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THE CHINA Mail, tuesday, MARCH 5, 1940.
IS NAVY OBSOLETE NOW?
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At-Bomb Test May Settle Controversy
MANNERHEIM RESIGN
Helsinki, March 4,
A Government, communi- que announced that Presi dent Marshal Gustaf Man- nerheim of Finland resign- ed today--Reuter.
DRAMATIC COURT SCENE
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ed every day and on about. seventh or eighth day he attempt- ed suicide by trying to cut veins with the point of a tie-pin as he could-not stand the torture any lunster and had been told that he was col to be
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Arguments For And Against
NEW YORK, MARCH
THE ATOM BOMB TEST THAT ROCKS THE RE- MOTE PACIFIC APOLL OF BIKINI IN THE MAR- SHALL ISLANDS THIS SUMMER WILL DO MORE THAN REVEAL THE VULNERALITY OF BATTLE- SHIPS TO THIS NEW WEAPON. IT WILL BRING HAS TO A HEAD THE CON TROVERSY WHICH
DEPARTMENTS ALWAYS SPLIT THE SERVICE
OF THE IN WASHINGTON ON THE SUBJECT DISPOSAL OF A GREAT POWER'S ARMED STRENGTH IN THE NEW WORLD CONDITIONS. NAVAL EXPERTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ARE LOOKING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO THE RESULTS OF THIS TEST FOR AN AN SIFER TO THEIR QUESTIONS: "ARE IPARSHIPS HAPE AIR- AS WE KNOW THÊM OBSOLETE? CRAFT CARRIERS BECOME MUSEUM PIEGES?"
Teheran In A
ENOW ENDS
Paris, March 4. The French capital's prea tcat snowstorin on record ended on Sunday with almoet deserted atreats turned into swampe of slush which the to city was not quippad clear away. The weather bureau reported a fall of 15% inches. The previous record of-11-4/5 inches was made in 1870.
Few
State Of Gloom of the store care or
Teheran, Mar. 4. Teheran remained to-day in an Atmosphere of gloom into which it was plunged on Friday night when Morcow Radio announced the Russian intention of keeping Red forces in "disturbed" areas of northern Iran.
"Evacuation day" parties which had been planned for the week- A British end were postponed. announcement that the last Bri- tish troops had crossed the border Into Iraq went almost annoticed. The Inst American troopa loft Iran almost three months ago. Asso ciated Pres.
TEHERAN CLASH!
London, Alur. 4. Four people were injured to-day
illahod pedestrians ventured wt.-Associated Press.
Terrorist
Threat
Jerusalem, March 4.
The clandestine radio station "Voice of larnel" announced to- day that "atacks will continue" until the Jewish demands were
met.
Condemned Soldier Escapes Over Wall
YOKOHAMA, MAR. 4.
THE EIGHTH ARMY PROVOST MARSHAL OFFICE ANNOUNCED TO-DAY THAT PFC. JOSEPH "HICSWA, CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR SLAY- ING TWO JAPANESE, HAD ESCAPED FROM THE STOCKADE BUT WAS APPREHEND- YOKOHAMA
rope.
ED LESS THAN HOUR LATER WITH A JAPAN- PANESE WOMAN IN A "KNOWN HOUSE OF PRO- STITUTION."
STOP PRESS
THE NEW JERSEY SOLDIER ESCAPED OVER AN 18- FOOT WALL WITH YOSHITAKA, A JAPANESE UNDER SENTENCE FOR BLACK MARKET ACTIFI- TIES, AND PRIVATE KIRBY WILLIS, UNDER AN APPROVED 20-YEAR SENTENCE FOR RAPE, ALL THE PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE SAID. THREE ARE AGAIN IN CONFINEMENT. Hicswa and his companions i escaped by forcing a defective Attempting to justify the recent door in the stockade of the pri was formerly, the atuncks on the radar station on son which
at Haifa, three women's annex of the Yokohama Mount Carmel polico, stations on the coastal prison, the announcement mic. plains and five Royal Air Force They scaled the 18-foot wall atr fields, the station said that with the aid of a poker bent the demands were for "free immi- into the shape of a hook and The seriousness with which, than her intended 16-inch guns.
