GOVERNMENT RATIONS.
HOLDERS OF GOVERNMENT RATION CARDS
Issued by
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1948.
PALESTINE MENACE
Consular Commission Appeal To Abdullah Luscious fruit juices
The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Prominent
are hereby advised that the
MAY DISTRIBUTION
will be available for collection from MONDAY, 3rd MAY, 1948.
to
MONDAY, 10th MAY, 1948.
(Saturdays & Sundays excluded)
QUANTITIES ALLOCATED ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SUGAR FLOUR BUTTER (tresh)
at 30.40 per lb.
50.44
$2.30 →..
2 lbs. per person 1 Tbs....
1 (one) lb. For each person in family na per number
registered оп Card.
Ration
Suitable Containers Must Be Brought For Flour & Sugar.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
GOVERNMENT RATIONS DISTRIBUTION.
SPECIAL NOTICE
ΤΟ
HOLDERS OF RATION CARDS NOS. FOR TO 2580 INCLUSIVE
REGISTERED.AT......
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.
The May Distribution of FLOUR, "SUGAR and BUTTER”
will be effected between the hours of 9.00 am, to 12.00 Boon and 2.00 p.m. to 4.46 pan, as under Numbers 1001 to 1305
May 3rd 1948
1701
FT
+
1396 to 1799
2185 to 2186 to 2680
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
QUANTITIES allocated are as follows:.....
Flour
Sugur
Fresh Butter
.
*** HK$0.44 per 1b. 4 lbs, per person
40+HK$0.40
($2,30
*
2 lbs. per person
31
4th
JI
5th 6th
+3
1 b. for each person to tolly as per number-registered-on Ration Card.
Suitable containers must be brought for Flour and Sugar. BUTTER RATION-CARD HOLDERS TO NOTE.
"CUSTOMERS WHOSE RATION CARDS ENTIILE THEM TO
MORE THAN ONE POUND PER
NOT MONTH' NEED HENCEFORTH DRAW THE FULL QUANTITY WHEN TAK. ING DELIVERY OF THE MONTHLY QUOTA OF FLOUR AND SUGAR,
BUTTER WILL BE AVAILABLE DAILY,-SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS EXCEPTED FOR ISSUE AGAINST RATION CARDS IN QUANTITIES OF NOT LESS THAN ONE POUND, BUT NOT MORE THAN THE QUANTITY SPECI- FIED ON THE CARD CAN BE OBTAINED IN ANY ONE RATION MONTH.
Spreia! Nofter. In order to facilitate the smooth running of Ration Distribullon arrangements, we would appreciate customers collecting their rations on the specified days
dates and accordance, to the numbers of their own Ration Cards. Kowloon Customers, if desired; may draw their rations the Kowloon Branch.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.
GROCERY
Hong Kong: Tel. 28151
ORDER FORM
DEPT.
in
from.
Kowloon: Tel. 59922.
Slovak Sentenced
Prague, Apr. 29.
M. Jan Ursiny, former Slovak of Vice-Premier Democratic Czechoslovakia, was totlay sen- tenced to seven years, hard
and.
"Partition" Now
A Fact?
Lake Success, Apr. 29.
Malcolm Given
The United Nations three-man Consular CommisNew Title
inbour by the Bratislava court The trying him
14 other Slovaks on conspiracy and trça- son charges.
Otto Obuch, his press sceretaty. was sentenced to 30 years impri- Mumcat.
14
alleged
The
prosecution had that the accused were members of "Slovák Action Comfalttee" which would rise and set up an independent state when a new way should start.
The prosecution claimed that the plot becan in January, 1945] when pro-Nazi Slovaks, foreseeing the defeat of Germany, decided t send the leakers of the puppet
late abroad and organise
Insid "under-gemand movement the country.
hnd
M. Ladislav Cullen, accused of bring a collaborator of Obuch, and for whom the prosecution jasked the death sentence, was sen tenerd to 18 years Imprisonment, Cullen had pleaded guilty to con. spiracy. Eleven others were sen tenced to terms of imprisonment varying from a few months to 10 yeurs. One of the accused Berquilteil-Reuter,
•
sion in Palestine has appealed to King Abdullah of Transjordan "in the strongest terms," to abstain from "any military excur.. sions or acts," the Commission reported to the Security Council today.
