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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1946.
U.S. Army Surplus EXPANSION OF BRITISH
Stores On Way
To Shanghai
Some US$500,000,000 worth of United States army surplus stores of various kinds, recent- ly bought by the Chinese Gov- ernment, is expected to boglu arriving in Shanghai in the mid- dle of November.
The goods, scattered over several Islands in the Pacific, include trucks and other vehicles and materials for bulding pontoons, airfields, godowns and houses.
Shanghai
ernment
L
with a branch office at Guam ----- Reuter.
EXPORT TRADE
THE Board of Trade's review of British overacas trade, just Issued, is of particular interest for two reasons. In the first place, it demonstrates the steadiness with which the country's exporta have been expanding since the begin- ning of this year. At the end of the first quarter, they stood at 84 per cent of the 1938 volume rising to 98 per cent in the second quarter and to 104 per cent (provisional estimate) in the third quarter.
of
raw
One
The
announcement
Commons Statement] CONCERN OVER
On Return Of Malayan Planters
London, Oct. 28-"It is probable
STRENGTH OF SOVIET ARMY
London, Oct. 27.—Diplomatic that all who are eligible for free circles here are trying to explain return passages to Malaya will be
offered accommodation in ships re-away the concern caused by turning before December," declared former Prime Minister Winston the Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Churchill's question in the House Creech Jones, answering a question of Commons last Wednesday in the House of Commons to-day
their
Ball
55
Poland 25 divisions.
The
· ពង
about free return passages to Mainya about the strength of the Soviet for planters and their wives.
Army stationed outside Soviet Secondly, it shows that this being nearly five ilmes the 1930
Russia which Mr Churchill "Where good reason can be shown steady rise is shared to a re- average.
such estimated at 200 divisions. markable degree by a high per- exported in the third quarter was
The number of new motor ears for inability to accept any
offer, the question
of providing They will bo transported to
Inter dale .wili Several papers to-day also dealt different centage by two large vessels
manu- 20.020, or almost double 1938 ex-free passage at n
receive sympathetic consideration, with the comparative strength of barrowed by the Chinese Govern-factured goods. The significance ports for the period. Figures for ment. The capnelly of the two ships of this latter development is that preceding quarters were 6.770 and but refusal without adequate reason armed forces among the Dig Three. offered will According to the papers the figure of accommodation is suld to be 20,000 tons a month.
15.430. it confirms the earoful,co-
naturally entall forfeiture of claims of 200 divisions does not constitute Tu e
expedite shipment of the stores,
of the most interesting returns to free passage." he said.
any really alarming factor. the Board of Supply- Chinese Gov-ordinated planning which lies is that for exports of new ships.
disposal of the probable 200 divi- orgulation-has estab- behind the British export drive, The figures of 5,000 to 0,090 and
Sir Dasi Neven Spence (Con- Klons, It is believed, might be
00 Germany follows:
divisions. shed a storage and transportation planning which provides for 30,000 tons for the three quarters servative) hnd naked if the Colonial
divisions, Finland 10 department In the Mariana Islands, equitable distribution of man-show that Britain's big shipbuilding Secretary was aware that his decl- 20
programme is
beginning to show slon that free return passages would now
divisions. ihia not be available to planters and power and for purchase and results.
However, utilisation of
week that the tonnage How essential
returning to being their
merely engaged in occupation and materials along lines ensuring the third quarter was close to on Government, was causing organiscul on a war fooling.
built in United Kingdom shipyards after December 31, except in Malaya two-thirds of the Soviet Army is 1.- circumstances approved by the administration work and 19 nut the maximum industrial output: 900,000 tons--50 per cent of world:
Furtherraure, it is said that Machinery exports, for example, merchant shipbuilding of which 20 great anxiety in those planters and which are now 110 per cent of the per cent is scheduled for export, is a the wives who had not yet been Soviet division is smaller than either
to return able
because of their the American or British division. average 1038 volume, have risen from pointer to the prominent part dis
inablity
to And 95,500 Lons
re-Therefore 200 divisions might mean In the first quarter to industry will be taking in the na-health,
employment, or because of lack of only 1,500,000 men 118,700 tons in the second quarter tional export drive. and 127,400 tons in he flitrd. Ship- Britain is also expanding experts accommodation.
He was asked whether he would vents of agricultural innchinery, in of other type of transport-loc- particular, have spared
the motives.
the third quarier. give an assurance that this last nine months, those for the last these exports nearly doubled those woude extended, in all reasonable
of the second quarter and represented cases.-Reuter. quarter-15,300
more than three times the 1938 average.
The value of electrical goods is 1938 Agures.
Is too early to make While it given as £7,000,000, £8,800,000 and £9,800,000 the
for three quarters, forecast for British export trade bringing shipments to the new high during the last quarter of this year. recurd of three times the 1938 it is possible at least to reckon with figures. Allowing for the rise in prices, the volume was higher by about 75 per cent.
