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No. 33964.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1948.
LARGE-SCALE PIRATE HUNT
PICTURE OF THE DAY
This Little Pig
Woman Pirate Armed With Jap Rifle Caught said "No" Some May Escape Through Cordon
Police yesterday captured a wounded 34-year-old
woman pirate, armed with a Japanese riflo and a pouch of ammunition, during the big- gest manhunt in the Colony's history, in the vicinity of Deep Bay.
Search of the area where police were fired on by a gong armed with machine-guns on Tuesday will continue today, but it is feared that some of the pirotes, estimated to number 80, will escape the police cordon in the guise of villagers.
seen
According to Information (Alxout an her later, u APKRITIKEL from various Police Stations in armed with a ric the New Territories, and other crouching in the undergrowth in Bources, Div.-Supt. N. B. Fraser one of the valleys.
was on ordinary survey patrol
in a launch
in Deep Bay at
noon on Tuesday when his at- tention was drawn to a large
HIT IN ARM
Before she had a chance to open
Junk and a number-of-Hoklore, potire bullet hit-her-in-the- - boats off Pak Mal, opposite Rrm. They pounced on the rifle Nam Tau (Po On). There was and the pouch of cartridges which also n large crowd in the she had strapped to her sile, vicinity.
Nearby the Police also picked When the Pallee launch ap-up a container with 48 inchine-F
The women was i proached the beach to investigate gin billets, they were met with a burst of later sent to. the Kowloon Hose machine-gun Are from the hillspital where she is being detained when about 500 yards from shore. for treatment, It was then decided further
reinforcer ents
launches in the
contacted by wireless.
meantime, the Police
walking
on the ridges
011
were
of the
While
the main forces
were
This little pig appears to be defying his Royal master, King George VI, as the King tried to drive him and his brothers through the gate. The Royal Pingeriox oes at Windsor and
His Majesty takes a keen inter ist in shale activities.
"Must Convince Russians
Of Peace"-Marshall
Washington, May 5.
Hurt By Acid
walking
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UN SHADOW FOR PALESTINE
COUNCIL PLANS
GOVERNMENT
Lake Success, May 5.
The United Nations Trusteeship, Council today ra. commended the immediate appointment of an "emergency mayor" to assume authority in Jerusalem when the British mandate ends in 10 days hohco.
The decision come as the Jewish and Arab-leaders...
in Palestine were holding separate conferences to determine the fate of Palestine. The recommendation to the lerday, postponed its departure General Assembly appeared to on the request of the chief secret be the first step toward the tary, Sir Henry Gurney,
In Tel-Aviv meanwhile-full- establishment of a shindow gov-
in 37-member cabinet of the pro- ernment for Palestine fruntic effort by the United posed Jewish state met to hear
a report by the "national Nations to fill the Vacuum ministration"
or inner cabinet threatened by the departure of of 13 members. David Ben British forces.
scheduled to become pre- Gurlon The mayor would be appointed mier, addressed the meeting. by the British High Commissioner
Fighting con
continued in scatter-
nd-
hut would not have forces to ect areas in Palestine but Jorusa- quell the fighting and would not lom proper remained quiet under
Butter Ration Increase
· London, May 5. The butter ration In Bel- ial will be incrowsed from three ounces to tour, ounces a week beglanning on May.. 23, John Strachey, the Food Minister, announced-todey..
The margarine ration will be proportionally reduced. United Press. '
Jews Buy
German
Colony
Jerusalem, May 5.
The Jewish National Home
officially be connected with the the British extension of the 48-completed its biggest real estate
Unlled Nations.
The Trusteeship Council's re- commendation was approved after tbree days of aimless debale which ended at 1.15 pm by vole of nine to zero with Russia und Frince abstaining.
