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ANNAMITE AMBUSH CLASH
British Naval Units Arrive In Saigon
Serious Situation
Reported
RANGOON, OCT. 1
IN THE LATEST REPORTED OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN INDO-CHINA. A CONVOY OF 13 TRUCKS, MAN- NED BY DUTCH AND JAPANESE, WAS AMBUSHED HY AN ESTIMATED 1,000 ANNAMITES. WHILE RE. TURNING TO SAIGON FROM A JAPANESE ARMS DUMP.
THE ANNAMITES WERE ARMED WITH
not
LIGHT
MACHINE-GUNS. EIGHT
RIFLES AND TRUCKS GOT
THROUGH SAFELY BUT THE OTHER FIVE HAD TO FIGHT OUT AT CLOSE RANGE.
The Japanese, Jowever, did'
return the fre and later
their commander
anid the An-
namites had been milling toỤ
closely around the lorries
Four lorries and all are eventually were `returned Saigon.
to
Action, a Dutch
During the caplain was killed.
Dutch prisoners of war arm being armed for action nærinst the rebellions Annamites
T
SWIFT
H.K. WAR ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
A war activities committer has been appointed by the Commander-in-Chief, His Ex- cellency Rear-Admiral C. H. Harcourt to examine evidence with regard to alleged co'ta- borationist activities during the Japanese occupation.
STROKE HITS
JAP BANK COMBINE
TOKYO, OCT. 1.
INSTITUTIONS-
TWENTY-ONE JAPANESE FINANCIAL
WITH EMPEROR HRO HITO'S PERSONAL: FOR TUNE PROBABLY AT STAKE WERE INVOLVED IN GENERAL MACARTHUR'S SEIZURE ORDERS WHICH WERE CARRIED OUT ON SUNDAY,
British forcre had their first setback on Friday, it was ported belatedly, when two pla-roGFICIALS OF THE INSTITUTIONS WERE OUSTED IN Lot of Indians retired from their position on the north sid
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of the Aroyoe Avellanche river behind the Botanical Gardens nkler three-hour fight in which they used three-inch mortars and were reinforced by two sections of French mar ines.
WEL DUC IN
weil
The Annamites were dug-in with pillboxes and bub keren positions." They iset grenades and muchackuti
The total Annamite casualtie were esamated on Saturday a 164 koned and inre than 1 Wounded.
Nationalities now participat ing in the activities include Danish, Dutch, British, Ameri can, Japanese, French, Chinese Indian, Ghurka and Annammites There are
total of 1,747 liberated Dutch war prisoners in the area.
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Arrival of units of the Britis! East Indian fact in the Saigon Kiver dey brought relief to the French residents, who lined the banks waving and cheering as in
Rruter. ships came in.
NEW MENACE Saigun UCL. 1. Indications appeared to-day that the Annam ites are massing on the outskirt: of Saigon for a concerted attari when a thousand French reinforce ments disembark September 3.
The
Annamiter have estimated force of 20,000 men three-fourths of them armed in. the north central urca of Saigon An unestimated number of arın ed natives are mussing or th main roads to the city's southeri
an
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China Freezing Banks
SWFT BLUW AGAINST THE GREAT BANKING COMBINE THAT EXPLOITED THE EMPIRE CREAT ED BY THE ARMED FORCES. Details of how the stroke gainst the financial oligarchy
known, executed became o-day. Without warning. Gen- ral MacArthur threw armed}] roops around financial houses Yokohama, Tokyo. Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe. Shimonoseki an Fukuoka.
While the troops marched representatives of the Japanes Finance Ministry were sum Banks of liberated areas whic' Supreme Headquar- were registered with the Chines ers Troops entered the bankovernment before the
4 pan and impounded al, which continued operation there after under enemy occupation wil funds, securities and recorda.
be Hquidated after examination o MacAr At the safe instant,
their books. thur's headquarters handed th
moned to
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TYPHOON SCARE
Owing to the typhoon scari, yesterday, submarines which were alongside the Dockyar Camber, and which had been supplying the city with its elec
ric light and power, werd taken to anchorages in mid. -Trem
WHE
the load Consequently greatly reduced and consumeri were requested last night to economise to the fullest extent The King's Theatre was closed down for the evening.
The supply during the night nquiries from the Hong Kong Electric Co. revealect, cam: From the Power Station, Raya Naval Dockyard.
Anked when power would b supplied from the North Point Station, it was stated that n definite date could be given but it will not be long befor
Hong Kong will be enjoying a full Supply."
