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A SUNK BY
MINE Heavy Loss
Of Life
Athens, Jan. 19.
The Greek passenger ship Chimarra" struck a mine and sank ut 4 a.m. off the east coast of the Attica. Peninsula and first reparts said that 400 passengers were lost out of nearly 700 on board.
The "Chimarra;" comverteil into :L passenger vesel, was bound for Piraeus, where she was due this mari- jog
a corvette
→Survivors—und-that-the- "Chimarra" strick two miles of Rafina, about 15 miles enst of Athens. The port bow was blasted. Lights went off ani the 14:
started listing heavily to part.
No "SOS" messages could be sent ant as the wireless was unt of action. Out of six life- fonts, only two could be used. Some of the passengers swam ashore....
By mid afternoon. 38 mar- vivora had arrived in Athens, Beven of them seriously hurt? -Assneinter Pres.
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GAMBLING DENS FLOURISH Britain As U.S. Govt. Urged
IN HONG KONG TODAY
Lavish
POST-WAR APATHY
Chicago, Jun 18.
Attention---Till Victim Is Plucked
Even Beggars Are
General Dwight Eisan hower, Chief-of-Stoff of the United States Army, told u meeting of uruly aid indua- trini leaders here ift night; "We rumot permit cauplus. cency or um, atumie mentality
part of the Maginot Zane mentality to full
na intu
another postwar epathy.
"The interpretation-ul ma national economy to በዚ
security nchinera mast he accomplished- ia thought and in ho-helve an emergency occurs."-Roa- (nr.
New Type Plane For
Four Powers, U.S. Navy
Four Bands,
Four Bars
Germany's four
powers
held their
Not Immune
One of the most, flourishing rackets in Hong Kong today is the running of gambling establish- ments. There are in Hong Kong, at the pre- sent time, probably more gambling establish- ments than at any other period in the history of the Colony.
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From luxuriously furnished apartments in select residential-districts to the squalor of streets in the slum areas, those who conduct the estab- lishments are daily wrecking lives, breaking up happy homes and bringing countless-people to ruin, while amassing huge fortunes in the process.
No
one is immune from the clients introduced. Patrons temptations provided by the exis- high class establishments are tener of these gambling halls reted and shown every considera- wealthy playboys, rich widows, įtion, in addition to being provid. concubines of the idle rich, danced with free motor transport, tree Ting girls, prostitutes, merchants, drinks, free meals, free cigarettes clerks, labourers, rickshaw pullers, and even free opium, if required. egalies, shoeshine and newspaper This attention is freely lavished boys-all are attracted 10 the until the victim has been plucked gambling tables by the lure of clean, on the happening of which ers money in much the same event he or she is warned, in no way as a moth is attracted to the uncertain terms, not to' come back. light. Even beggars have, from time to time, been seen plunging all their taitings in a vain attempt to pet rich quick.
High-Class Places
in addition to the establish. ments which specialize in dice, fantan, pal kou and miniature horse racing, there are also the so-enlied mahjong schouls. These
All gambling establishments' are "schocls," which in most cases oc- readily accessible to members of cupy all the houses
society:
in certain
HIGHJACKERS
SMASHED
New York, Jan. 18. The Federal Bureau of Ju vestigation
today announced that it har smashed a 20-man".
highjacking iy allegedly
sponsible for s we the 30 highjacking
An the Neu York City area beithin the Inst-year
"avid all members were cevrested and nđđềd that the tatal loat obtained by the
ccalled "Westo Gang" ex- cerard (S$500.003 worth of chirts, shoe palish, chewing
inusical
instruments and.commotica. On one ocea~
the grig *ion
even high- jacked, a truck fully loaded with bibles.-United Presse
Contempt For U.S.
Tribunal?
Shanghai, Jan. 19. The student movement
Balance Of Power?
London, Jan. 19.
A new approach to British foreign policy, based on Commonwealth and Imperial interests, is being discussed among members of Parlianient. The central idea is these forges carry enough weight to act as a third power group, balancing
To Intervene Palestine Problem
One For UNO?
་
Washington, Jan. 18. The United States Government is urged to take
the initiative in calling an immediate Anglo- American conference on the military, political and economic aspects of the Palestine problem in a report to President Truman by a former Republican Congressman from New York, Mr. Joseph Clark Baldwin.
