1.
GOVERNMENT
OF
HỌNG KONG
General Administration
Branch,
NOTICE
CESSATION OF MILITARY RATIONS FOR ENTITLED
CIVILIANS
The entitied civilians who have hitherto been drawing Military Rations are hereby notified that the issue of these rations will cease with effect from 16th. May.
2. Meals will be provided for residents in the Hong Kong, Gloucester and Peninsula Hotels. under arrangements being made by the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd. The prices of meals have been agreed to by
Government and will the notified to residents.. 4. The Pedder Building Depot close down permanently after office hours on 15th, May,
WHI
bo
1946. and those hitherto using
that depot will have to make their own arrangements for the purchasing of food.
C. DELAMAIN.
Colonel.
Senior Civil Affairs Officer.
NOTICE
RICE RATIONING
REGISTRATIONS
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1946.
HANGING IN
IN THE
THE BALANCE Success Or Failure Of Paris Talks
Amsterdam's Gold Medal For Winston
Amsterdam, May 12. The Acting Burgomaster of Ansterdam, presenting A gold nedal to Mr. Winston Churchill today, told him: "We shait never forget how in the first year of Germans, Britain had to bear th the occupation of Halland by the strain alone,
We feel that Bri-
tain's grim determination and remarkable belief in ultimate victory were personified in you
One of the women councillors
-broke down and wept as the Mr. Burgomaster recalled what Churchill's speeches meant to the
during the Dutch
occupation years.
Mr. Churchill said that he was! deeply shocked by what he had beard of the horrible tyranny of the Germans, who in a few years reduced the Jewish population in Amsterdam from 90,000 to 12,000 and ravaged their beautiful and produced historie quarter which Rembrand; and Spinoza.
Heroines of the underground movement presented bouquets
Last Attempt To Compromise
(By MICHAEL, FRY)
PARIS, MAY 12,
ITALIAN REPARATIONS AND COLONIES ARE THE KEY ISSUES OF THE FOUR-POWER TALKS ONCE MORE IN THE MELTING POT TODAY AS THE CONFER- ENCE ENTERS A CRITICAL WEEKEND. SUCCESS OR FAILURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
AFTER YESTERDAY'S SURPRISE MOVES BY MOLOTOV AND BEVIN TO TRY TO REACH À COMPROMISE ON. ITALIAN COLONIES, TODAY'S INFORMAL SESSION ALSO SHOWED THAT THE MINISTERS ARE MAK- ING A LAST ATTEMPT TO REACH A COMPROMISE ON THE RUSSIAN DEMAND FOR £75,000,000 RE- PARATIONS FROM ITALY. RENEWED DISCUSSION. ON THESE VITAL POINTS CAME AT THE END OF A WEEK. IN WHICH THE CONFERENCE AT ONE TIME APPEARED ON THE BRINK OF COMPLETE FAILURE.
Bidault.
A weck ago, the big 'four proposals from Molotov, and
the deadlock ony Bevin and the French Foreign: Bide-stepped the Italian treaty and tried to Minister, M. Georges come to an agreement on the These are:
British Concession Balkan treaties. By the middle.
of the week the ministers had 1. Russia agrees to give up exhausted all possibilities of her claim to trusteeship agreement and rumours becaine Tripolitania and let the Italians over if that the conference would run it under UNO supervision. his daughter, Mary Churchill.
2. Britain agrees to abandon Mr. Churchill sailed from the end on Saturday.
The British Foreign Minis- the plan fbr Town Hall on brightly painted
an independent inunch to tour the canals as theter, Mr. Bevin, then made a last Libya and let the Italians run guest of the city, passing between minute appeal to his three col- the trusteeship of Tripolitania walls of packed people along the leagues to try once more to provided Britain is allowed to
their reach canal banks, who shouted
an agreement on the have the trusteeship of Cyren- enthusiasm.
main Issues of the
aica. Mr. Bevin made the Mr. Churchill was to join Queen treaty.
point that British security in Wilhelmina on the royal sloon
Cyrenaica might eventually be watch an exhibition of sailing an
merged in an overall UNO the approach to the harbour.-
accurity scheme but meanwhile Reuter.
Britain must safeguard the security of North Africa, just as Russia is doing in Eastern Asia and the Kurite Islands in the Pacific.
Italian
The others agreed and the conference Buddenly. came to life again on Friday with new
Mauthausen Nazis All Declared Guilty
Dachau, May 12.
