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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1946.
de CO-OP SOCIETY FOR
Thrown In City
H.K.?
Movement Afoot To Secure Fair Prices
Eight Chinese, includ-To Work On An
ing a policeman who
Went to tackle the cri- minals,
were
injured
last night when a hand grenade was thrown and exploded outside a City restaurant...
The incident occurred follow- ing a hojd-up by two armed
gangsters at the Lung Kee
Restaurant, 251 Des Voeux Road, Central, just after 10 o'clock.
There were only a few cus tomers in the restaurant when the men entered, one of them threatening the cashier with a revolver while the other tried to open the cash register.
Failing in this, he seized *some 3250 from a drawer and
the men decamped.
On the pavement outside, the men almost ran int. a police- man who had been summoned i by a foki. The constable, PC 437, had drawn bis but before he could grenade was thrown ploded, injuring him.
revolver
fire a and ex-
Shrapnel spattered the walls, broke the restaurant show case and caused injuries to eight) Chinese, including the police- man. Among those injured were a passer-by, R Woman newspaper seller and a cigarette hawker.
Four were still being detained in hospital last night. The condition of one was stated to -be serious.
Police believed the incident was a hold-up and had no cor- nection with threatening letters. While the restaurant denied having received any letter de- manding payment.
Economic Basis
(By Margaret Bradbury)
Plans are now being made in Hong Kong for the setting up of a consumer co-operative society which would be run on similar lines to those at present existing in England.
Mrs. Vivienne Kenrick, Secretary of the Provi-
sional Committee of seven which has been formed to discuss the project, told me yester- day: "Everything is very much in the embyro stage at the moment. The main idea is to start a shareholders concern which would make prices fairer and ensure a better life for storeworkers in the Colony."-
Mrs. Kenrick, who was à co- Joperative guild member in Eng- lund, said that the committee had been formed by Eishop, Hall and included Mr. J. M. Tan, Control- ler of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative in Hong Kong, Mr. Chu Kin Man, Chairman
Sub Sinks In North
Sea
Hong
Kong and Kowloon Employees i Association, Mr. George She, Chaplain of St. Johns Cathedral, { and Mr. Charles J. Harth, the Bishop's secretary.
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SHIP STRIKE SETTLED
San Francisco, Nov. 14. Abusis for settlement of..
maritime The West Const strike has been achieved with an announcement likely with- in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Dr. Nathay P. Feinsinger, Federal mediator, said "ike only real obstacle" to mari- time peace, the preferentiul hiring issue. "has been 'TC-
·moved.”—Associated Press.
Christmas
Ship In
London
was
the Royal Mail
Terrorist Arrested
In Britain
London, Nov. 14. The arrest of a sus- pected Jewish gang as- sociate as he tried to en- ter Scotland' was disclos- ed last night as police maintained a doubled
Supreme Court
Price: 20 Cents.
HITLER GAVE HER CHEQUE
Berlin, Nov. 13.
A woman who is alleped to hava received from Hitler personally a cheque for one million marks for denouncing the Lord Manor of Leipzig, Dr. Hans Goerdelek, one of the leading
figures in the bomb plat against Hitler on July 24, 1944, facra trial be- fore a German criminal court in Berlin tomorrows to
44.
She is Helene. Schwuorzel, 4-year-old book kespor. The prosecntion alleges she re- cognized and denounced to. the Gestapo the mayor, who had hidden in Berlin after the bomb plot and then fled to East Prussia.---Rauter.
1,000
guard of Government Dead In
buildings against threats of Palestine under- ground groups to "carry the war into Britain." Authoritative quarters said
man in the guise of a discharged Polish soldier was aken off 1
..
Jewish underground resistance
a cooperative society for consum-West Indien rum, coffee, cana Parashots
ers here will depend entirely on sugar, tomato juice, honey, ginger, mangoes, lemon juice and cigars. public reaction."
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ANONYMOUS GANG LETTER THREATS
(By Margaret Bradbury)
A series of anonymous "gang" letters threatening sabotage on pain of payment of $3,000 being re- ceived in the Colony by the owners and man- agers of goldsmith shops, restaurants, and pri- vate houses according to police authorities yesterday.
