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THE CHIA MAIE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1949.
HMS London Leaves For Her GREEK ARMY MOVES
Refit Today
Early today HMS London will leave for Singapore for her annual refitting, with Captain C. T. Addis, DSO, in command.
She will remain in dock for six weeks and then..
spend some time re-staring before returning to the colony. She is expected back in two". months.
Three Births
To Every Death
That
of
In
The birth rate
Hong Kong in July was more than three men
death, According to statistics released of Births by the Registear
and
Death.
were
the
There
5.25 babies Colony
every 126.1 daily during (or the 31 days of Just month,
born in
που
as against 7 hourly for 40.8 daily) deaths.
for the first nix
(The average
months
was
a forth in every 13 minutes.) The total of 3.909 registered births wan 614 more than the average of 3,295 for the first
half of the year, and exceed.
ed the averages. of the first and second quarters by 50% and 719.3, respectively.
During
the manta under review, there were only 65 non. Chinese, babies born A against 3,044 Chinear. The figures for January to Maron were 131 and 10,07%, and for April to June, 110 and 9,459.
Muncaster Castle Delayed
te
IIMS Landon arrived" heri Inst werk-end às the flagship of thus British Pacific Fleet with Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, commander-in-chief. She left Japanese waters after engaging in inval manoeuvres with the Onited States Western Pacific Fleet, arriving here 10 days ahead of time.
EMPORARLAN
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Belonging to the London Class the forinidalile cruiser TRA!!
1 Teet with 436-Cercet She has eight 8-inch pins, eight 4-much AA, 14 smaller guns, aiut Leight 21inch torpedo tubes. The cruiser his one arropiane with catapult, white her BRI
HMS LONDON
Turk's Head Back
In
HK Harbour
sination to the Kent Class, with The,4,000-ton Philippine motorship Turk's Head,
bulges,
#aloiNIF
Top Speed
"
external
HAF Endou, designed by Su Willams J. Berry and completed September 16. 1927, IN 위해 출구는 1월 카페이다. with
geuzest
Con
turbines and ca do 32 knots
NIX
which made local news carly this year when she ran aground South West of Hong Kong with more than 200 passengers aboard, is back in the harbour.
The Turk's Head, one of the helpful and supplied them with
Everett Jom and water. ships of
The Puric's Head is equaljaped
nister
oh has displacement of 9,850 Orient 1.4.-aved here [*** wiki mnti-pirale - ¿creets to block
sts and drews 17 feet means
Mamiá yesterday with more The cruses, Eying the dug of than 500 tons of general cargo The Commander-in-chiet, le and SIX
Two pressengers. Hong Kong last north fig Japan Spanish priests embarked here, where she joined the American Western Pacific Fleet. The Allied; They were the Rev. P. M. P. Fleet spent two L'uys in naval Sanchez
exerrises, north
Im ve
Sisus
Merino.
ru
pr.
INTO NEW OFFENSIVE
Athens, August 29. Operations against the 2,500 Greek guerillas in posi- tions north of the Grammos area towards the junction of the Albanian, Yugoslav and Grook borders, were under way tonight and expected. - to be in full swing by the morning, a military spokesman disclosed. Three Greek divisions were reported to be involved in the new drive, which is aimed at destroying General Markos' strongholds along the north- costern section of the Albanian border, through which the guerillas who escaped from Grammos arco were, said to be re-entering Greece.
It was believed that General Markos was trying to make of The Mount Vitsi Range w strong- hold similar to the positions he lost in the ferent Grammos fighting.
The northern end of the Vitsh Range skirts the eastern glumus. of Lake Prespa, where the Yugo- slav. Greek and Albanian front-
meel. There is a security. blackout R the exact target jsni for the Greek forces, bust
A 211 off the brkige from the rest of the vessel.
The servons serve us a barrier between and the bridge. the passengers where the officent are in com- mand. Small aris comprise the
deck
eventually 342704
the
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Informed curlers suggested to- night th the drive would' mainty wiert at sending of Greek Albanion horter,
The
Grrek Badie," quoted in n Tast agency despatel from Belgente. reporteri fighting was still gong on m th....
Grammos sector. where it sa mobile "Democratic Army" do tachments were
inffeting losses
Mucirten attacks. On Thursday. The Greek Arniv lost 32 men killer and wounded these reports sabi,
Raid On Longadas
there in shin's defence. Tokyo Bay The others include
The vexstal
Ini Central Macmlosin, the The British crudser was original dians and a Bentor, why are in brought to Hong Kong a week"Democratic Army" broke into by die to arrive here on Septen Fransit to India via the Slearts.
