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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.

ALL-CHINA

PHOTO EXHIBITS

(By. "Paul Pry")

BOMB KILLS 3 IN CELLAR

IN NORTH-EAST

The second All-China! Exhibition of Photo-

MORE THAN a hundred German ''planes took graphy, under the aus- pices of the Photographic part in the widespread raids on Britain which ended Society of Hong Kong, in the All Clear signal in London just as dawn was opens in the Peacock breaking. Fifty planes, operating singly, ap- Lounge, First Floor, Ex- proached London from the south and circled over The others concentrated on change Building, to-day the Metropolitan area. and will remain open untu a north-eastern district which they raided for

including Sunday several hours, dropping heavy bombs.

and next.

One hundred photographs of an almost universally high standard are being exhibited and will be

of interest to professional, ama- teur and novice alike,·

Three people sheltering in a cellar were killed by wreckage when a high explosive bomb hit some business premises in a north-east town. They were Mrs. Sarah Thomson, her son, Leslie, and her sister, Elizabeth Ingle:

Despite the impact of battles and wars, the standard of the ex- hibition is fully up to that set by the first All-China exhibition held

He was using a stirrup pump fast year, although restrictions and on a fire when an electric cable other factors have forced photo- | burnt his hands badly. He died graphers more towards Indoor in hospital. photography, so that portraiture Two wardens who went out and character studies occupy a to investigate a light in the major section in the exhibit. London area were injured by a

Most of the 30 photographers whistling bomb which fell near are resident in Hong Kong, but One had a broken arm, the other 24 prints were contributed by had a piece of shrapnel in Shanghai photographers and are leg. of an equally high standard. As was the case last year, 50 of the best photographs are being sent. home for display by the Royal Photographic Society as an indica- tion of the strength of pictorial photography in China. Copies, and in some cases the actual originals. of most of the photographs dis- played can be purchased.

Air-raid warden R. F. Hobley (cendiaries. was electrocuted in a south-east were started. town.

It is difficult to pick out more than a few outstanding exhibits for special mention. Somewhat strangely, there is only one "nude" on display "Le Dos," by Liu Shu Chong. This has been exhibited at Home and is reported to have attracted a great deal of favour able comment.

Personally, we thought it as bad

his

GC-

A number of fires

Sang Their Way Home

Many Londoners. sang them- selves home to bed with the dawn after they had been caught in the' City during the six-hour raid alarm.

many

When the raid began people went to the shelters, but drivers of passenger vehicles, where possible, took people fas near to their homes as they could.

Five Nazi airmen who had been raiding London. were caught after A.A. guns hit their Dornier 17. The 'plane fell on two bungalows, but the 'cupants were in shelters. A farm hand, aged sixty- seven, was the only occupant of a farmhouse which was almost wrecked by a heavy bomb. He the novelty wore off, many peo- was unhurt.

There were still ล

great left in the West many people End theatres

cinemas. and Some took shelter, but the others "stayed put" and joined in impromptu concerta and dances. After an

hour or two, when

At one time four bombers wore ple began to walk home, in the caught by searchlights in dif-hope that the All Clear ferent parts of the sky. One of be sounded. them, immediately he was pick- ed up, jettisoned all his bombs.

Plastered by anti-aircraft fire this 'plane went finally into a vertical dive and dis- appeared,

would

Though they

were footsore and tired they kept cheerful, and people going to the game- districts formed themselves in- to parties and sang all the way home.

When the raid ended the Lon- service quickly

an example of nude photography Tried To Escape – Died don transport as we have seen in a. long time -an uninteresting back and stern-

A lorry driver named King"got into "gear." -quarters, truncated arm, hand was machine-gunned from the growing out of a neck, ugly wrin- air in one town and seriously kles at the bottom of a foot, and injured.

30 on. Its redeeming feature is Four men were injured by the modelling of the back, and bombs which fell near hutments Mr. Liu is to be congratulated on in a field on the outskirts of a the handling of his lights; this is village. really well done, but In our es- timation the other faults, parti- cularly those of composition, far out-weigh the.sole good feature.

“Impact"

Among the most interesting prints are two by Sam Tata, of Shanghai, who, besides turning in excellently composed pictures with plenty of what someone calls "Im- pact.” achieves a degree of glossi- ness on the prints that is little short of amazing.

Is

Four bombs fell in a residen. tial district of a London suburb breaking windows and blowing in doors of several houses.

Charles White, sixty, was kill- ed when a heavy bomb struck a house, but his wife and two out other occupants were dug alive by A.R.P. squads,

coast

the

to

White had only left Essex

a month ago live in a London suburb in the ordeal hope of avølding the

of continuous air warfare.

A Midland town had its third' Tata's work, incidentally,

air raid on successive nights. among the best in the show. He Waves of bombers dropped high has a three-quarter character explosive and hundreds of study, entitled "A rince of his

People," which contains practic-

in-

ally nothing to which the carp-, America, has several photographs ing critic could point an annoy- on exhibit, but most of them are ed digit, and much to interest not up to his "usual standard of "both the layman and the

The reason for this pro-excellence, fessional.

is perhaps rather simple; He has

To our mind, one of the out- had so many of his best photo- standing head studies is "Au- graphs exhibited that he felt he tumn Sunshine," by O. Griffiths, simply had to

An A.R.P.S.

BOMBS DROPPED ON ESSEX COAST

an

Air

Later reports of enemy air activity show that yesterday afternoon bombs were also dropped at a place on the Essex coast, says Ministry and Minis try of Home Security communique. Several houses were damaged and a few casualties caused. British Wireless.

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show some new who is a soldier with the Royal work and he has been so busy Corps of Signals. The detail and lately that he did not have time the lighting of this particular to really' get properly into the exhibit are almost perfect, and mood of things! we were glad to note that this .picture. bears the "gold star"

that signifies it is among the 50 A few days ago, incidentally, to be sent home for exhibition. Wu received the glad news he An interesting exhibit, and had been, måde an A.R.P.S., a one that will puzzle many lay signal honour when one realises men, is "After the Tang Maa- that he joined the Royal Photo- ters," by Chin San Long, graphic Society only last June. ARPS Mr. Chin bases his The Photographic Society of Hong work on the paintings of the Kong now has two A.R.P.S.S, the Chinese old masters and by other being Walter Clark, whosC clever use of paper negatives "Dawn," curiously enough, almost and a brush, achieves an effect scems to reproduce botter in the in black and white with land-catalogue than it does. In the orl-

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He was not so happy in his Solemn Sullness Holds" by R. A. choice of a "mesh" for his Bates (who has a number of ex- "Spring Tracery," a study of cellent prints on exhibit and one the limb and branches of a terrible effort entitled 'Sophis- tree Photographically, the pic leated Lady); a still life, "From ture is an excellent one, but the the Garden, by Francis Wu; "A lines of the mesh show up very Misty Day," by Lo Tok Cho, Lau unfortunately on the large ex-Cho Chak's famous Smoke, n panses of sky and at a casual study of junks and smoke, and glance it looks as though the Chin Sun Long's "Monk's. Para- negative suffered from reticula, dise" and "Amidst. the Clouds." tion.

Incidentally, the Exhibition; Francis Wu, who is very well charges no entrance fee - and known both at Home and in there is no collection

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