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-Successful Mission To Australia
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DUBLIN FOR G.B.S.
DUBLIN. PER. 4. MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IS, AT THE AGE OF NINETY, TO BE OFFERED THE FREEDOM OR .s NATIVE DUBLIN.
The Dublin Corporation der de to offer it to him lat night. Two Councillors oppassed the motion bur they did not challenge a division.
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To Lipsticks
Knobs GREENWICH
VILLAGE H.Q. ISSUE
A SHOPPING EXPEDITION CARRIED OUT IN AUS. TRALIA ON BEHALF OF THE HONG KONG MILI- THE TARY ADMINISTRATION TO ASSIST IN QUICK REHABILITATION OF THE COLONY HAS MORE THAN REALISED EXPECTATIONS. BUILD. ING MATERIALS, RANGING FROM TIMBER AND CEMENT TO DOOR HANDLES AND SCREWS HOUSEHOLD GOODS IN MORE THAN A DOZEN LINES. A VARIETY OF FOOD SUPPLIES, AND AN IMPOSING LIST OF SPORTS GOODS, TOILET RE QUISITES AND COSMETICS HAVE BEEN PUR. CHASED.
eHurts now being made by the Administration to rush essential supplies and eventeditios Hong Kong.
This decision gives Mr. Shuw something to think about for when The Hong Kong Mission to told of the Corporation's al cision Australia, which
Was luch he replied: " shall accept the Capt. C. N. Lentaigne, D.5.0.. offer very gratefully but only if it is made by a substantial major.... represents only part of the ity."
M. Shaw in the debate was Jim Larkin, Jabour leader, who sur: Publin has not shown is
elation of its brightest on Robr a real fiel
Againat Mr. Shaw was Mr. J. O'Byrne, who said: “Hię stands for the promotion of the English anti spirit of the Empire. What he
Show done for freinnd except to make long distance Wise tracks?"
Mr. J. Phelan said that Shaw was not fil mentor either youth or adult In Eire.
A similar mission was despatch- ed in New Guinea this week, the shoppers" boing Mr. John fialvin and Communiter Wilson,
Kreat need of
The achievements of the mission to Aq-traita cannot be over- estinuated in view of the fact that Australia is in materials and commodities for her Mr. own post-war rehabilitation, while fort she also has commitments to the
United Kingdom.
Some of the purchases are new on the way and a second shin is londing in Sydney,
Mr. Shaw's comment was: "These people do not seem to know much about me. 1 shall deal with them when I receive the offer.” --- A special ship has been obtained Reuter
to lifta great part of the remain-
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Nazi Thugs' Terror In Denmark
NUERNBERG, FEB, 6. THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL WHICH IS TRYING THE 22 NAZI LEADERS HERE, YESTERDAY-HEARD HOW BANDS OF NAZI THEGS, ACHING IS DER DIRI DANDINGAN
BERLIN, KILLED PROMINENT STER FASHION TO INSTILL TERROR AMONG RE- CALCITRANT ELEMENTS.
Change In China Company Law
Chungking. Feb. 6.
The French Prosecutor, Mr. Edgar Faure, cited sections of an official Danish Goverhment report on the systematic execu- tion of the nation's leaders un der the camouflage of "bandit attacks."
Doctors were killed by Nazis
posing as patients and victims who answered rings from the doorbells of their homes were shol..
LONDON, FEB, 0.
THE UNITED NATIONS 13. MEMBER INTERIM COM- MITTEE YESTERDAY AP- PROVED THE. RECOMMENDA. TION TO PUT THE ORGANI SATION'S PERMANENT HOME
STAMFORD-GREEN- IN THE WICH AREA OF CONNECTI OUT AND NEW YORK.
Planes For Scrap Heap
Wiesbaden; Feb, 0.
