FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO
Gloucester Arcade
PORTRAITS
OF
DISTINCTION
MILLION DOLLAR TREASURE
Vancouver, B.C., April 24,
A
quarter million dollar treasure has been packed in 26 big boxes and placed in bond by Canadian Customs of- ficials as no clues have been found to the mystery of the disappearance at sea of their
owner, banker.
Henri Bar, Shanghai
The banker disappeared from the 8.s. "Sam Water" when the sminli passenger-freighter was three duya from Vancouver, and
AK
CHINA MAILING LUNG BANK
NO. 33341.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1946.
RELEASE OF P.O.Ws. 500,000 Germans Still Held
Body Found
The body of Claude WilliamR Akern, Seaman Second Cluns, of the U.S.S. "Los Angrien," wad found yet 12.36m, pre- terdon thr berük-water a the oil fuel fetty near, the Naval Dockyard, Kowloon. The body wan clad in a pair of white shorts.
Akera Tas been missing Tram his ship eince Saturday
Zoat,
the captain of the vessel, Can SMUGGLER
tain F. Howe, said the general belief is that Bar fell overboard while the craft was tussing în rough seas,
Bar, who was head of the
CAUGHT
London, April 24.
Banque Franco-Chinese, And A Fronch pilot, Henri Deri·
All Out By Next
ALL GERMAN
October
(By LYFORD MOORE)
FRANKFURT, APRIL 24, PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION ZONE, COMPRISING SOME 532,000 MEN HELD IN MORE THAN 100 CAMPS, WILL BE RELEASED FROM P.O.W. STATUS BY NEXT OCTOBER, ACCORDING TO GERMAN AFFAIRS OF. FICIALS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERN- MENT.
WHILE NOT ALL WILL BE SET COMPLETELY FREE BY THAT DATE, ALL WILL HAVE BEEN SCREENED BY THEN AND THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR DISCHARGE WILL BE RELEASED. PRISONERS IN SPECIAL CATEGOR- IES WILL REVERT TO THE STATUS OF "CIVILIAN INTERNEES" THROUGH AUTOMATIC ARREST. RE- GULATIONS.
the
on V-E Day.
Water-
The water supply on the Island and Kowloon is to be restricted from April 27, when the sup- ply will be cut off nightly from 7.30
p.m; to 6.30 a.m.
TONG FRICTION IN 'FRISCO
over
PRICE: 10 CENTS.
San Francisco, April 24. Sergeant John Dyer who re- cently took
the
San Francisco Chinatown polico detail said today that a faco slapping incident has revived Tong friction ficre. it is bo- lieved that there is no danger of an old fashioned Tong War as yet.
The half million Germans in-that country, 73,000 were re- told Captain IIowe that he in-
barbed-turned to U.S. custody when it tended to sell a portion of his court, was fined by the Croy-habiting the famillar
Sergeant Dyer said the trou- collection of gems and curios indon Bench for breaches of ex-wire enclosures that are land- was discovered last autumn that blo began when a young mem- New York and then proceed port regulations today when marks in most cities of the zone, severe malnutrition was taking ber of a small Tong, the Sen homeward to retire, Bar was she attempted to
all that now remain of in high toll of lives. The U.S. take gold,
Suey Ying Tong, slapped the 6,000,000 Army still holds 116,799 Ger- face approximately native of France.
of the of the president platinum and notes to France. P.O.W. in American custodyman P.O.W.'s in France, where powerful Bing. Kong Tong, un-
they work at supply dumps and aware
at the time of whose latest figures, do maintenance and general la-face he was slapping. According to approximately 3,600,000 of bour. Another 8,000 serve the The Bing Kong Tong is one of those formerly held have al- same purpose in England.
the biggest in the nation. The rendy been discharged. Some "Pipolino" Procedure
matter is now before the Eld- cra of the
Woole, Wo Ping 800,000 came under the charge
He was ordered to remain in
custody until the fines totalling £500 were paid.
1
Jest as American soldiers are
112, Queen's Road C. Fels: 20524-20833
BANKERS &
GOLD DEALERS
U.S. REPUBLICANS' NEW CHAIRMAN
(BY HAROLD FAIR)
•
NEW YORK, APRIL '24. THE U.S. REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHICH HAS BEEN IN THE POLITICAL WILDERNESS · SINCE FOUR SUC- CESSIVE DEFEATS IN THE ELECTIONS OF ́ ́ 1932, 1936, 1940 AND 1944, HAS PICKED A CONSERVA- TIVE WITH A NON-INTERVENTIONIST, RECORD TO "STAGE MANAGE", IT FOR WHAT IT HOPES WILL BE VICTORY IN "THE 1948 PRESIDENTIAL- ELECTION. HE IS MR. BRAZILLA CAROLL REECE. 56-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN FROM TENNESSEE, CHOSEN NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN ' 'NATIONAL. COMMITTEE. THE MAN WHO HOLDS THIS POST IS REPONSIBLE FOR GALVANIZING THE PARTY INTO ACTION. HE IS THE PARTY'S "VOICE" UN TIL A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS CHOSEN, AND EXERTS A POTENT. INFLUENCE IN THE OR-
CANISATION.
