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THE CHINA, MAIL TUES DAY, DECEMBER 31, 1946.
JEWS FLOG BRITISH OFFICER Two Sergeants Whipped Before Tel-Aviv Crowd
A.P. Again Victims Of Hoax
to
For the second time this year,
a faked Asso-,, ciated Press story was issued on Sunday in an apparent attempt force currency fluctua- tions on the Hong Kong money market but was detected before publica- tion.
Typed on paper similar to that used by the Associated Press, the terrorists had seized story said ail banks and transportation in Indo-China in a move "evidently inspired by Moscow."
The displach was datelined Saigon and was delivered with three other stories which pur- ported to emanate from Warsaw and Washington.
The hoax was detected by four alert Chinese-language news.
Irgun Zvai Leumi FATAL
Retaliation?
Jerusalem, Dec. 30.
A British Army major and two sergeants were flogged by kidnappers in apparent retaliation for a whipping administered by the authorl- ties on Friday to a Jew convicted of bank rob- bery.
*
arta
LAST KISS
Cranborne, Dec, 29.- While kissing his sweetheart "good-night" in the presence of her parents in a house near The major was whisked away roadblock in the Wilhelma
here, an ex-soldier was from his wife in the lounge of near Lydda. One · Jew was shot through the head Hotel Metropol in, Nathanya. 40 seriously injured and hospitalizand killed: miles north of Tel-Aviv. The ed while the other three
were His sweetheart. 22-year-old he captured and one British soldier Betty Sheen, was wounded in 'the was blindfolded, tied to a rack was slightly wounded.
head, but the wounds were not In the car were two five-feet-serious and she was not removed and given a 20 stroke whipping.
Two sergeants taken from long whips, Armen Hotel on the seafront of magazines, two revolvers, twelve
atommygun, four to hospital.
The couple were to have been Tel-Aviv were tied to trees in rounds and four hand grenades. married on Wednesday. The Dar the garden and given 18 strokes
followed the set police investigating the shoot- ench in the presence of a small abduction, stripping and fogging that jealousy was the motive.
ing are working on the theory group of onlookers held at bay of one British major and two
The name sergeants by terrorists-United has not yet been disclosed-Reu- by tommy gunnera.
ter,
official announcement said
The inciderit
The Tel-Aviv kidnappers fled | Press. after the whippings, leaving the sergeants still tied to the trees.)
The major, taken from the botel in an automobile by five men armed with machineguns, imped back an hour later clad inly in underwear,
Retaliation
of "the.
x-soldier
THE FAR AWAY LAND
(Continued from Page 4) it-willingly, struggle against a well equippeľ Sonchow, I do not think they foe, once we had ranged ourselves will. Any technicians required upon. China's aide. The second will be employed direct, Thes was to ensure, as China was in won't need politicians, papers here which became 5U3- Police said that an anony-cluded in America's
they have sphere of enough airendy:" picious of the irregular method mous telephone call to the war operations, the evacuation of by which
Touching upon the matter of the stories were de-Hebrew language newspaper all enemy nationals from China's Trade Unions. They were already livered.
said the Jewish Underground soil, as it is well known that in existence in 1921. Shanghai is The Associated Press
was Irgun Zvai Leumi was respon-ies available to disarm and shining example of what they
China herself had not the facili notified in time to disclaim the sible for the floggings.
ship have accomplished, Flourishing forgery and thereby prevent
Earlier today the Irgun Zval Thus for critics of why the U.S.A. exorbitant demands of Labour, home the vast Army of Nippon. industries have been killed by the publication.
Leumi had announced in pam- have still Poller began on investigation. phlets distributed in Jerusalem China. The world has moved on of the Country and the flight of army personnel in disrupting further the economy One theory, not definitely es-and Tel Aviv that a British since the days tublished, was that the scheme Army officer would be flogged when for those who were intern-
of Internment, capital. was an attempt to induce holders in retaliation for the flogging crimes the only vital concern. quite the same as the Chinese It is true that we have a La- of Indo-Chinese currency to of one of its "ighters."
time stood still, and the pre-bour Government, but it is not convert on the local money The Aghter was named in the Every Nation has that kind of understand. It Power has some- market, thus allowing the per-pamphlets as Benjámin Yossef government best suited to its own times peculiar effects upon the in- petrators to profit from the reKimchin, sentenced on Dec. 11
ideals and outlook, upon life: dividual, it either sobers him, or sulting trend.
to 18 strokes of the birch and their ideals of life upon the rest own importance. In the former The Gorming wished to infilet puffs him up with a sense of his. 18 years' imprisonment for his of the Nations and nearly suc
Earlier Fake
On Feb. 11, Chinese currency took :iis sharpest temporary drop since the end of the war proximately 25 per cent)
newspapers....
of
sert
port in the Jaffa bank robberyceeded in do so. The lama of one / case, he is able to judge calmly
death.
fees.