Mr. Baldwin is at present an official of the ""Poli-
tical Action Committee for Palestine."
Lo
the rival power groups Mc. Daldwin, who conferred United Nations provide — in of the United States and with British leaders in London addition to an international
and Jews and Arabs in Pales-military force while the crea Russia.
etine, zubmitted the report at tion of a Palestine state commissioni request pending a The new foreign policy is being President Truman's actively canvassed by Gorry Aland urged that such a con-supervise ̄acapatitutional conf ference should presuppose the vention and subsequent elec- lighan, frmer journalist and La bour Member of Parliament. Al- "jeint recognition of "Palestine tions, and a land commission to lighan said that Premier Attlee, as an independent democracy in "protect the Arabs in their pre- Foreign Minister Bevin, Canadian which shall be the existing sent land holdings 'and insura Premier Mackenzie King and politically homeless Jews in an orderly return to the call- other Dominion Premiers and all Europe and the boundaries of stitutional government of im Members of Parliament have been which
Pales- shail be he existing mense land holdings in circularised and their reactions boundaries of Palestine, tem.tine of the mandatory power". were both extensive and eloquent.
Porarily exclusive of Trans- jordan".
Allighan pointed out that it is vrdeniable that the United Na
tions has resulted in grouping the nations into two clearly defined political systems-American and
Russian,
U.S. Loans
Mr. Baldwin stipulated that
Mr. Baldwin urged President Truman to oppose partition be cause it only postpones the in the constitutional convention issue, "fraught with danger to and in later elections,, the home. : Anglo-American friendship and less Jews in Europe shall be regarded as Palestinian citizens unity of action."-
the To promote
He suggested a confederation of British nations as a third power Mr. Baldwin claimed that the in which Britain must surrender presence of British troops in | development of
British Position
economie the entire
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its rigid traditions and must re- Pastine is becoming hinten Middle East, Mr. Baldwin re United cognise the full right of every able" and said that stepe' to recommends that the British-born nation to all the pri place them by an international make loans aggregating $300. States Export-Import Bank Washington, Jan. 19.
vileges of c-equal national sover military force under the The
felgnty. US Navy an-
auspices of the United Nations 000,000 to Palestine and Arab League states, subject to finan- nounced today a new the public, except in the case of streets of the Colony, are nothing against "United States! There should first be a general are necessary to prevent wor-cial and political agreements.
economie plan for the confedera-sening of the situation. version of the two-en- the pore high class places which more iban gambling salerns where forces brutality" today tion, secondly, a commen defence
Reuter. Herlin, Jan, 19.
upper strata of card sharpers, confidence men and "Fireball" cater to the Ryan
notice that it policy and thirdly, an integrated occupying gine
criminals forefather to fleece the served
which there foreign policy in second fighter, marking the first In the case of these establish- innocent.
would extend its :
'cam-)
Twould be proper distribution of annual gala ball last night use of a turbine driven ments, ellents are introduced by Day after day, money which paign throughout China, responsibility for international with dignitaries from the
who are paid a would normally go into the home and will "never rest" policy. United States, Britain, the Propeller Soviet Union and Frasee at plane.
children: is being lost in these until Washington with! The confederation
clude Britain, Eire. Canada, Aus- gambling establishments, while draws American troops train, New Zealand, South Africa, many are forced into crime in an from Chinese soil under India and also Newfoundland and Losses at gambling are also a revamped China po- the Colonies and dependencies. cirectly responsible for the daflylicy. toll of petty larcentes which are causing law-abiding citizens heavy
and inconvenience,
tending.
Gallons of whiskey. gin, vodka, bourbon and champagne flowed from the four bari,
Each occupying power had its orchestru
in 'a Navy-betweens,'
on
the losses
The new Fireball' was describ ed as probably in the 500-mile an hour class and having an “out- standing rate of climb." The ner model has a gas turbine engine in ita and
noge
turbo-jet engine in tail. the
The front engine uses about three-fourths of its power for the propeller and the rest as exhaust thrust.
Li-Gen Lucius D. Clay, Depu ty Military Governor of the American zone, left promptly at mionight and the other com- munders left_soon afterward.gine alone. United Press.
