THE
·* HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, AUGUST,
1988
Japanese Admit
BUT CLAIM RUSSIANS' LOSS HIGHER
Soviet Aircraft Again Reported Over Korea
Tokyo, Aug. 9.
The ninth day of hostilities on Japan's new front was marked by new Soviet aerial activity, according to official communique issued yester- day.
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It is also claimed that the Soviet troops retreated to a distance of 400 yards, after having previously advanced to a point within 200 yards of the summit of Changkufeng Hill.
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Soviet aeroplanes are reported to have limited
activities yesterday morning's demonstration flights but in the afternoon twenty machines are said to have crossed the Korean border and bombed Keiko, on the south bank of the Tumen River.
Serious
Border Casualties WHITEAWAY'S
LETTERS TO THE SHANGHAI MOBILISING
TO COMBAT THREAT FROM TERROR GANGS
EDITOR
BLUNT ANSWER
To the Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
the
Str. Unfortunate is Chinese of this Colony that we have not more "newcomers to Hongkong" of the calibre of Mrs. Selwyn- Clarke, whose article in The New Statcaman and Nution so arouses the Indiggnation of "John Blunt."
Shanghai, Aug. 9.
From midnight to-night, all members of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps will attend business in uniform.
The entire force has been placed on a precautionary basis, ready to be called out at any time of the day or tonight to deal with terrorist outbreaks.
Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke is taken task by your correspondent for
having
The temerity to assert" that the white population of Hongkong. has been concerned, for nearly a century, only in making pronts out of the Chinese.
Let "John Blunt" answer some of
the following questions I am going to propound and then honestly say that the people of this Colony are here for any one's beneft but their
own:
How many English residents of Hongkong remain in the Colony after they rench the retiring age?
-What
percentage of the share- holders of the "enormous banks and the. Colony where institutions are earning their!
once live in
hard-won" incomes?
their
This is the first stage of the special precautions being taken in foreign areas throughout this week in connection with the August 13 anniversary.
Volunteers attending cinemas last night were warned to don uniforms to-morrow and be ready to be called out as soon as a message is flashed on the screen.
Dionne Babies
In Bed
3-0 the Colony's total revenue of approximately
per mately $20,000,000 Sore annum, how much is spent on (a) military contributions
to the Im-
perial Government; (b) pensions to retiring civil servants or their de pendants: (c) salaries for elvil: servants; (d) charitable purposes?
4-What are the average salaries of (a) English employees of the Government: (b) Chinese employees of the Government?
5. Why is it that a European civil servant gets tenfold the salary of a Chinese employer filling an identiel
#.-How much further removed
The Japanese casualties up to 6 p.m. on Saturday are officially given as 70 killed and 180 wounded, with an additional 200 casualties-theusion? number of dead or wounded is not specified from slavery and exactly how much since then.
It is claimed that 1,500 Soviet troops have been filled and wounded,} altogether, whije, since the hostilities commenced, six Soviet planes have! been brought down. two allegedly over Korean territory-Reuter,
Dwellings Destroyed
Tokyo, Aug. 9. Soviet bombardment" and aerial! bombing of. Kogi and Kojo, towns in northern Korea, are vividly des cribed by Domel's correspondent who is watching the border situation.
The correspondient says that more! than ten dwelling houses in the town of Kojo have been completely dea
result of the troyed by fire as 1 series of devastating
At about noon on Soviet planes app
7, two
a town in northed over Keiko,
bombed and
ol
Korea,
und
the
machine-gunned houses and civilian population there including the lodgings of a number men who have now newspaper been ordered to evneunte the town! by the Japanese military authorities in view of the serious situation developing.
as well as various
points on the
The correspondent further reports that the railway tracks near Kagi. border have been raided by Soviet planes.
The local populace is maintaining its calm.-Domei.
"SEEKING WAR AT ANY COST"
Moscow Newspaper Accuses Japan's Militarists
But Provides Formula For Ending Crisis
W.A. To S.P.C. the Soviet.
In Session
Llic
Moscow, Aug. 8.
