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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG
RUNG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946,
STREET CLASHES IN SAIGON:
Rioting Resumed Yesterday
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SAIGON, SEPT. 26, SEVERAL ANNAMITES HAVE BEEN WOUNDED IN THE CLASHES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN SAIGON SINCE THE FRENCH RELEASED PRISONERS OF WAR TOOK MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, AND A 9 O'CLOCK CUR FEW HAS NOW BEEN IM- POSED.
MAJOR GENERAL GRACEY SAID 600 ADDITIONAL BRI- TISH AND INDIAN TROOPS HAVE NOW ARRIVED BY PLANE AND HAVE LAUNCHED A HOUSE-BY- HOUSE SEARCH FOR WEAPONS AND ARE CLEAR- ING BARRIERS FROM THE MAIN BOULEVARD AND HIGHWAYS TO ENABLE FRESH FOODSTUFFS TO ENTER THE CITY. MÅKETS HAVE BEEN closed FOR TWO DAYS
Correspondents were in-night. But their behaviour is formed that Japanese troops in excellent and they are abiding southern Indo-China still are by the surrender terms." armed and guarding allied prð- perty. An officer said: "Actual- ly the Japanese still have the most powerful force here. They in charge and could clear one
fre Out the
Allied forces in
THE ST. PAUL'S CHINESE SCHOOL ioning L Detobar 19, 1916. and the
FRENCH CONVENT
SCHOOL
Dutober 4th. 1945. Both sultonls.
ILTO transferred from the French Convont pound at Causeway Bay to Lo Calvairo", Wong Noi Chong Bond, Happy Valloy.
Tolophone
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Former Allied war prison- ers have been armed to sup- plement General Gracey's meagre force.
The
FILIPINOS
NEED AID
Manila, Sept. 28.-Pre- sident Osmena left by plane to-day for the United States "to present, problems and needs of the Philip- pines personally in Wash- ington. sustained the greatest loss itmong
all Americar tionala during the war and we urgently need help."--- Associated Press.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTICE
The British-American Tobacco Company
We are to-day placing certain branda of our cigarettes on the market at the following prices:
May Blossom 10s 15 cents 109 20 cents Royal Leaf "We Filipinos
Ruby Queen 10s 25 cents Pirate
109 30 cents
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Enrolled As A Buck
Private
These are not our standard brands and are packed in temporary packing. We hope to return to our standard brands and packing in the future. These cigarettes will be on sale by all] the regular shops and squatters.. In case of difficulty please apply direct to Ying Cheong Hong, 50, Des Voeux Road, Central. Not more than two packets will be sold to a person at one time. September 25th, 1945.
NOTICE
DEFINITE NEWS HAS BEEN RECEIVED of CPL, ALEXAN- A French division is due to DER V. KOLATCHOFF, OF 930
MR. CHAN KWAN PO is arrive soon from Marseilles, ENGINEER AVIATION REGI
Japanese
MENT, U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE, acting temporarily as Secretary guarding. WHO Arc
WRITES American property.
FROM LUI of the University of Hong Kong. Annamites largely have been i
All letters should be addressed to Corporal Kolatchoff, a Hong ousted from government offices Kong University graduate, holls him at the University, Pokfulam. and replaced by French.
the record, shared by some farmer Telephone 28056. Chinese employees of the Royal Naval Dockyard, of having served
CHOW.
forces.
VIET MIN REJECTED theskins French MOLFEGA said the Viet Min (United in both the British and American Annam Revolutionaries' Goy- ernment) is attempting ensue cessfully to initiate negolia tors with the French govern ment to determine Viet Min's future.
France ground That
declined
on the
to the Japanese attack on
He was, for almost a year prior Hong Kong, in the service of the Royal Engineers as a works inspector. During the hostilities here he was attached to the regular R.E. forces with the rank of Staff-Sergeant
the Mount Davis area. and suw active service at Lyee-
mun with the Canadians and in
Sented a small fraction of the the group repre-
population, and brought into
was instrumental, through puwer
who detailed by the Japanese
mapping knowledge of the armed the Viet Min militia. labyrinth of Chinese pathways in They described the official thu Pokfulam arta In guiding Every day 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon French attitude as holding the back town on the night of
and 2 to 4 pm.
Vie: Min to be unconstitutional December 24-25 a rear-guard unit and a Japanese puppet organi-of the H.K.V.D.C. who had been zation.
partially surrounded.
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BRITISH MILITARY ADMIN- ISTRATION, HONGKONG
CUSTODIAN
PROCLAMATION No. 10. ARTICLE 3 APPOINTME NT
The returning French ad- Annamites a chance ministration will give the their form of government in to choose
compliance with democratic principles.-Associated Press.
FRESH OUTBREAK
SINGAPORE, SEPT. 26.
to
On December 26, he receiv- ed official sanction to abandon uniform and suck his way out Hong Kong as best he could.
BOGUS LETTER
an
of
S. V. BOXER, Registrar, Hong Kong University.
NOTICE
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL,
Kowloon.
Is opening on October 1st, 1946 with a Chinese Section.
PRE-WAR FEES
Tolephone 57078.
