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Benefits For Naval Men

Increases Granted

In Allowances

An Order in Council published in the London Gazette auctions an in- crease train is. 6d. to is, 10d, of the allowance payable to commissioned officers from warrant rank and to wurrant officers when messing in the wardroom, in respect of the differ- ence in mess subscription.

An Order In Council ganctions the payment of an allowance of 15. a day

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gunnern, commissioned gunners, gunners (T), and commissioned gun- nera (T) performing the dun! duties of gunners and gunners (torpedo) in destruyers of running follas, while ao employed. The allowance has re- Trospective effect from April 1, 1938.

Admiralty Fleet Orders give detalis of increases in Uit rates of allowances to men of the Navy for the upkeep of their kit, to come into force on all Until the War the stating on July 1,

nilor End to maintain his uniform at his own expense, but a kit upkeep allowance was granted in 1917 und

10 han been in force ever since. credited to the accounts of the men quarterly

£5 10%.

Men in

The new rate for chef petty of cers, ond petty officers wearing the spect uniform of the rating (class 111 dress with gift buttons) is 26 199. Men a year, compared with £0 14%. dressed in class 11 uniform, that in.

will as oramen,

receive compared with £5 89. your class III uniform (jacket and peaked cap) will receive £6 12a, compared Ratings in sub- with £6 Us. 4.

Additional marines will receive m 10. 4. in the seaman, signal, and telegraphist branches and 12, 4d, in other brunches. A number of other allowances in respect of clothing are olso increased, and revised issuin prices of clothing, soap, and tobacco are also to be brought into force on July 1.

The surveyinų? ship Challenger, Commander E. ii, B. Batter, is order ed to return to Portsmouth about June it. She is at present employ- ed in the West Indies, and left Ber- muda on May 9 for St. Kis.

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NOTICE.

Non-payment of Water Accounts,

Excesa water and meter rental accounts are posted to the person who signed the Form "G" guaran- teeing payment. This person 18 gonerally the landlord or his recognized agent.

In many instances inconveni- ence is caused to tenants by the water supply being disconnected without warning to them, owing to the failure of the gunrantor lo pay the accounts within the speci- fied period. Tenants are, there- fore, advined to make suitable arrampements with their Inndlords to ensure that all water and meter rental acconuts are paid promptly. Changes of ownership of pro- be notified Im- should perty mediately to this Offee.

RM. HENDERSON,

Water Authority. Public Works Department, long Kong 4th June, 1938.

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OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A

SHIP'S NAME.

I, A. E. M. RAFEEK of 118, Cuine toad, Hongkong, hereby give notire that in consequence of re-registration I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Sec- tion 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of the Steam H.M.S. Seal is to be launched at Bunch "CHI ON" of Hongkong,

September.

Ofcial number 152427 of grose Luid down in December, 1936, she is tonnage 64.52 tons, register the last of the six mineloying sub-tounage 43,888 tons, (new gross marines of the Porpoise class, four of

tonnage 61.19 tons. which have been completed and are

register now serving, the Porpoise and Nar- tonnago 23.01 teus), heretofore what in the Home Fleet and the owned by Mrs. Chan Cheung Shi, Grampus and Rorqual In Chlum. The Cachalol is due to be completed at Greenock In July.

Chatham Dockyard in

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, · MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.

SCORES ARE BURIED BENEATH THESE RUINS

POST OFFICE.

GENERAL HOLIDAY

To-day, Junc 0, the General

Post

omce, Kowloon Central

AMOT SERVICE Parcel Port Service to Amoy Is- land 19 temporarily suspended.

Post Omico and Sheungwan Branch Parcels Can bo accepted for Post Onlee will be open from 9 am Kulangsu only.

to 11 am, and the other Branch Post

Cfces will be entirely closed.

There will be one Collection from the pillar boxes, and one delivery of ordinary correspondence us Sundays,

on

The Branch Post Omees nt Stanley, Tal Po and Un Long will also have one delivery of ordinary correspon- dence at 11 a.m.

