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SUMMER SNAPSHOTS
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FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO
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GOOD RESULTS
SUDDEN DEATH OF
LORD KEYNES
London, April 21.
Lord John Maynard Keynes, British econo- world famous -mist, died today at the age of
62 at his Sussex home.
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The Inte Lord Keynes first at- tracted widespread attention in
he published 1919 when "Economic Consequences Peace," which Reverely and vigorously attacked the Versail- les Peace. He was the principle representative of the British Treasury at the Peace Confer- ence and condemned the repara- tions clausen while they were being drafted, immediately fol- lowing which he resigned.
His book foreenst the world economic collapse of a decade later and the 1930 world ten- sion. He became the leading reonemist advocate of Govern- ment spending to halt inflation- nry business cycles. He visited the White House in Washington and is credited with an import. int role in shaping seme of the Inte President Roosevelt's New Deal economie policies, such an pump-priming expenditures,
CHINA MAIL WING LUNG BANK
NO. 33338.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1946.
APPEALS FOR HELP World Mobilising Its Forces
To Combat Famine
BOMB EXPLODIS
1
Paris, Apr. 21. .
When three paliermen went In requisition a house at Nan- terro, i Paris suburb, a homb exploded as they opened the door. The bomb installed
on d
wa
table facing, a door on the first floor of the house and wounded a bailiff who ne companied the policemen,
house,
The owner of the Roger Hamet, is being inter- rogated-Renter.
U.S. PLANE
SHOT DOWN
BY REDS?
Chungking, April 21,
V
BRITAIN TO PLAY
VITAL PART
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LONDON, APRIL 21.
IN THE WORLD'S CAPITALS THIS EASTER WEEKEND STATESMEN AND EXPERTS PREPARED FOR THE MOBILISATION OF FORCES TO COMBAT THE FAMINE THREATENING 150,000,000 OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.
IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S APPEAL TO AMERICANS TO EAT LESS AND SAVE MILLIONS WHO OTHERWISE WOULD SURELY DIE, AMERICA IS PREPARED FOR "WHEATLESS DAYS" AS A RE- SULT OF THE DECISION TO EXPORT 6,000,000 TONS OF WHEAT TO ASIA AND EUROPE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR AND CANADA HAS PROMISED TO FOLLOW THE UNITED STATES IN MAKING. A 25. PER CENT COMPULSORY REDUC- TION IN FLOUR SUPPLY TO DOMESTIC BAKERS.
Appeals came today from 1 France and Greece' and India, seeking prompt help for their
During World War II Lord Chinese Communist Head-hungry populations. (The Keynes was appointed to the Treasury Consultative Council quarters here today charged Greek Government has sent au United States aircraft urgent appeal to President Tru- and urged compulsory saving, that
Herbert Hoover and to Florello LaGuardia,
lished in 1940. England later adopted some of his measures.
down contained an American The deceased was born. 01 June 5, 1883, in Cambridge and fler. was made a Baron in 1942. He took the title of Baron Keynes of Tilton. He was elected direc- tor of the Bank of England in 1941. succeeding Lord Josiah Stamp who was killed in' an air
raid.
A Communist spokesman read dispatches published in the morn- 1g editions of the New China Daily News," official Communist
One dispatch, date-lined
organ.
Szi
of wheat for
Soviet Control Of Bauxite
DEMONSTRATION
PRICE: 10 CENTS.
in
Arnhem, Apr. 21. Unidentified demonstrators today for the third time ercat- ed, a scene at a concort which Jaap Spaanderman of the Arnhem Municipal Or chestra was to have conduci- ..
smoke bomb exploded
under the slage as Spaander- man lifted his baton..
of
A Purge Commission twice acquitted the musician charpes of collaboration with the Germans.-Reuter,
Approval Of Australia's Proposal
113, Queen's Road C. Tel: 20524-20833
BANKERS & GOLD DEALERS
"Blimps" To Suppress India Congres
Southport, April 21,
Mr. Fonnor Brockway, Independent Labour Party Political Secretary, told the annual conference of the Indepen- dont' Labour Party at Southporn - today! that he had
received information from "rellable sources" in Bom- bay that the British authorities in India wore at this moment taking stops to suppress the Indian Congress and Nationalist movements in India,
in India, should the pro
sent negotiations break down.
He lorrred on good authority, "been regarded as: herale if they ho said, that Inspectors-General, had been committed by members. of Police from different provinces, of an undergraual movement of in, India assembled in New Delhi resistance, laathur countries.
