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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946.
RED FLAG IN PARLIAMENT
REFUGEES
House Passes Steel Industry Nationalisation TO POLICE
Surprise Arrests In Madrid
Madrid, May 28: Thirty-eight Spanish Republi- cans and seven Socialisto have been arrested during the past Fow days, it was learned today.
Their arrests has caused sur- prise in Madrid. Most of the Republicans belong to sections opp end to th Apanish Republi- can Choc1-in Exile headed by Dr. Jose Carad.
Senor Seville, une of them. I is a veteran member of the ite Publican Government and in kown for his mulerate views, Another prominent Leftist escaped in lime.
NA
Mr. Morrison
\
MacArthur
Issues Warning Asks For
LONDON, MAY 29.
BY 338 VOTES TO 184 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LAST NIGHT PASSED A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO TRANSFER AN “AP- PROPRIATE SECTION" OF THE BRITISH IRON AND İSTEEL INDUSTRY TO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP." WINDING UP THE DEBATE, MR. HERBERT MORRISON, LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, SAID: "WE
GO ON SHALL
WITH THE SCHEME WHETHER THERE IS OPPOSITION OR NOT, BUT BOTH THE IN.
A DUSTRY AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE BETTER JOB OF IT IF THERE IS A GOOD SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION ON BOTH
SIDES."
Th. Government, Mr. Mor-} rison said, believed it would bel pasier and more decisive to get the physical changes necessary in the industry under public
Secret Arab
The arrested men were transcnership than the cartel, plus Conclave
for red from police headquarters state control. to Madrul provincial prison to- day.
Replying to question by Mr. R. A. Hudson Conserva- tive) RS to whether the so-
relationships with
the
Meanwhile, Spain has sent a j note to Allied diplomats here;cialised undertaking would have seven in Madrid indicating that she any would receive with indifference carted organisations any devision by the U.K.0. sul committee considering the
Franen regime.
This was stated today by the spokesman of the Spanish For- eign Office. Reuter,
uverseas,
Advice
GERMANY
Shanghai, May 29. Sixteen lucky Jewish re- fugeen, picked
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Notices in local Allied Headquarters were seek- Tokyo, May 29.
ing Jewish recruits from Shang NLT, minium of 25 words, The four-power Allied hai for police Jobs, brought Council for Japan will be ask- Hond. of applications from ed officially tomorrow for the over China.
The American Consulate- first time by General Mac- General had the task of sorting Arthur for comment on occu- the grain from the chaft. Due pation problems.
to refugce anxiety and uncer- Heretofore nil the Alliedainty over future Chinese delegates have been interroga- policy towards then the For- tors, querying SCAP'S repre-eign Office has stated that it sentative on various phases of will repatriate all but a few the occupation.
German and Austrian Jews). Tomorrow, council members thousanda, qualified and unquali- will be asked for their views, fied, sought positions, on the disposition of Japanese government property, rural land reform and resumption of re- lations between Japanese labour organisations and those in other
They calculate that since they may be repatriated anyhow, they may as well go. to good job. The attractive salaries (up to 290 a month), double ratione, and other favourable conditions of survice, were an added in ducement.
previous experience
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of China Entertainment and Land In- vestment Company, Limited will be held at the registered office of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 6th Floor, Victoria
in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Wednesday the Twelfth day of police June 1946 at 12 o'clock noon when the subjoined resolution will be proposed
ns a special resolution.
That Article 71 of the Articles of Association be altered by nubstituting the figures "$1,200.00 to $2,400.00" for the figures "$600.00 to $1,200.00."
Londone, May 28, The Rulers and Presidents of ¦ countries.
Arab Sinten met in n! MineArthur's request for com- decusioning. much secret conclave at the country | ment estate of King Farouk of Egypt, | speculation which seems to boil Required qualifications were
down to the question: Mr. Morrison declared that this 30 miles to the east of Cairo.
They talked for 2-1/2 hours. Is SCAP prepared to assign work and a Round political would be a public concern and it would be its duty to do what A personality in close touch with a greater share of importance background. Many Jews joined was right in the public in the Palace today said that the to the Council as he proceeds the former international police terests. The som answer was atmosphere has been friendly with direction of the occupa force of Shanghai on arriving
Nothing w dis tion?
here from Europe before the made to the question whether and curdial.
cloned about the actual political Under the terme of the Mas war, and thus obtained wide exports were to be subsulised.