eration and the establishment of tied to several pieces of sliced A Jewish state in Palestine." the US Navy regards this pra.But in answer to questions as HEARD SCREAMS
The broadenst added that no. Hicewa, who was under Fen- Stanley blem is indicated by the deci to what the new weapons might
Anglo- to hold up work on the be, he would only any "a crys- After being taken
New York. Mar. 4. was tortured avuin. sion
American inquiry commission and tence for knifing to death twn Prison, he
Building when His Physical condition failing, the new giant 45,000-lon £26,900.000 tal ball would be needed to find in a clash outside the Persian danger threatened the
Comman- the answer, but rockets are a Parliament
Telophonie employees who handle the French battleship Kentucky.
crowd of some 3,000 members of claimed that the Voice of Israel" Japanese civilians just before Japanese sent him
{Democrat) Party station had been authorised to he was scheduled to return to der Franch Nash, of the Navy's possibility." Hospital where he remained four
Major Alexander de Soveraly, the Tude later permitted
demonstration against declare that none of the Jowish the United States, had been held the nation's long distance calls truuna affiliated He Was to return to his flat at Lock Ron! Bureau of Ships," telling the
House of Representatives Naval America's most vocal championstaged
War Department and President with the National Federation of
Telephone Workers Where he was ander house arress Affairs Committee of the deci- of Air Power against Sea Pow-proiengine the life of the present organisations would interfere with in the Yokohama stockade pend-are to go on strike on Thursday
At Kimberley
the carrier is a dusty piece of ob-
statement of
The announcement by the union A sworn Jessias learned in said, accused did not take part in slon not to complete her untiler, to whom even an aircraft- Parliament, states a message from the work of the commission-Asing review of his case by the with in other
captured leader followed a break-un at 2.90 WATC further torture he the the
military police who Wong Pui atom bomb tests on sen powersulete machinery, wrote bluntly He W
dispute with the American Tele- on can be applied, said: "The Navy in an article in the "American
Hicswa said: "We went to Heniam. of negotiations in a underwent. being taken out for torture
bora house, a. geisha house. Wehene and Telegraph Company, the Kensacky Mercury." June wants to make
of union's "Tho
Cemands several occasions between
strongest possible ship."
opened the door and walked into He could also hear
took the first 18 cent an 20-23.
the house. I
hour wage increase. which have not been met antil MOTORINS
more super" something "even On Feb. 25, witness concluded, He added that she might have
now, and the company's offer of be had attend an identification
proximately 15 dis, leave us with parade at Stanley Prison where
I've but one alternative and that la to
arrangements replied All complete he picked uut acensed as the mus
strike," said Union Leader John J. who had come to arrest him and find tortured him at his home.
Moran.
Company ofcials said the com- continuation of pany suggested negotiations, but "so far no date has been arranged for another meeting."-Associated Press.
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Road,
his the
Aroused: Did you receive any medicines, ointments or bandages from me at 99, Kimberley Road?-- No. 1 did not receive any of these.
from you.
bccupation,
witness
Witness
natived
Japanese Queue
For Employment
er at
Tokyo, March 4.
dominant
office
A
Teheran.Reuter.
ociated Press.
Million Cars A Year For Soviet Market
MOSCOW, MARCH 4.
A HUGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WHICH AIMS AT THE PRODUCTION OF 1,000,000 CARS AND LORRIES A YEAR BY 1950 IS BEING UNDER- TAKEN BY THE SOVIET MOTOR CAR INDUS- TRY. THIS TOTAL COMPARES WITH AN OUT- PUT OF 200,000 CARS AND LORRIES BEFORE THE WAR. THE WHOLE PRODUCTION WILL GO TO THE PROGRAMME IN- THE HOME MARKET. CLUDES THE RECONVERSION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING MOTORCARS' FACTORIES WHICH HAVE BEEN ON WAR WORK AND THE BUILD- ING OF NEW PLANTS.
'Prostituted Press"
Tokyo, March 4.
Truman.
room.
NO RESISTANCE "I said 'Well Hicswa
He caught you.' right.
the
"I stood in the door of that, room while he dressed. We tank them outside and turned them over to a sarching party com- ing up the street."
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Willis was apprehended in an other room by other members of the searching party and the was picked Japanese prisoner up two days later.
