HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
NEW PEACE TREATY MAKES ONE MILLION IN CAMBODIA AND LAOS - THAI CITIZENS
BANGKOK, Apr. 10-One million persons in Cambodia and «. Laos have become citizens of Thailand as a result of the Franco- .
to Thai estimates Thai peace conference at Tokyo, according here. The government at Bangkok has already attacked the pro- blem of bringing these new citizens within the framework of 1 the Thai constitution.
H.K. JANUARY
FINANCES
The Colony increased its
080.
assets
FINANCE & GENERAL
PHILIPPINES. LOOM BIG IN
U.S. DEFENCE PLANS
WASHINGTON, Apr. 9.-President Roosevelt's recent action in January, according to the fin setting aside Suble bay in the Philppines as a restricted area
today. ancial statement released
both for aircraft and surface vessels was interpreted by military from $22,804,344 at the beginning
leaders observers today as meaning that defense
regard the of the year to $23.668,355. at the strategle position of the Thrippines with Increasing gravity,” end of January.
Suble bay is now ranked with craft are barred except with the Revenue in the month was $6. Pearl harbour and Kaneohe hay, aavy's explicit permission. 382,591; expenditure was $5,498,-on Oahu island, as among the few Experts sald this impited the The ministry of the interior The Thai constitution establish-
completely restricted defense areas emphasis on the present impor- tance of the bay rather than ap- plans to establish an Indo-China ed a parlament, half of whose
The revenue for 13 months end-of the United States.
prehension
or over" sabotage es- SUBIC BAY affairs department to carry out membership Is chosen by the peo-
plonage which, as a rule, mc- the job of administering and de pic directly and the other half by ed January 31, 1941. was $59,267,-
The strategic importance
tivated such restrictions in other veloping the new territory as soon the king, or, in the present case. 070, which was $13,000,000 more
places. as the permanent treaty is signed by the cound of regency. with than the corresponding preceding Subic bay was brought to the at- expendi-tention of defence officials when at Tokyo and the Franco-Thal the approval of the government, period. Corresponding
$5,679,385 and the navy and war departments be- frontier demarcation commissions The government, therefore, holds ture figures were
gan making defence allocations for have finished their work along the the balance of power in parlia- $40,973,917.
the Philippines, including projects Each changvad elects one ment. new order,
for the renovation" of the Dewey drydock in Olongapo and fuel fac!- lities at Sangley point,
Returning to the revenue "for Jan-
In the meantime, a commission representative, or one for each last January, compared with is conducting administration of 200,000 population. At present territory in Indo-Ching occupied there are 98 appointed members of by the Thal forces in their drive parliament and an equal number Into the French colony, before the lof elected members, armistice.
ALL PRIVILEGES According to authorised quarters here, the inhabitants of the ter ritory returned to Thailand by the Tokyo agreement will be given all' the privileges granted to Thai citizens under the constitution adopted in 1932...
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE
uary 1940, an increase of over $200,000 was brought in by Fees of Court or Office, etc, water
re-
a
venue was down $130,000. Post Once was down $40,000, and
Was Although woman suffrage pro new item War Revenue vided by the constitution, no wo presented-by $1,178,561, -
EXPENDITURE man has ever yet won a scat in parliament. Several. have tried, however, Liberals complain that Un the expenditure side of last
Military experts interpreted this
NEW BRITISH, AMERICAN
to mean the US military plans LOANS TO CHINA
Envisioned the possibility of emer
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuter) gency 192 of Philippine naval keshore facilities at least for the-Agreements granting China a Asiatic fleet if not for other units. new British credit of £5,000,000 to support the Chinese dollar .were USE OF CAVITE
signed in Washington on Friday. While no major projects" have
The British Embassy announcing
the
It is difficult to overcome the feel- January's accounts, compared with bean announced which would per the agreement says that Britain ing against women openly particl-the previous January, some $30,-mit the conclusion that the navy decided in September to make the pating in politics. Historically.
000 more were spent on charitable contemplated the use of Cavite or credit available but negotiations These quarters said it is difficult
however, the wives of Thai kings services, $80,000 more on the Medl-Olongapo as base for larger feet were necessary on technical mea-i sections, the entire disposition has sures to carry the decision into to estimate the number of people and some have had over 100 at
cal Department, $44,000 more on within the new Thai territories be-ore time-have played a part in the Police Force. $80,000 more
been to consider the Philippines as effect. an active factor in Pacific defence cause large numbers of Cambo
politics for centuries,
the P.WD., $200,000 more on the
schemes. dians and Laos have evacuated
An extraordinary session of par-water-works. The public debt
Most of the expenditures for pro- into French territory to escape. Thal rule, while others have enter-llament will be convened for the jumped from $196,000 to nearly jects have been relatively on short
ratification of the
permanent half a million, Pensions were UP range work which can be realized peace treaty as soon as it is signed from $247,287 to $343,828.
within a short period, in Tokyo. an authoritative source revealed.
ed the new That" area to escape the French.