The 61 accused at the Mauthausen concentration camp trial here were today found guilty of violation of the laws and usage of war and will be sentenced on Monday. The chief prosecutor said were laughing and joking in his final address: "These they left the court
It is hereby notified that in the meantime no further registrations for rice rationing will be accepted except from those who can prove to the satisfaction of the Rice men Controller that they were resident in Hong Kong for at least seven years prior to 1941. This concession will be extended
to the immediate relatives only of auch a person c.g. wife and
children.
W. M. THOMSON,
Director,
Supplies, Trade & Industry. Hong Kong, May 9, 1946.
wire
8. Bidault proposed that Rus- sla be given £25,000,000 repara- tions from Italy and other claimants be compensated by concessions instead of cash. Molotov did not object but Byrnes suggested that the 25, 000,000 should be paid out of industrial war equipment, as- assets abroad and shipping.
ΟΥΣ
hanging
electrocuted,
Compromise Hints,
SPECTACULAR
to
New Mexico, May 12. A spectacular attempt destroy
German V-2 rocket with another in mid- air upe made yesterday when the ro-assembled V-2 zoomed to an estimated 75-mile height in the first proving ground-
teals.
Officials said this
Ameri-
can racord for ascent by a man-made instrument possibly excorded the unrecorded 10a7 time tanta
by the Nazis.— Associated Press.
Halifax Says Farewell To America
Washington, May 12.
Lord Halifax, the retiring British Ambassador to the United States, in a farewel! broadcast from Washington to- the United States to help fight night appealed to the people of the famine in Europe and Asia.
"There has not trophe on such
been catra- within human memory; probat- a large scale ly never in all recorded history."
he said.
"Millions of people are threat ened with starvation and death,
the overwhelming majority of
whom are humble folk who wanted only to be allowed to
live their lives in peace: and yet this terrible thing is hap pening
to them.
I am not thinking that you or I or any decent-minded person will sleep perfectly or eat happily if we are not able to feel that we are doing all we can be help
"Here is something that calls from both our countries, for the same quality of effort and brought us leadership which through in the war."
"The world does not want dictatore, it has had quite enough of them. It rightly inys at their door all loss and suffer- have committed erimes In the closing stages of the
At the same time one of the Ing and sorrow of these times. that have shocked the suscepti-trial, photographs taken from a main problems of the whole But it does need, and will always bilities of the entire civilised collection of 60,000 made by
S. S. men, were produced by a mains unsolved. Observers be your people and mine can give; conference Tricate-still *re. heed, the sort of. 'leadership | world.
prisoner, "The acts of these men will former
Francisco have turned back the clock of Boix. These showed beatings, lieve that Molotov having made the sort of leadership that only concessions on Italian colonies people who are free themselves civilisation by 1,000 years if the killings, people
barbed
will expect a similar move from can give to others."-Reuter. court, by its, decision condones
the western alles by giving the conduct
of any or all of Tried" or shot.
Boix said that immediately circies in Paris maintain that Trieste to Yugoslavla Soviet these men. By their acts they have left a livid scar across the after the German collaper at face of justice. Every man in Stalingrad in 1984, orders come so far the Russians have made for all films of all concessions at the conference the dock has forfeited the right from Berlin to live in decent society." concentration camp beatings to and received nothing in return.
The accused all took the verbe destroyed. He stole 2.000 dict stolidly and some of them from the collection and hid the most incriminating ones in a drawer of a S.S. officer's desk. where they remained
until promise Reuter.. Jiberation.
NEW YORK FREIGHT BUREAU
TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT BUREAU
A Polish ex-prisoner told the court that when supplies f petrol for lethal injections ran prisoners were killed Those who tried to scream were with Injections of creats petrol.
held down and choked.-Reuter.
Consignees of cargo tendered for shipment from U. S. A.hort, and Canada via Pacific on and after 1st April, 1946, and from U.S.A. and Canada via Atlantic on and after 27th April, 1946, are hereby notified that all landing, receiving, sorting and delivery charges from ship's tackle on such cargo will be for account of the Consignee, and payable before delivery.
