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Notice to Members Double Tenth Race Meeting, October 1947,
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HQ. LAND FORCES, HONG KONG
Tender for Command Boot Repairing Contract
Tendors are invited for Boot Repairing Contracts to cover all Army Units in the Colony. Contracts will include all normal repairs and the manufacture of medical and surgical boots and shoes.
Tender forma may be obtained on application to the C.R.A.O.C., HQ Land Forces, whose office is situated in the Old Ordnance sub, Depot, opposite H.M.S. Naval Barracks,
Tamar," Queen's toad.
Completed
tender forms must be delivered in scaled envelope
HQ Land!
10th
to the C.R.A.0.C
Forces by Wednesday, september, 1947.
The CRA.O.C. does not bind Eimself to accept the lowest or
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 2, 1947.
Controlled Economy
All
Clay is
Optimistic
Britain
On Germany
D.
Urged
T.U.C. LEADER'S ADDRESS
Southport, Sept. 1.
New Deal
Algeria
For
School Fees Cause. Agitation
Shanghal, Sept. 1.
Empire Talks On Dollar Crisis
Canberra, Aug. 31.
Mr. John Beasley, the Australian High Commis-
British Agreement On Sterling
the present dollar to continue schooling.
stringency. Caught the inflationary Australia expected that Bri tendency, tulfions scared 300tain would ask the countries of to Commonwealth times despite the announcement the British
in
of a "celling price" by the make big sacrifices to lide the crisis. Bureau of Education, Currently Empire over the dollar tullens for day students for for
Britain's quota under the Bank Monetary primary school are CNS050,000. International
Landon, Aug. 31.
sloner in London, and Mr. O. S. Bridgen, a
• high economic adviser to the Commor.wealth Government, will represent Australia at the International Bank and Monetary Fund meet- ing in London on September 11, which will al- so provide an occasion for Empire talks to meet the dollar crisis. The Australian Government Thousands of Chinese students spokesman who announced this returned to school after the today added that the opportunity G. W. Thomson, chairman of the Trades Union summer vacation but parents of was being taken of the presence Congress, told the annual conference at South- thousands other are all trying of Empire experts in London to to raise money to pay the in-have discussions amongst them. port today that Britain's entire economy must creased tuition and many educa-selves as to the best way of be put under Central Government direction to tors will be deprived of a chance meeting Berlin, Aug. 31.
make the nation self-supporting. General Lucius
The question of closing the six Clay, American Military hundred million pound gap be
importa anci exports, Governor, reported great tween
inter- Thomson said, "obviously calls improvement in
for the closest expert examina- meshed food and coal fun and power of central diree-For
An Exchange Telegraph dis. economy, problems in the Anglo- tion of our national
Paris, Aug. 31. junior high school CN$990,000, Fund of $650,000,000 (4182, patch from Lisbon reported to- "This may be a now task for American area of er-
The French Council of the Regenlor high school CN$1,500,000 600,000) would be merely dny that the Uruguayan
Extraordinary, Dr. the government but it is one
"drop in the bucket" compared bangador
Gustavo, arrived in Lisbon today I ni nb id sem!.monthly re./ which in forced upon it rather public, the Upper Chamber, cor- and colleges over CN2,000,000.
Agitation is growing against with the Empire's needs.
Montevideo after Cmdr. Royal Army Ordnance any today.
Poster and hand- The spokesman added thal en route to Corpa.
to Washington, General Clay than depending upon so-called today adopted the proposed
Iquidation
balances ovinces of progress cconomie laws working them-new statute for Algeria by 180 high to
blocked sterling selves out for the general good." in two inter-dependent Belda:
The statute, which was adopt. bills are distributed in the name Australia had already accepted currying
that the country of the "Commlitice for protection the principle Encouraging the government Progarcion in the Ruke hins hit!
For the to "take the moat vigorous actioned by the Assembly, the Lower of student rights to continue must live as near
as possible London.
The dispatch said Dr. Gustavo and new occupation highs.
