Page
•
For Socials and Parties FRANCIS WU'S SPEED-FLASH NEWS PHOTOS
the only lasting souvenir of any event.
FRANCIS WU'S' STUDIO.
Gloucester Arcade
CHINA MAIL
No.. 34036.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948.
FANTASTIC AIR PIRACY ATTEMPT
Evidence Suggests The Cause Of Catalina Crash
BULLETS, MILLIONAIRES
(Our Own Correspondent)
Macao, July 27.
Incredible, fantastic, as it may seem, today there appears to
be little doubt that the Catalina crash
the on
Macao- Hong Kong run 11 days ago was the direct result of an attempted "air piracy" by four gunmen.
In a press interview today, the Macao Police Com- missioner, Mr. L. A. M. Poletti, said virtually as much, while declining to elaborate. Enough hus leaked out, K. S. MacDuff, had on Injury however, to suggest that in across the back of the neck the air over the waters be- consistent with a sear caused tween the two colonies on by 45 bullet.
Friday, July 10, a drama was worked out to tragedy and disaster which must be unparalleled in the history of aviation. Built up evidence
th
piery niere. goes to show that al Dons, in-
inst two or three cluding the pilot Dale Cramer, were tore the Costlin.
Very little of the plane ans been recovered,
Zel while salvage merations have not been aban- done, there is slight expectation that further work will be profit-
nhlm.
Engines Were
of the Functioning
shot dead be plunged with beth her engines creaming. in what amounted to a power live Into the Pearl River estuary some 10 miles out of Magno.
'Pirate' Pilot
Mexican-Trained
There was never any intention. to force the plane to destruction, One of the four Chinese who took Dart in what was designed as a hold-up of a sensationally daring character
pilot, was killed iralaed In Mexien.
The
The
of centre section
the Catalin which probally broice into several pieces in the crash- hns, bewever, been landed in Macao, and experts have already satisfied themselves that no fre and no serious explosion occurred
in the plane.
Nelthar engine
hoen found and it
supposed that both are deeply buried in the mud. Rellable witnesses have neverthel envinced those
enquiring
Into the circum. stances of the crash that both engines were fully functioning when the Catalin took her dive.
It is understund here that an plan was to take control of the Catalina in mid-air, sub-enquiry into the mishap from a Atitute the 'pirate'
criminal plot and
point of view will be bring her
down In one of the held in Macao, starting possibly bring
cares of baya to the region off as an inquest, and that a formal Macao, either kidnapping the enquiry into the disaster as an shree millionaires on board, or accident
·will” zübsequently be strippping them of their possen held by the Hong Kong ruthori-
ions (One of them is alleged
to
have
роса
been carrying US $600,000 various forms). The intended an disaster bo pruse psistance was unexpected- ly BIT**ed.
Brief,
isuggested that shortly after the plane took off.
the varies attempted to take
over.
in
lies.
CHILDREN HOME FOR" VACATION Several children of local residents who are studying in England arrived yesterday by
BOAC plane to spend the vacation with their parents' in Hong Kong.
werd
ENQUIRY
IN MACAO
An enquiry Into the loss of the Hong Kong registered Catalina aircraft off Maono on July 16 is being held in Ma. Cao, by the authorities there but an Inspector of Accidents has been sent from Hong Kong to join in the enquiry,
This information was given nial Secretary, Mr. Ly the Colonial D. M. Man, In Legis. yesterday in reply to ་ མ ༢"
question put by the
Jative
Hon. Mr. N.O.C. March.
Mr. Marah asked whether an enquiry would be held in Hong Kong in accordance with the procedure and practice In force in the United Kingdom.
Mr. MacDougall said that according to International practice, the enquiry should be made at the last port of call, except where the accident occurs while landing.
