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Nearly, 200 guests attended a dinner at which Mr. V. W; J, Sheiro was Introduced to leca! dealers, Mr. Shriro, fourth from left, la Vice-President and Secretary of the Bhriro Trading Corporation and a Director of Shrira (China) Limited, Mr. F. C. Stuckey, new manager of the Hong Kong Office (second from right) was also Introduced at, the dinner. Mr. M. Feldman, manager of Hong Kong Office, who is leaving the Colony soon, is shown at extreme left. ("China Mall" photo),

mark

HK Chinese Red National Day

LEICESTERSHIRE SOLDIER MISSING

Private J. lan, of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment was reported missing by the miti. tary authorities yesterday.

lan, who is 5′ 5′′ tall and Naz brown hair, left his camp in the New Territorian on September 23. When last nean he was wearing civlilen clothes.

PRIEST HOLDS

FIRST MASS

Rev. Fr. Amador Ambal, OP. Who Was consecrated to the priesthood on September 23 by the Most Rev. Henry Valtorta, Catholle Bishop of Hong Kong. celebrated his First Solemn High Mass at the Rosary Hill Domini

Road, yesterday morning.

can House of Studies, Stubbs

Thomas Cardinal Tien, Catholic Primate of China, was present

at the altar,

The new 27-year-old Filipino priest studied first at the Seminary of Lipu, Philippines He came to the Colony to join the Dominican Order of Preachers in 1940.

A large gathering of visitors also attended yesterday,

An offcful announcement sted by Government yesterday stated that any Allied subject now resident in Hong Kong with literary industrial, artistic or

China's first National Day under the Communist

regime was celebrated in the Colony yastar- day by many parties which were attended by hundreds of Chinoso, residents. :

New China five-star flags were flown but not as profusely as the former national flags before the war and before the Peking Government was established.

Several middle schools, includ- ing the Heung Tao, Hon Wah, Nam Chung, Sun Klu and Nam Yuk Kuen, Plu Kin, Chung Yap, Font, also held meetings honour

All Chinese Government in- stitutions and firms in the Colony such as banks, airline offices and shipping companies, flew flags outside their pre-of the day. mises. Very few firecrackers. were touched off.

Although the Colony's large police force had been alerted for the day to take care of any eventuality, no untoward inclient in connection with the celebra- tions was

# late

hour last morted un to

The two pro-Peking Govern- ment vernaculars, the "Ta Kaug Pao" and the "Wen Wei Pao,"

Church activities

in Swatow

PERSONALITY PARADE

John

Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs

Shortly after; his birth Mr. startlod from- come (paper, work after the i Joplinese surrender

Cricliton McDouúll, † returned to Hong Kong, and wasį guiding eye at the nged 38; was born in North appointed third assistant to the wiped Cantonese with the b

of i Emrade: fellow-Po. Wiering China in the Year of the Rat Secretory for Chinese Alfairs.

to His father is a New Zealander In that capaclly lie had a very struction of another Irland with learn Ruslan under the las of Pictish origin; his mother periences. One of the most vivid inexpert hand in the cruder, and varied number of duties and ex- a Polish name and turned bla was a Somerset girl.:

was on the morning when he was simplah forms of Fo. W. co-opera- McDouall's

gardening tive vegetablo missionary parents by a deep voice above him. make- were transferred to the old clying for help. He looked up to Mrs McDouall came out of fochtenfu in the heart of and that his unannounced and Shimshuipo Camp to Hopel Province. one day's mulo quiot-fooled visitor was a tall combined Secretariat for Chinese cart journey from the nearest Chinese Lepor who had sucGERS Aftales and Labour Office, whiefr river and three days' cart journey fully attempted auicide by cut was re-established along with from the nearest tuning There he aing his throat; nor was it: come number of others pre-war public and his brother spent, most of forting to, young MeDouall that and private otganizations some Shelt early yenta.

the damaged

throat had sub- days before any Allied, liberation: He still recalls the searched sequently

been treated with forces had arrived,, "He won still they used to make at the end of | Iberat doses of crimson mer" months,ho met good fortune,

a... bachalon, but within a

Low

each winter to ser who could | eurochrome. And the drst blade of grass; also

During this period Mr. Mc

the local celebrations at the Mid-Douall Joined the Hong Kong Autumn

Berns whicals, when the lan-Naval Volunteers,' This unfor- | were working models of the most fary naval examinations where were at night tunately involved him in elemen-

intricate and intriguing kinds

·such as never seem to be zien

Hong Kong.