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this morning, Hending a-lava
R
The plane can fly on either un-
commission
of and towards the education
Sharing OutMusso's Fleet
Washington, Jan. 18. An advantage of the propeller
Italian The detailed list of jet combination, Ryan officiat,
naval vessels to be shared out said. is that it overcomes lack of flexibility in aeroplanes powered between the United States.
Evely
inefficient
Manila, Jan, 18.
by jets. Such planes are re-Britain and Russia and those Mayon Volcano erupted for the third time within 24 hours and usually have a low speed to be retained by Italy herseif
Door Lake-off characteristics.
The new "Fireball" is 6 feet stream, toward three villages long, weighs just over 10,000 11, which were being evacuated.-and has a wing span of 40 feet United Press.
-Associated Press.
Harriman Corrects A Bit Of History
New York, Jan. 18. The Secretary of Commerce and former Ambassa- dor to Moscow, Mr. W. Averell Harriman, speaking to the National Publishers' Associa→ tion last night, corrected a bit of history by affirming that Stalin wanted General Mar- shall to lead the invasion of Europe but that it was Roosevelt and not Winston Churchill who declined to "lend" Marshall and picked Gen- eral of the Army Eisenhower.
Harriman said both Stalin and Churchill approved of Eisenhower.
This explanation by a participant at the
Teheran
Conference spikes the previous-
·ly published reports that Chur-.
Supreme Commander the combined Anglo-Amerlein in- vasion forces because Marshall ppposed his pet project of in- vasion through the Balkans in- stead of across the Channel.
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attempt to recoup losses.
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and expense.
trouble
TERRORISM CONDEMNED
has been published here for the
London, Jan. 19, first time in the annexe to the agrent text of the Italian peace Terrorism by irrespon- treaty.
sible groups in Palestine The fist issued by the State Department has hitherto been was condemned by Pro- kept a close secret to prevent fessor S. Brodestsky, sabotage by crews unwilling to President of the Board hand their ships to any, parti- of Deputies of British
cular allied government.
at o
United Press,
would in
Answering questions press conference, Chinan Uni- refused to rely on the justice versity students spokesman said of the "unqualified and
"The underground movements. are widely supported by the population, both Jewish and Arab, and are slowly but surely forcing the British military in Palestine out of the position of a friendly force and into the position of an enemy occupying army at least in the public mind.
"There can be no other explanation of the failure of
one-
if the U.S. State Department's aided". U.S. military tribunal the British to apprehend any of policy is changed. material, which currently is trying either the instigators or actual supplies to the Nanking Govern- Marine Cpl William Pierson, perpetrators of current acts of ment "will naturally cease" charged with raping a Chinese violence."
The report urges that the This would remove one of the girl student. causes of the Chinese civil Instead, the students reiterat ed their demand for a "Sino- war, he said.
The spokesman said students' American court-United Press.
400 Die When Ship Sinks In Yangtze
Shanghai, Jan. 19.
Four hundred Chinese were reported drowned yesterday when the small passenger steamer Chekiang collided with a tug and sank in the Yangtze River off Woosung near Shanghai
The Naval Committee of the Jews, at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council Board in London today. which drew up the list in New "I there is any ideal dearest Yerk has still to decide together to the. hearts and thoughts of with the Big Four Governments Jews," he said, "It is that of peace which nation shall receive which and sympathy of the world for the work of the Jews in Palestine. ships.
Six hundred or more survivars tion to the dependants of This has been based on the fact Should the Committee or
were brought to Shanghai They the dead will be paid. normal diplomatic channels fail that the national home was being
were joined by relatives of the built by hard work and sacrifice to settle the question, it is ex-without the spilling of innocent victims and angrily besieged the pected to be discussed by the blood..
Chinese ship operators' office and Foreign Ministers Councli. In, "It is therefore with troubled
threatened to tear it apart before
Moscow on March 10.
heart that we admit, that such the Police quieted them.
The
The steamer was the Cheklang. Italy will lose three battle- ships, five cruisers, seven de-sympathy has been lost by violent she was bound up river to Nan and fanatical acts--the deeds of tung with about 1,000 passen- atroyers, eight submarines and men crazed by the sufferings and gers. Off Woosung, the ship col one scop.Reuter,
sinughter of their nearest and Hided with one of two steel light [dearest and by the phistacles, put
a tug was towing. The
almost sank
im surviving in the paths of their relatives to join them in Pales-
The survivora charged that the tine."