The Money Order Office will tel entirely closed,

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'AIR MAIL SERVICES

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OUTWARD MAIL TIMES

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VIA SIBERIA ROUTE Letters and Postcards for Europ and South America are forwarded

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INWARD MAILS

Per

Arizona Moru

From

Japan

Was

Salgon

Holhow

Straits

A SCENE IN WAI OI ROAD, one of the principal thoroughfares of Canton, which

heavily bombed on Saturday, yesterday and this morning. In the one explosion depicted It is estimated that above, 28 houses were destroyed, and 70 people were killed or injured. over 600 casualties have occurred in this one rond in the past three days.

RED CROSS WORKERS SEARCHING in the ruins of a building in Hon Man Road for buried victims of Saturday's air raid. people.

Eight houses were damaged by one bomb, which killed 42

EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF CANTON HORROR

(Continued from Page 1

Japanese can claim that they were bombing military objectives.

bodles smashed almost beyond re- OUR GUIDE

cognition-children who have

lost

their eyes, women with their faces missing, men with their bodies burnt black.

counted 24 broken and lifeless bodies, brought out from the wreck- Of the 46 bombs dropped yester-age of one tenement within an hour

Heroic Rescue Workers

day, one completed the destruction of the bombing, of the Wongsha Railway district, Canton-Hankow of the Line. The remaining 45 bomba fell on crowded civilian areas, some for distant from the objectives claimed as of military importance by the Japanese.

Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong-terminus kong, for the permission to change her name to "WAI HING" and to bare her registered in the new. name at the Port of Hongkong as owned by me.

Red

TO THE

CINEMAS

of the really magnificent things of ous radium polsoning. It t

lins come

"Nothing Sacred" (King's Theaire. in-day).This screen play by Ben Hecht shows what would happen if the big city were to Honize, at the The heroism of the Chinese

instigation of a circulution-minded Cross workers and Boy Scouts is one editor, a young girl who was crrone- On being renamed Cochrane

belleved to be destined to poss this barbarism that June 1, H.M.S. Ambrose was to re-

10 ott lleve the Greenwich as parent-ship

the Canton. Before

dust seilles

well-directed by William Wellman, at Rosyth. The Greenwich will re-

they are tearing away at the debris, played by a large cast and made in vert to her former role as depot-ship

amusing picture Any objections to the proposed

bringing succour to the wounded and technicolour. An for the destroyers in maintenance rechange of name must be sent to

laying out the dead. English Sal-with a touch of malice to sharpen Its vation Army officials and doctors abs, Frederic March and Carole over a dozen, a number which is like the Registrar of Shipping at

confirmed to me the report that Lombard, as the principals, are good ly to be increased as the 48 destroy- Hungkong within seven days from For three hours I helped Red Cross the Japanese during past week, twice and have an extremely entertaining and machine-gunned scene in which they knock each other the appearance of this advertise-workers and soldiers to frantically power-dlved

burrow through fifteen feet of debris these humaniturians as bombed Winninger me the best of the sup-|

worked out. Walter Connolly and Charles mont

Chinese IB-year-old

girl, among the ruins of buildings miraculously uninjured in a three-half an hour previously. Eleven Boy porting players. storeyed tenement building which Scouts and 21 Red,Cross workers have burled 80 people.

died in this manner.

serve at Rosyth, of which there are

ers now building come into service.

LAUNCH OF THE AUCKLAND

Dated at Hongkong, this 2ad The new escort vessel Auckland, building by Denny and Brothers, day of June, 1938.

A. E. M. RAFEEK.

Limited, Dumbarton, is to be launch-

ed on June 30. She was planned as n aister-ship to the Egret, to be launched on May 31 at Cower. but is being fitted for use as a surveying ship,

will therefore carry only and one small gun in place of the eight 4in. high-angle guns In the Egret. The Auckland is due for delivery about November next. The change of name from Heron, which was made inst year, no doubt indicates locality in which she will be employ- ed. A later ship, the Pelican, laid down in September last by Messrs. Thornycroft, is also being fitted as a surveying ship.

the

Extra Train Service Here From Canton

Express trains from Canton are being run in two divisions in order to cope with the Influx of refugees,

which shows no signs of decreasing.

