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THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1946.
New Security MOUNTING PRICES POINTS FOR KING'S
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LONDON, OCT. 81,
CHUNGKING OCT 31.
FORMATION OF AN INDIAN THE RECENT PREDICTIONS OF A HARD. WINTER FOR OCEAN REGION, AS A CON- TRIBUTION TO THE FUTURE PEACE AND PROSPERITY OF THE WORLD, WAS.
AS ADVOGAT-
ED BY LT.-GEN, E. N. MOLERA WORTH AT A MEETING OF THE EAST
ASSOCIA INDIA TION TO-DAY. GENERAL
bloc in the Indian
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MOLESWORTH WAS FORMER. LY DEPUTY CHIEF OF GEN. ERAL STAFF IN INDIA.
Outlining Indien
India's need for
Occan region, lability to attack had increased Genorai Molesworth aald hor by several hundred per cent. as a result of air
ponable to sup- "It is not
India, by PORC that size, position and resources, might
CHINA ARE BEING CONFIRMED WITH REPORTS OF MOUNTING PRICES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND LACK OF COAL TO KEEP HOMES SEMI-OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM CHANGCHUN RE
HEATED AND FACTORIES RUNNING.
CORDED THE FIRST FALL OF SNOW IN MAN- CHURIA AND SAID THAT THE INHABITANTS OF THAT VAST TERRITORY VIEWED THE COMING WINTER WITH KEEN ANXIETY.
of
The price of cloth and other and the necessities, it said, was rising, varying intensity has engulfed
fact that fighting rency and Soviet occupation Efforts to bridge the widen- steadily, with only puppet cur- a sizeable section of China. noten in circulation.
ing gap between the the ment and the Communists are continuing but both sides have admitted that there is practical-
A
typical example of sharp upward swing in prices in other parts of China is furnish feng in Honnn where the cost
be a major partner in a region ly-ed from the ancient city of Kally no hope of success."
A
ing between Africa and the Middle Enst, and such regions may be formed in the Far East," he said. "As minimum this region might
Iran, Afghanistan, India, Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, Nether lands Enst Indies, Sarawak, Borneo and Labuan. This would give an adequate number of inde- pendent units but not to many.
there was soaring.
Govern-
The position is like a Chinese
BUILDERS
lod
London, Oct. 81. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Fisher, opening the
#ocond Building Congress of the Building Industries-National Council hore to-day, gave three points to builders. He asked them to bulld homes, not houses; neighbour- hoods not towns; and to build för comes and simple dignity.
heart cries for young mar couples who have nowhere to Tivs except in lodginga or
with their mothers-in-law, which tradi- tion says is not the happiest state of affairs. Men released from the Forces have nowhere to live and hind your creativeness to meet this for you that is the social urge be-
bish is not only houses but towns great social need," said the Arch-
in these coming years-towns and and elties you have got to provide cities adapted and shaped to meet modern social needs."
The building trade was in the torg of England for many years proud position of being the crea- to come.
of cloth has more than trebled puzzle. The Communists want in the past three weeks and political settlement before that of gold doubled in the past they negotiato
The Archbishop referred to the military on comprise the Persian Gulf.nl, fortnight. The price of food, questions while the government every now ship that was launched long-standing custom of blessing wants to compose the military and wald that while such a prac- problem first,
STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY
tice might put up costs if applied to every house it was the right As they bargain back and attitude-Reuter. forth without making the alight- ust headway, both side struggling for supremacy in North China and Inner Mon- golla with favour of the Government.
odda just now in
Nelthor the military sub-
"As the hard coro India would place facilities at the disposal of the World Council for location and training reserves raised and paid for outside India.
In Chungking, whose popu- lace expected a substantial frop the price of necessitles when the war ended, costa have mounted to new peaks.
The bank and market value of American currency han beon rising and to-day business was done at 1,500 Chinese National Dollars to one American Dollar.1
one.
The virtual paralysis of com- **munications,
In the material and industrial fieldn
her contribution may be even greater than in the military field.'
He added that recent events had given a vast stimulas to ideas of self-government In the Indian Ocean region and people in Bri- tain had revolutionised their ideas on the future of Eastern peoples. "Parish pump policy must take back neat. Expenditure on de- fence in peace
la an Insurance premium in the hope that it will be an adequate guarantee against aggression."-- Reuter.
A
Yokohama, Oct. 81. Elements of tho America) Veter- an Division mostly from the 104th Regiment will begin leaving for home to-morrow, four days ahend of schedule.
The Americal has served in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Leyte, Cebu sto. Associated Press.
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A few weeks ago it was 800 to Committee of Three created at the recent unity talks nor the projected political and consulta- tive councils have begun work, prospects of receiving and dis- telegram to Yonan urging the tributing large quantities of
Communist member of the Mili-
Just before the King entered consumer goods in China, the tary sub-Committee to come to the Grand Hall at Buckingham absence of a realistic official ex-
Chungking and has appealed to retired officer of the Indian Army, change rate.
Palace for the investiture, the lack of tories through shortage of coal, delegates to the
fac- the Communists to name their Lieutenant-Colonel C. Makden, was raw materials and labour trou- consultative councils
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King inspected his grow on tree-truuka And Many battalion.
other Wanderful Things | Lieutenant-Colonel Maiden told They are all TRUE and you can Reator's representative that he was a former commanding officer doo them in of Haidar's battalion. With him also in civilian clothes were two of the battalion--Reuter. other former commanding officers
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San Francisco, Oct. 81. LA-Gen. Albert E. Wedemeyer, American army commander in the China theatre, sald to-day that the assistance his forces are giving "in
in the Governm
distribution of ChinesT
pereft forces doch Ipso facto
Kai-shek's
position
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Generalissimo Chiang Heat Over the Chinese Communist forces," Dock Strike
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troops are
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Dumbarton said dicating they understood they the Minister of Labour, had vohemently. after George Issacs, in China merely were stationed
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