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MARCH 20,
TARMY ENGINEERS LEAVE
THEIR MARK IN NT
Personalia
Messrs, K. H. McLanahan, P. Harris, M., Emerson, L N. T. Hau, J. T. Hầu, -and T. H. Ton left Hong Kong for Bangkok yesterday by CPA.
Messrs. C. D. Belto, T. T. Lee, A. Birmingham, II. K. Cowa, and N. K. Jhajharin...... were among those who left for Rangoon by CPA yesterday.
| For dißh gik komt háy, Chaéla: Commißnftk?¥ölcü§/«
· have babir pr Hong Kong borders; and” the- tensions which this Colony once felt for its.. security) have bðan reliövba
A ̈
permanent reduction of more than 2,000 troups:
is ample evidence of the confidéfice which the British military have in the Colony's future. Yesterday, a "China Mail* In the border ohb, Now Ter- reportér mado a brief tour of ritories police remojn, in, charge. the New Territories to observe
Registration of all Chinese In the defence activity, see how the border zone, begun seven the military had handled the months ago is now complete.
Cook's Bridge, the main road geographical problems involv-route to Chinn, is still the scene ed in establishing a successful or a steady stream of Chinese defence, if it should ever be traders pussing to and from Hong necessary, and to note the pro-Kong with their wares, usually gress of the military dince the carried in small wicker baskets. Just Tour, six months ago. Only half a dozen border police are normally on guard at the border, outpost, and mat for six months has a serious horder. Int cident been reported.
Departures from the Peninsula Hotel on Monday included Mr. and Mrs. R.R. Derrick, Mr..ant Mrs. H.V. McLaughin, Mr. ani Mis C. Nolasco, Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Dyer, Mesta. G. Stern, G.T. Hicks, D.S. Ponges, J. Ferrell, H
In 1941, when the Japanese at- Smell, E.S. Bush, J.R. Marcillacked, Hong Kong lacked a CL Meyer, F.W. Allen, R.H. suprembey, tid had sahly, 8000
Karchar, W. Barker, and H. de troops ngaihet. 40;000" attacking at Tak, and Auster observation
Barro Pereira.
Japanese.
Among the new arrivals at the overrun.
In 17 days the Colony war. Peninsula Hotel on Monday were
Today,
the garrison his air Mr. and Mrs. G. C. D. Carter. supremacy, sea supremacy, and Colonel and Mrs. T.W. Clarke, more than 30,000 well-trained Messrs. T.S. Chambers, K. Pul- troops. ford-Davis, D. Morrison; A.R. Jones and M.O. Liddell.
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During the past six months in the Now Territories, troops hav- been trained in every type of Mesin, K.R. Quick, R.G. Ful- combat, Including dophilblair ler, A. Tagore, B.3. Mim Gil, landings, air-ground support and the Rev. Fr. P.E. Lachapelle arith the vital technicalities of 'com Mrs. L.N. Beyer-Vishnowsky leftmunications. Hong Kong Tientsin yesterday by the ss. Hangyang.
Army camps, which sprung uf Dyernight on teruggy Knbus and unlikely looking hillrides months
o accommodarite rein-
ngo to
Among those who left for Yoke-forcements, are now spotted with hama yesterday by BOAC were permanent buildinke, and more. Mr. and Mrs. G. Colonel
Every day, nghter planes trden
plança makë routine fight of the'; New Territories hich maintain. ing à war-time vigilonce,
Picture shows top, of Titań Jeep track in New Territories. The Jeep track, which has been constructed during the past five months, la merõ than 4,000 yårde tong and sk£ends to the top of
a 1,200 foot hill. ("China? Mail” Photo).
Traffic accident
A public vehicle, a tram and
No article could give an over- nil picture of the total prepara- ions taking place in the Now Territories today, but one thing is quite certain from yesterday s tour, the military is COMVIRUKA that the “situation In A Ti là Coca Cola truck were involv- hand.”
Ed in a traffic accident a few
inutes after 9. a.m. yester Why at the function of Des. Voeux Road Central and Ped-
Refugees
move to
and Mrs. T. Clarke, Messrs. NF important, mugned by troope whe new home
know the New Territories terrair Wabb, C. Brown, G.R. Barnes, from countless patrols and exer
Talbot, and K. Branderburgh.
