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LATEST NOTICES

MARKETING OF FISH

to

on

1. The Hong Kong Wholesale Fish Market will be opened

buyera registered October, Sch for the public auction of fresh and salt fish at Kennedy Town Market instead of Central Market as previously announced, #DAILY TIMES OF AUCTION

Fresh Fish 46m; to 9 a.m.

and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Salt Fish 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

and 2 p.m. to 4 pm. These times may be altered

subsequently.

THE

CHINA MAIL

Registered Offices:

Windsor House (1st floor)

Den Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong Telophonen: 09012 & 94864 Editor - W. J. Keater, Eng.

ENGAGEMENT

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1945.

The ongagomont is announcod bot:voon Mr. H. W.R. Benth. Elong Kong Polian, son of Dr. and Mrs. W.. Honth, of Worthing, Cursor. and Jou Mikdal Critobott daugh-

3 Under the Marketing of Fisher of Mrs. R.A. Warteson and the

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OF

Regulations, permits will be nevessary for the sale of fresh fish and for the impor

whulcanic export dealing in dried or salt fish. Permits, which are free, may be obtained from the officer in Charge Fisheries (Civil Affairs) 2nd floor. Mercantile Bank Building. Queen's Rd. Central, between the hoars of 9 am, and 5 p.m. REGISTRATION

Intending buyers of fresh and salt fish at the Hong Kong Wholesale Fish Market must first Register at the Kennedy Town Market or at the Fisheries Office at the Mercantile Bank Building nod not at the Central Market as previously an

unced in the press.

GAC HERKLOTS,

Officer Fe Fisheries

(Civil Affairs).

auf October, 1945.

CIVIL AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATION, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE BRANCH

A luted supply of the following

volo soods will be available I local residents with private

aria

Spring Onious Tiontein Cabangu Tomatous

Cabbage Cauliflower Pesert

Applications should be made to the Botanical and Forestry Sextion, 1st floor, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building.

T. I ROWELL Colmel, Contral Executive Brun Hong Kong, October 3rd, 1945.

ILK.V.D.C.

REPATRIATION NOTICE

All next of kin now in long Kong whose husharida, ul., word Priors of war in Ja van aro vory strongly advised in their own inforests to dofor de artare from Hong Kong until such times

final dostirantiam

when thoir 1:47120x1

ho

baads, etc. can be a500r-

f

E. N. THURSBY, MAJ. & ADIT., Hong Kong Volunteer Defonce Corps.

NOTICE

All Printing Establishments in Hongkong or Kolom ablo to acced printing orders for immed- into delivery, should register at once with the Controller of Print

ing, South China Morning Post Bikling, 1 & 3, Wyndham Stroot.

F. P. FRANKLIN,

Controller of Printing.

FAR EASTERN SHIPPING AGENCIES

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The oflico of this Agency has the boon established on Ground Floor of Union Building (Connaught Road side) in the promises formerly occupied by the OP.R: Telophone Nos. Managor :27064 & Gonotal Offico 24049.

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lato Lout F. Critohett, R. N.

FAIR RENTS

Housing is on priority to become one of the Colony's most ve ed questions. Already it oc cupies a foremost place in many the one hand, of minds: on tenants faced with exorbitant rent demands; and on the other, of landlords unable to evict undesirable tenants, or 'squatters' who decline to pay any rent at all. Between these particular extremes there is a whole range of variations.

And this is only the beginning. Within a few mouths, as the normal population begins to flow back in increasing numbers, as the gap between the supply of habitable European dwellings and the demand widens. as it is certain to do, the extreine scarcity is bound to be reflected

unless legislation by regulation is introduced to keep the situation within the bounds of control. That some such imperative goes legislation s without saying. The landlords Tenants, present and expect it. prospective, clamour. Legally, if is understood, the pre-war ordin