Mdiscussions which took place.
establishing experience communique
of Earlier in the debate
cosmopolitan 1eanwhile, the British mili- the allied gouncil, SCAP will police problems.-Neuter. Hudson had said that i the
group before British Iron and Steel Federalary authorities, it is believed. consult with the
"matlers of tions plan for reorganisation have issued instructions for the issuing orders on of the industry was accepted evacuation of Egyplan towns substance" if the situation per- by the Government, it would by July, according to a despatch mits. Tomorrow's agenda entries could well be classified "matters have had authority over the from Cairo tonight. The mystery of Martin Bor-
location of the industry, priori- Certain units of the Royal of substance," land reform and mana, Hitler's deputy and the missing mat of the 21 lending ties, distribution and prices: as Navy at Alexandria are on the Nazis accused of war crimes, well as exports. What more pra-point of leaving for Malta and took a surprise turn today whensible control could anyone want, Cyprus.-Reuter.
BORMANN SURPRISE
Nuremberg, May 29.
he added.
The result of today's te wis greetedi with Government
Labour cheers and
Members
his counsel announced that the woman who was with him to the very end would give evidence.
Bormann is being tried in his absence, though it is widely be Treved by the Allied authorities that he died in a last-minute bid to break out of the Red Armyservative) and member of the #i. Parid the Beetin Chan-ron and Steel. Federation, de-
sung the "Red_Fing",
Best Example Commander A. Dincan, ¿Con-
YOW
labour being two of the most debated topics
sociated Press.
in Japan-As-
►
Silence On The Morrison Case
WASHINGTON, MAY 29.
cebery when a shell struck theclared that if the Government PENDING THE EXPECTED STATEMENT ON THE QUES- tank near which he was crouch-
ing.
Bormann's counsel said today of that Fraulein Else Kruger Hamburg "can testify that in all probability Bormann fell of May 1, 1915, or that if he did ut die from his wounds he must have fallen into the hands of the Soviet scrupation authori- ties.Rearer.
CHURCHILL CONDEMNS
in
3
to
would consult the industry they world satisfy themselves be- yond any doubt that a system of control could be established to safeguard every public in- terest that wanted to be safe- guarded. He said that the iron and steel industry was one of of public examples the best spirit in the industry. Thero IT had been no labour conflicts for over 40 years.
No major challenge had been made to the plans of the Iron and Steel Industry. The in- dustry did not need money from the Government. 149 OWI pians could be carried out 100 per cent by firms who sub- scribed to it and the suggestion, that there was no therefore, unity in the Federation did not apply.
TION OF FOOD FOR INDIA AND GERMANY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TOMORROW FROM THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, MR. HERBERT MORRISON, THE BRITISH EMBASSY AND STATE DEPARTMENT HAVE MAINTAINED OFFICIAL AND APPARENTLY AGREED SILENCE ON THE "MORRI- SON CASE" IN WASHINGTON TODAY.
AUTHORITATIVELY, HOWEVER, WAS CONFIRMED
THAT A MUTUALLY SATISFACTORY "CLARIFICA- TION" ON THE REMARKS OF MICHAEL MACDER- MOTT, WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY, AND THE.AM- ERICAN POSITION OF FEEDING THE BRITISH ZONE IN GERMANY AND INDIA, WAS REACHED IN CON- VERSATIONS YESTERDAY BETWEEN THE BRITISH MINISTER IN WASHINGTON, MR. ROGER' MAKINS, AND THE UNITED STATES ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF.STATE, MR. WILLIAM CLAYTON, ·
TWO WORLD ECONOMIC BLOCS?
Washington, May 20.
Mr. McChesney Martin, Presid ent of the Government Export and Import Bank, declared today that it is entirely up to Russia f
Dated the 18th day of May 1946.
George Y. K. Sun,
Secretary.
STANDARD-VACUUM
OIL COMPANY
whether two world economic bloc is pleased to announce again.
in contending for trade. Martin told the House of Refor presentatives
the
convenience
of the
now holding king Committee | 'public, its offices are now located
on the pro- in the Hong kong Bank posed British loan. "I do not Building:- subscribe to the idea of two world economic blocs. There will be 2nd floor:
no attempt to exclude Russia. Ironi work trude. It is entirely up t
Mr. Fred Vinson, Secretary of the Treasury, had previously told the Committee that he though! the loan would mean, for a while, two world blocs, of England and America on the one hand.
and Russia on the other.
