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HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1946.
MORE EARTH TREMORS FELT
Japanese Death Toll Mounting: 45,000 Homeless
Eyewitnesses' Accounts
Tokyo, Dec. 22.
As rescuers pushed their way into the quake and tidal wave devastated areas of southwestern Japan today the toll of death and ruin continu- ed to mount. The latest United Press tabula- tion of deaths gives 946. A total of 1,036 has been injured, mostly seriously, and 96 all list ed as missing.
At least 45,000 victims are without homes as the second wintry night after the disaster ap- proaches. The tabulation is stin far from com- plete because rescuers in the Wakayama Pre- fecture, where the major damage apparently was caused by the tidal waves, are making only slow progress due to uprooted communi- cations.
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Unofficial estimates continue to give at least 500,000 persons homeless. Property damage re- ports continue to assume larger proportions and bring the total of-buildings demolished beyond repair to 5,847,
with 14,000 others mostly suffering less serious damage.. -
"Obliterated"
Tokyo, Dec. 22.
.
NO INTEREST
Hamburg, Dec. 21. "Russia has so far skoren no Interest whatsoever in joining by an economie fusion of the United States and British zones of Germany,” General Joseph McNarney, US. Oc- cupation forces Commander- In-Chief, said in Berlin today.
The question of the dis- solution of German cartels. ods still under discussion by the four occupation powers but no norcement had been reached, he said.Reuter,
Quake Alarm System
UNO A Parliament
Of Mankind
Pretoria, Dec. 21.
Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, said here today that the United
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"BABIES DISEASE" Accused Accuses
Stoke-on-Trent, Dec. 21: Four newly-born babica re- ported to have led at the Corporation Maternity Hospi- tal here are believed to be vic-. tims of a mysterious" "bables, disease," a form of gastro-en- teritis which has caused the deaths of babies in other parts) of the country.
During the past fortnight deaths have been reported from Leicester, Markét 'Bor- worth and Manchester; Other towns say they have had su8- pected cases--Router,
Nations was a sort of Parliament of mankind. Drive
in which coloured races were represented in greater number than the white races.
Critical Phase
"In a world parliament Be, there ast. Prime Minister and re- that, you
cannot expect your presentative of the whole proplu views to prevail 100 per cent of South Africa. even fifty per cent," Marylini Smats said. "This is one of the problems we have to face, not only in South Africa but in the whole European world.
"We all appreciate that we are zing through one of the critical phases in our development. In
סרת שיער
On River Pirates
His Mistress
Paris, Dec. 21.
Bernardi de Segoyer startled the court which was trying him here today on a charge of murder- ing his 25-year-old wife, by accusing his alleg- ed girl friend Irene Lebeau of having killed his wife with a revolver...
It was Lebeau's alleged statement that she had witnessed Segoyer strangle his wife while the "wife sat in a red arm chair that led to the trial now in its third day. Lebeau is facing charges of aiding and abetting in the murder of Madame Segoyer.
Segoyer dramatically pleaded continue tomorrow (Sunday) with for his life for over one and a the lawyers contesting the two half hours, levelling accusations versions of the crime which the at his girl friend that she shot-the troubled jury now face-Reuter. woman she testified seeing him strangle two years ago. Speaking quietly and slowly at first Secover's voice became more emo- tional as he told his version of N the crime. Several times his volee
fears streaming down his checks. The President of the Court then
For the first time in the his-that spirit I went abroad and in New York, Dec. 21. broke and finally he ended with tory of mankind, we have brought that spirit I fulfilled my mission. together mankind in one body to achieved success and although we led squads of police, sol-turned to Lebeau and said: "What
Although
Specially trained arm- not have may have found disappointment. Idiers and Customs men have you to say for yourself?"
doubt whatever that have no
work for peace and two thirds o that body are coloured. The other and will have to sit up: They have always been the ruling power and they still are. Far how
slo long. who knows?
is
The object of this huge setan
War
Marshal
to prevent Smuts added,
In the United Nations can de-a side by votes and votes by majoritics and the majority is not
struck six times at the tiny A great dirty arm of water city-Kainan
When there was little in the area but it finally withdrew
Tokyo, Dec. 21, whimpering people looking for working to
Japanese scientists, lost relatives amid smashed
meet, the houses.
