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OVERALL COMMANDER FOR HK "Hello" From SIR M. K. LO'S MOTIO
General Festing To Head Joint Defence Forces MORE REINFORCEMENTS
London, June 22.
The British Ministry of Defence announced today that Lieuten-
ant-General F. W. Fosting would be the General Officer Com manding-in-Chief at Hong Kong.
Earlier, the appointment of an overall Commander of British forces in Hong Kong was announced in the House of Commons by the De- fence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander.
The Ministor said that the Commander would direct the naval, army and
air units assigned to the defence of Hong Kong.
SECOND ATTACK
ON ANCHISES BY NATIONALISTS
Shanghai, June 22.
Although lying helpless in the Whangpoo River about seven miles from downtown Shanghai, the Blue Funnel 8,200 ton linor Anchises was again attacked this morning by a National- ist P-51.
This was revealed by Captain J. E. Watson and members of his crew when Reuter visited the damaged vessel this afternoon after a ten mile journey by taxi, tramcar, bus and sam-
pon.
Members of the crew said that they expected the..
attacks to be continued tomorrow.
who is Captain Watson, from Cark, Southern Ireland. when asked Reuter to give this message to his people: "I am all right. I hope to see it out. To me, after six years of war, this incident comes as
a very unpleasant item."
The captain revealed that there were only three casualties us a
result of yesterday's nttnek;
Thomas Edwards, aged 18, deck
There was no incident, however, the Hutterfeld steamer Foochow entered port this morn- ing from Hong Kong.
Mr. Alexander said, "Dur- ing short tour in the early part of the month, I visited Ceylon and Malaya and also took the opportunity of mak- of the ing a general study
whole position in the Far East. "I stayed three days in Hong
with the Kong for discussions authorities, both civil and mill-
on the spot. As I Indiented
on behalf of the Government while there, our object is to maintain the friend llest possible relations with what- ever may be the Government of China at the same time taklag into account our obligations to territory for the people of the which we are responsible.
"I found that the responsible authorities are, foeing their pro- and that blems with confidence
in the field of defence all prac- ticable steps are being taken to ensure the safety of Hong Kung.
To Reinforce
|Garrison
de-
Australia
Beryl James, 24-year-old "Miss Australia," who was chosen from among 1,000 entrants as the Commonwealth's "Ident woman," smiles a greeting as she arrives at Til- bury in the iiner Orcades. She will tour Britain and the Continent, visiting South Africa on her way home. -AP Photo.
Heavy Loss Of Life In Japan From Typhoon
"As the House will know, the Government have alrendy elted to reinforce the garrison in
of the The view of the uncertainty
It was reliably learned that position in China and our res- 90,000 tons of gasoline went up ponsibility for Hong Kong and
In smoke and games yesterday, the Wellare of its people.
when the Shall installation at
was hit during : Gough talend the Nationalist raid.
*Butterfield's main office crippled by a strike since Inst boy of 37, Lanscer Road Liverpool night when the majority of the Saeshanghai and his condition building by workers.
brought to hospi-foreign staff were locked in the
5. He
to
Government have found
Tokyo, June 22.
Japanese government said today that 1,086 porsons were still unaccounted for 12 hours This after typhoon “Della” struck Japan. indicated that the final death toll might run into hundreds, making the typhoon one of the worst disasters in recent Japanese history. The national police, the most reliable source in tabulating casualties, said in addition to the 1,086 persons missing there were 93 known dead, mostly on land, and 85 injured. These figures were borated by the Kyodo news
It necessary to send some addi- tional reinforcements and the mattor necessary stops in the Was
are being taken by all three Bervices. "Furthermore, we have decided appoint a commander, British Forces, Hong Kong, to be in com- mand of the Army, air and such naval units assigned from time to of Hong Benvair The British Embassy repre-time for the defence Street, Glengow He sustained sentative In Canton, Mr. J. P. Kons." ninar injuries to his ankle.
Coghill, was this afternoon await- Mr. Alexander said that Lleu- None of the chsunilles is seriousing instructions and further de- | tenant-General Festing would piso i agency which is in communi-
is ratisfactory.
T.. Mothergill, first ofeer. He
is from Retear. Yorkshire.
Fail of 49, Ian
It was explained.
Another Protest
corro-
talls from the Embassy in Nan act as General Officer Command- cation with its bureaus in the
He storm swept area, Land Forces.
Damage to the ship la o ex-king, before lodging another pro-ing-in-Chicf, ccscive the captain believed that test with the Chinese Foreign would leave shortly and take up
Live 2500 to and sake office following the second attuck his duties immediately
rival in Hong
It will obcut two months to complete on the Anchises.
the repairs. Every single engine
has to be brought to Shanghai Mr. Coghill did not to receive for repairs.
