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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1948.
RUSSIA FORTIFIES GERMAN BORDER
PREPARATIONS FOR NEW MOVE AGAINST WEST ?
Difficulties Of Air Supply Enciphilitis
Berlin, August 9.
The British-licensed newspaper Telegraf said today the Russians are digging trenches and mounting weapons, including rocket guns, on the border between the Soviet occupation” zone and West Germany.
The newspaper reported feverish activity in woods
along the zonal frontiers where, it said, Rus- sian engineers and construction troops are "building a security border."
Telegraf sold it obtained this information from Germans who were pressed into service to help dig trenches "and when released wora warned not to mention anything.” The urchins of Berlin no compensate for that. The lift longer hang over the railings cannot keep up its present clock- round the Tempelhof airfield. Work regularity all through the
The novelty of the "air bridge" hes word quickly away. The feets of silver planes are almost as familiar as the dirty, yellow trams.
winter. And the Ruslans are (echnically capable of making blind flying impossible by Jam-
ning our instruments.
Away among the woods at Ga-Only Austerity -
tow airport the British am doing the same Job-just as efficiently but somehow with a calmer, more casual-seeming rhythm.
The place is far west that few Berliners have even sưpo Bri- tish planes fly overhead.
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The "a bridge" is five wicks old and it has been a success. A. the planes have flown steadily in as the whole eperation has beco taken more and more f'r granted the atmosphere of crisis, har seep- ed soothingly out of Berth,
It means that we are forced to offer the Berlinera a winter of rigorous austerity and privations |-ånd not much work. And the kuariuna are already cashing in on the prospect.
Day by day they have been try- Ing to make the "nir bridge" un- popular and reticulous by proving that it is entirely unnecessary.
They have succeeded in keep- ing the electate rollway running for the whole of Berlin.
Ara
Quite Sober
New York, August 8. You do not have to get drunk to see pink elephants. Persons who see the bright- hued little animals that really there are victime of not chromatopela. the
the Better Vision Institute says.
But,
the Institute adds, alcohol is not the only cause of chromatopala. It may ba Induced by over-indulgence In coffee tobacco, or by norvous exhaustion, hysteria. * or eye alimente-Associated Press
HK Police Constable Detained
*No
further
Outbreak
In Japan
Tokyo, August 9.' The United States Army medical authorities today placed four townships off- limits to occupation person- nel as Japanese sickness in the Tokyo area struck down. 93 more persons and caused five more deaths sace Sun- day night.
The toll of the mosquito B en- ciphilitis renched 400 cases and 52 deaths since the outbreak on July 1.
Reports of concentration of outbreaks in Kawaguchi, Warabi, Umiya' and Todayachi, all on the north-west outskirts of Tokyo, by the Saitama Profecture: military government
the coured
Firet Cavalry Division Surgeon to place the townships off limits,
Through vehicular traffle is per- mitted, but halling and visiting by Allled personnel in those four areas are prohibited.
The Allled Surgeon-General's. offles in Tokyn ruid: "To date there is ingt -que 'cuspected case of Japanese Benchphilitis among
Perronnel-but information {ecupation
Below The Surface They have offered to feed the was available from Police have got our funges, crossed,"
fper
But
whole city-though only aboul
West
A
we
Col. GEN. Schuhmann, Chief of the preventivas medicine section,. uid, the epidemie in the past reached its mask and then drop- ped off sharply. "We are hoping this will do the same
week or so,"
within a
ene ullizen in thousand har sources yesterday in regard Deep down, when they
laken advantage of the offer.
to a Chinese constable who facts, people are still frighteningly boy have founded a "Greater was detained by Chinese I conscious of
Berlin. Trading Company," which the danger. somehow the feeling of dunger to supply raw materials, fuel, Gendarmerie at Shumchun does not seem to matter.
electric power, and a market for on August 7, and allegedly
taken to Canton. be partly that whene in familiarly with auto nas which have been at by the Constable crossed Into Meanwhite ocupation person bred contempt. It mor
blockade. be the
Chinese territory
after shooting ner crowded dispensaries to take argument that it the fusslans
Ho Chung, te banishee, wito anal iminunisation shots, An in I wanted war they would have had
was trying to re-enter the New noculation programme was inau- It soon as they saw that the
Territories. Ho ran back into gurated two months ago by the blockade was going to foll, and
Chinese, territory despite his army medical authorities, sinco that the air bridge" was going
(wound, and the constable was immunisation requires noveral to succeed.
trying to apprehend him.
weeks of "staggered" shots. wrong.
