THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1946.
THE
TIDAL WAVE IN PACIFIC
Alaska, Hawaii And California Affected
Storm In
French Assembly
1
Follows 'Quake
'Quake Hopes Of In Aleutians
Results
HONOLULU, APRIL-2.
A TIDAL WAVE 20 TO 25 FEET HIGH POUNDED THE SHORES OF HAWAII ON MONDAY KILLING AT LEAST EIGHT, INJURING MANY AND CAUSING HEAVY PROPERTY DAMACE.
(By Harold King, Reuters THE WAVE WHICH STRUCK ABOUT 5.30 p.m. (GMT) Special Correspondent)
Paris, April 2.
APPARENTLY WAS CAUSED BY AN UNDERSEA SEISMIC DISTURBANCE THOUSANDS OF MILES NORTH OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND HAD SPEND MOST OF ITS FURY AT SEA. SUFFICIENT POWER REMAINED HOWEVER, FOR THE WAVE TO CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE ALONG THE SHORELINES OF ALL THE HAWAII GROUP. RAILROAD TRACKS WERE INUNDATED:
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In Batavia
Batavia, April 2. Great hopes for an early settlement in Indonesia' were expressed today by Lieuten- ant-Governor-General, Dr. VRI Mook, in a talk with Indone- sian journaliste.
Dr. van Mook is due to leave for Holland on Thursday with
Treaty with Viet Namh
The
· Paris, Apr. 2, French delegation leaves Paris tomorrow for Hanoi to negotiate a treaty regarding the future Indo- China, with the provisional government, Viet Nam
final treaty will pro- bably be signed in
Paris during the visit of Ho Chi Minh, Promior and Foreign Minister in the Viet. Namh Cabinet Router.
Too Kind
To Fascists
Says Moscow
Moscow
A stormy scone occurred in the National Assembly this afternoon whon General do Caullo's former Minister of
London, April .. Education, M. Capitant said
Radio quoted-the
Party that the proportional repre-
a party of Indonesians to con- Communiat
nowspaper serting that tho sentation which the three big
The California Institute of saved many lives and much pro- sult with the Dutch Govern- "Pravda" as parties want to introduce into Technology recorded two major perty.
ment in the fight of his recent United States milltary authorities be A coast and geodetic survoy negotiations with the Indone in Germany were guilty of "ex- the Constitution, "will load earthquakes, estimated to
Dr. Sutan treme leniency," toward "Fascist directly to dictatorship of about 2,700 miles northwest of official said there was no one on Rian "Previer."
remnants" while following a bel- at night and Sjahrir. Pasadena, Calif., ponsibly near duty at the office parties and hence to single Dutch Harbour, Alaska, Similar en so it would have been im
Travelling with him as ad-ligerant and aggressive policy to-
word Communists. "Pravda" also shocks were recorded at Ford- possible to know there had been viser will be Sultan Sharif party dictatorship".
that the Bald earthquake until the seismo
American from ham University in New York. interruptious
Hamid, the Second Alkadrio of "assistant Noisy
military developed. graph film Was
Borneo.
of Berlin and his commandant Communist, Socialist and even
Santa Cruz, a beach city, 50
An offleial paid the film showed Pontianak. Western Progressive Catholic beaches miles south of San Francisco,
another quake
seven hours after The Sultan described himself like" tend to forget that rooting aut Fascism is their "primary prevented the speaker from con- reported one moderate and two the first and on this basis a warn as a Nationalist in favour of a
task". was issued that s second federation of
It also said that the as- the Indonestan President of extremely high waves at 6.16 ing tinking and the the Assembly. M. Vincent Ip.m. and 7.51
lands Kingdom, until they are the United States should insure rocinted Press correspondent that Auriel had to intervene em. There
reports, of high duced were phatically before quiet was res.
