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COMPETITION
June-September, 1938
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Russia Plans New Railway To Ulanbator
Shanghai. May 9,
A Paris report quoted Lo Midi an saying that the Soviet government has decided to construct rallways to con- nect Siberia with Outer Mongolia.
The fist railway will connect Irkutsk with Ulan Bator, provincial capital of Outer Mongolla..
The construction of the railway has great military and economie, signin cance, and it is believed that the Kremlin intends to execute the plan, which has been pending for many years, taking advantage of the pre- sent international situutiori.--Inter- national,
FRANCO-BELGIAN FINANCIAL TALKS
Paris, May, 9.
On Sunday night, before leaving Paris for Geneva, the French Foreign Minister. M. Georges Bonnel,
had
lengthy conversations with the visit- Ing Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Speak, and de Smedt, Minister of Economics.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Edouard Daladier, was engaged the whole day in negotiations with the Ministers for Labour and Trode,--Trans-Ocean. Brussels, May 0.
The Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, and the Economies Minister have departed for Paris for negotia ttons with the French Government on matters raised by the devaluation of the French Franc.
The two Ministers were accom- panied by a special emissary of the Council for Franco-Belgian Economie Relations, and one member of the Belgian Foreign Office,
In authoritative Belgian circles it is stated that now as before no de- valuation of the Belgian Franc is to be expected.-Trans-Ocean.
Italian Envoys In Peiping
Peking, May 9.
9, 1938,
CHINA FIGHTING EPIDEMIC BEHIND MILITARY LINES
Director of Red Cross Tells of Work With Wounded Soldiers
Hankow, May 8.
The Chinese Government has established 386 base hospitals, with accommodation of 200,000 beds for
wounded soldiers.
One hundred epidemic prevention units have been organised in various parts of the country.
These figures were released yesterday by Dr. Yen Fu-ching, Director of the Chinese National Health Administration and former Director of the Shanghai Red Cross Hospital.
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Describing the work of attending to China's and wounded, Dr. Yen said that wounded soldiers were carried from the front line trenches to a first aid station by stretcher bearers of the Army Medical Corps, who were attached to every division.
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After receiving treatment, wounded were sent to field hospitals where serious cases were attended to,
As soon as the men were in a condition to travel they were sent to base hospitals.
Wounded from the war fronts la the Yangtse area were sent to base hospitals in Kiongsi. Those from the Tientsin-Pukow and Peiping Hanitow Railway fronts were sent to Hupeh and Honan, while those front the fronts in Shanel and Sutyuan were despatched to Shansi.
Dorsetshire Returning From Sydney
1.M.S.. Dorsetshire, which went to Austraila_following the opening, of the now Graving Dock at Singapore. will return to Hongkong on May 28, After attending manoeuvres off Singapore, the Dorsetshire visited Sydney, in New South Wales, to participate in the sesqul-centenary celebrations there. With the excep tion of the ships from the New Zea land Division, she was the only vessel of the Royal Navy to visit Australin for the celebrations.
Dorsetshire will call at Manlia, or- rlying at the Philippines capital on May 23,
23, and remaining there for three days.
After a few days in Hongkong sho
will proceed north to the summer
base at Welhalwel.
GERMAN AIMS MISUNDERSTOOD
the
Bucharest, May 9, The Special Correspondent of the Rumanian Universal had an inter- German Minister of view with the Finbnce, Grat Schwerin-Krosigk, In which the Minister expressed hope that the business relations be tween Germany and the States of Central and Eastern Europe would be developed further. In his ques- tions, the Universal correspondent showed that he feared such co-opera- would Chinese Government was therefore lion, if further developed, establishing a training school
in only serve Germany's political ends, Changsha to teach doctors and nurses whereupon the Minister said:
"The efforts on the part of the for the First Aid Corps.
European press to interpret the pro- of wounded motion of a co-operation with the The transportation from First All stations to field hospi-South-Eastern European States as an tnis was handled by a Rear Service attempt on the part of Germany to Department, which was
also In obtain political advantages or gain charge of the transportation of troops economic domination, constitute and supplies and was thus in the best misrepresentation of our intentions, position to arrange transportation and are not to be taken seriously. facilities.
We want economic co-operation on the basis of complete equality and loyalty."
The Christian Federation had fust Dr. Yen disclosed that ten per cent.organised several units to help the of the wounded dle before they reach wounded during transit. These units)
supplied linse hospitals, where the death rate arranged dressings and is only 4.7 per cent.
bedding and other comforts for those awulting trains and steamers.
