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A Bird's- Eye View
By Arg
The humidity is high these days. Also the cupidity.
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But if Government repairs the ruined houses where will all the jeep parties be held?
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The new bosom-less evening gowns are going to make gravy unpopular.
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Half of a Russian ship has been sighted. Going nowhere, of course as enigmatic as ever.
Now Government is offering tomato seedlings. It seems de termined to ketchup on the food shortage.
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I thought you
Ey.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST & THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNE
ACID THROWING CASES ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG
on Ballroom Girls
Attack
Remains Mystery
MANAGER INTERVIEWED
So far six dancing hostesses of the Emporium Ballroom and two girls of the Majestic Ballroom have been attacked by unknown persons who threw acid on them.
The above information was ob- tained from Mr C. C. Chau, Mana- ger of the Emporium Ballroom, when he was interviewed by it
Post and Telegraph reporter.
Mr Chau said that by a coin- cidence in all cases the acid was thrown on the lower part of the attacks were girls' dresses and made from behind their backs.
The various cases occurred mostly between the hours of 7.30 and 8.30 p.m. when the girls were Moscow says the British pro-going to their work, and only one voked the Cairo rioting. Just
case happened at 11 a.m. in day- like a man cuts a foot off to time. He said one girl suffered burns to her back and another spite the shoemaker.
suffered similar burns on her leg. The first incident, added Mr Chau, occurred about three weeks ago and the last case was reported to the Police last Sunday. All these cases were reported to the Police, who are still making enquiries.
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Kam Tin airfield is to become & vegetable garden. So next time the Japs come we can at least pelt 'em with turnips.
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British troops in Japan will be polite, but will not visit Japanese homes. That should solve the blucher
v. tattami problem.
The bus service is not likely to improve yet. There is, I under- stand, some idea of adopting a new design embodying the scientific shape of a sardine tiu.
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"Please, Sir, there's a man at the door who's lost an eye." "Well, tell him haven't got it."
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Conversation wandered around to "femmes de guerre." One innocent immediately arose, and asked with hesitation.
"What is a 'femme de
guerre'?"
Mr Chau said that so far as he
knew no arrests had been made and no-one was in a position to state why such attacks were made.
LOSS OF A PIG
Run Over by Lorry And Souvenired
Yeung Hung and Yeung Ngau each sentenced to
were
one
month's hard labour by Mr W. H. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary they appeared on a Military Court yesterday when charge of larceny of a pig. the property of Ng Kam, at Main Road near Yeung Uk village, Un Long, on Sunday.
Detective Sub-Inspector Roth- well, who prosecuted, said that at 8 a.m. on Monday. the complain- ant's daughter saw the pig run- ning loose on the road. It had
The instructress, somewhat taken aback, tediously explain- ed that it is a certain type of woman who, in times of war, finds it quite profitable to sta- tion herself in a place easily been injured by a passing lorry. accessible to the common sol-She went in and informed dier.
"Oh." said 'the girl, thought they were 'hors de combat"."
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her mother. who came out. but the pig "I was gone. Following information she had received, the complainant went to the accused's village, where she found them slaughter- ing the pig. She recognised the pig as hers and asked them return it. Upon their refusing, she went and reported the matter to When the Police the Police. arrived, the accused were cutting up the remnants of the pig. The Fig weighed 60 catties and was valued at $400.
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A STOLEN COW
Disappears From Outside Dealer's House
FOUND IN OTHER VILLAGE
Lieut-Col Gordon King Tells Exciting Tale Of Journey Into China
ROTARIANS ENTERTAINED BY TALK
The story of his escape from Hong Kong and his experiences during his journeying into Free China shortly after the Japanese occupation of the Colony was vividly recounted by Lieut-Col Gordon King, Assistant Director of Medical Services (Civil Affairs), to members of the Hong Kong Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon at the Gloucester Hotel yesterday.
