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PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE TO ALL ALLIED EX POWR AND INTERNEES,

by

Officer Commanding, --No-4-RAPWI Control Staff.

Jrt Floor,

Hong Kong & Shanghai Dank Bldg.,

Victoria.

POLICE WARNING

An organization calling themselves. the "Special Action Squad' and claim- ing a connection with the British Army Intelligence Service are making illegal demands on the public. The membere of the organization usually produce card with the Heading "Certificate Special Service Action Service Corps, Hongkong Any member of the All Allied Ex POWs and Civilian public being troubled by thin organizn- internees dependants and wivostion is carnestly requested to hand the who have NOT yet been inter culprit ovet to the nearest police offi viewed by Military of Civilian cor, or in cases where this action is Administration regarding their sta impracticable make an immediate fo fun should report as soon as possi-port to the nearest Police Station. ble to the above address together

with any form of identification.

This does NOT include personnel

of H. K. V. D. C. or H. K. R, N.

VR

Signed R. A. A. Young.

L-Col.

AA & QMG

OC No. 4 RAPWI Control Stalf.

Victoria.

18th September, 1945

NOTICE

Importers of market produce are quested to note that on and from September 19th, 1945 a goods train will leave 10 WInt 2. pm daily for the transportation of foodstuffs only from the New Territories to Youmati and Kowloon.

Dealers are milvised to make full use

C. H. SANSOM, Col.

O.DIC.A. Police (Commissioner of Police)

REISS BRADLEY & CO.,

LTD.

IMPORT & EXPORT MER. CHANTS AND ENGINEERS

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPT EMBER 20, 1945.

THE

CHINA MAIL

Registered Offices:

Windsor House (1st floor)... Des Voeux Road, U, Hong Kong

Telephones: 32912 & 24054 Editor W.-7. Keaten, Ing-

Price Levels

can

more

THE KING'S VICTORY TALK TO

HIS PEOPLES

dreds that you have done, there, must be no falling off, from this high endeavour. We have spent freely of all that we had: now we-- shall have to work hard to restore The King broadcast the fol-f women who shared with them what has been lost, and to establish the unabakable founda lowing address to his peoples the hardship and dampers of ease on t

not alone of material on the surrender of Japan!-- wari 801d

my proud and strength but also of moral author. Three months have passed grateful thanks.

ity Then, indood, the curse of since asked you to join with -The war is over. You know, I war may be lifted from the world-

great wid

me in an act of thanksgiving | think, that those four worda hava and States and acther through,

for the ac, cat of Germany.

We then rejoiced that peace had returned to Europe, but we trat strong and re- lentless enemy still remained.

knew

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for the Queen and myself the saine small, may doril sign fence, imple yet immense, long period of tranquility in that they have for you. Our hearts brighter and better

than toe are full to overflowing, as are ourselves have known. your own. Yet there is not ono, of The world has come to look for to be conquered in Asia. None big war who does,

er who has experienced this torri. certain thinge, for cortain quali- realize that ties from the Empire. We have of the Com- could then fell how long or how we shall feel ite inevitable conne- evident neary would prove that strug-quences long after wo have all for our part to na

play in

restoring the gotten our rejoicings of to-lay shattered fabric of civilization. "It

from But that relief

"dan is a

is a proud and dificult par ue to the

the years to done 60 splendid. mands of the future. The Britial come as you have people here at home have adderly in the war,

and your child untro to the true fame of our ren can look forward to the future, falands, and we stand to-day will not with fear, but with high horren United Nations to this great tuck that I, call you of whole Empire in the forefront of a surer happines for all. It is great, therefore, is our responsi now, and I know that I shall not bility to

sire by the actiona

in vain. here and throughout the Empire of every man and

every woman and Commonwealth that the peac gained amid measureless trials and suffering shall not be cast arbay. "UNCOnquerable SPIRIT"

At-pere must not bli en past if you carry out on the thart, and

our

ін Nothing than that the Colony's rebirth| gia that still awaited mu.

Japan is not to be accomplished with!

haa surrendered, out giving rise to severe labour tet

in thanking Join pains. In the first flush of might God that war has endeu riumph and enthusiasm, we throughout the world, and that perhaps too easily pictured the in every country men may now emergence of the rejuvenated turn their industry, sell, no Hong Kong as akin to Phoenix science to reputring its right arising out of the ashes. In fut devastation and to building

of fact, a The world

resem. prosperity and happiness.