122 rents

ance conditioning a landlord's right to eviction and controlling the rents of existing terants, remains in full force. Such has been the upheaval, however, that by itself, it is hopelessly inadequate for the task in hand. The old evil of sub-letting is going to rear its head. When re-conditioned houses become available they will be outside the scope of any There are existing legislation. good fandlords, and bad land- lords, and the bad landlord is of all the most rapacious animals. Unless the scope of control is extended and ration- alsed by "fair" rent tribunals, an era of exorbitant rents can Moreover, hardly be avoided. such tribunals could do valuable work in the nearer future. in

EMPEROR HIROHITO UNIQUE Army Fire

Would Abdication Be Best Course? Brigade

The Declaration

of

Potsdam, whore-upon

L

the father standa

the opening move in the final security for the boy and sees that assault upon Japan, made no the line in paid. Thin spretnel mention at all of the Japanes. Is AD unusual in international Emperor. This

deliberate. affairs that it is well to consider Washington officinis emphasized it further. the omission in comment ent

WAR

was broadcast to the whole world.

including Japan. Japanese nd visern seized on this point wher the

moru

R

Ren

th

THE THREE GROUPS.

the

From the seventh century A.D. atomic bomb and the Russian

Japanese society was divided into declaration of war, added to th

three groups; the Imperial Clan, cumulative destructive allied bom.

to have which claims

provided bardments from air and

emperors in unbroken succeanion to

decision to brought them

nu, descendant of ever since Jimmu, surrender.

the Sun Goddess, came to On August 10th the Japanese throne in the seventh century Government indicated its willing- B.C.; the other Divine Clans, who nena to accept the Potsdam terms,

traced their ancestry to mytholo provided that they did not "corn

gital gode not so eminent as the prise any demand which

pr ancestors of the Imperial line: Judieen the prerogatives of His

and the Stranger

Clans, who Majesty

Rufer." Sovereign

could not claim descent from the This appeared to be making muel

gods of Japan but had been in than the authors of th

ced into the nation. Potadam Declaration had mran

without appealing to my. The Allled reply thology or could flow.

the one Imperial dynasty mado

that it clear

from t

can certainly claim an antiquity moment of

authority greater than surrender the

than that of nhy other of the Emperor and the Japanes Government to rule the State ruling house. During these days of utter bewilderment this 1177- "ahuli be subject to the

pre- disputed pre-eminence and stige gives to the Emperor significance which, to, the armies of occupation as wall as to the Japanese Japanese,

Is of the highest im- portance. The Emperor repre-

or sents to his people the perman- the self- ence.

the unity, and res respect of the Japanese nation no other person, group, or move- ment could possibly do.

First, then, 2.4 long 08 the the Japanese Emperor remains, nation is reassured as to its por. manence. And reassurance on this point is

ia badly needeef by the Japanese people. Most of them had little dealings with foreigners. Many of them have been convinced nre out to that the foreigners enslave and destroy them.

Commander of the Allied Suprem.. | M

According News

Wax

to

Con Anred

meeting

the Jupanen when this answer at Cabinet in the Imperial Palace on August 14 the Emperor said that, although opinions might be divid of an the subject, be thought the allied reply recognized the ap therity of the Emperor as Se. vereign Ruler.

the

CLAIM TO SOVEREIGNTY,

Each time

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the

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Head

This looks rather confusing The position can hardly be said to have been made clearer by which treme in

the Japanese finally signified their acceptance

Allied demands.

in point fact the dignity of the Emperor, now brought before the attention of the whole work, stood out in the Japanese statement more markedly than ever before,

According to Togo's message, had Emperor

issued д Rescript Imperial

regarding dam Declaration; he was prepared Japan's acceptance of the Pots to see that his Government and the

Imperial General

света quarters sign the necessary terms out the provisions for carrying of the Potsdamn Declaration; he was also prepared to issue orders required by the Allied Supreme Command for Comm

the execution of the terms of the Potsdam Dee- laration.

the reference is explicitly

document which makes no mention of the Emperor. Members of the Government may change (as indeed they have) but the Emperor remains and is convinced that the Allies will con tinue to recognize him as sovereigu ruler. Despite many rumours abdication he seems to be cast for the role of ensuring that his "good and loyal subjects," defeated by the

shall do what is

is necessary enemy, to meet the

consequences of the mistakes. In his address to the nation, the Emperor revealed him

of the

hi guardian Belf the eternal clash between landlord people's welfare and of the trus and tenant, the landlord some

bequeathed by his Imperial an times has right upon his side.