Ister from Hainan, She remutuz į the towns of Langadas, where they Der G. Her premature ind
Doeks More cargo is having fouded and
th Kessler
undergoing destroyed the palier barracks, thi expl here Was
the defence reven Hong Kong to sangers, the
arcessary repairs,
power station and sures to distributë British cruise1 | chading
bommel for
'The Pix Indian-
Turk's Head. Hying The headquarters, this reported" add- south-east Strength
Philippitis. Heg, and built in 1945. ed. Many young people joined A-las | Colombia and Motras, will
They include bark tomorrow.
the Everett Orient the Democratic Army from 15 jeoperatiu walees
Megaw nude, Admaral Sie Denis Pl, Mrs. W. de la Fuente Line's fast enrgo and! passenger town and nereby villages, it was Boy will remain in the colony Santa and Mr. P. Tinis
service {1+T T1231612 antred
reported, mestomship, The ant frave in the HMS Aki, to
Skippered By Philippines 10 Itodla Vi flag luas berit, Mr J. O, Thomas who heads an Straits. which the C-hi" Transferred, on September 10 for 1 201-Filipina errw al 47, left Hong Kong, in t infidle ni February this year for Manila v Hoshowi
IST Batho riera Islami.
Jist Comia. rmining half agront and balt afloat, she did not send out any her distress colls, but infrared Manda office,
FRENCH LINER CHAMPOLLION
The Muncaster Castle, the Sngapore, first steamer
The Castle Line fast Pacgo round- the world SAE Views after the war, may love Hong Ko today to amplete the remain- ing stretch of he maiden voy- age from New York to the Far East.
kere tons
·
tion of
nage and
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1700
avadable modern ton-
constructiona
The
IN PORT
KIVET
formerly
the France-Fag East run of
company.
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Natives Help
Personalia
ON LEAVE TO ISLE
The
OF WIGHT
in
and
Demolition -squads blew up ⠀ bridge between Langudos mul Sohon, and derailer a train, "D mocratic Army" mits captured the town of Vrahnika, six miles from Pairns, in the Peloponnesus, the reports acted.-Reuter.
REVUE AT KCC
is
their
Jast
Tuberculosis Death Toll Increases
claimed
the
172
Tuberculosi tives, or about 13.6 per cont of the total deaths registered, In July, according to figures released by the Registrar of Births and Deaths.
An 条件の This represented crease of 21 ov r the figure for June and eight over that for May. The average for the first half of the year was 160,7, with the totals of 500 and 464 for the first and
recend quarters, rgs during
Of the 1,266 deaths
the month, only 13 were non-Chinese. Infectious dia. cases accounted for 185 and traffic two In Kowloon. (There was not a single fatal traffic accident in Hong Kong during July.)
There were 559 CASER of diseases reported to Infectious the Health Authorities during comprising 192 tuber. July, cutors, 34 enteric fever, 20
Exch
01 dysentery, meagles and puerperal fever, and one each of cerebrospinal
TW (
meningitis. diptheria, and typhus fever..
Cerebrospinal * meningitis, diphtheria, and typhus fever claimed a victim ench, and dysentery and enteric four ench. There were two deaths from puerperal fever.
fever also
Reminders
Today
H.K: Rotary Club Luncheon, Roati
Garden, HK Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
H.K. Light Orchester
The 8.047-10m converted escort
More Than 200 passengers:
A rezene lug. 1ae Pauline, was
Going home on short leave to An enjoyable evening lenk beg eleurances
mostly Chinese, disembarked at
Brom Hong Kong, the Ish of Wight by BOAC on promised members of the Kow- Saturday and was due to leave
Jong Kong when the French despatched
however, and A submune, the for Taku Buy at ni. yesterday.
tourner Champollion berthed at Seafox, went to stud by while Sunday is Mrs. Ethel Hulmes- ioon Cricket Club and *** 201 Rebts,
Brown, the General Secretary friends on Saturday, Septem- Muilers (Hong Kong) Låndled, reported.
Cowloon Wharf yesterday.
waiting the Pauline.
