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HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1946.
PETTICOAT NEW SINO-AMERICAN
LANE TO CLOSE?
London, Nov. 2. London will lose its most colourful weekly spectacle if the Sunday open air market in Mid-
TREATY
SIGNED
Expanded Rights For Business FIRE IN
lesex Street, Stepney, Last Vestiges
known the world over as Petticoat Lane, is closed.
A warning of the possibility of
closure was given this week by Alderman 1. M. Vogler, chairiran
|OL.
the Borough Food Control
Of
Ex'trality Gone
Washington, Nov. 3.
Comminillee, speaking in the "Coun- rhe United States today signed an extensive five-
ell' Chamber."
People come from as far away as, Edinburgh and Manchester to make a fortune in the streets of Stepney," he said. "It is belig
pread abroad that you can per betrate any kind of dishonesty here."
The Borough Council has the ower to close down the open sir arket because it issues licences
stallholdern In the lane. Nearly 900 traders are licensed
ply their trade there
every ek. Petticoat Lane is a pres- rd with hundreds of thousands Servicemen who visited Lon- during the war years. It is of the sights that every visi-
to London must see.-Reuter.
POLITICAL
year treaty of "friendship, commerce and na- vigation" with China. State Department offi- cläls familiar with the negotiations said em- phatically that the conclusion of the pact at this time is not a move to strengthen Chiang's National Government in its struggle with the Chinese Communists.——--
t has no political significance whatever, these of- ficials (who cannot be named) told a reporter: Ambassador John Leighton Stuart and Robert Lacy Smith, special United States Commis- sioner and Consul-General at Tientsin, signed for the United States in a ceremony at Nan- king. Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh and Wang Hua-cheng, Chief of the Chinese Treaty Department, represented China.
DEMONSTRATIONS cument will become
LIFE AND DEATH
London, Nov. 2.
Al Teunt thre's women re- ceived fractured legs and up- wards of 100 wære viven first aid treatment as thousands of til fans jammed Leicester Square for the first film Com- mand Performance of the new British njeturs, "Matter of Life and Death," which raised $120,000 for the Cinemato- graph Trude Benevolent Fund.
The King and Queen and the tive Princessce attended. "We thought we might be casualties unracives," said the King. "Our car was on tion wheels instead of four at times."Associated Press
Spanish War Games
MOTOR BUS PREMISES
roared
up
Flames nearly a hundred feet into the air as $100,000 worth of property chiefly brand new motor tires was consumed in a fire which broke out in the workshop and store room of the China Motor Bus Co. in Wanchai last night
- as it
"'VERY BEST OPINION”
Price: 20 Cents.
Moncord, Nov. 3« "Panda" in sta internas tional reviews, today declared that the Soviet nation has "the very best apinion" of the British people,
"Lord Vansittert in Parlin- ment recently spoke of grow ing propagands flowing from Mosen and that it was im- possible to hear from there eren an, good He should word about
England it said.
know that the Soviet nation has the very best opinion of the British people but it is dificult for our citizens to find a good word" when dea- cribing that suspicious pa- anisation which the British Government is according to the neo-cacists in Italy, to the reactionarien_in_Greece unl to Franco-Speis. Our policy is clear; il consistently rims at peace and security.
The Soviet nation would like the policy of other great Bowers to be the same."- Reuter.
British
Embassy Outrage
Rome, Nov. 2.
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Bevin Sees No Need For Despondency
New York, Nov. 3. |British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared today there was no need for despondency over the Big Four efforts to write a final peace for Europe and called for "care, - patience and tolerance" in formulating treatles for the five vanquished satellites of Nazi Germany, Arriving aboard the "Aquitania" for the four power Foreign Ministers' session which opens tomorrow to settle the peace that the United Nations is pledged to keep, Mr. Bevin said: "We will see if we can work the treaties into permanent
documents and end the statel of war.
"One thing is quite clear and that is that everybody wants peace and is tired of conflict and turmoil."
French deputy Foreign Minis- ter Maurice Couve de Murville, who also arrived on the "Aqui» tonia" for the four power meeting, said he thought the Foreign Ministers would first discuss a treaty with Germany "on about Nov. 20" after the treaties... for. Italy, Rumanía, Bulgaria and Finland had been concluded.
