1945-09-11 — Page 1

Vol. I, No. 1.

CHINA MAIL

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER 100 YEARS

Tuesday, September 11th, 1945.

TWELVE HOURS LATE QUISLING

JAPAN'S RIGHTS

Rynkyo Aiki Japangan Liberal leader, hus is e statoment claiming full rights for the new Jope in the

of the post-wor 12212653 nations. B.B.C.

New Money Soon

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rency

Rush Hour On Board The Empress

ROUGHLY TWELVE HOURS LATE IN GETTING AWAY, TILE R.M.S. EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA, WITH SOME 2,000; PRISONERS OF WAR AND INTERNEES ON BOARD, WAS, AS FAR AS COULD BE ASCERTAINED LATE LAST NIGHT, DUE TO STEAM OUT OF JUNK BAY FOR MANILA AT DAYLIGHT THIS MORNING.

DESCATCH OF AP- FROM STANLEY AND 650 WOMEN

RUN

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROXIMATELY 1,000 REPATRIATES INTERNMENT CAMP, INCLUDING

NOT APPARENTLY CHILDREN, DID SMOOTHLY AS ANTICIPATED,

tralia.

TO DIE

Sentence of death has been passed at Oslo at the conclu- sion of the trial yesterday of the Norwegian puppet leader, Vidkun Quisling.-B.B.C.

Suicide Squad In Colony

B

-Price M. Y. 10.

|NOW IT CAN BE TOLD

The Inside Story

of Siam's Aid

IT IS. REPORTED FROM THE SIAMESE CAPITAL THAT THE LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT AND, AT THE SAME TIME, THE LE ADER OF RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPAN, THE REG ENT LU-ANG PRA-DIT, WAS IN CONSTANT COMMUNICA TION WITH THE AMERI- CAN STATE DEPARTMENT, THE BRITISH GOVERN- MENT AND THE ALLIED MILITARY COMMAND IN THE INDIAN AND BURMA THEATRES OF WAR.

and Stanicse American tionals were trained for secret work under the very noses of

ONE OF THE MOST IN- the Japanese, DISCOVERIES ANDTERESTING

MADE DURING

na-

cf such craft were found their radio link was used by

the Regent. Stonecutters.

SINGAPORE SIFTING OUT

More than 22,000 Japanese naval

are personnel

being taken by sea to-day from the part of Singapore leland to a concentration aren in Vahore. Their kit is being thoroughly sifted before they No amenities or luxuries allowed.Wireless.

go.

Submarines, flying bout and THE parachutes were used to bring AND MILITARY supplies. NAVAL that liner, but her cabin appointments ROUND-UP OF JAPANESE in a constant flow of men and The consequence was

For many months before the seen to be excellent in the

FORCES IN HONG KONG when H.E. Rear-Admiral Cucit] were

treat it

eastern from the the Commander-In- circumstances. What a

officers who, THE END OF CURRENCY Harcourt.

Junk Bay was to touch really clean white WAS THAT OF THE EXIS-end of the war, several Ameri-

TENCE OF A POTENTIAL can bed-linen again!

window of their room in Bang- CHAOS IN THE COLONY 19 Chief, went out to

the Japanese| Jast evening in Kempenfelt to NOT FAR OFF.

Every endeavour was obviously KAMAKAZE CORPS.

These men, who were found kok, could watch

in that to make things 1.8

strolling were soldiers Although, for obvious reasons,cay goodbye, a gesture warmly

Stonecutters Island, 1 board, being made

for the on A ponsible comfortable official statement has been appreciated by those

One of the issued in the matter, it is authori

first organised into a suicide squad streets, kept their radio contact repatriates. it was found that less than half

miniature torpedo with the office of the strategic latively learned that the new cur-the internees from Stanley had things arranged as passengers operating

-will-be-placed into cirnula. tion within a day or two, possibly Ived in the Empress 04 arrived on board was the dining bents A considerable number services base in Ceylon.

room seating plan.