At the same time, continued Mr. MacDougall, in accord. ance with procedure-and-
ties in the United Kingdom and under the Air Navigation
Directions,
Hong 1932, in Kong, an Inspector of Acold- ents has been sent to Macao with the consent of 'the' Por- tuguese authorities to enquire in conjunction with them into the cause of the accident, The Inspector will in due course submit-his report to the Gov- ernor, when it is hoped to lasus a public statement,
PORTION of the ill-fated Cathay Pacine
Airways' Catalina which was salvaged from the sea 10 miles from Macao on Monday and
fowed
on a barge to the Portuguese Engines and wings colony. have not been recovered. Investigators are noty search- ing the wreckage for clues which might further confirm the suspected piracy attempt as the cause of the disaster.
Wants To Register Seamen
Mr. George Reed, Secretary of the Far Eastern Office of International Transport Work-. ers Federation, who is visit- ing the Colony told a press conference here yesterday that he would like to see a sca men's registration bureau se up in Hong Kong, and run 011 similar lines to that now being instituted in Singapore.
Mr. Reed, whose headquarters will
be at Singapore for the next two years, said that
Ring the passing of the which is lo
KMT BANNED Aug 15, nobody will u
DIN SIAM
BILL introduced on will be able to ship any seamen in Singapore un less they are selected from the Seamen's Pegistration Bureau.
owners,
·
Price: 20 Cents.
When
Smith-Corona Portable TYPEWRITERS
ARRIVED LATELY I-
AT REASONABLE PRICE.
HONG KONG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE.
9. D'Agullar 6L
Tal. 21433-
PICTURE OF THE DAY 50 Homeless On
CATALINA WRECKAGE
LABOUR
MOUNTING
STRIFE IN JAPAN
SCAP'S LABOUR CHIEF RESIGNS OVER STRIKE BAN, FIGHT ON
Cheung
Chau After Tidal Wave
About 50 people have been rendered homeless on Cheung Chau Island, former rost and summer resort, seven and a half miles southwest of Aberdeen, according to meagre reports re- colved in the Colony, yesterday.
Cheung Chou's waterfront, clustered with all types of sea craft from small sampans to large. trading and fishing junks, was struck on Tuesday afternoon by a tidal wave set off by the typhoon.
Between 40 and 30 small craft possible to resume for about three are reported mis.ing but. these days.
may have sought shelier eine- where.
A roll call
A land-slide occurred at GM's Cutting, north of Taipo Market. yesterday by the A retaining wall and enbank- police showed that there was no ment collapsed for a distance of Jos of life. First report that the about 200 feet.
island had been hit by the storm Another land-slide occurred at was received by wireless by the Taipo Market Station which Water Police early yesterday blocks the tracks,
Al Mile 51, the Railway em-
morning
Police Launches Nos.
1 and 4 were immediately dea-bankment has secured out for n distance of about 100 feet, and ched to investigate.
considerable earthwork and la- butr will be necessary before re- pairs are effected.
Ask For Help
A report received by the Fish-
A report was made to; the ries Department yesterday after Water Police by Chan Chung- noon said that at least 40 people sang a surviving member of Mo have asked for relief having lost tor Trading Junk M03T which their boat home, and all their upsized personal belongings,
of Castle Peak be-
two 10 and 11 p.m. on Tues- It was learned last night that day. the Social Welfare Council will
Out of the crew of 10, one was
he sending food, rice, and me drowned, four missing und
ical supplies, for the relief of einer ve swam ashore. the homeless.
Junk Capsizes `
The homeless are being put up
the
fr Vacant school buildings and at The junk was from Canton, he Fisheries Department depot bound for Hong Kong and met
the storm of Castle -n Cheung Chau Island.
Peak and Police reports yesterday said that being unable to proceed dropped her anchor but the anchor chain right of the crew are missing from feuled, leaving her to the mercy junk which was blown ashore of the waves, which she turned
Stanley Bay on Tuesday. Thir-turtle,
teen others who were on the same Early yesterday, part of the junk 'managed to wim shore. roof of a two storied building at The Royal Army Service Corps No. 98 Hollywood Road, ewed hus 'aunch, Sydney Carton, missing on as a result of the heavy down- Tuesday aghi with two British | pour.
| "oldiers and four Chinese on board There were people on the pre-
returned to harbour yesterday nilsos, but no one was injured, without damage or injury to the vccupants.
