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Ameri-
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Under hendimes Auch "Death non ra free and holdi carmisal" London
papers counted trind whirl, the "Daily Mail" said, revived "America's No. 1 problem that of the at- titude of the while to the negru population
Georgia,
Most reperle included verdiet of Sylvanin, where Jimmie Brown, 25-year- old negro, was convicted of rap- ing a white+ Wotan anal tenced to death after the jury debated for only three minutes, U.S. Criticisin
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.
S'HAI STUDENTS ARRESTED
Police Take Eleven "Agitators" Into Custody;
Clash In Peiping
APPEAL TO WASHINGTON
U.S. Asked To Stop Making Loans
Shanghai, May 23.
The Shanghai Police this morning arrested eleven alleged student agilators as students of 43 educational establishnænts-including, for the first time, both boys and girls' high schools--- went on strike in protest against the Nanking clash last Tuesday.
No
demonstration took place, although the strik- res were reliably reported to be organising, behind an iron curtain," a mass parade for some future date. Strong student picket lines stood outside most schools today, preventing outsiders from entering the campusus.
the clever pecun-nate
from crisis. rising announced at around $HOO,DOÐ
per picul, of
The
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but several went in to expres editorially that
The writers" was Latheef that slule's effort to conviel the de
fendants would serve cestent and a
warning.
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New C.N. Currency?
Nanking, May 23,
Investigations are bi jiro. gress concerning the adoption of a new currency system by China, Dr. O.K. Y The Finance Minister, revealed to.
2/ the meeting of the People's Political Council.
Dr. Yui said that he could en further detalls until the time ios - ripe. He said thest otthongh China should be self-supporting foreign Loans were, nevertheless, re quired at the present time.— Kruter.
Himmler's Aide Caught
Munich, May 23. Brig-Gen. Eric Neu-
EP298 conferezice given by 17 16. pesterday to $430,000 a mann, principal adjutant Shengine. Mayar, Dr. K.C.iend today. Wo. das said that they hast
TIT New Orleans "Tur.been talen into custoly UN According Plexyune," highly cestical of the charges of trying to esseres the others in student by to stage a general
verdet æ were NODIC the South, said it "must shanek | strilu every law-abiding citizen in the South."
arrest
of
Chinese to
des-
dis- (
Changchun Foreigners Evacuated
Nanking, May 23. The family of the Bri- Itch Consul-General, Mr.
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Tokyo, May 22.
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It will also serve as a con» sultative body in the develop ment of technical and admin- letraglive procedure to enauro arderly remaval poodide from Japan--Reuter.
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Exports Control Measure
It has been found necessary to inpose a measure of control on exports from the Colony to all countries in the North American Continent and the Republic of the Philippines...
of
A notice appears in the Gazette today to the effect that certain exports may only be made to any of the above countries if a licence is issued by: the Import and Export Department. This will only be granted pro- | receipt of shipping documents vided the applicant completes in ] by the bank in Hong Kong, triplicate a declaration (Green B. Payment through the Farm 2 A--Export),to the negotiation of bills drawn in effect that the foreign exchange the currency of the country of received from the sale of the the destination of the goods, goods wil be delivered to the or in sterling under a credit bank named in the declaration. Į registered" with the Bank
The licence after afgnature | England. will be submitted to the ship-
Payment ping company which wil} costá- tersign the export leence, and
Exporters should make
with their buyers note the number of the shipping rangement order for transmission to the for the payment of the goods Millions of tons of des- munifest. The exporter will be made by one of these tructive soil from the then submit the licence to the methods, and the documents which payment will be eventual- hunk in Hong Kong within one The U.S. Embassy announced suddenly crumbling No-ank in Hong Kong, through should be handed
tudani mountain. inly be made. It will not be nieces-week of the date on which the today that an American trans. port plane left Changchun for northern Japan today sary for exporters to submit ship carrying the goods left the
additional export declara-! Colony, Peiping at 1 p.m. Aboard were rumbled ahead at three n
tion in respect of goods shipped into contracts under previous the wife and two daughters of to six feet per minute, under the above licence. the British Consul-General, the swallowing homes and
has
been evacuated from Changchun as Commun- ist troops threaten the Manchurian city.
wife and daughter of the United States Consul-General, Edmund Chubbi and women employees American Consulate.
