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INDIGNANT COMMENT BY PARIS PRESS

SHANGHAI REFUGEES

COMMITTEE

Clearing Up Some

Misunderstandings

(To The Editor, The "Hong Kong Dally Press.")

Sir-Some misunderstanding 3p- pears to exist regarding the charges, being made at the various Refugee Centres, and the atlow- ances made in respect of refugees living in private houses.

Taking the last first, I have to point out that it was believed that. inhabitants of Hong Kong who kindly offered hospitality to one of more refugees from Shanghai, did so altruistically, from a sense of public duty, and without any rae of making a profit. This belief is strongly reinforced by the numbers who have generously given haspi- tality to our visitors from Shanghal and refuse to consider any recom-

pense.

The Increase in overhead charges

in an ordinary household by the addition of one or two guests is not great and the authorised charge was therefore calculated to meet the cost of board only and the small increase in penses.

other ex-

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"It was felt necessary, therefore, to make n charge which would cover all these expenses and would not result in a loss to Government if the standard rate were paid by

Careful statistics are being kept and it is hoped eventually to calculate fairly accurately the cost per person per day of occupation. In other words a costing system will be worked out. In the event. of the actual cost being less than

the standard rate it is possible that a refund will be made to those who have paid the standard rate. though as a fact, only three per- sons have so far pak the standard rate and for one night only.

There are very many who cannot pay the standard rate. This mat- ter is being Investigated. carefully by a Government committee who are acting in a capacity similar to that of a Hospital Almoner, and an assessment of the ability to pay will be made. There are some who

will never be able to pay the stan dard rate or even a reduced rate and- the cost in respect of these”; rent fugees will fall on H.M.'s Govern- At the several centres, in addiment, but there are others who.: tion to the bare cost of food there while unable to make any pay- are innumerable overhead charges ment now or in the near future, which, at present, it is quite im-

may on their return to Shanghal possible even to estimate. Besides became fully rehabilitated. These the cost of electric light, water, will be expected to redeem their and gas there are the expenses of debt in due course, but in all cases disembarkation and conveyance to the debt will be calculated or the the centre, the cost of supervisory actual cost and not on an esti- staff, of the dispensary and. of mated standard rate Yours, etc.. many other items. There may also be a charge eventually for recon- ditioning the Jockey Club Stands. the Central British School and the Shamshulpo Huts.

HONG KONG BANK OFFICIALS

Chinese Lady's Appreciation

(To The Editor, The. "Hong Kong Wally Pressu

Dear Sir, Flease allow me some space for expressing my apprecia: tion of the service of the H.K. and S. Banking Corporation, and also for informing the public that as far as I know, there are still safety boxes for hire, though there is quite a demand for it at present,

Because of the influx of people in the Colony, many have informed

W. J. CARRIE

Chairman

Shanghal Refugees Committee Hong Kong. AuE, 27, 1937. ".

WEDDING BELLS

ROBLES-

-CHIARI

A quiet wedding was solemnized yesterday at the Registry of Mar- Hlages, Supreme Court. when Senorita Cella del Carmen Chlari became

the bride "of Senor Rogollo Robles, Consul-General for Panama. Mr. T. 9. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages, officiated.

Entering the Registry on the arm of Senor Jose Varela Arlas the bride looked charming in a dress or

white satin decorated with

pearls, and a sheaf of gardenlas and white lles completed a very attractive picture.

me that all the safety boxes in ocal banks must have been taken up. Fearing, however, the in-

Senora Marle Varela was the Formation might be only a rumour..

Matron of Honour. She was dress- I went to the HK. Bank yester-

ed in a black silk dress with day, and I succeeded in hiring one without difficulty. But what im-georgette sleeves, -pressed me most was the Bank's Senor Jose Varela, Consul for

swift service to its clients. I saw Peru, was best man. that both the European and Chin- ese staff in this department were very courteous to their clients. In instance, extremely patient one was a Chinese staff with a Chin- ese lady, who seemed to have asked him many unnecessary questions to ensure the utmost safety of her valuables.

Customers who are not used to business routine are apt to be at, times a little "clumsy" in their dealings with people,--but-the- Chinese staff realize certain cus- tomers' shortcomings and tried to avold hurting their feelings even at the expense of inconvenience during business hours.

