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FRENCH ELECTIONS

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG

By the close of to-day, the answer should be known of the

the elections

THE H.K.

Singapore Terrorist Condemned

OCTOBER 22, 1945.

MAN BEHIND PORT CLEAN-UP

THE MAN WHO IS CLEANING UP THE PORT OF HONG.

KONG IN QUICK TIME HOLDS THE WORLD'S. RE- CORD FOR THIS TYPE OF JOB. HE IS CAPTAIN- H. E. WAIGHT. O.B.E., R.N., CAPTAIN SUPERIN- TENDENT, H.M., DOCKYARD, HONG KONG, WHO SINCE 1989 HAS BUILT AND REBUILT NAVAL „BASES ALL OVER THE WORLD

the war,

he

Mr. Pritt's Solution For India

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 21.

MI. D. N. PRITT, K.C.; LA- BOUR MEMBER FOR PARLIA- MENT NORTH HAMMER SMITH SPEAKING ON THE FUTURE

OF INDIA A

VATRA MEETING OF MAJLIS TO NIGHT

TO CAMBRIDGE THE CONSTITUENT ASSEM TURE OF INDIA DEPENDS, BLY ON WHICH THE FU- SHOULD BE ELECTED ON A FULL ADULT FRANCHISE BY DIRECT VOTING."

ཎྞཾ་

IN ALL HE HAS DEALT WITH NINE LARGE BASES, AT ARDROSSAN, PORT SOUDAN, MALTA, TRIPOLI, AU- GUSTA, SICILY, ANTWERP, MANUS AND NOW HONG. ... SINGAPORE, OCT 20. • KONG, AS WELL AS MANY SUBSIDIARY BASES.

THE FIRST OF SINGA-

Ho had retired from the tain Walght. But he has nevertho- PORE'S TERRORISTS, WHO Navy in 1929 in order to enter loss tackled it with all the speed, HAVE BEEN CARRYING ON business with the arm of John energy and ability with which he A CAMPAIGN OF MURDER, Lewis of Oxford Street, Lon carried out his port first aid during ABDUCTION AND TORTURE don. In 1988 the Navy recail-

The future of the Indian UNDER THE GUISE OF ed

He is no stranger to Hong Kong. PUNISHING "COLLABORA~ Charge Designate of Ardrossan

him as Naval Officer in Ho visited the port in 1929 when masses must be decided by thom and electoral lists on the basis of TORS," WAS SENTENCED in Scotland: It is typical of H.M.S. Stormcloud. He has now at once. There should be demo- commanded the destroyer such franchise should be prepared TO DEATH TO-DAY BY THE the man that when he was call- spent 32 years in the Royal Navy, cratically elected and not State PRESIDENT OF THE SU-ed up he had already organised folning as a boy in 1904 and being delegated representatives PERIOR COURT,

from Na and trained an A.R.P. and the one of the earllest to win his com- tivd States, political prisoners He was a Hiew Mo and was found guil- and at Ardrossan he used all served in

Chinage named ghting service for his firm, mission from the lower deck in should be released, and bans on

During the last war ho free discussion removed. ty of the murder of another his spare time to recruit and

a torpedo boat flotilla Chinese, who, he alleged, hud train, a Home Guard, of which the expeditionary force responsible government at the It is necessary that a a temporary caused him to be beaten by the he became Colonel.

to France and was gunnery officer centro should be organised on a of the Nore Destroyer Flotilla for basis Japanese. -

of kenham.

people of France to General de Gaulle's proposal to establish a Constituent Assembly. If the vote is in favour of this stop,

Another Chinese, stated to be then the member returned at the leader of a gang, was sen

will form

the tenced to 40 months imprison- Constituent Assembly. If the ment on charges of terrorism. vote fa against, the members

The police, who have been on will become the new Chamber

tho war-path against

gangs. found men and

women bound with ropes and a collection of instruments of torture, includ lieved to have been used to tear anewing a nailed club, which is be-

