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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,

REFUGEES GO BACK Death After

ITUATION ON BORDER

LESS ACUTE

Yesterday after ten days influx, the stream of refugees from ngtung into the New Territories thinned appreciably and, rds the end of the day, there were some going back across order. The police and relief workers told many refugres It was safe to return, but few believed the information.

proclamation urging the Chinese refugees to return to chun has been issued by the 153rd Chinese Division whose

nre now garrisoning the town.

here are five known cases, of abandonment of children by distracted refugee mothers in the New Territories. In all the children are well and safe.

panese authorities in Canton yesterday arrested hundreds esirables and many were seen tied up at street corners. is known that 27 civilians, nine of whom were women and in, were killed and 101 wounded during the Japanese mass ng of Kwellin in Kwangsi on Wednesday.

la reported that the Kuomintang plenary session scheduled ecember 15 has been postponed until January 15. Chinn's

relations with Japan will be discussed.

day, after ten days influx, On

Wednesday night an elderly

Fall

Wood-Cutter Who Ran Away From Police

The death of a wood-cutter, who was injured when he attempted to escape after being nurprised by the police at Aberdeen on September 14, was inquired into at the Central Magistracy yesterday, with Mr. R. A. 1. Forrest sitting as Coroner, assisted by a Jury comprising Messrs. Henry P. C. Poon (Foreman), Lo Suen wing and Lok Tuk-kim. Crown Sergeant A. P. Estall was present for the police.

Mr. Forrest told the Jury that the inquiry concerned the death of Lo Po, 33. The

n was apparently Featting wood without right to do so on the hillside above Aberdeen and was chared by a police officer. In unning away, he fell down a hill- side and injured himself.

It appeared that he died as a result of the accident. The chief reason for the inquiry was because 4 police allier was involved, and to make

to blame for his death,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1938.

TRAGIC EVIDENCE

Man Tolls How He Lost Entire Family

Hls escape from the second floor of a burning building by climbing own a drainpipe was described by Lo Sa, one of the survivors of the disastrous fire in Shanghai Street Yaumati, last month, et an inquiry into the fire at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

The fire claimed 12 lives, including those of ho's wife, and his four children.

Mr. Macfadyen,

won nssiated by a jury comprising J. Hoare, Lam T-hong and G. A. Gutterren. Inspector Wright appeared for the police, anaisted Jay Sub-Inspector Mottram.

The Bre occurred hours of November bodies were

in the early 17. Eleven recovered from the run and a mno died in hospital where 12 aceupants were sent for treatment.

in of refugees fram Kwang- | female refuger fell down on the road clear that the officer was in no way 20, was given by Dr. Tye Hon-sham, | hto the New Territories and broke her spine. Her injury

me

Juppreciably and, towards the the day, there were kome buck cross the border. Few e slayed in Chinese territory night, however, merely treat-

assurances of safety as inity to salvage more of their ings to bring back into British ry.

Dr. Dean A. Smith, of the Queen

Evidence of the death of Yip Kom, who sat the body had third degree and, lens and thigh. Other parts burns on the head, chest, elbow, of the huty were charred. Cause of death was due to multiple burns and shock

the

Gruesome Discovery

An Urgent Appeal

Children Abandoned By

Refugee Mothers

Club has issued the following appeal The Hongkong Chinese Women's for

Chinese relief:

Dssistance in connection with

"The Hongkong Chinese Women's, Club wish to appeal to the publle) nese manufacture for exhibition and for contributions of articles of Chi- sale at baznars to be held in the near future in New York and Paris.

The proceeds realized from both relief of distress in China, bazuara will be devoted towards!

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As the conditions in China аге more peute, increasing the urgenes for assistance, the Club earnestly hope that the liberality of the pubile will once more be extend- ed in the same unstintex manner as in the pust.

Will all intending donors kindly December 8. send donations to this Club before i

During the week, Mrs. Li Shu-fan, Chairman; Mrs. Violet Chan, Vice- Vice President; Mrs. Li Shu-pui, Chairman; Mrs. Ho Sai-walt, General Business

Committee: Mru. Chan Fung-chaut, Transportation Depart- ment: Mrs. Tang Chu", English| Secretary; frid

other membera representing the Hongkong, Chinese Women's Club, visited the various refugee centres established in the New Territories.

were

proved fatal. There have been two

mail-pox and one typhus case and Mary Hospital, said the deceased more thon dozen people are stricken with nalaria. No baldes was admitted to hospital on Septem have been born in the last two days complete paralysis of the legs as a her 14 about 9.15 an, suffering from at the camps, but many expectantuft of a fracture of the spine. An mothers are being cared for.