All the Anchises' these instructions until tomorrow. were permitted 10 The Chinese Foreign Office last passengers come ashore In Shanghai tonight telegraphed the authorities
day.
Skeleton Crow
concerned presumbly in Taiwan- regarding the first attack on the Anchises but it was thought un- likely that the telegram arrived
ara an
The British Government had kept the Governments in other Commonwealth countrica fully Informed of the steps taken,
have also been in touch *W. with the Government of the United States," he said.
The captain will ask the au-in time to prevent today's incident. Commonwealth
thorities to permit him to main-- lain a skeleton crew aboard and will try to get the other ashore. He said: "It is impossibic to imagine why we were attack-
men
ed. We have no military value. This
is certainly boyoni a nul- sance."
ที่
He thought that protests were they were
of no avall beenuse
Nationalist P-51
machine-gun the ship lying un- protected off Gough. Island and flating badly to the right.
The Weather
In London, Dr. Chang Tish- hai,
Ambassador Chinese Britain, called on Mr.
Ernest
to Countries
Deyin at the Foreign Office last
night at the Foreign Secretary's Mr. Leonard Gammans, Con-
request,
servative, asked
whether the
of
FOR RECONSTITUTED COUNCIL APPROVED
A motion for a new, reconstituted Legislative Council for Hon Kong, consisting of six Official and 11 Unofficial member tabled by Sir Man-kam Lo in Legislative Council yesterday, wo unanimously approved by all the Unofficial members.
ese and five non-Chinese.
fw
The Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, informed the Unofficial member that the motion should be forwarded to the Secretary of State fo his decision. Sir' Man-kam's motion was an amendment to Mr. Landalo's motion i April which envisaged a legislature of 20 members, consisting o nino Officials, including the Governor, and 11 Unofficials.
to represent ure The amended motion pro- cognises that the Urban Council, nominated vided that of the 11 unofficial like other organs of Government, terests of the Colony as a wi
this was the members, BLX shall be Chin-must evolve in orderly develop- suggest
ment and progress to meet the mental idea! I do not say thi Of the six Chinese members changing views and aspirations of has been realised to the ful four would be elected and two the people. It envisages a gradual all times.
expansion of the Urban Council (Continued On Page 11) nominated by the Governor.
leading ultimately to municipal U the give non-Chinese men- status and with a franchise that bers, twe would be elected and three nominated by the Governor may be as wide as that proposed (one of whom shall be a Portu by Sir Mark Young, and that in gucre if the elected members do this expansion the new Legisia- ture will have a decisive say. This not include a Portuguese),
The electorate would be confined seems to me to be obviously sound if we are to have a new Legisla. to British subjects and there
ture, and, moreover, it will obvinte would bo separato elections of any possible suggestion at some
ninese candidates by Chinese
future date that the Young Plan electors ang non-Chinese can- as a form of constitutional re- oldates by on-Chinese electors. form was imposed on the Colony
The Governor would have an 8 i will,
original and a casting vote and the usual reserve power.
оп
testing and ex-
CAF Plane Raid Red Positions
Sir Man-kam Lo, introducing his motion, sold it was to tent public opinion two points. namely, whether the Young Plan should be abandoned, and in the alternative should the consiltu tion of the Legislative Council ha amended along the lines he had Indicated.
Pubile reaction so far had been confused, The Council of Women had intimated that they supported
lons, Jeeps and vehicles, and t the Landale motion. The Chinese
ac-in the river wero altacked * Chamber of Commerce, the Kow- ceptable measure at the present devastating results."
Lime can onl loun Chamber of Commerce, and result in a substantial measure of the North West front on Jud
only hope that there will
The only fighting on land wa the Kowloon Residents Associa-
The two general acceptance of the altarna-when Nationalist forces cla tion were not at one. newly formed Reform Clubs beld Live including the vexed duestion they drove contingent de
e of the electorate at the Legisla munist reinforcements in A conflicting views."
me the great merit of the
Canton, June 2 Young Plan is that it was con- Government planes were ceived
action yesterday bombing perimental prelude to more sub- stantial constitutional reforms. It in North Fukicn around
strafing Communist posit follows therefore that this meril will disappear it a more substan- tien, along the Kan River: and H inf
al constitutional reform as con- tween Fengcheng
can kang, and along the Chekić templated by this motion take place immediately. But it Klengst railway. can take place immediately
only if it does command general accept Agency aald that troop cancel The Kuomintang Contral 1
the Young Plan is not an ance. Those of us who feel that
The Electorate
East Shenal back to Hupch: vince,
Central News sald that Gor
"I now come to the alterna- ment forces from Shensi were tive, including the questions as in Hupeh and near Chuchi, a to whether all the members of on the border,
Some of their views have been, live Council level, valuable and helpful. There were others, which
but he were not,
comment on was not going to them.
