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LATEST NOTICES
BRITISH MILITARY ADMIN- ISTRATION, HONGKONG
MILITARY COURTS PROCLAMATION No. 8
ARTICLE 5
In exercise of the powers com ferred upon me by Article 5 of the above-mentioned Proclamation, I, DAVID MERCER MAC DOUGALL, Brigadier, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, hereby appoint:
ANTHONY PETER RUS-
SELL,
Squadron Leader,
Royal Air Forco
and
LEWIN DAVID JEFFERIES, Captain,
South Wales Borderers
to be members of the Standing Military Court.
Given under my hand at Hong-
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BATHING FACILITIES
CHINESE SENTRIES MOUNT QUSING
GUARD IN SHAMEEN
JEEPS RUSH
(BY A STAFF reporter) AMERICAN AND CHINESE ARMY
THROUGH THE STREETS OF SHAMEEN TO-DAY AS
AND
THE CONQUERING CHINESE YANKS RUB FRENCH
PLAN FOR INDO-CHINA
SHOULDERS WITH FORMER JAPANESE SPIES AND OF THE COSMOPOLITAN NEUTRAL NATIONALS CANTON.
CAFES AND RESTAURANTS THERE ARE FOUR-MAJOR
passea on
ok
un-
Germans
Take Over
Paris, Oct. 14.
The Minister of the Colonies, Mr. Paul Glaccobl, referring to "a vast anti-colonial current Bat ing throughout the world," said to-day that Franco blamed Ita troubles in Indo-China on foreign support of independence move- ments.
He told a non conference that do not only
inside; they receive support from abroad."
Indenca movements
APPEAL FAILS
Oslo, Oct. 14. The Norwegian Supreme Court to-day unanimously rojected Quisling's appeal against his sentenco of death for cooperation with the Germans as head of the puppet government during Nazi occupation. The an nouncament said the de- cision-followed three days. deliberation. - Associated
Pro88,
Marshal
Tito's Fear
LONDON, OCT. 14. MARSHAL TITO HAS AC- CUSED THE FORMER IVAN FOREIGN MINISTER,
kong this 13th day of October, helps to moderate the Immo- shouting They are quartered in TAL FRAMEWORK FOR ALL said: "The colonial pact in definite- SUBASIC, OF RESIGNING TO
1945.
Sd. D. M. MacDOUGALL
Brigadier, Chief Civil Affairs Officer
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HONGKONG MILITARY
GOVERNMENT.
The task was
professor,
-
0.5
her own
Ho said there is no reason to
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E "A MOTIVE FOR FOREIGN INTERVENTION" IN YUGOSLAVIA BEFORE THE ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER REPORTED TO-DAY, 11, THE BELGRADE RADIO Tito mado the assertion in a letter to Subasic, accopting the When he left the government resignation, the radio anid. earlier this week, Subasic said be ment he had signed with Tito for coalition government was not being carried out.
Tito
ONES ON SHAMEEN-ARE OVERCROWDED AND BIG BUILDINGS ARE DOING A.ROARING TRADE. HAVE BEEN REQUISITIONED BY THE FIRST- COMERS, WHETHER CHINESE, AMERICAN OR BRI- TISH-AŞ VARIOUS ARMY UNIT HEADQUARTERS. Chinese sentrica stand duty with fixed bayonets ot overy Intersection and every Time was when the Services
waterfront. announcement regarding Re- few yards of the pulse Bay bathing beach would Loiterers are not welcome, but have provoked acid comment, general traffic
An official source Interpreted It is stressed, however, that the molested by Army red tape.
Private residences have been decision to divide the beach by left in peace and requisitioning
the remarks as referring to Japan, BERLIN, OCT. 14. China and the United States. barbed-wire barricade,. is but have been limited to unoccupied
AMERICANS HAVE COM.
-Declaring thero no returning That buildings. Chinese sentries keop temporary measure.
"OK." at avery oppor PLETED THE GOVERNMEN-to
the pre-war order, Giaccobi plus the tunity. diato reaction: that, time of the
the large numbers on the grass com- THREE STATES IN THEIR ly condemned and has given place GIVE and year realisation that transport propounds and companies keep drill- ZONE OF OCCUPATION, IN A to a new formula of French union, STEP TOWARD THE POTS under which each territory will be blems being as acute as theying in turns.
