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UNCLAIMED MAIL

M. L. R. Brown, Mr. Polor Chelly, Mis A. Gomas, Mrs. FI.

¡CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. 4A, Dos Vooux Road, Central,

This offloo is now opon for tho G. Gorkiard, Mis R. J. Harris, roogipt of Premiums and tho Ms. J. M. Haynes, Lieut. H.transaction of such business as Douglam Howh, Mru. Lillians pormitted.

Felin, Mrs. Francos Li Largo, Mia M. A. North, Major Small- } wood, Mot H. Sally.

Apply -

INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS.

NOTICE TO MARINERS

Enquiries doalt with.

HERBERT R. STURT, Managing Directar.

Telephone 38121.

REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 25

Civil Rapatriation Ofloor is gond- OX. WESTERN APPROACHES TO]ing no passengers by 8.8.

FORDSHIRE" boɑause this ship HONGKONG EXISTENCE

was unable to tako hospital ca508, or nay mon, ur childron. The only accommodation available was for

OF WRECKS

! Akadem Lat 12 2013 N. young and native women in a ward

Long 11 56,1′ E,

#

A submerged wreck dangerous to navigation is situated 129 degrees 3.M. miles dista from Tung' Kwu Light (Lat. 22 23 N. Long 115 53 E.] wreck is zvered wath four feet of water at low water.

Lat. 22-248* N.

Long 11:54 E.

A wreck with masts, showing at all stages of the tude and funnel showing at low water lies in position 114 degree 2.15 miles distant from Tang Kwu Light (Lat ** N. Long

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barnaffested 2%, 32] A alonly labour Officer.

A LURGESS,

Colonel, (C). A.)

ba, dies, Tratopar & Industry

BRITISH MILITARY

ADMINISTRATION.

11 TIABLE COMMODITIES

ORDINANCE

1 BEGAN ANY ABJUNCT DICENCES

A purist sial, abopiont to

Timcambar. 1915, soll intoxi sta, li mana Fre condumption on

1:0. i o ale he has ob toa lumen

Appleston farms for l'ublies

Ads nel. Boneos aro obtain dia Pen the Commissionge of Patios vihin olien in New Orient Faildings, Connaught Boni. F50s for Palle an Lionou

T $8,000.00

Victoria or Hal District.

Lo

Water

twolow

line and loking requisito Amonition.

REPATRIATION OFFICE.|| 28th October, 1940.

BRITISH MILITARY ADMIN. ISTRATION, HONGKONG

DEPARTMENT OF IMPORTS & EXPORTS

DUTY ON LIQUOR AND TOBACCO

On and from October, 29th 1915 duty will be collected upon Liquor and Tobacco under the) Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (No. 36 of 1931). The rates of duty are ilusse in force on Decem- |ber Ist 1911.

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945.

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Des Voeux Road, C.

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months

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6 months One year

Hearts-Ease

MYSTERY SHOTS

IN KOWLOON

THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED IN KOWLOON YESTERDAY, "BUT WHERE THEY WERE FIRED FROM REMAINS A MYSTERY. THAT THEY WERE FIRED 18 AN ES- TABLISHED FACT..

THE SECOND KILLED A MAN ON A SAMPAN IN HAR- BOUR THAT IMMEDIATELY WENT ALONGSIDE ILMLS. GODAVARI, THE

NAVY ROYAL INDIAN SLOOP AT BUOY ML. WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED

the

THAT AN UNIDENTIFIED CHINESE HAD BEEN

SHOT DEAD.

The bullet, believed to have] mately half-a-mile S.8.E. of the been red from Kowloon from] "Godavari" it must have come

general direction of the from a high-powered rifle. Kowloon Bant Pool at the The other two shots of the northern end of the Kuwloon || afternoon, the frat at about 12 Wharves, hit the deceased in noon and the third at exactly the left temple. The body wns 4 16 p.m. were, from the sound. Inter removed to Wanchai Police | revolver shuta. Station.

