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START OF DEATH TOLL OF FIRE
MARSHALL SOUNDS WARNING DISASTER
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Tells UN Assembly World Threatened With New War
UN OBJECTIVES
Pa ris, September 23.
Mr. George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, in a major address of conciliatory tone warned the United Nations today that the present generation is threatened with another war.
THE STILWELL PAPERS
"Such jackass stuff gets under my skin. There is u deliberate plan in the Fone- teenth Air Force to belittle everything i cho and to tu- catrion phrases Tu moke ne lonic hike an old- fashioned atorge,"
מיייז
Abure is a igneal para- grapli frums THE STIL- WELL PAPERS which are being published in Hong Koup by the "China Mait" cavinsinely, commencing on Monday wert,
Published in abbrentated form in the United States, THE STILWELL PAPERS crented a sensation. With
luor veiting, the "China Mail" will publish the full text of tieneral (Vinegar Joe) Sutwell's diary, let- tera and journal jottings solek have hera assembled since his death into the THE STILWELL PAPERS.
China Export Reported At Standstill
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Shanghai, September 23.
survey revealed today that the Chinese export busi- ness, nruspeets of which were initalls mproved by the rur- rentz...adform. has now been driven into a state of brac Real statist|1 as a result of heavy price increases in in- terior producing areas.
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example, the porley of furistle inereuset to old yuan empared with the extrent Ney York quotation - 1,978 mold yunn
The survey plained that the reason for the situation is ceiling prices as of August 10 are en- forced in Shurghai and other cities while there is un enforce. meni in villages in the interior where buyers must por to buy the groris.
In citi nanets are reluc- tant to accept guld yuan, insisting on silver coins which are scaret.
Shanghai but.ness on in recent conferences with Minjor-General Ching-kun brought up u Chang
of the Government granting a request to unfreeze ani estimated US$103,000,000 worth
possibility
Mr. Marshall denied that the problems of peace- making involved only the few big notions, but said they involved many governments and many peoples.
On the issues which call for settlement the largo powers as well as the small must submit their policies to the judgment of the world com- munity, he said.
The major emphasis in Mr. [objectives which, he suggested, Marshall's address was on the should be the objectives also of nerd for maintaining respect the Assembly:
for the rights and freedoms.
of an individual. He fervent UN Objectives
ly appealed to the General
Assembly to approve by an overwhelming
majority the Palestine: A Polestine free from
craft declaration of humanstrife and threat of strife with
rights.
He warned Governments which
disregard Beteratieally
the Oghts of the own people are not likely in respect the rights of other nations and other people, and are likely to seek their ob Jertives by mercina and forec in flair ternational Geld
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In the first day of the gen. crai debate in the
General sembly Mr. Marshall promised that the United Staton would icck in every poselble way to brement tension and
end
the uncertainty.
ну pledged his country to retung to compromise on 01- sential principles and told the world that the United Staten would not barter away the rights and freedoms of ather
peoplee.
Conciliation
(both Arabs anil Jews assured of peaceful development....and ad- mieston of Transjordan and Isrno! in the United to membership Nations;
Korea: A unillet and Indepen- dert Korea recepied as a mem- ber of the United Nations, neting under a Constitution and Govern- ment elected by Koreans them- Felves through free elections;
Greece: Greece made secure from BERTERSIVA and unlawful Interference from without;
Indoneels: A negotiated settle- ment without further bloodshed:
India and Pakistan:. Continua- lion of mediation and negotiation between
nations of the great India and Pakistan with respect
Kashmiri
Atomic Energy Early adoption of an international aystem for control of atomic energy:
permits.
The Philippine delegate, Mr.
Disarmament Under adequate and dependable guaranty against violation and progressive reduc- lion in armaments as rapidly us There was no bitterness or in-restoration of political confidence vective in Mr. Marshall's address. There was a large element of conciliation when he admitted that all United Nation! were pledged to seek accommodation by which different provies' cultures,
and political systems could exist withput violence, subversion ni ittmidatione.
Carlos Romulo, in opening the debate appealed to the groat powers to stop arming and gird ing for war and to make n new effort to reach agreement through
economic and social structures negotiation and compromises.
