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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1946.
Currency INDEPENDENCE FOR BURMA
Spiral
Continues
Nanking, Dec. 20.
Mr. Attlee's Statement In Commons
Uncertainty, Jack of Farmers
confidence and wild speculation caused a new record black market in- volving Chinese Nation-
To Be
al currency and Ameri Regulated
can dollars today.
The process of the upward. spiral appears almost without ceiling.
London, Dec. 20. The Labour Govern- Black market or street ex-ment asked today for al change rates that swayed thou-revolutionary Farm Bill sands of Nanking citizens to under which a farmer fidgety exchange boo'hs today, fetched another high bargain could be ousted from his of 6,500 Chinese dollars te one land for ignoring "scien-
tific" advice.
greenback.
Informed quarters hinted the riotous swing in the rate was caused mainly by the unfound ed rumours-which have been already denied by the Minister of Information, Peng Hsuch pei-of the imminent launching by the Government of a new Sun Currency-Reuter.
BY THE GRACE-
OF WHO?
Madrid, Dec. 20. Generalissimo Franco yesterday approved a la requiring new five, 10 and 25 peseta silver coins to carry his portrait and an in scription "Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain by the Grace of
God."-Associated Press.
Scathing Attack Miracle By Churchill Mid-Air
London, Dec. 20.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons today that the first step toward giving Burma independence" "within or without the Commonwealth" would be. taken shortly by inviting a representative group of Burmese leaders to London to discuss Burma self-government.
Mr. Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition, immediately objected to what he termed the Government's "extraordinary haste" to get out of Burma after the enormous sacrifices of British and Indian blood to liberate the coun- try from the Japanese.
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The Bill representing the ; tempt at peacetime regulation first major governmental at- of agriculture since repeat a century ago of the Corn Laws, calls for subsidies, pegged minimum prices and guaranteed his speech, markets even if the Government has to buy some of the pro-
Iduersi
blood-that
Escape
Washington, Dec. 20.
In an unprecedented accident in commercial aviation, two
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Cour
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REAR-ADMIRAL CARRIERS
London, Dee, 10. Rear-Admiral G. E. Creasy! has been appointed Rear Admiral Astraft Carrier and Air Stations, British Pacifis Fleet nad East
les, fra February, 1947.
Creasy, whe Accord: Bear-Admiral A. R. M. Bridge, was mort than any other man respon
will
sible for the detailed naval querational planning for the invasion of north-western, Europe in 1944-Reuter..
Battle In
Miami Hanoi
bound planes, carrying! 86 persons, collided in
Singapore, Dec. 20. An Associated Press dispatel
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PRIVATE LIFE
OF
HITLER
Frankfurt, Dec. 20. Intimate new details of the life of Adolf Hitler and his sweetheart, Eva Braun, have been un- covered by the United States Army by the seizure of 31 reels of moving films of the cou- ple at play, it was revealed yesterday. Showing in glittering technicolor hitherto unre- corded scenes of gay parties at Berchtesgaden and bathing in the nude under mountain waterfalls, the films were dug from a secret hiding place in the Bavarian mountains "several months ago," United States army ini- telligence officers disclosed. Taken between 1939 and 1941 while the world was at war and long before the cou ple's eleventh-hour marriage in Berlin's ruins, the films were described as the personal pro-
Europe
faidair in the darkness. from Hanel, Indochina, delayed and his bride, men Hit By
He was ruled out of order a perb exertion of the 14th Army few minutes after
beginning and enormous sacrifices in
and treasure-the sarrifices of British and Indian the Japanese were forced to sur-holidays in Florida and four crew render or
members. were destroyed driven out and the country
The other was a twin-engined überated.
Universal Airlines charter plane with 22 pasengers, mostly bound for Puerto Rico, and four Crow members.
Mr. Atlee told the House that India was further ahead of the road to independence than It aims at stabilising agriculEurma because the Japanese ture by eliminating much un-occupation had "complicated"! certainty from the farmers'
the freedom plan and the. Bur plans.
mese had emerged from the
chaos war in a "condition of great
and without any Gavernment."
It was
Commons on Wednesday and introduced in the
the Government. on Thursday issued a White Paper explain- ing the broad powers it pro- poses to assume for the Bill's enforcement.-Associated Press.
