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THE CHINA MAIL;" TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,~ 1049.
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Chinese Army Personnel In Uniform Banned From Entering Colony
Reminders
Today
HK Rotary Club, luncheon, Roof
Garden, Hong Kong Hotel. 12.30 pan.
Didge Prive (for civilians and Sercemen) Europeun YMCA, 23 33.251.
p..
Hong Kong Light Orchestra and Singers Rehearsal, Main Banking Hull, Hong Kong 'Shanghai Booking Corp., 0.45 Jong "Kong Chinese Amateur Swimming Association Cliam- pienship
Futais ht Chung Shing Bathing Pavilion, Kumedy Town, 30 p.m.
Mohica
Coming Events
TOMORROW
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completo ban is now placed on the sñtry of Chinose military personnel into the Colony, while they are in uniform, unless they have previously been granted permission by Hong Kong Government.
the
The restriction does not apply where entrants ar-
rive here in civilian clothes.
This ban, which has been In la enpeitty ns Immigration
boo enforced on Chinese military OMeer, said the power
military per- personnel arriving here by entry to Chinese steamer for some months past,sonnel was not new, but had not has since the last few days been enforced to the full until necessitated its further extension, been extended to arrivals by circumstances air,
A Chinese lieutenant Colonel. who arrive? from Canton by CNAC plane on Sunday evenin wes the first affected by the ban. He was not allowed to enter the Cotmy and was handed over to CNAC n be taken on to Formosa, his ultimate destination, the nest morning.
(Servicemen Lessons free), European YMCA, p.m.
To club meetingt 50. Muc-
donnet Roadt, 8.30 pln." Grand Casting Meeting, European
YMCA, 8.30 pa
Chines Manufacturers" Union Press reception, China B124kel- Jag. 3 p.m.
THURSDAY
Barnstormers variety show for troops, European YMCA, #
p.m. Kowloon Rotary Club Luncheon, Peninsta Hotel, 12.30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Olinto de Sousa. Subject: Colour Blindness. Y's Men's Club, luncheon, Root Gorden, HK Hotel, 12.45 p.m.
FRIDAY
Members' Council meeting Euro-
pean YMCA, 6 pan.
HK Light Orebestra Singers re- hearsal, St. John's Cathedral hall, 7 pm.
MALMEDY TRIAL SCANDAL
Interviewed by the "Chint Mail." the Commissioner of Police.
Malayan Reds Awaiting Outside Help
(Continued from Page 1) Declaring that this study was not before time, the paper warns that "not for much longer can the barrier
against Communism
Asta remain o barrier of words.
No Discrimination
He denied that application of the ban to military personnel of Chinese nationality only wa discriminatory. He sald exer- cise of the ban was dictated en- thely by circumstances.
It was first brought to force same months ago when Chiness roldiers from the North arived in Hong Kong in shiploads. Others came over from the border.
Military
personnel other
of entering the Colony
nationalli
from
were e
while soitiers few. China, be reason of her proximi ty and thr cireurastances of the civil war.
Ce of the would be swarming into the Colony, in huge numbers unless there was some restriction.
Two Hong Kont Delonge Force trainees are shown manoeuvring a T-16 gun carrier in
the Naw Territories under the watchful eyes of Army officers.("China Mal photo)
Another Ship
University Students Japs Returning Drive Gun Carriers In HKDF Training
Eight University students, all members of the Hong Kong Defence Force, passed their final tests driving T-16 tank-track gun carriers in the New Territories yesterday.
It was difcult to apply the Bar only to soldiers, and so it was de- cided that it should apply to all, officers and men, irrespective of
in immediate charge in rank, unless special permission to enler in uniform was Orst db-
In a few months, the conquest | tained from the Hong Kong Gdy- of China will be complete andernment. then Red armies will be poised an The Immigration Officer greed new and vulnerable frontiers be- that if the soldiers wanted to yond which lies South East Asin, enter Hong Kong, all they need with its riches of rice, tin anul rub-do was to discard their uniforms, ber, the paper says, adding that "But," he said, "at least we would though Mno Tac-tun is not really
not have the spectacle of hots of
in a position to wage war outsidemen in ragged uniten. In die Chinn, behind him stands Stalin street begging and otherwise im and that's phother matter,
The paper continues: "We still posing themselves on the public." think of Russia as being thousands of miles away. So it is geographi- eally. Politically and military, Russia marches forward behind the front-line of Mao's troops. Where they stand, there starids Russin.
