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international The parading of forces including United States Marines, French, Italinn, British and Japanese forces, marked the farewell to Col. J. C. Fegan this morning, Mounted Municipal Police escorted: him to the parade ground.
Wednesday,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Hitler
FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
What to do to help a child
Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or 1-treated in a manner likely to cruse unnecessary suffering or Injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any matter concerning a child, would be doing an act of kindness by communicating at once with-
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The Inspector, 40, Pokfulam Road, 1st floor.
The Inspector, 15, Star St., Wanchai.
The Inspector, 12, Sai Young Chol St., Kowloon.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Makes Human
December 6, 1939.
Lives
Contraband
DUTCH LINER TRAGEDY
VIVIDLY DESCRIBED
BY HILDE MARCHANT
HUMAN LIFE HAS BECOME CONTRABAND.
Hitler no longer shows any discrimination between a cargo of
The Inspector, 52, Argyle St., iron ore and a boat-load of men, women and children passing out of
Kowloors.
All further steps will be taken, and expenses berne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved.
Europe's shadow. He gives the right to confiscate their lives.
When the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar struck a German mine seventeen miles off an English East Coast port, only one coherent thought arose above the convul- sion of life aboard......“IT'S HAPPENED."
It was the thing they had expected, discussed, feared.
LETTERS They were neutral, they were a harmless cargo; but that jour, had his lip broken.
"The Warning"
Col. Fegan departs for the United To the Editor, States aboard the President Tuft.- United PreM.
"Hongkong Telegraph."
Sir, was my privilege a few days no to see a preview of the rinema film "The Warning." and I
MESSAGE TO NEHRU
have learned that this film will be Chungking, Deel 5.
this Generalissimo
Kal-shek on view to the public during Chiang has sent a telegraphle reply to Pan-month at various theatres.
The film depicts an air attack on
dit Jawaharlal Nehru, lender of the Indian Nationalist Movement, thanks English town and shows in detail ing him for his message of congraiuln tion on China's recent victory in north Hunan on behalf of the Indian people.--Central News
Opens To-morrow
AT THE
the men and women of the A.RP organisation fulfilling their errands of mercy in alleviating suffering.
The film is Instructive and vividly brings home some of the things we all ought to know if we are to be ready for the emergency of war. The fact that the film is being shown does not mean that this Colony need expect to be involved in nctive war- fare, but it is in these days every- one's duty to be prepared for
taiting all. The Government are possible measures for the defence of
KING'S possibility of war.
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If the emergency ever arose, I am confident that the population Hongkong would come forward In Its thousands, but they would come untrained. For the work we may be called upon to do, one man trained beforehand is worth two or three who come at the last moment,
Service in the A.R.P. organisation is a serious job for free men and women who care for their fellows and for the Colony in which they live.
My advice to the general public is to inake a point of seeing "The Warn- then ing," to ponder over it, and apply for the place which each one tends to take in the A.R.P. organisation.
A. H. S. STELLE PERKINS, Director of Air Raid Precautions.
Vaccination Drive
Free Treatment Available At Hospitals
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With the
of winter, the Medical Authorities are making a big vaccination drive for the fear of Small-pox is always great at this time.
meant
Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Director of Medical Services, stated yesterday that free vaccination was now avoll- able at all government hospital and dispensaries. Ife pointed out, how- ever,
these facilities were primarily for the poorer classes.
"Those who retain the services of private registered medical practi- tloners are asked to assist by seeking vaccination from them, thus leaving the Government medical institutions for those who cannot afford fees," sald Dr. Selwyn-Clarke.
The Director added. "Vaccination against Small-pox is now compulsory for all and the Medical Authorities advise re-vaccination of intervals not exceeding three years owing to the severe strain of infection met with In Hongkong."
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gave them no feeling of security, for they knew the Nazis have a casual regard for such as they.
More than 200 of those whose lives had escaped Nazi censorship came to London to try to sort out the! remnants of their existence. Husbands were without wives, children without parents. They had been seized as contraband.
Jan Seeks Mother
and rushed to help the men with the
"I grabbed my wife and children,
bonts. I knew, how to work them.
"Three minutes later there was a mine; another explosion. It was they hang like a bunch of grapes,
"We were picked up by n, patrol steamer."
What happened to Miss Lieutenant in the sorridor? She was thrown Dat on her face. A steward picked
her up.
"It's happened," he said.
He sent her to get her lifebelt, and
It seems that the life of a four-weeks-old Dutch child she picked up her bag.
is harmful to Germany's war aims. Its lifewas stopped.
So was its mother's, with two more of her children. The father was saved with two daughters-three of this large, pleasant Dutch family.
It seemed, too, an aggressive act that thirteen-year-old Jan Hass was going with his parents and grandmother to a Dutch colony in the East for a few months holiday. Jan and his grandmother were rescued; but it is not sure where his parents
are.
Jan was bewildered when I saw him. He was sorting out a suit for himself in the lounge of the Great Eastern Hotel, Liver-
men than 200 rescued pool-street-refuge for women, seventeen rescued children, and six babies.
more
and
He couldn't understand why he had been chosen to go through such a disaster; but then, Jan is very young, and wouldn't know why Germany wanted his life.
Mr. and Mrs. Velhaughen, too, did not know why their journey to southern summer with their baby, a ginger-headed boy of twelve months, should offend. One thing they knew was that they escaped; and the immediate probleni was to get the oil out of Jan's ginger hair.
