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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 2, 1940.
Labour Blinded Man
Volunteers
Ministry Forms Branch To Organise Foreigners
London, Aug. 1.
The Minister for Labour'and Na-i tional Service, Mr. Ernest Bevin, In the House of Commons to-day on- nounced the formation of an Inter- national Labour Branch as part of the Employment Department of the Ministry of Labour with a view to organising the nations and manpower of Allied other well-disposed per- Bons of foreign nationality in the United Kingdom,
hir, Bovin added that he hoped to have the
the advice and waistance of an advisory
committee including trade. union representatives from foreign countries. He hoped thereby to get valuable assistance In establishing the
bona fide# of wall-disposed foreigners and in bringing sympathe- tie consideration to bear on indivi dual cases.
Aaked to see that Englishmen hod preference, Mr. Bevin replied that it was the policy of his Department to see that British people had prefer. ence, but at present he was extreme- ly sho
and short of skilled men utilising the skill and ability of a number of foreigners he would actually be putting British people to work,
In
Mr. Bevin declared that his De- partment had nothing to do with people who were interned, the quer- tion of whose release was a matter for the Home Secretary, His com- mittee would work through the Trade Union Congress with the assistance of the Employers! Organisation.
Concluding, Mr. Beyin sald.-"1 do not propose to use the term aliens or refugees. It is my intention once foreigners have been passed on to me by the Security Department and when
International Inbour force."-
ONLY 2 MORE DAYS—TO-DAY—TO-MORROW security is not in danger to call them
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The Gayest and Most Dolightfully Different Comedy Of The Season!
"Do I detect something
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that pretty head?"
Diriched by
ALEXANDER HALL
Arrodals Producer EVERETT RISKIN
**MELVYN
"If you could detect what I think of you
...you'd arreal mal"
JOAN
Everytime ha was going to make her his bride he had
to solve one more homicide!
DOUGLAS * BLONDELL
The AMAZING
MR.WILLIAMS
· A COLUMBIA PICTURE:
COMMENCING SUNDAY
The Most Beloved. Crook In All Fiction!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
RAFFLES
starring
DAVID and OLIVIA
NIVEN de HAVILLAND
directed by SAM WOOD'
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CANTON DISPUTE
British River-boat Held
During Negotiations
Following a dispute, the China Navigation Company's Fatshan, on the Hongkong-Canton service, has been delayed. The steamer left Hongkong
ong for Canton on Tuesday and was to have returned last night. Her departure yesterday morning was delayed pending solution of a certain question that has prisen re-
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FIGHT ON — French General Charles de Gaulle, who urged French people in broadcast from London, to carry on fight against Nazis. Patain govern- mont in Bordeaux stripped him of his rank after his appeal.
Went
France
AN operation which would have restored a blind man's aight could not be performed be- cause of Hitler's invasion of! Holland.
M. Michael Lenglet, blind for ten yenes, travelled to Utrecht, Holland, from his home. in France before the outbreak of war. A famous Dutch surgeon there had promised to try to
ve him back his sight.
The surgeon, Professor Weve, per- formed three operations
on him. Je could see a little with special glasses, and a fourth operation promised the complete restoration of hin sight.
But Hitler's Invasion prevented that faal operation from being per- formed, and M, Lenglet was forced to leave the country as a refugee. He arrived at an East Coast port and after a few hours in England he left for his home in Calais, where his wite and three children are waiting for kn.
He has never seen his youngest child who is five, and he is hurry Ing back to France in the hope that he will be able to see the baby be- fore his sight-which is fading ngalo-goes completely.
"My Dear Wife"
"And I wanted to see my dear wife just once again," "I can see the sun, you know, know when it is A shailag, and for that 1 am thankful. "It will be wonderful to be with
OBJECTOR HERO my family one inore, even though
SAYS JUDGE
may never see thera again."
There
was an Incessant, ear-split- ting noise of bombs," he said, "I knew they were dropping all around Jack Tomblin of North Leas-us, and I heard little children crying. "It was a pity could not have my avenue, Scarborough, was told he final operation. I know that it would was a hero at Newcatle Conscientious have been a success. Objectors' Tribunal.
the
"From the evidence of the letters you have given us the Tribunal feel that what you have done 10-day is hero." Judge conduct of a Richardson told him.
Tumblin
said he had a horror of war his father was killed in the last-but he was now willing to join the RA.M.C. He had studied Arst- aid.
He was removed from the register and strongly recommended for the RAM.C
"If only I could see, I would help to fight this evil. But now there is nothing I can do."
M. P. Discards Title
Second-Lleutenani John Profumo, M.P., in accordance with an intention approved of by his late father, Baron Albert Profumo, K.C., has decided not to assume the tille
He will continue to be known as Mr. Profumo.
Pastor's Wife Carries On His Duties
"THIS is so much easier than finding somebody else," says
garding the terms of operation on thirty-four-year-old Mrs. Ruby Leyland, who has temporarily
the Canturi River. No details of the question have been revented.
It is expected that the matter will
taken over the duties of her husband, the Rev. A. Stanley Leyland, minister at Coniacliffe-road Methodist Church, Darlington.
UNFAIR TO PIGS
be settled shortly, and the steamer Mr. Leyland has been ordered to ¦ ********* is expected to leave for Hongkong take complete rest for some weeks. to-day,
This job which his wife finds yo The Japanese Consul-Generni at easy means keeping two or three en- Hongkong, Mr. Okazaki, sald yes-gagements each week-day, taking a terday that he did not know how the mid-week epilogue service and two dispute had arisen,
Sunday services-one in the after- noon for children and the evening service.
LATE NEWS
Ingenohl's
In addition to sick visiting and looking after her own home, on Sunday, May 5, she w deputise for her husband at the Sunday School anniversary at the Mello- -dist-Church-at-St. George's, Strop- shire, where she will conduct three services, preach two sermons, give ring a solo in the evening.
"I Love The Work"
"It certainly will be a full day," Mrs. Leyland said: "but I love the work. . preached for the first time. at the age of sixteen, so it almost becomes part of my life.
A complaint about the lowly position of piga in the list of claimants on feeding stuffs sup- plies was made by Colonel C. J. IL Wheatley at the National Piz Breeders' Association meeting in London,
He said it was plain that dairy cattle and beef cattle came first, sheep next, and pigs and poukry anywhere.---
Translated Into terms of energy value produced per acre,” he said, "the sow compares fa- yourably with the cow, and, therefore, is descrving of serious ́ecnsideration as a factor of im-
•portance in the economic plan- ning of our food supply,"
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As a member of the congregation at St. George's, her husband will nt-
ELECTRIC CO. DIVIDEND FOR tend the services and will therefore hear his we preach in the eliarch
Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., SUN. where he was christened, and was a Ltd., the Agents of The Hongkong. churister, and where, on that day.
FOR his father, Mr. Alfred Leyland, will Electric Co., Ltd, announce that at complete forty years' service a meeting of the Board of Directors MON.
held yesterday on Interim Blut- FOR dend of $1 per share was declared
choirmaster.
SOUTH AFRICAN LEADER
Juliannesburg, Aug. 1,
It was announced to-day that the commander of the South African forces in East Africa is Brig. D. H. Peinuar, who had wide experience in fighting in East Africa in the Great Wor-Reuter.
Grand Corona
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