It вя also uned for dis- His Excellency's original in-

It was altogether a grand effort

But there was no spirit left by those responsible, arrived and tention hart been to give the

patching military intelligence cheering send-off

H.M.S. Kempenfelt which took

in the "Kamakaze" group. being printed within Australia a

brought to Americans by the if | Rear-Admiral Harcourt out to

the Siamese the destroyer, and, from

They submitted docilely to the leader of hla official visit,

and by a network of time permitted, perhaps to ac-Junk Bay for

her a little distance was the destroyer which led the naval ratings sent ashore and company

intelligence agents established Royal Navy into Hong Kong har-subsequently they were landed ground,

In Kowloon.

by American-trained Siamese.

In connection with the re- the bour for the re-occupation. out to sea.

the circumstances,

Luand Suk-ham, secretory-gistration and re-numbering of aboard Admiral elected to go

general of the Siamess resist all motor vehicles, except those in-

said that used by the Naval and Military the repatriation liner, to

ance movement,

De- spect the arrangements mude

Siam was drawing up a list authorities, Government for the comfort of her pason-

partments and Essential Sbr+ was on board for

the Kere, and he

following orders more than half an hour.

as early as to-morrow.

New H.K. noles printed over- neas have actually others

RAFA)

the Colony.

No information whaLover available on the subject nearest to many minds-the rate of exchange with the military yer, or if there is to be any.

OFFER TO CIVILIANS IN SPORE

BRITISH CIVILIAN

TERNEES IN SINGAPORE

THE RUSH HOUR!

-

Austra-

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MINISTER DEMANDS

BLOOD OF JAPANESE

FOREIGN MINISTERS'

OF THE AUS- A SUMMARY OF ONLY A PORTION In the Empress of

JAPANESE WAS lia, of course, one encountered RALIAN CHARGES AGAINST THE IN-

first sight, MADE PUBLIC TO-DAY BY MR. H. V. EVATT, 'AUSTRA-. scens which, at WERE EITHER PROSPEROUS seemed to be one of utter con- |LIAN "MINISTER FOR EXTE ENAL AFFAIRS, WHO IS IN

ATTEND THE and LONDON TO with passengers MEN IN THE RUBBER BUSI- fusion.

and willing COUNCIL MEETING. NESS OR IN GOVERNMENT baggage-men

members of the crew here, there

Mr. Evatt declared: "If those SERVICE.

been and everywhere. It Business men there have

responsible for those outrages are given the option of staying on for somewhat reminiscent of rush allowed to escape punishment, it the London tube will be the proascat defeat of jus short periods to wind up or revive hour in

Actually. as what is left of their former basi-station,

WEH Dotice, and a travesty of the prin ness interesta.

Government servants are being ascertained, the situation was ciples

former well under control, and it

asked to

Juba for

was

was founkin which the war has been

the Stanley end that the

arrangementa

to take over their for short periods to enable t the military administration to get scheduled

a firmer grip. A specially equip broken down.

malnutrition.

Indiana-

Junk

had

The contents of the document, he said, were "such as to shock and dismay the feelings of every docent human being."

been

and

the con-

United

States Claim

over

J

of war criminale.

under-

Car Check Up By 30th

Miniater vices,

Former Prime Song-gram who allowed the were issued by Controller of Japanese to march into Siam In Land Transport yesterday

1. All lorries and cars on the December, 1941, is on the list.

feland of Hong Kong will be regis

before Siam was getting ready to tered and re-numbered

(This date Japanese, September 30, 1945 revolt against the and twelve jungle camps in the may be postponed by the Control- country were training guerriller of Land Transport).

2. Every owner and every per-

lng."