Siz thousand planes whjoh. cont nearly one billion dollara are being aclapped by the United States Army in Europe because they are considered obsolete and have time
Officials at the United States Air Force Headquar- tera naid 427 Flying Fort-
na prude-
freeuca and 30 Liberators arer the pinnes being broken up along with. Thun derbolts, Lightwings woul Mus tanya.-Annoniated Prens,,
SUN RAY RESEARCH IN LONDON
"CHINA HAN”
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 7,
1940,
No, 13275,
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Shanghai's Strike Wave
SHANGHAI, FER, 6. SHANGHAI'S EFFORTS TO GET GOING COMMER- CIALLY AND INDUSTRIALLY · ARE BEING SERI- OUSLY HAMPERED BY STRIKE FEVER, WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED BY THE LOCAL MUNICIPAL AU- THORITIES TO A TANGLED SKEIN OF SOCIAL DISORDER, HIGH LIVING COSTS. MANAGERIAL DISUNITY BETWEEN THE PRIVATELY - OWNED UTILITY COMPANIES. AND GENERAL DISCON- TENT WITH THE UNFAVOURABLE POST-WAR CONDITIONS. SINCE NOVEMBER LAST YEAR THERE HAS BEEN ‚! SEEMINGLY UNENDING SERIES OF WALKOUTS AFFECTING ALMOST EVERY BRANCH OF BUSI-. NESS IN SIȚANGHAI, FOREIGN AND CHINA. UTILITY PORKERS, MILL-HANDS, BARBERS SHOP - KEEPERS, TRUCK DRIVERS AND MESSEN - GERS ARE AMONG THE MANY THOUSANDS OF LABOURERS WHO HAVE STRUCK AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER IN THE PAST FEW IFLEKS, der of these supplies for immes The Australiap delegate, Oo-
In their last strike the con- diate delivery, andhis is expectedį leno W. R. Hodgson, said after
London.. Feb. 0.
ductors of the French Tramway a few days the close of the meeting. how- to start leading in
A hissing noise like the escape Company adopted a unique form time.
ever, that he will ask for relee of air was heard yesterday by of protest. Forbidden ny the Sauce has also been set aside in tion of the recommen iron to British Journalists, who inspect-regulations of the City Govern this ship to carry murchases made day when it is presented to the ed the headquarters of the ment by the Chinese members of the full. United Nations
committee
from discontinuing the Operational Research Group of service, they refused to collect. Misajun.
Col. Hodgson unid he would the Ministry of Supply at Rich-fares resulting in the Com- pit an ficht for San Francisco,
pany losing about C.N.$10,000,- It is the intention of the Goy- Col. Hodgson's, protest, an afficial
from the 000 a day. ernment to distribute act of their said, was based on the contention sun, travelling with the sperd Realising the seriousneus of cargoes shortly after arrival that site cmandssion had ex- of light and taking eight min the labour situation here, the through normal commercial chan- cgedo! its authority when it nar- utes to reach the earth. It is municipal authorities have not nels at controlled prices, but ow-rowed down the field to the north- this noise that interferes with up a Bureau of Social Affairs, Dr. Sutan Sjahrir, the “Indo- ing to the wide variety of the castern United States, goods ublained, tine is required to
Other committee members said at short-wave wireless, such whose principal task is to me-nesian Premier" and his entire as is used by the Services for diate between management and Cabinet, has jeft Batavia to-day work out full details of the method it was too late to reopen the
communication; causing a fade labour.
for Soerakarta, ancient city in of distribution of the complete east-west controversy, which the range.
Preparatory Commission decided
Although the Director of the Central Java, where they are to in favour of the eastern United
Bureau, Mr. Li Cien-hwa, claims attend a conference of some two there is no proof that political hundred local administratere. agitators are behind the many Dr. Sjahrir, who is to address strikes here, biaming them on the conference, is expected to
American owned "Shanghai meet Dr. van Mook, Lieutenant- Evening Post" says that all Governor-General of the Nether- evidence indicates that the la- lands East Indies, early
our uneasy has a wide political week.