India's Real Problem

NO CLUES The first report of the harbour incident which had about it the nurs of murder cante from 1.M. 19. Godavari. Water Pulice went immediately on the job and Inves tigation In proceeding though last m night the polles appeared to be at A later report na telephoned from an offer

United States

Navy After questioning met

men on try-duty in the wharves arta and rivilians who had been officers mad

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for R

'PADDY'S MARKET" CORRALLED

Hong Kong's second Paddy's Market, in. Thca- tre Lane, was cleared out yesterday.

Police made auden swoop, arresting more than one hundred hawkors ply- ing in the Inne, and tookt them to Central Police Sta- tion in motog, forries,

There they were given a lecture and a caution and allowed to go.

N.Y. ACTIVITY

New York, Oct. 28. The New York Stock Exchange finished its most retive week In history in the wake of British Chancellor of Exchequer Hugh Dalton's budget Durange pro mising forty per-cent cut in the excess profit-taxes.

The Financial Times" said that Mr. Dalton'

of lower forecast interest cates on medium and long-term loans indiretly had as much influence on the market as the promised tax cuts.

The

There seems to be no limit to the capacity of the scientific mind for theorising along thei lines of Hs own pre-conceptions

] 1 Levine of Harvard has

it was fired from the vici- made the interesting discovery,nity of the Boat Pool approxi he says, that heart disense is

HI rare among the ChloAN. suspects that this happy con- dition is

to the Chinese due diet, or, it might be, to their philosophical view of lifes It cannot be gainsaid in too much of a hurry that there is some thing to his suspicions, though

LONDON, OCT. 28. residents

Stanley. Eat

who INDIAN LEADERSĄ LIKE shared what are now submitted JINNAH AND PANDENEHRU to be the peculiar blessings of HAVE DISPELLED THE an ill-fed coolie's diet, and had] MYTH THAT BRITISH WICK- perforce to adopt a philosophi EUNESS CAUSED DIVISION, Rome two, and a few of three cal view of life, if they were to BETWEEN THE COMMUNI survive with AL mexican of TIES OF INDIA BY THEIR tween 3.36 and 3.45 pm. Although Forty Ships To samity,

Persons or brus, holding stocks [ol Liquor oven 4 gallons in there, for instance, how case of European Liquor and far the Chinese diet may be m

asareiated with extricably over 50 gallons in the case of philosoptin outlook. It might Chinese Ligar are required to be horribly discouraging to the declare these stocks, stating

sepentadie serkere after heart

aseretain „thal eastog forts in tal the type or kind of quen muling experience out of 12) the number of bottles or which true philosophy emerges,

other containers for each resided in a daily diet of boiled Not PHT with a little sung that.

Type,

(the number of gallons of

ench type, and

64) the place where the liquor

reported is stored.

TION.

would probably Bree SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, with him only up to the point SAYS "INDIAN AFFAIRS," that, at least their hearts re- OFFICIAL, ORGAN OF THE mained in the right place. The INDIA-BURMA

ASSOCIA field for speculation 9. of

I could

"Increusing terision in India course, trenwidats.

has sprung andouitedly from the fact that the British have made it plain that they intend to surrender

her rule says the article in the current issue. "Pais has mumpelled comenuti - ties to thisk of the future. Dis tribution of power and office has to be derided by themselves. Elections must held and when their results are known it will be up to party lenders for show what cooperation between themselves is possible, Under standing will not be prompted on one side or other by price refusals to me! tanel her and by a wal of ning mistle residuations " Kenler.

that would necessarily invalidate the main premise. Nor is it, indeed, submitted to the whole story. Er. Levine might have been thinking rather more of the beafifie air of sul Amity and contentment that readily savereds

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happily

If the declarer holds evidence that duty was paid-on all or part of this quor before December sen meal in a Cantonese og 8th 1941 o to the Japanese Szechuanese restaurant. whe Administration he should state the nature of the evidence and the amount of liquor involved. towards

Persons or firms holding stocks [of tobacco, other than stocks of cigarettes and smoking tobacco less than 20 pounds in total

ther car's choice beans towards MACAULAY

shake-in or birds-nest HOUD,

KATAR

and Mweet sear, or the happy unity of rival lavorings that repases in the Szechuanese manner of dealing It with the common prawn.

