Chinese Volunteers
Undergo Training
On British Cruiser
BY JACK JENKINS
Malta, Nov. 173
Somo 30 Chinese ratings who volunteered before V-J Day for training in the Royal Navy preparatory to jolning, the Chinese Navy, are serving in HMS Mauritius, Nagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean.
their
All the men are young-main-compartment where they also slety,
that Probably consclow ly between the ages of 20 and
training is being crammed into the 21 and are on a six-months relatively short period of 10 monuis, courie Jf sea-going training these young Chinese are extremely after your's shore-based inconsetentions, attentive and obser
vnut, struction in Britain.
Ask Many Questions
Before they came to Malta Accompanying them, ar a liaison aboard "the aircraft carrier link, is young Petty Ofleer Derek Indefatigable, they had under-Holi of Dunstable. who was with gone a course of instruction at her during their training at Chat- ham and to whem. they put many Plymouth aboard the Renown, questions reflecting their keen obser- and received gunnery training vation. Two Chinese officers, Lieu- at Chatham. All are now accondenant Sung Chi-huang and Lieuten- ant Liu Tho-pin, who also have been class gunnery ratings,
training with the Royal Navy, are in civil life, more than half of shortly to join the ship. them were University students, but
The Chinese ratings who come no tank or duty comes antas lo them from all parts of China, ore now and they are determined to br-stemlous and ambitious, They are oume inured to the rigours of a sea-non-drinkers and only few of them going. life.
smoke. They hope to be lucluded
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43
ab.
· called. Only four of them es-red to the Chinese Navy from the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1946.
Photo altows the "Corinthio" entering the fitting out brain after her recent launching at Cammell Laird's shipyard at Birkenhead.
Ambitious Blueprint
For New Shanghai
A new master plan to develop Shanghai into one of the largest and most modern cities in the world, capable of comfortably accommodating a population of 15,000,000 has been drafted by the newly-organised Planning Committee of the Shanghai City Government.
CNRRA Facing A SHOWING
Deficit Of $160,000,000
Shanghai, Nov, 17. Shortage of funds is threat- ening to hold up or seriously delay the gigantic relief and rehabilitation programme ul UNRRA-CNRRA in Chino, which has, hitherto, benefitted not only the country as a whole but millions of Chinese indivi- duals of all classes and ideol ogies.
CNRRA wili wind up 1946 with a defelt, pecording to offlelal figures, of no less than CN$130,000 million (about HK$100,000,000).
It is learned that an appeal has been made to the Chinese Govern- ment to increase ita subsidy to the relief organisation besides granting a big loan,
It Wos disclosed by Dr J. Saper, head of the UNRRA D- placed Persons Department, that total of 33,000 displaced per- zons-Including overseas and European Jewish would be repatriated from China before June next year.
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He said that the Allied Control Council in Austria had already ap- This plan-which supersedes all previous blueprints proved the return of 2,000 Austrian calls, among other things, for an extension of the city's refugees to their homeland, and that all Italian DP's in China should be present northern, western and southern limits by an average
en route to their own equntry some of 15 miles, and for the building up of Pootung--the
time in December. undeveloped peninsula across the Whangpoo River into the
Meanwhile,
Yugo-Slavs, Czechs Not least of their troubles when in the
main residential area,
and Poles were being repatriated in they began this sea-going life was the ship's company of the cruise: as "Aurorn." which has been transfer-
small batches, sald Dr Saper, who, Composed of 27 of this unpleasant
the lines. Only high-speed vehicles will however, held out no early hope for experience Royal Navy, when she is commis nation's
Inter- the return of German refugees be allowed on artery ronds.
to leading during either their voyage from Eng-sloned about next April, and look
architects,
sections along these roads will be re-their homeland owing to the un- lund to Malta or during their first forward to the eventual possibility engineers, bankers and business- duced in number and a synchronized stable
economic condition existing week aboard the Motrillus, when of
even men, the Planning Committee trafle-light system Installed to per- in Germany and
because petty officer or from Cyprus to Coriu.
