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HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1947,
LUXURY-GOODS IMPORTERS MAY FACE HUGE LOSSES Scheme To Obtain U.S. Currency Stopped
"We Are
Are Made Victims Of
TRAIN DERAILED
Champaign, fil, Apr. 18. The Illinois Central Ratt~ way'a xtremptiver "City of Aliami, carrying 220 passen- pere, was devailed chen it struck foully amitch to-
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sight, in the nation's eighth major ruśl arvident in 10 days. State Police said the con- ductor and
engineman there killed and about 28 ofliers were injured. The en- gine overturned” but all the vien remnined apright--Uhit- ed. Press.
Attempted Revolt In Portugal
This Sudden Decision"
Importers of goods from the United States are facing the prospect of a dead
loss, said to amount to an enormous sum, að a result of Government's holding up approval of applications for exchange allocation sent in prior
to April 12, the date on which the Banks were officially instructed not to
Issue further certificates in respect of surrender of American currency. Government's decision in the matter has not yet
been announced. But in view of the fact that approval is still not forthcoming after the lapse of over a week, and some cases nearly two weeks, rejection is taken to be inevitable. The prospective losers are merchants who have for the past twelve months or so been surrender- ing American notes and drafts to the Banks, in exchange for which the Exchange Control- ler has (or had until April 12) been granting allocations of U.S. dollars to firms making such surrender to enable them pay the shippers or manufacturers in the States. The reason for this practice is that na allocation of the pre cious US dollar is made
funde furnished by them in this
manner.
by
No Warning
Government except in the case The order came without pre-
discontinuance of # practice which, though never approved bad
Fatal Fall
unknown European,, aped about 24, died us a result of injuries sustained when he fell from the second floor of 143
Woosung Street, near Jordan Read, or about 11 o'clock last night.
Up to the time of going to Pre he had not been iden liked. He was dressed in &. white shirt and khaki trousers,
Three Of
Lisbon, Apr. 20. of essential Imports for the re-vious warning of any pending The discovery of a plorabilitation of the Colony. The to organise a revolt by a list of goods under this ente certain army in central story and the quantity permitted Portugal was announced are limited.
Merchants bringing in other today by the Portuguese goods have, therefore, to find War Minister, Lieuten- other ways of paying for these. ant Colonel Santos A way round was found by ac-
quiring US. notes and Costa.
the black market rate. sur- The statement said that rendering them to the small number of people work- ing with civilian agitators had planned a "oftwing rebellion" to avorthrow the present Por- tuguese regime,
by official announcement, The Quads
The announcement added that the attempt had fulled and "It has only been possible to find two officers and two other ranks
uilty of criminal behaviour."
The War Minister said that on April 10 about 20 Army planes had been sabotaged, but two men responsible for the sabotage had so far evaded capture. firmed persistent rumours that a rking was being planned in Lisbon and central Portugni.
Four high-ranking officers were recently transferred to the Cape Verde Islands and Mudeira and other officers have been relieved of their posts, it was reported. Reuter.
The Minister's statement con-
drafts
Bank.
and applying to Government for ni alocation of an equivalent amount to pay shippers or manufacturers in the States.
These Importers say that be- cause this was not drawing on the Government's own reserve of U.S. currency, the practice war allowed to continue and enormous quantities of goods arrived from the Staten. Den pite the glut of many such arti- cles on the market and falling prices, the business has been going on unabated.
The reason for this continued buying activity is not far to and, they point out. Hong Kong
there was week'a' accumula
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His montal development is reported to be sormat and he in fond of fairy tales-At- sociated Press.
Franco Executes Communists
Madrid, Apr. 19. Six prisoners under death sentence have been executed
befor firing squads during the last 48 hours.
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In Hands Of The
Secret Police
Shanghai, Apr. 20.
