THE CHINA: MAIN, SATURDAY, AUG
PANAMANIAN VESSEL'S CARGO SEIZED BY KMT
Mr. Chen Li-fu descending from a Philippine Air Lind Aircraft at Kai Tak yesterday. ("China Mai!" photo).
Chen Li-fu
passes
through HK
Seme 1,800 tons of cotton, medical supplies and tyres - part of the 2,700 tons of general cargo destined for Tsingtao and Tientsin, loaded on the ss. Porico in Hong Kong - ware sqized by Nationalist naval authorities at Baka Island Pascadores, on the allegation that they wora meant for military purposes for the Com munists.
Captain N. Norvalls, of the Panamanian freighter, which returned to port yesterday after being detained at the Nationalist naval base since. mid-July, further disclosed that he would report to the Hong Kong authorities, includ- ing the Panamanian Consulate, on the de tention of his ship and seizure of the cargo.
Three Nationalist naval craft a transport, an LSM and a LST --- came alongside the Perica and took the 1,800 toni of cargo away to an un- known dealination.
Recalling his experience, Chler Officer H. C. Chen of the Perico said that the ship elenred for Tientsin via Tsingtao on July 10 from Hong Kong with 2,700 tons of general cargo, including 5,000 bags of raw cufton and a quantity of sulphur.
The Perico was shadowed by the Nationalist gunboat Yung Shun during the night of July 11. "We were stopped at dawn the following day," Mr. Chen said.
heavily. "Under the circumstances, we could do nothing but prolesi helplessly. The coolies kept on working despite the downpour," he added.
The Portco was released on August 2 All the ship's papera and transmitters were returned.
The following day, we were checked by a Nationalist aircraft which flew low over us and only left after a good check-up," Mr. Chien duclared.
Giving his impressions of the Nationalists, Captain Norvals
Batch:
They are a quaer sort, For example, the officers declared that the sulphur cargo we had aboard was meant for military purpose' and would be seized," he recalled.
Mr. Chen Li-fu, member of Under escort the Perico wast the Kuomintang 'Senior Advi- taken to the Pervadoros Islands
Group,
"I explained that the sulphur sory
passed through roup and detained at saku In- on his way tend naval base where the Shapur was to be used in match factories. Hong Kong Switzerland abourd a Philip-arrival of the Perico. (The Shapur added.
was held a few days before the but they would not llatin," ha pine Air Line aircraft yester-was released and returned here The funny part of it, Captain day.
earlier this week).
Norvalls asserted, was that the "En route to the Pescadores, officers did not touch any part of Mr. Chen is going to Switzer- we sneaked out a radio message the sulphur. "We still live the and to attend the Morul Rearma Wallern and Company Inform-whole lot aboard now," the skip ment Conference. He was ace them of our fate," Mr. Chen her satel companied by his wife, daughter aid. That mesange was pleked Things were quite expensive at
up by the Nationalists.
and son,
From Switzerland, Mr. Chen plans
to visit other parts of Europe and perhaps America, Mr. Chen said that he is not decided when he will return to Taiwan.
In custody The ship's papers and radio transmitters were taken aahora. The Chief Officer and the com- pradore were also held. In que tody ashore. Communist, why I joined the "They asked me whether I was he said, was to study social pro- salp and whether the Perleo wast blems of foreign countries.
ship before," Mr.
His purpose in visiting Europe, in
Asked whether he will visit Chen
Generni Li Tsung-jan, one time Acting President of China who now in the United States, Mr. Chen said that he had not yet
deelded.
UNEMPLOYED SENTENCED
Found guilty on a charge of larceny
by trick, Kwong To- yuen, unemployed, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour and recommended for banishment by Mr. F. X. l'Almada at Kowloon yesterday.
It was stated that defendant stole US$1,740, a gold bar and two lengths of serge cloth from a married woman, Chiu Tse-mei, of 20 Hankow Road, on the pru mize of profitable returns. De- fective Sub-Inspector B. A Newman prosecuted.
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals
Chines
recalled. The other
ineinbers of the crew were not permitted to land Captain Nervalls, who is the onl throughout the three-week detan. European aboord, stayed on board
the naval base. The gatley pur- sonnel were allowed to ge ashore now and then to purchase food- stuffs.
which cost us the equivalent of "We bought 1,100 cattles of rice, 1KS480. In Taiwan money, tint cost $670," Captain Norvalis sald.
Perico crew's Bako island adventure
Sixty Chinese members of of the Panamian freighter Perica were court
crew
};
A group of five Amerloah newspaper delivery boye pazand through, Hong Kong on their way back to the U.S. by Pan American World' Airways' yasterday. The bays, between the gam of 13 and 17, are touring the world on a sightseeing and educational, trip. sponsored by tran American newspapers. Photo shows four of the boys reading copies of the "Ch]ha Mail? at'the' Kal Tak passengers? waiting room while waiting for an airiles to Manila: ("China Mall” photo.)