Adventurer In Dock With Mistress
Paris, Dec. 19.
Described as an "international adventurer," Alain de Bernardi de Segoyer, 30, was charged be-
•fore the Parts Court of Justice today with strangling his beautiful 25-year-old wife?** Jeanne, in 1944.
With him in the dock stood his former servant and alleged mistress, Irene Lebeau; aged 23, accus- ed of aiding and abetting him.
Lebeau
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De Segoyer, alleged to have the alleged confession worked for the Gestapo during the German occupation, was in prison on charges of collabora tion when his wife's body was found buried in a ditch after
Battle At Premier's House
The prosecution accused him of being the author of a long list of crimes and embezzle ments for which he served pri- Bon terms throughout Europe, It was stated that he escaped prison once by feigning in- sanity and was in an asylum for six years.
set
He said it was the British Government's desire that the Burmese people "attain their self-Government by the quickest and most convenient path post sible.
"We do not desire to retain within the Commonwealth and Empire any unwilling peoples," Mr. Attlee continued. "It is for the people if Burms to decide their own future and we are
certain that it will be to their own interest as it will be sure if they decide to remain within the Commonweath and we sin- terely hope they will arrive at such a decision."
New Constitution
Mr. Attlee said it would not be possible to enact a new in-
and suggested that the old con- stitution be'continued for a while, and promised the London talks with the leaders, would take up any "difficulties" that the Burmese feel still exist in regard to the cld constitution.
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Winston Hot And Bothered
or
was
In
a brief dispatch filed shortly after the shooting start ed. Associated Press Corres pondent Michel Mountschen said "the Viet Namese began shooting everywhere with field guns. mortars and machine guns."
and
of
Cold Wave
un-
last night over. Aber-in transmission said Viet
the Intelligence officers said deen,
Namese forces opened heavy flma had been used in the Maryland, but
firing throughout Hanoi last search for wanted Nazis both ships landed safely night. five minutes after the the positive identification and no one was injured. city had beep plunged into hundreds of members of Hit- London, Dec. 20.
One was a four-engined DC-4 darkness, by suspension of the ler's entourage and the sum- life of the Eastern Airlines with 56 electric power service.
All Europe was grip- mertime guests at the Fuehrer's passcrigéra bound for Christmas
alpine eagle's nest. Carefully ped today in the first catalogued, and arranged in cold wave of an excep- time sequence, the films were tionally severe winter shown yesterday for the first with conditions. time to General Joseph T. Me Narney, United States Army favourable due to slow commander in Europe. News recovery from the war's correspondents raw three select destruction of mines and The smaller plane's cockpit He said: Immediate Frenched reels from the collection "Yet there is this extraordin-and windshield caved in above the counter-action was expected:
transport utilities. yesterday.. ory haste in order that we should bears of the pilots, destroying the The dispatch promised "more take the necessary measures to radio but they cooll landed at later" but further detalls were
Candid Shots
Coal thertage and. reduced get out of Bunna nally and nearby Aberdeen Army field. The delayed.
The candid shots were taken rations, chiefly due to the Ameri- forever."
bie plane's tail was shattered but In, the dispatch filed last meatly by Hendrich-Hoffman, can shipping strike, rendered pros it landed safely at the Washing evening Mountschen said 30.000 whs now faces trial by his own
Hitler's own photographer-pects for Christmas bleek. Mr. Churchill, red-faced and worked up, then launched into anten National Airport,
armed Viet Namese were con- countrymen before a de-Nazifi- Sub-freezing temperatures in attack on the Labour Govern- All
centrated around Hanoi. ment's mistakes in India when
Meanwhile Admiral Thierry catlon court and his aides, the Netherlands, Belgium and Clifton Brown, the Speaker, planes took substitute ships and lerrupted by reminding him there continued the flights. One pas-d'Argenlieu, French High Com collection takes 104 hours to to the Danuba were. rendered was no motion before the House senger going to Misini presented missioner for Indo-China left show. In the famous, now more unbearable because of the and, therefore, he was out of or the crew with $500 for their skil. Paris by plane today to resume destroyed Berghef at Berchten- comparatively low caloric content der.
ful handling of the ship and invit- his duties in the Far East-gaden, shots of Hitler show him of the food rations which prevents Mr. Churchill sat down after a ed all other passengers to a “aur-
Associated Press.
grazing out over the sunlit the generation of enough body short exchange with the Speak vivors' party" at the Miami Nigh!