Miss Chang Loen-hua, a teacher of the Chinese YWCA night school here, has published a statement. In the American-owned “China Weekly Review" alleging she was seized by the secret police on March 6 and held for 17 days. Attempts were made to force her to sign a document saying she was a Communist, realised the error of her ways and now repent- ed.
Miss Charly declares never, was a Communist, but apparently was arrested as one because her captors thought she was a certain Miss Chang LI
und
The prisonera. were tortured into signing the "statements of surrender," repentance" Their punishment included, sho declares, the "water treatment, electric sliocks and blows on the She says she was neized by head with bomboo sticks." secret service men and taken "China's Destiny" In a taxi to a building in the To this there was "piriturd
French former
concession, oppression" in which the pri where she was severely question- | soners were forced to rend such
China's Destiny."
ed. Her captors asked her her books en Chiang Kai-shek's "views on the Chinesc Com
munist queation and the Foreign Mink ters Moscow Con. ference..
She was kept in a cell with several other women one of whom had been beaten.
Mins Chang anya despite every attempt to coarco her ale ro
document Four of the group are alleged fused to, sign the Communist guerillas, and were anying she was a former Com- shot on Thursday. Their names munist who realfaed Commun.
Her raptors evidently, finally realised she was not the pursan
Tel. 21483
BRITONS MUST REGISTER
New Delhi, Apr, 20..
Sir Terence Shone, High Commissioner for the Wuiled. Kingdom in India, has taken the first step towards pre- paring the ground for the changed slutts of. Britons in India after June 19, 1918, by calling for the inmediate T- gistration with his office of all Buropean British mirb iccta"
the explains that registre- tion is necessary because of probable inoreuard responsibi- lity after June, 1948, for por- Bouts of British mutionglity t India United Press,
Terrorist's
Body Stolen
་
Jerusalem, Apr. 20.
- one
The body of an --Irgun they originally sought and 17 Zvai Leumi youth days after her arrest she was of three Jewish extrem- taken to Shafighal 'Atijl releandlists who was shot by the with n warning not to tell any-
one what had happened to her. police in Tel-Aviv
Associated Press,...
are, given as Pedro Sanz Prades. ism was unsuitable for China Riot Of
Nunez Pablos, Ferande Bueno and had surrendered voluntarily Savare, and Angel Blazquez, to remedy her wrongs.
They were charged in connec- tlon with the shooting dead of two civilian guards in ambush near Atccha Station, Madrid, al. legedly as a reprisal for the shoot- ing of two guerilla 'lenders.
The four men were shot at Relamares military camp on the rutskirts of Madrid.
Friday
A week later, slis was taken to Sonchow with 24 others, young men and women, "fetter.
Jewish
ed with chains" and imprisoned‘Immigrants'
in
n three-storeyed Chinese. style building.
APPEALS FOR·
TERRORISTS
Jerusalem, Apr, 19. Appeals for the reprieve of
Nicosia, Apr. 19.
on
Friday-was-tolen carly today from the Hadassah Hospital mortuary.
It is believed the Irgunista somehow got through the hos pital gate and recovered the body by using skeleton keys.
It is the secont Instance of the the Irgunista" recoveringe body of one of its members to prevent the police from Identi-
relatives.
ex
Jewish illegal Immigrants in it and possibly arresting the Carnolos camp in Cyprus today, tried to burn down the Meanwhile," RAF Bources say nevertheless. been allowed to
The other two men, also til.
three main rates, of the camp an uncertificated ship carrying operate. Government granted
Communists - Antonio
after disturbances there yester. egal Immigrants is not Icged the necessary allocations as they
territorial wan pected to reach day, in which one Jew Criado and Ancleto Celado were applied for, and mer-
Garcia-were reported shot at
killed and six wounded, a com- waters for one or two days.
·· Feverish - activity." had· "been chants, rightly or wrongly, took
Aico de Henares on
Munique said tonight. this to be officíal countenance.
The communique confirmed noted around one large ship at morning. One was charged with Eccles, Apr. 20. if not actunt approval, of the
Two of the quadruplets born having been for a few days with Meyer Feinstein and Moshe thut the immigrants had begun sen and thought the practice.
