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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 everyone to know

she greatly appreciates their kindness and is hoping for better news.

liko

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, January 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015 THE preax "Special to the Telegraph 1s used by the Mitongkong Telegraph to indicate nowa which is riictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinance, 1914. fuch nows M bears the indicatión “UP” in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Procs Associations, who 16-

serve all rights and forbid republications, sither wholly or la part without previous

arrangement.

January 21, 1941.

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 wol- ́

"Now

come to 1941, ..

for the we can say we especially

Scottish 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- Gloucester or the "Gripps,” and morning at the K.C.C., the 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- streets 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. Of all the places in Sydney; the eagerly opened cables reCross has a true cosmopolitan ceived from our loved ones favour. there.

IT'S A SHAME

Housebreaker. Hitler cannot think Why Britain leads him such

dance,

As convicts mutter in the clink,

"The police don't givẹ a man

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 nye

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

"It is the poor wot gets the blime."

A. P.. HERBERT.

In the "Sunday Graphic.”

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 clans, artists and Greek fruit no vendors. The shops which sell Hongkong. We attended boisterous cocktail parties and food never seem to close. For a few of us went out dancing shilling or two, you may eat French dishes served by a Greek owing to the lack of partners.

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

CHILDREN, ing flats, its sparkling little roar of sound.

THEIR however, many Hongkong wo- men recognised the festive sea- son for, after all, Christmas should be a joyous time for them.

And they really did have a good time this year, especially in the toy departments of the city stores. They found a real, live Father Christmas in every shop ADMIRAL Nonure is.starting for who shook hands and presented America to take up the most import-them each with a gift. They ant position in the Japanese Govern-

NOMURA'S MISSION

ment, next to that of the Premier watched a tiny model city in and Foreign Minister. As Ambassa action, had rides on hobby dor to the United States he actually 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 the two countries. It cannot be said dolls.

that much hope is placed on the Their mothers, too, enjoyed

prospects

of the Admirat achiev-

ing success in this sphere, especially themselves thoroughly during in view of the fact that the greatly

car

High Hopes

and

A Prayer

By

Helen Walker Duncan

mediately broken.

SEVERAL OF THE

HONGKONG EVACU- ATES attended watchnight services which were held in city and suburban churches of all denominations. Bondi Beach, where most of the evacuates are now staying, was thronged as hundreds of ravellers 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,

heightened feeling of the United the Christmas shopping week, shops, its tree-lined streets filled Streamers, some_a_foot wide, whilst others stayed at home States

ates in favour of ald for Britain True, they were jostled and by chattering crowds, without were hurled from windows upon and listened to the excellent has not led to any easing of pre-pushed from counter to counter, realising that all Sydney does the heads of the crowd below, programmes broadcast from all cautions in the Pacific.

inking the destinies of the cast and minute of it. Even the shop bed at ten.

is largely to blame for this but I know they loved every not go home at six and get to until singers, dances, deafened the radio stations..

Japan

west. If 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 sor nations in the face of Chino,

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

*

10, IN KING'S CROSS So,

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.

the Kyeemagh polo ground; Through the close-packed others attended the racing at ON NEW YEAR'S crowd, groups of young people Randwick and the surf carnival DVÉ, many Hongkong evacuates in fancy dress burrowed a tor- at Curl Curl. THE WARM WEATHER, joined in the celebrations with a tuous path as they "snake-dan- THE

Many of them spent a quiet however, did not fit in crowd of 25,000 young people, ced" from one road to another. time in their new homes with 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- our ideas of Christmas. Wearing coloured paper caps and Every few minutes they capt their children. On New Year's

tle up all the issues involved in Europe with her own New Order in Asia, the southward expansion pro- gramme would never have gained the spotlight that recent events have given to it.

Forbearance In Indo-China and with

would have done much to restore

iv.

vish-fashion round him.

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, It seems that hot-headed ele-

Long before the old year end- One man with a borrowed we felt a natural yearning to be ments still rule at Tokyo. They are threepenny bit meant nothing ed, this busy junction of five bugle, however, produced a bäck among our gambling on

own people. chance and have conducted a polley handling dollars and cents.

nothing to us last year when we were roads was turbulent with a mad, sobering effect among the mer- With more sincerity than ever that bes completely alienated

15.

Amerien.

an all or

Japan may await the conclusion of

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

an "understanding" between Berlin sented and Vichy which would give the signal for occupation of lower Indo- China with its consequent threat to Singapore. small part of her flect could demonstrate against the Netherlands East Indies while her land and sea forces might attempt to blockade Hongkong.

ng, this triple move-

ment serving to divide the concerted antagonian towards ber of Holland, America and Britain in the Far East while one or more plums are de tached from the shaken tree.

China

in the meantime remains

patching up her defenes which can be at- sacked at a more opportune time, and Russia is bribed fishing frontier concensions and Axis threats to refrain

from

hostilities. It is because of these open inten- tions that American statesmen have spoken no plainly of the menace of

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is prepared

to accept years of more intensive warfare and penury and also to court national disaster for impossible nim-the domination of all Asin and ultimately, the world. Incredible as It seems, the Japanese de envisage these posibilities and they can live in pain and suffering and dla at- Tel: 21279 tempting to achieve them. That te Tel. 20352

why words of reason are falling on dent cara,

ઈં bigger problem night when every

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

Night view of Sydney and the famous bridge.