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The Family of the late Mrs, Gufl- hermina Leong Hing-kee ex- press their deep gratitude to for all friends and relatives their expression of sympathy, feral tributes and attendance at the funeral. A High He-
EDITORIAL
TAG DAY
FOR MEDICAL
RELIEF
quiem Mass will be celebrated Over $6,000 Raised
at the Roman Catholic Cathe- Satur- dral, Caine Road, on day. 2nd August, 1041, at 7.30 All relatives and friends are cordially invited.
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By Committee
Results of the Tag Day for Chi- Inese Medical Relief held in Hong- 375 kong on July 19 last by the China Defence League were announced yesterday afternoon at a ten party given by Mrs. Violet Chan, Chair- Iman of the Tag Day Committee, at her home at No. 6 Po Shan Rd. Mme. Sun Yat-sen, Chairman of
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By Order of the Board, W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary & Assistant Manager. Hongkong, 25th July, 1941.
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HONGKONG, Avqust 1, 1941.
LET THE FUTURE SPEAK
THE
the League, presided at a pleasant informal ceremony when prizes, contributed by a number of Hong- kong firms, were presented by Mrs. Chan to the individuals and re- presentatives of organisations par- ticipating in the Tag Day who collected the largest sums.
Miss M. Dudley, Hon. Treasurer of the Committee, announced that more than HK.$6,000 had been cleared
the International for Peace Hospitals in China through sale of tags and subsequent con- tributions, which were still coming in, Prizes for individual collectors were awarded to Miss Mimi Lau (over $780), Mrs. W T. Stanton, Miss Hilda Yen, and many others. HE EXPLANATION made! Assisting organisations included workers, Tunk by the British Foreign the ANS, A.R.P. Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, Wah nurses, St. John'e Ambulance girls boys and Association, and in the House of Commons on from local schools, many of whom Wednesday, on the sequence were awarded prizes. Great satis- of events which led up to faction was expressed at the suc- Japan's move against Indo-cessful result of the Tag Day, and China, has placed before the a vote of congratulation was ac-
corded to Mra Chan and her Com world the full facts which
mittee, who wish to convey their have resulted in a situation thanks to the many friends in which no one regrets more Hongkong who assisted in obtain than the British Government. ing such an excellent result,
Some 50 guests attended Eden's Mr.
statement was
Chow, Mrs. Chen Han-seng, Mrs.
the
H.K.
WEDDING
Mr. Harry Charrington and his Nancy bride, formerly Miss
Tsan-(King's Studio).
IS CHRIST AN EMERGENT SAVIOUR?
LECTURE BY DR. T. C. CHAO
and the
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941. CONVOY WORK & ITS MANY DIFFICULTIES: RECENT MEDITERRANEAN EXPLOIT
"There was a naval victory last week when an im- portant convoy passed safely through the Mediterranean. It was a victory because we did attain our object, which was to get this convey through in spite of enemy efforts to prevent it," said LT.-COMDR. THOMAS WOODRUFFE, B.B.C. naval commentator and well-known foreign broadcaster, when he broadcast from London yesterday.
a
"We, of course, had our they can operate at some distances losses a destroyer and some from their bases. They also have aircraft," continued Comdr. faster, but smaller, boats of this
type. Woodruffe, "but losses must! "The E-Boat tu merely ✡ fast be expected when you realise torpedo boat. Their function 18 to nip ont under cover of dark. ness, let fly their torpedoes and get away again as quickly as they
Italians have can. The
always been interested in these boats be-
difficulty of
the operation.
such
a
MANY OBSTACLES Comdr. Woodruffe then went on to refer to the Many obstacles
that faced a convoy travelling in cause the Itallan is always at
hia best in small craft. the Mediterranean today. First of ali, there was an enemy aerodrome en Sardinia from which attacks could be made on shipping. Ther there
Bicilian was the narrow Channel between Tunisia, and Biel-
"In the last war, the only Italian naval exploit was the successful attack on an Aus- trian battleship by one of these boats.
"On Saturday last, a swarm
of
|ly and the Pantallerta Islands.
which had been used by the enemy these boats carried out an attack as a base for E-Boats or aircraft
"The advantages were ali on their side." sald Comdr. salling Woodruffe, “We were in enemy waters and these were being constantly patron- ed by enemy aircraft. Our forces had almost no hope of escaping their notice.
at
Valetta, but on the barbour failed," continued Comdr. Wood- ruffe, and went on to pay a tribute to the defences of Malta and the manner in which the forces there bad met the attack.
