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CHINA MAIL
No. 33934.
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948.
NANKING DELEGATES REJECT GOVT.-SPONSORED LAW
In A Highly Critical Mood
"Summer
·Time'
April 10 has been provisionally, for
fixed,
the begin. ning of Suminer Tine In Hong Kong, the "China Mall" learned last night.
The date being a Sunday, ail clocks will be put forward one hour during the darly hours of the morning.
Shanghai
Shangnai, Mr. 31, Whether the City Guvern ment is superstitious
not,
It postponed at the very last minute the institution of day.
light saving time on April Fool's Day-April 1.
AB
The Government had nounced daylight saving time would begin on April 1. even had inserted advertise- ments In papera instruating people: "Don't call us up. Just your clocks hend one
hour.
Now the new time will not go into effect until May 1- Associated Press.
New Cable, Wireless Building
Ten Still On Semi-
Hunger Strike
Nanking, Mar. 31.
Loud shouting delegates wha at times brought dis- order to the National Assembly auditorium today delayed the election of the Presidium by rejecting the Government-sponsored "organic law and returning it to the Legislativa Yuan for rovision.
Officials said that in a special session the legislators would eliminate the objection and return it to the Assembly tomorrow in order to avoid any delays in completing formal organisation.
tion. His entry raises the list of Kuomintang contestants ait members to five. Menilers of the
Seals Go
On Strike
Stoke-on-Trent. Mar. 30. Georga Clarke, circus managar, complained today that his two performing sea. Hons were on strike because of the sudden herring short-
"They simply won't
por. form unless we feed them herring," said Clarke. "They won't eat anything else," United Press.
Australian Found Hanging
Opponents of the law insisted the Presidiunr shandd have more
Mr. W.E. Benfick, stated to be thon 25 members, which is the
Australian aged about 50 maximum set by the Legislative
Kuumtalan years, was discovered by a colle Central Committee said the com- of the Peninsula Hotel about 6 Yuats, since the new Conslitu-
mittée would abstain from muka.m. yesterday hanging fron the mal Assembly expanded.
ing a formal norrination, permit-scape Life was found to Delegates were in a highlying all Ove to fight for election extinct, critical mood and objected to
The deceased had been living The Assembly will resume its in the Peninsula Hotel stud July almost everything-including
und preparatory sessions tomorrow in last year the modern electric system by
wi ncrupying an effort to conspicte organisa- Re in 548 before his death. which votes are counted.
tion and election of the Presidlum He was last seen alive shurliy the withom excessive delay, officials after midnight by the of the dispute between the Kuomintang | said.--Associated Press,
lift-boys.
Awaiting element was
tend the "nieperdents" and the arrival
quorum. Today's
regisk Elem was 1,967-only 64 regjobers short of the number re- quired for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections.
the
Kuomintang and Government
whittled away ut unity of the Independent group whose supporters dropped from
more than 200 lo
lo approximately
sere
50-meluding len members
on semi-hunger These ten are eating fruit | refure to ent the regular
who
strike but
Tiet
Official sanction to ercel a new modern building has unt the Government meets their been received by the local demands for Assembly member- office of Cable and Wireless, ship. Ltd. from London, the "China Mail" learned last night.
The
building. new
on the Assembly four.
AMERICAN NATIONS TO INVESTIGATE REDS
J
Bogota, Mar. 30.
Unanimous
* support of the Pan-American Confor......... once, which opened here today, for a proposal that the American nations investigate the "problem of foreign-inspired subversive acti- vities directed against the institutions, peace and security of the American Republics" was obtained by Mr. George Marshall, the Amori. can Secretary of State.
Several attempts were made to bring their cases to the Assembly Bour
and a resolution was finally nine- adopted to send "consolation storeys high and air-comtition- missing" 10 confer with the ed, will replace the company's strikers. present "Electra House"
A Kuomintang ofcial said tho The 9th International Con-
El Salvador, Costa Rica, Haiti, actually ference of American States. fionduras, and the--Dominican Connaught Road Central which minerity
"elected
only about 130 delegates opened today with Columbia Republic are uncertain. Some of is to be pulled down shortly,
Tenants.
in the national elections "Kretra niceupying
were culling on the other 20 nations the statements were not-un- given a total of 430 sents. Most monthly teases have
to dedicate themselves to equivocal and are probably sub- of the places in the Assembly on the lets were provided by the Govern-maintaining peace, and keep-Ject to change. Reuter.
