Refugees in Hongkong Jockey Club Transferred Sportsmen Insist on Holding Races Prest Aca Srreiat Commsroxsexe Hongkong. Aug. 31.
GOVE are all going to be sent to gaol!" said a diminutive litre refugee at the Happy Valley Refugee Camp this afternoon. She did not seem to be unduly depressed at the idea, however, nor need she be, for the 500-odd women and children now staying at the camp are not going to be placed behind bars on a strict bread~ and-water basis, but are merely being transferred from the Jockey Club stands to the former warder quarters of Laichikok Gaol.
When the transfer has been 96- complished," all destitute or temper arily "embarrassed refugees will be roused tu camps 19 al the La'ehiiok Central Bri fiat may re-echo to the sound of mid, "shell=but the "Jockey being scazon opens on Sepiember 12 ike Shanghars polo end bowling fathusiass, the Colony's race fans Swill Urook no interference with their Faying nothing at all, ud have} rely signed promises to 139
Abuses Creeping In perhaps unfortunate hat certain abuses of the system have Heady crept" in, and ax your core Fespondent. in in' the ortunnte. post of being able of etugee™ at will Hongkong Air Student AL a cost of about $3,000 to the Vanishes with Plane Hongkong Government, the. 230) quariers " are now having electric Tight Installations put tu, are being Hongkong, Lee, a Chinese student of the Far Eastern Aviation School, up snd cquinped toentcr to] WOK Of from Kallack' "at yesterday. morning on 9 routine the ced othe apy Bight ana The sompltely de transfer will be made appeared..
The local" suthorilies Property "and adequately tied up.
26 at present searching for the the refugees will then transfer Misting machine, which, had their allerance from. the' "camp in etl _for only three, hours! Happy Valley to "Lichee "Comer."|_f!Re-—Reuter, which ts the Iieral- translation of Laichikok. The village which got its name irom the liehee trees which It cultivated is now no more, however {or "Kowloon has expanded and "developed" it with the evacuees. the has perhaps 2 better position. from which' to Serve such abuses than the Refugee Another Problem Pending a few days, the authorities will bye Yaced "with another problem, connection "with the Central British School, whose autumn term opens on September 13, No decision has yet been made with tepord to the 350 400 women snd children refugees How housed. there, as it is hoped that before the half-month wil! have lapsed conditions will have ime proved to the extent that the Jevacuées can retura to their city on the. Whangpoo and. school can open normally. "This does "seem to" be tather optimist, however, and 1 tunderstond thatthe authorities are looking over one or {wo available buildings. im. the meantime with 3 lev to seeing whether one of these Might be suitable to meet the emer=
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