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CHINA LIGHT STRIKE
The threatened strike of the entire Chinese staff of the China Light & Power Co. came off yesterday morning at 10 a.m., the deadline set in
'ultimatum - their
handed to the Company the previous day.
The walk-out involved over 700 workers including about 100 members of the oflice staff,
Following the men's walk-out under Mr. the European staff
F. C. Clemo took over the power plant, and operation continued As usual. It was learned that there is no fear of any break- down, and the supply of electri- city to the public will continue without restriction.
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CHINA MAIL
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No. 33394.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, `WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1946.
OBJECTION BY "PRAVDA"
U.S. Atomic Plan Denounced
GALE
Fort Francis, Ont., Jane 25. Eleven persons, ten of the children, were taken to humps- tal yesterday after a 60-mite an hour pale struck this worth
ocalern Dataria town, 180 The enst of Winnipeg, miten ten children belonged to use family whose house out the Indian
reservation was blown down. The tornado lasted only four minutes during which it upronted trees and telephone nolce aloity three blocks of the Town's main street-Renter,
Cholera In
Hong Kong
is also been by a non-Chinese
"Work at the office maintained staff.
"Striving For World Rule"
Moscow, June 25.
"Pravda," official Communist paper, denouncing the American atomic energy central plan as atomic diplomacy reflecting evident striving for world rule, declared today that the plan advanced by the Soviet is human, clear and workable.
The paper stressed that Russia will not surrender her veto power on atomic energy. In contrast to the Russian plan, which "Pravda" described as designed to restrict the use of atomic energy to peaceful purposes, the Communist organ termed the United States Baruch plan as "ex- tremely perplexed and added it would:
of atomic energy. 2. Allow the
WOT! NOT PINK?
Perth, June 25,
An early morning stroller who was admiring the view of the River Tay from Toy Street here was so shocked at the night of an elephant Ium-
that he bering towards him the leaped over the railinux huto the water 15 fee below.
the river us at summer level, he wena in danger of drawing
und was able to clamber back to the street,
The elephant, which 10 B not pink, but the conventional gray, had outdistanced ila keeper while travelling with a circus.--Renter
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London, June 25.
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Peninsula Hotel Excitement
The R.A.F. Police were late last night still closely guarding a room in the Peninsula Hotel as the result of the attempted arrest by Chinese gen- darmes on Monday afternoon of S. K. Yee, Hong Kong-horn Chinese, a Major-General in the Chinese Army who received the C.B.E. from the British Government for the work he did in 'Burma during the war. Mr. Yee, who is now in private business in Hong Kong, was, according to a usually reliable re- port actually arrested by the Chinese gen- darmes on Monday afternoon, but managed to get away to the protection of the Hong Kong Police. He is said to have prevailed on his captors to return with him to the Peninsula. Hotel so that he could gather a few articles of clothing and then got on the telephone to the Police.
According to the official Chi- nese news agency, Central News, an order for his arrest wan handed to the Chinese Gender- merle in Hong Kong on Monday by Major-General Kwok Ping- ki, Supervisor of Movements of the Chinese-Ariny-in-Kowloon, on instructions from General
Fah-kwei, Director
A resourceful and pre-Chang
of
sistent Londoner, Flying shek's Canton Hqs.
Generdissime Chiang Kai-
Officer Vivian L. Oury,
of
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DOWN WITH DICTATORSHIP
Athens, June 25. Shouting "Down with Die- tatorship,"
entire Re- publican apparition - more than 100 members-walked out of the Greek parliamont tonight.
The walkout occurred con the reemption of the debaty on the Government's plebis- cite bit when a sell-quv- mint Rognliat deputy describ cd the late dictatur, General Metazon as "an influential factor in Greece'a military qucosases against "the Italians in Albania."--Router.
Since Jan. I this year 288 cases of cholera have
1. Strutch to an indefinite convincingly that rule of un- to the mind the reported
monopoly of the animity by great powers is an main- Medical Department; of United States in the production unfailing condition for
taining the quality of this or- these 156 have occurred
United States gan of the United Nations upon Meeting Held In the evening a meeting of since June 12-a period to decide when it would permit which depends the adoption of the committee of the Chinese of 13 days.
the international organ by suc-responsible decisions." cessive steps to peep into the Dupont Statement Engineers' Institute was held to
He wanted for trial in Of the total of 288 cages. 109 sorrels of its atomic kitchen. discuss the strike situation, and
The president of Dupont de of the Royal Air Force, Canton, says Central News, "on 3. To enable the United Nemours said that the соп- a representative of the strikera occurred in the Wanchai area.
the last during
impersonating six charges produce a story of pany undertook its part in the Forty-fvn special visits, says States to nude a report on the history of
Chinese Army Ollieer wear- has personallying an olleer's negotiations an announcement by the Deputy atomie homhs pending the din-atomic
nt months energy programme the strike, the
uniform with of Health Services, closure of catinnic information the urgent request of the United traced and identified accessories, including a Major- which took place, and the ulti-Director mate breakdown which led to were made to the Wanchai area to other powers.
