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GENERAL

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS EXHIBITION OPENED

Women's Part In Event Of Emergency Explained

The Women's Air Raid Precautions Exhibition held in the Union Church "Hall yesterday was officially opened by Lady Northrote..

There WAS a large attendance, including His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geofry Northcote, Hon. Mr. "N. L. Smith, Mr. Justice ́R. E. Lindsell, Mr. T. H. Eing. Dr. P. S. Selwyn Clarke, Sir Shouson Chow, Sidney Caine and Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele-Perkins (Air Raid Precautions Officer).

Sordid Tale' Of Cruelty Aboard Junk BOUND, BEATEN

AND THEN

·STARVED

The sordid story of how a 13-year-old girl was bound hand and foot, and beaten, and then starved, was told before Mr. Butters at the Con- tral Court yesterday when a widow, Lam Yang. appeared on a charge of assaulting the child.

Mrs. Steele-Perkina, after wel-It is proposed that the police dis- coming Lady Northcote, expressed trict should be the unit of or- regret at the absence, on account |ganization, and within this district of illness. of Mrs. Bartholomew, the Government is now arranging who has been one of the corner for first aid posts, air raid warden stones of the movement. She posts, etc/ thanked the Committee for their

I have been placed in a most valuable work and appealed to responsible position, namely. to members to take their examina- ( organise the air raid precautions three months' hard labour with-

tions seriously.

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services for this Colons. I can In declaring the exhibition open. assure you that I feel this position Lady Northcote paid tribute to the most acutely, and it will be my work done by the Union and the earnest endeavour to produce a organisers of the exhibition. She practical scheme, and I shall not also thanked the Union Church for rest until I am able to say that allowing the use of their hall |everything possible has been done.

Wing Commander Steele-Perkins

But you must agree with me that said:-

even I worked 24 hours out of

In

Your Excellency and Lady North- cote. I would like to add my sincere thanks for your kindness in com- ing here to open this Exhibition I should also be lacking courtesy should I not express my grateful thanks to the Chairman and Members of the Women's Alr Raid Precautions Union for or ganizing this exhibition, "to the instructors and medical officers who have given up their spare! time to instruct the public and to Mr. Anderson, the Controller of Stores, who has kindly placed at my disposal, Mr. Harmon, to make these modcis which you see in the room and for his ready help which has been given so freely and to the ofcers and members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.

UNPLEASANT SUBJECT

the 24 my labours would be in vain unless I can obtain your co-opera- tion, and that co-operation can be given by volunteering to serve, in an emergency.

Will you therefore help me in attaining my object?

LIST OF EXHIBITS.

on view:-

The following were the exhibits

Ordinary window sealed against

entry of gaa.

Method of making a door gas tight by:

(a) Fitting felt inside the door

frame.

(b) Placing a batten at the bot-

tom of the door.

The medical certificate disclosed. that the girl was covered with bruises and blisters on her legs, back and many parts of her body.

The widow was sentenced to.

out the option of a fine.

The girl.. "Fung Yuet ho. was directed by defendant to row some

passengers ashore. This she did, but at the termination of the trip she had forgotten to collect the tares. On her return to the junk"

dant for her negligence. She was she was thrashed by the delen-

bound hand and foot and left in a crouching position without food for two days.

Inspector H. W Fraser. In- spector of Mul Tsal. for the pro- secution, told the Court that the. girl's mother, who chanced to row past defendant's craft saw her | daughter in a crouching position.

crying and in a fainting condi- ; tion. she released' the girl and took her to the Shaukiwan police the defendant was arrested when station. Later on the same day.

she returned to her junk..

It was stated that the girl had been sold to the defendant for $110 when she was 10 years old, as

fe Halling a blanket on the out-her prospective daughter-in-law.

side of the door.

Admitting that she had beaten

Method of sealing the door after the girl, defendant gave the rea- the family are inside.

son, that the girl had been dis

Various types of protective cloth.obedient. and also said that she ing. respirators with general -des- was unwilling to get married.

