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but that sensed was not am- ployed in the Kowloon District IN Gendarmerin during his tenure of office. It was not necessary, witness replied to a question, for
a Special Duty Detective to have n good knowledge of Japanese. Mass Suicide
Asked if he had ever been an officer of the Kempeltat or the Koa Ki-han, witness said that he had not been but that it had
been part of his duty to be well THE acquainted with the work nf these organisations and he was in constant consultation with them.
witness
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946.
Underlying Principle Broker Charged
Of Peace In East
CHUNGKING; APRIL"Z,
HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE PEOPLE'S POLITICAL COUNCIL YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT CHIANG KAI- SHEK STATED THAT THE SINKIANG PROBLEM CAUSED BY ACTIVITIES OF DISSIDENTS WHO LAST YEAR ESTABLISHED THE “REPUBLIC OF EASTERN TURKESTAN” HAD NOW BEEN SETTLED AND ADD- REGRETABLE THAT THE COM- ED THAT IT WAS MUNISTS HAD NOT NAMED THEIR CANDIDATES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OR THEIR REPRESENTA- TIVES FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
DECISION OF THE POLITICAL CONSULTATION CONFERENCE IN JANUARY TO BROADEN THE BASIS OF THE GOVERNMENT, DID NOT MEAN "OVERTHROWING" THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT. He referred to China's re- mitic problem which would be quest to Russia to give previous solved on the basis of the Sino- notice of her intentions to with- Sovict treaty, and he stated that draw her troops from different he thought it improper that the points in Manchuria.“
communists should take advan- tage of the situation by making demands.
Tai LI Dead
Chungking. Apr. 2.
The Central Government officially confirmed inday that General Tai L, former head of the Chinese police and secret service, was one of theen killed in the airplane crash Nanking on March
17ated Press.
*** In many ways. Tai Li was more of a mystery than the famous Zaherof, of arma- ments fame. The popular be.. lief is that he was head of the
"Blue Shirts," a acerat anti- Communiet terrorist or- Hanization in anasuor
to General Chiang and whose existence has always been officially denied by China; on the other hand Left-wing Chinese have been loud in their outery against it.
be
With Receiving
Bource.
POPULAR. FRONT
Tokyo, Ape. 2.
A now cry has been talked in Japati for á "popular front t introduce true Democracy" but no The case in which
seemed surprised by ita Loung ano Wai, broker, was charged:
It came from the newly re- with receiving jewellery to organised Japanese Anarchii leg
it call for mombers to.
red.-Associated Press.
the value of $11,272, believe in
sugiment the present three hun-
ed to have been stolen, was heard before Mr. George Sho at the Summary Military Court yesterday afternoon.
Loung was also charged with counselling and procuring_on armed robbery at No.123, Des Voeux Rond Central, second floor, on Feb. 27.
BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
(HONG KONG
General Administration Branch.
NOTICE
Another Chinese, Kwong Ying- wan, was charged together with others not in custody, with arm- ed robbery at No. 29, Des Voeux Road Central of money Price of Meals in Cafeterias, and jewellery to the value of $11,272.
Teo Tai-tung, who was pre- viously charged with counselling procuring the offence, was dis- and procuring the offence, was discharged at the request of the prosecution.
With effect from 4th. AprU, 1946, the price of meals served to 'D' ticket holders will bo na follows:
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
.$ .80
1.00
1,00
The reason for the increase la that the Administration has been notified that tho price of Field Service rations has been raised to $4.00
Asked if the Japanese thought they could keep Hong Kong per
said that manently, since his coming to Hong Kong it was known that the Govern ment here had an iden that the
This request was obviously Japanese forces could not keep aimed at precluding a sudden
time. unannounced Hong Kong for a long
Russian with- Chinng stated that the Chi- This was since 1943, when the drawal which would enable the nese people should be grateful!
