POLICE CONTROL FRONTIER

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 7

POLICE CONTROL FRONTIER

British military and naval air forces hi Hong Kong, estimated to total more than 30.000. are continuing their normal training, in which they have been engaged for the last few months. A high-ranking military source said there had been no startling speeding up of this training since the occupation of Canton, as its fall had been expected. The police are still controlling the frontier and the military will not be called in unless actual trouble breaks cut. Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is expected to meet General J. Lawton Collins, the United States Chief of Staff, in Hong Kong on October 28. according to a foreign source. General Collins' visit to the colony is part of his general tour of the United States garrisons in the Pacific.

Canton was completely isolated from Hong Kong this morning. All sea. land, and air services have been suspended. The British vessel. Fatshan, which was the last ship to leave Canton yesterday, arrived at Hong Kong this morning with a full load of lastminute evacuees. Twelve of the 17 New Zealand Presbyterian missionaries in the South China field would remain for the Communist occupation, according to an announcement’ bv the Rev. J. S. Murray, of Auckland, overseas missionary secretary for the Church. Mr Murray has just returned to Hong Kong from a tour of the South China field. He said that the missionaries were safe and well, and they did not expect any special difficulties in their work. Most of the missionaries are in the com- • pound of the Kong Chuen Mission Hospital, about la miles from Canton.