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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948.
BERLIN CITY HALL STORMED
Communist Mob Forces Way Into The Building
COLLAPSE OF ADMINISTRATION
Berlin, August 26.
Berlin's elected city administration appeared to have collapsed to- day in the face of a turbulent Communist demonstration which forced cancellation of the City Assembly's meeting.
Atom Strike Over
Los Alamos, August 25. AFL atomic energy project workers today went back to their jobs, ending
day
2 Bevan -
work stoppage whion had threstenen the outien' atomic weapons.
The walk-out ended when the Brown Root Construction Co., of Houston, Tex., agreed to stop importing labour.-
United Press.
Flare-Up In Jerusalem Fighting
Jerusalem, August '26.
Fighting flared up again. to-
Communist representatives on the Committee of Elders insisted that the City Assembly be held but they were voted down by the anti- Communist members.
The mooting was postponed indefinitely and may
not be held until the Berlin crisis is settled. Communist demonstrators An American Intelligence officer this afternoon smashed the who arrived on the scene said the gate of the Berlin City Hall demonstrators are believed to be and poured into the building. under orders to move across the sector lines ta "provoke in- An angry mob of 3,000, backed
cidents."--United Prosi. by a small group which forced the guards to open the iron Rafes of the City Hall, then surged into the building, begin- ning the overthrow of the elected City Government.
opened the
Policemen who Rates when the mob threatened to smash them down taught the crowd back. Witthin five minutes they succeeded in clearing the gateway.
The attack was made by n small group of demonstrators who hnd detached themselves from the crowd.
KMT TO SPLIT IN TWO?
Nanking, August 25. There is a strong possibility that the 50-year-old. Kuomin- tang founded by the late Dr.
"Nieder, Nieder" Sun Yat-sen will be split into
Ing
two parties before the end of the year, a high party source The crowd then began sing. [told the United Press today.
the Internationale which The source said Generalissimo echoed through the skeletons of Chiang Kai-shek and many in- the bombed out buildings fluential party liberals personally nanking the street.
[are in favour of a break-up. Soveral mee who ar
of the City which was one of three plans In the recent party suggested
day in and around Jerusalem.
According to an Israeli Army.
Army troops Council and
"bulletin, Egyptian
established in new and command-rived at the City Hell before the caucus for reorganistich of the ing positions near the demilitaris-meeting was cancelled watched party. ed Red Cross area tried to ad- the demonstration from the win- vance today across the No Man's down.
The
source said that the plan, which is now being drafted by. Land towards the Jewish suburo
Sone of the Coinmunist signs the party-appointed 15-man com- of North Talpioth.
were carried buyend the iron milice, envisages the division of Israeli troops, says the bulletin, uutes into the building to offers the Kuomintang into Conserva- drove the Egyptians back with und necting root,'s
tives and Progressives with the vigorous fre.
The crowd cratmued to millen
divorced Generalissimo
trom
The commander of Arab Le-around creaming "nieder, pa
party politics, maintaining. how- gion forces in Jerusalem bus noti-leder" (down, down),
the Jews.
ever, the position of national
rothe two contemplated groups.
find the United Nations that his A German attendant at the leader and symbolic link between
earlier that he army will not brook further al- gate sald leged violations of the truce by cognited three Ruslan officers in civillan clothes mingling with The commander Linut. Col. the throng: The niendunt said he Abdullah Tel, sent a memoran-
know the Russians because dum to U.S. observers yesterday, had ceen them before in uniform saying that if the Jews continue at the Magistrat.
their present course, the Arab
Legion will repel them.
"We might clear the 100,000
Anti-American
Jews out of Jerusalem and the Demonstration
United Nations' observers can
not have cause to accuse tha
Bald.
Jali.
he
Pulico guards at the entrance
Arabs of aggression," the note Some of the demonstrators be- gun covering their heads with the Success, Gen. Aage scarlet banners us rain began to At Lake Lundstroom, Chief of Staff to Count Folke Bertadotte. U.N. Palestine mediator, formally a cused the Israeli
Government yesterday of violating the truce.
Gen. Lundstroem said he was sending a copy of his charges to Count Bernadotte, who Ex itt Stockholm attending a meeting
perinitted a few persons carrying passes to enter the building. The crowd did not attempt to molest (hele persons.
Earlier, ten squads of American West German police con- on the American-Soviet
Lector border at Engeldams.n
of the International Red Cross. Where a crowd of shouting SED
Associated Press.
C-IN-C'S FLAG IN ALERT
party functionaries were forming
march on the City Hall,
The plan, together with the ather two reforin- blueprints, "Will be submitted to the con
alderation of the uplenary s*- sion of the Central Executive Commlites which will probably mast in October.
if
approved, with is believed
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PICTURE OF THE DAY COLONY'S IMMIGRATION
Soon To Be. Queen
The latest authorised portrait of Princem Julians of the Netherlands and her Consort, Princa Bernhard, The. Prin- cess is to become Queen at a Royal Investiture on Septem- ber 6. Jullana will walk in, precession, from the Palice to the New Church under a canopy of ashing nets a custom established by King William on his return from England
In 1816.
