  We present the results of 450 and 850 micron continuum mapping of the HII
region KR 140 using the SCUBA instrument on the JCMT. KR 140 is a small (5.7 pc
diameter) HII region at a distance of 2.3+/-0.3 kpc. Five of the six IRAS point
sources near KR 140 were mapped in this study. Our analysis shows that two of
these IRAS sources are embedded late B type stars lying well outside the HII
region, two are a part of the dust shell surrounding the HII region, and one is
the combined emission from an ensemble of smaller sources unresolved by IRAS.
We have discovered a number of relatively cold submillimeter sources not
visible in the IRAS data, ranging in size from 0.2 to 0.7 pc and in mass from
0.5 to 130 Msun. The distribution of masses for all sources is well
characterized by a power law N(>M) ~ M^{-alpha} with alpha = 0.5 +/- 0.04, in
agreement with the typical mass function for clumped structures of this scale
in molecular clouds. Several of the submillimeter sources are found at the
HII-molecular gas interface and have probably been formed as the result of the
expansion of the HII region. Many of the submillimeter sources we detect are
gravitationally bound and most of these follow a mass-size relationship
expected for objects in virial equilibrium with non-thermal pressure support.
Upon the loss of non-thermal support they could be sites of star formation.
Along with the two B stars that we have identified as possible cluster members
along with VES 735, we argue that five nearby highly-reddened stars are in a
pre-main-sequence stage of evolution.
