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CHINA MAIL
No. 33858.
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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1947.
PALESTINE MOBS IN UNIFORM
British Armory Near Tel-Aviv Stormed
China Re-Bases Her Navy
in
Changes in the disposi- tion of China's Navy South Chinn waters were Jeported in messages from Canton last night.
China's Fourth Naval Base Headquarters is mov- ing from Yalin Harbour
#Hann stands to Canton to be close to President Chlang Kai-shek's Head- quarters in South China and to the Kwangtung Pro- vincial Government.
The Whangpo Navy Patrol Defence Bureau will move from Canton to Yulin harbour.
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new naval dispost- tions become effective [? New Year's Day.
The new navel move- ments are reported Lo be part of China's overall plan "for *Ledig with Com- murtists
organised smuggling.
Chiang To Visit Sth. China?
Bitter Clash At Damascus Gate
Jerusalem, Dec. 29:
A uniformed force stormed the British armory at Tel Litvinsky camp near Tel- One British soldier Wos
Aviv today.
killed and two wounded.
The attackers, believed by the police to be mem- bers of the Jewish underground, fled with nearly 100 weapons and 3.000 rounds of am- munition. The attacking force wore
steel helmets.
The fore gained entrance to killed by Jewish altackera i the British camp by catting All-Arab Bethelcher, apparent- barbed wire larricades. The at-ly in retaliation for the Jewish tackers then laid down a heavy doctor killed in nearby
Safafa yealerdny.
fire.
Tel Lotvinsky is a former American Army rest camp tent Eyetila airport.
In Jerusalem a grenade was
back door
uf thrown at the
Barclay's Bank, injuring on Jewish employee seriously and three others slighty.
Snipers in the Arab
morning. casualties.
nad
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Clearing-Up
Bet
Meanwhile, the British ad- ministration is under Are from
both Arabs and Jews, each ac- cusing the security forces of "taking sides.”
Senior officers of the adminis- tration and security chiefs of
Jewish quarters of the old city both the Police and Army will started an exchange of fire this]
thrush out at Jerusalem con- There were
ference tomorrow the whole of safe-guarding the At Rosh Pina, hear
the estion Syrian
border, a Trannjordan, highways of Palestine, it was learned authoritatively yester- Frontier Force convoy was at- tacked by a group of unidenti- day. fied persons.
fine Arah trooper was killed and another wounded.
At The Gate
Arab and Jewish newspapers today accused the administrn- tion of "breaches of neutrality." The Jews coupled their bitter criticism of the administration's failure to protect the Telaviv-Jerusalem. said to be virtually,in, the bands. al!
of a handful of Arab snipers
At least 12 Arabs, two Bri-:
constable and one Jew
main
Damascus
Gate
Background
Here is a little hackground to the Damascus Gate clash reported today. It shows the result of an earlier clash.
An
six persons, at Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Dec. 13.
Earlier Arabs had set a Jewish store Inear the Cen-• tral Police Billet) afire, but no casualties were inflicted. A Rádio Photo.
a
Arab Policeman shouts for an Ambulance ns
carries
critically wounded young girl struck by shrapnel from a Jewish "Rivet" bomb, which killed
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BANKING BILL HANDED
TO SELECT COMMITTEE Need For More Clarification Urged
| The Banking Bill, which calls for the licensing of all banks and banking busi- ness in the Colony, and restricts their operation to companies, was reter- red for further consideration by a Select Committee after it passed its second reading at Legislative Council yesterday.
The step was taken on the motion of the Hon. Mr.
M. K. Lo, who suggested that the definitions "bank" and "banking business" required clarification.
He also questione, the neces- ;
"There may be one or two
sity of restricting banks and other points which require or banking business to companies deserve further consideration. only.
Mr. Lo said: "There are one or two points
further which deserve
con sideration.
"There is the question of the definition of the terms bank' and banking business,"
"As at present worded. these definitions may possibly include businesses which it is not the bject of this Bill to include. whilst on the other band they might possibly let out some businesses which it is the ab- fret of this Bill to inclule.
ter
for
"I respectfully submit Your Excellency's consideration whether in all circumstances you should not think it right before proceeding to the Committee stage of this Bill to refer it to the consideration of such a com- mittee of this Council as Your Excellency may think most up- propriate."
Endorsement
Endorsing the motion, the Attorney General (Mr. J.B. Griffin) sald:
"The honourable member has characteristically put his finger the most fundamental portions of the Bill.
on
Are
"Vital Point" "Clause 3 rnises a very im- portant and fundamental point. "The problems have in fact "It seems to me to be a mat- received already most serious
for serious consideration, thought and consideration.
"The definitions for further consideration, as to
pro- the best that can be whether the object of this Bill bably cannot be attained without re- evolved to meet the objectives
in future. sorting to the revolutionary ox- pectient or declaring ns a matter) of statute law that banking business can be carried on only by Incorporated companies.
