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Bomboy, Nor, 30.
The death list from drown- inge in the tidal wave which ewept into bruch suburbs of Bombay during Wednesday'n arvere rarthquake was placed at 13 to-day.
The quake's epicenter which believed to have been in the Arabian cu or Indian Ocean.
Associated Press.
Down The Sink!
TURYO, NOV 30. JAPAN'S YEARS OF RE SEARCH AND POTENTIAL. PUTURE PROBING INTO THE REALM OF ATOMIC ENGERY CAME TO AN END AN AMERI CAN ENGINEERS DUMPED LOVER #60 TONS OF NISHINA CYCLOTRON WRECKAGE IN ፕረ THE SEA OFF YOKO HAMA.
THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1945.
KING PETER LOSES CROWN
Republic Set Up In Yugoslavia
LONDON, NOV. 30.
THE 11-YEAR REIGN OF KING PETER OF YUGOSLAVIA ENDED TO-NIGHT WHEN THE YUGOSLAV CON. STITUENT ASSEMBLY FORMALLY PROCLAIMED A REPUBLIC. THE ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH DE. CIDES THE FATE OF THE FIRST OF EUROPE'S LIST OF "MONARCHS IN EXILE" WAS MADE OVER BELGRADE RADIO AFTER A JOINT SESSION OF THE YUGOSLAV ASSEMBLY AT WHICH THE WAS PROCLAIMED.
India's-Roll
London, Nov. 30, Indian war camtallion roppan' ported up to August 14, 1945, toere 170,935, according to Prime Minister Attles in the Horene of Commons to-day in reply to a question.
Total Emire casualtica eere 1,210,020,-Reuter.
YOSHIDA
FEDERAL PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA APOLOGISES
THE PROCLAMATION EXPLAINED THAT THIS REPUB
LIC IS A "UNIFIED PEOPLESS“ GOVERNMENT. IT ADDED THAT THE MONARCHY HAD
BEEN "AROLISHED" AND THAT KING PETER, TOGETHER WITH HIS ENTIRE DYNASTY, WAS DEPRIVED OF ALL RIGHTS PREVIORMLY VESTED IN THE HOUSE OF KARA-GEORGEVICH. Britain. King Peter's but, will raise no objection to the decision of the Constituent As serably.
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Two sinal! freighters carried the broken remnants of two eyel trans and other
The decision has caused equipment to u int where they were dropped Surprise in London, where it ha
en undisclosed depth.
hing been expected as result denied A group of American scientist of the policy of Marshal Josepla
Generi MacArthur Tito, whose government recent serely for ordering the ey the ment's destruction, but Vote of confidence at the polis.
reveived overwhelming statement issued yesterday from
Problem arising out of the hy parters said The action was taken on insta detions from "greement of November, 1944. ber authority Assurated which proside for plate Press
on the question of the monarchy, could be countered by this gov. Proment's argument that the re- cent general election, in which This question wha one of the Jmain issues, was in fact such a
plebiscite.
Jap General Joins Reds
A Chinese press dispatch quot ed in 1 Ying-ching comman der of the Central Government the let
Tropes, 18 waving Upsterday that all Japanese Surces in China have been disarmed except 100. 000 in Hupeh and Shantung pra
Vincen
He predicted repatriation of all Japanese in China would be completed within nine months.
A dispatch to Chungking said the Jupamme have been disarmedi in Judo-4hina and the task would he completed in Formusa by to- morrow.
General Ho charged that several prominent Japanese had joined the Chinese Communist forces, in- chief of staff cluding General Sakul, former Army.
of the Associated Press.
Heuter
1
TO DIET
TOKYO, NOV. 30. A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF PEERS EXPRESS- ED THE OPINION TO-DAY DURING AN INTERPELLA. brought no remedy, and when, in TION THAT THE PACIFIC 1941. Paul and his government WAR WOULD NOT HAVE signed the Axis pact, one of the ; BEGUN IF THE JAPANESE arms groups deposed the Regent NATION HAD and raised King Poter to the FORMED
BEEN IN. PRESIDENT lend the
| ROOSEVELT'S PERSONAL MESSAGE ΤΟ THE EM. AndPEROR THE DAY REFORE Nelthur King | THE PEARL HARBOUR AT- Peter's exife he left Yugoslavia | TACK. for Britain after the German in- "The Japanese noton Whm vasion of his country in 1941- nor betrayed by a small number of Generni Drzha Michailovich's
leaders in just the same way as the mountains showed
throne to resistance.
tutioni
BRIDGING THE GULF The split between Serha Cronts persisted.
in
OF
be
signs of overcoming the purely the United States was betrayed Serb character of their resistance. by Japanese militarists,'
Bridging of this gulf between | said.
Roll comentator Lloyd to night wrote that εξεις decision to depone Peter means
that the new Federal Yugoslavia hes out all links with the old king- dem of Serbia and has struck the Arst blow for a wider federation
which of Mouthern Europe
may include Bulgor in fo
and stretch Beross the Balkane from the Adriatic to the Black Sca.
