EFFECTS OF KOREAN WAR ON S'HAI; REDS MAY ABANDON CITY
The foreign' community of Shanghai have had the jittors over since Hie Korean flare up. They fool as if they are living on the edge of a volcano which may blow up at any moment. Many already visualiso the prospect of going into internment again.
This picture of Shanghai cohditions was painted by a Briton who has just orrived in the Colony from the Northern metropolis via Tientsin. For obvious reasons he does not wish to be identified. He told the "China Mail" he was leaving China for good.
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Work hou started on a new car park at Statue Square which will provide parking space for an additional 113 ch. The side:la on the North side of Status Square adjacent: to the Cenotaph. PWD workmen began diamantiing the failings around the site yesterday. The atlocation of the parking space resulted from "negotiations with Governmerit by the Hong Kong Automobile Association, The Association will have A kloak in the centre of the site for HKÄÄ patrols. The work is expected to be completed in three monthi. ("China Mall's photos.
There is now only one glist The majority of the foreign; Food is plentiful and cheap, and, community regarded President the market in full of foreign good doctor in Shanghai, no American on For-which merchants can not get rid doctor, und die or two of other Truman's statement Ben as a gravé mistake. The of because people haven't got the nationalities. No reason is given
oney to pay for them.
by the authorities for this sudden but it is believed to be British consklered it totally Asked how the Communist au-move, lacking in legat validity, they ahorities were treating the foreigo part of the plon for the whole- said:
community, our informant saldale exodus from the clly. They say the etion taken in they show no discrimination bê- The authorities are buying up Ron is all right, but why bring tween Chinese and foreigners, and the entire stock of drugs
There they were honest.
wid the doctors, in Formosa at all?
as well as This unerey feeling is heing anot the corruption pled on top of other worries that Kuomintang days. On the whole equipment. There is no quibbling ive been besetting the foreigney try to do a good and clean about the price. The doctors are
madly of Shoghai ever since job of it, and to be as co-operative paid whatever price they name Contrary to expectation ther the elty was rated by the pustile. Cominierasta.
Generally speaking they are is no vexatious control of every much easier to deal with nowday amenities. There is no con- There is no truth in reperts that troi or licensing of radio receiv they were over-rigorous in the ing sets, and people can furs on enforcement of tax collection. their radion at any time, and tute When a firm could not pay up in to any station they like.
the radio is Fr in fine, thov gave extensions of
responsible time but what they did do was targe measure Already the number of foreign-
to call again and again, even at much of the liters amung the The tone of ers haz dwindled to a
two o'clock in the morning, foreign population. shadow of what it was before the
until payment is made.
American broadcasts tends in no beratibu. Early last year there.
One outstanding feature of way to relieve the feeling of un- were more than 4,600 British Communist officialdom was their casiness, and many feel that J
reports; today the figure in bocerupatous orienty marked expressions used by broadensters Union Jack Club, dance 8 p.m. low 1.000. Of The American contra-dfstmetion to the wholesale | wete more restrained, apart from misionaries, their corruption of the previous legitme i would Bumber is just about 30.
More would have left but for Communist restrictions on the closing.davn of foreld's concerns
O informant said business is) autolutely earl. The prospecs attend fs about the ginomical In history, and it is only a question aime when all foreign business! men will have lo pack up and trave the country,
Incidentally,
be less tension
fuct, the new ofulals carried world today. this to such extreme that they would turn down the offer of ever, a cigarette,
Many of the are carrying on with skeleton staffe, just wait
thele the time when ing for
are used entire resources Many whore funds are exhaust ea are still forced to carry on and asked to cable for remit. tances from their head offices.
Saverance pay
The only case of corruption re ported was among some labour Balen oficials. people suddenly uplaced, in position of trust. They aboided with union funds but wheti, subsequently
apprehende they were not limprisoned but just "re-educated"-the common Com-1
for munist meation of reform wrongdoers.
The biggest headache is paying off the Chinese employees; At though officially the severanco to three phy is xed at one months, plus one month in lieu of notice, this ruling has never been enforced. It is left to employers An employed to bargain it out. and in one, ease an employer has
workers no lesa. had to pay his than 21 months' pay before he given permission to close
was down.
