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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948.
Governor's Address To Court Japanese
Of H.K. University Report Of State Secretary's Committee In London
Another Cotton Mill In H.K.
When work on શ new cotton-yarn spinning milk-
Must Be Free From
Political Control
"The building up of a notable University could be achieved only if there were a firm belief in its permanence; that it must be adequately financed, not loft, as before the war it was, to live from hand to mouth; that it must ba entirely free from any trace of political control."
the sixth in the Colony-isThese points from the report of the Secretary of
State's Committee in London were revealed by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, speaking in his capacity of Chan- cellor in an address to the Court of Hong Kong University yesterday.
completed In the next few munths, Hong Kong will have more than 100,000 spindles which, it is estimated, will make the Colony self-suffi- cient in cotton yarn, now) being imported from abroad.
The latest mill, registered as a limited concern under the name of "Southscas Textiles, examining the University Ltd.," is being established in Hong Kong had successfully the New Territories.
The owners pinn to equip the maintained British standards, factory with 30,000 spindles. A but that it had never been in In Ur ease of the Hong Kong position to do what ought to Cotton Mills, Ltd., this factory have been done in `research. will also be installed with
Kir.
conditioned and humidity-contral system.
As reporter in the "China Mail" con Mar, 3. the other gation mills are the Wyler Textiles, Ltd. with 15,000 spindles, the South China Coltsin MIS, LA, with 5,000 spindles, the Nanyang Textiles Lt, with 15,000 spindles, and the Bong Kong Cotton Mills, Ltd. with 8,000 spindles bi its factory at Hunghom.
The latter factory has changed Its name to Peninsula Spinners Ltd. is original nome has been adopted for the same owners' how mill 11t Chrungshawan, Boquired recently auction for $740,000.
Buddhist Monks Die In Fire
Sir Alexander said that the | Kong has faken the first and per- Committee was satisfied that in haps the hardest step. It has pro- millions its undergraduate teaching and mised a grant of four
from the loan recently raiser! to of
"In the future, as the Com- mittee said, the University will have to face comparison with Chinese Universities that sooner or later will fegin to mave ahead with tha
assurance
of
a
Stassen
At Top Of The List
Milwaukee, Apr. 7.
Harold Stassen and General MacArthur appeared today to have rounded up 26 of Vis- consin's 27 Republican Presi- dential votes-with the former Minnesota Governor grabbing the lion's share.
Despite a Inte influx of Mil- waukee vates this I Mac- Arthur's stronghold--Stassen hekl to his lend in rures involving 22 delegates chosen in yesterday's primary.
Here is the latest vote count from 2.010 of the State's 3,138 precincts:
Stassen's at-large sinte.. lend- Ing. His top eindkiste has 123,- 815. His lowest 114,004.
MacArthur's slate, second. Tup vole 103,815, low vote 87,225.
Dewey's slate, third. Top vote 07.522. Jow vote 43,082,
13
Stassen candidates lead in contests to choose 20 district de- legates, MacArthur's lead in seven, Dewey's leads in nove. Associated Press.
Kept Live
make good damaged buildings. and to re-equip Inforatories and; Swine On workshops. It has promised to
naintenare
raise the annual grant to the University to $12 inillions
"Before the war, we should have seen in these amounts
Premises
*
Need Of Shipping
Washington, Apr. 8. Mr. Hoffman today sald he thought the Japanese should bulld☐ encouraged to merchant marine up to about 4,000,000 tons.
be
It
Was obvious, ho wald, they would not need the that 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 tone they
had pro war, but must have a great deal more than present.
"The Japanese desporately need shipping to bring their
Mo economy back," Bald. United Prom.
Boxing Match In Congress
Scientific Instruments
Microscopes, Theodolites & Levels ASIA PHOTO SUPPLY
10 Ice House Et,
Yacht Club Adopts
Revised
Articles
An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club was held at the Club House on Tuesday when the Revised Articlos of, Association wore discussed and approved.
