THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946.
Jap. General SentsTHE CAPITAL
To S'hai For Trial
U.S. Embassy For Manila
Manila. May 1. High Commissioner of the
In Philippines Paul McNutt dicated yesterday that the Unit- ed States will be opening eminsay here after the Philip pines gains her independence on July 4.
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The High Commissioner said that Nathaniel P. Davis, of the State Department, has been ap- pointed as his Special Assistant
and it now drawing up compre- hensive recommeffiations for the -embassy.
Unofficially, it is expected that Davis will become minister- conerilor of the United States diplomatic establishment. — As- sociated Press,
Film Review
Walt Disney is one of the most. interesting personalities in the film world today, for of all the cartoonists who have been making this type of film since the silent days he is the only one to treat his medium with imagination and, real artistry. He was an innova-
fact he was using
Siam's New
Án American destroyer escort brought a Japanese major- general to Shanghai from Hong Kong for trial on a charge of being responsible for the axecution of an American army air force fllor who was shot down on a mission from the China Theatro. The officer is Maj.-Gen. 1 Haruo Fukuchi, who was Chief- of-Staff for Lieut-Gen. Tanaka. commanding the 23rd Army and former military governor Hong Kong. During Tanaka's was Acting absence, Fukuchi Commander of the Colony at the time of the airman's trial and his subsequent execution while tied to a small cross,
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An interpreter and two army sergeants were brought with the Major-General as witnesses.
was
The American victim Maj. David Houck, and he was
fring executed by a
Aquad whlie kneeling on the ground. with his arms bound to a small cross which was built for a
grave headpiece. The charge ngainat Houck was that ho had strated a non-military objec tive.
Programme
Bangkok, May 2. The Siamese Government's new economic programme calls for a 200,000,000 baht leas (approxi- mately 44,300,000) for urgent ex-
penditures. Banks will finance the Inan, and It is hoped that one
effect will be the absorption of money which is now inflating the
east of living.
OF CHINA
Nanking. May 2. This city has officially be- come the capital of China, amid reports that the postponed No- will convene tional Assembly about June 1.
Chen Li-fu, Minister of Or- ganisation, told a press con- ference that the Assembly is charged with drafting a revised Chinese constitution and might convene in a month's time.
There is some nowspaper speculation, however, that the Assembly might not meet be fore Autumn. (In Chungking, Government formally decrced that Nanking is now the Chin- ese capital and observed that tasks post-war reconstruction are heavier than the task of carrying on the war had been, and called on the people to help At the same time, however, the lift China to prosperity.)
General Ho Ying-ching was Government is contemplating in- creases in official salaries, and quoted in the influential Chin- sonnel discharged from the fight-ese newspaper "Ta Kung-Pao"
as saying:
"I do not think that I want to be Chief-of-Staff in the fu- ture National Defense Minis- try. I was Minister of War forl 14 years and Chief-of-Stoff for eight years."
to grant Jump payments to per
ing services.
Much of the increase in crime reported from apcountry is and to be due to the sudden demobili- nation of the army, the men being
given no gratuity,
The loan will also. agricultural reforms,
The interpreter fold an Asso- ciated Press correspondent route to Shanghai that the charge against the flier War he had strafed a ship carrying civilians.
that
Plea ignored American war crimes investi- Kutors who worked on the case tor in the use of colour for car immediately after the Japanese toon work, in Technicolour exclusively long te
surrender reported that Major Houck's "trial" was conducted fore the major studios were even considering its use for a few of wholly in Japanese and that his
productions.
1he their
Anal plen t the site execution that part of the тиіс да ал action WAY thought when Disney started to use it: everyone else was so preoccupied with the fact that the movies could talk, that the Intelli. rent
use of
sound was rather rare.
use
of
of the he bad only
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that
He indicated that he thought was quite long enough, and said that he had requested Government lotteries, a popular the Generalissimo to send him fenture in both city and country to the United Nations Chiefs are now to be held three times month. First prize has been fixed of-Staff Conference to be held New York. Associated at 100,000 baht
(approximately in
Preas. other 2,160 with scores prizes down to sums of several hundred baht-Reuter.
of
U.S. Correspondents Detained
Changchun, May 2:
Five American correspondents have been detained in Chang-
chun by the Communists under "protective" house; orrest since April 16.
The correspondents have protested repeatedly that they are Orice they were being held under armed guard. permitted to walk under guard through the city.
Two of their cameras were seized Thiey aro ndequately lodged and are able to buy food. They request that official steps be taken to secure their relcase and have them safely taken to Mukden,
'TOP SECRET"
FLAYED
London, May 2. General Bedel! Smith, Chief-
quartera
(Sino-American truce Head-
reported in Peiping. sald that that the Chinese
of-Staff to General Dwight technical problems were delay-
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Humiliating
We found it humiliating to walk about Chungchun under
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Eisenhower during the war and ing the plans to fly out the cor- now United States Ambassador respondents.)
Stored at Arnhold's Yard, to Russia, in an exclusive inter- In a protest to Mao Tse-tung.
