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Beijing Newspaper Q2/1947 - Chinese news and events - April / May / June
06. April; Shanghai Telegraph
The Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation published the current list of participants of the Silk Way Rally.
Class A:
Triumph - Great Britain
Mitsubishi - Japan
Golden Dragon - China
Class A1:
Allard - Great Britain
Frazer - Great Britain
Golden Dragon - China
Great Wall - China
Class B:
"The Flying Pandurs" - Yugoslavia
Peugeot / French Army - France
Rover - Great Britain
HAFDASA - Argentina
Minerva - Belgium
Golden Dragon - China
Great Wall - China
Class C:
Team 55 - Japan
Golden Dragon - China
Great Wall - China
Class D:
Team 55 - Japan
Great Wall - China
Registrations are still warm welcome. A detailed list of all participants and vehicles will be published after the registration deadline.
Not sure why you would suddenly change Mitsubishi's 4-door sedan from Class A to Class B (especially considering how crowded Class B is). Sure it is 4wd but I see it as a road car (with the option to annoy farmers by racing across their corn fields) and not a Military light utility vehicle which is what I consider Class B to be.
Sorry ... my fault. You have registered it as a Class A vehicle, so the list will be / is corrected.
Wednesday 09. April; Chinese Navy News
The Chinese navy decides to build 5 so-called "customs cruiser" for the China Marine Surveillance & Coastguard (CMSCG). The ships should support the 165ft. Coast Guard Cutters. According to the first draft, these ship will have a tonnage of ca 300 tons a crew of 33 men and a top speed of 24 kn.
Friday 11. April; Tibet Times
The Commercial Register has filed the notice of the formation of the Tibet Transport Service Company in Xigaze (Tibet). The firm will undertake some transportation tasks between the towns in Tibet and also a weekly intercity bus service between Xigaze and Kathmandu over the serpentine roads of the himalay. The principals in this new company are Ding Liren and Ye Jiangchuan. Both are merchants who operate an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.
Tuesday 15. April; Tai-Pei Naval Anchorage
At nine o'clock Rear Admiral Zhou Enlai entered with a cigarette in his hand and with slow steps his office on the first floor. The production of small underwater vehicles was started and also the first training for his special forces had been completed. All in all it looks very good and yet he was dissatisfied. Because what was missing, was the transport ship for his 'Hailis' - if they should be activated. He looked at the different designs of CNDO which was presented to him last week and made some notes on the individual drawings before he folded the sheets and tucked them back in his briefcase. Then he ordered his aide to make a telephone link with the headquarter.
Sunday 04. May; Beijing Gazette
Wednesday 07. May; Autonomous Province Tibet
A huge chinese expedition under the lead of the famous chinese mountainee Miao Ruilin started from Rongpuk monastery the climb up of the Chomolungma (Mount Everest).
Friday 09. May; Autonomous Province Tibet
The Chinese expedition reached the base of Chomolungma. The expedition makes here an additional acclimatization to the extreme altitude before the climb to the peak, which is planned in two to three weeks.
Thursday 15. May 1947 - Navy News:
The Torpedoboats Huangfen 622 and Huangfen 623 were completed yesterday at the Bohai Shipbuilding at Tianjin. They will now undergo trials before joining the fleet later this year.
Friday 23. May 1947; Beijing Gazette
Wednesday 18. June 1947; Beijing Gazette
China is host of a friendly football tournament. The games take place in Beijing, Shanghai and Qingdao.
- Group A: Mongolia, China, Chosen
- Group B: Siam, Bharat, Afghanistan.
Thursday 26. June 1947; Hsingking Post
Sunday 29. June 1947; Shanghai Telegraph
The deadline for registration for the Silk Way Rallye is extended to the 31th of July. Further publications on the course of the rally will follow shortly after this date.