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Tuesday,
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mra. W. E. Peers wishes to thank all her friends for their kind wishes, telephone messages, letters and flowers, She is at present unable
she
to write personally, but would like everyone to know greatly appreciates their kindness and is hoping for better news.
鱔
Thongkong Telegraphı.
Tuesday, January 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 20015
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NOMURA'S MISSION
January 21,
WAS
Their first Christmas in Aus spent by Hongkong evacuates amidst nostal- gic thoughts of home.......... and many were conscious of the season only for the sake of their children this intimate, letter from oxile reveals what was uppermost in every mind when the church bells pealed their wol-
come to 1941.
for the Scottish we can say we especially NOW
will be returning this evacuates. They thought fond- year," was the one thought of their last New Year's in the minds of the Hong- Gloucester or the "Gripps," and morning at the K.C.C., the kong evacuates when the most of them knew they could ferry whistles echoed out not observe the traditional "first across Sydney harbour and footing" among strangers in a the church bells pealed their now land. welcome to -1941.
Some, however, felt that they simply must officially say good- Thus they welcomed in the bye to the sad, old days of 1940 New Year with high hopes so they joined in with huge and a prayer in their hearts, crowds of Australian revellers and sang and danced in the During the holiday sea- streets of the city as they greet- son, we clustered around the ed the arrival of the new year. telegraph offices to send off Most Sydneyites welcome in greetings to Hongkong, and the new year at King's Cross. Of all the places in Sydney, the eagerly opened cables re- Cross has a true cosmopolitan ceived from our loved ones flavour. there.
IT'S A SHAME
Housebreaker Hitler cannot think
Why Britain leads him such a-
dance,
As convicts mutter in the clink,
"The police don't give a min
chance,"
Why doesn't Britain go her way ·
And let the poor dog gnaw his
bone?
As“ all well-meaning burglars say, "The police, won't leave a man
alone."!
Why don't we wink the other eye
And let the crook complete his crime 7 As all the best embezzlors cry,
"It is the poor wot gets the blime."
A.. P. HERBERT.
In the “Sunday Graphic.”
It is peopled by samples of Many of us proferred to re- most of the dwellers on earth- member Christmas only from old, retired business men, elderly the religious point of view, and ladies, girls wearing slacks and little effort was made to cele. smoking cigarettes, actors, musi brate as we would have done in clans, artists and Greek fruit Hongkong, We attended no vendors. The shops which sell boisterous cocktail parties and food nover seem to close. For a few of us went out dancing shilling or two, you may eat owing to the lack of partners.
French dishes served by a Greek
A kangaroo makes friends with a young evacuato. waiter. King's Cross is a cross- ducing instrument within range reality brought quiet to the section of the world. It has a whistles, tin cans, gongs and thousands assembled, but when sophisticated, slightly bored air, motor car horns-was
con- the whistles started welcoming but nobody can look at its tower- scripted to produce a continuous the new year the silence was im- ing flats, its sparkling little roar of sound.
FOR
*
OF
SAKE OR THE
THEIR CHILDREN, however, many Hongkong wo- men recognised the festive sen- son for, after all, Christmas should be a joyous time for them..
And they really did have a good time this year, especially in the toy, departments of the city stores. They found a real, live Father Christmas in every shop who shook hands and presented them each with a gift. They watched a tiny model city in
on hobby'
ADMIRAL Nomura is starting for America to take up the most import ant position in the Japanese Govern- ment, next to that of the Premier and Foreign Minister. As Ambasan- dor to the United States he actually action, had rides represents the last hope of arresting horses, and gazed longingly at. from their steady decline into the the latest in toy trains and baby abyss of war the relations
between the two countries. It cannbl be dolls.
sald
prospects of the Admiral achiev~
High Hopes
and
A Prayer
mediately broken.
SE
ATES
EVERAL OF THE HONGKONG EVACU- attended watchnight services which were held in city and suburban churches of all denominations. Bondi Beach, where most of the evacuates are now staying, was thronged as hundreds of revellers took their last swim of the old year. · At midnight, the Bondi, and North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club members staged their annual New Year's procession.
Dozens of evacuates attended midnight cinema shows in town, Streamers, some a foot wide, whilst others stayed at home States in favour of aid for Britain True, they were jostled_and_by_chattering crowds, without were hurled from windows upon and listened to the oxcellent has not led to any casing of pro- pushed from counter to counter, realising that all Sydney does the heads of the crowd below, programmes broadcast from all Cautions in the Pacife.
