1941-01-21 — Page 12

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 21, 1941.

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~HIS MASTER'S VOICE"

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Wednesday, 22nd January, 1941

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mrs. W. E. Peers wishes to thank all

་

her friends for their kind wishes,

telephone messages, letters and flowers. She is at present unable

to write personally, but would like everyone to know she

greatly appreciates their kindness and is hoping for better news.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, January 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

Their first Christmas in Australia was spent by Hongkong evacuates amidst nostal- gic thoughts of home

and many were conscious of the season only for the sake of their children ............. this intimate letter from exile reveals what was uppermost in every mind when the church bells pealed their wel-

come to 1941...

"NOW we can say we especially for the Scottial will be returning this evacuates. They thought fond- year," was the one thought ly of their last New Year's in the minds of the Hong-morning at the K.C.C., the Gloucester or the "Gripps," and kong evacuates when the most of them knew they could ferry whistles echoed out not observe the traditional “first, across Sydney harbour and footing" among strangers in a the church bells pealed their new land. welcome to 1941.

Some, however, felt that they simply must officially say good- Thus they welcomed in the bye to the sad, old days of 1940 New Year with high hopes so they joined in with huge and a prayer in their hearts, crowds of Australian revellers and sang and danced in the During the holiday sea- atreets of the city as they greet- son, we clustered around the ed the arrival of the new year. telegraph offices to send off Most Sydneyites welcome in greetings to Hongkong, and the new year at King's Cross. eagerly opened cables re- Cross has a true cosmopolitan Of all the places in Sydney, the ceived from our loved ones flavour. there.

It is peopled by samples of Many of us preferred to re- most of the dwellers on earth- member Christmas only from old, retired business men, elderly the religious point of view, and ladies, girls wearing slacks and little effort was made to cele. smoking cigarettes, actors, musi- brate as we would have done in cians, artists and Greek fruit Hongkong. We attended no vendors. The shops which sell boisterous cocktail parties. and food never seem to close. For a few of us went out dancing shilling or two, you may eat owing to the lack of partners.

+

FOR THE SAKE

OF

IT'S A SHAME

Housebreaker Hitler cannot think Why Britain leads him such a

danco,

As convicts mutter in the clink,

The police don't give a MKA

a chance."

Why doesn't Britain go her way

And let the poor dog gnaw his

bono?.

As all well-meaning burglars say, "The police won't leave a man

alone,"

..

Why don't we wink the other oye

And let the crook complete his crime? As all the best embezzlers cry,

"It is the poor wot gets the. blime.”

A. P. HERBERT.

in the Sunday Graphic."

French dishes served by a Greek

A kangaroo makes friends with a`young ovacuato. waiter. King's Cross is a cross- ducing instrument within range reality brought quiet to the section of the world. It has a whistles, tin cans, gongs and thousands assembled, but when sophisticated, slightly bored air, motor

car horns--was but nobody can look at its tower- scripted to produce a continuous the new year the silence, was im- con- the whistles started welcoming THEIR CHILDREN, ing flats, its sparkling little roar of sound. however, many Hongkong wo- men recognised the festive sea- son for, after all, Christmas should be a joyous time for

THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph' is used by the "longkong Telegraph to Indicata dews which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- them. cations Ordinance, 1936. Such news as bears the Indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United, Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

And they really did have a good time this year, especially in the toy departments of the city NOMURA'S MISSION

stores. They found a real, live Father Christmas in every shop ADMIRAL Nomura is starting for who shook hands and presented America to take up the most import them each with a gift. They unt position in the Japanese Govern-

nent, next to that of the Premier watched a tiny model city in and Foreign Minister. As Ambassa action, had rides dor to the United States he actually

on hobby represents the last hope of arresting horses, and gazed longingly at from their steady decline into the the latest in toy trains and baby Abyss of war the relations between

5.30 p.m. the two countries. It t cannot be sald dolls.

Evening Friday, 24th January, 1941 Saturday, 25th January, 1941

9.15 9.15

BOOKING PLANS AT

ANDERSON MUSIC CO., Ice House St., H.K... 21322

Y.M.C.A., Kowloon

Matinee

that much

hope is placed on the

prospects of the Admiral achiev Their mothers, too, enjoyed ing success in this sphere, especially themselves thoroughly during

High Hopes

and

A Prayer

By

Helen Walker Duncan

in view of the fact that the greatly the Christmas shopping week. shops, its tree-lined streets filled heightened feeling of the United

mediately broken.

