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In a world of managed cur- rencies, little stir has been caused by, the announcement that Bri- tain's silver currency is to go the some way as gold. Just as the "promise to pay" which appears on banknotes has become, more of less, meaningless formula, so the phrase "Would you like itin silver?" will become, if it lingers
H.K. RABBIT WARREN
When a combined force of the United States Air Force operats ing from bases in southwest China and planes from an American Task Fores cruising of Formosa bombed out the Causeway Bay and Taikoo districts in a four-day. operation from April 1 to 4, 1945, everyone of the local populace who was then in the Colony was of unanimous opinion that a raid of such intensity could only pres- are a land attack on Hong Kong,
As It turned out" they were rock, but not exactly a long way off the mark The general plan of campaign at the time. with its principal emphasis on Philippines and the assault on mopping up operations in the Okinawa, was yet rather vague and American naval men and pilots who had fown over Hong Kong at the time were of the at all, no more than a courtesy opinion that this was, at the term at the banks, Mr. Dalton's least, then under consideration.
Some have ventured so faz sa proposal merely carries a process to claim to be in the know over commenced by Mr. Churchill, a land attack on the Colony that just a stage further. Since 1920 would have involved Canadian all new silver coins have in fact troops and was planned for the end of August. Therein in been merely semi-silver coins of human nature an element of different alloys, alike only in their romance and the boys mag simply content of 50 per cent, silver. The have been going on guess-work
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The Japanese defenders of Hong Kong were, however, de- finitely planning for an assault. both from land and sea and jevid- ence is now to band that the Nipa, were planning to put up a big show before, the final retirement to the monument on the hill"ad- joining Mount Cameron for mass hari-kiri ceremony, if we are to believe the evidence of the Kowloon Kempeitai chief who stated as much under Cross- examination during the trial or George': Wong.
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WHY
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GERMANY THE WAR
Could we have avoided defeat! What opportunities did wo miss!" Goering's reply to these questions was published yesterday. Today, Field-Marshal Keitel gives his version
Nuernberg, Wednesday. The Allies missed many chances exactly as we didi The only difference was that they mistakes caught up with their sooner or later, while cure finally kad to defeat and capitulation, said Keitel, ex-Chief of the Supreme A CommandaĽ
the
the north would have quickly finished the fortress,"
"Egwever, Hitler didn't try it. He knew by heart every episode in the Napoleonic Wars and ho was aware of the fact that Spanish Wars are usually long and costly.
Hitler's Fears
"At the last minute
he can-
Wehrmacht, LES NA A
"Every war has an abundance of last opportunities. It is true however, that this last one was specially rich in them," said celled the project because Leiteloosed, complications and
Keitel declared that the last want to be engaged at the swo war was so gigantic in its pro- extremities of Europe at the
possibilities
There is daily more of it as the vast system of tunnels boner combing the whole area extending from King's Park across Water- oo Road to Eadoorie Avenue and from thence up to Grampian Bord, covering vast areas of How loon Tong in the direction of Ira Salle is being slowly and pains- takingly uncovered by the Army Ordinance and P.W.D. teams,
climax of the war we were nearer ed enough time to put our fet The survey is yet in tis half-aid would say that at that way singe after having taken to victory than at any time. Be fighters and super-rockets into more than an year, being one of fore or after. Very little was full operation the first jobs started after the needed then to conquer Alexan-The offensive failed because of. re-occupation of Bong Kong dria and push forward to Bucs and the numerous mistakes of the ad- Estimates so far place the net-Palestine, but we were just not jutants of Field Marshal Rund- work over the whole Colony at over 20 miles.
