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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

COL. HOLT ADDRESSES ON WAY TO THE

ROTARY

CLUB

Experiences In Abyssinia

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Col. H. B. Holt was the speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting yesterday when he told of his experiences in Abyssinia.

Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy presided in the absence of the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan and in addressing the gathering he said that he had one task to perform which was not at all a pleasant one, namely, to bid Goodbye tu Rotarian J. R Paton who was shortly leaving on transfer to Calro. On behalf of the Club Mr. Bellamy wished Mr. and Mrs. Paton the best of luck in their new sphere of life.

Mr. Paton replied Eriefly and said that he was very sorry to be going away after four years in Hong Kong. He had made a lot of friends at the Rotary Club but he had one very great satisfaction —he had seen the Hong Kong Ro- tarians playing "big lantern, small

CHINA FRONTS

New Zealand Doctors In Colony

Among the guests at the Rotary Club meeting yesterday were Drs.

T. H. Watson and G. H Manka.

GENERAL

RELIEF PLAN FOR REFUGEES

Local Wine And Provision Dealers Project

With a view to raising funds for

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of New Zealand, who are on their the relief of war refugees" the way to join Drs. Grey and Treme- Hong Kong Chinese, Wine and wen, at present serving with the Provision Dealers' Association for Red Cross units in Chengchow the Relief of Refugees has been and Loyang.

formed, and the following havë Drs. Grey and Tremewen have been elected office-bearers:- were as rare as Britons. Bot been working at the front lines Chairman: Mr. Philip Gockchin names occur in newspapers, books since March with the Interna-The Wing On Co., Ltd.). and the vocabulary of the official tional Red Cross.

Vice-Chairman: Mr. Chan Kam and the foreigner and, Just as

The two "recruits' for war ser-

30 (C. Ah Ying Co., Ltd.). most of us are English, Scotch, vice arrived here on Saturday by

Vice-Chairman: Mr. M. Chan') Irish, Welsh and so forth, so with the s.s. Neptuna and will remain Harr (China Emporium, Ltd), the Ethiopian. He just told you here until tomorrow when they

Hon General Secretaries: Mr. K. the name of the Kingdom he came leave for Hankow by train. They F. Chaw (Shlu Tai). Mr. Ho Pak. from but if pressed he probably are being sent to the war areas by hol (The Asia Co.). Mr. B. T. Tsui COL, HOLT'S ADDRESS said he was a "habashi" a word the Joint Council of the St. John The President then said that as from which the name Abyssinian | Ambulance and New Zealand Red the speaker was so well-known tiis derived and means mixed blood. Cross Society... members he would not go through The official preference. for the the formality of introducing him name Ethiopia is probably con- but would just call upon Col, Holt nected with a desire to retain the to give his address.

Biblical association with King Col. Holt said: Whilst 1 was Solomon. Milleary Attache to the 'British

lantern"! (Laughter),

(Tal Loy),

Hon. Treasurers: Mr. Leung Yew (Wang Kee & Co.), Mr. C."C. Chan (French Store).

It will be interesting to note

Hon. Business Secretaries: Mr. T. that the latter body has so far collected over £3.000 for the pur-Wong (The Sun Co., Ltd.), Mr. Au C. Watt (Hung Cheong), Mr. C, L.

pose of maintaining volunteer

Chiu (The Sincere Co., Ltd.); Mr. doctors and medical supplies at

Ng Kwai (Chun Cheong)..Mr. Chan “A DOUBTFUL HONOUR

the China war fronts." Legation in Abyssinia I spent some

Yue-seung (Yuen Shing Hing), Mr. On my arrival in Dessle I was The two visiting doctors are the. P. Ching (Wing Coffee Co.), Mr. for months at Desale where the accorded the doubtful honour of a guests at Mr. Alfred Morris. Com-Leung Cheuk-fun (Wing Fat Co., Emperor, Halle Selassie, had es-guard but there was a good rea-missioner of the St. John Am tablished his headquarters. While son because the Emperor knew bulance Brigade here.

there I had time to observe the tha: his subjects could not design- people of the country and their late between one white man and medacival customs.

another. To the peasant I was as Abyssinia has been described as much his enemy as an Italian and an inverted Switzerland because I once had reason to be grateful the inhabitants instead of living when one of my bodyguard Inter- in the valleys, live on the moun-vened when some Ethiopians rush- - talas tope-really plateaux of be-ed at me with shouts of “Italian!”

tween 7,000 and 10,000 feet, almost EVOLUTION PREFERRED

Ltd.).

