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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1948.
Saturday, 24th January.
The First Bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first raca will be run at 12.00 noon, each day. The tiffin Interval is after the fourth race (1.30 pan.).
24th Through numbers for the fourth day, Saturday, January (11 races $22,-) may be obtained at the office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Exchange Buliding.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their ladles MUST wear their badges PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the Morting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10 per day including tax are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal Introduction of a Member, such Member to be responsible for all chits etc,
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will
sale at the RACE COURSE,
NOT be on
The Treasurers' Compradore Office and the Secretary's each day. Both Offices at int Office will close at 10.00 mm.
Flour, Exchange Building.
A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House, provided they are order lu advance from the No. 1 Boy '(Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB's PREMISES DURING THE MEETING,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure in $3 each day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is pay- able at the Gate.
Bookmakers, Tie Tas men, eta, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Clab during the Race Meeting.
Refreshments will be obtainable in the Bestaurant in the Publio Enclosure.
SERVANTS ́PASSES
•
Passes for Servants will be issued to Private Bor holders ONLY on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange Building.
Any persons found, laltering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfelt the same and will be removed from tha enclosure.
BY ORDER.
8. A. BLBAR
Acts." Seurojarz.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1948.
HKVDC_COMMANDANT'S
STORY AT ITO TRIAL
DECAPITATIONS
OF BRITONS
Ser-
FIRST SIKHS FOR POLICE FORCE
A party of 60 Sikhs, all recruits for the loen Police Force, arrived from Cal- the sa culta yesterday by "Wo Sang."
contin.
Colonel L. T. Ride, Commandant, H.K.V.D.C., whe testified at the War Crimes Court yesterday at the resumed hearing of the trial of Lt. Gen. Ito Takeo, related how, in the course of a tour of the Island after the surrender, he came across the bayonetted bodies of British vicemen with hands and wrists tied. In some cases, the men had been decapitated.
This is the first first witness yesterday | residents were marched out and
Eucliffe, where al morning was Leung Wing-cho, taken to who was employed at the Tytan Japanese officer made a speech. Tuk reservoir at the line the and told them to return to the Japanese cafe in December. Hotel and stay indoora, 1941.
The
seven
He stated that he knew Flegg and Davidson and saw them at on the or eight o'clock day the Japanese care, lie saw them again the same afternoon at about five or six o'clock,
At dusk he was tied with the cok as were the two Euro- DeRM. and taken to a store room and locked up.
Al 8 n.m. the next day the Japanese dragged the Euros pans out of the house and they were knocked and kickej about, He never saw them again.
Later some Japanese retur ed and gave witness an arm band and orilered him to work. In reply 10 Major Ormsby the tness said that he saw bodies of the Europeans
Rome sun or eight days Inter on the beach. The bodies were in a Their
of decomposition. buls were still tied.
Dead Bodies
BAW
While at Eucliffe he sevan British soldiers kneeling before the door, with hands tied behind their back. They were later marched indoors,
Kent of Indian police re- ernits to arrive In the Col- ony since the liberation.
The men will first under- go training at the Police Training School and. will, detailed on graduntion, be
with the Traffic for duty Department, Central,
Benevolent
Society Disbands
In the dining room of Re- pulse Bay Hotel he saw them marched out one by one to the edge of the cliff and made sit on the grassy alope. He saW n Japanese soldier shoot them one by one from behind. There were seven; some fell down and the others were pushed down. of the Hong Kong Bene- Major General Tanaka. onevolent Society decided to of the generals who attacked disband the body.
Hong Kong and now serving al prison sentence for War Crimes. gave a detailed account of the movements of Japanese troops in Hong Kong from Dec. 18 Dec. 25.
Two Parties
A mecting yesterday
The stall attendance included Officers of the Society in 1941 when s activities were NUS- pendied.
were
the Those present
of the Society could! pinion that not resume its operations on the pre-war scale when it undertook extensive beneficient work 13 rendering assistance in caves sickness, want. poverty or dis-
arising 0710ng member
ciety could
Chinese Destroyer Here
The Chinese gunboat, "Chồng Chl," of the South China Const Flotilla, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday from Canton for fueling before continuing her duty patrolling off the Kwangtung coast and Hainan Island,
Under the command of Captain Ho Nal-chen, the warship is expected to leave harbour, in day or two. She carries a of 170.
complement
The ship is the former Japanese gunboat "1"
completed In September 1940, She has A displace- ment of 1,200 tous and is equipped with three 4.7- inch guns and has a speed of 20 knots.
Renamed "Chank
Chi"
the gunboat is one of the
Photography
Popularity
which
Japanese warships China drew as reparations from Japan.
The ship, first attached First China to the North Flotilla, was recently trans- ferred to South China, Her next port of call is Pukhoi.
