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AUGUST HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
RANDOM RAMBLINGS
By John Blunt
the
When people take it upon themselves to criticise the country in which they reside, for the edification of others who live thousands of miles away, they render themselves liable to criticism, especially when allegations are of a gratuitous nature. In The New Statesman and Nation of June 18, is published al remarkable letter over the signature of Hilda Selwyn- Clarke, which I cannot allow to pass unchallenged.
years
Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, who is a new-comer to the Colony, has the temerity to assert (as one of the white population of Hongkong) that, "For nearly one hundred
have we
only been concerned with making profits out of the Chinese. We have built enormous banks and offices in what is known as the compradore style of architecture out here hotels, houses, roads, etc., all for the convenience of the European population; we are now busy building military roads, trenches and machine-gun
but housing, medical services emplacements,
8, 1938.
STOP PRESS
BATTLES ALONG WHOLE FRONT
Yuki, Aug. 8.
Fighting on the Manchukuo- Korea-Soviet Frontier has now
developed into a series of regular battles on n minor scale all along the front.
For a length of four miles, both sides are dug in behlad (ortifications, Only a few hundred yards separate the opponents, and between them
stretches a verkable no man's land,
with corpses strewn here and there, abandoned machine guns half-burled in the sand and a couple of tanks standing wrecked and derellet,
Oreasionally wounded soldier may be seen trying to drag himself back to bla awn lines,
It is and is impossible to check up on
The casualties and the material Bossen, i
thoroughly accurate observation can be made.
education for the Chinese are at an appallingly low level as the ground is most broken and ru und the wages and conditions of the Chinese coolies are be found in the British as bad as anything that Empire."
can
These allegallons are grossly un- worker" fate and misleading If Mrs Selwyn-
Britaite Clarke hasn't, Great
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45
(why e adjective) well as the rich inerchant only con- Can- cerned with saving his skin,' tinuing she remarks that
However, the Japanese claim that The Soviet attacks on their positions have all been abortive, the Russians being thrown Lack in each case on heit original positions, "with heavy losses.
Renter
No prisoners have been taken by heelther side since the beginning of the EVERY reJUNOJI to be prind of the Government taL of its swalien incident. steady progress and sound adminis- revenues has not yet drekled to what The Japanese niso state that the extent shall provide accommoda- 1Soviet air force carried out no less trition which has been recorded in
a reg. tion and food for these refugees, buthan 100 raids on their positions dur- the Colony within less thus
no harriers have been put up against ing yesterday, and on each occasion tury On the medical and
health them “
the Soviet machines were engaged by side. Borgkong bus been tuhly
unti-ulrcraft All this is in reply to an article planes could be seen
tre. No Japanese ng has been possible taking, abished in the journal referred to
in the oir.- Jan you all the walous factors into account above, which foolishly suggested that The standard of healtie is thi and the white population of Hongkong away hight than it is within the should be evacuated. Concerning this gtral country adjacent to us
It is speel, Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke states: "I certainly do not wish to see Great True that cholera has appeared within Britain plunged into the final horrors the last two years, but that was br- of general way to maintato Hong-! evitable when dis remembered that į kong, but neither do 1 wish to
handed tv Hongkong thas dread disease has been raging, and thereby the bottling up of South the Japanese
Throughout the Far East
China from the point *k {Vr}L༤{ Gf
SEVERE AIR RAIDS
Yuk), Aug. 9.
To suggest by muendo that the perstinel, war materials, font
Neither do wish. meretaunts of the Colony Inve only medical supplies.
The avonds carried out on Sun- been concerted in making profits out, to be bombed, but I
con-day by the Soviet air force are de- at the Chinese, calls for the strongest template with equity the auni-scribed the worst since the begin- janssible condemnation Certainly hilation of the Chinese in Hongkong
ning of the trouble, we are out here for Ende, as is every, the evacuation of the white populathe Soviet planes, not content with which wouki vertainty. result from Japanese authorities dechire that foevigt nation which makes Hong- kong its besidquarters, but when it on
Callaw cking Japanese troops, flew well vonies to making profits. The Chinese"
Mrs. Selwyn - Clarke need not into Korean territory and proceeded themselves, under British rule, have, worry about the
evacuation of to bomb and machine-gun a number prolinbaly shared the opportunity in Hongkong. She 15 newcomer of "defenceless villages.
a greater callo than have the majority to the Colony to uf foreigners.
have stances
which cirrurn- brought her. and
Both the
inillary Japanese |authorities and the troops in the front
To belittle the unstinting
such lines are confident that they can bent making Torts should refrain from
unfortunate charges which every off all attacks by the Suviet forces which have been made 10 exturate)
resident, suber-munded
matter and are also confident that, if no the Chinese shows a total lack of
order to advaner is given, they will understanding of the true state of what his nationality, will resent,
qulekly annihilate the enriny." ffairs. 1 Mrs Selwyn-Clarke ex. Her desire to assist refugers is all
So far, however, the only orders peels to see the vouhe musses going Every well up
point. Unfor- · have been to hold the trencher bulli
to
it
Jawful frontier.
the
to school like good boys and girts, ptunately, she has falled realise along the litre which, the Japanese i she fails to appreciate facts, ami has that it is an enny matter for China's detaim. IN t been married away with a prest un destitute to Usual and unpractical complex
110 necessity Kr
but enter Hongkong, unless the problem is dealt with on
In really partien basis, the Cuiony Then
deadwall tid dort mundated with thou- with her assertion that the banks, sands of destitute people, creating a Books, roads ete. have beets bull probten entailing recurrent expen- vilely for the CONVENIeber of the fiture, which will prove beyond our
European population That
the resourers.
the refugee
be defintion 1 have as yet come aemes of the height of absurdity,
feuch Munte apart Delusive litary work Gust be problem however, is the necessity to drawn cute the genred indictment, advise Mr. Selwyn-Clarke to be fair I wonder why?
for the Colony, and Not to hunch indictments which are so manifestly Mi Selwyn Clarke gues on ill-founded, and might easily besmirchi fu refer to the influx of the name of a Ane British Colony, refugees, although she must have of which, 1 for one, un proud. forgotten the story of the woman who lived in a shoe. "Since the Japanese appression"-she says ".... probably for the first time in
الذابه
our long association with China we
ACKNOWLEDGES GIFT
Reuter.
The
BRITISH CONSUL
KILLED
Paris, Aug. 8. British Consul In Alicante, who was hit by portion of a bomb during an Insurgent air raid of the city on Saturday, has succumbed to his wounds.
One of the insurgent bombs struck the British Consulate.
Two capteins of British ships who were conferring with the Consul
are being of real use to the Chinese The Rev. David Rosenthall wishes were wounded, and the chauffeur of people. Every week thousands of very gratefully to acknowledge a gift the car which brought the men from refugees pour into this Colony...of thirty dollars to the St. Andrewe quayside to the consulate the destitule, the valuable pulitleni Benevolent Fund from "Well Wisher", | killed. ...Trans-Ocean.
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