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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1946.
CHINA AND KOWLOON CITY SOLDIERS AND
Chinese Official Calls On H.E. The Governor No Relinquishing Of "Rights"
The Government of China is not prepared to re- linquish any treaty rights and, on the grounds that such rights exist in the case of Kowloon City, arrangements are now being made for the re-establishment of Chinese civil jurisdic- tion there at an early date.
That, the "China Mail" learned last night from.
usually reliable Chinese' sources, was the sub- stance of an official message delivered yester- day afternoon to His Excellency the Governor by Mr. T. W. Kwok, Special Commissioner for Foreign Affairs for Kwangtung and Kwangsi, on behalf of the Nanking, Government.
While no official com-I unless and until it became in- munique was issued by consistent with military require Government, the "China ments for Hong Kong's defence. Mail" understands that Mr. Kwok asked for an interview with Sir Mark Under this Convention, there-
British Territory
Government statement
JINNAH AND WAVELL
view
New Delhi, Sept. 16.
The President of the Moslem League, Mr. Ali Jinnah, mot The Viceroy, Lord Wavoll, at 5.30 p.m. today. He has como at the Viceroy's invitation for a personal discussion and re- of the political situation. It was officially announced Today that it has been decided to sunimon the Constituent Mr. Assembly on December 9. Jinnah's interview with the Viceroy lasted 75 minutes. Afterwards, Mr. Jinnab said: "am meeting the Viceroy again but I cannot say whon." --Reuter
Palestine Conference
'Queen Victoria' Found
Tokyo, Sept. 16. From the murky sha- dows of the Osaka Army Arsenal the Japanese Government has produc- ed the much-sought after statue of Queen Victoria which was looted from
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CIVILIANS
Singapore, Sept. 16. The court-martial në Kluang, which is truing 258 members of the British 19th Parachute Battalion on charges of mu Zinut
via expected to give ite verdict tomorrow."The Judge- Advocate, Major LA. Smith, summing up today sharply criticised thý 1ac of the word "strike" by people outside the forcon.
This word was a clumsy at- tempt to put soldiers on the anma fosting aa civilians and themby excuse acts_forbidden by law, he said. Many mon were wonder the mistaken im- pression that muling armed violence.-Routeṛ.
Hong Kong by the Jap- Tommies For
anese Army.
The crown and the right armi of the piece are missing, but it has been turned over to Allied Headquarter's Civil Property Cus- todion who had ordered it pro- duced on complaint from the Hong Kong authorities.
Also recovered from the Japan-
ere Army lost and turned over to SCAP, were two other bronzes
In
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Gibraltar, Sopt. 16. It was learned today that the vendel which was yesterday un- officially reported to have sailed from Gibraltar for Tangler with troops on board was the 1,000-ton frigate St. Bride's Bay.
(Reuters correspondent in Ta fier canted last night that the St. ride's Bay had arrived there
but that no troops had been dis-
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Wallace's "Fantastic".
Charges
London, Sept. 15, Commenting on United States Secretary of Com- merce Henry Wallace's speech in which he at- tacked "British imperialism," the well-known commentator,
"Sunday Scrutator, in the Times" says that Mr. Wallace's charges against Britain seem "not a little fantastic" at a time when Britain is doing its best to "clear out of India and Egypt."
Scrutator considers that the kernel
of difference between Britain and Russia in the Mediterrancan is "not a ques- tion of British imperialism but of Russian.!!
He adds: "It is a question whother Russia should force Turkey to let her occupy the Straits. If she did Turkey would be entirely subject to her and the subjection of Turkey would be followed inevitably by- that of Grecco on one side and that of the Arab countries on the other.
"It is what 'Mr. Wallace calle Britain's 'imporialism' which alone has so far saved the liberties of the Greeks and Araba and averted their absorp- tlon by the tentacles of the Soviet."
in the way to
If, says Scrutator, Russla were enabled control all Mediterranean coasts of the Adriatic. Erco Europe would be outflanked and could not survive. Italy would be the first; France would re- luctantly follow and the lesser countries would be rolled up as they were by Hitler.
"a man in a frock coat" (believed to be the statue of the founder of Young Company and a pair of bronze lions probably the two London, Sept. 16. leonine guardians of the front en-embarked). The Palestine Confer-trance to the Hong Kong & Sheng-
It was officially reported today hai Bank Building
Hong that British troons had sailed on Young yesterday after-continued, Kowloon City became, ence in London adjourn-Kong.)
*he St. Brida's Bay to protect Bri- noon. He was granted an for the period of the lense, ed after this morning's The rock-coated man was un-tish interests in Tangier and to re- interview and in the "part of the extended British session (possibly until seathed by the war's tribulations, inforce the British Consulate-east
Put the two Hons were much General pined there. course of this he em-
under Thursday) to allow the scarred and bullet pierced. All Naval and military quarters, phasized that China is
Arab delegations
however, ingintained reticence on1 to the objects will be turned over
the matter. not prepared to relin-
Gibraltar reports suggested that quish any treaty right.
a mass Moorlah demonstration was contemplated for yesterday but Despite an official press com-
was postponed and that a huge demonstration is now expected this werk simultaneously in Tangier and in the nearby city of Tetuan.
