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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,

New Activity Planned EXECUTION

By Lingnan University

AN EXTENSION OF THE EXCHANGE STUDENT|

SCHEME WAS FORECAST BY DR, LEI YING-LAM, PRESIDENT OF LINGNAN UNIVERSITY (CANTON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE) WHEN INTERVIEWED BY THE "CHINA MAIL" IN CANTON.. PLANS NOW UNDER CONSIDERATION HAVE COVERED ONLY A VERY LITTLE PRELIMINARY GROUND AND, IN ANY CASE, THE UNIVERSITY WILL RE- OPEN ON OCTOBER 25 WITH SOME 400 STUDENTS, THE STUDENT DORMITORIES HAVING BEEN LOOT- ED OF A LARGE PART OF THE FURNITURE. Exchange students will, in the -Brst place, come from colleges abroad conducted under the An- glican and Allied churches, students being given a chatice for an year abroad on their re- cord in extra-curricular scholarship standing as well as their interest and devotion to- ward the propagation of the gospel of peace and brotherhood

among men.

Russia Turns

To Plough Shares

OF LAVAL SCENE

PARIS, OCT. 10. PIERRE-LAVAL SHO

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HONGKONG MILITARY

4. GOVERNMENT.

In Re: Custodia Proclamation No. 10 of 1945. SALE BY TENDER (5'58)

Fair Brushes (various sizes); -Baid to be 44,194 pcs.

Hair Brushes-said to bo 2,396 pcs.:

HAPPY DAYS ARE

HERE AGAINT

CHARLIE CHASE in

"KELLY THE SECOND"

An M-G-M Faroo

Also Laurel & Hardy's Comedy ***THICKER THAN WATEE

QUEEN'S THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW At 2:30, 5,15 & 7.00 p.m.

Clothes Brushes-said to be ALHAMBRA THEATRE

6,000 pcs,

The Acting Custodian of Pro "VIVE LA FRANCE!", WAS perty is prepared to receive bids EXECUTED BY AFIRING in writing for the purchase of a SQUAD ON MONDAY FOUR piantity of HOURS AFTER HE HAD FAIL- ED IN AN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY POISON,

Convicted of being a traitor to his country, he fell to his knees, atill alive, after a squad of 12 MOSCOW, OCT. 16. soldiers who volunteered. for the RUSSIA HAS ABOLISHED task, had fired a volley at Farnes ITS HUGE TANK INDUSTRY prison. An officer rushed up im- AND

ITS mediately and administered the TRANSFERRED

de grace. He fell forward PLANTS PERSONNEL INTO THE NEW COMMISSARIAT OF dead. BUILDING

Laval attempted to take his own TRANSPORT BE- GINNING

PROGRAMME life when he saw guarde approach- OF

his coll, presumably to take AND

him to his doom. It made him DISARMING.

Concentration will be on locome-stomach pumps and other mea violently ill, hut doctors with tives, railway cars and buses.

The tank industry, headed by sures restored him sulliciently so

Gon. V. A. Malyshev, who he could stand before the firing now lying at Messrs. Whiteaway, "THIS THING CALLED LOVE” Col. has been named director of the squad.

Two men supported him, how-Des Voeux Road, Hongkong. Commissariat, was one of the

to the prison biggest in Russin,

Dr. W. W. Cadbury, Dr. Oldt, Dr. Rhonds, Mr. J. S. Kunde, W. Fisher, the Rev. P. Mr. Jones, Dr. Joe Sieux, Prof. C. I. Yung, Prof. H. T. Chuang: Fung Ping-chun, Prof.

INMOBILIZATION and Hoffman, Prof. McClure, Prof. Kelly, Dr. Charlotte Gower and many others.

Dr.

new

tries such as india and possibly Linguan and was onco Acting thousands and string many ever, as he walked

the

of the

TRIANGULAR SUPPORT Professor II. T. Chuáng may go to England to attend the Educn- Iis planned to extend the ex- tional Conference in London. change scheme to other coun- He is Professor of Education at

Middle East. Invitations Dean

Collego. Dr. have already been extended to Sieux is with the United States Information at ward exchange professorships Office of War with the United Kingdom and Kunming. Pro. C. T. Yung, Low this may be extended to stu-at Chungking, spent an year at dents. In the past, Lingnan the University of Wisconsin on has had students from Japan the Exchange Professorship Ho in Lingnen's and there will, in time, probably Scheme.

Rhoads be Japanese students at Ling- botanical expert. Dr.

and Mr. Fisher are at present nas again.

with the Office of War Informa- tion at Canton.

beeh

GARDEN OF BEAUTY Linguan, Dr. Lee said, has fortunate in the en-

The University will in the

the

western arena

from

courtyard.

