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Three Chinese soldiers op- parently new to the idea were the cause queues, quite a bit of commotion the General. Post Office, Ped- der Street. yesterday after- noon but after a bit of face- slapping and a lot of face- saving argument, they left without any more trouble.
According to people in the Post Office at the time, the three soldiers came in and strade up to the busy Registered-Mail counter. Ignoring the queue waiting patiently, one of them handed over a letter.
The post office employee told him to get into the queue and walt his turn. Perhaps the glare he gave the soldier was
CHINA MAIL
NO. 33357.
!! ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1946.
H.K. HOUSING REPORT Recommendations To Be Made Shortly
For Repair And Reconstruction
Analysis Of The Known Facts
TRAGEDY
Colombo, May 13, SEAC military truck driver wais careering along the highway at a high speed. To pase a vehicle on the rond, ha swerved off the road and knocked down a woman stayd- ing by the aile of the road. Then she fell, the rearwheel of the lorry ran over the body. The woman died on the
The
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driver stopped tarry a few yards away, and cume reeling to the spot. Then he had a look at the victim-he identified her kia, mother-Router,
ACCUSED OF KNIFE SLAYING
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THE "CHINA MAIL” LEARNS AUTHORITATIVELY THAT THE HOUSING REHABILITATION COMMITTEE, APPOINTED TOWARDS. THE END OF JANUARY UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MR. LAWRENCE KADOORIE, HAS COMPLETED ITS FINAL REPORT, WHICH IS LIKELY TO BE RELEASED FOR PUBLICA- TION IN A FEW DAYS.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPOR- TANT RECOMMENDATIONS IS THAT A SCHEME BE DEVISED FOR HOUSING REPAIR AND RECONSTRUC- TION BY SUBSIDY GRANTS SIMILAR TO THAT
TYPHOON
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A typhoon, moving at speed of 80 knots, was report, cd yesterday afternoon by British Pasifo Fleet Hos.; ila position as 13° 30′ N, 141° 30' miles cast of Leyte, it was heading thor towards Formosa.
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Observatory tater gave the typhoon's 3 pm. position us 13° 30′ N, 1410 8' E, moving northwards. Thera are 80-knot winds at the con- tre, with 40-knot winds over «L' radius of 60 miles.
OPERATING IN THE BRITISH ISLES. UNDER THE BRIGADIER IS
BEVAN PLAN,
Known Facts |
The appointment of an of a short-term and a long-term u na formidable as the basi- A big United States Naval
basis. lisk-glance of, say, the post mis-plane, flying courier service ficial, whose dutica in Hong trenses of Clifton or Uxbridge; between hero and Manila, Kong would be similar to those heard of queues; he was prob- landed on the waters of Hong capacity as "Minister of Hous perhaps the soldier had never
Kong Harbour on Sunday with
ably in a hurry.
of Mr. Anetrin Bevan as in his
ACQUITTED
Anyway, words began to flow an alleged knife slayer who sing" in Britain, is also centem- tailed analysis of the known used for private purposes
being returned to Macao for
back and forth very quickly, culminating with. a endden trial. lunge across the counter by the soldier. Grabbing hold of Mr. smacked Registered Mail, he him across the face-hard
A large crowd gathered, some to take sides, some to mediate, ne just to watch. After 10 minutes' argument, the soldiers left.
In custody of Carlos Nunes, Portuguese Consul at Manila, the man is charged with killing a fellow Portuguese crew mem- ber of a Dutch ship on the high Feas last Christmas Day.
Nunes said there find been hard feeling between the two The letter wasn't posted. | for sometime previous to the
knifing-Aasociated Press..
Enquiry Into R.A.F. 'Squalor' Report
"The conditions under which officers and men of Command R.A.F. Transport
are living and working here to maintain this vital air link with the British of occupation force in Japan are disgrace- ful."
Mathers, says Arthur special correspondant in Shanghai for the London "Daily Telegraph."
plated.
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Europe's Bitter War Within A War
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(Geñoral Praza Mihailovitch, the former Yugoslav War Mints. tor and leader of the Chetniks, will be on trial for his life in . Belgrade within the next few days, John Talbot, Reuters Special Correspondent who was' captured by the Germans in Yopostavia in May 1944, has written this first hand account of the Chetnik colla. boration with the enemy).
