THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947.
Coming Events INDO-CHINA PEACE FEELERS German
May
13-Rotary
Club Tima. Speaker, Mr. Vernon Bortlett
on "Britain, Russia and United States." Gloucester Hotel, 12.30 p.m.
May 13 Tue 1 Meeting, 50 Mac.
dunnell Rd., 0.30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Captain B. Bryant, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., of HMS. "Adamant"
"Submarines War."
on
Mny 16 and 17-"Slimshulpo
Cocktall," KCC, D pan. May 17-Ching Emporium CX-
traordinary meeting. 3 p.m. May 21-Union Waterboat Ch., Ltd. Annual Meeting, Dodwells Office, 11 a.m.
May 24 H.K, & Yaumall Ferries,
annual meeting, noon. May 28--11.K, Realty & Trust Co.
Annual meeting, porn.
May 20--ILK. Tramways Lid
annual meeting, Jardine's of fees, noon.
REPORTED TAKING
Alliance
To Be Renewed
Saigon, May 10.
Peace feelers between the French and the Vict-
namese
SHAPE Situation Appalling
(Indo-Chinese nationalists), which India
have been sensed for over three weeks, both here and outside Indo-China, are now expect- ed to take a more concrete form at Hanoi which the French High Commissioner, M.
Hand-Over
Berlin, May 10. Lord Pakenham, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who has been making a three- day visit to the British zone of Germany, told Plans for the handing an informal meeting of
Emile Bollaert, is visiting next Wednesday. Plan
A. Jetter, presumably contain- ) ing "peace offers" from Dr. Ho París, May 10.
Chi Minh's Government, has al- to M. will ready been delivered Negotiations shortly be opened be- Ballett's tween France and Cze- choslovakia for
"personal CHYOY," who is now in Hanoi.
During his three-day stay at conclu-Hanoi, Al. Bollaert will make a sion of an alliance on the public sperch which may have lines of the Franco-So- a vital bearing on the political viet and Franco-British situation in Indo-China.
May 31 China Emporium annual alliances.
inceting, 3 p..
All Roads Lead To
The Beaches
The
served to
advent of
wmmer
has resuscitate one of the
imest popular forms of outdoor re. creation available to local school. children
workly pienies,
or bathing purtins.
hiking
Every week-end finds thousanely
of school children off to the hen.
ches or the bills, complete with cooking utensils and "eats."
pubile
To lorry
owners and utility companies, these werkly excursions are proving to be
profitable source of added most income.
The
bathing
benches
along
in
No Anni Reitlement is envis- after M. aged, however, until
Paris Preliminary talks will take Bollert returns from plare Paris and Prague. In about the middle of June. He is accordance with arrangements expected to leave for Paris on
with Dr. made
Fierlinger, May 26.
who Uzech Foreign Minister.
As the preliminary negotia- left Parts for Prague togay. tions with the Vietnamese Gov- Knin momentum, Franco-Czechoslovak ernment A
groups several smul political cultural treaty was signed Paris in December, 1945. Re are hurriedly rallying together ports of an impending Franco- under a new political party call- Czechoslovak alliance were cured the "All Viet-Nim National- rent last August but were then in! Front" in order to negotiate
with the French authorities. "highly
prema-
Annam Emperor? deseribed an Ire". Reuter.
The new
statesmen party's claim that some of their leaders
con have already established inets with the official interme diaries. They also claim that the Annam int the Emperor of leader of the new party, not
the latter's re. withstanding peated declarations that he is no longer interested in politics,:
The Nationalist Front, manifesto
has
Dr.
Peps Up His I.Q.
Los Angeles, May 11. Oswald Jorstad, 27, has proved to the police that he is at his best driving acording to car after a stiff whisky
cently Pane
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issued, Ideal⚫ us
FOWL SLAUGHTER
London, May 11. The recent slaughter of 17,000 fowls to prevent the spread of fowl pest in Britain involves the loss of two mil- lion cops to British consum☺. era, in the next 12 months, the Fontiry Association of Great Britain announced today. Reuter.
Half-Black
Simla, May 10.
•
appalling."
