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EDITORIAL

"Taffrail" Describes Life And Work On A British

Submarine

However hideous their task they have never flinched and never will. Our hearts go out to them and their re- cords deserve to be written in pure gold," said CAPT. H. T: ("TAFFRAIL") DORLING, D.S.O., R.N. (RETD.), when he described life and work on British submarines in a broadcast from London yesterday.

SPLENDID LAST

CONCERTTM

H.K, Schools' Musical

...Association

The Hongkong Schools' Musica) Association gave their last concert

or the current season yesterday Jevening at La Salle College, an at- tendance of more than 600, the

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1941.

"

HOME FOR AGED POOR

· AT KOWLOON CITY

Recent Visit Described: Happiness Is Keynote

BY A STAFF REPORTER

In these days of high cost of living, profiteering and

spoke of how a British sub-that this was a peculiar experience, contribution to a programme of 16 golden axiom for this day and age is survival of the At the outset, Capt. Dorling An officer had told Capt. Dorling majority schoolboys and schoolgirls, racketeering, when the thoughts of the great majority of receivi enthusiastically every people are concerned with how to make ends meet, the

NOTICE is hereby given that TENDERS for DOLLARS

the Seventeenth Annual Ordinary current in this Colony, for tele General meeting of Shareholders graphic transfer, on the Lords of China Underwriters, Limited, Commissioners of His Majesty's will be held at the Offices of the Treasury, London, up to and for company, A. Des Voeux Road

but in such circumstances the Bri- the sum of £150,000. will be Central, Hong Kong, on Wednes with

tish sailor was at his best. It pro- a U-boat" within four vided the most excellent tonic received by the Treasury Chest day the Fourth day of June, 1941, minutes after the declaration and these men could never Officer, Command Pay Office, at посп for the purpose of of war in Sept., 1939. until 10.15 a.m. on the 27th receiving the Report of the Board May, 1941.

tenders for

marine

came into contact

ون

be

men

items.

Fourteen of the items were con-

fittest."

tributed by the younger folk of. Individuals, industrial con- sisters for giving them a haven of the schools, but on the programme cerns, churches and chari- refuge at the time when such a also were Mrs, G. A. Goodban and table institutions all prefer to refuge was most needed in their Mr. J. R. M. Smith, in a two-piano put their trust in a substan- old age. They were also full of gratitude for the treatment re- rendition of three Chinese songs tial banking account or received at the hands of the Good proved the most popular number of serve funds or endowment Mother and her 20 assistants who, the evening.

funds, as the case might be.

OUTSTANDING EXCEPTION

duet, and Miss Pauline Chow, whose

LOUDEST APPLAUSE Edmund Lum, of King's College,

An outstanding exception to this

beaten. NO. NOISE

SPECIALLY CHOSEN of Directors and a Statement of

Capt. Dorling" said that During the day the British sailors for The tenders to state the total Accounts for the year ended 31st

submarines were specially played cards occupied amount (in pounds sterling) December, 1940, and of electing time with their privace the chosen and very few of the

cers were over 30 years of age: No telegraphic transfer will be Directors and Auditors.

There was no noise except the They received special treatment made for less than £100, butį The Transfer Books" and volees of the

men talking. And;

in the way of food, such as tinned this went on watch after watch sums above that Register of Members of the unt the night care. In high "seas soup and so forth, which did not. amount to suit the convenience Company will be closed from the the submarine rolled and pitched appear in the normal naval ration. and David King. of St. Stephen's general conception of the human Referring to minefields, Capt Boys College, both planists, were power to obtain for itself all ma- of the tenderers will be cons! 28th May, 1941, to the 4th June, just like an ordinary steamer.

Dorling recalled one instance accorded the loudest applause by an terialistic requirements was found dered,

1941, both days inclusive.

