"BOWL OF RICE" INAUGURATION
The Inaugural dinner of the "Dowl of ice Campaign" to raise funds for Chinese relief was held at the Ying King Restaurant, Wanchat, last night. Mme Sun Yat-sen and· Mrs Selwyn-Clarke were the hostesses. The guests were served with a bowl of "chow fan" and soup.
Speakers at the dinner Included the Hon. Mr M. K. Lo, Chairman of the Bowl of Rice Campaign Committee, and Mr Evert Barger, leader of the British Relief Unlt in China. A message from His Excellency the Governor wns rend.
Mr Barger, who had just returned from the interior with Mr Philip Wright, sold many people were under the Impression that China, was rid of the refugee problem, but this was not correct. He paid tribute to the fine work being done by the Chinese Red Cross and commended the Chinese Industrial Co- operatives.
The campaign is organised by the lives so that they can produce their China Deteneo League with the co-own essential needs and contribute operation of the Chinese Chamber to their country,
et Commerce and the voluntary e8- sistance of many Chinese restaurants in the Colony. The object is to sell 20,000 tickets for "Bowl of Rice Luncheons" to be held in the vari- restaurants in ous contributing Hongkong from August 1. Proceeds
Mr Ever Barger
Mr Barger, said:
are to be devoted to productive re- plles, but strelief work in order
were
lict of flood victims and refugees in China through the Chinese Indus- icial Co-operatives.
Major- the Among fucats General A. E. Graceit, General Of cer Commanding, Mrs N. L. Smith, Hon. Dr P. S. Selwyn-Clatite, Hon. Sie Shou-son Chow, Commodore A.
I returned to Hongkong yesterday after a year in the interior. Most of this time we have been travelling, the problems of not only distributing medical aup- Red Cross and to find out in what ways assistance can be most effective.
North military From a
vlew, Honan and Shans are perhaps the most important war area. For three years the Japanese have been try- ing to cross the Yellow River and a South
C. Collinson, Mr Rewi Alley, Dr great battle was fought in Robert Lim, Miss Rosamund Kunit. Shansi in the last two months. It Miss Emily Hahn, General Morris, is here that fighting lias been bit- Cohen and Mr James Bertram,terest.
of the Chino Defence
We started travelling in a bullock Lengur,
the Governor's cart for 40 miles along one of the His Excellency. message, addressed to Mme Sun Yat- chief sen and Mrs H. Selwyn-Clarke, was
Secretary
us follows:
lines of communication to
UFS
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NAZIS MOVE BY AIR~~Hugo Juakore transport plane being loaded with war oquipmont, In rocont picturo takon on war front. This probably is type of ship Nazis uso in landing troops in Crota. Reports say probably 15,000 invaders roached island.
CYCLONIC Lorna Doone Drives Off
RAINS
IN INDIA BOMBAY, July 1 ́(Reuter)
Shansi. As we went we met parties An unprecedented breakdown of of wounded soldiers, some walking telegraphic and telephonic com-
some carried on ca wearily, son
cart or
3 German Aircraft
FIFTY years ago a paddle-wheel steamer was launched on the Clyde and given the name of Lorna Doone. She was and she went south to the Bristol Channel. one of the P. & A. Campbell flect, the White Funnel ships,
Residents who hail from
South
myself unable to be present at the stretchers the casualties of a batuk Imunleations between Bombay | Wales, Somerset or Devonshire retain
It is with real regret that I find
first Dowl
ccas,"
Mr Lo's Speech
and all principal cities in
and an almost complete paralysis She was a day excursion steamer and of rail traffic from Bombayhu, plled from Newport, Cardiff and Clevedon, Lynton, Lyn- Weston. mouth, Ilfracombe and Clovelly on followed the heaviest rainfall Penarth on the Welsh coast across to experienced by Bombay and the surrounding areas during the the English side. Sister ships in this Bervice included the Cambria and present monsoon.