The Commodore, Mr. N. V. | Amongst those present were: A. Croucher, presided, and, Mr. N. V. A. Croucher (Commo- P. C. M. Sedgwick after calling upon Mr. Donala dore); Mr. G, Yardley, who had assumed Stericker, P. D. A. Chidell, H. Rear-Commodore); Messrs. J. A. the positioni of Acting on. Forsyth, J. P. Rush, J. G. B. De- Secretary in the absence of the war, R. S. Hownam-Meck, P. S. Hon. Secretary. Mr. F. S. McCalg, I J. T. Mallerie. J. Forbes, Coote, to read the notice con- A. G. Dalziel, E. G. Yourleff, D. G. vening the Meeting, addressed Sherri, G. W. Strang, M. F. L. the Meeting as follows:-
Haymes, F. H. Losebby, R. N.
Geary Gardner, A. V. Caddick and
Yardley
(Acting Hon.
"It was particularly requested Lindeman, R. A. Wickerson, 11. that any amendments which D. G. members may wish to move be Secretary).
submitted in writing to your Com- mittee. We very much appre- cinted and thank those members who have done this, and, where possible, these amendments have been incorporated in the Revised Articles,
"It is many years since our Club's Articles were revised.
Sub-Committee
Tel. 53188
Blow To Newcastle!
Newcastle, Apr. 0. Newcastle United, who are fighting for promotion Into the First Division of tha English Losgue, received
savers blow when it learnt that George Lowrie, thete forward from expensive Coventry City, may not be able to play again this sea-
son.
Lowria, whose fam is sail- maled to be £18,500, 'hurt a knee on Easter Monday, and It has now been found that te to fracturad mali bone in his wrist Routar.
Jerusalem YESTERDAY'S Hard Up
TENNIS
doubles
tennis
For Food
Lake Success, Apr. 8. The Jewish Agency declared In a letter to the United Nations pro-Palestine Commission today that Tennis 100,000 Jews
are threatened with starvation in Jerusalem, a result of the indifference of of the mandatory Government - to the depredations of armed Arab gangs."
In the open championship yesterday T. LO and K. Lo beat B. Szeto and, Marsland Ma 0-3. 6-3 and Lee "Your Committee appointed a Chun-kit and Y. Y. Lum Lent Manila, Apr. 7.
sub-committee under the Chair-C. L. R. Wu and C. Lnu, 6-3, 4-0) One Senator suffered a black-, munship of. Mr. Sedgwick to 0-4.
The following is today's a Congressman a whom our special thanks are due eye and
for drawing up the Draft which grammy in the Open bruised check in Recond round of fisticuffs which started inside was finally shroffed by our Hon. Championships;
| Legal Advisor, Mr. Dennis Blake, S.K.H. Wang and Lam Kwan the session hall of the Lower to whom our thanks are also due. Lee Wat-tong and P.T. Hau House of the Philippine Con- No Articles of Association are TJ. Gould and J.K. Wilson gross late yesterday, and finish-perfect and it is only by exper-K.HI. Ip and Paul Kong
fence that we find further amend J.D. Mackie and S. Paul v Tsui ments are necessary
sary as times and Wal-put and Trut Yon-pui.
The letter, calling attention to TE. Baker and R.O. Baker the increasing "activity of the From a purely pugilistic point conditions change. of view, the victory went to Mr. Yardley proposed the adop-IS.A. Rumjalin and 11.D. Runjahn, food situation in Jerusalem", was Congressman Domingo Veloso oftion of the Revised Articles of J.B. Gonzalves and W.A. Reed signed by Moshe Shertok, head Leyte, who not only gave t Association, which was seconded Wong Shui-wing and Luk of the Political Department, of shiner to Leyte Senator Carles by Mr. J. A. Sterleker, The, re- Ding-cheung,
TOMORROW'S GAMES
"The primary, Ton, but also-so Manila pati-solution was carried manimously.
The ticni reporters claimed today.....
following games which
for the depletion of Bank his teeth in Tan's shoulder.
should have been played on Tues- day will be played this after- "I was hit when wasn't look-
ed on the sidewalk just outside.
nieasure of wealth that would Mr. S. X. d'Almada at Centralne i wine quoted as saying It Was An
position,"
trade
a
III Wind,
cuse of a
similar for a
At the
Court, the cox- same on swain of a motor-junk was fined
014
nogi.
M.W. Lo and M.K. Lo v Dr. A.M. Rodrigues and HA, Noron-
ha.
