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CHINESE SOLDIERS LEAD RIOT
A riot started by three Chinese soldiers who tried to get in to see a "Wall-of-Death"
per- formance
without pay- ing for it grew to such proportions in Wanchai last night that the Emer-
Squad and gency lorry-load of
a
Comman- dos had to be turned out to disperse the mob.
A Chinese Police Constable was badly beaten up and receiv ed a 2-inch cut on the head, while a foki on duty at the gate of the "Wall-of-Death" had bla right eye nearly gouged out and may lose the sight of it. Bath were taken to hospital.
The trouble started at 8:15 "p.m. when the three Chinese sol- Hiers tried to get in to see a motor-cycle "Wall-of-Death" performance on Southern Play- They were ground, Wanchai. denied admittance when they re- faned to buy tickets and when
Threats and intimidation failed the they proceeded to wreck wooden structure.
A crowd of loafers and other ne'er-do-wells quickly, joined in the "fun" on the side of the soldiers. Wooden boards were
torn
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Transport Searched At Sea
SCIENTISTS APPROVE
Birmingham, June 16.
The British Association of Atomic Scientista panned resolution here today appear. ing Bernard Baruch's
-
posals for the destruction of all atom bombs and the trans- ference of the secrets of their
to
inter- manufacture notional organization.
The hope was expressed for of an early implementation the proposals, of Baruch, who in the United States represen- tutive of the United Nations Atomic Energy commission.-- Reuter.
U.S. Senators
Attack Bevin
Washington, June 16. Two Senators, Robert Wagner and
James Mead, today sent a cable to the British Foreign
Mr. Secretary,
Ernest Bevin, accusing him of false and anti-Semetic,
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were
They were replying to his statement at the British Labour Party conference in Bourne mouth that Americans pressing for admission of more Jews into Palestine because they did not want more of them in New York.
loose and a small hut utterances.' forming part of the premises was completely wrecked.
Chinese Police-Constable D217 bravely tried to control but it was only crowd prompt arrival of reinforce- ments from No. 2 Police Station that saved him from even worse injuries. His uniform torn and covered with blood, he WB8 rushed to hospital in an ambu- lance,
Riot-Call
Hunting For The Grand Mufti ?
Cairo, June 16.
The British transport Devonshire entered Port Said this morning with all the troops wearing life jackets and a considerable number of mill- tary police on board after being delayed for 24 hours outside the harbour by an unexplained series of incidents.
A senior British naval officer at Port Said, refus- ing today to give any information about the Devonshire, said: "This is a top priority secret.'
An Associated Press destroyer «ped down the narrow patch from London, however, channel at 12 knots-the fastest Inter quoted
Admiralty speed that any ship can move spokesman stating that the ship was stop. ped and searched off Port Said in a determined hunt for the Mufti..
in Syria" aa with safety-indicates that the mission was one of secrver and urgency,
The spokesman said that the British Government "is taking; all possible steps to prevent the Muft of Jerusalem from reach ing the Middle East." The spokesman declined to say whe- ther the search was a result of special information
on the whereabouts of the Mufti, who is a determined for of Jewish
immigration into Palestine.
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PROTECTION
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Los Angeles, Juno 10. Throo foot of concrete protection against the type of. atomic bomb dropped Japan, Dr. Verne Mason" of the University of Southern California's faculty told Civic luncheon here today.
In naid 22 telephone opera- tors who fled to a 'concrete shelter when the American planes approached, were injured although the dugout was directly under the minin blaal area. He added that his conclusions applied. only to the type of bomb dröpped" on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. --Argociated Press,
Soviet Navy Officer Rearrested
Seattle, June 16.
*Tel. 21488,
INTERIM GOVT. FOR INDIA
New Delhi, June 16. Viceroy Lord Wavell announced today that an interim government which is "strong and re- presentative"
will... be formed in India on the basis of the British Cabi- net Mission's plans.
Lord Wavell said he had “is- sued invitations to participate in the government to the Con- gross Party's President-design- ate, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Moslem League President, Mo- hammed Ali Jinnah.