American
Mr. Reece's voting record in Congress includes opposition to conscription before the war, op- position to the seizure of foreign ships and arming merchantmen before the United States entered the war, and op position to lend-lease. He did, however, support an increase in the American Navy in 1938.
He voted against the price control act in 1942 and its ex- tension in 1944.
A slight, grey-haired veteran
HK. RADIUM
FOUND IN TOKYO
of the First World War who
Tokyo, April 24, Cross, the Distinguished Ser-dian disclosed today the ro holds the Distinguished Service The Civil Property Custo-
Crewmen of the 8.8. "Sam Water" said that ill fortune had dogged the vessel from the time she began loading at Shanghai until two hours after Bar's dis-
The Public Prosecutor and appearance was discovered on
that Dericourt was about to April 17, only a few hours out-
pilot a plane from Croydon to
of the British Army when it being redeployed from Germany which is the Chinese peace 80 Ride of the port of Vancouver. Parien Customa offictain ex
In Shanghai, during the load-amined a bag which he had aut and 623,000 have been transfer-procedure, so at Bad Aibling in
took over its occupation zone via a "pipeline" of operational ciety. ing of the ship, a coolie fell
There have been no Tong vice Medal and the Purple presented for examination.
red to the French, including Bavarla German P.O.W.'s enter and was badly injured. Two Under hin .pyjamas
Wara or killings In San Fran- Heart, Mr. Recce succeeds Mr. Covery of $500,000 worth of 180,000 who were already in discharge centre to start the cisco since 1917 when trouble Herbert Brownell who days Inter, just out of port, a
was radium which the Japanoso territory which later became trek that will
of the mate ship went insane and the
committee lare eventually take flared between the two Tongs chairman
asserted to have footed ship had to put into Yokohama
the French occupation zone, Dericourt said that he whe
them home. The potential dis-which are involved in the cur- which sought unsuccessfully to from Hong Kong kast Augusti to discharge the demented man being paid £100 for conveying
Of the total handed overcharge is cleared by an inter-rent dispute. Bergeant Dyer guide Governor Thomas Dewey The precious ore is deposited ashore and get a replacement.the metal to France-Reuter. to France to help rehabilitate rogation team, checked by a said that he had tried to get the of New York to the White in a storage fault of the Bank counter-intelligence corps group, leaders. of the two Tongs to House in 1944. Mr. Reece has of Japan, pending an expected and has his records and history shake hands, but I have not been a member of Congress for claim for restitution by the documented,
made it yet," he admitted rue 26 years,
United Kingdom Latikon Mis- After clerks have computed | fully.
The choice of Mr. Reece wassion in Japan.
Associated Press..
were
found fifteen piecos of platinum and gold nuggets.
ALLOCATION OF Strangej Saga
GERMAN SHIPS
Brussels, Apr. 24. Inter-allied Reparations The
that Agency today announced German merchant tonnage allo-
Of 'Ada Rehan'
Shanghai, April 24.
cations are in proportion to the The strango, saga of the good ship "Ada Rohan" took an-
tonnage which each lost in the l
war as to two thirds, the remain-
Ing
third bein
Soviet Uning allocated to thel
with Poland.
who will share it
The United States will get 17.82 per cent, the United King-
other freak turn yesterday. Crew members in a whis- por over a short beer in Blood Alley, passed along the word that the three Persian women taken aboard Khorramshahr showed the skipper what he thought wore passports.
dlom colonies 46.01 per cent Only the documents turned out to be prostitution licensès,
and
and South Afrlen 0.14 per cent,
It has been estimated that 1,189,600 tons, with a total value)
of £20,000,000 are available for distribution. Reuter.
Statesmanship Necessary
London, April 24.
The President of the Lon-
be solved overnight if the British Cabinet Mission "look
́to thoir practical side."
"I am sure they will," he add- ed. "The differences between
Hindus and Muslims. are not based on communal or 'sectional claims against une 'another.' These differences
are not the same as those between Catho- lics and Protestanta or between Labour and Conservatives in Britain.
written in Persian of whatever they write there-
At least, and bearing official-looking photographs. that's the latest scuttlebutt.
And A Baboon
The "Ada Rehan," which the impression they were bound for Isthmian line would like to dis-the United States. They always own at the moment, is the had a yen to see America. freighter which started from San Francisco for New Orleans eight- and wound
up on an month world cruise that would rival the legendary "Flying Dutchman."
