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MAN THESE. DAYS!
WELL I MUST BE ON MY WAY, ' DEAR--- WILL YOU GET ME MY CAP
PLEASE!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
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April 911
By Ernie Bushmiller
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"Thief Of Bagdad" Japanese
Offers Thrills
The magic carpet, a flying horse and an awe-inspiring genle appearing over a cloud of sinoke. Those ore some of the wonders of the "Thleti of Bagdad" United Artists' techni colour film, which has been booked for a short season at the Oriental Theatre, beginning to-day.
oh
Uprising Foiled
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Donations To SOCIAL ASPECT
Bomber Fund
A total of $1,765,007.34 was resclied yen terday by the War Fund inaugurated by The S. C. M. Post, Ltd, with the following donations:
Treasury "Shrapaol Box" (wock
ended 0.4,41)
$3.27
50
Relief Association Committee acknowledgo
following
OF HONGKONG
THAT poverty and its accompaniments were the core of the pressing social problems of this Colony, was the opinion expressed by Hon. Sir Robert Kotawall yesterday when he took the Chair at the annual meeting of the Salvation Army Home for Women and Girls. He paid tribute to the great work of rescue and human salvage that is being done by Major Brazier, Officer in Charge of the Home, and her devoted staff.
Also on the platform were Mrs N. L. Smith, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Secretary for Chinçao Affairs, Hon. Mr W. N. Thomas Tam, Brigadier W. and Mrs Darby, Rev. H. A.Wittenbach, Adjustant Doris, Lemmon, and Capt and Mrs Westergaard.
Tokyo, Apr. 0. Revealing a vast abortive ussas Dowiers of the Hongkong Club
tourth donation) ANON 175-91 sination and arson conspiracy direct- Some Members of the Hongkong This ihm broke all Box Office ed against the leaders of Japan's
· Club (third donation). ................. 233.53 records in Singapore and Manila, political, financial, scientific and cul- Prison Onicera Club (sixth dona- while in Shanghai it played for 28tural worlds, the judicial authorities Gloucester Lounge days to capacity houses, a short time to-day lifted the censorship ban on
Gramophoba Player (March) ******* ago It was shown at the King's Then-
48.00 news of the planned civilian uprising
NEW TERRITORIES RELIEF tre, at roadshow rates. It was not
scheduled have been
10 surprising, therefore, that while full-
staged, at 7 The members of the New Territories Inst year. July 5, houses, were the order of the day then, many thousands of film fansThe ban was lifted as the prelim-with grateful appreciation and thanks the
Tans Linary examination" missed the show.
on of 30 defendants March, & donations and its made during Now the Oriental are offering the d had
established grounds for formal and Hospital operating in the New Turri- prosecution marvel of the Arabian Nights
tory villages: on charges of
Annual Report
In every case segregation has been atto murder,
conspiracy slightly higher than their usual rates, violation of the law for the control Chau Elders, $143: Ha Tauen, $164.10: Mr
attempted orson, anch
Major Dorothy Brazier said: Messi, Haw Par Broz, Ltd. 3500; Cheuma
necessary, but this distasteful "medi- Prices for the matinees will be 30c of explosives and firearms.
To those of us who had been work-cine" has been administered in as Li To-ming Fanting), 100: Mr Chan ing in Hongkong, and had longed to pleasant a way as possible. Much Lenders of the planned coup, which 40; Per Mr Leung Pun-wals from Tung
Harr, 150: Mr Tang Limming illa Tsuonj;" see more of the Salvation Army credit is due to our Helper, Mrs Yan, circle, evening prices are 306 c. was prevented by the arrest of would-wah Hospital, 530 Bir Zong Tauen-yan forces operating in his Colony, the who has mothered this particular
$1,20 which includes the tax.
of our Headquarters of our family for the last two years. Thief of Bagdad is one of the most be participants shortly before they la Tauen), $25; Mrs Tang illa, Truen),
from Canton to Hongkong was wel- A sincere Christian herself, her one Mra Rouso (eighth gift),one parcel of comed as a move in the right direc-desire is to help her girls" to rea- backs for babies, Mr. A. M. Luenberger
will be an advantage to Ilse the power of God in their lives, Lion. This ene case of Eagle Brand mlik: T. W. Wu all concerned, especially to Brigadier that alone can enable them to take and Co.. 30 boxes of Heper i cea King's Darby himself, who is now in Dispensary, 6,000 quinine tablets; Hong better position than his predecessor Home.