the Waverly.
many yours on the Bristol
Japanese Military Commands
given under your auspices, though there, as well as in the mountains of is some solace that I am privileged Stuth Shansi, that the Army Medl- to be the Patron of the campaign cal Service, with the powerful assist for which the dinner is being held, ance of the Chinese Red Cross, is I wish your dinner every suc- doing splendid work in the face of
almost
dimculties. superhuman Medicines have to be brought over
The rain which fell for 30 hours 12,000 miles by road from Burma at
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" terrifle cost; the wounded have to was accompanied by cyclonic condl-chaffnet the Lorna Doore went to tions. Over 15 Inches of rain fell ini
TOKYO, July 1 (Domel), The be brought from the front over miles
Prince Tsunenori steep and narrow for us to ride on in heavy foods near one of Bombay's nakters. But now she is engaged in War Office announces that H.I.H. of mountain paths, many of them too West Ghats, near Bombay, resulting the Isle of Wight carrying holiday horses, being carried for many days. suburban junctions from which rail sterner work. Mine sweeping is her major-General
This
complicated organisation was trafic branches out throughout India. job and the "old lady" of 50 recently Kaya has been appointed command-
Eastern Army. This caused breaches at two points tackled three Nazi bombers and won ont of the first detachment of the improvised In the last three years without sufficient trained personnel and there was considerable disloca- cheering victory. and previous experience. That Ittion of traffic.
Bombay's terminus was crowded
trains exista to-day, with base hospitals, feld hospitals and dressing-stations with passengers whose
been cancelled. is a great achievement.
The Hon Mr M. K. Lo said: regard it as a great honour to be asked to preside this evening to in- in aid of China, and I would like augurate the Bowl of Rice Campaign to say a few words as to the object of this campaign and how it origi- nated.
As we all know, the best type of rellet is productive rellet, that is, rellet by helping people to work and be self-supporting.
Now I hope you have all heard of the Chinese industrial Co-opera- tives. The purpose of industrial co- operatives is to institute in China a popular movement for small scale Industry un co-operative lines. was started in August, 1938, In the Province of Shensi.
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Air Training Scheme
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Major-General Hakujiro Kato has been appointed Director of the Cen- trat Gendarmerie Headquarters.
Col. Den Nakal has been appointed Commander of the Korean Gendar- merle.
Aircraft Worsted
H.R. Lieut-Gen. Prince Gin RI, The admiralty thus described the had affair: "A spirited and successful head of the Korean Royal Family, action was fought between HM. has been appointed Commander of Paddle Mine-sweeper Lorna Doone the Utsunomiya Army Division.
Lleut-Gen. Shigencri Kuroda has. and three enemy aircraft. As The towns and roads in South
sult of this action one of the three been appointed Director of the Head- aircraft was considered to have been quarters of the Inspectorate-General Shansi are occupied by the Japan-
destroyed. A second was seen to be of Military Education. ese; the Chinese still live in the small villages in the mountains.
badly hit. The third made good ils escape in the low visibility. Food is scarce, and they usually live nothing but millet porridge.
The
only ensttalles in Lorna needs of the army some Naturally the
Well Ahead Of Schedule
Doone were two wounded. The shio By the summer of 1041,
LONDON, July 1 (Reuter).-Mojor Sustained only superficial damage to froin 2,000 co-operative units, with 10,000 come first: this is a war-zone and the
Canadian Air the bridge and deckhouse
bulleta," members, giving direct employment Inhabllants, often cut off from gov to another 50,000 workers and pro-ernmental authority or assistances C. G. Power, the
Minister, who has arrived in Eng- machine gu
The Nazl aircraft; Doruler 215's, viding a livelihood for the depen-have to fend for themselves.
it stated that there is and from Canada, told a press con- dents of both groups, were func-
I have seen it stated Hroblem inference in London to-day that the dived en the old pleasure steamer
clouds, refugee prob
They dropped tioning in 10 provinces of China. no longer
in China.