restors. On grand scale the situation might be compared to s

in which Today, he argues with some cogency that the cost of living police-court

man of good family listens whil is high, and that he has a elani

evidence is given against his son to enjoy increased earnings from

and the judge passes sentence his property to meet those costs. Not just now, when a standstill un 1941 offers a breathing-space for study of the problem as a whole, bat perhaps in a few months, his chains may be en- titled to scrutiny, again the proper function of a "fair" rents Tribunal.

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д

There is no need to remind renders of the mutual recrimina- than which will be rife between representatives of the army, navy, Industry, agriculture, profesiona: civil service and the rest. At time like this. such clans and groups would fly spart with cen force except for one fac The Emperor. It is still open doubt to

whether complete na tional unity will be preserved now the fact of surrender

and being brought home to all,

the effects of the atornie when bomb, have

like a prodigious earth

Turns

Up

BRINGING WITH HER PER- SONNEL OF THE R.A.F.. R.A.S.C., R.I.A.S.C., R.A.0.C., AND AIRFIELD MAINTEN- ANCE, AS WELL AS AN ARMY

FIRE BRIGADE COMPANY. THE 3.3. "TAKLIWA" (CAP. FAIN R. TRIMBLE) BERTHED AT KOWLOON WHARF YES. TERDAY.

She came in on Monday and had attempted berthing the following day, but found the gale a little too much and had been forced to re- turn to anchorage.

worn off a little But there is no doubt at all tha even the hope of unity would go if there were not at the centr

Service in the Mediterranean for that By-wheel of Japanese society the Imperial Person. It may be two years, a personal bag of two different in the

"Jarrica" more distan

shot down, and future, but such is the case to patriation of Italian war prisoners are part of the "Takliwa's" war day,

service record.

Thirdly, the work of the allied foreca of

and our occupation hopos for a settlement in Japan which is one condition of better times

b not in Asin, could realized without the retention of some self-respect

th Binong

This self- Japanese themselven. respect is sufficiently preserved for the moment by the fact that Japan's enemies still recognize the Emperor on the supreme Japanes authority and that he it in who

io continues

lend the people through their darkest days.

TC.

Almost exactly an year ago, she carried to Dunkirk tho Free French Government of General Charles De Gaulle,

the

The “Takliwa", which is the ren- dering in some unknown language for "Lucky Duck", is a sister-ship of the "Talamba" and the Tairoa". Both these sister-ships saw service as hospital ships, Curtnor forall, which had been benched the big typhoon of August, 195 being Bunk after bombing of

All three were on the Calcutta- Shanghai-Kobo run before

ww

the

in

C

off Salerno.

Mackinnon,

rno.

thu

and half-troup.

Half-10 can accommo-

the

and carries 14

medical staff of six doctors, 11

Emperpetuated a lie which matron, four sisters, threo V.A.D.

A LIE PERPETUATED

war, and were built primarily for Without enlarging on this last the Fur Bantern trade. The owners

anyone concerned

about Bre

British India Steam Navi- point, future

sunnot peace

holp but gation

and the

the local agents record his deep dismay at the

Mackenzie & Co. particular

way

in which the Emperor began to

foster self-ship, respect among his defeated people: date 800 The

first broadcast statenient

B most sinister for the future By reiterating that war was de clared

Britain Amorica and One paychological factor in the out of sincero desire to ensur present situation needs to be Japan's self preservation and the membered if we are to understand stabilization of East Asia, with popular Japanese feelings at this

of infringing mament Japan has never in her out any thoughts

of other upon the sovereignty of fented be lines in some long history been completely dep

upon terri- fealed before. She has admittedly nations or

the Em-

PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR

on

of her trial embarkin

Oversea adventures; she has been "humiliated by foreign Powers at international conferences. But the Japanese people have never before

had to taste the bitterness of sur -

render of all their armed force and occupation of their homeland. This in really an "unprecedented situation." In such circumstances the fact of the Emperor, scion of the Imperial dynasty coeval with heaven and earth, still on his throne, suffering with and for hi people, is the only reassuring por-

Governments chang tent left.

but he who is above all Covera- mants, the Japanese rock of ages remains.

