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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

Ninth Extra Race Meeting

Saturday, 6th November, 1948.

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The First Belt will be rung ut 100 p.m. and the first race will be run at 1.30p.m.

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MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the Meating:

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

and

Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure

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obtain. Kooms at 810 including x able through the Secretary on the written or personal intro- daction of a Member, such Member, to be responsible for all chils elc.

Baders admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sate at the IAGE COURSE.

The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11 a.m. Bothi Offices at Office at 11,45 .. and the Secretary's

1st Floor, Exchange Buliding.

A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27518).

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

The price of admission to the Public Enclosure in 33 payable including tax for ali persone including Jadles, and is at the Gate. *-

Bookmakers. Tie Tac men, etc, will not be permitted to operate within the precinct, of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.

Refreshments will he obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure.

SERVANTS' PASSES.

holders Servants' passes will be inued to Private Box ONLY, who are requested to distribute them with discrimina

Holdern of tion and to endorse their names on the paases, such passes are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure axonpt for passing through on their duties but must remain In their employers' stands.

BY ORDER.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1948.

Prosecution Ends. Case In S'hai Bridge House Trial

The prosecution closed its case in the Bridge House trial at Lyemun Barracks yesterday, and the Court adjourned until Monday morning when the dofance will open,

On trial are, Lieutenant General Kinoshita Eiichi

commanding officer of the Shanghai' District Kempeitai from August 1942 to November 1944, and Sergeant Yoshida Bunzo, who was attached to the foreign section of the Shang- hai Kempeitai.

The morning session yesterday was occupied with the reading of further affidavits.

HOW

and

Coca-Cola

Hennessy Rond A picture story of a motor accident in yesterday morning when, a truck ran into a "Coca-Cola" lorry that was parked outilde 's store while the salesman was on his delivery rounds. Ploture shows the damage sustained, by the truck. It is understood the "Coca-Cola" lorry was extensively

damaged.(China Mell" Photo).

Public Urged To Support Poppy Day

CORRESPONDENCE

in

[The Editor takes and responsibility" for" pletos: expressed Letters by correspondents, and bu no means necessarily agrees with them.

Housing Scheme

I know real raiate speculators

Sir-As an old resident of the Wil shout about bottle-ncelos Colony with some knowledge of supply and Interference with the the needs of both the public and supply of materials for private the Civil Service may, I suggest building these difficulties .cm bo that what damn the new. Leigh met na they are met in Englaust ton Hill houses is the timing of now by stringent controls, Emer- the scheme

guicy nieeds demand emergency rather than

measures.

scheme “itself.

The 141

ald Leighton

the

Lastly some will object that it

tania

houses were bullt about 1920 t la tenute to protest. The n- cost including site shud, supqrver is twofold. First, the need vision of about $20,000 a house, for

for public housing stin

mel bxv with, five living room witle en- and if necessary can, be

veraudab

usual

Anel hereased, taxes.

secondly wara, this protest will be worth while offers but ng karakteret and if it only stops the already sug two storey houses 1st Floor), three or four, to black

of COUTS

a seated expenditure of, nearly as The 20 new dats of about much money again gh another Ant the same size but with garages of fats for another twenty-six cost about $4,370,000 made up of Civil Servants on the other halt contmet outlays of $3,300,000 of the alte

These proposals at P.W.D. Rupervision $190,000 56 (standurd B.I.B.A. ruto), and merely state the obvious and

something Lifter site value of $380,000 at mindest they or

wpild, almost, certninly $5.n. squu'e foot. This work been adopted already if we hnd out at about. $18,000 had the municipal self-govern- high though not ridiculous figure.

the

The former is charged with Kempeital; Goto Shigeru, Kempet-

Major and Deputy Com responsibility for atrocities to tal prisoners at Bridge House and ralssioner of Shanghai Municipal, the Union Jack Club, Bhung-Police. in. December: 1941; Ternokcie hai by Kempeital personnel: Kotiel, deputy secretory to the

Shanghai Municipal Counell and the latter with being con-

chief, of the 1941.

al Personnel Section, Ministry. cerned in the 11-treatment of and

Foreign prisoners at Bridge House,

Affairs, Japan: Watari, Masani, Commissioner of the, Shanghal Municipal Police from. 1842 to 1944.. Morris Joseph Soulevitch, a The Prosecutor also read stote

bis dayments.

