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Portraits of Distinction

FRANCIS ' WU'S STUDIO

Gloucester Arcade

CHINA MAIL

No. 34380.

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ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS

SABOTAGE THEORY IN CHAKSANG EXPLOSION Typhoon Balked Efforts To Put Out Fire FOURTEEN MISSING

Sabotage by certain elements is one of the theories being in- vestigated by the authorities concerned in connection with the explosion which wrecked the ss. Chaksang on Wednesday night, the "China Mail“ learned yesterday.

As reported yesterday by the "China Mail", there were no passengers on boord the Chuksong which was due to leave Hong Kong yesterday for the North, This was officially confirmed."

The Chaksang carried a complement of 75. Fourteen Chinese crow wore still missing yesterday, according to on official statement by Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, agents for the vessel.

Just One More Puff

WAN

This contractor's hut in Happy Valley was still stand. ing after Wednesday night's blow--but only Just. It tilted to an alarming angle by the typhoon. See pages 2 and

other typhoon photos. ("China Mail" photoj.

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Red Threat To Amoy Increased

Canton, September 8.

The Communist threat to the South East China port of Amoy has increased. The Reds are reported to be less than 20 miles from the city.

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More than one-third of the inhabitants of Amoy have evacuated. The remainder are uneasy.

to Army

that added The statement the majority of the missing staff. crew are engine room

It was still hoped last night that some may have been pick- ed up by other craft

which

have been unable to report on of the typhoon account

weather.

Chie of the survivors, Mc. T. Y.

Yuan

the third mute, inly mined.

He is under

1ght at the Kowloon Hus-

BILOL

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 9, 1949.

Aftermath Of Explosion

Price: 20 Cents

The Jardine, Matheson teamer Chak Sang, aboard with an exp'asion followed by a raging fire occured on Wednes Jay night, is shown lying on her port side in the Dangerous A mats of twisted corched malal. ("China Mai!" Goods Anchorage. Her superstructures la photo).

Briton Shot Dead, Two Americans Wounded In Canton Shooting Drama

Canton, September 8.

A shooting drama cost the life of an Englishman British Ships

and resulted in the critical wounding of two Americans in Canton today.

The "Charm Mail" learned that The dead was Shanghai-born Mr. Harald Harris,

of the tartermasters of the i

Chaksung

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safely

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The seam From the burning) to the land where he war -10

change of picked ng and given eleang en sonu ot Teo!

He turned up at the head office of the company before, a.m. yesterday with life-belt strung shoulder.

14 Missing

Chaksans

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FIFTEEN SHIPS BLOWN ASHORE BY TYPHOON

Fifteen occan-going vessels were blown ashore by the typhoon early yesterday morning in vari- ous parts of the harbour.

In Tolo Harbour seven laid-up ships were huddled together separated by a few yards from one another about 20 yards from shore in Taipo Kau. A 56-foot Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser Kuon You was beached not far away. Eight ships were grounded in the Harbour Proper, of which five-Inchmay (British),

Pioneer Mail (American). Joseph S. (Philippines), Hu Men und Yu Men, (Chinese) -were towed off yesterday

afternoon.

The full extent of the damage sustained has not been aserriained by the authorities and owners yet. However,

no case of Injury has been reported.

Seven of the affected ships are in operation. The others are Inid- up ships, awaiting either scrup- Iphig or re-conditioning, and man.

ned by skeleton crews.

by

Reports of the havoc wrought

trickled 1 the typhoon Kadually yesterday as the Colony recoverd from the over-night

shaking-up.

was

Damage

lo email craft negligible according to reports late last night.

Beveral areas are stiți under investigation and reports from Aberdeen,

Shaukiwan, Junk Bay and other outlying places are expected to come in today. The fate of the "ghost" ships In Plover Cove, totalling absut 10 is not determined yet.

Official Statement

U.S. Liaison Officer. On. Festing's Staff

Major WIKIam Baunders, former American military at tache in Nanking, has bean appointed U.B. Army liaison General F. W. officer on Felting's staff in Hong Kong. This is probably the first time an American officer has British been appointed to operational headquarters peacetime.

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A staff officer refused to comment on the appointment, saying, "The position is very delicate owing to political ramifications. Major Saunders' appointment is really unoffi cial."

Some observers Consider

firut thin the

of Mr.. restilt Revin's appeal to the United Btatus to co-operato In Far Eastern affairs.

there smail craft drifting help- lessly,

No cusunity however.

Wus

reported.