Again, the intolerable furt

spitting defeat will tend to apart of various groups in Japan. and only the Emperor can nasur any government of even the sum

Some blance of united

support. such unity is essential if the allied is to be even moderate- 15

pectful. It is not always re

cognized how clannish is Japanes society. The men of Kyushu hove a clannish bond which makes ther self-consciously different from the men of Honshu, The men of Hak kaido are separated by more than A strip of water from the others

poror may have been saving face he was also impugning the whole of the allied mural foundation war effort

new

By making the statement, re- poated niso by Suzuki, that Japar WAB defeated most ariel pomb" the Empero was preparing the way for the legend of a martyred nation. the Japanese side was righteous. ness; on the allied side superio. selonce ruthlessly applied.

On

пугаем And

welfare two lady officers, beside an Indian hospital staff of 58.

She comes here from Bombay, and touched en route only at Ma- dras and Chittagong.

Governor Tours N.T.

Villages.

J.

REAR-ADMIRAL CECIL HAR- COURT YESTERDAY MADE A TOUR OF THE NEW TERRI- Unless the threat to universa TORIES STOPPING AT NEAR-

LY ALL ponce Implicit in this kind of

IMPORTANT VIL is propaganda

and recognized

LAGES ON ROUTE, TALKING future righted, the

course of TO THE VILLAGERS, FIND- Japanese history will be founded ING OUT ABOUT CONDITIONS on a lie, and our position during GENERALLY. the occupation will appear morally He was accompanied by Captain

Mr. indefensible, nothing military J. W. Grant, R.N. and

to the Japanese Barrow, Civil Liaison Officer, Aggressiveness,

His Excellency commented at people.

Instead of their willingly ac- Taipo, after visits to Tsun Wan. cepting that we on the frustrated places, that he did

retribution which in- Un Long, Kam Tin, among other not think it was free rice that was wanted but supplies of rice for the villagers to buy. Currency ahortage was also evident and His Excellency suggested, tentatively, that establishment of credit for suit- able persons might be considered.

evitably

way of the aggressor and turnin to a "better way," the Japanese people will do what they can to prepare themselves, their children and their children's children t achieve what will seem to them righteous revenge.-The Times.

the

R.A.F. BRINGS NEW CONCEPT OF WARFARE

น

buck. of 1944, turned

That flight, on the first day Since

which ammunition und supplies when troup Carrier operations

were taken to an isolated British were begun on the Burma Front, With houses likely to

Division, is believed to have been the Troop Carrier Command in change hands in considerable

South East Asia established the turning point in the Japanese offensive in the Arakan. British numbers by the summer of next radical new principle of warfare,

During the thousands of sorties and Indian troops, sustained by year, the labours of such tribunals

But the Command dropped millions of might indeed be heavy.

within rifle shot of troops-often something needs to be done, and pounds of supplies to combat

it is to be done, it must be

It carried Infantry

imposed, or at least announced, in the very near future. The right time for action is as quickly as possible, for every month of procrastination will increase the difficulties.

will

ROYAL VISIT TO BRUSSELS

the

air supply, fought their way out uns to newspapers to the the forco no it can w, but that.it 18

details of the encirclement had warfare. In the past, it had been been flashed to General Slim's considered a military axiom that Headquarters, the Transports were the cutting of the lines of com- on their way for Fighter escort. munication of a force dooms it to destruction. Encirclement is fatal. By day and by night they flew

Carrier Command proved every conceivable commodity, from

that it is only repeatedly not practicable to supply an encircled The 7th. Indian Division and

function effectively Japanese were locked in a com against the enemy, plicated series

manoeuvres possible to

continuo this process "TROOP CARRIER Indefinitely. Each time the Japanese which resembled a game of cheat,

COMMAND'S OPERATIONS OVER BURMA PROVED. CON- CLUSIVELY THAT WITH AIR

In

14th

WING-COMMANDER

DICKSON

that

year,

of

to checkmate the Allies, the Fred Carrier Command converted a Pawn into a Queen and made th SUPERIORITY THERE IS NO Japanese run for cover. Durin

SUCH THING AS ENCIRCLE-

the

and Artillery units many miles BY behind the Japanese lines.

