.periences, most of these people do not like to leave their neighbour... GUARDING KENYA'S hood. That is quite natural, isn't LONDON, Oct. 2 (Renter)-The shortage of lead in Germany now is so acute that Storm Troopers have to goose-step in wooden "foot- DESERT FRONTIER
"Bo we are determined, wherever wear. LONDON. Oct. 2. (Reuter) it is possible to consider personal This was one of the minor examples of German raw material From a special correspondent on feelings in our arrangements, stringency, cited by Mr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic War
disclosed that South
and, the whole question. including
STORM TROOPERS HAVE Bentisi, inhabiting Cyrenaics, and
The Brewster fighting squadron and the Douglas DB17 are in ac tlan and the new Curtiss has ar rived All three equal our best machines."
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The American. Doug'ns and Curtiss planes, according to a Trews bulletin broadcast from Daventry last night; have wan the highest praise from Bri- tain's finest pilots.
TO GOOSE-STEP IN WOODEN FOOTWEAR!
the Abyssinian frontier. It is now Talks and discussions take place tare. in a speech in
African
North-West Egypt, to the Libyan
A
VICEROY'S FUND...... 382-
prisoners of war in camps near SIMLA, Oct. 2 (Reuter) the, Suez canal, most of whom 1000 was remitted to Britain from belong to the Senussi tribe.
the Viceroy's War Purposes Fund for the purchase of three squad- rons of RAF fighters
-Indian troops provided the guard of honour.
The Fund now totals over £1,- 500,000.
Although Irdriss is a firm friend of Britain, the prisoners who were drawn up on parade, broke their ranks when they realised the LONDON, Oct. 2 (Reuter) — visitor was their spiritual chief According to the German News
Agency, a ⠀ statement has been" and hurried to do homage, Others were oil, thônghĩ not Irdriss subsequently expressed to issuedm Vichy praising the In the meantime, It was stated, troops, mostly from the Cape Pro- the giving of financial assistance.
short yet as I would like," terro the British commandant his ap- "courtesy of the Japanese "in" factories for bulding planes and vince unit have been guarding is fully examined, while we draw we are sure of a chance
to engines in the United States were Kenya's desert frontier for the ap plans to give them new homes of the new houses here which will alloy, ubber, lead, copper and preciation of the good. treatment settling the problems of the Hanoi
textiles. All these were growing accorded to the prisoners. being extended to bring greater past month with regular patrols and to provide them with clothes come up after the war.' production in planes not only for covering 100 miles of territory
and other necessities Britain, but also to add to Ameri-round the "northern tip of Lake
Rudolph close to the Equator. ca's growing Air Force,
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
DR. KU KWEI-FUN
Linguan University held a Memorial service for DR. KU KWEI. FUN, late Dean of the College of Agriculture at Lingnan, in the Great Hall of Hongkong University yesterday evening.
The Hall was decorated with Memorial scrolls from the late Dr. Ku's many friends in Hongkong and abroad, and from many ga". roclations and societies both of Lingnan and elsewhere.
REALLY AN ATTRACTION
get one
That is a shorter still. spirit which cannot be beaten
I WANT TO GO HOME' I SAW a mother with a baby
Mr. Dalton produced a piece of was insulated by a laborious coated wire from a German planè. process with glass beads which he
...
There was evidence that the
"We are now getting into our stride and we are not going to give up even if bombs fall.
