1938-11-29 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 29, 1938.

EMERGENCY RELIEF

Activities Of Council In

New Territories

The following account of the work of the Emergency Relief Council demonstrates the vast good that is being done in bringing order out of the chaotic entry of thousands of Chinese across the frontier from Chinese territory.

The assistance of the public is still sought, especially as regards the provision of warm clothing.

The Emergency Refugee Counell was formed to deal with a situation of emergency in Hongkong and South China. Its uppent for funds was first

was no

generosity of the Hongkong public would replace them. These supplies are now needed urgently.

Crash Into Tree Many Passengers Hurt

In Bus Smash

FORGED BANKNOTES

TO-DAY'S RADIO

Case Against Junkmaster ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)

Dismissed

Miss Shen Ya-kin (Piano)

Charged with the possession of six

From the Studio Over 20 people were injured, two forged $50 Hongkong banknotes, Lu

DANCE MUSIC & VARIETY remand seriously, when a Un Long motor bus Tak-yau, 39, master of fishing funk ran into a tree on the Castle Peak No.. 4989HC, appeared on Road, 18 miles from Kowloon, yester-before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the

Radio Programmo. Broadcast by Central Magistracy yesterday. After Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. day.

evidence had been given by the pro-and on Short Wave from 6-11 p.m. secution, the case was dismissed, as on 9.52 m.e's. per second. his Worship held that no prima facie ease had been established.

The accident occurred on a down grade when the bus left the roadway while taking a turn and crashed into a tree. The impact burled passer- gers from the bus, many of them being flung down the cliffs towards the sea. The bus was badly damaged,

IL K T.

6.00 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hons kong Hotel

95.

(a) Madhouse; (b) After you've Kone: (e) Stranger in Parce; (d) phony Orchestra. wanna go back to Ball.

Weather

and

Tiger-

7.03. Dioxart-Symphony In D No. (Daxter).... Harry Roy's

Ragamuffins; vocal chorus by Harry HDY; Humorous Recital Follow Sir Hamilton Harly conducting the Follow (A Footbail Study in Blue and

Orchestra. Halle

William Mc- Green-McCulloch) the 7.25 Benno Moiseiviich at

Longing Culloch; Orchestra-Gipsy Piano,

(Kempner); Black Eyes (Igor).... Grillen (Schumann); Polonaise In Maurice Igor and His Nomad Or B Flat Major, Op. 71, No. 2 (Chopin).chestra; Plano and Vocal-Sweet 7.35 Compositions of Erie Coates, Georgia Brown (Pinkard); Indians Saxo-Rhapsody...Siguard Rascher (Hanley)....Buck (Plano) and Dub- (Saxophone) with Symphony Orbles (Vocal) with Novelty Orchestra; chestra cond. by The Composer: Vocal-One Night Of Love (from the Music Of The Night....John Mc- nim)....Master Robert Harris (Roy Cormack (Tenor) with Plano accomp. Soprano) accomp. by Lealle Jeffries by Edwin Schneider; Cinderella-A and His Orchestra; Dance Orchestra ..Eric Coates and Sym-Moonlight On The Rio Grande- Phantasy.

Tango, Fireflowers-Tango....Heinz 8.00 Time,

An-Huppertz and Illa Orchestra: Vocal He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday nouncements.

8.03 Studio-Plano Reeltal by Miss (Tucker and Meskli); Aren't Women 0,14 Record: Dixon Request Med-

Wonderfult....Sophie Tucker with 1. Scherzo, Op. 39, No. 3 (Chopin); Ted Shapiro and His Orchestra. the Seaside; Blaze Away; Who were you

ley; Intro: I do like to be beside the ghen Yakim

10.30 Dance Music Tarantelin (Liszt). giri in the world; Teddy Bears Picnic:

8.30 London Relay News-A Quck-Step That's A Plenty; Fox-

Sweetheart Trol-Someday Ristory Of The Fourth Estate." Bush; Just a week droch and Doris;

Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins; A feature programme telling the Harry She's a Lassle from Lancashire; I do Is Worship, examining the forged like to be beside the seaside....Re-stery of the growth and development Waltz-A Waltz Was Born In Vienna; notes himself, remarked that at aginald Dixon (Organ).

of the Treas in England. Written by Slow Fox-Trot-Would You.

and produced by Musle Makers directed by Henry casual glance, and even under

Kenneth Adam

Hall with vocal chorus; Fox-Trots-I Lurence GNliam.