Only - Blossing
.
on Tuesday paying hour truce
ruce scheduled to end 4 deal
£3,034,000 for the former Ger- p.m. Tuesday.
hear that Hops rose suddenly
man Colony of Sarona, real truck for the city might Tel-Aviv. be arranged under the auspices The site, it is reliably reported, of the Red Cress when Jacques is intended for the Government Reynier, Palestine director for centre of the future Jewish State. the International organisation, Sarona was founded 80 years Announced he would welcome. -ngo- -69-the-German-religious or requests from broadly repre-ganisation Templara and became Work on the second and major sentative Jewish and Arabja Nazi hotbed under Hitler.
bodies to holst the section of the plan for a shadow
Red Cress The Palestine Government, as government, which: aixo -w!!1
flag over the
custodian of enemy property, ac- Holy, City. have no enforcement powers
Elsewhere it was reported that cepted the cheque for the 1,500 German own1 and only the legal blessing of the armed Arabs were crossing the acres and will pay United Nations, was due to begin Lebanese frontier near Udeisen ers who remain in Palestine full today in a closed meeting of the and that Jewish settlements invalue for their property. speclai sub-committee of the that were preparing for an at- remainder, which is the biggest chequo, will go to part of the tack. General Assembly.
Inter-Allied reparations.
and
Lebanese Assurance
-
The
Sarona, which is a suburb of
Britain has proposed that the Assembly admit, defɗat in the attempt to achieve a concrete
A Haganah spokesman anid the Tel-Aviv, Increases in size what In virtually assured to be the settlement of the Palestine lesus invasion force numbered GOO
capital by one- and agree instead to set up regular soldiers. He added that future Jewish along
"neutral authority in Jerusalem 20 Syrian soldiers
to obtain before making a trading. Polico withdrawn about 9 pm,, vigilance were patrols dug themselves in on both
night in anti-Secretary of State Marshall today said Russian In the Tuesday and fit
the cipation ul any attempt by the
loaders must be convinced the Soviet Union Jaunch KAW IL number of Chinese beselged pirates to break through:
the Police cartons.
con "live side-by-side in poaco" with the Western Powers in the United Nations. Hle-made-that-statement in opposing any drastic shake-up of the U.N.. without Russian agree. ment. Such a step, Marshall said, probably would destroy the organisation and mean set juries she refolved were ting up rival military, alliances,
--hills-in-the-vicinity who kept up. the shooting at the launch. The
Police returned the fire.
EXCHANGED FIRE
Further searches of the whole peace-made today, and cons
Unued t
his been the ment rounded up OF are defnitely known to have escaped in the gulse of villagers or traders.
the inhabitants
According to
With the arrival of Police Jaunch No. 3, under the command of Leu Fau village, on the other
walk-through paddy
The Secretary appeared be-presentatives which is
the Foreign Affairs Com-sidering proposals for
con-
re-
with or without Russian, co-operation.
of Sub-Inspector Hughes, a bar-side of Deep Bay and about afore rage was laid against the robbers. hour's Under this barrage, ten members fields, from the Ping Shan Police mittee of the U.S. House of Re-organising the U.N. of the Police force made a lund Station, the Police outpost in the
established_only_ on-the-beach-at-Pak-Mel-and village was immediately proceeded to search about three or four weeks ago at the surrounding hills. On top of the request of the people there. ene hill the police and pirates
The village, the chief trade of again exchanged fire. The latter usert their knowledge of the ter- which is oyster collecting and ain and disappeared in the sur-manufacture of oyster sauce, had rounding undergrowth.
Sikhs On Traffic Duty In Kowloon
becn numerous occasions molested by armed robbers who While the battle was in pro- crossed over by junks from thei gress, Lau Kwan, (24), master of Chinese territory. Junk 204, reported to the Ping
Bearded Silih policemen have taken over trafic duty at street Junctions in Kowloon,
Wering khaki uniforms, ple coloured turans and
_He_aald that what the world needs today is not new struc. tures for peace but batter use of the organisation which al- ready exists.