LESE MAJESTE CASE
Hirohito Accused of Eating
Too Much Food
Tokyo, Gel. 28 (UP).-The Tokyo District Court prosecutor to-day de- manded 10 yours! imprisonment against Matsalaro Matsushima, Com- munis, charged with lese majeste because he carried a placard in the hunger demonstration last May in which be allegedly sarcastically as- sailed Emperor
or Hirohito.
The placard carried an imperial rescript" saying the Emperor ate to his heart's content but the people should dle of starvation.
tons--being
over
threefold Inercase on
n
very favourable start. According, to the Board of Trade, present in- dications are that October experis may approach the record figure of 120 per cent of the
18yo which was altained igure year.
Exports of radio sets have risen Itom 32,000 in the first quarter to 74,000 in the second and 102,000 in the third quarter, the Inst
UNDULY
GRANDIOSE
FUNERAL
1938 volume,
URANIUM DEPOSITS
IN TANGANYIKA
Kan Inumaru, chief of the General Affairs Buremi of the Imperial Household Ministry, appearing as a witntes, denied that food was wasted In the paince kitchen as charged by Communist Party members. He sald: "As for, as I know the Emperor's food is extremely simple and is not different from the general people." The defence counsel referred to a
London, Oct. 28.-British regret at Dar es Salaam, Oct. 28.-Specimens Gallup poll saying that Americans
the "unduly grandlose funeral given of uraniun, the essential Ingredient of now Kenerally consider the Emperor to John Rallis, former quisling pre- the atomic bomb, have been found no better than the common peopic mier of Greece under German oc- in Ulugura Mountains in Tanganyika, under democratic Japan and, there- fore, the charge against the defend-cupation, who died on Saturday, was the Chief Inspector of Mines for the
expressed by a Foreim Office spokes- territory, stated to-day. ant should be dismissed:
man to-day.
He was replying to questions from Africans
us to their mining rights in Nallis, who was deprived of his Tanganyika. Certain minerals such nationality in 1944 by King George of; ns radioactive substances, diamonds the Hellenes, died of cancer and hin and salt, He told them, were under funeral, according to Athens reports strict Gos ment control. was attended by several hundred Africans were free to carry out Right-wing politicians. In May last mining operations on exactly the same year, Rallis was sentenced to life footing us Europeans or Asiatics. imprisonment by a special court. Reuter. Reuter.
MOROCCO'S PETITION
Abolition of System Of Spanish Protection
Tangier, Oct. 27-The National Reform Party of Morocco lo-ciny tent п cable to Dr Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Na- tions, asking the United Nations to! abolish the system of Spanish, pro- tection of Morocco.
ADRIFT IN CHANNEL
STUTTGART ARRESTS
dale
FRENCH FOOD CRISIS PLEA BY PREMIER
Paris. Oot. #7.-It is forecast that Paris will next week live less thun one quarter of the meat needed to provide everybody with the official ra tion of 300 grammes,
1. Bidault. in his broadcast at peal last night, asserted that there were enough potential food supplies In France to assure every citizen Just share.
250,000 of its tropps in the Far East, The Soviet Union is also stationing At the end of the war the Russians had mobiilsed an estimated 12,000,-
000 men or approximately the núme as the Amerlenns mobilised. Since Russians VJ-Day the number of demobilised was estimated at 7,000, 000. Americans demobilised 1,000,000 and British 3,000,000. As 4 results Soviet Jussia now maintains about
5,000,000 within its own border. while America has 3,000,000 and Britain 170,000 men.--Central News.
Yorkshire Post Estimale Leeds,. Oct. 28 (UP)—The York- shire Post military cor-respondent cafimated 10-day that Russia maintains an army of 360 divisions totalling 3,000,000 men distributed as follows:
Germany 82 divisions, Poland 15, Rumania 25, Bulgaria eight, Hungary 10, Austria 16, Yugo-Slavia one, Czecho-Slovakda one, Baltic
and Binck Sen 30, Russian territories 171 making the European total 180.
Efforts towards a free mutiset foodstuffs, he said, had restilted in Immediate and big Increases prices. In a few days the price of potatoes and dry beans had doubled
ndent said a European and the price of wheat had some-
9,000 men and the with times trebled in comparison
Aslatic 12,000.
The Soviet system of occupation the prices a year ago.
*The issue to-day," he said, "is consists of establishing blocks of to maintain national independence troops in each country with fully and protect currency. If the pro-
manned lines of communication with ducers give way indelinitely to the
Russia. About ene-third of the of higher temptation
prices, it
divisiona are employed on com- means the ruin of our currency.”
muntention routes and there is a fon- Declaring that every step should shaped distribution from the Baltic be taken to ensure the health of children, M. Bidault disclosed that the French birth rate this year hari shown the greatest increase in over 25 years.. "France this year will
to the Black Sen.
have 900,000 children." be sal Loans To China To
"It would be criminal to discourage this effort."-Reuter.