Low Countries
Assistance
NEW NAME FOR WINNIE
Moscow, Nov. 2,
The Soviet periodical "New Times" "replying to a letter--- which it said had been re- "ecived from an Englishman, declared today that Britain was supporting reactionary forces whose "political hang- man toga Winston Churchill.
Reuter
Three Girls
Kidnapped, Assaulted
In this connection Mr. Berin approved a request by Belgium Carmine Botting, Chief of and the Netherlands to parti- the Political Section of the cipate in the four power dis- Rome Police, said today that so cussion on Germany. He de far there was no confirmation clared "the assistance of Bel- of the rumours alleging that gium and Holland is essential
*** New York, Nov. 3. Italian political elements were to determine what we are going
Investigating the most bru- implicated in the British Em- to do with Germany." bassy outrage
An authorized Thursday
source said tal assault case we have ever when time bombs exploded and Mr. Bevin would probably con- had." State Police-sergt Forkin, wrecked two floors of the fer with Secretary of State of Bordentown, New Jersey, James F. Byrnes within three announced the arrest of 10 men strategy in the peace delibera- girls and assaulting them at a to six hours on Anglo-American accused of kidnapping three tions Associated Press.
building.
on
Extra fire engines were sert from Central, and Inspector Kinlochi and the Emergency Unit had to be turned out in a hurry to assist No. 2 Police Station in the handling of the huge crowds which gathered all round the burning building The bulky 10,000-word de- to the Chinese or any other :
at the junction of. Hennessy and Jchaston Roads. effective foreigners. on American scil.
Thick clouds of black, Trieste. Nov. 2. when ratified by the United The United States gave up its Five large political demon- States Senate and the Chinese extraterritorial privileges in
greasy smu ke poured out of the trations-three by pro-Italians, Legislative Yuan. It is a so-China in the treaty in Washing- Hendaye, Nov. 3. windows and drifted over Wan- two by
The Spanish pro-Yugoslavs-au-called "mutuality" treaty which ton on January 11, 1943.
Army chai, carrying the pungent od- The new treaty, officials said, was reported yesterday weat. When the fire was at its
out of burnt rubber thorised by the Allied Military guarantees Chinese individuals | Government, took place in often and business firms the same is designed to lay down in ai turbvient Trieste in perfect or rights in the United States as clear and legal form the prin- to be conducting field height, the job of the der yesterday.
two manoeuvres along the fighters was rendered more dif- American individuals and busi- ciples under which the The demonstrations were per-ness firms have in China, and nations will conduct business French frontier just cult by a lava-like flow milted so that Triestini might spells out those rights in detail. relations with each other. Tolsouth of the border vil-into the road and spread for Movement" with its central
molten subber which ran down have their last word before the It supersedes nine previos some extent it broadens rights,
some distance before solidifying "Big Four Foreign Ministers treaties between the two coun- and privileges which Amrelenn lage of Hendaye.
The noise of rifle and machine- | again. meet in New York to approve tries, including the original corporations can
gun fire is being heard every day, Passers by at 9.15 the Paris Pence Treaty inter- "treaty of peace, amity and China, they added. nationalising the city'
commerce" "American oficials | |- Venezia Giulia civil police, alerted to put down any dis order, expected less trouble with the demonstratora tien they did with women queuing up before stores to buy blan kets.--Associated Press,
exercise in
On Paper
The French authorities cited a
Six
fire-
of
เ
were understood to be directed Police inquiries in Rome
today to what la described as an "International • Underground
office in Rome.
p.m.
The man who was detained-
STRIKE ENDS The journalists strike in the
Paris. Nov, 2.
.:
The settlement terms were un- known-Reuter.
lonely spot over-looking the Delaware River, known as the Sylvan Glen.
