THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1945.
The Worst Ruined Big CIVIC AFFAIRS
City In The World
MacArthur. To Stay Says U.S.
WASHINGTON, OCT. 11. THE UNITED STATES HAS CALLED A MEETING OF THE PROPOSED FAR EAST ADVISORY COMMIS. SION IN WASHINGTON ON OCTOBER 23, BUT HAS NO INTENTION OF CHANGING GENERAL MACARTHUR'S STATUS AS SUPREME COMMANDER IN JAPAN.
WARSAW, OCT. 10.
CORRESPONDENT HER WRITES: "POLAND, WHICH ONCE WAS AN OTHER STOP-OVER ON THOMAS COOK'S TRAVEL CIRCUIT, HAS TAKEN ON SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF DARKEST AFRICA-AS A RESULT OF 'SIX YEARS OF HORRIBLE WAR.
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SPECIAL
TO GET TO POLAND;-YOU" HAVE TO-DRIVÊ ̃ ̈OVER ROADS GUARDED BY INSCRUTABLE RUSSIAN SEN- TRIES, WHO MAY BE CASUAL ABOUT LETTING YOU THROUGH BUT MAY BE EQUALLY CASUAL ABOUT ADAMANTLY STOPPING YOU, OR WITH SOME OFFICIAL ARRANGING YOU MAY COME ON ONE OF THE AMERICAN, BRITISH OR FRENCH COURIER PLANES, WHICH FLY IRREGULARLY INTO WARSAW, GARRYING THEIR OWN GASOLINE TO FLY OUT AGAIN,
Emperor's Bogus Divinity
No extensive foreign travel iato Poland is expected in the near future because accommoda- tions are at a minimum.
Warsaw, probably the worst ruined big city in the world, is worse than Berlin, because she suffered not only several waves of warfare with the usual
also from the barbaric German bombing and artillery fire, but demolition campaign after the 1945 uprising.
The Secretary of State. Mr. James F. Byrnes, announcing the conference, suid invitations had gone to Russia, Britain,
LONDON, OCT. 11. China, Pranee, Canada, Austra IN REPLY TO A QUES- lia, the Netherlands, New Zea- TION WHETHER HE WAS land, the Philippines and India.] AWARE OF PUBLIC DIS- QUIET AT THE EFFORTS OF
The Germans went systemati- THE RULERS OF JAPAN TO
cally up and down the streets, SAVE THEIR FACE WITH
blowing up buildings and even THEIR SUBJECTS, THE the Unknown PRIME MINISTER, MR. CLE-Ninety per cent of the city was Soldier's grave. MENT ATTLEE, TOLD THE destroyed. From the
air, the HOUSE OF COMMONS:
expanse of rootless buildings looks like the remains of some extinct cliff dwellings.
He said Britain had suggest- ed the inclusion of India in the conference, and that the United States agreed to the proposition for itself and passed on the suggestion to Kussin and China.
"The British Government is Simultaneously Mr. Byrnes] aware that the Japanese Em- mentinued the Russian sugges- peror's rescript of August 16th tion that the creation of an ad- caused much justifiable dissatis- visory commission shall be pre. | ceded by the establishment of a control council for Japan.
Such a step, he said, would meun either the replacement or the lowering of General Mar- Arthur from his present pasi- !ion Byrnes said he did not personally favour the Russian
proposal: There
Branion both
fuction both in this country and elsewhere, but in a recent of the Japanese Diet, the Emperor and the Prince Minister publicly acknowledged the culpability of the Japanese,"
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city
ELECTRICITY ON
op-
London, Oct. 11.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Devin, and the French Ambassador, L. Rone Masnigli, on Tuesday signed the civil afƐniraj. agreement for Indo-Chinh:
civil
The agreement is of a routine nature and similar to the affairs agreements already on- cluded with other powers.
The agreement covers both the civil administration, and presence of British troops in Indo-Chinn. Heater
BRITAIN'S DOCK STRIKE SPREADING
AUSCHWITZ DOCTOR ADMITS MURDERS
LUNEBERG, OUT, 11. FRAU ROSINA KRAMER, WIFE OF THE BELSEN CAMI" COMMANDANT, JOSEPH KRAMER, HAD, HER FACE SLAPPED OUTSÏDE THE COURT-HOUSE THE MORNING AFTER SHE HAD GIVEN EVIDENCE AT THE CONCENTRATION, CAMP `TRIAL ON BEHALF OF HER HUSBAND.
