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HONGKONG, MAY 1, 1941.
WORTHY EFFORTS THE GRAPHIC description
member
of
the
ABJECT POVERTY
EDITORIAL
EARL HAIG FUND
.** Above is a section of Chinese Street which is in the heart of the city.
the teeming" millions. The abject poverty..
COLONY THANKED
Mr. F. G. Maunder, Secretary
the British Legion.
:
February 20, 1941 Dear Mr. Mäunder,-Ï now beg jrto acknowledge with 'very sincere thanks receipt, through the Hons-
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941.
AIRCRAFT NOT MASTER OF THE WARSHIP: AIR AND
SEA STRATEGY
"As the world situation becomes more critical, we turn.
of the Earl Halg's Fund, Hongkong as always to sea-power to see how it is affected by air- branch, has received the follow-power," said MAJOR OLIVER STEWART, M.C., A.F.C., the ing letter from Captain W. G. B.B.C.'s aviation expert, when he broadcast from London Willcox, Organising Secretary of yesterday on the lessons learned in the war about air-
power and sea-power in operations against the enemy.
Maj. Stewart declared that whole Imperial strategy," said sea-strategy was based on Major Stewart "So it is possible air-strategy and cited as an that warships are difficult to sink by air bombing. Aeroplanes, how- example, the dozen or So. ever, can be a great nuisance to attacks which had been warships, is the ship is in such a attach herewith our official made by the R.A.F. on the position that an aerial torpedo can ceipt K.108 and which, together two "German battleships-the be launched against her, but where with the sum of £1,200 received Gneisenau and the Scharn- in November last, makes
total horst. 廷
kong & Shanghai. Banking peration. London, of ̈ cheque the value of £350 for which
200
to
I
re-
of £1,550 which I am presuming represents the truly magnificent,
PARTIAL SUCCESS
and record result of your 1940 "We don't know for certain what
Remembrance Day Appeal and
NEAR-SIGHTED POLICY OF sale of Poppies in Hongkong and damage was done to these German
RETAILERS RETARDS GOAL
\OF H.K. SELF-SUFFICIENCY
BY OUR STAFF REPORTER THE NEAR-SIGHTED POLICY OF LOCAL RETAIL-
ERS AND THE LACK OF PUBLIC INTEREST in the matter that was appalling were advanced by a local agri- culturist yesterday as the two main reasons why A GOAL
OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN REGARD TO FOOD HAS YET TO BE REACHED IN HONGKONG.
50 must have
Districts for the benefit of Haig's ships," said Major Stewart, "but Fund, and I give you my assurance there is evidence that one of them that it is a most welcome and was hit by a large bomb. At any valuable addition to our funds. rate the fact that they have been.
We have been very anxious about forced to remain in harbour the result of this year's Appeal in long shows that they view of the now greater respon- been damaged. sibilities of the British Legion and the adverse conditions under which the 1940 Appeal has had to be made,
I am happy to say, however, that there has been a widespread recognition of our difficulties and our greater needs, and the people
"Nevertheless, the only com- . plete success claimed is wher * ship is sunk and so only partial success can be claimed at Brest. This shows that knocking a warship out with bobs is very difficult. That is true whether a ship is steaming on the ocean or tie up to a quar
torpeda attack is impossible and bombs have to be used aeroplanes, fare not such a great danger,
"Small ships can be sunk by bombing, but larger ships are much more difficult to damage seriously. No doubt work is now going on in Germany to find a bomb which will pene- trate and damage the deck of warships.
to us
on
"With every enemy success land, the importance of our sex communications is brought home more and more forcibly," [continued Major Stewart. "We have to rely on a combination of to sea and air-power. We have rely on qur ships being able to stand up to enemy hombing at- tacks and we have to rise our alr- raft to the best possible way to meet this.
