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KOWLOON CONCERNS TO MAKE Nazi Cells HK MP's Daughter
THEIR OWN ELECTRICITY?
China Light & Power Charges Said To Be Too High; Letter To Colonial Secretary Strangled For An
Possible Action By Consumers
"I am sure that the China Light & Power Co., Ltd., will, in the long run, find it more beneficial to their own interests to accede to our request for a reduction in their present scale of charges for electricity" said Mr. Robert Der, Chairman of the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce, when interviewed, by the "China Mail" yesterday regarding a threat by leading Chinese fac- torics, restaurants and business concerns in Kowloon to install their own generating sets in the event of the China Light & Power Co., Ltd., refusing to reduce present charges.
Mr. Der informed the "China Mail" that a letter was forwarded by his Chamber to the Colonial Secretary on Friday last, seeking. inter alia, Government's views, relative to the installa- tion of generating sets for private use and not profit.
It was pointed out by Mr. inf. uenerators Der that any reduction in the scale of charges for electricity would not benefit Chinese in Kowloon alone, but foreigners as well"
also
tion with the Light Company Mr. Der said that negotia- for a reduction in their seale of charges have been in progress since September last, without fruitful result being any achieved.
"It is the plea of the Com" pany that they must reenup their war losses" said Mr. Der, who added that it was ridicu lous to suggest that the public should be called upon to make good losses for which it was in no way responsible.
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Generators
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Mr. Der also disclosed that negotiations for the purchase
Impressive Send-Off For King
Weymouth. Feb. 1. A two mile lane of warships representing the might of the British Home Fleet bade fare- well. Lo the battleship HMS Vanguard currying the Royal Family to South Africa this morning. The ceremony Was made unexpectedly dramatic by receipt of an urgent Admiralty message that u mine had been sighted in the area.
The warning arrived as 10-
the Naval guard
from abroad,
for delivery within six months,. were under way. Technical ad- vice in regard to the installa- Lion and operation of these! generators is being given by!
"NO SURRENDER"
MAHARAS
Nobuyzam, Bengal, Feb. 2.
told Gusulki questioner here that "onian should west certainly take her own life rather than out- when gulted by render
Foligans
He added: "Surrender had no room in my plus af life. When it EX a question of chairs between killing oneself nid one's namailan! I have no doubt in my mind that the frat should "he the choice."- Reater.
Parcel Hid A Grenade
Paris, Feb. 1.
Paris police were to
At-Bomb Secret
Paris, Feb. 2.
Revelation that French Countess Sauty de-Chalon was strangled by a spy in search of the atomic bomb secret was made by a Belgian mechanic who has been arrested in connection" with the murder, according to the evening paper "Paris Press" today.
In September, 1945, the Countess told her husband she was going to Groningen, in Holland, and left her home in a car with two Canadian offi-
cers.
Her naked acdy was later founding in American uniform, but who jin a ditch near Masnieres, north-had" the exact appearance, of a
Fern Fragee.
Moncol. "pointed her nul to me in Belgian. Dutch and French the hall of the hotel. police took part in a search which i finally led to the arrest of Leon
Request By Countess
"He necessary
Meurant. Belgian mechanic, who told me, 'It is er now was living at Tubingen, Germany, her. My companion was my su in the guise of a medical emeer.
Meurant, who is now
perior. I obeyed. In a "The Countess playfully fold Dousi
prison awaiting trial in April, has, it is reported, confess-Can you do me a service?
"You RIC me,
a French officer.
ed to being a secret agent, for a
I want to return
Paris I agreed to take foreign power, but flatly denies
ber. murdering the Countess."
Meurent's statement continued, "After" with
lunch I had a second in- In a statement telling how the
the Mengol who Countess met her death. he said, told me "Stay with her, do not!
of her your sight.
important documents about the
A Mongol
"I am certainly a spy for a for- let her out
Exist In Argentina
London, Feb. 2. Renewed charges that Nazi organisations still, exist throughout Ger- many and that Nazis still hold
important
posts in Argentina are made by the Interna- tional Committee for study of European ques- tions in a document is- sucd today.
The document. reaffirms, in Site of deniala, the fac's given in its report last week. king: "It appears really de- sirable that an end should now
"Not Kidnapped"
Richmond, Calif., Feb. 2.
