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BAN ON FOREIGN SHIPPING
North China Ports No Longer Open To China's Allies
Severe Blow To The Export Trade
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Shanghai, Dec. 18,
Another severe blow, not only at foreign shipping interests, but also to China's export trade, has been dealt by the Executive Yuan's order bar- ring foreign ships loading or discharging at the North China ports of Tsingtao, Chinwang- tao; Hulutao and Tientsin.
At Tientsin, this is modified to the extent that for-
AIR RECORD New Approach
Auckland, New Zealand,
Dec. 18.
An Australian built Mon- quito aiveraf today New 1,350 miles from Sydney to Auckland at 你想 Hverage speed of 363 miles an hour,
The plane, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Bond, of Melbourne, took three hours 43 minutes for crossing, reducing by 50 minutes the existing recordAssociated
Press,
eign ships may handle cargo in the open road-G.I. Had
stead at Taku Bar,
NO NEW MOVE ON INDIA
London, Dec. 18.
The ban is particularly ser- ious regarding Chinwangtao which is the only remaining port available for the export of Manchurian produce, and Bri- tish firms are greatly concern- ed as several thousand tons of urgently needed soya beans have already been contracted for, and are awaiting early shipment to
Britain,
Illegal Cheque
No reasons have been given for the order which some quar- trying
To
China Peace Urged
Washington, Dec. 17.
The Republican foreign affairs leader. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, declaring there has been a "great deal of misunderstanding" concern- ing America's socalled two-party foreign policy, served notice today that it should not be assumed this necessarily means Republican and Democratic agreement on such matters as Palestine, tariffs and Latin-American and Far Eastern affairs.
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awarded not only for" Lieut. › Wilkin- son's keroisms and ecl!- sacrifice, but in honour, also of all who fought and died with him-Reuter..
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Tokyo, Dec. 18.
"All prisoners of war in Hong Kong must die,” Canadian Army Chaplain James Barnett, Royal Rifles, testified that he was told by a Japanese Heutenant after the fall of the Col- ony in 1941, as the British phase of the war crimes trials continued here today..
The Rev. Mr. Barnett described the Christmas Day massacre of wounded and sick at St. Stephen's College Hospital on December 25, 1941, when 70 men were bayonetted on their hospital cots.
"I myself zaw, some 15 to 20 wounded men bayonetted in bed," he said.
He revealed that when the Japanese seized the hospital, there were approximately 175 persons, including patients and staff, on the premises. After the massacre, he said, a number of dead bodies were cremated by order of the Japanese.
Stassen Wants To
Be President
LONDON, DEC. 18. LEAFLETS ENTITLED
The 40-year-old chaplain relat- "THE BACHELOR MOTHER-nurses in the hospital garden-
ed finding the bodies of three HOOD LEAGUE" AND AD-one of them with her head vir-
Washington, Dec. 17. VOCATING "PLURAL MAT-tually severed-after they had
The former Governor LEGED ING" TO SOLVE THE ALbeen raped. He said four other of Minnesota, Mr. Harold OF WOMEN COMPARED TO jed.
OVERABUNDANCE
nurses in the hospital were violat-Stassen, announced to- THE NUMBER OF MEN IN EUROPE WERE DISTRIBU- of Hong Kong in November, 1942 Seek 1948
After the first Allied bombing day that he intended to TED IN LONDON TODAY. the Rev. Mr. Barnett said, the Presidential nomination The leaflets said there were Japanese accused some patients on a platform of "true 200,000 more-men than women of cheering the American planes
Mr. Stassen told a news cons in Hongference he would establish
the Washington office on January 1
in England alone and ended: as they passed overhead. As a re- liberalism." health demand expression.... medical commander
Their nervous systems and sult, he continued, the Japanese there is widespread frustration Kang-Dr.
