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Today's Events

May 24-LR. & Youmall Forrtas,

nnnual meeting, noon,

Coming Events

May 24-26 Wun Race meet-

ink.

May 28-H.K. Really & Trust Co

annual meeting, nota. May 20.K. Tramways Ltd. Annual meeting, Jardine's of fices, noon.

May 31-China Provident annual and extraordinary meetings, Jacobean Rom, H.K. Hotel, HOOT.

May 31 China Emporium annual

meeting, 3 pun1.

June 1R. & Whumpon Docks

extraordinary meeting, noon.

Co. June 27 lnde-bina S.N.

Ltd., ammunt general meeting

noon.

Government Doctor Charged

a pting a bribe of $3 From Wong Yau-shing on May 22.

On the application of, Mr. F.W. Shaftain, Senior Superin tenden af Poller, accused was

lays on requested for seven ball of $5,000 cash and $5,000

Mr. Shafinin informed Worship that the ease would be

sommarily, dur to con gestion of enses in the Higher Court which often resnited in an interval

of three or four months before a caso is leard. Me Marcus da Silva is ap paring for the defence.

-tried

EXPLOSIVES IN

Thousands Of Tons

Recovered

Among the many post-war tasks which the Army has been called upon to perform, one of the more interesting and more difficult has been the recovery of ammunition from old Japanese and British underground storage sites. The removal of this ammunition, which otherwise would have proved a potential source of dan- ger to the community as well as a ready prey for looters, hos been undertaken in Hong Kong over the last 18 months by the Royal Engineers and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

while

A

Danger

the

com-

13

The work of forcing a pas- sage through these tunnels has been extremely difficult; there

IZA

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947, J

HK TUNNELS Kai Tak

The entrance to one of the tunnels schich was successful in striking the main underground system of Japanese galleries. The machinery in the foreground in the compressed-air ap juratua nord for supplying the air circulation necretary to the

Ariny P Photo) working partics.

EMPIRE DAY MESSAGE

w ways the danger of strik-The President of the Empire Day Movement, the

the

of

Earl of Gowrie, V.C., P.C., G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., has sent the following Empire Day

message:

of self-extermination.

The British Coininonwealth and

H.K.-U.S.A.

AIR MAILS

Manilu, May 23. The Philippines Air Lines wunounced today that it has been awarded, by the Pont- Hong of Ingaler-Grueral Kong a Government contract In curry nait from Hong Kong to the United States.—. United Press.

Colonial

Property Statement

More Police Raids

On Opium Dens

of

the

Determined to eradicate the opium evil in Kow- loon, Police on the Peninsula on Thursday carried out six raids in Mong Kok and two in Kowloon City. Inclusive Government is to com-

woman while a pipe, a lamp and five of opium word seized. pensate owners of land amuggler arrested at the K.C.R. pote

Station in punicasion of 1.6 tacla | Keeper fined $100, and the two whose property was in-

of raw opium (for which she smokers $10 each. cluded in the Japanese was fined $180 by Mr. Latimer), Li Chow was the keeper of extension of Kai Tak nine pedlars and 43 smokera the Nga Tain Wal Road den acrodrome during the were apprehended within 12 where three smokers, four pipen

hours, while over 8.8 taels of and six lamps were found. Lu Occupation.

An official statement issued opfum, 28 pipes and 33 lamps was fined $270 or three months' hard labour: one smoker $15, yesterday said:-

were and the two absentees' ball of

"Government has for Home time had under consideration the question of whether com. pencation should be paid to the owners of land and buildinga situated in the Kowloon City aren who were diapossessed in the year 1942 or later by the Japanese Authorities when Kal Tak aerodrome was extended.

