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EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF CANTON HORROR

(Continued from Page !.) Japanese can claim that they were bombing military objectives.

Of the 46 bombs dropped yester- day, one completed the destruction of the Wongsha Railway district, the Canton-Stankow of terminus Line. The remaining 45 bombs fell on crowded civilian areas, some far distant from the objectives claimed as of military Importance by Japanese.

the

I was taken to the ruins of three schools, beneath one of which still le the bodies of half children.

dozen

For three hours I helped Red Cross workers and foidlers to frantlently burrow through Aftern fect of debris girl. Chinese 10 31F2 miraculously uninjured in a three-

18-year-old

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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NOTICE.

Non-payment of Water

Accounts,

Excess water and meter rental accounts are posted to the person who signed the Form "C" guaran- teoing payment. This person is generally tho landlord or hla recognized agent.

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.

THE

Benefits For

Naval Men

Increases Granted

In Allowances

An Order in Council published in the London Gazelte sanctions an in- crease from 18. Gd. to 18. 10d. of the allowance payable to commissioned officers from warrant rank and to warrant officers when messing in the wardroom, in respect of the differ ence in mess subscription.

An Order in Council sanctions the payment of an allowance of 15. a day to gunners, commissioned runners, ners (T) performing the cunt duties of gunners and gunners (torpedo) in destroyers of running flotillas, while to employed. The allowance has re- trospective effect from April 1, 1936. Admiralty Fleet Orders give detalla of Increases in the rates of allowances to men of the Navy for the upkeep of their kit, to come into force on all stations on July 1. Until the War the sailor had to maintain his uniform at his own expense, but a kit upkeep allowance was granted in 1917 and has been in force ever since. It is credited to the accounts of the men quarterly.

In many instances inconveni-Runners (T), and commissioned gun- ence is caused to tenants by the water supply being diaconnected without warning to them, owing to the failure of the guarantor to pay the accounts within the speci- fled period, Tenants are, there- fore, advised to make suitable arrangements with their landlords to ensure that all water and meter rental accounts are paid promptly. Changes of ownership of pro- perty should be notifed im- mediately to this Offee.

R. M. HENDERSON,

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

starcyed tenement building which PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY. buried 00 people.

Frantic Father Works

The girl calmly directed the opera- lions as we neared her. Her father. blood still oozing from a bandaged wound in his head, frantically fore at the rubble of stone and masonry, crying bitterly because his wife and two sons all lay beneath the ruins.

I saw Red Cross workers tearing frantically a debris to reach another

burled In the ruins of Chinese, building which collapsed less than n block away. His crice grew fainter and fainter, and then finally ceased. When he no longer cried out for help. the Red Cross workers deslated in their efforts. There were too many urgent cases elsewhere to waste long hours In searching for a man who

was either unconscious or dead.

I saw a Chinese woman with an infant still strapped to her bark. The infant was quite dend, but the

alive, mother was still

meaning feebly.

I

LIMITED.

B

The new rate for chief petty of- cers, and peity officers wearing the speciol uniform of the rating (class I dress with gilt buttons) is £6 199. n year, compared with £0 148. Men dressed in class II uniform, that is, as seamen, will receive £5 101.

Gs. Men in year compared with £5 class III uniform (jacket and peaked cap) will receive £6 12s., compared ID RA- in suu with £6 B. 40. Ratings mariacs will receive an

additional 10s. 1d. in the scoman, signal, and telegraphist branches and 12s, 4d, in other branches. A number of other allowances in respect of clothing pre also increased, and revised Istuing prices of clothing, soap, and tobacco are also to be brought into force an July 1.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held nt the HONGKONG HOTEL on TUES. DAY. the 7th, JUNE, 1938, at 12

The surveying ship Challenger, NOON, for the purpose of receiv-Commander E. H. B. Baker, is order- Ing the

Directora ed to return to Portsmouth Report

A Statement of June 11. She is at present employ- together with

ed in the West Indies, and left Ber- Accounts for the year ended 30th.

muda on May 9 for St. Kitts. April, 1938.

of

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 31st, day of MAY to TUESDAY, the 7th of JUNE, 1938, both days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 24th May, 1938.