Saito-ordered
He declared that the measure of agreement be- tween the two parties on foreign policy had been clearly defined to include only United Nations affairs and negotiations on European peace settlements. Though declining to go into Senate labours without further details, Senator Vandenberg in-serious interruption. That is my sisted the two-party policy does expectation." London, Dec. 17. not necessarily A cheque for £100 publican support for other aspect
Include Re- "Security And Justice" taken from an American of the programme of Mr. James be Chairman of the Senate For- Senator Vandenberg, who will soldier
Byrnes, Secretary of State. arrested while
eign Affairs Committee, at the to cross the
At a press conference on
his next
session of Congress. de The Viceroy, Lord ters ascribe to a supposed fear Franco Swiss frontier vandenberg also, firetly, publicly everything within my power to
return from New York, Senatorclared: "I shall -continue to Wavell, will return to these ports, but as Chinese ships
of a communist drive against lied
to summonses at expressed his desire to discontinue, cooperate in maintaining the un- India "any day now" but are not included in the ban. it Bow Street police court serving Mr. Byrnes as fulltimeted. American foreign policy will not carry any new is not a very likely explanation: today.
adviser at the Council of Foreign which had been established in re- instructions according to Other quarters regard it a9 Mr. Petay Filipason, of Dutch
Ministers and United Nations spect to peace settlements in merely another step in the cam birth and married to an English- meetings; secondly,
statched Eurone and established collective a Government source to-paign of Chinese shipping in- man, admitted unlawfully draw-widespread speculation that he security and justice through the day.
terests to complete their mono-Ing two bills of exchange for intends running for President as United Nations.
"I consider it vital to The Viceroy stayed in Eng trade, as it will force all North favour of a person resident, out-sidential nomination and I
£100 each, so that the right to Republican in 1848 by declaring: polistic grip on the carrying raceive payment was created in "I am not a candidate for Pre national interests, I shell continue !": The leaflets did not advocate ment for their action. land to hear the debate in the China cargoes to trans-ship inside the sterling area, at a hotel ticipate no campaign on my be- (policies. I consider he has made Suggested alliances by "private tice James Mansfield of Queens-
an-to support Mr. Byrnes in these breaking the bigamy laws but House of Commons.
in Cannes, France. the Swiss authorities handed the The prosecuting", counsel said
a superb record in the face of agreement." United Press, tremendous obstacles and that he cheque, taken from an American Houndations of American, post-sults for America and for sam Expressing the belief that the has accomplished incalculable-re- soldier, to the British Treating was foreign policy are now and happier worth
Mrs. Philipasen Informed the soundly established," Treasury
Senator The Senator said Republicans ahe drew the cheque to Vandenberg issued obtain funds to cover a debt of
a. statement could take no responsibility what- honour owing to an agent who saying: "I shall continue to hold ever for the Administration's had sold a villa she owned in the myself avaliable for any further Palestine policy. Sonth of France.
personal labour that may be Asked about his party's tariff The money
was principally deemed essential by the Pre-policies. Sepplor Vandenbere needed to cover rates and taxes sident, or Secretary of State, but said: "That is a tricky subiect on the house, she said. The case I am sure that I can now count and I am act prepared to go into was adjourned.-Reuter,
returning to my primary it of present."-Reuter,
Mr. Byrnes Speaks
Shanghai. Pandit Nehru's resolution to cised in Chinese business and The order is strongly criti- gnated with the framing of banking circles who fail to see
constitution was viewed sites with the Govern defiance of the British posals, but the Government does stimulate the export ́trade.
ment's professed desire to not intend any new move.
pro-
Both Mr. Attlee and Lord Pethick-Lawrence have con- veyed messages to Nehru, ad- vising him to disregard the
Future
"provocative" opposition speech- Cloak And
es during the Commons debate.
Their advice is that he pro-
ceed with the Constituent As sembly on the basis of the Bri tish statement of December 6, in the hope that Mr. Jinnah will -eventually retract his, decision
boycott the Assembly ito
United Press.
Internee
Detained For 7 Years
London, Dec. 17.
An all-party delegation is to wait on the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, in the next few days to raise the case of Karl Kuchenmeisten, a German wartime internee who has been detained by the anthorities for seven yearE, -
half."
on
Dagger Boys The Byrnes Mandate
Washington, Dec. 17.
In a formal report to be made to the next. Congress, the House Military Affairs Committee re- commends a super-espionage system under a permanent in- telligence authority to prevent future Pearl Harbour attacks.
