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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1946.
PEARL HARBOUR ATTACK A Kidnapper
HICSWA
SCAPES ALAIN
Yok ama, Sept. 22. An insive search is being e Itinued for Pri- vate Josh Hicswa, con- victed leder, who is still free afte slipping out of a Tokyo hospital on Sep- tember 17, the 8th Army Provost Marshal's Office reported today.
No new developments have been reported on this secand eacupe of lieswn, who has been awaiting transportation to the United States to begin ferving his 30-year sentence for the stabbing to death of two Japan-
сас.
The Provost Marshal refused to comment on the method of Oscape this time from the large hospital fented in downtown Tokyo where Hieswa hai gome fafter swallowing a pair of naik
while working in the stockade. 'carpenter shop.
LAST MINUTE DECISION Still At
Original Plan Was To Smash Britain First
Tokyo, Sept. 22.
Japan's fateful decision to attack Pearl Harbour appears more clearly as a relatively last min- utê decision in her careful plans of conquest. Fresh, details in the sordid Imperialistic story were presented to the International War Tri- bunal here today and these indicated that Nip- ponese war lords decided upon the Pearl Har- bour assault, after gaining new respect for the United States' strength and determination, some time late in the hot, momentous Summer of 1941.
Before then, the documents show, many key Jap- anese leaders expected to carve their risky Em- pire in Southwest Asia by smashing Britain's Singapore base and making only a minimum show of strength against the United States. The outline of these documents were present- ed to the court recently, by. Frank S. Taven- ner, the deputy prosecutor.
HEADACHE
FOR BEVIN
C.-1.-C, BPF. LEAVING
Shanghai, Sept. 22. Admiral Sir Dennis Boyd, C.-in-C. Britiek Pacifio Fleet, leaves. Nanking for Hong Kong on Tuesday morning. He will call at Shanghai en route. Yesterday, Sir Ralph Str veuanu, Ambassador to China, and Lady Stevenson attended Divine Servion
board H.M.S. "Belfast?”—Our Own
Correspondent,
771
Attempt On Life Of
U Saw
Large
Tokyo, Sept. 22, The Japanese police by this afternoon had still! not captured the ab- ductor of Kuniko 'Sumi- tomo, 12-year-old eldest daughter of Kichizaemon Sumitomo, one of the wealthiest men 'in the
Poles Don't Want To Join Corps
London, Sept. 22,
Fewer than 5 per cent. of the men of Gen. Anders's
JERUSALEM TELEPHONE
army will join the Polish Resettlement Corps, TERRORISM
now being formed to assist the transfer of Poles into civilian life in Britain, unless they are advised to do so by their leader.
Jerusalem, Sept. 22.< "Telephone terrorism".
Since the scheme was announced many officers-warnings of imminent and men have questioned the wisdom of sign-danger invariably con ing the form issued.
China's "Very
country, despite con Sick Foreign
confi-
dent assurances yester-
day that his apprehen- sion was at hand.
០៥
reunited
Trade"
Shanghai, Sept. 22.
``
veyed by the voice of a At one headquarters comp at Barkfold, near Petworth (Sus young girl speaking He- sex) the brigade commander said brew or broken English“ he had already received hundreds-is one of the various of requests for Information,
underground
activities
The points raised are consider- ed so important that Gen. Anders, which make the nerve who is in Italy, has been asked war in
Palestine the to return at once to advise his most difficult to detect.
men.
Nationality Fear
Someone goes into a public call box, rings up the telephone opera- tor at n Government building and says "your building will be blown national up in ten minutes. Gat everyone
One of the chief objections con-
•Under Polish law a
China's need for for- en nationality. eign, especially British, who joins the army of a foreign out."
public have to evacunle. Traffic Magnetic detectors
search for lie' The General:
An extensive net la 'being stretched for the kidnapper, Iden tifled by police yesterday 21-year-old
ex-convict escaped named Yoshio liiguchi, who is be- help to cure the "very Power is able to lose his na Bells ring and the staff und? lieved by police to be still foreine sick foreign trade of tiontality. the young heiress to accompany China and direct it to-not regard the Warsaw Govern-are then used to
While Gen. Anders's men do le diverted, him in his flight.