The men, who all come from Trenton, New Jersey, stand re- manded on 22,000 ball caeli,
Their are Judy Zuzacke and Ruth Miller, both aged 24, and Freda Locker, aged 28, all of Trenton A
According to the "police, Miss Locker and Miss Zazocke Inft
and met Miss Miller at a tavern. work at nine o'clock at night
danced, until midnight. They had a few, drinks and
¡while the Franco authorities were heard a muffled, explosion from after the, Embassy bombing was Lyons region ended today. The after being charged before a
believed to have infantry 600 feet) velikin the premises which in today disclosed to be. Ladislac strike for a 25 per cent wage in police magistrates. at the treaty was needed. The afficials admouth of the Blissa River prewar Cays was Gilman's never been born crease which started on Thursday among other reasons to wipe ever, that with civil strife which separates France and Spain Service Station-and the next In Bulgaria, and described as out the last vestiges of the so-
was followed by n-walkout of raging in a large part of China, at this point. Various fortifications moment sheets of flame leaped "stateless person." called "extraterritoriality." une these expanded rights for
Two other persons who are cial centres...
Journalists in several big provin der which the United States American business may largely truclion on the Spanish side.
were also reported under con-up inside the building and the
fire quickly gained hold.
detained, one of them a woman, exercised certain legal privileges exist on paper, rather than in
were believed to have been ¡1in China, which it did not grant practice for some time.
Narrow Escape
taken into custody for other * persons-including woman-had a narrow escape:
FILKONY. They awoke in their upper-tary rooms to find the stairs cut off by, flames. They were able to get to safely, how- ever, by climbing through a window onto the porch and thence via some buses awaiting assembly onto the ground. Two were injured and had to be taken to hospital.
Rumanian Reply British Note
ANTI-TRUMAN GAINS
New York, Nov.
There tona every indication todus of his Republican anti- Tron paina on Tacaday's elections woken Americans yo to the polls to choos Cox.
a
greas for the remaining two Ucar of the Preskient's administration-Reuter,
To
Bucharest, Nov. 2.`
was scrupulously carrying dut
the terms of the
armistice,
which left her independence and
Sovereignty intact.
long-standing Franco - Spanish Citizens. corporations und
agreement forbidding the station associations of one country are ing.of troops within 15 miles of permitted by the treaty "reside, travel and
the frontier and speculated whe trade" in all parts of the otherther this was being broken.
Associated Press.
carry 011
country. Specifically they can
carry un "commercial manu-
facturing and the profession of Search For
scientiße, educational, religious! and philanthropic Activities" not forbidden by the other country's law,
Land Leases
Their Majesties
1,378 Bodies.
and
when
Sir Charles Noel, the British down a bombed house at 36 Grant A coolic engaged in pulling is, Rome from Leadon by air was killed when a wall collapsed Ambassador in Italy, arrived vile Rond yesterday afternoon
today. Reuter.
on him.
Terror Plan For Britain?
7
JAPAN'S NEW CONSTITUTION
༧
Dragged Into Cars
+
As they stepped outside the door, three cars containing 10 men were parked on either side. The girls alleged that the men dragged them into the cars and forced them to ride seven miles to the Sylvan Glen.
There, it is alleged, they were hauled from the cars, beaten and criminally assaulted,
Earthquake
matun" to the British Govern- Bromwich merit that if, the full Jewish de- Mr. Shaw said: "The earth-
Rumania's reply to the British note of Oct 28 on the forthcoming Rumanian elections fixed for Nov. 19 was handed today to Mr. Adrian Hol-
Waslington, Nov. 3. Two fire engines arrived from man, British political representative in
stile natives and monsoons Wanchai fire station in a matter They can "equire, hold, ereet are hampering search for the of minutes, to be quickly rein- Rumania, by Dr. George Tatarescu, Foreign or lease and occupy appropriate bodies of 1,378 American fliers forced by four more from Cen- The "Evening News" said today "Jewish terrorists despite their cries. One girl is
London, Nov. 3. Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
buildings", and lease and fer missing in Southeast Asian tral, while The Rumanian
a yowling siren Government: carrying out these activities. jungles. the War Department heralded the arrival of the are planning to carry their underground war alleged to have been assaulted Baid the Rumanian news Americans can
organise and reported today, but efforts to Emergency Squpd which was into the heart of Britain.”
| five, times, Bome money was agency, while thanking The participate on corporations with find them will be resumed badly needed to help control the
The bombing of the British stolen from Miss Locker. British Government for its Chinese in China and the
a larger scale.
huge crowds which always
Two hours léter each girl wâs Embassy in Rome, the same paper expressions of satisfaction that Chinese can do the same in the
The work in Assam. Bengal gather so quickly in over the elections were to be held. United States,'
said, was "the first blow." There put into a separate car and Northern and Southern populated Wanchai. regretted that it could not
was no confirmation of the story taken home. Miss: Zazacke took The so-called "most favoured Buma has been held up by
elsewhere. Trams were stopped between
note of the car's licence plate accept the representations con-nation" principle appears often
monsoonx. in the treaty taxt. This means
the Southorn Playground and
The Foreign Office sald. it she was put out and gave it tained in the British note.
