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(By "Paul Pry")
Despite an official de- nial last week of my re- port that there were strong grounds for be- hieving that some of the 2,200 lb. of opium dump-| ed in the sea off Hong Kong had been recover- ed, underground con- tacts still insist that my version is substantially -correct.
sources,
According to there there are at least 70 opium dens in Kowloon where some of the}- salved oplum can be glitained. Clients are offered the choice of) two kinds of culum - - the mul stuff, at $72 a tael. and "alt water goods." at $36 a turl.
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SHANGHAI TENSION GM, Ford H.K. THE THIRD
Rice Shops Keep Doors Closed NO OFFICIAL REPLY YET TO WORKERS' MANIFESTO
Shanghai, May 11.
While Shanghai awaited the National Government's reaction to the ultima-
tum Issued yesterday by the Federation of Industrial and Utility Work- ers, the majority of the city's rice shops remained closed today for fear of | further rioting.
Despite police assurances of full protection, rice merchants are not willing to re-open for busi-
In
ness until assured of "absolute safety.'
APPEAL BY HONG KONG DEMOCRATS
a manifesto Issued yesterday, the Federation, which claims the support of 800,000 labourers, threatened to call a general strike, among other measures, if its demands for economic improvement are not met by noon on Monday. Few people here believe that the threat will be carried out in full if compliance is not forth- coming.
(By "Paul Pry") the annoyance of local business- men, who are at present com-
"We
that the pletely cut off from abrond by.
trust telegraph and radio.
whole nation will rise toj Following two fruitless at give unanimous support: tempts to effect a settlement in i
to the movement initiat- the past 24 hours. the Director
In Naking today, the Vice- The official denial said that) Minister of Sopini Affairs, "recovery is impossible because | Huang-To-tu, stated that his the spot chosen for the dump- Ministry Hug! rent Instructions ing is probably the deepest in} to Shitanghal carefully to in- the East China Sea.” Even those) vestigate the strike movements who don't know the actual spotjin the eny.
where the opium was dumped | He had no comment to make
greeted that remark with n on the ultimatum anil gave no ribald "Oh Yeah?"
indication as to whether the The No. 1 Police launch, Government would or would which carried out the dumping, not comply with the demanda,
Wa Kui-hsien, on April 30th, left port at 11.15
Director of a.m. The dumping was carried the Shanghai Bureau of Social out at noon. I haven't a chart Afairs, just before his de- handy in the office, but I ven-parture from Nanking this after-] 1ure to assert that even the neon stated that he had re 60-knot PT bont lying in Cause-ceived no offein confirmation way Bay couldn't get to "the of newspaper reports of the ul- deepest" portion of the East) tinutum. China Sea in three-quarters of an hour-and nur local Poller: faunches are no speed-craft.
Air Hero Missing
Salisbury, Rhodesia, May 10.
Colonel Chesley G. Peterson, an American air hero in World War II, is missing in a plane in which he was flying with three passengera frum Salisbury to Dur-es-Salaam on Friday.
Four Royal Air Force planes left Salisbury this afteranen to search for the missing aircraft. Peterson is now the American air and military attache at Johannesburg.
The plane left Salisbury in Friday morning. It failed to
C.G.R.A. Strike Meanwhile, the strike of the Chinese Government Radio Ad- ministration employees entered the second day without any in- dication of an early solution to
London
Milkmen On Strike
Holl
London, May 11, million ย
residents of Landra's East End went without milk today because of a strike of 500 dellvery men who are trying
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enlist the support of other dairy werkers to spread the strike throughout the city tomorrow..
workers struck without London
The
arrive at Mbeya, where it was ankth support ever, the due at 2:30 pm. local time.
Co-operative Dalry's decision to Peterson, whose home town is cut commission payments and to Salt Lake City, Utah, was Aabelish overtime. member of the American "Eagle They asked deliverymen of the Squadron" in the RAF before United Dairies and Express Dairy the United States entered the-the city's largest-to strike to war.-United Press,
morrow.-United Press.