No ransom note has yet been ward its normal chan-ment as the legal Government of alleged explosives. received. Police' Tacords
shownels" was emphasised by their country, they fear that if Post Office in the heart of Jeruga4; One of the most controversial
thut Higuchi escaped from a pen Mr. Li Ming, the distin-they join the British Army, as is tem has had over a score of these: questions still being discussed
Lentinry lost January while
proposed under the scheme for the false alarma, sometimes twice t here by military men is whether
serving sentence for another ab-guished Chinese banker, Resettlement Corpe, they may be three times in one day. the United States would have,
Rangoon, Sept. 21.
duction. Police nino identified in a speech at a reception come men without a country. Recent enses of warnings being- gone to war in 1941-or, if so,
An attempt to
Higuchi as the culprit who kid- assas-
The brigade commander men-received without any explosives how completely-if Japan hadi
nayped 13-year-old Kiyoko Shi- given by Chinese busi-
tioned, other difficulties.
having been found occurred at the ignored Pearl Harbour (Continued from Pape 1.)
and sinate the former Burm-mizu, daughter of a wealthy Tokyo ness organisations in
"Language is one" he said. Faleatine Government pubile in- concentrated upon Malaya and
Insurance man. The hospital is located about
honour of the British "Fewer than 1 per cent. of my formation building, the Govern Indies ese Premier, 'U Saw, lea- Kiyoko was recently one mile from General Heati- peace settlement with Germany the Netherlanda Bant
with her mother in a Kyoto tem- Ambassador, Sir Ralph men speak English, and it would ment innd settlement office, and quarters and the adjacent Tokyo in November, will be unaffected with perhaps flanking blows at der of the Myochit Par-ple, rendezvous for the ransom Stevenson, during his be almost impossible for them to the Palestine broadcasting ser Provost Marshal's Office, It is From London the general im- the Philippines.
payment. When the mother drop- visit here. surrounded by a labyrinth of pression is that the existing Documents to be introduced ty, was made in Rangoon na the bundle containing 15,000 narrow Japanese alleyways cou- precess of "alow motion" peace in the trials show that many
yen ransom in her excitement at to be re- koy Japanese leaders with taining everything from smal nuking will have
seeing her daughter again, the shops and homes to elaborate examined and that Mr. Bevin's finger on the American
pulse.
in abductor rushed out, snatched the AЯ Saw was driving believed as late as July 1941-- Geisha establishments,
visit to Paris may provido a
money and scurried away under valuable opportunity.
and possibly later that the car from the Party headquarters, the eyes of the police, The
The police hot checked all the hospital
United States could be checked enfrance in
in the Pacific without a direct
a rifle shot rang out from a fol- gearded by military police, but
But London also has its "slow blow while the Japanese stole an towing jeep, smashing panes
serial numbers, however, and these of convalescent patients, who are motion" conference.
gave a clue in tracing the abduc- all garbed alike, customarily end of the second week..of the
tor of the Sumitomo girl. gloss, stroll pust the guards to watch Palestine talks between dele- children fish in a nearby colgates of the Arab states and
Vital Blow Unless closely watched. Hea of the British Government, six wa could have walked out with sessions have been held and the
They had been discussing the concert out defection and then taken a cenference has, in effect, sent military longer walk than usual.
amy Press.
Palestine
At the
empire.
conquest in
today.
The bullet missed U Saw but he was hit by dying splinters, in- juring him below the eyes.
U Saw, who was accompanied an Arab plan to manke Palestine with Germany repeatedly since No information is available ar independent Arab atate for 1939 and for years before then by his private secretary, was ad mitted to hospital, bleeding pro- as yet on the delay in returning consideration in committee.
Tavenner showed that in fusely. A medical report says Ilicawa ten - Limited States There is no indication that subsequent Japanese-German that his injuries are not serious. penitentiary. In his former es- Britain is any nearer accepting discussions the whole cm- cape. Ilicawn nealed a wall of an this plan. The Arabs have phasis was on swift capture of U Saw, who is the leader of the
stockade. Associated shown themselves
in Singapore as the one vital blow Myochil Party, aged 45 and conies to be
destroy Allied from fundamental opposition to the sufficient to
the Tharawaddy district, in Asia. British plan for
provincial might
Germany was Burma's third Prime Minis-j autonomy and, to which the wanted Japan to smash Britain ter when he came to London in British delegates have remained in the Far East and keep the 1941 on a "goodwill mission"
too United States
occupied from Burma. OT indirectly-for Cairo directly
In 1942, it was announced that European intervention. Planners
been detained and thought, in Japan and Germany he had
"as it had both, that if Japan captured permitted to return,
the knowledge of the Singapore, they could intercept come to
committed.
