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Shooting Aboard ss. Lok Sang
A village chieftain fromI Anhwei Province was 'Ruled instantaneously and a former ́ Chinese GI seriously wound- ed when a tommy gun was accidentally fired aboard the sa. Loit Sang when she was off Swatow on Saturday morning en route to Hong Kong.
There were 300 passengers on the Brish steamer, including 100. former Natiorulist soldiers, who disembarked here yesterday under Polico supervision.
According
eye-witnesses aboard the Lok Sang passengers' .1ickets were belag checked when
they became unruly.
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The trigger of a tommy-gun was accidentally pulled and the bullet hit a sinel plate on the hull first before plercing
the GI in the
chest and killing the chieftain.
The Lok Sang reached the Co- Jony at 2 am yesterday and the wounded man was taken to hos- pital, where his condition is re- ported to be "not critical**
The dead passenger was taken to the murgtuary,
-
Hong Kong Police are mean- white investigating tha eldent. Beveral soldiers were tøkan for Interrogation. Polide Investigation aboard the ship was completed at noon yester. day.
The soldiers, remains of several boarded the Nationalist armies. Lak Sang Foochow. Many paid their passage,
the ship's pradore personnel said.
com-
Several of them are wounded. Some have to depend on crutches. Mest of them travelled alone.
The soldiers surrendered their arms when they embarked.
Saved At Last Minute
Brussels, June 4.
A last-minute joint declara- tion by five Belgian trailors executed today at a disused aerodrome nt Nivelles. near here, saved a sixth mun from the firing squad.
He was Josoph Simar and the Juin declaration by his five com- panions was rushed to the Bel- gian, judicial authorites in Brus-
BC,
Wedding Rosary Church, Kowloon, on Saturday of Mr. Edward Mathew Alarcon and Miss Alda Maria de Bilva.
China Mall Photo.
Commodity Prices Soar In Shanghai
Shanghai, Juno 5.
Shanghai's 6,000,000 populace are beset by now warrios over the financial situation as the prices of essentials continue rising. Bread, for instance, went up 80 per cent this morn- ing. Silver dollar, prices are fluctuating wildly, with the city's thousands of silver coin peddlers constantly changing their quotations.
A few days ago those stroot exchangers wore willing to give 14 silver dollars for US$10 but yestar- day they quoted only eight for US$10.
A stay of execution, issued by
Observers think that this sharp ↑ Was - ceived in Nivelich
the Minister of Just an hour!
or to before he was due to go
La Bring squad,
Most traders think the
Reds
decline due in part to hedglag will have to look to the United operations following the regula Sintes for a continuing supply of tion calling in all foreten cur- cotton.
bistore her with the five execut-} fercies which started à'rush for
ed men. Sie had been found guilty of aiding the Germans in the frassa rs of Belgian resistance workers silly before this libera- tion of their country. Reuter.
GRAVE CHARGE IN PARIS
The
silver coins and gold bars. Jatter now command the price of about US$58 per ounce
Apart from the intricacies of the local exchange market there Is the fact that the quantity, of imported articles and raw matert als have become scarcer which development has also been instru- In pressing prices lato higher gro
ground.
No comment has hitherto been Paris, June 4, available from leading busines Sixteen meh, have been circles on the new currency re- charged in Paris with activities mulation. When approached they relating to the Uembrilisation-all said they will rather wait and of the army after security see. police last night discovered- arms in two cars heading for Pariu
They include two Councillors of General Charles de Gaulle's Rally aff the French People.
charges have The
been brought under. an article dealing with State
security and can carry the death penalty.
Five of the men were charged last night. Eleven more were formally charged today,
Two detained with the others. last night were discharged Rou
RUSSIAN ORDER. DÉFIED
Vienna, June 4. Herr Oskar Helmer, Austrian Socialist Minister of the Interior.
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Shanghai, under new manage-,
Currency Deals
The Communist money slipped about 300 boints in terms of Unit-. ed States dollars le about 1,000 to one on June 4, but recovered somewhat 3dter.
The order forbidding privato. dealing in foreign exchango, which contained no deadline, -date, apŭardntly is not in affect yet.
The streets are wholly jammed with hawkers trading Communist money for pre-war stlyer dollars. or for foreign' currency and you can buy and sell U.S. greenbacks anywhero.
