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INDIA ASSEMBLY OPENS Meeting Boycotted By Moslem League
"Europa" Sunk In Le Havre
Le Havre, Dec. 9. The French- acquired former German luxury liner Europa, rechristen- ed Liberte, sank in Le Havre harbour today.
The 49.746-ton trans-Atlantic liner broke its mooring at the French Line docks in a storm and sank at noon.
Constitution On
On RAF Drops American Lines?
Lines? Supplies
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New Delhi, Dec. 9.
India's Constituent Assembly solemnly opened its For Jews
preliminary session on Monday in the dinni- fied Constitution Hall with 75 vacant seats -- those allotted to the Moslem League which has boycotted the body charged with the imple- menting the second phase of India's indepen- Mounted police and other troops turned away
dence.plan.
traffic and pedestrians from either end of the Council House block as the 221 Congress' and minority delegates took their seats in the high domed remodelled former Central Assembly Library.
to
Dr. Sioba also referred aspects of the French, Swias and Canadian Constitutions, but added that he felt the Ameri-
There was no immediate in
whieh marked, last dication of any of the disorders month's opening of the Central Legisla tive Assembly in which the car Moslem League and Congress Party representatives sat as a Government party for the first time in history. At that time tear gas had to be used to clear away the crowds.
Jerusalem, Dec. 9. Food and other sup- successfully today to 800 plies were parachuted
Jewish refugees maroon-
IKE IN HOSPITAL
Miami, Dec. 9. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower,., US Army Chief of Staf entered the Pratt General Hospital here today for one month'
Y'a rest and
here is nothing chine,
"gravely wrong with the Army chief but he is tired after an ex- tremely vigorous schedule for Eny months. He was accom inied by his wife and por- sonal physician, Major Gen. Howard Snyder, United
Press.
Telephone Girls'
ed on tiny Cyrena Suicide
Island'.
RA.F. pilots said after they re- turned to their base at Lyddo that they saw the stranded refugees waving to them as four Halifax
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Statement On H.K. Border Affair
That the commander of a British military post on the New Territories border was threatened with a revolver by a Chinese civilian and that, in view of the menacing attitude of the Chin- ese, he ordered his men to stand to their posts is revealed in a statement issued by Hqs. Land Forces, Hong Kong, yesterday on the incident at Chick's Bridge, near Shumchun, on Tues- day last, in which a Chinese named Cheong. Tim-cheung was killed.
The statement goes on to say that in the course of
manning the posts "one .303 round was acci dentally discharged," It gives no further de tails as to how this occurred, but the British
Tel. 21483
BEYEN TALKS WITH TRUMAN
Washington, Dec. 8.
Presi-
The British Secretary, Mr.“. Ernest Bevin, had a talk last- ing a full hour with dent Harry Truman dery
man here to major
problem of
dis- cussed, according to an a thoritative voltrce,
the world today
MA Bevin's visit to the White House And originally been intended as a courtesty call-Reuter.
RUSSIA
Military authorities have accepted the fact BALKS
that although they were not allowed to view the body the bullet caused the death of a by- stander. They express their deep regret, The Hong Kong Gov- ernment also issned a statement on
the subject Jews
May
Agree To Partition
Flushing, NY, Dec. 9. Russia today balked at revealing the size of the Red Armies. -
cwn
Hakodate. Dec. 9. Nine Japanese women tele" phone operators, aged 17 to 23, in the post office in Maoka, yesterday associating it-
Soviet Foreign Minister Vya- ambers circled over them.
Sakhalin Island, committed sui
cheslav Molotov went before the The liner hurtled across the
target as strong winds carried the drinking poison lest they fall that it was communicat-
Some of the supplies missed the cidi. at
self with the expression
United Nationa General, Assem- the switchboard "basin in less than three minutes
parachutes out over the water.
by of regret and stating
bly to demand it call off the and smashed against the hulk
proposed census of all troops into the hands system of Constitutional of the sunken French Huer
law "should be carefully studied formation Officer, said a destroy- into the building during the thorities to arrange "for Mr. Richard Stubbs, Public Indiers, after a Soviet shell fell jing with the Chinese au-
that UN member nations have Paris Gaping holes stayed into
by you-not necessarily for
at home as well as abroad. the Liberte's side at the level
wholesale
ar and minesweeper had been to Soviet attack on the morning the payment of appro- of the engine room. All aboard
adaptations of its provisions to the Government acted purely on
Molotov, however, again call- adoption" but for help rescue the refugees. He said of August 25, 1945, according
ed for prompt reports simply were taken ashore.