U.S. newspaper
Reminders delivery boys on world trip
Today
Chicero Services Club, tombola,
7.30 p.m. NAAFI Club; tombola, 7.30 p.m. Nine Dragons Services Club,
tombola, 7.30 pin. 31schigan Alumni Club of Hong
Kong, summer re-union utal launch excursion;
Flower Day in aid of the Precipus
Blood Orphanage,
Coming events
J
TOMORROW Posthumous award of Boy Scouts Cornwall Badge 10 Yue Chung-itwong, Morse Ilut, 5.30
p.m.
Kowloon Bowling Green Club, Golden Jublico, colebration, 4.30 pho,
MONDAY
French Society of Literature and Art, plana recital by Louiso Mayer Roof Garden; HK Hotel, 9 pm. European YMCA, Whist Drive,
.830 p.m. Union Jack Club, tombola, 7.45
A group of five American newspaper delivery boys pass- Fed through here on a round- the-world tour by Pan Ameri- cun World Airways. yesterday. The boys whora agus, are be-
13 and 17. tween,
come from Ohio. Uthly and Idaho. They are Jones of the "Columbus Dls- accompanied by Mr. John. Edwin
patoher," a Columbus newspaper. The boys drd: Winstori Faux
ux of Salt Lake City, Utah, William Spence of Columbus, Ohio, Edwin L. Dale of Pocapello. Idaho, Columbus, Richard Winks Ohlo, and. David W. Kennett of Newark,
Jone,
Air guns must be licensed
It was officially, announcedi yanlarday, that rpoently a con- aldorable number of 'ale MÜND, firing foad: pellets wore pur chwaed By the putile from shops In Kowloon.
The purchasers should take the gun to the nearest Potion Station and obtain a licence for possession of those wDE-
pona:
of
Persons found in possession
those gung without # ligence will be prosecutod, it was added.
Rumours on sinking of freighter
:
The purpose of the boys' trip, Classical Concert, Tee H. 60, according to Mr. Jones. Is to let Macdonnell Road, 8.30 pan. the newspaper boys in Americo Nine Dragons Services "Club, have a cllünce
of seeing the gramophone recital, 7 .p.m.;| world, film: Suspicion. 8 pm.
"Therefore," sald Mr. NAAFI Club, snooker touma-"the trip is on educational and es
Areport brought by certairs ment, 7:30
well as a sight-seeing one." personnel of the ss. Perico, which The five are the lucky ones of Returned to port yesterday after a group of 5,000 newspaper deg, released by the Nationalist livery boys whoɔ', have been found Navy, seemed to add credence to Faultless in carrying out their earlier unconfirmed reports that the Chinese, fielgitter Tinte sank jobs."
Explaining the boys' service in, when she was taken to Talway delivering new papers; Mr. Jones under naval 'escort. **** said that none of the work of the five boys lins Heyer been Chen or the 10 Canaler. If C.
According to Clitet. Officer: IL criticised by their newspapers' which had been detained at Bako subscribers.
Island, Feseadores, einer July 12, This exzellent way of. carrying Nationalist officers at of aval out liels Jobs earned the boys Lane: mentioned to Him that the Said Chief Offeer Chen: "They "However; avery one of them Hong Kong Rotary Club tun-highest.
jest pointe
among other Chinese freighter was caught in used unskilled coolies to dis-was discharged after lengthy cheon Root Garden, HK newspaper boys,
à storm In the Taiwan Straits charge the cargo. It rained cross-examination," the compra-
Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
Other less luckler boys are. and aank. The gunboat escorting frequently and most of the colton dore of the Perico told. the Bridge Drive, European YMCA, however, not completely deprived her was safe. bates were soaked. No attemp" "China Mall"
9.30 p.m. yesterday on his,
of rewards. They are given op It was reported on August ! was made to cover them from the retum from the Nationalist base Cheero Services Club,
whist portunities of touring: the United that: a Chingle steamer, identified clensents.
where his ship was detained for drive, 7.30 p.m.
Slates and are given Open hatchas
NAAFI Club, table tennis tourna- material, prizes. nearly three weeks.
ment, 8. pan. Nine Dragons Services Club, whist drive (cash prizes); & DJ
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"The Nationalists forgot that we could use the radio receiver even though they had taken off the the transmitters. We tuned in now and then without being de- tected to the Voice of Amnesien for martialled by two Nationalist the news," the officer said,
judges at Bako Island, Nation- Both the skipper and the chief alist naval base in the Fes officer deplored the way in which cadores, on allegations that the ship's cargo was discharged. they were Communist elements
.
"The coolies were instructed to pick up selected, cargo and they nussed around the holds. After they had taken what they desired, ve did not know what had been Bombay ou account of removed,” he said. cholera, it was officially announced
not closed The hatches, were yesterday.
even though It was
from
Tho compradore himself was taken ashore and interrogated for
few hours.