Whether the Reds will stop. cat, is in the throes of a com- micrcial revival effort. Some pro- this free dealing in money, time
is visible, but monumental alone can tell, but no other re HICSB handicaps were left hy the retreat-time has been able to stop it dur
Nationalists, including Die ing, inflation. near-stripping of the cleaning it out of foreign coastwice and river ships and depends whether they can keep
ing
'are'
Fort
NEW PRIMATE
Most business elements say it
cx- their own money at a firm leva ‚change' as well as commodities which, with the war still on their that would bring foreign exchange hinds, is a terrifle undertaking. Commercial leaders generally Reuter and Associated Press, re hopeful and complimentary tu the new regime who, they say, approach the job with the reali- tation of its dimculties and with obvious early effort to eliminate the corrlip! practices which of
Athens, June 4. late years have made Shanghai a The Athens hows agency said difiquit place to do business tonight that the Archbishop of strictly on a honest, aboye-board | Yannine, Spiridenos Vlahos who
manner.
Doing Their Bost
YAS
OF GREECE
today elected Primale of Greece. was sentenced to death
by default during the occupation
hy the Italians in Northern Spiros.
The vast fotilla of small const--| The Germans kept him constant-
all politichl-
chỉ refugodes_frojn "pen- | ert running from n few hundred ly-on the alert, it added. 175.00-ies democrTERS*~ MUST be re-
Wrote:
280,00 105,00 they seek asylum
The ing, the 'afop; to
now
now
1200,00 Austria : Jully, teallas | Vnok; "a «big "volume" of coastal Poleon Zeryns. I was stated to-
350.00
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Lamps, venetian blinds, window shades and rods, wash 16 TANT astmen Austria:;largóły:the last three years, can-"] ciully be enthroned after the
to 3,000-fon steamers which car. The
The agency sald
the shoundland Thould tied China's interport trade, were Primate of Greece gave invalti- fiken away by the Nationalists ablo assistance to the resistance instructed on until they have
by General Na- can be brought movement led by picha ukiness, on which the port lived night that the Primate will om- publication of the Royal decree announcing
nomination- Reuters
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"Yol” the new regime le doing their, political opinions.Houter. Its best. • Ths. plots, are crowd- ed with power junks and all- far small draft, which are try. being; to carry on with at least
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vital trafic.
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JOHANNEANS
TEA PARTY
ANGLO-FRENCH TELEVISION
Paris, June 6. Eventual” exchange of direct Rev. Gilbert Baker. Chaplain of Shanghai's myriad cotton wohv television proginines across the
Morp than 70, Johanncuris ats
tended the tea party given by the With the job of trying to keepi
tha American-supervised St.fig planta rúgning, many of
of which Chupnol between Belldin angi France lo predicted ht
by Norman
·1-Jolin's «University at the Cathed-"] {M,new..Govertiment - Collins, conference: that
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The Rev. Mr. Baker who ar perty ot
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werd the
"British (plevisión head.
EX-NAVY MAN A
TOREADOR ¦ ́
Nationalist Govern He told a dow rived in the Colony about a mentor of the big four familles, a laborcommittee of Brith month ago shortly before the fall. This Industry Shanghai's and French jelevision xperia has of Bhanghai ja' taking a Welt"
next to shipping. Small been created and will sit Alters and-se" attitude. He hopes that reserve quantities of long staple nately In London, and Paris, he will be able to ad back to potion, are believed to be only Associated Press. Shanghai In September.
The Rev. Mr. Baker-came to nuclent-to keep the mills going four weeks and this typu pr cute the Colony from England tri 1034; During the war he was in Küngang! necessary to produce yarn.
and place-goods, needed
which dan tel Joined St. John's University old; arbad for, In 1947.
wil be extreines dimourt to kkainhuramjunes kobtain new supplies Ther Nallara
fordrinidadures Covernment could never i der Marshal Erich Nor Bangalih, who have done it excent for ECAM ter
træder Han 2009 Bolne “traders' sky the“Cómmun- 'demanded''access to the : General lala inherited hure substantial vola Bish, archived of the Ford Curfors furishild stock #Hich
Jad, June 3,
jolirock of
SHANGHAI REFUGEES WANT TO
TO GO HOME
Now that the tide of the Chinese civil war has passed Shanghai, many Shanghailandars are considering returning home. ⠀
re-
When the 55. Shengking left for Shanghai-on; Saturday with a full load of passengers turning to the Chinese metropolis, it was in- dicated that many Northern refugees have made up their minds to leave the Colony. Apart from the Shanghai- landers, other Northern Chin- esc are also planning to re- turn to their homes in Tien-. taln
or elsewhere in North China.