Tokyo, May 23.
Ar-
over to a
Exporters who have entered
The practical effect of the arrangements may apply in above will be that any person writing for permission to com- (Mr. devastating farmland, three Fragmentary Japanche prexu exporting to these countries plete their contracts to the As- Financial Secretary The reports from the atricken area, will be required to arrange to sistant of
Elgata, today sald the obtain the anle proceeds of the Exchange Control) with full The plane neur
had Inndalide
arently aub goods through one of the banks Particulars. also carried certain staff moms-
over 400 acres merged
and which are members of the Ex- bers of UNKRA.
The withdrawal was made in rendered 496 persons homeless change Blanks Association. Full view of the disrupted com-
in a community of approximate-instructions as to the methods approved by Government are ly 8,000 residents. munications facilities between
The mountainside collapsing being issued to the banks, but Changchun and blukden and the into the Nofu river coused the generally speaking these may
conditions In the
water to overflow and isolate be summarised as follows:- Changchun arcs, according to small villages, causing addition-
Methods United States Embassy state-al damage.
A. Payment in currency to
ment.
artillery corps estimated at 3,000 men, with thirty pieces of artillery and ten armoured cars.
Homeless residents last night the bank's branch of corres- took refuge in the local cle- pondent in the country of desti- mentary school.-United Press, Ination, either in advance or on
Yes, But Can They Make It?
London, May 23. The April trade re- turos confirm the extra-
coffee is making in this Iand of tea-drinkers..
All Armaments Must ordinary headway which
Be Controlled
to Nazi Gestapo Chief Peiping Clashes
Hummler, has been cap- patches today, clashes are con tured in Bavaria after a
inches in Piping between two-year search by the settled parler and students, some of American War Crimes Mayer Wu explained that The whom are said to have been Investigators. netian had been taken in order savnetted in the latest The "New York Times" sant- to show the students that the orders.
Neumann, as S.S. general. Dispatches reaching here to "There huss bern I victory for authorities were determined to
has been one of the most enger-day reported no major change Reports from Nanking state je sought of the German fug in the battle around Changchun. the low even, the gh Willie | enforce their proclamation of
that windentz representing 18) Earle's stayers will not be punt tast nucht. threatening
tives. He had been commander The main Communist forces universities and colleges today of the Security Police in Hol- are concentrating at Taling and shed for what they did, Mem- and toni bŷ martini faw
presented the National Govern land and Belgium and is was falshsokuo, northwest of the bers of the lynching mobs. strike pitators whether stment with an ultimatum stating a combat commander of Nuem-aity. These are sald to include may begin to fear that some day. Į drats or labourers -and pro- that if their demands are notberg. un sufficient evidence on with mising full protection stumplied with within threo days!
He is now in the custody of Southern dest willing to resume classes. they will proceed with their American war crimes prosecu
Student spokesmen, revealing "xt step." that 13 schools ar** now ti What this step is the student tors at Regenburg. He was strike, urtly express confidence spokesman declines to reveal.
found using an assumed name
Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain's permanent de- and working as a farmer near that more schools are expected
"Three Days"
legate to the United Nations, declared today to join the strike despite the
the Austrian border in the present. stern watering
that not only atomic weapons but all arma- of strike neighbourhood Berchtes Elchler, was picked up at the issuet by the "While the utheritier
continues we will give the Gov- gaden. The arrest was made on
same time on the Austrian side
ments must be controlled Internationally if erament three days to answer." May 9, but was not disclosed of the barder near Salzburg.
there is to be peace and security in the world. It is assumed Neumann will the student spokesman said. unil last Friday.
