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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946.

Distribution Of Food B.A.T. MAN RESCUED NO NEW BUSES TILL__

By Air In China

Armed Robbery

Charge

Three unemployed Chinese. Young Chun-shing, Lee Yip and Yuen Chun-chi, were charged be fore the Standing Military Court yesterday, with armed robbery at Street, ground floor, on

No. 9, Bowring, and theft of

prosecution.

Shanghai, April 10. Emergency distribution of food by air h being organised by the United Nations Rollof and Rehabilitation Adminis- tration in an effort to combat the famine which is reported to be reducing several millions of Chinese to eating grass, tree bark, roots and even clay. Major-General Clair Chennault of Flying Tiger fame was disclosed to be forming an air transport unit to fly relief to the stricken areas in view of the difficulty of over- land travel and sea routes.

in

property to the value of $1,16. The world is vast jig saw

The Court comprised, Mr. C. Y. puzzle in which all the separate Kwan, President, Sqr. dr. Step- Grose and Fl. Lieut. Jack meaningless hop bits lie around in disarray. All thoughtful people Carter.

Mr. F. X. d'Almado, assisted by side looked must be put know that the bits

Inspector N. B. Chief Detective together if the world is to become Fraser, of Kowloon, conducted the a tolerable place for human be

Accuned pleaded not guilty. ings to live in.

It was the reali-

It was stated that on the evening sation of this fact which caused Clarence Streit's plan for Federal of February 9, the Chan Po Shing

Tong Chinese medicine

at Ehop, Liniem to receive such sympathetic. No. 40, Bowring Street, Kowloon, entered by two Chinese arm consideration. Wendell Willkie's | was.

with

revolvers. Later the same concept of "one world" stemmed Wight, a more men came and stay-terrible threat of fanine which become serious, according to pre

ront.

is

some

ed

till about midnight. On information received, first and second necused were arrested on February 25.

at the time, wearing They were,

of the stolen clothing. Third Rocused was also arrest- ed on information,

some

the

U.N.R.R.A. representatives the Yangtze River to Hankow reported that the Hunan where the supplies were trans- Province famine is particularly shipped to Changsha, U.N.R.R.A.

regularly severe, and that "the country- food arriving

as if it had been Shanghai, is being moved out as ahayed clean-all grass, weeds, quickly as possible, but officials said that only part of foliage and bark from trees be here

China's food needs can be met by Ing grabbed for food."

Hatlle devastation, drought, the organisation. U.N.R.R.A. re- floods, locust plagues, shortages quests to the combined food of manpower, fertilizera, imple-board in Washington, on behalf ments, farm animals and the de- of the starving people in China, mands of the army for food, are were trimmed because of the all contributing factors to the global food shortage that may sent indications. Associated

the district now faces.

Seven millions are reported to Press. be starving in Hunan Province alone. where, U.N.IR.A. of-r fieints say, child mortality is up- pallingly high and child sulcides not least uncommon occar-

rences.

Dying On Roadside Chief sufferers are refugees He identified clothing, who are travelling from South Yaumati Police Station

Tiontein, April 10,

William Christian, an offi cial of the British-American Tobacco Co., was rescued from Chinese crowd here by US. Marines, announced Major Jeneral K. Rockey today.

Christian was not injured. had been inside the plane which the crowd, mostly work- men, was pickoting.

General Rockey nina, reveal. ed that a US. Marine (whose name has not been released) was ambushed and killed, and robbed, by thres hia corpo Chinese

The Sunday. Marind was on his way to a village south-west of Chin- wangtze, to help the villagers with a sick horse. — Associat- ed Press.

012

Charged With Posing As A Police Officer

teacher, Cheung Wing-ki, 22,

before Mr. A. el was brought Arealll yesterday, charged with unlawfully and illegally conduct- ing a search at No. 181, Glouces ter Road, first floor, and No. 130, third floor, by falsely represent ing himself as a Police officer.

Ilau Hoon was

charged with aiding and abetting.

Sub-Inspector Aachenko pro

EARLY 1947

THE KOWLOON BUS COMPANY, IT IS LEARNED, IS NEGOTIATING FOR THE PURCHASE OF A NEW FLEET OF BUSES, BUT OWING TO THE ABNORMAL CONDITIONS PREVAILING IN ENGLAND, THERE IS À DELAY IN FULFILLING ORDERS, AND AS A RE- SULT THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF NEW BUSES ARRIVING IN HONG KONG UNTIL THE EARLY PART OF NEXT YEAR!