na. This is perhaps true of mass Empire Air Training Scheme was from low
bombs, but the Lorna Doone gave the of schedule. These members and workers are re- cruited from refugees, disabled soi-movements aver long distances but well ahead of scho
Major Power added that about 80 Germans all she had. of which I am diers,
unemployed
wur areas workers. in the The total amount of capital Invest-speaking there is an appalling refugee per cent. of the original plan was now in operation. There were about in the Industrial Co-operatives problem whenever the Japanese ad- over this period did not exceed 12 vance, sweeping and burning all 115 training units. million Chinese dollars. The Chin- before them. It is these people that the organisation of the Co-operatives ese Industrial Co-operatives at pre- sent produce monthly some 12 mil-saves from disaster and despair, giv- Ing the uprooted a new means of lion dollars worth of goods.
Now one of the most serious pro-velthood. blems in China is the relief of flood victims Many thousands of Chin- esc have been rendered homeless by the foods of the Yellow River.
ed
bo
and
Practical Measures
This is something more colld than
and All soup-kitchens
moro
per-
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From seven to ten per cent, of the air crews were United States, citizenn and American civil pilots were being used as instructors in bombing and gunnery.
Vicious Vichy Round-up Of
The output of pilota was up to Communists
expectations and there was no short-
-of-air-crew reculis....
The chief object of Major Power's
Births Decline Under Nazis
German Anxiety
The new birth-rate booklet issued by Himmler, the Gestapo chief, which set the standard for all patriotic German families at four to six children, is further
"ZURICH, July-1-(Reuter)-evidence that the German birth- moneys zalsed by this campaign will manent than refugee camps. The mission, which will last about two The arrests of Communists in rate has been falling ever since
forwarded through the Inter- destitute and homeless enter an or weeks, is to discuss with Sir Archi Paris are reported to have run Hitler came to power..
bald Sinclair, the British Ale Minis- producing from local national Committee of the Chinese ganisation Industrial Co-operatives for the pre-materials things vitally needed inter, administrative problems arising to 2,000 as part of the wide-
blankets, China to-day, shoes, paper ductive
Live, relief fund.
Vichy's breach with Russia, They will be used to re-establish and the organisation will be of great on the joint air training plans for spread Police round-up following people driven from their homes by value to China after the war.
states the Vichy correspondent food or war, in productive co-opera- Hidden among the mountains from
of the "Neutzucrcher Zeitung." much less noticeable in Britain. tive enterprises in arcus where they the prying eyes of Japanese zero- to decamp at any ready will be safe from further danger.
Mrs Selwyn-Clarke.
planes, carrying their tools and ma-
among
Canada and Britain,
New Zealand War Effort
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While the birth-rate always tends to fall in a war, that effect has been
correspondent adds,
The rate for England and Wales Russian Embossy bulldings in Vichy
A sharp for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, are guarded by soldiers. Mrs Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Secre-chinery, these men and women are
watch is kept on the town's exits. 1340, was 14.8 per 1000. This was China's front-line fighters. tory, said:
Many Russians have been arrested higher then in 1933, when the role On behalf of Hie Central Com- If
WELLINGTON, July 1 (Reuter) and there is energetic action against In other. parts of mittee of the China Defence League
has France." may I thank you all for your presence tlon in China you cannot do better-The adoption of three shifts a day Communists here this evening. I also wah than give it to the Co-operatives. on New Zealand water-fronts express our gratitude to the Chinese Your money will be used for a num resulted in
t you want to give money for re- lief work among the civilian popula-
WOB 14.4.
