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CHINA
No. 33729.
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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947,
HOME-BUILDING SOCIETY
SOCIETY FORMED K.R.A.-Sponsored Meeting On The Braga Plan
Scheme Within Reach Of All
There was a large attendance at Hong Kong's first public meeting on housing. In St. Andrew's Church Hall at 6 p.m. yesterday, when it was unanimously deelded that a "Home Building Society" based on Mr. Hugh Braga's scheme and sponsored by the Kowloon Residents' As- sociation should ́be' formed.
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"Thirdly, most of us
Mr. F. C. Clemo, President of the K.R.A., in his opening address, revealed that the scheme would be made within the reach of all, as it was hoped that semi-detached houses, terraces of houses, or flats might be constructed econo- mically enough for those who could not pay more than $150 or $200 a month. Mr. C'emu said
erase to about $65 per month "It Is trant three weeks at the end. Your net outgoing aince the Kowloon Rreidents' ↑ will then be less than $75 per Association invited the bile month. After 25 years, your of the Colony to register their grows monthly payments will be names if they were interested less than $35 for Crown rent in the formation of a Home- and taxes only.
have. Ruilding Society. The response was very gratifying in many from the first of this month. respects, 559 having sent in had one house rents increased their names. They consisted of by 30 per cent. We all know 308 Chinese, 142 Portuguese. 78 That same day the rents restrie British. 16 Indians. 10 Rations ordinance will be furthe alans, 2 Americus, and relaxed or revoked a'together Others. We have been greatly If you purchase your own home encouraged by the letters of ap- through a building aoelety, no preciation which we have re- one enn feresse your rent, nor çuived from all sections of the can you he evicted. community. The presence of Two Problems so many this hall tonight is
"Fourthly, the Kowloon Rest- also an incleation that the As-dents Association having spon- Kociation was Justified in sponsored the formation of the Boring the scheme proped by Home-Building Society ttow Mr. Hugh Bruga.
wish you to take it over your "We are disappointed, how-selves. The organisation should ever, to find that remarkablyhe Colony-wide and.. therefore, few residents from hotels api utaide the scope of the K. R. near to be interested in own- | A.... But we propose to take a The homes of their own. From Ilve interest in the Building So- the letters to the newspapers | ciety and to give it every assist. and stories, we had heard, we
ance possible, At the conclu.
ISOGAI SENTENCED
Lieut-Gen. Kensuke Inogui, wartime occupation Governar of Hong Kong, arkuowledpng receiving sentence in a Nanking court after he was sentenccil to life imprisonmeut on July 22. Found not guilty of four other charges he was convicted on a charge of departing non-combatant Chinese fram the Colony. It wa for the latter charge that he wwa xentenced to life imprisonment,
Amocintre Press Photo.
COLLAPSE ON SET
London, July 28, Actress Jeun Kent, played leading roles in several Britisk pictures, rollapsed to- iss the diny tehile working film "Good Time Girl."
She was taken in a hospital where her luces won tontu- tirely diagnoned as appendi- citis.Apaciteit Press.
Floating Hotel For H.K.
men
A group of Shanghai and Cantonese business- is considering es- а floating hotel in Hong Kong har- bour, the "China Mail"! learned yesterday.
tablishing
The ship they have in mind for
conversion is toe partially sub.i merged 6,000-ton Japanese tanker now being raised by the Govern. ment selvage department.
The tanker, which the U.S. Air Force, based in Chinn, hit more than three years ago is expected to be raised in a month's time.
the
It is believed to be in good con- dition, but even if it in vold to interested parties, Govern. ment approval will still be necca. sary to turn the ship into Boot ing hotel.
Mysberg Released
Bail On
Shanghai, July 28. Frederick Mysberg, Dutch manager of the Ameri- can-owned Abis company, who has been in jail for five months on a charge of violating Chinese currency laws, was released today on bail of CNC$100,000,000 cash,
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REAL TRAITORS? POLICE STRIKE
Shanghai, July 28.