of the appalling condi- tions under which the poorer classes of Hongkong's popu- lation exist, as given in the annual report of the Hong- kong Bugenics League, fo- cusses attention once more on the "grave problem of social reform in this Colony and The Seventy-second Ordinary the urgent need there is for General Meeting of Shareholders(official and unofficial action will be held at the Offices of the to alleviate this sordid state | undersigned on Wednesday, the of affairs with the least pos- 21st May, 1941, at Noon, for sible delay. The fact that the purpose of "receiving the the declarations on this sub- Report of the General Managers.ject have been made by a together with a statement of Chinese" Accounts for the year ended the League, in her capacity as 31st December, 1940,
Honorary Treasurer of an or-
The Share
and ganisation which is making Register
"Hongkong possesses more "It is not so much a matter of for this Country, together with our Transfer Books will be closed worthy efforts to remedy "the from the 7th May to the 21st abject poverty and the de-acres of farmland than may unsuitable climate or deficiencies many friends overseas, have given
"Most of our complete successes May, 1941, both days inclusive. gradation of human lives," is be found in many other areas in the quality of the soll that has with conspicuous generosity for
in the past prevented food being their emblems of remembrance.
have been secured with the pise particularly significant. Miss of about the same size," the produced here in anything like a JARDINE, MATHESON &
Constance Lam's picture of agriculturist fold our repor-reasonable quantity for the needs of expressing our deep thankful- torpedoes, which are also used the same as air attacks on war-
by the air coastal command. It ships CO., LTD.
what she has seen in the ter, "AND VERY NEARLY of the whole population,
ness to our friends in, Hongkong must also be remembered that the raiders are difficult to deal with BE " MAY.
and Districts who have $0 General Managers, course of her social work is EVERYTHING The Hongkong Fire Insurance by no means exaggerated-GROWN HERE. Poultry, live crowds of filthy, ragged stock and even fish may be Co., Ltd.,
children, disease-ridden men-bred here to supply the local Hong Kong, 30th April, 1941.
dicants, half-starved coolie market." 227
women iri the streets, the appalling state of "But before" we reach any the slums, overflowing as they thing approaching self-sumclency, the "public" must come to do with people living in realise what their stake squalor, dire want and gross in this matter, No limited com- misery manifests eloquently pany will ever. venture into a Ordinary the maladjustments of an scheme to feed all the people in General Meeting of Shareholders over-prolific population exist. this Colony, because profits must
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
COMPANY LTD.
The
Fifty-eighth
men
and
PUBLIC STAKE
in the above Company will be ing in an economic scarcity." only with
held in the Company's Offices,
needs come slowly and can come 2 programme ira.. mediate in its execution and pro- secuted vigorously from its very Inception.
&
"On top of this, it may be said that profits in money are barely to be expected. What will be realised can amount, In the first instance, only to a better board for the man of more modest means and prices more within reach of the
masses.
A PARADOX.
Will you please find some means
very
néed
of
P
up, are always surrounded by tor-
REAL VALUE
IL
"Alr attacks on U-Boats are not
and the bigger surface.
"That does not mean that our
"Even today we experience the generously supported your Appeal Axis warships, when they are tied directly by means of bombing. paradox af rice being exported and assure them that the ac pedo nets and many of the har- aircraft will not play an important
North and teal sympathy will mean much from the Colony to South America, there to be con- during the coming year to the men ours where they are tied up are part in their destruction, but their sumed in the homes of rich Chi and women who have served their of the kind in which aerial tor- real value will be particularly as
pedoes cannot be used." These reconnaissance nese who have migrated there. At.Country and are in
torpedoes must have 3 certale torpedo carriers. the same time we import rice and helping hand.
May I also thank you, the Men- amount of run before they settle cry about its price.
down So there are "many places bers of your Committee and other helpers very warmly for your where they cannot be used and the
only alternative is bombing, valuable work, undertaken at a dificult time and in the face of so many handicaps. You have made a really valuable contribu- "In bombing of warships there tion to what I am sure will prove are many dificulties. First of all- to have been a remarkable war- time effort.