John's Ambulance ber 11, when the Ladies' Com Champollion,
The area wa at that time in. of St. that
and trouble prevented engine
popular long mitten holds one of its popular Jur eleparture
and operating the Me sagertes Mar-fested with pirates and the crew Brigade, yesterday
ken run betover passengers
24-hour Kong social worker.
and special donce
novelly that the vessel mary leave todas. times France-Egypt
from Marseiles į vigilance, during the three-day Mis, Halmes-Brown arrived here | functions. The Munster Castle nerived the war., cume
The natives via Saigon. She will leave today stay there,
were in August 1945 when she was Those who have seen, as well with 1,700 on August
for Shangha with Cathodie
attached to the Red Cres. Before us those who missed seeing, the Urban
CPO Council Meeting. geneal Carro from
taking up her work liere
Mrs. musical revue, **The Magis Mainla, after eveessfully Quer priests arong her passengers,
Building. 4.15 pm. Quir- During the war, the French
Holmes-Brown had seen
many Lamp
when it was produced at Oriental Mortage & Finance Cor- coming a series of setbacks dur-
153 was taken!
the
years of social welfare work
the Club de Recreio early
poration, united, Atlantic liter
King's ing ber trip from thr
British Government and served
mony parts of the world includ. month, will be ghit to hear that
Bldg., 10.30 am. and Paritic
rts to the Colony,
most of her time as a trooper in
ing India, Colombo, Manila, Bri: it will again be produced the
Union Church Women's Guild Her trip toury DET RO 117-
After
R.C.C. on September 1, bitions
the Castle the North Alrean theatre.
meeting, 10 kom. 'Werk-end arrivals from Bang-tish North Borneo, Manilu programse b
the war she rejulned 'the merean-
As at its original presentation. Line, which melues. The acquisi- } tife inpring-an-esperates nesse a krk by CPA included Mossr, N., Australia.
In Hong Kong after the war. no charge will be made for nd- the Douck, M. Bosan, N. A. Frede."
rick, K. Bout Jamanta, C. Bunya was very actively engaged in mission but a collection will be administration and help taken during the show, in aid of RAPWI ngve vessels. Incorporated in the
is Auanta, Kwee Hui. Ng Wai-yee Skippering the vessel
ed to re-establish the civillan the Rosary Church Club fund's. plans are the First technical
Monsieur Vaillant, who hands unt and Pou See-Bang, Departures for part of the Queen Mary Hospital.
The producers hope that Miss achivements
the Skanese capital were Messrs. reparthag (enrgo | #il-French crew of 240,
Holmes Lillia Xavier will have recovered Handlow. Het zorasyon
thore who embarked tober Wale and Suni Suvirit.
by Brown with the St. John Am- fully from a fractured bulance Association and Brigade then to again comediation.
yesterday were
leading take the Among the the post-Eudaldo Box Terradelius, Mons
passengers War pengene elled for the and Mme. Orteli Jose Antonie left for Manila vesterday by CPA the office of General Secretary part in the revue.
Her work did not deter her
bridge evening for all mem- resumption of The round-the-Muns. B. M. Borelio, Mons, Jean were Mr. E. Garien, Messe, from the lighter side. She has bere will be held at the Club on
eight merit. Mime, Maria Balia Osona Teanal, Ong Sing, Ramon Yullu been just as active (and pro- Thursday, September for which
21 and bi-monthly and Mons, Merendo A, Ares, Ingham, Lee Kumm and Ng Hoa,
ficient) on the local stage as in every alternate Thursday, Din- eluded in the mi sionary group
her profession. Many theatregoers ner will be served. Jardine, C.L. Bucha of Mr. en route to Shanghai from where
left the have seen and enjoyed her per On Friday, September 17, and they will be assigned to various Matheson & Ch., Ltd.
formances with the Hong Kong
every third Friday onwards, a the yesterday by Chinese towns are Fathers I. Colnay
Stare Club last season in part bridge and mah-jong drive will P. Magnan.
Lestevan. A. Psang for Whanghai, Fusan, Kure,
cockney maid be held. Cinging from n 1944 and served as a escort verneau. P. Hartmann, F. le Kobe and Yokabama on holiday Present Laughter) to the dis- carrier during the war. She was Gouvello A. Houssin, P. Beau Mr. Rocha, wie has been with tinguished nobility (Things that
after
& Co.. Lu Go Bump). ramed
pre champ). pre-wor
P. Jardine. Matheson Begincau and decessor sunk
the enemy Brunner,
than for re
30 years. was turing the war
The Champollion will return to arrested and uprisoned at Stan. Albert Mr.
Jaspann Lacey, master of the colony from the Chinese port, tey be the
chiseling the the steamship, hearts a
for his pro-Allied! crew of her last call, on her way nie to decupation 71, of whom 20 ore British France via Salgon,
The first
plumes of
world serve vessels will brude ailings.
War Service
anil ac
- The Muncaster Castle was built at Tacoma, Washington, in
il
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ifrs. The tel are
Malay ins Chinese and Indians, recruited at Singapore.
