Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 2, 1941
"BOWL OF RICE" INAUGURATION
The inaugural dinner of the "Bowl of Nice Campaign" to rálse funds for Chinese rellef was held at. the Ying King Restaurant, Wanchal, last night. Mme Sun Yat-sen and Mrs- Selwyn-Clarko were the hostesses. The guests were served with in 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 Unit In Chin. A message from Ils Excellency the Governor was read,
Mr Barger, who had just returned from the interior with Mr Phillp Wright, said 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 canipatgn is organised by the tives so that they enn produce their China' Defence League with the co-own essential needs and contribute operation of the Chinese Chamber to their country.
of Commerce and the voluntary as: sistance of many Chinese restaurants in the Colony. The object is to sell 20,000 tickets for "Bowl of Itice Luncheons" to bu held in the varl-
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Mr Evert Barger
Mr Barger said:
I returned to Hongkong yesterday after a year in the interior. Most of have been travelling, In this time we contributing restaurants Hongkong from August 1. Proceeds not only distributing medical sup are to be devoted to productive replies, but studying the problems of lief of flood victims and refugees in Red Cross and relief work in order China through the Chinese Indus to find out in what ways assistance
be meat effecüve. can be trial Co-operatives.
From a
view, North Honan
are perhaps the most important war area. For three years the Japanese have been try- Ing to cross the Yellow River and a
Among the guests were Major- General A. E, Graselt, General OM- eer Commanding, Mrs N. L. Smith, Hon. Dr P. 3. Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Commodore A.
and tary
C. Collason, Mr Rewi Alley, Dr great battle was fought in South Robert Lim, Miss Rosamund Kung, Shans! In the Inst two months. It Miss Emily Hahn, General Morris, is here that fighting has been bit- Coben and Mr James Bertram, terest. Secretary of the China Defence League,
Excellency the Governor's message, addressed to Mine Sun Yat sen and Mrs H. Selwyn-Clarke, was as follows:
We started travelling in a bullock cart for 40 miles along one of the
lincs chief
of communication to Shanst. As we went we met parties of wounded soldiers, some walking wearily, some carried on carts. stretchers--the casualties of just drawing to a close, We found here, as well as in the mountains of South Shansi, that the Army Modi- cal Service, with the powerful assist anco of the Chinese Red Cross,
a battle
"It is with real regret that I and myself unable to be present at the Arst Dowl of Rice dinner to be given under your auspices, though it is some soluce that I am privileged to be the Patron of the campaign for which the dinner is being he doing splendid work in the face of
wish your dinner every Buc-
almost superhuman dimculties. cess."
Mr Lo's Speech
Medicines have to be brought over The Hon. Mr M. K. Lo said: 12,000 miles by road from Burma
terrifle cost; the wounded have to regard it as a great honour to be risked to preside this evening to in-be brought from the front over miles I mountain paths, many of them too augurate the Bowl of Rice Campaign of in ald of China, and I would like steep and narrow, for us to ride on to Any a few words as to the object horses, being carried for many days.
This complicated
last three years we all know, the best type of without sufficient trained personnel As rellet is productive relict, that is, and previous experience. That it relief by helping people to work and exists to-day,
self-supporting
to
jurs.
Un
NAZIS MOVE BY AIR-Huge Junkers transport plano being loaded with war equipment, in recent picture taken on war front. This probably is type of ship Nazis use in landing troops in Crato. Reports say probably 15,000 invaders roached island.
CYCLONIC Lorna Doone Drives Off
RAINS
3 German Aircraft
FIFTY years ago a paddle-wheel steamer was launched on the Clyde and given the name of Lorna Doone. She was one of the P. & A. Campbell fleet, the White Funnel ships, and she went south to the Bristol Channel.
IN INDIA BOMBAY, July 1 (Reuter) An unprecedented breakdown of telegraphic and telephonic com-
Residents who hail from South munications between Bombay
happy memories of the Lorna Doone. and all principal cities in India Wales, Somerset or Devonshire retain and an almost complete paralysis She was a day excursion steamer and of rall traffic from Bombay the piled from Newport, Cardiff and followed the heaviest rainfall Penarth on the Welsh coast across to Weston. Clevedon, Lynton, Lyn- experienced by Bombay and the mouth, Ilfracombe and Clovelly on gurrounding areas during the the English side. Sister ships in this present monsoon.
service included the Cambria and the Waverly.