L. Kolewali and F. Zimmeru v
•
the Agency.
food supply must reat with the mandatory power which, de- apite its pledges and protesta- tions, had
to. utterly falled maintain law and order on the highways," the letter said. The Agency denied that it had tho refused
to cooperate with In arranging adequate protection of food convoys.
The Agency said: "The manda
Government has not offered
British
tory
Health Inspector Cheung Wing Kwang was complainant- before
was lighting a cigareite." Magistracy yesterday against the have sufficed to carry through occupier of the third floor of No. thome reforms and developmenta
The immediate cause DI the
Tam King-yee and R. Tay Y that the University had already Queen Victoria Street for
keeping live swine on the pre-ineldent, which reflects the long- their early days.
decided to be necessary. But mises without a licence and for standing feud by the two aver That the wind blew her boat Choy Ping-fan and Lee Yue-wing
alongside a vessel flying the in- "The
The Committee concluded that
money is not what it was, and carrying on a food factory (roast- Leyte politien control, was the importance of Hong Kong we shall be hard proaned to get lug meat) without a ledice.
charge by Veloso that Tan broke imigration Flag, was the vain ex-Wong Hok-nang and Kwok Hing on the thresh-hold of China re- tack. In spite of this help from Defendant pleaded guilty, but a gentlemen's agreement to ap-
45-year-old Chinese chung, quired that it should have
woman at the Marine the Colony, to our pre-war said that he was unable to ful point one of Veloso's
ns sampun man genuine, University, that the sub-
alternative premises, otherwise he chief al pollee in the newly Court yesterday. She was Oned
to escort food convoys In Jeru- $35 by Mr. D. G. Cairns, Marine ARSENAL TO PLAY stitution of merely Incal tecls-
The Committer, Sir Alexander would have applied for a lleence. crented elty of Ormoc.
salem, nor has it stipulated any nological institutions for the said, concluded that the Univer-
Inspector Cheung said that de
Ormoc in slowly rebuilding Magistrate. She admitted a pre-
Buch conditions under whaleh IN LISBON vious conviction training
medical of
men, ensity must be British in the sense fendant had operated his
After Its complete destruction
offence.
escort might be provided. gineering overseer, teachers and that it will remain inked with for the past 16 months and this suffered when it was used
London, Apr. 6.-
reaches "Whatever food now clerks would involve the loss of British University tradition
was the Arst time ut it had
Yamashita's and
supply bose
Arsenal, prospective champions Jerusalem for the Jowish Dow come to the noilee of the author- a prestige hartly won by 30 years standards wille at the same time
Leyle.
$50 for allowing his craft to lie of the First Division ities.
of the pulation arrives through the cf- public work, and that even a University offering the fullest
academie
Defendant was Aned $50 on the Both Tan and Veloso are mem- Inshore at the Shamshupo Ferry English Football League, is to forls and usually through the Buch
in 1940 existed in rs
was not hospitality to Chinese students first charge and $250 on the see-bers of the
Defentant pleaded that play two games in Portugal at the self-sacrifice of Jewish defen inajority Liberal Wharf. enough: that it should be realized and scholars.
Party-Associated Press.
the engine of his boat broke end of the current English foot- dern."
ball season. that anything less then an institu-
The Agency asked the tion, comparable in the quality
For carrying an excess of 350 Arsenal announced today that mission to request Britain to ag- gullons of Diesel fuel, of its undergraduate teaching and
another it would play the Portuguese In its proven for the pursuit
coxswain was fined $100. Two Club Benefice, in Lisbon on May cept responsibility for convoying
supplies to Jerusalem until other motor-junk coxswains were 3 and a selected side at Oporto on end of the mandate-Beuter. nev kaowledge with the
ined $100 each for allowing their Muy 6-Associated Press. Universition of the United Kingston-ould-be-an-evidence
craft to be in the Reserved Area -in-the-Yaumati-Typhoon-Shelter. of deel no.
"Beter pond technical institu- tions that
a pince having the versity without its fife. superficial attributes of a Uni-
Scholarships
If the University were to be of rent value to China there
but
ond.
would have to be generous pro- not only vision of scholarships for undergraduate students also for graduates of Chinese
who wish to take: Universities
medl post-graduate courses in cine, in the sciences and the arts.
