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TAX INCREASE BILL PASSED TITO DANCES THE KOLA Sino-Soviet
New S'hai
evacuation
plan
San Francisco, March 29.
Mr. George L. Killon, Pre- sident of American President Lines, and today the APL had received 1 report that the Chinese People's (Communist) Republic agreed yesterday to a new plan of evacuating 1,000 foreign nationals from Shang- hal.
Mr. Killion said he understood Ahe new arrangements called for using a ship owned by the China Navigation Company. He did not give the source of his informa- tion and suld he had no further detalla.
Debate on Budget in the Legislative Council NEW HOUSING SCHEME PROPOSED
A bill providing for increased direct taxation was passed at yester- day's debate on the Budget at the Legislative Council meeting. The Financial Secretary, Mr., C. G. S. Follows, indicated that the sugges- tion of increasing revenue by instituting a business registration tax would be accepted. It requires further examination, he said. Government, he added, still holds the view that revenue for the coming year should be at least HK$204,000,000. This figure, he said, will
bo in the final print of the Estimates.
of
Additional consideration re- Regarding education, he said | tribullon towards the cost garding the method by which that the Director of Education has reinforcements should not be on The APL liner General W. H. the additional HK$12,000,000 a 10-year-plan designed to solve such a scale as to deter appro Gordon left Yokohama four days should be produced will be the educationally unscund system clably much needed development ago for Honolulu after evacua-given, he said.
of two sessional schools and the in the Colony. The possibility of Introducing a new procedure in shortage of tion plana feli through. The The Financial Secretary, assured
of places, evacuation had been arranged by Members of the Legislative Coun-
respect of service requisitioning will also be raised in the course The State Department and APL cil that Government has
of the discussions in London. But Red officials refused to per-sidered very carefully all the Bug init two shallow draft military-gestions for
"On the question of the pay- Indirect
taxation
ment of compensation in respect premises requisitioned connection with the increase in the garrison, I am happy to be
con-
pe vessels to enter Shanghal which have been made and many harbour to terry passengerato
more in addition. the Gordon.
Mr. Killion said should tho Gordun again be needed, it prob- ably would continue to Honolulu and discharge passengers before returning to the Orlent.
of
Some, he added, are worth pro- ceeding with but the yield is com- baratively trivial.
Mr. R.R. Todd, disclosed that u The Acting Colonial Secretary, small inter-departmental commit-
Hong Kong has school
It is probable, he added that
accom-
that obviously the more places the modation for ali real residents, but
will come into the Colony to take Colony provides the more people
advantage of them.
Housing problem
of
In
Uniformed Marshal Josip Broz Tito is soon dancing the Kola in the little Yugoslav town
el Kola during.hla recent pre-election tour. His companions sing as they dance—A.P. Photo.
Soviet troops bring new life
to S'hai's Moscow
able to state that it has now been Russian troops, both men and womon, have be-
also have to be
agreed that compensation should be paid in respect of new build- ings roughly on the basis of: Referring to the housing pro- | rateable value. The incidence of Both Mr. Killion and Mr. tee, under the Chairmanship of the blem, Mr. Todd said that proposals insurance and repairs will how- Eugene D. Flaherty, chief Sollettor-General, is now investi-are under consideration for devot-ever naturally operations for the APL, denied gating measures to effect a reducing part of the balance of Hong taken into consideration.
heard in the
allocation Orient tion in the number
fram rumour
of persons Kong's
the that the Gordon had been ordered serving prisons sentences.
Colonial Development, and Wel- to turn back.
fare Fund to a housing scheme tor the lower-paid members of the community.
No arrangements
in Hong Kong, an official of Butterfield and Swire told As- sociated Press last right that he could neither confirm nor deny the report that a China Naviga... | tion Company ship was due to evacuate foreign nationals from Bhanghal.
Sichang captured by Reds
San Francisco, March 29. The capture of Sichang, last base of organised Nationalist resistance on the mainland
Work is already in progress on ja pilot scheme capable at con- |siderable expansion if the need | for increased accommodation con-
tinues
The Governor, Sir Alexandér, who spoke last, thanked all mem- bers, both official and unofficial. and said their contribution had been both useful and helpful to
Government.
Early payment
"It is understood that the Military Authorities hope make payments on account in the very near future and steps are being taken to amend the Defence (Compensation) Res 'guistians to bring them?- Into fine with the scale of payment
now agreed upon.