In Sumatra. Java, French Tinlok Lane, running a shuttle recom- for example that in activities do-China and the Lesser Sun-service up to these points until
knew nothing of such plans and to the police, Such criticisms and
Tokyo, Nov. 3,
there was "so far no connection” covered by the treaty, if mendations it regarded as T
thedra Islands the operations have 11.05 when the fire was definitely The ceremony of the promul-between the Rome explosion and Rumanian United States granted certain been hampered both by unwell under control. infringement of
gallon of the new Japanese Con- any Jews. sovereignty-and-direct interfer-rights to any third country favourable weather and the hos
stitution bi the House of Peers The-Colonial Office likewise "Origin" Unknown ence with Rumanian, domestic stich as Britain, it would be tilily of the natives and banditi, affairs, the reply said.
London, Nov. 2. obliged to grant equal rights
Search and recovery activities fire had not been ascertained up script and the Prime Minister the Jewish plan
The cause of the outbreak of went off smoothly, this morning was skeptical.
when the Emperor read the re The "News" said the purported | A big earthquake 5,000 miles The reply said that Rumania to China.
in Siam and Malaya have been to the time of going to press. (Contianed un Page 8, Col. 5)
was evolved at a away was recorded tonight on virtually completed, the De- Mr. Ngan
President of the House of Peers secret Palestine conference and the seismograph of Mr. J. S. Shing-kwan.. partment said, and work is managing director of the bus and the Speaker of the House of volved the issuing of an "ui- Shaw, seismologist of West geing forward in the Celebes company, told a "China Mell Representatives read replies. and Borneo areas. Associated reporter who caw him arrive on The pronte lofty hall of the the scane that the upper-storey House of Feers was lied to part of the building formed overflowing with hundreds stand referred to the Moscow agree-
office premises which it had ing in the aisles when at 11 am. ment but under this Rumania
the Emperor mojinted the days been planned to move today. underto:k obligations from the
It added "The tactics will in-ides of the direction but the Six drums of Diesel oil were wearing a simple black court uni- collective decision of three
rescued from the flames. No form relieved only by the Order include assassination of public distance is about 5,000 miles. great powers and not from the
The King's, ́men" and women Individual decision of any one
It is officially announced that busen were last, though we of Crysanthemum on the let men blowing up Government The disturbance is exceedingly servants and members of the staff the woman known as Miss Dag-suffered from scorching before breast, and sat down on the buildings and sabotage of indus- severe. of them.
at Buckingham Palace and Wind- mar Peters, found murdered on they could be dragged clear and chrysanthemum-emblemed gilded trial installations." Associated The record papers by 7 p.m. Consequently, Rumania con-sor Castle became guests of the Wrotham Hill on Thursday, was taken with the others to the throne. He then stood to present Press. of the Soviet Government, sidered that "an individual step, King and Queen today at a wel- Dagmar Fetrzyvalski
Fleming Road depot." which has more than doubled by any one of the powers signa conie home tea party in, the his- its budget for scientific Etory of the Moscow agreement torie Waterloo Chamber in Wind- and lived in a wood and tarpaulin search, members of the Physics or even a two power step could and Mathematics section of the not have this collective agree USSR Academy of Scientists,ment as a basis." Are completing plans for 1947 The, reply also said that the forces during the war went to the research which will class the British note did not correspond Party where they had buffel tea,
so-called [cess Elizabeth and Princess Mar-
Page Troo
Show This to Shopkeepers Who them, shaking hands and talking Try to Charge More, can note on the same subject
A similar-reply to the Amerito, nearly every one.
Page Three Other servants in Jivery walted Chiang's Troups Force Way Pros. Fournished Way Home was handed to the United on their fellow servants
Into Chefoo
Japan's Unfinished,
Soviet Science Budget
Moscow, Nov. 2. Backed by the full resources
True, the British note criti-
cising the election campaign At Home To
Palace Staff
sor Castle.