THE COMPANY HAS DISCLOSED THAT IF THE GOVERN- MENT APPROVES, DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES WILL BE INTRODUCED ON THE VARIOUS ROUTES IN KOW- LOON IN THE FUTURE,

arrive.

Film Review

**A

Ono

At the present time only eight buses are in operation in Kowlcon. Four buses now held

and Thousand up will be put into service, and Nights" has the great merit of the Hung Hom route will be re- complete honesty. It ja puro opened as soon as new tyres fantasy and obviously not meant to be taken seriously. The film Great difficulty has been ex-is a free adaptation of the Ara- perienced in maintaining and

bian Nights story of Aladdin, a- servicing the existing buses as very free adaptation with some there are practically no spare interesting angles on the orl- parts to replace worn or damag-ginal story. What could be nicer ed parts.

than a Slave of the Lamp who During the occupation, the

turns out, to be a shapely red- entire fleet of buses, together with

head? A red end who can pro- equipment, machinery,

flick of a duce a meal at the plant, and spare parts were con- fingers in fact, this is cinema fiscated by the Japanese. Con pantomime on a far more luxur

siderable damage was "China Cocktail"

The most H.M.

ment.

stage-conscious

of

J

caused

And more from the same recently, the pleas of Mr. An- thony Eden and of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, for

and the majority of buses were lous scale than could ever bo a work parliament and a world

settings stripped and removed elsewhere. produced on the stage, full of have been widely

As a temporary measure, the pretty girla, cpulent government

in the Kremlin,

in harbour, H.M.S.

Hongkong Administration haa and rich colour. applauded, save

Chan Chan, master of the shop.

Ray Rennahan's photography Euryales

surprised again last

allocated to the Kowlocn Bus All these plans and ideas depend

said he was not present during the

night with a revue "China Cock-secuted. realisation upon for their

Sidney Shadbolt, of No. 5 Com Company several military trucks of his usual high standard, or lesser abdication of robbery, but his wife and mother.

tail" that went off without a hitch

mando, attached to No. 2 Folice to be converted into buses, and with trick scenes that are ab- greater

were there. the

on and W. to Hankow, where and provided a good two hours Station, sald 'e was on patrol in these were put on the road this/solutely faultless, In spite of the at You: sovereign rights. This

Gloucester Road when he saw two week for the purpose of resum difliculties of this type of work in Technicolor. The giant fatal stumbling block. For, how. February 28, ns stelen from his they hope to obtain transporta- and more of high class entertain

tion to their pre-war homes. "H.M.S. "Euryalus's" last effort Chinese enter a house in a susing the New Territory service.

manner. Accused

is startlingly (Rex Ingram) ever much the idealists may cheer shop during the robbery.

are reported to Chan Chau's wife in evidence. Many of these

real. at the China then seen arguing with the amah The service runs at two-hourly last night's effort

between the the reiteration of these noble.

stated that he could only identify be dying along the outside was the pantomime "Aladdin," but piclous

at No. 131. Gloucester Road. intervals

Evelyn Keyes makes a de- the clothing which accused were អា

without anyone being able to Flest Club Theatre was an iven They were admited to the pre-Ferry and Un Long, the rat aspitations, realists

and practical She

lightfully risk couldn't Identify

provement. More scope was given mises. When they came out, ac- outward bus leaving the Star genie with a disconcerting re- help in the slightest degree. wearing. them as the rubbers,

Farmers in the Rice-Bowl" to the shorter sketches and treused were questioned, and first Ferry at 7.30 u.m. First accused said he bought

accused

'armiet produced unknown of China are said to be eating important point--the revue intro-)

The II.K.P. and said they were and Chinese, did not know it was seed'supplies to keep alive. Induced three members of the Wrens the clothing from an

and Hupeh Provinces, and one of the V.A.D.

Pincher Martin and his Har-looking for an escaped man. the wrong way? Let us revert to stolen property. Second accused Ho, an

At No. 2 Police Statiori, the parallel of the jigsaw puzzle, said that he bought the clothing approximately five millions are

reported to be dying or very monica Band well earned their

programme billing of "Old Fa- quiries revealed that accused was Tourites"

and a word should be formerly attached to the Special said in praise of two excellent constabulary, and resigned sketches representing the Holly-time in October last.