Kunming Hunt Warplanes Mass To
highway For Radium
of
Jerusalem's historic. Damascus with a protest against the gate after Jews hurled grenales
disarming of squads and sprayed an Arab bus with Haganah. Jewish defence or machine-gun bullets.
delniled to Kanisation
guard Jewish convoys.
.
President Chiang Kai- shek is scheduled to visit South China in March, tinh according to the Wah were killed in a clash Kiu Yat Po yesterday quoting reliable local banking circles close to to the Chinese Govern- The clash began with the grenade and machine-gun at- ment.
The Arabs complained that The report added that the tack by necupants of a Jewish the British were discriminating sources forecast
Important taxí.
Aituation change in the China
Two carloads of Arabs then by providing armoured escorts within the next
vehletes in months gave chase and sverhauled the for Jewish convoys while leav
ing Arab which will include exter-taxi in about a mile. The Arabs mination campaign against the killed one Jew and woundet areas unprotected.
King Abdullah of Transjor- : Communists and the another, then brought the taxi dan has asked Tawfig Pasha strengthening of the National back to the gate and get it Abu El Hudr to form the new
Cabinet after the
Chinese
"
Government.
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three
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President Chiang. continued the report, will shortly issue an important Proclamation in which he will announce the decontrall- sation of certain Central Govern- ment powers to be taken over by the individual provincial Gor-
ernment.
afre.
An unconfirmed report said one of the Jewish attackers at Gate was shot the, Damascus
The and killed by the pelice. others escaped but their car was captured.
An Arab Government physi- clan. Dr. Mikhail Maaluf, was
|
Jewish
resignatia
of Rafai Pasha, the Pring Minister, the British controlled Near East-Arab broadcasting station in Jerusalem stated Inst night-Associated Press United Press and Reuter.
Moshe Snel Resigns-Page 9.
CHINA TOLD U.S. "WILL BACK MOVE FOR DEMOCRATIC REFORM"
Pelping, Dec. 29.
U.S. Ambassador Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, in a "message to the Chinese people," sald today if the forward elements in China press on toward democratic reforms "American aid could help in this time of emergency both by in- spiring new hopes and by supplying technical advisers and certain forms of material assistance."
Dr. Stuart delivered his mesterested and is chiefly concerned sage in an address before his with) their daily livelihood, bu! farmer Yenching University Intellectuals, non-partisans, liber- Journalism students, issuing anals and most of all journalists authorised summary to against misquotations.
Marriage In The
guard should stand for both the rights Mass Is Popular
and duties of citizenship in the Republic
Shanghal, Dec., 29. The French Consulate- General in Kunning has organised search for
- consignment of 104 milf- of radium, which grams was lost when the Belgian four-motored airliner crash- ed there last Monday.
At the same Ume, it has offered
of CN$20 reward million for recovery of the was eintained cargo. which In a lead-lined box and de- stined for the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute in Shang- hai-Reuter,
HOLIDAY
Meet
Mukden Push
Shanghai, Dec. 29.
Chinese Government warplanes in Manchuria went into action in a big way in the past 24 hours as the Chinese Communist converging movement on Mukden made further headway In face of bitter Government opposition, says Reuter.
According to latest Chinese; ing their belongings in bundles press reports, Government niris pouring into Mukden from all ayundrone operating in relays directions. were engaged. in night-long bombing and strafing in sup- port of their ground forces bat-
In Hopei
In Hopai Province, the Com-
It is also right the legis
should lation, if it passes,.
restriction of bank- require ing business In the future to companies.
Motor Bus Service
To Resume
A number of new condua- tors and drivers have been recruited by the China Mo- tor-bus Company, which ex- pects to resume the city's the bus service as soon men have completed their training and passed the necessary driving tests.
With these men, the cut- pany hopes to resume run- ning buses to termiut not served by tramcars such as the routes to the University. Repulse Bay. Stanley and Aberdeent.
Legislative Council
Bills
"But I see nothing but ad-j The Hong Kong and vantage in further coneldera- Shanghai Banking Cor-
tion of this Bill; and I do not
oppore-in fact I support the Poration (Reconstruction proposal,
of Records) Ordinance, The Bill was then put to the 1947, passed its first read- vote and carried --unanimothalyzer
fing in Legislative Coun-
cil yesterday..
Committee The following members Council
of
were named by the The Bill is designed to afford Governor to form the Select the Bank same facility as is e- Committee to give further con-je:rded to companies registerci sideration to the Bill:-
under the Companies Ordinance The Attorney General (Chair-to issue new share certifientes to replace certificates lost during man), the Financial Secretary, the war. Mr. M.K. Lo and Mr. R.D. Gillespie,
Hopes Fade For Victims
I
ting against Communist mobile munist commander has thrown Of Kina Wreck
Bills which passed the second und third rending at the same
FLEXION
were:
Deaths Registration (Special Registers Ordinone). 1947, {" empower the Registrar-General of Birthe and Deaths to cpen new Registers of Deaths to re- place those lost during the war. units in the outskirts of the four divisions into an all-out! offensive against Government;
(Retirement of Manila, Dec. 29. Police Force city.