AB-

the victim's flesh. In the raid the polico wore fired on Reuter.

two

of Deputies. A negative vote will thus, in effect, mean are to the constitution of turn 1875; the election of Senate will follow that of the Chamber, and a National sembly consisting of the houses sitting together at Ver- the work sailles will take up ofther of framing a new con- stitution or of reviving and per haps revising the old one. strong expectation is, however, the referendum, will en- doras the Government's prop- Bal for the establishment of a

Constituent new

that

The

& new

T.B. Wilson

Arrives Back

of Peninsula Hotel yesterday. the

a good

1914.

Party and

parity not Hindu

He was appointed, Senior Naval 2ik-years. His home is at Twic Muslim Leameelt.

Ofcor of the Ayrshire const, an important section of the Western Approaches which guards Britain's lifeline to the West. During his 2% years there he built and equip pod bases at Ardrossan, Irvine, Ayr and Troon. Later in the wr Troon became the centre for Com- bined Operations Training.

PORT SOUDAN

A few daya ngo he welcomed to Hong Kong his son Lieut. Com- mander (E) H. F. Waight, R.N., who is senior engineer of one of the new Battle class destroyers.

+

U-BOAT MEN

SENTENCED

Muslim

re-

糖

Assembly"

of the

minion/ Constituent The on. said Mr. Pritt, "should not only decide on India's future but should sigo a treaty with Britain which should begin an era of freedom and prosperity in which I hope India will find itself in free equal and

with friendly association Britain

He concluded with the warning not to under estimate practical | difficulties which, he said, could and must be overcome-Router,

TO DEATH Okinawa

Gale Havoc

HAMBURG, OCT. 20. FIVE GERMAN U-BOAT MEN, CHARGED WITH MUR- DERING ALLIED SEAMEN STRUGGLING IN THE AT LANTIC AFTER THE BRI-

From Scotland Captain Waight went to Port Soudan to build, a completely now base which was to become vitally important to Britain when the advance of Rommel's. armies compelled us to evacuate our main naval base in the Medi- terranean at Alexandria. At one simo most of our Mediterranean Fleet was at Port Sudan. Here again nothing could stop the energy of the man. In his spare time he raised and trained a mine

Pearl Harbour, "Oct. 21. sweeping unit entirely composed

Fleet headquarters announc- of native Soudanese. He became a

ed to-day that 70 per cent. of Mizilal in Soudar Defence Force.

the 184

naval and merchant the Soudanese equivalent of Brign-

vessels beached on October 9 dier. From Soudan Capt. Waight TISH-CHARTERED despatched a large convoy for the STEAMER "PELEUS" HAD

and 10 in the typhoon at Okl- nawa may relief of Malta in November 1942. BEEN TORPEDOED, WERE

be salvaged within Early in 1943 he was summoned LED INTO

six weeks. Despite unfavour- COURT TO-DAY able weather, 32 yessola have to

HANDCUFFS toandria and instructed to RD IN

at that time in enemy ONE OF THEM HAD MADE been floated, from nearby reefs. hands, and to carry out the now AN UNSUCCESSFUL

Navy construction battalions familiar duties of Naval Officer in TEMPT Charge. This involved an exciting CIDE IN HIS CELL

(Sen Bees) are rushing tom- dash across the desert to catch up

porary housing to replace the huts and barracks which were with the Eighth Army who had

Captain Heinz Eck, comman-blown down.-Associated Press. Rommel on the run. He began it der of U-852; Lieutenant Hoff- In a Humber, then used a 15 ewt.

man, one of the officers, und were truck, short circuited the desert the naval surgeon од

from Tobruk to Benghazi by talk ine a trip in an escort vessel, and finished the remainder of the Army, in a thren ton lorry, journoy, behind the fichting Eighth

GREEK

AFTER

AT- TO COMMIT SUI-

board Zhukov's

Plans Upset

Assembly, Surrounded by a personal escort Those mainly the Right and of the Royal New Zealand Air Layto

the Radicals who have op- Force, and many friends, to receive Middle and Near East.