No figures are available of the Ger- 25 per cent. speed-up The "Gazette Lausanne" reports man Birth-rate since the war. of in the handling of ships carrying from Vichy that as evidence of the most recently published statistics
The
Chamber of Commerce, who have her of purposes--for a programent | produce to England, stated Mr Wal-powerful French Communist organi- were 18.2 for Germany and 13.7 for
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and
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Governor Of Barbados
CAN U. S. STAY OUT?
con-
All Resources To Go Into Bombers
American plane builders are pooling
sponsored this campaign, and to the medical relief
the fer Nash, Acting Prime Minister, insation, the Communist newspaper Austria. restaurants who have donated many
health service-not
"Humanite," though banned since a speech to-day thousand bowls of rice, finally to our
of Co-operative members,
Mr Nash emphasised the need for the beginning of the war, has been regularly in several host this evening, the owner of the benefit
increased cheese production to reach appearing arcas Ying King Restaurant, Mr Koh Fok-essential producers, but also for the
other inhabitants in the
In the Chung Thino Shan there is the goal of 180,000 tons for Britain French towns. We, in the China Defence League, have appreciated the generosity of no medical organisation outside the during the coming season.
The change-over from butter pro- Typhus and other diseases many Chinese in longitong and the Army. enormous efforin that have been have ravaged the countryside, carry-duction to cheese was costing the In ing off in the last year or two Government £380,000 for one season, mado by relief organisations. launching the Dowi of Rice campaign nearly half the population. It is hot we hope to reach a wider circle of an exaggeration to say that nearly Chinese thon has been attempted everybody suffers from scables.. previously. Our aim is to raise Your money may be used for gly- $40,000; It may sound very ambillous ing new homes to refugees as well but we propose to sell with your ns the posibility of a livelihood, for help, 20,000 tickels at $2 each, and child welfare, possibly therefore although the sum is large, clubs and schools which I have seen the individual contribution is snail. In inaccessible places. You can be We believe that there are far more quite sure in giving money to the men than 20,000 Chinese In Hongkong Co-operation staffed by able who regularly spend $2 on their who have joined it without any lunch, and we asit of them on one thought of gain, organisers who are occasion to show their appreciation in close touch with the civilian needs of all that the soldiers and civilians
seemed to me, the needs are greatest of China have suffered over four long the war areas where, as it has years, by eating a bowl of rice on
and at present, on account of die- one of the first three days of August, tance and other factors, outside at the Li Shan Cato (500 dishes);
assistance lenst. Nanking Restaurant (500 bowl); Lok Shin (2,000 bowls); Lung Chuen (2,000 bawis); llon Seung (1,000 bowls); Kam Shing (500 bowls): Kam Moon (800 bowls); Arite Cafa (600 bowls); Tin Yin (1,000 bowls); 500 bowls): Yee On Teu Hong
(1,000
LONDON, July 1. (Reuter)-Sirference at Hyde Park to-day · re-) Chamber of Commerco
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"Dorothy Lamour
Australian Warship
ON board an Australian warship recently, 200 miles from land, a rating entered the wardroom and dashed out again, slamming the door behind him,
LOS ANGELES, Jaly 1 (Reuter), their resources to give. the United NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuter)States and Britain an unprecedented Nearly everyone is against war just feet of long range four-engined as everyone is against sin, said Pre-heavy bombers, reaching to 500 per month, the American Aeronautical
To his comrades, he gasped out an incoherent story that sident Roosevelt at his Press
he had seen a leopard. affirming the hope that America to-day, Henry Gratten Bushe, legal adviser
war, but he
Colonel John Jouett, President of
While they were still grinning, and kept her out of sight as long as
a yell from possible. to the Dominions Office and Colonial could stay out of the
But then. "Dorothy", became 11, mee, has been appointed Governor went on to draw a distinction between the Chamber, said that these planes
another rating. of Barbados.
obvious how anyone would vote in the to Britain.