CHUNGKING, OCT. 1./
IT IS KNOWN DESPITE PLEDGED. OFFICIAL SECRECY
THAT THE CONFERENCES BETWEEN THE NATION- HK. ELECTRIC TO
AL GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMUNISTS NEGO-
TIATORS HAVE LED TO A DECISION FOR RETAIN MAKE TRIAL ON
ING AN ALL-PARTY POLITICAL COUNCIL WITH
"Everything possible is be- ing done to restore lighting on the island, and we are now in the final stages of repair work," declared a Hong Kong Electric Company official late last night.
Indications are that a trial will be made on Wednesday and if that is successful cur rent
will bo supplied on Thursday, although the offi cial was not prepared even to make that prediction
We were informed that it is possible the current will bo mwitched off ca from 7 a.m. to- day and that it will be possibly of for the remainder of the day.
BROAD POWERS TO DEAL WITH OUTSTANDING WEDNESDAY QUESTIONS BETWEEN THE KUOMINTANG AND, COMMUNISTS UNTIL CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERN- MENT IS INSTITUTED THROUGH. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. THE NEGOTIATORS ALSO ARE SEEKING A SOLUTION TO CRUCIAL MILITARY QUESTIONS. APPARENTLY THE COMMUNISTS ACE IN THE HOLE IS THE UN- ANSWERED QUESTION OF WHAT SUPPORT RUSSIA MIGHT GIVE COMMUNIST CHINA IN THE REDS PRESS THEIR DEMAND FOR VIRTUAL AUTONOMY.
THE SLIGHTEST SUG-1of the Communist-hold areas of GESTION OF ANY North China. CHANGE IN AMERICAN The Communist request for a POLICY HAS A BAROME- reorganised Red army of 48 TRIC EFFECT ON THE | division, ponding complete NEGOTIATORS. THE 1 nationalisation of China's arm. WATCHED CLOSELY THE ed forces, already has been; RECENT UNITED STATES, pared to 24 or 80. STATE DEPARMENT PER- The Communists SONNEL SHIFTS. IT 18 name the governor in Hopel, KNOWN THAT THE COM- Shantung, Chahar and Shansi MUNISTS ARE CONCERN provinces: vice-mayors in Pai- ED ABOUT THE U.S. MAR-ping and Tientsin and create a INE LANDINGS IN NORTH new province out of the border CHINA.
regions of
Калви Ninghsia, The Communists were ready and Shensi.-Associated Press.
EQUAL NUMBERS September 21 to issue n joint. communique covering generall-
Chungking, Oct. 1-Hope for a unihed China now lies in the All les un which they were
Party Political Council. The in agreement, but Chungking Council will most probably be com-
efused to join in what it call-posed of equal numbers of Kuo IT 18 EXPECTED THAT zd "alipshod" communique mintang (Government which could not cover a settle- Communists,
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wanted to
nent on the reduction of Com- non-party platives,
munist troops and the political and administrative complexion almo
Express
Disaster
Drama
and
New Plans For The Tramways
THE
TRAM
Party)
SERVICE RE- parties and TWEEN CAUSEWAY BAY AND Only WHITTY STREET WILL BE SOMETIME THIS the united plen by the Generalis RESUMED
Mafgr General Patrick WEEK. J. Hurley, United States Ambas The fares are to be: First Class sador, within the last few days .20 denta; Third Class 10 cents raise the conversations to a highe
There will be no monthly tickets. During plane, has prevented the negotia
the continuance ions from becoming bogged down abnormal conditions in the power in incidental detall
station, it will be necessary withdenw the tramcars each day between 6.80 and 7.30 p.m.
an
Both General Mão Tre-tung, th Communist leader, and Generalis simo Chiang declared that in no circumstances will they provoką civil war. That assurance wit an agreement to create
All Party Council and settlement of r few minor principles is the tota result of four weeks' parloju, LONDON, OCT. 1. AL 8.46 p.m. enquiries from
AT LEAST 30 PERSONS PERSONAL DEALINGS the Naval Dockyard regarding WERE KILLED AND 82 IN
There are no minutes of the he typhoon met with the reply JURED ON SUNDAY WHENegotiations. Each party прост
that hat "the scare is over, there's
the other party A CRACK SCOTTISH EX no more typhoon. The signa
PRESS TRAIN PLUNGED crecy, and all vital decisions ha was lowered at 7 p.m."
been taken by the two leaders in DOWN A 20-FOOT EMBANK
porson, H.MS. Anson; H.M.S. Ven-MENT 30 MILES FROM LON- geance and other big ships puDON IN BRITAIN'S WORST
o sea owing to the typhoon
DISASTER OF RAIL breui.
