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FIGHTING IN French Repulse Viet
Heavy Battles In North
Paris, Dec. 27
French troops have turned back violent counter- attacks by Viet Nam forces at many points in the Northern Indo-China battle area, a com- munique of the French High Command in Sal- gon received here today announced.
While the funeral of Sub-Inspector Alexan- der S. Anderson of Mongkok Police Station took place in Happy Valley Cemetery yester day afternoon three Bri- seamen from the tish "Arundel Castle" were, charged with his man- Kowloon slaughter in Court. They
In Robert Stanley, aged 26, greaser, whose home is in Liverpool: Frederick! Franks, fireman, aged 19, of Worthing; and James Johnstone, fire- man, aged 32, of Glas-
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Sub-Inspector Anderson-10- year-old New Zealander who served 12 years with the Shang- hai Police before coming to Hong Kong in October last year died as a result of a fractur- cd skull while on duty..
"In Court Chief Inspector Charles Mottram who brought. the case before Mr. W: H.
Latither, asked for a remand of three days in police custody for further inquiries to be made.
the port of Haiphong, French forces were at- tempting to dislodge Viet Nam troops from the centre of the city where, the communique said, they were putting up strong resistance. Across the Gulf of Tonkin, at Hongay, the communique reported a strong Annamite at- tack against a French guard post which was pushed back following the arrival of French reinforcements.
Dairen Incident
Statement
Further down
the const
at Hue the French conducted acattered operations on the out- skirts of the European aection of the city and several enemy blackhouses were captured.
At Tourane, south
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LOSS
Singapore. Dec. 26.
British Navy Irigade, Aire, on the way to Singa
from Hong Kong," promded on Bombay. Reef, of Hainan Island
early on Dec, 23 and is now consider- ed a total lond
The Naval Ausiliary Bonast venture also on the way pore, rod by the frigate for frown Hong Kong to Sing
some time but after the di?" the Aire was up. salvageable
she was adan- done
all members of the crews-fits officers, "and 80 men had been transferred to the Bonaventura, sokich is expected to reach Singapore Lomorrow. Reuter.
Mystery
of Hue, Woman
the communique reported in- effectual reconnaissance activity by Viet Nam troops in the suburbs.
Arrested
7
The communique said there
Paris, Deck 27 was nothing important to an Paris police officials nounce 'regarding operations at refused to comment to Hai Duong and Bae Nanh.
day on the arrest at Nice
Shanghai, Dec. 27. William H. Newton, U.S. Mr. Anderson had been £1
newsman who represented the charge of Mongkok. Police Sta- Combined American press on a tion for over a year. He was tipa to Dairen during which recent U. S. Navy ship courier posted here from Shanghai he, an American pool photo- after two years in a concentra- tion camp and was one of the man were refused permission
grapher and
an oil company first three inspectors to be to land, took issue today with drafted to Hong Kong from the the United States State Depart-all troops on furlough were re- being confined to barracks and Shanghai force.
called to duty as also those scheduled for replacement aame being retained on duty.
Death Of
ment.
the State -'spokesman" in that United
Vessel
Agency dispatches from Saigendurain on a gold smug In the meantime, French of Countess Marga d'An- described the situation there ZA calm.
French soldiers were gling charge.
"The
The communique, which zun- ined up the situation "as from
*
It had been expected that she would be brought to Paris yes- terday, but It was announced this morning that this had not yet been done
On An Ice Floe
Returnees
Arriving
The ss. "Nellore" and ss.Empress of Scot- land"
carrying passen- gers for Hong Kong are expected to berth early in January.
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London, Dec. 26. Parliament's forthcoming two-day foreign affairs debate expected towards the end of January, with the Foreign Secertary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, as the leading speaker will test the quality of the recent Labour Party revolt in which 100 of the Government's supporters abstained inquest on the revolt held within the ranks of from voting confidence in the foreign policy. the Parliamentary Party afterwards suggest ed that the rebellion is still alive although it may be that some of the ring-leaders have been a little shaken by their own original au- dacity.