Sir Alexander referred to the Commlitee's suggestions of what should be
in aftempted
the are to have a University, not different Faculties, with reference An
"Our decision is taken. We
group of technical institutes.
сал
Shanghai, Apr. 7. More than 20 Buddhist monks died when they refused to escape from a fire which completely
the destroyed
1,000-year-old Kingshan (Gold Mountain) tem- ple in
In Chingklang, 140 miles west
It is our immediate task to lay of Shanghal along the Shanghai-
the foundationa of a revived Nonking railway on Tuesday.
University that
achieve Buddhists Reports sold the
that eminence in the world of nonchalantly continued reciting
intelligence, which the Colony scriptures as flames, rapidly en
holds in the realms of Industry, veloped the rambling temple com commerce and banking." pousid.
Sir Alexander said that to make The damage Is estimated at the University what they realised US$10,000 not considering the it ought to be, its friends in Hong relics, paintings and rare editions | Kong, in China, Mɛlayo and else- of the Buddhist scriptures. A tall) where," must be asked to pagoda was left standing.—United f„tribute. Press,
"The Government of Hong
con-
Middle Westerner
To Handle E.R.P.
Washington, Apr. 6.
ໄດ້
Marine Zoology. courses for
refresher
course in so- cial medicine and Publle Health.
He concluded:
graduale 2 nd a post-
ATTACK ON COLONIES IN THE AMERICAS
Bogota, Apr. 6.
all-out onslaught against British, Dutch and French colonial possessions in and around the Western Hemisphere was launched at the Pan- American Conference here today when Sonor Romulo Betancourt, the Venezuelan delegate, "The next few years wili be
called for the "liberation" of Jamaica, the and strenuous, but the difficult University faces them In con Wast Indies, and the Guianas, as well as British fidence that it has the strong Honduras and other disputed areas. backing of public opinion Hong Kong and that, if it shows Senor Betancourt also an-, juridical system
Venezuela evidence of doing a good job, nounced that
re-economic or strategic it will be able to gain the help served her right to press her which might seek
members of the comown of the
territorial aspirations colonialism
Hemisphere. munity who have the
mean, against the Guianas..
Senor Betancourt added: "The and to whom the development He called for the colonial peo acgument, that in the uncertain among the privileges of wealth ples to decide their future in state of the world, military se- curity it essential, and it would
in
of higher studies appeals as one
in a developing community. plebiscites which, however,
any
to
in . the
down.
ALLEGED ILLEGAL
SQUASH
FOOTBALL
Com-
London, Apr. 6.
the
The result of soccer and rug- Eer games played today were:
Third Division, North: Oldham. Athletic 2 Barrow 1; Rochdale Lincoln City 1.
Dewsbury * Rugby League; Warrington 14; Rochdale Hornets 2-110 St. Helen's 15.-Reuter.
In an Inter-Hong Squash match at the Victoria Squash Courts on
·W/T STATION Tuesday, Butterfield &'Swire beat Dodwells 41 after a close match. Bail In the sum of $0,000 each The indicidunt results were:- was granted to Kun Chung (30); J., K. Wilson (B. & S.) beat, wireless operater, and Li Chi
R. W. Franklin ..... (32), telephone operator, whon they appeared before Mr. W, H.. N. Bardell (B. & S.) beat
R. K. Valentine Latimer at Kowloon yesterday
N. M. Speyer (B. & S.) beat charged in connection with an J. E. Larsen
allego illegal wireless station at J. G. Cotesworth (D. & S.)
Strect, second · finor,
23
Temple
on
April
2-1
beni K. Cook
2-1
2-1
4
H. C. D. Knight (Dodwells)
beat J. E. Nicoll
G. The charges, preferred by In- spector James Key of the Tela. historie, communication Department, were
and maintaining the weaving Factory, 48 Po operating argument station, possession of a wireless
Justify sat, and permitting the premiues Rond, ground Western
"I am sure that under the able would give them only the alter- therefore be unsafe to alter
the
TODAY'S SOCCER The following are today's games 2-1 in the Football League:--
First Division
The proprietor of the Fook Tai K.M. Bus v R.A.F.
