Wednesday,
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NOTICE
EVACUATION REPRESENTATION
COMMITTEE
A general meeting is called fòr the Rose Room, Peninsula Hotel, Wednesday, September 24, 6′ p.m.
(Sgd.). W. V. TAYLOR, Hon. Secretary and Treasuror. FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
What to do to help a child
Dr
G.
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
September 24, 1941.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction. to be held on Monday, the 29th day of September, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Shek Shan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
RICE SALES
COMMITTEE
AND LOANS
The twentieth meeting of tho Equitable Rico Sales Fund Commli- tee, was held at Medical Headquar ters on Monday, those present being the Rev. W. II. Alton, the Rev. Cyrli Brown, Mr C. N. Li, Mr C. C. Liao, Mr Two Po-tin, Mr Wong Quincey, Mr Young Tsun Dart, the Rev. H. A.; Wittenbach and the Hon. Dr P. S. Selwyn-Clarke in the chair.
ot
Mr Young Taun Dart drew atten ten to the pressure which was being brought to boar by those working in the interests of the leans on transport organisations. This took the form of Intending bidders are advised warning lorry owners not to engage
in work for the Commliteo. Anyone knowing of a child who that immediately after the dispo
It was reported to the Committee has been assaulted, neglected,
aul of the let the Purchaser (if not that the Committee's staff -treated in a monner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury the applicant) will be required to Mongkoh Morket had been press- to health, or knowing of a parent deposit with an authorised officered to pay-a "protection" fee of $20 per month if they wanted to who is seeking advice on any matter who will be present at the sale, acid-loss of vegetables at night from concerning child, would be doing the sum of two hundred dollara, pilferage. The scale was alleged to an act of kindness by communicating
(200) in cash. This sum will be be three cents per day per The
Secretary, refunded Hon. Generat
payment of the and five cents per day her vegetable stall. The staff had refused to pay. ILKS.P.C., Old City Hall,
No doubt, as a mera coincidence, 63 The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, Purchase price.
catties of Tnu Kok and 62 catties of the 1st floor.
taro had been removed from The Inspector, 02 Stone Nullah PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Committee's stalls without authority Lane, 2nd, Floor,
early on Monday morning. The Committee agreed that the Police Authorities should be informed.
Rice Sales Centres
PERSONAL. LOVELY. By all means look for ward to--because you never wilt forget-The Tin Hat Ball-Old 111.nt once with-
FOR SALE. JUST RECEIVED fresh supply of Sutton & Sons" flower and vegetable seeds of the best that is possible to produce. Graca Co., 10 Wyndham Street.
THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, and 4. Price $4 Vol. X nos. 3 (postage extra), Now on sale South China Morning Post Ltd.
DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1949
The
NOTICE
following
rotca
at
will be
charged for malling single coples of the following newspapers abroad:-
South China Morning Post
China and Macro
16 cents per copy
British Empire and Foreign 20 cents per copy
The Hongkong Telegraph
China and Mação
18 cents per copy British and Foreign
20 cents per copy 25 cents Saturdays.
The
Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1941. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD. For the best and second-best entries.
Three Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO, First Prizes in each of the three Bections,
CASH PRIZES
$250
SECTION ONE
$250
+
Interior scenes: Table Top and Still Life Studies. (Exluding portraiture, plants and and flower).
1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10
SECTION TWO Portraiture.
1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10
SECTION THREE
Plants and Flowers. 1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $50, 3rd $30. 4th $10
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Compeition:
The Competition is open to all photographers.
2-The entries awarded the Ilford Trophies for the best and second- best pictures in the Competition. will not be entitled to any other prizes.
The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- Each graphs in cach Section, entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must be parted on back of entry.
-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph,
All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which bava been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. 4-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or darnage to, entries. All entries to be either black, sopla, or toned pictures, and must photo- be mounted. Coloured graphs are ineligible. -Plotures jubenilted in sepia tones should ba accompanied DYRK maller print in black and white, -No pleturs to entered in more
than one Section.
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10.-Mounts to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following
IL-10X12, 16x20.
11.No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- peution. 13Members of the Starts at the Tongkang Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not porniited to compete.
15. The decision of the Judges shall
E final.
iì-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned la competitors on application at The Telegraphs offices within seven days. 13. The Goallasen te atrictly
forbidden.
NAMK
ENTRY FORM.
SECTION
ADDRESS
Please we block letters and paste one of these forms on: Buck
The Inspector, 12 Sat Yeung Choi
St., Kowloon.