Under the British plan, the interim government would ad- minister the country while a constituent, assembly is being chosen and until the assembly works out the constitution for Indian independence,
A despatch from London states that the "Evening News" phblished an Admiralty state-'
Tho, announced intention of ment on the Devonshire yester- Lieutenant Nicolai Redin- or the British Government is to al- day saying that it was the first the Russian Navy has been re-low India to become fully inde
France ship leaving
that has arracted on a new secret indiet-pendent and cheese for herreif been boarded and searched for ment
whether she wants to remain in- charging espionage the Mufti.
against the United States Gov- side or go outside of the Bri- tish Commonwealth.--Associat-
(Continued on page 4).
France To Open
ernment.
The now bill named Herbert ed Press. Kennedy, a ship's engineer, as having been induced by defend- ant to obtain information about the destroyer tender USS
Spain Border? Yellowstone," built here.
are
Indeed, the spokesman said that "we do not think he was on it," adding that the ship was allowed to proceed while the dashed southward destroyer through the Suez Cana).
How the name of the Mufti came to be linked up with these happenings is yet to be learned, Reuters correspondent at Port Said received a mysterious Spanish officials appeared plens. telephone call purporting toed with the result of the recent from Damascus. The French elections and interpreted come voice at the other end of the the gains of the popular Republi-
unilateral anti-Franco action.
U.S. Maritime Strike Over
Assistant District Attorney Allan Pomercy Madrid, June 18.
said Kennedy Authorized Spanish sources to would be produced in Court on Washington, June 16. day said that
negotiations June 25 as a government wit- under way to reopen the French
America's merchant ness against Redin, who entered frontier, closed on French initia plea of not guilty to the fleet began to move tive since March 1, except for the charge. The
new indictment month of April.
covers and corrects the original again along the Atlantic Indictment dismissed last seaboard, the Gulf Coast The cable declared: "This
month.
and the Great Lakes as echo of Nazi dogma is a mockery
Redin was originally arrested seamen voted over- of decent. principles for which our two peoples waged war. phone said. "Have you any news can Movement Party as a defeat in Portland, Oregon, last March, whelmingly to accept the
a $10,000 bail and "Such an insult would not be of the Devonshire? This is of the elements disposed to take He posted By 5.4 p.m. the crowd had excused by the fair-minded peo- | the biggest story here fer
then was released on an ad-maritime strike settle- ditional $5,000 personal-re-ment-reached-in-Wash- grown to betweep 700 und 1.000 kple of our, state, and of every years." Then the telephone. - Negotiations to reopen The and a riot-calf had to be put state who have shed "blood and went dead.
French frontier have been rumour-cognizance bond, Tollowing the ington just before the
against him.-As-Friday midnight dead through to Central Police. Sta--
participated in generous and A Inter Reuter despatch from ed since the elections began-As new action flon. The Emergency Squad, comradely aid to Britain.” Port Said stated that It was sociated Press, plus a lorryload of Commandos,
Senator Wagner is the Chair- generally believed there tonight was on the scene in five min-main of the Senate Banking and that the British destroyer
Batons and
and lathes Currency Committee, which re- Virago, which earlier
today were drawn and the police ad-cently reported favourably on dashed southwards under special vanced under a hail of stones the United States loan to Bri-priority through the Suez Canal and other odds and ends.
taln. Both he and Senator was carrying the Mufti of Jeru- Mead are Democrats.-Reuter. salem to the Seychelles Islands, one of the world's best places of exile.
utes.
Within fifteen minutes, the crowds had been scientifically broken up and dispersed down side-streets, and trams, the odd trafic bus or two and other held up by the riot were able to proceed.
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BOAC SETS
Only one man was arrested, a NEW RECORD
Chinese who had been seen | throwing stones. The three Chinese soldiers made
good
their escape in the crowd.
Another Incident? ・・
London, June 16.
Kidnapped?
sociated Press,
Pied Piper Of Panska Street
camp
-Warsaw, June 16.-
line.
Cons!