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cises
Mer Street.
Both the public vehicle No. 1967 and the truck No. HK5176 attempted to cross Pedder Street towards Wanchal bs the green 1ght came on.
ΚΑΙ ΤΑΚ TOPICS
Revenue officers
Injunction on Liberty ship removed
Singapore; March 28. The Singapore High Court yesterday uncovered yet another Ing the Liberty ship Hat Stan at Kal Tak today set aside a writ restrula- intars by which gold is being from leaving Singapore. The illegally brought into the Colony writ had been obtained by the
Suspleton led the Revenue off- United States Consul-General curs tó brónk'open' six tins of in Singapore, condensed milk among the per- He had clutched. the Hai Suare- As the two vehicles continued Fonal effects of a Chinese passen and other vessels were sold by breast; they met an
encoming Her arriving at Kal Tak yester the United States to the Chinese
day from Manila.
of about US$19,000,000 under this
No,, B11' (85), going West- wards. The Coca Cola truck was
In one of the tins a gold banglo Nationalist Government In 1947 Samimed between the public weighing sonte, five tacks was dis- and 1948, but there was a defalit
covered after the milk had been payment. vehicle and the trem, rear left of the truck; damaged. session of gold, told the officers ports to prevent their mudguard was dented and the had previously denied any pos- dered legal
The public vehicle's rear right poured out. The owner, who His Government therefore or The front part of the truck which that he knew nothing of the gold This was "to protect the interse foreign
The section of Po Yan Street outside the Tang Wan Where there were no roads six Hospital presented a scene of in combat in the hills, there aM 2,000 refugees from China who months ago for supplying troop activity yesterday which ove now concrete roads spiralling upd been given refuge in the high hills and rocky parapets.
officers time canfe into
Lieutenant Color: H. Scaris brick. Colonel R. A. A. Bryford, Squadron Lender IV. Smith Squadron Leader E.V, Mosse, Messrs. M. Zunelti, J. Reynell,
Amy of call-the-road hospital to their new home in F. W. Hamilton, and Miss D.M. of the vital communications neces-Victoria Street. Slinger left for Singapore byressary in an emergency/ BOAC yesterday.
Departures for the United Kinglom yesterday by BDAC in-: cluded Captain
F.A. Balance, Colonel H.T. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. G. Carter, Messrs. J. Find-. later, T.W. Scott, W.J. Keswick and B. Nesa,
Failure to file
annual returns
7
The onginoors
The' building which they? how! sccupy was formerly & Barracks and has stood empty for a long tline. Typical of the all-out efforts The removal began at 9.30 am. of the Royal Engineers in the yesterday and continued rough- 'construction ` Wörk' Is 'The 24ft out the day... Alded by the Po-i Field Engineer Regiment; whe tire
have
bah Búllang #jedi-
Weston Station at the
tracks" up 1,200 and 1:300 foot 3,000 or more persons were taken thefr destination in difts tha
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hills since last Autumn In charge of the
realmehti Col. E.F.R. Black; he said yes rodds had "only begun," but the
Between
tracks quietly and efficiently. Those who were able to on foot did so aid the last
feedby that the buliding, of these lett the hospital at about
maken
*4pm.
was also inmaged, one of the
""with the train | In the millic?
head-lamps heing, torn off. The tram suntered slight dents.
netion in
Both East and West tráme was
The civil aviation community as der held up for about 10 minutes Kal Tak will soon lose a chart-to the Communist regime. while the three vehicles were ing irlend and colleague in Mrs. belig untangled.
of the United States under" defaulled mortages which it holds on the versels," following the defection of some of their crew
The Chier Justlet, Mr. Murray N. C. Begley of Jardine Airways. Anyaley, ming judgment said he The lady will be leaving for was not satisfied at the mercant
where her
that the ship was husband, piso of
the property Jardines, is being ifransferred to of the former government of Yokohama. Mrs. Begley Jolnctif China as distinct from a corpora- Rich wholly or almost wholly Jardine's in March last year and La particularly noted for her worl owned by int government.
The
ship was registered hand
part Talwan _which is legally lings. Jardine's are agents for the French airline. Treldentally apparently under the control of of the Japanese Empire, and not Mrs. Begicy is French and comes the recognised governinent of. from Allers.