F. F. BOOTH
Secretary,
TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT
BUREAU
HONG KONG, 10th May, 1946.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS Secretaries NEW YORK FREIGHT BUREAU
LEGAL BRANCH-CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY
NOTICE
MOTOR VEHICLE CLAIMS
ALL CLAIMANTS OF MOTOR VEHICLES ARE HERE; BY INFORMED THAT A LIST OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTOR ENGINES AVAILABLE FOR RELEASE IN HONG KONG WILL BE POSTED FROM 28TH APRIL, 1940 AT THE OFFICE OF THE CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY,
WINDSOR HOUSE, FOURTH FLOOR,
Turkey To Help U.N.R.R.A.
Ankara, May 11.
Doenitz Not Comfortable
Tņ British and American
Nuernberg, May 11, of any readiness to do this but expressed the bellef. at todays quarters, there is no suggestion Grand Admiral Karl Doonitz
there are hints that a
com-session of the Nuernberg war could be reached.-'crimes trial that he was chosen to succeed Hitler in the Reich': Soviot Charge
waning days only because
"after Reich Marshal Hermann Goering was removed, I was the
was the sealor officer in command of an indepen dent branch of the armed forces."
Moscow, May 12. The British and United Stales delegations to the foreign minis
letate to other countries, a writer tera council in Paris are working together closely In an effort to
in the Soviet newspaper "Izvestia“ declared
lared yesterday.
The writer, N. Sokolayaky, said the aim of the British and Ameri- can combination was to establish economie domination of Italy and maintain British supremacy in the Mediterranean,
Sokolovsky declared that such British and Ameri
taking over as Fuchrer scarcely
The defendant asserted that he was a strictly military figure until
week before the end of hostili- ties.
The defendent left the witness stand only a quarter of an hour before the end of the session, after
Turkey today created a credit attitude of the would be difficult mahders now in British prison
of 0,000,000 Turkish pounds in can favour of
U.N.R.R.A. and aregation
"If there
day-long interrogation, mostly by the chief British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe,
A letter from 17 U-Boat com
that none of tho camps stated were not defendent's orders to his officers nounced that she had 650,000 plenty of facts witnessing the head of livestock ready for ex-presence of certain agreement be interpreted as meaning that while German Naval C-in-C. could port to starving nations.
between the Anglo-Saxon powers they deliberately tried to exter- The minister of agriculture, on mutual compensations in var Rasit Hatiboglu, gald part of the
minate Allied scamen. lous parts of the world.”—Asio- credit would be represented by cluted Press.
foodstuffs
actual's surplus food, he added,
would be distributed in two ways to hungry countries willing to purchase supplies and to U.N.- R.R.A. on credit. The surplus comprises cattle, sheep, Konts, barley, rye and beans.
EVEN WHALES ARE THINNER
Doenitz appeared uneasy, bow- ever
when reminded that he had | cautioned the entire German Navy | against "spreading the polson of Jowry."
Ho haltingly explained that he believed that "Germany's national Oslo, Norway, May 12, Reports radioed from Nor.trength could not afford Jewish
components."--Associated Press. wegian floating -whaling fac- month torics now operating in the An- Turkey tartic Ocean Indicate that the
The Spring rains this will determine whether will have any grain to apare. Associated Press.
NEWSPAPER GETS
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RHINE EMPTY
Basle, May 12, waterway from Basle to the sea
The Rhine, reopened as at the end of April, le still prac tically without traffic.
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Veteran whalers, who have followed the huge mammals for decades described AND
how the ALSO AT ROOM 5, PENINSULA HOTEL
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Hundreds of barges are waiting St. Louis, May 11. season, obviously due to a short- Idly for cargo but there are no CALL AND IDENTIFY THEIR OWN VEHICLES. ALL The University of Missouri to age of food-Associated Press: cargoes for them to carry. This CLAIMS AGAINST THESE MOTOR VEHICLES AND day awarded a citation for dia
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Eighteen, new
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homest opinions." -Associated Press
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HONG KONG, APRIL 28, 1946,
R. A. WICKERSON, Custodian of Property.
to the
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Moscow, May 12, The public of the Soviet Union! learned yesterday of King Victor Liverpool, May 12. Errnabuol's abdication, but the Nearly 2,500 prisoners of war news was publishąd briefly, with- Cairo, May 12. boarded the transport Samaria out comment and quoting", Home Victor Emmanuel, ex-king; uyesterday for repatriation to Italy, radio, thy French press agency Italy, is arriving at Alexandrin' The ship is due to sail today.-- and other sourocket-Assoglatad Ahja morning-
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