Gains
FIRST
The sixth annual general meeting of the Photo CASE
graphic Society of Hong Kong was held last
OF
The first case taken under
evening at the Cafe Wiseman. The President ITS KIND of the Society, Mr. K. A. Watson, presided, supported by Mr. J. C. M. Grenham (Vice- President), the members of the Council, and Mr. R. A. Bates (Hon. Secretary). About 85 members were present.
the Defence (Finance) (Chinese National Currency) Exemption was heard by Mr. Order, 1947, W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yes- In his report, the Secretary munity centre in which it might terday when Yeung Kwan, 21, charged with im- disclosed that the membership be possible for the Society to hawker, was
porting CNS0.080,000 in excess of the Soclety hind grown stage a Salon as adequately as of the amount [CN55,009,000)
organized In other permitted by the Order.
during the year from 42 to 120. Salons
14
He described the past year as civilized parts of the world. Revenue Officer L. C. MIL one of "splendid cooperation and The meeting passed a IC Hington, after stating that it was blind faith in our Society." Holution increasing the monthly the first case of a kind, said He referred to the two suc. sub-cription to $h, and the cost defendant hol CN$11,080.000 International Salons of a cómmuted Life Membership requivalent ได HK$387.80) held under the Society's ausplers to $350 Instead of $250, though, when searched at the K.C.R. rince its reconstitution, and the old figure is to remain for Station on Jan. 21. disclosed that the Government a period of three months, He appled for the confisen- hnd recently solicited the enable those members who care tion of the CN$6,080,000 (HK$ Society's assistance in obtaining to take advantage of it during 210.80) which was the excess of
Colony's, that time to do so,
the amount allowed to be laken photograplis for Annual Report, and the loan of The Society's clubroom in into the Colony.
The new Order, said R. O. winning prints in its monthly Prince's Building is to be fitted
the pre- competitions for lecture purposes out as two darkrooms and nj Millington, amended in the schools.
Studie for the use of members, vlous Regulation which fixed and it is the capital expente the amount at CN$250,000,
scheme that entailed in this
He said that he was in eon L.T. Ride. Commandant; mand of the right Bank force fres
landed east of North of the Colony's communities for IV.D.C., nid that he was in which charge of the Hong Kong Field Point ang Braemar point. The whose beneth I had been form-
The meeting felt that the S Ambulance at the time of the plan of the divisional commid-ed.
er was to land at 11 p.m. on sreader.
t now function er, 18. The right flank was fectively on the old lines in the to advance 30 Victoria Peak. changed social conditions arising the left Bank was to go to High from the way, and that it could On Dec. 29, he went to cor- West and a point was to be no longer expect the Anancial feessful
it hint formerly tain points on the island as he reached at dawn between Vic-support which
received. consulered it his duly to costert Loria Peak and High West.
I was theref re
decided to and attend to any wonded. The invasion was made in
suggest to all Life Members stili He had mash repented at two, parte and they landed in the Colony that the Society teb:pls to get permission and half an hour after leaving the should be disbanded. eventually surveeded THE the Cement Factory and Kai Tak will be asked to indicate whe. night of Dec. 28, when and within 30 seconds of each ther they agree with this sugges- Japanese officer stationed at other. They took Mount Parker tion and to proposals which will be submitted to them for the the University gave him a pass, and eatne to Tylam Reservior distribution of the Society's
One morning of Dec, 20 At noon on Dec. 19. They ad- funds. he took a field ambulance and wanted to Stanley Gap which some offers and went to Com-, the heal of the column reached mand Headquarters to see Col.nt 4 p.m. The other invaders Simpson. A.D.M.S. Major Craw-attacked Lyemun and reached ford. R.CAM.C, his second in the position at 7 pm. and he command. was one of the officers was then able to have the left who went with him.
Hank under his command.
They
behind were
Coi, Simpson agreed with him and came with them. They first schedule.
Advanced we to the No. 2
Made Speech
their
Members
CATHEDRAL FUND
The following is a list of donations received up u Jan. 21 which have not yet been acknowledged in the press
Kwok Kai Shiu $65.66, "Leo 384"
and already
dressing station at Wongnel- chong and No. 2 Coy. 1. Q. The enemy were still at Wong- ($30.00 $96.60; Received up to an There were no wounded there. nefchong Gap and the Japanese 12 Two dead bodies were in the vicinity, Canadian Military H.Q. was quite near,
They went through the gap
could not get through. It was $132,688.34; Total donations received not taken till 10 p.m. Witness up to Jan, 21, 1948 $112,784.91. therefore had to go south. He
sent a platoon first and follow-
to Repulse Bay and came acrossfed with the rest. The platoon
succceded and went along the
a number of British dend.