Windsor, Nov. 2.
Press
WOMAN IDENTIFIED
Wrotham, Nov. 2.
She was of Polish extraction
hut five miles from the scene of More than 300 members of the the crime-Router. Royal staff who' served in the!
development of knowledge. In to the facts nor could Rumanis With We King and Queen, Prin: ON OTHER PAGES
the fields of nuclear energy, admit that certain radio, Ication and jet propul national parties have been ban-garel moving informally among alon, as the primary objectives
ned
of framense importance to the
Soviet Union's national ecopo
my-s
The current five-year plan. States political representative The King in a lounge suit had
which is a plan of scientific and In Rumania Reuter, technical progress, donfronts
Frankfurt, Nov. 3.
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ri
Labour Still Predominant.. Pusa
many of his own staff present- ed" to him in the centre of the scientists with exceptionally Soviet scientists will cope with roomReuter, important and responsible them. 'work," physicists and mathe The Government's maticians were told at a plan- guarantee unparalleled exten- News reports that Marlin Bore
Bevin Carrying Britain's Blue- ning session. “This particularly sion of facilities, including the man, Hitler's missing deputy, had ring for Germany. refers to scientists engaged in erection of new laboratories, been seen alive in the American British ideas on Ful Employ
Page Seven don pbyale mathematical and tech generous grants for new equip zone of Germany are being in ment nical sciences," it was stated: ment and the financing of new vestigated by United States Army Page Eight
These tasks are difficult it institutions-Reuter
agents Associated Press
Sports News, etc..
Rail Smash -28 Die
Double Holiday
mands in Palestine are not grant-quake bell drew attention to a the war against Britain will big disturbance at 6.30 p.m. carried into Europe and Unfortunately I did not get the thence into London." Zavi first wave and I cannot give an
be
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were swinging, over a distance No Information: cf about ten inches and the London, Nov. 2. movement after nearly two Scotland Yard today stated hours was still continuing- that they had no information Reuter to support reports in London's evening newspapers that Jew ish terrorists plan to carry their underground war into the heart of Britain
THE WEATHER
the rescript after receiving it from the Grand Chamberlain
Present in the Diplomatic Corps gallery were the chairman of the Allied Control Council, tir. George Atcheson and the head of the United Kingdom Liaison mis- |sion, "Mr. Alvary Gascoigne,
The new Constitution will be coma a law of the land six months
A moderate, anti-cyclona centred trom today, per
"Steps were taken a consider. London,, Nov. 25
over. NE China, is moving, cast- The death roll it a rail
able time ago to deal with any ward. A drone anti-cyclone re- terrorist acts in Britain," mains over the Pacific to the E amash at Troelleben station,
Today is being celebrated as a Yard spokesman told Reuter, of N Japan. A small depression. of Germany, has risen today to muigation of the new Constituilonnets by any section or faction Shikole, and press in Surpr near Halle, in the Soviet zone double holiday to mark the pro- They were not directed against or is moving to the B of German, stated tonight, Emperor Mell, who promtilgated erat. Nothing is known here tra to the Pacific, SE of the 28. the British News Service in and the birthday anniversary of but against terrorism in gen in a trough extending from. Sumb
pessengers were the the first Japanese Constitution 57 which would support any brief day's forecast: Moderato
Carolines Jast batch of Sudeten Germans years ago,
that the Jews are out to cause k be expiled from Czecho The celebrations will include trouble in this country.Reushore but renderating, fair, be-
easterly winds; fresh int times off slovakin to Germany extraites of rations, dancing
terren A fault In the points sent the and Lantern processions, athletic train into a siding and against meetings, musle and entertain-transgressors" and "criminals"" "ex=" a buffer, the impact destroying ments programmes, while amnesty cepting those guilty of inflicting the first three carriages còm- has been granted, by the Emperor crimes and violations of the 'elec- pletely. Eighteen persons were to 300,000 Violatom ez all war- tion, laws in Jast April's elections" Infüred-Reuter.
time, and milffeży laws, political Reuter:
The
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** Máx. Rel. Humidity: 80%
Banshihe: 10.1 hours. Rainfall: NO.