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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1947
Entire Crew TILBURY DOCKERS STRIKE Worked
"Out" With Influenza
Scapa Flow. Jan. 15.
After Dr. J. B. Gor- don, a local physician, had liberally dosed them' with an anti-pneumonia preparation, the crew of the Swedish steamer "Torsa" sailed their ship out of harbour today on to Vallvik, their way
Sweden.
The dose was M. al 13. given during the war years
tu Mr.
Winston Churchill. An epidemic
of influenza swept the ship yes- terday as she was two days' out
of Glasgow and some
members
of the crew had temperatures as high as 39.5 degrees Centigrade.
Only
Ninety Ships Lying Idle In Thames
KING CHRISTIAN
23
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Copenhagen, Jan, 15.
Klug Christian of Dewark
in suffering fum à cold ai slight infection of the bags, it was officially fanight-Heati
British
nnounced
Treaties With China
Captain the master,
Joppsen, escaped The
first
into port
al
lness.
South
Canton, Jan. 16. Singlehanded he took his ship The British Ambassa Ronaldshay and then into Scapador, Sir Ralph Steven- Flow though a heavy sca was son, told a press confer-! running.
ence today Britain was Dr. Gordon sak: "The crew were young
fellows-montly negotiating with China
Fin aboari.
Feverish Efforts
At Settlement
London, Jan. 16. Supplies into London were virtually choked off today as 'dockers struck at Tilbury Docks, the city's last strike-free port of entry, making 22,000 workmen idle along the Thames. Twelve thousand dockers walked out at Tilbury in sympathy with some 60,000 truck drivers, dockers, stevedores, bargemen and market workers throughout Britain whose strike éreated the worst crisis in 18 months of the Labour Government.
sugar.
water-day was pay day at the
Raya
Albert Docks where, some
Ninety shine. many bringing General provisions Eke Food to mation-sharf, London, butter, bacon and cheese were the main problema: Canned goeds Jay idle in the stretching ex-
were fairly good. panse of the Thames front along which only a few hundred men of the Port of freight was still moving but most Londen Authority's permanent men were out. staff were working.
In Liverpool a walkout by 65 meat handlers at a local market in support of the 40 strik. ine drivers meant that more than
Labour leaders, whose unions staunchly refused to recognise the neficial walkout, worked
aside
feverishly to have set strikers to return to work as
eattie
1,000,000 people in that part wili. get little more than half their normal meat ration of about one firm in pound.-United Press.
Swedes, but there was a Pule and with a view to extend-resterday's refusal by the
all They have suffered from the epidemic which ing British air lines to a reciprocal
they probably picked up iti China Glasgow. where the were basis. ushore for a fortnight. In a day Jor 1wn they will be working."Reuter,
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Bus Stolen From Ferry
and
fle
on
the near future.
Asker
if Britain
G verument stand denying any further concer- gins..
the
The 30-nian Central Strike said a Sino-British trade, Commillee met this (morning at treaty with most favoured nation clauses was likely to be signed in ast Smithfield London's Fast End and affournet short- Transport would help before noon to mediate the Kuomintang Cong-House, headquarters of munist dispute, Sir Ralph a powerful Trades Union Coun- was a matter that should best heil, on an invitation 10 meet settled by the Chinespeople but with the Executive Committee were going la of the unions. Two Europeans, dressed in khaki ny foreigner
help he would be the United uniforms, stole a bus from outside States Ambassador, Leightm the Star Ferry in
Kowlcon last Stuart. night.
This is according to the driver
of, the bus, No. 4229, who reported
{f
to the police that at 10 p.m. two Europeans hauled him out of the driver's seat and drove the vehicle | ........ away.
Sir Ralph
HER LAST VOYAGE
Honolain, Fon. 15,
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Shot Down
Shanghai, Jan. 15. The "Ta Kung Pao" from Tientsin said today
PAA Clipper that a United Service
San Francisco, Jan. 16.
near
States.
ourt
Price: 20 Cents.
For Nazi Radio
London, Jan. 15. Cedric' Sebastian Steane, 53-year-old Bri-j tish film actor, was to- day sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Old Bailey Central Cri- minal Court for enter- ing the service of the German radio system during the war..
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MARTYRDOM IN
INDO-CHINA
Tokyo, Jan. 16. Japan's Gestapo-the Kempeitai-conducted in French Indo-China a reign of terror early in 1943 when Japanese troops suddenly attempt- ed to strengthen their hold on the area in or- der to prepare for America's growing offen- sive in the South Pacific, according to evidence in the war crimes court here.