The question was to what ok- tent did the views so expressed represent the views of the inhabi- lants as a whole?. It was not easy. say even how representative
Hong Kong was coded to they were of each organisation. Great Britain and thereby became Each of the Reform Clubs might Crown Colony, the fundamental have a few hundred members, basis of its constitution was a while all the organisations en complete control of its affairs by bined could hardly have a total
to
on thres
news
the Legislative Counoll are to Other Nationalist troops be elected, and the nature of still pressing on Slan and H the electorate.
yang in Central Shens, amid "When Hon
agency.
- tow Router says that the Creat
20 Halangtong.
miles West of Changsha, la rep to be partly under Comma control. There is, howeve reliable confirmation of report-Associated Proas
points, namely, which answers itself with
(1)deration whether all members should be elected; (2) the nature of the form
the
Router.
membership of more than 10,000, the Colonial Office through Yet it could not be denied that Governor, and when a Legislature that they represented important was granted, it was granted on
the
· basis. of an official ross-sections of the community und
majority with nominated members. Majority In Favour Apart from y question as to Taking the vlows so far ex-the degree of capacity on the part
bart REINFORCEMENT pressed, Sir Man-kam Lo said, of the population as a whole to
FOR MACAO it seemed that a substantial take a part in the government of majority was in favour of his their
hfluirs=== own
question
Lisbon, Juna motion
but opinions differed
the
The Portuguese government of years the fundamental
which
shaped this ordered two battalions of a of Government
of infantry from Its African co electorate; and (3) whether the course that the Government must of Angola to reinforce the gar Young Plan, as such, should be be ane which
concern itself of Mincao the government nich should abandoned.
with the weifate of the Colony asnounced last night.
I Dealing Brst with point (3) Sir a whole and without sectional or An carllor plan to send a Man-kam Lo said it could not be racial prejudice or distinction, and force of Portuguese troopi
was cancelled last seriously disputed that the fune-in which the Unoficial Members, incao tions of the Municipal Counell since no electorate could be de after the governor reported. Nanking. June 22. under the Yung Plan were not vised to do justice to all sections Macao would be unable to 100 Communist troops have sup- substantially greater in scope or of the community, should be house them-United Press.
than those lin Mr. Richard P. Davis, an pressed scattered peasant rein importance American GID agent and one of volts in Antwei and Kiangsu charged by the present Urbanz Council, whose unamcial members
The death toll. It is bellevret, will ilkely mount with further accounting of shins caught by the storm while at sea
There was no word yet about the fate of 130 crew members and passengers aboard the Inland sen ferry boat, Aobu Maru, which sank during the storm.
Peasants Revolt Against Reds
Communist
the survivors of this provinces, two known disaster, cald the ship wont Hsin Hua news agency report-
"within
minute" ed today. оло down after water started to pour into Dispatches from Hofel, provin Its portholes. Ho indicated' that
clal capital of Anhwel, bald the up
most of the people aboard the Aoba Maru perished.
Shipping Casualties
Nationalist risings" wore led by secret agon's, local bandits and landlords.
were really doing more work than
public know.
"My motion" continued Sir Man-kam, "does not contemplate the abandonment or the idea Laving a Municipal Council, but it does contemplate the abandon-
ment
ment of, the idea of the The rebain were declared to have immediate creation of a Municipal been organised at some points into Council. This immediate creation
Following has cortain obvious disadv
20
the Foreign Office spokesman announced today. Hong Kong garrison was being Mr. Bovin, It was understood, expressed deep regret at the bomb-reinforced by reducing the garri infod again this morning.
ing yesterday of the British Mer-son of Malaya.
He also asked whether Britalo
Government rescue teams re-sword association." Captain Watson revealed that a chunt vessel Anchises by Nation had suggested to the other Com-
that they ported a total of 468 vessels "be Communist occupation of the ro For instance, under the flow low toalist planes off Shanghai.
Britain on Tuesday ordered monwealth countries
Heved lost and 698 others known gion, the rebela seized grain and Plan, many problems were left to defence of the might share in the
to have suffered damage.
destroyed highway bridges. be decided by a commission as warship at the mouth
Boven Communist
Goveen suggested in paragraph 33 of, Sir Yangise river in China "to Hong Kong in view of Its Impor
Lance not only to Britain but to
The
*Pololch!" intervone
newspaper to protect British
ment officials were reported Mark Young's Despatch. Moreover the whole of South East Asia.