British representation in Sha- DAM CONFERENCE'S EVEN administered no longer for the solo are, without early promise of
good." improvement, the matter, taken meen life is limited at the moment TUAL OBJECTIVE OF A CEN. benefit of Metropolitan France but
to personnel of the British Army TRAL ADMINISTRATION FOR for by and large, is of little 'm-Aid Group office, who are perform- GERMANY.
achlaved with bellove that "the unity which exist portance at the present time. ing the function of the Consular
for the It should do no harm, never- ataf
proneat, to one
Chinese selection of Prof. Karl Gellor, ed in the French community in when not опо territory the of
from for the representative
from Heidelberg Jaw
rom to thelcas, to point out
Itself detach bonent of those whom it may Maritime Customs, flown in the Minister and President of Greater no longer exists to-day." was doing so because an agres.
of to the staff Changking. concern, that Repulse Bay is a United Nations Rehabilitation and Hessen, and the designation of publle bathing beach, and, in Relief Association, and representa- Wiesbaden as capital of the state normal times, the natural week-tives of the Methodist Church who of Lander. end rendezvous from April on-
The next move will be a meet- are busy organising additional of hundreds of Hong relief ald to the dispossessed. ing among ministers of the three warda.
zono states-Greater visitors. HONGKONG ENTRY PERMITS American Kong residents and
Wurtember-Baden and The B.A.A.G. ofco, temporarily Ressen, The idea of dividing the
command of Capt. Bavaria to establish liaison. is under the
The French community to one beach,
compartmentally,
Francis Lee, M.M., during our
Bought foreign In logical sequence after that and indivisible," he said. "It ex- Issuing something so entirely new, so
Hong reporter's visit, is
cludes all idea of separatism out of Reeping with the past, Kong entry permits, permits to would be establishment of over-
machinery for dissidence."-Associated Press, that i is more than a trifle
Government of the
Hong Kong Germany. shocking to many suscentibili former Chinese Civil Servants of all administrative
State governments in the Ameri- and to others whare it deems use- ties. This remains true
entirely will operate can zona while interest to-day may be ful to reconstruction work in the
Independently, but close faison academic. After all, Colony. largely
An interesting feature of Sha- will be maintained. The Ameri- the people with cans have no plans for a zonai few of us can to-tiny afford the
haunted looks
their
however. faces government such as the Russians time to indulge the luxury of men life are When we could, bench bathing." beach behaviour from could worrying over the fact whether have created, asoolated Pro
will eventually he wanted view was eminently for questioning by the police.
There le always, however, the point of satisfying. Hong Kong had a reputation, not altogether un- need for immediate entry into the deserved, for having a discon- struggle for wealth and most have forgotten the spectro of an un- certing knack of producing
savoury past to participate most anobbery
un- the shekels of
to-day expected places. But for some reason or other, shall we sug gest
strong weight of public opinion, this received
on contradiction sharp beaches, and we all went in to-
in gether
manuer
the
in
A
the
even
our
they
on
in
He said France had announced its intention of giving five Indo-a China States the status of a semi- autonomous federation with its own government and parliament. France said, On the other hand, he
as no intention of completely re- Hinguishing the territory.
Parls, Oct. 14.
ΟΙ
that one Paris Radio reports
fifty tons of gold hundred and which formed part of the reserves of the Banque de France and were taken to Dakar in 1940 have been returned to Franco-Reuter.
Four Years Have Changed Pearl River
AN OLD SEA SALT IS CONDUCTING THE FIRST DIRECT RIVER SERVICE FROM CANTON TO HONG KONG AFTER FOUR YEARS OF ENFORCED LAND-CRAB- BING AT STANLEY.
HE
courne
A NEW ZEALANDER, IS CAPT. P. W. GRIERSON,
WHICH MASTER OF THE M. V. CONSTANCE BROUGHT OUR REPORTER BACK FROM HIS CAN- TON TRIP.
REPATRIATES
There is nothing left resembling the starvation-border struggle of the puppet government and dis- possessed neutral nationals are good money doing mend- caraing ing and catering for the Amerl- which cans who are having their ward- the trium- refurbished for robea would have delighted the most phal procession in due
of cosmopolitan democratically insistent of in-through the life dividuals. While our local so- Shanghui.