Fantastic Soviet Allegations
Moscow, May 11. Pravda said today that an American official threatened six months imprisonment for an actress due to play a leading part in the Berlin production of "The Russian Question," a Kus- sian play which depicts American newsmen as anti-Soviet propagandists. The play opened last week in Berlin.
The Communist
nowapaper
of the Administration left fored by the Federation of! Nanking to consult higher au- Industrial Workers." thorities,
PROTECTING THE CURATE
Blackburn, May 11. In order to protect young unmarried Curates from "hu#- band huntera" the Bishop of Blackburn has ruled that all
· neialy,ordained mlïisters un der 25 in his Diocese 'must
· remain single for at least two years.
“The, young Curate is al ways considered fair game by certain young ladies in every parish," the Bishop explain- ed-Reuter.
Earth Tremors
series of
I
Crack Down BEST MARKET
-
On Labour
San Francisco, May 11.
Hong Kong rotes next to the Philippines and Slam in offering the best immediate market in the
Orient, according to John E. Fields, publisher
of the Far East Trader. He told the Institute for
unions their workers.
General Motors served notice that it intended to hold CIO Auto Workers to account for "wildcat" strikes. Ford defled the independent Foremen's As Rociation of America to call the threatened strike on May 17,
General Motors penalised 450 workers with two-day ayolls for leaving their joba at Detroit plants to take part in the UAW; "Save Labour". rally at Detroit) on April 24. The corporation also discharged 15 workers and tanded heavy layoffa to 23 other
Detroit, May 11. General Motors and Ford, the world's two world Trade today that Japan largest auto producers, offers little hope for United today cracked down on States exports on a private representing trade basis for the next year
or two.
China, he declared, offered Ittle chance of export trado until China's economic crisis subsides or explodes.
UAW men.
Dr. Eugene Staley, executive director of the San Francisco Ray Region Institute of Pacific Relatione, recommended for im- must produce more. We must proving Oriental marketa "they learn to import more.”
Private Credit
Charles C. Pineo of Montreal, lonn director of the Inter- national Bank for Reconstruc- tion and Development, said n The Ford challenge
revival of world trade will al- FAA was contained in a letter] ways be dependent on a free
flow of private credit closely | from John Bugan Ford, Vice-related to the movement of President and Industrial Rela-
to the
tlons Director, to Robert H Foods.
Keys, FAA President. letter said:
The
"If you think that by a strike You can coerce th company into some agreement which we know is not workable, or if you Commenting on the present! This is the key-note of ai
think foremen have no manage- economic crisis-which to the manifesto issued late last night]
ment responsibility, San Diego, May 11.
perhaps most serious that China has by Chinese democratic elementa experienced in her long history in Hong Kong. Among the
earth-this is as good a time as any A ----Home political observers here signatories to the appeal for quakes shook Southern to settle those issues."
Bugas said the expressed the belief that it support for the Shanghai work-California late on Satur- wanted to work out harmonious company might yet result in a new move ers are Marshal Li Tal-shen, towards the long hoped for re- Mme. Lino Chung-kal, General day night shaking build-relationships with the FAA but would not "be pressured concillation between
at Twenty-nine into an arrangement which we Kuomin Teal Ting-Kai, Peng Tae-min, ings tang and Communists, "
General Chang. Wen and Dr. Palms-100 miles south know from experience will not
of Los Angeles.
Cheng Yu-tang.
The follows:
No damage was reported. centred off the coast of Lowor The quakes were probably
California-United Prena,
أحمد
-Felt In Japan-
Tokyo
Tokyo, May 11. A light earth' tremor waR felt in Northern Kyushu and Shikoku at 635 a.m. time, the Central Meteorologi- cal. Observatory announced to- day.
End Of War?
manifesto
лв reads They said that with the steadily deteriorating economic
Fellow-countrymen In Shang- situation, it WEB extremely doubtful whether the Govern.hai and other parts of China: ment could carry on the present; "Owing to the present grave large-scale anti-Communist situation of food supply, our campaign for more than six people are on the verge of star- months which fact they vation. To overcome this crials, thought might compel the Gov- the flye-point demanda volced ernment to make overtures for by the Federation of Industrial Workers in Shanghai are ac- a resumption of peace talks.