The rain which fell for 30 hours was accompanied by cyclonic condi- tions. Over 15 inches of rain fell in West Ghats, near Bombay, resulting
After many years on the Bristol Channel the Lorna Doore went to the Late of Wight carrying holiday
Japanese
Military
Commands
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, July 1 (Domel). The in heavy doous near one of Bombay's makers. But now she is engaged in war Office announces that H.I.K. suburban junctions from which rail sterner work. Mice sweeping is her Major-General Prince Tsunenori
of this compaign, and how it origimprovised in the anisation was traffic branches out throughout India. fob and the "old lady" of 50 recently Kaya has been appointed command-
nated.
bo
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 on co-operative lines. was started in August, 1938, in the Province of Shensi,
By the summer of 1941, some 2,000 co-operative units, with 30,000 members, giving direct employment to another 50,000 workers and pro- viding a livelihood for the depen- were func- dents of both groups,
with base hospitals, field hospitals and dressing-stations is a great aclilevement.
on
army
This caused breaches at two points tackled three Nazl bombers and won ant of the first detachment of the
victory. elicering and there was considerable disloca-
Eastern Army. tion of trame,
Bombay's terminus was crowded trains had with passengers whose been cancelled.
Air Training Scheme
Aircraft Worsted The admiralty thus described the HRH. Lieut-Gen. Prince Gin Ri, affair: "A spirited and successful head of the Korean Royal Family, action
wag fought between ILM. has been appointed Commander of Paddle Mine-sweeper Lorna Doone the Utsunomiya Army Division, and three enemy aircraft. As à res Lieut-Gen. Shigeacri Kuroda has suit of this action one of the three been appointed Director of the Head- aircraft was coculdered to have been quarters of the Inspectorate-General destroyed. A second was seen to be of Military Education. badly hit. The third made good its escape in the low visibility.
"The
Major-General Hakujiro Kato has
only casualties in Leena been appointed Director of the Cen- Doone were two wounded. The ship tral Gendarmerie Headquarters. sustained only superficial damage to Col. Den Nalcat has been appointed the bridge and deckhouse from Commander of the Korean Gendar-
{meric.
The towns and roads in South Shans are occupied by the Japan- ese the Chinese still live in the small villages. In the mountains. Food is scorce, and they usually live nothing but millet porridge.
of Naturally the needs the
Well Ahead Of Schedule come first: this is a war-zone and the
LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)-Major inhabitants, often cut off from gov. ernmental authority or assistances C. G. Power, the Canadina Air have to fend for themselves.
Minister, who has arrived in Eng- machine gun bullets." I have seen it stated that there is
land from Canada, told a press con longer a
refugee China.
true of mass Empire Air Training Scheme was These members and workers are re- cruited from refugees, disabled sol- movements over long distances but well ahead of schedule.
and unemployed workers, in the diers,
of which I an
Major Power added that 'about 80 is a
(refugee The invest-
total amount of capital savive spouting whenever the Japanese ach now in operation. There were about of original plan was per
over this period
and burning vance, sweeping
all 115 training units. million Chinese dollars. The Chin- before them. It is these people that From seven to ten per cent, of the ese Industrial Co-operatives at pre- the organisation of the Co-operatives air crews wero United States citizens
worth goods.
floning in 10 provinces of China. 110 This is perhaps blem Inference in London to-day that the dived on the old pleasure steamer
ed
sent
did
not
exceed 12
wor areas
The Nazi aircraft, Dornier 215'8,
from low clouds. They dropped combs, but the Lorna Doone gave the Germans all she had.
Vicious Vichy
lion dollaronthly some 12 mall-caves from disaster and despair, giv-land American civil pilots were being
ing the uprooted a new means of used as instructors in bombing and Round-up Of
Now
and more
gunnery.
The output of pilots was up to expectations and there was no short-
of air crow recruits.
weeks, is to discuss with Sir Archi-
atic of the most serious pro-livelihood. blema in
Practical Measures China is the relief of food victims. Many thousands of Chin- ese have been rendered homeless s by This is something more solld than the floods of the Yellow River. All soup-kitchens
perage of moneys raised by this campaign will manent than refugee camps. The
Inter-destitute and homeless enter an or be forwarded through the national Committee of the Chinese ganisation producing from local Industrial Co-operatives for the pro- materials things vitally needed in ductive. relief fund.
China to-day, shoes, paper, blankets, They will be used to re-establish and the organisation will be of great people driven from their homes by value to China after the war.
Hidden among the mountales from food or war, in productive co-opera- tive enterprises in areas where they the pry
Prying
of Japanese sero- will be safe from further danger. planes, ready to decamp at any
Mrs Selwyn-Clarke
moment,
nent, carrying their tools and ma- chinery, these - men and women are among China's front-line. Oghters.