SHANGHAI LURE
A Yank fu cloty on some occasions kept up
There in hardly its serious and seemly ritual, it
plotting waya who is not shook it off readily enough town prior to donning its bathing and means to reach Shanghai, but 400 MORE
doalors in silks, ivory and Chinese costume. Oddly enough, or curion have already started collect- perhaps the truth lies in pre-ing the Gold impatiently released cincly the opposite direction, the from funds that the Shanghat have been due to result was that everybody, en- market would joyed themselves so much more.collect.
United States Army personnel It may have had something to
Generals the fact in Shameen rank from do, of course, with
to all-comera, joy-rides In Re: Custodian Proclamation that the taipan, while imprea- to buck privates, the jeops keep alve enough in his commodious Kiving oppots in full Army Air carpeted office, was no great Force regalia proudly parade the the new Shamton shakes in a pair of woollen abstreets, and breviations. Similarly, when gloriously, marches on! it came to figures, the little cashier from the cafe round th corner checked up more hand- somely than lady of leisure from higher levels. However, we act easily Paint Brushes (various sizes); out to show, not how --said to be 44,194 pcs. ferocity may drift into facetious- Hair Brushes-said to be ness, but that there is a tra-
dition about Repulse Bay a other beaches that jibs at in- Clothes Brushes-said to be novation. Even the thinnest of wedges might, without care, 6,000 pcs.
leave unpleasing marks behind.
No. 10 of 1945.
SALE BY TENDER (S 58)
The Acting Custodian of Pro- perty is prepared to receive bids In writing for the purchase of a quantity of :--
2,396 pcs.
Shoe Brushes-said to be 7,192 pcs.
Men's & Ladies' Umbrellas- aaid to be 3,227 pca. Luggage Baskets-said to be 1,107 pcs.
Shock For |Egyptian
Cairo, Oct. 14. The statement of Sir Stafford of Cripps, President of the Board Trade, that there is no immediate prospect of reopening the Liver- pool cotton market means he wants
toderate the Fargali
Any
Bids, in sealed covers, should its trade
Pasha
Mohamed
to-day. He is Egypt's
Motor Junk
Disaster
The U.S.S. Geneva, which arrived here on Saturday with 400 re-patriates from North China ports, is the first Ameri- be employed in CELET ship to this service.
She had aboard Australian, Canadian. British, Indian and Hong Kong repatriates. They are now at the Kowloon Recep- tion Camp at Prince Edward Rond awaiting ships t carry them to their eventual destina-
WERE LIVES
tion.
MANCHESTER'S
"KWONG HOPE FOR A BREAK
OVER 300 LOST ON THE
ON MOTOR, JUNE YUEN"
SHE OCTOBER 9, WHEN CRASHED INTO A ROCK AND SUNK OUTSIDE MACAO HAR- BOUR.
The skipper's principal com- plaint is that all river charts are useless, the depth markings being out of date as the Japan- ese made little effort to keep! the channels clear of silt and bottom-scraping is a feature of Pearl and West River traffic.
Guiding lights are in order, though there are yet no river are a feature police. Pirates but are of the tame genus. in any case, Chinese and American military personnel in uniform, constant travellera, serve to dis tract attention.
The "Constance," a 200-ton five trips to affair, has made Canton, and was requisitioned once by the Chinese Army for troop-transport to Po On.
The River will be unnavigable for some time to vessels with large displacement and there Is a big job on hand for dredgera. Capt, Grierson, who has had his Master's Certificate as far London, Oct. 14.
back as 1908, is fairly proud of The "Manchester Guardian": states that the cotton fabric his command. It does not com- exporters have not yet received pare with the 10,000-ton Hin- the announcement concerning the doostan, once his pride, but it are awaited Man is a pioneer of the new or- export programme for the current is still a command and the Old quarter and details with more than usual interest der on the West River. There were about 400 passen because of the possibility that
The "Constance," run by the rers on board and only 14 were bec
some changes such as pets which Ming San Coastal Navigation of markets Company, has been bringing saved. Fow of the crow escaped.
in the Three Chinese Colonels were
may be traded with, an increas theeo lost. among
In the proportion of "free export" in fresh food from Canton, but was devoted business, or an increase in the the present trip range of available cloths will be introduced-Reuter.
voyage.
