No Work Communist
Yet On "Sai On"
The burnt out balk of the Bong Kong Canton river steamer "Sui On," which was swept by fire an she lay alongside the Tung On Wharf at 3 a.m. on Feb. 4. Just prior to departure for Canton is al prezent lying off Shamshulpu
The ship was towed to her pre. Muni anchornste
after shortly religious trivier were held at the what for the souls of the 130.odd to passengers who were burnt death in the course of the fire.
Enquiries made yesterday by the China Mail" of the Tung On Steamship Co., owners of the versel, elleited the information that ship will not be going in.
to dock for repair and overhaul for some time to come.
Hawkers Charged
b
Five more hawkers (our and a woman were charged be ture Marine Magistrate Nell Gar- land yesterday for barding the
"Hong Kheng" without" per- Intel, and each was fined $40 or 14 days. An absentee had his bait of $50 exfrented.
Explaining the procedure for to hawk on getting pertaissi
board ships, Sul-inspector A. E
State
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947. *
Drove
Deputies Deputies "Lose"
"Lose" Without A Council Seats
National Mobilisation Plan Approved Designed To Suppress
CHEERS FOR
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London, July 17. Load cheere from all pirts of the Hour of Cammans prected Mr. Winston Chur rhill, tender of The Opposi tion, then he made his first the Chamber appentance in
tutup since his recent ogava» tion. He ma looking v well.
the
Welcoming Mr. Churchill's return, Mr. Herbert Morri son, Ford President of Council, who was speaking at the time, muid that Mr. Chur- chill han made a remarkable recovery, and awid broakter. added: “All the signs ure that we stall have trouble wett him.”—Reuter,
Tate said ship's agents band a Chinese Get
certain number of hawker permita And these were taken to the Water Police for endorsesment,
The defendants
hawkes
Heences but not the permit of the agent of the vessel concerned.
Together With Japs
For currying 12 passengers oft
motor junk
which Wax 10 1- lowed to carre any, the coxswain A wn, Aned $200 or six weeks hard tabur, in default. I ple that they were not passengers but only Lakin of a sister junk belonging To the same owners, who were being repatriated to the cuntry, Bot accepted,
Rebellions
Nanking, July 18.
The State Council today resolved to deprive the Chinese Communist Party of its seats in the National Assembly, the State Council and the People's Political Council, the latter body be- ing the only one in which the Communists ever participated.
At the same time, the Council approved a plan for implementing the National Mobilisation De- cree which will be effective upon promulga- tion by the National Government tomorrow of Sunday.
The meeting, under the chair- mr ship of Generalise in
İALA Chiang Kai-shek, also reports by the Foreign Minis- fer, Dr. Wang, Shih-chich, the President of the Control Yuan. Yu Yo-jon, and the Defence
R.N. Party's Battle
With Jews
Minister General Pai Chun With
Jerusalem, July 18, The refugee ship "Exodus 1947" {+x-Pres. Wurfleld) nent repeated radio distress signula describing a pitched battle between illegal |. migrants and a Eritish boarding party nnd eiging the ship was "partially destroyed and taking water."
In line with the stilleng Government attitude toward the Rod rebellion, the Counell Communist voted to deprive Deputies of their seats in the euntry three most important policy making boylies, Previous. Tsingtao, July 19. ly pets had been held in these Chinese
dispatch bulies for the Communists in Juras from Tainan, capital of Shan what Government said was 5
The broadcasts, relayed by the Tung, id a Chinese military | manifestation of Government's teganali station, "Voice of tribunal nequitted 14 Japanese | good faith toward the Coalition Israel,' said one Jew was killed officer's charged
with war | Governtrent,
and 25 seriously injured in the crimes, including Colonel The nubilisation plan em-ighting in which British blue. Yamaoku.
of the powers Government to outlaw jackets commander
used tear gas bombs, Benefit of the doght was given Japanese gendarmerie of Tsi- [ strikes pod lockouts and to in-grenades and machine-gun fire. to two motor boat eixugains who
on during the war.
junse price, wage and commodity The Erish naval authorities pleaded not guilty to mooring out-
The dispatch said that after contro's. The plan, according do not confirm the reports, but side three other craft alongsid the gangway of the 1% Trevthe acquitta! the officers of the to: the allicial text, is designed say a prize crew has been put "lapress Communist aboard a blockade runner and is the duly
tunal entertained the former ta prisoners at a sumptuous emeracy and to realise a con-Halfa.
bellion. remove obstacles totaling 11 of a speed of 13 knots to ner during which the guests
given a
the titutional government."
The Public Information Office lecture on
13.