They decided to visit the road east of Repulse Bay Hotel. There from Wongnelchong to the was fighting in the Repulse Bay junction of Island Road. There area from Dec. 20 to Dec, 23 was nothing to Indicate that the deng they had seen had died ather than in action.
Hands Tied
the
Community Centre?
It was hoped that the Gov. crnment, on its part, would soon reciprocate by providing a com
Personalia
way
bor
ára
makes it necessary for further fute to be raised.
Best Exhibitor Alleged To hung in the Various monthly Be Banishee
A total of 326 prints were
competitions open to members of
to
the Society, The most success. An alleged life bainshee and ful exhibitor during the year member of the Lun Ying Trind Buxcun Mr. R. E. Downing, of
was Dr. Ernest To, who won Society, Cheong Sing - (24), was Street Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent,
Cup and remanded for 24 hours by Mr. has been appointed to the Colonial th the President's
Craftsman's Cup: the W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yes- an Air Traffic Control the acknowledge Services as
Officer in Hong Kong. Mr. Bawaing. runner-up in each case was, Mr. | terda.y who
Congleton, R, A. Bates. The Beginners' 'According
the Police, Cheshire, was clocated at Hanley Cup was won by Mr. Peter Cheong wag arrested outsitie High School.
THE with Messrs. Peter 113 Temple Street at 9 pm, on Hodge and K. Jack Wai as Jan, 20 on suspicion of being n Peninsula Hotel arrivals:-Mesrumers up.
returned banishee. N. Buchan, T. G. D:wning, V.T.
The following officers were Questioned, Cheong, (it was Downing, B., Barlow, Mrs. F. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. W.E, Joluit. elected for the ensuing yeur: stated) admitted having joined fe and Mr. and Mrs, AJJ, Hick. Lawrence Kadourie (President), the Lun Ying Trind Society mott,
Franels Wu and Fung Ping March, 1946, and to having paid Fan (Vice-Presidents), E. an entrance fee of $10.80 and O'Neil Shaw (Hon. Seerolary). monthly subscriptions of $2 to R. C. Olive Hon. Treasurer), Lo Pul.
Reminders
Today
and when fire ceased he ad- Gramophone Rreital of Classical vanged with his troops to Re- Music, European YMCA, 5
p.m. pulse Bay aren and Eucliffe.
Sinc-British Club Music Group's Occupation was completed At 4 a.m. on Dec. 23. He did not virit
Repulse Bay Hotel but They reached the Ridge and went to Eucliffe and made af at a bridge they saw a number) speech there later.
of British Military and Naval There were about 70 to 80 dead. They looked for identity persons from the Hotel. He left dice. Some but none.
the area at 9.30 a.m. and came One of the dend was Lt. Col. to the Golf Course at noon. Macpherson of the Ordnance The battalion which nttucked Corps, His face was downwards the Hotel area turned east and and his arma behinds his back. took Brick Hill on Dec. 22. A His head been smushed in, The midnight attack on a line cast wrists of most of the others had of Aberdeen was planned but it deep bruises and the hands and was not necessary. arms were swollen,
Hearing will be continued at Other bodies were found; 10 a.m. today and the егодя none had their wrists tied but examination of Tanaka is ex- had wounds in the back con pected to last, two hours. sistent with buyones wounds.
About 12 hodien were seen lying at the foot of a parapet. They were lying in a heap and
FOOD-PARCELS FUND
Rcknow
from the top It was seen that] The following li of the their hands were still tied.
donations received up to Jun. 21 They visited all the houses which have not yet been
ledged in the press: The body of Mr. Tinaon W28 |
Mr. M.T. Case $30, Received up found in his house. The house to Jan. 15 and already acknowledged along the road to the junction $11,901.39; Total donations received of Island Road had dead up to Jan, 21 131,913.59. bodies,
From Island Road they went towards the city westwarda and
Bay! near Deep Water noticed large blood stains on a cutting.
They got out of the Am- bulance. The blood stains led to somo concrete stepa. At the slepa were the bodies of six Middlesex soldlers. Their ankles and wrlats] were tied and they had been decapitated.
4
444
Peninsula departures:-F.C. GIL | third concert, St. Stephen'sray. R.C. Webb, M. Gubbay, II.S Rousseau. Mr. and Mrs. L.D Girls College. p.m. CBS Parents Association annual Beattle, I.B. Atlung and Miss G
Bloch. European general mecting. YMCA, 6.30 p.m.
The wedding of Mr. Jesus "Quiz" Morning & Needlework
(Women's Secti-n), European Tounas Cobagis, 305 Peninsul YMCA, 10 am.
Hotel, and Miss Marin Razon, "Brains Trust" over ZBW, pre- took place at the Supreme Court In the pre- sided by Mr. D. McCullough, Registry yesterday 0.10 p.m.
sence of Messrs. Chan Shing-wa Scottish Dancing, 6 p.m.: Ser-|Bnd Lau Yiu chung.