both Soviet

taken

the frnm citizen, in Lexiled to tortures he received accused. at Bridge House ofter he refused General Kinoshita stated that Four appeals were made over Radio Hong Kong last to admit that he was a Chungking he made frequent visits to the

night to the general public to support the Bri- underground agent and had helped celly of Bridge House, and could Allied nationals to escape.

by buying poppies today. tish Legion recall having seen uny tie suid the Japanese threaten- foreigners in them. The prisoners

"Poppy Day is essentially a day only execute his wife and he, saw

Chinese, The appeals were made by

price of remembrance aughter if he persisted in refus-Japanese and Koreans.

Rear-Admiral A. C. G. Mad- On one occasion he did see a den, Major-General F. R. G., valorous deeds, quiet bravery and link to confess,

day later sentenced to 10 Russian woman exercising in the Matthews, Lieutenant-Colonel precious it was

which (les us admit it), can easily years' imprisonment by a military

E, J. Mitchell and' Air Com- yard.

be over-sentimentalised-but courl. This sentence was later

modore A. D. Davies.

I propranime, Introducer of this commuted to eight years.

would like to finish not on a sent!- Mitsuki Shibata, secretary of

Taret Liaison the Kynlo

"Those who claim and receive ordination Offee, festified that he On his inspections he found the

mental but on a realistic note. clean and the

help and benefits from this or ganisation-now was imprisoned at Bridge Housecila · generally

more thas

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nol

Were

Found Cells Clean

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01 August 1042 on a charge of prisoners apparently well looked giving away information of high after.

He was not sure of the food, Japanese policy,

Japanese

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that for

fact he was opprehended be- but, be thought the ration was the cause he had a large number of same.

ile friends among foreigners,

Rave

a description of conditions in Bridge House during the period

of his detention.

perronnel.

Deaths in the prison should be reported to him, and, he had novog...received any such report, haszaló.

occasion

Different Methods

He emembered an Different methods of forturing when six foreigners were arrested prisoners were explained in the for explonage, and he believed aflidayit of Mayejima Hideo, who they were detained.

was

he

an interpreter with ihe He was not present at inter Shanghai Kempeltal from Decem-rogation of prisoners but ber 1941 to August 1945.

happened to drop in by, chance The most common treatments on two occations and he found

the water torture,

the that it was conducted in a proper electric shock, the baseball bat;} manner. and the Kendo sticks.

He had never heard of

the

The first to broadcast was, Rear Admiral Maden who concluded his appeat by asking the public to remember, not only Poppy Day but on future anniversaries that the need for support will be ever increasing. He added:

"I want to dispel any idea you may, have in your minds that as time goes on, funds become less The reverse is the necessary. case.

Personalia

Arrivals at the Peninsula Hotel Thursday included Mr. and

Mrs. C. M. Davis, Mr. and Mra Goudie, Mr. and Mrs. W. E Reese, Messrs. B. Hunt, W.H.M. Newland, R. Hallows, M. Prodan

He also outlined the procedure death of Hution. If he had he. C. Vines, J. J. Brennan and

and would have eased investigations

to be made and those responsible. would have been severely dent with,

In connection with arrests interrogation.

Other affidavits read were those of Colonel Yanazaki Naokichi, in charge of military police affairs,

Lieutenant Shanghai:

Colonel Nagata Kasunosuke, commanding ollieer, North division, Shanghai

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Yoshido's statements were a complete denial of any knowledge! of and complicity with the alleged ill-treatment of Hutton,

M.O. Mitchell.

Departures from the Peninsula

and Mrs. L. E. Dickey. Messrs. Hotel on Thursday included Mr. R. A. Metzger, Cyril Rogers, R. Holzkech und Dr. J. Heng Llu.

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Mr. and Mrs, Anker B. Hen- here fram Ho bad heard a jureigner namerningen will arrive Button was insane and was box- Shanghof by the ss. Wing Song. lug with fellow Chinese prisoners, They are spending a week in the and that for this season he was Colony and are saying at 12 up.

Repulse Bay Hotel, Beyond that he had nothing to do with the whole affair.