It is understood that Dutch and social significance,
"Many quarters believe," it proposals are now being pre- adds, "that the organisation of pared for submission to the, In- every strike in the city is being donesians.
NORMAL CHANNELS
for anoroval,
mond.
It was radiation
Yesterday I entered a cabin of the type used by anti-aircraft
Important Indonesian Conference
1.
Batavia, Feb. 5.
Further cargoes can be expected as shipping becomes available, but | States, it is intended that these abould? Stavan Gavrilovic. hend of the units for radar. It works on Increasingly come on comgrein site committee, announced the silver and as we turned to face account as normal peacetime trad- interim committer's decision at a the sun the hinaing became the high cost of living, the return at the week-end and may ing gets into his stride.
press conference, — Associnted | louder, llere are some of the lines Press. which the Misalon to Australia managed to accure:
Household Goods: - Mosque Franco's Doom
acting, kerosene and all stoves, enamel and aluminium saucepans,
frying pans, tea pots, desert, soup Sealed?
next
A special blue ray, at first straight, broke up into particles and danced about on a dial.
The actual causes of the noise were visible through a telescope with amoked glass. and table spoons, table and dessert
Sir Edward Appleton, Secre- furks,,
glass tumbiters,
Washington, Feb, 0. thry of the Department of
directed by radicals. Reports According to a well-informed Food Cornflour,
cat peel. Jose Giral Premier of the Scientific and Industrial Re-
persistently claimed that a por-source, the Dutch Government gravy salt, baking powder, baked Spanish Goverrsnent in exile, said search, said: "The solar radio trait of Lenin and the Red Flag have approved an alteration in beans, criaples, coruflakes, canned to-day that a break by
France, benches, canned neas, tomato juice] Britain
the terms that Dr. vau. Mook United States noise is of great scientific in adorn the labour caucus." and the
terest since its existence was not Mr. Li has issued a warning brought from Holland but un- and dried muscalals.
Franco with the
government, Building Materials: Cement, coupled with underground Re-suspected until recently. that frequent demands by work-confirmed reports stated tant hardwood, electric wiring, bulbs, publican pressure, would lead to "A new field of scientific reserà upon employers may ally the terma indade a clause de-
-jock-door harties, dont francs sectie hat in the majo
search-has opened up and it is cause such a situation that capi
ferring complete self-rule for i water pipes, tools of every He declared that if expected that scientists the description. Daint
and powers delay severing relations world over will start to look for al will be discouraged from en- long period, which has not been
tering the market.
received enthusiastically by the cables.
with General Franco and "allow it during the coming period of
NATION FIRST
Indonesians. Sports Grods:-Football boots. oppression of the Spanish people sun-spot activity which culmin- ping pong bats, balls and nets, to continue.
This is echoed by the leading
Dr. Sfahrir commented: "I "another
daily here, am interested in what happens ruy balls. tennis, nets, cricket inside Spain would be inevitabletes during 1947 and the follow Chinese-owned
"Shanghai Herald, ing year.
-which Giral said his regime hopes to
*now** Reuter, This entirely British dis states editorially that at a mo- take over in Madrid without bloodshed 24 hours after the fall covery can be put to grent prac-ment like this. when China
tical purposes."-Reuter, of Franco-Associated Press.
bals, batting pads and wicket- keeping 'pro's.
Planned Economy For Britain
war
Asserts China Is Still Menaced
WASHINGTON, FEB. 6.