French and Indo-Chinese women "suffered a hide- ous martyrdom," said one affidavit introduced by the assistant French prosecutor. Major Roger Depo.
Women were often violated in, tated them ene by one with my Indo-sword. Five Japanese soldiers front of their husbands.
Steane told the Court today Chinese girls who opposed Japan-witnessed the decapitations. Three the second of his trial that he ese rule were forced ialo Japan- of the prisoners escaped.”—Asso- used the name of Jack Trevor for ese Army brothels.
elated Press. 17 6' work. He had pleaded not
Following the style of (error guilty to all charges in a nine- familiar among all Japanese-sub- *unt indictment, which also
age that he had prepared Jugated peoples. French and Indo- anuscripts for broadcasting for Chinese prisoners of war and 'death, were beaten to Germans and helped in the civilians production
of a
pro- massacred, looted, raped and be paganda film.
headed by the Japanese.
the
German
The survivor of one massacre
He received an average of £2 al week from the Germans for his told how men, women and chil work, he said, and dented any in-dren were lined up in a trench by ision of avaisting the Germans. the Japanese. then executed by What he did was ander duress, he rifle fire. The number of deaths claimed.
was not given,
In May, 1941, after he had res fused to take part in broadcast- ing, he was visited by three Ges- tare men, and had an ear almost
torn off, he said. Reuter.
Mayon Eruption
Trouble Over Dyke
(From Our Correspondent) Shanghai, Jan, 16.. Trouble has arisen over the U.S.$3,000,000 dvke built along the Yellow River by UNRRA in my left side and fell to the ground. A second bullet broke my and which is to close the left arm and split my son's skull breach made in 1938 and.
while I was holding him in my lead
In her
Split Son's Skull
affidavit, the survivor said: "I received the first bullet
arms,"
the Far East.
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the waters 'of
no
An Indo-Chinese girl, describ. "China's Sorrow" back ine the reign of terror in her own into their old course. village, said in her sworn state-
The Dyke will be ready for ment. I also saw two carts filled complete closure in February but with corpses."-United /Press. Manila, Jan. 15.
a strong protest is being made by Marine plane was shot
Frank Confession the Communists as some G00,000 down
Three hemp plantation Kaiping,
people at present occupy the Tokyo, Jan. 16.- along the Peiping-Muk- employees at the village
Confession of a Japanese Army bed; they have aut been evacuat- arrangements have been made for their resettlement. Pan-American Airways. an den railway, 75 miles of Malipot near Libog, Captain that he chopped off the ed and
northeast ap- Indo-Chinese soldiers, killed two heads of 37 captive French and nounces that the Flying Clip-northeast of Tientsin, at on the
The Commentats say that Nan- per service to Manila, discon-2 p.m. Monday.
proach to the erupting French officers with revolver king has not fulfilled its original promises of compensation and the Gunners At Work tinued. last October, will be re-j The pilot was said to be Mayon Volcano, were and raped a French woman reallotment of fresh lands.
At the same Hagiane. French Indo-China, in Government had already de-sumed on Monday next, to be sericusly wounded, according to reported overcome by March 1945 was read to the In that if the dyke is not clowed by time, it is feared described Generalefded troops could be used to followed in the near future by the paper.
Java and fumes and as-ternational Military Tribunai for the early Spring, floods will pro- George C. Marshall's China re- move commodities other than an extension of the route in It: said Marine authorities port as an honest opinion made food and the Cabinet was ex-China.
sent 40 officers and other ranks phyxiated, according to The confession was the e frank-bably destroy part of the work with the best of intentions.-As-pected to order troops in where- The Civil Aeronautics Board on an armoured train which reports reaching here. cat yet placed before the tribunal already completed. saciated Press.
over disorganisation of trans-has certificated Pan-American left Tientsin at 6:58 pm. to An "Evening News" corres during a hearing on atrocity evi- of UNRRA's China office, "has Jort was threatened.
by French quoted to operate to Tokyo, Shanghai rescue the pilot and investigate pondent
Governor dence taken
Saigon crimes investigators Three hundred gunners from Cinton, Hong Kong. Saigon the incident.