Of course, the Government
tually the demands of the whole would
nation. have to make more generous concessions than they have in the past to attract Com- munist leaders back to the con- ference table, but as one ob. server remarked: "Theao ccasions are worthwhile If a breathing spell of peace can be bought on behalf of the long- suffering Chinese populace." Reuter.
9,000 Fined On The Spot
con-
Amritsar, May 10.
A fine of 20 rupees cach, pay abla on the spot, was levied en more than 9,000 inhabitants of an area in Amritsar, Holy City of the Sikhs, where armed men today burnt even men to danth after sprinkling' them with gasoline.
Ancther Ave victims were res cued by the Police after sustain-
ing severe burns.
Money raised by the fine will be used to compendite the fami- lles of the victims. ***
Govt. "Hostile” .
TRAPPED IN SHIP
Avonmouth, May 10.
work."United Press,
Singapore iIncome Tax --Next Year!!
The International Bank, he said, can create conditions favourable for a world trade revival but cannot revive it
Jone-Associated Press.
The Tories Make A "Promise"
London, May 11,
"
"VANGUARD" HOME AGAIN,
Portsmouth, May 11. There was a Royal romance in the warm spring air in this historie harbour city as MS. "Vanguard" brought King George, Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rase back from their two-month tour of South Africa.
The Royal Family planned to spend the night on board before disembarking on Mon- day for elaborate welcome ceremonics in London. Unital Press,
Hitler ¡Did Not
Marry Eva
Washington, May 11.
Hitler could not have married Eva Braun be- [fore they died because such an act would have been "in bad taste."
Former Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Racder makes this and other
A clear indication that the Co-Desertions about Hitler and Ger- servative Party, if returned
hitherto to many in
secret docu- power, w1
not necessarily dements published by the US. War nationalise industries aequired by (Department today. the State under the Labour Gov- Besides denying the reports that ernment is given in The Indus Hiller Jegitimised his relations trial Charter," astatelmont "1" with Eva-Braun, Reader also de Conservative industrial policy, clares "without foundation" the Issued today by the special com rumcurs that the Fuehrer had és milteo Et up last year.
The document, of which Mr. caped to Spain or Argentina. Richard Butler, formerly Educa
The published documents in- tion Minister, is
clude a statement the principal
by Nicholas auther, says:———.
Horthy, Jr., son of the former "We cannot decide here and now Hungarian Regent, that the Ger what Singapore, May 10.
what we wil do for the indus- mans bombed two Hungarian Sir Franklin Gimson, being passed. Rather than com-rouse the country to enter the war
tries about which biils аго still towns with Russian planes Governor and Comman-pletely de-nationalising mines, we on the side of the Nazis.—United
The
to
The epicentre was in the neighborood of Hida in ta "We fully agree to the argu-prefecture. No damage was re-
der-in-Chief of Singa-how they are being run.
have closer enquiry into Press. ment advanced by the Federa- ported.-Associated Press, tion that mass starvation can-
pore, announced today board which operates them for not be avoided unless the cost
that income tax would the State seems to have far tou of living index immediately bei
industry" and goes on to declare much power." unfrozen and that China con-
be introduced in Singa-
The document adds that the that the Party wit not de-nation- not be saved from complete dea-
pore on Jan. 1 next. Conservatives will "make sure allse the Bank of England-- truction unless the civil rar
He said, although the target that Parliament watches over this Reuter. promptly be stopped. Should
date was January, ·-· 1948, the the government still resort to
was great, procrastination with empty "Trapped by fire today in the need for revenue words or to suppression with 5. Empire Deben, 12,000-ton however, and if possible, income force, it would mean that the troopship which was formerly tax might be introduced earlier. Introduction of Income tax Kovernment la determined to be a German liner, at the Royal hostile to the people.
Edward Docks at Avonmouth, would depend on the recommen- of the income tax "The present situation is too some of the crew escaped by dations
recently loaned to critical to be overlooked. We climbing through a porthole on officer
Singapore by the Inland Re- trust that the whole nation will to the quay wall. rise to give unanimous support
The fire was soon extinguish-venue Department of the United to the movement initiated by ed but the galley deck and Kingdom and the approval of the Federation of Industrial sleeping quarters were badly Singapore's Advisory Counci Workers."
