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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1945.
The Banner Of Doom In Straits Of Malacca
It was late in November 1944 that the British Eastern Fleet,
Tylophones:. 32312, 24:64 & 33923 back again at Ita Ceylan banc after thone bleak few months of defonce from East Africa, wan divided into two separate units, the more effectively to launch an nil-out
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SUBSIDY
Omein figures released yos-1 terday reveal that Government's commendable Turt to keep down the living costs
of the mass of the Chinese population of this Colony involves a sub- sidy for in excess of that com- monly believed. Exact totals;
are difcult to completly IN safe to say that the daily of supplying rice to the cost public at 20 cents a catty is in the neighbourhood of $140,000 a day or $4,000,000 a month,
entr-
were more Government's
REMARKABLE OFFI CIAL STORY OF THE EXPLOITS OF THE EAST INDIES FLEET IN LAST YEAR OF THE WAR.
THE Japan and
- offensive age in South
its co-prosperity East Asia.
balance
of
inahore.
and
saw it and called out the battle flect and after macabro fight `nt midnight, illuminated by tropical sont it to lightening, destroyers the bottom. Tactical purksta after- wards called it the "perfect des troyer action."
months of the war saw The last soon
the
these units, to be known marines said they burned her "ab-I the
war,
cruiser Sussex shot one
wan
formilable carrier force somewhere
off the Andamans. I
ruther like letting y a straight left and hearing the stroke of the bell at the SAMC tine.
A week or a later the Fleet went downs to listen. coldly, to
Stalin-Rumour
London, Oct. 23.
Gromyko, Soviet "Ambuazador to the United
States, in response to a ques- tion, said to-day that he had "no information to support" rumours that Josef Stalin in -gravely ill, Gromyke is atton-
ding the United
Nationaa raccutive committee meeting here.-Asociated PreRE.
H.K. War
Graves Statement
of the
Sir,--Since the arrival Military Forces in Hong Kong en- quiries have been recelyed regard- ing the future of the many graves, both Service and Civilian, which are located all over the Island ani Mainland.
the race us a lost force of
Kamikaze Corps The sinking of the Tirpitz and
against the East Indies Fleet. Scharnhorst had so
An attack was restored the The fleet succeeded to the extent anade on a convey of minesweepers sea power in Europe of reducing Japanese shipping in
arts off and escorts
Isthmus the Kra that many major warships were this area to a state of medievalism; and one minesweeper was damag- now available for the Far East. fragile wooden craft of a scored. Several planes were destroy- There were home long standing tons or HO, which scraped the ed The Injuries to avothe. Men of the very beaches as they ran up the down almost off her gunwain. Royal Navy had never forgotten coast, so afraid were they of the Steaming to launch the biggest the sinking of the Prince of
mennee of the deeper water. Ropulas
Not
air attack o fnr, the Prime and
or the capture of that they were much safer clone Minister's broadcast of the end of Singapore.
British pilots
So halted One as the British Pacific Fleet, was fully.
Auli- Whole
convoys of them under Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser carrying petrol, ammunition or It took place alongside food were wiped out remorselessly great American Fleets, which were A line of rising smoke along the driving a steel wedge towards the coast was the banner of doom. heart of Japan itself. n thrust be
These facts will explain the Lween the
belt of ****
Armoured
of the Curriconed islands. The Homewhat meagre tannage of ships peace talks by the Japanese, and enemy
nunk by British
nubmarines in the other was commanded by Admiral East Indice this feet its the ply stained, weeping Itagaki began the on board the Sunsex the war- Sir Arthur and was known 30,000. But it represents
2:371 as the British East Indies Flert light craft which were destroyed; formal surrender in the Municipal
237 preliminaries, It assumed virtual control of the There was nothing bigger to hit. Bulldings at Singapore.
well-equipped waters of the East Indies and the
ships of
As a postscript is the story of Indian O
wak asked to explain the presence of a large heap of decaying rubber Singapore. and somewhere near the wharf at Two years ago, he sald, Tokyo gave the order it had to be delieverd in Japan where
was urgently needed. ships tried to implement the order. Not one survived. "You are fook- ing. gentlemen," he said, "at the most expensive heap of rubber in graphs, the world."