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Defendants admitted they mr
Ved alongside ürer other junks but said the Best Junk Dearest the ship was not abreast of the gang way but was in front of it. 75 climb on to the gangway one dig to not from the side of the junk but from the stern.
The charge was dimnisspel,
were
"magnanimity" of the Chinese. Military and labour con-annuunced that a ship was *x- The guests apparently concurscription, requisition of neeca- pected at Haifa harbour at about
sary material and suspension of noon -- United Press red for they enthusiastically
freedom shouted banzai three times. -
of assembly, where Associated Press,
necessary are included in midi- tion to subsidies to vital indus- tries, reform of district ad- increased and
"Parasite Fighter" Air Force Latest
Washington, July 17.
The U.S. Army Air Forces have under production a new type of fighter plane that can be carried In the bomb-bay of a B-36 heavy bomber and launched in midair to fight off an enemy al- tack. This new type of "parasite fighter" is at present under construction at the McDonnel manufacturing plant in St. Louis. It is de- signated XP-85.
A small fighter, the plane has jet engine and is expected to have a speed approaching that of the P-84 which recently set a world speed re- cord for the AAF at Muro, California. The AAF will not comment on The huge B.30 other plane the characteristics of the plane will be the mainstay of the AAF's either as to its size, performance, long range strategic striking Tange or speed. But AAF officers force, eventually replacing the Buy It will be launched in midair B-29--the longest-range bomber and that it can return to the at present in operation. mother plane,
The mother plane has a 183, The B-30, bomber six.engine foot fuselage and a wing spread of tplana constructed by Consolidated 230 feet. The AAF says it has a Vulter-has undergone ita Initial |iñaximum speed of 300 m.p.b. flight and is wafting ground tests The wing tanks alone hold 2.115 at Wright Field, Ohio, the Armygations of petrol and 1.200 gallons Air Force testing centre. The of oll, or enough to serve B.30 is a bomber which the AAF average motorist for about says can carry an atomic bomb to yours.-United Press. any inhabited region in the world and, return home without refuel ing,
PARADE FOR "MONTY" :
an
20
Pinistration
tnxation.
The plan was passed with lit.
Raped, Murdered
tle revision, its final form being
San Diego, Calif, July 18. virtually the same as that draft- A pretty divorcep who set out can submitted by the Exceuon Wednesday night for an even. tive Yuan-United Press. ing of dancing was found murder. cel on Thursday, her ravished body thrown into a clump of
Also......
Informed sources said the State Council also:
bushes in a city park overlooking that the Pacific Ocean with the mark
of
strangler's noose on her
WEDEMEYER IN
CALIFORNIA.
Fairfield, Calif. Julý 18. Jt. Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer and the six mon who will help him make a furt-finding survey in China and Korea for President Tru
non arrived by spocidi trans- Sport plane today frou Fashingtoni. After a seven- hour layover, the plaza is scheduled to depart far Hawoü, where it in Friday.—A szuelated Press,
Licence
Charged with driving without a valid licence and failing to drive on the left side of the road, David Lee, 40, merchant of @ Gap Noad,! second; floor, was fined $100 on the first charge and cautioned on the second when he appeared bo- fore Mr. FX. d'Almada at Central yesterday.
For the prosecution S.I. Reddish told the court that at about 11.15 p.m. on July 17 he saw grey car of American malce, number unknown, which, on the appronch of the police car, drove off at a fast speed towards Queen's Road Central.
He gave chose and on rerchlug Heancary Road he saw lefon-
dant's cor in the centre of the rond. He drew alongside and asited him to give room but with no result. The police car had to follow and was only able to over- take when near the Central Fire Station. By this time the other car had disappeared. Defendant hod
a learner's licence which had expired on July 4.
Second Drawing For Jap Ships
Tokyo, July 17.
China got two destroyers and six destroyer escorts, totalling 8,450 tons, in the second lot drawing this morning of 92 former Japanese naval ships divided among China, the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia.
The drawing of the third lot of 28 ships will take place a few weeks lator, Vice-Admiral R. M. Grilhus, Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East (who presided over cere- this moraing's simple mony), declared,
Britain today carried off thei palm-three destroyers, and five destroyer escorta, totalling These ships will 8.910 tons. short'y sal for Hong Kong.
Soviet Russia received the sume tonnage as China and America-8,600 tons.
U.S. To Scrap
Commander Griffin disclosed
Stowaway's Death Mystery
Montreal, July 17.
Six American crew members an the freighter Marlag were held for questioning in the death of stowaway aboard after a mystery which is proving a puzzle in Manila and Shanghal
admitted they Two suspects an smuggled a stowaway.