AS SHE WAS WAEKING ACROSS THE YARD ACCOM= PANIED BY A NURSE SHE WAS MET BY A GROUP OF WOMEN, MOSTLY PROSECUTION WITNESS. BE- FORE MILITARY POLICE COULD GET TO HER ONE OF THEM SLAPPED HER FACE, AS THE POLICE HURRIED FRAU KRAMER AWAY ANOTHER WOMAN SHOUTED, "YOUR HUSBAND KILLED MY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN IN AUSCHWITZ. YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CHILDREN."
After a short rest in the guarded room, Frau Kramer was driven away.
Earlier,
had
LONDON, OCT. 11 AS BRITAIN'S DOCK STRIKES TO-DAY CONTINUED то
Frau Kramer SPREAD AND TROOPS BEGAN DISCHARGING FOOD told the court how worried her SHIPS, MR. GEORGE ISAACS, husband was because the Inter-; MINISTER OF LABOUR, SAID neca had to sleep on bare floors IN THE HOUSE OF COM- at Auschwitz. He told her it' MONS
"THE STRIKE IS was his duty to take care of WRONG AND CANNOT BE the
internees at Belhenguot} JUSTIFIED.
night and day. and he had been doing that
"I am always anxious to arrive et a satisfactory settlement but I will do nothing to Impair thei constitutional machinery of in- dustry.
Kramer's Ince, drawn and white after his eight hours spell in the box yesterday, flush- wife ed as his black dressed "The
men should
go back to took outh before going into the work at once and avoid unneces sary hardship to themselves, their witness box. She said they had on October 16, 1987, families and the rest of the married country. They can
be assured and that she and their children that their grievances will be cani- were his only treasure. sidered. In the meantime, milit ary labour will be used, when necessary, to discharge food ships held up by striken."
Mr. lanace refused to go to Merseyside to address the strikers and said that the men must first report through the machinery of their organisation. They would resent the Government stepping in between them and their union.
Sir
Ben Smith, Food Minister, the discharge of 43 announced stopped by strikes.--Reuter. ocean-going food ships was being
There is electricity in the
and a few trolleys
are running, but
habitable build ings are so scarce that the sec- and class posite
Polonia Hotel, to the ruined railway alalion, has to house the Ameri-| Captain Marples, Conserva- can, British and Italian Em-
bassies and the diplomativ de Live, anked if the British Com- manders had been instructed to legations of four
other coun- Japanese of
tries. impress upon the supreme every rank and
class in every The Russian. French and Asso-
Embassies way possible the facts of their | Yugo-Slaviun defeat and if the Prime Minis- scross the Vistula River, in the ter was not aware that there older and less damaged part of Alarm Wi
the city, where the Polish Gov- ernment IN quartered. Even telephone communications be-
was no inten- tion of altering the commander's ciated Press.
status.
NOTICE
The public aro horoby informed that I have authorizal BRIAN CHARLES KEITH HAWKING to continuo to act as Secretary for Chinese Affairs until further notice.
A very
grave
danger of leaving the Emperor in full possession of his bogus divinity
Mr. Attlee "I don't think mo. I think events will prove too much for them."—Reuter.
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IN TSINGTAO
Colonel,
Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer.
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tween the two sections are un- certain. Reuter.
Missing Men In Germany
Liverpool's
ordeal in
"I was present at a conver- Nation between my husband and an official responsible for food and my husband said that those people-Belsen
Internees didn't get enough to live.
Kramer ended his the witness box shortly after it had opened to-day and before leaving the box said: "I would like the opportunity of thank- officers for ing the defending what they have done for me and
others
Chungking Tragedy
CHUNGKING PROMISE
London, Oct. 11.
It is announced from Chungking that the terms of an agreement -reached between the Government and the Communists will bd published to-morrow. Reiter.
