River Vessels Fired On After Leaving Canton
Three river vossols were fired on by a band of
unidentified man while
on route to the Colony from Canton on Friday night,
Reminders The firing which occurred at a point about 38
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miles South of Canton and only a mile from the place where the Miss Orient was sunk a few months ago, caused two casualties, one of them fatal, among the passengers of the three vessels, the mv. Chi Men, ss. Wuhsieh and ss. Yung Hsiang.
Death Toll 2,800
In Ecuador Earthquake
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The Brst vessel which was attacked by the unidentified men, was the Butterfield and Swire owned Wuhaleh. - The time of the attack was about 11.4 p.m.
The other two Vessels which had left the Kwangtung capital
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Vessel were attacked al the same spot about an hot later.
"Pobles has fimply disappeared. According to the crews of the Where the township once stood the vest is, the attackers fred there is nothing but wasteland machine guns and rifles from the f rubble. Bezrue work is part right back of the river, and dur- cally impossible. Rubble in many the time of the attack, all parts of the town is four metra three vessels returned Bre wit
they igd u der it will be a long time be. Whitever weapons
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Case Reported
THE 'CHINA MALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1049.
Amethyst Men Entertained
A picture taken of some of the crew of HMS Amethyst at the VRC on Bunday, after the performance of The Parade of Champlong" at which the lads were guests of honour of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bittner who can be atch at the centre of the pro up.
changed the CORESP [ The three vessels arrived here. Mahjong Lean. Bu curate fut lovers and crecka. The country-early yesterday amming and re-
Faureip, an angle as unrecognisable."
ported the enge to the local au-Tite
Seyyarey
YMCA pr
THURSDAY
the Barndeantren enchadas
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Picture Of Desolation The two pus-engers who were wounded were immediately rush- Rescue parties Fender were today rushing
from all over;ed to the Queen Mary Hospital on One of the to the vessels metien). Rora 111 Through the Augen.
:tricken city Popean YMCA,
Ambatan died on way to the hospital. of
Were The passengers.
from the shere, according to the Feundor Chi Alen and the Yung Haing. Kowloon Beary Club laneneoatiassy Washington, 569
propte last their veg
Areting to the local "Sing The 1 .3M
Evening Post." the owners of the Jun icons, Rent earthquake yesterday.
As duen broke, the city pre-shreatening letters from baniits
three Vessels an abst interribiliter
puor to the incident.
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The Cai Men was due to raili
to Marno last night. The other
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proportion uf bres, mcluding imony conereje structures, were er mpletely desi vessels are temporarily stay-
nyed, Lane fissures apping in the Cokay.
in other buildings and wreckage Luttered the
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Church spires
crashed down
ins
the girake, Darving my under A Greek Poccur alien spelten [tors of marble,
bar rond Tod.e
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the Greek
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ROME BUSINESSMAN HELD FOR RANSOM
Palerno: August B.
filo Plaza, the President. Government hast received exports this from Quite accompanied by of the megane ating of an ahlift: Maistere
superviso rescue from Hurs fi Albania
in the ety which the Suuply
Grnetal Enver centre of the textile trade in the 000,po live Jeza, Ther Albanian Die Benador highlands, Mintfr, as the Greek rebela with one-
Help Implored
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The reports and a
He found bousands of panic genesal naned Salay hard arved stricken people erowding in Tirana to instantie the epera-treets timploring help.
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They
Hague Conference To Seek End To Indonesian Conflict
Batavia, August 7.
"hot" war looks as if it is over in Indonesia, Asia's most important pro-war producer of strategic raw materials. The "cold" wor may and soon at The Hague, where the Dutch and the Indonesians hope to write the last chapter to a four-year conflict at a round- table conference.
are meeting to try to set the seal on the recent successful talks on an overall detail- ed agreement which will usher in a sovereign United States of Indonesia, linked in union with The Netherlands by 1950.
conscious
tions.
conse
Vietnam Cabinet Holds Meeting
Saigon, August 8.
The Vietnam Cabinet met here today to consider prahlerus can neeted with the establishment of the new Vietnam state,
These will be further dressed hetween Emperor Boo Dai rad M. Pant Coste Floret, French Colonial Secretary, who is the to arrive tomorrow.