In a speech prepared for de-constructivo Retlon Cadogan answer is not democracy."-Associ. the price, rice took the big the
Neursunn
either be held for trial was reported to
livery to the Canadian Royal suggested that instead of por-| On the other hand, April Im- rest dingle jump for one day factory, we will take our next have Swiss and British money Dachau.or Neurnberg as a war Empire Society, Cadogan said, suing a discussion to a vote "it parts of ten, although they ro-
but thore step.
amounting to about US$62,500 criminal,
Government's that if only atomic weapons are would be well to make a prac-
*pecial If the reply is sálisfactory, in his possession when he was possibility that the Dutch controlled the old-fashioned tice of appointing a
efforts to build up the heavily he added, the students will con- | chugeht. An unofficial
report Belgians may ask for his ex-arms-guns, tanke, aeroplanes mittee to sit with the parties. nillion b. are despite that Rubcom-depleted #thek ̈knd, at 16.8. sider beraking their strike and | said an Associate, A Major tradition. Associated Press. returning to clauses,
preferably in private, to seek special effort-far below April, an acceptable solution."--Asso- 1938, when imports totalled 43.9 ciated Presk.
million. United Press.
sufeirnt
courage, 2 lynching case Jury will conviel." The "New York Herald Tribune said: "Mob law was at
least brought to trial"
The Chiengo Sum" salt:" They made sne propaganda for the Russions....playing right Ints the hunds of anybody who wants to Menwhile, a revival of la- magnify
shortcomings of bare opist is again feared as Amerkat
ated Press.
the
since the
beginuing of
the
French Revolution A Lesson For China
Nanking, Mya 23,
Delegates of the People's Political Council today strongly attacked the Government for alleged failure to fax "bureaucrats." One warned that similar failures brought about the French re- volution.
ernment's failure to tax bureau-
oppres.
Batis
On June 2. however, all uni- versities will call a strike "pro- festing against the civil war. the violence of the Government and against hunger."-Reuter.
Telegram
-Reuter,
Truman Statement On Aid Bill
at
or
and all the rest of It-will come into their own again. That is why we shall still have to tackle general disarmament.
"If the atomic bomb is con- trolled, we shall not have com- pleted our taak until we have the established control over
whole range of armaments us we know them and as we see their logical development in the future."
The United Nations Security Council is bound to devote its
Montreal, May 23.
Imports of coffee in Apri were 150,405 cwt, which is over twice the imports of 66,425 in April inst year and nearly dive times the 8,429 imported in 1938. Thus conrumption is run- ning at the rate of nearly fivo times that before the war.
flect
DUBONNET"
energies to a "balanced and re- THE IDEAL APERITIF
Hable control of all the arma- ments," Cadogan said.
He said that except in the case of "deliberato aggressors" the state will "maintain their armaments out of fear of their Therefore we Nations, cighbours.
have got to attack the cause of the disease-distrust,"
Kansas City, Mo., May 22. President Truman, after putting his signature to Professor C.C. Yu. former, cats, thus placing wo
Shanghai, May 23.
the Greco-Turkish aid bill, declared in a state- Dean of the Gallege of Liberalsive burden on the enmmun Nankai University -Arts, Puhtan University, annople. Ya'predicted a civil up-students of Tientsin this
ment that the United States in extending the authority on European history heaval in China if drastle meu afternoon told a
aid is helping to further aims and purposes and a University of Illinois sures are not taken immediate.
press "identical with those of the United Nations." graduate, led the attack. The|ly.
conference that they had| The statement said;-
United States is helping to fur- French revolution, he said, re The attack followed Finance handed a letter to the "The act authorising United ther aims and purposes Identiral
and Anited from the French Gov Minister OK; Yui's report to U.S. Consulate for trans- Turkey which I just signed is an
States anninlance, to Greece with those of the United Nations Our aid in this instance is avid- the PPC outlining Governmussion to members of important step in the
ence not only that we pledge our ment's programme for turning the Senate and the olive peace. Its passage by overwhelnt- support to the United back the soaring commodity
ing majorities in both Houses of but that wa uct to support I. Prices and meeting expenses of of Representatives urg-Congress is proof that the Unit
Negotiations the current fiscal year in aning the stoppage of any ed States earnestly desires peace with the passago and signa-
and is willing to make a vigor- attempt to stave off economic loans contemplated for cus effort to help create the con- colinpar.
