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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 22, 1940.
PHYSICAL FITNESS CAMPAIGN
ON SPORTS GROUNDS
Home Movement That Would Go Well
Hongkong
In
(By "Tinker")
MID-WEEK SCENES at the Hongkong Cricket Club are reminders of what is going on on similar grounds at Home. I mean the Physical Fitness Campaign that started some little while ago and to which thousands of young men have flocked to make themselves fit to render service to their country.
Not that you can see people on the Cricket Club) ground doing things such as are shown in the accompany. ing picture. Little groups sitting “at oase” taking instruc- tion in rifle or gas drill are the only ones making use of the ground.
BRITAIN'S BROOMSTICK ARMY came into being with
physical training under a scheme announced by the Central All men over 16 are Council of Recreative Physical Training. eligible. It's the duty of all men to make themselves fit to render service to their country.
At Home, however, football sort of tram-work will be needed in official status when football grounds were thrown open to and cricket Clubs have closely Hongkong. associated themselves with the achemo and have thrown open thor grounds for the benefit of men and their country. And something on similar lines would not be amias in Hongkong.
EADING football Clubs in England that have given their grounds over to the Fit ness Scheme Include Charlton, Fulham, Rending. Coventry City, Bradford, Blackburn Rovers, Watford, Plymouth, We live in a lazy climate where
Newport, man J, more inclined to degenerate Queen's Park Rangers, Hartlepools, than in most places else and 11 Bromley, Hull and Chesterfield. no Agment of the Imagination.
Army P. T. experts have taken tot, humid days of summer are too long, and after much long days work-over command of the drill program-i In in offices, es most of us have, and classes are rapidly assur one is, pliysically, as limp as a
rag.
The
wei
ing the proportions of demonstra-
tions.
A brief sojour in any of the SPEAKING of Football Clubs artificially cooled or air-conditioned
at Home, among the points
Exuildings in the Colony, and then a discussed at the Football League stroll out into the streets is the most Meeting was the launching of a convincing proof of the conditions under which: Hongkong people live, junior competition under their On a particularly hot day the blast control next season. of hot air from the streets is stag- gering.
have
closed
all the
Storm Claimed
One Life
Lone Torpedo Bomber Colony Escaped Damage
Wrecks Row of Houses
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Aug. 22 (UP).—A lone German raider carrying a single torpedo bomb wrecked a row of eight working-class coltages, in addition to damaging other buildings, when it dropped its missile on a south-eastern town in England this! morning.
It is feared that a number
Wanderers Bolton down: Everlon are considering shut Such violent changes of tempera-ting up shop for the duration, while the Wolves ntra contemplate closing ture, too, occur under normal c down. Big league soccer was an of civilians have lost their lives. ditions. It was only tast week that
expensive undertaking for the days were so hot that nothing sort of sitting on Ice seemed the Clubs last sram, and though it has announced that the Lenguej only way of getting cool, yet after will continue next year it is to be ⚫ steeples and perspiring first half of the night I was grateful early the wondered how many Clubs will en following morning for the blanketter folded at the bottom of the bed.
been
One eyewitness said: "I now the bomber suddenly cwoop from the clouds with its engines cut off.
"As it dived' I saw a huge black bomb shaped like a torpedo leave the
have "The explosion shook the entire
than a hundred fert Into the air."
The bomb caused a crater than 30 feet deep.
It is because of this that the in-plane, As foncurable as time, vitality, expensive "atariet plan has been
Clubs forward: Many and la mamy cases health, are pu being undermined. And the short hundreds of talented young players, town, and debris was hurled more
carry on the spate of winter activity does not who, unpaid, could
show. The League have encouraged fully compenKate.
this to the extent of allowing Clubs to retain boys of even sixteen years prevents
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YESTERDAY, I BAW & screen of age. This, of course,
and it the League runs proview of Joo Loula beat there will be a stipu-j ing Godoy in a world heavy-lation that players must be obtained bout, locally. No transfers will be al- championship weight After seven and a half hoctic lowed.
This competition would be a self-
more
CONGRESS
Trafficking Suspected
Court Story
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The dificulties encountered by the authorities in dealing with people believed to be trafficking in women md children were revealed by Mr. 11. W Fraser, of the Secretariat for the Kowloon Chinese Affairs, et prosected two women, Li Mul, 42, Magiracy this morning, when he and her daughter, Lung Wong, 19. on charges of bringing three smali girls into the Colony without per- mission.
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Raid On House Following receipt of information to the effect that number of children kept at No. 68 Temple
have been kidnapped, sald Mr. WARDIA, Aug. 21 (Reuter)Mr. Fraser, the place was raided on provide relaxation for Abdul Kalam Azad, President of the August 20 by Det. Sgt. H. Baldwin,
National Congress, announced to-day when a number of children that after consulung the Congress seized and sent to the Secretariat for
Chinese Working Committee he had sent
Affairs. The two reply to the Viceroy stailing that there
arrested.
