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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1045.

LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

'DAVIE BOAG' & CO., LTD. “THORNYCROFT”

We bog to announce that wo have now occupied our former promisos:- Offloo-

Chartered Bank Building, (1st floor).

Factory & Godowns-

Quarry Bay.

REGISTRATION OF

FISH BUYERS

(1) Buyors of fish, frosh and Balt. at the Hong Konut Figh Wholesale Markel must registor at the Central Markot and pay a tho doposit of $300. Owing to

tho now presont shortago of curronoy, buyers are permitted to dolay payment of deposit to the and of November 1945.

(2) Buyors who register as salt fish buyers may buy salt fish only. Those who regiators frost fab buyera ay buy fresh fish only.] If one buyer wishes to buy both salt and fresh fish he most registar twice and make two do,xisita.

(3) Paoh buyer must be givar- antond by two other rogistorod | buyor.

Our Branch Office has opened temporary premises at Stock Ex change Building (2nd Floor- Room 24), and we shall be obliged if all prospective clients will com municate enquiries to that address during the present, emergency poriod where they will be prompt- ly handled and communicated to our-executive who is now pro! ceeding to London to ascertain full details and specifications with

THE CHASE BANK,

HONG KONG.

15, Queen's Rond, Central, Marina House.

Tel. Nos. 32361, 39573,

FIREWOOD

Offers are invited for supplying

THE

| CHINA "MAIL

Registered Offices: Windsor Touso (1st floor) Des Voeux Road, 0. Hong Kong Telephones: 89812) & 24954 Editor-W; J, Keatca, Enjo

ENGAGEMENT"

H. K. COMMUNITY MUST DO ITS PART

Some of you know me and of me; some do not Those that do know that I was born in Hong Kongte

Intelling rice at a loss to Government, nt 20 cents nor catty:

that Government was adopting basle measures to bring the Colony I practised in Hong Kong as a

back to pre-war

prices and to edlicitor for 14 years before check; inflation and price increases. December 1841. Stayed in Hong 1, and also you, have witnessed Kong under the Japanese regime the evils of inflation without the The engagement is announced of till October, 1948. In May, 1948, necessity to-day of a too pointed Mias Troni Ruttonjoe, youngest the Jap gendarmes took me in an reference to the vicious circle it

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. political suspect for a period of creates.

two months and gave me every- You have seen in comparative- prices of latest models in all lines Firewood to Government from Ruttonjoo, and Mr. Rusy M. Shrothing they had in the way of torly short period rice and other

Joutside the Colony of Hong Kong Manager of Mossrs. H. Ruttonjoe.tures and 10

of our products-

Vehicles--Petrol/Diesel- Marine Engines Petrol/Die

вол

Boilers-Water Tube Motor Boats & Water Craft

of all description Our Hong Kong & China office is a Direct Branch of :-

Messrs.

JOHN 1. THORNYCROFT & Co., Ltd. Smith Square,

Westminster,

London.

CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

(4) Buyers art asked to registor Temporary Telephone Nos:

at the earliest possible moment. Tho Manngor Tel. No. 68044 (Mr. No registered person will be D. W. Munton)

allowed to buy fiali at the wholesale The Executive Engineer. Tel. No.

markob.

(5) The date of the opening of in wholesale market will 10 Announood in the Press.

6. A. C. Harklots Director of Fisheries. Hong Hong Government-

NOTICE

All persons who, on 8th Decom- ber, 1941, were drawing pensiona at the Command Pay Office, China

58045 (Mr. F. C. Clono) Tho Distribution Engr. Tel. No. 50454 (Mr. C. F. Wood) Distribution Dopt. (Gonorai) Tol.

No. 57006

Night Complaints Tel. No 68695 Motor Dept. and Consumers En-

quiries Tol. 56005 (Mr. G. A.

White)

NOTICE

"We would advise our clients that we Command, should furnish ithout are now in a position to clean and re- delay to No. 10 Staff Paymaster, pair typewriters and frigidaires. En- Wellington Barracks, the follow-quiries should be addressed to us at ing particulars:

Name of pensioners;

(2) Place of residence;

(3) Rate of pension in issue

und date when last drawn;

our former showroom in Alexandra Building, Des Voeux Road.. Telephone No. 25235.**

and New Territories.

Offere to be submitted to the Fuel Controller, King's Building (Ground floor) stating:—

(a) Quantity and details of "Timber offered and source

of supply.

& Bon, Lid, son of the Into Mr. and Mrs. M. B. ShroT of Shanghai.

in

the

THIS FREEDOM

д

November,

commodities increase in prices I went into from about One Military Yen to roo China. returned from hundreds of Military. Yon. What Kunming over 10 days ago. was sufficient in January to covor

You will

appreciate, then, that I know what I am talking about not merely theorising.

a month's expenses was insufficient for half a month in March, and

the result was a dingdong battla

the

A year and a half ngo, sat in of individuals and

inde.. an office.