The result was that on April carly Saturday morning to Mrs. the guerillas sad the other with Barazani, Jewish terrorists now a hunger strike. in protest lagann is attempting to trans- 12, wiren the Governmbus dirge Mafian Lowe, 20, died Jafo Balur being connected with exploding a. Under sentence of drain against the rejection of their fara number of immigrants. tive was lagued to the Banks, day and doctors said there was bomb outside the Palace building Jerusalem's central prison, were demands for an merease in the from two or three of the little hope that one of the remain in Mentes Quinza-Street, Madrid. made today to General Sir Alan number transferred to Pales smaller, ships to a larger ons
Although the execution of the Cunningham, High Commis- tine,"
which will head for Palestine in Chief first four had been expected in loner, by Palestine's tion of such applications awaiting two-girl-would survive.
There were no mujor distur-an attempt to 'break the British ing the official stamp of up.j. Marion, last of the quads to be opposition circles, the carrying Rabbi, Dr. Innae Herzog, and bances during the night but blockade.-United. Produ. proval in the usual way: Gov- born, was less than 12 hours old out of sentence against the last relatives of the two men. sporadic incidents continued alt crnment had to decide whether when she died Saturday after-two caused much surprise, as the
Feinstein was sentenced to morning and the situation i
- Berlin, Apr. 19. there too, were to be affected or neon.
Caso against them did not appear, death on April 3 for his part in still unsettled, the communiqu... Fourteen Amorlean businessmen not. The applicants had already The children were the first born to justify the heaviness of the the blowing up of the Jerusalem added,.
arrived here :-todny) on "an in surrendered to the Banks at the to Mrs. Lowe, wife of a painter sentence.
-railway station in October last The trouble bugun yesterday. formation tour of the American Oficial official rate the necessary funds and decorator. The birth of ti
confirmation of the year. Barazani was sentenced when the inmates were told that and British zones of Germany 'at American to cover the applications. Those quadruplets was two months presentences is so far not available. on March 17 for carrying a the number of Jews, to embark the invitation of the
-Royter. funds were acquired by them at mature--Associated Press
Mills bomb-Reuter,
for Palestine was 150 instead Secretary of War, Mr. Robert Pat-__ black market rate; and if-their
of 750 which they had expected.terson. They are, to meet repre- applications are refused, as it
The guards opened fire on the sentatives of the American and is feared they will be, they
Immigrants attempted to break British military governments us out and set fire to camp in- well as Gorman businessmen. stand to lose the difference be
stallations-Reuter.
since the end of the 'war has tween the two rates—a matter
rale centre of South become not only the entrepot of 80 to 90 Hong Kong conta
China tern US dollar.
|
In conversation with - Im
but also of Malaya, Siarn, Indo- China and most of the sur portern yesterday a “China rounding regions. The bulk of Mail" representative was told the goals Imported are not for that Government was perfectly A local consumption but for re- within its right to stop ʼn prác-: Attempted Uprising export, Merchants have an eye lice never officially approved, Lisbon, Apr. 20. for markets further afield than but to clamp down upon ap. The War Binistry today the confines of the "Colony, plications made in good faith Government's order to the before the order of April 12 Issued a communique revealing that on April, 10 at dawn a Banks on April 12 not to issue was issued, and thus make an- group of "rebels connected with further certificates for the sur-plicante suffer b heavy Anancial a tentative soclu] agitation" tender of U.S. currency came, loss, was both "unfair and un attempted a "military uprising" therefore, as a bolt from the Justifled."
blue. It means these merchants at several barracks to change will ac longer be permitted to the regime in Portugal.
The communique said though. | finance their purchases out of the rebels were known to have partinana in the Tomur, apprehend only three a cap Ablantes, Toreanovas ..... and talh, a lieutenant and a soldier, Leiria areas, It was possible to United Press.