"The point bere does not lie. in the fact that the rice ex- ported should not be sent away from here. It brings in a-bet- THE ter price, and let it go. POINT IS WHY ISN'T MORE OF THIS RICE, GROWN? One bas but to visit the New Ter- ritories or Lantau to see acres of good land going to waste. supporting wild vegetation, "IT IS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN THAT A KIND OF RICE MAY BE GROWN HERE THAT THRIVES ON SALT WATER. It is as edible as other kinds of rice; and I will honestly say myself that should some portions of the population shy away from it, there are other sections of the populace who will be only too glad to buy
at reasonable prices.
33
. MANY DIFFICULTIES
machines
Or as
"Aircraft has not proved it- self master of the warship, but
it can help or hinder a war-
!
ship. It is lucky for us that it
ļa ship presents a very small tan
get and even 11 a ship is rectangu-
With our very best wishes to lar it would stul present less sur
face and the target area would be you all. I am,
Yours sincerely.
(sd.) W. G. Willcox.
Captain. Organising Secretary.
Refugees In The Colony
:
Istill less. Accuruta bombing woulu. therefore, be needed to hit a ship from a height
"Aeroplanes would therefore, have to come down low and dive- bomb. Dive-bombing is, of course, more accurate than high bombing
can help a lot more than hin- der and we shall mak» : great
use of that fact in the future." concluded Major Stewart
CORRESPONDENCE
MISS GERTRUDE DRAYTON
The Editor HK. Daily PreSH Air-To all members of the
but neither is as accurate as is Victoria League and to all return- suggested. Dive-bombing does geted students from the United King- nearer than high level bombing dom the unfortunate death of Miss but in both cases the arcraft Gertrude Draycan, CB.E. às s' T
THE WORK of the Eugenics P. & O. Building, on Wednesday, League brings it into direct the 7th. May, 1911 at 1a.m. contact with practically every for the purpose of receiving the aspect of the Colony's social ills and it is, indeed, a matter Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of for congratulation that its Accounts to the 31st. December, members have been able to achieve such a great deal in 1940.
the five years of its activities The Transfer Books of the in the Colony, The League Company will be closed from has undoubtedly, furnished a "Strive for profits, and the whole Friday, the 2nd. May to Wednes striking example to other so-scheme retains the barest chance day, the 7th. May, 1941 both cial organisations which have of survival. The reason for this
An increase of 100 in the number crew is subjected to anti-aircraft sult of enemy action, reported in days inclusive,
been formed in Hongkong and should be obvious to all intelligent
the press a few days ago, inust DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO: whose activities have
people. Only permit the cycle of My reply to the cynies who of refugees and destitutes accom- fire,
terrible spOCK. have come as a producer to wholesaler, wholesaler will question this statement is-modated in Government camps, "The pilot has to put his place General Managers.
marked by a sort of supine to retaller, with a flock of jackals try the scheme. Opposition to etc., in urban and rural areas is re- down low over the target in diver many years Miss Drayton was Secretary of the Victoria Indifference and indolence barking at their heels, and the progress is as old as the earth, corded in the Government returns bombing, whereas on a high level the Hong Kong, 24th. April, 1941.
League in Loridon, and in this that has only helped to defeat prices are again' outside the reach Much of it arises for no reason at for the week ending on April 26,
bomber, the crew have to make a 220 their aims, however laudable of the poor.
all, a good share of it comes from Urban Areas:
careful bombing run, flying high position sne rendered' incalculable observation of heads being shaken King's Park-1,299 against 1,299 and level and watching their in-help to students from the Far East they may have appeared on CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM
on April 19.
struments. That sort of calmness who pursued their studies in the "When all is sald and done, in what is deemed a wise manner. paper. In such circumstances,
Ma Tau Chung-1695 against is more difficult to achieve..