An indústrial gesture which tho" recently and considered measures to be taken in the event of an Government should' make wan thư” offensive against Congress and Immediate abolition of the alt- Nationalist India becoming neces- tax The cqaference carried a Rary, Following that decision, remplation deploring the failure the Inspectors-General of cach
of the Government to insist on New York, April 21.
province had circularised all the liberation
of all political pri- Australia's proposal for an Deputy Superintendents and Insonore, and calling for a with- investigation of Franco Spain epctors of Police that they should drawal of British administrativo Address
themselves
armed, personnel and British by the UN.. Security Coun-to
Exhaus
forces. Reuter, cil appeared to be heading for
tive liata
workers almost certain approval when and workers of auxillary bodies the Council resumes its dis- and other nationalist individuais and groups who were likely to cussions of the Spanish ques-follow Congress's lead in the tion this week.
future struggle. It became apparent that ad- A Senior Army officer recently vocates of immediate world-wide reported to hha that together with. diplomatic breaks with Spain batches of other officers he was receiving special training for car- were lining up behind the preying on a civil administration posed inquiry. Mexico, one of during martial law conditions- the most ardent backers of the the training was to be completed Polish move for diplomatic quar-before May 1 this year.
of all
Iran To Tax U.S. Oil
Landon, April 21. Moscow Radio "today_ra- Franco regimɔ, Mr. Brockway said he wanted ported that the Iranian Gov
Britlah
with
the principles of which were set strafed Communist troops at man, to Mr.
Budapest, April 21. out in the book "How to Pay Szopingkai Manchuria. On Director-General of the U.N.R. An American economics antine of the For the War," which was pub- April 17 and April 19, and R.A., begging them not to cut expert declares that the Rus-Was the first nation to announce to ask the Cabinet Ministers now ornment has decided to impro that one of the planes shot down wheat consignments to sians, by setting up the Rus-publicity that it would support in India Whether these reporte taxes on oil products originat-
the Australian inquiry proposal. were true and whether this was
American Greece.
Dimitri Stefavopoulos, Greek so-Hungarians Bauxite Com-Farlier, Poland was reported to being done with their knowledge ing from the Minister of Food, said today pany, have gained control of be ready to support the inquiry or whether it was being done by wned oil-fields in Bahrein "Blin:ps" in the adminis-Islands in the Persian Gulf: in move immediately. that the government was con- half of all the Bauxite
It has already been generally tration in India. If it was being
done unknown to them, they and limported into: Russian conceded that the Polish quar ahould take immediate steps to territory. eidering cutting down the bread Hungary.
Other American economic ex-antine resolution was doomed ration even though bread was
Quoting an "Iranian: aanduico of the Greek | perls report that the Russians to defeat if it came to a vote.seo that this kind of action was the staple food
stopped. people.
were the have succeeded in completing a Ruesia and France
The decision of the British ment, the radio added that this. Leon, Blum, French Socialist programme of colonizing the other two advocates of the di-Government to recognise the right step was being taken to bring the pingkai, said that two American leader, now in the United North-westeris area of Hungary plomntle break with, Spain, but of India to self-determination, prices, of there products in line He headed the Brits dele- planes, one large and one small. States, told the press that un-with farmers from the Ukraine, they have remained silent al- even to the point of choosing to these of Anglo-Iranian O
Company.
any, which ways royalties and taxes to the Iranian Govern apparently as an outgrowth of though it is believed that they be independent of the the the Soviet demand for a land wil support the Australian com- empire, was the greatest step in ent* nahrein Off Com
be catrider running from Yugos-premise proposal.
the quiration of British Im Hitherto, the
had. been able to dell its prot Invia to the Czech border.
The Iranian question is sche- portalism since the American war Hit These developments plus the duled to be taken up when the of Independence. It was far be decis much cheaper than the
even the promises of the yond at 8 p.m. Labour Party in agreements reached on oil, the Council reconvenes
Anglo-Iranian Company, owing to the fact that no taxes were levied Danube River shipping, civil G.M.I'. on Tuesday, so the Span-gro
grammo, and. more remarkable from a products. This has on alrerait, banking, post offices ish question is not expected to was the fact that the Labourabled the company to export large and telegraph mean that the en- come up before the Council be Government had initiated this, tire Hungarian economic and fore Wednesday. Delegates ex- step
with the acquiescence: of
escence of Tor quantities to Southern Iran dur communications
press their belief that the Iran- opposition. The reason must being the past year. The "Iranian announcement also pointe out under Russian or pro-Russian inn question will be disposed of found in the international altua says Moscow radi that the left-wing political control say quieldy by voting down the Rus- tion and the realization, that these American experts. Asso-slan proposal to delete the case was better to have an independent
India which was friendly, than from the agenda. None of the delegates questioned would com- subjected Inelia irhich ment on the Teheran dispatch
"Comparison"" quoting an Iranian general staff officer as expressing doubts that completed before May 6.--Ass-Mr. Brockway, there was not that demanding the return of the
least doubt that from one end of islande to Iran-Router, le ciated Press
India to the other, there would be
gation to the Breeton Woods both bearing the "star" insignia.less deliveries Monetary Conference and was flew over the city on April 17 5 France were speeded up Monetary the basic plans for though scouting and then machine-food situation there would an international monetary fund gunned the Communist lines.
