GIGANTIC FOREST FIRES NEAR BORDEAUX CLAIMS MORE THAN 80 VICTIMS
BRITAIN'S POLICY IN N. EAST
Britain's
Arabia,
Lendun: August 21.
Invitation
to Emir
Mansur, a of King Saud of
to visit
London next month is part of a deliberate polley of renewing British con- inets throughout the Arab world following the end of the Palestine fighting, it WAN comiterst London diplomatie quarters to- day.
Since the conference in Len- don last month of Britain's Mid
le East
distinguished
Bordeaux, August 21.
All the men in some village families died in tho great forest fires which have almost ringed Bordeaux for days, and which according to an unconfirmed report, has claimed over 80 victims.
With the fires only a few miles from Bordeaux, the winds dropped today, and tonight the 'flames were stated to be under control almost everywhere.
Previously, the fires, fanned by the winds, had
ravaged thousands of acres of timber land. Tonight villages South and South West of Bordeaux had turned their town halls into mortuarios. Most of the victims died when
trying to stop the flames spreading.
Fire Athfinur reinforcements | search of victims, most of them saved the winge of Costas when re-fighters marooned by the the flumes were within 200 yards speed of the flames or asphyxint- of the houses. In his village alone ed by the heavy smoke
which there were 38 victims.
euvers the area. The remaining fires were in the bush.
visitors from the Hashemite Several thousand fremen, some Kingdom of Ire and Jordan from Park, troops and volun- have been in London.
teers, have been fighting the blaze for three days. At its worst, the The frag Premier,
General Gre
series of outbreaks Nuri Es Said Pasha, left here to-
renched within six miles of Bor- day after a stay, during which he had a long discussion
dicaux. with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Einest Bevin..
forest and many farm buildings, It destroyed 45,000 hectares of
King Aldošlach of Jordan ar-
Hundreds
Red Cross and rived in London lust Thursday.
rescue workers were today entn- He is due to have his drst meeting, the devastated areas in
ing with Mr. Beyin tomorrow,
The official Invitation to King Ibn Stud's st is intended, it is thaught here, to show that the recent Hritish diplomatic activity. in the Middle East affairs in not directed solely to drawing ver- thin Brith Blues with the Hashemite dynasties.--Reuter,
Quirino May Call Special Session
Murder Of American Unsolved
Mumta, Angust 22. The rane-day-old murder of as American businessman, George Murray, remained unsolved. 10- day with Investigators admitting
that Wie cast difficult to crack.
Sutije,
was
extremely
chief of police in suburban San Juan where Mur- ray was killed on- August 13, said that investigators were continu- ing intensive work on the esse following all possible leads.
Manila, August 22. Press reports from Baggio said.
that President today
'T. Quirino would ralt a special session of Congress on August 31 In-const- der important mensures felt mus acted upo
sudden due to the -adjournment in May.
Among theso were the nation- at buriget, appropriations to
works and amendments to Pablle w
election law.
It was understood the spedal session inay Inst three days and may also take up the presidential
which emergency powers
were enacted prior to the outbreak of the Paciße war.-United Press,
COMING SOON AT THE
ROXY
THEATRE
Darryl F. Zanuck
prezalt
Olivia de Havilland
Snake Pit
aleg Slantag
MARK STEVENS
and
LEO GENN
́en Celeste Holm • Glenn Langan
Directed by AEXTILE LITZAK
have looked The authorities into the past (uctivities of the dushing 30-year-old Murray, in cluding alleged participation in big-scale smuggling of arms and ammunition to indonesia, apparently have found no nection between the alleged smuggling operations and the murder itself.
but
POJ-
Vinoyards Spared
The fire-awopt
Агой where Casualtion have occurred 1lra from 12 to 20 kilometres South and South West of Bordeaux in A country of rolling vineyards, heath
and pine woods. The vineyards of Barsac and Sauternes, which produce some of France's best known white wines. escaped.
In the little town of Loognan, 15 Kilometres South of Bor- deaux, and Cestas, 16 kilometrus to the Sout West, where 38 bodies were found, there are many c
country houses of Bordenux people and Chateaux belonging
yard owners.
where 22 people and several soldiers were reported missing, is only
kilometres South West of Bordeaux. There are many wealthy estates in the neighbourhood,
to
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1049.
Support For CANTONESE BY RADIO
European Highway Code
Paria, August 21. Full support for future European highway cade was announced here today by the Economic Co-operation Ad- ministration.