The Chinese Manufacturare Federation today branded those favouring resumption of trada da
Chin pancet
"ront
and claimed that Ching would be, "bled white" if Japan is allowed nguin to dominate the Chinos market inderelling: Chinees manufacturers.
The Federation urged a Kelux af resumption until after a penca trenty is signed.
United Press.
IN SHANGHAI
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Shanghai, July 28.
A citywide strike was called this morning follow- ing an incident last night in which two police- men were killed and seven policemen and a number of civilians wounded during a battle royal between military gendarmes and police at the Golden Castle élnema on Avenue Foch. The incident arose over à cal ed for reinforcements and à dispute about cinema scats be- ; shooting battle began, tween a policeman and gen- Panic stricken cinema darme, after which both sides patrons fied In all directions
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while a large crowd was marooned inside the cinema un- t long after midnight.
'Order was flaally restored with the arrival of higi mill- itary officers and the area wan cordoned off while Investiga- tions were being conducted into the cause of the affray.
Wedemeyer Mission Statement
Nanking, July 28.
General Albert C. Wedemeyer and his advisers, who returned, here this morning after a two- day stay in Shanghai, will spend the corning week in comparative study of material gather ed thus far during their China fact-finding mission, the United States Embassy officially announced today. They will also collect addi- tional information.
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The statement said that *
"Fatshan"
Detained In Canton
The
China
Police Walk Out
This morning. all trafic points throughout the city were deserted, white the police left their boats in protest against the high-handed military ac
tion understood that emer
It
gency measures are being pro- mulgated to deal with the situa- tion, while the negotiators are frantically endeavouring to of fect a settlement and to per- sunde the police to 'return to thoir duties-Reuter.
Armed Truce (By FRED HAMPSON)
Shanghai, July 28. What had every appearance of being an
armed tsuce prevailed here tonight in the wake of the Golden Theatro slaying of alx policemen and one civilian by the around Naviga Chinese Military Police
this Municipal Polleo struck detained in morning in protest at what has has been Canton by the Chinese been termed a "massacro" and the
fall.
took
-an
Data of value continuca to come to the Wedemeyer group from two princițial sources, the Embassy statement revealed.
"One is made up of thos persons in all areas who write voluntarily with patriotic cern to General Wedemeyer, offering their information and Their suggestions. The other source is made up of persona well acquainted with China's various problems, with whom in. dividual members of the mission tion's steamer "Fatshan" last midnight. are initiating interviews..
"Through the combination of all these sources, a large amount of information has been authorities, following the strike was still in effect by night
"special officers" of although Assembled during the first week discovery of a consider-Municipal Police reserves of the milaton's stay in China." able quantity of contra-over some traffic posts.
Majer K. C. Wu planned considerable number of facts band in the ship's coal appeal to Municipal Police to re The ball was granted as of exchange and banned trad were accumulated during Gen. bunkers, the "China turn to their posts during the direct application to the Shang-ing in gold and United States eral Wedemeyer's visit to Mail" authoritatively Meanwhile, oarly in the after
evening. hai High Court by Mysberg's dollers, it virtually converted the
noon, a crowd of
of Municipal Police lawyer, who asked his client's whole army garrison here into came through visits paid to the The local office of the Com-stormed the theatre and wrecked release to receive medical atten- an enforcement agency. Mys- General by Chinese officials pany told the "China Mall" the entrance foyer in an act of tion. On release, Myaberg en-berg wan arrested when a large and business nien,
Some yesterday that 206 packages of vengeance difficult to explain. various amount of United States dollars | through detailed reports tured a hospital with
A few minutes, later Photo- pregoods were found on board the. illnesses, his attorney anid, dur) was found in his office. In his) pared by the United States Con-
ship by Chinese preventive grapher Hogan and myself reach- to the conditions in the Chinese defence, Mysberg c'almed that, aul-General, Mr.
nl the theatre and found the B. officera whose superiors have wreckers gone with the Shanghai Jail where he was held.
his arrest and conviction took Davis, and some through indivi- ordered the ship to be detained Woosung gendarmerie officers in "Your committee will be faced
Blysberg is appealing to the place before the law went into dual members of the American for further investigation. The charge. with two major problems-land
Supreme and Anance:
Court against the effect.
business community in sentence of a "You
Lower Court's anxious to San Francisco, July 28.
year's term in jail, own homes must have been alarm-I
The Pan American Airways
такс Myabery prices now ed at the high paid for land: A British rest announced on Sunday out of the economic collapse of dent who was decorated for his that it hopes to start a Chinese currency.
