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الساتالشان
POLO CLUB Successful Year
Year Of The GYMKHANA
European Y.M.C.A.
POSTPONED TO. Amateur Dramatic Club
OCTOBER
It was a very great disappoint- That the three plays produced by the EUROPEAN YMLCA ment to have to postpone the|AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB were not only dramatle successes but Gymkhana in aid of the B.W.OF. |siso financial successes and that considerable sums were contributed at the very last moment on to the Bomber Fund and Mobile Canteen Fund in England was re- Saturday afternoon.
vealed at the annual meetistg of the Club held in the West Lounge last evening with Mr. P. S. Cassidy in the chair.
After discussion and looking up
of records it has been decided, In the extreme. unlikelihood of
spell of fine weather in which
t
to
keep ponies fit to put off the Gymkhana until a date in October, to be fixed later.
Should any ticket holders wish to have their money refunded, will they please apply to Mr. W... T. Stanton, Exchange Buliding,
reviewing the activities" of the past year, the Chairman said that
despite difficulties three plays had
been produced and paid tribute to Capt. C. E. Hongnton, Mr. T. Wood and Mr. Mamak for their untiring efforts in producing the plays.
CONCERT IN AID
OF REFUGEES
A splendid programme was given i
It was stated that the total tak- last night at the Lee Theatre when
THURSDAY, MAY 29. 1941.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 29th MAY, 1941.
GENERAL HOLIDAY
番 On Monday, 2nd June, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 am to 10 a.m., Sheung-
wan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 s.m, to 9 am, and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as, on Sun- days, one delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence at 10
a.m.
น
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 am. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley. "Talpo and Un Long.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
ings of the three plays produced, a large audience attended the con-transit from USA to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been institut- An experimental service providing sea transit to U.S.A. and air The Entertainments Committee "White Cargo," "Twelve Night" and cert in aid of Chinese Refugees ed. The inclusive postage rate is H. K. $2.00 per oz för letters of the B.W.OF. is very grateful to "Mrs. Dot, amounted to approx-sponsored by the Hongkong all who sent donations towards mately $4.000 and that excluding Women's New Life Movement Pro vice should bear the usual blue air mail label with the superscrip- and H. K. $1.00 each for postcards. Correspondence for this ser- the Gymkhana, and to all who expenses, a handsome sum had 'motion Association, gave up so much time to the pre been contributed to war charities. Among the outstanding artistes contributing their talents were Mr.
parations.
POST-WAR WORLD
Taking as his subject The Pro- blem
of Post-War. International Ecoremle. Organisation." Dr. Henry F. Grady, President of the Ameri- can President Lures, on April 25 delivered a thought-provoking ad- dress at a luncheon meeting of Teachers' of International Law at Carlton Hotel. Washington, DC.
Some of the questions which Dr. Grady posed were these.
A PROUD RECORD
In a report, Mr. W. H. E. Colledge, Y. K. Sze and Miss Rosabel Hsu, Hon. Secretary of the Club,' said F. T. C. E.
tion "By sea to U.S.A.”
The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal
that the activities of the past year Other, artistes participating were regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend- was a record of which any club Mr. K. L. Ma. Mr. C. K. Wong and ed for persons other than the addressee.
could justifiably be proud.
Mr. P. W. Chao Accompanists were
In a
discussion. Capt. Bonney Mrs. C. W. Lau-Lee, Mr. C. K. Mal, suggested that plays and scripts be Mr. Y. W. Mok, Mrs. P. P. Chan loaned to players who intended to and Mrs. P. W. Chao. fore the final selection of players. Join the proposed performance be-
The suggestion was left to the Casting Committee to decide.
Mr. D. Ingleby suggested that prices of seats should be raised so that more expensive tickets could be provided to get more takings. The proposal rejected.
Ying, and Ling Ying Colleges open
The Joint Band of Lingnan, Pul
led the concert with the Chinese National Song and contributed also three pleres of music.