"If Marshall plan produc. tion goals are to be realised, Western Europeso road transport must come into its own," Mr. Rubell B. Mc. Clure, ECA
transport chlof
anid.
A four-man United Na- tions survey team In doing preparatory work on what it is hoped will be a permanent road code for Europe. Be side the - Marstall""-primei ៧· tions, Polaita, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia are taking
part in the talks over traer
Vocabulary:
382. (ma) (2)mah. 383. (p'aau) paau(2). 384. (ka) gah(1). 385. (waan) waan(1). Combinations:
BY S.K. LEE
172. (2)Mah cheh(1). 173. (2)Mah (3)Ioh. 174. Paau(2) (2)mah. 176. Gah(1) (1)yun 170. Dzau (2) gah(1). 177. (1)Panye jeeoo(3). 178, Shaang(1) yee(3), 179. Boon(3) (3)yeh.
Place name;
nemog
Lessons 37 (5)
(20) Paau(2)-(2)mah-day(2). (21) (3)Danye-(2) mah-(3) Ioh. (22)Waan(1)-dzul(2).
(23) Heung(1)-gong (2)-dzei (2), Transport and Communication: 200.
road transport in Europe. •{1}pung÷(2)yau
Russia and the Soviet zone
of Germany have not yet as- cepted an invitation to par. ticipate-Router,
Moscow's Blast At SCAP
London, August 21.
Itadio Moscow charged toy that General MacArthur ordered the dismiseni of 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 Japanese workers so American shareholders can freely plunder the Japanese people.
The broadcast, iheard in Lon- don, was based on an article in
the Moscow newspaper "Red
201.
202,
mun
(3)ng(w shik(1). (1)m-shik(1) jahti)-
'chch(1).
(2) Ngaw (3)wah: "Shik(1)," (2) Ngaw (2) taing (2)kul bay (2) (2)ngaw Jah(1) - 203. (21
204.
2010.
(3)wah: "(2)Nay
(2)you (1)pasyc-
(1)m haw(2)- (2)yee hai(2) Heung(1). gong(2) Ảnh(1)-chch(1)."
(1)yau
Ngades (3) lok.
(1)}a
206. (2)Ngaw-(3)day, gingill-
gwnw(3) Waan(1)-dzai(2), Paau(2)-(2) mah-day(2),
Heung(1)-
81(2),
207, Heung(1)-gong(2)-dzni(2) (2)yau dee(1) (2)teng (3)dzoh
208.
200.
Star." It said: "General Mac- Arthur and his Japanese puppets want to suppress labour and the progressive element in Japan and 210, smash trade unions so the Amer- ican shareholder can freely plunder the Japanese people,
TIN
211.
213.
Buried bodies lay this after- unemploym of starvation and men General Mac- hall, among them the Muyor of call
a room at Cestas' to Arthur's headquarters officially 212.
calls measures for economic Sauals. Other bodles lay covered stabilisation. In the interests of with bloukets by the roadside,
Tauble, the Wall Street magnates they waiting for Red Cross lorries to seek to establish a vast army of take them to Cestas. Among then unemployed as a Japanese source were 26 inhabitants of Canejan. of cheap labour. They want to An offleial inquiry described the smash the democratic forces in the start of the blaze to o fire Japan and to convert this country It by a forester which struck Into a buttress of reaction in the the
and man's hut
to the Far East."United Press spread to surrounding heathland, the latest in
The Bordeaux outbreaks were i serles of fres which have caused widespread devastation in many parts of South West France during the
**་
Just two months.
The Minister of the
Interio unnounced in Paris today that 60 peopic
were known to have A high-ranking intelligence
Jost their Ilves in fire-fighting officer said thus far there was no or rescue work, four were miss- evidence that could warrant ing and several others seriously murder charge. Mr. Sutilo said injured. it
may
take months before the 40 of the dead were "civilians mystery was solved. The authorl- and 20 were soldiers. All fires in tles declined to reveal the result the Gironde Department of a laboratory test on a right- under control, the ministry said. hand glove found the Murray household. The glove was tested for powder burns at the National Bureau of Investigation.-United Press.
Korean Envoy To China Leaves Pl
Sacred Relic
Of Saint In Manila
Manila, August 22.
has been venerat-
(2) teng Recon(3)-(3)dzoh hoy(2) - scen(1) (2) Leng
day (2)(snw
huf (3). (3)
(2)long. hai{2} (2) teng-(3)sheung (3)shik itor(2)-seen (1) hob(2)
(3)Shik-(1)yuen (2) maan- (1)m gwat(3).
