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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 26, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WHERE
IS HE?
WORKIN' AROUND
THE CORNER!
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Japanese Architect Indignant
Jun Yamada, one of the best dwelling house architects in Japan, has closed down his office because he found con- tinuance of his business im- possible because of the building materials shortage and because of his repugnance of its accom. panying illegal deals.
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He has already discharged more than 50 carpenters and workmen and more thar. 10 oflce workers in his employment. Interviewe recently ine spoke at his home at Shotocho, Shibuya-ku, Toltyo, as follows:
been in dwelling house archictecture business since 1917 and responsible for the plans of more thar: 1.000 housea. Although I con sider the shortage building materials Inevitable because Japan is engaged in a large-scale war. I cannot but be indignant at the rampant illegal transactions. When every hastity built house of bad materials Aes between Y150 and Y200 per
square meters) as at present cannot continue to make good house honestly. In my opinion, it is up to the Government to distribule materials on a fair basis for colving the problem fundamentally."
Mongolian Rice Land Expanded
Mr George C. Lau, who will take a leading part in the Chinese opera, "Si Han," to be presented at the Talping Theatre to-night under the auspices of the Hong- Kong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association. Ife will also appear in "The Three Kingdoms," to be given to-inorrow evening.
R. A. Pictures Down By Half
Only half the number of oil paintings submitted inst
year Was hauded in at the Royal Academy for the Summer Exhibition.
"Whippet Escapes
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From Nazis
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London, May 9 pint-sized for- London mail-carrier, Evelyn Sidney White, 31, was identified to day as one of the two cappers of the Royal Engineers who broke out of a German prison camp to make a 1200- mite escape across Nazi Europe to Greece and freedom.
Their odyssey was first described May 6 in the House of Commons by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
To-day White's wife received a de- layed telegram from Greece: "Old nasty hadn't enough wire to keep us in. Had a tough time, but we got through all right."
White is so small he was known in his London suburb as "Whippet."
His comparion in the escape was not identified. The two, speaking nly English, tramped across Poland, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia and Greece, apparently helped along an "under ground railway by Allied sympathi- zers."
Both men have rejoined their unlis In Egypt.
J. P.'s Retire At 75
ERNIE BUSHMILE
What Children Dream
About in
War-Time
Children's war-time dreams are being collected as evi- dence of the effects of air-raids.
In a Paddington school, 250 boys and girls between 8 and 14 years have been describing their dreams of the night be fore as part of their daily class-work in English.
Results were so significant that the headmaster, Mr J. W. Ruddock, de- ckled to record and study then.
"The dreams show that life in war-time London has had only a transitory effect on the children," he sold.
"They treat the worst dangers objectively and even deflantly, and such Incidents as leaving home be- their stride like a visit to an aunt." cause of time-bombs they take in
Thrilling Deeds.
CENSORS 'CREATE :
MISTRUST'
Attempts by Government De Only nine boys and 20 girls had, dreams Involving fear. The boys partments to minimise bad news The girls' bogey bogey was a lion, burglar or ghost, about the war were referred to parachutist.
was a German at the annual conference of the
Only 10 per cent. dreamed about National Union of Journalists in air-raids. Actually, this proportion Manchester.
smaller because the dreams Mr Ernest Hunter, in his pre- were mostly about fire-bombs, and sidential address, criticised the fire is a
a normal subject of dreams. Service departments Most of the boys dreamed of
of the thrilling war deeds. The great ma-Censorship Bureau. jority dreamed of being in the The foolish attempts by the Minis- R.A.F.. piloting bombers over Ger-try of Home Security and the Air many. Not a boy dreamed of being Ministry to hide the extent of casund- in the Army,
tles in air raide could not, he said, be defended.