Nor do reports from suggest that a resumption of the long suspended Anglo-Egyptian negotiations for a revision of the 1936 treaty of alliance has
achieved real progress.
101
and crush any offensive Ameri- British Government that he had been in contact' with "the Japan- can fleet.
Lindbergh Case
Mr. Li Ming regretted that the existing conditions of China's foreign trade were far from what they should be.
"No trading nation in the world enn afford to buy without selling." be said, "and yet this is exactly the position in which China And heraclf today, China was a poor country and the war has further my men we mere boys when impoverished us to a lamontable they entere he army, and, there- There are three theories for the, extent. Nevertheless, in the feld fore, are without any trade. They motive behind these incessant of foreign trade, we are playing will have to be taught if they are calls: Meanwhile. Tokyo newspapers a rich man's game. We buy very to become useful members of in-
First is that they are an attempti reported the incident as "Japan'a
much more than Lindbergh case," indicating the
we sell, and
provision is being made to give ting the security forces on edat.
When these calls come at the rute" similarity of the criminal mattis everybody knows what this highly duty, and so far as I can see, no to keep up the nerve war by put-
The Sumitomo hourelyd, which unbalanced trade means and will them the necessary Instruction,"
if it peralats." has shunned publicity during the
The commander said his men of two three a day (os they have He added that while China was had Lalth in General Anders, and to the GPO) it means a loss r past, has openly offered a "sub-making efforts to remedy this
(a couple of hours a day and frag stential reward to anyone giving situation, "we must at the same would be guided by him. information leading to the dig- time request assistance and co- If he says 'Go ahead and sign, ed nerves. covery of Kuulko and capture of operation
The second theory is that this frem our foreign almost every man will do so. Il, her abductor.
Police believe that unless the friends to buy from us whenever on the other hand, he advises is a fiendish attempt to accustom possible, and, to co-operate with ungainst signing. I believe that the authorities to warnings, on thic abductor goes amok with despera- to create market fagilities abroad fewer than Ave per cent. will decry wolf" system, und that by tlon, Kuniko will be released safe for Chinese produce."
cide, on their own initiative, to the time a real attack is planned ly--Associnted Press.
be absorbed into British Industry vicc. until that position is remedied. The epidemic of false waraluga Then there are. the trade spread to Tel-Aviv, the all-Jewish unions. It is not at all certain that city, where the Northern policy they would welcome the admission station was evacuated followings of foreigners to industry. There the usual warning that the buildi are already Incleations that the ing would be blown up. Poliçe reverse will be the case.
searched, their own bullding for Mere Boys
an hour before the "all clear" was given. "Another point is that many of
Theories
mean to us
Tribute To Britain Mr. Li Ming paid a glowing tribute to British enterprise in the building up of Shanghai.
"Rising from a mud dat by the Whangpoo to its present status of an important international part, Shanghai owed its origin to the British and much of its paat
do so."
The officer outlined a scheme which he thinks would solve the whole problem.
"Let us go in batches to various parts, of the British Dominions," he suggested,
the forces will be so inured to false alarms, that they will takp no heed. And then will come the big bang-with untold casualties and damage.
В
The third supposition is that this might be the work of diseased mind, or the act of some: Useful Citizens
Juvenile regarding sựtch warnings "Many of the men have had as a mere prank or practical joke.
Japon was preparing for hos-ese authorities since the outbreak haiang, vice chairman of theivements to British efforts, Earring experience, some have The voice cach time is of a young
he said,
How Come?
Willington, NJ., Sept. 22. A apokesman for the family
FENG YU-HSIANG of Private Joseph Hiesta asked today "how are
IN THE U.S. thuse escapes possible" in commenting on the oldier's latest escape from
San Francisco, Sept. 22. custody in Japan.
The Chinese warrior poet, Adam Hicewa, uncle of the The re-drafting of the British
"Christian General" Feng Yu- soldier who is under a 30-year proposals appears to have been sentence for the fatal stabbing more substantial as regards tilities against both Britain and of the war with Japan."
But docu- He had several conversations national military council under of two Japanese, said the fami- Points Twe, the circumstances the United States.