She put her skipper on the beach at Tripoli with a nervous
Indian Navy Mutiny Enquiry
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Kong on August 24, 1945 in the
plane of Erince Karin Harusito,
his accumulated pay, he receives "Both Tongs have rio obfes-far from acceptable to liberal The Radium, 383.3 milligrams his special discharge pass. tions, but there is the ques commentators and progressive in weight, was flown from Hong Then his discharge certificate | tion of face involved, I think members of the party. in handed to him and he re- it will smooth out soon, but the Mr. Harold Stassen, former ports for orientation that will Chinese do not fight and make Governor of Minnesota and kerve him in good stead in a up as quick na a pair of Irish-progressive candidate for the de-Nazified country the like of men," he explained. Associat- nomination, declared: which he has never known. ed Press.
The discharged P.O.W. is sent In home by rail or by truck. his home locality, he repofta ko the local police, who register his finger-prints and give him a re- gistration card, Then he re- gisters for work with his re- gional labour.office and is final- ly given his ration book. Near-
ly half of all discharged The P.O.W.'s soon find work in their normal civilian occupations, — Ileuter.
The crow, likes to remember PALESTINE
ТУДЕ
gift of a seamen's club that was REPORT
The
The
FORECAST
•
Iran To Consider Bahrein Case
Teheran, April 24. Iranian Premier, "Quavam Es Sultanoh; said at a press conference yesterday that he would have to study the question of the Government's attitude toward Iranian. claims to the British protectorate of Bahrein,
A campaign for Iranian control of this rich oil island in the Persian Gulf, ruled over by an Arab Sheik, was recently launched by the Freedom Front Organization here.
The cabinet decided recently
to charge taxes and royalty on oll from the island imported into Iran by American companies on Bahrein.
Minister.
IN
Allied Headquarter investiga- tions showed, and was atőred at the home of a Major Imai.
Japanese authorities said the involen carried a notation "pur- chased from an individual" but. a letter by the British comman- der at Hong Kong to the British Liaison Mission in Japan die puited Japanese ownership.
"This theft of Hong Kong's radium stock was reported to me in mid-September of 1945 by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, Director of the Medical and Banitary Servier, who discovered it had been taken to Cantón by Lieut-i Gen. Tanako and Colonel Yama- zu on August 21, 1945" the British commander wrote.§- acciated Press.
ANYTHING YOU WANT ON BLACK MARKET
(BY L. M. HANNA)
LONDON, APREL 24. NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT WHOM YOU KNOW THAT COUNTS IN LONDON'S BLACK MARKET" THE BACKWATER STREETS, IN SNUG PUBS AND OTHER HAUNTS, YOU CAN PICK UP¬PRACTICALLY. ANYTHING YOU WANT IF YOU SWALLOW "YOUR SCRUPLES AND ARE PREPARED TO DIG DEEPLY ENOUGH INTO YOUR POCKETS.
......
Khorramshahr beause that where they took a baboon aboard folding up and found the animinl
an insatiable craving for. had beer. When the beer and hard don branch of the All. India breakdown, survived a mutiny liquor rab out the baboon broke Moslem -League, Mohammed after the first mate took over
out of its care, bit the master and escaped. Abbas Ali, in a letter to "The command and picked up the
skipper. after participating
Lausanne, April 24.
While the left wing claima an- Times" today says
that in Persian women, three Persian somewhat in the baboon's liquid
Palasting will not come un.cient Iranian ownership of-the dia's varied problems might men und a boy of Boven at dict, went after the animal, tired
Khorramshahr,
six shots at six-foot range and der the authority of the Unit-aland. Right Wing writers have argued that the present cam- The Persians were under the missed every time. Later the ed Nations Trusteeship Coun-paign to claim it is subsidieer IT'S
baboon was killed.
The crew is a little sad at that. cil when it is formed, accord-by the Soviet Union.
ing to recommendations amado, The Propaganda They led the baboon.
still are aboard the in the report of the Anglo- Prince Mazaffer Firouz said "Ada which is unloading t
rail Commission of En-yesterday that the Red Army is Palosting, well-in-rapidly quitting Azerbaijan and sung. Two photographers board-quiry, on
Iran though foreign observers ed the ship scelting material and formed quarters stated here said that no reports had reached found the Persians unexpectedly
here of Soviet troops actually New Delhi, Apr. 24.
On Sunday, for instance, fol- work, undoubtedly, but the prico shy and retiring. They tittered today. Godfrey. Vice-Admiral
Flar
The report, writton under leaving Azerbaijan. The Soviet- conditions. of the greatest Iranian culturan society at the lowing certain directions, I tookwell!"
