1941-02-24 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

EMERGENCY MEDICAL PLANS FOR SINGAPORE

Singapore's emergency medical plans were outlined to vôl- cers and N.C.0, of the St. John Ambulance Brigade by the Director of Medical Services, Dr. R. B, MacGregor, at a meeting at the A.R.P, Headquarters recently in Singapore,

"I want you to realise that the position must be taken seriously. All of you can see what may happen In the next month or so, and now is the time that you have "got to put your training into practice, and get down to the question of putting the organisation on a working basis," Dr. MacGregor. declared

Dr. MacGregor announced that reasonable. "legal obligations fifty improvised ambulances would | futil.

BRITAIN'S TEA

PURCHASING

PROGRAMME

FINANCE & GENERAL

AMERICAN YOUTHS IN CHUNGKING- AFTER LONG ORDEAL IN SOVIET

CHUNGKING. Feb. 7-Bitter and disillusioned, two young Ame- rican mechanics today recounted to the United Press how a life of LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter)-Bri- plenty which they had hoped to live in the "Russian worker's tain is to buy 487,000,000 lbs. of tea paradise" turned out to be four years of wretched existence in Sibë- (during 1941, according to announce-rian prison camps.

ment made by the Ministry of | The mechanics. Peter and Johr to escape from there and by sheer Food yesterday,

Stefaniak. brothers, arrived here luck no one ever questioned them Wednesday night from their Rus- until they reached Sinklang on stan odessey. They are from Cum-July 25, 1937 bola. Pennsylvania.

The main purchases would be: India. 272,000,000 lbs: Ceylon, 138,- 000.000 lbs: Dutch East Indies. 48, to 000,000 lbs; British East Africa,

27,000,000 lbs. The balance wi

be ready for service in Singapore These obligations, Dr. MacGreor (come from small tea, producing town, while arrangements for in- continued, were to turn up when countries. creased reception facilities were ever required, and to remain on being made at all the three hospi-duty as long is required. tals to deal with any big rush of cases during emergency.

"In addition to the ambulances. we want at least 100 private” cars,"" Dr. MacGregor kaid. "We want the cars, first of all, to bring the staff to their places of duty and then to go out along with the am- bulances to collect the wounded and then to the aid posts or has pitals, and eventually to take the staff home."

Dr. MacGregor announced a re-arrangement scheme to bring the ambulance brigade out of the "training stage into the stage of being ready for active operations.

tenders are now being called for in Empire countries. "

But in Sinklang, they also spent LEFT HOME 1986

most of the time in prison. Arrest- They said they left their home ed at Aksu by Russian agents, the town of Cumbola on July 19, 1936, brothers were shackled together. went to Alaska and crossed the land escorted to Urumchi where: A provisional agreement has al-Bering strait in an Eskimo boat they spent 27 months. In Urumchi, ready been reached on the pur-

three months later,

they were placed in different cells. chase from the Dutch Indies and

After setting foot on Asia, they They hardly saw each other until vere immediately held by OGPT July 9th, 1940, when they were re- (Russian secret police) agents as leased. They said they almost "American spies." They were im- could not recognize each other The Ministry states that the buy-prisoned in the city of Petrovolosk when they were freed. ing programme was drawn up after Kanchatka, for one month and full consideration of the needs of 'were later taken to Vladivostok.

QUESTIONED" OFTEN The service is to be organised as our markets and the desirability where they spent one month in a service of

part of Government medical of maintaining the equilibrium in cold prison. They spent another toned by a Russian officer named shall be provided wholly or in pert Empire and Allied countries.

the Settlement, and the tea producing industry in the six months in prison at Habarovsk. Stupkin while they were at Urum- by units of the Brigade or by in- dividuals of the Brigade.

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With these obligations there were also certain privileges, he added, such as compensation if injured while on active ser- vice, payment for transport expenses, and etc.

Dr. MacGregor also announced

near;

to work."

They said they were often ques-

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The brothers said their case was chi. However, they were never tor- brought to Moscow for decision. tured. With them in that prison Moscow decided to send them to were numerous suspected Chinese. prison in Alma Ata, outside Sin-

Russians, that he had been authorised to who are dependable, who will not lang. They said they travelled in a

Turks, Mongols and Koreans. say that members of the Medical be scared if bombs begin to drop prison train for three weeks and Auxillary Service could begin |

Sinkiang authorities deported making arrangements immediately

and who are prepared to reached Alma Ata on May 30, 1937. them to singsingchia, Kanku pro learn thoroughly the geography for their children

vince, where their shackles were to be looked of the region in which they have

GIVEN HALF-FREEDOM after during the hours when they were on duty.

Given half-freedom, they were at Ansi while awaiting orders to taken off. They spent five months exiled to a small industrial town proceed. While there, they took In the Manpower Bureau, he Dr. MacGregor then explained sald,

tubinsk, where they were not al-health. women who had volunteered to posts and first aid depots.

lowed to leave the city limits and look after other people's children. He also announced that ar-were forced to work as Common At least 30 of these volunteers rangements had already started labourers although they were both had offered to take children into whereby private practitioners mechanics their houses as well

would be enrolled to carry out The brothers sald life in Octub Turning to the question of duties of an aid post doctor. insk was very hard as food and was of Polish origin. John is 29-Plans for the organisation of was a branch of the Passive De- transport. "Dr. MacGregor, in ap- The response to this, he declar-clothes were rare and their wage and Peter is 27. Their father is large corporations, for the deve of his visit, declared he would fence Services. Members of this pealing for the need of 100 cars ec, had been satisfactory.

was low. But they soon managed now In Shillbrook, Sask., Canada, lopment of the résources fo Yurinan į call on General Chiang Kai-shek special service will have certain at least; also appealed for drivers!