Chamber, last Tuesday after a tine in the semester it has possible", Mr. Thomson declared fortnight's debate, provides for schooling", demanding that the within her dollar Income,
of Uruguayan sterling heen easible to authorize the full "with disaster looming so closen Assembly of fy members, half Bureau of Education force down she was prepared to cooperate told newsmen that only ten per
tuition fees of private schools, with Britain and the other Em. cent we want to know the of whom will be Moslems. upon us full facts, however distressing
Under it, Moslem eltizens wil at least 30 per cent lower. The pre countries in the measures balances had been unblocked and for the purchase of English they may be; we want to know have the same rights and duties handbills threatened to demon- necessary to relieve the dollar part of the rest would be used
strate ngainat high tuition.crlats. un French citizens. འ
He said it was understood in railways and water companica what is experted of us; however
At present, the Government United Press.
in Uruguay. Australia that other Empire serious may be the demands."
Reflecting on some of the and the administration of AL.
He said Britain had agreed to countries had also consented to:
mission at Algiers which
special organised geria are centralized
take part in the talks in London send when their representatives were nationalization of English rnil. negotinto an agreement on the
ways in Uruguay.
any tender,
RILA.P. FINNEY
Lt. Col.
EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT
100 gram
normal
CONSUME broad ration
The United States Dulian boys wishing to enter and United Kingdom Zones. (sehool shonki register immerlate. | ny said the improvement ly with the Headmaster of Elle was dor to the accelerated arrival Kadoorte School - Sookumpoo, ¦
bread grains and flour, which All vacaneles for the coming ring the last three months had
exceedingly heavy. He attri-authority term to this school are reserved for Indian boys.
T. R. ROWELL. Director of Education,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEI
HOLDING
P. O.. B. 1. & E, & A
BILLS OF LADING
vates against 34.
pited the boom in Ruhr ceal pro- labour has enjoyed under the under the authority of the Gover. Ecuador
netion, now hovering around 240 nation's Socialist regime, he wor-General, who represent the apne daily. l the newly-
continged, "We shall consider French Government throughout wattuted incentive scheme-Unit- both the facts and the demands, Algerian territory-Reuter, ed Press.
examine them with care,
No Need To Eat Grass
-Yet
Dundee, Sept. 1. Times are tough, but there is no possibility that Britons will
Messrs. Goddard & Douglas will attend at 10 am, on Mon lays and Thursdays within the free storage period to survey Iamaged cargo. and consignees are requested to have their have to cut grass, John Strachey | representatives present. Unles-aid here on Sunday.
consignees representatives are present at the Survey no claims can thereafter be admitted.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents:-
P. & O, S, N, Co.
B. 1. S. N. Co., Ltd.
E. & A. S.S Co., Ltd.
Service Auction Rooms
Auctioneers, Surveyors, etc. Basement, French Bank Bldg, A.E.D. de Boura, Auctioneer Telephone 81867,
DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS, SUPPLIES.
Under Instructions from the War Offler London the follow-
ing quantities of R.A.S.C. Supplies are offered for sale.
2. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the whole or part lots of each commodity.
3.
Atta
Dhall (split)
Dried Fruit
Tinned Sardines
Vilamized Chocolate
Tuned Herringy
Vegetable Gal
Fickics
Одису
Spices
Achuar Pickles
Condiment rowder
Chutes
Turmeric
Curry Powder
31 tons.
131 tons.
4 tons.
16 tons.
14 tons.
12 tons.
52 tons.
104 tous.
11,000 lbs.
1,800 lbs.
80 169.
475 lbs.
39 tons.
510 lbs. 1,175 lbs.
57 169.
4. These commodities may be inspected at the Command Suppy Depot, Saamsauipo, between the hours of 10 am to 4 p.m. daily until Friday, 6th September, 1847.
G. Applications to view will be received at and necessary passes and tender forms obtained from H.Q. RAS.C., Queen's Road East, Victoria, dally between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. up to Thursday, 4th September, 1947.
G. Tenders will be received up to 11 am. Tuesday, 9th Sep- tember, and must be deposited at I.Q. R.A.S.C., Queen's Road Bast, Victoria, in sealed packets, marked "Tender for K.A.8.C. Supplies" before this time and date.
7. The Secretary of State for War does not bind himself to accept the highest or ány' tenders ·
E.. G. HAZELTON,
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commander, Royal Army Service Corps,
ILQ. Land Forces, Hongkong.
NOTICE
Will Firms please note that Dollar. Directory
forms for the 1948 edition should be corrected
and completed as soon as possible, and returned
to the "CHINA MAIL” Office, Windsor House,
without delay.
and
take an action as in our con- sidered judgment acems warrant
ed."