On the loan itself. Mr. Martin said: "It would be a very serious set-back to world prace if this loan is not made," He expressed the opinion that the loan would, tend to retard socialisation of in- Britain-Associatel
dustry
Press
It was also learned that the ing that they have succeeded in BABY DEATHS
State Department has privately buying more than 80,000,000
Mr. Hugh Dalton, Chancellor conceded that the statement by bushels of wheat under the re- ENQUIRY
They
thut this amount,
New York, May 29.
Hong Kong District Office. South Shina Territory counting Office.
6th floor:
Ac-
South China Territory Office. Offices of Manager, Opera- tions & Marketing Departments. Telephone Nos. 30203, 30204 &
30205.
SERVICE AUCTION ROOMS Auctioneers, Surveyors, etc. Bmant, French Bank Bldg., A.E.B. de Sousa, Auctioneer. Telephone 31867.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned has received
London, May 20.
Churchill, Mr. Winston message wishing SUCCERS Lieutenant C. 1. Mullan, official Unionist candidate ite County Down (North Ireland) by-election for a sent at Westminister, anys.
A war ago, our world wide ent of the Exchequer, stated that, MacDermott, who is a special cent buying programme. pire f self-governing nations
rate of in-public relations assistant to the claimed the open market
to all Secretary of State, Mr. James coupled with 30,000,000 bushels stood at the pinnacle of its fante terest would be given
was based on an in- of maize similarly procured. An Army Board of Enquiry instructions from the Custodian and prestige among the peoples of public borrowing of the nation- Byrnes, the world. In the months thatlised section of the steel in- complete and possibly garbled will enable the United States to las absolved the medical staff of Property to sell by Public
ita 225,000,000 bushel of the brideship "Sebulon B. Auction have elapsed since the reins of dustry and something only frac- version of Mr. Morrison's re- meet. government passed into the hands
was no inten- export goal by the end of the Vance, of "negligence or mis-, of the Socialist Party, our position tionally above that to any an- marks. There
conduct" in connection with the, on THURSDAY, the 30th May, world proved sch_mes in the private tion, however, of formally with-first half year. and our influence upon
drawing MacDermott'a
In view of the past heavy deaths of eight GI babies who sector.
1946, affairs have grievously declined.
Mr. Dalton said that a large tion that the United States deficits,
however, proportion- succumbed soon after the ship's; commencing at 10.30 a.m., "This government of timid yet
mills in Government has assumed no ately larger quantities of this arrival here on May 19 from Le dangerous zealots, content number
nut
at the premises of on the total will be available next! Havre, with
making, wild experiments South Wales were a disgrace to specific commitments
The number of infant deaths with the future of
of British
in their owners, and the Govern- feeding of the two vital areas month and will be sent to al-
THE KIN LEE GODOWN, dustry, has now begun
most all of the World's famine rose during the week 10 as the it ment would not buy this "old concerned, to liqui-
was further
THE PRAYA, KENNEDY date our interests and our prestige junk" for the State-Reuter.
learned.
areas, provided that transport port of embarkation announced world.
to all over the
Only by
That the United States has is available meet what is the receipt of a radiogram. from "John Ericson" watchful, persistent and unlinch-
made no definite commitments claimed here to be "the greatest the transport Ing opposition can the worst ex- cesses of this minority socialist government be checked or abated. Ulster has never failed to keen the flag flying."-Reuler.
EQUIPPING
FRENCH ARMY
London. May 28.
of tin-plate
ANOTHER DEADLOCK
Mr. Hector McNell, Under-man. disarmament.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
It
Was
not disclosed which stated in reply to a question in power had blocked the investiga- by the American the House of Commons today Lion proposed
Gen. Lucius J.
French metropolitan forces.
Negotiations
were 'now
Lieut. member,
Clay.
488er-
is partially confirmed by the grain movement in history." (due to arrive here on May 30 statement from
the British Reuter. food mission that the wheat allocations for Juno have not yet been fixed by the Combined Food Board.