Chekiang was over-loaded and "But when all that is said, thair the tug ignored the signals to acta are criminal and must be alter course. ecndemned without question: The The Woosung Police launch Board is profoundly disturbed by made many trips rescuing large
Home-Made Land Mine
An
Effective Weapon
Jerusalem, Jan. 18.
ers,
stely.
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Casualty figures are still un- available late today but accord- g to the Customs, the Harbour Office and the Police only be tween 100 and 200 persons are at present unaccounted for.
There is a possibility that
of these managed many scramble ashore in the darkness and make their way inland, as the accident occurred near a beach off Woosung, Break- water.
to
The majority of passengerc- unconfirmably numbering near-
ly 1,000 of the "Cheklang". which was bound for Nantung
the renewed outrages in Palestine. numbers of persons, in the water in North Kiangsu, were-work
"It again records its unqualified abhorrence and condemnation of these acts of terrorism- by trea
ponsible groupe whose criminal behaviour is contrary to all the teachings of Judaism, and can only harm the interests of the Jewish people."
Aresolution approving; the Unanimously
WDS Reuter
ing class people planning to spend Chinese Newy Year holidays in native villages
THE WEATHER
Riot Quelled Confused estimates of deni Reuter. ranged from 100, to 400. The exact casualties may never be known since passenger Hats are not ordinarily kept, for such trips.
The angry, drenched survivor? Mongalin increasing in intensity and marched on the Tung Chi Steam; extending over the rest of Chine and ship offices demanding redress Japan. Pressure rempins low over the for lost belongings, Relatives of Equator the missing shouted for compen- Taday's ForectPE and NE
The anticyclone over Chirs
chill refused Marshall asThe land mine, which is the latest weapon of the Jewish terrorist organisation Irgun Zvai Leumi, was described here today as "capable of utterly destroying a three-ton army lorry." A mine, which British sap-2500 "for failure to assist the pers called "particularly Ingen- | polica," jous," was found yesterday
Petrol Tin Harriman insisted that Chur- of a wall beside the Jerusalem- dismutied by Royal Engineers, statement
afternoon among loose stones
The latest mine; which was chill had a high regard for Jaffa rond, two and half miles censieled of a standard Indus-jad:pted. Marshall and afterwards. fre from Jerusalem near the spot trial four gallon petrol tin. 14 quently called him a great where two British soldiers were by 9 inches with double flunged soldier-statesman."
Lilled and three others injured water-tight lid. It contained explosive. Four yards of elec by an explosion" da The former Ambassader saldust.
October nearly 44 pounds of gelignite in trie flex leading from the mine 175 four-ounce cartridges manu- had been cut and the control Roosevelt's refusal was based an attempt to assassinate Sir factured in Glasgow of the type point has not been discovered. on its inability to apare Mar Harold MacMichael, former used locally for both military Trucks Stolen The Navigation Bureau of 26.8-gainst an average t Shall from the Chief of Staff High Commissioner for Pales and civil purposes;
· British security forces," in Ministry of Communica-mm Job in Washington because the line, took place on, the same. The gelignite was completely Palestine are tonight searching Lions today concluded an official United States was fighting two stretch of road in August, 1944. surrounded by 18 pounds of 10x 12 Army vehicles which are inquiry into the loss of the 300-aro at mad wars on two fronte deinst On that occasion, the nearby iron rivets.
believed to have been stolen by ton river, steamer "Chekiang. → Nel Humidity i Japan as well as in Europe Jewish settlement of Givat Two electric detonators were Jewish terrorists during the Tae findings will determine the wind Director United Press,
Shaul was collectively fined enibedded. In the middle of the rast few days-Reuter,
hasiz)" on "which" compensa Wind Foren
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sation.
Police quelled the incipient riot. Associated Press,
the
Official Enquiry.
winds; cloudy with, local; showers, rather oulder. Var
Yesterday's Weather Maximum: 04, dez, Fabi Minimum: 50% dan, Pahi
Bunabinet 0.1. Shanghai, Jan. 19.
Rainfalls Trace,Total wines Jan. 1
Realizat..
(p.s 2015.01 1016,7, mida
60 deg. F.
E
18 knots.
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