THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1946,
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Immigration
Swatow is still in the grip of the rico famine despite the arrival! of relief zice from Siam, said Mr. of Yung Kwal-ching, Mayor Swatow, who in here on his way to Nanking to take part in the National Assembly on May 5,
the
The relief rice is not all for Swatow, which geta only 70 per cent, the balance being for
Due other districts of Chaochow to depletion of stocks the price at one time shot up to CN$80,000 a picul, said Mr. Yung This was before the arrival of the relief rice. Now it in back to about CN$50,000, and there is hope of down further. it coming
relief rice A second shipment of
CHUNGKING, APRIL 21.5. CHINESE COMMUNISTS ENCIRCLING HARBIN DECLAR- ED TODAY THAT THEY INTEND TO SEIZE THAT METROPOLIS. OF NORTHERN MANCHURIA AND THE GOVERNMENT INDIGATED THAT IT WOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO DEFEND THE CITY.
May Day
Workers in Hong Kong will celebrato May Day this year on an elaborate scale. This was dvcided on at a large meeting of representatives of various tabel uniors on April 20, and pluns are being drawn up as to the form the celebration should take.
$100,000 OR
SPOKESMAN YOUR LIFE"
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE CENTRAL MANCHURIAN SITUATION WAS "VERY GRAVE" NOW THAT COMMUNIST TROOPS HAVE TAKEN CHANGCHUN. A COMMUNIST WARNED THAT THE ENCIRCLING TROOPS WOULD SEIZE HARBIN NEXT THURSDAY "IF THE STATUS. OF CIVIL WAR STILL PREVAILS IN MANCHURIA" That would give Gen. George ↑ C. Marshall, American envoy. only five more days to work out a truce between the war ing
Mr. Hoover
The appearance in Saturday's this supply is kept up and if the continurus conference with most To Visit China
merchants in
Film Review
subject of such far reach-
man
in Swatow will co-crnment and Communist offi-
Cairo, April 21. "Gazette" of what appears to be If
Mr. Harbort Hoover, Chair- a new official appointment, that operate with the authorities in einls. He had not scheduled a
of Prealdent Truman's of Immigration Officer, does not, the measures now being taken to meeting of his truce committee
Famine Emergency Committee, in fat, indicate any new depar ensure grain arriving from oro- of 'hree which in January work ducing districts, no major catased out ar armistice for the rest
on the eve of his departure for ture in adininistration. The mea-trophe is ilkely, concluded Mr. of China outside Manchuria,
India on his world food surgey, sure of control of immigration Yung
The Government spokesman told a press conference here to charged that Communiste day that the food situation was contemplated does not apparently
guiars were already infiltrating the "greatest crisis ever faced go beyond the practice which has
into Harbin. He said the Gay by humanity." been followed since publication by
Counter-Attack”
evaient had no arnty forces Mr. Hoover said that the the Police of the reminder that
there, only civil officials. (Un-world could surmount the dif- ceptain sections of the Immigra
There are two methods of treated dispatches reaching Pei- ficulties of the next four months tion Ordinance must be deemed
ing a to be in full force. All that basing significance as a war, in the Ping raid these officials hat led only by reducing consumpation |
it. Can be considered Mukden by plane.)
in those countries which could happened has been the nomination cinoma;
do so. 60 Miles Away of Captain Dunkley as the com- broadly, taking in the sum total
The only bright spot in the for dealing of the action, or just one amoll petent authority
of the whole can be ab portion
The spokesman reported Con-crisis is that we know that it will be over in the first days of with applications for entry per-stracted and shown with minute mits Except in one respect. The accuracy of detail. This latter munist resintance stiffening as
when the harvest method is often the most the Government's First Army September,
Sze starts coming in", he said. "But northward from for appointment of an official
until then no offorts should be designated "The Immigration Of effective, presenting as it does the pressed
the millions fiver does seem to imply the in-pact of war one mentality pingkai toward Changchun.
A Communist military spokes. spared to rescue of the individual. An excellent tention for some time to come to example of auch a treatment in an estimated that the First starving in Europe."