! It is regarded as significant that Pravda, which usually reflects ofleini Soviet opinion, draws the line be- tween "The
the sober elements in Japanese ruling feireles who, appre- Japan's present didiculties, chiting
US.S.R." and the are not interested in war against the "aggressive Japanese military circles who, in league with the Kwantung and Korean Ariny leaders, are seeking a war against Soviet Russia
better off-are the thousands of men¦
During yesterday morning officers of foreign military units and police conferred, putting the finishing touches to the precautionary arrange- ments.
Yesterday evening much surprise
เบอร
With caused when the Shanghai
Throats
Callender, Aug. 8.
The famous Dionne quintuplets have been contined to their brds In the Dafoe Hospital with throat infection...
All public appearances have been cancelled. "Pere" Dlounc, the father of the five children, is most concerned regarding the condition of Macie, but Dr. Dafoe and other specialists state that the condition of the kiddies is not serious-United Press.
English selanols Whis
Municipal Police suddenly proceeded la place barricades between the International Settlement and French Concession boundary. It is under- stood that for the first time in the history of Shanghai all side streets are being barricaded, leaving only the main streets and thoroughfares open.
A total of 15,000 armed men are being arganised in the Settlement und French Concession, rendy to cope with any emergency.--Reuter.
Tension In Outskirts
of
Jankow, August 9. With the approach of August 13. anniversary of the outbreak hostilities In Shanghai tension growing in the outskirts of the city.
All communications in the western and women coolles employed ou
districts have been suspended by the road-making, constructing fortifica for
$36,946 Japanese authorities, and in con- tions, ete, in Hongkong than Chinese ($18,470 each) and of four Inspectors sequence a large number of cargo similarly employed, say, by the for Vernacular Schools $52,281 ($13-boats are held up in Soochow Creek Japanese in the Japanese concession 070 each): for 25 English
masters at Tientsin?
5331,431 ($13,250 pa, each) and forear the Japanese Toyoda Cotton Mill. In the Hongkew area, pedestrians
7. What exactly are the unstint- 56 Vernacular masters $163,490 ($7.0 | in Jessfeld,
An-
ing efforts that have been made to 000 each). Apropos the Inspectors are searched by police and Japanese educate the Chinese in Hongkong, to note that two were required for soldiers. To prevent untoward which "John Blunt" roters?
17,970 English children, only four incidents
ifactories have many children. Chinese What is the difference between for 61,700 the Hongkong Covernment selling other thing about this education we suspended operations.
Tension is more acute In footung. of! opium to the Chinese through the should be so proud Although
More civilians are fleeing to the Opium Monopoly Board, and the the 1931 census showed that there foreign areas in Shanghai Central Hiicit opium dealer selling it in were then 119,008 Chinese children News. divan, except that it is cheaper and of school age in the Colony, in 1930 had robbed the Hongkong Govern-wo found sufficient money to provide ment of its one-time best source of eduention for only 50 per cent, of revenue, as it was once so naively them.
put by a Government offelal?
9. What is the difference between
a registered mui - teal and
registered child slave?
fact that 1
So
un
it n
former enough
the
with
out of Maend and Canton, Trade developed, and with it, and the In
themoved sanitation because
developinent, but these
What precisely have the foreign merchants contributed towards the education of
of the Chinese? Who, for example are the biggest donors of
in endowments
the
itsent schools attended chicßy
nt.
Mrs.
the time I'll remain a little tin go and Selwyn-Clarke showing it complete
"H
In conclusion, might I point out to creusing foreign and Chinese popula- "John Blunt that the principal tax-tlon, came also necessities which de- payers of Hongkong are Bal
attention. These included the com- 10. What is the total amount of English, whose interests we carefully
contributions by English guard by refraining from imposing munity was threatened with extinc- and epidemies. to distinctly income tax and dividend tax. The tion from plague people in Hongkong
Government obtains most Later cure housing and education Hongkong Chinge relief
such organisations
a fax on the пла urban the
Society? If of its revenue from Street Sleepers'
of trade, and English people are munineent, dirty hovels into which more than only came as a
of our population is were relative to the demands of a In a leading article to-day, why is it that these societies con-00 per cent.
pocketing Pravda connects the Chungkustantly complain of lack of finances compressed, each occupart no mat- system which insisted upon Isn't i fact that contributions to ter how Indigent he may be-pay- profits and dividends first. feng lighting with a chain of the Dogs' Home exceed those to the ing his little towards taxation that should rightly, be borne by the persistent efforts on the part of Street Sleepers' Association?