"In view of the fact that the aerodrome aв enlarged by the Japanese is still being used by by the British Authorities it has been decided that special legis Iation shall be enacted in re spect of the land now included in the Aerodrome which prior to 1942 did not belong to the Crown

"This legislation will provide for the compulsory resumption by the Crown of the land in cluded in the extension of the Aerodrome and for the payment of compensation to the owners of such land. It will not, how ever, provide for the payment af of. compenention to owners buildings formerly situated on

the land.

were gelzed.

who up- Kowloon

Fines totalling $1,830 Imposed by Mr. W.A, Blair-Kerr $25 each entreated. on the eight keepers peared before him at yesterday. Of the 43 amokers, 29 answered to their names and were fined $15 each, while the 14 absentees had their ball of $26 each estreated.

the

False

Charity

Tickets

which

The

case in Mo Wai-yung, 25, des-

In six of the seven convictions against the keepers, SI Walter Collins successfully applied for notice of conviction to be served on the respective landlords. The diyan at 394 Reclamation Street, first floor, belog situated in a partly demolished houre owner of which could not be cribed as an university graduate in Canton, was traced, was the exception,

Casca heard were as follows: charged with obtaining Chung Shiu-sang, married woman, possession vi. 1.3 locis $30 by false pretences of raw oplum at 540 Shanghat from Ng Ping, and Tang Street, first floor, raided at Kong, 30, unemployed, 9.10 am, on May 22 by DSI was charged with con- Syken. Fined $176.

spiracy, was concluded before Mr. Sainsbury at Central yesterday.

Shanghai St.

Also ralded by DSI Sykes were the divans at 661 Shanghai Street, second floor, and 553

nine

amekers,

"The necessary legislation Shanghal Street, first floor. In now being drafted and a more the first dive were three beds, four pipes, four lamps, 14 pets detulled notification will fasued to the public in due of opium, and

Fine $275; smokers, $15 each. Kwong Pik-chuen, keeper of the second den, was fined $210; while two smokers $15 each,

Course.

Secretary's Broke Into Message

or 10

Mau was ined $200 daya' hart labour, while Tang was fined $200 or 20 days.

Mau was entrusted by Mr. yu Tak-ming with severni, tic- kets for raising funds for charity under the sponsorship Ол of Mr. Chau Chun-nin. May 19, Mr. Yu accidentally tifree absentees forfeited $25 lacovered that his friend. Na. A ticket Ping, had bought ench. There were four bede, from Mau for $30, which was seven pipes, four lamps and nine not one of the genuino, tickets pots of oplum found.

isaued through him,

tunnels. Their task has not been an Japanese franaveral easy

one but operations are Thereafter the layout of

Increased and galleries now nearing completion from such sites as Caroline plexity and the workinge Hill. Kennedy Rond, Leluhton revealed now show a rectangle HB Road, Little Hong Kong, of 160 feet by 100 feet with up- Happy Valley, Belcher's Fort. proximately 15 smaller branch Grumplan Road, South China gallerica, Football Club and Argyle Street large stocks of old am- munition and explosives have been recovered and removed. in all, a total of 4,500 tons of ammunition and explosives have ing same uniocated ammunition twelve or and causing a further explo- been cleared from

localities in sion; there was the problem of more different

raising the shattered roof suf-

"Two years after the triumphs | Dr. Lim. Ek Quec, 38, Hong Kong and Kowloon.

When operations on a num- ficiently to extract the ammuni of the Shamshuipo Goy-ber of these sites were began tient boxes from beneath; there of battle we are still engaged in einment Dispensary. ap- shortly after the reoccupation was the likelihood of Japanese a vital struggle to win peace and The struggle is as critical peared before Mr. W II. was found that the majority booby traps; and, finally, there well-being for the peoples of the

storage dumpa were was the absence of any plans earth.

as war itself, for hon's inventive Latimer at Kowloon yes-focated in rudely constructed to serve as a guide

The galleries, us now dug-genius, having autrun his morali- terday charged with ac- tunnels built by the Japanese

in different parts of the island; out, average some five and a has brought him to the brink

further few were half feet in height and situated in old British air raid main shafts are six to eight Empire is a cross-section of the

hillside is shelters In

Instances feet Home

brand; the

n depth of 275 races and creeds of the world. the construction of these under-penetrated to

proved feet. ground magazines had

It has been necessary to Such diversity gives rise to grave und for.reaching problems; but inadequate for the purpose and re-shore the entire workings as

it also offers unique opportunities |

Juint of welding together fur apartial collapse of the tun-1 the original timber had col- nel workings had occurred, re-lapsed in the explosion or roi constructive effort men and wo.

point. sulting in the burial of the am- ted beyond the safety

of timberen of different stock, different This Eight-seven His munition stored there.