(at the Lee
After Army was still about 60 miles
visiting India, Mr. pursue the policy laid down in "Counter Attack"
Theatre today).
Government
Hoover will go to China and recent unauths. It is proposed to
By the clever alternation of ac- from Changchun.
attack Communist sources finally lapan-Reuter the astounding
with the tion sequences, perpetuate anomaly whereby any person of
building up, and the taur agreed that the First Army had one man Dy-passed Szepingkai, although Chinese nationality, whether he paychological drams of
trapped in a ceilay, the Government's own Central. be rich man, poor man, beggar-against seven, app has vold News Agency had claimed bat
director man, thief, may enter or leave
The Communist the Catony at will, whereas the ed any relaxation of the tension the First Army captured it.
military The seven Gorman soldiers are spokesman said that before the entry of any foreigner of what-over long periods of innetion.
sufficient of eyer nationality, including British nearly typed, with and of whatever standing, is con- background and character to make First Army can expect to reach Communist defenses fronted with what sometimes them stand out as real men, but hangchun it must overcome ex-
Muni's playing of seen to be insurmountable bar-most outstanding of all is Faul Leznive
sian paratrooper. Muni's ability to really become the man he trays, is unusual in films, where
He said the Government the usual substitute for acting is overlaying of the actor's own the
of the forces bad occupied only about personality on the name
he is supposed to be one-ninth of Manchuria, one direction character
from the afid wedge extending Muni ia Alexei should be the double-locking of representing.
southern border to the positions the door against Europeans. The not just Muni in the guise of alics is neither, logical nur im Russian sailor. Marguerite Chap. of the First Army beyond Sze
adequate man gives an entirely aginative. It is doubtless true performance as, a woman guerilla Paghai. He asserted that the whole wedge was under steady from Communist pressung
riers. The reason for the Colony's inability to control immigration entirely is well known and un- derstood, but it is odd, to say the least, that the official reaction to its helplessness in
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Lunch With King
Cairo, Apr. 21. Herbert Hoover, who is making a world survey of the food crisis. concluded his visit to Cairo yes- terday with an interview with Premier Ismail Sidky Fasha, and He said he intended to go to a luncheon with King Farouk, India, China and Japan on his
to the United States.-Associated Press.
Don't Overdo Your Vitamins
Atlantic City, N.J., April 21,
A new warning that there is a danger İlmit in too much Vitamin D was reported to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology today by Dr. Agrics Fay Morgan, Helen E. Axeirod and Mary Groody of the University of California.
to
Massive doses of this and jalngle dose from 314,000 other Vitamins are sometimes 630,000 International units per given in medical treatment. In kilogram of the dogs' wolghts. Vitamin D, but not in the others,
Half of the dogs died within
there have been reports of dam- age by too much. The Cali-two to five weeks. All were very San Francisco, Apr. 21. The Federal Court today dis-fornians gave young dogs in all Autopsies of both the dogs that died of Vitamins and those the missad
Indictment against
lungs, thnt survived, showed Way Lim-tong 20
old years
hearts and kidneys partly calef Sacramento, California Chineso
fed. This is the condition who was accused of attempting to
in human popularly described extort $100,000 from Back Hing-
Shanghai's
"Boys' Town"
chan,
wealthy San Francisco 4: Chinatown merchant. The Super- for Court here has declared Way to be insane,
Į beinga en “turning to stone."
In another Vitamin experi ment, Elizabeth M. Howaton and Elsa Orentheiles, of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home. Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, found that the amount of Vitamin C you got from eating raw carrots dependa a lot on how the cook alices them, The cut surfaces lose their exposed to air. The
Shanghai, April 21. The Federal Bureau of Inventi- gation said that Way, a laundry China's first "Boys' Town" worker, wrote a letter to Bock in — an Institution for the re- which he demanded the money in form and training of delinque lieu of Bock's life. The Bureau said that Way stated that he had ont boys-will be opened this taken an
oath with a society month
16 near Shanghai; which, he said, had pledged him to suicide if he did not collect acres of farmland and a set of $1,000,000 from 10 rich American buildings (some damaged dur- shape of slice that leaves some Chinese to further a world peace ing the war) have been donat- skin on the carrot rotains more drive. Associated Press,
ed by a benevolent society-for Vitamin C by the time the
carrot is served. the establishment of the pro- :
At the University of Minno- ject, which will be patterned
sola, going without Vitamin on-British and American re-B-1 for two weeks alowed the form Institution,
Patient Picked Up At Sea
movements of young men by about 10 per cent. They moved Among the honorary directors an arm or a leg that much slow- of the scheme are Mine. Chianger. They also lifted weights more Kai-shek, Licut. Gozeral A. C. Wedemeyer, and the Deputy Ma Flowly--Assqulated Press. yor of Shanghai, Mr. T. K. Ho.