His testimony amounted to a plea to Congress not to express its Impatience with the present U.N. and its objection to-Russian conduct.
While Nathan Road near Chaung Lak_Street...... at about half...... päst nThe fast night, a Chie nese female, Mak Sau-ching. was the victim of an
aold throwing incident.
confined to her loga.
and
→ second such authority
killed were
for all of Palestine to take over near Rainouth Haftali in northern
the
The
The In-
Powder Explosion Kills One
❤
One man, Li Wah, 46, was
appointed
Political
Palestine.
was Lebanese-Goverment-to-
by
by
the
Assembly's
and
ussured the Ualled Stoler Minister, Lowell Pinkerton, that
work on of
the Hinta Palestine.
third United Press.
The Weather
anti-éfpläne rentres-over-the-- Ben
socisted, ridge extending to D.W. China are all moving slowly B.T
went to do Lebnuese troops have crossed of Japan and the Eastern Bes and an
which The Syrian
Jan Government heir Palesune but would have. do similar assurances,
British plan for. would become
an
manent settlement.
Today's Forecast-Moderate easterly winde, cloudy during the morning, other.
Yesterday's Weather
Rainfall Trace. Total sincs Jan. 1.-
21.7 mm. 8.24 Ene, ma against an - average of 380,5 mm.1301 in..
Nackte Fademia Bandings' at ·
10... 4.ra. Baro at mat.....1816.n. 1013...
Equsta 20.00 19.91 inches,
11 deg. F. 1 Wind Direction,... Eby N E. Wind Force. 18 14 knols.
00 11
While presure is falling over 2. Chine to reportedly gave the United States and Manchurin, a troush lands from refuting the the Bonins through the Luson Stratte to force or other power to prevent Jewish statements that Lebanese Cochle China and is almost stationary.
Arab-Jewish war.
Syrian
rian regular are operating ond Unless the Palestine auth
authority
the Holy Land. ** Jiy is able to achieve truce-it-wou
would
Foreign Observers flying over wir partly ruded. sit as the merely sit n
of the border aree saw no movement Maximum: 78.1 deg. Fab. "government of Palestine" while Arabs and Jews of troops over the border from sinimums 71.2 dew. Pah. fought it out. The "government"
Syrin or Lebanon to Palestine. Bunshine: 0.1 hour, would merely be on hand to Lebanese ometals estimated at handle British assels and work to least 30,000 Palestine Arab re- bring the Arabs and Jews to- gather for negotiations or a perfugees are at present in Lebanon, crowding hospitals, camps, schools and hotels. In Jerusalem three conferences Law-makers have complained killed and seven other persons to determine the fate of Palestine to mobilise all Palestine Arab rel. Humidity.
The Arab Government planned especially about Russia's frequent injured when a quantity of
when the Brillah end their man- | fugee between 18 and 50 of the big Power veto. Mar- aluminium powder exploded on date are going on in Arsh cities training in non-combat as well us 152 pur-shali told the Commitles their chlet vle-
"pro- white blems today presented to those the verandah of 296 Ki Lung today. The most important is the combat duties.-United Press,
Street. 2nd floor, Shamshuipo, three-way conference of British, the who desire peace are not ques- gaping tions
ut about 6.15 p.m. yesterday. Arabs and Jews at Jericho to ot stucture,"
examine detalls of a truce He added: "Nor are they pro-
CXBDTHEIR It is understood that the pow- Jerusalem. Attending are repre- blems solvable by new forms of
sentatives of Britain. Haganah organisation. Basic human fronts der had just been brought
And pinced on the verandah
Palestine, the Arab Higher Com- Provisions alone, for they exist in fire appliances were despatched the behaviour of men and 60-w-the-scene-and-soon brought Azzam Pashe.. Secretary-General- At Damateur, Abdul Rahnun which resulted from off "The suggestion a revised The blaze,
of the Arab League, is conferring the explosion, under control. Only with the Promines of Lebanon It is expected that--when-more-
of world government should be light damago was caused to the and Syria on the United Nations
building, shelved if necessary, when news of the fighting wore of the recruits have been passed relayed to all stations within an out, they will be posted for duly
on-lhe Island... hour of the first shooting.-
of
Shan Police that at 7.40 a.m, his Smugglers plying between the
unk, carrying 70 pleuls of rice British and Chinese sections and
passengers, were inter-Deep Hay were
four
cepted at Tsim Pei-tsui, off Mong lims. zaid the villagers, but on the Tseng, by a Hoklo junk manned occasions they have entered by a crew of ten who were armed village itself in search of loot.
