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(Continued from Page !.) Japanese can claim that they were bombing military objectives.
Of the 46 bombs dropped yester- day, one completed the destruction of the Wongsha Railway district, the Canton-Stankow of terminus Line. The remaining 45 bombs fell on crowded civilian areas, some far distant from the objectives claimed as of military Importance by Japanese.
the
I was taken to the ruins of three schools, beneath one of which still le the bodies of half children.
dozen
For three hours I helped Red Cross workers and foidlers to frantlently burrow through Aftern fect of debris girl. Chinese 10 31F2 miraculously uninjured in a three-
18-year-old
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Non-payment of Water
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Excess water and meter rental accounts are posted to the person who signed the Form "C" guaran- teoing payment. This person is generally tho landlord or hla recognized agent.
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.
THE
Benefits For
Naval Men
Increases Granted
In Allowances
An Order in Council published in the London Gazelte sanctions an in- crease from 18. Gd. to 18. 10d. of the allowance payable to commissioned officers from warrant rank and to warrant officers when messing in the wardroom, in respect of the differ ence in mess subscription.
An Order in Council sanctions the payment of an allowance of 15. a day to gunners, commissioned runners, ners (T) performing the cunt duties of gunners and gunners (torpedo) in destroyers of running flotillas, while to employed. The allowance has re- trospective effect from April 1, 1936. Admiralty Fleet Orders give detalla of Increases in the rates of allowances to men of the Navy for the upkeep of their kit, to come into force on all stations on July 1. Until the War the sailor had to maintain his uniform at his own expense, but a kit upkeep allowance was granted in 1917 and has been in force ever since. It is credited to the accounts of the men quarterly.
In many instances inconveni-Runners (T), and commissioned gun- ence is caused to tenants by the water supply being diaconnected without warning to them, owing to the failure of the guarantor to pay the accounts within the speci- fled period, Tenants are, there- fore, advised to make suitable arrangements with their landlords to ensure that all water and meter rental accounts are paid promptly. Changes of ownership of pro- perty should be notifed im- mediately to this Offee.
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starcyed tenement building which PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY. buried 00 people.
Frantic Father Works
The girl calmly directed the opera- lions as we neared her. Her father. blood still oozing from a bandaged wound in his head, frantically fore at the rubble of stone and masonry, crying bitterly because his wife and two sons all lay beneath the ruins.
I saw Red Cross workers tearing frantically a debris to reach another
burled In the ruins of Chinese, building which collapsed less than n block away. His crice grew fainter and fainter, and then finally ceased. When he no longer cried out for help. the Red Cross workers deslated in their efforts. There were too many urgent cases elsewhere to waste long hours In searching for a man who
was either unconscious or dead.
I saw a Chinese woman with an infant still strapped to her bark. The infant was quite dend, but the
alive, mother was still
meaning feebly.
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The new rate for chief petty of- cers, and peity officers wearing the speciol uniform of the rating (class I dress with gilt buttons) is £6 199. n year, compared with £0 148. Men dressed in class II uniform, that is, as seamen, will receive £5 101.
Gs. Men in year compared with £5 class III uniform (jacket and peaked cap) will receive £6 12s., compared ID RA- in suu with £6 B. 40. Ratings mariacs will receive an
additional 10s. 1d. in the scoman, signal, and telegraphist branches and 12s, 4d, in other branches. A number of other allowances in respect of clothing pre also increased, and revised Istuing prices of clothing, soap, and tobacco are also to be brought into force an July 1.
NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held nt the HONGKONG HOTEL on TUES. DAY. the 7th, JUNE, 1938, at 12
The surveying ship Challenger, NOON, for the purpose of receiv-Commander E. H. B. Baker, is order- Ing the
Directora ed to return to Portsmouth Report
A Statement of June 11. She is at present employ- together with
ed in the West Indies, and left Ber- Accounts for the year ended 30th.
muda on May 9 for St. Kitts. April, 1938.
of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 31st, day of MAY to TUESDAY, the 7th of JUNE, 1938, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 24th May, 1938.
OFFICIAL NOTICE.
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A
SHIP'S NAME.
1
about
MINELAYING SUBMARINES H.M.S. Seat is to be launched at September. Chattiam Dockyard in Laid down in December, 1936, she is the inst of the six minelaying sub- marines of the Porpoise class, four of which have been completed and are now ser
rving, the Porpoise and Nar- And the wha! in the Home Fleet Grampus and Rorqual in China. The Cachalot is due to be completed at Greenock in July.
on
On being renamed Cochrane June 1, H.M.S. Ambrose was to re- lieve the Greenwich as parent-ship at Rosyth. The Greenwich will re- vert to her former role as depot-ship for the destroyers in maintenance re- serve at Rosyth, of which there are 1, A. E. M. RAFEEK of 118.
over a dozen, a number which is like- Caine Road, Hongkong, herebyly to be increased on the 40 destroy- give notice that in consequence ers now building come into service. of re-registration I have applied of
to the Board of Trade, under Sec-
He
Baby Cries For Cat A baby crled lustily besides the hody of a dead ents ploymate. The child could not possibly know that it was the only survivor of n family of eight. It was toddling in the narrow street, chasing the cat, when its home rocked to destruction and burled the 24 Inmates. taken was
to the Municipal Hospital,
where 150 civilians
The normal capacity wounded the hospital, is 50, and only the most urgent cases needing immediate operations are admitted. I saw a 70-year-old woman, white-taired and andemic, with the shadow of death on her face. She lost both of her legs in Saturday's raid. There are no wounded soldiers in this hospital. They ure #1 civilians civilians without ilmbs, civilinna
lions with
their bodies smashed almost beyond re- cognition-children who have lost their eyes, women with their faces missing, man with their bodies burnt binch.