Two of the three men were almost Immediately sighted
the
from
cacape
nur
Washington. Mar. 4.
an
arc
that
is in hands of question mon were reported
joint Chiefs-of-Staff, ed searching parties were dis-
and of tod patched to comb the neighbour- group
army hood and all the extra guards at lenders is due to come to some
kind of the stockade were sent to search
which navy
by.
decision before the
the group of geisha houses near March 21 moeling in New York
of the military staff committee of the the U.N.O.'s Security Council. com- Associated Press:-
Hwa, formerly with 98th division, and his panions did not attempt to re- sist arrest,
"NAVIES ARE FINISHED** "So far as combat finetions navies are for- are concerned
ca tut They ever finished. - even venture into the open un- less and until control of the sens has been won by air power. Now that trans-oceanic range for operation from main fand Thasseg is available, the all- for craft-carrier is adrenalin the dying heart of old-fashioned The lines of applicants for Sea Power. It may prolong the GIRL'S EVIDENCE
witness. Gundelupe work have suitenly grown long-agony, but cannot prevent the The Lext
Government employent destined end. Lee, ave her evidence in Spanis
"The Navy's sole contribu- theo na interpreter.
and among tion was to help conquer baseS Bald she was 17 vents of age, re-agencies as a result of the rew
alr power could siding AL 9 Shares Avenue, Kow-vonomic measures
Tal. Kyodo newsuperate to win the war. the loon.. During the occupation shethem are many former army of- from which
tleships in this war were never
The number of ships and men with her brother. ficer, said reading Wither. ister and agenty was real
the and planes this country will bo Enrique, her
Victory The daily average of app'i-used in their primary function.
is to destroy opposing Russia's Detroit will be Gor the Ukraine and Georgia, fac-nfter younger brothers at 6.
vants reached 800 at the man which Avenue, Homuntin.
in navies and take command of the ky, where the "Molotov" factory tories are being planned to han-heavily guarded stockade. Two willing to contribute to the Unit Her brother's holay during the Tokyo employment
Once our air power wasis to be expanded to turn out dle production of ZIS-160 lor-soldiers assigned to duty at theed Nations police force 18 expect
The massive YAZ-200's stockade saw two men "ury-ed to be decided tentatively within →→
the next two weeks. The agency said sens. saři, was
that this is 16 times Frenter in pesition to attack the Jap-1,000 cars and lorries a day by rigs.
Present indications fourth Five-will also be manufactured in a ing down the street" and islands, it needed tho end of the radio. He used to work with some Kishikawa. Telends at a radio-shop. On June than the daily average during anese kome
to Year
Plan which began this factory to be built somewhere in check of the prison was ordered emphasis will be on warships and while
awartime and four times the usual neither armies nor navies
Output will include the white Russin and a smaller the immediately, West mishin, larme alevant, rather that, on incorpor Anish the job. The function of year. 20, 1944, about 10 am.. returning, hot
tive-sel lorry at another factory to ,home, se
Pobyeda (Victory) roadgure for 1936.
-Several colonels as well as assuming command of the seas new motor-car standing in th and on going into the house found"
accused, other officers have applied for has been taken over by a seater model; the GAZ-67 notor- he built in Siberia. Reuter.
car, production of which begun there three Japanese.
any kind of work including day power." Chinese
uni- Even assuming the buttleship during the war, new-type lorries; and another
labour. Many wear old Accused asked her if she was Henry Lee's sister. When she reforms stripped of rank. As proved impervious to atom at the two and a half ton GAZ-51
accused
many as 20 to 30 former unit inck, de Seversky adds, it would and the two ton GAZ-63.
From the assembly lines of plied in the affirmative. asked her when her brother was cominanders join the lines dully not regain its ability to take
of the air were in hostile hands. cow will come aleek ZIS-110's, | coming home. Accused then twist- cd her hund and asked her who, but so far no generals have ap command of the sea if control the great Stalin factory in Mos- eight-cylinder, attractive The plied.
