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No. 33572.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947.
HUMILIATING DEMAND
ON BRITAIN BY U. S.
U.S.
L.S. Amery On American Desire For Abolition Of Empire Preference
MARINE GUILTY OF RAPE
Shanghai, Jan. 29.
A United States naval general court-martial in
Must Be Free Tó Make Bargains
London, Jan. 23.
The United States demand for the elimination of
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Empire Preference was described as "humill-Plane
WE CAN'T PAY IT BACK
ating" by Mr. L. S. Amery, President of the Emnire Industries Association and former Conservative Cabinet Minister, speaking at the annual meeting of the Association today. Peiping this morning Submission would mean abandonment of protec- found United States tion for British domestic industries and agri- Marine Corporal Wil-
culture, and Britain would have to face un- liam G. Pierson guilty of
limited competition in her home market. the charge of raping a He warted: "We are living, 19-year-old schoolgirl, in a world of sheer dehusion if Miss Shen Chung, at Pei- we think that there is a ghost of a chance of our paying our ping on Christmas Eve,
way in the world of open eut after a four day trial, ac-throat price competition, cording to reports today "American manufacturers from Peiping.
want to find an immediate out- Altogether five charges were! side market for the immense of surplus of their mass produc- preferred against Pierson, which rape was the first, the tien. They want to find jobs]
lig maximum penalty of the of- for 60,000,000 Americans fence being life imprisonment. trebling their exports. For that The court found not proved! purpose, they want to keep the charge two-assault with in- rest of the world bruken up in
small economic tent
Compari to commit a rape and to charge Cour-conduct to the ments, prevented. by low tariffs prejudice of good order and from competing with America
discipline.
even in their own markets and
we
Lonton, Jan. 24. Lard Wanita, a Conserva- tive, muid fading that Britain. Baselgure" at repaying The $3.750.000.000 Astrrican jom.
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Referring to Empire Pre- ference, Lord Waolton suid ja aapeech "there be no price in gold or in dollars that ought in lend us to wige up this mrru povejong Porsession
of the Empireocioted Press.
Shanghai, Jan. 22. The American Graves Re Kistration service plane, which has been missing since it tock off from Shanghai on Saturday
for morning bound Canton. { made forced-landing
A
at
SIGNAL FOR
MORE" TERRORISM?.
Jerusalem, Jan; 24. / Sir Evelyn Barker, com- mander of the British foreca in Palestine, today confirmed the death sentence against Dob Gruner, a member of the Jewish terrorist organisation Irgun Zval Leumi.
A military court in Jerusa lein passed the sentence for Grimer's participation in an police armed attack on the fortress in Rawat
-Gan in April last year.
If Gruner's soutence is exe- cuted it is believed that Irgun Gang will attempt retaliation as they repeatedly threatened - they would-United Press.
The Cost In Palestine
London, Jan. 22. Seventy-three British subjects | were murdeded in Palestine last year, said Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Secretary, in, reply to a question in the House of Commons today.
Fifteen of them were Pales
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GIRL STOWAWAY'S VAIN STABBED HIMSELF
SUICIDE BID
Shannon Airport, Jan. 23.
An attempt to end her life by throwing herself in- to the churning propellors of a 8,800 horse- power Constellation at Shannon Airport this afternoon was made by 37-year-old Russian born woman stowaway Anna Zemit, who after crossing the Atlantic from Paris was eventu- ally discovered on board an aircraft at New- foundland and sent back.
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Today's
Last night Zemit was detained in Limerick gaol by the police and held in custody at the air- port all morning to await the arrival of special plane from Paris: When taken to the plane she Tried to reach the propellor blades but when she was with- in twenty yards of them, she was seized by an airport police- She was taken back into custody. Later there was an urgent call for a doctor as the woman became hysterical.
Maldon, Jan. 21. offcials guarding her, she had Objecting to the bright threatened to take her life. "It red colour of Britis). wnld save me the misery going back to Paris" was what post boxes, a man has
n30.
Several times, according
to
of
300 TIMES
Chichester, Jan. 21. An 83-year-old Army major who died after stab bing himself 300 times with a pair of nail scissors was stated at the inquest today to have over 200 wounda in the scalp as well as others on his' face, kanda and forearm.