I counted 24 broken and lifeless bodles, brought out from the wreek- age of one tenement within an hour of the bombing.
Heroic Rescue Workers
The heroism of the Chinese
Red
Cross workers and Boy Scouts is one of the really magnificent things of this barbarism that has come 10 Canton. Before the dust selties they are tearing away at the debris, bringing succour to the wounded and laying out the dead. English Sal- vation Army officials and doctors confirmed to me the report
that the Japanese during past week, twice power-dived and machine-gunned there humanitarians as they worked
the among
of ruins buildings bombed half at h
an hour previously. Eleven Boy Scouts and 21 Red Cross workers have died in this manner.
Eight English ladies, an American, an Australian and a German, who comprise the foreign section of the Canton branch of the Salvation Army, are on the field with the vanguard of Red Cross workers. They, also, were muchlite-gunned as they worked, fortunately without casualties,
The Salvation Army home has been evacuated because it has twice been bombed.
Red Crosses Painted Out
LAUNCH OF THE AUCKLAND
be in
The new escort vessel Auckland, tion 47 of the Merchant Shipping building by Denny and Brothers, Act, 1894, in respect of the Steam Limited, Dumbarton, is to be launch- launch "CHI ON" of Hongkong, ed un June 30. She was planned as
sister-ship to the Egret, to Offcial number 152427 of gross $15
launched on May 31 at Cowes, but is tonnage 64.52
register tons,
beinis
atled for uso sa à surveying tonnage 43.888 tons, (new grosa ship, and will therefore carry only tonnage 51.19 tons, register one small gun in place of the eight in the Egret. Lannage 23.04 tons), heretofore 4in. high-angle guns
The Auckland is
due for delivery owned by Mrs. Chan Cheung Shi, about November next. The change Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong- of name from Hieron, which was made kong, for the permission to change
no doubt Indicates last year,
her name to "WAI HING" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of Hongkong as owned by me.
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong within seven days from the appearance of this advertise- ment.
Dated at Hongkong, this 2nd day of June, 1938,
A. E. M. RAFEEK.
Land Scheme For Jamaica Aids Jobless
Kingston, Jamaica, June 0. The Government announces that an immediate start will be made with a land settlement scheme costing £500,000,
the
locality in which she will be employ ed. A later ship, the Pelican, laid down in September last by Messrs. Thornycroft, is also being fifted as a surveying ship.
Brazil Stops Cotton Sales To Germany
Rio de Janeiro, June 5. Brazil has
cation stopped her exports to Germany, made under a system of barter, under which 03,000 tons were annually shipped.
It is understood the action arose out of reports that Germany was re-exporting the cotton at a high gold
price.
Observers point out that the Im
find mediate problem for Brazil is another market if German purchases cease, while it is anticipated stronger efforts will be made to sell to Britain and Japan-Reuter.
↑ The scheme has for its object the
creation of an independent peasantry RANA FASE who will be supplied with tools, plant, seed and housing, and will be given special assistance to develop their
land.
to
Special consideration will be given
Jamaica's unemployed.-Reuter,
I was shown the wreckage of two hospitals. Once upon Д time enormous Red Crosses were painted on the roofs of Canton's hospitals, because International Law decreed that they were places of refuge for astonishing in a race which has such a reputation for stoicism. You see it the dying and the wounded.
But on Friday the Red Crosses were painted their loved ones, as they dig in the in the faces of those who have lost cut. The Chinezo believe that the debris in a vain search for the bodies Japanese are using the prominent buried beneath pics of debris grief signs as sighiers for their bombs, dratthen terrible, consuming anger, What do the Japanese hope to achieve from these indiscriminate raids on oprans who live in Canton. They You see it in the faces of fire Kur- unprotected Canton? I saw no signs hate there bombers, not as an enemy of panic, unless the jostling of a few. hates enemy, but as a man hates a hundred people entering air rald torturer. Whatever their shelters could be called panic.
ments in Europe may decide, there in As bombs dropped on the elly, probably not one foreigner residing „rlekallaw coolies still piled their trade, on Shameen or in ile native city who
and there
Won no appreciable does not feel that this is mass murder dropping off in pedestrian trams. ona reale never before, seen, by Vehicular traffic whs, of course
elvilisation. stopped, to make way for the dozens of ambulance cars and fire engines clanging through the streets. Fear in not the reaction Chinese people. Their own feeling
of the
govern-
They speak openly of this hate and horror the Englishman, the German, the Italian and the French- man who lives in Canton, and whose eyes have seen horrors so inadequate
is of hate. You see it in their faces, y conveyed to the rest of the world Awisted and distorted with a 'rage'in newspapers.'
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