Orig.regoin 18885/6/44
Extract from:
SECRET.
FAR EASTERN WEEKLY INTELLIGENCË SUMMARY.
No.61 for week ending 10.3.1944.
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पर 13.
HONG KONG
Information from other sources:
1. (a) Three generators from the Hongkong Electric Power Plant
have been dismantled and are awaiting shipment.
are two generators left in the plant for use.
There
(b) Electric light plants in Hongkong and Kowloon were:- Hongkong Electric Power Station - North Point (Supplying
Island of Hong Kong only).
Old Building
New Building
H5O7∞
No. of Units
2
4
Capacity.
1,500 k.w.
5.000 k.w.
5,000 k.w.
5,000 k.w.
6
10,000 k.w.
8
12,500 k.w. 15,000*
* (supplied in 1937)
54,000
China Light and Power Company. Kowloon. (Supplying mainland
and new territories only)
Two 5,000 k.w. Two 750 11
units
11
One 3,500 #? One 5,000 11 One 12,
11 000
11
"
11
10,000
1,500
3,500
5,000
12,000
32,
k.w.
There are, therefore, seven generators in the Hongkong Power Station and although there is no information as to which have been dismantled, three could have been selected for dismantling and still leave ample power available for the much depleted amount of current the plant has to supply.
2. (a) There are 45 tram cars in service in Hongkong compared with over 100 before the fall of the colony.
(b) The Tramway Company depended for current only partially on the Hongkong Power Plant and took surplus current generated by the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.
3. (a) No buses, lorries and trucks are running in Hongkong. (b) It is known that the oil installation at Laichikok was badly damaged on the 2nd September as the result of an air raid, and the Governor of Hongkong admitted in a speech on the 8th September that owing to the difficulty of transport, it would take a considerable time to bring in more. petrol and kerosene. At the same time he issued regulations preventing the
use