Early in March, when the gov- Tokyo and services in the defence of the Colony applied for 8.000 square participants we have at the out-
on which to build a home for But the more are we likely to Bucccul. Perhaps this meetingimaelf and his wife. The land
had expected to be deluged by sion of this meeting you wil be applications from hotel rest-initel to elect a
dents.
tonight.
committee
We must come to the from among those present here conclusion that either the fact lities at the hole's are better than we were led to believe or walking to that residents are see how things go before they decide to step in to reap any benefits for themselves.
For Community's Benefit "If the latter is the case, it
who are
Shanghal, "Some of the facle learned last night. New Air
Service To H.K.
service to
grew
is most dentarable as the more feet of land from Government | Hong Kong by the end of "ument changed the official rate casc.-Associated Press,
August but that flying
of characteristics
the new route will need final approval of the Civil The original applicant was Aeronautics Administra- prepared to bid up to $16,000, but the land was sold for $31, tion. 100 or nearly $4 a square foot.
was put up to auction recently might decide to give preference and the upset price was $1 a to those who register before a certain date if our plans for square foot. home-building thing..
COMIC
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any-
"Of course, there might be other building schemes in the offing, We claim for the plan which we are sponsoring that
A CAA proving, flight wil!
The purchaser was reported to leave here between August 10 Us A arge property owner, and 15, the Airline said. leaving what chance has the average exlating facilities at Wake la- It is non-profit making and that individual against wenithy apeland and lying north to Tokyo it is intended for the benefit ofculators? We do not ask Gov-and then south again to Shang- the community There might crument to give us land. But hal. Hong Kong and Bangkok. bo other nehomes contemplated we shall ask for reasonable
on similar lines, but we bave not heard of them. I presume that you have all read the de- talls of the Braga p'an out- Jined in the press and there is no need for me to ropeat them ail. There are a few features, hownver, which I should like to emphasine.
terms.
(Continued on Page 7) FROM BULLS TO COWES
Cowes, July 28. The people of Bulls, New Zea. lana, have started sending food
The new service wi'i be sup- plemental to the present Manila- Fangkok-Shanghal around the work circuit operated by PAA, the company said.
Its application to serve Tokyo was approved in principle by Since |CAA alout a year ago.
then the app'itation also lins been accepted by SCAP which
15.-Asociated Press.
"First's, the published plans packages, including butter, to this has opened Japan to foreign ara tentative. There is no town, it was learned here today-businessmen visiting on August doubt that they were popular. | United Press. for specific houses of, the types illustrated. At the same time, we realise that there are, many people who had previously re- gistered their names and who are not in a position to pay the month'y instalments for type: "B" house.
No Increase In Rents
the
'Tree Man' Charged With Murder
I want to tell them tonight not to lose heart ne it is hoped A that semi-detached houses, tor-i races of houses, or flats might...
.economically be constructed. enough for those who cannot pay more than about $160 to 1200 per month. It is for you to say what you want and can afford to pay and we shall try toidavise ways to meet your Welshen and your purso
WOT ABOUT ROOSIA?
London, July 27.
A Moicow Radio commenta tar tonight described Britain's armed forcos as "extraordin arily great for peace time," and declared that the greater part of Britain's loan from the United States aiready
had pone towards their
obtained an Ameri can dollar loan and having already spent more than half of it, Britain has not done mony with her dollar famine and is compelled to reduce offier supplies of food and
ncessities for har popula tian," he stated.-Router.