Reuter,
came
territory and British sovereignty."
The following year, the exer-
cine of jurisdiction in the City study the reply by Mr. the Pitish for return to Hong by Chinese officials was found to Bevin,
Foreign Secre-Kong--Associated Press. be inconsistent with military requirements and accordingly lary, to their criticisms
munication by Government over terminated. Since that date, the of the British "provin- News Agency
the week-end on this aubject- maintaining that no such special treaty right existed any longer in the case of Kowloon City Mr. Kwok toki Ila Excellency that this was not the view of the Chinese Government and, accordingly, China was prepar- ing to re-establish civil juris- diction there.
British anthorities have main-cial autonomy" plan for tained sole jurisdiction over Palestine. both the New Territories and Kowloon City.
SHIP SINKS IN
Kowloon City, the oldest ATLANTIC
built-up area in the Colony of
Hong Kong, is an old walled town just off Kowloon Bay im-
Press Articles
Last week, certain articles appeared in the Chinese Press
Mr. Bevin's reply is understood to have taken up most of today's private session,
Meanwhile, well-informed Arab circles in London believe that there is a 50-50 chance that, a delegation of Palestine Araba may, after all, attend the conference,
Sued By Nazi Prisoner
BURMA TALKS
Rangoon. Sept, 10. The Governor of Burma, Sir Hubert Ranco, has boon holding preliminary negotia tions during the last few days with prominent members of the Anti-Fascist League on the question of the formation of a new broad-based Execu tive Council.
The General-Saerctary of the League told Reutor that the League would offer its co- operation if an interim goo ernment, with full powers and authority on lines similar to that in India, sons formed.— Router.
CHALLENGE TO PEACE
Paris, Sept. 16.
U.S. Senator Tom Con- nally, rounding off the Mr. Wallace is making general discussion on exactly the same mistakes as the Isolationists who favoured Trieste before the Italian letting Hitler have his will, Political and Territorial Committee of the Paris Conference, declared to- day: "We are not here to serve the interests of Yugoslavia or of Italy.
Reuter.
"MY EXPERIENCES," BY MAJ. BOON
London, Sept. 16. evidence on his own behalf, Major Cecil Boon, R.A.S.C., who is on trial here on charges of voluntarily assisting the Japanese whilst a prisoner-of-war in Hongkong, said that he would not have examined private correspon- dence of prisoners of war he had not been re- quired to do so by the Japanese.
"Yugoslavia and Italy aro both subordinate to the peace of the area and the peace of the world. The free territory must not be a satellite of Yugoslavia on one hand nor of Italy on the other.
TC-
Shanghai, Sept. 16. In the lawsuit in which after yesterday's renewed talks a Nazi prisoner awaiting between General Sir Alan Cun- trial for espionage, Wolf-Giving Norfolk, Va., Sept. 10.
ningham, High Commissioner ja gang Schenke, is suing Twenty-four Norwegian seamen Palestine, and Jamal Husseini of mediately west of Kai Tak were snatched from the the Palestine Arab Higher Execu- Walter Rundle, manager
"Yugoslavia and Italy—I hope aerodrome. One of the oldest stormy Atlantie by rescue vessels (tive.
of the United Press, for
they are listening-must accept surviving temples in the South two days after the motor tanker Conriltations among Jewish or-libel, the Chinese judge
any settlement that may be China region, the Hau Wong "Marit II" had split in half 118anisations were continuing today
reached in good faith, with Temple, is situated here. · miles off the North Carolina coast. Put so far there is no change in today refused to dismiss
genuine intent and a desire that Today they were on their way the Jewish Agency's unwilling the suit and adjourned
the system may be a success. to nurthern United States portsess to attend the conference ex- the case to Sept. 23.
Mr. G. O. Siode, defending | wrote a letter addressed to the There must be no mental while conat guard olanes and sur-cept to discuss partitition.
