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December 6, 1939.
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FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
What to do to hofp a child
Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or Il-treated in a manner likely to cause 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.
Secretary,
The Hon. General HL.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, låt floor.
The Inspector, 10, Star St, Wanchol. The Inspector, 12, Sol Yeung Choi
Makes Human
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
Europe's shadow. He gives the right to confiscate their lives.
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The parading of international forces Including United States Marines, French, Italian, British and Japanese forces, marked the farewell to Col. J. C. Fegan this morning. Mounted Municipal Police escorted; him to the parade ground.
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved,
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 journey, had his hip broken.
"The Warning"..
Cal Fegan departs for the United To the Editor, States aboard the President Taft,- United Press,
MESSAGE TO NEHRU
"Hongkong Telegraph."
Sir, It was my privilege few days ago to see u preview of the cinema film "The Warning," and I have learned that this aim will be Chungking, Dec. 5.
this Chiang
on view to the publle during Generalissino
Kai-shek has sent a telegraphile reply to Pan-month at various theatres. dil Jawaharlal Nehru, lender of the Indian Nationalist Movement, thank- ing him for his message of congratula- tion on China's recent victory in north flunun on behalf of the Indian people-Central News,
Opens To-morrow
AT THE
The film depicts an air attack on an English town and shows in detall the men and women of the A.R.P. organisation fullling their errands of mercy in alleviating suffering.
The Alm 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.
fact that the film is being shown does not mean that is Colony need expect to be involved in active war- fare, but it is in these days every- one's duty to be prepared for the
taking The Government are possible measures for the defence of the Colony, and the general publie enn help to make these plans werk.
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If the emergency ever arose, I am of confident that the population Hongkong would come forward in Ha thousands, but they would come For the work we may be untrained. 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 Colohy in which
jive.
they
"I grabbed my wife and children,
boats. I knew how to work them.
Three minutes later there
gave them no feeling of security, for they knew the and rushed to help the men with the Nazis have a casual regard for such as they.
Was
another explosion. It was a mine;
they hang ilke a bunch of grapes.
"We were picked up by a patrol
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 steamer," wives, children without parents. They had been seized as contraband.
Jan Socks Mother
It seems that the life of a four-weeks-old Dutch child Its life was stopped. is harmful to Germany's war aims. 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 and than 200 rescued pool-street-refuge for more women, seventeen rescued children, and six babies.
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 problem was to get the oil out of Jan's ginger hair.
My advice to the general public is On Way To Wed
to make a point of seelug "The Warn- it, and then ing." to ponder over
apply for the place which each one
to lake in intends
the A.R.P. organisation.
A. H. S. STEELE-PERKINS, Director of Air Raid Precautions.
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What happened to Miss Lieutenant
Pitiful
Survivors' Stories
"Then a man seruped away the oil. He was white."
It was midnight. A few hours hud passed in their lives, and the disaster Chut had been too deep to be real began to penetrate the Imagination of some of the survi-
vors.
"It was terrible to see them weep so." the hotel manager went on.
"They erled for their relatives, looking all round for some one they Jenew.
"Some of them were alone."
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OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the timo given below unless otherwise slated, and where malls are advertis- ed to close nt or before 9 a.m. regis- tered and porcel mails are closed at When 5 p.m. on the previous day. malls are advertised to close after 5 p.m. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 6.p.m.
INWARD MAILS Air Mail by "Pan American Airways
Service"-San .. Direct
Francisco date, 28th Nov... Dec, 0. Air Mail by Air France Direct Service"-Paris date, 29th Nov.
Dec..6. Haiphong, Boihow and Port Bayard Haiphong and Fort Bayard...Dec. 6. Japan Shanghat............ Shanghal and Swatow.... Straits....... U.S.A. and
Dec. 0.
.Dec. 6, .Dec. 6,
Dec. 0.
Dec. 0.
Manila (San Francisco date, 11th November), ....Dec. 6.
In Dutch, French, German, Eng- in the corridor? She was thrownish, these people pleaded to know: Japan and Shanghai
int on her face. A steward picked Where were their children, their hus-Sandhaus.. Japan and Shanghai her up.
bands, their mothers?
"It's happened," he said,
:
He sent her to get her lifebelt, and she pleked up her bag. Child Pinned In Lifeboat
"People were groaning in corridor. They couldn't move.
the
"I got up to a boat, and just as we were all settling in it there was the second explosion."