WAS RIGHT

EP Many bun lons, plow bord : weight held by licensed retailers is doubtful, however, whether in

in the Colony.

P for Adjunct Lavanco

ANONG and to in North of

-Victoria, Quoons Rose |

tir

at Victoria Gup- $100.00 altowhom in the Island

Hong Kong or in Kowloon

Now Howlong.

G. II. SANSOM,

CH C.A.0. Polion.

Za Orboden, 19445.

NOTICE

the gourmand and Dr. Levine's theory would form an altogether comfortable partnership. An anusing urbanity is u ready

sen-

in the Tsimshatsui area for the whole or a part of the afternoon,

"Times" industrial stock

index climbed 2.70 during the week to 147.43 which is 60 above the penk hit during the April

30th, bull market, it was found that many had heurd

the

The Foreign Exchange market was unchanged.Associated Press.

reports. The second shol was fired be.

uch of much the

evidence Available

been fired Be Atomized points to its having from somewhere near the northern end of the Bout Prol, none of the guard personnel There were ver tain that they had heard it, though the Kowloon" Boat Pool office was among the first stations to be in- formed of the death,

The area immediately worth of the Hunt Pool is a heavily con ested one and there were a num ber of small craft in the viemity. It is not improbable that the whit was fired from a sand best vather at anchor or just off aloage,

Kansas City, Oct. 28. Admiral King said to-day that plans are under WAY for two experiments ti determine this effect of the atomic bomb on deet unit.

He said that it depended on the Congressional establishment uf n body to govern atomic research.

the estimated that at least forty ships would be used in experi pient nt some Pacific area. evealed Press.

Liquor And Tobacco Duties This Week

EFFECT APPEARING IN COLUMNS,

LIQUOR AND TOBACCO DET IES ARE TO BEOME OPERA. TIVE IN THE COLONY AS FROM NOVEMBER 1. A NOTIFICATION TO THIS OUR ADVERTISEMENI THE RATES OF DUTY ARE

FORCE IN DECEMBER TIAL EMPIRE RATES RE

THOSE WHICH WERE IN 1941, WITH THE PREFEREN TAINED.

Biqueurs BRAZILIAN CRISIS

Cambridge, fhrt. 28.

The range from $26 a gallon Professor Harold Laski.

champagnes, Chairman of the Labour Party sparkling wines. $24 a gallon on

# letter to Subrata Roy

brandy of French origic. $16 a Chowdhury, President of the Cambridge University Majlis, in $16 on Empire and $24 for gallon on brandy of Empire ori-

says: "have long held the

other gins, whiskies etc., $8 and view that Macaulay was right $12 on st

wines. $1.20 and day in the history

the amount in pounds or enough requisition of a lover of when he said that the proudest $1.00 on beers, with various in-

Jon their premises, are required to [deciare these stocks, stating

f) the type of tobacco;

thousands in the case of cigars or cigarettes; and (c) the place where the tobacco

is now stored.

good eating, but so log is the waistline which classifies a nuan

of Anglo- Indian relations would be the

day upon which Britain could say to India that the time had

could when India

κα

soon

as portly or corpulent. More over, it has long been an axlem of the Chinese who can afford! come to pose as connoisseurs of the proudly on her own national Duty will be charged on all pleasures of the table that they way. I think the time has now stocks of Liquor and Tobacco are entitled to complain unless arrived and I look forward to

envious seeing a free India very over and above the limits or they can provide the

the elections. I hope exceptions stated above other glances of their neighbours at after