YEAR
Chungking. Oct. 1.- All Japor
A jeep took refuge in th puppet-registered banks arcade of the Gloucester Hotel!|
Liquidated. have been ordered suspended
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war he
Deposits of Japanese and puppe Finance Ministry orders fretinganizations or heads of such r all operations and removing
anizations will be froten officials.
uture disposal by the Ministry o Financ
fu
MacArthur announces that al institutions which either formed
Forcin banks in liberated aren the financial spearhead or sup porting waves of exploitation in Minister and later returned to th be taken over by the Financ military concuesta of Asia an Pacific islands were taarked for rightful owners for voluntur;
liquidation.
C
BANK OF JAPAN The Bank of Japan худн cupied, but headquarters said the it, na a commercial institution, it not permanently affected and i expected to reopen promptly. Mox of the other institutions engage in business.
do nu in regular banking deposits
The seized institutions includ ed the so-called "big three": the Manchurian Heavy Industry de velopment company; the Han! of Chosen (Korea) and the Bank of Taiwan (Formosa),
Dropite official attempts to Chowe branches of the Bank
Jn
were
a
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ran"
cunuest
minimize the outbreaks, the known the Bank of
involved. casualties in the first week
of It is the
which agent wh fed nanc violonce were 319 dead, including smugglers from Korea into Chin
in fate 204 Annamites and 100 French
1920's in the
Jong civilians. The wounded total at attempt to sprend economic chaos icast 234-Associated Press.
and_prepara China for con
BIG CLANS INVOLVED Three brane
of the Bank of Taiwan were involved. It was th monopolistic financial contro
industrica agency by which p1aited
Philippines, the
Datch Brand New Guinea.
The wealthy houses of Mitau' nd Mitsubishi are believed deepl- involved with the Bank of Taiwan
The Japanese government co trolled directly or indirectly a1 the Roland institutions. shareholders are mainly bers of the Imperial Household and big industry.
Orders Flowing In
London, Oct. 1. The need for speeding up de- mobilisation is stressed by all London'a newspapers, which omphasize the need for putting men into industry and building up the export trade of the country before the opportunity Is lost.
Th
mem
The Finance Ministry offered t liquidato all institutions and pl
ne value on all individual de poalts of "the ordinary Associated Prera.
man."
The "Nows-Chronicle” to-day quotes the case of one business,
WAR CRIMINALS. Headquarters to-day stated.the man who aid that orders are they were going into the question pouring in from overseas. Не whothor some of the financia. hun already enough to keep him heads of Japan should not he tried going for ten years even if he as war criminals. enlarges his factory and em- It is not intended to disrupt the ploye another 500, men.-Reu-Japanese financial system. Ordi
ary Japaneno citizens · BIÈ Interested in the Bank of Chonor and Bank of Talwon, which wor deposit banks, but they will bo abir to withdraw funda within a: Tow days at the most-Router.
ter
G. C. WORRALL'S
DEATH IN JAPAN
News has boon recolved in Hong Kong of the death of Mr. G. C
only
FIRE DISASTER
Port Said, Oct. 1.
will
(iquidation--Associated Press.
Twenty Stabbed
Volunteers Coming Back
the
winter
The parties appeared within on ace of a conditional agreement or THE September 21, when Governmen
negotiators were told to stand by. At midnight meeting in th The locomotiva and the six nited States Embassy Genera front coaches of the London Mao heard Generalissimo Chiang'i
ound express seft the tracks at terms which were in effect: the train neared its destination! "You can have the twenty divi- fter a 460-mille overnight jourstons you want if you withdrar the proposal claiming the right t ney from Perth, Scotsand,
nominate governora, vice-governors and vice-mayors in certain vinen."
Resene workers tolled lats into the evening to extricat the dead and injured. - Asso siated Press,
Later. The deathroll has now climbed
feared that mor to 80 and it bodles will be found in the wreck age of the express. Seriously in jured now exceed 80.
An
The discussion went on into th early hours of the morning, the Communist leader was asked "do
th accept ur reject terms?"
He replied "these matters ar very complicated."
vod
NO COMMUNIQUE
Information has been received that there are approximately 10 members of the I.K.V.D.C. from awaiting Japan now in Manila transhipment to Hong Kong, an it is expected that they will b returning shortiv to refoin the next of kin in Hong Kong.
