1939-12-13 — Page 17

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

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STUCK!

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„PAYIN' A

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December 13, 1939.

By Walt Disney

SPECIAL For XMAS

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CHINESE REFUGEES

Slight Decrease In The

11-10

Blaze In Shaukiwan

Validating Passport

The first and serund floors of two United States Checks Up houses in Nain On Street, Shaukiwan,

On Citizens in Soviet

Hongkong Camps were gutted by a fire that broke out

The mufaters of refugees and after 2 p.m. yesterday. The con- destitutes accommodated in Govern-flagration is believed to have started! ment camps in urban and rural areas in a kitchen.

of Hongkong are given otheially as followe

the

Fanned by a strong wind; the Are spread to the adjoining house, but all In urban Arens civilians-King's | the inmates escopied. The stairs were Park 1.302 for

week ending of wood but the walls were of hriek, December as compared with 1,307 which helped the dreamen's work of on December 2: Matuchong 1,076 as checking the binze. compared with 1,100 and North Point 1,418 the same number on December

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In rural areas, soldiers.—In hospital eleven on Dzermber 9, es compare with eight on December Matauchung 730 as compared with

733.

ond

In rural areas-Ai Kom Tin 1.012

on December 1, as compared with

narrow

Due,

Moscow, Dec. 12. American citizens queued up at the Embassy and submited to inger print photographs, pursuant of the new regulations requlring them for validation of passports.

It is estimated that 150 Americans reside in the Soviet Union engaged 1 legitimalo business; these are The street being a there was room for only one recible for validation by imprint of

Angus Wards, on their passports. engine, but hoses were extended from the anger prints of the consul, Mr. other appliances in the main street.

Factories for mulsing buttons were on the ground floor of the burnt hutises.

1,951 un December 2; San Uk Lang HONGKONG-BUILT SHIP 738, as compared with 720 and Gills

December 9

of

In addition to the 150, there are another 150 whore status is doubtful, I owing to dual nationality or protract-

e expatriation. They must choose) immediate repatriation or loss American proteclun or Soviet citizen-

hip.

Steinhardt, American

ports by applying hala own Anger prints-United Press.

Mr.

Am-

Cutting 377, as compared with 384. New Vessel for Australia Tobasandor, validated his staff's pass-

The grand total on was 7,560 as compared with 5,633 on! December 2 showing a decrease of 67.

Aid for Other Cangs

Be Launched Next Week

A new ship is to be launched on December 21 at the Kowloon Docks. The Director of Modient Services She is the Karuah, built here for the acknowledges the receipt of $500 Newcastle and Hunter River Stean-j from the Tsung Tsin Refugee Relict ship Company, Ltd., of Association towards the relief of re- Austraila. tugees in the camp at and Lokmachau.

Loshuling

Sydney,

The launching and christening In addition, 100 240-lb. bags of rice ceremony will be performed by Mrs. have been given by the Chairman of S. H; Dodwell, and special provision the War Relief Sub-committee, Walhas been made, to convey guests to

the Docks to view the event. Young Merchants Association.

FINE FRENCH EFFORT The French community in the Colony have now collected $25,000 for the French War Fund.

French women in Hongkong will organise a bazaar in old of the fund in March, it is announced. Delails of the bazane will be

later.

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From PHILIP JORDAN News Chronicle War Corre- spondent with the B.E.F. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

Lying in rooms in which, less than two months ago, week-end travellers from Britain were playing boule the first and baccarat, aro British casualties of this war. None of them are serious;

NURSES

IN FRANCE Watch Football In Spare Time

By DOUGLAS-WILLIAMS WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE English women are rare in the fighting zone of the British Army, but to-day I found seven standing in a row. cheering o football match. The corporals were playing the ser- geants, and the match was even and Bercely contested.

Around the pasture behind the little French village stood a scatter-

and most of them are road-ing of soldiers and officers, chiefly accident cases.

Beds, each with its own tem- Jocker, bed-tablo, and fill chart,

the perature theatre, the concert-hall and the old gaming room, whose ornate candelabra, hanging from the high ceilings, are now the only relics of this building's former gay pur- postD.

