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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948.
BRITISH EMPIRE BY NO
MEANS BREAKING UP
Waterfront Battle In Swatow
A
battle between rival waterfront cnolles occurred in Swatow on Wednesday.. One mnu was killed and four serl- Gusly Injured, according to press dispatches from Swatow yesterday.
The report said that the men uned hand-grenades, rocks. bamboo poles and iron bars.
The fight resulted over "Jurisdlelion rights" und tres sing on one another's terri. tory.
More than 100 coolies were involved
The fight was broken up by the police and gendarmes.
ALLEGED ILLEGAL
W/T STATION Mr. W.H. Latimer yesterday fixed 11.30 a.m. on March 11 for the hearing of the case in which Chong Chi-ming, (26) Wong Lau (19), Li Siu (30, married woman), and Choi Tas (40, widow, are charged with the use and possession of a tele, communication set at 7 Hankow Rond, second floor, on Feb. 28.
With the four neersed will
appear Chan Sio-fai, 62-your-old tailor, on the charge of permit ting the premises to be used na an illegal wireless station.
Mr. Marcus da Silva is ap pearing for all defendants, who are on bail for $2.000 cash and $3,000 aurety cach.
DESPATCH RIDER INJURED
"I think that the constant changes taking place in
Iddla and the negotiated transfer of Indepen dence for Burma has possibly given the false impression to people all over the world about the future of "the British Empire, and that some may even have begun to wonder if it is breaking up-like" the old Roman Empire." Nothing could be further from the truth and I believe that the Labour Government in Eng- land has now reached the limits of Immediate frontier concessions:""
Importance Of Being Hong Kong
:
Mr.
This declared Mr. Somerset British Empire, like aceing him ference yesterday. He was dis- de Chair at the weekly luncheon awaiting execution." (Laugh-cussing the general meeting of the Kowloon Rotary ter.) Club at the Peninsula Hotel yesterday.
Mr. de Chair, a former Mem- ber of Parliament and a dis: tinguished author who arrived from in Hong Kong by air
numbers present,
After Mr. de Chair's speech a film, entitled "Colonel Bromp
False Impression
Thеso have also
nego.
in
Crew Of Stranded
Ship Arrive Seventy of the crew of the Chinese freighter
GOVERNMENT RATIONS.
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With A nkeleton crow of seven, Captain. Troyan, master of the ill-fated vessel, is c maining on the grounded ship. awaiting instructions from the Hong Kong is a vital, impor Steam Navigation Company In Messrs: Yik Cheutig tani, strategic position, Somerset de Chair, distinguish- Shanghai, whether or not ed, author and former Conser- | abandon the ship
landed in Hong Kong at 2 p.m. rativo MP, told a press con- Fifty-four of the crew were
today of the British Empirilme Customs cruiser. Sixteen situation yesterday by a Chinese Mari and asserted that it "Is on the followed two hours later by the
Sudborne, Mar. 5. ove of now development."
The colohy is well-organised salvage tug, "Caroline Moller.”
Beer was free at the ChequeYA The speaker went on to say and thriving in rather chaotic A second Chinese Customs Inn today when 200 village VÊ that, in his personal opinion, world today," said Mr. de Chair, cruiser la standing by the celebrated the end of the war. the
constant changes taking who is on a War Oflice-sponsored grounded ship at Chilang Point The village was shattered as a SUGAR place in India and the
lectura tour to the Forces Singapore on Thursday on a tinted transfer of independence Malaya, Hong Kong, and Ceylon. to discourage any attempts at centre of battle training in that FLOCE
It was a great disaster when piracy, and to take off Captain area and it has now been hand- BUTTER" (fresh) Forces' lecture tour sponsored for Burma between the British Hong Kong and Singapore fell to Troyan and the seven crew ined back, with all homes restored and rap by the War Office, was given a Government and the Burmese the Japanese. India and Austra-] case the ship breaks up.
and repainted. hearty welcome by his heat
‚În July 1942, the Earl The 6,000-ton "Kien Sing"
of (President F. C. Clemo) Government was somewhat pre-, however, survived, and it was
cipitate.
through her "amazing power of went aground in heavy for last Cranbook told the inhabitants survival" that the British Empire doubtless
Saturday
that morning while en
leave they must finally brought her enemies
their given
to a false impression to their knees
route from Yulin Harbour
homes within a fortnight. Later, people all over the world about Ar his father was born in (Hainan Island) to Kobe with thousands of troops underwent Guesta present were visiting pire, and some may even have rica, and ho in England but the cargo of ore was jettisoned village back by cutting a tape
the future of the British Em Canada, his mother in South Af- 4,000 tons of iron ore. Part of training there.
Lord Cranbrook handed tho Rotarians H. A. Lammert, A.V. begun to wonder if Britain in educated in Australia, Mr. de
during the week in attempts to Skvorzev,
D.S. Hill and breaking up like the old Roman Chair regarded the Empire as a Kadorle, and Messrs.
A.L. Empiro,
single unit. He strongly believed refloat the vessel. In a federation of the Empire as speaker, "could be further from comparable with that of the So Fisher, S.A. Simpson, J.W. "Nothing." declared the
a solid, compact, organised bloc, the truth. I believe that the viet Union or the United States Labour Government in England of America.
Two irreconcilable ideologies" has now reached the limits of
After the village "reopening" immediate frontier concessions the outlook is gloomy."
are now tearing the world, and
ceremony, the villagers adjourn Russia and the stiffening of its attitude is uncompromising in her Com
A verdict of death by pulmoned to the Chequers Inn where | in such plates as the Falkland munism, while the United States ay tuberculosis was the Jury'a | drinks were free nit round.. islands and British Honduras stands firm for unrestricted Capi- finding at Central Magistracy Among them was 77-year-old are red lights for the
yesterday, which deliberated over Harry Kersey, "banished" to world Lallam.