Ile remembers, too, the curiosity he felt when' talten to.enlk on one

Hochleniu's leading citizens.

a man so rich that he owned a motor-bleycle although there wan not of course a single road on which it could be used. Time hua fortunately somewhat blurred other memories of what he saw even as a. ehliti of the results of periodic devastating foods and droughts.

at

Arouses curiosity In 1921 Mr.. McDouall's parents took him and his brother to England, and sent them to school

Monkton Combe in Somerset. On one occasion, he aroused lively curiosity. amonst his English classmates when, as his an open letter to a Chinese friend. part in a class exercisa, he wrote

That friend

James Wong: happened to be Mr-

who

new Englacer Superintendent in Holt's Whart

Study Social Science

fromh

hy

McDouill sailed (for England on In April 1940 Mr. and Mrs. home leave and in the autumn of: that year went to Birmingham to study Social Science together."

They stayed

Quaker Woodrooke Sett mendly While Mr. McDouall

'to..cram

to cram into nine crowded hum universal Birming

University's Social Scienco Diploma, his wife attended the Interesting University and extra- mural lectores which were cut-

tha sat

علماء

An exceptionally combined with nationwide fuel cold winter

make

also helped to studies memorable. On one

occasion the students had to go off to their lectures in the usual unhcated rooms

without having

had any breakfast, because there

was not even any fuel for cook-

another occasion it wis generally conceded that the re- sulls .. A three-day rural social survey carried out by the students viere not entirely reliable, on ac count of the blinding snowstorms was already desperately trying to which raged throughout that chilly went up to Jeans College, Cam-was are heart 100 many local exercise. bridge. Under a pecul

Hong Kong. 1930

31 Mr. McDouall

peculiar. Cam-

The Hon. J. G. McDouail (Gainsborough photo)..

bridge system he was allowed to Ordinances, in order to pass the in: Joly 1947 Mr. and Mrs.

rund sixteenthcentury French particular law examinations

which oft England to return

Kong, and Mr. McDouali over at Singapore for the Arst: Far Eastern Social Welfare

at the time were prescribed for to all cadet officers before they could go on leave.

in

a

and classical Latin for Part 1 of The Modern Languages Tripos; for Part II he tuned to anthro

He was at the same time work-Conference. On his arrival in pology and sociology.tion.

His principal.

for his final examination in Hang) Kong he was appointed to war Mandarin colloquial, on the day the newly rented post of Social certain restrictions rowing, which at College of

he was per came out in the morning with have been imposed on the Work made unending demands. on any stated ex his extremity to try while was himself the entire special National Day supplements of the Christian Church.. an enthusiast's time; he lenks backerin with the front pages full of special Swatow by the messages from Communist authorities, the churches ined by that great Australian, Steve But he admits that through lack

with special pleasure on having the experiment of a large prelistaff of that office. Communis! had the privilege of being coach, minary dose of brandy, The Ex leaders, including Generalissimo

periment was entirely successful. Stalin.

that city are attended to capa-Fairbairn.

of practice almost nothing of The front pages also enrried city on Sundays, an America

either the brandy or fluency in photographs of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, lady missionary who arrive

Mandarin remains today, founder of the National Republic here by sea on Saturday in of China,

and Mao Tse-tung, formed the "China' Mail" yes- Chairman and Founder of the terday. People's Republic of China.

