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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948.
TROOPS TO UNLOAD CARGOES
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Feminine
5 PIRATE PM'S FUTILE APPEAL TO Touch SUSPECTS LONDON DOCK STRIKERS
ARRESTED
Five alleged pirates were arrested by a party of Police, under a European Officer, in the vicinity of Lau Fau Shan, Iollowing in exchange of shots at about 2 a.m. yesterday.
The Police party
was on
patrol in the aren when the sound of Bring wus heard. Investigation revealed that a
band of pirates were attempt- ing to head off a number of junks nearby.
The Pulice panty opener! fire on The pirates, who retreatest in dis- order after a 15-minute skirmish.
The five persrus arrested by the Police were elated to have been brought into Kowloon early yesterday for further enquiries.
One of the men detained le
alleged to have boasted that he took part in three piracles, to
have thot one of his victims
end to have thrown two others into the 4.
La Pau Soto was the scene of large-scale operations early Just month, when a band of pirates wede trapped by the Polee in the hills after an at- tempted holir! up of junk.
JUNK PIRATED
A cargo junk, reported to be travelling from Carton to Rong Keng is said to have been held ut about 11 am. up by pirates yesterday in the vicinity of Ma Chung Tau. New Territories. It is elreported that 15 persons vessel were kid- on board thin napped by the pirates.
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150 SHIPS LYING
PARALYSED
London, June 23.
The Government moved troops into the strike-bound London docks to
unload parishable food cargoes.
RussiaTMTM Summons Satellites
Warsaw, June 23.
The decision followed the almost complete failure of the "back to work" appeal by the union leaders and by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee.
Three hundred troops of the Coldstream Guards, dressed in working overalls, rolled across London in Police escorted lorries to the docks of noon. A hundred more waited on the parade ground at Wallington Barracks, a fow hundred yards from Buckingham Palace.
Less than one in 20 of the strikers reported for work this morning.
Soviet Russia called a sur-20,000 prise conference of her Eastern European satellites to Warsaw today which may map a battle against the western alies pluri to set up West German state Summoned to the parley were Paland
Czechoslovakia, But- gavin, Yugoslavia, Romania and Hungary.
All of theses nations. Were anung the rigners of thic Cominform (Communist Interna- tional Inforinatkni Bureau), or- panised in Poland last September to fight the Marshall plan,
There
of
WatH htt Indication whether Countmunist lenders France and Italy, who niso sign-
Ing
The decision to move in irnoos vas taken by a special committee Rende by Mr. Attlee, which exists to deal with emergencies of this sort.
About a third of the 160 ships lying paralysed in the London port today carried food. The troops are expected to begin work on 4,500,000 eggs waiting at one wharf, 260 tons of rot. ting tomatoes at another and quantities of porzioes at others. One employer estimated today tint between £15,000,000 and £20,000,000 of exports and Im- by the strike
de
the man
The punishment were given fed to the port-wide strike, although union officials thought the penalties justified by the men's repeated breaches of existing greaments. The strike leaders decided to boycott the meeting organised
the trade
Anton,
und threatened that if a resolution were tossed to go back to work they would call on "all port workers throughout the country" to jom the walkout.
نایا
Communist
|Backing?
At the non-union meeting, the workers voted in favour of con- tinuing the stoppage.
et the Coinforin, were attend-ports were held up by
now in its tenth day.
Thames Many
baatmen cided last
the night to Join London dock workers in their
tary old strike -- short aight-day after union leaders had said they were confident the 19.003 dockere would go back to work today.
Secrecy shronder! the arrival of Russian and other planes at nearby Okecle airport. There were reports that Suviet Foreign Minister, V.M. Molotov heading the Soviet delegation, but this could not be immediately confirmed. Associated Press.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO SIAM RESTRICTED
Bangkok, June 23.
Was
Chinese who enter Siam in excess of the 10,000 annual quota must be treated as "temporary visitors" and must return to China within two or three months of their arrival, according to a officials. Previously, they were per- Meanwhile, milled
Serious Effect
Earlier. the Prime Minister.
Ile gave a warning that a con- tinuation of the strike, which has immobilised 145 ships. would have a serious effect on Britain's national economy.
All provisions had been made, however, to make certain that
now ruling by Siamese immigration he added.
perishable goods were not lost,
with a
Mr. William Gallagher, Com- Premier Thibul munist, sald there were only
umong
Lo enter, regardless, Songgram Is reported to be in- | 1,800 men at the trade union and their number was deduct- stiluting Inquiries
Im- | meeting when the decision to re- ed from the following year's migration and other authorities sure work was uken by a great
view to increasing the In announcing the new ruling,tes for Chinese immigrants as immigration offic!uts epid that the well as immigrants of other nn- "lecses" of excers Chinese from. tions and face,
quota,
revious years, hud cut the quota
***Your
majorlly, whereas over 8,000 at an unofficial meeting had taken the opposite decision.
