1941-03-29 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

ANNUAL MEETING OF H.K. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

SIR A. MACGREGOR

BUSINESSMEN TO APPEALS TO

EMPLOY

SOCIETY-TRAINED BOYS, GIRLS

.. SPEAKING YESTERDAY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, the Chairman, His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor, remarked on the difficulties facing the Society in its attempts to find suitable employment for boys and girly in their charge who have completed their schooling.

"I have mentioned the extent to which the Society is able to ensure a sound education for the children under its care," Sir Atholl said "That however is not enough. It is most disheartening to find that when boys and girls leave school it is so difficult to find em- ployment for them.

"In such circumstances it takes During the year we have lost a very few months of aimless exist-most valued supporter in Mr. A. ence to undo very much it not in W. Hughes, who was always ready fact all of the good that the dis- both with advice and with finan- cipline of school life has conferred. cial help. To Mrs. Hughes and him we extend our thanks and our TO the businessmen of the Colony I appeal to apply to the cordial good wishes for health and Society whenever they have va- happiness in Australia.

cancles for beginners In clerical,

NEED FOR PREMISES"

office or outdoor work. We in turn The Society maintains a room in will undertake to do our utmost to Kowloon which is always occupied. send to them really suitable ap-It is our earnest hope that soon plicants."

CABLE

Group photograph taken after the wedding between Mr. Lee Chun-chung and Miss Lee Che-lan,-(King's Studio).

Yugoslavia Runs True

To Form Steed

Continued from Page i

we shall be able to get a house, convince Mr. Matsuoka that Japan in 1918 which brought into being

Sir Atholl MacGregor was in the jor at least a whole floor some- would do well to stand in with the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats

Won't some Germany and Italy.

and Slovenies and this was after- Chair, supported by Mrs. E. C. where in. Kowloon. Frederick (President), Mrs. C. W. charitable landlord come to our "Now that Yugoslavia is deter-wards known as Yugoslavia. Jeffries (Vice-Presidenti, Mrs. A. assistance with either a whole mined to defend her freedom and

AXIS INTRIGUE H. Compton (Hon. Treasurer), Mrs, house or a floor of a house? It independence against all threats In the meantime, German and H. F. Sommers (Hon. Secretary) I would be a gift of inestimable and pressure. Mr. Matsuoka, when Italian intrigue in the country and Mr. P. S. Cassidy.

|value.

he woke the next morning in Ber- continued and "King Alexander, Present also were Mrs. F. C. Hall; | My second appeal is a simpler lin may well have rubbed his eyes. who made himself a dictator was Mr. and Mrs. E W. Davies, Mrs." B. Jone. If the men of the Colony M. Grigor, Mrs. D., M. Richards, would only send all their discard- Mrs. Gross and Miss Elliatt

ed clothes to the Society instead

CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH

holl said, in part:-.

"

'DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLES "When I said that Yugoslavia

assassinated in 1934 through con- spirators whom Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini supplied with arms and King Peter the Second succeeded to the throne to rule through a regency headed by his

cousin, Prince Paul.

Mr. Steed declared that the Yu- goslavs made excellent soldiers. Their army was not as well equip- ped as the Greeks, but what they had done now had shown the world

(what a country determined in spirit

of giving them to their servants, was running true to form, one may ore of our great problems would well remember how true that form Addressing the meeting, Sir At-be virtually solved.

has been," continued Mr. Steed, and My last appeal is to the Gov. Went on to give a brief account of This nas manifestly been a year (ernment of the Colony. Govern- that country's history from the of unusual difficulties. Just wheniment gives us a generous annual/time that the Slovenes revolted! our plans for a concerted drive for donation and also lets us have the against the domination of the members and supporters had been use of our room In Ice House Turks. It was from that time that cut and dried, and the campaign. Street free of all charge. Un-the country had become the object judging from its early results, was fortunately however, the building of diplomatic struggles. assured of success, the evacuation in which that room is situated has In 1903, King Alexander was as to defend its freedom and indepen came, and the Society found itself been condemned; the room Issassinated by Serbians as the re-dence could do even without mo- so short of helpers that at one over-run with rats and is al-sult of a conspiracy tn which both time the room in Ice House Street together a far from pleasant place Russia and Austria had a band. "As Mr. Churchill said in Lon- could be opened only once a week, in which to work.