Mr. Romulo continued the key- note sounded here on the first day-the fear and threat of war- and proposed that the small no- tions band together third force to oppose what he termed Big Three power politics play Three years United Press.
Mr. Marshall rend In mensured topes and slowly, that part of the Charter which plodged the mem- hers to save succeeding genera- flors from the scourge of war.
then he added: " later We are confronted with the need to sive not only the suc eeeding
our own." generations bui He made these major paints or the general world tension:
1. The
wiit United States sock every poacible way in any j appropriate forum to asitlo pre sent world tensione;
2. "If we want peace we must
settle issues arising out of the
last war;"
3. The world should make an
affort to achieve early and just peace settlements for Germány, Japan and Austria.
fif tonenbuities row stured in Denies Charge
Hone
were, ori-
Instructor Stabbed
At Kai Tak
Mr. H. K. Watt, Chief Train- ing Instructor, Far East Flying School, Kai Tak, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. yes-
afternoon. It | terday
alleged that he was stabbed by a mechanic employed al the School.
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The alleged assault took place about 2.30 p.m. following an argument between Mr. Walt and mechanic regarding the handling of aircraft,
Kong These comungakes gually ordered by Shanghai Arms
Mr. Marshall denied the Soviet or their Hong Kong associates
charge that the United Stater the for the locni
market but were flaminated and dictated to the diverted
Picture shows the hole which was blown In the ground flpor wall of No. 383 Des Vesti - Road West, through which 38 atsel drums ware blown through the hole and flames-shot out 50 yards across the street, charring the woodwork) “of is the Ga Company. Showroom. The flames.fell short of the Gasometer. by 10 yarda. The fire inside the hole took 19 hours to ex- tinguish and even after this period of time, the heat was 10 Intense that it was impossible to enter the godown through thla hole."China 'Mali" Photo,
Reds Tsinan
Continuing Onslaught
14,000 Said Killed
Shanghai, September 23.
Chinese press reports reaching Shanghai today in- dicated the Communists were ramming at the, southern gato of Tsinan's walled city and that Governor General Wang Yao-wu had moved his command post to the northern section of the city for street fighting.
HK Governor Back At Post
Most reports from Hauchow. | **4 largest Nationalist base 130 miles south of Tsinan, admit- ted the situation in Tsinan was more serious, with the Communists taking advantage of poor weather, which eur. tailed government air opera- tions, to set up a frontal as- sault on the isolated Shantung provincial capital.
Qir: Alexander · Granthẩm returned from Pelping to Hong Kong yesterday: He hea resumed, the admilolatration of the Government.
A Government Gazette. Ex- traordinary hdded that Mỹ. D. M. MacDougall, who rated during Bir A Governor, Alexander'e ·abvance,, her edi sumed duty an Colonial Secretary,
INCREASES TO 135
Death toll in Wednesday's tragic West Point fire-most disastrous since the ss. Sai On fire a year ago when 102 lives, were lost-
reached 135 last night.
One hundred and fourteen, bodies were found yes- terday heaped high on the staircases leading from the first to the fifth floors of Nos. 361, 363, and 365 Des Voeux.Road West. was found on the first floor of 359 Des Voeux Road West,
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The position in which the corpses were found lying Indicated the panld and hysteria which grip- ped the inmates of the five-storoy block of 36 tonement flats after the explosion at 7.45
a.m.
Reliable sources yesterday estimated the damage sus- tained from the blast at HK$20,000,000.
It was obvious that there had been, a mad scramble to get through the doors of the flats and either up or down the staircases to safely. A fireman who has had previous experience of such fires told the "China Mall": "I think the loss life
would have been not nearly so much if the people had not become panicky."
Escaped Death
Several occupants of the Sats escaped possible death or injury by leaving their homes earlier in the morning.