There was no damage at land- locked Pearl Harbour naval base,
In Germany a more aggressivo Santos, political leadership to fight Com- tored.
where a large fleet is assembled The system of proportional pinces.
test.
munism," for the atom bomb representation at present pro- At Seattle, Wash.,
The gigantic wave apparently passed favours strongly organlanaval district reported that it
took its heaviest toll at filo, on ed parties and leaves the voterstation at Unimak in the Aleuthe island of Hawail where Navy authorities now report that, 37 no freedom to change the order tin islands had reported that a of the names of endutates pre- tidal wave hit there at 1.30 bodies have been recovered,~~--At- sented to him, and many erities (GMT).
sociated Press,
Navy Alert claims there is no sense in hav- ing five or six hundred deputies sincs, in practice, all the voter
p.m. (GMT), ware mig strike, but with re, peoples, linked with the Nether- ísistant commandant "told an As.
fit for complete independence. waves all along the California
coast, with
Bome
damage in
the 13th
Honolulu Damago
At Ketchikan, Alaska, the
const guard U.S.
mmodore
Tokyo, Apr. 2, The Navy operations office said can do is vote for a party and reported a tidal wave, preceded it had been on the alert regard. not an individual.
Lieutenant-Colonel Resistance leader during the in Java. Japanese occupation and Lieutenant Tahja, guerilla leader, will also be in Dr. van Mook's party.
Dr. Sutan Sjahrir returned to Batavia today after visiting the
An Associated Press despatch from Berlin on March
guated Colonel Jolin Maginais, deputy
of
American military governor Berlin, as saying that although the Germans have an inbred anti- towards communism, the
Republican Readquarters at Jog-ted States now must give
jakarta, where he consulted the President, Dr. Soekarno. -- *
of With this official afr
A more aggressive political adership to hold their own pork! tion. He said "We cannot just
Dissatisfaction with the pro-by an earthquake tramour, des- ing the tidal wave in the Pacific optimism around, sporadic ac- tell the Germans to be democra-| posed system is widespread and troyed the Scotch Cap lighthouse but that no disturbance hus been tions between British troops and tic, but we must take them, by! a Socialist Party Congress held station with loss of all person-noted thus far in this archipelago. Indonesians continue to be re- the hand and show them demo-}
came
-Associated Press.
Army Helps
Honolulu, Apr. 2. Maj. Gen. George Moore, the army's commanding general in the Hawaiian lelands has ordered
ported from scattered points.
Near Sourabaya, artillery has been in action to clear an area adjoining this great port while at Palembang in Sumatra, one British soldier was killed, two
nel, believed to be five men. during the weekend showed a
News of the disaster large minority in favour of a
from a nearby station which voting system on British lines was badly damaged hat escaped Many rank and Ale deputies of without casualties: Senteli Cap other parties in Asserably likewise ubject to proportional is at the entrance to Unimak representation but are prevent-ass, which provides the gate- troops to give all possible aid and officers and nine ed by the discipline of. their way to the Bering sca from the relief to inhabitants made home wounded and two parties' marking from taking North Pacific. The lighthouse the islands on
stand openly against it. Many is at least 100 feet above
party leaders, on the other hand, favour the system brause it
that the re-election means
water.
the
Governor
other ranks ther ranks les by the tidal wave which hit
reported missing as a result of on Monday, Units were organised
an attack on a British patrol. to pro- vide clothing, shelter and medical Reuter. Preliminary reporta from aid to the thousands of homeless Oahu's, neighbouring island of and the scores of injured. of
Stainback mobilised Resolutions the city of Hawail indicated
the territorial guards for traffic treatment duty and to prevent looting.
The army dispatched a plane to lo-with-emergency supplies and sert another to the Molokai ieper colony to assist if necessary, The army reported three of its men missing on Oahu laland and four Injured-Associated Press,
leading party figures is practi-file was hard hit and its har- cally automatic-Reuter.
bour facilities damaged badly. A preliminary survey brought an estimate of 360,000 damage to the Honolulu Associated Preas.
Officers To Study Atom War
Washington, April 2.
waterfront.-
Towering Wave
Later. The tidal wave rolling across vast expanses of the North Pacific ocean spread death and destruction from Alaska to Hawall and the coat of California.
One person was known dead in Hawaii and at least 21 were missing and belloved to be dead.
