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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 28, 1939.

By Walt Disney

THIRD FLAT.

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HAD TODAY!

CHINESE INDUSTRY

Aims And Work Of

The Co-operatives

The origin, work and aims of_the_Chinese Industrial Co- operatives were dealt with by Miss Ida Pruitt, who is associated

Organise Last Year

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Coor, 1919, Wah Dungy Prodvezicar Wild Rights Reserved j

have all the statistics.

The second to be organised was in south Kiangst and from the Head- quarters there depots in Fukien, Kwangtung, and South Anhul operating.

The third Headquarters is in Hunan taking in the Kwangsl work and tho fourth is the Sikong Headquarters (which is with the Central Headquar»! ters in Chungking and there is on- other office in Yunnan,

On Small Senio

The industries are organised on a

anywhere from seven to 200 members

It is man-

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TO-DAY'S RADIO

CURRENCY TODAY'S

Depreciation Causes Much Confusion

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles),

Elizabeth Rodgers

and the London Piano-Accordeon Band.

Radio Programme Broadcast by Studio Soprano Recital By732 The fill Billies, Vivian Elils ZBW on a Frequency of 845 lc.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. "per; second.

I

SECOND ACT OF CARMEN

The Whistling Waltz (film 'Lime light'); Maid Of Brazil (Le Roy and

Canton, July 27, The depreciation of the national dollar has caused much confusion in

in view of the H.KT. Canton, especially many different currencies in circula- 12-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of flm Follow your Star').... The Marsden)....London Plano-Accord- with the movement, in a talk given to the Y's Men's Club at their small scale for several reasons. With tion here. Recently notes issued by Intercession from St. John's Catho Street Singer (Arthur Tracy) with con Band; A Shanty In A. One Horse

Orchestra. When The Lads Are Off Town (The Hill Biles); Waltzing, weekly luncheon at the St. Francis Hotel yesterday. The meeting to a co-operative there is a natural the former Municipal Bank of Canton dral. was presided over by Mr. S. B. Tan (Vice-President).

unit, the size of group to which the tender, while in a few instances they izki (Piano).

were generally unaccepted as legal 12.30. A Concert by Mischa Levi-To Dance Fox-Trot Intermezzo; Matilda (An Australian Song-Cowan Mind Your Step-Fox-Trot...Otto arr. Wood)...The Hill Billies with Misa Pruitt said:

to be anything like enough for the people are accustomed.

themselves. Were taken at a heavy discount. Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major Dobrindt and His Plano Symphonists. Their Own Novelty Accomp; A Litla Won't Tell A Soul (Parker, Charles) White Room (Floodlight-Beverley China's coastal and river city in- people and for this national economy.geable for the people

(Liszt), with the London Sym- dustry has been destroyed. 90 per Chine has the people to do the workings need to be erected, and easily national currency, the military yen Ronald; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 Et Noir-Slow Fox-Trot; Will O' The (Piano); Across The Great Divide

It is easily housed, no special build-

In sympathy with the drop in the phony Orchestra cond. by Sir Landon with instrumental Accomp. Rouge (Beverley Nichols). Vivian Ellis The Street Singer (Arthur Tracy) Nichols): Floodlight"-Plano Medley cent, of the whole of Chian's modern | Ching has the raw material to make industry British trade is being block into the goods that are needed. This if the war comes to near. has also deprcelated in terms with (Liszt). aded. British boats sall up and

The co-operative

Wisp Fox-Trot Intermez20 Otto (Box and Others); My Little Buckaroo raw material and this man power ganization enables the groups to get around 185. One can

form of offle Hongkong dollar, formerly quoted

1.00. Time and Weather. down the coast with the red show-should be mobilized for strengthening into production almost immediately 200 for H.K, $100, Kwangtung Pro- Dobrindl and His Orchestra.

now change 1.03. The Street Singer and Otto Dobrindt and His Plano Symphonists. (Film 'Strange Laws') ....The Hill 1.30. Reuter and Rugby Press, Billies with Their Own Novelty Ac- ing on their hulls every trip. The the nation and not be allowed to and with a minimum of overhead,

comp: I Have Lost My Heart In porta are closed. The Yangtse river disintegrate into hopeless and help for salaries on the part of the Cvincial Bank notes seem to command;

Sunny Days Fox-Trot Intermezzo; Weather and Announcements. carries Japanese boats only, loaded less refugee hordes.

than the national Chorus of The Clocks-Fox-Trot In- more confidence

1.40. Jessie Matthews (Vocal) and Budapest (Mihaly and Felner). with so-called "war-mgterläis."

The factory equipment belonging to dollar, formerly quoted at a discount termezzo.... Otto Dobrindt and His

London Plano-Accordeon Band. Harry Boy's Tiger-Ragumuñas. the workers, they care for it them of about 20 per cent. In relation to Piano Symphonists. Goldilocks And