A four and a half year old girl born in a Japanese internment camp, whose father is now in Hong Kong, and who was reported kidnapped in Reno, Nav., was found unharmed here when Ralph Worrell, 40, merchant seaman, surren- dered to police and denied any intent to ab- duct the child.
Reno police said a complaint charging kidnapping
had been filed against Worrell by the child's mother, Mrs. Alexandra Agadanova Levko- vich, who filed suit.for divorce in Reno Friday against the girl's father who is in the Far East.
Girls Got Rations
be put to any kind of dilatory From POWS
proceedings concerning either e-Nazification or the handing
| vet to the Allies of German
cta abroad."
Cells of clandestine
Nazi ranisations exist not only in iniportant German towns but alo in small boroughs, Committee asserts.
thr
Paris, Feb. 1. Four young girls from Metz, who are alleged to have got rations from German prisoners of war by going to parties in 1 quotes two leading Bavar-their camp, were being ian politicians as being dis- revered to be dangerous Nazis held by the Paris police and asks: "Was military intel- today on charges of tres- ligence unaware of the, past passing. activities of these newly elect- ed statesmen or were military intelligence aware of them and unsble or not willing to oppose their appointment."--Reuter....
sign power and I hold an import- This woman has in her briefcase The Weather
Countess Sauly de Chalon on the
An intern unitleyelane
wedge of high brown along the China use and pastward use the Ears Chlos Sen. A coroplei yserles of these depress low of Sakalin and N Besh In Fauviny dowly NE Pressure remalas low
have made offers through the driver who brought unsals, where I was on a mission. American counter-espionage
is expert and the firms which day searching for a taxi ant position.
"At the Palace Hotel in Bruk-atomic bomb. She is an opent 'ofi Chamber are also prepared to unknown man to the made the acquaintance of Followed By Mongol Siberi exletuda mig" N. China with n understake the maintenance of King George V Hotel onay she arrived. An offer wear- generators supplied.
Prices quoted for generators from England range from £47 to £147, while $16,000 has been quoted for a 25 KVA set from America.
Speaking as to the detrimen- tal effects caused by the high cost of electricity, Mr. Der said that manufacturers have had to increase prices, with the result that they could not find a ready market for their goods.
"The attitude of the China Light & Power Co., Ltd, will only serve to retard the return of prosperity to this Colony," said Mr. Der.
Thursday
night
and
waited for him while he handed parcel con-
2 taining a type of grenade to the porter..
Palestine Blunder
London, Feb. 2.
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Méurant alleged that when he left in a car with the Countess he was followed in a jeep by "the Mongol we had good dinner and the Countess and 1 began to get very drunk." Meur ant stated. "When we resumed the Journey. the Countess, who was completely drunk, took off all her clothes on the pretext that it was Maximum: G deg, Fab. ton het in the car."
Minimum: 504 dem. Pak Meurant said that later he stop-umhine: 14.5"hors. ped to check his petrol when "the Rainfall it. Total since Mongol appeared and strangled the Countess with a silk stocking.
is the mustrial resto
Today's Forecast:-Frish ENE offshore, muferate Easterly inalitye, weather cloudy but somewhat warmer.
Yesterday's Weather:
Jan. 15-60,1
RIM. Ni all average of 16.0 mm.
Wind Force
Madame Simone Cordier, to whom the package was deliver- ed, said today she had no iden who was responsible for the injured her outrage which
In a splash front page seriously about the face.
story headlined "Pales- The package
19 exploded
Blunder" the "He made me swear on my | Bars, mi musl Buon as she opened it and she tine, a
honour as a secret agent to keep te Hamidity is now in hospital.
"Sunday Pictorial" to-dient. He threw the Body into a Dew Poim. The Paris police have
day asserts that the de- ditch, covered it with sand, and Wind Direction theories abul the possible cision to advise the press
disappeared."-Reuter. As a matter of information, motive for the attack-firally
trouble Mr. Der said that certain fac-] that the man' was
leave this a jealous to Leries in Kowloon were spend-suitor and secondly that be in spol, Palestine, is "worse ing as much as $30,000 a month tended to kill Mme. Carlier's than ill advised. It is for electricity alone, while companion, My de Cumpollon, many of the medium-sized to settle a long-standing poli- restaurants were disbursing a tie! grudge. The porter said minimum of $1,000 monthly he had a vague recollection of The Company has recently been the man saying "Make increasing the amount of de- this pureel gets to de Cham- posit payable by consumers. «.
pollon," when he delivered it.