The distance between the vil- with two machinegune, two rifles and an automatic rifte.
inge and Ping Shan Police Station
On seeing the approach of a made reporting these incidents a
UD
for
gloves, the Sikhs, who are centre of attraction to crowds, present a very smart ap- pearance.
The Sikhs comprise part of the
which arrived in the Colony a -to-Lau,—salled. away with his the mauraders invariably had a
few months ago Skice their outboard motor only. In their good start on the Polic
The value of the new autpost, rival, They have been undergoing hurry to escape, the pirates did
a wireless trans-training at the Police Training not take any of the rice with equipped with
School. them. This junk was later identi- milting-Bet, was clearly domen fed as the one chased by Div.strated by the events of Tuesday Superintendent Fraser's launch.
Police Jaunen is Jank, according "long" job, with the restift that contingent of Indion policemen cannot be overcome by charter when the explosion occurred. Two initiee, Lebanon and Transjordan.
were
Agenora! alarm was sent to all Stations and cutposts in the New Territories, and personnal from these totalling 250, mohilised and rushed, under the command of Chief Inspector Mac- Carthy,
to Lung Koo Tan, the backdoor
to Lau Fau Shan. Among those in the land party wore Del-Inson Dét." Sub-
Taylor, Det Ins valor
W.J. Wall, and Suu-
Spectors Blackbourne, Hewlett..
and North. They returned to their
Priest
Tells Of
Red Third Degree
Peiping, May 5.
respective Stations, relieved by Third degree methods reminiscent of rubber hose
der mid
other forces, shortly after aught..
of
and non-sleep methods employed by the polico to extract statements from gangsters have boon adopted by the Communists toward im- prisoned British, American and other foreign priests and nuns.
priest said the'
ernments.
that a
'farm some
United Nations or
་
proposals for trusteeship In The injured included two men. Palestine.
women and two children The third meeting is at Am-
10-a-girl-of-three years and the man capital-of-Feansjordan,
senior officers of various also a girl a few months where
without those nations which, would be unwilling_to...Join,
deserves three was attention special
other. would pro- "Such 1 procedure
the present United. Four of the injured have Arab states are considering map- ustroy the bably
organisations. The result been detained in Hospital, while ping purely military plans. Nations org
three were.. allowed to return However, the consular
truce would be a disposal of the com- munity
commission of nations, followed by home after treatment.
seeking permanent Cause of the explosion is not peace for Jerusalem, which was the formation of rival military
known.
Fücheduled to go to Aminan yes- alliances and isolated groups of states. This result would weaken us_and_expose us to even greater
who acck ́ Gangers from thos50 domination of other states."--As- sociated Press.
Million CN Dollars To One US
BRITAIN GETTING
ITS SECOND WIND
Weston-Super-Marc, May 5.