King Peter the First then came to don and Mr. Sumner Welles said: The last thing I want to suggest

May we express the hope that the throne and it was then that

in Washington," emtinued Mr is that our appeal has not been

in a the Serbians gained real indepen-Steed, "Yugoslavia could now count when any accommodation met generously,

King Peter had resisted government building in any simi-dence.

on their help if "they" decided to larly convenient locality is avail-pressure. He re-equipped his army defend their freedom with arms. On the contrary the response of able the services which the society and the Croats and Serbians then There may be severe trials ahead the public has been most hearten- renders to the poor of the Colony got together. ing, but we had hoped to be able will be recognised in the grant of to have money to do so much another room in which to carry on more and we realise that with war our work... raging over most of the world we 'cannot expect the same measure

HEARTENING RESPONSE

NORMAL GRANTS

adoption of In seconding the of generous public support that we

and accounts, Mr. always received in times of peace. the report.

the Our long range educational "po- P. S. Cassidy appealed to

normal licy

to "continue its Its Society manifestly proving worth, and I am proud once more grants toward the education of

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Charities"

The Germans had at that time feared that their road to the Near East would be barred by this and it was from that time, in 1508 that, the tarning point in the modern history of Europe began.

dern artus.

for Yugoslavia. Herry Hitler, has received the most serious rebuf from a people whom he thought he could bring into, submission.

"He will no doubt plan to stili gain, his object by crute force. And yet he may have cause to hesitate too. To strike at Yugosla. via now, with the watchful Greeks SERBS DETERMINED Austria-Hungary, with the help waiting for him and with. Tur- to acknowledge our deep sense of children it cared for and to the of the Germans was determined to key determined to oppose him gratitude and indebtedness to the public generally not to divert to crush Yugoslavia, but the Serbs might convince him that the risks Directors of the Schools which so!"War

money that were just as determined not to be are too formidable. have ordinarily gone, to crushed. In 1912, the Serblaus generously help us by concessions) would in the matter, of fees.

local charities.

Joined Bulgaria against the Turks. Austria koew of the aulance "and thought they would be defeated. But Serbia and the Bulgars defeat- ed the Turks and later the Serbs and the Greeks defeated Bulgaria. Germany therefore felt that Ser- bla had to be stopped and noly walted for a pretext. That pre- text came with the assassination at Sarajevo which brought on the last war.

China's Huge Expenditure

Relief

On

Between July, 1937, and December, 1948, a total of $78,591,- 845.98 was spent by the Chinese Government on relief of all forms to war refugees, according to the official statistics of the National Relief Commission. Of the total, $76,125,482.80 were spent in cash and materials to the refugees; $2,466,363.18 represented donations of the commission to charitable causes.

tributed.

1

MOVE SWIFTLY "Events may move swiftly in the next few days of the week," declared Mr. Steed, "Herr Hit- ier must consider the result, of a moral as well as a military failure to his plans. This Yu- goslavia stand' against Ger- many has now run like wild- fire through the Near and Middle East and will encour- age others not to give in to his threats.

Mr. Steed went on to recall the "What ever even Mr. Matsuoka events which led to the Serbian (may feel himself. Japan can hardly. retreat into the mountains of Al- be blind to the hitch in Herr Hit- bania, walle part of their army ler's programme. Taken all in all, withdrew, to Corfu and Tunis, ja further foral and material Meanwhile, Great Britain and triumph has been gained for us by France had sent an expeditionary the decision of these gallant people. brought Greece into the war on their day of freedom has not yet force to Salonika and M. Venetelos They must indeed feel that though

the allied side.

dawned, the night of darkness is An agreement was then reached gone."

Nazi Move In The Balkans The Balkans Delayed By Belgrade Coup

LONDON, Mar. 28 (Reuter)The revolt of the Yugoslav people. and armed forces under their young King against Nazi domina- tion and their own Quislings will have a profound effect on the -wilitary situation, writes Reuter's MIHtary commentator.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941. -PAGE

ALLSOPP'S

BRITISH

PILSENER BEER

A London police officer pointing out the destruction in St. Bride's, the fungus old Wren 'Church of the Journ- alists,' during a visit by Robert McCall (left), the Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Victoria, Aus- tralia, who has come to England to act as the BBC's Pacific Programme Organiser. With them is Colin Wills, the well-known Australian broad- caster, and Journalist,

Negligence Verdict

SEQUEL TO BUS ACCIDENT

Beer

RITISH

SOLE

AGENTS:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

Mr. Matsuoka Received By Hitler In New Chancellery

LONDON, Mar. 28 (Heuter)-Herr Hitler received Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, in the new Chancel-" lery, says the official German news agency. Besides Herr von. Ribbentrop, the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin (General Oshima), the German Ambassador in Tokyo (General Eugene Ott) and Herr Meissner, head of the Presidential Chancellery, were pre- sent.

