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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1938.
Murder
THE JAPANESE MILITARY
authorities in South China express "appreciation of the strict discipline shown by the troops its the mopping-up campaign."
"A very discreet attitude was maintained by the Japanese in view of the proximity of the British border," the message "When continues, and adds:
Japanese British territory they did not fire a single shot on the Chinese troops with their backs to the British border, but repulsed them with bayonets."
The complacent attitude of the Japanese military authorities is not consistent with facts, We have seen the shattered bodies of Chinese women, one about to become a mother, who were shot to death in the machine- gunning of non-combatants who were in British territory, and some of whom were British sub- jects. The latest death-roll of innocent Chinese people done to death on the British side
troops approaches!
on
The A.B.C. of the Z.B.W. Controversy
P
A
OOR OLD ZBW! It
seems to receive much higher percen- of kicks than it deserves, and it really has been in the stocks recently.
tage
I've a great deal of sym- pathy for it, realising that this Colony is in many frespects unique.
I have
-
by
JOHN BLUNT
Then there are times such as last Armistice Day, when some never known any- soulful mortal decided that! where in the world (and I have dirges and funeral marches were seen quite a lot of this mortal the order of the day. sphere) where so many people know so many other people's
business.
I often feel tempted to per- petrate a screed which I should entitle "The Importance of Be ing Unimportant."
Some of the old records are. painful, and prompt the thought that it is high time that ZBW came up to scratch instend.
be content to wallow in jazz for Of course, some people woukl the rest of their days. Just as others would exist in perpetual joy could symphonic poems or It matters not which parti- recurrent rhapsodical rhythm be cular sphere or phase one takes; provided ad lib. Journalists or jockeys-doctors
or
deucons-civil servants ብኛ
clerks there are always those 7BW HAS PUT over some ex extraordinarily knowledgeable ceptional good stuff, and people who know exactly how some of the local artists would everything should be done--and hold their own anywhere. why.
For sentimental reasons there As an ordinary listener who are the good old die-hards who persist in singing when they seeks entertainment in return have long since passed their for the moderate expenditure of hey-day. twelve dollars per consider that I get good value.
annum,
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WHEN I FIRST acquired
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world-receiving set, I spent hours searching the wave-band, or whatever it is, in an effort to find something really wonderful
GRIN AND BEAR, IT
By Lichty
1970 by Uniona Poštars Vyučenia, Inc.
Henry,
"The soduct we pretend we're leaving.
they'll serve the food!"*
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The work of the
the sooner
Emergency
Refugee Committe
HE EMERGENCY REFUGEE COUN- to
-by-
CIL was formed the Rt. Rev. deal with a situation of emergency in Hongkong and South China.
RONALD HONGKONG
Locally, they are doubtless appreciated, and at least conjure up memories with the listener of the good old days in the Colony, when "we have all had u merry time together."
Sentimental tosh must be cut put, however, for it should not be forgotten that ZBW is heard all over the world, and from the
Its appeal for funds was point of view of our pride alone, 1 discovered that there is
we cannot afford to folst upon first issued when there was
local branch of the will be provided for by Tuesday much of a muchness wherever
our overseas listeners something no
onc of the Distress you tap in, and even the B.B.C. which reminds
in China Fund. afternoon. Now that the latter Fund programmes at times leave me curate's egg. cold, and I wonder why they can
If ZBW can relay London so has been opened there is no put over such tripe.
well, I do not see why it should rivalry between the two. Shumchun and a group of boys. The
The voluntary workers organised four the ER.C. consist of the
who were at Maryknoll Fathers
not come to an understanding
the senior pupils of Wah Yun College. That is where I am probably to relay some of the other The Distress in China Fund. Arst group of boys were drawn from entirely wrong, for what is famous stations in the world. deals with China generally; Hongkong, under Fr. Donnelly,
party of Boy Scouts assembled by the tripe to me is doubtless nectar to It would be both entertaining the ER.C. is in a position to These have now been replaced by t others. And so it is, and al and instructive to listen occa-use in any emergency aris- District Commissioner for Kowloon, ways will be with ZBW, or any sionally to the United States, ing close at hand the funds Mr. Chan Fook Hong. A party of
other station.
:
Australia, Canada, France and
(when Germany
the latter
entrusted to it.
country happens to be in a During the past week the I do not for a moment suggest musical mood), and I offer this E.R.C. attempted
ness.
to establish
Kweichung and Namtao.
ladies from the Y.W.CA. have under- taken the welfare work for the women and children.
