PACIFIC ORIENT EXPRESS LINE
M. V. "KOOKABURRA“.
LOADING HONG KONG MID APRIL FOR SHANGHAI, TAKUBAR, MANILA & PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
Balling from HONGKONG SHANGHAI, MANILA
Er
Direct to SAN FRANCISCO and PACIFIC COAST PORTS-
M.V. "VILIA"
M.V. "VINGNES"
M.V. "VITO"
Loading Hong Kong (If dufficient Inducoment)
2nd Half May, 2nd Half June. Early August
Vessels equipped with bulk of Storage facilities
Cargo and Passenger apply :---
MOLLERS' (HONGKONG) LTD, Agents
Queen's Building
Tel. 81150
2nd floor
'THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
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S.S.
“HALYANG
SAILING FOR SWATOW ONLY TUESDAY, 20th APRIL
FROM DOUGLAS WHARF Subject to alteration without Notice.
For Particulars of Freight & Passago, Please apply to:-
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers.
P. & 0. Building, 6th floor. Tel. No. 81281
OF
CHINESE SHIPPING DEPT.
20 Connaught Road. Central. Tel. No. 24639
BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD.
SHIP
S.S. "BENCRUACHAN"
B.S. "BENARTY”
8.S. "BENMACDHUT"
S.S. "BENLOMOND"
* S.S. "BENCRUACHAN"
5.S. BENARTY"
* S.S. "BENMACDHUI”
5.6. "BENLOMOND"
• Calls at Leith
ARRIVALS
DUE
22nd April
Mid May Mid May Early June
READY
FROM U.K
..U.K.
U.K.
UK.
U.K.
SAILINGS
London, Antwerp
Kotterdam, Hamburg
Mid May Did May Mid June
For Further Particulars, Apply 70-----
25th April
W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
York Building
Agents
Telephone: 4155.
The SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO., Ltd.
OUTWARDS
M.V. BRYNJE
M.V. HALLAND
·M.V. BENGAL
Discharging Hong Kong 1st May
end May Early June
HOMEWARDS TO EUROPE
M.V. BALI ...
M.V. BRYNJE M.V. BENARES
M.V. NAGANA
21st May Early June Early July Mid August
For
ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, (AMSTERDAM) COPENHAGEN, OSLO
AND GOTHENBURG.
Tanks avalie suitable for the carringe of oil in bulk. For further particulars apply;-
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
THE
Agents.
Tel. 31146.
ISTHMIAN LINE
(Isthmian Steamship Co. of N.X.),
Direct Sailing To Atlantic Coast Ports via Panama in 33 Days
S.S. "CAPE JUNCTION”
Loading End April for
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK & BOSTON
For further particulars apply:-
GILMAN & CO.
Agents.
Tol. $1148.
LTD.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1940.
Inflation Undermining The U.S. Truman Calls On Congress To Act To Curb The Trend Unhealthy Increase In Steel Prices
Washington, Apr. 17.
President Truman said in a speech tonight at the annual dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors that unsess Congress acted to curb inflation, the country would face ever- increasing danger of a doprossion,
Mr. Truman said inflation was steadily worsening and undermining the nation's security. "A strong American economy is the bedrock upon
which rest hopes for establishing the peace of
free men in the world. Without it, we can
pro-
vide neither aid, leadership nor example," he
said.
The President levelled
steel price in finger at the crease, the conl strike, and the tax eut bill passed over his veto
"He said the velfpre of the
the effectiveness of Americans, United States foreign policy and the strength of their defences all
by the Republiran Congress aspended on this prosperity. new and recent factors con- tributing to inflation,
Slop At Congross
In on
No Snaps Of 150 C-46
Executions
"Tokyo, Apr. 17.
de-
It is unlikely that photo. graphs will be mode of the execution or scenes in pri- son If any of the 25 major Japanaso
crimes war fendants are convicted, saya Colonel M.P. Echols, General MacArthur's Public Informa- tion officer.
U.B. Army photographers made pictures of the Nurem- berg executions of Nazl leaders and there were die. tributed to newapapers-A- Boclated Pream
Australian War Crimes Trials Report
up to life imprisonment,|
Tokyo, Apr. 18. The Australians have executed 130 war criminals and sentenced 402 others to prison terms rang- opparent stap at Re- ing publican Congress leadership, GHQ Legal Section said today, ite called for imminetliate ennet
President Truman anic:
The majority were Japanese, ment of bis fen-point anti-
"There are
some men in but some were Когерпа and inflation programate, first pro-
influential positions who still fail Formosans
by employed
the posed last November to the peto understand or who deliberately.Japanese Army. All were tried cial session of Congress.
Ignore the gravity of the situation | outside Japan, The programine
Includes and the need for forthright mea→ standby prices. rationing and sures to meet it. wage controls, credit curbs, rent controls. export controls and other measures to hold down prices and conserve scarce goods
Congress approved export con- trols, sel up a system of voluntary allocation of searce materials and extended rent controls until next year with changes,
President Truma
told the ed)- tors everybody had been devot ing a great deal of thought lately
the lett to
internatioon!
problems luciak us.”
The success, however, of Unit-
ed States foreign policy depends
on the strength and stability of
commny, he said.