My impression of this visit to the Bank at once tore down my mental picture that there is always intolerably long waiting in daily banking transactions. Yours, etc.,

(Miss) CHAN WAI FONG, Hong Hong Anh, 27, 1937,

Subsequently a reception was held at No. 23 Kennedy Road.

The bridal retinue was by Ma- dame Chiffon.

Senor Alfredo Chiari.

The bride is the daughter of

JAPANESE CONSULATE

PICKETED

Washington, Aug. 26. Despite President Roosevelt's ap peal the American League against War and Fascism picketed the Japanese Embassy thirty, men carrying banners one of which proclaimed. "Japanese aggression menaces the peace of America." The League's New York Secretary declares that Japanese Consulates throughout America will be pick-

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MOMENT HAS COME FOR CONCERTED ACTION

Outcry Against Bombing Of British Ambassador

PARIS, AUGUST 27.

"IT WAS NOT ONLY THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR WHO WAS WOUNDED YESTERDAY ON THE NANKING-SHANGHAI ROAD-IT WAS EUROPE," COMMENTS THE · WELL-KNOWN INTER- NATIONAL OBSERVER, AL JEUNE IN THE “INTRANSIENT."

"YOU DID NOT INFORM US OF YOUR INTENTION TO MOTOR ALONG THIS CHINESE ROAD," SAY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, BUT THIS OBSERVER APTLY POINTS OUT THAT " TO GIVE SUCH A WARNING WOULD BE TO RECOGNISE THAT JAPANESE MILITARY PLANES HAD THE RIGHT TO BOMB AND MACHINE-GUN A. CHINESE ROAD, ALTHOUGH THERE HAD BEEN NO DECLARATION OF WAR BETWEEN TOKYO AND NANKING."

"HALF À CENTURY AGO EUROPE WOULD NOT HAVE CONSENTED TO BE THUS PLACED OUTSIDE THE LAW AND RIGHTS, TO RE-ESTABLISH THE PRESTIGE OF EUROPE IN THE FAR EAST. IS IT SUFFICIENT FOR BRITAIN. TO DEAL WITH THE FATE OF HER - AMBASSADOR?..........IT....... IS NOT ONLY THE BRITISH SUBJECTS WHOSE RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED AND PROPERTY DESTROYED. FRENCH, GERMANS, ITALIANS AND AMERICANS HAVE ALSO BEEN THE VICTIMS. WE ONCE TALKED ABOUT A, CONCERTED EUROPE. THE MOMENT HAS COME FOR IT TO MAKE ITS VOICE HEARD AND ITS AUTHORITY FELT AGAIN."--REUTER.

Worldwide Concern Felt

KING SENDS MESSAGE OF

SYMPATHY

FLOOD OF ANXIOUS INQUIRIES FOLLOWS BROADCAST OF FALSE DEATH REPORT

Shanghai, Aug. 27: A telegram from His Majesty King George VI. is among the scores of messages of sympathy which the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-lugessen, has received from ail ever the world.

Sir Hughe was struck by a machine gun bullet and was seriously injured on Thursday after- noon when the car in which he was driving to Shanghai from Nanking was attacked by two Japanese planes at a point fifty miles from Shanghai.

The bullet lodged in the right side of Sir Hughe's stomach,

A bulletin issued at the Country Hospital at 6 p.m. to-day" states that Sir Hughe had a fairly comfortable afternoon. It is now evident that the right kidney was damaged but the haemorrhage is moderate and is decreasing. His general condition has definitely improved-Reuter.

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Shanghai, Aug, 27: Sir Hughe is living on a liquid diet, and is being attended by a nurse day and night. A false report of bis death broadcast from a Chineso station produced a flood of anxious Inquiries-Reuter.

CHINESE FORMING

NEW LINES

Shanghai, Aug. 27: Widely conflicting Chinese and Japanese claims throw effective smoke screens on the actual position around Shanghai but the Chinese admission of "strategic redispost- tioning of Chinese forces supports the belief that the Chinese are forming new lines.

If, as reported, this stretch from Nanziang to the northwest in the general direction of the Yangtse, the situation in the "Settlement is likely to ease appreciably. Foreign observers agree that the Chinese will be well advised to fall back so as to be out of range of the Japanese warships.