Inspector Watson, who. prose- Japanese began losing islands in Chinese communista instead of to President Harry Truman and
cuted, said that a report was the Pacific.
the nationalist forces. to take his special envoy to China,
made to the Police on Feb. 27 over the evacuated towns, as General Marshall for the help ula and Sinkiang should that an armed robbery had been happened most notably at the they had rendered thin country. maintained.
committed at No. 22. Des Voeux Manchurinn port of Yingkow. Chiang praised especially the Chiang recalled that in the Road Central
and jewellery Chiang described co-operation work that General Marshall had Sino-Soviet treaty, RuselR ex-worth $11,272 stolen. between China and Russin as put into the truce committee and pressly affirmed her position in On March 21 one of the com- the underlying principle of his services na adviser to the regard to Sinkiang, and sald plainants saw a man wearing a pence in the Far East and in army reorganisation committee, that she had no intention of in- wrist watch which had the whole world. He predicted The Generalissimo said that terfering in China's internal taken in the robbery, First The next witness called was that Russia "as a peuce loving the Sinklang problem was now affairs.
accused, Leung, was arrested. Koichi Hurasawa, who said that
Chiang further said that the In his house $5,500 worth of h was a graduate of the, Com-tion would be faithful to quite settled. He disclosed that
the Sino-Soviet treaty. "wideh Tihwa, capital of the Province, only decision of the political con- stolen jewellery was recovered. mercial College of Tokyo and
Second accused was arrested held licence to teach English is the basis of co-operation bo- had been greatly endangered by sultation conference in January
dissidents last year.
to which the recent Kuomintang on Information later. Evidence Japanese high schools. Hetween our two countries,"
Fongress objected. concerned would show that first accused THE Rad been conversant with the
Link With Russia
the draft constitution, particu-was responsible for drawing up and
econolarly the agreement for the plan of the premises where
Before 1913. the Government believed that they would be able to keep Hong Kong. Asked about the Mount Cameron me- morial, witness sadd 1 was built as a tomb where all the Japan ese would gather to die when Hong Kong fell.
and
Domestic Peace
the aims of the war I do not writing. know.
tory of Japan.
T
a 'white cloth.
There
were some
been
- Colonel, C.B.H. Selamain,
DCCAQ (MII).
CHINA COAST OFFICERS' GUILD and
MARINE ENGINEERS' GUILD OF CHINA
NOTICE
A MEETING of numbers of these Guilde, will be held at the Office, 3rd Floor, Union Build-
on Thursday, 4th April, 1946.
J. WATSON,
Joint Secretary.
SALE
Tenders are invited for the
of the following
purchase
stores:--
Qty. Old Coal Sacks
Serap Metal
**
Firewood Nails
English language for 17 years China's most important lask Geographically and was now employed at the today, he asserted is the achiev-mically, he asserted, Sinkiang executive yuan (cabinet) to be the crime was committed. Supreme Court as a translator,ing of domestle pence and to was closely linked with Russia responsible to the Legislative The first witness, Słu Chung- mostly from Japanese into Eng-help in the maintenance of and consequently, it was very Yuan and have the right to ask kun, manager of the Sang Lee fish. Witness produced a trans-world peace. The Manchurian necessary and important that for dissolution of the Legisla- Transportation Company, sald lation he had made frun the re-question. he said, was n diplo-friendly relations between Rusive Yoan-Associated Press.
that he was returning to his word of the Japanese Courts-
office at No. 22. Des Voeux Road Martial for the year 1944.
Central, second floor, at about Enrique Leo's Death
By May. 1944, witness aid,
Japanese 3.45 p.m. n 'Feb. 27. He no- The next wines. Captain
Witness raid that he knew of he had acquired a knowledge of officers and some Chinese in the ticed several men, one of whom ing. 3 Pedder Street, ut 4 p.m. Yaraguchi Kyoichi. aid that the Governor's Orders, and-hal colloquial Japanese. he was a graduate of the Ritsu-orension to read them when it musth he had accompaniei
In that car who alighted and went into pointed a revolver at him, and the hotel. George Wong also ordered him not to make any mei Kun University in Japan was necessary.
He agreed that friend to the Gendarmerie to alighted and stood outside. He nolac. He was then taken into a Uneristerat 2.3 of the the orders were issued on Feb.help in interpretation and was, went up to him and asked the house and saw the rest of Japanese br He had served 20, 1942, for the purpose of ad- as a result, pressed into the rer- George Wong what he was do- the inmates being held up by in Hong Kong on the Judge Administering Hong Kong, He vice of the Gendarmeric as an ing, to which Wong replied that two other men, Two of the nien vorate's staff and was a member
He took the first he was working in the Hing Ah searched him. of the Japanese Coris-Martial.reed that Hong Kong was de-interpreter.
They were then tied by the Witness said he kind asignated as a Captured Terri-opportunity to quit the job as Kei Kwali.
it was distasteful to him.
