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NIL- THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947.'
HONG KONG'S WAR DEAD
Graves Unit Work
Almost Ended
The work of recovering the bodies of the war dead in the Far East has at all times been an exact- ing task, and the work of the Graves Registra- tion and Concentration units has often been carried out under difficulties which only their perseverance and tireless research has over-
come.
The negligence of the Jap, to recover the bodies of twelve anese and the Inevitable chaos | American, six Dutch and kix surroundby the circumstances | Australian POWs, On another
CHINA AND DAIREN
Shanghai, May &... The "Sin Wah Poo" report- ed today that Russia in a reg ply to the Chinese Nute has agreed to permit Chinese of- ficials to visit Dalren and Port Arikur to investigate local conditions.—United Press,
Civilians On
of batile have involved, after a occasion the Officer Command War Crimes
lapse of five yeaṛs, a series of ing took an eight day voyage in difficulties which have taxed a twenty five, ton launch down
the energies of these units to the eastern coast of the Island
On
Charges
mine copper
In
the utmost. Their tunk hin a sucessful attempt to The trial of ninė elvillam who been to concentrate the graves lentify and recover the body of were "T the staff of the of the war casualties and make an officer who was originily | Kinkaseki or maintain graveyards for laken prisoner in Malaya in Formos will commence to them. In Hong Kong now there 1942.
morrow at No. 5 War Crimes In almost completel War
their return to Hong Court. Cemetery at Stanley and plans Kong the unit's first task was The nine elvilluns charged are now in execution for the exhumation for re-hurtat of} are:-Toda Mitsuga. Nakamura second cemetery at Sai Wao. the bodies of the officers and Katsumi, Yonemura Masatoshi, Arriving in Hong Kong In men who had died in the Pri. Najat Takegoro, Cho Kun Taku. Jumoury 46, 43 Graves Regis. Į sol Camps during the Japanese | Takeichi Seichni, Utronomiya tration Unit under the command i cenpation. Meanwhile research | Kezo, Sught Terug Sucnob of Captain J. Redfern commene teams were commencing their Fumlo el work In recovering the extensive search of the island All were members of the staff besties of the British, Canadan, and Now Territories and mak- lls and Valustee trooms, ing every effort to recover the who had been killed in the battle easunities of six years furbling for the Colony in 1941. provirusly. The work went ahead frem re cords witch had been gathered from ROWs, during their terament, and from any graves registrations which had been maintained by the units coll cerned. To help and extend this work 62 Graves Crnentration Unit under the command Major A. Felda was sent Hong Kong, and this unit, in] addition to cleuing the island) and the New Territories was tai operate in Porosis, to which a large number of POW's been evacuated by the Jap- Anexe,
Camp Deaths
in-
*l.
of the Kinkaseki Nippon Mining C, and as auch were respon atble for the safety and welfare of the British and American Prisoners of War employed in Salwan Cemetery
the me under their super. By the careful examination of vision. They are charged with gether of information supplied tributing to the death of some records and by the pleeing to the treatment of POWs, con by residents and villagers who of them and causing physical had witnessed the fighting, sufferings to others. these research teams have per-
The president of the court soveringly and
painstakingly will be Lt. Colonel R. G. Lam- revered in their work to date ing, and the prosecutor, Major a total of eleven hundred bodies. Ormaby."
With Stanley cemetery almost completed. War Graves
NOW
for a new cemetery at-Sal Wan, When this is finally construct-
are going ahead with the plans Tin
, the work of 62 Graves Con- centration Unll in the Colony
Ingots Case
The closing addresses in the will be virtually completed. The case of Yu Ting-wah (alias Yu In Fermo, the work is of future maintenance of the come-Hok-chiu) a Major particular interest,
General Jaz
for there teries and the erection of the Chinese Army and Dr. Wong the unit succeeded in recover-permanent head stone to ing 390 butfies in a month and place
re. Chup-om, were delivered yester- Jeft with the satisfaction
the temporary wooden day.
Police Officers
On Trial
The case for the prosecution) cloned yesterday in the caso re- 'garding seven police officers: charged with demanding money with menaces from a gambling school keeper. Mok Kuen.
When Mr. da Silva cross- examined him, Insp. Clarke said that when raids were carried out on gambling schools even the men carrying out the raid did not know where they were going, as there were well- rounded rumobra that at least one of the E.U. men was being paid to prevent the school he Ing ruided. The raid which de fendants carried out was dono without his knowledge.