The lighthouse at Unimak pass, built close to 100 feet above the oversizelmet by t
A new top-level school to train army, navy and air force officials in problem vf atomic warfare
other subjects which water, was is among were begun today at the National towering wave. War College.
and
The earthquake was beloved to have gecurred somewhere near the Aleutian islands.
cracy"--Associated Press.
VICHY OFFICIAL ARRESTED
Hendaye, April 2. Paul Baudouin, former under- Secretary in the Vichy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was arrested hore with his son as they tried to London, April 2.
condemning the cross the border into Spain, it
was yesterday announced.
The police here sald that Bau- Kaise papers, douin, carrying to tried
the border slip across about 8-o'clock-on-Sunday. The border patrol blocked them and wood the when they fled into French police trapped them.
The elder Baudouin, aged 52; was in the Vichy Cabinet from December 1940 to February 1942.
Associated Press
of Indians in South Africa and the colour bar in South African universities were passed at the tenth annual con- ference of the Indian students of British universities here today.
One speaker described General Smuts as "continuing the policy of Adolf Hitler.Reuter.
Royalists Take Lead In Greek Elections
Athens, April 2.
Greece seemed to be clearing the way for the possible re- turn of King George as latest ballot figures yesterday gave the Populista (Royalists) a commanding load. incomplete returns last night were confused by con- flicting official figures and the Populists Party's spokesman, Constantine Thaldaris, charged that the Government figures were biassed. He said 'the popu-
With an international class of 100 persons or more, it will start
The Warg rolled southward The a 10 months course 9 Sept. 3 In a building which was formerly with diminishing fury and on the occupied by the Army War Col- California coast one person only a casualty when was lasted as Vice-Admiral Harry Hill, lege commandant of the school, an swent to sea by the high waves.
The U.S. coastguard in Hawali nounced that the staff are chiefly
that a new tidal wave warned the armed forces and officers of the
Ha will might be expected in the ate Department the State
walian islands, from a later earth include civilian
professors on lean
quake, but it so it was expected universities. from American uni
He said civilian board consul- to be of lesser intensity. Radio
warnings were broadcast tants are working now in fram-
War beaches were evacuated. ing the curriculum which the War
Ship Warned Department reported will include
Ships in the North Pacific were atomic studies. The school, suc-
on the lookout for crasor to the Army and Navy warned to be
90 to 100 Staff College, will be the "highest waves which might be level educational institution of feet high. the armed forces and the State Department", the joint announce mont aald.
All
47,822 legs.
CANADIAN SPY CASE
Ottawa, Apr. 2.
The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, announced today revocation of the order-in- Council under which persons have been detained and questioned in connexi
con with leakage, of sucret intormation to Russia.
that no ba" required,
He told Parliament similar orders date whether but he did not
this meant that there would be no further arrests in connexion with the espionage investigation.- Reuter.
ALLIED FLIGHTS OVER YUGOSLAVIA
lists would announce their own figures. Latest totals issued by the Labstention might be reduced to Government gave the Populista as much as 30 par cent though 985,312 votes from 900 polling the latest returns showed 49
Belgrade, April 2. Earlier figures for per cent.
Marshal Tito yesterday told the stations. 600 stations had given the party Thaldaris told newsmen that Yugoslav Parliament that fights
The 20,000 votes more.
Na the Populists would not insist of Allied planes over Yugoslav threat to tional bloc was second with on a member of their
territory constituted OWN
nation's peace and security 64,444, 8,000 less than earlier. party being Premier but would the
cannot The Liberals were third with accept even a non-parliamentary and added: "Our people
personage if necessary to form tolerate such provocations."
Tilo said that Yugoslavia had Marked by the abtention a broadened coalition Govern- protested against auch flights on Heavy property damage was: from voting of the Comment Associated Press..