A Euro particularly that younger Ma- than goods which are in General their growing bulk. Bonded Warehouse or other pean suddenly assailed by amus-hommedang in India will realise The Waterworks Offices have approved storage.

ing references to his corpora- it is more important to gain now transferred to now promises,

tion finds it a vicarious insult freedom and unity for India as 1st Floor, St. Cluorgo's Building. Failure to declare stocks of hard to bear, but the Chinese)

than to pursue u whole overhears himself called

munal cdvantage."-Router. Toiophora numbers Bro as Liquor and Tolmcco will render who follows:--

them liable to seizure and con

fat, proens himself delightedly. Standards of delicacy in per- .39217 & fiscation as Dutiable Goods,

39504

sons who are privileged to tell Declarations must be handed us what we look like are ns be- in at this office by noon

on November 1st 1945.

Water Authority

Executive Enginoor ...39319

(A. D. O. A.)

(D. A. D.G. A.

Huginoors

Accountant

.39692

30695&

39664

.39419

General Office (Enquiries) 39329

H. A. TAYLOR Superintendent of

Imports & Exports, (Motors)...39269 28th October, 1945. Complaints (Day & Night)

**

Leland 80840 Mainland.....50949] Consumers aro requested to register at the Waterworks Offico batween the hours of 10 a.m. and A p.m. daily.

G. H. FORBES,

MASONIC HALL

11 Quem's Road Contral, 2nd. floor. (Entrance-Ice House-St.)

Will all Freemasons at present in the Colony (tacluding Service brothroa) pinson roylator with the Bocrotary boi Ist.-Cal.

ws 8 and 6 p.m. any day axoopt A. D. 3. A. (W. W.) Wolnooday and Sunday.

DAIRY FARM FRESH MILK

?

As from to-day a limited supply will be on sale at Windsor Houso (Aunor) botwoon 10 a.m. and 11 's.m. daily.

Prico 50 goats per 8 oz. bottle. Intending purchasers must bring their own contalnors otherwing bottles will be charged for at the rate of 50 cents each.

The Dairy Farm,

Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

WINDSOR HOUSE.

Tolophons 281841. '

STALIN TO

tween Europe and the Orient SPEAK

con

on

completely In reverse. Whe-

Moscow, Oct. 27. ther this extends also to the

Marshal Stalin is expected to seraphic cardiac reactions to

mako an important speerh indulgence in the pleasures of November 7th-bis first since the the table is exceedingly doubt-end of the war. ful. Glorious as is the march Diplomatic circles hore predict of science, therefore, it should that the speech may well be of tread warily in pursuing searches along these lines.

Funds Thawed

with post-war

re- the greatest significance,

vital bearings

on the world.

The occasion will be the noni. versary of the 1917 revolution

creases in the rates where the

Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 28. The Brazilian capital's police ordered all known chief to-day political meetings to be cancelled As opposing political forces dia- puted bitterly over whether the elections should be held on Decem- ber 2

strength exceeds stated points. On Chinese type liquore, the rate is $2 a gallon on JIK, or The Communists are demanding Empire fiquor, and $3 per gal-postponement of the elections and lon on liquor of other origins, substitution later of one in which Sake rates are similar.

constituent assembly will be elected. The Superintendent of Im-

A dispatch

Washington ports and Exports may ass said a cable frum a diplomatic the duty on any quantity of informant in Rio de Janeiro said liquor of less than two gallons, serious developments were expect

the week-end imported at any time in one con-ed over

compromise was reachod signment, at $20 a gallon.

election controversy.Associated Press.

from

unless a on the

PULLMAN ORDER

TOBACCO DUTIES Duties on tobacco are payable at the following rates per lb:

On unmanufactured tobacco of Empire origin from $1.30 to

Chicago. Oct. 28, 31.50; other tobacco from $1.50

Twenty railroad companies, re- to $1.70.

presenting over eighty percent On cigars of Empire origin of the sleeping-car service in the and manufacture $3.00; of Em- United States have offered to buy pire manufacture only $3.50; all Pullman Co.'s capital stock other cigars, $1.00.

which must be dlaposed of under a Court order.

