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HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1946.
U.S. COAL STRIKE ENDS
Abrupt Surrender By Lewis; Miners Ordered Back
Truman Cancels His Broadcast
Washington, Dec. 8. John L. Lewis has abruptly ended the softcoal strike, surrendering in the face of action by the United States Supreme Court and the Pre- sident of the United States. He ordered his 400,000 miners back to work immediately un- der the wages and other terms of the Govern- ment contract and made a bid for negotiations toward a new contract. - · ·
The sudden end of the 17-day-strike brought a gasp of relief.from the crippled nation. Freight and express embargocs, passenger restrictions and post office restrictions on parcel mail also were removed, immediately and the 21 state dim-out also was expected to be called off.
· President Harry S. Truman catie į elled the broadenst
he
planned for- Sunday night issued no comment.
Sonorously with Shakespearean had references he read a netice to the but iners telling them all to go work immediately-until March 31 at
With thentries Lewis announced the capitulation to a hurriedly called news conference.
Secret Entente For War?
TYPHOON WARNING
Manila, Dec, & The Weather Brew wen- terdag reported that a Pacific typhoon of geeing "intensity Central threatcting
ная
Philionines,
The phoon wuż reported 135 miles east of Northern Mindanao, maing northarest. -Associated Press.
Britain's Deficit
An
London,, Dec. 7.
official British
Worst Hotel Fire In U.S. History
Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 8.
The worst hotel fire in United States history took at least 127 lives when flames roared through the 15-storey Winccoff Hotel on Atlanta's fam- ed Peach Tree Street. Shrieking men, women and children burned to death or leaped in frantic desperation to their doom while scores of others suffocated. At least 100 others were injured.
It was the worst hotel fire in this country since 71 perished in the Newhall House fire at Milwau- kee in 1883. The death toll was more than double that of the La Salle Hotel fire in Chi- cago last June:
The Wincceff. Hotel, built of source said, foday that Britain's balance of pay-fied as "tre resistant, and steel and brick, was concrete.
ments this year was ex-had ho outside fire escapes. Lewis prefaced the announce-pected to reach a deficit But the blaze, apparently nri- ment by saying he would read his equivalent to $2,200,000.- ginating on the third or fourth
least.
letter to the miners himself so re- porters might know that "it is my own, made on this day and in good faith,"
Plain Facts
He added "questions as to the
000.
times the average pre-war de-
The deficit will
thus be
fieit.
flours, quickly reached up through the stairwells and it shafts to! trap nearly half the hotel's oc-
cupants.
rescue
Many trapped victims stoed on A further deficit or $2,000,000.- 000 was forecast for 1947 and the big ledges waiting motives will be pure speculation. 1948 which would be followed by, which could not reach them, then Some philosopher has said any-"more Mode " deficits in 1949 jumped-some into firemen's nels
Hong Kong An Example To China
Price: 20-Cents.
SIDKY PASHA RESIGNS
Cairo, Dec. 8. Bountian Premier Jamail Sidky Pasha today submitted his resignation to King
· Farouk, a very reliable souTCE, told Associated Press.
The
gave Sidky Praka's reasona as "Unese" and "the disputes that have arisch between him and the British Government on the Sudan question.”~Associated Press.
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Dramatic Scene In Women's Trial
Hamburg, Dec. 8. Two women of Europe-a resistance leader and a self-confessed spy-faced each other across a Military Court here yesterday in a dramatic scene on the third day of the trial of the staff of the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp for women.
In the witness box was Mrs. Sylvia Salvesan, pro- minent Norwegian social worker and a mem- ber of the resistance movement, who was sent to the camo in 1942 as a reprisal for the land- ing on the Norwegian coast of a small band of Allied soldiers.
She looked at Carmen Maria Mory, a 41-year-old Swiss, who sat in the dock with six other women and 12 men charged with il treating and killing Allied na- innals confined in the camp.
"Was. Mary present when vic- for the gas
STALIN IN
ims were selected "BEST OF
hamber?" counsel asked,
With a grin expression, Mrs.. salvesan replied; "Yes."