North-East of Stonecutters ! land, a dinghy was found drift. ing by the Marine Department and towed into the Younali Typhoon Anchorage.

dinghy

A submerged rawing (grey in colour marked "WD") the heavy was recovered frem seas and towed to the Yourna Slipway.

In a brief oficial statement, Mr. Neill Garland, Director of Marine, Export Manager of the International Sup-

told the press last evening that pliers' Corporation. He WOS shot three

eight ships were blown ashore in times, once in the neck, once in the stomach

A cable reaching Hong Kong the harbour limits. Five of these

thewere lowed to water safely yes yesterday reported that and the third time in the abdomen.

British motor vessel Leong lerday. Gale

winds grounded seven Chinese Police are investigating The two Americans were an

Bee was intercepted by explorer, Mr. Leonard Clark, the shooting which was done with

Chinese Nationalist. destroyer ocean-going ships In Tolo Har-

In the Shamshuipo, Lalchikk who served with the OSS in a 32 calibre pistol.. The weapon

Two of the vessels are the and Cheung-Sha Wan areas there អម hi China during the war

was found on the floor. Up to the off Chusan Islands en route to bour in front of Island House... the Colony from Shanghai. Lieutenant-Colonel, and Mr. present there have been no er-

No further details were avail- Chinese steamers Hai Lin and Hai was no sign of domige Ships Fong whore personnel are in-riding at anchor were reported to Willard Freeman, of Bridge-rests.

volved in a harbour dispute with be safe, Mr. Vice-

Clark and Mr. Freemanable late last night. water,

Massachusetts,

Patrols also reported that aff It is learned reliably,

the owners, Wah Sheung Shipping

Carly yesterday President of the International were taken to the hospital and both

were operated on this afternoon. ever, that the Singoc-cis Company. One is an unidentified Stonecutters

tered 1,000-tem vessel is being Suppliers Corporation.

Mr. Clark who suffered a per

apparently in after B into port from North China waters for some time received

distress. message was whose forated lung is expected to held by the Nationalists as no 10,000-ton Liberty ship, towed thoning a ship hooted her siren shortly seen The vessel was nan. yesterday, the time when not long ago. cover but Mr. Freeman

way to Ching Yi bowels were perforated is in a

the Chinese owners received the

Mrs. NYA

Freeman, Polish critical condition. The unly hope cable from the master, Mr. Y. sweepers Chen Hsin and Hung aking her

Hsin

were in shallow water about Island, under her own steam.

The defence boom fald out from ful thing in that his pulse is woman whom her husband mar- ried in Chungking exuetly fourstrang

100 feet from Talpo Road.

The CMC

cruiser Kuan You Stonecutters towards Green Is- Land the first one-mile stretch ried

wan L years ago, sak she came down

which ran into soft sand

She h not recently completed-was intact, at resting on side.

Only two or three horm bunys Thanks to the efforts of the stairs this morning and found the

were fouse but were si clinging marine police about 6 survivors are or Tying on the flour of

to the main line by this strands of the Chaksung were according the living roo

of wire. She said she hat got beard any Chief Inspector W. Macilordy,

Police Sturres yesterday con- crew, are * Gripe that 14 of the

The total ligare of the Intesting. number of persons on board the ship when the explosion occurred way given on 75. The same sources sait that 6 survivors have been arrunted for.

Tungin attacked

Mel Many families intend move across 10 Kulangsu Is- Making, on the highway to Amoy. North 23 land, where the foreign com- Makong is 20 miles

Amoy. These places were report- munity resides,

is crowded by mollefal sources to have tallen sometime ago but had not yet been admitted by the Minus- try of Defence,

The city of Amby witt, saldices, many of whom are newly arrived to reinforce the garrison.

They me commanded by Gen- era Tang En-, the defender of Shanghai.

His headquarters is functioning at the Amoy University.

The Amby authorities have nurrated 200 persons suspectar Ther of subversive activities. include two professora KE Acve students of this Univer alty. The

Southward

The shooting occurred in the Freeman home in the suburbs of Cunton between 2 a.m., ernel 0.39

at

| picked up during the tyption in shots.

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Mr.

her

which "Long Bee

Chinese

The former Cardion mine-

her

She The former Corvette Mo Hwa

which has been laid up for some

McCabe.

The Leong Bee left the Colony Inchon with Mr. Clark recently made an ex-on August 23 for

guiled way she Pedition to determine if Ainme about 700 tons of general cargo. Machin Mountain in China is On higher than Mount Everest bac Stanghal where she took in a full seriously damaged..

have not been dilond of Chinese products.

