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THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1947. R
They Forged A Canadian Link With Hong Kong
When, on November 16, 1941,|
two battalions of Canadian
RO much To-day, at Saiwan,
mountainous terrain,' troops and a Brigade Headquar. 300 Canadians, who the least of these, after a lapse raises many problems and not
tara, commanded by Brigadier
exacting work of the
War
J. K. Lawson, landed in. Kow. gave their lives in the of five years and more, in the loon to reinforce the garrison defence of Hong Kong, Graves units, whose achieve- of Hong Kong, with war clouds
ceremony at Sal Wan.
to-day's
already beginning to gather in are to be re-interred in ment is reflected in the Pacifle, few of un xuspect a cemetery for Cana-, Hundreds of investigations ed that the storm was HO HOOD dian war dead. Here, and searches may result in the weeks hundreds of these sons in summarised form, is of Canada would have given the
w break, or that in a matter of
their lives in the defence of this Colony.
To-day, July the First, Cana-
of their story sacrifice for King and Empire.
became
recovery of only a few remains.
The fact that over a 70 per
of Caundians cent, recovery who died in action has been ef-
fected in Hong Kong by War Graves units) is eloquent testi- mony to their zeal and thoroughnear,
Everything Possible
grim. Thrusting through Wongneichong Gap, the Japanese were compelled to It must be a comforting by-pana due to the magnificent, thought to the next-of-kin Ini determined defence of the Ca-] Canada that the Minister of Na- nadians, the H.K. Volunteer tional Defence of our first DG- Defence Corps and other com- minion has seen fit to senil a ponents in the area.
Canadian Officer familiar with The two-day delay which this the situation in Hong Kong, imposed upon the Japanese) and took part in the battle with proved costly to the Canadians. "C" Force,
Bs the Canadians Practically the whole of the were officially know, to ensure Brigade HQ, staff. including that everything possible is be- Brigadler Lawson, were killed ing done to recover, and concen- in action, and one company of trate Canada's war dead in the he laid by H. E. the Offleer the Winnipeg Grenadiers suf-Pacific area. Administering the Government, feted eighty per cent. casun". Sai Wan cemetery can be representatives the Canatles.
reached by way of Lyemun to dlan Army and Government, From December 19 to Decem-1 Tytam Gap and the Shek-O and the highest ranking iflicers | ber 23, the Grenadierà launched | Rond.
da's Dominion Day, in a solemn The earnest appeal of Mr. ceremony at Sal-Wan Bay, with- Justice Williams on behalf of the in hearing of the Pacific break- War Memorial Fund, which is era rolling in along the coast, agme three hundred of those "peculiarly our own," should stir gallant young men, whose bo
dies have been recovered from the public conscience.
It may
various pinces all over the is Isten a trifle odd, at first glance. land battlefle'd, are to be re- Ithan the Committee administering | burled in a Canadian cemetery ja Fund which already totals more at a combined Protestant and than million dollars, a bare Catholic Reoummittal Service. unth since it was first launched, Volleya will be fired over the should express itself as dissatisfied graves by her of the Hong with the nature of the public Kong Volunteer Defence Force. who were their comrades-in- response, but there can the no
arms during those days of des- quarrel with the main premises perate fighting and wreaths will of the Chairman's plea that the (present is the time when assis- Taner is most needed by those who Truffered, and that the fund should
he adequate not only heavy immediate needs, but also to enable the carrying out of the je tives, which Bre to welfare centres
Final
1
K mers
the suffering,
PARTAGOO
of the British Army, Navy and three sureensive counter-attacks Air Force.
Noble Ideat
The choice of Dominion Day for this final act of homage is.} anderd, fitting for it may Du bren hope, eufidently, that July thei Fret vill in future years servei
4.
team of
T
wługi.
in an effort to stem the Japan-) ese advance, but while great! damage was inflicted on the nemy, they also suffered heavy losses in these actions.
Heavy Toll
The Royal Rifles. of Canada
a quiet reminder to the peo were similarly engaged from
Castaways Rescued
San Francisco, June 29.
Five
castaways
who for six survived
CARNIVAL
(By Dick Turnier-
3-7
COPE, 1947 BY HEA SERVICE, ING. 7. M. KEQ, 3. 3. FAT ONE.,
"I'm not going anywhore just got tired trying to cram everything into my pocketbook!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
The Authority on Authorities"
WORST DOUBLE
OF ALL AMONG ALL the costly er. rors which are possible in bridge. the worst is probably a double which results in your opponenta making a big score instead of your own side mak
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nice," he
"This is just soliloquized, and without fur: ther ado he doubled.
That scared South into tak- ing out to 7-No Trumpa so that the lead would come up to his hand. At the
moment He bat he did when West proved didn't realise how lucky he was,
Weat disaster. will not forget the Mound and Repulse tenate these curiumitments Canadiuns lying in the sequen• { areas.