Hence many local inhabitants believe that houses In the Colony may be easier ta, get 'in the near future.
FIRE FIGHTING IN ATOM WAR
London, Jure 4. Fire fighting under atomic warfare conditions would call for visual control by radio from officers in helicopters or obser- vation craft, the Institute of Civil Defence Journal sald today...
Factories Moving According to the local "Sing Tao Evening Post," many refugee factories: dro among those plan- ning to shift back to China.
An airborne water officer, in The paper stated that the Northern manufacturers consider consultation with an accompany- ing demolition ofcer, could radio their "typhoon. Hong Kong On
instructions to the base group, shelter In time of danger.
Furthermore, these manufac. who could then send relays, in turers consider that wages in the motion according to a predeter Colony are much higher than "China.
mined plan, the Journal said.
For water supplier for the fre|
ajcentral body should be
CAPTAIN SHAW.
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ss. President Harrison's First Visit
Sailing into the Colony's harbour for the first time, the "AFL" cargo freighter Preal- dent. Harrison. arrived here yesterday, with 1,500 tons of general cargo.
At present among the majority | collikeved to control regionu numerous actions during the last
of factories planning to return to China are spinning and weaving mills, enamel factories and rubber fdetóriér.
GALLANTRY OF CONVICT
Ossining. N. Y., June 4.
schemes. There should be jiz excuse if the fire services were Caught Unprepared in the matter of water supplies, the Journal de clared.-Router.
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Built in 1942 at the Western Pipe and Steel Factory, San Francisco, the C-3 freighter anw war in South Pacific waters.
Pelor to her owership by the APL, the 8,000 ton-ship WILE formerly the USB Callaway.
while serving In 1944 troop ship in South Pacific she a dozen was Alvb-bombed by
bombers Japanese
sustaining heavy damage on her upper decks. wero killed Several sailors
ns a
while manning radar equipment near her funnel.
A prisoner at Sing Sing who shared the cancerous blood of a
dying eight-year-old girl wait- United Party, will spend his. Arstby her present owners and ro-
ed today to see whether he hud helped find a cure for leukemia. Dr. Charles Sweet, chief prison physiclan, said the unnamed con- of the child Vlot let the blood circulate through his body for 20 hours during the past week, in an experiment conducted at Ossining Hospital,
The name of the child was not divulged.
Dr. Sweet sold the convict vol- unteered for the transfusion in
he might the knowledge that contract the, disease, which is une of the most deadly forms of can- cer. He was offered no reward for taking the risk. United Prest.
PAUL ROBESON IN MOSCOW
Moscow, June 4. Paul Robeson, well-known Negro singer, arrived in Moscow by air oday for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the cassian poet, Pushkin-Reu-
for.
SMUTS GUEST OF CHURCHILL
Cape Town, June. 5. Jan Christian Smuts, leader of the South African opposition Churchill. Hair with Winston London by air on June 6 to con for six honorary degrees at Cam Chancellor. bridge University, of which he is
He is due to arrive
After the war she was bought
nitted.
She now har' four comfort. able cabine for 12′′ prazengers and a spacious lounge. Commanded by Captain M. Field Marshal Smuts will be Show, a former US. Navy officer. away from South Africa for three the new freighter has all the madein equipment for navigation. weeks during which he will VIEN Captain Shaw took over the Rome, Athens and Calme to study command of the freighter in April the situation in the Eastern. Medi-1949. at Alabama, Since then ke terranean-teaboard countries—- has taken the ship to numerous Associated Press.
HUNT FOR GANG
Rome, June 4.
A police car chase through the dark narrow alleys of Central Rome last night led to a nailon wide hunt today for an inter- national gang of trans-Alpine cigarette and dopa smugglers.
The police cornered the smug glers' car last tilght. It was foun
o contain 200,000 cigarettes, with several mackats of cocaina hidden in the spare wheel An Italian and a Frenchman were arrested,
Reuter.
ut along the Pacific coast and The South Seds Islands,
The 40-year-old-coptals started
Fenfaring life some 22 years ago, and in 1940 he was commix- ored in the United States Navy. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour he was serving a junior officer on board an air- craft carrier
Tho
Born in Berkley, California, Captain Shas earned his flest mastership of board the ss. Pan Ainerican Victory in 1947. following year he became the master of the ss. President Grant and later the skipper of the ss Maninfo,
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