Mr. Atlee replied: figures pre quite wrong."
Vast quantities of food held up In the docks by the strike
Mr. Arthur Deakin, 'Secre
of the Transport and General Workers Union, who
addressed yesterday's Union masting: Told Heuters that he was informed that out of 45 members of the unofficial strike. committee, 37 were alleged to be-members-of-the-Communist
Party.
A woman's place is in the home even if the ban tb bulld
herself. At
least that is what Irma Lang, of Manhattan Beach, California;*** where the housing shortaga is nearly as acute as it is in Hong Kong, decided. Here sho la, zerfsted by two of har working girl friends.
Prica: 20 Cents.
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WEST ORDERS A NEW CURRENCY IN BERLIN
MOTHER'S
WELSH Soviet Currency Change
Plans Declared Void
APPEAL
An appont has been made i to the "China, Mali", by = Welsh mother who after alx and a half years still bellaves that her Missing són la aļīve. She is anxious for any In- formation our readers CSD give.
CIN Reynolds Wea an H. M.8. Thracian during the Nightlig In December, 1941, WEB ***L*ken
prisoner.
The Japanese stated in 1942 that he had escaped from intern- ment camp in Hong Kong." In a letter dated August 1943 "they said he was in camp in
Malaya.
Berlin, June 23.
The Western Allies today ordered their own cur- rency reform in their sectors of Berlin to counter the Russian offorts to include all of Berlin in the Soviet Zone currency move. The Western Allies notified Marshal Sokolovsky by letter delivered by hand to his Karlshorst headquarters.
The announcement means two currencies in this bewildered city which is now the main object of a tug-of-war between East and West. An English friend later re- ported that he saw Raynalda
The three Western Com- | Berlin as a whole, escaping from one
"The proposals were refused by manders of five
in Berlin issued
the Soviet authorities and instear lorries ambushed in the hilla orders to the German popula- the Soviet military administration tion in their sectors and the insisted it alone would write the Acting Mayor, Frau Louise currency low for the city of Soviet Berlin. Furthermore, the Schroeder,
the declaring
Idministration retused to separate Russian currencycognise the prerogatives
of the reform plans for Berlin "null kommandatura as the supremo and vold."
law-making body of Berlin.
1:1- "Western Zone currency in al- stead, the SMA announced this ready here and will be issued lu morning laws which would pre- -the immediate" "future,' Frle sumably be applicable to Greater
As no trace has bean found of his grave, Mrs. Raynolds thinks her son may have lost ni memory he once did an a youthend she le dager for any item of newe
keep looking for him to come home," she says.
chief British
finance
Berlin-the same laws the SMA
Violates Status.
~A~Chinese mate. Wong Chung-Coates, hing, aged 42, committed suicide offeer, told a tripartite press con- promulgated for the Soviet Zone. at about 11.20 a.m. yesterday by ference cutting his throat with a chopper in the kitchen of 141 Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor.
BABY FOUND IN
BODY OF A BOY
Whether the two
dan work in Darlin
operation
currendie
of
"The Western Powers cannot "dependshmit to such arbitrary action upon the cngrow of Boviet co. which is in violation and in total and circumstances disregard of the actual quac'ri- compel
to them
so-partile status of Berlin and which viotates all agreements respecting operate.
The text of the tripartite state- management
and ment on Western currency for banking affairs of the city, The Berlin said:
three Western Powers of Berlin "ily virtue of the attempt by found it necessary. therefore, to the Soviet military administration Issue orders that laws promul tu usurp for itself authority to gated by the Soviet military dominete the economic and administration will not apply_in Nanking, June - 23.
affairs of Berlin and issue its own the three Western sectors. The
for the quadripartitn Five-year-old Ho Tsun-chu, who "felt a pain in the currency
three. Western Powers, therefore, city, the Western" Powers find, it find themselves forced to cukrów side" for the past three years, was delivered, nervstary, "lb2 introduce now also inch Uic three, Westerif of a five-inch long headless baby boy in the marks in the three Western sectors of Berlin" the new, mark legal tender in the three Western government-owned Central Hospital last night.
Zones, Western View
Malaya Gangsters Battle Police
Singapore, June 23.
The uneasy quiet in Malaya, tense after last week's murder wave, broke today near Ipoh when police patrols fought a running gun battle with Chinese gangsters.
was enclosed in a thin lucent membrane.
trans.
The hospital authorities would not let the United Press reporter to see the preserved fetus when he called this afternoon because the laboratory was locked.
