CABLE COMPANY TO THREATS IN JAVA
BUILD NEW OFFICE
AS SOON AS BUILDING. MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE, WE SHALL BE PUTTING UP A NEW BUILDING OF OUR OWN, ON THE SITE WHERE THE OLD OFFICE3. NOW STAND, ON THE WATERFRONT ALONG-CON~~ NAUGHT ROAD," SAID MR. H. L. N. ASCOUGH. MANAGER OF CABLES & WIRELESS LTD., IN AN IN- TERVIEW YESTERDAY.
“MR. ASCOUGHI SAID-THAT-THE-CABLE--SERVICE-HAS-
NOW BEEN INCREASED TO 15 HOURS DAILYAS COMPARED WITH 1 HOURS" WHEN HE TOOK OVER AFTER THE JAPANESE SURRENDER, AND -HD-EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT WITHIN THE NEXT FORTNIGHT OR SO THE FULL-TIME PRE- WAR SERVICE WILL BE RESTORED.
norma
At the moment the Company | activities will be centralized in th Post Office. This has been mad ja still very short-stalled. Thert
possible by the kind consent of th are only 177 people working as
Hone Kong Government, compared with the strength of 250, but hert again it will nly be a matter of time before the Company gets ink full swing once more.
Mr. Aszough said that unti transmitter which In
A new
been ordered, arrives (in about two weeks time), the "load" will have to be carefully watch ed, as with poor Japanese equip. ment and lack of a proper transmitting room, every pre -caution must be taken agains Ansible breakdown.
Talking of the reorganisaljon oʻ the Company's station here. Bir Ascough said that "the prosperity of a colony depends to
Rreat extent on its communications with the outside world. Telegraph com munications have no ethnographi cal barriers and telegrama
RT
th accepted for every country in world, nian' islands, aircraft in flight or faris or expeditions our in the wild,
are
BROKE CAMP
^
oonik alnc "It is now over a this Company established cantar. with the outside world and now we are accepting traffic of al flasver to a countries Dutch East Indies. There is com munication with Singapore and the greater part of Malaya. W. hope, in the nir future, Lo establish normal traffic conditions with China, As, at preant only Government and Prens telegrami
accepted. "With
regard to the immediat- opening
of our services I can now divulge that one of the Govern ment Wireless Engineere and my self were the first to break ram on August 17. and arrive in Hon Kong to ascertain the disposition of the Japanese Wireless Stations and returned to Camp with all th information necessary for the im mediate
diate opening upon the arriva' at the Navy, as
as we could not order the Japanese ant before the arriva
of Admiral Inrcourt.
"We tak
the Sta took possession of tions before the Japanese left and re-established
circuits.
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th whole
time working in collabora tion
Director of Com- with the morsications My Wynne Janes.
of "Unfortunately. Itar European Staff
unit fo work after their incarevcation is Stanley and Ma Tau Chung In ternment Camps. But ther quickly replaced by our own Tele communications Sin attached
ike
were
Wel
Army, who were flown to Hog The Company had two
Kong hundred men standing-by Co Jombo for transfer to the Far East. We expect additional Euro Dear Staff within the course of few days.
FUTURE PROGRAMME
"And now for our programime for the future. We are commen eing on the ground floor by demo Ishing the old Cable (fee whir for the past forty years has stood in Connaught Rond, and erecting
new building not only for ou own, services but additionei floor for offices, so frma who require nujet oflice and a goɔd view of th harbour, also get in on the ground floor.
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"During the period in which th new building is being erected our
POST OFFICE NOTICE
HOLIDAYS
On TUESDAY. 9th OCTO BER. and WEDNESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1915, the General Post Office, Kowloon Central Post Office and the Sheungwan and Wantsai Branch Post Offices will be open
10 the public
is the intention of the Company t "With regard to equipment, 1 supply all new equipment for bot cable and wireless systems. Expen sive and elaborate equinment is a present on its way to Hong Kong nd should be here within a few
your first objective is the ful
resturation of our pre-war acrvices which an you know included fiv high speed cables from Hong Kon“ and twenty-two wireless channels The cable servicea wore London via Singapore, Shanghai, Manila Saigon and Labuan.
canno
enumerate all the wireless tric graph chaunels but theas were t China (all parts), French Indo Chinn,
Java.