Herr Doernberg, chief of the protocol, accompanied Mr. Mat- suoka from Bellevue Palace.

The agency adds that the Ber- lin population gave Mr. Matsuoka an "enthusiastic reception." A Htlar bodyguard rendered military.) honours in the Hall of Honour in. the Chancellery.

Manson Wins The Kowloon Marathon In

Close Finish

The meeting of Hitler and Mr. Matsuoka lasted two and a hair hours. According to the official

PTE P. MANSON, of the Royal German news agency, "all current questions were dealt with in an Scots, won the annual Kowloon atmosphere of cordial friendship. Marathon Race over a course of th males yesterday, about Ave« gorda "GREAT ALLIED POWERS

ahead of PTE. SHAW (Middlesex). There were 18 starters, all but one finishing. Cpl. Hobson, of Mid-

Wilhelm- After the meeting, a strasse

spokesman. said: "The principle of preventing an expan-

on of the war in accordance dlesex, well up with the leaders' at the half-way mark, had to retire with the Tripartite Pact was con- from the race after losing a shoe firmed."

This applied, he said, to the east on the Prince Edward Road stretch. Mrs. Wittenbach, wife of the as well as the west. Anyone en-

of Acting Vicar tering the war. must be regarded

St. Andrew's

as an enemy of the "great allled Church, gave away the prizes. The race, which was ru 10 the A "Powers."

Questioned by foreign journa- time yesterday, is an annual event of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Ltd. ists, the spokesman added: "It is organised by St. Andrew's Club.

The prizes for the first three to and a lorry of the United Delivery difficult to separate diplomatic

A motor accident involving a bus

ITALIAN ENVOY

17.

Co. Ltd., which occurred at the 15- from military affairs. Today's talk finish were donated by Sir Vande- mile post, Tsun Wan, on Dec. 10 covered the scope of the whole war leur Grayburn, Mr. N. V. A. Crou-

chez and Mr. F. C. Hall, respective last, resulting in five persons being against Britain.” killed, was recalled at the District Office South yesterday afternoon According to the Rome wireless, were-1. Pte. Manson (R. Scuta) 36 when Mr. S. F. Balfour, sitting as Mr. Matsuoka received the Italian mins. 45) secs., 2. Pte. Shaw (M'sex) Coroner, conducted an inquest Into Ambassador in Berlin yesterday, 36 mina. 471 seta... 3. Pte. Merton the death of Ho Kat and four They had a long and cordial con- others..

versation. It is stated.

The jury empanelled were Messra, A E M. Rafeek (Foreman), A. A. da Silva and C. H. V. Remedios.

Trafic Sub-Inspector A. R. Brit- tain was present for the Police.

LOST BALANCE

Chian Mat,

conductor of bus No.

746 gave evidence that on the day

$1 MILLION FOR RELIEF IN S. CHINA

in question when near the 15-me Dr. Quo Tal-chi, the Chinese poat, a female passenger lost her Ambassador in London, was the

balance as the bus was going round host at an Informal luncheon to

the bend and grabbed hold of the a party of foreign diplomats, and bell-cord. Scarcely had the bus British officials,

the ravine.

The times for the first four

(M'sex) 37, ming, 05 secs., 1. Sigmn. Lewis (R. Signals) 37 mins. (47) seca

The winning time was one of the poorest on record.

Yugoslavia United

Continued from Page 1 izens to renounce all demon- strations which may make, din-

restarted when he heard a scrap- Prominent among those present ing sound, and immediately after were the Belgian and Portuguese the bus skidded and rolled down Ambassadors, Lord Listowel, Pre-culty in our relations with our sident of the China Campaign 2eighbours with whom we destre Ho Tong, driver of lorry No. 2181, Committee, Sir Walter Layton of to remain in future on the same stated in evidence that when he the Ministry of Supply, Sir George peace terms and friendship as in saw that a collision was unavoid-Frankenstebi, former British Minthe past

The head of the Orthodox Later to Austria, Lady Layton, able he jammed on us vrakes.

