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Vol. I. No. 84.
Monday, December 17th, 1945.
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NOTABLE "COVERED” WAGON TRIP TO H.K.
A REMARKABLE CONVOY, ALMOST OF "COVERED
WAGON" VINTAGE, SLIPPED INTO HONG KONG QUIETLY ON SATURDAY, WITHOUT ATTRACTING.
·MUCH ATTENTION,
IT BROUGHT SOME 850 WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM KUNMING TO HONG KONG, IN A JOURNEY THAT HAD OCCUPIED ALTOGETHER NEARLY SEVEN WEEKS, TRAVELLING PARTLY BY ROAD AND PART- LY BY MAKING USE OF OTHER CONVEYANCES CA- PABLE OF CARRYING THE WHOLE CONCOY.
TRUCKS AND SUPPLIES,
PRINCE KONOYE DIES BIG THREE
OF POISON Fourd Trial Threat
Threat Too Humiliating
TOKYO, DEC. 16.
PRINCE FUMIMARO KONDYE, FURICE PREMIER OF TA- PAN, WHOSE ARREST AS A WAR CRIMINAL SES- PRCE HAR BEFN ORDERED KILLED HIMSELF WITH PORON EARLY TO HAY AT HIS TOKYO HOME. HIS WIFE WENT INTO THE PRINCE'S BEDROOM AT 6 AM FOUND HIM LYING IN A JAPANESE STYLE BED ON THE FLOOR WITH A VIAL OF POISON HIS SIDE
KEENAN COMMENT ON KONOYE
Tokyo, TRE
THE US CRIMES PROdel YOR. JOSEPH KERNAN, IN A STATEMENT TO DAY IN THE KONDYE SUICIDE. TOLD TH JAPANESE THERE WAN NG NEED FOR FEAR OF AND BE CAN JUSTICE WIFEN INNI CENT ite
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Get Rid of Franco!
Paris, Der. 16. France is anxious to teak with the regime of Guneralso. winte Francine
Franca of Spain, it won reported here to-day. She has ankerd the L'ated Statea at Britain to consult on the culpet,
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French
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New C.N.C.
Boat For H.K.
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MOSCOW, DEC. 16, FOREIGN COMMISSAR MOLOTOV MET INDIVIDUALLY WITH US, SECRETARY OF STATES BYRNES AND BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER ERNEST BEVIN. IN- DICATIONS WERE THAT THE THREE FOREIGN MINISTERS WOULD HOLD THEIR FIRST FORMAL SESSIONS MONDAY,
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Eighteen Chevrolet furries. govered with canvas roofing, four Jeeps and 业 number of other trucks, carrying dependents Government Servants Janeť the B.A.A.G. started from Kunning on October 28, und arrived Rafely in Kowloon on December 15.
The convny was under the rom mand of a captain of thự B.A.A.G. and was protected by Chinear soldiera armed with Tummy guna. A Russian passenger telling the story of the long jourary to "China Mas" reporter said:
started from Kunning on the morn ing of Chet. 28, and it was a grand sight to view the long train leav- ing the city and winding into the moantains like a snake. A few olher trucks neroitusnied us half the way.
953 MILES TO KWEIYANG
were
China Victory Stamp
China to have a Victo Commemoration Stamp, to be on sale on January 1 narė, The Informatiun comes from Canton, which has it that the stampa are to be in CN$5, CN$10, CN$20 and CN$400 denominations, and that atte stamps will have on the fie the Chinese national Bag and portrait of Generalíssimo Chiang Kai-shek.
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OIL TANKER HITS MINE OUTSIDE H.K.