Twenty-six coaches were used last RWBORNAR night to bring down over 2,000 people evacuating Canton. In addition extra coaches were added to the slow mixed-train which, departing from Canton at 9 a.m,, did not arrive in Hongkong until this morning.

“TELEGRAPH " WAR MAP

A specially prepared map of the Northern War Zone in China. 15 by 11 inches, printed on art paper.

Price 20 cents

Postage extra,

The Japanese, in addition to bomb- ing Canton city, are daily carrying out extensive raids on the Kowloon- Conton and Canton-Hankow Railways, and the loop-ilne connecting the two tallways was severely bombed dur-) ing yesterday's raids.

The

permanent

Way

I was taken to the ruins of three schools, beneath one of which still Be the bodles

dozen children.

10

nn

of halt

a

"Her Jungle Love" (Queen's and Alhambra Theatres, to-day).—Adver- Frantic Father Works

Eight English ladles, an American,tising and publleity to the contrary, an Australian and a German, who Jiggs, a chimpanzee, is the hero and The girl calmly directed the opera- tions as we neared her. Her father, comprise the foreign section of the star of Dorothy Lamour's latest com- blood still oozing from a bandaged Canton branch of the Salvation Army, munion with nature in the tropics. wound in his head, frantically tore are on the field with the vanguard ofJRggs hops around, beats his chest, Red Cross workers. They, also,ights Ares, makes faces and saves at the rubble of stone and masonry.

were machine-gunned as they worked, more than one situation. Otherwise the film is the usual affale about a crying bitterly because his wife and

fortunately without casualties. two sons st lay beneath the ruins.

cruel ruler, a "white goddess" and The Salvation Army home has been white men lost in the jungle. Ray 1 saw Red Cross workers tearing frantically at debris to reach another evacuated because it has twice been Milland is Lamour's heart-throb.

"Come and Get It" (Oriental Chinese, buried in the ruins of a bombed.

Theatre, lo-day)—A fast-moving building which collapsed less than a block away. His cries grew fainter Red Crosses Painted Out pleture with Edward Arnold as the driving force. Lumber-camps and and fainter, and then finally ceased.

I was shown the wreckage of two city life come ulike to this actor, who When he no longer cried out for help,

Once uper E1 time

is supported by Joel McCrea as his the Red Cross workers desisted in hospitals.

There were too many enormous Red Crosses were painted son, and Frances Farmer. their efforis.

"You Can't Have Everything" urgent cases elsewhere to waste long on the roofs of Canton's hospitals,

because International Law decreed (Majestie Theatre, to-day).—Alice hours in searching for a man who

that they were places of refuge for Faye's popularity Increuses was either unconscious or dead.

the dying and the wounded. But on every pleture she appears. Here is I saw a Chinese woman with an Friday the Red Crosses were painted another one calculated to win her The entertainment infant stil strapped to her back. aut. The Chinese believe that the more admirers

it is one of the 20th-Fox mother was still

meaning signs as sighters for their

turns out What do the Japanese hope to achieve which this company feebly.

from these indiscriminate raids on well. Don Ameche is adequate na unprotected Canton? I saw no signs the musical comedy director.

panic, unless the jostling of a low shelters could be called pante, hundred people entering air raid¦

with

The Infant was quite dead, but the Japanese are using the pro bombe/luo of the show cannot be doubled:

alive,

musicnic

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buried beneath piles of debris grief Brst then terrible, consuming anger. As bombs dropped on the city, You see it in the faces of the Eur- rickshaw coolles still plied their trade, opeans who live in

Conton. They there

appreciable hate these bombers, not as an enemy bates a dropping off in pedestrian trafile, hates enemy, but as a man their torturer. Whatever

govern- Vehicular trame was, of course,

and

won no

Haiphong

Calcutta and Straits

Java and Manila

Strulls

Ruys

Canton

Tilawa

Duc.

June 6.

G. G. Paul Doumer

June 0..

Kanchow

June 6.

Juno 0.

