FINAL AGREEMENT ON DEFENCE PACT DRAFT
There's No Slump in This Trade
Wdellington, Novembar 20.
Diplomatic circles in Washington accepted as ac
curato ibports in the American press that final agresmont on the draft of a North Atlantic Defence Pact wop reached In London yesterday by delegates of the five Western Union power. It was assumed that ofcial despútchen have not caught up with press communicattons.
Omicals in Washington, stressed Hong Kong today is about the that an agreement between the busest port in the world a delegates was only one step to travel advers JLT receiving
wards the final approval of a almost twice as many requests
draft of the pact which will form an they can satisfy
the bingly for an alliance among United States, Canada and the the Western Union powers.
Inundated with demands from Shanghat, they can and planes for only a small percentage and fur even recomanodation here J
of
The delegates attending the permanent commission In Lon- don would now have to refer the draft agreed among themselves to the five governments,
be
It is expected that there wil a further meeting of the per- anent commission to agree upon any changes suggested by indivi
then dual governments. Only could the permanent commission send an agreed draft to Washing-
Apart from England, Anserica is the most popular country but Leve in mort demands have the to be refused beratisé coastal strike, 1Shipping tp All- uit, which comes next on the list, 11 been booked many
dits ahead, Ode adviser, Mr. Tomas Ro- bluson, believes the reason for ton. This Is that Austrulla +3 the
while grurest
tab's country ófuring a degree of safety und athenities"
work
HKSC To
The Ambasadors' committee of
the five powers would then open negotiations. with the Unlled States State Department. In the light of diplomatic communica- tions from London, bilicials sald it night lake two weeks before they would start formal negotin- tiens for Ule pact with the United States and Canada,
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1048.
Britain's Oldest Woman Dies
Bt. Raph, Wales, November 21. Britain's oldest inhabitang Mis Jambolla Shephard, who claimed to remember the Coronation of Queen Victoria In 1830, died toÛny. Her etotal age was 118 years but she may have been older,
Long household servant. Mice Bhephard attributed her ́age to "hard work atid na baỳ
triends.”—Associated Press.
Govt Orders Settlement
First Indian Family To Leave Shanghai Arrives In Colony
The first, Indian family to evacuate from food. starved Shanghai arrived here yesterday by the Danish matorship Laura Maetsk. They are Mr. and Mrs. Lilaron Gidumol and their sor and daughter, who left the hungry Chin- ese metropolis after a 25-year-stay to settle, in Hong Kong for good. "Today there are about 300 to 400 Indians in Shanghai," Mr. Gidumal, who has been in China for 40' years, told the Mail" representative
For Evacuees China
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"More than 12 families Wul leave Shanghai by the end of this month. Most of them are travell- 'Ing direct to India," he said.
"In my long years In China, 1 have never roen Shanghai so de- toriorated, and today that Chinese port, is in her worst, and critical period,”. Mr. Gidumal told "China Mall."
the
for
The American occupation forces borated him, and after a short sojourn at Manus,, he returned to Shanghal to resume hila business in December, 1945.
a freemason from Mr. Cumal, a Canton, has been in the Kwang- tung Province for about 15 years.
A prominent public leader both in Shanghai and Canton, Mr. Hyderabad, Gidumal hails from sind.
Tricyclists To Call On SCA Again
Bourdes élogo to the State De-
In view of a neribus aliortage of in an exclusive interview yes- partment were particularly in accommodation the Governmini terday. terested in the prola reporte line ordered the efection of
China from Paris that the proposala retilenent,. for North Incorporated In
agreed vuruces who are expected to draft in London envlaaged that arifve in the Colony in the near A pact signed by the Western future. Union pawern, tho United The site, chosen is a vacant plot Blates and Canada would ba at the Junction of Chatham Hond "capable of expansion later to and Granvilja Road and was in include others that may with pre-war days a football ground, to join."