Biggest Casualty The launch was driven ashore nt Lamma Island by wind and current. Forty villagers helped oro teflont the crnil despite henvy
Tokyo, July 28. Japan's mounting labour troubles took a new turn tonight when. Mr. James Killen, chief of General MacArthur's Jabour division, an- nounced that he was resigning because he "could not adjust himself to the new, CAP labour policy which deprives Government workers the right of collective bargaining.
known AFL Labour leader in Ashida's side:
Mr. Killer, who was a well The following factors the United States, the question of strikes in gov-
Cannot Strike First, ernment service
Allied officials tcil Issue. The problem had been MacArthur's letter means Gov Japanese privately, that Geners successfully resolved in Eng-ernment employees cannot strike Secondly, Alfled officials hav land and in other countries to formalise the procedures of suggested to Japanese politiciun hat the ideas expressed in th collective negotiations and or-
letter are to be applied imme- bitration,
lutely
said that
was not an
Hitoshi Ashirin,
are
A
The Sydney Carton managed to at Aberdeen 211 reach shelter
and remained l'uesday ovaning here until yesterday morning,
harbour
typhoon.
Casualty
of ing
Shortly after a am. yesterday' a wooden structure bullt on a de- mollated site, at No. 33. Moxove Street collabreg, but there were no cašūsistës,
(See "What Weatherman Says About The Typhoon"-Page 3)
The Weather
The Haldia, 2,000-ton chip A belt af low pressure watenda" from belonging to the Wo Fat Sing|| Mongolia neros West and Central China Firm, was probably the biggzut to Yunnan. Pressure le abo, low over
the South Philippines "and" Cavolines,
Aridge from the Preife autleyeline extend merom North Luzon to 'Bernea Sho dragged ber buoy t } ----Today's - Farscax? ?—Tight' ÷ or...inodernia- Shanshulpo and
leth gainst the Yaumati breakwater night broadside up. Members of the zrew on board escaped injury.
She is now in Taikoo Dockyard for repairs.
Was
Thirdly, anybody who play SCAP Instruction politics now will be delaying the
programme, Mr. Killen's resignation is the reform
since change in
Government would" direct result of General Mac- Controlling this Bureau will be Bangkok, July 28. The Ministry for Internal Af- Inn Administration Board compoa Arthur's instruction to the Prime take time and solution of the
Dict
would require an election. fairs
publish a communique jed of three ship
thresMinister, Mr.
The other steamer casualty was that Government
So the situation is now, out of employer: [dec'aring that the Kuomintang representatives of the Trade Un-
Japanese hands.
small Panamanian tanker, Y12, The Japanese which was thrust upon a rock at gether and carry out the "sugamong the crow were reported. A pitched battle between the
gestions" which the Cabinet to- The Kowloon-Canton Railway day says it considers to be nothing service will be disrupted for three police and strlicera developeds the
less than a "directive."" at A
lays as a result of two landslidna paper factory in today
As soon Harada village on, the foothills suggested reforms in public ser-
as the MacArthur-ut Talpo and Shatin, of Mount Fujiyama,
Land-Slide vice laws ΣΤΑ carried out,
action.
をい
winds, Cloudy "with" showers
nct Early tomorrow morning. beraming partly cloudy herpafter,
Yesterday's Weather
Maximum 81% den;" Fich, Bélelmum: 740 din. Full Sunshiner Ni,
$1.44 Inc.
Rainfall 197,4 mms.154.23 ing, Total siner Jan. 1479.6 mm.58,14 in. FIR against an averses of 18061 mm..“
Rendings 10 m.. 415. ....1p24.0 13006.3 1.5. Equin 29.71
are, at me.1. Rel. Humidity ... Dew Point Wind Direction.