A verdict of suicide while the balance of his mind redra not normal 18 Renter,
returūdu.-
Girl Tied Up
Blue Tale In Trunk
Toledo, California,
Jan. 22. American police in four states were today
she told an Air France woman been going around this hunting the man who representative, Tesse Morton quiet country town, 401kidnapped Alice Devine, beautiful 17-year-old Linping, about 100 miles north tine policemen, 45 were mem- when later in the afternoon she miles northeast of Lon- of Canton, according to a pribera of the British forces and bearded the aircraft quietly but don, painting them Roy. / daughter of a wealthy mude every effort to avoid press
Californian fruit grower, photographers. The aircraft al blue.
who returned here un- then left for Paris at 16.00,
after Adding a note of defiance to harmed.
being hours. (GMT).
doubtless aesthetic
pre missing for 26 hours, judices, he singled out for his act attack a post box opposite the police station in the town square.
vate cable received here' 1 day. The sender of the message--- warrant officer said that he was safe but made no mention of the other twelve occupants. A special patrol of B-17's B-29's from Okinawa joined the United States army and navy planes this morning In search of the missing plane, before hews was received of the forced landing.
and
The plane's occupants com- prised seven American Army personnel and six Chinese
American G-l's.-Reuter.
13 Occupants
Shanghai, Jan. 23.
north-
Mr. Jones' statement that no culprits had been convicted was grected with surprised cries of "Oh." He agreed with former Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Conservative, that it would have been possible to convict culprits if more coopera- tion had been received from the Jewish community in Palestine. "That is the position. We have difficulty in collecting exact information regarding these most tragic incidents," Mr. Jones declared.-Reuter.
Anna's Story.
Auna claimed that she
was
fleeing from France but would but say from whom. She told Reuter she feared being sent back to France "where there is trouble awaiting me," and add ed "I would rather spend life in an Irish prison than go back to. Paris."
my
Arnu's address was given as Hotel Saint Philippe Roule, No
his
Describing the kidnapping, the head of the local detective bureau said that the kidnapper had trussed up the girl and put The police think that he is her in a trunk with her hands throwing and feet bound with adherive also responsible for bricks through shop windows tape. After taking the trunk at night and changing the name into a cottage, he released her plates on private houses from the trunk but left her damage which is estimated to bound. After three hours she of freed herself and telephoned the run into several hundreds
sheriff for assistance,
BEVIN ILL
London, Jan. 22..
3. Rue des Courcelles, Paris. pounds.-Reuter.
Claiming to be the first auc- S'PORE STRIKE
cessful Atlantie stowaway on al
· All thirteen occupants of the
Singapore, Jan. 22.
left commercial airline, she United States Army Graves
The Municipal President, Mr. Paris by Air France a few days The court dropped charga still less capable of competing tional form and be free to make Registration Service G-47 Lazarus Rayman, said today ags, travelling via Jedland, un-
and with America in neutral mar-bargains on fair give-and-take plane, which made a forced- three fornication -
... changed charge five-scandalous kéts.
terms with individual foreign landing on Saturday at Lin. that he was willing to submit til finally discovered when the
to Government arbitration the plane arrived in Newfoundland. It was learned today that "If
submit conduct tending to the destruc-
to
trade pink, about 100 milea their entries that wish to
strike of municipal workers. She also told Reuter she had Mr. Ernest Bevin, Foreign the with ax. humiliating demand for
ward of Canton, are tion of gond morals.
The workers, who came out been in an S.S. prison at Karl Secretary, has been ill during "We of the Empire Industries | cording to reports not elimination of all Empire Pr Pierson had pleaded
on etrike yesterday, maintained he, Germany, and in 1945 the weekend. He has now re- guilty to charges, one, two, ference, that will be the end of, Association have from the first here today.
A flying-fortress which the warned our fellow countrymach
that they, were against arbitra- was sentenced to be shot but covered and resumed his duties four and five and declined to the position in
in Shanghai tion and wanted a direct reply with others jumped off a train at the Foreign Office today. contend charge three,
Empire takes four times
so far as we could the pinne stood by high a proportion of its man-American public also that while throughout the day, awaiting from Mr. Rayman to their de between Munich and Stuttgart. Reuter. ufactures from us as compared the lean itself was a perfectly weather improvement to rush mand for higher pay-Reuter. |--Reuter. with foreign countries, reasonable business proposition, supplies to "Linping.-Reuter. the irrelevant conditions with
Chinesc pressmen were con spicuously absent from this morning's final session, follow ing the greatest earlier interest "which is probably due to the
lunar new year holiday.
Pierson, born on March
23.