"Its future greatness, a3. its trades, and all have learned dur-girl, who speaks in the same tone. ly only other comment was in which military co-operation ments show that a péssible as-with Mr. Winston Churchill while Generaliasima Chiang Kai-shek,
But whatever the motive, the concerning the return of the between the two countries would sault on Manila was mentioned in England and pressed hard for arrived in San Francisco today. past, is dependent upon intering the war to make the best of
He is studying water conser-national cooperation in which the things,
effect in highly malicious. It acts private to a federal penitentiary ceme into effect, than on Point only incidentally and at the im-the granting of dominion status
"Only the leaders of each batch equally on Briton, Arab and Jcw, in the United States. The uncle Three, the status of the Sudan, portant Imperial Conference in to Burma but declared the results vation in the United States British community will play a
there was still no of the conferences as "decidedly atter which he will return to very significant role. My Governor community, if you like all of whom are employed, in the said the boy's mother had writ- which
remains a major July 1941 ten President Truman a week inte for many of the Egyptian specific preparation for the Peart disappointing." Last Tuesday, he Chunn to apply the knowledgement and my countrymen are would need to speak English at Palestine Government service.
from said that he believed
Grand an an- gained
Coulee, looking forward to such cooperarst. The rest of the mon could
Time Wasting ago inquiring about the delay delegates.
nouncement, would be made very Boulder and other great Ameri- tion in our effort to make Shang-acquire the language at leisure. At the Post Office, for example,
hai a greater
alty, soon that the British Government can projects.
"I feel certain that such com- the measures taken on receipt of In his reply the British Ambas-munt as would speedily become an alarm involve the closing of "would give Burma the. same "China is troubled most by One of the defendants now on treatment as it had given-Indin." famines and floods," Feng said. sader said he felt that there are self-supporting and would
de- all adjacent roads, the halting of subdue China's great opportunities for coopera-velop into useful eltizens." Admiral and said that his party was pre- Osami Nagano, one-time Naval Pared to undertake the task of rivers utilize them fully Chinese and British interests in aters who refuse to recognise the search.
.in this country between Already about 50,000 Polish sol- to
traffic, the diversion of pedestrinus side-streefs, and-a thorough aval reconstruction of the country. Chiun will be all right"--Asso- the rehabilitation and economic re Warsaw Government are in Bri- of man-minutes,
All that wastes millions juvenation of Ching."
atill
Harbour assault.
and had not yet received a reply. So that in Cairo as in Londen
Nagano's Word negotiations have He said the army had indicated and Paris, Hicswa would be returned in made little progress this week.- July-Associated Press.
Reuter.
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as
Admission wi
trial-former
Fleet
Chief of Staff-told the sociated Presa Tokyo corres- last October that ho pondent accepted the responsibility for: the Anal decision attack Hawaii, He said his word set- tled the longstanding disputes between the Admirals, divided. on the question of whether to strike first at the South Seas or attempt to immobilize the American flect.
But Nagano could not have solved this controversy--and probably have changed the bin- tory of the world-without the support of key army leaders who were then in control. Even in his story, there is strong
Reuter,
"If
we can
cinted Press,
Feminine Frills Return
As Wars
Wars End
London, Sept. 22.
Women of fashion have invariably greeted the end of wars with frills. This has obtained ever since the days of Napoleon.
It is being re-emphasised to day, according to fashion de
Pacific Coast
evidence that something chang Still Out
Scale
tion
Putting Japan
Referring to the forthcoming tain, and more are arriving daily.. visit of the "British Goodwill Tradu Mission to Ching (due to arrive in Hong Kong an October Sir Ralph said it is charged with the duty of investigating economic, Tn. dustrial and commercial condi tions in China in this period of transition from war to pence, with
On Her Feet
Washington, Sept. 22.
The United
States
the object of ascertaining to what extent China and the United Kingdom can now supply each, other's needs, and also of laying Government is moving the foundations for a greatly ex-ahead steadily in its ef- 'panded two-day trade in the forts to assist Japan to future when the alping times of rehabilitate her indus- signers.
Trends after the last four peace zeturn-Router. wara in which Britain has been
engaged have gone as follows:- Sino-British
Waterloo. Lower
necks;
high "Josephine" line; busi- waists dropped sharply from the Club
trial economy....
Parcels brought for mailing must be opened for inspection, in pase they conccal time-bombs to explode while in the mails,
Every human precaution against the element of surprise has beca taken and this lends colour to the theory that the mysterious tele-. ather objectain phonist has no mind than to make people jumpy.