ever-present threat of white. That is the picture sketched new earthquakes, are "I did not overseas as in halting telegraph messages planning a countrywide party leader, as representative of tidal from nearly obliterated Kainan, system of "earthquake shal Smuts the
one section of the people." Mar- waves. Property losses includ- en the flattened Wakayama alerts," if they succeed
declared. "I
Japanese Home Ministry tabulations up to Sunday noon said 2.335 buildings have been washed away
hy
ed 2,395 shijis either wrecked or swept away beyond recovery by tidal waves, and 1,200 of these are said to be cargo ships. The losses also included 45 acres of valuable salt fields an the northern Shikoku coast.
peninsula.
experiments dozen with
Kainan is one of a towns and communities lashed by the tidal wave which was felt by coastal towns as much ns 576 miles apart. The wall
of water, which some Japanese said was 10 feet high, reached a point 30 miles southyest of Tokyo.
i
foretelling earthquakes.
in
expect
that early next year they will
Tokyn seismologists
be able to tell in advance when earthquakes are about to occur.
Kochi Prefecture, where the capital, Kochi city. poised at the far end of the deep inlet, bore the brunt of the tidal on- slaught reports a total of 239 fatal victims in addition to a casualty list of 247 injured. Taokushima,
Delayed reports on Shikoku show that it reached even be- Island, reports 161 killed in yond that point. "The town scattered parts of the prefer boiled with a dirty whirlpool." ture.
said first reports from Kainan Reports trickling in from in the centre of one of the Wakayama Prefecture, on Hon-hardest hit areas. shu, tate this afternoon gave E6 As the first earth shock dead with the search for bodies struck at 0920 GMT. residents alowly progressing.
of Kainan fled shivering into In Okayama, occupied by the, the open. Nothing happened for British, there were 52 dend and a while, however, so people be- a reported 87 injured; rescue gan returning home. operations are continuing.
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 6.) E Japan-Reuter.
In two seismological experi- mental stations now under col struction research is to be un- Kochi area of Southern Shiko-currents beneath the earth. The The tidal wave Amashed the dertaken on natural, electric.
Marooned
So far, no official word is available in Tokyo concerning the safety of six American army personnel reported to be marooned in the devastated town of Shingu, on the south-
.
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Rescue
Operation
Abandoned
vent
the of
The dark-haired girl, who had showed no signs of emotion as sle listened to Segoyer, stood and said
emphatically. "It is falst
Indo-China War Rages
Unabated
Paris, Dec. 22. Brown skinned Anna- mite troops threw them- selves against
French
what happened is not going to have been formed to rid
down "our progress."
New York of "river General J. Pieranar, Adminis trator for the Transvaal, said at pirates "hi-jackers and
luncheon in honour of Marshal petty thieves responsible Accused Sobs Smuts that the latter had made for dock theft totalling statement of denial to the court After she had made a short great stand in fare of over- whelming odds in the defence of $1,000,000 a year. the rights of South Africa
Seggyer then addressed the court Positions throughout. Lat The squads will patrol the again,, pleading to them to believe northern Indo - China handle its internal problems in a streets in Brooklyn's waterfront his version of the crime. At the with renewed fury today manner which best served the in- and dock arca in high-powered end of it be sank into a chair but the colonial troops terests
people of the cars. They will be equipped with sobbing. country,
The majority of votes of the radio sets. field-glasses, tear-gas so decomposed when he carried maintain their emplace-
carbines, rifles, "walkie-talkie"
The Coroner said the body was so far have been able to United Nations were against bombs and powerful floodlights. South Africa but South Africans
out the autopsy he did not noticements, an AFP dispatch Other detachments will operate any bullet wounds and the only from Hanoi reported to- did not lock on this as a vote of censure nor did they accept it in in fast launchies on the river. the spirit of defeat, General The police say that the river Piernaar added.