LAND RECLAMATION following resolution was

FOR REFUGEES

To Ease Overcrowding In Shanghai

At a meeting of the Association recently, at which 113 Chinese concerns were represented, the unani- moully passed and will be placed before the representatives of all wine and provision agents and manufacturing companies in the Colony:

That for each and every trans- action .51 $1,000 worth of goods

dévoid of trees. The reason for The Ethiopian peasant had his

A plan to send Chinese refugees the inversion may be summed up faults and was decidely primitive in Shanghai or at least a portion purchased, aber in cash, or on In the word mosquitoes" and most according to our standards-but of them to interior provinces for account, or ordered for future de- of the villages were placed on that can and could be rectified by and reclamation work, so as to livery, $2 ($1 payable by the seller knolls not, I believe because the education. Much had been said enable them to support themselves and 31 by the buyer) will be set Abyssinians connected the mos about slavery among these people, and alleviate overcrowding in aside for... relief of refugees, com- quito with fever but because their The Emperor recognised the neces foreign-controlled areas, is again mencing from 1st day of August, ancestors had taught them to sity of getting rid of the evil, but under consideration by charitable 1938 till the end of the Sino- avoid fever by getting a draught. it was a reform which could not organisations In the Northern Japanese hostilities."

I said the plateaux were almost be done by a stroke of the pen. port. deroid of trees. It so happens Same alternative Poor Law system Between 500 and 600 refugees in that about Afty years ago a policy would have to replace it. It was Shanghai were sent some time ago

of planting Blue Gims Was In a choice between evolution and re-to the Kee Haul district, Kiangs! DOCTORS URGED

for land reclamation.

stituted to produce fuel and hence.volution. Rightly or wrongly the Province, the woods round Addis Ababa Emperor chose the former method According to messages from that which gave cover to the native warrior were nothing more nor less than the city's ruel supply

JUST AS RARE

One of his difficulties was that province, the result was very satis- he placed his faith in the League factory, all the refugees being able at Nations. A step. I fear, he now to support themselves. regrets; and if there is any lesson This time the organisations pro- The inhabitants were officially to be drawn from his experience. pose to send the refugees to pro- called Ethiopians but if you asked it is a re-statement of that Rvinces other than Kiangai, such as an individual what he, was you man adaze "81 vis pacem. para (Yunnan and Szechuen. would have found that Ethiopians bellum.”

MR. J.C. DUNBAR

Dies On Way Home News' was received in the Colony yesterday of the death, at sea, cf Mr. J. C. Dunbar, formerly of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. The deceased was travelling to England on the 8.5. Ranch! In company with Mrs. Dunbar, the former Miss Pat Dimond.

LOCAL GERMAN HONOURED

National Socialist Party Group in Hong Kong, has been awarded the Cross of Merit of the German Red Cross Society.

MAHJONG "NOISE COMPLAINT

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TO STAGE "STAY-IN" STRIKE

A suggestion that the 37.000 members of the British Medical Association should withdraw their services from the public for a limited period as a protest against the invasion of refugee doctors was put forward at the B.M.A's annual conference opening at Plymouth recently.

Mr. A. Read, of 16 Somerset Road, Kowloon Tong, appeared as While it is unlikely that this: complainant at the Kowloon Court "proposal will gain much support

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Father And Girls Drew Straws To Kill Son

Breaiding down and crying, "How

Herr Martin Hess, leader of the yesterday when his next door the 1.000 delegates are expected to could I kill my own little boy, but neighbour, Mr. Sul Kan-wing, was be unanimous in their demand for I did." Harvey Nelson hard-holled summoned before Mr. Barnett.

new Government safeguards, and restaurant manager, of Waycross, Mr. Read complained that on there wil be strong dates between June 6 and July 12 against the B.M.A. Council's agree-Waycross that he plotted with his protests Georgia, confessed in court at The award has been made by the nis next door neighbours had in ment with the Home Once allow-mistress, Verna Fowler, eighteen, German Red Cross Society in re-dulged in games of mahjong, when ing "a limited number of Aus- one of his waliresses, and her cognition of Herr Hess' services in they had disturbed his "and his trians to practise in Britain, writes friend Mary Kent, seventeen, to alding German and other refugees family's rest between 10 p.m. and¦

a Home correspondent.

| kill * Johnnie, his son of ten for 1.30 am by shouting and “the Son of the late William Roland and evacuees from China.