BRITISH MILITARY
ADMINISTRATION HONG KONG MILITARY COURTS PROCLAMATION NO. 8
ARTICLE &
Lack of sufficient Cantonese and the danger of falling foul of a Japanese patrol necessitated care- ful
planning and exit was Anal- ly made possible by a bogus letter posted from an obliging Chinese MESSAGES
1. DAVID MERCER MACDOU- STATE THAT THE FRENCH Office at Fort Bayard
FROM SAIGON wangchowwan requesting his
with
the Public Works GALL Brigadier, Chiof Civil HAVE TAKEN CHARGE OF MOST
Pormit to leave for Kwangchow-Affairs Officer, heroby appoint: TRATIVE
THE ADMINISwan was granted by the Gendar
LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO BUILDINGS IN merio after several applications to be Vice-President and SAIGON.
had been in on the occasion of FERDINAND GERALD NIGEL, new Gendarmerie reshuffles He More clashes are, however, left by boat toward the end
Liout, H.K.V.D.C. of going on in the
northern September 1942
and Annamite nationalists and the Suburbs of the city between
two Jesuit fathers. Company with French "revival" forces.
OF
in
KWAN CHO YU
to be Members of the Standnig
Military Court ARTICLE 8
them the said
He arrived at Kwellin on Octo- ber 25, 1942, in the midst of a British occupation troops, Japanese air-raid. Hong Kong though on guard, have not
was bombed for the first time by taken part in the clashes,the U.S. Air Force on the same and i, horoby authoriso aoh of neither interfering with native day.
He immediately reported to the LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO and making British Military Mission, but found FERDINAND GERALD NIGEL any move to assist the French. his first job with two other Rus- -Reuter.
demonstrations. nor
sian escapees from Hong Kong, to hold a Summary Military Court Later. After a huli of Valessuk, a radio-technologist, and Class I, sitting alone and the said nearly 24 hours, rioting Souranof, of the Hong Kong
EWAN CHO YIU broke out in Saigon this Pullco, with the Special Ordnance to hold a Summary Military Court afternoon on a larger scale, Section of the United States Army-Class II, sitting alone. but the situation is being brought under control.- Reuter.
WAR MEDALS
TOUGH GOING
He describes working conditions
in April 1948:
We We worked on a project with a handful of Chinese
to
for about three months. Salary 23rd was just auflicient to keep body and soul together. Everything was Paris, Sept. 28. so dastardly expensive. We could Two medals, created to hon-not even buy a pair of shoce our Indo-Chinese
we had worn out those (Annamese) replace workers employed in France or while carrying out reconnaissance survey of the Kweilin area. Rain, In exercise of the power confor North Africa during the war, mud, leeches and the heat of the red upon me by Article 3 of the was announced yesterday by sun almost drove me crazy, We above-mentioned Proclamation, the Ministry of Colonies, in a were living in tents miles from
town and with no transportation. at all,"
DAVID MERCER
special decree. MACDOU. The first will be awarded to
GALL, Chief Civil Affairs Offloor, all workers who spent at least Hong Kong, HEREBY APPOINT one year in France or North. REGINALD ANDREW WICKER- Africa, and, posthumously to. SON to bo Assistant Custodian of all workers who died there. Property in the Cony of Hong The second will be the re- Kong and to be acting Custodian of ward to all Indo-Chinese work- Property.
ers who distinguished them- Dated this 21st day of Septem-selves in France by work or
good behaviour.-Reuter, bor, 1946,
D. M. MacDougall, Brigadier,
Chief Civil Affairs Officer,
NOTICE
We have resumed 'practice at our old oflicos, Exchange Build- ing, lat Floor. Telephone No.
PENNY A WEEK FUND
to an
In July 1943, the British Army Aid Group recommended him Gen. Stilwell's attention оп American request for technica) staff and he was enrolled 48 "Buck Priyato" with the U.S. AAF
L. T. Ride, a professor In e school of medicine at Hong Kong University, offered hini the alternative of the Officer's Candi dato School at Calcutta or a start from the ranks under Gen. Stilwell. is an extract from the Hera
the
letter:
"Am writing this from memory with all-clothes off here at Luichow awosting out a possible transfer to There were times in Stanley Shanghai. will
Ill probably be dis thought Great
charged when some
there. We Britain was not doing all it chuk when received nows-nt Ma
-were on the road to Tar could for us. For these we Chung Ping of the Jap
Jap proposal would point out that soon aftor to surrender. I felt elated and at the war broke out a "Penny & the same time miserable, fór we LINSTEAD & DAVIS, week fund' was launched were miles away, from the coast
Chartered Accountants.hroughout the British Laten with destination unknovell.
for the maintenance of Allied 35th Soptambor, 1945.~-
32790.
NOTICE
I havo reopened my Office in Room No. 380, Prinoo's Building Tolophone No. 01136:
M. Nomaroo.
prisonere-of-war. Many gave You cannot keep thego lawn vory mueli more than a penny bowlers down. They cannot play and huge sums were collected locally at the moment but there is and distributed through the already a movement afoot to various Red Cross organlon secure the marang - of interested of the total Red Cross funds England during the enforced tions, and it is estimated that bowlers with a view to playing in for prisoners-of-war Great Bri- leave. The name of the secretary tain contributed sixty per cont nounced shortly in these columns. and his Home' address will bo. An-
D. M. MACDOUGALL, Brigadior,
Chief Civil Affairs Offloor. September, 1946.
NOTICE.
HEADQUARTERS, BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
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Will any porson having any knowledge of the airouristanos undor' which Captain Jowell oåd, six others were killed at Aberdoon in a tug in Dooombor 1941 pleaso comminicate with Major J. O. Riddoll, China Command H.Q.
Information is particularly ro- quired as to the data of death and]. the place of burial.
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