1945-09-18 — Page 2

...

Page

PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE

REPATRIATION.

The vessel aniling for ENGLAND will now leave on TUESDAY, 18th! SEPTEMBER, 1945.

Stanley passenger will embark at Stanley at 9 n.m. on TUESDAY,

Hong Kong passengers will embark ai Queen's Piernt TUESDAY.

១ 2.10.

No.10/1945.

NOTICE TO MARÍNERS HONG KONG HARBOUR SLAVAGE OPERATIONS

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG

THE

.CHINA 'MAIL

Registered Offices: Windsor House (lat floor) Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Rona Telephones: 02819 & 24584 Editor. W. J. Keates, Esq.

NEW HONG KONG

KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1946,

Each a Self-Contained

Army In Himself

•

-Good-evening-everybody. This for-a-fow seconds, could hear And a toast to the next man to is Stanley Maxted here, I'm his breathy groans, as he tried to die." Canadian-I've been away from cry out and couldn't Just over Thoro wore a lot more songs my homo five years now. fundor- my head his loga were thrashing along just these lines-raw, and stand that there are myriads of around like a small child's when humorously macabre. They made things about the European war you tickle him..

my blood run cold, Then, sunic With the formality of the signing that you have not had a chance to That was how we hit Germany, body

called hear

for: about. Well, after visiting East of the Rhine, of the purretidor document safoly you I can understand that.

Peter nudged I'm

Some days before, I had had a "They love singing this." out of the way, we can perhaps proud to talk to you. Out of all signal to return from the 9th U.S. with a Bottle down to the task of rehabili- the list I thought I'd pick on a Army, North of Cologne, and re- they all started in.

deep-throated sort of roar,

What In the dockyard camber. tation and the building up of the crowd of chops that I came toching London I learned: there of the "Loat. Chord" followed by in London that was all. On called "Jerusalem" was the verse

Details:

on

Salvage operations are tak ing place at the following Positions.

(1)

On the west wall adjacent

to the dry dock at Royal Naval Yard, Hong Kong.

(2)

(13)

The following Kowloon passengers) should embark direct on board 3.S. **GLENGYLE" at Kowloon Wharf] at 10a.m. on TUESDAY.

Mr. & Mion CARMONA.

C.A A. Office,

Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Bldg.,j

fat floor

17th September, 1945

1 NOTICE

Importers of market produce, are requested to note that on and from September 19, 1945 a goods train will leave LO WU 2. p.m. daily for the transportation of foodstuffs only; from the New Territones to Yaumati and Kowloon.

Dealers are advised to make full use of this servicc. There will be no freight charges for the present, and no payments of this nature should be

made to anyone

Emsworth, Food Controller.

NOTICE

THE SUPREME COURT

Information

All

Arc

warned

J.JOLLY. Harbour Master.

hoak Nong 15th September, 1945.

POLICE WARNING

WAB

me, and

"Jerusalem "

Then

murmured:

British Airborne Divisioncol

col-They thought it was pli, the sume

there

If 1

grand

men

on of chord of Where music like the sound

they sang, then "Jerusa were Amen

"It was all completely. sing." cockeyed, but anyhow I found my tightening up they so very serious about it.

Crawling

were

into my blankets later thinking on these men way they look dentli

That they Hong Kong In the vicinity of Noe. 6 and now Hong Kong that thoro has know pretty well-partly because

boon such a lot of talk about. It the Japanese came

they may have been. formed 7 berths.

Job to be done with the 6th the chorus of "The Holy City." Remarks: A red flag will be hoisted is a job that will not answer to any Kong and partly because.

Into when diving is in progress gimplo formula.

leagues of those wonderfyl Many ossantial rather happy about having been had known at Arnhem vessels when in the vicinity of supplios and materials, the Inak off with them now and again. They they were going Hot discussed. lem, Jerusalem, hark how the an..

Force to do or when, was hot are the British Airborne any of the above positions, which begin to down the enthu-and they wear maroon berets. That suited to proceed as

right me ble with singms of oven the most energotic Each one of them is a self-contain- didn't know, the chances were that ponsible compatible with nafe navigation.

ainong, us, have to come from dvored army in himself, some of them very few other peo

did elther. people Charts affected:- Nos. 1459, 3280, 1456 88, and, at the best, we must go in gliders and some jump by Major Roy Oliver, who led our Authority: Naval Authorities. expot driblets when what we tough and rugged gentlemen in Arnhem, arrived with his col-

parachute--but

they are all very little party out of the shambles at really need is an ungeasing flow. deed,

and

are trained to use all league, Captain Peter Cattle, who and tho Nor have wo any 18surance that, the methods eschewed by the Mar- dropped with these men of the 6th aquaro in the eye, and map their as you, any norious attempt has quis of Queensberry, and a good in Normandy on D-Day. Like, Angers in his face.