The curtain number featured a Joint Chorus comprising a number. of well known Chinese choral groups. who played two pleces com- posed by Mr. O. T. Ho, entitled
To what extent after the war It was proposed by Mr. D. E. Song of the Great Future and shall we be able to sell the surplus Taylor that besides the regular Song of August 13..* products of our farmers and in-productions, plays of a different The band mušle was conducted i dustrial workers in world markets? nature should be.. sandwiched by Messrs. O. T. Ho. K. E. Lo and between. The suggestion was left Y. K. Lo, and the choral music by to the Committee to consider.
Messrs. O. T. Ho. O. P. Ya and P." NEW COMMITTEE
IC, WB.
COMBINED SERVICES
The following Committee VES
BEAT S.C.A.A. elected: Mr. L Starbuck (Con The South China A.A. football vener), Mr. D. Ingleby, Mrs. D. Lan-. team lost their first match of the Chester. Mr. T Ingram. Mrs. W. tour on Tuesday, when they werc Dalziel, Capt. R. Bonney and Capt.
beaten by the Combined Services A-2 in Singapore...
Goalscorers for the Hongkocz team were Lee Wai-tong and Chau Man th!
EASTERN TEAM
C. E. Houghton.
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WATER-POLO
ELECTRICALLY HEATED DIVING SUIT
With
new electrically hextea In a friendly water-polo match
with glass played in the European Y, M. C. A diving salts, insulated
cloth, US. Navy divers will be able pool yesterday, the home team SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuter)-The beat 8th Coastal Regiment, R. A, to descend deeper into the sea, stay Eastern Athletic Association Foot-by, five goals to two. The match down longer and still retain clear heads than they could before. ball team arrived here yesterday. was refereed by Mr. E. W. Ballton.
Announcement of the official adoption of the new suit was made recently at the time of demonstra-
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White Russians In Far East Turn Red And Return Home
SHANGHAI-Russian exiles from Czarist Russia, many of whom have wandered through the Far East for almost a quarter. of a century and others who have never seen their mother and at all, are leaving here and other refugee centres to take up Soviet citizenship, the American-published China Weekly "Review says in
a survey.
The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is temporarily suspended:-"
Yunnan Szechuen
Kwelchow
Bunan
Fuklen (except Amoy and Kulangsu Kwangsi
North and East of Kwangtung.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS
From
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-
vice” — San Francisco date, 26th May,
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-
vice" - San Francisco date, 10th June.
Due
3rd June
17th June
OUTWARD
AIR MAILS
FRI
FRIDAY
tion in the experimental diving Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with tank at the Washington Navy "British Overseas Airways.”
Yard.
Formerly, a diver was supplied with ordinary air, which consists of a mixture of oxygen and nitro-
TUESDAY
Date and Time
Fri 30th
K.P.O. Reg. 4.00 PX Ord. 4.30 PM
G.P.O.
the Reg Ord
gen. To overcome the pressure or Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, USA and many feet of water above, this pas to be considerably compressed. Under these conditions, nitrogen dissolves in the blood and enters the tissues. If he then ascends too
Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans- Atlantic Services"
TUESDAY
4.00 PM
4.30 PM
† Tue 3rd June
K.P.O. Reg." 5.00 PM
Ord. 5.30 PM
G.P.O.
Reg. * 6.00 PM Ord. 7.00-PM
Tus, 17th June K.P.O.
Reg. 5.00MM
Ord.
5:30 PM
G.P.O.
5.00 PM
Ord. 7.00 PM
The chief reason for their return (China are returning to their home to the land of their father is the land although the exodus is parti-rapidly, and the pressure la re- realisation, the magazine declares,cularly marked among the younger duced, the nitrogen comes out of thut Japan has no intention, as people who never know their
the blood. and forms bubbles in Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and they had long thought to assist country at frst hand and who in any overthrow of the Soviet have no bitter personal recollectense pain. This is called the
the veins and arteries, causing in- Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans-|Reg. . Atlantic Services" Government, at least for their tions of escape and tribulation. benefit.