Be Used Exclusively For Reconstruction
YOKOHAMA TRAGEDY
--|
-Stuttgart, Oct. 28.-—Fifteen arrests have been made. alnce last night's Walmer, Kent, Oct. 28-After explosion outside the DeNazifcation night-long search for two men report-Courts at Esslingen. Police dogs
Henceforth China will use the pro- The cable, which is signed by ed adrift in the Chamel in small helped to track down
In a
suspects.
Yokohama, Oct. 28. (UP)-Eighth ceeds of foreign loans exclusively to Abdel Halek Torres, a prominent rowing boat, the Walmer lifeboat was German workers at Esslingen which
Army Headquarters announced that promote
reconstruction projects, Agure in Spanish Morocco, asks "The re-launched about nine o'clock.this is in the United States zone are stage two American women SCAP work- especially industrial and mining, oc- democratic nations, in the name of morning when a small rowing boat: 30-minute strike to-morrow as
Mr Halao Chin, Vice- was seen in the Straits off St Maring a
ara demonstration against the bomb were drowned during Navy Day cording to Justice and humanity, to abolish the unret's Bay. The boat contained the attempt. The strike is being organis. / colebrations yesterday, when u'station Minister of Economic Affairs, quot- system of protection Imposed on
wagon plunged into 40 feet of water cd by the icial Central News Morocco." It continues: "This sys- men who were waving their armsed by the trade unions.
weakly and flying pieces of rag as tem is arbitrary and Imperialistic signals. The boat was carried away explosion, which was similar to at alongside the USS Chicago.
There were no casualties from the off the edge of South Pier and sank Agency.
Mr Halau is said to have emphasia- and its application during 34 yours last night by a strong wind and tide.tempts made against the courts ten
The accident resulted from suddened that loans under negotiation-he has proved a failure. We implore
failure of the brakes which caused did not specify with what nations those who signed the Atlantic Charter The men had Intended going only
The will be spent in procuring urgently and the United Nations Charter to for
Half of the 600 workers engaged the car to roll off the pier. a short trip. Coastguards and in diamantling un alreraft factory names of the victims are being
needed machinery, and communica- save our people and bring us back others searched the beaches for them for Russin went on strike to-day in withheld for 48 hours, until officlations and water conservancy equip- to freedom and independence. during the night-Reuter.
protest against the Russian removal notification of the next-of-kin. of workers,
China also intends to secure JA. Batler and G.M. Kirkland, number of completely equipped fac- The workers are holding a meeting American Red Cross workers, were tories from abroad, he declared. to-night to decide on future action.—| shot to the surface by pressure and Reuter.
had no time to save the women.
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North made a very good bid when he jumped to live, no trump, not allowing West's spade overcall (which had been B desperate attempt to head off the opponents) nor his own lack of a spada stopper,
YOU'RE A LITTLE GOIL ---YOU'RE A
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Mr Hstao revealed that, in order to step up the economic rehabilla- tion of the country, the Government will shortly introduce a system under which the nation will be divided into seven economic regions, each under the control of an Industrial and Commerce Supervision Department.
The controlling bureaus will be located in Shanghai, Canton, Han- kow,, Tientsin, Chungking, Lanchow of West opened the spade queen. fin the north-western province South won, counted sure tricks, and Kansu) and Mukden-Reuter, came out one short. Hence, after only superficial thought, he tried the heart finesse.
East captured dummy's jack and still had the heart suit stopped, so down South went!
was true that South had good chance to win an extra heart
trick, either by winning the finesse
or
by bringing home dummy's
TRAINING OF DUTCH TROOPS IN BRITAIN
London, Oct. 20.—It l1⁄2 most un- kely that Netherlands troops will
fourth heart through Food break, be trained in Britain after November but it was also true that the ful- 30-the date by which the British. alling tricks could have been de-military responsibility in Indonesia finitely counted on in a different is to end. May Mayhew, Under direction. I refer, of course, to the Secretory for Foreign Affairs said in revealed spade situation, East had the House of Commens to-day in shown out on the first lead, murking reply to a question by Licut Col Rees West with seven cards in the sult
(Labour). Mayhew added that these ar-
South should have cashed two dia-
mond tricks, two clubs and
the two were
made originally
two
that
top hearts, then led the spade ten because the Germans were still in from dummy for led up to Holland. He had no doubt that in card. With West following suit future the Netherlands Government twice in diamonds and in clubs, he would not at all want to send soldiers could have only two hearts; after "art of the Dutch requirements here" for training. The great- taking them out of his hand, cr declarer could make the spade had also been met. throw-in with complete safety and Further requirements which they assurance. West's forced spade re- still had would have to be examined turn up to South's king-eight would in relation to their demands of course 'produce the twelfth trick. Britain's existing training facilities.
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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SECURITY OF NANKING
Shanghal, Oct. 28 (UP)-The battalion of Chinese gendarmes which undergoing special training for Decupation duties in Japan has been diverted to a security mission in Nanking for the duration of the Na- tional Assembly scheduled for No vember 12.
Two infantry divisions, originally carmarked for pecupation duties, were sent to tho North Kiangsu front for the civil war -earlier.
It was indicated that Chinese occupation in Japan would be indefinitely do- Inyed.
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