K. M. .L. 90, Ma Tau Wei Road, Kowloon. view with the "News Chroni-Chief of the Communist Party, cle's" Moscow correspondent the correspondents said "Gen-
2 Junk Hulls, Large Dock last night, refuted the charges era Chow Pao-chun, Comman-Winch, Angie Bara, Vertical Changchun, explained Furnace, Overhead Crane, levelled against Eisenhower and der of Field-Marshal Montgomery by that we were detained to 'pro- the journalist Ralph Ingersoll tect our safety against Kuo- Timber, Scrap Iron, Slipways,
etc. in his new book "Top Secret." mintang detectives.
"We have made three offers Stored at Jordan Road Godown. Bedell Smith aald: "If In-since April 19 to sign a docu- gersoll says Eisenhower could ment relieving Communists of have ended the war by Christ- responsibility for our safety in mas, 1944, then to me it means this now peaceful city, but each that his opinion as to the capa- offer was refused. The Tass cor- city cf any senior commander le respondent has full freedom of not, worth the paper on which movement.
non-pro- it is written. For
to criticize a fessional soldier soldier in the way Ingersoll has done would be na if I started criticizing a brain surgeon on some highly delicate operation."an armed guard before the eyes of thousands of Japanese in- CATHOLICSE WARNED: Ingersoll was in "no position, cluding former enemy soldiers to know whether the war could who are roaming about freely. "NEW SOCIAL WAR"
have ended at Christmas, 1944, Coneequently, we no longer take advantage of this doubtful pri- (Continued from Page 1)
or at any other time."
vilege.
"Our detention violates the Tactical Judgment caused the downfall of the great New York, May 2.
warior Hannibal.
principles of the freedom of the The Cartha- Yong Jeung Kim, president ginians were not defeated by Asked by the "Chronicle" cor- press enunciated at Yenan and
The above Premises where Disney's latest achievement can
Com- respondent what he thought of in our discussion with crimes of the Korean Affairs Institute war, but by peace. In the "Three Caballeros"
that munist
the goods are stored will bo . in allegations and Centrai | branch of the China Theatre of America, today urged imme- "Has peace defeated us, too? Ingersoll's
representatives (at the Alhambra
open to inspection on 4th May, Judge Advocate's Department, diate
was from today, the simultaneous
and simultaneous
"People say that there are no Eisenhower
appointed Chungking and Peiping. appearance on the screen of live went to Hong Kong and Singa-drawal of Russian and Ameri-social problems in Spain, but without full regard to his mili-! "As correspondents who have 1946, between 10,00 a.m. and actors and cartoon characters. pore to obtain their release to can forces from Korea who are they forget that still waters, tary capacity General Bedell consistently reported Commun-12.00 noon, and on 6th May. 1946, between 10.00 a.m. and the American military.--Asso- "creating chaos in tht land of when they run deep. undermine Smith said: "I am completely ist and Kuomintang views neu- 12.00 воол, and between ciated Press.
even mountains. Many of the familiar with the considerations trally we demand our immedi 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.
freedom." -- Associated Chatrs of Sociology which which prompted the selection of ate
theso were Preas. formerly existed have been done Eisenhower, and away with. Among the work-based purely on his military ers, the desire for work and the ability. I am no hero warship, will to work have become por, but Eisenhower's tactical ruling classes, too busy making officer I have ever met."
comply with the de- money,
Of Field-Marshal Mont- mands of the State, and think that by doing so, they do more gomery the General said: "I than their duty. But they over- consider him one of the grea look the fact that that which is test leaders produced by the given because it must be given, war."-Reuter. arouses no gratitude."
be
Aven
of
KD-
Whether this technien tour de force will prove as Important to the screen generally as his other ideas, remains to be seen.
The purpose behind this fil
forerunner. "Saludos Amigos" must be understood if
and
its
been performing his military CHAOS IN
duty-was ignored by the Ja- panese officer in charge of the execution.
The Japanese party was ment to Shanghai after Major W. F.
of the Monaco,
war
FISH CONFISCATED
A merchant, Tso Yuk-wah,' 17, of No. 67, Island Road, was
KOREA
with-
the Morning Calm."
Kim told the American Coun- cil of the Institute of Pacific who Relations that Koreans,
freedom expected immediate
the idens involved are to be realis charged before Mr. G. Y. Kwan without strings, find Russian deadened. The majority of the judgment was the best of any
ed. The intent of these two films was the promotion of better under standing between the North and South Americns, a part of the United States Good Neighbour l'olicy Disney-and his collabora torn went to South America and
films, for many months they made took notes and painted pictures of the life of the people of the con- All this was shown in tinent. "Saludos Amigos". In the "Three Caballeros" then. we are shown of the interesting life of these people, a sort of conducted tour in the able hands of Donal Duck.
more
inL
at the Central Magistracy yester- day with selling or dealing salted fish wholesale without permit on April 30.
a
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Inspector Snul of No. 7 Police Station, said that accused feer by a Chinese Policy sergean to take two baskets of salt fish to the Wai Lung shup at Mui Fong Street. Questioned he admitted that be sold them to the shop.
A fine of $260 was imposed and
fish confiscated.
the
FINED FOR SPEEDING
und American attachments."