Here are some figures of stores that have already ar rived for this hospital and others not yet completed:

250,000 aspirin tablets.

12 cwt. of Epsom salts as well as 20,000 tablets of the same stuff.

740lb. of iodine.

500lb. of castor oil. Nearly 300,000 units of M and B 693, the magic drug that saves so many lives. 350,000 quinine tablets. 100,000 ampules of antite-

tanus serum.

0.6

30,000lb. of lint.

30,000lb. of cotton-wool

com.

R.A.M.C. men from the casually elcuring station which has just been! set up partly under canvas and partly in commandeered buildings. I The afternoon was fine but cold. The seven women, all, they told London nursing homes, nie, from were the nurses attached to the hospital, and as they stood there in their trin grey uniforms they were entirely unconscious of the fact that theirs was the privilege of being the Englishwomen nearest the fighting

line.

Later we walked down the nuddy lane together and they showed me the little chateau where they all ve under the supervision of a mátron. a veterum of the last war.

Cosy Sitting-Room

Meals are taken in a cosy sitting- room, and when I put my head in through the door I saw knitting on the table, a cat asleep by the fire, and a kettle on the hob. Upstairs were comfortable, if chilly, bedrooms in which the nurses sleep two to a taken to- meals are room. Their nother apart from the officers, who have a mess in a farm house acroES tle village street,

The

words

are so for empty of battle casualties, but they have al- ready 80 cases of soldiers suffering allments, from various "civilinn"

as induenza, appendicitis, such strains End fractures, and tank drivers injured in tank manoeuvres. The station has a capacity of 200 men-but-con-bn-readily expanded. if

Includes necessary. Equipment complete X-ray unit and a generat- ing truck that can provide electric light for the whole, clearing station. The personnel includes three padres, one Roman Catholic, one Church of

in one pound packets and

much again in pressed bales.

Nor is this all. The medi. cal-storekeeper-claims that-ho- can supply whatever diet the doctor

order may

a sick man. He has even carried coals to Newcastle in the form of cases and cases of cham- pagne brought here from Eng-England, and one Methodist. land!

"AUSSIES ARE ON GUARD

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CEASELESS patrol of the Australia coast by warships and 'planes is reported by the Australian Navy in its first war bulletin,

"Trade routes and merchant ship- in are being protected," the bul- states, according to B.UP. "Verseis are being searched for con-

tetin

traband.

The Navy has been ready to meet instantly enemy attacks. There will be no relaxing of vigilance."

Nearly 1,000 Australians, it la slated, are on active service with the Navy.

Coast Watch

Camouflaged Bakery

Another interesting army activity I vislied to-day was the military bakery set up in 32 tents, where bakers in white overalls make thou- sands of loaves a day. The bread I fasted was delicious, and the head, bnker told me the Army is now turning out 75,000lbs a day of such bread Tor the troops.

Outside the tents stood long rows of ovens ench inscribed in chalic with a woman's name presumably the wife or sweetheart of the bakery. The tents were beautifully camou- flaged, and I asked the camouflage officer attached to G.11., formerly un artist in London, whe happened be there supervising the last of paint on the tented strokes

Gry, how he went about his work. Road vehicles and guns come out from England already camouflaged, but buildings, gun emplacements, headquarters and all manner of field inits require the expert advice of the camouflage officer to render themselves invisible,

The camouflage officer acts as an adviser and after a careful inspec tion of the surroundings instructs what colours and what, style and On the outbreak of war, seagoing pattern they should be printed. A personnel of the Navy numbered plane at his disposal, and from 3.440 officers and men, in addition to this he examines the sites both be- 200 fleet reserves and retired offore and after the job of camouflag- ficers who were called up for serviceing is completed, immediately.

He told me with some pride that

A voluntary coast-watching ser- when he flew yesterday over the vice has been set up to cover Aut-bakery at 2,000 feet the pilot of his tralia and Australian territories. plane said he could not seo it at

"Australion naval activity, has | Kil.

been and is being carried out in con-. In short time the camouflage rert with the British Admiralty, the units of the army will be greatly Commanders-In-Chief of the China, expanded and individual units will Malaya, and New Zealand stations, be attached to corps and divisional and merchant shipping.".

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