Japan largely blame for thus but I know they loved every not go home at six and get to linking the destinies of the east and minute of it. Even the shop bed at ten.
windowa were a delight-the
5.30 p.m. t much hope is placed on the
Friday, 24th January, 1941 Saturday, 25th January, 1941
-
9.15 p.m.
9.15, p.m.
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Their mothers, too, enjoyed
ing success in this sphere, especially themselves thoroughly during
By
Helen Walker Duncan
in view of the fact that the greatly the Christmas shopping week, shops, its tree-lined streets filled heightened feeling of the United
Issues involved in
west. Lt the had not cast in her lot with the Axis Powers, flaunting her friendship with the European aggres- latest in window-dressing in sor nations in the face of China, honour of the festive season. Britain and Amerien, and seeking to tle up all the issu Europe with her own New Order in Asia, the southward expansion pro- gramme would never have gained the spotlight that recent events have given to it.
THE
SON NEW
the
until singers, dances, deafened the radio stations, observers and embarrassed On New Year's Day, some of policemen, were caught up in a the Scottish evacuates visited tangle of paper and sprinkled the Highland gathering held at with confetti.
the Kyeemagh polo ground; IN KING'S CROSS
Through
close-packed others attended the racing at YEAR'S crowd, groups of young peoplo Randwick and the surf carnival EVE, many Hongkong evacuates in fancy dress burrowed a tor- at Curl Curl. HE WARM WEATHER, joined in the celebrations with a tuous path as they "snake-dan- Many of them spent a quiet however, did not fit in crowd of 26,000 young people. ced" from one road to another, time in their now homes with Forbearance in Indo-China and with our ideas of Christmas. Wearing coloured paper caps and Every few minutes they capt- their children. On New Year's abstention from the tripartite pact We felt it strange to be eating whirling gaudy balloons, they ured some unfortunate pedest- night, many went to the High- would have done much to Japan's
name
to good favour among turkey and plum pudding in the threw themselves vociferously rian or policeman and held him land Society's annual Scottish the Democracies, especially since she heat of a summer's afternoon. into a spontaneous street car firmly while they danced der- concert at the Town Hall lind bogged herself down in the China incident and was not able to But to find a threepenny bit in nival.
vish-fashion round him.
But despite all this, however, prosecute her designs there effective
Д One man with Long before, the old year end-
borrowed we felt a natural yearning to be ly. It seems that hot-headed ele-
threepenny bit meant nothing ed, this busy junction of five bugle, however, produced a back among our own people.
restore
ments still rule at Tokyo. They are gambling on
תח
the pudding meant more cash-
all or nothing to us last year when we were ronds was turbulent with a mad, sobering effect among the mer- With more sincerity than ever chance and have conducted a policy handling dollars and cents. that has completely alienated America
.
Japan may await the conclusion of
joyous, jostling crowd,. The rymakers when, a few minutes bofore, we are wishing each
night when every noise-pro-"Last Post." This reminder of new year.
The New Year, however, pre- climax came just after mid before midnight, he played the other n truly happy and joyous
an "understanding between Berlin sented a bigger problem
and Vichy which would give the
her
signal for occupation of lower Indo- China with its consequent threat to Singapore. A small part of her fleet could demonstrate against the Netherlands East Indies while land and sea forces might attempt to blockade. Hongkong, this triple move- ment serving to divide the concerted antagonism towards her of Holland, America and Britain in the Far East
are do
in the
China nina
while one or more plums tached from the shaken tree.
meantime remains patching up her defences which can be at- tocked at a more opportune time, and Russin is bribed by fishing and frontier concessions and Axis ihreats to refrain from host
hostilities,
"It is because of these open inten- tions that American statesmen have spoken so plainly of the menace of Japan; is not, as Japan would have it, American hostility that has, pro- voked the Japanese programme. It seems extraordinary to a common- sense person that Japan Ja prepared to necopt years of more inter
Intensive warfare and penury-and- alio
national disaster for impossible of nii Awin and
ultimately, the
to
the donorld. Incredible E these possibmda, envisago |
it seems, tho
they can live
in pain and suffering and dla at-
Tel. 21279 tempting to achieve them. That is Tel. 29952
why words of reason are falling on :dont, cors
-
lew of Sydney, and the fon
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