neods, in some sort of order of pri-Chiengo.

in to have around. We drove out inte frayed snapshots from their wal-

the

English countryside for lets and shown them to me, pic.. ority, permitting those in high

These • mon

are particularly several hours, and toward evening tures of "Mum and Dad"-maybe authority to obtain a comprehensive good for certain job because they were convincing a sentry at the standing in a ting pioture of the magnitude of our

Aro used to fighting when sur-Igate of what looked like a concen-of a garden somewhern stamp in Eng requirements. One of the initial thuray They always start out ration camp, that we were not land, or their best girl, or a wife

way-there'd be no object in Nazi spics, troubles, which calls for careful being airborne otherwise. Among to come in and really had a right-maybe a wife and a baby. watolring, is Government's in-ather things, as I said, they're the rest of the lacked up with imagine these last ones must be doing the most thinking or maybe olination to think of government taught all the dirty

tricka thore At this camp on the second day, they didn't dare to, think. and to work for govornmont, its arc in unarmed combat besides Roy Oliver ambled into our hut

The last night the ing a connection with the British Army bolteney to build, say, roads and going on fighting when the ordin-1 with a roll of maps under his arm, was as taut as a violin

nry soldier might give up.

He gave two to each of us together the morning would and the in- Intelligence Service are making illegal reservoirs, hospitals and houses-- The training to go along with with a very much enlarged aerial tolerable period of inaction of demands on the public. The member for Governinont sorvants-ard to share is is a three weeks deb. 1 photograph of son fields, two being shut up with nothing but of the organization usually producer

started out tumbling around on a the Colony's aforget somewhat

linca and a lot of trees. your own thoughts. "Certificate

To-morrow, card with the leading

economic structure. its ideas y mat in a hangar. Then we As Peter unrolled his two maps no matter what the next sun-down Service

vice Corps. Action Service

went out on the road and fell out and scanned their pect Any member of the about priority noods

contents, he might bring, the thunder of the uro apt. of the back of a truck-all to get grunted: "Oh-oh, so that's it." beginning of the end would be being troubled by this organiza-soriously, to be overweighted on used to falling relaxed. Next we The maps were of the

territory

tory beard along the Rhine. We turned tion in earnestly requested to hand the the side of its own 'imparative jumped from a sort of tower from beyond the Rhine and just North the lights out

and culprit over to the nearest police off-roquirements.

Almut up 110 a parachute with a heavy spring of Wesal. That told us something. Young Bill, the Merchant Marine

attached to the top. Then a jump anyway. Roy Oliver said the Kid, was restless for a few atriation, thoroforo, Usore should Jump from brion

and Hali-lunch. "Well" says Petor, "now In the morning before faxes. When you've done the first we know to have the flowers trucks took us out to the airfleld.

It's the sent, anyway."

On an over-sized run-way hun- On the naxt bunk to mine was a dreds of gilders stood; faced by Of course my bones are getting kid of 21, who from time to time hundreds of four-engined bombera a bit ald and brittle so I always came out with some of the most to tow them. B.B.C.'s Richard cheat. I wind puttees around my naive questions imaginable. He Dimbleby came across looking ankles under the

jumping

boots. silller than a war correspondent with a broken ankle to start off

been made to itemise the primary to the more unethical males

many that are popularly ascribed Roy, young Peter a good man Several of them had. pulled out

An organization calling themselven the "Special Action Squad" and claim

cer, or in cases where this action is

the where stable-casa-stice Stardato

port to

C. H. SANSOM, Col. D.D.C.A. Police (Commissioner of Police)

required of the where

abouts of - (1) The Seals of the Supreme Court.

Papers, files and other docum ents oth

(a) the Companies' Registry,

(b) the Probate Registry.

POLICE NOTICE.

(d) the Land Office, and

te the Bankruptcy Court,

in the Marriage Registry.

write

Captain Bonely, Supreme Court. Kowloon. Telephone No. 2505%.

(Signed) GEORGE STRICKLAND.]

C. H. Sansom, Col. D.D.C.A, Police

Colonel, C.A.

Legal Branch

13th September, 1945.

16 September, 1945.

Hongkong.

bo no enyor optimism.

there

Events, of course, may prove that fongs are unjustified and our anticipations orr unduly on the side of pessimism. The problems are,

jump the rest is enny

one that takes a bit of doing.

I

lady."

went to

but

ง

min

alinittedly, complex, and it would don't suppose there's anything/Represented a London daily paper, rosy-cheeked and disgustingly t

the

wns with the First Airborne

the straw that started

on the

do

WARFARE AS TOLD BY

the

STANLEY MAXTED

HONG KONG'S RADIO

Z.B.W.