"They met the deadly weapons the of modern warfare and vet The second lecture in a series of
few E-boats that tried to get away four under the general title, "Some "When it was decided that the were quickly finished off. Reflections on Chinese Thought convoy should go through, Admirat)
Christian Faith."
would was Somerville knew he
have given last night by Dr. T. C. Chao, to fight his way through.
thelr! D. Litt. Dean of the School of Re-ships companies were at ligion at Yenching University,stations for 10 hours, which means when he spoke St. John's that no one had more than a Cathedral Hall on the question, scrap meal during that time "Is Christ an Emergent Saviour?"" DIFFICULT CONDITIONS
at
Our
Comdr, Woodruffe next referred
BRITAIN'S WARTIME RACKETS
LADIES' NIGHT OF H.K. Y'S MEN'S CLUB
TALK ON CHINA Old iron and steel, dirty oil and
Dr. Chao briefly outlined Confu- old drums, old electric cable and DEFENCE LEAGUE characterised by its candour tea party, among them. Mrs. Roscia and Buddhist teachings on to the conditions under which the LONDON. -- Rackets in renta
immortality and incarnation and
retail salea, and the firewood. Tender forms may be
A special occasion marked the and restraint and yet it dealt M. W Kwan, Mrs. J. M. Tan, Wing-discussed the reality of a spiritual crews worked. Below decks it was eggs, and had on application to the Naval weekly meeting of the
the looting of bombed food warehouses terribly stuffy although in HONG- with what is undoubtedly a commander Steele-Perkins, Mr. A.
world. Here he pointed out the
bad and sheep stealing were reported Store Officer, Royal Naval Yard, KONG Y'S MEN'S CLUB at the St. most provocative subject in. Moss, Mr. Robert Ward; Hong Kong Latest date for Francis Hotel last night, when a
a manner that has fairly and representatives of the Caina De significance of the Chinese philo-gun-houses It was not so
Kent farmers armed with shot- the fact that to worship God as nothing of what was going on above receipt of tenders noon on 7th "LADIES' NIGHT" was held.
the if He were was to regard the re- All they had to do was to keep on guns were said to be keeping watch August,
"The enemy over their flocks following night. The dinner was given by Mr. Ho lustly apportioned the blame fence League Committee and allsophy of "as it," and touched on Those working below deck knew the
ality of God as becoming irrele- supplying the guns. Only British subjects will be Shiu-que, President of the Clab, for the strained relations be- tween Britain and Japan.
vant to the need for worshipping attack lasted without a pause for rustling near Maidstone. who was in the Chair. Frults pro
almost twenty-seven hours" said sheep were slaughtered in a field admitted inte H.M. Naval vided for at the end of the dinner Calmly and dispassionately,
Comdr. Woodrufe. "Dive-bombers, and the carcasses removed in Establishments to view these were contributed by Y's rian K. 5. Mr. Eden pointed out that the
hás placed
ENCOURAGE VIEW Chinese scholars and Uterati of torpedo bombers, submarines and trucks. It is believed that the The speaker of the evening was responsibility for the present Japan in a worse position MR. JAMES BERTRAM, who gave position is surely Japan's and than that which she occupted the past, Dr. Chao said, tended to E-Boats attacked us relentlessly thieves trading in "bootleg mut a review, under the subject "Ways when he concluded his state-while hesitating to carry out encourage this view as it gave them but not a single big surface craftton" are members of a
lots.
f.
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PUBLIC AUCTION
Fung.
374
one lot of Crown Land at Cheung
assisting In
organisationis Medical Relief drive.
:{
master, Nazi
partner:
and
Him.
of Defending China" of the work ment with the words "Let the the behests of her German ed. of the China Defence League. future speak for itself," hei After recalling some of his per-showed that the British Gov- sonal experiences in China at the
fact beginning of the war. Mr. Bertram ernment, despite the
defence of China, which meant
FOUNDED IN 1938
pledged to two primary objects;
country.
**The whole
Foot
London
Italian Fleet, or what is left of it, was some- where in harbour while our Way their stips fought through. The Italian Fleet could really have thrown a far greater weight of metal Under present laws courts can against us if they wanted to. imposé fines up to $480 in cases
the cruisers and but yet
where rents approach an exorbi- har- tant figure. A soldier's wife re- destroyers remained in
obtained a Conviction bour, while their aircraft and-cently
against a landlady who charged E-Boats fought for them, "Finally, the convoy got through $8 a week for a room which nor- In
gang.
Minister of Health Ernest Brown has urged local authorities to prosecute landlords charging ex- orbitant rents to persons who have left their homes, either after being bombed or to avola 16.
a certain power over the uneducat-tried to interfere with us.