The Inspector,
Kowloon.
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All further steps will be taken, and Expenses borne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved.
Tin Hat Ball
Under the distinguished Patronage of
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Mark Young, K.C.M.G
PENINSULA HOTEL
Friday, Oct. 3.. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Three Bands
The 2nd. Battn. The Royal Scots
(by kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. McDougall, M.C.
+
and Officers)
Art Carneiro and his Band
Abe Litvin
Gloucester Music Masters
and The
CABARET
by Carol Bateman
Dance Hostesses
Barrage Balloons $1,300 in Prizes
Novelties Surprises
PROCEEDS TOWARDS HONGKONG'S BOMBER
SQUADRON
It is not yet too late to book tables
5,000 Planes
Per Month
"We shall not have superiority in this war until we receive 5,000 aeroplanes a month, and shipping at the rate of three or four million tons a year." :
Mr. W. G. McKay, prospective Labour candidate for Frome, who recently returned from the United States, sold this at Birmingham,
Now that Germany was in controi of Europe she had resources which -the-British Commonwealth could never hope to equal except with American help.
Mr McKay suggested that a dele- gation should be sent to America to nctuaint the working people there with the Importance of their con- tribüilon to the war effort.
"They do not realise the serious ness of the position, he said.
No. of Sale
Jahed Lot
No. 421.
Gilles Avenue between San Wal Chatham Road
Registry No.
Locality
On
Boundary Measurements
N.IN
1..W.
teel teesert
As per sale
plan,
Contents in":
about
sq. feet
Ann. feet.
008 LE
100$
Upset Price
$2,350
The purchaser of the lot wil be required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $2,835.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im- mediately after the fall of the hammer, the balance of the premium being paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale.
G.
R..
fish
tall
On the motion of the Rov. H. A. Wittenbach, it was unanimously de- elded to recominend to Government the opening of a second centre for the at sale of cargo or unpolished rice an economic rate. It was suggested that any future centres should be started
on the mainland and that Kowloon City would be an appro- priate district in view of the large 12 sub-economie numbers, living on fevel there.
The Rev, IL. A. Wittenbach stated that the Sub-committee had visited u number of vegetable leans on Sep tember 20 and they had arrived at i the following indings:
place (a) The laans provide a where the so-called "trustees" of the farmers may bring the vegetables they collect to sell them to the re- tailers.
(b) The laans provide clerks und accountants who keep records of sales and issue slips to the "trustees" to hand to the farmers.
(e) The loans provide coolles and weighers to help the "trustees" or their assistants in the rush perlods. (d) The launs charge the farmers gross takings, 0.4 per cent. of the deduct 5 per cent. on behalf of the gross takings, "trustees" also on the and the cost of transport of vegetables to the loans.
the
UFS
WINNIE'S HOME AGAIN-Cheerfully fit after the meet-
ing with President Roosevelt at sea, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in London. He is immediately taken undor the wing of Mr. Churchill,
Religious
Toleration
In U.S.S.R.
LONDON, Sept. 23 (British Wire- less).The Soviet Ambassador to Britain in a speech at the American Chamber of Commerce in London disposed of misconceptions regarding freedom of worship in Russia.
"In spite of what is thought by so sald M. Maisky, "religion in many," my country is not persecuted and every eltizen has the right to belleve or not to believe according to 'con- science.
"Article 124 of the Stalin constitu- histion reads 'In order
consigns The farmer vegetables to the laan through the "trustee" who informs the farmer to which laun ig is taking them.
the
to ensure
to
citizens freedom of conscience, the Church in the U.S.S.It. is separated from the state and the school from: () The "trustee is not free to Church Freedom of religious vestigate which laan is paying the worship and freedom of anti-rell- best prices, but has to take the vege-gious propaganda is recognised for all tables to the taan whose representa- live he is us purchaser.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of September, 1911, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency, the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Wong Nei Chung Gap Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term. of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be
(8) The "trusted" takes delivery fixed by the Surveyor of Hils of the vegetables and tells them to Majesty the KING, for one furretallers on the premises of the parti-
cular lann which he represents. ther term of 75 years.
(h) The farmer is completely un- Intending bidders are advised protected. His vegetables ore neither that immediately after the dispo- weighed nor valued prior to ship- sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not ment; he is not present during the the applicant) will be required to sale, and he is entirely in the hands deposit with an authorised officer who will be present it the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, (200) in cash. This sum will be refunded On payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Inland Lot
Registry No.
No. 6244.
Wong Nei Chung
Locality
Gap Road..