Witness said he then asked hands with wire and their faces: member of the Court at the
Jap Proclamation
As a result of his experience George Wong if he could recom- covered by cloth, One of the trial of Enrique tam ni R.
accidentally fred Д Mr. Lo: Do you know that as a Gendarmeric interpreter, mead him for a job in the or- robbers Chillett and is at the trial of F. E. d'Almada Remedios, F. X. the statug of Queen Victoria witness said, he could say that genisation, to which Wong re-shot. After staying for some
Japanese he had acquired a fair know-plied that it was very difficult to time the robbers left. l'Almada Remedios, F. A. Bar-was removed and
When he asked Wong: After further evidence, the roa, D. S. Dhingamal and L. proclamation to this effect past- ledge of Gendarmerie methods get in.
He was particu- how he had got in himself, wit- case was adjourned to Thurs- Garduer. Witness testified toed on each of the four faces of and policies.
larly observant of Japanese ness gaid, Wong replied that hel day afternoon. the Courts-Martial words in the base? Yes.
Mr. Lo: Would you in your ca- psychology throughout the oc-had known some Jupanese some respect of these trials and said that the death of Earique Lee paeity as a judge conclude that cupation and would say that the six months before the war. this was concrete evidence of Japanese thought it essential to Returned As Agents was-entered-in-the-records_ns. having accurred on July 25, the Emperor's intention to keep their war effort to have a sub- About Feb., 1912, witness
Kong Kong permanently s
amissive and very subdued popu-said, he opened 1945.
a cafe at 44, piece of Japanese territory?
Iation.
Lai Chi Kok Road and continued Witness Crois-Examined
Witness: From that procla- Inhuman Tortures
the business until he left for Witness Was then стона-
mation I did not understand examined at length, by Mr. Hinwell if it was the Emperor's in- the policy of the Gendarmerie to Waichow, he joined the B.A.A.G.
--In order to ensure this, it was Free China in July, 3942. shing Lo. He said that the de-
fear over the cisions of the Japanese Courts-tention to keep Hong Kong as excite
people, and returned to Hong Kong Martial were reached under the part of the Empire or as cap- This was done by indiscriminate an espionage agent for the Bri
and sometimen whuicante com-tish. After his return to Hongsent appointment in 1941, he, with, M. Military Law of the tong Kongtured territory.
Mr. Io: Do you agree that'a | munity arrests. In addition to Kong, he was in the habit of Degler was interned in Staley for Government, which was based on the laws of Japan: Accord de facte government was put up
to rule the inhabitants of Hong the activities of particular in- many Japanese agents, used to International ing to Military Law, there was
dividuals and persons suspected go. no appeal a higher court and Kong?
Witness: I should say that it the sentences passed culd not be changed.
was Bo.
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In
BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION HONG KONG
POLICE AND PRISONS
BRANCH
It is notified that sealed tenders, in triplicate, for the supply of cooked meals to Chinese prisoners, witnessce and deporteos for period of three months commen. eing
1st May, 1943, will be recoly- ed by the Chairman of the Tender Board, Public Works Branch, Civil Affairs Headquarters, until 12 o'clock moon' on Friday, 12th April, 1840,
5
Such endors should be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of cooked meals to Chinese prison- ers."
ponson
No tender will bo considerad unless
the
tendering attaches thereto a receipt that ho has deposited with the Accountant Genoral at the Treasury a sum of $25.- as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall bợ forfeited to the Grown if such
person, his lender having been out his contract. accepted, falls or refuses to carry
A men) will consist of:-
(n) Prisoners and Witnesses.
41⁄2 ozs. white rice,
flour.
П
fresh or salt vegetable:
fresh or salt fish.
all.
tea.
(b) Deporteca.
Gazs. white rice.
I
flour.
fresh or salt vegetable. fresh or salt fish.
oil.
tea.
1
Tonders may be for the supply of meals to any or all of the undernoted Police Stations;-
Central.
Upper Levels,
No. 2 (Wanchal). Day View.
No.
7 (West Point)
Shaukiwan Tai Po.
Shan
City,
Shamshuipo, Yaumati.