United Kingdom 1,718 on April 19. North Polat-1,526 against 1.51
on April 19. Morrison H-516 against. 517
on April 19.
Court, yesterday:-
||
been
RETURNS ONLY IN PRODUCE,
REPLY TO CYNICS
TWO REGISTRY progress in social reform is what is called for, in the arst Many of us are like sheep, Inclin- place, is an awakened public in-ed to follow a leader, and some- impossible. The
Eugenics terest.
times, I think, the real criminals WHAT THE COLONY WEDDINGS
League, on the other hand, as NEEDS IS A CO-OPERATIVE SYS- are those among us who shake The following marriages took shown in the Secretary's re-TEM WHEREBY PEOPLE WOULD their heads at new suggestions, thereby shutting out the light and place at the Registry. Supreme port, has reached out, and is INVEST MONEY AND EXPECT throwing a curtain over the whole
Mr. Ho Shiu-pci, broker, of No. Continuing to reach out, to
"Such a scheme is not impossible idea of progress.
"I have singled out the retailers Tsing Tung Street, and Miss the very root of the social or achievement. It calls only for Wong Shiu-ying, of No. 14 Koon problems in the Colony. It is a meeting of public-spirited in- as among these also to be singled not without a certain feeling dividuals, and men and women, at out for blame. They control the
wholesalers,
reasonable of pride that it has been able that, who will refuse to be turned Mr. Le Chung man, merchant, of to reveal to the public what back by all the talk that will arise, class of business men who come No. 40 Battery Street, and Miss
immediately the scheme is mooted, in contact with the simple farmer Liang Sou-tseng, of No. 7 Taxt has been able to achieve, counselling its immediate aban- and realise how easy it is to shapes
particularly in the sphere of ❘ donment.
the policy of men whose first con- Shing Street.
cefn is the sale of their product. gynaecology, where the wo-
"If you will not give the farmer a chance to expend, a... guarantee that he will be paid
Ma: Terrace;
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following forthcoming mar-men of the poorer classes rlages were announced:
the
same
2 more
of a
>
Urban Areas (Squatters' Camps)."
Tal Hang--2,557, against 2,557, on
April 19,
"So, the probabuty of in-. ting targets of small size more likely with the dive bomber. But here again, a bomb dropped from a dive- bomber does not have time to achieve. Its top speed, because
bomb accelerates slowly, and, therefore, falls to pens- tents.
Her service took many or She met students on their arrival. found board and lodging for them, arranged for their admission into the different Universities, intru- duced them to good society, looked... after their affairs in general and sent reports periodically to their parents. After the outbreak of the present war, she also helped a number of students in obtaining passages back to the Far East.
There must be many in this "I have no information on the Colony who have benefited elther. thickness of the deck armour of directly or indirectly from the in the Gneisenau and the Scharnhost, cind assistance and sound advice but there is no use hitting th so freely given by Miss Drayton, deck armour with a bomb unless To her they owe a debt which be repaid, and one
Ngau Tau Kok-807 against 801.
On April 19, Rural Areas:-
Kam Tin-2,318
April 19, against 2,234 on Fanling Children's Camp --- 355
against 328 on April 19, Total-11,073 against 10,973
April 19.
INCIDENT
HIGH-LEVEL ATTACK
BOARDING HOUSE can penetrate. You will remem- cannot now gradually diminishing price for all he produces, permitting him a reasonable expectancy of re- turns until then you will not ret other men interested in cultivating the business of
rice, raising live stock and poultry, providing our tables with better and cheaper food."