19
Boundary 13t ¡Measurements
N.
3. E. W.
Heel feet feruiter!
as per sale pian.
:
And Reat
Upset
Price
of the "trustee."
The Chairman thanked the Rev. Wittenbach and the members of the Sub-committer-for-their instructive interim report and mentioned that
The Con
Committee would be interested to learn more regarding the "trus- tees and how far they were salaried employees of the Laan or whether the laan formed. In some cases, merely a part of the commercial organisation of the "trustee himself who was, in fact, its principal.
There being no other. business, the Chairman adjourned the meeting until 3 p.m. on September 29.
citizens."
article is clear and is by no means a dead letter. Indeed in 1940. in the U.S.S.I. there were over 30,000 Independent religious communities of every kind, over 8.000 churches and about 80,000 priests and ministers of Bellovers practise their religion
frequent services, religions freely,
Church, chrisien their marry. in children and have religious funerals," M. Maisky also mentioned that in new Polish Army now being created in the territory of the U.S.S.
tho
Roman Catholic Chaplains were admitted to administer to the forces.
Police View
Of Prostitution
"Can you tell me how to clear up the prostitution problem?" This was the reply given by Mr F. W. Shat- Intelligence (Crime), when asked by
|FRIENDS OF DEAF in, Assistam Director of Criminal
IN HONGKONG
The Friends of the Deaf, nn or ganisation formed chiefly to promote the welfare of deaf people in the Colony and to support the work of the Hongkong School for the Deaf, was formally inaugurated k ก meeting held at St John's Cathedral over by Hall yesterday, presided Miss E. S. Atkins."
the
the
a representative of the S. C. M. Post yesterday, if the Police were starting
clean up or attempting to brothels or prostitutes which are known to be operating all over the Colony.
"You cannot clear up prostitutes
Arst clear up unless you economic question which prostitution," continued Mr Shaftain, "it is a fact that many prostitutes The purchaser of the lot wil be
are prostitutes because in their early days they have been bought by other required to pay to the auctioneer
The following officials were elect people. On the other hand, there in cash the sum of $456.00 (being ed-Chairman, Mrs M. K. Lo: Hon. are thousands of girls who are pro 10% of the upset price) im- Secretary,
Mrs Li Shu-pul; Ilon.
onstules because they say they prefer the Rev. Mr Moreton to be
than to die of mediately aftor the fall of the Treasurer,
Members on the School Council, Miss
prostitutes starvation." of the C hammer, the balance
D. M. Shilton, Miss E. S. Atkins, Dr
Mr Shaftain revealed that the premium being paid in accordance Alderton, Me C. C. Cheng, Dr A. Police were not making any large with the Conditions of Sale.
Sydenham
Misa B. M. Bicheno, Rey scale raids on brothels at the present Lee Ying-klu, Dr A, Talbot, and the time, but routine raids were being Hon. Mr Li Tse-fong.
B.W.O.F.
For Britain's Sailors of the Mercantile Marine You are invited to donate old books, magazinos, gramophone records and gomos for the mon who keep Britain's Mercantile tailing the seven seas. Please send parcels addressed;
ISH SAILORS". "FOR BRITISH
c/o REV. A. STRONG „NAVAL CHAPLAIN
R. N. DOCKYARD-
Ofer
c/. THE CHEERO CLUB
The Principal of the School for
kept up by a European sub-inspector
the Deaf, Miss L. W. Li, made an with a Chinese asclatant on the Island:
and on the Mainland./ informal report on the School activi
"With more Police on the job, we tles. She cold that they now had 54 could get probably hundreds pupils, of whom 38 were boarders. people a day Mr Shaftain added, When the School was founded in "but when you get them you will 1935 there were only six pupils, but find that they are not the people,who the number gradually increased with
Number of Arrents Aľado
H.K. Stock Market
The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning.
BANKS
H.K. Banks $. H.K. Banks £... H.K. Banks (HK) 2. Chartered Banks £. Mercantile, A. & B. £.
·Mercantile C. £ East Asia
INSURANCES
Canton Ins. $. Union Ins. $... China Underwriters H.K. Fire Ins. 5....
SHIPPING
Douglas $.. Steamboats $ Indo-Chinns P. Indo-Chinas D.
Shell (Bearers) 8/- Waterboats $..
DOCKS ETC.
Wharves $
Docks $.. Providents
S'hal Dockyards $.
Kailan s/- Raubs $.. H.K. Mines
MINING
LANDS
Hotels $.. Lands $.. Lands 4% Debentures
S'hai Lands Sh. $ Humphreys $... H.K. Reullies $.. "Chinese Estates-$..