Mong Kok. Hung Hom. Water Police (Tsimshatsui). Sheung Shui,
The successful tenderer or ten-- derors will be required to sign an agreement and give security to the satisfaction of the Govern mont in the sum of $50.-
Buckets Latrine
For forms of tender and any 'other information apply at Polico LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA
Tender form can be obtained
Headquarters, Now, Oriental Brigadier_C__KH. Begley, Second-In-on application at Section Vof Building, Hong Kong. Command of the Balvation Army Is Naval Store Departmelit, M. The Administration does not Hong Kong and Bouth Chine is booked Naval Yard, between 9.30-11.80 bind itself to accept the lowest or for Austraila in 6,6, "Bonaventure" on A.M. on 3rd. to 6th. April, 1946, any tender, and reserves the right
well-earned holfday.. During his twenty-five years service in and should be returned in a to accept all or any part of the China, the Brigadier has worked in scaled cover addressed.. to the tender
Naval Store Officer, North, Bouth, West and Cestral Chia Suptg.
H.M. Nuval Yard, Hong Kong here his breezy versatility has mad
on or before noon on Tuesday Coming to his pro-
9th. April; 1946.
numerous friends,
that there was the furreting of visiting the Prince's Cafe, where about a Ited Cross they werd
do
JNTS With the manÍK2A1;04, DI
transferred to Shanghai and Externed in "Yangchow," where they were joined by
esp
her. 1948.
Sn connection with Food
Communal Food Kitchens,
la reiesad. frem
C. H. SANSOM, Commissioner of Police,
3rd April, 1940.
POST OFFICE NOTICES
took charge of The guration Army India via Madras
in Shotron Hill Bond,
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of being espionage agents. The Shortly after his return from their three children whom the Japanese arrests were made on the well- | China, he met George Wong allowed to come from Peking. Prior to Asked if the President of the Mr. Lo: Dld your Govern-known Gendarmerie poltey of there with Hector Lee and some Internment in Hong Kong Drigadier Beg- Japanese Military Court was ment bere assume fall respon, "Cutting the grass before it had other Chinese he did not know. lex worked the Japanese Governor of Hong sibility to protect the inhabit-1a chance to grow long." The Wong was carrying a revolver control and during the blite" wni in Kong, witness said that the powants of Hong Kong during the policy had such an effort as to in his belt. He asked him what charge
Aave the whole population living he was doing and Worg had re- fredag, something iko 100.000 people. er was in the hand of the Japa-occupation?—Yes.
per day. The Kitchens were under nese Governor
Mr. Lo:
plied that he was working for salvation Army Omcers and staff who of Hong Kong,
A very expensive in constant fear.
In the case of: suspected uer- the Kempeitai and was station. but that the Governor, on spe-shrine was built on the top of
became untenable
Kongmoon cial occasions, appointed others Mt. Cameron, what was the pur-illas and espionage agents, in- ed in Kowloon, Wong asked temained at their work until the palaces & Trinshan
Immediately after terrogation was invariably ac him if he know of any enemy to represent him. The Gov-pose of that?
the "Brigadier. returned.is Australia ́via Sydney ernor was the supervisor of the Witness: There was an off-companied by inhuman tortures, property and told him that if he Yaagehow, Military Court and appointed on cial document for what purpose some of which he had himself could procure any information Hong Kong where he has been engaged
in Relief Department with the Saiva Bhanghai each occasion the officers to be it was erected. I have not read witnessed while employed as an of such he would be rewarded.
Alemail for London, Caloutte, By Aft present. He had the power to through "it. I think the pur- interpreter. In their method In August, 1942, witness saith, tion Array Relief Team.
Mrs. Begley with, their daughter and Bangkok & Saigon alter the sentences, but not the pose was to encourage the Ja- of Inquisition- the interrogators he met George Wong again in
two sons wont to Australia jo Novem | Swabun charges.
panese people in Hong Kong always made it a point to get the Mongkok area of Nathan
Wuchow (Kwongal Province) a confession.
Road. He had a chat with him
Also leaving are Brigader Mrs. M. Canton Asked further questions, wit- | spiritually, ness said that he was trained as Mr. Silva's Questions
The invariable accompaniment and asked him what be thought Akerholm, and Adjutant Birgit Klockar a judicial officer in the Japanese Mr. Silva: Did the local laws of interrogation was generally of the way and the prospect of after 27 year in Kores, Mes, Aketbal Army and had no
military and customs mentioned in the known to all the agents of the the Allies winning it. To this was appointed to Chips coming too & Telashan training. Ile camo
to Hong Governor's Proclamation with Japanese of all nationalities. Wong had replied, that the Al-Hong Kong early in 2011, when the Hongmoon Kong aa a judicial officer on May regard to the administration of These were preponderantly Chi- lies were fighting a hopeless waz. Hams
Raid On Radio- 28, 1943.