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the

Commissioner on the departure of reading and a few other experi-| Mr. R. Hazzard, on Monday, 95, kisténto in magie,

of

cur

comradeship-a

of

them

Key Money Case Hearing Continues

The fact is, however, that atment we were promised years such a time, with dempeds, on ago. But the building of these public purse more, urgent luxury fats certainly pinpoints than they ever were, and for the need for such a Government. building most urgent of all, the

IP KWAI 'CHUNG. spending of nearly 4 million dollars to house 20 Civil Servante is tullergus, luxury. The same

um instead of being used house 36 Civil Servants" could;} with the community's credit to back it; have met the carrying charges on a ninety-two million

loltars self-liquidating housing. foun; chough to house over 1,200 Hearing of the Blue Pool business, men, and make a size Road' key money case was con able favorid on the public hous-tinued at Central yesterday ing problem of the Colony. The before Mr. Hin-shing Lo fact that the public housing

The summons aroso in respect problem has been almost entirely of key money said to have been prob

ignored unill now merely in- creases the absurdity. The figuren. for those interested, I append be low:

APPENDICES

the

surrender of the

pald for

round floor of No. 32 Blue Pool itond by Thi Wan-huo, to Suen Boong-fong and which involved 1- two payments of HK$6,000. and

canta, of 3946, weblio. Jauh. | HK$24,000 nt. the Manufacturers' Baking Fanê chatzquat 175° per annum Bank of China on si ubout Janu--

La commence after 12 mantha, mouthes. No hinten completed, Interval

.28 Indeed years old-value greatly ati- thoughts of them and senti- ments about them, but they will we are really know how much

by the results | Carrying thinking of them we achieve on Poppy Day."

Major-General Matthews said he was speaking on behalf of those who went to war, strong body and mind, and who now walk in darkness or lie limbless, dwelling in a world of complete dependence on others who are their eyes, hands and feet. The added:

bave

Zu Gwenthal Al end of perlad

aro cumpleted. half of hou Bente receiving hegloofer1.

Interest

period

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ard # manther Hall of huningd rlock enaflotada aurte and il completed, at end of perio The inking Vanity

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Instructed by M. G. 8. Ford, Mr. Percy Chen prosecuted whije Mr. ANJ. Chifford matructed by Mr. Alfred. Y, Hon was for the defendant,

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Tin' Wan-hao said that i was the owner of the house which he bought in 1930. Hẹ eft It in the "It is on their behalf I speak li

ense of Mr. T. M. King" who, also acled as his agent. Mr," King particular, many of whom withou your generosity would

then rented the ground toor to spent their days helpless, but Toll cost before in becomes self defendunt. Witness returned have now been given a new life 24-3/16 of Joan.

the Colony in January 1918 and Amount avotlable to meet me together with the agent went through the support of the Poppy

Witness then Day Appeal, by being taught (4,110,000 of an 1832 millon). see the defendant. trude, which they are able to tol-

Thut

he Margin for eventual]tion=7/15%% of Juan, ¦ kufurmed · defundimit 1xcluding abows, and bank interest wanted to repecusy

his toure. in balance), 20

Defendant promised to leave, pro- Inted stale. low in their otherwise incapael-

ylded suitable nocommodation could be found for him. · Witness found him u fat at Bay View Street.

Between the two warn large numbere of disabled men have

In

Rental Calculation, 'an Fausa corting

per annum = 4,0

3.4815%

of the house, After, inspection witness agreed to take the floi but later on changed, kis mind. his Not being. able, to recover house, witness left for Shanghai. Returning to the Colony

once got in touch again, defendant

been employed and are stil! | Lean charge 4564%%% employed in the Legion's Indus: House Lates at 17 on rent 0.1618 trina and factories; whilst others Maintenance it 15% of meat == 0.18% are still recovering their health In the Legion's Homes. ad: Total rent required dition suitable surgical ap

5.49150% of $13,961107.00 per annum pliances havo“ bean providad

=9 239.59 per month count!eal for 500 cases and

„Undevalásoų, site value is not Includeu invalid chairs are loaned to ax, Khaps be added, ant Service men and women until recentingly, when other with his through Mr. Au Yeung- Mr. Fred M. Gaisburger will

they regain the use of their “Belig vanta" egile Stain,

eing and the question of the address the Hong Kong_Rotary

promises was brought up. By ar- liniba.