When Lord Louls Mountbatten, Supreme

Allied Commander in South East Asia, asked Lleuten- ant General George E. Strate

to form

operation of an encirclement which threathia hectic period many TroMENT moyer to

an Allied

In other theatres Troop Carrier air force for the war against the toned them with disaster; the Carrier Pilots flow as many as 18 Japanese in Burma

turned hours a day. As a result Troo and South Japanese offensive was

Carriere' February tonnage for units have transported and sup- East Asia, General Stratemeyer into a Japanese defeat.

plied ground troops for short exceeded the January figure, January of set up the Eastern Air Command under, its

But behind the scono, in Lord emergency periods, such as the with

General Old's Troop Carrier Com- arms upder

Loula Mountbatten's and Gonera Troop Carrier operations during These four air

of a Tactical Air mand began its career by dropping Stratemeyer's Headquarters, ar the invasion of Sicily. Following consisted Force, a Photographie Reconnais thousands of tons of supplies to

greater job Was being the initial Invasion or attack and Brussels, Oct. 3.

establishment of normal trans- was planned for Troop Carrier Com Army. The and a Strategic Air Force,

effort The British King and Queen Race Porco, Troop Carrier Com-Lioutenant General "Bill" Slim's avon

make an official visit to It was only logical to establish stopped up in February when the mand the airborns invasion of port facilities by boat, train and Brussels on June 19, 1940, the the Troop Carriora as a separate battle for the Ngakyodnak Pass Burma. It was the job of Trbor truck, the units have reverted to The India-Burma border, how- Brussels newspaper "La Lan- Forco for, in the unique Burma reached its climax. The 7th Carrier Command to fly in the their routine transport operations. terne" said to-day, The news-war, air supply of ground troops Indian Division was encircled, and majority of the British

to airfields constructed be eye, la a geographical freak, the been paper said the visit was sche- the 1942 when Gonelt forplies could not reach them hind enemy lines, after Colone walls of mountains running North

forces were

General Slim, Air Marshal Sir Phillip Cochran's Air Commandos and South between the two coun-

Sir had retrenal

flown in the airborne en tries make normal methods of Air Force John Baldwin, the then Comman and United States Army Air der of the Third Tactical Air gineers and bullt landing strips communication impracticable and,

of accommodating thr Force aircraft during their march Force of Eastern Air Command, capable from Burma. The Command, an

an and General Old conferred with C478

indication of the risin moinbers of

Stratemeyer's comprised number Bet up. Compra cu and Hub Staff. The position at that time offensive against the Japaner Troop Carrier Squadrons in India.

Anglo-American cooperation in Messrs. LAMMERT BROS,, | Rogarded as one of the moat they critical. They found may be gained from the fact Air that, in March, the supply tonnage Auctioneers and Appraisers, have skilful pilots in the theatre, Marshal Baldwin's Spitfires and and the sorties flown by Troon Troop Carrier Command paid a resumed business at their former General Old led many fights por Hurricanes were to provide ten Carrier Command were fifty por handsome dividend. It had been

than in February premises No. 2, Connaughtonally. He once headed a squad-

|cover, for General Old's C.46s and cont operations over Burma, and their wounded on that battle. Road, Central, 2nd Floor,ren of Allled Troop Carriers Into 0478.

on n stormy day attend to the supply job. A few the Troop Carrier Command de front of mountain, swamp, jungle tho Arakan

now concapt. of and river. 16, Pottinger Street. Tol. 33585.Telephone No, 20224,

when several other Flight Leaders hours after the message giving monstrated

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Miniminimas by

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answer to the problem.

(Dakotas) which would ..In

krovin

as a result, any warfare in that area became, from the aspect of Troop Carrier Command, a con-. Gnuota operation.

the baviour of the fighting troops