Come From A Musical Family; Some close examination, he felt that the

9.15 Concert Waltzes, notes would deceive him.

Tosta. Waltz (arr. Schwartz); Bro- body Stole My Break....Louis ArmaTM strong and His Orchestra with vocat | Ken Life, Waltz (arr. Schwartz)... Russian Novelty Orchestra; "Eva"-chorus by Louis Armstrong; Waltz Lehar, arr, Schott); Carmen Sylva-film): Slow Fox-Trot-When Buda- ..International pest Was Young....Joe Loss and His Waltz (Ivanovicl) Waltzes (from the Operetta "Eva"-Moonlight On The Prairie (from the

Orchestra with vocal refrain; Fox- Concert Orchestra.

Trots Swingin' On The Moon; Sing, Baby, Sing. Bob Howard and His Lips Orchestra with vocal refrain. 11.00 Close Down.

emergency arising close at hand the roue for the Camp that is rent to Lam Tai, 22 miles from Ilongkong, the notes of their respective banks with inst night?; If you were the only 2. Etude, Op. 10, No. 10 (Chopin): 3.j

During the past week the E.R.C-undertake to deal with parcels and to which Mr. and Mrs. Wittshlebe found in the possession of the defen- Dinah; Down at the Old Bull and}

the centres that

and

clear

they had set

the

Up.

BOY SCOUTS AID

Fanling Camp Inquiry Office Started

left

are Their numes

dant, were forgeries.

paper.

.

n

0.21 (a) Your eyes have told me so; (b) Gianina Mio; (c) Yiral Yira (d) Wanna.

0.30 London Relay-The Nows. 9.50 Light Variety Programme.

Orchestra-Elat Dance (Davis); I'm A Ding Dong Daddy-

banknotes of $50 denomination. The defendant that he knew defendant had told him that he was selling the junk in order to pay debts. Witness was at present employing the defendant as the junk master.

Slice the work of the E.R.C. is centres, it will

The forged banknotes comprised spread over many be most convenient if any gifts of materials should be given in at one

five $50 Chartered Bank notes, and local of the collecting centrea rather than

When the scene met the eyes of one forged $50 Hongkong and Shang- issued when there

Mr. and Mrs. Wittschiebe a little

hal Bank note, branch of the Distress in China Fund. sent direct to the campn. The appeal Now that the latter Fund has been for help at Fanling was an emer-

later they alighted from the bus on

were travelling, com- Evidence was given by Ho Wing- opened there is no rivala Fund Kelly of the Jubile, the immediate which they the two. The Distress in China

China generally; the need there has been supplied. The mandeered a passing taxi, and drove shui, shroff of the Chartered Bank, deals with

vert back to the Far Eastern Academy and Ho Jim-nam, shroff of Railway is school of the Seventh Day Adventist Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, that E.R.C. is in a position to use in any Kowloon Canton

transport for recently transferred from providing

Shanghai funds entrusted to it.

but it cannot through the ER.C.,

are attached. They assembled attempted to establish refugee cen-

Kowloon Station. by Individuals

party consisting of themselves, Mrs, tres at Shumchun, Kwelchung and Namtso. A beginning was actually The stationmaster at Fasting Rail- liard, and eight students and re- made at Shumchun under the direc-way Station will, however, continue turned to the scene of the accident.

The school party set about giving tion of two members of the Council, to accept for the ERC. any goodn

Con that are left there. It is requested first

aid and were joined shortly

6.35 Record: It Was So Beautiful Miss Atkins and Adjutant Penting.

afterwards by a nurse who was on an by that further supplies of perishable

Tong Shek, Chinese detective C808, of the Salvation Army, assisted by rods should not be brought there. ambulance going to Un Long. A Fr. De Angelis and four Maryknoll The following are, the collecting British soldier who was driving a said that he accompanied Police (Darris); The Clouds Will Soon Roll

Donavan. Fathers, Frs, Donnelly,

fever ease to town in a Red Cross Sergeant A. F. Estall, the officer-in-By (Brown)....Quentin M. Maclean Fitzgerald and Reardon, who re-centres:

Hongkong-St. John's Cathedral truck also stopped and gave assis-charge of Aberdeen Police Station, (Organ) with vocal chorus by Dan tint mained until it became

stall; French Convent school. tance. Transport subsequently came on board the junk, which was an-Donovan; Spanish Gypsy Medley.... 0.44 (a) Music Maestro please; (b) be no longer of their help would

am. on November 12 in order to avult.