The letters follow on the two bomb incidents last week when explosions occurred in the Kam Sing (Golden City) restaurant in Queen's Road on Sunday and at the Luk Hoi Tung Hotel on Monday night when three cubicles were destroyed and four Chinese injured. Police found afterwards that; homa had been placed under
a wardrobe on the first floor of the building.
Both the restaurant and hotel owner had previously received blackmail notes identically worded to these now being clr- culated.
Chinese
1 curious red
trop.
Blackmail Gangs
Burning Car Gave
Him Away
At Police headquarters yes- Lima, Nov. 14.
terday I was told that the notes
Paris, Nov. 14. Verificable reports re- are written in Chinese to the The Paris police havo netted
"unless you pay total of about £100,000 in pound military transport at Glasgow 10 ceived here today said effect that: days ago on the basis of informa- that a
the sum series of earth- ready rush to our
over
of $3,000 in and dollar notes and francs in organisa- one day as a result of investiga- tion reaching Scotland Yard that London, Nov. 14
gold he caine frem Palestine and had quakes which began in tion we will put a bomb on your tions into alleged illegal
trafficking A "Christmas ship" Stern cang contacts.
Peru last Sunday had premises." The notes are signed
Smoke from a burning automo- London, Nov. 14. "
The Stern gang is one of the taken a known death toll with arrived at the London
bile in a garage led the police to William Officials of
Watkins,
the discovery of 300 pieces of gold soon as 'we know Ltd., a London lighterage firm,
how docks today.
groups which has resorted to a of at least 1,000 and
and 90 bars of gold valued a Colony are She were today waiting for further many people in the
£30,000. The owner of the auto- news of the former French sub interested in the scheme we shall steamer Lombardy, 20-year-old campaign of violence.-Associated caused widespread des-
mobile in which the 300 gold Press
truction on the western marine Ordine. which was re- [be able to go ahead," said Mrs., survivor of the Battle of the At
No antification of other ex-pieces were found after the firs morted to have foundered while, in Kenrick. "The establishment oflantic. She brought from the
Andes slopes.
plosions had been received by which was accidental, is stated tow by one of the company's ves-
Newspapers placed the number police aucilies up to just to have confessed that he was the sels in the. North Sea.
of casualties at 500, but this was night. An offcial said yester agent for a gold trafficking or not confirmed by official sources day: "We think that the black-ganisation with headquarters In Of less than 4,000 gross tons
Switzerland and that he had Known casualties Included 50 mail gange y have been en
gold from Switzer- herself the Lambardy brought
men killed in the Consuso mine couraged by the recent reports brought the gold 3.000 tons of
London, Nov. 14..
land. sugar and
On the basis of a telegram from in the press of Jewish terrorist 4,000 cases of tomate juice. By Among service personnel on
In another gold trafficking caso Cabana, the threats in England.. far the most valuable part of the board the liner Otranto, which the authorities in
reported today three men have reached Southampton today, from Ministry of Interior said that of rum, which will give the EX- a Christmas chequer
gift of Said, were fifteen men from the Ancahs department north of Lima, information and descriptions coins dollars, and pound moles about £2,000,000 in import duties. 13th Parachute Battalion, whose appeared to be hardest, hit., with of east many racketeers worth $20,000—Reuter.
Throughout the war the Lom- convictions for mutiny in the Far 300 Killed and 250 injured, Sibuns, known. 15 us in flang Kong and hardy cared food and supplies to East here recently quashed in the same department was com are not thaddiy worried abni
suffering no Britain,
damage
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men who were before pletely destroyed. It was report- the situation. I there are any The Committee is in need of until in a collision with another Otrante with other members of from the debris of this town of ceiving netes the
the court-martial boarded the
ed that 40 bodies were taken further incidents of people re- someone who has had cooperative ship after the war-Reuter.
police will organising experience outside the
the battalion at Singapore. The Colony, and is shortly to approach
battalion, including most of the 11,540 population. Thirty dead appreciate immediate notifica-
tion." тел. involved in the court-martial, was reported in Pomabamba, the Chinese. Industrial Goopiera-
The first shock lasted less than disembarked at Port Said for ser-
In the Colony this month; tives in Hong Kong for help in
armed vice in Palestine.
ten seconds. Since then 52 minor there have been five the initial stages.