The second report, date-lined very serious by June. and world bank.
Yenan, raid that a single United A Reuter despatch from New He was educated at Eton and States plane strated the Western Delhi quotes a spokesman of the Kings College, Cambridge. He suburbs of Szepingkai on April Indian Food Department for the joined the India Office but left 19,
statement that the Department the service after, two years to
Lieutenant-General
Alvin
C. would resist all attempts to cut return to Cambridge. His first Gillen, the United States area down the 1,400,000 tons of book was published in 1991 and commander, raid that he had not wheat which is India's alloca was entitled "Indian Currency received any report of the in- tion by the Combined Food and Finance." In 1998, he was cidents nor any complaint from Board for the firet half of 1946. the Executive Headquarters of the Communists in Peiping, where the Communists normally file their alleged truce protests against
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FIRST WORLD PEACE
IN TEN YEARS
London, April 21.
decade was World peace for the first time in nearly a
celebrated in the joyous Christian festival of Easter today. The feast fell on the same date for both the eastern and western churches for the first time since 1943.
British Measures Britain will shortly announce measures for economizing wheat
ciated Press,
consumption, an official state- Churches'
system
enemy.
its election
WEN
Bahrein Islands are
are considered by the Iranian Government and peo ple, as part of Iranian territory.
Router ways that the Bakroin Inlands are under the ruling of s abelk. Losow. Badio recently ment by the Government" Iranian
If steps were not now taken to published a
the Russian evacuation could brgive India its independence, sald Committee On
Gambling
the
Gold Found On His Farm
Odenääferuet; Orango Free:
State, April 21. Gottfried ; Rheaders, tal young" farmer" on whose land the phenomenal::gold strike was made the richest in | South Africh-kald today that he had no plans for the future.
MINES EXPLODED
violations. Batavia, Apr. 21.
The only United States planement issud tonight declared. Allied bendquarters announced that exploding mines killed two ties to be in Manchuria is a small-
known to the American authori
The latement said: "In his Netherlands soldiers on
a road ties to near Soerabaja yesterday. This in unarmed laison plane which As-brandenst on April 19, the Unit sistant Military Attache Majored States Secretary for Agricul- creased to 120 the number of Dutch troops and Netherlands In Robert Riggs flew to Changchun, ture (Clinton Anderson) set out
active resistance which would r dies soldiers killed in the islands where the-plane-in-reported to be the measures which the United
REPARATIONS SHIP
quire a
a British Army of Ocupa since Japan's surrender.-Asse- held by Communist forces-Asso-1States Government are taking
tion in India much larger than ciated Press.
to reduce the consumption of ciated Press,
London, Apr. 21.
Rhine Army HQ, Apr. 21.
and which, wheat in order to increase the If paper restrictions were res
The first ship to leave Germany the present one, supplies available for countries moved, there is little doubt that with reparations for Russia sail. Unternational affairs, would be Inced with starvation.
the pre-war expenditure of £50ed from Bremen yesterday. The breeding ground for provaganda ment to the press on April 10.000.000 yearly on football poo/s 4,000-ton cargo ship "Alexander which Russia could, extend. A "As announced in the state will again he attained, says the Parkkin" carried about 1,800 tons wise olitical gesture would have been the release of all prisoners ment. fo the reas April 10, 12th annual report of the Chur- of machinery ery was used by in Indian gaols. Hundreds of In- His Majesty's Government are ches committee on gambling.