Jazz Me Blues-Quick-step; Cheer- 8.03 Next week's programme. The Japanese aro right. Cotton

3.06 Lladow-The Enchanted Lako cloth, shoca, flash lights, soap, ma- It is to do this very thing that the needed they can work what hours discount is only about 12 per cent.

selves, and move it themselves when the national currency, but the present The Three Bears (Blm Follow your ful Blues--Slow Fox-Trot... Harry

Roy's Tiger-Ragamumns. Just By Serge Kounovitzky and the Boston chinery, chemicals, etc. are war Chinese Industrial materials. The people must have were organised in Hankow just about are worlding. One of their own authorities have protested against-

Star); Waltz For Those In Love Your Example (film Evergreen'); Symphony Orchestra. Co-operatives they like nr it is for themselves they It is learned that the Japanese

Dancing On The Celling (film 'Ever- 8.13 Studio Concert by Elizabeth them to live and the soldiers must one year ago. Dr. H. H. Kung adopt number is the foreman, elected by Chinese money changers operating at out of his pockets, and none have green').... Jessie Matthews (Vocal) Rodgers (Soprano) and Nara Kanis

ed the plan and set aside a sum of themselves and changed if he does Shameen as these usually quote The local shop keepers in the oc money for

had to stand in line.

with Orch, Waltz Medley. Intro: (Plano). the start of the CI.C.not prove satisfactory. cupied cities are forced to stock Ja- with the

batter rate for the local currency and Rumours galore have been floating Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life: Falling 1. The Birch-Tree (A. Grotchan- encouragement of the The C.1.C. organizers teach the the military yen than the city sources. about the concessions, so many being in Love Again; Charmaine; Ramona; noft); 2. The Awakening of a Snow panese goods. They must live. They Generalissimo's office and Madame workmen how to run the meetings Whether it is true at not, the fact certain this situation has grown out Missouri Waltz What'll I do... Harry drop (A. Gretchaninoff); 3. My send the goods through to the back Chiang, the work was actually start- and carry out the principles of co- remains that it is now almost im of the Tientsin situation. However, Roy's Tiger Ramgamuffins, Tinkle, Country (A. Gretchaninoff): 4. Lul- country. They are mute carto the ed in September of last year. Some operation, supervise them during the possible to change military yen and no Japanese official will admit that Tinkle, Tinkle; Over My Shoulder Jaby (A. Gretchaninoff)

Elizabeth vana of camels and mule in the of the very first groups of small in early periods and remain north, by rivers and trucks in the dustries were formed from

their local currencies in Shameen.

the idea is to embarrass British or (film 'Evergreen'); When You've Got Rodgers, 6. Prelude, Op. 10, No. 1 cotton counsellore, south the goods go in. The people mills.

National and Kwangtung bank- other nationals. Your correspondent A Little Springtime In Your Heart (Lindow); 6. A Musical Savit Box Girls moved by Madame The C.I.C. engineers are there to nolos, however, can be bought from to-day called оп and the armies must have clothes Chiang from Hankow to Shensi

Jessie Mat (Liadow)....Nura Kanis; 7. All is Mr. Hayaanid, (film Evergreen") speed up production. They get hold foreign borks, but is is understood Japanese Vice-Consul, and was given thews (Vocal) with Orchestra. Shine; Calm, The River is Asleep.............(C. and shoes and goods. We all know Before giving some history of the of whatever machinery is available. that they do not bandle military yen. how dimcult it is to tell what goods C.I.C. and telling of its methods of Many eple stories are told of talding

to understand that the gendarmes are My Sweetie Went Away; Sweet Jen-Kasherwaroff); B. The Pino-Tree (ML

9. Cornflowers Though it is logical that these cur-being so strict because the Shameen ny Lee; Farewell Blues; You Rascal Balakiroff); are Japanese manufactured and what work, I want to tell of one of the machinery from devastated areas back rencies should depreciate in sympathy money exchangers are blamed for the You; Muddy Waters... Harry Roy Cherniayakyy)....Elizabeth Rodgers. are Chinese and what are imported great motives for starting the move into the safe country. This is ex-with the drop in the national dollar, depreciation of national currency and and His Tiger-Ragamuffins. from abroad. How can the people ment. Sixty million Chinese have tremely necessary as there must be in Shanghai and elsewhere "Anancial local currency, carrying with them in the interior tell? And how can been dislodged from their homes and machine shops in every section to speculators" are blamed for the con- to a low level the military yen. they use the power of discrimination forced to seek livelihood in other make the smallest every day machines fusion, and it is said that the authori- it there are no other goods to buy? places. Among these are some of of production. The prime movers are ties are endeavouring to introduce The first need of man is food. But China's finest Industrial workers, according to what the country has some effective methods to check their second to that is clothing and third many are just human beings is the stuff he needs for daily life need food. There are, besides, many northwest there is an iron foundry

who to give in the way of power, in the activities-Reuter. and occupation.

hundreds of thousands who have not run by water power. In the south- left their homes but who have found east it is a churcoal burning engine. that their work has left them.