zhly
which
Ocean, an area acel Jon, pre-war merchant fleet the senior Japanese Oflear who'
ten times the size of the
that had risked themselves in ten Sen. Between these powerful for- these waters were a line of mel R.A.P. added ancholy wrecks on the bottom, and ces, to which Be its considerable weight, the Japa- there was nothing to replace them nese in the plundered
lands of
of either from stock or from the Mulaya, Sian and the Nether- building lines. They were being lands East flies were eanght as sunk too quickly In the other it relentlessly any nut between cenn by the Americans.
Ja the crackers,
The last challenge to the British blockade of the Malaces Strait in the was made by a Nachi class cruiser Inter in May. British submarines
South
down
wus
General de Gaulle's Signal Triumph
PARIS, OCT. 23
So far the following action has been taken by this H.Q.:
} 1.
papers
A notice Was put in all calling for information on
been received. In addition, fairly this matter and many letters have accurate and complete plans and nominal rolls have been obtained of graves at Stanley, Bowen Rond Hospital and Argyle Street.
2. South East Asia Command has been urgently requested to Rend to Hong Kong as soon as possible
Graven Registration Cait. On arrival this unit will Ten begin A
in a systematic search of the whole area.
They
will
endeavour #11
THE FIRST GENERAL ELECTION IN NINE YEARS HAS PLACED ALMOST AN UNQUALIFIED STAMP OF AP- PROVAL OF GENERAL DE GALLE'S PLANS FOUND FOR THE FOURTH REPUBLIC ON THE NEW CON. STITUTION DRAFTED BY THE PEOPLES' CHOSEN
REPRESENTATIVES.
THE ELECTION HAS DECIDED; ONE, THAT THE CON- STITUENT ASSEMBLY DESIGNATED AT YESTER- DAY'S POLLING SHOULD DRAFT A NEW CONSTITU- TION RATHER THAN ATTEMPT TO RE-BUILD THE GOVERNMENT ON TITE 1885 DOCUMENT WHICH WAS THE FOUNDATION OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC. Two, that Executive power be
Le
A
to identify graves found, tako erect temporary
Creases and as far as possible make a complete list of the graves of all Allied Services, men and women, who were killed battle or died subsequently.
in the
When this unit has done every- thing possible, a decision will be made regarding the future of thean graves and in all probability it will be decided that a suitable site or sites will be purchased, and central War Cemetries formed, as
in all is being done where the Allies have fought in this
is carried This work WALL! out by a Graves Concentration Unit
conjunction with
the Imperial War Graves Commission who are ultimately responsible for the up-
of these cemetries.
in
keep
War.
countries
It should be realised that al- though there have been less casual- ties in this war than the last, the work of these units has been made the far harder by the fact that fighting has taken place over a much more widespread area, and | at considerable speed with the con- sequent difficulty of Anding and marking graves.
This
Even in these days of moalary natronemy that seems an mous figure, for on the basis of Chinese population of appro- WILKINSON & GRIST. ximately half 24 million, it Aunts to nothing less than a donation to every Chinese man, woman and child in the Colony
The deployment of the Enst of $8 per head per month. How
Indies Fleet was vorled long it is possible to go on at
extreme. At regular intervals a this rate must be a matter very much the minds of the Exe-heavy
task force of buttleships and other units including aircraft entive It represents social ser-) carriers would
the plac Aice financing on a
waters to scale that
the
of Sumat obviously cannot be maintained Kra Isthmus,
And Java or to the west of the indefinitely. Only the complex
a trail of des- circumstances of the
from base, leaving nds of milen moment Lruction in
the coastal area, among could possibly justify it.