The town will be established at Tatsang, a village 10 miles north of Shanghai, and lads from 1 to 17 years will be turned over by the police courts and the fuvenile court (planned to open' shortly in Shanghai) to officials of the in- and instruction in good citizen stitution for
education practical
on ship. They will be
U.N.O. Suggestion By Australia
Manila, April 21, Less than two hours after the U.S. Army here had received an emergency radio message the Merchant Marine officer Charles Whipple was suffering from pneumonia, and complica tions arising from it, he was taken from the 8.8.
"Felix Risenberg," 200 mlies north of the Philippines in the China sea, and flown in an Army Air a maximum period of one year. Force Catalina flying boat to until they are prepared for by the Manila hospital,
trade and have acquired a sense of Doctors here said that his "social responsibility"
ed Press. -
of Alexei, the Rus arcund Kungehuling, 30 miles food fact-finding trip, then return condition is serious.-Associat-sponsors demand.
pur
the part
southwest of Changchun.
Steady Pressure
in a
that a good case can still be made who is also trappmands. reeps, whose strength in all
Photography by
cord with the pes
and
out for the preservation of some mukes no exacting kind of control. But it is also true that the Immigration Ordin-Howe (Hollywood's only Chinese unchuria has been estimate
mood of many irregulars, ance is today being used for a in ac- as high as 400,000, including the There was -no further word purpose that was far from the the film. minds of the Colony's legislators drama in a most skilful manner. from five United States corres- most in- pondents and two United States outstanding
who were in when the measure was before the "Counter Attack"
army chservers Council. Even so, complaints in its unusual outlook, and in sum
to the Communists.-Associated would be fewer if there were any a very fine piece of work. It is re-Chengchun when the city feil
Prese, firm evidence that applications commended
teresting production,
12
for the entry of reputable persons.cinema-gour.
were individually considered with
a predisposition to approve in-
for
a
the.
serious
G.W.A.
stead of with a non-sympathetic CORRESPONDENCE
predisposition to refuse. Several cases have been brought to our at- tention. A bona fide resident of
Wot! No Pay?
SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD KEYNES
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MAGIC IN FIELD OF SUPER-SONICS
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London, Apr. 21. Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian terday suggested that all disputes Minister of External Affairs, yes-
brought before the United Nations Security Council be investigated quasi-judicial committee which would examine evidence, cross-examine the parties to the dispute report its findings to The success of this method of the Cone
Evatt said that Australla had reform and rehabilitation in other
principle to apply this countries has given the promoters wanted confidence that it can also
be both to the Iranian-Soviet dis applied in China and It is hoped pate and to charges by Poland against General Franco's regime. that this scheme will become "A model for the whole country.
Evatt arrived here to attend the Con- Dominion Prime Ministers' Dr. W. Carson Ryan-Child ference next week. He also plans Welfare Consultant of the United to go to Paris for the European States Relief Association, who is Peace Conference when it is con- The election, being used in creating sound waves far be among the many Americana invened.--Associated Press.
terested in the scheme, wrote: "1 yond the range of the human ear, may produce magi- can conceive of few projects as cal feats in the field of super-sonics that will surpass andable na the proposed Boys' Town. It ought to be possible to radio, television or radar.
develop an outstanding piece of Scientists have already turned the electron into channels to work that will meet an casontial make it see, feel, smell, taste, hear, remember, calcu- need and be 4. valuable example
to other late, heat and tell time. This field of super-sonics,
communities. A campaign for US$10,000 will invincible sound, is only one phase of post-war studies be launched for the
repair of underway here in the Radio Corporation of America buildings, equipment, and expenses For the institution for the first laboratories division.
year-Router.