When the refugees began to Causeway Bay: Seamen's Institute, from Kowloon and the injured were chored in Aberdeen harbour, about The Romany Mandoline Players.

| Wanchis

taken to hospital.

search the vessel. They found the That foolish feeling: (e) St. Louts pour across the frontler, centres for Kowloon-St. Andrew's Church,

The young students played a com- defendant sleeping in a cabin at the Blues; (d) Darktown Strutters Bail. 7,00 Closing Local Stock Quota- food distribution were then estab-

Nathan Rd.; St. Teresa's Church,

mendable part in giving relief to the stern of the junk, and witness woke Sheungahul and Kowloon Tongi Peninsula Hotel.

Wit- tions. Fanling. lished

Violet him, and told him who he was. Injured. Shutnukok. Fanling was made LIC

Davis, Betty Bowers, Nathan Shawness commenced to search the cabin, rapidly ac- and, from its centre.

point, the

Galen Cullin, Harold Clark, Lloyd and on opening a black lacquer box, this evmulated store at

and Ililllard, Strickland, Warren

and under two pieces of clothing information. The Chinese banknotes E.R.C. distributed supplies to any

Margaret Decker.

found a packet wrapped in green amounted to a total of $238.80, and as far as he knew, they were genuine. organisation that needed them for

When he first saw the $50 notes, he Claimed By Defendant

formed the opinion that they were Witness opened the packet and forgeries. found it contained several banknotes or $50 denomination. He handed Mr. Sin, Sergeant Estall agreed that these to Sergeant Estall, who enquir- the lacquer box was apparently used ed as to their ownership. Defendant to keep the more valuable things on Under Mr. Chan Fook-hong, the

claimed the notes. Furulier searching the ship.

Lo Yu, manager of the Hing Lung Representatives of the ER.C. have,

in the box revealed two rolls of

alt-fish inan, said he was the owner London, Nov. 20. during the past few days, constantly District Commissioner for Kowloon

of the junk, which he had bought and the New Territories, North, and visited all the points near

the four Scouters 40 members of the

The Imperial Airways Hiner Cal-Chinese banknotes and these the de-salt

from the defendant in September for frontier where help seemed

local Boy Scouts Association from

Corroborative evidence was given $1,000, Witness paid cash for the needed, and they have been

with mall, has been found crashed in

by Sergeant Estall, who said he junk, mainly in $5 and $10 banknotes. could not sos that a prima facte case (Shunkuipo), Lake Harbaniya, Iraq. touch with such bodies as the Waithe 110) Kowloon (Wah Yan Colpurnia, bound from London to Indin fendant also claimed,

lege), 8th Kowloon Young and Un Long Commercial 15th Kowloon, 10th Kowloon (Tai Yo

The discovery was made by search-boarded the ship on receipt of certain He did not hand the defendant any had been Associations which have done sucks Market), and 22nd Kowloon (for ins Royal Air Forces planes wo excellent work in feeding thousands

undertook the difficult

work of refugees daily during these days.! catering to the needs of more than guided a rescue party to the spol. No passengers were curried on the The ER.C. is also working in co-2,500 people housed in 30 railway- operation with the Government inconches. The party of Scouts connection with the Refugee Camps, stay out at the Camp for seven days:

if cir Under it auspices a number of after which, circumstances voluntary workers

helping in mand, another group will be sent out connection with the new Refugee to take their place.

consisting refugees The

there. Camp

Fanling with its headquarters nt Fanliog Railway mostly of women and children, are Station.