Other
Cabinet teins on the agenda included the terms of h Intler to be sent to the United Nations and to foreign govern- menis.
Bao Dal, former Emperor of Annam and now hend of the new Įstate of Vietnam, signed a deerve
at the Cabinet meeting,
governor
the official residence of the head of the state and the provisionni seat of the government at Salgon, it was officially announced. When this happens, it will The cease fire followed a Dutch
The Cabinet adopted a deeree be a victory for a nationalist-decision to restore the Indonesia appointing M. Nguyen Va Try
A Asia, and new Beaubileans in the Central Java governor 이 North bulwark in East-West, rela- Sultanate of Jutjakarta, a few, Cranking), M. Phen van filao. months after they hul seized it
of central Vietnam Two events this week brighten in their sreond "polier_action" (Cochin-China).
with an airborne invasion. let these prdapéets. Que was the l
During the meeting. Bat Dm The Republicans agreed at the called for a minute's silener "in effective i fre agreement, from August 1. The other was
same time to attend the round- homage to the heroes who have reported to be a broad agreement table conference at The Ingue, died for the fatherland. Heute
met But what they
accepted fell # long way short of what they had demanded when,
at the time of LD Ing sovereignty' the Hieral the
Japanese surrender, they JAP MERCENARIES Federalists, co-proclained the independence of
the whole archipelago from the CHARGE DENIED Dutch,
Observare think that
they now recognise the futility of further armed conflict againe the well-equipped Dutch force and the danger of Communla Infiltration If the disturber conditions go on indefinitely. Constitutional Means
between thic two Indonesian tactions, the Republicans, Tavour-
the
Sicilien bandits under Setralore eating with the Dutch,
Galiano,
imd
The Cathedral, chua ches and
Observers think the two Signor Leone, on શ visi v poliers erucks
The were destroyed Palermas, was seized in a street in factions will go to
Hagne and beked rivers threatened todayligh. It was the third kid-
with only
two main Issies to rause Birls,
Experts thought that the earth-plug within a week, but polier settle with the Dulch:
1-When and how the Dutch” rls have failed to trace any Torees are to be evacuated. affected several of the victims. quake, whleh other cathy towns, shook th A formar parliamentary de- 2. How the statute defining entire Angles Mountain range.
the status Giovanni a Monte was The town of Salcedo was re-kipped last week and a union
Incioneslan ported to have been virtually der Signor Luclestivo.
written | kidnapped four days later.-Acu- In Washington, Dr.
Alfonso ter Mosco
Counsellur at the Ecuador Embassy, said that the
[wrecked.
puty,
laure of 500 dend was based on flown to the area.
a bulletin received from the Ecuador Government.
Wos
Mr. Basil O'Connor, President
of the Netherlands-
Union
should be
They are "old snags" that They are thought to be now have Bobbed up repeatedly in trying to get along with the four-year conflict, causing Federalists und in this way to tempers to run high and the win the rest of their struggle by Dutch to take their "police constitutional means. action" when "Incidents" hap- Moderate Republicans have Li- ways agreed that foreign-owned
pened,
of the American Red Cross, to- дане
Tokyo, August 7. Occupation officials trifay dis- missed as "usual propaganda
onsense" the
Chinesc renewerl Communist charge that the Na- tonnlist government was anxious to recruit Jbpdnest mercenaries and have General Douglas Moc- Arthur's backing.
Red
The charge, which crops up
Chinese the periodically in
broadcasts, had been denied be- tore as having no busts wluiso- ever.--United Press.
It added That army ant afr day cabled the Ecuador Red : The Republicans fear the Dutch private property in Indonesia forse units were helping in re-Cross Society offering help.-Jare going to seek terms which guld be restored to their right- selle and retief work and that Reiter, Associaject Press and tire intended to re-establish their ful owners and Dutch help in the inclical supplies were being United Press.
former cconomic tendancy and
future
administration of
COSTELLO China Charges USSR
With Violation Of Sino-Soviet Treaty
Hayride
·with
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VIRGINIA GREY LUBA MALINA JOHN HUBBARD
DODWELL MOTORS
FOR
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Canton, August 7:
The Chinese Nationalist Government today: charg- ed that Russia's recently concluded one-yédir reciprocal trade pact with the "Manchuilan people's democratic government" was a vio lation of the Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship; The Foreign Office announced that the Acting.