Chine,, sild the dodge-Reuter,
CAT's Tokyo to/2
Singapore run Air France's pafsunger
floor, and Rs director, Mart Tao- cipitous "Titan" hill, and the new discarded raw mate and auguroreth Intermediate stop treddy wlto® arrived"lite Colony ] nault's airline shortly will in-mumily leaving soon is Mr. Tóth
other rubbish.
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Tokyo, March 28, A Civil Air Transport survey beginning is very impressive: Immediately after the last perplade pached Haneda today t
son Kid left, the hospital carried blaze the way.
for a regula The China Trust Company, Lim!- 1st, the 17 October and January but a general string 'eleasing,ˇahdi Tokyo-Singapore service.
11 Field Squburan built aj ted, 297 Wing Lok Street, second fair weather "Jeep truck up re- had a busy time curling away
the Sanitary Department vins Major General Claire L. Chen Another of the Kal Tak com-
heng, brought up on elghat sum concrete road will be completed monies for falling to file annual, by April 1, returns for 1947, 1948 and
The 64th Field Squadron did 1049
The returcos will still be taken two cities with meeting for 1040, were aned à own catip in "Blicy" afld the plal authorities until arrange total of $1,500 by Mr. James 56 Field Squadron built the 5,100ments can be made for hele re- Wicks
at Kowloon yesterday" yards Robin's Nest ven track turn to China or elsewhere. Mr. A. S. C. Comber picaded which rises 1,200 feet, also, in re- guilty on behalf of the defendants cord time, on March 22,
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between flic Bready, Traffe Superintendent)
for Pan American Airways, MP)
transferred to
and failing to hold getteral well with the construction of that care of by the Tung› Wán Hớc" en route at Talpch, Hong Kon. (or IPAA is
On four similar summonses. the Kader-Indiistriaf Company. King's Road, North Point, and lis director: Ting - Hsiu-chno, fined a total of $750. Mr. D. B. Evans represented the defend-
dant
were
bully construction teams have adores of Bailey bridges, culverte, water supply systems; levelled
high grounds and con- structed sports grounds through- out the entire aros. Materipla for the jeep-
tracks.
BRITISH COUNCIL
FILM SHOW
This week the British Counell presenting a programme on Engineöring for the Him thow at
and
Bangkok.
Eleven company ofetuls headed the Sun
ancisco
Housewife charged
int
office. 'His Li Mul, 30-year-old house- by Jou Rosbert, CAT operations, place Here will be taken over by wife, was charged before' Már: engined Douglas Skymaster on it Mr. A. N. Richards ("Paddy") Hin-shing Lo at Central yes
terday with possession of six formerly, of the RAF survey flight.-Associated Press: -
A lent addition to PAA, Is Mr. bars of gold weighing" 38 tack Tony da Costa formerly with and valued at HK$7,106," a CPA, who joined Part American' 361, Des Voeux-Road, Central, Traffle Department-recinifly,
first floor, on Monday.
די
rector, were aboard the four Urban Council meeting
the Helena May Institute. at 5:38 Mr. J. C. Metoudit, newly Company, 84 which have been built have all pm tomorrow. It will be Intro-appointed Acting Secretary for
duced
been
Lap,stinded up the Hills from in King, Lecturer Chinego Affairs, nitended the
pits
The Luk Hop Wink Lok Street, and Yu director, were fined $100 on two Chinese coolies by the hundreds
and stores miles AWAY of Hong summonses for failing to zive have been employed to mix the
The
Thief gets
four months flots
notice of a change of address and concrete and carry the sand in detai Arat tum reviews in somes an Omelal Member of the Constable on patròi Tesulted' the cabo till tomorrów whichṣwan'
failing to file an annual return.
Inspectors J. Orem and J.. H. Evans prosecuted.
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for
She pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession of aliquan- tity of gold "while not being";a ̈ dealer and having no permill contrary, to the Defence Regula at the Univerally fortnightly Urban Council meet-
Revenue Inspector L. Milling Ing. yesterday for the first Ume
The vigilance of a Pollte ton asked the Court to remball the invention and develop- Council. wicker baskets up the hills.