CC of C party

The missionary, who, has been Leading the celebrations war

with the American Baptist Mis the Hong Kong Chinese General slon in Swatow for the last four Chamber of Commerce at the furlough. She expects to return years, is on her way home on China Restaurant where the to China Colony's Chinese business

Floa

provided conditions worrant her return. ders and ether notables gathered for tea in the afternoon and

The missionary, who prefers

fot

All his energies

For the next two and a hals years he devoted all his energles. In due course he was selected

to building up the work the for probationary appointment to

Social Welfare Office. He believed, the Colonial Administrative Ser-

and; still believes, that straight vice, and was told that it he

Ordered back reller.

a kind of negative. work is managed to get through a further When World War II began in and unproductive social first-aid year's specialised studies on September 1939 Mr. McDoual which should be reserved, as far colonial matters at Cambridge, he was on leave in England. He as possible for use in emergencies

immediately tried to volunteer for as a slop-gap measure. would be posted to Hong Kong imm

sion belleves, that charity should be a In August 1934 he arrived in transfer to the Thames Division bel Hong Kong. His first reaction war of the R.N.V.R, or for attachment warm-hearted a disturbed feeling that there to an A.R.P. River. Unit formed kept separate from the inevitably was a great deal which was disby members of the London How chilling effects of even the most. appointingly unfamiliar about the ing Club. Instead he was ordered well-meaning charitable official Chinese population. He had for, † 50, get back at once to Hong Kong dole new Social Welfare Ofcen

The'

Dersonal,

Не вла

ด banquet lin the evening. that her name be withheld, said

gotten that although he could where his official duties lay. On claims in Germany which have with a cocktail party at the Hongries in Swatow are not restricted about China..were still deeply the Civil Service" and "mobilised on trying to create en oficial

The celebrations began at noon that the movements of mission speak no Chineas at all, his ideas arrival here he was secondod from therefore concentrated his efforts

with the Hong Kong

Dog RNVR Iganisation whose first responsibil been impaired by Nazi legisla

coloured by his memories of the | Durin tion during the War

should

different sights, the

different During 1941 he was concurrently ity was to help people help them apply Immediately

to the Civil Defence selves on constructive lines, by telegram

sounds, the different ways, to the Patents

· At least for a start his atten, Office, Munich,

andariat, and for six months above all the different homely was an unnatural. hybrid otion had to be residents) for restoration of their property.

smells of North China.

civil servant and an amateur genuine Hong Kong Full detail as to subsequent

When the Japanese, al

to be. at were particularly

Colonial Secretariat.

ser or who themselves were likely to

Inwerable

Kong and Kowloon Federation of but that to travel outside the city Labour Unions' premises in Lock-limits a permit must be obtained hari Road. It was attended by from the authorities. She said more than 300 members of the that she herself lived at Kityang, local trade unions, including the 40 miles West of the port, and Workers' Union and Bus Workers' sion at Kahchich Island in the Tran Workers Union, Dockyard that to travel between the Mis

Harbour, and her home, a travel

Off to Canton

on the

thors who

saed he had returned to *** aquon can be obtained from the nployees from Chinese gov-permit had to be obtained for ernment; packed him off at: once vices but was only Involved in become expensive enemies of the However the Hong Kong Gay- fan duties with the aring lifexploited by anti-social-clements,

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ernment orgons, the banks, alr-each trip. lines, the China Merchants Steam

At

both to the

In the hope that by the end of two one prolonged close action with the public or

nuisances | years' studies there he would have enemy near Wongnelchong Gay Beves

and to them Navigation Company, the Central Although the missionaries have learned some Cantonese. He con- After the surrender he was Trust and the Postal Savings complete freedom of movement fesses with regret that he never termed as a P.o.W. at Argyle feels that, thanks, malaty Bank attended another party. within the city, there is always a

become adept at that language, Street and other camps. During the practical help and encour

in

the Kwongehow Restaurant feeling that they are being wat-though he did learn very soon to that time he became a reasonably ment given both officially and West Point

more than 500 ched, the sald.

liko and admire it. In 1936 he proficient grass-cutter under the many sections of the publi newspaper workers gathered to Asked whether the Communists

real start

on these lines has celebrate.

make any dist

distinction between

been made. The Chinese film studios also English and American missiona-

The Social Welfare Omce" participated in the celebration.ries, of whom there are now more

been strengthened with sort The Great Wall Picture Corporn- thon. 20, Including a dozen Ameri-

Specialist staff, and is playing the arrival said that the

fuil a part as it can in protection of women and girls, work too. behalf

of and under the

lion in Kowloon City turned its unista aro: not making Day

stages into a meeting hall for the occasion, while the South China Flim Studio held a dinner at the Kum Tong Restaurant in Shanghal Street..

distinction between them,

Thero

ero pro at present about Catholic and Protestant Churches in Swatow. Attendance is so large that

a certain number ot people have to be turned away, the are rival said, es

Third issue of the more than 20 mlexiona-

of "Orient"

The third issue of "The

Orient" has come off the Press Again it is full of articles and editorial comments of interest to Asia and its millions..

ries now in the, city, most pian to stay.

most of the womens will children have left s

The missionary

ry further, stated that all English newspapers, in- cluding those printed in. Hong. Kong, have been forbidden.