"We must have a sound in- telligence service that is entire- ly American in every respect If we intend to play an inde- pendent role in the affairs of the world," the Committee says,
Re-Defined
Washington, Dec. 18.
An international conference to seek a solution of China's internal strife is jointly urged by Senator Flanders (Republican, Vermont) and James D. Murray (Democrat, Montana).
Cur
dress.
Republican
a
of legitimate biological desires." muster of all patients who could to further his campaign and A mass meeting was advo- walk and also the hospital staff."I intend to let my supporters rated for Sunday by Dr. Edward Dr. Saito then walked among present my name in the 1948 who gave z coded postal ad- and in Ward No. 5 beat all the Wilson, signer of the leaflet, the patients, the chaplain related Republican primaries, and to
patients in the face in punish vention"
the Republican National CR-
The Australian prosecutor, Jus listed a four-point platform:
The wartime Navy captain.
land, then Introduced a series of continuous production.
1. No big strikes and high documents relating Japanese bar- barlty committed against Allled2. Raising the pay of white-
collar workers. civilian internees in Slam.--Unit.... ed Free
3 Opposition to
extreme. measurans threatening-the-fun- Unable To Risegamental rights of labour.
Purge Of Left In Turkey
Tokyo, Dec. 18. 4. Exercise consumer resist-- The Rev. Mr. Barnett testified ante against high prices.-Unit- that Japancie soldiers came to ed Press.
St. Stephen's College hospital in
the early morning.. and began
bajonetting to death all wounded Wave Of
room
Ankara, Dec. 17.
soldiers unable to rise from their Forty-four persons were re beds. Those able to walk were ported today to have been ar- herded into a
where they rested in Istanbul after a slept until the next day. search, during, the night of
:
Seven nurses, however, several members of the Ex: taken from the room by Japanese, treme Left Wing
soldiers..
were
the
Washington, Dec. 17. The Secretary of State, Mr. Byrnes, at his arst general press. The Government today or "I saw one of the nurses beaten conference in six weeks said he dered the closing of the Left over the head with a steel helmet hoped the success of the recent Wing party office and organi and kicked and slapped by the International meetings in New antiens said to have been form-Japanese Yerk would speed the progress of ed by Communists In Istanbal chaplain.
soldiers," said the German and Austrian peace and Turkish Thrace which
He asserted he did not see the borders on Greek Thrace where nurses again until the next day guerillas have their hideouts. When tour of them told him the
had been raped repeatedly during Several newspapers belonging the night.
treaties.
He warned
Shoplifting
London, Dec. 18:
With Christmas only a week away, shoplifting reached a new high on Tuesday with an estimated 6,000 filched from Birmingham store counters
alone.
chiefs
Police and store throughout England deserthe the shoplifting wave us the executives expect, a sevenfold worst since 1988 and shop
increase during the coming weck. Police charges brought are 200 per cent higher than last year and only a small per- centage of shoplifters are caught due to the shortage of salesgirls and detectives.TA" Women are the "chief offen-
handkerchiefs and underwear, Store authorities state the shop lifting epidemic is due, mainly. to the coupon system. Women bave money but no coupons with which, to buy-United Press.
The Senators joined in sign- He said, he would ask both other six months after being faf and when 400 yards offshor ders. stealing chiefly shoes,
to parties or to organisations He said the mutilated Godies of tendencies have been suspended in the bushes alleged to have Communist the three other nurses were found
some for four months, others grounds-Associated Press.
on the hospita* Indefinitely.
under a "state af slege which civilians were rounded up by the
The parties were suppressed
Mass Murder Seven hundred Hong Kon recently extended for an- Japanese, horded into small bost
were. forced into the choppy B since 1940-Reuter.
at bayonet point, according evidence introduced later.