General this with
"Jimmy" Doolittlen
140 Kyudo contrasted Ifenry Lee's Friends were.
developing when mid- summed up his attitude in a de- 'geven-seater, were searching the Japanese
Lo Senators: "The later wartime conditions
h.p. and with a top road speed 15 minutes
This is the house and some her brother returned accompanies dle-aged men deprived of their claration by Gonzalo Sang, who lived next businesses by Government, de- Navy had the transport to make of about 80 m.p.h.
nnong invasion possible." he said. "The most handsome car yet produe- In lapsed
the Soviet Union. door. Accused
If those seeking work-Associat- ground forces had the power to ed in brother's face and asked him
¡make it successful; and the B-20 May of this year, the Stalin uc. "Stars and Stripes" applied fron Nov. 24 where he saw two and Henry Lee and Enrique Jee wased Press.
get 'em" made it unnecessary. The bat tory intends to start production transfer to-day bringing to Japanese. They and if he was
one with ticship has been obsolescent for of three-and-a-half ton ZIS-160 seven the number who asked for shouted "Let's
fatally stabbed not a Mexican-Chinese. Then they
20 years and obsolete for ten. lorries, replacing the three-ton new assignment as a result of
the ouster of the managing trench knife. hands
The aircraft carrier is now - ZIS-5, formerly built there.
A few minutes later the wit- ing into obsolescence."
The Stalin factory at Miasal, editor and a featured columnist in the Urais, is to be further de- on the grounds of questionabio nesses said that Hicswa saw au-TODIO CORN AND HAM" BY
other Japanese and made a simi-
ZBW HONGKONG brondonsilag Naval counter arguments veloped. Building of this great integrity and discretion.
One of them wrote to the oflar attack. Both victims were Washington, March 4. Union telephone workers whu hinge on the efficacy and poten-plant and community on virgin
and Hicswrt's 19.80 to 1.80 p.m., 8.80 to 1.30 p.m. death weapon to visit her, Prison and saw him there in the have called a nationwide string tialities of the modern aircraft ground began towards the end ficer in charge that after ten left to die in the Park and the frequency of 840 Kiloeyalar and from
When Admiral Chester of 1941, and work started there years of newspaper work in the vence of some Japanese. She for Thursday will give "serious carrier.
Nimitz, who led the Pacific in only 1944 after much equip- United States "I cannot subject bloody clothing were found con- and 9.00 to 11.00 pm. lso on 9.82 15.00 p.m-Dally. Programma Bum. was permitted only to greet him consideration" to arbitration,
Fleet through the attack, pre- ment had been evacuated from my professional ethics to the coaled in a building near his legacylas
Stalin works in Moscow, place of a panderer in a prosti- company area. tho
The imposition of the death sented his evidence on the
"lines which this tuted press," and referred to two One of the carrier planes contribution to
tic, inconsistent treatment to the, winning of the air war factory will continue to produce years of the "most undemocra- sentence aroused widespread ap-18.35 .pl-Cab Calloway and His
is the ZIS-5 lorry.
cd States Associated Press. which a man can be subjected." peals for clemency in the Unit- and hence the whole
SECRET SITES.
The ousted met blamed in their
PARENTS SHOCKED against Japan.Nimitz declares
Wallington, N.J., Mar, 4. that the atom bomb would Heavy diesel lorries of recent protest, alleged censorship for
The parents of Pic Joseph have to be carried close to the design, with a carrying capacity their removal but General Mac- target area and consequent of seven tons, are to be made Arthur approved a report atat- Hicowa ware shocked when they ly that it would undoubtedly at the Yaroslav works, while ing that they failed to pass the learned of his escape from be necessary to use ships several large new factories are checkup permitting their con-stockade in Japan, an uncle said. One tinuance in sensitive work. The parente, however, still plan-
to Washington on Tuck cither man-of-war or mer in the blue-print state.
ned to go to chantmen."
day to make their appeal to a War Department Board of review of the Army court hearing martial death sontezce.
The uncle Bald that the parenta had 200
and added that like a shot out of the news the sky to the family. I hope. don't hurt his caso when it comes un Tuesday". Congressman Harry Tow announced that the Board had agreed to hear icewa's parents and several other persone in Washington in pelyate pro ceedings Associated Press.
n the same person
tied her brother's
Gonzalo Sang away.
electric wire and took him
BROTHER'S DEATH
were her crees
לוחה
with
New Strike Threats
On Dec. 30, 1944, witness con-
tinyed, he was given permission
pre
brother at Stanley
3.
vestering the union's demand
and to ask him what food he wish- A. Beiras, their President, said
Her brother's ed sent to him. body appeared to be swollen and there were bruises encircling his wrisia.
for a wage increase of $2 a day Beirne said the average wage of On July 25, 1945, she was call- telephone workers in 1940 was compared with centa an hour for
told
utilities
itles and industries.
ed to the Foreign Affairs Bureau $1.01 an hour
that her $1.36 to $1.41 whore she was brother was lend and asked if she other
the body Lor desired to have burial.