The 15 men, who had spent shocks have been felt-Associat- highway robberies. Three ar- most of the voyage in the ship's led Press:
rests have been made so far. hospital. have come home for re
metal firm in
The Ondine, which was scrap- ped by the French Navy back in 1943, was recently bought by a private Copenhagen.
She was on her way there yes- message to the Watkins firm, she as prices were foundered-Reuter.
No Undercutting She went on to explain that the [Society would work on an econo
mic basis which would knock out
concerned. The members of the Society would become shareholders and no pro- it would be paid to absentee
cane
terday when, according to, u brief | suggestions of undercutting as far cargo was more than 1,000 Hong Kong, Singapore and Port Conchucos, a town of 4000 in the we are wɔ:sing on certain i been arrested in possession of
Britain Hopes For More Danish Food
(By Judson O'Quinn)
•
London, Nov. 14.
shareholders.
Co.
STRİKE OVER IN SINGAPORE
"The
Mrs. Kenrick said that it was kely that the committee would
"Singapore, Nov 14. also apply to lie Chinese
The Singapore waterfront lease.-Reuter. operatives for a loan if the ven-strike, involving more then 7.000. ture finds sufficient support in labourers, finally set- The have
the Colery, and also to Coppers- thar laget, was dan and NO CONSCRIPTION Sex Discrimination
IN ULSTER
A reduction of British exports to Denmark, particu- larly of non-essential goods, is likely to result from Anglo-Danish financial and trade talks concluded in London. "The Danish people may have to tighten their belts," one source said, “and do without some of the non-essen- tive societies in England for sug-promised to return to work this tial goods we have received from Britain in gestions and literature which afternoon after striking for 18 order to reduce the balance we owe Britain.”
might apply to the situation here, days. The strike cost local mer-
Belfast, Nov. 13. Said Mrs. Kenrick: "We need chants, the majority of whom are
The Prime Minister of Nor- No detalls have been worked experience more than ideas at the Chinese, several million Straits
thern Ireland, Sir Basil Brooke, out yet on what reductions would moment. If we da get suficient dollars.
Ire be made In British imports by shareholders in Hong Kong we
The workers accepted a Gov-announced in Northern Denmark, the source said, but the will start the society in a small ernment offer by arbitration. The land's House of Commons to matter is to be the subject of fur-way at first and if our plans do all round increase of 15 per cent ment had decided not to apply Harbour Board has agreed to an day that the British Govern- not go away we may eventually in wares, payment of two hours officials set up business on the principles avertime to be equivalent to three conscription to the British arm- were hoping for increased exports of cooperation at a fair price with hours ordinary work, and double ed forces to Northern Ireland. of foodstuffs from Denmark as a reasonable return of profit." ..
pay on Sundays.-Central News-Reuter. one means of wittling down the $23,000,000 export balance in Bri-
Plane Jettisons Cargo
Lanchow, Nov. 14.
ACNAC plane en a fight
from Chungking
Lo Lanchow
ther talks in Copenhagen.
Meanwhile, British
tain's favour,
delegation returned to
The Danish financial and trade Copen- hagen yesterday after completing
yesterday had a narrow escape week's negotiations with Bri-
from crashing when the
tish officials.
Weather muddenly changed and The Danish
ice began to form rapidly an the wings.
delegation told
British officials that Denmark felt
that increased prices should be
The present trade
British Exchange Control Bill
London, Nov. 13.
obtained for additional food sent The Exchange Control Bill, first important mea- sure of Parliament's new session, published this afternoon restricts dealings in gold and foreign currency except with authorised dealers (principally banks).
The Captain immediately or dered the dumping of all cargo to Britain. and luggage so as to lighten the agreement between the two coun- plane. All luggage and cargo tries fixes the prices of foodstuffs Including 80 sets of rubber Britain imports and is not sub- tyre tubes, large bag of mail ject to revision until next April,} _' - and, other goods were "thrown overboard to keep the plane airborne.