The case was adjourned until wood and "Battle Sintioh versions of

have reason to fear that there is little hope of

the foresee their attainment in able future. Can it be that we have been tackling the problem in

If you have a jigsaw puzzle oftrom denied all know- glaze to starvation, particularly

some hundred pieces, would you expect to solve it by gazing at the pieces and muttering pious in cantations in the hope that they would sort themselves out of their Would it not be own-accurd.?

on the floor: wiser to get down and see if first two pieces could be fitted together, and thus to build up the picture bit by bit? And if it were found that some

ne had already assembled fifteen

Third ledge of the robbery,

Second accused was discharged owing to lack of evidence.

First and ird accused were acquitted, the Court giving them the benefit of the doub

HIS CUPBOARD'S NOT

BARE! shopkeeper

in that section of Tonan that was flooded by the Yellow River when the dykes were blasted to stem the on-rushing Japanese

army in 1938,

Was

The company was fortunate in having the service of an excellent compere, Andrew Burnett, whose skelch "In Your Garden" one of the best on the evening's Another performance is to be given tonight.

U.N.RR.A. engineers, aidel] by Seebees are working tireless- ly to remir the dyke break and permit the fertile land to be Wan salvaged as 8000 23 possible. Programme. Kwai was charged before Mr W. The lonan Provine crops of H. Latimer yesterday with the wheat are only 10 per cent of unlawful possession of 6,000 tins what they normally are.

A

Lui

Food

ur twenty pieges, would it be sen- of evaporated milk, thirteen cases shortages of serious proportions Foo Tak-Yam

sible to insist on scrambling these of tinged meat, nineteon cases of Kiangau, Shantung, Released

canos of

this morning.

AC

HONG KONG Y'S MEN'S CLUB

were

of

on-

some

Star

CONSABLE SENTENCED

Blake

for

the accused.

1

move on the

portoirs of modern wisecracks and of all things-a yo-yo! ! Cornel Wilde whose last roia A Police constable, Wu Hing (which made him famous) was attached to No. 7 Polico Station. that of composer Chopin in "A was charged before Mr. A. el Song to Remember" is a good Arculli yesterday with unlawful Aladdin with a pleasant singing" Beneath the Oriental possession of a revolver and 53 voice. rounds of ammunition.

splendour of his robes Phil Sil- Captain

Haig Brown was for vers proved to be the same old the prosecution, and Mr. D. H. trickster as ever, a light finger- ed gentleman, in a turban in- The charge concerning the re stend of a hat.

and Mr. volver was withdrawn,

An interesting film this, with The Hong Kong Y's Men's Club Hinke nleaded guilty to possession

an unusual theme which h are to revive their weekly lun- of ammunition.

decided cheon meeting, it was

Mr. Blake said his client was been made with exactly the discreet mo- yesterday at a special meeting:

during the Japanese oc- right approach, constable held at the Fu La Su Restaurant eupation, and the cartridges were dernisation of a centuries' old

It was also

Japanese plot. One false leo nangunced that Liven to him by the William Yinson Lee, now in After the liberation, his client part of diretor Alfred Green, Shanghal, had been chosen as the told his wife to throw the am- and the whole thing would have delegate of the Chinese Y's Men's munition

away, but

she failed become, merely silly, instead of Clubs to the International Con-; to carry out his order.

Taking into consideration that the amusing and clever enter- Macao, Apr. 10. vention to be held at Bradford,

in

August.

accused would lose his position, tainment that it is.

or now. at the Lee Theatre. Sources here said today that

Tho spanker at yesterday's Mr. Arculli fined him $100 The crippled transport system

a founder and a past president of the starving areas. gambling monopoliat, was unable U.N.R.K.A. and C.N.It.R.A. to identify his kidnappers' hide the Canton Y's Men's Club, who both. lave shipped some 100,000 out because he was blindfolded gave an account of the revival of

Dr. Yu said there were Pleafing guilty to breaking and long tons of foodstuf's inland by until he was placed in a junk's Club activities in Canton.

as Chinese entering a garage in Chatham ship tail and truck, plus quanti-hold prior to his arrival here on

american as well as Road on Monday and stealingties of vaccines and other medi- Sunday after a five-day trip.