It is learned that Mr. Bevin, in
American servations. There must be no Adjournment
ordered counsel; "You are charged with Commander of the Was face eraft pressed the search for
his speech, referred to the possi- despite Rundle's protest that spying on the quarters. Have you Air Force detachment which secret evasions of the mind. If or more missing men.
enemy bility of an eventual trusteeship plaintiff was an
allen ever taken part in any inspection, attacked Hongkong on October they fail to accept it they will to the effect that Kowloon City The tanker "Pan Amoco" picked under the United Nations. There whom the Chinese Government search or examination of the kind 16, 1944 and handed it to the fail in their duty to the world." Senator Connally paused for. had a status different to that un 18 survivors in a lifeboat yes-has been no Arab reaction to this itself had put on the list for complained of in this case, except enemy, well knowing that it was of the rest of the Kowican terday and later a search plane
being held on the instructions of the Japan-intended to be used by then moment. deportation, was
Then raising his enemy for publication for pro- voice almost to a shout Peninsula and New Territories. directed the American
and Discussions are said to be not prisoner as a suspect for trial esc? These articles maintained that "Gulf Hawk" to the raft from
War Crimes Major Boon: "1 never did."
paganda purposes, sumclently advanced for modif- by the American
emphasising every word, he it was still Chinese. territory which the other four men
"Have you ever walked around Major Boon said that the in- added: “A challenge to peace cations to the British plan for pro- Commission and that the so- and a Chinese official was quoted Inken aboard.
on the camp to make exaralnations terpreter stated that he had had is here, right on our doorstep, vincial autonomy to be consider called libel
based was
table and as saying that he would shortly
The coast guard said they hoed, the talks having been confined charges published in American except when ordered to do so?- a telephone message. from the right here at this open Chinese Courts there.
I never did."
presiding Adjutant that Major Boon was right here at the to broad principles.
Referring to the document "My required to write a letter con- cfficers desk. Jamal Husseini, Chairman of It would appear that no writ- the Palestine Arab Higher Execu- ten agreement exists between experiences, or one year in Sham-cerning the air attack on the tive, was reported today to have the Chinese and American Goy-shulpo camp," written about De-previous day. told Sir Alan Cunningham, High ernments regarding the status cember, 1942, Boon said that Commissioner, whom he met this of war crimes commissions, and Mr. Kochi told him that as they morning. that there was nothing that the Judicial Yuan does not had completed a your in in the British Government's re-recognise the legality of these shulpo, the Japanese cent enquiry to warrant a reversal courts.
tanker yet.
were
reason to believe that only 38 men had been aboard the ill-fated ves- Althought Kowloon City has sel rather than the 40 at first been part and parcel of the reported. Colony of Hong Kong for nearly The 7,417-ton freighter was en 50 years now, the Chinese Press route from Curacao to New York reports drew from Government with a cargo of fuel oll when it on Saturday a special communi- was struck by high scan on Friday que to the Press to contradict afternoon. Built 24 years ago these inaccurate statements" the "Marit" was operated by the and inform the public of the Joseph P. Jenson Company of true position:
Norway. Associated Press. Under the Peking Conven- tion of 1898, under which the New Territories were lensed
from Ching for 99 years, it was atipulated That within the City of Kowloon the Chinese officials then stationed there should con- tinue to exercise Jurisdiction
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Must Be Free" "It is hore and it faces us. Major Boon said that he knew The free territory of Triesto that the Japanese colonel was must be free-free from Yugo- a very impatient man and would slavia, free from Italy and free required not tolerate any disobedience from intrigue and conspiracy. from him und ave others an essay He had no intention of writing
"Its independence must be the letter if he could possibly
title to existence secure. Its of the Committee's decision not to Moreover, according to the on the camp during that period.
"Would it have been feasible to have avoided it. only
must be its own. Let us make attend the London talks-Reuter,Chinese law of libel,
write an unfavourable view of He told the interpreter that Trieste a symbol of peace and Chinese official statements are
the detaining power? No, I there would be very serious security in the world".. exempt from the law.
a letter
Kardelj Under these anomalous con- should have got into very serious trouble if he wrote
Earlier, M. Eduard criticising the American Alr
for Yugoslavia had said: "The ditions it would
appear that trouble."
"It would not have been ex-[ Force and said that it was attitude shown by some great enemy prisonera convicted of
probable that the powers over Trieste is not the war crimes by the Amorlennpedient from the point of view highly
Concarn for the military court could sue the of the camp generally and would Americans would drop a bomb result of
have reflected on our treat either on the waste part of the people of Trieste and its hinter- Intior fox libel.Our Own for ment". he continued. "Parcels camp or so uncomfortably close land nor for the interests of respondent.
had just started and I had some to them as to show their die Italy. experienes of collective punish- favour of auch action.
"It is obvious that to those ment during the preceding nino The interpreter replied that who are used to the old style months."
the letter must be written of international relations the Reuter.
sincere and unselfish help given by the Soviet Union to small powers in general is suspicious In the sense that it may' en- danger the position and privile- ges of another great power." Reuter
Washington, Sept. 16. Sumner Welles, former Under-Secretary of State, today criticised American foreign policy to- wards Germany which, he said, if carried out, would provide an opportunity for new agents of the German General Staff to build a strong and militarised Germany.
Air Attack Letter Major Boon referred to the
Protest To Byrnes Associated Freas adds thati foreign correspondents in China! have signed a radio message to U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes asking the State Department to make representations to the charge which alleges that ho Chiness. Government against
against Rundle. •
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In his weekly broadcast
for American representations
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