June

June

Tjinadane

June 7.

Ajax

June B.

Emp. of Asin

June B.

Glenber

June 8.

Imperial Airways Plase Kumsang... Marechal Joffre

June 8.

June B.

.June 8.

Manlin

Dairen

Air Mali by "Imperial

Direct

Airways

Service"-London dale,

2nd June, Calcutta and Strafte Salgon

Air Mail by "Pan-American Air- Waya Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 1st June, U.S.A., Honolulu and Japan (San

Francisco dute, May 13) Strails and Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) London date, 12th May and London Porcels London date, 5th May Straits

Just Shanghai

Japan and

Straits and Manik

Japan

Pan American Airways Plane June &

Pres. Polk

Ranchi Somali Tisarora

Aramis

Scharnhorst Tusima Maru Carthage

.June 9.

June 9.

June 8.

June 10,

June

Junc 8.

June 8.

June B.

Japan and Shanghal

Australia and Manila

Changte

June 10.

Rubaul

Friderun

June 10..

Air Mail by "Imperial

Dircel

Airways Service"-London date,

5th June.

Imperial Airways Plane

June 10.

Straits

Achilles

June 11.

Japan

Mausang

June 11.

Tientsin, Shanghnt und Swatow Japan

June 12.

Toyama Moru

.June 12.

Date and Time.

For

Samahul and Wuchow Kongmoon

Hupch

OUTWARD MAILS

Per

Tuesday

Chung On..Tues., June 7, 0.15 a.. On Lee Tues., June 7, 10.09 a.m. Tues., June 7,

Air Matt for "K.L.M. Airways Hosang

Direct Servico"---due Amsterdam 19th June.

Strails and Calcutta

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

Rez

Ord,

Hosang

Parcels' Ord,

„June 7, 11 a.tit. June 7, 11.30 am..

.Tues., June 7.

June 7, 11 a.m..

.June 7 Noon..

"Swatow, Shanghal and Tientsin Fausang..Tues., June 7, 12.30 p.m. Swatow and Shanghai ......... Kingyuan....Tues., June 7, 2.30 p.m. Air Mail for Chungking (via IIan- C.N.A.C. Plane ... Tues., June 7,

how) by the "C.N.A.C. Airways Direct Service,"

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

Beg, Ord.,

Air Mail for Stan, Lanchow. and Eurasia Plane

Chenglu, etc.. (via Hankow) by the "Eurasia Airways Service" (To further points by surface transport as Services permit).

„June 7, 4.30 p.m. June 7, 5 p.17. .Tues., June 7,

.June 7, 4.30 p.m..

June 7, 5 v.m.

G.P.O. and K.г.0.

Reg.

Oril,

Wednesday

Swatow, Foochow and Tientsin Shanghai, Japan and Europe vla Marechal Joffre

Siberia

Wed., June 6, 1,30 p.m. Manila, Saigon, "Bangkok Batavia, Ruys......Wed., June 8, 3.30 pm.

Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, East and South Africa. Manila

Yochow Wed., June 8, 12.30 p.m.

Wed, June 8..

Prcs, Polk.....Wed., June 8, 5 p.m. Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Hono- Pan-American

lulu and U.S.A.. by the "Pan Airways Plana American Airwaya Direct Service" -due San Francisco, 16th Junc.

Samshui and Wuchow Shanghai and Japan Kongmoon

Fort Bayard and Haiphong

Thursday

K.

P. O.

Reg Ord.

June 8, 5 p... June 8, 5 9.02.

G P. O.

Ref..

June 8, 5 p.NL..

Ort,

Juno 8. 6 m.

G. P. O. and K. P. O.

Kongning..Thurs., June 9, 8.15 aun. Ranchi....Thurs., June 9, 10,30 a.m. Tai Lee Thura, June 9, 11 a.. Canton

Thurs, June 9, 2 p.m. Thurs., June 9. Salgon, Ceylon, India, East and Ammis

South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles-duc July Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Imperiat

Direct Service"due 10th June.

Marseilles,

i

June D, 3.43 p... June 9, 4.30 p.m..