Luna

Toths und different cultures.

The member-peoples of the has rendered, in consequence, went into re-constituting the

Commonwealth and Empire are the tank of excavation doubly tunnels, while 2,000 tons

coercive been earth were shifted from the held together by no difficult; first there has

fea- bunds, but are freely asscelated the problem of locating the workings. An Interesting buried ammunition; and after ture was the "cribbing" which in a partnership. "Free Institu. wards, the skilled and arduous involved timbering to a height ons are its life bloot. Free co

Ten amokers and three beda

On the following day, Mau' task of removing it in its, de- of 20 feet in places to render operation

were found at 104 Shantung visited Mr. Yiu who found teriorated and sometimes dan safe the concavities formed in Peace, security and progress are the soil by the explosion, Elec-mong its objects," No previous

Piending guilty to stealing Street, first floor, when the pre-other false tickets in her hand- Retous condition.

The Secretary of Stato for

and alan mises were raided by Si bag.

She led the police to the trie lighting was installed in Empire has been based upon the

the Colonies has sent the fol- 12 pieces of clothing By far the most exacting of armoured cable and compressed principle of liberty, and no other

School on May 22, and a speedo- on Thursday. There wore also Tang was arrested. such excavations has been the air pumps supplied the air cir- Empire has ever included in its lowing Empire Day message to ron from St. Stephens Girls Andrews shortly after 8 p.m. Hong Kong Hotel lobby, where

the same time the people of the Empire:-

a clock and a brown three pipes, five lamps and five; Tang look the police to No. work at Argyle Street which culation necessary to the work- membership ut

"On this Empire Day 1947, 11 meter.

The keeper, 110 Jaffee Road from where Gracie

has just been brought to a suc- ing parties employed at the tun- great nations and communities of

containing One of the special European, Asiatic and African send my greetings and good chow dog from No.1 Park Road, pots of opium.

wishes to every one of you. It residence of Mr. Fung Ping Chan Cheung was fined $200,, three more books Sir--You are to be congra-ressful enelusion after opera- nel facea,

problems which was encounter-blood.

The United Kingdon and the is very right and proper that fan, Director of the Bank of while six of the amokers were roughly 300 false tickets, were

East Asia, on May 20, Li Shiu- mulcted in the sum tuled on your leader in re- tions laaiing seven months.

the number of small

of 315 found. Tang admitted to the Here the extent of the Jun- ed was gard to the sentence passed on

The four absentees. had polles that he printed the. tle- each. Gracie for

kete from a genuine one obtain- broadcasting anti- oneae tunnelling was finally re- divergent galleries occasioned self-governing Dominions-nations there should be Allied propaganda from avented to be 2,000 feet and the by the Japanese meeting with of the North and South Atlantic special day each year on which wah, 21, was sentenced to 111 to be expelled from the Colony

In another rald conducted by ed from Mau, at No. 8 Gough Shanghai Radio Station during measure of difficulty involved rock in their original workings; and the Pacific Oceans-constitute all of us in the British Com-weeks hard labour and orslered their ball of 825 entreated.

in the excavation enn be gung- being in the main unable to use a fellowship of independent de monwealth and Empire can by Mr. Thomas Tam at Central SI Andrews at 394 Reclamation Strect.

they concelebrake our membership of

From the house in Jaffee the War.

yesterday. harmonising influence the world's greatest family of

found Poon Yau, 40, shop keeper, Street, Brat floor, eight smokera A prisoner was excused for ed from the fact that 85 per: blasting material they had been mocracies. As such,

among the other representatives peoples. The demonstration we

Hennessy Road,

were found on the three beds in Road, the police also was

forged chops, one of working on behalf of the enemy cent of the original tunnelling forced in such cases to divert wleid

of European civilisation-with give that it is possible for so of 14

fined if compelled to do so under the bad either collapsed or become from the main tunnel.

$25 for receiving the the fint. Four lamps, four three threat

many peoples to live together of the lash, club or completely obliterated owing to

The real work of excavation hem still lies the main respon

xibility for world prace erin harmony and to their mutal speedometer; Wong Sum-chuen, pipes and 24 pols of opium were which bore the name of Mr. starvation. Is it any less com- a previous explosion.