Basle, Dec.. 9. The ship
the necessities and require humanitarian
to the "Mainichi." Bank upright in the basin.
on the number of troops they and not political
priate compensation." Jewish participation together maintain outside their ments "of your own
The newspaper. Experts said
The following statement was with the Arabs and British in an frontiers. He said Russia was they hoped
country motives.
report said it could be refloated.
Curiously at 11.00 a.m. exact- with such medifications as may
this story was told by Fusae issued by Hqs. Land Forces, Hong international conference on Negotiations were continuing, in "ty the hour of the Constituent be necessary." •
thewilling, to report on Red Army Tanaka, Jerusalem for an additional fight operator at the same post office,
former switchboard Kong:- Mountainous
future of Palestine appeared to troops abroad but not at home. sens whipped Assembly's by the gale, sometimes reaching clouds which
convening, the Dr. Sinha, who expressed doctors and nurses.-United who returned with
"At about 2 p.m. on December be assured today as delegates re- If a 1,458 re-3, 1948, in accordance with their presenting 2,000,000 Jews met troops is demanded, Melotov count of home-based hurricane force,
had darkened thanks for the "thrilling and Press. baltered the Delhi for the last two days inspiration messages from the
patriates aboard the "Hakuryuduty in connection with the pro- here for the opening session Channel cast. Associated cleared away and the sun shone United States, China and Aus-
Maru" from Sakhalin.
hibition of expert of certain food-the 22nd World Zionist Congress. sus of all armaments, including of said, Russia will insist on a een- Press,
brightly.
tralia," later nominated,Frank
She carefully carried a small stuffs from the Colony the British Mr. Daniel Frisch, of Indian atomic bombs and rockels. Punctually, the Congress Pre-Anthony, delegate representing
box containing a single pencil, military post at Chick's Bridge Bpolis, a leader, of the powerful United Press. Prettiest sident. J.B. Kripalani, himself the Anglo-Indian minority but
which she said had been used confiscated some goods from Zionist organisation of America, a delegate, walked past other elected with Congress support,
by one of the girls who corn-Chinese boy who was conveying which has been In revolt against Congress Ministers who
mitted suicide.
ANOTHER HOTEL are to sit for him in the afternoon
them across the border Into China. many decisions of World Zionist Chorley Wool, Dec. §. Girl In
members of the Assembly,, in- since he would be unable to do
"I was One of the most brilliant low
not working that "Although this procedure was leadership, said ZOA would agree TRAGEDY cluding Pandit Jawaharlalso because of his health. level precision bombing feats of morning when the Soviets start carried out in an entirely proper to Jewish participation in the Death Drama Nehru, and spoke briefly before
Saskatoon, Canada, Dec. 8. Imanner and without any physical Palestine conference for the pur-Eleven were burned to death A Republic
the war was recalled by the un-ed shelling the town, so
Chinese, dressed pose of discussing the creation of and 18 injured in a fire at the After the address. members nouncement today of the engage-rushed over to the post office, violence, some Salford, Dec. 0. Chairman, Dr. Sachchidanand began filing forward as their ment of Squadron-Leader Charles intending to escape with the in civilian clothes, objected and a Jewish state." The police are waiting at the Sinha, of Patna, 78-year-old
Newman of Chorley Wood to other girls on duty," Miss started to stop vehicular and The significance of the ZOA de- Barry Hotel: here today- bedside in Salford Hospital of editor
were called; to write and former
pedestrian trafije on the British cision reached in caucus last marry Mrs. Elaine Carr, widow Tenaka related. Mrs. Mary Hilton, 29, former Sal-Minister of Elhar province, who stituent Assembly records after Battalion, Royal Welch Parachute ing they most stand by their Officer Threatened
Finance their signatures in the Conor Major Michael Care Sixti "They refused to escape, nay. Army bridge
night was that it did not insist remnants of European Jewry in ford beauty queen.
Is the oldest member of the presenting their credentials.
upon the inclusion of all Palestine: 10 years, Frisch guld.. ---She and her eldest daughter Assembly."
