1940-07-13 — Page 3

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 13, 1940.;

TWO BROTHERS, still wearing their Hongkong sun helmots despite the pouring rain that greated" the evacuees, display interest in the photograph, probably one of the first using flath light bulbs they have seen.

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IT COULD almost be the C.B.S. bus taking the kiddies to school in Kowloon. Instead, they are leaving the wharf at Manila for their new homio at Fort McKinlay.

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A UNITED States Army officer helps some of the evacuees with their luggage. Together with the American Red Cross, the U.S. Army morited high praise from the Hongkong people for their splendid work in helping the ovacuocs ashare.

THE ONLY luggage carried by majority of the evacucos was one. small suitcato each, their other luggage going down in tho ship's holds. They found it waiting for them at their quarters

at, Fort McKinloy when they arrived thore, :,"

"LOOK AT the birdie", says a friend who met this Hongkong youngster en arrival but the kiddie isn't interested--ho

wants his mother...

· IT'S A strange new world for the two Hongkong youngsters. one of whom clutches tightly at his mother's hand... In the background a U.S. Army nurse assists another mother ashore.

ANOTHER group of evacuees en route to the Philippines mountain resort at Baguio. Approxi-

mately 600 Hongkong people are being cared for thora.

MANY OF the evacuees proceeded to Baguio, the well-known Philippines mountain resort. This photograph shows one such group. One of the ladies hides her head from the photograph. Nowspaper photographers in Manila word rather puzzled at the attitude of some of the Hongkong ladies, who refused to be taken by the camera.