Small Lump
| tors · of E-rin.
three Western
Invited the
the
three Western sectors the Occupying Fowers has decreed Powers food and chemist shops will re-
Soviet
Dr. Hsu Yin-yl,-who-performed-the-operation- "At the time the monetary re- Detalls, manner and time of which was intended to remove O "stomach totin in the three Western Zones conversion of existing money and He added: "As usual when Mr. Clement Attlee, had fold there is a dispute, the Commu-
tumor," told the United Press that it was the was undertaken to prevent fur bank account holdings of
thor deterioration in the economy French sectors of Berlin will be population in the U.S., U.K. and Parliament that the Government nists are busy and f possible
deepest puzzle he had encountered. He is in the Wertem Zones it had been announced shortly. In the mean- expected the dockers to carry out take a promifient part in it to
deliberately decided to withhold time a decision made this morning to the embarrassment of
preserving the fetus for research.
an order calling similar action for Berlin since the inmediate closing of all banks in trade
for the resume work today.
union ofcfals.
Little Ho, a native of Wu-Į smiled apathetically but would city is under quadripartite ad- the three Western Communist
when inter-f not talk.
Bectors and His spokesman chin, Kiangau,
28-year-old ministration. denied that
on all the Party
moratorium was viewed at the hospital by mother, Mrs. Ho Wa-fen, wite "Furthermore, it to the view of declaring a loing anything in the dispute, United Press Reuter,
correspondent of a country doctor, stood by arce Western Cccupying Powers nancial obligations pending the
announcement of.
of details of the Chang Kuo-sin, this afternoon, with a worried look on her that it is the responsibility of the mon
monelury face
conversion Operation city's supreme quadripartite body, has been t
In order to the Kommandatura, to minimise The fetus when taken out mely
hardships reform among the civilian population of was globular in shape but the effect such a monetary Imba werd developing. Its for the total population of the
the genital organs were male. it city as a whole,
The specifically military administration to discuss main open during the period of
conversion."United Press. on a quadripartite basla the most for protecting feasible methods
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE- the economy of the people of Berlin. At the meeting on Tues- After allegedly shopping his day, June 22, financial and econo-wife, So Kwok-hau, sald to be a mit experts from the four Oc-watchman at the Taikoo Dock- Mrs. Ho, who wps dressed in a pale green print trock, told the cupying Powers of Germany and yard, jumped from the 2nd door Western.. Zone representatives of 387 Tung Tai Street, Shauki- United Press that she discovered offered to consider and work out wan, at about 9 dm. yesterday. a "small jump" in the left ab-with the Soviet authorities He is reported to have sustained Sharp exchanges of fire were along which Mr Malcolm Mac-domen of her son three years ago reasonable
satisfactory serious injuries. The injuries to reported during the clash, Donald, Special British Commis Last spring the lump started method for handling currency and his wife, Kwok Lal-wah, which started at Bider,
swelling. She consulted many miles south of Ipoh, but the to Singapore from a visit to es diagnose the aliment. Some sold
40afoner, was later today returning decors but they were not able to monetary reform measures for, only slight gang escaped into the jungle. tates in the Rengum district.
the lump was a malignant tumor. Seven miles north of Bidor, the The Straits Times sald today Then Dr. Hsu Yin-yl,
who milltary police arrested one of it understood that the emergency visited Wuchin early this month, Bangkok, June 22.
The situation, which was con- the four Chinese found on an powers now in force throughout heard of this stubborn ailment Siamese immigration of-
sidered by the Cabinet yesterday,
estate where a murder attempt the Malayan Federation would and examined the boy. Later he is made no easter by a sympathy
·ficials estimated that up to
Last week.
soon be extended to Singapore to brought him to Nanking for ob- strike of cold storage men, but Troops and police were 'still today a total of 10.000 Viet-
the food ration for the current taking up new positions throught the island from becoming servation and treatment.
"the loophole for Communist ro-
ha deolded Yesterday namese have entered Slam to Considerable exeltement was week is thought to be secure. out the peninsula.
tugees."--Reuter. Attlee escape the fighting in Indo caused yesterday when the alarm
operate on little Ho end gave proposed
A bullet grazed Mr. C.F. Pler-
him a blood transfusion in thei China since hostilities broke off at the Central Police Station. sider possible modifications
bell of the Bank of Canton went tional conference to COR- repont. Manager of one no
calf. He then opened, ans in. out between the French and The Emergency Unit was sent out the labour schenie under
of Johore's biggest rubber estates,
cision in the bey's loft elde and which and wounded a policeman betido
removed the fetus. the native population in but it proved to be a false alarm, penalties were insed on the 11 him when bandits fired six shots
--The-boy-is-recovering-to-the December, 1946.
the cause of which was dug to a dock workers who refused-to-l-at-his-car-today!
satisfaction of doctors, Refugees are said to be In the defect in the wiring system of the unload zinc oxide without extra The attack was mailo-near the
Mrs. Ho also has an 11-month- largest number in Noogkal, alarm bell.