Family preparing the refuge room.

Air raid precautions are a very cription unpleasant subject. I think you. will all feel it is quite revolting that in.this year of grace we should have to think about the questioning with gassed and/or wounded Model of First Aid Post for deal-

of protecting ourselves from missiles cases.

Household fire appliances.

Things to collect for the refuge

Aftrenen system for the protec-NIKS

which could be dropped from the air. And so it is, but at the same time we all feel that, until the room. happy day when the millenium sets in and we can devote ourselves tion of workers in a factory. entirely to the peaceful occupa- tions which we all enjoy, we must give some attention to a danger which does exist and which may affect everyone of us..

Model of a trench which can be made in a garden.

bursting 50 feet away.

Effects on a house of a bomb

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Window, protection against, the effects of splinters.

This exhibition really depicts by actual models what can be done in Models of Chinese tenement the home to obtain a certain degree houses. Illustrating the room in of protection. It is what those which refuge should be taken and who have attended the recent methods "to lessen the effects of classes have all learnt and this is splinters and to give protection an opportunity for seeing the against gas. means whereby the lessons they have learnt can be implemented.

FERVENT HOPE

We all fervently hope that it will never be necessary to put them into practice, but I am quite sure those who have attended these classes, should an emergency ever arise, will be most thankful that In giving up their spare time to attend them. They have obtain- ed valuable information-informa- tion which cannot be learned in the space of an hour or so.

Lighting devices for obscuring lights."

Model of an air lock.

A typical gas protected room.

UNREGISTERED

MUI TSAI

at

Tsam Yuk-king, a refugee from Canton, was bound over in a sum of $100 för one year when she The classes in air raid pre-the

appeared before Mr. Butters cautions which have just finished charged with bringing an unregis- Central Court .yesterday. have been an unqualified success, tered mul taal, Lai Chiu, Into the and I do earnestly appeal to those Colony. who have attended to de a pablic service to the Hong Kong Govern

Inspector H. W. Fraser, of the

ment and to the community at 8 C. A. said that the defendant large by handing in their némés came to the Secretariat for Chi either to myself or to the Secretary nese Affairs on Wednesday, with of the Women's Air Raid Precau- the girl. and applied for regis- tion Union, Mrs. Murdoch. No 192 tration of the mui tsal. The Peak, or to the secretary of their clubs.

NEW COURSES

As to those ladies who have not yet attended· a course, a lot of courses will commence next week and I trust that many of you will find the time to learn about, this all-important subject.

You will probably wish to know

in what capacity you could be em

The girl was well treated. and had been with the defendant since she was 11 years old. She. cx- pressed the wish to remain with the defendant..

EDUCATION FOR POOR CHILDREN

ployed in an emergency, and in TAIPO SCHOOL BEING this connection perhaps the CONSTRUCTED

greatest need of all may well be by

administering aid to the suffering. A building is now under con- A large number of women will also struction, adjoining the., Talpo be required to act as guide, philo- Rural Home and Orphanage, where apphers and friends to their neigh-elementary education, with agri- bours, and to act as reporting cultural and industrial training agents as to the fall of bombs, etc., will be given to Chinese poor boys- le air raid wardens, ambulance and orphans, especially refugee. drivers, cooks, nurses, clerks, etc. children from the war areas. will all be required. You need not be afraid of coming forward in opened in October

The building will probably be

your thousands for I shall really want every· person: I: cán possibly lay my hands on.

IN AN EMERGENCY

The scheme is the result many months of effort on the part of Bishop R. O.÷Hall, Mr. Cheung Wing-kue, Pr. F.L

It will be my endeavour, should Tseung, Mr. Chan Kwan-po, ¡Mr.

an emergency arise, to appoint you Kan Man, Mr. Wong Kwok-fung

to the district in which you live. and others........

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