Cigarettes of Empire origin and manufacture $2.20; of Em- pire manufacture only $2.60; other cigarettes $3.20.

tobacco Chinese prepared $2.00; other varieties $3.20.

and it is expected that Marshal Back To

Stalin will take the opportunity.

to deal with a number of problems Work

now facing the Soviet Union, par- ticularly in the sphere of foreign

pol

Th

Washington, Oct. 28.

London, Oct. 28. Dutch funds The Belgian and

Stovedores at Bristol and Avon- which were frozen in the United States when the Nazis occupied

Russians are, astonished at mouth agreed yesterday to return those countries will be released the wave of rumours caused by to work immediately and to appeal shortly, according to a statement Stalin's holiday at the Black Bon- to striking workers at other porta

of Buchi. It by officials of the Treasury Depart i pol to them that their sixty-

Beems quite to take similar action.

ment to-day.

In London, however, the strikers Belgian assots of about $400,- six year old leader, who during voted at a mass meeting to stay

the war worked under enormous 000,000 may be released within a tow woolis.

The Netherlands' assota will "take" lenger- because negotiations are not nO far advanced-As- clated Press.

The plan would permit each

ing car operations.---Associated Press.

Railroad Ce. to run its own sleep-

NOTICE

BRITISH MILITABY

ADMINISTRATION HONG KONG

POLICE BRANCH CIVIL

AFFAIRS

The Office of the Commissionor on strike until the government pressure, should now take the intervenes. Leaders of the Lon of Police and the Police Account- opportunity to rest and relax. don strike committed urged those ant have been removed from the Reuter.

in attendance to appeal to the Hong Kong & Shanghai-Bank--- Atlee government for extension of Building to the Now Oriental its nationalization programme to Building-Connaught Road (Next include the docking industry

CHINA BUYS

The famous Hollywood CRAFT FOR COAL

Associated

to Butterfield & Swiro's Offices), Preas.

Tolophonos Numbers: Washington, Oct. 28. Assistant Secretary of State, Cal. G.H. Sansom-Office

דיי

Chungking, Oct. 28. The United States hae agreed to sell. China eight landing ships Spruille Bradon, today, called Col. O.E. Fancom Bestdemoo-24816 which are vitally needed to carry Argentina's Juan Poton. "a sel at

Los Angeles, Oct. 28, Edward Arnold, has reported that burglars have ransacked his West Los Angeles home and stolen jowellery valued... twenty-thousand dollars. sociated Presa,

A coal from Halchow harbour to styled saviour who was supported Mr. K.A. Bidmoad-Offee -

Shanghai, Brig

Brig. Gen. George H. by a clique aping its European Mr. K.A. Bidmond-Roeldenep-20179

Nazi Olmsted reported to-day.

prototype." Associated Polloo Accountant.

London, Oct. 28.

Prost.

Ho disclosed that six out of 10 Tiborly ships which the Chinese The War Crimes Commission chartered to carry coal to Shang-

Wiesbaden, Oct. 28. hus released

statement

Lieutenant-General, Count Geor- of Thai are enroute to Chinwangtao, Princo Fredorick Leopold of North China port.

Bassowitz-Behr, ge Henning von Two American and ong Chinese who WILA Himmler's trouble- Prusela that ho underwent ten years' prosecution because he had officer have gone to Japan to shooter was captured in Bromon rafused to join the Nazi Partyobain timbers for Chineso coal while celebrating bla wedding Angoclated Press

minos-Associated Press.

anniversary-Associated Pross

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19574.

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89586

Polloo Bocretary

39881

0. H. SANSOM,

Cal. C. A. (8)

Commissioner of Paligo. 97th October, 1945.