British Sympathy
The plane arrived here short-i The Betish, it was learned, ly after dusk yesterday, the have not approved a price in- passeng 13 non the worst for the experience-Central News,
1921 MURDER" TRIAL
It requires gold and most foreign currencies to be sold to them Dealers in turn must sell to and
buy from the Exchange Equalisation Account. By this means, official exchange rates are maintained and the central supply of ex
change is fed.
VIOLENCE IN
- HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood, Nor 14. -
"The homes of two more non-striking movie workers..... were blasted by home-made grenades today.
It was the accond successive night of new violence in the two month American Federa- tion of Labour Jurisdictional strike. Nobody: wus injured. -Associated Press..
Dutch Band At Windsor
Must Go
Lake Success, Nov. 13. Delegates to the United Nations Social Committee tonight warmly applauded a Danish proposal to grant women the same political rights as men in all member states of the United Na- tions.
The Whole Bag Next Time
Cairo Arrests
Cairo, Nov. 14. Police arrested three membera of the Kotla Youth Organization and dispersed several hundred "Day of Struggle" demonstra- Lors yesterday near the Tomb of Sand Zaghloul Pasha, venerat- ed Egyptian statesman military leader.
and
The demonstrators shouted "no imperialism" and "we wil buy our independence with our blood," after visiting Zaghloul's bomb. Mokham Ebada Pasha," leader of the Kotla Party, head- ed the pilgrimage to the tomb but left before the demonstra-, tions started.
After three of the demonstra- tors were arrested, the others surged around the policeman and demanded their release, but they were dispersed.
The proposal was first put by Mrs. Bodil Begirus, chairman of the Danish Women's Council.
Earlier, members of the It is not enough to agree upon Sandist Party paid a quiet visit the noble phrases of the United to the tomb of Zaghloul, who on Nations Charter" she said. "We Nov. 13, 1918, demanded the have, cast the searchlight beam evacuation of British troops and on one paragraph after another the Independence of Egypt. to see if we can do something to Later, he became Egypt's first the Prime Minister,Ansociated Philadelphia, Nov. 14. implement the ideas of
Press+ Condemning "people who for- "The women of the world are get fast," General Henry Hooking toward the United Na Arnold, retired Chief of the Lions, to improve their conditions United States air forces, today citizenship. A statement of warned that if another war:
Charter.
Comes (the United States will the Assembly on this key question be hit first and with the whole will make a good impression throughout the world, Working bag of tricks,"
...
52 DEAD IN MINE TRAGEDY
*Were
Prague, Nov. 14. He decrated that solationism women raised their heads to a
Fifty-two people, including and postwar apathy gripped ray of hope when they heard
German prisoners of war about the United Nations. Imany Americans. Before it is
"They feel that for the first killed today when an explosion too late, we must remobilise our time they are needed to rebuild took place at the Kohinder coal national spirit, elsa truly once the world. What we are case in the supplemental food
doing mine near Mothin in northwest shipments the Danes, may make,
again, mon our men-shall here will catch the imagination, Bohemia and although there was understood to
Clearing operations are in pro- Windsor, Nov./13.
have died in vain and VE and and the response will be that they The bill was presented to the be Eriush sympathy for
Payments to persons outside - the
today and For the first time, foreign VI days will become in part will join us in the service for Kress and the dead are being re-
covered. Donish contention,
the sterling area are prevented House of Commons
just armistice days to mark peace."
The explosion occurred so sud- Both British and Danish sources except with Treasury, permission formally read for the first time. military band took part in the an
Authoritative explanations of clant changing of the guard care the interlude between more
Applause also greeted Mrs. A.denly that it caught all the minors indicated that preliminary steps
The existing control over the taken during the talks pointed to issue and transfer of securities of te bill were given in London to mony at Windsor Castle today periods of bloodshed.” Arioneza of Norway, who sup at their working places. The
Dutch drum and file band
The retired Chief said that ported the Danish proposal and cause of the explosion is not yet which has been trained by Guards Freiburg satisfactory readjustment of trade Bon-residents is maintained and sight, clarifying its bearing on
"Every one will support knownBenter. will begin the trial on Nov. 26 of and financial arrangements. The a new control over foreign and European countries.