Wic oward his findings

has no passengers, closed.

time was on dry land it low tide

The main moorings held fust Freeman served with the declared.

reached Off Stonecutters Island, patrol in spite of the terrific beating The message Grim Anniversary US. Air Force in China during

inter-found the Chinese steamers Ah The first report from the path- explain. He once here read: the thu being Today Taxider

destroyer.itsien and Ling Yann grounded. He reached the Marine Depart-. by repled

Опа

of the

Canadian-built ment yesterday evening Freemani wedding anniver. Contunded the Lluchow froase i

After the war Anchored three miles of Shawel-

Ishan,

aluminium river venals · tary was Mrs, Freeman's birth. Kwani Province.

he joined Generi Chennault's

The Leong Bed left Shanghai

tained a large hole in her forg day and a combined wedding

on September 5. She has five

peak above the water ilne. Sh anniversary-birthday party war Civil Air Transport and was its for North China

British officers, including the

was one of the two Men craf urea manager to have been held tonight.

with headquarters in Pelping be- M. Freeman suffered from

master, and 32 Aniatic person}

Chinese including

and net, and was put under the fore he joined the JSC. Mr. Clark rattled arrived here on irce days'auto

Malay seamen, eure of a physician but ennught to visit her husband at on a Seriodical -Asociati

I'гCAM. the hospital tonight.

Some of the survivors who wore pyjamas and had no ports or Trim- still in the hr wert Bhatsui po'ke station at noon yes- terday,

Areording

Lu

Tientsin cne sailor, he was sleeping in his bunk when the terrine explosion oe-ink curred.

"The shock was so great that I was thrown over my bunk and for a split srepnd I was on the chain floor wondering what had happened the sailor con.

him.

time

Wish,

Britain's Appeal For Larger U.S. Markets

Washington, September 8. Britain confronted the United States today with

an urgent appeal to enlarge American mar-. kets for British goods.

Sir

tinued. Thun he fell heat all around Sears later he found him- The millary spokesman added it together with others going upi that Arnoy would be strongly de- the ladders for the deck. fended.

Once on the deck, he felt cold He said that troops under Com-and realised that he had on only munist Generals Lin Plao and Liutis vnderwear. He dashed down Po-cheng were not yet in a posi- to his calan, which was by that tion to launch their

smoke, and Alled with drive on Canton.

to get a convos, handbug managed to General Elu Po-cheng's troops femm his cabin. were concentrated in the Kwel- He later complained that due to Lung and Juchen areas, near the eonfusion he had taken the wrong contained That bag had Kwangtung-Hunan border, pre-bag. paring for an attack on Kwang-articles which were of not much

use te him at the moment. lung.

Drugging large

suitcases were Iwo other Tientsin survivors of

Presumably he has in mind the Jardine vessel. The loyalty of strategie 'Yun-

Dressed in newly pressed trou-drastic tariff reductions as a nan Province

South West

sers and shirts, apparently just long-range step by the Unit- the suitcase, the ed States to help Britain earn in doubt salvaged from China still appeared. today, reports Associated Press. pair. like the rest, wore no shoes the dollars that are necessary.

News and seks, Tuesday This pair cald that most of the Ai -0500 GMT 18 p.m. Kar) "the Agency tropical depresun was entred 220 alles that Governor Lu Han's revolt vessel's deck hands were rescue:

Government military spaltesman here said today that the led General Chen Yi's 29th

The Weather

Yunnan Situation.

The official Central

W of Hong Kong and was moving W at against

Ta

Indicated

of high pressure fended, anomalist authority hadbul sume

Yesterday's Weatheri-

Maximum 1.5 deg, Puh.

Kalmum: 78.5 der. Yaḥ,

qunstilne No.

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Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer and his country's spokesman in the three- power economic talks here on Britain's econo- mic crisis, did not specify how this might be accomplished.

to enable it to pay its own way in the world, again.

Sir Stafford focussed virtually

American position that Marshall Plan ald must and in 1952 and that Britain'■'major need is to become self-sufficient by that time.

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CANTON HIT BY TYPHOON BACKWASH

She arrived here from the Shantung port of Shitau on July 12 with several hundred tons of Manchurian cargo.

Edith Mollar

Mr. John P. Coghill, British Embassy representative in Con ton, yesterday lodged a strong protest with the Chinese For

da- eign Office regarding the tention of the vessel Edith Mol ter, now in the Chuan alanda near Hangchow Bay, report Reuter.

The text of the note was no released by the British but it 1 kely that the Chinese will mak le public when they have studie IL The Edith Moller was detained uy the Chinese 0thoutles on Chinu chu.ge. of running the coast blockade.

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