The first was Rajagopaln-
Regiment, of Pinner, Middlesex.telephones, but asked me to
In the proposed Jewish state. In Mennwalle feaders of the Arab The milltary post commander, Potricia, aged eight, were found U.S. Constitution chart, Congress
One day early, in 1944, Squa- flee. When a shell fell, all, nine who in the first instance west other words, it indicated that ZOA Higher Committee met on Sunday unconscious yesterday morning
Minister for dron-Leader. Newman took part in girls drank poison and died forward unarmed as far as the might accept partition of the Holy along the desert road leading from Education and Art in the In-a raid in which six Mosquitoes before me.
I then escaped end of the bridge to clear up the Land into separate, Jewish and Palestine to Egypt hear Beershe terim Governmest and who may pin-pointed, attacked and destroy through the burning streets." situation, was threatened with a to, ZOA leaders, including Press- Ghouri, provisionally decided that |Arab autonomous states. Hither-ba, and, according to Effendi succeed Asaf Ali as Transport ed
She said she found two-revolver by a Chinese civilian. An dent. Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, although they are strongly oppos- Minister when Ali proceeds to street in The Hague, which was
thirds of Maoka town burned altercation ensued and finally, in the United States as India's known to contain thousands of when she returned there under view of the menacing attitude have criticised acceptance of the ed to partitioning of the Holy first full Ambassador abroad,
documents of paramount import Soviet orders in October after adopted by the Chinese, the Bri-partition principle by world Zion Land, they will attend the Lon- Reuter. ance to the German authorities.— the Soviet occupation.-United tish officer in charge ordered his 1st leadership and insisted upon don roundtable conference next men to stand to their posts. It was the classic Zionist claim to all month at which President Tru- in the course of the manning of
Palestine.
man's plan for a division Inte "We these posts that one 303 round state capable of absorbing the discussed. United Press.
would accept a visible Jewish and Arab, states will be
(
at the horie of her parents in Hope Street, Moorside, Swinton, Lancs.
Her ve year old twin daugh- ters were dead on a bed beside her. Police experts said that there was no gas in the room nor
any sign of visience.
Eleven years ago, Mrs. Hilton was declared the prettiest cotton operative in Salford. She became "Miss Sulford" and was a finalist in the Northwest Beauty Queen competition-Reuter,
introducing the
temporary
M
As Model Dr. Sinka, after reading mes- sages of good will from Aus tralia, China and the United States Acting Secretary of State, Mr, Dean Acheson, de- address in which he strongly livered a short, presidential
urged the Constituent Assembly to direct attention to the Ameri- can Constitution which he called "the soundest, most practical and workable Republican Con- stitution in existence.”
U.N. Intervenes In
South
Africa
New York, Dec. 9. Climaxing the bitterest fight of the current ses- sion, the United Nations' General Assembly to- day by a vote of 32 to 15 (the bare two-thirds majority required) voted to intervene in In- dia's charge of discrimination by the South African Government instead of allowing the dispute to go to the International Court of Justice as. Premier Jan Smuts asked. The Assembly heeded a | Vijayalakshmi
Pandit, grey- dramatic final appeal by Mrs.haired leader of the delegation from India, who, dabbing at her eyea, emotionally begged the As sembly to pass a resolution, call- ing for a report on the treat- ment secorded Indians in South Africa.
The Indian bid received solid support from Soviet Russia and its satellites as well as China and a host of nations."
ALL HOPE
ABANDONED
H
Paris, Dec. 9,
The search for the French
submarine No. 2326, overdue since Thursday from deep-sca diving tests with 23 men aboard,
has now been abandoned, Y
names
elect a permanent Chairman to The Assembly is expected to
morraw (Tuesday) and begin work on setting up various com- mittees including the important Advisory Committee which must present recommendations by next April on various specific matters to be included in the Constitution.
The 12-day preliminary sea sion was also expected to be marked by resolutions declar- ing India to be a szvereign Republic and also referring the dispute with the Moslem Lea gue over interpretation of sections of the British Cabinet, Mission plan to the Federal Court for a decision.
.
one particular house in a
Rebuke To
Press.
To Marriage Rumour Mongers
London, Dec. 9.
was accidentally discharged.
"Shortly afterwards, Chinese officials came across 10 British territory and stated that as a ré. sult of this shot a Chinese man had been killed.
