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HEAVY TOLL IN CANTON RAIDS

Canton, Aug. 8.

The air-raid alarm was sounded in Canton at 3 p.m. to-day, when 15 Japanese planes made towards the city from Tongkawan.

The first group appeared over the city at 3.20 p.m. and dropped 10 heavy bombs between the old power plant and the French Cathedral, the compound of which usually provides sanctuary for workers from the power plant. Two bombs damaged the gates of the cathedral.

three

A few minutes later three more planes appeared and bombed the Government buildings, followed by two relays of

planes cuchi, which also bombed the same objec- Live causing several

Ares, A few bombs fell on Walsun Road and Yalduk

Road in the densely populated aren near the fruit and vegetable market, where it is feared casualties are very heavy.

Around the duninged gates on grilles of the Cathedral, at least 20 bodies are lying about including women and children horribly mutl- lated, and there are between 50 and 00

wounded.

According to cye-witnesses, the leaflets dropped on Friday contained a threat that the city will be bombed | for 10 consecutive days, of which te-day's is believed to be the first.

United Press.

MANY CASUALTIES

Canton, Aur, 8.

Under the debris of a bombed shop in Five Arch Street, along which Canton's ancient governors passed in ceremonial perade before assuming ofice I saw four young people im prisoned

block under a huge masonry which lay across their walsta.

y One young girl was pinned from the hips down. She was blinded but con selous and whining, pitifully, and with little bands which carried a gold wedding ring,

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after our eyes?" I asked the other day.

"AD optimist," shouted Robert, starting up with the Impulsiveness of one who wishes to score over lite fellows."

:

"Wrong." I reply sadly. Then noticing a less cager but inore re Hiable pupil, "Tell lilm, Jolin.".

"An optician."

"Right. Now what is an optimist Tom, can you tell us?"

"Please, sle, a man who looks after your cars."

And no one in the class aces the joke. I have often wondered why pupils take answering questions so seriously.

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Even Intelligence testing has humourous side. On one occasion I had to administer a group intelligence commencing, the pupils had to write test to a qualifying elas. Before particulars on the cover of the test.

There was a space for "Number of

down

certain

futilely trying to push off the blockNumber" and one for

A mai beside her was pinned down |

and barely breathing while the other two had only their feet under the

beam but were both dead.

Near the Power plant 40 house collapsed but the casualties were only Ave as this area has a bad name in bombingg

One would have thought, naturally enought, that such instructions were fool-proof, but one little old maid of

girl in the front real had some difficulty and her hand went up. "Please,

she said tearful seriousness, "will 1 count myself among my sisters?"

My favourite humorist, however, was the boy who in composition des incribed his teacher as "A hanson mun

that is very laflable"

The heaviest casundtics were in the areas where the Inhabitants did not suspect there would be bombing. I estimate about 100 are dead and 160

The city us afternoon was subare wounded.-United Press. jected to one of the severest bomb-

Ings experienced for some weeks wtien nire Japanese planes loosed

.

CATHEDRAL DAMAGED.

Canton, Aug. B. Catholic Cathedral

The

Roman

LETTERS TO THE

EDITOR

BLUNT ANSWER

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph.

Sir. Unfortumale is) It, for the Chinese of this Colony that we have not more "newcomers to Hongkong" of the calibre of Mrs. Selwyn- Clarke, whose article In The New Statesman and Nation so arouses the indignation of "John Blunt."

Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke 1 taken to task by your correspondent for "hoving the temerity to assert" that the white population of Hongkong has been concerned, for nearly a century, only in making profits aut of the Chinese.

1988.

BOURN-VITALITY

How does it act?

Engilsh co

people are 50 munificent, $102,000, less than was paid for the

of

the Volunteer

2APDI

Just. Mr.

One

Let John Blunt" answer some of

following questions I am going: to propound and then honestly say

9. What is the difference between Jast year for which I have access to an, like a civil servant, I can get that the people of this Colony are a registered mul-fsal and an une statistics) to present the Imperial enough to retire on. In the mehn- here for any one's benefit but their registered child slave?