February 28 but had received: no munists and Left Wing par-
Nock And Neck
reply.-Associated Press. reported in the Hawaiian Island, especially at, Hilo on the Island of ties and the violent deaths"of
Athens, April 2.. The expanded curriculum will Hawail. There a ship was torn twenty persons the votingj'. The first 40 Greek gonorai include a wider range of civilian from its mooring, a bridge was.
thus revealed a powerful trend election results from Athens Inst aublect pertaining to national wrecked and buildings on the aca-
to the Right:
night showed that the Ponulist bean in consultations with empresentative planning and national defense, in- ward side of the main street wore
Meanwhile a The bridge
spokesman for (Royalist) Party is running neck of the Unionists (Centre blor), with cluding a study of ferolen policy damaged roverely.
the combination view to forming a coalition cabinet, it and National wat Jeargid in - Athens toulght, -. and international laws and inter-was swept off its foundations by the Left Wing E.A.M. said in a and neck with
force of the wave's blow. statement that the "olections Liberaliste relations. Acsociated the to rate of five mon in a naval have been national
Meanwhile, Athens remalnu upet kad Unionista, carried out in an "The Fress
It was officially announced this already street-cleaners are ripping down garrison in the Hawaiian islande orgy of wild terrorlem and un-
During morning that all members of the thodi af political posters. is unknown,,
precedented fraud and are such Sophoulls Cabinet have been do the morning Greek soldiers been boven that no honest man who respects reated with, the exception of Sep astring in lorries through the site BOTH. And rossving himself would admit that they
hoylis Ministers of Justice Ringing national have the slightest validity.
and
Rehabilitation,
and the seral applause from, srowds, 4
--Å“Mentés, slutpaich" from "Klossow -- T Governor-General of Crete, that the newguar "Fever Polling Station Attacked
The Left-wing campaign for an
day ekaried-Serial news szemcy ́depoštabes. simultaneously said that there
MRS. PANDIT BACK...
Army and Nayy reconnaissance Trucknow, Aprit 2. Mr. Vijaya Lakshmi Fardit, sister of planes at Honolulu. reported they tha Dongre lender, Jawaharlal Nehrs did not find any vessels in die
Horitats woman trees or avveng at sea. became the fret Indian
back reported admission of many. In- Cabinet Minister longose to the United Previnom deren Yount.
In 1937 WALA'
te odios Soday with, ber ́ five Oxbiset, pol- jured pornénk for first aid treat - The Ministry of Public Order | clection boycott is smarted to 150 from Athène alleging · "Riski-wing reno-
ment after 6-12 ·reats during which | An informed source at Honolulu were 20 ́dentka, 16, persons be without succo di
• £ire, Governor,
►
-United - States ---Bleuter)--
-Lionary», Letzorium" and "trand H
Greek' «lled "King George, who wan
• Limdon,' ''April 1, siline is London Eur the, election, zui
Athens the province has been ruled directly by said high Army and Navy authoring killed in what the Ministry
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ties were raising hell"-" becguro described as a Communist, af- The Orsak › Prime Miniator;; Dr. Bop waliowahlah may decide". Mla "paturi, Þ Mara- Fundis returned to Endle only they did not rece advanos ward tack on a polling place near sons, solar, tükörred. Wk, vastenales. So | Gemeengstand, da mida hay siement recently, from year's leur thing of the wave's nobility. Balonika with automatic wea-tha; praet kapus-poms, albat medly shit || today, when, micot, þy, Easter to wiprens
pons and mortars.
Loftiate continued their at the alustory of Athens had roled In Kim Chorge, who has born tack on the freedom of the vote fare of the Femalleh (Revallat) Party vade a later of Allanon Sonyes mily 286 - MÁV "ht· hog'dekah, the Pros] [{ataivismet from him might have informed
be reamint
The Harue, Apr. 2. Prince Bernhardt, who returned
......... Severe -Quake vi According to seismographie re curd avere earthauske, oc curred at 12,80 hours (OMT) or hours, before the first wave man
to Holland with Princere d'ullans About 2. Hewall the fire
by ale from Switzerland on Satur,
in shortly after the first ro turns indicated that abstention
daw a suffering from slight bron- ed the land #horse. The source would probably be less than tri | drengembaraan chitis, it was officially announced said ofcials feit that with ad- 1986 when it was: 88 per cent. Pat ̈bere, today --Reuter.
vance warrita they could have Popullata followers said
the of the sections on of London's most strook Boys geben entier, the rarely appears in phaise abo
Taku no part in the Hfe of the affezio
thi Popullet Party, have fierbar,
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