It is regretted, but it is still not
Rescue work is continuing on the yet possible to give
nomea
the newspapers this morning are present whereabouts and state o
full of stories of the heroic exurewhich would only discourage th health, of any P.O.W.s froof British and American soldier
and airman to nave passengers pinned in the debris, and of th
of courage both
rescued and
rescuera.
At 2.30a.m. it was decided not
to issue a communlave rather than issue one of generalities which
in
the wherev
them
be:
|
ment
konce of millions of Chinese wait The
matter in, however, still re-
to hear news of the agreemen Major General Hurley returne ceiving the most urgent considera tion and it is hoped very shortl
to Washington the next day wit Kuomintang's documentation 0 that official lists will be published.
In the case of those who are not Many of the passengers broughthe frat stares of the matintian- Generalisimo Chinng this mont returned to Hong Kong, next o out alive had been trapped fo Bombay, Oct. 1. kin and families who are now ir eight or more hours before reBCU offered the Communists a ghare Ir
the Government, but they refecte Twenty were Atabbed Hong Kong will be sent to refoln parties broke through to
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etc.,
a woman wna found suspended offer. otherwise assaulted on Sunday their husbands, in Bombay clashes between they may be, if they are not com- upside down by the heel of
ing back within
Son caught in the wreckage. Hindus and Moslems, raisins
Reuter. month. the casualties in the week-long disturbances to 28 killed an 143 wounded. --Atreet-cars and buses-wer:} stoned and service was 848- ended. Two tram driver:
slubbed. Associate
were
Tess.
British troops have now been cut into Bombay to reinforc the Indian troops and the cut- Lew area has been double. The casualties in clashes have nov rown to 31 killed and 152 sent in hospital.--Reuter.
AFRAID OF FURRINERS
LONDON, OCT. 1. A VILLAGE IN DERBY. "UNLIKE SHIRE,
MOST OTHER PLACES, IS COM PLAINING LEST IT GE TOO MANY NEW HOUSES.
Oncial plans provide for the construction of 200 new desires to build only 160 as they houses, but the local Counci don't want the village to be comp any biggor.
say,
the nex
Argentine
Revolt In
Two Months Warned
MONTEVIDEO, SEPT. 30,
THE GOVERN- A REVOLT WHICH WILL OVERTHROW
MENT OF GENERAL ODELMIRO FARRELL IN THE ARGENTINE WITHIN TWO MONTHS WAS PREDICT- ED BY ARGENTINE SOCIALIST LEADER, DR. AL- FREDO PALACIOS, WHEN HE ARRIVED IN MON- TEVIDEO.
"THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE ARGENTINE CAN- NOT LAST MORE THAN TWO MONTHS," HE SAID. "A GENERAL STRIKE WOULD PARALYZE ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COUNTRY AND THE NAVY WOULD THEN PLACE ITSELF "AT TH" HEAD OF
Two previous attempts at settle failed because the Koumir ene would not consnat to th Communist demand for a Coalitior Government, and the Kuomintan
block "of onprehensive of
pro vineeg under Communist civil pari
Communiste military control. The -hare the Funmintane with want in to instal their one party rul instead of the democratic system NEW TECHNIQUE The agreement for an All-Part 'Political Council indicates th stortion of a new technions, de martine from
unsuccessful lin of wantirtiona to data.
When the wat began in 1997 the Communists
thin livision roops, while the
st had 180 in 200ntral Govern
200 divisions. The Generalissimo told Genera
tho
h
tao at their firat meeting
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of
to
It is hoped to restore both the overhead equipment and the tram- way service on:-.
(1) the Happy Valley route, and (2) the Kennedy Town route
in the course of this month.
The pre-war stopping places. and the pre-war system of fare collection will be reinstated.
Where To Go For Money
It is notified that the following persons will be responsible for pay arrangements of local Volunteers who are demobilized outside Home Kong, Maçao and China.
of
(a) United Kingdom and places other than those referred to in (b). (e) and (d) below:---The Hong Government Account, Hope Great Peter Street, s.W.1.
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ondo
(b) Australia and New Zen- land: The Hong Kong Govern- ment Finance Liaison Officer, 61, Hunter Street, Sydney, N.S.W.
(e)
Africa: Imperist South Paymaster. Garlick, House, Field Street, Durban.
(d) Canada:-Trado Commis- sioner or United Kingdom in Canada, at Ottawa.
All Volunteers repatriated from. Hong
the
Kong should apply, on ar rival, at their final destination, to appropriate Government offices. Accounts, etc. of those Volan- teers in Hong Kong. Macao China will be dealt with by Volun tear Headquarters, Hong Kong.