Productive Power

have them to fight.

No Medical Supplies Daily we get stories from the interior, the doctors have not enough gauze, bandages, sheets, blankets, to

kong and say that their first-instine

To give work to these people which shall support them and their families

Ch

9.45 Grieg Concerto In 'A Milnor, 2.15. Close down,

1 Op.10 4.00, Dance Music. Quickstep Swing Is Here To Sway Arthur De Greef (Piano) and the National Notes Circulated Kuangtung Express that the national Shoes (film "Thoroughbreds don't

(film 'All Baba goes to Town'); Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conduct- It was stated in this morning's Slow Fox-Trot- Got A Now Pair Of ed by Sir London Ronald,

9.18 London Relay-The News, notes that were, surcharged to con- cry') . Harry Roy and His Orch. 0.30 London Relay-Moro Food, for Search At British Bridgo vert them into local currency are Tango Fox-Trot-City Of A Millon | Thought'.

Dreams; Waltz - Viennese Romance Short talks on matters of topical These last five days the gendarmes again circulated.

Simultaneous with the reluctance..... Jack Wilson and His Ver-interest. have been holding up long queues of of the public to accept the surcharged satile Five. Quickstep-Home Again 0.45 Landon Relay-Sports Nowy The engineers also try to increase/ Chinese passing in and out Shumeen, notes, the man on the street turned Blues: Fox-Trot-Pop Corn Men...

and Market Notes, even going through their pockets, say nothing of medicines and instru-and at the same time increase the the productive power

0.50 Orchestral Selections. ments. The soldiers have not enough wealth of the nation seemed the best methods. In one place, the engineer morning was only hurday fractional currency notes of the Can-Fox-Trot-Silver Salls On Moonlit of the local reading every letter. On Thursday his nose up at the ten and 20 cent. Harry Roy and His Orchestra. Slow

The Immortals--Concert Overture cloth for their uniforms. They need kind of refugee relief possible.

Lon Municipal Bank, Therefore,Waters; After All These Years.... (Reginald Kiss) ...London Between a third and a half of the put a plece of iran into a local weav- Bridge that such a thorough-going copper cents shot up in value. For Jack Wilson and His Versatile Five. Symphony Orchestra cond, by Walter shoes. The people have not enough

ing, machine, Instead of the wooden inspection. was conducted, but by goods of daily necessity. All have workers of the CLC. are refugees, plece that had been there and so afternoon and ever since there have 20 of them lind passed for à Waltz-Dance Th Moonlight Waltz Gochr.; "The Perfect Fool"-Dance heard stories of the price of soap, of people who have been forced to leave enabled the workman to do in an been additionni guards at the French me, but when the small-change with Me; Slow Fox-Trot--Old Fal Of Of The Spirits Of The Earth (Holst); cotton cloth, of iron goods, in the their homes. The others are local hour what it had taken him a day Gate.

notes became unusable it took only Mine Montevani and His Orch. "The Planeta"-No. 3, Mercury interior. And even at those high people whose work has left them before. In Klangst they are plan-

14 coppers to equal ten cents. Fox-Trots-It's D'Lovely (from The (Holst)

....Symphony Orchestra prices everything is bought, for goods There are whole towns of refugees ning ball bearings for the big water Meals, in particular the meals of

As there are not enough Provincial Ficet's ilt Up'); I Hadn'i Anyone Till | conducted by Albert Contes; Pastorale people must have, Friends from the being organised into co-operatives wheels which Irrigate the fields and house servants and office fokis have Bank 10 and 20 notes in circulation, You.. Geraldo and His Orchestra, D'Eto-Poeme Symphonique (Honeg- interior look at the shops in Hong but the usual policy is to mix turn the simple milling machinery, often been greatly delayed by the and it is so bothersome having to pay Tango Fortuna,... Robert Renardger)

....Arthur Honegger und refugees and local people to get a This-is-just-two-of-the-stories-for-searches-The-writer scook_lind to small bills in copper cents theso Dance-Orchestra.

Grand Symphony Orchestra, Paris; tive reaction is, "why isn't somebody quicker Integration with the neigh which perhaps the most thrilling is stand in line for two hours after smali Municipal notes came back into 6.42. Closing local Stock Quota- Perpetuum Mobile (Johann Strauss) buying?" The surplus of goods in hourhood.

the speed up of the whole textile being to the market this morning, for use to-day. But larger denomination tions.

Willem Mengelberg and His Con- the ports amazes them.

