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Brown Says 500,000 Workless Will have Chance to Get Jobs
Crowed See Three M.P.s Demand Bigger
Soldiers Drown
TRAPPED BY TIDE IN RIVER
TRAPPED on a sandbank in the River Severn, three young soldiers were drowned while hundreds of people looked help. lessly on from the shore, and the crew of a tug struggled in vain to reach them.
They were Private Blight, of Ches- ter; Private Revelle, of Swansea: and Corris (Mer- Private Thomas, of
ioneth).
near
an
Use of Man-Power
By A Parliamentary Correspondent DEMANDS FOR THE FULLER USE of the man. power-and woman-power-of Britain were made from all parts of the House of Commons recently,
It was urged that 1,121,000 unemployed should not be possible in war-time. Plans to absorb them were called for.
In reply Mr. Ernest Brown was unable to say anything more definite than that probably 500,000 had a reasonable pros pect of getting a job in their own trade.
Further than that he seemed us by the inducement of higher wages
was going on. able to go.
(Llb., Bethnal Sir Percy Harris "Not one man or woman," he
said that compared declared, "must be allowed to be un-Green, S.W.)
The three hind set out from, Sud-employed if he or she is skilled or with the last war the use we were
on Chepstow.
can be used in the present emer-making of women was telling. The brook, "Adventure trip" in a rowing boat geney." But how the 1,121,000 was training of 40,000 semi-skilled men
to a very big problem. which huti only one par, with which to be reduced by more than 500,000 year was a poor contribution to make
he did not make clear. they rowed out about a mile from
He appealed to the Minister to The Government, he said, had pre- the Welsh shore ut to the sandbank.
Here they landed and their boat pared estimates of labour require-show more Imagination in dealing for 18 with the proper organisation of the broke adrift, leaving them marooned.ments for war production
months ahead, but these estimates country's man-power.
to the debate, Mr. Bodies Not Found
were scuret.
He said a tribute to the co-opera- Assheton (Parliamentary Secretary, When the tide began to turn and
workers- Minister of Labour) said that mem- to thinic that the the waves swirled up on the sand-tion of employers and bank they took off their clothes and greater co-operation than in any pre-bers seemed
vious period in our industrial history Government bad power to allocate made a bonfire to attract attention.
Offeers at Sudbrooks sent an SOS-but he was vague about what such tasks to the unemployed. That was to Avonmouth and a tug was sent to co-operation might be expected to not so. the restue.
crew
Hundreds watched the tug battling with the heavy waves. The
but could not launched a dinghy, reach the trapped soldiers,
the men were As the tide rose swept away and up to a late hour that night the bodies had not been recovered.
Councillor-JE-Liddiard. of Sud- brook, said: "Apparently the soldiers went on a bit of a joy-ride and were washed on to the bank.
Up To Their Necks
"In trying to manoeuvre the boot
to get vif it must have broken up and
had to slay on the bank, "The crew of the tug made every possible effort to get the men off.
"1 think one of the soldiers sank before the others. Three hours after:
lead to in terms of employment.
Local Work If Possible
Replying
u
reserve af He suggested that a labour on which we could drew was We not liability but an asset.
a time when there were coming to At the present moment the qualif- cations of the unemployed are being was going to be greater employment ever before. examined with the view where pos- in this country than sible of employing them locally, and Our unemployed was a hidden re- where not possible of paying their serve of power which other coun- fares, if necessary, to a place where tries did not possess.
Referring to a protest against the there is a job waiting.
But even so,
reserved occupations, he said that all 11 seems that he still had only the inclusion of gardeners in the list of 500,000 in his mind.
of gardeners except those engaged in He stressed the importance skill, but einphasised that it was not growing food would shortly be re- for the Government to train skilled moved from the 1st. men. That must be done by em-.. ployers in thele factories and was being done.
June 15,
1940.
By Walt Disney
CLANKA
PRIZE
WAR
French soldiers, somewhere on Western Front, display bullet- riddled, talipiece of Naxí, plane brought down behind lines. This is a prize of war they treasure as souvenir. Passed by French censor.
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'Minnie' Goes Over
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LETTERS NEW TRANSPARENT
'Erbert 'Iggs Again
To The Editor,
The "Hongkong Telegraph." deer mister editer,so little ole musso as bin an gorn an got leself in the bliniin cansommy same 18 littel ole iler corlovaduck aint them two a cuppel ov nibs
I seen in the noospaper ow littel ole ler anks is orl same littel ole nappy boneypart an littel old nússo inks as ow e annuvver foolius. scozer gortline if thats rite then Ime the blinkin sheek ov araby
good job we aint got no eyetalyan organ grinders in honkong aint it) mister editer uvverwise sum people wud be rilla ter the noospapers sayin wot a blinkin shime ter shove
em in chokey becas so meny hon- kong peeple is moostea!
corlovaduck wen we red in the nouspaper abart 1ttel ole musso startin annuvver blinkin war ole alf got is blinkin dander up an dashed strite away on put is monica darn fer a key post
pore oic ali jest cuddent Ank ov enying else e kep moppin is brow an more ub beer an orl nite e wos sayin 1 gotter do sumn gotter do sumin
nex mornin e ad a letter from is boss, sayin as ow cuddent be spared fer a key post becas e was doin work | of nashna! impertinance addin up: the prise of peanuts in peru
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wot a shimean pore ole all reely wants tor do sumin fer king an country I dont spose es the only wun in hongkong
that vos a good bit in the noos paper abort blokes wantin f joini up as aquaddles avin ter be pure europeen desent strike a chicken up a blinkin plum tree kin yu tell me wats pure europeen desent mister editer?