The following points are em the honour of taking the new atomic bomb look like a mere the initiative of Denmark, Dis-
Instructors at Windsor, was given future weapons would "make the orde Captain Heinrich, Tillessen, who is Danish delegation is to discuss bearer securities is introduced.
toy."-Associated Press.
crimination on account of sex accused of the murder in 1621 of final plans with the Danish Gov-
These controls are essential to phasised: The bill merely guard to the castle, Dr. Matthias Erzberger. German ernment.
does exist. That fact cannot be The Dutch band played in the of capital in gularises and perpetuates exist. prevent the fight
forecourt during the changing of
[changed by further study. It Secretary of State in Prince Máx
Exchanges at official levels wfi unauthorised investment abroad ing wartime exchange controls,
There is one Important relaxa-the guard ceremony and played of Baden's Peace Cabinet: be continued on practical imple- and dissipation of Britain's re-
Dr. Erzberger was Secretary of mentation of agreements reach maining foreign investments. tion, namely, that the Gover the old guard back to its bar-
The present power to requirement relinquishes the power to foreign securities to be sold com-cquisition foreign securities, own pulsorily to the Treasury hased by Britons.
Frankfurt, Nov, 14.
A German court at
Slate in the 1910 Cabinet and be--Asociated Press. came Vice-Premier and Finance
Minister Js 1910. He was a mem-
ber of the Catholic Centre Party, PA
Beuter
ngi ja que been dropped. The White Paper New Restriction
when a
tacks.
The Drted band iz returning t -Holland shortly-Bewer,
transactions and it claims that
ANGLO-SWISS TALKS
can be changed only by the action
of this committee and the Azem
THE WEATHER
An Intense antleyclone covera
ON OTHER PAGES discussing the bill says; that it is There is one new restriction control of capital transactions will are proceeding amicably, ac-Women have been the spearhead appears to be centred about 500
Crawford's" Meeting,
din. Nov. Page Ta
appointment as first Britioli High Commiarloner, to: Indla Page Three be Was announced in September Attack on Tenant in expected to leave London by Paus Fires
r tomorrow morning for New Bouth Africa Rejects Trustee Delhi to take up his new duties Page Siz
ship, He was former British Minis Labour Party Revolt tea in Byrin and Lebanon.- Page, Eight Reuter,
Sports New
daMr. Sirence Shane, whist Mot Mar” Trial, ·
bly. It is an incontestable fact the whole of China, Japan and that in those countries, where wo the neighbouring seas, pressure London, Nov. 18. men have acted in political lito being highest over North Ching Anglo-Swiss financial tallos they have made great progress, and Mongolia. The depression miles WNW of Guam, probably and intensifying: moving WNW at 19 to 15 knots. Today's Forecast Fresh or strang N and NE winds, partly Hnulog cold."
the policy of the Government to that formes securities must be help it to fall its obligations un cording to the Treasury spokes. of every social progress. We ap- cooperate with all governments kept in a banic
until redeemed der the Anglo-American loan man, but insufficient progress preciate the nice speeches about whose exchange controls, but they may still be freely agreement by next July,
has been made to permit spect the war work of women, but we based on similar principles with bought and sold
would appreciate it if these words Imports are and will continue fic comment. A
were followed by actions trans: a view to promoting orders InFormally, the bill covery all, to be regulated not by exchange The talks are expected to this complex and difficult feld foreign payments, but all current control but by Import licensing continue until the end of this flated into reality. It has not any cloudy, clearing gradually, con
thing to do with chivalry" Rey Big Relaxation payments will be exempt. Its in- und the Government states, "It is week The two main topics of e Without orderly exchanges, tention is to restrict capital trans through import licensing that we discussion are, firstly, how to the recovery of International ters as distinct from current shall honour our undertakings control expenditure of British trade on which so much of our transfers. Government intends to the United States, and Canada; own prosperity depends would to make sterling freely converti- not to discriminate against their be seriously endangered.
ble by stages for all current exports."-Reuter,
tourists in order to stop their tent the export of British goods currency black-market activi to Switzerland can be increased. ties, and secondly, to what ex--Reuter,
Yesterday's weather- Maximum: 65.6 deg, Fah Minimum : 61.90deg. Fah, Max Rel. Humility: 88%. Bunshine: 04 hours, Rainfall: 10.045 inches,