The pilot, Dale Cramer, súd- denly felt a pistol pressed into his buck. In the passenger compart-
rty in illegal in Siam. The Kutions, and an Independent chair. should no longer have the right have to keep the Guvernment 10-Hunghom Bay. No casualties | They arrived shortly before ment, guns were pulled. One of nm. after a very pleasant trip. matang Pauty is not legally, re-man, all to be appointed by the ke or engage in collective the European passengers tacklod The weather was fine throughout gistered in Slam and, as a non-Governor of Singapore. one of the gang.
the trip except for about 300 miles Siamese political party, is pro- With a view to discussing this
hibited der Siomiese inw. Cramer had at- from Hong Kong. All #accent,
and other trade union subjects tempted to disable tho man eagerly looking for
forward to meat- The Ministry
Internal for
Informally. Mr. Reed will meet nearest him with an iron roding their parents,
Aflabs pointed out in its com- Sir Alexander Grantham BOIC- tused to carry a flag) and was The children will stay here for munique en the subject that the time today. He expects to
main in the Colony until August
Two hundred and fifty police Japanese politicians can return to An official statement yesterday Wind. Pores man, fell over the controls and who arrived yesterday, were Dou-against the Kuomintang. sent the.
barricaded behind the Catalina into the big glas. Robb, John Selby, Colin Chinese Communist Party is also pore.
He is also planning visita walls of the factory. dive which ended her Selby, David Whit, Patrick Mont-Leclabited In Slum as a foreign to Batavia and Rangoon in the reports said later that both sides. gomery, David Prophet, and Miss political party.AKONCO Franço near future, and will then return were bringing up reinforcements. Steila Buiggn.
to Hong Kong again for a short Time.
Imen
immediately shot down by a thirợ. | ubout six weeks. Among those | measure taken was not directed when he will return to Singa strikert no equal number of their political manoeuvring and said, that as a result of the ty-
curving
Career.
Several Bits
Of Evidence
All of the story cannot possibly be reconstructed because the main actors in the drama all: lost their lives. There are, how- ever, numerous pieces of evidence which go to confirm the 'piracy'
theory.
The empty shell of a pistol r: bullet was found in part of the wreckage, together with a man's shoo, ♫ youngster's sandals and a pair of dark blus trousers. The float which was picked up by the "Merry Moller" had 1 bullet through it.
hole
-02
One of the passengers covered had a wound through the body, strongly suggestive of a bullet entering the front of the chest and passing aut at the back. The seeund pilot,
On Other Pages
Page Two
Dangerous Goods. Illegally
Storad
Page Thras
KRA Urges Squatter
Page Four
Aircraftman Sentenced
Page Rights
Englokering.Page
Page: Nina M
* Chinia Flood, Disaster.”
Britain's Food, Deal. With
Pand: Fourteen Fl ---The fourth; Teat
Presse.
GIFT WARSHIPS FOR CHINA
CHUNGKING (top) and LINGFU (bottom) after thele, arrival from England yesterdry —Chins Máll Photos
The 14
SURVEY FLIGHT
Manila, July 27.
►
ToPorts
the Cabinet probably will fall in Japanese short order. United Press.
1-
of the fight renched i በነ time when labour unrest is at its worst since the occupation began.
The Japanese Cabinst nounced that it cousiders General MacArthur's suggestion to re- write the nation's public service laws as an order, and is expectedi to notify public employees im mediately that they have no right
A special Pan American Air-to strikë.
ways plane was to leave Manila Letter To Promiar
today for Singapore with- PAA technicians on a rurvey Alight,
UN Split Over 5 Britons
Lake Success, July 28.
The United States and Rus- sia stood firmly behind Israel today in a Palestine clash with Britain.
The Intest division, between the Last Friday MacArthur sent a US and Britain over the Holy preliminary to a possible reopen-personal letter to the Japanese Land concerna ve British off ing of regular fights bo ween the Premier, tosht Ashida, suggesteials of the Jerusalem Electric two cities.
ing that. Japan's pubile service Corporation seized on July 8 by Earller reports had sald alaws be reformed and expressing Irgun, Zyai Leumi and later specially-chartered plane was bo- the view that government charged with e pionage. ieved to be carrying arms from ployees have no right to strike. The United States to planters in ‚sialsya--:Router.