New Method
"FRONTIER MAIL" ATTACKED
New Delhi, Aug. 31, The Frontier Mall India'a
Revolution
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Aug. 31.
gathered there next week.
An Influence
П
ouf
Am-
Reuters Financial Editor Plane Down
of in
to
An agreement had also been signed whereby Uruguay agreed It was pointed out here that to supply Britain with surplus meat Rocks uver a period of A revolutionary military move, ment against the Government of any Empire discussions held at
price of 7.5 per cent over pre- Colonel Carlos Mancheno, who such a time might well exert an four years with an increase in
on exports overthrew Dr, Jose Maria Velasco indirect influence
"broke out today In the Amerlen, who will be present in Supporting his demand for crack express which left Delhi Mantra President of Ecuador, last from other countries, notably vous prices.-United Press.
for Lahore was
Riobamba, 100 miles London for the International Turks Shoot towns of what he called a "controlled yesterday
It Khanna Mr. Thomson saidattucked
railway northeast of here, and Guaranda. Bank and Monetary Fund meet- economy,"
Ambala and further west.
ing. that the proft motive in industry station, between
Troops loyal to Mancheno's had failed and "the new method Ludhiana in the East Punjab.
Financial circles were writes: One first-class compartment Government have left Quito, the must be tried".
cupital, 100 miles north of Ris-
optimistle that the September was burnt out and one person bamba, to fight the insurgents.
Istanbul, Aug,`3L. talks together Turkish anti-aircraft fire and was killed.
The Government stated in an Commonwealth The Frontier Mail runs be-omcial communique that the rest with the Bretton Woods (Inter- Gghter planes forced down
peaceful.national Bank and Monetary Soviel military aircraft which. tween Bombay and Peshawar. the country
Fund) meeting in London would last night, flew over the outskirts, fully clarify the Common of Smyrna, according to reports wealth's position with the Bret in the Turkish press today,
Four occupants of the plane-a ton Woods Institution 80 that the Commonwealth can know general, twn colonels and the pilot, all of Soviet nationality-ware at where it stands before further once interned, the reports states. Anglo-American discussions take i
The aircraft, which was placed place on the sterling area dollar under guard, was said to have crisia.-Router.
been flying over the Aydine region south of Smyrna.-Reuter.
"It will be necessary in a con- trolled economy", he declared, "to regulate supplies over the He referred at a news con-whole of industry and the coun. ference to a statement by Pre-try so na to avold the anomaly of Reuter. fessor J. D. Bernal of London heavy pockets of unemployment University, quoted in many an ennsequent misuse of man- | newspapers that "we have got pawer at particular times and to work out how to turn a large places." amount of grass into human
fwel".
Reuter.
WIN
Feudal Ideas Still
In China
Strong In
New York, Aug. 31.
The New York Herald-Tribune" in an editorial Doris Duke To
Rand,
the Com-
Wed Dominican
to.
3
VATICAN RUMOUR
Communist
Rome, Aug. 31. ether and newspaperя asserted today
local
that
He welcomed the prospect of US help for Britain perhaps What Bernal meant, Strachey under the Marshall programme. salt, was that "Germany pro- "I am aware", he said, "that duced some rather good synthefle there may be some who hre animal food from grass during counting upon outside help to the war and it would be a good ade us through. I hope that help will be forthcoming but if thing to do that here".
"The suggestion of our having | we ourselves can solve our
titled "Rightwing In China" said today:
that to eat grass is nonsense", the immediate short-term problem,
which adventage to the Reds "There is nothing Food Minister declared.-A890-any help which may come from should
should be cause a surprise in a Rightwing elements then ¡ciated Press.
others could
Communist pay rolls.
Paris, Aug. 31. speed the dispatch from our correspondent, on the
James Cardinal Spellman of New world more rapidly to full re-Christopher
The European edition of the York will come to Rurne soon to reporting They have enabled
take up the post of Vatican Se- covery."--Associated Press.
that lightwing politicians in munists to convince some Chinese "New York Herald-Tribune" China
ал stort ant that the conflict in China is not day quoted an unnamed official fcretary of state. United Press. may
one between Communism and the Dominican Legation in Paris American campaign,
but
Rangoon, Aug. 31. between as anying that Miss Doris Duke, "Reactionary Chinese cliques, Democracy
American tobacco heiress, and The police announced that 700 Including the large one led by Communism and Feudalism.
