Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 3, 1941.
NANCY
OH, FLOY FLOY *** WILL YOU GIVE ME A PHOTO OF YOURSELF
FOR MY COLLECTION?
OH, I'D
LOVE TO, NANCY
*** BUT I ONLY
HAVE ONE
PHOTO OF MYSELF AND IT'S NOT VERY GOOD!
OH, THAT'S ALL RIGHT---
GO GET IT!
With
יד!
By Ernie Bushmiller
HERE IT IS-
WAS TAKEN AT
IM THE
A CHINESE
SECOND
FESTIVAL!
PAIR
OF FEET!
THIRD TIME PRESIDENT-Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath for the third time as the United States' Chiof Exccutivo. The oath is administered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. From left: Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Chief Justice Hughes, Supreme Court Clerk Charles. Elmore Crophoy, Aide Thomas Qualters, the President. James Roosevelt, son of President, and State Secretary Cordell Hull, Dutch Bible, 300 years old, was used.
Jews Barred From Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Enthusiastic About Visit
Theatres
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Plans Aid For Empire
To China's Capital
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., bound for THE HAGUE, Feb. 16. (UP)-Jews Washington to attend the inaugural, have been banned from motion pic-paused in New York to announce ture theatres throughout Holland on that he is reorganising 200 West "I had a very strenuous, but very enjoyable and very the ground that they have been res-Coast units of the Committee to ponsible for recent disturbances in flm houses, it was announced official- Delend America by Alding the Allies, fascinating stay in China," said Mr Lauchlin Currie, He sald; "Anyone who is not in President Roosevelt's personal representative to China was understood that the order favour of
all-out aid to Britain at a Press conference, held in the American Consulate was issued after German nithorities either has not read "Mein Kampf," General in Hongkong on Saturday prior to his return to Båd conferred with theatre owners. tase read it and not understood it, or the United States by Clipper yesterday, with Mr Emile
Despres, cconomic research official.
ty:
Many restaurants and cafes re- cently posted notices saying: "Jew has read it and agreed with its
principles." Guests not Desired."
NSTER
ONE DONAR TICKETS
NOW ON SALE
WHISKY
RAFFLE
SUNBEAM-TALBOT
SPORTS' CAR
VALUE $5,950
Yacht, value $4,000
Diamond Wrist Watch
value $3,000
and hundreds of
valuable Prizes
ONE DOLLAR
TICKETS
at leading Stores, S. C. M.
Post and The Hongkong Jockey Club, Exchange Building
IN AID OF THE
BOMBER FUND
the
51.
WELSHMEN GATHER
Cocktail Party Given By St Patrick's
Welshemen gathered in force on Saturday evening at the Hongkong Club, where St David's Society enter tained number of Servicemen nndi Merchant Service officers to
very successful cocktail party.
Support For Bomber Fund
A total of $1,803,700.04 was reached on Saturday by the War Fund inaugurated by the B. C. B. Past, Ltd, with the follow- ing donations:
Prison Officers Club (fifth dona-
tion)
Clear"
Taikoo Dockyard "pare
(weekly donation) ....................................
Lt Col. II. B. L. Dawbiggin, Dax.
In memory of the late Mr I. E. Hiattery).......
Parisian Qrill "Shell" (second
dunation)
Regimental Clerks, Lyemun
Mr and Mrs R, A, Wood (fth
donation) ............................... Lhombre Evening (atth donation)
All tanks, "B" Company, 2nd En
02 $
10
7,43
47,33
20
The loyal Besi (fifth donation) 100 The following monthly donations to the War Fund were also received on Saturday:- Mr and Mrs D. Needhum
"Airdaluinis"
Mr A. Lipkovsky
Anonymou
Mr. N. Winfield
Miss E. E. Chart......
Mr G. W. K. Crawford Mr and Mrs B, O'M. DE
EMERGENCY REFUGKE
100
COUNCIL
The S. C. 31. Post has received the following donation to the Emergency Bo- Kugen Council: Sympathisers, (00th con- tribution) $10.
BOCIAL WELFARE
The Hongkong Refugee and Social Wel fare Council acknowledges the following donations during the month of February: The Staff and Bludents of Laules Col- lege, Colombo, $08.15; Mrs Itughes (Food kitchens). 10; Mrs Mok (food kitchen), 23; Mrs Y, IL Poon (food kitchens), $23; Mr L, W. 11. Poon (food kitchens). $20; Contribution trom. Foreign Auxillary, 42.30; Miss Kenningale, Contribution from Foreign Auxillary, $1.75; Mr 2. M. Sun, 410; Mr and Mrs Cunningham (food kitchen), $20; Mr Ma Elung-hoi ifood kitchens), 3150; Prof. W. Brown Food kitchens), $10; Slant of SL Stephen's Girls
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Mr. D. Morgan Richards, newly College food kitchena), 300: Sympathisers Chinese Film Star
over
C. M. Pust, $40: A Friend femeilos) (food kitchens), 85) Mr K. BL Anderson $80; Mr J. Owen Hughes SIG.
Donations in kind during the mantli ol February! was
Back in Hongkong
Miss Wang Ying. the popular
and
Four hundred pleces of firewood. Sandakan Chamber of Commerce; freight- age on firewood, Alessrs Jariline hintheson Chinese film actress, who has been & Cu; ten tons of rice, American Red touring French Indo-China Cross, China Relief.