"This division of Koren con- tinues," he said. "It is not only a division but a partition. After suffering at the hands of the enemy the Koreans nullur at the hands of their friends."
Kim condemned the Moscow As trusteeship agreement, sociated Press,
Shakespeare In Chinese
New Attila
Drifting To Civil War In Poland?
G.Is. Not To Arm-in-Arm It With Frauleins
Berlin. May 2. Major-General Walter Keating, Immediately upon assuming, com- mand of the American Army gar- rison here, demanded that his staff
of halt public demonstrations "The
affection between American soldiers rumblings of a new
and German
girls. social war can already be heard
Major-General Keating also told in the distance. The sound of
ail officers of the United States the gulloping of the horses of
Warsaw, May 2. in the Berlin area that they them- the new Attila is approaching, a
lead their troops Incoming foreign press mes-selves were to new-Attila who wants to dumin-
to be censored back to more austere life,
"We cannot control what hap- The first Chinese translation of ate the world with his Com-sages continue
pens behind doors, but we can Ministries* the complete works of Shake munist plan, beginning with the in Poland, despite the Foreignt Traffic Inspector Hidden said. The music is of the that accused was dcen driving
speare, by Prof. Tsao Wei-feng, is conquest of the workers. Comfortnight ago that censorship control what happens in public- near completion, and the first ten munist internationalism
the commanding and we shall," Disney
standard--
along Hennessy Road at a speed volumes are to be published
officer declared. in knocking on every door, and will be removed.
He complained particularly June 1. stopped by a Naval patrol car and
and bolts are Informed sources said that It is learned
has about United States coldiers who was told that it was a congested the translator, has been, working He cannot be overcome with been
the strolled through streets with their
around arms
German girla. for the last 15 strenuous years in
and cartoon
Charles Gray was summoned before Mr. George Ske at the Central Magistracy yesterday for
19.
Essentially this is a series of short cartoons on le plan of speeding at Hennessy Road on "Silly Symphonies" with linkag by live action sequences. usual high
Caballeros" cannot fail to be popa- Iar for it has colour, music ani humour in abundance.
G.W.A.
bars strang
la
K announcement
catchy, singalle tunes, "The Three over 38 miles per hour. He was Shanghai hat Prof. Taao, needed to keep out the enemy. -the Ministry's directive
bren.
A line of $75 was imposed,
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of the general Christianisation" of the world arising from the lack of a real feeling of social responsibility among the clergy.
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Washington, May 2.. The
to
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An authoritative Indian first secret meeting yesterday. drums, found on March 22 at No- 940, Canton Road, ground floor,
Social Catholicism, he declar-source said today the United said they would welcome any in- 10.00 .m.
was granted by Mr. W. 1. Lati-ed, is the only real Catholicism, States authorities estimate that formation from any source. This 10.00 mm,
and if today it is forced to fight they will have more han 800,000, open invitation would permit
França regimo to offer evidence mer at Kowloon Court yesterday. 10.00 ..
FL. J. B. Wilson stated in its way laboriously in a Catho-, tons of cereals available for offest contributions already Neon
evidence that the drums, contain- lic country, it is only yet an- needy countries during May; seated to the Cothell by Spanish D.15 p.
pound has been republicans through the Polish 3.30 p.m. ing NT potrol and 90 octane other proof of the degree of de- "but not one
Delegate, Oscar Lange, in his do- 4.00 p.m. aviation potrol were definitely Christianisation of that country, alloted to Indin."
"There came a time when re- RA.F. property.
The source of this report, mand for a collectie United ligion confined itself to cul-who declined to be named, said Nations breakwith Madrid. tivating the spiritual man, 162,000 tona of American Associated Press. with the excuse that it was not cereals had becon alloted to
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commendation of the Far East "With the rise of capitallam Commission that the United women and one child, are return-and its exploitations, there ap: States reorganise its policy for ing to the Colony, and 341-man, peared on the scene 'saviours' coreal shipments to that coun-
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and often extremely generous. ・ for the Boca Tigris area.
Parle, May 2,
Four Frenchmen were killed and ten others seriously wound- ed in a clash between French 0.16 and Indo-Chinese at Haiphong,
to Tonkin; according French pressngency today Router:-"
They were the enthusiastic in- terpreters of the hopes and suf-
ferings of the oppressed classes, been
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SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING
SATURDAY EVENING
Rains came to sections of the This class will be discontinued
until further notice. parched western winter wheat
belt today, reviving hopes that
the area would still be able to Watch, this column for details. produce, a good crop,
Heavy rains also fell in mid-
won over by facts and western corn Innda.
Reports from Kaftans, Okla. for whom they obtained, by benefits, by deeds and rot by their constant and clover words. The Priesthood today is homa and Texas, however, any managed negotiations, such out of contact with the masses that the drought has already economie and social reforms as and to win them over, they spoiled the wheat crop.-
Some sections will not raiso they could never have hapad to must become their refuge, heir
advisers, and the deferiders of more than 50% of last year's, obtain for themselves "ga
cropAsssociated Press, masses have always their rights,Reuter,
"The
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