It is fairly extensive, with sum- | The Americans have frequently clent space for more atressed the political importance |tents. of including other countries and The plan is to erect 45 tants
"Food is the main cause the und five sheds, if which three the strategie Importance to deferice system of the United will be used as dining rooms, one Hundreds to flee from China by States and North Atlantic coun- hospital and one as tallot and air and sea," the former indian Mr. Robin-tn mid des
fries of the Danish territory of bathroom. In the centre of the member of the British Press At- hail bres acrensed by about 100
Greenland and Portuguese Azores, camp will be a large rectangular tache, Shanghai, said. "Even with Representatives of all Hong per crust, Much of it was chused
Iceland, Eire and Norway.
structure of matting, wood and lots of money you could hardly Kong and Kowloon tricycle by mall teamers now rathung to
Great strategie importance. corrugated
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Irun
This act foodstuffs, especially before drivers have intimated that Ki tu Shaughnt. And while
attached
partitioned into four November.”
they will again, call. on the Chousand wanted to coat from
Scandinavian the Americans to will
countries because of kitchens, ench with four or five there, the only ones entering the
itsloves. the probabilly that, in the event
When they left, Mr. Gidumai Secretary for Chinese, Affairs city were MİNİ KARTÓN for the
the Soviet Union would
things The tents are of the Army type | revealed,
were a bit tomorrow in connection with thier for Apart from requests The Hong Kong Stage Club use Scandinavian waters through and will provide accommodation cusier With the borrowed rice their recent petition to the pancing in by cable. Mr. Robin-is busily putting the finishing which in launch attacks against for 20 to 300 people. To give from Hong Kong, the situation Commissioner of Police.
touchen to its second show of Allied shipping and United States the inmates the max
In their potllion the drivers, comfort, the the season which is being pre- tropp transports.
By special arrangement theʻro- who had been informed that the question of mining the wooden floors, sented at the China Fleet Club
On The Chatham Road side the pective authorities of the differ- use of tricycles for the convey
ent. communities are
and goods Thurs-Bhitle to prevent the exit of 50- Theatre at B p.m. ion day, Friday and Saturday of vict submarines would then, they camp is fenced with iron railings food for their people; he said. must cease, by the end of this
say, arise and with if that of the Police and Fire Brigade officers Mr. Krishna Moorti, Indian Con- month, asked that they be allow
have been detailed specially to sul at Shanghai, is doing a fine job ed 10 continue their present "Grand The play
National neutrality of Sweden-Reuter.
ýccupation guard against all possible danger helping Indians in Chirui, Night by Dorothy and Campbell
of mischance and fire,
months, Chri-tie is a thriller that builds MEDITERRANEAN up admirable suspense from what
APPOINTMENT happens at the home of. Gerald
Kun daily answer astrut 40 12. qurata for assistance,
Learning the travel business ( youth Paris Mr. Robinson has been in every country him- Fel expi Austrália. In 1921, he went to Shanghai as a member of the poire force, transferred to Teni
deputy chief of police force, 1945 and in 1941 joined the Army and served Burnt
Present Play
At Fleet Club
this week,
Taking his release itz Hong Coates on the night following the Kong in Juny, 1947, he took a Grand National Ruce. Those who partnership in a travel advisory enjoy burines and being manager of the Hong Kong office.
Today, he can sur range anything from a tour of the Murray Valley in Australia to a Greyhound bus telp in Aeriva.
Arms Supply To Chiang Protested
excitement
mixed with:
of a
The
re
London, November 20, Vice-Admiral Douglas Pen- light comedy should enjoy thisnant has been appointed Flag Excerpts from the play will be Officer (Air), Mediterranean, and broadenst on Wednesday evening second - In
One of the affetties that an amateur company has to contend with, is that after a very few shows the faces of the actors despite all the skill of make up Become
чегу famillur to the regular Aupporters. This especially true in a fairly small theatre-going community such as Hong Kong and it is always pleasing therefore to be able to give audiences the sight of n newcomer. In this production Vancouver, November 21. Although there are many whose appeared! on the Seventy University of British naires have.
previous Columbia students stuged de-programines of several monstrations today against plays, there are two newcomers Jack
who play important parts. shipment of 30 Mosquito bom-Winkler should cause a number bers and plane parts from Van-st chuckles as the fatuous "Butis" couver to Shanghai.
Darling wille Hendy Janer, car- Forty students picketed theries most of the weight of the Post Office, the most important play as the hushand Gerald Federal bubbling here. Thirty Coates. others pletteted the Canadian
Booking
for the play, has been freighter Islandside, on which the open for some time, and it is planes are to be shipped on Mon hoped that as much support wit day for China.
be given to the new play as was the carried given to the production of
favourite. "Blithe Spirit last "Brend, not bullets for China."month. As before, a ferry will "Thou shalt not kill."
leave the Police Pier at 8.25 p.m. to convey Kowloon residents
Thu monstrators
placards reading!