Jap Bomb-Balloon Sites Located
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Tokyo, May 10. An American 1st Cavalry reconnaisance party. penetrating the remote Otsu peninsula on Japan's east coast, north of Tokyo, discovered evidence of one of Japan's top war secrets the concrete sites from which the Japanese launched their bombing balloons across the Pacific in 1944 in an attempt to blast the Unit- ed States, it was disclosed today. Generating plants, special plat forms and other equipment for the silken gas-filled halloons were found scattered over hundreds of
over of power in India press correspondents to-acres in the Otau area.. will be communicated night: "The situation is to the Indian leaders by Lord Rear Admiral Mountbatten, the Vice- roy, in New Delhi next Saturday.
passionate? huma shall work absolutely flat out to see if the altuation cannot be improved.
"The German food situation
the first and last with me when I say my prayers in the morning and I mean that literally and
sold
that it
Lord Pakenham was essential that Gorman indus- try should be restored to some "respectable agreed level" that the food problem was at the back of all other problems.
The announcement Bald that the Viceroy had invited reprosen-again at night," he said. tatives of Congress, the foster Longue and the Sikhs to meet him in New Delhi on the morning of May 17 to present to them the plan which is Majesty's Gov- ernotent has now made for trans- fer of power to Indlup hands."' Indian leaders invited to meet the Viceroy include Mr. Jawahar- Jal Nehru, Vice-President of the Interim Government, Mr. Moha- ined Ali Jinnah, President of the Moslem League, and Mr. Dardar London, May 11. Baldev Singh, Sikh Minister of
war Defence in the Intorim Govern thousand dusky
fathers whose
were; ment.
War Babes Off To US
Five babies
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He promised to enquire into what the American correspon- dents described as "a news black-
food crisis out" on the present threat in the British zone-Reu- ter.
Berlin Talks
Mr.
ia
belleved to have discussed the
Berlin, May 10. Lord Pakenham, new British The Viceroy has also invited Miniater in charge of German American negroes will be ship representatives of Indian states affairs, saw the United States ped back to the US.
who were on the Committee set commander-in-chief, General mothers cannot The British
up to negotiate the representation Lucius Clay and the United fit them into life here and of the Indian States in the Con- large liner has been chartered stituent Assembly to me in a State political adviser, to carry the children to Amerlen. the afternoon of May 17-Rou- Robert Murphy today and
The chlidren's ages vary from ac-12 months to five years.
at lenst
10,000 There are the
Illegitimate coloured babies as Ho
"invasion." a result of the American Army
A colony will be established the other near Liverpool for
re.
Cactie Peak Rund are a thing and four bottles of beer. Chi Minh's party, namely unity pular rendezvous for parties The large manber of After tests, a jury quickly ac- and independence of Viet-Nam looted and uninhabited bathing quitted him of drunken driving inside the French Union, but it sheds are a great hoon to the charges,
Is opposed to the present Gov youngsters, who are thus able to Testifying on Jarstad's behalf.
Harper, obriety trument of Dr. Ho Chi Minh save on the high rate demanded Dv for the hire of tents on benches expert for Pasadena Police De- because it is of a Communist where no changing facilities exist, Pathment, said that Jarsted react- and totalitarian nature."Reu
ed three.une-hundredths scrond "quicker after taking the drinks than he did without them.
A. T. SHEPPARD DEAD
Cambridge, May 10.
William
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For the test, Jorstad was given four bottles of beer and a stiff Scotch and surfa-the same drinks. he had hod before his arrest.
Alfred Trossider Sheppard, Jewish -
author, peet and eritie, died in
Cambridge nursing home to-
day after a long lines. was 75.
Jie
Sheppard was best known as
an author of historical fiction. His novel "Here Comes The
He
Immigration
Lousanne, Mag 11.
ter.