MEN REJOIN UNITS Sixty per cent, of the wounded sent to base hospitals have already boen cured and discharged. Ninety per cent, of those discharged have rejoined their original regiments at the front.
Hended by Marquis Glocomo Pauluce di Calholi, the members of the Fascist Goodwili Mission to Japan this morning visited Marco Poloi Although ninely per cent. of the bridge, near where the first shots in work was done by the Chinese Gov. the present Sino-Japanese hostilites ernment Army Medical Corps, Dr. were fired on July 6 last year. Yen emphasised, the valuable assis The rea, claimed in Ilankow to tance given by the Foreign Mission bave been attacked by Chinese gueril Hospitals, the Red Cross, the Red lus last week, was peaceful;
Swastika Society, and others. The At noon, the Mission was enter-Red Cross Society, he said, has afty tained at lunch by Mr. Tuteki Horiu- teams in the field. These comprise chi, Counseller
operation ambulance and dressing of the Japanese units with volunteer doctors and Embassy-Domet,
MR. CHALLINOR'S CONDITION SATISFACTORY.
nurses. The Society has decided to double the number of teams. to one hundred within a short while.
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When the correspondent cited the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal as one of. the projects furthering German ex- pansion, the Minister said:
"The work on the Canal has been Although the present arrange- resumed, and we can announce that ments were far from ideal, Dr. Yon by 1940 this direct connection between pointed out that the situation was northern Europe and South-Eastern improving daily and the Chinese Europe will be completed. This new Government and pubile institutions trame way must inspire satisfaction were doing their utmost to meet the and new hope for an improvement of the world situation.”—Trans- gigantic problem facing them.
Ocean.
EPIDEMIC FEARS
With the large movements of troops and the congestion caused by war refugees there were many cities where epidemics were bound to break out this summer, Dr. Yen declares.
Serious outbreaks of cholera had
occurred already
Changleh, typhus fover was reported to be raging in Szechnen and Shensi while meningitis had broken out in Klangsi,
Book Factory Strike Ends
The strike at the Chung Hwa Book Mataukok. Company's factory at involving 700 employees, has been settled, and the men will return to work to-morrow morning.
New agreements have been signed
There are forty Mission hospitals,
The Chinese National Health Ad- with 3,859 beds, scattered
In each unit there eight provinces, and there are forty-ministration has organised a hundred by all except five of the employees,
foreign doctors who attend epidemic units".
is one doctor and two nurses, with chiefly the seriously wounded..
four assistants to carry out As military hospitals must move
to educate the The condition of Mr. R.
H. from place to place and as the mill-inoculations and
people in bygiene by lectures und Challinor, who was wounded when tary situation often makes the moving lantern slides. The units also cought
3 dun- he went to the assistance of his wife of the seriously wounded Second Prixo: $25 Cash, donated by "The when she was attacked and murdered gerous practice, the Foreign Mission- to improve sanitary conditions in the Ybarrola, of 28 Carnavon Road, on Hongkong Telegraph.
Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Filmo Double 8 Camera, Streamline Model, four speeds, self- setting footage indicator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device. Complete with
Donated by Filmo Dept., Hongkong. Second Prize: $40 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
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Third Prize! $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
SECTION TWO:
GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN AND ANIMAL STUDIES). Firat Prize: $50 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph,"
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined exclusive-
ly to amateur photographers. 2-No employee or member of any firm
in the photographic trado is permitted to compete.
various centres.
ADMITS SNATCHING Admitting that he had snatched a Miss Carmen de handbag from
Sunday night, Tsai Yau-kat, 20, was sentenced to three months hard The League of Nations has sent labour and ordered to be sent back three units to China to help in this to the country by Mr. K. M. A. connection. One of these Geneva Barnett at Kowloon Magistracy this
wns chased
and As the war continues, Dr. Yen units in In Kwellin, another in morning. Teni
д third in Slan. caught by Mr. C. D'Almada after the snatching. declared, more personnel and medical Changsha and supplies would needed. The Reuter Special.
MORE PERSONNEL NEEDED
in their home, is reported this mornary Hospitals have given valuable
ussistance, Third Prizes: $15 Cash. donated by "The ing as being satisfactory.
The condition of the houseboy. Hongkong Telegraph."
Lam Chun, who is at present in the prison ward of the Queen Mary Hospital, is also reported as improv. ing.
SECTION
THREE:
STUDIES IN STILL LIFE
First Prize: $30 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION FOUR: SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS
First Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
RULES
been taken in the Colony of Hong- kong Photographs which have been niready entered in other Competitions are ineligible.
sizes:-18" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by .0",
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should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white.
-No picture to be entered in more
than one Section.
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