bicycle,

The ransem paid for his re-members and bi-weekly meetings tricycle and

Tam Wah

were held. A clul room had been alias Feng Wan Cheung, and Suen cal supplies to combat bubonic

The President in Dr. Roy Mar. Nam San, were each sentenced to plague and cholera epidemics in lenge was reported to have been established at the Todd Hospital. Agems:

Dr. Tu recalled that one of the six months' hard labour by Mr. the critical areas.

of the Latimer yesterday. Accured were arrested in Argyle Street at about

cut off, which was interpreted founders, Mr. Lam K. Chu, was

first day as an indication of the kidnap killed on the first 5 p.m. the same day.

pers impatience over ransom Japanese attack on Hong Kong, a "Not victim of a bombing raid. although many negotiations,

miss to only does the Canton club ceased Macac residents'

China lost o worry about Foo's situation his services, but when his son and wife continu- great social benefactor and Y.M.- ed to appear in public during A. worker," Dr. Yu said,

la absence-Associated Press.

Requests Trimmed-

up before you attempted a solu- beans in tomato, eleven drams of are also reported in Kwangtung, tion? Yet this is the attitude ferocrete, 101 bags of cement, aix Kinagsi,

cheese, a case of beans, Anhwei and Manchuria, adopted by a large majority of and 63 empty fernerete drams at Street, ground people the moment it is suggested No. 3, Anchor that the simplest way to set about floor, on Mar. 20.

ing accused, who on ball of $1,000, to by first achieving, sore measure of integration between the British was remanded to April 18.

building a world state would be Mr. 5. A. da Silva is represent- has impeded the delivery of food Foo Tak-yam, millionaire Macao lunch meeting was Dr. Joseph Yu, four weeks' hard labour.

even

Commonwealth and Empire and the United States. For those Americans who favour the closest cooperation with Great Britain and the great self-govern- as a con- ing dominions insists, dition precedent, upon the break ing up of the British colonial em

Bre. pire. The ignorance and judice that goes with this attitude is an astonishing thing. There the United are still people in

States who believe in the myth that Great Britain can levy taxes

British Empire, they are as free, sovereign and independent as the United States. The fostering of self-government in the remaining Crown Colonies is a steady pro cess, likely to be extended more rapidly in the near future, to enj brace such places as Hong Kong

U.N.R.R.A. sent

uver 11,000

tons of wheat and flour to Hunan on naval vesscle, travelling up

Readers' Letters

Condensed Milk

the lid of

MAILKMAID,

*

Picasso

+

ilfe-size

teon

An

H.K.$1,000,000,

Part of Foo's right ear was

U.S. Cons.-Gen. In Canton

the

and

The mooting elected Dr. Chan Kwan-pe as Hon: Secretary and a Director of the Club, and Mr. | Wellington Haie as a Director.

INOCULATIONS

REQUIRED

to

I needed one crible to describe the

"original ELS in the great Dominions. Canada, Sir, The Dairy Farm Ice & monstrosities South Africa, Australia and New Cold Storage Co., Ltd., announce daring" to make Yvan Kaskara that one tin- of. Condensed Milk (alias Charlio Jones) one of the Zealand, like the first thirteen will be sold with this distribution most popular painters of the day.

This States of the American Union, all of Rutter, but let us hope that and the pork-butcher's

is what actually happened son su

Information has been received started as British Crown Colonies. they will not puncture

Trom the British Consul, Macao, Today, although still part of the the time as they have done in denly found himself surrounded

by dockets

bost of devotees. He was the past. People holding

Canton, Apr. 10.

that are born de consumers, so why nots fact and it was at their ex- not slow in taking advantage of

from Morday, April 15, The consul-general for

passengers, from Hong Kong, to the necessity of the puncture

Macao will be which only means inconvenience pense he was able to travel to United States in Canton is to be Paris whore he occupied & room: Clarence J. Spiker, who held the

with pho- to the consumer and after all one in the Latin Quartier. A large, most before the city fell to the tographs showing that the holders

Police Jaunnese. Ia. 1928:

have been inoculated against cho may not like to use the milk im- mediately,

man's study, "Sale of

He is reported to have left fora, not less than six days and which occupied eigh-

in the painting Australis to return to the United not more than three months. months

Intanding passengers for Macao brought fresh laurels and suppor States before coming to Canton in

may be inoculated and obtain ino- ters. It was at this point in his July or August.