HEALTH"
London, Dec. 8. George Bernard Shaw oday told the leader of the Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace that he
Mery, fur-coated, blackhaired, wearing heavy lipstick and with shocked at your apos-er nails recdened, has confessed tasy in calling votes for he was a spy for the Germans
and carly in the war." drowning the movement Abrupt Change y spokesman said today Mory, had been laughing and that Generalissimo Sta- in the useless and irre-
Joking in the dock with her fellin "is in the best of levant lasting peace low prisoners, whose expressions business."
women
a
success
A
London, Dec. 8. Soviet Embassy
remained stolid and unsmiling.health."
But nt Mrs. Salvesan's answer,
"
how that the pursuit of motives and 1950. The equivalent would which were torn from the handsaim to Hong Kong and did. I would not do it for you," Mory had said
not be reached until after 1950, informed sources said.
The heaviest burden came froni impurts which this year would on to an equivalent of $5,300, 000.000 against a pre-war annual
average
Military
aversens
of the
.
rumours
He flatly denied the week-end In a "Sunday Dispatch" letter her manner changed abruptly and to Mrs. Norman Whitehouse, within
one London a matter of seconds, rumour, which in former suffrage leader. Shaw set rubbed a hand across her eyes as Sunday paper went so far as to at his views on feminine suffrage though she were brashing tears say that the Russian Chief of and refused to autograph a book away.
State was "cither dead or dying"" London, Dec. 7. for Mrs. Whitehouse. "I never
and in another that "Stalin' is on Mrs., Salvesan.carlier told. how the way out."," The Chinese have good autograph Books for sale and if I
on arrival at
Asked whether the statement Bremen by the extreme
he wrote,
Ravensbruck that she had been was based on recent direct coin- is the most clusive in the world."
height of the leaps.
the day will come when
sentenced to death by the French munications from the Kremlin, But two facts were plain:
A number escaped death by Britaini First, Mr. Truman was at work
barricading
can no longer rept them out of their 30-50 the German Army when France nothing to the statement."
Show said votes for women had for spying, but was liberated by the spokesman said: "I can add their doors against on the broadcast and all Indica-
the smoke and flames.
refuse to give it back to share of the Government more was overrun. Then, in turn, she He said the current rumours tions were it would have been an
Some swung on bedsheet ropés [Chiña, declares the effectually than their former de- was imprisoned by the Germans. that Stalin was either dead or London, Dec. 8.
appeal to the miners over Lewis'
to a lower level where they were "Manchester Guardian"ranchisement. For this was at Mrs. Salvesan had told of con-dying "are believed to originate head. This was amid reports that Mr. Zilliacus, one of
'cast a grievance. But now it is ditions in the camp hospital, how (from Ankura”, sone miners already had gone would account for $1,200,000,000 rescued by firemen."
Bodies were found on every in an editorial here to-the women themselves that vote the accused doctors had perform-j "There have been) - the leaders of the revolt back to work.
this wear. Help to other countries
day.
#gainst themselves and you called "unnecessary" operations. en started in the Turkish cupital," he within the Labour Party Second, the appeal from the Lewis was estimated this year at $400,-foor above the third.
000,000.
ruch result a success,”
inmates as experiments, and of said, and I know that this one contempt conviction was in the
After raging for more than against
Exports were estimated to yield three hours, the fire was brought however, adds that the time is The "Manchester Guardian." Government's
how women prisoners were select-appeared in Turkish, newspapers Süpreme Court.
$3,600,000,000 value this year or
Show" added: "In England, ated for exterminatoin in the gas some days aga "be tough with Russia"
If it was upheld there the way nearly double the pre-war annual under control at 1200 GMT not yet ripe for the Colony's the first general election after chambers which they word nou we mow, that Premier foreign policy, charged would be cleared for additional
Blade D. Hehne, city detective, who i return because"·"at" present defranchisement, not a single today that the American Mine Workers for continued de- war held sixth place in the Bri- still burn on
heavy Ones against the United
The United States which'nre-entered the hotel while the flames Hong Kong still serves as an women wax returned: first-rate fit for work-Associated Stalin's health is as good as ever."
Press.