At Kwellin and found my mands for higher and higher (b) Price in Hong Kong cur Stanley residents, herded tores wandering to the big map prices, higher and higher wagen,

rency per picul delivered_gether five, six, twelve in

opposite me.

higher and highor, avon

avon ricksha was a map showing in fares. No one could control this either alongside Praya at room until the latter-day large-detail the Island of Hong Kong, mounting scale of the cost of Hong Kong or Kowloon or scale evacuations, will, we are Kowloon and the hinterlund, and living, and NO ONE TRIED. at a Railway Station in aure, learn with interest that a variety of nostalgic feelings You want freedom of British territory.

in the Mountains of the Moon surged up in me as I looked at widest sort-because you have hand Africa there is a British the greens and the browns shad your bellyful of control and of officer one thousand miles framing the land on the map and the living under the dark canopy of

nearest cinema

deep and lighter blues of the sens fear as you have known it for and 500

around.

the last 8 and a half years. miles from the nearest other I have lived in Hong Kong white man.

He has been alone most of my life, as you have done. in this desolato spot for I have climbed its hills AA supplies, stores, commodities, or eighteen months and is quite youngster, and many a time have ganize aquads of price control in- happy about it. There are crossed the Harbour on the spectors, make arrests for in- many who have been at Stanley Star Ferry at night and felt afringements of price control-you who will find it in their hearts I looked at Hong Kong by night. senso of exhilaration and pride na to envy him. Fanatical lovers But I have also seen the lights of communal life, if such there go out in Hong Kong and in the be, soon found their gregarious hearts of ita pe tabby fingers of Dimmed and by the crushed by the

(e) Time required for delivery Any further information may be obtained from the Fuel Con- troller.

T. RAMSAY, Fuel Controller.

THE DIOCESAN GIRLS SCHOOL, KOWLOON.

is opening on October 1st, 1940.

Registration Date:

Monday, September 24th, 10a.m.-12 noon.

Mr. Goodban will sou Diocesan School Boys at Diooosan, Girls' School on Tuesday, Boptømber 26th, at 10 a.. A limited number of these may be admitted to Dicoon

instincts worn thin

there

were

You do not want Government to set celling prices, commandeer

BY

MARCUS SILVA

IN A BROADCAST FROM Z.B.W. LAST NIGHT

exigencies of Internments Japanese Hand-stamped out proximity, and

a ruthless, ground-scrap. many who from the earliest ing Japanese Hccl. days echoed Greta Garbo's oft.

Then-Hong Kong by night was want to revert back to the old wish to

a dull, drab blot against a duller, Pre-war days, when prices were expressed

be alone, drabber night sky.

steady and reliable; when you Only a few lucky ones, left with

knew in March what you would I see Hong To-day though, whole flats to themselves, have Kong again by day and hy night have to spend in living yet achieved anything akin to and at night, the lights are on and for the Christinas festivities their heart's desire. Those again, beginning to Blaze out all December. When you could who witnessed the scenes on the way from Connaught Road to buy your packet of 20 cigarettes for thirty cents, get your cup of the jetty at Stanley during the twinkling, coffee for 25 conts. Then, I ask

sparkling and alive. Girls' Baliool. Tel. 50686.

early evacuation and saw

do you mind goes back. I was in you, why under the tient passengers boarding the the Mongkok Police Station in a not co-operate with Government in ELIZABETH M. GIBBINS, B.A. Enipress of Australia.

Government's attempt to revert to for in-cell sight feet, by six feet. Hoadmistress.

stance, received warning of the Everything inside of me strain-those days and those prices?

Why

must you. continue to sloughs of despond which awaited towards the window high up, the pilgrim in search of peace thinking of the outside world, the think in terms of the tremendous before there appears even a sunshing and freedom that prices you paid for the cost of for from the bottom of my Military Yen and do your best to your stock in terms of the rotten S.P./10/25. semblance of early attainment. soul hoping, and praying-pray-sabotage the true value

and hoping-until on the Mountains of the Moon and ex-Staniey residents listen to my pleas, no Heaven to is, of course, of entirely differ-fulfil the

NOTICE

Companies firms and individuals

cer

pa-

The spirit animating the ofl-11pt that there was no God to Hong Kong Dollar?

Can

san

(4) Nature of pension-retired Agents, UNDERWOOD, ELLIOTT- supplying goods and servious to the ent texture. None is likely to heart. I saw almost in my sell your length of cloth in terms

pay, disability pension, service

pension, widows or dependents, Indian pension, etc.

(5) Awarding authority-His Majesty's Paymaster General, Minister of Pensions, Royal Hos pital, Chelsea; Deputy Controllor of Military Accounts, India, etc.