The Weather
An antlerclonu', ls' stallonary to the E of the Donina, and pressure is moderately hich over Korek wind over E Indles. 1k low uver the whole of China depro alon is moving E-uver the Kuries The Pacifte depression is almost stationary to the B of the Loveboos and sypents to be
filing up
mainly power
Today's PrecatiModerate 8Wlads fair after, senttered · morning
Yesterday's' Weiber --- Maximum: 0.1 den. Paž Minimum 70.1 deg. Fab. Bunshines, 10.9 hosts.
Monnet
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Shang- Company received a telegraphic Dispute Over Ticket The case provoked interna-hal
message from Canton later in
Military Pollco are a branch of tional attention and recently the "It may be possible to state the day, however, saying the the gendarmerie,. We found Far East Council of Commerce once more that at this stage as "Fatshan" will probably bo English-speaking captain at the and Industry in the United in the past, the mission's pur allowed-to-sall-for Hongkong entrance and asked his version of States under the U.S. State pose remains one essentially of today.
this strango bloody business. Department looked into the fact-finding," the statement add- Press dispatches from Canton There was a diapuls over a ticket
ed. Reuter.
between a policeman and the yesterday alleged that five mem-manager, who called the Military bers of the "Fatshan's" crew Polleo (the inference here Wha had disappeared and that the that the theatre turned to the Canton gendarmerie was search- Military Police for protection pos ing them.
sibly BA, A
taunt to Municipal The dispatches added that Police.) The Military Polica ar- the vessel arrived in Canton on rived and the disputa over Jurla Friday,
A routine search by diction of a long sore paint flared into ganplay. The MPa kiled. aix the Customs resulted in more unarmed police and one civillan. than 200 packages, concealed
***I am a garrison officer but. I. under coal and containing gin-don't condone,
Dutch Use Paratroops In Indonesia
Batavia, July 28. Dutch paratroops were dropped at Lamadjang, ncar the west Java hill station of Bandung, an Indonesian Republican communique re- ported today, as the fighting in the Indies en- tered its second week.
Both the local population and [of the Dutch advance toward the the Republican Army attacked latter city.
paratroops," "exterminating
song, deer's horn, high-priced strued crowd. Now the Dunicipal Chinese and western medical Police have gone on strike, smash- suppiles, motor vehicle spare led the theatre and there's no telf- parte, foreign leather, cello-ing what they'll do, phane sheets and many other
Ho suppiled the ad several kinds of prohibited imports, bo potrebouscked. A quick chock where the Milltary The communique asserted that ing found. ·
showed none had been attacked.. one section of them," the com. 25 Dutch soldiers had been killed The reports said that it took As we were leaving the theatre munique said.
and four groups of a six-truck alx to seven motor
lorrice to we saw a trucklesd of Municipal convoy destroyed in a clash on cart the contraband to the Cus- Police weaving through hot The Dutch, in their communt- Sunday near Locsari which is toms warehouso
and that its que today, claimed the capture of still farther north of Lawang valued is Callmated at over car following it through teeming the coal.mines at Bukit Asem, Associated Press.
the
south Sumatra, Hold to be the biggest open cast mine in the Indies.
HK$300,000.'
Europe Will
Coal Till
Need US.
1949
The Dutch communique addert that Netherlands troops captured a rallway workshop, of Lahat, the largest In Sumatra, where the Republicans were said to have been manufacturing rifles, and British pattern Sten gun, and The European fuel situation may be "not quite so
Tommy guns-Reuter.
London, July 28.
critical" next winter as the last, but emer- gency imports of American coal - if there are: dollars to pay for them - probably will be needed until 1949, 'said a. European coal or- ganisation official.
crowded, street and jumped ints a
miles of narrow streets deep In the Chinese section of the city.