-Associated Press. and
the upper floors, example of a good Government women candidates were defeated British General fance the injunction. Attorneys tish export marit now holds said he found more than 50 bedies which China can envy but can nearly 30 years the House
by male nobodies. Today, after
Hamburg, Dec, 7.. of Mrs. Sylvia Salvesan, a Nor- Staffs were
and Union seventh place.--United Press. preparing for the Government
in rooms where the occupants had not apparently copy and the Commons number: 000 men and wezian girl cross-examined · been trapped. together for "a third conferred with Chief Justice Vin-
only Chinese port where reason. 40 women."
today's third hearing of the trial. son privately just three hours be-
Firemen reached the world
upperable conditions for trade exist." war against the fere Lewis called off the strike,
of here of 16 members of the camp "I forewarned suffragettes floors of the 12-storey structure The journal, in support of its this possibility and urged them flaff of the Ravensbruck Nazi Soviet Union."
Congress Reaction
where they reached a dozen or view, quotes the "China Weekly not to rely on the vote but to concentration cam for women, mere guests.
Review of Shanghai which press for a constitutional amend testified that one of the accused, The Red Cross set up an emer-sid:
mezt making it obligatory, vates pretty brunette Swiss journalist London, Dec. 7.
geney frst ald station near the
Mory, Was herself Sir John Boyd Or Director- hotel entrance of famous Peach-food, and more order in Ilong to consist of men and women in German for helping French pri
equal numbers. General of the United Nations ; Food and Agricultural Organisa-Sirect, and made a radio ap- Kang than anywhere else inca, om now trying to induce oners in the camp.
feminist leaders to face the fail
Carmen has already been sen ure of the vote and add to their tenced to 15 years imprisonment programme the coupled vote mak- by the French for espionage, it ing a political unit not, as at was stated.
Members of Congress hailed the Zilliacus was speaking before ending of the strike but some in- the Cooperative Society in L-sisted that new labour legislation ¦ verpool on the eve of the rebel still is needed. Lalinurites efforts to force a
Typical of comment:
average.
WORDS OF WARNING
showdown on the Anglo-Ameri- Senptor Johnson. Democrat. tion, who is returning to Ameri-peal for blood plasma can military talks both in the Colorado "Thank God and I mean en in the Queen Elizabeth to woman-leaping from a window One aromen was killed when a House of Commons as a whole it with all due reverence,"
morrow, after a
a visit to
to Eastern and in the External Affairs Senator Hickenly, Repubilean. Europe, said tonight that the crashed on him. Committee of the Parliamen Iowa, "I am glad the miners are world food scarcity was about as
FOOM Enry Labour Party.
going back. That meets the thing bad as at this time last year. Zilligens said the joint Chiefs for immediate importance the
The danger is that unless bodies,
At 1230 GFT rescue squads of Staff Committee was nege-production of coal. But other vital measures are taken to stabilise flating a military
suggested at were still removing the dead' and Agreement issues must be met and settled-prices
Copenhagen. the Auctuation
He
AS
were
of
A fireman reported that in one
counted alone he
seven
injured from the 12-storey struc-
secretly without the knowledge the threat of recurring situations prices will bring ruin le farmers ture. Some of the injured were of Congress and Parliament or hanging over the head of the in Britain and Americs," he said. carried on a ladder across a back even the majority of the mem- American public.
thought that there was a bers of the five Governments. **That issue and its solution danger of an economic crisis un- alleyway to the roof of another He said the talks were lead-Imust be one of the first problems less there was a world scheme to hotel and then removed to am Ing to an entente almost exaclof the new Congress. Also not regulate thing-Reuter.
Lewis over the Government."
ly paralleling the Anglo-French settled is the issue of defiance of entente before World War I.
"The Anglo-French General House Republican Leader Mar- Staff conversations and the re-tip of Massachusetts said he was suiting entente were the pre-"gratified" that the strike was parations for the First World halted, but that "Congress should War with Germany," he void, still proceed with "constructive" "The Anglo-American General labour legislation.
Staff conversations are result- Senator I.ucns, Democrat. ing in an entente based on the smininis sold "I am eind to knmy
(Continued on Pape 2 Col. 8)
S'hai Still Rocked
Explosions
By
Shanghai, Dec. 8.
preparations for a Third World that Lewis saur the error of his Central News reported today that at least one
War against the Soviet Union" ways and canitulated."
· Zilliacus said the joint Chiefs Wall Street Right
of Staff Committee actually
was working out arrangemen's
Wall Street won a bet against
proposed by Winston Churchill me of the heaviest odds in its
-in his controversial
Fulton
history when Lewis ordered the
company of soldiers (about 120 men) plus a number of coolies were killed in the series of explosions in the Kiangwan ammunition dump here last night.
speech last March, including the miners back to work. In the face An official explained that a careless coolie drop-
standardisation of arms,
Ex-
thority of the Labour Govern
000,000.