London, Feb. 6. Another of the Labour Govern- An important modification of
A noted Danish priest, Kaj menta measures for a planned the draft company law in favour Munk, was removed from his economy-a bill to control invest-}
ment-massed an important singe of foreign companies in China, Church, killed and thrown in a was to-day reported by Cabinet ditch in 1944. the report stated in the House of Commons last THE MAINTENANCE OF A MERICAN FORCES IN
The band of thugs was known roodine.
night
when it
CHINA UNTIL THE NATIONALIST AND COM- was given a second spokesman, P. H. Chang, who
MUNIST FACTIONS HAVE UNITED IS VITAL TO said it would probably become as "Group Peter" and was snid
The Opposition amendment to effe dive on March 1..
to have received letters of con- reject it was defeated by 320 votes
THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, REPRE-
le
from explained that
SENTATIVE POAGE, DEMOCRAT OF TEXAS. SAID foreign gratulation
Heinrich to 142. The bill will now be de companies operating in China Himmler.
bated in detail by the All-Party ON HIS RETURN FROM A TOUR OF THE PACK would not, as originally stipu- Toward the end of 1943, high Standing Committee and then go FIC WITH A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. lated, have to have parent con- Nazis, including Hitler, Himm to the House of Lords.
Mr. cerns abroad actively engaged in ler, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wil-
MOST SERIOUS AND THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL. THE UNITED same type of business in helm Keitel and Alfred Jod), in the Exugh, Dalton, Chancellor of HE DESCRIBED THE CHINESE SITUATION AS THE
OF ALL PROBLEMS FACING order to avoid being classified a meeting with the Chief of the
STATE IN THE PACIFIC. as Chinese companies.
he said, would do now.
Observers said the modifica tion represented a great conces- sion to foreign interests. — As- sociated Press.
said that this was A small
mall part of a bic plan to pui Nazi Police in Denmark, Gunted speculation in the cotton and
bruke on speculation. The wick Simply a holding office abroad.here Pancke, determined to shipping industries in
1910 must execute five Danes for every not happen again. German soldier killed in Den- The bill was designed so that mark, the prosecution related. priorities in echemes for raising A large-scale round up and de- new capital, should be determined portation of Jown in France, by one criterion onis-their rels Holland and Belgium in the tive Imaortance In the national
of 1942 took in the aged, mothera and children, with the ultimate goal of their extermination in Poland, the
Associated prosecution said. — Press.
RUMOURS OF SOVIET AIMS IN CHINA
Chungking, Feb 6. Generalíssimo Chiang Kal- THAC
shek's acknowledgment"
summer
Russia was carrying on "info Jewish. Attack
mal" negotiations quest of economic conccasions followed renewal of rumours that Russia! was demanding joint ownership and control of mining and other enterprises in Manchuria. The rumours were particularly pre-
in
Prens
On Police
Jérusalami, Feb. 8.
An Arab polloo sentry was
A
interest.--Reuter.
BELGIAN'S DARING ESCAPE
Brussels, Feb. 6.
slands on the threshold of na- tional reconstruction, it is of vital importance that labour in China take the right path. Its desire for better pay, better liv- ing conditions and better treat-! ment is a legitimate one that Six hours after he had been every socially-minded person will condemned to death yesterday by second wholeheartedly. But a military court for collabora- labour must also remember that, tion with the Germans, Francois like capital and like manage- Loockx, former Flemish SyS. made a dramatic escape ment, it is only a part of the man. nation, and the nation must al from the Petit-Chateau Prison. ways come first.'
Loockx was being, transferred Tact is urged in the handling to the condemned cell when he of the difficult labour situation slipped into a working party in here by the "Shanghai Evening the gaol courtyard and mide an Post," which says: "The next acrobatic, getaway over the pri few months in Shanghai are son wall. bound to be crucial. We see la Police began a search of the bour troubles growing to unpre- haunts of other collaborators cedented proportions in every where Loockx is believed to be He declared: "It la perfectly Just now, a relatively small part of the world. Such things hiding.Associated Press.
are a luxury China can hardly quate forec there until the Chin- venting any agressive action in afford at any time and least of Tactful guidance cthll to-day. ese achieve some real unity and North China without any con will be much in demand if grave
Should it be removed establish an effective government. Otherwise there is a very strong China is able to pratect herself, it difficulties are to be avoided." possibility that the entire area is
little later on. to use! ways, the British-owned Shang-
The employees of greater forces to protect hai Electric Construction Co...
