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Refugees
Dated this 31st day of January, 1939.
Order of the Board.
Commission, both days inclusive. which last spring was raised to the status of a Ministry and put under the direct charge of Dr. H. H. Kung, President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, has issued report on what it has been able to do, up. to the end of October, for the assistance of no fewer than 10,- 000,000 refugees.
Eight relief districts, each with its administration offices, have been or- various gunised, and in each the
W. L.. MCKENZIE,
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THE
"STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders offices have co-operated with the local authorities, police, and private relict organizations in solving local
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN problems. Through this cooperation it has been possible to give directly THAT THE FORTY-FIRST OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF to war refugees regular relief, well as special aid in case of emer-THIS COMPANY will be held at gency and relief in the form of work. In this way 3,500,000 refugees the Office of Messrs. Jardine, relieved at n cost of Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, Chinese dollars (about the 24th February, 1939, at 11.30 Refugees are also given rellef in-.m. for the purpone of receiving Provincial the Report of the Directors to directly
through the
Statement of Governments. According to the needs gether with
have been
1,500,000
£56,000).
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in each Province the Commission has Accounts for the year ended 31st either appointed special members to be stalloned there to direct the relief-December, 1938. giving or has made cash appropria-"
tions
The Register of Shares of the to the Provincial authorities Company will be CLOSED from
By order of the Board Directors,
C. M. MANNERS.
of
Crew of the Bea Dragon
Trans-Pacific Junk Heads for Formosa
'New' School
Is Planned
A NEW type of secondary school may come into being if recommenda lions of the Consultative Committee of Education are to the Board
MR. RICHARD
adopted. HALLIBURTON'S junk, Sea Dragon, which started out from Hongkong at 4 p.m. on a trans-Pacific journey, is making Saturday last for favourable progress, according to information received in Ilongkong yesterday.
The junk is heading for Keelung. in Formosa, and up to yesterday morning had experienced fair
weather, and reported itself to be Swab Found In
making excellent progress.
The Sea Dragon is en route to San Francisco, via Keelung and Midway. Island. It carries a crew of 12, who hope to sail the junk to America in 15 days.
Those aboard are-Captain John
Patient's Body
ly before Lords Justice Scott, Weich, skipper, John Potter, an IN the Court of Appeal recent Henry von Fehren, engineer, Richard MacKinnon and Goddard, an Davis, assistant-engineer, Gordon
In its report, published recently by the Stationery Ofce, 35. dd. net, the committee recommends establishment selected boys at 11 years of age and of "technient high schools, to take provide a five-years course."
MORE FREEDOM NEEDED Curricula at these schools for the Arst two years would be similar to courses at other secondary schools. Later the cominittee says that edu- cation in the past has been too sca- demic-the course would follow more modern lines, with science as its cen- tral feature.
it is also suggested that a new type
schools, with a stituted for these of internal examination might be in- certificate to be taken at 10. leaving
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(totalling $2,000,000 or £75,000) for Friday, the 17th February, 1939, rich, radio operator. Past Mooney, appeal was brought by Dr. R. P.ot grammar schools and allowance distribution through local granto Friday, the 24th February, Jeurnslist. George Bastow, ship's Osborne, resident surgeon at the taste and capacities of pupils are tions.
also advocated by the committee. It To people suffering from air bom- 1939, both days inclusive.
musician, Robert Chase, 22, Patrick Park Hospital, Davyhuime, Man- tastes Kelly, 17, James Sligh coolt, and A. chester, from the award of £616 stresses, too, the importance of good bardment relief is given in the form
D. Flagg last-minute replacement for of cash allowances for burial or of city
Gordon Taney, who tractured his 39. 6d. damages in the action teaching of English in grammar medical aid. The number
Ultimately it looks forward to a ankle and could not make the trip. tried at Manchester Assizes he-schools. bombardments thus taken note of by
fore Mr. Justice Atkinson and a single national system of schools for the Commission is 3,300, with 37,000
special jury in which the plain- pupils between 11 und 10. Varied civilians wounded and 30,000 lead.
ti was Mrs. Elizabeth Malon, types of schools existing would then The total of this relief amounts to
be under one secondary code. $357,000.
of Hancock Street, Stretford.
The most dificult type of rellet to administer is that for the people in the invaded areas. Various foreign inlesionary organisations and inter- national charity institutions have been able to accomplish a great deal,
Secretary. Hongkong, 30th January, 1930.