These men were timed to go son in control or possession of a into action as soon as the Al-lurry or car on the island of Hong lied signal was given. This, as Kong, whether in use or immobi- lised, shall submit a return thereof well as the fact that the cour

was harbouring American to the Controller of Land Trans

at the Hong port, cry

Коле

Club, not was told

in later than September 15, 1915. Army officers,

by the This

statement should state Washington to-day United States office of strategic whether the vehicle is in uno or,

for some reason, immobilised.. services,

First details

of Siam's PA-

3. The person making, the re-

Ho went on to say that the re- ped hospital, and ambulance ships The scheme provided for the have been earmarked for A large

A New York radlo message last triotic role as secret, partner of turn must be prepared forthwith number of rick and oiling prison Empress, after taking aboard port was based on the testimony

war at the of more than 500 civilian

Admiral nically at war with them, was lorry if called upon to do so by the Controller of Land Transport.- ers of war, as well as for a large ex-prisoners of

tary evideBARBARITY

shipping administrator, number of persons suffering from Kowloon wharves, to proceed to military withcases, and documen- night quoted the United States the United Nations, while tech-to locate or identify each car or

take on

Amery Lund, declaring that the revealed.

The office of the Strategic. The return should state the Bay, there to

to-day: make of the vehicle, number if United States should take Mr. Evatt asserted that

announced

colour and engine number, Since the early hours, Keppel the Stanleyites who were to be

the bulk of Japan's shipping for Services

The signal for open revolt for any,

дцу previous registration harbour has been very active. conveyed from the peninsula in atrocities which have

the first batch of

firmed, reveals practices of bar post-war trade in the Pacific. Later 10khne from the snow-]

otivo mine-swcopera.

Admiral Land said that the pro-which the Siamese were wait-number.

and they

6. The order does not apply to In Stanley, those sailing in the barity which "could not have be-

by Naval and income general without the direction posal, would not affect the mari-ing, never came, of Nepal-wil em- - peaked hills

time trade of the other major never have had their chance to vehicles in use bark for Madras in ships of the Empress of Australia were

that the of allTM emphasize most of

seafaring nations, which he desprove their mettle in open con- Military forces or vehicles now How-under the control of public.de- Royal Indian Navy. Unlike other structed to stand-by outside their of superior ofürers. I wish Indian soldiers, Gurkha

flict with the enemy. soldiers blocks at 1.30 p.m. ready to

cribed as "well protected." The war crimes committed by Japanese the mine-sweepers. get furlough only once in three aboard

Dated the 10th of September. "China Mai

representative forces in the field, while utterly

He claimed that a large post-ever, in the supplying of intel-partments or Essential Services.

(Signed) G. White. years, with the result that some "ound the Empress at 6.30 p.m.wicked on the part of the actual

war United States merchunt floet gerice about Japanese plans

Controller of Land Transport. of them have not seen their homes

movements which In the Pacific was necessary for

submit Note:-1. Failure to for nearly BEVON

the maintenance of peace. He and years now yesterday could get no clear pic perpetrators, are also part of Wireless.

ture of the circumstances ac system of terrorism in which all counting for the subsequent de Japanese troops and,commanders

participated" lay, but up to that time, only two assorted: 'It is our duty to of the mine-sweepers had brought that those who organised the their passengers, and there were still women and children who had system are punished, and that the system itself is completely eradi not yet arrived.

A Enquiries later last night fail-cated.

These at the top are, in ed to establiek the extent to view, at least equally guilty with

embarkation had been which

the actual perpetrators on the complated.

spot" Wireless.

A

His Only Regret

from Jerusalem message Aiates that David. Frankfurter,

А

́REAL COMFORT. Friends of those on board inay,

seo

The

which

д

our

ther

urged the United States to build made available to the Allied

25,000 ton combined forces, they pulled their weight such a return in respect of any froight and Passenger ships with the rest of the Allied na-lorry or car will render the owner

1

dozen

Wireless.

Hions Wireless.