American-owned Shang- eight leading department foreign-controlled Ching."
Power Company, the are on strike, following: tofusal Ho added that it will be possible British-American. Tobacco Co. of employers to meet their demand
clear that we must keep an ade- force of American marines is pre-
Shanghai Stores
will be occupied by foreigy, forces! fately that we would be. Besides the French Trant-Strike
Bomb Explosion In Percival Street
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT NO. 44, PERCIVAL STREET, GROUND FLOOR. AT ABOUT 10.35 P.M. LAST NIGHT, CAUSED THE DEATH OF A 17- YEAR-OLD LAD, LEUNG TAI HA, AND SERIOUS INJURIES TO HIS MOTHER AND A GIRL.
The youth
...
Voss from the threat of a the
to reduce the forces in China thes exists a uniflod govern-
real ment,
hai
and the eight largest Chinese department stores in the city Poage said the people of Japan are among the many concern were energetically re-building the affected by strikes recently destroyed cities and going to great Reuter. extremes to display a desire to co
operate with the Americans
ני..
Shanghai's
Mores
for a pay increase to CN835,000 a month.
Mediation of the Municipal Social Affairs Bureau has failed to bring about a settlement. The employers have agreed to, ralee the minimum pay to CN$27,500 but the employees have so far made
of only $500, ale, ponding nego- In the major stores, such as the Sun 2 and Sun, Wing On and Sinceres, sre koly, Tokyo, Feb, 0 skill providing free menia for
the Philonines, he said: Yamashita
"Undoubtedly there are".
lot of
people there who, in a secrol
hallot, would vote against Inde: Decision Soondations, the managements of the
pendence. but they can't openly come out with such a position
out the
hits
BRITISH OFFER
valent noveral weeks ago before wounded early yesterday as armed it appeared certain that Soviet bands of men, described as Jown,
Personally, I think the only course. A spokesman said to-day that their employees., a canister-bomu. The wooden partition of the troops would withdraw in favour made a pre-dawn attack on the "investigating was apparently the boy, was also badly hurt. of Chinese Government forces police station at Safad. In North-which he picked up during the cubicle was blown to pieces, and
that which would improve the Supreme Allied Comment: 1 Palestine. Manchuria. Associated] orn
occupation, when it went off. He shrapnel marks covered walls standing of this country through already reviewed the record and
give the took the blast across the body, and floor. polko bullatinsald
Orient Associated is expected shortly to
decision in the care of "Lieut-
London, Feb. 6 armed groups, attacking from two and died instantly, His mother, Two other occupants, Clian Tront
General Tomoyuki Yamashita who Britain, bas sent the Rumanian through the barbed He Yip-ho, 40, was sleeping on Ka-wa and Yeung Kit, had just quick work by the Fire Brigade was sentenced to death by * aidos, pot
government THE WEATHER
acommunication. wire fencing, but withdraw in an a bed five feet away.. She was gone outside to paste upin sign
Min tillarin which amounts to an offer, aterom To-day's forecast:-Mainly fair, exchange of shots after tossing terribly injured about the faco announcing the opening of a prevented serious damage to the Military Count ald: General | cõenition, a Foreign Office spokes with cloudy porieds. Moderate spøveral grenades."
Wing-Gang kerosene dlátillbry: easterly winds.
Roads leading to the town and the lower part of her right shop. ⠀⠀ alone which the attackers pre- arm was blown off. P
The injured wore rushed to Shaukiwan. when some kergeene MacArthur had received many man maid on Tuesday night
45pm. Indling to his decisión, teill be nablished -eto da Vinå, 180– sumably flod, were store found 14-year-old girl, So Was the Tung Wah Eastern Hoapi- caught fire at this back of her sleeve betitions but there was "The feat of the communication Minimum: 61 degress at midnight. heavily mined.Anecdlated / Press. mul, who i was sitting behind tal by the police.
Yesterday's temperature: Kaximum: 70.8 at noon...
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