"Soviet armies can be masked on' the frontièrs of Indo-China, Burma and india. With little more effort they eat move into. Siam. Proposterous? Not at all. Troops, Munich. September 4.
artillery and armour'can be mov- The United States Senute ed by rail from Moscow to Canton Sub-Committee investigating} "Air
transport, bombers and allegations that confessions fighters can fly without fear of were extracted from Germans being molested to bases prepared
Anniversary Of Benes' Death
Paris, September 5. Czechoslovakia's Communist-led Government paid tribute to the memory of former Presl
today dent Eduard Benes on the first anniversary of his death.
Although the anniversary pass Government-controlled morning
Sergeant D. Ryde, who is of the
student group which has been training for three weeks, said that the students would form a nucleus which would train about 30
more gun-carrier drivers.
The students had completed training in about half the normal time required to teach recruits to be qualified sirivers.
RACKETS' COST TO BRITAIN
London, September 4. A cellar and attic black mor- ket in jewellery and old gold is costing Britain £1,000,000 a year, the Government, says.
To Panama · Another ship to be return- ed to the Republic of Panama by the Japanese Government arrived here yesterday from Keelung.
The ceremony of handing over the s.s. Isina Visayas will probably be held today in Kowloon Bay.
Both nations will be represented master of the freighter, BY, the most
amanian Consul in Hong Kong, respectively.
The I-las Visayas was seized by the Japanese at Amoy In 1941 and taken to
Waters Japanese where she was utilized by the Japanese for the intra-islands trade and the East Indies.
She has a Japanese crew of 20, who will be shipped back to Japan shortly after the hand- ing over.
be rvealed that only It may recently another Panamanian ship,, the sa. Rantona, was handed over to the Republic.
Tentu passed by the students
Geneva, September 5. were
quick turns, manojuvring I1 published a report of a
The International Refugee Or- over eight-foot drops, and steep group it set up, eight months ago climbing. In addition, the recruits to Investigate evasions of the 100ganisation will move 18,133 dis- had to be able to repatr. broken per cent purchase tax on jewel-placed persong to the United Sta tank trucks, and make simple ery. repairs to the carrier's engine.
This report said hundreds of They have been training with jewellery manufacturers and the Middlesex regiment four days "repairers" were working In a week for the past three weeks, hide-outs, many of them in cel- and during the university term, are and attles of private they said that they would help houses. train new
recrafts one day a work
The UKDF will have more than 35 T-16 gun
carriers, and the
by torture will begin its hear-long in advance. It has alreadyed without comment from the whole of the Defence force would
Inga here tomorrow..
been reported that Russian tech-
Their products are sold secret- ly without tax,
nicians are extending "air lines" press, the official Czechoslovak be under the active military com- all manufacturing jewellers ra Bin Communist China. Le
They will enquire into Malmedy trials Nazi
of
Storm troopers convicted of shooting 500 American soldiers who had surrendered during the battle of the Bulge in Belgium in 1944.
An American military court sentenced 43 of the accused 10 and -July 10, 1948, un sentenced 21 to Ife imprison »
menth ment.
All but six subsequently had their death sentences commuted. The Investigation was ordered after allegations and been made that confessions were forced from the Germans by physical brutality and mock trials.
of the hearings, scope which will be conducted here, at Pricon and other
The
Landsberg
prisons where persons convicted in the Maintedly trial are being detained, in restricted to the cog- duel of the pre-triul investiga tions, trial preliminaries and the preedure of the trials then kelves.
Long Stretch.
The news agency. Ceteka, sald
news agency aid wreaths from Communist President. Kidment "Mr. Churchill once describ-Gottwald and other Government #d the Russians * and leaders were placed on Dr. Benes animals.", He meant that they grave at Sezimovo Usti. fight well on land. Well, Its onë long stretch of land from Mos-that wreaths were also placed by Frontlack Komsala, Chairman of cow to Singapore.”. Questioning what assets the free the National Assembly, on behalf peoples of South East Asin havn of that group, and by the Premier, against this missing Communist Zdenek Fieringer, for the gov- might, the paper says: "Their com ernment,' bined manpower is only a fraction bf time in Russia and China. Such armiles as exist are show-pieces
"They have no military indus Many peasants from Sezimovo trica. Every bullet and every piecesti flocked past Dr. Benes' grave rétnambraneé: Associated of equipment has to be triparted In
Furthermore, Press from the Wast. what few military resources South East Asia has are rapidly being
expended in civil war. Nor is South East Asia united."
manders in an emergency,
Ex-King In Bristol
Bristol, September 4. Ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, told more than 2,000 of his coun- trymen here today to wait until The city of Prague and the Cze- the time cama for the. Hboration choslovak Army sent forat tri-or their Communist-dominated country and put their faith in the Western Powers.
butes.