Venancio P. Ziga as the au- tribe The offer was Woolwich Arsenal were sent to Singapore, Batavia, Bangkok, It said the plane was shot thority for the first fatalities identified only as Captain Furu- Smithfield Market today
Rangoon and Calcutta, the new down by ground fire, the origin of the eruption.
kawa, 28, of inforcing the 3,000 Roldiers rutes
fa company of the 225 connecting with the of which was not mentioned, At the same time, a "Manila regiment which entered Hazing from Guards Regiments, R.A.F. fights from New York tai
Chinese Red guerilla bands Times" correspondent at Legas- when the Japanese Army seized to be roaming in pi said more than 200 lepers | Indo-China only six months. be- personnel and Navy men work pride the first air carrier are known ing there to move ment to Lon-service around the world.
that area which is close to at the Legaspi Leprosarium fore the war's end. Tangahan, the coal mining dis- tearfully begged the Govern- "I was afraid of a revolt of my don shops. About 1,400 service
The Manila service will re
Paris, Jan. If, trucks
trict which was formerly guard- ment authorities not to abandon prisoners," Furukawa said, in streamed constantly
sume with flights from San-
The police reluctantly revealed explaining his decision to exccata ed by the Marince.--United them as they had been during the group of 40 French and Indo- today thr: burglars on Tuesday From the market.
Francisco ench Monday morn Press. Guardsmen
an eruption during the Japan-Chinese soldiers who had aurren night broke into the Puris Polie were sent to
ing, arriving in Manila Friday
ese occupation.
dered.
Headquarters and ransacke: Covent Garden yesterday but afternoon, and leaving Manila U.S. $726.
Frightened by the violent
evidence.. "One by one I made my prison- several
files.--United were withdrawn without work on Saturday mornings and ar- ing. They had not appeared riving in San Francisco Mon- of the service to China has not uptions of the volcano, mareers go out by a gate... I decopi- Press. there today.
day afternoons. One way San yet been determined.--Associatescaped, and a "Times" corres Billingsgate fish market was Francisco-Manila fares will be ed Press. almost deserted. Oue truckland -of-fie-arrived-and-was-unload.
ed by salesmen.
|doned and undamaged in Gran
The bus was later found aban-ville Road.
Poles And Russians Reject U.S. Note
London, Jan. 15.
The Polish Government, in a note, has rejected the United States Government's views on next Sunday's Polish elections, stating that "fur- ther consideration-of-the-matter is not justi- fied," a U.S. Department of State official told · ¡ a press conference in Washington today. The Polish Note said the United States "fears" in the note to Poland were apparently based on distorted facts and unfounded reproaches. raised by antidemocratic elements working in Poland
Priests Murdered
today.
London's Position Covent Garden was closer lo normal today with considerable quantities of vegetables coming. in and buyers taking them away in their own vehicles.
The date for. the extension,
Dutch Action Against British Ship
Batavia, Jan. 15.
Troups were used in the The Captain of the British merchantman "Empire
The Polish Note said the market to handle vegetables but| elections would be carried out servicemen or vehicles were in accordance with the 'prin-being used to bring goods from ciples of the Polish Constitu. tional law and would take place railway stations,
Meat About 2,000 ions
May Rover," Gilbert Kent, of Chingford, Lon- don, said in Batavia yesterday that the Netherlands Navy "without explanation," in- tercepted his vessel on January 8, placed arm- ed guards aboard, and forced the ship to leave the Nationalist-held port of Cheribon under the escort of a Dutch corvette.
than 20 lepers already have
pendent said Dr. Domingo Dial- ni, the leprosarium physician, was reported to have left re- cently and was said to be in Munila.
Earlier, three farmers At Malilipot were reported scorch- ed while working in the fields. -Associated Press.
THE WEATHER
A compact series of depression centred ver the Yellow Sea, Shanghal and of Hong Kong are moving eastward. The anterglane over Japen is weakening but another developing over NW China. Pressure remains relatively low in the
qurterial Pegions.
moderate Clay's Purecusti-Lighti, ur
winds, gdy bat improving durin The day misty with local fog at dawn z
Yesterday's Weather-
IKE.
Tatal aines Jan, 1 8,2 mm. se agnipul- an average of 10.4 mm.
"I have still been givén no Saturday made a formal pro-
East Manu: 66.8 deg. F4h.
Minimums 60.7 deg. Fah. reason for the Dutch action", test to the Netherlands
the Runasinn: 4.2 havire. said Captain Kent,, on arrival | Indies Government over in Batavia. "We shall demand treatment of the "Empire May Bainfull: 8.2 the fullest possible damages." Rover."
The Netherlands Navy an- nounced later that the search Captain Kent anid he had not Dew Point had been made for illegal arms. Daro, at mad.
been informed of thie-Asso-wind. Airection ciated Press.
Although Cockers and steve-j on Sunday as arranged.
dures both belong to the same The Note from the Savict Foreign Minister Molotov to the union there is a distinct differ- Dockera U.S. Ambassador, published in ence in their work. Shanghai, Jan. 16.