Reuter. Dimming Campaign?
inter-
In the course of the view, it was hinted that the Chinese in Kowloon might de- cide to embark on a "dimming campaign"—that is, they will use the lowest voltage bulbs possible or black-out altogether,
Hure
TWO MINDS, ONE THOUGHT
Washington. Feb. 1.
ludicrous."
"For
The paper continues: months the policy of the British Government in Palestine has
been under heavy barrage from and American pro- Ruestan pagandists and has caused un- eariness even at home.
"To attempt to draw a veil ver what is now happening-. and may very soon happen- - iz Palestine, is to invite sus- picion throughout the world that the methods of the British Army, acting with the authori
er
"The public carried on with! The Army and Navy announ Quo sailor lined the decks of restricted lighting during the ced they are unifying the mill of the Labour Government,
not bear scrutiny of honour. Japanese occupation and they tary thinking of their officers will
through joint schooling to pre-publicity or survive the judg pare them for "global triphi- ment of democratic commen bious war."--United Press. sense by other nations.
They uttered a mighty cheer can do it again," said another while every ship in the inmember of the Chamber who
thundered a Royal salute of 21 guns as the Vanguard slowly Blid, past with the King, Queen and the Princesses standing on the forward twin-gun turrets
The escort
-shins swiftly broke ranks from the exercise which they had been practicing since last November, and sper to the positions designated in the Admiralty message. The mine was only two miles away, from the Vanguard when Bri- dan tain's biggest and newest hat- Heship slipped out of the day- ger zone to continue her long -Journey to South Africa. The elcort ships disposed of the Anine-United Press.
*Tribute From Capetown
Capetown, Feb, 2.
was present at the interview.
Austin Plant Closing Down To-Day
....
Birmingham, Feb. 2.
The Austin Motor Company, protesting for the second time in six weeks at Government al- locations of coal during the winter shortage, artnounced last night that its plant here would close down indefinitely on Monday night. The Austin Birmingham, special means including, trucks, plunt employs 17,000 workers | Associated Press. and is the largest individual automobile factory in Britain.
Folly
The British Cabinet, which has endorsed the folly of the Palestine Government, ad- withdraw vising the press to with the rest of the civilians must reconsider its decision.
"The facilities which will en-
could be fulfilled only if their
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"DAKOTA" CRASH
NEAR LISBON
Lisbon, Feb. 2. Emergency rescue teams, working through the darkness with huge searchlights, by dawn this morning had recovered the bodies of 11 of the 16 persons killed in the crash of an Air France Dakota transport plane 12 miles north of here last night.
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The
search is continuing but is being hampered by fog, rain and mud. The sole known survivor of the 12 passengers and five crew members was Eugéne Leonnard, 33-year-old businessman, whose nationality had not yet been establish-
ed,
Dakota
Test "Fails"
Copenhagen, Feb. 1.
ternative of working one day. ON OTHER PAGES field? Or is there still time to able to fly.
"We are faced with the al- i
days-which is
The transport, flying low in thick fog, en route to Lisbon from Paris, smashed into Mount Peninha Cintra, the highest peak in the mountain chain
north of thin capital.
Leonnard, thrown clear of the wreckage, was removed to hos-. pital. His wife perished with eight other women and two
on a visit to her
record impartially the course of airport today, a Danish were found to be not serious. able the world's newspapers to In a test at Kestrup children passengers.
Leonard's injuries, later events must be restored. Im transport pilot, Captain He was accompanying his wife,
·mediately."
Damm, tried to Susanne, "Throughout the two world Emil wars, the press rightly con- take off in a Dakota family whe live at Cascais and were walling at the airport ceived that their functions plane with the elevator when the news of the crash was reporters served in the battle in the same position as announced: Leonard is French. zones at the side of our troops, when locked. The plane On board the plane were Is Palestine to become a battle was able to taxi, but un-members of the "Ara Rediviva" Company which was invited to Cupetown newspapers yester-ten working
perform at the Tivoli Cinema, averts this unhappy climax day came out with hanner head ridiculous or one full fivo-day Pare Tino
In a trying situation?"
(The Netherlands Aviation Ser-1 Lisbon, by the "Circulo Cultura Hines "Royal Family leaves week in every ten weeks," Mr.