The Government Medical Depart-peration was performed on him on Meteber 14, and he died on November ment has sent out enough. small-pox

J. W. Wołkord, of the Terminus police and relief workers told

vareme for 100,000 people and is

Fire Station, said the alarm was re- refugees yesterday that it was Some 20,000 refugees have already November 7, and the cause of death and a lorry were sent to the scene. preparing another 200,000 doves, A post-mortem was carried out onceived at 12.49 a.m. and two engines return to their homes in the y of the New Territories, but en vaccinated, those not checked was found to be hypostatic pneumonia Flames

been

were issuing from the clieved the information. They being told that vaccination is peces consequent on the

On behalf of the Hongkong Chi- fracture of the ground and second floors in the front nese Women's Club, a truck load of; to stay a while doing no worsary before they can be supplied with spine and the crashing of the spinal and rear of his arrival. receiving free food until the resident Chinese scroungers and to was powerfully built. The man had

meals. This is to checkmate the

The fire padded coats, flour, food, and milk cord. The deceased, ald Dr. Smith, was under control at 1.36.

was left at the Shataukok border has had more time to dis-compel the refugees to conform to also told him during his period in of two lults and seven children in cas r, one relief worker told a re-the

Wollard said he found the bodies

for distribution to the needy. Padded Colony's

regulations. Trained hospital that he had come by his

clothing milk and medical as regards housing vaccinators are on the job and they injury as a result of falling down position

kitchen

supplies on the second floor.

given to St. John's do a considerable un

Ambulance ceding the homeless is so much

number of cases ja aside.

They were piled one on another.

Association for their in a day so the Department hupe-

The body of another child was found maternity clinle at Fanling. ful that Hongkong will retain the 1: Kwong, e were on the Taipo-Fanling almost hundred per cent, immuunity C309, said he was walking with a

delcutive-sergeant in the Brst floor kitchen.

At Fanling these Indies encounter | on Wednesday night while from small-pox that had been reach-friend

The water supply was adequate doubtless by a poor distracted re- sad case of abandonment, i than a score were admitted to ect prior to the South China invasion, hillside above the Aberdeen Industrial Fung Wah on the

and Chery Wils no undue delay fugee mother, of a newly born babe, camps yesterday morning.

e three "railway camps"-three to learn that Government used the heard the sound of wood being sawn, In this connection it is interesting School on September 14 when he

obtaining a supply.

found in the nearby scrub. On ons of Cunton-Hankow freight

Questioned regarding escapes, hearing the story, the baby was not old disinfecting hulk in Yaumati Bay He went to Investigate and saw two a siding-were filled and to cleanse the 980 prisoners of war men in a clearing cutting trees.

Wollard said there was an opening long in finding a foster mother and loning under the supervision of

in the root of the second floor it is now in the Yeung Wo Hospital Emergency

now housed aboard the steamship he approached, the two men, seeing chen. The main exit was the stair-undergoing treatment necessitated by

was acquired him, bolted in different directions. way leading to the rear of the shop. exposure.

There was a window the kitchen. foolding into the line, and one skie of the kitchen opened on to an air- shaft. There was a stone slab under the hole in the kitchen, and one could reach the hole by standing on the slab and jumping.

nd now that only a hundred

on

yknoll Fefugee Council and Lihong. This

freatened.

The

hulk

the

numed

As

to Aberdeen

The latter fed some years ago for wholesate dis- e 500 people at the last of these

Infection. The prisoners maretted in aps lo

10 be

Found After Search organised on Wednes-

al ont evening.

end of the ship, removed It now holds 1,200 their clothes, bathed, and then dress-

Wilness made sons. Each freight ear

a search of the accom- odates between 45 and 50 refugees, other end of the ship.

ed in their disinfected clothes at the vicinity, and found the deceased lying injured half-way down a rocky slope. A large store of rice is

being

The man complained of a pain in his stributed to the inhabitants of the frontier seems unchanged from the back, and witness called to his friend

military position mps, but a welfare worker said, previous sterday, that a shortage of biscuits conspicuously absent and the Chinese we went back

the deceased, day, the Japanese being stand guard over remaining distant from Shumehun. Station to make a report. Witness that the British military authorities

Looting became so rife yesterday reached the station in about eight were constrained to stop people re- entering the New Territories from Dr. Molc has been appointed full-Shumchun with the obvious fruits of me doctor for the refugees and he their pilfering. na all his time occupied in the emergency hospital that he runs on the first floor of the Joseph Memorial

The prisoners have not been acuated from the Joseph Memorial all yet,

Vaccination Plans

Hall with a few nurses.