4x-
Gbulum Ahmesi, first, to give evidenes for the defence, charge of the squad, conducted plaining why he being in
rald without first informing.
his superior officer, mid he was trying to win all als erodit for himself and his by arrest- ing the gambling-house keeper. and the gamblers without the help of bin superior officer. De- fendant said the first time he raided the school. he was told that he could do nothing to them as they were under the
Yaunati station. protection of a detective from
When he and his men arrent- ed the gamblers, 1 crowi gathered around saying that, they were Shamshuipo · rascals and they were not afraid of the pulier or of their gum
Crom-examined Ny A.S.P. Mottram, defendant admitted i that all but two of the
men went on patri, without number clines attached to their uniform..
The case was adjourned,
Home-Made Cigarettes
of crosses will become the reapon- Mr. Justice E. H. Willams Twa hawkers, Kung Chee- knowing that they had achieved sibility of the Imperial War (Pulsne Judge) will commence kong, 40, and Fang Chung, 20,
a total recovery of the bodies Graves Commission, a
detach
of the POWs who had been in- ment of which is due here next terned. At times the expedition | yeur.
was not without hardship, and
one journey in particular involv
ed a ten day trek over hazer-
date mountain country and NORTH STATION
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Shanghai, May ́0. North
Station Shanghai's Grand Central-was the scene of a near gun battle yesterday when members of the Chinese gendar
guns
his summing up to the jury this were each sentenced to one morning.
month's hard labour and order- Yu is charged with the larceny led to be expelled from the of 1,700 Ingots of tin, the property Colcuy by Mr. Sainsbury of the Chinese National Resources yesterday for manufacturing Commission and with obtaining cigarettes without a licence,
pcney by false pretences,
The first defendant was arrest- Dr. Wong is charged with being ed in Queen's Road East, while na Recessory after the fact larceny.
Mr. A. Lonsdale, assisted by Detective Inspector R. Mackenzie,
the second was caught in Cross Street.
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At 2.30, 6.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.) merle and more than 100 rallway watching brief on behalf of the butts picked up in the streets.
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Mr. Humphreys asked the after returning from an inspec- Mr. Charles Leseby, Instructed Magistrate to tim tour of the Shanghai-Nan- by Mr. C. A. S. fluss,
a serious king and
appearing view. the Shanghai- for the first accused. The secend Hangchow-Ningo lines. During accused is represented by Mr. B. Sainsbury said the practice was Sentencing defendants, Mr. the altercation passengers A. Bernacchi, instructed by Mr. liable to spread all sorts of frightened by the display of fire- arms fled for cover. The bol. T. Prior.
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CHINA WANTS BOTTOMS
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AMMO IN-BOTTLE
Tlending guilty to possession" of 141 rounds of ammunition,' Lum Tse-ying, 30, was sentencesi to 12 months' hard labour by Mr. Sainsbury at Central yes-
Shanghai, May 6. Spokesmen for the Chinesa terday, Ship Owners Association today "At 4 p.m. on Murch 18, demanded that the alllos give PCC-890 aw defendant walking China 1,000,000 tons of Japanese in King's Road with a water shipping sa reparatione
spokesmen, C. Y. Tung bottle in his hand. When the and Chung Shart-dao, protested constable challenged him, Latt
for the dropped the bottle and attempt against the proptanis disposal of Japan's shipping, led to run but, was chased and made by Edwin Pauley to Gen caught. The bottle contained Douglas MacArthur, and the rejection of China's requests by
the ammunitiän. the Far Eastark Reparation
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to the tram stop, and he did not} know the contents:
SAND ISSUE
It is announced that as from VICE-MARSHAL IN Monday, sand' may be obtained HONG KONG only from Government Depots Air Viec Marshal A. C. Sender. at Tong Shul Road, North Point, son C.B.E., D.F.C., who was to sud Hung Hom, or such other contly appointed Air Officer in places as may be authorized by charge of Administration, Far the Controller of Stores East Command, la al present on The lasue price of sand from a visit to Hong Kong on an in. these depota has been fixed prospection tour. visionally by Government at Hd in leaving for Singapore on $9.00 per cubic yard.
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Melbourne, May 5. The first group of wives and children to Join Australian sex- vicemen stationed in Japan wit lenye Melbourne on May 8,
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U.S. MISSION IN MACAO
Macao, May B The US Mission to Macno today visited the Klang-Woo Hospital and took cognizance of the fact that over two hundred American patients were looked after titere during the War---
The Mission was accompanied by Mr. Leo Wing-shok, Chinese Representative on the Legista- Live Council of Macau,-Out Own Correspondent.
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