Bavarian peaks, raving at heat to withstand the temperature. er. Had after the House leader, Club as soon as the plane arrives.
Himmler. Ribbentrop, and comffriably,CA MrHerbert Morrison, reminded United Press. him that he could bring up the matter again in a few minutes when adjournment of the House was moved
the
cf Commons
passengers of both
Officers said that the entire France and cross 'Central Europe
FORCED LANDING Goering, dancing a dig or an Even neutral Switzerland is Athens, Dec. 19.rily waving a huge magally shivering though the coal situa
Planned Nazi Putsch In Switzerland
A reconnaissance plans, aiding glass, while studying a mation is good enough: there to as- Londen, Dec. 10. to be of Russian make, idade ajot the avar fronten, men It was announced in the House forced landing today on a fra Intelligence officers said the sure warm homes during the Mr. Churchill took off his spec-
today that a de-strip in the Heraklis Sidiromastre revetlles sond holidays. tacles and regained his breath
** Germany - and Austria suffer while waiting for Mr. Morrison legation of deputies from the ac, near the Greek Bulgarian nervous twitches around the to move the adjournment,
Supreme Soviet of the USSR bad border.
The two members of
the
Fuehrer's mouth, the constant most because of no domestic coal Then he shot
cred again and necepted an invitation extended l up
were escorted to Serres, in conmovement of his knees, and his and many homes, which have not of terim constitution as in India addressed the House: "I was not by both. Houses of Parliament to tral Macedonia. They stated that tender handling of the children /been repaired, are open, slovelike
to the winter. proposing today to embark upon visil. Britain and expected to ar- they had lost their direction and of high Nazi Party members,
France has no electricity two A formal full dress debate upcr rive at the end of February had been obliged to make a forced had made a substantial con- days a week, and conf stocks are What I was intending to do was the abandonment of Burma United Press.
landing. Reuter
tribution to studies of Hitler's'
----| so slim that Parisians.dress in'ski-. character. country at large the significance to mark for information of the
clothes warmth, A Beautiful Woman Only Britain's Christmas will of the statement made by the
The films show frequent be anything near prewar stand- Prime Minister which he rattled
"scenes of Hitler with Eya lards and the Ministry of Foods off so quietly and so smoothly as
Braun, talking calmly to her, has allotted an extra Christmas ....We consider that a new if it was an ordinary matter of!
or laughing with her. "E "food bonus of fresh fruits and Constitution for Burms should be routine and that it should be real- |
"The shots of "Eva"-alone jaweels. It is a white Christmas settled by nationals of Burma ised what a very important and
show her to be a really beauil-for the British countryside up in and we believe that arrangements far-reaching declaration is
ful woman," one Intelligence the London suburbs. ... United to this end can be made as a
officer commented,
...Press. result of the forthcoming election will be...!! without the necessity for holding
The films show Eva dressed Mr. Churchill was calmer now fresh elections for a Constituent and spoke slowly, carefully pick-
in a blue polkadot skirt, white Assembly...." Mr. Attlee, said. ing his words and jabbing his
blouse, and red velvet vest, with When Mr. Attlee concluded his fingers for emphasis
long golden hair falling over statement, Mr. Churchill bounced "Burma we have, held since
her forehead. She is, dancing, 1885 and I have always followed
talking, playing with kittens.or The administration of the La- its affairs with attention because
children or at the beaches of it was my father who was the
Barwirsch, who is being tried, have planned a Nazi putsch in the Starnberger See, the Chiem ed....for
a steady and remorse-
nexation of Burma."
London, Deg: 20,1 Mr. Churchill said he objected eastern Switzerland, is also ac of which the German-speaking virtually every shot...... ves of what has been gained by
The first of: 200,000 frozen murderer, testified
the "once so many generations of toil and to the "evil process", used in In-ngan tenage and conspiracy part of the country would have Nude Bathing
turkeys brought in a race again- sacrifice. In the case of Burma dio being extended to Burma against the independence of the become a German province.ne
Swiss
State. He is alleged to
The films show Hitler's st time from Argentina to Eng- it is hardly a year since by cu- United Press,
He is said to have been one of favourite in at least six gaily land by the liner Highland.