States government and received more than 40 flyers who General's insignia and a Chin- by an inoculation squad and a
Main Distrust the strike.
for fee only one dullar for its lost their lives in Europeese Air Force badge He said that every englenvour total number of 13,046 persona
wark. He added that the in-
A former Councillor of the paper asked "If the had been made to arrive at an were inoculateri.
plication that the company had during the war.
National Military Affairs Com- announces that amicale solution of the dispute Ten special trucks have been United States
From his base at Hamburg, mission, Mr. Yea returned to with the rank of with the management, and that allocated by the Military au- the production of atomic wea-y connection with a German? the greatest patience had been thorities and these trucks work pons is forbidden why does the company of a nature detrimen- Oury, a linguist, travels over the Colony
tal to the United States or the the Continent, questioning Major-General, but according to day shown. The Company refused from 8 am, to 10 p.m., and a United States Government want United Nations is just as far burgomeisters, village. priesta Central News he was, "dismiss.table just inside the door.
the same gang of 156 coolies are clearing to continue to make a store of from the truth as to accord the men
'Pravda's and witnesses on crashes, the led for having allegedly engig, basic pay and terms that were up the aren
Most of the squatters come does she pretend to stretch, her comment that atomic research exact location and date of which ed in private busines" here at granted to the Hong Kong men.
was sold to private monopolies,"
In view of the arrival of the production
the same time. where water is mourpoly The decision to strike was the from
In New York'an authorised
The Central Neiva repart armed gendarme, Mr. Yee retired
and concludes that the Chinese to his third-floor room
R.A.F. Folice guard was posted. instructed Gendarmes · pcre to arrest Mr. Yee and hand Two men spent the night in the.
room with him, while another kest him over to the Hong Kongwatch on the door from the carri- authorities pending extradi- | dor outside.
The men were aware that the Company was able to keep, the plant running for a long time In spite of the strike, but never theless they were determined not to work until their demands were met by the Company.
they
arens
have been using
The
atomic bombs? On what' basis
some
of
of
main source of the United
veta
New War
airdost unanimous wish of all normally derived from wells and atomit energy to an indefinite American source said it, would the men, the votes being 724 to
water period?
be interesting to know why the from the wells, not knowing "Doesn't Washington under- 13. and there was no coercion.
ao important against the they are not potable water sup-stand that the
atomic bomb and added "the plies. The wells have become distrust toward.
United States has no intention contaminated because States is the noise raised over of releasing its accfot unleas heavily the squatters defaccate on rub the forthcoming tests of atomic adequate safeguards are set up." ble outside and the rain as bombs in the Pacific Ocean7" washed it into the wells, heavily The newspaper asserted that-Ass.ciated Press.
the polluting them. The wells are
phases of
United under treatment and are being States atomic bomb production. were leased to private monopoly rendered unuseable.
firms such as E.I. Dupont de Nemours, and added that the. company wastled by thousands were living on of threads" before the war to The theatre-owners hit 132 floors, an average of 14.5 the Farben Gorman Chemical
per floor or roof. Many of the Trust, back yesterday when
Hoors are more than half de Referring to the veto power United Nations shortly before noon they molished and the actual number within the
Council, "Pravda" sent an ultimatum to the ef habitants occupying them Security striking projection-room wld undoubtedly be greater if said "The past few months ex- perience has shown sufficiently operators that unless they report for duty by
MOVIE OWNERS HIT BACK
A survey was carried out in the special area where squatters are to be found. A total of 1.916 persons
night census were taken.
12 noon today they could BREAD RATION NEWS
consider their engage-
ment terminated.
followed
This development the rejection by the strikers of their employers offer made the previous day setting the basic pay at $150, $120 and $90 aj month, plus $81 a month re- habilitation allowance, for the three grades agreed upon.
TOMORROW?
London, June 25.
Medals
Announced
London, June 25.
Two new medals-the War Medal and the In- dia Service Medal--are announced and the qua- lifying period for the campaign stars is to be cut from six months to one day. This, it is stat- ed, is to allow awards, to the men of Arnhem.
