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SOUTH CHINA FURNITURE CO.

FURNITURE DECORATIONS & PACKINGS

18, loo House St. Tol. 28436.

REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 13

Accommodation for MEN only for Australia, New Zonland, United Btatos of Amorioa and Cana will bo available on a ship loaving on Liste will Baturday, 6th Dato'or. bo published in Friday evening's paper.

Applications for passages will be resolved in this office up to 11.00 s.m. tomo. To v, Priday.

The undermentioned are listed for the shi

Mr. F. W. Shaftain (Police) Mr. P. II. Weare

Mr. P. J. Clarke

Mr. N. A. Elberg

Pastor J. Neileen

Mr. D. L. Newbigging

Mr. G. E. F. Thompson

Mr. N. Len (6, Tsar Tseung

St.)

Mr. F. M. Ball

Ar. 1. (: J Bullen

Mr. K. G. Blair

Mr. 1. CO

Mr. A. J. Kew

Mr. F. W Foster

Mr. V. V Macdonnell

Mr. R. Smyth

Mr. E. J. Spradbury

Mr. I V. Thorne

Mr. F. W. Van der Steeren

Mr. 1. Vinger

Mr. W. D. Murray

Mr H. W. R. C. MeDonald

REPATRIATION OFFICE.

4th October, 1945.

NOTICE

All persons who, on 8th Dec- ember 1911, were in receipt of Family Allowancer or an All- ment from the Command Pay Ofice, China Command, should furnish without delay to No. 4, R. A. P. W., Control Staff, 3rd floor, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, the following particulary:

A Details of Soldier.

Army number.

1.

2.

Rank.

3. Initials & Name.

4.

Regiment or Corps.

5.

Permanent address

other details.

or

6. Relationship to claimant.

B. Details of Claimant.

THE CHINA MAIL-

Registered Offices:" Wadnor House. (1st floor) Des Voeux Road, 0, Hong Kong Telephones: 02312 & 24354 Editas--- W. I Keatsu. Wag

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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER ∙G, 1945.

REFORM IN W. INDIES

LONDON, OCT. 4.

"THE GOVERNMENT TO-DAY PUBLISHED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE FULL REPORT OF THE WEST INDIES COMMIS- SION, TOGETHER. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ACTION TAKEN

EN IN CONSEQUENCE.

CONDE The

of the Commia- chairman sion, which carried out its study of conditions in the islands in 1038, was Lord Moyne, who was assas sinated in Egypt last

last year The Report is exhaustive shows that one of the

principl probleme le the rapid increase In population, which will double teel'

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Economic troubles 20 years. wore caused by over-production o crops competing in a glutted mar ket, poor housing and a low standard health

of measures.

in

nanitation

to

The principal recommenda- tion is a gradual change mixed farming, instead of con- centration

for crops export.

upon

Looting and destruction is

too long going on

unchecked. No matter where one goes along the Island roads young trees and saplings are being backed to pieces, in an orgy of wanion destruction. It may seem miracle that Penk residences etin contain something of in- terest to the pillager. The 1 nel remains that organised looting, of floorboards, window. panes, and so on, goes on day after day, adding its steady quota to the derelletion of valu- able property. More discreet- ty, but one the less actively, the senle of looting in the areas of greater population is still

Constitutional reforms have been such as to demand drastic action. In the early days of the secu-carried out in all of the larger

inlands-Reuter. pation, the official apology Was acceptable. The few police available for duty were woeful- ly insuffelent io tackle even routine cases.

Regular pa- trols were out of the question. The navy and the military had henvy tasks to perform, de- manding their full time and at-

Vandalism had per tention.

force th be accepted as part of The price to be paid for tem- porary disorganisation involved In the drawn-out processes of Laking over. But Bix weeks have elapsed since the Fleet sailed in and more than a month since the last Japanese crossed the harbour to Kowloon.

Lime a halt was called. De- forestation under the Japanese Occupation has already pat the Forestry Department back thirty years. on a conservative estimate. Yet the wanion pro cess persists to stir nothing be- yond a lethargic yawn, no far

the eye can sue. Unless

The measures taken include th granting of large sums for agr cultural development. training in scientific farming, town-planning etc.