"Hands off Chlum."
"Let youth protest murder."
to
"Not a plone, a gun for the pier immediately in front of Wall Street's Chinng"--Associat- the Theatre, arid will make the el Press.
return journey after the show.
Proposal For Canal To Replace Panama
Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 21:
A new canal through the Mexican mountains to còn- nect the Atlantic and Pacific ocdans has been proposed by Professor William H. Hobbs of the University of Michigan.
His conal will have three major advantages over the
Panama Canal, he claimed.
་
across
command. Mediter- rannan Station, as from Decem ber next to succeed Vice-Admiral Troubridge, the Admiralty an- nounced today.
Vico-Admiral Douglas Pennant, who Is 54, served through both world wars In the last, he serv ed as Commodore, West Indies, and Naval Staff Officer to the Commander in Chief, Home Forces,
be
eets.
of should relax n little, he declared.
have tenta wil
More camps of similar descrio. tion will be constructed 11 such In necessity prises by the influx fof more evacuces.
SCAP THINKS VERDICTS HEAVY
of
Tokyo, November 21. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander In Japan, thinks the sentences The International Miliary Tri- bunal on the 25. Japanese wor leaders very heavy, but hus given no indication, that he is considor ing reduction, sources said today.
Procuring ance of passengers
.for
another
alk
Bookings by sea and air are
It is stated that the decision to very heavy, he said, and travel call on the Secretary for Chinese agencies reported Available Affairs once more is due to the Fassnge Booked until after Janu-fact that, with the month rapidly drawing to a close, the drivers concerned ure miast
over the silence, of the authorities regard. ing their petition.
Bry.
Relaxed Rúlòs
It has also been intimated that
The Chinese Customs,, he de if the worst comes to the worst, clared, have relaxed consider. the drivers, numbering more ably in their vigilance. There than 1,000, intend to stage were less restriótions when they other mass porade either left.
November 20 or November 29:
Evacuees are only permitted to
well-informed take out US$100 and GY20, but Miss Kierkgaard,
The Tribunal senteficed Hideki Tojo, war-time Premier, and six He is at present Commandant others to be hanged, 18 to life of the Joint Services Staff Col-imprisonment, one to 20 years lege.--Reuter-Reuter,
and one, to seven years-Reuter.
Senator Malone Flies
To Nanking For Talks
many took out more than the
stipulated amount of Chinese cur- Mr.
rency.
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The chief factor which led to the peute shortage of foodstuffs, Mr. Gidumal stated, was large- scale hoarding by dealers, who
With the aisia,decorated shunned the uncertain gold yuun. with white chrysanthemums, Mrs, Gidumal, who had a trying St. John's Cathedral was the
Sole Agents:
time kroping house, said that to scene of a quiet wedding yes- GILMAN & COMPANY LIMITED at the coveted pound of bread terday afternoon. entailed great difficulty. When Miss Lise Kierkgaard, who from did get it, it cost her CX5 arrived in the Colony pound Meat sold at, GX45 a Cenonhagen by the es...Korea on sound. When they left a bag of Saturday, became the bride of Mr. rice (thout 175 lb.) went up as Arne Jensen, who is on the staff w
of the East Astatie Company which was -equivalent to
bank's rate of GY4 to USȘI.
Entering the clutch on the Storm Jorgensen,
hfgh...as G US$400 at the tin Hong Kong
farm of the bride- Shanghai, branch of his com- acting pany, the Gidumal and Watunull, the bride wore a dress of pure groom's firm who gave her away, UK. fitd. Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, closed when he left white satin with gloves and shoes to match, and held a bouquet of the United States isWe had to discharge the staff on white cosmos.
the spot,” He sätt.
The Rov. E. Kván, performed the service and the duty of best man wax, carried out by Mr. K. Rasmussen.
Shanghai, November 21. + Republican Senator George W. Malone of Novdda, advocator of an American "Monroe Doctrine” for Asia, this morning How to Nanking where he will confer with the 'U.S: Ambättädön Dr. Leighton Stuart, and where ho, also häpes to moot President Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Malone's purpose of tour- integrity ing Asia is to get first hand trying to save."