At present the American con- culation certificates at the follow- which have not in 'the past enjar- Sir, The present controversy life that he suddenly seemed to ed any real self-governing institu- regarding the merits and demerits sicken of the companionship of suinte-general here is engaged ing centres:

Hongkong Inoculation Centre, me very for his fellow-men devoted him- mostly in repatriation and routine

and tion. So far from Britain mulct- of Picasso reminds

Sha Kowloon Talm

Taul ing the revenues of her colonies, cibly of the Yvan Kaskara school self to the upbringing of a tiger- work under the direction of Con- Fire Brigade Ballding, Ground Fl

which flourished in the 30's. Yvan cub which he had purchased from sul Charles S. Millet.

circus.

little This many millions of pounds have Kankara was, in actual fact, a

Most American arma in Canton Health Centre, Old Central Bri been voted by Parliament as christened Charlie Jones, arid was peculiarity, quickly lost Kankara have not yet reopened and there fish School, Nathan Road. "grants-in-aid" to assist colonial the son of a Golders Groen pork his host of friends and as the a little activity on the part of which have-Associated butcher.

did Owing

the artist's re- those tiger Krew.so development The British tax-

demand for poris sausages which maining friends disappear. payer has been called upon to has always been a curious feature was his boast that the tiger

IRON SHEETS STOLEN delve deeply into his pocket to ar Golders Green, the business understand everything he said and

-Tenders are invited for the cover the cost of rehabilitation of was not a success and Charlie, that ho shared his room with the

of one Refrigerating to leave a animal: This

Sentence of three month's hard purchase eccentricity may, in places like Hong Kong and Singa-wha was never loth

sinking ship. disappeared smartly some measure, account for his labour was imposed on Ip Shun, Plant (Direct Expansion). pore High- und robe offre with 2/11d. from the cash-register mysterious, disappearance. Failure by convicted of theft of fron Makond, Brand Hall Ltd excellent, but let's also be obiecand the errand boy's

He to answer the

awor the door to the repeated when

one sheets from: No.- 29A, Conduit Dartford, England, tive in our approach to the pro-was not heard of again until his knockings of the caretaker

Capacity: Approx. 8 tons driven by McLaren Ricardo. Diesel the and

and D. forcibly opened when

was found to be sleeping Choung Huon was fined $50 or Engine.

10

the lack.of

Ts Prosa. could

blems of the present-day world much oritateage was

"Still-lifo study morning. resulted in the door be Road, on dates between April 8

And as the man who was fight-of Pork

exhibited

FOR SALE

-ing the hear said to his friend, "If at the Tete a Teto Calories. By tigerly on the bed but with two wooks hard labour, fof' 19- Canacity of Installation complete]

that time he had grown a tremen-

veneer"

you can't help me, don't help the dous beard and had acquired a the exception of his purple trou-eiving five fron shoots, and of dirt and purple trou ears, there was no evidence of parrested when he at sors. The adverso criticism that Kaskara himself. As this was tempted a third visit to No. 294, the Naval had kireted his first fort rapidly his baly pair of trousers the my Conduit Road, the property, of

storm of abuar story wasponsiderably deepened. Jardine, latheson

rathor

ther terneting point that enfonced to wheb, is

bear

from For the Yard How

Shine

Lón „Tobsday, Hui, developed 120d and third

red labour by Mr. tempts Pork Chop. Couchant" was mentioned was the fact that ward the tiger wan violently, wick later Ington, and "Pork

with insulated chambers 80 tone. Installation can be inspected on Board:am, "Yuen Sang” at China Marchants Wharf, West Point,

Tenders must be delivered, to the Divisional Ben-Transport en Omosty Raningnia Hotel, Kowloon

before soon... on

87,18th Shan. April, 1940

Impactor H. Bell, prosecuted, Three months

hand bas

Street

féculed rand" PATOSFATE! Etudents froths all pls of the animal, Bad saten","bizjema/Ariti "Hard labour, was

over the wall the world came in thousands to that had dianggoods with

N: 0, STAZGLAVE. f view the plotures, and it only

escaped.

tching?

Showing

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