Vices Dance, 8 p.m.. West Lounge, European YMCA. Exhibition of Paintings by Chan
Man-wel, St. Francis Hotel.
Coming Events
TOMORROW Royal Naval Yard Canteen But-
fet Dance, St. John's Ambul-
VERDICT OF MURDER
A verdict of murder by a per
or persons unknown was
in
L. Jackson. (Salon Secretary), Defendant, it was further al- a. C. Thompson (Librarian), leged, admitted being life und J. C, M. Grenham and Lau banishee, having been deported Cho chak (Members of Council).] in Jan. last year,
Chan Specialised In Motor-Cars
Chan Ngan-tsal, a specialist in motor-car acces- sories thefts, took a 12 months' rap and was ordered to be re-expelled, when he pleaded gulity before Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yesterday to four charges of larceny of motor accessories and one of returning from expul- sion.
·
unce Brigade Hars., Tal son Hung Road, U p.m. to 1 a.m. reached at the inquest held yes Buya Scouts Association Bazaar, terday at Central by Mr. F. X. the death of u Murray Parade Ground, 2.30-d'Almada into
His friend, Toung Cheung, defendant admitted having newly-born female infant, found 0 p.m.
who was expelled with stolen the hub-caps from a car Burns Dinner of HK. St. Anat Tung Lo Wan Road on Dec. (17),
drew's Society, Root Garden, 19 at 8.40 uan,
him on July 22 lust for being a parked in Gascoignė Road about DT, Qould said that there was H.K. Hotel, & p.m. "Maulood Sharif celebration of severe bruising on the forehead, destitute, was sent down for six 6.30 pm. the previous day.
skull.
A groove weeks' hard labour, followed by He added that he was "dis birthday of Holy Prophet, cyc, nose and
the umbilicus behind re-expulsion, for returning to turbed" by a Police constable Muslim Mosque, Shelly ran up fron
the left shoulder and twice round the Colony before 1952.
on beat duty, and bild the covers Sirect, 8 p.m.
neck. the
there Internally,
Chan, It was revealed by Det. by the roadside. On the day were signs of asphyxia. The
Sub-Inspector W. G. Morrison, he was arrested, Chan told the claimed to be 16 years of age. | Pollee, he
THE WHISKERS CLUB
his quil in the Did Tree|Outside the Old Tree Whiskers
Merchant's Story
Col. Simpson decided that it was
remain dangerous to there and proceeded to Aberdeen on the return journey. On the In way they way 20 or. 80 dead and picked up a wounded man.
J.M. Baud,"merchant French nationality, said that tho... Japanese, entered V-Rapulye Bay Hotel onY DOOP 35,1ARI ahek -- Kogut: **
of
Toddles hourd the ellck of
key. "Black Boger again,” ha muttered, more tilser. able than ever, ków, was he to know his visitor was an Bnow the Crow daruined as A
was watching impatiently,
· hoging⋅ toʻseo Show, dosta out with the CHOI ToddlesInstend l'a pOBNÉ made him turn and, bo maw Horde Tresarning #from: his
child was 6% lb. in weight and
appeared to be normal.
Mok Yee, a Sanitary Depart ment coolie, wan working at Tung Lo Wan Road when he found the dirty body of the mur dered unfant. Deside the chlid was an oil Back, covered with charcoal,
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naked
Teang to
at the time of his arrest on Jan. accompany him, to the spot to 17. An X-Ray examination, assist in removing the hub-caps, however, proved that he had passed that are some time ago. Concluding, D9I Morrison At the conclusion of the case, said that both defendants were Mr. Latimer ordered the four expelled in July last, "Plymouth"
be hub.caps to
Second accused, in reply to confiscated to the Police pending the Magistrate, said that he was & claimant.
sent to Po On. There he rej Outlining the facts, DSI ceived a letter from his brother/ Morrison said that at 1180 a.m. to go to Canton. He returnedď: on Jan 17 he went with a to Hong Kong to got his clothes. Chiacso detective to the Mr. Latimer: We have Salvation Army Orphanage, at heard this so many lines that King's Park, where they took we are getting tired of it!!! potsession of the hubcaps which Chan was charged with the
"Plymout were found wrapped in a new larceny of four.
hub-caps on Jan, paper hidden in the roadside.
16; 13 *The two plainclothes men lamp from car 152 trí. Nathan waited for some time, before Road on Jan. 1; an indien Tok „Chan" and Trang, appeared. from a jeep in HillwoodHətd Arrested and brought back to in Oct, fast; and a car mirror in the-Yaumata Poliam Station, first" Shanghai Stroet, last. Algusketi
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