(6) Serial or reference number

of awarding authority;

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

>FISHER CO.

NEW YORK.

LOWE, BINGHAM

& MATTHEWS

.

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

I have reopened an office at (7) Particulars of any docu-Mercantile Bank Building and shall ments which may be in possession, attend to receive enquiries each but not the documents them-forenoon. Tel. 26439. selves;

(8) Until further instructions

have been received from the Unit-

ed Kingdom and India no pen-

August and September 1945 before the return of the Military Foroos

are hereby givun notice to render all outstanding demands by 30th November, 1945, in the following

mannor:-

1. To obtain from No. 10 Staff Paymastor, Wallington Bar- racks, Hong Kong, copios of A.F. P. 1922 and to enter theroon all details of demands.

wardly prosaic figures of Kipps again.. Bome

to

my

that the habit of make-believe Japanese weapon of rule. in which most children indulge

bia

of the

you not realize that if you of Hong Kong Dollars at six because if FRIGIDAIRE CORPN OF Military in December 1941 and be mystified by the urge of 1 should have given up belioving times its pre-war price, the ternees to get away by them altogether, it would have meant cigarette seller in the street who With the sheer madness, the madness and has to buy your cloth to cover selves for a while.

person has to charge you six pre-war price for the her many would suggest it. And one of the Indian guards Umes the

to enjoy! cigarettes you desire cell-door was definitely bad to be thus stole in

and whis- industriously engaged in culti-

And that the six thousand dollars. vation of the Inward eye. Yet

pered words of encouragement:

never mind, Mr. Silva, you amass in this manner is only equivalent in purchasing value to the desire to be solitary may You will get out, and after 0 well spring from the most in- while the British will come back the 81,000 you amassed pre-war?

The out- and everything will be all right selfish, non-cooperative manner You cannot expect to act in a nocent of motives.

and say: you are beginning to and Mr. Polly, are proof enough lose that Fear that was the "Let the next, man lower his prices and thereby bring back The Japs, if you will cast your pre-war living standards, whilst I 2. To make demands in Hong never quite fades into the com-minids back, did not rule by the steal a march on the majority and

Kong dollara.

mon light of day and against weapons of a free government and as a fortune by demanding 3. To attach to the completed the mass-produced entertain- a free people-law and order high prices for my goods." And A. F. P. 1922 copios of all ments of to-day there is much they ruled by the cracking of the not have it boomeranging back on delivery notes aigued by the to be said for it. Modern in-whiplash, and each and every one to you where it hurts most. your

of us walked around the streets pocketbook. officer receiving the goods or ventions, such as the radio and in Hong Kong furtively looking, I called in my Chinese tailor services.

the cinema, present a formid-over our shoulders afraid to talk, the other day and he charged me charging not quite afraid to whisper-every vestige exactly able threat-perhaps

B suit of clothes. 4. Wherover possible to take a compulsive as internment of freedom that inalienable right pre-war tots

the A.F. P. 1932 to the to the privacy of the individual. of every human-taken away fromis unsolicited statement was:

"T want. to do my bit in revert- Officer ordering the supplies That there should be some res or services and to obtain his volt against it, a feeling that gives back to you again by the

That freedom to-day is being ing to pro-war prices."

Now, if everyone of us did that, signature to the appropriate not only. the world but the certificato on the reverso.

people in it are or have been British Government, But-like all the day might come again when

comfortable month's living. 5. To forward the completed ficult to understand.

too much with us, is not dif-humans, some of you begin to your IK$100 would give you a grumble and mutter occasionally In that Japanese gendarme gaol, bills to No. 10 Staff Pay-

real, true precious- recon learnt this that:

ness of Freedom, at you too have master, H.Q. Land Forens,

slowly going into

learnt, it in

the vast Japanese Hong Kong.

Kong was

only Because we have been deprived prison that Hong of this freedom of action and of a short month ago.

When I out of Hong Kong

gut speech for so long, we have, for

In 1943, I appreciated in full the gotten that freedom entails in-

significance and beauty of dividual co-operation on the part

John Flaming, C. A., Partner.

sions can be paid. This is mere-21st September, 1945.

ly a preliminary step, but every

effort will be made to expedite

the matter.

NOTICE

Will all persons having know- Ledgo of the whereabouts of the Graves of any Allied Service Personnel who were killed in battle, digd of wounds, died in hospital or internment campe, or under any other circumstances what-80-ever planso communicate with Major J. C. Riddell, E Q. Land Forces, Victoria Barracks.

MEDICAL NOTICE ··

REISS BRADLEY &¦ CO., LTD.

IMPORT & EXPORT MER- CHANTS AND ENGINEERS

Temporary Office: Podder Building, 6th floor, Room 4. Tol 31660, Enquiries will receive prompt attention.