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The prosecution stated that Segoyer had been examined by raychiatrists who had tertified Kaut he was mentally eund.
Letter Surprise
Tokyo, Dec. 20. ..} Metropolitan police said to day that ten Korean lenders
The defence counsel is Maitre were arrested after a 35-minute Jacques isorni, one of France's battle at the Prime Minister's most renowned criminal law-up to object.
official residence in which aix yers.
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and silent this afternoon
noir
Zurich, Dec. 19.
made and what its consequences Secret documents said to have been taken from
Nazi archives were produced today by the pro- secution at the resumed hearing of the treason charge against Josef Barwirsch, 47-year-old Austrian-born Swiss lawyer, alleged to have plotted the incorporation of Switzerland in Nazi Germany,
police were seriously injured. The court room was tense bour Government is distinguish
The police said that fragmen- Irene Lebeau, alleged mistressless process of divesting ourse. minister responsible for the an- jby the Federal Court at Chur, Switzerland in 1941, as a result) See, and the Wolfgang See, in
the
as
tary reports did not say of whether any Koreans were in against the man jured in the battle, which beloved." gan when about 2,000 Koreans clashed with
The dark-haired girl, spenk- some 30 police. ing in a quiet hesitant voice. Korean leaders said previously told-how she had seen Bernardi five or six of their countrymen jokingly place a cord round his were injured in a melee which wife's neck. As she was sit- began shortly after 2 m. ting in an armchair, Bernardi The 10 Korean, leaders who walked behind the chair and
Journalist Assaults
had gone into the official ro. suddenly pulled the cord tight, House Of Commons
sidence to present demands to woman was dead.
"guarantee Korean livelihood" The surprise of the after- were arrested at 5 pm: Some soon's session came when the
London, Dec. 20.
of their followers still remained envelope of a letter addressed It was disclosed in Parliamentary papers today
In the dead woman's handwrit
M.P. In
M.P. Churchill Memoirs
that a press correspondent T. D. Lucy, was Sold?
concerned in an alleged assault on Mr. P. Pira- tin, Communist Member of Parliament for Mile End within the precincts of the House of Commons yesterday.
the most trusted lieutenants of
Got There In Time
the Nazis in Switzerland, coloured bathing suits, diving, Monarch were unloaded at Prosecution counsel produced surf-riding, doing gymnastica Victoria Dock by stevedores documents found by the Ameri- or climbing treena willing to work unlimited hours. can army near Salzburg, Austria, More sequences show her to get the fowls ashore for in the archives of Arthur Seyss-trim legs, irer firm muscles and Christmas dinners, mal Inquart (former Nazl Commis well-moulded body, while in one The Highland Monarch steam- sioner for The Netherlands, one sequence with the closest memed at about the normal speed of those sentenced to death by bers of the Eraun family, her for three weeks, fighting gales, the Nuremberg tribunal) and sister, Greté Fegelein, bathes fegs and beavy seas on the handed over to the Swiss police. in the nude under a mountain request of the Food Ministry The prosecution alleged that waterfall. Associated Press. London. In time to distribute to spare no effort to reach
the cargo before Christmas, The Captain, of the 14,000- 'Lon ship said good weather in the for free Channel "made pos [sible_our_arrival with all these
dinners United Press.
the accused dietaled the docu- ANAK ments to Seyss Inquart's secre-
tary, who typed them in large Visas To Be
wear!
Barwirsch denied » authorship
Abolished
around the Premier's residence Ing and postmarked two montiu and another crowd gathered at after she was supposed to have the Imperial plaza about a mile been killed was produced. The
London, Dec. 20. 1 away where a mass rally had chief prosecuter demanded to
type, especially designed" for l' Winston Churchill's secretary Hitler, who refused to been held earlier
know where was, the letter su
said yesterday that there was glasses although his eyesight was The battle at the Premier's posed to be contained in the..
icomment on a Paris report that residence ended after ten envelope and why the existence.
the former Prime Minister had bad
Landon, Dec. 19.7 American military police ar- of the envelope was not dis House is printed in the Parlia-reporters' room..
Lucy's letter of apology to the half hours later, as hy left the sold the rights to his memoirs to
France has now accepted the Earl Rose
of the documents, rived on the scene and ordered closed to the French Investigamentary papers today, headed, Winston Objects
THE WEATHER Similar reports
Dr. Errut Hoffman, of Vienna, British draft agreement; to pop up (fre the Koreans from the com- tion police..