The officers, muffled up to the eyes in woollens and oliskins, had of a submarine. There was a heavy matter of hand-clapping and up-

where a mine was 20 feet in front audience charitable to all in the by a Hongkong Daily Press re- to keep a sharp lookout. What explosion, and a sheet of dame 50 roariously excited when they really, ever happened, they must sight feet high. The bow was damaged felt pleased, which state of mind the enemy first as this was

hut to a surprisingly small ex-seemed to have occurred more than natter of life, and death,

tent. A sailor lay asleep in his once in what was rather a lengthy hammock not far away from where programme.. sub-the explosion occurred.

The French Convent's Choral

The tenders to be in duplicate, and in, sealed covers, addressed to. the Treasury Chest Officer, Com mand Pay Office, and endorsed 'Tenders for Government Bills, etc."

The right is reserved (1) to. accept or reject any or all of the tenders, and, in particular (2) in case of equality of rate between lenders amounting in all to more than the total sum required, to give preference to any tenders received from Government in stitutions or from the bankers to the Treasury Chest.

Copies of Forms of Tender can he had on application.

..

for

Persons tendering (Bills) are hereby notified that, having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52 the acceptance of any Tender is subject to the express condition that in Member of

Buch

By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT,

Managing Director.

Hong Kong, 24th May, 1941.

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HONGKONG, May 27, 1941.

was an

2

MATTER OF COURSE

"

One of the inmates.

though daughters of rich familles,. gave up all their worldly posses- sions to minister to the needy.

Not one of the 281 inmates are under any obligation" to do any work. If they felt so in- clined they could idle away every hour of the day and "night--but none of them, ex- "cept the sick, ever thought of

doing so.

FOUNDRESS' INJUNCTIONS

Asked how the large sum needed to keep the Home going daily was obtained, the GOOD MOTHER smilingly replied: "Ey begging." She then went on to explain that the ORDER OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, founded: by a French servant gir!, JEANNE JUGAN, In 1839. rules cut the ac- cumulation of funds or acceptance One of of guaranteed incomes. the Foundress' injunctions to the followers are "TO BE POOR, TO

EVERYTHING

ONCE IN 19 HOURS Capt. Dorling told of one marine which had an attack and British submarines operated in Group was the best received of counter-attack and in 19 hours & very extended area right to the about half-a-dozen on the pro- she came to the surface once far north where there is 21 de-gramme. contributing "Aloha De" again after three grees of frost and ice accumulates with paino and guller accompani- and dived minutes. The commander forgot on the upper deck. Even with ment. the number of the enemy's depth glycerine it was hard to keep the Others on the programme were or-conning tower ever ready for a Mcllé Lok and Ip Kam-kum (St. ganised sweepstake on board as sudden dive,

Stephen's Girls College in plano to the number of depth charges.

solos. Kenneth Ho Diocesan Boys Another submarine had remained Men on submarines required the School) in a violin solo, Alice and under the surface for 43 hours greatest endurance, patience and Emily Yue (Maryknoll Convent) In with only a three-minute break. courage but all this was taken as a plano duet. Violet Chan and porter on, a recent Saturday after-HAVE NOTHING TO EXPECT,

Yes, another submarine dived 45 a matter of course. It was only Jenny Wong (Diocesan Girls Schoo!) noon when curiosity prompted him' AND hours on end with a break of men ilke these who knew what it in plano selos, Mimi Leung (Sacred to visit the HOME FOR THE AGED, FROM GOD." seven minutes

surface. felt like being in a submarine. Heart School) in a piano solo, Mul POOR AT KOWLOON CITY." Tals was during the Norwegian When the target was in sight one Foo-kel and Hut Ying-gun (Dioce- .The massive iron gates at Cus-) campaign in the summer when heard only the hum of moving san Boys School) a plano duet, toms Pass Road were opened by: the nights were very short.