The new medals and
War Medal
The Cabinet will probably come to a decision on bread rationing when they meet on Thursday. Mr. John Strachey, Minister! Meanwhile, it is anticipated of. Food, who is expected back that rationing, if decided upon, from Canada And the United will allow n busic ration of ten changes, briefly, are NA The men insisted on payment States tomorrow, will be at this ounces of bread per day, for Jowa of double pay for Sundays and meeting, and will report the everybody, 12 ounces for ex- holidays and extra pay for over- latest position na it is seen by pectant mothers and growing,
This will go to all who had time, which the theatre-owners his exporto.
children and up to 16 ounces for refused to make.
yet been fixed heavy manual workers-Reuter. 28 days' sorvico in the Armed Following receipt of the ulti-for the start of bread rationing,
Porces (not Home Guard or matum the strikers met at the should the Cabinet decide to in-
Civil Defence) or 28 days at Chinese Engineers' Institute.
sea in the "Merchant Navy be Eighty out of a total of 100-odd reduce it, a Food Ministry of-
for: September 2, 1945. announced today. But were present, and a ballot was taken to decide whether or not since the rationing of flour on
No date has
ficial
Wife's Fags To
points is expected to accompany Be Rationed?
to accept their employers' terms, the rationing of bread, the open- The result of the ballot Ring of one or other of the four not revealed until 9 o'clock in weeks points rationing periods the evening, at a full Committe is almost certain to be chosen. meeting of the Institute, when on a count of the votes 76 were for continuing the strike and for going back,
Rumours
are seldom known.
When the exact spot has been
found, Oury directa excavation operation. From the pieces of the plere he determines its type, and in most cases, the siuadron number.
During the icy period eatly This var. he diverted a stream
Lion.
night and sat down at n
B.A.F. Police Guard
11
The first indication the er-Up to a late hour yesterday, a R.A.F. Policeman was on duty in the corridor, and attempts to cou- Lact a senior enough Pólica officer to make an official statemont were unavailing.
in Elgium to trace the wreck-dinary public had of the at- age of a Spitfire which had tempted arrest of Mr. Yee was erashed in 1942, and recovered when an armed and identified the pilot's body.darme entered the officers' club in the Peninsula Hotel on Mon-
--Reuter.
Chinese gen-
Der Fuehrer Loved
Der Needle
(By Daniel Deluce)
Nuernberg, June 25. Adolf Hitler was a medical guinea pig for an in- satiably curious society doctor who dosed him with more than 28 major patent medicines in -nine-years-as-his-personal-physician. Dr. Theo Morell was willing to try nearly anything once -on his fuchrer.
Mr. Yee, who was born in Hong Kong, did invaluable work against Dfth columnists and traitors dur- ing the Japanese attack on Hong
·Kong in 1941. He was to have been one of the party which, in- cluding Admiral Sie Chan Chak. rot away into Free China with the aid of five Royal Navy MTB.
He was wounded by Japanes -machine-gun-fire on his wayk
join the naval craft and had to swim whore from a sinking motor- boat. He lay low and for a short whle was given up for dead.
Subsequently, he escaped int -Free- Chino-and-did-more-useful
work for both Britain and Chin in the Burma campaign. A grate- ul British Government awarded him the C.B.E. for his services.
COMMENTS ON PALESTINE
London, June 25, The British Government hus
American army medical ex-vitamins. He swallowed cupet perts,-after a year's research pills, a combination of pancreas are still wondering how much extract and charcoal. the an incessant consumption of He absorbed medicine in al- fol- compounds, pills, tablets and most every way known to man, Bolutions may have upset Hit- intramuscularly, intravenously, ler's physiological balance so orally and through enemas, He that even normally harmless was never entirely well, He drugs acquired an abnormal con- was rarely so ill as to be bed-received comments, that it re trol over him.
fast. Day after day, year after Did injections, as well as in almost literally a tuition mould Hitler as dieta year, it was C480 of Hitler exclaiming tor?. Their political effect is still "quick, doctor, the nerdlo,”
Dr. Morell, a civilian prison- er in American detention camps, insists that Hitler al- ways shunned morphia or hyp- notice, regardless of his vast Intakes of other things.
It is in addition to the cam- Defenco paign stars and the Medal.