Field-Marshal Hotel said the portions that none of the time
last opportunity the Geranions. tagonists could faresse or control all the eventualitics,
* missed was the Risudstedt: offen- and occasions, and
"One of our biggest missed op. sive against Antwerp in Decem portunities was El Alamein, heber, 1944. "If we had won that, he said "we might have recat
With all this now in the past, sent-day English shilling is initis possible to take a look at trinsically worth about five pence; hat the Japanese were planning to do and then to indulge in a (per do.) the new cupra-nickel coin will be done shiver before making a bes- worth but a fraction of a penny line for the bar. The true extent Both, however, must be regarded of Japanese plane is perhaps a as token coins and therefore as War Office secret. What we can merely a more durable-form of males of them is built on that sur banknote, so that there can be no miss that is possible frora the
available evidence, logical reason why they should not be made less expensive to produce Here in Hong Kong, it is to be hoped that an effort will soon be made to provide metallic sub sidiary coinage and permit the bits of dirty paper that pass for five and ten cent notes to be sent into the refuse destructor, where they really belong. Notes for such low denominations are relative ly new to Hong Kong. They were, in fact, only introduced as a war measure when, shortages of coins created a pressing problem. There is little or no excuse for their perpetuation. A ten cent place will buy little, but in the form of a coin it is invested, with rabbit warrens so far probed into some sort of dignity, and when it tion, mostly high explosive, have comes to keeping a man content-been unearthed and destroyed. ed, there is a lot to be said in This nigne, would not point to favour of giving him a little some anything specific in Nip intentions to go underground, but a major thing to Jingle in his pocket.
clue to what the Japanese Wen. thinking about is painted at by the quantities of solidified alcohol that have been found in these tunnels, an indication that there
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Chu Teh On Gen. Stilwell
San Francisco, Oct. 16... General Chu Teh, Comman- der-in-Chief of the Chinese Communist armies, has written
From the few miles of these
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was intention to cook under- ground
H.K's Escape Should the war have dragged
strong enough at that particular point due to dispersion of our forces in the war against Russia. should have strangled the British Instead of attacking Ruse we
Mediterran Empire by closing the
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The first step in this operation would have been the conquest of Gibraltar.
Franco Ready
That was another great oppor tunity we missed. Everything in deed, was, saared for such a sblack Among other things we had organised manoeuvres in the Frencia Fura Mountains to try out LFH 18/105 cannons, as well as our SFH 18/150.End 210 mortars against solid rocks."
Kaltel said General Franco was
stedt, notably ex Sergeant Sepp Dietrich, who had seven divisions under his orders, but lacked the ence to command then, indispensabler strategic compet
However, I have said, the other side misted plenty of op- portunities, tod/ It is my firm conviction that the Allies could have won the war right after it 'started VALAMEN
If I had been in command in France at that time the Germans would never have got into France in the first place.
On September 3 and on the fel- lowing days it was a great aur- rise to us and an incomprehen sible mystery to observe the Allies, instead of opening a full-scale at- tacky only stretching out a Low, timid feelers into our West Wall
I am sure they would have been strong enough at that time
Mrs. Stilwell that "the Chinese through August and the assault willing to put Spanish territory to have trespassed our fortified people will remember forever on Mainya have been successfully at the disposition at the Nazis lines. The target of such an
General Stilwell's contribution carried out with the Japanese All he asked was that they should to the war against Japan and sull resisting, Hong Kong would save his face by repeating the offensive would have been, of his struggle for a just Ameri-have been a sharables second to Greeks trick on the peninsula course, the Saar, the Buhr, and
That meant he wanted us to the passage of the Rhine can policy toward China" no other place in the Far East
Chu's letter was reported in barring, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and provoke a British landing some Portugal so that he would appeal a broadcast from the Commu- other Japanese town on the maste of pain or
A Gamble
Whatever can be said against to Hitler for help and open up those objectives were rapid- nist Headquarters, at Yeneo-
The Yenan Emancipation the atomic bomb, it probably
conquest of Gibraltar un obliged to hays withdrawa troope Daily" said that General Still saved the lives of thousands of grenees to us," said Keitel. Is reached. Hitler would have been well's death was a loss to all those who would have died in der those conditions would have from the past and the entire as Hongkong
Chinese democrats and added Hong Kong Main system of de been feasible without any doubt pect of the war in Poland would CLR that he firmly advocated, reor-lence would probably have been The Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe have changed
ganisation of the "corrupt Kuo the network of tunnels under and the Navy could have launched Victory or defeat are the re-
Kadoorie Avenue and the Dioce a concerted assault
sulte of a thousand imponderable Several hours battering the circumstances, Every war is mintang Government and ren- dering of equal aid to both Kuo/san Boys School, It's a matte Rock with "our" "artillery from gample from the first day to the
mintang and Communist parties to strengthen the fight against Japan Associated Press,
MARRIAGE BAR LIFTED
faker London, Oct. 15.
Abolition from today
of opinion how much explosive it would have taken to bring the
Nips who would have been lodged there from under cover. The
In that section is not particula firm and landslides after a few blockbusters may have worked the trick Again, they may have not in the
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