* SEVERAL OF THE

HONGKONG EVACU-, ATES attended watchnight acrvices which were held in city and suburban churches of all denominations. Bondi Beach, where most of the evacuates' aro now staying, was thronged as hundreds of revellers took their last swim of the old year. At midnight, the Bondi and North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club members staged their annual New Year's procession.

Dozens of evacuates attended midnight cinema shows in town. Streamers, some a foot wide, whilst others stayed at home States in favour of aid for Britain True, they were jostled and by chattering crowds, without were hurled from windows upon and listened_to_the_excellent. p.m.han

cautions in

not led to any easing of pro-pushed from counter to counter, realising that all Sydney does the heads of the crowd below, programmes broadcast from all

in the Pacific, p.m.inking the destinies of the east and but I know they loved every not go home at six and get to until singers, dances, deafened the radio stations,

minute of it. Even the shop bed at ten.

58023

$2.00 ALL

$1.00 SEATS

$0.50 BOOKABLE

Evenings

$3.00

$2.00

$1.00.

"A RATTLING GOOD SHOW”

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west. It she had not cast in her lot with the Axis Powers, flaunting her windows were a delight-the friendship with the European aggres- latest in window-dressing in For nations in the face of Chino,

Britain and America, and seeking to honour of the festive season.

So,

THE WARM WEATHER, joined in the celebrations wine tous path as they to another.

*

observers and. embarrassed On New Year's Day, some of policemen, were caught up in a the Scottish evacuates visited tangle of paper and sprinkled the Highland gathering held at with confetti. fie up all the issues involved in

O, IN KING'S CROSS

the Kycemagh polo ground; Through Europe with her own New Order in

the close-packed others attended the racing at ON NEW Asla, the southward expansion pro-

YEAR'S crowd, groups of young people Randwick and the surf carnival gramme would never have gained

EVE, many Hongkong evacuates in fancy dress burrowed a tor- at Curl Curl. the spotlight that recent events have given to it.

however, did not fit in crowd of 25,000 young people. ced" from one road to another. time in their new homes. with Many of them spent a quiet Forbearance in Indo-China and with our ideas of Christmas. Wearing coloured paper caps and Every few minutes they capt their children. On New Year's abstention from the tripartite pact we felt it strange to be eating whirling gaudy balloons, they ured some unfortunate pedest- night, many went to the High- would have done much to restore Japan's name to good favour among turkey and plum pudding in the threw themselves vociferously rian or policeman and held him land Society's annual Scottish. the Democracies, especially since she heat of a summer's afternoon. into a spontaneous street car firmly while they danced der- concert at the Town Hall. had bogged herself down in the China incident and was not able. to But to find a threepenny bit in nival' prosecute her designs there effective- the pudding meant more cash-

But despite all this, however,.

gambling on an ali chance and have conducted a policy handling dollars and centa.

or nothing to us last year when we were roade was turbulent with a mad, sobering effect among the mer. With more sincerity than ever produced a back among our own people. that has completely alienated America.

joyous, jostling crowd, The rymakers when, a few minutes before, we The New Year, however, pre- climax came just after mid- before midnight, he played the other a truly happy and joyous

are wishing each

ly. It seems that hot-headed ele-

vish-fashion round him.

ments still rule at Tokyo. They are a threepenny bit meant nothing ed, this busy junction of five bugle, however,

Long before the old year end- One man with a borrowed we felt a 'natural yearning to be

Japan may await the conclusion of

an "understanding" between Berlin sented a bigger problem night when

Singapore.t.

and Vichy which would give the Fight for its consequent -Uhrent to occupation of lower Indo- China

A small part of her fleet could demonstrate against the Netherlands East Indies while her land and sea forces might attempt to blockade Hongkong, this triple move- ment serving to divide tite concerted natagonism towards her of Holland, America and Britain in the Far East while

one or more plums are de fached from the shaken tree.

meantime remains patching up her defences which can be at- ip tackel nt a more opportune time, and Russla is bribed by fishing and frontler concessions and Axis threats to refrain from hostilities.

It is because of

thes

inite

China

open Inten-

Hons that American statesmen have Japan; it is not, as Japan would have spoken so plainly of the menace of it, American hostility that has pro- voked the Japanese programme. It seems extraordinary to a common- sense person that Japan Is

prepared

to accept yours of more intensivo warfare and

and also to

court national for impossible

the

aims the domination of all Axia and ultimately,

world. Incredible as It seems,, the Japanese de envisago these possibilities and they con ve,

in pain and suffering and die at-

Tel. 21278 tempting to achieve them. That is Tel. 20352 why words of renson are falling on

deaf ears.

every noise-pro-"Last Post." This reminder of new year.

Night view of Sydney and the famous bridge.