Commission reported that it had sent a telegram to King Abdullah saying "the Security Council's truce commission for Palostine has been in- formed that the Government of Transfórdan has decided upon a general mobilisation and that the Transjordan forces will march across the Palestine frontier." The Commission warned Ab- dullah that the Security Coun- cil, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. is at present considering the problem of maintaining peace in the country and has created the Commission for the purpose of bringing about a truce in hostilities in the Holy Land
Any warlike action on the part of Transjordan will undoubtedly sure by the Security Council and the entire United Nations.
Monarchist Sentenced
Madrid, Apr. 20.
General Alfredo Kindelan, re- presentative in Spain of Dan Juan, Pretender to the Spanish Throne, was today sentenced two months' detention by the
Government.
the cause of the gravest cen- bernl Kludeian was sai
At the same time. the icad- er of the United Nations ad.
Rave
to
beer arrested because he gave a lecture on the Royalist cause to a gathering of Spanish Cause monarchists in the private house
vance party. In Palestina, Senor Pablo Azcacate, resort of a leading Spanish financier. was
ed to the Palestine Commission” here that major warfare would break out in Palestine when
The Vanguard Too Big
Canberra, Apr. 29.
A plan for deepening the channel at Port Melbourne, 10 that the 42,500-ton battleship Vanguard can berth there dar- In the Royal visit next spring. is being submitted to the Naval Govern- Board of the Victorian
ment.
This was stated tonight after State and Commonwealth officials hnel discussed cietails of the tour and also the inability of Brisbane
Port
Vanguard.
The Keneral also covered" the Western European Union nod; anti-Communism In his talk. the British mandate.enda paxt other pe
people who attended were
month.
being questioned. Now A Fact
General Kindelan was exiled Senor Azcorate reported that two years ago for his monarchist a fact and "im-activities and ordered to live on partition--now
several ssible to destroy"-had gone, the Canary Islands for even
further thon, proposed in the months-leuter. General Assembly resolution, be- Jerusalem had also been
eatuse
partitioned.
He reported that the Jewish
repor
organised and Ariny was well well supplied,
very
Relations between the advance party and the Jews were good but there were no relations with the Arabs, Senor Azenrote
said.
Adelaide 10 berth The Palestine Commission is meanwhile nugolisting with the The Commonwealth Govern-CHEM
International Emergency Food ment today informed the States Council, in Washington the main-
was considering striking
Truman And Free Trade
be
London, Apr. 29.
MacDonald,
Mr. Maicolm Guvernor of Malaya, will take over the additional duties of Special Commissioner for South-East Asia on May-1, the Colonial and Foreign Offices announced tonight.
His new title will be "Cam- 'missioner General for the Unit- Eont In South Klagglom
Washington, Apr. 20. European countries would unable to repay Marshall Plan loans if Congress "sabotaged"-j the American programme of re- procal-free trade. President Truman said today.
He was referring at his press conference
to the. Reciprocal
เก่
fore
Commonwealthymedal printing-a-nce of half-yearly food allot Trade Agreement Act, now be-
Phooklui-for distribution in school- children and issuing special coins and stamps.-Reuter.
U.S. PROPOSALS FOR CHINA AID
Shanghai, Apr. 30. Mr. Tsu-yee Pel, head of the
Mission Chinese Ald
ἐπ the United States
who returned trom Washington yesterday ternoon. left today for Nanking
in
AHIR,”
Mr. MacDonald will be re- ponsible as befores for the co- ordination of administration and policy in relation to the Federa- lion of
of Malaya. Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak. and Brumel. and will now be responsible for the work before carried out by the Special Complssioner's br- ganisation.
In his relations with foreign territories, he will have the rank of Ambassador.
The United Kingdom Govern-,
that ment recently announced the two posts were to be omal- Ramated in the interests of eco- nomy,
The last Spectnt Commissioner Was Lord Killearn.-Reuter.
The Princess Declines
for
London, Apr. 29. Princess Elizabeth declined with regret today to nsk
dog under Royal mercy for a sentence of death for killing
chicken
Norman Wilkinson, the dog's master, had written asking her to appeal to the King for a par- don.
son:
Jean The Hon.