Government with $4,201,000 for de-time I'll remain a little tin god, with ewn:

10-What is the tutul amount of fence; present retired civil servants poor stupid coolles bowing to me and 1-How many English residents annual contributions by

their dependants with $2,287,000.

$2,287,000 calling me "talpan." English and

and beggars of Hongkong remain in the Colony people in Hongkong to distinctly in pensions and pay in Government peering hungrily at me through the

Chinese relief organisations such as

such as salaries $12,218,000. For charitable windows of the llongkong Hotel as after they reach the retiring nge?

Street Sleepers Society? 2.-What percentage of the share-the

If services Government could find only I have my succulent $3.50 timin,

which I couldn't afford in England, offices" live in the Colony where why is it that these societies come upkeep halders of the "enormous banks and

forces.

No, I'm no Empire builder. Like their Institutions are earning their stantly complain of lack of finances? This amount was subsequently re- 59 per cent, of the other Britons in with almost į "hard-won" incomes?

Isn't it a fact that, contributions to duced, owing to straightened circum- Hongkong, I'm taking mighty 3.O the Colony's total revehur the Dogs' Home exceed those to the stances!

care that No. 1 is going to be Street Sleepers Association? *of approximately $20,000,000 per

Question No. 7-Education, upon 11.-How much did it cost Gov- which "John Blunt" so painstakingly am, how much is spent on (a) 11- military contributions to the Im-crnment to build (A) Stanley Prison,

housing 2,000

Unfortunately, there is comments. perial Government; (b) pensions Queen Mary Hospital, the only de- no way of discovering the raldo bu

and

{u elvil servants or their de

the per cuplta cost of educat- salaries for rivit cent Government hospital in

Colony for free patients? Isn't it in Hongkong, but it is interesting to

ing an English and វា

child Chinese servants; (d) charitable purposes?

4-What are the

inct salaries Medical Omeer average

former

Government

note that the cast of two inspectors of (a) English employees of

metally complained

for English

wan schools wan $36,0-10 Government; (b) Chinese employees that work in connection with

Queen Mary of the Government?

Hospital

io te ($18,470 each) and of four Inspectors 5.-Why is it that a European civil skimped and expenditure cut to the for Vernacular Schools $52,201 ($13,-

070 each); for 25 English

masters loan funds while at the 56 Vernacular masters $167,408 ($3,- same time Stanley Prison was being 000 each). Apropos the Inspectors. Oct. Chinese employee filling an identical provide further

built

from

loan funds? removed

note that Iwo were res

required for Let me answer some of my own 10 from slavery and exactly how much

questions for the information better off-tre the thousands of ren

of 17,979 English children, only

8.51/52 only four Jan, (1930) "John Blunt....

An- Mat. (1039) Question No. 1 answers itself. For should be so proud off Although July (1939)

other thing about this

A Teacher.

Fish Ducks Dog

Woodstock, Ont. Ontario carp can compete with the

to

the

that

convicts

had

tween

of others on the east bund near the suffered heavy damage in this after-muskellunge, northern pike, tuna servant gets lenfold the salary of a one because Government would not: 71.431 ($13,250 .a. each) and for

AL

30 bombs in the vicinity of the Government offices and a number power station, Pearl River Bridge noon's raid, when three bombs burst and tarpon for tight and drive.

within 20 yards of the front of the least two Woodstock boys believe and the French Roman Catholic Cathedral.

front face of he church, The Cathedral was splattered with bomb grounds Inte

human reinalns. splinters.

There were a number of casual-

iles, not necrtained so far, in the east bund area, while the casualties throughout the city are believed to be numerous.--Reuter.

GRUESOME SIGHTS

Canton, Aug. 9. Crowds milled round the bombed areas and, says the United Press-

Cathedral 50. They caught a carp, stuck it on i position uch

turning the Into a horrible Tuss

Of those taking shelter

471

of

the head, and then the the fish to their dog's leash. The earp revived,

and in what struggled back into the water, uid

pulled the dog with it.