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1 meen ter say sposin a buldorg as puppies up in a airyplane that dont make em airedales do it?
1 bet there wont art bo a blinkin crush up the recrootin oris nex munday jest imajin all the curapcen desents rushin up gettin the ole re- croolin sarge dizzy corlumme i bet e as job andling or the recroots- bate ov em
nuvver fingi see in the noospaper as ow the guvment blokes. Is arskin fer a rise becos ov the cost of livin
carnt blame em can yer.reely these ere olidays is eckspensiv Angs an dont fergit i corlovaduck if we as cny more kings birfdays an fings the pore govment blokes will be gettin ard up
the British and French | The new policy is to spend the between taxpayer's money on making a peoples in Canada. The film will be see yer darn ole dutchs place wun
of little ones.
The Government could train semi- Our Cooks Are few big pictures instead of a lot called "The Lost Dominion."
ziciliéd
men in their training centres
and that was being done to capa- World's Worst,
we first noticed them I could see only city. It was estimated that 40,000 two of them standing with the water men could be turned out in a year. up to their necks. and they went together."
9-Month-Old Boy's Body In Cupboard
33,000 Released From Army
Says Colonel
Of women, he said nothing definite, ENGLISH cooks had champions and gave the impression Churchill's estimate of 1,000,000 needed a qualification.
some views:
Shorts Dropped
First move is a plan to finance
Directors Michael Pawell and Leslie Howard in a story of a modern
Roland Gilbert sailed for Canadin Scarlet Pimpernel, a university pyesterday to start the story, fessor who smuggles victims out of roses of the Germany under the Gestapo:
Leave to Star
The War Office is to be asked to
These new plans will probably mean abandoning forly out of the Afty £2,000 short fimis planned by j the Ministry.
torkin abart the cost of Ilvin-le nite an well do a spot or scuttlin
bottoms up mister editer
yores trewly
crbert iggs.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Ofclat] Summary issued yesterday anys:
The market remains neglected, not influenced by normal trading con- Sofditions, prices naturally tend to ease
slightly.
Before Sir Kenneth Clark gave up his post as film chief he declared: deals being subject to negotiation and
"We are making Atty propaganda as a year. Italy likes them. does Belglum..
that Mr. and critics during a
discussion on the wanted food in
the Royal war-time at good deal of Sanitary Institute, London, Here are
Professor S. J. Cowell, Professor of "detail" David Niven, who is now a He mentioned that up to the pre- ent 20,000 officers and men had Dietelles at the University of London: lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, to heen released from the Army to Too many of us relied on the tasty take sufficient leave from his duties return to industry, and 13,000 had English breakfast of eggs and bacon, to co-star with Howard.
But Britain doesn't. First three the notion that dinner was been given temporary release for the and
Danielle Darrieux may be invited ms on anti-gossip have been .....synonymous with meat must be given
to come from Paris to play heroine. offered to the cinemas free. Out of The debate revealed that members up.
Niven ond Danielle Colonel II. A. Reld: I am ashamed Both
have 1,000 cinemas fewer than twenty were not satisfied that enough use
contracts. It is hoped have asked for them.. was being nude of our man-power to have to admit that we produce Hollywood
about the worst cooks in the world they may be excused from these on to win the war.
Mr. Owen Evans (Lab., Cardigan) and we people our Empire with these Government duty. In insisted that the Government should bad cooks.
Dr. Margaret D. Wright, a Scots- The child's foster-mother was an outhouse with an empty, whiskym at having every able-bodied man
LONDON.-Locked in a cup board at a Littlehampton bables” home, police found the body of a nine-month old boy.
bottle in her hand.
This was
of
-some reason.
and woman Intelligently allocated to woman: An
exception might be a job at work. There was no room made of the housewives of the North (Sussex) for idlers and loafers, whether rich and of Scotland, who are good cooks. told Arundel
Dr. A. C. Frazer: Whenever I visit when Ellen Horam Coombs.
Allowing for subtractions, due to the Continent I always have to come Dartmouth Lodge, Norfolk Road, or poor
summoned Littlehampton, was neglecting three children under her pussing from one job to another, home to English cooking to put my
from the 1,121,000 unemployed, digestion right. The police-constable who broke there must remain hundreds of thous
care.
for
into the house, stated that be found ands of men and women who werel
36 empty whisky bottles, 22 empty port bottles, one gin and two stout bottles, on the floor outside Coombs'
room.
doing nothing and ought to be doing Romething.