Bombay posed

the latest wisecracks from the the creation of Now Zealand and South

Constituent Assembly

United States, Mr. T. B. Wilson, fear general agent of the American Western Paattia. Sydney that, when the Assembly begins President Lines recolved the

now constitution, "China Mail" at his Days of despatches from Hong to draft the

it will decide in favour Kong will be liable to variation

single-chamber government and

The interview was disconnected, from time to time, but will ordin that the Senate will disappear; constantly interrupted by a steady artly be as follows:--

and this was the main ground stream of visitors ready with

sympathetic car to listen to the of their opposition to the plan. American President Lines" local But there were also other rea- chief's account of how he had to sons for hesitation. The Con- travel on the "Asama Maru" in stituent Assembly will have June, 1942, as a steerage passen- more duties and powers thane get over that soon enough. will be involved in drafting the Two months' leave were constitution, and spokesmen of tenic, and he was then "comman- the Radical Párty have express-

deered" ed misgivings about the Government, for a position in Rio

by the

United States and possible abuse of its nude Janeiro with the War Shipping

Administration.. thority. M. Bastid, who is (Fosta & Telegraphel historian as well as a politician, 19th October, 1945: declared that 1 Constituent

always Assembly has tyrannical, has always paralys ed the executive, and always brought disorder and in- coherence into the conduct of That risk the public affairs.

of General de Government Gaulle has no doubt considered faced. In any case it is diff- and, by its decision has boldly cult to meet the retort of M Blum to M. Bastid when he asked why a Constituent As- sembly should be any more dangerous than a Chamber of Deputies if both are elected by On and after Tuesday, 23rd popular universal suffrage. The importance of the election, in Qotober, any, articles to which a

cluding for the first time stamp or stamps of the deminin-women as well as men, is obvi- ation of H.K. $1 or higher have ous. France has been getting Soon affixed otherwise than pe back gradually all her prisoners provided, In the above paragraph of war

abouters

East Indies. and forced will be tested as insufficiently stampod.

POST OFFICE NOTICE

The pabilo is hereby notified that for the time being stamps of dónominations HK. $1 and over

may not be used for payment of postago unious purchased over the sounter of the General Post Office or the Kowloon Central Post Office shi afixed o un artdals for immediate posting in the prósenos of a postal official.

ing e.

MTR. ROWELL,

Coldhal (0.A.).

-

Contral Pingutive Branah Olvil Affairs Administration

NOTICE

SUPPLY OF SPECTACLES,

"Tenders are invited from the "Dublic' for the supply of spectacles to the members of the Civil Affairs Administration! on pre- criptions supplied by the C.A.A Medical Officer. The contract

sentenced to death by shooting Captain Lenz Was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and Leading Seaman

Washington, Oct. 21. Schwender, who made an un Marshal Georgi Zhukov, TRIPOLI HEADACHE

successful attempt to commit commander of the Russian cc- The job was good until January,

When Montgomery's men enter suicide in his cell, was Ben-cupation forces in Germany, 1945, when he flew out to the ed Tripoli, Captain Walght hap tenced to 15 years' imprison- has postponed his visit to the

an been Philippines to help organite

ped out of his lorry and got on ment.

United States until 1946, the inter-island shipping service vessels. With the re-occupation of headache. There were 100 wrecks of 30 with the job. But Tripoli was a

Accused have 48 hours in White House disclosed, Hong Kong, he received instruc- in the harbour and fairways were which to lodge an appeal.