Laval was permitted to meat death without a blindfold, but his final request to give think order to the execution squad was denied him.

Shoe Brushes -- said to be 7,192 pcs.

Men's & Ladies' Umbrellas-

said to be 3,227 pcs.

KOWLOON TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

At 2.00, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

:

ROSALIND RUSSELL

Luggage Baskets-said to be 1,107 pcs......

Laidlaw & Co's Building, 20,

MELVIN

DOUGLAS

in

A Columbia Picture |THE COMEDY HIT OF THE YEAR

Inspection may be made on application to Mesars. White KING'S THEATRE

way, Laidlaw & Co. Ltd., Ist Floor, between 9 and 10 a.m. each day except Sunday.

of the Soviet union into Central Siberia.

Informed foreign observers say the new move might have some

United States

His last words bearing on the U.S.S.R. request for i

were: "It in of the

the soldiers fault, they be left at the Acting Custodian's Bids, in sealed covers, should U.S.$0,000,000,000 loan and the not

Vive

In question of whether the money know not what they do.

er Franca!"-Associated Press. Office, Second floor, Mercantile would be spent for elvillan

Bank Building, Queen's Road, military industry.

"Pravda"

POST-MORTEM REVIEW report said a por

Victoria, on or before noon 20th of the aviation industry, tion

October, 1945. - Paris, Oct. 10. while continuing to turn out air- also has

Attorneys for executed Pierre planes for civilian use,

treason con- legal review of his viction.

thusiasm of former Professors future receive triangular sup- started making some electric cara Laval are planning a post-mortem | Hundred must be made on de-

and instructors in the various colleges of the University to re- turn to the campus,

as well as tractor parts, puils, American, Chinese, spoons port from

and cans. Associate British educational ani and

Press. missionary societies. Its pre-

After the execution his lawyers declared: "We feel our duty is not finished. We will continue to ght until the trial is reviewed." Apparently their hope is to clear

The campu, when it rewel-sent supporters include the An- The Harbour Master notifies comed to its grounds on the vc glean Methodist Churches and that the Light on Cust Rock has casion of the Double Tenth it the China Council of the Lo-been reestablished and the char-Laval's name. Associated Press. alumai and present

acteristics remain unchanged. studente don Missionary Society. was the garden of beauty it had always been in the spring and autumn, there having been com- paratively little damage done to the horticultural layout.

اده

Throughout the war, the Uni- Videy carried on first at Hong) Kong. where they were the guests of the University Hong Kong, and later at Ku- kong. There were many devot ed professors and teachers ant The

College had, one time, the services of the Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall, who taught at Kukong, where the University had

beautiful

R

garden campus dotted with bamboo and plaster buildins and camphor trees. The School of Agriculture pas conducted al Pingshek,

Cripps Plans For British Industry

Paris, Oct. 16. The execution had originally been fixed to take place at Fort Chatillon. The sound of the volley brought the people rashing from their houses to swell the great crowd already outside the prison kates.

The pavements were thick with people, all agreeing with an old Woman's comment "That is the end of the dirty dog."

A black motor hearse took the coffin containing Laval's body to deserted part of the big Thiais Cemetery, reserved for the burial of condemned men,

LONDON, OCT. 16. ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIES OF BRITAIN WILL GRADUA

LY COME UNDER THE INVESTIGATION OF WORK-a ING PARTIES WHO ARE TO EXAMINE MEANS OF IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION AND OUTPUT, SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, STATED IN LONDON, LAST NIGHT.

A deposit of Dollara One!

posit of each tender, which will be returned if tender is not accepted.

The Acting Custodian does not bind himself to accept the highest or any tender,

R. A. WICKERSON, CONTROLLER OF GODOWNS, Acting Custodian of Property. Victoria, 13th October, 1945,

NOTICE

The Directorate Staff und General Administrative Branch On the way to the cemetery, of the Civil Administration will more and more people joined the be located at the former Colomal crowds following the hearse. M. Secretary's Offices, Lower Albert Laval's grave lies next to those Road, as from Monday, October of two other Frenchmen shot a

who 15, 1945.

EMPLOYERS ANd trade unionS WILL BE REPRE SENTED ON THE WORKING PARTIES, ON WHICH INDEPENDENT MEMES WILL ALSO SIT AND RF-few days ago: M. Darnard, PRESENT THE GOVERN MENT.

was chief of the Vichy Military Police, and

and M. Paquels, who broad- cast German propaganda over the Paris Radio. There were flowers on both these graves.

