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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, AUGUST · 8,
1938.
BRITISH
RANDOM RAMBLINGS
By John Blunt
CONSUL KILLED
Two Sea Captains
Wounded
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 the allegations are of a gratuitous nature. In The New Statesman and Nation of June 18, is published a remarkable letter over the signature of Hilda Selwyn-duting an Insurgent air raid on the Clarke, which I cannot allow to pass unchallenged.
Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, who is a' the Colony, has the temerity to
onc
years
we
new-comer* assert (as
to
one
are now
Paris, Aug. 8. The British Consul in Alicante, who was hit by portion of a bomb
city on Saturday, has succumbed to Els wounds.
One of the Insurgent bombs struck the British Consulate.
Two cnptains of British ships who conferring with the Consul
were
Was
STOP PRESS
of the white population of Hongkong) that, "For were wounded, and the chauffeur of the car which brought the men from, nearly
hundred
have only the quayalde to the consulate been concerned with making profits
the killed. Trans-Decan. out of 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 busy building military roads, trenches and machine-gun emplacements, but housing, medical services education for the Chinese are at an appallingly low level and the wages and conditions of the Chinese coolies are as bad as anything that be found in the British Empire."
can
and
"Us
"
des.
BITTER BORDER BATTLE
Tokyo, Aug. 8.
adjecitve) These allegations tre grossly un-worker" (why the
Is the rich merchant only con- fair and misleading. If Mrs. Selwyn-well
verned with saving his skin. Con- Britala Clarke hasn't, Great
has
The tinuing, she remarks that to be proud of the every reaRON
Governmeni ent of its swollen
A four and a half hour battle was adendy progress and sound miminia-revenues has not yet derided to what tration which has been recorded in extent 11 shalt provide accommoda fought at Changkufeng in the early the Colony within less than a cention and food for these refugees, but hours of this morning, it was official- Hitler hand-to-hand Aghting took On the medical and health | barriers have been put up agaiustly announced here to-day, tury,
them." side, Hongkort has been anbly j
place and it is expected that heavy by both All this is in reply to an article casualties were suffered served as has beru possible taking published in the journal referred to alf the various factors into perount, above, which fuotishly suggested that According to an offelul despatch to The standard of health is far and the white population of longtong the War Office Russian infantry, with
Concerning this nway higher than it is willin the should be evoritated.
25 shuwer of hand grenades, attnckel It spel. **** do not wish to see Grent
Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke atates: the grent country adjacent to us.
Japanese positions at 10 pm Jast Intensive night
und
encountering true that cholera has appeared within Britain plunged into the final horrors machine-guns drinu: was forced to re the fast two years, but that was in-of a general war to maintain Hong-treat. it is claimed that two Soviet evitable when it is remembered that kong, kan neither do wish to see soldiers surrendered.
th Japanese
launched Russians this dread disease has been raging Hongkong handed to
and thereby the hotthing up of South fierce attack at 2 am, recording to in oughout the Far East
China froni the pant ef view 1
the Foreign Office spokesman, and To suggest by stuendo that the personnel, war materials, Food merchants
the Colony have only medical supplies Neither do i wish at one period had reached a position within 200 yards of the summit of been concerned in making profits out to be bombed, but I cannot
They were again. of the Chinese, coils for the strongest template with equanimity the anni-Changfeng hu
forced to retire, however, possible
condrummation. Certainly Julation of the Chinese in Hongkong The engagement lasted until ap- we are out here for trade, us is
every foreign nation which mates Hong the evacuation of the white popula-proximately 6.30 a.m.-Reuter, kong its headquarters, but when JU! Bon." comes to making profits, the Chinese! themselves, under British rule, hovej probably shared the opportunity in worry
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and
which would certainly result from
Mrs. Selwyn Clarke
about
noti nevi
the evacuation of
greater ratio than have the majority Hongkong. She
the Colony 163
of foreigners,
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The
another
CLIPPER SEARCH
FAILS
have alances
ber brought To belittle the unstinting
making efforts should refruits from which have been me to educate unfortunate enarges the Chinese, shows a total inclt of souve-minded resident. understanding of the true state of what his nationality, will reseni. affairs, 1 Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke ex- Her desire to assist refugees is alltuttle It is stated that no trace of peels to see the colle masses going very well up tr il 13:31. to school like good boys and girl she falls to approvate fiets, and has been carried away with a most un usual am impratetie complex.
IN
1 it new vomer,
Tukyo. August 8. which cirrum-
which W15 The Canberra Maru and i
ordered yesterday by the Japanese such winch every Navy to alter her course and go in search of the missing Hinwall Clip- per hos reported to the Naval Minis- try at 10.20 aim. that the search was
Unfor- the B-fated mireraft was sighted.- tutely, she has failed to realise Renter Special. that it is an easy matter for China's destitute to enter Hongkong, but unless the problem is dealt with on really practical basis, the Colony will find itself mandated with the/16- sands of destitute people, creating a
ABANDON ATTEMPT ON HIMALAYA PEAK Munich, Aug. 8.
necessity deat with her assertion that the bucks. houses, ronds etc. have been problem entailing reeurient expens The German Himalaya expedition solely for the Punvention} {*2* of the tuer, which will prove beyond our hos abandoned its attempt to reach European population. That Is the resolIFTER.
the summit of M1. Nanga Parbat: best defituation 1 have as yet come
adverse weather. Thic Quite part across of the height of absurdity.
refugeeing to
elimbers have returned to the main Defensive military wark st be problem however, is the noressity to camp. Trans-Ocean. drawn to the general indletment, advise Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke to be fair I wonder who
to
ROPS
tie from
to the Colony, and nut to launch 600
manifestly
indictments which are s on-founded, and might custly besmirch
Max. Selwyn Clarke
refer tu the influx of the name of a fine British Colony, refugees. although she must have of which, I for one, um protki. forgotten the story of the old woman who lived in a shoe. "Since the Japanese aggression"-she says ".... probably for the first ume in
ACKNOWLEDGES GIFT
our long association with China we are being of real use to the Chinese The Rev. David Rosenthal wishes people. Every week thousands of very gratefully to acknowledge n gift! refugees pour into this Colony...of thirty dollars to the St. Andrew's the destitute, the valuable political Benevolent Fund from "Well Wisher".
WOUNDED BACK
IN ITALY
Rome, Aug. 8. Six hundred wounded Italians ar- rived in Naples from Spain yesterday aboard the hospital ship Agulleto.- Trans-Ocean.
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These models of ladies' winter coats are the latest and most The fabrics. of distinctive styles direct from the European fashion centres. these coats have been specially made for the Rolny Company and only one style and one kind of fabric will be sold, so that the patron can be absolutely assured of uniqueness.
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At his London flat elaborate pre- cautions have been taken to prevent Anyone (n) Mr. Shaw talking to
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Even Mr. Shaw's one-time favou-.
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Mrs. Shaw and doctors have given him. strict instructions to Mr. George
"I have had strict Instructions Bernard Shaw that he is to live al non-controversial fe for the next fram Mrs. Shaw not to let him talk month,
to or see anyorie," Miss Patch said.
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