machinery: the men in Control and choral groups from the Heep one of the aged inmates-whose Capt. Dorling said that when positions spoke in hushed whispers Yunn School, the Diccesan Girls 88e might have been anything be- travelling in a submarine it requir and only the captain knew- what School. St. Stephen's Girls College, tween 60 and 75-and the visitor

when nerves of steel

you was going on,

St. Joseph's College and the Ying found himself on a covered path. ship heard the propellor of a

Recalling a bright sunny day Wa Girls' School. overhead and depth charges ex-in the North Sea, Capt. Dorling ploding nearer and nearer. The said that a submarine, after ma-

ed

on

the

of and hundreds

2

submarine was 250 fees below the noeuvring into position, fred

miles torpedo at a U boat. The latter! surface away from home. Water may seep rose 200 feet in the air and there through the rivets on the side and were no survivors only 2

wonder what will happen patch of oil, a dead body and you

11tebelt.

NEWSETTES

on each side of which is semi-cul- tivated land, leading up to a flight of steps where a Sister of the Poor stood smiling a welcome!"

AXIS ANXIETY the British House of Commens THE SMOKE OF BATTLE on widely separated fronts shall be admitted to any share -in the Atlantic, over Bri- or part in or to any benefit to

tain, in Crete, on the "Libyan arise from the Contract thereby desert, in Abyssinia and, in a next. made for the allotment of such less degree, in Syria and Iraq (Bills)."

-has proved ineffective in "The provisions in question concealing the deepening power of the Axis Powers, and clude the western shores of do not apply to Contracts en anxiety with which the Axis their supporters. As believers the African Continent? Will Kowloon Hospital suffering from tor's wish to make a tour of the

its

N. FORDE, Colonel, R.A.P.C.

Treasury Chest Officer, His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME

COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

..

States

Sister went in search of the GOOD MOTHER.

On asking for the GOOD MOTHER—as the MOTHER SU- PERIOR is called--the visitor was Mr. large

1. George, No. Terrace

shown into a plainly furnished a Building, Kimberley Road, has

reported that whilst he was driving room and asked to wait while the along Castle Peak Road towards Tsun Wan about 3 p.m. on Satur- day, he knocked down a 10-year old boy who was admitted to the slight head injuries.

The Cheng Tien Pao, America-

News).

¡ine Government

a

(Central

to

After a short Interval, the Good Mother and her principal assistant arrived and, on learning her visi-

RECEIVE.

"And." added the Good. Mother with a smile, "God has never failed us our supporters still come to our aid even in these hard times. BUT WE MUST BEG EVERYDAY, Four' of the Sisters go out every day to beg for those old people who are too old to beg for them" selves as Jeanne Jugan beg- ged for those poor old aban- doned women who were given refuge in her simple rooms in 1839,"

The beautiful chapel.

Home was seen by the large at-peal for a donation was made- directly or indirectly to visitors |tendance at the Benediction and to the Home.

the number of persons who make use of the Chapel every day,

Leaving the Chapel, the ttle party next visited the buliding used as men's bedrooms. In every one

VARIETY SHOW TOMORROW

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tered into by any incorporated Powers are looking towards in the cause and principles of he repeal the Neutrality Act

Home.. promptly consented to Company in corporated the immediate future.

are New democracy, those who

permit American ships to

satisfy his curiosity, capacity and made for the factors are slowly emerging fighting for their preserva-enter combat zones for the

SIMPLICITY AND BEAUTY general benefit of the Com as the field of hostilities tion and for those who have purpose of taking supplies to owned Chinese dally in Shanghai,

The first place visited was the pany.**

widens fresh developments been ruthlessly placed under Britain? Will be order the which was ordered by the Shang- are steadily maturing and the tyrannous yoke of the American Navy to

hal Municipal Council to suspend Chapel which, constructed in 1933 escort

for two weeks for publishing a re- on, the exact site of an ancient taking definite shape to Totalitarian system, are con-American convoys which are port regarding the "Lone Batta-Chinese pagoda, was consecrated create further obstacles in vinced that whatever action to transport war materials on internment camp has resum- by the RT. REV. H. VALTORTA. the path of the aggressionists, is taken by the head of the and equipment to Great Bri-ed publication, according to The simplicity and beauty of its

design it will all tending to support the United

beltain and her allies?"