The lifeboat was hanging on
the
A few hours is too short a time to realise mass murder.
Oil strosked the carpets. Tho "Sit down," and oil wald: manager
dripped over the armchairs,
Chambermaids blessed with prac
Canada, U.S.A.,.
Formosa and Swatow
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service”—London date, 2011: November.
Dec. 7.
Dec. 7. .Dec *.
(Vancouver B.C., 18th November).
Dec. 6.
Canton
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1.
Shanghai
Straits and Sulgen
.Dec. B.
.Dec. 8.
Tientaln
Dec. 8.
.Dec. 9,
Direct Service"—London daic.
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Dec. 10.
.Dee. 11,
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tient sympathy, took the women up-r Blait by "Imperial - Airways- stairs and cut their clothes off.
The chambermaids brought out
2nd Dec. sion dresses and gave them Calcutta and Straits their over; and did not ask who tea Haiphong wearing them, and would they get Sandakan
Japan and Shanghai. The manager sent out for petrol,Manila
davits. Miss Lieutenant was shot them back, out of it, then fell back into it.
Shanghul
"At first I thought i was in theIt is rationed-so they emplied cars Java and Manila
and taxis, and gave the survivors Shanghai aca, but I felt the bottom of the boat and knew it was filled with petrol baths to get the oll off.
A child named Marie was bathed. Straits water.
She clutched a Denald Duck in her Canton arms, and fried scrubbing it.
"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 got into our boat, and we got clear. With two men, I struggled with the wood to get the
child out.
"She was covered in oli.
minutes before we
There
was nil all over not her clear. was " tried to wash her face in the sen. The oll stuck, so we wiped out her mouth, and her nose and 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 giris. He was not very confident.... "I 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 eus turning over her wedding presents, in her bunk; for she was going out to be married..
The ship was going dead glow. Then she stopped.
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With the advent of winter, the Medical Authorities are making a big vaccination drive for the fear of Small-pox 19 always great at this timo,
Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Director of Medical Services, stated yesterday that free vaccination was now avall- able at all government hospital and dispensaries. He pointed out, how- ever, these facilities were meant primarily for the poorer classes.
"Those who retain the services of private registered medical practi- tioners are asked to assist by seeking vaccination from them, thus leaving the Government medical institutions for those who cannot afford fees," Bald Dr. Selwyn-Clarke.
The Director added,-"Vaccination against Small-pox is now compulsory for all and the Medical Authorities advise re-vaccination at intervals not exceeding three years owing to the severe strain of infection met with in Hongkong."
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Four boats 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, emply.
They saw people stuck in the oll from the ship, unable to move. The captain went with his ship, The boats drew clear. They were Alled. Some of the people were wounded, all were weighted with oil, ond bruised.
On board the patrol boat that picked up Mr. Veltman and his family, the wounded were
o deck,
laid
sur-
An Englishwoman who had vived said she was a nurse, and she tore up clothes for bandages, made splints from wooden boxes.
Another child-about four, the maid told me had tight Dutch plaits down her back. "We couldn't unde Saigon them, so we soaked her plaits in the bowl. Her hair turned from black to blonde."
OUTWARD MAILS Wednesday, Dec.
.I p.m.
2.30 p.m. Amoy and Parcels only for Tientsin Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-
2.30 p.m.. Siraits, Ceylon, Indin, Mombam, „Belro, Lourenco-Morques, East and.
South Africa. ,2.30
tain
The women who came back from the Als Mall for Indo-China, Iran, and
Nun Drifts For Five Hours Then these guests of the hotel slept, sea told me It was strange how quickly they went to sleep when they were clean and had a hot-water bottle at their foot.
in
I went into the hotel at breakfast time yesterday. Three sisters white and black robes were drinking tea cating little. There had been four of them in the bont.
A member of the Dutch Legation came and told them the fourth had been rescued. She clung to a plece of delftwood for Ave hours. The
water weighted her robes, and she could not get them off.
Two little Dutch children had breakfast in pale blue costs. Their legs were still grey, the coat meared with all; they played with a doll tha! squeaked.
France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France- Airways Direct Service"—Que Paris, 14th December.
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.Dec. 0, 3.00 p.m.. Doc. 6, 5,20 p.m..