HIT IN HER STERN BY A MINE
IN HONG KONG WATERS YESTERDAY, TUX TANKER TOWED INTO PORT IN THE "VACPURT WAS
ed am a new wooden briden harf Eye-witnessent on bend
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BEVIN PUSHED THROUGH BY AIR TO MOSCOW DESPITE THE FACT THAT A BLIZZARD TURNED BACK THREE OTHER PLANES OF HIS OFFICIAL PARTY. Lipon arrival, Bevin sani wa Foreign observers felt that brought reetings from the pro- several conference issues have "On November b, we arrived at ple of Britain and their hoped already taken definite shape.
Kwelyang after covering $53 miles. that the bonds of friend-hip | Conceiling that the question of There was lots of pair work to AFTERNOON BY TWO TUGS with Russia
further controlling atumie voergy
HAND IS NOW LYING ALONG- wilt thone as the rands f, be the ¦ strengthened by the meeting
main issue. observern pretty well damaged
A SIDE THE NAVAL YARD, by the foreign ministers.
I pointed to Iran and Japan en Imp
bombings and Japanese dostige **Vreport ** diet
Hie In marked contrant with the walects likely to come for tion and we had to stay there seme
mine just outside yeeman Chi days. Then we moved on to bahan, nel parly yeterly morning while which Byrnere adiscussion Associated Press
where the old bridge was destruar travelling at low speed MIDDLESBOROUGH, DEC 14 rivest Cho previous day. Ar A NEW STEA MISHIP
Revin Wis QANE PUNS GROSS POR The hard to turn sideways down
went daught to Yung lisin, trai whatch WAN coring m Hope CHINA NAVIGATION
This slepes of his big feter-en-
velling at an average speed of Kong from Sydney and was only PANY, JADING TRON AND
MOSCOW, DECR gined airplane,
wal ouehong STEEL HERE FOR
Tatong, 150 yard from the tanker when THE RE
THE RRITISH FORCIGN and Kwer Han CONSTRUTOS
He was greeted immediately MINISTER,
A fogly monates" the explosien ocvorind, said a loud DOCK
MR. FRS ferry brough, an to Ying Hut and detonation was hostel. IN HONG KONG. Sy the deputy foreign eng mun BENIN, WAS RECEIVED BY
Then we preceded an từ Warkow LEAVING ON SUNDAY PORIS, A Vyshinsky.
THE SOVIET FOREIGN MIN
The ente dafn't show much warts THE FAR EAST
Byrnes, despite a long, hard] ISTER M MOLOTOV, SOON of war and the Sikiang locked we The vesel
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ARRIVAL
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Sir Alexander
for Por Betish ports east ports and Chimalted up relatively or at Je bedare to tube free, where he wife and will stay on the Lam Spasso House, holding informal manent Under Secretar, fur
in Affairs, Sir Avehibald Clark Ambassador Kerr. with
"The highways lead ag to Can after the delivery of her wa
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Moscow. and M. Vishinsky. Astiz let m
bassy statt.
tank to M. Moitos, wire present bubur blocked by nutslates. So taiks. Barlier, M. Multer he captain thought the best thing to do was to hire Junks to Canton hud seen the Limited States Seere This we thit, and I shall never for tary of State, Mr. James Byrnen.
get the scene when 18 large junker Mr. Bevin Just no time for get-
moved out of Warhow slowly with ting to work last night. He con-
over 22 vehicles on bet them ferred with Sir Archibald Clark- Kerr, United States Ambassador It was particularly interesting to see a jeeps prominently perched un Mr. Avril Harriman,
an old hinese
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MARQUIS KIDO
IN PRISON
TOKYO, DEC. 14. MARQUIS Tokal ADVISER TO EMPEROR HIRO HITO THROUGHOGT THE WAR AND MAKER OF SUCR PREMIERS AS GENERAL TOJO, ENTERED THE SINGA MO PRISON AS A WAR CRI MINAL SUSPECT TO DAT
by secretary and a representative of the sh after Kido RETIVOS with a supense and two handles.
He refused to comment on the suride of Prince Konove, one af le me ho had helped to make Premier of Japan.