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A

SHIP'S NAME.

1

about

MINELAYING SUBMARINES H.M.S. Seat is to be launched at September. Chattiam Dockyard in Laid down in December, 1936, she is the inst of the six minelaying sub- marines of the Porpoise class, four of which have been completed and are now ser

rving, the Porpoise and Nar- And the wha! in the Home Fleet Grampus and Rorqual in China. The Cachalot is due to be completed at Greenock in July.

on

On being renamed Cochrane June 1, H.M.S. Ambrose was to re- lieve the Greenwich as parent-ship at Rosyth. The Greenwich will re- vert to her former role as depot-ship for the destroyers in maintenance re- serve at Rosyth, of which there are 1, A. E. M. RAFEEK of 118.

over a dozen, a number which is like- Caine Road, Hongkong, herebyly to be increased on the 40 destroy- give notice that in consequence ers now building come into service. of re-registration I have applied of

to the Board of Trade, under Sec-

He

Baby Cries For Cat A baby crled lustily besides the hody of a dead ents ploymate. The child could not possibly know that it was the only survivor of n family of eight. It was toddling in the narrow street, chasing the cat, when its home rocked to destruction and burled the 24 Inmates. taken was

to the Municipal Hospital,

where 150 civilians

The normal capacity wounded the hospital, is 50, and only the most urgent cases needing immediate operations are admitted. I saw a 70-year-old woman, white-taired and andemic, with the shadow of death on her face. She lost both of her legs in Saturday's raid. There are no wounded soldiers in this hospital. They ure #1 civilians civilians without ilmbs, civilinna

lions with

their bodies smashed almost beyond re- cognition-children who have lost their eyes, women with their faces missing, man with their bodies burnt binch.

I counted 24 broken and lifeless bodles, brought out from the wreek- age of one tenement within an hour of the bombing.

Heroic Rescue Workers

The heroism of the Chinese

Red

Cross workers and Boy Scouts is one of the really magnificent things of this barbarism that has come 10 Canton. Before the dust selties they are tearing away at the debris, bringing succour to the wounded and laying out the dead. English Sal- vation Army officials and doctors confirmed to me the report

that the Japanese during past week, twice power-dived and machine-gunned there humanitarians as they worked

the among

of ruins buildings bombed half at h

an hour previously. Eleven Boy Scouts and 21 Red Cross workers have died in this manner.

Eight English ladies, an American, an Australian and a German, who comprise the foreign section of the Canton branch of the Salvation Army, are on the field with the vanguard of Red Cross workers. They, also, were muchlite-gunned as they worked, fortunately without casualties,

The Salvation Army home has been evacuated because it has twice been bombed.

Red Crosses Painted Out

LAUNCH OF THE AUCKLAND

be in

The new escort vessel Auckland, tion 47 of the Merchant Shipping building by Denny and Brothers, Act, 1894, in respect of the Steam Limited, Dumbarton, is to be launch- launch "CHI ON" of Hongkong, ed un June 30. She was planned as

sister-ship to the Egret, to Offcial number 152427 of gross $15

launched on May 31 at Cowes, but is tonnage 64.52

register tons,

beinis

atled for uso sa à surveying tonnage 43.888 tons, (new grosa ship, and will therefore carry only tonnage 51.19 tons, register one small gun in place of the eight in the Egret. Lannage 23.04 tons), heretofore 4in. high-angle guns

The Auckland is

due for delivery owned by Mrs. Chan Cheung Shi, about November next. The change Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong- of name from Hieron, which was made kong, for the permission to change

no doubt Indicates last year,

her name to "WAI HING" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of Hongkong as owned by me.

Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong within seven days from the appearance of this advertise- ment.