He was going in the aircraft that towed our glider, and we were to some recording over the inter- glider to bomber. We loaded up, and with a terrific din

first

wn the ran- moved down way-regular as clockworks one

thirty

seconds. Then

it was

tuga

every our turn, and I felt the sluggish movement along the tarmac, the picking up of speed, then a smooth rise and fall da we became air- borne...

We wor

„mera_on_art_WAY.........

England's green loveliness need

by under us to terminate where Channel with Ita.lace edges of lazy. white foam. Sunny, sparkling sea, then the sand dunes, ef i'

then

the pock marked battice

scones

of

Bel-

be worse than foolish to imagine that results can be had by the use of goven-longue boots. Then, too, with. He'd just have to sit there AN EPIC OF PARATROOP com from Governmont itself is pasing and let the war page him by. Well, 6. Any other papers, documents,

through a rather extraordinary Divialon at Arnhem-I think that files, furniture, booka, typewriters,

Members of the public are time of readjustment. Splendid as story will live as long as British stationery, etc. belonging to the requested to report without delay has been much of the work done by traditions are remembered, but if Supreme Court or the offices of at the nearest Police Station the the civil administrators who came

it wou

wouldn't born

born you I'd like to tell the Attorney General and the presence, of any Japanese, Korean out of Stanley and Shamsiuipo and of the Rhine by the 6th Airborne

You

something Crown Solicitor,

about the crossing Formosan still remaining at took over important duties prior Division, because that operation Please

ur telephone to large in Hongkong island and to the Fleet's arrival, the dualism was real back breaking, and

of activity has not, at any time, which lead to the final rolling up IN A BROADCAST OVER white cliffs hold in the English

the camel's been wholly or markedly beneficial. of

a once mighty German Army. Co-ordination has, with the best

On March 24th this will in the world, been difficult to northern part of the front, Field) (Commissioner of Police), achieve. And it may ultimately

Montgomery's

Army he better for the Colony all round crash its way across the old Rhine Group started to hammer and when the last of the old crooks River. Then, while the German and this was his first assignment. Holland then, Western Germany. lina doparted for a richly-earned Armies were pretty well occupied His enthusiasm was terrific, but it Squinting ahead through the tiny holiday and 1 solely military in front, just before 11 o'clock in was plain to see that he hadn't round porthole beside me I could Administration to vdes nf he to the smoky windingen tened

beging

of the can and British Airborne troops in for. He was an engaging kid, Rhine. My stomach funotion 08 single entity: dropped about G miles behind and quito new to the business. He into a knot. We did our. last re- Under such changed circumstances. them and that's where Jerry's had been in the Merchant Marine, too, information of a prooise nature morale just about gavo up

the but ghould never have beon acnt crow to the tug-plano as

the Rhine, and

and in the mid- may be more readily obtainable, By Impressions of that weird jobs.

on a thing like this for his first die of

talking I saw through the und the Circumlocution Office may

Hittle porthole the unbelievable That night when I morning were something like this. funation a little less efficiently. I could hear the whispering whis- asleep he reached his arm accous flying alongside

was half sight of the glider had

that been One of the lessons which Govorn-tle of the air that operated the and tapped the blankets over my dred yards away, burst into flames. a couple of hun- mont has so far succoedod in tea- glider's flapa. A Spandan ma-shoulder. He enquired very softly: I looked aw

away. to the one ahead, ching us, in the short weeks since chine-gun that sounded just out-ar say can a War Correspondent and it burst into flames too. Little

the glider was tearing wicked win the V.C.7

mumbled some the Japanese surrender, has been holes through the fuselage like an thing about "Not a war corres-pricks Were

in the sky around. Next, the case with which it is possible explosive typewriter. It was mixed pondent couldn't win the V.C. to slip book into old ruts. It is to millimetre incendiaries.

glider out Beyond others just the slower slam of twenty- and anyway, all he was supposed

broko in half-without burning bo hoped that the military and

For a to do was to make carned fraction of second

sure and emptied two vehicles and before some-that everybody heard · about temporarily

of little pin-men, sprawling militarised officials thing exploded inside my head. guys who DID win them.

lot froshly out from Home Lavo

and whirling without." any para- The sour smell burnt cordite Thursday night-the last night chutes. It. was. difficult to think brought with thom some new ideas. was suddenly everywhere. we spent at this camp---Peter and of what I was saying, to I just Plans for the new Hong Kong oan

shelter of wicker

I went down on one knee in the I went down to the men's canteen asked Dimbleby to tell them all at nover go forward if we are toasoleno cans. Sasketą full of to find out what they were talking] home how these fellows were go- hot and about. Upstairs over the canteen ing into battle. There was a band sickly was dripping over my right was a

bump a big room with

in it while I was piano

trying to

EAT AT

JIMMY'S

TO-DAY

ARE YOU LEAVING?

to

Keep up-to-date with the reconstruction of Hong Kong by subscribing

"The Weekly China Mail," which will also contain all local news, and photographs from "The Hong Kong Sunday Herald."