One Woman, accompanied
Mr. H.E. Stone, General Manager of the Gas Company, reached
minutes the area ve
earlier than usual. He passes the
godowns every day on his way to office
"Chin
Coloniál Office- Sends Regrets
The Becretary of State for the Colonica was liformed, of the Wing On Company'a gadown fre on Wednesday night. A reply received by thế Hồng Kong Government from the Secretary yesterday follows:
"Much regret to hear of the serious fire wḥloji you repost: Please convey my sincera sympathy to relatives of thoma who lost their lives.
hope the firemen 'admittén to hos- pital and olříšės injured wilf make a good recovery. trust that evacuation measures you have 'taken' have been successful in avoiding further loss of life."
In addition to the above nour escapes from death Dr injury, several of the Chinese families who occupied the flats involved in the firo also lind narrow es- capes from being burned alive. Mall" yesterday that they litt
One couple told the their flat, occupied by several tary Departmen others, barely a minute before the explosion They were oh their way to have breakfast at ane of the food stalls near the Kam, Ling Restaurant.
Pitiful Scones
By, 3.30 p.m. yesterday, Sati- workers had recovered 115 bodies from the staircases of flats above the Wing On Company's Godown on Des Voeux Road, West, opposite the Gas Company.
The fire in the main godown, on the waterfront, was still buruing last night, more than 30 were soon at hours after the explosion. The the Hong Kong Public Mor-pumps and bases of the Fire tuary
the irigade were handled by police-
PRIFI scores
when yesterday
bodies from the gutted tens
ment fiata began to pour in.
on
inen, and Boy Scouts under the. Girection of Fire Brigade officials. by her husband, left her fat at Most of the people who lost The Royal Naval
Dockyard fire No. 351, Das Vorux Road Cen- their relatives were however un- float, which arrived off the tral, at 8 am to go to, the Taan | certain of their identifications. blazing godown
Wednesday Yuk Maternity Hospital, where | Many of the courses were burnt afternoon, Was still
there last the later gave birth to twin beyond recognition. Some were night pouring, thousands of gal- boys." Her other twin sons, 12 without hands and feet, others lons of seawater from two deli- years old, and one daughter, just charred heads hanging on to veries into the building. A Re- left the house at 7.50 mm: to parts of shoulder tones. Several, venue Department launch-an attend, school. This family was mostly children and bables, con- auxillary Ars cat-ulso assisted ons of tha, few that escaped in-sisted only of heads. The bodies with one delivery.
An employés of the Gaứ Com- | pany is the sole survivos: ot family of six, among whom were relatives who had tomo
from Canton to attend a birthday party which was to have taken place on Wednesday night. He left the house before the explosion to re- purt for duty...
A 14-year-old boy missed death hy only a few minutes. He loft his home about 7.42 am-three minutes before the explosion- for school. On his reluri ho found has home on fire and his parents and younger brothers and sisters missing. Their bodies were re- covered from the gutted buildings yesterday.
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had disintegrated from the ins
tense heat of the fire
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Russians Warn Western Powers
Paris, September 23.
Radio Moscow today broadcast a valled threat that the United Nations might collapse if the Western-powers- insist-on-bringing-up-tho- Borlin crisis for debato.
The broadcast was made not The broadcast zaji!: "Encouraged
Mr. H.V. Ardy, Assistant Dis- long after the United States, by the pliability of their Euro- trict Superintendent of the Gas Britain and France dispatched. penn followers, the knights of the Incline to Company, also missed the ex- a final note to Russia demand-dollar evidently re plosion by a few minutes. He ing a clearcut answer whether with impunity.
they can do anything ballove that
It, therefore, is was about to leave his quarters Russia Intends to lift the Bers to be expected that at the third to take his child to school when in blockade and restore four session of the General Assembly, the fire broke out and the. - ex-
rule to the German threw.85 oil drums 25 plosion: yards across the street.
12 Injured In Peiho
Deputy Theatre
Mr. K. M. A. Barnett' has resumed
duty a Colonial Sapretary.
relief
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new manoeuvrea wit be under- power capital.
taken for the attainment of alma The radio said the United Na- the United States has falled to tions had been unable to justify | achieve so far. the hopes of peace-loving nations
There mag-be signs which. and that tin Americans have chow it intends to place before falled to learn the lessons of his the United Nations now ordeals" tory.
and will fot stop at seriously This apparently was a reference damaging its prestige or to the ill-fated: League of Na- flaking its cullapse."United
Press.
tions.
