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GLADYS COOPER Directed by HENRY KING Produced by WILLIAM PERLBERG
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER⠀
REFUGEES FROM
RED AREAS CAMP
NEAR NANKING
By ROBERT CLURMAN
Nanking, Nov. 28.—Several thousand refugees from areas recently captured by Communist troops in the Yangtse Valley are at present camped along the banks of the Yangtse just outside Nanking's city walls, many of them without food or shelter.
Entire refugee families, in- cluding women and children, are crowded together in tiny straw shelters four feet high and six feet long or are living out in the open along the roadside.
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Most of them oblain food by begging. Their clothing is in rags, Many have
shoes. A large number are discased as a result of exposure and hardship during their Right from their native villages and present a miserable plight,
Virtually all tell the same story when nåkeet why
left they their villages: Communist troops seized their
food grain, live- stock, clothing and personal posses sions and tried to force all able bodied men
Communist araty.
Into the
They said the Communists natural- ly did not take the land away from them (most of those questioned by United Press sold they possessed less than two acres), bul se zed almost everything else
give to their ill. supplle troopIS.
No Alternative
Pressed to
explain what they meant, two principal reasons were advanced: firstly, they did not trust the Communists and had no con- tidence that they would receive any benefits from the newly acquired land. Some and they feli certain government troops would recapture the area and thus they would lose the land anyway.
Landlords Executed
Secondly, a great many said they hnd known the landlords all thelr lves and did not consider it right to accept land which the Com- munists had seized from the land- mus lords,
Refugees from Sulhsien, in eastern Gaid the Communists Honan, exccuted landlords and village chiefs. One Sulhsien refugee estimated there were six executions daily from the time the Communists took the village until he fled.
Refugees from Pelhsien, in nor thern Kinngsu, said landlords and village fenders were rounded up by away. the Communists had taken They did not know what was their fate.United Press.
Milan Mobs Occupy Prefecture
Milan, Nov. 28-Leftist demonstrators and "parti- sans occupied the Milan Prefecture today.
com-
Partisans and workers are bivouacked In the Pre- fecture courtyard, eating lunches sent from munal kitchens. Their leaders are in the building, where only six of the re- have gular civil' officers remained.
Streets to the building are blocked by demonstra- tors' trucks standing cross- wise in the roadways United Press,
Thanksgiving Day
Death Toil.
Chiengo, Nov. 28-At least 80 persons met accidental deaths as the nation celebrated Its first winter holiday.
A Turvey showed Thanksgiving travel took 65 lives in traffic seci- dents and miscellaneous accidents elulmed 31 lives.-United Press.
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The refugees sald if they did not 11.00, 2.30
[co-operate fully with the Communist, ndministration nodi permit their sons to be drafted, their land would be seized too and they would have no alternative but to into this! army or lee.
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Asked whether the Communists had attempted to redistribute land- lords' innd
peasants; among the some refugees said the Communists and offered then additional land, Asked why they fled in view of this opportunity to acquire more land. the refugees claimed they did not? want to obtain more, land in bat manner.
St John's Cathedral
MIDDLE AGES PRESENTATION
"Everyman"--the vivid Medieval classic-drama of man's struggle with death-is now in rehearsal by members of the Hongkong Stage Club and will be presented on December 10, 11, and 12 in St. John's Cathedral. It is the first play since 1937 to be staged in the Cathedral proper. Costumes, scenery and acting will
style in which Morality and Miracle
the 15th plays were presented in Century,
Trade Agreement be kept as nearly as possible to the
Rome, Nov. 28.-Italy and Yago- slavia today signed a trade agree ment under which Holy will Importį goods worth about 10,000,000,000 lire and export about 14,000,000,000 lire worth,
The agreement was signed by the Foreign Minister, Count Sforza, and the Yugoslav Minister to Italy, M.
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The agreement carries a special of industrial and electrical machinery --and chenticals-Italy is to supply to
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sengers of God and other Heavenly
personalities will such the stage
from the sides of the Chancel.
God will be represented by volco which will speak out from the Written to teach moral and reil-high gallery at the back of the gious virtue, the play tells how Cathedral. Five or six bass
and Everyman-the man on the street- tenor voices picked from the Hong- and Ils called by Death the kong Singers will accompany you messenger of God, to take a journey play with Plainsong. to God in order to present the e- count of his life.
Faced with this task, Everyman asks whether any of his friends may accompany him, and Death 51t-
Conically replies" Yes, if any be as hardy."
Everyman asks all his friends in turn-Fellowship, Worldy
Goods,
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Letters To The Editor
The Colonel Has A. Supporter
re-
Sirinasmuch as you may have been justified in püblishing your Editorial of November 26, our recent visitor, Col. McCormick, who Is distinguished enough to have ceived such a lot of publicity in both the English and Vernacular Press, also have been justified, so to may speak, in the expression of his attitude, because most or all of the English he may have come across, must have been of the type ke describer. Luckily all do not belong to this type, who, like Mr Britisher.