It released a letter to General tions from Washington to travel, blocked with 20 ton concrete slabs, This morning's hearing was Eisenhower explaining that here and see what could be imme-the piers and jetties were pock-devoted to legal arguments as Zhukov could not accept Pre- diately, done About re-opening marked with 60 feet craters lip to to whether or not members of aident Truman's invitation be trade and commerce between the lip, and every bollard was

The work of rehabilitation United States and Hong Kong.

was immense. At first cargoes could only be discharged on to the reefs, but within nine daya Captain Waight had 9,000 ton ships in the harbour and from 160 tons a day

sent into Germany, and a na- tion once more united has been invited to express its political | mind after five years of Nazi occupation and a short year of restored freedom. The com- position of the Constituent As- sembly which raits should be

the country is in the mood for revolut aary changes or, more cautionary, believes that a few adjustments of the old ma- chinery will suffice to prevent

America's

Vulnerability

up.

#

On

crow were.

responsible for cause of illness and "many dif- actions carried out on orders flcult organizational problems" of a superior. An officer de confronting the Russians.--As- fending one of the accsued, who sociated Press.

is stated to have fired-on or- |· ders of the Commander of the

U-boat on the Greeks as they HUGE SUPPLIES ON

person WAY TO N.E.I.

discharging increased to. 5,000 tons

was a miracle of clung to rafts, said: "Under achievement Even Monty only the German law, if a askod for 8,000 tons a day when on active operation, re- Washington, Oct. 21. Tripoll's robirth as 题 port was kansas Domocrat and

Senator William Fulbright, Ar hampered by constant bombing. fuses to obey the order of his

Batavia, Oct. 20. lending

one occasion an ammunition superior, the latter has the

Seventy thousand tons of des- advocate of United State participa ship and a petrol tanker were rght to pass the death penalty perately needed foodstuffs and tion in an international organiza-blown up at the same time. The on the apot. So you get the clothing purchased from the Unit tion to preserve peace said on whole harbour was set ablaze and impossible position that if he ed States army in the Southwest Saturday that the United States Captain Waight had to order ships disobeys he is liable to be shot, Pacific is enroute to the Dutch is Infinitely more vulnerable than to ran the gauntlet of flame to the and if he obeys he is Hable to Russia to atomic bomb attacks. safety of the sea. Eighty ships be charged with war crime." 3. E. van Hoogstraten,

He told the Foreign Policy mudo the attempt and all got Association that twenty of the through.

The Prosecuting Officer co-lands East Indics, suid 30,000 tona

of economic affairs in the

ther largest American metropolitan

tended that if an order

Was wore strike-bound in Australia areas contained 40,000,000 people,

given, which was itself illegal, He estimated that 4,000,000 In- there could be no defence that donosiana died from starvation and comprised tremendously vul- nerable targets for a single night'a

a superior order justified its under Japanese rule. He said the carefully planned attack with-

execution.Router.

Islands now have enough rice to out warning

last until December 16, Associat He

ed Press,T

to

дольно

as Officer in

The

on

CRITICALLY HURT

Involved in a traffic mishap

"

SICILY INVASION From Tripoll, Captain Waight went to Malta as Captain Plans and thero ho organised the whole of the landing craft for the In- a fair indication of the characneed for patience and clear under Waight packed up again and went declarod there was great vasion of Sicily. Three days after

the invasion, his job done, Captain Shidehara's ter of the constitution it will standing of the problems. of other draft. It should show whether people; otherwise there will be to Augusta ar Naval Che front Requests

widespread disillusionment and loss of faith in the possibility of line port, and Recepted the

Tokyo, Oct. 21. expanding international coopera render of six Italian submarines.

oventually tion-Associated Press.

dutics The Finance Ministry an- at the corner of Prince Edward of Senior

Naver -

Officer, Eastern Sicily. After eight months. this nounced that the Japanese Road and Hau Wong Road, that paralysis of parliamentary MAURETANIA COMING

Captain Import 4,000,000 tons of food in collision with an RA.F. Dodge Waight was recalled Cabinet is asking permission to Kowloon City, yesterday in a government which was so faral- liar before the war. Too much EAST

ed in the preparations for D. Day. 1946, part of it aboard United Track, Chau Yin-wah, of 872, He organised trained a port States ships