The princiyat measures listed China, prior to the ces- were steps to bring idle capital sation of civil strife in inte productive enterprises, China. placing the tax system squarely
Croydon Air Crash
London, May 23.
A twin-engined "Vik-discipline among collecters and loans, given under whatever "In extending, the aid request- "We intend to make sure that
on taxpayera ability to Ugliten The letter declared:
reorganisation of the financial beautiful
"Bad Start"- ture of this act, our Ambassadors
Turning to the work of the ditions of peace. The conditions to Greece and Turkey are being of peace include, among other Instructed to enter into immediate Security Council, Cadogan said things, the ability of nations to negotiations for agreements
this body had "got off to a bad with the start" at its first meeting in maintain order and Independence which, in accordance and to support themselves econo-terms of the act, will govern London.
the "Your mically.
application of our ald.
In those cases brought before the Councf in the early days "it is difficult to avoid the in- names or pretexts, ed by two members of the Unit the aid, we extend will benefit al:
fed · Ñations for the
the peoples of Greece and Turference that the noon has been purpose ef administration emphasising the will be spent on civil war and maintaining these conditions, the key, not any particular group. prompted by a political pro- tightening of local financial con- will increase our misery and trofs.
| calamity, of which we have had
"I wish to express my appropaganda motive." It was revented that expenses enough. from January through to Anril "Think, gentlemen. Do you The machine, arriving from amounted to CN50,000,000,000,- want to invest in such an irra-Page two Verona (Italy) with three tons 000 with. Income totalling tional, unjust and disastrous Explosives in II.K.. Tunnels of strawberries, made a belly | CN$2,000,000,000,000, The total civil war?
Page three Innding when the landing gear expenditures from May to De "Had China failed to lay her Anglo-Soviet Treaty Talks collapsed as the plane touched cember are expected to total harida on your loans so far, Page five
CN$20,000,000,000,000.
ing" air liner crashed on Croydon aerodrome to day. No one was injur
ed.
down,
The crew of five scrambled to safety, Fire engines, stood by
nd petrol streamed from burst
Disbursement
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The letter further pointed out Page that the "fire" In China, with-
Blood
the civil war would not have, The Lights Go Out Very continued to this day.
Early In Stanley!!
Hong Kong Appeals For
•Donors Lending Articles:
munity's Thanks;
Empire
tanks and workmen hurriedly, the following scale: Army, 36Gut further "fuel," will equa die!
unloaded the cargo.
Disbursement was made on
Reconstruction, 17
por cent;
The plane, which carried no passengers, belonged to Hunting per cent; Rehabilitation, 15 per cent; General administration, 13
out.-Router.
faction.
elation to leaders and mernbarn
of both parties of Congress for their splendid support in obtain- ing the page of this vital legis-. lation."United Press.
Liberal Newspaper Threatened
As a means towards reaching
The Weather
A weak anticyclone extinda from NË Chins to Japan. - The northern depres jalors hua morad into the. J'acide to the
of Hokkaido. À saull debrosion: appéORTS to be developing to the N of Layla, Fres The "Hwa Halang Fao," Hong male lux vver & pad GW Chian
and Dorm Kong 'liberal Chinese newspaper,
Today's Forecast)--Moderato: 022 : winds, Cam-received a threatening letter early partly
cloudy with murning showerė: The this week stating that if the paper warm.
Yesterday's Weather did not stop publication within
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the Democratic Group' of the
Rekdinge ni The Malacanan-officially-an- CN$2,000,000,000,000 to the The US Commerce Depart Huge Luxury-Purchase-in Kuomintang Party of China, was nounced that the wrecked plane budget while inability to collect most announce export licence
Colony for Japan
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