An
Gen. Dempsey Retires
Persons resideat here who have relatives and/or friends on the passenger lists and who have made private, arrange- Montreal, Dec. 25. ments for their accommodation|| | United States Army Airfare specially requested to ad-Political quarters are awaiting men who have been adrift on Shanghal Bank Ballding, Tele- from New York. I fe. no secret Corpa, planes today started vise Mr. P. F. J. Eardley, at with Interest the effect on the dropping rescue bonts to three Room 236B, Hong Kong and situation of Mr. Bevin's return ice floes in St. Lawrence River phone 39211, of the names and that the Foreign Secretary, whom since their aircraft was forced addresses of those passengers, many fonsider has added to his down in the river two days ago. It is very strongly recom- stature immeasurably through The pilot and, two of the mended that where private aethe successful United Nations passengers were picked
up commodation can be arranged meeting, reacted sternly to the suffering from exposure and, for the expected arrivals, this convulsion within the party at frozen feet from a dinghy last should be done. Suitable hotel Government desired his work in the moment when the British "night by an amphibian plane. and boarding house accommoda-America to have the maximum
tion is at saturation point.
authority behind it. Owners of private troosport who wish to meet passengers the Government underestimated East, is, to retire at his own should apply to the above office the revolt even if there was no request from July 1 1947, to' for a card to admit vehicles to restoration of mass discipline or take up a civil appointment, space near an example made of the rebels. the War Office announced to
Resentment continues to be day.
-.
. Darkness prevented the res- cue of the others last night and today there were too many ice floes for planes to land.
The seventh occupant of the
Pairinted safe on an the pered parkin
floe-Reuter.
The Last Days Of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler ordered his few remaining associatese
Washington, Dec, 25. in the last moments of his shattered regime, to: commit suicide, but only after making airtight preparations for the destruction of their own bodies.
This was disclosed in an eye. ¡ witness account, released by the
War Department, which relates Monty Col.
rald shelter as Of Royal Warwicks
The Countess former friend that He bent his last days of Lawrence of Arabia, is re- Europe and the Near East of his followers and hunted os
Eina Berlin air
She worked in the French In-awar criminal, garded as a mystery woman in a broken man, betrayed by most
telligence Service in the Near
East.
At one time he was in charge of the mounted police detach-1 In a dispatch dated Shanghai ment in Shanghai and his main Dec 27, Newton said "the an hobby was the care and train-nouncement br ing of horses.
Hanoi Fighting ada Department In Happy Valley cemetery Washington yesterday Hong Kong's Police States Navy courier ship at General Valluy, commander of
AFP reported Commissioner, Mr. Macintosh, Dairen was not given a Soviet French Far Eastern troops, that and soveral police officers at ultimatum to get cut will come left Saigon this morning for tended the funeral and there as a distinct surprise to United-Hanoi. were many floral tributes, States Navy officials and others
who were z board the when the incident took place.
The Countess was sentenced "The senior Navy officer Friday morning, reported heavy after the mysterious death of to death by storing in Arabia aboard the ship, Commander Viet Nam sctivity in the Hanoi Soleiman, a Wahabit chief, who Edgar L Yatos, reported to area. The communique reported was her second husband. She Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., counter-attacks
by Viet Nam was freed by command of King Seventh fleet commander
units at several points in the city Ibn Saud, V in Pasadena, Dec. 20.
this correspondent's presence but said the attacks were turned during the night of Dec. 25/20 America's
While in the Middle East, she Atage
that an ultimatum had been back with losses to both sides, met Lawrence of Arabla. The and Alm communities from Broadway to officials to leave within 20 portedly were eight Japanese..
given by the Soviet military Among the Viet Nam dead re- French General Catroux order Hollywood today mourned the minutes or we will not be res passing of W. C. Fields, well-ponsible for the consequences. noi were conducted all-day be proffered against her-As ed her arrest at Algiers during Mapping-up. operations in Ha- the war, but she was freed beloved comedian, who died here on Christmas Day at the Navy Department and referred.
"Admiral Cocke cabled the Thursday.
when no definite charges could age of 67. He had been in a
Strong concentrations of Viet sociated Press“ sanatorium for more
to the report of the incident Nam troops were reported operat="" year.
Awhich had been released to the ing along the rail lines and rivers combined world press stating south of Hanoj in the diection of Fields ran away from home the report was factually cor- at the age of eleven with am- rect Associated Press.
the Viet Nam capital. Troop bitions to act..
concentrations and convoys wers disorganised in strafing attacks by French planes.
W.C. Fields
A
thon
After selling
newspapers for four years he
made his first stage appearance |
at an Atlantic City beer-garden!
juggler.
London, Dec. 24,
alr-
A single-engined British
craft flying from Paris to Lympne,
Heavy Battle
Another scene of heavy fight
Drama In Channel
London, Dec.