UIT)-

Mexico City, Oct. 4. Mexico's Senato to-day animously ratifled the Tinited Nations charter.-Associated Press

FAR EAST STORM SPOTS NOT NEW

(By James D. White)

---SAN-FRANCISCO, OCT,-4. THE TROUBLE SPOTS WHICH APPEAR TO BE, GROW- ING DARKER IN THE ORIENT ARE NOT NEW. THE *ALLLES JUST UNCOVER THEM AS THEY MOVE IN, DISARMING THE JAPANESE TROOPS AND TRYING TO RESTORE THE PRE- WAR STATUS QUO. INDOCHINA CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST THREAT-

1.0000 ENING AREA, WITH

FRENCH TROOPS ABOUT TO ARRIVE IN SAIGON WHERE THEY MAY FACE SOME 20,000 ARM ED ANNAMESE, WHO DO NOT WANT A RETURN TO FRENCH IMPERIAL RULE. MORE THAN 300 PERSONS, INCLUDING

100 FRENCHMEN, ALRE ADY HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SOUTHERN INDO-CH INA. In the north, aroun dilanol, The British have another the

Chinese already have de headache in the Dutch East clared themselves the suprem Indies, where they have gone authority for the time being into Batavia to take over from 1 hey refuse to recognize one surrendering Japanese until ocal Annameso independence Dutch forces arrive. movement--the Vict Nini There is another indepon which had set up a government | dence movement which has under the Japanese.

speeded up, establishing a "go- One report suggests strong-vernment" after Japan aurren- ly that the Chinese were not dered. It is headed by Indonesian restraining a rival organi. enders who the Dutch claim are sation which appeared abou! politically unknown

men who the time the Chinese occupied collaborated with the Japanese, Northern Indo-China, Thir The British commander-—again new group has not yet dis-with only a small force at his closed the source of its funds disposal-has insisted that the Dutch meet with the Indonei-

Re-Education

of Nazi

Youth A Tough Job

LONDON, OCT. 4. FOLLOWING FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S STATE- MENT THAT RE-EDUCATION OF GERMANY'S YOUTH RIVALED THE FOOD SHORTAGE AS A MA- JOR PROBLEM FOR THE ALLIES, IT WAS REPORT- ED TO-DAY THAT THE DIFFICULTY EMBRACES TEXTBOOKS, SCHOOL HOUSES AND THE QUALIFI- CATIONS OF TEACHERS.

ONLY ABOUT 300 TEACHERS HAVE BEEN APPROVED OUT OF 1,790 REQUIRED ALL TEACHERS WHO SERVED UNDER THE NAZI REGIME ARE SUBMIT- TED TO EXHAUSTIVE EXAMINATION AND THE AL LIED AUTHORITIES HAVE DECREED THERE WILL BE NO TEACHING WHICH GLORIFIES MILITARISM OR PROPAGATES, REVIVES OR JUSTIFIES NAZI DOCTRINES or DistuR BS RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ALLIED NATIONS.

aware that the Japanese were being deliberately blind to their activities, the type responsible for the destruction would not have ventured upou it during the Japanese regime. It was a capital offence to cut down a CORRESPONDENCE treel Su they knew better.

It is not necessary to resort to

the mediaevalism of Japanese methods, to bring it home to

A. PLEA

Textbooks are & tremendous problem. Almost every exist ing book W215 indoctrinated with Nazism.

sans.

TIENTSIN SORE 'SPOT

Another continental spot of tension is North China, where American marines • who landed at Tientsin arò almost completely surrounded by dissident Chinese forces, who claim they belong to the Coinmunist eigh th route

army.

Nazis Will Feel Cold This Winter

BERLIN, OCT. 4 -THE GREATEST MENACE- TO THE GERMAN POPULA TION DURING THE WINTER MONTHS AHEAD IS MORE THE DANGER OF FREEZING THAN THE THREAT OF

rations, with present

CA In wannth- giving

will accentuate the noed for protection against the bleak cold. In the forests around Berlin there is an abundance of timber for fuel but there is the culty of transportation it is reported, most Berlia stoves are not readily adaptable to wood.

Allied prisoners of "war" fro quently kept in fair health on

calories than the fewer

present diet affords, but they considered

STARVATIOstalo of

aro

not

adequate for persons who have to do hard work. If it were Apr!! instead of October, there apparent-- ly would not be cause of serious concern, provided the allied zones of occupation could continue feed BerlinAagocinted Press.

NOTICE

to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers and Appraisers, have resumed business at their former premises - No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd Floor. Telephone No. 20224.

China has asked the United States to ascertain from Siam exactly what has been going on in Bangkok, where there has been trouble between Siamese and the large Chinese minority. The reason

for the round- about approach is that China has no diplomatic relations with 2. Siam and had none before the

The Allied

in troops Siam are British, thereby mak- Ing the Slam difficulties a many- sided problem.

war.

MARKETING OF FISH

to

1. The Hong Kong Wholesale Fish Market will be opened registered buyers on October, 5th 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 4 a.m. 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 p.m. These times may be altered

subsequently,

MUTUAL SUSPICION One of the reasons

behind all these controversies is the 3. inability of the various Powers to get their troops back into liberated oreas quickly. But! Montgomery enld he viewed obviously there are also indica- reeducation of German tions of mutual suspicion and youth

as the most important dislike. A possibly hopeful note long-term obligation

was a Moscow broadcast that 4. Soviet troops had begun with- Allies in Germany.

