1940-07-25 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1940

EIGHT RAIDERS SHOT DOWN OVER BRITAIN

Victims Round Coast, Scotland And Wales

CHUMPKINE PRODUCTION DRIVE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

New measures to raise production are being an- nounced almost every day in Chungking.

Latest measure, says an official statement, was when the Sze- chuen provincial government ap- proached the joint office of the four governmental banks for a loan of $1,200,000 to increase thej production of pigs, sheep and cattle under an ambitious agricul- tural programme.

It was also decided to use the! increasing number of refugees in' Szechuen to foster production. Refugees will be trained and will then introduce modern agricul- tural methods in villages, while refugees will be trained in work- ing in leather tanneries to be! established with an average capi- tal of $30,000. to $50,000.

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ENLISTMENT OFFER MADE IN SHANGHAI

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Britons in Shanghai may now enlist in the British Army, it was officially announced in the northern port to-day. All enlist- ments must be in the ranks but reasonable hope exists for every eligible candidate to become an officer. British European sub- jects residing in Shanghai are invited also to enlist in the -Air Force.-Havas.

The Yunnan provincial govern- ment has decided to increase the agricultural co-operatives and to chak grant farmers an undisclosed] amount of credits with a view to stimulating production and mak- ing Yunnan independent of for-! eign rice imports.

--New Railways

carts for trucks, while new rail-

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17 H.K. ESTATES PAY $427,972

-Seventeen excess of $200,000

the 17

Attack On A Convoy

air-

THE DESTRUCTION of eight enemy craft was officially confirmed in London last night.

A series of communiques during yesterday

NATURAL

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** OPTICIANI

IN PEIPING

confirm that enemy bombers were shot down | MASS INOCULATION on the south-east coast of Scotland, off the Welsh coast and near the north-west coast during the night and early morning.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The Public Health Bureau in Peiping has inoculated more than 730,000 Chinese against cholera in a rigorous mass inoculation campaign. Public Health nurses

Late yesterday afternoon the Earlier yesterday some bombs have been placed at various points Air Ministry announced that five were dropped in a district

con-south-west Scotland. nore enemy aircraft were

Reuter.

in in the city, mainly at city gates Little dam-and railway stations, to give free Irmed to have been shot down age was done and no one was inoculations.-Hāvas.

A ninth victim; SO far not seriously injured. fficially confirmed, is reported o have been shot down in the sea off the south-east coast oi England during an unsuccessful attack on a convoy in the morn- ing. Reuter.

British Raids On Aircraft Factories

mand.

STOP PRESS

sent on

from

that

A vigorous protest against com-definite. It may be for 3 months, pulsory evacuation from Hong 6 months, or a number of years.

Therefore the position, as it An Air Ministry communique in Kong was made by the Hon. Sir

Pollock in Legislative appears to us, is that the tax- London yesterday stated that air-Henry

Committee this payers of this Colony are being craft factories at Gotha, Kassel Council Finance and Wenzendorf, oil depots at afternoon on the token vote for made to pay for the evacuation selected Hamburg and Gelsenkirchen, rail-$10,000 in connection with, eva- of a very small and

section of the community

and, in way cominunications, goods yards cuation expenses. estates local.

their Sir Henry said:--l regret that whenever necessary, for deali anti-aircraft-batteries, searchlight were

against this item of maintenance and support during were among must vote and 12 aerodromes Estate Duty Yunnan is also to substitute asi with under

re- the objectives in Holland and Ger-$10,000.00 for evacuation expenses, an indefinite period leaving some the 99.9 per cent. of the population much as possible horse-drawn quirements during 1939.

uncared for and unprotected when One hundred and seven estates many attacked on Tuesday night because I do not agree with

"I am of opinion that, apart an emergency does come. way zones will be opened up. It of British persons and 419 Chin-y aircraft of the Bomber Com-Government's evacuation policy.

the I am aware that most if not all is also hoped to start production ese estates of under $200,000 pro- An enemy fighter which attack-from women with children,

did not aşk for of coal in the near future in Yuuvided a total revenue of about ed one of our bombers was shot Government ought not to evacuate of the evacuees

British women from and did not like the evacuation: One of down.

our aircraft is any more nan, while the buying, transporta- $250.000.

$427,972 came from

this Colony.

they naturally resent the tion and export of all tea is now

missing.

