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Empire

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1940,

Holiday

Travel For All, Urges T.U.C. Chairman

"IT SHOULD BE A SOLEMN resolve by the WATER IN

Home and Dominion Governments that when peace

comes they will no longer allow the Empire to be a STORAGE

closed book to the bulk of its people but will do all in

their power to cheapen not only ocean travel be- REDUCED

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tween different parts of the Empire but to afford: special facilities to Empire travellers after they have Although this has been set foot in the home country or in the Dominions," the Colony's second wet- said Mr. George Gibson, Chairman of the Trades

test year on record; stor- Union Congress, in a broadcast talk last night...

age in the reservoirs is "Indeed, what I desire to see is the setting up well below the total at this of a body that will do for Empire travel what the

time last

year, official motorbus has done for rural communities, what the

figures reveal, explaining big caterer has done for the cake trade, what cheap excursion could do in peacetime for railway travel, the decision to cut off sup- and under the plan I visualise a steady ebb and flow ply between 10 p.m. and of holiday makers between the Dominions and the 5 a.m. mother country with a constant strengthening of the bonds of Empire."

Mr. Gibson explained he would like to see

an Imperial travel SIR JOHN

trust which would build or have

converted a few liners specially LATHAM

planned for the purpose of con- veying passengers between the mother country and the Domin- lons at a low rate.

time

SAILS

At December 1, the island re- servoirs carried 1,779 million gal lons and the mainland reservoirs 2,429 millions, a total of roughly 4,200 millions, with monthly consumption recently in excess. of 850 millions.

Tytam Tuk is 16 feet below than overflow, five feet greater at December 1, 1939, and Jubilee feet at December 1-1939.

The Water Department's latest

Regarding the length of

Sir John Latham, Aus-is 28 feet below, against 12 required for such holidays Mr. tralia's first Minister to Gibson said: "Government has Japan, sailed from Hong estimates of population give a already encouraged grants of an- Kong for Japan this total of 1,000,000. Last year's

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nual holidays with pay and Gov- ernment ought to make possible morning.

In a broadcast last night, he re- for people to forfeit their annual holidays for one or two years to ferred to the evacuation of Hong and children to accumulate sufficient time to per-Kong women 'mit them to travel within the Australia, declaring that Australia understood the disturbance and empire:

distress involved in the sudden of If that were done, hundreds of separation of the members thousands of our people could by families, and was doing its best slight self denial for one or two to make the evacuees comfortable years accumulate both time and and happy..

them money-sufficient to enable to accomplish the dream of their Australia lives-seeing their relatives in the Dominions in the flesh,"

Industrial Scholarship

estimate was. 1,850,000.

ANOTHER ‘ISLAND'

CASUALTY

Driving in Nathan Road last: night, Mr. L. E. Heath, of No 140, Boundary Street,

collided with a trama "Island" near the disclosed Sir John also

that Alhambra Theatre. The car was"

Heath is meeting much of damaged, but Mr. Hong Kong's iron and steel re- uninjured. quirements and that further sup- plies will soon be available for

new shipbuilding.

was'

K.C.R. ROBBERY Some 500 pounds of brass were stolen from one of the machine rooms of the Kowloon Railway

7 a.m. yesterday.

In an outline of Australia's Mr. Gibson · added: "I would war effort, he revealed that war like further, and in conjunction expenditure to the end of the financial year was with the scheme, to initiate a 1941-42 system of industrial scholarships already estimated at £453,750,- which would enable British 000 and that this sum would be between 5 am. on Saturday and and. Dominion workers to ex-increased if necessary. change places for a period of say sk or twelve months on, lines timilar to that which has been so successful in the interchange of teachers and the welcome would operate whether the Bursar was a bus driver, .engineer or textile opérative.

Most important of all, I would like to see an inter-Empire chil-- dren's scholarship scheme estab lished, that boys and girls between | the ages of 14 and 16 could be exchanged with their counter- parts in South Africa, Canada or. the other Dominions for periods of six or twelve months, and final- ly. I want to see members of the great Empire family drawn closer and closer together, each equally sharing the benefits and privileges

of peace as they share the trials and tribulations of war.

Is there any reason why we ficial barriers to Empire travel and Empire Bottlement?" British Wireless.

should continue to tolerate artl-

RISKED BOMB TO FEED RABBITS

When a man was fined 40s. at a police court in the London was stated that his house was area for insulting behaviour, it in a prohibited area because of the presence of an unexploded bomb." He and other householders had been evacuated.

RAID VETERANS REACH SAFETY

(By A Special Correspondent)

THE "TWICE-BOMBED babies" are at last on their way to safety in the country. A handful of tiny mites

their ages range from a few weeks to four or five, they were cared for by the W.VS. at a large house in North London after they had been bombed out of their homes in some of London's most badly-hit areas.

Then, soon after the sirens wall- ed for the nightly visit of Hitler's bombers high explosive rained down on their refuge home.

The children in the basement escaped unhurt apart from a light shock.

They seemed resigned when told they were

to

Two new arrivals John and Beryl Dean sat quietly on little chairs in a corner of the room. They had been given a penny and there they sat and waited un- fil Matron told them they could join in the games.

Their mother had brought them in. Their street had been heav- move fly bombed and little Beryl's face was still streaked with dirt from clambering over debris.

on again. They are veterans!" of hombing attacks.

I saw them when they were waiting at the Regent's Park home The man told the Court that of Lady Ribblesdale for conches he wished to go home to feed to take them to the country and forty-one: rabbits, and six

safety,

Live wires of the party waro Mary Revol and Valerio Bantųk, both aged about four, von d

"They're tough, those.“ two,” one of the staff sald: "Nothing acome to bothør them,” There they played happily as though nothing had happened, In When I left it was, bedume in some cases the children's parents this temporary haven, and with have been killed or injured, and toys and dolls, clutched in their bables were settling The Court was told that the they are the survivors of their arms the

kdown. animals are being cared for families.

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