NOTICE

Owners of property in Kowloon

A 3000nd dental olinde has bonare requested to arrange for their opened in Hong Kong, on the second premises to be occupied by ten-

ants or caretakers.

is done.

floor of Pedder Building. The

The military and civil authori olinio in open on woek days from

ties cannot accept responsibility 1.1. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to for preventing looting unless this 4 p.m. for members of Governmont Departments, Essential Services) and of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defonoe Corps, who were formerly dotained in prisoners of war and

By Order of Military Authorities, Kowloon.

internment camps, and for their 20th September, 1945. 'dopondants.

P. S. Bolwyn-Clarko, Director of Medical-and Banitary Services:

NOTICE

NOTICE

Whitfield Barracks Internmont. Comp

Until further notice, no visitors will be allowed to the camp, nor

All apgistorod medical practition may any foodatudis, clothing" or ors in Hong Kong sro requested medical comforta bo passed into

to call at the Death Registration the camp by, friends of relativos Ooo, Contral Health Office, op- of intornoos posito the Hong Kong and Bhatiglia Bank, during office hours

to obtain, free of charge, modioal

bortiilpatos of the baino of: donth (forp-No-19),

By Order of Garrison Commander,

Howloon.

20th September, 1945.

:

6. Bills received by No. 10: Staff Paymaster will be held until 30th November 1945. After that date a Board of

H.K.'S New Commodore

hore and thera:

struction effect.

17.

09

what he wŁA

of each and every one of ul." Ithe-FourFreedomspromised.us.

military officers will bò.con- The following appointments

United Nations-Freedom from vened so that paymant may were announced yesterday by dom returned to us.. we must co- Want; from Fear, of Worship and be considered. Full postal the Royal Navy:-

operate wholeheartedly with every of Speech. address of the claimant Rear-Admiral D. B. Fisher, bonevolent action of Government

If you want Hong Kong, your should be given, so that CBE is appointed Flag Of so that Hong Kong will get back notification may eventually ficer, Western Area, British on to its feet at the earliest Hong Kong, to be bathed and

possible date.

flooded in the light from those bo forwarded of the payments Pacific Fleet.

Let us take a specifle example. Four Beacons, where there had authorised

Commodore D. H. Everett,

As I personally interpret it been Darkness and Despair, then D.S.O., M.B.E. is appointed and I must make it clear at this do your little bit--cut your prices Where the bill received Commodore, Hong Kong."

tho stage that I am no Government down, refuse to buy from is complete in overy detail, Rear-Admiral

Fisher has spokest exercising my right

official OF

man unofficial

who charges too highly, payment for services read been Rear-Admiral Fleet Train freedom of speech, a right

but am

with co-operate to

way in every ered in 1945 will not be held since the British Pacific Fleet granted to me by the Broadcasting For today

Government each readily

man must do up, but made immediately. began to operate. He had the Studio. I am making this broad: his bit, because to-day is the day Claimants will roseive notion difficult job of supplying the cast as an ordinary citizen, and of the Common Man, or as Honry to collect their monies from British Pacific Fleet with my personal interpretation of Wallace has put it

The Century of the Common the Fold Cashier, Hong stores and ammunition guns Government's actions:— Kong & Shanghai Bank fuel when it was 4,000 miles In pogging the Hong Kong Man" and that means YOU

Dollár. to the pro-war rate of Whero aboquos had already His grant chain of supply 14 8d.; and again. bean liguod in 1941 by the ships operated between Aus-

from its rear base,

NEW ARRESTS

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 23.

THE

thon Command Cashier trailan ports, Manus in the viously he was chief of Staff to (Captain, T.A.T. Thompson) Admiraltics, and the forward several flag officers in the Medi- theso should be forwarded to areas, Haking up with the terranean for the invasion of No. 10 Staff Payukator warships at rendezous behind Sicily, Sardinia, etc.

A WAVE OF ARRESTS OF The postal address of the the battle areas.

Howon his D.S.0 for his JAPANESE APPEARS LIKE- olaimant should be clearly This enabled the Flect to re-part in the River Plate battle LY IN THE NEXT FEW given and the nature of the main at sea and in action for commander in H.M.S. DAYS, BASED ON

WAR service or supply Batod months at a time, thousands "Ajax In addition he earned SECOND ALLIED No. 10 Staff Paymbator will of miles from base. Com rapid promotion for his part in CRIMINAL LIST. A

Additional prlsónára" of war lator forward authority for modore D. H. Everett, D.S.O., the attack on the Graf Spec.

M.B.E. was commanding officer Commodore Everett's home have been reported discovered":" the money to be drawn from HMS Arbiterone of heat Milford-on-Sea near by morty teams" in Halnan: tho" Hold Cashfor in the Britain's éscort carriers, before Southampton. He is married Their condition was reported Hong Kong & Shanghai Banks his present appointment. Pro- and han three children.

as bad-Associated Press.