The giant harbours of Neiv and York, Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore returned to normal and full operations wore resumed at the ports of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. Activities picked up rapidly at Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulte..
when seamen received official notice of the settlement, which The newspaper "Dziennik Ludowy" today reveal-
came too late to avert a walkout. ed the latest exploit of a 74-year-old gipsy,
Pacific Coast ports, howevor, re- Joseph Bek, who escaped death in a German
mained in a state of paralysis. concentration
because of his skill in although Coast negotiations com- mittees urged longshoremen to ex- "charming" rats.-
pedite voling on the Wughington paper described how in Warsaw. It is estimated
seltlement, so that, if approved, Bek walked down Panska Street there are about 2,000,000 rate work could be resumed on Mon playing a flute and accompanied bounding about the ruins of this day by two boys beating drums. city, and some of them are "as Harry Lundeberg, executivo
big as rabbit"
secretary of the AFL Sailor's They get that way feeding Union of the Pacific, continued in- lowed them to a truck with a
than a year upon dependent negotiations with hoard leading to it nearby. The for more
declaring that
The.. players mounted the truck and human corpses buried beneath Pacific American Shipowners' As- after a slight hesitation the rats the ruins of homes and build-sociation.
"Washington settlement means followed them. When the rate ings.Associated Press.
nothing to me." truck from were all in, the
quickly closed and a special top
The
This belief was not dissipated, by a statement tonight that the troopship Devonshire, (which the destroyer earlier visited-off Port Said) was subjected to a A BOAC Constellation routine search yesterday.
The mystery of how if it aircraft, landed at Lon- proves to be the case the A few minutes inter, "don airport at Heathrow Mufti got aboard the Devon- "Several hundred rats fol- wounded Commando came in to No. 2 Police Station to report today after a 3,520 miles shire, has yet to be solved, but that at 10 p.m. he was attacked non-stop flight from New one widely held belief is that by a mob of 30 Chinese in Lock-York in eleven hours 21 he was kidnapped, possibly in
Syria, perhaps in Damascus. hart Road, which is about a seconds. It was the first The Devonshire was engaged block away from the Southorn
BOAC aircraft on a repatriation Playground. He received stab-time wounds in the right arm and had flown the trip from Toulon to Egypt and one cur- rent report tonight is that she New York to London. was diverted from her course: near the end of her Mediter-, ranean journey.
thigh.
He was rescued by a naval patrol, which took into custody and turned over to the Police two men, who said they were stall-keopers and that the trou- ble had started when, the Com- mando upset their stall.
The Commando admitted up- setting the stall, but said that
a
on
run
The aircraft was on a normal flight on the corporation's regular
The insistence shown that the service between Britain and
senior British pilot should take America scheduled to begin
Virago through the Suez July 1, and the decision was made the to over-fly the stopping pinces at Canal and the fact that all ship- Gander, Newfoundland and Ronan ping in the canal had orders to an, Eira, because weather condi-cense movement while the dea
he did this after he was attack-ons were unfavourable.
ed by a crowd which included the two men and that he did so to create a diversion In self- defence,.
SUSPECT KING MURDERED
Bangkok, June 16, The Siamese wockly newspaper "Thieng Thom," today openly challenged the official assertion at Klag Ananda Mahidol had dlod of a gun accident last Sunday and printed in a banner headline on Saturday. "we aspect that our King was assassinted.
peper enid evidence In- The newspaper dicated that the King, who died Inst Sunday from a bullet wound, was shot from behind and th position
A BOAC official later said: "We
have made a record",
Commenting on Pan-American Airways record for the Atlantic crossing the official said that their times-11 hours eight minutes- "over the top" tines as the plane had called at Newfoundland and Ireland.
were
"The times would not read, so
Was
clamped on it," the paper, said Solution
It added that Bek carried his living
by making purses cigarette cases and similar ob jeeth with the skin of rata.
He claims that rats are easily hypnotized by music and that one must discover the tones that affect them most.
Bck shall have plenty of work
CLASH WITH RUSSIA OVER REFUGEES
New York, June 16.
well", he admitted, and, ho added: Britain and the United States clashed sharply with
"If touch down times were given, a certain amount of time would be taken in 'mulling around be fore being given permission from the tower to land."-Ronter.
