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GIRLS LEAD NIGHT

LIFE IN SHELTERS

Gangs of girls who spend their nights with undesirable men In public air-raid shelters are creating new problems for local authorities and social workers.

HIT BY THE "BLITZ"

·

What in the meantime had happened to the thousands of a tors, musicians and technicians who served the theatre, and who crashed out of work in a week- end

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 16th JANUARY, 1941, 9.30A.M.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD MAILS

From

Straits and Air Mail by "British Overseas At-

One gang, known as the "shelter girls" has become such a nuisance in Liverpool that women magistrates and social work-

London's newest names, young ers have urged the city's war emergency' council to take action.

sters who had just got their names An education official told the into the headlines, were having a Juvenile Court there that the girls mixed time. Pat Kirkwood, for were between fourteen and nine- jone, fell on her feet. teen years old, lyed at home as Nineteen-year-old Miss Kirkwood little as possible, were generally tr of the oval fage, blurry eyes, big the company, of undesirable men mouth and vibrant volce, who had and used, the shelters as bed-soared from Manchester into in- rooms.

When I toured shelters during the London Hippodrome, went on!

stant fame in "Black Velvet" at Air Mail by “Pan-American Airways Direct

vice"-Sao Francisco date, 9th January night raids I found social workers tour with Arthur Askey in the Rabaul and Manila. making a similar tour, writes a Juvenile frolics of Hello Play-Canton Daily Mirror correspondent

One Mable

An LP.TB, “Jim Crow," one of the men posted on the "bus routes to warn drivers of the approach of enemy aircraft. Their signal advises drivers fo pull in and take shelter with the passengers.

of them,

mates."

Alderman Miss.

ways Service" {Australiį only) by sea Singapore.

Java and Manila. Judy Campbell, dark, husky- Swatow Fletcher, magistrate and voiced beauty of the Comedy's Australia and Manila, chairman of the Schoolchildren's New Faces," who "made" the Air Mau by Pan-American Airways Care and Attendance Committee, Nightingale in Berkeley Square, vice"--San Francisco date 15th January.

said: "Welfare workers and wo · men's patrols are, doing magnif- cent work, but there are not near- ly enough of them,

'They keep careful check of girls reported by parents to be out of-control. They spend hours at night searching for the girls and persuading them to go home.

"The war has relieved these girls of "personal responsibility. Many from respectable homes are proving as difficult others.

"They make the raids an ex-“ cuse not to go home, and spend night here dancing. singing and keeping awake those who have come to sleep." Conduct In some of the big shelters is such that respectable people dare not enter.

went into films ("Convor”. and Australia and Manila. "Saloon Bar"),

Sandakan.

Due

from

16th Jan

Ser-

17th Jun.

18th Jan

18th Jan.

18th, Jan.

19th Jan.

20th Jan,

Direct

Ser-

22nd Jan.

22nd Jan.

23rd Jan.

94th Jan.

25th Jan.

(San

28th Jan. 30th Jan.

U. S. A, Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghal

Francisco date 10th January) Calcutta and Straits.

OUTWARD · MAILS

Worst-hit of London's entertain- United-Kingdom and Straits. ers are the musicians. Three hun- Calcutta and Straits .... dred have been displaced by the closing of musichalls, 340 by the theatres, 150 by the cinemas. 250 by night clubs, 550 by the hotels, | restaurants and ballrooms, The 1,700 new out-of-works, added to

Régistered and Parcel Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than the previous total, have put 3.050 the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are performers on the London unem advertised to close at or before & am, registered and parcel mails ployed rofi of the Musicians are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When mails are adver- Uniofi, out of a membership citised to close after 5 pm, Registered and Parcel mails are closed 4.250

at 6 pan

It they all took only 10s. from the benevolent fund of this push- tul union, there would not be a penny left in the kitty.

GO TO THE PEOPLE "There is not the least likeli

Even while I

was talking to hood of any material improve Alderman Fletcher a drunk stum. ment in the existing entertain-

pled over a sleeping child; a fac-ment industry. The outlock con-

| grab was made at my handbag; M. U. :

and further unpleasant indignities were attempted.

CHILDREN HAVE A RACKET people."

