1939-12-29 — Page 9

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NANCY

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NANCY SO MEAN --- I'M A NO GOOD LOAFER --- I

COULD KICK

MYSELF --

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

December 29, 1939.

THANKS FELLERS!

Bushmiller

2525252525252. 252525252

Jel. 28151.

JUST RECEIVED

A

129

German Machines

To Fight Hitler

Ankietist, Joe,

I HAVE just seen some of Britain's devices which will take the "blitz" out of Hitler's blitzkrieg, should he attempt to launch It against ihly country,

R.A.F. MAY

GET £1,000

FOR U-BOAT

Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm crews

They were being made in a factory whose peace-time pro engaged in the anti- ducts gave delight to the car and eye.

MARRIED

Third Time

TO HIS

First Wife

In preparing for the transformation before war broke out, the company

submarine campaign may receive a special

did not hesitate to install some Ger- bounty of £1,000 for

man machinery.

As a consequence, ponderous, com plicated pieces of machinery labelled Rerlin or Homburg. are now bribut

every U-boat they sink.

The Government

used to turn out weapons of war are considering the

Hitler in holst with his own petard.

Among these weapons I saw fene- sone monsters on wheels with huge mechanical cars which will pick up the whirr of an enemy plane miten away,

That beroplane is going to be in

MR. ARCHIBALD FOR- RESTDALE DOWIE, fifty-trouble when it comes within detec- eight. a stockbroker, was tion range of the afinest human married for the third time, robot.

Automatically the monster signals

at Caxton Hall Register he nearly anti-aircraft guts the Office last month-to his aeroplane's precise position, and, in first wife, now aged fifty- a matter of seconds, the shell will

seven.

be bursling round the invader.

The four-eared monster has been given eyes, alan, which will see that

scheme following sug- gestions by air-men that they should re- ceive similar treatment to naval officers who, on sinking German submarines, receive a prize award fixed by the Naval Prize Court,

Their first marriage was dis-enemy aircraft at night, for attached shoots out its dazzling beam to the skles where the solved and each married again. to it is a searchlight of 10.000,000 exact spot in the

ears have heard the sound.

candle power.

Mr. Dowle became a widower, and his first wife's second mar-out riage was dissolved.

As soon as the ears have picked The acroplane is trapped. the aeroplane the searchlight eyes and ears have given the shoves to the required ungle and aircraft gunners their target.

theGloucester

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LETTERS

Hongkong Working Artists' Guild Appeal

To the Editor,

duild

The Guild is somewhat loosely or+! ganised. We have a banking account,' with Mr. Cyril Champkin as Treasurer, i and Mr. E. A. Cemerile as ifon, Setro tary, Bubscriptions should be sent to the Intter at 16 Block A, Kennedy Read.) Choques should be made out to the

The "Hongkong Telegraph." Sir, The Hongkong Working. Arlisis longkong Working Artlata Gull

Anst self in urgent. need of Contributions will be neknowledged In Lunds at the moment when the work the Press. We have a small executive. of over four years in bearing good which changes for the various needs of fruit. I &m aking this, our first our work,-shows, special jobs, classes, pulic appeal for financial aid, at the nad so on. Luis Chan, as. Vice-Presi

uggestion of Sir Rovert Kotevall, dent undertakes everything, requiring"

Chinese and Chinese Two and a half years ago Sir Andrew knowledge ot Caldecot, who had taken great Interest artists. I myself om styled President.! in the Gulid as n centre of fellowship An ult manngement is unpahi all montes between arts, and especially of to direct to the work of the Guild. A Rew items regarding our RCLIVISIFA ciprocity between Eastern and Wester Art, expressal the hope in his fares will fully substantiate our claim to be well address to

the Colony that the a useful factor in keeping Hongkong on uld shoard not be alienu to use or the map aka centre of Art fellowship, At that time the During 1938 and 1939 we have intro- want of support.

muntha wetė feau hat

ahend, when duced

artials several world-famous thero would be few to use the coners,awing to expulsion from Europo

studio, then operative

in its second hitherto unknews in the year: and n veritable exodus of through exhibitions and males of their

and supporters workers

taking works which have aroused interest in place. Sir Kovert nooly sponsord the more modern developments of Contributions from a group of twenty, pictorial Art. We have rescued from several of who were members of the oblivion two noteworthy Chinese artists Legislative Council, to enable us th of genius recently dend, both, by ex make good, lut for this timely nid nibition here and by sending a selection we should certainly have perished, sa of their work to Europe and U.S.A. vis the Sino-Japanese war broke our, Mr. Jack Chen.

LA

n:er-

foundation of

kar kr.

must fredlately afterwards, and 1- At the studio we held a second series | volutionised the prospects and charue, of lessons by a wellknown teacher in ter of the Guild. Whereas originally, Chinese Art for European students. we had arranged exhibitions to make! We cannot at the montent expect, an known to the public, and ta' market, we had hoped, to get endowment for International the work of individual artists, our ex- the hibitions took on the character of School of Art, a permanent Art Gal charities, eg largely or in park i sery, and one, for current exhibitions, aid of Red Cross or other help for war which are some of our larger projes victims, or to danist artists who were We are however glad to see that it is The driven here la numbers from all cut proposed to erect a temporary Town raised thus tail, anti-Chinn by the war. We

which we hope niny help wo many hundreds of dollars, so that had solve some of our trouble about exhi we been working for ourselvas evet bitions, with the modest ten per cent charged Meantime we keep pegging away at

through the Guild, the on sales elected

formation of a teaching Centre and contributione from these using the both for the Fine Arts and for Indus- studio, we could have kept in trial and Commercial Art. In the sun been enabled to extend our scope, in- stead of which we had to draw on our open a regular school towards the end when we expected to be able to central fund month by month for a of the year. we secured ariant felt in working expenses.