Elphinstone, lady in waiting, wrote to Wilkin-
While always in sympathy with
those who are fond of animals, the Princess much TC- grets that the matter to which you refer in your letter is one in which she con any personal intervention,
Princess Elizabeth is so sorry not to be able to send you a -more--helpful-roplyAssociated
not exercise
U.S. FLEET VISIT TO PORTUGAL
ments to Palestine. It is also
Congress which would con- with the Inima negotiating tional Postu! Union to maintain tinue for three years the pro-Bress
gramme of free trade between mall communications with, Pales-
the United and the coun-
States tine, which now hen only tele- graphic communication with the tries negotiating trade treaties,
The Republicans, who arc rest of the world.
a majority in Congress, propose
, Invasion Rumours
to renew the Act for che
year Consular only. "Protectionist". Republicans Commission's report said it had feels they would be in a stronger been bgable to arrange a meet- position, after the elections ing between the two-parties to November, to repent the Art and discuss a truce. The Commis reverse the free trade" policy. sion message added that there-Reufèr.
"considerable rumours"
invasion, Br
The
were
at-
that an
to report to the Government,,on his discussions in the States.
United
three-man
lea was imminent.
of Arab arm-
During the Political Commit-
Hanover Strike
Lisbon, Apr. 30. The visit to Portugal in June American Lo 14 ships of the in
Flect is welcomed here os pro- viting fresh evidence-of-the- strengthening
Portuguese-
Rear-Ad-
in
American relations.
to
The Ficct, under miral Herbert Meleah, who will fly 'his flag in the 45,000-ton battleship Missouri. is due arrive on Juno 21 and will Chinese semi-ocial circles tee meeting today, Mr. Philip C.
stay until June 28.-Neuter. here state that he brought back Jessup (United States), said there with him American proposals was no change in the American
Hanover, Apr. 20.
'MILAN TRADE FAIR for utilisation of American aid to stand on trusteeship for Pales-
Four thousand workers China for study by the Chinese tine,
Milan, Apr. 20. Govenment authorities.
"We believe that the United Hanover's second largest factory,
Germany made an official, re- the Hanomag Works, went on
commerce Mr. Pel indicated that he will not know whether he will have Nations, must be prepared to ac cept responsibility in connection
strike today In protest against appearance in world to make-another-trip to Washing with the Palestine situation and
the food situation, The strike istoday, when 85 firms from the Occupa- toh until after his
tion-zones were among the ex- conference to assume authority in Palestine not supported by tile workers British and American in the Chinese capital-Reuter
hibitors at the 20th Interna- on May 18 on a temporary basis trade union. until
Tomorrow, the Works Countional Trade. Fair, which open- find solution can be Д cald.
cils of all Hanover's metal faced here. found," he
Several delegates urged that tories, employing 20,000 men, are The Germans displayed medi- proceed meeting to decide whether to cal equipment, chemicals, optical the Committee should
strike in
precision in sympathy.
instruments and cut- with an immediate discussion of
The strike is in protest against | fery.—Router, specifie proposals in the trustee-
bread ration in Lower ship plan, The Chairman of the the Committees DT. F.
Saxony being smaller than in the Tatang adjourned the meeting other states of the Bizone.
The
given for this dis- until tomorrow, saying that
reason "various topics" in the plan criminatory-treatment was that and Schleswig- would be taken up at the next Lower Saxony
Holstein had been meeting-Reuter;
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The Hanomag Works Counci! London, Apr. 29. declared the strike was levelled Albert Forster, former Nazi against the occupying powers Gauleiter of Danzig, was sen- and not against the Government tenced
1 to death today by of Lower Saxony-Reuter. Warsaw court for crimes against
humanity and peace, Warsaw Radio reported.
30,000 people in the initial period The Prosecution alleged he of his campaign of extermination was responsible for the death of of Poles and Jowa-Reuter.
American Defence
Proposals
Washington, Apr. 29..
The Army Secretary, Kenneth Røyall, said today that an enemy under prosent conditions could "spiza bases in Alaska or the Azores” for an attack on tho United Statos..
dir
He told the Senate Appro-way to do that is to hold bases priations Committee that they in Newfoundland, Alaska, Green do not need a fleet to take bases the only way to hold bases
Iceland and the Azores and. land, in Greenland, Iceland or the
with ground forces. Azores,"
Royall and General-Omar N. Royall-did not name the Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, potential enemy,
both endorsed plans to build up "We should push an air war the Air Force to 66 groups by against the United States as 14 taisha B-29's out of storage.
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