Fire
These dispatches emphasis- ed, however, that two rescue columns were rolling north- word. They said the eastern column. advancing along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, had battled into Tenghsien, 140 miles south of Tsinan, while another is advancing: "frum
Twelve pordons were' injur- south-western Shantung to Chuvch
divert part of their troops from ed when a fire broke out at which is 100 miles Tsinan tront, thus bringing some the Pelho Theatre, Shamshul- the hard-pressed Tainan Po, shortly after the start of southwest of Tainan.
“The dieonlches 'roid General defenders.
the 9.20 performance Jast Chiang Wel-kun, German, and Bad weather came at a time right." Workerty
einert second son of when the government air force to Hong Kong when majority voting blee. He alleged It is alleged a knife was used imports were prohibited. United the Soviet's minority position in in the attack.
Five sels of Chilnise, cinema- The wound in President Chiang Kai-shek, was was getting in the strongest blows
his Derannally Beading the mechanised against the Reds. Operating at tograph films were destroyed by United Nations was self im-flicted on Mr. Watt missed
heart by the fraction of an inch, units in one of these columns.
night time in the last two nights the fire, while hall of the theatre's poked.
Up to a late hour last night, Mr.
However, most observers under [a: bright, moon, the air screen was burnt down. He made a small reference to Watt's condition was reported to doubted the rescue columns force
According to reports received.. the Marshall Plan, deploring that
temporarily stymied 158 could reach Tsinan in time to save Red assaults, but fes, grounding the frat Indication that there was some nations opposed it--some be fair.
The alleged assallant is report the city. It was pointed out that due to bad weather permitted the something amiss came from slight
behind cd to have been detained by the any strong Government attacks Communists
Bounds rumbling, again to fight Police,
might forco the Communists to through sections of the city out screen
side the gates and resume batter
the alarin being raised, ina
there at the walls.
was a stampede, among Pro-Government dispatches patrons in the theatre, while [add that some 14,000. Communists number of the occupants on the were killed and wounded when upper floors of No. 103. Fuk Wa the Nationalist command hurled Street, which adjoins the theatre, powerful squadrons of aircraft bosan jumping into the street Into action aimund Tylaan, earlier when they when they
saw the flames Khu week.-"United Press.
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who seem to fear the return of
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KUROPEAN MAANA KAN stability and confidence.
Mr. Marshall made no re- A ritus from the Biberian antieren terence to the Berlin crisis. extends southwardenver China' where He appealed to all UN mem- stretches NNE from Tomato and Bern to find ways to lessen the small depression over 8 China, Pressure, world's tension,ünd warned that In fow to the P of the authem Thill the peoples of the world were pines where a tropical depresios may be watching the world's statesmion developing. Premare remain relatively here.
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Mr. Marshall criticized nationa which deliberately cut their own people off from the rest of the world an indirect reference to the, Iron Cartelakkə
"It would be a tragic error if because of subs misunderstanding the patience of others should be mistaken for weakness," he said.
Mr. Marshall who'a year Fossed
several new proposals, into the United Nations, made no naw. dnes today. But he blamed and the Lastarni Eutropen
coun trios for eripily hampering the work of the UN by refusing to participate in many. UN organs,
In addition to bien appeal for adoption of a declaration, på human rights he said the United States would seek the following?
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Rumours Of Secret Communist Meeting
Washington, Beptember 22.
Ambrloan diplomatie sourc:s said today they believed 'a secret conference of lenders of Russia's satellite countries was being held or had just finished, in the Soviet Union.
Painting out that M. Molotov was the only one of the Bigj Four Foreign Ministers who did not go to Parle for the United Nations General Assembly masting, the sources sald Mmù. An Pauker, Rumania's :
Minister and Mr. Georgi Dimitrov, Mr. Kisment Gottwald, President of Cachoslovakia, gone to Humia, ostensibly for holiday main yorkchoslovakia,, hak Also
Prime Minister of benzela, wark," 'abucht from their countklos...
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