Where do these dealers get. Officer at the time of the distur- and ran for cover when they saw
the tube to a famous, if rather, bances in the Royal Indian Navy All three women claim Persing Becrecy, in a luxury hotel in Chaplon port of Pablovi gave unsavoury, district of London thèse (and many more) arti- carly this year, told the Com-citizenship, but one is an Ameri-Lausanne, after weeks of ex "a farewell party" for Russian not far from the heart of the cles? In this way of businesa, "Hindus and Moslems, al- mission of Inquiry today that can by birth and another is a Pole, haustive enquiry in Palestine officers-Associated Press
city. And what I saw there was it is definitely not cricket" to though they have lived together am
among the contributory causes the photographers learned. The and other countries, was.com-
almost unbelievable.
caquire into origine, for a thousand years, could not wore dissatisfaction over the num cameramen estimate their age sa pleted several days ago.
Full-fashioned silk stockings Food, of course, is strictly be united, as they are funda-ber of permanent commissions around 30. The boy in the son of
curtain material,' rationed, but just the same. mentally different from one an- offered to officers and the abortage, one of them.
Premier Quavam requested the towelling. other. They are two rival na- of cooks
firm or deny the report, said no Army westerday to investigate sheets, soolws, shocs all without there is a certain little calo tions, and fortunately the Mus. He said he would have liked to lim League, no representative have the number of commissions They got off the ship somehow statement could be made until reports of fighting in North- coupons, none of them second-where one may drop in and, if
alvo.
delicious omelettes, ven); of the Muslims, has proved that offerod-66-doubled. "It was a the other day and sought out the their report was officially pub-western Iran near Zanjan, and hand and all shamelessly expen- one is well enough known; order
in the desert South of Miyan. fact in recent elections.
fteal, pre-war standard foun- tongue, and cortain other do- cause of my dissatisfaction as well Paralan consul and any other con-lished, that I was unable to get the sul they could and, but were Other polats in the Commis.daub.
tain pens, openly flaunting the lights to the gourmet all sory- "The Muslim demand for se: Government to agree to more," he unable to determine their status sion'a report. which was and to The Army sold that they had Government'e Instructions for ed in a secluded corner, well parato states le just a national
The one piece of advies they did bo unanimous were: 103,000 received no official word of only "utility" modela Swiss alway from prying eyes, water demand for freedom and perce, Pandit Nehru. Indian Congress get was to keep mum if now Jews should be given facilities fighting, which Radio Tabris re-watches with Jewelled move ing mouths, and envious hearts. so there is, no question of anfe tender, was among the visitors napernion anked them any auto enter Palestine Immediately. portel carller had broken out ments, luminous dials, obro-
Associated Preup. guarding the interest of one at today's 'hoaring Router.
All plans for the partition of south of Miyandaub between mium plátó - all at- luxury against the interest of the
Palestine were rejected-Reu-Tranian troops and the volun- prices, in a "hear-slunt locality,“ other.
teoring Azerbaijani Feoples'
"Muslims are against Hindu
Imperialium. as Indiana ns
4.
whole are against, foreign rule)
Bald
FASTEST FLIGHT
Buenos Aires, Apr. 24. Completing the fastest flight no
cameras,
tions.
Keeping Mum
I appeared that the Isthmian Line would have to figure out a
way to mot them back to Ferala,
This is causing no litio concern among the American crew.
The boys thought they would be and are determined to take far from London to Buenos Altos,
Vico Air Marshal D. C. TV Bengono two or three weeks from the control of their own affairs.".
"It in famous British states, commanding the British United States and now a gen
Bouth-American "Akwara. liner | siché mentha manship that can GATO India Star Land. landed at Moren Aero- Ape Uncle entrefor Actres that from an eternal discord.". drome near here today ahead of } he has 1,500 Akuce ouwtime pir. Réutor.
scheduled time-Rigutena.
Members of the Commission, who were not prepared to con
tox.
امبر
¿Forces.
Fighting?
-THE WEATHER Today's forecast:-Cloudy with ccasional light obyware,
Freserlerin (damng trælarros (/
Winds!!
One merchant ostensibly was an optician, but I dropped into Datavia, Apr. 24.
An observer sald that minor his shop and mentioned camera, Indomorian terrorists in tho
After a cautious look around. Bultenzorg ores, murdered nine clastics had occurred west of
almost reverently. children belonging to kami Ano Zanjan, as a mult of new ac- the shopkeeper delved under the Indian Dalkey ROCK Ling 36 lon (thylky emòng the Zolfagbari tri- countor and ear's Andes, ormation. Four basman who hayo remained loyal displayed two top-notch German Image S muretained him, Beword to the Central Javerze) femida. Es in Leica and a radiach vet
Lasciated Press Monats
Ikop Wonderful planned