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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946.
ALLWAYS AND BOWLOON THE SECOND DISTRIBUTION How The Observatory Makes Democratic
CANTON RAILWAY, B.S.
JOINT RAILWAYS TENDER BOARD.
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that sealed tender in TRIPLICATE which abou'd be clearly marked Tender for Erection of Radway Wagons" will be received at the Office of the Kowloon Canton Rallway, British Section, until noon of Wedner day, 6th Februry 1946.
The wagons which be required to be assembled on railway tracks at Hung Hom consist of the following types:
40 40 ton covered wagons 30-40 ton low gondolas
100 20 ton high gondolas
69 50 ton flat wagona
160 20 ton covered wagons.
be
Full particular* may obtained on application to the Mechanical Engineer, Kowloon
OF
AUSTRALIAN MEATS-POULTRY-HAMS
will be carried out from 3gt.]. January with a break on 2nd, 3rd & 4th February, until orders, received have been executed.
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Its Forecasts
Rain or shine? Fair or no? Daly the answer is supplied to you by the staff of the Royal Observatory, through the medium
dardised system of symbols. Ench type of cloud is denoted by a dif- Scrent sign, whilst wind strength and direction is depicted by the use of arrow shafts. The moteuro- themselves are shown on the chart as a series of the amall circles, around which symbols are plotted
All orders must be writtan of your newspaper Reporter was ogical stations
and in the hands of the Distri batera, The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co, Ltd., Windsor House by 5 p.m. on 29th January,
A stamped "addressed en- velope in which the distributors way mail the purchese docket must be enclosed with the order.
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Under no sircumstances will orders which do not comply with theas requirements be dealt with.
• Since stocks of some of the items for distribution are limited the full execution of ordera can- not be guaranteed. The ordering of alternative items is therefore suggested.
which Produce
may
be
ordered:
When orders have been sorted Canton Railway Workshops, purchase dockets stating the Hung Hom en the deposit of a items which may be purchased, fee of $1,000 with the Account- the date and point of issue, ant of the Railway at the Offices will be mailed. of the Kowloon-auton Railway, which will be refunded on the submistion of a bona fide tender. bo The deposit receipt must
The attached to the tender. successful ter,derer will be required to sign formal contract and give security in the sum of $5,000 in cash to be deposited with the Accountant of the Railway for the faithful performance of the terms of such contract,
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The Board does not bind itse'f to accept the lowest any tandir.
1. B. TREVOR, Lt. Col. Chairman, Railway Tender Board. Hongkong, 26th January, 1946.
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CHICKENS Quantity imited wolghts 3/6 lbs.
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Recently, a
Intrigued by the surprising ne curney of thoas forecasts and went to the Observatory to learn what
could about it
If any Yooldent in Hong Kong has seen what appears to be a light drifting over upwards in the leht air, he add note alarmed Nor need he be unduly excited's be has withcad no unusual phono- menon. Probably, the staff of the Oboratory are engaged in find ing the epood and the direction of upper winds, by obosrving through theodolite, the rising action of hydrozen-led balloon
TIRING WORK night, when
it is impossible to see the balloon. Itself, a slapie
SYNOPTIC CHART The Royal Observatory proved When fully plotted, the completa
the beadquarters of ajed map is said to be a "synoptic Meteorological Centre, operated chart" for it gives to the fore-
to be
Royal Air Force. It was estab jointly by the Royal Navy and the lished early in October last year. when an advance Naval Meteo- rological Unit, commanded by Lieut. Commander F. D. Omman- ney. R.N.V. the well-krown An- tanotic
explorer and author, took tarot
Observatory drom control of the the Japances.
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BY JAMES F. FORREST
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League Allegation
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BRIDGE NOTES
Most players would find East'a dofonalve brilliancy in today's_ Chünging. Jan. 27. hand unusual, yet the opportunity In a statement. yesterday the for it arises rather often! Democratic Longue delegate Tall Bald that Chou En-l: North Dealer- the head of the Communist dele- North-South vulnerable gation in a speech Saturday had demanded that Government give full protection to all delegates.