KC.C. At
Disposal Of Military
Mr. Ezra Abraham, president of Kowloon Cricket Club, Informa the "China Mail" that he has ap proached the Military Authorities and placed at their disposal the K.C.C. ground and clubhouse or what in left of it after the Japanese had used the premises as, amongst other things. stables. Mr. Abraham said that the flooring and practically all the CHUNGKING, OCT. 11. CHINESE CENTRAL NEWS the whole of the ground in over- woodwork has been removed, while AGENCY QUOTED THE COM-
The Japanese turned the Brown. MANDER OF POLICE AS SAY-
lawn bowls
grean into a sweat ING THAT GENERAL LI SHAO BHIH WAS SHOT ACCIDEN potato patch.
Remarking that it was due to YESTERDAY, TALLY
AND
their neglect that the ground is in WAS NOT ASSASSINATED BY its present condition, Mr. Abraham A CHINESE ARMY CORPORAL, suggested that the Japanese pri soners-of-war should be Bet to AS AT FIRST REPORTED. have sped away after hitting
the grass, and tidy- ating op soldier quatted beside the
few hundred of them wore put on the municipal hospital where L the job "it would not take long to died, the chauffeur, who Was
Anish" trusted employee, reported the shooting, said the slayer military man and then disappear. ed.
soldier beside the road might ex- plain why the chauffeur disap- peared. It appeared possible that the soldier's gun fired when he was hit.-Associated Press.
the which will enable court to give 118 a fuir judg- ment,"
n
Doctor
CANDID DOCTOR Following Frau Kramer the witness
box was Fritz Klein, camp doctor, who explained how he selected peo- ple who later went to the gur
Li's automobile was reported to work, cukace, adding that if a
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The fact of his driving into the BASKETBALL
Big Three And Turkey
Washington, Oct. 11. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, disclosed
Liverpool, Oct. 11. Grave concern has been felt throughout Marseyside over chambers ut Auschwitz. 个 at a press conference here yester-
The
FOR RELIEF
were
Basketball enthusiasts treated to two very good games at Chinese Y.M.C.A. Inst evening when 89th Division, Chinese Army, me! Wah Hung Club, and teams representing Kowloon and Hong Kong clashed in exhibition matches to raise funds for China Relief:
The first match. ended in a win for Wah Hung by 33 points to 21, while Kowloon (27 points) were the second game of the evening. too good for Hong Kong (17) in
After the games the ball used day that the Big-Thras agreed was sold by auction Bidding during the Potsdam talks to ap
started et C.N.$10,000 and the proach the Turkish Government figure was taken up to C.N.$61,000 separately with a view to revision before the ball fell under the ham- the Montreux Convention and The proceeds of the auction sale, of
ta Hic. Wo Shiu-tak. the internationalisation of Dardanelles.
together with gate receipts, Byrnes said that before leaving brought the "takings" to about Washington for the Council of C.N.$125,000. Foreign Ministers in London he had approved the draft of the let-
the
the reported Government's in was told to arlect those who tention to close down Liver- were unit for work, those who pool's Cotton Futures market were too old or sick, pregnant which would mean the extinc-women and children up to the tion of the vast cotton trading age of thirteen. activities in that port.
"It was'nt 'e proper examina- annual meeting of the Liver- tion" Klein said. “You looked pool Cotton Association has at a
person and asked a few been fixed for October 22nd. questions. Some of those unfit The Secretary of the Associa- for work I heard were sent to tion has indicated that a pri- the gas chamber and executed," ter to the Turkish Government on vate meeting is likely to take Asked by the Prosecutor, the Dardanellen. But this had been DETROIT WINS place next week in order to con- Colonel Backhouse, whether he wished to discuss the matter fur
held up because President Truman sider the crisis facing Liver-realised that gassing was murther with him before despatching WORLD SERIES ACCORDINEL JOHN BENBOW pool's position as a world cot- der,
LONDON, OCT. 11. ONE INDIAN OFFICER, TWO VICEROY'S COMMISSIONED Tsingtao, Oct. 11.
OFFICERS AND ABOUT 650 Elements of the sixth United OTHER INDIAN PRISONERS- States marines landed from fleet OF-WAR ARE STILL UNAC units to-day to the cheero of the
COUNTED FOR IN GERMANY, Chinese.