They tinkered with the prob- lem of inflation and have even taken some feeble steps in the right direction. But they have taken other steps in the wrong direction-steps that inate the problem much worse."-United Press.
at Singa- pore, Rabaul, Weiwak, Morotal Island and Darwin, Australia,
Planes
For China
Oakland, Calif., Apr. 17. The first of 150 C-46 twin- engined planes bought from the US Government by the Chinese National Government. will begin the flight to China) on Sunday, Tranc-Ocean Air- lines announce.
One plane will take off on a n test flight to Honolulu. With information gathered on
this flight, three planes will depart on Tuesday, four on Wednesday and four next Thursday. Ferrying alt of the 150 planes across the Paci fle will take six or seven months. The second group of 12 18 scheduled to leave about June 1.
The operation is believed to be the Targest make ferrying Job since the war. The plarios дре "Curtis Commandos."
They cost the US about US$200,000 each and werd sold to China for about US$5,000
cach.
The ferrying job, however, wil cost China more than US$1.000,- 000 Trans-Ocean officials said.
Honolulu, Wake, Guam and All pending trials of Japanese Shanghai are the scheduled stops war crimes suspects still to be in the overseas. fights.--Associat- held in the Southwest Pacifle and ed Press. Singapore have bye ordered transferred to Hong Kong, where cases will be conducted by the British authorities. Associated Press.
Japanese Crack Down On Koreans
Tokyo, Apr. 17.
plain ines a our economy The Japanese police today promised an all-out move
Is in serious
dous danger as a result of high prices ar inflation. I cannot sti by silently while in- flation continues to creep up on the American people...The total demand for goods is still outrun- ning production and competition for scarce Items is still pushing | prices up....
do
"It seems to me the basic question is clear. It is whether wo take action in time to some good whether we delay
until the crisis is upon us."
ward."
against those Koreans who since the Jopanase surrondor have lost respect for Japanese law and committed numerous violations. In a now drive prompted by recant clashes between Jap- panese and Koreans (in which at least five persons were killed and scores injured) the police arrested 73 Koreans in Koba who had forcibly entered the Governor's office and de- manded an interview.
DEFRAUDED THE GOVERNMENT
Batavia, Apr. 17. The news agency Antara re- ported
Saturday ..from Jogjakarta that, Republican police have arrested ten persons, two of them women, charged. with defrauding the Government of 500,000 Replans.
Four of
on
the ten (all Govern-
ment employees) worked in the State printing office where the currency is manufactured, accord- ing to the Antara report which added that they are accused of printing one-hundred Repish without recording them and dividing the proŝts-Asso- ciated Press.
noles
Athens, Apr. 17. Flying in formation and piloted by Amerkan crews, thirty single- engined lighter aircrafts landed in Athens on Friday night. They
are
en route to the Turkish
The Koreans wanted to pro-yama Prefecture the police are "If the cost of living continues test against the Governor's watching their subsequent moves. to climb, wages and prices will order closing several primary "Racial Autonomy" continue to chase each other up-schools operated by Koreans. The Koreans, meanwhile, have Government under the American The order was issued in ac-befused to close their schools, aid programme.-Associated PresS
the cordance with
Education contending that the right of Unhealthy Boom
Ministry directive that all Korean "racial autonomy" shall be re- Calling the present boom "un-boys and girls reaching school age cognised in connection with Kor-ed the Japanese police in operat- healthy Mr. Truman said the must-be-sent to Japanese schools, van-education,
-Ing-black-market-restaurants. publis | steel price increase was "umwie pul or private, because ali
Many Koreans, too, have ignor-] United Press. residents Korean Thu cofil unnecessary."
Japan strike was an "unnecessary inter-ard required to obey Japanese ruption to production" and the laws and ordinances under the. tax cut "dangerous because
of Allied directive issued on Noveri- additional billions of dollars add-ber 20, 1946. ed to purchasing power not ac- In Okayama, the companied by significant produc- Procurator's Office has arrested tion increase."
Ro Helu, chairman of the Okaya-
and
The
10
in
Prefectural
He denied charges that his ad-ms Prefectural headquarters of the Federation of Koreans in ministration was trying to pre- cipitate an economic crisis or an Japan, on a charge of violation international crisis
of the ertucation law, He was exact opposite is the immediately sent
Okayama truth"
he declared. "We
Prison pre
Jiji Press sald 800 armed police striving to ovold an economic CTIBIS
by protecting prosperity has been secretly mobilised for while we have it. We are striv- Heiu's arrest. ing to avoid a war crisis by bc- ing firm before it is too late."
116.
In view of the fact that there are some 15,000, Koreans in Oką-
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Loading
23RD APRIL
Salling
24TH APRIL
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.48A, Bonham Strand W.
MOBILE, ALA U.S.AS
EXPRESS SERVICE TO NEW YORK
via Panama.
Tela 20127 & 2004095, "ANDREW JACKSON" loading Hongkong about 28th April DIRECT for Namelot, Balimore and Philadelphia via Shanghai, Yokohama and Honolulu, ONLY.
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LOADING 19th & 20th APRIL, 1948
SAILING 21st APRIL, 1948
for freight, particulare apply, s02.
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Tanks available for bulk off cargoes.
For freight and further particulars apply:--- WALLEM & COMPANY
Agents Hongkong & Shanghai Bank: 16kg.
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