Col King met Messrs Marsman and Lavrov, who had escaped from Stanley Camp, and two Chinese friends, in the hills of Kowloon, and together they made their way to Lolung on the East River. From there Dr King reached Kukong.
gave me
Determined To Escape
A large attendance of members and asked me who had given authority their friends were present to hear the for the trees to be felled, and when talk, and visiting Rotarians wel-I told him that a military officer in comed by the President. Dr Arthur the compound had done so, he asked Woo. were Messrs W. K. Way me to produce a written permit. (Chungking), Y. K. Chow (Mukden). When I told him that the permission Peter Y. Kwok (Singapore), and H. was only verbal, he flew into a Kaddorie (Shanghai).
paroxysm of rage and Rotarian Kwok brought a message understand through his interpreter of greeting from the Singapore Club (who had great difficulty in keeping which, he said, had re-commenced up with him) that I had committed functioning shortly after the es- an offence which was punishable by tablishment of the British Military death according to Japanese law.
"For the next five minutes, I was Administration. There was at present a membership of about 70. Though submitted to a torrent of threats and no luncheon or dinner meetings were abuse such as I have never heard be- held owing to the difficult food situa-fore or since. After this he abruptly tion. the Club held weekly teasked to see
the hospital records, meetings.
which I showed him, and he then Rotarian Kadoorie also conveyed demanded to see all the books in the the greetings of the Shanghai Club University premises. On this ins- which was holding meetings fort-pection, the Vice-Chancellor and the nightly, he said.
Late Professor Faid were ordered to The Secretary, Rotarian T. E.
jin, and for the next five hours we Jackson, announced that the meeting pruded from house to house and next Tuesday would be a closed one. building to building in a Judicrous and one of the main topics of dis- attempt to "see all the books." The cussion would be
their community-bject of this search was, apparent- service.
ly, to locate some books of special Guests welcomed were Messrs K.
alue which the Japanese believed Crawford, J. Wilson, Kwok Chan, D. were in the possession of the Univer- Djoung, W. Stoker, D. I. Bosanquet,ity. Comdr Kirby, Lieut-Col T. W. Ware, Lieut-Col Y. S. Wan, Col Luke T. C.
C.
"After McDouall, Wai
this experience, the Lee, Messrs J. Man-wai and Major R. E. Farrell, thoughts of escape which I had be- Dr Woo, introducing the speaker, gun to entertain became a rooted said that Lieut-Col King was former- determination. and I decided to ly Professor of Gynaecology at Hong make an attempt to get away at the Kong University and at present was first favourable opportunity. For the Assistant Director of Medical the next few weeks, however, my Services.
ands were tied as I had numerous patients for whom I was still re- sponsible. Moreover, during the early days of the occupation. the "My decision to escape from Hong whole of the University and Relief Kong was made at an early date Hospital community was virtually in- tors influenced me in reaching after the capitulation. Several fac-terned in the University compound this and placed under the responsibility decision, and I think I can best set of the Vice-Chancellor. them before you in their chronologi-{ "Towards the end of January,
however, the Japanese decided to j' "First of all, I had tried to carry transfer the University community on medical work for nearly a
year to Stanley whither the majority unau a joblem take adjdervistes
the internees had already been sent. China at a time when Britain
was on account of a still not openly at war with Japan. medical duties. my own internment few remaining I was then with Cheeloo University was deferred, with the result that I and was the Medical Superintendent continued living in of the University Hospital in Tsin:n when most of my colleagues
my own Shantung. It was on Christmas Day, transferred to Stanley. Before his 1937, that the Japanese captured departure, the Vice-Chancellor made Tsinan, and I little thought then that it clear to me that the conditions four years later to the very day, I under which we had been interned in should pass through the same un-
the University had ceased to happy experience in Hong Kong. A and that as a servant of the Univer- exist. large part of the faculty and students sity I was entirely a free agent in of Cheeloo had previously left for making my future plans.
Dr Gordon King's Story Lieut-Col Gordon King said:
cal order.
Free China in order to preserve and
of
house
werc
carry on the University there, but a duties as Medical Officer in charge "I had early been relieved of my
of the Relief Hospital, but I was still
my col-
new
few of us remained behind to look after the University property and to carry on the work of the Hospital. able to do a certain amount of work "During the months that ensued, I in one of the other hospitals where I quickly realised how impossible it had some very loyal friends. Soon
after the internment of a third national, to was, even as carry on medical work under the leagues, my position in this hospital Japanese, and I decided that I should was made quite untenable by a be doing much more useful work appointee of the Japanese, who either in Hong Kong or in Free made it quite clear to me that my China. Towards the end of 1938, I visits would not long be tolerated. was appointed to a post in the Uni- and I decided that I ought to lose no versity of Hong Kong, and it was time in making good my escape be- with very great relief that I left before the Japanese
woke up to hind the frustrations,
fact that I had not yet been annoyances
Lau Sam was before Mr W. D. and everlasting compromises of try- ferred to Stanley. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary Muntary Court yesterday
il
charge of larceny of a cow from Sum-outside No. 5 Kuk Tin Street, Un Long, the property of Mam. Pak Ng-bong. He pleaded not guilty.