It you want to give money for re- let work omong the civilian popula-
Mrs Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Secre- tary, said:
yea
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The chief object of Major Power's ZURICH, July 1 (Reuter).-evidence that the German birth- mission, which will last about two The arrests of Communists in rate has been falling ever since bald Sinclair, the British Air Minis- Paris are reported to have run Hitler came to power. ter, administrative problems arising to 2,000 as part of the wide- from the joint air training plans for spread Police round-up following
The decrease began to be Canada and Britain.
celerated last spring. Vichy's breach with Russia, states the Vichy correspondent While the birth-rato always tends of the "Neutzuercher Zeitung." to fall in a war, that effect has been
correspondent adds, "The much less noticeable in Britain. Russian Embassy buildings in Vieny The rate for England and Wales are guarded by soldiers. A sharp for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, watch is kept on the lown's exits, 1940, was 14.8 per 1000. This was On behalf of the Central Com-
Many Russians have been mittee of the China Defence League
WELLINGTON, July 1 (Reuter) and there is energetic action against was 14.4.
arrested higher than in 1933, when the rate may I thank you all for your presence tion in China you cannot do better-The adoption of three shifts a day Communists in other parts of here this evening. I also wish to
than give it to the Co-operatives. on New Zealand water-fronts
has France."
No figures are available of the Ger- express our gratitude to the Chinese your money will be used for a num resulted in a 25 per cent. speed-up The "Gazette Lausanne" reports man Eirth-rate since the wor. The Chamber of Commerce, who hayo sponsored this campaign, and to the medical relief and a
purposes for.a
of in the handling of ships carrying from Vichy that as evidence of the most recently published statistica realuurants who have donated many health service-not
only for
theter Nush, Acting Prime Minister, Insation, the Communist newspaper Austrin. thousand howls of rice, finally to our benent of Co-operative members, a speech to-day.
{"umanite," though banned since host this evening, the owner of the
Mr Nash emphasised the need for the beginning of the war, has been Ying King Restaurant, Mr Koh Fok esantial producers, but also for the
other inhabitants in the war areas. increased cheese production to reach appearing regularly in 'several
In the Chung Thlao Shan there is the goal of 160,000 tons for Britain French towns. We, in the China Defence League, have anwaelated the generosity of no medical organisation outside the during the coming season.
The change-over from buller pro- many Chinese in Hongkong and the Army. Typhus and other diseases
was costing the mormous efforts that have been have ravaged the countryside, carry-duction to cheese made by relief organisations. In ing off in the last year or two Government £380,000 for one season, Inunching the Howl of ice campaign nearly half the population. It is not we hope to reach a wider circle of an exaggeration to say that nearly Chinese than has been attempted everybody suffers from scabies.. previously. Our aim is to raise Your money may be used for giv- $40,000; it may sound very ambitious ing new homes to refugees as well ...but we propose to sell, with your as the
possibly
ein.
pro produce to England, atated Mr Wal-ipowerful French Communist organi were 18.2 for Germany and 13.7 for
help, 20,000 tickets at $2 each, and child welfare of a livelihood, for
one of the first three days of August,
Governor Of Barbados
CAN U. S. STAY OUT?
All Resources To
Go Into Bombers
LOS ANGELES, July 1 (Reuter), American plane bullders are pooling their resources to give the United NEW YORK, July 1 (Router)States and Britain an unprecedented Nearly everyone is against war just fleet of long range four-engined bombers, reaching to 500 per | as: everyone is against sin, sald. Pre-onth, the
American Aeronautical sident Roosevelt at his Press con-
announced
hope and betler, adding that it
Was
10 Britain.
First and third weeks in July
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"Dorothy Lamour" In Australian Warship
ON board an Australian warship recently, 200 miles from land; a rating ontered the wardroom and dashed out again, alamming the door behind him.
To his comrades, he gasped out an incoherent story that he had seen, a leopard,
A
another rating, as
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everi for therefore although the sum is large, clubs and schools which I have seen the individual contribution is small in innecensible places. You can be Henry Gratten Bushe, legal adviser affirming the hope that America to-day.
LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)-Sir ference at Hyde Park to-day re- Chamber of Commerce We believe that there are far more sure in giving money to the to the Dominions Office and Colonial could stay out of the war, but he than 20,000 Chinese in Hongkong Co-operation staffed by able men Omce, has been appointed Governor wand on to draw a distinction between Colonel, John Jouett, Pres manos While they were all grinning and kept her out of sight as long as
President of whan regularly spend 52 on their who have joined it was who are
it without any of Barbados.. lunch, and we ask of them on one thought gain.