FAIRY TALE FROM MOSCOW
Russia in a heated debate in the economic and social council touched off by the assertion of the Soviet delegate that the refugee problem had "now acquired political significance." Nikolai Feonov, the Soviet de- legato inferred that Britain and the United States did not want "certain facts" to come to light, as he gave strong support to a Yugoslav demand for an investi- gation of refugee camps in
States had never used the plight of refugees for political motives, and added that camps in the United States arca had been the subject of inspection by other countries.
Of Iranian
Problem
Teheran, June 16. Prince Firouz, with two other members of the Iranian political mission which has successfully no- gotiated a settlement with the home rule province of Axer- baljan, returned by air to Teher- an today to report to tonight's meeting of the Iranian Cabinet.
With them WIS Dr. David; Minister of the Interior of the
Azerbaijan Government, hence
the
Longshoremen in Brattle, Los Angeles and Portland, however, voted to resumo work on Monday. The Ban Francisco Maritinte- Unique were scheduled to vote Inter on the agrovment, which their loaders urged them to accent- Associated Press.
(Earlier report on page 7).
Lichfield Trial Verdict
:{
Bad Nauheim, Juno 18. A U.S. military court today
Lieutenant convicted
Granville. Cubage of permitting unauthorized punishment, including beatings with clubs, on American soldier forth to be known as the Pro- prisoners at Lichfield, England. vincial Council.
The court fined him. $260, and. Prince Firouz conferred with administered a reprimand. Tho Ghavam Sultaneh, Iran Primo court struck out several of the Minister, within two hours of his original counts, eliminating all return..
reference to any impropër punlah- ment
Thousands of leaflets
rending Firouz,
Viva Ghayam. viva were dropped over Teheran by Soviet aircraft which circled the capital before landing the dele- gallon at the airport.
Cybage denied ordering anys. crueltics and insisted, as did thres enlisted men convicted before him. that higher ranking officers, die tated the Lichfield Camp policies, At the airfield, Prince Front Colonel Jomen Hillan, former com-, Earlier, the Yugoslav de-addressed from the top of a bus amander of the 10th Replacement legate demanded a spot investi- crowd of 8,000 workers and off- Depot at Lichfield, is one of the cials. Under the leadership at defendants yet to be triöd,A380- Mr. Hector McNell, the Brigation of refugee camps by Chavam, wo have solved the Azar ciated Press, tish delegate, referring to the United Nations committed. He
baljan problem. Soviet delegate directly, seld: alleged the camps were harbour-The way is now open to launch Mr. Feonov knows that pro-ing Quislinga and condoned the reforms throughout the country,"
training of units of the anti-head,roughout Tito royal Yugoslav army.
London, June 10. Moscow radio, quoting a Tohe-Europe.
newspaper report, alleged to- day that Britain had been flying arms into Iranian Baluchistan near the north-west frontier. India.
of the gun momed to prstan clude suicide or accident.
Meanwhile, unrest in spreading throughout Slam, with the rum- ours growing daily that the young King was'a 'victim of Palace mur- der-Anaociated Press.
of
The report said that a few days vision has been made for held ago British plane landed in inspection (of refugee camps). Baluchistan, took aboard num-that the distrose and privations Bethay, June 10. ber of Baluchistan chlafe and flow of people must come before One million pounds of wheat off. It added that the plan to police hunting." Wour dists buted he the Nations: bizned a few days later #late: 3. Condell of his together with
the
Ur fall to see why it is danger. hope that reactionary elementsterday's weather:
THE WEATHER Today's forecast!--Light Addressing later another crowd moderate south to south-westerly. After the Yugoslav proposal | gathered outside. the Foreign | winds; «loudy with-bright inter had been made, Mr. Feonov said Office, Prince Picous said: "I yale; local showers, especially in
morning Que to study conditions in these will never again become strong. No Politics
Maximum 80 deg at 0 p.m. camps. It is perhape desired in enough to defeat our purpose,
"Lhope we will have a thorough. 1 Malmurt 282 deg, et-f a.m. › Mr. John Winant, the Amort certain quarters that cortalni remontarekantlonkyaralia Karl Hamkly: 82% at 4 p.m.
mte. In mother retort factis should not be brought to (Pelment) so
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