EVERY THURSDAY. 30 CTS

OVERSEAS

(INCLUDING POSTAGE)

PREPAID

3 MONTHS

6 MONTHS

ONE YEAR

$5.50... $11.00. $22.00

THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE, LTD.

Windsor House, 1st Floor.

Tol. 52312

NOT CIVILISED!

'Blackburn,' | us. I

fborne

the

showing

the

up

Wo

like pin-

want the various air with us. The vineeling

BugG

a

okin,

WAS

travel along the old roads, fed upon soul-warming promises. What oye and off I my chin, and just then It was wreather in smoke, and we were cast off.. That well- we want are now minds and now a giant kicked the glider in the packed with glider pilots, para- remembered

stomach Thero mothods.

was a great rend-troopers men of ing and a horrifying

tamilcar in bounce There

regiments-all great circle was coming in with was another bounco and bunched around on chairs and the rush of the wind in her wings some more ronding, and then drinking strong tea out of large to touch down. I just had time

yg seemed to be hartling brown enamel mugs. One of them to nec:

thick white Go space, na daylight filled was sitting at a tinny, old upright fog on the ground, thon that Melbourne, Sept. 17 (AP) with dust was suddenly all around piano with several of the notes ming through the sides of the Brigadier Arthur.

glider started that was when the commander of Australian forces Bron caratched, fascinated as the missing.

that was chained to

to A plans like that is not the sort explosive typewriter spat its mes in Java in 1942, arrived here to ring-bolta in the Boor went

thing to put at the disposal of through our day and reported

plywood that he oc exorably. casionally obtained improvements/ely out of the nose of the fellows on a night which, for al

That fog made it imp

it impossible for of Cng the whole works the glider pilots to see where they

it. don't know why be one of their last two on earth were

and we had hit. Ing to tell the world after the but I noticed it steel caterpiars—when we came into the awa

they didn't seem to

to railway

landingement · that took war that the Japanese were not going round with its traction, as mind.

the under-carriage, careened civilized. He said the argument

saw at the same

time two signal-room they were belowing some into an orchard that tool always impressed the Japanese.

to the tune of John Brown's wings, and then just plied up. The. top of the carrier, wiped off like

"I should like to meet the two glider pilots had the floor breadcrumbs. Some battering xam had hit me in the small of the the vorso wont. Than come Bren carrier, but were unhurt back it was a Jeep trailer that the c chorus: Glory, glory, what.a

as were the two signallors that was chhined to the floor just be- helluva way to die-and I ain't worn brushed off when it ploughed hind me.

gonna Jump no more." There as through the mose It had punched forward about another one to the teno of "The

SHANGHAI PAPERS

NOT UNDER WAY

..

lora who had been lying ont one who

forgot to hooli, mef taken out from under them by the.

Shanghel, Sept. 17 (A:P.) — The French Courier de Ching six inches and then, niorcifully, Is the first foreign language the chains and ovdbolta held. My nowapaper, to resume publicational, Public Relations Officer of the hal. The British-operated Shang-was

chin -

on one elbow, with blood hal Times, which the Japanese malcing a spider web over his face. seized, had been turned back One of the man was on the publiphor.

staring fredly at noth

bird might look at a

D

One

All American citizens desire of his legt, rigid in front of him, ing to be repatriated aro to ro- was quivering in a sort of convul glater at the Amorleau Consusion Half-way up the side of the into in the Hong Kong and fuselage another man was pinned Shanghai Bank Building on

cross the chest by wreckage. Wednesday, September 19.

couldn't see him faco, but through the sudden, awful.quiat that. Jasted:

Red River Valley, that ran

"When you

from your plano in the morning,

wrockage, but

Bullets kept reiving for the

through

light

I found myself lying

down, in a ditch: beside a co Just remember the sorgeunt's Peter was lying ahead of me. We

were both

Jadvice, feet and your knéos into the grog to, burrow down.

close together.

Koop

very nice...

And you'll hit Mother

with bur noses, When a mild voiced.

Iced doctor, who Earth doomed to boar a chormed"

bound us up and directed us to aid-post in a German farmhouse. "Horo's & toast to the men who We had come down about 8 miles

The last verso: was:

are ready.

away from our dropping zone, and... Here's a tenet to the ones in the now the crashed ellar was under firo and wo couldn't get to it. In Hart's a toast to the first in the jeep trailer was a sending net

to, get there:

(Continued on Pape 3)