The Christian tradition of the IT MAY BE quite true that Emergent Saviour, however, was Japan has made provision for based on the opposite view that something Real had spoken from just such a concerted mea-
Tula said that these impressions had that circumstances had com-
outside human experience. brought him to the conviction pelled it to take measures to sure against her economic tradition would find a paralled in PARTICULARS AND CON. that the future of China was the meet the threat to its inter-fe, but however thorough the central Chinese doctrine of in~ DITIONS of the Sale by Public not only of China alone, but of all ests in the Far East, still those preparations may have carnation that given the key to Auction to be held on Tuesday, potential forces of progress and hoped that the leaders of the been, no one, not even ex-God's mind and heart the rest of Japanese people would re-
perts in Japan itself, can con-human experience would be flu-
minated by it. the 5th day of August, 1941, at 3 democracy in the Pacific zone.
flect, "while there is yet
vince the world that the Gov-
Once Christ is recognised as more p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of The speaker said that the League time," where their present ernment there can combat than man entering auman life as with only one of its ships damag-mally cost less than $4.
are leading their the effects of this economic a Saviour, he could then be seened, while the main strength of another case an apartment which the Italian navy lay in a harbour was rented for less than $4 a week, His Excellency the Governor of was first established in April, 1938, policies
blockade indefinitely. It is also as an Emergent Saviour.
cost evacuees $28., Dr. Chau will speak tonight on not many miles away. To keep friends abroad informed
THE JAPANESE GOVERN-here that serious reflection
ABOVE PRICES E-BOATS THE Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong of the development of China's
the question, "Can man redeem
According to the London Star, "We talk about U-Boats and E- Kong for a term of 75 years, com struggle, and of the greatest needs MENT would be advised not becomes necessary before the himself?"
misinterpret the signi-Japanese Government takes
SEVERAL BOOKS
Boats", continued Comdr. Wood-meny producers are selling egga own above the controlled prices and mencing from 1st July, 1898, with of China's wounded, orphans and to
ficance of that expressed its next step. If, as they say, He is the author of several books ruffe. "The E-Boat is our the option of renewal at a Crown refugees;
To collect and distribute funds Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor
hope on the part of Britain. Japan's leaders have taken in Chinese, including a "Life of name for it, the E standing for this, ty newspaper said, is “large- and supplies, strletly for medical,
conserve their Christ." He was ordained to the enemy. Some of them are of 69 ly responsible for the acute short- of His Majesty the KING, for relief, and educational purposes, in It would be a mistake for measures to
tricts." and their leaders to conclude that country's resources to over-priesthood of the Anglican Churchtons with tour torpedo tubes and age of eggs in many London dis-
(Sheng King Hui), and is an Hon.
"A big warehouse stacked with one further term of 24 years less aid of the fighting forces
civilians of China wherever their Britain is anxious to shirk come the economie sanctions Fellow of St. Paul's College, Hong-
food which has been bombed has the last three days thereof.
need was greatest,
the responsibility of protect- taken by Britain and the kong.
The wedding took place on July become known in one London dis- Intending bidders are advised
In pursuance of these objects, ing her vital interests in the United States, It might be He was studying philosophy and that immediately after the dis said the speaker, the Central Com
and Military Church of Miss Olga the Evening News. posal of the lot the Purchaser mittes in Hongkong had main-Far East; it would be foolish used as an argument by the literature in Oxford at the time of 18 in Shanghai, at the St. Nicholas trict as a looters' paradise," said The warehouse was filled with represented the Chinese Church in Shelegin and Mr. Alexander Golo- (I not the applicant) will be tained close contact with China of the Japanese to imagine expansionists as a reason for Bishop Hall's Consecration.
vin, staff sergeant of B.V.C, head-more than $40,000 worth of food their aggressive relief committees in several coun-that Britain's preoccupation pursuing
St. Paul's Cathedral.
The traditional and and when the building collapsed a quartera required to deposit with
tries, notably with two representa-with the thunder of war in programme while these re-
time-honoured Russian custom of great deal of the food which was authorised officer who will be dive British and American organ-the west would prevent her sources hold out, in an effort present at the sale, the sum ofsations, the China Campaign Com
performed. two hundred dollars, ($200) in mittee in London and the China from being able to muster up to replenish them at the ex-
over- Commissioned to inspect cash. This sum will be refunded Aid Council in New York.
the education in seas Chhere on payment of the Purchase
price.
Locality.
{ No. of Sale
New Kowloon Inland Registry No.
Lot No. 3867.
Hing Wah Street and Cheung Wah Street,
Cheung Sha Wan
Boundary
Measure-
menta.
As per
sale plan.
Contents in
an
About
Square feet.
Annual
Rental
Upset Price
062
000'18
19,600
PEACE HOSPITALS
NEWSETTES crowning the happy couple was undamaged was exposed.