Sub-Insp. Brittain said the driver Lady. Frankenstein, and Sir Ronald Church in Yugoslavia, in a stirring broadcast to the nation, approved of the bus, Tang Sang, had been Storrs, well-known "British histor" of the rebellion in the cause of

· During the same period, the sury further increased the fund of commission' received $79,062,582.95 the commission to $34,113,373.05 from the government and the in 1940, of which $34,085,651.80 public, of which $75,281,338.05 were were spent on relief: Contribu- appropriated by the national trea- tions during last year totalled sury and 83,781,244.90 were con- $1,465,626.80, of which: $764,802.70 were donated by the commission for various purposes. OVERSEAS DUNATIONS,

Of the 276,125,842.80 total given Between February, 1939 and in cash and materials to the re- December, 1940, the commission tugees. $26,462,895.42 were expend also received on behalf of the Ceded on emergency relief in the 44 trai China International Red months of the war. A "total of Cross Society contributions from $33,527,427.14, was spent on work- overseas Chinese in the Dutch East relief projects and on the educa- Indies amounting to a total of tion of war orphans. Air raid $31,584,709,97. This amount has rellet took $4,923,012.74, while been forwarded to the society, ac- $3,314,348,42 were

spent for the cording to the commissich.

migration and transportation of! The extent of war relief work refugees from the war zones to the and the change in the last two provinces. The Commission has The Nazi forces cannot use This would put a considerable German re- years from emergency relief to also spent $3,327,578.95 on medical Yugoslavia as a base for attacking increased strain on work-relief were shown by the work for refugees and war- Greece down the Vards Valley and sources, and moreover there is no greatly increased budgets of the orphans and on the purchase of this passage is now denied them certainty of success. commission in 1939 and 1940. In medical supplies up to the end of unless they are prepared to fight. First result of the new situa- the second half of 1937, the com-1940.

tion in Yugoslavia will probably mission received $4,300,000, from

The fighting will be severe and be to delay for several weeks at the government and $187,004,35 in contributions but spent only In addition to Chungking, Hong-German casualties will be heavy least, any German move in the $2,988,135.05. In 1938, the national Kong and Macao, every province in it they attempt force. The troops Balkans. treasury appropriated $5,904,000,

China, except the three north-east-they will have to meet and defeat and the public contributed $484,-ern provinces and the far north are brave, the country is mast 374.16 to the commissions. The western province of Sinklang was difficult, lending itself extremely total reller expenses that year benefitted by the commission's favourably to defensive operations fielt being met by the 1937 surplus severity of the war and natural General Staff now have to deal

· LONDON," Mat- 23 (Reuter). disasters, Huner, Hopel, Honan, with is either to carry through au Kwangtung and Kwangal received attack on a very restricted front Some activity by enemy aircraft The commission received $30.- more monetary rellet than other against Greece down the Struma the coastal regions during day-ly injured 963,985.00 from the government provinces. In the last three years, Valley, with a subsidiary advance light yesterday is reported in an and $1,843,839.79 from contribu- the commission spent $1,933,384.35 perhaps down the Mesta Valley, or AIY Ministry communique. WAL tions in 1939. It spent $30,954,- for relief work in Chungking, and bring up considerably larger forces Single aircraft in the morning 646.20, on Tellef and donated $384,276.40 in Hongkong and for a simultaneous attack on dropped bombs In a south-east $1,581,560.48. The national trés- Macao:

Yugoslavia as

coast town Houses were damaged

SINKIANG BENEFITTED

¡for it.

amounted to 38,097,049.65, the de-reller activities. Because of the The situation which the Naz

EXPENSE ON BELIEF

Slight Enemy Activity In Coastal Regions

national liberty.

RESIGNATION

TEXT

charged with manslaughter but it fan-(Central News) | was decided by the Crown to amend the charge to careless driving. The ACKNOWLEDGMENT driver had, forfeited ball of $500

The text of the resignation of The Honourable Director of Prince Paul and his co-Regents, and warrant had been issued for his arrest

Medical Services gratefully ack addressed to King Peter, reads: The jury returned a verdict of nowledges the receipt of a gift of "Realising how well founded” are "death by accident due to negll-185 pairs of clogs for the Po Leung the reasons which have prompted gence in driving of the driver of Kuk children in Ma Tau Chung you to take over the royal powers bus No. 746 of the Kowloon Motor Camp from the Yee Fung Bene at this dimcuit moment for our volent Bociety through Mr. Tam people, the Regents hereby place Tran, Chairman of the Society in their powers at your disposal":

Bus Co. Ltd"

bat nobody was killed or serious question.

In the early afternoon an mir- craft, dropped bombs on a south Avenue, repor const district, causing a number of trousers, valued casualties, including several people stolen from killed, and damage to buildings Thursday.

The death occurred on March 10, Mr. H, Overy, of No. 3, Minden at 40, Echigo-Cho Dairen, of pair of Donald Charles Anton, aged 15-

was years, second son of Mr. and Mrs. 1. A Clark, or the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, Dai