Our sense of deliverance is be more plance

closely Temporary Office

and readily detected

in the overpowering, and with it all on hot bricks, we have a right to feel that we Peldor Buikling. 5th flow, Boom 4. simile of a cal

Chief headache at the moment, nave done our duty. Tol. 31660."

ask of course, is provided by the

you again at this to remember all Empúries will receive prompt preposterously high price levels solemn hour

of in terms prevailing

the who have laid down their lives, altention.

Hong Kong dollar. Insepar- and ail who have endured the able as is the connection be-loss of those they love. Remem-long history the tween the effort to spread the her, too, the sufferings of those spirit of our peoples has served us. into free circu-who fell into the hands of the well, bringing us to safety out of

great peril. Yot I doubt if any now currency

issue which

because their homes han matched the enduring courag gives rise to the deepest con- had been overrun. They have and the quiet determination which ali you have shown during these last involved been The factors

thoughts

It is this unconquer- are easier to seek than to find, through these dark years, and six years.

able spirit that I would speak to but until they are found, and fier un pray that one result of understood, remedy may be dif-the defeat of Japan may be you to-night. For great as are the fcult. This much is clear. many happy reunions of those The dislocation ensuing from who have been long separated

introduction of the

the new from each other. currency and the incidental re-

In many anxious times in our unconquerable

You

In the meantime, from the dot- my tom of my heart I thank Peoples for all they have done, not only for themselves but for man- kind.

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

The

OF

fregist charges for the present, and no COMPANY OF CHINA, LTDuation and the price levels, it is enemy, whether as prisoners of thing in all that has gone before Chung Chau Chit (Mid-Autumn

ol this EEVICE There will be THE GENERAL ELECTRIC

payments of tus nature should be made to anyone

i

Emsworth.

Food Controller

GODDARD & DOUGLAS!

MARINE, SURVEYORS

CONSULTING ENGINEERS

We have resumeci business again at or former address, 1st floor, Aloxapura Building. Tol. 23120.

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. HUNG CŨNG

4. Dos Voous Bond, Contral

Telephone 31332

JOHN STENERSEN,

Managar.

EAT AT

has re openol au ollino ni

St. Gooryo'n Building,

Chater Boal,

2

(Ground Floor),

Taleplona Na 31010

Sopt. 20th, 1946.

NOTICE

Wo have rostuned work in our old offices, 4th floor, Fronch Bank

CREDIT FONCIER

D'EXTREME-ORIENT

Real Estate, Mortgages & Architects.

PHOTOS FROM CAMPS

ON DISPLAY AT

FRANCIS WU'S

STUDIO

ISA, GLOUCESTER ARCADE

JIMMY'S

TO-DAY

"THORNYCROFT"

the latter

cern.

now car

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*

OFFICIAL

pudiation of the run, can swift- FOUGHT IN BROTHERHOOD PROCLAMATIONS

in

The campaigns

172 the Far

the

have

Commander-in-Chief will be

Moon-Cake Festival

Festival), will be celebrated in all Chinese homen to-day, the 16th day of the 8th moon.

Celebrations will not be on the scale as in former years, owing to the high cost of living. though many Chinese confectioners have done a good trade in moon-

same

cakes.

t

.

In many of the Chinese bones, foasts will be held in the court- yard or on the roof late to-night with fruitsondooncakes...na--

for the Mid-Autumn

DAVIE BOAG & CO., LTD.