I am further of opinion that enforced separation from those being controlled by the govern- estates in excess of $200,000.

Coastal Command aircraft, be-

without near and dear to them, and that ment China Tea Company.

sides carrying out their usual pa-British married women

British single wo-their husbands suffer and will Private tea dealers will be al-in the country only with the com-trol and escort duties, attacked oil children and

who have already been continue to suffer great financial tanks in Dunkirk harbour in the men, lowed to continue operations.with-'pany's permission.-Havas.

evacuated from the Colony, ought burdens and hardship arising from afternoon.

Government the evacuation. In all sincerity, They also shot down an enemy to be given by the flyingboat off the north-east of the option of returning to Hong I keenly sympathies with them. instead of Moreover, I know that many of Scotland in the evening, and at-Kong from Manila,

bitter Manila to the evacuees have very tacked oil tanks at Flushing and being docks at Amsterdam during the Australia. I cannot see any justi tales to tell of what I can only fication for those two classes of describe as disgraceful discrimina- that they are tion in treatment meted out to A total of eight enemy aircraft women, provided was shot

the risk of Hong them, not by the Manila Authori- down by our fighters willing to run and A.A. guns during the day. Kong being invaded, being kept ties and people to whom this Co- exile for an abso-lony 'owes a great debt of grat- Two of our fighters were lost.-in enforced

lutely indefinite period, which|itude, but by those charged by the Reuter.

may possibly not terminate until Hong Kong Government to look both the European War and the after their welfare. I hope that Sino-Japanese hostilities have these complaints are being fully. ·

investigated by Government. I A Ministry of Home Security come to an end.

so-called know further that those not com- communiqué says enemy aircraft, am aware of the yesterday

"clear the decks for action" argu-pulsorily evacuated have much to afternoon dropped bombs on a town in south-east ment, but it seems to me to lack be thankful for in the existing But the terrible England, causing slight damage weight, in view of the sheer in-circumstances.

possibility of evacuating the hun-hardships of the eyacuees, the dreds of thousands of Chinese financial sacrifices/which hus- women and children who live instands of the evacuees have to our midst.

Any comparison with bear, and the advantages at the fortresses, pure and simple, like present time of those not com- Gibraltar or Malta, must, there-pulsorily evacuated, can have no fore, be fallacious.

relevancy-on-the point of prin- The deportation of women from ciple that some million and a the Colony, against their will, is half people in Hong Kong are entirely contrary to those prin-made to pay for the evacuation ciples of freedom and justice for and maintenance of some 5,000 which we are fighting in Europe, people.

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night.

South-East Bombing

and few casualties.

AIR CLASH OFF THE EAST COAST

Air battles off

Air Force.

up."

the

lin our struggle against Nazi My colleagues and I realise

Germany.

very keenly the difficulties of The sooner compulsory evacua- Government and the last thing we tion, which has already caused wish to do is to embarrass Gov- widespread misery and unemploy crnment. But as representatives mont, Is abolishad, the better of some 98% of the population The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo said for whom Government has as yet in part:

not been able to do anything This Council was never

either for their evacuation or for isulted on the question of com-'their protection during, an emer-

con.

| South-East coast yester-

day were witnessed by a pulsory evacuation. The Fin-gency and who bear some 90% young man just accepted ance Committee is now being of the burden of taxation, we feel for service in the Royal asked to give a blank cheque in it our duty to vote against this

respect of an expenditure which item. this Council has never approved which has He said: "I wish I had been and for an object

dumbfounded the Colony and The Committee later went into the Press be- caused universal complaint and "Secret. Session,' This recruit saw

a German criticism.

ing excluded. fighter from which the pilot baled

From certain announcements out, dive crash,

which have appeared in the Press "So

Govern- He continued:

thrilling it would appear that was it that the watchers forgot ment is making itself responsible their own danger from flying not only for the actual cost bullets and stood peering up transport to Manila and Austra- into the sky watching the planes lin and return to Hong Kong, rushing in and out of the clouds. but also for the maintenance of -There were squadrons of the families of those who cannot R. A. F. fighters juicing part afford to inaintain themselves. The deadliness of their fire The period of evacuation is in- when they got within range

of the enemy was seen in the wreckage of the German fighter which fell in a street.

Its amashed fuselage was, rid-l aled with bullet holes, Reuter

of

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