They have
all picked up a
has set up seven sub-committees mit motor-cars to keen moving all sure was exerted on the Allied Con- working knowledge of English since to study the technical aspects of me. No nedestrians will be ner-trol Council, in Germany.
mitted on artery ronda. Auxiliary It Is learned that well over a ship they left Chungking more than a the scheme, which also embodies thoroughfares will act as links be day han been scharging year ago, and while quite
UNRRÄ supplies in China ports this self-deinila for the construction of tween artery and district roads. possessed in their new life ther respond instantly to a friendly word a large airport.
they had a somewhat stormy passage comhieving ank
Aboard ship, these trainees receive The same treatment and the same food as the other ratings. They do their share of work, divided up into three parties for the fa'c'sle, quarter- deck, and tap-deck, although they are not being called out for night watches for the time being.
They mess, together in a forward
SIDE GLANCES
fair
or gesture.
The business, Industrial and Once their polite deference to a residential districts are clearly stranger is overcome they are upmarked out. The present central ply talkative.-Reuter.
district will remain, as it is to- day, the principal commercial sector: Pootung, the main re- sidential area, and the northern and western suburbs will be re- served for factories and work. shops.
KOPĀ, TIME ET NGA BERYCE, DG, T, M, REGIS, E, FAT, OFF;
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"It's good practice for me, sitting with children--when I have my own some day I'll know how to make them
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It has not yet been decided how best to link up the new proposed residential sector and the city proper. Three schemes are at present under consideration--a brides, pero the Whangpon
a tunnel under the river, or a number of ferry services.
According to Reuter, one of the most striking features of the plan is. the elaborate communicailon network of highways and railways which it Is intended to build.
Quick Travel
year.
no pres
UNRRA records reveal that 417 The railway network has been so ships carrying 1,202,080 long tons of
unloaded planned as to chable quick travel, goods have been
since two-kilometre intervals all along the Vidal, first ship to arrive, came into Sub-stations will be established at November 8, 1945, when the Emile varlous projected lines erisa-crossing port with engineering and road
building the city,
equipment, cement and There
is no hint as to when the canned army rations-Reuter. city Government hopes to begin im- plementing the plan, although the Klangsu Provincial Government is reported to have already been ap proached regarding transfer of the administrative rights which it holds over certain areas required for ex- tension of the city limits,
In all probability, the plan will remain in the blueprint stage for some considerable time yet, as a major rehabilitation programme is on
the eve of being launched by the City Government.
At present
`Rehabilitation Pro-i gramme Planning Committee of 11-- including two representatives of UNRRA and CNRRA—are sold to be Highways are divided into artery, investigating, planning and promai- auxiliary and district roads, and ralling "all rehabilitation projects vital ways into long-distance and district to the municipality."
LONDON LETTER
(Continued from Page 2)
DEBATE ON INDIA?
LEIPZIG SPRING FAIR
Frankfurt, Nov. 17. Marshot Vassily! Sokolovsky, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet
Occupation Forces Germany, has Bxed the opening date of the Leip- zig Spring Fair for March 4 and the closing date as March 9-Reuter.
NOTICE
BUILDING FOR SALE.
The undersigned is prepared to receive on behalf of the Owners Tenders for the purchase of No. 10 Ice House Street, Sec. A of M. L. ZA,
London, Nov. 18. Parliamentary clreles said to-day
Permits to inspect the building that an India debate was expected may be obtained from the under- the Old Vic.
At the Old Vic the debate has not yet been placed
before the Christmas recess, although | signed during office hours. Laurence Olivier-with ils mighty
rumph on Broadway still fresh on the agenda.
them in.
Tenders should be addressed to the undersigned-at-their-officos. the publle mind, has been puning Labour backbenchers predicted that
in a Every night the gallery | the debate
sealed cover endorsed would be lively since girls mob him. Policemen are swe Mr Winston Churchill, Opposition "Teader for Purchase of No. 10 Cray in the rush us he waves the Leader, was expected to personaly ice. House Street" and should be stage door. Old-timers tell me they have seen nothing like it since went the opposition in criticis delivered not inter than twelve Government poncy in lumiâ-united Nares was in his hey-day.