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After considering, all the possible found that, as far as medical work sion that the greatest chance of suc- means of exit I came to the conclu- was concerned, my position was be very much worse than it had been i would take me out by the East River cess lay in finding a guide who in the North.
route. I should have been entirely
Students Leave
to
at a loss without the help of two in-Chinese friends and former students
The complainant was called as the first witness and stated that he was a cattle dealer in Unfluenced me was the fact that num- to whom I shall never be able ade-
Long. At 3 a.m. on Sunday he was asleep in his house. He had tied up his three cows outside. his door. he found that his cows were no longer tied outside. He there- fore made a search but failed to find them. He then made a report of his loss to the Police at the Ping Shan Police Station. At 7 a.m. he returned to his house and King-found two of his cows tied outside once more. Also he received car- tain information so he went to his the Ping Shan Police Station again and reported to Detective Sub- Inspector Rothwell. Then acconi- panied by the Police he went to Lo Fau Shan, where the third cow was recovered outside
2 house belonging to the accused. This was at about 10 a.m.
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ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL
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The second witness was P.C.C. 560 who stated that at about a.m. on Sunday, on instructions given by Detective Sub-Inspector Rothwell, he went with the com-
The second factor which
1
was to
take any
bers of the Hong Kong University quately to express my gratitude. students were already leaving the Through their aid an agreement Colony during the early days after was made with a reliable man and the surrender, in the hope of
con- all
preparations were made. At tinuing their studies at one of the first I was to be disguised as throught that, with the help of some relief) it was decided that it would Chinese Universities. It was my coolie, but later (somewhat to my
be able to assist them if I could get European clothes. of my friends in Free China, I might be better for me to dress in shabby
away. Moreover, after a good deal nothing with me, not even of careful thought, I preferred to money. A supply of food sufficient take the immediate chance rather to last a week, together with a razor, than face the uncertainties of a prbe carried by the guide, and a suit- a towel, and a sleeping bag were to longed period of internment.
"The final spark which fired my case full of clothes and other neces- an saries was to follow later if a way determination was provided by unfortunate encounter with the could be found. I was, of course. ting down of Japanese Gendarmerie over the cut-committed to complete secrecy about
some trees. In the the whole affair. University Relief Hospital, for which Just before dawn on February 10,
a
Wils
I wai
I was responsible during the war, 1942, I left my house, dressed in we had run completely out of fuel shabby old raincoat, wearing an old and we had no means of cooking for felt hat and carrying a Chinese um some 500 patients and staff unless brella in my hand, met my escort at some trees in the compound were an appointed place and took an early felled for this purpose.
tram to
the Star Ferry. It Encounter With Japanese
scarcely light. but already numerous "After several requests, permis Japanese guards were busily engaged
people were crossing over. The tw sion was finally obtained from the in searching the passengers. senior officer of the Japanese mili-ed until they tary unit which was billetted in the cupied and then quietly slipped he were both fully oc University, and three lrge
trees hind one of the sentries and on were felled at dawn the next day. the boat. The trees were being cut up in the courtyard of one of the emergency
On the Kowloon side I mingled hospital buildings when I was hur- with the crowd, and, by dropping riedly summoned to the scene, and head and shoulders and pulling my there I found the chief of the newly hat well down over my eyes arrived Gendarmerie with a small managed to leave the ferry without Roth-party of his men and an interpreter. attracting the attention of the
The officer was livid with rage; he
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Making his escape from a ward plainant to recover a cow which in the Kowloon Hospital where be the complainant had reported lost. was undergoing treatment under They recovered it from outside surveillance, Chan Hung, an al- the accused's house.
leged house-breaker, was captured 15 minutes later at about 11.15
p.ni. on Monday night in Waterloo Hoad near Peace Avenue. Chan aught by a constable, No. tached to the Emergency
was 745.
Unit.
The accused was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour. The cow was to be return- ed to the complainant.
Detective Sub-Inspector well prosecuted.
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