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December 20, 1940.
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ALSO A WIDE RANGE OF
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STOCKINGS, NOVELTIES, FINE CONFECTIONS.
CHOCOLATES in presenta-
tion dainty packages.
COLLAPSES IN WIND-Remarkable picture shows the collapse of the G.$6,400,000 Tacoma Narrows bridge into Puget Sound, after a heavy wind started it swaying. The bridge had the third longest suspension span in the world, Arrow, reparter's automobilo. He crawl- ed to safety on hands and knees.
THE ASIA COY London's Chinatown Among Most
CHRISTMAS FOOD HEADQUARTERS
-63-65, DES VOEUX ROAD, C..
SOFTBALL
Under the distinguished patronage of Ion. Commissioner of Police, President of the Kowloon Football Club and
Chairman, Hongkong War Effort Committee
'Grand Softball Matches
will be held at the KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB
on
BOXING DAY at 10.30 a.m.
K.F.C. Members under 40 years
V.
K.F.C. Members over 40 years
THE LADIES
V.
KOWLOON POLICE
Entrance Fee: 50 cents.
Total Proceeds to the Bomber Fund
Roll up and Help to Sock Adolf.
Heavily Bombed Areas
LONDON'S East-end Chinatown has been amongst the most heavily bombed
of this great city's stricken districts. Little laundries and restaurants, formerly kept by industrious, frugal, Chinese proprietors, who employed as workpeople many of their poorer compatriots, are now just sad heaps of bricks and brokên beams by the side of bomb-pitted roads.
Beneath some of the ruins are still buried the bodies of those who formerly worked there, and rescue workers are still digging to recover the remains.
Most Chinese who could afford to do so have already left the danger area for less menaced districts in London, and many, if not all, of the Chinese women and children have been evacuated to the country by Government schemes.
London University used to act as unnald teachers, and the club soon developed into Chinatown's real so= cial centre.
Now, the Iaughter of the children no longer sounds within its walls— they are far way in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. But the few Chinese elders remain- Ing assemble here periodlenlly to meet the Chinese Consul, who comes down to see that all possible help is being given to the their time of trial.
community in
Funds he provides nssist those He had just arrived, in a ship from tradesmen who have lost their bus Singapore, and was waiting for the siness to carry on, and he is some rald to end, and the Tube station to times able to accelerate the evacua open, in order to go up to see histion of those who have no longer brother, a cook, in the West End. any inducement to remain in this
What do you intend to do after heavily damaged, district, that?" the reporter inquired.
The few men who remain are those a young Cantonese lounged easily. lucky enough to have Anderson shol- glancing without any particular in- ters in their back yards, or those terest at the sky. and apparently stoics who declare that they are not cogitating on some problem far re- afraid of what their relatives have moved from the current unpleasant- suffered so bravely in Chungiting ness nad other Chinese cities. So they hang on in their ramshackle Little houses of flimsy brickwork and await the bombs with fatalistic indiffer- ence.
Some of the Chinese lodging-house keepers remain to cater for the Chinese seamen constantly arriving the London docks in occan Bleamers from the Far East.
in
I have made long voyage," he } answered, “with plenty
work.
So I wait here week or two for Seamen Have No Fear rest and fun, then take ship back to These sailors, having endured Singapore again when money all calmly the most savage attacks by gone. Thank you. Goodbye
noty, submarines und Nazi warplanes at scu, face the London raids without fear, or, for that matter, much vist
ble interest.
nterest.
So saying, be retreated with a mild smile into the interior of the house to rest until the "All Clear" should nke It possible for him to go up
Chung Hwa Club
Birch For Thefts
In War-Time
down petty thefts in war-time when A threat to use the birch-rod to put people were busy on jobs of national importance, was made in St Andrew's Juvenile Court recently by Captain Kow, who presided when 30 juveniles appeared on various charges of theft and malicious mischief.
"Pelly thefis," declared Capialn How, "must be kept down in war- to time."
When, for example, a reporter West. visited the Chinese Seamen's Lodging House, a ruid
aid was in progress and the Not far away is the Chung Hwa cracking roar of bursting anti-aircraft Club, founded by the Chinese Am- shells thundered in the sky above,bassador a few years ago to enable Shrapnel seemed to be falling thicks-London-born Chinese children ly all around, and conditions, to say learn something of the culture of He placed several boys on proba- the least, were by no means reassuronelent China and to gain some little ton for a year when they pleaded ing.
knowledge of their classic tongue. qulity to charges brought against | But, to the doorway of the house Mandarin Chinese students from them.
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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The grateful thanks of the Society is hereby tendered to the many subscribers | during the year ended Sixt October, and the Treasurers are pleased to report that the bacoma nearly covered the Increased ex- penditure.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKollur, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie, & Co.,
SSP. & OF Bullding.
Mr. Kwok Cham
c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,
, Hong Kong
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