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Success In
October Wedding Predicted: Announcement Promised Shantung
Philip Drives To
The
Palace
London, July 9.
The engagement of Princess Elizabeth, heir pre- sumptive, and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, former Prince Philip of Greece, will be offi- 'cially announced shortly, Reuter learned on
good authority in London today.
The wedding, it was stated, would not take place
before October at the earliest.
akt
Earler newspaper reports of!
In some respects the constitu-
sitination arose. Reuter.
engagement amencement ; tima! position is obscure as it bad made Laudoni sorbety and is a long time since a parallel British potalar opinion agog to- day for the fifth time since the Princess enne officially of age three year ago
Duchess Of Kent
London, July 9.
It is noteworthy that the Greek. hyerest, has heightened of hot Dutchess of Kent, who is a sinissant | coral of Lt. Mountbatten hus This ecension by the wording of the customary off-just returned from ʼn visit to her
disclaiming the other in Athens. cial talenveal
The Duchess pra operast
is understood to be a strong sup
BIG ROUND-UP
IN ATHENS
Aliens, July 9, The Government announced Today:
That it las arreated 1,000 Leftists including Dimi. trium Partisalutes, secretary peral of EAM, after To. et tring information that the Communlite and EAM were plannin Un prising, in Athens and Piraes within 24 kurs.
The roundup began early this morning and is continu- trip.-United Press,
Won't Have 'Em As A Gift
Nanking, July 9.. Government troops
of
Loch Ness Monster
Monster yesterday completed the
Keeps His End Up
Inverness, July 8.
If the American flying saucer epidemic is a plot to keep the tourist trade away from the Loch Ness monster, then it has failed, J. W. McKll- lop, county clerk of Inverness-Shire reported triumphantly today.
All hotels are filled and every day countless num- bers of eyes are trained on the 21-mile Loch, the deepest.in Scotland, to see if the celebrat- ed mönster will break the surface.
McKillop said: a flying Balcers are a pas fancy rage for the moment only. The minater, on the other band, has been attracking visitors here almos! 1,400 years."
or
Czech Mission
To Moscow
Prague. July 9.
"Long afler the flying New York, July 8. saucers have gone the way of Admiral Willinen Blandy, who the strange lights Over directed the Bikini stom bomb Scandinavla Inst year, the prople The King," said an official porter of the romance of Phlip tests, inughingly disclaimed any will be thronging to look over statement from the Royal Court in Elizabeth and a confidante of
connection between the Pacile the original monster his The Foreign Office spokesman at Buckingham Palnery "has not the Princess.
experiment und the flying descendants," he said.
today announced that n Czech yet nuthorised any statement ! 11 also in noteworthy that
saucers mystery.
McKillop saw the monster delegation, headed by Prime Adinir Blandy said: "We have tourist season
last on April 5 — just as the Minister Klement Gottwald and was getting off Foreign Alinister Jan Masaryk. been blamed for everything. Into a slow start,
left Ruzyne airport at 5.30
·cluding the weather, but I'm sur "He was about half a mile am. GMT for conferences in prised to find the Bikini test take out he recounter hopeful Moscow. a year to develop a flying saucer." visitors,
be runde aluat the engagement | Princess Alice of Greece, mother of the Princess H The King de-jut 26 year-old Phillip, is in Bri
a statement. it to. -United Press. eden te make will p out thanh chroneds
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The apparere of the words "yet" and "ir the King dt- vides in the formal drain! have aroused the peculating. Hea! there tight to something in the my that the Royal up tials would be formally neumed this wick.
Previous denials have warded excefully to say
-
Duke And Duchess
60
miles northwest of
ALLOWANCES
The allowances for Hong Kong civil servants pub- lished in yesterday's China Mail are a tempor- ary measure, pending consideration of the re- port of the Salaries Commission, it was off- cially learned yesterday;
Tsingtao after Several Requisitioning hours of street fighting. Rumours
Government dispatchen re- ceived today stated that the Nn-
Nanking, July 9,
Lionalist forces advancing from The Chinesa government la Kioshien, 20 miles east of Kao-planning to requisition and col- mi,, crossed the Yellow River on lect in taxes approximately July 7, entered the city yester-3,000,000 tons of rice during the day and completed its capture year, starting October 1, on the after street #ghting with the basin t estimates furnished Communist garrison.
during le conference on the The object of the advancing gonera! mobilisation order.
Besides Government forces is the clear-
rice purchased ing of the Communists from the through military requisition and Taingtao,Tainan railway. Late collection of tax in kind, addi. dispatches today also reported tienal grain will be collected the Government's capture of thorough a supplementary tax, Tung'ition, the Communist sup. detalle of which are not avail- ply buse, 27 miles north of Ishui | ob'e. in ecstral Shantung.