Violent
"Although British officers. were net allowed to view the body, the British Military Authorities have accepted the statement' that the one round fired was the cause of the death of a bystander and have expressed deep regret at this un- A
A rebuke to marriage rumour mongers, who fore- cast the engagement of Princess Elizabeth, is a feature of the book "The Queen of Tomorrow" published here today by Mr. Louis Wolff, Court correspondent of the Press Association.fortunate accident.
As such Mr. Wolff has had an an official visit I will know some- intimate association with the thing about what has been done Portraits Removed Royal Family for many years beforehand," "--Reuter. In the library all portraits and he is to represent Reuters of former Viceroys of India when the King and Queen and had been removed, leaving Africa early in the New Year,
their two daughters tour South empty panels surrounded by gilded frames.
Doctor
He says: "The plain fact is Murderers
to
is
Nuernberg, Dec. 9.
At the opening trial of high- but ranking Nazi doctors, "Bri-
"It should be mentioned that owing to recent reports of armed Chinese bandits, beffeved to be operating in Chinese territory near Sha Tau Kok and elsewhere. instructions had been given that a high state of alertness of men and weapons should be adopted on the border,
Payment Of Compensation
Reuter,
Storm In The Channel
London, Dec. 9. violent storm in the English Channel, Intensified by near hurricane force winds of 70 m.p.h.; raged last night and early today, churning 60- foot waves which crashed over the promenade at Hastings, inundating parts of the town un- der two feet of water.
| age..
waves
As the Fain and wind lashed in years swept Folkestone hår- the Channel const-in one of the bour, completely hiding it. worst gales in years, shipping of At historie Hastings It was clear the Congressites that up to the present there
all sizes ziced for shelter. felt grimly determined to profor any of these rumours which and has been no basix whatever
rose over the promenade all last Four persons already were re-night, rushing into the amusement. reed with the Assembly despite sarve no
ported to be missing from a tug arcades, and other stores of good purpose,
the the British or the Mosleme.
which capsized in heavy tend merely
seas resort town. Residents worked distress The semi-official Congress or-
the gadier General Telford Taylor "Finally, Incontrovertible proof while pulling to safely a disabled frantically all night with mops, Princesa." gan, Hindustan Times, said this
demanded the 22 men and one exists that only one round was 7,900-ton tanker. The missing brooms and buckets to keep the morning: "We feel confident Princess's life, the author devotes ting medical experiments on
In his study of the young woman charged with conduc-fired and that entirely accidental were members of a nine-man water down and minimise dam- that if the Assembly pursues considerable attention to her live victims be condemned
ly."
crew on the tug. Ita work.... even those
as The statement issued to the who character and determination, un murderers who poisoned the Press by the Government of Hong by another tug after being 90 min. yesterday morning when in leau Five survivors were picked up The storm came up suddenly are holding back will.
seon merred by her "controlled" life entire German, medical profes- Kong read:
utes In the water. All suffered than two hours the wind velocity realise that intransigeance does Typical of this was her not pay and that the welfare mination to see what it
dater- sion under Hitler.
"With reference to the state-only from exposure.
rose from 16 mph. to 70 m.ph., was
ment which is being Issuej today and progress
All pleaded innocent. of those they like to be one of a crowd.
Meanwhile the Royal Navy according to the official reading. Taylor told the Court that by Headquarters Land Forces,utilised shore-based radar to guide Seventy-five mph winds are re- claim to represent, depends on On "Victory-in-Europe Day" "the victims of their crimes Hong Kong, regarding the unfor- the tanker Kelletta, which was garded as hurricane force. their cooperation with the rest last June "a party of two in- are numbered in hundreds of tunate occurrence at Chicks Bridge reported to be drifting helplessly, vated, asks South Africa and
The resolution, as finally of the country?!
conspicuously dressed girls (the thousands. A handful only are whereby a Chiness man was ill-toward the Isle of Wight. The distress calls had come in all day The coast guard reported that. India to confer on the dispute was doubtful the group could scarves under their heads
The British-owned Statesman Princess and her later) with still alive. A few of the suced as a result of the accidental Kellette was being pulled by three yesterday and that a number of and report to the Assembly formulate; a constitution under four men slipped out of Buck-room."