He also claimed he had seen a and her owner had put her in the ward-room while he went for first He will succeed Sir John Wadding-hope and belief, adding that it wan could convoy shipping from America sceptically, there was ton, who has been appointed Gover-poll as to whether the United States
The Boeing Organisation of Scottle leopard,
handed over to, should plunge actively into conflict
The others sull refused to belleveald. · Corporation of
"Dorothy" was and the Douglas with the Axis.
in the
the last two Santa Monica, California, and Vega that a leopard could suddenly ap President Roosevelt months has often asserted that he of Burbank, Californin, have agreed pear aboard a ship 200 miles from Taronga Park when the ship reached hoped the United States would keep to co-operative production on the land. out of the European conflict. To- Boeing B-17. LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)."Our day's relteration followed
the Administration French people working in the factori- criticisms of
or of Northern Rhodesia.
FIFTH COLUMN
IN FRANCE.
recent
es are not the least angry with the R. palley that the country was being led The President refused to discuss really invite it and hope to see the blockade continued" id M. Henri caplonage arrests, Hauck, Labour Adviser to General do Gaulle, speaking at Shemeld.
AF for bombing the plants-they along the road of active participation.
M. Hauck explained that these Shanghai Shooting
people had to work for the Germans but inwardly they felt that they
Loan To Wang Ching-wei
an Sydney, and is now inmate of the Classified as a Sinhalese leopard an cub, she is thriving, and has a friendly eye for naval men who "It's about Dorothy, sir," he said, visit the Zoo. "poor little Dorothy,"
But about the same time a fluster-Zoo. ed and embarrassed member of the crew was trying to explain to
officer.
"What Dorothy?". "Dorothy?" asked the bewildered Teng Pao-shan Family Kwong Chau Restaurant
devil are: you one of *TICI!" HILLARD,
Killed In Air Raid bowis); Shiu Kel Yuen in Wanchal shortest aircraft man in the H.A.F.,
SHANGHAI, July1 (Inter-ofeer. "What the (500 bowls) (Vegetarian chow fan);
was married recently at the third
national)The 200,000,000 yen loan talking about? What Dorothy?"
"If you please, sir, it's Dorothy Ying King Restaurant (2,000 bowls). attempil
YULIN, July 1 (Central News).- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH To-night we have with us many He. was going to be married last
SHANGHAI, July 1 (UP)A lone by Japan to the Nanking regimo is
The officer began of the leaders of the Chinese in August, but his furniture was bomb-
would rather starve now and be free Chinese gunman this evening shot to be secured by customs revenue, the Lamour. She's sick to think that he The wife, two sons and one daughter or the rating was suffering from sun-of General Teng Pao-shan, Chinese Communities. We are asking
wounded. Lu Boh salt gabelle, consolidated inxes and
army commander, were killed in a translator. for other lovies. you to help the victims of war and ed, to the wedding was put off.
When he had collected some more later than starve for the rest of their and seriously
lives.
ching, 30, Chinese
But it turned out that there really recent Japanese afe rald over Lan food of North China, men, women
Though France seemed to be out of the Japanese gendarmes.
It is reported that the loan is to
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shelc and children who are destitute. Last furniture and another flat, they were
The shooling occurred in the
which war, she had a better Firth
Hank,
And she had been named "Dorothy winter 40 per cent of the jlopulation bombed too, and the second wedding
has telegraphically sent his condol- died from typhus, relapsing fever date had to be postponed,
"Tich," who is 4 ft. 11 ins, tall. Column than Hitler's, Underground" Japanese controlled Hongkow area. be paid in instalments through the was a leopard, a amalt female cub. chow.
ller owner had smuggled her aboard) ence to General Tong. activities were growing daily and The assailant fired three shots, all Yokohama Speclo cerumen and hunger. We wish to help them
the Nanking 'regime. and at the same time to help China's was lucky at last. The
jescaped. faclorics. economic war effort by organising was at Bt George's Church, Camber-sabotago was being carried on in of which took effect, and then he handles also the customs surplus of Lamour." the refugees in productivo co-opers, I woll
the
stroke.
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