The Executive Yuan is xald Dr. Hallington Tong, Direc- to have approved a four point tur of the Government Informa-i programme providing for more
Im tion fee, told a press confer- effective unscription, as ence that in west Shantung, the proved system of taxation, chre Communists are advancing on ful maintenance of the funds Talan and Felhalen.
Press reports today said that 20,000 Cummalata are engaged in the Talan devault. Dr. Tong predicted now activity in Man- churia.
re-
"The Communiats are Of Clarence?
grouping their forcos, obviously | Huited Press learned that King
nt. A. communique said the dels preparation for fresh Georgy he decided to creste
"It was clear and fine undation would discuss a "broad- tacks," he stated.--Beuter. Princess Elizabeth and her New Commander In.Chief
of calm. just the weather he likon. Tening of economic relations B-{ Atlantic Flert, Admiral Then I saw a terrific turmoil on tween Czechoslovakia and the bridegroom the Duke and Duchess the of Clarence, probably khon after By said of the flying disen, the waters and a vast body begun USSR and also certain other their wedding. The inst person "I do not believe they exist."--to churn across the Loch at a questions faling within the to hold that Ile was the older | United Press.
great speed after which it dis- framework of relations between brother of King George V, who
appeared in water."
been Idled shortly before he was to have
that
the couple were not engaged. Then Princess of 'feck.
at the Palace has refused t
[been married to Queen Mary-
I drawn into betting the ul- trnate possibility of the match.
Romantic Figure The story of the engagement"
Sturk back to 1943. America newspapers freely linked the Priess with
FINANS
whes
(Continued on Page 12 Col. 7)
Effort To Stop Big Strike
Identified
Fort Worth, Texas, July 0. The object reported by Roswell Army airfiell to be a flying dise been identified by a Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather offer as a weather balloon.-As. sociated Press.
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AIR CRASH IN PACIFIC
Honolulu, July 9. As Army surgeon and four
- Parla, July 9.. two young Guards Officers, with Government officials confer- whom she „Černment'y went dane-red with Union leaders today In Ing-Lord Hugh Fitzroy, Earl almost last-minute efforts to ef Euston and Charles Man prevent the threatened strike of ners, the Duke of Rathod, the State employees scheduled to latter since married.
bring 1,500,000 men
off their medical entpsmen flew 1,900 mil Priser Thi'iple name
first juts at midnight tomorrow for from Dahu to the tiny Palmyra came up in late 1945 in the the biggest
che on Tuesday to give strike in recent form of reports through Greek | French history.
gency aid to the injured crow of ia. 7th Airforce C16 which eraghed coral reef on Monday. 02_1
On man lost an arm and a leg
atoll
· Monturelitst - efretes Notwith-The strike "would" "paralyse standing an immediate refuta-¡ practically all activity through- tion by the King's private secre-out the cuuntry affecting, 400,- when the ship crashed 30 sneend tary, Sir. Alun Lascelles, the 000 administrative employees, after taking off for Onhu. Te stury gained strength in popular | 240,000 Port Ofice workers, others on buard
are suffering discussion: mainly because of 100,000 subway, streetcar ant from shock. the news value of the Prince bus man, 300.000 public utility for help was picked up by an The Palmyra message arking hinet.
and Sanitary Department work-amateur Aaroin of King George ers, 200,000 State Arsenal em miles away in Audubon, New Jer
radio operator 6,000 i of the Hellenes, second consin ployees and some G,000 workersey, who relayed instructions from to King George VI, and 11 in the State match and tobacco a physician for emergency treat nephew of Lord Mountbatten. monopoly.-United Press. ment.Associated Press. the handsome young nava! Best- enabl breamen figure of ro-
maker.
Leutenant Mountbatten is t present a member of the Greek Orthodox Church but it is pro- bable that in due course he will be reetized into the Church of Ketland and it may follow that a British peerage will be conferred un bit.
The Privy Cornell met re cently and it is not thought that a further meeting would be necessary if an announcement ›of the engagement were to be
nade.
Many Preliminaries Some well-informed people
Vetter To Marry English Girl
London, July 8.
Werner Vetter, 22-year-old German prisoner of war sentenced to a year's imprisonment for "illegally consorting" with a British girl, is to be freed and allowed to marry the girl who is the mother of his child.
regula-
It WAS announced in the Answering questions about House of Commons today that the effect of the new British women will henceforth tions, Mr. Oliver said that the
the boll
of the two Ellica."
For
mental spirit of the new con- stitution" and the protection of the people'a rights.-Associated Press,
Chungking Disaster
It was also learned that the Salariés Commission did not participate in the discussions resulting in the revised living allowances. The Commission In atill hearing byldene
salaries.