The Democratic League spoken- man
tho aronted
police also: Communist visited the Chungking Hondquarters on the pretext of 8. 49 taking a consus and also the home. Q10 9 6 of Mre. Sze Liang, lawyer, mem- ber of the Democratic League and D. 1
Chinese lantern equipped with Professor Chang Sheng-fu of the 0.1895 candle, is tied to it. Despite the National Salvation Association obvious dieadvantages of a starry who the trailing light is often flowed for a considerabip time. The balloon rises at 700 foot per minute and often during the day, beon kent in sight until it has
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gatos at the Conference. who was one of the League's dele- Lo Lung-chi said that the Poll- tical Consultative Conference sub-
The bidding: committees
have reached agreement whereby the emergency North
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South
West
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The work
rubbish, the buildings had beon For recording aurposes, it is TO-blah. Seven of the wireless opernel. The sub-committer agroc / able to lend a spade: and East'
the
ho was discovered that the Ja-castor a general view of the exist reached a height axcoding 25,000 Powers of the President of the LD. it fort With meticulous precision, Republic would be handed over to H. nanese had stolen many valuable ing meteorological situation.
instruments, enables him to study the trend of readings are taken from the then- the reorganised State Council. BNT. astronomieni seismograph and radio equipment. the weather and to analyse pre-dolite at the end of each minute. The Council could override the
They are later used in a trigono-Presidential reto by three-fifths West opened the four of spades, leaving behind them their usual dominating air masace
Before the weather expert de metrical calculation, to And the vote instead of two-thirds advo-dummy played low, and Each... legacy of fith. However,
P.O.W cider on his forecast, howover, he apred and direction of winds at catod by the Kuomintang. The well, East, made that unusual play Japanese
heights.
Counell would be composed of 40 we mentioned a minute ago. supervision of the stalwart sailors and prevailing weather experienc
but the men of the Observatory tang and othere Izom
other South's no-trump bid was based days, the little ad at his own station.
They parties.
on the miesing high apades. Within "Some
of Honvon" had flashed The men of the Royal Obscrvn-are enthusiastic about it.
and Lo sald Chou had already re-9-10-9. So if he took his King of returned the suit, their vory "carthy" task of clear-tory log their own "presont-wea have good billets football
observations, every hour, cricket teams and their morale isecived approval from Yenan formades "and
West ing away rubble and accumulated ther"
nover, thoreafter bo an organisation of the State
"should" such barometric tom attached to the station are In- renovated and
to note now, quired completely
pressure at mean sea-level. As dians. belonging to the Royal In-ment on the reorganisation pro-alngle re-entry (the diamond Aco) modern equipment installed.
The advance Naval Unit was the Royal Observatory stands 108 dian Air Force and notwithstand gramme left only one major pro-would not suffice to bring in the
of the Na-long spades later augmented by the arrival of feet above sea-ovel, a compensa- in their many differences in sect blomn-composition
"tory": Borrection must be united and caste, all five-harmoniouslytional Assembly which will adopt the main unit, now commanded by tory
now constitution Associated R.N.V.R., of This correction is obtained from a together.
Former Chinese employees of Prom Lient. B. Ramsey,
and the men of delicate, moveable slide which is Middlesbrough.
the Observatory have returned No. 708 Met, Forecast Centre, of attached to the barometer.
When it rains, the men take a and are at present engaged upon the Royal Air Force, commanded by Flight-Llout. N. Lawrence, reading from a rain-guage; when compiling and checking records which dato as far back as 1880, eblues, the mon take a It was the RA.F... of Worcester.
Soon the Royal Observatory will the operate agreed to
station reading from a sunshine-recorder.
They clarify cloud formatione, rovert to peace-time administra jointly.
estimate the range of visibility. tion by the Air Ministry Meteoro Civilian meteoro- nobe the barometric pressure, read logical Office. thermometers and calculate humi-logists have already left England
for Hong Kong. dity and dew point.
TYPHOON WARNINGS The primary object of the work (2 to 4 iba.)... $ 1.30 per lb. of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force at the Royal Observa- Intending purchasers are retory is, respectively, the provision ships in weather information (quested to note that order for of
the N.W. Pacific area and the Chickens and Ham R.A.F. Transport Command. Turkeys, Guts must be restricted to one of sach.