Kong
Aned floor, was to be used as a wireless station. $300 by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday on the sum- The case will be heard in the mons, taken out by Mr. V. C. afternoon of April 12,
SEIZED GOODS CONFISCATED
and inspiring leadership of its natives of independence or join-colonial regime, does not stand up Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Sloss,
Goods seized by Revenue OM- to the slightest analysis. whoing another American country. In season and out of season has They would not be given the tion that liberated Jamaica, the conscaled by Mr. A. J. Clifford "Nothing justifies the presump-cers on board several ships were worked so untiringly and so well third choice of remaining as Guianas or the Antilles would at Central Magistracy yesterday for it, supported by the Court and
they are.
when an application was Council and the Staff, and with
withhold their help in the de- by R. O. Redman.
made the
assistance of the graduates as
On the seventh day of the fence of a continent with whose Conference, the colonial lesue fortune and destiny they already goods included drugs, food, plas
R. O. Redman eald that the well as of its many friends in Hong Kong, China, and Maloya,
thue came fully into the open fool themselves inextricably the hand-bags, and other sundry the Universtly will, phoenix-like, rise from the ashes it is frendy rising-and become a beacon of Intellectual enlightenment."
Car Parking:
He became President of the Offences
Bludebaker Corporation on tha strength of his brilliant work
A
caution was
President Truman today nominated Mr. Paul Hoff- ,man, President of the Studebaker Corporation, to be Director of the foreign aid programme. Mr. Hoffman is a 56-year-old non-smoker and
teetotaller. The appointment, subject to Con gressional approval, is expected to be popular in-both Congress and business circles. Mr. Hoffman is close per- sonal friend of Senator Arthur i Vandenberg, who piloted the
registered In getting that corporation out against W. Miles when he op- foreign aid programme through
of the hands of receivers dur-peared at Central Magistracy the Senato. His testimony on
yesterday before Mr. ing the depression.. behalf of the aid bill · made, a
Mr. Hoffman, who looks a Tam in answer to deep Impression, on Congress- typical American business man, causing an obstruction by park men, and he led also a member is also popular with organised taing his car outside the Hong and of the committee, headed by Mr. bour-Router.
Shanghai Bank at 11.20 om... on March. 4. Donald Black when he appeared before, Mr., Tam for parking his car, in Chater Road without a permit, at 1.20 p.m. on March 8. Defendant said that he had al- ways parked his car In Chater ond during the lunch hour and
was not aware of the regula Lions, NDER
Averell Harriman, the Secretary
of Commerce, which reported
on the Marshall Plan to Pro-
eldent Trundarflast autumn.
.Mr. Hoffman Is ап un-
REFUELLING-
ALOFT Washington, Apr. 6. private enterpriss system, but The United States Air Force In 1945, Av. A warning today disclosed oficially that against the premature removal bomber range could be increased
thusiast for oxpitellem and the
of wartime restrictions. 40-75 per cent by refuelling in He has offer here called on by the air.
President Timah" advise on The statement, foreshadowing
mifcant, chem
foreign" tradi" Gundillons and in- ternational regenstryetion (A) dynamic:"Middle.
with the attack directed
only
nok related."Reuter. Britain, gsinat
but against French and Dutch pos
sesalona as well.
By raising the question of the West Indies, Senor Betancourt brought up the French colonies of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and the Dutch possession et Curacao, Equally affected were the Dutch and French Gulanus.
STEWARD CHARGED
*Olimpio Dulay, 28, Filipina,
Bond
(Police, 5 p.m.); Ref: J.C. Fadley; L Frank/C. Redman. Sing Tao v Police (Club, 5 p.m.); Ret: J. Day: Linesmen. A Farmer/Y.T. Leung
of the Labour Office, for
Second Division "B" employing five wornen in his fac-R.A.M.C. v Electric (HL Valley, 5 tory, at 10.07 p.m. on March 9.
p.m.); Ref: Chun So,
PLEA FOR EXPANSION OF COMBINED STAFF
goods. They were seized when the Revenus Officers made routine searches on the ships as The they were leaving or arriving. No one had claimed the goods from the I. and E. office.