Rome, May 13. Whon General Draza Mihallovitch faces a Yogoslav Peoples' Court, probably in the coming week, on charges of treason, the warld will hear for the first timaltið full story of Europe's bitterest "war within a war"-tho fight of the Yogoslav Chetnik guerilla bands with tho
· German Army against, partisans led by Marshat Broz Tito.
Mihallovitch, as, supreme commander of the Chetniks will have to answer for the fratricidal struggle waged by his followers and the court will learn to what extent, if at all, he was personally responsible for the Chemnik colla- boration with the Germans.
I say something of the col- ing it from Communism came laboration' in practice before uppermost.
my work with the partisans in Today, Mihailovitch and Yugoslavia ended in a German aleven followers who stayed by prison cell. When I arrived at his side until their capture in a Marshal Tito's secret head-mountain cave where they lived quarters in 1944, one of the first like hunted animals, are behind Marshal for a really authentic trial. things I did was to ask the prison walls awaiting their
alleged collaboration evidence *I -Mihailovitch's
Germans.
The Hague, May 13. Canadian Brigadier F. A. Lister was yesterday acquitted Committee's report gives a de-dam on a charge of having 13 is understood that, the by a Court Martial in Amstor-
house which had been requi- The committee was appoint- That the proportion of Euro- ed by Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil pean residential property des-sitioned for Canadian forces. Harcourt,
The prosecution had accused tera written to the Germans by commute as Commander-in- | troyed or damaged is as high as Chief, British Military Ad- 70 per cent....
Lister of employing four Dutch footmen ministration, with terms of re-
and drawing
more
•That requisitioning by the Army rationa
than be should ference covering the ascertain Army, Navy and R.A.F: has in- have dene. ment of the facts on the extent volved a. loss to civilian occupa-
Lister testified that he rented of property damage.and destruction of an appreciable percent- the house in Amsterdam party tion throughout the Colony, age of what remains. and to make
because he wanted it a meet ing place for various Dutch and Canadian committees.
recommendations!
on the methods of meeting the acute housing shortage, on both
Rumania Like Loaded Banquet Table
(By, Frank O'Brien)
Bucharest, May 13.
| Soviet Rustia has fallen on potentially rich Rumania' like a starving man on a loaded banquet table. Under armis- tico torms, as interpreted by Russia, the Soviet Union is draining off as rapidly as possible vast quantities of Rumanian oil products, grain, timber, clothing, food and fuel.
Looking toward the future, Russia also has concluded
with a Communist-dominated Government which she installed in Rumania-a treaty of economic collabora- tion aimed at harnessing Rumania's resources to the Soviet giant,
The facts contained An his cable, sent on May 1, have been laid before the Air Ministry and an official, promising a full and immediate enquiry, Buid Nevertheless, Rumania is computed later: that cables are being sent to better off than most former Shanghai for further details, Į belligerenta in Europe. The Mathers, in his cable, suid:-- Russian occupation policy, tough
Meanwhile, Rumania is faced good-order all valuables and with severe shortages of panc- war materials removed from its tically all goods and with in- territories." Compensation for flation.
other. Allied states is to be
though it is, has been tempered
That building costs in the Colony to-day oret, five or six times higher than they were in 1941.
That the owners of private property are disinclined unless building costs dome down ap- reciably to enfbark on repairs or rebuilding without prior ng- surance of Government fiuncial assistance, by way of subsidies, thassurance of an adequate return on the outlay.
In this connection, it is un- derstood that the Committee express, the opinion that the
rehabilitation cost of
work should, in some way, be shared by the whole community and not be allowed to fall on the owners of property alone.
to
with the! The majority of Yogoslava expect that Mihailovitch will be sentenced to denth. At the Tito's answer was to send me same time there is a feeling a welter of documents, and let that Marshal Tito should then
his sentence
desture Chetnik commanders and photo- banishment for life,
defeated encty which stat copies of Chetnik orders, to a the study of which made it would appeal to all Yugoslave. clear that the Chetniks, or at-Reuter. any rate, a large section of them were in fact collaborating with the Germans.
The letters were largely re- quests for ammunition, queries) He added that other high-as to why the Gerinans had not ranking Canadian officers in yet delivered promised con- Holland all had their private signments of arms and informa- arters and kept Dutch Foot-tion concerning the disposition men who received Army rations. of partisan formations in the -Reuter.
surrounding countryside.