The agents of the One of these units is said to keypoints along the three main
East Asiatic] Officeruj Ordinance 1947, to pro. the vide payment of pensions and have penetrated to less than ten miles from the north-west be. cording to an official announce- "Kina" sinking were taken by rug gratuities to Police officers who fore being discovered and "an- ment issued by Nanking's High to Masbate, 230 miles southeast of have elected to retire under cir- Maniin, and will be flown here to cumstances which otherwise Command. nihilated."
would not entitle them to such morrow.
missing persons pensions and gratullits.
railways in North China, ac-Line day said 24 survivors BY I.O.U.
BARRED
London. Dec. 29.
The Government stepped in today to prevent Britons enjoy Ing "pay-you-later" vacations abroad.
(Continued an Page 2)
No trace of the
was planned Protected Places (Safety) air search to- | (Amendinent) Ordinancs 1847.
Five survivors in the Santo Tontas) Before Council, rose, and ad- Hospital here were responding well Journed to Jan. 14, the Governor to freatment and were reported in wished all member a Happy good condition.-Associated Pres...... New Year.
Though strict press
A severe battle is at present censor ship, was imposed on December raging about ten miles north of was found today, and 26, in Mukden, a reliable source Paoting, provincial capital of discontinue the in Nanking this afternoon told Hopei, with the latter's gorri-morrow. Reuter that Communist air- sen locked in a desperate strug- pinnes were also used "for the gle with a force of some 80,000 British vacationists have been first time in Manchuria yester- Communiata. arriving in Switzerland alone al day, in the vicinity of Mukden, the rate of 100 a week despite where flerce fighting has been the Government's ban on either raging in the past three days.
However, the Ministry of or Apending money | taking
National Defence and Head- abroad for pleasure,
Air It is understood that most had quarters of the Chinese arranged to give hotel pro- Force in Nanking have received prietors "IOU's" to be honoured no reports. General Chou Chin
Commander-in-Chief reatrietions Jou,
of when the currency are relaxed.
the Air Force; refused to con- A Treasury official said: Arm or deny the reports and "Any credit scheme where a hill would not comment.
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TOLL OF
RUIN FROM GROWS
"JEAN"
TYPHOON LARGER
Manila, Dec. 29.
Delayed reports from provinces lashed by Typhoon Jean" brought the over- Is to be pald when present Mukilen's half-million popu-
all death toll due to the storm to 20 and indicated damage to property restriction are relaxed is illegal." lation were kept awake most of
Chief Inspector of the night by the din of was much above the previous overall estimate of US$5,000,000. Detective
The town of Mauban in the Other provinces hit by the Pacific, and, will not approach In the summary he told the
Five couples, staff members Wilfred Tarr of Scotland Yard numerous little battles fought
province of Quezon (formerly typhoon included Leyto, Samar, any closer to Japan. students
He eald the Government alone of the China Book Company, is expected to visit Switzerland in the guter perimeter. there was a "good could not make the constitution were married at a mass marti-Room
Rizal, Investigate "IOU" Even the sound of rifle fire is Tayabas) was one of the worst Bulacan,
Pampanga. The storm passed 20 miles .chance" Congress approving a effective, Much reforms
and south of Okinawa on Sunday now, plainly audible in the city. sufferers, with an earthquake Cavite, Laguna, Masbate were age ceremony on Sunday at the vacations: ̧‚""programme that seemed to needed, he sald, but with "freeTing King Restaurant.
Franco Ha visita, to
afterncon, Meanwhile, despite sub-zero and tidal wave coinciding with Sorsogon,
proceeding sure any money given would be dom of speech, the press and as- Commercial Press staff mem-
snow- the typhoon.
The Red Cross and other re- Aweeping north-easterly curve used for the purposes it is in-sembly and with properly carried bers will hold their first masa Switzerland earlier this year re- temperature and heavy tended."
unending No loss of life was reported lief agencies were acting swift-with its wind velocity dropping He said the State Department out elections the people can, by marriage on Jan. 4 when nine sulted in scores of prosecutions. fall, a seemingly
stream of refugees, each carry- from Mauban, but 60 per cently to extend relief to typhoon below 45 miles an hour.--United processes, bring about couples will be married.
of the houses were demobished. victims.
Press and Associated Press. was eparing to present such reforms which many within the programme to Congrées' next government itselt are anxious to
making thousands homeless.
Manila arca alone
democratic
month, but it is too early now res effected......
to say anything more definite."
The American
government
Dr. Start said: "I pointed out and people want preelacly what
a constitution is now put into most
Chintas desire for their
effect but many people doubled country unity, peace, economic
-United Press.
and
Scotland Yard To Keep After
Jerusalem, Dec, 29. whather it could be anything recovery, and a truly democratic After British withdrawal from mate than a paper constitution,
combina. the Holy Land, Britain's feet- government-and this "That accmod to me to dependtion, holds out hopes, if heartily land Yard will continue the upon the people of the country undertaken, for all concerned." search for Irgun Zval Leumi and A great mass of these is not in- Dr. Stuart, sald "under these Stern Gang gunmen and ter-
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