11.--How much did it cost Gov-people better able to pay. Japanese military circles-efforts
I'm not proud of Hongkong. I'm that have persisted for over nine crument to build (0) Stanley Prison,
housing 2,000 convicta
(b) and
it: ushamed of disgusted t years-to injure relations be- Queen Mary Hospital, the only de-
snobbishness and its parochialism by Chinese scholars? The Chinese, tween Soviet Russia and Japan cent Government hospital in and quite willing to leave as soon
course, as anybody can discour ns, like a civil servant, I can get if he cares to pay a visit to either with the ultimate object of Colony for free patients?
to retire on. In the mean King's or Queen's College drawing Japan into war against Medical Officer oficially
with
John Blunt
Blunt complains of that work in connection Queen Mary Hospital had to le pour stupid coolles bowing to me a
calling me "talpan,” and beggars jack of understanding und of suffer- skimped and expenditure cut to the bone because Government would not ring hungrily ne me through neng from a most unusual and Imprac
The same cap seems while at the windows of the Hongkong Hotel na tical complex. fands provide loan same time Stanley Prison was being have my succulent $3.30 tim, to fit John Blunt when he says:
which I couldn't afford in England. Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke expects to bulit from loan funds?
No, I'm no Empire builder. Like the coolle masses going to school like to That Let me answer some of my own per cent, of the other Britons in good boys and girls
of Information questions for
Hongkong, I'm taking mighty fine is precisely what the coolie masses John Blunt,"
can and do do, if given the oppor- Question No. 1 answers itself. For care that No. 1 is going to be
JUST ME.
tunity I will credit Jolm Blunt with the life of me I cannot think of even
meaning children when he talics. any one well-to-do Hongkong resident
about the "coolle masses", for if he who has remained in this Colony
AT A LOSS
means adults his whole illustration "n the absence of Mrs. Overell, who
pravda
adds: "It the Japanese after retirement. On the contrary,
is absurd, just as absurd as talking is ill, Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier read the Government really wishes to demon-can
names of can recall innumerable
Sir,-Having rend yesterday's about the adult masses of any nation minutes of the meeting held last strand, the mesolid rantain its own those who, having made their pitch
intentions
which Random Ramblings", and its cita- going to school like good boys and Selwyn-Clarke's girls. It he does refer to children, I Mrs. Bevan, Branch Secretary of militarists and compel the Kwan-he
searched tions reside," they
New Staterman
would remind him of the recent re- the Western District, was introduced tung and Korean Armies to respect through the Government Blue Book letter to the
I am stiilport published by Social Settlements to the Chairman and welcomed by the existing border.
In vain to find the name of a retired Nation, for the third time, the ladies present.
Well-informed circles in Moscow stront who has made Ilong- at a loss to know what John Blunt which laid particular stress on the
obvious
success of a school for the children Mrs. Grant kindly consent to act see in Prada's reference to the two
kong his home on the pension pro-is so upset about. ns Treasurer to the Society.
attitudes prevailing in Japan a means
Selwyn- Hongkong That is concreto proof A letter was received from Mrs. by which the Japanese Government vided by the Hongkong tax-payer. clusion is that he is funky of honest of some of these "coolie masses" in
Question No, 2 also answers itself. criticism. He takes Mrs. Heiberg regretting her inability to could find a formula for an agree
Granted, there
arke to task for allegations, which of their willingness, nay anxiety, arc many share-
John Blunt protes about the continue as a member of the Societyment with Soviet Russia concerning of the European banks and he describes as "grossly unfair and go to school like good boys and girls. She
a cheque for $100, and the dispute without losing "face" cnclosed n
institutions that have created their misleading", but makes no attempt to be made
by claiming that Life Member, possibly asked to be
Government hact wealth, residing in this Colony. But refute them, with cogent argument. splendid developments made on be-
What
Je, has done is to insist upon half of the Chinese here, but has ho The Chairman expressed, on behalf Japanese of the members. her regret that Mrs. ordered the violation of the Soviet the shareholders who are drawing creating a controversy, and then runs really seen a close-up of the slumst Does he know from first hand sufficient wealth from their shares to
observation and experience that they Helberg had made this decision, but
retire lose no time in shaking the away from its challenge. welcomed her as Life Member.