To bring about this, he said, Passive Defence. Services regula tions have been published by which the St. John Ambulance Brigade is brought into the re- gular Government system for dealing with casualties.

LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

He also referred to the Medical Auxillary Service, which he sald

WAR RISKS SCHEME FOR

COLONY

A supplement to the Government Gazette published in Singapore gives detalls of the Defence (In- surance of Goods) Regulations 1941, which will come into force on any date the Governor may fix.

Goods insurable under these re- gulations are listed The supple- ment states that the Governor in Council may by notification in the Gazette put into operation scheme whereby the Board of Man- agement of War Risks under takes, in relation to persons carry-

there were

deburg 6 the personnel and work of the aid on the Ural mountains called Oc-sun baths daily and rexained the

MAYOR FEARS

HUNGER STRIKES AND MARCHES

"Profiteering" In Tea Coupons

There would, be hunger marches and hanger strikes if the Govern ment did not intervene and put a step to profiteering in tea coupons, remarked Mr. W. Dahanayake. Mayor of Galle, at a meeting of those interested in the tea indus- try.

Mr. Dhanayake, who presided at ing on business in the Colony as the meeting, stated that about sellers" of goods, the liabilities of 5,000 labourers employed on tea insuring such persons against war estates in the Galle District had risks.

lost their jobs as a result of the

An insurance fund will be esta- rise in price of tea coupons. blished into which shall be paid If the State did not intervene, all sums received by way of pre- Mr. Dahanayake added there was mlums and fees under the scheme. the possibility that about 10,000

NEW FISH FOUND IN

JAVA WATERS

Fish, as well as rice, is a staple

food in the Netherlands East In-

more men would lose their billets...

In the course of the discussion that followed, suggestions were made by Messrs. W. J. E. Silva, A. I H. Abdul Wahab, Thomas Am- arasuriya. G. D. Jayasundera. N. Abeygocnewärdena and C. W Goonewardena,

The meeting passed a resolution urging the immediate introduction

dles, and for several years there of legiblation to control the prices have been, efforts to make the of tea coupons.

country self-supporting in respect The meeting also submitted a of its fish supply. At present memorandum to the Acting Minis- about 50,000 tons of dried and ter of Agriculture and Lands salted fish are imported annually. equal to about fresh fish.

120,000 tons

A new variety of fish has been found in Java, called "ikan moedjair." It may pos sibly prove to be of the same importance to Java as the "ikan sepat slam" has come to be for Celebes, thanks to the Initiative of a Government official in 1937,

MEMORANDUM

of The memcrandum makes the

following suggestions:

This official achieved almost a

The exporter should not be a- lowed to buy coupons as he pur- chases his tea with/the, coupons and there is no necessity for him to buy more coupons.

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A coupon bank should be estab. lished, and coupons credited to, the accounts of estate owners, as suggested by the Legal Secretary. The amount of coupons a pro-

$0

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miracle. He transferred about 50 ducer should possess and purchase small flah from a pond to Lake should not exceed the amount of Tempe in Southern Celebes, and his assessment.

exports of dried and salted fish

from this district amounted toy to small-holders only,

Coupons may be issued persona

30,000 kilograms in 1937, and

to

The Controller should be em-

more than two million kilograma powered to restrict the validity of

In 1939.

'distributed among a

coupons of each issue, as in the

As a result of the floods in 1939 case of rubber coupons the small "kan cepat slam" was bumber of other lakes, rivers and ponds in; Southern Celebes,

where they

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125

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Cements

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up-

387

14% Loap

$941

$95

2+% 陣

(1934).

(1940).

That coupona in respect of low- country, mid-country and country estates be differentiated, rapidly increased. The fishing in and no transfer be allowed from

dustry there is steadily growing, one class to another.

Native fishermen are making good!

profits and the fishing-feet in

"Southern Celebes has been rescued The export of binoculars

from a serious plight.

MALAY "MOVIES”

or

ether similar optical instru- ments prohibited except by

Talking of self-supporting in- licence under the hand of the dustries, the Malay moving pic-Controller of Trade on an officer tures are also on the way to in- of his department.

dependence. A studio will shortly be

opened in Malang, a hill-station in

East Java, where first class educa

tional Malay films are to be pro-near future. A company has been

duced.

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They travelled by camel" and

truck from Ansi until their arrival

here.

The brothers said their father

and they have a sister in Dear- born. Michigan.

S'PORE MAGNATE IN CHUNGKING.

and Fukien were revealed yester-

Boon-haw, wealthy Chinese · pa- tent medicine manufacturer, from (Reuter) Singapore,

YUNNAN RESOURCES day after the arrival of Mr. Aw

DEVELOPMENT CHUNGKING, Feb, 23

"

Mr. Aw, explaining the purpose

отет-

and pay his respects, report an

CURIOUS TO SEE

became familiar with the Russian conditions of Chinese overseas," underworld.

economic study

conditions The brothers'said they made the

Despite their many years in pri-China and encourage investment trip to Siberia because they were son, the brothers looked healthy in Free Chiria by Chinese curious to see the "freedom and and strong. They spoke English seas. prosperity" in Russia about which with a strong Russian accent. They

Yunnan A $30,000,000

Chinese they read so much in books when learned Chinese in Urumchi. Overseas Development Corpora- they were in the United States.

They said they planned to see tion was at present under organ- "Now we have seen it and it the American embassy here this istion, while another corporation. almost cost our lives," one of the afternoon to see where we stand." known as the Fuklen Chinese brothers said. They said they were They said they have no plans to Overseas Development Corpora- disappointed when they saw no-stay here long. They claimed that tion, was also under organisation. thing but poverty and lack of tree they have been treated well since which would concentrate on land dom. They added that they also they entered China proper. reclamation projects.

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