Some 2,000 refugees are given one meal of rice a day at the already

accommodated in railway expense of Government, but thanks wagons and fed from kitchens sup-to the generous donations of biscuits, plied by the

the public, the An bread, ele, additional 3,000 will be by Tuesday afternoon. The volun-meal of tea and biscuits before bed- tury workers organised by the E..C. time. The Rovers in Camp have al- consist of the four Maryknoll Fathers ready established an "nquiry and communication department," in which who were at Shumchun and abuse they undertake the duties of giving of boys. The first group of

for the were drawn from the senior pupils advice and writing letters of Wab

Fr. under

Miss Atkins Adjutant Ponting

The Emergency Relief Council has were in charge of this work, assisted

John's put up another refugee camp at by some members of St. Ambulance Association and a large Fanling and, to cope with the urgent group from the Chinese Y.M.C.A.

Welfare Workers

formed

at

bo

close

situation Boy Scouts and Rovers

were once more called upon to as- sume duty there.

Trom

will

de-

Gover for Scouts are able to distribute another

I

Yan College. Hohes Unfortunate victims of war.

S. J. Donnelly

have now been replaced by a party of Boy Scouts assembled by the District Commlestoner for Kowloon, Mr. Chan Fook-hong. A party of ladies from the Y.W.C.A. have under-!

work for the taken the welfare women and children.

Warm Covering

REFUGEE CAMPS

New Sites to be Ready By To-morrow

There are now 20,000 refugees from the border in Hongkong camps, 5,000 at Kam Tin, 5,000 at Sheung- shui, ,5000 at Fanling station and the

the

CALPURNIA CRASH

Forced Landing Kills Wireless Operator

plane but D. B. Reece, wireless opera tor, lost his life and the other three

They are of the crew are missing. E. H. Attwood, Spottiswood und F. G. Bee. The steward, Anderson, and the station officer, Harrison, are in- jured.

The plane crashed while trying to make a forced landing in a sand- storm. The machine is lying in eight fect of water.--Reuter.

While

AUSTRALIAN CRASH

Brisbane, Nov. 28.

for searching

a missing woman to-day a machine belonging to the Australian Air Force collided with a high tension wire and crashed. The machine took fire and all four occupants were killed.

This disaster brings to 44 the total number of people killed in accidents to machines of the Australian Air- Force this year which constitutes a record-Trans-Ocean,

The ERC. Is extremely grateful others elsewhere. One hundred rail- the firing on British territory when for all the help that it has received way vans are being used at Fanling the Japanese attacked Shumchun on

and Saturday, it is now revented. from various associations and from to accommodate members of the public during the matsheds have been constructed by

Ambulances Used the vans, last days. Its chief need at present

sent the Government alongside

and

In addition to the St. John Am- is not food but, especially, matting The Government refugee camp at

and military appliances Within covering. warm

the King's Park is ready for occupation. bulances next week it will have the care of The North Point and the Mataucheng used in the New Territories to cope dy on Wednesday. with the wounded, five ambulances more than 10,000 refugees: 5,000 at camps will be Kam Tin, 5,000 at Fanling, and more

Yesterday afternoon H

Shautaukok of the Fire Brigade were requisition- civilians, and ed at different times, leaving one at than 6,000 in the new Urban Camps. was abandoned by

the road to Fan- the Terminus Fire Station to deal Bed m

and worm quilts are refugees ch matting

choked needed for all these, and present ung. Chan You-hing, 33, refugee, with cases in Kowloon supplies are not adequate for even was knocked down by a car which half. A large supply that was being did not stop on the Taipo Road. He accumulated of warm

clothes and was taken to Kowloon hospital with quilts and blankets was sent to Can-face and head injuries. ton when the opportunity arose Jas At least three were killed and the week, for it

the same number injured as a result of

wns

felt that

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Replying to both his Worship and

Unaware of Forgeries

Un Ylu-kwan, police interpreter, which he made in answer to the read out the defendant's statement

charge.

Defendant stated in effect that he had got the banknotes through selling sh.

The defendant was not colled upon by his Worship for his defence,

Mr. Forrest remarked that he

established against thei

The

the notes

were forged. That the notes were forged, his Worship had no doubt, but aware of that. Ilis Worship cald the he did not think the defendant was notes could easily have come into his own possession, and he would have. no reason to doubt their genuineness. Defendant, moreover, kept them in his more the lacquer box among treasured belongings, Had he hidden

somo other

place, for them in instance, a hole in a mast, he (his Worship), would have taken a dlf- ferent view of the matter, and would. have heard what the defendant bad to say in his defence.

The case was dismissed.

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