Distribution Points:-
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Exchange Building. Please name the distributing point from which is de 1 IC- quired in your order.
NOTICE
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Hong Kong's people know only too well, however, of the disas trous effects of typhoons which over the not infrequently pass South China Coast. It was hoped that timely warnipes would once bo issued. to minimise moro destruction.
for
Those warnings will be issued. The local weather forecasts the newspapers were resumed be- cause it was realised that the in- habitants of the Colany, by virtuo of their geographical diaposition, and closely concerned with the vagaries of the weather.
A vast amount of work is in- volved in the production of the forecasts you-read-in-this-nowe..
paner.
Pearl Harbour "Jag" Report Untrue
Washington, Jan. 27.
Major-General Walter C. Short yesterday named General Mar- shall, Lieut.-General L. T. Gerow and Major-General Sher- man Miles as individuals he had chiefly in mind when he said the War Department had attempted to make him "the scape- goat" for the. Pearl Harbour diaster.
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Iran Case
Against Russia
London, Jan. 27. The Iranian delegation to the United Nations Organisation con- ference doclared in a now note to the security counell that "inter- ferenco" of Soviet Russins au- thorities in Iran "can be fully
proved,"
The Iranian note, dated Jan. 26, was released as the United Nations delegates were speculat- ing as to whether Iran's new pre- mler would withdraw Iran's case agakast Russia, which is schedul
the security od to come before
ing
tion.
Since the spades wore the main contract, hope of defeating the East made it possible to bring them in by refusing to win the first trick with the spade King. Instead he encouraged a continua- tion by playing the six of spades. South won with the nine of spades and returned a diamond.
And now East's fine play boro fruit. For West took his King of diamonds and was still able to load a
spade. Now South was helpless, for this knocked out his last spade stopper and East was bound to get the lead with the diamand Ace in time to set the contract with the rest of the spade
it.
Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both aides vulnerablo, you held:
H8. DAJ 7 5 4 CK ·10 2
The bidding!
Maler Schenken You
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18 Dbi, Post Pass 2 H Pass (2)
Jacoby
DM Pass
Monday, The Iranian note, 2,000 words lons.
was in reply to a Russian note issued on Thursday, declar the Soviet Union's opposi to consideration of the Iran- lan
on the grounds complaint Hr-named them in completing hut five days testimony before the
that the Boussian position in-Izan i Senate-House Committee investigating the Japanese attack,
is legal and justified. after which the Committee went into session behind closed doors.
The Iranian noto said that "the refusal by the Soviet Govern- Wisconsin Republican Repre
mont to allow the passage of Iraalan security forces through Weather
observations are re-sentative Keefe told Short there
part of Iranian territory is clear
tripartite a breach solved by radio from hundreds of had been rumours for four yearn
treaty of alliance of 1542 and opponent's psychic spade bir has meteorological stations. scattered that "everybody out there was
ares extending drunk" on Saturday night. throughout an
it was true Keefe asked if
the Teheran declaration by which been "smoked out," and your part- from Siberis in the north, to Aus
you the Allied powere undertook to ner's snade double assures tralia in the south: from Hono-officers were sleeping off a jag
Washington, Jan. 27, respect the territorial integrity, that he has length and strength in lulu in the cast, to India in the Sunday morning." Short re- Testifying before the Con- sovereignty and political Indegen sides. Geme sens little un Investidance of Iran.Associated Press, likely, but it isn't impossible and west
Every hour of overy day, wire-plied: "Absolutely not."
Asked by Michigan Republican gressional Committee
even a part score is not to bedes- he gating the Pearl Harbour at-
vised. Ferguson what less operatore and meteorological Senator personuel are on duty, receiving
Message Wasn't Passed On
Short also asserted that Gen
the
Flaws In British Gift To Greece
London, Jan. 27. The "Times" sece two fis in giving the Anglo Greek agreement: Greoos a £10,000,000 credit.