British Mulaya with the Chinese No- PRISONERS OF WAR.
tional Salvation Dramatic Troupe, of following donation to the Hellef Fund for in Hongkong. After a brief stay, she The S. C. M. Post has received the which she is Vice-Chief, has arrived
will proceed to the interior to report to the Government authorities on the tour.
elected President of the Society, und Mrs Richards and Committee mem bers received guests in one of the larger reception rooms, which beflagged, while Committee members carried a large leck, the Welsh national emblem,
their left shoulder.
Among those present were Com- modore A. C. Collinson, N., Hon. Mr C. G. Alabaster (Attorney Gen-Britials Prisoners of War: cral), Mr E. W. Davies (Crown Soll- citor), Mr and Mrs J. Owen Hughes, Mrs Mr. Owen-Hughes, Mr and Pritchard, Major C. Champkin, Mr C. Thomas, un ex-President, Mr E. Cock, Condr G. 5. Hugh- Jones, RN. Comur 1 Mr and Mrs
Q.O.R.G.Y.. $50.
DONATIONG WAITING Dotiations for the following Organisa-
Miss Wang and her troupe were in
tions await collection at the amce of the St Vincent de Paul: S.P.C.A. Hongkong the course of a dramatic tour when C. M. Post: D.W.OF: Lepers Fund: Hongkong in the summer of 1939, in
Benevolent Society: Emergency Refugee
Council; Rellet Fund for British Prisoners
Mr E Lloyd-Jones, of War. W. T. Lewis, Air T. J. Price, Sub- Lieut. E. R. Price, H.K.N.VF, Rev. E. Sandbach, Licut (E) Birkett, RN, Mr G. G. Davies, Mr C. F. Needham, Dr Allen Thomas. Dr T. W. Ware,
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL
undertooks, opted relief, and propaganda work. / After-
wards they went on to French Indo- China, where they raised u-consider- able Restrictions enforced in Singapore after the outbreak of the
His Excellency the Officer Adminis-European war delayed the arrival of
Mr and Mrs B. J. M. Monks, Mias Atering the Government has brenthe oupe until last summer. They Mt. Whittey, Miss M. Carew, Mr G. C. pleased to appoint Messrs Fung Chi- were, however, enabled to give four Davies, Mr W, J. Curd.
ying, Nip Kai-yul, and Chan Wai-performances there through the as- Javits
leading
Committee members prezent in yeuk to be Members of the Medical pistance of the South Sean Chinese addition to Mr. D. M. Richards were Committee, Tung Wah Jospitals, vice Relief Association and Me W. Aneurin Jones (Vice-Pre-Messrs Lee lu-cheung, Lam Ming-Chinese, They toured other parts of sident) and Mrs Aneurin Jones, Mr fan and Chow Yat-kwong with effect British Malaya on the invitation of R. Edwards, Mr D, S. Jones, and Dr from February 12.
Chinese relief organisations. fthys Caradoc Jones.
Mr Richards sald that as President
it gave him great pleasure to welcome
the guests. Ife said that the Society had decided to hold a cocktail party being entertain as many of their instead of the usual dinner, the iden Service friends os possible. It was hoped, he said, to contribute some thing towards the needs of the dise
were
U.S. Ships
Atlantic
Re-enter Service
The United States Lines, which was forced to withdraw American-flag vessels from the New York-United Kingdom trade, when President Roosevelt issued his neutrality proclama- tion, will re-enter the service this month with five chartered Panamanian vessels, which will carry planes, munitions and other supplies to Great Britain.