UTILITIES
Troms. $...
Peak Trams (old) $....
Peak Trams (new) $..... Star Ferries
Y. Ferries $.
BANKS
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRAŽIÁ & CHINA.
Incorporated by Boyal Charter 2859.
Paid-up Capital.
Reserve Fund
******** £7,000,000
1.000,009
Reserve Liability of Propriators £3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE:LONDON.
as mishopsgato, ECL
Sub-Agencies in London.
*117-113, Leadenhall Bireet, E.C.J.
West End Branchi
14-10, Cockspur Street, S.W.I.
Manchester Branchi
62, Mosley HL, Manchester, 2.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES: Alor Star
Hongkong Rangoon Amritsar
11ilo Bangkok Batavia
Bombay
Caleuita
Agencies:
Beremban Bhanchal
Salgon
1pch
Semarang
Karachi
Klang Kobe Kuala -
Singapore
Billawan Bourabaya
Clive Street Lumpur
· Fairile Placer Kuching. Canton Cawnpore
Cebu
Taiping Tiental
+
Madras
Manila
Tongkah
Medan
(Dhukot)
New York
Tanglad
Pelping
Yokohama
Haiphong
(Peking)
Colombo
Delhi'
Henkow
Penang
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transected.
and
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application. The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustco busi new-and-claims recovery of Dritish Income Tax overpold, on terms which
at it certained at any may be Agencies and Branches,
W. IL EVANS THOMAS,
Manager.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED Non Onco:-15, Gracechurch Street, London, EC.J.
Authorised Captial
Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund and Rest .....
DANKERS:
£3,000,000
1,000,000
1,050,000
1,204,609
The Bank of England & Midland
"
.1,485 n.
Bangkok Honibay
Calcutta
.78 n. Colombo
85 n. Delhi ..8% n. Calle
Itongkong .11 m.)
Howrah .234 n. ipoh
70 n.
.
Dank, Ltd.
BIANCHES:-
Jaffna Kuantan Kandy Karachi
Madras New York Penang nangoon
Kota Bharu Shanghai
Kunja Lipis Simia
Kuala Lumpur Singapore Kuzia Trengranu
HONGKONG BRANCH,
Every description of Banking ..230 n. Exchange Business transacted. .442 n. .....I n.
.187 n.
TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSBIP UNDERTAKEN.
and
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- reney and Fixed Deposita received in .120 n. Local Currency and Sterling on term 11 h. that may be ascertained on application.
D. BENSON. .00 n.
Manager.
.70 the
.54/4/1⁄2 n.
.6.55 n
POST OFFICE
The following changes in postage rates will be effective as from 15th September 1941.
...97 b.
«1934 *.
.7.45 8.
.36% n.
.15/6 n
..7% 27.
Macao and China
2 cis n. New Zealand by air $1.85 'via Rangoon
Letters Postcards
sach
$0.04
$0.00
.4.30
per 2 oz
37
Europe all countries $3.50
$1,80
..07. .23% n.
by air to U.S.A, and
.8 n.
onwards by sea
4.10 3.
air mall surcharges per 1⁄2 oz
Parcel Post Service to Japan is 100 b. temporarily suspended.
.18 0.
The public ore reminded that it is
7 n. a breach of postal regulations to .3% n. enclose in a postal cover communi- .814 n. cations intendedor persone other
24 b. than the addres.
7 b.
2.55 1.
The Printed Matter Service to the is tem-
32.85 b. following places in. China
porarily suspended:-Yunnan, Sze- ..23% b.
huen, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fukien 12 b. (except Amoy ⚫ond Kulangsu), .10% n. Kwangsi, North and East of .13.10 n. Kwangtung.
China Lights (old) s... China Lights (new) $..... II.K. Electrics (old) x. rts H.K. Electrics (new) $. HIK, Electrics Ris $. Macao Electrics $ Sandakan Lights S. Telephones
mes (old) $. Telephones (new) s..
INDUSTRIALS
...25 n.
..04 b.
.45 r. Cold: Mac. (Ord.), Sh, $. Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $ ...30 n. Cantor Ices
.....1 n. Cements $...
.16.83 b. 10.60 D.
$.
Dalry
$ Watsons S Lane Crawfords $. Sinceres $... Wing On (HK)
.19.35 n.
13.35 b. & sa. ..0
b.
Wm. Powell, Ltd
COTTON MILLS “Ewỡ” Sh. "Smi
S'hal Cotton Sh...
