1939-12-13 — Page 5

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

DOGGONE IT!

STUCK!

NICE PUSHIN', BOBO!

YOU'LL SAVE ME

PAYIN' A

TOW TRUCK!

December 13, 1939.

By Walt Disney

SPECIAL For XMAS

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CHINESE REFUGEES

Slight Decrease In The Hongkong Camps

11-10

Blaze In Shaukiwan

Validating Passport

On Citizens ir Soviet

The first and second floors of two United States Chocks Up houses in Nam On Street, Shaukiwan, were gutted by o tre that broke out 'The numbers of refugees and after 2 p.. yesterday. The 201- destitutes accommodated in Govern-floralion is believed to have started ment camps in urban and rural areas in a kitchen.

of Hongkong are given oficially as follows:

Fanned by a strong wind, the fire spread to the adjoining house, but all In urban areas civilians.-King's the inmates escaped. The stairs were Park 1,302 for the week ending of wood but the walls were of brick, December 9 as compared with 1,307 which helped the firemen's work of on December 2; Matauchung 1,078 os checking the bluze. compared with 1,100 and North Point 1,118 the same number on December 2.

In rural areas, soldiers-In hospital eleven on December 8, as compared with eight on December 2 Dort Mata chung 730 13

compared with 783.

In rural areas-At Kam Tin 1,912

on December. 9, un compared with

one;

Moscow, Dec. 12. American citizens queued up at the Embassy

to Anger print photographs, pursuant of the

and submilled new regulations requiring them for validation of passports.

It is estimated that 150 Americans reside in the Soviet Union engaged

legitimate business; these

arc

narrow The street being 8 there was room for only one regible for valid on by imprint of engine, but heses were extended from ac finger prints of the consul, Mr.

Angus Wards, on their passports, other appliances in the main street.

Factories for making buttons were on the ground floor of the burnt houses.

1,054 on December 2: San Uk Ling HONGKONG-BUILT SHIP

730, as compared with 729 and Gills Culling 377, as compared with 304.

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In addition to the 150, there are another 150 whose status is doubtful, owing to dual nationality or protract-i ed expatriation. They must choose of immediate repatriation or loss American protection or Soviet citizen- ship,

Mr. Steinhardt, Amerienn Am-

ports by applying his own finger prints-United Press.

The grand total on December 9 New Vessel for Australia Tobasador, validated his staff's pass

wan 7,568 as compared with 7,633 on) December 2 showing a decrease of

67.

Aid for Other Camps

of

Be Launched Next Week

A new ship is to be launched on December 21 at the Kowloon Docks.

The Director of Medical Services She is the Karuah, bullt here for the acknowledges the receipt $500 Newcastle and Hunter River Steam- from the Toung Toin Refugee Relief ship Company, Ltd., of Association towards the relief of re- Australla. fugees in the camps at Loshuling and Lokmachau.

Sydney,

FINE FRENCH EFFORT The French community in the Colony have now collected $25,000 for the French War Fund, The launching and christening French women in Hongkong will organise a bazaar in aid of the furd Details in March, is announced.

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, Wall has been made to convey guests to

the Docks to view the event Young Merchants Association.

of the bazaar will be later.

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OPEN UNTIL

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"Padder Street."

announced

WALT DISNEY

250,000 Aspirins for the B.E.F.

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 and baccarat, are the first British casualties of this war. None of them are serious; and most of them are road- accident cases.

Beds, each with its own locker, bed-table and tem- perature chart, 61) the theatre, the concert-hall and the old gaming room, whose ornato candelabra, hanging from the high ceilings, are now the only relies of this building's former

gay pur- poses.

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

250,000 aspirin tablets.

12 cwl 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 antito- tanus serum.

30,000lb. of lint.

..

30,000lb. of cotton-wool

in one pound packets and much again in com-

дв

pressed bales.

Nor is this all. The medi- cal-storekeeper-claims-that-he- can supply whatever diet the doctor may order Д sick man. Ho has

carried

even

coals to Newcastle in the form of cases and cases of cham- pagne brought here from Eng- land!

"AUSSIES

""

ARE ON GUARD

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

bulletin.

NURSES

IN FRANCE

Watch Football In Spare Time

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

Around the pasture behind the little French vilinge stood a scatter- ing of soldiers and officers, chielly R.A.M.C. men from the casualty clearing station which has just been Act up partly under canvas and ||-partly in commandeered buildings.

the

The afternoon was Ane but cold. The seven women, ali, they told me, from London nursing homes, were the nurses attached to hospital, and as they stood there in their trim grey uniforms they were entirely unconscious of the fact that theles was the privilege of being the Englishwomen nearest the fghting

Ilne.

Later we walked down the muddy lane together and they showed me the little chateau where they all live under the supervision of a matron. a veteran of the last war,

Cosy Sitting-Room

Meals are Laken 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 Arc, and a kettle on the hob. Upstairs were comfortable, if chilly, bedrooms in which the nurses steep two to a room. Their meals are taken to- gether apart from the officers, who have a mess in a form house across the village street,

The wards are so far empty of battle casualties, but they have al- rendy 80 cases of soldiers suffering from various "civilian" such as influenza,

allments, appendicitis, and tank drivers injured in tank manoeuvres.

The station has a capacity of men" but can be readily expanded-if Includes U necessary. Equipment complete X-ray unit and a generat Ing truck that can provide electric Hight for the whole clearing station. The personnel includes, three padres, one Roman Catholle, one Church of England, and one Methodist.

strains and fractures,

1

Camouflaged Bakery

Another Interesting army activity visited to-day was the military bakery set up in lents, where bakers in white overalls make thou- sands of loaves a day. The bread I tasted was delicious, and the head baker told me the Army is now! turning out 75,000lbs a day of such bread for the troops.

Outside the tents atbod long rows of ovens each inscribed in chalk with a woman's name presumably the wife or sweetheart of the bakers. The tents were beautifully camou- flaged, and I asked the camouflage officer attached to G.II.Q., formerly an artist in London, who happened last he there supervising the

of paint on the lented

strokes

Trade routes and merchant ship in are being protected," the bul-

tin states, according to B.U.P.y, how he went about his work, Road vehicles and guns come out "Verdals "are" being searched for con- from England already camotslaged,

traband.

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

Nearly 1,000 Australians, it is stated, are on active service with the Navy.

Coast Watch

>

of

but buildings, gun emplacements, hendquarters and all manner field units require the expert advice of the camouflage officer to render themselves invisible.

The camouflage oficer acts no an adviser and after a careful inspec- (lon of the surroundings instructa what colours and what stylo and On the outbreak of war, seagoing pattern they should be painted. A personnel of the Navy numbered plane is at his disposal, and from 3.440 omcers and anon, 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 service in told me with some pride that

is completed. immediately..

A voluntary cadat-watching ser- when he flow yesterday vice has been set up to cover Aus- bakery at 2,000 feet the pilot of his tralin and Australlan territories. 'plano said he could. not see it at

Australian naval activity has all.

Ic

over the

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

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