Manchuria and A number of British men and drawing from women are filling posts dealing with youth and adult education,

the

of the

Sir, With the hustle and bustle them that neither will destruc-prevailing in the Colony at th tion be permitted under Bri-present day and the frayed state fish rule. They have bean get of the nerves of the majority o

residents and ting away with it, and they wil

hard officials, the voice of for- keep up. the campaign until they

bearance needs to be heard. learn that they have taken ad-

Forbearance by and towards all. vantage of leniency a shade

Criticisms and unsolicited compli overlong. A jeep patrol

but the actual teaching is done HOUSES FOR DISABLED thonts (?)

cheap. Are

Kindness by carefully selected Germans. Flow foland road, and military and consideration to and fo: judi on the strategic routee of others are of prime importanc departure from

Many seemingly the higher at the moment. levels is all that is requred to unconsciously offend in ignorance.

A few cases in

The fault is not entirely theirs 10. Amount previously paid atop the rot.

the Military Court and hooli- Forgiveness of their shortcomings per week.

ganiam will give pause. Any-fou

fought

7.

8.

9.

Name

Permanent adhiess.

Number of children &

age.

11. Date last weekly pay-

ment drawn.

At the time of furnishing these details dainant should

(11

thing, as long as it ends the 200

Wat

The war came, and was won, but the wal against ourselves 18 sil! on. failinge

present masterly inactivity... Human nature does not and can-

produce all documentary evid REPATRIATE LINER

ence in his or her possession. All claimants should furnish particulars by the 30th Nov- ember, 1945.

Re-issue of these payments is under consideration and any decision reached will be com- municated direct to the claimant at a later date.

No. 10 Staff Paymaster, H. Q. Land Forces.

POST OFFICE NOTICE

SUNDAYS

Commanding on 7th October, 1945, the General Post Office and tho Kowloon Contral Post Offico will be on to the public on Surdays botwom the hours of 10 a.i. and 12 noon only.

On ofor days the opening hours will continuo jo bo from 10 am to

3 p.m.

BRANCH OFFICES.

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On and after Mraday Bih Outo- bor, 1045, the 8SHEUNGWAN and WANTSAI Branch Post Ofidos will be open to the public for tho enle of stamps and the posting of fottera... Opening hours will be aS follows:

Wook days: 10 ako. to 3`p.m.. Sundays: 10 s., to 12 noon.

J. EL B. LEE,

D. A. D. C. A (Posts & Talographs),

Xue Outobor, 1945,

SAILS

not

who may rernight.

light

P

but

the

Human and thos have seen the no doubt act accordingly, others need to be groomed neved.

by patience may that b They need to be “sym pathised with. Some may have lost all they held dear to them kind word gives untold solace and pleasure,

British Major Gallacher, who controla education inj Brunswick, where there are 88,000 school age children, says the big problemus are

London, Oct. 4.-It was an nounced in Huddersfield to-day- that in the big housing schemes boing undertaken by the town, one house in gvery three would be reserved for a disabled ex-serviceman-Reu-

ter.

the

- buildinga, teachers and

equipment. He said, how- ever, that 329 out of 430 would all be gone by December. schools can reopen.

By that time, no doubt, In the British occupation Chinese will have ample troops zone, another part of the "re- in the region to take over. But conversion" programme

is the there are still dark shadows ini training of potice personnel. the Far East to indicate that The British are employing December will not see the res-

fully of "pence nearly 22,000 regular German toration polles and about 15,000 auxili- earth."-Associated Press. aries, while 20,000 recruits are "To err is human, to forgive being sought for training.

A. E. KEW'S M.B.E. divine." is still universally truc

Several police chiefs are be- It is notified in Volunteer and to-day more than over wing brought from Britain for Orders that the following award need to follow closely that age the L

Carrying nearly 900 passen- gers, the "Highland Monarch" sailed yesterday for the United Kingdom via India.

Mr. K. Schouten, Mr. A, G. Langston. Mr. A. M. J. Wright, Mr. W. R. Worrall, Mr. J. .S. Dinnen, Mr. M. I. de Ville, Mina M. N. Baxter, Mias M. Botelho, Mr. P. T. Hamlin, Mr. W. R. Parker, Mrs. M. Reiners, Mr. C. R. W, Thomson, and Mrs. G. E. Van der Laan, who were on the sailing list, withdrew at the last minute.

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Under the Marketing of Fish Regulations, permits will be necessary for the sale of fresh fish and for the import or export or wholesale 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 hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m..