Overseas Chinese
Washington, Apr. 6. Anglo-American combinad Chiefs-of-Staff should be expanded to include military repre- sentatives of the four nations-France and the Benelux trio which signed the Brussols Alliance with Britain last month, the "Wash- ington Post" urged today.
steward of the m/v Turk's READERS' LETTERS/
Wis remanded for 40. Head" hours by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday on the
"On the political side, the five- the Anglo-American partnership Beyond Resolution
charges of evading payment of
Sir, Some time ago an article power Brussels Fact was a brave of warthine, ANTRA Senor Betancourt's support for $1 taxi fare at Wuhu Street on uppeared in your paper regarding achievement, but we Thomas
"In the same way, the 'Ad42 cannot summons for the plebiscite method of solving] April 5, and malicious wounding the formation of an Overseas | help), feeling that it was, only a mustralion would need no treaty:
the problem indicated that his of the driver Wong, Hung. •
Chinese Association.
beginning," the paper said, com-the Netherlands to consult with to Invite France, Belgium," "and" delegation and Guatemala will Sub-Inspector J. S. Howarth It was also Intimated In this menting on the visit of Prince our military offcials as to altate- attempt to take this Conference informed the Court that the com- article that all interested should Regent Charles of Belgium and gic planning... the American States on record as of the left arm. agenda, which would merely put Hospital suffering from a fracture Association for further parti-
culars,
glan Premier
We think there is no more opposing colonies in principle.
It suggested that the enlarged appropriate gesture and no mare wonder if you or any of your Guatemala has prepared an struck the driver with an iron readers could tell me what has later include any other nation give M. Spank this invitation and combined Chiefs of Staff could telling in its effect abroad than to ather resolution, which would mator-car jack.
happened to this Association. create an inter-American Comi
anciating itself with the Brussels this assurance, while he is guit mission to investigate practica)
| AULDER. тодла of doing away with cotonleo-arid
A fine of $10 was imposed on beyond the resolution now on the plainant was still in the Kowloon japply to a representative of the M. Paul-Henri Spaak, the Bel-22. Brussels As, H.QLA JAKAR
Benor Datan-
pavour of such a course.
It was alleged that defendant
JAPANESE HANGED
INTERESTED.
SERIOUS CHARGE Lut Chung, 18, was committed
The
Remarking that the Brussels suest in Washington, Prot made no mention of fan suggestion it has made beforsitan paper also repeated FIDELI military staffe the paper saldi un "the 10-nation European or “It needs to be strengthened many steadily by its European par: anisation should have its head ticipants and it neade American Suarters in Brussia, so that support which with suraty, come would have, the continuing bass
Insp, Macinnes prosecuted. court indicated he was. In Kawaida Susunu, sentenced to to stand trial at the next Criminal The following will represent St. Senor Betancourt declared that death by War Crimes Court on Sessions by Mr. Thomas Tum at chungos instratorio Joseph's against Royal Navy at the "Irriling persistence of Jan 16, was hanged at Stanley Central Magistracy yesterday o
fit virat Divi- coloniallam as the conimmt had Prloost yesterday at the pressed Bulls charged with having ham Trefueling, of, formations, over, the i klost of the:Football League, been, further aggravated by the of military and prison officials. carnal knowledge of a five-year- he started life a car salesman elle region was now considered Macdougall,EN In the very early days of the "operationally feasible for This Rochas Gorrops and fact that India, Burma, and the Alan inquest held faler at old girl on March 3 at 167 Main
Kavvior and Philippines hind, estently gained Central Magistracy with Mr. E Street: Easy Shaukiwany growing motor industry when in would increase the Bez rings to Erickson MXavier, Cat Bantor their independencesco, X. d'Almáda "mitting a Coroner Inspector Mafierson is in tensive car molligi, methods made 2,000 miles and the B-30; Fange|Pereira, Al Santos and BM.Venezuela copiidered iscopi av verdict of death by judicial charge of the cases Defendant was
1 Site for allied 10:33,000 miles-Unived. Prenk JOMBET
a patule with ind Inter-American hanging: was returned.
not legally represented.Caen, meni excreta bermiuneat
́s we extend our military profit of Mi Spank's Inspiring Mad paredness and work out the magicative leadership." —Redfor supply problems involved in Frinted and published for the pre The Washington: Post added: pintor The Mehepaper Bath "We need not Dealy_no_sectal Limited, by. WALTH JANE K