The paper sald a "disconcert
the agreement's Ing" omission was failure to klown a policy cover-
lay ing Greek employment, invest- the that mente, and ass
AIGUTADOEs country's material and man-power resource would be harnessed to
Answer: Bid two spades. Your
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Score 100 per cont for two spades. 20 per cent for pass, 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION
To-day you are Morwin Maler's partner and, with both sides vul- nerable. you hold the samo hand once again. But the biddlost Is!
Jacoby Schenken. You
1 H DI. 2 D Pus (7)
Maler Pass
What do you bid? (Answer
and plotting these observations on meant by scapegoat, Short said: tack, Major-General Walter C. large, apecially-printed, contoured meant someone they added staff in Haway saverthe Navy Flaws
the blame on in order to get it never passed to him ita advice from Washington charts.
All the reports are simultaneous off themselves."
The three named were res- that Tokyo had ordered the Ja- destroy and contain information. in coded
consulates to form, relative to the actual or expectively, Chief-of-Staff, Head Pancae Isting weather conditions at each of War Plans, and Chief of their codes.
The former Hawaiian Com- station. Those conditions are rMilitary Intelligence in 1941, presented on the chart, by a stan-
Short expressed doubts that mander said his last meeting the Japanese would have at before the Dec. 7, 1941; attack Vice-Admiral Husband tacked if the army forces. In with Hawaii had been on an all-out Kimeml, Pacific Fleet Comman
der, was on Dec. 8, the same day alert.
have feared the Navy sent Kimmel word of "They would heavy losses," he said, adding the Tokyo orders. that success of the rald depend- ed on achieving surprise.-As-eral George C. Marshall, then those enterprises which are most To-morrow.)
Army Chief-of-Staff, recom-urgently vital to national recovery. aociated Press.
The "Time" oald erone AS, SCHIRMER'S mended retiring him, after ad- vising Short to stand pat" for omission was the failure to assure active
service. Associated that Greek products would have a
ready market in Britain.. ¡Press.
Kobe, Jan. 27. The paper remarked: "In the long run, Greece will be obliged to Mra, M., Schirmer, 67, who de- cooperate most closely, both poli-scribed herself as a Gorman but Healy and
ooonomically with "mat a Na" has sont a letter whatever country Drovides this to General MacArthur's Head- Washington, Jan. 27,
market. In the years before the quantors asking for $10,000 for Iranian Ambasador
Germany dufamed a com-the destruction of her two "for- the United States. Hussein Ala, manding position in several coun- sign house" by American bome in a spotch by radio bere said his trios of south-eastern Europe -bors.
She mid the houses wore burn- overment has no intention of
now to conclude,inige male longed to the ground from your withdrawing its appeal to the most entirely through her reads. Unlted Nations Security Connell term contracts for the purchase bombers in raid on August 5, and that they were located
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CHIANG MESSAGE.
TO RUSSIANS
Chungking, Jan, 27.
A dapath from Changchun to- duy sad that Mader Chlant Hải whak conveyed a massage from Generalissimo Chlang to the Bo- viet forces in Manchuria.
The facssage praised the Red Army word under the "brillant
leadership of Generaliasing
Stalin."
Iranian Warning
The
CLAIM
ald the Chinosé will cover over the Butelan-Iranian disputed of their products." -- Associated | 19002, #gery quiet› vilises.. with: no-
forget the day Russia entered the
Presy
to ransedy
Ho mald that if the Internation the situation “the
„war mealist Japan or the help al body taken nóʻtganization is"
Riven China in recoverlig Man
charles
The lektor, was sent to General MacArthur's hondatis rters. Zox,
18 exprvered the Hope dont le ho had learned that RADIO PHONE RESTORED forwarding to the United Statem
Ho mald de
attempt fo
churis that the friendly pelations be tween Russia, and China which an eleventh hour
béen› minde, s
had been cemented in the war stave off the Iranian appeal had will be furtires developed, the said that if the Borrusty Contributing to the attainment of
Council bonkt Foomaromies or
San Francisco, Jan. 27. Uniberties and the Philips Radio-telephone service behreen
court of clans at Washington-- Associated Pre
·linting pienos. - Associated Profondope such an arbitrary action pines will be restored, on Monday, MANILA CHANGE, REOPENS:
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