5. 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 and not at the Central Market as previously an- nounced in the press.

G.A.C HERKLÖTS,

Officer i/c Fisheries.

(Civil Affairs).

3rd October, 1945.

DAVIE BOAG & 00., LTD. programme. They have was made in the 1942 New Year old maxim. Patience and for-

We beg to annomos that we :: bearance with and for all of us started a police school in Ger- Honours List: R.Q.M.S. Al- should be the keynota. Only one man policemen take a one-month To be an Additional Member of

Gerbert Edward many. Former regular

Kew, H.K.V.D.C. have now occupied our former. perfect man ever walked this way,

promisos :-- and that was long ago; still in course then pass their know- the Most Honourable Order of moments of uttermost trials ledge along to new members the British Empire (Military and disgustedness 'wo could do Associated Press.

Division). well to take a page out of His notebook.

the

H. G. Asame.

Y MEN'S CLUB

were

JAP REDS IN PRISON

SINCE 1929

TOKYO, OCT. 4.

Offico

Chartered Bank Building, (1st floor). Factory & Godowns

Bay.

FAR EASTERN SHIPPING AGENCIES

BLACK MARKET CURRENCY Closing black market quota- tions yesterday showed an ap- preciation as against the Hong

Sir, I should like through the Kong dollar of the Chinese dol-courtesy of your

paper to thank lar of the Chinese dollar and all who have been so extremoly the military yen,

helpful to my colleague, Mr. The military yen was quoted Eric Railton, and I, who at 1,000 to H.K.$1.00, and $100 commanded by Col. Field on Aug. Chinese

quoted at 30 to report to the Y.M.C.A. for

duty. H.K.$1.46.

The R.A.F. took.. The Australian pound depre- the building at the request of

Possession clated from

Capt. Eccles, R.N and on Sept. 3. II.K.$13.

700 τηση were billeted and fed. at We continued to be thr reception contro for the B.A.F. who were responsible for law and The trio and two Koreans-Lee an active role in Communist ec order in Kowloon and the N.T. Kung Hun and Kim' Chun Hai-- tivity now." They said the party's the suggestion of Col related that 10,000 Japanese Com- objective in distribution of all

All Printing Establishments in Churchill, chairman of the EA.Fmunists were arrested in April State and Imperial land holdings. welfare counell, they was do 1020; wore beaten with baseball to the people and riddance of Hongkong or Kowloon able to roqulaitioned for usd us a y bats and tortured with burning Mikado fem men's club, and it has been taken incones and with sticks being system of government.""

and the emperor nooob printing orders for immed- lato delivery, should rogistor at over as a going concern by Can driven under their Angernails. tain Blackmore, of the NAAFI Finally, they said, all but 1,200 Thoy and it could only be ones with thio Controllor of Print for at least six months.

were frned Tokuda was quoted brought about by revolution "and Ing, South China Morning Post Meanwhile, A. W. Ingram, as saying soven Japanese Com blood must flow." Domel Bald Building, 1&3, Wyndham Stroot. general secretary, ex-internee, and munists were hanged and over 400 Shotgh! Ichikawa, once leader of the Japaniono Communist party,

“T. P. FRANKLIN, E. Raton, assistant secretary, died of beatings and malnutrition. DX-P.O.W.. are freed to rejoin COMMUNISTS BLOODTHIRSTY died recently in prison after their familles in England.

Tatelshi sald: "All three Com-l'serving 40 years of hia: 20-year

Controller of Printing. A. W. Ingram," "

munista expressed a desire to take contence Assoclated Pross

The oflion of this Agency, has DOMEI CORRESPONDENT TA Y TATEISHI TOLD TO-DAY now been natablished on the OF VISITING FUCHU PRI SON, 18 MILES WEST OF Ground Floor of Union Building

JAPANESE TOKYO, AND BEING TOLD BY

COM- MUNISTS OF TORTURES DURING THEIR IMPRISON (Connaught Roadsidó) in the MENT UNDER THE RULE + OF THE MILITARY AU- premises formerly occupied by the......

O.P.E. Tolophona Nos. Manager i

THORITIES. THE THREE KYUSHI TOKU DA, SHIRO MATAMURA AND

YOSHIO SHIGA SAID THEY WERE EAGER FOR THE 2084 & General Offco 2404£9. ALLIES TO ORDER THEIR RELEASE, NY

PR.O. LEAVES. Wing - Commander Dickson, the R.A.F. Press Relations Officer, suddenly left for Home yesterday by the 55. "Highland Monarch. His job will be taken over presently by another R.A.F. officer who is duo in Hong Kong. shortly.

!

Letters are lying at Volun- teer HQ. for Gunner E. Loyd -Jones, W. L. Cunningham, and

Capt. Egal,

At

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