Efforts by the Police to secure his release failed, the Hong Kong
The Japanese, who have no in- though the Gendormerlo released inoculation programnie, are con- the fugitive who was taken to centrating on mosquito control. Kowloon Hospital where he later The latest reports indicate the died from his wound.
sickness, which causes high faver Mr. D.W. Macintosh, Commis-and delirium, is most prevalent shorter of Police, refused to com-in children five u 18 years of aga meni on the case, and said he had | It is theligh to hi tra immitted by по information regarding steps" | mosquitos.. from humans, but taken to secure the constable's horses some times also act as host Empty stomachs und shivering return to Hong Kong.
for the bug.-United Press/ The second is the fact that the 'imbs speak louder than political Russians have continued to attack, principles. We must consider
But whatever it is, it On paper, at any rate, the situas ⚫tion is worke.
You see the design of it all. The Russians are showing that they are able and willing to keep all Berlin fed and warm and em-
loved.
And if we bleek their offers which
we must do unless we are prepared to surrender all econo- mic control of the city-we ap- It is worse because, throughout our to be doing something which these past deceptively quiet days, makes the Berliners worse a two subtle proces, es have been Ea for the Berliners have been y going on. The first has been the very steadfast, Bu: can they con- Frowing realisation that the "pirtinue to be when stocks run out f-bridge,”-for-all-k belillance, can and the weather pots worse and not garrarten West Berlin in the full effects of the blockade are eder life and is no perman: Leit? ent solution,
it
far
have heavily reinforced their bid what will happen If the Russians to get nu economic grip on the consistently offer extra rations whole of Berlin, and have made and plenty of work and coal for harrar for themselves over anyone who comes and gets them.
Hurd
winter conditions may turce reluctant Berliners to play the Russians' game and make the cily in practice economically de- pendent on the Soviet zone.
Th
to withaw.
two piecesses are inter. linked within the framework of a crystal-clear pattern,
We want to stay in Berlin and the Russians want us to go. We And we must consider how long our prestige' here can stand
are trying to prove that we can thu ignominy of being forced, for stay and the Russians are trying no valid reason at all, to-main- to sabotage our efforts. The Rustain this expensive and inade. slons are planning to take over quate "air bridge."-
the whole city and we are trying Perhaps the Russians argue to prevent them from putting that time is strongly of their theli plons into action.
ido. Possibly they see the "oir [bridgo" getting, tired and rickety,
Just 'Ticking Over the weather getting worse, planes
Arnounce
the lation
our
wearing out, accidents mounting, prestige getting lower, the Berliners getting fretful and re
FOOD HOPE FOR ASIA
;
Dreaded Rice Disease Fought By Science
Manila, August 2.
The Bataon peninsula, dyed deep with blood in the battles of 1942, is the scene of an ex- periment that may mean life and health to millions of Asiatics and other rice-ooting people around the world.
Within the month every one of Batoon's war diminished 100,000 population will be eating a new type of rice. It will be shiny, white rice the way Asiatic peoples like it.
Our "air bridge" Is kooping sentful the whole position be West Berlin's lite ticking over on coming alore absurd and illogi #very primitive level. It can cal, until our efforts to maintain continue to do that for a long toehold in Berlin look like time. But it cannot make life pitiable: bbstinacy ihatead of a normal even hy present German southearted defence of democra- vitamins, brought down to no what to do shout it for years. You But instead of having its Scientists have been wondering standards.