The alowances disclosed yen- terday were approved by tho Secretary of State for Colonica,
Yesterday's detailed Flat
should be amended as follows:
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(1) Sterling-salaried married employees earning £1,000 to 1,100 per annum: a fixed al- lowance of 4285 at 41,000 fall- ing to 4235 · qt (£1,100 by 5 for every annual increment of #10,
(2)- Sterling-salaried unmar- ried employees earning 600 to 640 per annum; a fixed allow. ance of 2200 at #500 falling to 4144 at 4040 by £4 for every nnnual increment of £20.
(3) H.K. currency-an'arled ing unmarried employees en $8,000 to $10,240 per am.um: fixed allowance of $3,200 at $8.000 falling to $2,304 $10,240 by $64 for every annual Increment of 8160.
THE WEATHER
construction sud-Maximum: 84,5 deg. Fah.
Equal
18 4.0. 4 p.m.
at
Pressure remains, moderataly high SE of' Japans and over Dorneo and low over Burma and Indo-China. A, depression, 35 moving serowy Hokkaido. A tropical depemalom. is maring NNE nerơi · Kyushu, Nunking, July 9,
}: Túday's #recksti-Light or moderate FORGERY CHARGEore than 100 werkers were shery during the morning.
from Chungking, saldiz winde; mainly clouds with showers, traudulently obtaining buried under debris when a new Yesterday Weather- $3.000 by virtue of a forgad do- theatre under cument, to wit, a cheque denly collapsed early yesterday Sunshine R3 Souza.
(Mintniemi 23.0 deg. Fah.. porting to have been signed by Gertrude Spencer and well; morning.
Įtaff. Mak 0.34 inch. Total that There was little doubt
knowing the same to be a for- It was feared that- most of the since Jan. 1-116) (mas. ma against "certain other questions" in-gery. John Love
Spencer, 12 | workers were killed, but thus far MIT MYSTAYS of 1068.6 mm. cluded the Marshall
plan was Mass Hypnosis
Reading t remanded three days in which threatens a East-West police custody by Mr. only 40 bodies had been dug out.
The impact of the most of the (par. at ma......100.0 0.3 mb. McKillop says he is convinced Lant, arising out of the failure d'Almada at the Central Magis- levelled three nearby shops, kill. that the flying naucers are of the Paris conférence and the tacy yesterday.
D.3.1. Gordon is in charge of ing six women and children Rel. Humidity hypnosis,ney conference on July 12, at some form of mass
the case.
Glilled Press. nothing even remotely tangible which Czechoslovakia will be
the barrel-shaped body, raerent but the USSR will not. horned head, tusked
Meanwhile it was learned that chin and eyes as big as the wheels of an on Sunday Czechoslovakia re automobile which
detaled #t reputedly coved "highly
from Soviet make up the Loch Ness monster. | memorandum”
McKillop said, "Besides these Foreign Minister Molotov ex- saucer things in the air give the pluiming the Russians' people ericks in the neck. Now, for refusing visitors to Loch Ness can sit in Anglo-French comfort at waterside hotels and Paris. quaff cooling, liquids until the appears." United monster
AH
Press
New 'War' In Pacific
to
reasons
#t
Big Claim Against H.K. Government
accept the A claim amounting to more than HK$20,000,000 proposals
has been filed with the Hong Kong Govern- ment by the Chinese Ministry of Communica- tions, the China Mail learned yesterday. The claim has been made in Efforts to secure a state- respect of rolling stock, ironment on the subject from the rails and s'eepors which it was Hong Kong Government failed. said, the local authorities re- quisitioned during the emer.. gency perlad before the out- break of the Pacific War.
The memorandum was in the hands of the cabinet presidiam before it mot on Monday after- noon and decided to accept the invitation to the July 12 con- ference in Paris on the Marshall plan.
The l'oreign Offee spokesman said: "There was no question of pressure .on either for or
The local office of the Chinese Melbourne, July 8. against Czechoslovakia's partici. According to press reports pation in the conference the Ministry of Communications reaching Melbourne from memorandum was merely an ex-Raid that the goods were pur- Townsville, American niemen position of Russia's own posi-chased by the Ministry through Mossra. Jardine, Matheson, and from the Solomon Islands re- tion."-United Press.
Company, Limited. They added
port that Malatian islanders had! Rumania Refuses that the c'aim has been filed
declared war on the British settlement at Gundnenaal.
Bucharest, July 9.
from the Ministry's 'Shanghai
A special meeting of the Ruflice as the Chinese officials These lalanders, say these re-manian Cabinet today declined who were in Hong Kong at the ports, landed from their war to accept the invitation to the tint of the requisition, were canoes on July 8, armed with Paris Marshall plan conference. now in the northern port and spears and blowpipes.