TO LIEUTEN- The Marines found troops disarming the 30,000 Japan- OF THE INDIAN ARMY,
WHO сво in the garrison at Shantung IS
THE SENIOR SEARCH peninsula naval base, most of OFFICER OF THE BRITISH whom appeared docile.
COMMISSION IN
Chinese
Reports persist of clashes...be tween roving Chinese bands out- side the city-Associated Press.
Mahatma's New Task
Bombay, Oct. 11.
It is reported here to-day thạt Mr. Gandhi has settled down to study the scrip of Indian languagex of which he has had no knowledge in the past.
When the course is completed, he will be able to read and write all thirteen Indian languages... Sindhi, Marathi, Telugi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kanada, Oriya, Ben- gall, Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Nagri and Persian.
A
working
He already has knowledge of nine.-Router.
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Batavia, Oct. 11.
All availablo reports from con- tral and southern Java sponk of Indonesian nationalist control over
the Japanese, 'capturing Japanese arms and ammunition dumps, and
ANT
GERMANY.
"How many are alive we do not know," he stated. "How many are in each zone we also do not know. It is quite probable that several are still in hospital. Some may have married and do not want to be repatriated. One, we found the other day, was married to a Ger- man.
Lieutenant-Colonel Benbow re- that more than Afty were vealed repatriated last month.
Indian Army search team in car-marked to proceed to the Russian zone as soon as permis- alon is obtained for it to cross the zone border," he added.--Reuter,
American Transition
ton centre.-Reuter.
he answered without Reuter. hesitation "yes."—Reuter.
SHARP CLASHES
IN SAIGON REGION
DOUBLE TEN IN SINGAPORE
Chicago, Oct. 11. The Detroit Tigers won the 1945 world base -ball series by beating the Chicago Cubs by D. runs to three in the deciding game yesterday.-Reuter.
Singapore, Oct. 11. Chinese residents here cele-i
Paris, Oct. 10. brated their revolution day for Paquis, who broadcast from the The appeal of Jean Herold the first time since their libera- Paris Radio during the German tion from the Japanese at A occupation and was sentenced to mass parade in Singapore, and death on September 18th, has hoon Padang attended by thirty rejected, it was announced hero thousand members, of the com-to-day. Reuter. munity.
A reception was held later by the Singapore Chinese Cham- ber of Commerce for Senior British Officers and representa- tives of the British Military Administration.-Router.
control COTTON FUTURES
*
LONDON, OCT. FIGHTING BROKE OUT ON WEDNESDAY BETWEEN ARMED INDO-CHINA NATIONALISTS AND JAPAN- ESE TROOPS AS NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN AN- NAMITE LEADERS AND FRENCH AUTHORITIES, AP- PEARED TO ARRIVE AT A DEADLOCK, EXCHANGE. TELEGRAPH REPORTS IN A SAIGON DISPATCH. AT DALAT, THE HILL STATION NEAR SAIGON, 80‹ NA- TIONALISTS WERE KILLED AND 150 WOUNDED IN A CLASH FOLLOWING AN "UNLAWFUL CHAL- LENGE" TO JAPANESE SENTRIES, COUNT·TER- AUCHI, JAPANESE COMMANDER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA REPORTED · TO ALLIED AUTHORITIES. Tornuchi said that in ane apparently, under the area nationallats extended of extremists who are 'not ful-
New York, Oct. 11. J. A. Krug, presiding at the last their anti-French boycott to in-filling the agreement made five mcoting of the War Production clude Japanese. His troops are days ago to return hostages. Activity in cotton futures Board which, directed much of obliged by the Allies to disaria Eleven missionaries. and two was small on Wednesday, but America's phenomenal war pro- all unauthorized persons carry French boys are reported to light mill covering against tex- duction, predicted to-day
Chat log weapons, but only in the have disappeared in a now out- tile orders and replacement er America would complete its tran- course of "defensive" action. break of incidents around the commission house demand, in- sition to a peacetime economy dur- An Allied spokesman said the capital. Exchange · Telegraph fluenced by poor crop prospects, ing 1940.
