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Friday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 18, 1940

TOWN CRIER CALLS VILLAGERS

RAIDERS WILL PAY FOR ALHAMBRA THEATRE ATTACKS ON SCILLIES

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.

The Government, he told

Hallett Abend them, had not the slightest in-

the

In Colony

Planning To Take

Burma Road Trip

One of the passengers passing)

tention of evacuating them or of abandoning the islands.

And he told them: "The Services Juve made full provision. for your defence."

With Sir Geoffrey on his visit was Captain Alce Beecham, M.P. for the St. Ives Division of Cornwall.

Captain Beecham said: "The people

vacuated. They want to feel that the enemy comes again be will be made to pay dearly."

Chinese Landscape Paintings

London.

through Hongkong aboard the Pre-do not want their islands to be

Prof. Robertson's Work sident Garfield, which arrived yester- day, was Mr. Hallett Abend, chief

Scenes of ancient China are includ correspondent in the Far East for the New York Times, and author Some people, he sold, had lett for ed in the all paintings of Chineso landscape scenery by Prof. R. C. several books on the Far Eastern

ern the mainland after the first raids. Robertson which will be on exhibi- political situation, before and after These were a minority and some of tion at the Fung Ping Shan Library,

Sino-Japanese conflict. Mr. them were already returning.

Ponham Road, to-day. There are for Abend has had his headquarters Sir Geoffrey flew to the islands in

ed around Soochow Some have number of years at Shanghal, and small unarmed passenger plane Paintings, many of which were paint- 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 raids-yet he been exhibited in Shanghal and masked

10 understood be never faw a Nazi 'plane during his men,

the visit.

Among the more striking is the Japanese, who raided his flat in

Saved from Bomb

Wantung Bridge, four miles from early hours and besides assaulting ilm, took away the manuscript of a He sold that drimare to the Souchow: the Square Pagoda, at book he was completing, as well as islands was trifling, and casudilles Kunming; Fan Wen Slian in Seochow, One child was killed by a the burial place of a famous poet a number of manuscripts of short few.

These storics.

beenį machine-gun never

fund the Nine Arch 'Bridge at Shan minor casualties. traced, nor has any compensation three or four bullet, and there were and statesman in the Sung Dynus

Sir Geoffrey said he had recom-Fan Sze. been received for their loss.

More recently, Mr. Abend obtained mended a private who saved the lives one of the biggest "scoops" of the of two children.

New York, "The soldier," he said, "saw a year, when he cabled to twenty-four hours before official re-bomb ricochet off a wall and explode, present, and the "Lotus Pool" lease, the news that Japan was He seized both children and threw Koshing, which was completed by It was the artist in two hours, shows the joining

Germany

have

mach-dfrmany and Italy in the himself down on top of them.

"The Burma Road," dono recently in Yunnan, should be of interest at

Axis Pact. When a very gallant act. Neither he nor western style of painting but gives one the impression of Chinese ideas. the children were hurt."

Temple Roofs' is much admired by fellow artists.

seen yesterday, Mr. Abend stated

Incendiary bombs caused heather that several attempts had been made

und gorse fires on one of the un- presumably by Japanese agents,

One painting worth mentioning is obtain his source of information, but inhabited islands and on Tresco. Sir this he

would not disclose. The Geoffrey said the islands had asked The Moat" at Soochow, showing two fire services, and the old junks with washing hung on entire situation in Shanghai, he gold, Penzance fire brigade sent across two bamboo poles, and part of the city had recently grown more threaten-fre pumps and eight members of

for extra

2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW ing, with a worsening of the Far AS, to train use Islanders in the walls in the background.

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The exhibition is being held under Eastern

The majority of the houses on the the auspices of the Hongkong Branch At present this American corres-use of the pumps. hondent is on a roving commission, Island are of soild granite, and, Sir of the Sino-British Cultural Associat which will cover Singapore and Geoffrey added, "provided magni- tion, and will be opened by the Rangoon. He will leave the Presnicent shelters in theirselves." Colonel President, Mr. Yeh Kung-cho, former Communications, at 10 dent Garfeld at Singapore, where he Shirley, regional A.R.P. offeer for Minister of hopes to obtain a clearer insight Devon and Cornwall, visited the am. to-day.

The exhibition will remain open into present measures taken there in islands at the same time, and is stay- view of the Anglo-American operation, and the Axis threat to the ing for a few days to go into the to-day and to-morrow from 10 a.m.

the question of shelters. Far East. Then he intends to go on to Rangoon, and lake a trip along the Burma Road, which may or may not exciting, according to how the po.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,

he 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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