(3)faan, (2)ngaw-(1)pung- (2)yau
(3)dzau soong(3) (2)ngaw faan (1) dzau (2)- Boon (3)-(3)ych (3)shup- deem(3).
(3)yce deem(2)-Joong(1), (2)ngaw jee(3) nan(1)-
doh(3) dzau(2)-dċem(3).
A horse.(C1. put). A surname,
To run. To gallop.
Home. Family. Domestic.
An inlet. A bay.
A carriage.
A road. (horse rund).
To race horses. A horse race.
A family,
A restaurant.
A Jicence.
Business. Trade. Midnight.
The race course. Happy Valley. The main road. Queen's Road. Wanchai.
Aberdeen. (Continued)
My friend asked me whether I
could drive a cur.
I said: "Yes,"
I asked him to let me drive
the car.
He said: "You haven't yet go
a licence.
"You cannot drive a car ta
Hong Hong”
We came down from the Peak.
We, passing through Wahenat and Happy Valley, arrived at Aberdeen.
There were some boats doing restaurant business ut Aberdeen.
Those boals were called sca
food bouts.
We caught a dinghy and arrty. ed at a sea food boat.
We had our dinner on board
the bout.
The sea food was nice and the
price was not expensive.
Having finished eating duner, my friend then escorted me back to the hotel.
11
WON twelve o'clock mid- night before I went back to the hotel.
(To be continued)
Dr Adenauer Named Federal Chancellor
Rhoendorf, Near Bonn, August 21. Conrad Adenauer, 73-year-old leader of the victorious Christian Democratic Party in last Sunday's West German Federal elections, was tonight picked as the first Federal Chancellor at a conference of party chiefs here.
The arm, enclosed in gold- The conference also proposed Professor Ludwig Erhard, Bizonal Economic Director, to be Minister of Economics.
A sacred relle of the Catholic Dr. Church, the 400-year-old right Arm of St. Francis Xavier, which arrived are
On Wednesday night from Japan via Hong Kong, was venerated by thousands of de- At the village of Le Puy, 31 vous Manilans in an impressive charred bodies, including those processions yesterday. of two
or three children, lay heaped together whore they encrusted
case, had been trapped and burned ed in various churches in Manila оро choked-some with their and its environs since Its arrival. hands at their mouths.
Praying Catholics lined Ave deep along the streets of the Eastern The ruined forest lands will be section of Manila when the pro- unft for replanting for six or cession
passed yesterday. seven years,
The relie will be flown to Zam- In village balls where the boanga today, on the first leg of dead are laid out. the custom of a five-day tour of the Southern holding a "Chapelle Ardente", and Central Philippines.
to an Irish the Philippines, it will be taken. observed, Candiles to Goa In Portuguese India, the tables and thence to the United States and past praying. Gnally to its home in the Church of Gessu in Rome-United Press.
Was
something similar Wake. were it along 10
mourners re Reuter.
Manila, August 22. The Korcan Ambassador China, Shim Suk Woo, arrived in Manila last night aboard a North- west Airlines plane, en route to Canton, where he will discuss details of the proposed Pacifc Union with Nationalist leaders.
em-
The Korean envoy is to plune for Hong Kong this morn- ing and deplored the fact that he would unable to see President Quirino or Carlos Romulo, union planner, due to lack of time.
Mr. Quirino was in Baguio and Mr. Romulo was believed also to have gone there.
Mr. Shin was met at the air- port by a Chinese Embassy off- elul, taken to a Manila hotel and then 10 the Chinese Embassy, where he conferred with the Chinese Ambassador, Chen Chih Ping.
Speaking through an inter- proter, Mr: Shim praised Mr. Quirino for. Initiating the Pacific
project and and
China saw
'sald
the
Котеа
need
union
for immediato es- tablishment of a union to check the expansionist policy of inter- national Communism United Press.
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and went on record which they expected to form a champions of free enterprise. Coalition Government, for the office of President of the лен
A resolution stated that the West German Federal Govern- conference regarded the election ment.
victory as a mandate not only for the Christian Democratic philo In the day the Party sophy but for the free market Jeaders declared themselves policy over the ideas of Socialist clearly against any compromise | planning.-Reuter.
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