"Press; Association, Press Gallery,
The intense anticyclone pro- quently. Only two months ago the a high SS officer now awaiting abolish visas, between the two pounds said the Japanese Corpse Buried
House of Commons.
After Mr. Firatin had spoken "Daily Herald said Churchill trial in Germany as a war countries which has been un ceeds over China, Japan and the police. Associated Press;
It was decided early this is morn the Speaker read the letter "In would write the "inner story of criminal, gave gyldence that the der negotiation in London dur- nenabouting to resture is Bernardi remained silent. Ming that the matter should be which the writer stated: " deep the war in two or three volumes, accused did dietite the docusing the past few weeks low In the extreme SE of the S Jacques Isoral succeeded in considered by the Committee of By
The French reply has been China Sea, AM regret my part in what occur aimating the completion time, ments, postponing · full, discussion of Privileges,
red and ask you to believe that Earlier this year
at two years Churchill said
Counsel for the prosecution passed to the Foreign Office, Today's Forecast: Moderale trint evidence until later in the wheeler states thar Lar no disrespect was ever intended it was unlikely that he would stated that 25 other persons were and it le rellably believed that ENE winds, weak, cloudy. Light was rumoured in the court when Mr. Frank Bowles, the La to you: or to the dignity of your low his memo ti to be published already under sectention at plot- an agreement will be aligned wet or drizzle of first, but im-
bour, the the change control bill honourable House of Commons, during his lifetime, so ung against the Swis Stats and within very few days proving Jowellery
warth about £7,000 10am that Bernardi had pro- bate on the exchange control bill either individually
or collec. There have been reports that he that proceedings would be taken The apreendent, it is under Yesterday's weather; found on Hermann Geering when | mised to' make a senzational and raised the matter,
tively. Speaker Instructed the
Hearing was then adjourned. Freach and British passports, Leader of the House, said he felt clated Pressi Lanka
Reuler.EVERA
but seperate discussions will be report, to him.
undertaken between France and cent Lug British Dominions. Reu
GOERING'S TRINKETS
Frankfurt, Dec 10,
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ho was arrested In 1945 has been 'revelation. In his defence in the Serfeant-at-Arms to find out the Herbert Morrizon das begun writing themAssal next year against other groups, "stood, will cover all bolders of
handed to the Central Office of next few days,
The
facts
and
the
PhpS, Among the article at Kaplicity in the crime, related In the precincts but farther in he should think that, they could he is beings, Valmart)
prima
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the Reichsbank in Munich and frene Lebeau, who was also The Serjeant reported that theservations and the Journalist's mitted that the
that in view of Mr. Piratin' ob rights with great care. He sub- "placed under Military
accused by the court of com disturbance undoubtedly occurred communication to
matter should go ment control
Speaker, before the Committee, an banded over
Lhan ruled that a ware diamond ring worth how she had helped Bernardf to vestigation was required to de- take a note of the statement
and
had been made Page Three about £3,250 large emerald carry the corpse to a motorcar termine the
facts of the let it go at that WRON
outh Morrison that Pags Four Fing worth about 22,600 a ruby drive to a vacant grape storage The speaker then called Mr that this was violence done in the the matter should be referred to
Mr. Winston Churchill said motion by Mr.
| Europeans;in Assault Case, ring/worth about £700 small yard in the outskirts of Paris Pirstin who said there were precincts of Lite House of Com the Committee of Privileges was Page Free N
Epic of Jardine's Steamer, ruby ring worth about 400 and there bury it in a ditch actually two assaults, on the first one and it could not go un- agreed to The Speaker Indicat Fireworks in Commons. field-marshal's badge worth 2400 they both had dug the night occasion in the cafeteria and on marked That house was a greated that the journalist concerned Pune Elgh and deveral decorations Renter before-Reuter,"
the second occasion, une and a institution and must guards would be released-Beuter,
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The Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph both and Princess Margaret at Meynounced today that an tended the marriage today for the Antareffs on a recon
Inireraft carrier would soon larva the Countess of Errol and Captain Monerere at St. Martes for future explorations, nalasanco, cruise to locate an ico- garets, Westminster-Reuter United Frou