*
The Hongkong Volunteer De tenice Corps (Chinese) Club will be
The owners salvaged huge quantities of cheese, butter, sugar, bacon, tea, margarine, and eggs, but the
sufficient resistance to any pense of territories which threat in the South Pacific. they wish to include in their Since its foundation, the League and capacity to do this by course, have to be carried out City Restaurant at 8 pm. to- Instep, Director of the Education.Men, women, and children
Apart from her own ability control. Such a plan will, of holding & dinner at the Golden (south Sea regions, Mr. Ya Chun- warehouse was robbed every night.
back
her
(erema-
all
Auch
had distributed many hundreds of
ai Department of the Overseas have taken part in the looting," thousands of dollars in contribu- herself, she will have the on the supposition that a morrow.
Affairs Commission, who arrived the manager said.
At Dartford Police court a clerk PARTICULARS OF THE LOT tons from all over the world, had added support of the United large scale military expedition
The death occurred on July 21, here last month, left for Manila organised four international peace States to
up.to the south would be crown-
with hospital centres in war areas and Japan's military leaders can-led success. Japan's at the Shanghai General Hospital, by the Philippine Clipper yester in a shop was fined $12 for telling
a customer, "If you want choco of Olaf Nordquist, aged 50 years;
late you will have to buy a bar had regularly supported the Medi- not
be ignorant of the militarists already have ex husband of the late Alleen Nord- day morning. cal Relief Corps of the Chinese
After a protracted tour of Free of soap The proprietor WEB Red Cross, the Chinese Industrial strength of this formidable amples of how strategic cal-quist: Funeral services Co-operatives, the Northwest Bor- combine and Mr. Eden's ad-culations are apt to miscarry tom) were held on July 22, at the China covering Kunming. Kwei- fined $52 for "alding and abet-
yang and Chungking, where he ting
The government's decision to derland Orphanage and many vice to them for further re- even when margins are allow Bubbling Well Chapel.
organised the Chinese Philahar- other reller projects and institu- flection before they trifle ed for errors of estimation.
The death occurred on July 19; monte Orchestra at the request ration cheese at one ounce a week tions in the guerilla zones...
Touching upon the Bowl of Rict with the destiny of their Germany's campaign in Rus-
at the Country Hospital; Bhang of Dr. Sun Fo President of the for the general public has aroused the country is sound and friend-sla is the most striking illus-hat, of Margaret Milne Sutherland, Legislative Yuan, Mr. Bitson Ma, a protest from grocers boe use of sponsored .by Campaign League, Mr: Bertram said that the ly counsel. The economic re-tration of this. Any retalia-only daughter of Mr, and the late well-known Chinese violinist, has the difficulty in cuttin object was to raise funds for the prisals which Britain and the tion in the economic field Mrs. J. R. Sutherland, Aberdeen, returned to the Colony with his small rations. They demand that CIC..
United States immediately which Japan intends to make Scotland. The funeral (cremation) wife. The Philaharmonic Orches the customers be permitted to The speaker was introduced by Mr. Wong Kwok-fong and thanked took against Japan is not the against Britain and the Uni-service was held in the Bubbling tra organised by him in Chung-order one month's ration at a One store visited by the Tribune limit to which these two ted States cannot remove the Well Cemetery Chapel on July 22. king has played five or six times, time."
and won wide acclaim. by Mr. Woi Tak.
correspondent displayed a plece A vocal solo was rendered by great western powers are possibility of military mis- For the purpose of accommodat
nor can iting the large number of Obinese The engagement is announced of chesse a little larger then la required to pay to the auctioneer Mrs. Lam Sing-yat, accompanied prepared to go to convince calculations in cash the sum of $1,260.00 at the plane by Mr. Lam, who also Japan that she is doing weaken the Anglo-American students returning to China from of Bernard Gano, younger son of ouble mch. It stood on a counter wrong. It is merely a point-resolve to oppose further the overeens, the Kukien Provincial the fate Walter Charles Inge and with a sign attached which read, (being 10% of the upset price) rendered a piano solo. Immediately after the fall of the
ed reminder to her leaders aggression in the Far East, Government after consulation with of Mrs. Inge of Rolveriden, Kent, "Here is your cheese ration that, their bloodless coup in particularly with the growing the Ministry of Education has de- to Katharine Joyce Noraliffe, Lord Woolton, the food, munte- elded to establish second over- younger daughter of Dr. Mercure ter, told & Liverpooli audience, that premium being paid in accordance he death occurred on July 23, Indo-China, so treacherously strength of the United States Clio high school at Yun- Roberts of Hove, sex, formerly "despite the shortage of mind
at The Country Hospital, Shang-
vigorod, Halim with the Conditions of Sale. sal of the infant son of Mr. and permitted by Vichy under in the air, on ses and on an Tadschool 1 expected to of Epsom, Surrey, and of the late of Waart AutoDENT, ANC) ME
open in October this year. Mr Robertso the threatening onger, of its land, Wie Nicholas Alferieff.TE
The purchaser of the lot will he
hammer, the balance of the
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