It has not yet onabled La to But, whatever their plans. thing by removal of the inner could not force a nation to eat a Then which
increase hings are not standing still here. conting of the grain this rice new stapte Just like that. the RussianB
Van Beneath the apparent relaxations will be rich in thiamin (B1), en sortied rican experiments nounced in thet sector: It can tension fresh little dongera nincin (B8)
on bread. and iron, pyro- not provide fresh potatoes and irid complications are constantly
Dr. Juan Salcedo, Jr., who was vegetables and Soviet propi, sprouting, making the problem phosphato,
in. the United States doing ganda is
wander and harder to unravel, proving the ancER-
Lark of vitamins causes beri- graduate work at Columbia Unl ally of fresh foods for children It is an even bet that the next beri, which in 1947 ranked second versity in nutrition
when the and under-nourished people. trouble centre will be the City on to tuberculosis as a cause war started, read the accounts of
It cannot bring coal enough to Council, which a prodominantly on
death in the Philippines adding vitamins and minerals to beat homes adequately in winter til Communist; and Il very irri
a deathrate from bread with keen interest. Atheri- It cannot keep trade and Industing to the Russians; Batuan has
Now the Soviet-controlled veribor of 166.0" per 100,000; cans did not, seem to complain
ty roing. It cannot bring in the opera are violently attacking the compared to
extra, unofficial-Black Market; V. sumell, for 'all sorts of reasons 131.02. Sure, dow, republie's about their new health food,
club cations.
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CHINA CURRENCY RUMOURS
After Experts' Meeting
Shanghai, August 9. Rumours of a new currency for China are going
the rounds again.
There is no confirmation of these Chinese reports from any official source here or in Nanking.
f..
Chiang On
J
Peace Talks
Nanking, August 9. President Chiang Kai-shok
Rumours of a new, currency to replace China's "wheel- barrow money" have been ctr- culated periodically during the past two years. Each timo, they have, temporarily upset the city's money mar- Fkets, then vanished in thin air.':
Latest unconfirmed reports arose from the round of confer- unces held in Nankly where fin- ancial brains of China concen told the Kuomintang: Central trated over the week-end. Pre- Political Council today, that sent at what were described only | although the recent rumours emergency economic talks of peace talks between the were former Premiers T. Nationalists. and Communists Soong and Chang Chun, Gover nor of Central Bank O. X. Yui, Finance Minister Wang Yun-wd and Vice-Minister of Finance Itku. Po-yuan.
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groundless,
were definitely they had an adverse effect on the Government's anti-Com- munist campaign.
pence Tumourя had a bad influence. They have weakened the moral of the troops at the front tin shaken their faith in the Communist sup pression campaign."
Dr. Soong was reported to have In un'bour-long report on the been called in from Canton be current situation, the President cause of his wide background | wald: knowledge of Chinese economics.The recent
Local financial observers wore
havn fairly certain that something was cooking in the economic pot in Nanking. But no authoritative source would go so far as to say new
part of the currency was
Usually reliable, sources said fore.
"Most agreed that the biggest that the President and Madame renson against new notes would | Chinng would leave Nanking this be their ineffectiveness to slow evening for Kuling to escups the dewa China's inflation. They said: summer's hottest period. ~~~ new, noter even if. half a dozen, Reuter-AAP..
zeroes were lopped off denomina- |tions-would still represent - no- thing but highly inflated paper! currency, unless backed by some- thing mare substantial - than *China's printing, pressos.—A810-
ciated. Press.
Negroes Used RUSSIAN URANIUM
As Mules
3 August 8. Convicts have been used instead of animals to "ploughi farmland in Alabama State,
·Prison Director Frank Boo wall, admitted to an oficial investigating committee this
Innlated that the can. vlete, a group of Negrass held in Kilby prison, volunteered, for the work.
He said the farm at Kilby ner three small plots where the ground...it #O_Bofe that mules cannot work. Convicts
working in the field pulled the ploughs themselves rather then work the fand by hoe,
Teame of four, six an sight Negroes were used to drag the ploughs, he added-Anga- clated Prena,
US Plane In Crash
REPORTA
My London, August, an
Estonian axila diplomats claimed today that Rustla
The
is producing uranium out of all shose mined in Estonia in large quantities. They said the uranium, a source of atomic energy,
was gained out of oil shale, residue. process was carried out in Russia itself, they added, and whole mountains of oil shale ashes accumulated in the Kohtla Yaerve region of Eastern Estonia had been transferred to Rus- sia proper
THIRD TALK
Berlin, Aug. 9, The ADN news agency reportel from Morcow that the diplomatic
Soong On Economic Revision
Nanking, “August (9. Conferences amor senior government officials aretex- pected to yield a new approach to the critical Chinose, econo- inic-and financial situation
The key, figura, of the confer- ences is T. V. Foung, Goyemor of - Kwangtung # provinco
who
came here from. Canton, Soong has been closeted most of the time since his arrival with the present Premier Wong Wen-hao,
It is believed that the confer
ences here are nimesi at putting finishing touches.-10. the vlans drafted in mountain top confer- ences at Mokanshan a few days ago-United Press
GOVERNOR.