They
created distrust and ought
-And Then The V.C. Here is a typical boys' dream: "I got on the tail of four Germans, destroyed two, sending the third down out of control. The other goi away. All the crews baled out safe- I got
One of them, "Hitler in Hell," by 21-year-old Kenneth Snowman, of Hampstead, has been submitted Justices of the Peace who are too twice before, and accepted, but the old or infirm to discharge their Hanging Committed was unable to duties emetently will be compul- ly. My engine went off. And space for it.
sorily retired under
to the wing and jumped. I the Justices on (Supplemental List) Bill,
which counted three, pulled the rip-cord 10 stone swastika, his hend resting has just been introduced. Viscount and got back to the base safely. And
It shows Hitler lying naked on
uneasily on a book exuding blood, Simon, the Lord Chancellor, moved PEIPING, Vast reclamation pro-a
with a demon about to push him into the second reading in the House of jects to expand rice cultivation are satellites are being pushed into the
flery pit. Some of Hitler's Lords recently. making progress in Honan Province pit surrounded by snakes.
Seventy-five will be the normal and in Inner Mongolia,
age of retirement for J.PJ.
waterways
prevention
No Censorship
are
Honan, which is also an important cotton producer, a working on the reclamation of 80,000 actes as part
Most of the pictures sent in of the construction of a network of peaceful landscapes, stili life and
and
floort
onflower subjects, and portraits. In Inner Mongolla,
The exhibition will not be subject Large tracts are to be rectalmed in the to censorship, an omelat stated, but vicinity of Paotow, likewise for rice artists who have painted war scenes land, Water will be diverted from have had to obtain permits and to the Yellow River for irrigation.
submit their work to the Censor individually.
works.
Sale of Chinese
Works of Art
.
Black Bourse For Timber: £500-Fine-
Sotheby's concluded recently a
Described by prosecuting counsel as "ringleader of a sort of Black three-day sale of the late Mr H. K. Bourse for timber in London," Moses Burnet's collectior of Chinese works D. Goldman, of Brick Lane, Bothnal
for a
In recent years there has been ja voluntary syalem under which they can be transferred to a supplemental ist losing their right to sit on the Bench but retaining their positions for administrative purposes.
to
Besides giving legal recognition to the supplemental list. the new bill empowers the Lord Chancellor enter on it the name of any J.P. who, "by reason of his age or infirm- ty or other like couse," censes to jexcercise judical functions,
Grievance-Over- Lost Sea Kit
g-Yin Dynasty bronze Ting of pay £105. *ecently and ordered to officers and men better scales
costs.
to stop.
A possible danger, in view of the newsprint shortage, added
Mir Hunter, was that some bright genius might evolve the Idea of only one newspaper to tell the nation the news,
Free To Criticise I was awarded the V.C."
But a varied Press, free to argue Girls sought escape in fairyland, and criticise, was part of the essenet or far distant countries. Older girls of our nationat case in this war. had dreams of evacuation to rpınan-
The conference, while dissociating the homes.
itself from the "defeatist and sub- There were only a few dreams versive propaganda of "The Dally about food.
Worker, passed a resolution pre- This indientes there is no short-testing against the method of the nge of food," explained Mr Ruddock, Paper's suppression.
"When a teacher asked a class howed Mr Tom Foster, a member of the conference unanimously elect- many children would be willing to staff of the "Daily Herald," as pre- do fire watching they jumped out of sident of the union for 1941-42. Mr their seats with every hand flew into the air.
excitement and Donald Elliott, of Edinburgh,
comes vice-president,
Wounded War Prisoners
-Repatriation-Sought
CHURCH'S CURE FOR "INSOLENT BUREAUCRATS"
The insolence
of repatriating badly subtle polson and way
An effort is being made by the Mercantile. Marine Service Associn- of art for a total of £6,131. The Green, was fined a total of £600 at tion to secure highest price, £370, was given
for merchant ships' Old Street
of shape, with two loop handles,
compensation and allowances for kit supported on three cylindrical legs, director of Baltimore Lumber Com-
He had been summoned as lost through war hazards,
The loss of kit, particularly of boldly decorated in high rellef with pany, Lit, which was stated to love instruments, cannot be replaced nt a 'do t'ich masks of a ground of thun- disposed of timber to purchasers not cost less than about double the com- with engraved dentate ornament, Twenty summonses against the com- Many men have to spend pounds among British prisoners in Germany. Churches at Oxford recently.
fret with black inlay, the legs ticensed by the Minister of Supply.pensation received, it is stated.
der
and an archaic character in the in-pany were withdrawn. terlor. A Chou
they can ill afford to re-equip them- Defending counsel said Goldman selves for another voyage. of wanted to put his creditors right, and The Government is giving the
lost his head to save the business. matter consideration.