became : 111, But then "Dorothy" He will succeed Sir John Wedding"} obvious how anyone would vote in that could convoy, shipping from Amerien l'scopically, there was ayoli, from possible, accasion to show their appreciation in close touch with the civilian needs ton, who has been appointed Govern poll as to whether the United States
He also claimed, he had seen a and her owner had put her in the of all that the soldiers and civilians of the war areas where, as it has or of Northern Rhodesia.
ward-room while he went for first of China have suffered over four long
should plunge actively into conflict The Boeing Organisation of Seattle leopard. with
refused to believe ald.fed the Axis.
and the Douglas Corporation of The others still refused years, by eating a bowl of rice on seemed to me, the needs are greatest and at present, an account of dis-
was handed over to "Dorothy President Roosevelt in the last two Santa Monica, California, and Vega that a leopard could suddenly ap- months has often asserted that bal of Burbank, California, have agreed pear hoped the United States would keep to co-operative production out LONDON, July 1 (Reuter). Our dat of the European conflict. To- Boeing B-17.
day's relicration followed recent French people working in the factori-| eriticisma of the Administration es are not the least angry with the R. policy that the country was being led AF. for bombing. tho plants—they along the road of active participation. really invite it and hope to see the The President refused to discus d" said M. Henri espionago arrests. blockade continued Hauck, Labour Adviser to General do Gaulle, speaking at Shefeld.
at the Li Shan Cafe: (500 dishes); assistance least.
tance and other factors, outside
Airman Weds At. Third Attempt
ale b
one of
the
FIFTH COLUMN IN FRANCE
.
M. Lauck explained that the
Shanghai Shooting
on the land; b Bhip 200 miles from Taronga Park when the ship reached.
Sydney, and is now a Inmate of tho But about the same time a fluster Zon
Sinhalese leopard ed and embarrassod member of the Classified as a
thriving, and hus crow was trying to explain to an cub, she is
friendly' oyo for naval, men who omeor,
It's about Dorothy, sir," he said, visit the 200. "poor little. Dorothy.
Loan To Wang
Ching-wei
What Dorothy?"
Nanking Restaurant (300 bowls) Lok Shin (3,000 bowls); Lung Chuen (2,000 bowla); Hon Seung (1,000 bowls) Kam Shing (600 bowls); Kam Moon (800 bowls); Artle Cafe (500 bowls); Tin Yin (1,000 bowls); Yee On Tea House (500, bowle Kwang Chau Restaurant (1.000 TICH HILLARD, bowls); Shiu Kel
Wanchat Yuen. In (500 bowls) (vegetarian chow fan); shortest aircraft man in the LAF
"Dorothy?" naked the bewildered Teng Pao-shan Family (Inter-ficer, What the devil are you Killed In Air Raid Ying King Restaurant (2,000 bowls); whe married, recently-at the third
SHANGHAI, Julykke To-night we have, with us
attempt! many
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHER He was going to be married last people had to work for the Germans
national)The 300,000,000 yen loan talking about? What Dorothy? of the lenders of the Chinese and British Communities. We are
YULIN, July 1 (Central News). August, but his furniture was bomb-but inwardly they felt that they asking
SHANGHAI, July 1 (UP)-A long by Japan to the Nanking regime is if you piense, sirt Dorothy would rather Atarve now and be free Chinese gunman this evening, shot to be secured by customs revenue, the Lamour Shocks you to help the victims of war and ed, so tho wedding was put off. flood of North Chino, men, women furniture and another flat, they were s
When he had collected some more later than starve for the rest of their and seriously wounded Lil Sah, salt cabelle, consolidated taxes and The officer began to think that he The wife, two sons and one daughter
or the rating was suffering from run of General Teng Pao-than Chines pamphlets, ching, 30, Chinese translator for other levies, he stroke, repeats and army commander. were killed in and chlidren who are destitute. Last wintor 40 per cent of the population bombed too, and the second weddink { geswar, sho had a better Fifth The shooting occurred
Though France seemed to be out of the Japanese gendarmer in the It is reported that the loan is to Tut I turned out that there really recent Japanese alt rald over Lan died from typhus, relapsing fever, date had to be postponed,
Tich, who la ft. 11 ins, tall, Column than Hitler's, Underground Japanese controlled Hongkow area bo pald In Instalments through the walla leoparda kall female cub. chow
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shel and hunder. We wish to help them
har telegraphically sent his condol» and at the same time to help Chim was lucky at last. The ceremony activilles were growing daily and The assaltant fired three shots, all Yokohama Specie Bank, which And he had been named Dorothy economie war effort by organlding was at Bt George's Church, Camber-sabotage was being carried on in of which took effect, and then he handles also the customs surplus of Lembur.
factories.
the Nanking regimah- escaped. The refugees in productive co-opera" | well.."
- Her owner had smuggled her aboard ence to cmerul Te
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