...
at
"There is more stability, more | 2r no votes, for governing bodies Carmen, beaten with a stick by a
| China"-Central Newa.
Bevin's Washington Week-End
Washington, Dec, 7
Mr. Ernest Bevin, British For cign' Secretary arrived-here today. for a weekend visit, during which he will confer with President Truman on the progress that ha and Mr. Byrnes. Secretary of Slate have achieved on the Pales
tine question, m
President Truman, it was nu- thoritatively
vely learned. full sup-
present a man or woman, but a Mrs: Salvesan-whose hair กายา อ่าง a woman. This would turned grey at the camp where
DON'T GO ON THE WAGON!
(By "Paul Pry")
If any Saturday-night revel-
er fumbling his way home in the early hours of yesterday
at least bring the movement back he was one of the prisoners came across a couple of smail info the headlines Out of the is a friend. of the Norwezian arboreal or aquatie nocturnal marsupial mammale with thumb- oblivion of lasting peace and like. Reval family.
"The United Nations
The court adjourned until Moni ed hind-feet, let me be the first. your job; it is not specifically day-Reuter,
to bring him the good news=== feminine and is too big for your The defendants are expected he need not charge, the brand-
er go on the wagon.
is not
little Women's Action Committee” to claim that the medical tortures --United Press.
(Continued an Page 8, Cal, 5)
Mr.
Attlee On India
To Report Impasse
London, Dec. 7.
ports Mr. Byrnes pledge announc. Prime Minister Clement Attlee will almost cer-
ed last night to give United States backing to the reconvened London conference on Palestine
left open to the agenda If the
to all suggestions and all Interested partica attend.
which have been The Conferences held with Jewish leaders in New York, it is learned, have left Mr. Bevin and Mr. Byrnes fully con fident that the World: Zionist. Con-
The
ference.--Rquter,29
tainly report to Parliament next week on the constitutional talks with Indian political lea ders which ended in failure in London last night, P
result of the London talks will add urgency to the current desire for a debate which may be agreed by the Government for Thursday or Friday,
of the United Nations! - qollars, o sbare in response to, the calibre bombs were among the an, acris) survey, which; however, ON OTHER PAGES to shadow Cabinet members stateme trom the lion whe
For somewhere on the Island uf. Hong Kong are two such animais, Shorn of the scientific., phraseology, it all adds up in the fact that H,M:3. "Opossum" has lost her oporsum-twa, oĨ then, in fact, mother and son, approximately one foot and 10 inches long respectively.
Picked un by "Opossum's” commanding officer in Aucklan 1, New Zealand, the two, animals apparently decided that Hang Kong's verdant hills reminded them just a little too much of home, and so, "before anyone. could stop them, they plunged over the side of the escort "ves. sel and awam, ashore,
THE WEATHER
ped a hand grenade early in the afternoon set-
Since then, no one has seen of news that went from bad to
ting off the "fireworks." worse in the past two weeks the
hide or hair of them. The C. 0. change of officer cadets and
fire and explosionscan- A glowing red, are of fames stock market persisted in the be- The
open they got up into the hill training manuals and joint use let that an early resumption of tinued till early this morning but formed a halo over the Klangwangress, convening at Basic on Mon- Mr. Attlee is likely to inform not take part in the opening of safely for, as more than one of air and naval bases.
coal mining was probable.'