Deanna That

CERTAIN AGE

DURBIN

MELVYN DOUGLAS

A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

Urged to Return

refugees to return to Shumchun has A proclamation urging the Chinese been issued by the 153rd Chinese Division whose troops are now gar- risoning the town.

Normal conditions are expected to be resumed there within a few days, Restrictions on traffic on the border of the township are understood to have been withdrawn.

Chinese The Shumchun is confirmed by a letter

re-occupation

received by the Central News from

Mr. Leung Pao-yan, magistrate of Po On. last night. The letter was dispatched from the Shumchun dis- trict government headquarters. Central News.

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and telephoning for an ambulance, After reporting to Sergeant Estall witness returned to where the de- ceased lay. He had a conversation with the man, and found that his

taken to wood-cutting to earn a living formerly been a fisherman, but had game was Lo Po and that he had

he could not find a job. Deceased, continued Lal, was car- ried down to the ambulance on a stretcher, and every care was taken during the

conveyance. He was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital.

On

30 People on Floor

Lo So, 42, said there were about eight or nine familles, comprising 30 people, living on the recond floor.

street and saw a crowd looking up the night of the fire he was aroused by n commotion. In the

the trapdoor on top of the stairs a at his building. When he lifted large volume of smoke blew up, so and raised the alarm. The trapdoor he closed the trapdoor immediately

was by then alight.

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Four Other Known Cases

It is learned that officials of the National Association for the Care of War Orphans, Hongkong branch also founi four such newly-born abandoned children in the New Ter- rituries. The last known case was the one reported to the Association by the Police nt Un Long at 11 p.m. on Thursday night and the child was immediately taken to the Association headquarters.

yesterday that all the four babies An official of the Association said

are doing well.

The child at Yeung Wo Hospital, a girl in been kindly adopted by relief worker and member of the Birs. Chan Fang-chau, herself a kern

Hongkong Chinese Women's Club.

CHARITY SALE

Fruit hawkers of Hongkong who] some time ago organised patriotic sulta and netted nearly $400,000 for the Chinese Government will or-

All the occupants of the Boar then rushed to the kitchen, while he pick-

sleeping ed up his three daughters, who were near the trap door, and pulled them into the kitchen. By that time most of the people

in the were Replying to questions, witness said kitchen of

practically overcame

omeganise a charity sate, this time for was not in uniform when he saw by the smoke, and he did not know the relief of refugees in New Ter- the deceased and the other man. where

where his wife was owing to its den- ritories. This sale supported by He was well-known to the people in seness, Lo said he was nearly over the big Chinese firms can collect a Aberdeen. A saw, and 470 catties come by that time, but just then lie large sum. The sale in the central clearing. of cut wood, were found in the saw the glimmer of a window, which district will be from December 12

he brake and was slightly revived to 18. by the fresh air. He intended to Fun!

gave corroborative Jump at first, but on noticing a water evidence, and said that during his stay pipe on the wall, he climbed down th the decensed, the latter mule it into the lane. Some of the other To complaint to him against any- tenants followed hin, some falling

ne, but said he had injured himself through falling

After helping the people into fe down the hillside mouth of the lone, be realised that when escaping.

his family was not among them. Sergeant staff also said that the deceased mode no complaint to him

gainst anyone.

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SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA AND SINGAPORE Cable Address: Swanstock

THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The grateful thanks of the society la ereby tendered to the many subscribers ring the year ended 31st October, and the elety is pleased to inform them that the tal Income for the your has nearly covered be increasing expenditure.

Ion. Trensuers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O, Building.

Mɛ, KWOK CHAN,

"c/o Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

** Hongkong,

1st, 1938.

Wah

The Jury returned * verdict of accidental death, with no blame at-

ached to any person.

CHILD PROTECTION

New President of The Local Society

Shartly after he found his son lying in the lane. He carried himn t of the lane and went back, but by then itames were shooting from the kitchen windw.