"dirty cargo" pay.
main road north of Johore Bahru,
old daughter —United Press Hokorn Panom and Ubon Raithan. An offelal report from Nangkai stated that 081 Vlot- namese have oppiled for permits
80 SLVArely that the practice of permitting them to stay had to be changed.
Vietnamese Enter Siam
of residence in Slam.
Slameso, offeinls here stated that the Government regarded the Vietnamese refugees as "war victims who have a claim Siamese Assistance."
fo
Vietnamese sources.In Bangkok estimate that there ore now about 100,000 Vietnamese Siam.-United. Press.
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The Prime Minister is reported to have said that he wished "to probe the possibility" of allowing more Chinese immigrants Into Stain "because the Siamese and Chinese belong to the same racial stock, and should be more tolerant of each other."United Press.
False Alarm
of
include .over 4,000,000 eagu, tena of thousands of tone potatoes, 136,000 stems bananas, and
£30,000,000 worth of tobacco,
Labour Scheme
Mr.
of
An-
was made
CNAC SHIFTING TO HAINAN ?
Tokyo, June 23.
Reliable sources here heard the CNAC is shifting its main airplane over- haul shops from Central China to Hainan Island off the extreme south coast of China in the near future.
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AUSTRALIA IS FACING CRISIS
Sydney, Juno 23. Australia is facing a grave tri- dustrial crisis today because of a breakdown in coal supplies.
the
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The Weather
ta
A weak bels of “bigh pressure' extende
Recos Northern China to Japan.
Authorities closed all Industry
An extensive but, fáirty shallow low in Sydney to save electric power pressure ares eros B. China' with 1 fcr homes. Five northern New kening trough of low pressure stretch- South Wales coal mines are, idle.me from Hainan to Fortson, and then northeastward to a shallow depression is The miners are claiming more at of Hokkaido. Die also persistent | spread rioting in Shanghai and Land Hong. Kong-the Infier rumours in both Japanese, oc-Central China elties, howover. British controlled. Associated pay, for machino cut coal. Unless An extensive and Islely deep deprmaton
In so far as known here, cupation and trade and finance
the Preas.
dispute in settled 'swiftly, eros Moorolla.
Today's Isome officials fear a general strike
Forecast-Moderate BE circles that influential, Chinese | main 'base of CNAC is in the
ALASKA AIRLINE
Inext week.
winde, Fresh, at.... simasi” Decarlone! are moving portable wealth Shanghai vicinity. However, some and
abowern with fair parladní families from
MOVING. DP'S Central sources here heard CNAC alse,
Gus and power rolloning are Intender's Wesikerson, China to safety on Formosa had facilities furibar west on this
Tokyo, June 28. Yangtze River. •*-
expected in Sydney, Melbourne, Maximum: 88.7 deg. Fah and the vicinity of the Amori-
Full-co-operation and use of | Adeloldo and other large cities. Safe Spot: can Navy base at Taingtao.
Incilities in the Pacificare Ex The
Banshinai besnu=" Sydney Sun estimated 'Policemen Sentenced..
Transfer
of CNAC overhaul tended to the Alaska Airline by 200,000 workers are idle in, this finally 8.7.18: in. Total since
** Jan. - F-840,5
11.00 Warning To Bus Robbers, Military observers, familiar shops to Hainan would put the For East Air Force during city because of the power layoff. 'aguinal' an average of: 886,7 · KAULI
with the Chinese · · Nationalist- | China's main birline base in D the projected transport of 200 Associated Press,, Paso Thraa
Communist bathing, do not know safe-spot-in-so-far-as-Communist | displaced persons from France-lo
Standings"ax Wartime Tenancy --Leglafa" of recent developments which threats are concerned. Hataan Australia,
ijon.
would justify any fears for the island, which was taken over by · Far. East - Air Foïce Headquar=
| Baro, at mat. J.; 100%,#10062 mx.b. safety of Shanghai at present the Japanese in the 1980's, wasters said it had been --Inforined: A privatajudar, which wie S The present headlined battle for returned to China after the sur- by Aluska Airlines that it in driving along the road in the 11, 28midity Kaifeng is not regarded as having | render.
tends to transport the displaced vicinity of the railway crossing Dew Point any immediate effect on Bhang- American airlines operating persons in four DC-is with red between Sheung Shul, and Fanling Wind Direction. hal,
Into Ching centre activities : furalling stops at kumandort," Alas--| at about 2 p...yesterday, ran' off, Trade and financial oircles around: Shanghal but have low ku, Shemya in the Aleutiana and the right side of the road lato ni migh here, na well sa military, four the permanent faciliuck share. Most Haneda Flold near Tukyo,” bo" stream nearby. Blight. : injuring crumbing a Chinese dollar tires trans-Pacific ramirlines passengers ginning some time this wook -- were received · by the thres Low chango róla, may, inkpire" wide"! entet, or depart from? Shanghat | Associated Press.
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