Manila, Siam. &c. and radio telephony with Chung kine and Manila.
T
TELEPHOTO FACILITIES "In pre-war days the average time of transmission of a full rm2 enble to London was under ten minutes, we are now going to im
rove on that. I have been advised hv
chairman, Sir
Edwar Wilshaw, K.C.M G. that it is the the Company's intention that all latest developments on the Cam pany's system: since the winnin of the Japannes War will be in trodreed to Hong Kong and tha the Far East network
will b
Ch.. covered as soon as possible. cabieships are
at present bugil
en aged restorine cable communi cation ens' of Colomba.
"It is also the Company's polic
lo extend photo telegraph' facilities
New York, Oct. 9. A Batavia dispatch from Aneto, the Dutch news agonevi quoted the independence nows- paper "Merdorka” as saying "a people's army" in being formed to resist with fores the return of "Java to Netherlanda rula-Associated Press.
Economic Activity In India
ABC SERVICE MUEEN'S THEATRE CLASSIFIED
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TO-DAY
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---AND SUNDRIES
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"KIRTON" NEW DELHI, OCT. 2. The following message has PLANS FOR INCREASED been received from SHANGHAI ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN IN for Mr. Kirton. DIA IN ORDER TO AVCID A "Miss Kirton SERIOUS DROP IN WARTIME EXPENDITURE, WITH RESULTING HUGE
in General
No-
all
SHANGHAI THE Hospital,
serious. Faintly UN thing DIS- there. Requests her husband BY SIR to come to SHANGHAI as soon.
as possible."
EMPLOYMENT, WERE CLOSED TO-DAY ARDESHIR DALAL, MINISTER FOR PLANNING IN THE IN- DIA GOVERNMENT.
He said he anticipated in mediate
unemployment for 2.000. 300, including 850,000 armed per- sonnel and unskilled labour used on military construction projects.
"It is our problem,"
hu all.
"to Andon or as many
of them na
fle
building dres
He said there is a great deal of reserve purchasing power in thei country and considerable demand for various types of consumer goods and services, especially in the building industry.
Baid to stimulate the
are under con sideration by the government and research is being pursued in th feld of prefabrication and stand ardization of types of construction for mass production.
Apart from large irrigation and hydroelectric works, the crn tral provincial governments have to recondition plants and buildings and ronds which have been neglect ed during the war.
Will Me Kirton please report to No. 4, RAPWI Control Staff.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banki Building (3rd floor) as soon as possible.
CIVIL AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATION, MEDICAL BRAN H.
LAUNDRY SERVICE
Tonders an invited from the] public to undertake the laundry servicu of Go: ornu eat civil hospitals - ou the basis of a mont" to month controb at a flat rate prico for each artiole of slothing, irrosportive of its size or quality. uoh land y service shall includio the provision of materials novesary for the Inundering as well as the monns of transportation in the collection
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Produced by
He sald the Damodar valleyfom and delivery to all Govo.n project, modeled after the Ameri mont o'vil hos itals and institu can Tennessee valley power and timna in Hong Kong and Kosloɔ] flood control project. Is fader and Nov Kowloom (oxcluding consideration. He forecast chan-
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"The radio telephone channelṛ will h extended, no doubt, t The United Kingdom, Aneries and other parts. As
www knott raphic rates within the Britis Empire
ar the
same as pre-wa with one exception, and that i thai Press rates have been reduced from sixty cents n word to gover
"Our one aim is
give Hon
Kong a servies second to nuns. 8 that on the rearscitation of con merce there will be rapid ata recurate systems of communica
ions "
Standard
Koreans On Strike
A REPORT FROM SAPPORO HOKKAIDO ISLAND, SAYS
be
All tenders, which should state the place or places at which the laundry work will be carried out, thould reach Medical Headquartors. hy not later than the lith day of Dotober, 1946, and should be in) tin lionto and put in soaled covers) darty marked with i words
Tendor for Laundry Servico".
The Government does not bind
THAT 6.000 KOREANS THERE HAD GONE ON STRIKE IN THE COAL MINES AND TIE itself to nocet the lovest o. any STRIKE WAS SPREADING Tendor. ADJACENT WORKINGS.