B** been given
the
Budd
Hour 01
on
parties who
April 15. Among the tenants ment's order that the Kuomintang ing the forces opposed to the the Hong Kong Police Reserve | mem
the Independents in certain principles of democracy, and organisation which is to neve lo
election districts surrender their the inspiration of Christianity, Drivital | ANNU
seats to the minority regardless from prevailing in the world". of the vote count.
The key address was given by The Vice-Presidential race the Colombian President, Senor continued to hold the centre of Mariano Ospina Perez, at the attention with various candidates formal opening ceremony. jockeying for the support of the provincial delegations.
The new building, when com- pleted, will accennate all the equipment of Cable and Wireless and the company's administrative offices. In addition, there will be A Wom
omu odles to be let to the general public.
A Hat for the Manager, Mr. F. S. Coote, will be on the ninth
one of the building.
The nearest he got to mention- ing the colonial territories ques-
State Councilman Mo Te-hul, | WAA former loulement of Young Marshal Chan Hsuch-liang, an. nounced he was seeking clea
Vice-Presidential Candidates
Nanking, Mar. 30.
With the National Assembly now successfully launched the Vico-Presidential candidates are warmly up in their campaigning for the olec- tions to be held on April 12th. General Li Tsung-jen, opening the campaign in the capital yesterday afternoon, said two points prompted him to run for this high office: an earnest desire to promote popular interest in politics and the democracy of China and his belief that he con assist the President in effect- ing political reforms. I come from a poor peasant family and when I was young
More Czechs Escape
Munich, Mar. 30. About 1,500. Czechoslovak refugees have fled inte Bavaria since the Communist coup In Czechoslovakia, the Bavarian Stato Ministry for Refugees announced today.
Between 40 and 50 refugese were still crossing each day, despite a "ancurity sector" re. ported to have been estab- fished on the Czech side of the border, the Ministry add- ed.Reuter.
Euro-
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Figure Of Spring
It is fenrad that Because the morals "of"children" ́may' be corrupted, this statue In **■ ~*`Sydney "park-~~~mayTM-be destroyed. Et fate is under discussion.
PIRATES ROUTED NEAR HONG KONG
A pirate force, some 500 strong and alleged to have born involved in the kidnapping of six passen. gers from the 4,200-ton Dutch liner, "Van Houtsz", on December 14-15 last off. Chilong Point, was routed recently by a combined Chinese naval, military and police expedition, according to a Chinose press dispatch yester- day from Canton.
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EXPEDITION ENDS IN THIRTY SECONDS REYNOLDS PLANE Ocean Mail
CRACKS UP
Poiping, Mar. 31. |Pan-maker Milton Reynolds' US$250,000 expedition to find a mountain higher than Mount Everest ended in failure loss than 30 seconds after it started. His four-motored plane, "Tho Explorer", cracked up. No one was injured. The C-87, equipped with scientific apparatus de-
signed to measure heights of mountains, had moved 25 yards from the brick-surfaced ground toward. Peiping's South Field runway when its right wheel, sank into the soft earth. The wheelock gave way. The plane tilted to the right and the outer starboard propeller buried the tip of one of its three blades into, the ground. The nosewheel blew out and the plane rested on its belly.
Czechoslovakia And UNO
Prague, Mar. 30. The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry announced today that her United Nations dete- gate would not appear before the Security Council to dia- cute the Chilean complaint
against Czechoslovakia It
summoned to do so.
Czechoslovakia refused to be placed in a position of a defendant, the statement sald Router.
Berlin's Uncertain Future
London, Mar. 30.
"Captain Everest has won again," quipped Reynolds. "The expedition is over."
The millionaire's stunt to find whether the topmost peak of the Amne Machin range in West China is higher than Everest has been beset with mishaps from its inception.
Pilot Bill Odom dismissed
suggestion that the plane might
have been tempered with.
Cargo Fire
Patch Harbour, Nan 31
today
10 crew transferred· 200 tone of wheat from, the BA76-- ton motor ship "Ocean? Maij”.
so that fire-fighter extingutan ^ a - two-day-
board the p Plansredute! from Tre was controlled by monoxide but could. Textinguished un
gusid
cargo w
moved. The va.90)C reported a fire' brøßëh Monday in the ship's cargo of 981 tons of wheat-United Prass.