D. O. SOUTH
ter this in the case of the aircraft teels sure that theva; and, in meaT arrier Illustriona. Her armour cases, their parents will be an- Alleged to have leapt from the protected her from a very heavy xions to mark their gratitude to Miss Drayton by subscribing to a second floor of the Chuen On dive bombing attack. Spa boarding house," No. 133, Con It is, therefore, necessary for a worthy cause in her memory, and naught Road Central, and landed plano to come down low. dive in this respect, the Committee of on a rattan basket in the street, a bomb and yet penetrate the ar- the local Victoria League consider Chinese woman was sent to Queen mour. In the attacks on Brest, that there can be no worthier Mary Hospital suffering from the high level attack has been cause that the Bomber Funda
We are directed By the Com- severe bodily injuries about 1.25 used, so that if the ship is hit. yesterday morning.
there is a much better chance of mittee to appeal to the public of A resident of the boarding house, penetrating her armour.**:
all nationalities in general and to she was recorded in the registry Major Stewart said that wher- returned students from the United ns Lo Yau, 29, from Macao.
ever the Germans had their ships Kingdom in particular, as well as tied up there was always a mass to their parents, to send subscrip of anti-aircraft guns. It was tion to the Bomber Fond in me
have been given useful in-service if they impart their Mr. Henri van Leeuwen, staff of struction, advice and treat-own knowledge and accep- the J.C.J.L., of No. 8 The Peak, and ment on the subject of family tance of the principles of Miss Edith Mary Hopkins, of planning, ignorance of which family health for which the "Courtland" Kennedy Road;
Pte. George Coleman, of the 1st largely contributes to poverty. League is striving, to their Bn. Middlesex Regt., Nanking Bar. disease and misery...
more unfortunate, compatriots racks, Shamshulpo, and Miss Chan
THE FACT that many pro- who have had no opportunity Po-yok, of No, 242 Apliu Street;
|minent. Chinese are associat- of having the subject explain- Mr. Ngan Ying-kit, draughts- man, War Department, of No. 181 ed in the work of the League, ed and interpreted to them Hennessy Road, and Mias Tang either actively or by giving it in its proper significance. Mrs. Wai-han, of No, 163 Hennessy Rd.; their moral and material Selwyn-Clarke, the Secre- Mr. Manuel Eduardo Variz, tea support, should prove a big tary of the League, made this cher, La Salle College, and Miss factor in eliminating the pre-appeal last year and ampli Josephine Yu, of No. 222 Nathan Road, second floor.
Judice created by custom and fles it now with a proposal to time-worn principles against form a Committee of Chinese For keeping a brothel, at No. 28, birth control. The education-voluntary helpers to take over Tai San Street, first floor, Cheung al work conducted by the the publicity and educational Chau, on April 29, a 60-year-old on board their respective junks tins therefore, not an aby matter for mory of one who devoted the whole them without the written permis over the ships with great accuracy, promoting better understanding Eugenics League is still ham work of the League. This is widow, Chung Luk was fined $50 of petrol, preparatory to exporting a bomber crew to make their runs of her life to helping others and
when she appeared before Mr. 8. F. The changeover to Government pered by this prejudice, which a step in the right direction Balfour yesterday.
sion of the Controller of Trades as they would be extremely viner and closer relationship between the different peoples of the British Li Ho, master of junk No. T407ZE able to fire from the ground. control of the removal of night has resulted in a lack of co- and there is no doubt that EXPOR
Empire. T EXPORT OF FETROL was alleged to have 1.000 tins, and sou took place last night complete
NUISANCE VALUK: operation from educated Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke will be free masters of trading funks To Cheung and Lal Chong-ho, mas with new buckets and new bam-Chinese classes, who could able to report better results were each fined $75 when they ters of junks T4172H and 14099H have mentioned that our at
The coolles attracted crowds of render the League, and in-on this aspect of the League's pleaded guilty before Mr. Balfour respectively, were each alleged to strategy is based on sea-stre
cidentally the Colony, a great splendid work next year resterday to the charge of having have had 1,800 tins on board which is in turn based
NIGHTSOIL CONTROL
boo poles.
Chinese on their rounds.
BROTHEL KEEPER FINED
Yours faithfully,
Bd. J RAIST