the number of casualties and ex-district last night reminiscent of "It is not only extraordinary Since the coal miners quit work tent of damages were not aster-1937 when the Chapel area went naviti apport the Jewish thu: House fully on last week's the Constituent Assembly on unkind person has pointed out. partition plan, to which President whirlwind negotiations culmina- | Monday, the planned adjourn to Chinese palates accustomed but scandalous that these things Nov. 21 the total value of all tained as yet. Fire brigade, police, up in flames in face of the ad- Truman has already given his en- ting in last night's roundtablement of the Assembly until the to the "fragrant flesh" of
dorsement. should be done by the War shares listed in the Stock Ex-gendarmerie and military units vancing Japanese, ent
conference stored on the eve of Spring after it has settled young puppy dogs, Opossum Ofice under the nominal auchange increased by about $3,400,- were all helpless in face of the As yet no United States casual-
only uncertainty now the Congress leader, Pandit machinery and procedure, may Garni or even Aux Champig blazing inferno and earth shaking ties were reported and all per-thought to be remaining is the Nehru's, return by air to India provide the opportunity for hook would be a most tocfh-
attitude towards the, con- Inday ment when we are? bound by In Saturday's short session alone blasts which shattered all win-sonnel were preventd from re-
further attempts at reconcilia: some dish, w obligations of the United Nathe market value of all shares dows within a radius of balt auirming to their barracks' or air-{
If the debate takes place the tion. tions Charter and are supposed Jumped $700,000,000 as leading mile.
port in the danger region..
Conservativo leader, Mr. Wing The Britline Gove to be trying to make a reality rail stocks gained one to
British Government'a ton Churchill, and other Oppost statement on the position was four It was reported that large Chinosé Air Force planes made
llacus sald
authorization of higher freight stocks taken over from the Jap-could not aid in the efforts to The policy on which we have
anese while newly acquired Unit-extinguish the blaze, and segregate ratés, enbarked, whether the Govern Earlier the advance of rails was ed States lend-lease shells, includ-unexploded ammunition United Pace To ment know it or not, is straight sit the more impressive because ng 105 mme., were also part of Preas.
Chinese Communists See War
As Only Solution. -. - Churchillan power politics of the prospect of drastic declines the huge dump which is situated The Shanghai correspondent of
Page Three Junior partnership in an Angipin revenues because of the coal within a mile of the United States the "China" Mail cables that the SCAP Offcial's Scathing Attack American entente, the building shortage.
ATC airport
explosions were still continuing
Rod Star up of balance of power and pre-millions of shares of stocks were Residents on the thinly populat-on Sunday morning.
Page paring for a Third, World Wat purchased since Nov. 21 despite ed suburb evacualed and a police
ino-American Pact Egainst the Soviet Union the likelihood that prolonged-sus cordon, was maintained to lel-no
Washington, Del. 8. Pare Five He called off Government to pensions of coal production would entry into the area Transworld Airlines announc
Palestine Talks Prospects, halve its armed forces of paralyze the nation's, industripl
evening wild rumours ed opening of a direct air 1250,000 men and to put for life, for d
circulated in Shanghai to the et route, in January, between Foreign Ministers Triumph of ward positive constructive Profits would have disappeared fect that the Communists had York, Washington, Lydda. pur Bolicy for the reduction, lim-like snow if the stoppage, had con- started attacking the metropolis Dhahran, Karachi and Bombay, tation and regulation of arma- tinued for a few more weeks. but radio stations and bamboo with an elapsed flying time of (quants, by an international
wireless” soon assured the popula~ about 43 hours.—Associated Pass Elght Kagreement."-- United Press
Press.
(Continued on Page 8, Cal. $3tion,
may speak ad
The negotiations left nn-front pages of London news-
The anti-cyclone is again. broken the deadlock between papers this morning, but it was spreading southward, Preasure the Congress Party and the issued too late for editorial is also high to the SE of Japan. Muslim League which has by comment in all but two of them. A deep depression is moving. colted the forthcoming Con- The independent Times" castward across the Sea of stituent Assembly to shape omphasised that the Muslims Japan. Pressure remains low India's Constitution. But at have received the assurance over the equatorial regions and rolitical quarters in London, they wanted, and underlines the shallow depression covers the beth British and Indian, he responsibility which now rests southern Philippines,
* Forecast: Moderato NE lieve that tha, talks may have on their, leader:
The Conservative: "Daily winds, freshening later,; fair. done some good.
Telegraph, on the other hand, Yesterday's weather criticises the recent utterance | Max:-78.4 deg. Fah.! of Sardar Vallabha Patel in In- Min :-658 deg FIN Though" "with its President | dia and repeats that it remains Max. Rel. Humidity !-35%. Mohammed Ali Jinnah still in | for Congress to allay the Mus. Sunshine: 3.5 hrs. Home & Local Sports News, etc. London, the Muslim League can- lima fearsReuter,
Rainfall: NIRATIO
Page
Endurance.
Britain Buys Oils From: Argen-
tine.
Further Attempts?