Any
gun to make their appearance on the streets of Shanghai, recent arrivals from that city told the "China Mail" yesterday.
hour of the day a few hundred of them may be seen strolling along Avenue Joffre, once termed Moscow Boulevard, because of the. large number of Russian establishments which functioned there under former emigre managements.
Boulevard
Onlookers shot in robbery
Three onlookers, who were watching six robbers rob the These cafes, restaurants and and the Chase Bank, have been Tuong Kee Goldsmith shop at dance halls began to close inken over, they added,
from 340 Nathan Road when the
lasi
and
ber.
in
agreement on Sinkiang
Moscow, March 29.
A Sino-Soviet agreement setting up joint stock com- panies for the development of oil and non-ferrous metal re- Cources in North Western China province of Sinklang was signed here on Monday, it was announced today.
The agreement was signed by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrel Vyshinsky, and the Chin- ese Ambassador, Mr. Wang Chi- halang.
It provides
*Sino-
fox
Joint
Boviet prospecting and develop- ment of the mineral-rich pro- vinco which borders on the Soviet Union. Production and profits will be shared equally between the Soviet Union and The
the
Peking. Government. presidency and management in both the all and metal companies to be established will be given in turns to China and Russia.
broadcast A Radio Moscow heard in London said the agree- ment was for 30 years. The radio sald under the agreement two companies will be set up: an oil company to prospect, produce and reling oil and gas, and a metal company to prospect and produce non-ferrous metals.
Alternate control
The capital, control and pro- fits will be divided equally, and the companies will be managed alternately by the contracting parties with Chinois chair- man and a Soviet vice-chairman for the first three years of the agreement.
Moscow Radio said the agree ment is for the purpose of "foster- ing the development of Chinese Industry and strengthen- national ing the economie co-operation be- tween
the USSR and the Chineza People's Republic."
The mineral-rich province of Sinktang borders on the Soviet Afghanistan. It is known to have Union, Outer Monogolia, India and depoells of gold, tungsten, molyb
zinc and copper wolfram,
denum,
oil.
Sinklang is
Acheson, asserted the Russians are seeking to attach to the Soviet Union. The charge later was den- led by Mr. Vyshinsky and leaders of the Peking Government.
In no case, was, the White Russian toning dono arbitrarily, but-re-second floor verandah population started quitting sidents knew when they were night, were shot when the
Is one of four Chinese Conghal when the fall of the antihey would "pare some shop's watchman fired a shot-provinces which the United States city to the Reds became in-room" to vacate the affected pre- gun blast after the fleeing rob- Secretary of State Mr. Dean "So long as the garrison re-evitable.
mises in good time, mains at anything like its pre-
conditions Describing
They are Lau Chang-chi, 40, who In the last three weeks they
Shanghal today, one arrival said was shot in the head; Lau Hɔ, 30 to rely on requisitioning. The have blossomed up anew,
to a growing they were so bad that the Sky who was shot in the mouth, and possibility of release is, however, are now catering constantly kept under review but clientele made
Terrace Ballroom, on the 14th Chin Ho-mul, 18, who was shot in Sovlet up of
floor of the Park Hotôi,
const-the chin. the Military Authorities naturallytroopers and women's auxiliary cannot commit themselves to a corps.
dered itself lucky if it could sell
They firm date in any particular case.
half a dozen cups of tea during toon Hospital last night
were released from Kow- ON OTHER PAGES:
after Page 2 The Russians are dressed Ilke
а tea-dance
treatment for superficial injuries. session: Virtually troops, one goes out at night. and carry a lot of equipment. (Continued on Pages 3, 11 & 12)
Motor car owners have been so They are usually well-armed, heavily taxed that almost no one and patrol the streets in groups of-two- and threes.
the Chinese Communist
He added that the Company was willing to
co-operato in
sent level, it will be necessary any American-sponsored evacuation plan, but that as far as he knew, no definite arrangements had been made with the Shanghai officials.
The American, Consul-General in Hong Kong, Mr. Karl Rankin, said last night that he had heard "many rumours" of the General Gordon turning back to Shanghai, but the Consulate had no informa tlon to confirin such reports.
One shipping official pointed out that no China Navigation Com- pany ship could handle 1,000
UvRcucc
He said he hoped that the and headquarters of General Financial Secretory will prove Hu Tsung-nan, who directed wrong in his estimates, but that guerilla operations there, was Government cannot reckon on a
by reported today Peking substantial surplus, Radio.
Dealing with the question of the The broadcast, quoting a des- denial claims, the Governor gave patch of the Communist
news the assurance that no final se tle- agency, sald occupation ofthement will be reached at the Lon- city was completed on Monday.