About 200 men managed t make the shore. One or tw survival, an affida chlidren alr
from Mohamed Hussain said Australian prosecutor Justice Alan Mansfield Introduces document stating that through
that agreements reached in New York not neces, sarily mean that all "Big Four" differences had been overcome, They propose in a statement government of China and Bri-for rejoicing because it had been but he thought there was cause that General George Marshall, tain, Russia and America, the stown that agreement could be the President's special repre-most important countries in reached.. A central authority would scntative in China, preside over China's foreign relations, ahould Mr. Byrnes sald he shared the direct and integrate activities meeting which, they said, declare themselves out of Chin-optimism expressed by Mr. Bevin of Army, Navy and State De- could be called within the ese politics." partment agencies.
and M. Molotov before they sail-was framework of the United Na- Meanwhile,
ed on Saturday. Representative
tions.
ing a statement by several pro-Senators Tom Connally and Ar- "The situation lu China is minent persons in other fields, thur Vandenberg to accompany
foréz John Rankin told reporters he Kuchenmeisten an inventer intends to propose a law restor critical," the Senatora declare. Including Owen Lattimore, for him to the Moscow meeting of the and machine tool engineer is ing the Army's counter-intel- "Widespread civil war threatens mer adviser being detained. in
to Generalissimo!"Big Four next March.. Brixton ligence. service, which will be an indefinite period of chaos Ohlang Kai-shek, Prison under Royal prerogative aimed at subversive Government and destruction.
He hoped Senator Conally Represents- pending decision as
American Supplies to employees rather than at for tives of all important political
would change his recent attitude. whether he should be sent back eign enemies United Press..
"No coalition government for against participating further In to Germany
parties in China should be per-peace and reconstruction has international some other
mitted to participate in the been formed in China." Murray
conferences.-Unit- country,
ed Press. and Flandera said, adding the belief that neither the Kuomin- tang nor the Communist regime can win a decisive military vic- tory: d..
A
.or
Į
When the matter was raised Armed "Mental
to the House of Commonь on
Monday night, Mr.
George
Oilver, Parliamentary Under-
Secretary to the Home Office,
Cases" Escape
stated that Kuchenmelaten was Phornoxville, Pennsylvania, being detained under the power
Dec. 18.
.which the Crown could exercise Six Ute term: Army prisoners, against nationale of a state at described by Valley Forge Gen- war with Britain, which is technically the case today. Reuter
On A Charge
Of Massacre
Four former, Nazi chieftains
of Warsaw pleaded inhocent
before, a. supreme national tri- bunal today to charges they
Looking Into Spain's Future
London, Dec. 18. An authoritative Government
The two: Senatora declared that it is known that the Communist forces are not re-
cral Hospital officials as danger- source said today the British ceiving Rusalas supplies, al- diplomatic mission to Spain has though they are capturing
day night from a
ous and led, escaped on Tue been "examining the possibility American equipment from, their word of the of setting up an alternative in opponents. "American sup- army hospital here: spokesman described the men as regime, mental patients...a
The Thin Man Went
To Sleep
Birching Order Threat
Jerusalem, Dec. 18.
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MADRID TRAIN SMASH
A military court on Tuesday night sentenced a 17-year-old out the Japanese occupation oʻ Jew to one month's imprison- Hong Kosk. Indians were seize ment and 12 strokes on co-admit they were spies."
forced and
through torture
-: Madrid, Dec. 17, viction of possessing a leaflet
Eighteen people are now. bomb.
For example Mohammed All known to have been killed in caught in March, 1943, making the train smash near Alcazar, The sentence followed an sketches of a Hong Kong street 105 miles from Madrid, whet Irgun Zval Leuml broadcast was taken to the Japanese torture warning. “We will treat Bri- chamber. When he no longer express hit stationary goods
the
"Madrid-Malaga-Algeciras Hah soldiers the same way."
could stand the strate he wrote wagons while going at full
The broadcast came abortly false confession. after a military court had sen- 19 died through torture and ill-Bodies tonight were still
Eventually, 48 were executed. speed. A tenced another few to 18 ness, and one committed adicide. strokes and one year's Impri-・・ Women Stripped
A hospital terim: government inconfes," they said have been two ambulance attendants dash sonment Associated Press. The amidavits said that Indian have arrived in Madrid
The
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The hospital where hundreds of he said, was to discover whether object of this examination. rx-servicemen are recovering a conlition government could be thom wounds and other Injuries, established in Spain to replacs declined to elaborate on how the the Franco
"stable elections "could-be
{Press.""
were responsible for the ON OTHER PAGES
mass executions of Poles and f
the destruction of the capital.