Bathing Tragedy: 12 Dead
"It is a grin and disturbing pic- In conclusion, the paper says: tute. While we face an enemy working to plan, we ourselves have none at all. Wè hug Instead Taking part in the hearings, those petty Nationalisms (and co- expected to last until mid-Sep-lonialisms) that make us weaker
Cologne: Septembêt ·3; tember, are Senators Raymond than ever by keeping us apart.
Twelve school girls were drowned E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, who "There are algun that Britain this afternoon while bathing in a in bending the group, Estes and American have been jolted pool near Berghhausen in the Kefauver, of Tennessee, and Les- into awareness of what is happen- Rhineland. The pool, which had ter C. Hunt, of Wyoming-Reuing in the East, but the speed of been constructed for industrial aelion has been painfully slow purposes was marked with warn- and counsels still seem to be dividing signs that it was not suitable
મા,
for bathing. "For while MacDonald and Mac- In spite of this, a whole class Arthur talk in Tokyo, Dean of school girls with their teacher Acheson in Washington still is ran into the water holding hands, toying with the idea of reedgnis- On the slippery bottom, some of ing Moo. There is no future in the children lost their balance and this kind of shilly-shallying. Our dragged others after them
into future iles in being strong, united deep water where they were and prepared.
ter.
BANDIT WAR IN SICILY
Palermo, Sicily, September 5. The Italian police today switch ed, their campaign against tho bandit "king" Salvatore Giuliano, by striking at his "fifth column" of sympathisers, to cut off his in- telligence and supply pipelines.
They arrested an unspecified number of people, who were idén-
drowned
Surrender Entouraged There were 18 gitis in the party and all went into the water.
Sir Henry Gurney, High Com- Their teacher collapsed from ext missioner for Malaya,, said today haustion after trying to save that Malayan terrorists,
who them. have no blood on their handa" The pool is in a lonely spot and to surrender it was sometime before help ne- withbut fear of
rived. Rescuers were able to re- vive only four of the 16 girls-- Reuter.
tified as "friendly" with Giuliano, are to be execution.
who for months has defied the Government forces from the rocky fastnesses of, his Mantelpre hide- out. Reuter.
He told a press conference that MINTY of the Communists In the Jungles were looking for ways of fresing
themselvas from the cintchee of the bandit leaders
Athens, September 4. The Greek Government today"For this reasons, the bmergency extended official recognition to the
laws have now been amended, he Government of South Korea, it, so that way, persons who Forel Ofice spokesman an- have
nounced-Reutar
TOWEL SET.
been guilty of carrying arma or of consorting with the bandits may. FLOW:
GENERAL KIRKË-
DEAD
Carlisle, September. 5, General Sir Walter,M: SL
མ་་ George Kirke, 72 died in a hospi
Peter was deprived of his Throne by the Yugoslav Constitu- ent Assembly in 1945.
Cries of "Zevos" (Long Live the King) greeted the bayith-look ing former Monarch and his wife, the former Queen Alexandra, as they entered a Bristol cinema for ceremonies
marking their count try National Day And Poter's
being without fear tal here on Friday night aftêr bes"]
Sir Hent
this
The people of
ing taken Ilf on board a train... -General Kirke retired from the
are determined that Army In 1940 after a career capp-
› received, in tovely colors and Abantata: shall hed by appointment; as Comman
atti boxed towel.
Just
the
26th birthday next Tuesday.
# variety programme In Serbian, which followed the ex-King's speech, he and his wife New to France..
der-in-Chibimit the Bertila Homp | With the least possible Forces in 1939. He was Aide-de- designa, 16, please" any receipient, delay and that the resources in Camp General to the King: from
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THE EVERGREEN
500, Mathan.Mos
men child muney think, are being 1037 to 1940. Associated Fremu. alivation to this purpose rahuld Vecome, avadáble for, constructive
On the Tailla;
·Catfo, September
The Laynila Governadatab
|night decided
to local cotion milla
of leading.wdaving.
from, tomb
This morning, the
Queen Mother Marle and her other sons, Princes Tomislav and Andrel, at tended a Thanksgiving Service at the ancient St. Mary Redcliffe Church here. Bowler
The Counell recommended that
gister as a Arst step in beating the racket, a spokesman said.
"The trade has known for a
tima 1. long
that this black market was going on and how it was operated," he said.
information "We are passing. obtained from members to the Customs and Excise oficials for investigation."-Associated Press.
TRAIN SMASH
IN SWEDEN
Stockholm, September 4, Three men and two women were killed and 10 other people injured when the Stockholm-Narvik ex- press crashed into the back of a stationary fron-ora train today.
The Iron-öre train had stopped through engine trouble four miles South of Gaellivare, on the line connecting Lulong. Northern Sweden,, with the Norwegian At- lantic port of Narvik,
Several of the express coaches, including the dining car, were de molished. Rescue trains sent from Kuruna and Boden.- Rouler.
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