Britain is getting its second wind in its uphill climb
toward recovery, the Chancellor of the ́Ex- choquor (Sir Stafford Cripps) said today. "We are pulling ourselves up Sir Stafford added that the out of our difficulties, not al-European Recovery Programme ways and everywhere as fast as would give Britain a little longer
Notified by wireless of what was occurring in the New Terri torice, Mr. K. A. Bidmead, Officer Communding Kowloon and Now Territories, rushed a party about 50 Indian Police, to Deep
The Chinese the Missionaries held by Bay by a Catalina Flying-boat. Reds in Hsienholen were forced forcing of priests to write "con- These men, forming members of daily to fill a page of "confessions" has been going on now the Emergency Unit (Kowloon), gessions", detailing their most for more than we months and returned to their barracks early minute activities dating years was accompanied by endless ques- One United States dollar to- we should like, but we are mov-to build its production and over- yesterday morning.
He said that at various times day makes you a millionaire Ing consciously in the right seas resources United Press. confinement. Ho said he per- The Chinesa the priests were kept in solitary in China.
Tao Police, under Div. Supi.back. Until the "confessions" Fraser and Sub-Inspector Kinare penned and scanned by the loch, continued their search for Red guards, the priests are not the pirates at 5 am. yesterday. kllowed to sleep.
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Page Two
House Of Lords' Reform.
Hanover Food, Birikos... Pape Eight Wipe Engineering' Pego.
"Papa" Nina
Anglo-Bolet
Bevin On Relatione.
tloning.
Shanghat, May 5.
4)
..
national deilar sonally was In solitary for the world's most watered money month. He said that tena, Chu-fell-to-that-level-late this after The story of treatment of cap vert, French mission superinten noon after several days of rupid tives at Halenhalen was related dent, was kept under spacial deterioration. here by a Chinese priest who guard. escaped recently.
The Reda, however,
ai
continue., MARKIN
Russian Colonel In UK
direction," Sir Stafford told the annual conference of the Con- federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Unions.
"We could and shall go faster. Several free market sources reWe are getting our second-wind allowed!
ported sales at CN81,000,000 for in the uphill race and we shall
London, May 5. US$1, and most of them predict not lose sight of our Socialist The Daily Herald reported The Chinese priest, who asked daily mass but never told may the present, rapid fall would Roni. We are going to calch up today that the missing Russian not to be identified, said that 42 prisoners why they were
on, worldwide, standards, which officer, Lieutenant Colonel Y. missionaries held during the past giving them freedom.
Ever since the Chinese dollar are much lower in many coun- D. Tassoyev, is in England as six months by the Reds at Haien- listen Have been weakened physl-attacked Hochien, 20 miles north started its top akld last month, tries thuis in our own."
the Reds left the to level offad been usually tradere have been walling for It daily and mentally. He said the of Hsienhelen, mental forture is greater than the fleeing on oxcarts carrying A bad fall physk Included among the food and clothing, but they warn- followed by a brie, potiod of ro- captives are Avõi -American, five ed the Catheiles not to try to lative stability during which the Canadian and two British nuns. leave, threatening "consequences Chincks money holde its own for
-Gormulates of the respective and taking five priests as hostages, a low days or weeks and som
the times even regains in value. (4) s soon as Amonitha steps/suede the Opm.
Nationalists
Recently, when the "(s)
P
1
At the same time, however,
political refugee..
Bir Stafford warned the coun Tfic paper sald. Tassoyev, who try that it must reach far disappeared in Germany on April higher point of overasi produo- 23 remained in hiding while his tion and exports than ever be application for entry into fore within the next year or was being conal, Ameri-
The Russlarks charged carry out this cans kidnapped the officer but
Britain
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́nòuntries = tried”, fruitiosaty": for The Reds een: the arés The But this time the "fall has been } tremendous” task, we are through this was dented by General
i muntata koʻralgaas the saptives, Chinese priest, however, found non-stop for almost"; "a month), sabe drst-class power in the Lucius D. Clay, American Mill- BEST VIL"brondeäpts from, Peiping" to Folping-United Press, no Jovelling-offssociated Press;Iwill go to plocós.”
hip
way to the Nationalists and with no recouping of value, and world, and our standard of living tary Governor do Germany.—
United" Press cama
brought no respone
for Dew Point
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