All applications by foreign firms to close down are submitted to the Bureau Foreign Affairs. but one is prated chill the Bureau of Labour given the green light, and the latter, as may be expect- ed, elves the workers every op portunity to extract the utmost but of the applicant.
Now worry
A new worry among forelan. ers, and incidentally among the Chinese also, is the latest move madt by the Communist au thorities of ordering nearly all Russian and Chinese doctors to leave for the Interior.
Battle of
Britain anniversary
can
for
Reminders
Today
NAAFI CU, Kowloon, dance,
to 11 pr.
Services there Nine Dragona in the
tombola: 7.30 pan.
Asked whether there hap been any change of attitude towards the British and Ameri- In Shangha community
war, broke since the Korean out, dur informant said there ! none, in so far as the British are concerned, but the Com. munist authorities
show their
diatike for the Americane by making them walt twice at long whenever they have any official business 10 transact
He
with the Government, Our informant also raid that Chen Yi, the Mayor of Shanghai, into dia- seems to have fallen favour with his higher-ups. has been blamed for his too easy the financial situa- handling of tion. However, no move is being made to have him moved, dur probably to his still having direct command of his Third Army.
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Tientsin atmosphoro The atmosphere. in Tientsin is entirely different from that Shanghal. Tientsin people show no interest in anything outside their own city limits. One can always tell an arrival from Shanghai by the anxious look in his face. His The 10th anniversary of first question would be: "What's tr leave the county unless ad-"The Battle of Britain" will be the latest on the radio?" and the
No big executives pre allowed
counte
guarantee is furnishe commemorated in Hong Kong reply he gets would Invariably either for their return or for during the second week of this be: "I don't know, but when I
cle, considered to be month.
turned on the radio last week I Fomeone acceptable, to take their place.
heard that..
The commemoration will be In time casso offers up held under the auspices of the UB31,000 are known to have Royal Air Forces Association. -been-offered to junior men, to A cocktail party will be held replace ownerk of businesses or on September 1 at the Air Force executives, who want to leave Club for members of the RAFA the country.
and the Air Force Club, The en- Once allowed to leave the coun-tire profits will be contributed to try, one can get an exit visa in the RAF Benevolent Fund. Jess than a fortnight, and no fur- On September, 15, a "Battle, "of ther obstacles are placed in the Britain" plot will speak at the way,ef one's departure.
Air Force Club's oficial Friday Timn.
Foreigners are allowed to leave vla Tientsin only. Travel down South by railway is not permitted to them.
ed.
The Generál Onteer Command- ing-in-Chiet, Hong Kong, Leu- tenant-General Sir Robert Man-
both
The Communists in Shanghai ware also remarkably tolerant both of the Press, so long as "sides of the “stöřy--are "givan oqual prominence. The "North China Daily News'' is allowedd to pubileh messager Inm aldes, provided he comment li made on them. Our informant wild this paper, only Bri. paper in Shanghai, is wonderfully informative con
idering its psaltion. One has, however, to be careful the headlines, for the
with
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Petty officer held on manslaughter charge.
One of the witnesses for the prosecution in the cate in which Chief Petty Officer Gordöḥ Frederick Howard, of HMS Jamaica, aged 30, is charg- ed with the manslaughter of David McManus on Jund 10, gavé kls avidódéb boförë Mr. Hin: shing Lo at Central yesterday.
Crown Land Auction Sale, Dis. Detective Sub-Inspector S.L. Fung, prosecuting 'of- ficer, applied for the Court's permission for Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander John Archi- bald Normani Lock to give his evidence in the committal case against Howard as Lock was leaving for England shärfly.
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As the accused's Counsel,
He admitted that deceased was Mr. D.A.L. Wright and Mr. under his medical care and tha S.V.
Gitting, instructed by he knew deceased's physical con- Messrs. Hastings and Co., rais-dition very well.
At the conclusion of Surgeon ed no abjection, permission Lieutenant-Commander's evidence was given by Mr. Lo.
CPO Howard was origirially charged with malicious wounding
but after McManus died in hos- pital the charge was amended te murder and Inter sill the charge was again amended from murder to manslaughter.