Ho Statement
Saigon, May 11. President Ho Chi Minh of the
ier,
Hamburg, May 10. The French military govern- ment at Coblenz announced to day that the French Foreign Ministry intended to start trade talks for an exchange of goods 5000.
between the Soviet and French It has a private preparatory occupation zones of Germany.
other Reuter. and educational foellities will be boarding school provided as the children be ecme old enough.
to-
In Expert Hands Solicitor to the Negro Welfare. Viet Nam insurgent Govern- Suciety, E. B. Kendall, said to ment declared that France, daya liner has been promised should recognize the indepen- and the children wil anil dence of his regime and should gether under the care of experti den)
the doctors and nurses. with Indo-China in Rame "wise manner" as the United States dealt with the Philippines.
two The Jewish Agency today sent
At present, the babies are in institutions
with and a few
lu Amerlen,
The balloons, which were load- ed with explosives, were borne on eastward gales and remained aloft for days. Most of them, howover, ever found targets and informa- tion regarding the few that did reach the North American coast was withheld from the Japanese. The Japanese are reportal to equivalent of have spent the £50,000,000 on the balloon project which was a top secret,
'Nellore's
Unusual Cargo
When the as. "Nel- lore" arrived from Aus- Thousands of fishermen were tralia yesterday and tied
evacuated from the area and ape-
cial ronds and railways-built to up at Mackies Wharf, chemaleats she had on board an un- carry the balloon silk, and explosives from the main rall routes from the factories in Tokyo usually assorted cargo.
On deck, she had two 82-ton and other industrial
tug boats, two motor launches Otsu-Reuter,
and a work-boat.
Tegions to
Gangster Taken For Last Ride
Lodny.
The "Nellore" also brought 195 Australian poules for the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Tho theac work of disembarking animals and tranferring them to at Stables the Jockey Club Happy Valley was carried out without a hitch.
were
Other cargo included 100 tons of farm implements and about 600 tons of food to UNRRA.
Mr. W. Gockson, Managing San Francisco, May 11. German food altuation, which A score of police officers prow Director of the Wing On Co., threatens a recurrence of the led San Francisco's underworld Ltd., and Mrs. Gockson,
srarching for among the passengers to return recent crisis. The talk was of haunte
as downtown assusalps who gave by the "Nellore." Mr. Gockson ficially described, however, routine.
the Chicago gangster, Nicholas has been on a visit to Australia ade John, a last ride in his ex- Australian goods for the local for the purpose of purchasing Lori Pakenham ended three-day visit to the
British pensive eur.
market, zone in Germany by attending a meeting of the Ailled Control Colinell. He will fly_back Britain tomorrow.-Renter.
to
Germans Won't Carry The Baby
Berlin, May 11.
Responsible British officials expressed fear today!
A former Illinals racketeer, do John, who had been living in-1 cognito in hit palatial Santa Rosa home since he fled from the threat of sudden death at the hands of his former hench- men, was found strangled to death in car here yesterday. He had been garrotted with a
Female Equality
length of fine wire. His body Grouse
was stuffed in the trunk com- pariment al his luxurious station wagon convertible)
Lena de John. frall, dark-
ster, arrived here from Chleago |
This female
Tokyo, May 11
new.
"male- equality" ap-
that a number of municipal administrations in, skinned wife of the slain gang- the large British zone cities were on the verge today but disappoint the parently does not sit too of a breakdown because German officials were police who hoped that she could well with some of the unwilling to shoulder responsibility for the shed some light on the case. food shortage.
their mothers. The assertion was contained Mr. Kendall sald: "Most of in a written reply on questions these mothers Bre married
Japanese boys. The wife arrived from submitted
months
ago women and they've told us they
A Afth grader, Atsushi Nishi- This new angle in the de-la a visible Improvement In Chicago cnly to receive a second kawn, in a letter to the "Maini- Old Soldier" was rated among a memerandum to the Prepara. through underground channels. will be only too pleased to
shock. Her daughter, 14-year-chi." complains bitterly: "The the outstanding books of 1927, ory Commission of the Interna He said "when we obtain inde-send their coloured children to teriorating German food situa~ the food situation.
In the present circumstances, old Elizabeth, was missing. girls at our school now take our was also a student and lount Refugee Organisation ask-pendence we will cooperate in a
a place where their chances of tion was disclosed as leaders of
mine workers in the Ruhr de- they assert, they cannot be
The girl was reported mian-baseball bats, gloves and balls writer of history and biogra- ing it to set up a special depart brotherly fashion with France happiness, are greater. /
ment to care for Jewish displaced which we like and admire."
for law and ing from Santa Rosa since yes- away and play ball while we phy Reuter.