NOTICE
PAINTING BY JEW REFUGEE
We have been requested to point out that the comments appearing under a photographie reproduction or painting by Miss Irma Last, of pubilshed last Saturday, were no
inade by Miss Last, but by another source.
Madamo Rudek, previously milliner with Madame Chiffen, is now solely associated, ns from All in all, the number of persons
February 6, with EUNICE, assisted through direct eash appro- priation of the Commission reaches Peninsula Hotel Arcade. about 3,070,000,
and that of those
assisted indirectly through the local
authorities 2,830,000.
Besides these
it is estimated that 3,000,000 refugees Children's Hospital
have been relleved through private charity organisations subsidised by the Commission.
-STARTING A NEW LIFE
Commission has established
The
To Close Branch
TA ADWORTH (Surrey) branch
hospital and convalescent 325 stations for transporting and home of the Hospital for Sick distributing refugees. Along the Children, Great Ormond Street, routes through which they travel and is to be closed temporarily be- at the places of their Anal abode the local military and political author cause of Inck of funds,
tles have
been requested to co- operate to secure systematic and appropriate method of dispersion. The number of those thus assisted Is well over 200,000.
Most of these people are eager to earn their own malatenance if they can be given a little necessary ald at the start. The two main types of work which have been made avail- able to them are reclamation of waste land und various types of handicraft. Particular attention is paid to the relief and maintenance of skilled workmen, for which pur- pose a special fund of $1,000,000 (£37,000) has been set aside.
Homeless children are so numer-
has in that the Commission structed all its stalions and offices to spare no effort in giving them re- lief. Children's maintenance camps have been established, and the Com-. mission is prepared to contribute expenses for half the mnintenance voluntary institutions carrying on such work.
ous
In the period under review the Commission received $9,000,000 (£340,000) in grants from the na- tional Treasury, $437,000 in contri- butions from home, and $143,000 (£5.400)
contributions brood.
500
in
This was decided by the hospital board of management recently.
"During 1938, owing to the difficult times and the international crisis, the unnual deficit on the hospital's run- ning costs has risen by over £10,- 000." the board states.
"Patients at Tadworth will be dis- chargedi as
Soon 15 possible and every effort made to place the staff in other posts."
£10,000 YEARLY
Lieut.-Colonel Stanley S. G. Cohen, deputy chairman of the hospital, said the Tadworth branch provided oc- commodation for 115 children in a healthy country atmosphere,
"It enabled us to send children there who were convalescent, thus making room for more patients at Great Ormond Street," he said.
"The reopening of Tadworth is entirely dependent on the hospital's income and our ability to allocate £10,000 yearly for its maintenance.“
HALLIBURTON OFF
from After Many Delays Junk
Leaves for America
Birds Inherited After many delays and disappoint-
ments. Mr. Richard Halliburton's LONDON, Junk Sea Dragon left Hongkong at Five hundred pet birds and 134 p.m. on Saturday on the start of dogs are part of the legacy left by her long all to San Francisco, via Frances, Countess of Warwick, to Keelung and Midway Island, her house-keeper, Miss Nancy Gal- The junk's departure and farewell pin. Out of an estate of $185,000, the was quiet, and she made a pis Countess fert Mus Galpin an annuity turesque sight
down the salung of $2,000.
harbour, with twelve two ship's
men, cats, a radio receiver and transmitter, motor, and plenty of supplies aboard. Before he left, Halliburton thanked friends in Hongkong for helping him with his arrangements, and said he hoped be in America in 150 days.
THE "TELEGRAPH” will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public interest. Requests Davis, should be addressed to the Pictorial Editor,
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Miss Last wishes to make it clear
that she has always recived extreme courtesy from oficials of the German
consulate in Hungkong.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Mr.
John Morris, K.C., for Dr. claim by Mr, suld the Osborne, Mahon was in respect of the death of her son, Thomas Mahon, at the Park Hospital, Davyhulme, after on abdominal operation which was per- by Dr. Osborne in March formed 1037. There was no question at all a swab was that in the operation
tion.
The chairman of the committee is. Mc. Will Spens, master of Corpus Christi College, Cumbridge.
Oxford Man's £50 Customs Fine
left in the patient's body and no FINES and costs, totalling £65 5s. were imposed at Dover issue was contested in the court be- low that the leaving of the swab recently on Alan Ker, an Oxford caused the death of the patient, which occurred after a second opera-undergraduate, for attempting to evade Customs duties on a The Jury awarded Mrs. Mahon film projector and for making a £200 odd under the Fatal Accidents false declaration.