In his evidence Surgeon Lieu- tenort-Commander Lack sald:
"was the medical officer on duty at HMS Tomar on the night of June 10 and the early hours
11 of June
the accused was remanded one week in Pollca custody,
Foki pushed
off pier
For pushing a sliep foki into the sun from a ipler near the Star Ferry on Sunday, Private William Edward Gore, of the 37th Heavy Anti-Aircraft ¡Re- Stonecutter's Island: "Soon after midnight I wat glmont, awakened by a sick-bay attendant was hed $50 by Mr. F. X. who said that on urgent call for d'Almada at Kowloon yester= an arabulance had came froin the ddy.
We took dr Naval Dockyard ambulance there and on arriva stated that while has was watch- The toki, Chih Kuen-chid, were told that a medercased.ng somebody fishing at the pler. the Boldier approached him Union Jack Club, tombola, 7.30 McManus, had fallen from the behind and said "no fishing
balcony of the first floor and from
We found the before he pushed him off the injured himself man lying unconscious in another pier.
Gore, who was charged on ä ambulance attended by two
"asked the two men to leave count. et comman hésault, plead- and we took over and broughted that he was drunk and that the injured, man to the Naval he did not know what he was Hospital."
doing at the time.
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Pulse $18w
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HKA PLANE HAS Witness said that the mah Was
ENGINE TROUBLE breathing in a grunting manner,
A Hong Kong. Airways his pulsé was tery boor ond blow There was plenty of blood and craft bound for Tulpen returned rumit on the stretcher on which here after developing
hour engine trouble about an Our informant saw no prospectsergh, will be present.
Witness added that the uncons- after the took off from Kai Tak of business revival in Shanghal The RAFA Will be represented "NCDN" was suspended for three by no means interrupted fol- he was lying.
because used the heads lowing the mining of the Bri- unless the internallonni allunion at the Cathedral service on Sep-nys pats kores declared war iish coaster Jeep Hee, in the elous man smelt strongly of liquor yesterday,
Originally on schedule to leave and he saw that there was a large which the au- mouth of the Yangtse improves and the threat of atember 17.
an bruise over the right eye. At the for Taipeh at 8 am, the aircraft spread of the Korean war is end- On September 21, a special film on the South,"
Naval hospital, the man wan did not leave the airport until will be tereened at the Lee Thea- tharles called a misrepresentation August 23.
10:30 am, She returned again at The Panacanian steamer Wal-washed and placed in bed. Plants dismantled tre, the proceeds of which will of fucts.
Our informant said another ter, which sailed from Hong Kong Asked by Inspector Fung what about 11:15 am. siriking feature was the apparent for Shanghal two days after the time he. (wilness)
had reach
The bircraft had four 'Chinese Already the Communists are to to the RAF Benevolent Fund.
solicitude of the ometaju when Jom Hee had sunk in the Yangtee, the hospital, witness replied than passengers aboard. dlemantling the plants of utility
foreigners leave. They are asked dived safely It Shanghai on he could not remember. concerns, including the power
to tha Wednesday, according They had never intended
Withem sisa said that he could leaving plant.
why they are
and whe Shanghal to be ani Industrial
Great Southern Steamship Com- not remember # there were any ther they will
be coming back. They are also asked to tell the pany, here yesterday.
other injuries suffered by the araz, and with the present war
world
Another ship, the Norweglar, man. Ifo dk hot make thy threat, it is gulle evident they
le, truth--just the truth,
Alcamor Prosper. Buccessfully examination If the ambulañçë at Intend to give up the part city
may not bellevo all the steamed out of the Yangtae yes- it was dark, and smelly at the altogether if war actually breakh China, under the new regime les our enemy say about
erday, on her way back to Hon time. aut. Not only plants are being produced more oil in the first Describing the trip to Tientsin removed, but also trained per six months of the year than the our informant said it was very
Kong, according to the local agents Croft-oxamined by Mr. Weliht of the vestel,
witnett bald that the injured man sonnel. Most of the Industrial Nationalist Government did in arduous because of the heat, and The British coaster Cloverlock nuver recovbitd consciousness milih and factories are also be the corresponding period last for the same reason the eight- cleared for the North yesterday. while he was with him and ho ing shifted North,
hour trip down to Taku Bar on The destination of the ship was (witness) did not make an ins The present bend is definitely year.
trying. This was reported in a New the lighters was most
ald to be Shanghel but this could vestigation of where all the blood were crowded on the
not be confirmed by the owners, on the stretcher mind, the man' Wheelock Marden and Company, clothes, had come from. Limited.