The only part untouched was the

always, will remain a sanctuary for

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U.S. COMMODITY

Dec.

PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

New York, Afg. 0.

New York Cotion

for 81,700 Chinese Cucation weMay (1930)

correspondent, I saw pathetic sights/igh altar and the chapel dedicated the damage done to the Cathedral, the. Hongkong Government selling In vain, to, find the name of a retiretti payers of Hongkong are

to the Virgin Mary.

Mar,

Opening Closing

2.41/42

8.26/20

0.50/40

8.37/37

8.36/30

6.56/50

8.40/41

8,50/50

8.43/43

0.02/02

8.40 N

8.36

New York Rubber

16.151

10.37/30 10.42/43

30.106

16.28/30

10.35b/30a

16.43b/47a

Sales for the day:-2,500 lons.

women coolies employed on road-making, constructing furtiflea- was regarded as the sanctuary of the

tlong, etc. in Hongkong than Chinese the life of me I cannot think of even

well-to-do Hongkong resident the 1931 census showed that there Spot rounds of the Cathedral, which was! marked by a French flag. 39 were

similarly employed, say, by the killed and 50 injured.

Japanese in

this Colony were then-110,000 Chinese children in the Japanese concession who has remained in the refugees."

I of school age in the Colony, in 1930 after retirement. On the contrary, I at Tientsin? All the stained

windows glass

The Bishop was writing in his were smashed, while the floor was study when the bomb burst and the

7-What exactly are the unstint-can recall Innumerable names at we found sufficient money to provide Sept. education for only 50 per cent. of Dec. those who, having made efforts that have been made to

their pile, littered with crucifixes, flowers, explosions

ing his windows, damaged

country in which them. candiés and glass.

educate the Chinese in longkang, to have quit "the Alling his house with smoke.

which "John Blunt" refers?

they reside." I have searched In conclusion, might I point out to May It is understood that a report on

B-What is the difference between through the Government Blue Book "John Blunt" that the principal tax- not the which is the second French property

civil servant who has made Hong-English, whose interests we carefully Sept. Interviewed, Bishop when relatives tried to break through

Antonic

opium to the Chinese through the in Canton to be effected, has been

kong his home on the pension pro-guard by refraining from imposing Oplurn Monopoly Beard, and the kong the cardons. One tear-stained woman Fourquete, who has been in Canton forwarded to Parls by the French

illelt opium dealer selling it in

vided by the Hongkong tax-payer. stood 20 feet from a mangled heap of for 13 years, looking at the rows of authorities here.

Income tax and dividend tax. The Dec. flbsh, not daring to go nearer saying dead bodles, including children, said,

Question No. 2 also answers itself. Hongkong Government obtains most May Government offices in the area rc-

divan, except that it is cheaper and

share of its revenue from many "that's my mother." I asked how "I do not know the reason for itceived the full brunt of the bomb-bad robled the Hongkong Govern- Granted, she knew and she pointed to two tiny There are no guns and no soldiersing. Reuter's correspondent counted

ment of its cae-time best source of holders of the European banks and dirty hovels into which

institutions that have created their 60 per cent. of our population is carrings floating in a mass which had in this area, I shall refuse to 71 dead in his tour of the city after revenue, ale went only wentth, residing in this Colony. But compressed, each occupant-no mal- once been the human head.

which, as the bombing-Reuter. the Cathedral,

put by a Government

the shareholders who are drawing ler how indigent he may be-pay- Dec. suffielent

wealth from their shares to ing his little towards taxation that May relire lase no time in shaking the should rightly be borne by the dust and Bith of Hongkong from people better able to pay. their feet.

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Chicago Corn 5276/5214 500/3

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Winnipeg Wheat

73/734 725/7246

7186/713 70%/70

73/73/2

I'm not proud of Hongkong. I'm The answer to Question No. 3 is ashamed of it; disgusted at its Oct. most luminating. We found suf-snobbishness and its parochlalism Dec. clent money to spend in 1030 (thel and quite willing to leave as soon) May

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