The bronze oak leaf for a mention in despatches will be worn on this ribbon instead of a'directly on the jacket,
India Service
mooted.Anaociated Press,
Eisenhower Praise For Southampton
Edinburgh, June 25.' A future in which
Sex Stimulant If a man who qualifies for a
Southampton, Jino 20. The period opening on July 21 bridegroom might sti-
Hitler's intake ranged from Lieutenant-General John C. H. is the beginning of n now
Mr. pulate that his bride campaign star had his opera- rationing year. Should
tional service cut short of 26 anti-gas pills after every meal Lee, Deputy Suprento Allied Cont- Strachey feel that the
wheat must smoke not less than days by death wounds, capture to a onetime injection of orchi-mander in the Mediteranean and "Commander of the United States now ten nor more than 20 or the end of the war, ho is still krin; supposedly a sex atimulant. Army's Services of Supply in the It was reported at the meet supply position between
Indigestion haunted his wak- United Kingdom, today ing that an assurance of sup and the availability of next sea- cigarettes a day, was en- entitled to the War Medal.
ing hours and ruined his alcop. port for the strikers had been son's harvest necessitates im- received from the staff of the mediate rationing, the begin- visioned by the Lord
The India Service Medal goes coming of the new rationing year Provost of Edinburgh, nine. film-distributing -
would be the most suitable date John L. Falconer, to- to men of Indian units (except panies in the Colony.
for three night in a speech of wel- Defence Medallists)
years non-operational servico moat. certain to be taken before come to representatives down to September 2, 1946. the end of June, so that July 21 of the National Union of The ribbon is in the light and theatres from engaging
This was flatly denied would allow bakers to have three Retail Tobacconists. hunda. by the strikers who said that weeks' warning, which they re-
A pipe or a cigar is a neces the theatres ware free to Ten-gard as necessary.
Bread rationing was, the sub-sary part of the facial design of gage anyone they liked to take their place without Interference feet uppermost in the minds of a prime minister, the Lord Pro-
!the delegates from all over Bri-vost asserted.. from the strikere.
It was also reported that, ru- that the mour had started
atrikers had tried to prevent the
to apply it
The Cabinet decision
is al-
dark bluce of the Order of the Star of India and the Order of the Indian Empire,
quested from 'all the states of the - Arab League and the Jewish
geney in Palestine on the Angio American Commieslon's. mendations in Palestine, announced here today.
recoin- it was
The United States Government also requested these views. Tho next step will be further con- sultations between ', thè · British and American governments, based on the Arab and Jowish reactions. --Beuter,
THE WEATHER
Inference-Pressure is highest."
south-east of Japan. It is low He tried lulzým tábleta. Hein Southampton dock worker 14 the Pacifle to the south and
message from the former Supreme over China gentrally, took shots of glyconorm with Commander,
of the Army General
Tod y'a frecast:--Moderate to and Dwight Els: shower, thanking fish to south-west winds, modor- metabolic ferments
them for their contribution to vieating, overcast with rala at first, tory and their cooperation with clearing later. the American contingento, which Yesterday's weather:-
port.
84 deg, a.m. General presented the Unit Minimum: 115 dies at 9pm. ed States Medal of Freedom with Mac. Rel. Humidity: 0815 at 9 p.m. Palm to R.P. Biddle, docks and Sunshine: 1"
its
France and Germany Star. where it is down to one day's support of land operations,
to
(Figure, naval
navallable).
The Atlantic Star will now go
The Stars
twelve months afloat in the At- Railway and H. A. Short, the rail- lantic area. Before, the sailor way's deputy traffic manager at
Eddapest, June 26, Waterloo Station, London. ON LAND: For the Pacific, earned only the 1939-45 Star If
The Hungarian Government has the France his first six months wore in the
From 1941 to 1945, Mr. Biddieppenlod to the Soviet Government Among the theatres which įtain to the annual conference of He paid a tribute to the tobac- Burma, Italy and
was Deputy Director of Forts to reduce the amount of repara- managed to re-open yesterday the National Association of conists' war service in helping to and Germany. Stars the time Atlantic.
THE AIR: Altmen will under the Ministry of War Transtine required from Hungary collect the country's taxes under qualification is cut from BÍZ Confectioners the guise of selling tobacco. Was the King's, and it is under Manter Bakers,
·· port,
this year. months to one, day--that is, for qualify for stars with one opere- |- stood that othors are making and Catorern, which opened at **KYou calmed, our nerves and
tlonal sortie over
Gerafal Leo is touring thà Although no final decision has arrangements to re-open today Hastings today, but the subject supplied the army with a comfort landing,
a campaign United Kingdom, bringing the been sanounced it is believed that rrugor fall to return to will not be discussed until to zupy-otion esteemed of more vains AT BEA; The six months area instead, of two months thanks of the Chiefs of Staff to the Russland regard the appeal
Britain's war workers.-Hapter; their posts by noon.
favourably-Reuter. than food," he told them-Reuter, limit stays, except for the flying.
horrow's session,