"Izvestia" on U.S. Withdrawal that the Government's advice the American opera star Grace
The "Sunday Pictorial" says vice announced in Amsterdam | MusicalUnited Press, London for Union," along L. P. Lord, chairman of
yesterday that the crash in which Page Three with excellent
Manila, Feb. 2. radio pictures Company, said in a statement.
to correspondents to Official Statement on Complaint,
Leave Moore and Prince Gustav Adolf A_Philippine owned vessel, the showing the Queen and Prin. Lord's announcement,was About The Vegetable Mar Palestine and the fact that of Sweden were killed, was due to S3 Surigans, with alx passengers cess Margaret driving to the first adverse reaction from
pressphotographer was re the fsure to remove the elova-and a general cargo for Manila Waterloo Station and bidding industry to the Government's Pape Four
cently held by troops for tak tor their friends farewell.
pins before the take ran aground off Cape Espiratu rationing of Industrial coal in
Santo on Samar, Island the De La barricades ls evidence that the At another test, Captain Damm Rama Steamship Lines: advised Secret Pack
Government wishes to impose tried to place the elevator in the here.Associated Press, a ban on news from Palestine same position as when it was
locked. The Britons Beginning" "Palestine.
it concludes: Any attempt
plans had already W Exodus.
by the Government to act in stalled before the elevator reach- Dakota next Tuesday to attend Page Seven
Gustav ed its locked position, proving the funeral of Prince Chaotic Condition of China's secrecy will be resented by that the piano was unable to fly. Adolf, Depending on the weather,
the Jews and Arabs in general with a locked elevator. Exports,
he will use either a Royal Dutch and by the British people in Prince Bernhard of the Nether. Airlines Pakets of his owners Home & Local Sports News, etc., particular." Reuter
landa will fly to Stockholm in a Reuter.
the
ket Plan..
War Fast Before It Was Begun.ipg pictures of barbed wire or GK.
the acute, shortage caused by Page Five
In a leader, the Cape Times sold that "even those un- the recent cold wave.
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animated by a monarchial The Austin chairman made a | Page Six "fervour, have a warm admira- similar- announcement of, a
tion for the devotion of their close down just before Christ- Majesties to their people-mas, saying the Birmingham
Ey siraing and danger."-Associat- holidays but withdrew it when ¦ Page Eight a
3ed&Press.
the Government sent in coal by:
Dental
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Mrs. Levkovich told police that Worrell, whom she had refused to marry, abducted her daughter Ramona from the el ildren's day nursery. She said she and her husband Basil both Russian born married 0. 1940. in Shanghal March She was captured by the Japan- ese in the Philippines but her husband--n member of the British military police, at pre- sent is stationed in Hong Kong
escaped.
The child was burn in the
was
interiment camp where Warrel
a fellow prisque. Man's Story Worrell said he met. Levkovich In the Philippines
Mrs.
say her when she came to San Francisco,
Returning recently from a The mother of one of the girls trip on the US Army transport, and, a man were arrested on General H.E. Hodges, Worrel charges of contributing to the de- said he could not locate her
inquincy of minors.
tintil she notitiel him she was The pelice sald that the girls in Rene to get a divorec 18ed to cross the Moselle River very night from Metz to file dé
зая
She asked Worrell to take the
Saucy. where there was a prison-child with him to Reno when
s of war camp. The prisoners he went there to visit her.
Af war' gave then rations, with "Worrell said he did só nad which they returned to the main
and. Here they turned over most paced the child in a nursery of the fand in a man who has sehool.
anid new been arrested.
Last Tuesday night. The arrested mother.: on learn-Werrell, who is the junior as ing where her daughter got the sixtant third engineer of the Food, is alleged to have formed Hodges, Mrs. Levkovich suisl. a partnership with the man and sho filed a divoren action Fri-" shared in the proceeds Reuter day, charging non-support aud
three years separation."
KIDNAPPERS FREE PRIEST
und Worrell come to Rena 'asked her to marry him, shé told the police. She added that she at one time had considered Bangkok, Feb. 1. marrying him; but later chan- Father Mane, the Catholicged her mind and told him so priest
who was kidnapped on Associated Press...
Monday by Siamese, bandita and held for ransom, was released to day unharmed and without any ransom being paid.
The priest; t member of the Salesian Order,
was forced to
Order herd,
The Bishop, it was reported, went to plead with the gang for sign a ransory demand for 80,000 Mane's release as the Order wie ticals ($2,000), which was sent unable to raise the money.-- Lo Bishop Pastelti, head of the Reuter.
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