TOR-
on Sept. 137
particular Country does not Bland fairly, in the latter case, Kimchin, who is 18 years of ways suit the ideas of other Unfortunately, Labour Unions (apage, was told at the trial: "You Countries. Our particular ums in the past have been subjected
outside when are lucky your age prevents | out of our own Country da to political influence in China, a faked story bearing the
As your being sentenced to death." not seem to have been conducive swayed according to needs of
was charged with dis- ne shining example will soon be He
to the peace of thore Countries. Priss scelated
logotype and
politicians. charging a firearm and with India. Democracy is 10r those any, is merely the result of dis claiming that the Ministry
Strained relations, if there are Finance had announced the fix-unlawful passession of firearms, who cen understani and practicapillusionment' on one sdie; possibly ing of the Chinese currency at a both offences punishable by it. After all, these labels are but a sense of gullt on the other side. rate of CN$2,000 to US$I was
under the Palestine names for the various types of What do we see about us? Co- delivered to loading Chinese Emergency Defence Regula Government that the People of laborators who have waxed fat tions. Associated Press and those individual Coantrics-put in enjoying the fruits of their col- Equilibrium was restored on Reuter.
newer.
st employed in the market several hours later
that laboration.. It in to be presumed a Government service in all after the false story had
vast Country of 450 million-people branches. will of government that is best suited
eventually evolve a system Deliver The Goods" - to themselves?
Dissatisfaction of those พ เด Dogmatic assertions of what is fought for and alded us here in best for the Chinese is no real our struggle against a common sid. Preconceived ideas have but enemy, and who are now engaged struggle to brought trouble in the past and in a life and death will continue to do so.
The da- keep their families heads abovs velopment of China - will
water with the dearth of homes from within and not without. The and high cost of living which is only aid necessary will be tech-not 407 higher than in 1941, bu nin
of nical, in matters pertaining to in cases ten times higher. modern machinery. I cannot see course is the inevitable result China's ancient ideals and way shortage of consumer
goods.
been
Arms Seized
Jerusalem, Dec. 30.
discovered and dencunced by British soldiers of 11 pm. tired the Associated Press. Associated jata-cor containing four Jews Press.
who attempted to rush the
Critical Outlook
London, Dec. 30. Will Lawther, president of the National Union of
Mineworkers, described as "critical" the im mediate outlook for the British coal industry, which is scheduled to pass into public owner- ship on Wednesday, under the Labour Gov- ernment's nationalization programme.
Firemen Overcome By Gas Fumes
The Archbishop of York sald the Church of England was undergoing a "grave financial
is
como
This
of
But
of living creaking under the instead of advertising that "Bri stress and sirain of modern life tain Can Make the Goods," those fact I think personally it goods must be delivered. Yet. better abio
to
what of the People in Britain.. up to it.. There are two distinct schools who have fought through a of thought at present. One school bitter war? What of them? Even wishes, now that Japan has been daw peace is here, they have still
stand
to be severely ration. Bread their
| crisis," stemming in part from conquered, to capture her former staple food is to be rationed fir
markets.
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the nationalisation programme. The Church has substantial undisclosed holdings fo Bri- tain's coalmines and railroads The railroads also are scheduled for nationalisation. Atlanta, Georgia, Dec..30; Industrial concerns through- More than 50 firemen were out Britain are reported to be overcome by unidentified gas dangerously low in stocks of fumes early yesterday us they fuel, which threaten large-scale fought a stubborn eight hours work stoppages. fire in a drug store building here. Complaints of post-holiday
At one me 25 of them were absenteeism by miners in.. sprawled along the street as coal-fleide ran as high sa doctors and attendants dashed per cent in some, and 50 per started. To dump further loans wished amongst them administering cent in many. oxygen.
ther. Yet, look about, cou, on all sides and see what you can buy at The second school of thought, controlled price! As touch Bread with the war still fresh in their as you want and rationed! On minds and seeing the need for top of this, there is a
ration of employing those 450 million, four for bread entera? mount the agrarian platform.
The People.
that goods will be a meeting half way be been deprived of for tween both schools of thought.
Reverting to my years,
Now it is possible, that therequire those England also re
the
they
have so many theme.