Mr. E. A. Booth, prosecuting, said Act and £400 under the Law Re- form (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act Ker arrived at Daver on the Shep- The perton Ferry on October 3 with a The Hongkong Stock Exchange for less of expectation of life.
Ho was carrying a ofetat summary issued at 12.30 p.m.action was brought against Dr. Os motor-car. Saturday, says:
borne and Nurse Ethel Monica Ash-camera of British manufacture and The markUL
quietly steady burner, who assisted in the operating a projector
He signed a formal declaration that the theatre, but the jury found that the during the short session, and small volume of business that passed nurse was not negligent and she was the projector had been taken out of no longer in the action or In the the country by his brother, who had was on slightly improved levels.
appeal. Dr. Osborne bad conducted had it for two months abroad and Buyers
600 or 700 abdominal operations, and that he had purchased it in Eng- the evidence was that he was a very land. able surgeon and extremely careful und conscientious in his work.
The projector was detained by the suggestion was made against his Custonis and in-November an officer capabilities as a surgeon.
was
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Counsel's submission on behalf of
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Dr. Osborne was that on the evi-me, as I wish to make a confession."
Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- Imperial Airways Plane Ho added that the declaration he dence he did nothing wrong at all at
the operation and he was not negli-made at Dover was incorrect, that he
Kent.
It was not as the result of had purchased the projector in Port any negligence on his part that the Said on October 2 for about £17, letter of swab was left in Mahon's body. On and that he would write
did explanation to the commissioners. Osborne did the other hand, Dr.
Mr. S. Lamb, for Ker, sald Ker everything that was proper for him
trouble caused. opologised for the as a surgeon to do.
His character was irreproachable.
The duty evaded was £0 10%, and the Bench Imposed a fine of £25-on each summons, with five guineas costs.
"ELABORATE SYSTEM" WENT
WRONG
Replying to the Bench, Mr. Morris said it was not part of his case lo throw
any blame on anyone else. There was, added counsel, an ela- borate system at the hospital of counting the swabs at an operation. and they were very carefully checked before and after the operation.
He Pushed A Tiger's Face
"Undoubtedly someone mado A
John Murrey saw a tiger at the mistake," said Mr. Morris, "and the Agricultural Hall Circus "pushing its evidence is that there was a mis face through the bars" and "It look count somewhere at sometime by led so tame he put out his hand to someone. But so far as the operat-puch the tiger back.
ing surgeon is concerned, my case in The tiger bit the top off his anger. that he had done nothing wrong. He Murrey, 30 years old, living at conducted this operation just the Gravel Lane, Southwark, was wan- same as he had conducted otherdering with the great crowd of circus operations of the same kind, and he goers through the side-show section. ad nothing different from what he Between their act in the ring with ordinarily
bus docs, He
done Madame Ceciley, the tigers are cag- nothing which, in a medical sense, ed in the side show with a barrier was wrong, or careless or negligent." to keep people well away.
A representative of Krone's Circus
The real lasue in the caso, said said that the tiger is used to being Mr. Morris, was: Did Dr. Osborne handled and potted by the girl who make a reasonable search for swabs? trains it and after the Incident His contention was that there was that evening it went through its no evidence on which the jury could performance twice in the normal find that the surgeon did not make such a search.
„Those aboard are--Captain John Welch, skipper, John Polter, 23,
A life-sized model of a human Henry van Tehren, engineer, Richard
A young man, aged 20, gassed him- torso was brought into court and assistant-engineer, Gordon self in a Yeovil (Somerset) Board- fald on the deal beside counsel. The operator, Paul Mooney, ing-house, and after days* en- model had movable organs, and some these were taken out by Mr. Robert Chase, 22, Patrick Under the carpet of his bedroom Morris in the course of his argument 17, James Bligh cook, and A. thirteen 21 notes of recent issue 11 to lustrate the poellion in which
Petrich, radio
, George Bastow, ship's quiries, hos still not been identified.of.
D. Flagg last-minute replacement for consecutive numbers, placed in four the awab' was left. Gordon Torrey, who fractured his lots, were found by a maid when
ankle and could not make the trip... cleaning the room,
The hearing was adjourned.
way.
THIEF TAKES SAW MILL
MEDFIELD, Mam. Police chief Homer G. Hogan is seeking a thief who stole a seven-ton portable raw mill from woodlot where Nelson G. Tibbets was clear ing hurricane-felled timber.
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