For the port the
radar that renson, we should food far stutions, the
oil refineries happier about looking at the and airfields. In January ERIA thly spectacle in a sort of dazed ad-
the heaviest attack year if there
inourted against the Important mération
oil refinery at Palembang, and, an that assurance extreme generosity was not be to say, in passing, British fighter-
bombers destroyed 05
enemy planes ing seriously abused. Four
But these million dollars a month in order und damaged 26 more.
were only the
more apectacular that the poor may eat can be episodes which by their size and contemplafed with relative daring and from the various If, on the other famous ships involved, made the, equanimity, hand, any appreciable propor
headlines. world's
During the Frim sodden campaign in Burm> tion of that formidable total is Krim
the 45 Army being diverted into the pockets nese opposition and finally flung of black market operators, it is back the enemy inks the jungle
1 matler demanding strictest die of disease, the matler ships. investigation and speedy re- of the Fleet hug been constantly vested in the Provi jonal Gov- medy. The evidence appears to in action.
ernment during the seven They fought a battle that was months of the Assembly sitting ise overwhelming. Good rice,
even unlike anything that had for some reason or other, can-
before in this not be obtained from the off-Second World War.
fantastic instead of the Assembly itself. I was no}
With more than half the ballots cial rice retailers. What they uncommon thing for the warships counted the issue has been carried have to offer is uniformly of to steam up river more than 20 by a majority of 90 per cent out THIRTY-ONE JAPANESE looking for the graves of men who
grade. The question, miles from the sen to blast out of eleven million votes and the
GENDARMES
were killed two HAD A RUN
over
years ago. therefore, revolves on a simple Japanese gun emplacements which second proposition by a 66 per-cent
In the meantime, as much in- DOWN ON THE DOUBLE"formation regarding enough point, Is the rice in the the Army could not reach satis majority.
war gravCH YESTERDAY FROM SHAM- as possible should be sent to this The question of writing the new factorily. The stories are told of possession of Government'al
destroyer made fast to/a
Constitution is that
which will speed PRISONERS-ÓF. | H.Q. supported by all SHUIPO agents, all of the
same pour tree while it lobbed shells into a parties but the communtats, aided
WAR CAMP TO THE PO.work of the Graves Registration quality?
If it is, there is little fort a few hundred yards away; by radical-socialists, have opposed POLICE PIER, KOWLOON, more to be said. The good of two Indian sloops that fired General De Gaulle on the interim WHERE THEY WERE EM-be addressed to Capt. Tietjen of quality black market rice that 3,700 rounds without stopping government issue.
BARKED EN ROUTE TO this H.Q. scls freely at 60 cents a calty into a green, impenetrable wall of The election saw the emergence STANLEY PRISON. -against the law is smug- follage behind which a Japanese of the Boclalistically-inclined resist-
of the born gled in to meet an understand-karrison
popular sheltering. The ance creeks were annrrow
republican movement under the that the able demana. Such an explanships were unable to turn. They leadership of Foreign Minister tion. however, appears alto- gether too easy. Somewhere, finished.
steamed full ástern when they had George Bidault who is considered
close to General De Gaulle. there's a nigger in the wood- In this weird back-water jungle
The Popular Republicans have Ave pile, one that urgently wants
conntal forces had a new won caally 184 seats in the Assem- digging out. Since, practically, function; entirely different to that bly which will have 622 members ing place at Shamshulpo, where
64 from the France and channel and the Colonies. Two branches of no-Japanese civilian Internees of end to the subridy at this june of the new legendary skirmishes from
North Son
merged and have questionable status Those were gun fights ciallets have
have also ture, the more necessary it is
at high speed,
and the com- storles which clinched 130 seats
been transferred from Whitfield to ensure that we get full value tingled the mind. In the steamy munists are assured of 151 seats. Barracks pending enquiries. for it.
chaungs of Burme there was none The vote ia expected to reach of the clean thrilis of speed. This wie the warfare of the assassin; 藕 warfare chiefly of silence broken only by the sharp suddon chatter of
of an automatic weapon or
or the smack of a
Ught | NEV The hair amp; the warzars The M.L. & which every night AIR CHIEF
Telephones 22697 and 33520.
BRITISH MILITARY ADMIN. ISTRATION, HONGKONG.