Director of Studies, at the forefront of Through the whole of 1938 we gave the knowledge and practice of Western studio hangiality to many refugee Ari, whom nothing but exile would artists anit even nabous, and uncal, have brought to us: and whose teach- work of visiting and resistent Lining of basic drawing by n method on- meeting and working together, sharing tirely new to the Far Eost, as taught models and so on continued to grow in Juris, In the heal pessible founila- somewhat fully. In the Autumn we, tion for every form of Art. Pupile formed the natural collecting centre taught in the Summer School have for the collection of Representative ratonished by their rapid progress. Contemporary in Chin which Jack War has scattered the students and Chen wished to take as a return Good, the clanne's arranged for the winter will Exhi Ition for the xbi ilen of Rosson. In order to keep our Director Graphic Art-for-the-benefit-of-Chinese-with us with the depletel ellentele the Army Medical Relief he had brought Guild has in faith given free use of from Europe and U.S.A, In the all our resources,-studio accommod terior he could only collect wat werk tion and attendance, publicity, exkiki- which. though must

striking and tions, and so on; so for this we have moving, by no means alowed the net had to draw on our slender resources. mal development of recent Art in the We have also experts to help us in Orient. We were able to gather palat future organisation. Іл respect of Ings from a number of artists rep relating the Fine Arts to life and the sentative of all China, No public

other Arts: we have among our meme display of this collection was possible bers at least one Russian Artist aklited owing to the fall of Canton. It has toured Europe, being shown in Paris tage setting and decoration, who and other places where it has received gratis. An important development of prepared tonnial productions a good deal of attention and has had Guild work is the production of Public as much access as could be expected fiealth posters. At the request of the when tracked by the menace of war. Medical Authorities siz anti-cholera In October it found refuge in Amsler; posters dam, whence it was to be tunsierted now speak from the walls and hard- were co-operatively designed, to London. Insurance has had to be fun of Hongkong to those who cannot paid on sams of these pictures and an read. nor take in verbal warning. The the aludto where we hold volunta Guld I now preparing a set on T... tn oler picturen

genuine taak involving even more team work; Anelent

ones deposited for assistance consultation with experts, and colla riven. Such expenses can only her horntion in presentment by the operiol Karded as frozen ussets at present. By kind of artistic skill required for which and large we have about Aqua Chinese knowledge of detail In very of the sum originally given to us tied, important.

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up by the war in Europe, and in cong] When in reolised that there act!- sequence of this and the position of

the use of our studie detailed below vities have been kept alive and apren

on a capital the ing we are for the moment almost ut

um of about 150 sterling for over two and a half years? end of our resourcer.

we mny surely kope that Hongkong) On our toying the position before will help us to do even more for the Sir Rabert Katewall he intimated after present distresses and future glory of consultation with others of the group the Colony on a sum at least four that he himself and other donors were times that amount which would goor- more than satisfied with the report of antee our security for a long time to our work, and despite the heavy calls, come. We can all at this time cut upan them at the present time, some down our luxuries, but an we were were willing to contribute again to our reminded in a recent broadcast from funda but they considered that the gulfering Czecho-Slovakin "Art and Quild calls for much wider Interest and Education support than that to be obtained from any small group of friends. If I would maka a personal apponl I might ha nasured of inmediate response from the group to head the list of contributions. A few months before the war in Europa hegan Mr. L. Dunbar expressed the bellef that many people in Hongkong would be gind to contribute two dollara er so a month to enable us to begin a definito school of Art, and backed ker sin suggestion by generously subscrib

for a civilised community not luxuries but, necusaiti.”

TRANE M. ARTIBY MACFADYEN. President, Hangkeng Warking

Artists' Guild,

Envoys Gather

ine for one year on this sento. The New Year Concontration

Idea did not immediately catch on, andj the annet of war destroyed all such schemes, and threatened to extinguish| our work. However though with many

In Chungking

CHUNGKING, Dec. 20 (Router),-- anxieties we still live, and our ohje Chungking will have a very large tives and opportunities are multiply gathering of foreign diplomats here Ing. We only need nome backing, to continue. Accordingly the Guild is next month with the expected arrival opening two funds, to which we can of the British and American Am-

kussaciers ndently expect supportime

(1) A Donation Fund, such as Biri Nows of the carly arrival of the Robert sponsored, haford, which, dịci British Ambassador Ja generally not commit the donor to any repailion known to Chungking, which is of the gift

wincing considérable interest as to (2) A Subscription Fund of small what issues he will discuss with the kums, from two dollars upwards, pre Chinese Government during the visli. farably to be paid quarterly or half- The American Ambassador who is yearly in advañra.

A start with the New Year for this staying in Poiping for the Christmas Chungking subscriptions would be very entearten holiday, will return to ing.

early in January.

Such support would form a guaranted} The French and Soviet Ambassador of the rent and running expenses of are already here.

our co-operative studio, which is the The Turkish Minister and tho henet of our activities, and for the sad Chilean Charge d'Affaires have just al which we regulate our charges ne presented their credentials. cording to the means of those who Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands The expenses ennnot always be met out and Germany have resident repre- of members subsoriptions.

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