Bywaterless Clipperton Is-ing form, such a duble is uny
nelected hla singleton club as and finally in
made by a player who is in being the nearest possible, to sally met without making tured cemetery of Sai Wan, ten last-ditch defence of Stanley land, 500 miles off the position to make an opening what he thought his partner bus intends upon the Fund's thousand miles from their self, they were obliged to re-Pacific coast of Mexico, lead certain to set a slam con- wanted. South thereupon made main financial assets. Unless, homeland which they left in port a heavy toll of casualties, have been rescued by a tract in a particular suit, the his slam, with seven tricks in tho is.
nure substantially
response to a noble ideal and} Outstanding nets of heroism fishing clipper.
double then scaring the oppon clube, four in diamonds and the to defend these Empire shores and gallantry by is received money
in
individual
ents Into anothér contract toll of Canadian Canadians is reflected in their be in fair health when they were
The ve men were reported to which he cannot beat.
two in hearts because the finesse The final [next few weeks. That there
worked. is substance in the Committee's Kong and subsequent deaths at decorations. One of the
dead due to action in Hong large percentage of awards and picked up. appeal is shown in any analysis of the hands of the Japanese while V.C. won in Hong Kong was the subscriptions already re- prisoners of war stands at 555. awarded eived Half the total, since and practically every Province C.S.M. John Osborne of the Posthumously to Government is voting dollar for and major cft the Dominion Winnipeg Grenadiers dollar, has come from the Trea- has its representative now rest superb bravery during his com-
Four-fifths of the remaining beneath the soll of Hong pany's counter-attack on Wong der has been donated by five big Kong.
neichong Gap. firms, and the remaining fifth by just over 200 individual subseri hers. Obviously, such figures do
of Hong Kong who, while the first ettemy landing. In the had. haring their own crass of war derence of Tytam, Stanley weeks 011 desolate, ing one. In its most devastat unable to load a spade.
SHTY.
3
During the all too short in terval before the outbreak of the war and the Japanese slaught on Hong Kong, the Ca- nadians had no greater oppor- tunity than a five-day manning exercise in which to try and familiarise themselves with the terrain they diMeult soon to defend.
were 80
represent anything but mere fraction of those who have every intention of supporting the Fund to the maximum of their ability; and it would probably be | wrong to interpret the appeal of Mr. Justice Williams as in any. Brigadier J. K. Lawson was sense a complaint. Rather, it is appointed to the command of in the nature of an invitation to West Infantry Brigade, with those who mean to acknowledge HQ, at Wongnelchung Cap, key their part in the debt this com- munity owes to those who pare their lives or were incapacitated
at
LWO
for
The aftermath of such a bal- tle, confused and ranging over
since May 13, when their motor.
They had been on the island)
Clipperton reafs. ship Thistle was wrecked on the
8 None structed the clipper to take the
The United States Navy has in- H J9765 survivors to the Galapatos. Islands, D 87632
3 2
C 6
About 900 miles southeast Panama, whence n United States vresel is being sent.---Reuter.
The
The Man With
Gold Toothpick
London, June 29.
Guld on his way to with the doubtful
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Eust should have read from the bidding that North and South each had four spades and Went therefore none. Had he done so and passed, he would have wound up a happier man, though perhaps not quite no wise an after the instructive punishment ho got for the worst double he ever made. Hereafter he will not double a slam unless he can beat any contract into which the oppo. nents may take dig.
Tomorrow's Problem
When Buat found the Zis Q
ganized vice in London and why the Messinas were able to evade Spade bid coming around to HQ 10 9 76 rational wartime service.
him, he was tickled to death DAK54 to that he had refrained from
The Messings are reported have obtained feases on hundreds overcalling the original 1-Club C Q7 of West End luxury flats despite with 1-Spade, which of course critical housing shortage, in would have prevented much bid- addition to holding extensive out-
to the Colony's defence. The "The Man with the Winnipeg Grenadiers were de- Toothpick" was tailed for service with this gao) today Brigade, while the Roya! Rifles satisfaction of knowing his at as the result of the war with of Canada were posted to Cast would be mentioned on the flour Japan, to give of their most Infantry Brigade, with a pro- of the loss of Commons-
tinction very few generous as early as possible. Only tective defence role in the cast-
Brilist criminals have ever received. one point can exception be ern part of the faianți.
side interests ranging from res- ding by his opponents. There But Eugene Messina, who is
taurant in real estate.
he sat with the nee king of the taken to Mr. Justice Williams*
said to be admirer of Lucky Eugen held a gold toothpick enemy's trump suit and want tline of the urgency of the
In Position
Luciano was like
British almost always between his lips, sure to set their grand slam a need. Brief reference is made to
criminals before him, For one presiding the Committee's desire in certain
breaking pay almost on the bestries Ca-thing, he reputedly made law-brothers er ese as well as his couple of tricks, also possibly interests in other coun- pick up a third trump trick and Cases to supplement pensions
American scale in this country.