Domei
new.
agency reported
he Ministry of Justice had liqui dated the thought control" % tion
J. I. BARNES
Sic dary
of its criminal burent, an Hong Kong, 6th October, 1945. action which General MacArthu had ordered. Domei estimator 5.000 polles had rained or bren dropped as a result of the order
Wage Scheme against the secret police, whor
Drn.t nana
دال
London, UCL. 9.
inter propusu.s SENATUS Li guver ment wages and
hours ull ning collatuvas for scale are to be drawn up at the pre- paratory Technical Mart Metting organiscu by the in-
Labour Juice
DanM
take
ماما
Li place at copenhagen wovehoer loch at the invita- 46}} td {H Dinh18 Givernyln 6. The naucis attending wis
The Japanese populace have feared for years.
MacArthur's headquarters said 2.030,000 Jananese soldiers had been demobilized and the task) would be completed within a few days. Associated Press.
Japs Die of Starvation
BRITISH MILITARY
ADMINISTRATION, HONG KONG
MILITARY COURTS PROCLAMATION NO. 8 ARTICLE 5
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by Article 5 of the above-mentioned Pro Tokyo, Oct. 9. Naval Commander Yoshisabor clamation, I, DAVID MERCER, Narumiva, who has returned to MACDOUGALL. Brigadier, the Argentine, uuril, Jean from the atoll of Mili in Chief Civil Affairs Officer, hereby Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, the Marstall islands with 2,589 appoint:- Denmark,
Fran..ermy and navy personnel, reported ., India, vand, Norway, that one out of every six had to
be hospitalized. United States ana ugomvi He-to'd--Dom news“UVENE®-
Farrison had been isolater to be a member of the Standing gince December 1943 and he had Military Court.
1,
will, Percugai,
AID FOR STARVING CHINESE
Colombo, Oct. 9.
On its first murcy expedition, & shalow draught landing craft of the Brisa ates i love recently wook trum Singapore titty, tops rice and meareal supplzus to th liberated but starving live thou
the
CHRISTOPHER D'ALMADA E CASTRO
Jost more than 2,700 men from GIVEN under my hand at starvation.
In a two-year period. he said. HONG KONG this 6th day ol Mili was blasted by 7.200 Ameri-October, 1945.
con planes. two battleships
ard
14 destroyers, Mili was one of the many Japanese strongholds that American forces by-pasand after scizing what islands needed for air and navy bases. Associated Press.
Were
between the hours of 10 d,in. sand Chinese and Malays of the EXPANDING
and 12 noon only.
J. H. B. Lec
D. A. D. C. A. (Posts & Telegraphs)
8th October, 1915.
DAVIE BOAG & CO., LTD.
Wo hog to announce that we have no y'occiod our formei promises :-
Oflico-
Chartered Bank Building,
1st floor).
Factory & Godo.vng—
Quarry Bay,
NOTICE
INTERNATIONAL BANK.
Gold & Money Exchange
Too House St. Ta: 91939.
small town of Muur, near this por. of Elajacea,
Tais expedition will be followed by many others to remoto places on the lalayan coas; in urgent need of supplies.-Reuter.
PANAMA
London, Oct. 9.. New According to
York Radio, the United States Secre- tary of War has declared in Washington that plans have
DRIVE AGAINST DRUG been set up for the construction TRAFFIC
of a third series of sluices in Panama Canal in order to, en-} uble the largest" "American air-] craft-carrier to use the Canal.)
Damascue, Oct B. Sir Thomas Russell Pasha, 'chio: of the Calro Police and director-Reuter.
of the Egyptian Coptral Narcotica Intelligence Bureau, la expected in Damascus on October 20, v. supervise the simultaneous drive against the hashish trafic, whic io to be launched in Byria and Lebanon.-Router.
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Washington, Oct, The Soviet Union has rejected | Press, the Argenting attempts to brine
the re-catablishment or about diplomatic relations between the two countries, it was disclosed In authoritative nources to-day
Router:
The American Red Cross Field Director, Mr. John P. Tollinar left for Canton yesterday morning
by motor: Junk.-
D. M. MACDOUGALL,
Brigadier,
Chief Civil Affairs Officer.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a moating of the Comuil of tho Association will bo haki ng tho ofico of Mo3318, Lo and Lo, by kind permission, Moxanha Buil- ding, Friss Flow;, on Monday the 15th day of Dutobor, 1945 at 2.30 p. to dismiss the question of revival of football in thỏ - olony.
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