No Plans For Women The country expected a plan for Coombs sald the child was not well the organisation of labour on a much and she had kept him in bed with her. bigger scale then anything yet dis- Later she put him in his cot, but closed.
on waking up found him dead.
From the Opposition front, bench
The Treasury will be asked to Ex- back this Olm with £30,000. hibitor Oscar Deutsch will guaran- tee another £30,000, and Howard
self.
Medals?
announced
The German wireless
is finding a similar amount him- recently that Field-Marshal Goering
had his Thas
private household thoroughly cleared of useless, metal Second big "Minnie" film will be objects to be added to the German ļa propaganda story showing the tie metal collection.
Bandits Stole Six of
Army's Chargers
the
Business Done During the Week H.K. Banks $1,340
Union Insurances $452%, $450 Docks. (Old) $181⁄4
Trams $18.20, $10
Electries $58.40, $581⁄2 Cements $15
Govt. 4% Loan 103 Barers
H.K. Banks $1,315. Sales Ducks (Old) $18・・ Trams $16.10/20
Youmali Ferries $22 Electrics $58 Cements $15.
A.R.P. RESERVES
Auxiliaries Needed For St. John Ambulance
It was announced yesterday that one hundred men and women "Re-
serves". are needed as members for the ARP, Auxiliary of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, for training at the ARP. First Aid and Cleansing She took the body to the cupboard Mr. G. Hall (Aberdare), In the ab-
Lorry, 800 gallons of petrol and Station, Hoppy Valley. and locked the door. She was bound rence through illness of Mr. Green-
A SOLDIER who confessed to forging stage of manufacture-by
These candidates should be living over for a year on condition she went wood, also called for stronger action,, to an inebriates' home.
There were possibly millions of
fire at a central payment to firm of cost incurred. rifle destroyed by fire, after a collision
with a shunting engine in Palestine in this district or near-by. Ther women, he said, who were willing starting &
· MERCHANT CRUISER SUNK to enter industry and do semi-skilled ordnance depot cost the Army 24,914.
ness of the W.D. lorry-driver) of emergency? They will be fully Jobs but no facilities had been pro £25,711 in loss of stores and Six chargers, and horse equipment (accident was due to gross. careless-must agree to man this Post in time
stolen by bandits in Palestine 204, 208.
trained and in turn it is hoped they London, June 14."
Erroneous payments, owing to mis- The Admiralty in a
Over issue, due to misunderstand will spare the time to train others, communique vided for training them. The people
These members will bo pald in This is the top item in a list of cati-Interpretation of regulations, to re- admits the los yesterday of the arm-wanted to know what was expeted of damage to a building. ed merchant cruiser, Sootstoun, them for the winning of the war.
mated losses of more than 205,000 cruits of the Territorial Army in, of a field allowance to officers of
tions in Palestino-£264.*****
will be helping the Government, but which
their immediate neighbours, sunk by a U-boat. Cheers). WIS
From the Government side Lord disclosed in the report of the Army respect of extra drills performed infantry battalion on active opera- time of emergency. They not only
accounts for 1938, £730. United Prest.
Will all applicants please send Ja Lloyds does not list a vessel of that Winterton (Con., Horsham) com-appropriation
plained that we were hot using our Those due to theft, fraud, arson, or
The Women's Air Raid Precautions. name.
man-power to the extent of other gross negligence totalled £29,298;
The review of the trade directory, Union, Colonial Secretariat, Lower A luncheon party in honour of the belligerents, and Mr. Clement Davies other causes, 232.001; and incidents RIZAL DAY CELEBRATION LOCAL TRADE DIRECTORY their names al unoo to (Simonite) protested that either the in the Servico, R33,020.
birthday of the Filipino patriot DrManufacturers of Hongkong and Albert Road; or to the Director, Air Minilor had no plan or he has re-
Here are some other i fused to disclose it.
Losses not, exceeding £6,000 writ-Jose P. Hizal, will be held at the South, China, yesterday, inadver-Raid Precautions, ARP, Headquar tag Poaching Complaint amanten off by authority of Army Coune Filpino Club, King's Park on Sun- tently omitted the name of the pub-ters, Happy Valley; who will be glad day June 23, at 1 pm wine lunch her. The directory is published to have volunteers for this important In discounting reports quoting Hitler as saying he had no aspirations in It was complained by Wing-Com-cll20400 curtain type of shell will be followed by a short musical by CM Welosh, French Bank branch of the ARP. Services as soon
Buliding.
I as possible, the western hemisphere United mander, Wright (Con, Erdington)
vit that much poaching of aldited labour for military. Tessons cancelled at programme. 72)
ROOSEVELT'S WARNING Washington, June 14, President Roosevelt to-day cited derman's record of broken pledges
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