ቢና
identified
C. H. Heilmeir, aboard the ship Shanghai, The police here and
the Shanghai authorities inform that the Ave destroyers which ed them Heilmeir had sold his in went to the United States will
L
terests as half-owner, in Shang be scrapped. He expressed | hal's Yankee Cafe and had satisfaction over the "interna- US$8,000, with him when ha tional couperation" In the divi- boarded the Maring.
The authorities here wald the sion of the 92 Japanese vessels. He said he has been in favour money had not been found.
The suspects, whose names were of early lot drawings so that the United States might know not disclosed. all admitted they
knew the
had died xtowaway which ships should be scrapped (His body was found in and more work should be put on locker last April 25 and buried at utility ships alloted to the other coun- sea off Manila.)
tries.
police abandoned The
the 1. Appointed Mr. Yu Sci-throat.
theory that the man had been teng, former Minister of Com- Mrs. Marion Davidson Newton, munications, us Food Micister 36, of Canada, was last seen with Rear-Admiral Andrei Stetsenko placed in the utility fucker where In this morning's ceremony, murdered and now believe he war to succeed Mr. Ku Cheng-lung. an untdentified man at 11.30 p.m. represented Soviet Runala, Cap- he suffocated under the
2. Ratified the Sino-Portion Wednesɑay in a night club. gucse treaty, whereby Portugal | The police said the body was tain N. W. Bard the United degree heat.-United Press.
Slates and Captain- V. N. relinquishes extraterritorin! | apparent y thrown from a car rights privileges in China. into the busaes beside a se.dom Surten, Britain.
The ilestroyers in the second 3. Heard a 20-minute report used dirt rose from the Foreign Minister. Dr. It is the seventh "Dahlia type" lot are of three classes, · 1,580 Wang Shih-chieh on the Japan-¡ of slaying since January in tonnera, 1,539 tonners and one ese pence conference,. Dr. Wang uthern California. The first destroyer that went to Britain stating that China will support victim, Elizabeth Short, was
displaces 1,270 tons. All ships Britain and the United States. black-haired, pretty girl addicted are at present. scattered in
4. Heard a report from the to wearing black clothing Yokosuka, Susebo, Kure
Maizuru.-Central News, Minister of National Defence, United Press. General Pal Chung-si, who ex- ressed satisfaction on the pro gress of the battle in Manchuria and Shantung-Reuter,
OPIUM DEN
For keeping an opium divan at
Scholarships For U.S. Students
Washington, July 18.
and
No. 196 Queen's Road West, 2nd President Truman today acted to allow seven Far
floor, Tang Fung, 54 was charged before Mr. FX. d'Almada at Central Yesterday and fined $600 or a month's imprisonment,
Three smokers found un the premises were all fined $20 or two days. -
Eastern countries and areas to devote pay- ments for surplus property. to financing the education of American students abroad.
It has a normal range of 10,000 miles with: 10,000...Ib. of bombs without extra fuel tanks.
The extreme range of the B-36
Yokohama, July 18. makes it virtually impossible to
Mr. Truman appointed a ten-scholar to England, said the design a fighter plane that can
Announced that the It was
man board of Foreign Scholar-programme should be 20-times go the entire route with it to pro- Eighth Army would conduct a
ships to select American students. larger than the Rhodes Scholar- for. Field vide protection. If such a plane review and purade
to study abroad under the Ful-ships. He said students living #will. were designed, it would be slow Marshal Viscount Montgomery,
Appearing on remand You bright Act, which covers annual among foreign peoples and not able to compete against Chief of British Imperial Gen Chung, 71, merchant and Wong expenditure of US$7,000,000. because of their experience and short-range Jet Aghters. do the cral Staff, on August 6 at 10 Lei. 2, widow, were further re- Over US$3,000,000 is avail. understanding, exert a powerful AAF decided to design a fighter atm. In the Imperial Plaza in mauded for a week by Mr. F.X. able in the Far East as fol- influence for peace." plane that could be carried within Tokyo.
d'Alunda yesterday on a charge lowa: China 20 million, Nether-
Mr. William Benton, Assistant the bomber. The result is the Li-Gen Robert L Eichelberger, of poseersion of opium and the lands Indies seven, Australian Secretary of the State Depart-1. XP-85.
commander of the U.S. Eighth possession of an opium pipe fit five, Siam four, Burma three, ment which will administer the Army, sald units of the First for smoking oplum Ball for New Zealand 2.3, Philippines law (benefits for whith 12,000 Cavalry Division would contri-first defendant was allowed in the two:
students, including bute, troops, who will march in sum of $2,000, half cash and half Senator Fulbright, author of veterans, have applied)
Field Marshal surety. Second defendant was the law and himself an ex- "Excess war materials which review before Montgomery-United Press.
AAF Mainstay
AAF officers refused to reveal just how the midget fighter plane is launched and received back by its mother ship.
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