SNUBS VICEROY Street, Arst floor, were alleged to
rounds with the Chilean cham-i contained fitness movement, and plon, Louis walked A non-i would also chalantly and breathed as nor-the public. mally as when he first entered
the ring.
Well has be been called by his LAI TSUN-V.R.C. GALA
doctors the most physically fit man in the world."
"I know we aren't ampling to be
world heavyweight champions, but
in all forms of sport a laggard or
af
A
tween return wwimming contest be
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and
Victoria Recreation Club
and who knows if or when some be held to-night.
was no meeting ground between Con- gress and the, Viceroy on the basis of
the Viceregal declaration of August 8,
were
defen
dants were on the same floor and
Li who is charged with bringing
Wong Hing and Leung Yuet-ho, both 13, into the Colony, claimed that
old.
He added that if a new situation war
Wong was presented to her in Canton scheduled to take place last night in arose in which the Viceroy thought on June 11 this year, while Leung The Chines Y.M.C.A pool, Bridges an under-trained man can upset the Street, was postponed owing to the there would be an advantage in the was presented to her when one year working
whole
Her daughter, the second de- team inclement weather. The contest may Congress President meeting him, he
fendant, charged with bringing Taul Sal-nu, a three-year-old girl, into the Colony, claimed to have adopted the girl, when she was three months old in Canton.
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No Reply To Questions Questioned by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen, the Magistrate, as to why she should adopt two girls when she already had a daughter, first defen- dant gave no reply.
"Mr.
Second defendant, a married wo- man, also gave no reply when asked why she should adopt a baby girl.
Macfadyen: What is really the view of your department?
Mr, Fraser: I have been asked to ask your Worship to take a serious view of this case.
Defendants were fined $50 and $20 respectively, the amount on which they were out on bail.
The three girls are being returned to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, where the other children are being held pending further. investigations.
British Trade
Buoyant
War's Slight Effect LONDON, Aug. 21 (Br. Wire.... less)-The full effects of the cessation of trade with Italy and with invaded and, incessible territory, were felt for the first time in Britain' last month, official statistics to day reveal.
Nevertheless, trade with other parts of the world has been so buoyant that the effect has not been abnormal. Exports during July totailed,
| 189,244, which represents a de
of approximately five million pounds since June and a decrease of nios million pounds
da compared with July Inst year.
Imports totalled. 67,007,530, which is only 3% millions below June, but is nine millions above July last year. For the first seven months of the year exports have totalled £280,628,- 217, compared with 270,618,000 In the seme period last years and, in-
porta: have.. leapt to, £588,542,019. (£525,435,000 in the same period last year)
A Chinese pedestrian Was Įkilled late yesterday by a plece of cement facing which the strong wind detached from the side of the Fire Brigade Bulld- Ing. The masonry fell from the and struck, the Chinese
fifth floor on to Des Voeux Road
head.
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The Colony experienced its Brat serious typhoon scare this year without serious casualties thanks to a late change of course which took the centre of the disturbance many miles to the south.
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The high winds which blew suddenly probably caused mishaps among the fiberfolk, details of which are always slow in coming in. So far there are no reports of loss of life at sea.
Damage to property
not featured by the heavy landslides damage to the Kowloon Football which have occurred in the past and Club fence, a two-storey house in Mislouwet Road, a hut in Po Kong
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Village and flooding of the rond at
Shatia are the extent of the mischief at present known.
Ships were led up at the typhoon anchorage in Kowloon Bay all yester day and for a large part of this morning
Some vessels experienced diMculty
even with the aid of engine power in keeping their heads to the wind ordeal was passe-t but again the without serious mishap.
The services between Macao and |Hongkong were
were delayed as were also harbour ferry redes
The pontoon or floating landing Airways QWEY
stage used by Pan-American A from its moorings and badly damaged.
Nazis Puzzled By Churchill
Reactions To Speech
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LONDON, Aug. 21 (Reuter)-Ber- lin newspapers which for weeks have been telling their readers that the collapse of the British Empire near show considerable bewilderment to-day over the confident tone of Mr. Churchill's speech.
The German news ngency says that the consensus of Press opinion is that the speech was "a mixture of paralysing fear and desperate swag-
ger.
And They're Right! The "Berlin Boerzen Zeitung" boldly asserts that "while the Ger- man air force swarms over, England, always reaching its objective the British Premier talks as if it was not England but her opponent that had revealed Liself as a colpstus with feet of clay."
THE TURNING POINT 'IN CONVALESCENCE
When the crisis. In-pant- In-iliners, recovery may still be a long way off. The real turning point for the better, comes when the patient begins to fill out and pick up noticeably from day to day.
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