Japanese Deaths In the Re-Occupation

MINISTER DEMANDS Australian Government who was sentenced to 18 years however, rest assured that the desirous of

torritories In imprisonment for the killing of a Nazi leader .at

Australians had fought Davos, Switzer-j internees are travelling in a com- In relation to taining the facts

991 fort far. exceeding expectations, land, in 1936, was among

DURING THE RE-OCCUPATION OF HONG KONG Jewish immigrants who arrived especially in war-time conditions. against the Japanese. Two more in Falestine on the first day of The "Empress of Australia" to-judges have been appointed to an

day is anything but a luxury sist Sir William Webb for the ONLY ONE JAPANESE WAS KILLED BY OUR FORCES preparation of a final report THIS OCCURRED WHEN THE NAVAL DOCKYARD WAS Wireless.

the

Erano pardoned

Junc

New Year.

For. the

Gustioff, penialter

C

on

shooting Nazi

FREE DENTAL CLINIC

Stor told nowomen.to-]]

day hin reason for laying the

Nazi was that Gustloff was

the

In Switzerland, and

TAKEN OVER. -

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THE JAPANESE CLAIM - THAT 14: OF THEIN NUMBER WERE KILLED OR INJURED BY THE CHIN.

COUNT TERAUCHI SICKESE.

ONE JAPANESE, SAID, TO HAVE BEEN RECOG- MEMBERS OF THE ES- Nazi top

General Count Tornuchi, Com-NISED AS AN EXECUTIONER, WAS BET ON BY CHIN- World attention hadas a resultSENTIAL SERVICES IN of the murder-boga drawn to the HONG KONG ARE TO BE mander of the Japanese Army ESE IN A FERRY BOAT AND KILLED. Nazi machinations, at an early ENTITLED TO A FREE the Malayan theatre, has sent date

DENTAL CLINIC,

It is estimated that there are word to Admiral Lord Louie. Mountbatten's headquarters that 18,000 Japanese soldiers, sailors, he will be unable poravnally to civilians,, Korea a and Formosans Lake part in the surrender interned at Kowloon,

mony on Wednesday, pleading ill- nese DB.C

JAVA RELIEF Relief supplies and nowa of the He said: "bly only regret la

outside world has at Inst reached that I did not THanks This will be operated by Mr. furter added that he waswell LP Shields the wellnou

Of Royal Navy personnel the 6,000 prisoners-of-war and 00,000 Dutch and other Allied In treated in prison, and when there local dentist, and by Flt. Lieut

only one man was slightly terneen on Jayd.—B,B,C. Gorman Wishart, R.A.T.O was dangor that the would Invado Chur, where he wool The clinic will be at King'a

Allied representativen, includ-wounded. Tropt the Swing prison authorities Bullding and will commence transferred him to another place work to-morrow. The worldnging British, have arrived at Korer

Wireless.

hours will be from 9 to 12 and to take over temporary adminis tration of tho Govorniment 1.30 to 4.00 in the afternoon. American offcorn will, for thiKong to take part in the re- Correspondence:Internos at Stanley are still osling when Workers in essential servicce present, displace Japanero in lay liot of Formoen, according to shall wo hot that promised air-re vited to arrange for april

pointments. A mall from Home?"

administration

D.D.C.

H.M.S. Uran has loft long

DOREM,, ***

a Z.D.W. announcementlant night.

or person in control or possession thereof liable, in addition to exists ing penalties, to such penalties in- cluding fine, confiscation and per-1 manent disqualification of such vehicles to register is provided by

law.

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Owners of cars and Jorries are requested, in the meantime, to co-operate by rentraining from affixing any mark or number to any vehicles. At the earliest pos- sible moment arrangements will be made to register every vehicle and to aflix registration numbers.

U. S. NAVY

IN KYUSHU

The United States Navy hna entered Saseku In Western Kyushu.

The United States, 4th Army are entering Kyoto en Kyushu.

The Kyoto Prefectural Govern- ment had already prepared hotel and

other accomodation for the forces of occupation in advanco

partial solution to the billeting: of the expected arrival, providing problem.C.

AP IN SHANGHAI The Associated Prusa xo-oponed Arrangements are being made, its Shanghai Bureau to-day, while if a playablo ground can be found the Japanese still hold control of. availabic, for a saccer match boy the vital International port city, tween H.M3, Swiftsurd and the ponding its formal surronder.

Wireless. RA.F. on Thursday,