I understand the council will be £180 insurance. A similar decoration was award-clatter of mahjong cards. Dunbar, of Huyton, Cheshire, and

prepared to say they will urge the

He confessed to plotting that all Mrs. Oswald Tidy. the late Mr. ed recently to Mr. Christian Kroe- ger of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., for

Government to co-operate more should watch the murder. Dunbar was 39 years of age and his services. with the International

closely with them to control the In cold blood, he said, Verna and arrival of immigrant doctors and Mary drew straws to choose the

was married only in November ni

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LOCAL ESTATE

Verna drew the longest. "Bo atie took a pistol went out

last year. He suffered a break./Rellet Committee in Nanking. Mr. An application by Gee Ng-ahl, to limit the activities of those per. kflier. down in health and only left here Kroeger was in Nanking from Oc-widow, for grant of letters of ad- tober. 1937 to January this year.ministration to the estate of "Gee as recently as July 9.

after the Japanese occupation of Lat (or Let, laundryman, who died the city.

in February last at Toi Shan, has Mr. John H. Rape. of Messrs. been granted. Deceased left tocal Siemens (China), Ltd., and Chair-estate valued at $25,400, man of the International Relief

Mr. Dunbar saw service with the Royal Air Force during the Great. War as a subaltern and came to Hong Kong in 1925 when he joined the Hong Kong Electric Company. Committee. has been awarded the He was extremely popular with German Red Cross Society's Cross his colleagues and was keen (of Merit."

member of the Hong Kong Cricket

Club besides being a member of

the Hong Kong Club and the Royal

Hong Kong Golf Club.

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

BRITISH SUBJECT · TO BE EXPELLED

mitted to practise.

There is one doctor for every thousand, of the population in top of the back porch and Britain. With more and more squatted near the Wall

face."

candidates entering the profession.

"When John came out of the the doctors say it will be impos-door she fred......He fell on his sible soon for all of them to earn Nelson added that he agreed to an adequate living.

In the last few months 220 Ger-give Mary £40 of the Insurance

money, and to Verna. £18, man and Austrian refugee doctors

The rest-£123-was for him- self.

An expulsion order was made have been allowed to enter. Britain against John Mathias, 34, an elec-to practise. The law allows them trician, by Mr. Edwards at the to practise even to set up in Har- A member of the Hong Kong) The marriage is announced "be- Central Court yesterday.

ley-street as specialists-without More than 100 new factories Volunteer Defence Corps, the re-tween Commander Hugh Valentine Mathias, who is a British sub-registration and without any ques-have been opened in various parts linquishment of his commission in King, of HMS, Olympus, and Miss ject, appeared on a charge of tion of their qualifications. of Yunnan Province since the out- the A.A. Company was gazetted Brenda Grace Buildings, Doctor of entering the Colony without а two days ago.

Medicine, who is due to arrive invalid passport. The late Mr. Dunbar is survived Hong Kong on September 9 by the by his widow. his mother. Mrs. Empress of Japan.) Tidy, and a sister, the Viscountess Another forthcoming marriage is Imperial Airways' Daedalus is ex- Scarsdale with whom much sym-that of Mr. Wong Tor-mak, of the pected to arrive at 5.30 pm, today pathy will be felt.

Dairy Farm, and Miss Mary-Lau. from Bangkok.

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CHOLERA IN EASTERN DISTRICTS OF CANTON

Canton, July 20

A cholera epidemic is prevailing in the eastern districts and from July 10 to July 18, a total of 6,000 cases were reported with 1,810 casualties

The epidemic is also gaining in Lukfung and Chao On districts.

To check the spread of the epidemic in the various districts, Dr. W. M. Tso, Director of the Bani- tary: Bureau, despatched Dr. W. C. Aurang to the - stricken ́areas. — (International).