Thai citizens have had a hand in the election of minor officials for centuries. Villagers elect their own' chlets, or Pu-yal-han. The
TWO DECREES Following the ratification, two chiefs then choose a commune of royal decrees will be issued, it was elders (Kam-nan) to carry out said. The first will establish the the administration of the villagers, new territories officially as chang- This system is traditional in Laos vads, giving them legal standing and Cambodia, also, and has been under the constitution. The second
continued by the French to faci will provide for the election of vi- HONGKONG
late local government.
lage chiefs and changvad repre- sentatives DIVISIÓN OF THAI
to parliament. For Thailand is divided into change- each representative named by the vads (provinces) with subdivisions people of the new areas, the gov-
will The changvad ernment
appoint another. called amphurs, governors and amphur commis- thus keeping representation of the slomers are appointed by the people and the government equal. ministry of the interior, of which The first session of parliament at at present the premier, Major Gen. which the new changvads will be Luang Pibu Songgram, is head.represented is expected to be the This system Insures Bangkok its next, ordinary session, which con- place as the fountainhead of gov-venes next September to debate
the budget.
ernment.
A MIRACLE NEW AMERICAN
OF SURGERY
Men and women can be made taller by a new miracle of sur-
AEROPLANE
NEW YORK, April 27 (Reuter)-
A new American plane called the
gery. Others, who once limped Republic
Thunderbolt" with a
painfully, because infantile paraighting celling of 40,000 feet will
lysis, nr
other disease left thein soon be coming on the assembly lines of the Republic Aviation with a shrunken leg, may now
Corporation's plant on Long Is- walk, and play with normal ease, thanks to a miracle of surgery that lands, says the New York "Daily
Nex
The plane
nas the
Cimensions
actually restores the length of the deformed leg.
This new operation, used at the of a light bomber and its fire pow-. Hospital for Joint Diseases in er is superior to any Europe single
scater fighter. New York City, employs an In- genious instrument which controls The Thunderbolt is powered with are stretching process, thing a 2,000 horse-Dower air-cooled en- heretofore impossible; for the sur- gine and, is officially designated, geon, cannot stretch a bone, 'he can No. 47.
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only cut it. The new bone tissue The Assistant Under-Secretary which gives the added length is for War recently described it as
the produced by nature..
The bones usually severed are saw.””. the fibula and tibia--the lone bones of the lower leg, Obilque length that is to be added to the
"sweetest thing you ever
cuts are made. longer than the show that the new bone tissue is leg, so that when it is later able to support the patient's stretched the sections of bone will weight... Then the wires are with- not entirely lose contact. Then drawn from the bone, a simple four short pieces of stiff plano wire procedure done without anesthetle: are driven at, right angles through The whole operation consuraes only the bone, two above the cuts and six weeks. two below.
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So far, the operation has been performed only to overcome de-
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
BRACELIKE MECHANISM While the patient is still under formity. but nothing would pre- anesthesia, the leg is placed in the vent its being used on a normal stretching instrument, a bracelike person desiring to increase his mechanism with upright arms on height and willing to undergo the each side. The wires protruding necessary operation horizontally from the leg are made fast in these arms, and the patient put to bed. The wound" "is per- mitted to heal for five or six days before the stretching process is begun. Then, by means of a screw action in the Instrument, the, severed bones are gradually drawn apart. A sixteenth of an inch is the most the bones can be moved.. In one day: This gradual separa- tion can be made in most cases without any pain.
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The agreement doubles amount of sterling guaranteed by the British Treasury under the China Stabilisation Act of 1939 to check fluctuations in the Chinese dollar exchange rate.
MONDAY, APRIL 28. 1941. PAGE 9
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The Ministry of Aircraft Production in Britain recently paraded for inspection for the first time some of the military. From the spectator's types of aircraft coming from America.. point of view the performance was impressive, according to the air correspondent of the News Chronicle, who witnessed the parade of the planes, all of which took part in a mock battle.
SHARE QUOTATIONS by Board to be set up by die United States was sending a very by, brunt-nosed monoplanes. The
The United States and China War expenditure at $1,352,656,
FOCAL PART -
"closely parallel" and Immigration Department $35,-
Subic bay, which plays a focal have signed 065 were new items, while Public part in the entire Philippine de agreement establishing the Sino- Works Extraordinary rose from $10,-fence scheme, now becomes a mill-American Stabilisation Fund on 000 in January 1940 to $3,730,280 tary area from which all private similar lines.
This involves the purchase by A contest between an American Two types of planes which at- the United States of £12,500,000 Curtiss Tomahawk, which has per-tracted considerable attention were and the formed so well in Africa, and athe Brewster Buffalo worth of Chinese currency.
Both Funds are to be managed British Hurricane showed that the Grumman Martiet, Both are tub- Chinese Government and consist. efficient brother to the British Brewster, Buffalo is another fighter for the RAF. but the Grumman ing of three Chinese, one Amert-Hurricane and Spitfire fighters.
Describing the Tomahawk, the Martlet, is for the Royal Navy. car and one. Briton.
One bomber type completed the correspondent stated that it was a development of the single-seat d'splay. This was the Douglas
monoplane. radial-engined fighter which was twin-engined
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