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Princeton, New Jersey, April 21.
Appeal For
(April 10) leader is abrupt from ing denunciation of Chamber-wine and spirits, production of Palestine
-'
Underground
SHIDEHARA SAYS "NO"
Telecom. Agreement
Washington, Apr. 21. lac agreement signed at; Bermudu of the Telecommuni- catlona Conference. last Novom- ber becamo effective this week with the acceptance by Britain and Australia.
The agreement which is now in force includes the United Statca, Britain, Canada, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Southern Rhode- Tokyo, Apr. 81. sia and Rhodesia, in what con- Promiler Kijuro Shidehara yes-stitutes a virtual traffic code terday refosed to accede to the for commercial cable, radio and demands of the four political par- telegraph communications bo- ties that he resign,
He gave his answer a few tween these countries-ABBO-
ciated Press,
BOY PLEADS WITH EMIR
hours after the Welfare Minister, Titoshi Ashida, tumed in his portfolio in support of the Liberal Party's move to oust the Shide- is a New York, Apr. 21. hara government. Ashida The underground railway
Liberal. for the movement of Jews from Shidchara said that he would
Jerusalem, Apr. 21. his offorts to form a
While the Emir Abdullah of Europe to Palestine is large- Increase
was listening to been coalition government for the May Transjordan
· has ly.. intact and
at an in- speeches of welcome strengthened by additional diet, session.-Aszociated Press,
formal "court" in the Mayor's guides from the Palestine resis-
was dramatic Inter- tance. forces," said a full page EMIR'S CALL TO STRIKERS house, there
ruption: A small Arab boy push- advertisement appearing in the
Hebron, April 21. ed through the local dignitaries to New York "Post" yesterday.
The I.C.A. executive office insitively attuned and controlled a statement forecasts that the that it can pick one voice out of technique may enable creation of a crowd at a distance of 75 feet now chemical compounds, dia-or more by pointing it like persion and precipitation of spotlight-Associated Press. smoke, dust, stimulation or des.. truction of bacteria, mixing of metals to produce alloys, ne- Sir-Your eulogy in today's among those who issued a bit celeration of the "agents" of the Colony, himself permitted to return from Shanghai, has sought for a month without avail to get personal facts. Consider! What lain's solution of the Czechoslo-smoother milk, ice-cream and femision for his wife and chil-uthority rich denies its vak-German problem. In 1985, cther fend products. So far, the electron's "electrical" quali- dren to enter, although their ac accepted responsibility-I qualify he married Lydia Lepokova, the man principally has used only The late Lord Keynes had ties. Learning to control that comunadation is guaranteed. A that phrase by saying "ta de Russian ballerina nian, wishes to bring his fiance ferred responsibility."
Seven months have passed since been receiving treatment for a aspect is nowhere near finished from Shanghai for their wedding.
His wife was with turned up strange results, wait with bitter impatience al weeks. He is told, that if he proceeds, to sit warender of Hong Kong. I heart allment for the last sever- and the process has already
Bands To 'Flu Shanghai, and marries her there, the payment of four years back-him when he died.-Associated the application right then be pay. It is scarcely conceivable Press.
that Government
may do to lis considered on the new situation offers what le denied to any man
Financial Genius
For instance, the shape of thereby created. An application to do to his housemaid.
radio antenna showed how grea- Government may say to ME for a young woman" to visit her
Reuter adds that more than any ter supplies of Panicillin could "you are demobbed and hereafter mother in Hong Kong for a month you No Pay May I say that economist, Lord Keynes was res be supplled by quick drying
draw and then return to Shanghai has
housemaid which I cannot ponsible for the development of methods and an efficient method not, after six weeks, been consider-to