HONG KONG Buildings Supreme Court, | Hong Kong and Shanghai We beg to asinounce that wo Bank, Star Ferry, Yaumati have now occupied our formør Ferry, South China Morningpromisos:

Chartered Bank Building, (1st door).

y develop

Members of the Public are offerings more seriously IN BITH THE TY present prices are long main-

notified that Proclamations Festival. The special circum-East will be famous in hielos issued by the authority of the Lined. stances of the moment remove fur many reasÐILA. Thero in the majority of Europeans one feature of them which is a from the zone where the full special source of pride to me,ponted outside the following: elfects of the situation can be and also to you, the citizens of fell. The Chinese population our British Commonwealth and not 240 happily placed. Empire to whom I speak. In

Agures, thour campaigns there conservative Quite published elsewhere this fought, wide by side with mur issue, reveal that the cost of allies, representatives of almost Post Building, Harbour Office Offic

our great con- Fire Brigade, Hong Kong living today must be assumed every unit in

Gloucester Hotel Old Hotel. from

and to be at least five times great-munity-men

Chinese Af- MICH froni the Secretariate for er than pre-war, and it must Country be remembered that the Budget Dominions, from

India, and fairs,

Churches-St. John's. Cathe employed for the assessment is the Colonics. They fought in

through based upon

re-brotherhood

their dral and Catholic Cathedral. the minimum

Markets-Central, Western quirements of a Chinese family courage and endurance they

and Wanchai. whose breadwinner'a earnings conquered.

To all of them and to the are those of the average arti BAN. These conditions are not an entirely natural consequence of the transition. They result partly from the activity hastily formed cartels, de- signed either to corner certain commodities, or alternatively,

of

+ Lah

OFFICIAL TOUR OF

to sell at profiteering prices N. T.

without the

it the

Police Stations-Central;-No.-

Factory & Godawas

Quarry Bay:

7, West Point, No. 8, Upper THE NATIONAL CITY BANK Level, No 2, Wanchai, Bay View and Shaukiwan

KOWLOON

Buildings-Star Ferry, Yau-

mati Ferry Hotel.

and

Churches--St. Teresa

St. Andrew's,

OF NEW YORK

(Incorporated in U.S.A.)

HONG KONG

Penins da Planso note that this Office hins and re-opened for business at the temporary promises situated in Building, Kong Bank Ground floor, since September

Markets-Taimshatsui, Yau- Hong mati and Mongkok.

Tsimshatsui,

existing stocks

H.E. the Governor, Rear- prospect of cut-throat compati- Admiral Cecil Harcourt, accom- tion. Another part explana panied by Admiral Sir Bruce Fire Brigade-Kowloon and 14th, 1945. tion is, morally, more defensi- Fraser and Major-General Frank Feating, made a tour of the New Territories yesterday by ear.

+ One amusing incident; oczur- red, right on "the border.

ble. We might term three-figure complex. Adjust ment of prices must be accom-

an adjustment panied by

of idean. It is readily under-

A

Beginning from September 20th, Police Stations Tsimsha-1945 we shall remove back to our taui, Kowloon, Mongkok Tsui, own Building, No. 2, Queen's Kowloon City, Shamshulpo and Magistracy.

The Proclamations will also

standable that traders who Japanese sentry at the crossing appear in the Gazette, which have perforce become accus-seemed completely bewildered will be published at the end of tomed to transactions involving by their appearance.

His each month or more frequently astronomical gume in military orders clearly did not cover the if necessary... yen for common everyday arti

cles of food experience difficul- procedure to be followed on the

arrival of a party of

ty in accommodating their ideas

HPROFESSIONS

to a currency which has real ranking British officers. value. This is factor, however, a Japanese officer turned ever, which should offer its own up; hurriedly, ordered the sen- IN HOUSE

Solicitors

Barristers

Lecturers and teachers

+

[Road, Contral.

Telephone Nos. 20237 & 30321

NOTICE.

Attention is drawn to the Arms und Ammunition Proclamation published today in which all the memisors of the public are required

ammunition in their possession to 38 the nearest Police Station,

The Proclamation defines what Arma and Am- constitutes. 11 munition.".

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solution in short, time. When ed, a salute gravely acknow- Among now Government M.P.sforthwith to deposit all arms, and the true value of the dollar isledged by Admiral Sir Bruce are appreciated, many pricea should Fraser. respond quickly. It is fair,

The party travelled by. way however, to insist that every of Shatin-and-Taipo to the bor

Miners possible step be taken to curb

Railwaymen and rail clerks the manipulations of cartels.der and back past Castle Peak No action can be too drastic If made at the Taipo. Orphanage Trade Union officials

and the Brewery. Stops were Authors, journalists public enemies of this type OUR BRANCH OFFICE HAS OPENED TEMPORARY persist in their operations. The and the Brewery, and also at Co-Operative

Checkweighmen PREMISES AT STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING (2nd FLOOR attitude of Government, so far No. Commando post.