The document is the story of
London, Dec. 26: General Sir Miles Dempsey,.. Neither the Labour party ner Commander-in-Chief,
Middla
"
displayed by sections of Mr. He has accepted the Home Bevin's solid following and not-Secretary's invitation to be- ably by trade union members of come Chairman of the Race- Parliament at what they consider course Betting Control Board. the hard certain intellectuals". In August 1945, General to some the word that has the Dempsey, followed General Slim same connotation as "rebels"-In Command of the 14th Army tre capable of doing to party in the Far East and in Novem- Junity. Per
Broadly the position is patty Allied Land Forces, South-east Spotlight On Germany the same officer as Commander, ber the same year he succeeded
andy the Opposition too, are the majority of the Labour Asin. Last June he was
staunchly) with Mr. Bevin's appointed. Commander-in-Chief, policy. But the dissidents, Possibly Middle East;
up to 100 fir, the Labour Party's General Dempsey, will be buc- 400, members, have a variety of ceeded by Lieutenant-General riticians. A number characterise Sir John Crocker. General Britain's foreign policy as out of Crocker commanded the First daft, conceived in expectation of Corps tirpughout the North some future war instead of Africa Campaign der Was future, peacë), 1
wounded during the final yic-
Hunna Reitsch, a German test
Others have merely sectional torious phase in Tunisia. He misgivings on subjects such as recovered in time to lead the Spain; Greece and the Balkans. First Corps again in the in- London, Dec. 26, The spotlight of the criticisms vasion of Western Europe. pilot. It is part of a series,
Field-Marshal Viscount Montmay, however, switch mainly to manth after, the defeat of Ger- Nazi Conspiracy and Aggres- gomery of Alamein has been Germany, on which many Labour many he became General Officer Court Justice Robert Jackson, sion," published by Supreme appointed Colonel of the Royal members wish to see prompt Commanding-in-Chief, Southern chief United States counsel for succession to Colonel C. T.mulation of a long-term policy Warwickshire Regiment in getion with regard to the for-
Command. Reuter.
criminals. |prosecution of Axis war Tomes, who retires on Jan. 1, Beuter,
1947.
Support For Bevin Frau Reitsch lived in an air Marshal Montgomery is also
London, Dec. 26. raid shelter in the Reichchan- Colonel Commandant of the A spokesman for the Spel- cellery with Hitier and other Parachute Nazi leaders. She described his Tank Regiment and Army said, today, that 10 other divi
Regiment Royal thorne Divisional Labour Party dwindling hopes and the suicide Physical pact he made with Eva Braun, Reuter
Training Corpssional labour parties have pledged their support to its campaign against Foreign Se- cretary Ernest Bevin's "bel
few faithful followers who re- Dr. Joseph Goebbels and the mained with him. She quntes
Hitler as saying: "Hermann Beaverbrook
Goering has betrayed and
serted both me and his father-In Hospital
land.c
Not Weak
Miami Beach, Dec. 25,
A Bit Too Militant
Athens, Dec. 27,
tough with Russia"foreign A threat, by a Greek frontier policy.
Thomas Gittins, organiser of guerillas into Bulgaria if neces- commander to pursue fleeing the Spelthorne campaign, sald sary has caused a sensation in the divisional labour parties Government circles, and it was bave decided to seek are indicated last night that Go
.....new.
"Behind my back he has es». Lord Beaverbrook-proprietor orientation of Britain's foreign vernment might repudiate it tablished connections with the of the "Daily Express has policy toward "genuine pellin fear that it would cause a energy, And rainst my orders been flown from Nassau in the tical and economie collabora serious international situation. The most famous of his roles Kent, crashed tonight just after ing was Phu Lang Teong north-
he has gone to save himself at Bahamas to enter St Francis tion with the Soviet Union and Greek Brigadier Papaniko was that of Mr. Micawber in crossing the English
Berghtesgaden."
Hospital here.
the Frau Reitsch said Hitler
democracies of taon, commanding troops in the the film version of "David Dungeness Point. The pilot
coast near east of Hanol, on the railline to A French plane reported by handed her a polson vial and ing from 3
Lord Beaverbrook is suffer. Europe."United Press.
Drama area, made the threat Copperfield"-Reuter.
es- Langsom. The communique saldrald early today that it had an "Hannt, you belong to according to his doctor Lord ment.
chest allment, Supply in the British Govern- The Army authorities said he 'caped-Reuter,
a French column ja advancing on Phu
had crashed and was "In grave those who will die with me. Beaverbrook formerly William Lord Beaverbrook arrived at forces that unless they stopped Lang Tuang where Viet Nam danger of sinking as RAF Each of us hea a vial of poison Maxwell Aitken, was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, giving refuge to guerillas his warned Bulger frontier troops were recently reinforced air sen rescue service and South such as this by fresh native detachments from Coast lifeboats sped: to its res. He then told her he did not war was Minister of Aircraft which was expected to inst only after them "with no regard for Canada in 1879 and during the on Oct. 2 for his manual holiday, would go into Bulgaria the north. on the Fragmenting, pressure"
posta. The
High
cus 20 miles off Devonshire in want any member of the party Production and Minister of one month. Reuter. Command said a violent Viet Nam the English Channel.