They wanted to know about my connection with the ship, my Impressions of the how Govern- ment and my past activities," he said. "They were very long raining winded," he added, "but I satu
fed their curiosity and was
subsequently."
Blind woman points out tragedy of war
By Lignel Hudson, Reutor's Correspondent
With the American frontline, in, Karpa,
August 4
One of the thousands of Korean refugees running bofore the tide of the Red invasion that L passed on the road to the front; today, was a frail old woman being led by a brown dog. She was blind.
When the dog tugged on the rope lead at the ap
allowed to be was
ΟΙ the
Din.
TUESDAY
וּי -
other
as the Tien Lee-Mandarls tranx-| lation of the original name was detained ・oft "Swalow" and taken to Taiwan by a Nationalist gunboat.
CANTON PAPER SUSPENDED The.. non-omela "Yuet: Wah The ship sank en route. | Po," HARD LABOUR
of 20 years standing in Tito local owners, Colonia' Canton, has been ordered to us- Navigation Company, of Hong FOR LARCENY
pend publication pending in Kong, wero still in the dark abouli vestigation; 'said",thé" "TA Kung the fate of their ship yesterday. Twelve months hard labourPao" In a
I a report from the Kwang- was the sentenco meted out to tung
capital
The Tinley, which cleared port yesterday However; Ma Sal-hel, 18-year-old unem- The report added: 'that the hope in mid-July for Canton int the galley staff were given ployed, by Mr. d'Annada at newspaper's management
hasballast, loaded 400 tons of been, leave to land to replenish the Kowloon yesterday for the lar- been accused of publishing "anti-cakes at the Kwangtung port for ship's stores," he said:
ceny of a. Parker 81 pen from a people" reports, ・・
Swatow, it was, learned, yesterday The Nationalists were civil and pedestrian in
io. Natlian Rood on The newspaper the second to
from the company, 3 evening.
be banned within at work-is No mention of the fate of the
arew was made.
The Finley, which cleared, for, ous convictions for larceny since 1940, was recently released The Conton authorities have Canton at the same time with the from the Reformatory where he abandoned their plan to erect a Ping On was formerly activate was sent for two years in Janu-barbed wire barriente along the gnated on, the Hong Kong-plaçao ary last year. He was also re frontier, on the Chineges side of cargo nin
the Kwangtung Kowloon border, commended for dan had a
defendant
tha..
a. "Now Life) Hyenlog The premises of 010 ̃ání: 0iz; conviction för Tarceny," News" yesterday. am Plkeise; unemployed, re- The Chinese Bathbrities had al- tcbed and handed back, to the ceived nine months, for picking, e located ETIS$250,000 for the work:] owners, on Thursday... They warT pen from the pocket of another which was to have begun in requisitioned
for the Education pedestalar in Nathan Hondy dulytta d
Department. In Novembar 1945.
did not in any way molest any of who had thres, pre owned by a Mr. Chen-Ting-jui.
the crew.
AIR FORCE CLUB
The Air Force Club of Hong Kong had. Its inaugural tifler yesterday at: the club, premisc, Edinburgh House,
In the way of toasts the oc casion was a happy coincidence. Not only WDB **The King** honoured in traditional, fashion,
to Her
but the only was talten:
Majesty
to give a Bent, Mr. S. E
proach of a tank or a truck convoy, she fol- lowed her guide off the road. When t climbed from a jeep to speak with her, the dog led her away into a rice field. I drovequest Alt Commodore AD
The club's
Faber
Introducts,the first official
Afall house at this function augur well for the successful
on.
Davies, Air Oficer. Comananding Rong Hoa, whe Looking back, I saw
made a abort. tho It is a pĮtiful sight. I found it and wilty: spetsis on the duties solitary pair, ignored, by other hard to imagine that these people. ot guest speaker. groups of fireing peasants, came from homes with smogiy head back to the dusty road prasad thatelied roofs wreathed in again. The blind woman did role and yellow lowered vines not know where she was go-
The refugees, bring ing, not did most of her fellow locks. They cross the streams. In
with them who carried fugitives.
Aimsy, ferries, cows and alt To-
COWA bat
They followed the valley's day at Wargan, South West of South and South West because Tegu, there- was a refuges train only in the valleys was there simply infested with human be food. Besides, they could not get gs. their cows and children over the
nug. continuation of tireso
PIANO RECITAL CANCELLED
The French Society of Litera-
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ine over Linges. Just before the train castanous, hey have bran ilke columns of ants steamed South), an American KP dompelled to cancel the piano to are distinctive 15 arrived with a year-old babe link by: Louise Mayer' on Mon
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mon are
their wide brimmed straw hat bad found it abandoned
„women can't wear háis bo-
tauro Buke bundles, are cuttled
or condwas-Bauten
on the
day.
From Tuesday, the Supplies
on their heads. They can't carry By yesterday the train service and Distribution Department Will their belongings on their backs Batwem therChinaro berder: tawa cease to deal with import or ex- because that's where the babies (or Säumelún and Canton had not
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