On Fair Terms
as; and
which it was coupled could Reprieved
never be fulfilled and that any
"We must get rid of the must attempt to fulfil them would
1923, enlistert on July 24, 1941. favoured nation clause at any make the repayment of the loan To Be
He had no previous convictions. rate in its
The trial of the second ne- eised, the United States Marine
who accompanied Pierson, is schedueld for next week court-martial-Reuter.
Suicide Attempt In Dock
Jerusalem, Jan. 23.
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socalled uncondi- itself impossible."-Reuter.
"CHALK PIT" MURDER CASE
London, Jan. 23.
Mrs. Maggie Evelyn Brook, a 66-year-old widow, who is one of the leading figures in the "Chalk Pit" murder case, gave evidence when hear- ing was resumed today at the London magis- trates court.
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safe, ac- received
search
Guinea-Pig
Hamburg, Jan. 21. Polish women under sentence of death were reprieved on agree- ing to undergo experiments with Rolf cas gangrene, SS Doctor Rosenthal, one of the 18 accused
members of the Ravensbrueck Concentration camp staff said in evidence here today.
The operations were carried out by Dr. Bebhardt who had an "international reputation" and patients were selected by an SS Rosenthal said.
ANOTHER CHILD MURDERED
The police bureau chief said that he thought the publication of reports of the "kidnapping had prevented capture of the kidnapper.
of
Miss Devine was reported by a local paper to have gone with agents of the FIB to the place designated by her captor far the paying of a ransom $10,000, but he did not show
also started with the ransom up. Miss Devine's father had
money but was told before reaching the rendezvous that his, daughter was safe-Reuter.
Jerusalem, Jan. 22, Flogging as a punishment in Palestine wil in future only be
Belgrade, Jan. 22. administered to youths of 16 Thirty-six dead and 28 injure years and under, according to have been recovored so far, from an announcement in the "Pales- the coal mine at Dorog, northern
Hungary, where a violent ex-.... tine Gazette." Previously plosion occurred on Monday, ac- youths of up to 18 years of age cording to an agency report- were liable to flogging.-Reuter. Reuter.
Manchester, Jan. 24. Scotland Yard's ace homicide investigators joined the hunt for the killer of 10-year-old Sheila Gowrie yesterday, after noting striking simi- -larities between the death of Manchester's "Little Red Riding Hood" and four-year-old Norma Dale, who was found murdered on a lonely Yorkshire moor last September. The right shoe was missing In June last, 12-year-old Mur- from each body and both little del Joan Drinkwater was found THESE girls died of strangulation. The near Swansea, Wales, shot with bodies of both had been carried from the scene of the crime.
The
Incisions were made in then led body of the Cowrie child
legs and the gas gangrene serted..
in-
CIGARETTES
a 4 automatic pistol similar to those issued to United States ARE MANUFACTURED troops; Sheila upon, in July angled with FROM A BLEND OF
her hair ribbon at, Fawkhem
fccd to her grandmother, was found huddled against the back Green, Kent and in September, THE FINEST TOBAC Rosenthal admitted giving in door of her home yesterday. four-year-old Norma May Date Jections
to inmates of the camp, Unlike Norma Dale, she appar was found strangled on some COS-OBTAINABLE- but said these were only to ease dying women. He told the coursently had not been raped, Pelice waste ground near York. he had been sentenced by the SS said. to 84 years impriecament In Because of "some remarkable
between Sachsenhausen, for having illicit similarities"
the relations with a Polish general's crimes, London authorities an wife in Ravensbruck. Towards nounced, Scotland Yard "dis- the end of the war he had been patched two investigators to the sentenced to be shot but escaped scene without the formalities of and Kurrendered to the Allies.-
awaiting a request for help from the Manchester Criminal Investigation Department.
The prosecuting counsel alleged at last week's An Arab gunman with nine hearing that the victim, whose body was previous convictions and nsi
found in a chalk pit in Surrey last December, many aliases, who is already
was kidnapped in order to force a confession serving five years prison sen-
that he had been blackmailing Mrs. Brook. tence, tried to commit suicide
The instigator of the whole where a "confession" was to with a rusty razor blade in the
affair, which led to the death he signed. dock of a British military court of a young bar-man. John Last week, the prosecution here tonight.