Dynasty patinated bronze
finely wine vessel beaker shape mode £230.
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OPEN AT 8.30
AT
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bo
even
A
of power in a wounded British and German war
embitters prisoners is being sought by the the services of the benignant International Red Cross.
Ministry. To the average bureau- Men to be repatriated will be those crat the poor are not immortal souls so Injured that they cannot fight or sons of God. At the best they are again.
interesting cases; ut the worst German prisoners in Britain are mass of statistics or confounded being examined by a special Com- nuisances." mission of two Swiss doctors and one So sald Mr Philip Milner Oliver British. They will decide which of Manchester, in hin, presidental wounded may be sent home,
address
to the General Assembly of A similar Commission is at work Unitarian and Free Christian
"Not An Exchange" A War Office official suld recently: "Any prisoners claiming that by reason of their injuries they are per manently non-combatant may for repatriation.
"When a route and transport has been
agreed
upon, the men recom- mended by the doctors will go. The return of prisoners, it is stressed, will not be repatriation, not exchange."
Ork
ones
"The mediaeval Church had Corrective for such insolence," Mr washed the feet of beggars. The Oliver
added. "ller - great practice might be revived, and the fect of the poor be washed by cur Civil Servants."
Beautiful, Dangerous
He also said the war was a war at the cold and arrogant Prussian as in 1014 but, of the A Red Cross official said that the romantic South from which chief difficulty is that of transport. many's leaders came.
After Switzerland?
Ger-
Romanticism was a beautiful but The Germans can easily put dangerous thing. It bred saints or British wounded into Switzerland, devils. The narrow streets of its but transport after that is causing Gothic cities, bright in the sunshine, Some worry and we have not ynt [were slalster in shadow. planned transport for Germans. One day it painted 打 lovely Nothing can be done until this ques- Madonna, the next it planned tion is settled.”
No German prisoners in Canada are to be repatriated.
pogrom of the Jews.
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"They are the healthiest, Justlest Film Libraries Plan
of the German prisoners and have therefore no claim under Interna- national Law."
Germans Fly Over Greenland
For Schools
Establishment of, regional flm II- braries throughout the country after the war is recommended by the Bri- tish Film Institute in a report on the use of educational aims in schools. These libraries, it is argued, would create a constant demand for new Alm
lm prints.
The
A Greenland official arriving in America recently aboard a Danish of North of England schools equipped report states that 80 per cent. vassol sald German planes made with dlm projectors had not used reconnaissance fight over the east of them for the last 12 months and 30 the island late in March,
per cent, had been 'Idle Tor the past Dr Sylvester Saxtorph, island 10 months, The reason was that medical director who is en route to they could not afford the hiring fees New York to purchase supplies, made charged by commercial Alm librarica. the statement in
reply to a question whether he had witnessed any in- dications of
of German intentions to occupy Greenland.
Hit Bomb With A
+
Hammer: Killed
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Saturday,
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Friday
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Monday
27th June 21st July
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"One can only think that this man aldent Hoosevelt said then it was wanted to show his knowledge of proposed to make sure the island bombs to his relatives," sald would remain. Danish,
coroner at a Wimbledon Inquest Dr. Saxtorph said the German Supper A. E. Tomkins. planes consisted of two squadrons It was stated that Tomkins tried: of six planes each and that they to knock the top off an enemy fire mado several flights over the eastern bomb with a hammer and chisel. It exploded, killing him and injuring two boys and, a girly
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