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HONG KONG HARBOUR ATHENS TRUST PROPOSED

Sir David Owens' ITALY TO

Report: Praya Reclamation

Evacuation Reports

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It is stated here that there has been no direct communication between: London and Athens for, several hours, but officia! quarters state that this does not mean that Athens has fallen and that the Allies are holding out in their new positions.

Regarding the Epirus surrender. it is stated that German forces were astride the main lines of communication of the Greek forces withdrawing from Albania and there was no chance of withdraw- ing an organised body.

Rome Radio alleged last night that between 00,000 and 80,000 British troops had left Greece.

German Statements

A military spokesman in Berlin last night claimed that the road to Athens is now open and Ger- man occupation should take place by Friday at the latest.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HONG KONG HARBOUR TRUST AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT, THE RENEWAL OF PIER LEASES TO EXISTING OPERATORS UNDER NEW CONDITIONS AND IMPORTANT RECLAMATION SCHEMES ARE RECOMMENDED IN THE REPORT OF SIR DAVID J. OWEN ON "THE FUTURE CON- TROL AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORT OF HONG KONG."

MASS RUMANIA ARRESTS

SIR DAVID OWN recommends that the majority of the members of the proposed Harbour Trust should be other than Govern- ment officials, with an independent paid Chairman.

In the first place, the Report recommends that the Trust be carried on as a three-year experiment, to enable the Trust to justify its existence and to enable such modifications as might seem necessary as the result of the difficulties experience gained.

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Budapest reports allege "The Balkan offensive," he said, that General Antonescu

that

"can be considered as ended. "There are indications" the British Army has abandoned International News

Piraeus. Service.

PART OF

SERB ARMY FIGHTS ON

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amidst new with the Iron Guard is making mass arrests in an

attempt to stifle the op- position.

Licensing of Pilots.

"To put it on a low level," says ( Sir David, "the Trust could do no Regulation of Harbour traffe harm in that period.

and the promulgation of the ne- Following is a summary of thecessary by-laws for this purpose. recommendations contained in the The general policy of the Har-

bour.

Report:

(1). That a Body to be called Soviet the "Hong Kong Harbour Trust" be established as soon as possible,

(6). The rents of the piers, the charges for the use of mooring buoys, the charges levied upon the

alties, etc.. and the light dues to l

It is also alleged that troops have taken up positions along the Rumanian frontier in (2)- That the constitution of | ferry owners in the form of roy-, the Moldavian sector and are pre- pared to enter the country if the Antonescu Government should fall.

the Trust be as under:-

Three Government officials of high standing, to be appointed by the Governor

the

In one of the most sensational Three British subjects con- arrests, the Rumanian Govern- nected with the trade of the Port. ment took into custody Anna to be appointed by the Governor Marin, widow of the former Iron on the nomination of the General Guard hero who died in the Chamber of Commerce, Spanish Civil War.

One person interested in Officials alleged that she had; trade of the Port to be appoin ́ed Bombed 38 times, hav-eight guns and hundreds of rounds by the Governor on the nomina- ing lost everything, “but of ammunition hidden in her tion of the Chinese Chamber glad to be alive," the In-Service. ternational News Service correspondent in Yugo-

bathroom. - International News Commerce.

stavia, A. Chinigo, has C.O. OF DOOMED

succeeded in getting mess-

ages out of the country by BATTALION

courier to Budapest.

He says that fighting is still go- ing on in several parts of the country, though the capitulation is

virtually complete.

MURDERED

COLONEL HSIEH

CHING

Part of the Yugoslav Second YUAN, COMMANDER OF THE Army, operating is Dalmatia. is "DOOMED BATTALION," WAS still fighting, "apparently not STABBED TO DEATH IN THE

Informed of the surrender.”

SHANGHAI,

of

One independent Chairman, be- ing a person of business ex- perience and, if possible, with a knowledge of Port affairs, to be appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the members of the Trust at a meeting duly held for the purpose.

(3)-The Harbour Trustees, other than the Chairman, to be unpaid, but the Chairman to be paid a suitable annual fee.

(4)-This Body of Harbour Trustees to remain in being for three years as an experiment.

Trust Control

THIS be:--

INTERNMENT CAMP IN THE (5) The matters over which Belgrade is practically a rubbish INTERNATIONAL SETTLE-the Trust would have control to heap as the result of the German MENT, Luftwaffe attacks.-International | MORNING BY TWO INTERNED Leasing or letting of piers. News Service.

MEMBERS OF THE BATTA- Construction of new piers as and LION, WHO ALSO SERIOUSLY when necessary, and the charges WOUNDED THE SECOND-IN- therefor.. COMMAND.

BREST ATTACKED TWICE IN A NIGHT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} British bombers last night twice blasted Brest where the Scharn- Horst and Gneisenau are still lying, V=International News Service,

Lights and buoys (Navigation-

therefor.

The assailants were overpower-a1), and the charges therefor. ed and handed over to the police Mooring buoys, and the charges by other internees.

Thoy clalmed they did the Forries, and the royalties, etc.. stabbing because of the "bad con- therefor. duct" of the two officers.-Neu- Dredging the Harbour as ter

Iquired from time to time..

re-

GET LION SHARE

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The dismemberment of Yugoslavia is expected to be announced in a day or two as the result of the Vienna conferences.

Apparently, Italy is to get Montenegro, part of

South Serbia, Dalmatia, all of Slovenia, except the German minority area.

Bu garla will take Macedonia and the remainder of Serbia, and Hungary will be given her pre- war territory back.

Croatia will remain "indepen- dent" but smaller.

The situation in Zagreb ro. mains very tense, for Dr. Mat- chek, whose whereabouts are unknown, retains the support of ninety per cent..of Croatians who remain in Zagreb.

The Croatians are outspokenly opposed to the Italian seizure of Dalmatia and may even now fight in attempt to prevent it. — International News Service.

be paid to the Trust.

(7)-No charges or rents to bo levied by the Trust without

the consent of the Governor thereto having been first obtained,

(8). The necessary staff for the

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