Sir Stafford, who outlined "We shall come up against it such working and I want industry to be proposals for parties for five industries, the ready, rightly organised and in cotton, pottery, hosiery, furni- a fine shape to meet the com- ture and boot and shoe indus- petition," hé concluded.-Reu-fought strenuously for the death

The old campus on Honan Is- land is fairly intact. About 80 per cent of the library-has been recovered and enough labora tory equipment to give the Schools of Science and Civil En-tries, said in the House of Com- ter. gineering a chance to resume mons: operation.

"This the first batch.

We propose month by month to pick up new ones until we have been through all the major in-

DR. HENRY IN CANTON Among old supporters of the University, Dr. James M.dustries of the country,

"I have told the working Henry, who has been with Ling-

nan since its first days, is back parties that the political ques- in Canton with U.N.R.R.A. Dr. tion of nationalisation is out of Henry S. Frank, Dean of the it.

Their job is to make the in-

College of Science and Endustry as efflcient as possible. gineering, is on his way back.

He was with the State Depart-NOT IN THIS PARLIAMENT ment in Washington. Dr. Ar- thur Nip, Head of the Depart- ment of Physics, is another old that in faculty member who is rotura-

ing.

Others who have signified their intention to return are

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Japanese Desperation

TOKYO, OCT. 16.

IN THE LAST YEAR OF

THE WAR, THE JAPANESE

The Public Prosecutor, who sentence for Laval, M. Monglheux, President of the Supreme Court, and Laval's three defence counsels and a few members of the public were allowed into the cemetery. A priest was at the graveside for the burial-Reuter.

JAPANESE ANTICIPATING

BECAME SO DESPERATE DIRECTIVES

THE

THAT IMPERIAL "We have told the industries A

TERS ORDERED this Parliament they

OF BRANCH

BECOME will not be nationalised. I can- not speak for any other Parlia- WITH AND EMPLOY ment."

Sir Stafford added that what he was trying to do was to "get the industries of this country in the best position to meet very hard competition which is com- ing in about two years' time.”

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TOKYO, OCT. 10. THE CHIEF OF THE ECO- NOMIC AND

SCIENTIFIC HEADQUARTERS,U AT GENERAL MACARTHUR'S BRANCH AT GENERAL MAC COM- HEADQUARTERS FROM CAP ARTHUR'S

ON THE EM- TURED DOCUMENTS TO-DAY COLONEL KRAMER,

Documentary evidence was found MENTING

on one of the Pacific battlefronts. PEROR'S MOVES IN THE PRO-

It was issued in July, 1944, and POSED

OF THE exhorted Japanese to suicide tac-JAPANKET ONSTITUTION:

tics

BEATS

tics against tanks, airplanes and DECLARED IN THE COURSE

OF ships.

INTERVIEW: SOME WITHIN THE Although the main suicidal tac-

PANESE GOVER

GOVERNMENT the JAPANESE were exemplified in

NOW RECOGNISED "kamikaze" planes which dived HAVE THE ALLIED

WHAT

AIMS into Allied ships, the Japanese utilized explosivo-laden soldiers ARE AND ARE INCLINED TO

tanks in efforts to stop,

TAKE STEPS ON THEIR OWN IN FORESTALLING SUCH The order read in part: "In DIRECTIVES.

"Such governmental initiative view of the present situation, it is absolutely necessary that all was encouraged. armed forces understand suicido Apart from the move to dis- WAS i warfare. All concerned must be eclve the Zaibutsu, there

the Japanese. como thoroughly indoctrinated possibility that with this method."Associated Government would make a move to recover industrialists' war pro- Preas.

The Emperor's holdings would bo aubjected to the same investi- gations as those of anybody else, he said,

Colonel Kramer hoped that the

monsures concerning Japa chfet nese economic problems would bo year and placed before the completo before, the end of the Japanese Government so that they can plan next year's mea- Buror properly." Houter.

POLICE NOTICE. STRAY DOGS.

Dog owners are warned that all stray dogs will be shot by polico or service patrols.

W LA B. SPARROW, For D. D. C. A. (Police) 18th October, 1945.

NOTICE

COTTON FUTURES

Now York, Oct. 16.

market The cotton futures. The public are horoby informed Monday lost a good part of its that I havo authorized HARBY early gains on increased hedge

selling along with some ALAN TAYLOR to continue to taking which not as Superintendent of the mill Import & Export Department Reactive until further notion.

W. M. THOMSON Fire, Mrne d Accident Insurance,"

H. V.THORNE,

Calanol, Acting Manager, Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Offodr.

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NHCHAN LAB Vahead. SŁONES) Pelle rabbers, oils and specialtion pushed advanced fractions to more than a point, motors were hesitant.

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