Oil production
in Red China
..
60
to move out of Shangbal. Its be resettled chewhere. Its role Poking published in yesterday's lighters
Industry and its workers are to China News Agency" report from People which had no septs, and
owned, but they are seldom seen per cent of the output in the first the country. Parciala werd vVITY
steamer
"Ladies' Day" at Kowloon Rotary Club
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Wings under cross-examina- tien said that he later learned the name of the injured man to be David McManus. He was o Well-ballt man in good physeal condillah as, la decupation Wah that of dives. Decensed wit alightly taller and thicker ae than accured.
an a port of forcim trade is de-Ta Kung Pao". The report sald they had to sit or lie un straw There was also no initely secondly in the Commun- that the Yumen aldsholds in mittrests.
Western Kansu produced 53. per water. "However, no has to put 1st overall economy.
There are still about 1,000 pri cent of the whole year's estimate.up with these, and even greater This was equivalent to 127. hardships, if one wants to leave Valo motor-cara mostly foreign-
wald var interament. The Custom on the streets. Each car is en six months of .1049, claimed the
stries in their search of laggaro, lied to a ration of 15 gallons of report.
Kerosene output totalled 80.0 but huru again there was the Delzpl. month at the oficial price. But the black market price is per cent of the estimate for the strictest honesty, and loss of ar-
Fractured skull. lower because there are no buyers. Year. This wat equivalent to 110 ticles has not been heard of, though one may find articles Onbean buy a post war model per cent of the output in the first
1940,
“A récord number of Kowloon
Witness continued: that lie had American car in Shanghai today, huit
Petrol produced at the Yon broken and clothes, badly rath for US$100...
Rotarians, their ladles and received an official copy of the The trip down Nanking Road now is deserted chang olields in Manchuria in pled after the search. compared with the bustle of trame the flat six months of the year leaves much to be desired, our Rudsts attefded Ladies Day post-morterade on the dez in the pro-liberation days. One totmeted outer ceterosene y ese Informant said. Apart from the at the Club's weekly lufichoon date and the that he h
fractured bird, af the skull. Ho can wolk right down the middle Catimated output, pro-
duction was 105,6,per cont of en- few first class accommodations, at the Peninsula Hotel yester-led from, & fractured Ault and
what is termied second chis is day, of the road now.
timated output for the year.
Petrol output at the Fushime better than the worst of The main feature, for tho de admitted that the bruise over the Fund balon was the entertainment right eye could have been caused olifields, also in Manchuria, in the
accomodation. Propter i provided; by - two young, artistes / e fall: thỏm thô Balcóký pil
but dics, with the Arat al months of the year wek 59.7 Der: cent; of the year's summer heat maldig conditions from Radio Hong Kong, Min could not say whaulier McManus due to iquor or the estimate and diesel oil onlput unbearable. Many of the passon Jenny Wong: (piano) and Miss Uniontelous state: ft the Amburs
Mary Hammy (Koprano)
Witness that he recbletion was 50 per cent of the estimated core spend their time on deck,
rendered several classical of Hossed's clothing being tort Our Informant byw
texpressed re
regret
slons Mrs. Betty Brown WMWright, lured that in vi at leaving Shanghel, production for the year, pub
but greater. regret that the
city, once called accompanist, tor-la Ramby, The Pearl
„A fonit la: The ladies was pro- of Biebianus' liljurian at the time. Orical the
should posed by Rotarian 1. Starbuck to what kind of care should have
been taken, Winess replied tha conciations im be going the way it is now. He which Mrze starbuck replied.. Guarantino mosed, gulnat arrivals from thinks that unless there is a comBobgdots ugg dadiomas were be should have been tranted, as buna Bhan and Healing pa se plate change of regime and nor presented to the Mises: Wong and HE EVERGREEN count of waliposing on samal trade condition as Pratend Rainy by Men 11 Hones, Witness added that he did not
brunt of pingud, and Bassein on with this part of the derbunt of cholla sana "milbox anaoghall will hendur yere yet the President of the Club They were also thanked, by memory of its great past,
Retarian W, T. Grimatsine
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