The
police said girls,
maybe another with his heart only granted to war widows on the
where smali risks for small beautiful ones, were recruited In K. ground that they are entirely in-
dividends is the general world rule.
under- Spain, Portugal and France and adequate for support owing to the
swamped with luxury-one J03- He built up an international son considered responsible very high cost of living.
In the initial stages, because white slave organisation that was their unusual Joyalty. Each girl for total inadequacy of these pensions of their diapositions, the casual so efficient the police admitted was given a invish wardrobe,
tics of the Canadlanя were that not one of the hundreds of luxury flat and even custom-made light. On December 19 when girls who worked for him at one cosmetics. They work a five-night
would help in week.
The Measinas collected nightly,
The
in most instances amounts to public scandal. To take
one
ik
natians were in their positions
By December 7, 1941, the and on the fateful eighth found themselves, like the rest of the Hong Kong garrison, involved in a full-scale war.
aspect alone, we have already in the Japanese landed in force time or another
and their inquiries, at North Point, Taikoo
these columns drawn
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After East leads the club J. how should North play for 4- Spades?
Socialist crowd forced its way Into an outdoor mass meeting of de Gasperi's Christian Democrat followers. Despite the tumult, the Premier managed to speak for Rome, June 30.
half an hour before the fighting Rioting between Centrists and
got out of hand and police fred official Shaukiwan, in an attempt to cut
As a result, Moaring was not using two Rolls-Royces to make heckling Leftists broke out dur
tear gas, attention to the gross inconsistency the island in two the picture powerful Messina brothers gang, when they had trouble
sentenced as the head of the their rounds. On rare occasions inga speech by Premier Alelds
The demonstration Was the of treatment-putting it at its
de Gasperi on Sunday and police most forthright challenge to da kindest in granting a Rehabilita-
reputed to have groased overgirl, razor-slashing usually solv finally quelied the fighting with Gaspari's authority *£500,000 ̈since the war out
since oted inatters. Unlike his American tear gast
formation on June 1 of a Cabinet nrostitution alone, but in connec- ideal, Eugene had no bodyguard flon with the stabbing of Car-except the
A police captain, 10 agents from which the Communists and buldogs which and many demonstrators were Socialista were excluded.---Asso- melo Sisselo, now serving a term patrolled his fiat.-United Press, injured after + Communist ciated Press, as a member of the rival "Romeo Gang."
tion Allowance to such as street cleaners. while refusing, make
any special provision for war
Whipped,
widows who have been granted Kept In
pensions 01
an official scale
which was never conceived to be Wire Cages
Johannesburg, June 30,
WEEKLY CHINA MAIL military authorities the rea district near Johannenburg.
Price 50 cents.
Bond St. Feud
applicable to local conditions.
The Messina and Romeo gangs This is a matter in which the
were said to have disputed certain War Memorial Committee should Field Marshal Jan Christian lucrative areas for prostitution in be prepared to take action some Smuts, South African Premier, the fashionable Bond Street dis- what outside its formal terms of has ordered a strict inquiry into trict, where sidewalk space i reference. It seems to us doubt allegations that native labourers, sometimes rented to independent
prostitutes providing fut whether the War Memorial mostly from Rhodesia and Ny pretty anaugh and they are dress well Fund was designed, in the public salud, are being brutally whip enough to maintain the high view, the lift from Government or
peil and kept in barbed wire prices with which hundreds of rages by farmers in the Bothal American officers and soldiers are
familiar. ngusibility for meeting their legi fimate commitments, and the take, whatever action la necore and there was an argumont The Premier has promised to Vassalo and some of his honch- mon chased the Messina brothers Committee, while giving every sary. Nevertheless, grave to assistance that it can, could well percussions are expected at the during which, Vassalo claimed, his press for re-consideration of pen September meeting of the United hands were cut trying to grab á sion scales in many of the cases Nations when the Indian casa Faar wielded by Eugene. Eugene,
who claimed
a diamon:i which will come within its pur-will again be considered. merchant, got three years for view: The point we have taken The natives involved are main-, jogawtu! wounding. despite UNE does not, of course, change by onely Brilish subjects from er of the highest-priced legal bat-
teries, abtainabic,
offered iota the validity of the Chair-ritories outside South Africa.
Ho man's appeal on behalf of the cent court cases in the Bethat him. flee the country.
There have been numerous roll £5,000 to anyone who could help He is u Fund. In every angle of its task. arca in which farmers have beca: As a result of the trial. John
Mallero, born in Egypt. ON SALE EVERY THURSDAY the Committee has much to do lentily fined for flogging their Foster. Conservative MP, has and needs much to do it with. labourers and the South African tabled four questions to the Hoga We feel every confidence that this Department of Native Affairs Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, ask- Community will accept the stated that about 80 farms were ing for the appointment of a obligation.
involved.-Assoclâted Presse: commission to inquires into ar
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