RE CUSTODIAN
PROCLAMATION, 1946
CLAIMS FOR CARGO REMAINING IN GODOWN
Bankors; rohants and others who have any interest in cargo on drago in propulses now under my control may forward subodules (in
uplionto) stating:--
1. Name of claimant, addros
and tolephone number,
2. Situation of godown and nama" and address of owner or lassoo.
3. Interest claimed (sole or part owner, Banker's lien, ote.)
5. Godown Lot number: ex
Steamer....
pour
it would be disastrous to call an in
Film Premieres
W48
out
pec. 25 million.--Associated Press.
NEW
S.E.A.C.
MORE JAPS ROUNDED-UP
The contingent comprised an- other group against whom auf- ficient evidence has been drawn up on maltreatment charges to warrant this procedure. The Commandos provided escort.
A gradual weeding-out is tak-
JAP CAUGHT IN RAID
TWO CHINESE GIRLS AND
ED
BY THE QUE LEVELS.
was par- Burma where the fighting took place in
Licularly emphasised in
very thick jungle during the Mon- BOORA over atill
vast ATEKA. Search parties are
out there now
up the
Unit on
the their arrival in Colony. This information should
C. C. RIDDELL,
Major, D.A.A.G., 11.Q. Land Forces, Hong Kong.
RAPWI'S WORK
An official statement from the South East Asia Command states: "By October 19th the R.A.P.W.I
Common of South East Asia
had acon 75,682 former prisoners and internece safely on their
way homo.
These porsons had been assem bled and despatched from campa all over South East Asia and came initially from
some of them can places outside the as Shanghai bolag cleared. from
and
ALL NEW FILMS ARRIVING 4. Documents of title that can! IN HONG KONG ARE TO HAVE shell in the
THEIR PREMIERE AT THE of bo produced, on a statement CHINA FLEET CLUB THEA
After of the manner in which it TRE.
A JAPANESE WERE ARREST
their TENDER ARRANGEMENT nalled notaclessly along the creeks BY
territories the liberated pri is proposed to prove interest. WITH THE RN. FILM CEN- would Ile in
wait, disguised under The New Air Commander-in-BULT OF A RAID
Aoners are
are assembled in transit YESTERDAY. TRE, IT WAS ANNOUNCED bushes, for the river craft, filled Chief, South-East Asia, in place POLICE ON NO. 2, MOSQUE camps in Singapore or Rangoon (the two clearing centres of the : Marka One of the most important, the with Japanese, trying to carry of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir STREET, UPPER LE
reinforcements and supplies to Trafford Leigh-Mallory, is Air The girls were alleged to have command) and are thonce ro and No.: Number and dos technicolour production of "Henry their forces isolated in another Marshal Sir Keith Park, who has concealed the Japanese on the patriated to India, Australia or cription of peokagos and
with Laurence Olivier in the warr
part of the jungle. When the been Air Officer
promises ever since the British Great Britain contants: Any other inform. Hoang ang in a few days. This whole river ad opesula ishte the chief, Midle
Commanding-In- Kong in a few days. This whole river side would seem to Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, girls, vip Sau-ying, 10 and You
Command, took over the island.
was understood that the French Indo-Chinn, Sumatra, and the Andamons have otion likely to assist in haa broken all London records flame and splinters on the water since January, 1944.
been entirely cleared. trining the eargo.
and
and is still showing after 12 and burning debris blown
In March, 1940, he became Air Wal-tuon, 17, will bo brought Empire nationale on the months.
-before the Summary Military remain in No. 11. Group, It is intended to show films twice the Navy had It
atruck
Fighter
Court. daily at the China Fleet Club
delayed the which bore the In the assults on Aky and mo
and runt of tho Theatre as from Sunday and there Ramree, and for the
Britain of will bo a change of programme offensive of the
Не was born in 1802 at twice a week
shipa
6. Apacünte rpocived. from Japanese Authorities on so- count of such cargo.
Next week's attractions are
branches of trees would indicate Officer Com the Battle
and
BIDE?ulsorvers and New Zealand, and was educated in
gave the Army the New Zealand. Ho served with the
It
JAP CAUGHT : AFTER '
THREE DAYS
of British.
337
altuntion Java where the,"
19 In Still
Malaya.