Housing owing to the security rangement witness met defendant Mr. H. H. Rankine, who in at Club on Tuesday (Ladies Day) at "Since the second war

still present Assistant Australian Gov- the Roof Garden, Hong Kong more and more require. the afforded by the buildups is pecu-at the Bing Tao Billiard room. ernment Trade Commissioner, will Hotel, at 12.30 pm, assume the

as every building seelaiy knows, sed defendant why he had- position of Acting He will also givo a demonstracions help to put them back larly suited to low interest loans, During the conversation wines Australian Government Trade tion of sieight-of-hand, mind- into a well and happy lie."

In his fulk, Lieutenant-Colonel and public housing, backed. by changed his mind,,

credit of the Ailtebell said:

of the commualty in

Defendant replied that an

any flat "Toddly the British Legion dis addition, is the best sulted of all muggested by witness would not Lind need not be an expense to be to his liking. Defendant was penses over a million. pouruis a year. Six and a half million med any great extent, since there is then alleged to have asked for and women terved in the last plenty of public land available HK$20,000 and also the condition al of waiving all rents from January War Every one, on demobilsation, eg. the abandoned site, for becomes cutitled, if in nced, to suburb below Jardinn's Lobkout to December 15-1947 as a con- (wab new road and bus service) alderation for living up the the assistance of the Lys sup and by Kowloon the King's Park premises. Witness agreed, and: a

"Hong Kong has

dale, was fixed, for the meeting. ported the British Legion, magni- ueighbourhood, fcently and last year, we had

site com After some discussion the meeting Without # recard collection of over $90,000. It should be possible in to 18 ended in a fallure. Being unable Gur clavelive this your Is to pass months 10 build 1,200 decent to reoccupy the premises, witness wlic returned. 10 the $100,00 markc. With your help family flats or small houses at his Shanghal Jucting Apjece.. only, can we achieve mis task, so €75,000

Hearing was adjourned to please give seperowly to-morrow PW.D. services and make thum

November 16 show your appreciation of the available for business men, who saerlices that have already been have the first claim on the For kicking a bus conductor

Colony, at $340 a month aplece, who afused to let him. made for our present freedom."

This for the same net cost of the huse, Wong Young was fined $250 to the public purse as, the housing of these 28 Civil Servants. Figures appendler.

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VERSAL

Reminders

Today

Ninth Extra Race Meeting Race

Course, Happy Valley. Wah, Yan Dramatic Society, pre- soits The Lady Warrior" at Wah Yan College 7 Theatre, 8.30 pun Hong Kong Light Orchestra, at

European YMCA, p. Harcourt. Officers Club dalice. Poppy Day, sales of poppies in

streets,

Coming Events

TOMORROW

undeveloped

Those who wished, and they would be many, to buy their houses while paying rent could do by paying another $200 month (making #640 a month pí all) for 20 year (approx.) and so increasing the annual Sinking Fund payments. from nearly. (interest rate, assumed; as for the foon itself, at

One probabie sitch a scheme is fact on other housing.

is tho

Indirect of

of

think-one may assume, US (1·

vision of 1,200 middle clasy teho.. ments would sedribly, relieve, ibe pressure in that Deld, the whoja housing market would be preck- od, and other House rents and rates also would tend: tó

liote! Fitte

A further alvaninge of such a

scheme would be that since Gov

Remembrance Day Servicos, at crament owned the Houses it Cenotaph at 10.50 am. of could ensure that they went to Chibicec War Memorial 11.20 reputable blisineta, men who

pedect them and not to colin Classical

Toc H Club, Borators, and reuke capitallis Talbot House, 50, McDonnel whosa wealth; would otherwise Road: 8.30 pan.

nable these gently to grab thoug Wah Yha--Dramútle: Society: pre-ins

Ge-Lady-Warrior" ¡nt Theatre,

Wah Yang College

inst night).

1.K. Art Club, Ske

Storley, members.

ot Queen's Pler, 2.2

MONDAY!

H.K. Bibrers folnarvá),

: Cathedral: Hall;15:40

Com

four weeks by Mr. F. X. Almada at Central yesterday,

COMING TO THE

LEE THEATRE

JOAN CRAWFORD and VAN HEFLIN

POSSESSED

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