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FOREIGN PROPAGANDA-Tons of foreign propaganda in the form of books, pamphlets and circulars, seized from trans-Pacific liners, are destroyed at the San Francisco post office.
Their origin is Russia, Japan and Germany.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 14, 1941.
By Ernie
Bushmiller
OH BOY!
TO
ZOWIE! SHOP
VIPPEE!
Margaret Bourke-White Describes Chungking
Famed for her documentary photography, Miss Margaret Bourke-White proved from Chungking that she is equally capable of documenting in words any situation that strikes her as interesting. Visiting China's war capital as a team for “Life” magazine, with her famous author-playwright husband, Erskine Caldwell, Miss Bourke-White complied with a request from United China Relief, Inc. of New York and broadcast her! impressions of Chungking and Free China from Chungking's International Broad- casting Station.
Said broadcaster Bourke-White: "The hardest thing to realise is the sheer number of people who have been male homeless by this war This war has put more people on the marel, caused "niore shifts of population, caused more sheer volume of misery than any war in history.
"Even the face of the mapilful and hard-working Mudame has been changed. When the Chiang Kai-shek.
Boy Avenges Death Of Officer
Yellow River dykes were bomb- in all of Madarne Chiang's war ed out, the course of the river orphanages there are 30,000 orphans.
On his first trip to sea, a was changed and the old valley Actually there are hundreds of thou-seventeen-year-old boy of West where millions of people lived when, their parents were killed in ged the death of an officer who sands of orphans in China, erented Hartlepool (Co. Durham) aven- and raised their crops dried up. bombing or 1ghting when their was killed at his side while It is as if the Mississippi River homes were destroyed, when thase fighting a German plane. were diverted from flowing into forcas had to be hastily evacuated, so .The the Gulf of Mexico and flowed that thousands of children became instead into the Atlantic Oceanpelessly lost and separated from through Georgia.
their families.
boy, John Verrall, volunteered to help the third officer at the ship's gun when "In between raising plgs and the raider swooped on the ship "A dust bow developed where vegetables and climbing into dugouts and machine-gunned the decks. these millions of people lived and during air raids, the children take) When the officer fell, killed by the these hordes too are on the march, their arithmetic lessons.... But in German's rear gun, John took over indirect victims of war.
[learning to count they use all the the ship's gun and fired on the raider
symbols "So the building and excavating ml of war. They have cut out each time it swooped.
little pictures and pasted them on the Then the aircraft's rear gun fred
go on: a constant tapping and split-blackboard. Under "1" they have no more: the gunner had been hit tings of rock and carrying away posted a cut of a bombing plane. by John Verrall's gun. spoonfuls of earth in the slow steady Number "3" is represented by two way the Chinese have worked for anti-aircraft guts. The other num centuries. And in the midst of this bers are illustrated by rifles, sabres steady building of new houses and and so on.
new sheltera at n time-honoured,
Ship Abandoned
But four of the ship's crew, as well as the third offcer, were killed
steady pace, the bombardments come "But when they get to "10" I was by the German's bombs and bullets and the people have to build their pleased to see that childhood in- and the ship had to be abandoned. houses all over again.
terests reasserted themselves--they The story of John Verrall's pluck "So the temporary dwellings be- had cut out-pletures of ten butter was told when the survivors landed. come even more temporary in ap-flies. But there is more of bombing at a west coast port. pearance. I visited some by the than of butterflies in their childish great steps that lead down to the lives, Yangtze.. they bulld are entirely of bamboo.
The new ones that
Factories
"From the rocky peak above the "People wear bamboo in this war orphans' shelter one can get a country, eat it raw or bolted, weave very good view of Chungking. Down It into houses, use it instead of iron in the valley near the broad and al- together with it, and use it instead ways misty Yangtze, it is possible to plck out some of the factories if you know where to look for them.
pipes in factories, bind their rafters
of nails.
"When I walked into one of the apartments, I was astonished "They are strange sights, Their smokestacks are camouflaged like
to see the most beautiful wall trees, covered with branches ond paper I had seen in Chungking..
John, who was messroom boy, told
a reporter that he knew enough to keep the gun firing. "I meant to get the rear gunner it I could," he said.