Archbishop On ¡Palestine
from Southampton) advising that a baby died on board ship, apparently from suffocation. The vessel also reported three other infants seriously ill-As- Bociated Press.
U.S. OFFER TO DENMARK
TOWN,
35 LOTS OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
comprising:--
Paper,
Zinc Oxide, Oil,
Dicael Oil,
Lubricating Oil,
Aluminium Water Bottles, Candles,
Paint,
Matches,
Fertilizer,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
a.m.
Berlin, May 20. The Allied control authority': coordinating committee were yes- terday deadlocked on an Ameri-
In the case of the British can proposal to send a four- power commission into each of zone, it is learned that a re- the four occupation zones to inquest will be made for sufficient vestigate the process
of Ger supplies to maintain a 1,000
London, May 29, calory daily level as well as to
The Archbishop of York, Dr. the replenish
arca's stocks C. F. Garbett, who recently which are dangerously low.
visited Palestine, makes this
Washington. May 20. comment on June Availabilities
The United States has offered the Anglo-Ameri- that the British Government had
can Palestine
Committee's re- to train Danish personnel in the In the Case of India, the port in a statement.published operation of radar and weather
The above Premincs will be supplied considerable"equipment A spokesman anid the com for the
in Greenland Alations
and th open to inspection on 28th and rearmament of the mittee would issue a communiquJune allocation Is not expected here today:
"I am sure that the commit-of their continuance after Ameri- 10.00
Farsca islands in order to be sure 29th May, after its next, meeting and then to reach the 500,000 tons asked
1946, between be more than tee is In reveal the stand taken by each for but it will
and Noon, right in rejecting the
and 264,000 tons, which was India's exclusive claims of Jews, and can forces withdraw, it is dls between 2.00 p.b. and 4.00 p.m. progress with the French Gov- power.--Associated Press.
original May allocation, ernment with a view to the sale
Arabs to Palestine and looking clased. Not all surplus countries have forward to the
In the meantime, American off. on favourable terms of further
The Auction is subject, to the time when it clals reported their June "avail shall become
are accking Daniah quantities of equipment.
per-conditions of Salo published in a state which mission to maintain the stations the 9th March, 1946, ipsue of yot but definitely guards the rights and interests temporarily in an effort to pre- the Gazette. word is expected by the end of of Arabs and Jews alike,
vent their deterioration until A dianatch to the Reme nowa the week.
"It must never be forgotten sufficient crown have been trained, paner "Expresso" suggested to
The June allocations will be that Palestine is the Holy Land In order to continue the operation day that a large nir transport plane stolen from the Forlanini made by the old Combined Food of the Christian, Jew and Mos-considered essential for Translat
Jantic alr services.-Associated and not by tho new lem."-Reuter. airport near Milen
Press. LINER'S CREW AT
on May 27 Board
natinn might have carried away Benito twenty
International PALACE
Mussolini'a
to Emergency Food Council, just London, May 28,
Spain.
created by the Food and Agri-f
BENES' BIRTHDAY Five of the Danish
men in flying suits, arrive culture Organisation.
Much of the June allocations, liner, "Frederick of Denmark," ing 30 minutes before the regular
The campaign for the general
Prague. May 28- at Buckingham crew, calmly warmed up the three-it is considered, will have to election and the referendum Sixteen thousand students
engined Craft and took off.
come out of American supplies, which is to decide whether Italy gathered in the courtyard of Mussolini's body wan stolon an Informal party, from an unmarked grave in r
Transport
lo to retain the monarchy or the Prague Castle this afternoon and the Queen and the two Milan potter's field on April 22
Officials of the Department become a Republic-on. Sunday to cheer President Bones, who Princends wero also present. and has not since been traced of Agriculture said that they June 2, lo in full swing here-celebrated his 62nd birthday to
Ansociated Press.
wore preparing a report ohow- Router.
day.Router.
The British Government had! alao equipped, on repayment, one full French division and a number of formations for the Far East. Reuter.
The
crow
lunched today
Palace.
-It was
Reuter.
MUSSO'S BODY FLOWN OUT?
Rome, May 20.
body. possibly
abilities"
REFERENDUM
Reme, May 29.
A. Ê. B. DE SOUSA,
Auctioneer.
Hong Kong, 28th May, 1946.
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers, Surveyor. and Appraisers, Poddor Building. Telephono No. 20224.