WOULD HAVE
TO FIGHT
WAY BACK
No Doubt
It was about this time that
Mr. Winston Churchill announc- cd that the British government!
Cairo, May 13.
Learus, Abdal Azzam
Scientists Appeal For May
London, "May-19. ^
of
The British Association
was transferring its support Scientific Workers today is The Secretary-General of the from Mihailovitch to Tito"as, sued a statement demanding a Amb Pasha, declared today that if the Mihailovitch has not been fight-drastic reduction of the "ex- British left Tripalitonia to makeing the enemy....
tra harsh sentence of ten. way for Italian trustceship there, Personally I never once had years' penal servitude passed "We will declare an independent direct evidence In my hands on Dr. Alan May, the 34-year- cenublic and the Italiana wil
wil that fallovitch himself col old London Atom :: scientist have to fight their way back." The Committee is opposed to
Following his warning issued aborated with the enemy, who, on May 1" was convict- though beyond all shadow of the removal of rent restriction last night that the plan for doubt, sections of his forces did ed of communicating - atom legislation, on the ground that Italian trusteeship over it wuld aggravate the problemtasia-now befor the ' "Bic our" actively collaborate.
information to another power of building costs, by causing an meeting in Paris-would mpari On all sides thera la evidenco (Soviet Russia), contrary all-round increase in the coat of war against the Italians and Bri- that Mihailovitch and his Chet- the Official Secrets Act. Ilving.
tish, Azzam Fasha, added: "When niks did fight hard against the the Italians had 150,000 troops
The nasociation's statement,
Slum Clearance An interesting wide-light is, the "Chino Mall: learns, that the Report of the Housing Com- mission which was published in 1938 has been brought out of Government archives and is be- ing re-studied in the light of the large-scale destruction of
Strictly Soviet
Although the armistice speci- More than 200 of them are with more common sense than fies the creation of an Allied accommodated at Ash road camp was the Rumanian-German control commission, which was which was condemned for human babitation in 1937-and between policy in the days when they set up after lang delay, the ad. alum property throughout the 140 and 150 at the Hanbury In occupied vast areas of southern ministration of the armistico | Colony, particularly in' such has been kept strictly within areas" as Hunghem and Wan- destitute Russila,
The Russians have neither Soviet hand.
chat. hurned Rumanian villages nor This has resulted in Russia
the
stitute-formerly Chinese Seamen's Hostel in the utmost discomfort and squalor.
The feelings of both officers and mun, many of whom are veterans of the war in Europe and Burma, are running high.
The facts of this situation were placed before Admil. Sir Bruce Fra se, then C.-in-C. of the Pacific Floe. when he was in Shanghai recently, and be inmediately "turned on the hont, to use the words of a R.A.F. o@cor who was wearing the D.F.C.
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War Trophics
there in 1918 wo drove them to Germans, but after the German the coast.
to
of Yugoslavia there made after a meeting today,
and again in 1919, capture After that, in spite of Mussolini Reems to have been a change in declared: "We do not sock to and all his troops. we continued their ideas of "saving" Yugo- Justify the doctor's breach of fighting until 1931."—Reutor.
slavia from oppression and say-officin} secrets but we `úte con- vinced from our own knowledge,, by a principle that the funda mental scientific knowledge should have been shared with a 'country that was not only friendly; but was fighting along- side us,
Bread Rationing
In The U.S.?
Washington, May 13.
Unless prospects for mooting the famine relief commitmentsTM improve quickly, the United States Stabilisation Dirac- tor, Mr Chester Bowles, may recommend to President - Truman that food rationing be re-imposed in the Unit-
ed States in August, according to high officials Washington today.
Mr.
in
"We believe that there in .widesprend public opinion, shared by many scientists, that the decision to undertake the development. of atomic energy without the closest co-operation. with our old' Soviet ally, was n hindrance to and has largely contributed to the present un-
national relations,
Bowles was said to believe that it might become neces-fortunate position in inter sary to ratión bread for the first time in United States. history.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, arrives In Washington from London to day. He said, "I am hon on be
destroyed Rumanian fields, and getting top priority in the It will be recalled that the no reports of mass executions acttlement of claims.