The E.R.C. is extremely grateful. from various associations and from members of the public during the last few days.
that our local station is ne plus humble suggestion in all serious- refugee centres at Shumchun, for all the help that it has received supra but taking all logical con- siderations into account, it is above the average amongst the many smaller stations,
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TAKE IT for granted that ZBW docs try to do its best. There appears to be some doubt AT TIMES ZBW annoys me as to whether it is a Government intensely. For example; one institution or a semi-independent
body. is occasionally taken over London for a relay of something particularly interesting.
to
Actually, that does not matter 60 very much, as long as its nasters, the listeners, get rea- For some unfathomable rea- sonable value for their money. son, these in control at this end, I should not like to think that watching the clock, realise that it is such an autocratic organi- it is now time for the Weatherton, as some of the newspaper
critics imply. Report,
local share ог the quotations, and without so much
It was suggested to me the as "sorry" the enthralled listener other day that the reason why heavy music is churned out just is suddenly brought to earth before dinner, is because one of with a dull thud, cursing who the programme deciders happen- ever decided that he should be ed to select something of the sort years ago, and since that switched back to Hongkong.
unfortunate moment, the prece dent has been followed.
A beginning was actually
Its chief need at present is not food made at Shumchun under the
covering. direction of two members of the but, especially, mailing and worm Council, Miss Atkins and Ad- Within the next week it will have. jutant Ponting, of the Salvation the care of more than 10,000 refugees: Army, assisted by Fr. De Angelis 5,000 at Kum Tin, 5,000 at Fanling. and four Maryknoll Fathers, Frs, and more than 6,000 in the Donnelly, Donavan, Fitzgerald Urban Camps.
Bed matting and warm quilts are all these, and present and Reardon, who remained un-
supplies are not adequate for even half. til it became clear that their help needed for would be no longer of avail.
When the refugees began to pour across the frontier, centres for food distribution were then established at Fanling, Sheung shui and Shataukok.
new
A large supply that was being ac-
and blankets was sent to Canton cumulated of warm clothics and quills when the opportunity arose last week, for it was felt that the generosity of
the Hongkong pubile would replace them. These supplies are now need- ed urgently.
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Fanting was made the centre, and this point, the E.R.C. distributed sup- from its rapidly accumulated store at plies to any organisation that needed them for the food centres that they CINCE THE WORK of the ER.C. is Mias Atkins and Ad- spread over many centres, it will had set up, Jutant Ponting were in charge of this be most convenient if any gifts of work, usalsted by some members of materials should be given into St. John Ambulance Association and of the collecting centres rather than a large group from the Chinese sent direct to the camps.
The appeal for help at Fanling was
Y.M.C.A.
Representatives of the ER.C. have.
of the border is eleven, nearly We all of whom were women. have heard stories
the of shooting down of other civilians the Chinese side of the frontier and we have been informed by people, who stated they were eye-witnesses, of the beating of civilians who were attempting to escape to the sanctuary of British territory. The machine-gunning of Bri- tish subjects for a Chinese born In Hongkong la as much a
I can only suggest one remedy. during the past few days, constantly an emergency one, and thanks to the British subject as any other
It should be a binding revisited all the points near the fron- generosity of the public the im- who fler where help seemed to be needed, mediate need there has been supplied. The Kowloon Canton Railway Is post and they have been in close touch
with such bodies as the Wai Young very generously providing transport person born in the British
quirement prandial programmes, should and Un Long Commercial Associa- for everything for the Camp that is Empire-appears to us sufficient
bo compelled to listen to tions which have done such excellent sent through the ER.C., but it cannot cause for vigorous protest and
them. Even were that the rulo, work in feeding thousands of refugees undertake to deal with parcels left
by Individuals at Kowloon Station.
The stationmaster at Farling Rail- action on the part of the British law upon which intercourse things would be much about the dolly during these days.
sume for the simple reason that
way Station will, however, continue authorities. Even apart from between nations, even nations there is no accounting for the
is founded. The mood of the mortal. On some THE ER.C. I also working in co- to accept for the ER.C. any goods operation with the Government that are left there. It is requested the
war, excuse that the border, at
nights my soul cries out for the in connection with the Refugee that further supplies of perishable
goods should be brought there. after all, is only thin Japanese Army has repeat- elusive glory of Schubert, while Camps.
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The following are the collecting · Under its susplees a number of
in centres: strip of water and that the edly broken the code which, the very next night I may find
with the new Refugee .connection although unwritten, is as bind- myself en rapport with the mush voluntary workers are helping people on both sides are of one
of Irving Berlin.
Hongkong: St. John's Cathedral. Camp formed at Fanling with Its the up- race whose enemy is Japan thoing upon nations as
This all boils down to one in headquarters at Fanling Railway Hall; French Convent School, Cause
way Bay: Soomen's Institute, Wan- chal mere fact that non-combatants written British Constitution is controvertible fact. We all love Station.
the more
Two
thousand refugees are already
Kowloon: St. Andrew's Church, have been killed violates upon the peoples of the United variety in life, and
varied the menu, the greater accommodated in railway wagons and
fed from kitchens supplied by the Nathan Rd.; St. Teresa's Church, the unwritten international Kingdom.
our appetité.
Government. An additions)8,000 Kowloon Tong Peninsula Hotel,
The weather, time or share quotations surely could wait for a few moments. On occasions, they might very well be dia. pensed with altogether.
arrange
that those the
pre
or