"pirates," who use fast motor X-ray it. The court decided first The heaviest fighting was The fact that, Britain, the boats, and work in the pre-dawn to ccntinue hearing the witnesses, said to be centering in the United States and some of the hours, are believed to work in whose Dominions subscribed to Marshal conjunction with watchmen and supported Lebeau's confession im- Lang Thuong, about 30 miles previous testimony had towns of Bacninh and Phu Smuts view, made the people of dockers.-Reuter. the Union regard his achieve-
plicating Segoyer. The trial will north of "Hanti, and at Nam- ment as crowned with success in
dinh, 45 miles south of Hanol. having convinced these powers of the justice and righteousness of South Africa Case.--Reuter,
Haganah Raid Was "Insane"
Jerusalem, Dec. 22.
way now to reach certain Endings would be to exhume the body and day..
Stalin Health Rumour
Laid To Rest
Moscow, Dec. 22.
ku. at least 970 miles west of Blations will provide the first Rescue operations; for Shimeda
facilities in Japan where auch survivors of the naval It is hoped that yesterday, electrical research can be made.
will be forecast several hours which foundered in very
tug earthquakes rescue
'Enticer"
before they occur and think that they will be able to
experts heavy seas early on Sat- Ray to within a hundred miles, urday morning 250 miles
Elliott Roosevelt was granted a birthday inter- where they will strike.
view with Joseph Stalin today and reported south west. of Hong With today's earthquake, the Kong have now been "
that the Generalissimo appeared in good. Japanese islands have suffered abandoned. Attempts to
health and fine spirits. 22 in the past 23 years, begin- ning with the 1923 disaster. Salve the ss.. "Rosebank"
Roosevelt, whó was recott- On an average, two or three continue.
panied at the interview by his tremors occur each month in Forther details of the disaster Stern Gang pamphlets wife, the former Faye Emerson lats now been received, to am posted on Tel Aviv's had just returned from a vaca- of the movies, said that Stailn plify the first account, which apmain thoroughfare. Sat- tirn and looked surprisingly pealed exclusively in the "Sunila urday night denounced well for a man who was obser- Herald" yesterday. The JCJI.. BS, "Rosebank," 2,410 tona gross. the recent Haganah raiding his 67th birthday. developed engine trouble, Monday and 1.31.5. "King Salon Salame, an Arab vil he and his wife would leave The late President's son sald vor alvage: vessel; was sent to lage near Jaffa, as in Moscow by plane Sunday for her in tow. This she did on sane, dangerous and ini- Paris, thence to Ireland Tuesday, setting course for Hong mical to Jewish inter- route to the United States to Kong with the Rosebank."
Due to licary weather and tests."
be with his mother Mrs. Elen- nor Roosevelt for Christmas.
Roosevelt did not reveal the
No Austerity Xmas In United States
New York, Dec. 21.
ern tip of Wakayama. Pre-A well-fed Santa Claus roaring over this land of"
plenty in a jet-propelled plastic sleigh, typi- fies America's second postwar Christmas..
Heaped plates of turkey.
vious aerial reconnaissanco re- ports said a large part of Shin- gu was in flames and that that fre apparently. was out of con- trol
The American military goy- ernment in Wakayama received a report from the Japanese Wakayama prefectural officials that a boat carrying 40 Ameri- can military personnel capsized between Osaka and Wakayama. No casualty reports, are avall able.
Albanian Reply To
Protest
Lake
II.M.S. asked Scort vessel,
en
Gents Who Sneer At 'Democracy'
London, Dec. 22,
The news dispatch said the Franch troops were holding their own at all three points. -- -
French Casualties in Hanaf were placed by AFF at 60 kill- ed and 160 wounded. In addi tion "s certain number" of European and Eurasian civi lans were killed or missing.
The Viet Nam forces cuf the road from Hanoi to. Haiphong At Beveral places, during the last 48 hours, hampering the movement of French troops and supplies
The AFP dispatch said fight- ing had not yet begun at Tourane, which has been sÜT- rounded by Viet Nam troops. according to Saturday's oficial elmmunique on the violence in Indo-China.