Indians, in has 62 British and 340 Xadians bes
boside 370 other nationalities
unoyneunted.
from Whitfield Barracks
A Japanese civilian escapee
In several of these territories taken into custody by Comman-pleated by the political and the
grent
ent number of French and Dutch Was romaine but their future is com
do at Sheungahui. In the. Now in French Indo-China; and Territories after being at Ilbor- Netherlands East Indies where ty for three days. Details of they were scheduled for initial the escape and capture are not evacuation." available. ***
*A DIS-CREDITED
E. R. COULSON ON WAY TO VANCOUVER:
A soparato cohoduls should be forwarded for Godown in (a) Hollywood Canteen" and "The closest support in the history of New Zealand forces in Gallipoli Wost Point & Kennedy: Town Man from Music Mountain, stat: combined operations. As atos before transferring to the Royal Area, (b) the rest of Hong Kong ring Roy
Rogers, "The Singing amplo Laland, (e) Holt's Wharf, (d) Hong- Cowboy
the Navy's guns from four Flying Corps in 1917. fa 16-inch had plastered the Long & Kowloon Wharf & Godown
The Fleet Club theatre in avail. Japanese vesh oro vionths. In May 23,000 shells
"BENNY" PROULX. Co's properties. (a) olsowhore,
able for ships' .concerts or enter Ind over tainments on application. to the the seaborne assault on Rangeon
DECORATED It will be approolatod that with Manager:
Was auccessfully made with ninety the small staff at my disposal
Lt. Cmdr. B. A. Proulx, of the per cent of the assault force.com: Royal Canadian Navy, who fought For unlawful possession of two prising ships and landing craft inspection of godowns by the publia to loonto cargo carinot be allowed sacks of cement, Cheung Nin, was which were veterans of the North through the attack an Hong Kong fined $100 or four weeks simple African and European combined Volunteer Force and succcoded In D member of the H.K. Naval
Mr. E. R. Coulson, of the Hong for the tinio boing, but overy Imprisonment by Mr. C. Y. Kwan operations,
Pearl Harbour, Oct. 28. Kong. Dairy Farm & Cold Storage ondowour will be made to locate at the Summary Military Court
And they landed British and the Japaneso occupation, has been quarters has
escaping from the Colony after
The United States Fleat, Head-Co recently passed, through
announced cargo claimed, and at a later dato I yesterday.
that, Manila en route to Vancouver, may be able to allocate supervisors Palmer, of the Royal Marines, in
Indian troops without casualty decorated by both the Canadian effective from November 16th, all B.C., after having boon, through- Accused was Broń by LCpl.
During the last twelve months and British authorities for his war correspondents accredited to but the war, in a Japanese Pelaon to accompany claimants to ninko Wanchal Gan carrying one traction atretch of water-out-of-the-control has written a hot on his soccer tentound
Japanese war the only subsequent work in the R.C.N. He the Pacific will assume the status Camp near Tokyo. He was there from a Joure under construction of the British lates Indes from Hong-Kong
sociated Washington, Oct 28, strategically the most important
Malacca porta Colonel J. M. T. F. Churchill, The War Department has dis- waterway in the Far East. But D.8.0. M.C, la at prosont com closed that the two-million-mark-the-llles could not use it, has passed in the releasing of great park of the Fleet's work was woll and Commando Brigado, amanding the garrison In Kowloon Army ... poraonnel. Associated to make sure the Japanons had a bavings taken over temporarily Prest
keitz thin time there themselves from Brigadier Hardy
Inspection..
B. A. WICKERSON;
Acting Custodian of Proporty.
Hong Kong
23rd October, 1940,
of
„thơ
was
Στου
imposed on Lai Hwong-val at the months" hard labour was
dar xon stealing 17 from Mr Summary Military Court yönler. Arthur Ryan' In Queen's Road Central on Monday........
foundry, abour dyn (t In ANTERI
Royal Canadian Navy, was in San Lt. Cmdr. Victor Glover, of the
his family, Howe, for more than Franciaco lant April on a visit to two years, stationed: In Iceland with the BGN
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