He said the decline in the fighting resulted from a "more said thousands of Nationalists brought small advances. Trad- were swarming into the Saigon era expressed keen disappoint national income and production marked Inclination" on would be halted early in the year, part of the Japanese to obey area. Seven thousand addi- ment over the news that the During five years, the United Allled instructions and to try tlonal British troops have land- Liverpool futures market, will States hurled more than $180,000,
and preserve "law and order.".. ed, as well as several French not be re-opened, with govern,
The news agency said the de- units Associated Press. terioration of French and An-↓
Washington, Oct. 11.
in samo caaba imprisoning Japa-000,000 worth of munitions against
певе.
Except for looters. Batavia
Appears to be quiet but the
the Axls.--Associated, Press." -
Chinese residents in the city have NO STATEMENT ON
expressed fears, of uprisings- Router.
PALESTINE
the
{
-namite conversations followed
Nationalist demands for com-
plate independence and that the FRENCH ACCUSATION
French hand over all arms.
HOSTAGES NOT FREED
Parls, Oct. 11. The Ministry of Justice to-day The dispatch said that ob- arrested about 80 Indo-Chinese,
ment war control over Industry to be, extended.
The New York stock-market was higher and active. Steel, ralls and specialties were the lenders.Associated Press..
RADIO
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 1945. ZBW HONGKONG Broadcasting an Frequencies of 690 Kilocycles and from 13.00-1.80 p.m., 6.80-7.80 p.m. and | 9.00-10.80 p.m. on 9.47 Megacycles. H.K.T.
13.30 p.m.-Imelenme Boys, Tino, ftosal & Orhestra Mascotte, 1.00 pm-News & Annoimeements. 1.10 p.m.-Orchestra Reymonde. 1.20 p.m.--Schumann-"Spring" 'Bym-
phony in B Fiab Major,
2.00 p.m.-Close Down. 6.00 p.m.--Half an Hour of Popular
Classico.
7.00 p.m.-News & Announcements.
7.10 p.m.-Bca Bluplico-Choruses, 4.80 p.m.--Bohubert-Bondo
∙Major,
*a valgy
in
7.45 pm-dart-Lea Prelude-By
phonic Pottu.
8.00 p.m.-Light OrchestralSelections. 8.50 p.m.-B.B.C., Dance Grahentra. 9.00 pm.Nowa & Announcements. London, Oct. 11.. Anked in the House of Commons
9.10 p.m.-Densia Noble (Baritone)," to-day by Captain Marples, Con- servers l'eported that the An-charging that anti-French tract IMPORTS CONTROL 0.20 p.m.-Mansact-"Lo Cld" Ballet servative for Wallasey, whether namite Viet Minh party is now, were found in their office.. he could give tho. House any in-
The nowspaper "Paris Matin
0.08 pan.-Cortob at the Plano. formation about the conversations
Tokyo, Oct. 11, on Palestine with President Tru-
Tokyo, Oct. 11 asserted, in a London, dispatch,
"that on Annamite. named Chlon i 'Görioral Douglas MacArthur, 10.00 pm.London News,- man, the Prime Minister, chained to the wall by log irons, have no state try's fron and steel control asso- | tributing anti-French tracts with issued to the Japanese Govern
The Japanese Commerce Minis- Teh in the British capital was din Supreme Allied Commander. has 10.05 p.m.-Dance Programme. Piorro Lavel was the now occupant to-day of a call in Fresno prison's ment to mako at present."
ciation will allot materials and
IN "DEATH ROW'
Paris, Oct. 11. Wearing a burlap ruit and
Mr.
HH the Wetence Captain Marples: "In view of production of 180,000 tons in the American financial: backing. Iti ment an order, severely restricting 10.80 p.mlope Down.
death row, following his
to death for #leader in the
spend
as the recent statement by Presid- next three months, Domel news
Font
in it not time that
reported to-day. Shipping incastries will House was
Antways and": Mr. attles: "1 should think receive rationed amounts through that is due course a statement permission of doneral MacArthur, will be made.--Reuters
**Associated Press.
days in the coll unless General Do daulle grant him clamouny or a now trial,--Ansociated Press.
and the Anna sterling by a
10,000
backed were
Imports.
All imports must be paid for. of American business men Nothing may be imported that can want u motomie matters the be provided by the sporeon High Annamitas will be more easy to priorition on the import list are: manago than the French, Asso-ries or its equivalent in grain, xalt cinted Press.
and raw cotton-Router.
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