Complex see an Interiority
in everybody else, evidently because of their Superiority Complexes,
Mr Britisher, who contends that the British Government is respon- sible for the satisfactory living conditions of the Colonial people, although the Colonel was only re-
ferring to Hongkong, should
uld be aware that the position Hongkong
the the
enjoys today, is mainly due to the hard work put in by the
people of Hongkong, especially during early period of the re-occupation,
accessibility coupled with its sources of supply,
not to the welfare of any Government, except it own local Government for the co-
operation extended in the hard Job of rehabilitating the Colony's trade.
Col. McCormick. Like any other
human being, is liable to be wrong when he opined that the Chinese and the French among others, linte the Americana. There is no doubt, at least among the Chinese them- selves, that a very great majority of the people of China, for example, are all out for the Americans,
Your correspondent, Mr Welsh, may also be reminded that the Americans can look back with just as much prido, although they very seldom show it, In that America was alrendy helping Britain out to a large extent and la many ways, even when the war was a little more than an argument, and in this re- to find a gard he should be able littic
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time to read the speeches delivered by the late President Roosevelt before the United States of America declared War on the Axis.
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LABOUR HOLDS
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other candidates-two of them lost their £150 deposits nearly as large as that it secured in a straight fight two years ago.
The net result of this week's con- test is that the Conservatives, whils retaining their safe seat, have been acutely disappointed over Gravesend à lesser extent, over East and, to
The East Edinburgh Agures are: John Wheatley (Labour) 16,805, D. Matthews
(Liberal National and Conservative) 11,490, J. Junor, (Liberal) 3,370, Mrs Mary Dott (Scottish Nationalist) 1,082,
In the Howdenshire bye-election, the Labour candidate, Neville, polled 9,298 votes to C. W. Odey's 23,344. The Liberal candidate, J. E. Wilson, polled 3,619,-Reuter.
15TH CENTURY COSTUMES
Costumes will be based freely on styles used In England from the Edinburgh. 13th to 15th Centurios, and each garment will be made of colours
its representative of
own char- acterized abstraction.
Most of the atmosphere Kindred, Beauty, Strength, Discre-play will be created through lighting tion, and others, but one by one effects, which will be placed each forsakes him, except
Good
various
of the Cathedral, Parta Deeds, who agrees to accompany
The setting
sald
aid one member of the cast "is just such a setting us might have been used for its first performance. Plays-especially re- gious Miracle and Morality plays
ere frequently presented by cleries in churches
and abbeys, and, although, lighting-have changed,
the superficialities-like that the thrill and power
we hope of the poetry that roused the imagination of Englishmen five centuries ago will be as potent today."
him through death.
IN SYMBOLIC FORM A vital play potency by presenting abstractions In the form of distinctive human personalities, Fellowship is portrayed by a Hail-fellow-well met, Beauty by a beautiful and haughty woman, and the other abstract qualities by equally representative characters.
which attains its
The S'age Club has wisely chosen to present It in a symbolic and simple form the style in which "Everyman" undoubtedly was pre- sented on
on the village green or in the town church throughout the Middle Ages.
The play will be staged on the Cathedral's wide choir steps and the only scenery used will be a simple : backdrop placed directly in front of the altar. An arched door will be cut in the centre of the flat, through which Death will make his exits and
his entrances.
All worldly characters will enter from the audience, while the mes-
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BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Closing Times By Air
Shanghal, Hankow, Nanking. Tsingtao and Pelping, 3.30 p.m.
Bwatow, Tainan and Amor, 3.30 pm. Salgon and Paris, 3.30 pm,
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Mania, USA, Canada, Central & South America via Ban Francisco (No Paresis for Canada) (3ca) 4 pm.
Macao, Tainahan, Bhekid de Hongmoon (Bea) 4 pm.
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BUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Closing Times By Air Bangkok, Singapore, Datavia, Colombo, Sydney and Auckland, 10 ..
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Closing Times By Bes & Train Macao, Tashan & Bhekkt (888) 5 am. Canton (Bea) 8.
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Kongmoon (Sa) 10 am
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
Closing Times By Air
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Closing Times By Bez & Train – Canton (Train) 7 am.
Macao, Tainshan & Shokki (Sea) 8 am, Bangkok (en) 10 a.m. Marlin (B) Hoon.
Macao, Tuinshan Shakki' (Usa) I pm. Canton (Train) 3 p.m. Dangkok, "Mauritius. East and South Atrica, via Durban (848) a pm.
December, 1947.
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28th November, 1947.
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