Press.
Then the San Carlo Opera Com- | pony, from Naples, urning away
he customers. One way and another it's the era of vast crowds.
about it before things are fixed, but
For instance, here is die "Britain the odds are that Jolly Jack will Can Make 1 Exhibition at the Vahuve his way.
15.gger Tapers.
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Dated the 25th October, 1946.
toria and Albert Museum. On the There's another kind of Ozht on | JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.
opening day, 15,000 people crummed
п
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Thongkong Chelegraph.
ADVERTISERS
aro roquestod
to submit
copy for
SATURDAY'S EDITION
not later than THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 21
The papers have been longkong & Shanghal Bank Bldg., the half. When I went along there this week.
mute newsprint and were 10,000 people waiting to get in. given a little
4th Floor, : Hong Kong. The folks at the end of the queu restriction on sales have been lifted. would be admitted four hours fates. The big boys of Fleet Street rew
ring with In cush, this represents about £1,400 their has into the
To the a day, which
quite a lot of money whoop, and the battle's on. for gaing lock at the wonderful observer, the astonishing thing is where they get the circulation from [things we can't buy yet.
As an exhibition it is superb. It Overnight one paper added 380,000 docs prove that Britain leads the world new readers to its roll; another put circulation manager in design, in materials and in ideas. on 200,000. Any cin You overseas are likely to be able you ask says, "We're doing fine." la buy the goods long before we can Nobody
admits a drop in circulation, at home. Most of the exhibits are and at leas, two journals are boast marked for "export only.”
they'il top the 4,000,000 As ARK Aliot Tommy Trinder says. "You lucky mark. It makes you think..
A Book of week is "Secret Ses- peoplesTM
Boxing Char
slon
a record of the r Spr ports which Mr Churchill Down in Thick-ear Alley they have Parliament al critical moments of the
tado thought up a new name for rotund war. They are fascinating reading 45-year-old: Jack Solomons, ezor út
Show of the week is, "Piccaduly European boxing, They are calling
Hayride," with Sid Fields and a new han "King" Solomona. Not very discovery, Terry Thomas, a former clever. 1 gram jus, sut it sure Service entertainer.
hold
од public imagination watch this one-ume hishmonger and ex-professional, (three nights, one hammering) boxer' han won. The recent Bruca Wood- cock-Gus Lesnovitch maul, which the Briton won by a knoca-out and put himself in line for a smack at Joe Louls some time in the future lifted Jolly Juck rigat to toe w
He was way up when he car back fr
from dividing the boxing world with America's. Mike Jacobs.. day, ho the boss
of them all. Al though he has been promoting Aghts for 15 years, success his only come
The Last
18 months. He got his del in the
feet on the road when he promoted the Jack London-Woodcode ballio, for the Brush, beavyweight char
in Axil, 1040. That fight pionship in
over looked they gay, he has, paver
back. The Woodcock-Lesneylich
the tremendous
from the
pockets of flight, Golan
mtons has
funs
plans for taking more. other.thot, ho,-
alago at least two, big, Ughts this, autumn, acoupia
in the spring. Then as ....horo
biggest promoLian of them all, he' hoping to get Mike Jecobs and
Jow
the
| Lous to agree to a world's cham- plonship fight in London next Juhn, There'll be alot of "yes", und “no”
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The police to-day questioned' an insane asylum inmate and consider- of the possibility that an organised gang was responsible for the series of explosions in Stockholm-tho most recent of which occurred on Saturday, shattering an estimated. 10,000 windows.
convinced Although he was not that the inmate was guilty, Chief Inspector Zotterquiat sold ho hau not abandoned the theory that he was connected with the blasts,
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Tokyo, Nov. 18. Gen Douglas MacArthur to-day received a letter written in blood from a Japanese school teacher who thanked the Supreme Commander for the fulfilment of the purpose of the Occupation.
t
The school teacher sald that hot. wrote the letter in his own blood to emphasise the sincerity of bls deep gratitude-Central News.
The home guard was alerted after Saturday's explosion-United Press.