The British from 'Red' A
Empire should the death of 32-year-old Ho Fu, Government.” (Loud laughter.)
stond equi-distant between theso olas Ho Kwok, alias He Kwong, Stanley Prison on two and act as a balancing far- who died at
Feb, 26 morning.
Mr. "She should be a solid buffer
Bat, as Singapore to read in the news between them and not the battle- papers a statement about Chin-ground," Mr. de Chair declared,
sc income tax (Laughter) with the curious statement that Hong Kong was in the Canton district for income tax purposes.
ton," was shown.
Barker, T.A. Madar, D. Carter, H.W. Sutton, J.A. Anderson AW. Wood, J. Revic, E.B. Moller, A. Somerfeldt, L. Sheo. Mok. C.P. Ferguson, R.S. F.J.D. Clemo, and Capt. Luff,
Mr. de Chair, replying to Mr. Ciento's introduction, suld that he was on a visit to the Far Eart to obtain first hand im pressions of the point of view of the people residing in Bri- ish possessions in this part of the world,
He was, said the speaker, very refreshed by the robust attitude of the British troops whom he had spoken to and who showed a readiness in accepting garri- An B.A.F. despatch rider
duty responsibilities in seriously injured yesterday afternoon widely scattered parts of the when swinging out of the Colonial | world.
Secretariat compound
Albert Rond.
inte
Bon 11
Lower
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China Motor Bits: AL the time. Company's omnibus, one of the new Tilling-Stevens, was traveling wards Garden Road, struck the R.A.F. mar-cycle and carried the sfer nearly, thirty feet. The man's right lex
marked.
was badly
Crack In Line
er,
He wah, continued the spenk-tor.
somewhat astonished in
Very Surprised
very
"I should have been Aurprised," said the speaker, "when recently visiting the It was inevitable, said the Channel Islands in my yacht, speaker, that, in a world strug-on the way from Cherbourg to
to learn le where Britain was in death Guernsey,
that the grips with a power like Ger- Island of Guernsey was in the many and trying to hold a line Cherbourg district for the pur world, something pose of income tax, (Laughter) round the should crack somewhere in the or if I had heard that General line.
Franco was announcing that Unfortunately, said Mr. Gibraltar was in the Madagas- Chair, the crack came in the car district of Spain for income Far East (Hong Kong and tax purposes. Singapore). But the line held "I hope nobody in this hemia. further back. India was saved,phere is drawing any false Orders by Aust. Comm. A. el Areun, | Australia was save, and the conclusions about the shape of Acting Commissier. St. J.A.BL. Onder British Empire gained time to the British Empire,” concluded Parades Hung Kung: Sih Nam Div.,re-group and fight back, said the speaker, amidst applause
Neither the Police nor the Military Hospital authorities knew anything about the accident when approached by the "China Mail" last night,
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No. 8/48, dated Mar. 6, 304–
8th Nam College, Sat, Mar. 6 7.30 pm. Į the speaker...
Bhaukiwa Div., Talkon Chinese Bchool.
Bat. Mar, 6_8_p.m..
11.1. Ambulance Unlea. Mar. 8 to Mar.
STOLE TEN BRICKS
Died Of T.B. At Stanley
FX. d'Almada Coroner.
Acting Chief Officer of Stanley Prison AD, Spoors said that Ho
across the main street, which was laid at a ·cost of £65,000. All cottages gleamed with now cream and green paint and each roof had been re-thatched or re- tilod,
Boston three miles away, in 1942.
"It was a foreign land-this is where I belong." he remark. ed. Reuter.
Fu, who was sentenced to four Opium Dens
years' hard labour and 12 strokes
for possessing arms and ammunt Raided.
tion on Noy, 25, 1048, was ad- mitted to hospital on Feb. 14, 1948,
In a raid on 164
Temple Sentence of three months' hard Dr. C.H. Lee, M.O, of Stanley Street.. about. 5 p.m. on March labour was passed by Mr, W, H. | Prison · Hospital, sald decoased 4, Det Sub-Inspector E,G, Latimer on Ming, 27-year-old was brought to hospital coughing Baker discovered
AD oplum (unemployed, when he pleaded He was suffering from pulmon
on both the first and Bricks to the larceny of ionary. T.B., and his condition de divan
teriorated gradually. He died on second floors.. Inspector J. Orem said that at Feb, 26 at 8,30 am.
In the first the Police arrested 2.30 pm. on March 3, Sanitary
Wong Kwai (26) and Li Fuk Foreman Kwan Tim was passing
(45), and seized two pipes, two Mm Ming:Lase whon họ làm đi Kenneth M. Fetterly fendant chiselling bricks from been
hamps and three small pots of appointed the rear wall of the courtyard of Freight Traffic of the Canadian
Assistant opium. 497 Nathan Road.
On the second floor was Li When accused had removed Facile Railway, with jurisdie three bricks from the wall, Kwan tion over the Pacific Region Sum (22), two pipes, two lamps went up and arrested him. and the Company's U.S. West and two small pots of opium,
Coast Agencies, it is announced. from Montreal. =
basket were ten bricks.
CHARGED WITH ARMED 'THEFT
In a
Mr. Fetterly formerly work- ed in the Oriental organization of the C.P.R. at, Hong Kong, Kobe, Tientsin, Pekin and Shanghai.
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Mr. Edmund Blunden who arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday, gave an address last even- ing in Government House entitled "The Poet's Universe."
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