The United States policy to information. for himself as the
ward, China, Mr. Malone idi. "It was easier to get passage blueprint groundwork for a
appears to be trying to decide during Odtober he stated, Peo- which he expects to lay before
whether to Judge, the. Integrity Fle were then asking one another
A reception was later held at the next Congress on the
of a whole government by the whether they should have leave the Jacobean Room of the Hong AmeHeán application of the
hot. But with the Hidden Kong Hotel 125-year-old Western hemis-
did. not subscribe
War Ten- The honeymoon witi bo spent phere principles to Asia,
thepry.
sion and food, d. in quanghaligencies were invaded and heavily Macao. Malone arrived. "In Press, that the Doctrine has kept yesterday afternidon, aboard a swamped within a very us out of war in the Western converted Air Force B-17, in time. By the middle of the hemisphere. application in the Orient, for these Arthur S. Burrows,... also, flew
of the British A member Atthebe Stanghal, befom the war many years i would have pre-from. Tokyo. They were met at vented us from getting in wate Klangwan, airport by... General
arrested by the Mr. and · Interned' in several Consul-General. Chinere Thomas, the Mr, Malone, touching briefly on Jöhn M., Cobat Coha! AirTökyc ̈ünd2- Yeköharia, The BRA Cati civilian concentration camps in
Mr. Malone fold the United
here."
to that
Integrity of a single "mián. (Hoj Ale and inertage travel at Repulse Bay Hotel
short
I had been,' In ] which the Air Under-Sécratorý, |.It was frapossible to get booth
Sino-American relations in res-
Crahe head of the Mexico's pect to China, said, "As I seo it: Force Detachment, Major William was then publishing a pro-British mountains the dis-of 1. It would reduce
if Russia: is giving aid to the Saunders, US military fache,Indian newspaper, in which Mr. the "wasp waist." ports on tance between
Large constructional and ven-Chinese. Cominunists as claimed and Piter Chland, personal aide Glumal Dlayed, an Important East and West coasts of the
KC. WuUnited role. He spent about four and a ↑ United States by some 3,000 tilation shafts actually chop the they are engaging In trying to to. Mayor
government whose Press.
half years in camp. tunnel intó eight small tunnels, overthrow a miles.
the longest ono 14 miles. The
4. There would be no vulnership subway" would be 105 Teat 'able locks to be smashed by wide-75 feet more than, the enemy bombs, and half of its 120 Panamti--and 195 feet high at the miles would be tunnels covered by impenetrable layers of solid ette peale of lis sloping ceiling. "Anything except some of the ships with
with extensive 3. Double lanes on the open masts would get through that," radar-radio part and "sidings" in the tundis Hobbs said. "The top parts of the "would provide two-way traffic.
Hobbs said the plan will be roast bed hemantled and
reassembled on the other i
and the
rock.
taken under consideration by a the money saved in fuel, committed of thx Blat Congress width would be satisftictory, The re would be the first ocean-slip trend is toward long, harrow, shlós tunnel in the world, he said.
rather than wide ones."
"The, Panamna Ganal, even Hobbs said the Mexican moun- converted from a look canal to tains are geologically ideal for
ea-level, would be Insecure construction of the tunnel,
under attack and studies hava
Indicated that once blocked it
would require weeks to ro.
Hobba said.
According to his plans, the tun-
across
Air Protection
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Hobbes would take leka
than the 10-year-fob and $3, 300,000,000 cost patinated for
Panama overhalings
Smooth Taste-Delicate Flavour-No Bitterness.
This is the
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Inscris in South-Central Mexico. And, besides, we have two FOR CHRISTMAS.
can be completed with less time canals then he addedes
and money fan it would inke to Other features of the Hobba' Ievel ine Panama.
plan:
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1. Air protection would be.
*** Through Mountains from Rosalble with plancs based in U.S.
Hobbs canal would run from airücids. Puerto Mexico on the Atlantic 2. Oll, felds, being
developed
coast to the Tehuantepec Ingoon fat the North end of the pbybbed “directly south en the Pacife. That sifo 'Would provide excellent...re-
18th alitunce of 1285 miles, fisting, fachifies,
A quarter of the way, on chệh “ng/ Data, bullt, around.
anni la increase level coústál: plans,minals Zould "prov
The remaining; 63 miles, would «ive, lightings and burrow through the Central ranke United Press.
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