Hong Kong apply to the British nese, na the Japanese found it Conquering Of Asia--- laws that oxisted here before practically impossible to
Worg had shown him a scar Asked if he had while in In- | 1941?
counter-espionage work in a
on one of his legs, witness said, pan as a lawyer known that it
consider preponderantly Chinese popula-and told him that he had work the Communal Food Kitchens until the Airmail for Canton & Chungking C.N.A.C. Plane
Taurrender The Driasdler on saveral oc- tion without the help of Chinese ed as a driver for the Chinese clons narrowly escaped death by un- Canton, was the declared policy of the Japanese Emperor to conquer
in Froedre, bombing and lastly stained the 80 that agenta
Central Government the whole of Asia, witness re-
Mat Accused
China and had received the loss by fire of all her potentions. Delon plied that he had not heard
The next witness called was scar as .
a result of Japanese Swačích, she was not′ Interned and" was | ftraits"
able to do, yeoman.... Sérvion ... for sanny about it. To a further ques
William Chang, who said that bombardment. The Japanese intereses and others who were not in-. tion, witnes replied that he did Witness: I do not know that. he was the manager of the Chi Wong had told him, were conférned. Brigadier Mrs., Akárholm to now not know anything about Mr. Silva: Were you aware neae Overseas Trading Com-stantly bombing the highways retire in Sweden. thought-control' In Japan in that a lawyer who graduated in pany. Witness said he first met in China. The Chinese Gov- a British school was an adviser George Wong in 1959 when he ernment, Wong said, were only to the Governor?
propaganda the Japanese and George Wong Batow & Amay was operating a garage in Kow spreading false
were after him, he quitted the Airall for Canton & Shanghai Witness: I was dealing only loon somewhere between Shan and it was of no use for them. in the Military Curt, but Itung Street and Nathan Road. In the same month, witness Colony. heard that in the Civil Courts At the outbreak of hostilities said, he met George Wong again He knew Wong Pui, who was ... Canida, Contral &)-
South America via HD)Sovereign of the Boka," (Beg.). Witness: There was no such there were some persons who he (witness) was running a ra- in company with Hector Lee and living at 16, Tung Choi Stroot,
Francisco. thing.
Wong Pulwas came to adview on British laws dio shop at 44, Lai Chi Kok two Japanese Gendarme officers witness said. S
Fatahan Mr. Lo: Hong Kong was cap- and customs..
Road, ground floor.
coming toward Shamshuipo ono of his agents, and was' in-
Monday, Sih April. tured on Dec. 26, 19417-Yes. Gendarmorie Interprétar On Dec. 12 or 13, 1941, ho from Yaumat. The Japanese vestigating. Japanese "troop
Mr. Lo:. This was done in ac
The next witness called was now George. Wong driving aware walking in front, and Leo movements and ships in har Airmall for London, Calcutta)
Durbin, Rangooni Elegaßers) By Als cordance with the Emperor's Jerome Edward Law, who sald motor-car that stopped opposite and Wong behind. He had bour. He was also collecting
Sydney.SATY intention of establishing that he had been educated by the Nathan Hotel, which was pushed George Wong aside and newspapers and magazines and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity | the
Brothers of Christian then being used as the head- hnd naked him what he was up buying medicines for the clinic Shanghal & Tionisin Sphere. You know that is a Schools and had, on graduation, quarters of the Hing Ah Ke top to which Wang replied that in Walchow. He had lost-con-Aimal for Canton & Helhow fact!
served six years in that Insti- Kwan (the Koa Kikan) Ho the part
going to ham tact with Wong Pul since 1944.
(Chungking || At this stage, the Court ndege Witness: Of the Greater Enst tution. - From 1984 until the know that this was so from shulpo, apo Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. I outbreak of war he conducted large notice outside the hotel radio
Altmall for Chun heard when the war started, but classes in shorthand and type in black. Chinese characters on --- In
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Mr. Lo: Did your Emperor as early as 1941 tell all the Japan-
eas that they were to conquer the whole of East Asia?
Witness: I should that they were included, Mr. Silva: So much British lawyers who did not know Japanese law were allow- ed to practise here?
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