Voice of Prophecy hold rally

A hundred

Talos told in, "China Mail" files

Below is a series of scattered paragraphs of local interest at the time:ama

The Peking" landed the overland mails on the 8th instant, 4 days after their despatch from

London.

We have intelligence. from

years ago

sere

guidance of the Secretary Befor

Affairs), in rehabilits list

or otherwise helping every mor

On the 2nd inst, we paid a some thirty persons who

visit to the Military, Hospital, and cessfully attempt

on the other sido will be found gantsih** and

Kong ed

sharing to

an account of particulars. That pubile assistance along self visit we have been assured has fines for destitute children dose an immenalty at good." - The supply of bread, manufactured of in damaged and adulterated; flour, full, la emergency relief measur has been discontinued, and after any natural disaster, in a better description of article in branches of

of constrictive yout now sent to the hospital in die work, in « cunning i place.......

service and assisting vention: of juvenile

probation

which date Sydney to the 14th June at it has been in no way a plea in large-scale squatter screening things were sunt duty to censure nearly every operations, in doing að her socia with

apparent

In the fullest officer connected with the garr quietudo, tha Reverend Drrison: who, from the highest

moving a

Lang's agitations having received downwards, are guilty of thegor Tomson in the teafr

workers

and, in

Band: welfare

A map of India and Pakistan, with insets of Pandit. Nehru and Liaquat All Khan, is reproduced on the cover, with a

a large ques- tion mark over the State of Kash- mir reflecting the uncertainty

some kind of check by the socCK-

to a degree hardly sion of some of his demagogue is with some an opinion the

imaginable, ang the which broods, ever this question.

Eight. Iditers are included in

followers..

Lieutenant Governor should this month's correspondenco, Bec-

• The standing, topic of the have taken the others, Ith A. furiler:

initative ins attesting tion,

in reme- mentior, spcolalised to the growing po pularity of the magazine which The Hong Kong Branch of month in Hong Kong has been and has now?beguna August, | the worldwide Voice of Pro in: the ranks of the devoted (59th;] Commander-in-Chief, che is tha Ikms of juvenilo, :

the dreadful mortality, provaliling argued that is the Governor for Its appearance

to sall-in re

phrey Bible, Correspondence

the the appen o of Aix weeks mon most deserving of censure. I also under conalds glens as far on the South Sons School held its third rally yeh the regiment was more than The, Colonel, (Typvor) has not cursa non of these

events in Asia oro, sys-

earned golden opinions from the confined entrely tematically rearranged, in tabulat terday in the Oriental Theatre, decimated Between July 24th car

and August 23rd there were no community.by, his edform under the heading "In Wanchal,

mado

dial measures.

dcaling with the social

the Orient,” This is, a kaleidon ¦ Approximately 1,100 students } fewer thàm :43 : deniha: "On the {5494147 ; and his "ged / Wollet SHEERAN

Tho

shods

of last month's

megfogt; to

clamand

closest a's most note, and friends of the school were 4th a child of one of the war the sick wards la placed in strong constant co-operation most controversial present, C.P. Yang, director of geants, and on the 10th his wife contrast with this kind atterulon interested nubile and private or

always In part

of the Bag Chiacro section of the Hong of soldier were also interred water f of world:

Of the number of deaths: In Kong Branch, acted as chairman, Ceylon Rifle Corps we are was no quie, to day be braved Douall left, this makos Interesting reading and deported that the school Intermood nor of the saunty pro disease and

section on Hong

and has 4,000, active students, in the portion of the 69th Hegingal, but our nos mospitals and in the light on Canton a

Kong Drea, with abou

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