Hearing wes adjourned until Monday,

CHRISTMAS MAILS

INCREASE

ANNUAL MEETING HELD | Shipping Figures For

ne

the

on-

Last Month

OVERSEAS PRESENTS

are

At the annual joint meeting of the General and Executive Committees of the Hongkong Society for Protection of Children, held GA November 20, the Chairman nounced that Sir Shouson Chow hnd expressed a desire to lay down the ulice of President which he

had alled from the beginning of

the Society's existence. However, mem- bera were relleved to learn that his resignation by no means implied the severance of his connection with the Suclety nor any abatement of the untiring activly which had charne- In November last year Hongkong terised the nine years of Sir Shou-despatched 112 bags of small packets, son, Chow's term of office.

Sir Robert Kotewall would be in- vited to become President.

A lust year ships carried most of the Christmas letters a comparison cannot be with this year's figures

Agures made until alt mat known Inter in the month, but in- Jefl dications are that ships which the Colony in November bore a greater burden of Christmas cheer than those which sailed last year.

cards, and papers to Great Britain, whereas this year 151 bags were Aited. In addition, ships in 1937, carried 77 bags of letters.

For ten days between December pain will 11 and 20 organisers of this cam- tise? mofor lorries to collect funds, food stuff and clothing. making appeals in all districts.

appeal

it

All fruita needed for the sale will be donated free by the hawkers.

THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

response 10 the Governor's

the Troupe on Monday night will give Tai Ping Theatrical

charity performance, presenting a new play entity "A Marriage after War, which has cost the troupe $6,000 for production. It all tickets are sold the organizers expect secure $3,000 for the British Fond for the Relief nt Distress in China.

This show will be presented only four times 121 it will not be performed again. The star per- formers will be Mr. Ma Tze-isang

and Miss Tam Lan-hing.

to

Padded Coals Donated

Songsters ot West Point have. donnied 600 padded coats to the Chinese Women's Relief Association in Hongkong for distribution among the refugees in New Territories.

HELP FOR CANTON

Provisions Sent By Local Women's Club

The Hongkong Chinese Women's Club report that they despatched to Canton by the Relief stlp on Novem- her 23:

Four coses new clothing and pad- ded

quilts; to Service Corps of the China Youth Relief Association Me supplies worth $200; to Gene- Tam Kai-shuu 400 padded coats and medical supplies worth $200; to Service Corps of the Hongkong Stu- dents' Reller Association, 100 paddled $200 at one motor cycle; to the conta and medical supplies worth

Rhenish Missionary Society in Tung

The Chulemon announced that the management of the Lien Yurt Sien Creche (the gift of Mr. Li Po-chun) More, but smailer, Christmas pre- sents seems to be the rule as far as had been taken over by officers of the Society ns from November 18.

mailings to Canada, are concerned. Mr. Tank Shiu-kin, M..., was

Last year 27 bags were required to thanked for a generous gift of furni- hold 372 parcels; this year sufficient ture for the Society'a new offices. room was

in 23 bags for 439 After discussion, the Committees parcels. Parcels rent to the United

States increased approved the annual report and ac-

almost twofold, counts as well as a list of officera 1.304 prosents in 129 bags being sent this year, against 799 In 59 bags last which would be submitted for the Society's adoption at lis

Annual meeting, to be held at the Helena May Institute on Tuesday, December the Christmas malls for Austrate district, $300 for medical sup- 13. His Excellency the

Governor

year.

As Inst year, the Tanda carried

She left yesterday with 300 parcels has intimated his intention of being in 33 bags and 13 bogs of papers and present.

small packels. Lost your hor lond The Chairmon reminded members was 213 parcels in 10 bage and A that the annual meeting was open to similar volume of papers and small the public.

packets.

Owing to the extended activities of the Club, it has been necessary to move Into larger promises. There- fore, the Club Rooina will, an from | December 0, be situated at 11 Queen's

Rond Central, avcond Boor.

for your convenience

NEW FEATURES at the

Cafe Windsor

King's Theatre Building.

1.--Full Licence to sell Liquor Day and Night. 2.-Snacks served on Mezz. Fir. from 2.30 p.m. to midnighi

dally. Very reasonable prices. 3.-Special Afternoon Tea at 45c. p..

4.-Full Course Chinese Dinner served in European Style.

5.

-Open from 9 a.m. to Midnight.

Reservations: phane 24947, 24948.

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at

HALF-PRICE

SALE

on MONDAY Dec. 5

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CHRISTMAS

ADVERTISING.

The early co-operation of advertisers is requested in the matter of submitting copy and lay-outs for special advertising during December.

Illustrative "mats” should be selected immediately, and copy sent in not loss than forty-eight hours before the datos of publication.

"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST"

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and

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”

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