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LAST NOTE
In
YARDS
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Wrens
discussions
Orrive
400 VOLUNTEERED FOR HONG KONG
WHEN THE CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS WAS ISSUED TO THE WRENS IN AUSTRALIA RECENTLY NO LESS THAN 490 VOLUNTEERED FOR SERVICE IN HONG KONG SAID FIRST OFFICER MARGARET BRAY, WHO IS SENIOR OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE DETACHL- MENT OF WRENS WHICH ARRIVED HERE FROM AUSTRALIA IN HMS. REAPER YESTERDAY. FIRST OFFICER BRAY SAID THAT THERE WERE 25 OF- OFICERS AND 10 RATINGS IN THE CONTINGENT UNDER HER COMMAND. THEY CAME FROM MEL- BOURNE, SYDNEY AND BRISBANE AND HAD BEEN SPECIALLY CHOSEN BECAUSE OF THEIR SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS.
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the and British Archwasador to Perate, Sir Render Bullard, who is
Bil BOW Moscow.
He also made profaninary com tacts with Mr. Janves Dyraca and the Soviet Foreign Office.
He
PRACTICAL HOPES
told
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press correspander: soon after his arrival text he was with approaching the conference "practical" hopes,
He said:
"Patience important than hope these days.")
he added. "wanted to "Britain", solve the political issues so that the world rouil get an with the work of rehabilitation.
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"The world in in a terrible mess All would be attached to the but there was a lot of hard work and at this stage of history thine
MERET ministrative
the be done and that there was cannot be settled by mere farma C.14, British Pacific Flom. Ausburtage of food, but in suite down We-me tere for
Thines must have time to miral Sir Bruce Fraser for this, there was no sh ringergetical job and we do not know
All nee experts in signala of volunteers.
how long it will take or exactly in The note was given to Komove's eyphoring and secretarial H.M.X. Reaper berthed send mon shortly
what shape things will emerge after work, and have had considerable North Puint and the bedro
the Wren Reuter. Prine Took paisen.
in which the fexperience in these branenes
He wrote:
had no opportunity of seeing ། have been not greatly con
First Officer Bray added that Hong Kong from the harbour. verned with the feet that I have there were about 600 Wrens in
All were most anxious to get committed certain errors
in the Australia and that andling of
unhore and many were already State affairs since, all would
be concentrated in planning shopping expeditions the outbreak of the Ch
in Sydney. No more would be The Wrens will be accomme culent.
[coming to Hong Kong for the dated at No. 52, Robinson Road (Continued from Page 1)
tire being. she said. KING'S BIRTHDAY
London, Dec. 16.
eventually
HARD WORK Margaret Bray saw service th
Truman
Washington, Doc. 10. Rop, Walter H. Judd, Minnesota
The King yesterday celebrated Ceylon and India before going Backs Chiang Hule Asociation, Shiro Odate, this 60th birthday with dinner to Sydney. She said the gen- first Mayor, at oreupied Singh party for 20 persons at Burking.eral impression given them in Bom, Hiroshi Hoshim, war time ham Palace, followed by a dance Australia of Hong Kong was Arabassador to Berlin and retired for 100 gurats---Associated Press, that this was a delightful place Vice-Adahal Takuo Godo. ·Asso. ciated Press.
Shanghai Grievar ces
corner
Chiang's Bid For United China
PEIPING, DEC. 15. CHIANG KAI-SHEK REITERATED HERE YESTERDAY HIS DETERMINATION TO BUILD A UNITED, FRIE AND EQUAL CHINA.
SPEAKING IN THE HALL OF CHERISHED BENEVO- LENCE AT THE FORMER MANCHU WINTER PALACE HE CALLED ON THOSE WHO STRUGGLED HEROI- CALLY AGAINST JAPANESE DOMINATION TO WORK WITH EQUAL DEVOTION FOR REGENERATION OF THEIR COUNTRY.