Most of them
The Cabinet announced that
Britain formally demanded yea- since it considers this letter as terday that the United Nations directive, all recommendations Security Council order the Israck made in the letter will be chacl-men. The U.S. and Russia con- Government to release the-Over ed into law as soon as possible.
US MINE DISASTER
This means there will be no tended the men now are awaiting Princeton, Indiana, July 27, Japanese Cabinet crisis now, even trial on serious charges and any An explosion today shotfered a though, Ashide was under fire Council action would-constitute Israel's Internal section of Indiaila's largest uni- and did not have pubile support interference in
affairs. derground cost mine, Idilling 13 at the time of MacArthur's fet-
The issue appeared nopr a vote miners and injuring four
ter Ashida was being blamed when France protested that Au- Mina officials said the toll for the inflation-as previous brey S. Eban, Israeli representa The two warships recently manded by Captain Cheng Tien the day-shift miners been on their blamed.
veuld have been greater had not post-war Governments have been tive here, mosssge Tel Aviv and see whether, tho - Tarsali: Govern- presented to China by Great chen, in a 1,000+ion - vessel.
Important oficials of Ailled mont: insisted on holding the Bri way to the surface when the Headquarters said, the present tons in vlow of the limited avi- When the two warships enter-plosion occurred. Beltain arrived in Hong Konged Lyemun Pass yesterday morni did not know what had happened Japanese Government is safe un-dence against them Harbour yesterday morning. Ing, a 21 gun-national salute was until they reached the surface tl the recommmdations in the was the second time Russia They will spend another six fired by the Chungking. The Unlied Preas,
felter are carried out. These and the United States had split days in the Colony, berthed British Army's saluting battery pt
people are of the spinion that the with Britain yesterday, in an at the Naval buoys, before with 21
Lyemun returned
Ballito
B-29 CRASH
Cobinet will not resign now and earlier fight over a, Syrians move guns. Y
that the Japanese. Diet will not in bring the Palestine question proceeding North
Reaching the Harbour Naval
Aden, July, 20, ....... be dissolved until the reforms before the International Court of buoys at 11:20. um, the captains An American Superfortress, one suggested by the Supreme Com Mendip, they have been renamed call on Commnine Itobertson in the world, crashed into the staAshida does not want to bring countles The U-Rus la and along with China, anii, four moll The Chungking and Ling Tu his often in the Naval Dockyard, last night after taking, off, from an end to his Cabinet and he does Franco opposed the Syrian pro respectively. The Chungking. They then called upon the Com, this southern Arable pories not fool than Cpposition; pake poval raggio NREKRYTERA commanded by Captain Tang missioner, for Foreign Affairs airs Only one survivor was reported. ties are na Valtion to continus Chow-taling. Ha 0,200 ton light T5, W. Kwbb, at b2" offes i tha The other twp potion returned to their campaigns against hime las troversy, may be ironed put, willis Come gitattern, boliavo; the com- cruber and the Zing Fu com Hong Kong Dank Building wagen-Ancoln #97)
Balder, the present circumstances, our as vote AEDAH.!!
Hledat IIMS) Aurora / and of both serulsera puld, a courtesy of three making a flight arowići | munder are carried out asteofustice, Britain, supportid' Byria.
Tide
phoon on Tuesday, all railway Rich trame over the British section is suspended, Preliminary Investi-Low gations "Indicate it will not be
25 inche *4.87 % 18 deg. F.
997):/ ♥ knots. Time Ht. 08378.1
1468
1.5
Something Refreshing, Something Wholesome
DIUNK
Coca-Cola REFRESHMENT CENTE
PORULAR PRICE AO ̊CTS:
Coca Cola
{NKER)
ININGSEN