The decision was taken without better acquainted with the situa- vote and no reason was given.
tion.
The trouble, say the airmen, started a week ago when the
At the same session it was de- British settlement received sup- cided that Rumania wou d
They said that the claim has. plies of flour and rice while the apply for membership in the been forwarded to the Hong Inhabitants of the other arca United Nations Organisation.- Kong Government through the were subsisting on fish and United Press.
Shanghai office of Jardino's. coconuts-Reuter.
Wealthy German
were expeting the official an be a'lowed to marry German wife of a repatriated German Sentenced
unement as early as tonight prisoners of war.
MITY.
#
ment.
Manila, July 0.
New Deal For The Menfolk
British men who, he said, "are very short of clothes.
prisoner of war would be al'ow.. After the War Secretary Mr. ed to remain in Britain aë or tomorrow morning. The wedd, Bellenger had stated he British-born subject. ding at Westminster Abbey
The Fourth Division People's statement He could not any when the re-
London July 9. could hardly take place before could not. make a October owing to the many pre- about Vetter because the find-gu'ution would be introduced to Court today found Ernest Berg,
wealthy German-born Manila Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of liminaries that would be neces-ings of the Military Court had enable a British woman to re-
of treason and Trade, forecast today a stepping up of Bri-. not yet reached the War Office. tuin her British nationality af- citizen, guilty "One formality which would numbers of the Parliament ter marriage to a foreigner, but sentenced him to life imprison-tain's exports of textiles and a better deal for
Mr. George Oliver, discussiona were under way have to be gone through would preaned.
Berg, business man, and be the obtaining of the assent Under-Secretary to the Home with tho Dominions.-Reuter.
naturalised Filipino citizen, was also fined US$7,500...
Judge Emilio Rilloraza. ruina that accused by selling war essentials ie the Japanese and dis. pioying the Swastika Bag had "openly betrayed his legally adopted country-the Phillp pines."-Associated Press.
· of Parliament to the marriage.
Office. to announce an im-
license marry to the jailed
Immediately on the engage- mediate application of the new
ment of the heiress presump prisoner of war.
tive to the throne, adjustments
would be made in the civil list.
Laughter, and cheers all but
At present the Prifféess recolves drowned Mr. Oliver's words or
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Calcutta, July 0. New outbreaks, of communal vloïenço In Coloútta“ and the United. Provinces have caused at frant deaths and more than 140 inlured.
Dispatches from Lucknow said 35 refugees in a bus were killed. The toll of dead in Hindu-Moslem rioting which began hero Monday rose to 39-Associated Ercas.
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Sir Stafford, who was ad te, in charge of the nation's dressing the annual conference clothes rationing, continued. of the National Union of Tailors. "The women-an usual-scom and Garment Workers, and that to have got away with it at the increased. exports of British expense of the more man," he textlies were "an absolute y'vital said. "But we are going to take need if we are to be able to the man's aide for the, moment ringe, this would be raised pro- Vetter got the full benefit of the
continue to impart enough food as we think that justice points hably to 60,000
and raw materials to keep the that way, and we are not going A Chinese pedestrian new regulations. •
killed and a ricksha coollu in-
country going.
to encourago what is a wrong Five members of Parliament jured in a motor accident in
"In every case we would pro- distribution of cloth to the do had tabled questions protesting Jordan Road last evening.
London, July 0. for to rond ?uothing abroad triment of men's wear.”—Reu- the severity of his sentence.
At about 7.00 p.m., a private Princess Katherine of Greece | rather than cloth or yarn, and ter.. Illa girl-friend is 21-year-old car. No. 1950, driven by MI arrived in England on Tuesday cloth rather than yarn, but of
Robertson, of 13 Playing Field Olive Reynolds, of Northeast toad, was travelling from the by rlano with her husband course that must depend upon Loadon. After the marriage, the Ferry along Nathan Road and Major Richard Brandram, Bri- what our customers are pro A Tass News Agency die will lose her British nationality in turning into Jordan Road, tish Army Officer now stationed pared to take," he added patch broadcast by Radlo Mos and will have to be content to knocked over a ricksha coolfe in Cairo,
The men's wear section of cow today branded as "routine live apart from her husband, and then a pedestrian. The They arrived from Amsterdam Britain's clothing induitry was fabrication, of Chinese resBUSINESS HOURS 10 A.M. TO 7.30 P.M. who will get no concessions bowie the ricksha, coolle was and are to visit. Major Brand "acutely short of material and tionaries charges that Soviet cause he is married to an Eng-admitted to Kowloon Hospital ram's parents at their home in men are very short of. o'athes," troops occupied-# city-in- Sin- lsh girl.
Kent Associated Press,
Sir Stafford, who is the minis- | kinng' province.--Votted Press,
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