The vessel has a new super. structure and handling gear fit. 1nd into hier - hull. Sho measures 492 Teet long with a 69-foot bram. She is
is capable of
doing 17 knots at best.
The vessel's "argocnire" SysTM
Among
here
J,
Mans.
petivities.
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SWEDISH RIKSDAG
ELECTIONS
Stockholm, August 29.
who
tem is the latest innovation in Communist chances of gaining ground in Swedish`
protecting trans-ocean 'freight. It
consists of three components—
the de-humidifying unit, the
Riksdag, elections on September 19 logk ex- ceedingly slim.
Hold circulating system and the On that date, Swedes will elect 230 members of the
recording Instruments.
This system
rust, shrinkage,
*rot, suppresses warping
anu
diaròlauration. 11s main func-
lower chamber of their Parliament for a period of four years beginning from January, 1949. Pre-election soundings wor- If the elections bring a massive
tion is to reinove from the airrant the prediction that the shift to the Centre and is the of the holds the normally pre- seni excess moisture thus main- Swedish Communists will lose Conservatives, then laining a sweat-free condition.
Funeral Of
Mrs P.A.D: Birch
"Coalition
May 1940
saw Mrs
Awards To HK Medical Students
London, Aug. 29. Twe young medical men from Hongkong have been awarded exceptional honours as a result of their studies during the past year in Edinburgh and London respec- tively.
The Edinburgh student is Dr. Man-hung who has been painted to the post of house Department of surgeon at the Medicine at Edinburgh.
Mr. Mol Wing-yiu, who has been
the attending
London
has
0
at least half of their 14 seats Cabinet between the Social De-School of Tropical Medicine and
mucruts and the Centre is most Hygience and In the present Assembly.
secured The question whether the elec- probable, with either the Liberal diploma, has been awarded the or the Peasant | Duncan Medal. This is given an- tion result will produce a Cab-People's Party
key on the Social Party pecupying inet crisis hinges.
posts of nually to the best student for the Democrat showing. If seats tiny economy and finance.--Reuter. {are expected to gain from the Communista are nufotent to make
The funeral of Mrs. Pauline up for Ilkely losses to the Centre Árinatrude Danby Birch, who parties, the Social Democrat ab-
dled us the Queen Mary Hospla Rolute
majority In the Becond
on August 20 after a short illness, chamber would be maintained, took
place at the Colonial well as the right to a one-
Cemetery yesterday.
Mrs. Birch was the wife of Mr.
party Cabinet.
But there is widespread "dissa-
Bernard G. Birch. M.A., Render tisfaction among the rank and in English at the Univeralty of file of Sweden with the Social Hong Kong:
The service at the chapel and Democrat Government'à handling
at the gravcaide, which was con- of the country's economy, ducted by Dean Rose, was allend.
The provaleht -charge le that
the Government has been dia.
assets to the- alpating foreign point where the Importation of vital raw materials, must now be curtalled, bringing prospect of large-scale Damployment
The
μπ
ed by a large number of friends. Among thona present wêre Profesor and Mrs. R. K. M. Simpson, Professor R. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. L. G, Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Vagnone, Mr. Chan Kwan-po, Mr. B. If, Church, $280,000,000 trade credit to Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Mr. H, AS Lammert end any othem, the Soviet Union may also be That husband was the chler bold staat phe Government by Eamurtier
امله حمید شد مو
Swedish voters.
year.
SALE Commencing
To-Day, 31st Aug.
LADIES' AMERICAN DRESSES & SHOES
TO CLEAR AT, BELOW COST!
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SEAMAN REMANDED
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Li Ah-shu, 36-year-old man, was remanded for a week by Mr. inishing Lo at Central yesterday, on a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
The complainant, Ko Sau, was at in hospital suffering from collia fracture, explained Inspec
rehearsal, -270, Robinson Rd, m Bridge Drive, European YMCA,
West Lounge. 8 p.m. Netherlands Consul-General re- ception for Dutch Commua- ity: Captains and crew Dutch
H.K. whips,
Hotel. 6.30 p.m.
Tor
Coming Events
TOMORROW
f
# Club meeting, Talbut. House, Macdorel Toad, 8.34 p.m.
THURSDAY
Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon.
Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
Assocla- H.K. Hotel Residents
Peninsula
tion medinig. Hotel, 9.15 p.n. Y's Men's Club luncheon, Roof Garden, H.K. Hotel, 12,45 p.m.
Islamic
FRIDAY
Union annual general meeting. Cemetery Mosque, G.45 p.m.
SATURDAY
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