Army Smokes Rationed
1 looked closely' and saw 'It was) Avelit e nota painted green.ficers and men while the pre-
made of hundreds of wrappers for sardine cans, pasted up to make a pallern.
not enough to cover
smokestack with branches. You sent
shortage
N.A.A.F.I.
Ten cigarettes a day will be the unofficial ration of Army
lasts, Lieut.- must replace them with fresh Colonel R. A. D. Alltoft, Wes- brunches every few days.
tem Command "The occupants had found the "Some of the factories can only brightly coloured papers in the ruins be found if someone who trusts you
supervisor, gold.. of a shop binsted out in an air raid will tell you where they are. They and had brought them home to make are carved into tho their new modern appariment more vegetable gardens... Underneath, and Colonel Alltoft. "There is no beautiful.
carved into caverns of earth and rock preferential treatment between ot- men. Both got the same
We in the Army are really worse than civilians,"
for cigarettes under off earth
like this that I describe, thero chines and vital machines of all number Army units in the north ard
are countless millions of familles kinds. These machines have a “his- living under a grass rug strung be-tory of being carried plece by piece tween three poles, Jiving even under for hundreds of miles on coolie back, on umbrella stuck in the sand. in river sampina, in hand carts.
On Warphans.
handing out coupons for two ten-
Y-packets per man weekly.
They must be surrendered when cigarettes are "This broadcast is going out from NAAFI, but there is nothing to pre- bought at the unit's transmitters Bunk deep in reinforced vent soldiers buying extra smokes "There are bright spots in the dark concrete and alone dugout under-from other sources. picture. One is the War Orphanage ground. The engineering staff works Tito rationing affects men in all In the outskirts of Chungking. This entirely underground and all the Services, on-official-of-the-imperial
3 the special war baby of thu' bobu-i vital' caves' of, solid rocker
Tobacco Company, said,
MAR-25
VILM
MAIN
Death Sentence On
For Murder
Malay For
After a trial lusting six days, a Malay, Haji Suleiman bin Haji Abdul Wahld, was found guilty at the Perak Assizes of murdering Mrs Mary Zalnah Maxwell Mr Justice Horne pass- cd sentence of death on the accused.
The Maxwella were found shot dead in their bungalow at Maryland Estate in the early hours of last Nov. 7. Mr Mux- well was found to have been shot dead while he was asleep, while Mrs Maxwell's body, was found huddled up in a cupboard. Ramuh ten-year-old daughter of the Maxwells, lived to tell the story of the shooting.
PIONEER OFFICER IS GERMAN
For the first time in this war
During the trial witnesscs-drivers and conductors-suld they saw Hall the King's Commission has been Suleiman leaving Tuiping for Sagar
on the day in question, having with granted to a German.
him a woman's bleyele.
Accused, who said he Was a
He is a
refugee serving with the
former driver of the Maxwells, gave Pioneer Corps. an alibi in his defence. He admitted
visiting the Maxwells on Nov. 5. 1o
This German
WHH one of
settle a question of wages and at the first "enemy aliens" to en- the same time to give them greetlugs.list when the Pioneers accepted| He said he returned to Taiping the
same evening and on the following them early last year. day went to work as usual and saw
He served with the Corps in Bri- a performance at a park that night and later in France, and, took with his wife and daughter.
The prosecution withdrew apart in the evacuation from Dunkirk. second charge, of the murder of Mr. He has been given the rank of C. N. Maxwell, against the accused. Second-Lieutenant after having re- ceived training or the same lines
Caldbeck, Macgregor's as British candidates, for commis-
Pay Dividend $7.50
sions.
Anti-Nazi
At the annual general meeting of Messrs Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co. The new officer, who is under Ltd, held in Shanghai on April 30, thirty, was forced to leave Germany after making substantial increases to because of his anti-Nazi activities. Reserves, a final dividend of $5 was declared
ordinary shares, on the making a total of $7.50 per share for the 12 months.
in a vere approved amount ing to $219,000.
In addition to this, donations to
Hitherto all officers commanding foreign units of the Pioneer Corps were British.
clearance work in the bombed parts
German Pioneers have been doing
iot London and elsewhere.
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