Prince Edward Road, 1st floor, can be made of the rapidity

London, Oct. 21. Party For Le which actual. It sold that Premier Shide-was admitted to the Kowloon with which Cabinets were form- ed and fell, for this might be

Captain Waight packed his bag hara's cabinet would resign Hospital with head and splne will be on a monthly basis. Full regarded as an assertion of Mauretania, which recently again and went to Scotland, to after the general election carly injuries. Hor condition was reported to be serious at a late popular authority over the ese set up a record for the round-organisa, port parties for a pro- in 1946 particulars can be obtained from cutive. In France, however, it the world, voyage, to-day em- fected assault on Norway but this The next Cabinet is expected hour last night. CAA. (Medical Branch), Hong reached-such a pass in France barked military personnel at aporation did not materialise. Then to be "more representative, of Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, as to shake faith in Parliament Liverpool in November 1944 he was appoint the people. 1st floor.

itself. What Franco needs to-She is satling early to-morrow ad Naval Officer in Charge Ad-Domel, news agency reported BAILLIE STEWART

vanced Bases Pacific. At Manua the Cabinet agreed to abolish 49 additional wartime regula- unhappy era. Only given do- expected, she will Join other ho

the in sealed covers clearly marked mostic stability, can she take Cunard Liners, the queen Pacific Floot port in the with the words Fender for the her appropriate place in the Elizabeth, "Queen Mary and Admiralty Lalande did yeoman greater freedom of the people, supply of spectacles and thin counsels of the nations.

“Aquitania" on the mission of service in the naval operations --Associated Press. --> should reach the Medical Bronch

'bringing troops home-Router. against the Sakanhimp. Gunto, hot later than the 27th October,

and later Japan itsolf. Formoan,

With the end of the Japanero };

The Cunard White Star Iner

..

Brussels, Oct. 20,

All tenders should be submitted day, is the very roverse of that for the Far East, where, tho did a remarkable job pitis tions in the move toward Norian Balille Stowar,t' who

bare maintenas V

NEW RADIOS INTERCEPTED AS

today to be charged at the

was captured by the Allien in the Austrian mountains "last" May, a being flown to Britain MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING

London Police Court on Mon- Athens, Oct. 21. day, it is authoritatively stated, London, Oct. 214 campaign, Captain Waight packed The Maritime Commission Con-hero-Reuter Associa Marsman Hong Kong China, Ltd British radio manufacturers up onto again for what he ima- forence started yesterday, Includ 1 Attempting to alight from à and formerly of the Netherlands have been licensed to make a gined would be his Journey home, ing Britain France, Holland,

and Greece, to discuss the tram while still in motion, Lo the General Hospitalernen at million recolvers, for the nox Ipstead he wan intercepted at thin

1945,

FULL OF OPTIMISM

The Administration does not

bind itself to accept the lowest of

Mr. B. De Vos,

Director of

any ten

1. L BARNES,"E

[* "Secictory,

Medical Branch,

Civil Affairs Administration 20th October, 1945,

War 18 now in hundred thousand aro: Intended for flown back to bli old banting to the distriba-Chau-ling, 14 of 470, Lockhart

* Bhanghai, twolve months of which four. B.P.F. keadquarters at Sydney,

Harbour. Works, an

throughout the looking liks, 1 opestre, of hit, alil was fourteen-hundred thousand ré- for the futuro. Hong Kong and was the average for exports walt, but still fall of optimism, ceivers of which sixty-ets thousand China,

Reuter,

of tonnage for Mediterrangan

Ments and took-pamgo in an degightest ote, escort carrier to

Kong

questa, shipa for re-establishing Buries to her right hand and hasarda of the war. It is plens coastal trade. Rontor.

Here ting job has none of the communications with England and nose. The mishap totic ploco in

other countries and to carry on Johnston Road, Bhe was admit

fed to the Queen Mary Hospital, compared with Tripoll, says Cap