A warning by John L. Lewis he is ready to call a nation- that he On Feb. 16 this year she at-wide coal atrike on April 1 to get identification parade at wage increases affecting 400,000 tended Ар
the hardest of Stanley Prison where she picked soft coal miners indicates what out accused as one of the men who may well be one had arrested her brother,
Committal proceedings will con- tinue this morning.
ESPIONAGE CITARGE
FAILS
San Francisco, March 4.
NAVY REPLY
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Hieswa, convicted by court martial after witnesses testified Three more members of the that after a party he went with of the Pacific two friends to a park at Nara editorial staff
fought labour-mannvenient battles Although it is unlikely that large plant started on the Volga Associated Press.
In the history of the industry.
e
will be com-
the exact cost of the atom bomb during the war, An Industry Apokesman ald
out 1% ton lorries, formerly prices are already too high test will over he known, un-pleted and have as its principal
to leave the industry in a. satis official conservative Navy, esti made at the Gorky factory. The NEW YORK
competition mates put it in the region of exact site of this plant is still factory position for
$10,000,000. The ordinary et- secret. wath oil and gas.
Lewis said in a letter to the vilian in America is beginning Chairman of the coal operators to wonder just how useful the
committee that "new test is going to be. Kto necessary co-
typical comment comes
A
Frank Hirt, an Air Force Servaring wages, hours, rules, prac from Dr. William Higinbotham, geant, wae- to-day aquitted on a charge of conspiring to commit celonage on behalf of Germany Martial deliberated
The Court
for five hours,
The Prosecation contended that
conspirators and also money with which to Frown.
differentials, inequalities
American scientist, who un matters." and other pertinent
played a leading role in the de Agociated Press.
On sites, also kept secret, in POLICEMAN FOR TOKYO
TELEGRAM TO
velopment of the original Now GEN. CHIANG
San Francisco, March 4. Lewis, Valentine, former Now York police commissioner, and A staff of Ave police officera ar-
en
testified he
Argentine Elections
Mexico bomb, who declared FIRST TEST
bluntly: I don't see much obrotame Mantis, Mar. 4... rived at Hamilton Fickt
Twenty-five Chinese schools route to Tokyo to establish a
modern police system Generalissimo cablod Chunking, March 4. feet in the whole thing. The
"I don't know. Whether we ho was schooled in Germany and received the namos of co World Peace is standing its effects of norial and surface de jointly
pre save Ansoclated, first test in Manchurin, declares tenation of atomic bombs ara Chase Kal-shek, to-day there will be required by General Buenos Aires, Mar
the "People'e Dully," a loading already known, from the initialanimous approval of his state-
bose and Korean systems Into lead in two province which von Chunking nowwpaper in comment tost In New Mexico and fronments that the Chinage should MacArthur, to turn the Japan Juan. Peron took commanding municipal setups or not. We tinted to count their votes for the
presidency.. 02 Byrne speech before the the bombat use of others in Jn stromutbon fciendly. Oversena Frosa Club, edhe lava pan. Damage to a large fleet oween Thuila and China
Tudents called for ulok will follow whatever plans and A. The nestispaper likened his re
batinesssful" and democratic solar policies hi base Valentine sald. Co
General/pArthur requested tion to the Blanchuria problem; colution to Ave villars of opread out is not going to be b
very impressive, and Curioss
Valintine to stay in the Japan has the warned in advance the results
are one or t
Stwo months. ~ARED- house and said. "Soviet Busin
of the pillars, and preme Court and Manila attorbomanoforting the of the font will sound like 200
to col- elderable disappoi ney who died on Saturday hou not allowing Associated Press.
San Francisco, March 4.
A burial service was held to day for James Rose, 74, former justice of the Philippine Su
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6.80 p.m.-Bome Light Spanish Music,
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ENSA.
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7,50 p.m.--Veriely Programme with
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8.00 p.m.-"Music Tima"-FNSA. 8.30 pm-8tudio-Braith and Gilpin in "Corn and Ham with Robert Hall at the fano; 8,40 pn-Maurice
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