Big Round Up In Piccadilly
JUNKS BIRED
WHIC
outbreak of the Parise war.
"From Canton we had to come
to Kowloon by train, because the road was too badly broken for we didn't bumlon trucks, SD,
sur lorries and they came with us to Shamshuina where
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they
WOMAN KILLED.
still
The long trio was disturbed by only one mishap when one of the trucks skidded and a woman was killed.
This AH followed by a colurn
of water which shot into the adr week a
onteh of coloured
water. prezimalive from mud what d
20 resul u the explosion, spread over tev face of the sea.
A cutter from
"Reaper" was sent to the ant of "Yneport" but damage whe was found tha!
only small and was confined to ber propellors.
he
Two Lugs wer dengiate hard p
and shortly after 1 clock "Vacport" was brough into
the Naval Yard There were no casualties.
R was later found that her steerin gear had been damaged and That Lwo tanks had been food-
towed into park.
Gen. Marshall Takes Off
WASHINGTON, DEC. 15. GENERAL MARSHALL LEFT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BY AIRPLANE SATURDAY TV ASSUME HIS NEW POST AS The journey was 'organised be- SPECIAL ENVOY TO CHINA. cause many Hong Konge residents
High ranking
and military desired! immediate return and diplomalle Agures NAW Jim oft.
immensely including Ambassador Dr. WAN transportation Running the B.A.A Gundertak↑ hoger timeult, To ease the pressure at Tac-mime
General Eire the task of organising this trip.
Marshall was
necompani
nied by ን ኖ the The "dreaded bandita"
is military attache, Cul, Henry, A ronds never mute their appear Byroads, and State Department Bore.
The women and children aide. James R. Shepley. Look their meals from wavside inns
and rested at out-of-the way places without any mishap.
in
On the whole, roads were "terrible condition." said one of
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The general expected to reach Chungking about the
middle of
next week. He carried with him a directive on United States policy in China, which will be released
TRIAL BY DOCUMENT
the passengers, "but the scenery for publication promptly. --Aryo- and the interest on the trip was viated Press,
nce itself." an experience LONDON, DEC. 16.
The drivers wer
were all Chinese but MILITARY AND CIVILIAN there wern Eurotean paSSENKETS. POLICE HERE CONCLUDED If transportation problems are not AN UNPRECEDENTED CITY solved in the near future, there is]} WIDE MAN HUNT IN AN every nonsibility of another simi-i EFFORT то APPREHEND lar convoy. 10,000 AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN ARMY DE-
RECORD CRIME WAVE.
Striking suddenly at 8 2.000 London ulicomen aided by the
of the three military police nations, estimated at about 6,000. sealed metropolitan London in a
Republican, said he beloved Pre-SERTERS AND SMASH THE Rice Famine
HALSEY GETS GREAT.
WELCOME
city with precision.
required
p-in.
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London, Dec. 16.
NUERNBERG, DEC. 18. THE UNITED STATES PRO SECUTORS HERE ARE FIGHT- ING TO PRESENT THE NAZI WAR CRIMES CASE TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ENTIRELY IN DOCUMENTS
of
sident
Truman'e directive policy in China "puts the United: States firmly behind the position Generallasimo Chiang Kai-shek has always taken. It does not establish any now poilcy, but merely amplifies that which we gigantic dragnet and combed the The British Cabinet have re- TO AVOID A LEGAL WRAN have been following all along."
colved urgent cables from the GLE THREATENING TO PRO Judd was medical missionary
a
The check continued until day- South-East Asia Command in SUMMER. in China for 10 years. He said break when the police stations Malaya urging strong action to
LONG THE TRIAL INTO NEXT
the statement puts pressure on
Documentary evidence the Communials "but doesn't ask were Jammed with hundreds of avert a threatened rice farine.