RETURNS
Sir Alexander Greniliam, Gov- ernor of Hong Kong,, returned to the Colony from Bingupore Jai- terday
He left for Singapore last Fri- day to take part in a conference. of Governors and Service Chiefs in South East Asia,
The Independent Estonian [of Saxony, of which the Soviet republic did not make any military authorities in Germany attempt to use the Kohtia are in charge-United Press, Yaeryo oil shale ashes for uranium, the exiles said. But during the first Soviet occupa- tion of Estonia in 1940-41," they reported, the Soviet, au- thorities set aside considerable
'Str Alexander's secretory' raid quantities of shale oil for ex- envoys of the three Wistern, pow. yesterday that a press conference perimental purposes.
ers' will visit the Krehlin today will be held at the Public tela- The Russians, According to Estonian mining experts, also away) for a third talle in the tions Omce tomorrow by the
East-West negotiations an Ger- Governor., have oil shale mines east of Lake many, Peipus, near the border in the The agency sold the United region of Gdov, but, they, pro- | States, British, and Franch eni ferred the Estonians, oil shake, bar les were alerted on Sunday all the faithful to prayer, have since the Gdov shule was of poor night for Monday's conference struck here for higher wages.— Houston, Florida,
quality for uranium purposes: United Presa,
Associated Press. August 8.
Official Soviet-sources--re- Three, possibly, four, Unitedpeatedly referred to the Kohtla States Navy men perished on Yaerve oil shale mining centre, as Saturday night in the flaming the "Estonian Donete Pasin. wreckage of a plane which crashed and burned in an isolated swamp South East of
two
Increased By 500
Per Center
here.
The craft, presumed to be a According to offeiqi "ngdres, the twin-engined Navy trainer, soll ahale production of Estonia is overdue on a routine flight be to be thereased by 800-per-cent and Jack.onville during the present five-year-plan Florida, n
perlod and is supposed to reach A police officer who discovered between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 the wreckage said that, charred tons
In 1850 Four new workers fragments and few body remalus
xcattered over a wide area. settlements are to be built in the
Kohtla Yaerve are to, Accom Intentions were that the ship ex-
modate the
manpower.required ploded in mild-air-United Pres for the increase of_the_oll shule
production...
you like foodstuffs, which are so and calling it: puppet in the
Ex men's have been carried necessary to supplement the dlly, of the Imperialist Powers." high in the opinion of U.8. Public vered for beriberi, and two Both figures are scandalously out to me time. Bataan was Ganeral, Ciny, hos, annopriced E
Health Service experts. Porarse Fer cent, of the total population plaus to raise the air-lift.to 8,000 3713 DRE And
| beriberi `esh be 'prevented.
was found to be ruffering from tons daily. But bad weathor will | pinna
Anyone who was a prisoner of masker BDSM SIN the Japanese during World War The project wes tried on 1,000 II knows how beriberi insidiously
soldiers of
Philippines Array
at ‚ and sj« 223 5: ehlidren. creeps up on its victims, making the national orphanage in Manila. the sort of stage Thouronds who inver really counted rice and made no complaints
them lary, drowsy, irritable Beth: groupe thrived on the for
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China, Indo-Chink and the Ching Ben
Estonian
40,000 to 80,000
hald: that
Russians and
10,000, German..priaciera of
mining
ure at present employed in a war.
oll shalë tri Estònia,-In"1⁄2ddition "të over thousands of Eateries
that
An extanalve, Jom príssurd Sven -CUTREn | Boyingtone drehlen workers.
* sources, adimitted the Tweifle from the Philippines to the technicians and skilled workers
arianns. In it, a tropical storm cept were brought from alet, God mhu B, by But okinawa, at Estonia,
Inciliding GETA CM43," Vie Nw at about 12 from the Urals, and the Donatz inging workers
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that southwirly winds.. Vine and warm. Masloumi Dis des," Pab
uranturh was being produced out |Tasterday's Weatherside F
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