The meeting ment of the steam engine; explain-
granted. unanimdilsly re- in the appearance of Lau Immediately in charge of this Ing the
Inspector Millington also spo different purposes for fused three applications. Kwan, aged 25, before, Mr. cessfully applied berdre. Mr. Hin contruction is Major Batey, of the which it has been used through rude, restaurant and foodshop Hin-shing Lo et Central yer shing La for the confiscation of
Ho yesterday, that many as sild the you be followed by a brief Jicences. The premises of two of terday charged with larceny 2030 thels of oplum found on HK ART CLUB
applicants were "not have been employed on film on the steam turbine, that
of clothing valued at HK$880 March 23: road at otse Bio-an feston tutilence, the Council ruled
the case of the from No. & Sünning Road,'fist |
He said that the in
oplum The monthly exhibition of the frication of the efforts made by origin and history of the modern the Western Market, about 120 floor, on Monday
found by Revenue Officers in he Hong Kong Art Club opens at the military to complete the job
No. 1 hold of the as Choy Bang yards from the applicant's'pika- 10 am, today at St. Joha'i Cathe--and that the road now would
Lau pleaded guilty and was I was found-hidden' on the part dral Hall.
withstand the heavy rains and
The programme concludes with miles, is sufficient to serve the sentenced to four monilis.
elde between the decks under they Delective Sub-Inspector' R. G. occasional typhoons of the Colony: am on the principle of trans-ce of the population in the
lochilty.
Bald that Police Constable
tarpaulin: Lauret He added that not one modern mission of rotary motion
1012, Lo Kwel-zing Was patrolt- ethanical device was used in
Ing Jardine Road near Sunning Jeep track cdhstfuttion, saying
Road at about 8:30 4.m. Hơ BAW As usual, a section is devoted that British troops tuught the coolies the simple Jobs of retient
and became suspicious. Ashb the defendant carrying a basket to works by children,
miking and dry-storewalling, The pictures will be on view and then supervised the labour,
'approached, the defendant" "rah for two days, and admission is while performing the more do
London, March 28. but after a short chase was Princess Elizabeth left het by chuglit freé.
tailed requirements,
On view will be a number of paintings, in oil and watercolour which were completed last month by members of the Club.
FORTHCOMING WEDDING
Gaspar, Filomeno Remedios, of 114 Argyle Street, Kowloon, and Miss Lydla Sarah Silva, of the Hong Kong Bank Flats "C" have announced their forthcomin wedding.
Combat training
atcamship.
FRESH FISH"
PRICES
ELIZABETH LEAVES FOR MALTA
BODIES OF RAP MEN RECOVERED
Bingapore, March 26 The bodies of two RAF (then;" *reported' · missing whenian mes?! air today at 9.83 GMT for Malta Taken to the Police Station and plosion sank a Sunderland IDE where she will spend about six searched the basket was found to boat, nibored at Seletar nyink hout Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh and a locket the Police the this afterno prideks with her husband Prince contilh four suits," "an": "¥* 27#k] Pattuk, homing Stag nayon SERT
bare on Marhe 20, were reover
will be buried
rich Bin "Keverőke „prjón, trallied at the Hong Kon 'Fith 5 bách Mark Kenhedy Towk; ̈yutth¥ddy", "wird zum
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110
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Within two past file months, troops: in: tha" Now: Territories Ungu. Přih hyvä teen 'obnoentrating on in- Snapper dividual combat training, after Golden Thread having completed intensive dubt group: mandevres and combed lead (large) blhed exerolate another in Confr Phot dication of the standard of Red Sch Diam (large) ↑ L13- training they have reached, Hat Talli
NEW
PARKER
FINEST EN AT A MEDIUM
to
aboard, an aircraft of the King defendant admitted that he had
Thy Princess who is travelling Questioned Flight, is expected to arrive, it stolen the
pinita plate today. This is the grazing pending frding No.1 DA
Princess's soconă, visit, in, ax
first hoory/He Gillett The
amolilne to Mala where her faval had gained admittance through barbully would
Imabarid, 'Is stationed' ds Firstrandal window.
falutenant heard the destroyer
nited Press.
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Detenuant to the Court that:
the "Ward wiltär enipildydd by the
Economie. Canteen in: Canali Street. He had arrived from Canton about a'mbuth ̈ægbių“
MORE GRENADES IN SAIGON
.
reported
War
Inquiry Anto the
SPRAY
the 'moderE
„repsilent, Lamich