The new
in South Wales, suffering the more immediate needs of the wor.. (Applause). The usual Mr Currie said he was bearing cables had been sent to Singapore Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's per- und Shanghai and one had been reits sonal greetings back to President ceived from St David's Society in Roosevelt. He added that he had Shanghal. been greatly impressed by
Sir David Owen Generalissimo, whom he had mei
Mr Richards sald that it must have several times In Chungking. In the capital he spent nearly all his time come as a big disappointment to local
The vessels are the Bakersfield, Egremont, Jacob Ruppert, studying memoranda, holding inter-Welshmen not to be able to entertain
West Campgaw and West Pocasset, which the United States views and attending social functions, one of their more distinguished coun-
Lines purchased from the U.S. Governmont's laid-up fleet for Ife drove and walked around the city trymen, Sir David Owen, who was which aid not experience any air raid unable to accept their kind invitation-$1,828,384-on-January-23-Averaging-twenty-years-of-age-the-
as he was leaving for the United alarms during his visit,
freighters are slightly under 6.000 gross tons each. Kingdom. Mr Richards said that he
very The Maritime Commission ap-¡ Previous Opposition Questioned regarding the official was sure all Welshmen were
United States Lines side of his work, Mr Curfle pointed glad to see their first President (Mr proved the
Last year the State Department out that he could not speak about. Owen-Hughes) at their party application to sell the vessels to and Maritime Commission rejected his mission until he had made his (applause). He reviewed the past
Das subsidiary, the North American the United States Lines application report to President Roosevelt. scason's activities, and paid a tribule Transport Company, and to transfer to transfer eight vessels from Amer-
to the energetic work of the Com-
the registry from the United States fean. to Panamanian registry when The only other city he visited at mittee and particularly Mrs Lewis to Panama.
the neutrality act banned American length was Chenglu, where, he said, He said the Society had enabled a he did even more sightseeing than in destitute Welshman to secure pas charter the ships to the United States sequently, eight ships were sold to a owners will bareboat ships from belligerent waters. Sub- Chungking. la Chengtu he visited sage to Singapore, where he had ob-
veksels will the Aviation School and watched stained a fairly good job. The Welsh-Lines, and the
carry Belgian company; one, the President
Roosevelt, went to the War Depart flying display by young Chinese pilots man in question had written to the foreign officers and crews. In training and also inspected the local President from Singapore stat- The five former American enrgo ment for use as a transport, while the and Washington Military College. He spent most of ing that he hoped in the very neat ships have been undergoing recon-liners Manhattan his time with General Chẳng Chun,{future to repay the sum of money ditioning preparatory to entering the joined the new flagship America in Chairman of Szechuan Province. He which had been provided as a gift, run.
cruise srvice, out of New York. did not visit any actual battle fronts. (Applause). The Society had given Mr Currie, in reply to a question, donation of $50 to the Hongkong Benevolent Society instead of laying said that he could not confirm the the usual wreath. He felt sure that report that Mr Wendell Willkle would this would meet with the unanimous visit China. He added that the approval of all Welshmen. Mr Rich- newspaper report was the first he had ards family asked everybody to rise heard, of the matter.
-... and
drink to the toast of "the Mother Country" During the three days he spent in Hongkong, before flying back to the Among Servicemen present were United States, Mr Currie said he Pie J. Walters, Ptc W. Griffiilis, culled on His Excellency the British Pte R. Jones, Pte G, Williams, Pie F Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Vyfond, Gur. H. Lucas, Gar. D. J. Clark-Kerr and His Excellency the Pratt, Gnr Ivor Bevan, Gnr Acting Governor, Lieut-Gen. E.-F. Forman, Ghr G. Butts, Gnr J. Mc- Norton, at Government House and Dermott, Pte D. James, Pte R. Too- Mesdames, Sun Yat-sen and K. Hood, Pie L. Owens, Sgt James, Pte Kung,
Derek J. Pratt, Tel. Honywill, Yeo- Sig S. E. Kellon; A.B. K. Chivers.
9. E.
In Chungking he was entertained sig. w. G. Lewis, AB. Powell, Cpl at a joint dinner given by the British J. E. Brown, R.M., A., T. Telfull. and American Embassy staffs, ntA.B. J. th G. Davies, A.B. Addis, Mr which the British Ambassador was Wm. Graham and Mr Hugh Roberts. present.
Among those present at the press conterence on Saturday were Mr Emile Despres, research offlelat of the Economic Division of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. Mr Addison F. Southard, American Consul- General, and Mr Hollington K. Tong, personal representative of Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek, who accom- panied Mr Currio aboard the plane from Chungking to Hongkong.
Capt. Batty-Smith
Shanghai Appeal For Economy
Shanghai, Mar. 2. Warning that cationing of power supply may be necessary due to the shortage of coal deliveries, the Municipal Council to-day urged consumers of the Shanglial Power Company to economise on the usa of power and assist in conserving stocks of fuel.
A serious view is held by Council
Hurt In Fall and Industrial quarters. It is be
:
On the evening of February 20, Captain H. S. Batty-Smith, whilst on duty in the grounds of Govern, ment House, fell and sustained in- Juries which will necessitate his being in hospital for several days.
During his absence the duties of Alde-de-Camp will be performed by Mr B. C. Foy of the Hongkong Po- lee.
lieved that If the Company's poiltion for a 60 per cent. cut in the power supply is approved by the Council Industry and employment will suffer,
The Council in a statement, says that unless relief is immediately forthcoming It will be necessary to tntion supplies of electricity in a manner suitable to the urgency of the situation.
A special committece is studying the problem-Reuter.
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