To-day's operations in the immediate vicinity of Shanghal consisted largely of the bombing of Chinese positions on both sides of the river by the Japanese. The Japanese hospital ship with con- spicuous red crosses arrived and docked near the Japanese Consulate. A foreign eye-witness tele- phoned at 3.20 p.m. that he had just seen a Japanese plane, power diving, attack the Chinese positions In the Klangwan Area. burst into flames and, crashed. Two other Japanese planes are now systema- tically bombing the Chinese lines--Reuter,

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 38-13/16

TT GN LONDON: 1. 27/8α.

London Silver Market

(From Our Own Correspondent).

London, August 27. London allver prices-to-day were down 3/8 as follow:-

Spot Forward..

J.

MB. E. G. HOWE TO TAKE

CHARGE

TYPHOON

The Royal Observatory yesterday afternoon reported that the ty phoon was situated about 350 miles Bouth by west of Hong Kong mov- ing north-west or west-north-west.

NEWS INDEX

Amusementa

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London, August 27: Mr. R. G. Howe until recently Counsellor az the British Embassy in China is returning to China shortly by air to take charge during the incapa citation of the British Ambassador, | Cables. Sir Hughie Knatchbull-Hugessen Leading Article

Finance

Mr. Howe was on furlough before Local Diary...

Page 5 taking up a fresh post-

Mall Notices

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MORE REFUGEES FROM THE WAR ZONE

Smooth Disembarkation Arrangements

PORTUGUESE VOLUNTEERS LEND ́A® HELPING HAND

Hundreds thronged the. Kowloon wharves, yesterday afternoon braving a fierce afternoon sun to witness the arrival of the Empress of Canada which was bringing another batch "of 1,000 refugees from Shanghai,

Alost of them, however, wars doomed to disappointment. The police arrangements were such that it was impossible to approach anywhere in proximity to obtain even a distant view. What rela- tives and friends, who had spent over half an hour in the swelter-- ing heat must have felt it is difficult to imagine. Those who held passes from the Chairman of the Refugees Committee flourished them in the face of the police only to be sternly turned away.

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Picture taken after the wedding between Senorita Cella del Carmen Chiari and Senor Rogollo Robles M., Consul-General for Panama in Hong Kong, at The Registry, Supreme Court, yester- day.

OUR READERS' VIEWS

ATTACK ON

AMBASSADOR

STEMMING

PROFITEERING

(To The Editor, The "Hong Kong (To The Editor, The "Hong Kong

Dally Press")

Daily Press"}

Si-The report. in to-day's

Sir,-Following editorials, lettera issue of your paper of the wound- and general disgust regarding the ing of the British Ambassa Government's herole attitude to- dor through a machine-gun bullet wards profiteering. I propose that fred from an air bumber, verined private citizens now take the in- unmistakably Japanese, itiative. I have a plan which I comes as a shock to the people of believe will partly stem this most Hong Kong who hasten to express Inhuman way of money-making their genuine sympathy for Bir and this is it:- Kui e

to bé

Montgomery Knatchbull- That the editors of the four Hussen's "misfortune.

English newspapers in this colony The tragic aspect of the "case

should elect a small committee of needs no emphasis because, since whom they know to be respect- the Japanese military forces start-able citizens in both pare and ed to cause the spread of fright-deed (newspaper editors know if

до holocausts in and around

others do!). This committee Shanghai, their destruction has

should sanction a poster to be

ful

become flagrantly wilful and there issued to all Arms, shops, hotels has never been an honest attempt

etc which in their opinion have to discriminate; in the process of not raised their prices during the litles suffer. their bombardment, all nationa- present crisis. Proof should be supplled either through the testi-

of customers, mony of books or the testimony

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their

It is certainly late to the day for the Fapanese authorities on

The public would then know the spot to plead the excuse, that which establishments would meet they had not received any ad- their patronage fairly and would vaticed information that the Bri help make the plan more effective tish Ambassador was travelling to Shanghal. The fact that a large number of foreigners are continu- ally going about their legitimate in the vicinity of the head I pray If this plan seems to hit the nati enterprises in Shanghai should be that action be taken at once Bit- sufficient ground for the Japan-ing criticism of details until the ese to refrain from reckless shell-

by rigorously limiting patronage to "poster firms."

ing, while Chinese: non-combatants committee has started work. There

is not much time to lose. should also...on humanitarian grounds, be spared ruthless · born-

Yours etc.,

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JOHN 3. GREENBERG.

Hong Kong A THẾ