2

The Union put this policy to the

盒

→ THURSDAY

For

JUNK FOKI WOUNDED Small children have racket

more popular than collecting Ministry of Labour. It held Sandakan Yeung Kai-tai, 42, master of snrapuel. They ask men, chiefly mass meeting in London to ex- Manila, Macassar and Sourabaya. trading junk No. T3395H, reported sailors, to give them a penny ter press its grouse against the piti-Bolbow to the Police yesterday that his two halfpennies. Invariably they fully inadequate" help of EN.S.A., Manila, Mauritius, Lourenco Marques, and South junk left Tat Tau Fau, Chinese are given a penny and told to and to demand that musicians be

Africa via Durban.

territory, on Jan. 13 bound for Hongkong with a cargo of 300 plculs of garlic, valued at $2,000.

At 6 a.m. the following day, he was sailing about three miles east of the Nine Pins Group of Islands, British territory, when a boat ap- proached his junk.

keep the halfpennies.

I saw one urchin carry 'n fistful of coppers back to his mother, and a' detective told me that some of the kiddies make well oyer £1 a week. Mrs. Humphrey Foxell, chief organiser of Birmingham House-

Service, said:

hired by the Government to:--

(a) Form mobile units to en- tertain people at Civil Defence stations, communal feeding and. civil evacuation centres; *

(b) Perform in the evening in !deep bomb-proof shelters

About 25 per cent. of the, West The boat went alongside his wives'

"Many End actors have been absorbed in craft, and four robbers, armed young girls prefer the public shel-provincial shows with a rifle and two revolvers, ter to the family shelter. Young boarded. One of them fred a shot men are drinking in shelters and from his revolver and wounded we want this stopped too. Yeung Tsol, a foki of the junk.

"Some women leave their babies

Alf Mail by Air to Rangeon to connect with the

"British Overseas Airways"

11

Date and Time

K.P.O.

Thu. 18th K.P.O. Reg. 10.30 AM

Ord.

11.00 30

G.P.O.

tory girl was complaining that her fronting the professional musician Air Mail by sea to Singapore to connect with Reg. 10.30 AM bedding had been stolen; and a is truly desperate," declares the the "British Overseas Airways."

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11.00 AM

"People cannot come to music: straits and Calcutta. therefore music must go to the Saigon.

Parcels 11.00 AM Letters

Noon 3.30 PM

FRIDAY

Fri. 17th

8.30 AM

10.30 AM

12.30 PM

3.30 PM

K.P.O.

Beg.

4.00 PM

Ord. #4,30 PM

G.P.O.

Reg, 4.00 PM

Ord..

4.30 PM

Reg.. 5.00 PM

Ord.

5.30 PM

G.P.O.

Ord. 7.00 PM

Sat. 18th

Reg. 4.30 PM Ord. 5.00 PM

4.30 PM

Ord.

5.00 PM

KP.O

Parcels

Beg

Ord.

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U. 5. A., Canada, GP.O.

Central and South America and United King Parcels dom via San Francisco, (No Parcels for Ca-Reg. nada and United-Kingdom),

Ord.

4.00 PM "3.00 PM 5.30 РМ

4.00 PM 5.00 PM 5.30 PM

Note: All Malls for United-Kingdom' will be for- warded with or without superscription.........

Stralta.

SUNDAY.

Canton

TUESDAY

Yeung's boat was searched, after a home during raids while they which the robbers' craft sailed are out drinking or making muni- away taking with them $35 Chi- tions. nese silver dollars and $140 ·Chi- nese currency. The cargo of garlic was not stolen.

BULGARIA SEEKS PACT WITH TURKS

A report from Istanbul, given in a message from Aus- tralia yesterday stated that Bulgaria, in order to prevent the Germans from attempting to march troops across the country, is seeking a defensive pact with Turkey.

THE WEATHER Maximum temperature yesterday was 68 and the minimum 61.

J

MOJI HARBOUR TRAGEDY

TOKYO, Jan. 15 (Reuter)-Four

28

Air Mail for Manils, Guam, Honolulu, U. S. A.

Europe via Pan American Airways and Trans-Reg. $5.00 PM Atlantic Services"

SATURDAY

"British Overseas Airways"

K.P.O.