Foreign Minister, Mr. George Yeh, had per sonally handed a "strong note of protest" to the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, Mr. V. Vaskow, over the Russian-Manchurian treaty.
the
to retain some political influence count
country is necessary With the in settling these issues at. The future prospects looking brighter Hague
hard-hit businessmen
ind
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SOLE AGENTS FOA HONG HÀNG CHIM
How for the Republicans and planters are looking forward to the arrest of 150 Communists 1B, Chater Road the Federalists are agreed on being safe agals
on their own who were altempling to hold a these tire points at this week's plantations und getting town to "pre-pence conference" behind inter-Indonellar conference has building up Indonesia's rich yield closed duors. not been announced: One view of raw materials.
Among those arrested were the hèrk is that the Dutch, to obtain The Dutch obtained their post-former deputy of Sao Paulo, Mr. þ softlement at the roundtable war foothold in Indonesia in 1945, Camillo Branco, United Press. conférence, are not likely to re-under the provisions of the sist any demands on which the Potsdam Agreement Under this, two Indonesian factions have British forces established bridge- agreed.
heads at key cities to evacuate prisoners of war and to disarm' the Japanese.
Observants of Cebse
Fite
The Indonesian Republie was found then to be a "going con- gern, having taken
over from. Dr. Julius Van Royen, the the Japanese. Despite several chlot Dutch delegate, who made
clashes with the Re.. Republicans, the recent agreements with the publicans, who were armed with emphasised. bervie Japanece guns, the British nego- he left for Holland Isat Thursday tlated with the self-proclaimed the importance of the effective-administration
under ness of the celso fre
Soekarno 10
Ha, sald Jt Tilght determine the attitude" of the Chiléh· Parliament
10 whatever agreement
tasics.
Prezident accomplish
sought, in hdition.
the Dutch and the Re-
reached. There is high con-publicnos under the Bino-Soviet nest and denee that the cease fire will be standing together for an under-
recalled that once before vištą,,
observed unter the Re- The first cease fire agreement tions by Rusia were called to publican Prefer, Dr. Mohammed was negotiated by Lord Kilisars N. Resenin at Nanking by the Hatta, who was respins the for in all, 1946 for adjali Dr. last year's evacuation of the Re-initialling. of the Linggarjat!
Roschin
The note said the trade ac- cord was a "clear violation" of the treaty, of friendship signed in 1945 between the -Soviet--Unton-and-China,-and-
Minister, Fordion added: "The government of them
publican
Army from the Dutch- Agreement in November, a few Wang Shih-chish. China hereby strongly pro-
seized areas.
before the British forces The note pointed out that Ru tests against conclusion of thesis, for its
The latest agreement. provides were due to be withdrawn. The
The part, "agrees to give to above mentioned trade agree- China, its moral support as well for cooperation bolwben the Ro- agreement gave le facto recogni- ment and states that the USSR aid in military-supplies and forces against irregues elements vided for the creation of
regulars and the Dutch publican
the Republic tion to
In Java, government will be held res- other material resources such and bandits. The lawles
Kierlli Sumatra ond Ladura and pro- ponsible for all the conse-support to be entirely given to are thought-to include remnants Federation of Indonesian States, quences arising from the afore- the National government of of the Communist insurgents who which would be linked in union said violation of all treaty Ching."
Today's nhle assorted: "The so- Republican East Java...
last year seized several towns in with the Netherlands Kingdom obligations on the part of the
under the Dutch Crown Rouleri called Manchuria people's de USSR government. The Soviet Union
mocratic authorities constitute a announced rebellious group, attempting to conclusion of the Manchyrlan" | Aperfic pact last week.
overthrow by force the National Lovernment at Today's holo was another in | „PAGE
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Russia of which | 20
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turning of Ching and renamed Ita: raz three Eastern provhites as part over of the Japanese Kwangtung spect for China's full sovereignty Army weapons and material to the Chinese Reds and flagrant over, the three Eastern provinces
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