Swedes Producing A New Kind Of Paper
Secret Police Hunt For Rich
Europeanised Chinese
London, Apr. 19.
KING CHRISTIAN
Copenhagen, Apr, 20,
This morning'a bulletin un King Christian, of Denmark, who is seriously. iii," said. "The King spent a quiet night. His strength, which during the last work hur slowly to- clined, in small, · The accumu... lution of mucus in Ala lunga is unchanged."-Router,
rich Europeanised Chinese is being sought by the Egyptian secrèt police in connection with the illegal currency, dealing charges brought against Max Intrator in Paris, writes Richard Wyndham, News of the World special corres- pondent in the Middle East; In an article from Cairo, published in today's edition of the paper. The police believe that this minent in public life in other "these goods have already been Cairo's famous, Shepherd's Hole!
"Furthermore," they said. Chinese, who disappeared from countries are involved.
"London attaches the greatest ordered from manufacturers or three months ago, alohe "can an importance to the enquiries st shippers, and if we can't get swer the question whether Max this end," the article declares, A vast special Scotland Yard, officer has the exchange to open the necesIntrator was a ceg in the sary letters of credit, we are in political machine' supplying funds arrived here to assist the politicnt for a claim for compensation and arms to Palestine Zionists reetion of the secret pelice.
"From information collected in for non-fulfilment of contractor merely the leader of a gang
reaping a rich harvest from eur. Britain, America, France, Swit rency manipulations, with tourists zerland, and hero, the authorities "What Government's future from Britain among their dupes," have a complete picture of the polley may bois Government's Intrater has bean arrested by activities of the Intrator organisa- concern. It may kill this entro- the Paris police and is at present tlon-Reuter, pet trade. If it likes, but if being held during investigations we are to be made sletims of in the Sants Prison in Paris. this sudden decision and AP tinues: "In the hope of tracing Meanwhile, Wyndham con- plications are turned down, we tals, elusive Oriental, a night and strong the 12 more victims of Wednes THE WEATHER oil-fires In search of shall certainly protest,"
""Victims”
Stockholm, Apr 20, Swedish paper mills are producing a new kind of paper that will stand any amount of wetting,.
Information gleaned by a day watch is being kept on four and is untearable. The Swedish name given China Mall representative mon known to have been his close to it is "Wet Strong."HAN MEN
from other quarters point to acclates During the war the Allies, es-thickardund every Aure, and is extreme in many circles that Big Shots Involved #pecially the British and the subsequently hardened when the Government will beneût in the There have been startling dia. Americans, were very interested paper is healed during the dryingway of conserving US cur coveries In the case. Egyptian
rency as a result of this order, ministers and many persons pro-wide fair and me with morning hase in this kind of paper. procda.
It was highly important for _in If water gets on this paper the These quarters point out that- stance, for the Navy or for ecopa abres are protected by a resin people are hardly to be exa operating In the tropics to be raincoat, and this prevents the posted to surrender their US
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map that had become wet through, which the water would otherwise rate to the Banks when they tahang it up to dry, and than i give rise--Our Own". Correspon- can easily dispose of them else. Page And the map to be as good as dent..
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Texas City Apr. 19. Rescue workers to night groped in the rub- ble of this ruined city under apall of black smoke from still burning
An antiyešané is" of Japan. Another. Ne deloping war day's explosion disaster. Mongolia, and spreading over & China. - A deptusion le moring NE are the The casualty list is still not Japan, and dampening Prosure redefinitely known. The Ameri- mais moderatadiah over the northern chn Red Cross, which lain Today's Forbartight variable charge of all relief" "measures. sumates that the dead no far Yesterday's Weather (-)?>
kumbor 580 (with admitted possible duplication In the list of names) and 9,000 Injured...
Mase memorial services for the victims are being held to night - and nang-made, for? musa burial to da sponduct naxt week by the /ministerial Josh, alliáned of the blasttorn town.
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