Cripps To Present
Paradox
London, Mar. 30. Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, [next Tuesday will have the paradoxical duty of announc ing an all-time record budget "I don't think anyone tinkered surplus to a country striving with her." he said smilingly, as to avert economic disaster. The surveyed the damage. It would take weeks to repair the plane,
domestic credit hal- ance of probably £800 million, even if spare parts were available, Sir Stafford, as head of the Cabl he told Associated Press. The ex-
With a
pedition had to be completed net team of economic experts, is
within a week.
trying hard to close the gap be tween the country's import: and Odom nscribed
the mishap to expo trad the soft earth between the park-
by the target date of ing ground and the runway. He midsummer.. succeeds, British said he felt the right wheel sink gave, though laticed in an as soon as he edged cut of the overall world sense, west parking ground
it
The strain was just too much And the wheelock gave away." Someone said: "You're lucky did not happen on the runway."
"It would not have happened there," Odom replied. The plane was travelling at small pace when the accident occurred."
had
how the colossal tedcit-ofpex tween £250 and £300 million.
the
The production targets for end of this year, if achiev ad, will reduce the dollar de. falt considerably.
But the economia disequili. brium
the United: between States and the 'prest, part of the world contained in the sterling агод will continue to be, a
brake on
on Britain's uphill fight toward
prosperity.
The uncertainty over the
Reynolds and his party future of the four-power ad-arrived at the autheld in a gay ministration of Berlin is ex- mood. The sun Was shining pected by well-informed brightly and weather reports quarters here to be prolong-were i make it today," Rey-round for new sources of hard ed until the next meeting of
before climbing snid nolds s the "Control Council due on Board the plane. April 10.
good.
Sir Stafford Cripps, casting
on currency, next week will, have tew reliefs to offer to the British Altogether it seemed as if the taxpayer, if indeed, he does not General Lucius Clay,
the repeatertly delayed and costly call for a further belt tightening United States Military Gov-expedition was at last to begun all round.—Reuter."- ernor in Germany, with whom and the secrets of Amne Machin the initiative lles for summon- ing that meeting, is definitely expected here to decide to con- vene it in the hope of bring- ing the situation to a head.
But the Soviet authorities may stil intend to keep the Western powers guessing by refusing to attend the meeting and yet con tinuing to they will never again take part refrain from stating
In the four-power administration of Germany.
unravelled.
"Things like this can
and
do happen," he said. Then turning to pliotographers, he said: "Don't try to get me to look ead. I don't want any sob- stuff,"
MOLOTOV'S COCKTAILS?
Moscow, Mar. 30. M. Molotov gave a reception tonight for the Finnish Delegation which, is here to negotiate a pact of mutual assistance and friend Among repairs the plane
Sir Maurice isahip with Russia. likely to need before it can be Peterson, British Ambassador, and is a new starboard engine. down back to the United States his wife, and the United States Ambassador ware among the 200 Reynolds said it might fake guestă,
The Finnish delegation today
The view is now growing months to repair the damage if here that the Soviet authorities spare parts had to be brought visited the Kremlin where they across the Pacific. Associated spent several hours'ón a sonduct.
led tdur.-Reuter.
only Intend four-power co. Press, speration to be resumed ол condition that the reorganisa tion of the Western
Zones, worked out at the recent Lon don conferences,
The six hostages held by the pirates were, however, not traced. A separate group of
But the official Western policy pirates under a brigand chief, for Germany now rules out any Lam Kwong-ah, is believed to reversal of the plans for re- have secreted the kidnapped on unless at the very least ac organising the Western occupa
men further inland in the neighbourhood of Kityang nearness to permit economic unity as compauled by a Soviet: willing- Swalow.
laid down in the Potsdam Agree- ment.. Yesterday's report said that ar
Consequently, the possibility of in result of a further request. from
a full meeting of the Control the Hong Kong authorities for Council on April 10 is not at pre- information on progress in trac-sent considered very ing the hostages, Dr. T.V. Soong Reuter. A respite was unofficially the Fourth Naval Base
prdered
a punitive expedition by granted to 14 of the city's quarters, and the Police
Shanghai, Mar. 31.
tlon involving claims on pean-held colonles, was his sup- port for the "building of an Inter American peace system in such a way that the pacing settlement of any dispute
ute antong the Ameri con nations will be Judicially and i come from among the people
practically inevitable."
Senor Perez added: "Not only and fully understand the lot of cen we forget, in working out close today under the lot I was a farmer. Therefore, the common man. If I an elected. that system, the very eloquent drawing
he a symbol of victory for the Vice-President my success would fact that 17 of the 21 countries of months ago. common people of Chine.”
America
erica have accepted the com pulsory jurisdiction of the Inter-
am familiar with hard living conditions.”
After that LI said he followed
'n simple. life as a school muster.
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Privy Council Appeal Motion. Refused...
Page Three
Extradition Case Opens.