Reg., Ord,

London, Airways Plane

G. P. O. and K. г. 0. Reg.,

....Thurs., June 9..

Ord.....

June 2, 5 p.m. June 9.5 p.m.

G. P. O. and K. F. 0.

Shanghai, Japan, Canada, USA, Empress of Asia....Thurs., June 9.

Central and South America and "Europe vla Vancouver B. C: (Porcels for Canada only)-due Vancouver B.C., 27th June-and *Europe via Siberia.

Sandalcon

Swatow, Shanghai and Tientsin

......June 9, 5 p.m. June 10, 9.15 am- June 10, 10 a.m..

Fri., June 10, 8.30 a.m. ".. Fri., June 10, 0.30 a.m.. Fri., June 10, 3.30 pm.

-...................Fri, Juno 10.. G. P. O. and K, P, 0. Parcels, Reg. Ord,

Parcels,

Reg., Ord.,

Friday

*Shanghal

Hinsang Victoria

Toksang

Straits, Ceylon, India, Enst and Carthage

South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles due Mar- seilles 8th July.

Saturday

Air Mall for “K. L. NI. Airways Carthago

Direct Service"--dun Amsterdam. 21st June.

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

Ref..

Ord,

Amoy

Japan

Holhow, Pakhol and Halphony

Anshun Kumbang Soochow

..June 10, 5 p.m.. .June 11, 9.45 am.. June 11, 10,30 a.m.

.Sat, June 11,

June 11. 9.30. a.m. .....Jane 11, 10 am.

Bat., Juno

11, 0 p.m.. Sat., June 11, 5 p.m.. ...Sat., June, 11, 5 p.m..

Alr Mall for "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways Plane Sat., June 11.

Direct Servico”—due London, 19th

Baby Cries For Cat A baby cried lustily besides the body of dead cat-its playmate. The child could not possibly know between that it was the only survivor of a Kowloon and Canton Is. In much family of eight. It was toddling in the narrow street, chasing the cat, belter condition than was the caso three months ago, despite intensi- when its home rocked to destruction fication of Japanese bombings, and and buried the 24 Inmates. the express trains are running about

I WOR taken to the Municipal stopped, to make way for the dozens ments in Europe may decide, there is only from an hour to 00 minutes behind schedule,

Hospital, where 150 civilians lie of ambulance cars and fire engines probably not one foreigner realding on Shameer or in the native elty whe wounded. The normal capuelty of clanging through the streets.

Aloes hot feel that this is maus murder One of the bridges across the river the hospital is 50, and only the most

by Fear in not the reaction. Immediate

the on a scale never before scen was struck by a bomb last week, but urgent cases needing damage was only superficial, and operations are admitted. I saw Chinese people. Their own feeling civilisation.

You see it in their faces, They spenk openly of thin hate was repaired within 48 hours, 70-year-old woman, white-haired and is of hate.

1 rage and horror-the Englishman, the Telephone trunk line between Can-naemie, with the shadow of death twisted and distorted with Lon and Hongkong, which is buried on her face. She lost both of her antonishing in a race which has such German, the Italian and the French- reputation for stolclam. You see It man who lives in Canton, and whose underground, was badly damaged for legs in Saturday's raid. There are about half a mile, and is now strung no wounded soldiers in this hospital. in the faces of those who have lost eyes have seen horrors so inadequate Batavia and "Sourabaya

They arc As 'from tree to tree in this area.

ult civilians-clvillans without limbs, civilians with

their

their loved ones, na they dig in the ly conveyed to the rest of the world debris in a vain search for the bodies' in newspapers.

June,

Air Mall for “Austrália by Imperial Imperial Airways Plano Sat., June 11..

Airways Diroot Service"-due

Darwin, 18th June,

-G.P.O. and KP.0.

Ker..

June

Ord.,

11.5 p.m... ....................June 12, Noon.

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

Rex.,

.June 11. B D...

Ord..

Juno 12, Noon.

Tuesday

Thisalak....Tues., June 14, 8.30 a.m..

*Superscribed correspondence only.