Reuter.
NUDISTS NEEDED
Paris. Sept. 22. Latest shortage in Parla was girls for the Folies Berzure, The US. Stato, War and other wanted for nude or semi-nude Government departments, backed shows.
list. Half the girls were English. “Now they, way the phy+-£20
a
month not, cope with cost of living in Paris,
ed a number of minds which previously acorned American
New York, Sept. 22.
by Executive authority, are co- Said Mademoisele Maryso power and willingness to fight. The vast pool of approximately
Löparating to get Japan back on whoso job is to engage the girls: New Nagane, who came from this 450 strikebound ships in
line accentuated; sleeves widen- Since its foundatión i only her feet economically, as quickly "We used to have a long waiting clique of arrogant, confident York harbour begin to return to
ed to pillow-caro sizes. mun, said his decision was made normal as the Congress of Indus-
three months ago, the Sino-s possible at least to the extent Boer-War-Flamboyant styl. British Club, has legmo
that san cun trào came of Hel because of America's strengti. trial Organizations - sturied back.
and also assist by, exports in pay and he sought to justify it by to work after winning a Govern "All the rage:" Victorian regular and appreciated elamenting the expeised of the Ailled oc- asserting that Japan, would have ment arbitration award that gave deed; skirts faller on the hips; the usefulness of such an or Japan's textile industry, cotton, fashion houses of Rue de la
primness and severe Ines aban- in the life of Hong Kong, and|cipation Toro99
“We sent out recuta, to the been defeated much carlier then parity in the, wage without that first surprise blow. with American Federation of throat and on sleeves.
figure "revealed;" trilla atganisation was show at the like, and rayon, sis receiving strong Paix and persuaded some of the -AsЯelated Press.
last Wednesday meeting" wEOL] "asiatica. Labour Beamer. · ·
The United States mannequins to work at the 1914-1918-Skirts leave the the International Committee of Government la buying all the raw Folies in the evenings aftor Although Joseph Curran, Pre- sident of the National Maritime ground, at last, and get higher Chilaeso, Co-Operativen reted as hije the Japaneed can produce their day's work, but few could Union, said the strike was of and higher until they are above hosts to a crowded hall.
America expects to give. Japan- come up to our standard," ficially over" in the Atlantic and the knee,
In order to place the club on rayon pedellideza, an Inordas- 1939-1945-"Severo” Gulf ports, the work stoppage continued into the sixteenth day ended svaist and bust lines President AF. Whitney, of on the Pacific Coast where marine sharpened: hips omphasised; the Brotherhood of Railway cooks and dremen said they would frills again Trainmon, said today that a
continue to pleket until given a political ticket headed by Sena- guarantee of wage increases. tor Claude Pepper .of. Florida Associated Prem,
WALLACE FOR PRESIDENT?
Miami Beach, Fla., Sept. 22,
or former Commerce Secretary Wallace would win Labour's
overwhelming' support.
"It would not matter whether
STRIKE SETTLED
lings
more organised and perman-ingly free hand in habilitation ducere hope to get back the buat- eat basis it has been decided and for months, she has been neas they enjoyed in the Far East to hold a General Meeting at pumping raw ertian inis Japan prior to the war St. John's Hall at 6 pm Wod-toast internal conditoto Despite scattered opposition nesday next, September 25, for provide exports to Inance badly however, it is the American-au- thorities view that the Japartesa Psychological Cause the purpose of electing a per- deeded, forṇigh purchases. One fashion expert explained man and for any other
matent Conditton and Challe The United States suas the re- cotton spinner will be given in-
belliitation of the Japanese cat-easingly wide latitude, that the after-war "softening" connected with the future
The world report section of the spinning industry was 'ones of styles had a paychological tile Club
American weakly - "News-Mega- |zine," speclőlixing in infiktionsl adaira,, siirydys" thu, Japabagita
calise
It is hoped the public wha, "There sooms to be a natural interested, will attend Detroit Sept 28. Settlement of the strike of tendency to actantuate the most meatl Wallace Pepper Ucket," Whitney 1200 Storkora at the "Triggs féminine sspools of women."
it was a Popper Wallacear]
told a press conference here: Motaufacturing Company: Plant| hollars Because of men's need,
"Ninety percent of the Bail-
road men and the majority of
Labour would support fich
વાંચન
Rubenkends Unlor ter Theing death and