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THE CHINA MÄIL, MARCH 19, 1987.

THE THE

WORLD

GOES BY

PROMISED last week that

would provide, in this column,

Spring In Cheungchau

Cheung Chan We were glad to welcome back to the Island Mrs. AC Franklin after her trip to Australia and New Zealand on a visit to her son and his family and friends. She returned by the S S. Neptuna and had a pleasant voyage I back

The main street of the village is and a running commentary, as it were, being rapidly re-constructed, on the war games, manoeuvres and bright shops and residences replace what have you now in progress the ancient buildings destroyed by somewhere in the New Territories the fire. Also the street is being

widened. and the China Seas.

Unfortunately all my little chats The gardens and fruit trees are on spies in the Colony have fore beginning to blossom and bud and warned the military and naval au- the weather is mild and pleasant thorities, who have been keeping a The Harbour Mission Chapel Junk very tight watch on suspicious is anchored here on the annual visit, figures in the neighbourhood ever which lasts as à rule about six since the fun started on Monday. weeks.

Every one of my agents has been

Further improvements have been

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO DAT Greek Meets freek in a Hug of War

Gone HAYMOND

dogged by the counter-espionage made to the hill roads-From Our TO-MORROW department, the CID, the PWD, Own Correspondent.

the D.S.O. and the opposition news-

papers.

The result has been the mini-)

mum of information. Only a few

Diplomatic

much mutilated and censored des Tours In

patches have got through to the China Mail office.

Even La Carioca, my pet spy, has met with little or no success. True, she succeeded in worming hereself

China

London, To-day. Every effort is. being made to onto one of the attacking cruisers, allow visits by British diplomatic where she has been provided with and commercial officers in China a cabin and bath (h and c) but she to the chief hinterland cities with spends most of her time, I hear, the object of stimulating British petting in the Wardroom and Gun-trade, but the number and scope of room with the officers and middies. their visits must be limited by the This, I think, is going too far, exigencies of the Service as 2 though she says she can't get any whole. one to go any further. They are all › So`

declared Captain Euan paying too much attention to the Wallace, Secretary for Overseas war games to have any time to Trade, in reply to a question by Mr. spare for any other sort of games. Louis Smith, Conservative Mem- My other prize spy, Dr Bughaus ber for Hallam, in the House of (Devil Take Him) of Pogranitch Commons yesterday.

naya, went to sleep in an aeroplane] Captain Wallace added that dur- at Kai Tak and is still there, for ing 1935 and 1936 visits were made all I know, since the machine is not by these officers to various places in use at present.

in China, and they would be con- Sixteen other spies in my em-

¡tinned as far as possible in the ploy were arrested in various parts future-Beuter. of the Territories. Some have been shot, others were shot when caught (in the Hunter's Arms) and yet others have been absorbed in the British Secret Service.

CROYDON AIRPORT

DANGER

London, To-day. Fortunately I have been able to

The Daily Telegraph” learns that the chief director of Imperial obtain the services of several other agents, who were hanging around Airways has suggested the remov- Hong Kong out of work and look-al of Britain's largest civil aero- drome Croydon to a spot less vul- nerable to air raids.

ing for something to do.

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One of them is a particularly bright lad. He says he saw

The Air, Ministry, the paper to aeroplane over the harbour yes- adds, is apparently unwilling

Trans- terday. I believe this information sanction the proposal.

to be absolutely reliable, straight from the horse's mouth and a sure

thing,

It confirms earlier reports that Stonecutter's Island has been bombed.

Ocean

Neutrality Bill Passed

Washington, To-day. The House of Representatives

I am informed on good authority yesterday passed the McReynolds

that the civilian population have shown no signs of panic under re peated air raids and other alarums and excursions.“

Neutrality Bill-Reuter.

It is felt that this is a contraven- tion of Articles I to XVI of the Not only have the banks been League Covenant, the Locarno firm but also cabarets, bars and Pact, the proposed Western Pact other places where they drink. and the Washington Naval Treaty. This is greatly to the credit of In addition it is a brutal disre- the populace of Hong Kong and gard of the rights and privileges shows that that old steadfast Em- of Brass Hats in wartime.

pire-building spirit is not yet dead It is recalled by some that dur- I understand that the Hong ing the first World War it was said ong Government is protesting to the German air force had explicit Geneva over the "bombing by Blue-orders not to bomb British H. Q. land of the civilian population, and The latter, so the wags have it, that an extraordinary session of were of far too much value to the the League Council has been con- fenemy to be destroyed. It is hop- vened to deal with the questioned that the invading Bluelanders

Another profest, it is learned, will bear this în mand. has also been lodged with Genera Another person who is far too against the bombing of the officer's valuable ebombed, at least in mess on - Stonecutters and -head-his own opinior

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