and vivors will appear in this court. discharge of a British military tugs, including the one which craft have been pulled to safely being taken to smooth out the Congress to concede to the diante, servants' entrance In Buck- were trained physicians, some have been issued by the British out and urgent SOS and, headed next year on what steps are the present setup and asked ingham Palace through the trade
firearm, the Government of Hong capsized when all ropes broke, by tugs, lifeboats and cutters. —- He said that the defendants Kong associates itself illy, with casting the vessel adrift. United Press, difficulty:
the expressions of regret which The Kelletin immediately sent puted grouping principle of ingham Palace Road. Within the Assembly, by a few votes,
Before deciding to intervene Jinnah.
even distinguished scientists, tewu seconds they were absorbed yet their experiments failed to Military Authorities, and is now by the destroyer Obedient, tugs defeated an
"Congress as the largest and by the crowd."
www.contribute American
a single thing to communicating with the Chinese and lifeboats battled through the British backed move to atay politics today can afford this when the Princess registered for
and dominant element in Indian One of the crowd she was too world science to authoritier for the purpose of nsk-storm to her atd.
"I do not think that the Gering them to convey an expression the Stateaman National Service during the man people have as yet any of sympathy and regret to the re- war when she joined the Women's conception of how deeply thelatives of the deceased person and Moslem Warning Auxiliary Territorial Service, criminal folly that was Nazismo arrange for the payment of sp-along the shore, and at Sandgate, Hokkaido and secondary de
There she learned all about the bit into every phrase of German propriate compensation."
action pending the World Court ecncession." ruling whether UN had the said.
right to intervene. That proposal
was defeated when 21 nations.
The large patch of all be tween 200 and 300 metres. Ia diameter, discovered by a rê- connaissance plane off Toulon may, it is believed, disclose the location of the submarine, 2 former. German U-boat Lurned over to the French by the Royal "Navy"
Experts declared that the people trapped aboard must have
orpeaed it despite 81 affirmative The oficial Moslem League technical intricacies of the car life. It will be our task to make been spared prolonged agony votes, barely short of the re- Organ, Dawn, commenting for and what it was like to prepare these things clear."-Associated by the great pressure of water quired two-thirds,"
the first time on the British for a Royal visit when the King Press. which bursting through the Am hull, would have drowned, all The American position was it was a triumph for "Jinnah's "Always an opponent of red
Government's statergent, sald and Queen come down to see her. Inside in a few minutes that although the UN Charter cold-blooded logic The paper tone she remarked afterwords: Reuter
pledges to protect human added that it hoped Congress The next time I go anywhere on berties It also forbids UN in would not insist on a Federal tervention in domestic affairs. Court decision en the grouping tial and important preliminar craft left Kai-tak airport yester
A Cathay Pécide Airways Al- The Assembly, however, de' issue. The Lebanese Government has dedit had the right to step Referring to the opening of stituent Assembly today new C.PA new route to Bangkok Miles at the meeting of the Con- day morning on the first flight of resigned, according to report in, thereby establishing a pre- the Constituent Assembly, Dawn obstacles, arise in the way of and Singapore From Beyrouth to the French cedent which may have impor warned; "It Congress gces the League's eventual participane Ditector of Cathay Pacific] News Agency. No further details tant consequences. United ahead with the framing of rules tion in the Assembly.Ass0 Airways, was among the pas Mr. S. H. de Kantzów, Manag are available in Beirut-Renter. Press,
of procedure and other essenciated Press and United Preassengers.
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THE WEATHER
The anticyclone over China Id extending eastward over the Yellow and Eastern Seaa. A deep depression to the N of
Swimming In Streets Coastal villages were fooded all
Kent, water reaching elightly i pression to the E of North higher than rooftops broke over Japan are maying | northeast. schfront collages. “The main ship- A shallow depression covers SW wwyg leading Into and out of Chins and pressure remains low. Sandgate were swept by huge over the Central Philippines and waves, leaving hundreds of over the equatorial regions, marooned motorists and abandon-Today's Forecast: Fresh E of many businesses and houses partial clearing during the day, ed cars. Basements and cellars and NE winds, Cloudy with were flooded and damage is ex- Yesterday's weather, pected to run into millions of dol Maximum: 71.5. deg Fah lars, Masses of seaweed and other Minimum: 69.4 deg. Fah debris floated in the streela In Max. Rel. Humidity: 91 per some places pedestrians had to cent swim to cross-thoroughfares, Sunshine: 1.0 hours,
Some of the biggest waves seen Rainfall: NILE
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