Housing Commission recom- have been received. All of these things happened in Russia the case
This is particularly true in mended substantial slum clear- of petroleum. Ap-ance schemes and the construe- when that country was being proximately 90 per cent of this tien, by Government, of model occupied by the Rumanians and country's oil Industries were tenement buildings for the the Germana..
owned by British, American, Chinese working classes. Dutch, Belgian and other in- The scheme advanced by Mr. terests prior to the war. Yet Owen, who was technical expert
The statement negerts that Commission, envisaged Russia is receiving vast repara to the Under the armistico, Rumania tions in oil.
the destruction of the worst
the sentence on May in "ox- must "hand over as trophics of
the last, century, the British Pross tremely harsh" compared- with · The Russians have taken as slum property to clear ah area,
this morning gave the greatest some of those passed on per- war all war material of Ger- war trophies one oil company and by a process of new arcom
prominence to Mr. Harbort Morrisons guilty of assisting the Ger Negotiations immediately opened many and her satellites located which was 99 per cent French modation in modern workers
son's fight to be the President. mana during the war. with senior officers of the United on Rumanian territory, make owned, one which was 30-por tenements, to gradually extend | half of tho, British Government While the papers naturally em- "It is clear."the statement States Command, who were entire regular payments in Rumanian cont French ownet, and one the scale of sium clearance, and people to discusa with. Pro- phasize the domestic aspect; of ly sympathetic. As a result the currency required by the Allied which was predominantly-Bel- War destruction at Hunghom sent Truman how the causes the mission, they make adds, "that no account has been K.A.F. have been offered accom (Soviet) high command." and "In gian-owned.--Associated Press and West Point, and to a modi victoriously wou in-this-war, can States aid in a supreme eleventh by his scientific, work and that which you and our people that he aims to enlist the United en of his positive contribu -modation which boing evacuated
by the United States Alt Transcaso of need Insure the use on
fed extent In: Wancha!, would Rumanian
be territory of Indus-
dragged hour effort to stave off famine port Command of Kiang-Wan air-
seem to provide the ninting down to defeat by
an international basis. Aaved from damine, an
the sentence is out of all. pro- field.
trial and transportation enter-
off altes for model tenement
;" simply do not May 90 1
To achieve his aim he has been portion to the magnitude of the prises, means of communica-
construction which, in 1938, after licking-tuler Undor prosent conditions, how tions, power stations, public
Invaated with very wide paznonal offence committed. "--Route 5. provided the Government with Japanese we are going to be depower of decision and all reporte ever, parinission for such move utilities, atures of fuel, fuel oll; will have to come from the Chinese food and other materials and
its principal problem." -The in-feated in this cintally decisive agree that the problem of India authorities, to whom the airfleid services. In accordance with in-
Jerusalem, May, 18.'. trusion of the European War, campaign, which will determine ranks high among the polnía has boon banded over nath
Twenty-four Jews hold in Acre of course, postponed all uction | the fate of the fro world for at which Mr. Morrison will presi Américats leave.
structions."t
prison in north Palestine, perl-
home as soon as he azion -The armistice, adds that being trial for unlawful possession on the Housing Commission's stageneration
“But It le nome - urstendiflg | Rester, 1- Cause Rumania finally joined of firearms, declared a hunger report.
that the battle is not at nthis, das PUMA the Allien she will not be restrike three days ago after refusal.
moment going against us.' It is Lerwick, Scotland, May 18, Famine will soon be killing elvi- Norwegian motor verduis quired to pay reparations. In to have their anger prints takes, When the Best E.AF partes full to the Soviet. But the Rabbi Kasmial of Haifa yester shots in northern Galilee and have Fascists more quickly than En have returned to the Shetland
↑it la learned tonlicht. came to Shanghai to erect such must pay to that nation $800 day tried in vain to persuade the Sean on hunger strike alios and Muamorial over faxinged tales for shark thing. The Tacilition as a wirelese station they lived in tenis, which were almost 000,000 over six years fu com- hunger striketa lo brank but the May Übécadas di miered in treats with) Britain today usesparing doch da used for food; the skine
modities and must return to warike,
This is not ment by the prison gaande --Asso- to ost the darkori: İmsad wings for imitation leather. “Associat- (Continued on Page (8) the Boviet Union in complete The young Jaws were recently, glated: Prom, and Rockar,
black bread went out dus in ed. Prosa.
"Flooded Tants
JEWS ON HUNGER STRIKE
...
arrested after an exchange of
lane and turning out futuro
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THE WEATHER
Today's intoERS
Cloudy, with