may not-discharge until I
who detained
16 A political ed worthy of a decision at all. pay her?
policy. riding
promised to lotter of this The substance
Originally, his views led to his finitely amali influenza virus. These instances could be multi-
the noted American humourist Arabs engaging in the civil prisoner. Abdullah It resulted in an electron and by the authors Ben Hecht service strike to "return to your do what he plied a dozenfold. They seem to has been sent to London for the
Before leaving for Amman, necessary question in the Hause being severely crilised on times
accused of annoyance, of go microscope, able to outstrip and Louis, Bromfeld. Appealing jobs from today because this arise from the rigid application of BUT your article in today's paper and back on his original ideas, and light magnifications Umit of for funds to "help these aban- strike is not. in the interests of Emir Abdullah, who La dotad Mosque A rule-of-thumb system, without a wayward in its portrayal of making concessions to outmoded 2.500 times to 100,000 times. doned people to reach the only the Arab people or the Arab Moslem, prayed at the
Abraham Prophet Where the exercise of discretion weaned what should be facte.
gold standards.
The discovery that electrons home that waits for them," the nation." Llout, E, W. WESTWOOD. from experience and actuated by
His sudden appeal was the buried-Router. H.K.R.N.V.K. He was an authority on ballet could be bounded off a meta advertisement declared: "During A sense of the human problem in-
(Our leader dealt with Civil and an export bar from the loan plate led to the development of the last fornight three ships first rife in the unity of the volved. An immigration policy Service issuer, not with the Naval talks in America, just in time to radar, and Dr. Irving Wolff, linded with 2,000 Hebrews in striking Jewish and Arab, gov of the R.C.A. laboratory, looks Palatine, Jews reaching orament workers in Palestine. which takes no account of the Volunteers,
presumably mflux of Chinese and merely con- came under the Admiralty at the make, which resulted in the Lords upon radar as an intermediate Palestine now. It said, are using Associated Press.
posals
to steps in the new system of tele the same machinery, which "In centrates on keeping out foreign outbreak of wearEd.)
accepting them by 90 votos
1087-1940,2 evacuated 40,000 eight. His latest drip across the ran, L era is a freakish misconception of
Agantic to Savannah was to a Toleran is a system for air- Hebrews from Europe to Fales- Hong Kong. best interests. If
tend the sequel Bretton Woods, port control, combining radar fine under the noses of the Ges- existing conditions do not Justify
where he played the leading role, and television. Eventually, re tapo and behind the backs of abandonment of the whole busi-
Among arrivals in the Colony and its expected he would be starch men say that hope to de- the British ness, they are far from supporting
presentation of any wó̟, ✨ Chairman of the Chinese by Britain) of vice-chairman of holds the field.
Chamber of Commerce, of Slaa, the World Bank and Interaktioms continuous study of
Monetary Funde.
changing radio waved Into audi- Je sound, and the revarsa, Kan
His much pred
which
Arrivals
can the theory which makes full of televising a dance orchestra The advertisement was sighed Emir Abdullah of Transfor-plead for Abdullah'a intervention ployment for overs to over led to man's first look at the inby will Rogers, junior, son of dan yesterday advised, Palestine to obtain the release of his father
Aim of
farmor.
to
could.
RUMANIA NEAR. BANKRUPTCY
Bucharest,.Apr. 2119 ACTION AT SEA
Constantin Bratianu, leader of the Rumanian National Liberal Pari Apr, 21--
Party, writing today in an article "The skipper" of the Italian in the newspaper.
"Liberal" trawler Letiraventi was killed that Rumania was approaching :before, the
the harsh Inflexibility that nowom Bangkok are Mr. Fung, Yos chosen - or the post. (to be filled i volop facilities-foskvalin) Déclaring that the, average / when a French patrol boat fred} bankruptcy.DALIKTI
and Mr. Idu Kung po. Both aro
on their way to Manking to take part in China's National, Aston-
iborás:
cost of moving Hebrew from Europe to Palestine is $250, the advertisement” won't carry Hebrews to:
the
it off Corsica, the French ** Press Agency reported today?
conference, ministers The French commander opens which will decided: Romania's ad fire in polf defence, accords front with Roperament which
bance treaty, wa, present a divid Ing to the Franch
ort when the 2ts
dosa not express the will of the people, in # regima, which is arbi- "oppresalv9g), and - an-