It was this explosion early in lay in extracting the ammun- anarchy. pelling that in this case thone)

benefit is of the utmost signi- 32, shop keeper, of 32 Lee Tung Reized. The keeper, Yip Kwong, Chau Chun-nin. Aleance to the world at large and Street, was fined $20 for receiv-was' fined $325, or four months' Aguin, Britain offers India threatened

stavation 1946 which revealed that nition from the collapsed with

lug the clock; and Luk Sum, 45, hard labour; were Gracie's wife and child? quantity of ammunition was tions of the tunnel.

A movement must be nitint- buried in the hillside under the roofing, with 70 feet of earth Partnership with herself on abso. is Fomething in which we are hawker, was cautioned for re- $15 cach, and one absentee for-1

lately equal terms. If that great justified in taking pride,

feited $25 ball. ceiving the dog. the object is attained, the result can

"In our British family as in ed in order to fasure that in football field of the Diocesan above it, was resting on

Inspector B. G. Baker, pro-! Reclamation St. to be No pians of the actual ammunition cases; large hardly fall

u new and any individual family there are!

SI secuting, said at 5.30 a.m. on this case "the penalty to the] Boys' School.

Stewart led a party of suspected tunnels existed and mechanical jucks were used to powerful element of stability in times when we feel impatient My 22, PCC-174 arrested first Police in a raid on 368 Ro crime."

between with one another when the older defendant in Oakland's Path clamation Street, first floor, na the previous explosion having raise the timbering same inches the uneasy relations caused the entrances to become and allow the ammunition to be East and West.

In the Colonial Empire there is members feel that the younger with a parcel, containing the the result of which Ko Shing.

ones are too precocious when covered the only indication of withdrawn. If still under pres the original tunnelling waa by

sure the earth was excavated a vast range of communities nt

he younger ones complain that clothing and Iron, under his the keeper, and seven smokers observation of the cratera aub from underneath. Progress at widely different stages of develop- they are unduly restricted and arm. Li admitted that he had were arrested, and five pipes, sidences in the fall of the times was reduced to two or ment. In many territories Britain

forcing open a window.

seized. The keeper was fined ground

three feet a day. During the is co-operating in great practical hampered in their aspirations. coken into the girls school by nine lamps and 25 pols of opium Further interrogated at the $275; three amokers $15 each Working by this means, the operations bronze tools and rub-measures to raise the standard of That kind of impatience is no-

tunnela ber shoes were used by the fe, and so increase the pace to./tural and healthy and out of it nolice, station, Li admitted hav and four absentees lost thelr Engineers drove two

wise compromise and ing on May 20 broken into and ball of $25 each. where the previous entrances were judged to have existed and after digging in for 50 feet aucceeded in atriking the main

Readers' Letters

It seems a pity that this principle cannot be applied to ather, and more glaring cases,

I. C. ANDERSON-

KCC DANCE POSTPONED

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Unknown Gas

Bee-

Here the

working parties to minimise the wards risk of an explosion.

is ILA instrument.

D

set aside a

Girls' School

seven smokers,

BRASSO

self-government. Such comes A sur- work is a fundamental contribu- wlac progress.

atolen the other articles from

Led by Mr. Charles Motiram "Today we are seeing many Mr. Fung's house. Li told the

(Divisional Inspector, Kow- prise occurence was the release tion to world peace and progress,

All of it-Britain's co-operation advances in the colonies in the ulice that he had sold the

loon City), the Police in that of an unknown gas-something) resembling phoagene which with the Dominions, with India march toward self-government speedometer for 310 to second district raided 56 Takullag Road, For

Burma, and with the and in economic and social de defendant, the clock for $5 to stopped work in a section of the and tunnel for two weeks. The re-Colonies in Africa and elsewhere velopment. We have clear aims third accused and the dog for second floor, and 33 Nga Tan Shining

on mutual and a determination to achieve $10 to the hawker, markable nature of the achieve-depends for success

The palice visited the respec- former address, Li Fong, mar Brassware ment in general can be weighed goodwill. Goodwill grows out of them in the shortest possible

the laatfried woman, the keeper, and from the fact that, although the understanding; and understanding time. But it is no use pretend- tive places, arreated

smokers were arreated specific quantity of ammunition can be deepened anly by bettering to ourselves that the way three defendants and recovered two removed from the galleries was knowledge of each other. There is going to be easy or that we all the stolen property, includ- comparatively small, the dim-es our duty and our oppertunity. shall reach our objective with Ing the dog. culties-involved in ita excava- The celebration of Empire Day is

tion were such that in one case a public acknowledgment of these

It took four and half days to responsibilities."

free a single box.

explo- The ammunition and sives removed have ranged from 76 mm shells to bulk picric acid explosives, and in- cluded spigot mortar bombs, bulk black powder, 50 mm dia.

conical land mines

arma ammunition.