"Seventeen hundred shipping
miles there would inevitably be consi there from Intor
killed at Wuklang, Mr. Alexander said that he did headlined
Beuth West of Nanking af derable duplication of officer in- ference," reported
vessels Ibat or damaged." Assoolated not wish to add details about the
Mancheng, 160 mtide North valving a much The typhoon, with 100 m.p.h, Fress.
more expensive "for obvious
Wost of Nanking! at Fuyang, Government, which would be winds, hitting from the South, cut forces at present
180 miles North West of Nan minimised if not ́olirainsted by a But he could give an assura path of destruction Northward
king and after Buhulen, to the gradual expension, ance that the Government In-up Japan's Southernmost Kyushu
****This North of Nanking:
motion implicitly ¡ ›re-: AL 0005 "GMT, (1 p.m. nkar) the British warship which is alationed
and rapidly dissipated.
Led By Landlord li over the ses of off the mouth of the Yangtse are tended to bring the anti-bandit Island, blew into the Japan Sea The skies over Tokyo are now Jasan NW of Tokyo wrekening and that she is to intervene to protect campaign in Malaya to a success-
The sin Hua agency reported moving NE wwarda Hokkaido, & trough British shipping there from in-
clear and the weather authorities He added that he had already
the rebellion-in early May-was of low pressure extenda BW from it to
terference. Tarmosa and thence serben the Bouth
““At Shanghai Hself and in the stated that the Commonwealth predicted no further damage.
"Della" dealt death and destruc-led by landlord Li Hung-kwei in China Bem to the shallow depression avec
Whongpeo river the task of pro- Governments had been kept fully
tion in varying degrees to about the Mencheng region.
Communist mills stationed at Tonking.
one-half of the total area of, the tecting property is presumably informed and he could not add to
that--Neuter.
Police reports Fuyang waa said to havo completo- Japanese Islands. the responsibility of the Com-
sald crop damage resulting from ly crushed, this uprising, kliling Li munist authorities, who are be- Iloved to have large forces there
more than 112,000 seres deluged ung kwel and capturing 760 re- lor the purpose.
and windswept farmlands le like bels. ly to be perfor
typhoon now contred
Today's Forecast-moderate
winds. Fair.
Yeterrin's Wecher
Hextasumi 11.2 deg. Fah.
Minimum 16,8 deg. Yah.
Hunshine: 5,6 batira.
ENE
Blainfalli 0.1 mm.=0.004 In. Total since Jan. 19. m,m$1.de, tas. against an average, of LELO 15.1X ALAI (SA
Handling at
4p... Baro, at mal .....100.1603.1 mb
Danak
Rel. Humidity Dew Point Wind Direction Windeman
10 ms.
16.73 10.48 inches,
45
TÚ GA. F.
11 t kno
-Time (116
Later a spokesman for the Ad- eniralty said in a statement:
"The present instructions to the
reasons."
ful conclusion.
Dutch Troops To Evacuate
Jogjakarta
Batavia, June 22,
resulted
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Correspondencs Pagi 2
The agency wald Communist - "Our warships have not been up
Reform Club's Plan For Counel) the Whangpod since the Com
The same source reported that thorities tempted to use prok munists seized control of the srca,
fandalides occurred at #9 pinces paganda to pacify the population [P*g* 4
**_Gerolay's. Meldgo this
many leaving "After the Anchises was bombed,
and the rail service was cut at a and Black Swan moved HMS
dazen points: Communication with the "word nasocis fon." It report-Pans 7 up the Yangtse river to mislst her but, The Netherlands Government the sloth areas was still only ed the more stubborn rebels were |", finding her inside the Whangpon will today order the evacuation of partly restoroch. It was reported killed or captured.
"dlepatchen - are”
Engineering Page "Tahinin uncial'
the river, she considered she could Dutch troops trom, Jogjakarta, In- that roads were blocked at 1,410 not help.
donolan Repibile capital, Dr. J. pinces and 376 bridges washed rat confirmation of rumours ar- Page 912030 "If the Communists cannot pro» H. van Royen, loader of the Dutch away ANA
** fotal of 1,818 homes were re-upriam Klangal and Annwed: Page Noia w
Britian::Qeld Reservas elty, I suppose the policy will bo He made reconsidered."
formal Dutch-Repalcan meeting reported hat over 1,000 mothers had led the revoit and had been Page LEMBRA He did not say what form the called brathe United Nations were badly damaged, mirty-nine ported because of thewry, Lex Alf, shipping, Mavema "interventions would fakey. Rear: Sceatshion Ekor endorm
reported washed lavish or the countryside. -- Asná" | Page
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