Dated at Hongkong, this 2nd day of June, 1938,

A. E. M. RAFEEK.

Land Scheme For Jamaica Aids Jobless

Kingston, Jamaica, June 0. The Government announces that an immediate start will be made with a land settlement scheme costing £500,000,

the

locality in which she will be employ ed. A later ship, the Pelican, laid down in September last by Messrs. Thornycroft, is also being fifted as a surveying ship.

Brazil Stops Cotton Sales To Germany

Rio de Janeiro, June 5. Brazil has

cation stopped her exports to Germany, made under a system of barter, under which 03,000 tons were annually shipped.

It is understood the action arose out of reports that Germany was re-exporting the cotton at a high gold

price.

Observers point out that the Im

find mediate problem for Brazil is another market if German purchases cease, while it is anticipated stronger efforts will be made to sell to Britain and Japan-Reuter.

↑ The scheme has for its object the

creation of an independent peasantry RANA FASE who will be supplied with tools, plant, seed and housing, and will be given special assistance to develop their

land.

to

Special consideration will be given

Jamaica's unemployed.-Reuter,

I was shown the wreckage of two hospitals. Once upon Д time enormous Red Crosses were painted on the roofs of Canton's hospitals, because International Law decreed that they were places of refuge for astonishing in a race which has such a reputation for stoicism. You see it the dying and the wounded.

But on Friday the Red Crosses were painted their loved ones, as they dig in the in the faces of those who have lost cut. The Chinezo believe that the debris in a vain search for the bodies Japanese are using the prominent buried beneath pics of debris grief signs as sighiers for their bombs, dratthen terrible, consuming anger, What do the Japanese hope to achieve from these indiscriminate raids on oprans who live in Canton. They You see it in the faces of fire Kur- unprotected Canton? I saw no signs hate there bombers, not as an enemy of panic, unless the jostling of a few. hates enemy, but as a man hates a hundred people entering air rald torturer. Whatever their shelters could be called panic.

ments in Europe may decide, there in As bombs dropped on the elly, probably not one foreigner residing „rlekallaw coolies still piled their trade, on Shameen or in ile native city who

and there

Won no appreciable does not feel that this is mass murder dropping off in pedestrian trams. ona reale never before, seen, by Vehicular traffic whs, of course

elvilisation. stopped, to make way for the dozens of ambulance cars and fire engines clanging through the streets. Fear in not the reaction Chinese people. Their own feeling

of the

govern-

They speak openly of this hate and horror the Englishman, the German, the Italian and the French- man who lives in Canton, and whose eyes have seen horrors so inadequate

is of hate. You see it in their faces, y conveyed to the rest of the world Awisted and distorted with a 'rage'in newspapers.'

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AMOY SERVICE

Parool Post Bervice to Amoy Is-

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June B.

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June 8.

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Servico" London

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Tues., June 7,

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For

Samshul and Wuchow Kongmoon

Airways Hosang

Direct Service"--due Amsterdam 19th Juno.

Reg.. Oril,

Straits and Calcutta

Insang ...

Parcels Ord..

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June

ร

11 a.m.

June 7, Noon.

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Siberia

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Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, East and South Africa.

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3.30 p.m..

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Air Mall for Manila. Guam, Hono- Fan-American

"Fan fulu and U.S.A., by the

American Airways Direct Bervice" due San Francisco, 18th June.

Samshul and Wuchow Shanghai and Japan Kongmoon

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K. P. O.

Reg.,

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Ord,

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GP. O.

Ora.,

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.

Kongning..Thurs., June 9, 8.15 am.

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Thurs., June 9.

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Saigon, Ceylon, India, East and Aramis

South Afrien, Egypt and Europe Marsellles-due Marseilles,

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via

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Hinsang

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Victoria

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Kunnang Soochow

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Air Mail for "Imperiai Airways Imperial Airways Plano Sat, June 11.

Direct Bervice”—duo Lendon, 19th

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Airways Direct Service"-duo

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Butavia and Saurabaya...

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

Rek..

June 11, p.m.

Ord..

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