dispatch,

and interior decorations And, Shanghai

Anyone who might be interested and -furnishings, including the view that, though the Axis whole-heartedly supported by finally, will the President ask

three altars given by MR. J. Menough in the work of this band of "GOD'S CHILDREN" to pay Powers are gaining victorles, the great majority of the the nation to accept a de- Newspapermen in Kwellin have ALVES. was most striking. That the Home a visit could be assured 271 they are losing the war. Most liberty-loving" peoples of that claration of war by America beer. cheered by a message from the inmates appreciate this sen- of a most cordial welcome. No ap-

of these new factors and champion of democracy, on the Axis Powers? None of Generalissimo Chiang

erosity of the supporters of the Kai-shek developments are concerned Every step taken so far by these questions can be cor-commending them for their entnu. with the policy of the United the American Government to rectly answered, but it is ad-siastle efforts in raising funds for States and it is across the At-help Britain and her allies mitted that the reply to any the purchase of a gift plane lantic that the Axis partners was taken, not arbitrarily, but of them will bring the United are directing uneasy glances. [with the full consent of the States closer to participation

Sir Showson Chow, Chairman of Bitter attacks against the nation as a whole. Every in the hostilities than she has the Chinese "Wartime Bonds Coin of these rooms were two rows of head of the American nation question was fairly placed be-ever, been. With that closer mittee m. Hongkong has sent iron bedsteads donated by the and the most lying propagan-fore the American public and approach to actual participa- reply to Generalissimo Chiang Kai- HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA A variety entertainment, ar- IN THE GOODS of da is being launched by those no undue influence was ever tion in the war, the Axis shek who wrote him recently com- DOCK with multicoloured bed ranged and compered by David JAMES DUKE MONRO: who have cause to fear the exerted to carry it through. Powers will find their difficul-urgtig him to do his best to pusti be added. sre made from small Sallors Home and Seamen's In- mending his patriotic efforts and spreads. These spreads, it might Kassick, will take place at the late of 44 Murrayfield trend of policy in the United Every measure to fulfil the ties considerably increased the sale of the N.C.81,200,000,000 pieces of cloth samples given to stitute, Gloucester Road, at 9p.m. Avenue Edinburgh and of States in an attempt to American promises to help and they too will soon realise Military Supply Bonds in the the Home by various import firms, tomorrow. All Servicemen Whitslade, Broughton. Pee.

placate their own troubled those who. were resisting that, while gaining victories,, Colony blesshire in the Kingdom of minds and those of their peo-, Axis aggression steadily in- 'they are getting perilously Scotland, deceased.

ple. With these acts of vili-creased ht strength and de-, close to losing the war: fication

Power Company, who is the son of ing room, carpentery, garden, sick. are taking part including, the fol- are coupled dire termination until today the

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Liverpool, room and the laundry, were all lowing: Freddy Archer, Les Gib- NOTICE IS HEREBY threats and hints of terrible United States stands on the

was married to Miss Weinberg, the visited. In all these rooms the son, Tommy King, "Mysto" the GIVEN that the Court has by consequences in order to in-border-line of making an FIRING PRACTICE daughter of Mrs, Y. Foox, at the same degree of neatness. tidiness Memory Man, Stanley Hinchliffe, virtue of Section 58 of the Protimidate public opinion in even graver

and greater

British Consulate-General, pan and air

"Scotch" a man of lines both of contentment WAS Light, gun firing practice. Will be hal on bates Ordinance 1897, made au America from taking the step decision.

May 17. The witnesses noticed,

spoken and drawn, Maude Deacon. carried out tomorrow hetween the were Mrs. L. Stanley Smith and Order limiting the time for which it is expected the coun- IT IS in this attitude of

In the men's section is a small A. D. Spoors and his partner Bill... hours of 6. p.m. and midnight. Firing Mr. C Riler.