FRANTIC EFFORTS
into Manchuria
“bends."
"
REVOLUTION SEQUEL ·
By using in place viu a mix Immediately on the outbreak of ture of oxygen and hellum, oṛce 'Japan's frantic efforts to con- the .1917 Revolution thousands rare gas now used or filling bal- clude a non-aggression pact with poured
from Icons and airships, the danger of Russia and her wooing, of the Siberia, some who had travelled the bends is greatly reduced, be- Kremlin for months has disillu-all the way from European Russia cause of the lessened tendency of stoned thousands who had pictur- and others who came from, neigh hellum to dissolve in the blood and ed her as the chief lever to hoist bouring areas. As the tide of body tissues. Also. It was found. them back to their homes.
White-Red battle ebbed and flowed the divers could maintain menta "'White' Russians realize fully others crossed the border to take clarity over a longer period and at well that the Japanese expansion up residence on Chinese territory greater depths with the helium programume includes the over- An estimated 200,000 Russians in mixture. throw of the Soviet regime in Rus-all are believed to have been in the sta, but particularly in, Siberia, Far East 20 years ago, the vast
FIRST TRIED
just as definitely as the 'south-majority in Manchuria. Some set- When it was first tried, however, ward expansion' movement, is in- tied in the first towns they came Navy divers found that they were cluded," the Review sy. "But to and are still there today. (much more sensitive to cold than the White Russians now realize Others went on to Harbin, a city (formerly, and this, of course, ham- that there is no place for them in which had long been the centre pered their work. Then electrically this picture. Disillusionment over of Russian influence in China and heated suits with normally insu- this longheid hope of deliverance which today looks to the casual lated wires in the underwear worn constituted that final blow, It visitor more. Russian than Chinese by the diver, were tried. This re-.) was at this point that Russian or Japanese.. Still others found [sulted in fire danger. for the in- emigres in the Far East went their way south-to Peiping. Tien-sulation is highly inflammable
tsin. Hankow, Shanghai. Many with so inuch oxygen present. went to Japan or Australia or the Philippines or to the United States Paul Gayne, president of the Col- Carrying out Navy suggestions,
GREAT MIGRATION vinex Company, of New York City,
left'."
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MAJOR FACTOR
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The American publication says the record of Japan in China for the past 10 years has been a ma- jor factor in causing the shift of But the great migration did not developed the new suits. There allegiance,
come until 1931 when Japan in are insulated with fiberglas, which "Experience in the Manchuria vaded Manchuria and the dream cloth WOVED of thin ginsa 'paradise' set up by the Imperial that they had had for years, that fibres, and is non innammable. Japanese Army proved to be no they would be boosted back to the The wires are insulated with glass, happier for the White Russians land of the Czars on Nipponese and they are sewn with glass than it had been for other for- bayonets, came to an abrupt end thread between two layers of fiber- eigners," the Review says "The They left Manchuria by the thou- glas cloth in the diver's under- result of this new Russo-Japanese sands and tens of thousands. co-operation was to force the Shanghai's White Russian papa- The use of heltuin-oxygen was emigres into worse economic statis lation; for example, trebled to one of three important advances than they had experienced prior 30,000, which it is estimated to be that resulted from studies initiated to the coming of the deliverers today. Their wanderings through-by the US. Navy after the sub- It was immensurably more difficult jout the Far East began and are marine 8-4 sank off Provincetowni to eke out an existence under still continuing. Altough many in 1827. The others were the Japanese rule than it had been are leaving to pay homage to Momsen "lung" and the McCann
wear.
STOP PRESS
under the Chinese administration.” Josef Stalin rather than to the Rescue Bell, which saved the lives Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong
It is impossible to say how many exiled head of the, House
of the Russian emigrants here In Romanoff (CSM)
of lot 33 trapped men from the Daily Press, Ltd. at Marina House, third floor, 15-19, Queen's
Squalus in 1939.
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