On Way To Wed
Child Pinned In Lifeboat
"Peopic
Pitiful Survivors' Stories
"Then a man scraped away the oll. He was white."
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It was midnight. A few hours had passed in their lives, and the disaster that lead been too deep to be real begon to penetrate the imagination of some of the survi Japan
vors.
"It was terrible to see them weep so." the hotel manager went on,
"They cried for their relatives, looking all round for some one they knew.
"Some of them were alone."
In Dutch, French, German, Eng- tish, these people pleaded to know: Where were their children, their hus- bands, their mothers?
to
A few hours is too short a time
realise mass murder.
O streaked the carpets. The
manager said: "Sit down," and oll dripped over the armchairs.
Chambermaids blessed with prac
corridor. They couldn't move.
were grouning in thetical sympathy, took the women Up
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boat, and just as we stairs and cut their clothes off. The chambermaids brought were all settling in it there was the their eum dresses and gave them second explosion."
not ask who WALK Quer; and did The lifeboat was hanging on. the wearing them, and would they get davits. Miss Lieutenant was shot them back. out of it, then fell back into it.
The manager sent out for petrol.Manila" It is rationed so they emptied cars Java and Manila "At first I thought I was in the and taxis, and gave the survivors Shanghai
sea, but I fell the bottom of the
boat and knew it was filled with
water.
There was a child at my feet, but she was pinned down with a piece of wood, and I couldn't get her free.
"Other people go into our boat, land we got clear. With two men, I struggled with the wood to get the
child out.
"She was covered in oil. There was of all over the boat, It was minutes before we got her clear.
"I tried to wash her face in the sea. The oil stuck, so we wiped out her mouth, and her nose und eyes,
These are the details, in terms of human life, of the wrecking and kept her warm." of the Simon Bolivar.
They were going south, this load of people, and they knew that once out of Europe, it would be a nice trip-"We thought it would be like a cruise."
It was twelve o'clock, and the children were in the ship's nursery. The lounge was full, because there was just time for! an aperitif before lunch.
Mr. L. Veltman was on deck with his wife and three girls. He was not very confident.......was an engineer in the minefields in the last war".... so he kept his eye on them all.
Miss Ella Lieutenant was walking along the corridor to the deck: Miss Laura Martin was turning over her wedding presents, in her bunk; for she was going out to be married.
The ship was going dead slow.. Then she stopped, 'He Twisted Back'
Though the ship was still and life on board was taking this! leisurely, incidental pace, it was only three minutes before the people on board were hurled into an experience so hurried andļ grim that only the most adult could record precisely what happened.
Mr. Veltman had the right training to remember.
"I just felt a bump, bump on the bottom, then the glass' was falling. broken spine; a steward, who had been so nice to us on the
"It showered on us. I saw a man twist back with a
R. A. F. Plane On Western Front
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Four boals swung clear, but two on the port side were blown to pieces by the second explosion.
Another hung aft, and the rescued watched it go down, empty.
They saw people stuck in the oil from the ship, unable to move. The captain went with his ship. The boats drew clear. They were filled. Some of the people were
wounded, all were weighted with oil, and bruised.
On board the patrol boat that picked up Mr. Veliman and his family. the wounded were laid deck.
on
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Then these guests of the hotel slept, The women who came back from the sen told me it was strange how quickly they went to sleep when they were clean and had a hot-water bottle at their feet.
I went into the hotel at breakfast
time yesterday. Three sisters In white and black robes were drinking leo eating little. There had been four of them in the boat.
A member of the Dutch Legation came and told them the fourth had been rescued. She clung to a piece of driftwood for five hours. The water weighted her robes, and she could not get them off.
Two le Dutch children had breakfast-in-pale-blue-coats. Their legs were still grey, the cost neared with oil; they played with a doll that squeaked.
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An Englishwoman who had sur- vived said she was a nurse, and she mother kept kissing them, watching tore up clothes for bandages, made them, and fed them so attentively. splints from wooden boxes.
The children had already forgotten. Sandakan They landed, but their persecu-
Ironically, there was one happy Fort Bayard
Japan lion went on. There was an air-group in this hotel lounge.
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Miss Lieutenant told me that just German occupation. She had not as she was nursing the rescued child seen her brother, Dr. Oscar Sindel-Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South in the shelter, trying to coox her kova and his wife, since they also name out of her, a man stood up in Bled to come to England.
The three of them sat together in the corner and they thought he was
the lounge, going to have hysteries.
At tea time the lounge on the first brought in by two British charity "Fritz, Fritz," he yelled; then organisations. pushed over to his son in the corner, who had got in another boat,
Father Finds Missing Son floor was filed with sacks of clothes,
"We cried. We couldn't help it," she said.
They came to London, to the hotel -a, casualty clearing station where the sick could be found and sent to hospital.
The survivors began trying out the coats and shoes.
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They laughed when the clothes were too big or too light, and a woman strutted round in an absurd little hat saying, “Chlc, chic,” The hotel staff began to scrape oil Manila on the carpets; the cloakroom was cleared of oily silk stockings,
The immigration authorities passed survivors out and some went with
They pinned back the swing doors and the manager stood in the lounge: to receive his guests. He said:—
"They had black faces and black friends to look at London. hair. and I thought they were natives from the crew.
The backwnah of the Bolivar began to ripple..
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