Moscow today, replied to the operate" cranes, winches and Two Roman Catholic Fran- United States Note to the other machinery at the docks; ciscan missionaries, accused of Soviet on the Polish elections while the stevedores do the ac being American sples, have by asking for
offtual heavy manual work, a "hands
London's food position today is been, brutally murdered by Poland" policy. Chinese Communists in Yentou, The American Note called on 1x follows: about 60 miles to the east of the British and Soviet Govern London's normal 5,000 tona week-
of Captain Kent said the vessel the railway city of Hauchowfu munte to draw Poland's attenly-needa had been distributed by ing 35 motor cars from Singa- was on its way to Perth, carry- in North Kiangau, according to tior to the "repressive mea-last night. an official report received-here auree" alleged to have been Bread Many bakers were run pore, when it became apparent taken by the Polish Government ning out of flour but there was
that the vessel would not be against the opposition.
no real danger of a bread short- able to complete the voyage be They were Brother Benedict Molotov Disagrees. age this week-end.
enuse of engine trouble. Jensen) 54-year-old Copenhagen
Vegetables are becoming, scares M. Molotov's, reply said the.
The Chinese charterer 'decid- born member of the Californian Soviet Government could not with soine retailers rationing cus- Franciscan Mission at Santa agree with the United States pound although two pounds per after
tomers to "as ittle AS ene-half ed to sell the cargo in Cheribon Barbara, und 30-year-old Father allegations and saw no reasd person
the Captain's arriva! was more usual. Vege there. * Augustine Holeum of Aachen. | to interfere with the conduct of table supplies were loaded but The corvette Intercepted the
the elections of internal Polish not transported to chans. Although the slayings took fairs.
"Empire May Rover" after 24 Liverpool Walkout place on Jan. 1, report of the
From Warsaw it in reported
motor cars had been unloaded. Fish Supplies are not seriously said Captain Kent. An officer incident only reached here to that the latest British Note to affceted and are chiefly scares due and six ratings were placed day.
..... the Polish Provisional Govery-' to starras.
aboard and the vessel, was, or- Breaking into the "American-ment is being "carefully, stud- Mission compound, a group of led" by the Polish. Foreign
dered to proceed to Dutch-held Bemarang under escort, Communists tied up the two Office. missionaries,
after
charging A Polish Government spokes ON OTHER PAGES continued, the
them with being American mam declared today that 28 aples, and then act on them members' of the electoral com with sticks, daggers, swords missions and of the civil mili-Page Two
and other weapons." When tia guarding the electoral offices found some hours later, Hol. in connexion with the elections sum's body. was covered with had been murdered by under- over twenty stab wounds, his ground bands in the first ten skull split and his face almost days of January-Reuter: unrecognizable, while Jensen's
body and face had about half known- in California where he a dozen staly wounds, including Jaboured for nearly twenty
one in the throat,
years before coming to China. Brother Jensen was well-Reuter.
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Governor-General "Down Under'
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Sydney, Jan. 15. Controversy flared up again today over the sug
gested appointment of Mr. William John Mc- Kell, Labour Premier of New South Wales, to succeed the Duke of Gloucester as Governor- ...
General of Australia.
At Semarang, Captain Kent The British Empire Union has a few weeks, said that the point
Vessel
was telegraphed to Mr. Joseph Chifley, at issue was whether an active searched. Nothing was found Australian Prime Minister, say party leader should be transferr
"I was then given written ing The British Empire, Unioned by his own party to a port Manslaughter orders to proceed to Butavla in Australia implores you to take which by tradition and necessity without touching any National-a long view before committing be completely free from party ist port, although I wanted to yourself to the oppointment of politices, return to Cheribon to finish any active party politician to re- Replying to earlier criticisms unloading," he added.
present the King in Australia. In Parliament on November 28, The snags in the stream of unity Mr. Chifley said: "I have much are already too numerous." regard for the interests of the Mr. Robert Menzies, Leader of community. and Empire ties Captain Kent conferred at the Opposition, raising the matter which bind this Commonwealth length with the Consûl-General in the House of Representatives of Nations as has any member of Mr. Gilbert MacKereth, who on yesterday for the second time in the opposition."-Reuler.
Scemen on
Charge. H.K.V.D.C. Family Allowances, Saito Passes the Buck, Page Three
H.K. Women Favour Jury
Service, Pane Five
Anglo-French Alliance
Concluded: Page Eight
Home, and Local Sport;
Formal Protest
Major-General Edgerton.. heal
been discussing the question with the Generalissimo in Naaking but the results of their talks is not
known.
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