I cannot her arms and a toddler hanging tell you of the tremendous gen-on. The young fellow was repeat sald was not even so effective for erosity that has been displayed by ing que sentence over and over the purpose than rubber would everyone. All gifts from the peo-again-1 want to go home, ple here and from you overseas Another boy of ten or twelve have been if Germany had any. have brought with them a deeper years said he did not wish to leave meaning they are tokens of sym- the place where he had lived, even Nazis were already practically ex- pathy and understanding of the though his home was wrecked, bausted of all of which they loot- means to be homeless and, very Do let me stay here, he said, Justed from the occupied countries often, bereaved,”
to see another Gerry brought and were now back where they down."
were with an additional handicap "Don't think this spirit does not of having, to some extent, the pro- Miss Horsbrugh went on to ex crack. It does sometimes, but only vision of the over-run countries to Di. Y. L. Lee, President of Ling- Born in Peru, of a wealthy and plain some of the difficulties which out of anger against the brutal prevent their economic life ceas- nan University, gave the opening influential family, he proved of the Ministry of Health had to
ing. aggressors who have committed: address, which was followed by a great assistance to the former overcome in providing new homes these crimea. hyun "Nearer My God to Thee, Fresident of Tingnan, Dr. Ching for these people. When they were "And so it le, I say, that to our rendered by a Male Quartet from Wing-kwong, in raising funds, sent into the country their grief army and air force, has been add- Germany must supply them with the University, and a minute of particularly in South America, that over leaving their former hemos ed another great army which can oil from their own synthetic plants silent meditation,
made possible the establishment seemed to be misunderstood by the not be defeated it is the army of after the RAF have baptised Dr. YT Chiu, Professor of of the Faculty of Agriculture. country people, who were naturally the homeless and they will be a them, or by obtaining oil from Chemistry and Chairman of the He became Vice-President of the hurt that their goodwill was, not credit to any army in the world. Rusada and Rumania where they University Committee on Religious Bureau of Agriculture of Kwang- better appreciated. The country "Its ranks might be more and were getting less than they hoped." Work, then led a prayer for the tung Province and Dean of Faculty people did not realise that even more expanded, but from my own The shortage of oil from the latą Dr. Ku, which was followed of Agriculture at Lingnan. He great and noisy streets are really personal knowledge I can tell you blockade of the transport system by a reading from the Scriptutes was appointed also a member of an attraction to people who have that this army is looking forward of Germany night at any moment and religious muste."
the National Economic Reconstruc ved almost all their lives under with complete confidence to the cause a catastrophic breakdown of Professor, Shit Yu-lin, of the De- tion Committee of the Republile partment of Horticulture, recount of China. ed the life of Dean Ku In a follow-
such conditions,
SYNTHETIC PLANTS A
time when the order Right About the whole complicated organism
We know these difficulties and Turn will be given That will be, which the Nazis had erected.
are trying our best to meet them ing address. A reading of an essay specialist in canning, sugar re with sympathy and understand "In Memoriam" by Mr. Wong To- ning and sugar cane cultivation said Miss Horsbrugh. "We' chal, President of the Agricultural, he established the
see our problems and are deter- Society of the University and an Agricultural station in Chingahan mined to solve them at least, we address in response by My T. 8, district,
hope we are.
Lingnan
joyous and great homecoming"
SHANGHAI SENDS £1,565 SHANGHAI, Oct. 2 (Reuter
Shanghai Britons yesterday tele- graphed a further £1,585 to Lon-
the don for the Lord Mayor's Fund for
Mr. Dalton was quite satis- fled from the study of the facts that in Europe, në a whole, there will be no famine this winter
There is enough food
Fung on behalf of the family of It was Dr. Ku, also, who selected There comes into my mind now the rellef of alt raid victims.Ad Dr. Ka concluded the proceedings the site at Ping shek, north of many talks I have had with these Including the previous remit-round, If it is properly shared. BORN IN PERU Bhlukwan and near the Bunan homeless people as have gone tance, Shanghai's contributions to Local famines will only occur it The late Dr. Ku, who was 43 years border where the new Lingash from centre to centre. I asked an the Fund now amount to £4,015 the Germans either steal the food
He had College of Agriculture will shortly old man and. man whether they which is a magy of are died on Sept
acent effort in or refuse to allow food which is Depart be transferred. Ping Cher is a would not like to smovi
numerous other war not far away, to be introduced by
rere are ordinary distributive mean anlam
he said.
been connected with
the Hankow-Canton house
The man replied: We
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Agreement."
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