Clearing Stanley
of
ACCORDING TO FLAN. STANLEY INTERNMENT CAMP IS TO BE CLEARED IN THE COURSE OF THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
It is understood that those re maining behind after an. “High- 'and Monarch" leaves will be trans- ferred to Kowloon. This will in- volve a
of hundred peonie. Those
rosiding at present
Stanley
at the Maryknoll are alsq to, bo
learn. to Rosary Hapferred, we...
THE MOVEMENT, WHICH WOULD BRING ABOUT· anicael Communists yesterde,81 an ed·It and 10 shil'inga a 'chila
THE FALL OF THE DICTATORSHIP."
FRAGILE WITH CARE
Some Internoon have received permission to d-for their repatria- Hon, for evenational reasons, but August 28, that his Governmen would consent to the Conimunis-it is considered likely that these the money paid to may forfeit having a maximum of twelve divi
per family or ~fons:
repatriates £5 per twenty
to twenty-for divi-inng; and the. Generalioatmeand the clothing which is boing.
*Rened at Port Said. conditionally agreed. 10 Kuomintang
tho Doctor Palacios is one of of the Argenting Secret. Pollet
whorens the Communists had one were watching the number of Argentine politicn who
en sixtieth of the armed atroneth_o cadera who have arrived ir rance.
ths, Central Government at the be Uruguay after escaping arrest The Uruguayan Ambassador vinniar of the war, they now de an hour before the Police ar They wore warned to. fleo hul Senor Martiner Thedy, protestmand one-sixth. The Communists
d in a note to the Argentin claim they have an army o Government and requested 1,200,000 soldiers and a Peoples rived at their homes..
withdrawal of "the Police. „N Militia of 2,200,000. They claim Chungking, Oct. ́ ́1. — China'e Another Argentine Socialle
ninotson liberated aress:
Wurtinio prese consorship ended "Daily Mall" onquiries show leader, Dr. Guillermo Korn Documentary evidence of
RED OFFER
formally at midnight and the only ed, however, that there ar who arrived In Montevideo re the ill-treatment of persone
rustriction now is on certain nowa many people in the district whcently, after crossing the Rive arrested in recent troubler. They are prepared to withdraw from areas whore military oport- do not agree with the Council Plato estuary to Carmelo or by the Argentine polico his thoir forces from the following tions are not completed.
the Uruguayan aldo, saldi. -Router.
been brought to Uruguay by eight areas; Kwangtung Che
The Supreme National Dofonico for exiles form Magistrata Senor Ramon klang South Klangst; South An Council has approved now regula- Londen. Oct. 1. a Junta, representing all the de Vazquez, according to two Central
Hons under which all laws for var- (South of the Yangtao) hwel Three bye-elections are being mocratic forces, which shoul
the present publication law in-ro and Dr. Houssay. ་ ་་་་ contested this week. The first direct. its external activity to
That was so far as things: had vised in the light of now oɑndl-) ls at Smethwick, the second awards obtaining recognition bỳ Another of the exiles, Dragone when General Chou En-la. tions, Tilm
will con ednsorship Communist Pan-American Ashton-under-Lyme and the the
negotiator tinue under revised borty march" was held if
K.C Wa told new
·SECRET POLICE- Buonos Tyros recently,ZA. Fass
with an aidiyon mun that the Chinose
-Worrall-in-Haroh as this year in The scale of the disaster third at East Edinburgh., AV monto,”
a prisoner-of-way camp in Japan, aboard the “Empire Patrol" three returned Labour candi
of the axlles, Dr. Holguera Yellow River), forth of the time censorship aro nullifledt: arid
Govern- Pavalovaky, said that when the Wang Shih-chich.
Dr.
Some of the Argentine exilet 'cist,' coun d'etat propared by point in of the points Wilds under the abolition of
"elony conception of its rea-
tive of the Asiatic Potrolours Comiles from Port Said is nó | July, and in all thrèo const who took refuge in the Uru | Allonza Liberation Naolanalia were: acceptakla là principio consorsin. Dr. Wu, who is Minis
tha Kuomintang did not Kon claves headed canine cusuntle,
Mr. Worrall wan rundor execu which caught fro about 50 labes at the general alection Ir
Ltd. atching section of Hong Kong suggested, but there worn, 58 lights between Labour fuil Con-
-dentha aboard-Router.
nervative candidatge Ungar,
Aires, plated that they had fanco) was prevented by tho hade their way past member Police Renter
to the demongelfastien ce polities... place the interests of the State
abere the