G. P. O.
Deo. 6, 5.00 p.m.. Dec. 8, 7.90 DIN..
7 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
Straits Saigon Air Mail for Manila. Guans, Honolulu
and U.S.A., by the "Tan American. Airways Direct Service"-due Ɛan Francisco, 13th December............
K.P.O.
.Deca 6, 5 pm. ....Dec., 6, 5.30 pm. G.P.O.
.Dec., B, 5 p.m. .Dec., 7, 7.80
.8.30 am.. .1.30 p.m. .3.30 pm..
Ord.
Ref.
Ord.
Thursday, Dec. 7
Perhaps they wondered why their mother kept kissing them, watching them, and fed them so attentively.
The children had already forgotten. | Sandakan They landed, but their persecu-
Ironically, there was one happy | Fort Bayard.
Japan ilon went on. There was an air-group in this hotel lounge,
Miss Marie Sindelkova is a Czech, Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, raid warning, and the survivors
and left
Reunion, Madagascar, Lourenco- Prague just before the were taken to a shelter, -
Marques and South Afrlea 3.30 pm. Miss Lieutenant told me that just German occupation. She had not
Europe via Africa, Egypt and Marseilles due Marseilles, 5th Jan.. 1040 and London Parcels-due- London, fith January 1940,
K.P.O..
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 and grim that only the most adult could record precisely whutus she was nursing the rescued child seen her brother, Dr. Oscar Sindel-Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South.
in the shelter, trying to coax her kova and his wife, since they also happened.
nanie out of her, a man stood up in fled to come to England.
The three of them sot together in the corner and they thought he was
the lounge. going to have hysteries.
Mr. Veltman had the right training to remember.
"I just felt a bump, bump on the bottom, then the glass was falling.
"It showered on us. broken spine; a steward, who had been so nice to us on the
At tea time the lounge on the first
Parcela,
Reg. I saw a man twist back with a Father Finds Missing Son floor was filled with socks of clothes,
R. A. F. Plane On
Western
Front
R.A.F. machines on the Western Front include this photo- : graph of a plane at its temporary station on the edge of a wood. Saplings have been stuck into the ground as camouflage.
Fritz, Fritz," he yelled; then pushed over to his son in the corner, who had got In another boat.
"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.
brought in by two Brilish charity organisations,
The survivors began trying out the coats and shoes,
.Dec. 7. 3. p.m. .Dec. 7, 5 pan.
.Dec. 7, 8.30 p.m.. G.P.O.
Dee: 7,3 p.m.. Dec. 7, p.m. .Dec. 7, 7 pm.
Ord.
Porcels, Reg. Ord.
Friday, Dec. 8
Touranc
Saturday, Dec. D
...7 p.m..
.10.30 am.
10.30..m.. .2.30 p.m.
They laughed when the clothes were too big or too light, and a woman strutted round in an absurd little hat saying, "Chic, chic." The hotel staff began to scrape off Manita off the carpets; the cloakroom was
Shanghat cleared of oily slik stockings.
Canton
Shanghai
They pinned back the swing doors end the manager stood in the lounge! The immigration authorities passed to receive his guests, -He said:-
survivors out and come went with They had black faces and black friends to look at London. linir, and thought they were. The backwash of the Bolivar began natives from the crew.
to ripple.
1.30 pm..
Air Mall for "Imperial Airwass
Direct Servlee”—due London 17th. December,
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Ord.,
G. P. O. and K. P. O.
Amoy .. Haiphong
Shanghai
...Dec. 9, 6 pm.. .Des. 9, 5.30 pm.
·Bunday, Dec. 10
· Monday, Dec, 11.
.9 4.m.
Bangkok
1030 s.m Shanghal and Parcela only for Tien-
tain
..10.30 m. Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-
Lain
1.30 pm.
Canton
7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 12 Air Mail for Imperial AirwayE
Direct Service"-dine' London, 2013. December.
K.P.Q.
Rex.
Ord.
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Ord.
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...Dec.' 12, 5 pm."
Doc. 12, 7 y.. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Australia by "Imperial Airways Direct Servion"lue Sydney," 18th December.
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RA
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Deo, 12, 7:
Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Parcels only for Swalow,19,20 a.m. Swatow and Formosnatë, 1:10.30 a.m..