"I've had a letter from Mrs. frated a proposal, by Leftwing held responsible
a two day order.-Associated Press, Asked if he is willing to re- Roosevelt telling me she is in- Unionists to call persons.
terday when she obtained per- boys have to play something The memorandum said: "Jew-move from the Cabinet any
mission from the authorities of cise quictly Inalide the build-, Handed Back to protest the food shortages.
her Santa Rosa convent to look ings." STRANGULATION® at displaced persons have up members particularly objection- tereated and is organising funds strike of 300,000 coal miners
several occasions stated they re able to the French he replied
Union
Herford, May 10. representatives at- "The fate of coloured babies tending a meeting at Bochum,
for her father after he failedį sarded the Jewish Agency for that his Government "can make has aroused the American peo- a large majority opposed Communications SLAYING
The boy added his voice to The Internal Affairs and to return from + "business other schoolboys who, on a re- Palestine as their sole represen: any chunge to win Indepen-
Division of trip" to San-Francisco on cent nationwide children on the Tokyo, May 11, tative to speak on their behalf."
dence." Of the
holding French plo and workers new
the walkout on the grounds the Control Commission is be-Thursday-United Press. Police said tonight Sumi Ymna- The Agency estimated thut Commissioner, Emile Bollaert, concerts and meetings to raise that it would do nothing to al- ing disbanded under the policy da, 22, had confessed to the about 20.000 Jewish refugees
leviate the food shortage and of passing more power back to strangulation slaying of a 40-year have left Europe since April, 1946, and "we will wait and see money for their welfare,"
before forming an opinion."-
tension in the the hands of elected German ol Portuguese Japanese dancer, and said if the IRO provided
At about 8.30 last night, five the increasing Rumiyo Suzuki, whose body was more transportation immigration Associated Press,
men, four of whom were armed Ruhr and would retard badly provincial governments.
The division formerly, con- found In o manhele near a Tokyo could be speeded up.
Reports have reached Berlin
trolled education, police, Mr. Vernon Bartlett, M.P., will with revolvers, entered the Vick needed coal, production. estimated The memorandum hospital.
address the Rotary Club of Hong
104 Shop,
both -Wuppertal and The
Yamada ad- there were about 400,000 Jewish
Kong on "Britain, Russia and
graphs. mitted twisting the woman's refugers and displaced persons United States" tomorrow.
The up the inmater, decamped with Brunswick that the city councils
announced the world.-United meeting will be held at 12.30 p.m., Jewellery to the value of $2,808 | haya kimono around her neck.Asso. throughout
withdrawal ciated Press.
and $800 in cash.
from their duties until there
police suid
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civil affairs and posts and tele- and
U.S. LOAN FOR IRAN
streer radio programme, Jam- ented that "the girls now think they, too, are good.
Atsushi said he was on the school children's commilttes and tried to pass a rule that "ilia girls must not raise too much Teheran, May 11. rumpus in the classrooms and A high diplomatic "source corridorn." This was overruled All these functions, except sold today that the United by the girls. posts and telegrapha, will now States has tentatively agreed "If this is coeducation. I pass to the administration of to advance the Iran govern think it would be better if it the provisional German government a $20,000,000 to $30,- were abollahod," he wrote. menta under the overriding qu-| 000,000 credit for the purchase (The elementary schools al- thority of the local British re- of surplus military supplies and ways have been coeducational gional commanders-Reuter, * equipment.-Associated Press. but the boys formerly bossed
Coalition Cabinet In
Italy Possible
Rome, May 10.
the girls around)---Associated Press,
(London, May 11. The Ministry of Labour Is launching a nationwide campaign on Monday to bring's quarter of a million over 40'4” age group
Fremier Altide, de Gasperi conferred for the women back into industry. They third successive day today with Presiderit En-be employed in textile milis,
clothing and
abos: factories, rico de Nicola, and political observers said he leather workshops and other un- was still considering plans to weaken the left- dermanned industrien. Heater. ist strength in the Government by bringing alli parties into the Cabinet, Today's special cabinet meet.
ing was postponed until Monday while de Gasparri continued his litevy, achadule of conferences with political leaders and arrang-
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