dust and Alth of Hongkong from: So far as "Random Ramblings" are are veritable death-traps in case of letter was received from the
their feet.
concerned, Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke's fre; that they are, almost without Commissioner of Police granting the
I is learned that Great Britain The answer to Question No. 3 is allegations remain "grossly unfair exception, minus sanitation; that Society permission to hold their
their Flag
has decided not to attempt to most Bluminaling. We found suf- and misleading" if judgment of them they, willy-nilly, breed Saturday,
disense? There is nothing fine about March 11, 1930, Day un
mediate in the Soviet-Japanese dis- fielent money to spend in 1936 (the depends merely Letters were also received from the pute unless expressely requested to lost you to present the Imperialite if judged by facts and logic. In very little that is fine about Hong- incontestably Hongkong's slums. In fact there in year for which I have access to action, but they pre various societies in the colony ex-do so by Moscow and Tokyo.
statistics) pressing their willingness to receive
It is understood that at a confer- Government with $4,281,000 for de- fact, John Blunt's outburst of right- kong apart from the business acumen and Chinese mer-
Auxiliary of The Women's Society for the Protection of Children held its monthly meeting this morn ing at the Helena May Institute Mrs. C. A. Middleton-Smith was in the Chair.
month.
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แ
at
the
nol
but border-Reuter.
NOT MEDIATING
London, Aug. 8.
omeint
Russian and
have
country
have
of
Mrs. from
and
con-
TC- on emotional
to
germs and
their
Rolf-
visitors from the Women's Auxillary ence between the Premier, Mr. fence; present retired civil servants cous indignation becomes a dead loss of the foreign
The discussion of the appeal to the Neville Chamberlain, and the Foreign and their dependants with $2,287,000 to his cause when he is willing to ad- chants, and the buildings which they Society, was postponed until next was reached that Russia and Japan aaiaries $12,218,000. For charitable trade. I'll say we are! It's trade business or in which to live.
of Hongkong to join the secretary, Lord Hallfax, the decision in pensions and pay in Government mit: "Certainly we are out here for erect either th which to do
last, but cer- I recommend John Blunt to get out settle the dispute diploma- services Government could, and only first, and if. pononcat foreigner will of his arm-chair and see things for month.
could It was decided that, as October 14tically.
$182,000, less than was paid for the tainly first. No honest
am sure, sing a was the day before the Cathedral
ardent im-himself. He will, most Japanese,
Volunteer forces deny this. The upkcep of the
different tune that smug. Builder" will Garden Fete, the Society's Bridge and quarters in London are confident that This amount was subsequently reperislist and "Empire
satisfied number entitled "We Are Mahjongg Drive should be postponed the dispute will remain localised duces, owing to straightened circum-admit it, because it is a fact. until the end of October or the begin- United Press.
stances!
We did not settle in Hongkong be- The Best". Until we enn face critic
it according to its true ning of November, the exact date to
Question No. 7-Education is cause we were altruistically moved lan and assess
"John Blunt" so painstakingly to give the Chinese a better deal than value, we cannot beast 100 aub-committee was elected to arrange Shinn, who is retiring from this duty comments,
Unfortunately, there is could their rulers. We settled here about our "fine British Colony
probably the best (relatively speak- the details of the drive: Mesdames for four months.
no way of discovering the ratio be in the first place because it offered a Chow Overell.Pearcy, Willson, There being no further business, tween the per capita cost of educat refuge from the depredations of the ing) commercial proposition the Em- Lieper, and Smalley.
the meeting adjourned until Septerh- ing an English and a Chinese child Chineso in Canton. From Hongkong pire has, but there isn't much more
to mych Mrs. Pealey offered to visit the bar, 13, at 9.45 am, pt the Helena May in, Hongkong, but it is Interesting to the British merchants carried on the Juvenile Courts in the place of Mika Tasiitute,
note that the cost of two Inspecters trade which earlier, had been carried
be, decided, later. That following
much
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