itself London, Dec. 16. British interests in Shang-
persons unable to satisfy officials in the near future, according seems endless. Chiang to do anything. he has
as to their identity. Newsmen bni are complaining of what
One of the most amazing things not been willing to do all along,"
from 500 to 800 to an item printed in to-day's about the trial has been the tests reported that they term to be the efforts of
-Associated Press.
persons, were brought in during "News of the World."
of captured Nazi record Americana there to
Unless the first five hours of the round-
something is
done many
revealing that even the wildest China's financial and trade
quickly to rush food supplies talen leaked from up.
wartimo Gor- markets, writes the special cor-
The net WAR drawn tightest from surrounding countries, many under Hitler were actital respondent of the 'Sunday news-
Around Picadilly Circus. All per- says the C.C.A.0. will have seri- understatements" the mase "Observer," paper,
in a des-
New York, Dec. 10. non were
to produce ous trouble on his hands. Rice laughter carried on there. Aaso- patch from Shungħal to-day.
Flect Admiral William Halsey their identity cards-Associated is the staple food of the Malays elated Press. He paid tribute to the United Third U.S. Marine Corps Cam- was yesterday given They puint put that the
here's Press. Americans are enjoying a fa in China's liberation.
States marines for their part mander, also attended,
grooting by 1,000,000 New Yorkers voured position in China and
Among Chinese notables were who stood in freezing tempera-
SOVIET DEVELOPING covered are now exploiting that position China's Premier when this was of Chiang's Field Headquarters; mile ride from La Guardia Field
Gen. Chin Yun Peng, who was Gen. Li Tsung-jen, Commandorrea along the snow
BIG AIRPORT'S streets to cheer him on his 15-
Parls, Dec. 16. further to exclude competiton the nation's capital, responded Gen. Ma Tsung-hsan, Common to the City Hall where ho was
The eighty-three-year-old French from other foreign interests.
Mascow, Dec. 10:
writer and member of the Act Two factors now. contribute with the hope China would have der of Chinese forces at Mult made honorary citizen of the city. A chain of new and large pas-
Washington, Dec. 16.
demle Francaise., M. Abad Harl. to American domination of the five-year plans and that the den when the Japanese invade Ansociated Press
Soviet senger airports in the
Judge Milton Helmick, whom mant, was sentenced
to life foreign scene: firstly, the huge Generalissimo would lead the. Manchurin; Pu Chi; brother of
Unton in scheduled to be completed the Standard Vacuum Oil Com- Imprisonmont, to-day on a churgo pany has named legal counsel of of intelligence with the Germans the last Emperor Dr. Willam furnished to nation another 80 years.
These air terminals are reported its Far East division
head- China during the war, and so-[ Russlan, French, Swiss, Brl- Hung, dean of Yenching Unver-
Beuter. To-day's forecast:-Cloudy to to be blower and better than any quarters in Shanghal, is calling gendly, although China's export- tish and American diplomata sity, and the Rev. T. Klang, overcast, with fair periods in the existing in Russia.
from San Francisco on Dec. 28, import trade is still at a virtual heard Chiang in the brilliantly Mothodist clergyman who afternoon. Light easterly winds, First class airports are Being by the President Line stenmor standstill. the Americans, in lighted hall where China's car baptised Chiang when om-Yesterday's temperature:- ballt in Kiev, Vilnius, Rigs, "President Pierce" which in due effect, are trading with China ly Presidents held receptions, braced Christianity, - Anspelat Maximum:-72 dogrces at 1 pan., Sverdlovak, Stalingrad, Sinforopel in Shanghal in mid-January. through U.N.R.R.A.—Router:
E. Rockoy, ed Press.
Associated Press. Maj. Gen. Keller
Minimum-07 degress at 2 a.m. and Odessa-Router.
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next year.
and famine, might mean riots in the pondsun. Router.
JUDGE HELMICK RETURNING TO SHANGHAI
JAIL AT 93
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Calro, Doc. 16, Egypt han deelded to commercial relations with Italy, it was reported høre to-day.—Router,
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