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THE TOWN CRIER'S voice called the people of St. Mary's, largest of the Scilly Isles, to a mass meeting a few days ago.
The islanders, eager to hit back at German raiders, went to the meeting to receive assurance from Sir Geoffrey Peto, 62-years-old Regional Commissioner for
the South-West Area.
Hallett Abend them, had not the slightest in-
In Colony
Planning To Take
Burma Road Trip
The Government, he told
tention of evacuating them or of abandoning the islands.
And he told them: "The Services have made full provision for your defence.
With Sir Geoffrey on his visit was Captain Alec Beecham, M.P. for the
St. Ives Division of Cornwell.
do
One of the passengers passing
Captain Beecham said: "The people through Hongkong aboard the Pre-
not want their isinods to be sident Garfield, which arrived yester evacuated. They want to feel that day, was Mr. Hailelt Abend, correspondent in the Far East for the if the enemy comes again he will be
chier
nude lo pay dearly."
Chinese Landscape Paintings
Prof. Robertson's Work Scenes of unclent China are includ.
New York Times, and author of Some people, he said, had left for ed in the ofl paintings of Chinese sever situation, before
books on the Far Eastern the mainland after the first raids.ndscape scenery by Prof. R. C. Robertson which will be on exhibi- and after These were a minority and some of tion at the Fung Ping Shan Library, the Sino-Japanese conflet. Mr. them were already returning,
Bonham Road, to-day. There are 43 Abend hus had his headquarters for Sir Geoffrey new to the islands inj
paintings, many of which were paint- a number of years at Shanghai, and a small unarmed passenger plane ed around Soochow Some have It will be recalled that some weeks without escort. He went there the ago he was the victim of an attack by day after a series of ralds yet he been exhibited in Shanghal and
London. ked. men, understood to be never saw a Nazi 'plane during his Japanese, who rulded his fint in the visit.
Among the more striking is the early hours and besides assaulting
Wantung Bridge, four miles from hilm
took away the manuscript of a Be said that damage to the Soochow; the Square Pagoda, at book he was completing, as well as islands was triding, and casualties Kunming; For Wen Shan in Seochow, a number of manuscripts of short few. One child was killed by a the burial place of a famous poet stories. These have never been machine-gun bullet, and there were and statesman in the Sung Dynasty; traced, nor has any compensation three or four minor casualties. and the Nine Arch Bridge at Shan
sald he had recom-Fan Sze.
Saved from Bomb
Sirivale who saved the lives!
1
at
been received for their loss.
More recently, Mr. Abend obtained mended a
The Barma Road," done recently one of the biggest "scoops" of the of two children. The soldier,
in Yunnan, should be of Interest at he sold, "W year, when he cabled to New York, amb ricochet off a wall anxi explode, present, and the "Lotus Fool" twenty-four hours before official re- lease, the news that Japan was He seized both children and threw Kashing, which was completed by joining Germany and Haly in the himself down on top of them. It was the artist in two hours, shows the much-discussed Axis Pact. When a very gallant uet. Neither he nor western style of painting but gives one the impression of Chinese ideas. seen yesterday, Mr. Abend stated the children were hurt."
Incendiary bombs caused heatherTemple Roofs" is much admired by
fellow artists. that several attempts had been made presumably by Japanese agents, and gorse fires on one of the un-
One painting worth mentioning is obtain his source of information, but inhabited islands and on Tresco. Sir.
Use The Geoffrey said the islands had asked "The Moat" at Soochow, showing two
for extra Are services. and the entire situation in Shanghal, he said, Penzance tire brigade sent across two bamboo poles, and part of the city jold junks with washing hung on had recently grown more threater-
the walls in the background. ing, a worsening of the Far are pumps and eight members of
with
A.F.S. to train the islanders in the use of-the pumps.
this he would not
Enstern situation.
to 6 p.m.
TAKE ANY TRAM or HAPPY VALLEY BUS.
The exhibition is being held under At present this American corres-
The majority of the houses on the the auspices of the Hongkong Branch pondent is on a roving commission, land are of sold granite, and, Sir of the Sino-British Cultural Associa which will cover Singapore and Rangoon. He will leave the Presi- Geoffrey added, "provided magni- tion, and will be opened by the ficent shelters in theirselves." Colonel President, Mr. Yeh Kung-cho, former dent Garfield at Singapore, where he
Communications, at 10 Shirley, regional ARP. officer for Minister of hopes to obtain
clearer insight Devon and Cornwall, visited the a.m. to-day, into present measures taken there in islands, at the same time, and is stay- The exhibition will remain open view of the Anglo-American co- operation, and the Axis threat to the ing for a few days to go into the to-day and to-morrow from 10 km.
the question of shelters, Far East. Then he intends to go on to Rangoon, and take a trip along the Burma Roud, which may or may not prove exciting, according to how the position develops in the next two or three weeks. Mr. Abend hopes he will be able to gather a great deal
of which material during his
journey, fe intends to make entirely by private car from Rangoon to Chung- king. His further plans after that are not certain, and will be depen- dent on how the political situation; develops,
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