MISC.
H.K. Govt 4%
.2% 11.
.30 n.
1/2 1.
.40% n.
.305 n.
.101.n
Emall Packet Post to all countries s suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS
Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 20th September. ..Sept. 27. Air Mail by "Pan American Airways
Direct Bervice"--San
Franciaco
dale. 30th September......Oct. 7
OUTWARD AIR MAILS
Friday, Sept. 20
Air Mall by Air to Rangoon to con- nect with the "British Overnena Airways."
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
Reg. Sept. 20, 4 p.m. Ord.....Sept 20, 4.30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 27,
H.K. Govt 34% (1934)....00 n. Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, H.K. Govt.3% (1040) ....08 en. Ch.. Govt 6% 1925 G$Bds, ..43 n. Entertainments-S
..04 m.
.1.80 n. Constructions (old) $.... Constructions (new) ..80 cia n. Vibro Piling $...
.7.20 n. Marsmana Inv. (Lon.) 9/- 1/6 n. Morsmans Inv. (H.K.) 1/-,, 1/6 n.
Kidnapping Probe
Requested
the years She said that six pupils are running the brothels.. The girls were not arrested during the ralts, recently "graduated" and were now
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”* ** useful members of society in that and the person arrested could only they were earning money to support be charged with keeping a lodging
actually LONDON. Sept. 23 (UP)-It la Learned that the Government has in- themselves and their familles, There house for prostitutes or were six trained. teachers, three keeping a brothel,"
structed the Ambassador, Sir Robert student teachers, and two matrons Figures for August alowed that 35 Crafgle, to request Tokyo to inves on the School stac.
She snld that their present persons were arrested in Hongkong, gate the reported kidnapping of premises were too small and un- and 42 in Kowloon. The charges Mrx Denzil Clarke, Japanese born wife of the Press Attache of the sultable and that a fund had already
:at keeping European British Embassy, stationed been started for a new school, house Hongkanese brothels (23),Peiping.
brothels (2), cost $20,000, Subscriptions to dato
prostitution (1) and and soliciting for. to $10,450, amounted $5,559 more was needed. She ap- lodging house keepers (9). pealed to members. friends sympathisers for donations.
lo
und
She concluded by saying that she was awaiting her visa to proceed to
Amerlen, and she hoped to spend two years there to further her studies.
The Committee responsible for organising tile hand concert and bar becue at, Kowloon-Cricket Club on Saturday, September 27, request that Clubs holding entrance and other Uckats return Biem to the organisers by noon on Thursday,
were ne
Kowloon
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-Ro- -European brothels (13), reived in audience by the King at Chinese (20), soliciting for prostii Buckingham Palace to-day were Mr tion (6) lodging house keepers (2). Churchill and Lord Halifax.
Regarding
ng prostitutes In the streets,
dim-
UB.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Bervices."
G.F.O. and K.P.0.
Rex.
Ord.
....Sept. 27, 5 pan.
.Sept. 27, 5.30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20 Air Mall by Ale to Bangoon to con- nect with the British Overseas Airways.
G.F.O. and K.Р.Ó. Reg.
Ord.
.Bept. 29, 4 p.m.
.Sept. 20, 4.80 p.m.- Tuesday, October 2
Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.B.A. and, Europe via "Pan- Amerfoda Airways and
Trans- Allanilo Services"
E. P. O.
.Oct.
7. 8.60 0.
Ord.
Rer.
.Oct. 7, 5.10 p.m.
O
Oct. 7, 5.00 5.0
Oct. 7, 7.00 pm.
Red Cross And St John Fund
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Brilish' Wire-.
Mr Shaftain said it was a very die Shuftain said that there was no less) Sir Courtauld Thomson,
cult problem, ng arrested unless they accosted a person
Chairman of the Red Crow Sales, the day handed a cheque for £30,000 to the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St John Fund, a ka
Included is: 2700.
700 realised by the Red
con possibility of the Red Light district and that person was prepared to give being brought into use again.
Prostitution in Hongkong has been evidence in Court. . One, suzgestion he could make, however, was to greatly aggravated by the indux of refugees in Hongkong, heúdded, also arrest all prostitutes in the streets, the number of factories which King's gift of wing at the put them all on a boat, and world theni away from Hongkong; but that was have been closing down recently Cross wine sale, too harsh to do resulting in many women and girls With the addition of this cheque,
to-day increased Asked If a Red Light district getting to the stage where they must the Fund
£33,020. could help solve the problem, Mr do something or starvo,
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