It is
is alleged that the junk left Canton on her maidon with a
pilot entirely strange to routo.
Sikhs No More In Singapore
Torco of Singaporeancod
BID FOR RECORD
London, Oct. 14.
re-assume their d back to posta with the Civil Govern ment.
mainly to passengers coming
HURLEY RETURNING
Washington, Oct. 14.
this
said. Everything I pledged to do in the agreement with you and everything proposed to us by the Big Three at Yalta ia boing done." Tito's accusation that Subasic intervention was taken sceptically
London British officials said the idea of Intervention in Yugoslavia was "farthest from anyone's mind."
British government opinion is/ that the Subasic declaration about failure to carry out the agreement and
an undemocratic flavour to election plans is well founded, Tito made it clear he intended to proceed with the election under the present suffrage and voting rules Associated Press.
NOTICE
The Directorate Staff and General Administrative Branch of the Civil Administration will be located at the former Colonial Secretary's Offices, Lower Albert Road, as from Monday, October 15, 1945.
Telephone numbers will not be altered
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Vehicles Petrol/Diesel, Marine Engines--Petrol/Die-
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NOTICE
now lying at Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co's Building, 20, Des Voeux-Road, Hongkong.
All persons who can furnish any markets,
information as to the presont Inspection may be made on
declared
whereabouts of any property vested application to Messrs. White biggest cotton tradesman. in
In the CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY away, Laidlaw & Co. Ltd, 1st His statement, published
PROPERTY on the 26th day of Singapore, Oct. 14, Floor, between 9 and 10 a.m. "Al Misri," said.. the British has the right to take
Alan
Reuter's decision it wishes concerning
Humphreys,
Dooember, 1941, or of the recorda each day except Sunday.
market contradicts
but must re- Special Correspondent in Singa-
Britain will shortly attempt to
or any paper documents, etc., pore, says: "Sikhs in the Polico
whose bo break the world air speed record be left at the Acting Custodian's cognize that this
countries.
ac with a jet-propelled Gloster Meteor The Bearttary of State Mr. belonging or apportaining to the noid
aircraft. The record at present Office, Second floor, Mercantile interests, of other
Cripps statement "han haviour during the
James Byrnes, announced to day office of tho Custodian of Enomy Bank Building, Queen's Road, caused consternation and we must cupation, was bitterly on 481.4 miles per hour training that Mr. Patrick Hurley will re- Property, Supreme Court, mo
I adviso by all classis
Chinoso war fights go amoothly and
turn to his post as Ambassador required to communicato with the Victoria, on or before noon 20th take quick measures,
the Egyptian government to take internces to humble
of October, 1945.
may be made at the end this Hurley Bow home Kent altuation"A there are several A déposit of Dollars Oneliale steps to face this now kers, will never again be soon in weather la suitablo, an attempt to China; after short rest undersignod.
dangerous
"streets"of Singailreds of wook at Horno Bay in",
Contral munist parley was under way. Hundred must be made on de sociated Press,
thom still in the city but they are speed of 000 m.p.h. is expected
Router.
He was given) much credit in being kept here "for their own
two Bhg, the Pociated Pre
powerful lenders posit of each tender, which wil
to safety,"
polico according be returned if tentlar; is not
DEATH OF CARDINAL A- oficer.
MACRORY All are now walling to leave
Byrnes authorized the accepted.
ment that Hurley would return to for India and the official policy is
London, Oct. 14 to. pension off all those who dro
Cardinal Joseph Macrory, Ro- China after they had conferred eligible."Router.
Catholla Primate of al with President Truman. It was Ireland and Archblahop of Arbelloved earlier that Hurley would resign, but Truman apparently Wing-Comdr. PS. P. Morter, magh, died suddenly this morning prevailed upon him to change his
685 at the ag of eighty-four.
mind. Cardinal Macrory was ordained Officer Commanding No.
The Acting Custodian does not bind himself to accept the highest or any tender.
WICKERSON, CONTROLLER OF GODOWNS, Acting Custodian of Property. Victoria, 18th October, 1945,
BRITISH EXPORTS HIGHER
London, Oct. 14, British exports increased to monthly average of U.3.8108,000, 000 in July and August, the Board of Trade reported to-day
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roods worento Dowexpeated-and England Avia Bombay: to-day: SYNDEVA ZERBRANS
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