Tourane
Efforts of the French au- thorities to maintain liaison
ane were reported to have full-
unezgh to give four and a half and H.M.T. "Enticer." were im stealing n cache of arms from the first granted by Stalin to tice of, raising their eye cy dispatch speculated whether.
are
French troops in Tourane and
an engine defect, "King Salvor" Rejecting Haganah's explans- reported she was not making any tion for the raid that Arabs tubject of his interview with men outside the Soviet ed because the authorities could "There exist gentle with the Viet Namese at Tour- headway and. for assistance
in Salame were responsible for Stalin which incidentally was Union who make a prac-not locate the insurgent liaison officers. The French news agen- mediately sailed from Hong Haganalthe pamphlets said any foreign correspondent In pounds weight to every man Kong, arriving at 6 ara, and 1 such operations serve the Bri- many years. He said he would brows and WOMEN and
sneering the Viet Nam high command. child-flaming p.m. on Friday respectively. In tish and "are harmful to Arab write about it in Look magazine whenever Soviet demo had hesitated to attack because brandy on padding, heres of the meantime, the weather had Jewish relations, which pics, cakes and an abundance of
deteriorated. "Enticer made strained in any case."
when he got home but was em cracy is mentioned, for the strong concentration of phatic in reporting how well. nuts will load Christmas tabies: several attempt to
pass a tow, Meanwhile, for the first time Stalin looked.
instance, Field Marshal French warships in the port. While Europe's war-ravaged
but none were successful..
At 11
since the Sternista and Irgun Reosevelt-appeared greatly. Smuts." countries eke out a scanty diet "Enticer reported that she was Zvai Leumi declared a truce impressed after the interview,
p.m. approximately,
The situation at Hue was not because of the shortage of both taking in more water than her two weeks ago, large reinforce His wife also was Impressed
clarified by the dispatch except This statement was made by to the extent that losses among food and dollars, money alone pumps could cope with and ments of police and military by the force of the generalis. Analyser the Moscow commen- the civilian population there Earlier it was officially an-
is the determining factor here. H.BTS. "Alacrity' closed her. The patrolled the streets of Jerusasimo'a personality, she said. Lator, in a broadcast criticising had been reported, d nounced that a Navy plane was
London, Dec. 22.1
Except for sugar, the food wind was then gusting to gale lem, causing the usual Saturday She explained she was merely Western Democracy, He added: industry is free of Government force with very low visibility and night crowds to dieperse early." very fortunate wife with This is not a surprise, however, yesterday that violent, fighting An official communique said dropping water purifier tablets The Foreign Office an-cantrol and although sugar has a confused sea. for a U.S. military government nounced today that Al-been in short supply and sweets
Precautions Fires Doused
rothing to say beyond conarm-considering what passes for De had rocked Hue since Friday bear and a counter intelligence bania had replied to the are not as plentiful as other Due to the level of the water as
The precautions were taken ing what her husband said |mocracy in slave-driving Africa.
and that ferocious Viet Nam team stranded near Tanabe and British note demanding | are swelling American, stocka. had to douse her fires and at move by the extremists in view. "I have had a great experi- bloodthirsty Greek Monarchists fire were repulsed on Friday
years, imports from Argentina the engine room. "Enticer"
guard against a possible about how well Stalin looked.
"Smuts" recent eulogies of the attacks under cover of mortar Kyoto Prefecture reported ajan sexplanation of the Scotch whisky is the only scarce signal to Alacrity requesting of terrorism, which have been and will certainly want to show ence again where the Field night-United Press...
aan on Saturday, shes made of the repeated condemnations ence in Russia, Elliott said, announcement said: a civilian Albanian coast which abundance more than anke up weather was attling worse for truce will continue to be obser death toll of 50 and a SCAP presence of mines off the commodity, but rum, beer and her to send some men over to as voiced at the Zionist Congress came back. Associated Press Marshal's heart really les
imported and domestic wines in ist. During all this time the at Basle... disaster plan has been put into damaged two British the balance. effect in Kobe. Kobe served
"Alacrity wa As one of the first emergency destroyers in the Corfu With 13,000,000 Servicemen any basesi from where Allied relfer Channel on October 22 back in civilian life, it will be able Donnel The visibility at ved until the end of the London
time had closed
down conference in JanuaryLAN workers headed for the worst The reply was handed to the day of family reunion, of with very heavy rain squalls.