F
The document is signed: Marshal Li Tai-shen, Madame Lino Chung-kal, Gen, Teat Ting- kai, Peng Toe-min (Chairman of the Southern Branch of the China Democratic League), Gen. Wang Won and Dr. Chen Yu-tang (Vice Chairmen of the Branch), Prof, Chen Chi-yuan, Feng Yu-fang, Gen. Li Chang ta, Profs. Teng Chu-min, Chop
damaged Reuter,
Router.
Government Film Industry Plan
London, May 11,
Ta'i-acng, Li Pe-chlu, Kuo A spokesman for the Board of Trade reported on
Saturday that consideration of proposals to found a Government-owned film Industry in Britain has been postponed until later in the year
Police, searching the area, un earthed a large quantity of wen.
Kwan-chich, and Yang Pe-kai, pens, including pickaxes, spears Mrs. Chang Yen (widow of and iron-shed staves. More than Gen. Chang Yen), Yun Ying- 50 people were detained for questin: Profs, Shon Chin-yuan, "Actors engaged in the play tonin Sher Singh Majhall, Chia-chu, Sa Kung-liao and Llu maid other opponents of the play wore threatened with being plac-
Huang Yoo-mien and Chien resorted to "blackmail to forco ed on some blacklista and there president of the commitee of Sze-mu, (all members of the ducing films, and; operating two Government owned and control- Gorman actors not to participate." were other threats, especially to the famous Sikh Golden Temple Executive Committee of the said chains of cinemas competing led manufacture and
A Stateowned Industry pro- the proporala *., which call for (Oficials of the United States those who reside in the Western in Amritzar, had to fight his way Branch), and Miss Chou Ying with axinting commercial groups than of film, & Government Information, control division
produc- in sectors of Barlin." Prayda said with his kirpen, a accusathe play was "not at all directed word worn by all Sikhs, through ceremonial Berlin sald the Pravda
(Beerotary of the National tion was slicer, nonsense" and | agsing-America or the American
had, been suggested by a special renting acheme, two chains of assorted they were "amused by people, but against certain elean armed crowd which tried to Labor Federation of China).
committee of the Labour Party, theatres of 250 each to compete auch inventions.")
ments of the American press,molest him as he was driving out
with- existing commercial Associated Press,
Saturday's announcement groups and giving preference to side the city.
said that Bir Stafford Cripps, British films.Associated Press Two fatal stabbing:
assaults
A weak anticyclone covers China and President of the Board of were reported during the day, the Yellow and Eastern Base. A degree Trade, "incipsed the com- bringing the casualties of two son off the coat of Japan te musing daya' communal rioting in the ENE and deepening. A small tropical tittee's proposala at a ---purely elty to 14 killed and 14 Injured. NE and probably Billas up
Router.
(ropical depressica appears to be develope gebed another meeting later in In to the N. of Palau, P
the year when the position of Papi Two YOWLS WERE NOT THE SKELETON
Commentator Yuri Korolkov said that the actress threatened- with imprisonment was Lola Mut- tel. Hofsaid she was living with her family in Switzerland when invited to sel in the play,
Not Anti-U.S.
Koroikov continued "after re- colving an Amoricán avisa
ACTOR WAS TOO REALISTIC
(in a jeep to his village hème out. | The Weather
Wel, May 10. the · An amateur, actor was stab-||- actress arrived in Berlin, but the bed on the stage here last stamp" - was missing... from har passport. When a general rehear night as a result of his realis- sal was approaching, Lola Mutial tle portrayal of a Nazi. was suddenly called out by one of Durlög á performance of the
Edinburgh May
the American officials who aid | Dutch resistance play "Faith Attracted by unearthly yow!ni "nhỏ "was' accused of travelling | ful to tho Fatherland” a mem- workinen today" discovered La
illegally through the American bor of the audience became ex- human skeleton - In
depression over Central Anaam is marries Informal meeting, and he au- ON OTHER PAGES
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