G.P.O.

***At one house recently two members of the crew of the Dalsin Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the Reg., bables; aged two and five, were Maru, 2,990 tons, which sank in found outside the house during a Moji harbour following a collision fald while the mother was away.learly this morning with the Yama- "We are trying to get a by-law shita Kison Kalsha freighter Mako passed to have a curfew for all Maru, 1,398 tons, are still missing. children under

Moj harbour is being intensive- ly searched for any trace of the missing seamen.

fourteen unless

they are with their parents."

Fierce Hand-To-Hand

The rest of the crew of the ill-

Fighting In Sudan rescued by the Mako Maru while

KHARTOUM, Jaf. 15 (Reuter)—— udvantage brilliant

Or

After 11ere hand-to-hand tigh

fated vessel are safe. 13 men being

ten others swam ashore.

POLICE RESERVIST WOUNDED

An Indian watchman employed,

Taking moonlight, British troops, sup- ported by artillery, carried out strong night rald on prepared Itallan positions in the Gallabat it was alleged, by the Orient To- sector. of the Sudan-Abyssinia bacdo Macufactory, suddenly at- front

tacked and wounded. three per Total rainfall since Jan. I is 0.45 ing the British gained their ob- at Shanghai Street, at

sons, including a Police Reservist, about 8 inches against an average of 0.63.jectives

p.m. on Tuesday night, The Royal Observatory report

The alleged assailant was ax- states!

Iost 60 killed. British casualties rested by a Chinese detective. The anticyclone centred over were very alight. Manchuria has reached consider- British patrols are also

WASHINGTON, Jan, 15 (Reuter) able intensity, and, covers the tinuing strong pressure agains-The chief of the United States whole of China, Japan and the Italian positions in the Kassala public neighbouring seas.

Isector and further nortn.

"

It is estimated that the Italans

CON-

General Thomas Parraff-states

5.30 PM

Sun, 19th

5.00 PM

Tue. 21st

K.P.O.

Parcela

1.00 | M

Beg.

2,46 PM

Ord.

330 EM

GP.O

Parcels 1.00 Pi

Manila, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul, Australia and Reg.

New Zealand via Sydney. Haiphong

9.45 PM

Ord.

3.30 PM

3.30 PM

WEDNESDAY

Wed, 22nd

Reg

K.P.O.

5.00 PM Ord. 5.30 PM

G.P.O.

health service-Surgeon

en route for England in order to study health problems. He also Cantion mooted the possibility of making

that he is leaving on the Ameri- Air Mail for Manlia. Gnam, Honolulu, U.S.A., can liner Excalibur on Saturday Europe vla "Pan-American Airways and

Atlantic Services"...

and

Trans-Reg.

Ord.

3.00 7.00 PM

7.00 PM

THURSDAY

Thu, 23rd

an attempt to visit. Germany and Italy as well.

FPO.

Reg

5,00 PM

Ord

5.30 PM

CHUNGKING, Jan. 15 (Reuter)

G.P.O

5.00 PM

Ord.

6.00 PM 7,00 PM

Fri. 24th

3:30 PM

The Burmese. Government Mis-Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the Beg. |sian, which was expected in Chung-

"British. Overseas Airways.”

king today from Rangoon, did not strafts.

arrive this morning, there being

no aeroplane from Lashio today.

FRIDAY

During their stay in Chungking, Formora

the mission, is expected to discuss

SATURDAY

questions with the Chinese Govern- ment in connexion with communi-

Notice of appeal has been

lodged on behalf of Mrs. Florence

United Kingdom."

SUNDAY"

Adelaide Hall, American singer and favourite of London cabaret and music hall, discussing 'a' song with her accompanist, Gerry Moore, and announcer Gerry Wilmot, at a midnight rehearsal In

a BBC headquarters studio,

Bat. 25th GP.D.&KP.O. Par. 24th 50 pw

cations between Burma and China. Straits, Ceylon, Tudia, East and South Africa, and Beg: 28th 0.45 AM

Iris Oulda Ransom, 35, widow, who Sandakan, Madang, Balamaus, Rabaul and Tulagi was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy. Sanders Füher at Mat- field, near Tonbridge, on July 9.

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