The Nationalists fed to Sichang don Conference without prior re- after the evacuation of Chengtu ference to the Legislative Coun- In December,
General Hu had fled to Hainan by plane and
cil
The Attorney General, Mr. J.B. his troops were Grimin, referred to a muggestion being pursued Eastward, accord-for an amendment to the Land- An official of the American|ing to the agency report,
lord and Tenant Ordinance to President Lines In Hong Kong, Sichang, one of the Western-
-make permissible for a landlord Mr. J. Berryman, sold that he had most cliles of China, no information that the General among the foothills of the Hima-
turn
Press
nesties
and a tenant t enter into an premises agreement regarding which are within the protection of
Clash with terrorists in Malaya
no
drives a car nowadays. The ar- rivals estimated- that there are no
Since their arrival has been only recent, they are the object more than 200 cars on: Shanghai and they are owned streets, of much curiosity on the part of mostly by foreigners-heads of the Shanghal population, the banks, all companies and large sources said.
fraternity,
firms who continue to live well however, there has been no sign because they receive monthly re-
To accommodate these solmittances from abroad. diers large blocks of houses and apartments have been comman- Singapore, March 29.
crushed deered. Many owners, Police and troops are today by taxation, were only too glad following up yesterday's skirto surrender their property
Church groups query Paking Correspondence
The six robbers, who made away with more than HK$10,000 Page 3 worth of gold rings and watch chaine, disarmed the guard at & Page 4 p.m." last night,”
One
Carried grenade
of the
Reminders
Barclay's Bridge
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Nehru and BE Aula Marshall
Plan
• Page 7
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Churchill calls for united Europe,
six carried Japanese-type hand grenade.
The shopkeeper was ordered to Page 8 lie on the shop's floor, while the
robbers ransacked the premises ginesting Pigy
Pressure for Jap treaty
Electricity
My sparse
:
for 10 minutes.
Ini
Electricity allocation
has been
When they left the shop, they
Paga
the
so drastically reduced that no throw down the watchman's shot- of in, and entered waiting taxi- household Burns lamp
16 cabs on Sai Guon street, larger denomination, “than candlepower. To do so would
Gordon had received orders to re-layas in Bikeng der to reach the Ordinance on the basis that mish at Jementah in the Sega- order to escape further exploito-
Province West to Shanghai-Associated of Szechuan.
.In Bichang the Reds had to cross rugged country inhabited savage Lolo tribesmen.
MANILA MEETING ON HK CONSULATE
Manila, March 20.
The Philippine Cónsul in Hong Kong, Mr. Jose V. Rodriguez, arrived today and conferred with the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Felino Neri, ertain matters involving con- bular functions Kong Consulate.
on
KMT underground
such premises had become de- mat area of Johore, in which tion. by
controlled.
The Hotel Pacific, one of five terrorists were killed and most imposing structures along two Gurkhasone lance-cor-Bubbling Well Road, opposite the poral and one rifleman-were Race Course, is being taken over seriously wounded, when from April i. 'It will house So- troops contacted terrorist vlet officials. gang about 100 strong.
Chinese Communist offiolata In Shanghal have uncovered an underground Kuomintang (No- tionalist) milltary organisation functioning aver three pro- vinces, Moscow Radio said yes- terday, according to Amoolated
Prees. Quoting a Tais despatch from Shanghat, it said the we troops of belonging to the "storm troops
He said he expected a new bill, Incorporating the suggestion at an amendment, to be published soon.
MR. FOLLOWS
Only one terrorist dead body was found, the other four having been carried away by the terro rists themselves.
At airfields
The watchman picked up the
expose the user to no light at gun, and fired one shot after the all for 25-daya-a month.
Chinese, owners of radio sota have been, warned not to listen to broadcasts from abroad, and so many spies abound that no ono dares tö contravéne this sug The arrivals said that a few gestion Only foreigners, on the thousand Flusslan troops are
quartered in the Lunghwa and plea that being foreign they aru justifiably entitled to. Isten to Klangwan airfields, where In broadcasts from, foreign areas,
are free from interference aircraft
this issue.
recent weeks have arrived.