They were Ludwig Fischer, Part Two
Warsaw's Governor from 1989
Hawkoop Case Result.
Three
New York, Dec. 18 Six radio patrolmen and. identified in the eyes of all ed into a Seventh Avenue sub- Chinese as the major factor in way station recently, leaped
perpetuating chronic and Inde to the tracks and began to re- H.K. WAR DAMAGE cisive civil war for me,
COMMISSION lationship of trust and, con
move the body of a man over
Suddenly the "victim" stirr-
Being extricated from the wreck. Two hospital trains with women were often stripped and the 80 injured, Including two their naked bodies burned with British subjects Reuter. cigarettes hot nails and pieces of metal while their husbands wore compelled to watch.
THE WEATHER
The anticyclone is unchang- ed in Intensity, and now covers
Warsaw, Dec. 18. men had escaped" Associated carron tatorship, and to The Benators said that a re- whom a train had just passed.
Via Puniab-born Murad All fa an The Secretary of State for the davit said he witnessed
Ciferents typical loptates cor which an end of the France United States must be based uni said: "What's going en here? Matheson, of the Phoenix Aster eisted of binding prisoners to a the whole oz. China, S. Japan regime would be actampilshed 12 full independence of China. What's all the troublance Company Limited, to be grill, legs apart, lower bodies and the neighbouring seas,
brutality
Britain' satisfied itself/that an in- adding, "No. Chinese governed him to safely; while an on-slener for Hong Kong, Mr. C. G the "private parts with a 1hresmize remains low to the
The surprised policemen lift- War Damage Claims Commis térim government could be set up ment can be genuinely indepen-1 coming train was flagged down. F. F. Melmoth, formerly Secro-ed candle Both women equatoriaj region, The Philip
stripped and the slow bomlags of within Spain. Associated Press dent if it is subject to mani- He identified himself as Lay Lary-Designete, of the Hong Kong
mulation. It is time for us to Mitch, 45-year old negro porter secretary to the War Damage ner GROUNDS FOR face with equal frankness, the on the "Queen Elizabeth, who Claims Commission, Mr, Matheson
Trust, has been DIVORCE!
fact that no Chinese govern dimly recalled a party some is expected to arrive in the ment will be regarded by its San Jose, Cal. Dec. 18. own people as independent if it where and then an overpower Colony early la March, 1947.
ing desire to sleep Fred Vasquez is saing for is under control of a single When the unscratched Lev divorce in the Superior Court Party and if that Party can was told where he had been The Vatican News Service an
Roms Dec. 18 on the ground that his wife only insintain itself against the napping, he looked as thin, nousted today that the Pope is refused to let him play his ac- wishes of a large part of the frame and said: orally in tina hesin, to cordion in the house Associa people by reliance on Américan Boy, am lygind I'm skinny deny his reported illness ted Press,A
support. Associated Press Associated san
United Press
through 1944; Max Dauma,
police colonel; Joseph Maisin-Pase Four ker Gestapo chief and Ludwig Leiaz; civil, guard captain.
Fore
Tokuzaga, Trial Revelations,
Hong Kong Salvage
Sitdown Strike. Blum's Vote of Confidence Page Eight
Brooke Interview.. Text Position
Pare
Fischer and Meisinger are t charged with responsibility for the massacre of more than 500,000 Jews In Warsaw's
het Associated Press.
All added:
With a light NE, of Jajan; and over the
United Press, appolated men more treated in this man. pine depression appears to have
filled up.
Today's Forecast Moderate VIETNAM ATTACK NE winds, freshening,
Pariz, Dec. 18
Yesterday's Weather: Vietnamese were killed on Tues Three French soldiers and 15
Maximus 691 deg. Fah. day in a dash near Grand Lac,
Minimum: 68.9 deg. Fah, a Hanoi dispatch to the French
Max Rel Humidity: 82 per press agency reported on Wed-
Sunshine 62 hours. nesday Associated Pres
Rainfall Nil