First reports said the plage Nor did he want any of their counter-attuck in` this
to fall to the Russians alive. Christmas night was repulsed.
was a passenger line, but the bodies to be found. He made At Namdinh, south of Hanoi French news agency later reach responsible for destroying the communique said the Annam ported from Paris that it was his own body. ites are using 75 mm, artillery a military aircraft. mortar fire in an Intenslied at tack on the French position but did not succeed in deating the French lines,United Press.
Westend Search For Alleged Murderer
Dozens of detectives spent Christmas Day comb-
London, Dec. 25.- ing London's West End in search for a white man aged about 33, who late on Christmas Eve is alleged to have shot and killed a coloured" aircraftman from Jamaica, Aloysious Abbott, aged about 22, outside the door
the door of a cafe.
telephone the
waitress at the cafo sald The Indian proprietor of the that, she was serving coloured cafe. Nonfar All, said that he Customers when one of two i was standing in the street near- white men who had entered by and ran, to slibsaquently became Impatient police as soon as he saw the and grabbed hold of her and shooting-Reuter, struck her a heavy blow in the face
Unusual Xmas Day Casualty
on
I am GMT giving Is position The plane radioed an 808 at
hulp with the slaying of the Frau Goebbels asked her
Prau Reitsch's account says.
Brighter News For British Workman
London, Dec, 24.
There was brighter news today for the British people regarding the threat to undertakings caused by shortage of fuel when the nation was told that, as a result of hundreds of tons of coal being rushed to Austin motor factory at Birmingham, the notice issued a few days mas had now been cancelled, di ma ago that the factory would close after Christ- Coal has also been delivered Mr. Clement Attlee, the Premier,
the ensequences"
Papanikinou is known as one of the most militant Greek: army commanders. His threat... was made known in army quar. ters here and broadcast over the official radio,
Acting Foreign Minister Stephen Stephanopolos said the threat was sent. without the knowledge of the Govern ment and that he was investi- gating because the "Greek Government does not approve such statements/United Press.
THE WEATHER
A strong anticyclone covers the
at 12 to 20 miles off Start Goebbels children "if I be Point, midway between Torquay come weak. It is her bellef and Plymouth, on the Deyou that at the last moment Frau coast. An hour later a second Goebbels "was not weak radio message said the plane Hitler near the last ordered still was afloat but was in grave her and a General Greim to ninger af alnking
leave the shelter and go Before daylight reports research of air support for Ber- in ceived in London from Le Bout-in. She was captured by the get airfield, Paris, where the Allies while on this mission. radio, thessages were picketing Mr. Jackson's series also in- said the plane's signals were cludes a documentary account fading and all that was known of Hitler's chauffeur, Erich on the Ministry of Publ's in-warning him that tundries in whole of China, and the neigh was, 118./position: It was not Kempa, of how he helped to structions to the foundry of Lancashire were in danger of bouring Beast is extending known how many persons were burn Hitler's body and that Leyland Motors at Tarrington, closing, sald Joday that he had southward and eastward: A deep An ex-serviceman who lost board.
PA of Eva Braun after they com- near Preston; which has been received assurance from the Iron depression cuyers: Lifeboats from 'Said both legs in the war was one Brikhan, werd desha
and mitted suicide-United Press closed through lack of fuel. It is and Steel Control Board that moving northeastward. From Hokkaiko It. of the Union of South Africa's ed men took him to the door Netkanya were robbed of US most unusual. Christmas Day 40 as the first meas
uncertain whether the foundry every effort was being made to it a trough in which lies a series casualties.
RAF put its
will be able to reopen before renew supplies. The Federation of depressions extends south and Jan 2 equor service-yelino-
Master Spinners was still southwestward, Pressure remains 7. The same uncertainty,
The southern without news from the Regional
fices of The Ministry of FuelToday's Forecast:- Moderato whether there would be any of fresh NE wind to onah fresa piss to yesterday's urgent
"NEW winds, pitahore for mere coal supplies to cloudy overnight cleaving event mills closing, hasta tag the
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a plate after which the colour-
HOUNDS HUNT GEM THIEVES
Jerusalem, Dec. 25. Diamond plants at Tel-Aviv jand
Durban, Dec, 26, .
received, and
and told him he had better #03136,000 in gems and cash today The waitress said that there pamphlets circulated publicly
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