Cumie
140 YEARS OF RULE For 110 years. ever since Karn George led the first Serb revolt against the Turks in 1804, the fate of his descendants has been closely linked with Serbian nationalisin Their military tradition, rivalry with the Obrenovich's with whom they alternated in Kwantung :
ruling the country, gradually developed from a tribal family feud into n constant struggle between LWO upposed sertions
Serb in the officers corps.
Decision came when the last Obrenovich was murdered In 1903 and Peter the First, grandfather of the present King, ascended the throne.
INDIA SEIZES ON HURLEY OUTBURST
In
New Delhi, Nov. 30. Sharp criticism af United States foreign policy was touched uff
Indian newspapers TUN opinion over presenting all shades of political The resignation of Ambassador Hurley and his sharp criticism of State Department
operations
One paper ruis tl United States is being "sucked" into a power bloc on the side of colonial Imperialium.
for absolute
The nationallties of Yugoslavia in Foreign Minister Yonbla the common struggle against the survived the first "serious" in- invader has been regarded by most, eldent in the Diet session yester. | experts as the decleive achieve. ment of the partisan movement led the House
day by formally apologizing to by Marsbal Tilo, a Cront.
of Representatives for what was considered an in- Attempted compromise between the onl
regime and the new sulting "slip of
the tongue" he declined to tell how "Liberation Front" ended in the when resignation of the Croat Preniter. the Government obtained in. Dr. Ivan Subasic, who was willing formation concerning Japanese to como to terms with Tito, and subjects in Manchuria. with Peter's repudiation of the Regency Council which had been formed.
The apology soothed the feel- ings of the frate membera, some
Since then Tit has openly pro- of whom were drafting im
claimed his Republican intentions.peachment proceedings against
Reuter.
Yoshida.-Associated Press.
Truman Scouts Talk Of Drift To War
WASHINGTON, NOV. 30.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN ASSERTED EMPHATICALY AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE THAT HE DID NOT FEAR
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and in the First World War, for which the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdi- mand by one of these groups, the implied evidence of his "Black Hand". furnished the_fidence in Russin when he told reporters he saw no need of uny further Big Three conferences if the United Nations Organise tion works as it should.
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NEW YUGOSLAVIA non-Intervention by the United
When the peace-makers of 1919 States in the present civil strife decided in China," another paper assert
to allow the southern Slavs to unite in a single state the ed. "There is a much stronger
new_Yugoslavia was built round CASE før effective Intervention
the Serbian army and dynasty. It with a view to eliminating Kuo-
was honed that the monarchy mintang and Communist authori tarianism and to establish real son
would provide an element of cobe- for the "Kingdom of the democracy in that country."-A-Serbu, Crunts and Slovenca" link- sociated Prusa.
ing the more highly developed former subjects of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy with the Roman Catholic and Greek. Ortho- Jox Serbs on a basis of equality.
This hope was not fulfilled and in 1920 King Alexander trans- formed the constitution into a Serb military dictatorship, and ever
SAFETY OF MOTOR JUNKS ORDER
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Arrange
The President gave furtheration. The United States is seek
con- ing modification of the
mont which requires unanimous agreement before any decisions can be made by the Allied control
in
Asked whether revisions in the Allied control policy and machin- ory for Germany might require a meeting of himself, Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee, the President said he was not favour of special conferences
President Truman said he hoped the United Nations Mould take over within the next few months all the problems previously worked out by the Big Three meetings.
The President disclosed negotia. tiona now are under way among the Allied powers ruling Germany
of life-muving and Are-Aghtince then the Croat and Slovene for revision of the Potsdam declar-
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JORDAN RD. ROBBERY Four armed robbers entered the first floor of. No. 6, Jordan Road. Inst night.
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"Mainichi" demanded that the Cabinet resign unless it real- ly desires to work for the coun try, regardless of interests of
"Yomiuri Hochi" declared the Premier's speech. through out ahowed. "an apparent lack As there was only one list of of complete recognition of Ja- candidates at the elections, that pan's defeat and the Cabinet of the Fatherland Front, com-is unsuitable to the times. position of the Assembly will be identical with that of the official tunate to have to go through it belongs."--Associated Presą.
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The premises were occupied by Au Young-leung and his nieco. At Plovdiv. about 8 o'clock, Au was out, leav ing the girl alone in the house. The four men forced even the door and ransacked the house.
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GENERAL EISENHOWER CRITICISES FRENCH
which developed from the milit-firmed the general belief that Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 30.
ary lengue lod by Premior Goor the Shidehara Cabinet is only The now Chief of Staff of the giev, 81 from the Fatherland transitory and lacks the force U.S. Army, General Dwight Front wing of the Social-Demo-to carry out political moves." Eisenhower, in a report released crata and members of the small to-day criticized the French Gov- Radical Party...
-The newspaper sald the specth ernment for hampering the Allied The throe logal Opposition morely recapitulated the coun- Control Council and urged an. Parties, the Agrarians, Social- try's troubles when the people early establishment of the Central Gorman administrative machinery.
Associated Press.
FIVE-FAMILY · CONTROL. A OF HAWAII ....
Washington, Nov. 30, The Secretary of the Interior to-day indicated he would not make any early recommendation favour iñe statehood for Hawali, Maurit
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Offcial rosults of the elections. show that out of: 4,504,250 regis- fered electora. 8,802,402, or 82 por, cont, went to the polis Restor
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