The Commandos furnished a Ministere BOOM 24), AND WE SHALL BE OBLIGED IF ALL PRO as we have been able to ascer- coremonial welcome, with a Doctors and dentists ESPECTIVE CLIENTS WILL COMMUNICATE ENQUIRIES tain it, leaves no doubt of the

TO THAT ADDRESS DURING THE PROSENT EMERGENCY official anxiety to afford relief. Guard of Honour and a march-Hairdressers

past of the unit. PERIOD WHERE THEY WILL BE PROMPTLY HANDLED The sole reason for hesitation dump of Japanese arms, rifles, insurance agents

A large s AND COMMUNICATED TO OUR EXECUTIVE WHO IS the danger of starting some machine-guns, etc., was visited Civil Servants NOW PROCEEDING TO LONDON TO ASCERTAIN FULL thing which cannot be carried after which the party indulged Consulting engineers

through. There are pitfalla

before Secretarios open-air lunch enough for the unwary with commencing the return jour-Surveyors out, for instance, attempting

Hooksellers Joiners to impose price controls, und

Managera for lack of an

PRICES

* DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS; WITEL .LATEST MODELS IN ALL LINES OF OUR PRODUCTS

VEHICLES PETROL/DIESEL

MARINE ENGINES PETROL/DIESEL BOILERS WATER TUBE

MOTOR BOATS & WATER CRAFT

OF ALL DESCRIPTION

OF

in an

noy

One sach-public

Mombora of the public should noquaint themselves with the definition as soon as possibla by reading tho Proclamation posted 10 at all Police stations, markets, tho offices of the Scoretary for Chinese Affairs and other rublic places.

Arms and ammunition should bo takan to the nearest Poliso Stations and handed in to the officer in charge. No questions will be naked, nor will enquiries be made, concerning the arms and 2 ammunition handed in.

Fire arms must be convoyed

1

then, being unequal to the task NO NEWS YET on bile relations en-unloaded to the Police Station.

of enforcement. Two stops.

S

Those aro

21 women

maker, steel worker, cabinet- might be suggested. One is No information has yet been maker, architect, M.O.I. director. Boostpts will be given at Folico the provision of a comprehen received at Volunteer Head- ex-Regional commissioner, M.O.F. Stations only to those mombors sive lat. of world prices to-day quarters as to the whereabouts ment agent, pawnbroker, law stu of the public who wish to apply in order to provide some baels of Volunteers in prisoners of dent, optician, pharmacist, plum later for liconops for their firoarme for calculating ultimate re war camps in Japan. This in-bet, coach painter, wool merchant, when licensing is reoponod. In this

rubber technologist OUR HONG KONG & CHINA OFFICE IS A DIRECT placement costs. That would formation will be published as

avont such arms and ammunition be invaluable as a guide to both soon as it la recolved. BRANCH OF

should be scourely and clearly buyer and seller. The other is Letters for the following are DEATH CERTIFICATES labelled with the name and address MESSAS. JOHN J. THORNYCROFT & CO., LTD. means the import of cominodi-qaarters for collection Gubtitioners are required to call at arms and ammunition deposited." ** to stimulate by every possible waiting at Volunteer Head- All registered mdical prac of the owner and a raforanon to the tics from surrounding ports, bay, Lovy, Mrs. E. A. Fidoe, the Death Registration Office, }) Canton, Macao, Swatow, Swa-J., Lowrie, Pte. Bluestone and Central Health. Office, opposite bue and Kwongchowwan, cables for Birs. Vanco, Nancy the Hong Kong and Shanghai Neither suggestion furnishos Kow, Minnie Maxwell, Mrs, T Bank, during office hours,te the finál - answer. But Maday; Mrs. T. B. Low, Mrs. obtain, free of charge, medica) | ['eithor=may" "contribuța în, some| Lilian Shaw, Mrs. H. Dúdman, certificates for the causo of

moasure to it.

and H.. W. Franor..

donth.

SMITH SQUARE,

WESTMINSTER,

LONDON.

(Signed) C. H. Bausom

Cól Civil Affairs,

__________ (Folico).

optember 19, 1945.