There are five areas of work each processes, the bringing in of the every day the gendarmes take longer, notes of the Municipal Bank are still 6.45. London Relar-Great Oc-certgebouw Orchestra. with its own headquarters and with modern ways of spinning wool as than the day before in their searches. not used in the city.

casions in Parliament

10.20 Bizet's "Carmen" Act II. many depots. The first one lo be well as cotton and the whole weav- Though there are four or five gen- The rush to turn

William Pitt. An Appeal for Na- Singers in order of appearance: organised was in Shensi and nowing programme.

darmes, including one or more into Hongkong notes is over, with a tional Unity, November 10, 1707. Aurora Bundes, Bruno Carmassi, Ebo 7.15 Musical Comedy Selections.Ticozzi, Irma Mion, Benvenuto The government has made gigantic hundred co-operatives operating In There are over fifty different kinds officers, at the foot of the steps lead resultant decrease in the exchange

ing to either gate, only one man does value of all colonial issues. In the "Mother Of Peari" Selection (0. Franel, Aristido Baracchi, Giuseppe efforts in moving the machinery from Shers, and Kansu. I have not yet of goods being made by co-operatives the actual examining, and he takes 10th for a $10 Hongkong note, one Straus)....New Mayfair Orchestra; Nessi, Aureliano Partile and Chorus the river elties and is building fac- heard how many co-operatives there as well as mining of coal, gold, iron his own sweet time about it, looking got $32 in local currency and $30 in Musical Comedy Through the Years of La Scala, Milan, with the Milan tories in the hinterland. This is all are in those areas. Due to difficulty etc., and transport co-operatives.

........Geraldo', and His Symphony Orchestra ·conducted by Is thirty one over generally before he begins, National currency, but to-day these Selection to the good.

The goal of the C.I.C. of communications, mail sometimes But that is not enough. The whole takes a month from a depot to Head- thousand small Industries going be-and then making every movement as amounts have gone down to $20 and Orchestra with N. Hail, O. Greatham Lorenzo Molajoli,

11.00 Close down. nation must produce if production is quarters, we can never at one time fore the end of 1940. There are over deliberate as possibic. Five minutes $28 respectively.

a thousand now; we estimate about a person is the average,

Handbags and parcels carried by one thousand two hundred. The executive machinery has been set up foreigners have, on a few occasions, Lo care for any amount of capital, been looked at casually, but, regard- There are now three schools for less of rumour, it would seem that no foreigner has had to take things training co-operators and more pre needed. There is one co-operative hospital, there should be one in each Headquarters at least, with clinics in If those men and that machinery are all depots. There are schools for the not moved now they will be lost. children and literary classes for the Many of the small factories of the coast move interior as a complete

It is unnecessary to speak to group of business mon about national economy. That is a subject that is ever before them.

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We are asking the world to help unit, men and machines. They then And their resources exhausted and China with

programme schools and hospitals but most of all can go no further. If old does not come the units break up, the we are asking for help in forming machinery is sold piece meal new industries, to put idle hands to often lost or destroyed. The men work using idle material for the drift around and disintegrate. benefit of the people and the nation. : If now, when these men

We are asking the world to help machines are still together, having and it is responding.

fallen back from this last wave of The Chinese In the Philippines aggression, money can be got to have already sent over $250,000 and them, hundreds of small units can a letter came yesterday saying that start operating in the safe parts of they have pledged one half million the province. Small machine shops and apologising that they will take to make other machinery, printing. so long to raise It, perhaps a month weaving, stocking knitting, sugar re- or two. An individual in Java hos aning, paper making, all need more sent $100,000. Singapore has pledge or less machinery. Then there are for ed $250,000. The Gritish Co-opera- those who cannot get machinery, dye- five are raising nde. 100,000. Amerien is forming committees with mut moking, straw hat making,

leather, whom I am going to work in the making, transport. These are all co- carpentry, sewing, brick; next few months. It is interesting to operatives that are already formed seo the enthusiastic and generous support of the Chinese overseas, now is for more of these and to put and functioning. The $60,000 wanted much of which is from people of hundreds of men to work, which will small incomes, in contrast to the, up support thousands of people, and

to the present, comparatively weak strengthen the resistance immediate- support from the coast cities where jy behind the fighting line. much Chinesë wealth is congregated..

Will the Ye Mon back a Y's Men's

But we are also oaking the Chinese Centre? Will the Hongkong com- to back up this great programme of munity back many of such centres? refugee relief and national up-

(Applause). building, Now is the time to put money into Chino, into production vole of thanks to the speaker. The Mr. W. Yinson Lee proposed a Money put in now will go twice and invasion of the Japanese, he said, had three times as far as money put in brought about unity in the country, next year.

and among other good work, the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives One of our men telegraphed yester-were teaching the people to make |day for $50,000-N.C. to move refugee products for their own consumption, workers and machinery from near the|| inrlead of having to be dependent coast to the safe side of the province, upon other nations as formerly,

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