But others predict it wil Af 4 am Enticer" could bend automatically when and if hit quake areas. British Ambassador to
shining Christmas trees, stock-
She Eighth Army GHQ, Yoko lavia. Mr. Charles Pugings by cosy fires, holly wreaths acon shipping water fast.
and churchbella chiming in-bel-wax sluggish and
Shingu areas, in Wakayama,
WES
right
and
Some observers believed the
hama, announced: today that 13 Belgrade on Saturday night by frics that never knew the shock at 950 the sung to port Genl Sir Evelyn Barker upholds
rapidly by of 18 strokes of the cane again, the Military Court's sentence etern. Rescue operations were com-st an Irgupist who participated menced forthwith, but the rain in the Ottoman Bank tald of heavy at the September 13-United Press
matau and Awajtehime areas the Monday night deadline set spending in the country's big minimum. It was impossible to |
tory. With workers" --wealth
medical units; each, sufficient the Albanian Charge d'Affaires of a bomb ar the whino of a to take care of 100,000 persons Britain does not mainisin di- for one month were en route plomatic relations with Enver bullet. for the stricken Japanese Taki Hoxas Government in Tirana, ceded by the giddfest surge of time and visibility was down to a
Christmas day has been presqualls were very h Albania thus replied before The Army Bald another six
lower units were being loaded for reby the British after which, Bri- still burning holes in their pộc-
Jany sea boat in the that was running. lief of quake victints in the tain had said, she would take kets, they have been mobbing and 27 Chinese ratings, it ijze Of her crew of B British officers Wakayama arom, Security Council if a satisfac ever they sawHentor, el detalle, of survivors and julasing How England Works Rent the issue to the United Nations shops and buying almost what gratted that only 3 officers and
Page Two Tho Japanese Red Cross re
Hong Kong have been rescued. Full Fege Four ANNIEN, ported that four medical teams tory reply was not received.
ratings consisting of six doctors and said the text of the Albanian for damage to the two, naval
The Foreign Office spokesman cember 9; demanded reparations will be published when known 40 nurses were en route to yet been beer
#3257Centro); when all next of kin have
Austin Works To Carry On
Ultimatum
There are some followers of Smuts in his attitude to democra-20
Paris, Dec. 22. ey in the United States, too, Their A surrender ulipatum from the refusal to admit the Democracy of Viet Nam forces, will, be accepted the Soviet system is in reality by the French Military authori only a reflection of the limitations (fies at Vinh on the coast of An of the Western Democracy, nam to avoid the massacre of "No Soviet citizens adscente the French population," according. world domination or show any to the military coinmander-in- desire to folse their, will on other chief of Indo-China, General Mor- nations. Can the same thing boere. cuter said for democracy in the United
London, Dec. 21: Coal will be provided for the States?" Austin Motor Company to enable There is one kind of debor it to carry on providing work for fis: 17,000 workers, according to racy here and another else *n. assurance given by the Minia where he concluded, Reuter ter of Fuel and Power, Mr. Ew
tonight
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THE WEATHER An Intense anticyclone is stationary over, Mongolia, China and the neighbouring Scan. A depression is moving eastwarde
| across N, Japan. ↑ Pressure re- mains fow over the East Indies.
NE. winds, fair, continuing To-day's Forecast: Fresh
rather cold. A
Maximum: 61.8 deg. Fah, Minimum: 51.6 deg. Fai Max Rel. Humidity: 84 per
Sunshine: 12 hours; Rainfall Nil
Wakayama for relief work, in London and so it was net : 12 British officers and men Rescue operation Earl Threw Brickt Baron's which include the factory of themption owing to the short Yesterday's weather-
by Mr. .bour
The assurance follows discuts enquiries I have made that the pe carry on. I and stießed from sions which Blackburn, who trouble has been in relation to Frepresenta the constituency pecially in the Shing area; known whether the answer killed in the explosions and an day have now been discontinued Britain Uneasy Over 9. Mr. Blackburn tald: have workers yesterday that they
Austin works In Birminghani, fogod ple
of wagons and also owing to wille large scale plans are would be considered satisfac assurance that such Inddents and, "Alacrity is returning to Tarif Policy,
been assured by the Minister of would have to close down In Linced until 5.15 pm on Satur Page Seven
had with Mr. Bhinwall today, Austin's announced to their under way to prevent an epl-1 tory Meals demic outbreak-United Press. The British note, dated De Press
would not be repeated United Rong Kong Attempt to salve Pupe Eight
the 8.3. Rosebank" continge. Home Local Sports News, etc. vide next week to Austin's, the of coal-Reuter
Fuel and Power that he will pro- definitely owing to the shortage