ZBW Gets A New Name
From last night the two local broadcasting stations were, renamed "Radio Hong Kanghai Su
Listoners wese surprisad to hear the announcers on both stations announce This in Radio Hong Kong" instead of "This te ZBW" or "This le ZEK."
The *"China) - Mall” wan officially informed fast night that the suggestion to change the name was made some. time ago. The Governor's ap- proval was given ́yesterday.
A Female Bluebeard
Berlin, August -28.
An autopsy was ordered to-
METHODS CRITICISED
The action of the Hong Kong Immigration Do- partment in requiring Portuguese residents of Macao, who desire to visit Hong Kong for brief periods, to comply with cumbersome formalities, is the subject of much unfavour ablo comment in the Portuguese Colony,
It is generally felt that the bureaucratic methods of the local Immigration authorities are most unwarranted and hardly conducive to the promotion of friendly relations between the two ports.
In consequendo of the action necessary to obtain permission for taken by the Hong Kong Im- the visit. migration Department," tho Some Macao residents sold that Macao authorities have been while the migration forced to adopt, much against people who came' their wish, retaliatory measures.lands was, in
enforcement of
im- regulations against from for off certain circum-
It. was pointed out to the stances justifiable, they could not "China Mail" that during the understand why such regulations Occupation of Hong Kong, thou-should be so rigidly enforced sands of British Subjects wore against the Portuguese residents allowed free entry into Macao of Macao, particularly when st and to stay there for the duration without hindrance, although the could not, by any stretch of the majorly of them did not possess they would be likely to engage imagination, be suggested that passports or other valid
entry in subversive activities in Hong permits.
Kong or otherwise make them- "If the Macao authorities had selves undesirable. acted with the same unreason-
It was the consensus of opinion ableness a the Hong Kong that the lifting of the authorities, those British Subjects restrictions would prove beneficial would in all probability have to both ports in. more respects died in Hong Kong either through than one, and would also serve ⚫tarvation or at the hands of the
to strengthen further the ties of friendship and co-opamtion tween the British and Portuguese peoples,
Japanese sold one prominent Macao official.
Irritating Attitude A number of
Muçao residents and that tho attitude of the Hong Kong authorities must also prove Irritating to many Hong Kong residenta who would like
to have an opportunity of visit- Ing Macao for a change of air, but who did not feel disposed to through all the red tape
go
KRA Discussion Of Building
Disclosure in the “Chind Mail"" on August 6 of a deteriorating 11-month-old building, shored up to prevent it from collapsing, has been followed up by the Kowloon Residents Asso- ciation.
At the August monthly meeting of the Committee of the Association, the question of the poor quality of building materials and bad/con- struction of certain new properties was discussed.
It was reported at the meet-ferred to the Director of Civil ing that specific complaints Aviation, who is taking steps to had been received about the restrict to a minimum-the-num- building in Austin Road. The ber of aircraft taking off west-
ward. matter has been taken up by the Association with the Direc- tor of Public Works.
present
be-1
"TOKYO ROSE" ARRESTED
by
Baroda Case Settled
New Delist, August 25. The Government announo-
·ed· ́tnat abdication proceed. Irion against the Maharajah of Baroda have been drop-` ped.
The wealthy ruler agrand
make good the state funda -
•he is alleged to have used Improperly,
to grant complete authority to repro- sentative Government wit
with.
to
put reservationemflaturk had
The State
demanded his abdication for assertedly misusing UB810,- 000,000 of state funds on a six-wook spendingą spren Associated Press.........
China's Trade With Japan
Shanghal, August 26. The Chinese Government is rexising its trade_policy_with__.. Japan, according to the Minis- try of Industry and Commerce quoted by the official Centrul News Agency.
According to a Ministry spokes- man, part of the existing regula
truda with tlons governing Jupan will have to be changed
measures promulgated on August
the
· Tokyo, August 20. because of financial and economic Mrs. Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 18. "Tokyo Rose," was arrested at He did not disclose how her home here today prepara-rovision will be carried out, but tory to being returned for trials said to have hinted that res
trictions on Import and export in the United States on treason
of certain commodities may be charges.
relaxed or even abolished, and The arrest was made jointly that Import, and export quotas agents for the Counter-In- may be readjusted in accordance feligance Corps -the Theatre with actual seeds,; and; that the ** Frovost Marshal's office at Rose's procedure for private traders shabby two-storey rooming house to engage in commerce with
the western outskirts of Tokyo, Japan will be simplified; She will be lodged in Sugamo The spokesman also was quot-^ Miniatry. Irison-home of many Japanese ed as saying that the wor criminala-until arrange- had succeeded in persuading the ments can be made for her trans- Executive Yuan to increase the Chinese number of pergens on portation.
trade delegations to The sudden arrest climaxed private
Japan from the maximum of 25 several days in which Rose way to BU, and that a third group of worrying about her fate.
Chinese private businessmen will Her Portuguese, husband sald leave for Japan shortly. Reuter earlier today that he had no news and everything was a Usual this morning" at their hame-United Prosa."
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