Mr. Porfiro Rubircsa, Dominican; persons had been arrested for cur Calcutta, Sept. 1.
Chen Li-f: and is a conservative
the curfew the brothers
statement to Charge d'Affaires In Paris, will few violations since the Defealism among Pakistani dis-
extreme. Right be married next week.
was impsed on July 19 as a re Chen Kuo-fu, have never been say that trict officials, and not an ever-nil
Aympathetle to American Ideas. Wing in China has been worth
Mr. Rubiron is the former hus-sult of the assassination of eight film star, i government lenders. United food shortage, may bring famine
"They would not be sympathe-25 divisions to Moscow."-United band of the French to half ruillion people in the
Danielle Darrieux.-United Press. Press. Chittagong district in
Eastern
The dismantling of Germantle to any point of view based Press. Pakistan where
on democratic principles. They receding flood waters reveal appalling devasta-mining equipment for
tions, postponed in 19:16 and are apponents of the Communists tion to heures, crops and cattle.
A hundred thousand people, are again in 1946, has begun, the but reject the insistence of the homeless and the death roll is be- Department for Minca and Metal Americans that Communism can In China only by be resisted lieved to be heavy. Even Industry in the Soviet Zone an offering the people of the coun
Famine Threat In Pakistan
Soviet Resume Dismar.tlings
Hamburg, Aug, 31.
elephants, usually strong swim-nounced today,
repara-
ulso
mera, were drowned when rivota Similar dismantling is became
raring torrents.
taking place in the power in- Observers any there is enough food available to avert an imme.dustry, though in order to avoid Interference with the coal indus diate crisis, but officials are ex- hibiting extreme apathy or con-try it had not been possible to
installations) fusion, and there are reports of remove all power rice shipments being delayed in earmarked.--Reuter. Calcutta, which in the Indian Union.
fnd
WAS
Folkestone, Aug. 30.
try benefita that can be obtained from Communiam plus clvi! liberties including the right of political dissent,
"Rightwing elementa cling to the support of semi- feudal ideas In opposition to Communism rather than to democratic ideas. They persist
RAF food-dropping last week- Pearl Diver, Epsom Derby in the belief that, no matter how necessitated by the winner, arrived from France often it is proved wrong, Chinese bungling of rice despatches, which today to run in the Doncaster armies recruited from the pea euld have got there in time by St. Leger. He appeared to be sant, will fight vallantly in boat. Our Own Correspondent.
in
excel'ent condition after support an an inefficient, cor- semi- travelling from Boulogne and rupt government of a
feudal character. went on the C. Halsey's place
"This has been of such great at Newmarket.-Reuter.
Shanghal, Sept. 1. The Soviet ship "Ilyich arrived at Shanghal to pick up a atcond group of more than 1,200 former White Russlands who have taken out Soviet citizenship
returning papers and are Russia. The ship is expected to leave within a few days.
to
The "Ilyich will make three more trips to repairlate 6,000 Russians from China.-Assocla- ted Press,
M.B.L.H. 'HONGKONG
5 packages Carbolic Ice Crystals
ex s.s. "YUNNAN” Delivery ORDER No. 242 Issued
Mr. Pollitt's Crisis
Panacea
London, Sept. 1.
The Communist Party tonight offered a five-point programme to overcome the crisis in a letter to Prime Minister Clement Attlee from Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Party. Those points were:
try to fit in with the national
1. Reduction of armed forces, plan and take over all factorica by 500,000, returning all over-or Industrips which try to soas troops except from enemy sabotage it. countries, where garrisons 4. Mako a 1948 record har should be reduced 50 porcent. vest, plant 750,000 acres of 2. Send a Cabinet Minister wheat, and plough up 260,000 for the above has been reported to negotiate new trade agree-acrea of grassland before next Jost and NOTICE. La hereby ments with Soviet Russia and spring... given that the sald delivery the new European democractes 5. Impose à steel capital tax, order in declared as null and and call an Empire conference reduce income tax on workers to discuss mutual aid and mon- and carry out the strictest con- vold.
sures. to withstand the "com- trol of prices. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. mon menace of American Im- The letter also demanded the. removal of Ministers "mainly Hongkong, 1st Søpt. 1947.
steel, compel every other indus- positions."United Press.
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