One hindrance to the swift ac that those goods must be deliver- complishment of the former is cd instead of merely advertising. the state of their currency, which Take for example, typewriters. the bottom seems to have dropped When purchased my - machine, u out of and which has been to from a British firm, I could only hogganing ever since the war buy American make. Not that I into this bottomlesa
Some observers are inclined hopeless. The burning three-storeyed to view the upsurge of ab money building was within'
"
Press.
to
HUGH R. WILSON. DEAD
A steady stream of ambulances moved between the drug build- ing and the hospital carrying, the firemen. The first of them.
enter the building reeled out
Hugh
▸
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They do would te makes, but, I would prefer to buy |
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for each other. Goods cannot be double the price of the US. pro- the reminder is timely, spiralet us keep them our friends. The Chinese are our friends condition
forced upon anyone, except Jep duct? Whith, will sell first, British One admires a certain fr, but They have proven their friend- Gas masks were brought into diplomat and the last United are better and competitive, then
Robert Wilson, 61, anese fashion. If British goods goods1A
only in the abstract. To ship, Those who sided with the use, but were found to be of
British
Small Cheese
under those conditions
Would States Ambassador little use-Associated Press.
to Nazi
will be sold, provid ing
Please do not let us lose our quickly bring dialllusionment, and enemy are in the minority, Why
be afraid
of them, Clear them out Germany, died today after an always as I reiterate, that
mutual respect is maintained sense of proportion. I am given & illness of several weeks.
to understand from one who lifere for the Better things of demake those who were reall and
ipe for the patriotic feel that after = none become inflated with a false should knew, that of the total of We here in Hongkong are for sufferings were not in vain apd
all the Wilson was appointed Am- bassador to Germany in March: when the own importaped Britain's experts, only 3 passes tunate, having escaped the resily that the Collaborator han
when they become well endowed 1938, and recalled Nov. 4 of the with this world's goods through Hongkong. If this la dovere ravages of war. There are ceived the proper fruits of each
stocks, consumer collaboration same year, as a United States
and
them are short Our currency is
light
of publicity, that alone a different policy table. All we have to do is would finish thent of, and allemes our own house in order first those criticisms that the Chinens struggle and study.
lige, I `diBilke that wordt from Britain, though according to those thanks, due?, in people |
Americat design and type, at are so ant to forget easily, and Forget The Past
COLONY
COURIERS?
goods
of the Jews. Autoerney Democracy. Oligarchy. Had the
don't shield
protest against Nazi persecution talian. Med Communism, Capi- ue, then it would appear: that ample food
Medievallam, Moderniam, we are indeed small cheese
would not renaire a Polley.de in plenty, though certain bring them out in the He previously served in a mere labels that serve to confuse in 1939' than that of alding her! set our own conduct, a 24 have been levelling at us! Which
་
Lisbon, Dec. 30, Path Of Reformer Fourere in Hon dive to all to zi and a fair wage for
of us
Dobitter
number of foreign posts include the Chinese masses upon whom cousins in their ing Tokyo-Associated Press.
the propaganda presses still finally joining in with them, then sent, and future; give Left deal possibly have been ignored, in pound put their various "view- Dr. A. L. Salazar
it would have been
ERIZA points
ter letters to the preis it was day's work Exterminate
those
that have appeared from time to their Dr. Abel Lima Salazar, 67- The path of reformer is concrete aid that supported us out regard for their tender mis-
aympathy and who worked for the enemy with year-old famed physician, sculp-strewn with the bodies of his vics through those dark and dreary ceptibilities, who from some observe
recriminations will but serve to foster "illfeeling. tor, painter, writer and art tima, Let the Chinese work out yearK,"
thefreeing
shouldering scure reason are unknown to the go hand in hand with critic, and one of Portugal's their own salvation as they are the responsibility
eing the publ
public. Let us clean out our own friends, inter the leading liberal democrats, died wall able to without Interference, Far East of the menace of the stables before seeking to clean fear future of goo today of a lung disease, tain their self respect and know freeing of those interned, and ward to a bright peaceful future respect
so that in doing so they will re- Rising, Son and the eventual out those of others, and look for bright pros
QUE He was one of the strongest ted the whatever their coun- finally, they fo cher aid in loans that future one of our own New opponents of Premier Antonio Salazar and had been - barrea y becomes, they, by their own so urgenty required by Britain to making, either to war or Improve upon Lunaided efforts, have so made it. resipro her own was shattered by whe, disinterested governing forw from public positions for pall, by the way they ask for tech cconomy. Both we and our Chi and legislation, then and then the tical reasons.–Associated Press. nical advice and aid, then proffer nose friends have much to be only can we look further afield bom