Doxford, Doris Shields, Wil creditors and others to send in try will take to reinforce the anxiety on the part of the Areas "D" and "E" will be affected.

plot of land made sacred by the four LITTLE SISTERS OF THE Knight. John Gilchrist, Elvie Yuen, their claims against the above forces which are opposing Axis Powers and expectancy Firing practice, as under, is noti-

The death occurred on May 14, POOR who were barted there.

Gertrude Goddard, Miži – Glover, estate to the 14th day of June, the aggressors.

on the part of those who opined for Thursday:—

at The Pautan Hospital, Shanghal,

Ian Heath, Maude Minale Mather and Johnny Stark an artiste, new ON THEIR SIDE, those who pose them that the world!

(a) Reserved between the hours of Arthur Antonio dos Remedios, (Formerly of the Chinese Customs

In the women's section the same to Hongkong audiences. ALL creditors and others, are have withstood the brutal awaits the. vital pronounce of 9 a.m. and 4 pm. for heavy anti-Maritime Bervice), aged 53 years, neatness, tidiness and content was Stage management, is in the Old women were seen hands of Monty Ditton assisted by accordingly hereby required to onslaught of the Axis warment which President Roose-aircraft practice in the westers A Requiem Mass was held at the apparent.

machthe and who are still velt is expected to make to-area of the Island as alternative Church of Christ the King. Kue helping in making up the hun-Les Barker, and the programme is gallantly meeting every fresh day. Speculation is, of course, date for similar practice detalled

Bourgeat, on May 19, and was fol- dreds of padded jackets needed for varied and snappy.. blow delivered at them are rife as to what the head of for May 22 and 23, 1941.

assisting in joining together the affected.

1941.

send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Mr. R. Taylor, of the Shanghai

jao Cemetery.

and including MESSES. JARDINE, MA- Merchant seamen are cordially in- THESON & CO., LTD...

vited, admission being free.

Many well-known local artistes The men's; dining-rooms, smok-

WOMEN'S SECTION

Dated the 19th day of May, looking with increasing con- the American nation will tell! Firing Areas "D" and " will be lowed by Interment at the Pahsten the cooler months; others were

fidence: across the Atlantic. his people and the world. So (b) Light gun practice between

1941.

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER. Solicitors for the Executors,

Hongkong & Shanghai Bauk Building, Hong Kong.

Their confidence is based on far the President has kept his nours of 6 pm, and 12 midnight. their strong belief that the intentions carefully guarded Firing Areas "D" and will be date for similar practice detalled people of that great land of except from those who are affected.

for May 22 and 23. 1941. Firing practice, as under, is not1- Firing Areas "D" arid "E" will, be liberty and freedom have most closely associated with

affected. voluntarily pledged them-him. Will the President de-ned for Friday:

(a) Reserved between the hours (b) Light gun practice between selves to preserve the founda-mand the extension of the of 9 am, and 4 pm for heavy and the hours of 6 pm and midnight. tions of civilisation which are Monroe Doctrine to cover the aircraft practice in the western Firing Areas "D" and "E" will be 258 threatened by the lust for Eastern Atlantic and to in-area of the Island as alternative affected.

pieces of samples and making them MINISTRY OF FOOD into inside garments for the in-

mates; while yet others were either The newly-created Ministry of kiltting, walking about the place Food, with Mr. Hsu Kan as Minis- or enjoying a quiet smoke in the ter. will formally commence func- smoke-room.

tioning on June" 1. "Everywhere the visitor, went he The paper adds that the National was greeted with "TIEN CHU PO Food Control Board, which will be YAU LI":(God Bless Youj,{ superseded by the new Ministry, 'is' Everyone to whom he spoke ex-winding up its affairs (Centrál pressed deep gratitude to the Little News))...