Mudie, was Thomas Ley, 66- outlining the case, asserted When the President of the year-old former Minister of that Mr. Ley, Lawence Smith, Court said: "You have been Justice in New South Wales, a joiner who is accused with found guilty, of yet another who was "insanely fealous of him. the two Buckinghams and gun-carrying offence," the ac frs. Brook, the counsel alleged, cook called Mrs. Bruce, lured Reater. cused, Mohammed. Seliel Yusti
Today, Mrs. Brook said that Mudir to Mr. Ley's London Mograbi, slumped to his knees she knew Mr. Ley in Austra-heure, leaving him in the hands. between two police guards. lia and followed him to Brief Mr.. Ley and Smith. It was tain. "Since then," the pre- not known precisely what hep-
Blood spurted from the wound in his neck and the military prosecutor, Major George Ramsay, rushed across the court room to give first aid. Mograbi was taken to hos pital by an ambulance for an operation and his emergency condition was reported to be
*serious.”—Reuter.
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POW-Slapping Guards Were
Reprimanded
Plan For
seculor asked, "on what terms pened between then *and Palestine
have you been with Mr. Ley 7" The witness, in a voice that was inaudible, sufd: "We lived together."
..
police
The main lines of investiga- tion followed the theory that the Gowrie child was killed by a man, but police said that she Mudie's death, the counsel said.
may have been strangled by a Rich Woman
London, Jan, 22. woman or a bay. Today, Buckingham said The belief that the British "At present all possibilities that he was in the car hire Government may now have must be probed," She declared that she had business with his father. He formulated a plan for Palestine spokesman declared, met Mudie only and then in the had met Smith several times was expressed in quarters close presence of her landlady. On and once met Mrs. Bruce in to the Jewish Agency shadow cecasion. she said. Mr. his company. On that ocension delegation" now assembling in Lay "accused me of being my the conversation was about London.. son-in-law's mistress," adding: getting Mudie ta London.. "He'
jcalnus. of was always
one
Not Blackmailed
The British policy may Buckingham then described revealed when the Palestine how he visited the house where Conference is resumed in Lan he was to take Mudie, picked dan next week, these quarters up Smith, Mra. Bruce and his
say,
ECONOMIC HELP FOR FAR EAST
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La Success, N.Y., Jan. 23. The United Nations Economic and Employment. Commission to- day agreed to recommend to the Economic and Social Council the establishment of economic com missions for Europe and the Far East.
The last meeting today agreed to recommend the establishment as soon as possible of an economic the Far East commission for without waiting for a report from working group studying For Eastern war devastation pro- blems--Reuter,
The
THE WEATHER
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Shoe Found Detectives, after a night of combing the working-class dis- trict in which the little girl lived, yesterday discovered her missing right shoe in a. back the neighbouring seas and pressure yard two doors from the Gow-Lalo moderately high over Japan. De- Still sought was the can of moving. Preure remains low VIT Today's Forecast:-Moderate E and NE
Inshore; strong, "NE, offshor cloudy, becoming partly clouds during Slim day,
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Minimum 55.0 dra. Fah.' Sunshine: 0.1 hour
Mr. Ley's. accusations about father and went to the Reigate In general terms they think meat Shells, wes taking to her her and Mudio, went on for n Hote collected Mudle and it must be an effort to com-grandmother's and which was Page Three
ever returned to Mr. Ley's house. promise between the Jewish never delivered. Pathetic Letter From Execut. long time. She denied
having been blackmailed
by There they left Mudle, with ed POW---
Mudie.
Police admitted failure to Mr. Ley and Sintth, Mrs. Bruce demands, for a national home. Page Five
Attlee Statement on Alliance William Buckingham, whose away, at once,
The next witnces was-Jelin and Buckingham senior coming and increased immigration and establish a metive for the
Sanghang the Arab opposition to any crime. With France -
father was originally accused The counsel has alleged that fun of partition and to further. The child's dethes were still „Page: Siz
also of murder, but who is now fulle was induced to go to immigration.
clean and there, were, no Bigsis Blueprint For Germany
in witness for the Crown. London by the story that he The Jewish Agency is stand that she had struggled against Page Seven
Buckingham described the was to act as bar-man for Mrs.ing firmly by the decision to her attacker Associated Press. Britain Leads World. In part he played in benging Eruce, who, was described as boycott the Conference, but *** Fourth Murder Laro, al mai, 15:1016.1 * 1021.6 mula.
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Mudle from the Reigate a rich woman, and more several of its most influential Deuter adds that this is the fotel, where he was bar-man, Henilng was adj;urned until leaders have come to Landon, as fourth child murder in Britain to Mr. Ley's London house | Monday —Reuter,
| "shadow: delegation."--Reuter. | during the past seven months
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