Bevlet
On
Radio stations In Shanghal no longer play foreign muile except
Mr. C.G.S. Follows, Financial Secretary, said: "T will start with the question of denial claims and payment in respect of With effect from today, a dusk requisitioned premises, which to to dawn curfew has been imposed of the Hong
gether with the proposals for in the town area of Kota Tingi Mr. Neri gald Mr. Rodriguez the frontier area of Klangau- Increased taxation were the matin Johore, about 20 miles North
The whole strip of explained certain matters affect- Szechwan-Anhwel." were arrest-ters which received the greatest East af Johore Bahru, the state Rond, one of the most exclusive ing consular work in Hong Kong, ed and documents ordering their attention in
the course of the capital. which had been the object of anti-Communist activities scized, debate.
Everyone must stay Indoors in residental areas, has been com
mandeered to provide accommo- newspaper criticism.
The report said those arrested "When I am in London, I will this period. unicas in possession dation for Soviet officials und * Mr. Neri, Rodrigues and Ac-"were found guilty of conducting certainly preas strongly for the of signed permite from the police. their wives.
For some days the Nationaliste ting Immigration Commissioner | disruptive activity against the early settlement of these denial Two terrorist camps, one ac- Proportles owned by Sir Vin have, refrained, from bombing the Jose P. Bengson will hold a con- Chinese People's Republic," but claims and I will represent the commodating 80 people and the tor Sassoon, Sir Elly Kadoorle's ference soon on matters pertain did not indicate their punishment views which Uneficial Members other 70 were found and destroyed family, Mr. Ellis Hayim, Mr. w. heart of the city-attesting to the ing to the entry of Chinese-United Press and Associated have expressed both in regard to by police jungle, squads. East of J. Hawkings, ・ Judge
fact, that the authorities in Tal- visitors from Hong Kong--|| Press.
the Shanghal United Press,
The Weather
AL-0900 OMT ER SAI, TIKETS a moderė,
ate 'saterolone
overs Manchuria (and.
X Japan, with a weak ridge, extending
C. 5.
Russian music and ;, the pro grammes are so heavily loaded down with propaganda that no one cares to listen to them.
these claims and that the con- Kota Tinggi yesterday — Reuter, Franklin, the Hong Kong Bank wan have heeded the appeal of
Thailand says farewell to boy King
Ananda in colourful funeral ceremony
to
bomb densely populate not
-populated areas. On the other hand, Lunghwa und Kiangwan airfields,"", the arrivals said, have been put out of com- mission for at feart ab months, ** Taxation is killing.” Industry. For goods that are not sold shop owners must pay a "No Sale" tax. For goods that are sold they Bangkok, March 29.. Shortly after dawn the umni, cover- į torso contrasting vividly with the jewels, was, raised by pulley to must pay a "Salcable”; tax, í In With the spectacle and a marionoured dress of
class La Bhanghal the Chinesen, ved Fallopian hore of a medieval age; Thailand placed on a three-axle calsion 40 marchers, the shining like bumished cold every way, the arrivals mid the
and Fallspised, and is sold farewell today to its feet high,
• Then came the calsson, a nine- against the backdrop of Bangkok's belog ruthlessly put out of exist „shallow depruanlin, azpikes se ha défilipe
The “procession was brik-tiered silken umbrella.
brella protecting wondrous temple Ing: over the Eastern Sekutaketano tragic boy King, Ananda.
itant pageant of colour, atṛaakad It
Then, slowly, the silver screens Thousands of Chinese - white- Today's Forecast:--Light En Winds More than half «^million sub-
with black, achoing the sadness
Behind
ching walked King Phùmt, were shut and the golden curtains collar workers are facing starva- „Parily cloudy, with; nonnial for Imirty. Jects of this colour-dreached king-
phon, tail, for | Blamps. Two drawn
Uon, because they have exhaust *morning. WATER.
dom surged against police lines to of a sailor.
First cunie the court heralds,
-King Phumiphon was to returned their savings. Conditions will pages kept pace, taking turn sombre silence at the sounding funeral music on conch 1: holding a parsial, jover him; later to light symbolically, the become really desperate by mid- fated monarch's funeral ma
shell and trumpet.
Drums
The Royal Family walked be- funeral pyre But the actual
If there lavno Ananda Swan slain
lain mysteriously | bed slowly, four years ago, was that i Then came the bearers of the Multitudes walled throughout a royal regalia. They marched in star-filled right for sedimipse of mournful dance, carrying the
They swords
parasol, royal fan, and wanted alag to see their new other araphernalia of the late
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hind the King Then came the cremation will come at night, with ment,
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dressed in format. Aniranje,
the
four-hou
prices.
are, much", "thosper in boomedyone Shanghai than, In Hong Kong, no the hugoli sam them because no ong
In mourning has any
racing taxis, hitting the three persons on the verandah.
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