Five Atomic
Head- And
leading cabarets scheduled to Army In the Blus Bay area, French
While a
combined military Arms For
Lebanon
conducted two police party from the Bina Bay uren was converging оп the pirales' hidout near Holfeng, di The Municipal authorities have Fourth Naval Base landing party. the recent proposals advanced by
intimated they will take no ac-from two destroyers and a sloop Nanking professors
This was
was taken as a reference tion following the non-receipt of disembarked at Hiechechin Bay, political field urged the enforce- to the fact that
refused to for which they asked some time
Li said he fully agreed with national Court of Justico."
and in the
ment of the rule of law and ornd Guatemala hatina, Chile now instructions from Nanking. 150 miles from Hong Kong
the
great.
Paris, Mar. 30.
KAI TAK'S LIFE LIMITED
TO ANOTHER 4 YEARS
Kai Tak airport's life is limited to another four year and the main runway for the colony's new air port, plans of which are awaiting approval in London, should be completed in two years. This opinion was, expressed: Ka Tak airport now handies s yesterday by Mr. A. J. R. Moss, bigger volume of passenger, add Director of Air Services.
freight than any other in the Far Fast
Mr. Moss safd plans of two
The volano le hall that of
or three schemes had been sent Heath Row airport, Londen, and to the Colónial Office and he four tunes that of Singapore, Kir. belleved approval of one would Moss added. be, received soon,
Details of this pro still confi- dential.
The
new airport, sold Mr. Moon, will be Class A according The French Government has to international air standards authorised the sale of armaments capable of handling the biggest Look-outs, however, alerted by a Parls firm to the Lebanese aircraft existing and also those the pirate force which number-Government, a spokesman of the of the foreceable future:
The biggest aircraft now land. ed more than 1,000. Bome 500 French Ministry of Foreign Af-
Fairs Bald
Kal Tak within safety this afternoon, -when ing at managed to ftas before the expeditionary
neked to comment on reports, eir-limite are, DC Skymastore, forces ofosed in
culating
In Paris that the Constellation aiferaft not fully und escaped to the north to enon was buying £80,000,000 loaded could land there with dif-
of arms including tanks.
tanks, Rculty on behalf of the Arb
join
· Lam Kwong-mh's · group Kityangans, be king
worth
der, and the elimination of in-have their claims on British ter- Dgo." efficiency in the civil service. Flories submitted to the Interna-
tenal Court for arbitration.
Whether failure of receipt of a Economically, he urged
This first full-dress inter-Am- definite closing-down order is due liquidation of susets of wealthy crican Conference in 10 years is to the Central authorities" pre-o- familles and
strict "pontrol,
expected
to last at least six cupation with the National As- Bver Government finances. He
wooks. pales, urged... currency," "raforma
sembly or because of the adoption Official statements at the open | of a. and find for the tiller."
attitude following The Sun Foforiping of the Conference reveals the recommendations of the Shang Loading Article: World sident Committee launched lineup of the 21.nations on the hai City Council to give the local The rex battled with the navy, for use in Palestine League Biggest In East
Aircraft bigger thin" Bkymas- cabarets a colonial question.
Foreign Office spokesmanters now bypa Hong Kong. Tho a longer, lease of life is army and police forcé for several European posses» not yet known.
hours beford they turned fail said the transaction was a more veluable murce of revenue. Je 2) 62 Against the
of colonies ure. Argentina, * The fact : remains, however, and scattered in different diree-mal, one in fullment of the thus lost to the colony, Mr. Moss
Venezuela, Bolivia, that he order has been recolved tions leaving some lead behind | Franco-Lebanese agreement signo said. Mexico, Panama, Chile, by the City Government to put and Peru,
Into execution the closure of „Lavour of European, pozera, these establishments and as a re-
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compaign for the Vice-President.
Incumbent
Trade American Aid For Franco Astatemast issued by the
Voted by Representatives.
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Reda Cpport Trust
The Sports,
committaa: lauded Bun - Fo's -do-
didaluro and help him compleMSA.
merlig. International record and,
urged voler to support the can-
the role he played in bring
| the constitution, into, baing.
Beuter, musa
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The Government wou
would like to France has always'
ays supplied retain Kal Tak for use by ball at mala 100 an the Labanes Army with its aircraft after the opening of DE | HAL, TERMIN sions","ards the United States, sulf the local authorities are, do- fig In January directly procipit- equipment and there was nothing new "airport, but, the raren Leline Deo. ToUTNING Brazil Colombia, Uruguay, Cubs | ing nothing about the matter. ated the rioting at the Socia, Af- undaunt in the present; saldri, dispensable to the Town Fien- wind and Nicaraguasja
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