1940-12-20 — Page 18

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 20, 1940.

ALSO A WIDE RANGE OF

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COLLAPSES IN WIND-Remarkable picture shows the collapse of the G.$6,400,000 Tacoma Narrows bridge into Puget Sound, after a heavy wind started it awaying. The bridge had the third longest suspension span in the world. Arrow, reporter's automobile. He crawl- ed to safety on hands and knees."

THE ASIA COY. London's Chinatown Among Most

CHRISTMAS FOOD HEADQUARTERS

63-65, DES VOEUX ROAD, C.

SOFTBALL

Under the distinguished patronage of Hon. Commissioner of Police, President of the Kowloon Football Club -

Duck

Chalnnan, Hongkong War Effort Committer

Grand Softball Matches

will be held at the KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB

on

BOXING DAY at 10.30 a.m.

K.F.C. Members under 40 years

V.

•

K.F.C. Members over 40 years

THE LADIES

V.

KOWLOON POLICE

Entrance Fee: 50 cents

Total Proceeds to the Bomber Fund

.

Heavily Bombed Areas

LONDON'S East-end Chinatown has been amongst the most heavily bombed of this great city's stricken districts. Little laundries and restaurants, formerly kept by industrious, frugal, Chinese proprietors, who employed as workpeople many of their poorer compatriots, are now just sad heaps of bricks and broken beams by the side of bomb-pitted roads.

Beneath some of the rains are still buried the bodies of those | London - University who formerly worked there, and rescue workers are still digging to recover the remains.

Most Chinese who could afford to do so have already left the danger area for less menaced districts in London, and many, if not all, of the Chinese women and children have been evacuated to the country by Government schemes.

The few men who remain are those a young Cantonese lounged easily, lucky enough to have Anderson shel-glancing without any particular in- ters in their back yards, or those terest at the sky, and apparently stoler who declare that they are not cogitating on some problem far.re afraid of what their relatives, have moved from the current umpleamant- suffered so bravely in Chungking mess

and other Chinese cities. So they hang on in their ramshackle little houses of flimsy brickwork and await the bombs with fatalistle indiffer-

ence.

Some of the Chinese lodging-house

keepers remain to cater for the

Chinese seamen constantly' arriving. in the London docks in ocean steumers from the Far East.

used to act as unpald teachers, and the club soon developed into Chinatown's rent so- clal centre.

Now, the laughter of the children no longer sounds, within its walle they are far way in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire and. Oxfordshire.

Funda

But the few Chinese elders remain- ing assemble here periodically to meet the Chinese Consul, who comes down to see that all possible help is being given to the their time of trial.

community in

assist those He had just arrived, in a ship from tradesmen who have lost their bu-

ho provides Singapore, and was waiting for the siness to carry on, and he is some roid to end, and the Tube station to times able to accelerate the evacua- open, in order to go up to see his tion of those who have no longer brother, a cook, in the West, End, any Inducement to remain in this

"What do you intend to do

to do after heavily damaged district. that?" the reporter inquired, he

"I have made long voyage," answered, with plenty hard work. So i wait here week or two for Scamen Have No Fear rest and fun, then take ship back to These sailors, having endured Singapore again when money all calmly the most savage attacks bygone. Thank you. Goodbye now." submarines and Nazi warplanes at So saying, he retreated with a mild sen, fact the London raids without anile into the interior of the house fear, or, for that matter, much visi-to rest until the "All Clear" should ble interest.

make it possible for him to go up When, for example, a reporter West. visited the Chinese Seamen's Lodging

Chung Hwa Club House, a cold was in progress and the Not far away, is the Chung Hwa cracking rous of bursting anti-aircraft, Club, founded by the Chinese Am- shells thundered in the sky above. [bassador a few years ago to enable Shrapnel seemed to be falling thick-London-born Chinese

Birch For Thefts

In War-Time.

A threat to use the birch-rod to put. down petty thefts in war-time when people were busy on jobs of national importance, was made in St Andrew's Juvenile Court recently by Captain How, who presided when 30 juveniles, appeared on various charges of theft and malicious mischief.

declared Capialn "must be kept down in war-

He placed several boys on proba- the least, were by no means rassur- ancient China and to gain some little tion for a year when they pleaded Ing.

knowledge of their classic tongue. qulity to charges brought against Bgt. in the doorway, of the house Mandarin Chinese students from them,

children to thefts,"

ly all around, and conditions, to say learn something of the culture of

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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'

The grateful thanks of the Society is hereby tendered to the many subscribers during the year ended 31st October, and the Treasurers are pleased to report that the income nearly covered the Increased ex- penditure.

Hon.. Treasurers:

*Mc. A. McKeller, C.A.

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