Special Reserve
The
Finally we followed it into. courtyard where we found. three moaning women weeping. angry pulicamen pushed their way inside where laying on heads propped up grotesquely,
were
four
planka
of the victims stip
rounded by mourning: relatives and, friends in steaming smother- In heat. Two sorrowing polles- men led us through the mourners:
ont*
with
was,
.nót
to aaniniler room where two other victims lay,
overed atm plained.mine
Nearby weeping policeman
The Dutch announced they had captured the rich Sumatra olliteld') lown of Batoeradio," Ed miles southwest of Palembang. Ba Rainfallt Nil. Total since Janmyfoeradja, was seized Intact with. 1623.6 mm. e salat, an average of Hut resistance, the announcement
“If the Marshall, plan, works, organisation formed soon after exhorted the crowd and other said,, and asserted that the occu. Europa probably will want all of victory in 1945 to meet Europe's policemen which brought to our 1304.1, mm,
pation of the Shell and Vacuuin the 80,000,000 to 10,000,000 tons fuel, emergency, goes out of exist- minds" a Mark Anthony oration,
il holdings there WAS boing of coal that sould be delivered once on Jan. 1, but its functions but being in Chinese we
wa milasedi are to be taken over by the, Unlt Consolidated. The attitude of the from the United States In 1949,"
ollfeld reinaining
the coal organisasian, öfeful sald) ed Nations European Economie.precise meaning.: personnel
If Municipal Police fail to call and in an interview on Sanday. "Only Commission in Geneva Aseo off the strike there was a rumour "zeems favourable."
the MPs might take over but thla The Republican communique by 1949, if the coal production cisted Proses on t
would be sachian Invitation to an. asserted that Republican forces problems of Germany and Britain have been the meantime,
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Readings, at
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Equals 19.84 20.77 Inchés. Rel. Humidik Dew Point Wind Direction, i Wind Fors
hid, &cored new gains against the can we expect auctions I ON OTHER PAGES oben break that it seemed on tin-
Guildford, July 28. handsome, 20-year-old window-cleaner was charged by the police today with being the "Tree Man" who killed two little children brother, and sister-in what has become known as the "Babes in the Wood Murders," After frightened parents, had Gall who died in hospital laat ordered holidaying children to night; remain Indoors and hundreda "of Snuth will bo given in pre- country folk had joined over liminary hearing on Friday. 100 police in a search through Police searched for, him on the
Page Tibong Secondly, although the wooded areas, Frederick James Larin of stories from villagers
Ing the line of communication bei
Hong Kheng Enquiry, monthly payments might appear Smith was picked upon that a man who used to drop
tween Salatica and Ambarawa, high in the first place; almost. In court today, Detective In-out of big trees like Tarzan and.
Foochow, July 28. forward points of a two-pronged The official, who saked not to be Page Five
Solicitor on Comed I will be saving if the spcctor HBStone said that teach woodlord to neighbour A minor typhoon was report Dutch thrust some 30 miles southed by name but, close to
ton" level planning sing the 16-Bory Courts.y le of Interest is 255 per cent when Hmith was charged with hood children had been cooded east of Luzon in the Philly of Samorango
nation, European Caniff Organian- Page. Sias It also reported they had retton, stressed ther his indulations nd your monthly, "Justalmont the shooting of nine-year-old talking to the Galf youngsters. pines at 8p.m yesterday bead-
870, you will be saving $188 Leslie Gaff, he replied "I didn't The children wereal found lying for Foochow at 12 miles piled the Dutch north of for nast, winte diely na Include month, so that your trun out, njurder him... It was an accling aide by alde, the boy, dead an hour and enst Jave resort, and had possibilities of intretant coal but. Page-Nine logo under $1400/A tine dentVOR ME
PANEVROS and thagiri dying. There were According to the local obaer recuptured the town of Singosari, put Troin the German jury toon sohina Demands
Av. Treasure. *bo; you will begin to parti-Hso said "No, I didn't" when reports that the police believed vatory, the typhoon, was then which is several miles nord of to be discussed, bass the United
ain, bonuses, { Theno; will | asked, whether, ho had brutally Leslie had died "def his about 100 miles from: Folthow, LAwang, which la 12 miles from Status and Britála in Washington. - Fogar Ten mall, at drst but with-beaten seven-year-old Eileen ainter United Pr Kõo |--Central:NOWL
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