7.

· PIN-UP COMPETITION

The Union Jack Club is spon-

petition.

Entries are

out a good deal of hard work.

If we are willing to share that hard work in a truly family.

spirit then I think we have good Technical

reason despite the difficulties of our times In looking with op timism to the future."

CATHEDRAL FUND

Error

A conviction without fine on Ia technical error was register. ed by Mr. d'Almada at Central Britannia yesterday on the

chargers, 80 mm mortar bombs, soring a novel competition in the and small shape of a portralt pin up com

The following is a list of dona-Silk Stare, of China Building, called for under tions to the St. John's Cathedral for seling four pairs

of un- The work is now complete and the community must feel grate-treo headings bonny babies, Restoration Fund received to May marked Nylon stockings at $14 been each ($12) to Mr. W, Sindair ful for this lengthy and dificult wives or sweethearts, and happy 22 which have not yet

family groups.

acknowledged in the press operation undertaken by

ou. May 2. the Entry forms (the closing date Chinese Postal Regit

Mr. Pliman, of the 8.T. & I. Army. With the entire system Wednesday, May 28) can be tances & Savings

appeared for the prosecution, of galleries cleared the tunnels]

Bonk

while Mr.. JJ.T. Prior repre- have recently been inspected by obtained from the Union Jack

sbated the store. a board of officers and a repre- Club. Judging, which will be by ballet, will take place on Satur. sentativ of the P.W.D. who

have pronounced the area ftday, May 01.

for return to the civil authori ties.

Yu Ting-wah, allas Tu Hok.

chiu, a Major General in the

TEMPLE ST. BROTHEL

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel S.

Young

HP. Bailey

Hong Kong Football

Association

Anon

TJ. Gould

K.C.M.G.

A B4-year-old spinster, Ng HE. Sir Mark Young Chinese Army who is now ser. Foan, was fined $200 and re- ving a two year sentence in commended to be evicted by Mr. Dr. J. Montgomery Stanley Prison for the larceny of Latimer at Kowloon yesterday Mr. & Mrs. Hill, Ed-

wards 1,750 ingois, the property of the when she admitted having kopt Chinese National Resources a brothel at 197 Temple Street, Miss Pansy H. Nelson

G.B. Endacott Commission with obtaining third floor.

Kong Inspector J-Orom, who pro- Restoration Box.. $73,000 IvED Choang Firm by false pretences, necuted, informed His Worship

was brought before Mr. Justice that when the place was aided Recolved up to May 15, 2.H. William (Pulse Judge); at by Inspector L. Davies on, and alteądy acknow- Informed "regarding the Elsposal Chinese malos were found on

JOHN MANNERS & Co., ltd, the Supreme Court yesterday and May 22. Ava Hixle and some

TONG KONG

lodged

$ 100,00

50.00

50.00

The proprietor of the store. told the Gourt yesterday that thara was no difference qualf- 500.00

30.90 ty between the unmarked stock- 125.00ing the store sold to Mr. Bin- clair, and those marked 61

1,000.00 age.

280.00 Pointing out that the un- guaged stockings sold by, the 76.00 zjare wore of equal or superior. 200.00 quality to guaga 51, Mr. d'Al- 25.00 mada said the store should

2.03 consult the B.T. & 1.

Since the defendant store had, na shown by the facts be foto, him, no intention of over- dia. charging it a sense of black marketing, the Maglatrate said. that he would, register, a non- colved up to May, 32 #90,010,84) Viption on a technical error.

of the tia Ingols, the cash in the premises which comprised Total Donations Ro Court of the Bank,

three cubicles.it su unde

Wal Road, second floor. At the

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