a much a stand for right when they leave the in Women's Relief Assocution, 60 padded esala.
to study the social problems of this: When the girls leave the Home Colony, and, with that closer contact, to be of greater service to those who are striving to find a solution to those problems.
for the lower floor and 50c. for dress
recent 10. were to have gone into action, In-
fantastic and mystifying of screen cluded two key defendants in the productions. The scene in which the famous "God-Sent Troops' case who flying horse gradually rises from the are involved in the new affair. ground is reckoned to represent one
Divided into five groups, the alleg. of the smartest pieces of frick photo-
to have graphy ever to bave been achieved in conspiratora ore sald
Inplanned
slay unspecified financial, Hollywood, while the meeting အ little Sabu with the monster genie Political, educational and other lead- is, to say the least, thrilling to the era in order to destroy the Shogunate formed by these leaders and restore extreme.
the Imperial rule.-Domel,
At the extremely low prices for this sensational show the Oriental will no doubt have capacity houses during the run of the picture.
10
Literary Lecture The last meeting this season of the Hongkong Branch of the English Association was held at the Helena
May Institute yesterday, when Dr
Norman Mackenzie," of Hongkong
Monster Raffle
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On account of the last-minute de- mand for tickets in the Monster Raffle, Messrs Linstead & made arrangements yesterday even- ing to extend the closing time to 5 p.m. to-day, at the following centres only!
For the Easter holidays the Im- Marina House .migration Office
and the Central Branch in Queen's will be closed, to pubile Buliding business from Friday, April 11, to and Literature." There was a good South Monday, April 14, inclusive.
attendance.
Hongkang Jockey Club Office, Ex- change Building: Stor Ferry, Hong kang; Messrs
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every effort is made to keep in touch with them by visitalion. It gives special cause for encouragement that each of the five girls of that parti. cular group passed out of the Home during 1940, are all doing well. The work has first one placed out to already been in the same job over twelve months.
Fower Girl Offenders There are few giri juvenile offen- ders appearing in the Courts compar ed with the boys. Gangs of boys who excel in the art of bag-snatching and similar offences are constantly before the Magistrates, and swell the the Director of Medical Services for number of admissions to the Boys granting us Remand Home: These unfortunately Ruttonjee, whose care for the physical have their counterpart In the hun well-being of the girls is recorded dreds of young girls who are the gravest danger to the male com-
with appreciation..
Our sincere thanks are also due to
the services -ut Dr
munity of Hongkong. Who are they We are deeply indebted to the who would dare to stand in judg-members of the Toe H for supplying ment on these sisters of ours with-the material and building two huts out first considering the road that the Home.
in the garden without cost to the majority have been forced to trend?
Owing to war conditions in China,
arvestious women are making a}
bodies of young
out of the undernourished' girls, who, on the pretence of finding them work, have enticed
these
unsuspecting village
girls
to Hongkong. Sold Imr
immediate- ly upon arrival to the equally un- scrupulous brothel-keepers, very few girls
have been
able to withstand the transformation that makes them easily recognised as a "girl on the “street,""nad still less have they been able to find a way of escape before they have been morally and physical- ly ruined.
Mention should be made of the splendid co-operation of Miss Phyllis Harrop, Lady Assistant to the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs; who has al- ways been ready to help at any hour
of the day or night. Many a iri owes her escape from houses of ill- fame to the ralda personally carried out by Miss Harrop. We share her disappointment that this important side of her work had to be curtailed until Government is able to proceed with the scheme for accommodating those who would only be too glad to accept a belter mode of Ilfc.
Added Responsibility Although at first it did not appear that this Home could accept the add- cd responsibility of this particular type of girl, the very urgency of the heed forced us to at least make an attempt to accept as Limited
as our isolation
could receive.
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That such a work is not doomed to failure has been proved during
the last two years from the medical, inoral and spiritual standpoint.
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