The report was comm
the Germans for building U-boat dians were in gaol for offences commenting оп prepared to play their part.
during the war, which would have the court decision that it was -Router. They will shortly announce legat to conduct maps through measures to be taken in this newspapers, and added the "result country for economizing wheat is that for the soason 1940 cou- consumpton. Ministers have pons have disappeared from news- already given preliminary con- papers," sideration and will complete Unfortunately, other means their discussions as Boor as have beon adopted by promoters. The celebration came to the Britain had double cause for they reassemble after Easter," and there is every indication
The Russians for the first time since celebration.
twentieth
A message from Washington that the estimated expenditure on the revolution more than 20 birthday of Princess Elizabeth states that Mr. Henry Wallace, pools for 13:1-45 will be passed years ago.. Hundreds of thou- fell on Easter and Windsor United States Secretary this ana ganda of Russians filled the Castle had the largest house Commerce, is launching a drive, financing football from the pro- Referring to the proposals for
Readers inherited 1,000- A study of 200 murderers shows that older men tend
hoctacros. of land immediately. churchce of Moscow. Church-party since 1938, with all mem to open on May 12, for the este
of gambling, put forward to slay females for reasons such as unrequited love while
south of Odonaalsruct from his men said the celebration was re-bers of the Royal Family who fablishment of collecting centres during the vear, the resort says.
ther males for such motives as "economic miniscent of the old Russian were in the country and several in every community throughout "Lotiore resolved from club secre-
younger men kill other
father, Tho, mineral rights are young friends of the Princess in American to accept gifta of tin tories and others ussure the com- gain, a University psychologist said today. Foster ritual.:
under option at £20 por hectacro, The Japanese filed into Chris-attendance.
ned food or cash for the pur- nilttee of the widespread "dosire tian churches in an atmosphere Americans across the country chase and shipment of relief to preserys football as hotty Dr. Irwin A. Berg of the Un motives related to unrequited and he has given avor 700 her sport and relaxatios, and prevent versity of Illinois told the love, infidelity, or arguments acres of surface rights at #40 of pence for the first time since held their services from sunrise supplies overseas.
Space por hecticréoul all the Sino-Japanese war began through mid-day in many meet Mr. Wallace said today: breaming the opportunity for American Association for the ever money"
dan
Advancement of Belence's 112th The 200 homicides were com Mre heodors said she 'had nine years ago. ·
inga from cathedrals and mount"Upon the generosity and com- able. Unfortunately, the
meeting that his conclusion was mitted by such varied methods been too busy with housekeep- In Jerusalem the coinciding taln tops to simple country passion of the American people professional football has bes based on an analysis of convict as gunshot, stabbing, straning weretable garden and chic
reate the fate of millions." eastern and western feasts filled churches.-Associated Press
came a a coatly bustness and entered Killergic-all men incarcerat.gulation, bludgeoning, chopping, ken-run to think much of the Reuter.
prising managers are always on ed at the state prison of south drowning, poisoning, and setting future. She insisted on ontion: the lookout for fresh sources of ern Michigan from 1939-1948, the victim, afre Berg declared ever he surface rights béljuk Income. Some have found fairy Dr Vernon, Fox, also of Illinois He clarkitibulins Tidar-violent", given only for a portion of the
ere in greyhound racing University
the churches to overflowing des pite an air'of tension caused by
the recent riots and the continu-
Sing strike of 50,000 elyll work,
1ers Armed Arab legionnairos | Gig
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ITALIAN CASE ON COLONIES
Landen † Apr. 21
ason."
Leer has not pasard.
FOOD SHORTAGE?
Tokyo, Apr. 21.5 mingled among the worshippers, The Italian Government has. The metropolitan police made soared. looking for any signs of vio- prepared its caso on the question
the former Italian colonies in surprise raids on restaurants
lence. The annual Passover of Africa, and will submit it at the gateking to wealthy persona, te the Jews and the religious ob forthcoming Parira Prades (Cote day and in one found. huge. servance of the Moslems contri- ference, the Milas Radio reported stock of meat; and whisky, in p buted to the religious, atmoss tonight an SALAMU WA
„fa fores-into-open: hoard- phere of the size
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Older Men Tend To Slay Women
St. Louis, April 21.
I will love the future 'untii thenidy is in the bank, o said.shall go to the talkies every day now..
with whom tracks are vestira was Berg a co-in-thoso In which only one abot was farin, "Uccauro she loved the old Others have
ayca
fred or ond blow struck.as dis homestrild with tabanutitul Those who slew females were tinguished from violent kill trees and large dam in the back- The committee sees danger of significantly older, statistically, ings where repeated blows were KroundRouter,Mi
of Goreramant polley than those who alsw.males, rained upon the victim or where
for bour Berg said. The average age day, track), was 17:7 years, for 10 men who Alewifemales, and 877 yearn for
à pisich was emptied by the kill-
er in his victim's body 5000A.
Men who slow femalon saidtended strongly, to min
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